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Year: 1875

the weights and measures of mans
business relations. 1t is the solid i'm
port of truth manifesting to the exter.
mai world through the only form Of con-
scious expression that finite man can
give assent to it's power as an immortal
principle, and as one of old has made
the remark that the q Truth shall make
you free, and as then, so to-day we
hold to the maxim. The declaration of
truth is manifest in every action of De-
ity, and as labor the mother of industry
is made by 1n6nity, the primal incen-
tive to human development and growth
so We affirm that in it there is Il means
of self-defense and the truth will see
the scales of justice by law of com.
pensation adjusted to a balance for the
weight of the rights and wrongs of man
in his perverted use of power. We
know that moral questions are obnox-
1ous to the world to-day, and we know
the reason, the spiritual element in man
is dead, his creeds and his religions are
made to bend to the jingling and decep-
tion Of his business; the wealth Of
Croesus is his picture by day and his
dreams by night every energy is bent to
accumulation, and the result is that the
animal and the intellect rules the world,
but for all there is moral influence in
the eternal fitness Of things that shall
renovate this cankerous life of the pres
ent which shall be cleansed and purified
by the power Of self-defense that shall
grow out Of Human industry.


E. 3. CARTER.
Year: 1875

A large space of the land in Wyoming
Territory is good for nothing except to
hold the world together. We took the
Central Pacific train at Ogden, passed
in view Of Great Salt Lake.


Oct. 9th. This morn finds US near
the Humbolt range Of mountains. The
land as We passed along is broken,
mountains all around. On the plain
there is but little vegetation except the
sage bush. The scene is delightful as
we view the snow crowned mountains
in the distance. At eight o'clock we
enter much better section on the
banks Of the Humboldt river, and thou
sands Of cattle were grazing upon the
land. Soon We come to fenced pastures
which looked green. We passed
through several snow sheds during the
day. The road winds along by the
banks Of the Humbolt changing course
often. Some Of the high hills looked as
though they had been formed by human
agency, by tumbl;ng out millions of
cart loads of dirt. We passed hot
springs and saw the steam issuing
forth. At Pallisade there we were
some high perpendicular bluffs, and for
long distance the bluffs on both sides
Of the Humbolt are grand and imposing.
We travel in the Humbolt division 236
miles, snd make great many crooks
and turns to correspond viii, the river.
The Humbolt river finally sinks into
the earth and is lost to human view.
This valley for 20 miles before reaching
Battle Mount is beautiful and is the
abode of large numbers Of cattle. The
scene is picturesque, the snow covered
mountains all around give enchantment
to the view. The valley soon becomes
wider and seems like a vast barren
plain thongh l could see many cattle in
the distance. We travel in this barren
region till near sundown and reach
Winnemucca, though for ten miles back
the grazing land, covered by thousands
OF cattle was but little way to the west.
Oct. %. At ak o'clock we are at
Iruckee, pretty we'll up on the Sierra
Nevada mountains. Here we found six
inches Of snow, lumber mills and a
large amount Of lumber, also pine trees
IN abundance. We soon enter the long
Year: 1875

A Troy stove firm bas received o
letter from Ire West in relation TO the
purchase Of heater for n church,
which concludes as follows @The beat
er furnished BY yon for the church NJ
works bully. Give Us your rock
boitcm prices, rs We are poor, but
very pious-
Year: 1875

Every farmers wife should see TO
It that preparations are made for a
garden. And IN order to have the
best varieties she should save her
own seed. Seeds coming from the
stores are hardly ever true to name,
and are often foul.
Year: 1875

We are not aware that any scales in
vented to test the weighs of this world
have given better satisfaction than the
original Fairbanks standard, whether ap
piled to platform, counter, druggists or
cotton weighing scales. At the depot in
this city, No. 5j Camp street, can be seen
appliances for weighing everything, from
an elephant to pinch of snuff. Postage
scales are also there, and since our penny
wise Congress increased newspaper post
age and inaugurated small parcel express
system, no counting room is now complete
without postage scales. There are also
safes. copying presses, alarm money
drawers and other curious things at the
scale depot worthy the attention of all
Year: 1875

The dispensation of patronage Just at
this time continues to make the Governors
OfIice lively place. very large number
tween the final cons ummation Of adjust
mant and the work of satisfying the
demands for office the Governor seemed to
have his hands full of business. Until the
assembling of the General Assembly at
twelve o'clock NJ, the Governors office
was in fact the chief point Of attraction in
the State House. But after that time the
House of Representa- tives and the Senate
chamber became centres of attraction,
greater even than the ex ecutive depart
ment for the time being.


