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Year: 1873

We reprint on our first page an article from the Tribune, showing the enormous depreciation of Southern property that has resulted from the war and emancipa- ton. It would be unjust to attribute all this loss to the misgovernment that has resulted from negro suffrage in many of the States. The whole personal property of the South was in fact staked on their success in the war and on the redemption of Confederate bonds. Emancipation wiped out one-half, and the unpaid debts of the Confederacy the other, leaving the old planters with immense amounts of land, but no capital with which to begin working out the untried problem of free labor. Under such circumstances their real estate could not but depreciate in value. It appears evident, too, that in- stead of an emigration from North to South, as was anticipated from the intro duction of the system of free labor, hea- " emigration of Southerners has set in towards the North. We doubt whether the complaint against the negroes for docking into cities is a just one It must be remembered that under the slave sys- tenn the surplus population usually found Tn cities was kept back in the South by force. We have seen no reliable evidence that this class is now proportionably larg- CT in Southern than in Northern cities.

 Making all due allowance for other causes, there can be no doubt, that bad government and high taxation have con- trlbuted very largely to the poverty that expresses the old Cotton States. We have often censured the indifference of the administration and of the Republican party to the misgovernment for which we consider them largely responsible; and we think it our duty to call the attention of our readers to the important evidence contained in the article referred to, of the extent of the difficulties under which the South is laboring.
Year: 1873

The old Fort Smelling matter is coming uP in new shape. It appears that the purchaser of the tract about that fort in Secretary FloydiS time has managed to get SeS 5000 for a small part of what under the original fraad cost him but S3O,OOO, It Is q good thing for Congress to investi- eute next winter.
Year: 1873

The HOosae Tunnel is being driven forward very rapidly; only about 1000 fit. remains to be bored, distance that will be easily accomplished by the 1st of Dec. Considerable moro work, however, will be necessary to fit the tunnel for travel, for which it will not be ready before the middle of 1872.
Year: 1873

The Register urges the thorough en- forcement of our license law, as the less CT of two evils. s'The choice is not be- tween license and no license" it says, 'but between license and prohibition and O state constabulary.' The chief opposi- tion, it remarks very truly, comes from the opposite extremes-from the disrepu- table dealers who can get no license, and from the rabid prohibitionists who want a restoration of the old statute.

 If the present law is to be enforced, it must be enforced by the true friends of temperance in both parties, The men who lead temperate lives should see to it that the law is enforced. hey can do much. In few weeks, the licenses which were granted last fall will expire. We hope that the authorities will see to it that they are renewed or that the business is discontinued. The combination between liquor dealers and temperance fanatics is so strong that 1t will re- quire the whole influence of that portion of the community which believes in the law to give it q fair trial.

 As has been proved by repeated trials here, the present law is one that can be enforced. All that is needed is prose cution of unlicensed offenders under the reputation clause of the statute. This grows more easy of enforcement by lapse of time, for the defence set up in every case is that the reputation attached to the ac- cused parties before the passage of the license law. The time when such de- fence will be tenable will soon have been gone by; and prosecuting authorities have now no excuse for not stopping the unlicensed selling of spirituous liquor.
Year: 1873

The NaRgatuck and Conn. Western rail- roads have agreed on an arrangement of tracks by which the Conn. Western will have an independent track past the Win ssed station. A joint engine house will be built and. the Naugatuck freight house will be moved out of the way.
Year: 1873

The ride through Indian Territory was very fine, but the land perfectly useless; saw few Indians, but those were civilized and not much of a curiosity;the paint and feathered tribe are too shy of the railroad. We had a special train and of course could stop or go fast just as We chose, and it was stop quite often for our bota- nists and for bugs; for variety some rode on the cowcatcher; I did for one seventy five miles, but distance and time are very deceitful, where you ride for hours in a perfectly straight line and over level plain.
Year: 1873

Union Pacific R. R., Aug. 18th.

