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Year: 1876

II is to the interest of every man, woman
nomically conducted. We urged last win
ter upon those in authority the necessity for
outstanding our means, and thereto the em-
ployment only of so much force as was
necessary 10 keep affairs In order. Hut our
argued differently. They maintained It was
the duty of the city to find work and EN-
ployment that the community ought thus
To aid men TO a living. Our advice was not
taken-the expenses were large, though not
exceeding other years. But when the cleo
tlon day rolled, our neighbors, fiusted and
frothed over the extravaganza OF our old
friend McMenamin and the result was O
disapproval of the very policy that the Re-
publican and Commercial themselves urged a
few months before.


We do not propose To urge anything upon
the Council that we do not believe will be
TO the interest of all and we are glad to
find the Republican members OF Council
now looking to the contract system as a 20
luton to the difficult problem of economy
II that system is adopted and worked fairly
and honorably, (Which is the correct way,)
the city may save thousands upon thous-
ands Of dollars, the taxes be reduced, and
real estate ascend in price instead of being
reduced more and more every year until
1t now will not average four per cent. on
the assessment after the taxes are paid. Let
us help ourselves out OF the difficulty in
stead of looking to Uncle Sam.
Year: 1876

Special dispatch TO the BALTIC. Gazette.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-It is quite
clear now TO every reasonable man that
the desperate men who are seeking to
perpetuate their own power have deliber-
ately conspred to the use the corrupt
machinery of returning boards to defeat
the will Of the people as expressed at the
ballot-box. In South Carolina they do it
by defying the highest legal tribunal in
the state, and Florida they deliberately
manufacture returns from u democratic
county days after the regular return had
been made by the proper canvassing Of
ficers. In Louisiana another game is
being played. There they expect to be
justified for throwing out the votes of five
parishes and disfranchising more than ten
thousand people by clever stage trick.
The story of the negro woman, Eliza Pink
ston, was fixed up for the purpose of
shocking the northern mind and in the
hopes Of narrowing up the peoples feel
lngs to such an extent that they would
justify any decision that the returning
board might make in the casesof Ouchita
purish. Is it possible that such transparent
stage tricks will avail to shield the men
from popular wrath who attempt TO nullify
the will of the whole people ofthe countryP
II the house of Representatives acts firmly
and wisely all such trickery will soon be
exposed and the people will soon make
these mlscreants tremble for their own
safety.
Year: 1876

-'NW VI N w VI


Dennis is not an officer of the army,
nor in any. way connected with the army.
After serving through the civil war in a
Connecticut regiment, and being duly
mustered out, be settled in South Caro-
lima, and Immediately entered into close
relations with the worst elements of the
so-called Republican party in that state,
OF which Robert X. Scott and CardoZo
were at that time the leaders. He be-
came member of the South Carolina
Legislature, and in that capacity was OF
service to Scott and his confederates.
Possibly there may be rscollections of
him in Wall street in connection with a
certain committee for manipulating the
financil matters of the unhappy state
which he misrepresented. He was also
sent to this city to purchase furniture for
the state house at Columbia and the ac-
counts which he rendered, and which
were settled out of the stale treasury.
were so outrageous that committee was
appointed TO look into them. This com
lnlttee made plain and damning report,
upon which, of course, no further action
was taken. On the contrary, Scott made
him superintendent of the penitentiary, a
post from which he was ousted by Cham
berlain during Chamberlain's short lived
spaSm of "reforIa" last winter. Under
the new order of things Chamberlain has
taken him again into favor, and it now
seems clear that he was selected as the
chosen instrument for making such a
legislature with bayonets as his employers
thought it best to secure. With past of
political discredit behind him and fu-
ture OF justly-anticipated chastisement
before him. this man Dennis is as plainly
the right man in the right place, as Bel
knap would be, for example, in COM
manded of corps of United States troops
occupying the capitol at Washington, to
prevent the impeachment according to
law of President Grant by the House and
his trial according to law by the Senate
of the United States.
Year: 1876

From the Philadelphia Telegraph Rep.
! Dec. l.


