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VOLUME XLI1I.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, D E C E 31 B E R 4, 1872.
NUMBER 19*
THE
gniob <f Jvtcorbtr,
J3 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IK MILLEDGEVILLE. GA.,
BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE,
A t $2 in Advance, or $3 at end cf the year.
S. K. HOUGHTON, Editor-
thE FEDERAL. UNION " anil (he “SO
... x - UECOKDER” were consolidated Augur
the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume
e oorder in it's Fifty-Tbinl Volume.
Its-,
the K
advertising.
j fiA N5iENT. One Dollar persquare of ten lines for
first insertion
and seventy-live cents for each subae
oueiit continuance.
Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit
uaries exceeding
munications or
ii tines, Nominations for office,Com
Editorial notices for individual benefit,
r r^ed as transient advertising.
Tegal advertising.
Sheriff’s Sab -■ 1- rb vj of ten Unas, or less,....fa 50
‘ .. fi fa sales, per square oOU
Citations for Eeueis of Administration, 3 00
“ rjuardmnsiiip,.... 3 00
,, , for dismission from Administration, a 00
Application t .. .. Guardianship, 3 00
» •• leave to sell Laud, 5 00
■ ‘ for Homesteads, 1
\ot*ce to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00
bales of Land,&c., persquare 5 00
.. perwbiibie l»i'' i!f days, persquare,.. I 50
EstrayNotices,30days, 3
j.,.ivi’iu*ure ot AIorU,age, per sq-, each time, 1 00
Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,).... 1
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Land, &.e.. by Administrators, Executors
ord'nardiaus, are required bylaw to be held on the
li.it Tuesday intlie mouth, between the hours of 10
i li forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court
iJ.oi-e in the County in which the property is situated
\\, , of these sales must be given in a public ga
lays previous to the day of sale.
Notices for the saic ol personal property must be
given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notices to the debtors and ct editors of an estate
must also be published JO days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of
O- i’narv tor leave to sell Land, &.o., must be publish
ed tor two months.
Citation - for letters of Administration. Guardianship
fc, must be published 30 days—for dismission from
Administration monthly three mouths—for dismission
from Guardianship, 4b days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish
ed monthly for four mouths—for establishing lost pa
pers lor the full space of three months—for compell
ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where
bund has beeu given by the deceased, the full space of
three mouths.
Publications will always be continued according to
these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered
Book and Job Work, of all Kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT THIN OFFICE.
Agents for Federal in New York City
GEO. V. ROWELL & CO.. No. 40 Park Row.
S. M. PETTING ILL &. CO., 37 Park Row.
ty Mkssrs. Grifkis &. Hoff i an. Newspaper
Advertising Agents. No. 4 South St., Baltimore, Jld..
are duly authorized to contract for adveitisements at
our bmtrates. Advertisers in that City are request
ed to leave their favor.- with this bouse.”
GOODIW(
shoes
AT
FRED HAIG’S.
r I'M IE undersigned oonlin-
I lira to carry on the
HOOT AND SHOE bnai-
n**a, in all its branches, at
llle aame old stand, embra
cing a larger variety than
heretofore.
(i&ntlemen will find every class of finish in Boots
and Shoes, warranted. AI.-0 a good supply of
Ladies, Eflisses and Children’s Shoes
of all qualities mid prices.
Understand, that none but fir-tola? 3 goods are offer
< d. and having paid cash, great inducements are of
fered.
Gentlemen’s work made to order r.nd Repairing of
ali kinds neatly done as ail old customers will testify.
FRED HAUG.
Milledgeville, Oct 8, 1872. 11 3m
W. n. HALL.
medica:
I. L. HARRIS.
CAUD.
D OCTORS HALL &l KAURIS have associated
thwnMelveci for the Practice of Medicine.
Office tlie oue formerly occupied by Judge I. L
Harris as a Law Office.
[ %>''('alls may be left at their office day or night.
Milledgeville, Aug 20, 1872. 4 3m
DRY COW HIDES WANTED S
This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to con
tain a single particle ot Mercury, or any injurious
mineral substance, but is
PTTRBI.V VS3ErA3L3.
For FORTY YEARS it has proved its great value
in all diseases of the Liver, Bowels and Kidneys.
