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cv ninzat 7'ii o'clocK, in the
Oil Frllicvs' Hall. Mam
str.-et. Menii.cr.sof the Or
dor are invited to attend. Jiy order
ur-inucc.v nr.cisKHLOiKs ii no.
a. I. O. . F., Meets on the risfpf-s
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tlav eveniniis each month, ft.'ltV
at 7 i o'cl.ick. m the Odd
Fd Vows' Hall. Membcrsof the Degree
arc invited to atu nd.
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in good stanv'.ing are invited to attend.
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to, and a ' vneral lirokea,;e business carried
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From the Chicago Union.
I Mother, dear mother, come home with
me now,
The clock in the steeple strikes ten.
You said that vnu onlv wanted to sitnv
One hour to pray out the men
The heds ar not made, the dishes un-
washed.
And our hired trirl, she is out too.
While all the children are still undress
ed.
And sadly are crying1 for you.
Chorus Conic home! come home!
come home. !
Please mother, dear moth
er, come home ! v
If car the sweet voice of vour'
' . child;
Do not forsake us at home :
How can you resist? do leav e
olT your prayer !
Please, mother' we need
-ou at home.
Mother, dear mother, come home with
me now,
The clock in the steeple strikes
'leven :
For all the duties that you neglect
You'll answer to Father in Heaven.
Our tin is low, and pa will soon come,
And dinner I cannot complete :
While weary and worn with live hours'
work.
He'll look for something to eat.
Chorus Come home, etc.
Mother, dear mother, come home with
me now,
I he clock m the steeple strikes
twelve :
iiie uiuner s not, reauv, ana pa lias
-eme,
With Hie food 1 vim: cold on the shelf,
He seemed so sad ; and spoke with a
sign,
As he was asking for vim :
And Kenny lie kissed with a tear in hia
eye ;
Please mother! dear mother! 'twon
do.
Chorus Come home, etc".
Mother, dear mother, come home with
me now.
The clock in the steeple strikes one
You s:iid vou were cominir riirht horn
from theireel ,
As soon as your prayers were clone.
Our tire has gone out. anil we are alone,
And pa's . hutiirrv at work until tea:
And l'l-imv. poor boy, is not feeling
well.
With no one to help him hut me.
Chorus Come home. etc.
Mother, dear mother, come home with
me now.
The clock in the stcple strikes two;
The house has ;:rovu colder, poor
I liTinv is worse.
And ho has been callin.ir for you.
Indeed he is worse ; I'm afraid he will
die
If you'll not cease graying out men ;
And" these' are the words I come to
1 'i imr ;
Hasten home, if you'd see him again.
Chorus Come home, etc.
Mother, dear mother, come, home with
intiiiiiw,
The clock in the steeple strikes three ;
The house i- lonely, the h ours are long.
For !'.eii:;y has -one and left me!
1 e, 1 in ah. -lie : poor 1 .1'llliy is oeai t.
And gone no to
dome.
And these were t!u;
lic-aviii .s
vor lat
l.rj.L'ht
words
that he said
I want dear mama at hoim
Chorus Come home, ( tr.
Tin,-ran j;h Overhauling.
Tl'.cvc "will k. : tlioror.Ii ovev
lianlin. of Conirress hy tlioelections
to take jilaco this c:tr, and in both
Houses it js admitted that the next
Congress w ill show mar.v oolitieal inul
I'ersonal elianires. Kihteen hjtates
elect (,ioveriurs,
Representatives
thirtv-livo elect
and twent'-tive
Leo'islaturi's elect Senators.
The following named Seators'
terms oxire on the 4lh of next
March: linger of California, Buck
ingham of Connecticut, Bayard of
Deleware, Gilbert of Florida, Pratt
of Indiana, Hamlin of Maine, Sum
ner (dead) of Massachusetts, Hamil
ton of Maryland, Chandler of Mich
igan, Uamsey of Minnesota, Ames of
Missisipjii, Selmrz of Missouri, Tip
ton of Nebraska, Stewart of Nevada,
Stockton of New Jersey. IVnton of
New York, Thurman of Ohio, Scott
of Pennsylvania, Sprague of lihode
Island, Brownlow of Tennessee,
Flanagan of Texas. Edmunds of
Vermont, Lewis of Virginia, Bore
man of West Virginia,' and Carpen
ter, of Wisconsin. Tlie elections in
Xew Hampshire, Rhode Island and
Connecticut have already taken place.
