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IJeyond the River.
The time must come, I know, w hen we
shall part
All ties must sever;
This golden zone, enclasping heart to
heart,
Must snap and shiver.
But doth yon deep, dark stream, part
evermore ?
Or shall we meet and greet on that far
shore,
Bey-ond the river !
If we shall meet oh! would that I
knew how!
In saintly blessing ?
Or shall we stand as we are standing
now
Mute y caressing?- . - .
Is yonder life but this grown rich and
grand ?
Or is humanity left on the strand
Dropped in undressing?
Oh, would I knew ! The misty clouds
that lio
Theso waters over
Still darkly droop, still mock re
straining eye,
.Still thicklv hover.
I call and question. Silence hath no
tone,
In vain I ask how I shall meet my
own
As friend or lover.
This world were dark indeed had I not
theo
To clasp and hold me ;
My light is thy great love, so tender! v,
So often, told mo.
The night must come ; but, in the far-oil
morn.
Will the dear arms that have m- steps
upborne
Once more enfold me ?
I,ove is so precious, life so frail and
lleet !
Hearts bled and quiver;
Tears wet the prints of dear departed
f?t,
Gone hence forever.
Parting is bitter. If I could but know
That thou wilt be to me the same as
now,
Jiej-ond the river.
Is love eternal ? Still yon sullen cloud
Answers me never,
In vain I plead; its folds its sable
.shroud,
.Silent forever.
But I shall know. 'Tis useless to con
tend With shadows; yet all doubts shall
have an end
Bevond the river.
The Difference.
dcut of the New Or
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rrespoa-
eans Piccuttne
contrasts the way in which business
lias been done at the Treasury
Department under Boutvvell and
llichardson with that of former days,
when duty was performed without
regard to favoritism or to assumed
official superiority. Many years
ago, Geo. JI. Bibb, who had been
Chancellor, Governor, and United
States Marshal of Kentucky, was ap
pointed Secretary of the Treasury.
In preparing the lirst monthly roll
of salaries, the pay clerk included
that of the Secretary, and it so pass
ed the Auditor, but the first Comp
troller, Mr. J. W. McCulloch, refus
ed to approved the warrant, unless
Secretary Bibb should lirst settle the
balance due the Government on his
unclosed accounts as United States
Marshal. The Secretary at once ten
dered his resignation, but the Presi
dent ignored it, and tho item of sal
ary was rejected from each pay roll
until the amount earned had ex
hausted tho indebtedness of Mr.
Bibb as Marshal. Bibb became a
fast friend of McCulloch, who for
many years continued to be lirst
Comptroller.
Gotxg to Afmca. That tide in
the affairs of newspaper correspond
ents which carries them into Central
Africa is again to take there Mr.
Henry M. Stanly, the man who found
Livingstone. This time Mr. Stanly
goes as the high joint commissioner
oPthe London dailey Telegraph and
the New York Herald, and the mis
sion is to learn the secret of the Nile,
and do what he can toward abolish
ing the African slave trade, known as
"the infamous and the lucrative."
He is to continue the work of Living
stone, and open the unknown coun
try to commerce and civilization,
thus shedding glory on himself and
the newspapers while he is benefit
ing mankind. The wealthy journals
employing him are to eqnip him am
ply for the great work, and much is
hoped for from his courage and per
severance. Should he prove success
ful in his explorations and accurate
in his accounts of what he observes,
the Louisville Courier Journal thinks
he will acquire fame enough for the
most ambitious of discoverers, and
will give journalism a 2restige that,
with all its power and usefulness, it
has never vet known.
BOTS AND BCMBLE BEES. Did VOU
ever undertake to break up a bumble
bees' nest? Three boys tried it the
other day with disastrous results.
They got long rods and made an at
tack on the nest, which was located
a short distance from a railway track.
