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Year: 1872

VIcToR, Ontario Co., N. Y,


December 7th, 1879.


EDITOR REcoBD: Il have just received
two copies of your very interesting and
ably conducted paper. know not by
whom they are sent. but whoever it may
be. | tender through You my thanks to
him.


You are aware that we, in this old and
stsid country, cannot appreciate OF COM
prehend the life led by the hardy miner
or frontier settler. We know compara-
lively nothing of the doings Of the enter
prising Piochers; and it is only by a
careful reading Of your valuable journal
that We are led to see the magnitude Of
the business operations, the extent of
trade, and the enterprise in your place.
. This leads me to say, that If others
who reside in your city and who sub
scribe for the REcoRp, would do as my
friend (whosver he or she is) has done,
many OF our people would, like myself,
feel thankful to receive SO valuable an
addition to our reading matter, from
which thV would CLEAN information not
otherwise attainable.


When ! look ever the large list of ad-
vertisements in the RECORD, am led to
the conclusion that the vast plains, the
rugged mountains, the deep ravines, are
no barrier to American enterprise, and
that New York City Is not the only place
where trade and commerce exist; and
when we look at the age OF one and the
youth Of the other, who is warranted in
saying that New York may not have a.
rival? l am led to contrast the beautiful
village in which reside to that Of Phoebe,
~ seen in the RRcoRD. Here We are.
almost hundred years old, with two or
three stores, hotels and q blacksmith's
shop, with splendid farming country
all around 40. Phoebe, an infant, with
her hundred places of business, her en-
terprising capitalists, all hustle and busi-
ness, while here we plod along after the
fashion Of the shall. Why is this? I
imagine that your monsyed men do not
lot the lock Of their money-chest rust;
the old blue stocking wants no mspding
from the dead weight Of ages-it is cast
out in more lively business.


1t is, perhaps, we'll enough for "old
eodgers," like your correspondent, to
anchor in an antediluvian chair, but to
the young man who is in our midst, and
can scarcely save dime, I would say as
the now dead philosopher said: "Go
west, young man; 90 west" even unto
Pioche. Yours. T..
Year: 1872

The city papers, last Friday contained
list, probably far from complete, of the dam
ages done by gunpowder in New-York and
Brooklyn during the celebration of the Fourth
of July. Three persons were killed, and forty
six were more or less severely injured by fire
works and pistols, some having hand shat
tered, some getting bullets in their bodies,
some being struck by rockets, some dangerously
lacerated by exploding tire-crackers, and nearly
a score of boys shooting off their fingers. There
were no fewer than thirty-seven fires. How
many sick people were thrown into nervous
disorders by the incessant noise, how many in
that terrible day of heat and prostration, trem-
bling between life and death, were hurried out
of the world by the din of guns, crackers, and
torpedoes, we cannot tell. The police make no
record of the individual suffering which is
confined to private houses.


We should regret to see any diminution in
the popular observance of our national fest-
val and we take it for a good sign that the
celebration grows more and more hearty every
year. But are our mental resources so poor
that we can think of no way to testify public
joy except by exploding powder and shooting
our neighbors2 One result of this barbarous
manner of rejoicing has been to confne the
festivities of the day chiefly to unruly chill
dren, and to drive out of the city every man
and woman who can possibly get away. To
the quiet and orderly patriot the Fourth of
July, in town, is national nuisance; to
anxious mothers it is day of general peril
and suffering, filed with visions of bloody
little boys, burning nurseries, surrepttous
powder-horns, MANNED and blackened limbs,
tattered trowsers, and blazing pinafores. There
is no reason in this abuse. The ce|ebra-
ton of our national festival ought to be
not only hearty one, but a celebration
in which all classes can join. 1t ought
to attract the cooperation of every patriotic
American, and we ought to be spared the spec
tacle of half our urban population running
away from it as they would run away from the
plague. There should be a holiday of course;
there should be military parade there might
very well be public exhibitions OF fireworks
perhaps, as there are now; to these we might
add music at frequent intervals in the parks,
civic professions, and such other demonstra-
Year: 1872

