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The peace between the North and
the South mast be, not a conquered
peace, but a peace that conquers.
Bob IngersoU.
President Ilayes is said to be a good
singer. Even the Camerons seem
1 j Ire the way of his tenor better than
the tenor ot his tv ay.
Muj. W. T. WaithaF, a well-known
literary gentleman residing in Mobile is
assisting President Jeitbrson Davis in
writing bis “ Memoirs.”
Hayes’ weekly salary is $961.54.
With his simple habits—we believe he
neither drinks, sm. kes, chews or plays
billiards—be should is.* able to save a
weekly pittance of at !- ast $600.
Secretary John Sherman having be
come a millionaire on his pay as a Con
gressman—-.55,000 a year—ougnt to dou
ble his fortune, as Secretary of theTreas-
and become a bi-millionaire.
Bob Ingersoll’s offer to forgive any
one whom he has injured ie only equal
ed by the magnanimity of the Immor
tal J. N., who. when a tavern keeper
deducted half his bill, refused to be
outdone in liberality, and threw oil the
other half.— IndinnapuUs .A*
The office of Secretary of State in
President s Cabinet is not very much of
a money making berth. At limes it cost
Mr. Fish $50,000 a year to live in Wash-
ingtuu and maintain the dignity of the
State department. Ilia salary was CS,000
a year. He paid that sum for his house
rent.
Sankcy, while in Boston, stops at
the Hotel Brunswick. A pretty tune
they must charge hvmn.—-V. Com
mercial .-1 'hv-'/Arr. P -reaps he boards
there on ‘•tiiiie.”--Aum*/»u , n Herald.
Of course, everybody iu Boston takes
bis notes.— <‘ourur Journal.
If they “15 sharp" they will, especial
ly if those notes be of U n or higher de
nomination. • ,
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
VOLUME XXXI.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 28, 1877.
NEW SERI£S--N0. 30
‘KEY-STONE” ON HAYES’ ADM1 MS-
TRATION/* -
We publish to-day a letter from our.
regular Pennsylvania correspondent
‘ Key-Stone.” While we entirely agree
ith this spirited writer in regard to
the gross and shameful fraud practiced
by the Republican leaders in counting
in 1 lavis, yet we are obliged, in view
of the great and important commercial
interests of the country, to -accept the
situation. Mr. Hayes has Been inaug
urated President, and the great Demo
cratic party of the country, as repre-
ented by their authorized and legally
constituted delegates in Congress, have
cquiesced in this result, however
fraudulent and corrupt the means may
have been through which it was ob-
ained. Is it not, then, the plain duty
urn yd
Pennsylvania Gorrespom
-■ . !—S3 tdi Ol bcisB
The «n “Prescient 'JSIeet”—A Glance
at the .situation —V-oueluaion.
•utry of the South, in
if jubilt-cit.g, do believe
The colored
their moment'
there tiro d.Btin.-ti->;--. *n account of
icolor. They even carry ibis theoretical
[violation of the constitution into the
I other world. Here is a picture of the
[going into the “New Jerusalem,” which
|only a colored imagination could paint,
and which only negro Ups can hums
|with an unconstitutional ecstasy :
Go
Wo'
hite
innin* kulie
Till
9-1 annuls holle
'That'was a conspicuous illustration
jn Washington a short while since of
!iow ‘‘a man is judged by the company
be keeps”: Patterson—the lion. John
|J. Patterson of South Carolina—works
|upon the simple and unsnspecting
soul of assistant post master general
[Tyner, and almost persuades Him to
Vcmovc the holy who has charge of the
postoflice at Aiken, South Carolina,
and to appoint a negro to be her suc-
r. Thjs lad}- is a protege of Sena
tor Robertson at whose instance she
been appointed nost mistress.
[When that South Carolina gentleman
heard of 'lie ungallunt move Icing
uade upon his lady friend, he entered
, vigorous and slightly profane protest:
If that lady was removed he would
ptimv tho reason wliy, d—d if he
vouldn’t. Tyner asked:
"What ohjecti >ii have you to Mr.
rson's rev ;ninundation?”
"I know that the negro is totally
jnfit in character for the position.”
“Do you know anything detrimen
tal to this colored man's character, Mr.
lobvrtsim ?"
‘ Yes, that i- extremely detrimential.
1 know that he is a friend of Patter-
Ion isn’t that enough ?’’
It was enough. Tite lady is still
postmistress at Aiken, while tiie dar-
friet.d of Pitt-rsou” reflects, and
-reflects upon tin- m ecssity of oi.e’s
being carelul in the election of one’s
fiends. :
trit'-t iv ;r> j-.stixg sews.
A commission headed by Yice-Presi-
ent Wheeler will go to Louisiana on
|n investigating mission.
Rumored .in Washington that the
rithdrawal of troops from South Caro-
Ina and Louisiana had been ordered,
[lit the rumor proved unfounded.
Prospect in Europe is more warlike,
Montenegro and Ilerzegovinia prepar-
: for renewal of hostilities and Tur-
■ arming irregular troops on the
rentier.
Hayes' Cabinet unanimously op
posed to sending a commission to
Bouth Carolina, and a majority in favor
|f withdrawing the troops from any
jirect support of the Chamberlain
pvernnient.
