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Year: 1876

A Dctroiter who was deceived by the warm
weather In March into taking his paror stove down ad
il back again four days Next week he took down
again and the next restored IT, He remembered OF SLY
different changes the last Of which was made yesterday
and as no sat With leg either side Of the grieiu
heat lie patted tho top OF the stove ana Remarked;
Don't blame You ut alTm the fool; you are up here
for Ave Thousand years and III hire man 10 Keep
you redhot al through July And AuxusIV-ipetrsit
Free Ploss
Year: 1876

New York Sun, March 2.


The last opportunity is now af-
forded to Gen. Grant to retrieve his
character and regain something Of
the respect which the people felt
for him eight years ago; but to do
this he must adopt radical meas
ures and act at once.


Let him send adrift Measurer
Babcock and Levi z. Luckey. let
him keep no illegal military Secre-
tary about him, and get some hon
est, decent young man TO perform
the duties of his Private Secretary.


Let him break once and forever
with Boss Shepherd, and every ras-
cal Of that description and that
Ring.


Let him dismiss Secor Robson,
and every other official thief of high
or low rank whom he has hitherto
provided with the power and the
opportunity Of public plumber.


Let him set adrift Secretary Bel
knap, and turn out everybody who
had any finger in the French arms
transactions.


Let him cease to make the Gov
ernment a hospital for his own de
eayed and worthless relations, dis
missing Jim Casey at New Orleans.
revoking the appointment Of Orvii
L. Grant as Indian and military
trader, and turning out Marshal
sharp, packer Of the safe burglary
Jury, from Office IN the District Of
Columbia.


Let him stand by Secretary Bris-
tow and Solicitor Wilson, aud put
more strength into their arms IN
their crusade against the whiskey
thieves and all other thieves OF the
Republican party or any other
party.


If Grant viii do these things, he
Year: 1876

was. asserted again AID again that
with economy and anything like a
faithful collection Of taxes. the priv
Ilege tax would pay the current ex-
penses of the State government. If
that was true then, with the de-
crease in expenses mentioned above
and with constantly increasing
population and a corresponding in
crease in the various callings upon
whiel a tax is levied, it must be
more than true now. Let any man
take tue act of 1873, and observe
the numerous items classed there
under the head of Privileges,
then 1t him look about him, and
he cannot fail to see that scarcely
any regard islsaid to the law Very
few Of the assessors make any show
Of retlshing privileges, and the
county clerks, even those who are
disposed to do their whole duty, are
competed to remain in their offices
and receive the tax from such per
sons only as choose to come for
ward 4pd pay, leaving all those who
chooseto brave the terrors of the
grand Jury to follow any calling
they nay incline to "without money
and without price.


Weare told that suggestions and
plans for relief are now in orde-.
Our plan is that the Governor Of
Tennessee stay at home and enforce
the laws, that he write no more
open letters to citizens of New York
or any other State, that the Attor-
ney Generals throughout the State
be instructed to proceed at once
against all collectors who have
failed to discharge their duty, that
such as are simply remiss be held
responsible upon their bonds, and
that the doors of the penitentiary
be thrown open to receive the de
faulters.


The State of Georgia has a bond
ed debt equal to about five per cent.
of the true value of her property
under the federal census of 1870
part of her bonds bear seven per
cent. interest, and about one fifth
of them have their interest paid in
gold. Her bonds are rarely quoted
below par, and her interest is met
as il falls due. Tennessee has a
bonded debt equal to about five per
cent of her property under the fed
eral census of 1S70-her bonds all
bear interest at six per cent, paya-
BILE in currency. How they are
quoted we are ashamed to say.
Why they are so quoted it is need
less to ask CZayksuizLs CAyOssicEe.
Year: 1876

II has puzzled many people TO
decide why the dark wood so highly
valued for furniture should be
called rosewood" It's color GER
taiasy dose not look much like rose;
SO we must look for some other
reason. Upon asking, We are told
that when the tree is first cut, the
fresh wood possesses a very strong,
rose-iike fragrance hence the name.
There are half-a-dozen or more
kinds Of rosewood trees. The va
rieties arc found in South America,
and in the East Indies and neigh
boring islands. Sometimes the
trees grow so large that plank four
feet broad and ten feet in length can
be cot from them. These broad
planks are principally used TO make
the tops Of piano-fortes. When
growing in the forest, the rosewood
tree is remarkable for its beauty;
but such is its value in mEhufae-
lures as an ornamental wood that
some Of the forests where it once
grew abundantly now have scarcely
4 single specimen. IN Madras the
Government has prudently had
great plantations Of this set out IN
order 70 keep up the supply.
Year: 1876

