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THE INDEPENDENT.
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J. C. GALLAHER, Editor**)d Proprietor.
irw.ii aini.i-ii. i.im-.ira a.r. t rw.
•Tor I my tut to yon in no wise cn yim enuape
tnc jam puiitiiniunt of vmir inlqailiiM.'’
If thr-sO words were constantly fresh in
-sntr jnind* und sounding in our earn what
constant earn would wo exercise over our
thought., anil particularly would we guard
our word* and our notion*. We may Kin,
end do sin liv indulging in evil thought*.
How often doe* our thought* linger open
the good net* and gentle words of our
neighbor*, llow much do we talk of what
lie did tliut is praiseworthy and Christ -
like. llow much do we strive to imitiite
hi* example; bow long do we remember
that that i* worthy of imitation that which
fihould possess our mind* and thought*
and govern our words and action*. Alas,
how noon forgotten, how seldom imitated.
Though ho feed the hungry, clothe the
naked, and visit the nick and imprisoned,
Hearooly a word is ever uttered to his
credit, and scarcely ever is hi* practice*
inculcated a* the correct doctrine* to gov
em our action*. Hut let a man commit:
an error, even though it lie just as our
own wrong* which we have kept iwcri t,
' nnJ'VWry Hot is put upon the pial to
waft the news, and every tongue ready to j
herald the *hnme. Everything thut is
noble, elevating, refining, angel and Christ
like, is lost sight of and forgotten, and the
counterpart of our own wrong* in the
most vindictive and malignant manner dis
cussed as the pet theme* of conversation,
a* though we were faultless und blameless
in the sight, of men and angel*. For such
H/is there must he a motive, and certainly
it cannot he to elevate our mcc. Then it
lnuat be to degrade, und such a motive i*
not of divine origin, nor is the practice in
jmrsuantt) of divine precept* and exam
ples. Your object not I icing to elevate
and help your erring brother, it must be
to pull him down, not push him, for if he
is already degraded below the level, hu
man nature, with all its corruptions, is too
prourl to stoop beneath itself to exhume
an object from the depths of degradation
to discuss its corruptions. Hut corrupt
human nature, with it* false pride, look*
up with its envies ami jealousies to brighter
luminaries with the wicked, malignant
hope of veiling their lirigbtnees fore ver or
ruthlessly forcing them from their envied
intellectual position to the degraded level
of uncultivated and unrefined human mi
iuro. These desires amt these practice*
arc, in the sight of Of si, iniquitous, “the
just punishment of which you cun in no
wise escape,” How do ye fed,ye gossippers,
when you lay your head upon your pillow
at night., after you have spent the day in
the parlor, on the streets, and elsewhere,
abusing your neighbor for the identical
wrongs you are guilty of yourself '/ You
ar* doubly criminal; you have denounced
him for the crime that, stains your own
■MMtt, Wud then guilt? of d*>rti.i* b> tey
ing to establish your iuuoeence by eon-!
demning in pretended bitternesa bis;
wrongs. Even in the darkness of night
there is a divinity that looks down into
your blackened and deceitful soul, und to
roar guilty conscience in audible accents
declares that “in no wise shall ye escape
the just’punishment of your iniquities.”
To prefers to bo your friend, extending
liis or her liberality and hospitalities w iili
welcome smiles and pleasantries, und when
they have thus caused you to believe that
they are your friends, and when you have j
parted with them as friends, how base it
iH to dip tlieir tongues in the lava of in
famy, ami try to secretly ruin you forever.
That is an iniquity that “I say unto you the
just punishment of which ye nui iu no
w ise escape."
Is there any such people! n our little
town ? if not we beg the citizens to use
every means to prevent the ingress of
such. Establish soeinl quarantine regu
lations to stop them at Dixie and at Ous
ley. Tell them that, you art' a neighbor
loving people, and that social and Chrte
t lan harmony prevail in every circle, and
that, you are determined that the harmony
ahull not be disturbed by the discordant
notes of long-tongued gotwippers.
Ye who sit, and with manifest pleasure
listen to tho idle and seaudalons reports
of goesippere, even though you open not
your month, are guilty of gossipping by
your encouraging attention. And if the
reports be slanderous and fidse ye are
parties})* eriminiit to the slanders and
falsehoods in tho sight of (iod and right
thirking men. Ye who love not scandal
w ill not listen to the scandal-mongers with
pleasure, and ■* won as you cease to lis
ten with pleasure the slanderer's tongue
will cease to defame. Tell ns no more
that yon are our frieud, and that you lis
ten in silence while others defame us. It
cannot be true. If the rejtorts were not
pleasant to you you would not listen to
them. If you listen and believe them yon
cannot Iw our friend; so you are guilty of
falsehood and deception when you say
that you are our friend, and that you have
listened repeatedly to these reports. This
deception and falsehood is aniniipiity "the
just punishment, of which ye can in no
wise escape.” Men and women everywhere,
are you going to cling to the lower in
stincts of humanity while the lamp of
na-on shines over the fields of literature
and science fraught with fruitful theiuea
sublime and grand?
