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Year: 1871

Gen. Ewing, of Ohio, in the course OF
his late financial speech, said the reason
why the credit of the United States stood
so low in the European money market
was because there were large class in
this country who believe that the public
debt should be paid in greenbacks, and
the capitalists of the old world were
afraid that this party would be able to
enforce its idea upon the American peo-
pie.


This is the most frank admission that
we have seen from a Democrat acknow-
lodging that his party was doing all in its
power, and to a certain extent was sue
cessful in injuring the public credit. The
charge has often been made by the Re-
publicans, but was stoutly denied by the
Democrats until this leader of Ohio De
mocracy volunteers to charge his own par
ty with conspiring to ruin the public Gre
dit. The worst feature being the at
tempt of the General to defend the
scheme after plainly stating its purpose.
The Democratic party during Buchan-
mans administration. reduced the pub
lie credit, until the Government had to
pay az equivalent of about II per cent.
interest, in gold, for money borrowed to
pay the current expenses of the admins
tration.


The Republicans, after providing for
the enormous expenses made necessary
by the Democratic rebellion, have so i'm
proved the public credit that they have
Just borrowed two hundred million dol
lars at per cent. and these bonds are al
ready at premium In the European
markets. And this in spite Of the com
bined action of the Democratic press.
which has delighted to commend upon
the failure of the new loan.


Can any better reason be demanded
why the Republican party should be
kept in power? No party. since the
founding of the Government, has ever
concluded the fiscal affairs of the nation
with the tact, ability and success which
has characterized the administrations OF
some of our Republican Secretaries. And
yet they have been the especial target a,
which a jealous party which had been
| tried and found wanting, have aimed
their heaviest guns with but slight effect,
The credit has steadily improved not
withstanding the opposition of a coward
ly enemy that has always been unreient
ing, untruthful, and to the highest ex


tent unpatriotic. aud its attempts to thus
cripple the resources of tie people. Then
complete failure only makes them the


more bitter in their denunciations,-Rd


cine Adcocate.
Year: 1871

1T is but too probable, however, that
the Republican party Will sink down In
to a low chase with the Democratic party
after votes. So far from going forward
and making it more and more
a reform party, its murmurlngs against
President Grant, and frequent signs OF
toward him; reveal It's declln-
ing appreciation of even these great NOR
al ideas it had already espoused; For to
which of the grand undertakings and
precious interests ofthe Republican party,
at the time of his election, has he been
found untaithful? To not one OF them.


Identified, therefore, as he is, with them
all, and the most prominent upholder OF
them all, every one of them Is necessarI-
lv disnaraced when he is traduced or un-
derraiued. For the Republican party to
turn its back upon President Grant, is to
turn its back upon its honorable past
upon the past OF It's better and more pat
riotic days. He remains the same man
he was in those days. He has proven
himself 10 be free from the acursed spirit
OF caste, anc true 20 the equal rights OF
all .men-of the red man and black man
as well as the white man. lie has de-
fcrred to the popular Will, instead OF
moulding and fostering policy OF his
own. He has proved with what entire
sincerity it was that, In entering upon MS
office, he expressed his desire for peace;
The late treaty between England and


America. in the credit of which he
shares so largely, is the grandest and


most auspicious peace measures the "otiq !,


has ever seen. The rapldity with whlcn


We We are having our national debt Is high


nroof Of lis Wisdom and honesty: And


vet. such a President, no very small share
Of the Republican party-certainly nc
very small share of its leaders-seem:


willing to drop! We hear them say tina


Gen. Grant cannot be reelected; But
he who confessedly did more than any


other man to save our conntry In the per
| lis of war, and whose great influence II
Year: 1871

The Wisconsin, of the 2Sth says that
the dispatches from Europe are ofa start
ling character. 1t is to the effect that
Russia and France have formed an alli-
ance, offensive and defensive, against