We print elsewhere a severe ar
raignment of the Democratic party
by the Charksville Chronicle for its
alleged failure to preserve the credit
of the State as it was pledged to do.
The Chronicle tells some unpalata
bic truths in a very plain way.
They will CRATE harshly upon many
an ear unused to such plainness of
speech by a Democratic organ.
This question will override every
other issue of the coming cam
paign, and it must be met in
the frank and fearless spirit of an
honest purpose to do what honor
and duty require. The plighted
faith of Tennessee must be pre-
served. Nothing short of this will
meet the approval of a very large
majority of the people Of the State.
The parties, in arranging for the
next campaign, must bear this in
mind, and they must put it in their
platforms in no equivocal terms,
that the plighted faith of Tennessee
shall be preserved. We arr aware
that a considerable body of gentle
men in this State favor repudiation
in some shape, and they may make
the issue in some of the counties,
but if they do, they will find them
selves in a hopeless minority. 1t is
the sentiment of the people that the
honest debts of the State must be
paid, and the duty of making pro-
vision looking to that end will de-
volve upon the Legislature to be
elected next fall. That will, beyond
doubt, be the most important
Legislature that has assembled
since the war. It's duties will be of
the highest and most delicate char
acter, and it will require statesman
ship of no ordinary type to DIS
charge these duties in satisfactory
manner. 1t is a common thing to
talk of sending the best men to the
Legislature, but now a crisis is up
on us when this thing is impera-
lively demanded, and the people
must see to it, that good and true
men shall be sent to the Legislature
men who know and appreciate what
will be required of them, and who
have the nerve to discharge the
duty in a fearless manner. If the
people will send to the Legislature
their wisest and best men, the ways
and means can be devised for meet
ing the obligations of the State and
/ preserving its honor. 1t is the
most important duty that has de


volved upon a Legislature since the
organization of the State, and il
may be so discharged as to restore
our noble old commonwealth to the
proud position it occupied before il


became the prey of spectators anC
rings.-NashVslls Mail.
Year: 1876

viii revive faith in his own honesty,
and change in some measure the
opinion of those who have sad
", slowly and by irresistible COM
pulsion been brought to believe that
he is a worthless if not a bad man.
Year: 1876

Montgomery (Ala-) Advertiser.
If you want a negro senator to get
mad, and roll the whites Of his eyes
till they look ike dogwood bios
SONS, and raise an odor that you can
smell fifty yards on a dead level,
just propose a bill to have honest
and intelligent jurors in the counties
of the Black Belt. You can then
prepare to hold your nose.
Year: 1876

The Washington Republican has
struck a sensible strain "Certain
New York papers are much alarmed
just now lest theI blessed constitu-
ton should be hopelessly fractured
by loan ofpublic credit in aid Of
the Texas and Pacific. It is singu-
lar that the same journals were not
troubled with any such fears when
the Credit Mob1lier were subsidized.


However, it costs money to run a
newspaper, and Gould and Hunting
tor have millions from the public
Treasury with which to stimulate
the Constitution loving consciences
of their friends. If the United
States has constitutional power to
open a wagon road for its mails
and supplies to posts on the South
ern frontier, has it not power to
build a cheaper and more useful
Toad2"


The Pittsburg Dispatch @has always
thought that it would be of greater
advantage to the interests of all con
eerned il the colored vote were
more divided and the freedmen did
not cast their suffrages solidly for
one party" and it says: ave are
very certain it would be very pro-
motive Of the best interests of the
country if the South were unit in
politics. Neither would it be for
the good Of the nation if the North
we're to 60 solidly for political
measures. Sectionalism was the
bane of the country before the war,
and It appears as If it would soon
/ become the curse Of the nation
I again. We do not wish 70 see a
solid North against a solid South,
for in such an event we would Ger
/ tainly have war. Yet, the tenden-
cv is in that direction"
Year: 1876

publican party. He has labored at
the sacrifice of time and money, to
spread knowledge of its doctrines
among his people, and to prepare
them for the better discharge of
citizen duties. He has done most
for his country. He was, perhaps,
the first to advise the arming of the
blacks in the service of the Union,
and to urge the emancipation of the
slaves. The effect of these two
measures upon the results of the
war could scarcely be overestimated.
Viewed from every point, whether
party consistency, availability OF
personal desert, it appears right that
Frederick Douglass should be the
Republican candidate for vice pres
ident in the Centennial contest"


