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Year: 1870

" Plain Language from Truthful James has
been received all over the country is somewhat
marvellous in the annals Of fugitive poetry.
Its peculiar metre, and the quaint Journalism
of expression. are alone sufficient to arrest at
tention, while the rich humor and the quiet
but unmistakable sarcasm which pervade it
imparts flavor which is readily recognized
and highly enjoyed. AS reductiO I'D dbSurdum
it is without a rival. We publish the poem
here:
PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES.
Which wish to remark


Aud my language is plain
That for ways that are dark


And for tricks that are vain,
The heather Chinee is peculiar
Which the same ! would lise to explain
All Sin was his name;


And | shall not deny
In regard to the same


What that name might imply,
But his smile it was pensive and child like,
As frequent remarked to Bill Nye.
1t was August the third,


Aud quite soft was the skies;
Which it might be inferred


That All Sin was likewise;
Yet he played it that day upon William
And me in way despise.
Which we had small game,


And All Sin took hand
1t was Euchre. The same


He did not understand
But he smiled as be sat by the table,


With the smiles thatwere child-like and bland
Yet the cards they were stocked


In way that | grieve,
And my feelings were shocked


At the state of Nye's sleeve,
Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers,
And the Same with intent to deceive.
But the hands that were played


BY that heather Chinee,
And the points that he made


Were quite frightful to sec
Till at last he put down right bower,


Which the same Nye had dealt to me.
Then looked up at Nye,


And he gazed upon me,
And he rose with sigh


And said Can this be?
We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor =


And he went for that heathen Chinee.
In the scene that ensued


| did not take hand,


But the floor it was strewed


Like the leave on the strand
With the cards that All Sin had been hiding


La the game "h he did not understand.
In his sleeves, which were long,
He had twenty-four packs
Which was coming it strong,


Yet state but the facts


And we found on his nails, which were taper


What is frequent in tapers-thats wax.
Which 10 why | remark,


And my language IS plain.
That for ways that are dark, t


And for tricks that are vain, Il.
The heather Chinee is peculiar ~.
Year: 1870

AsCURIQUs case occurred in Fryburg,
Me, the other day. Two cows came to-
gether on the banks Of the Saco. They
hooked and pushed and twisted until they
got their horns locked, when one of them
went over the bank and broke her neck,
and of course dragged the other too, both
going into the water, the living one only
to be held down by the dead one till
drowned.
Year: 1870

In the carriage system adopted by Collector Grim
nell, which proved unpopular with importers
that the secretary Of the Treasury ordered mods
ncatiOn or abolition, a district cartman was ap-
pointed, iwho gave bonds IN $4,000, and each sub
ordinate cartman gave a bond OF 5000. In
addition 10 this a stamp was placed on the
back OF the permit bearing the name OF the
cartman licensed To carry that lot OF goods.
Under the changed system the general orderi and


public store goods VIII stu be carried IN this way.
The only return 10 the Old style will be In the
ment OF bonded goods The merchants VIII now
have their goods carted by their own men, who will
give bond OF $4,000 each to insure their fidelity.
The merchants in each case apply for licenses for
their cartmen and become their sureties The majority
OF the importers are satisfied with the system as
modified, under IL their goods entrusted TO the
care OF men for whom they are personally respon.
siOle.
Year: 1870

from tne lIOnuOn llfneS, May u.


