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Year: 1872

We took the liberty to inquire whether it
was true that Gen. Dix struck the plundered
Treasury of Erie for salary at the rate of
100000 q year, when the work he had done
was not of kind to be productive of much
waste of tissue. We got sOundly abused by
his organ for it, but the only explanation the
organ gave was that when Gen. Dix was put at
the head of the Erie Road it was only "sub-
"stituting one Swindling Ring for another"
We do not think the organ ought to blacken
its candidates character in that style, and
still go on supporting him. Perhaps it will
call him and THE TRIBUNE some worse names
when we inform it that a check for the trife
of $5O0OO was signed by John A. Dix as
President and Mr.. Cisco as Treasurer
of the Union Pacific Railway Company few
years ago, which amount of $4,000 was used
OF was intended to be used, as was alleged,
for the purpose of bribing Judge. 1t is
further alleged that the check was drawn to
the order of q nominal clerk in the Union
Pacific office, and that it is now on file,
in Cancelled form, in the Office of
the Union Pacific Railway Company.


OF course we cannot suppose for O mo-
ment that so respectable and venerable
gentleman as Gen. Dix would lend him.
self to scheme for corrupting the judi
ciary. Nevertheless, since the gossips posi-
lively assert that such check was given for
such purpose, and since $4,000 is
so considerable sum that one
would not be likely to forget
for what specific purpose it might have been
paid, it is respectfully suggested that Gen.
Dix should inform the public, so as to set the
matter forever at rest, for what purpose that
check was given, to what account it was
charged. and who received the money. And
we think Mr. Horace f. Clark, who is now
the President of the Union Pacific, might cast
light upon the subject by stating whether or
not such a check is to be found among the
valuable archives of the Company of which he
is the honored head If either of these gen.


tlemen is shy, will the other speak Let Gen.
Dix come forward like man, and We will
defend him from that wicked and malevolent
Times
Year: 1872

We tried last year to impress the people of
our State with the truth that the choice of an
honest, faithful Legislature was of the utmost
consequence, to which the political bias of the
members should be held entirely subordinate.
1t would matter little or nothing in the long
run whether majority in either House should
be Republicans or Democrats; but if that ma
jority were made up of such men as Frederick
A. Conkling, George Opdyke, Lucus Robinson,
and Francis Herman had shown themselves
while serving in the Assembly, great and
necessary reforms would surely be effected.


The people said Yes to all such admonition
and voted No, as usual. In full view of the
exposures of Tweed's gigantic rObberies, they
reelected score of Republicans and Demo-
Gratis who were well known to have done
Tweed's iniquitOus bidding at former sessions
and taken large pay therefor from the City's
stolen Millions. And, when one of these was
caught and clearly convicted, he was screened
from expulsion by the efforts and votes of
men elected to represent the Reform spirit of
our City! From that moment corruption,
which had previously been timOrous and
stealthy rode rOugh-shOd over integrity in
either House. In the language of Holy Writ
it was "naked and not ashamed )" 80 that the
veteran lobbyist who runs The Commercial
Adrertiser and knows all that man can know
of legislative rascality and depravity, being
confidentially asked by friend as he was
thus operating on the floor of the Assembly,
"Hugh, how is this Legislature ~ answered in
a sidelong whisper, at is the cheapest lot
"yet." 1t had not been so prior to the white
washing of James Wood by the votes of two


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of 0'Bren.


And now the worn out farce of 1871 is un-
derlined for repetition at the ensuing election.
The voters are to be expected from this side
and that to support none but honest men for
the Assembly, to which they will respond
with any number of approving huzzas, and
then go to the polls and vote for the regular
candidates of their respective parties "Why,
care not we the honest partyf Are not the
"other side rascals7 If 1 vote for our can
"didates and against the other fellows, won't
"that be voting for honest menf Wasn't
"Buckalew CoDperheadf And didn't Hart
"ranft fight gallantly at Antietami Get out y