After these follow Oregon, first Mon
day in June; Ketucky," iirst Monday
in August; Xorth Carolina, August
o": Vermont. Iirst Tnesdav in Sep
tember; Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and !
Ohio, second Tuesday in October, I
JLomsana, hist Monday in November;
and the other States November 3d.
All of these States elect Congress
men and State oilicers, and all the
States except Arkansas, Indiana,
Florida, Illinois, Lonisana, Mary
land Minnesota, Mississippi; Penn
sylvania, Virginia, West Virginia,
W lseonsin, California, Georgia,
North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa and
Indiana, elect Governors.
How -Chicago Feels Over the Veto.
A Chicago despatch savs that ft
careful inquiry aniong all' classes of
Pt-oplo m that city and vicinity, dnr
inS tlie last, W ,1.,,... 'i...
rthey think of tl. t..,.: . -
a lesmeui, s veto OI
the currency bill, has strengthened
veLC7UVU'hon t,,at th"e a reallv
2. n. of l'incss or labor
"ot-,u.H)UlS Who vn;,l 41. T..
dent's
reiect the
UOn. 1 IP (rni-l
ment is that the sooner the recovery
K 1 J?r h"an affairs the
re;tl ocl.it,. i
many of the
l men wiio
A "cn-nuerests
iiur irmation, are disposed to
f:'CVn- of the TrLS
as the wisest and' best
course.
Capital Lodge, I. O. G. T. of Sa
lem, elected the following officers-
T of.iv.. Tt-:n.- o "ojiers.
T T-T n r. -i -HI
s.
Chamberlain, W. S.;'lraErb
S. ; James Coffav. W t
M. L.
W. F.
John
j Chapman W. M.; Amelia CesnPr W'
Scriber. W. C
Arbitration and Free Trade.
Hobbes declared' that the natural
state of mankind was a war of all
against all. The monstrous doctrine
provoked no great dissent. Repul
sive as the idea is, it gathers some
strength by reference to history.'
The career of manv n mho- r. ia
summed up by saying: He was born,
tie iongnt, li; died. There was a
time not so very long ago, when the
only profession open to a gentleman
was mat ot arms. The s-nall histo
ries of England average a battle to
every two pages. Even now. when
Lurope is supposed to bo civilized
and Christianized, thn hist twntv
years have been largely occupied
with fighting. In 1854,' the allied
powers grappled with Russia. In
185S and lSo'.J, Napoleon was righting
battles and building triumphal arch
es in Northern Italy. In 18(51, Vic
tor Emanuel began his acquisitions,
which ended in 1870 with the capture
of Rome. In 18(11, Austria and
Prussia seized Schlesw ig-IIolstein.
In 18'J(J, the two robber powers quar
relled avid fought over their prey.
In 18G1, the French attacked Mexico.
In 18;8, Queen Isabella was expelled
from Spain, and the hidalgos began
the series of revolts which .has now
ended in . anarchy. In 1870. France
and Germany fought. Then the
Commune kept the ball rolling or
shooting. Within the last few
months, Russia lias been warring in
Khiva, Holland in Atcheen, and
England in Asluuitee. On this side
of the watei-j Cuba and Mexico have
been in chronic revolt. So have the
South American Republics, save
when they were fighting each other
or Spain. We have had our four
years struggle between North and
South. The future promises to be
no better than the past. The stand
ing armies of Europe number 2.'.'j:3,
J00 men. Their nominal annual cost
is, in cash, oli'J.o.JiJ.iSl, and their
actual cost, when due allowance is
made for the loss of productive in
dustry, is probably a thousand mil
lion more. The next war is only a
question of time, and a question
that niav be verv speedily answered.
with all this frightful waste of blood
anil money. It has won two or three
noble victories recently, but is no
where near its goal. 'The 'world will
never stop lighting until it pays it
better to keep the peace. Its diiler
ent nations must be bound together
by a network of interests, the break
ing of which would involve more
loss than all the possible gain by a
y.-ar could balance.