I)oea not this world with all other mag
nificent systems in sight, onr joys and sor
rows, our blessings and afflictions, the
revelation, with all its fearful threateuings
and encouraging promises, furnish themes
sultteiont for our contemplation and con
versation without abusing our talents and
w astiug onr lives in the exposition of the
indiscretions and errors of others? I say
nnto you the neglect of the one and the
pursuit of the other is an iniquity, ‘‘the
just punishment of which ye can iu no
wise escape.”
*-t buy wai/s from lintlm^^^rirmi.
Tut Cuou-MA.—There can bo no doubt
! now, uu the facta ore indisputable and tlio
: authority undoubted, that the cholera ia
, j/revaflhig in Memphis and Nashville,
fenuevsee. Quito a number of deaths
i have occurred in both ritie*, and much
alarm is manifested. Doubtless every
sanitary means will lie Med to check the
| dreaded epidemic. It has not as yet as
sumed the worst type of the Asiatic post,
1 and we hope that it will never prove more
than a simulation to that fatal type of the
! disease. Commencing, as it has, in the |
early summer and in the interior of the !
country, there is no safety in predicting 1
when or where it will end.
(Prom the New York bun, May 20th.] j
Another Slander on Gen. Grant.
MinwAtme, May 20.—Tliere is some- 1
thing of an exeitenient in Wolworth
comity in this Stats-, about ft matter of;
national importance. It seems that when
(ten. Grant wu* at Chicago a couple of i
weeks ago, he was invited by a party of.
i gentlemen to make a pleasure trip with
them to Geneva in this State. Now On-j
iteva is a U-autiful village of 1,000 people, \
situated on the beautiful lake of the same ,
name, near the Illinois fine. It is noted,
a* a delightful village, and for the sanctity ,
and high mospl character of it* residents.
It is in the comity of Walworth, a county j
litrgnlv inhabited by Northern New York
and vYt ui.mt Methodist people. It is al
most exclusively an ngrieulturul eomity, j
lind gives regularly from 2,200 to 2.H1M1
Republican majority. It is the county,
also, iu which John P. Potter, of bowie
knife notoriety, resides.
When the farmers heard that. General
(Irani and party were to be on a given day |
at Geneva Luke, to fish for ciscoes they,
dropped their plows und hastened to Ge
neva to get sight of their hero President.
It is *aid they returned very much disap
pointed and mortified, for they found the
[ President and some of his party on quite
a spree. He was anything Imt the grave .
hero they expected to see. In fact lie was
tipsy, and in the street nulled off the cap j
of ahoy and whipped Bnerdinn with it. i
would nave made no allusion to this scan
dal hut 1 (Iml it lift* been pointedly alluded ,
to by the Rohvun UepubHcnn, a paper;
published in Walworth county, und by the :
daily press both in this city and Chicago, j
that when the President paused through j
Elgin the people of all parties were
shocked ut Ins condition, and that he was
hurried away from Chicago much sooner
than hail been expected, because he was
not lit to he seen there. BukikH.
1s t Grant alone, badger. It is hi* only j
way to imitate a smart man. A great man
limy get drunk, and a fool President wili
doit.
hortonTfraud
Sn Tiding* Vrt of lit* Adroit Swlndlfr.
The New York HoWi/of the 14th say a:,So
far as is vet, known ,1. H. Horton, the
bond-raiser and forger, whose work is the
present topic of wall street conversation,
Ims avoided capture. Horton, for some
years past, has resided in Lancaster, I’a.,
and was noted as a man of peculiar habits
which are now iutepreted with strong evi
dence of his guilt. His nights were devo-
I ted to wuue secret work mid his days to
sleep. His work consisted largely of bond
i raising, and the discovery wsh inode of the
, fwl oi this wise: On the 20th of May he
I I'Siuiaiiged wtlti Iteei 1 J it,Uauiii/of J,„n
raster, 200 shares of Reading for 200 shares
of Pennsylvania Central stock. Lost
Tuesday he proposed a similar exchange
with another linn, but without sueeesH,
and departed for Philidelphis, where, on
t in' same day he deposited w ith P. .S. l’eter-'
son St. Co*, of HO Mouth Third street, ,
hank cheeks to a large amount, apparently 1
draw n in his favor by well-known Phila
delphia linns. On these lie soon after oh- 1
tnined letters of credit to the amount of i
530,000 and disappeared. Thursday morn
ing lie presented These letters to Osgood
A Cos., No. 34 lirouil street (though the
face had been raised to 837,000), asking
that firm to buy gold for him. A telegram
to Pliilpdelphia brought a satisfactory re- j
plv. the gold was bought and Horton dis- |
appeared. Meantime the Lancaster firm
which hiul refused an exchange of bonds
with Horton hud discovered by exumina- 1
tion that the two bonds offered them w ere j
each raised from 1 to lUO shares. A dis-;
patch was forthwith sent to Philidelpliia, i
riie chocks in that city were discovered to I
he fiirgeries, and Osgood A Cos. were warn
ed by t heir correspondent just half an hour
after Horten hail departed. It is said that
he has been concerned in frauds elsew here, i
the total amount of which will be over 375,-
000. The following circular has just been
issued by Pinkerton's Detective Agency :
Tu Jitmkor* mill Brokers:
A man named J. If. Horton to day pro- 1
cured the following Treasury gold certifi
cates in payment for forged Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad stock, viz:
No. A 7!KIA for G.nOO No. A *IBO7 for Jl.OiXtj
No. A DIM a.IKSi No. A 33100 1,000
No. A 21370.. 1,000 No. A 24504 1,000 1
No. A 24619 . . .1,000 No. A 24791 I,ooo|
No. A 83621 . 1,000 No. A 20BHU I.uOO,
No. A 25200 . . 1,000 No. A 218311 1,000
Should any of these gold certificates be
pres-ateil to you. you will please advise
the undersigned, using the telegraph if
necessary; and should the party presenting
them not beef known responsibility en
deavor to cause his detention until legal
action can be taken.
