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The Outlook;
While so much disposition is shown at
the south to reverse the policy of the past,
and engage as largely in commerce, mining
and manufactures as in agriculture, the ef
forts in that direction are neutralized by
the incessant race agitations and troubles;
find the same journals that argue earnest
ly for industrial progress filch off into a
sage over the bare idea of the “negro in
the jury box,” and “the negro in the
schools.” Leaving these people, therefore,
as hopeless soi 1 the present, it is gratifying
to observe how, since the panic and revul
sion, all the progressive sections of tile
Republic have resumed their active enter
prises, and are driving ahead with the same
resistless energy as before. Wherever a
clean sweep has been made of all race dis
tinctiohs, the moving impulses are so won
derful that the prospect now is that the
progress of the present decade will far ex
ceed that of the last. The average north
ern man soon gets over a crash, a revulsion,
or even a political agitation. In fact the
north resembles a mighty conquering army
on its line of march. It seized Illinois,
Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota and Kansas
successively, and made them remarkable
scenes of progressive civilization. It is
now hard at work upon Colorado, Nebras
ka, Wyoming, Utah, Dakota and Nevada,
and.wherever the iron horse reaches bat
talions of emigrants follow.
It seems not more than a few years since
the whole west was spoken of as for free
trade and agriculture. Now every town,
large or small, is an industrial centre, offer
ing all sorts of favors and inducements for
the location of manufacturing establish
ments. The home market is the western
farmers gold mine. There was a time
when lie did not understand it, bht he does
llow. llinois hrs gone into all sorts of in
dustries with one tremendous and univer
sal rush. Free trade has been drowned
out by the tidal wave, iiiid “commercial”
Chicago has suddenly been transformed in
to “industrial” Chicago. Missouri exhib
its a similar phenomenon, and lowa and
Kansas are carried away by the same
power. While yet the Grangers are in the
green incipient stage of growth the patrons
of industry swarm over the whole west.
There has been nothing like it in the
Jioa lioon liJvG it ill
the whole' of American progress-
The canvas towns gotten up by railroad
building and land speculators have disap
peared like distempered visions, and the
men who create towns now at the west are
actual workers and carry industry, educa
tion and religion with them. Taking into
consideration the enormous and rapid ad
vance made ill tele'giaplls, railroads, agfi-»
culture, grazing, mining, manufactures and
education, it cannot be doubted that if
banking were free the same resistless ener
gy would cfdate at the west a vast arid
powerful system of American corporate
capital. Even as it is under the present
restrictions great progress has been made
in that direction.
This impulsive growth seems to have
been inversely reflected back upon the sea
board States. All sorts of towns and vil
lages liave beconte ambitious of "industrial
progress. Tanneries, iron works, grist and
saw-mills, Woollen factories, &c., increase
remarkably. South Jersey has become a
region of colonial settlement. Delaware
has acquired new life. New England talks
of new agricultural development. Maine
has revived her shipbuilding, and New
York competes with Pennsylvania in man
ufactures and railroads. Thus the enter
prise and genius eff the seab'oad created
western enterprise, the grandeur of the
field and the inspiring influence of wonder
ful success enduced western enterprise with
anew spirit, and this returns upon us to
revivify the old States. Whether the col
lective energies of these two great sec
tions can act upon the south is doubtful.
The obstacles are so numerous and the
difficulties so great that the efforts in that
quarter thus far have riot been encourag
ing to northern enterprise, and it seems
prabable that the new fields will be prefer
red.
A general vie# of the country presents
distinctly the fact that the crash, the paYric
and the revulsion have been overcome, and
that the people have not waited for Con
gressional action or Executive intervention,
but have helped themselves in the shortest
and most available way. That the labor
troubles are serious caririot be questioned;
but they are such as exist iu all great in
dustrial counties and rather display a rest
less desire on the part of the laborers to
improve their condition, arising out of Pttr
advancing civilization, than any peculiar
unwhotesotrieness in our own social condi
tion. We do not consider it a question
whether the amazing development of agri
culture, mining manufactures, has been ex
cessive and unwarranted, but rather of
how we shall utilize them all for the gener
al profit of the country. The only pana
cea that will secure a fie# prosperity is
the same that has so hing been effective;
continuing development providing new
fields of enterprise and fresh or greater
markets.
It is among the wonders of this era that
the financial and railway crash does not
seem to have seriously damaged any of
the now interests created at the far west
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 4,1874.
and that they are ail preparing for anew
compaign with the same spirit Us before.
