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Georgia is Lawyer-Ridden.
Spain, Portugal and Mexico and some
if the South American governments are
‘’nest ridden, and the people feed the
ad effects of this class government.
Nearly all of the important offices and
large proportion of the property of these
countries, ai'e in the hands of the priest
hood. But neither of these countries are
as much priest ridden as Georgia is law
yer-ridden. Every member of both houses
i.i Congress are lawyers, and if a man
presumes to suggest a man of any other
profession for Congress, the whole pack
immediately opens upon him—Tray,
Blanche and Sweetheart all bark at him.
We* have no objection to the lawyers hav
ing their full proportion of offices, but
when they claim them all it is asking too
much. They now claim the right and exer
cise it, of making and expounding all of our
laws and of executing them also. This
is in effect claiming the right to rule the
country, and like the priesthood in Mex
ico, lawyers not only hold all the offices of
profit in theStato that are worth haring,
but they are fast absorbing all of the pro
perty in the State, and they will soon min
it, if there is not achangeof the governing
class. How can it be otherwise, when
they make and execute all of our laws to
suit themselves and have the lives and
fortunes of every man in Georgia under
their control? They have become an
oligarchy, and any man who warns the
people against this, oppressive oligarchy
is assailed by the whole pack as if it was
treason to propose any other but a
lawyer for Congress. Mr. Nutting they
admit is a very good man in his place
It is true he saved the credit of Georgia,
wiicn all of the lawyers in the Legislature,
stood aghast and did not know what to
do. But lie must not aspire to Congress as
long as there are two or three lawyers who
w ait the place. Congress has been under
the control of lawyers for several years,
and what has been the result? The law
yers have become immensely rich, whilst
the country has become poor. Lawyers
who went to Congress a few years ago,
very poor,bare become millionaires, whilst
the people who sent them there are op
pressed and overwhelmed with taxes.
People of Georgia if you wish to prosper,
it is es necessary to diversify your legis
lators as well as to diversify your crops;
break this spell of sending lawyers to
Congress, to legislate for themselves.
Get out of this lawyer rat, send men
who know how to do something besides
talk; send men who will get back the tax
on cotton: send men of business and not
of words. Don’t be lawyer-ridden any
longer. It is worse than ridiculous to
tali, shout persecuting lawyers because
we ask that one out of eleven of our
representatives should be something be
sides a lawyer. We stated before that
we wore willing the lawyers should have
their full proportion of our representa
tives, but when they claim them all and
abuse a man for suggesting one of some
other profession to represent us, then we
think it is time for the people to wake up
and get out of this lawyer net as soon as
possible. If it has come to pass that no
one can be spoken of for Congress but a
lawyer, then we are already under a law
yer despotism. But wo hope the people
of this District will make one more effort
to break their chains and see if it is not
ivcssible’to send some one besides alawyer
vo Congress. We don’t object to having
on ■ or two or three lawyers in Congress,
• :ut we do object to baring all lawyers.
If the Editor of the Telegraph & Messen
ger will look over the State and see what
class holds nearly all the offices in the
Ratf Jtoaving- » ■inking’ •hip.
Than ts a wide spread and deep seat
ed belief among aaik«%hat rats, by their
instinct, kdOW when* ship fe abotet to
sink, and will seek their own safety by
leaving Whethflk rats pousflin this
instinct or not, it is very strong among
Radical politicians. Already many of them
are seeking safety by leaving Grant s ad
ministration. Richardson left a short
time ago, and now we hear that Postmas
ter General Cress we 11 has sought safety
in flight. Two, also, of too leading mem
bers of Congress from Massachusetts,
Mr. Dawes and Mr. Hoar, scent the dan
ger and refuse to run again for Congress.
Even Vice President Henry Wilson, seems
to indulge in gloomy forebodings of com
ing events, and would back out too if he
could. This scare among Radical politi
cians is not without reason. They soc
and feel that the people whom they have
injured and deceived so long have found
them out and are about to call them to
account for their stewardship. This set
tlement with an injured people may be a
very serious business for many of them.
When there are no friendly committees
to whitewash their crimes and no sympa
thising President to pardon them, they
can hardly escape from the punishment
they deserve. They do well to flee from
the wrath to come, for when it is too
late they may call in vain for the rocks
and the mountains to fall on them and
hide them from the face, of an injured and
enraged people.
Vow is the Time to Blake the Fight.
The fight against a third term must
be made now, says the Courier Journal.
Tho issue must be put distinctly before
the people this year, not next year, when
it will he too late. We must avail our
selves of what resources we have, and
as tho Democractic organization is in the
field, it must be shaped and handled so
as to make the most available fight. If
it cannot win, why, it cannot, and wc
sliall have to try something else. But
it can win if it is guided by any wisdom
and courage, bringing it up to the breadth
of tho Union and the aspirations of the
people. Otherwise we shall have a con
gress of condottieri assembling at Wash
ington with the express purpose of sell
ing itself to the bidder that has most to
give. |
There is untamed humor in Matt Car
penter, wliich finds vent in sagacious
practical jokes. Calling a new page to
him the other day, he sent the unsuspi
cious lad to the document room for a
copy of the “Mortification bill." Then
he quietly told Edmunds and Vermont
Morrill of the fun, and they awaited the
page’s return to enjoy his discomfiture.
But the gnarled Tipton happened to be in
the document room when the boy made
his innocent demand. Tipton directed
the clerk, and a pamphlet was handed
the page. • He trotted back with it to the
cunning Carpenter and his friends. It
proved to be a copy of the “mortifica
tion" bill indeed. It was the repeal of
the salary grab, and Carpenter and his
chums had a few ghastly grins the other
side of their mouths.
