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Year: 1876

A western editor met a well educated
farmer, recently, and informed him that he
would like to have something from his pen.
The farmer sent him pig and charged him
uine dollars aud sevouty.dve cents for it.
Year: 1876

We are told that even the General of
the Army knew that Belknap, as Secre-
tary Of war, was selling post-traderships,
and that the officers of the army were
being robbed by his system, and yet this
great man Gen. Sherman, whom we have
been led to believe was brave and honor
able to a high degree, feared to offend
Belknap. Is this the work of discipline?
Is this the state to which the American
Army is reducedP Are the officers of that
army so cowardly as to suffer to be rob-
'oed thai a Secretary's wife may appear
at balls and parties clad in silk and gold,
and the Presidents brother, Orville
Grant, fare sumptuously on the sale
of contracts procured through fraud
and the evasion of the laws? If Grant
was Democrat we should insist hat he
should be impef ched and hurled from
office as deserving the contempt of every
American soldier.
Year: 1876

The Republican papers are busy trying
to figure out Republican gains in the
connecticut election. The Democracy
OF that State send back the response. as
a Centennial greeting. that they have a3
more majority on joint ballot in the
Legislature than last year; that they
have secured Democratic Governor
Democratic State officers, Is Democratic
majority in the Senate, "a Democratic
majority in the House, and Democrat.
&C United States Senator. The Republ.
cans are welcome to all the comfort thew
can obtain from these facts.-Wo,B
Year: 1876

The Ledger says There is too LARGE


an amount OF greenbacks in circulation
fer the amount of gold in the possession
of the Government to promptly redeem,
hence the greenbacks are at a discount


The remedy is plain lessen the amount
on the paper. The outstanding legal
tenders are some $780, 900. Lessen
thus amount one-half, and, our word for
IT, every greenback dollar will command
aus gold dollar on demand, and every ma
tional bank note dollar its greenback, as
now and that greenback its gold. in
turn.
Year: 1876

foul platter and spend very little time IN
adjoining the outside. The Importance OF their
work in the country, too, may be estimated
from their numbers and rapid increase. In
1859, when Joseph Fillmore travelled through
the wilderness, his library in his saddle-bags,
preaching and founding churches In upper
chambers and sail-lofts of the little towns OF
New York and Philadelphia, the disciples OF
Wesley could have been numbered by the
hundreds. Now tho Methodist Eplscopai
Mother Church, which meets In Baltimore
has nearly reached two million commuhi-
cants, while the Methodist Protestant Dranch
in 1870 numbered $4,000, the Wesleyans
10000, the Methodist Church South over half
n million, and the African branch OF this great
body as large a number. Nor does its COM
munion embrace elements of weakness which
would unfit it to act as powerful lever upon
the time. There are few profound inactive
scholars among its ministers, such as, Ill some
other sects, add more to the prestige ana uig
nifty of the Church than to its usefulness nor
is there, on the other side, an Overwhelmingly
large class of illiterate disciples the member
ship is for the most part composed OF acute,
intelligent business men and their wives,
tradesmen, mechanics, labOrers, with precisely
that trained prompt, practical habit OF thought
and action which makes them efficient workers
in any cause, be the cause good or bad.


There can be no doubt that the work Is
ready for their hand. The Methodist in old
times was missionary who preached christ
and Him crucifed in vile alleys and prisons,
and i'm the gangways of ships viler than ALL
with feryor and immediate success. Convlcts
and unconvicted sinners crowd the streets
now a. then and the truth is no less powerful
if offered sincerely. The only obstacle In the
way of our Methodist friends in the successful
performance of their great work Is the same as
that which impedes every other church-they
are hampefed by old traditions The success
of the sect has lain largely in appeals 10 the
emotions. The Methodist minister VIII" sees
body of men and women before MN
to-day, waiting to hear the TRUTH Is
weighed down by traditions Of the mighty
power of the great preachers OF the past, VINO
reused the souls of their hearers to ecstatic
nights by the fervOr and passion OF their ora
tory. If he is sincere in his own passion ana
fervor, his appeal may succeed; but II nc as
sumes heat and pathOs which lie does not
feel. it falls flat on the judgment and con-
science of every listener. Nothing is so mag
netic as genuine emotion-nothing so chilling
as its counterfeit. The Methodist Church Is
made up as rule of sincere and earnest men,
1t is only necessary for them to express their
own conception of the "wuth directly, and
forego all effort to initiate manner which ex-
pressed the conceptions of other men. when
this is done with zeal and heartiness there
will be less cause for adverse criticism of the
Fictitious and short-lived emotion prevalent In
many camp and other meetings.
Year: 1876