We, too, urge every voter to scrutinize the
rival tickets inquire into the characters of the
rival candidates, and be sure not to vote for
incompetent or dishonest men-tO vote rather
for good men on the opposite ticket, or if there
be none there, vote for some fit person who
is on neither ticket, urging Others to do like
wise One in every hundred may possibly do
so the rest will do as usual, and the net re-
suit will probably be just about as last year,
when the great Reform movement eliminated
in the choice of 97 Republicans and 81 Demo-
Gratis to the Assembly, but famous few in the
aggregate who were qualified by integrity or
by capacity for legislators. That fully two
thirds of the entire number made merchandise
of their votes before the session closed, no
attentive observer of their dOiDgs can doubt
Year: 1872

ministration, and each claims to be the only
| genuine Republican party, and has sent depu-
tations to the President to solicit his aid in
putting down the other. The regulars profess
| to have got from him an oracular utterance
| to tho effect that he had no sympathy with


'bolters;n but the boilers are not dismayed
by this. They point to the fact that nearly
all the Federal OfIlce-holders IN the State
are with them and they assure the ignorant
negroes who are anxious to know how Grant
wants them to vote, that this is sufficient
evidence of his benign approval of their
movement.


Meanwhile the oppressed taxpayers, whose
only interest in the contest is to secure II
possible the election of officials who will not
rob them as badly as the present incnmbents
have done, are at q loss what course to take.
They have nominated no ticket because they
were assured that if they should do so the two
carpet-bag factions would Immediately CO.
alesce. Most of them are disposed to vote for
the boilers ticket, believing that nothing
could be worse than to let the State Govern
ment 90 into the hands of q notorious cor
ruptonist and plunderer like Moses but they
have come by sad experience to have such a
detestaton of carpet-baggers that they greatly
distrust Tomlinson, and accept him only as
choice Of evils. A few are inclined to prefer
Moses, because he is native South Caroinan,
and may, they think, be induced to reform
his ways. Nothing better illustrates the utter
degradation into which South Carolina politics
have fallen than the fact that it is seriously
suggested among reputable bankers and bust
ness men that Moses, if elected, should be
hired to be honest. The plan talked of, we
are informed, is to offer him $4,000 year to
place the finances of the State under the
direction of committee of men of known in
tegrity The sum named is supposed to be
about what he will require to maintain the
style of living he has kept up for the past
four years on his salary of $1,000 year as
Speaker of the House.
Year: 1872

On the 10th of October South Carolina votes
for Governor, State officers, and Congressman,
and chooses o new Legislature. There are
two Grant Republican tickets in the field, one
headed by Moses, the corrupt Speaker of the
House, who last Spring stole over half a
million dollars from the State Treasury by
means of fraudulent pay certificates, and the
other by Tomlinson, former State Auditor
and a carpet-bagger from Pennsylvania Of
exceptionally fair reputation. The Moses
ticket was nominated by the regular party
Convention, after scenes of quarreling, drunk
enness, and shameless bribery unparalleled
even in South Carolina. The triumph of
Moses in securing the Governorship resulted
in bolt of all the delegates who had made
any pretensions of favoring honesty and re-
form. They were few in number, as might
be expected, and in their anxiety to get re-
endorsements they deprived their movement
Of much of its moral strength by receiving
two or three delegations who had contested
for seats in the regular Convention and had
been rejected, and whose leaders were men as
notoriously corrupt as were many of those
who adhered to Moses. Nevertheless the
boilers made as good ticket as was possible
with the material they had at hand Their
candidate for Governor is charged with help
ing to bribe the phosphate Bill" through
the Legislature of 1853, but the charge rests
solely upon the statement of the Moses candi-
date for State Treasurer, and has probably
been manufactured for campaign uses


Both the regulars and the boilers advocate
the election of Grant. Each faction ves with
the other in professions of LOYALTY to the Ad-
Year: 1872

One week ago the Administration news
papers assured us, almost unanimously, that
Indiana was certain to give them from 5000
to 5000 majority. "The campaign this year."
said one of the leading Grant papers of the
West, "has been unusually vigorous. Care
"was taken to nominate strong men on the
Republican side. The Republicans are
"thoroughly united. Hendricks has many
"enemies in his own party" Five to eight
thousand was given as the minimum estimate


Even on the morning after the election it was
still assumed that Grants majority in Indiana
was as high as 5000. By Thursday morning
the figures had gone down to 1000 BY Thurs
day afternoon the Administration was COM
planning of desperate attempt to count in
Hendricks y and at last we had the tardy
admission that Hendricks was chosen after
all, and Indiana had not gone for Grant by
any majority, great or little. In spite of all
the advantages claimed by the Radicals, the
harmony in their ranks, the dissensons in
ours, and the shameless importation of Ken
lucky negroes to vote under the orders of
Oliver p. Morton, we have carried the State.