Then, and not until then, will the
giant barbarism be forgotten. Great
Britain is the most peaceful nation
in the world, because: she is the most
commercial. She cannot aft'ord 1o
light. Her troops are only used to
conquer petty chieftains who harrass
British trade. This network of in
terests, which is the siii' " r ikji to
the abandonment of war, can be
found only through free trade. The
theory of protection is to separate
countries, to build a barier around
each which shall keep out, as far as
may be, the products of others.
Free trade, on the other hand, binds
two States together by making them
mutually dependent. The glamour
of the word " independent"' should
not lead us astray. There is
a certain pleasure in imagining a
country which produces everything
it needs itself, but why should a me
chanic, who buys an English suit
with three days' labor be forced In
law to give a week's work for it, in
order that America may manufacture
clothing ? Make trade free, and it
will weave around the world, as it
has around the States of this conn
try, a network of iron -rails and tele
graph wires which will bind commu
nities together with a band the sword
cannot cut. Then we shall have
peace on earth. Then a high court
I of arbitration will settle the question
mooted between nations. 1 roe trade
and peace, are in great degree, cause
and effect. Chicago Tribune.
Not Satisfac'toky. Prominent
Democrats w ho have identified them
selves with the "reform" movement
in 'Oregon, inform us that the ticket
put forward by the Salem Conven
tion is far from satisfactory, and that
they cannot conscientiously give it
their support. They will now (ton
fine their efforts to effecting reform
in their respe ctive counties, anil as a
rule will support the ticket put for
ward by the Albany Convention. It
is universally conceded that Grover
has made an excellent Governor, and
as betwen Dick Williams, Daven
port and LaDow for Congress. Dem
ocrats will certainly give LaDow the
preference. W'ulla 1Valla Statesman.
Napping. A lawyer, w ho had re
cently married a pretty widow was
recently napping in the close air of a
court-room, when the name of
the lady's first husband was men
tioned by one of the members of the
bar. causing him to wake suddenly.
Springing' up to his feet he ex
claimed, "What, what! You can't
have her!" After which he blushing
ly explained that he was dreaming,
and thought that her first husband
had come to deprive him of her.
Springing Up.
The vetran Democratic authority,
the Bostor. Post, thinks that the
Democratic sentiment isspringin up
freshlv, like gra-.s from the ground,
all the wav across the continent of
Slates, and demonstrating its living
presence wherever there are rights
and liberties for citizens to maintain.
An Indiana paper thus politely
expresses an opinion of a judge:
"He knows just nbout as much of
law as a mule does of mineralogy
the chances being in favor of the
mule." .
nTTPTF y OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
A Fresh Disgrace
It is to be feared that our friend
Grant, who was endorsed as a re
formed inebriate by Henry Wilson
and his fellow-temperance'lights in
the last Presidential campaign, has
fallen again into evil ways. It is in
sinuated that his recent boorish and
brutal behavior to the South Caro
linia delegation was attributable to
his being decidedly "under the in
fluence." Of course we dislike to
say any thing derogatory to the
character of one filling the exalted
station of President of the United
States, but high as lie.h'lie is not
removed from the criticism of the
people, and when ho so far forgets
himsejf and his position as to insult
their representatives his conduct de
mands explanation. His gross as
sault upon the delegates from South
Carolina, predicated ns it was upon
the irresponsible utterance of a per
son, with whom they were in no wise
connected, was as much an assault
on the whole people, whose servant
he is, as upon the individuals direct
ly its recipients.
The history of the Executive office
in this country has not been wholly
untarnished hitherto by words and
acts becoming its importance and its
dignity. But nothing like this has
ever smirched its record before
The personal history of Grant has
not been clean of incidents which a
friendly biographer, or a biographer
merely considerate of the honor and
renown of the great republic to
whoso highest trusts, both civil and
military, Grant has been called, will
desire to dwell upon as briefly and
as lightly as may be. The New-
York World says that the ablest for
eign writer who has vet essaved the
task of describing his career. Col
Cliesney, of the British army, has
found himself constrained to "allude
to portions of that career as "pain
ful."' and Americans must admit the
courtesy which has thus dismissed
them. But when we consider the
circumstances of this new offence
against the proprieties of life, an of
fence committed not by an obscure
military subaltern in a remote cor
ner of a great country, but by the
foremost public dignitary of the na
tion in its very capital, we are con
strained to feel that the only pallia
tion of it which the; most partial and
tolerant of his fellow-citizens can
suggest must be sought, where the
excuse of that earlier discredit was
found, in influences which it is a
fresh and poignant national disgrace
to be obliged to believe still potent
enough to deprive the Chief Magis
trate of the United States of that
.self-respect which is the only sure
foundation of respect for others anil
for the country which he represents.
