The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1871 Page: 1 of 4
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COLUMBUS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26,1871.
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SESSIONAL.
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DELANY & FLEMING,
Attpraeya find Counselors at Law
Columbus, Texas
tW Office, North side Public;8qnare. g
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a chesley. geo. w. johnson
CHÉltÉY & JOHNSON,
ATT O BWEY S AT L AW,
UFI.LVILt.E, A USTIN CO., TEX AS.
iy Office In tlie Court-house. 27y"
W J. HARDEN. w. H. LESSIXG-
DARDEN & LE8SING,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Columbus. Texas,
ST Office, 6outh-we?t corner of Courthouse
Squaie, up stai/a. The'German language
spoken in the office. Will attenil to all busi-
ness of Aba. Courts o i the Sute and the Fede-
ral Court at GalviSffttítj . 28y
^A.ME8 W. SMITH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
columbl'js, texas:
BP* Office, I/orth-eaat corner Poklie Square!
down stairs. 30 y
T.T. deli
D E 5TTi SS,
H
AVIXG permanently located £gg¡
in Town, respectfully tenders
his professional services to the#
citizens of Columbus and vicinity. All work
warranted to give satisfaction. Charges rea-
sonable, sfnd duo on completion of work.
Columbas, Jan >83.1869. ly
«••R. H. HARRISON, M. D.,
ftlENDERS his services to the citizens of
I Columbus and vicinity in the practice of
Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics.
Dr. Harrison has had a large experience in
the treatmei.t of all forms of Chronic Disease*
—particularly such as aro peculiar to female*
—and is well supplied with instruments, to
serve such as require surgical aid.
ET Office, np staks o the Rcever Building,
Spring street. l?y
«BO. UUIXAN, JAMBS D. WHITTBN
Wharton, Texas. LaGrange, Texas.
QÚISAN k WHITTEN,
attorneys at law,
IIX I'^CTICE law in all the counties
Supreme Court.
iichrt Bistrie*, and in .the
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a. b. FOAVa, wslMTSoSMox,
(¿eo. m'cormick.. /
FOARD, THOMPSON & M'CORMICK,
ATTORNEYS.41 LAW.
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Columbas........ . .Texas,
WILL PRACTICE in «11 tkeXourts of
the State of T««a.
4% Brick Office, ríortfc siieof tie Pub-
lic Square. 2 '- ^ v ¿ f - ?.
February 17. J^t-ly
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
Columbus, Texas,
ILL praotica ia Colorado adjoining
J. T. & D. W. HARCOURT, '
ATI0EKEY8 AT LAW,
'**• >K<&LBMBC0,-TtttAa t fc 5 y
W'&
ft, J. P U TN E Y,
Attorney an5 Counselor at Law,
COSTS??, ^
LL attend the Cúnlts ttB Fim JTk-
dicial District. Prompt utter^on given
to tbo collection ot claims^. «. y
BOWERS 3c MOORE,
\¿ ■ C-C" ... a t . í¿ L ', ¿ - ui a
Phyaicians and Surgeons,
COLUMBUS, TEXAS.
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'Office next door to Foard, Thompson &
McCormick's Law Office. v9nliy
R. y. COOK,
ATTOBX5I AT LAW,
Col-jmbus, Texas.
t3T Offic* K<wtb 8ldetPub¿« Square. 52
E. L. YOUNG,
COLUMBUS, TEXAS,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
GROCER,
•' -v • . - ' t'
ARB DEALER IN GENERAL
MERCHANDISE:
'EEPS OB hvnfl a well selected assortment
ia his Une, at, his store near tbe Depot,
pleased to RKet friends and ens-
for tbe P£AB<«)Y COTTON
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^ACBÉD SÍLENCB.
Never with blasts of
And the cbfriot of fame
Do the servants and sons of the Highest'
His oracles proclaisa} .' ,
And, when grandest truths are uttered.
And when hojiest depths ire stirred.
When, our God Himself dfa^s'nearest.
The still, small"voice is.heHr^. , t. .
He hto sealed With H'ts odfaaUenee .1
His y¿Srá *liat <romtf«nat«\ -
..Bringing' irtSll tkeirmi^ity measures
Of glory ahd of woo. - v*y • '), '
Havfe ybu.heard one note'of triuaiph "
Proclaiér their couiSe begbufci; if ,0 H
One voice óí bell give tidiogs - .i ll /
When théir ministry Wae douot :
Unheralded afld unbended , , .• t
His revelations come;-
UU' prophets before their «coiners
Stand resolute and dumb ! .