The Ballot bill Is uponus. Some time after the
House Of Commons has weared OF the Irish Land
bill, another craft Will be launched on the Parl.a-
mentary waters. Lord Harrington will ask leave to
introduce bill to amend the practice OF Parlia-
mentary elections. What viii be Its late a matter
upon which conjecture may easily 90 wrong, and,
by the House and the country are exceedingly mixed
and various. There Is one party, or Or remnant of a
mixed qualification. The surviving radicals OF
1882 must see in Its promise The lest
whom Mr.. Joseph Hume was an apostle
how few Of them are left among us l-may join IN
feeble glaverlng OF Smson,s song adapted to their
away, their strength is gone, their revelation is ex
hausted; such OF them as still live on Had them
selves among generation thinking other thoughts
and speaking another language, and are startled and
alarmed by proposals on everv side for extending
the sphere OF government in direct violation OF the
doctrines OF their early life but they may stu take
consolation in the knowledge chat the ballot
the only real and Trustworthy machinery for
regenerating the worlds taken up by a
liberal Ministry. These radicals OF the past
have, Of course. a party In the opposite ranks
tives who have survived their illusions aud who re-
cognZed the truth that It rs their fate TO be beaten
As measure after measure they opposed has been
carried against them, they have at last come TO be-
leve that their opposition guarantees the ultimate
success OF every project they may resist. Tney feel
their forces ebng, and are almost prepared TO bow
to the uneUttabte UctOry Of their asSattants. Be
tween these two ranks there Is q younger band,
whose hatred OF the ballot is more cordial every day
and becomes more bitter, because they are not un-
frequently compelled to suppress 1t. The open
SAINTS ind relief In protesting their opposition, but
such men-and they are not few-as have pledged
themselves 10 the ballot In the persuasion that II
would never become a practical question IN their
time chafe and fret at the notion OF legalizng the
hypocrisy OF electors just as they are discovering
their own.


II the ballot be adopted 1t will be kind OF sacri-
fee to the dead. We do not say there Is not here
and there man keeping up the form OF living who
believes In IT; but we make this concession Il Is
the utmost our respect Tor TACT Will permit. The
question whether the bill Will be passed Is thus very
mucn matter OF time. ''If 'twere done, 'twere well
1t were done qucklyn for Gil the rising forces
against 1t, and men may at any moment awake from
the SPELL and ask what is II that compels them to go
on paying false obedience or impressed by base
less fear Of the hobgobn. II may seem q mistaken
policy to give Mr. Leatham such warning but we
take credit for the frank expression OF sentiments
should vainly try To repress. He and his friends
may try their utmost; but II they succeed II will not
be because they are strong but because others are
weak
Year: 1870

Within the last five days great change has
come over the Tammany Democracy, and they
now exhibit almost the extreme of anxiety.
where a month ago they defied opposition and
scOffed at public criticism. The cause Of this
change is clear; the action in this city
on the part of the United States has
seriously interfered with their right bower
false registration; and the thorough exc
cution of the law will upset their left
bower-faise counting. Hence the trouble in
the camp, Which is creating an intense excite
ment in the ranks of the faithful The latest
development of this nervousness is aimed at
the great army of men employed upon the
public works of the city, and circular has
been sent to confidential managers of gangs
of workmen and others in city employ, indi-
eating that every man is required to go the
straight Democratic ticket whatever that may
be, as set forth by VIM. NJ. Tweed, or sacrifice
his bread and butter.


Within the last sixty days, Tweed has put In
city employ not less than twenty thousand
men. Most Of them are poor and little IN
forme of the "tricks that are vain OF our
willy politicians. They are given work for a
month Oh condition that they vote the Demo-
cratic ticket. And now even these men begin
to inquire why they are used only one or TWO
Year: 1870

The riot in Paris consequent on the an
nouncement that armistice negotiations were
pending was far more serious than at first re-
ported, OF than the Tours Government would
have the world believe. The evidence indeed
goes to show that all over France disaffectiOn
toward the Provisional Government threatens
its safety. The simple truth of the matter is
that the Government has permitted France to
drift into anarchy, and there is reason to fear
that her greatest danger is to follow the retire
ment of the Germans. But for the patriotic
action of the Paris National Guard, the Gov
ernment there would have been overturned,
and the consequences would without doubt
have been very painful. The danger is by no
means past, and it is difficult to imagine how
future dissensions and conflicts are to be
avoided. The election of a Constituent Assem-
bly, is, fortunately, necessary to the conclusion
of peace; and from this we hope France is
to receive wiser direction and firmer control
than from the Provisional Government, whose
overthrow seems now so imminent.
Year: 1870

tbe Road that the contractors were perform
ipr their duties. He tags to his report, how
ever. rather a comical tail "The undersigned
"would recommend that no new plan or agency,
"inyolying any radical change In the present
sstem of making ordinary repairs by Super
intendents, should be made until after the
" onenine of navigation |" He might as well
have recommended Tammany not to purify It's
methods of voting until after election the
likelihood was about the same in either case.