Thousands of the yood and great in ail parts of the
country vouch for its wonderful and peculiar power in
purifying the Blood, stimulating the torpid Liver and
Bowels, and imparting new Life and Vig-.r to the
whole system. SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR
is acknowledged to have no equal as a
XiXVEK ME1DICXW3.
It contains four medical elements, never nnited in
the same happy proportion in any other preparation,
viz: a gentle Cathartic, a wonderful Tonic, an unex
ceptiouable Alterative and a certain Corrective of all
impurities of the body. Such a i-ignal success has at
tended its use, that it is now regarded as the
Great Unfailing Specific
for Liver Complaint and the painful off-pring thereof,
to wit : DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice,
Bilious attacks, SICK. HEADACHE. Colic, Depres
sion of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH. H-art Burn, Arc.
Regulate the Liver and prevent
CKUiiS A'&D FEV3R.
Simmons’ liver Regulator
Is manufactured only by
J. ii. zmi.n ft co.,
MACON, GA., and PHILADELPHIA.
Price fl 00 per package ; sent by mad. postage paid
(l 25. Prepared ready for use in bottles, si 50.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
[yP.ewase of ail Counterfeits and Imitations.
Sept 17, 1872. 8 6 m
c. H WRIGHT & SOX
OFFER FOR SALE
AT LOW HATES,
5.000 yards Heavy Bagging.
5 Tons of Arrow Ties.
16.000 lbs. of Flour, aU grades.;
10.000 lbs. Bacon Sides.
1.000 lbs. Xieaf Bard.
SUGAR AND COFFEE.
One Car Load Liverpool Salt to arrive.
A LARGE LOT OF HOLLOW WARE.
Hunt & Robinson Axes.
SEED RYE AND BARLEY.
Choico Goshen Batter
packages.
in 2 1-2 lbs.
REMOVAL,
T. A. Caraker,
Agent,
1,000 lbs. Canvassed lianas,
3YRTT? AND MOLASSES.
Soaps and Candles.
All as good aa tho best and as cheap as the cheap
est.
C. H. WRIGHT & SON,
Milledgeville, Sept 17,1372. 8 tf
Just Returned from New York.
CALL AND PURCHASE 6>R INSPECT
HAS REMOVED HIS
Store
Grocery and Provision
to his new
Brick Building Opposite the Hotel,
Where he will be pleased to see his old friends and
customers, and the public generally, and where with
renewed exertions and superior advantages, he will j and you will find
offer greater inducements to purchasers.
.\*He lias a full assortment of goods of all kinds in his
line,
AT LOW PRICES.
He, however, gives special attention to such leading
an ices as CORN, BACON. FLOUR, SUGAR, COF
FEE, DOMESTICS, SIIOES, &c. Also Bagging
and Ties, to which Re invites the attention of Planters.
T- A. CARARER, Agent.
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 1st, 1872, 10 tf
Finest Stock of Watches, Jewelry,
Watch Chains, Biamonds, Solid
Silver Ware, Clocks,
Guns, Pistols,
or any other Goods usually kept in
First-Class Jewelry Stores,
G. T. WIEDENAIAN
Always ready and willing to show, and wait on his
friends and customors as politely as ever, at his old
stand opposite the Hotel.
Milledgeville. October 1st, 1872.
N.B.—All work, particularly fine Watches, care
fully repaired. 101£
GEORGIA, Baldwin Conuty,
Court of Ordinary at Chambers, / \
Nov. 2nd, 1872. \
'VTOTICE is hereby given that. S P Myrick, Guar- )
.1 diau of Miron and M G Myrick, minor children)
of J W Myrick, deceased, lms this day applied for ex
mption of Homestead of realty and peisonalty, and
will pass upon the same at my office at 10 o’clock a.
m. on the25th, instant
M. R. BELL, Ordinary, B C.
Nov. 12,1872. ‘ 16 21.
EEMOYAL,
W E have removed our Grocery and Provision
.Store to our brick Store, known as Fort’s Build
ing. (recently occupied by T. A. Caraker,) where we
will be pleased to see our old friends aud customers
and tlie public generally, and where we will Continue
to sell everything in utirliiie at the lowest cash prices,
PERRY & DENTON.
Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 11th, 1872. 16 St,
THE PLACE TO BUY!
SEYMOUR;' TINSLEY «fc CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
jVE^OOjST,
georoia.