But a thousand-years of silence.
And the world falls tfr adore,
And'kisé the feet of mttrtytra il -
It crucified before.
I hear in this sacred stillness
Thejfall of angelic feet,
I fpel-white hands on my forehead
With a benediction sweet';
No echo of worldly tumult
„ My beantiful vision mars;
The silence itself is music,
Like the silence of the stars.
THE CURLEW.
B'¿ MAkY WALBIKGHAM.
Come wander by the shore, Nanettei
Come wander by the sea.
And hear the curlew's cry, Nanette,
The sweetest sound to me.
The farmer loves the meadows still.
Th« hunter loves the lea;
1 he shepherd loves the sunset hill— -i,
A sailor, wbat loves he ?
He loves the ocean's ceaseless fret.
Ho loves the sail with salt-spray wet,
He loves the curlew's cry. Nanette,
So plaintive, wild and free;
Resounding to the glacier's $ra«h,
1 he Switzer loves hm horn;
He loves the win-ling Ranzdts taches
From Alpine suoiniits borne,. •
He loves the eagle's soaring shriek,
The lark's hymn to the morn ;
He loves .to hea/his mistress speak
The welcome of return.
And dearly rr thy voice, Nanette,
When hand tohaml and hearts have met,
I love, above the ocean's fret, (
To hear the curlew mourn.
Us
■p. or
indebted to the un-
j notified to come
tbár Alain will bo
r colfrctipar
IwTTIFu.
The Cbiea$9 Tribune on tbe Situation.
Joseph Medill, of tlie Tribune, though
ho liud seen (he results ot' a life time of
journalistic labor swept away, imme
diaielv procured an office on Canal St..,
in the West Divition, and issued a well
priuted half sheet, containing a full ac
count of the great disaster, two columns
of advertisements, and the following
editorial: *
"Cheer Up. —In the - midst of a
calamity without parallel in thajKorld^
history, and looEmg upon The ashes ot
thirty years' accumulations, the people
of this once beautiful city- have resolved
that Chicago shall tise again. With
death in many strange places, with two
or three hundred millions of our hard
earñed prosperity swept away, in a few
hours, the hearts of our men and women
are still brave, and they look into the
ini'nre with undaunted hearts. As there
has never been such a calamity, so there
has never been such cheerful fortitude
in the face of desolation and mía. Al-
ready contracts have been made for the
rebuilding of some of the Kíirn Ó blocks,
and the clearing away of the debris will
begin to-day, it tbe heat is found to be
so far subside i that the charred material
can be haudled.
" Field, loiter & Co.. and John V.
Farwell & Co., will rucommeoce busi-
ness to-day.
"The money and securities in the
banks are s.i(e. *
•' The railroads are wbrking with" all
their energies to bring ' us out of our
affliction. The $300,000,000 of capital
invested in the roads are bound to tea
us through. They have been buift wirb
special reference to making a great
commercial mart of this place, and they
cannot fail to sustain us.
'* Chicago must rise again.
"We. do not belittle the. calamity
that has befallen us.. The world has
probably never seen the like of it, cer
tiinly not since Moscow burned; but
tbe forces ef nature, not less thau the
forces of reason, require -that the ex
changes of a great regioQ sbsuld be
conducted bare. Twenty years may be
required to reconstruct our. forces, but
the capital to rebuild it fire-propf will
be forthcoming.
" Thfc losses we have suffered most be
borne, but tbe. jilace, the time aud the
men are liHrc to commence at the bottom
and work up again. Not at the bottom
eiii'^r, for we have credit in every land,
2nd the experience of orie up-building
of ChicJ"0 'ie'P ns": -k®1 us clieer
up, «¿ve *W is >'et 5ef,« aud Wtt sba11
come out right. '7£* Christiaa world is
coming to our relief. a!'e worst is al
ready ov«r. In a few days all
tbe dangers will be past, and we &Ca
resume tbe battle of life with Christian
faith and Western grit. Let us checr
up!"
" Every good act," says Mohammed,
" is charity. Your smiling in your bro-
ther's face is chaiity ; an exhortation of
yonr fellow men to virtuous deeds is
equal (o almsgiving; you putting a
wanderer ou' tbe right road is ch&rity ;
your removing stones and thorns and
other obstruetions front the road, is
charity. A man's true wealth hereafter
is the good be does to bis fellow men.
