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Year: 1875

From the Ironton Journal.


The Cincinnati papers are hereby
informed that Lawrence county will
do her whole duty in this important
campaign by rolling upa good, round
majority for honest money, and in IA
vor of maintaining the credit of our
country by fulfilling its sacred con-
tracts In good faith. The frequent
statements of Democratic cOrrespon-
dents that iron manufacturers and
the great body of the laboring classes
are welded to the imitation scheme,
are without the least foundation in
fact. as the vote next October will
show. Laborers and manufacturers
are too intelligent and patriotic for
that. Lawrence county has never
been more thoroughly organized and
the people never moro thoroughly
aroused, and .hey intend to keep the
ball rolling. When the people Of this
county are once awakened, they al
ways vote on the right side.
Year: 1875

"THE latest ridiculous assertion of
the Cincinnati Enquirer is that
nothing can be more false and ma
licious' than the statement that a
Treasury note is worth only SS 3-S
cents in gold, and it adds: There is
no gold standard of value, and has not
been since the legal-tender act was
passed in 1869. # the editor of the
Enquirer will ask the price of any
such article as gold watch, he will
learn very quickly how unsafe it is
to trust to his ignorance. But then
it is something worse than ignorance
in this case.-Ne,o York Post
Year: 1875

AN old man died near Paris the
other day, who was known as the
"honest galley slave" When he
was twenty-six years of age he fell
in love with young girl, and as her
father refused his consent to their
marriage, they eloped. The lovers
were pursued and arrested on the
complaint of the inflexible father.
The young man was tried for having
abducted his beloved, she being not
yet of age, and was condemned to
ten years in the galleys. The daugh-
ter was consigned to semi-cOnvent-
nal Institution. Ten years passed,
and on his discharge our hero found
the cause of his disgrace still faith
full to him. They were married and
came to America. After some time
they returned to France and settled
down in their native land. He made
such worthy use of the fortune he
had honorably won in this country
that he was always called the friend
of the unfortunate. Three thousand
persons followed his remains to the
grave.
Year: 1875

The Daily Graphic has this to say
Of the late election, in Ohio: The
Ohio election has blown most of the
smoke from the political field. But it
leaves the public in better condition
than before to ascertain exactly how
much fire there was underneath and
where it is located. Those who i'm
agine that this soft-money agitationsis
purely gratuitous, a mischievous inven-
ton Of a few uneasy and malignant
politicians, are profoundly mistaken.
They represent large and powerful
constituency. When over two hum
dred thousand citizens of one of the
most intelligent States in the Union
vote against contraction and in favor
of greenback currency, it may be
safely assumed that there are plausible
if not valid reasons for their course.
And it is morally certain that an issue
which polls thousands Of votes more
than were cast at previous elections
conducted on the old party grounds is
not settled by a paltry majority Of
5000. The financial question which
was raised in Ohio is real and vital
one, and will agitate the country till
it receives an approximate if not sat
isfactory solution in the settled policy
of the Government.


There is fire under the smoke. The
democratic vote in Ohio expresses a
profound dissatisfaction on the part of
a large body Of the people. And it
has solid reason in the continued hard
times which depress trade and lower
prices and depreciate values and make
everybody feel poor. People out of
work and with little to eat, farmers
who have no market for their produce,
mechanics with nothing to do, manu-
facturers whose business is at stand
still feel that something is wrong and
demand a change of some sort. The
constant element in all the democratic
speeches was the badness of the times
Year: 1875

They number about 1900; they are
shut in by high mountain ranges and
almost lmpracticahle hill roads from
the rest OF mankind; they are untaught


but eager for knowledge and for a
place in the unknown world outside.
Since the decision in their favor in Nav
last, government agents, traders, and
dealers IN whisky have become cogni-
zant~ OF their whereabouts, and have
penetrated the hitherto untraveled
gorges of the Soco and Oconaluta.