The object of the entire movement was two
fold: first, to hedge in regard to the Superin-
tendent scheme, which the Board had adopted
in the teeth of experience as emphatic as tha'
which condemned low tOlls and second, to
Justify on enormous and needless increase Oh
Canal expenses These reports failed to do
either. A Canal with dlapidated structures
and prism filed up could hardly have
sufliced for two years of navigation unsurpassed
in excellence "in the history of the Canals"
Il was inconsistent and Incredible III
another and very serious aspect liz Com
missioner Wright may be held to have
been less earnest than was becoming in warn
ing the Canal Board against the "wasteful and
corrupt system of Superintendents." he was
faithful in giving an admOntion; OF which 1t
is not clear whether the Board was too obtise
to perceive the point. or too callous to regard


il. His report said: at should be remarked,
"boweyer, that in all monthly drafts which
"were paid to the contractors last season q
"cause was inserted. pursuant to law, certl-
"fying that the contractor had fulfilled his
contract on which the payment was made,
(which certificates are presumed to be true
The plain English of this is no.
tice to the Board that such allegations
as it was enticing the Commissioners to
make, in order to serve the purpose in ques-
ton, were precisely such as those very officers
and their predecessors had certified to be false
every month in the year. Commissioner Chap
man acknowledged the same truth. The
monthly certificates Of every Commissioners
were then on file in the Department in these
words: "And hereby certify that the con-
tractor has fulfilled his contract during the
"period for which he is compensated by this
draft Without such a certificate no con-
tractor had received one cent; with it. every one
had been paid monthly. In the face of this cloud
of witnesses, and in contempt of vast mass
of facts these proved falsehOOds form the sta
ple of the justification Of the crimes OF the
Canal Board. A candid review of the moral
and legal phase of the matter cuts off escape
from conclusions not welcome, even to extreme
partisans namely: that the unswon allega-
tons of the official plea are false; or that the
certificates of the Democratic Commissioners
are merely official perjures.
Year: 1870




months in twelve. and who get the benefit Of
their voting. Nothing can more certainly
show the scare in Tammany Hall than the
fact that the stringent instructions alluded to
have been sent by special messengers to each
and every man holding power over this great
army Of wOrkngmen. e.. ..-..


The registration jnst completed shows 1864
voters. In 1S8S-89 the highest record showed
nearly 174,0O0; adding for growth of the city.
We should have according to Democratic
authority a registry Of $4,000. We have only
$4,000. What is the RESULT We have thua
by the new laws of Congress, scared away
more than forty thousand false votes Hence
the "groans Of the wounded and hence the
squirting on of the ignorant and other tools
of the Ring. Money has done its best
and now threats are the order of tho
day. 1t is matter of common notoriety
that Hofmans reelection depends upon New
York City. The new law materially interferes
with the old system, when repeating and false
counting made the party safe in any event;
when secret instructions were sent 10
rural counties to send their vote in early, 10
that any deficiency might be made up by
false counting in this city. That game ia
played out. The new law stands in the way;
it has been declared constitutional, and even
Judge Bowling has recognized it by sending
to the Penitentiary negro convicted of false
registration. We hope every Judge will imi-
tate bis zeal, and send up instantly any man
guilty of vitiating the poll by double registry
or false voting.


The skies brighten. If we can, as we hopo
l. L. 4. Il. IL
jority in this city to reasonable limits, Wood
ford will be the next Governor, with an
Assembly to back him in all good works.
Let us see that this is done; let us confront
with the vote of every honest man the Ring
and its hirelng crowd of irresponsible voters
who 20 as their leaders go, and have no moro
thought of voters responsibility than q
horse has of his masters religion. 1t ia
an encouraging sign that light appears
TO be breaking into these dark places.
and that men who have too long
been used as cattle by Tweed Co.
begin to ask why and for what purpose they
are thus made hewers OF wood and drawers OF
water Negro Slavery was bad enough but
what is 1t to Tammany slavery, where no man
can get job of wOrk-nOt even street sweep
ing for a day-without promising to vote Tor
the party The great army OF men now on
the public works of this city must understand
that they were put there to vote Tweeds
tickets, and that after doing so they will be
kicked out and left to starve for the Winter.
Let them take heed.
Year: 1870

