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Year: 1871

To the Editors Of the Union and American:
EDGEFIELD, Oct. 27, IS7I.-Permit me to
offer a few plain arguments, through your
paper, to persons occupying rented houses
in Edgefeld.


They have been told by oppOsers of free
bridge across the Cumberland between
Nashville and Edgefield that if they voted
to tax the corporation of Edgefeld $4,000
to construct or help construct said bridge,
that it would advance house rents. Now,
they had just as well said it would increase
the price of wood or coal; for house rent is
just like any commodity that comes into
! our market-wOrth just what il will bring.
Does not every one that has houses to rent
get as much as he can for them, just as the
| wood merchant does for his wood |? Where
| is the man that rent his houses for SIS per
month when he could get $50? think you
will have some trouble to find that
noble specimen of humanity, hut you will
| have but little trouble to find houses closed
for rent, the owner asking $50 when the
| house is only worth SIS. If the renter ask
more than his house is worth are you bound
TO give it; not any more than you would to
pay too much for load of wood. One OF
| the opponents that spoke against the pro-
position before the people of Edgefield
| Thursday night, said that if you taxed him
| one mill on the dollar that he would not
raise eight censt on the dollar per month, but
| he would raise one Collar per month, equi-


valent TO saying that if he was taxed eight


cents that he would make his tenants pay


one dollar.


| Now have not the least doubt but what
| hIs viii would be good to do that, but could
he get it? Not any more than the coal


merchant could get five dollars a load for


his coal, when it is only worth four,


or the market price for it. He has TO


be governed by what similar hOGSes rent
| for in the same locality, same
| as the wood or coal merchant has to be
! governed by the market price where he pro-
| posed to sell. Now. admit that rents would


be higher, that is no argument, because il
rents advance labor will advance in proper
ton.


But, sin, | claim that such would not be


the case in the question now in dispute. II
you construct a free bridge, that will open
the door to capital and industry; house
| builders and every other class of business
| would pour into our young city. and the
competition would be greater. | think such


was the view of the speaker when he spoke


against the bridge. He being real estate
agent, places him in about the same eOndi-


ton as the present bridge company fat


thing and no competition, and would like TO
| have none.


But sir the bugaboo of high rents is


hurled into your face as a scare crow, and
what for? To defeat noble enterprise that


is for the public good and calculated tC


build up our city and bring every branch OF


industry to our doors: one word to me-


chanics, if you with these facts staring you


in the face oppose the proposition that is to


be submitted to the vote of the people Of


Edgeield, don't complain of hard times


for you win get but little sympathy.
Year: 1871

Phil LADELPHIA,0 Oct. 2T.-An insane man
brought to the hospital to-day, represented
on arrival at the Institution that the officer
who had charge of him was insane and
that he took him TO be placed under the
care of the officials The officer was ac-
eordinsly locked up as insane for several
hours. The insane man escaped.
Year: 1871

Eaa-


An Army Of Near Two Million Mem.


ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 26.--A general
order of the war Office directs the entire re-
organization of the Imperial army and the
calling to arms of the whole adult male
population of the country. The order
creates the numerical strength of the field
and landwehr forces of the empire to a
total of one million six hundred thousand
men when required for war purposes, Sixty
six regiments of Cossacks are not included.
The order creates also further a military
force of reserves, to be employed in the
event of invasion. The order is equivalent
to a mobilization of the population of the
entire nation, and makes every man in the
country capable of bearing arms a soldier
on a peace footing. The reinforeements
ordered to the artillery will add a strength
of one thousand guns to the batteries al
ready in the service. .,-.., .--
Year: 1871

A fitting comment upon the disaster yis-
tied upon the people Of the north division
Of Chicago in the late fire is to be found in
the circumstance that, when the congTega-
ton of Grace Methodist Church met on last
Sunday at the ruins, il was found that the
pastor and every member Of the church had
been burned out of house and home.
Year: 1871

The fashionable dress for a gentleman at
a day wedding is the English suit of dark
frock coat, lavender pants, black or white
vest, blue necktie, and lavender gloves; for
evening weddings black dress coat and
pantaloons, black or white vest, and black
necktie
Year: 1871

One of the saddest scenes at Chicago
was that of woman kneeling in the street
with crucifx held up before her and the
skirt of her dress burning while she prayed.
While in this attitude a runaway truck
dashed her to the ground.
Year: 1871

NEW LOAN OF UNITED STATES.