Unless something is done by better
men in their behalf, there is every
probability that this people will be
driven down the short road to ruin.


which ca the Indians always tread SO
Year: 1875

and the necessity Of change for their
Improvement. The diagnosis of the
disorder may have been all wrong, but
the pain was real; the specific may
have been quackery, but the paralysis
was there. Then, too, the existing
national bank monopoly furnished an
unfailing argument for the greenback
orators. Here was a real incongruity
in our financial system; a vast privii-
lege given to Incorporated capital at
the expense Of the industry and well
fare of the country. The people could
see at glance that there is a manifest
injustice in taxing the nation some
twenty millions year for the sake of
enabling twelve hundred banks to make
from twelve to twenty per cent. on
their money. The proposed substitute
for the national bank system may have
been idiotic, but the common sense Of
the country saw clearly enough that
the system is wrong.


With two such solid reasons to back
them, and coming within FIVE thousand
votes of victory after an excited cam
paign, it is not probable that this finan-
cial agitation will subside as passing
furry. The Ohio agitators have thrown
a great question into the political arena,
and there will be no peace until it is
settled. The next congress might do
much to solve the problem were it to
set about the business in downright
earnest.
Year: 1875

The first right Of every child is to be
well born; and by this l mean that it
has right to the best conditions, phys
ical, mental and moral, that it is in the
power of the parents to secure. With
out this the child is defrauded Of his
rights at the outset, and his life can
hardly fail of being a painful protest
against broken laws. Centuries Of prep
aration fitted the earth for mans oc-
cupancy, limiting thus the grandeur of
his destiny, and suggested that in an
event Of such magnitude as the incar-
mating Of a souls provision should be
exercised, and all the best conditions
secured in aid of harmonious and
happy result. Good health, good
habits, sound mentality and reverent
love should form the basis of every
new life that is involved. The mother
who gives herself up to morbid fancies,
who considers her health an excuse for
petulance and non-exercise of self-con-
troll, proves herself unworthy of the
holy office of mother, and ought not
to be surprised if she reap at a later
day the bitterest harvest Of her unwise
sowing, second in Importance to none,
as the means Of securing the happi-
ness and best good Of childhood and
youth, is, the right to be taught obedi-
ence. It is easy to submit to what we
know is inevitable, and to the little child
the requirement of the parent should
be the law without appeal. The ten
der, immature being, shut in by the
unknown, where every relation is a
mystery and every advance an expert
ment, has right to find itself every
where sustained and directed by the
parent. 1t should not be tempted to
resistance by laws that are imperfectly
enforced, nor subjected to the injuri-
GUS friction of discussion by having a


long list of reasons for every require


ment. The habit of obedience to the


parents may be formed before the child


is two years old, and this is necessary
precedent of obedience to law, the next
stage of true development. The child


has right to ask questions and to be


fairly answered; not to be snubbed as


if he were guilty of an impertinence,


nor ignored as though his desire for in
formation were Of no consequence, nor


misled as if it did not signify whether
true or false impression were made


upon his mind. He has a right to be
taught everything which he desires to


learn, and SO be made certain, when


any asked-for information is withheld,


that it is only deferred until he is older


and better prepared to receive it.
Answering child's question is sowing
the seeds Of its future character
Victoria Magazine.
Year: 1875

In olden times it was the fashion for
a suitor to 60 down on his knees to a
lady when he asked her to become his
wife, which, with very stout gentlemen
was an uncomfortable proceeding.
The way in which Daniel Webster
proposed to Miss Fletcher was more
modern, being at the same time neat
polite. Like many other lovers, he
was caught holding skein. of thread
or wool which the lady had been un-
ravelling. "Grace,' said he, 1--WE have
been untying knots. Let us see if we
can not tie one which will not unite in
a lifetime With piece of tape he
fashioned half a true lovers knot,
Miss Fletcher perfected it and kiss
put the seal to the symbolical bargain.
Year: 1875

Their history is dramatic and pa
thetic enough; if we could rob our
selves Of the consciousness that they
are Indians, we would find it as asstrange
as that of the fight of Tartar tribe
told by DeQuincey. They are tribe
Of Cherokees who were not included
in the treaties of 1895, by which
the United States bought the land be-
longing to the Indians in the south,
and gave them in lieu tracts west of
the Mississippi. The great body Of
red men removed, leaving this frag-
ment Of a people, numbering about
1000 souls, still occupying their origi-
nal territory, mountainous region
called Qualla, watered by the Tucka-
seege and Oconalutta rivers in North


