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Year: 1872

The blacks have never raised themselves
above the savage state.-Er.


This is gross injustice to the negro.
We know that in the past he has been
debarred of privileges which would
have enabled him to display the ex-
tent of his ability for Improvement.
1t is true, that laboring under the re-
strictions of the past, he has played a
very Insignificant part, other than a
labOrer, but it must be admitted that
since his freedom, and the many adj
vantages he now enjoys, that he has
made greater progress in mental inn
provement than was expected of him.
He has improved rapidly, and if he
continues to improve i'll the future at
the same ratio he has done the past
five years, he will become as a race a
useful and enterprising class of citi-
zens.


The colored man is now citizen.
He has voice in the affairs of State !;
such being the case, it is the interest
of the country, and to such citizen
thereof, that all legitimate chances for
mental and moral development should
be offered him. It is to be expected
that many of the grown ones, owing
to ignorance and their early training,
will be thriftless, worthless, and, in
many instances, vicious, and continue
to be deyotees at the shrine of super
stition; but that the race will relapse
into savage state is not warranted
by their acts and demeanor since hav-
ing been freed by combination of
circumstances.


1t must be admitted that we of the
white race have been disappointed in
our estimation of his mental ability
and contiding nature. We are conf
dent that if the proper influences are
thrown around the colored people of
the South, that they will never be-
come an impediment. in the way of
our national prosperity. As Chris
tan people, we should do all in our
power to elevate him.-Corinth (Miss.y
Neacs.
Year: 1872

To REMOVE CoRNs.-Wearers of
tight boots will, no doubt, find the
following interesting reading: "Hard
corns are caused by too much pressure
of the shoe, or by its being so loose
as to slide. back and forth on the spot
where the corn afterward shows itself
Medical books record several cases
where pairing hard corn caused bleed
ing which no means could arrest, and
death ensued. Nothing harder than
the finger nail ought ever be allowed
to touch the corn, which can always
be cured or kept from causing incon-
venience by simply bathing the part
in warm water for half an hour for
several days in succession; often a
single bathing viii accomplish the OBJ
.ject of softening the part adjacent to
the actual corn so that it can be
picked out with the finger nail, and
the shoe can be instantly worn with
out discomfort, which an hour before
gave great pain. 1t maysreturn in a
week, or a month, Or year, but the
same treatment will always prevail.
PAIRING causes them to spread and take
deeper root.n
Year: 1872

However much the people of the
State may differ with Gov. Warmoth
politically, and whatever may be
their feelings towards him personally,
there is no citizen deserving the
name and rights of citizenship, that
would not feel humiliated had one. of
the numerous charges which have
been Sc freely made against him, af-
fecting his official integrity, been sub
stantiated. All these charges have
been traversed by courts, legislative
and congressional committees, and
we are sure that the people of Louisi-
ana are gratified by the finding of
each of these tribunals of their utter
falsity. The answers of Gov. War
moth to the Congressional Committee
were frank and unequiyocal. There
was no attempt to conceal or disguise
anything, and they must be taken as
conclusive evidence against the
charges of corruption and malfeasance.


That the Governor has committed
some grave errors is not to be denied;
that he has been unfortunate some
times in the selection of his counsel
lors, and that he has made some very
injudicious appointments to office, are
facts patent to every one. But when
we consider the circumstances which
have surrounded him since his inaug-
uration, and especially the vile and
corrupt Legislature with which he has
had to deal, the wonder is, not that
he has made mistakes, but that he
has made so few. Had the wisest
and purest man that ever lived been
Governor of Louisiana for the last
three years, he would have met with
as much abuse and denuneiation as has
been given to Gov. Warmoth. There
was fixed determination on the part
OF the intelligent, educated class of the
citizens OF the State from the moment
of his election, not only to be dissat-
isfied with his ADMINISTRATION, but to
thwart and embarrass it and to bring
it into contempt by every means in
their power. 1t would have been the
same with any man elected under the
same circumstances. 1t is no small
credit to his tact and Judgment that
he has succeeded in winning the con-
tidenee and good will of many of this
class, and the respect of all who are
not utterly blinded by passion or pref
udice. r Hh#


