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Year: 1876

THE NEW STEAMER.-The c.

 Jompany's new steamer A05Qgs, made her first appearance yesterday afternoon, too late for Is to rlake 8 critical, nautical ex- animation of her, but looking at her rom the shore, we can say that sne is a beautiful craft and sits on the water like duck. We have no doubt that she will prove to be the best steamer that the Company has built on the river.
Year: 1876




5IYyr FOR soMErHISa. Thousands Of
men and women breathe, move, and live
pass off the stage of life, and are beard OF
no more. whyl None were blessed ny
them; none could point tn them as their
means Of redemption; not line they wrote.
not word they spoke could be recalled
and 80 they perished their light went out
IN darkness and they were not remembered
more than the insects OF yesterday. WIZ
Won thus live and die man, live for
something Do good, and leave behind you
monument of virtue that the storms OF
time can never destroy.-Dr. ohatmeTs


!
Year: 1876

WE crave attention to the complete and
graphic description of the gambling houses of
Washington, which is presented In our COL
umns this morning. The public of Wash
ington is so constituted that it needs
protection from this class of criminals.
There are an unusually large number of
young men here, who are employed in the
Government Offices, and it is for them that
these gambling bells are most alluring. 1t
seems strange that the business of gam
bling should be carried on so openly when
the law upon the subject is so explicit.
Gamblers seem to thrive best In hard times,
because when it is difficult to obtain money
by legitimate means men are more easily en-
ticed by the tempting, though remote, prospect
of winning money on the turn of card.
Whenever a raid is contemplated upon
these establishments the gamblers
always receive warning In time to close up
their houses and get out of the way. This
fact warrants the belief that is frequently ex-
pressed that the gamblers are in collusion
with the authorities. 1t is to be hoped that
now, as public attention has been, and will
continue to be, drawn to these gambling dens,
that they will be effectually and permanently
closed, and the thieving blacklegs who run
them will be brought to justice and punish
ment,
Year: 1876

The following clause from the law Of
Oregon is as plain as it is mandatory:


"The Governor shall grant = certificate of
election to the person having the highest num-
Der of votes, and shall also issue q proclama-
tion declaring the election of such person."


This leaves no room for the exercise of
Judgment on the part of Governor
Grover, and yet, usurping his legal powers
as chief executive of the State, he granted
q certificate of election to the person
receiving the smallest number of votes,
after the people had decided by a majority
of eleven hundred that another person
should cast the electoral vote. Thus pub
lie servant overrides the popular will of
sovereign people by an arbitrary reversal
of their verdict at the ballot-box. But this
outrageous usurpstion of power was but
foreruDner of a more infamous act. After
bold violation OF his oath by usurping
functions not conferred upon him by law
he pretends to justify himself by misrepre-
sentiDg the statutes and misquoting the
authorities. And yet yesterday in the Sen
ate of the United States one of its most
distinguished members, Mr.. Bsyard, said
that he would not condemn the action of
Governor Grover, because he had borne .
"good character and reputation for great
"number of years." On the same princi-
pie one might assert that felon should not
suffer the penalties of the law because, for
sootb, he had once been q missionary.
Governor Grover may have borne good
character in the past for many years, but
when he in partisan spirit ignored the
verdict of sovereign people and usurped
his powers, in hopes of securing q triumph
not fairly won, he nullifed that character
so far as integrity and honesty are con-
cerned, and no one knows this better than
Mr.. Bayard of Delaware.
Year: 1876

THE rowing Democratic commission sent to
Columbia, South Carolina, by the House
have discovered that Hayes and Wheeler
carried that State without the shadow Of Q
doubt. They now express surprise that Dem
ocrstic Associated Press agents in South
Carolina never had the honesty and decency
to inform the public Of that fact.
Year: 1876

OF THE CHARACTER and reliability of the
usual run of sensational news transmitted by
special correspondents from this city to such
papers as the Baltimore Gazette, the follow
ing, an extract from special of yesterday to
that journal, is fair specimen.


sSilas NJ. Patterson, son of Senator John J.
Patterson Of South Carolina, went South just
about the time the trouble between the Return
ing Board and the Supreme Court Of South Caro-
lima was anticipated, with the sum OF $210o, with
which to bribe the latter. He went down, and
instead Of bribing each Judge with the tmunin-
Like father, Ike son."