Germany, Italy and Austria. There
seems row to be little doubt but that the


report is substantially true, for the meet
ing of the Emperors of Austria and Ger
many indicates that something of the
kind has been in contemplation. Russia


is alarmed at the rapidly growing power
of Germany. and her activity in war-hke
preparations for year past has indicated
that she felt it important to the contin-
uance cf her influence in European poll
tics that she should be prepared to curb
the power of her rival when favorable
opportunity shall offer. Yet it is not
certain that war will follow at once upon
this reported alliance. France has had
enough of war for the present, and is in
very poor condition to enter upon another
conflict. But should Russia begina a war,
there is no doubt but that France would
at once seize the opportunity to recover
something Of what she has lost. If she
could recover her lost territory, and escape
the payment of her indemnity to Ger
many. she could afford to spend some
thing in war. There is good reason,
however, for the belief that none of the
great nations of Europe are anxious for
war, for nearly all of them have, within
a few years, been greatly exhausted there
by. We look to see all the efforts of di-
plomacy exhausted before war is resorted
to- 4 war between the powers named
would be most bitter and terrible one,
and would desolate anew the fairest por-
tions of Europe.
Year: 1871

peace has. all gone TO make that peace
more perfect and more blessed, cannot
be made our next President, what Re-
publican can be? Manifestly, either he
or the Democratic candidate will be onr
next President; and if the Democratic
candidate shall be, and shall represent
and be specimen of the bad, very bad,
Democratic party, what then can save
this country from ruin 2''
Year: 1871

The NEW ARMY REGISTER shows that there
are still ffty-nine officers on the list who have
served thirty years continuously in the United
States Army. Six Of these are general and
seven are field officers, the remaining forty
still plodding along in the lowlier paths of the
regimental line or subordinate staff. Consid-
ering the decimating wars that have occurred
among ourselves or with our neighbors during
that long thirty years-the Mexican and Indian
wars and the great civil war-and considering
the sorry requital which our military officers
get from the country for the hard service they
perform, it is rather wonderful that so many
old officers remain to us,
Year: 1871

If President Grant needed to make any
refutation Of the unseemly charges made
against him, even by such wise statesmen as
Sumner, that he is corruptly interested in the
St. Domingo business, he could not have made
it more completely than by the appointment OF
Ben Wade, Bishop Simpson and Professor
White to act as the Commissioners. Bishop
Simpson is the head Of the Methodist Church,
the largest religious denomination in the
country, and although he has declined
the appointment, his nomination is a
strong proof Of the Presidents good will
President Of Cornell University, and,
while thoroughly conversant with geology
and topography, is most probably as slack in
politics as Dominic Sampson Of ''prodigious"
memory. AS for Ben Wade, all the country
knows him for his honesty In his interview with
Senator Sumner recently he said that he would
make ''square" report, and we may be sure
he will, no matter whom it hurts. Ben is the
only possible politician in the lot, and he has
been out of politics 80 long that he has lost
the usual characteristic of the trade. General
Sigel is to be the Secretary Of the commission,
and is well known for his honesty, his ability,
and his high standing. Such is the Commits
sion, and the President has shown his wisdom
in making it up Of just such men.


Senator Sumner will feel thankful, of course,
that his doubts of the President are so promptly
annihilated, and everybody will be glad to see
that the .thoughtless charges flung so unrelent-
ingly at the Presidents head are thus shown
up 80 fully as causeless ISLANDERS. Every
one will be pleased except those political
jockeys" whom Sumner dreaded SO much
and those mummy democrats who have gone
back on the grand old democratic traditions of
manifest destiny and the Monroe doctrine
merely to defeat pet measure Of an opposition
administration.
Year: 1871

AUSTRIAN SYMPATHY WITH FRANoE.-A
special despatch from Pesth, which we print
in another column this morning, informs us
that in the Hungarian portion of the Austrian
empire popular sympathy is strong on the side
Of France. Demonstrations have been made
in favor of the French and the feeling prevails
that the war must soon be ended. It is very
well for the Hungarians to make this show,
but the war now being waged in Europe is not
to be ended by any Hungarian influence It
is not at all impossible that the war between
France and Prussia will soon give place to a
struggle which will cover larger surface and
embrace larger interests. Meanwhile Bis
marck is stronger than Beust y,,t@e~
Year: 1871