In the House, the election OF officers to
complete its new organization rendered the
bill Of performance there very attractive
one. 1t was known that the new Speaker
would announce the new committees, a
matter in which it was thought members of
the Legislature and men of all parties felt an
equal interest, from the fact that the recent
election of Speaker had been effected by
a coalition of parties. 1t was also known
that the House had determined to complete
its organization yesterday, and as it had
been reported that the Republicans were
counting on electing Republican clerk
and the Democrats were preparing to elect
Democrat to that position and every other
one to be filed, it is hardly necessary to
say, for the information of the public,
that there was crowded audience in
the lobby Of the House to witness the
exciting performances. The announcemt nt
of the committees was not source Of
amusement to Republicans, it is said; while
the Democrats seemed hugely pleased at
the selection of committeeman. The elec-
ton Of Trezevant as chief clerk. Arroyo as
assistant clerk, and Flood as sergeant-at
arms proved a most pleasing as we'll as ex-
citing atserpiece to the Conservative Demo
Gratis, while Republicans seemed unable to
see where the laugh came in. Recollecting
that it was not ordained that all men should
see alike, they wisely concluded that it was
best to let the Conservatives enjoy their
fun; the Republicans consoling themselves
with the recollection Of the old adage
that he who laughs last laughs best.
But, seriously speaking, let US hope
that the new organization of the House
may prove q strong card in the car
rying out OF the adjustment, and that as
consequence Louisiana will be blessed with
peace and prosperity from this time for
ward to the end of time.


In the Senate yesterday the iuishing
stroke was given to adjustment. Senator
Crozier resigned his seat, thus making
room for Mr.. Goode and paving the way for
the final consumm alton Of the work laid
out to restore Louisiana to condition OF
peace. The adoption of the award by the
Senate and the seating of Mr.. Goode ends
the work of adjustment so far as Repub-
licans are concerned. 1t now remains to be
seen whether peace and prosperity will in
reality be the fruits of that work.


Governor Kellogg was on the floor of the
Senate a considerable length of time while
adjustment was being considered, and, no
doubt exerted his influence in favor of its
final adoption by that body.
Year: 1875

provide brains or limbs. Mr.. DE Bar
should discharge every person in his en-
ploy. and hire some of them ever again.
There are indications to believe the next
season will be more prosperous and salts
factory to all concerned, which is a con-
summation devoutly to be wished and
worked for
Year: 1875

TINE Is MOs.Sy.-Be sure and save it By
taking the Great Jackson route to St Louis
arriving ten hours in advance Of any other
line. Only one change to New York, and
sleeping coaches on all trains, with close
connections for the North, East AID West
Year: 1875

RETURN or THE MISSING WITNESS.


Sauntered leisurely into town on Thursday
with the air of gentleman whose resources
place him beyond the reach of disturbing cares
and the manner of man who is entirely
unconscious of being looked for-the Missing
Witness, tho Hon. VIM. S. King, member Of
Congress from Minnesota, and late Postmaster
of the House of Representatives,, Washington,
d. C.. Dropped down quite incidentally fcom
Canada, where he has been engaged for II
month or two buying stock for his celebrated
stock farm in Minnesota. There have been
rumors concerning King. He has been for
several weeks in a very large and pcEvasivc
way in the public mouth Except that he was


in Canada buying stock and watching the
thermometer he would have been also very
largely in the public eye. But he shrank from
it. Shrank from the public gaze as few states
men ever did before him. lie resisted the
earnest solicitations of Deputy Sergeantat-
Arms to appear before the Committee of Ways
and Means; and to the urgent invitation of
the Minnesota Legislature begging him to ap-
pear and explain, or do something, or resign
he sent only his undying regrets, accompanied
by the philosOphic remark that if they would
attend to their business he would take care of
his, or words to that effect. 1t was the remark
of the Minnesota Legislature upon the receipt
of the letter-not embodied in a resolution or
recorded in the journal of either House, but
communicated by the members to each other
in private onversatlons-that "Bill King is
"cool cuss." The truth Of the observation
was conceded yesterday by the general public
when the adjournment of the XLllld Con-
press and the arrival of tho Hon. VIM. 5.
King were announced simultaneously.