At Baltimore in tlie case of Harriet
Cully, colored, against Baltimore Ar
lOhio Railroad Company, brought be
fore Judge Giles in the i'nited States
[District Court, the jury rendered a ver-
|lict in favor of the defendant, the
court having held that the act
[tinder the fourteenth amendment to
[be Constitution, under which the
was brought, is unsonstitutional.
Ibis action, with seventeen other was
ftouglu against the company under the
vil rights act of congress of March
’ 1875, which impoges a penalty of
&00 on any person who should deny
gual accommedations to any citizen,
gardless of previous condition, in ho-
theaters and public conveyances.
of patriotic Southern men—yea, of
good Democrats, all over the country—
to exhibit no factious opposition to Mr.
Hayes’ administration, but rather to
uphold him in all unquestionable good
and patriotic measures he may adopt ?
All are obliged to admit that his inau
gural address shadowed forth some grand
improvements over the policy of his pre-
iecessor and he there give.-, promise that
the tyrannical military rule that has been
■cd in some of our sister States shall
cease and these downtrodden common
wealths be allowed to govern themselves
like other free and independent States.
This is all that we have demanded in
these cases, and is all wo could expect
from a D mocratic administration, in so
far as military rule is concerned.
Mr. Haves also deserves our commen
dation for tendering a p ace in h's C. bi-
net to at least one good and true Southern
man, Hon. Jabez Gurry, formerly of Tal
ladega, Ala., and also to another very
fair man, Ravid M. Key, of Tenn., as
well as the selection of his entire Cabinet
from the more conservative men cf his
party-
We think it would he very bad )- licy
for strong Democratic States, especially
those of tlie South, to fly in the face of
the new President, and provoke him to
acts of tyranny. But on the .itrary,
it seem., that good tease and a piojiei ap
preciation of our own interests slum d
prompt us to cordially support him iu all
good works, and fight with him so far as
he fights the common e..emv of good gov
ernment. Iu other words if he will go
faithfully and earnestly to work and
drive out the all thieves and scamps from
our political Temple, and “the sheep and
uxon, and pour cm; the chaDgera’ money,
1 and overthrow their tables 1 ” then .nil
good people should assist him iu this pious
work.
By pursuing this course we by no means
become Republicans, in a partisan sense ;
we but maintain our integrity and consis
tency. If Mr. Hayes becomes a States-
rightsman, shall we cease to be such ? If
Sir. Hayes makes righteous war upon
Cameron, Morton and Blaine, and their
bloody shirt policy, shall we give them
aid and comfort by neglecting to support
him iu that light?
The only possible way for restoring
good government in this cguntry, is for
all good men to work together, and .-up-
port good measures by whomsoever inau
gurated.
While we deem it best to support M .
Hayes in all his correct and good mov -
mente it will be by no means necessary
to apologize for ltis errors, short-comings,
or wilful abuse of power, and much !e.-s
to join his party, or abandon the old land
marks of the Democracy.
Tilt. Party status.
-ays the Baltimore Sun : Of the
thirty-eigbtStateScomposing the Union
twenty-one have at this time Demo
cratic States governments, and although
three of these—California, Nevada and
Oregon—cast their electoral votes for
Hayes, tiie majorities in sevaral of t! e
recognized Republican States are so
mall that they may be almost equal
ly divided between the two great par
ties. Even i i Ohio, Mr. Hayes’ own
State, a change of 3,500 votes would
have given the election to tho Demo
crats, while 1.500 vottsin New Hamp-
ire, 200 in California, 500 in Oregon,
2,500 in Rhode Island and 5U0 in Ne
vada, would have effected .a like re
sult in those States.
Indeed so narrow at tlie last election
was the margin between the Republi
cans and Democrats in States claimed
and held by the former that a change
of 8,070 yotes in a pool of 1,15-1,074
votes would have given forty-nine ad
ditional electoral votes for Tilden.
Ever in the New England States the
Republican majority in a vote of near
ly 700,000 was less than S7,000; in the
Western States, in a vote of 2,000.000,
but 1S2,000, and in tlie mountain and
Pacific States but 5,785. The actual
Democratic majority on the popular
vote, and accepting the Louisiana Re
turning Board count for that State
250,970, and tlie actual net Democrat
ic gain in nineteen States was 969,-
456. It is
things
well to remember these
Pappy Taft.—If Hayes had not bea
ten Alien for Governor of Ohio in 1875
he would never have been heard of at
the Cincinnati Convection. What se
cured his election in that campaign ?
It was not the bloody shirt issue raised
by Morton, nor the hard money issued
which Schurz tried to make prominent
but it was the Catholic school question
that turned the scale in favor of Hayes.
Leaving others to spend their
strength in waving the bloody shirt or
waste their breath in talking about
hard money, Father Taft traveled all
though the State attacking the Pope
and defending the public schools, and
thus carried the day for Hayes, and
opened the way for his nomination to
the Presidency.
Ligo>
March 15, 18’
To the\EdUor of the Courier :
The conspiracy which has been going
forward in Washington and the South,
by the Radical leaders and their carpet
bag allies, has at last brought forth it?
fruit. The result is just what we expect
ed. Hayes is the man. The people : whb
repudiated him at the polls by a verdict
of over 300,000 are, under the circum
stances, obliged to submit to a result con
ceived in fraud and brought forth in core
ruption.
It may be remarked that fraud has trij
urnphed, and a confiding, patriotic' peo
ple, who strove with might and main to
avert the calamity, have been betrayed.