Horton, who uttered this forged stock ;
is a man about thirty-five years of age,
five feet six or seven inches in height,
stout, built, weight about 180 pounds;
Hushed, florid complexion, heavy black
moustache, cut- short; short, dark hair,
slightly bald; short thick nock: black eyes
and eyebrows; wore a white straw hat with
black band and drooping brim with
black edging; light brown colored shirt,
turned-down collar; his clothing appeared
now.
•4" ■*-
Josh Billings onHenk.
The best time tew set a lien iz. when the
heu i/ ready. I kant toll what the best'
breed iz, but the shaughi is tho meanest.
It kosts as much to bord 1 as it duz a stage i
boss, and you might as well undertake tew ;
fat a fanning mill by running oats thru j
it.
There an’t no profit in keeping s hen
fur his eggs if he laze less than 1 a da.
Hens are very long lived, if they don’t
kontrnct the throat disease.
I kant tell eggzactly how tew pick out a
good hen, but az a general thing, tho long
eared ones, I luio are the least apt tew
serateh up the garden.
Eggs packed in ekwn] parts of salt and
lime water, with the other end downward
will keep fro# 30 to 40 years if Ufa are not;
disturbed.
Fresh bofostake is good for hens. I sup- ‘
pose 4 or fi pounds a da would be awl a hen
would need, at first along.
I shall be happy to advise with yon at
enny time on the bun question and take it:
in eggs.
.*. -
Western iieoplo have been burning *
reorn for fuel ull tho w inter because it |
■fctso cilt ip, .i.I uuv. whisky is 15 cents i
Letter from Colorado.
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[spuciai. eor.Hi.-roio r.N'ei: or thi: indkck-sumit.]
Bus rtn, Coloiiaxo, June G, 1873.
Editor Independent:
Since writing yon, I have been pretty
much on the go. Iluve visited almost all
the places of interest in ami around Den
ver, and liuve been seeing the elephant
generally. Last Thursday an excursion
party, of which I was fortunate enough to
be one, left this place for u trip over the
Colorado Central Huihoad, into the very
heart of the Kooky Mountains. At 0
o'clock we started, and in a very short
time had passed over the sixteen miles of
prarie lying between this city and the
mountains, and had arrived at Golden
City. Golden City is beautifully and ro
mautically situated just in the edge of the |
mountains; is a town of id xml 2,MxHnlmb- j
itants; is a delightful summer resort, and i
bids fair to boa place of some importance.
Here wo change cars und change rail
roads, for here we take the narrow gringo
For the benefit of those who are us igno- ;
rant as I wus, I will state thut the narrow
guage is three feet. The cars are built
upon the same plan n* the, broad guage, i
but smaller. The seats arc an-auged like J
other coaches, except that on one side the
Heat is only for one person. Tire engines
i are smulier, but said to lie very powerful, j
The wheels ure much smaller than common
ear wheels, and you step on the platform
without trouble. Altogether the narrow
gauge is a cute arrangement, oml I like it.
At Golden our excursion may be said to
have eommonceib Here we arc put in
observation cars. Observation cars iuv
open, having no top, with seal* arranged j
like omnibus seats. Hero you luive ilu
i best opportunity imaginable to see every- !
thing. And to make it more perfect und
agreeable, the engine is put behind, so,
thut wo may be free from smoke and cin-;
ders and have nothing in front to obstruct;
the view. Thus comfortably arranged,
with our lunch in baskets und satchels,
and the bottle of brandy which Gus gave
me when I left home, snugly stowed away
(t promised Gus not to open the brandy j
until I reached the ltoeky Moun
tains, and I wiii tell you further on
what became of it), we start up Clear creek
canon for Black Hawk and Central, the
centre of the mining company, and in a .
I few minutes are. running right along the
j side nl an immense mountain. Looking up
we see towering above us a thousand feet
i in the air, mass upon mass of solid rook,
while far below, ul)d at the base, is visible
the foaming, lushing waters of Clear
('reck. The feelings of awe and reverence
| that, thrills every heart upon first entering .
those mountain gorges are indescribable, i
Human nature shrinks at, its own insignifi
cance as man beholds these Stupendous
wonders. Hut the majesty and sublime
' grandeurs of these so long hidden and
i unknown beauties inspires the Divinity
1 within us, mid we involuntarily exclaim,
! ‘‘There is a find!” We mallow iu*cCli*Hug
l at the rate of one feet to the
1 mile, and the little engine pull's and blows '
j at a fearful rate; but steadily xve go, tip, up, !
the water dashing below ns, and the,
! mountains towering above. Thus we fol-.