 If you could see us just now, you would think us very literary writing and so to be in the fashion will try my hand. We left Denver, yesterday morning, at 8 o'clock for Cheyenne, where we had a Pullman car waiting for us, and here we are, with all things for comfort, cabinet organ for amusement, and a good natured company ready for anything. We were in the mountains ten days; had some very hard climbing, but at the same time the scenery was grand and wonderful The first night of camping was on Floyd Hill, near Bergen Park, pleasant place to sit down and write, but we were hurried on.

 We camped next at Idaho Springs nothing very remarkable-hot mineral springs being the only recommendation of the place. From thence we went to the mountains, to ascend Grey's Peak; camp ed at timber line; but the ascent next day made nearly all the company sick. We only went up to snow drift and sat there, under the shade of the umbrella, and picked flowers. We spent the next night at Georgetown hotels, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, not inferior to Eastern hotels. The stores and shops, also, might put some quite in the shade this side of the mountains. But it Is a place of dreadfa winds, and one half the town you will see propped up with tim bers enough to build small village; a feature that rather spells the romance of living there.

 We passed through large number of deserted mining villages, and some that were at full work; went into one mine 400 it in a car drawn by little mule, and then walked 200 it more to a point $50 it. below the surface of the ground. Caribou, another mine, we reeched by travelling up hill five miles long; up above timber line, and even with the snow range. Coming down, we stopped to talk with some of the women; and their mi versal account was, that it is a perfect little paradise. So it was to them; but, it seemed quite out of the pale of civiliza- tion, and it would be a stern necessity that would induce us to settle there
Year: 1873



 EDITOR LTTcHFRLD ENQUIRER We left Cincinnati at midnight and reached St. Louis the next afternoon; were enter talned at the hotel by the citizens, had dinner and supper, and at g o'clock in the evening. left fot Texas; had our break fast next morning in Mo-; dinner, Kansas; and supper in Indian Territory; next day We were at Dallas, Texas, seventy-five miles down in the State. The people met us, gave us dinner and supper, a ride about the town and also fifteen miles over new railroad, our car being the first covered car over the road. At g o'clock in the evening we left on our re- turn north. We were all satisfied with our stay, but had no desire to settle there. Still we were glad to see for once and judge for ourselves. We left there with the pleasing prospect of meeting circus train unless we were fortunate enough to get by them, which we did, all right, and felt relieved
Year: 1873

WATERBURY, CONN.

 Our trade from the people of Litch6eld and

 vicinity has been very large the past ten years,

 but of late. it has grown to such huge propor-

 tions that We desire to address few words to our patrons in that locality through the columns of the Enquirer, that they may know what we are doing. and intend to dc, in the way of merchan-

 dizing, the present season: and at the same

 time 10 express Onr grateful thanks for the gen

 efons patronage heretofore extended to us. With the hope on our part, that this same confidence,

 pleasant feeling, and liberal patronage, may be continued indefinitely, we shall Hot approach

 you. at this time. or any other time, with high

 sounding words. laudating ill extravagant an-

 guage our Soods as We regard such system of advertising predudicial to the interest of the advertiser, to say nothing about outraging truth. Our object Is simply to caA your attention. i'll few brief. modest words to some of our goods;

 of which at this season of the year every family is

 in want. With this introduction, we proceed to invite you to apersonal examination of our

 Carpet Department.

 We have given the carpet subject great con- slderatlon for many years, and fatter ourselves that have more than ordinary facilities for

 purchasing them. In the first place, we buy ex- cluslvely for CAsH-havmg never Tn a single in-

 stance, tried our credit in the Carpet market in fact, can say we are utterly ignorant If time prices. This gives us, We think, & decided ad. vantage dealers of less capital. In the sec ond place we have had more than thirty years experience in the great Carpet Markets of the country, and think we have the inside track in styles and prices. In the third place, we are so frequently in the market. and such large buyers.

 that dealers are glad to extend privileges to us,

 that smaller operators cannot command con sequently, we are prepared to show up greater variety of styles and at prices much lower than they generally rule in smaller establishme ents, aid with as close margin as any dealer in New Haven or Hartford. At this season of the year. sweetest notes, and the grass is struggling for place and name on the fair earth, is the time of

 all others, to carefully look over the parlor and cozy sitting room. preparatory to the introduc-

 riously considering the kind wanted and about the price you wish to pay we should be pleased

 to show up our entire stock consisting in part off

 ENGLISH BoDY BRUSSELS, ENGLISH TAPIsTRY-a splendid article,

 RoxBuBY TAPESTRY. X
Year: 1873

The Richmond Dispatch is worried
about the third-term question. Gen,
eral Grant, it believes, can be Presi-
dent for life if he only wants to be. II
there is anything that can make him
President for life it will be the OppOsi-
ton of the constituency of the Dis
21atch = Washington Re21stbticon.


