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Year: 1871

There be those who Inherit, or by
some stroke Of good fortune, acquire
riches; but almost universally speak


ing, the difference between a wealthy
man and poor man represents the
difference between the person who
saves, and the person who spends as


he goes along. It is not an increase
Of salary, or an extension Of business
relations, that insures q competence,


but the adhered to determination to
ecOnOmize, 20 incur no unnecessary


expenditures, and to lay by something
Of each week gains. So long as peO-
pie increase their outgoes in proper
ton to their incomes, they are no
nearer to the condition of indepen-


dence which is desirable for all to OBJ


tain. The present growing fOndness
for OstentatioR and display, operates
as q direct barrier to frugality. Some
one has said that life in the United
States has become a struggle for social
position; that whereas in older coun-
tries the lines Of demarkatiOn are so
closely drawn by blood, caste. &C., as
to repress social ambition !; here every
one has opportunity to climb the so
cial ladder, and may aspire with con-
fidence 70 any round. There is much
truth in this observation, and the
very fact that it is so presents a enn-
slant temptation 70 persons to scatter
their ducats in keeping Appearances,
and making (what is vulgarly term
ed ''spread.n Those who yield to
this temptation, without q fortune to
draw upon, generally acquire extFava-
giant habits, which always keeps them
financially under the weather. There
are Others who, arguing that the true
theory Of life Is to live while you
live" invariably spend up to their
incomes. An impeeuniOus old age Is
generally IN store for such persons.


It Is in little things that the money
takes its fight The failure to stop
up the little leake is what prevents
the financial reservoirs from ever fill
ing. A New Yorker-now a wealthy
man-mOved out to an adjoining vii
lage some fifteen years since. While
his nsighbOrs during that time have
generally sent their bundles tOand fro
BY express, he has carried his OWL.
In this manner he computes that he
has saved twenty-five hundred dollars
during the fifteen years. And this
is but one Of very many ways in
which individuals can save their pen
mics. OF course, those who propose
to take "life easy, and not trouble
themselves about the future. do not
care for any suggestions Of this char
aetsr. But those who aim to secure q I
competence for their declining years
cannot be too mindful Of the fact that
there Is no royal road to wealth, and
that no matter what their position or
income, frugality and economy are
essential for the attainment Of that
eOmpetence--HedTth and Home.
Year: 1871

The second substitute for tempera-


ment Is drill, the power OF use and


Dutine. The hack Is q better road


ster than the Arab bsrb. In ehemis-


try, the galvanie stream, slow, but


continuous, is equal in power to the


electric spark, and is, in our arts, a


better agent. So in human action,


against the spasm Of energy, we offset


the continuity of drill. We spread


the same amount of force over much
time, instead of condensing It IN =
moment. A1is the same ounce Of gold


here IN ball and there in a Leaf
John kemble said that the worst
provincial company Of actors, would
50 through a play better than the best
amateur company The way to learn
German Is 70 read the same dozen
pages over and over hundred times,
till you know every word and parti-
Gle In them, and can pronounee and
repeat them by heart. No. genius can
reoite a ballad at first reading so. well
as medOcrity can at the fifteenth or
twentieth reading. A humorous friend
of ours thinks that the reason why
Nature is so perfect in her arts. and
gets up such inconeeivably fine sun
sets, Is that she bas learned how, at
last, by doing the same things so often
Cannot one converse better on topic
on which he has experience, than on
one which Is new? Men whose opin-
ion isvalued on Change are only such
as have q special experience, and of
that ground their opinion is not valu-
able. More are made good by exer-
citation than by nature" said Demo
eritus. The friction in nature is so
we cannot spare any pow
ar
Year: 1871


How to Transfer Bees from one Hive


to Another. -- -


A correspondent Of the Cincinnati
GGzetts gives his method of transfer
ring bees, which he has praeticed for
some years, to be as follows:


/ hsve a board fifteen inches wide
and two feet long. covered on one side
with thick piece Of quilt 10 lay the
combs on that haYe capped brood in.