The subscriptions TO the New Five Per Cent Stock
OF the United States now amount to S53 $4,000.
They confidently expected to reach 500 600
by the time the New Bonds are ready for delivery in
May. The proposals of the Secretary of the Treas
ury will then be changed to the following pro-
granme:


First : Bonds to the amount of three hundred mil
lions Of dollars, payable in con at the pleasure of
the United States after ten years from the date of
their issue, and bearing interest payable quarterly
in coin, at the rate of five per cent per annum.


SECOND: Bonds to the amount of three hundred
millions Of dollars, payable in coin at the pleasure
OF the United States, after fifteen years from the
date of their issue, aud bearing interest payable
quarterly in coin, ut the rate of four and half per
cent per annum.


Third: Bonds to the amount of seven hundred mil
hons OF dollars, payable in coin at the pleasure of
the United States after thirty years from the date of
their ISSUE and bearing interest payable quarterly
IN coin, at the rate of four per cent per annum.


Subscriptions To the loan will have preference
after the above mentioned two hundred millions are
taken up, in the following order namely:


First subscriptions for equal amounts of each
class of bonds.


Second: Subscriptions for equal amounts of bonds
bearing interest at the rate of four and half per
cent and of bonds bearing interest at the rate of
five per cent


fhud Subscriptions for any five per cent bonds
that may not be subscribed for in the preceding
classes.


SubScriDtions to the remainder OF the S20oOOOOO0
Year: 1871

be shocked or surprised, is to invite


sneers and derision from the organs of


the dominant party. But even if we
admit to be our hum BILE duty to ac-
cept and submit to all these things,
the question will force itself upon us:
Are We never to have an end? Is
every party convention called at New
Orleans, or elsewhere, to be held un-
der the possible supervision of three
companies of infantry and a Gatling
battery? Shall the time ever return
when martial law will disappear from
the land, ard when the President of
the United States will not dare deny
to citizen his constitutional privi-l
leges of the writ of habeas corpus p
Cleveland Plaindeazer.
Year: 1871

There is one old way that they can't
improve, although it has been tried


BY men who have studied, and stud
led, and worried until they diedj


1t has shown undimmed for ages,
like gold refined from its dross;


It's the way to the kingdom ofheav-
en- by the simple way of the Gross I!
Year: 1871




To (Ae Bditor Of Thc TrtoHne.


SIR: read with extreme qualification your
article In Thursdays TRIBUNE the retention Of Muir
ply In the New.York Custom-House. 1t was timely,
temperate and appropriate and expresses the sent
mens Of honest in the country. be he Repub
lican Democrat. VIM you now have the kindness to
favor your readers with your views as TO the proprey
OF the President appointing HIS to accompany
the Generain- Chief Of the Army his proposed tour
through Europe 1t has heretofore been supposed BY
the people when army officers were sent abroad at
the public expense their mission was for the public 0o'd
In short that they sent abroad officially to study
the military systems other naons In order that they
might introduce at home suoh changes and improve
nIents "a likely TO prove beneficial to our own
army. And in making the selection OF young o1teeTs
those only wore taken who had been distinguished for
their talents and proficiency at West Point In this in
stance, however. young gentlemen has been chosen
who stood very low down 7 or 4o-I forget the exact
Hgure) In the class and was strlkngy deficient In HIS
examination, in every branch Of military science What
incentive does such practice offer to cadets TO labor as
sduousy and faithfully. day and night In order 70 mas
ter the difficulties Of their profession And In this par
many Of whom were doubt young gentlemen OF much
talent and that they s9q1 Ss
TO be the Of the President1 What this but that
SS e In Branch pubic
and Is sSppiDg tho foundations Of all 6oyernment both
ali ofces and places controlled by the Chief Magistrate
OF nation his personal property and perquisites
to be dispensed Of him for his own profit or that OF
his family, without any reference to the national vel
fare or wants not then why was not this appoint
ment given o the graduates whose ability and
proficiency would have enabled him to make such obser
vatonS and acquire such experience as In the oontin-
gency of another war, would have amply repaid tho
country Tor the expense incurredi And Why hAs the


General the Army oountenanoed act OF fayortism
60 corrupng In It's tendencies 10 the important branch
Of public service over which ne Presides was Just
this sortof fxyoritsm which cost France 30 dearly In
her late contest with Germany, and 1t behoOYes the
American people TO consider seriously the DANCER which
menaoes them from Its introduction into our army.