In a minute out came the bees and
the boys started off on a run. One
of them stubbed his toe and fell with
his head on the iron rail of the track,
leaving his person exposed through
an aperature in his blue cottonade
pants, through which three bumble
bees stung him until he howled. The
other boys ran and yelled lustily, as
the bees bust zed around their ears,
and stung them in revenge for break
ing up their home. The wounds in
flicted through the hole in those blue
pants will keep that boy from sitting
down with any comfort for a fort
night, and the ears of the other boys
have been enlarged to the size of
burdock leaves.
Know ye the printer's hour of
peace? Know ye an hour more
fraught with joy than ever felt the
Maid of Greece when kissed by Ve
nus' amorous boy? 'Tis not when
news of solemn note his columns all
with sadness fill; nor yet when
brothers quote the effusions of his
blunt worn quill. But O, 'tis when
the weather's fair, or clad in rain, or
hail, or vapor; 'tis when he hears
the .welcome sound, "I've come to
pay. yoa'for.Tonr paper."
The Mission ofFree Trade.
From the San Frisco Examiner.
. Among the abqmnable political
heresies that have through the direct
help and agency of the party in pow
er contributed to the injurv of the
material interests of this country
none has been of direr harm than
the fallacy of protection. We shall
not enter largely into the discussion
of free trade versus protection. As
an exponent of genuine Democracy
we are a free-trader in the most com
prehensive signification of the term,
which means to refrain from inter
fering governmentally in individual
concerns, in allowing people to work
out their own destiny unhampered
and nntrammeled in such way as
seems to them most conducive to
their own success.
Tho whole theory of protection,
whether of morals or money or of
trade, Avhether in local option or
prohibitive liquor laws, or legal ten
der or paper currency acts, inflation
schemes, or tariffs " for the protec
tion of home industry," is based up
on the hypothesis that some one
man, or set of men a sovereign or
legislative' or popular majority
knows what is good for other men
better than they know themselves.
To this we are, of course, being thor
oughbred Jefferson ian Democrats,
unalterably opposed.
We are free-traders, a term under
the present circumstances of the
country, capable of modification; and
subject to pervision or misapprehen
sion by its unscrupulous opponents.
But we use it here, as we have said,
in its largest sense. Now, the great
mission of free-trade, for this genera
tion at least, is, to our mind, the
sweeping away from the comprehen
sible processes of nature the vast
number of economical cobwebs which
man's subtilety and industry have
woven. There i no snbject upon
which the human mind lias been so
muddled and mysti'ied as on that
which tho authorities are pleased
to denominate the science of money
and currency, exchanges and bank
ing. Yet, paradoxical as it sounds,
we hold that this subject is as simple
as simple can be, if we do but con
tent ourselves by applying to the
obvious facts existing about us, the
elementary principles of honesty and
common sense in other words, tho
non-interference principles of free
trade. In the conduct of our private af
fairs we deal with all these questions
in a small way. and always deal with
them intelligently. We never, for
instance, delude ourselves with the
ridiculous axiom that " debt is a
blessing," or that paying high prices
for everything we use or consume
increases our aggregate riches, or
that taxation leads to wealth, or that
refusing to liquidate our obligations
is creditable. But the moment we
come to dealing with public affairs
we grow paradoxical; try to be or
appear profound, and we become
helplessly muddled, mired, and con
fused. Ye cannot and will not real
ize that what is right and good for
one is so for all. A thorough mas
tery of free-trade principles will
alone heln us out of the bog.
The editor of tho Michigan Argus
seems to be the sort of a man one
likes to hear of as standing at the
helm of a newspaper. A subscriber
lately came to him with an article in
his hand and this speech in his mouth:
" Put that in the Argus or stop my
j paper.
lhe editor did not put in the arti
cle but er .sed the subscriber's name
and even surprised him by surveying
the event. " We have no desire,"
he says, "to lose our subscribers;
and yet there is running through our
head an old and familiar rhyme,
penned, no doubt, by an editor in
just our fix:
We do not lelong to our potrons,
Th.s paper is wholly our own ;
Whoever likes it can take it.
Who don't can let it alone."