The Governor has now before him
a clear field. If he is now embarrass-
ed or thwarted by the corrupt and
infamous Legislature which has just
adjourned, it will be his own fault.
For the next ten months there is none
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ample time to cut loose from the
thieves and swindlers and adventurers
who are sucking his life blood, and
who will desert or betray him the mo-
ment his political fortunes waver.
For the first time in his political life
his hands are united, his will and
Judgment free. We hope he will
make good use of his new born free
dom. sf
Year: 1872




The New York Standard gives the
following ravishing description of one
of the great orators of the New Jersey
Legislature: /" Mark Anthony Hercu-
les Ryder is a splendid looking man.
He is the model of DR.. Greeley, and
dresses in rusty black. He is six feet
tall, and is as stout as an OK. He
winds couple of yards of black silk
round his neck and ties it under his
left ear. He wears q patent shirt
bosom, which is pulled one side so as
to display the nice red shirt under
reath' He sports high, patent col
lar. Che strings of it are loosely tied
and fSll down on his manly bosom.
A black cord attached to his eye glas-
ses meander over his heaving chest.
He has bald spot on the top of his
head, full beard and an eye like bull
let. He is portly and very handsome,
and his garments have a soapy look.
His constituents call him the Pam
pered Child of Fiddleville.
Year: 1872

Men at first deceive, knowing it !;
but by the constant use of deception
they cease to even know that they are
doing it. Gradually it blinds the
moral sense. And it is in this direc-
tion that great lies are less harmful
than little ones; Men think that
great black lie is very culpable. I
suppose it is. But when an armorer
wishes, by securing, to cut the very
surface of metal down, what does he
do? Take bar of iron and rub it7
No; he takes emery. Its particles
are as small ASA pins uoint apd
these he puts on, and by securing he
cuts down the surface-takes off the
enamel. You think that great lie is
a great sin, and a great shame to man;
but after all, these little lies are more
dangerous, because there are SO many
of them and because each of them is
diamond-pointed. And these little
petty untruths which are so small
that you do not notice them, and SO
numerous that you cannot estimate
them, are the ones that take off the
very enamel of the moral sense-cut
away it's surface. And men become
so accustomed to it, that they do not
recognize that they are putting things
in false lights, when, by word, by
deed. by indirections, by exaggera-
troAs. by shifting the emphasis, by
various dynamical means, they pre-
sent things, not as they see them, but
as they want to see them.


This phantasmagoric process by
which men are throwing false lights
upon action and motive upon what is
happening and going to happen the
ten thousand little modes by which
men are seeking to pervert things,
and make them seem different from
what they really are; the petty false
nesses to which men resort in order
that they may realize their vain am
bilious life-these are pernicious and
demoralizing in the extreme. And
the habit of employing them wears
the character more than a great rous-
ing lie told six times a year would do.
Yet there are men, who, if they are
convicted of falsehood in great
transaction, would lose their char
acter forever. Their neighbors would
say of them, !" We cannot trust such
men as they are" And those very
persons who say they would not trust
them, do not hesitate to indulge them
selves in five million petty falsehoods,
little midgets of lies, in the course OF
year. A lion is to be dreaded, to be
sure; but deliver me from those
blood sucking insects which make me
smart and suffer! A single mosquito
is not much but multitude of them,
myriads of them, amount to great
deal. And it is this falseness in little
things that tends to dim, to obscure,
to almost obliterate, sense of truth
There are men who have almost en-
tirely lost their sense of proportion,
their appreciation of magnitude, and
their understandings of the eonnec-
ton between cause and effect. They
look at everything in the light Of
what they want, SO much that they
think that is true which they desire
| to have true,-H. W. Beecher.
Year: 1872

same time they are to be given in &


way which will quicken and strengthen


local efforts.


