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Year: 1871

We are panied aud indignant to see in
some prominent Northern journals fing'
at tho Union men of the South. Theil
sincerity as a class is impeached and thei'
very existence treated as doubtful. W.
knoac how unjust aud cruel these illusions
are. There are here in Richmond hun.
dreds OF white men and women; there are
thousands all over the South who have
been true to freedom and the Union, hold
ing fast to their faith with sublime fidelity
in the darkest hours of the civil war, and
who are true to-day. There are men and
women here, Southern born and bred, who
for their loyalty, have suffered loss of pro-
perty, social position, friends and all that
made the future bright, save their love OF
the truth and the approval of good con-
science.


They fulfilled, by their heroic examples,
the prediction of the poet Whittier made
thirty years ago in the darkest days of
slavery.


"And from yonder Southern vallies,


Southward in the distance lost


Freedom, yet shall summon allies,


Worthier than the North can boast


With the evil by their hear tn. stones,


Battling at severer cost"


These are the men who to-day suffer
scorn, contumely ard poverty for their loy-
atty to freedom and the old flag. There
are msn among us to-day, of whom the
world is not worthy whose names will be
canonized in the great calendar of the
worlds heroes and martyrs. There are
others, and thousands, who have died to
bear witness to the truth and who sleep in
unnoted graves all over the South, conse-
Grating their native soil With the blood of
their martyrdom.


Oh, friends and brethren of the North
take back these cruel and careless words.
Lash as you will corrupt place seekers
wherever born, but spare the sweeping
denunciations which class Southern loyal
lists with the greedy cormorants of Office.


Here, all around us, are Southern born
white men, loyal and true as the needle to
the pole, shut out from church and social
gathering and business, prescribed and
banned by the unpunshed malignants of
the rebellion, now restored to the high
places of power, by the magnanimity of
the very party whose adherents they seek
to destroy.


We ask for these men the justice and
sympathy which you accord to the s,rug-
Cling friends of freedom in Europe and in
the islands of the sea- Beside their costly
sacrifices, our loyalty is cheap and poor.
We invoke for them the effective and
earnest support Of all good men in their
heroic and periIous maintenance Of the
national faith amid the savage hosts of the
revived rebellion.
Year: 1871

THE New York Tribune, with that spirit
of candor and fairness which is character
istic, has sent several able and reliable cor
respondents to the South, to ascertain the
precise condition of things in the disturbed
districts. These correspondents have been
especially instructed to CLEAN the truth
from all sources, and to present it to the
public, irrespective Of its effect upon the
position of either party. The letters are
now being published, and exhibit record
of crime and cruelty fearful to contemplate.
1t is true that in some cases deeds of vio-
lence have been committed by the negroes
upon the whites. These are not concealed
or extenuated, but confessed and denounced
in as strong terms as those committed by
whites. The corruptions of the State adj
ministrations in some instances are exposed
and fair showing given to all sides.


The opposition press are copying these
portions of the correspondence and max
ing themselves happy over the confessions.
Ihey are welcome to all they Will make IN
that way. Werejoice in the thought that our
strength enables US to be just We know that
nothing is to be gained by falsehood. We
seek to make all men equal before the law
as they are before God, the author of all
law. We would not wrong the bitterest
enemy of the Republican party, or ALLOW
him to suffer moments uneasiness or
intimidation in the free exercise of his
rights. We do not intend to rest till every
Republican is also protected Show us in
all these States Democrat who fears pro-
scription or violence because he is such,
and we will Bevef rest until his wrongs are
remedied by the equal administration of
the law.
Year: 1871

A WIFE Vows VENGEANCE ON THE
PoIsoNER OF HER HUSBAND D.-Lawrence
(Kansasl papers, in giving further accounts
OF the supposed poisoning of Mr.. Ruth,
says that previous to the funeral Mrs.
Ruth took her children into the room
where the body of her dead husband laid
and made them swear to avenge his death
1t is stated that she has declared her inten-
ton to relieve the law of the necessity of
furnishing the guilty person. Her feelings
towards DR.. Medlicott apparently under
go an entire change. The contents of
the stomach of the deceased have not yet
been analysed
Year: 1871

Who WILL RAKE OUR CHEsTNUTs
FROM THE FIRE.-This is the question
now with that seedy old specimen of
senility, the Democratic- Conservative
party. Its chestuuts, gathered with so
much care, are burning badly. They
smoke and 6z and fume. and now and
then pop and vanish in thin air. S. on
they will be only gas and ashes.


