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Year: 1876

tract the charge when proved to be q lie.
he read the affidavit of George Washing
ton, in which he swears that he 10 the
George Washington whose name is up.
pended to the first affidavit which appeared
In the Democrat, making the charge against
Mr.. Packard, and also swears that the
statements of the first affidavit are wholly
false; that he can neither read nor write,
and that he was induced to Sign it in ignor-
ance Of it's contents and by false representa-
ton.


After this witheripg exposure, which
WAS hailed by friends and admitted by
enemies to be complete and triumphant,
Mr.. Packard denounced the course of the
Democrat Is malicious, cowsrdly. lying and
infamous. He said that it was the only
Democratic newspaper in New Orleans
low and dirty enough to stoop to such ly-
ing. He claimed that this false and base
less charge had made him thousands of
white votes among the people who liked
fair play. They think that if, after the
searching and unsparing scrutiny of this
long canvass, this was the sole charge
which could be brought against his char
scter, and this proved q lie, he must GER
tainly be an honest man. He renewed his
defiance 10 his enemies to produce single
man here or elsewhere who could truthfully =
charge that he had ever wronged him out
of cent. Produce that man and he would
take his name down from the ticket. His
powerful speech made him hundreds Of
white votes here. VOX.
Year: 1876

A card in another column, signed by the
widow of the late Attorney General of the
State. indicates d. gree Of depravity such
as in civilized countries is seldom reached.
The tribute of affection and regret with
which tender hands had draped the tomb
of the dead were ruthlessly torn down and
carried away or trodden in the earth. Vases
and other objects of value were left un-
touched, and no other tomb in the vicinity
was despoiled, which facts 60 to show that
the motive Of the miscreant was malice and
not plunder. 1t is sincerely to be hoped
that Mrs. Field will be able to discover the
perpetrator. whom she is disposed to prose-
cute to the extent of the law.
Year: 1876

However much the refined sentiment
of the country condemns the brutal prac-
tice OF deciding by ''prize" fighting the
physical superiority and bulldog cour-
age Of trained fighters who wage battle
for money, certain it is that every line
written about a fight, OF anything said
about the men themselves, meets with
Year: 1876

In central Illinois the corn harvest is
just now being gathered in-much less
than half of it is being harvested at this
date. This region is usually fortnight,
and this ycaI will he more than that.
behind the north part of the state in
the time of this ingathering. The early
rains made the crop light and late-the
late rains have delayed the picking
until the winter is nearly ready to set
in; but Illinois farmers do not mind
such tIitics; for if not gathered in the
fall it will be i'll the spring, when the
pillow will follow in the track of the
harvest wagon.
Year: 1876

A book agent recently met with a
serious accident in the suburbs of La
Crosse. He was walking along the
railroad when freight train came
along. The unfortunate man was
struck by the engine and knocked d.
rectly across the track. Some lifty-
three cars passed over him. He was
tumbled down q bank 800 feet high,
over stones and stumps, and just as he
got to the edge of the river he struck
against pile-driver that was at work
and, his head lying on top of the pile
for a minute or two, the ponderous
hammer descended, striking him on
the cheek, bruising his face somewhat.


The shock rolled him into the river
lust as an up-river packet was passing,
and by some mishap the unfortunate
man was entangled in one of the
wheels and whirled round and round
for an hour and a half before he was
discovered and released. He was pick
ed up nearly senseless and removed to
the cabin, where his wants were sup
piled. After he he had eaten a hearty
meal he was approached by the Cap
tain, who asked:


"Is there anything you would like
to have ?"


mo, no." replied the canvasser :
there Is nothing but this


What whatW calculated the Cap
tain "what is it ?"


The book agent smiled sweetly as he
produced subscription list and said !


"Subscribe for that beautiful book
entitled The Poisoned Gum Drop; or,
The Candy Woman's Revenge by
the author Jones, the Button-Hole
Maker.'n
Year: 1876

A Prince Edward correspondent o
the Richmond Dispatch has the fol
lowing sensible words which we com
mend to the planters generally:


There is a general complaint all over
this adjoining counties about the un-
usually large number of horn worms.
As many as thirty and forty are some.
times found OH one plant. One fal mel
caught fifty-three on one plant. Even
in small crops, with good forces, it is
almost impossible to keep them down,
and the ragged appearance on the
leave proves that they have gained the
mastery in some places. The farmers
feel the necessity of combination
against the Tobacco fly by using cobalt
in the blossoms of jamestown Gimp
SOM weed. This is a matter for the
grangers to handle, uniting with all
farmers who are not members of their
order, so as to insure universal de-
struction of the fly that deposits the
eggs.


