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Year: 1875

It 10 proposed to make New Orleans q
terminal point for the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, instead Of New York. 1t is
argued that the distance from New Orleans
10 Aspinwall being so much less than from
New York, the cost Of carrying the mails
would be very much reduced and that the
change would result in transferring enough
imports which are already consumed by the
Western and Northwestern States to make
the move . profitable one. The annual
yield of coffee in Costa Rics alone is'placed
at about $50 900 bags. one-hal Of which is
consumed by the Western States. II this
change should be made, it is probable that
the West and Northwest and South would
use very much more. A large portion of
this could undoubtedly be paid for in West
ern prOducts.-St. Louis Trade Journal
Year: 1875

The Attakapas Register OF tho seventh
saye:


The Pelican State left this port about three
weeks since under command of Captain
James Roberts, for Sabine City, Texas, e1-
pecting to reach her destination IN q couple
of days; but we learn that she was four
teen days making the trip, and three days
previous to her arrival the boats crew was
without food or water. 1t is we'll that the
boat did not meet o worse fate, as the
weather since her departure has been unu-
sually rough. We are glad to know that
she arrived in good order.
Year: 1875

State Assessor George E. Paris, who has
been precariously ill for month past,
gladdened the eyes of his friends at the
office of the State board yesterday. His
appearance shows that in the game with
the grim wielder of the scythe George
barely escaped defeat. We wish him speedy
restoration to his old health and vigor.


General A. G. Barber, ex-State Senator
and Republican of worth and high stand
ing, is lying dangerously ill at his residence
in this city. We are informed that his
physician entertains no hope of his recov-
cry, a combination of heart disease and
other ailments affecting him. This an
nouncement will cause regret among a
wide circle of friends and we'll wishers of
the General and his family.


Adjutant General Jack Wharton is ex-
pected TO tear himself away from the al
lurements of New York and put in an ap-
pearance at the State House early next
week. We doubt not he will come well
stocked with moral and instructive anec-
dotes to beguile the tedium of next win
ter's legislative session.
Year: 1875

public questions. There other notable men, but
those have named are the leaders OF opinion


"When the democrats likely 70 split, especially
the nomination for Governor suppose the republh
cans VIII stand ready to support independent demo-
crat" SAID TO a leading republican. He REPLIED


THAT is not certain II is probable that some
republican will be selfish enough TO demand q
nopination for himself will get il with the
help Of the negro and viii Of course be beaten.
The fact is" he added, "you can that there
is no room here for republican party such as exists,
composed Of few ambitious leaders and mass OF
ignorant blacks; II is a nuisance" He right; such
party Is danger 20 the community; and | cannot
help but admire the sefcontro of the democrats, who,
with such overwhelming maiorities in the Legislature,
have committed so few follies Their management has
not always been wise, and the parts Of the State
remote from railroads there has been maltreatmen Of
blacks which was scandaous and which the press did
not properly report Such things getting
rare l assured by republicans who were
well informed But it seemed TO that
both the press and many of the public of the State
foolshly tmid in rebukng both folly and wrong.
They have not sufficient confidence in the people 1t
was laughable to me to see how tmidly part Of the
press and some of the prominent public men supported


movement Atlanta to celebrate last Fourth of july
and to see, nevertheless in what crowds the people
turned the city and in from the country to
join in the celebration when it finally determined
ought add the authority Of several federal
oice-hoders, all earnest republicans, that the
Bar of the State, in matters where JUS
tice TO the colored people Is concerned, is not
chargeable with neglect cowardice. They told me
positively that lawyers all the State, from tho
highest to the least always ready TO defend a
negro in court justice If called The conduct Of
the recent conspiracy trials shows this to be true