" We patronize those who patron
ize us," is the motto over tho Zions
vills, (Ind.) 77??.' advertising col
umns. And to this another paper
adds: "We go for the scaps of those
who go for our scalp; we stir our
selves for those only who stir for
us; we are as lukewarm as fresh milk
for those who, while pretending to
be our friends connubiate with our
enemies; we will take no chances of
injuring ourselves by supporting for
office those pusillanimous pups w ho,
when in, think the smartest thing
they can do is to give us a kick.
Newspapers have been too long
looked upon as a mere stepping
stone to power. Editors have been
too long content to gather up
crumbs, but if we have no chance at
the loaf we don't fight worth a cent."
"Little Rhody" is, no doubt a
model State, and yet her rulers man
age to amerce the people to a consid
erable extent to pay the expense of
running the governmental machine.
The Providenc Journal estimates
that the government of tho State
costs each inhabitant $1 09 per an
num, not to mention local taxes.
The State expenses of the little com
monwealth are 432,553. Tn yer.
mont the State government costs
8343,822 a vear, or 81.04 a head; in
New Hams'hire, 8152,000 a year, or
47 cents a head; and in Delaware
onlv 31,333, or 25 cents a head.
Rhode Island is evidently extrava
gant, for though its legislators work
for a dollar a day, somebody gets
the money. The highest State salary
in Delaware is that of the Chancel
lor, 82,500..
A Loxo Time. "Brethern," said
a young Quaker lately married, "I
have married a daughter of the Lord !"
"The devil you have!" ejaculated an
Irishman. "It'll be a long time bo
fore oull sx -ver fitter in la-."
COURTESY
Naked Justice on a Oatc-Post.
Our old friend, Judge Tom Farrar
of Lake Providence, says the New
Orleans Picayune, who is known
throughout the State as a lawyer and
jurist of eminent abilities, and a gen
tleman of most lovable character,
tells at his own expense, and with
the keenest gusto, a story which we
think is too good to lose. It appears
that some years ago, while riding
through one oi the prettiest districts
of North Louisiana, he came, about
sundown, to a,veek. which was so
deep as to require a swimming feat.
The Judge being a man of vigorous
and invincible determination, no
sooner realized this emergency than
he promptly dismounted, undressed
himself with great dispatch, and at
tired only in is high plug hat and a
pair of spectacles, bestrode his gal
lant cob and urged him to the
venture.
After a desperate struggle the oth
er side was gained, and the Judge
again dismounting, this time with a
profound sigh of relief, was about to
resume his integuments, when the
horse, prompted by some diabolical
spirit, started from his side and trot
ten slowly down the road.
Of course, the Judge had no re
course but to trot after him; and
thereupon there ensued one of the
most remarkable and picturesque
chases ever known in histery or tra
dition. The horse appeared to have
no motive save that of keeping a cer
tain distance ahead of the Judge,
and of finding some comfortable
barnyard where he might refresh
himself after such gigantic efforts.
The Judge, whatever may have been
his ambitions, confined himself to
the effort of keeping tho truant beast
in sight. It must have been a cheer
ful aud invigorating experience to
see the Judge trotting briskly along
that smooth and sandy road, his ven
erable plug hat pulled over his eyes,
and his spectacles bobbing up and
down his nose. The chase was long,
and tho moisture of great exertion
would gather-on his brow, and then,
when lie reached around for his
handkerchief, alas! it was not there.
All of which had the effect of im
pressing the Judgo with his very pe
culiar and unfortunate situation, and
imparting renewed play and light
ness to his legs.
So the two bowled pleasantly along
preserving a steady relative distance,
until just as the setting sun was red
dening the distant hills and touching
the Judge's manly form with gold,
the horse whisked suddenly into a
gate bolted with eager haste toward
a stable dimly visible in thedistanco.