There may be some minor points il
the bill which require modification


but in its main features we are conf.
dent that it ought to pass as a Just
and philanthropic measure for the
rescue of the Southern States from the
horrid blight of popular ignorance
which is now so threatening. The
facts brought out by Mr.. Hoar in his
support of the bill, by General Eaton
IN his report as Commissioner of Edu-
cation, by the census of 1870, and by
intelligent private observers, all point
one way. Anarchy and barbarism
are impending dangers in vast regions
of the South in some localities they
are actual curses. What better can
we do with that portion of our income
which comes from the sale of lands
than to direct it to popular instruction
in the reconstructed States


The disposition of the public lands
is a constant and growing subject of
controversy. There are, probably,
few things, if any, which give so
much impetus to what is called the
labor movement as the widespread
belief among the workingmen of the
country that the national domain is
being divided among unscrupulous
spectators without reference to the
interests or aspirations of the poor.
There is no way in which this. delu-
sion-if delusion it be, and we fear it
is not-can be so well dissipated as
by the appropriation of the public
lands to educational purposes, be-
cause there is no other use of them on
which there is nearly the same chance
OF agreement. Moreover, there is no
use of them which is likely to con-
duce one-quarter as much to the poll
tical security and prosperity of the
country. Whatever falling off there
has been of late years in the efficiency
of the administration, in the tone Of
public life and the character of public
men has been largely due to the
growing weight in politics of ignorant
people. There is no use in saying
they are foreign born or bred in slav-
cry that does not mend the matter.
The important fact is that they vote,
and produce children that will one
day vote, also, and that ordinary eff
forts, such as have hitherto sufficed to
educate the children of the educated,
will no longer suffice. Something not
unlike medieval night is settling on
some parts of the country through
want of schools, and in others the
healthy and intelligent public spirit
which has built the government up,
and without which it cannot exist, is
seriously declining from the same
cause. 1t is high time that this de-
scent were arrested, and we know of
no nobler way of doing it than this
bill offers.
Year: 1872




An irritating story of a bank teller
is now told in the newspapers. He
lived in Hartford, Connecticut, and,
having saved good deal of money,
retired, bought fine farm, stocked it,
and went to live upon it like a inan-
cial Diocletian. The directors of his
bank were so pleased that they voted
him thanks and a money gratuity /;
whereupon he went to their next
meeting, and calmly informed them
that he had made his little pile by
speculating with the funds of the bank ;
and he also cautioned them to keep a
good look out for his successor, who
might not SO successful as he had been.
lt-is not probable that the directors
considered these remarks to be either
grateful or complimentary. i
Year: 1872

In the last issue of DIR. Worrall's
paper, he comes out in a lengthy and


elaborate editorial upon the freedom
of the press. The course pursued re-
Gently by DR.. Worrall were he merely
an editor might prove very defensible,
but when it is taken into considera-
ton that DR.. Worrall is considered
or is, perhaps bona tide partisan
politician, maybe this would cast a
different coloring upon his conduct.
However, the Doctor is old enough
and wise enough to understand these
Year: 1872

An enthusiastic editor in presenting
the advantages of his journal as an
advertising medium, declares the peo-
pie of the South would find the Lost
Cause !" if they would only advertise
for it in his paper and offer q small
reward.
Year: 1872

The Chicago Post claims to have
on its editorial staff lady of extra
ordinary abilities. The editor says
he never knew any one who could
write with equal ease upon so singular
a range of topics with information so
exact in detail.r An envious contem-
porary asks the Post why it never
publishes any of her articles.
Year: 1872

The New York Herald says that it
is given QUE that bill of damages in
connection with Cuban affairs is being
made out at the State Department
against Spain quite equal to that de-
manded of England.
Year: 1872

A veteran observer says: never
place much reliance on man who is
always telling what he would have
done had he been there. | have no.
ticed that somehow this kind of peo-
pie never get there
Year: 1872

PARIS, March s. 1872.
The ex-Prefect Of the Department Of Eure charged
with embezzlement Of funds for the relief of France,
Is now on trial at Rouen. He was appointed to Of
flee under the empire since the tall of which he has
been conspicuous in defence of the ex Emperor.
Mr.. Pouyer Quertier the Minister or Finance. ap-
peared before the Court last week as witness, and
his testimony strongly In favor OF the accused.
His conduct IN this matter produces feeling OF
great dissatisfaction the part of Of his col
leagues the Cabinet, and is understood that NJ
Dufaure and other members threaten leave it un.
less he resigns.


TIE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS.


ministerial crisis Is believed to be impending
from other causes In addition to the conflict be-
tween the Executive and the Legislature on the
Catholic petitions and The question OF adjournment,
q difference has arisen between President Theirs
and the committee of the Assembly on the bill pro-
posed by Minister Lefranc granting the government
additional powers for the control OF the press
The committee insists on an amendment giving
journals the right discuss the constitution which
the President Is not willing to concede.