The New YORK VOLUNTEERS IN MEXICO. -
A correspondent wants to know what has be-
come Of the fund subscribed some twenty years
ago for the purpose of erecting monument in
Greenwood Cemetery in honor of the New
York hero-volunteers who fell in the Mexican
war, the lamented Colonel Baxter among the
rest. Who will furnish the desired informa
ton?
Year: 1871

THE LADIES Who ARE OPPOSED TO WOMAN
SUFFRAGE have presented remonstrance
against it to the Senate. They see that the
women'a Fighters are trying to make woman
the main element in politics, when, ever since
the days of Adam, she has been merely side
lssue
Year: 1871

A DARK DAY IN NORTH CARoLINA.-To-day
January l3) has been set apart by the darkies
in North Carolina as a day Of prayer for the
safe deliverance Of Governor Holden from
impeachment. The Congress of the United
States is likely to have more influence in that
direction than the prayers of the pious colored
people in the Old North State.
Year: 1871

.
tremendous displacement of the old ideals Of
life, and it will probably be attended with CON-
sequences of the most grave description to all
the old forms under which all the relations Of
the sexes have hitherto been conducted. II
may be seriously doabted, indeed, whether the
institution of marriage itself will not 60 through
a period of fiery trials to say the least of it,
when women are promoted to position Of
political equality with men. The irrevocable
surrender Of the whole female life to sex
supposed superior in itself, and undoubtedly
discharging higher and more weighty respon-
sibilities hitherto in human affairs, will, per-
haps, be reconsidered when that sex no longer
holds that position. The idea of woman's Obe-
dience in the marriage relation is. at all events,
plainly at an end. We suppose that If demo-
cratic doctrine and the basing of political
society on universal human rights is sound,
new and higher social order will arise after
the inevitable confusion Of an interval.
But it is time Of great trial
to mans faith and comforts, and will lead
many weakened votaries of abstract human
rights back to the feshpots of aristocratic and
privileged Egypt. Meantime we can derive
what comfort we may by dwelling on the gro
tesque sides Of the movement, especially as it
will do the cause of the right and the wise no
harm, but rather good, as we have pointed
out. Let us get our little bit Of laughter as
long as we can. When the ladies do get fairl1
and completely inside politics we should not
wonder if public affairs became so earnest that
least to laugh at any political parsonage Or
Year: 1871

PROFIT By EXPERIENCE the last
election several Democratic officials sue
ceeded in squeezing iuto office on account
of Republicans scratching in their favor,
and on account of the dissatisfaction which
prevailed in relation to the 18th Amend
n.ent issue. This year there is no cause
for dissatisfaction, and the Republicans Of
the county are determined to stand shoulder
to shoulder and give their candidates a
straight vote This lets out all the Dem
ocratic aspirants this time
Year: 1871

Work FOR Your TIcKET-From now
until the closing of the polls on the 6tu
instant, let every Republican in the county
consider himselfchosen a special committee
of one to work for and do all in his power
for the entire Republican ticket. Ifevery
Republican does his duty from now until
the evening of the 9th, the result in old
Shasta will be most glorious, and will send
a thrill Of joy to the heart of every lover
and friend of our cause. Then pull steady
and strong boys, for the prize for which we
struggle is noble indeed. Work!
Year: 1871

STILL MARCHING On TO the almost
universal Republican gains as showa in Il .
spring elections in the East and West, we
may now add the signal triumph lately
achieved by our party in North Carolina
aud Idaho 'erritory. In the-fornfer the
Republicans carry the State by ten -thous
and majority on proposition to GAIT a new
Constitutional Convention, and in the1atter
the same party elects its Delegate to Con
gress and redeems the Territory from
Democratic rule for the first time since its
organization. The Democratic party is
dy ing slow but sure. -.
Year: 1871

STAND BY Your TCKET.-A careful
canvass shows that the pajority of the
voters in Shasta county are Republicans,
and; they have only torstick, to. the straight
ticket in order to elect it FROM top to bottom.
Onr nominees are good men and there is no
occasion for scratching them. Let US all
pull together and make clean sweep for
the entire State and County ticket.
Year: 1871

