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Year: 1875

IL there no place on the face of the earth
Were charity dwelleth, where virtue has birthf
Where bosoms in kindness and mercy will heave
And the poor and tho wretched shall ask and


receive?


Is there no place on earth where knock from the


poor


VIII bring kind angel to open the door?
An search the wide world wherever you can
Ihcre Ia no open door for the noneyless man.
Go look In the hall where the chandelier light
Drives on from its Eplendor the darkness OF night
Where the rich hanging velvet, in ehadowy fold,
Sweeps gracefully down, with its trimming Of gold,
90 look to your judges In dark flowing gown,
With the scales wherein law wegheth quietly down;
Where the ffowns on the weak and the smiles on


the strong,


And Furnishes right while he iustines wrong;
Where jurors their lips on the Bible have laid
To render verdict they've already made;
Go there in the courtroom, and find II you can,
ANY law for the case of u moneyless man.
Go look in the banks, where Mammon has told
His hundreds aud thousands of silver and gold
Where, safe from tie hands OF the starving and


poor,


Lies pile upon pile Of the gttering ore;
Walk up to the counter-ah, there you may stay,
And mirrors of silver take up and renew
In long lighted vlsfas the wildering view;
Go there in your patches, and find If you eau
welcoming smile for tho moncyless man.
90 look in your church of the cloud-reaching spire
Which gives back to the sun his same look of tre
Where the arches and columns are gorgeous within,
And the walks seem AZ prre as n soul without ain ;
Go down the long aisle-see the rich and the great
In the pomp and the pride Of their worldly estate
Walk down in your patches, and find if you can,
Who opens pew for moneyless man.
Til your limbs have grown old and your hair turns


gray,


And you'll find at the bank not one of the clan
With money to lend to a moneyless man.

The wife who has suffered 70 oug for her bread;
Kneel down by her pallet and kiss the death frost,
From the lips Of the angel your poverty lost
Then turn in yerr agony upward to God,
And blcss while it smites you, the Christening rod !;
And you'll find at the end of your ife's little span,
There's welcome above for the moneyess man.
Year: 1875

The Nashville cotton exchange, by
telegraph to the Atlantic and gulf ports
and to the principal interior cotton mar
kets, requested ten of the most reliable
and best posted merchants in each place
to furnish an average estimate OF the
percentage of cotton receipts up to and
including December 81. The following
replies have been received:
Year: 1875

Solomon left his category of insatiate
receptacles incomplete because there was
no Democratic party under his admins
tration. The rabid craving appetite which
spasms the stomach of Democrat fester-
ing for spoils, finds no type among those
formerly known and noted.


We hear the Democracy at the South
denounce the Republicans for holding
the offices of the country. Have they not
the same right 10 hold Office with others?
Or in the words of Fletcher of Soltoun
and Mr.. Jefferson, were men born to be
saddled and rode by autocrats-calling
themselves at this day Democracy.
Congress has two offices at its disposal.
Behold the canvass of the hard money
Democrats and the flush money Demo-
Gratis, the free trade Democrats and
the protection Democrats. See how
six or seven Democratic ex-mem-
bers of Congress enter the contest for
the subordinate Office of Clerk of the
House. We have heard case in which
the drummer of company of little boys
having left, all the commissioned officers
resigned and became candidates for the
vacancy. These boys had at least the
credit of seeking an Office with no other
compensation than the applause which
always follows the drum, but these ven-
cradle members of Congress descend from
the high place of service which statesmen
design to fill to the subordinate and min
isterial duties of clerk. For this there
is but one explanation. 1t is the salary
famine gnawing at their vitals. The con-
stituents of these men have rejected them.
The sustenance drawn from the public
Jug has been suddenly stopped in its flow,
and the whining and moaning of the
bereaved pierces the public ear. No
motherless litter ever raised such an out
cry around corn crib as these ten or
eleven candidates for the clerkship. In
addition to this the press report adds:
"New candidates for the clerkship of the
House are appearing every day."