The frantic old gentleman sees only ruin
and rushes frantically round for some spry
cat with paws long enough to pull out the
savory morsels, to feed his savage and
monstrous bantlings.. Yesterday it was
pussy Trumbull whose head he stroked
so paternally; to-day, with all his pro-
geny, he is after the old tiger-cat Sherman
to rake the ashes.


Lost caresses every time; no paws of
such cunning felines will ever get burnt in
a service so foul and where pay is so very
risky.


Trumbull is too wary, and Sherman is
too proudly true To his ceuntry's flag, ever
to be made the tool of its mortal enemies.
He of all men is the last who can be used.
and they know little of him, who would
construct party platform from the eccen-
trio nonsense of his dinner speech.
Year: 1871

Ordinance Tolations.-About sixty per-
sons were summoned before Justice White this
morning, to show cause whv they should nok
be fined for failing to pay their city licenss
tax. They were all let off on condition that
they pay up Monday, and any who fail to d.
50 will be fined SIS for every day thereafter
that they neglect to do 50.
Year: 1871

More Papers.-Our young friend O'Bell
Dyer has again favored us with large batch
OF interesting pictorial and other papers of the
latest dates. We notice among them the most
popular and readable journals issued in this
country. T" The DAYS Doings" contains a
likeness of Miss Laura d. Fair, lately convict
ed in San Francisco of the murder of Judge
Crittenden, and whose trial created so much
interest all over the country. Dyer receives
an extra supply by this evenings mail, and
can supply all in want Of reading matter, at
his neat little store, No. 805 Broad street
Year: 1871

Mass Meeting The Republicans of
Richmond will meet in mass meeting tonight
in front of the Custom-house on Bank sire, {.
Every Republican in the city is earnestly re-
quested to attend. Prominent Republicans
from distance will address the meeting.
Year: 1871

j, UTILIZE THE GARcAss.--When .
farmer loses horse, or OK, or auy other
animal, instead Of leaving the carcass 70
be devoured by dogs or crows, he should
cover it with six or eight times Its bulk
of earth, and thus arrest the fertilising
gasses which will be thrown of in the
process of decomposition. By SO doing
be would secure quantity Of manure
which would pay him Eve times over
the trouble it would cost him for there
is very little land in the older portions
of the State, which might not be great
ly improved by the application of fer
tllizers. ~
Year: 1871

A London journal relates that Eliza
Wragge, nlatron lady, was very anx-
ious to be remembered after death, and
she therefore left in her will a small
sum of money to certain parish on.
condition that the vault should be
opened, and her coffin busted, every
year. In the event of failure, the be~
quest is to be transferred to another
parish. She made sure Of the wardens,
who are to open the vault, by leaving
them enough to buy good dinner on
each return of the cheerful occasion.
Year: 1871

There is more of truth than of poetry
in the following, cut from the New York
Tribune