The difficulty in Georgia is that black and white re-
publican and democratic demagogues unite in main
tanning the color line in politics Tho bad democrat
does not object for it enables him to control the State
The bad republican likes it, for it makes him martyr
and gives him what he longs fora federal Office
at least the for demanding one.
Governor Smith spoke wisely when he said
to that only when the color line was
broken could the politics of the State be settled, and
this would bring absolute security the negro There
is doubt, too that the Civil Rights bill and the
Force bill and all the other efforts made to maintain in
the South spurious republican party, such giving
many of the federal offices to who have real
hold or influence their State-a these things have
only tended TO band the white voters together in q
more and more intexbe opposition to the federal ad
and subject them to the rule of demagogues leaving
the moderate Of both sides without their Just voice
or influence. CHARLES NORDHOFF
Year: 1875

they think. next TO him, will make the best Governor
He has formally announced that he will take part
as he differs with the party on the finance question
The truth Is also, that the General IS not so well
physically he has been In former years, and his busi
all he 20 cope with. For the republ-
have lively hght hand without him, and he
sit on the fence calmly and placdly and see the
nrOcess ION an hV without lretllnn
Year: 1875

1he subject of establishing cotton manufac.


tories IN the Cotton States of the South, we


are pleased to perceive from some of our ex.
change Grange papers, is being seriously


urged by the Patrons of Husbandry.


1t has always been cause of surprise to us
mat capitalists have not long since invested
largely in cotton factories at the South. The
advantages of such an investment will appear
on the most superficial examination of the
subject. Ii the experiments made in Georgia.
even before the war, were wanting to prove
| this, some of the reasons that can be given
should satisfy the most skeptieal mind. In
the first place, the manufacturer being
Drought, as 1t were, to the very door of the
producer of cotton, could obtain the raw ma.
terial much cheaper than Northern manufae-
turers do. He could have it delivered at the
door OF his manufactory at the price of the
New Orleans market-and even eheaper-and
THIS without any loss to the producer.


This will be readily understood by any one
Suppose, for instance, that there was factory
at Opelousas and one at Washington, in this
parish Insteadof shipping his cotton to New
orleans and paying $l.5O per bale freight and
y per cent commission for selling it, the plan.
ter OF st. Landry could sell his entire CROP di
fectiy to the manufacturer, saving the freight
and commission. He could sell it cheaper to
the manufacturer than the price asked in the
New Orleans market, and realize the same If
not greater profit, simply because of his
saving of freight and commission.


The cloth manufactured would be superior
to that made at the North or in Europe, be-
cause the raw cotton being fresh from the
field and from the gin, and not having been
subjected TO the process of packing in steam
presses, and then, at the factory, to that of
being torn to pieces by machinery, in order to
render it fit for the spindle; but with the oil
that exudes from the seed still IN it, and its
fibre uninjured, thread spun from it would be
stronger and better every way. There is little
doubt that such manufactured goods would be
preferred in the markets of the world to that
made at the North and in Europe, particu-
larry as the Southern manufacturer could nm
dersell his competitors of those countries.


But if these reasons-which are not all that
could be given in favor of the proposition that
we advance-are not convincing, we refer our
capitalists to the results of such investments
in Georgia, for instance, as compared with
those made 1T the North. The advantage will
be found to be in favor of the Southern manu-
facturer, notwithstanding the great iinpedi-
ments to success that have been encountered
by him for years past
Year: 1875




| ARE You READY Ave make the following
extract from an article under the above head


in late issue of that sterling little paper, the


Lake Charles Echo, and commend it to the


"dough-faces" and time-scrvers in this com


munity:


just now the future welfare of the American
/ republic depends entirely on the Presidential
contest of next year Let the Republican
party win that fight let the army worshipers
and Constitution llaters triumph in that con-
test, and the blaekness of darkness will settle
down upon this country, and brood oNIr it
forever.


And in this hour of supreme anxiety and SUI
preine peril. what are the people doing to
avert this national calamity? You, Mr.. A.,
and you, Mr.. B., what are you doinga Are
in word and in deed, identified with tie party
of the Union and the Constitution Does
everybody know that you are Democrat,
and that yOu would consider it an insult to be
even suspected of favoring the success of the
Republican party Do you encourage and
uphold the Democratic presss Do you openly
favor an immediate and thorough organiza-
tion OF the Democratic partya Or, have you
a little private axe to grind, and are you look
ing around for particularly soft Republican
grindstone to grind it ons Are you just
enough Democratic not to be called Repub-
lican, and just enough Republican not to be
called Democrat? If you are in this latter
category of dough-faces, let us tell you Sc
riousiy you had better take stand ut once,
on one side of the fence or on the other. The
days of fusion are ended. There are no birds
III last years nest Even the Republicans will
fout you if you don't wear the Republican col
lar. Both sides are stripping for the fight.
The cry has already commenced, "Fall in i"
8 Fall in and at roll call you must answer
to your name. Are yuu ready
Year: 1875