The farm-house sat in a grove of
trees whose shaddows made a great
darkness round it, and from this
grove, as the Judge was scampering
furiously after his horse and ward
robe, there issued sundry yellow
dogs, surly of mein and shaggy of
appearance. The Judge felt that it
would bo utterly impossible, under
these circumstance, to assume that
majesty of aspect and fearlessness of
gaze which is currently believed to be
the correct thing with dogs, and so,
-seeing a friendly gate post near at
hand, he gave one wild bound and
reached its summit just as the lean
est and fiercest of the dogs snapped
viciously at his legs.
When the uproar had subsided,
and the Judge, realizing the absurd
ity of the situation, had regained his
customary frame of mind, a female
voice was heard calling from the
house:
"Who's there?"
"A fellow-creature in distress,
manam."
" Where are you ?"
" On the gate-post," said the Judgo
beginning to enjoy the joke.
" What can I do for you?"
It was too much. The Judge's old
humor and quisical love of meni
came over him.
" Call off these dogs, and bring me
all the fig -leaves on the place."
Some Weather Signs. M. Quad,
a humorous writer on the Detroit
papers, enumerates the following as
among the most reliable weather
signs:
If pear trees blossom before the
20th of March, and you notice the
cows and horses rubbing themselves
against tho meeting-house door and
the top rail of the fence casts two
separate shadows, it argues well for
the coming wheat crop.
If the clouds all move one way
during November, .and big girls go
bare-footed, and tin peddlers are nu
merous, and yo'ur wife wants a new
pair of shoes, and plumb-trees grow
the most branches on the west side,
the next year will be prolific of
thunder-storms and lightning rod
agents.
If pumpkins are frost-bitten before
they turn yellow, snd house-rent
goes up, and catnip-tea has a bitter
taste, and saw-logs show an inclina
tion to roll up hill, the potatoe-rot
is sure to follow.
If there are high winds in Febru
ary followed by warm rains, and
cattle refuse to lick salt, and red
headed girls are conspicuous, July
will be a cool month.
Magnaximocs. A number of ex
Confederate soldiers in South Caro
lina recently exhumed the bones of
two Union soldiers, buried in neg
lected graves by the roadside,
inclosed them in handsome coffins,
and forwarded them to their homes
in Ohio.
Broken Ur. A marriage was bro
ken tip in Dnluth by. the young man
making an unexpected call and find
ing the poodle-dog playing with lus
true love's glass eye '
His Answer. ' Where are yon
going ?" said a little boy to another
who had slipped on an icy pavement.
' Going to get up," was tho blunt
reply. - -
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Laugh if you are wise. MeArtial.
Shadow own its birth to light.
Gay.
Frailty, thy name is woman.
Shakspeare. .
Wine has drowned more than tho
sea. Publius Syrus.
Felicity, not fluency, of language
is a merit. Whipple.
Alight wife doth make'a heavy
husband. -Shakspeare.
The less men think, the more they
talk. Montesquieu.
Love seldom haunts the breast
where learning lies. Pope.
Too low they build who build be
neath the stars. Young.
Years steal fire from the mind as
vigor from tho limb. Byron.
The surest way not to fail is to de
termine not to succeed. Sheridan.
They that stand high have many
blasts to shake them. Shakspeare.
Fortune dreads the brave, and is
only terrible to the coward. Seneca.
Give mo the eloquent cheek where
blushes burn and die. Mrs. Osgood.
There are some persons on whom
virtue sits almost as ungraciously as
vice. Bonhours.
Time is a continual ever-dripping
of moments, which fall down one
upon the other and evaporate.
llichter.
If wo are at peace with God and
our own conscience, what enemy
among men need we fear? Hosea
Ballou.
This dread of midnight is the noon
of thought, and wisdom mounts her
zenith with the stars. Mrs. Bar
bauld. The clouds may drop down titles
and estates, wealth may seek us; but
wisdom must be sought. Young.
Those who bestow too much appli
cation on trifling things becomes
generally incapable of great ones.
ltochefoucauld.
The cheap ambition, eager to es
pouse dominion, courts it with a
lying show, and shines in borrowed
pomp to shine a twin. Jeffrey.