The magazines are a very fair index to
what cultured people relish as mental
food, and it is an odd fact that one third
of the articles in the present mouths
issue are made up of personal gossip,
written by men for men. a glance over
the newspapers, too, will show, outside of
the merely delicately seasoned dishes
prepared for feminine readers, how much
is reserved for the delectation of the
(once) stronger sex, that deserves no
other name than scandal-takenr raw and
undiluted with any proportion of decen-
cy. Are we then becoming a race OF
gossips? Is it Mrs. Othello who has
lost her occupation, and is her lord to
take it up in lieu of his political rights
To prove that there is danger of such
result we need only follow the bearing OF
most political speeches and editorials.
When man achieves success enough to
obtain Office, or chance Of 1t, 1t Is not
his principles or integrity that Is i'm
pugned or defended, but his personal
habits. Whether he has led the ad-
vance, Thought OF his country for a
quarter of a century matters little, if it
can be proved that he is "dogmatic and
crusty in greeting his friends" Does
his father drabble his snuff on his shirt
and saw. II sect" and Il done p Has
he auy absorbing fancy for dogs, or was
he ever seen in a cock pit? Did he in
tend to become a sutler or grocer at a
certain date so many years agoE W hat
are his wifes habits, and is 1t true that
she has her dresses made by Worth =?
These are the questions which hun
dred of the clan jenkins perpetually
sniff and nose about the back doors OF
public houses to find answers for, which
will be published for tens OF thousands
of readers to gloat over, from senators
at their desks to the Joe Biglers III the
grocery. How long ago was 1t that
Beatrice told us that "men were turned
into tongues, and trim ones, too; he is
now as valiant as Hercules who only
fashions a lie and swears to 1t. A
thousand men can give date and place for
these petty personal matters for ten who
can explain intelligently the fundamen-
tai differences between the great political
parties. In fact, to such an extent has
this rage for gossip spread, that no con-
sideratiOn Of party success will seal the
mouth of the man who rolls delicate
tidbit of scandal under his tongue which
concerns one of his own political lead
ers. Women in their gossipping days
had an old warning for the bird never to
soil her own nest, but men are quite i'm
partial in their disregard of such nice
distinctions.
Year: 1871

The condition of the children employ
ed in the brick yards in England has
been brought before Parliament by Lord
Shaftesbury, who proposes to extend to
them the protection of the factory acts.
According to these acts no child under
the age of eight years may be employed
in any handicraft, no child under thir-
teen years may be employed for more
than six and half hours day, and no
one under eighteen years, nor any wo-
man may be employed for more than
twelve hours a day. The brick yards,
however, have hitherto been exempt from
these provisions although nothing can
be more oppressive and revolving than
the condition of the children who are
employed in them, and the kind of work
they have to perform. About 10000
young persons varying in age from three
and half to seventeen, are engaged In
toll from fourteen to sixteen hours day,
carry on their heads Jumps of clay weigh
ing 40 pounds from the clay heap to the
table on which the bricks are made.
Lord Shaftesbury mentioned, among
other cases, a child eight years old who
carried forty three pounds weight of clay
on his head an average distance Of if-
teen miles daily and worked seventy
three hours a week. One of the in
spectors of factories says that child ten
years old will be required to remove
three and half tons of clay distance
of forty yards daily, traversing fourteen
miles in the course of his or her task.
Lord Shaftesbury described the poor
creatures from personal observation as
themselves almost transformed into Jumps
of clay tottering about half naked under
their burdens and compelled to enter
places SO hot and burning that he found
it impossible to stay there. The physi-
cal results are necessarily bad, but the
moral atmosphere of the brick fields is
even more appalling, men, women, and
children being brought down to point
of degradation and suffering like the
beasts of the field. The motion was
warmly supported by the Bishop of Lon
don and Lord Morley promised to in
troduce into the Factories Act Amend
ment bill, now before the House, clause
providing that no girl under the age of
sixteen and no boy under ten should be
employed in brick field under any cir
cumstanees.
Year: 1871




The Detroit Post thinks the indica-
tions justify the fear that the Republican
divisions in Pennsylvania and Massa-
chusetts will help the democrats to a
triumph this fall 1t takes philoso-
phical view Of the situation, however, in
the following reflection:


But Democratic victory in these two
States, viewed from a Republican stand
point, is not to be deeply deplored. 1t
needs but two or three Democratic vic
tories TO set that party wild with excite
ment a successful campaign this Fall
would bring the real sentiment of the
party to the surface. The "new depar-
ture" disguise would be flung off The
party would reel with the intoxication of
triumph, and its language expose the
violent passions which are now partially
choked down, and are waiting only for
opportunity to find expression in words
and conduit. The reactionary influence
of a Democratic victory upon the Demo :
cratic parE this Fall would secure the
Presidency beyond peradventure to the
Repubhcahs next year.