Nine wears ago, man then known only as
a cbairmaker of poor repute, typical fire
man, and ward politician of small celebrity,
was q candidate on the Tammany ticket for
Sheriff. He entered into the canvass with
great vigor, and staked on it every dollar he
possessed. His opponent was elected, and he
was ruined. A beggar in purse, with the Onus
of political defeat upon him, there was no
man in New York who seemed to have less
promising future.
But he was bold, adroit, and unscrupulous.
He never again sought an Office with large
lawful emOluments, but was content to serve
his city in places of small profit and preten-
sion. He remained Supervisor, and the name
became synonym for thief. He was elected
State Senator, and his appearance in the
Capitol was the beginning of q new era in the
politics of the State the Legislature of New
York being thenceforward an article of mer
chandise. He was appointed to subordinate
place therein, and instantly the Street Depart
ment was flooded with corruption. In proper
ton as he grew powerful, our taxes increased
and our elections became debauehed. He sys-
tematized rascality and became an anomaly in
being power above the law. EnthrOned upon
the violated ballOt-bOx, which he made to yield
majOrities to suit his needs, he reigns the alb
sOlute and irresponsible master of great city.
His power is not more vast than he has been
sordid and selfish in his use of it, With no
honest income beyond meager subsistence,
he proved his contempt for the people he
robbed by lavish display of his daily increas-
ing wealth. His arrogant assumption of
supremacy has kept pace with his fortune.


"He man


OF an unbOunded stomach, ever ranking


Himself with princes one that by suggestion.


Ty'd all the Kingdom Smony was fair play,


His own opinion was his law L the presence


He would say untruths, and be double


Both in his words and meaning. He never,


But where no meant to ruin, pitiful."


Through the "cunning and shameless fraudsr
of 1868, William M. Tweed became and is the
autOcrat of this metropolis. BY the grace of the
repeater, the bankrupt of 1861, who meantime has
had no means of honestly amassing money, is
more than millionaire and the pot-house poll
tician. the rude, unlettered fireman, has
under his heel the worth, wealth, intellect, and
culture, of great center of civilization. Every
vote for the Tammany ticket is an indOrse-
ment of the infamy which has produced him /;
is a vote to continue the power of this new
WOlsey, who possesses all the meaner qualities
of his prototype, but lacks his redeeming
traits.
Year: 1870

Pleading guilty was the order of the day on
the part of repeaters in Judge WOOdruff's
Court yesterday. These gentry have at last
discovered that violation of the law is not
Joke, and the thousands of their fellow crimi-
nails yet unarrested are gradually working
the same idea through their heads. If they
do not get it distinctly comprebended by next
Tuesday, they will then receive lesson not
likely to be needed again for several years.
Year: 1870

There are still two or three Assembly districts
in this City, as well as one in Brooklyn, wherein
competing Republican candidates remain in tho
field. We entreat the Republicans of those
districts to put an end to this anarchy at once.
Withdraw one of the rivals-both, if you can
not agree upon one-and let us have harmony
and mutual confidence. 1t is hard for any ft
man to go to Albany for an Assemblymans
pay, but to run on a split ticket, with GER
tainty of defeat, is Insanity. Let us have
peace!
Year: 1870

There were several more Parishes nearly
as one sided as these; while in others the Re
publicans claimed and exercised their Right
of Suffrage. But nobody doubted that the
State was made to cast it's vote for Seymour
and Blair by violence and terrorism. 1t will
be different next week, when three or four
Republicans will be chosen to the next
m
Year: 1870

fore. friends. in the rural districts give no
heed to the Dragging and bullying OF our ad-
versaries, but draw out your last vote for
Woodford and the entire State Ticket, In the
assurance that full vote by non-repeaters
will give us an old fashioned Republican ma
iOrity
Year: 1870

fhh &peDAsc's


Prom Tn World. Nov. 4, 1870.


