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VOLUME XLV.]
■ I L L EDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 9, 1874.
THE
Snion tf !fi t c 0 r b e r,
10 rUBLlSHED WEEKLY
IN MILLEDGEVILLE. GA..
BY
Bougiiton, Barnes & Moore,
At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of tbc year
8. N. DOUaUTON, Editor.
THE •* FEDERAL ONION " nnd tlie "BOOTH-
ERN RECORDER" were consolidated Anfut I.f
1872, the Uuios being in it* Forty-Third Yolnme end
(be Recorder in It'. Fifty-Third Voiome.
ADVERTISING.
T&AM61EX t.—Odo Dollar p^raqoare of ten linn* N
IWe, nod aevecty-fivo ceata for each eubeequont wattBMBO
Ltbar&l discount on tb®*e rate* will be aUowt'd eft edv^rtiee*
A»eelB running lUree mouth*, or longer.
Tributes ol Respect, Resolutions by Societies, ObH«ariee e»*
six lines, Nominations for office and Commonicationa
fer Individaal benefit, charged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sharia's Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, #2 50
•• Mortgage fi fa saler, per square, 5 00
Cttationt) for Letters of Administration, 3 00
•• »• “ Guardianship, 3 00
AnfrUretion for Diemission from Administration....... 3 00
•» •• •* ** Guardianship, 3 00
M *• Leave to aeil Laud, 3 00
•« for Homestead** 2 oo
NeUre to Dobtormnd Creditors, 3 00
Male* of Land. h<\, per square 6 00
*« perishable property, 10 days, per square, 1 75
« Notices. 3o days 3 00
»snre ol Mortgsge, per square, each time 1 «»
legal advertisements.
Bales of Land, k**., by Administrators, Executors or Otiar-
iiaus, are required by )n-v to b- held on the tir*t Tuesday in tha
month, between the uoursol 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the af
ternoon, at the Court House in the county in which the property
la situated. Notice of these sale* must be given la a public
gaaatte 30 days previous to the day of sale.
Notices for the sale of personal property must b« flfcft la
ilk* msnn-T 10 days previous to sale day.
Notice to the debtors and creditors or an estate must bo pob-
^NoUci) 0 that application will he made to the Court of Ordinary
ftw leave to sell Lard, A.O., must be published for one month.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, kc.,
must bo publish *d 30 day a- for dismission 1mm Administration
monthly three uioutlis—for dismission Iroui Guardianship 40
*&ales for foreclosure of Mortgage must bepublisned monthly
fer four mouths—for establishing lost papeis lor the lull space oi
three months—for compelling titles from Executors or Admin
istrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the lull
■par* of three months. ...
Publications will always be continued according to these,
the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
Bsok and Job Work, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT THIS OCFICK.
AND STILL THEY TUMBLE
A. T
Sanford’s
N U M B EII 20.
MACON CARDS.
BALDWIN COUNT Y
WE have now in Store a large and complete Stock of Fsll and Winter Goods,
"" 1 ' * un-
ont
large Stock already in Store,
we will receive this week a large Job Lot of Goods, amonnting to Three Thousand
dollars, bought within the last ten days and will be sold Cheaper than the same
Goods could have been bought in New York three weeks ago. It is impossible to
enumerate the bargains we now have to offer you; suffice it to say, they are many.
Below we annex prices to a few articles, and assure you at the same timo that every
thing else in our line will be sold at proportionatelv’LO'W FIGURES.
75 Bolts Kentucky Jeans, from 15c up,
3 Cases Women's Heavy Shoes, at $1 00 per pair,
Colored Trevoir Kid Gloves, every pair warranted, at 65c per pair,
Napkins, all Linen, at G5c per dozen,
Ladies White Cotton Hose, at 74c per pair,
Children's Fancy Wool Hose, at lOe,
Ladies Berlin Gloves from 12^c up.
Narrow Lute-String Ribbons, at 20c bolt,
Good Table Linens, at 25c per yard,
Ladies Corsets as low as 35c,
Ladies Hemmed Handkerchiefs, at 24c,
We make Clothing a speciality and have the Largest and Cheapest Stock ever
brought to this market. Respectfully,
.V.//T A* SANFORD.
Milledgeville, Go., October 20, 1874. 17 4t.
Established Over 30 Tears Ago.
MIX & RUTLAND,
Wholesale end Retail Dealers in
Boots, Shoes and Bats,
Morocco, French and American Calf
Skins, Leaiher Findings, Ac., Ac.
All orders promptly and carefully filled at
S Cotton Arenuc A 86 3rd Street,
MAOOX, oa.
MIX & KiRTLABD.
04. la, 1874. 133a.