The Money Maiket in Europe is won
derfully easy. Contrasted with that in
our city, it is absolutely loose. The Bank
of England has reduced the rate of dis
count to 2£ per cent per annum, and has
gained $5,000,000 in bullion in one week.
The Bank of France, notwithstanding the
payment in full of Bismarck’s monstrous
war indemnity, has brought its specie rev
enue to §228,000,000, reduced its paper
circulation below §500,000,000 and fix
ed the minimum rate of discount at 4 per
cent, per annum. Here, with first rate
paper and “the best kind of securities,”
we are very lucky if we can get money
at 2 or even pa 1 cent, per month, jnst
twelve times more than the Bank of Eng
land charges.
A few evenings ago a colored preacher
and Doctor in Memphis, Tenn., was ap
proached by a darkey of the commoner
sort. The fellow asked the doctor to go
with him and he would show him where
he could get a trunk full of money. The
doctor went, and near the Orphan Asy->
him his guide halted and explained that
the reverend gentleman was to take off
his boots and stockings and go barefoot
ed to the point named, while his new-
fonnd friend carried the boots around to
the place by a circuitous rote. The doc
tor has given up the search for the trunk,
and is looking for his boots.
f>tate, worth having, he will not think the
lawyers have been badly persecuted. We
have not said a word against Col. Blount,
he perhaps has done as well as he could
and lie is not enough of a Lawyer perhaps
to do him any harm, but we believe
there are other men in the District that
can represent us as well, and wo want a
few men in Congress besides lawyers to
look after the finances and to watch the
lawyers.
The Last Session of Congress.
The Congressional Session which came
to a dose cn the 22nd lilt., was in many
respects an extraordinary session. A
large number of the members were em
ploye.! on committees examining charges
of fraud and corruption preferred against
high officials and leading members of the
Radical party. And these examinations
were not made by the majority in Con
gross, so much for the sake of discover
ing and punishing these crimes, as for
hiding them and covering the culprits
with a thick coat of Radical white wash,
in order to conceal their rascality from
the people. But notwithstanding these
thick and repeated coats of whitewash,
the black streaks of rascality still show
through. This Congress has been no
less remarkable for what it has done
than for what it has failed to do. It at
tempted to pass the Civil Rights Bill and
failed. It attempted to put a gag upon
the press of the country in the shape of
a new law of libel and failed. It at
tempted to pass Whitely’s infamous
law, by which negroes could vote several
times at the same election, and failed.
There have been many disagreements be
tween tho present Congress and the Pres
ideut and between the two Houses. Alto**
gether this has been a stormy and
wrangling Congress and it is believed by
many that it has planted the seeds of death
in the Radical party. If it has done that
tho country can afford to accept all of the
evil which it has done.
I
Minerals of
V e find in the Birmingham Iron Aye
several interesting articles from the pen
of l’rof. W m. Gesner, formerly of this
city, on the Minerals of Alabama. Mr.
G. has devoted much time to mineralogi
es researches in our sister State and the
result shows that it is rich in iron, coal,
lead, copper and gold, especially the two
former. Near- Birmingham, (a new town
in Alabama whose rapid growth in pop-
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ScRERINTENDANE's OFFICE.
Georgia R. R. and Banking Co, .
Augusta, Ga. June—, 1874.)
Persons desiring to attend the com
mencement exercises of the Colleges be
low named—Madison Female College,
July 1st; Mercer ^University, July 1st;
Emory College, July 22nd and State Uni
versity, August 5th—will be passed over
the Georgia and Macon and Augusta Rail
roads for one fere; full fare required go
ing and return tickets given free.
Passengers will purchase tickets from
the Agents. Conductors are required to
collect fare from passengers not having
tickets property signed by an Agent of this
Company.
Return tickets will be good for ten
days.
S. K. Johnston, Snpt.
Up Country Crops
We made quite an extended torn- last
week through Central and Northern Geor
gia. We were pleased to see crops gener
ally in a promising condition. Cotton
looks about the same from Houston to
Floyd county. Corn is flourishing every
where. One pleasant sight was the fields
in the Etowah Valley filled with shocks
of golden wheat. A large crop was me
ed in Cherokee Georgia. The clover
fields on the Etowarh and Coosa Rivers
are becoming very unstable institutions.
The annual product of an acre is from
one to two tons—worth thirty dollars
each, while the expense is nominal.—
Such lands rent at from five to ten dol
lars an acre. The Northern part of the
State seems to be entering on a new era
of prosperity and progress.—Besides its
mineral enterprises a diversified produc
tion among its fanners is entitled to
tho credit
This section of the State, however, is
much more highly favored in many re
spects than the Northern. The day will
one day be seen when the truth of this
assertion will frtverifiyl, tfntrfrn Jour-
nal. _______
Oregoa Blection.
Oregon, June 25.—The official vote for
Congressman is: Ladow, Democrat 9,-
642; William*, Republican. 9,340; Daren
port, Independent 6,350.
Providence, R. I., June 25.—The As-
a Sen-
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ulation and wealth lias no parallel in the YNtelS >i". Jff
South,) iron and coal mines are being
worked with much success, and it is
claimed that such an economical manu
facture of iron will obtain there +W it
vill bear the expense of transportation,
pay a good profit and undersell any mar
ket known.
The people of Milledgeville and the
Union and Recorder seems to be decid
edly in favor of Nutting representing
t leir. in the next Congress? Well, heia a
good, wife man, and they will never
lose anything by electing him. Hefa a
man, too of business ability, and that’s
the sort we need now, not professional
gpouter8-—rfjHirla 'limes th Planter.
Why is a joiner less handsome than his
wife? Because he’s a deal plainer.