The fly may be seen near dusk of
evening flying about the jamestown
plant and sucking the blossoms. They
are about the size of humming-birds,
but not so active, though they dart
about with remarkable rapidity. 1t is
said that a moonlight night is the
most favorable time for depositing
their eggs. One fly, like the silk-worm,
can lay great many eggs in single
night, The eggs are usually laid on
the under side of the tobacco leaves.
They soon hatch. Fhe little worm
when it first comes from the egg is
about the eighth of an inch long, and
as small as a cambria needle. 1t be-
gins to eat while the shell of the egg
is hanging to it. 1t eats whole just
where the egg is laid, and as the hole
grows the.worm grows; and If left to
do its own destruction without molest-
alton before the tobacco gets ripe, q
single worm has eaten it all up except
the cOarsest fibres, thus consuming
a 1000 square inches of tobacco If
man had the capacity Of such digestion
what would become of the world? A
microscopic examination of the horn
worm shows that it has two small feet
near its mouth that it uses as hands to
wipe its mouth. 1t has very small
eyes very near to its mouth, set low in
its head. 1t has in all eighteen legs
two for hands six corner-formed or
horn-shaped nearest the front, two be-
hind with claws like the hind claws of
a bear, and ten in the middle of the
body, similar in shape to the two be-
hind The horn on the big end of the
worm seems to be intended for tail,
though it is not exactly where the tail
ought to be. Before cold weather sets
in the full-grown worm burrows in
the ground, and makes its bed below
the reach OF frost. This is its winter
home. Here it goes through q re-
markable transformation. In the
spring of the year it leaves behind it a
thick shell somewhat similar to what
the jar-fy and locust leave, and it
comes forth the large fly that has been
mentioned above as the depositor Of
the egg. If the farmers generally
would contend against the fly instead
of the worm they would have less
labor to hire and more pounds of to-
bacco, and their crops, when put in
the market, would not be defaced with
holes and ragged leaves,
Year: 1876

all. Our advice, without hesitation, to
any man who does not approve any
one of the proposed alterations, is that
he shall vote against the lot, without
considering it to be his duty as Con-
servative to endorse the action of the
Conservative Legislature. Equally do
we advise the orators and champions
of the Conservative party in the State
to exercise their own discretion as to
defending and urging the ratification
of the bunch of proposed amendments.
No one of them nor all of them to-
gether can be be justly regarded as
equal i'll importance to a large Con-
servative majority for the presidential
ticket in Virginia.


Our opinion is that a good many
members of the Legislature will vote
against the ratification of the amend
ments.
Year: 1876

Tue atrocities committed by the
Turks in Bulgaria, are enough to
curdlc the blood of Sitting Bull
himself. 1t is little wonder that it
has caused cold and phlegmatic
England to shudder. 1t is not
likely that the case of the Sultan
will be improved by the butchery.
If he is permitted to have peace
concluded,it terms will be dictated
by the first class powers of Europe,
Just now it seems that Russia will
lot permit a peace at all at present
but that the skull of the Turk may
yet DO gnawcd by the dogs on the
Servian hills.
Year: 1876

CARL SoHURz tried to carry
Hayes on one shoulder and toss
Grant from the other. Between
the two efforts he fell from the
stump, and now admits that Ohio
and Indiania are lost. So said
Fitzpatrick, unless there could be a
new supply of money and bloody
shirts.
Year: 1876

OF the law snouid be exercised on Ryan, who
was merely present while Oschwald fred the
shot. While there may be no difference be-
tween the two in law there is broad diff
ference in fact, and Justice should not be
blind to facts. There ought to be distinc-
ton in the punishment corresponding to
different degrees of their participation in
the crime. If there should not be a new
trial it is case for the interposition of the
pardoning power. If the sentence of the
lesser offender were commuted to imprison-
ment for life the safety of the community
would be equally protected and the popular
sense OF equity be better satisfied.
Year: 1876

Governor Ch1mberIatn's "Qu0rum."