The New York Herald on the
Louisiana troubles: "The policy in
the South is peace. Avoid all rev
olutionary expedients. Let i'm
peachment be a remedy for high
crimes and misdemeanors, not a
political expedient Treat the ne
gro as a political equal Do not
drive him into the arms of thieves.
Teach him that suffrage means good
government and low taxes. Do not
accept every victory as meaning
necessarily the extermi nation of
of political opponents. When Ju-
bal Early defeated his Yankee ad-
versaries, instead of pursuing his
victory with order and discipline,
he took to plundering the camps
Before the sun went down he was a
routed fugitive. Let the Southern
Democrts ponder well this example,
remembering that victories like
those for which they are preparing
in Louisiana and Mississippi may
bring in their train a defeat as ter
rible as that which sent the needless
Early 'whirling down the valley"
Year: 1876

the State Department and through the Committee on
Foreign Relations the Senate to have the awards Of
Mixed Commission set aside and ITS annued in
which efforts he had been unsuccessful
Year: 1876




NEW CASTLE, Nov. 16.-Now that the
Republican wigwam has been removed, and
the room Of the Tilden and Hendricks club
closed, the young men of this city feel the
want of a reading room. There is no doubt
but that if suitable quarters could be pro-
cured. an association for mental and moral
improvement would receive the hearty sup
port of our people. Such at least is the
opinion Of those best informed on such
matters. The membership in the Diamond
State Club is full-that is, as full as the
size OF their room will admit of-and the
zeal and taste shown in its decoration proves
that they appreciate the fact Of being in
possession Of meeting place.


The Moss Rose Assembly have Hermann's
Hall leased. Their condition is reported as
prosperous, and membership nearly full


His honor, the Mayor, has had no cases
before him this week, and is happy. The
wonted smile has returned, and our muni-
cipal affairs move on as though no election
had been.
Year: 1876

Winter is coming again, and the bewil-
dered populace of Rhode Island will get up
early in the morning and hastily empty
their ashes over into the adjoining States
and scuttle back into the house before the
Connecticut police or the Massachusetts
people are awake. War will grow out of
this thing before many years.
Year: 1876

A special to the Tribune says
"Ihe President one day last week
gave an audience to an Ohio private
citizen 10 no way connected with
public life, and voluntarily conversed
very freely with him upon the public
situation, Among other things, the
President criticised very severely Mr..
Hayes's letter. He said lie consider
ed it in extremely bad taste, and
thought it reflected upon the present
Administration. The President furth-
er said to this gentleman that he
hoped the time would come when the


American people would be permitted
to elect President for as Tonga a time
as they chose, The inference left
upon this gentleman's mind was very
strong that the President was griev-
ouSIy annoyed that any consideration
whatever had been given to the ques>
tion of the third term. The Presi-
dents entire manner indicated COM
plete dissatisfaction with the political
situation, and much personal anger.
Year: 1876

Having DETAINED and degraded
the few reformcrs in their own pare
ty the radicals have set about the
work of destroying the good name
of Gov. Tilden. Their latest at
tempt is the charge that for one
year he was known to have received
fec Of ten thousand dollars when
he gave in a much smaller sum as
his entire income. AS these re-
turns arc all given in under oath
they declare him guilty of perjury.
The facts are these; The year allu,
ded to was the first one under the
income tax, and the fee alluded TO-;
while collected during that year,
was the work of several years la~
Dor. Gov. Tilden simply pursued
the course adopted by all leading
merchants and other business men,
Of declining to consider all the
money he collected in that year rs
the income of that year. 1t is per-
fectly obvious that to do otherwise
would be 20 tax the labor and prof
It's of past years for the present one.
The thing is SO thin that Gov. Til
den has not even deigned to answer
1t over his own name, but a num-
Der of eminent business men have
shown it to be as ridiculous as it
was malicious.
Year: 1876

