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Year: 1870

An article in the Philadelphia Press re-
minds us ofsa duty which we had nearly
forgotten. When the news of the death of
Gen. Lee was telegraphed all over the land,
the Republican press, with characteristic
magnanimity, forebore to lift the pail that
covered the coffin of the great soldier. They
would scarce look at his faults; they spoke
only of his excellencies. They claim no
merit in this. 1t is simply impossible that
truly chivalric soul should look with
pleasure upon the errors of the dead.


1t is with spirit of sadness and not of un-
charity that we reflect that no such high
sentiment was exhibited when, smitten by
bastard, the great and good, the beloved
and sanity President Lincoln crowned with
martyrdom his peerless life.


Nor was President Lincoln's the only case.
Maj. Gen. George II. Thomas was Southern
man, and great soldier. Unlike Gen. Lee,
he felt it his duty to regard the oath which
he took as West Point Cadet, to adhere
to the Union, and defend it against all
enemies. Unlike Gen. Lee, he considered
that he had been educated at the ex-
pense of the Nation, and that to the
Nation he owed unchanging fealty. Unlike
Gen. Lee, he saw that duty to his State was
coincident with his duty to the United
States, and that to forsake the one was to
abandon the other. Was he less noble, less
manly, less heroic than Gen. Lee Yet when
he died, the malice of secessionists pursued
him into the charnel house. They skulk-
ed, jackal like, among the vaults, that they
might unearth the body of the great soldier,
and expose his errors to the sneers of the sim
pie. Sleep on in quiet, thou majestic spirit !!
God and thy country guard thy name unfair
Enished


Not yet have the diabolical press ceased
their revels over the grave of Edwin NJ STAN
ton. Yet Mr.. Stantons chiefest crime was
his unfiinching adhesion to the fortunes of
the Republic. Come veal, come woe, he
clung to our mother with the ardor of love





and the persistence Of fate, and for this ex-
alted patriotism the demons of the Confed-
eracy covered his bier with their curses.
Henbane, and all poisonous weeds are cast
upon his grave but no flowers are too sweet
to symbol their devotion to Lee.


When Thaddeus Stevens died, would it
not have been becoming to pass over in ST.
lence the errors of his useful life9 Were
not his great public services some extenua-
ton for many faults, if faults he had But
these defamers of the dead scrupled not to
pass behind the curtains OF his bed cham
Der that they might have wherewith to poi
son the darts of SANDER.


"Charity towards all and malice toward
none," were the large hearted words of the
martyred President. We do trust that it
may never be our lot as journalist to record
anew exhibition of that ghoul-like spirit, that
prowls in cemeteries, and disgusts decency
by befouling the sepulchers of the great.
Year: 1870

The Republicans carried this State by
majority of twenty thousand. The entire
Congressional delegation is Republican.
The Legislature is thirds Republican.
1t is death blow to the Democrats alias
Reformers.


The State government in South Carolina
went into operation about the time this
State did. The Republicans lost this State
by four thousand on the popular vote, and
the Legislature by two-thirds. The Republl.
cans of this State should think of this. A
salutary lesson may be learned from the re-
suit in our sister State


The Republicans of South Carolina made
q vigorous campaign. They left no stone
unturned to secure complete victory. The
campaign in this State was feeble The Re-
publicans did not seem to work as they did
in 1868. Notwithstanding the burdens
which the Republicans had to carry, the
State would have been carried if the cam
paign had been bold, vigorous and sharp.


What are the Republicans of this State
going to do? Are they going to sit with
their hands folded and give up the State,
when the Republicans OF other States are
fighting and winning battles? We cannot
believe that there is so little vitality left in
the party for it to succumb because of de-
feat in one instance. Take courage from
the result in South Carolina. Do not think
of anything except wrestling the State from
the Democracy at the next election. 1t can
be done. 1t must be done. This State to-
day is more substantially Republican than
any State south of Mason's and Dixon's
line. All that is wanted is to keep down
imidation-nominate the best men in the
party for offce-make determined effort
and the State is ours.