When be dibs, people will say,1 What
property did ha le«ve behind him 7' But
the angels who examine him in his grave
will ask : ' What deeds hast thou sent
before theel"'
Dickens says: " I have known vast
quantities of nonsense talked about bnd
men not looking you in the face. Dou't
trust that conventional idea. Dishon
esty will stare .you out of countenance
any day in the week, if there is any
thiDg to be got by it."
"I live in Julia's eyes," said an affec
ted dandy, in Coleman's bearing.' "I
don't wonder at it," replied George, "for
I observed she bad a sty in one of thegi.
Vfcen I mw bejr last." '
A Trip through the Hoot Ccnis Tnnnel,
• We copy as follows from the corres-
poBfdenfce of-tbe London Timas ¿
I |c9níe8s I felt some compunction
about tfeat smuggling myself, as it ware
through the Aljís, béforé the great dark
thoroughfare cut through the heart, of -the
great mountain had been hallowedT so;
to speak, by tbeudpening ceremony. I
had.made up Riy mind gat over the
Col 'de Ftejus or tbe Cal de la Rone,
fyom' Modáno to Bardoonecchia, in my
own old-wáy, and bad ordered mules for
:^bat mights in all probability, have been
my last? Alpine journey* There wero,
1 low ever, not even inules to be found at
Modane, and my companions were not
equal to a seven Lours' vvalk up and
down hill, so.nothiiig was left but a seat
iu t,he Fell railway omnibus, a detesta-
able and discreditable concern, in which,
onr experience ftéuv St. Michaq^ to
Motbrne had proved, when they have
charged you full the value for a first-
cIhbs ticket, they crowd all the second
and third cla6S patsengers upon you until
no room is left to breathe. Greatly as
1 think tbe future generation may be
congratulated on the easy access they
have obtained in Italy, I almost think
old stagers like.myself will haya cause
to regret some of the sensations with
which they used, in their bygone .days,
to be ushered into the " paradise of
Europe." The transition is generally
from gloom to glaie, irom night chili to
morning warmth. " The very horses
and other Cattle," as it has oftei) been
observed, " fael the genial change, and
they usually cheer up and frisk and
gambol, and testifying by their neighing,
braying, bellowing, the joy with wht^h
they hail, in the prospect of the fair
region before them, the reward of the
toils «hey endured in the long, weary
ascent ou the other 6Íde." Thedetcent
is almost everywhere rapid, abrupt,
precipitous. Life grows apace around
you at every downward stride; at the
altitude where stunted firstbinly marked
the bare rocks of the French, Swiss oi
Austrian side* the chestnut and the
walnut, in all their luxuriance fill their
Italian glen. The fig -tree shades the
humblest cottage almost up to the moun
tain crest, and where the brown and sere
surface of the soil, at jthis advanced
'season, strikes you as unredeemed bar
renuess, you may see on a nearer ap-
proach that the effect is produced by the
stubble of the small patches of field,
alternated with the small patches of
vineyard^ culiivated by the hardy moun
taineers ou crags and cliffs, where one.
would fancy the very goat would fear to
verifere.
Ektt, after ail, -you-caanot avoid your
The Washington Monument
' An exchange revives tbeifollbwing
stor^ oí the Washington-moilfcónV :
On the 9th August, 17S^pongress
unanimously resolved that an,'<Mjuestrian
statue of Gen, Washington '^bp erected
at the place where tile r«idence of
Congress shaft be established-'' On the
death of Washington, Congers resolved
that a marble monument^ " beenjeted by
the United States, at the city of Wash
ington, and that the Faniity f| General
Washington be reqbested l^'permrt his
body to be deposited under at, and .that
the monument be so designed as to
commemorate the great evtffcs of his
military and political life.^ájt|popy of
this resolution,10
his death, was transumroS^PQAf^ow
by the President, aud in her re^y she
said: "Taught by the great example
which I have so long had before mo
never to oppose my private wishes to
the public will, I must consent to the
request made by Congress, which you
have bad the goodness to transmit to
me, and in doing this I need not, I can
not say, what a sacrifice of individual
feeling I make to a sense of public
duty."