Carolina. This tribe fell for whole
generation under the absolute control
of a single white man, who, we are told,


exercised dictatorship as unlicensed


over them as did DIR. Francia over the


haEbreeds of Paraguay" This man


was the ruler, judge, business agent,


religious leader, and in a word master
Of their souls and bodies. They mar
ried, worked, and managed their house
holds wholly according to his order.
The man apparently had some refined


ideas Of mortality, for although he per-
mitted polygamy among them he COM
PEELED the whole tribe to sign the pledge,


and what is more to keep it. His con
science, however, did not hinder him
from following the usual course of the
white man with the red. In the thirty
years in which he ruled them, he man.
aged to possess himself of every foot of
the large territory owned by them, and
also of additional tracts purchased by
the money paid them by government
in lieu of that which would have been
given them had they gone west. This
whole region was held in his name


consequently when his outside specu-
lations failed, it was seized by his cred
itors, and sold under the hammer. It
was the ground on which these Indians
had lived since the memory Of man,
and for every foot of which their money
had paid. These Cherokees, too, differ
from their western brethren in that
they have never made public appeals
for aid, have received no help from any
religious body, have no missionaries or
teachers, and yet have lived peaceable,
inofensive lives, working willingly and
hard to better their condition; have
built with their own means two churches
in which men Of their nation preach,
and have brought by hard labor ten
thousand acres land under cultivation.


The case Of swindling was so fragrant
that when it was brought into the
courts of North Carolina Judgment was
promptly awarded on behalf of the
Indians, and they are now in possession
of their homes and land. Justice, it
appears, does not wear so thick a band
age in Buncombe county as In WASH
ington. But the probability is, now
that they are restored to their rights,
that the honest men who aided them
to gain them will betake themselves to
their own concerns, and the poor In
dams become the prey Of dozen spec
ulators instead, as heretofore, Of one.
Year: 1875

but the storm coming on it was deemed
better to remain all night, and early the
next morning set out for his home, accom-
panied by his wife.


Arrived in sight of the house he was
surprised to see the shutters still closed
and the chimney giving out no smoke of
welcome. e


AT the gate a young man was tying a
horse, and the Judge exclaimed to his
wife:


"Bless my life, Annie, that's Alger-
non! There's no mistaking him. He's
home month earlier than we expected
him But l greatly fear something is
amiss with Mag. She is an early riser,
and the shutters are yet closed"


He whipped up his horse and soon had
his long-absent son by the hand. The first
warm greetings over, the Judge raped at
the fastened door, but, eliciting no re-
sponse, his alarm increased, and, after
shouting for Margaret at the top Of his
voice and receiving no reply, with Alger-
mons help he burst open the door and en-
tered the kitchen.


All was as she had left it the night be-
fore, and black brands covered the hearth !;
the chamber door stood suggestively open.
Father and son ascended the stairs, and
half way up the Judge stumbled over the
key of the oak closet.


Good heavens!" he exclaimed, 1.-THE
KEY of the closet where left that money !!
l greatly fear that something has befallen
Margaret"


He found the closetdoor locked, and to
their repeated knockings there came no re-
sponse from within.


Algernon applied the key, and the opened
door revealed fearful sight.


With frightfully distorted, purple face
the robber lay on the floor stone dead, and
little removed from him, pale and quiet,
lay Margaret.


Algernon bore her down stairs and into
the open air, but it was very long before
she gave any sign or token of life And it
was week before she was able to give a
detailed account Of what happened during
that night of horror in the oak closet.