"Who have reported t0l
the President that they had
fears OF a riot in this city on
election dayi Who are the
men that have thus been
defaming our city Z Every
citizen Of this metropolis
and every stranger who has
chanced TO be In the city
during an election knows
that there is no place In the
United States where the
elections have been more
peaceful and orderly than
In this city. 1t is duo to the
public that the name OF the
person or persons who nave
asked Grant to send military
here on the ground that he
or they feared a riot should
In nuhliahad -
Year: 1870

A contributor Of the VIcKsBURG
HERALD, asks when the public
schools will be opened for the
benefit of the "poOr white trash ?"
and gets about such a reply as we
should expect the HERALD to give.
How that paper can afford to treat
so contemptuously the interests
of its Democratic constituency
does not appear clear to US; and
we can only account for it on the
score of chronic blindness con
tracted before and during the war,
and confirmed since that time.
But in this case we have both
shameful neglect and unpardona.
bic ingratitude combined in one
act, and of this We complain.
Everybody knows that the poor
white trash," so-called, the more
ignorant the better, were the bulk
Of the Democratic voters before
the war, when the "mighty East"
whose numbers and ignorance
were of equal proportion, rolled
up its Democratic mOjori,
ties and decided the political
complexion of the State. To
educate those people is to make
them Republicans. Democracy is
ignorance-Republicanism is en-
lightenment. The HERALD and its
contributor may rest assured that
Capt. Pease is well aware Of this
fact, and is prosecuting the work
of organization with the utmost
zeal and energy, His mission is a
great and good one, and future
generations will rise and with one
voice bless his name when the
editor of the HERALD, and others
who like him, oppose the scheme
of education just inaugurated,
willard we pause with respect
be dead, buried and forgotten. Sic
UOS non UObiS.


The above is from the Jackson
Pilot and its editor never wrote
anything as true as when he wrote
we would "be dead, buried and
forgotten" when future genera.
tions will rise and with one voice
bless the name" of Captain II. r.
Pease, Superintendent of Public
Instruction. We are inclined TO
think that a great number Of edi-
tors, successors to the one who
now holds this pen, will have been
gathered to their fathers, ere even
the most lnfnitesimal fraction of q
generation can be found which
will bless the name, or the deeds
even Of Captain Peasc. The whole
Radical party, with Pease and the
editor of the Pilot in the van, will
never be able 10 educate the voters
of the "mighty East to vote the
hated and corrupt Radical ticket.
The labors of your kind are re.
striCted to the negroes, and you
know that education will not enam.
or them greatly with your party,
and hence you are not suffering
from anxiety to give them the
blessings oreducation. The more
ignorant and depraved they are,
with the greater certainty can you
depend upon them for their votes.
Year: 1870

ELEcTIoNs.-lt is understood that
the Governor will, in few days
issue his proclamation for an cleo.
ton to fill the vacancies in the
Legislature. The election will oc.
eur some time in November. 1t is
hoped that Republicans will cast
about and select their candidates,
their ablest and trucst men, men


Of character, talent and honesty
| Pilot.


Where does the Governor get
his authority for so doing? We
earnestly desire that these vacan.
cies shall be filled because we
know that good honest Democrats
will succeed TO them all, and hence
we strongly favor it. But Gov
ernor Alcorn knows that to hold q
legal election in this State for any
purpose whatever, it must be pre-
Ceded by a registration. That
there has not been nor can there
be until the Legislature passes an
act prescribing the manner in
which it shall be.


We presume, however, that the
Pilot, being the Court Journal,
speaks by authority, and il so, we
may well suppose that an election
will be held soon, and if the Gov
ernor has found authority which
justifes the election of members
of the Legislature he has also
found it for the election of mem
bers Of Congress. 1t was the on
ly question of practicability at
which we looked in discussing the
election Of Congressmen There is
no kind of doubt that at the close
of the Forty-lirst Congress, Mis-
sissippi is legally unrcpresented in
the Congress of the United States.
This view of this subject has been
thoroughly discussed by the
soundest minds in the State, and
they all concur in the opinion that
the present members could only
have been elected for the unex-
pired term of the Forty-llrst Con-
gress, and not for the Forty
second. The great obstacle to an
election, to our mind, lay in the
absence Of registration. If Gov.
Alcorn can discover a plan by
which he can order elections in
this State, without a violation of
law, why not order general cleo
ton, and let the people elect their
own officers? Even though they
should be elected by the negroes
and the Radicals, they cannot be
greater scoundrels than some who
have received appointment from
Governor Alcom.


But let the Democratic party
keep on the alert. The Radical
party is thoroughly organized, and
is ready to go into an election at
a moment. On the other hand we
are not at all organized, and are
wasting valuable time wrangling
over dead and immaterial matter,
such as the reorganization of the
Old Whig party, &c.