Self-Help for Women. 'One Word More on the Overturn-|in the fundamentals of
Practically, it is better to enablo one- [From the New TorkPo^t, Republican.] ILe people have simnh
woman ti help herself than it is to talk | The fact announced by our Washing-
about helping a thousand Young wo- j ton correspondent, that the President
men who can render intelligent and use- and the Attorney General have nt last
ful domestic sorvice are in constant de-! declared themselves “lio&rtily tired of the
mand in this country. The great trou- continued calls from several Southern
Drugs, medicines
«S& CHEMICALS, MISTS,
fiL
Fall Trade.
—o—
ytLL.Bd complete Stock of HOOTS ud SHOES
Just received by
FRED.
hafg:*:
At Masonic HalL
The imdcrsigned hen just
rcturued from New York.
whole he selected with (treat
rare a firet-rato Slock of
BOOTS ASiU SnOEX
• D F
tbo best and raost itylish
wake, of Ladies arid Mieses Gaiters, Morocco and
Calf-Skic Shots, Children’s fine and copper-tipped
Shoes. Gent's Boole, Gaiters, Call'Skin Shoe* and
Nrogacii! Prices iow, and goods WARRANTED.
Boots made to order, nud repair in(( of all kiuds dene
with neatness and dispatch.
FRED. 1IACG.
Mtlledgevllle, Ga , Sept. 15,1874. 8 3in.
T. II. BOI^SHJUV,
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
Crockery, China, Glassware, Kerosene Lamps, Pralfs Astral Oil,
Cutlery^ Britania and Plated W*are,
afid HOUSEHOLD FURNISHING GOODS Generally. The very lowest figures
to Wholesale Buyers.
152 St. JULlStr and 149 BlYAlf Streets,
Under Mozutr Hm.
Savannah t €*a.
Nov. 24, 1874. 7 18 6m.
piLS, ^INDOW pLASS,
OEi nril-B on 23 3s e .*w ^ a
DF Prescriptions compounded '.Secnndnm Artemi
at all hours.
Forty-four year:-' close attention to the Drug business
should convince any one of my ability to give satis
faction to all who mnv call
GEO. PAYNE, Druggist & Apolhecarv,
Opposite Palace of Justice, MACON,'GA.
Oct. let, 1874. H Jm
Tlie Isaacs House
Cherry Street, - Maeoi, Ga.
H AVING some of the finest rooms in the city. With
meals at tha tables D'Hote- $3.00 per day, or
75 coots "to *1.00 for room, and meals to order. Lower
rates by the week, and every effort made to give
comfort and satisfaction to guests.
K. IMAt'N, Proprirlor.
C. J. MACLELLAN, Ci< rk
AprilSl, 1874 39 ly
DAVIS SMITH,
DEALER IX
SADDLES-HARNESS
CARRIAGE MATERIAL,
•Slice Findings, Leather of - alt kinds. Children’s
Carriages,
lOiChiriy Street, fllAt'O.V, (i t.
(let 3,1874. u dm
ble heretofore has been that, while every
body has sought in vain for good help,
the girls who would willing become ser
vants if they could, have been too ignor
ant of all forms of housework to fill any
place except that of a drudge. And
rather than do such work, thoy have at
tempted to eke out an existence in shops,
with sewing-machines, or in some other
less honorable way. How to provide
American housekeepers with good cooks,
experienced laundry women, neat and
well-informed dining-room and chamber
girls, has heretofore been a question de
fying solution. As a result of this tie-
states for Federal assistance,” suggests
that it is not even yet too late to empha
sise one roason of the recent Republican
defeats, and to indicate clearly ono thing
to be done if ever the Republican party i6
to recover its hold on the public confi
dence. Several co-operating causes there
undoubtedly were, and wo have repeated
ly alluded to them ; there are also unquea
tionably some subordinate things to be
done, and these, too, have not been loft
unnoticed; bat the central and persistent
sin of the Republican party has been a
hollow and partisan treatment of the
Southern States ; and ono thing neces-
plorable state of affairs, domestic service sary to save the party from utter and li-
Tobacco! Tobacco! Tobacco!
QFA BOXES TOBACCO FOR SALE CHEAP
FOR CASH. Farmer* and merchants wil
4* well to call and namino my stock before purciiu
tog eleewboro. I also keep on band a full stock of
FAMILY GROCERIES
AND
rARI&ER’S SUPPLIES.
Attef which will be sold cheap for cash.
1st Door North of Miller'd Jewelry Store.
SASMCURL EVANS
MUksigeville, Ga., Jan. 23, 1874.
27 ly
NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP.
THE under
signed has put
up a Black
smith Shop on
the corner of
Hancock and WUklaaoa
streets, opposite the old
Court House Square,
where he is prepared to
do ALL KIND OF
WORK IN IRON iD
4-" the best niauuer.
special aiteiilion given to farm and plantation work
Patronage solicited.