But she had saved the money, and the
son undertook to pay the debt Of gratitude
owed by the father. And before the win
ter was over Algernon married Margaret,
and together they lived ON the old home
stead, and on stormy nights they tell the
children the story of the oak closet.
Year: 1875

THE other day st. Louis girl who had
been pinning back her dress for some
time extended the fashion to her ears. All
the other girls saw it and followed suit.
A great shadow was Immediately removed
from the city Of St. Louis, and for time
the light seemed dazzling. 1t was as if
the sun had suddenly burst forth at mid
night,-ChScaq0 Times.
Year: 1875

THE TRIBUNE has thus far preferred to de-
Law discussing the action of the District Ring


in taking advantage of its Editors attendance
on a Congressional Committee. to institute
civil and criminal proceedings for libel against
him. not in the place where he is always to
be found and always ready to respond, but at
a noint where such trial would be most in
convenient. The House has, OF its own mo-
ton, taken the matter under advisement, and
we can afford to await. without attempting to
influence its decision. The Ways and Means
Committee had been vehemently exhorted, by
Administration journals, to examine the Edi-
tor of THE TRIBUNE. 1t came To New-Yor
spept a week or more without asking for his
attendance; then returned to Washington,
and summoned him thither by telegraph.
Il did this with letter from him in
the hands Of one of its members, explaining
that he neither had nor ever pretended
to have any information that would help
them, save in tbe way Of b.nts ss TO the call
Year: 1875

Tho onSaarance of any work by DR.. John
Henry Newman w0uId Ds IN event of import
ance in the world of letters. All Engiiiio5sc
speaking communities long ago learned to look
upon him as great master of our language.
No controversial writer in our day has won
more of the respect and admiration of those
who differ from him in belief, who have no
sympathy with his objects, and can hardly
follow his line of thought His clear. forcible,
refined and elegant style is the delight OF
scholars the amabe personal character which
leaves so distinct an impress upon his pages,
has always exercised sort of fascination
over the reader; and the remarkable influence
which he has exerted upon religious move
ments in England and America has commanded
a special attention for his utterances. The
little book, however from which we present
copOus extracts this morning has peculiar
interest quite apart from the personality of
the writer, and we shall not be surprised if it
achieve a circulation but little inferior to that
of the pamphlet which called it forth. In
taking up the pen after long silence to reply
to Mr.. Gladstone's essay on the Vatican DEGREES,
Dr. Newman touches upon subject in which the
multitude of readers, both English and Amer
ican, are most deeply concerned and 1t can
safely be said that he will fix the attention of
tho world more completely than any other
champion who could possibly appear on the
Catholic side,-unless the Pontiff should con-
descend to enter the lists himself.


But this is not all. The volume before us
has a strange and not altogether pleasant bio
graphical interest also. DR.. Newman speaks
of it as the last work of his life, and appar-
emily he designs it to be in some measure his
religious testament. A vein of sadness runs
through many Of its pages, and when he refers,
as he does several times, to certain cOntrOver-
sizes which have disturbed his own church, it
is with an evident sense-nOt of bitterness,
for he is always gentle-but of injury and dis
appointment Nor is it at all likely that this
Letter to the Duke of Norfolk" will smoothe
his declining years. He inscribes upon his
closing page an humble profession of duty to
the Roman See, and submits his writings and
religious opinions unreservedly to the judg-
ment of the Sovereign Pontiff; but he
is plainly ut variance, not with the
faith, but with the prevailing senti-
ment of his clerical brethren, and
he writes of the Council and certain of the
Pope's advisers in tone which will provoke
their unfriendly comment. His attitude with
respect to the dogma of infallibility was long
ago the subject of suspicion. Here we have
il defined. But this portion of the work in
yltes 80 much and such varied criticism that
we will not do Dr. Newman the injustice to
abrdge it, We refer the reader to another
part of this paper, where they will find the
distin gushed theologian's opinions IN has own
Ia,
Year: 1875

by mistake, thinking that the Government was
republican," an IMPRESSION" he said, which
ave are trying to correct He further stated
that it was not their wish to have the Septon-
nate made too prominent an issue; the people
should be induced to vote for MacMahon, and
understand that he is not Republican. They
are not in favor of plebisoitum--for so short
term as six years If the Marshal should
appeal to the people. it would be to ask them
to make him President for life.