An Iowa lady oeacludas an anti-suf
frage-letter as follows:—“You may look
at this matter in whatever light yon will,
but simmer it down and it is but a quar
rel with the Almighty that we are not all
When a man and woman are made one
by a clergyman, the question is, which is
the one. Sometimes there is a long strug
gle between them before this matter is
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Some of the republican papers are very
severe on General Bntlar for Breaking up
“the system of ebri! service reform,’’ as
they sail it bat which realty never had a
practical existence. It was an ingenious
promotixm favorites, whilst dis
ap^mtenrappIteiMs wtre deluded with
the notion that thrir Citfee bad been de
cided on their merits. It will be so as
long as t&ere' are political parties, and
there is no use in pretending to an impar
tial justice in such matters.
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The DceMMic ir*ataalia(
Monti'EUEh, Vt., June 25.—tfcl^Dem
ocratio Convention to ubmiuate a ticket
for State officers waa-held here to-day.
Geo. L. Waterman, of Hyde Park, pre-si
ded. The convention nominated for
Governor H. W. H. Bingham, of Stowe;
for Lieutenant Governor, Henry Chase,
of Lyndon; for Treasurer, Otis Chamber
lain, of Pomfret. The resolutions, which
utterly ignore allusion to national sub
jects, declare a renewal of devotion to the
Democratic party and its principles, and
invite all citizens to unite in Hie effort to
restore the principles of the party to the
government of the country; that the
present prohibitory liquor law is undemo
cratic and has proved injurious to the
cause of temperance and good order, and
favors its unconditional repeal and the
adoption of a stringent license law.
The convention was unusually well
attended, and had many good men in
it.
A Hackneyed Pleasure.
A New York correspondent writes;
“The furore of trotting horses is’evident
ly dying out. The men who have been
famous for their trotters are getting tired
of the monotony of the road. Every day,
rain or shine, men must go upon Harlem
lane; drive over the same path; see the
same sights; drive just so far; turn at
an exact point; and then home again. It
is a long pull up to the trotting-course.
The roads are bail, and the spider wagons
demand that the horses shall walk. One
or two horses claim tho road. Their
drivers lay in wait for fancy teams, and
spurt by them, to the infinite disgust of
the owners. To waste half a day in
order to drive fast twenty minutes, and
bo beaten at that, isn’t very funny. The
crowd meet at the piazza of a hotel; horses,
arc tied up in a shed; toepiazza occupied;
a bar as long as a bowling alley _ crowded
with customers; lialf an hour s ride ; and
then a march homeward like a funeral
procession, watcliei by mounted police,
lest their be trotting on the streets; this
makes up the recreation of the road.
Several gentlemen are selling their trot
ters, stating tersely: ‘It don t pay.
Good Hints to Ken Folks.
Do ever men folks think how much
work they make a woman by going into
a house with muddy boots? It would
take but a moment to use tho. scraper
and leave outside the dirt which they
track over the floor, oilcloth and carpet,
or which they leave on the stove hearth
or fender—all of wliich must be mopped,
cleaned, scraped, wiped and scrubbed off.
If your wife, mother or sister fail to clean
up the dirt you great big boy or man
have made, wliat a howl you raise be
cause “things about the house look so
like sin.” And when you go home at
noon or night, do you ever notice how
you act ? You enter the door Vvitli a
Kiftni—it closes half and some woman
must close it after you.—Your overcoat
is thrown on a chair in one corner of a
room—your hat sails away into another
corner to light upon a stand, or under it
—gloves are thrown on the table—neck
wrapper hung on the first handy chan*, and
down you sit in the centre of the room
where every one must navigate around
you.
After you have been two hours in a
house the place resembles the grounds
of a cat fight. Hat, boots, coat, news
papers, overcoat, gloves, books, jacknife,
hair brush, and all articles you may have
in your hands are scattered as though a
hurricane had swept into the room. Books,
papers, magazines, almanac and memo
randum arc routed from their places.
And when you have to leave what a time is
there. No* one knows where your tilings
are “Where is my hat? W here is my
overcoat? Who had my gloves? Every
one is put upon the witness-stand and it
is more trouble to get you started oil to
work than to launch a steamer or to start
a new stage coach. Then, after you are
gone, the woman must spend a quarter
of a day, more or less, in picking up
things which you have left.
The trouble' is, you don’t think. It
would take but a moment to hang up
your coat and liat—to put your gloves
in your coat pocket—to draw your neck
wrapper through the sleeve of your over
coat and to cultivate your bump of order.
It takes but a moment to put an article
in its place and then it can be found.
The woman who takes care of the house
has enough to do without choring after
her liege lord or waiting on a lot of men
all day. A woman’s work is never finish
ed. You expect her to keep the house
neat and tidy, expect her hair to be al
ways smooth—her dress always in order
—her stockings always neat—your clothes
always in order—the dust kept from its
thousand gathering places—something
good to eat three times a day besides
lunches, and her to be as neat and attrac
tive as she was the night you popped the
the question. How can she be all this if
she has to spend half her time in picking
up what you throw down? If your wife
mother or sister be neat, you should be.
If not, teach her neatness by good exam
pies. We write this little chapter in hopes
that it will make some men who read it
a little more thoughtful and neat, and
that it may help thoso who never have
too much help.
-MOBH^tetenvp—
Bayard Taylor, in writing from Egypt,
gives some facts concerning the late dis
coveries and translations of hieroglyphic
characters in that country. While a few
years ago only about 700 of these char
acters were known, and when the de
ciphering was most difficult and uncer
tain, now more than 4,500 are intelligible
to the scholars of Germany and France.