In fact, the situation is not any NOR,
serious than has occurred dozens of time'
| in connection with contentious over tn,
organization of Congress and of different


State Legislatures; and if the President
through the army, has right to dictat,
how the disputes over the eligibility o.
non-eligibility os persons claiming 10 be


members of the South Carolina Legisla


ture shall be settled, he has jnst the same
right to decide who shall and who shall


not be members of Congress. This is
just the point that patriotic and law-abid
ing citizens must consider In connection


with this South Carolina business, and
it needs no argumentto show that II the
precedent thus set is allowed to stand un-
| challenged and unrebuked,i it will be in the
power of any political party, or of any
clique Of politicians who may happen 10


have control of the Executive branch OF
the Government, to perpetuate theirpow-
er indefinitely, and practically to prohibit
the people from having any voice in the
Government. No one who knows any
thing about the Democratic party or the
men who are most prominent in its coun-
ellis will doubt for moment that-hav-
ing possession ofthe Governmcnt-they
will will hesitate, in event of a popular
verdict against them, to make use OF such
Republican precedent as this for their
own advantage, and apart from any con-
stitutional and legal aspects of the case,
Republicans are to ask themselves, sim
ply as amatter of partisan policy, whether
they can afford to become responsible for
this sort of thing.


Late in the day yesterday General Ru-
ger made new move which still further
cOmplicates the situation. by giving no
tice that at noon to-day the Democratic
members from Edgefield and Laurens,
over the legality of whose certificates
there is a dispute, will be excluded. OF
course, if General Ruger had right to
organize the House in the first place, he
has right to carry out his threat of ex-
cluding these two mem by force. If he
exceeded his authority in the one case
and performed an act of usurpation
which being committed by an officer OF
the Government and striking blow at
the very foundations ofrepublican liberty
Is more outrageous than any of the many
outrages which individual Democrats in
the late Rebel States are charged with
having committed, he will exceed it in
the other-if he executes his threat-and
if unrebuked by the President will make
that officer an accessory to his grave Of
fense against law and liberty.
Year: 1876

There are many persons indulging Al
idea that real estate in this city and State
will advance 70 war prices. This is mere
aelusion and has proved a rock upon
which many have been wrecked. If q
man owns his property without eneum-
brsnee, it is wise perhaps to keep 1t; as
in all likelihood he may net invest to
any better advantage. But 1t is folly in
a man to hold property on which he is
paying six per cent. interest ON the larger
half and getting perhaps but three per
cent. out of the whole. 1t is pure specu-
lation. Property is worth just what it
will bring, and there is large amount
Of it now that will sell for more than it
is actually worth. The cost of a pro-
pety in our neishboring city, Philadel-
phia, has nothing to do with the worth of
it. The taxes the newspapers tell us
amount to confiscation, and the more
the property cost the less It is worth, be-
cause tenants in these times cannot be
got for valuable estates-for instance Jay
Cookies mansion is cost to the owners,
as men are required to keep it clean.
This is an exceptional case we grant.
But it is not an extreme one. Properties
costing far less money also have to be
kept from the dust and damp when not
tenanted.
Year: 1876

The Chicago Tribune is sorrowing that
Tweed did no arrive in time before the
election to make frank confession of all
he knew about Tilden. 1t thinks that
Thereby Hayes would have carried New
York, and been elected beyond question u
1t is therefore not enough for the Tribune
that the Presidency should be decided by
corrupt returning boards and fraudulent
Governors, but it would have the testi.
mony Of zone of the grandest raSclls OF
modern times" against the character of Z
man who lacks but one vote of an election
and has the popular majority of his coun
trymen by over 800, 900.
Year: 1876

There was araport all over Washington,
last evening that, in consequence of dis
sensions in the Cabinet to-day, Secretary
Fish had sent in, or would send in, his
resignation. As it is probable that this
report may be teleraphed from here it is
well to say there is no foundation at all
for the repsrt.
Year: 1876