This weak impress of love is a fig
ure trenched in ice, which with an
hour's heat dissolves to water, and
doth lose its form. Shakspeare.
A woman cannot love a man she
feels to be her inferior; love without
veneration and enthusiasm is only
friendship. Madame Dndevant.
A person that would secure to
himself great deference will, per
haps, gaiu his point by silence as
effectually as by anything he can
say. Shenstone.
Chill penury weighs down the
heart itself, and though it sometimes
can be endured with calmness, it is
but tho calmness of despair. Mrs.
Jameson.
There is strength and a fierco in
stinct, even in common souls, to
bear up manhood with a stormy joy
when red swords meet in lightuing.
Mrs. Hermans.
Love covers a multitude of sins.
When a scar cannot be taken away,
tho next kind office is to hide it.
Love is never so blind as when it is
to spy faults. South.
There is a limit to enjoyment,
though the sources of wealth may be
boundless, and the choicest pleas
ures of life , bo w ithin the ring of
moderation. Tupper.
In all cases of slander currency,
whenever the forger of the lie is not
to be found, the injured parties
should have a right to come on any
of the endorsers. Sheridan.
It has been well observed that the
misery of man proceeds not from
any single crush of overwhelming
evil, but from small vexations con
tinually repeated. Johnson.
The blossoms of passion gay and
luxuriant flowers, are brighter and
fuller of fragrance but they begile
us and lead us astray, and their odor
is deadly. Longfellow.
Verily, I swear, it is better to be
lowly born and range with humble
livers in content, than to bo perked
up in a glittering grief, and wear a
golden sorrow. Shakspeare.
Let go tli3 hold when a great
wheel runs down the hill, least it
break thy neck with following it;
but the great one that goes up the
hill, let him draw thee after. Shak
speare. A darkey gives tho following rea
son why the colored race is superior
to the white: " All men are made of
clay, and like the meerschaum pipe,
they are more valuable when highly
colored."
Like dogs in wheel, birds in cage
or squirrels in a chain, ambitions
men still climb and climb, with
great labor and incessant anxiety,
and never reach the top. Burton.
The human mind cannot create
auything. It producesiothing until
having been fertalized by experience
and meditation, its acquisitions are
the gems of productions. Buffon.
When I see the elaborate study
and ingenuity displayed by women
in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no
doubt of their capacity for the most
herculean undertakings. Julia Ward
Howe.
Tho greatest luxury of riches is
that they enable you to escape so
much good advice. The rich are al
ways advising the poor; but the poor
seldom venture to return the coci
plfment. Helps. ,
Indiana Democratic Convention.
The Democratic State' Convention
met at Indianopolis on the 15th ult.
Gov. Hendricks was elected its Pres
ident. This is rather an important
convention and, perhaps, may bo re
garded as striking the key-note for
the Presidential campaign. Wo ap
pend a synopsis of the resolutions as
furnished by telegraph :
It is the opinion of the Democracy
of Indiana that the present adminis
tration is untrustworthy in its forci
ble overthrow of the government,"
and using State offices for party pur
poses; squandering money, through
the Departments of Justice, in North
Carolina, Arkansas, and other States;
appointing corrupt men to office and
removing upright ones, who have
fought corruption, and appointed
unreliable and corrupt men for Dis
trict of Columbia ollicers. The Re
publican party must be held respon
sible for the acts of the administra
tion it placed in x,ower r uo
fraudulent Sanborn contracts, and
the oppression of the Southern
whites. The convention asks the
people to entrust the Democratic
party with the administration of the
State and country upon the follow
ing principles: Strict construction
of the Constitution of the United
States and its amendments; enforce
ment of a low tariff for revenue pur
poses; condemnation of all gratuities
in the form of retroactive salaries,
State or national; condemnation of
the attempt of the last Congress to
muzzle the press; securing to every
citizen in the country equal protec
tion under the laws, without violat
ing tho principles of local self gov
ernment, or interfering with the
social customs of the people; oppo
sition to high fees and salaries, either
in the State's or the United States'
service; reduction of national and
State salaries to a degreo that tho
