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Year: 1876

COLORADO has three votes IN the electoral
college. These were designed 70 be cast
for Hayes, and the legislature was elected
that it might choose these electors, which
elsewhere are chosen by the people. The
Democrats are strong enough in the legis-
lature to prevent the election of these
electors and to prevent any organization of
the legislature, and in view of outrages
perpetrated by power and knavery' in the
o-called "doubtful" States, the Demo
Gratis of Colorado are prepared, if the n;-
cessity arise, to prevent the election of the
three electors, and again Hayes is undone.
We like this programme. 1t is Northern
device. Northern men will execute it.
Rebels" are in nowise responsible for it.
And yet Grant will not suffer the legisla-
ture of Colorado to execute the scheme.
The North, in this event, will be exasper-
ated, not because Southern, but because
Northern State is denied perfect freedom
of action. Republicans will say that Col


orado Democrats proposed to do great
wrong; but they have the right to do
wrong, and Grant has no right to in
terpose, and thus the scenes are shifted and
the picture presented to the North is that
of helpless Northern State at the feet OF
the armed usurper at whose behests com


monwealths are put to death as mercilessly
rs were myriads of men when war ragged.
1t will be great pity if Wells, Chamber
lain and Stearns perjure themselves in vain.
Il ID sad to think that the Democratic
minority in the least potent and in a re-
mote and newest of States can render
nugatory the perjury and force and fraud
hourly employed in Louisiana. But they
have counted without their host who
imagine that after all this perjury and out


rage upon popular and State rights


in the South Grant will suffer
Colorado, still in its swaddliDg
clothes, to thwart his fixed purpose to make
Hayes or himself his own successor. That
proposed impeachment for outright viola
tions of constitutional law in invading
State would tax infinitely more the courage
of Congressmen than the lnfexibility of
purpose and resolutencss of Graut. He has
planned n campaign. The objective point
is the inauguration of Hayes or indefinite
protraction of his own power. Colorado
will be throttled as remorselessly as was
South Carolina, and the Congress that meets
Monday win hardly have the nerve to Crap
pie with man who hesitates not to Crap
pie even with destiny. He swore he would
support the Constitution; he has peIjured
himself in dealing with South Carolina and
pulse-bcats more or less in number, in any
hour OF his life, never betrayed an emotion
of fear OF pity or of self-accusation. The
Sphynx is not more stony or more inscruya


bic or incapable of emotion than he in
whose presence the Congress and the peo-
pie stand appalled,. avs.
Year: 1876

THE Pittsburg Magnet intimates and
STATESMAN sought TO have the Legislature
recommend that We might do the public
printing-because, forsooth, we are nearly
starved out" If the Hdgaet will con over
the advertisements Of the STATESMAN, and
those that adorn its daily extra" the iu-
nuendo made will be wholly withdrawn and
the reckless assertions of the papers become
demonstrably absurd. That newspaper
which lives by public patronage or depends
upon it for prosperous existence must be
basely truculent and bend before party lead
ers and managers. The STATEsMAH, IS
everybody knows, paddles it's own canoe
and defes alike dcnunciation, pufferg and
partisans. It is moreover true that when
it has nothing and asks nothing at the
hands Of power, except that which its cir
lation commands, it was never more pros
porous and never needed less the smiles OF
authority or of those seeking Office. The
Magnet has done us injustice and should
make amends. Ii may be proper to add that
the STATESMAN has never urged the convo-
cation of the Legislature BY Gov. Hubbard.
We are perfectly willing that this ques-
ton of an extra session shall work out its
own end. Those who are opposed to one
now may soon be clamoring for it. How
long district judges and other State off,
GERS may conclude to endure starvation on
deprecated State paper We are unable to
judge, but the day viii come when they
can staai the pressure no longer. But the
States distresses come in great measure
through the multiplicity of courts, and If
the judgeships are vacated, and the courts
cease operation the people may become the
benefciaries.
Year: 1876