; low Clear creek canon, every moment
bringing anew scene to view which we I
j think more terribly grand than tho last.
After about two miles run we begin to see
tho commencement of sluice milling. This
kind of miuing does not require much
; capital, but is very bard work. The
miners are generally mining this on their
own account. I will nof attempt to de-1
scribe the process of sluice mining. The
main feature is washing the gold out in
; long sluices or troughs.
| At. one o'clock, after riding twenty-five
j miles through the grandest and most
| majestic scenery imaginable, we reach,
Black Hawk. Hero wo arc three tlious
; and feet higher than at Denver, and 2,500
j feet higher than at. Golden City. Tlie air
here is quite thin, and a very little exer- ,
rise is sufficient to take the “witid” away
| from a person not accustomed to breathing
, it. It requires almost twice as much of
tills air to keep up the circulation u ordi- ’
I nary air. Hence you are compelled to j
j breathe with more power and faster than
| usual, expanding and exercising the lungs.
1 This, together with the pureness and drv-
I lies* of the atmosphere, is the secret of
! the beneficial influence this climate lias 1
upon consumptives. We rested at the i
railroad station a short time, ate our din
ner, and, in company with a young man
from Illinois, I started on a sight-seeing ex
pedition. It is my intention to visit the j
“Bobtail" mine- -so-called because the man
who discovered it used a “bobtail bull” to
hutd. the first ore from the lode. Cius' j
bottle of brandy I take with me, for;
though I never intend to take another j
drink should I live to he as old as Mat.hu- j
selali, still l have an idea in my head.
The young man who started with me was
only able to hold out about six hundred
yards, when he completely “caved in," uud
l was compelled to leave him to await my
return. I had already received the proper
directions for finding the mine, and ir.
about fifteen minutes reached the mouth 1
of the same, completely broken down.
After resting a little while, I signified my j
desire to some miners to visit tho interior
of the mine. Immediately I was furnished
a candle, and a boy alsmt 14 years ifl was
ordered to accompany me as guide, also
with a candle. 1 was unceremoniously as
; sist-eil into tho little iron car. about eight
foot long, three feet deep and five feet
wide, drawn by a very little mule, and
used to haul the ore from the interior of
the mine. The boy says “git> up Jack”
and into the bowels of the earth wo go.
i We art' compelled to sit down fiat in the
bottom of tho car to keep our heads from !
, being bumped against the rock above, and
our candles only suffice to make the dark-1
ness visible. On, on we go, until we are
some hundred feet from tho light of day.
when the mule stops. I think probably
we are at the end of our journey, but it is
only a door to be opened. This is soon
done by the boy, who shuts it behind us
to keep out the draught, and wo keep on
still further. It seem* to me an age since
! I started, ami I thiiflt I would bo glad to
nee the light oitee more. Finally wo liuve .
dull, thumping noises shroud, and about
one hundred feet more brings ns to the 1
miners, ami now we are fourteen hundred
feet from the mouth of the tunnel, and
ivveu hundred feet straight up to the out
side of the world. Hen."is the vein which
the 'millers are working ; the vein is only
(About eighteen or twenty inches in di
ameter, but the oru which cornea from the
tunnel is rich and yields a large ]*er cent.
Here is a steam pump used for keep
ing the mine dry, anil Machinery for hoist
ing, Ac. While Lam prowling ulsmt with
the boy, seeing and homing all I can, |
there suddenly comes ena of the uwfnlest
jars I ever felt, foUoved by a rumbling
noise which sounds lib- distant thunder. ;
My first impression is that the mine has
caved in, or that something else terrible
has happened; the boy, however, assures
me that “it is notldng but n blast,” and
hauling the way, we go in the direction
from whence the noi*o proceed*. The .
smell of brimstone soon salutes my olfac
tories, and a little further on brings us to
the group of miners who are iu the main
tuuucl waiting for the smoke t< i clear away.
The blunt has in a side tun- ■
nel running dingu.ndly aeros* the one 1
through which I came. Miners are a clever,
sociable set of raeu as a general thing,
arising, perhapa, from their seclusion from 1
the world, and love to talk. I was soon 1
on familiar terms with the party, anil de
siring to proeurt a F-w of the best speci
mens of ore 1 could, I spoke to them in
this wise: “Boys,” ssys I, “I have come
all the wav from Quitman, On,, uud this
ia the first time I was ever ia a guld mine;
when I was leaving home, about one !
month since, a frieni of mine, fearing 1
I might be taken sidt when away from
home ami friends, kindly presented me
with a bottle of fine kl French brandy.
i I have determined ttm t drink any more
; of the ‘anient’ unless jiresoribed by a dozen
iloctorH, ami here is the bottle; I have
brought it all tin* way from Georgia; if
you will accept it yo-.ore welcome to it.”
The broad grill which followed this speech
fully proved that I had touched a tender
eonl iu the hearts of the “Bobtail” miners.