TATE RECEIVE NEW GOODS DAILY. WE BUY FROM FIRST CLASS HANDS.
T» Cash
WE PAY
lor our UomkU. Wh are satisfied with small profits* We guarantee goods as represented. JJ YVe
ant moie business and can’t afford to lo3e any we have already. Try cur prices—Try our Goods.
ws
Remember when vou Come to Macon don’t fail Call on
Macon, Sept 10,1872.
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY & CO.
National Politics.
BY JAMES M’aHTHCK.
The Greeley pill we swal.owed, bat the country
threw it up,
And leaves us with a dreadful cough, aud maud
lin sick hiecnp,
Rut we’re toning up our stomach now, and our
whole nerveus natnr’
To try another long strong dose of the Grant Reg
ulator.
O’Connor’s Homeopathy we thought would suit
us best.
Weneefled plain mild lemedits and wholesome
sleep and rest.
But we’re a “sick man”—Unde Sam is—that is
very plain ;
And Rheumatism and Nepotism gives him mighty
pain.
We’re now convinced that Dr. Stephens—Eilick
H., you know,
Knew well how Greeley pil’s would purge ; he
plainly told us so ;
But Dr.'Raltimore Convention thrust them down
our throat ;
Alas ! King Caucus ruled us then, aud old Queen
Petticoat !
Queen Petticoat ! Queen Woman-Rights ! Queen
Greeley ! Ail the same :
That scribbler Shakespeare well remarks there’s
nothing in a name ,
But in reality there’s much on earth as ’tis in
Heaven ;
And Grant is our next President till 1877.
Well, let ns try him fairly, squarely, for a full
four years ;
“Kick net against the pricks” was thundered
once in old Saul’s ears ;
If Grant will only rule, himself, as we may hope he
will,
And hurl the carpet-baggers out, lie’s not a “bitter
pill.’’
We, James McArthur, do exhort said Grant to try
this plan ;
To prove that he’s a President, and a “party
man,"
And act as nobly to the South as once he did to
Lee ;
Then real peace, without blue coats, his patriot
eyes will see. “
Drive off the flock of vampyre bats—the Bullocks,
Blodgetts, Farrows,
Put them to swifter guiltier flight than robins and
ccoksparrows—
Take Democratic Georgia kindly, gently by the
hand,
And be, oh Grant ! the President of all this
mighty land !
I Think you’ll Find RSarryingr Fays-
BY MISS ELIZABETH CUMMINGS.
7 3m
[ I IGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR DRY
. L COW HIDES at tlie
Family Grocery of
T. A. CARAKER.
Milledgevilfe, Oct. 28,1872. 14 3m
PARKER 4 COLLINS,
KILL23SEVIIL3,
117ILL make vou a good
▼ ▼ for si:i5s i
GA.,
.pi
mipr
: IS II CRT
1*145 ; —
ail Hum SI50
with • la.-
lo J* I 75.
No “slop” work done at any price- Repairing exe
cuted promptly and substantially.
wagons always ou baud aud for sale low.
TERMS CASH.
June 5th, 1872. 46 7m
TINWAXIE,
Hardware, i$*c., fyc.
JOSEPH STALEY
Has just received a lot of
C O OKI. \ G S TO FES,
of the best manufactures, which lie will sell
Cheap for Cash.
Now is vonr time to get one as these stoves are ad-
\ uuciug in price.
lie also has an assortment of
FARIVXING ZSEFLSBTZJKrTS
Consisting of Hoes, Spading Forks, Garden Rakes,
Guano Strowers, .to,, fte.
Also, Axes, Chums. Well-Buckets, &c.
A cem-ral ti-srrttnont of
TINWARIS, Cheap for Cash.
GUNS AND PISTOLS.
A full assortment of
IPPPPF-W/FF-
JAMES G. BAILIE *fc BROTHER,
205 Tlroad Street, Aug us la, Ga.,
Respectfully ask your attention to a full line of the following goods, which will be sold as low as in any
other House
CARPET DEPARTMENT. CERTAIN DEPARTMENT.I GROCERY DEPARTMENT
English Velvet Carpets,
English Brussels Carpets,
Three Ply and Ingrain Carpets,
Venetian Caipets,
Cheap Carpets,
Floor Oil Cloths,
Table Oil Cloths,
Stair Carpets and Rods,
Curtain Materials,
Cornices and Bands,
Lace Curtains,
Muslin Curtains,
Window Shades, all sizes,
Hair Cloths, alt widths.