True approaching, says the Dispatch.
The Republican has told the truth for
once Notwithstanding that it is the
President 8 mouth-piece. II Grant de-
sires to continue in office, all that he
has to do is what his organ intimates it
may be necessary for him to do-issue
proclamation declaring that the
southern people are still rebels, and
that in order to their subjugation and
to secure justice to the gallant darkies
who fonght so bravely in the late war
it is necessary for him to remain in
office. This will fire the northern
heart, and arouse the Beast Buffers,
the Colfaxes, the Dixes, and all the
hyenas of the North, and render his
occupancy of the presidency for life
settled matter. Again and again have
the Radicals resorted to such false
hoods to perpetuate their power, and
again and again have the Intelligent"
northern people been thus induced to
come up to the support of the most cor
rupt and hypocritical party that ever
disgraced a ruined country.
Year: 1873

| by the expense of carrying the CROP
| from the farm to the sea-board, which,
| with the commission of the middleinen,
amounts to as much as the farmer re-
| ceives, or about sixty cents per bushel.
There is no doubt that if the transpOr-
tation of grain from the Mississippi


river to the seaboard could be reduced


to fifteen cents per blshel, this coun-


try could furnish Great Britain with


all the grain it demands, and have a


large surplus for other markets. In


fact, it is estimated that the surplus


wheat crop of the Northern States, in
a year or two, under the incitement of


cheap transportation, would be five


hundred million bushels,


The question is how to utilize this
possible growth of wheat, and its solu-
ton is, as is usual with such questions,
embarrassed by the multiplicity Of in
terested parties to the controversy.
We are told by one party that the only
econ omical route for grain is by the
lakes and q new Niagara ship canal,
and thence down the st. Lawrence
by another party that the only true
way is for the United States to pur-
chase and enlarge the Erie Canal as
the outlet from Lake Erie by another
that the Government must build
through freight railway from New
York to Chicago; by another that the
must dig ship canal from
the Ohio to the James river by an
other that a similar outlet must be
made by the way of the Savannah
river ; and by still another that the
river at New Orleans must |
De connected by a series of ship Gu
1als along the gulf coast and across
Florida with the Atlantic ocean below |
savannah.


We do not now propose to discuss
he question of routes, nor to restate
,ur well-known views that all such de-
ices for making things cheap. at the
of the taxpayers, are delu-
lions. But we do desire to call the
attention of the public to the fact that
he politicians and spectators are
for a grand assault upon the
United States Treasury at the next
ession of Congress.
Year: 1873

A special dispatch to the Boston Post
says there is a rumOr in Washington
City that since the release of the Vir-
ginius she landed n cargo Of arms and
which, if true, confirms the suspicious
of the Spanish authorities, who de-
sired to seize her at Aspinwall. The
action of Commander Reid, of the
Kansas, who released the Virginius,
has already been endorsed by the
Navy Department, and the Depart
ment of State must now shoulder the
responsibility of the conduct of Consul
Thorington, under whose Instructions
Commander Reid acted. 1t remains
to be seen whether at the time the
Consul issued his certificate to
the effect that the Virginius was n
United States vessel having the prop
er papers and entitled to the protec-
ton of the flag, he knew that she was
engaged in carrying material contra


band of war. The Spanish Minister
has, of course, addressed a note to the
Secretary of State on the subject, and
awaits reply with much anxiety. The
Administration is heartily sick Of this
whole Cuban business and would he
glad to have a crisis that would decide
it. It is not believed, however, that
anything will be sanctioned by the
President that could be construed into
a breach of our neutrality laws. No
serious complications are expected to
result from the course taken by Consul
Thorington, unless the statement is
Virginius landed a cargo of arms on
the Cuban coast for the insurgents.
Year: 1873