DEMOCRATIC Speakers are fighting an
imaginary enemy when they suppose that
Republicans object to the expenditure of
State money for monument in honor of
Senator Burnett. But what they do OBJ
Ject to is, that the Governor should per
form this act at the expense of the State,
"a such manner as to leave the impress
sion that it was a private act of his own
That is where the objection comes in. If
1t had cost ten times the sum it did cost,
and bore the inscription that it was erected
by the State Of California in honor Of one
who had died in her service, there never
would have been word said, except to
approve the act
Year: 1871

REMEMBER that Fitzgerald, as Super
intendent and member of the Stlte Board
of Education, was mainly instrumental in
procuring change of public School books,
con,petttng parcuts to purchase au inferior
lot OF books at an average expense of IS
per each census child 10 Shasta county,
To elect him would be to give him further
license to Impose burdens upon the people.
Vote him down as matter of self protec-
tun, if Tor no other reason.
Year: 1871

REMEMBER that the Democratic Legis-
lature appropriated $4,000, which should
have went to the Common School Fund, to
help build the State University for the
benefit Of rich mems sons, and to maintain
'ew broken down carpetbag Professors
from the confederate States-thus dimin-
ishing the State School Fund and robbing
the few for the benefit OF the mary. -
Year: 1871

GIVE HIM A Coon V,TE.-The peo-
pie of this town should give Tom Greene
q big vote, as he is an old resident Of the
place. has expended bis money here freely,
and has been, and still is, liberal pgtron
Of everything calculated to promote our
local prosperity. Stand by an old friend
of the place, and hearty WE'LL wisher for the
success and happiness of our towns people.
Year: 1871

The story of Cinderella is familiar to
every one, and yet there are few that
treasure it up as in any respect true.
But it has foundation and reality that
really need no fairy godmother, with her
pumpkin and her rats, to make an en-
tertaining tale. 1t is as follows:


In about the year 1870 French actor
by the name of Thevenard, lived in Paris.
He was rich and talented, but he had no
wife, and we may believe he had never
loved any one, but gave all his affections
to those ideal characters that he could
represent so finely on the stage. One
day as he was walking leisurely the
streets of Paris, he came upon a cobler s
stall, and his eye was attracted by a
dainty little shoe which lay there waiting
for repairs. His imagination began inn
mediately to form the little foot that
must fit such little shoe. He examined
it well, but only to admire it more and
more.


On going to his house he seemed
haunted by the little shoe. He fancied
it tripped over his floor; he could hear
the music of its tread-in fact, there
was nothing of all his elegant treasures
that seemed to him half so beautiful.


He went to the stall of the cobler
again, but could learn nothing in regard
to the owner of the shoe. This only in
creased his eagerness, and made him
more determined to find out to whom it
belonged. Day by day he was disap-
pointed, but he was not discouraged.


AT last the little feet needed shoes,
and Thevenard met the owner, poor
girl whose parents belonged to the hum
blest class. But the ardent actor
thought not of caste or family. His
heart had already pronounced the little
one his wife. He married the girl with
no question of what people would say,
and felt joy enough in hearing the tread
of the light nimble feet through the
silent rooms, to pay him for the sacrifice
of peoples approval. This is the true
story Of Cinderella, and from which the
child romance sprang.
Year: 1871

Somebody gives the following advice
to girls 1t is worth volumes Of fiction
and sentimentalism Men who are worth
having want women for wives. A bundle
of gewgaws, bound with a string Of fats
and quavers, sprihkled with cologne and
set in carmine saucer-this is no help
for a man who expects to raise family
of boys on bread and meat. The piano
and lace frames are good in their places,
and so are ribbons, frills and tassels;
but you cannot make a dinner of the
former, nor a bed-blanket of the latter
and awful as such as idea may seem to
you, both dinner and bed-blankets are
necessary to domestic happiness. Life
has its realities as we'll as fancies; but
you make it all decorations, remember
ing the tassels and curtains, but forget
ting the bedstead. Suppose a man of
good sense, and of course good prospects,
to be looking for a wife, what chance
have you to be chosen2 You may cap
him, or you may trap him, but how much
better TO make it an object for him to
catch you. Render yourself worth catch
ing, aud you need no shrewd mother or
brother to help you find a market.
Year: 1871

When the preacher comes in and
meals down in the poolpit, pool out all
the shoppers. That's wot the shoppers is
for.