N. .91. CR091 WEI.I.
Milledgeville, June 2, 137 2. 45 tf
BANKRUPT-RELIEF.
S URE SAFETY for distressed Debtors, and their
exposed families is to be found nowhere but in the
Ueitea States Bankrupt Court. Why live in hopeless
bondage I Thu law invites you to be Iree, and start
fife again with hope; at least to save a home forever,
for your families.
I practice in the Bankrupt Court, specially.
WILLIAM McKINLEY,
Attorney.
*HBedg«vUle, March 25,1874. 85 ly
WASHINGTON BALL.
TOBACCO at WHOLESALE.
Lowest Marlifi Kates Guaranteed#
pjwwi 5 wp rmmp??
Cheap for Cash.
J. P. SWEANY.
Milledgeville,Ga., March 31,1874 . 36
1874. Fall and Winter Trade. 1874.
Carriages, Buggies, Express and Plantation lfagons, Harness, Whips, Ac.
SALOMON COHEN,
Corner Bay and Jefiersou Streets, SAVANNAH, GA.,
I NFORMS niS FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL THAT HE STILL REMAINS IN THE
Carriage, ltug-y nnd Wagon Trade, and has on hand an entire new stoek that was purchased at panic
prices this Fall,
I advocate the Motto: “Quick Sales and Small Profits,”
Coll and examine the stock before purchasing elsewhere. Inquiries from the eoustry will receive
attention. Now.
itry i
. 84, 1874.
re prompt
13 3m.
CJIY 4* KAELLER,
PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Domestic and Tropical Fruits
145 BAY ST&SST, Corner OTHXTAXBB,
Nov. 24, 1874, 18 6m.) SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
WARFIELD 4fe WAYNE,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND AGENTS OF THE CELEBRATED
CHESAPEAKE GUANO.
SAVANNAH, GA.
We will strictly carry oat alio rders from owners of eottoB, to sell, field, Or ship, os they May ieetreet os,
id will moke prompt return* by express or registered letter. BAGGING AND TIBS at the lowest market
AND SMOKERS’ ARTICLES,
Wo. 79 Cherry Street,
MACON, GA.
Oet.2. 1874. 11 3s
LANIER HOUSE.
B, DL’B, Pi-oprieter.
Mulberry Street, - Macon, Georgia.
The above named Hotel h*3 been recently refur
nishej and fitted up for the accommodation of tran
sient ns well as permanent Hoarders. Persona will
find it to their interest to stop at this House, as its
central location makes it a very desirable place for
merchant* and families coming to the city for business,
or lor a sojourn ot pleasure. An ELEGANT SAM
PLE BOOM has been fitted np for the special use ol
commercial travelers.
The table always supplied with all the luxuries ol
the season, from first markets, and can be surpassed
by none la the South.
Omnibus to convey passengers to and from the
Hotel and all trains, free of charge;
B. DUB, Proprietor.
April 18. 1873. fim
NATIONAL HOTEL.
(Nearly opposito Union Depot,)
MAOOX. GrA.
Board — — $2 Par Bay.
Nov. 11), 1871.
T. II. HARRIS, Manager.
161m.
aed wlU make prompt
prices. Liberal advances made on Consignments.
Nov. 21,1*74
18 3m.
Contracting and Building.
•J9HE undersigned is prepared to contract for the
■ ■tiding nnd Repairing of Houses i
jT.Ti KINDS OF "WORK usually done
by a first-class House-Carpenter-
IF Work solicited aud satifaetion guaranteed.
J. A. MAGILL.
KUledgeviUe. Ga., Auq 26, 1874. 5 3m
Debtors and Creditors*
/CREDITORS of Mrs. Sarah E. Kenan, deceased,
\j or* hereby notified to file with me written, true
swpits ct their deims, and open accounts to he sworn.
Debtors are notified to pey up to me.
JAMES W. I1ERTY, Err.
Nov. 2, 1874. K6L
Bemd Bro’s.,
44 midi 40 Third Street, IVVaeoit, Ga.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Saddles, Harness, Collars, Bridles, ifcc., &e.,
In Endless Variety.
ALSO, DEALERS IN
SADDLERY AND HARDWARE, HARNESS MAKERS’,
Saddlers and Shoe-Makers' Material.
■WITH our increasoJ facilities we are again enabled to offer work of our own Man-
' ’ ufacture at reduced prices. "Wo make GOLD, RUBBER and SILVER
MOUNTED HARNESS, as well as the cheaper grades. Saddles in great variety.
