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Year: 1872

In the light OF the foregoing figures we ask
the thoughtful consideration of the fact that
the rates of interest paid in this country are
oi,c0ys eror6itont and sometimes, as at the
present, terribly oppressive. And also that
all this can be remedied only by the issue of
National paper money made stable in value
and of proper volume by its interchnngcnbi7ty
ut the ortion of the holder in sums of one
ho"sdnd dollars. or its multiple with bonds of
the Government bearing fixed equitable rate
of interest"


Upon this statement it would be superfuous
to comment: "He that has eyes to see, let
him see the precipice before himl


In conclusion, as I deny that money has
any intrinsic value, and that it is an error to
call it capital, having lately read the essay on
banking of that great and distinguished man,
John Taylor, of Caroline, Va, will quote
his authority to sustain my position:


He says, page 360, "Taylor's enquiry :"


does Banking increase capital? 1t does.
if real cnpitnlisincreased. by increasing paper
currency; hut if paper currency can at mnss
be considered as capital, when balanced by
property and labor, an additional quantity can
no mure increase capital, than blowing up
poor mutton can increase meat. a redun>
dancy of specie would not form a stationary
capital. As birds of passage travel in search





capital it represents and if the food or en-
ployment is insufficient for either concnurse,
the overplus flies away. Ifspecie could create
capital, it would find stationary employment
every where. From these facts we infer. that
money as not capital. but the representative of
capital and that it is inverting the true and
genuine relation betIceen capital and money,
to suppose that money produces national capi
tai, instead of national capical producing
money. The vnlue IF labor is real capital =
lfa nation had an hundred millions of money,
but did not labor, it would presently be wi,h-
out capital but if its labor was worth FIVE
millions annually. though it had no money, it
would .haveun hundred of capital, which would
soon attract money"


The money of the country is onlv seren
hundred millions; the capital of the country
is tlcenty tour thousand millions; and, vet if
money gathers at the rate of 10 per cent. and
capital. as proved by Wells report, at 81 the
money will soon swallow up all the capital and
make serfs of its creators and ownersi


Under this view, and with the money ia BILE
presented to the-eys of the people by the New
York Mercantile Journal, is j. possible that
Year: 1872




CISCISNATI, April THE Courier,
one Of the leading German papers, in
an article on the Cincinnati Conventions
recommends that in case the tariff
reform clement in the new party would
find it impossible to come TO terms with
the protective tariff men from the East,
it should at once withdraw from the
Convention and open in conjunction
with the Liberal Democrats a mixed
reunion and reform Convention and
nominate Presidential candidates, which
the Courier supposes would then be in
dorsed by the Democracy.


Col.IU. w. Bordsoll, an old officer Of
the Mexican war, died here to day.


1t don't seem to be generally under
stood throughout the country thatthere
are to be two conventions held here,
commencing May lst, viz: the Liberal
Republican Convention, organized in
Missouri, and the Reunion and Reform
Convention, organized in Cincinnati.
/ he lUTIltI 10 Cdlitu IOi tht htpuuii
cans, while the latter embraces those
in favor OF reform from either party.
1t is thought the last named convention
will do little until they see the action
of the Liberal Republicans, and il the
platform and nominee cults them they
will ioin with them, or in case Of q
split in the Republican convention
they will endeavor to get the di.afected
Liberals to join in with them on the
platform in which general reform and
the tariff question will be the leading
features, and will probably nominate
Charles Adams and Trumbull There
is much talk and speculation here in
regard to both conventions. Some
assert that on or before the time Of
assembling they will be turned into
delegate instead Of mass conventions.
The Liberal Republican Convention
will be held in the Exposition Hall,
while :ne Reunion and Reform have
secured Mozart Hall, or in case OF
affiliation between the two conventions,
both will he held at the Exposition
Hall, which will accommodate twelve
or fifteen thousand people.
Year: 1872