How great is the disappointment of the
Administration at this result every one can
see. If the three great States,n said The
Cincinnati Gazette, just before the election,
"give the Republicans majority in October,
a" the presidential fight will be virtually ended.
al, however, the Democrats should carry one
cor two, the contest would continue a month
"longer, and even increase in vigor." Well.
the Democrats have carried one, and when The
Gasette predicts that the contest is going to
increase in vigor it makes one of the trnest
prophecies it ever made in its life. Between
now and November there will be some of the
hardest political fighting ever seen in this
country. The Liberal party is too well
founded and too nobly inspired to be crushed
Year: 1872

A few Republicans at Ferrol, seaport in the
north of Spain, have made deplorable attempt
at revolution. 1t can only be deplored be-
cause it will probably be promptly suppressed,
and the Republican cause will be more or less
weakened by the attempt and the failure. 1t
was made without any especial preparation,
the people of the town and district appearing 6
to take no interest either for or against it,
and the Republicans and Alphonsists In the
Cortes taking the first opportunity to de-
nounce and disavow it. The attempt is from
every point of view unfortunate; but its mo-
mentary success and isolated strength show
how weak the new dynasty is in the army
and among the people, and how easy it Will
be to overthrow it when the proper time
comes. But it has not come yet.
Year: 1872

Apollo Hall presents James O'Brien for
Mayor of the City of New-York. The Grant
Republicans have been coquetting with this
same person, and it now remains to be seen
whether they too propose to put forward for the
highest Office in the first city of the continent
a rioter, baIlot-box stufler, repeater, man
without education, without character, and
without any antecedents save those OF the
police court and the penitentiarY.
Year: 1872

We have warned the Grant party so often of the
danger of the resurrection business that they have
only themselves to thank for the awful disaster
which overlook one of their prophets and orators
the other night at Cincinnati. The Hon. Richard
Smith, of The Cincinnati Gazette being called upon
Cor an address at a political meeting read to the
audience a speech in denuncaton OF the Democratic
marty made By Mr. Greeley in 1871. This was very
Year: 1872

1t is tho Spectre Imperial, not the Spectre
Rouge, which is alarming France at this time.
The weekly volleys of the carabineers at
Satory have sileneed the Reds; but tho Ma
poleonsts have succeeded in creating new
panic. The forced exit of Prince Napoleon
and his wife has given the Parisians fresh
sensation and new theme for club gossip.
We have only o meager hint of what the
French Government may really dread from
the Bonapartes, but it may be that something
very terrifying is concealed in the web OF
which we have thread in the temperance
of "plon-Plonn in France and the suppressed
cipher dispatch of the ex-Emperor.
Year: 1872

1t MT an agreeable thing to mention. but those
who are gathering Autumnal leaves for preservation
must be careful The correspondent Of Providence
newspaper specially collectors against poison
ivy, the bright coors Of which render it very at
tractive. The remedies for poisoning by this leaf
are acetate of copper and corrosive sublimato-tw0
beautifully pleasant things to Look out also
for poison sumac or poison dogwood, which il dan
gerously attractive. 1t may DO distinguished from
the common sumac by its light ash-gray stems, the
harmless kind presenting an iron brown
Year: 1872

PrOVided, That If after such aDpor-
tiOnment shall have been made any
new State shall be admitted into the
Union. the representative or repre-
sentatives of such new State shall be
added to the Dumber-tWO hundred
and fOrtyythree-here intimated.


1t also provides that no State shall
be hereafter admitted to the Union
without having the necessary pOpuls.
ton to entitle it to at least one repre-
sentative, according to the ratio of
representation fixed by this bill,
Should any State, after the pass
age Of this act, deny or abridge
the right Of any of its male
inhabitants OF such Stste-being
twenty-one years of age, and citizens
OF the United States, to vote at any
election named in the constitution
Iarticle IA, section II, except for par
ticipation in rebellion, or other crime,
the number Of representatives appor-
toned in this act to such State shall
be reduced in the proportion which
the number Of such male citizens
shall bear TO the whole number of
male citizens of twenty-one years Of
sge In such State.
Year: 1872