Wall Papers
and Borders,
Mattings, Druggets aud Door Mats.(Beautiful Chromes.
Caipets, Oil Cloths aud Curtains made and laid at short nohee.
Sept. 24. 1872. 9 bin.
Choice Family
Groceries,
received weekly,
Duffield Hams,
English Crackers,
Dyspeptics’ Food,
Baskets of all kinds, Wood Ware,
Brooms and Brushes,
Plantation Supplies-
GEORGIA 3IILLS !
Also. Hardware, Cutlery, and a variety of
loo tedious to mention.
Call and examine.
Milledgeville, Nov 19,1972. ]7
joods
R. E. M c 11E Y.VO LD S,
X>E3KT 3 -CIST,
C AN be found in bis office over Caraker*a Store
at all times, where be will take great pleasure
in waiting upon all who may taver him with their kind
patronage, and will guarantee ^atistaction in all opera
tions.
Sept 17, 1872. 8 3m.
FOR SALE
HpHE RESIDENCE of the lat* Isaac
1 Newell, Sr., in thorough repair, t wo
ncres of ground attached, with Stables, Out-Houses,
A*-., Alg. The most desirable Residence in the city,
and the most convenient, both as to location and do-
Jnetticr comfort. Will be sold clump. Those wishing
to buy will please call on the subscriber, who vi/1
take pleasure in fcbowing them the premises.
..... T. F. NEWELL,
Aliiledgeville, Ga., Oct 28tb, 1872. 14 2m.
FLOUR TO THE TRADE.
CjF’We are now prepared to supply the trade with our celebrated brands of
Wiley's XXXX, Pearl Dust, Hyacinthe and Amber,
In any quantity. We make the BEST FLOUR in the market,
And our PRICE LIST will compare favorably with those of any firat-oiasi Wuatern Mills. Ef” We keep al
ways on hand BRAN aud SlIOKl’S of a Superior Quality. Your orders will receive prompt attention.
BUIte & FLANDERS,
November 5th, 1S72.
MAC0 3V, G-A.
Tlie Oldest Furniture House in the State.
PLATT BROTHERS,
2/2 and 2/& 2?21 OAT) S2HI/I72,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
Keep constantly on hand the latest styles of
Of every variety inannlactured, lrom the the lowest to the highest grades.
Cjitamber, iffitidi,
AND
Library Suits Complete, or in Single Pieces,
At Prices which cannot fail to euit the purchaser. Nov. 12,1872. 16 6m.
Well, Lislier, to morrow’s your wedding day ;
I’m sure I wish you joy,
Health, wealth, and conti nt all the days of life,
God bless you and keep you, my hoy
Marrying is risky business.
For husband as well as lor wife ;
So, generally speaking, it's as serious a thing
As happens to folks in life.
Merry Arm Smith and you, Lisher,
Fell in love in the good old way ;
But I seen many couples, that started as well,
Have the a ery old scratch to pay.
I dcu't say that you will, Lisher,
So there's no occasion to pout :
But you and Merry Ann will have tantrums ;
I know what I ui talking about.
For you’re inclined to be touchy.
And you're inig'.-ty sot in your way ;
And, Lisher. whenever your dander is up,
You iiave a pile to say.
Merry Ann Smith is as smart a gal
As they raise in these parts about;
But that kind, Lisher, are never made up
With the ginger and pepper left out.
Bear in mind Merry Ann has her notions,
And a will like yours and mine;
And that she has * right to her say in things
That naturally fall in her line.
Be gentle about the money question ;
Every time you give her a cent
Don’t ask her to give you a strict account
Of the way it’s going to be spent.
She’s the woman yon loved and sparked as a gal ;
She’il work and live for you ;
All that she is, or might be, boy.
She gives, as no man would do.
You know how much you can afford, Lisher,
To make your yearly expense ;
Just hand a part over to Merry Ann,
And trust to her good, common sense.
If you ever do have any difference, Lisher,
Ri-member you keep a still tongue ;
For when outside parties know family affairs,
An endless discussion’s begun.
In health and in sickness, for all sorts of luck,
You promise to take your wife ;
To loro, and ch» risk, and honor her,
All the days of her life.