Their righteous verdict at the polls has
been ignored, justice has been defeated,
and a man, or thing, lather, inaugurated
President o f the Republic who was never
elected and never will be, and who, to-j
day, lias not a single qualification for the
office. Thi3 is the crowning infamy of
Radical corruption. A man who, under
the circumstances surrounding Hayes,
would allow himself to be returned as
President, is unquestionably capable of
any meanness, however vile, any treach
ery, however base, any trickery, however
dirty.
He owes his inauguration (he was never
elected) to the the worst and most bitter
and unscrupulous element iu his party.
To the infamous Returning Boards of the
South and their carpet-bag auxiliaries,
ne owes the honor. To an Electoral Com
mission influenced, controlled, and it may
be purchased, by such men as Morton,
Garfield and Blaine, he owes his position
to-day. Tne American people now have
President,” and that is all. We im.
tie we cau see Hayes grappling with
the grave questions of the day, and say.
to the discordant elements around
him, “Peace, be still.” It will not be
long until he will be tested. His nomi
nation at Cincinnati was a disgrace to the
Americ-io people, and his inauguration
and administration will prove a curse.
Double-distilled Grantiem, is the way to
"xpress it.
Success achieved through fraud and
villainy will always be found to culmi*
nate in an ignominious failure at last.
Hence, under every circumstance, it
impossible for Hayes’ administration to
a success. In the first place he is no{
qualified, and in the next place, the hon-
or was secured-ior him throutrh fraud and
villainy.
A GLANCE AT THE SITUATION;
There never was a nation under heaven
in a worse condition than we are to-day.
And when we consider the facts, it is no
wonder. Our condition has been grow-,
ing worse every year for sixteen years.
Constitutional government has been sus
pended for that length of time, and club-
law substituted. The condition of Mexico
is preferable to oure. Our national debt is
counted by billions. Everybody is in debt
and nothing to pay. Nothing commands
money, and if it did, there is none to be
had. Business is almost suspended.
Trade anti commerce languish. All of
which has been brought about by Radi
cal mal-adiniuistraiion. To set these
matters right and get the machinery of
the. government ruuning properly again,
ought to be the work of this administra
tion. This, however will not be done.
The illustrious hero (?) who wields the
power, has neither the qualification nor
the inclination for such work. Our con
dition will still grow worse. What little
is left after four more terrible years of
Radical misrule, will hardly be worth a
struggle. We are on the brink of ruin.
Our majority in the House of Represen
tatives, the few patriots the Senate con
tains, and the God of heaven constitute
our only hope. The policy of the pres
ent administration will be to make an ef
fort to secure another triumph in 1880.
All of its energies will be bent in that
direction anti to secure that end every
species of chicanery will be resorted to.
Party success first and the country after
ward is the motto of the party. Under
such circumstauees, it would be a great
wondei if tlie country was prosperous and
happy.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion we must be permitted to
remark that it is now high time to begin
the agitation of the electoral system.
If politicians were as honest now as in
the days of Washington, there would be
no necessity for abolishing it; but they
are not, and the necessity for abolishing
it, unquestionably exists. The late can
vass, the muddle which followed, and the
final consummation, on the 5th of March,
prove this position to be correct. The
system is in every respect unfair, besides
extending an invitation to unscrupulous
scoundrels to both purchase and sell the
rights of the people. The defective char
acter of the system has been most em
phatically demonstrated in the last race
for the Presidency. We earnestly hope
the attention of Congress will be called
to this matter at once. We are decided
ly in favor of electing a President in the
future by a direct vote of the people.
We trust that such a provision will be in
corporated into the Constitution before
another four years roll round. If, how
ever, such a measure shonld be intro
duced and get under way in Congress,
we may expect a lively fight over it;
and. it would be quite likely to either
succeed or fail by a strict Tote. The
Radical leaders would fight such a
measure with all the eloquence they could
summon. We don’t know how the Dem
ocratic leaders feel in regard to this mat
ter ; but we say, down with the system;
the Ra$pd^bifcn
__ Boards, andi down! with Elec
ta ralGotoiniteions, All of which will be
the work of the Democratic party: And
when.this wmlt-iiacebnnplisbed tljecoun-
tty, trill) IkWjekder And fraud ahd cor
ruption be Unknown. J j.
' ■*•: bii : : - Key-Stone.: ‘
Washington Correspondence.
Extra Sessinn—Viee-Presidem Wheeler's
Plan—Au Opening for Keiorm—S4, Pat-
liek’e Day.
Washington, D. C, March 19,1877:
The matter of extra session of Congress
seems now to absorb pnblic attention,
while the heads of the State, Law and
Treasury Departments are reported to
have arrived at very different conclusions
in the premises. Vice-President Wheeler
has proposed a plan which is understood
to be endorsed by Mr. Evarts, and oppio-
posed by Messrs. Devens and Sherman
on the ground that it' WQuld lack the sanc
tion of positive law or rather that it would
be an evasion of statutory requirements.
•The only necessity for additional legisla
tion is to provide means for the mainten
ance of the army between this and the
next regular convening of Congress in
December, and the business men of tho
country protest strongly against an extra
session, if any plan can be devised, so-as
to avoid the necessity, arguing that some
of the restless spirits among the Congres
sional delag&tion would be almost certain
to take advantage of the re-assembling to
spring upon the country some crazy finan
cial scheme that would operate to the dis
advantage of every public and private
interest; and from what is heard here
among the politicians, the apprehension
appears to be shared by many of the lat
ter, and to be not wholly groundless. Mr.