From the Providence Joul nall


A melancholy case of the effect Of the
baleful habit OF opium taking in Brooklyn,
N. Y, is thus described by q correspondent
of the Providence Journal: A beautiful
woman and . reigning belle, some years ago,
in that city, was Frustrated with pro-
longed and excrutiatingly painful sickness,
to alleviate the sufferings of which the ply
sicians in attendance prescribed laudanum,
which was taken with the result of fixing
the habit upon the patient. That habit has
dragged her down into such depths Of
physical and moral degeneracy as would be
almost incredible If related. The appetite
has become so ravenous that 1t has de-
manded the constant use of the strongest
ts5acco smoked In the rankest of pipes, in
addition to the immense quantities of laud-
snum which are taken. If anyone could
see this once beautiful woman, now sal
low, wrinkled, prematurely aged hag, bent
over, and in the act Of smoking her vile
pipe, and know Of the absolute loss of ell
self-respect and total collapse of the moral
sense in her, 1t would add much force to
the concluding advice of your reporter,
"don't." It will scarcely be believed when
1t is stated that she drinks nearly five
quarts Of laudsnum every month, yet such
is the fact.
Year: 1876

Governor Williams majority in Indiana
is 5,440, the Democratic majority, on pop
ular vote for Congressman, 6,97e, and yet
Democrats have lost Congressman in the
State. These figures prove the charge that
the Congressional districts in Indiana have
been gerry, wandered by the Republicans.
The same is true Of Ohio.


The geographical situation Of Congress-
ional districts in Republican States is
enough 10 set a Cotton mad. The terri
tory is portion in triangles, squares and
circles, connected by narrow strips Of land,
or not connected at all, so as to deprive
Democratic portions of the State Of their
just representatives in comparison to rela-
tive party strength in the population.


This process has been extended to every
Stat. where the Republicans have control
and is only part of their general system Of
cheating the people out Of the legitimate
force Of their popular vote. The whole
system Of congressional apportionment
should be revised so as to constitute some
definite standard of geographical as we'll as
numerical representation.


So long as districts can be so construct
ed as to give the party in minority in the
State less than their fair proportion of
representatives in Congress, the system is a
fraud upon the popular representation.


This is really matter worthy Of the
most serious consideration of our law
makers, and one absolutely necessary to
practical reform. The theory Of our Gov.
eminent is that, except in the Senate, rep
resentation should be fairly in accordance
with population, and the gerrymsndering
Of districts, SO that majority Of the State
has only minority Of its Congressional
delegation is plain violation Of that
theory. OF course, when the Democrats
get in power they will have the same
opportunities that the Republicans have
profted by, but they will prove true tc
their professions Of reform, by refusing To
virtually disfranchise their opponents.
Year: 1876

1t IL rumored about the streets that
the two gentlemen named Freeburg and
Grey, who came here some time ago and
gave it out as their intention TO start q
wholesale grocery store. have disap-
peard and have no intention of coming
back. They stopped at the ST. Charles,
aud commenced operations in a manner
that led all to believe that they meant
business. They rented the large brick
building at the corner of Sixth street
and Ohio I.evec. had shelving put in the
lower room, bought lot Of Hour. etc,
which they put in the store, and made Il
big outside show. On Saturday night,
however, they left, taking with them
their trunks and everything else belong
ing to them. and nothing since that time
can be learned Of them.
Year: 1876

| consider the Charter Oak as blessing to
every house-keeper who is fortunate
enough to have so excellent cook stove.
A few of its merits are economy in fuel,
quick baking, with Il large reservoir that
heats water quickly, and hot enough for
all household purposes. We use inferior
soft coal, but the iiues are so large that
they require very little cleaning.


(5l-5-l7-dlt.
Year: 1876

The Taylor Literary club will go to
Mound City next saturday and give one
OF their amusing entertainments In that
village. They intend making the trip on
the ferryboat ''Three States" aud invite
their numerous friends in Cairo to join
them in the excursion. A tine string
band will accompany the party, US well
us the National Cornet band, and a pleas
ant time Is assured all.
Year: 1876

ANY one wishing to purchase an organ
will do well by calling at Il. 4 w.
Buder's. as they intend to close out their
stock in that line and will make iignres
lower than they have ever been sold for
before. 5'l4-U.
Year: 1876

THE GRAND UNIoN.-New York
This hotel has gained wide popularity
both on account of its eligible situation-it
being directly opposite the Grand Central
Depot-and the excellent manner in which
tits kept By stopping at this house,
guests save the heavy expense of carriage
hire and expressage, baggage being carried
to and from the depot without charge. 1t
| is first class 70 every respect, and yet the
rates of charges are lower than at any
other first class house in the city. 1t is
conducted upon the European plan.
Year: 1876