The very full report Of the debate
in the senate upon the amnesty BILL
which gill be found in another col
umn, V III attract the attention Of al
reader Of the APPEAL this morning.
Amnesty is something that peculiarly
concerns us Of Memphis, where We
can count more than two score Of
gentlemen, many Of whom a gen.
erOus and magnanimous amnesty
might restore to the public SER
vice in which they achieved the
brightest laurels as faithful seT-
wants Of the people. For these and
thousands scattered throughout the
South, at the meutiOU Of whose names
our hearts well up with pride, we are
interested in this question of restora-
ton Of rights, as furiously opposed by
the ''red-hotn Radicals as if the war
bstWeen the States had but closed a


week or 50 ago. We thank Senator
Thurman and those who so cordially
and earnestly supported him in the
cause Of universal amnesty.
Year: 1872

OF God vested with inalienabIe
rights, Worshipping God according to
the dictates Of their conscience, and
the establishment Of this principle in
this republic is the glory of America
and has been since the organization Of
the government conducive to the
happiness of mankind.


Second-The social relations among
individuals should be regulated by
the dictates Of love and due respect
tor the opinions of those who may
nappen to differ from US in our re-
HgIOus views.


Third-Charity for differences of
opinion In matters spiritual Is one or
the noblest attributes of man, and the
action of those who are endeayoring
to force their peculiar religious views
for adoption In the constitution OF the
United States of America, will. If
successful, destroy the equality of man
and take from him the immediate
jewel OF his soul-civi and religious
liberty.
Year: 1872

A writer in tie Chlds World tells Of
an incident that VIC believe will please
our boys and girls. :" was passing
through pleasant shady street" says
he. where some boys we're playing at
base ball Among their number was q
little lame fellow, seemingly about twelve
years old-a pale, sickly looking child
supported on two crutches, and who
evidently found much difficulty in walk
ing, even with such assistance.


"Ths lame boy wished to join the
game, for he did not seem to see how
much his in6rmity would be 10 bis own
way, and how much 1t would hinder the
progress Of such an active sport as base
ball.


"llis companions very good naturedly
tried to persuade him to stand one side
and let another take his place and
was glad TO notice that mono of them
hiuted that he would be 10 the wsy, but
they oil objected for fear hs would hurt
himself.


"'Why Jimmy, said one at last, you
cant run, you know


"Oh, hush : said another, tho tallest
boy in the party. Never mind I'll
run for him, and you can count it for
him and he took his place by Jimmy .
side, prepared to act. If you were like
him, he said to tho other boy, you
wouldn't want TO DO told of it all the
time"


That boy was a truo little gentleman.
Year: 1872

- a loving heart and pleasant eoun-
.enance arc commodities which man
should never fail to take home with him
They will best season his fnod and soften
his pillow. 1t werea great thing for man
that his wife or children could truly say o
him, +" IIc never brought frown or IN.
happiness across his threshold"
Year: 1872

WV. DEAN, Esq, publishes the copy of letter
instructing rs to publish cali for rtraight-out
Democratic meeting Gin conspicuous place in
your (our) daily all this week, and in your week.
ly"


We complied with this fully. and even placed
the call nearer the reading local items than other
political meetings Mr. Dean said no word To
about displaying, or heading his advertisement II
he had We would have complied cheerfuliy and
even made it q whole column for that matter -
The advertisement was put GU the hle aud set ly
the compositor as other advertisements are which
are written without head lines and about which
NO directions are gwen.


In subsequent letter Mr.. Dean expressed a
wish to have his advertisement placed with other
political meetings and we complied at once Ia
tn is letter he does not tell to make il occupy
moro space. So that We are not to blame for not
putting him 10 more cost. We did not get til.
advertisement in time for Mondays lssue On
that evening the machinery OF our press gave way
and it required every sxertioD to got the first side
Of our large weekly edition worked, yet we hoped
to be able to print his bills the next day But two
Of our hands were on on business or SICK and find
ing we could not print the bills in time, We took
the trouble to take the copy TO our neghbor OF the
Advertiser, who promised 10 do them and send
them to MI. Dean Had we desired to disappoint
him We could have done it as well by returning
the copy to him. We tried to accommo odate Mr.
Dean In business way aud tailed. We did not
know, however, until Monday morning that the
bills bad not been printed and seut 10 him.
Year: 1872

Tabbs Gross, a colored man, who
during the war was a substitute
broker among his race in Cincinnati,
and skinned them most egregiously;
who was also concerned in running
horses to the rebels, and in bounty
frauds upon discharged colored SOL
diers, came to Cincinnati few days
since from Arkansas, where he has
of late been living on his gross
profits thus obtained, and announced
himself as going to deliver a Greeley
speech in Newport. During the
night some of his colored brethren,
who knew his antecedents and had
suffered by them, called upon him
and advised him to leave town,
Forthwith this colored Gross, sir,
rushed into print, and has been can.
onized by Democratic journals as a
martyr to the cause of Greeley!