But the widow might have,spared her
individual feelings, since nothing was
done except passing an empty Congres,
gional resolution appropriating $100,000
for the erection of a " mausoleum for
George Washington in the city of W.a«h
ingtou." In 1S24. Mr. Buchanan at-
tempted to revive the subject, but mis
erably failed. In 1833, the present
association was formed at Washington,
and ¡est the influx of funds should be
inconveniently great, it limited the sub-
scriptions to one dollar, "so that all
c.asses might give alike." Twelve
years later this restriction was removed,
and in 1847, having collected iu principal
and interest, $87.000, the society began
its work. The site was selected, and a
plan chosen which proposes an obelisk
five hundred and seventeen feet high,
and a pantheon of base. The estimated
cost of the obelisk is $552,000, and of
the whole work, $1,2^2,000.
On the 4th of July, 1848, the corner
stone was laid, and Robert C. Winthrop,
then Speaker of the Mouse of Kepie*.
sentatives, delivered tho oration, In
about six yfears fro ai. the laying of the
corner stone the obelisk was raised to
tbe height of one hundred and seventy
feet, exhausting thu funds of the society,
$230.000 having been collected and ex
pended upon it. Tbe foundation qf the
obelisk is eighty-one feet square, eight
feet below the suiface of the ground,
and i: is contracted in i>s progress so as
to be sixty-ane feet ten inches at j:s top
. I SingnUr JUsOTtfy..
Ab some worknrtú fn a lot at Clevé-
laud, a few ¿days since, were eogáged
digging the soil, about four feet frdm tbe
original surface,; they suddenly catpe
upon three, bumat) skulls, lying closely
tog€jtíier, as if tfie'bodies had been care-
,fuUy laid side '$y side,"too traces of a
coffin or other article of kindred .nature
téftiaintng1 Near the skull w.as ,alsó
.discovered a thigh bone, or femur, as it
is tjechnically caltedt' iu an imperfect
state of presfervatiob, one of tbe ^tóces
8esi having ,been entirely rémóveá; by
the' decomposing fiction of the* earth.
The placo bbre evidenc'é of having been
occopi'ed by tlie 0thér parts of the skel-
etons.. although "fliey hkd become disor-
ganized'-and ¿disappeared.
As might be expected, the discovery
put a check upon the labtfrs of tbe Btork-
men until an.anatomistb^di^een,brought
and an examination made. The skulls
were evidently those of two men and
one woman, and Were of eiceediugly
large size. They had from all appear-
anees been buried many years, possibly
centuries, as they bore about them pe
cullar characteristics, which gate plaus-
ibility to the supposition thatHbey were
those of another racé of people. They
were qdito perfectly preserved, and
when first exhumed were perfect in form,
but ciumbled in many of tho thin parts
after having been exposed to tlie r.tmos
phere for a short time. The anatomist
asserted that lie in d never seen as large
skulls belonging to tho present geuera-
ii°n
The thigh Done, despite the fact of
its having been shortened by the loss of
a considerable' portion ftom due end,
was much longer that the .corresponding
bone iu the limb of a bystandir,. who
wasa map considerably above the me
dium siature. Near the skulls; imbed
ded in the earth, was found a metal cau
capable of holding about a gallon.
The event has created no little Bensa-
tion among the dwellers in the vicinity,
as none among the old residents
aré aware of any burial of human bod-
ies having been made upon this spot,
which has become so suddenly invested
with a mysterious character. It is thus
far impossible to account for the pres-
ence of the human relics, and whether
they are the vestiges of some dark crime,
which will be forever buried iu secrecy,
or, whether they are ancient relics of a
departed race, will probably remain for
ever unknown.
Alps, and enjoy them at flie same tiihff" ,ffbe~Abéi nf cóío'moné«« at the-lia^lrtr y*teui ex posea, the State
Our purpose in coming all the way frp^. *u~ ' '
London to this place was to know how
one could manage to accomplish the
journey without seeing the mountain we
had to cross, and that was done in as
simple a way as one might get from the
Charming Cross to the Temple station
of the London Underground railway
When we were all ready, Valvassori
gave the signal, some one called out
" Partenza,'' the engine gave its shrill
whistle, aud away we rolled with the
"most beautiful ease ; Regaldi chatting
away in his warm, eloqueut manner ; at
first passing the glow-worm^like lantern^
of meu still at work, then in the dark,
deep stillness, till after thirty minutes,
we emerged into daylight at the opposite
entrance at Bardonecchia. Half au hour
before we were in France. We are now
on Italian ground. Our carriage was
the last in the line, and as the engine
worked backward, we were close to it
Both our windows were wide open, aud
we had not the least imaginable inc^u-
veni^nce from smoke or steam. There
was no perfpptible difference between
tbe inside aud outside air, and one of
my companions slumbered through near-
ly the whole distance. The fact that
the engine was iu our rear was certainly
in our favor,but the unauimous evidence
of all who had come through in the
motning went far to establish that they
also had experienced no unpleasant sen-
sation, and the difference of temperature
could only be detected by Valvassori's
glass, which marked a few degrees of
additional warmth iu the tunnel. The
bigbest degree attained in to day's jour-
ney has been 18 degrees centigrade.