Merry Ann promises just the same ;
Now-a-days they leave you the obey ;
I never set any store by that—
Too much one-sided, I say.
To honor and cherish each other through life,
To lore—that lives always—why, I couldn’t
bear
To live with the Lord in glory.
If you an’ Aunt Phronia wasn't there.
Good night, Lisher .' God bless you, my boy
I'm giad to-morrow’s tho day ;
All things considered, I think you'll find
That getting married’ll pay.
Harrisburg Telegraph.
Lake Erie Filling Up.—It is predicted that
Lake Brie, now the pathway of a mighty com
merce, will in time dry up and become the home
of a teeming population. Careful surveys have
shown that while Lake Michigan lias an average
depth of I860 feet, Lake Superior ol Dot) feet, and
Lake Ontario of 500 feet, Lake Erie has ail aver
age depthjof 120 feet, which is said to be constant
ly decreasing. The bottom of the lake is quite lev
el and composed of soft clay. The clay is con
stantly accumulating from sediment carried down
bv tributary streams. The south shore is com
posed ot easily disintegrating biue, gr*y and olive
shoals and gray sandstone. The western and
northern coasts are wad* up of limestone of the
Helderberg group, which quickly yields to the ac
tion of tlie waves-’ Consequently both shores are
constantly contributing to fill up the bed of the
take. The work is not rapid, but it is said to be as
certain as fate.
Returned from Liberia.—Yester
day a party of twenty-five or thirty
negroes arrived here on their way to
North Carolina. They are the remains
of a company of near two hundred who
went to Liberia from North Carolina
about a year ago. The balance died out
there, aud this small remnant are seek
ing their way back to the Old North
State. The company went out to Af
rica under the auspices of the Ameri
can Colonization Society. They say
they were treated very well by the
natives out there, but not being use to
the climate and mode of living, they
died off like sheep. Yellow fever car
ried most of them off.—Korjolk Vir
ginian, 22*1.
The Candidates —A rosrter of can
didates for the various offices to be
filled by the Legislature, has been
made up by the Atlanta correspondent
of the Savannah News. Their name
is legion, and from the list the Legis
lature certainly should have no trouble
iu making judicious selections.
The aspirants for United States Sen
ator are Gen. Gordon. Gen. Benning,
Hon. H. V. Johnson. Hon* A. H. Ste
phens, Hon. B. H. Hill, Dr. H. V. M.
Miller, Col. Herbert Fielder, Judge
John W. H. Underwood, Col. Geo. N.
Lester, Gen. L. J. Gartrell. Gen. A.
H. Colquitt declines to run.
For State Treasurer, Hon. John
Jones, of Milledgeville, is on hand.—
Dr. Angier will not be a candidate.
For Secretary of State, there are
lots of aspirants : Col. J. R. Sneed,
B. R. Freeman, of Atlanta, the pres
ent Chief Clerk, N. C. Barnett, of
Milledgeville, J. A. Crawford, of Ath
ens, Charles D. Phillips, of Marietta,
and Mr. Jones, of Coweta.
For Comptroller General there are
Peterson Thweatt, Wm. J. Magiil,
Thompson Allan, Samuel B. Cleghorn,
of Columbus; Gen. LaFayette Me
Laws, of Augusta ; VV. L. Goldsmith,
of Dt-Kalb, and J. W. Renfro, of Wash
ington county.
For President of the Senate, lion
L. N. Trammell, it says will proba
bly be elected without opposition.—
The News, however, says Hon. Rufus
E. Lester, is in the field, and Col. Har
ris, of Worth, is mentioned.
For Speaker of the House there are,
Hon. W. D. Anderson, of Cobb ; Jo
seph A. Shumake, of Burke; F. M
Langly, of Troup; Hon. Geo. F.
Pierce, of Hancock ; Hon. E. F. Hoge
of Fulton; and A. O. Bacon, of Bibb
Thus. B. Cabaniss and Hon. C. J
Wellborn are after the Secretaryship
of the Senate.
For Supreme Judge the names of
Col. Bleckley, Col. Trippe, David Ir
win, H. V. Johnson, Col. Fielder, and
others, are prominently urged.