What aworld of uneasiness thiss"new
departing lzsiness seems 70 be giving
the radical saints, and how eagerly they
seem to delude themselves with the hope
that it is disguise, and how keen they
are to be cure to have it thrown off, and
all that. Now, this new departure is
nothing more than wise conclusion to
accept the constitution as it is, or at least
not to permit the discussion of what is
past be made the issue between the tax
payers of the country and the rascals
who are rubbing them at Washington
and conspiring to turn our republican
government into central despotisms. If
the new departure is not big thing
why are the RAIDS SO dreadfully uneasy
about it?
Year: 1871

The imminent danger now hanging
over the country lies in the congression
el enactments known as the Ku klux
and Bayonet Election laws. Under the
former, the Presidential aspirant can pro-
claim martial law in any State or section
at his own discretion, superceding the
civil authorities aud preventing all cleo
tons whatever. Under the latter enact
ment, he can surround the polls with
bayonets and secure as overwhelming a
majority as Louis Napoleon proclaimed
only few months before his dethrone-
ment. Whether or not majority of the
American people will endorse the many
and alarming departure" of Radicalism
from the simplicity of republican insti-
tutions, is one question. Another, prior,
and more important question is: Will
the majority be allowed to pass their
opinion on the present dynasty? In
other words, shall we be granted free
and fair elections for such are the dis
cretionary powers lodged by Congress in
Grant, that the matter practically resol-
YES itself into a concession or grant.


Although the laws we speak of are so
worded as to apply to the whole country,
there is little occasion for immediate
alarm as concerns the North. Gov.
Geary appears fully determined to keep
the closely contested field of Peunsyl-
vania clear of Federal troops. The same
may be expected in New York. The
immediate danger lies rather in the
South, against which sections these
odious Congressional enactments were in
reality directed.


An important work before US is to SO
speak and act that there shall be no rea-
sonable pretext for military interference
in the elections in the South. Some
may say if we cannot speak and acc as
We please when we have no hostility, il
would be as we'll for US to be under an
imperial government. We say to all
/ euCu Ludl MIllC NC OuNNA u SONOAn'
ment republican in form, it is in sub.
stance and effect despotism, despot
ism which will be riveted hopelessly upon
US, if the Grant party should succeed in
the next election. We have no appre-
hension that any portion of the South
ern people entertain any feelings of dis
loyalty to republican constitutional
government. But we have in the party
sustaining the present presidential in
cumbent an unscruplous foe, who resorts
to any Misrepresentation which may
effect his purpose in deceiving the popu-
lar mind of the North as to the aims and
purposes of the South. We can give
dignity aud strength to the Democratic
organization by laboring in harmony for
its success, while the freedom of elections
and the perpetuity of genuine republi-
canism are in doubt.
Year: 1871




A most unpleasant rumor was in cir
culation in Newburyport, Massachusetts,,
on Saturday. 1t was reported that Gen.
eral r. f. Butler, the cold water can
didate for the Presidency, had reached
another world instead of the White
Houss through his intense enthusiasm
for the element of which he has become
the champion against the allied hosts in
Massachusetts who insist upon their
drop of beer and other beverages usually
dispensed in that State under great secrecy
and physicians prescriptions. Later
adyicos bring the truth. The General
iudulged in sail down Boston Harbor
in pleasure yacht, the excursion being
a strictly temperance one of course, and
by some accountable mishap fell over
board. Owing to a singular popularity
of his optical organs, while he thought
he was swimming for both shores, he was
directing his course directly for the bottom
of the sea, and would never have awaken
ed to fair sense of his mistake if an en-
thusiastic disciple of Father Matthew
had not dived and brought him back to
his friends. Those who saw his pro-
gress said that he was working with
about equal industry to make Halifax
and Long Branch, and was swimming
with so much energy in these separate
directions that he would inevitably have
split himself into two parts in his i'm
practicable attempts, had it not been for
the unfortunate interposition of the
brave mariner who saved him.
Year: 1871