people may bo relieved from higher
State and local taxation. The con
vention favors the redemption of
5 20 bonds in greenbacks, according
to the law under which they were is
sued, and a repeal of the law which
assumed to consider them payable
exclusively in gold; favors the re
peal of tho national banking law, and
the substitution of greenbacks for
national bank currency and a return
to specie payments as soon as the
business interests of tho country will
permit; favors such adjustments of
tue volume of currency as willsnb
serve the industrial and commercial
requirements of the country; favors
a liberal system of education alike to
whites and blacks, but opposed to a
mixture of races m public schools
and institutions. The convention
views with abhorrence tho attempt
on the part of the Federal Govern
ment to take control of all schools
and colleges, churches, hotels, rail
roads, steamboats, theaters and
graveyards for establishing negro
equality and coercing the whites to
give equal social aud political rights
to the colored men, as proposed in
the civil rights bill, under jtenaltics
and fiues. The convention arraigns
Senators Morton and Pratt before
the State for favoring this atrocious
measure. The act known as the Bax
ter bill has proved a failure and is
of doubtful constitutionality, and re
strains intemperance less than a ju
dicious license law, therefore its
repeal is favored.
Wrong Principle. The follow
ing is from the Sac. Vol. Agricultur
alist: "Boys will bo boys" we havo heard
it said. "Boys will be men, might
be more properly said, though the
majority of farmers try to make their
sons believe they are only boys,
when in fact they would be men" in
every sense, had they been granted
the necessary facilities to fit them
selves for a state of independent
manhood. Keep a boy chained down
on a farm until he has attained his
majority, compelling him to labor
without hope of promotion or remu
neration, more than simply his board
and clothes and suddenly turn him
out on the world to do for himself,
and we shall find him incapable of
thinking for himself, or laying any
definite plans for his future. On
the other hand, raise a boy to feel
that he is of more concequence than
a mere day laborer, give him an in
terest in the growing crop, in the
stock, poultry, and farm, and you
impart to him a feeling of self-confidence
and independence, which is
the foundation of true business men.
Without self-reliance no man ever
attained success, and the sooner boys
arc taught this, the sooner they will
become men ready to battle with ad
versity, and the cares of life.
A New Plank. It is reported,
says an exchange, that a new plank
is to be inserted in the Republican
platform in South Carolina, in conse
quence of an unpleasant accident to
a colored voter who became the vic
tim of a spring gun while endeavor
ing to commit a burglary. A meet
ing of colored citizens, after full
discussion of that lamentable occur
rence, unanimously resolved against
hereafter giving their support to any
candidate for office, and especially
for the Legislature, unless he will
pledge himself to work for the pas
sage of a bill making it a penal of
fence to set a trap-gun in tho vicinity
of any corn crib, chicken coop, smoke
house, or pig stye. "
Choice EprrrtETS. "Gilt edged
ass," "howling ignoramus," and
" perpendicular idiot," are some of
the choice epithets bestowed by the
Chicago Tribune upon the leaders of
tho new party out West.
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There are moments when petty
slights are harder to bear than even
a serious injury. Men have died of
the festering of a gnat. Cecil Dan-
A War of Races.
From the Chicago Tribune. ' -
The misgovernment of the South
cannot continue forever. Misgov
ernment means plunder, insecurity
of life, liberty, health, property and
reputation. It means anchary.
It means barbarism. When we say
then that tho misgovernment of tho
South cannot last till doomsday, .wo
meau simply that tho Southern peo
ple will nqj submit forever to the
present condition of things. The
Southern people value "life, liberty,
property, health, education, refine
ment a3 much as other people in
otherquarters of the world. They
are well fitted by nature to eijoy
them. TJiey will rebel against the
deprivation of them as any other
race will. We may bo sure, then,
tha they will by some meams bring
the reign of corruption and robbery
to an end before it brings itself to a
close by raduciug the Southern
States to the condition of Mexico and
Central American Republics.