An election occurs in this District for Con-
gress on SATURDAY, on the 26th of next
month. The District is Republican if our
friends will turn out and vote. We urge
upon all the importance ofgoing to the polls
and depositing their ballots for the Repub-
lican nominee. Show to the Republicans
throughout the State what men can do
when they are fighting for principles which
are the embodiment of liberty and freedom.
Year: 1870

IMMIGRATION The Governors of Wis
consins, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas,
Missouri and Michigan have united in call
ing Convention at indianapolis, on the
oath November to promote immigration
Why cannot the Governors of the Southern
States do the same9 If the tide of i'm
migration Is ever turned southwark the
Southern States and people must move in
the matter in body.-Sentinel. .iir


The suggestion is good one. For our
selves we shall be glad to believe that men
OF all parties are sick of the senseless outcry
against foreigners and carpet baggers, and
that we shall be ready to inquire not how
we can drive people out of the State, but
how we can induce them to settle among us.
Year: 1870

A full patent has been received by a young
man of Chicago for perpetual motion ma
chine. The Chicago papers say that the
machine behaved itself handsomely, work
ing without cessation for months. The most
essential portion of the machine consists of
a hollow rocking lever, or beam, resembling
the walking beam OF a steamboat engine,
except that is bent at oblique angles in sew
eral places. Inside this are placed balls
partially filed with mercury. The balls,
once set in motion, roll down the interior of
the hollow beam in a vain search for a per-
manent level, but no sooner do they reach
the lower end than the mercury in the spokes
of the main wheel, overcomes their weight,
the beam is forced up, and the balls are
again impelled in their onward rush, only to
be caught by the valve that is forced open
from without, and pushed into the upper
arm of the beam Or lever, ready to be hust
led along their never ending route. A del
icately adjusted weight and brake are at
tached to-the machine and serve to regulate
its motion, but it is in the hollow spokes
and beams, and theballs of quicksilvef, that
the mysterious power is said to lieiysd !:
Year: 1870

The New York World says the election
law of Congress ought to be called "a law
to diminish Democratic majorities." If
successfully enforced in New York city it
will doubtless diminish Democratic majori-
ties very perceptibly. Honest men of all
parties want to see this law rigidly executed.
Only the rogues will suffer.
Year: 1870

Despite the devastation of the war Of the
Rebellion and the unsettled state of public
affairs from April, 1865, until the enforce
ment of the Reconstruction acts, the census
shows that the population of Louisiana has
increased more than eight thousand during
1870 This is pleasing as well as unex-
pected evidence of prosperity and must be
interpreted as good omen for the future of
that State
Year: 1870

Ii has been decided that the provisions OF
law furnishing artificial limbs to soldiers or
money for them, are personal tot soldier
and do not extend to his heirs in case OF
death before receiving the benefit thereof.
Year: 1870

IL is then insisted ut great Length that the moment
Gov jackson and the State Legislature attempted 70
array the State against the United states that
under the Constitution Of the State and tne wnoie spt
and intention OF Its laws they ceased 70 De the
authorities Of the State aud became mere repeis Ana
act stripped both Of all Official power and authority sno
placed both in armed hostility to the State as wel as
against the United States These are the persons VINO
were in armed hostility to the state, and not Cen Bla
and follows that he lGen Blair wholly without any
ground for pretending that he Is dsfranohsea py tna
clause and, being So his refusal TO take the oa.n 9
loyalty when he offered to vote was SIMPLY an act Oh HIS
own perverse and obstinate will.