In this connection, from a sense
of justice toward the President we
are constrained to reproduce the fol
lowing from the Washington Capital:
We meet the President almost
daily as we pass the Executive Man
sion going to and from our office,
and while his countenance is not
that of a teetotal Jonadab Dashawav
iu good standing, there is nothing
in his manner to indicate the fright
ful excess with which lie is charged.
He looks to us like a Lon rivnnt who
pats himself outside of a bottle or so
at dinner, and retires at night in a
happy state of elevation that is as
far from sobriety as it is from
dm nkenncss.
Don't Do It. Don't lay up nil
your treasures in Heaven. A safe is
of little value without the key.
Don't talk too loud. Wise men do
not stop to consider the braying of
an ass.
Don't sponge a newspaper. Dry
jokes are better than wet sheets.
Don't nurse your wrath, better let
it die of neglect.
Don't waste your breath in grum
bling. You w ill have no gas bills to
pay in the next world.
Don't imagine that your child can
do no harm. Vice, like virtue, may
be inherited.
Don't stoop to the level of a black
guard. The world will waste 110 sym
pathy on the man who breaks his
own back.
Don't imagine that you can cheat
the devil out of his own. He is suit
ported by the best legal talent of all
ages and from every clime.
Don't fail to maintain your dignity
in the presence of the boys. Famil
iarity with Tom and Jerry has ruined
a great many men.
Two ladies were talking about the
sparrows and their usefulness in rid
ding the city of measuring worms,
w hich used "to lie such an annoyance.
One thought the noisy chirping of
the sparrows early in the morning,
when she wanted to sleep, as great
an evil as tlie worms. . The other dis
agreed. Just then a gentleman came
in. and was appealed to: " Mr. A ,
which do you think tlie worst spar
rows or Worm?" He immediately
answered : "I don't know; never
had sparrows!"
The Reason Wiiv. The New York
Sun accounts for the milk in the Mas
sachusetts prohibition cocoanut as
follows: "The secret of the Massa
chusetts disgust for liquor sellers is
out. The .compound sold there is
worse than Jersey lightning. It is
flavored with onions, tobacco, raisins,
and, most harmless of all, water.
No wonder that legislators who have
been imposed noon by this sort of
stuff want it prohibited."
" The fact is apparent to every
nerson conversant with the political
status of Oregon that the Democracy
will triumph' in the June election.
There is scarcely a doubt about it.
The intelligent, candid, honest men
of the Abolition party tacitly admit
if they do not actually acknowledge
the almost absolute certainty of their
own party's defeat. It is, in fact, a
foregone conclueio."
Democratic Pyramid.
From the Chenongo Union.
In these davs of political revolu
tion, the people can hardly keep
track of the victories that have been
won bv the Democrats during the
last year. In the list of States print
ed below, will be found only those
that have unmistakably thrown off
the Radical yoke. Louisiana might
with propriety be added, for she
gave a clear majority of ten or twelve
thousand at the last general election;
but inasmuch as the Radicals have
forcibly kept control of that State, we
omit it from the list. ' In Min-nesota.
Iowa and Kansas, we have as good
claim as have our opponents, having
elected portions of the State officers
in each; but these also we leave out
of the count now, but will add them
to the list after next election. The
Democrats have a clear title to seven
teen States, most of which have been
wrested from the Republicans during
the year 1S73. This is lively work
for a party that has been declared
dead, and the Radicals .will never be
able to regain the ground they have
lost. On the whole, the Democrats
are well satisfied with their year's
work, and will go on until it is com
pleted. How do our Radical friends
like the looks of the. following for
midable list of Democratic States?
OHIO,
TEXAS.
OREGON,
GEORGIA.
NEW YORK.
INDIAN A,
ILLINOIS.
M A R Y L A N D ,
W I S C O N S 1 N,
V I R G I N I A .