The South Carolina republicans have
taken the position that quorum Of each
branch Of the Legislature does not consist
of a majority of all the members, but o
majority of those having certificates from
the Board of Canvassers. This pretense is
contradicted by the usage of all the State
governments. There is a difference between
the State constitutions and the federal
constitution on this point. The State
constitution, unlike the federal consti-
tuition. fixes q definite number of men,
bers of which the lower House shall con-
sist In the State of New York the Assem-
bly, consists of one hundred and twenty
eight members, of which majority is .
quorum. 1t has never been pretended at
Albany that less than sixty-fve members
could transact business, and disputed seats
have never made any difference in
this respect. The same rule has al
ways heretofore prevailed in South
Carolina. The constitution Of that
State declares that sthe House of Repre-
scntatives shall consist of one hundred ond
twenty-four members, and that "a majority
of each House shall constitute quorum to
do business" The plain meaning is ma
jority of the one hundred and twenty -four.
But Chamberlains satellites have set up
new rule, and claim that majority of those
who have received certificates is quorum,
reducing it from the sixty-three which the
State constitution requires to ffty-nine.
They we're unable yesterday forenoon
to got even this bastard quorum, owing
to the desertion of one or two repub-
lican members, and all their proceed
ings were brought to dead halt for
time If one of the republican members
should absent himself it will be impos-
sible for Governor Chamberlain to get him
self counted in, even with the aid of the
federal troops. But, as the Governor holds
his Office s.for two years and until his suc-
cessor is chosen and qualified" Chamberlain
will hold over SO long as the deadlock may
continue If the republicans should get
the full number of the false quo
rum together, canvass the votes and
inaugurate Chamberlain we suppose he
might be dispossessed by the Supreme
Court if the law of the State were permitted
to take it's course. But it looks now as if the
State tribunals would be set OF defiance by
federal troops, if Chamberlain should be
sworn in and the Supreme Court of the State
decide that he had no legal title to the
Office.
Year: 1876

into which their mismanagement has
plunged us. We cannot well give
thanks for the troops in the South
Carolina State House or for an insulted
Supreme Court we cannot be grateful for
the unblushing trickery of the Louisiana
Returning Board /; for the shocking story OF
poor Eliza Pinkston for the unconstitu-
tional and dangerous partisan course of the
Presidents .or. the low arts by which reck-
less politicians are seeking to carry dis
puted election. But we can and ought to
give thanks for the absence Of civil dis
orders; for the calm and patient temper OF
the public mind for the evident determine
ton OF the great body Of Americans to main
tain peace and order at oil hazards and
under all circumstances for the sound be-
lief which prevails everywhere among good
citizens that with peace all wrongs can and
will be remedied. And while we thus give
thanks we may hope that even the present
untoward events may be turned to our good
as nation and that the experiences Of to-
day shall not be lost upon us in the future.
Year: 1876

Indications in regard to the possible up
shot of the Conference to be held at Constan-
tinople seem to be sought in Europe with
great avidity, and there are plenty of proph-
cts ready to foretell the political weather.
But the larger number of them resemble
rather the old-fashioned weather guessers of
the almanacs than the modern devotees of
meteorological science, who reason on q
large accumulation of facts. M. Theirs,
however, is man of such ripe experience
and such extensive knowledge of the condi-
ton of the nations of Europe that the
expression of his opinion on given prob
lem cannot be regarded merely as guess.


1t is significant that this veteran believes
there will be war. He may be mistaken;
but his view that the Turks will fight Russia
alone rather than submit to her demands is
made highly probable by oil that is yet
known Of Turkeys attitude. 1t is possible,
however, that Turkey may not be left by
native of war with Russia. England may
at last see such good reason to apprehend
the ultimate result of war between Turkey
and Russia as to be led to exercise
pressure to induce her ally to accept the
Slavic demands The hint from Russia as
to what Salisbury has probably learned at
Berlin and Vienna will not be lost. Its
boastful implication that Russia has tho full
support of the two Cabinets which are of
consequence and that she has only re-
Trained from making all the use she might
of this circumstance in order not to
precipitate unpleasant relations, is q
glimpse Of a revelation of which
Europe is likely to see the full real
ity at an early day. Protests against
the proposed constitution for Turkey seem
to be the order of the day. One is
made in Constantinople, another in St Pc
tersburg. 1t will seem more natural to the
world for grand vizier to object to con-
stitution than for sultan to order the pro-
gramne for the creation of one, SO that the
present reference to this instrument is more
in character than the one which came
few days since. But the Ministry
which advises the Sultan from stand
point of constant dread and apprehen-
sion of the softas, which is for or against
any policy, as it hopes or fears 1t may
excite or plaaate the fanatical elamenta- can
Year: 1876

scarcely contemplate . constitution with
any sentiment but that Of horror at the
dangerous audacity of the proposition.
This objection to the COY ption is an in
dication, doubtless. that 4 pftas viii not
hear of it. Russia evidently regards this
constitution in the light of sop to Gen.
berus-an attempt to satisfy European
opinion with guarantees of printed paper.
Since the constitution does not seem to de.
ceive any one we shall soon hear the last
of it.
Year: 1876

The EVENING Posr had manly leading
article yesterday on the indefensible inter-
ference of the federal troops with the South
Carolina Legislature, an article which we
warmly commend and copy in another place.
1--WE protest" says the Post, mot only in
the name of liberty and justice, but in be-
half Of the republican party, whose good
name and worthy record are brought in
question by this resort to military force in a
question purely political" We cannot
doubt that the Post expresses the sentiments
of multitudes Of faithful republicans.
Year: 1876