In addition to the foregoing argument the deendants
independent and general proposition insist tha tne
people or State in framing their constitution nave
unlimited and absolute power over the whole suDect
OF suffrage and the right to exercise that power wheh
they please how they please In favor OF whom they
please and against whom they please without account
ability revision by any tribunal authority IN tne
world and they say that this action is deliberate, not
to say audaeious attempt TO strike through the COURTS


fatal blow at State right, which all men In this land
OF every Section every party and every political creed
have always united holding to be beyond the reach OF
interference and which the Constitution OF the United
States recognized in the palnest terms as belonging 10
people of every State the utter exclusion 0t every
other power and jurisdiction Of the earth.


The argued at the session or the u. y Su-
preme Court held last Winter by Montgomery Blair for
the plaLt In error and by Senator Drake OF missouri
for the defendants The ChefJustco to-day announced
that the Judgment Of the Supreme Court OF Missouri was
affirmed,
Year: 1870

[ The following is an extract from Q


private letter recently written by lead


ing American engineer at Port Said. His


views regarding the success and capacity


of the canal are entitled to serious con


sideration:


i have just passed over the great
Suez Canal We left Suez yesterday
morning, after passing a day there.
cannot say the canal commercially is a
success. Financially, so far as the pres
ent stockholders are concerned, it can
not be. 1t has cost in cash four hundred
million francs (eighty million dollars
which, for one. hundred miles of canal is
too large sum to pay dividends upon.
If the Company charge very high rate
for vessels passing through, it would de-
ter many from coming this way. Only
light freights could afford it, and that
would furnish but small tonnage, Cot
ton from India is the great bulk of
the return traffic, which would continue
to go round the Cape Of Good Hope.
The canal will become the joint property
of all the governments interested in the
trade that would pass through it, they
paying the stockholders a fair price for
the canal, and thereafter make it pub
lie highway, charging only sufficient
tolls to keep it in good working condi-
ton, which / am pleased to find will re-
quire very much less than has been rep
resented. / thought the drifting sand
would continue to fill up the canal.
This is not the case. The entire canal,
or very nearly so, is excavated below the
level of the country on either side, hence
the entertainments are very wide and
high, and serve as protection against
the drifting sand, as well as a bulwark
strong enough to prevent breaches in
the embankments. The harbors at either
end are admirably constructed for the ac-
commodation of the immense business the
canal is destined to do. The water is at
present twenty-five feet throughout, and
will soon be twenty-five, with width of
fifteen hundred feet, and more in many
places. There is not a lock of any de-
scription on the canal, from the Mediter-
ranean to the Red Sea, or Gulf of Suez.
There is no obstruction of any kind. The
water of the two seas is about the same
hight--the tides affecting the canal only
for the distance of few miles at either
end / repeat that, in my judgment, as
a canal and railroad man, this canal is
great success, and will mark an era in
the history of the world. / regret our
Government did not order one or more
vessels of war to represent us here. All
other nations were thus represented at
the opening. We had some fine ships
very near here.
Year: 1870




Land Grant.


The St, Paul Press announces that ex-
Secretary Mccullough, Senator Carl
Schurz, and Ex-Governor Marshall, of
Minnesota, have been selected, and will
be invited by the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company to go to Europe on a mis-
sion to organize and stimulate emigra-
ton to the line of the road and the settle
ment of its lands, on plan more COM
prehensive and extended than any here
tofore devised. The company own every
alternate section in belt forty miles
wide. from the head of Lake Superior to
the Pacific Ocean, equivalent to strip
twenty miles wide, in all between thirty
and forty million acres of land-a terri
tory greater in extent than all New Eng
land, and capable of sustaining five or
six millions of people. They have al
ready arranged with German capitalists
for all means necessary to the construc-
ton of the road with the largest force
they can employ. They propose to offer
to every migrant in Europe abundant
employment in building the road for the
first year or two after his arrival.
Whether they assist him in his passage
here is not stated. When be has finish
ed his work for the company he is to
have farm Of 40, so or 100 acres, with a
neat frame dwelling ready erected there
on, and lot of reasonable size fenced
in, all at the expense of the company:
The terms of payments are so long, and
on slow interest, that they cannot prove
burden to the poorest. 1t is expected
that the surplus wages received for CON
structing the road will stock the farm
and provide the tools, so that every per
son employed in the construction of the
road may as soon as it is. finished, go to
raising the crops, which it will bring to
market. The company will manufacture
the houses by the thousand exactly
alike like the parts of Springfield rifle
or Elgin watch, so that each piece ofany
one structure will fit in the correspond
ing piece of any other. They expect, in
this manner, to secure an abundant and
immediate supply of cheap labor, and to
Immediately enhance the value of their
lands by the rapid settling up of the line
of their road.