K E N
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T U a K Y ,
S OUR
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V I It G I N I A.
A M P S 11 I R E,
II
Cause of Itust 011 Wheat.
The close, long continued analyti
cal researches of Dr. Sprengel led to
the conclusion th it an excess of iron
salts, and especially of the phosphate
of iron, greatly favors the growth of
red rust on tlie leaves and culms of
wheat and other cereals. A soil in
the vicinity of Brunswick that did
not lack drainage, but lime, was re
markable for growing wheat and bar
ley always attacked and generally
blighted by rust. A quantity of this
soil was taken into a field generally
free from this ofien ruinous parasite,
to form an artificial soil fifteen inches
in depth. Wheat planted in this
was badly ruste!. while that grown
all around it, in the same field was
free from the malady. There was
something in the soil peculiarly fa
vorable to the fungus which stains
one's clothing as red lis bog iron ore
itself. Low ground in which salts
of iron collect in excess is generally
recognized as being very subject to
rust. Drainage is a partial remedy
and no more.
Dr. Sprengel found on analysis a
fraction over a half per cent, of the
phosphate of iron in the soil under
under consideration, with only a
trace of lime vtneombined with silicic
acid. As free lime will take phos
phoric acid away from iron, and in
directly convert iron into the harm
less peroxide, and at the same time
produce the valuable fertizer, phos
phate of lime, liming was prescribed
and tlie cure was perfect.
Here is a plain case w here the anal
ysis of a soil by a competent expert
detected the source of a great and
permanent evil, and transformed, as
by magic, a mineral poison into
plant food of inestimable value. To
decry soil analysis by skillful
chemists is shallow quackery a
weed that finds too much favor with
American farmers.
"Inis'i in the PrfcLic Schools."
As a corollary to a proposition be
fore the Board of Education of New
York city to "teach English in the
public schools, a petition was pre
sented to that body, a few days ago,
asking that Irish be taught in those
institutions; for the reasons, among
others, "that the Irish language was
.spoken before Troy or Athens or
Cartliage had formation, and was
possibly used in directing the labor
on the pyramids, and in command
ing the hosts which perished in pur
suit of the Isrealiles at the crossing
of the Red Sea." The last point
may be well taken; but the question
seems to suggest itself, naturally
enough, that if the pursuers spoke
Irish, what was the language of the
pursued?
A few Shout Lessons for the
Ladies with Htsbanps. Conceal
from others any little discord or dis
union that occurs between you and
your husband.
Be you ever so conscious of supe
riorly" of judgment or talent, never
let it appear to your husband.
I know not two female attractions
so captivating to men as delicacy
and modesty.
If possible let 3-our husband sup
pose you think him a good husband,
and it will bo a strong stimulas to
his being so.
No attraction renders a woman so
agreeable at all times to her husband
as cheerfulness and good humor.
How p rticnlarly offensive it is to
see a woman exercising authority
over her husband, and saying, "j
will havo it so," "It shall bo done as
I like," etc. .
Almost as Rotten. The New
York Herald publishes facts and fig
ures going to show that affairs
in
that city are almost as rotten under
Reform as under "Ring" rule. The
Controller's office cost for running
expenses last year 70,000 move
tha isop T.'o tss "3?cs
The economics of Cremation.
From the Examiier.
Among the reasons urged in favor
of the process of cremation as a sub
stitution for sepulture in the dispo
sition of dead bodies, the danger of
being buried alive has considerable
weight with some peojde. Although
instances of premature burial are
rarely known, they have existed.
From all the probabilities, the tight
ly closed casket, the six feet of earth,
and the few graves that are after
wards examined, we nave no oppor-
tuuity of framing any reliable status- j
tics upon this branch of the subject.
Under ordinary circumstances, with
the precautions usually taken, pre
mature burial is the most improbable
of contingencies, but during great
epidemics, as those of cholera and
yellow feve'r, there is reason to be
lieve it has not been infrequent.
The collapsed state which simulates
death, and the haste with wljich per
sons are consigned to the grave,
both contribute to the hazard of be
ing incarcerated in the prison house
of death before the corpse is really
(""Me. A writer in the New York
lYorld says that some years ago Mrs.