Much of this ehergy is inspired by the
wonderful successes achieved in lowa.
Kansas and Missouri, and all seem to be
lieve that success upon any new liue is on
ly a question of tiiiie. Financial centres,
of decided power have arisen in St. Louis
and Chicago, and are the sustaining forces
of most of these efforts. Observation con
vinces us that these influences are attain
ing constantly increasing strength and en
ergy in Pittsburgh Cincinnati and other
cities, and in fact that the west has be
boine independent. The limit of cereal
production being nearly reached in a terri
torial point of view, and western industry
having attained grert proportions, the at
tention of western enterprise has been
turned to grazing as a great interest and
to solving the problem of how to develop
the Territories beyond; In fact the gen
eral outlook is a favorable one, and is cred
itable to our people after so recent and
tremendous a panic. —American and Ga
zette.
Tlie New Chief Justice.
Whatever criticism the previous nomina
tions of President Grant for chief justice
have received there ought to be nothing
but commendation for his latest choice.
While The Courant has expressed strong
disapprobation of some of the President’s
appointment it has never doubted his sin
cere desire to have the first judicial posi
tion in the country filled acceptably. In
selecting Mr. Williams he was doubtless
influenced too much by personal friendship
for a gentleman, whose success in lesser
offlbeS had impressed the President with
his abilities, but who nevertheless lacked
the culture and erudition fbr so important
an office. In his secoiid Choice the Presi
dent is supposed to have deferred his opin
ion to that of certain members of liis cabi
net and other advisers?, and thus Was led
to select a man who possessed every requi
site, except stability and devotion to prin
ciple. Finding this appointment also
unacceptable to the people lie withdrew it,
as soon as he had seen the evidence which
proved its unfitness, and,without manifest
ing any displeasure at the strong opposi
tion to his supposed wishes, set to work
deliberately to find anew and uiiobjectiona
■Klft nfmAtdtlkft, .and Ha hna gnny»apdod
Morrison Remich Waite whose name is
now before the senate for confirmation as
chief justice of the United States, is a
of the late chief judge Henry M. Waite of
this state, and was born at Lyme, Connec
ticut, November 26, 1816. He was
graduated at Yale college in the Class of
1838, where lie had for a friend and class
mate William M. Evarts, With otlieers who
have since achieved national reputations.
Mr. Waite studied law With his father’ for
U year after' graduation and then removed
to Jlfaumee City, Ohio, where lie continued
his studies and was admitted to the bar in
1838. In i.650 lie removed to Toledo,
Where he lias since resided and practised
law, having since 1858 been in partnership
with his brother, Richard Waite. He is
the acknowled leader of the Maumee Tal
ley bar. In 1840 he married Miss Amelia
C. Warner of Lyme.
The only political offices Hr. Waite has
held have been as member of the Ohio,
legislature in 1849, and the position which
he now occupies as president of the Ohio
constitutional convention, of which he was
chosen a member by the unanimous suff
rages of his Constituents. In November,
1871, possibly at the suggestion of Mr.
Evarts, he was appointed by the President
one of the counsel of the United States
before the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration,
a position which he filled very creditably.
Mr. Waite has the reputation of being a
studious and thorough lawyer, of retiring
disposition, and will make an able, conscien
tious and unobjectionable, if not a brilliant,
chief justice.
Outside of the immediate vicinity of New
York and Boston, where there is some lo
cal disappointment at the result, the nomi
nation of Mr. Waite meets with general
approval. 1 here is a well-grounded behfflf
that he will prove a #ofthy successor to
Jay .'Ellsworth and Chase. Although he
has never before filled a position on the
beuch it has not been from lack of oppor
tunity, be having declined a seat on the su
preme court bench of Ohio and a United
States district judgeship, preferring to de
vote his energies to his large practice. He
has for many years been' recognized as the
head of the bar of northwestern Ohio, and
the fate Chief Justice Chase is said to have
pronounced him the ablest lawyer of his
state. A year ago he was ad
mitted to the bar of the United States su
preme court, upon motion of Caleb Cush
ing. It is satd of him that he has had
more experience in court practice than any
former chief justice has had at the time of
his elevation to the bench. Mr. Evarts,
his classmate and friend, says of him, “He
is one of the ablest men in the law I ever
met,” and he is described as having an
eminently judicial mind. Mr. Waite i3
evidently not has never sought
office, and has without doubt voted in ac
cordance with his convictions. A pleasing
feature of his appointment is “that it comes
to hi,m unsought, as have all othCr public
honors. The more we hear of him the bet
ter we like Gourant.
THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—THE UNION AS RESTORED.
Centennial Notes.
Manly, patriotic words tliesd of the
New Y"ork Commercial Adveidiser:
The friends of the Centennial entc rprise
must have been pleasantly surprised by the
unanimity displayed in the House of Rep
resentatives yesterday concerning the bill
requesting a suitableinvitation
to be eiteiided to to par
take of the country in
1870, andgeneral
question. eve
havingAdft ftp at inn
a ■x | »■
some •■-^biding
of some local in
general was that the United States, as a
nation, were botind to sustain this great
occasion, and to display a fitting dignity
and liberality before the rest of the world-
The epigrammatic expression of Mr.
Crocker, of Massachusetts, covered the
subject with the eloquence of an aphorison:
“The very day—the. Fourth of July, 1876
—committed every man in the country to
help in the celebration.” Here was the
only liberal, national, and patriotic view
possible to the manly American, and it is
not strange that the House indicated its
sentiments by a vote of 206 to 42. We
hope this action will induce States which
have not yet filled their quota of the
$10,000,000 —and New Y'ork first of all—
to be iiistant\i discharging their obliga
tions.
The Centiniiial Exposition Committee
now, since the national recognition of the
object is assured, will find many obstacles
removed which heretofore discouraged
and made their labors onerous. The great
error of our people has heretofore been to
act only on the emergency, without due
preparation. In the case of the exposi
tion this tendency has been removed by
the action of Congress, and we can there
fore look forward to our Centennial as an
already assured success. —Chester Repub
lican.
It will be impossible for any voluntary
commission, or for any single State, how
ever richly endowed, to cany out the eu
terpise on tlio scale on which it has been
begun, and in order to secure favorable at
tention abroad, it is not desirable that it
should go before the world with anything
less than the imprimatur of the uatknL.it-
SKUA rounders ana maifergefs hA il a
hard task before them at best.C, Many
causes have coiispifed to increase the
difficulties of their work. Fire, panic, and
a widespread depression in leading
branehes of industry, have deprived them
of tile co-operation they had very good
reason to expect. Nevertheless, they
have prosecuted their work with admira
ble foresight aud courage. The city of
Philadelphia and the State of Pennsylva
nia have made liberal advances in money,
and have done everything in their power to
set the complicated machinery in motion.
The enterprise is now at a point where
other help is needed. Let those who rep
resent it present their case frankly, not
under the cover of resolutions merely of
courtesy and smypathy, but stating their
needs fully and the grounds for their appeal
to the nation, and the response will be
prompt and equal to the occasion.—Bos
ton Advertiser ,
THE FIELD FOR ’76.
An Interesting Forecast of the
Political Situation.
[Henry TUatterson in the Louisville Courier-
Journal.]
While the political adventurers and re
volutionists, ever ready for plots and jug
gles, and ever expectant of sensations, are
waiting for General Grant to make some
' signal indicating his readiness to enter into
their schemes, the stolid Democrats and
the stolid Republicans calmly take their
way along tlie beaten tracks, sure that the
next Presidential Contest will lie between
the two old regular armies, led by two old
veteran partisans, on the one
hand Thurman or Bayard, and
on the other hand Mortori or Blain or
Washburn or Conkling, but it is bound to
be the Demaeratic party against the Re
publican party, Extremes are not to mfet
in the persons of Butler and Stephens,
managing a leage in the interest of Grant.
"Butler is to be shelved in Massachusetts.
Stephens is to retire to the seclusion of
Liberty Hall. Grant is to walk out of the
White House carrying all his baggage
along with him, unassisted by a stretcher.
There is to be no pit-fall ; no sadden trap
door ; no ambuscade ; no bloody-minded
fool’s Contrivance anywhere. The healthy
minded and cheerful bigots of each particu
lar element are equally confident of success.
They, at least, are not going so see any
thing untoward or even novel. It is not a
period of disorganization. Thfe transition
epoch has passed away, leaving bygone or
ganisms just as they used to be. Last year
was all a dream. The Liberal Republicans,
riff of Grant, will be folded into thte old
embrace. * The discontented Democrats,
quit of Liberalism, will resume the half
abandoned tenets of the true faith. As
for tlie presumptuous journalists they will
have leave to go to the devil, where they
properly belong and so—
“ The world wag its ancient wav,
Just as it did before it weut astray."
e really want—the people, North and
South, want-to do the fair, honest thing
by one another. This can only be done by
an abandonment of the interference policy,
leaving the Southern States to take care
of their local intents like the Northern
States. The present policy of the Repub
lican .party exposes it to constant tempta
tions as it exposes the South to constant
injustice. It also gives rise to ill-breeding,
criminations, and recriminations, which
stand in the way of sectional good will. It
is thus, as we conceive, an unpatriotic pol
icy; and, if it be not abated, it may lead to
a collusi'ifii between Grant and the Demo
crats, by which the President will be con
tinued in office and the Democrats be re
established in power, at the cost of a great
cardinal principle in their faith.
