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Year: 1871

pay spoke at length the advantages OF Florida for
setcment Land offered 10y their Company at from
E 70 o ah acre, onequarter down and the time.
country, and no obliged 70 buy OF them IL he
Souu 40 Dctter elsewhere Cheap rates Of transpora-
& doi hau oeeh secured, and every nducement was Of
eIu 10 go there but rather than that the 100000 people
IN lhs city VINO ought TO he out of IL should stay il,
ne was Wiling they should so to any other State in the


George H. Sweet OF Texas set forth the advantages to
De derived from settlement in that State. Railroads
were multiplying there, and the International which
was recently chartered would directly with this
money ="


Col J. II. Loomis, representing the Northern Pacific
Kairoad spoke next and said that the $1,000 people
hvng In tenement houses In this city offered sufficient
reason for the agitation Of this movement He favored
national system for the settlement Of these lands and
the union Of the railroads and steamer lines with
MARKET A gentleman present asked the speaker II he
was aware that there was organization OF working
men in this city who intended to test the right OF Con-
gress to give away such large tracts of land to his
pany Col Loomis said that he did not know Of it, but
would be happy to meet them and explain the nature of


Mr.. Greeley said that he did not consent TO helping
emlgrants by subscription. He believed that colonies
would be made by persons who had energy 10 make
them, and not by paupers.


Mr.. Marshall. the last speaker favored Mississippi
place for settlement must however, consult his
tastes and genius and he advised those who not
willing or had not the taste engage in ting the soil
not To think OF emigration. The vast numbers who
are starving in this city could be supported in the
south on one-quarter Of what they could raise,
perfectly safe for newcomers and instead OF
the 40 schoohOuses and churches which he had
10 know Of They had only about disturbances
enough TO show that they descendants OF Adam.
They sinners down there but the saints were up
here. aughterl If people did not come there TO get
good office, and make money and take II away from
there they would to the conclusion that they
the most hospable and people in the world
Year: 1871

for each single-wngon and horse IA cents for each
double wagon and horses, IS cents for each
cart and "a cents for each loaded double
wagon with two more horses attached The capital
stock of the Company is to be not less than s. oOoO IL


is provided that ordinances laws OF two cities
or the State shall alter impair the powers and priv
neges granted by the bill.


Mr. Hoar's bill to provide for the appointment Of
commission on the subject OF the wages
and hours OF labor, and the division
of profits between labor and capital In the
United states authorizes the appointment by tho Pres-
dent Of three Commissioners, at salary OF ooo each'
who shall hold Office for two years. and shall lnvesugato
and report upon the subject Of wages ana hours Oh
labor and Of the division Of the Joint prohts OF aoo
and capital between the aborer and the capitalist ana
the social educational and sanitary condition OF 'ne
aborng classes Of the United States and how the same
are affected by existing laws regulating commerce.
finance and currency


Considerable interest has been felt among members
OF the House as TO the composition Of the Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds on account Oh is great
import ance under the law land which Speaker Blame
will appoint this session. 1t Is now reported by those
who are supposed to know. that Mr.. Halsey OF Ne"
Jersey will be Chairman of this Committee, ana that
Messrs. lPlatt of Virginia, Morphis OF Mississippi
and Getz Of Pennsylvania, VIII also DO members
Year: 1871

:. WHAT CANE OF lT.-The new ring, the
ring within ring, ring of the Republican
clique was to have met here last Saturday
but did it, and if SO, what did it do ? We
posted no pickets, and sent no reporter, sup
posing from what our neghbor had said, that
the meeting would be open and that the Or
gan would give the full proceedings, but
then there is neither letter, word or wink
about the matter in the Stripes. Was it a
fizzle, did it meet underground, or did ii
end in Kilkenny fight in which the partci-
pants devoured each other. The latter sup
position. is not borne out by the finding of any
hair or stubs of tails around town. What
has become of all the circulars sent out and
who the deel has been smothering the little
hddle-dee-dee. Come, give us some light on
the subject, Mr.. Subsidy man.
Year: 1871