Moriette, one of the most successful
scholars in this branch of linguistics, has
been able to translate many of these
Egyptian inscriptions, and from them
much valuable information is derived con
cerning the religious beliefs aud civili
zation of the ancient inhabitants of the
valley of the Nile. In place of a gross
and grotesque mythology, we now have
the evidences of a symmetrical religious
system, based on the profound knowledge
of the forces of nature. The form of the
inscriptions is evidently poetical, the
main idea being a belief in the immortali
ty of the soul and its future reward and
punishment
Mr. Taylor even goes so far as ' to say
that he believes that the Hebrew litera
ture drew its style and character from the
Egyptian as the Latin does from the
Greek. An ancient inscription on the
temple of Boss reads, “I am who is has
been, and ever shall be,” which sounds
Hebraistic enough. On the tombs are
found often repeated these words answer
ing to a daily prayer; “Through my love
have I drawn near to God. I have given
bread to him who was hungry', water to
him who was athirst garments to him
who was naked, and a place of shelter to
the abandoned.” , ^ -
are of historic import, dramatic and poe
tic in character, while prosaic in form.
The great majority of the latter furnish
strong corroborative evidence of what is
already known of Egyptian history. (
A magnificent feather cloak was wast
ed when ling Lunalilo was buried.—
They wrapped him in it though it was
worth $100,000, as if a cheaper article
would uot have awed the distinguish
ed corpse as well. A million of birds of
rate plumage were rnirifafl to furnish
the material of which this gorgeous gar
ment was made, and it had been handed
down to Lunalilo through generations of
royal chieftains.
A well-known authoress gives it as an
item of domestic felicity that the man of
the family should be absent at least six
hours per day- -
An Irish editor, in speaking of the mis
eries of Ireland, says:—“Her cup of mis
ery has been for ages overflowing, and is
not yet full.’’
Caesariam, «*te“***r: J
We have been deposed to make light
of the many imputations of J^esariam
cast upon the adttiinistAtion General
Grant Even when the Jmper^tists made
its appearance m New York city, and that
almost simultaneously with affeneralpro
gramme for the enlargement 6f the pov
ers of the central government, accom
panied by assiu-anees, that a_ federal offi
cer, high in authority at the White House,
was furnishing the chief material aid to
that Quixotic adventure, we were inotineu
to regard these imputations as entirely
groundless so far as General Grant him
self was concerned. But not a few very sig
nificant circumstances have transpired o:
late, indicating that this idea of a “third
and even a fourth term, if not a continu
ous life-tenure of the presidential office:
has taken possession of the mind of the
White House occupant, and has been n
sort of Mark Anthony dream with him
over since he first surrounded himseli
with the monied aristocracy of the conn
try. He held the sword and they held
tho purse, and the union of these two have
ever been the chief menace to institutional
liberty in all ages of the world- It was
as if the Carbonari, or the Knights of the
Golden Circle, had again struck hands
with the Emperor of the French, with no
hope of relief to an oppressed and down
trodden people but in the advent of an
other Orsini, who should dispute the in
famy of the assassin in the glory of the
hero, or forever confound the two in the
estimation of enlightened mankind.
We will instance some of these tenta**
lives of Cicsarism, as exhibited in the pe
culiarities of temper aud conduct dis
played by General Grant. If there was
any man in all the Confederate army
whom he, as a soldier, should have thor
oughly and at heart despised, it was Col
onel John S. Mosby, tie general raider
and bushwhacker of Virginia. This man
never had the confidence, nor scarcely
the countenance, at any time during the
war, of General Lee. He certainly never
had a command from him. He was sim
ply tolerated at the hands of the Rich
mond government, without any other
commission than that which was self-as
sumed in the organization of the most
desperate and dare-devil characters that
turned up in the scum of the conflict on
the southern side. His warfare was chiefly
waged upon defenceless men and women
on the border, who were suspicioned of
disloyalty to the Confederate cause; and,
among military men in the South, he is
held in scarcely better repute to-day than
was accorded him by General Lee during
his exceptionable and altogether unwar
rantable raiding on the border. More
than this, he is a man of low instincts,
and lacks the chief refinements of a Vir
ginia gentleman.
Immediately after the election of Gen
eral Grant for the second term, this
Virginia bushwhacker came out with a
letter infinitely fulsome of the President,
advocating his candidacy for a third term,
if not for life, in consequence of his
super eminent services in putting down
the rebellion and suppressing such bril
liant bushwhacking generalship as he
(Mosby) himself had displayed There
was something infinitely ludicrous in all
this, or would have been had it not trans
pired that Mosby’s “ raids” on the White
House, during the presidential canvass,
were even more damaging to Grant than
were those on the border during his
occupancy of the military field. In this
way Mosby met Grant frequently, and
“read him,” as he himself claimed, -‘like
a book." All at once, after the publication
of bis adulatory letter commending
Cfesarism for the White House, Mosby
became “King of Fanquier” and grand
dispenser of federal patronage for the
entire state of Virginia, if not for the
whole South. Republican heads were
slashed off everywhere without mercy in
the state, and Mosby guerillas appointed
to office in such numbers as to strike
consternation into the heart of the republi
can camp. No less than fourteen of
Mosby’s conservative pets—bush whack
ing companions—were appointed to feder
al office from the single country of Fau
quier, inside of a few months, and this
thing was not stopped until there was a
republican rally and menace in the United
States senate, threatening non-confirma
tion of all executive appointments. Mosby
openly bragged of his omnipotency at
the White House on the streets of Rich
mond, and made no concealment of the
touchstone by which his influence had
been obtained. He ioos the first man
to nominate (irant for a third term, and
was all right, because thoroughly audax
at cant us, at the executive mansion.
