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Year: 1875

TIE Norfolk Landmarks jubilant over
the exposure of deception practiced upon
this journal through the innocent agency
of volunteer letter writer, whose COM
munioetion was printed In these columns
last week simply as other Letters from
the People" are printed. 1t seems that a
woman, representing herself to be the
widow of Northern laboring man. i'm
posed upon Postmaster General Jewell,
and became the recipient of his benevo-
lent generosity by representing to him that
the employers of her husband at Norfolk
had rudely and cruelty turned her away,
because she was Yankee" after his
death. The Landmark assumes to have made
an examination Of the matter and to have
discovered that the woman was an impos-
ter-s discovery that, for the sake of hu-
manity, we hope is true. In the same
issue of that journal. however, which con-
tains the statement Of this discovery we
find another one, in its local columns, ''that
'the city of Norfolk does not own United
Estates flag" From this we infer that the
people of Norfolk, while they may have
made up their minds to join in the Centen-
nial Gush, now SO popular in the South, for
political effect, forgot to prepare themselves
with a very necessary article of Gushing
paraphernalia. Perhaps in an emergency
the authorities might borrow one from the
Norfolk Blues, if it is not too bold to pre-
sumo that that '1oyal" military organlza-
lion OWNS one.
Year: 1875

IT SEEhs, after all, that eK.Trcssurer
Spinner Is not to be allowed TO find rest
from public service. The suggestion has
been made that he would aeceptably fill
the Office Of State Treasurer Of New York,
and 1t has been received with such unanl.
nous approval that his nomination by the
Republicans for that position may be &C.
cepted as foregone conclusion. Mean.
while his personal inclinations have not
been consulted but If the nomination
should be rendered to him. and he should
accept, hundreds and thousands Of warm
friends in Washington and elsewhere would
earnestly pray for his election. There are few
men who have passed through so long term
Of public service as he has, and come out
of it with an untarnished record, and the
friendship and respect of all classes. Those
who know him best in Washington, and
who fully appreciate the crowding respon-
sibilities which he 30 successfully carried
upon his shoulders during his term of office
as United States Treasurer, will join with
US in the opinion that the Republicans of
New York could make no better selection.
Year: 1875

THE cruel rumor circulated in the city
last Sunday night that one of our largest
and stanchest river steamers had been lost
was no doubt the result of an effort by some
would-be-funny person to enjoy practical
joke at the public expense. The memory of
the horrible Wawssett disaster was fresh in
t. minds of all, and added to the anxiety of
the public regarding the story, which grew
in proportions as it passed from lip to lip,
and would have produced a most unfor-
tunate and sgonizing excitement if it had
obtained general circulation. The origina-
tors of this wicked hoax ought to be pun
ished, and it is to be hoped that the COM
pany to which the vessel belongs will sue
ceed in its efforts TO discover them.
Year: 1875

simple Endorsement of the resumption bill
adopted by the last Congress; but it will
generally be accepted as an Improvement
on thst measure, as it provides against the
necessity of retiring legal tenders and the
temptation to increase national bank cur
rency as speculation. 1t Is based upon
the safe assumption that the only defect in
our present financial system resides in the
warrantable lack of confidence in the direct
currency issue of the Government. Values
of all kinds are now estimated upon the
basis Of that issue, because it is the legal
tender. A policy that would contract
that issue to bring it to par with gold
would also contract values. 1t is esti-
mated that such contraction would effect
shrinkage in real estate, corporation
stock and all kinds Of permanent invest
ments, amounting to three times the total
sumof the national debt. This would be ac.
companied by unheard-of financial distress,
including the bankruptcy of tso-thirds, If
not more, Of the creditor class. If this
distress can be avoided by preventing that
shrinksge, it is manifestly the duty Of the
Government to do it We believe it can
be avoided by raising the value Of legal
tenders up to par in gold. The expense
incurred In this effort will be less than sixty
millions Of dollars TO be paid as interest
upon less than four hundred millions Of
five per cent bonds that would be required
to form the basis upon which to estimate
the new value of legal tenders. This done,
as we have said before, national bank notes
would be as good now % at the date Of
their ultimate redemption, because the
legal tenders into which they are now con.
ygtible would be accepted a. the repro.
sentatiyes OF their face value In gold.
Specie resumption would then be an &C.
complished fact, and while the Govern.
ment would be called upon TO pay sonio.
thing less than sixty millions Of additional
interest on legal tender securities, the people
at large would be rescued from the danger
OF q Shrlnkage In values amounting, rs we
have said, TO three times the national debt.
We have no doubt that this happy compro.
mise, which not only preserves but On.
hances the credit OF our currency and the
integrity Of our Government, will serve TO