Reflect that sound mind and body are inc
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
Trough Ir5 lie becomes a weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly durkcns to the view, the mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blghtcd with our own.
Year: 1871

ID. c. Scofield writes to the Gernsantoun
Telegraph, on the above subject. He SAYS:


such is the present conditions of our
native forests, and such the decrease within
the last half-century, and this too with q
small population-very small when COM
pared with the increased millions and tens
of millions of the next fifty years-that it
becomes a wise and intelligent people to
prepare for the future want which must
soon come-yea, is already upon us. Not
only the timberless wastes of the northwest
and desert plains, but along the Atlantic
slope, south and east of the great Lakes aud
Ohio river, the terrible scarcity of timber
approaching calls loudly for immediate
action in the direction of forest planting.
You may build house or even a city in
year, but to produce forest of well-grown
pines or other wood requires many years.
This is not only matter of national
Importance collectively but also of private
advancement. The young man of twenty
one years who plants forest of pines and
European larch will reap from each acre
before he is fifty years of age net profit
of more than ten Thousand dollars, and
many are the men who will say before
twenty-five years have passed away, "Had
l planted forest twenty five years ago as
L might have done, today acould be acorM
half a million -


Since the beginning of the railroad system
the destruction of timber has been alarm
ing. According to carefully obtained sta
tistics the number of acres of timber swept
away annually by this cause alone amount
to nearly half million. Let this absorb
tion of timber continue another half-cen-
tury at the ratio the increased demand will
necessitate, and neither the poorer nor
middle classes will be able to obtain it.


An investment in this business by rail-
road companies in lining the sides of their
roads with belts of European larch and
white pine would prove quite as profitable
to themselves and for the country generally
as the laying of tracks and putting the road
in working order. Let railroad company,
owning one hundred miles of road, plant
four rows of trees, of Europeon larch, two
on each side of the road, and they have one
hundred and twenty-eight thousand trees,
each of which would make four railroad
ties and four fence-posts, in number, one
million twenty-four thousand posts and
ties, that are undecable, so far as rotting is
concerned, within twenty years from plant
ing. Let any man plant and care for one
acre of larch and pine, and in twenty years
it is worth ten thousand dollars, in thirty,
fifteen thousand, and in fifty years the
total net value Of timber thinned out and
forest remainings, having paid all interest
on investment and cost of cultivation and
marketing, will amount to no less than
twenty-five thousand dollars at present
prices of timber.
Year: 1871

Commodore Scudder, of the United
States Navy, had double-nosed pointer
dog of which he Dragged good deal, and
for which he would have refused larger
sum than was ever offered for dog since
the creation of the world But he is dead
now-not Commodore Scudder, but his dog
Like the famous hound Gelert, he died
martyr to his high sense of honor. The
Commodore told me the story.


"Iwent out hunting partridges one day."
he said, "and took the dog along. We
hadn't much luck at first, but after awhile
Buster-that was the dogs name-stood
and pointed at covey of the finest birds
ever saw in all my born days. They
were squatting down in the low grass, a
dozen yards off, in plain sight, and deter
mined to fire at them as they lay. lifted
my gun, took deliberate aim, and would
have killed dozen at least but before
could pull the trigger a courier dashed up
with dispatch which he said required
immediate attention.


81 reserved my fire and read the dispatch.
1t was an order from the Navy Department
to proceed, without a nom ent's delay, to
Philadelphia to take comma nd of a squad
ron which was about to sail to the Mediter-
ranean. was so much excited, you under
stand, that laid down my gun right on
the spot, and went off, leaving Buster there
pointing at those birds like they were north
stars and he was mariners compass, SO
to speak. forgot all about him but be
was faithful dog, Buster was-and like
Cassabianca, he wouldn't have left burn
ing ship without my order.