Orange n j., Nov. II, l671. 5IGAA
Year: 1871

The enterprising and prosperous people
of the county Of Carroll, will at their
County Fair now in progress at Mckenzie,
teach the outside world by demonstration,
what they know about agriculture, the
mechanic arts, etc. From recent visits to
that county, we feel fully satisfied that
they will make a showing of which any
community in the State might justly feel
proud. MIR. A. E. Sneed, agent of the
UNION AND AMERICAN, leaves this morning
for the Mckenzie Far, and we commend
him to the favorable consideration of our
friends down in that section,
Year: 1871

The Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Ledger says all the Senators
have not yet been furnished with copies
of the iresty negotiated by the Joint
High Commission, but enough have seen
it and expressed opinions upon it to make
it safe TO assert that it win not be ratified
in its present form without severe fight,
and perhaps in the end close admins
tratiou vote.
Year: 1871

Mayor Morris, who has been for the past
few days kept away from his Office by
sickness, has, we are gratifed to observe,
SO lor recovered as to be able to resume to
some extent his official duties. He was
for short time yesterday at the City Hall,
and, although still quite feeble, was eYi.
IDENTITY in an improving condition.
Year: 1871

the others are up, and the three run for
some distance abreast. Hollywood then
falls back, when Sentinel and Gaberlunzie
run side by side to turn, at which place
Sentinel parts with his company, and
plants himself length ahead. The whip
was freely used by Gaberlunzie's rider
down the stretch, but all to no purpose,
for Sentinel comes home the winner of the
heat by a full length, Hollywood dis
taGced. Time I:524
Year: 1871

We, with thousands, visited the Exposi-
ton yesterday, and saw with others the
exemplifcation of the industry, fcre-
thought and sagacity of OUT people and of
cur State in building up and making such
an institution as it is. The day before had
Just been sufficiently cool to make the at
mesphere pleasant for the 10 O'Clock OPEN
ing.


THE OPENING OF THE FoORTH DAY.


On reaching the building We found The
band playing inspiring airs which reached
every hearer.


The visitors had largely increased in
numbers though they co1ld not have done
in appreciation. The growing business of
the Managers kept. them wide awake in the
admission of all the articles called for en-
try. If anything kept them from it it was
the
Year: 1871

A Railroad train was running
along at almost lightning speed
A curve was just ahead and the
train was late, very late still, the
conductor hoped to pass the curve
safely. Suddenly a locomotive
dashed into sight. In an Instant
there was a collision. A shriek, a
shock, and fifty persona were
slaughtered ; and all because an
engineer had been behind time.


The battle of Waterloo was be-.
ing fought. Column after column
had been precipitated upon tho
enemy the sun was sinking in the
west re.inforcements for the dc
Tenders were already in sight; it
was necessary to carry the position
with one final charge. A power.
ful corps had been summoned from
across the country. Tho great
conqueror, confident of its arri.a al.
formed his reserve into an attack
ing column, and led them down
the hill. The whole world knows
the result. Napoleon died pris
oner at St. Helena, because one of
his Marshals was behind time.


A condemned man was being led
out for execution. lie had taken
human life, but under circum-
stance of the greatest provocation.
Thousands had signed a petition
for reprieve; still none had ar
rived. The prisoner took his place
on the drop; it fell, and a lifclcss
body swung in the air. Just at
this moment horseman came in
to sight, his steed covered with
foam. lie bore a reprieve for the
pri oner. But he had come too
late. A comparatively innocent
man had died an ignominioue
death, because a watch had been
five minutes too slow, causing the
bearer to arrive behind time.