rally all the sound thinking and clear.
reasoning people Of the country to Its sup.
port. Too much prominence cannot be
given to It, however, by frequent discus
sions of its merits before Congress meets.
Year: 1875

THE registration oath provided by the
present constitution of Alabama embraces
a declaration that the veter who subscribes
to it as prerequisite of the exercise Of the
right of suffrage shall solemnly swear to
support the Constitution and laws Of the
United States. 1t is among the plans of
the Democrats Of that State who are now
advocating revision OF the constitution to
abolish this oath because it is virtually an
acceptance Of the civil and political equality
of the blacks. In other words, they are
willing to accept only so mucd of the Con-
stitution as pleases them. But how about
the oaths they took when they were read
mitted to citizenship after the rebellion
They have violated them repeatedly, and
should not now be squeamish about re-
peating that violation at each succeeding
election campaign.
Year: 1875

attracted by the Southern policy of the Ad-


ministration, would be compelled to place
man in nomination for the Presidency who
would combine the qualifications of oppo-
sition to initiation and reputation,
with the justification of opposition to
State Rights. Such q man and such
a ticket would carry the honest and
thoughtful people of the country by storm.
Hundreds and thousands of Democrats
would repudiate the soft-money platform
which Pendleton. the Buckeye rag-money
king would dictate to the National Demo
cratic convention. and join the Republican
ranks. But if the Republicans carry Ohio,
as it is almost certain they will, the induce
meut to support their platform. which will
embrace declarations of inviolability of the
nations financial credit and of the sacred
rights ofthe war, will not be less urgent.
Year: 1875

If the Richmond Dispatch had studied


the financial policy Of the Administration
as closely as it has some of its other fea-
tures it would have discovered long ago
that 30 far as the Presidents recommends
tons to Congress are concerned, the effort
has been repeatedly made to accomplish
specie resumption without initiation or con-
traction. The free banking recommends
tons of the President have been intended
TO provide for the accommodation of the
public, and at the same time to assure the
country that the national currency shall
remain upon lasting and encouraging
basis of ultimate specie resumption. The
suggestion recently advanced by THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN that greenbscks
or legal tenders shall be made more tangi-
bly, solid by providing that the Treasury
shall accrue gold for their redemption, Is
intended to obyiate contraction, because il
is believed that such q policy would bring
them up to par, and that, in consequence,
there would be no shrinkage in values.
On this platform any party may go to tie
country without fear Of opposition from
the honest and thoughtful classes. In
some respects it may be regarded as q
Year: 1875

HENDRICKS caught the Presidential
fever years ago, but it developed into fatal
heat when the participants in the Meckleu-
burg fraudulent Centennial celebration q
few months ago saiuted him as their oandi-
date for that Office. Since then he has
been casting about for new features Of
policy with which to attract attention.
Naturally he sees in Senator Thurman, of
Ohio, a prominent contestant for the nomi-
nation, and If reports be true he has made
up his mind to take time by the forelock
and Thurman by the fetlock. and coma
out squarely for rag money. If Pendleton
is king Of the Western Democracy, and
there is no reason to doubt if, we may ex-
pect that the West with the South will
support Hendricks. Pendletou himself, il
should be understood, would be satisfied to
be Secretary Of the Treasury. A nice
httle scheme this is to get rid of Thurman
Year: 1875