"Well, I went to the Mediterranean, and
cruised around for three years. having a
first-rate time. When I returned at the
end of the cruise, it occurred to me, as l
stepped ashore in Philadelphia, to 60 out
and see how things were at the place where
| went cunning. John and went-and
the first thing came acress was my gun,
lying there, with the barrel covered With
rust and broken clean off the rotten stock
But what was my surprise, upon going
few PAGES farther, to find the skeleton of
that heroic, double-nosed pointer standing
up just where had left the dog three years
before He had never budged an inch,
MIR. Quill, not single solitary inch, that
double-nosed pointer hadn't; but he had
stood there and pointed at those birds until
he had perished in his tracks Well, sir,
after shedding a tear over my departed
friend, l went few yards ahead, and
there aoere tile skeletons Of those partridges!
l regard this as the most extraordinary cir
cumstance that ever came under my obser-
vation; but if any man presumes to doubt
| my word, I'll shoot him on the spot-I will,
by George"'


1t was queer, that story of Scudder's,
about his dog, but it would hardly be safe
te say what think about it.
Year: 1871

To STOP HORSES FROM KICKING.-Tie
knot in the end of the tail, above which tie
cord; then pass a cord between the thighs
and around the girth or belly, and draw
the tail down between the thighs and fasten
the cord securely. We have known this to
succeed when everything else ever heard Of
had failed.
Year: 1871

LOOK TO Your CoLLARs.-Now that
Spring work is about to commence, farm
ers should see to it that no fitting collars
are put on their horses. To not attend to
this matter at once, may subject them to
great deal of annoyance, and inflict much
suffering on the poor beasts.
Year: 1871

eS If you want to be IN good humor
all the week, get your washing nicely done
by 10 o'clock Monday morning and have
the clothes ironed and put away before
night. Now if yon don't know how to do
this, just inquire at Moore & Bro, who
manufacture that famous GO Wilmington
City Soap" Ask your grocer for it.
Year: 1871

The corn crop, at least 80 far as the
fodder is concerned, has reached crit
ical period. A frost may occur now at
any time. Not an hours warning may
be given. The mere change Of wind
during the night may bring about such
II change OF temperature that the stalks
may be whitened with frost any
morning. This would be serious dam.
age TO the corn fodder. The corn should
now be watched carefully. and rs soon
~ it is all glazed il should be cut up,
when day or two OF drying would
place it in advance Of any damage from
frost. 1t depends much on the success
ful gathering OF fodder crops whether
hay will advance to an exorbitant price
during the winter or not. We notice
reports Of rpeculxtors ucinY "irrn'ly In
the field securing hay at an advanced
price. But ito be iorewarned is 10 be
ioresrmed :" and we do not think that il
will be for want OF sufficient warning il
farmers are caught with inadequate





supplies OF feed. There are 20 many
resources now opened to the energetic
farmer whereby he may mitigate the 10.
convenience of short hay crop. that il
is only by neglec. that he should be
caught with short supplies. And the
most effectual precaution is TO carefully
harvest and economize his corn fodder.
With short crops Of any staple article.
some advance in price is to be expected |;
and il there is any advantage to be Sc
cured by the farmer as an offset for re-
duced quantity, it will be in this in.
creased price. 1t will be sore disap.
pointment then 10 be obliged TO feed
hay that might have been. by careful
management, spared for sale by the use
of substitute, and TO lose by want OF
foresight the chance OF securing this ad-
vanced price.
Year: 1871

LYNN, MASS, September 4.-General
Butler delivered the fifth of a series OF
campaign speeches before an audience
of at least four thousand people in
Music Hall tonight. The spacious
building was crowded from pit to dome
and hundreds were turned away from
the door. The General appeared in
GOOD spirits and addressed the vast au.
dience with his accustomed vigor and
emphasis. The entire speech was main
" devoted to the recent disaster on
the Eastern railroad at Revere. lie
claims that the primary cause of the
affair lay in the inefliciency of the
hoard of management forgetting that
the Eastern railroad company had
made many an endeavor to effect
consolidation with the corpor:.
alton controlling the Boston and
Marine railroad. He urged that
sucb a consolidation should have
taken place, and that the Eastern rail-
road people were to be blamed for not
etfecting the Revere disaster. "Why,


he asked, "has not the right to consoli,
date been asked of the Legislature
Because that road, like others, has been
run for individual gain and not the
safety of the people" The speaker ss r
went on to contrast the low pay OF the
railroad employees with the degrees OF
labor which is expected Of them, say
inc that an engine driver requires more
of the high qualities with which God
can endow man than does the Governor
Of Massachusetts, and yet he does not
receive that amount of pay Tor MS
work. Pay your men, he said, sum
equal to the value OF their labor and we
Will have better work and fewer instances
Of accidents caused by carelessness.
Year: 1871