The Republican leaders are too inteli
gent to need to be told that these are the
merest conjectures; but they are also too
acute not to recognize them possibilities.
The time lias come for them to tack about
and fall into the line marked out for them
by morton in 1866. That liue was unten
able because of the bungling, vacillation,
and bad faith of Andrew Johnson. It is
perfectly tenable now. Nothing can be
more ruinous to the Republican party, as
nothing can be more false to the natural
predelictioiis and characteristics of many
of its best minds than that it should con
tinue the wretched woods-path which it
has pursued the last six years- It Will lead
only deeper aud deeper into the briaas.
There are indeed no ambuscades on the
open political highway. It is the other
route, promising nothing at the start, and
leading nowhere, which is full of them.
The Republican party should abandon it
at once, put itself on high national ground,
and command the respect, if not the af
fections, of the Southern people by its
candor, moderation, and justice.
Ja Wilkes Booth’s Koiuaiice 4
•A Washington correspondent of the
Cleveland Leader writes : “Several years
ago, when John' P. Hale was here as Sena
tor, his daughters were among the most
admired of all the belles. They lived ifi
elegant style at the National, and enter
tained with a great deal of vivacity all Who
visited them. The youngest was really a
very pretty, fresh, piquant girl of 18 or so.
rers, and among them the actor J. Wilkes
Booth was the mo3t devoted to Miss Eigh
teen. You perhaps remember Booth’s ap
pearance, a handsome, melodramatic fellow,
and among a certain set here he was a
great favorite socially. At night he played
his Charles, in Schiller's*‘Cobebrs,’ and
Miss Hale was always at the play, with
bouquet and smiles for him. In those days
who could guess the sad sequel to a ro
mance of love that promised bright enough?
I remember a night when the hotel was a
blaze of light. The guests were giving a
‘hop’ for their friends, and between the
waltzes every one was good naturedly gos
siping at the devotion of a couple who
walked up and dowp the rooms, and were ap
parently oblivious of place and surroundings
They were a very attractive pair, he tall
and dark-Syed, she fair and sweet as an
English rose. There were some who cavil
ed at her choice ; the father must be wild
to permit such an alliance, they said—the
daughter of a United States Senator to
marry a play actor. But the many to whom
the young girl’s sweet tace seemed excuse
for any infatuation, looked with indulgence
ot the little drama of the ‘old, old * story.’
I remember too well another night, just the
eve of two day3 later. We were at Ford’s
old theater. Again a blaze of light, and
music, and a crowded house, to look on at
Laura Keene in the ‘American Cousin.’
How many times have you heard the story
of that night, too dreadful to talk of even?
The sudden pistol shot, the uproar that fol
lowed, and in the figure that sprang from
the President’s box I saw the lover of two
nights ago; and knew that even as he whis
pered in that young girl's ear he was plan
ning this dreadful scene. In "W ilkes
Booth’s pocket was found tM picture of
his betrothed, and she wrete of the assassin
that she would marry him at the foot of
the gallows. Such devotion hangs like a
divine fragrance about our recollections of
this wretched, mistaken man, and though
it cannot blot out, yet surely let it dim a
little the horror we rightly feel at his
work.”
The Republican Party.
The Republican party shows no signs of
deeay. If its members make mistakes, they
manifest a willingness to rectify them. If
it3 servants fail to record their wishes, the
masses of the party quickly make their dis
approbation felt, and the response is prompt
and satisfactory. The salary bill of the
Forty-second Congress was universally con
demned. The Forty-third Congress has
repealed it. The nomination of Attorney
General Williams to the Chief Justiceship
was not favorably received by the Senate or
the people. It was withdrawn by the
President at the request of Mr. Williams
himself. The nomination of Mr. Cushing
to the same position was received at first
with a feeling of doubt. His fitness in le
gal attainments and experience was univer
sally.admitted ; but his opinion on great
political questions which may possibly
GQW bfifVJQ tfc® gupreme Doubt for
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kecision were for the moment forgotten.