Also, Wool-faced Team, Coach and Buggy Collars. Also, keep constantly on hand
a large stock of Harness Leather, Skirting, Bridle Leather, Oak and Hemlock Sole
Leather, Upper
Kip and Call’Skins, American and French,
PATENT and ENAMELED LEATHERS and Cloths, Lasts, Boot Trees, Pegs,
and Shoe-Maker’s Stock generally. To prompt Wholesale Buyers w* are prepared
to offer unnsoal inducements.
•^■MERCHANTS and PLANTERS will find it to their interest to give ns a call
when wishing to buy Goods in our line. We pay Cash for Hide*, Furs, Skins,
Wax, Wool, Tallow and Leather in the rough,
Macon, Ga. Sept 22nd, 1874. 9 3m,
E. O’Connell,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, WINES,
LIQUORS, &c.
MFGall and get bargains.
Ho. 42, BEnlberry Street,
MACON, GA.
Nav. », 1874. 1C 3m.
25. J,
Has received for Fall and Wintor Trade, 1874-5,
Watches, Jewelry, Silver Ware,
FANCY GOODS. FINE CUTLERY,
Musical Instruments, Strings, Ac., Ac.
Sole Agent for the Celebrated
'ECTACLE8, EYE-GLASSES, h.
Particular Attention given to Repairs on Fine and
Difficult Watches.
JEWELRY, &o, REPAIRED, and ENGRAVING.
Heavy aud Medium 14, IS and 22 Karat Plain Gold
Rings nnd Badges made to order and Engraved at
Short Notice.
Corner Mulberry A Second Streets,
MACON, GEORGIA.
(OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.)
Nov, 10,1874. 16 ly.
M. 6. SCHWED & CO.,
Dealer* in Fancy and
Family Groceries,
WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, TOBACCO. Ate.
Germai Groceries a Specialty*
Teas, Coffees, Sugars Spices, Canned
Goods, Ac,
64 Cherry Street, MAO OH, OA.
Oct, 27,1874. 14 3m.
Medical Notice.
T HE Annual Meeting ot the Board of Physicians
of the State of Georgia, will be held in ALilledgo-
vill* on the first Monday iu December, 187-1. The
Beard will continue in session during the month.
GEO. D, CASE, JU. D., Dean and Secretary.
Mtnedgeville, Nov. 2d, 1874. 13 1m.
SANFORD 4 FURMAN,
ATTOBWSYB AS LAW,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
Oraci at the State .Houae.
Anrfl 6, 1874. _ . -7Q 57 ,y
HEiDfUllEltS!
SEYMOUII, TXNSJLEY As CO.,
MACON, G- A.,
Offer better inducements to Retail Merchants than any honsaja Middle Georgia-
Savannah, Atlanta, and Augusta bills always duplicated.
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY k €0.
Sept 29th, 1874- 10 3m.
To nil whom it may concern.
■WE8EAS, Wilke* Flagg, Executor on Ike *»-
tote of Sandy Ogletree, Into ofatid county de
td, applies to me for letters of dismiesioa from
Executorship.
lose are therefore to cite and admonish all
or# concerned, to be and appear ar my office *n
first Monday in March next, and show cant*
tud latter* should not be granted, othorwiae
ts will he granted.
ivon under my bond and official atgutaM tkia
ember 38th, 1874. -
m. DANIEL B. BANFOBD, Ordinary.
Ramie JlcUcCe
BUledgevlIli
■scihem efmM Lodge, will ptoeee
»of eedfewaro tketeeilrsiaeeordfasgty.
r OEO.D. CA80«'V.
rffle, Not. SWh 1874. i» tf
GO TO THOMAS WOOD'S,
Next to Lanier House, MACON, GA.,
To Bay Furniture A Carpets Cheap.
NEW GOODS JUsFaRRIYED.
Bedsteads, Bedroom and Parlor Setts, Chairs, Tables, Washatands, Carpsts, Oil
(Soth, Window Shades, Wall Paper, Ac., Ac.
CALL AND LOOK.
Metal ic Burial Cases aaM Caskets,
Tke Bme at leggier meettoge of Dmavoleet Vet toe, WOOD COFFINS, CASES AND CASKETS of sll kinds, sad st say Pries.
re Lima mm.
Sept- 18,187A 3 f 6m.
Bricks ilrom Babylon.
[From e communication in the Cleveland Ilernld by
Col. W, R. Fogg 1
Upon the brick brought by the writer
from Babylon is the standard inscription
of Nebuchadnezzar. It gives his name
and titles, describes tho wonders of the
great city, and invoked the Gods to grant
duration to the temples and other great
edifices which he had built. The inscrip
tions on the Babylonian bricks are uni
formly inclosed in a small square, and are
formed with considerable care and nicety.