THE New York Commercial ddreTtissr
advises its readers that: "As q general
thing attempting to fog editors is an
Improbable business. ShoVeling of
snow, or driving charcoal wagon for a
living pays better in the long run. A
hostile visitor 10 the editorial sanctum
usually finds that the best side OF the
building to be on is the outside. We
have heard Of individuals equipping
themselves and approaching an editor
for the aYowed purpose Of cleaning him
out bnt they have always gone away
with the conviction that they were born
for some less active pursuit. Thus dis
couraged, such intruders are diminish.
ing in numbers.
Year: 1872

HAMILTON, April Hon. "llliam
McDougall, formerly a member ot the
Ottawa Governmental and late Lieutenant
Governor of Manitoba, returned here
last night. % the position OF Canada
as affected by the relations between
England and the United States, he
stated that he had, while in England,
discussed the question with Earl Gran
Vile, Mr.. Gladstone, and Mr.. Adderly,
Under Secretary for the Colonies IN the
previous government, and the conclusion
they had come to was this, that all
parties recognized the change that had
taken place in the position OF Grea'
Britain and were anxiously preparing
in every possible way to meet the new
state OF things he had been forced 10 the
conclusion that the policy was not to
abandon the colonies, nor to act so as
to drive them away from their al!e:gl
ance, but to prepare them for MAINTAIN,
ing their own position by means OF
their own right hands, and to make
them conscious that il an attack was
leveled against them they must depend
mainly, if not altogether upon their
own resources to resist failing, IN which
they must be prepared to accept the
consequences, whatever they might be,
which followed invasion, and the con
quest, Speaking for himself and speak
ing freely, frankly and truthfully, ne
was OF the opinion that union OF these
provinces was a preliminary step for
the establishment of system OF gov
ernment in British America which
would enable US when the moment
arrived and when necessity pressed
upon us to maintain seperatc and
independent existence among the ma
tions of the earth. He believed that
that idea was present to the minds Of
most, if not all OF those who took part
in carrying out that great and import
ant political change. But because
they ioresaw that which they believed
must happen; because they took initial
steps to put the country in a position to
maintain itself in case OF war, was it TO
be that they should therefore be politi-
callv opposed and condemned. lie de
MED that they were open to such con-
demnation. He saw some of the public
press had charged that they had ulterior
objects in view; that they proved them
selves disloyal to their mother country;
that they had shown themselves to be
authors of dangerous measures Of
nationality and Lord Lisgar's declara-
ton that alliance should now take
the place of allegiance as well as 10
repeated observations OF the leading
newspapers o! England to establish the
fact that what the public men of Can
ada foresaw was based upon a cores
ponding understanding OF opinion in
the mother country. The whole drift
of that opinion was that the connection
with Canada was a series of embarrass-
ments from which the mother country
should be freed as soon as possible,
and that English statesmen and the
English press discussed the question 50
universally, without being subject to
imputations of disloyalty. 1t could not
be charged against the public men in
Canada that they were wanting in 10y
atty because they recognized the actual
position OF affairs. The speakers re-
marks were frequently interrupted by
anplause
Year: 1872

From the London Times


At first there is something strange in
seeing so many half-naked men pulling
themselves cOolly about (insthe Seine,