(Ins’ brandy was drant iu the very centre
of the Rocky Mountain*, and I got more fine
specimens than I could bring out of thi
mine. Promising “tie hoys" to come to
; sec them again if con lenient, and promis
; iug myself Unit it would not I>e convenient
! very soon, I take my leave and start for
the “npper crust" of tic world. In going
along tlic boy picks tip a keg of blasting
\ powder, and with the candle in hand jmrs
j out about lialf a pound to show me how
coarse it is. After this caper I aeceleratt
1 mv |kmx* os much as possible, and in about
| fifteen minutes we emerge into the bright
sunshine once mure. I draw a long breath
and uni thankful. The miners have Ik
come so oeenstotnod to working under the
the yroeod tlmjLit ijj <fc’ l-t v ' xifprefety tto
any other kind ef lalxn
i From the mine the ore is hauled to the
stamjiing and einshirg mills, where it is
prepared for the smiting works. I en
close you a littlo of the ore after being
crushed and prepared for smelting.
Some eight or ten quartz mines are in
I successful operation at Black Hawk uud
. Central. The oapitd here invested and
the amount of maebiiery used is astonish
ing. Still the preeinls ore must be had,
and men will go to übnnst any length for
it. Several Euglish ronpauies are mining
| in this Territory, aud it said that others
are pi e] airing to com*.
We return to Denver in the evening.
; As we come down tie mountains we are
compelled to keep tin brakes on neurly
i all the time. If we should get a good start
there is no telling W en we would stop;
but everybody coMP'*<sl with the road
seems to know their Harness, and we are
safely deposited at tlfi place from whence
we started.
Yesterday I visit ! the United States
Mint and Assaying Office. One of the
officials very kindly ifinducted me through
and explained many liings which I did !
not understand. Whit interested me most
was the precious octal which I saw.
Pieces of solid gold from one to three in
ches square, and frou four to eight inches
long each, with its nine marked upon it j
A few of these pieced would have satisfied j
me for the time, bir Uncle Mam guards j
pretty close, uud aT yon can do is to
look. -
This week is “the vrek of the races” in
Denver, and the torn is crowded with
sporting men from ujt the large Bjies of
the West, and a great many from New
York. ’K. dispi**- lioi es l-i it
anything I have everß'cn, and it is said
they have some of tin Jhste.st in the United
States.
About four hundred Ute Indians are
camped near the city, and parties of them
come in every day trade. They all
have ponies, and the women ride like men.
They sell buffalo robesjdressed deer skins,
bear sltius, Ac.
Mexicans and Chines' are to be seen at
all times, and a strong*r can be interested
for days looking at the motlv crowds in
the streets of Denver Yet, all is peaceable
and quiet here, and I have seen less dis
turbance and rowdyism than in any town
of the same size I ever visited. The Month
era element here is pretty strong, and I
have met many old Confederate soldiers;
yet, polities seem t■> be ignored in this
country entirely, nnv yon never hear any- j
thing of the kind spqfctu of.
The members of tin 11. E. Church South
are preparing for an excursion and pic-nie,
probably to “the Garden of the Gods,” 1
which is south from here on the Rio Grande
Road. I hope to lie one of the party, and
protnise myself a pleasant time.
; I would say to all persons who ai-e seek
ing health or pleasure, or are looking hu
ll country where they can enjoy life and
make, paying investments, come to Colo
rado. You will not lie disappointed. Per
sons coming here yitheut any money at
all are, of course, in the same condition
that they would lie anywhere else. Btill
they areal most certain to have good health,
and this is worth all the money. The
Shortest, safest, pleasant i#t and best route
is over the Missouri Piuiflo and Kansas
Pacific Roads, from St. Tonis. To those
who have never seen the plains, with their
! countless herd* of buffalo, antelope, Ac.,
1 the trip is full of intense interest, and no
one ever regrets having made it.
’ With my best wishes for the prosperity
of the? IsoEi-KsinniT and the health of the
editor, and kindest regard* fur iuv friends
1 iu Brooks, I am, youfti truly,
A. P. P.
[frGin the N*rw York World. ]
Who Desire the Dissolution of the Demo
_crart Party! And Why is this Thus?
Before proceeding to answer this ques
tion, we may a* well say that it is of no
; practical consequence. The wish to see
the Democratic party disband, bv what
; ever motive prompted, is not to be fulfilled.
The ]iro)Hisal originates outside of the |
Democratic organization. How a political i
])arty is to be dissolved withoutthe consent i
of the citizen* who compose it w ill perhaps
be told us in due tipio by the ingenious [
[gentlemen who offer this riddle.
The advocates of Deinoeruic dissolution
consist of journals (oil Reiiubliean, we bc
j lieve, witli one exception) which broke :
tlieir previous part? ties in tile Presiden
tial canva* of lust year, and now lind 1
themmlve* outride of every political or-J
gani/.ntion. They were ardent party ‘
journals up to lout year, and with the one i
exception alluded to, they would liuvej
continued to bo party journals if Mr. ’
Greeley had been elected. But after the
failure of that ill-starred campaign they ;
discovered, ull of* sudden, the dignity and
value of what they cull “independent jour
nalism, ” which, a* interpreted by tln ir
practice, means a determination to concil
iate theif Republican readers. They differ
from the lb raid, which wus not foreedinto
tills role by a political miscalculation mid
disappointed expectations, iu the irrepres
sible hostility uud disgust they manifest
towards the Democratic organization. If !
they were really independent, and not :
merely professing independence to save
thejr Republican subscribers, they would
treat tin- Democratic party fairly. They
wimill allow, as the Humid allows, that,
with a wise selection of issues, it may la*
great anil strong in 187*1 Hud they fore
seen the disastrous result of last years cam
paign there is not one of these Republican
journals that would have murdered its
old political relations, anil none of them
would now lie trying the virtues of their
new medicament fur healing shuttered iu
fiueuoe. If these journals were really in
dependent, they Would treat t he Democratic
party with justice and candor. They de
sire its disolutiou because they hope to re
gain political importance in anew organi
zation built from its ruins.