III, In recent speech delivered by Hon. B. II
Hill, the following eloquent and timely an
peal was addressed to those Southern men
VINO are quibbiing about the name of Demo.
GTaC, the speaker, himself, being an old-line
Henry Clay Whig:


| For twenty years a reEolution has been
progressing. The struggle of 1876 will finally
se6tie the tate of this country. The issue is
liberty or empire. The Democratic party ia
the only party now existing under whose ban
ner the friends of Constitutional liberty can
rally. Is that party again to be divided ? Is
that party to march out for the last great
Oattle with the enemy with squads of friends
hring into its ranks and with selfish leaders
thinking OF nothing but the spoiIs they may
gather If SO, the battle is lost and iiberty
Will die the death that knows no resurrection.
NOW, let me beg that self may be abnegated,
and the good Of the country only remembered,
at least until the country is safe. Let politi-
cal traders and intriguers fOrbeaf to ply their
avocatIons. and let each one of us suspect that
possibly other men may have some patriotism
ana wisdom, at least until after the battle is
over. For two years, at least, let us all agree
that the best men shall be chosen for the
most important places, and that the policy
adopted by the party shall be assumed to be
the wisest policy.


No man can be less partisan than myself
No man can have more decided convictions as
to what is the best policy fer the party to
adopt, but 10 man will support more cheer
fully and earnestly than myself whatever
may be the final authentic decisions of the
party, whether these decisions accord with
my previously expressed opinions or not. For
one, am going into the great struggle of 1876
with no concessions for enemies and no ulti.
matum for friends. am willing to say to
the hheralized Democracy of the Union, what
Ruth said to Naomi, ''Wbere thou gOest will
go, and thy people shall be my people,"
Year: 1875

Let me recommend my way of roast
ing meat, which is very easy, makes n
luscious dinner, and costs much less than
the usual method. Buy piece out Of tho
shoulder of beef creature, which We pet
here for fourteen cents per round, wien
n piece to roast costs thirty. Wash it in
cold wafer; put just enough hot water
into the "dish kettle" to cover the rim
then lay in an old-fashioned steamer,
which is round piece of tin, little
smaller than your kettle, full of holes.
Upon that lay your meat, keeping it en-
tirely out of water. - :.


Cook in this way piece that wcirhs
five or six pounds four hours. Then take
il out very carefully.as it is aupposed tnbc
exceedingly tender; thicken and salt tho
gravy to your taste; put the meat back,
down into the gravy; boil slowly twenty
minutesi take ont upon platter nnd
serve rs you would roast meat. The
gravy is very rich md nice. Cook nil the
time very slowly, taking care that the
water docs not boil away and burn. ne
that spoils your dinner. Better keep the
kettle on the back part Of the stove.


If you have steamed beef for dinner
Tuesday, there will, ii you calculate
rightly, be enough left for dinner Wed.
nesday, when you must slice it thin and
warm it up in the gravy, in which man
ncr it is delicious. Tomatoes fried or
stcwed are nice with such dinner, as arc
squash and turnip.
Year: 1875