CHAMBORDs COURAGE AND CHANCES.


A correspondent Of the Liberte newspaper reports
an interview with the private secretary of the
Count de Chambord, in the course or which the
secretary said 'his master was willing to risk MS
life TO save France"
Year: 1872

terrestrial economy depends for heat-is sur
rounded by an immensely extended. exces-
sively rare atmosphere of hydrogen base.
At the beginning of totality the spectroscope
clearly revealed the reversal of the dark lines
and the unmistakable hydrogen bright lines
during the whole period of totality. This
hydrogen atmosphere surrounding the sun is
proved to be permanent and not due to any
outside or cosmical causes, and it is said with
out doubt to be supplied by matter elected
with great violence from the photosphere.
There Is doubtless much in store for science
from the discovery Of the nature of the sun in
its relations to the meteorology, climates and
seasons of our own planet, and the world is
now looking to its astronomers to make vigor-
GUS attempts to solve the whole solar ques-
tion.
Year: 1872

never understood why was born with
elegant and refined tastes, when could not
indulge them It was daily perplcxity to
me that | should admire so much that might
not have, and not only admire, but actually
feel the need Of much that l never dreamed Of
possessing. Forms Of beauty filed me with
ecstatic happiness; glimpse Of perfect lire,
whether in statue, vase or moving cloud, last
cl ne whole days and well it did, foF since
my fathers death my opportunities had been
few, even to watch these fitting forms Of beau
y hung out upon the blue heavens by an art
ist who paints for rich aud poor alike


The days since dear father held my hand SO
teuderly, and looked bis silent farewell into my
terrified face, had all been spent in Aunt Ma
rias elegant stene front, on the third floor,
rear room, overlooking tier upon tier Of brick
and mortar, at the base Of which were little
boxes Of yards and narrow alleys between.
think I never but once tried to see the ribbon
like bit Of SKY far above that attempt almost
dislocatcd ry neck, and satisfied myself with
the memory Of what it used to be when father
was alive al the days were passed il that
room teach;ng the younger children, or sewing
for my eldest cousin.


I loved tic children. suppose everybody
does; but ii was strange could not lsarn to
love sewing; all I lad crowded upon no did
not bring to me the love Of it. The nursery
maid rang me up ct six in the morning, to fn-
ish odd bits Of work lof. the night before aud
when secretly hoped to &c: run with tho
children in the park after dinner, tAere was al
ways q new job to begin, so that 10 o'clock
found me mere ready for my pillow IN the lit
tie upper room than star-ganDg. But despite
the stern facts of life, still wershippsd beau
~ of form aud cOlsI, the gliupsss ] sDatched
Of nv couan Edith as size flashed into the sew
.ag reS,n to sJ en tho astefA GsrEsnts bad
Year: 1872

A MARsEILLEs BULL FIGHT.-It ap.
pears by the Ssmaphore of Marseilles
that bull fights have recently come into
vogue in that famous seaport, and have
naturally aroused great curiosity. Those
of the inhabitants who participated in
this amusement one day are not likely
to forget the entertainment in hurry.
When young and game" bull of great
tossing power was brought out with a
view of it's proceeding into the circus,
something occurred to give the animal Il
distaste for the arena where he was to
be worried to make Marseilles display,
and with bound he plunged into the
enormous pen of people, who were
massed together like clusters of bees.
Of course, most frightful panic ensued,
and matters would have been ten times
worse than they were had not a youth
of eighteen, as agile as heroic, actually
"taken the bull by the horns" and clung
to him until the showmen, who seemed
to have behaved very ill, came and got
the enraged brute away. The conduct
of the circus people irritated the rowdier
part of the crowd, who proceeded to do
serious damage, smashed windows in
the neighborhood, and, by way of sooth-
ing the nerves Of those already suffering
from the proceedings Of the bull, opened
stall where six others were confined,
which went careering down the street.
Five were at length killed and the sixth
recovered by its keeper. The director
of the circus had to reimburse the own
ers of surrounding property for the
damage done to it. 1t will be well if
this incident serves to throw q damper
upon the introduction Of this cruel and
barharic pastime into France.
Year: 1872