tions of hilarity rs may suggest themselves TO
an ingenious populace; but it is getting to be
a serious question whether the public safety
does not require that the murderous pistol should
be forbidden, and the infamous cracker sent
back to the barbaric race in whose grotesque
civilization it originated. The Roman emperors
used to make merry with the hacking and
hewing of gladiators and the feeding Of lions
with living slaves; but we surely are not to
90 on forever keeping festival with the fingers
of our own children and the confagration OF
our own houses.
Year: 1872

There is certain set of gentlemen who
think very kindly of our country, and would
like to encourage it in every good work.
They cannot, of course, descend into politics
like other men. This would spoil their tenn
pers, sometimes even their hats. They would
be taken into distant and shabby streets some-
times, and not unfrequently would be forced
to listen to ungrammatical conversation. 1t
might even happen that they would be brought
face TO face with men who wear paper collars
and who never have read word of Herbert
Spencer. These superfne patriots could not,
of course, be expected to put themselves in
the way of such trials as these. They
are quite right to restrict themselves to din
ner-table propaganda, and to gentlemanlike
laments over the vulgarity of the age, which
renders it impossible for them to do any
thing for the country. When men who take
an interest in politics accomplish nothing,
it is usually because they have not the
qualities which are needed to influence
their time. With all their fine intellectual
equipment they are like the false gods of the
Psalmist. They have very Observant eyes and
they see not. They have excellent ears and
they hear not. They have mouths full of
sweetness, and strength as well, yet they never
speak word with an echo. 1t is hard to know
them without wishing the good in them could
be made useful But it is impossible to see
how this can be done.


They have deprived themselves Of the
preper influence their abilities and high char
actar couId exert by the deliberate adoption
Year: 1872

period of the Jubilee, among tho hundreds of
thousands of visitors inside and out of the
Coliseum. was revelation of the influences
which have made Boston and New-EDgland
the power that they are recognized to be by
all thoughtful minds.
Year: 1872

Another illustration of the political changes
now going on in England will be noted in
the action of the House of Lords on the Bal
lot bill. The House of Commons sent back
the bill, insisting that the ballot should be
made secret, not optionally, but specifically.
The Lords were expected to stand firmly on
their amendment leaving this provision
optional. They did nothing of the sort, but
with unexpected discretion, receded. This
insures the passage Of measure which has
agitated England for many years.
Year: 1872

The advantages of newspapers are every day de-
veloped and new and before unsuspected uses Tor
them are discovered. Witness what befel gentle
man and his wife recently in Holy Land. While
they were travelling toward Jerusalem they were
beset by bandits and robbed not onlyoftheir money
aud baggage, but even of the clothes in which they
were standing, or rather kneeling, for mercy What
were they to do If they had been going to the
Garden of Eden it would have been all well enough
but how were they to enter the ancient City OF the
Lord in q state of primitive nudity' In this hor-
rible emergency they begged back from the plum
derers a copy of The London Tines Was there ever
such luck before2 For they received not only the
usual copy of the great journal but it so happened
that there was a supplement, which was just the
thing for the lady! Thus clothed with advertise
ments leading articles, foreign correspondence, the
money market and the parliamentary debates, they
entered Jerusalem panoped against all fierce Mus
sulmans-for these re gOnists, beromembered,
respect every square inch of paper since haply the
name of God may be written thereon. We trust
Americans going to the East will provide against
such emergencies, and we would proudly call atten-
ton to the size of THE TRIBUNE, which is large
enough to serve the biggest of sufferers.
Year: 1872