! also have q box with cross piece
in. This Is used 10 put as many Of
the bees In, temporarily, as possible.
When I want to transfer I make
smoke by burning rags oFrottsn wood.
I first blow some smoke In the hive,
and rap on II TO alarm the bees. After
waiting q few minutes, IL I am satis-
hed that they are sufficiently alarmed,
1 smoke them into the top Of the hive
from the bottom. I then carry them
into 3 shed or an out house, and stand
the hive bottom end up, placing the
box alluded to Oh It, and binding q
cloth around it to keep the bees in.
l then rap on the hive and drum the
bees out into the box above. When
the bees are all in the box, set It Off
ina cool, dark place, on q cloth. Now
l rap them up, and smoke occasional
" to keep them quiet I am now
ready to pry of one side Of the hive,
and to cut out the combs, laying them
on the quilt covered board, and plac-
ing q movable frame on Il, trimming
the comb 50 IS to carefully &c the
frame, and cementing It with wax
made by melting beeswax and resin
together. -. rs


/ continue operating In this way
until / have emptied the hive. Il Is
necessary to be careful 10 have the
brOOd as compact IS possible.


The hive should now be placed ex-
actly where the old hive stocd. Place
q board before the hive for the bees to
crawl up; shake the bees before the
hive, start them in with feather,
and the work Is done. ---- .-


Transferring should always be done
when the fruit trees are In blossom,
and when the bees are busy at work
also place q box, with 3 piece Of
bread comb In 1t, on the old stand
while the process Of transferring is
going on. to decoy the bees and keep
them from entering other hives.
Year: 1871

The following is a summary eff recent bill pass ed by the House, reported in the Senate, read twice by title, aud referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

 <The bill provides in the first section, that every on de settlor in either of the Territories of the United States shall have the right of pre-em ption to one hundred and sixty acres of non-mineral land in the Territory, and that the fact of such settler having heretofore had tbe benefit of the pre- emption act of September 4th, 1941, of lands outside the limits of the Territory shall interpose no bar to his or herreceiving the bene- fit of this act. The second section provides that each homestead and pre-emption claimant in the Territory, upon the presentation at the proper dis trct land office, of satisfactory proof that there

 is not au was not at the time of entry any valu- able timber upon the tract located by such claimant, shall have the right to enter not e1ceeds ing forty acres of non-mineral land, over which the Government surveys have been extended, and not moro than twenty five miles distant from the tract located by such homestead or presumption claimant. But only bona fde settlers, actually resident upon their respective tracts to have the right to make ueh entries of timber land

 and such entries to be made subject to such neediul rules and regulation may be prescribed by the Secretary of tho Interior and the 0ommis- sioner of the General Land Office, for the proper enforce ment of this act and the forty acres of timber land are to be included in and form part of the pre-emption of one hundT ed and sixty aeres."
Year: 1871

If gentlemen would respect themselves or have others respect them they should be courteous when chance or necessity may bring them face to face While we do not crave judicial malice we do not hesitate to pronounce as scaudalous the insult and highs handed despotism which characterized the proceedings in the Dist Court on Thursday.
Year: 1871

We don't understand it, and there
fore, give it up in the premises. We
see men who complain Of hard times
and let their debts stand over year
after year, and yet they are buying
property and improving it. We like to
see, and always encourage, improve
lnents; but we don't understand the Sc
cret OF improving and never paying
debts. Again, we see men selling
property and getting good prices, who
also complain of hard times, and also
let their little bills run month after
month We see men make great dis
play and exact considerable public no
tice and attention-who are magnifi-
cent collectors, and withal very winn-
ing-who scorn the collector who comes
now and then to them. We see men
who never work, who, notwithstand-
ing, live and loll in ease. We sec men
who are reputed wealthy who declare
they have no money; and we SEQ men
who are really poor, spending money
every day for that which is worthless.
And then we see the peoples friend, he
who works hard, is expected to help
everybody and does it, almost begging
for the pay he has earned, and occa-
sionally treated ungraciously and al
most rudely, when he exacts his dues.
stWhv iS this thus ~
Year: 1871