An advertisement in the Boston news
papers announcing the sale at auction OF
the Dexter property in Newburypert
brings to mind numerous stories current
in that city respecting the eccentric in
dividual who hourished there in the lat
ter part of the last century under the
self-assumed title of Lord Timothy Dex-
ter. This was the fortunate merchant
who, with brains either so scant or dis.
ordered that he was continually making
himself an object of derision. still blum
dered into what in those days was con-
sidered stupendous fortune. 1t was
Lord Dexter who, on consulting wag-
gish acquaintance as to profitable way
of investing certain moneys, was adj
vised to ship cargo of warming pans to
the West Indies, and availed himself of
the advice, to the great mirth of all who
heard of the transaction. The cream of
the Joke, however, was that the warming





pans found sale to the sugar manufac-
lures for ladies', and Dexter realized a
great profit on the venture. A ship
ment of red wollen nightcaps to the
cost of Guinea, suggested as a joke,
turned out most fortunate speculation.
Somebody wishing to humbug the old
fellow, told him one. day that news had
come that all the whales were dying OF.
Dexter went to work and bought up all
the whalebone he could get hold Of,
fairly corner1ng the market, after which
he unloaded at an immense profit. Hav-
ing at last blundered into great wealth,
he assumed the title of Lord Dexter, and
spent great deal of money in laying out
attractive grounds about his house, but
ruined the effects produced by skillful
gardeners by setting up in every direc-
ton carved wooden figures of the most
hideous description. Twenty-Five years
ago SOlne VI GueSe uSuleo No1O oViii w w
seen on the grounds. Lord Dexter, be-
coming ambitious of literary distinction,
published a book with the title Of "a
Pickle for the Knowing Ones" but be-
ing conscious of weakness IN the matter
of punctuation, put all the commas,
semicolons and the like at the end of
the book, telling his readers that they
might pepper and salt his production to
suit themselves. A few years before his
death he had mock funeral, and after
wards beat his wife because she did not
exhibit sufficient grief over his fictitious
demise. Some time ago the house and
grounds once occupied by this strange
character came into the possession of a
wealthy citizen of Newburyport, who
has made the place one of tie most beau
tiful residences in New England.
Year: 1872

HIGH VALUE. drunken husbands are
sometimes spoken of as worthless, but
there is Mrs. Granger in Cincinnati
who appears to set pretty high value
on hers. He has finished dissipation,
his dissipation having at the same time
finished him, and now she sues six saloon
keepers who were wont to supply him
with grog for $4,000 each making $780,,
COO as the actual damage which she
suffers from the loss of a drunken hus'
band. The court is to decide the justice
of this estimate.
Year: 1872

JOSEPHINE AND NAPOLEON inter
ssting book lately published in Eng and
is "Lady Clementine Davies Recollec-
tions of Society in France and England. y
We quote from it picture Of the first
Empire


"I myself saw Josephine two years
before the time when she unexpectedly
breathed the last sigh of her troubled
and eventful life. She was then at
Malmaison, whittier was taken by my
father. Though no longer young, she
was pre-eminently graceful, and her
plant though not a tall figure showed to
advantage in white dress magnifcently
embroidered in bright colors that assort-
ed with her dark hair, wore low on her
forehead, and with the fine eyes of deep
violet hue by which her expressive face
was illuminated. Josephine
loved Napoleon better than she loved
herself Childless by her marriage with
him, Though the mother of son and
daughter by her first less happy union
with the Vicomte de Beauharnais,) she
voluntarily consented to her divorce from
him for the sake of his dynasty. She
had survived the dishonor, if go it may
he called, in her own life; she had de-

scendtd d the steps of the throne on which
the emperor had seated her beside him );
bit she could not survive his downfall,
and she died when the sentence of exile
to Elba was passed upon him.
Year: 1872

HAD TO LEAvE.-Prince Napoleon and
his wife, the Princess Clothilde, being in
Paris, the Government gave them official
notice that they should not be permitted
to reside on the soil OF France. Against
this Prince Napoleon emphatically pro-
tested, saying he would only leave by
force, and the Princess told the officers
of the law plumply that she would not
leave Paris but between two gendarmes.
Upon peremptory order OF the Govern
ment, however, he was compelled to 60.


Thirty-two thousand seed were once
counted in the head Of poppy.