but there is an innocence and simplici-
ty in the whole proceeding, which di-
vests it Of any idea Of impropriety.
Here, for instance, are three gentlemen
and two ladies' all in bathing dresses,
and all giving themselves the air bath,
which their limited costume renders
agreeable, before taking their swim to-
gether. The boat stops in mid-stream;
little ladder is hung over the side, the
gentlemen all go in like frogs, one after
the other, head first; the ladies go in
like ducks, with sort of fiutter and a
rush upon the surface, and so they
swim merrily round the boat, laughing
and chasing one another, and every now
and then climbing up the ladder to rest.
At Bas MeudOn there are a number of
covered boats which may be hired, and
within the gipsy-like tent of the stern
the ladies make their toilets, while the
gentlemen make theirs in the bows. But
here, also are islands, with convenient
bushy shelters, and bathers Of both sexes
take advantage of them in the absence
Of bathing houses, or better cover Then
there are pretty villas upon the river
bank, which suggests 70 the occupants
4 bathing place Of their own. AS you
walk along the bank you meet, for in
stance, lady charmingly dressed trip
ping down her garden, out across the
road, and down to the waters edge. In
a second something is apparently un-
hooked, the becoming morning costume
sinks in heap at her feet, aud reveals
an equally dainty but very different
form of attire, in which, having kicked
off the slippers from her stOckingless
feet, she plunges into the stream and
kisses her hand from the middle Of
it to her husband, who is standing ad-
miring from the balcony Of the drawing
room. Afterward her maid comes down
with large wrapper, and she runs home
like a dripping Naiad with her children,
who seem to have had their bath all
trooping and laughing round her. There
is q great deal Of swimming learned
nom boats, the swimmer having a cord
attached to his or her waist, and being
upheld and directed by man in the
boat. The whole Of these aquatic per-
fOrmances, which appear to be confined
to the small burgeoise, is conducted with
the most perfect innocence and propri-
ETY.. Whole families come and splash
about for the real enjoyment Of the
thing, and the performers seem far more
decently clothed than those in lie Roi
GarOtte.
Year: 1872

Everybody who visits Rome goes to
the Church of the Capuchini, and visits
the cemetery in the basement, which is
one of the most tasteless and at the same
time curious objects to be seen in Rome.
The vaults are decorated with human
bones and skulls, and about thirty COM
plete skeletons lie on couches of bones
covered by canopies of the same mate
rial. The walls and ceilings are artis-
tically ornamented with vertebre and
smaller bones, and pendant from the
ceiling are chandeliers and even hang
ing baskets composed entirely of bones.
For hundred years all the friars of
this order have been buried in this cell
lar, which contains room for about fifty
graves, and when a new death takes
place the one that has been longest in
possession of his six feet of earth must
give it up for the new claimant, and
takes his place among the bone piles of
his predecessors. The price of admis-
sion for party is one franc, and the re-
ceipts are a source of great income to
the church. Since the overthrow of the
Papal government this interment has
been stopped, and the Capuchins who
hereafter die are compelled to take their
chance of being found when wanting
among the rest of humanity in the out
of-doors cemetery. The bone exhibi-
tion is allowed to continue, and an en-
terprising daguerreotypist was engaged
recently in taking views of each of the
sixty chambers into which the cemetery
is divided. They will make ghastly
pictures.
Year: 1872

In the Cape Ann Adrertiser we find
the following strange story: While the
schooner Belvidere was sailing from
the Georges to Cape Ann, the Captain
Samuel Elwell, dreamed he saw floating
upon the open sea a dead body. All his
efforts to secure it were unsuccessful,an
his distress at seeing his vessel ride over
it awakened him. He went Immediately
upon deck to convince himself that the
whole thing had been dream, and to
shake off the impression it had left upon
him. While telling some of the crew
about it their attention was attracted
by box that was floating toward them


As it came nearer, they tried to grapple
it and bring it on deck, but the waves
washed it under the vessel and they pass
ed over it just as they passed over the
body in his dream. After this he could
not rest until he had sent a boat after
it and it was secured. Upon opening
the box, lying npon bed of sea-weed
they found the body of a little girl


whose bright golden hair lay over the
forehead concealing the marks of prob
ably her death blow. She was nicely
dressed, about four years old, and had
evidently been dead about ten days


As they were not to land for several
days, and rs decomposition had already
begun, they had no alternative but to
sink the box in the ocean. Whether
the dreadful crime can be traced to its
perpetrators or not is doubtful, but that
a dream should have disclosed it is very
strange.
Year: 1872