1t is continually 80 in life. The
best laid plans are daily sacrificed
because they are behind time.'
There are others who put off re-
formation year by year, till deatl,
seizes them, and they were ever
behind time"
Year: 1871

The PRESENT LIFR.-The present
life is sleeping and waking; it is
good night" on going to bed, and
good morning" on getting mp; it
Is to walk in the garden and see
the Hover open, and hear tho birds
sing; it is to have tho post,nan
bring letters it is to have news
from East, West, North and South
it is to read old books and new
b"oks; it is TO see pictures and
hear music; it is to have Sundays;
1t is to pray with a family morning
and evening; it is to sit in the
twilight and mediate; it is to be
well and sometimes to be i'll; It'll
to have business to do, and to do
1t; it is to have breakfast, and din.
mr., and tea; it is to belong to a
town. and to have neighbors, and
to be in one circle of acquaintance I:
it Is to have friends to love one it
is to have sight of dear old faces {:
and with some men it is to lie kiss.
ed daily by the same loving lips
for hfty years ; and it is to know
themselves thought of many times
a day, il many places, by chill.
dren and grandchildren, and many
friends.
Year: 1871

How TO HAVE A LOVING WIFE.
a correspondent sends the follow
ing to the chronological Journal :
If you would have loving wife,
be as gentle in your words after as
before marriage ; treat her quite
as tenderly when a matron as a
a miss don't make her maid of all
work and ask her why she looks
less tidy and neat than when vo,,
first knew her; don't buy CHEAP,
tough beef, and scold her because
it docs not come ON the table por
ter house a; don't grumble about
squalling babies if you can't keep
up a nursery, and remember that
the baby may take after papa in
his disposition don't smoke and
chow tobacco, thus shatter your
nerves, and spoil your temper, and
make your breath q nuisance, and
then complain that wife declines
to kiss You; so home Joyous and
cheerful to your wife and tell her
the good news you have heard,
and not silently put on your hat
and go out to your club or lodge,
and let her afterwards learn that
you spent the evening at the opc,
ra or at fancy ball with Mrs.
Dash. Love your wife, be patient !;
remember that vou are not per-
feet, but try to be; let whisky, to-,
bacco and vulgar company alone {;
spend yonr evenings with your
wife, and lead a decent, christian
life, and you will be loving and
true-if you did not marry a
thoughtless beauty without sense
or worth =; if you did, who is to
blame if you suffer the conse.
qucrces 2
Year: 1871

A New WAY TO Dry PEACHES.
DR.. Jos. Treat, of Vineland, N. j.,
gave last season the following, and
as he says, new directions for par.
ing peaches for drying:


Never pare peaches to dry
Let them get mellow enough to be
in good eating condition, put them
in boiling water for moment or
two, and the skin will come off
like a charm. Let them be in the
water long enough, but no longer.
The gain is at least six fold-sav-
ing of time in removing the skin,
great saving Of the peach, part OF
the peach saved, the best part,
less time to stone the peaches, less
time to dry them, and better when
dried. A W hole bushel can be
done in boiler at once, and then
the water turned off.
Year: 1871

The BOTTOM OUT.-The State of
New Jersey is in a bad way. A
dispatch dated the 22d ult., says
that "the bottom is dropping out
of the State of New Jersey in War
rem county. During the last few
days a number Of deep holes have
been suddenly made by the earth
sipking down into some fearful,
unknown subtei ranean Depths
The first noticed was in the bot
tom of the Morris and Essex canal
Oh the seven mile level between
Broadway and New Village. All
the water in the canal went down
that hole. Then a half dozen
more holes opened in the corn.
fields and roads, taking down into
the bowels of the earth great patch,
es of corn, and even sinking trees
out of sight. In addition to this,
there are scores of great, long and
deep fissurcs. Then ON Wednes.
DAY night, another big hole open
ed in the canal. Rumbhng noises
were heard under the Methodist
church on Broadway, AMI nobody
will venture into the building for
fear of its going down. The wild.
est excitement prevails among the
people who deem that any given
spot of land in all that county is
liable to plunge through half way
to China ut any moment. Prices
of real estate have naturally gone
down as the real estate has. The
Morris and Essex canal is utterly
ruined, lis course must be alto
gether changed to avoid destruc.
ton, if it is intended to ever hold
water enough for a sun fish to float
in."
Year: 1871

A ScnNEToADY editor complains
that parents are in the habit of
locking yourg people out of the
house after nine o'clock. The ed.
itor saw a couple thus locked out,
the other night, and they were
hanging on the gate. They were
so mad that they kept biting each
other-one being a young man..
and tho other young woman
Snch cases of hydrophobia are
common here, too.
Year: 1871