1t was coincidence that. some fifteen or
twenty minutes before it began to appear to
the Committee of Ways and Means that Mr..
King might possibly have information some
where inside of him on the subject of Pacific
Mail disbursements, Mr.. King himself should
be startled by the intelligence that there was
n very uncommon bull for sale in the interior
of Canada, Mr. King is very curious about
bulls. He owns several thousand dollars
worth of them at his farm in Minnesota. The
way he started for this Canada bull might
have conveyed to tho casual observer the
erroneous impression that he was getting
away from the Committee. Not so. He was
going after the bull. He said nothing about
where no was going, Of course. Why should
hei His whole mind was on tho bull. And 90
Year: 1875

Clergyman principally because he does not
wish to be lawyer or physician or a school
teacher, may get through his life. by the sheer
force of prudence. without breaking down
but he runs heavy risk of the most frightful
f,ilure which can Overtake mortal. We are
not astonshed that there are so many clerical
mishaps of a kind which we need not particu-
larry describe; it would astonish US if they
were fewer At the same time, considering
the weakness of human nature and the peculiar
perils of the priesty Office, we desire to record
our deliberate opinion that the general moral
character of the clergy as class Is not only
higher than that of any other class but that it
affords an example of exemplary living which
society could not spare at all.
Year: 1875

The country owes thanks to President Grant
for his very sensible and honest course with
regard to the Bounty bill. Among all the dis
reputable schemes invented by demagOgues
during the past two years to deplete the
Treasury and make party capital for use upon
the stump, this was the lowest and worst. 1t
was the invention of Mr. John A. Logan. 1t
was neither called for nor expected. 1t had
no cause for being; not the most shadowy
pretcxt for existence. 1t would have accom-
plished nothing of its ostensible purpose !;
was neither an act of justice nor charity /;
was nothing, indeed, but wild and senseless
fnging out of from twenty to three hundred
million dollars for a scramble of claim agents
and bounty brokers. And yet Mr. Logan sue
ceeded in getting it passed by both House
and Senate, and fairly bullied Vice President
WILSON into signing it as passed, when he
knew and everybody knew that instead of
having been passed it lay on the Senate table
under the report of a Committee of Conference


The progress of the bill from first to last
illustrated the perfection of demagogism.
timidity, and insincerity ON the part of the
politicians of both parties. And it illustrated
Year: 1875

afterward, when the Committee of Ways ana
Means wanted him and sent men to look Tor
him, he was ncgotilting for the bull. lie
went carefully round the animal several times,
took I'D each foot of him. and negotiated for
him by those easy and subtle approaches by
which the tin-peddler and the tavern-keeper
come together on n "hersc swap" To the sum-
mons of the deputy. who camo upon him ab-
ruptiy in the barnyard, be responded IN the
absent-mnded way of "BOots" making love
to the cook-"Coming, Sir,"-and without
thinking more about it kept going round the
bull. TO the Minnesota LcSislature-assembly
of inpatient statesmen, who can't wait for q
fellow to buy a bull or get out the truth OF
bstory-King turned with hasty request
that they should 20 towel, King is good
hearted man and q generous man--htlng ID
Canada with the thermometer several hundred
degrees below zero, he had MT it in his heart
to ask them to 60 to any place colder than
that, and so-he didn't.