General convocations of any largo religious
body command each year more attention from
the public simply because the public now
concerns itself with certain reforms and ques-
tions which a generation ago were left to
clcrgymcn To settle. The pcws have their
own opinions nowadays concerning temperance
and the dangerous classes and right ana
wrong IN official life and elsewhere, and have
their own ways, too OF dealing with THESE
thiags but they are eager still tn know what
the pulpit says in the matter, and what are the
ways of cure il has to offer In fact, they are per-
petually setting mp the pulpit on trial. as 1t
were, weighing not only It's efficacy rs prac-
teal refolmer, but its faithlulness to the great
Christian doctrines which it processes to teach.
The Conference of the Methodist Church is
snre to attract more of this popular criticism
than any other, as it represents the most prac-
teal of all sccts the one most ready to take
up tho political or social problems OF tho day,
and To deal with them bare-handed. The cler-
gymen of other denominations usually manifest
(whethcr wisely or not is not for us to judgc)
great reluctance to meddlo with VeXed
popular questions the religious oracle
dwolls apart and is to be found only III n
certain mystical shadow. But the Methodist is
ready on the instant to decide on every topic
which concerns the daily life of man, social,
domestic, or political He fought for Slavery
or against it he lost no time in making up
his mind for or against the Confederacy, and
in knocking down the man who differed from
him. His religion is not u matter to be sus-
tained by cold logic by quiet retreat into
solitary places for mystical eXaltation. 1t be-
| longs to the street and to the market place !;
it concerns itself with the schools for the chil-
dren, the jails for convIcts, the candidates for
town offices. He may make mistakes, but he
will acknowledge them he cannot belong to
the hury -bury of the world without changing
his mind as facts change about him, and adj
vancing day by day; he may be illogical,
hcadstrong, crude, but mt least he is there,
prompt and ready. for what he thinks his
Masters work.


The Methodist, probably more than any
other church-goer carries the daily paper in
his pocket, and this is in so large majority
of cases The TRIBUNE that we feel the fra
tcrnal right of long friendship to speak the
truth of him plainly. Newspaper readers are
seldom skinned, sensitive folk, but handle
matter r-of- fact questions In direct matter-of-
fact way. We look upon the business which
now lies before the Conference and upon the
disposition which shall be made of it with at
tentive interest. Too often, religious convo-
cations are employed with mysteries
of ceremonial. the trivial machinery
of church government, or small differ
enccs of dogmas. all of which appear
to earnest men struggling hand to hand with
gigantic evils in the work-day world, petty
and trifling, the. very diettanteism of reform.
There is no fear that our Methodist brethren
will make this mistake. They usually 60
straight to the cleansing of the inside of the
Year: 1876

The suspension of the Loaners' Bank in this
city will be accepted as another evidence OF
the embarrassments of general business. But
as the bank was small one and depositors
are not expected to suffer any loss the event
is not likely to be the precursor of other dis
astcrs.
Year: 1876

In Egypt the Court of Appeals has decided
that the Khedive's immense estates are liable
to execution as much as tho property of any
citizen. This decision results doubtless from
tho court being constituted on an independent
basis; but its practical value is doubtful, since
the Khedive's will is still supreme.
Year: 1876

The sub committee appointed at the meeting
of citizens held at Trades Union hall on
Thursday, met the subcommittee of the Army
of the Tennessee to make arrangements for
participation by the citizens of the District in
the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the
statue of General Mcpherson during the pres
ence of the Army of the Tennessee in this city.
which holds its annual session on the 18th and
10Th of October. The joint committee was
organized by the selection of Admiral Radford
as chairman. Several suggestions were made
and discussed, but without reaching any def
mite conclusion the committee adjourned To
meet again at the call of the chairman.
Year: 1876