Wheeler’s plan, in brief, is for some strop
National Bank having a surplus of Gov
ernment bonds on hand and willing to
assume the risk, to deposit in the Treas
ury, in bonds, a sum sufficient to provide
for the army until the meeting of Con
gress in December, a like amount of cur
rency being forwarded to the bank by the
department which would hold the bonds
as security. This leaves the bank in the
position of simply a depository of Gov
ernment funds, not at all unusual with
many of them. No account, not even
one of interest, is to !)§_ had with the
Government. Paymasters are to draw
necessary tunds, but from the bank instead
of the Treasury, leaving their certificates,
stating its purpose and the amount drawn,
as collateral. After the passage of the army
tion bill tiawmastere ar*v_to:h«
paid the amountsbelongingto each, which
they will then turn into the bank, taking
up their collateral certificates. In other
words the paymasters borrow the amouuts
needed from the bank which advances it,
from deposits of the'Government which
is secured from lo3? by a like amount of
bonds belonging_pi-t.be bank, the latter in
turn beingsecured by the paymasters cer
tificates. It is said that many Republi
can and Democratic members of Congress
have agreed to the plan and have pledged
themselves to early action by Congress in
December looking to its consummation so
far as it depends on Congressional ap
proval. Should a called session be held,
it will probably meet in May. There is
a general hope expressed that the reform
administration of President Hayes may
find time to thoroughly investigate the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
which appears to have been run heret*-
fore pretty much on its “own hook.” s>
manipulated as to take from the Secreta
ry of the Treasury any direct control
and to rest in the Superintendent, whe
seems to have been responsible to no onei
almost autocratic power, which, accord-1
ing to many statements, has been exer
cised in former times in a very unjust, ar
bitrary, and oppressive manner. It
Political Notes.
f-tr-'V' -.■*• '• "
- Devens is the tallest of Hayes’ eight
adyiseis.^.'
Chilblanes can be cured, bat jim-
Wanes cannot be.
President Hayes can’t “adorn a
e at least Knows how ta.“point a
Mol'flfc”—New York Commercial.
Last Tuesday Dun Cameron of Pen
nsy: Vania, and Stanley M-itheWalrf
Oaio were elected Udited States- Sena
tor*. „ ' : t
The Messrs. Appletonshase in .press
the “Memoirs -o! '^5@S^^T5Svi8.”
which will be published daring the
prAmtyear.
'Mr. Hayes is consistent in the fact,”
says: tiie New York Sun, “that after
steal Gag, Tilden’s office, he stole Til-
deilVptflicy.”
BdS IngersoU is lecturing on “Polit
ical ‘Questions and Answers.” Ona of
hia* questions is: Can anybody tell
me ^hat party I belong to, now ?
■feus Cincinnati Commercial thinks
Sitting Bull the man who is responsi-
ble for the new policy of the adminis
tration, becase Sitting BuU wants to
raise W(h) igs.
We are very thankful for plain Mr.
Jones, of new Hampshire; just as
thankful as we would have been if his
name had been Fitzberbert or Delamore.
—Selma Times, Dem. 7
Rumors come from Washington of
the contemplated offer of the Mission to
England to ex-Fresident Grant, and it
is intimated that the offer, if made,
would not be decUnea.
8t. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.): All
the Democratic papers endorse the new
Cabinet They think it shows signs of
a conservative policy on the part of Mr.
Hayes. It certainly shows signs of a
policy the reverse of that under which
Mr.,Hayes was elected.
Tperc is a proposition to change the
name of Pennsyvania to Cameronia.
The State seal could easily be changed
from the arch and keystone to a stuffed
ballot-box rampant, and, with “Molly
McGdire” for a motto, the “second of
the Union” might go on to new victo
ries.
The big question that has occupied
the'-HoiJ8e'to-day is the penitentiary.—
[Memphis Ledger] WeU, that is not
so bad. How infinitely better it must
be that the penitentiary should occupy
toe House than that the - House
should .occupy the penitentiary.—Cou-
ri&-Jf0ptk > '-- -t. t «' • . -
Thus Don Piatt on. Rutherford B.:
The more one sees of this gentleman
the more one regrets he was not honest
ly elefted to the place he holds. It is
such a luxury to have a gentleman in
tite House—to-hpve ahout ihh.
mansion an air of refineroeh :
f, honest welcome,
erical. staff* at. the White
&«£WVK.$uggji^i
secretary ; Webb nayea fufs sonj, as-
sistant private secretary; Colonel Hen
ry C. Corbin (Captain 24th U. S. Infan
try), military secretary; Wash P. Price
and Charles L. Chapman, assistant
clerks in charge of records, documents,
etc.
It is related of Secretary Thompson
of the Navy Department, that, finding
that his study of the Catholic question
upon which he has recently published
book, was impeded by his igno
rance of Greek, Latin, French and
German, he acquired a sufficient mas
ter/ of these four languages, after he
had reached the age of sixty, to enable
hia to make his own translation.
Old Simon explains his retirement
thus: “1 am seventy-eight years old,
and have been in public life enough,
and am tired. I have meditated this
step for a year, and now do not resign
in any spirit of anger toward the Ad
ministration. I shall give the Presi
dent my cordial support. I hope he
may succeed, but fear he will not, with
his Southern policy. My son Don
gave the President the assurance of his
continued support three days ago.”