WHILE THE RAILROAD COMPANIES are
squabbling in the courts Fourteenth street,
near Union square, is bedevilled by the
track layers and the track tearers in turn.
The order Of Judge Lawrence in the matter
will, it is to be hoped, allow the suits to go
on without rendering city travel of all kinds
more dangerous than it is ordinarily.
Year: 1876

II is reported that the Russian fleet lately
in the Mediterranean is ordered to this side
of the ocean. If this be true the step is of
course, taken with a view to the imminent
likelihood of war. Should war occur be-
tween Russia and Turkey o Russian feet
could probably accomplish little for its
government in the Mediterranean, while, if
England should be party to the war, the
cooperation Of the British and Turkish fleet
lofty frigatcs no more. Against such a
danger it is now too late to take
tho security Of the ice-bound North,
for entrance to any Baltic harbor
is impossible. If the intention is to
givo these ships safe anchorage in
American waters our obligations as neutral
Power will require that the ships shall be
regarded in the same light as soldiers driven
to take refuge from the enemy by crossing
the frontier Should they use our harbors
ms security and then sally out at their con-
venienco to assail the encmy's ships this
would run into using our ports as base of
operations against Power with which the
United States is at peace, and this is forbid
den to our laws. Ii is not to be presumed
that the Russians have any such purpose.


a FINE DISPLAY or SUBMARINE BLASTING
was made yesterday in the process of de-
molishing Diamond Rect, which lies between
Governors Island and the city. Ton by ton
the iron teeth Of the drill are eating away
our aarbor distractions.
Year: 1876

TIE Brock MuRDEH An attempt is
making by the counsel of Oschwald and
Ryan, now confined in the Newark Jail
under sentence of death, to procure writ
of error and bring their case to hearing
before higher court, on the ground that
the evidence was insufficient to identify
them as the persons who committed the
murder Whether this attempt succeeds or
ma. we see no good reason why the full riGor
Year: 1876

WILL IT CONE TO THIS WITH Us?-In
another column is presented statement of
how Mexico lately went through the form of
electing a President In view of contem-
porary events the patriotic American may
well ask himself the above question as he
reads of the Mexican Presidential CAM
paiOn
Year: 1876

Governor Palmer, of Illinois, was right
when he said, before the Returning Board in
New Orleans on Tuesday, that the story Of
Eliza Pinkston concerning the murder of
her husband and the brutal barbarity with
which she herself was treated, must be in
vestigated. In fact, we go further and ask
why was it not before investigated? What
have the local authorities Of Louisiana been
about that such q piece of brutality, COM
mitted on the 4th of November, has at
tracted no attention has caused no efforts
of the officers Of justice to investigate it and
to arrest the perpetrators, and only now,
twenty -four days after its commission, is
made public. and then, not by the officers
of justice, not before court but for politi-
cal effect, before the Returning Board?


Louisiana has republican Governor
with powers, under the State constitution,
as great and comprehensive as those Of the
third Napoleon in France. Almost every
county in Louisiana has republican Sheriff
and District Attorney, and where one of
these officers fails OF his duty Governor Kel-
logg has authority to remove him and put
another man in his place. The Governor
has power to appoint and pay a special local
police in every county at his own will, and
in as great number as he sees fit; he has
authority to send q brigade of metropolitan
police into any county at his own will, and
has a steamboat at his command to move
them. 1t is his sworn duty to maintain the
peace of the State, and no Governor of any
State hes, under its constitution and laws,
such great, and, in fact, unlimited powers.
Why, then, the public will reasonably ask,
has this savage atrocity, for which even
Indians would blush been concealed SO
long? Why have not the republican officers
of Justice done their duty?


The attempt to impress and disgust the
North by dramatic presentation of this
gross and inexcusable outrage is certainly
unworthy. The assassination Of Eliza Pink
ston's husband and the brutalities practised
on her and her child have but an incidental
relation to the question which the country
is waiting to have decided by the Returning
Board. That body is to make fair and
honest count Of the State vote, to examine
impartially into charges of intimidation and
to throw out precincts where the evidence
shows there was intimidation or other action
by either party sufficient to prevent fair
election. 1t is bound to hear the evidence
of Eliza Pinkston and all others who come
before it; but the fact that such an atrocity
has been committed in one Louisiana
parish does not decide the State elec-
tion. except so far as that may be
influenced by the throwing out Of vote.
To telegraph wildly about it, therefore, and
attempt to use this case to infame and
prejudice the Northern mind is pure dcma-
goging. As cruel. atrocities as this have
been committed in Pennsylvania within the
year. Let the affair be investigated but
let the Governor see to it, too, that the mur-
derers arc brought to justice. Else it will
be thought that this murder is of interest to
him only as means to affect Northern
opinion.