The above is q most unmitigated fslsehood.
The young man who is the victim of this out
rageous attack is the son of Senator Patterson
"a mere boy of 17-and is employed In the
branch printing Office Of the Treasury. The
only absence from his Office since last Sep
tember, as the records Will show, was for
few days under leave to visit the Centennial.
He has not been South, and therefore the
story that he "went South just about the
time the trouble between the returning board
and the Supreme Court was anticipated" is
untrue. He has been faithfully at work at
his office since election day, with tho exception
Of two days at different times in addition to
his Centennial leave.


The Gazette, for some unaccountable reason,
has for some time past INDUCED in an inordi-
nate amount of unWsrrantable yilifeation and
abuse of Senator Patterson, but why 1t should
visit its partisan hatred and unjust denuncis-
ton of the father upon the son is mystery
indeed. Certainly journal falls very low in
the scale of respectability when 1t singles out
from among the domestic circle of its partisan
opponents young and innocent victim upon
whom to shake its foul venom. 1t is possible
that the Gazette was misinformed, in which
case 1t will, of course, make due correction, in
Justice to the young man and his family.
Year: 1876

say. We hope, however, his talent in this
direction has been abridged by merciful
Providence, for when people fall industrioualy
to work slicing and mangling each others
throsts in promiscuous manner it is quite
evident that it will be dangerous to be safe"
in any largely populated section of the coun-
Year: 1876

alone gave stability to a currency, and when q
nation relies upon double standard 1t has an
unwavering currency. When gold appreciates,
silver depreciates, and vice verso, and therefore
silver should also be o standard. In the name Of
Justice and Of honesty he appealed for the en-
forcement Of the provisions of the law under
which the Government has issued two thousand
million Of bonds He asked for the passage Of
this bill in the interest of justice for the op-
pressed and wronged American people. They
are in want for labor. Our Legislation on the
finances heretofore has driven skilled mechanics
and workmen to poverty and to vagrancy, and he
asked In the name Of honor and honesty that the
IInr.a
Year: 1876

IT is said of Lord Norbury that he
would at any time rather lose a
friend than a joke. On one occasion
he began the sentence of death in
this wise: Prisoner at the bar,
you have been found guilty by a
jury of your oountrymen of the
crime laid to your charge, and 1
must say 1 entirely agree with the
verdict, for l see scoundrel' written
in your face" Here the prisoner
interrupted with, "That's a strong
reflection - from your Lordship."
Whereupon the judge keenly ap-
preciating the joke, commuted the
sentence into transportation for five
years.
Year: 1876

THRRE are rumors of an Adams
movement on foot, the purpose of
which is to promote in certain con-
tingencies the nomination and cleo
ton of Charles Francis Adams for
the Presidency. 1t is said that those
who are engineering it have no hope
of success if both parties adopt
sound principles and put forward
their best men. The movement,
peradventure, may serve the useful
purpose of spurring them up to
the mark.
Year: 1876

IT is proposed to have California
represented at the Centennial by a
memorial lamp post to be erectedin
Fairmount Park at a cost of $4,000.
Each state is to be represented by
one. The design for California is
somewhat elaborate and more of a
monument than lamp post. The
pedestal represents the trunk of
of a big tree, with gold quartz piled
about the base. A grape vine start
ing at the ground twines itself about
the trunk, with fruit and leaves in
relief. Near the top the branches
are sawed square off, and on the face
appears the coat of arms of the State
cut in wood. Above is an irregular
plinth which supports the figure of
a miner holding in his hand a cluster
Of star lamps, the branches and PEN
dants being decorated with fruits for
which the State is famed. The ped
estal is intended to be a symbolical
representation of California-as the
Golden State. The post will be of
enduring bronze, seventeen feet
high, and paid for by individual sub
scriptioa.
Year: 1876

THE bill abolishing capital punish
ment in Maine has received the sig
nature of the Governor. 1t inaugu-
rates an experiment in that State
which will be watched with great
interest. Capital punishment is a
deplorable e1pedient to obtain results
supposed to be obtainable by no 9th
er means. IF it can be proved that
results quite as good can be secured
without it, every philanthropist will
rejoice.
Year: 1876

On the margin Of your paper indi-
Gates that your time is out, or will ex.
pire with the next paper. Remember
our rule-CAsH ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.