Don Piatt thus goes for J. Madison
Wells, who, as Piatt learned, passed his
office on the day of inauguration, and ex
pressed in a loud voice the pious wish to
haYig him to a lamp post:
"We doubt whether Moody and Sankey,
General News Items.
The Coins of The World.
is alleged that he was allowed to regulate
the rate of employees in accordance with
his own sweet will, and that favoritism
was everywhere palpable. Many similar
complaints against the Government
Printer have been heard during the past
eight years, and there is little doubt that
the public printing has cost the Govern
ment a large excess over what it would,
had the work been open to competition;
besides all, the system has operated very
prejudicially to the interests of private
printing establishments; and the appoint
ment of Mr. Defrees is hailed as an as
surance that many of the alleged abuses
under its present management will be
promptly corrected.
As usual St. Patrick’s Daj brought
with it a most dismal storm of ram, hail
and snow, so mixed as to render its out
door observance something calculated to
est the devotion of the followers of that
partisan Saint to its utmost.
But in defiance of the storm and the
excessive cold our streets were paraded
by hundreds of enthusiastic participants
of Milesian extraction. Standing with
bare head, the President reviwed the pro
cession as it filed past the Northern en
trance to the White House. Knox.
This is Awful.
Washington correspondence of the Boston Her*
aid.]
President Hayes said a good thing
day before yesterday to Miss Phoebe
Cozzens, of St Louis, who went up to
the White House to pay her respects
to him* Miss Cozzens is a lady who
has studied law, and is different from
nearly all the ladies who have invaded
the professions usually parcticed by
men, in being decidedly attractive in
personal appearance. In the comae of
her conversation Miss Cozzens playful
ly refered to Gen. Grant’s having talkpd
of appointing her Chief Justice, and
said that, had he done so, it would have
been her duty to have administered the
eathof office to him on Monday.«Pree-
ident Hayes replied to her, “Mj^Jear
Miss Cozzens, in that case I Should
have-.kissed somethings beside* the
book.”
aided by several able-bodied divines of
heavy lung-power, could put the brakes
if salvation on J. Madison so as even to
low up, let alone save the old pinner.
Here, however, is a noble chance to test
he efficacy of prayer. Let all the Chris-
ian congregations of the United States
{ive, say, ninety days, with three days of
'race, to a constant, earnest appeal, with
Intermission oniy for rest and refresh
ment, in behalf of J. Madison Wells.
Should this succeed, we might then try it
Q the devil himself with a good prospect
a success.”
Nasby, m a communication to the
Tbledo Blade, reviews the situation
tad concludes that the only prospect of
tae Democracy succeeding in 1880 will
depend upon the following circumstan
ce: “We want a succession uv dis-
aters dooring the next four years, and
to must do all that we kin to hev em.
lard times is alluz charged up to the
prty in power, and makes men pine
fir a change. A healthy potato rot
tould be worth thousands uv votes to
uj and a smashin panic would be even
btter. What we want is a period uv
yoniverale depresun. We want the
alls stopped, prodoose down to a
sere nothin, potato rot, grass-hoppers,
blera, and likker to go up to fifteen
ents a drink. Ef these cood be sup-
Jementid by an earthquake, hurri-
cnes, yaller fever, weevel in the wheat,
J ,t worms in the North and cotton
in the South, floods and drouths
ooniversle rooin and disaster, we
elect the next President. Give us
wit a choiceh assortment uv
disasters, and we shel win, for
eople will be very apt to say that
' a Dimekratic Administrashen
it bs wuss. We want rooin fora
1 to make the Dimocrisy endoora-
bAj With these condishens we kin go
“ears from now. I say all this
tenefit uv others; ez for me,
lotiglefore the term uv Hayes is up I
in a jsrem&toor grave. Foar
yeeramore uv a nigger in the post
the Comerswill finish me, and
hilosopfjy shonld be sufflshent
1 Bascome will ent off supplies
sod ez he-knowB that I aint a goin
hep place, and then all is over,
ored bowels neve! kinendoor
more than my moral nacher
;elism.” ;
A lace skirt, valued at $20,000, IS I Boston Gazette* ]
displayed at A. T. Stewart’s. I The following is the value in round
The favorite hymn of the grasshop- nnmbeis, in cents of our currency, of
pers: “This wheat by-and-by.”—New the coins of the world:
York Graphic. _ Australia—Gold, pound, 532; sover-
1 T he 1 ^Austria—Gold,ducat, 228; sovereign,
last Tear wnouflted toS^oOjOOO.OOO, and G75 crown664 . ’silver, old dollar. I02 :
the porn crop ^0)0,000. ol d scudo, 104: old florin, 51; new'
About 26 per cent, of the live stock florin, 48; new dollar, 72; Maria The-
in Western Texas died of sU:v. - I resa dollar. 102.
non and cold the past winter. Belgium—Gold, 2-5 francs, 472. Sil-
A negro’s definition of a bigot—“A I ver > five francs, 98.
man as knows too much for one nig-1 Bolivia—Gold, doubloon, 1559. Sil-
eah, and not enuff for two.” ver, doHars,79; half dollar, 39.