THE Emperor of Brazil doesn't fancy eti-
quette and he has no chronic aversion. to
reporters. When the Secretaries of State,
War and the Navy went in war-steamer
to welcome him, with brass band and a
written-out speech, they were quite indig-
nsnt because some newspaper men asked
permission to- go along. But when the rep
resentatIyes Of the~President reached the
Brazilian steamer Helvetius, which had
brought the Emperor, they found the auda-
cious knights of the pencil chatting socially
with Dom Pedro, withOuts q bit of blawsted
etiquette, you know. His Imperial High
ness gave the officials cold shoulder, and
they returned on their steamer without him,
but the reporters escorted him to his place
of landing at New York. This is another
exemplification of the fact that the Press is a
a POGer, and that the old pr'judices against
it must be gotten rid of by those who aspire
to direct public sentiment in this republic.
No one can deny that the present admins
tratIon has suffered because of the army
prejudice against newspaper men which has
estranged them fr m the White House.
And in the coming Presidential contest the
P0tcer of the Press will be exercised. Ger
respondents whose dispatches are read by
many thousand voters every morning can
not be held in contempt even by the candi-
dates who imagine themselves above the
effects of printers ink, often so maliciousiy
and unfairly used.
Year: 1876

The fellow Harvey must produce better
testimony than his own ipse DIRT, if he
would make an honest man believe that
Mr.. Speaker Kerr sold a petty Office for
$500. Kerr is a solid, kRotty, cranky,
Scotch Presbyterian, born and reared in the
fold of that church. Love of honesty and
of economy, because the two virtues are in
separable, is the basis of conduct and char
acter of the class of which Mr.. Kerr is q
proper representative. He is now growing
old. Through long and active public
life his fame has been unspotted, and it is a
foul shame that partisanship has become SO
degraded that it produces and recognizes
men who would serve the party by defan-
ing one whose whole life and history assert
the perjury of his accuser.
Year: 1876

SINCE Dallas is going to be left out in the
cold, and is no longer the great railway.
center aud terminus of Texas, people might
suppose jest serious, and then it would
signify something and even do possible det-
riment. 1t would be neither generous nor
just, therefore, to poke any more fun at
Dallas. The Wichita Railway scheme, to
compete with Tom Scott's, has fallen
through, and Dallas must suffer for time
from terrible paralysis; but it is In the Gen.
ter of matchless farming district, and the
torpidity of its people cannot destroy its
final growth and greatness.
Year: 1876

FIVE hundred and six applications for
divorce were made in a single week in Chi
cago. Welded people there will all be
liberated and then establish pandemonium,
and the next fire will blaze through eter-
nifty, and the Inter Ocean will still be the
proper organ of society and government.
But it is fearful fact, in view of the con-
dition of society and public and private
morals in Chicago, that newspaper of the
Internal place should criticise the tastes
and acts and misdeeds of the people Of
Texas. We could endure condemnation
from any other quarter Of the uncivilized
globe.
Year: 1876

EVERY sane Southern man would have
sectional issues obliterated and we can only
sbhor those of the North who pretend to
love the Union, and yet will not suffer the
withdrawal of the wedge that ever widens
the broad ugly tissure between the North
and South. Blaine, who has done most
since Thsd Stevens died and Ben Butler was
silenced, to dig and deepen the unseemly
chasm. has been stricken down by the ugly
fend of Investigation, and Providence has
smitten Morton, the monster of hate
and malignity and sectionalism, with
foul incurable leprosy and it seems
that decency must triumph and that
Conkling and Bristow will be
the Republican candidates for the presi-
dency and vice-presidency. The Demo
Gratis must then nominate Tilden. He
alone can compete with Conkling for su-
premacy in New York, and he alone, with
Trumbull as.the Democratic candidate for
the vice-presidency, can secure the vote of
the Carl Schurz reformers and political free
thinkers in the East and West. Whet her
Tflden or Conkling be triumphant the
South is infinitely the gamer. The coun-
try, in either event, will be government
of statesmen, substituted for incapable,
unworthy adventures and ghastly rings.
We therefore not only believe Conkling
and Bristow the strongest possible ticket the
Republicans can present to the country, but
If this ticket must triumph the South will
have the least possible reason, in view of
the fearful fact that the power of Repub-
iicanism is protracted, to deplore the result.
But the future leaders of the party N
power must soon be known. Ten days
hence the Republican National Convention
sits in Cincinnati.
Year: 1876