They appear to have been impressed with
a stamp, upon which the entire inscrip
tion, not isolated letters, was cut in re
lief. This art, so nearly approaching the
modern invention of printing, is proved
to have been known to the Egyptians and
Chinees at a very remote period- The
Pharaohs stamped their names on bricks,
the stamp* need being of wood, and sev
eral an pres erred in European collections-
Bat sll the impressions on Egyptian
brides, unlike those of Assyria, are in re
lict
The Babylonian bricks are of uniform
size, about fifteen inches square by three
indies thick. They are made of a very
tenacious clay mixed with chopped straw
and burnt hard in a kiln. They were
always laid face downward in a cement of
bitumen so hard as to make it almost im
possible to remove one entire.
The brick from Nineveh is also rectan
gular,bat somewhat thicker than theBab-
yIonian. The inscriptions on these As
syrian bricks appear to have been made
in single cuneiform letters, and sometimes
tha workman may have been careless in
stamping them. On this specimen the
parallel are somewhat irregular,
in tho United States is in a more wretch
ed condition than any other civilized
country. Our houses *aro filled with a
mixture of the lower classes of Ireland,
Germany, Bohemia, Sweden, Franco,
Africa and China. We have experiment
ed with all nations of the earth in the
hopes of finding a people ready made for
our service, polite, intelligent and
thoroughly informed relative to all the
mysteries of a Yankee kitchen. Nothing
satisfactory has come out of this ransack
ing of the nations, and only those sera
vants have proved useful who have been
carefully train by some housekeeper capa
ble of giving instruction.
The public will be pleased to leant that
there is in successful operation in New
York an institution for the education of
women in domestic economy. It is call
ed tho Free Training School for Women,
and is in the building No. 47 East Tenth
street, half a dozen doors from Broadway.
At this school any respectable girl, of any
nationality or religion, ean bo educated
free in sewing, penmanship, book keep-*
ing, in all its branches, laundry and di-
ning-roc *. work. The institution is so
arranged that all these branches are
taught beneath tho samo roof, and in
many instances a girl can support her
self while she is being educated. No
special length of time is required for girls
to remain, each learning according to her
capability. The average time required
for a girl to learn to do laundry work
about ten days, and good laundresses are
in constant demand at $1 25 per day.
Cooks may require three’or four weeks of
training before thoy become proficients
in their department, for it really does
not require an extraordinary amount of
brains to learn to make vermicelli soup
an omelet with tomatoes, or a loaf of
wholesomo bread, if any one will take the
trouble to show the poor girls how. A
Frenchman, who was for many years head
cook at tho St. James Hotel in this city,
teaches tho girl the secrets of his art.
After a lecture on the nature of foods,
their methods of preparation, etc., tho
class is taken to the kitchen, and each
article is prepared before them. A tea
room is connected with the sehod, where
the public can be served with meals, as
at a restaurant All the food for this
tea-room is prepared by the girls, and
they also serve the tables. As a sample
of what they ore taught the following
was the menu for October 9:—Glam chow
der; codfish a Chambord; codfish cakes;
steak; beef a la mode Jardiniere; pork
chops with Robert sauce; omelets with
tomatoes, parseley, and plain; potatoes
stewed, mashed, boiled, Lyonaise; and
tea and coffee. For September 28 tho
following bill of fare was prepared by the
girls;—Soup Julienne; halibut an Gratin;
beef a la mode; maccaroni a la Milanaise;
potatoes Lyonaise, mashed and boiled;
omelet plain and with tomatoes; queen
fritters; cracked wheat fritters; tea and
coffee. It will be seen that these lists
contain good, plain wholesome food, such
as most American housewives love to
place upon their tables. As fast as the
girls are educated at this school they
can obtain employment. Between four
and five thousand have already been plae
ed in comfortable homes, where they can
help themselves to a good living and be
useful to others. The idea of this train
ing-school originated with Mrs. Hodges,
a wealthy lady of Fifth Avenue—a woman
who has long been anxione to do her sex
some practical good. Having a large
house, she thought at first only of teach
ing girls how to use the sewing-machine,
and undertook to do this in her own resi
dence. The girls were only too glad of
the chance. By coming in contact with
these women, Mrs. Hodges learned of
their needs, and discovered, also, that
with a sewing-machine, a girl can earn
only about 83 50 per week, competition
is so sharp. Knowing that no girls could
live decently and honorably on such a
small sum; Bhe thought to enlarge their
usefulness, and the present school in
Tenth street is the growth of this idea.
The tendoncy is for a constant increase
of work in the school, and ladies inter
ested in tho matter, propose to open sim
ilar schools in other parts of the country.