Brazil—Gold, 20 milreis, 1090. Sil-
Bald-headed men are so numerous ver double mi1 ’ rm -. 102 .
in Chicago that an audience in that Ce ntral American-Gold, two sendos,
city is said to look, when viewed from oco o:t vpr j n ti„ r im /
above, like a cobblestone pavement Shiii-Gold, doubloon isSO; ten pesdS,
No trouble to pay board in Missis- 915. Silver, old dollar, 106; new dol-
sippi. The Handsboro’ Democrat says: lar, 98.
“Saw logs are legal tender here.” Split I Denmark—Gold, ten thalers, 700.
wood, of conree, is fractional currency Silver, two regisdaea, 110. /
The area of the pnblic domain of Equador—Gold, four, esendoe, 755.
Texes is now 57,632,320, out of which England—Gold, pound or sovereign,
must come the 13,372,000 acres of the 1486; pound or sovereign, average, 484.
Texas and Pacific Railroad reservation. I Silver, shilling, new, 23; shilling, aver-
I age 22
The man who returned from the Cen- D 45 ’ *
tennial without a medal is confident! France Gold, 20francs, new, 385;
that he could have taken one if they I ^ francs, average, 384. Silver, five
had not been so carefully guarded by “’ a 5, cs >
policemen. Germany—Gold, ten thalers, 790:
... , , , . . I krone, 664; ducat, 228. Silver, old
The worth of a husband has been thaler) 72; ne w thaler, 73; florin, 65.
Si by S Urt J “- ?0 " ghk ee^et; Greece-Gold,|20 drachms, 344. Sil-
be $4,500. The decision was rendered Ttr g ve drachms 88
in a suit brought by a widow against ffindostan—Gold, mohur, 708. Sil-
the Hudson River Railroad Company. verj rup ee> 46.
A young England gentleman who I Italy—Gold, 20 lire, 384.
had graduated at Oxford was at a Bos- j Japan—Gold, old cobang, 444 ; new
ton party recently, and he told a young I cobang, 357. Silver, itzebue, 37; new
lady that he thought George Eliott itzebue, 33.
must be an American girl, you know. Mexico—Gold, doubloon, average,
„„a. r 1552; new doubloon, 1561. Silver,
000*000 fe^ySTfficountries do ^’ 1 ^ 1 ’ d 1 f L ’ %
send 20,000,000. Home industry Lf2SST« M ’ : ’ ’
makes 30,000,000. Forty-five million r , A . 000
“ d s
body sweltering! New Granada-Gold, doubloon! Bo-
Louisiana occasionally produces I gotai 1561; doubloon, Hopayau, 1537;
something startling besides returning ten pesos, 967. Silver, dollar, 97.
boards. Two negroes in the interior of Peru—Gold, doubloon, 1555. Silver,
the State, who loved the same- woman, dollar, old, 166; dollar, of 1858. 64
fought on horseback, a few days since, half dollar 38.
and killed each other. PortugaF-Gold, crown, 589.
Elder Fvants, the leader of the Leb- Prussia—Gold, ten thalers, 797.
anon (N. Y.) Shakers, has started a I crown, 664. Silver, thaler, old 72; tha-
gravevard on a new plaD. The graves I l er > new, 73.
are to be twenty feet apart, with a tree Rome—Gold, t-wo-and-one-halfscudi,
planted over each, so that in time there 1260- Silver, sdudo, 105.
will be a handsome grove. 7 I Russia—Gold, five roubles, 397. Sil-
A report just published in NewOrJ one hundred, reals,465,
■'■’hty reals, 386. _ Silver, pistareen, 29.
CONTRACT RATES0F ABVEF.rsiK ;
Oni iqtnie ono month., i,4 us
One iqo&re three months. S Of.
Onoaqomnaix mimth. jj o a
Cao Mure twelve months.. 30 00
Oee-fourih column one month 10 00
Ono-fourth column three month*.. 30 00
vBWaurth column six 35 aa
One-fourth column tw^vo month*. 60 00
column one month 10 00
One-helf opinion three month* 33 00
One-hilf column *ix month* 00 00
One-hell column twelve month* 100 00
ime column one month.,,, ., S6 09
One column three month*. J.. * 60 00
Unecolumn six moBth$.„„ ri , niiii -104 00
>ne column twelve month* ' 1W 00
A®* The -ongoing rate* are lor either Weekly
3r Tri-Weekly. When published in both papers,
IS per etBU additional upon table rates.
leans shows that the
Louisian^ for 1876 was ii
heads’; as compared with 136,501 ht,
heads in- 1875, and that the crop
uidtssses for 1876 was- 264,695 barrels
before.-
- The first statne ever raised to an
American poet was lately unveiled in
” w York. The first; boot * ’
Sweedon—Gold, ducat, 223. Silver,
rix dollar, 111.
Tunis—Gold, 25 piastres, 299. Sil
ver, five pinstres,
Life in Texas,
have, it is believed, a
upon odes to spring.