The recent outrage upon cOlOred peo-
ple..in Savannah, Georgia, is but a fore
shadowing of what will be the inevitable
result in the event of Greeley's election
to the Presidency. If his mere nomina-
ton and the going over of the Democ-


racy to his support serves to embolden


the slumbering hatred of the Southern
people toward the blacks, what may We
not expect in case of his success? 1t is
not the compass ofprobaility to believe
that they would be protected as they are
and that the laws of Congress framed to
secure them the privileges of full citi-
zenship would be enforced against their
prosecutors. Their undivided support
of President Grant and the Republican
party, is sufficient to call down upon
them the curse and hostility of the vici-
GUS portion of the Southern Democracy.
They appreciate the danger before them
better than we can at this distance, and
therefore they are doubly earnest
in their devotion to General Grant, and
the Republican party, for in his election
they are assured of protection and the
enjoyment of their rights. This Savan-
nah outrage is one which cannot fail to
fhoNS ito CiiNSo oi tiO SOhOiNu PSOPAS
throughout the entire country, as its de-
tails become known. The dispatch sent
north represented that the negroes
were to blame, that they had committed
the outrage on the whites, and had in
cited riot. The trouble originated
with the white ruffians of the city who
undertook to expel colored citizens
from the street cars. According to in
formation received by the Baltimore
American "they insulted and beat
every colored man or woman that at
tempted to ride, dragging some of them
out of the car windows by the hair. In
these brutal acts they seem to have been
sustained by the public opinion, for
no arrests were made, and neither the
company nor the police interfered with
them. 1t was not long, however, before
they got hold of plucky negro who
showed fight, and then the shooting
began. There was a serious riot, in
which number of colOred men (twenty
or more1 were badly wounded"
Year: 1872

A California paper gives description
of how a sea lioness was captured by
the very man who provided Barnum
with his stock of that ilk, and the eX-
hibition must be far more preferable to
the animals appearing in adozy state,
as part of the great moral show. A ten
ton schooner was the craft which inva-
ded the haunts of the sea lions, and
lariets were the weapons used in their
capture. The specimen obtained was n
white one, and six lassoes were tied to-
gether, and six sturdy seamen applied
their efforts to landing their powerful
prize. The programme was to tire her
out, but long time was spent in doing
it, amid the roars and believing of a
whole drove that had crowded around
with pandemonium of lament at the
intricacies in which the Helen of the
place found herself involved. She
stoutly resisted the well meant efforts
at consolation, however, and when the
whelps tearfully crowded around her
she viciOusly crunched their flesh and
bones, and then thrashed the rocks with
their bodies. She made good headway
also against all attempts to get her into
the strong cage that was constructed,
catching it in her mouth and tearing of
the planks; but at last, after an eXhaus-
tive struggle of seven hours, she was
hoisted ON board, and now awaits the
highest bidding Snowman.
Year: 1872

For several years this portion of the
country has been tormented with the
potato bug. This little pest has caused
much trouble to our farming cOmmuni-
ty, and has eaten the crops to suclFan
extent that the yield of tubers has been
greatly reduced, and the price of the
same enhanced. But "Time at last sets
all things even," and our old enemy
the potato bug, has now met foe which
in all probability will more than dis
count Paris green I'M making sad havoc
with him. The new conner is a bug
about an inch in length, in form shield
shaped, and is provided with n long bill
not unlike an upright saw. We saw, 9
day or two since, several of these new
corners OH the potato vines, and eacl
had his potato bug on his back, holding
him with his claws. and working hi,
saw or bill at such a rate that the olt
pest could stand it but short time
Long may the new bug wave!-Sdgin'
d,o Enterprise.
Year: 1872