Stokes, in his own defense, yesterday, re-
lated the circumstances of the shooting of
Fisk. and made the remarkable statement that
Fisk drew his weapon first, and was in the
act of cooking 1t when shot down. OF course,
this evidence cannot be supported by any
Trustworthy witness for the defense, and its
main force on the jury will be derived from the
manner of the witness in giving it. The rest
of the evidence was as to previous threats OF
Fisk to kill the prisoner on sight, and of the
formers habit of carrying arms.
Year: 1872

cries of the theater. lad fell asleep during the
performance at the Adelphi, and was locked in when
the audience dispersed. On awaking he contrived
to make himself heard by the anitor and was ques-
toned about the play, which he had not seen. AS
he could not give an intelligent account of it, he
was thereupon arrested for being concealed with in
tent to commit felony. IL this case were to be
taken as precedent, how the attendance at certain
theaters we could mention would fall Off There are
performances that might put anybody to sleep, and
plots that not the most wakefu spectator could give
an Ineligible account of; and if, in addition to the
pain of attending such entertainments, we were to
run the risk of going to Jail in case we were not
pleased with them, common sense would advise us
TO stay at home.
Year: 1872

One of the chief difficulties in the way of procuring
employment for women consists in the limited num-
Der of occupations that practically open to them
A comparatively new field seems now to offer admis-
sion. The number of employers in large mercantile,
insurance and banking firms as well as of persons
engaged in literary and newspaper callings, who
require the services of shorthand amanuenses, is
continually increasing. 1t is found that business
man, for instance who has been accustomed to
spend half the day in writing letters, can, by die
tating to an amanuensis capable of writing short
hand, finish this part of his business in an hour.
Women learn shorthand sufficiently for such pur-
poses in comparatively short time, and are thus
provided with light and fairly lucrative employ
ment. Recognizing these facts, Mr.. Peter Cooper
has decided to add photography to the list of studies
of the free academy for women at Cooper Institute ;
and free lecture on the subject is announced for
tomorrow evening to precede the opening of the
course of study.
Year: 1872

We are informed by that accurate observer, The
Boston Transcript, that Mr. Greeley is himself in
clined to believe his nomination more than half
Joke" But suddenly solemn suspicion seizes The
Transcript, and it admits that candidates nomi-
mated by way of jest have been elected" We can
assure our cotemporary that the Republican Re
nominationsts Of Massachusetts, have all the fun of
the affair to themselves Here, at Washington, at
the West, in Pennsylvania and the South, and espe
cially in Baltimore, there is MT much laughing
When a New-York editor is nominated for the PreSi-
dency Boston respectablity is no doubt hit hard in
a very soft place. but as there will probably be
frequent repetition of similar knocks before the
election, the Massachusetts, men, who have fancied
that they held the whole Republican party OF then ma
ton in feesimple, might better prepare themselves
for serious cranal contusiOns, and lay in full sup
ply of vinegar and brown paper. Meanwhile. we
advise the Massachusetts, Okers to enjoy their Oty
while it is possible The gentleman who couldn't
get INTO the ark improved the opportunity to say
good thing before he lapsed into his ultimate CUR
gles and his ready remark has been celebrated ever
since. The Bay State Joe Millers may profit by his
example.
Year: 1872

A Synod with Right, Left and Center could
scarcely be found anywhere outside of France.
But body so constituted does exist, and the
Paris correspondent of THE TRIBUNE gives a
lively account of the transactions of the Prot
estant Synod of France which has the sub
divisions for the sake of convenience. Aside,
however, from any such immaterial features,
this convocation has its special interest as 1t
is the first Of its kind in France. The vener-
able Guizot figures as one of the petitioners
for the abolition of the religious liberty from
which it has sprung; and the Paris Journals
consider its session worth daily record.