A civil service committee in Wash
ington asked an applicant for a clerk
ship what WIS the distance of the planet
Saturn from the earth. The candidate
answered that he was unable to state
the DISTANCE in miles, but did not
think it was sufficiently near to inter
fere with the performance of his duties
as clerk, nor to beget i'll him desire
to meddle with the rings.
Year: 1873

But up North, [ tell you, they dom t
do things on that style, They won t
stop long enough to answer you a
civil question, In the cities every
fellow walks like the devil was after
him. A Northern man in a city will
walk faster than a North Carolina
horse can 60, and they will run over
you If you don't get out of the way,
which a horse won't do. | never saw
such people to stave ahead and let
every fellow look out for himself.


Pears like they don't care anything
for one another. They amt iovial,
and don't 90 in for a good time like
we in North Carolina. You can stay
in Indiana a year and never be in
vited to drink, but you can't in North
Carolina. But they get us on the
money. They have got more money
than we have. that's fact. The two
people alike only in one way, they
have both got to die and leave what
they have, and there we have the adj
vantage, for We haven't much to
leave and be sorry for.''


'You, don't like Indiana?' l
mused.


'.No, she's too cold and swift for
me. [ want to get back to the old
North State, where things are run
more according to my notion. 1 am
plumb sick of Indiana. The old wo-
man has soured on it too. She says
she would rather have a dirt floor
cabin home in North Carolina than a
whole township in Indiana"
Year: 1873

TIE fundcrs are both unfair and
ungcncrous, when they assert that no
one would trust the State of Virginia
for policy Of Insurance, because Of
the present indisposition of the old
commonwealth, to be buckcd. gagged
and robbed under that bribed meas
IRE they are 50 anxious to enforce. -
We assure them that there are very
many persons, in this portion of Eir-
ginia, who do not regard il a dishon-
or to resent this iniquitons measure,
and they will be very willing to take
the fair obligations of the State for a
pure policy i The de't qrsstioa ca, Ie
c9uitoJiy adjusted. Otherwise it
would be a very doubtful matter, but
the fundcrs propose to get the State.
ard seem 30 think its credit would
then be very fine.


1t is useless to discuss this question
with men who have State bonds in
their pockets at least with the major
ity Of them, Certain i: is that a very
large portion of the property upon
mhich the public debt was rrcdicated
was forcibly taken from the tax pay
er. Certain it is that no divine law
will assert or has ever done so, that
obligation and protection are not the
reciprocal conditions of all
property in the hands Of any peO-
pie. The people will not consent to
self destruction, and we believe we
now have Legislature, which cannot
be bribed into State suicide.
Year: 1873

SrozEs complains that the lawyers
who prosecuted him to conviction
were under obligations to him and
violated them. Perhaps they did
not take an exclusively FISCAL
view Of the matter.
Year: 1873

am ready to negotiate on very
favorable terms, the sale Of the most
valuable water power within the vi
cinity of Bristol. 1t is within one
mile of Main Street and furnishes a
fall of II feet with room above that
point for more than one Factory with
fall of twelve or more feet. The
property is peculiarly valuable and
can be had at a price low enough to
entice manufactures TO our locality.


I. G. FOWLER.
Year: 1873

The latest from the lava Beds Is that the No
docs are sntrenched in crater Of lava, nearly
eighteen miles southeast Of the old Tuis Lake
with renforcements to Captain Hasbrouck, who
campsd in sight of the enemy. Firing was heard
early on Wednesday morning, and Colonel Mason
was supposed to be engaged with the savaRes


Inc troops in the field suffer for the want Of
water General Davis and Gilem nearly lost their


lives few days since in trying to cross Tule
Lake in gale of wind 80 =
Year: 1873