General Grant found, on coming into
the Presidential Office, several clerks of
the different departments and bureaus
who had rendered themselves necessi-
ty in their respective offices, and had
managed through all the administra-
tions of whatever politics, to retain
their places. 1t was shrewdly done, the
process being simply to complieate mat
tiers i'm such a way that no one but them
selves could understand them. By this
means they governed the Government,
and no administration would well dis
pense with their services. Grant cut
the Gardian knot by removing them and
appointing others in their places with
instructions to simplify matters, rear
range the public records and papers, so
that any one could understand and per-
form the duties of the office. During
the first year of Grants administration
of the Government, the writer had oe-
casion to call frequently at one of the
offices from which one of these old
clerks had been removed, and found
that the men appointed had such diff
Guilty in re-arranging the records and
papers as to be compelled to send almost
every day for their predecessors to ex-
plain matter and assist in bringing or
der out of such chaos as was found
there. A confusion in public affairs
and accounts of such character as to
cover up and conceal monstrous frauds
upon the national treasury. This rub
bish was finally cleared away, every
thing properly and Systematically ar
ranged, so that frauds are now easily
detected and exposed, and one clerk can
perform the duties of the office as we'll
as another, abolishing utterly the form
er system of frauds and complications,
and now there is no delay in obtaining
information upon any subject OF public
interest. This was Grants first step in
civil service reform, and its Importance
cannot be over-estimated. He applied
to civil affairs the well-know military
maxim that "attention to details is the
secret of success" 1--WE hope Sumner
will not make this the basis of another
charge against Grant of being "a mill
tarv despot," for this maxim expresses
a truth applicable to every condition
and affairs of life, and found that it
worked well, and by its application the
government was made to almost run
itself. By attending to details in war,
Grant found it as easy TO command an
army of million men as of thousand,
the physical anatomy or members were
nothing: the perfectness of its compo-
nent parts of vital Importance, and this
system of business order simplicity he
has carried into his civil administration
of governmental affairs, with pre-emi-
nent success.
Year: 1872

CINCINNATI, August 19.-The Tabbs
Gross case of yesterday has created
much talk here to-day. 1t is believed
that Gross was visited by a number OF
cOlOred citizens and warned to leave the
city, but it is also believed that his story
is exaggerated. He was a resident here
several years ago, and was very obnox-
ious to many cOlored people. 1t is sup
posed that the parties who visited him
were personal enemies. All efforts to
find out the parties to-day have been
fruitless.


The colOred men of this city have
called meeting for tomorrow evening
in behalf of free speech. They condemn
the acts of irresponsible persons
visiting him. No evidence has been de-
velOped that white men had anything
to do with the matter. Gross spoke at
COvingtOn tonight. There were but
few cOlored people present, and the
meeting was not disturbed in the least.
The police guarded Gross ON his return to
the Clinton House in COvingtOn, and a
number of the police were stationed on
the Kentucky side of the suspension
bridge with view of preventing colored
men from going over from this side.
The feeling of the masses of colored men
here is of modification that the affair
should have occurred.
Year: 1872

A special dispatch to the st. Louis
Republfcda recites an editorial of the
New York Herald, an organ of Grant
which possesses just now peculiar sig.
nificance, suggesting, as it does, an ALI.
ance in psrtisanship between the white:
and intelligent colored people. Every
sane colored man can see the wisdom Of
this course, and that it involves fol-
them every possible gain and no possible
loss. The dispatch states that the
Herald, which otherwise has been favor
ing Grant, has had several long edito-
rials pointing outthedangerOus meaning
of the Cooper Institute instances of gag
laws among the cOlored voters. 1t says
1.-the scene at the Cooper Institute
was a disgrace to a civilized city,
and was calculated to shake the convic-
tdons of those who have hitherto been
the most earnest in their advocacy of
negro suffrage. Throughout the pro-
ceedings there was a display of ignor-
anee, bigotry and ruffianism revolving to
those who have been taught to believe
the ballot as the palladium of our hber-
ties. Yet, depIorabIe as was the exhibit
ton at Cooper Institute, it was orderly
compared with the scenes enacted in
some of the Southern States. The fault
does not lie with the negro, but with
those who strive TO bind them together
as a distinctive political power,
by imposing upon their eredulity
and infiaming their passions. The
incendiary speeches of Secretary
Boutwell,, calling for ceaseless en-
nifty between the negroes and
whites, the dangerous and unchristian
letter of Garret Smith, in which the
hatred engendered by slavery is invoked
to make the South, in his own words, a
hell of horrors These are influences
calculated to turn the negro into a de-
mon, and TO make suffrage extended to
the black race a curse to the nation"
The Herald concludes by saying: awe
warn the men who are striving TO excite
the fears and passions of the negro race,
for their own political ends, that they
are playing with fire, and the disgrace
ful scene enacted in the heart of the
metropolis on Thursday evening is only
a slight ioreshadowing Of the evils they
are bringing upon the country"