It is not difficult to understand why the
newspapers w hich were taught the beauty
of milt pendent journalism by the Cincin
nati fiasco, have a monopoly of the infor
mation that the Democratic party cannot
survive to go into another Presidential
campaign. Neither the newspapers that
wi re previously free from party tics, like
the llf mid and the Sun, nor those on either
side which acted with their party List year,
take this Mniiey pains to impress upon
their readers Uia ta-lief that the lleuio
ciatic party has no longer any future.
How should it happen that this idea takes
such deep root only in that class of jour
nals which fought last year against the
jioliriedl orgaorzwtiouH iith wfiici, ljo-\
had before acted? It is not as iudepen
ilclit jouruals that they have reached this
conclusion, for the journals which have al
ways professed itnlependenee do not adopt
it. It is aery ef distress. Certain jimnuds
that have lost the political influence they
once enjoyed covet its restoration. They
see no possibility of regaining it except m
contributors to founding anew party.
Their pretence tluit tlie Democracy have
become irretrievably unpopular anil islious
is not sustained by facts. The causes as
signed tor this alleged loss of popularity
are the course of the party during the war
and it-s opposition to the recount ruction
measures. But when these causes were
still fresh and recent, when they were most
operative, Chief Justice Chase, the ablest
of the old Republican leaders, was willing,
nay anxious to accept a ivguliu- Democratic
nomination for President. The glowing
cools of those then burning but now de
funct controversies-h id not, gathered ein-
Tntir.bnll and Gratz Brown. There were as
many more who woniu have competed in
the list of oandidatcß if they had . received
any encouragement. In the fore of these
dels to cover them; and ret a Republican
statesman who stood high in public confi
dence wat ready to iih uiifv himself with ,
the Democratic organization and bear its
banner to victory. There could not he a
more solid or a more eloquent refutation
of the pretence that the Democratic parly
sinned away its day of grace by its course
during ami immediately after the war.
When the time came round for the next
Presidential election, there was not merely
one but several old and trusted Republican
statesmen who w ere willing to commit their
political fortunes and their reputation to j
an association w ith this odious, moribund j
Democratic party. Mr. Greeley did accept,
mid half a dozen other distinguished lie- j
publicans would have accepted, the Dem
ocratic nomination for President. Among i
tho candidates for that honor were Charles j
Francis Adams, Ditvid Davis, Lyman I
facts it i* mere self-refuting folly to assert i
that the course of the Democratic parly'
durinu the war lias made it iusullerably
udioius. \ oaf atgumeut conus too Lite.
Since Chief Justice (Tiase wanted and j
siuee Mi. Greeley aeceptial n Democratic i
nomination for the Presidency, the party j
Inis laid no new stumbling-blocks iu the j
way of Republican recruits. Both
iu 1808 and 1872 tho Democratic i
party was defeated by bad norni-!
nations and by tho corrupt use of j
Federal patronage, not at all by its course j
during the war. which is the only rt-nsoiq
given by the advocates of dissolution why [
it cannot hope to succeeded in 1870.
In any rational estimate of political j
strength or public opinion, we must con- |
aider tlie opinion of the enlightened, edu- j
eated classes. The negro votes must lie i
counted, but it is absurd to weigh them.
It is an incontestable fact that a majority
of the white citizens of the United States
are Democrats. The returns of the last ,
Presidential election prove it. The negro j
vote of the country is eousiderblv larger
than Grant's popular majority; and if tlie
disgusted Democrats who sullenly refused
to support Mr. Greeley laid come to the
polls, the result of the white vote would
have been still more striking and instruc
tive. To sav that a political party which j
has the confidence of a majority of the
white voters is irredeemably unpopular and
has fallen so low that-it eau never expect
to rise, is a silly extravagance w hich Dem
ocrats laugh to scorn.
There is a young girl in Brooklyn who
for a long time supposed herself to be
dying of love, but a council of eminent
physicians called recently and pro
nounced it to be dyspepsia.
• ■ -.••rd-iv bonds—vagabonds
STATE GOSSIP.
The Isjwndes county jail is being re
paired.
The fanners report the crops in Early
county a* doing well.
The people of Valdosta sadly weep for
the building of * bnu bond, j
Valdosta bus some improvements going
on.
Hawkinsville bus a Eiln-ary and Literary
Association. That's singular.
The criminal records of the Forest City
show very large returns.
Iu Savannah some penurious penman
has discovered thut one thousand words
oiui be recorded upon a postal card.
The Arkwright Amateurs of Savannah
are making heavy raids upon the purses of
the theatre-goers of that place.*
The nuiir Masonic Temple now being
built in Savannah is rapidly advancing to
wards completion.
(kil. P. A. Peeples lias liecn appointed
by the Governor, Judge of the County
Court of Lowndes county.