Gi&ttom's glass in a pievious trip rose
to 21 degrees. A more triumphant sue
ce/ss than has in every respect crowned
this great work could hardlv have been
anticipated by its most sanguine well-
wishers. Our pace through the crossing
seémed fairly-rapid and even; and the
time employed, both in the up and
down journey of between seven and
eight English miles, was precisely 38
minnte<*, but the aveiage time allowed
to the trains when the line shall be in
full operation is calculated at twenty
minutes. '
A wag was requested by an old lady
to read the newspaper for ber. Qe took
it up and read as follows :
Last night, yesterday riortiing, about
one o'clock iu the af\ernoótt, before
breakfast, á hungry boy, about forty | countrj would be surprised, if rhe pro-
*** k ' * A ' ' clamatiou were not heeded, by the arrest
of well known Southern men.
seveuteen feet six indies above the
ground, fifty-five feet square, cased with
marble, with walls fifteen feet thick,
leaving a cavity of twenty-five feet,
which will be asceuded by stairs, and
by machinery.
Such, in brief, is the history of the
monument thus far, for tba-aembcHB f
the society soou quarreled with each
other, and tlie present society was óuly
incorporated by Congress in 1859. At
that time it appeared that the board of
managers elected in 1855 had put in two
courses of marble, of two feet each, titus
making tue monument 174 feet high.
Before new work had beeu well begun,
the war came, and put an end to all
efforts. Now that this is, happily,
ended, the society once more appeals to
the people, and asks of Congress the
sum of $200,000, promised nearly a cen-
tury ago."
The New Po icy toward the Sontb.
Washington, October 13.—The Ku-
Klux proclamation to-day turns out to
be a most important step in a new policy
to be pursued towards the South. It
is now knoWu positively that for more
than six weeks, or even since the Ku
klux Commi'tee of Congress returned
from the South, the Administration has
had under consideration a policy to be
enforced, not only against the so-called
Ku klux organization, but in the admin
istration of Federal aud civil affairs in
the South. There was no substantial
difference of opinion among the Presi-
dent and the Cabinet, and the leading
Republicans who favored this new order
of things, except as to the time when it
should hive been enforced, and that
accounts for the delay until after the
October elections. The proclamation
is, therefor.', but the forerunner of mar-
tial law and the suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus, as'provided by the.
fourth section of the~^tU£of April 20th.
This says that any 3 Klux organiza
(ion or combiuationWall be deemed a
rebellion against the Government, tbe
limits of which shall be prescribed by
the proclamation, and also by command-
ing the insurgents to disperse before the
privileges of the writ of habeas corpus
are suspended.
A prominent member of the Govern
ment, and also a leading Repoblicau,
stated to day that the arrangements of-
tbe civil and military for wholesale
arrests of members of the Ku Kin?
Kl n had been perfected, aud that the
The New York World reviewing tbe
Texas School Law Bays :
"This is the Prussian «system in its
extremest rigor, and one evil at least to
in the persou of its youth can be seen
from a paragraph iu tho school regula-
tions just pramulgated iu Texas, it
reads :
Regulation 3. No teacher shall teach
a school in this State until he or she has
subscribed to tho 'following oath : "1 do
solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
honestly and faithfully support the Con
stitution of the United States, aud of
the State of Texas ; that 1 will endeavor
to inculate in the minds of youth senti-
ments of patriotism and loyalty, aud
will fully, faithfully and impartially per-
form the duties of a teacher to the best
of my ability, so help me God."