A PAPER tells about girl who hated
her suitor to such an extent that, when
he called to see her on Sunday evening,
she threw both arms about his neck aud
squeezed him almost to death. The
youth was so alarmed that he didn't call
again until the next evening.
Year: 1871

Owing to the great interest felt by the community
in the condition OF the boilers located all over the
city and In close proximity to


THE SLEEPING ROOMS or TENEMENT HOUSES
that swarm with human life and the charges that
many OF these boilers are IN unsound condition
and likely to explode at any time, the HERALD has
endeavored to obtain some definite Information cal.
cuated to arrive at the actual condition OF these
dangerous engines OF DEATH


Knowing that under the law 1t is the duty of the
Sanitary Police to inspect all boilers In the city at
least per year, Captain Peter rule of the san
tary Police, was applied to for the information
sought. From that gentleman 1t was ascertalned
that


FIVE PRACTICAL ENGINEERS
are constantly employed in making scientific tests
Year: 1871

At two o'clock on the 2lst inst, the


two Houses of Congress, having agreed
/ to the third conference report on the


Ku-Klux bill, adjourned sine de. The


House was the last to agree on the re-


port on the bill just named, and finally
passed it by vote of yeas SO, nays "A.
The bill retains the test oath for jurors,


and is not materially changed from the


form in which it first passed the House.


1t confers extraordinary powers upon the
/ President, giving him power to use the


military force to suppress disorders even
! though the governors of states do not
call upon him to do so, and authorizing
him to suspend the writ of ha5eas cor
pus, if in his judgment the act will contri-
butte to the suppression of disorder and
outrages. This extraordinary power is
limited, however, to the end of the sec
ond session of the present Congress. 1t
is not every man we would be willing to
see invested with SO much power, but
we have no fear that Grant will use it to
the detriment of any honest, peaceabie
citizen of the country and so far as the
assassins of the south are concerned it
does not matter how summarily they are
punished. Their monstrous crimes
against unofending persons have placed
them without the pale of civilization
almost. If the law shall result in the
punishmo t of the scoundrels who have
so long u5turbed the peace of the south
ern States, we shall be glad of its pas
sage; we confess, however, that we have
little faith that such will be the result.
The virus of the rebellion is all through
the south, and there is scarcely enough 10y
atty in that region or respect enough for
law and order to furnish any assistance
in the enforcement of laws against those
who commit crimes that have any politi-
cal bearing We fear that darker times
may be in store for the country before
complete peace and order are restored.
The Government too soon after the war
began to talk of mercy, and pardon, and
reconciliation little well directed retri-
button then-swift and terrible-would
have had most wholesome effect, and
would have prepared the rebel mind to
receive with gratitude what ever mercy
and pardon might have been bestowed
But that time, With all its opportunities
for quieting the spirit of rebe lion, has
passed, and now the government is left
to experiment to discover the panacea for
the ills of the country.


The Democrats profess to see in this
bill for the punishment of the Ku Klux
scheme for the political control of the
south by the Republicans, and talk lugu-
briously about the overthrow of the con-
stitution and the liberties of the country.
With far more Justice may the Demo
Gratis be charged with desire to carry
the elections in the southern states
through the terrorism exercised by these
secret organizations of assassins. A Demo-
cratic victory has always been the result
Of the active presence of the ku-Klux.
We believe that the men who voted for
this bill did so with a sincere desire to
secure the punishment of criminals, and
that alone.