NORTH CAROLINA owes forty-tvo millions
and thirteen millions of unpaid interest,
and yet the thieves who created this debt
and wasted the resources of the once pros
porous State would still have people en-
trust them with power and Office, and eveH
Grant sustains with the bayonet in South
Carolina those who have impoverished that
once stainless old commonwealth. Until
the beneficent carpet-bagger came with saw
ago suffrage to be used as n stool pigeon,
the credit of the two CarolInas was as good
as that of the Union, and rates of taxation
were as low as in New ENGLAND.
Year: 1876

RELIoIoS is sometimes undertaken for
worldly ends. A man in Raleigh purchased
lottery ticket, and then went to his
clergyman and asked If he thought bis
chances of drawing a prize would be i'm
proved II he should become ''sorter good
and join the church." The clergyman
tried to explain that If he should really be-
come "sorter good" he would destroy the
lottery ticket, and the man went away with
the feeling that religion is ''curus kind Of
thing, after ALL" -
Year: 1876

THE Albany Argus, OF November 20, dis.
eusses the political question in style
which should lead the honest people of the
United States TO hope that thieves and con-
spirators have not yet obtained absolute
possession of the country. Whilo Grant
takes possession of Scuth Carolina, and his
officers issue or refuse passes to members
elect Of the Legislature, the people of the
whole Union look on and wonder whether
the obliteration of the last vestige of free
dom viii be tolerated. The case of South
Carolina affects Massachusetts, or New
York, or Ohio, and while liberty to US at
the South appears to be throttled, there Is
manliness at the North. There Is yet con-
fidence in the patience and courage of the
people of the Northern States, and hope
may yet be entertained that truth will
triumph and the villains who have plum
dered the South meet their deserts at the
hands OF the men of the North. The 4rgus
says:


By patient courage in the present crisis,
the Democracy will win the recognition of
their rights from fair-minded and conserva-
tive citizens of all parties, and extort from
Congress itself declaration that Mr.. Til
den has been elected President. The New
York Eretiag Post speaks for cla's of citl-
zens who have Jeen honestly troubled with
the hallucination that solid South was
something to be feared. But these citizens
also know that a repetition of the infamies
of the Louisiana returning boards would be
disastrous. The Pest says:


Whoever imagines that the Republicans
of the North are aSoused and in earnest in
this matter merely because they desire the
election of their candidate for President at
all hazards imaglnes q vain and absurd
thing. The Republicans of tine North insist
that there shall be fair count of the votes
fairly cast, and that if upon such count
Governor Hayes shall appear to be elected
he shall not be kept out of the Office by
Democratic clamOr and bravado. AS they
will take nothing less than their rights, so
they will take nothing more.


John Sherman and his co-conspirators
may as well abandon the purpose to crowd
false count through the returning board,
and into the hands of the President Of the
SeDate of the United States, to be announced
by him without impartial inquiry into the
equities of the transaction. Republicans
will never ask it; Democrats will never
concede it. To force the conspiracy through
will be disastrous and unjustifiable.
Year: 1876

TIE Constitution is opposed TO the election
Of 9 president and vice president from the
same State, sDd therefore # the Senate
sIect Wheeler Vice President the House
cannot elect Tliden or sfce rGrsa, and are
We not In . pretty p.ckles
Year: 1876

TUBE-RosE OR TUBER-ose.-The correct
pronunciation is Tube rose, with the accent
on tube. Tu-ber-ose is not properly en-
ployed except as All adjective. Ihc botanl-
cal name is Polyamthus tuberosa. In locali-
ties where the growing season is not long
enough to permit the plants to develop the
flowers and bulbs fully, at the first appear
ance of spring, put single bulbs into four
inch pots, in soil composed OF equal parts of
loan, sand, and rotten manure. Gave put
little water and place in some warm part OF
a room or under the stage Ola greenhouse
until they form roots, which will usually be
in about two weeks. They should then be
place where they will be fully exposed to
the light in a temperature not lower than
55 Q or CO., AS soon as the ground is
warm and settled they may be transferred
to the open ground, care being exercised
not to break the ball Of earth around their
roots.
Year: 1876

In this recent movement we have wit
messed the effect of union as eXemplitied in
the Royal Agricultural and other societies.
These societies have assisted to spread
abroad knowledge, and to improve the live
stock of the country. The farmers clubs
and chambers of agriculture have also given
the agricultural community what it long
wanted-a voice. We have marked three
distinct epochs of progress bringing us
down to the present day"


w hat are we to see next?