VIRGINIA HORTICULTURAL AND PoMo-
LOGICAL SocrETY.-A called meeting OF the
Executive Committee of this society will
he held at their rooms ut o'clock this af-
ternoon. This meeting is called for the
purpose of making final arrangements III
regard to the exhibition OF the American
.Pomological Society of this city next fall,
and it is therefore hoped that every men,
ber of the committee Will be present. saI
Year: 1871

An error in the last Issue Of the Uni n
threatens TO be Of considerable damage to
the Turner Dance. A wrong evening is
mentioned. The dance comes off this ere
ming at Turner Hall. Every preparation
has been made for pleasant time, ard oil
persons belonging 20 the olnb, as well as
those who have received invitations, should
put in an appearance Remember, the
dance is tonight.
Year: 1871

A Rose By ANY OTHER NAME, ETC.-This
IL especially true Of what some suppose to
be- new paper, the Western Weekly pub
lished at Davenport, Iowa, which is no more
or less than the old Temperance Banner 1t
could not succeed under its old name so had
to be called by new name, will probably
be filed with the same old stories and the
sane spirit Of intolerance, bigotry and radi
calism, seasoned, perhaps, with an attempt
at literature and education to make it pass
for family paper 1t will have nice time
reforming the population Of DAvenp port, west
Of Harrison street.
Year: 1871

RUxAwAY.-Ths horse attached to the
Howe Sewing Machine wagon occasionally
seen upon the streets, broke through the
ice near the IliLois shore st noon to-day. A
handy rope rescued the horse, and handy
hands pulled the wagon ashore. There is
much danger in getting on the ice at this
ahnra
Year: 1871

The MILAN FEsTivAL.-The Methodists
of Milan are msking extensive preparations
for their festival at Young's Hall on the
evening of the Is inst, the proceeds
which are to be devoted TO the use OF the


church A general good time is promised,


and cordial invitation is extended to the
public.
Year: 1871

Now that the Democracy have resolved


on "New Departure" or in other words


to give up all opposition to the constitu-


tional amendments and ignore all war


issues and going back to the old financial


questions of Free Trade, &C., what is to


prevent old Wings from doing the same


thing? Have they not still faith in the


financial teachings of Clay and Webster?


Can they fail to see all their old mea-


sures of National paper currency in


contradistinction to many State currencies,


protection of home manufactures and inn


provements by national authority now


thoroughly established by the very men


with whom they acted before the war and


who. now control the general government ?


If they will accept the situation and act


with their old associates, we promise them


generous greeting and full share of the


honors and rewards of office. We say let


by-gones be by-gones. Universal amnesty


and impartial suffrage is our plan and is
the well known sentiment of General


Grant and his advisors. Come with us
then. Let us together contribute as much
as possible to the moral and material pros
perity and progress of our State, striving
to make it more and more law-abiding,
sober, Industrious, wise and wealthy, so
that men of means and character will be
willing to come with their capital and build
up our waste places, improve our lands and
our magnificent and unequaled manufac-
turing advantages. Macaulay, the great
English scholar, poet, and historian, has
well said that counterirritants are of as
much use in moral and social diseases as in
physical. Let the counterirritant, to cure
the morbid prejudices, differences, asperi-
ties, and contentious of the past, be unity
of purpose and action in striving to better
our future condition by improved hus-
bandry, home production and manufac-
lures; by making education for all our
children as cheap, generous, broad and
liberal as we can, and by ourselves becom-
ing as charitable, enlightened, magnani-
nous, patriotic. philanthropic and thrifty
as possible. We ought to care less about
the birthplace and more about the industry
and Christian character of those with whom
we associate, remembering that some clever
people have been born in strange and even
distant places; that the manger of the sta
Bile. in far-off Asia was the place of the
most illustrious birth that ever blessed the
world. Another mistake is very common,
and that is in thinking to much of politics,
and too little of productive and creative i'm
dustry and business occupations. Politics
has been the bane of this State, the cause
of its desolation and present poverty. 1t
has been the struggle of the many for the
benefit of the few, and those few who sue
ceeded have often become dissipated and
poorer and more unhappy
than those who have turned their energies
to business ENTERPRISES,