An average young man iu Valdosta
wears white punt* to JurWLte the catch
ing of ileus.
We judge from a notice in the South
l Georgia Time* that that paper is following
the fashion by “striking" the typos.
There in a man iu Kieehoro who has a
hen that lays a golden egg every day, and
three on Suuduy.
A stranger going to Savannah the other
day on the Central Railroad lost a ]iekuge
contouring 8250.
The Early County Xeirs says that a
1 Dougherty county lady gave birth to a
j lml;y with twelve fingers and twelve toes.
A little lioy in Savannah by the name of
William Dawson was shot in the temple
the other day while carelessly handling a
pistol.
The South Georgia Times, insinuates
that the Chief Justice of the Sixteenth Dis
trict has been celebrating un Irish wed
ding
We judge the local editor of the Savan
nah .AVifs must be sadly in want of items,
us he has of late taken to hatching non
! sensical poetry, and to screen himself from
! criticism palms it off on “A young lady in
a Broughton street dry-goods store.
This from the the Early county Xeirs:
“The man who will keep a paper a length
j of time and then send it hock ‘refused’
and ‘unpaid for,’ would swallow a blind
! dogs dinner, and then bent the dog for
being blind."
This from the South Georgia Times:
“Owing to the quantity of rain that has
fallen during the lost two weeks we hutr
! some complaint about grass. At this
writing thy W’-i lh*-v' 1* '.J end
it is feared that it will get a stronger hold
on the cotton fields.”
The typos in the Hinesville Gaz*lt'
office, fearing, perhaps, that tlie strike now
raging in Havanuah may possibly lx-conir
epidemic and i xteml in that direi ti- in, have
tumid their attention to the cultivation of
cabbages.
This from the Sontli Georgia Timm:
“Turn gentlemen went down into the cell
of the jail last week to make some exami
nations as to the condition, and the trap
door fell on them. They experien ed eon
sidehible difficulty in gi-tting or . ‘ Ye
regard this as ominous. •*
A love-sick sxrain in HnWkbtsv.fl- a f<
nights situs', after boiiug his dtdci na un
til the “clock struck tlie hour fur retiring,”
attempted to smell his way home, and in
said attempt came in contact with an open
gate. It is said tliht one might discover
the presume of that useful apjieuilage, the
probussis, oil the eounti iianee of said
swain, if one used a pair of double-barreled
spectacle*.
Tlie Tbomnsville Time* is responsible
for the following: “The Mavannah JAW*
is in trouble with thoTypographietilUuion,
and evidently Harris don’t like the close
i proximity of his nose with the spaee boxes.
(to it Joseph, but don’t fret on. we don’t
think your foreign relations will be greatly
i affected. A red-hi aded “rat!" won t that
i lie a sight, when tlie T. U., turn* Harris
’into a rat? And the news boys, what of
them, will they be turned into pet white
mice?”
[From the New York World ]
Stokes'New Trial.
We have nothing to say to the decision
jof the Court e>* .* 1* w <.. - -
| Mtokcs. It. is not for layimn to discuss
i questions of law with the tiench which lias
power to decide them, and no one but has
confidence complete in a criticism of an
[ inferior court, uttered by such judges as
Church, Grover, and Rnpello. But we
lan e this to say as matter of public policy
and of justice-: that the spectacle of Stakes
.still untried, in the eyes of the law, for un
act committed a year and a half ago, is a
of justice and a scandal upon our
jurisprudence. The fact of the killing of
Fisk by Stokes has all along been admitted.
The question was only whether that kill
ing was murder. And that question is as
far off now from a legal settlement as on
the day when Fisk was buried. It has be
come the custom to say that punishment
should be merely exemplary and not vin
dictive. If that is true it seems to us that
the execution of Stokes after what has
already happened in his ease would be of
scarcely any value to society as un exam
ple. The men who most need such an ex
ample are the men upon whom the exam
ple of punishment two years after the fact
would have no deterring effect. The few
of them who ure capable of connecting a
retribution so long delayed with the crime
which brought it on would cherish hopes
that they would clear ail the difficulties in
their course to freedom which Mtokes so
nearly cleared. Stokes has had two trials
already. The first was vitiated by a fail
ure to reach the verdict. The verdict in
the second lias been nullified. And Stokes
stands now where he stood on the day
w hen he killed Fisk—in the position of an
untried culprit. AYe say again that there
is a radical wrong in a system which takes
eighteen months, three juries, and a dozen
courts to find out whether a man iu killing
another has committed murder or not.
FLORIDA MATTERS.
They have measles in lave Oak.
The weather in Suwannee ia favorable
for crops.
They have caterpillar* around Ocala.
Mr. Win. Frink, of Live Oak, ia dead.
.Taeksdhville cries for s public laundry.
Live Oak has an animal there colled the
: “loafer.”
The Jacksonville Union says: “Water
| melons are arriving iu this city by almost
I every conveyance that- laud or water can
1 turn out. Many of them are shipped di
rect to New York and Philadelphia, and
many are eaten up long before they have
the chance of being sent off. They aro
iu excellent condition and look quite
tempting.”