That South Carolina is able to pay all her
outstanding liabilities is admitted by all who
know anything of the resources of the State
A meeting of resident holders of South Caro-
lima bonds, held in this city yesterday, decided
that this was true. But the operations of car
pet-baggers, who have enriched themselves
and robbed the State, have injured the credit
of the old Commonwealth very much A South
Carolinian, who was present at the meeting OF
injured bondholders, said that if the revenues
of the State were ten times as great as they are
the bonds would not be paid, as the funds are
used for political purposes. South Carolina is
suffering from the effects of carDet-bag rule,
and some innocent citizens of New-York are
now feeling some of the unpleasant results of
that style of government.
Year: 1872

correspondent describes a process in kitchen
economy which is of special service to the house,
keeper during these warm days. In such weather it
is almost impossible to prevent the untimely melt
ing of the quantity of ice usually purchased by
small family Very few refrigerators serve to keep
it from wasting more than half. To stop this waste
correspondent directs that an envelope of fan-
mel and newspapers should be placed about the mass
of ice This envelope, of which the newspapers are
the most important part is said to be perfectly eff
fective. Here's another proof of the great powers
Of journalism. Almost any newspaper viii do-ex-
cept Grants Own; that would be apt TO soil the lee
beyond the possibility of use-besides being itself
too tepld.
Year: 1872

CLOSING OUT THE BALANCE OF
their
stock
Of
SPRING AND SUMNER
DRESS GOODS,
WHITE GOODS and
HOUSEKEEPING GOODS,

GREATLY REDUCED PRICES,
including
case Of PLAIN BLACK
and
STRIPED
GRENADINES.
Year: 1872

The Denton Union states that petitions are IN
circulation in Caroline county, memoriAlizing
the Legislature OF Maryland for She passage OF
law to increase the, jurisdiction Of Justices OF
the Peace to the determination OF cases wherein
no greater sum than two hundred dollars is in
volyed. The objects OF this law are, first, to
manifest hatred against the Republican Sheriff
and to reduce his fees to mere paltry considera-
tion and, second, to enable money-lenders to
force the class Of people in moderate cireum-
stances, who owe money either to pay heavily
for fcrbearAnce or to be sold out by the Consta-
BILE. Certainly the people Of Caroline county
learning wisdom from the past, will hardly dare
append their names to such pstition-a peu'
ton which promises only to place them more
and more at the mercy Of the money-lendine
vampires who are, and have been. sucking NJ
the life and energy of themselves and children
We cannot believe it, Too many living evidences
surround them on every hand. They have seer
the hoary-headed sire quickly stripped Of the
toll Of his youth, and the young man, struggling
a rainst fate, robbed of his inheritance. The!
have seen woe and want introduced into home
where peace and comfort were wont to dwell, ant
where life was unaccostomed to thorns or bur
dens. A lively remembrance of these thing
ought to forbid the appendage OF single nam
to the petition.
Year: 1872

There are intmations that, after all, Mr. Col
fax will not refuse the nomination for Vice
President, and disposition is shown in some
quarters to insist upon his taking it. The name
OF Judge Kelley is also proposed, and the Wash
ington Republican suggests that Of Col. Forney
Either Of these two gentlemen would be q
strong and fit nomination.
Year: 1872

Our Virginia contemporaries seem to be foam
ing with uncomfortable wrath, because the
whole country does not shout for Greeley and
Brown With all due respect to the Conserva-
tive press OF the grand old Common wealth,
we think there should be claims consideration
and Interchange of opinion between Democrats
from every section of the country to the end
that harmony and unity of action may prevail.


Ii after comparison of views at Baltimore
If after calm survey of the field, when the ex-
citement of the Cincinnati Convention shall
have passed, and the real strength of the Liber-
al movement developed, it shall be deemed inn
polite and unwise to put Democrat candi-
Gate in the race, then let the united voice of the
Democracy, with its three millions of voters,
swell the grand acciaims in favor of the candi-
dates who were put forth at Cincinnati.


But are we to trample down the usages of
our party; are we to break off in struggling par
ties from our line of battle; are we to rush in
disorder our fragmentary squads. under the
banners of hitherto hostile commanders. with
ont word of command from any authoritative
body; and against the protest and counsel of
many wise and infuetial politicians at the
North, who invoke us to halt and consider of
our position in the present momentous and COM
plicated crisis in national affairs!