The answer to this is, that we shall see
an Improvement in the condition of the la
borer and the tenant-farmer; and this is to
be brought about by all farming operations
being carried out upon the commercial prin-
ciple. The paternal system-whether be-
tween landlord and tenant or between ten
ant and labOrer-must be abolished. The
landlord must receive fair value for his
land, and the tenant must have perfect free
dom in cultivating it. The laborers must
receive q $ fair days wages tor q fair days
work." and then-eNcept in those civilities
and courtesies which ought to exist between
1ll WIZ lldNC DltSlllCSS 1CltttiOIlS lOSotlllcl-
each one is his own master Agriculture
must be treated upon business principles for
the future: and this will | believe, be the
fourth decade of agricultural progress.


But there is one department of agricul-
ture in which your readers are interested
that will, think, in the very near future
make rapid strides. | allude to the dairy
interest | believe that the factory system
will make rapid progress during the next
| few years. At present we have only about
twenty factories. but | think that number
will be doubled in about two years time.
also believe that the coming year will see
| the Foundation laid for really national dai-
rymen's association for Great Britain or at
least for England. hope this will be the
case, for our dairying is in nine cases out OF
ten, carried on in a very unscienttic man
ner. This will be remeded, [ believe, here
as it has been in America, by the action of a
good dairymen's association. | firmly be
lieve that rapid strides will shortly be made
| towards the perfection of scientific dairying
in this country.-H. T. ". IN Rt1'al Pyees.
Year: 1876

ExTERAIINATING ROSE SLUGs.--Many 11or-
lists use strong suds made of whale Oil soap.
But when using the suds do not have any
pieces of undissolved soap in it, for these
might distigure the shrubbery. Put it on
with syringe freely, and be careful to wet
the under siGe of the leaves. Repeat the
operation in three or four days, until the
danger is past The great mistake is apt to
be in making the first application too late.
The mischief is done quickly when the slugs
once appear.
Year: 1876

How TO GET Early soon
as your tomato plant has made four leaves,
pinch the top bud from the stem, then take
up the plant, pinch Off two inches from the
tap root and transplant it in common
box-frame, where the soil is rich and loamy.
The box will keep off the wind, and plants
sown and grown there eighteen inches apart
will produce fruit two weeks sooner than
the same planted in the open ground. a
mat, or a few boards, spread over the frame
at night will keep them from frost, and IS
far easier and quicker than going over a
field nightly and setting boxes over each
hill. As soon as the plants have set fruit on
two blossoms of each branch, and the top
has grown two to four leaves, the pmchlng
off the ends of each branch and top should
be AGAIN put in practice
Year: 1876

RorATIoN OF CRoPs.-As desirable as ro-
tation in office may be, it can not be more
so than ajudicious rotation OF crops raised
on the farm. No matter how fertile the soil,
it is conceded that constant cropping with
one, two. or three kinds of grain will wear
out the land. All good farmers concede
that a proper rotation of crops, including
the grasses. should be followed Chemists
inform us that the nutriment Of food-produc-
ire plants is taken in part from the soil in
solution through the roots and partly from
Year: 1876

The ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUsBANDMAN is DESIGNED
to be, as the name lndicates husbantnan in every
sense OF the term embracing in its columns every
department of Agriculture, Stock-raising, uorti-
culture, Social and Domestic Economy o.
Year: 1876

that State, they mostly perished from excess
of moisture which dissolved the glutinous
substance which normally protects and
holds them together. That in some parts of
the high country lying east of the noun
tains, especially towards the north, eggs
have been deposited in numbers by the
swarms which left the lower and more fer
tile country devastated last spring, is not
only probable but pretty certain. But in
that region such is the case every year, for it
is the native home of the swarms which oc-
casonaly extend to the Upper Mississippi
Valley. But the number Of eggs laid in the
States Of Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, by
the few Struggling insects that passed over
that country last fall will not equal that
aiG in ordinary seasons by indigenous spe-
cies. In Colorado, there have been in most
parts such abundant rains where locust eggs
were laid, and the ground~h asbeen so unus-
ually moist, that there is some hope that
the bulk OF the eggs are, or will be de-
stroyed, The events Of the past eighteen
months have so fully borne out such predic-
tions as | felt warranted in making, that my
opinion on this subject may have some
weight.


give it as my belief that, first, in the
three States mentioned there will not hatch
as many locusts next spring as would natlr-
ally hatch in ordinary seasons from eggs of
| Indigenous species second, that compared
with other parts Of the country, those States
rayaUp1 by lOcuSts last Sprnw. and early
summer will enjoy the greater immunity,
during the same season of 1876, not only
from locust injuries, but from the injuries
of other obnoxious insects, except the wood
bOrers. In short, the people Of the ravaged
section have reason to be hopeful rather
than gloomy. They will certainly not SUI.
fer in any general way from locust injuries
il the early season; and the only way III
which they can suffer from the migrating
pest is by fresh swarms later in the year


from the north west, the odds being, how
ever. from number of reasons which it is


unnecessary to enumerate here, very great


against any such contingency. THERE'S one
redeeming feature in the JoumaEs article.


It is the advice to the people of the States


named to not be protligate of the abundant


crop they have garnered, but store it for
emergency. If nothing short of false


alarm would cause them to do this, the


statement might find justification; but the


lesson of 1875 so clearly pointed out to such
a course and was so dearly bought that il
will not needlessly go unheeded.
Year: 1876

the air through the leaves, and therefore
that suitable food must be provided, or
manifest deterioration will result. The good
farmer, while he aims to produce the largest
crops at the least expense, will also be care
ful to keep up the fertility of the soil by
iudcious rotation of crops, supplemented
by the application of manures to the land
Rural World.
Year: 1876

A LITTLE OF EvERYTHlNG.-ln laying
out plans for the coming season it is best to
plant or sow some of all crops which can be
grown successfully. In this way the failure
of any one Will not entail great loss, and
employment may be found for all parts OF
the season better than by the cultivation of
speciality.
Year: 1876

In times like these people make It q point
to buy where they can get the best ana
cheapest articles. Our young friend, Her.
man Boil, at the 8. E. corner OF Third and
Market streets, has recently purchased 9
large quantity Of Spring clothing, selected
with especial care, and has determined to
vel. them at such prices that no one Will
complain. Persons who are in search Of q
good, and at the same time cheap article,
should call and examine his stock.
Year: 1876

The playing on both sides might well be
called good, hut the Quicksteps certainly
were some what in advance of their oppo-
nents. No serious errors were made by
either side, and the audience seemed to be
highly delighted with the game.
Year: 1876

The Central Council Of this Union
held n meeting last evening, the only
public business being the reading Of u
communication from counsel Of the
New Orleans Pacific Railroad request
ing consent Of the Property Holders
Union, rs intervenors ia the railroad
case, To have the case heard before the
Supreme Court in July next. The Cen
tral Council unanimously refused TO
give such consent. They then went into
secret session.
Year: 1876

The Congressional Committee met
this morning at ~ O'Clock. but imme-
diately went into secret session to ex-
anime documents from the city and
country. which were brought to them
this morning At hhlf-past O'Clock
this afternoon the secret session had
not been raised.
Year: 1876

About half-past II o'clock last night II
fire was discovered in the diapidated
one story frame building situated ut the
corner Of Iimple and Cambronne streets.
The flames were cxtinguishcd with but
slight damage. On examination it was
found that incendiaries had been at
work. as the place had been saturated
with coal oil
Year: 1876

Our old friend Alphabetioal" Smith
was this morning admitted to practice
law by the Supreme Court. How for
tunate it is hat he is known AS above.
for. just think Of having to address him
ns Samuel Jackson Nemheighbeoyer
SMITH
Year: 1876

FIRST DAY-TUESDAY EVENING.