The Monroe Advertiser says, tlie let
ter in the News brought forward can
didates for all tlie offices to be filled,
except the position of Clerk of the
House of Representatives, and sup
plies the omission by bringing for
ward the name of Mr. LaFayette Car
rington, of Milledgeville: and adds,
he is, however, so well known, and
so generally recognized as possessing
every qualification for the position,
that we look for him to be chosen by
acclamation and without opposition.
The Advertiser also pays Capt. Jno.
Jones a high compliment and says
there can be no name presented for
State Treasurer more entitled to con
sideration.
Fiom the New York Tribune.
JINGO KOGO'S LEGACY.
The Perpetual Pe-1 Retween Japan nnd
Caren—A Bloody Oriental War in Proe
pect.
The Radicals made voters of ne
groes, and now they make them vote
to retain Grant and his party in power.
At the late election in the South, the
Federal authorities practiced a wicked
system of intimidation against negro
voters. The New Orleans Times says
that “many negroes in that State had
determined, in the exercise of the
privileges of freemen, to vote the Lib
eral Democratic ticket. They were
mentally and morally convinced of the
necessity of a change, and concluded
to join hands with their white neigh
bors in riJding the State of the cor
rupt and oppressive government which
had too long been upheld by Federal
bayonets. But when they attempted to
act as freemen, in accordance with
their conscientious convictions, they
found that there was danger in the
act. The hirelings of unscrupulous
authority were at their heels, with all
sorts of threats aud intimidations, and
they found that they must either run
with the tide of Radicalism, or be
subjected to serious bodily peril.—
Dispatches from the far East indi
cate the imminence of an armed con
flict between Corea and the recognized
Empire of Japan. It would seem al
most a fatality that Japan, with which
we have such interesting relations, and
for which our countrymen cherish
such lively sympathy, should be so
soon involved in a war which may test
the value of international friendship.
But the Japanese are confident, and,
with a fair share of what we can af
ford to call Yankee boastfulness, ex
press their determination to vindicate
their ancient claim to the fealty of the
Corea.
The original eonquest of the coun
try, it is claimed by the Japanese, was
about sixteen hundred years ago, when
the Empress Jiugo-Kogo, at tlie head
of a considerable army, invaded the
Corea, subjugated the people and laid
them under tribute. This tribute was
legnlarly paid for several centuries,
but Japan becoming involved in the
interneciue wars the Coreans took oc-
j casion to allow the payment to lapse,
i and many years passed without the
annual levy being exacted. When
Taico Sama, the founder of the dual
system of Imperial Government, and
a warrior of renown, came to the Ty-
conatein the sixteenth century, he de
manded a renewal of the tribute from
the Coreans, and on their refusal in
vaded the country and brought them
to terms. The tax was paid until the
downfall of the late Tycoon, Chief of
the Tokugawa clan; and when the
Government, after a short struggle,
was rehabilitated and the present Em
peror became seated on the throne, he
sent word to the Corean Emperor that
the annual tribute, payment of which
had been suspended, must be forth
coming with arears. The Corean Gov
ernment replied in these concise terms:
“We have received your letter, and
have given it very deep consideration,
comparing your dispatch with other
dispatches. It is a long time since
there has been any intercourse be
tween the two countries. Your dispatch
demands payment of tribute. We
will show how this affair stands. Tai
co Sama, without provocation or cause
of any, invaded Corea, and made Co
rea sign a document agreeing to pay
tribute. In those days Corea was un
prepared for war, and had not even
been informed of the intention of Ja
pan. But it is very different now. The
invasion of Taico was a crime com
mitted against Corea by Japan which
is not punished. Your demand is so
unreasonable that, instead of Corea
paying tribute, it is for you to return
the money paid by Corea.”
This was turning the tables on Ja
pan, and as tribute had been paid for
about ten centuries it will be seen that
Corea has an enormous demand against
Japan to offset that for the tribute in
airears. It can hardly be expected
however, that Corea is in earnest in
anything further than a vigorous de
fense ot the threatened invasion. Such
a conflict would be further complica
ted by the attitude which China would
be compelled to assume, for China, in
its turn, has held a loose sort of domi
nation of Corea. When the famous
Shang dynasty was overthrown B. C.
1122, the Viscouut Ke, a determined
enemy of the Chew dynasty which
succeeded to the crown, fled to Corea,
where he was invested with the sov
ereignty of the country by the reign
ing Emperor of China. In this char
acteristically Chinese manner the Co
rea was annexed to the Celestial Em
pire, and a show of tributary depen
dence was kept up until modern times.
