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Jno. Bartow, - - - Editor.
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The Bunks County Observer
Passes out, and The .Farmers
Journal takes its place It will
always boa desire of The Farmers
Journal to merit its name and bo
worthy the support of the farming
class at their sacred fireside, and in
their moral, religious, educatianal,
agricultural, mineral, commercial |
and all business interests—tend- \
ingto push them ‘-Onward Ami|
Progressive” in all that will en
lighten and elevate them as identi
fied citizens and business men,
identified with the prosperity and
industries of their county and sur
rounding section.
la politics, The Farmers Jour
nal will be democratic—striving
for conservativeness where issues
arise involving the best interests of
tho party —yet, when mugwump
and indepeutism presents its de
ceptive and treacherous attempts
to defeat the democrati party, The
Farmers Journal will be firm and
aggressive in denouncing them—
inarch to democratic lines without
favor or influence, faithfully dis
charging the liberties of the demo
cratic press.
Congress ia ia mumn over the death
of H jb. J. M. Burses, member from
the state of Missouri.
Mr, Buck is mdoised by the Geor
gia republicans for a place in tba Har
xison m. hi net.
Alabama republicans are red hot
for * protection policy ia the new ad
minidtrstioj).
The Oconee Jiaterprisa speaks of
that county being infested with “blind
tiger?,” not withstanding tho recent
election of the? drv ticket.
The rand jury is now investigat
ing the Hawes’ murder, and Bmith
riot, iu Birmingham. It is thought
no c Jig3 will bo brought against the
latter.
“iii is not much ot a aoeiety” man
it is :: di. So much for Mr. Harrison.
IB no but ctiHcfed-braiu fops can af
ford to not their heads on a pivot and
hare it tilled with gas.
r I .:e 'Alabama St-to Board of Health
convenasjn Montgomery, March sth.
i'.omii.ofit medical men from other
at*tea will ho present, It is thought
the repiesentatiou of medical science
ivdi b? a ; ood oise.
The t copie of Birmingham, Ala.,
vrr.ro on anrliter lynching scout last
xvi.ek This time after a negro for
miTaglng a white woman. Doubt
less, ere this L k appeared to the read
ers the fiend has been caught and
in in died in m the limfc of a tree into
eteru ty.
Birminguaru auJ us surrounding
section will eoou equal the “Blech
Hills’’ of Colorado for murders and
orirae* of all sorts. This is certainly a
comm unity of despair and degrodation.
ii would seem to the outer world of
• •ivilizuion and morality, a state of
and inhuman hyenas exists
t rsre.
Uarnsoa’.s Cabinet.
Washington, January. 22.—Mr.
Beane remains in \\ ashington and.
is resting on 1j is oars as it were.
He seems perfectly contented and
is: - friends art likewise, for they
veil knew that the Maine states
man's appoint'an a' lo the Mate
portfolio is certain. In other words
they realize the fact that tho
Maine statesman has blutfed him
self into the cabinet.
The fact of John Wannamaker
postponing bis visit to Europe and
that ho has been called to India
napolis by (Jen, Harrison, is re
garded that ho is going to be post
master-general. This is generally
accounted as settled, and thereby
Mahone’s chances, if ho had any,
have all disappeared.
Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin,
is the only candidate who has been
in the field for the postmaster-gen
eralship, and he has now with
drawn, and will be satisfied with
the appointment of first assistant.
Mr, Allison ot lowa, has positively
and emphatically declined the
treasury portfolio and James S
Clarkson of lowa, is now making
great effort for that position. He
is supported by the entire lowa
delegation in congress, besides
many other western senators and
representatives. Senator Allison
is especially pressing Mr. Clark
son for the appointment and he is
said to believe that Presi lent Har
rison will call Mr, Clarkson that
office.
The make-up of the remainder
of the cabinet, leading republican
members here say, has not been
decided upon by Harrison him
self and that it is extremely doubt
ful if Gen. Harrison has yet de
cided upon one to call to his cabin
et, except Mr. Blaine. A promi
nent republican here to-day said
he believed the president-elect
would not call.to his cabinet a sin
gle man wlio now occupies a seat
in the United State Senate.