The people of North Carolina elect to act with
camness, prudence and deliberation. They
will not take counsel of their impulses nor OF
their feelings. They prefer to appeal to refiec-
tion, reason and judgment They look to Bal
timore for direction, and by the decision that
will be made shere on the 9th of Jnly they will
stand


The Baltimore Convention alone has the
right to say who shall be our nominees


If after consultation and conference by the
chosen delegates and representatives Of our
party from every State in the Union the cleo
ton of Democratic candidate shall be deemed
hopeless and the endorsement OF Greeley and
Brown shall be made. it will then be our pleas
ure as it will be our duty, to stand by the ac-
tion OF our party and to strive to unite every
element of opposition to the Grant despo tisni,
with the view of saving the country from cen
tralization and ruin.


In the meantime, we propose to stand by our
gums, unmoved by the temporary excitement
the South, and mistaken in our allegiance to
party organization.
Year: 1872

We publish in this issue the text of
the bill which has been introduced in
the Senate by Mr.. Kellogg, and passed
by that body. It is now in the House
of Representatives and in the hands of a
committee thereof We have been in
formed that Democratic members have
been ''tilibustering' to prevent its pas
sage at the present session. AS Congress
will adjourn in a few days they may sue
ceed. 1t requires, we believe, a two
third vote to suspend the rules, and this
would be necessary to enable the friends
of the bill to take it from the Speakers
table and put it upon its passage I'm
questionably, the provisions of the bill
are in direct conflict with the constitu-
ton of the United States as formerly con-
strued. But it is no more fragrant a vi
olation of that instrument than the
amendment which, since the war, have
been made to the constitution and which
are now the settled law of the land.


Were the State of Louisiana governed
by legally chosen rulers, we should be
opposed to the adoption of any measure
like that of Mr.. kelloggs. But as it is
absolutely necessary that something
should be done to prevent such frauds in
the registration of voters, the depositing
of their votes in the ballot box and in
counting those votes, as We're perpetrated
at the last election, we do not think it
wise to reject il measure which has for its
object the securing of fair election.


AT the same time we can understand
why it is that the Northern and Western
Democrat in Congress do not wish such
law as this to be applied to their States.
They have no need for such law. But
they ought to have some regard for US
IN Louisiana, who have been subjected
to the government of men who are stran-
gers to the State, and in no way identified
with her people, or in sympathy with
them; but on the contrary, their remor-
seless enemies. They ought to know,
and do know, that election in Louisiana,
held under the laws now in force, are SIM
ply shams, employed to place in officers
of trust and honor the very worst class
of men, and men who in sense represent
the communities who are said to have
elected them.--N. 0. Picayune.
Year: 1872

DThe principle of always keeping your
name and business before the public will
insure success--and he who proclaims to
the public that he is not afraid of compe-
tition and anxious to do business, must
and will win.
Year: 1872

. The protector of new paper at
Atlanta, Ga, having declared that he
will "condemn the wrong andlapplaud the
right" the Era says the task will keep
him about as busy as schoolboy with
hornet in his trousers.
Year: 1872

~ Magistrates blanks for sale, and other
JOB work done OH short notice, at this Office,
cheaper and more neatly gotten up than in any
other office in the Parish. Call and examine
specimens and prices and see if this is an empty
boast We guarantee good workmanship at
fair prices; Indifferent or cheap (l) work not
solicited nor bids made in competition for inte-
tior printing!
Year: 1872

You ought not to expect too much of an
editor when he is driven to being his own
compositor, pressman and devil, and has
to run all over town every forenoon in
the rain to get quarter to buy his din
ner with
Year: 1872

~~~ THE undersigned takes this
Aga.GAa5 mode of notifying the public that
s,a he is now i'll readiness to receive
#a@zsI3azG all those whose pleasure it may


he to seek the above as place of