Meantime, a strong light was thrown upon
ins secret History which removed all doubt,
and President Grant hastened to withdraw
his name. These are striking events in
the recent history of the great reform party
of the nation. They show that its Presi
ded, its Sehate, and its CbhgreSs arfe in
accord with the people, and that they sit
in their several places to carry out, so far
as in them lies, the wishes of tlife tiltihiate
supreme authority in the land—the mass of
the legal voters. Not since the closing
scenes of the great acts of reconstruction
has the Republican party shown its repre
sentative character so strikingly as during
the last month. If one branch of the gov
ernment makes a mistake another branch
hastens to rectify it; if all err, the great
body of the party—the rank and file—as
serts its right to judge and its authority to
condemn : and the alacrity with which the
Republican party officials bow to the dic
tates of this great tribunal of the people
constitutes to-day, as it has constituted
during its whole history, the secret of its
tenure of power. The rugged vigor, the
quick vitality, and the sustained purpose of
the Republican organization to act as it
is acted upon by the moral and political
sentiment of the people are exhibited in
bold relief by its recent history.— lnter
Ocean.
Cheap Transporta hibHi
On Saturday last the Cheap Transporta
tion Convention, which had been in session
in Washington for several days, finished
its deliberations and adjourned. A series
of resolutions, embracing some excellent
and practical suggestions, along with others
of an irnpi'dcticSble nature, was, after much
discussion, finally adopted. The members
of the committee which drafted these reso
lutions were evidently familliar With the
provisions of our new constitution in Penn
sylvania. The leading feature# of the rail
road article of that instrument Were nearly
alt adopted in substance, even to the pro
visions prohibiting the issue of passes and
that prescribing the proportional of minori
ty representative system for the election of
boards of directors- The new constitution
of Illinois had also been carefully studied
by them, evidently, and some of its provi
sions were incorporated in the resolutions,
lat Ore to establish maxium freight and pas
senger tariffs, and that forbidding the con
solidation of competing lines.
But the convention went far beyond the
constitutional enactments of any State in
recommending the passage of laws—appar
ently by the State Legislatures—creating
boards of railway commissioners, empower
ed to establish and regulate all railroad
charges, and laws restraining railroad com
panies from paying Higher dividends than
will give “a fair and just return on the ac
tual cost of their property.” Whatever
they earn in excess of the amount required
for this purpose is to be applied to repairs,
improvements, &c., and when all such work
is done, every excess of receipts, beyond
what is requisite for the “fair and just re
turn,” is to be the signal for lowering rates.
The millennium will have come when
capitalisists cab be induced to put their
money into railroads subject to such con
ditions, and when regulations of this kind,
by whatsoever power imposed, can be suc
cessfully enforced.— Philadelphia Press.'
[From Inter Ocean.]
While the St. Louis Times is publishing
bugle calls to the Democracy of Missouri,
the venerable ex-rebel and traitor, Toombs
is rallying the “unternfied” of Georgia by
appefek to passion and prejudice. In a re
cent speech he denounced the Constitution
of liis State as “the work of fools, negroes,
and Yankees, forced upon us by the bayo
net in obedience to the reconstruction
laws, and therefore’ unconstitutional laws,
and thereforeunconstitutional,revolutionary
and void.” The Pittsburg Commercial
says : “and it is this ferocious rhetorical
vitriol thrower whom Forney would be
pleased to see once more occupying a seat
in the United States Senate.” We are not
by any means certain that the United
States Senate is not the place for Mr.
Toombs, of Georgia. He may have an op
portunity, there, to meet negroes capable
of demonstrating their claim to equal
rights. In the lower lioftse of Congress
Messrs- Stephens, Beck, ana Harris recent
ly met their intellectual match in a, pure
African. We don't know how old Toombs
s. He may be too old to lehrn. He prob
ably isto old to appreciate the fact that there
are constitutional amendments in the way
of the disfranchisement of the black man.
He is probably too bigoted and too strong
ly attached to the defunct institution of
human slavery ever to become an honest
and patriotic citizen of the republic. If
the State of Georgia desires to lose one
half its legitimate influence in the national
Senate, let Toombs be sent to that body
as her representative. But if she proposes
to accept the situation in good failh, let
her people denounce him as an impudent
bawler, bent on bringing the State into
new disgrace:
Indian Civilization.