A Woman’s Claim.
One of the most interesting char
acters in Washington just now,
and one who is attracting a great
deal of attention, is Miss Ella Car
roll, daughter of ex-Gov. T. K.
Carroll of Maryland,
The remarkable claim which she
sets up concerning her connection
with the late war is one which, if
substantiated, would detract very
largely from the fame of General
Grant, and his place in history.
Misrf Carroll is seventy-one years
of age, completely paralyzed and
in very needy circumstances.
When the war broke out she was
living at Princess Ann, on the east
coast of Maryland, and although
her people were in sympathy wilh
the southern cause, she was from
tho outset a strong union
After the first reverses ot the war,
and when things looked dark and
ominous for the north, Miss Carroll
set herself to work to devise some
plan with which to defeat the con
federates. She suggested to Gen.
Halleck that he build a lleet of gun
boats, and with the Ohio, Tennes
see and Cumberland rivers as a
means of transportation of supplies
to push the war down to Chatta
nooga, into the very heart of the
confederacy. Her plan included
the destruction of Forts I'onelson
and Henry, which guarded the en
trance to those rivers; thence to
u-h a column ot troops down info
Tennessee.* force the evacuation of
Nashville and fight a decisive bat
tle near Corinth, disembarking the
troops at some point along the riv
er, her ultimate design being (hat
when the heart of the confederacy
wag reached to fore® a column
across the country to Atlanta and
thence to the sea, thus breaking
off entirely railroad and telegraph
ic communication between the two
wings ot the confederate array, As
will bo readily seen this was the
exact plan of operation tollowed
out under Grant’s directions.
These plans Miss Carroll sub
mitted to Gen, Halleck in writing.
That they were adopted was evi
dent from the record ot subse
quent events. Miss Carroll now
has a bill before congress for SBOO,-
000 as the price of her plans for
defeating the confederacy. She is
however, greatly in need of finan
cial aid, and desires only a small
pension as a reward for the service
which she rendered to the union.
Her application for pension has
been favorably indoiaed by Grant,
Halleck and Sherman, and it is
thought by some that it is probable
that the bill will pass at this session.
The colored man asks Mahone’s
opinion of his race being represented
in Harrison’s cabinet. Here is what
MahoDe says:
“I have heard that the colored race
desire a rt presentative in the cabinet,
but they aro too advaueed in asserting
themselves in that particular. It is
not approved ot by the republican par
ty as a whole. There are fanatics who
desire such a eonaunaation, but none
other. In unity of sentiment with the
larger and more liberal element of the
republican party, I did not approve of
any such pretention, and hi fact, to
be candid, I regard such a proposition
as 100 abanrd to enter, to any appre
ciable degree, in tao factorage of the
political situation. Thera will be ho
colored man in Harrison’s cabinet.
The time for that has not yet arrived.
I don’t approve of colored meD throat
ing themselves forward as candidates
for prominent positions, hovewer cor
rect it may bo in American citizen
ship, in the nitre republican creea, for
such candidacy. It is wrong ia poli
cv. Just now tho colored man is en
titled to all the lights that property
pertain te him, but his place ia not at
the extreme front yot. My advice for
the colored people is to address their
energies and enterprise to industrial
and educational exegencics umil such
time as they shall bo undoubtedly
qualified for the higher places of trust
atd emoluments. I belive ia meting
out to the colored element exaac jus
tice and when they show* proper ca
pacity for posilions in public life, to
which they can legitimately aspire,
they should have them as a matter of
fair p-ny, bns Ido not approve—and
I stand on the same platform in
this particular with many other honest
men and republicans—of their embar
rassing, their well wishes with issues
involving them that are irrevalent and
untimely.
“If tho negro persists in putting
himself forward unduly, bswill alien
ate his trice do. The best roir.ds of
the north and of the republican party
feci that he is a heavy load to carry,
foi so feels Senator Hoar and other
grast men, who aro at this date found
to admit it was a mistake to make hint
a participant in tho function ot govern
ment, which requires intelligence and
a judicious use of the franchise to dis
charge it properly.” J
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