The present is peculiarly favorable
time for inaugurating such an enterprise,
in view of the distressed condition of
the laboring class in England and other
parts of Northern Europe, and the nni-
versal desire Of the European working
classes to get to America by all means
within their reach.
Year: 1870

San Francisco (says the Bulletin) is
swarming with men gathered from such
portions of the mining region as cannot
be worked in winter, with agricultural
laborers waiting for the spring season to
open, and with mechanics who are not
wanted during temporary depression.
The city is the general rendezvous of the
unemployed, many of whom are ready
for adventure or anxious for work
Hence there is danger of mining STAN
pede, should specially favorable accounts
of mineral discoveries reach us from any
quarter. There is every reason to ap-
prehend such an event without any well
authenticated accounts. Peace river
and San Diego have already started a
few hundred, and favorable reports from
nearer districts will attract few who
are not enchanted solely by what is dis
tant


The San Diego strike is probably as
rich as reported, but there is no reason
to believe that the mines are extensive
enough to warrant a large emigration.
The great pocket finds in various dis
tricts in California have never indicated
extensive lodes Of general richness, and
if the San Diego discovery shall only re-
suit in the development Of a score or so
Of moderately paying mines, that will be
as much as we can reasonably expect,
and will be sufficient cause for rejoicing,
though it may fail to meet the hopes Of
excited adventurers.


Nevada seems to offer a good field for
men seeking employment % xagcs, as
well as for those having means enough
TO erect mills for smelling works, or to
extract the ores there so abundant with
a view TO shipping them to this market.
Mining labor is also said TO be in demand
in Idaho, where is still a chance to ind
placer diggings that will pay small wages.
On the middle fork Of the Boise river,
miners are getting SIX dollars a day m
Year: 1870

Human life is not unattended by dan
gers in San Gabriel, Cal, as the following
extract from letter of one Of the inhabi
tants to his Senator in the State Legisla-
ture would seem to indicate: "The peo-
pie Of this place have a way Of shooting
one a mother axidently; for instance, if a
man wanted to kill a mother, he will git
into play with him, and stick knife
in him or shoot him, and let on it was
done axidently. There has bin two cases
of the kind hear in the last eaight days.
Pass law TO make it a crime to play
with weapons"
Year: 1870

gold There are still many places in the
gold regions of California where small
but certain wages can be earned al
placer mining There are also good
chances here for the investment of capi-
tai in opening up auriferous fats and
basins by means of drain tunnels, the in
PRODUCTION of hydraulic washing, ETC.,
while many good judges are of the opin-
ion that no better field is offered for
mining enterprise than that presented
by the quartz lodes of this State
Year: 1870




Judge of First Circuit Court.
C. W. HEISKELL is a candidate for Judge
of the First Circuit Court of Shelby county.
P. T. SCRUGGS is candidate for Judge of
the First Circuit Court of Shelby county.
Election, 18th of May, 1870.
Judge of Second Circuit Court.
We are authorized to announce j. A. AN
DERS0N as candidate for Judge of the
Second Judicial Circuit of Shelby county.
Atty General OF Criminal COurt.
We are requested to announce MOSES
WHITE as a candidate for Attorney General
of the Criminal Court.
We are authorized to announce B. NEW
TON HART as a candidate for the office of
Attorney General of the Criminal Court, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic Conyen-
ton of Shelby county. Election in May.
We are authorized to announce JOHN S.
KERR as u candidate fore the office of Attor-
ney General of the Criminal Court.
Year: 1870