Where this rabid determination to hold
Office or die will stop we can not imagine.
At the North and West it has taken both
sides of every question, and it has entered
the rings of every robbery. In the in
terest of national exclusion the Democ-
racy fills its craving .maw with the pre-
carious profits of an Indian ring or q
whisky swindle, just as the alligator is
said to swallow lot Of pine knots just to
occupy its acrid gastric juices during q
period of periodical torpidity. With the
prospect Of coming in for the spoil Of q
national contest, we find the Democracy
Is active and as ravenous for the spoils as
We have ever known them.
Year: 1875

mobilier ring connected with its manage
ment. 1t should be national road in
whose advantages all persons and places
may participate equally. Above all, it
should be incorporated and built subject
to the right of Congress expressly re-
served to alter, amend or modify the en-
abling act in any manner that the wants
of posterity or any public frauds of its
management may render necessary.
Year: 1875

To show there was no prejudice on &C.
count of color the White Leaguers elected
Smith as sheriff of East Feliciana, against
the regular Republican candidate. They
afterwsrd captured his Office and drove him
from home.
Year: 1875

A GENERAL SUSPENSION OF SENTENCES.


The decision of the Supreme Court in
the case of the State vs. Pete Philips,
rendered yesterday, will operate as gen.
eral suspension of all the sentences passed
by Judge Braughn, while presiding in the
Superior Criminal Court. 1t is held by
Chief Justice Ludeling, speaking for the
court, that the sentence of Philips is null
on account of coram non j,tdice, or to put
it in English, because there was no court
having jurisdiction of the case. Philips
is therefore remanded to be tried accord
ing to law. Among those who will be
most Immediately affected by this decree
are William Davis and D. R. Henderson,
both under sentence of death for murder.
The time for their execution was fixed
for the twenty-sixth, but Governor Kel-
logg, Acting with prudence, reprieved them
till the third of December or the receipt
of further orders. The men will now be
judicially relieved from the operation of
the sentence and placed on trial before
Judge Steele.


There are several convicts now in the
Penitentiary at Baton Rouge, who may, if
they choose, apply for legal relief, in case
any of them choose to take the chances of
a new trial. As there is little reason,
however, to expect a different result, we
do not suppose there will be much done
in the business of making applications.
Davis and Henderson stand some chance
of qualified verdict, as it is more prob
able that a jury may be found that does
not favor capital punishment than one
which would acquit them on the testimony.
Year: 1875

The question of farm fences is becoming
a serious question in other States as well
as in Iowa. In Maine, where nearly one
half the State is covered by pine forest,
they are figuring up the annual cost of
fences, and inquiring if there is not bet
ter way. Mr.. Prince estimates that there
are 63.956 farms in that State, which aver
age 500 rods of fence on each farm, the re-
pairs of which average ten cents per rod
per year, or S3.397 900. And this is con-
stantly increasing with the advance in the
price of wood and timber, and they con-
tend that soon it will become too burden
some to bear.


Other States are also looking seriously
to this question, and it is evident the day
is not distant when a man will not have to
do with his farm as they did with their
residences in feudal times, make every
house castle. The world is advancing,
and the law compelling man to fence
against his neighbOr's stock will soon be
classed with the law sending a man to
prison for the reason that he was unable
to pay his debts.


In Iowa we believe no county, after try
ing the herd law, has gone back on their
first decision adopting it. In Grundy
County, after having the law legally in
force two years, at the last election they
voted to retain it by vote of only eleven
votes against it out of 500. The sudden
change of the law finds many unprepared
for it, and in those counties where it was
adopted last f I'll for the first time, many
who live along the rivers and have never
dreamed of having pastures for their stock
will find it hardship. No harder, how
ever, than the poor man on the prairie
who owns his eighty CT 160 acres and
could not improve it, owing TO the great
cost of fencing. Soon the people of those
counties just entering upon the new way
of living will have pastures-their stock
will be easily found, their time can be
spent at profitable industry instead of
ranging after cows, and their neighbors'
crops will be safe. 1t would be well for
all farmers this winter to be preparing
fencing for pastures, whether in herd
law county or not. And in those counties
where the law is in force, those who are
able will find it convenient and COM
Portable 10 have their farms fenced in
suitable lots. Some are arranging for a
movable fence, so that advantage can be
taken of pastures for hogs and cattle, as
the crops on the farm change. There are
several kinds of movable fence which can
be manufactured in winter, and miles of
it put out in the spring in a few days.
Des MoineS Register.
Year: 1875