The newspapers and politicians all
over the country are beginning to
figure up the prospective vote for
President in tho coming election, and
it is astonishing to see how widely the
estimates vary. Below is given the
estimated vote OF the several States,
prepared by the National Republican
Executive Committee in Washington
within few days, us we are Informed.
1t will be read with interest by those
who are curious to know how Zach
Chandler views the situation. The
figures represent the number of
electoral votes each State Is entitled TO-:


TlLDEN HAYES
Year: 1876

Let the person whose A b D II @
name you wish to know G Gel Il
tell you i'm which of the EFFJ S
upright columns the first q @ X S
letter of his name is found. JILL Il
If it be found in but one X X NJ NJ U
column it is the top letter; MNN v
II il occurs IN more than o o w
one column it is found by QRTX X
adding the alphabetical VI Y
numbers of the top letters U wy Y
Of these columns, and the w WV


sum will be the number of Y


the letter sought. BY taking one letter
at "A time in this way the whole num-
her can be ascertained. For example,
take the word Jane. j is found in the
two columns commencing with B and
III, which are the second and eighth
letters down the alphabet: their sum
is ten, and the tenth letter down the
alphabet is J, the letter sought. The
next letter, A, appears in but one
column, where IL stands atthe top. n
is seen I'm the columns headed B, ID,
and Ii these Are the second, fourth,
and eighth letters of the alphabet,
which added gives the fourteenth, or
N, and so on. The use of this table
will excite no little curiosity among
those unacquainted with the foregoing
explanation.
Year: 1876

The Colorado election, which takes place
tomorrow, will determine tho choice Of the
State for President, as the Legislature
which is to be elected will choose the three
Presidential Electors as we'll as the two
United States Senators.
Year: 1876

VOLUNTEER CoACH1NG.-Foury young men,
inspired by desire to initiate the members
of the New York Coaching Club, and moved
by spirituous influences, on Saturday night
found hack standing on Broad street and
the driver absent. One Of them got on the
drivers box and grasped the reins, while
his companions took seats inside the vehicle,
and off they went in glorious style. They
were followed by the indignant driver and
Policeman Hulce, and were finally stopped
near the corner OF Third and Grace streets.
AS soon as the driver demanded posses
sion one of the young men threatened to
shoot him, while two others broke and ran.
The quartette were before the Police Justice
yesterday, and each was fined $3.50 and
costs.
Year: 1876

Unsettled. All OF the judges OF election
Of the county OF Chesterfield have been
summoned to appear at the next term OF the
County Court to show cause why they did
not sign the returns OF the vote east at the
recent election for the Office Of Comnon-
wealth's Attorney. Their refusal to sign
them was based upon the fact that Judge
Weisiger decided adversely to Judge Clop-
ton that the fourth Thursday in May was
not regular election.
Year: 1876

DISPATCH PRINTrNG-HoUsE.-In order to meet
the constantly increasing demands Of our trade we
have added well-selected assortment Of NEW
TYPE, which, together with our improved MA
cHINERY and sKILPUL MECHANICAL TALENT,
warrant us In guaranteeing the VERY REST CLASS
OF WORK ut moderate figures and In the most expo
III
Year: 1876

a rap at the door. Come in i'' cried
the sire, and in bounced the boy in
sailor jacket and tarpaulin hat just
home from whaling voyage.
Such rejoicing us there was in that
house. How his father shook both his
hands, and how his mother wept over
him and embraced him, and how all the
brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins
hung around his neck and tugged at
his sailor jacket.


II was worth braving the dangers of
| the sea to meet with such welcome
| on his return. lie sat at the feast in
| the chair that mothers deathless love,
and hope and recollection had always
placed for him, and never was there a
happier THANKSGIVING since that cher
ished anniversary was invented.
Crabapple's boy wept over that story
every time he read it, and he got to
wondering whether such fuss would
be made over him should he run away
from home and then turn up again some
Thanksgiving day.


He thought about it so much that he
finally determined to test the business,
anyhow. He would see how the peo-
pie would act when he played the pro-
digal's return. So about week be-
fore Thanksgiving he ran away from
home. He didn't go to sea be-
cause the sea was too far off, and he
couldn't make much of voyage in one
week, anyhow. He got a job in a tan
yard, grinding bark, which answered
all the purpose, for he could imagine
his bark was on the sea-" as he rode
the old horse around the circle. He
called the mill the world, and imagined
himself sailing around the world at
every revolution.