Now, what is "loyalty 1" We have
the word of the regulations for k that it
is not patriotism, for the regulations say
" patriotism and loyalty," i. e., that the
child is to be taught not only Ibe one
but the other ; and if it be not patriot-
ism what is it ? We know how men dif-
fer upon it. Wejiav.e seen the bloodiest
ci il war of modérn times fought on thia
very issue, and yet, thanks to this new
humbug of compulsory education, tbe
children of at least one State are fe> ha via
the war, of their fathers fought over
anew in the schoolhouse and at heme—-
tbe teacher teaching oiie meaning and
the parent another, to the utter bawil-
derment of tbe urchin and the entire
putting to flight of ciphering and spell-
ing-"
Alabama Ct at Ms.—We are informed
that the most persistent and unyielding
Of the private citizens who Lave claims
vs. the British Government, are Dr. J.
C. Ayer & Co* of Lowell, Mass., tbe
manufacturers of medicines. They will
consent t'ó nothing less than that their
demand for medicines destroyed by the
British pirates shall be paid in gold and
iu dollars to the lást cent. They are
emboldened by the fact that tbe destruc-
tion of thé^r goods by tbe English in
China and elspwheré'(f(>r where' are not
that troublesome nation trampling upon
somebody ?) have hitherto been paid in
full, and they now say that they shall
be, They, however, propose this com-
promise :—Give us Canada and we will
call it even, because we cau thoii send
our remedies there without duty.—
Washington News.
REMEMBER ME.
b y w . b . mitchell.
O, think of me when, lights)f moiiiing
" Proclaims the day; -
When floods of "sunlight bathe the woodland ,
Aod kits the dews away, i • • r v .
Remember, then, there's one whose bosom
Only throbs for thee
When morning floods of euulight glisten,
O, remember me..
yeais old, bought a big custard for a le
vy, and threw it through a brick wall
nine feet thick, and jumping over it.
broke bis right ankle off above bis left
knee, and fell into a dry mill-pond and
was drowned. About forty year after
that, on the same day, an old cat had
nine turkey gobblers; a high wind blew
Yankee Doodle on a frying-pan, and
killed a sow and two dead pigB at Bos-
ton, where a deaf and dumb man was
talking to his Aunt Peter."
Whereupon tlio old lady, taking a
long breath, exclaimed : "Du tell !"
There is a school-hous* in Hoboken,
on the window.sill of which is painted
(it having been a grocer's store,) "Pow-
der and Shot." "What the deuce have
powder and shot to do with education 1"
"A great deal," replied a wag; "is it
not the scboolmaster'6 calling to teach
the ^oud| idea boir te sboot ?"
Inasmuch
as it'is averri d that outrages in the South
are piovuked by the corruption of office
holders aud the plunder,of the people,
it is the intention of the President to
wage warfare against all corrupt Federal
officials, and to invite the co-operation of
alt good Republicans tor the displace-
ment of bad State officials. This is to
go hand in hand with the enforcement of
tlie Ku Klux law until it is stated there
is a lasting peace in the South.
The Postmaster aunounces that the
money order department of the Chicago
postoffico is in operation, and ready to
pay all orderB promptly. Postmasters
making deposits should remit National
Bauk drafts on New York, or send cur-
rency iu registered letters.
That sly old Brjgbam Young, is
being tried for d Úery at Salt Lake.
The following mot is making the
rounds of tbe European papers : When,
at tbe peace preliminaries, the sum of
miiyanis—which now seems to set so
lightly on France—was meutioned, Ju
les Favre, not exactly bursting into
tears, as before, yet appeared utterly
speechless, witb horror. When be bad
recovered from bis paroxysm, all he
could say was that "even if one. were
to count from the time of Christ till
now, otie could not manage to count
such an enormous sum." Upon which
Bismarck replied with a smile : "Don't
let that distress you. I have thought of
that, and therefore brought this gentle-
man"—pointing to Bleichrod^r, the
JewUli banker—"with me. He' counts
from tho creation of the world.M
: r ■
A carpentcr being asked for a riddle,
propounded tbe following i—"I picked
it up ; I couldn't find it; I put it down,
and wcut along witb it." No one could
guess U. It was a splinter in his foot.
O, think of me when folds the evening
Its robes of balm; lj '
When star high up in heavp bit per,
And shines the qipon so calm.
Remember, thén, tkeré'sxáe whose dreaming
Ey&r.is of the$; t «^ ; • ;
At morn, at,noon, at eve's declining,
O, rememUer me. *
When clouds of sorrow hover o'er thee,
.And press tbeo down;
When fortune's star grows dim around thee
•And fate doth ou thee frown.
Remember then, in joy or sorrow,
I am.truef to thee; .. , •
Whére'er o¿er earth thy footsteps wander,*
O, rememberjne. • ' ' - : ; t.