Hufnagle, the Snowman of whose ele-
phant | told you the other day, had an
ostrich which he traded for a mule, to a
man named Leech, who owns little place
near New Hope. Leech read somewhere


that ostriches are very valuable on account
of their feathers, aud he intended to try
the experiment of cultivating them, so he
secured this one to begin with. He turned
it loose in the yard, and that night it ate
all the surface gravel off the walks, and 1t
was busy breakfasting on the garden hoe
when Leech came down to look after it.


tie fed it heartily, so as to keep down its
appetite, but that morning it swallowed
four hOrse-shOes that were lying IN cart,
and it disposed of six feet of trace-chaln


belonging TO the subsoil plow. Leech was
somewhat alarmed, but he gave the bird
as much supper as it would eat, and felt


satisfied that its hunger would not rage
during the night. Next morning, how
ever, he was surprised to find that the
ostrich had eaten a hole through the wall
of the smoke-house, and had chewed Off
all the door-knebs on that side OF the
dwelling. When Leech came out the bird
had swallowed the pump-handle and was


making an earnest but Intellectual effort 10
take in the pump. Leech dlssuaded IL,
however. anu leu IL SOlcLuuIJ AWAY 1haI
day it ate nothing of a revolutionary char
acter but set of Mrs. Leech's old hoops,
and when Leech ascertained this, he col
lected all the second hand hoop skirts that
the neighbors had to spare and fed them to
the ostrich. 1t cleaned up the pile in less
than an hour and then it ate six of Fanny
Leech's croquet balls which We're lying in
the grass, and swallowed the baby's toy
drum. That afternoon it protruded its
head through the kitchen window while
the girl was washing the dinner dishes,
and suddenly swallowed three tumblers, a
gravy dish and a broken butter-crock::
When Leech came home that night and
heard the news, he decided TO shoot the
bird the first thing in the morning. he
loaded his gun for the purpose and put II
in the shed outside the kitchen door. Dur
ing the night an explosion was heard, and
when Leech descended with lantern to
ascertain the cause. he perceived the ostrich
lying dead in the shed. 1t had swallowed
the gun. muZZle foremost, and had fired
the weapon while gnawing at the trigger,
Mr.. Leech has given up the idea of cult
waiting the ostrich. The bird is too emf
nently digestive for him.-Ddnb1a-y Nea0s.
Year: 1875

A pair of Wilmingtonians who had
made up their minds and hearts to become
one. went TO Philadelphia lately to have
the everlasting knot tied, which the tier
enjoins no man to break asunder. But
the twain were not made one, according
to contract, and this is how it happened :
They had their eye single to particular
preacher who was called over from Cam
den, n. j., to marry them. Either the
rules of his denomination, or the laws OF
the State, or some other regulation, re-
quired him to obtain and record the ages
of all persons whom he joined in wedlock,
together with other particulars about their
parents aud ancestors. The preacher set
himself to these preliminary duties. he
asked the young man his age. and he re-
piled, ''Twenty-six." He asked the
young woman the same question and she
refused to answer. She was told that pro
ceedings must stop unless she answeres
truly, as she hoped TO be married. She
thought long time and replied, Thirty
one." This was rather stunning to the
bridegroom. He recOnsidered, and finally
resolved 10 go no further in that business.
He explained that his intended mother had
informed him that her daughter was only
twenty-five, and he took her on trust. He
considered the compact broken because OF
the deceit practiced upon him, to which
the young lady was party. She tearfully
granted the justice of the decision. She
was deserving Of better fate, for she is
one maid in thousand who would tell the
truth about her age under any pressure
whatever. The pair returned to Whining,
ton on different trains.
Year: 1875

There is growing up in England a large
class of women, says the Wonsen's 8 Journal,
who do not marry, who do not wish 10
marry, and who apparently wish not TO
marry. They deliberately devote them
selves to literature, to teaching, to some
trade, generally an artistic one, at any rate
to some occupation that gives livelihood
and tends TO culture, and this they choose
for life. The marrying instinct seems
dead, or rather never to have been born in
them. have known at least one such
person in this country. They do not seem
to be thought of as out of place; but on
the contrary they move into fit places in
the great social organism, easily and natu-
rally, and are accepted withoutremark. A
late article in one of the leading papers OF
our country remarked that almost an en-
tire change had taken place in this country
in current speech concerning unmarried
women who are past thirty; that whereas
twenty years ago, and always before, they
were called "old maids" and the phrase
was term of reproach now it is rarely /
ever used. and the reprOach which used tC
be cast upon such persons has almost en-
tirely passed away.
Year: 1875