With beating heart he approached
the paternal mansion. He looked In at
the window and saw the folks just sit>
ting down to the Thanksgiving supper.


A chill of disappointment crept over
him as he saw there was no vacant
chair and there wasn't any idle plate on
the table. He listened at the door as
the blessing was asked, but although
several prophets were honored with
f1attering notice, his name wasn't men,
toned. This was little hard on the
boy who had run away from home and
was liable to turn up on that or any
succeeding Thanksgiving day.


Recollections Of him didn't seem to
cluster around the hearthstone to any
very great extent.


Repressing chilling foreboding that
arose in his breast, he flung open the
door, rushed into their midst and ex-
claimed" Father mother tits T,
Sammy Crabapplel-home again! homel
home - and then threw himself on his
fathers breast, sobbing convulsively.


What did that father do? Did he
hug him and sob tears over him, and
call him his long lost bo-bo-bOy 2"
Not much. He took him by the collar,
led him into the woodshed and worked
over him more than an hour with bar
rel stave. his brothers and sisters
dancing aroupd on the back stoop in an
ecstacy of delight, while his mother
screamed, I" That's right, Ambus give
it to him Learn him better'n to run
away from home again !"


Then he was sent to bed without any
Thanksgiving supper at all, and
threatened with being deprived of both
Christmas and New Years dinner.
Year: 1876

Crabapple's boy had read that touch
ing Thanksgiving story about the chap
who ran away from home When boy
and went TO sea and was not heard of
for years and years and how on every
Thanksgiving day the mother set a
plate for the wanderer, and kept seat
for him at the table, and how the gray
haired sire, when he offered a blessing,
prayed for his wayward son-prayed
that he might return In safety to the
paternal Roof. a i"


And then one Thangiving day, when
they had about given him up for dead,
although the plate and vacant chair
told the story OF a mothers undying
hopes, just as the family had sat down
TO Thanksgiving dinner. there came
Year: 1876

One day last week the three-car monte
thieves met with little surprise over at
Battle Nj untain. and from among the
passengers on the West bound train
who alighted they selected the wrong
one for a victim. The story is thus told
by the Virginia Enterprise


"The other day, at Battle Mountain,
they, (the monte sharps) ailured Ger
man from the east, who exhibited q
large roll of greenbacks on the plat
form, into the spiders net. The
drunken man was on a big spree
when the expected victim entered, and
was losing money on every bet. The
German declined to bet, and to get him
in the notion one of the cappers gave
him twenty dollar piece on which to
try his luck. He placed it on a card
and won. Pocketing the $40 he re-
fused to bet again, and walked out of
house, followed Dy the cappers who in
sisted on getting the money back. The
German drew a large seized revolver
from his pocket, and assuming a de-
fant attitude, said


You speak to ma put you SO tam
full OF holes you don't know what you
am. l am an old Californian, and
know all about your tam tricks. You
take me for an emigrant you make
fools init yourselves.


I" The three.carders discovered that
tLey had caught Tartar, as they saw
their would be- victim board train as
the conductor shouted all aboard and
leave them lamenting."
Year: 1876

Under the above caption, communica-
ton appears in another column OF our issue
this morning, in reply to an editorial para
graph of yesterday. We take pleasure in
giving place to the communication, esPeci-
ally since it comes from such a responsible
source, and have no doubt that its state
ments are entirely correct; but We desire to
call attention to part Of the opening SEN
tence. Mr.. Taylor says: at has been the
policy of our school board, heretofore, not
to notice any OF the 'driyes" made at them
through the newspapers" This is literally
true. 1t is notable fact that
the policy OF our school board
has always been to sit back on its
dignity and treat the criticisms OF the press
with silent contempt. Newspapers repre-
sent the public, and but very few institu-
tions in this country have ever been able
to successfully defy public opinion, as many
stronger bodies than our school
board have demonstrated TO their
sorrow. Ne conscientious newspaper ever
makes a charge-or "drive," if you
please from a sense OF duty, and
when no attempt is made to answer the
charge, the public mind invariably settles
down into the conviction that it is true
silence is accepted by the public as plea
OF guilty. In our criticisms of the School
Beard, as OF all other institutions, We al
ways say what We believe to be true, and if
al any time we are mistaken, our columns
are always open TO the explanation of
those interested on TIE other side.