VSiaority Representation.
Illinois is the first State to practi
cally test the principle of minority or
proportional representation. The Cin
cinnati Enquirer says : “The first Leg
islature ever chosen upon the princi
ple of ‘proportional representation’ is
soon to meet in Illinois. It marks a
great advance in our political educa
tion. The two great parties, Liberal
and Grant, are there represented in
about exactly the number they are re
latively to each other on the popular
vote. In other States, where this
principle does not prevail, parties poll
ing three-sevenths of the entire vote
have, by an unequal and unjust sys
tem, been almost excluded from any
representation, and in other instances
the party having the majority of votes
has had a minority in the Legislature.
Large portions of the people have been
practically disfranchised* Thus, for
instance, the dozen counties in the
Ohio Western Reserve never return
anybody but a member of the Repub
lican or Grant party. Yet there are
not less than 80,000 Liberals and
Democrats in that portion of the State,
and they certainly ought to have some
hearing. In Illinois the State is divi
ded into Representative Districts, each
electing three members. A voter can
if he chooses, put the figure 3 opposite
one name, and voto for no other. In
that case that inan receives three
votes. The practical result is, that
in strong Grant districts the Liberals
run one man, give him three votes
each, and elect him. The Grant men
get the two others* Thus the major
ity and the Jminority are alike repre
sented. In the Liberal districts the
Grantites pursued the same policy.”
Hint they accepted the least manly of Cililljclnn / be „ eutral in an war be .
these alternatives » rather their mis-! twMn Japan and a country which has.
fortune than therr fault. The fact la t0 , ' recent jjj iM;k „ ow |.
patent that they were ss much forced [ J . j e nanJeDc e on the Chinese Km-
to vote against their convictions as, J -i 3 1
in their previous condition ol servi- *
tude, they were forced to labor against
their inclinations.” The broad, gen
eral truth is, remarks the Philadelphia
Age, the Radical party have no regard
or respect for the ballot-box. They
force the negroes to vote in the South,
and in the North depend upon fraud
to override the will of tlie people.—
This is the present condition ot the
elective franchise in the United States,
and it bodes no good for the future.
£iSat . News.
Destructive Fire in Nashville.
—In Nashville, Tennessee, about.half-
past II o’clock, Saturday night, a fire
broke out in the mammoth livery and
sale stable of Messrs. Pilcher & Wright,
which was surrounded by seven other
stables, to which the flames were im
mediately communicated, and in twen
ty minutes it was apprehended that
the entire neighborhood would be re
duced to ashes. The lire was, how
ever, got under control, one of the sta
bles, a brick one, occupied by J. B.
Parrish, having escaped with but little
injury.
One of the greatest losses by the
fire was the burning of some forty-five
or fifty horses and two ypke of oxen
in the stables of Pilcher & Wright.—
The horses in the other stables were
dragged out with considerable difficul
ty. In addition to the loss of horses,
Pilcher & Wright also suffered heavily
in the loss of feed, harness, and in fact
everything they had in their stables.
Mr. Parrish lortunately emptied his
stables before they caught, aud suc
ceeded in saving his horses, oxen, har
ness. feed, etc. In addition to the
heavy loss of stock, feed, &c., the buil
dings burned were all large, and it
will cost a considerable amount to re
place them. The stables were mostly
owned by Matt Parrish, B. J. Groomes,
Wm* Dews and Pilcher & Wright—
three being used by Parrish.
Ida Greeley now owns Chappaqua, it Laving
been bequeathed to ber by ber mother.
Corea has a population of 12,000,-
000, an army ot 040,000 men, aud a
navy of 200 vessels. But Japan, with
a population of four times as large,
and an immense, well drilled army,
equipped with some of the modern
improvements of warfare, may well
boast of being able to subdue her
semi-barbaric adversary. The coutest
must be largely naval ; and the world
will have an opportunity to discover
of how much practical value her new
fleet and armament really are to mod
ern Japan.