Another and equally striking tentative
of Ctesaiism is now seen in Mr. Murtagh’s
pronnnoiamentoin favor of a “third term.'
The republican senators and representa
tives held a caucus, it seems, in the hall
of the House of Representatives on Mon
day night, with a view to shaping matters
for the next presidential campaign. Ques
tions likely to enter more or less pro
minently into the canvass were very gin
gerly treated, except that an irrepressible
negro from Louisiana demanded the pas
sage of the civil rights bill as a sine qua
non in the fight: and the meeting finally
ended in the appointment of a committee
to appoint a committee to be reported
to the officers of the caucus. Whereupon,
out comes Mnrtagh the next morning in
the Hational Republican, the organ of
the administration, with a long and care<-
fully considered editorial, as Mosby had
dono in half a dozen letters nearly two
years before him, in favor of a “third
term;" and we are told by telegraph that
this editorial has all the ear marks of
one pumped into him at the executive
mansion.
This, of course, settles the question of
General Grant’s candidacy so far as he is
concerned, and so far as the action of the
grand army cf office-holders, armed with
ttie power of federal patronage, is also
concerned. He is to be the nominee for
a third terra, if it is within the reach of
possibilities to compass it The edict has
gone forth; the cutthroat Me toy is a pro
phet in all but his own land. Mnrtagh de
nounces the barbaric deaaoeracyi the re
publican junto in Congress is scared out
of its humanitarian senses; Long Branch
promises to be the chief political bourse of
toe season: Washington, Jefferson and
Madison are all to be “topped” in honors
by Grant; all the Mcredness and veneration
that attach to historic usage and custom
arc to be discarded as the sentimentalism
of democracy; official corruption and in
competency in high places are to be
weighed in the balance and found not
wanting, and Cmsariam is to kick the eon
stitutional beam for another four years
in order to gratify a pardonable ambition,
and prevent the abdication of the White
House to the barbaric democracy.
This is the programme, so long fore
shadowed by the day dreamers in the cor
rupt atmosphere of Washington, and
Grant has evidently indulged the ilia
sional glory longer, and with a higher
expectation of the harden of greatness
to be laid upon him, than any other man,
not excepting Bo vie with has defanct
Imjteriaiist, and Mosby with his bush
whacking resold, always ao brilliant in
the estimation of the “Greatest General
of ttie Age.” Tbs honors that Washing
ton gracefully laid aside as unbecoming
the republic to bestow, and those that no
other President has since been daring
enough in his ambition to coast. General
Grant seises upon with aridity, i
when proffered by so graceless a renegade
to liberty as the boshwaoking Mosby.—
New Hews Register.
The lawyers of Indianapolis are dis
turbing their brains over an extraordina
ry problem. Sams years ago a lady of
that city was married, and four months
thereafter separated from her husband,
was divorced snd reaaarried in a month,
and four months thereafter gave birth to
a child by her first husband. Quite
recently the second husband procured a
divorce, and the custody or the chBd
was awarded to him. Now comes the first
husband and claims the Child. Who is
entitled to its possession?
A. 9. Still on the Wateh-Wuure
Andrew Johnson concluded his
dress in Memphis the other night-A>
low*': PT
I will simply say that I know I 1
been charged with being ambifci
rations! I am ambitious. [ __
And I do not think I would be worthy of
being' called a man unless I were ambi
tious. [Applause.] I am ambitious of
acquiring a reputation among this peo*»
pie that I have been a faithful representa
tive, and v-liat I have stood upon the
watch-towei- of my country, and defended
and vindicated their rights when they
were not in a condition to do it them-
selves. I am ambitious of their esteem,
of their respect, and their confidence, for
the reason that I have done my duty to
my God, to my country, and to my fami
ly. Yes. I - r <-m ambitious! I have lived
and toiled for toe people because I wan
ted their approbation and their esteem ;
and when the time shall come when mv
connection is to be severed from this
people, and from tilings that are mortal
—when toe lamp of life is about flicker
ing its last—the most pleasing tho t that
can pass through my mind will be to feel
and to know that when dead and gone
I will still occupy a place in the rospect
and affection and hearts of my country
men.
The Republicans of Illinois and India*
na in a Bad Way.
(From the Chicago Tribune ]
There is a blue outlook for toe Repub
lican party in both these States. In
Illinois the par ty has been demoralized
by its leaders, and the leaders are now
demoralized by the party. Having been
told by their Senators and Congressmen
that the stagnation of business is due to
a lar k of currency, many of their voters
will now drift away to the party which
promises to give them more currency.
With what face can Logan and Oglesby
entreat them to stand by toe party when
the party itself has gone back on Logan
and Oglesby? Then toe financial crisis,
which is still grinding its dreary grtat
everywhere, will grind hard against them,
for panics always tell against the party in
power.
The long list of exposures of official
corruption has produced disgust and
loathing in the public mind, and this,
too, will send in a dismal account of stay-
at-homes on election day—enough to
topple over many a Congressman who
now fancies himself safe. In Indiana the
same causes will operate upon a consti
tuency so evenly divided that there is no
margin to come and go. The farmers’
movement in both States means business,
and in both will make a desperate push
for the Legislature. It will be a distrac
ting conflict, in toe midst of which the
Democratic purty, encouraged by recent
successes in New Hampshire, Connect!
cut and Oregon, will put in an appear
ance, in all probability, with a hard money
platform: and, if the inflationists are
divided, will have large odds in their
favor.