The several attempts which have


been made in the courts of this State


during the last four months to shield


and save from punishment the perpe-


traitors of the fOulest and most dread


full murders, show an alarming condi-


ton of things. For this the medical


profession is in a great measure di-


rectly responsible. There are those


who have been found so ignorant or


so insensible to the high claims which


their profession has upon them as to
lend themselves in way that has de-
feated the ends of justice, by allowing
murderers of the fOulest character to
escape upon the plea of insanity. The
juries who are impaneled to try these
cases, do, under thevery nature of the
rely almost implicitly
upon the expressed opinion of medical
men when the plea of insanity is ell
tered by the counsel for the defense.-
On this account they are the more
easily deceived, as they do not for a
presume that q medical man
would sell himself and lower his pro-
fessionaI standing to save criminal
from suffering the penalty of viOlat-
ed law; yet this is done, and the re-
suit is the jury return verdict ac-



An important murder trial has just
in Brooklyn. 1t was one
of the most brutal murders ever conf
mitted in any cOuntry-One Of such
character rs would have resulted in
the execution of the murderer by the
pOpulacc at the time, if the military
had not been called out, and the
strongest assurances given by officials
that the man should be tried speedily.
So aggravated were all the cir cum
stances connected with the murder
and unprOvOked-that his
friends and legal counsel put their
whole chances of saving him by ell
to prove the murderer to
be insane. How was this done? By
finding men in the medical profession
who were either so ignorant Of their
profession as to be unable to determine
the sanity of 4 man, or who, for con-
were willing to assist in
saving such n man from being hung.
They gave such testimony as to de-
ceive the jury and the Court, which
in the verdict of not guilty of
manslaughter-the de-
being insane. Upon this
verdict the judge promptly ordered
the murderer to the State Lunatic
Asylum.


As soon as this order was entered,
which was the end of the trial under
ihe indictment for murder, and when
no further criminal prosecution could
DC had against the murderer, he made
l full expose of these medical men
who had pronounced him alunatic by
boldly saying that he was no more in
'ane than they, accompanying the
with hunmistakable evidence
If the truth of what he said. We
nave not the least doubt that if these |
'ame medical men were called upon
N a court Of insanity to try this pre-
ended lunatic, that they, for the same
which influenced their action !
before the jury in the trial under the I
Indictment for murder, would pro-
lOunce him sane man, and plead for /
lis release from unwarrantable i'm !
in a lunatic asylum.
Year: 1870

pay neither rent or clerk hire, do busi-
ness in my own house, and do Ray own work
1 therefore claim can sell goods cheaper
than those who pay high rent and clerk
hire. have = fxil assortment of
Year: 1870

pondent of the Rochester IN. " Chronicle knows
q couple who started a week ago on bridal tour
thinking they could get one ON the boat. Much to
their disgust they had to sleep on the cabin floor,
where tie bride had her nose badly scratched by q
charpost and the bridegroom was temporarily dis
figured in q muscular discussion with Celtic gen.
teman OF large size. The bridal tour was aban-
doned, and the pair returned looking as II they had
Quarrelled with cotton picking machine.
Year: 1870

Captain W. H. Lobdell the captain OF the steam
tug A. A. Watkln, has gwen the following account
OF what he saw and did IN the collision of the
schooner and the steamer Norwalk:-


AS VIC were coming up the bay just or the oyster
creek, saw the schooner coming from the north
Year: 1870

Inc following exhibit OF the gross earnings OF tho
various railways whose shares constitute the more
ac'Ve features ut the Stock Exchange Will repay
perusa In view of the popular interest In this class
OF investments.