If not renewed, we take it FOR granted
you do not want the paper any longer,
and your name will be dropped from
our list. We intend TO publish the
best paper in West Tennessee, and
the more subscribers We get, the bet
ter We can make the paper. Let eve
~ one renew and bring another with
him.
Year: 1876

We wish to say to our readers that
We now have in our city a new sup
ply Of DIR Ragland's Lightning Relief,
a remedy that has world wide rep
utation for the cure of Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, Sick Headache and in fact
all pain demanding a prompt treat
ment. For sale by all Druggists.
Year: 1876

A fife alarm was sounded last Sat
urday, caused by spark falling on Il
frame barber shop Oh Front Row,
three doors from our office. \ hole
was burned in the roof, but the fire
was extinguished before further dam
age was done,
Year: 1876

Washington Gazette.l


Notwithstanding the exertions on the
part Of our beloved President to crush
out the white people Of the late rebel
lious States, and range that section of
our country under the banner of the
Republican party, they-the whites
will persist in resenting all our attempts
in that direction.


Freemen Of the North, shall we tame
ly submit to the outrage Of seeing our
beloved colored brethren In the South
shot down while in the performance of
the patriotic duty OF denying 10 the
whites OF that section-whom our gal
liant Sheridan on one occasion in Louis
lana SO aptly branded as "banditti -
the right to life, liberty and the pursuit
Of happiness What right have those
people to live? Did they not surrender
to our dearly beloved Ulysses at Appo-
mattox, and then, instead of Offering up
their lives and property as sacrifice
for their rebellion against the best gov
ernment the word ever saw, had they
not the audacity to place literal con-
struction upon the terms OF that sur
render, and, returning to their several
homes, endeavor to recuperate their
PROSTATE fortunes on the basis of white
supremacy and Democracy?


LII OTueT tuaC lie 6opuDllCan party
may elect the next President we must
carry the entire South; but how are we
to do that il the white people Of that
section refuse our emissaries the poor
privilege Of travelling among them and
instructing our colored brethren as to
their duty to the party which liber-
ated them from bondage-said duty
being the liberal use of the rifle
and the torch ? How are we to
retain our hold on these colored people,
and through them carry the South for
Hayes and Wheeler, unless we contin-
ually agitate our doctrines Of black
supremacy? And by exterminating the
hated whiteskins we can carry out our
forty-acres-a promise to our
colored brother, and thereby, through
them, retain a permanent hold for the
Republican party upon the reins Of the



Republicans, we implore you, as you
love your party leaders-your Belknaps,
Shepherds, and that host of
shining lights uf which these are but
faint samples-to arise in your might
and demand that these acts of resist
ance-such as at Hamburg, s. c., last
whites against blacks, who
are under the guidance Of trusted parti-
sans to our cause, shall cease.
Year: 1876

TIE engine which is to drive the ma.
chinery on seventeen acres Of Centennial
ground will be Of $500 horse power, and
will cost $4,000. Perhaps it will enable
foreign visitors TO recognize the power
behind the throne which makes this
country what it is.
Year: 1876

A FULL examination Of the books of
B. +. Babbitt, the soap maker, shows
that the stealings Of his man Beckwith
only amounts to some 100000. Per.
haps it is not impossible that possibly it
may be that = half million or 30 may
have been stolen from somebody about
this Office. and he knew nothing about it,
but if SO it was not known at tho time,
nor has it been yet discovered, as far as
at present known.
Year: 1876

Now Lands is sane. lie was insane
when he shot Carruth and until the Jury
acquitted him last week on the ground of
insanity. To-day he is turned loose,
4 free man. This insanity dodge had
better be abolished if lawful punishment
is to be hoped for. There is no one
thing which so much tends to encourage
lynch law and vigilance committees as
this ''insane''method Of committing mur.
der.
Year: 1876

