Year: 1875

This great nation complains of poverty, and
yet pays annually thousands of millions fol-
beer and spirits in the shape of drinks and the
crime and poverty directly resulting from such
drinking. This is voluntary taxation that
might easily be avoided. Do the politicians
make any noise or fuss about it!


Senator Alcorn and other native renegade
Republicans in Mississippi appear to have
Joined the Democratic White Leaguers against
the colored and Northern-born Republicans in
Mississippi, in order to place the State in the
hands of the JEFF Davis Democracy. 1t will
be seen that the Memphis papers already
talk of JEFF Davis as Alcorn's successor in the
United States Senate. 1t is scarcely fifteen
years since Mr.. Davis left the Senate because
Mississippi would not live under Mr.. Lincoln's
administration of the Government, and his
Democratic brethren in the Senate applauded
his going. They would, no doubt, now well
come his return to the hall he then deserted
with elevated nostrils and contemptuous
scowl. But we have no idea that Mr.. Davis
would accept any place lower than the Presi-
dency. Why not nominate him for that office9


Washington is not the only one of our great
cities that has, to the laughter of mankind
been dishonored, at huge expense, by bronze
or marble monstrosities. There is no lack of
prancing horses poised on their hind legs or
held in stable equilibrium by the balance-weight
of head and tail.-RielanoRd Dispatch.


This is very hard on our friend Clarke Mills.
As it comes from his Southern friends we sup
pose he will have to stand it. 1t does, how





dirt at their own artists. Charlotte Cushman
used to say she might have played in her own
country until her hair was gray without be
ing considered anything more than promis-
ing actress" by our critics. We will state for
the information of the DispdteHs critic that
some of the best works of art in the Capitol
are by American artists. 1t is generally con-
ceded that Elliot could paint a good portrait,
Church a good landscape and that Palmer
could model good statue. Until very re-
Gently not one of these artists had ever visited
Europe. Palmer went to Paris last year to
superintend the casting of his Livingstone.


The following gems of Virginia rhetoric are
plucked from the Stonewan ceremonies:


In brief, stonewan jackson was the great
soldier Of our age, and, no matter what other
names may be blotted from the record by time
or be forgotten, his will not die. His fame
will survive the war of elements, the wreck of
matter, and the crush of worlds, and shall
only pale when the stars grow dim with age
and fade from the everlasting armament of
heaven.


Pile it up higher than this If you can, o ye
sage-hunters:


We may add, however, that they did not
owe their fame so much to their warlike deeds
as to their civic and Christian virtues, from
the midst of which they shone with the bril-
lance of new-risen stars set in the armament
to guide their fellow-eountrymen in the path
of duty, and raise their thoughts to loftier,
more sublime and Dobler conceptions of pa
triotism and devotion to country. Such are
the lessons we learn from the inspiring exam
Piles of those great teachers and guides for all
time, formed In the same mold and fashioned
after the same God-like Washington,
Lee and jackson. of these jackson, whose
memory we honor to day, is the true type of
the undying soldier, whose fame for deeds of
war and high emprise shall outlast the records
of the nation itself, and go resounding down
the corridors of time while the history of our
race shall be remembered.


Who will say after this that Virginians did
not lose their heads as well as their heels on
that memorable "stonewall Jackson dayP
Patriotism and devotion to the whole country
are exactly the things Virginia stands very
much in need of Just at this time.