Child related that during a yellow
fever epidemic gentleman died;
the dead-cart was ordered for him,
but his wiie refused to give up the
body. Again smd again it came,
and finally the corpse was carried
away. The wife followed it to the
cemetery, and continued her efforts
at restoration. Holding a bottle of
amonia, she accidentally spilled it
on the face; the muscles twitched; a
few efforts, and her husband opened
his eyes. Another gentleman heard
toe physician give orders for the
dead-cart, but was powerless to give
any sign. A faithful housekeeper
persisted in her efi'ort to revive him,
and finally succeeded. In this case
the person suffered all the agonies of
being buried alive. There is no rea
son to doubt but that this has often
happened; and if we take into con
sideration t he mental suffering which
results from the knowledge, before
or after burial for the position oi
bodies in coilins have givenvidences
of conscious agony the thought is
too horrible to contemplate. The
fear of premature burial has haunted
many persons through life, and in
itself produced no small amount of
suffering. To such any change will
be w elcome in the manner of dispos
ing of the dead.
Positive, patent arguments have
accumulated for centuries against
inhumation. All the precautions
and mitigating circumstances which
attend it have been reluctantly
wrung from an unwilling people by
their force. The progress has been
slow, even though every step was
impelled by such scourges that it is
strange they were not regarded as
the descent of divine wrath for such
flagrant disobedience of the divine
lawsof health. Punishments they cer
tainly were punishments that the
growth of science now explains.
Viewed in any light, it can see in
burial but the persistent repetition
of the violation of natural laws and
a disregard of the eeonorhy of the
universe of matter, on which the life
and health depends. This point is
arrived at; the time lias come in
which wisdom and humanity unite
in urging that a system so perni
cious, wasteful, and disgusting be
discarded. To those who urge it
whatever is substituted must be
commended by the most complete
avoidance of every evil that attends
burial. It must accomplish speedi
ly, economically, safely, what burial
performs slowly, wastefully, and de
structively. It must economiae
both time and space, and be adopted
to a world rapidly increasing in pop
ulation and to a civilization becom
ing more and more complicate. It
is believed that of all modes crema
tion will best serve the need of the
present, and in confirmation of this
belief they have the sanction of the
most civilized nations of antiquity.
With the aid of modern science the
restoration of the body to its primi
tive elements can be accomplished
in a short time. The operation is
cleanly, healthy, and attended by no
unpleasant circumstances. That it
will be further perfected we have
every reason to hope. The residue,
a few white, delicate ashes, remain
to the living to be treasured in urns,
which can be placed in such ceme
teries as economy of space will in
time demand, and the sensibilities
w ill be spared the harrowing circum
stances that are constantly reviving
the horrors of the grave in removal
of burial places, their use for other
purposes, and their abandonment to
neglect and decay.
Veils. Alas for veils! From the
tiny infant in the nurse's arms, to
the ancient widow in her weeds, the
whole sex is veiled. Veils answer
many purposes. They conceal defects,
heighten beauty, and they cover grief,
and so we see a whole race of women
of every age, style and condition
laying foundations for diseases of
the eye though an almost needless
fashion. These blinders are of every
conceivable style, from white dot on
the child to the English crape on its
grandmother. Ihe best oculists
give testimony against this whole
sale wearing of veils, and we think
they should make protest against it,
even at the risk of injury to their
calling. At least let the . mothers of
to-day look to it that they will be
held responsible, in another genera
tion, for suffering their little ones to
go veiled, as the matrons of a past
generation were for allowing tight
lacing and all the evils which that
distressing practice entailed.
Thf Dre.i:iest Day. Gerritt
Smith sa-s the dreariest day of his
life was when he had to ride fifty
miles in a stage coach beside a
young man who parted his hair in,
the csztro.
The Only Tiro Causes.
It is not difficult to understand
why it was that, during the early
days of the Republic, the Federalists
of that period manifested as much,
hatred towards American Democra
cy, as it was an experiment to be
tried. But, in view of the manifold
blessings that the Federalists of later
days derived from its successful op
eration, and considering the fearful
afflictions which they have suffered,
and are now laboring under, in con
sequence of its overthrow, and the
establishment of Federalism upon its
ruins, it is not easy to understand '
whv it is that f ederalists continne
to manifest such inappeasable ani
mosity towards it. We in readily
understand why calculating, selfish,
and unscrupulous demagogues
I should detest America 1 Democracy
but why so many well-meaning mea
should denounce it, npd advocate
the perpetuation of Federalism sur
passes our comprehension.