A Grange Conned
There is already a little dissension
among toe Grangers. Some of “the
embattled farmers” want to know where
all the money goes which is paid into the
grange treasuries. There are 12,000
granges, it is urged, in existence, with an
average of fifty members each and $2,
500,000. it is estimated, have been paid
in initiation fees and dues. “What has
become of all this cash? Who is enrich
ing himself by his grangeship f ” are ques
tions which toe curious are beginning to
ask. It is not a point upon which wc
can give any information. Perhaps the
estimates are too high.—N. Y. Tri
bune.
Shepherd’s Rejection.
The Washington correspondent of toe
Cincinnati Commercial, furnishes the
following account of what took place in
toe Senate when that body went into exe
cutive sessiou over the nomination of the
District Commissioners:
The door being once more closed, Sen-
at >r Thurman led off in a savage speech
against Shepherd, in which he assailed
the late District Government as a gang
of plunderers, whose administration of
toe affairs had been more disgraceful
than that of the Tammany Ring of New
York. He was followed by Senators
Sherman and Allison, both of whom said
Shepherd had violated the law while
Governor, and therefore, should not have
been named on toe Commission. The
only Senator who raised his voice in de
fense of the late Governor was Sargent,
of California. His effort, however, was
very feeble, and failed to'rouse the en
thusiasm of anybody.
A vote being had toe result was as
Resignation of 46k Fostmaster Gen
ornL
ton, Juuo.24.—lAe Prrajden
by Mm. Grtd*T wti^Wv
on* brief’trip to Wesi
was in sesmon to*i»y.
attendecFHo a large amount of'row
business.
Postmaster General Cresswell this
morning tendered his resignation in the
following letter:
Washington, D. C-, June 24, 1874.
Sir : : —After more than five years of
continuous service, I am constrained by
a proper regard for my private interests
to resign the office of Postmaster Gener
al, and to request that I may be relieved
from duty as soon as it may be convenient
for you to designate my successor. For
toe generous confidence and support
which you have uniformly extended to me
or the blues, and a hundred other syrnr.tm,, .. I
**!*•*' fcivrr «e*uln:or w iha U*. rci, ’
in my'efforts to discharge my tfcity,
_t_11 1 „il1 i— *—11 — 5 *■-*-« tl.nl ... 1 . . l**l
part* of the country will vo
and beat/
:h for it. being
->r 40
all
AMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR, OR MfDIOINg
la harmless,
Is do drastic violent medicine,
Is sure to cure if taken regularly.
Is uo intoxication beverage,
Is a faultless family medicine.
Is the cheapest medicine in the world
Is given with safety and the hapnii s-f result* t .
most delicate infant,
Does not interfere with business.
Does not disarrange the system,
Takes the place of Quinine and Bittern nf v
kind, "J
Contains the simplest and best remedies
KOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Dec. 17, 1873.
ly.
Hth) JUbnlkmenls.
shall not attempt to express the full
measure of my gratitude. It is sufficient
to say that my relations, official and
personal, with yourself, and with every
one of my colleagues of the Cabinet,
have always been of the most agreeable
and satisfactory character to me. Rest
assured that I shall continue to give your
administration my most cordial support,
and that I shall ever deem it an honor to
be permitted to supscribe myself sencerely
and faithfully your friend,
John A. J. Cresswell.,
To the President.
To which the President replied as fol
lows:
Executive Mansion. )
Washington, D. C., June 24, 1874. |
My Dear Sir ; —As I expressed to you
verlwdlv this morning, when you tendered
yonr resignation of the office of Post
master General, it is with the deepest
regret to me that you should have felt
such a course necessary. Yon are the
last of the original members of the Cabi
net named by me as I was entering upon
my present duties, and it makes me feel
as if old associations were being broken
up that I hoped might be continued ,
through my official life. In separating! Wells , » firbolic T&Mpfc
officially I have but two hopes to ex
press : first, that I may get a successor
who will be as faithful and efficient in the
performance of the duties of the office
you resign; second, a personal friend
that I can have toe same attachment for.
Y'our record has been satisfactory to me.
and I know it will so prove to the coun-
Nearly ail disease* originale from lii,ii„,.
Torpidity of the Liver, r.nd relief is aiwavs uf, 11 ,
foaght after. If the l.irrris RcgalalVd in
tion, healthisaimoet invariably secure ;. V, n - If
tiou in the Liver causes Headache, ( . tR '
Jaundice, Pain it* tbe Shoulders, Cough,
ness. Soar Stomach, bad taste in t.'io’m,
attacks, palpitation of the heart, depress
ilaes, a ’ *
ever been discovered-
——ws-nd taiag atimplo
done injury in any quantities that it niay beta!
i* harmless in every way; it has bee., ls h
year*, AM hundred* rf the good and great
$25
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•fiOWA, ARKANSAS A DAKOTA
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FOR
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j Sold by Druggists.
: livhngstoFeisdead;
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either Phila., Boston, or Cin . O
200 PI AX OS and ORGANS
New and Second-hand, of Firnl-t.'ia.-- Mf-ker-*. wilt ! >
sold a* Lower Prices for cash, or on In,tallm’e-*s
for relit, in City or Country, during this month ' hv
HORACE WATERS & SON, No. 481 Broa.lwav
than ever before offered in New SPECIALTY
Pianos and Organs to let until (lie m t mnnev pays
the piiee cf the Instrument. Ii'iigtrated C laloeii’es
mai'ed. A large discount to Minbtere (•: u‘T
Schools. Lodges, etc.
F*rrwar*nl, Foreiirmrd To L^ f rearmed
now when von are threatened witlin.'i :h< ailments cam
ed by debilitating Spring and Summer weather id i u
make free use ot
try at large.
Yours, very truly, U. S Grant.
To Hon. J. A. J. Cresswell.
What to do when you arc in Trouble.