Mercantile Agencies—Their Liability for
Underrating Merchants.
The New York Shipping List, of
Septembor 20, says:
A suit brought by a mercantile: firm
iu Rochester to recever damages froth
a Mercantile Agency (Bradstreet's) for
falsely and fraudulently slauderiug said
firm, by underrating iheir staiidiug,
capital and credit as business' men, has
just been decided in favor of the plaint*
tiffs. The aggrieved firm asked the
Agency for the name of their informant,
aud for a written re-action of their low
rating that had beeu given them in tbé
Agency*8 publication. These requests
having been refnsed, the cburts were
appealed, to, aud compelled the-defend?
ants to make atonememeut in damages.
The result ef .this suit it is to be hoped,
will have a salutary effect Upon mer*
cantile :agencies. It ought to teach
them - that they cannot trifle v.itb tbe
reputation ef. a man's busiuess ciedit,
which is part and parcel of bis capital
When rightly conduoted, these mercan-
tile agencies áre, no doubt, useful ad-
juncts to commercial transactions in that
they tend to facilitate trade ? but when*-
not tbus conducted tbey are worse thau
useless. A large proportion of. tb§
Sates in tbe large cities are made to in-
terior merchants and traders, on a credit
ranging from sixty days to four and six
months, accoiding to the nature and -lo-
cality of their business.
The extended ratnifications of tbe
trade of the Country of late years bás
rendered it extremely difficult, if not im.
possible* for the merchants of the large
cities to ascertain tbe statue and condi-
tion of purchaser8 from various sections,
and it was to. impart this information
that these agencies weft caSted into
requisition. The business of asceitain
ing and reporting the character, re-
sources, business and prospects of all
merchants, manufacturers and bankers
thoughout tbe country is imparted free
to subscribers or for certain fees to all
other applicants in the principal cities,
where the agencies have the headquar-
ters. In every interior city, town and
village'tbey employ a lopal agent, whose
functiou is to inquire into the business
of every merchant or storekeeper within
his district, to describe tbeit habits, to
measure tbeir financial capacity, and to
ascertain abont each what a prudent
merchant would desire to know bjefore
sefling to him on credit. The qualities
needed iu the local agent are seciesy as
to his purpose and prying «urioíity.
These local agents makq tbeir raporU
periodically to headquarters, where the
infoimation is condensed, classified and
methodically arranged for tbe conveni-
ence of reference.
Reports from tbe larger cities are
made on a similar plan, except that the
greater number and importance of . tbe
cases require the constant attention of
several .competent and well paid agents.
If reports were in all casbs honestly
made after careful inquiry, and duly
recorded without favor or partialityMbe
Mercantile Agency would ipitigate some
of tbe worst features of that system of
general credit, wbicb is itself an evil tó
buyers aud sellers. But much com-
plaint has been roade-ef the bribery of
local or traveling agents, of the careless
reports by which fair credit and stand-
ing! in business are ruined, of the be-
trayal of business and professional con
fidencies, and of the spirit of espionage
that the Agency system has introduced
it is not safe to assume t£at all.Mer-
cantile Agencies are Justly amenable to
those charges, bat the result of tbe
Rochester trial will have a tendency to
shake public confidence in their ratibgs.
Tbey wi&ld an immense power, but it
is one* as wb have seen, tbatis liable to
gross abuse, eithei through a<?cideu$ or
design, aud the revelations wbicb have
just been made at Rochester will not
have been unfortunáté if tbey prevent
future incorrect estimates of the finan-
cial position and credit of any business
man er firm
A new thieving dodge is practiced by
females, whe enter railroad ears, and
finding a gentleman sitting alone, ask if
the other seat is occupied. Tbe gentle-
tleman at once motions ber to be seated,
when she politely asks bim if be won't
allow her to sit by the window."" Of
course thin request is also grábted, and
she becomes seated. Presently she flndi
that there is not air enough in the ear,,
and requests the gentleman to. raise t
window. He at once rises to do #o, an
as be leans over her sbe picks bis pocket
or removes bis wratcb, which passeé to a
male confederate in the next seat behind
ber. :«
"Have I not a right to b¿ Saucy if 1
please 1" asked a young lady of an old
bachelor. "Yes, if you please, but not
if you displease,"^vas the answer.