But if it is impossible for the Government
to force the Assembly to pass these constitu-
tional bills, there must be some appeal to
break the deadlock thus created. In this re-
spect the crisis is one of the utmost gravity.
There is only one proper and reasonable way
out of it, and that is by MacMahon's consent
ing to seek his majority on the Liberal side OF
the chamber. relying upon the two Centers for
what legislation he may need, and for the
final vote which will be necessary, IL the AS
sembly is ever to be trusted with its own dis
solution. But he has shown such perverse
repugnance to this course that it is even now
improbable that he can be brought to adopt
it. He appears still to cling to tho desperate
hope of forming a conservative majority out
of the same elements to which he owed his
election. He refuses to recognize the fact,
patent to every ono but himself. that he was
elected as mere stop-gap by the monarch
jcal coalition, which had no object in voting
for him except to turn out M. Theirs and pre-
vent the establishment of the republic. Its
work was purely destructive, and it was pow
eress in any work of construction. Its MEM
bers cannot be united on the COmte dc Paris,
on the Comte do Chambord, or on young
Bonaparte, and, to tho Marshaps deep surprise
and chagrin, it appears that they cannot again
be united upon MacMahOn. But in this awk-
ward situation no one seems able to propose
q way of escape. The Assembly is incohereDt
and powerless but it cannot be done away as
long as MacMahon holds his present relations
to parties. Only one party, the pronounced
Republicans, are in favor of the dissolution,
because they alone feel reasonably sure of o
majority in case Of general elections. The
Legitimists and the Orleanists are equally op-
posed to it because they fear that either the
Republicans will have q clear majority, or
that the BOnapaItists will gain enough to give
them the balance of power between Republi-
cans and Monarchists, which would be equally
dstasteful. A careful canvass has been made
by the Conservatives, and has resulted in the
conviction that tho adoption even of NJ.
Picard's plan of renewal of one-third Of the
Assembly would give the Republicans the
control of the chamber. OF course, in such
an unnatural situation, conjecture Is idle; for
any violent or revolutionary act on the part
of the Government might so change the con-
dition of things in twenty -four hours as to
make the guesses of observers and the careful
calculations of Deputies equally useless.
Year: 1875

We are not the only nation which suffers
from having soldier, ignorant of politics and
not much acquainted with human nature, in
the seat of executive authority. Without dis
cussng the question whether France needs q
monarchy or a republic, we are certainly
warranted in stating that it is in the highest
degree unfortunate that the chair of the Pres
idency should be occupied by one who, like
Marshal MacMahon, is determined to prevent
for as long time as possible, the definite
solution of that question. The debate has
already begun upon those constitutional bills
which he insists upon as necessary to the Or
ganization of his powers. The basis of them
is the conviction of MacMahon and his Minis
try that only provisional form of govern
ment is at present possible in France, and
that the duty of the Assembly is to recOg-
nize this fact, and organize the existing chaos,
leaving the future exposed to every chance
and risk of accident or conspiracy M. dc
Ventavon's bill confirms the powers of Mac
Mahon makes the Ministers responsible pro-
vides for the creation of a Senate or Upper
House; gives the Marshal the power to dissolve
the Assembly; and provides that at the close
of the Septennate the two Chambers may de-
eide what shall be the future form of govern
ment for France.


This is evidently nothing more than a frank
demand for an unlimited dictatorship. Organize
MacMahon's power, give him the nomination
of a Senate on which he can rely in any differ
ence which he may have with the Assembly,
put the Legislative Body absolutely in his
hands by giving him the power of dssolving
it at pleasure, and it will need very little
sagacity or skill for him to so manage his two
houses that, five or six years from now, he may
obtain from them any expression he desires in
regard to the definite form of government to
be given to the nation. Naturally enough
there is no party in the Chamber, if we except
the Orleanists of the Right Center, which could
stand for moment upon such a platform.
The Republicans could not submit to scheme
which rejects the name of the Republic. and
is full of precautions against allowing the
popular will to have any effect in the govern
ment, and the Legitimsts are prevented by
the directcOmmands of the Comte de Chambord
from granting any irrevocable powers to
Marshal MacMahOn except such as are neces-
sary to enable him to preserve order. The
developed in the late elections, are also un-
willing to tie their hands by pledging them
selves to uphold this personal government
against all corners. There is. in fact, singu-
lar faulty about the Marshal and his Ministry.
One of the Cabinet is reported as having
recently said that the people voted for the
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