The Legislature does not propose to ex-
tend pensions to Texas veterans living in
other State And imperative necessity de-
mands thai the State assume no liabilities
now that are hot absolutely necessary.
The debt of the State is growing at such
rate as to make this proposition purely &
correct one, especially since in the abstrsci
a1 concessions of this nature are made
through compliment.
Year: 1876

PEOPLE should learn an invaluable les
son from each river they behold. Every
current of water Is certainly tending to
equalize its slope, to increase it where it
is almost imperceptible, and diminish it
where 1t is too rapid. We commend the
lesson inculcated by nature to the Sunday
readers of the SrArEsA1AN.
Year: 1876

THE Gar has got his dsughter-Marie
Aexandrovna-home from London, and the
Duke of Edinburg leads life of his owu


WhereupOn the newspaper quidnuncs con-
lecture that the Duke and Duchess have
had another quarrel; that the separation is
final, and that it portends war between
Russia and Great Britain for the possession
of Asia The fact that the Emperos of Ger
many did not visit the Queen at Baden is
also made to play part in the great drama.
Year: 1876

sword, no one ever saw it without wishing
that it might become animated for five
minutes. so as to give 1t an opportunity to
smash Winnie Ream's Lincoln and then get
hung for conspiracy, a
Year: 1876

As Secretary of War, Father Taft was
sorry failure. He was not the man for
turning the crank of the outrage mill, or
issuing orders to the army to trampie down
the rights Of citizens in peaceful and unre-
sisting communities, and was therefore
summarily relieved and sent to doze in the
Department of Justice. There he is burn
ing midnight oil ever an opinion which
argues that the President may lawfully
precipitate the army upon any State in the
Union in time Of pro ound peace, and with
out any call from its Governor or Legis-
lature, providing only that his patriotic
object is to carry an election for the Re-
publican party. Beside this, Father Taft
will be wakened up occasionally for an
opinion in justification Of some admins
tration outrage, or to make out an appoint
ment for District Attorney, or prepare a
pardon for whisky thief From nice
old gentleman and well disposed citizen,
who never had marked propensity to
steal or murder or stuff ballot boxes,a a brief
association with Grant, has transformed
this venerable old gentleman from decent
county attorney into worthy successor Of
Munson Pierrepont.
Year: 1876

Yesterday three of our citizens went crab
bling. One was Q doctor, one was lawyer,
and the third an Erie railroad ofhcial. They
left early in the morning, and one woula
Judge from the amount of provisions and
crab bait they carried along that they were
going to fish for monsters Of the deep. The
Railroad man furnished the bait, which con.
sisted of three beef heads and large guam
tity of salt pork. They all got sea.siek,
and returned late in the evening with the
provisions untouched. They gave it all to
a man on Pine street, who said it would last
his family of thirteen persons two weeks.
AS for the crabs, if they would had have
got ninety-seven more they would have had
one hundred. This morning they were try
ing to make bargain with Benjamin to
cart up their empty baskets from the port.
The same party are going again next week,
on which occasion the "Journal' will send
special reporter along to get the fine
points.
Year: 1876

A roof may be covered with a very cheap
single, and by application of this slate be
made TO last from 20 to 25 years. Old zoos
can be patched and coated, looking much
better, and lasting longer than new shin
giles without the slate, for
One Third the Cost Of Reshingling


The expense of stating new shingles is
only about the cost of simply laying them
The paint is FIRE-PROog against sparks or
flying embers, as may be easily tested by
any one.


1T STOPS EVERY LEAK,
and for tin or iron has no equal, as it ex-
pands by heat, contracts by cold. and NEVER
CRACKS nor scales. Roofs covered with Tar
Sheathing Felt can be made water-tight at
a small expense, and preserved for many
years.