suppressing effect
A new-comer in a Texas town enjoys
T. After spending auShmljjggjft i
; around tho place, bo grows
eary and finally asks the clerk of the
hotel if there is any chance of having
Rum and religion are very unevenly fun that day. And the clerk, scratch-
balanced in New York. While there ing his had a moment, says: “Well I
are 489 churches, chapels and missions, dunno. I reckon we can get up some-
and 418 Sabbath schools and 500 day thing for yon before night. Haven’t
schools in the interest of intelligence, been shot at yet,have you ? No! Oh
morality and religion, there is an op- well, you will be soon. Just loaf
posing force of 8,403 liqnor saloons, around the streets a littVs while, and
with numerous evil accessories. even if you ain’t shot at yoarself you
That was a touching scene when Joe «“ in ^ d ^- f ° r
Coburn, the pugilist was received at I some other person.. Mabyyou might
Sing Sing on a tS years’sentence. He b J Mt , t0 l *f ^°“, lng m - that
kw kA.Jj * 8ort 0 second hand, you know: and, if
was informed that by good behavior * * Wflit * whi L an a
three years and a half of his sentence ’* * _ Q
could be saved. Then his friend Mai- ™ g ° '™
tobe n outdonTlllo w eP L ty 8heriffi ’ T ' vo °^ nut ® 3 afterwa^s thS man is
to be outdone, also wept. 1 8tndyinng the time . tebU for ^ leav
ing time of the next train, and not
even the clerk’s promise to let him
Personal Jottings. carry the revolver that he shot a man
with last week can keep the guest in
Mr. Key, so far from being an old town over night Scene at a hotel—“
Whig, was an old Democrat of the good morning, stranger, it looks like
strictest sphool, and one of the earliest rain ?” Stranger—“I think not” A
and heartiest supporters of the war pol- shot is heard, and the stranger is rolled
icv. out of the back door.
The widow of Col. Colt, the revolyer Mond-Texas is a fine grazing coun
man, pays taxes on the sum of $306,- lry ‘
082. Almost any man would see a Insurance Gone Wild,
voluptuous charm m the rounded taemeawmiwe
fire-arms of such a widow. Life and accident insurance, says the
The New Orleans Times says Kel- N. Y. Travelers 1 Journal, has gone down
logg has "nervous legs.” It is to be to such a fine point that all people
hoped that the New Orleans Times re- ought to get insured. Looking over
fers to Kellogg down there and not at the list cf last year’s accident work, as
all to Clara Louise. That would be presented by a prominent insurance
awful.—St. Louis Republican. company, we find it paid losses of $100
There are several third cousins of h r mor ® *° r th « ca '? sesFe , U
Genera} George Washington now living h?£^ n .? talrs ’ I 800 ’ fe 1 a ocn 1C /iw ard ’
upon the charity of friends in Gor I ®i th ™n by a cow, S260; fel! from
donsville, Logan county, Kentucky. a . c ^? lr tY’.^! blt a, y .?
Thev are William A. Washington,aged I f toe \. $1 l° I 71 . ; a
78 and some younger sisters, the young- fell through a hole in floor. $200,
est of whom is 6. 3 B ran against a pump $200; hit knee
against chair, $400; fell from a stool.
At the next conference of the Mor- $225; fell through bam floor, $128 57;
mon Church, to be held shortly, Brig- toe stepped on, $125; beaten by roughs
bam Young is to appoint his successor $112 86: bitten by insect, $195; fell over
who will be either Brigham Young, Jr. an ottoman, $300; jolt of wagon, $120.
John W. Young or Orson Pratt. John By and by we shall expect to see in
is a rather fast young man, with three surance carried so far that the follow-
wives, and is rather shaky on Mormon I ing bills will promptly be paid: Missed
doctrine. It is believed that Brigham the train, $50; went home, with the
Young, Jr., will be the successor of the wrong girl, $200; married the wrong
prophet man, $900; ate a late supper, $25; had
Simon Cameron acquired his title of I a P oor poem, declined, $10, received a,
“The Great Winnebago Chief’ almost curtain lecture from wife, $7o;
forty years ago. He was appointed by *°st a night s sleep, $20; read one of Dr.
President Van Buren an agent to settle ^ ®- Holland’s stories, $100: heard
and adjust the claims of the Winneba-1 Gough lecture, $50, etc., etc.,
go Indians against the United States,
and was charged with paying the sav-1 What is A “Trade Dollar-
ages in notes of the Middletown Bank
of which he was principal owner, in- Cincinnati, March 8, 1877.
stead of gold. I To the Editor of the Edguirer.
Christian Hanson, having been par-1 Please define the meaning of the
‘toned out of the Ohio Penitentiary by term “trade” dollar, and what is the
the then Gov. Hayes after ten years difference between it and any other
service recentlylcommitted burglary on sort of a dollar? I am a poor, young
purpose to get back into penitentiary. I mechanic, and was ashamed to ask
Last Monday at the New York police nay acquaintances until to-day, when I
court, he stated that he had vainly gathered courage to ask my fellow-
sought work, that his old friends shnn- men in the shop, and not one of them
ned him, and, that dreading to kill —a dozen in all—knew what a trade
himself, he was obliged to go back to dollar is. So yon can make us all
the horrors of prison life. I wiser. Respecfully yours,
We have the very highest authority Mechanic.
for saying that President Hayes is not I The “trade dollar” is a better coin
a professor of religion, is not a mem-1 than any other of the silver coins pre-
ber of the Presbyterian or of any oth- scribed in the Revised Statutes. It
er Church, and does not condnct fam- was coined for foreign trade, and
ily worship. Mr. Hayes is a regular weighs 420 grains : whereas two of the
attendant of divine worship in the half dollars provided for in the same
church, and has “a high and rever- law, weigh only about 385 33-40 grains,
ential regard for the Christian religion.” The foreigners would not deal in thia
Mrs. Hayes is an examplaiy Christian I debased coin, and the trade dollar
woman, p member of the. Methodist was a necessity.—Enquirer.