Don’t try to quench your sfertow in
nun or narcotics. If you begin this,
yon must keep right on with it till it
lea<lfl you to ruin : or. if von try to ]>ause,
you must add physical pain and the
consciousness of degradation to the sor
row you seek to escape. Of all wretched
men, his condition is the most pitiful
who, having sought to drown his grief in
drink, awakes from his debauch with
shattered nerves, aching head, and de
pressed mind, to face the same tronble
again. That which was at first painful to
contemplate will, after drink, seem un
bearable. Ten to one the fatal drink
will lie “again and again sought, till its
victim sinks a hopeless, pitiful wretch.
Work is your true remedy. If mis
fortune hits you hard, hit you some- |
thing else hard; pitch into something
with a will. There’s nothing like good, t t0 A 1 ' 1 -' American people, it:.j n ., .
, , • , ,. °i_. D T tienmr class alone, but to all classes; to men aul wo-
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sound sleep, and to eat VOltl- dinner with f j* Ma book of constant reference, and to preserve t.;r
,. , • , l their children aad clnldrea s cliudieu as t!:eonly eon-.-
appetite. But you cant unless you | plete and reliable work, .-'bowing the gigantic rc^ultsc-f
work. If you say YOU don t feel like tiie BMt one hundred yearn of the Greatest Reps •
jurub:
which will make the Liver active. a:'id.,t Digestion
Purify the blood, strengthen the liierne au l f i;,!,:
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life as you ought. Price f 1 a botlie.
JOIJN Q. KELLOGG, Agent, New York
AGENTS
WitNTKD
for the
CENTENNIAL
GAZETTEER of the United States.
_ No book lias ever been published of such nni verbal ic-
There’s nothing like good, 1 ‘?F*. stt0 American people.
° © 1 9 turn\nr /* .l imp hut tn nil o
If you say you
work, and go a loafing all day to tell
Dick and Harry toe story of yonr woes
you'll lie awake and keep your wife awake
by your tossings, spoil her temper, and
your own breakfast toe next morn
ing, and begin to-morrow feeling ten
times worse than you do to-day.
There are some great troubles that
only time can head, aud perhaps
some that can never be healed at all; but
all can be helped by the great panacea,
work. Try it, yon who are afflicted. It
is not a patent medicine. It has pros
ved its efficacy since first Adam and Eve
left behind them with weeping, their
beautiful Eden. It is an officinal remedy.
All good physicians in regular standing
prescribe it in cases of mental and moral
disease. It operates kindly and well,
leaving no disagreeable seyualae, and we
assure you that we have taken a large
quantity of it with the moat beneficial
effects. It will cure more complaints
than any nostrum in the materia medico,
and comes nearer to being a “core all”
follows: For coniinnatioiL, 6; against than any drug or compound of drugs in
" the market. And it will not qfokeu you
if you do uot take it sugar-coated.—Scien
tific American.
confirmation. 30. Present but not vo
ting, 20. The six who believed in vin
dicating the fallen Chief are Sargent,
Jones, Clayton, Spencer, Lewis and
Patterson. Every Democrat present vo-,
ted no.
Mr. Shepherd's rejection was an over
whelming blow to his friends. They
confidently expected his confirmation.
Some of the more enthusiastic procured
a small piece of artillery and posted
themselves, with ammunition, on Capitol
Hill, for the purpose of firing a selute of
a hundred guns as soon as toe confirms
tion should be announced. A signal was
to be given by the waving of a fli^j from
toe dome, but the signal came not, and
upon receipt of toe sad intelligence that
the nomination was rejected the little
gun was sorrowfully loaded and slowly
trundled ofl’—the enthusiasm all gone and
the powder all unburned. It is reported
that Hallett Kill bo urn, John O. Evans
and others of toe late ring will, with
serenade, testify to-night uiat their con
fidence in toe Governor remains undi
minished. So ends Mr. Grant’s vindica
tion of his unfortunate pal.
Gov. Kemper.—Just as we had suppo
sed, it now turns out that Gov.
is as true to toe principles of the Conser
vative party as any man in toe State. He
has recently written a letter to a friend
in Fauquier county, in which the political
course of Col. John S. Mosby is severley
condemned and expressing his own
unswerving opposition to everything not
inspired by or for the good of the party
which elevated him to power. This is
what might have beat anticipated from
our gallant Governor. It is to be hoped
that some of our political aspirants will
take counsel of the Governor, not
place themselves outside of the party in
a mad hunt after office. We have haA too
many independent candidates in this
district, and it is time for the thing to
stop.— Virginia Paper.
A Fresemt
Washington, June 27.—Col. Bristow,
of Kentucky, now Secretary at the Treas
ury, has rerased to accept a pair of horses
and carriage, which a friend wished to
present him for toe use of his wife, who
is regarded at the . most ladylike and
handsomest woman out of Kmtueky.
The Accident
ml
in Syracuse,
fork.
**••»■ HillrS—NhKt ■.■Sir* mmd Chit-
Srca.
Syracuse, June 24.—In the falling
church floor the corrected list of killed is
Rep*
the world ever saw. I; Lt not a luxury b'.t a necessity
to every well informed Aniericsn citizen. Ageuts
make $100 to $300 per month. Semi lor circular.
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To be Drawn lloudav, August lltth. 1871.
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Two prizes of $1,000 each in Greenbacks!
Two Prizes $500 each in Greenbacks!
Five Prizes$100 each in Greenbacks!