The closing scene in the trial Of Mar
shaI Bazaine was 8 sad and impressive
one, ending, as our dispatches show, in
an unanimous judgment of the court
condemning the distinguished SOL
der to death, but coupling the
sentence with an unanimous recon-
mendatiOn to mercy. This we
deem an unfortunate thing for
France, and if the sentence is executed,
will fall on the scutcheOn Of the young
republic something like the shadow
Of a great crime. The pathetic ap-
peal of the marshal's counsel to
the tribunal charged with the duty
Of investigating the alleged crime OF
treason, was honorable alike to him
and to his illustriOus client, and
the grand declaration of the brave
old marshal, before his assembled fel-
gov-officers, that he had served his cOun.
try forty-two years, and that he had
in his heart but two words-"Frsnce'
and "HonOr''-will be remem'
bered among the such expressions as the
diving ute d'ormeew Of the first
Napoleon. We cannot believe Marshal
BazaIne deserving Of the sentence
pronounced by his judges yesterday
and we sincerely hope that not only
will the recommendation to mercy be
heard, but result in the full pardon and
restoration to rank of as gallant ar
officer as ever fought for France, wheth'
er under the lilies Of the monarchy, q
the tri-eolor OF the republic.
Year: 1873




1t may not be generally known that
the registration Office will close on the
sixteenth of the present month. This
leaves only five days, inclusive OF to-
dav, for the performance of the duty of
registration. The approaching election
for municipal officers will be perhaps
the most important which ever took
place in this city. 1t is one in which
every man who has the prosperity Of
the city at heart should take a special
interest, aud under no possible cOntin-
gency fail to vote. In order to vote
every man entitled to the right of the
elective franchise must first register.
He cannot vote unless he has
his registration papers in his pocket.
We beg the real tax-paying citizens to
remember who they have to deal with
in the Radical opposition. The hope of
that opposition lies in the disregard on
the part OF the white people of the ne
cessity Of taking an active part in the
city canvass, Of negleeting to register,
of falling or refusing to vote. The Rad
icals will vote as they have done since
the franchise was entrusted to them-m
the 1rori Of command. They vote in
companies, drilled and by file. Not a
man will be left at home. Wary and
a.stute politicians will watch every cabin
rnd tenement house inside, and it may
he. as il has been heretofore, out
side OF the corporation, that no voter
be left unguarded to the ballot-box. Will
the real people of Memphis, upon the
plea of disgust, want Of time, or apathy,
neglect their sac'ei duty TO the city
by falling 10 register, and thus de-
prive the friends of good government
Of their votes? Will they stand by
while the destinies of the city Tor lhe
next two years, pass into the hands o.
men who do not conceal that they
desire to run the city government
in order that they and their friends
may put money in their purses?
Gentlemen voters of Memphis, remem-
Der the dark phalanx of the Radical op-
position; remember who and what they
are; remember your beautiful city; re-
member your heavy taxes; and above
AL, remember the vortex into which
Memphis will fall if the Radicals
once get the control Of her gov
eminent. Let every man who would
see competency, honesty and decency
triumph over chicanery and fraud,
register and prepare to vote for the PEo-
PIES TICKET next January.
Year: 1873

LOUISVILLE, December 10.-As the Mary
Houston was descending the falls this even
ing for New Orleans, with heavy cargo and
a full list of passengers, the night being very
dark and misty, she was ran almost under the
low span of the bridge, which would have
torn her to pieces but was turned short on the
sharp edge Of the pier tearing her right
forward guards of, together with twenty-five
barrels OF whisky and other freight stored
there, which fell into the river. The shock was
great and her passengers, thirty or forty in
number, were terribly frightened, scene of
great confusion ensuing. She came 70 Port
land, however, where she is laid up till to-
morrow evening for repairs.


Meteorological Record.
Year: 1873

COLUMBUS, o., December l0.-The latest fatal
result OF the accidental discharge of a gun
occurred here this morning. A young son of
Charles Hof was placed in charge of a young
baby, and, and was sent up stairs to play with
his sister, four years old. While at play the
little girl ran against a shelf on which a
loaded gun was standing, knocking it down
and throwing the gun to the floor,
when il was disc harged, the contents lodging
in the girls head. The top OF her skull was
knocked completely of. The boy and the
baby were uninjured.