This slate paint is
Year: 1876

CUTTING Two WAYs.-lt is proba-
BILE that a new trial will be granted TO
Mckee, convicted at St. Louis, and
sentenced for completely with the
Western whiskey ring, On the ground
that he was tried on copy Of the IN
dictment found against him, instead
Of the indictment itself Dyer, the
District Attorney, will not object, it
is said, as be feels confident Of being
able to prove the defendant guilty on
the second trial. This is lard upon
Babcock, who was also tried, but ac-
quilted On copy cf the Indictment
found in his case. Tho same rule Of
determination viii require that he
should be tried again, when, il view
of recent developments, he is almost
certain to be convicted.
Year: 1876




and Figures ConeerRinS HIM.


The Omaha Herald gives this
sketch of Bell the detective: AS
there has been great deal said about
c. S. Bell, of Jackson, Mississippi, in
the recent Washington dispatches, in
connection with the War Department
investigation, Herald contribution
to the current literature of the day on
that subject may possess some inter-
est. While connected with the Nash
vile (rcnn.l press in 1873, the writer
became acquainted with Bell, then a
Special Agent of the Internal Reve-
nue. Departmental Supervisor Cobb's
district, and being thrown in his com
pany frequently, learned something
Of his history.


When the war broke out, Bell,
who is New Yorker by birth enter
ed the Union service in Missouri, as
a scout, and in that. capacity served
his country in a most effective man
ner during the entirs war, IN the
course Of which he travelled through
out the Southern States and met with
some remarkable adventures, which
latter were written up at length IN
the New York Ledger, as the close of
the war. When Gen. Reynolds was
in command Of the Department OF the
Southwest, Bell served in his depart
ment as detective, in which llne he
was instrumental in bringing to the
gallows some of the greatest despera-
does Of the age, but at tire cost OF
many terrible cuts, shots and bruises
upon his own person. About i've
years ago he married the daughter OF
the matron of Mississippi's deaf and
dumb institute, located at Jackson
and has consequently made that city
his headquarters ever since. His wife
is a remarkably handsome woman,
and he has a couple Of charming
children. Bells personal appearance
is of such 4 character as would at
tract attention anywhere, being tall
and well built, with , long flowing
beard of q rich brown color. He is a
man of wonderful nerve and deter
mination, aud. where occasion to re-
quire it, would shoot a man down
without a moments hesitation, and
his eventful career Of the past
fifteen years has frequently dyed his
hands with the blood of his fellows.
His manners are easy and graceful,
and he Is an excellent companion
with whom to while away leisure
hour. Heis ready, graceful writer,
and we remember that upon one Occa
sion he asSilted Us in writing up the
execution OF Il negro at Nashville, up
on which occasion he did the descrip-
tive part in a mastery manner, and
apparently without the least mental
effort, the glowing adjectiyes slipping
uninterruptediy from the poiht of his
pencil from an apparently meXhaus-
tible fountain.


He is a man of brilliant abilities,
but belongs TO that large class who
came out of the army untitled for any
other than a life OF continued excite
ment, and of late years las dritted
into Objectionable habits.
Year: 1876

OUR PRosPEcTs.-The salvation of
this camp depends upon the immedi>
ate resumption Of mining operations


No matter i. his has TO be accom-
pIished through the settlement Of
claims at 4 heavy reduction. Better
this than the present s'agnatiOn and
inactivity. We call upon every man
interested. to make some sacrifice if
requisite, in order that business may
revive and The carp look up again.
1t is more than probable that in a
few days proposition locking to the
immediate payment or all these
claims at heavy reduction, viii be
submitted 10 parties interested, and if
so we advise all to give it earnest and
serious consiIeraiion.-OaDybee AUG-
ianche.
Year: 1876

CROSS AND sICKLY CHILDREN can be made
healty and strong by regulating their stomachs
and bowels with Castora II is more effective
than Castor Oil and is as pleasant to take as
honey, For Wind Collie, Sour Stomach, Worms
and Costiveness, there is nothing in existence
equal to Castoria.-3m2S
Year: 1876

Every cent collected at Frenchman's Bay
cost the government A FRACTION OVER
FIFTEEN DOLLARS!


All the otliceholders at this establish
ment are for Blaine for President and are
terribly exercised for fear that amnesty
will be extended to poor old jeff Davis
and that the Pope of Rome will gobble up
our free schools. Standard