CHICAGO, July 29.-The committee
appointed by the president Of the board of
trade to inspect the wheat in the elevators
here, report it in good condition with the
exception of about dozen bins in which
the wheat is somewhat warm.
Year: 1876

THE Republican Congressional Cam,
paign Committee made further progress at
its meeting last night by electing Sena-
tor Cameron to be chairman of the execu-
tive committee. The venerable Senator
now fills the two positions of chairman OF
the general committee and chairman of the
executive, so that the impress Of his yigor-
Gus mind will be doubly felt in the coming
camnoirr
Year: 1876

saw the spectacle Of the Southern Demo-
cratic delegation refusing to indorse humane
ideas on the contrary, palliating crime
and casting upon their benefactor an insult
ing charge, having no foundation in TACT,
and only trumped up to conceal the hatred
that would otherwise have found vent
And yet the Independent Press and inde.
pendent voters say that our future safety
lies in entrusting to these men our interests,
our civilization and our national existence
Such loyalty and moderation as this Is but
the driyel of sightless fools.
Year: 1876

NARROWED down and stripped of all
verbiage the charges of the Opposition
press against the present administration of
the Navy Department amount to bit of
iault-fnding, because Secretary Robson
has succeeded in rebuilding the navy with
ont expending any more money than the
customary annual appropriations for the
pat two wears.
Year: 1876

Little Mrs. Manning was as dainty a
bit of womankind as it would be posi-.
bic to find Petite and graceful, charm
ing in figure, face and manner, she was
the light of her home, us well as of SO.
Year: 1876

I'VE advise our Democratic friends to
keen cool. They made a mistake in 1861
which has cost them and the country very
dear. II they should make smother mis-.
take of the kind il will cost them very
much de..rer. The country means that
there shall be fair play. but 1t does not
mean TO stand any nonsense
Year: 1876

PITTSBURGH, June 2-AlI the con-
ferences between manufacturers AID the
psddlers have failed to prevent iock-
out and to-day but very few OF the pud-
ding mills in this county are at work.
The alternative of the manufacturers was
sliding scale. which at the present price
of iron, % cents, would make the rate
for pudding S75 per ton and ascending
n, the rate OF 10 ceEts per ton for one
tenth an advance IN the card. TINS was
rejected by the Paddler's Union, Its de-
maud being an advance of ID cents per
ton on every one-tenth advance in card
rates and an increase also of % cents per
ton a, the present rate. The mills Will
not shnt down Immediately as there Is
comparatively large stock OF muck bar
on hand. which will be worked up, by
which time it is hoped compromise Will
be made
Year: 1876

This gentleman, who is we'll kno xn to


be aspiring for q nomination on the


Democratic ticket for Attorney General


has seen proper TO publish card in the


evening paper, rejecting upon the course


of the REGISTER toward him. The gen.


tlcman in question will find, upon exami-


nation Of our file there has been no srti


Gle in the editorial columns directed at


Mr.. CRAcRAFr or any other candidate.


Our columns for correspondence have


been open to all Democrats who were
disposed to discuss the availability
of candidates, not even except
ing Mr.. CRACRAFr himself who


has, within short time published card
in this paper viRdicating himself, from
the charges made by Cincinnati newspa


per reporter. Some of our correspond
ents have propounded very pertinent ques-
tlons, which he has signally failed to re.


py II. and because that he cannot sue
c-s> u'iy deny the charges thus made, Is
perhaps the reason for his complaint Of
the REGISTER for publishing interroga-
tories to which he cannot give negative
answer.


In the second place it is absurd to
think, that it would affect the course of
this paper because the inter
ests of a few of the
have been injured by suit
in which Mr.. CRAcRAFT was the oppos-
ing counsel, especially as the editor had
no interest, direct or indirect, in the re-
suit of that litigation. Mr.. CRAcRAFTs
fidelity to his client. in however question:
able alight it may have been presented to
the other side, is not subject for public
criticism, and the proprietors and editors
ofthe REGISTER are the last persons in
the world to bring his profession
al acts into public review. But
there is standpoint from which
we can conscientiously discuss
the record Of Mr.. CRACRAFT or any
other candidate who seeks office at the
hands of the Democratic party. We
have received the contumely and abuse
Of what is popularity known as the "Court
House clique" because we had the manli-
ness to expose and denounce its unmiti-
gated frauds. In doing so, however, we
carefully avoided the use of personalities,
bringing no particular one within the
Isnge of our shot. We would not devi-
ate from that established rule at this
time if it were not for the
uncallrd for and unjustlfiable attack
made upon us by Mr.. CRACRAFT in his
card Of yesterday. As Democratic
journal we have no hesitation in saying
nat the Democratic party cannot afford
to nominate candidate with Mr.. CRA-
CRAFTS record without bringing upon it
everlasting disgrace and deserved defeat
AT this time we deem it unnecessary t.
90 into details, for the character of the
gentleman is sufficiently well known to
the people of Ohio county to omit them
Year: 1876