not propose to reply to the speech of
the senator (West); he was quite
willing that it should go to the
country and make its own answer
but when the people, whom he
(GordonO loved Us his own life, whose
fortunes were his through veal or
woe, were called assassins and mur-
derers, hc could not and would not
remain silent; and if his voice and
gestures We're tremulous with emo
ton, it was not emotion of anger,
but of indignation at tho outrage
perpctrated upon his people. He
stood aghast ut the spectacle pre-
sented in this senate yesterday-a
spectacle Of one portion OF the
members seeking to ruin the fair
name and the honor of the people
Of one section of this country before
the civilized world. He was amazed,
utterly amazed, that there should be
found in the hearts of men. with
whom he daily associated upon this
floor, so much hate. He was totally
unprepared for it, ahd'ii he believed
to-day that the expressions which
no heard from; senators lips yester-
day reflected tho sentiments OF the
northern people, he would feel that
it was time for the southern people
to die. IF he believed that these ex-
pressions fureshadowed the policy
of the government towards the
south, then he would say let us have
done with the farce of local self.
government. He did not believe
such sentiments were entertained
BY the northern people; did moi
believe that the brave men against
whom the people of the south had
lately contended, entertained any
such sentiments. He believed the
great majority. Of the American
people, of b'n north and south
white and black, abhorred any such
spirit Of animosity. lie believed the
movement inaugurated in 1872 by
that large hearted and large headed
man OF New York to bring about
good feeling and harmony would
be successful. In the support which
he (Gordrn) gave the resolution. as
presented by the senator from Ohio
(ThurmaD he protested against any
construction which would make il
appear he was wanting in respect
to the president OF the United
States. Much had been said here
about the president being command
erin chief of the army. He (Gor.
DOM was glad he was commander.
in-chief; glad that the military was
subordinate to civil powers. He
did not propose to discuss the reso.
luton, but to reply to what he war
forced to conclude We're gratuitous
insults offered tohis people by some
of the senators on tho other side of
the chamber. 1t was charged tha,
murder prevailed throughout tho
south and that these murders were
by the hands of the democratic
white mans party. His reply tn
that was brief. The charge was
false. 1t was true murders had
occurred, but no one dcp!ored them
more than himself, nor more than
the people he represented His
people had always said that the class
Of people committing these murders
were the worst enemy OF the south
If murders wore. committed was
that any reason for branding th,
whole southern people as II, set o
'assassiss and barbarians Wber
ever in the southern states the peo
pie of honesty and integrity had
control of public affairs, property
life and liberty are as sale ~ they
are in ANY of the n'rthern states
Applause in the galleries
Year: 1875

THERE is nothing TO obstruct the
quiet passage Of Don Alfonso into his
kipgdop. The Marquis of Molins,
with deputation Of grandees and pol
iticians, has started for Marseilles to
bring him to Spain by way of BARGE
Iona and Valencia. He will review
the army of Martinez.CoTnpos, and
possibly reward that patriotic warrior
with a new title for his timely pronun-
ciamento lie will then go an to Mad.
rid and will be received by that mu.
nicipality with deinonstrative and
genuine enthusiasm.
Year: 1875

The New York Tribune says: The
citizens of Louisiana have seen them
selves cheated and defrauded, and
when the fraud came near to failure
they have seen the whole power OF the
general government used to consum-
mate it and make villainy successful.
They make no outcry, but upon the
facts as they are they invoke the DELHI
crate Judgment Of the American people.
Year: 1875

LETTERS from New York do not
give very encouraging account OF the
condition of labor there, The EN-
ployers are discharging vast numbers
of men and reducing the wages OF
those they retain. This is the worst
winter New York has ever seen.
Year: 1875

oiples, with economy, it is the best
business man can engage in, in the
Connecticut valley. There will always
be market for all that Will be grown.
The reason of the present depression
of the business is because the quality
has much dotcriorated, and this iB ac-
counted for IN pnrt by net using the
right kind of fertilizers, but mainly
in the future to ripen and cure it.. To-
bacco properly cured should be ripened
just as much as any other plant we
grow, and the modern method of plant
ing it too near together has caused Sc
rious evil, and is the great source of
pole-sweat. In planting SO close to-
gether all except the upper leaves are
shaded, and the juices of the leaf are
not properly elaborated. To make q
fine leaf, and to develop the oils and
acids of the plant, we must expose it to
the direct rays of the sun.


The curing process is defective; by
the slow gradual process, much of the
essential narcotic oil is lost. Prof.
Stockbridge referred to new system
adopted largely in Maryland and Vir-
ginia, to cure tobacco by On artificial
beat with furnance constructed for
that purpose. And it could be done
thoroughly in seven days, first making
the heat temperature to eighty degrees,
AMI the course Of FIVE or six days in
creasing to 130 degrees. This artificial
curing retains all the virtue of the to-
bacco, in fact, increases its essential
oils.-Rural NeaU Yorker.
Year: 1875