The experiment will soon be tried in
Philadelphia and Savannah. These
schools are needed nowhere so much as
in the South, where many women, since
the war, -> •'* going to ruin and degrada
tion through poverty and inability to
work. In more ways than were thought
of at first, this school is proving of ben
efit. Girls from Germany and Sweden,
who come to this country innocently ig*«
norant of our modes oflivingarefrequent-
ly brought by their friends to tho Train
ing School to be educated for domestic
service in America. The uniform testi
mony of Mrs. Hodges is, that German
and Swedish girls are quiet, intelligent
and willing to work. They have been
taught to believe that they are in the
world for some useful purpose. Many
American girls are learning to do house
work, and they can always find good pay
ing places. Families who occupy French
nal ruin is to adopt the golden rule forth
with and thoroughly in respect to those
much-abused communities
The very genesis of the reconstruction
acts was not uncolored by a distinctly
partisan purpose. This purpose was
natural and party-like, but it was not
statesmanlike. The motive appear
ed at the outset, and was indeed
avowed. Tho late Senator Sumner, who
scorned to conceal anything, affirmed and
reiterated it, that one of the things to be
aimed at in these repeated reconstructions
was to secure “a voting force” in hat
mony with tlie dominant party. Because
President Johnson was not sufficiently
carried away with the purpose of making
reconstruction pay tribute directly into
the party treasury, and was obstinate in
his adherence to what ho thought a more
constitutional way, he was impeached,
and was only saved from removal by the
independence of a few clear-headed Re
publicans, who were immoderately abus
ed by their fellows for an action without
which the party would probably have
been long ago dead and buried. It ought
not to be forgotten or ignored, that Mr.
Seward raid Mr. Chase, the two most
prominent mon concerned in the organi
zation and early successes of the party,
virtually separated from it at this time on
account of a difference of view between
them and it on this important matter.
our government,
people have simply refused to believe
m the oft-repeated Republic:; n announce
ments of the failure of Republican liberty
and have virtually and emphaticallv said
to their rulers; “If such rs you say
have been the results of your poltcv, then
we will look out for another aud a* better
policy. You have tried everything at tha
South but libcity. Tbo people then
shall have liberty—ns wo have it our
selves.”
This is tho central meaning of the lata
elections, or else we are great!}* mistake*.
It is not too late for the partv to leaxu
the lesson and profit by it. Why should
the United States at this late day attempt
to “run” State governments? If
governments cannot be “run" by their
own people, without tho aid of United
States troops to hold them in order, 4L«a
our whole scheme of government is aK
ready a dismal failure, aud tho “Centen-
nml" may as well bo abandoned. Liberty
is tho universal solvent. Lot them have
liberty, and let us all have peace.
A Bear Story.
It is a notorious fact that itinerant cir
cus companies pay very poorlv, and
tho man who does not get the money
from them in advance, is not very likely
to get it at all. Colonel Bangs, of the
Ary us, has suffered a good deal from
these concerns, and when -The Great
European Circns and Metropolitan Cara
van, tried to slip off the other day with
out settling his advertising bill, he called
upon the sheriff and got him to attach
the Rocky Mountain hear- for tho debt.
The bear was brought in iis cage and
placed in the composing room, where it
consumed §15 worth of moat in two days
(tlie colonol's bill was only §12) and
scratched one trousers' leg off tho repor
ter, who was in front ot the cage, giving
tho foreman a lecture on zoology. On
the third day the bottom fell out ’of the
cage, and as the Rocky Mountain bear
seemed to want to roam around and in
quire into things, tho whole foreo of com
positors all at once felt ns if they ought
to go down stairs and give tho animal a
chance. With that mysterious instinct
which distinguishes dumb animals, and
which goes for to provo that they have
souls, toe bear went at once for tho door
of Bangs' sanctum, and it broke in just
For, if there ever was an important ° a fuT°^ T , 11 . ,! n J""
question brought before President and asthecolonelwasmthomt.l.llootatear-
fiommwn. niwl^nfl tW shmsld W* 1D S editorial upon “The third term and
Congress, and ono that should havo been
decided on its own merits without passion
or heat, and without reference to its bear
ings on mero party, too terms on which
tho Southern States should resume their
federal relations was that question. It
was a difficult question, too, and one on
which honest men honestly differed;
hinging, as our recent historical review
of the whole matter clearly shows that it
did, mainly on the point of the conditions
of suffrage in the South. Ono view was
rasonably harmonious with the truer
doctrine of Stato rights, and with the
theory on which tho North had earned on
tho war, namely, that the Southern States
wore in too Union and could not get out;
the other view was the view that a true
conquest had boen achieved by the North,
aud was colored by a desire of universal
suffrage, and by a hope that the negroes
thus nationally enfranchised would per
manently attach themselves to the Repub
lican party. The adoption of this second
view gave a great strain to our frame of
government, and such a lurch towards
centralization as has already proved to be
dangerous and even now can scarcely be
regarded as less than ominous.