Episcopal Church, and (we. violate no — »
confidence in saying it) takes the lead Miss Braddon is going it. She is
in daily household devotion with her I newly married, and has written anoth-
familv.—New York Journal of Commerce I er noyel.
Air Sot’s.
“Gobang” is the name of a new par
lor game in England. Some boy go?s
and bangs somebpdy. or something, and
there’s heaps of fun.
It is proposed to name one of the big
trees of California after Eh Perkins,
That is, Eli proposes it. Sell ct tine
with z very thin top.
The architect who can ectne with $500
of the cost of a thousand dollar house
should enter the lecture Jield and ex
plain how he does it.
That suave and dignified old hum-
fcug, phrenological Fowler, is said to
be worth half a million dollars. That's
how bumpfeelers get along.
A Buffalo man died the other day
with $60,000 life insurance to amco he
his path to tlie grave. The company
which he was insured fell very sick.
The New Orleans Republican wants
some rich man to die in such a way
that his heirs can’t prove that he was
a fool or a lunatic. Second the mo
tion.
_A Kentuckey widow had so much
pity ou a poor tramp that sbh -married
him and gave him a home. The routes
to Kentucky are now almost block
aded.
The battle cries of the Turkish army
must be very enthusing. Think of a
genreal in bag trousers shouting along
the line: “Remember Bjuna Djunce.”
—Globe-Democrat.
Lake Superior has the richest copper
mine in the world, but do you see
Michiganders go around with their
hats on their ears, trying to spit further
than any one else ?
An English physician says that wall
paper of pn intricate pattern or dazzl
ing colors will make children have the
headache. If there are no children
around the cat will be taken with diz
zy spells.
The Lymington, England, parish re
cords show that a man’s body was cast
into the water near the Needles at his
request, in order that his wife might
be thwarted in her determination to
“dance upon his grave.”
The people worshiping in a Fifth
avenue church have contributed $34-,
000 this year to foreign missions—to
buy moral pocket handkerchiefs and
flannel wraps for the benighted- babies
of Senegambia. At the same time,
Christain people within sight of this
costly edifice have suffered more than
the agonies of death by reason of starva
tion, cold and the deprivation of the
commonest comfort of life. To be Bure
these people had no business to be
poor and sick—they ought to have
been wealthy and prosperous—yet nev
ertheless they have silently suffered
and died while their rich neighbors
sent lands to Africa.—Con.''
Toombs was interviewed the 'other
day. The reporter speaking of' Steph
en’s bad health asked:
“Who do you think would be called
to fill his place in the event of his res
ignation?”
“I have not the slightest idea. ' There
are plenty of good men.” . ; • J-f-
_ “But suppose your people should
ask you to §erve ?”
“It is out of the question, sir; out of
the question. I am out of politics. -1
have had my day. I am getting Wd,
and age should be respected, even '-in.
politics.” )'
“But suppose—”
“Why suppose? A gentlemanhj^st
be a gentleman. I am getting oli”
“At least, General Toombs, yob will
admit that you can serve your people
in Congress ?”
“Sir, do you expect me to fight
skunks ?”
“You have engaged in such battles."
“Oh! that was in the old times.
Give me a liberty pole, and I’ll stir up
the entire nest full-for you; but I am
growing old. I am harrassed with
clients. I have to run away from busi
ness.
Beck and Blaine-
Washington Special to the St. Louis Republican.
Of the nine new members of the
Senate, seven are old line Whigs. Beck,
of Kentucky, and Blaine, when young
men went, the former from New York,
and the latter from Pennsylvania, to
the same town in Kentucky. A- friend
ship grew up there which was contin
ued in Congress many years afterward,
and nor the two are in the-Senate.
All of Beck’s characteristics^e-enifer
ly different from those possesseff'hy
Blaine, yet a personal friendship of the
warmest kind has always existed be
tween them. Beck berates Blaine in a
good natured manner and the latter
complains to the former of his conser
vatism. They walked arm in arm to the
Vice President’s desk to be sworn this
session. Blaine had hardly raised his
head from bowing to the Vice P-psi-
dent when he had taken oati; tjaiote ii--
tumed to Beck and said. "Now,i ,G—
—n you, I want you to 1-chave your
self.” Blaine sincerely loves a row and
is never so happy as win n having a
sharp repartee in the presence of crowd
ed galleries. After the scene of lust
Tuesday and Wednesday, he asked a
friend “if he didn’t think it was a jolly
lime they had.” ^
Chico’s Massacfe.
Sax Fuaxcisco, March 19.—P., ,-S.
Dorney. Past Supreme Chief, and S. K.
Phillips’ Treasurer of the Camp of the
Order of Caucasians, of this city, have
been interviewed concerning the Chico
massacre. They ftpudiate the idea
that the Order is in any way responsi
ble for the crime, claiming that on the
contrary they will use all means to-'
discover and punish the offenders.
They assign as a reason for the outrages
recently committed at Chico that a
number of white men who had been
employed in the sash blind factory
there were discharged and Chinamen
hired in their places; that, under the
incentive of poverty and lack of em
ployment, becoming dissatisfied with
the slow and peaceful workings of tiie ;
Order of Caucasians to which they be- -
longed, some of these men formed ao
anti-coolie club, to whose influence the
recent tragedy is largely due.. They
claim that the camp of Caucasians at
Chico is composed of the most respecta
ble men in the town, and that the Or
der in California numbers about 7,000.
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