When a him is gave out to be sung,
play over the toon before singin', but be
sure to play it so they can't tell whether
it's that toon or some other toon. 1t
will amoose the people to CESS.


When you play the interlude sumo
times pull all the shoppers odt, and sum-
times pull them all in. The shoppers is
made to pull out and in.


Play the interloods about twice as
long as the toon. The interloods is the
best part of the mewsic, and should be
longest.


Play from the interloods into the toon
without letting them know when the
toon begins. This will teach them to
mind their bizness. Always play the
interloods faster or slower than the toon.
This will keep it from being the same
time as the toon.


If the preacher gives out virces,
play A. Tew many virces is teejus.


Doorin the sermon go /out of the
church, and cum back in time for the
next toon. This will show you don't
mean to be hard on the preacher by
having tew many listenin to him at
wonst-Ihe Occident.
Year: 1871

pot, with sugar basin and salver, may be
worth five and forty pounds"


:" That is near enough. I'll take EN-.
Here is a aimsey for fifty quid


And he handed old Reginald bank
note for the amount.


"Still don't quite understand"


" | want you, guv' nor, to be so good as
to leave your bedroom window open to-
night, and place that salver and them
silver traps where / can get EN-. shall
have cracked my crib, bagged my swag,
and made myself safe until my turn
comes round again"


Certainly, said old Reginald, hold.
ing up the note to the light. But, let
me ask, how can you afford to pay so
handsomely for your depreciation


"There was dozen on us, sir. Each
on us cracks a crib once in four month,
and each swags at least fifty pounds
worth-often more, but at least that.
After each plant the profits are divided.
Last quarter the twelve cribs cracked
brought US in eleven hundred pounds
that's ninety pounds odd apiece. When
my turn comes | pay fair price for the
fifty pounds worth. swag (for have
been honorably brought up) and | gets
forty pounds to the good. And forty
pounds q quarter is one hundred and
sixty pounds year. And l lives on it.
Sometimes its more-now and then it S
less, but whatever it is / lives on it. ]"


And the honest fellow took receipt
for the note and departed.


Old Reginald was as good as his word.
He left his bedroom window open and
placed the salver where the Honest Bur
glar was as good as his word, and at two
o oclock in the morning he came and
found it.


SO far all was simple and straightfor-
ward enough. But now comes the Gu
rious and incredible part of my story.


The fifty-pound note was part Of the
proceeds of previous burglary. The
number of the note was known, and
traced to old Reginald, who had to ac-
count for its being in his possession


Now the twelve burglars had in tne
meantime been arrested by the police
(this is also incredible), and were con-
demned to penal servitude for life.


SO Old Reginald had no hesitation in
stating the facts as have cited them.


No one believed him, as no one will
me.


So he appealed to the Honest Burglar
to corroborate his story.


But the Honest Burglar, having dis
covered the whole thing, coffee-pot, sal
yer, and ALL was the commonest electro,
was so shocked at old Reginald's dis
honesty that not only did he decline to
corroborate his story, but actually, and !
think very properly, identified him as an
accomplice.


And old Reginald was also sentenced
to penal servitude, and he and the Hon
est Burglar worked for many years to-
gether on the same works, and had many
opportunities of talking the matter over
as TO its social, moral and political point
of view.
Year: 1871

A play is being enacted in a Chicago
theater in which a man is hung for fun.
The other night the gearing got out Of
order and they came near hanging hin
for good. When they cut him down he
said he guessed that they had better get
some one else 20 take his place, as his
neck.was not talented enough to play
that part.