Every American citizen is entitled
to free speech, and those who at
tempt to prevent such speech are in
juring themselves and their party
by SUCH attempts; but there is no
doubt that Gross was visited because
of his former rascality, rather than
for his party preferences.
Year: 1872

Through partisan malice, and in
stigated by the D-l and all man
ner of evil lust and concupiscence,
we last week grievously insulted
the Toll Gate residing on the Rains
boro pike, near the residence of T.
Shields, Esq. We merely "wanted
to know, you know" and We have
found out that all we wanted to
know we could know on the afida>
Wit of two or more responsible wit
nesses; but the Toll Gate, taking
the matter as a personal affront, land
threatening to sue US for sIander if
we don't retract, we will just say
that we said what we did say, and
hope no offense is meant; and that
we are willing to "shake hands
across the bloody chasm" with the
Rainsboro Toll Gate or any other
Toll Gate that we have inquired in
to- Grant Battery.
Year: 1872

The new President of Mexico is
Lerdo de Tejada, who has been, at
any time these last ten years, in
triguing for the place to which he
now peaceably succeeds. He had
been for long time Minister of For
eign relations in the Cabinet of Juar-
rez. Last year he became a candi-
date for the Presidency, and took
the position of Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, the holder of which
succeeds to the Presidency on the
death or absence from any cause of
the Chief Magistrate.
Year: 1872

Close the polls his work is dorel


What to him is friend or foeman,
Rise of wheat, or fall of corn,


Woodruff. Stone, or other womau7
Lay him low, let him blow,


OF his turnips white as snowI
What cares her lie does not know


How the ruta bagas growl
Old sorehead vainly thought he might
Reach the White House by his endesvor;
Let him soon forget the fight,
Aud keep upon his farm forever.
Let him go, let him blow,
In his clover white as snowI
What cares he? He wants to know
How the German pretzels growl
Fold him in the ''stars and bars"
Roll the drum and fire the volley
What to him are all our wars,
What but gigantic folly?
Let him go, let him blow,


Midst his hats, once white as snowl
What cares he2 Except to know
How long-handled broom corns growl
Leave him to JEFF IS friendly eye,
Trust him to the hands that have him,
Breckenridge weeps idly byi


Baltimore could never save him.
Let him go, Let him blow,


At his farmhouse white as snowl
What cares he? He wants to know
Where the blind potatoes growl
Year: 1872

1t might have been better for Mr..
Greeley If Mr.. George N. Sanders
had reserved his Endorsement. 1t
cannot be to the advantage of any
honest man to receive the certifca-
ton of any one of the crew of felons
who organized yellow fever, riot, ar
son, assassination and treason on our
Northern frontier during the war.
Year: 1872

On the 10Th of May, 1871, the
New York Tribune said:


"It is certainly true that We are
not seeking the reelection of Gen.
eral Grant as President. Should he
be the Republican candidate we
shall, of course, support him to the
best of our ability"


General Grant is the Republican
candidate. How is the New York
Tribune redeeming its pledged
word? o, Honest % Horace Gree
ley!
Year: 1872

What is taken from you before you get it Your
photograph.


With what musical instrument could you catch
fish Cast-a-net


Why should the Pennsylvania oil regions be sur
rounded by water. Because they are ile-Iands.
If speech is silver, and silence gold, how much is
dumb man worth?


When young lady marries, can't it be said that
she euds miss-spent life2


What is the difference between Christian and
cannibal2 The one enjoys himself and the other
enjoys other people.
Year: 1872

The other night a young man
prOpounded the usual question to
the idol of his heart. She laid her
soft white hand in his, put her head
upon his manly shoulder, hove a
sweet sigh of resignation, and in
dulcet accents, that sounded like
sweet music upon the water, whis-
pered: "Yes, anything to beat
Grant,"