Cremation has been adopted in Ha
as a prevention to the spread of small
pox. In the Calle de Prado fcmifl** m
abandoning their houses, and the dead
are given to the burners. It seeras that
the disease has been so long resident in
some localities that nothing but §m will
act as a disinfectant. So
also to be given to tile
A. young clergyman of BraekporkN. Y-,
was so imprudent lately as to say that
young ladies in them days ean make rich
cake but are unequal to the production of
good bread. In a few days he was the
reexpisni ot fourteen loaves el the latter
article, with the compliments of fourteen
young ladies in his congmgstisa.
The Central Tetnn says that Robertssh
county has had about Weuty-flve natural
bed Chinamen for the last several jeers,
and that they voted the straight Demo
cratic ticket at the last two ejections
die of which was supported by rods from On, Fine-toned Rcewood Piano, worth *.
thereof. The stringer gave way, pull- Five Family 8ewing Machines, worth fl[:0
ing toe ceilling and roof down upon the’ ^ ‘
Jaljr 1, 1871.
CINCINNATI, O
10 iy
The Home of Josephine.
The chateau and estate of Mahnhfaon,
nineteen, mostly young ladies and chil- j One Family Carnage and Matched
dren. The accident was caused by the i Horses with Silver-Mounted Harness,
giving way of the joist that supported J worth $1,500!
the floor. The joist ran from both sides ' „ . „ ., „
of the room to a cross stringer, the mid- j °“ H<w * ^ | | , ’r r monntP 1 II&n “
§.MU !
aunty Sewing Machines, worth f 100 each
raa Gold and Silver Lever Hunting Wafeiic-e iu
, , ..... r t ,, i ail, 1 worth fromf JO to i each'
people and precipitating them into toe Gold Chaim, Silver-ware. Jewefry, Ac .
room below. The work of recovery hag .Number Ot Gifts 6,000' Tickets limited to Jti.'il)’
been exceedingly slow, as it had to be K.ig« M i w iu be pn n.
done in the dark, and it was feared every , Single Tickets $1 ; Six Tickets $ 3;
moment that the walls would fail. . Twelve Tickets $10; Twenty-Five
A Brilliant Record of Bures. j Circular* containing a full list of pri*es, a uoscrip-
i „ » ■ i '■ i . i .. ‘ticoofth* manner cf drawing, and otter information
An American numonst tells US that it In rclereno* lo the Distribution, will be seui to ar.y
would have been money in hi8 poeket if one ordering them. All letters must be adaresjed
he had been bom without a stomach, and Main office ®
then proceeds to figure up the cost of a i#i°w e ’pir<b mi !
chronic dyspepsia, to which he is a mar
tyr, and which he says it is impossible to
cure. On this point, “Josh Billings, ” t
(for he is the party referred to) is mis
taken. Unless his stomach differs from at present the property of the State, is
all other dyspeptic stomachs, Hostetter’a to be sold, and the bidding is expected
Bitters will cure him in less than three to be high and warm. The up-set price
months. This it would be safe to guar- is said to be a million and a half of fi-ai.es.
antee under any penalty. There are a it is one of the most historical spots
few, a very few, actual specifics for disease around Paris, from which it is nine miles
in existence and Hostetter’s Stomach j distant It was known in toe tUirtfentii
Bitten may be set down one of them, j century as having been pillaged by tne
In cases of indigestion it nevte fails. ^ ^onuuut, but its celebrity dates from te
Persons who had suffered for many years baying been the favorite residence of
almost everyconceivablejspecies of tortor^ ‘ Napoleon and Josephine, who inherit >1
from this agonizing complaint, have been the property from her first husband. It
permanently cured with the Bitten it six was in thin tranquil retreat that Nappo-
weeks. Hundreds of stick nfttdnces are jeon ptanned hi« most celebrated cams
on record, authenticated by the testimony paigtis, and where “all toe glories —
of prominent men in every walk life, military, literary and artistic—of his
eminent physicians among the number, reign found a cordial welcome. Jose-
But this oelebrated vegetable preparation * phine occupied the palace after her di-
is something more than a stomachic’ and vorce> and in 1814 the Emperor Afexar.
tonic. It is also an alterative of wonder- ! <fer dined with her ; three days later she
ful virtue. In liver complaint its effect if J died, and is buried in the neighboring
as direct and immediate as that of calq- [yj-iyh church. The property suffered
mel or blue pill, and far more salutary; from tbs invasion of 1870, and from the
and in all diseased conditions of thtf heyv-- ■■ -
els, notably in cases of aonalipaffon, tiff j {
regulating properties are in the
degree serviceable. The new «
in ,!. h f ^|| loW : lji * g . cargo *'“>
SL S£ f Si
nous type* of intermittent fever^ Ao«ld shollac,’ sim? j>r*lnc<
to Awy* »dl atooUd yith Uo. o«m- tgjhio. ot«.. „* worth *36»,9W, «
peaabiechologne, rate drill qnai^^ fogfre aggregate -low $8t67flt0W-
9b« steamship Queen Elisabeth, winch
lost neaf 'Gibrifitar. had t,n
of fever and ague in a period vary
ing from three days to three 0>r four u „ . the doc
weeks, according to the violence of the . ^ tella r ^..... n w h 0 were
complaint Nervous disorders which are *9” m *, c ^ iam ex ^ * medical
s^qto»te >g te .teMtoM 'sar 3ET,r‘ST--
liquors usually prescribed by physicians,
are readily cured by a course of this ad
mirable combination median* in whid)
the-properties of a stimulant a town and
alterative are happily blooded. 491m.
.* . . ....... ml > (Mu Ol
The most precocious oUJ era^jMSd
of, is probably the child “thaffa htiw to
the man.”
They were absent about
two months, and on their return founu
all tbairpataratebad raeovared, toe chUo
stares hod dosed, the nurses bad
dancing schools, toe cemetery hed
wagon. 1