BUcKwHEAT PANCAKEs.-Pure buck
wheat flour, when baked into cakes, as is
usual, is apt 10 ale heavy on the stom-
ach." To obviate this and improve other
wise, mix Graham -four with the buck
wheat-a little more than two-thirds buck
wheat, with one-third Graham orunbolted
wheat flour. This may be mixed in large
quantity and kept on hand for use. The
Graham will make it ligh, aid digestion
and make it palatable and wholesome. 1t
can be mixed and baked at short notice by
making batter with sour milk from the
churn and raise with soda, or. what is
more generally acceptable, mix and set it
by the stove over night. If the first morn
ing it is not sufficiently light, it will be the
next and thereafter, if not kept too warm.
1t NAV be mixed with water or milk-milk
is best-and in either case a little soda
should be added just before baking; more
when sour milk is used. Give it fair
test.
Year: 1875

1t is doubtless true that the great deficiency
in the Republican organization at the South s
the lack of white leaders whose high standing
and good character would assure protection to
the mass Of colored voters. A liberal infusion
into it, four or five years ago, of men Ike Long
street would have given it a framework OF bone
on which to build body that would have been
vigorous and enduring, and which could not
b, terrorized by evensuch tactics as those of the
mississippi assassns. Whether it was ever pos
sible to have successfully invited the co-opera-
ton of such an element is now uncertain and it
s at any rate unavailing to regret that the effort
was not more earnestly made. The opportunity,
II it existed, is for the present gone by.


Nevertheless, there remains in the South an
immense body Of voters who de: ire to support
the Republican principles, policy and
candidates They are heartily members
Of that party. From its efforts they
have seen universal freedom and equa' suffrage
secured and guaranteed. They have given and
do give it their whole heart. They desire also to
give it their votes. But at this point they are
met by lawless body of men who are inspired
by the most savage hatred OF the political feel,
ings which they 80 earnestly cherish, and who
aic tudt tiiof uut oAclSi5o thcii
rights as voters and citizens. This has been the
situation in Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia,
and it is the condition, to-day in Mississippi.
The scum and scrapings of Southern vagabond-
age; the lawless wretches whose outrages have
long been blot upon the records Of Southern
life are banded and organized in desperate
effort to prevent the Republicans, who are main-
ly colored men, from voting as they desire or
voting at all. This is the systematic effort to-
day in Mississippi, and in it no crime is consid-
cred too great by those who direct tito be free
ly employed.


Such condition of things calls aloud to the
Just vengeance Of Heaven. Slavery entalled its
punishment; every political crime has been ex-
plated. since history began, by the nation that
committed it. 1t cannot be that this most black
and foul wrong that is being perpetrated upon
the defenceless Republicans OF the South will
go without it's due retribution. The conspring
leaders who have called in the pistol and bowie
knife to terrorze and destroy the political forces
which oppose them will surely suffer the penal
ty, in due time, of this crime against humanity
and Justice,
Year: 1875

Collector Simmons, of Boston, has related
at tue Treasury his experience in attempting to
stop fashionable smuggling. The army of tour
lists now returning gives him brisk business.
Most of them hear Of the new regulations for
the first time upon the landing of their steamer,
and surprise and anger have both been great.
The rules have been strictly enforced even
sister of Gen. Butler, his best friend, was re-
quired to enter on a list all extra articles and
pay several hundred dollars duty.
Year: 1875

for the purpose of securing this end, is
freely conceded but with this privilege
guaranteed the attempt to coerce the ma
jority by such means can never be ap-
proved by free people. Minorities have
rights and duties; majorities have duties
and responsibilities, After being heard
it is the clear duty of the former to yield
to the power Of numbers. And after per-
forming the duty of listening TO and ma
turely considering the objections of the
minority to any pending measure, if still
unchanged in Judgment, the majority must
assume the responsibility of securing its
passage. To compel the majority to re-
sort to the power Of endurance for such a
purpose, is simply mode of controlling
legislation by physical force less harbar-
Gus than the use of the bludgeon. The
principle, however, is precisely the same.
There is no escape from this conclusion by
the dispassionate thinker. Sooner or later
such conduct is certain 10 receive the
hearty condemnation Of the people. Such
examples, too, like birds of evil omen.
generally come home to roost."
Year: 1875