It is true that the ol Federalists
the present Radicals who are respon
sible for all the ills that have befall
en us during the past thirteen or four
teen years, often, previously. thereto,
admitted, when it snited 'their pur
poses, that we had the best system
of government ever designed by
man. If we had, why not turn to
that system ? Why continne to up
hold another which fosters corrup
tion both in the citizen and the
official ? Have not Federalism and
Republicanism, under the name of
Republicanism, been fully developed
since the overthrow of American
Democracy? Cannot the most bitter
enemy of the Democracy see that the
only two causes of all our woes arise
from the ancient Federalistic theory
of consolidation, and the Radical
theory of negro equalitj-? If lie can
not, then he is willfully blind to- a,
perception of the truth.
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Chinese Venom.
The Virginia Enterprise of
April
22d says: A bloody tragedy was yes
terday enacted in the kitchen of thfr
Brooklyn Restaurant, South C street
whih resulted in the almost instant 0
death of Joseph Richardson, the col- 0
ored cook, of that well-known estab
lishment. Richardson had some trou
hie with a Chinaman who was wash
ing dishes in the place, .when, the
Mongolian, in a sort of frenzy,,
plunged a large butcher-knife into.
Ids right thigh, completely severing
the femoral artery. The blood
spouted from the wound in sucha
torrent that almost before those who
were in the restaurant in front were
aware of what had happened he was.
dead. All those in the kitehea at
the time of the fatal stabbing were
Chinamen. The affray occurred
about 10 minutes to 3 o'clock, a time
when few- persons were in the restau
rant, and when the waiters are not
about tlie kitchen. Yesterday they
were sitting about reading, wJaett
one of them named Parker, thought
he heard a souftd as f a scuffle in.
the kitchen, and going there to see
what was wrong, found Richardson
stabbed and just able to say: "Park
er, take tlie knife from him." JHe
then fell fainting to the floor, and
died almost immediately after. Tbe
Chinaman who had done the stab
bing, whose name is Ah Luniyai
once started to make his escape
through the restaurant, but Parker
called out .to those in front to stop,
him, as he had "stabbed Joe." One
of the waiters seized the Chinaman
as
he was about escaping at the
front door, and
officers arrived
of him.
held bini
till the
and took
charge
Railway Signal Code or the
United States. One whistle signi
fies "down brakes."
T wo w h i s 1 1 es si gn i f y " off brakes,
Three whistles signify "back up""
Continued whistles signify "dan
ger." 1 Rapid short whistles 'cattle alarm
A sweeping parting of the hands
on a level with the eye signifLea
"go ahead." 0
Downward motion of Jie hands
with extended arms signifies "stop.'
Beckoning motion of one hand
signifies "back."
Red flag stuck up by the roadside
signifies "danger ahead."
Red flag carried upon a locomo
tive signifies "an engine following.'
Red flag hoisted at a station is a
signal "to stop."
Lantern at night raised and lower
ed vertically is a signal "to start.
Lantern swung at right angles '
across the track means "stop"
Lantern swung in a circle signifies
"back the train."
A Mississippi Jury, Dwn in
Mississippi, in Vicksburg, Mr. Wil
lis, the foreman of the Grand Jury,
entered the court, followed by his
comrades, and, after handing up to
the Judge some papers, said that,
with some exceptions, the body of
which he was foreman was so taint
ed with corruption, degredation and
vice that it was utterly impossible
that the sacred objects and purposes
of the law could be effectuated and
carried out with an instrumentality
so base and so utterly lost to every
sense of conscience and shame. The
Jndge ordered a new jury, but it is
not likely that under negro and carpet-bag
rule, it will be any better
than its predecessor.
Committed SociDE.-JamesStudd,
a young Englishman, committed sui
cide, a few days ajzo, at' Connewango,
because his wife.Jto whom he had been
married a week, said she had made a
mistake in not marrying' ber hus
band's brother, whom she could bay
had as well as not.
Sad Fact. A: Michigan school
ma'am points out the sad fact that no
schoolmaster has ever been Presi
dent: '. . " '
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