The “Money Power.”—This great
and growing monster which threatens,
like some mighty ogre, to swallow us
all, i3 awakening tlie fears of all think
ing and patriotic men throughout the
land. Hon. Montgomery Blair has
just written a letter on this topic, of
which we find the following notice in
the Louisville Courier :
“Montgomery Blair has written a
letter demonstrating the causes of the
Liberal defeat, the chief of which was
our failure to make a square issue with
the growing ‘money power’ of the
country. The history of the rise and
progress of this money power in the
United States is full of.interest aud
well calculated to excite alarm. It is
unquestionably the most direful ene
my with which we have to contend.—
It is an element that is generally
enlisted on the side of tyranny, and in
all ages has proved its most powerful
adjunct, and against it the most vig
orous aud inflexible energies of the
country’s patriotism must be directed.
It is growing with alarming rapidity,
and the public mind is not yet quick
ened to a realization of its mighty in
fluence. This must be done, for if the
infant Hercules is not strangled in its
cradle it will live long to oppress and
torment us. We must crush out “its
venom and its strength,” and we must
do so speedily.
Taking- Cold.
If a cold settles on the outer cover
ing of the lungs it becomes pneumo
nia,i nflammation of the lungs, or lung
fever, which in many cases carries the
strongest man to his grave within a
week. If cold falls upon the inner
covering of the lungs it is pleurisy
with knife like pains, and it slowly,
very slowly recovers. If cold settles
in the joint, there is rheumatism with
its agonies of pain, and rheumatism of
the heart, which in an instant sometimes
snaps the cord of life with no friendly
warning. It is of the utmost practi
cal importance, then in the wintry
weather, to know not so much how to
cure a cold as to avoid it. Colds al
ways come from one cause, sometimes
part of the whole body being colder
than natural for a time. If a man
will keep his feet warm always and
□ever allow himself to be chilled, he
will never take cold in a lifetime,
and this can only be accomplished
by due care in warm clothing and the
avoidance of drafts and undue expos
ure. While multitudes of colds come
from cold feet, perhaps the majority
arise from persons cooling off too quick
ly after becoming a little warmer than
natural from exercise or work, or from
confinement to a warm apartment.
TREASURE FROM THE NBA.
8300,000 in Melted Silrer and Geld—A
Slreege light.
[From the San Francisco Bulletin.]
A portion of the treasure recovered
from the remains of the steamer Amer
ica by divers persons and brought to
San Francisco on the Colorado, was
tracked to the office of the San Fran
cisco Assaying and refining Works, No.
416 Montgomery street yesterday, and
exposed to the gaze of a few reliable
persons. The scene was novel beyond
conception. Twenty-three boxes of
melted coin, weighing from two to four
hundred pounds each, were scattered
about the floor of the room, and besides
there were piles of bars and irregular
masses of valuable metal lying around
loose. Two pieces of the melted mass,
with a length of about three feet, a
width of eighteen inches and weighing
one hundred pounds, looked like a sec
tion of clay bristling with oysters.
These oysters were twenty-dollar pie
ces, Mexican dollars and half dollars
of American coinage, with dimes and
half dimes for young oysters, and iron
spikes, bits of brass, and steel, to repre
sent the shell fish that are wont to bur
row in the bed of the ocean, the whole
forming a valuable specimen of Crusta
cea. In some instances the coins are
only welded together in rolls, and at
other times they form one lava-like
gob. The melted matter and the coins
are of a deep green color. The large
bags of bullion were less affected by
the ffre than the coin, and do not ap
pear to have lost much weight. The
metal is to be recoined. Two twenty-
dollar pieces in the lot were kindly do
nated to the representatives of the press,
who were among the reliable persons
present, and had not the coins been
welded to the bar, they would have
been taken away. Three hundred thou
sand dollars worth of treasure, half-
melted, colored by fire and action of
the water, is a curiosity that few peo
ple have ever had an opportunity to
see. Even the audicious and enterpris
ing Barnum could not give such a
show.
The South Carolina Legislature,
—The new Legislature of South Car-
lina met at Columbia, the capital of
the State, Tuesday last. S. J. Lee, col
ored Radical, of Aikin, was elected
Speaker of the House. The inaugu
ration of the Governor will be post
poned until Monday, on account ot the
illness of both Governor Scott and Retf-
is, the Lieutenant Governor elect.
The Radical candidates for United
States Senator are Scott, Patterson nnd
Elliot, (colored.) The Conservatives
have no candidate in the field.
—Youth is the smile of the future
before an unknown beiDg, which is
itself.
—To the contemplative soul there
is no littleness; the least of things is
infinite.
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