A tair-sized audience assembled in front
OF the speakers stand, this evening. Mr..
Doutney opened the exercises. He said 81
have been maligned and doubted during
the last few days. and it has even gone
almost TO the public journals. l have never
known skin-hint to become drunkard, a
man who never gets drunk has no brains. :"
This seems to be doubtful statement.


Rev. Mr.. Brooks said the very first step
towards his entering the ministry was to
be lifted up out of the ditch a drunkard
de spoke feelingly Of his checkered life
and varied experience Love more than law
should be used in the temperance cause


Brother Durant said, it said in Holy Writ
it is not righ. to take the name OF any one
in vain. Twice, to-day. was melted with
fervent heat but with the remarks of some
of the speakers. | want to say to you who
have trod the same path that have, that
you know nothing of the power of kindness
Whenever you see the fair ladies of your
cities and villages interested in your wei
fare. that day you become rejecting and
better man.


Mr. Bryant said he had been engaged
in this work for tho last four years, and to-
Night, his interest was stronger than ever.
Les never trouble US; it facts that trouble
Us, We are right and God is for the right
and victory must be ours.


believe much in the quaint saying Of
the philosopher. who said ''if you are tray-
cling, and dog comes out and barks at
you, Its no use to stop and quarrel with
him, for you will have to stop and quarrel
with him again"


Mr. Frost spoke briefly. He said he would
like to stop up the holes and make the rum
sellers internally sick. Nothing should be
said to discourage those who are trying to
reform. When man reforms and signs
pledge he has got to breast the winds and
the waves. for they will blow, and they are
always dead ahead


The exercises were spirited. and enliyen-
ed with stories and sprightly repartees.
After the meeting closed Tor the night we
were favored with some very fine music.
The Burlington House numbers some TWEEN
ty-fye souls. Among their invited guests
we noticed MessTs Frost, Bryant, Durant,
and DOutney.
Year: 1876

The President has signed the bill proyid-
ing for the employment OF Indians as scouts
to the number of 900. Both the General
of the Army and Lieutenant General Sheri-
dan have been very anxious that this should
be done at the earliest possible moment, SO
as to facilitate the operations against the
hostile Sioux.
Year: 1876

That in the days Of Democratic al
ministration, so low did the credit o
this Government fall that its securitiei
were hawked through the markets anc
sold at eleven per cent discount. Under
Republican rule, Notwithstanding greS
war and great debt, the securities o
the same Government now command i
ready market at the unprecedentedly low
rate OF ~ per cent.


There is whole volume Of history il
this brief record. Don't forget it when
you vote to-day.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-AttOmey- General
Porrcont is reported to be greatly annoyed at the con
s,ructon placed upon his letter to District Attorney
DYER in regard the punishment OF those who were en-
gaged In the whisky conspiracy, and who furnish the
Government with information for the conviction OF
others The opinion has been very generally expresHcd
that whatever might have been the Attorney y'iencras
object IN writing that letter lis effect would probably be
to nreyrnt any further disclosures by any 0t the CO.
consprators In defense Of his action Judge Pcrrepon
s reported said that he wrote the letter al the
reoues of the President and that the latter when he
read suggested that tue OF 1t be made stronger
even than IL was.
Year: 1876

A PLAN BY WHICH nIRD-CLAss MATTER SHALL DE


MADE TO PAY AS 1T GOES.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-Postmaster-General
Jewell has sent to the Senate Committee on PostOces
and Post Roads from Mr. VAIL the General super
intendent Of the Railway Mail Service, regarding the
transportation and classification OF mail matter In com
mendng the slperntendents conclusions to the favor
able action OF the Committee Mr. Jewell urges that the
rates for matter should be varied according TO
the distance He would apply, he says the principle
that the charge should bear proportion to the SER
vice rendered and thus prevent increase Of the deficit
Of the Department


In his report to the Mr. Vail shows