The local of the Florida Xeirs says: “Yes
terday morning a couple of suitors, one
of them Isirefout and almost naked, pre
sented themselves ut the door of a resi
dence in this place, and begged for some
thing to eut. We advise our citizens t<
be careful how they hartxir vagal mods
who are too lazy to work.” If thut learned
fmicmnry would but mm-mlier the old
motto: ‘‘Never pass a craft in distress,”
h would probably rise a lee tie higher in
the estimation of those he now attempts to
tread upon.
The Florida Xeirs perpetrates the follow
ing: “A young band of gypaie darkies,
who go about ‘seeking w hom they may
devour’ or damage, have appeared in East
Jacksonville, and the way they send
bricks through the w indow s of house*, is a
caution to snakes. Cannot the police
‘shadow,’and catch them in one of their
Jbi'jrnnte delicto?”
The Florida Xeirs says: “On the night
of June 2d, the handsome new residence
owned by Dr. li. It. S. Boemond, of this
city, ami Mr. Pntison, of Canada at Cape
Cannuvernl, was entirely consumed by
fire. These gentlemen have lieen signally
unfortunate iu their enterprise. Twi
or three years ago they hail built a hand
sonic house on or near the site of the out
recently burned, and it wus blown awiri
by a storm. We sympathize with them ii
tlieir misfortunes, but hop,- that the nc4
year’s crop or oranges from their prolifit
grove will reimburse them for losses bus
tabled by the devouring element,”
This from tin* Florida Xeirs: “When tin/’’
robbery of the post office in this city wits
perpetrated, Mr. Cheney, the Postmaster,
immediately dispatched a tclegmai to
Washington, setting forth the fact, and
asking for an investigation. Mr. J. T..A
Walker was sent here on the receipt
this telegram and has been working up jK
ease in a quiet wav ever since. On
day afternoon the necessary affidavit
made liefoivl'. S. t iommissiouer StUumi i
i.i,d a warrant was issued for the arri->WZ>e
M. H. Alberger, the State Engineer,
is collecting -'.-itei. a splendid e: i iiiettfl w
geological, mythological and tautological
speeimeus for tho benefit of science, and
who is not Attorney General, Surveyor
General, nor Secretary of War, but whose
only office beside that before mentioned is
Ghamberltin to the Governor. As ho in
tended to leave for the North on tho
s.earner City Point it was de meil advisa
ble to hasten matters, which v * done, and
on Friday morning ho took u trip, not to
the North jier the steamer, but up to tho
halls of justice,where,waiving an examina
tion, he was bub and in the sum o* 110,00(1,
to appear before the U. S. yrand Juiy
which meets in t ins city in ' *■ -'
I'isi'i-t A*; Ip*
repees • ‘ tie- II . i jS-|
dunt hwi reui'ii
m fhib,. . I. .
Mr. Brigham sr- his bond. ”
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[K4ii!ii:i.l Vit ' Vicuna Letter.]
A Glut oi Royalty.
Tlie old King of M .xotiy told Talma, tho
great French actor, that if he would comii
o Dresden he should “play before a pit
full of Kings.” Adelina f’ntri might, if
she chose, sing here before a pm-terre
erowileil with princes. The heirs appa
rent to four of the European ringing dy
nasties are here — the itowu princes of
Germany, Denmark and Belgium and tlie
Prince of Wales. Here, too, are®lalf a
hundred little prineekins, linked and dmr
chauchU, very poor in pocket hut very
pompous in person, frith their titles duly
registered in the “AJmanacli de Gotha”
and their pretentions uulv recognized at
this most ceremonions ot courts. Each of
these, from the greatest to the smallest,
brings with him a staff, important or in
significant according to its leader's [wise
tion or his purse—controllers andtflHi
stewards, equeiriesand attaches,
and private seewtnriea
fine t’rinc.i ot 2 4* i/id Frfl, •-tbur, |
'England, is so gri st unit it cannot be ac
coinrnodjited in the same palace with them
but is boarded out here aid there at dif
ferent hotels, while some Itoheit from Mau
erachiukenstein will have all his staff in
the person of on enormous Jager, who, in,
tuwdy uniform and fierce cocked hat, sits
on tlie box of his master’s carriage and
roars to the common people to “clear tlie
way.” On either side of the door of every
hotel which has the happiness of number
ing a distinguished personage among its
guests, is a sentry marching up
and down and in a perpetual state
of presenting arms to someone
or other important personage con
stantly passing: lounging on the portal of
every palace land the palaces here are ns
numerous the dry goods stores in Broadway >
is an enormous janator, a beautiful being,
dressed in a long coat covered with lace ami
an enormous cocked hat and liearing a longl
wand with a massive silver handle. AVheuJ
you add to all these the soldiers in uniform I
the private coachman and footmen, tluq
police (horse and foot), and the public
commissioners, or errand runners, all of
whom wear a special livery, you can
readily imagine thatViennais a city where
in, at least, the lust of the eye is likely to
be gratified.
Ai-tmks in Lafayette Count*, Fla.—
We are credibly informed that then/
has been nine murders committed in La
fayette county,Florida, in five years,and not,
one of the murderers have ever been ar-J
rested. They bid defiance to the officer J
of the law. They being corrupt appointee/!
of a corrupt adminisl ration permit thal
guilty to go ui)puui*bviq|B *'