GENERAL BUTLER AND THE TEST OATH
General Buffers bill in relation to the repeal
of the test oath elected yesterday speech
from JEFF Long, the colored representative in
Congress from South Carolina. The General
must have regarded this obstruction as oppo-
sition from an unexpected quarter. Butler
has done more for the negro and negro en-
franchisement than any other prominent
radical. It must seem very queer to him to
find his colored friends going back on him.
He has not exactly been "hoist by his own
petard," but by his own Sambo. The ques-
tion, however, now is, ''Wil the President
veto the bill2" Let us have reconstruction
out and out, and no humbug, and no ''nigger
in the woodpile" about it.
Year: 1871

cnaracter and his disposition, we feel conn-
Nent he would never have cosied up to the
woman movement in this manner unless there
was something In 1t. And so we may expect
the movement to assume a national Importance
at 0ncA.
Year: 1871

upon Captain Lee as the "Old Reliable, ("
who came to them in their need, and has
increased the value OF their property, and
the success of their business, and the
convenience and comfort of their lives.
They want q boat which can be depended
upon for summer ss well as for winter;
when money cannot be made as well as
when 1t can; and they say that Captain
Lee has that boat; and that the people Of
their region cannot afford to let the sold
msn" go, but must sustain him.


Oar packet lines are of insstimsble ad-
vantage to Memphis. Other cities know
what such lines are worth, and
make an effort to sustain them.
II our people will look wen into the mat
ter, they will learn that it Is to their In
terest to foster and support such boats as
the Phil Allin, and such men as her
veteran commander. Let our merchants
and business men co-operats with the
dWellsrs on the river coasts in building
up and maintaining regular reliable safe
packets; and 10 encouraging safe. prudent
and trustworthy men to put their money
and their labor into such enterprises.
The Phil Allin Is the best that has been
down yet. Give her and her builder all
praise and support, because they deserve
it, and in order to stimulate Others to do
better still if they can,


TRAVELLER.


MEMPHIS, February 4, 1871.
Year: 1871

In e-mmOn with our brethren Of tbs
press ana professional men generally, we
have times out of number been com
PEELED TO consult the pages Of AppletOD's
American Encyclopedia for facts nowhere
elss TO be had, We can, therefore, In view
of the presence in Memphis Of a Special
Agent for the sale Of this work again add
the testim0nsv of the APPEAL to its gem
ersl excellence and reliability, and advise
the possession Of Il by all who would pos
sess the wade m0cum Of our time. That
we are sustained in our opinion, the fol-
lowing from the highest intellectual
sources will prove:
Year: 1871

At the Woman Suffrage convention
held in New York on the evening Of the
l1th, Mrs Woodruff said that if the
next Congress should refuse women all
the rights Of citizenship, they would
frame q new government, and take meas
ures to run it as effectually as the men
do theirs. we mean treason; we mean
secession on grander scale than was
that Of the South. We are plotting rev.
olution, and will overthrow this bogus
Republic, and will plant arighteous gov
ernment in its stead.


Woa, Jane!
Year: 1871

Those who are the best informed ON
Arctic explorations express the belief
that Captain Hall is totally untitled to
make 81 reconnaissance to the North
Pole The statement thah Congress
made the appropriation for Halls bene-
fit is not true. The resolution author
lied the President to send out one or
more seieDti&c expeditions, to be under
the Command of the most suitable per-
son. Without inquiry or examination
OF any one, the President designated
Hall at the request ofsome one he knew in
Cincinnati 1t is matter Of record that
Hall is no captain, having never had
any such commission, and that he is M
ilfiterate man, without any Of the quail
fications for the command Of such an
expedition.
Year: 1871