BROOKLYN, September 4.-Judge
Troy, of the Kings county Court ol
Sessions, delivered his charge to the
Grand Jury to-day in the case OF DR..
Perry and Madame Van Busklrk' un,
der trial for performing an abortion on
and causing the death OF Miss Post.
After delivering the usual instructions
as to the powers and duties of the jury,
Judge Troy remarked on the character
of the case before him, denouncing the
wretches who participate in the hldeous
traffic and who openly proclaim their
foul and murderous business through
the advertising columns OF newspapers,
to the great dishonor OF the press and
of the law which permits the press to
dishonor itself by acting for merce-
nary consideration as the confederate,
accessory and auxiliary OF this class
of foul homicidal miscreants. SO great
is the evil, he said, that unless checked
by further legislation and the rigorous
enforcement Of present laws, 1t Will be-
come a national reproach as q crime
tolerated peculiarly by American laws
and public opinion, and hoped the next
Legislature would remedy the defect
He then read the statute relating to abb
ortion, and closed by earnestly advising
the Grand jury to do their duty IN re;
gard to this crime as they do in regard
10 others.
Year: 1871

the present line. These facts are


known to every reader Of the newspa'


pers. We have to conjecture what the


programme will be when this con-


nection is accomplished. 1t may be


probable that that company will


abandon altogether the present line


from Benwood to Grafton, thus leay-


ing Marion county without railroad


facilities. This may appear chimeri-


cal to those who have not given the


subject any special thought; but still it
is within the range OF probabilities.
Ask yourselves the question, What use


will the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company have for the line from Ben


wood to Grafton when the connection
through Pennsylvania to Cumberland
is completedY' And in searching for
reasons to induce satisfactory answer
you will probably conclude that ii is not
improbable that that portion of the
present line Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad may be discontinued at no dis
tant day. The best you can hope is
that it will be continued as sort Of
half:forsaken, one-horse affair, not un-
like the one near New Orleans, as de-
scrihed by wag in that city, who.
upon being inquired Of by a traveller
what was meant by the railroad COM
pany's advertisement, "trl-weekly pas
trains, answered "Sir itmeans
that the train goes up one week and
tries to get back the next


Aside from these considerations, the
route now being surveyed is connect
ing link in an airline route from Mem
phis, Tennessee, to New York, which
must and will be built in the near fu-
ture. and this survey being completed,
might be the means of attracting atten-
ton to this particular route and hasten
the time when such a line will be un-
dertaken. 1t may be true that as a
local line it would not offer sufficient
inducements to engage the necessary
capital in its interest to build it, but in
the connection last spoken OF, there is a
good prospect that the money expended
in its survey will be as bread cast
upon the waters.


find that have already spun out
what was intended as short letter,
into a long newspaper article. The
good wishes OF the writer for the inter
ests and welfare ofthe people of Marion,
must be his excuse for so doing, and,
if what is herein said shall have the
effect of awaking your people to a sense
of the interests involved, the regrets OF
your correspondent at giving the prln-
ters so much trouble will be greatly les
sened. b.
Year: 1871

The Brooklyn (N. " Edgleis respon-
sible for the following explanation Of
President Grants unusual and protrac-
ted stay at Long Branch. 1t is a mis-
erable exhibition of what greed for
gain will sometimes compel a man to
to do. The Eagle says:


"a statement is published ia the
newspapers, which iftrue, ought to ex-
cite the anger and the commiseration Of
every loyal man in the land. The
President of the United States is
declared to be virtually a prisoner In
his cottage by the sea, at Long Branch.
The fact that he has been incarcerated
through his own folly hardly tempers
the modification which the nation
will feel on ascertaining that its
Chief Executive is detained two
hundred miles away from the National
Capital, and that he cannot return to it,
except for a day or two at time, with
out violating an agreement up to which
he is held by some unpatriotc Shylock.
The way OF it is this: 1t seems to he
admitted that the cottage which the
President occupies at Long Branch was
presented to him, but it was assumed
that it was placed at his disposal with
out expressed conditions. 1t is OF
course implied, in such cases, that in
the distribution OF the public patronage
those who do the handsome thing by
the President shall not be forgotten,
and it is due to President Grant to say
that he has regarded these little under
standings as binding upon him, and has
carried out all that could possibly be
expected of him, and generally in con-
temptuous defiance Of public opinion.
But, it is alleged, in the case OF the
donor OF the Long Branch cottage, now
in the Presidents possession, that he
transferred it from motives specially
base and sinister. lie is, it seems,
largely interested in real estate at Long
Branch, and shrewdly suspecting the
presence of the Executive there during
the summer would attract attention to
the place, hel p to give it a sort OF stand
ing for fashion, and in this way advance
the value Of his real estate, he gave
Grant cottage, but with the dastardly
stipulation that the President should
live in it during the whole summer, no
matter what might he the pressure OF
public business. So it comes to pass
thatt the President is virtually a prisoner
at the Branch. He is to be sure work
ing out his cottage, so to speak,
but his engagement has grown to be
peculiarly irksome. Long Branch,
despite the Presidents presence, has
been q failure this year. The weather
has been against it, for it has been
broken and inclement. Now that the
nights are cold, and the days gloomy,
while the summer is mot over, as laid
down in the almanac, the Presidents
position is really pitiable. He is per
haps the only visitor at Long Branch
who is under obligation to stay there
until, bv the closing Of the hotels, he IL
relieved from his post"


That is not a very pleasant situation
for the Chief Magistrate OF the Republic
but it is one for which he is respons
bic. Can't some greedy office-seeker
relieve him, and take compensation II
a lucrative appointment.
Year: 1871

How Is THIS FOR HIGH Pit is currently
reported that our City Fathers, having
been impressed by the proceedings OF their
colleagues of the Cockade City, in donating
a portion of Poplar Lawn" in that city,
to General Malone, as building lot, have
determined to make application to the
Governor for Capitol Square, in order that
the Little Railroad King may have
palace here as we'll as In Petersburg.
Year: 1871

WE desire to return our thanks to our olo
w customers and the public generally, io'
the liberal share of patronage extended TO VI
in the past and hope 10 merit continuation o.
the same by close attention to business and
Offering CHEAP GOODS. r


October Is, 1870. u
Year: 1871

lFrOm the San Antonio Express.


The New Orleans REPUBLICAN Of Sep
tember |, contains a highly laudatory ar
tlcle on the appointment of this gentleman
to succeed Mr.. Boyee to the honorable and
important office of Secretary of State.


Without assuming to pass upon the
alleged improper and illegal conduct of his
predecessor, we cannot refrain from uniting
with the REPUBLICAN in cOngratulating the
Governor and people Of Louisiana upon the
acquisition of SO worthy person as General
Heron. to the administration OF tie re-
sponsible duties Of Secretary of State.


1t was our good fortune to have known
General Heron in the zenith of his mill
tary fame, when he commanded one of the
finest divisions Of General Grants army at
Vicksburg He was then considered one of
the most skillful, reliable and bravest.
though youngest, major generals in that
large and victorious army. We witnessed
the ability displayed by him as a soldier
successfully transferred to civil life. in the
capacity Of one Of the leading merchants
of New Orleans, and subsequent into the
civil service as United States marshal of
Louisiana, in which capacity he won the
respect and confidence Of the entire COM
munity. of all politics, throughout the
State. until unwisely removed to give place
to the present incompetent blunderer of
the CustOmhouse shame-Packard. Gen
erai Heron brings rare scholarly and ex-
ecutive accomplishments into his new posi-
ton. which will be better appreciated the
longer they are exercised. Governor War
moth. like General Grant, seems to possess
IN an eminent degree the important gift of
Judgment in the selection of good men.