Nevertheless, if toe dominant party
had carried out with open good faith into
all its details even this extreme view, and
manifested always a patriotic desiro to
concilatc the South and consolidate the
country, however elections might have
gone in that quarter, tho plan, though
harsh, might have succeeded. That it
has conspicuously and lamentably failed
has been largely owing to an unchecked
party zeal to call nothing properly recon
structed unless it wore the party label, to
throw out elections that were not in the
party sense successful, to count friends
in and count opponents out, to recon
struct over again if party exigency seem
ed to demand it, to keep in power in those
States zealous party servants, however
incompetent or dishonest, to avoid per
sonal contact with tlie South on the part
of prominent officers, and especially to
proclaim in each recurring Northern elec
tion, with amplifications and exaggera
tions, the bad state of things at tho South
and the necessity of still sustaining the
Republican party in order to secure the
results of the war.
Gen. Grant, before he became Presi
dent, once wrote these sensible and mem*
orable words: “It is to be regretted that
there cannot be a greater commingling
at this time between toe citizens of toe
two sections, and particularly of those
entrusted with the law making power.’
We thing it on every ground a very great
pity that General Grant, sinco ho became
President, has not himself acted on toe
spirit of these words. He has traveled
more than any of our Presidents; but he
seems to have studiously avoided the
South. Why has this been so? Why
have tho prominent legislators kept away
from the scene aud the subjects of their
recurring legislation ? There has been
too much of the spirit of tho priest and
the Lovite, and too little of tho spirit ol
the good Samaritan, in the treatment ol
our neighbor, who has literally “fallen
among thieves.” Those, who should
have understood the real nature of hit
case before bringing forward their medi
caments, have “passed by on toe other
side.” The Pharisaic spirit—“I am holier
than thou"—has also not been want
ing.
The most significant and popular words
ever uttered by the President (if one may
be allowed to take them in their full sig
nificance) were his words, “Let us have
poaoo.” They were understood to mean
that he would see to it that the South
flats in the city wish for domestics of a should have a fair chance to recuperate
but tha impressions are quite distinct j . ..
am to give a literal translation of Utan, ana yet mkmt tne
tha inscription* but presume it is of the "**“* -“«* **“ *
Mm* general character as on* the one
from Bfcbyrlon, {firing the name and title
of ifrf monarch reigning at Nin*r*b, per
haps thrte thousand years ago. • ' i -
little move genteel appearance than com
mon kitchen girls, since all dwell on the
some floor, and come in contact much
oftener. The French flat system of honses
calls for a clast of servants for which
American girls supply the best material.
Husbands are beginning to apply at
the Training School for an opportunity
for their wives to learn housework. So
defective is our domestic education to
day that many a woman who marries
and commences house-keeping is ignor
ant of her duties. A class for. house
keepers is now being formed. Altogeth
or, the Training School, as it now stands,
is an admiraUy conducted institution,
worthy the support of toe entire com
munity. It should be placed upon a
solid, self-supporting basis, since it bids
fair to solve for a sorely distressed com
munity the question of good domestic
servants for American homes.
We see it stated that the “free love
society in Oneida county, N. Y-, is flour
ishing, and we hear of no intention by
S vernment, State of Federal, to inter-
e with ii Mow if some one will ex
plain to us why Bis that the Government
of the United States has the power and is
morally bound to abolish ^jfolygamy in
_ ernmsnt not tbs State Government of
one New York eon interfere with-the been
tioue “free love” colony in Oneide, we
wSt be enabled to solve a problem that
puttltete. " '
itself in its own way, not inconsistent
with tbo Constitution of the United
States. They were interpreted in the
light of those earlier words so favorable
to tho citizens of the South, a part of
which wo have just now quoted. We are
anxious not to do the President injustice,
but we cannot accord to him the praiae
of having done all in his power to secure
and promote the “peace” which he thus
invoked Congress has left undone quite
as many things that ought to have bean
done as the President, and at the same
time has boen quito as much a positive
transgressor as ho has been. It ought,
for example, to have taken action on the
case of Louisiana upon the full report of
its own committees, and not have shirked
the whole matter off upon the ehonldere
of the President-
But what has disgusted and angered
tho people more than’ anything else has
been the exaggerated display of the fail
ures of reconstruction as a sufficient
ground for keeping in power the suthon
of reconstruction. Outrages in the
South, whether real or manufactured,
have been regarded as toe best RepubM
can arguments in the newspaper and on
the stump. In fact, they were the wont
The people still believe in their own ca
pacity for self-government
not prepared to believe that our experi
ment oi f liberty has actually broken down
in one-third of toe Union. The orators
our tendencies toward Crcsaiism.” The
colonel, however, didnot hesitatoto knock
off Ha stopped at once and emerged
with a fine airy graeo through the win
dow, bringing tho sash with him, and
then lie climbed up the water spout to
tho roof, whero he sat until a hook and
ladder company came and took him off.