When railways on land were first talked
Of the projectors we're credited with being
visionary enthusiasts. What, then, il
likely to be thought Of those who seriously
propose to have railways under the sea. A
submarine carriage Of most ingenious
construction has recently been invented in
Paris to cross the channel, and for nava-
CATION deep rivers and canals. The car
riage is of galvanized iron, and is hermeti-
cally sealed. As its hghtness, compared
with surrounding water, would cause IT at
once to rise to the surface, it il attached
to heavy eight-wheeled truck, which
runs on a line Of rails laid down under the
ocean. 1t Is not fastened 80 securely,
however, but that, IN the event of an acci-
dent, it could be At once detached an al
lowed to ascend to the open air, when
it would be easy TO make for the nearest
port. The motive power is supplied by
two screws driven by compressed air. An
enormous quantity Of air is distributed
through the interior in numerous pipes,
for the benefit IT the screw aud passengers.
We might enter still further into details,
and describe the electric light at TIE bows,
which is to illu innate both the road and
the interior Of the vessel the entrance
for the passengers, hermetically sealed
when all are aboard the strong glass vim
dows, out Of which any one may see the
marvels ot the lssp the raft carried on
the roof, and the divers chamber at the
stern. -Mmlufacturers' Trade Journal
Year: 1876

A good wife 10 to a man wisdom,
strength ard courage a bal one Is confu-
sion, weakness and despair. No condition
Is hopeless to a man where a wife possesses
frmness, decision and economy. There Is
no outward propriety which can counter
act Incidence, extravagance and folly at
home. No spirit can long endure bad in
fiuences. Man is strong but his heart is
not adamant He needs a tranquil home,
and especially II ne is an intelligent man,
with a whole head, he needs its moral
force in the conflict Of life To recover his
composure home must be place Of peace
and comfort. There his soul renews is
strength and goes forth with renewed vieoT
% encounter the labor and troubles Of life.
But IL a. home he finds no rest, and there
is met with bad temper, jealousy, and
gloom, or Assailed with complaints and
csnsure, hope vAniAhss and he sinks int
! despair.
Year: 1876

towards the bendholders and Nat tionA
banks to-day.


AND WE CLAIM


that Congress ought TO do that toward the
people, which think you would do in
your own private affairs, viz. Pay OF the
debt and save to the people the interest,
issue greenbacks in lieu 81 National bank
notes and reduce the national interest to q
figure in keeping with, il not below, the
natural increase In the wealth Of the
country. l am not without knowing the
power the banks WELD IN Congress, but !
think the day has come when those who
ought to be representatives of the people
should raise themselves above public in
terests and legislate in the interest Of the
entire people, and not in that Of the bank
ers and foreign spectators. ! address
you in consequence Of the exalted posi-
ton you occupy, believing that your in
fuence in the above direction will give re-
lief to the industries Of the country and
bread to the millions Of famishing people
We believe the couse advocated by
Messrs. Campbell, Kelley and Others,
will meet our wants.


Yours respectfully,


JOHN SINEY,


President Miners National Association.
Year: 1876

The Baltimore snd Ohio Railroad IS
now doing very large passenger Dusl'
ness-every train is we'll filled, and some
of them are composed of several cars.
This has become a fsvorite passenger
route to the people of the West ana
South because OF the excellent accommo-
dations afforded, the safety and careful
management, the unexcelled scenery,
the fact that the traveller can visit the
Capital of the country On the trip, and
above all, on account OF the
excellence of ITS hotels and eat
ing houses under the control
of the company. This latter is prime
consideration with travellers. No city
hotel of the first class is conducted with
better satisfaction to its patrons than Is
the Grafton House under the superintend-
ence of the genial and attentive Mr..
ATKINSON. This hotel is especially popu'
lar with the travelling public and its
popularity is deserved.
Year: 1876

THERE is no royal road for
a Government more than for
an individual or a corpora
ton. What you want to do
now is to cut down your ex-
penses and live within your
income. l would give all
the legerdemain Of finance
and fnanciering would
give the whole of it for the
old, homely maxim, olive
within your income" "-Goc.
TMen.
Year: 1876