No administration has eyer punished
Indian crime more promptly than this pun
ched the Modoc murders;. wo* and
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case that could not be defended by the To*
dians themselves, nor e*cM by their
most ultra ripologists anywhcrC; So Boon
as the punislihieht had been Itidlbted; bbl
nfetolence sought td tiltigiite tile sufferlnga
of the survivors, and prove to all that phil
anthropy is as active as law. The reserve
tioiis have been more thickly poj&lated
and rendered more attractive under thitf
effort ; the outrages upon the frontier set
tlements have been reduced, and h judi
cious supervision of white rascals has left
nothing apparently undone that fehti ,M
done to feciaiin and civillige the li®!
mg the Cherokee Legislature, Convened at
Tahlequah, in the Indiferi ThHitoty, id
which it iS stated that tiie capital is a find
building ; the ttieritbfcfs of the Legislature
are intelligent and decorous ; an ohphan
school has ninety children, who are educat
ed as well as supported, and those who last
summer could not understand English use
the language fluently there is a- female
seminary, and the Chief, W. P. Ross, is
leading his people forward wisely: The So
nnnoles, Creeks, Choctaws fend
are reported in a favorable tbfidition. The
Minnesota tribes, too, have become Ifanquil
It almost seems as though the Indian ward
that have accompanied the whole of our
history are nearing their close, and as
though some of the race whose history ht
indissolubly connecty with the continent
may yet be preserved, Bishop Whipple
asserts that they can be the Cherokees
seem to be a proof, and ftff would be pleas
ed if a representative body could be pro-'
served.— North American Gazettts.
A colored man of Detriot having long
admired a colored Widow, but beitfg afraid
to come otii boldly and revefe'l fils passion,'
wens to a white man of his acquaintance
and asked him to Write the lady a letter
asking her hand in marriage. The friend
wrote, telling the woman 1 in a few brief
lines that the size of her feet was the talk
of the neighborhood; and fiiakirtg her if she
couldn’t pare them down a little. The
name of the colored man was signed, and
he was to call on her on Suuday night for
an answer. A day or two afterward the
writer met the. negro limping along the
scratched nose; a lame leg, and a spot on
the scalp where a handful of wool had been
violently jerked out, and he answered in
solemn tones: “She didn’t say nuflin, and
I didn’t stay dar more’n a minuit!”
A hot-tempered citizen of Arkansas,
fancying that a Methodist revival preacher
“meant him” in one of his pointed sermons
sent him a challenge The minister accep
ting it, stating that the weapons woul<J be
“Bibles and- prayer.” This nonplussed’ the
challenger, and he procurred a “cdurt of
honor” to “sit” on the matter. The ‘court,’
which consisted ot six experienced duel
lists, deciding that the clergyman was at
fault, “as no gentleman, when challenged,
has a right to select weapems to which the
challenger is totally unacustomed /
The ready-made clothing dealers in St.’
Louis appeal to the cupidity of chance cus
tomers to get rid of thier shop-worn gar
ments. They put a fat pocket-book in an
burner pocket, tell the stranger that the.
“coat was made for Mr. St. Clair, ona of
our wealthiest citizens, but it being too
tight across the back, he returned it, after
wearing it bfft once.” The customer feels
the pocket-book, pays the price asked for
the coat, and hastens away, being “in a/
hurry to catch the train.” He probably
catches the train, as.he never comes back'
with the stuffed pocket-book.
lnteligeoee ftom Washington and Har
risburg justifies the assertion Chat the Cen
tennial Commission will rfeed no further
gurahtee to begin in good earnest at
once. The Committees' in the State Legis
lature" feel that both bodies are at their
back, and that they can make a liberal ap
propriation in the full expectation of the
approval of their corfetif vt&iis. Nor is the
feeling in Congress less frendly. The Cep*
tennial is a national affair in every sense.
The generous action,of Pennsylvania, and
the work Assumed by the people, prove
that odr great State has put her own
shoulder ,to the wheel long before she asked
Jupiter to help.
General Grant and the Strong-minded
Nuisance.— A special dispatch to the New
'York Post says: “During an interview
which Miss Susan B. Anthony had with
the President on Saturday, the latter asked
her whether he could do anything for her,"
to which Miss Anthony replied yes, she
wanted to name the Chief Justice. Tho
President asked whom she would nime for
the office, and Miss Anthony said Llizar
beth Cady Stanton. The President laugh
ingly said this name had not been suggest
ed to him, but he would submit it to the
Cabinet for their consideration.” Good for
Grant.
— 1 .n.» 0 » ■■■
The skunk is no respecter of persons.
He is just as friendly to the owner of
one suit of clothes as to the owner of $
dozen, and, if anything, it little inon*.