Awriter in Scribner's says: "There
is no greater delusion than that of sup
posing that the best music can be en-
joyed only by the musical Ordinary
people can derive keen pleasure from a
sympathetic listening to great music if
they will but believe that they can, and
so attend to it accordingly. There is
no need of being baffled by want of
knowledge concering keys; nor by au
ignorance of modulation. Your next
neiRhbor may know that the air began
in G major, and then passed into B
minor, but you can get your own SIM
pler pleasure out of il. Whnt is it to
mo what Titans secret of color might
have been? He had it, and that is
enough for one who cannot even draw.
The first rule in listening to music is
to listen. Wo do not want to arouse
ourselves to a + e zy of delight, but
we do want to heal what the music is
like. A very simple and very good rule
for those who are perplexed by m or
chestra, and who fancy they are puz-
zeld to know where the tune comes in,
is to listen to one instrument, the
violins, for instance, alone for a time.
These will probably take up the melody
and sing it plainly enough, then the
movement may become more compli-
Gated, and the air seems to have grown
more forid, to be broken perhaps into
brilliant fragments, but henrken THE
violonceli have taken it up, and over
it floats this new and lovely strain of
violins, then the flutes catch the melody,
the cornets and the bassoon swell the
harmony, the drum makes it rhythmic
beats, the whole orchestra is alive with
the theme, and before you know it you
are in the very center of the music,
and what was before involved end in.
tricate now becomes plain and beauti,
full"
Year: 1875

HOME L1FE.-It is the fashion of rest
less and ambitious women to despise
home-life as too tame, too narrow, too
uneventful for them. They long for q
wider arena, set well in the view of the
world, whereon to display their gifts or
their requirements and they think
this claustral home, this unexoiting
family of which they form part, un-
worthy of their efforts. And yet in
reality the art of living we'll at home,
and making the family life success, is
just as great in it's way, if not so i'm
portant in it's apparent-but only ap-
parent results, as the finest shades of
diplomacy and the largest transactions
of business. All sorts of talents, both
moral and intellectual, are wanted for
the task |; and it seems slightly IRA
tiOnal, to despise as futile qualities
which so few Of us are strong enough
to possess, or to rate them as beneath
the regard of high minded people, when
not one in hundred has wit enough
to employ them to a satisfactory issue.


YIELD LITTLE. 1t is better to yield
little than to quarrel great deal.
The habit of standing up, as people
call it, for their Qittle) rights is one of
tho most dsagreeable and undignified
in tho world. Life is too short for the
perpetual chickering's which attend such
a disposition and unless very mo-
mentous affair indeed, where other peo-
ple's claims and interests are involved,
it is question if it is not wiser, hap
pier and more prudent to yield some
what Of precious rights than squabble
to maintain them. True wisdom is first
pure, then peaceable and gentle.
Year: 1875

FEMALE SMUGGLERs.-T famous
Mary Ann Boxer, the rich man s
daughter, who years ago married her
coachman, John Dean, is one of the
lady Custom-House examiners. Some
time ago passenger off French ship
was suspected of having quantity of
diamonds to get through, and on the
dock she was told she must be exam
ined. The girl protested. It was no
use. So. turning to her fellow pas
sengers, she bade them tender adieu.
The warm embrace she bestowed on
one lady was touching; she kissed her,
not once but twice, and with each kiss
she gave into her friends keeping a
solitaire worth $4,000. Then She
went off with mouthful, which she
would have swallowed like so many
pill, lather than disgorge. AS she
afterwards explained, those awful big
stones impeded her utterance, and she
intended giving the Custom House
people piece of her mind And thus
she was enabled to do SO, thanks to
her own ingenuity and the size of her
friends mouth.-New York Letter.
Year: 1875

The performance of the lively ope-
ra, Don Pasquale, last evening re-
ceived the hearty applause of an ele-
CANT audience. The presentation Of
this popular musical production of
Donizetti confirmed us in the idea that
true genius, alone, produced operas,
and that it takes real genius to present
them properly. The opera company
gained new laurels last evening and
we look for other triumphs in new
operas next week. This afternoon
grand matinee will be given for the
benefit of ladies and children which
we hope will be largely patronized.
The little folks have an intuitive ap-
preciation, of music and will enjoy
hugely the funny predicaments Of
Don Pasquale. Go early and secure
seat for the best musical entertain
ment ever offered in Los Angeles.