Col. VALENTINE BAKER, Of the British


Army, received lesson in morals yester-
day at the hands of an English bench and


jury which he viii not be likely soon to
forget-Rot for q year at the least. He


was found guilty Of an indecent assault
upon the person Of Miss Dickinson in q
railway carriage, and was sentenced to i'm
prisonment twelve months, TO pay fine
of e5O0 and the cost Of prosecution. When
we consider that the prisoner was the
especial favorite of the Crown Prince and
the military pet of the commander-in-chief
of the British Army, with whom he had
Just been dining, (and whose fine old Cognac
and Burgundy may have been somewhat
the cause of his rufhanly conduct perhaps
the unflinching courage of judge and jury
may appear somewhat remarkable. But
that the British public viii approve the
finding and sentence there can be no doubt.
Year: 1875

We SHALL tender no apology for occu-
pying so much space in The NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN to day with the elaborate and
well-considered speech of Senator Sherman
upon our national currency. 1t was de-
livered in Ohio last Saturday, and is just
what was necessary in that locality. 1t
fully exposes the subtleties, sophistries and
fallacies of Pendleton. Thurman, Allen and
company, and shows the entire soundness
of the Administration policy for the return
to specie payments by appreciation of
greenbacks to the coin standard. 1t is q
speech which every citizen ought to take
the time to read and carefully digest.


Senator Sherman has had large experience


in all our financial legislation during the
last seventeen years, and is quite as familiar
with the facts and data necessary to q
proper consideration of the subject as any
man can be, and his unyarying success in
securing the adoption by Congress of the
various measures which he has from
time TO time proposed, speaks vol
lumes in behalf Of their soundness, while
the present healthy condition of the nation 8
credit Sully attests the wisdom of the legis-
lation. Financially we have reason to be
proud of our record as party. Taking
the Government in 1861, without dollar
in the Treasury, and our credit destroyed,
the Republican party plunged into a gigantic
and expensive war, which it carried on
successfully, while at the same time it re-


built the credit of the nation 50 that it now
stands without a superior. In doing these


things, over twelve thousand millions of
treasure have been raised and handled
without our fair name having once been
dishonored. We repeat, therefore. that we
have reason to refer with pride to our
financial record as party, and it affords us
pleasure to add that no small portion of the
credit for the wise legislation that enabled
US to do this is justly due to Senator Sher.
man, chairman of the Committee on Fl
Year: 1875

THE story that eK Senator Carpenter
recently gave utlerInce TO the opinion that
President Grant will be . candidste for re-.
election on bGrd.money platform. aud
that the circumstances not likely TO occur
are the pending conflict between rag money
and honesty, is fatty contrAdIcted by the
Milwaukee Sentinel on the best authority.
How many Of the Opposition newspapers
that have given It currency will print the
contradiction
Year: 1875

uons is peculiarly inviting. Some writer,
speaking of the productiveness of the
island, has said: ''tickle her soil with q
hoe and she laughs with harvest"
Extrayagant as this statement may appear
10 those who have never visited Cuba, It Is
nevertheless a strikingiy truthful metaphor.
The heart ofthe soil is simply lnekhausti-
BILE. and the variety of Its products Is 20
great and so fruitful that limitless amounts
of capital might find profitable investment
in them. But the hand of tyranny has
wrought its mark upon the face Of every
thing, and the natives have been forced
for generations to yoiceless submission
to government foreign to them in all its
interests and aspirations.


At the same time the incubus Of slavery
has weighed upon them like q sitting
nightmare, and 1t seems to be the policy Of
the Spaniards TO preserve that institution
in spite of repeated promises that it shall
be abolished. 1t should be understood
that the Patriots, in their rebellion, did not
hesitate 10 place themselves squarely and
fairly, at the beginning. upon the broad
platform Of human freedom. In this, as in
all other respects. they give promise to the
United States that their desire regarding
the island shall be gratihed. In other
words, they have guaranteed the abolition
of slavery In the most solemn form by
embodyiDg the sacred principle Of human
freedom In the written constitution Of their
Republic. The same pens with which
they signed their names to their Declara.
ton Of Independence from Spain, and at
the same instant, were used 10 proclaim
the freedom Of their bondsmen. This noble
act alone win commend them 10 the heart.
felt friendship Of Americans. II proves
how truly earnest they arc. and presents
such distinct contrast 10 the policy Of
the spaniards that the wonder Is our people
have not long before this demanded ther
recognition as an Independent power In
the interest Of common humanity.
Year: 1875