When ?e ask how the misgovern
ment of tho South is going to cease,
we find ourselves face to face with
an alarming problem. Where the
South is misgoverned, negroes &
abound, and between their predomi
nance in certain States and the mis
government there, there is undoubt
edly the relation of cause and effect.
Such States cannot be helped to a
better government by peacable means
from within. Good government then
supposes negro co-operation to es
tablish it. But such co-operation
cannot be rationally expected. The
negro race has no inherited ability)
for self-government, and has not had
time to acquire it. It has inherited
ability only to be governed to be
led. It is as natural for the Ameri
can negro to be led as it is for the
American Anglo-Saxon to read. Nor
can it be expected that the Ethiopian
skin shall be changed immedeately
by education. XJan the South afford
to wait till the negroes are educated?
So far as help from within, then, is
concerned, tho South is in this posi
tion. It needs to do anything
toward giving itself a better govern
ment, the co-operation of the negroes,
and the co-operation of the negroes
it cannot obtain. Can it obtain any
help outside? Tho General govern
ment cannot, under the Constitution
legitimately resolve itself into a pro
tectorate over the South, though it
can do much by the force of example
and by moral influence. Shall this
force of example, this moral influ
ence bo exercised? If not, then it
will remain for tho South to remedy
the evils it is suffering froni without
negro co-operation and without aid
from outside. This it can do only
by some kind of revolution. We are O
far from counseling this method of
procedure. We are of opinion that
it is, considered as a remedy, no bet
ter than the disease. We refer to it
simply as tho remedy which certain
people in the South seem to consider
the only practicable one. The ques
tion of race has been raised in the
Southern States. It has been raised
by the negroes themselves. They
have been drawing the - lines. They
have under the lead of the carpet
baggers, encroached oi the property
rights of the Southern people till in
Louisiana, as Gov. McEnery said
lately in an address delivered at
Monroe, in that State, unless their
insolence is ended, the "day of tho
irrepressible conflict will come when
physical force will solve the prob
lem." Aud he continued:
"The only means of averting this
calamity lies in the union of tho
whites of the State, .representing, as
they do, its virtue, courage, and
wealth, into one compact and impos
ing phalanx. The negro party and
its corrupt and insolent leaders dare
not stand before the menacing front
of an insulted and outraged people.
This issue is forced on us by the
negro party in Louisiana. It is none
of our seeking, nor are we responsi
ble for it and tho results that may be O
born of it. On the Contrary, we
have almost sacrificed our honor and
manhood in fruitless attempts to
avoid it. Its gravity aud masruitude
terrified us so that we hardly dared
imagine it ever could arise But it
has arisen, and now looms up so
prominently in the political heavens
as to overshadow and dwarf every
other question in Louisiana. It re
mains to be seen if the white people
of Louisiana are capable of meeting
tho demands of duty and the hour,
or whether by dissension and divis
ion they demonstrate to the whole
world their .civility and their cow
ardice." The Vicksburg Herald indorses
MeEnery's views fully, and com
plains that in that city, where tho
population is about equally divided
between whites and blacks, the latter
have selected for ten out of the thir
teen of the city offices people of their
own color, while white men chosen
by them are of the lowest character.
The man they nominaten for Mayor
was indicted, before his nomination,
for an infamous crime, and the white
man they nominated for Alderman
was dishonorably discharged from
tho grand jury a short time before.
The utterances of McEnery reiter
ated by the Herald point to the dread
ful possibility of a coming war of
races in the South, which for the
sake of civilization must be avoided.
Smart. Says the Oakland Trans
cript: A smart young Granger of
this county, has this year set out
1,000 eucalyptus trees besides sitting
up five nights in every week with a
red haired young woman of great
beauty. The young man is entitled
to the medal.
While Miss Libbio Shreve was
driving to Dallas last Saturday her
horse ' became unmanagable and
threw her and two little children
from the buggy, happily not BericruS
1 injuring them."
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