General Grant needs a new Cabinet, reor-
ganized from the ground up. If he should
call us to name one we should first name Nor
ton for Secretary of State, because he is a
friend Of the President, sound American,
and an extreme radical For Secretary of
War we should nominate George B. McClel-
Ian, because he understands the duties Of or
ganizing armies and everything else connected
with war, and because he is liberal republi-
can, clothed in war democratic robes. For
Secretary Of the Interior we should unhesitat-
ingly insist upon Horace Greeley, because his
knowledge Of farming brought to bear in the
Interior Department will save the country its
present expense for Bureau of Agriculture
Besides, Mr.. Greeley, being peacemaker by
profession and astride- -the-fence republican
will cement the party in New York if he is
Immediately called away TO Washington or
some other distant spot. For Postmaster
General and Attorney General nearly any
man will do. 1t is better, however to name
some one who is otherwise cut Of offce-say
Alexander Mcclure, OF Pennsylvania, or Judge
Speed, of Kentucky. But for Secretary of the
Navy our favorite is Ben Wade That ag-
gressive old chief of the republican party is
the only man in the country that can be relied
on to do the work that Welles and Borie and
Robeson have left undone. 1t is only Ben
Wade who can holystone the decks of the Navy
Department to the clear whteness Of an ordi-
nary man -of-war or ever scrape the barnacles
off the hull of our naval system.
Year: 1871

SPEAKING OF CABINETS, the following
Cabinet might not possibly be endorsed by
the entire republican party; but, as that party
is divided, it may be necessary in order to
create harmony to give each division "a
show in its reorganization. Then, as O
stroke of policy, it might be well to let the
democratic party have hand in, and as
the offices of Secretary of State and
Secretary of the Treasury are of some
Importance, let the sop be thrown in a
democratic direction. Thus, with allowing
the President to select one of his advisers,
he might succeed in making power
full party composed Of contending elements.
The following is list For Secretary of
State, Vallandigham, of Ohio; for Secretary
of War, Ben Butler, OF Massachusetts, for
Secretary Of the Navy, man that knows some
thing about ships; Secretary of the Treasury,
Bill Tweed or Jim Fisk; Secretary of the Inte-
rior, Horace Greeley, of agricultural fame;
Attorney General, Charles Sumner and Pest
master General, Pat Jones.
Year: 1871

ROVER UrOWn Up In tne stare Urenter


Than the State Itself.


Such was the expression of Governor
Palmer, of Illinois, in his message to the
Legislature on the 4th of this month. The
Governor was referring to the control of the
railroad corporations of the State, and in that
connection made the above remark, saying,
however, that to say the State has not power,
acting through the appropriate legislative
department as determined by the constitution,
to control the management of railroad corpo-
rations, is to assert there has grown up
power greater than the State itself. He be-
lieves the State has the power to regulate the
rates imposed by railroads as common car
riers, so as to prevent extortion, oppression
or unjust discrimination against or in
favor of localities or individuals, or
to investigate their management and pre-
vent the employment Of vast sums of
money under their control for purposes of
corruption. No doubt the separate States
have this power over railroads within their
limits, and we believe the federal government
has similar power over the great lines that
run through the different States under the
clause Of the constitution that gives it power
to regulate commerce among the several
States. These railroad lines are as much the
arteries of commerce among the States as the
great lakes, the rivers or the sea ceast But
what is the use Of talking about State govern
ments controlling the management Of raH-
roads? The railroad magnates can buy up
almost any Of the State legislatures or gov
ernments. The railroads are really power
greater than the State itself. 1t is matter of
doubt even whether they cannot control Con-
gress or the government at Washington as
well. The time is coming, and not far off,
when the federal government will be called
upon imperatively by the people to protect
them from the exactions and tyranny Of the
railroad corporations and to control those
powerful institutions. Governor Palmer has
sounded the note that will awaken attention
and opposition to dangerous and overbear-
ing monopoly.
Year: 1871

Grant, his administration and the republican
party.


Some such decisive diversion as this upon
our foreign and domestic affairs is needed to
divert Greeley from his mischievous agitation
of high protective tariff, and the poets of the
Post from their foolish fallacies of free trade !;
Sumner from his mumbo jumbo, his ''raw
head and bloody bones" of St. Domingo; Fen
ton from his old womanish spite against Col
lector Murphy; Trumbull from his fallacious
visions Of the White House by the side door
of third party; Gratz Brown from the
same halluclnation, and Carl Schurz from
his awful purpose Of selling out the
Western German republicans to Tammany
Hall. The policy we have indicated would
silence all these disturbing elements-all these
factious disorganizers and disappointed,
greedy politicians. And why not? Is it not
manifest that the democratic party is becom-
ing more united and stronger from day to day
as things are going on ; that the withdrawal
of Hoffman from the White House track has
restored democratic harmony between the
East and the West, and that State after State
down South is falling off from the republican
party and its ''scalawags" and carpet
baggers