it is the picture and the song. The
best poetry is .s,s.sple and natural as
life itself; and Sy listening to the
sweet voices which are always floating
unheeded on the air, you will feel
what it is, through all your being.
Only keep eye and heart open, and
never let it be possible for you to scorn
or neglect the least thing that God has
made.


Look for poetry, and you will find it
everyWhere,-in the fairy-cup moss
under your feet in the woodland foot
paths, i'll the song of the robin at your
window in the morning, in the patter
of the rain on the roof, in the first rosy
cloud on the horizon at dawn, and the
last that fades out i'll the west at sun
set. For poetry is written all over the
earth by Divine hand, before it can
get into books.


The Creator is the great poet. All
that is beautiful to eye or ear or heart
is His handwriting. Wherever a bud
opens, a rivulet slips along its pebbly
path, or leaf-shadow dances in the
sunshine, there He has written a poem
which He meant should be read with
delight by every eF-by.-LucyL Lar
com, IN st. Nicholas for august
Year: 1876


OF ali the charms dear woman wears,
Of her many traps and snares,
For real effect there's naught compares


With truly pretty bonnet;
For when or wherever you chance to meet
One that is perfectly modest and neat.
You may depend It's preof complete


The head has more in than on it,
No matter whether she's pretty or not.
How much or how little money she's got,
Whether she lives in mansion or cot.


'Tis fact, depend on it.
The woman to make a man happy for life,
To make Il modest mother and wife.
Is one who, scorning the miliner's strife,


Wears plain and tasteful bonnet.
Now bonnet of genuine beauty and grace,
Worn on The head in its proper place,
Shadowing family the wearer's face.


Is thing for song or a sonnet;r
But one Of those gay and gaudy things.
Made up of rainbows and butterfly wings,
A mixture of flowers. ribbons and strings,


Is dreadful, depend upon it.
A vulgar mass of :" fuss and feather"
A little of everything thrown together
As if by touch of windy weather,


A wretched conglomeration--
a sort of cup to catch the hair.
Leaving the head to = 90 it bare
A striking example of nothing to wear


Is this bonnet abomination.
II makes woman look brazen and bold,
Assists her in catching nothing but cold,
Is bad on the young, absurd on the old,


And deforms when it ought to deck;
For look at her face, no bonnet is there,
See at the side it hangs by hair;
View ii behind, and you will declare


That the creature has broken her neck.
No matter where You may chance to be,
No matter how many women you see.
A promiscuous crowd or certain she,


You may fully depend upon it
That gem Of the very rarcst kind,
A thing most difficult to find,
A pet for which we long have pined,


Is perfect " love of bonnet"


-IjIfslE's JjJ;U0 j0r
Year: 1876

nearly fell over the rock. Then he
turned tail and bounded into the path,
and thence leaped down the gravel
bank and took to the stream.


Father was down in the path be-
fore the bear was halfway across the
river. Catching up the rifle, he sent a
bullet after the grizzly with right good
will. But the beast swan on without
seeming to notice the shot, and, reach
ing the other side, climbed sturdily up,
without once looking back. Soon he
disappeared in the woods.


Ever after that we used to look out
sharp for grizzlies at that canyon: but
we never happened to meet another
there. - Youths Com Uanion.
Year: 1876

SOMETIMES a boy or girl says, 81
should like to understand poetry; do
not like to read it and repeat it, but l
cannot always tell what it means.


Dear children, some things go under
the title of poetry which are incom-
prehensible to young and old, to wise
and foolish alike. But the way to ,m-
derstand true poetry,-that Of nature,
at least,-is to love the beauty of which