There was great crowd Of lawyers in the
BROOKLYN city court room Friday morning, to
hear the arguments for and against the admission
of Theodore Elton as witness


Gen Pryor resumed his argument at the point
where he had broken of Thursday.


VIM. A. Beach rose to sustain the argument OF
his brother council. He paid compliment in
opening to the rhetoric Of counsel on the other
side: that defamation, he said, would have
looked better had it come from one who was not
defending the man who was believed TO be walk
ing in the illustrous footsteps of his Master
whatever Henry Ward Beecher might say on that
stand. the Justice or impartiality of the law de-
barred Theodore Tilton from answering the I'M
mutations The seducer would he allowed on the
stand, while the man whom he had wronged
would be forced to sit idly by with his lips sealed


Mr. Evarts rose to reply to the argument. He
submitted that there was no rule OF common law
opening the mouths Of either husband or wife.
lie argued that the law as quoted by the other
side had been changed by the code of 1869. 1t
must be plain to the court that the law governing
the admssbility Of husband or wife as witnesses
was ruled by the statute Of 1867. He cited sew
eral precedents, and said the question raised
bv the other side that tn chusband was not on one
side and the wife on the other, but the result
would be the same in proving the crlminaiity OF
the wife. There was no case in our courts which
showed that a wife or husband could be witness
under the laws of evidence. The counsel felt
incompetent to examine witness like this. where
he could shut up his mouth and refuse to answer
questions put to him. He looked with dismay, he
said, on the idea that the witness would be al
lowed to override him.


During the arguments the spectators in the
court were held enthralled by the cloquence Of
counsel engaged. Mr.. Tilton leaned back in his
seat with his hands thrust into his coat pockets
and attentively surveyed the speakers, and ap--
peared to pay the utmost attention to every word
that was spoken.
Year: 1875

The Eastport Sentinel calls the attention
of its readers to the fact that the Bourbon
democrats are the class which are coming
TO the front in the democratic party.
The Sentinel says: THE people begin
te realize the situation. Republicans who
were luke.warm few months since, have
renewed their vows, buckled on their ar
NOR, and are ready for the contest From
now until 1876 party lines, that have been
greatly relaxed, will be tightly drawn,
and as state after state in the north holds
its election it will wheel into line on the
republican side. On the democratic side
the Bourbon element has come to the
front. 1t has thrown off all DISCUSSES
Whoever the democratic candidate in 1876
may be- he will be the representative of
the Jefferson Davis element in the coun-
try"
Year: 1875

Senator Pease of Mississippi made a
speech in the Senate the other day which
was full of facts concerning the South.
He says there is no such thing in the South
as justice between man and man, and no
redress can be obtained in the courts. a
jury cannot be obtained to convict white
criminals, and in nine out of ten cases it
is impossible to get Grand Jury to in
dict white men for outraging and murder
ing negroes. Mr.. Pease presented the
statistics of crime collected in the several
States, and contrasted the extent of crime
South with that North, showing large
preponderancc in the former. OF the
murders reported in the South during the
past seven years very large majority
of the victims were republicans, a
fact which tells its own story.
During the past year there were ninety
nine murders in Mississippi, and yet that
was the most orderly Of all the Southern
States. In Kentucky, where they have
never been troubled with carpet-baggers
or negro rule. we are told by Democratic
newspapers that no one can be convicted
of murder but negroes and paupers. and
that the prevalence of crime in that State
is huge blot upon Southern civilization.
Mr.. Pease quoted statistics to show the
prevalence of crime in Texas, Alabama,
and Tennessee, in which States the white
Democrats are in full control. He next
referred to Georgia, and charged that
there was no peace nor safety for the
black man in that State.