The simple truth is that when great party
has fulfilled its appointed mission it must be
reorganzed for new departure or 1t goes
out and goes down. A new departure is
now demanded from the party in power,
and from General Grant as the official head of
liberal. decisive, go-ahead policy at home and
abroad, the best thing that General Grant can
do is to appoint new Cabinet. If only as a
tub to the whale new Cabinet will be some
thing; but the crisis demands something bet
ter than tub to the whale.
Year: 1871

Music HALL, in Boston, was crowded to
its utmost capacity last evening with Catholics
anxious to express their sympathy for Pope
Plus and offer their services to him. The
meeting was very enthusiastic in denunciation
OF the usurpaton of the Italian King, and one
orator stated that two hundred million Catho-
lies were ready to do homage to the Pope with
their hearts and do him service with their
hands 1t may yet happen within the year
just opening before US, which has the near
precedent Of the one just gone for extraordi-
nary events, that the Catholics throughout the
wsrld may descend, like old Crusaders, upon
the home of their Pope, and drive the King OF
Italy aud his Italian followers forth from their
new found capital. II would seem even now
that IL needs only Peter the Hermit to blow
the spark of religious excitement into an un-
conrollable dame
Year: 1871

AMNESTY has received its dsathblow in the
continued opposition of the President If a
general bill were passed in both houses it
would probably be vetoed and could not posi-
bly, repass by the necessary two-thrds vote.
The Presidents opposition is evidently based
on his belief in the natural depravity" of
original rebels
Year: 1871

THE HEAD OF TIE FAMILY.-We are specially
informed by cable telegram from London that
advices have been received in that city from
Vienna, which state that the Emperor of
Austria has agreed to accredit representative
to the court of King William as Emperor Of
Germany, at Versailles. His Majesty Francis
Joseph acts at the request Of Count Bismarck
King William may then proclaim himself head
of the German family in the Old World
The last words of Napoleon l., at the mo-
ment of his death at Saint Helena, were
Head of the army!' King Williams title is
much more useful, in an chronological point Of
view
Year: 1871

CAPTURE OF MARACAIBo. Another South
American agony is over. A telegram informs
us that the city and forts of Maracaibo are all
in the hands of the Banco party. No one
donbted this result but what good will come
of it? Will it tend to the establishment of
peace in that distracted republic of Venezuela ?
Will the devastation and destruction be
checked? We think not; it will be the old
story Of counter revolutions the opposite
party anxious for power; more battles, more
seges and more surrenders and so it will go
on until some stronger Power steps in and
exerts an influence that will put stop to revo-
luton and constant tumult. Will our govern
ment have anything to say in the matter?
Year: 1871

No SMALLPOX IN RICHMoND.-We are
authorized by the Health Officer of the city
to state that there is not case of smallpox
iii Richmond. There was one case of Va
rioloid, which was contracted in Philadel-
phia, by an infant, and brought here.
Hence the report of smallpox. The uni
versal vaccination OF our citizens which is
going on ut present will, if continued, save
the city from tnis dreadful sCourge.
Year: 1871

THE men who few short months ago
had no kind word for the Germans in
their terrible war with France, are the
same men who to-day insult the intelli.
gence Of our German fellow citizens by
issuing a circular which no intelligent
German will believe for one moment.
Shame on the men, who so impudently
assume that our German citizens are *.
norant fools, to eled like dumb sheep to
the slaughter. 1t Is adding the grossest
insult now to the basest injury Of a year
ago. Let the Sedan Of tomorrow, put
tho Register to shame, as the Sedan Of a
year ago first compelled 1t to give up Its
hope for the success 81 the French.
Year: 1871

EVERY man, woman and child Is most
vitality interested in this days work. To.
morrow may find men elected to posi-
tions by the votes of our people, who will
rob thopoor man Of the last hope he has
to give his child n fair education.