But we have every reason to believe that, III
spite of all interruptions by Legislatures, Com
mittees, and Deputy Sergeants-at-Arms, nc
calmly and undeviatingly pursucd his nego-
tiations for the purchase of that bull until
his work accomplished and his task complete
he could lead the bull firmly and confidently
across the line, and, with one hand on his
heart and the other on the bull, say to the
American people, "Mens conscia rect The bull
"is NINE Three cheers for the Flag" lie
has not returned III time to answer the sum-
mons of the Committee, to be sure. Ihat was
an accident. But being here in New York,
through which most of the members of the
Committee will be likely to pass on their way
to their respective homes, it viii be compara-
lively easy for him to take them one by one
and crafty the curiosity Of each separately as
to what he did with what remained OF the
sl2J,OO0 after the purchase OF the bail. Ana
he can tell them, too, all about the buh.
After that he can have photograph OF HIM
self and the bull as they appeared crossing
the line inserted in the Agricultural Reports,
with an essay by the Commissioner OF Agrl-
culture on the Disappearance and Reappear-
ance Of King, the Adjournment OF Congress-
and tho Pedigree of the Bull.
Year: 1875

A rumor which flew through the city yes
terday to the effect that, because of the seri


Gus illness Of juror. the Beecher trial was
to be abandoned. elected. wherever it was
heard, an expression of public feeling to which
both sides of this controversy will do well
to give the most earnest heed. That
feeling is this That neither side can afford, un-
der any conceivable circumstances, to abandon
this trial short of verdict. If juror should
die, let them go on with eleven. If two or
three should die, let them go'on with those that
remain. No substantial reason can be given
why the verdict of nine men would not be
as likely TO be correct as that of twelve, and
the whole country would accept the action Of
whichever side should object to the continua-
ton of the trial by q diminished jury as
confession of failure or guilt. The county
has been put to an enormous expense, the public
attention has been challenged, the defile-
ment of the story has been forced upon the
whole community, and it Is the cOmmuDity's
right now to insist upon verdict. If either
side should take advantage of the illness of a
juror, or of any technicalitX to seek to aban-
don the trial, the whole country would then
be able TO render a verdict without trial
Year: 1875

II is not orr part, at any rate i'll the pres
ent stage of the controversy, to make cilt-
cal examination Of Mr.. Gladstone's answer to
DR.. Newman and Archbishop Manning, from
which we publish liberal extracts this morn
ing. The dispute has called great number
of peus into activity, but the attention OF the
world seems to be concentrated upon these
three protagonists. Equally earnest, equally
devoted to their respective standards, and
equally eminent, though in somewhat different
lines. for natural ability and scholarship, they
have BETRAYED in the course of the conflict
certain curious differences of temperament
which have served to set of the controversy
with the attractions of picturesque contrast. Dr.
Newman came forth from his closet as a ten
der-hearted and blgh-minded student, noting
faults or mistakes on both sides. and hurt too
deeply by the real or supposed imprudences of
his own party to conceal his feelings even
from the. enemy. There are few polemical
ESSAYS in existence which display so much
gentleness, frankness, dignity, and Christian
feeling, and at the same time so much inSenu-
ity and force, as the " Letter to the Duke OF
Norfolk" Archbishop Manning spoke in a
very different stran. He stepped into the
arena robed in episcopal purple, true type OF
the Roman bishop, assured of his own author
ity and delivering his message to the world
with voice in which there was no sugges-
ton Of either uncertainty, or apology, or even
depreciation. DR.. Manning put his pamphlet
on the "Vatcan DEGREES" into the form of
syllogism, stating the premises with the air OF
one laying down the law, and drawing the
conclusions with inexorable strctness and
rapidity. DR.. Newman's little book was win
ming DR.. Manning's was strong.


There is moro heat in Mr.. Gladstone's two
essays than in either of the others He at
tacks with all the energy and persistence of
q champion debater and if we say that he
attacks with passion we mean to throw no
discredit upon his temper and none of course
unon his motives. When he published his
first "ExpostulatioD," the mass of men,
who had known him for so many years
as one of the foremost politicians of the world,
could hardly persuade themselves that this
sudden assault upon the Roman Catholic
Church was not inspired by some political
motive. If any such suspicion still fingers, it
ought now to be removed. No one can read
this new pamphlet on Vaticanism," or the
recent paper on the speeches of the Pope,
without perceiving what q strong impression
the religious aspects of this question have
made upon Mr.. Gladstone's mind. For him
o-day there Is no issue so important as that
between the claims Of the Papacy and the
claims of modern free thought, and no pursuit
that deserves closer study than the contin-
uaton of the great theological controversy
which has split the western world in twain
for three hundred years, and is pretty certain
not to bo closed until the Day of Judgment.
Year: 1875

1HE GOLD MARKETS OF TIE WORLD.