Says the Boston Globe: Instead of
small staterooms there are larger apart
ments, accommodating from twenty to
forty individuals. The berths are ar
ranged in two tiers, and are constructed
otherwise in very much the same way as
are the sleeping apartments. of a respec-
table and well-ordered pig pen. The
unmarried men are sent to O room by
themselves, and the married couples and
the younger children to another. and
the unmarried women still another. The
room into which these others all open,
and to which all classes have access, is
reached by two flights of stairs from the
main deck. This place serves as dining
hall and cabin, only there are no red vel
vet cushions lying about. There is no
carpet ON the floor, and no rack full of
glasses and decanters to be rattling over
head. The tables are quite in keeping
with the frugal fare served three times
daily. For breakfast we begin with a
mug of coffee, hot and sweetened, but
not strong enough to be injurious, and,
by the way, the cows in this neighbor-
hood are quite partial, and can't be in
duced to give milk for steerage passen-
gers. A liberal supply of bread and
butter makes up what is sometimes
known abroad as plain breakfast. Oat-
meal porridge, with black molasses, in
addition to the above, may be expected
for breakfast once or twice during the
voyage. A good appetite will be needed
for dinner you will then be first treated
to soup which looks very much like
good, strong dishwater, but it tastes
better than it looks. Soon the steward
comes around with tin pail full of boil
ed potatoes, some of them about the size
of hens egg and some of them not SO
large. They are supposed to have been
rinsed, but not washed or pared before
cooking, and if little meal were added
the mixture would be very like what
New England farmers use to fatten hogs.
After this boiled meat is broughtaround.
not of che choicest cuts, to be sure, but
an abundance, such as it is, is given.
Dessert will be dispensed with, save on
Sunday, when kind of plum pudding
is added. For supper, about pint ol
tea, served the same as coffee, and more
bread and butter. The only change We
ever knew in the above bill of fare is
that of pea soup and boiled salt fish OIL
Friday in place of the usual dinner.
Year: 1875

Brougham, defending arogue charged
with stealing pair of boots, unable to
gainsay his clients guilt, demurred to
his conviction because the articles ap-
propriated were half-boots, and half
boots were no more boots than half
guinea was q guinea, or half loaf a
whole one. The objection was over
ruled by Lord Estgrove, who, with be-
fitting solemnity, said: 81 am of
opinion that boot is nonaen generate
comprehending a half boot the distinc-
tion is between half-boot and half q
boot the moon is always the moon,
although sometimes she is half moon. "
Had Brougham proved the boots to be
old ones, his man would probably have
come off as triumphantly as a tramp
tried at Warwick for stealing four live
fowls. The fowls had been Gifted "
in Staffordshire still the indictment was
declared good, it being held that a man
committed felony in every county
through which he carried stolen prop
erty; but when it came out in evidence
that the fowls were dead when the thief
was taken, he was at once set free, on
the ground that he could not be charged
with stealing four live fowls in
Warwickshire.
Year: 1875

Within the past fifteen years every
portion of the Southern coast of the
United States has been visited by these
cyclones, but those who have studied
the laws OF storms will have noticed that
while they are equally as severe on the
Atlantic coast, between the mouth of the
Savannah river and the Chesapeake, as
further south there has been less damage
reported north of Savannah and Cape
Fear river. The secret of this is that
north of the Cape Fear river there is q
high land, that serves as barrier to
the encroachments of the sea, while the
further south, we go the lower is the
land and the greater is its liability to
be submerged by heavy tidal waves
caused by severe tropical storms. The
entire coast of Florida, Louisiana and
Texas being only few feet above high
tide register, is more subject to overflow
than higher coast lines hence, when
ever we hear of disaster on this por-
tion of the coast the loss of life and
property is always heavy.
Year: 1875

It appears that the heavy field ice
which was the occasion of so much dan
ger and damage in the north Atlantic
last spring was set loose by severe
northerly gales from the coasts of New
foundland and Labradorin the early part
of the year. The previous winter had
been excessively severe in those regions,
SO that the ice thus dislodged was ex-
tremely dense and compact, and in this
way was enabled to drift far to the
southwark before melting. Heavy field
ice was thus met with in the month of
April within fifty miles of the latitude of
Naples.
Year: 1875