WE have received from the National
Democratic Committee copy of Senator
DAVIS searching and powerful expose Of
the condition of the Treasury Depart
ment, which is now in the hands Of the
CAMERoNs. We have already printed
in these columns lengthy extracts from
this speech, enough to show the ability,
industry and care exercised in its pre-
paration, and enough to show
that the labors of the investigat-
ing committees have but barely
begun. All the peculation, thieving and
corruption unesrthed so far put together
is but tithe of what will be found 10 eX-
list in the Treasury Department when
that can fully be investigated as it will
be next winter if Mr.. TILDEN is elected.
The National Committee paid the inde-
fatigable and intelligent labors of Sens-
tor DAVIS deserved compliment and
performed a real service to the people,
when they printed for free circulation
100 900 copies of the speech. We COM
mend it to the thoughtful perusal of the
people of West Virginia.
Year: 1876

THE"wild rumor" referred to in yester-
day mornings htetlyencer, which stated
that the wrong man had been nominated
by the Democrats for County Judge,
must have originated with some young
man who was out sowing his "wild oats. "
The story that Secretary FRANzHEIM
tally sheet on Judge was folnd in the
Court House won't hold together, as the
writer of this item got that identical
sheet, with all the rest ofthe proceedings.
st the adjournment oi the convention and
brought it away from the Court House.
And since that time We are sure the
paper has not returned to that venerable
temple of justice for it passed directly from
our hands to those of Mr.. FRANZHEIM,
where it can now be seen. And further,
a number of other gentlemen beside the
secretary kept that tally, and knew the
result to be just what Mr.. FRANzHEIM
announced it To be to the convention.
There was no mistake whatever.
Year: 1876




The House OF Congress Just adjourned
will be distinguished in the history OF this
country as the great Reform Congress.
In spite ofthe almost deadly struggle OF
the Republican Senate against reduc.
ton, the House succeeded in saving
thirtv.six millions Of dollars in its aP-
preparations; and by its vigorous inves-
tigatlons it has unearthed and exposed
more official corruption and fraud than
has ever before been discovered in the
century of the governments existence.
1t has succeeded in reforming many
abuses, notwithstanding the determined
opposition of tho Radical Senate; and
it has established higher tone and purer
morals in public places. When the full
history Of the achievements ofthls House
shall have been wrltten-achievements
won againstjthe stubborn and unwarrant-
ed interference by the President and
Cabinet, and the most unrelenting oppo-
sition of the Senate-lt will form bright
page indeed in the history of the govern
ment
Year: 1876

One of the reasons why the country Is
poor is that the party in power has been
Systematically plundering it to support
an army of useless otticeholders. The
following tsble shows how General
GRANT has stood by his friends, retainers
and relatives at the expense Of the whole
Year: 1876

ST. LOUIS, August 1.-THE newsboys
strike on the Ecening Dispatch virtually
ended this evening, goodly number OF
the boys taking papers at the old rates
During the strike the paper was disposed
of through newsdealers at the regular
prices, and large part of the edition
was sold over the Office counter at the
full retail price.
Year: 1876

What leprosy is no one who has not
seen it can we'll imagine. In the jam
setjee Jejeebhoy Dhurrumsala, a refuge
for the destitute and sick in Bombay,
the Lancet, on the authority of the


Times of India, says that there are some
hundred and twenty lepers lodged at
the present time, sharing its scanty &C


commodation with an approximately
equal number of the poor, aged, and
crippled. The lepers live in what are
called chawls or cells, some six feet long
by five feet wide, and the institution is
so full that often two lepers are crowded
into one of them. They are without
furniture or even cooking utensils, but
each of them is allowed two pounds of
rice and three pice with which to pay
for fuel to dress their food. They CON
sist of men, women and children, the chill
dren being the offspring of the men and
women, some of them being born in the
Dhurrumsala itself, for no separation of
the sexes is attempted or, it seems, even
thought of. Unfortunate creatures with
"their limbs wasted till only the outline
of the bones remain, or else swollen cut
of all form of limbs, ;" sit or lie about as
they choose, without supervision or
medical care, except from one charitable
physician whose name is withheld, at his
own request seemingly. They are visited
by no friends and by no minister of any
religion. They are abandoned, says the
Times of India, of God and man, and
were it not that the Dhurrumsala gives
them the half of six-foot cell in which
to lie, and handful of rice with which
to sustain life, they would die in their
sores along our streets and in our COM
pounds. Only those who are very much
afflicted are admitted into the refuge.
Those who are not in so advanced state
of disease are sent away to beg in the
public highways and byways until they
are sick enough to be taken into the
Dhurrumsala. ..