The truth of the observations which we made
some three weeks ago in regard to the stock
of gold owned by the Treasury has been fully
confirmed by the last Debt statement: SO far
as bullion is concerned the Treasury is now
very strong having clear balance of fifty
millions in excess of the amount covered by
the gold certificates and no heavy payments
to make until May. If there is to be any
trouble in America about gold this Spring it
will not be in Washington. but in New-York.


The state of the markets for gold in America


England, France, and Germany. is just now
very peculiar, and liable at any moment in
each of the countries named 10 sudden change
Germany. it is reported, intends this year to
coin but small amount, but on the other
hand law has recently been enacted pro-
hibiting the issue Of bank notes of smaller
denomination than one hundred marks, or
Year: 1875

A mysterious intimation comes from CAL
cutta. 1t is all very well, according to an old
adage, to go abroad in order to learn what
is happening at home. But it is strong
draft ON our credulity to ask us to believe
that great war is imminent in Europe be-
cause the British troops in India are to be
held in readiness for active service.
Year: 1875

1t is not improbable that conflict VIII
arise between the German Government and
that Of Bavaria ON account Of the imperial
policy toward the Vatican. King Ludwig H.,
although he dislikcs the cares of government,
sometimes makes them greater than he would
if he were a prudent ruler or one more
familiar with statecraft. When we remember
how exactng he has been in his demands for
the observance Of somewhat exaggerated forms
of etiquette, we are prepared for his resenting
the requirement of the Imperial Government
to break off relations with the Vatican. If
King Ludwig should assume a position Of
open defiance to the German Government, the
Constitution provides for a system of federal
execution, which will be very effective in re-
ducing him to submission.
Year: 1875

The address of Major NJ. R. Delany at 1rv-
ing Hall last night was notable as the thought-
full utterance of one of the ablest cOlOred men
in the South, and one of the few of his class
who are in sympathy with the Conservative
party. Major Deanys review of the political
situation in the South is worth careful peru
sal, and it would be well if his words OF
warning to bis own race could be heard by
every colored voter in the country.
Year: 1875

We print for the first time (on the third
page of this mornings issue) Mr. Tiltons
"True Story" and our reporters true story OF
the way in which it was procured. Many
detached points in this curious narration arc
already familiar to the public, but
they are presented for the first
time in their proper order, and the
document as a whole deserves the most crltl-
cal examination from those who are anxious
to study this case for themselves, instead of
taking the opinions of the lawyers about it.
The story of Mrs. Tilton's brothcr-given on
the same page-is equally remarkable.
Year: 1875

Some interesting details of the sulfcrings of
the people of Nebraska and Kansas by famine
and cold are gwen in letter printed oil our
fourth page. Those who have contributed to
the relief of the destitute on the stricken
frontier will be reassured by this letter of the
worthiness of the iobject of their charity, and
perhaps the knowledge that the picture OF
destitution has not been Overdrawn, may in
duce others to send in their subscriptions.
Our correspondent gives incidentally graphic
sketches of some of the incidents of life in
the half-scttled portions of Colorado, Kansas.
and Nebraska.
Year: 1875

The adoption of Mr.. Poand's report by the
House of Representatives seems to have sup
piled whatever was necessary for the return
of the era of good feeling in Arkansas. For
several days the telegraph has brought
tidings of demonstrations of joy and now the
Legislature, on the motion of a colOred Repub-
lican, passes q resolution declaring the State at
peace and extending general welcome to
immigrants, with promise of freedom of
speech and safety in person and property. 1t
is questionable whether Congressional indorse-
ment of the Presidents policy would have
had the same happy effect.