The Argus did not issue for a week, for
although the Colonel bombarded that
bear with shotguns pointed through the
windows, and although the fire engine
squirted hot water at him, ho got along
very comfortably until Saturday night*
when he tried to swallow a composing
stick and was choked to death. When
they entered the room they found that
the animal had upset all the type, and
had soaked himself in ink and then rolled
over e early every square inch of the floor,
while toe Colonel’s leader on the “Third
Term” was saturated with water and per
forated with shot holes. After this cir
cus advertisements in the Argus will be
paid in advance.—Max Adder.
Students In Luck.
The Khedive of Egypt, who has shown
his appreciation oi Americans by appoint
ing one to command his army, and sever
al others in subordinate positions, haa
picked out three of the Dartmouth medi
cal students—Charles F. Brown, Frank
A. Colby, and Charles W. Dustin—to
superintend the surgeon corps of his
army. They start for Egypt early in De
cember, only a few weeks after gradua
tion, and expect to reach Cairo, their head
quarters, in about six weeks. They are
to serve on the khedive’s staff, and act
immediately under his orders. They are
exceptionally able men, and are very san
guine of success in their venture. Mr.
Brown is to havo a salary of six thousand
dollars in gold, with the payment of ex
penses to Egypt and back, and will rank
as colonel. He is a native of New York
State and a graduate of Union College.
He practice 1 law for two years, but, aban
doning his profession, ho traveled in
Egypt for some time, ami having studied
medicine at Berlin and Vienna, returned
to this country. He was for a time edi
tor on a paper in Jamestown, New York.
Colby takes the rank of lieutenant colonel,
and receives a salary of $3,500 in gold,
with his expenses paid. He is a Lancas
ter man, but graduated at Colby Uni
versity, in Maine, and was once asssociate
editor of the Bangor (Ale.) Whig. He
will reside permanently in Egypt. Dus
tin will rank as major, and have a f alary
of $2,500 in gold, expenses paid. He is
a Vermonter, and never saw a locomotive
until he went to Dartmouth college. The
residence of Brown and Dustin in Egypt
is to be only temporary.
The Largest Iron*«Clad Afloat.
The Russian iron-clad Peter tho Great,
which was built after toe designs of Ad
jutant General Popoff in 1872, was sent
on its first trial trip from Cronstadt on
the 15th of October, accompanied by the
steam frigate Rurik. It started at 10
o’clock in the morning, and, after steam*
ing out of the harbor, went out to sea at
the rate of twelve knots on hour. After
proceeding at this rate of speed for a
short time, it was found that ono of tho
ship's screws was damaged, and it had to
put back for repairs. According to tha
Qotot, the Peter the Great is at present
the most powerful iron-clad afloat Its
hull is 333 feet long by 63 feet 3 inches
wide; it has a double bottom, and is coy«
ered with armor plates to a depth of six
feet below the water line. It has two
turrets, which will be armed with four
twelve-inch rifle guns, whose in tizzies will
be fourteen feet above the water. Tho
plates over the water line are fourteen
niches thick, with a ten inch backing.
Below the water line, tho thickness of
toe plates is twelve inches, and of tbs
backing the same.
Thz New York Times is becoming thor
oughly heretical, as measured by toe stan
dard of the Radical creed. After speak*
ing of the Democratic victories and tha
overthrow of the carpet-baggers iu tha
South* it concludes with the following
forecast of beneficient results which must
accrue to the negroes from their second
emancipation : “So long as the negroes
voted unanimously with the Republicans,
thenativo white Democrats had every
temptation to prevent their use of the
suffrage, and this temptation was ttnquee-
tionably, at one time, yielded to. Now
tost it has become possible to induce the
negro to sometimes vote with the Demo
crats, he will be treated very differently.
It may be political heresy, but we confera
that the division of the negro vote is to
u* an encouraging fact in toe recent elec*
tion*.' It is especially enoouraging wh*o,
as in South Carolina, tho devision win
effected by** appeal to the negroes to
rebel against their fanner leaders in ore
V
der to saeure honest government When
They ere the negro gives hie vote on that ground,
‘ whetltar he is cheated or not, and
to give it and* control of a dread or
_ hatred to hhf former master, he basapie
underrated the intelligence of the people, a leaf affvenee in tha direction of btoftO?
rad especially (Mr evBtbnftff eendraee ing * tiftftu citisto.