Seven years ago George Francis Train
stood in front of the Bank of California,
and pointing with his cane to it's frown-
ing walls, remarked that the people of
San Francisco would live to see it col
lapse in a single day. He made the same
assertion in public hall, and came near
being mobbed in the streets.
Year: 1875

If you want to climb tree, do as the
South American young ladies do; make
a hoop with any twig or rope round q
tree and get inside, jerk it up the trunk
with your hands, little at time, draw
ing your legs up after it. The Tahitian
boys tie their feet together, four or Eve
inches apart, with piece of palm bark,
and with the aid Of this fetter 20 up the
cocoa palms to gather nuts. The native
young ladies in Australia climb the gum
trees after opossums; where the bark is
rough they chop holes with hatchet;
then one throws about the tree rope
twice as long as will 20 round it, puts
her hatchet on her head and placing her
feet against the tree and grasping the
rope with her hands, she bitches it up by
jerks, and jerks herself up the enormous
trunk almost as fast as a man will climb
a ladder.
Year: 1875

conduct an Agency for the reception of adver-
tisements for American Newspapers most
complete establishment Of the kind in the
world. Six thousand Newspapers are kept
regularly on file, open TO inspection by cutto-
mers. Every Advertisements is taken at
the home price Of the paper, without any ad-
ditional charge or commission. An adver-
tiser, in dealing with the Agency. is saved
trouble and correspondence. making one
contract instead Of q dozen. a hundred
or a thousand A Book containing large
lists Of papers, circuations, with some in
formation about prices. is sent to any
address for twenty FIVE cents. Persons wish
ing to make contracts for advertising in any
town, city, county, State or Territory Of the
United States, or any portion Of the Domin-
ion Of Canada, may send a concise statement
of what they want, together with a copy of
the Advertisement. and receive informa-
tion which will enable them to decide whether
TO increase or reduce the order. For such in
formation there is no charge. Orders are
taken for single paper as well as a list; for a
single dollar as readily as for a larger sum.
Offices Times Building,


Al PAaK Row, N. Y.
l56-yx-l9-kW5i-54
Year: 1875

When once understood. grating is AS
easy as falling off log. Still the con.
dition must be carefully attended to if sue
cess is to be achieved. Stocks, or limbs
to be grated not over two inches in di-
ameter; should be cut off at distance of
four inches.-A fine saw should be used.
Incline the saw so that the. stump will
shed the rain The bark must be unin-
lured. With a sharp knife smooth off the
stump. Take case-knife, which is as
good as any. place 1t across the heart of
the stock, and force it down with wood
en- mallet. We use very narrow screw
driver for keeping open open the split.
Shape the scion wedge-fashion both ways,
keep the bark intact. We make shoul-
der as far up as far up as the scion is
shaved; it is not SO strong, but insures
growth. The inside of the bark of both
scion and stock must meet across. Set
the scion at a slight angle spreading from


each. When the stalk is small and only
one scion inserted. place piece of wood
on the opposite side. If the slit does not
close up. tie round cotton string to keep
it tight upon the graft Cover with wax
every part of the cut wood and slit. In
three weeks time 60 over the gratis and
rewax if needed. Where the limb to be
grated is from two to four inches over, it
should be cut say six inches from the tree,
and from four to six scions may be insert.
ed. d.-GernantoWn Telegraph.
Year: 1875

them and perfect integrity is at premium,
even among scoundrels. There are occa-
sions when they need the services OF true
men, and they do not find them in shoals
and in the mud, but alone and in pure
water.


In the realm of eminent requirements
and eminent integrity, there is always room
enough. Let no young man of industry
and perfect honesty despair because hls
profession is crowded. Let him always
remember that there is room enough at the
top, and that the question whether ne is
ever to reach the top, or rise above the
crowd at the base of the pyramid, will be
decided by the way in which he improves
the first ten years of his active life in Sc
curing to himself thorough knowledge
of his profession. and a sound moral and
intellectual culture. The Merchant ana
Banker