In order to keep insects from Smoked
meat, you have only, when smoking
your meat with chips or sawdust, to put
on the fire a few red peppers. T
fumes will prevent «H- insects from at-
tacking yonr ment,
"Advice to Boys" sfaVes tte^hafin!#*
Old mezt write i£, I 'sposp. i ; Jfcofcedy
pable qf gfviiig A&Wbe to boys óf
a not J. They know ¿11''about abr
they dp '^nsej '«fy Éavé beeb tUera.
Advice is 4 a fiotra; thing to TiaveV rt
dbubt, and jio^amtfy slióolél be-witbottt
it, bp!^fellowjdon't want to be'Ofaurmed,
with fí all thff tiine to the exclusion- of
il ether diet.1' ! * •>
Now, old man need «dvice occasioq-
Allyi but in looking through, the news-
papers I don't see that they get y
So I justthonght L wjould, «rite a Í¡¡/ta
"Advice to Old Met|" myself, if 1 am
not presuming too much, as Aunt CGloe
sayé, MdX prasumo I am.
In the first placet you old chap3 ought
tO get OV.er telling h<JW¿ smarter
jys were when you were boys than.
1 Bef'nidfipe^ P MM- (
I canB^.pi(^7 A newibMWr '
boyajsre now. You believe it
selves, of course,'cause you*ve
so many times, but. we boys can't see
rt. We have a notion that boys are;
boys, pretty much, (except that some*
are girls,) tlRe"woild over, and one getf
eration of them don't lay over another
generation.to any alarming extent.
Only let you'tell it, and you txitrun,
outjump, outWrestle, ond out anything -
else tbe rising generation of .today*'. :&
when you wasa boy. Sea-ndtalker, wW 6¿.
has got the.gout an¿l half a dozen diN
fereut kinds of rheumatism, is always
sayiug tiíat. I beard "'tiiro flinging tb«
other day, "I would-1 wete a. boy. .
again." I would be were too If I
could not beat • bim running aud flop bim ■
on his back, side liol^, I don't want á ^
cent.
1 wouldn't go so far as to say, "Par*
eats obey your childteft," but I- would.;:
suggest to' fathers that tbey give us a ..
bearing Occasionally, in matters in
whrch wa are the ones most interested.'
Don't make us go and slide down tfiW V'
hill when we want to skate, and don't
try to make preachers out of os wkes ^
we much prefer to run a saw mill. This
is.figurative, but I guess you know what
I mean.
After giving us boys *8age advicw •
ábout our conduct, abd bow to behave
you old ineti ought te be careful bow ;
you get to relating ybuc boybb
to eaeb other, aud laughing over
before #e .are out of earshot. , Tbe <
day grandfather read me k long fbdttrre
about flie rights of prtrprieiy, tesSp5tf-
ance and Sabbath breaking; ¡ That
night an old crony of his Came to visit
him, and they bad a glass of
get ber. Tbey fboogbt I Was*
the sofa, and the way tbey r""
the fun they bad when they
together. They told all about
Lymaa'a
nrrned t> v i was on1 <a ¡Suñfloy í>Tg^
too When I #éáí to bed tbey wei«
taking their third glask of punch, and I
don't bnoW how many -4liey hard, after
that. I know grandfather's rheumatism
waa a great deal Wojr#e.vtl^a1jae}tt
and be complained about,h|^
men ought to be careful about ,.B .—.
much punch. tea
I have noticed old Hjett'liatfi^o^tBusb
up that they can't atand aa much as
they used to, or aa. young mep can.
They get mad if a feller like me hints
that tbey can't. But What's the usa-
of foohog yoursefvfes 1 We've; all'got
to play out some day. aod wbeo a tnatf
feels ha is losing his grip, why not cum*.,
down and acknowledge the corn i
Now, in tlie above remarks I don't
mean auy disrespect. I like 'ol^ men in
tbeir place, but don't want tott much ef
their advice. Give tiiaiboysa. oh«a««*, s
: " "7. id* t i /
Ou Fottip Eltffitll.
The last , ceiisns discloses tbé. fací-
that our Sonthern Statda eoataia bat a .
pomparatively small foreign elemaotof
population, wbile tbe siuglu Northern:
State of New York aloue contains a
fifth 6f all the foreign born populsftiott
of the -whole country. I -
far as tbe Irish element is concermAl^it i
is aggregated for tbe most part in
York and New England, in, our .<¿14.
"commercial and manufacturing* .citiesl-
where employment is easily "obtáhiéd'. '
Tbe disturbing ilifluauce iu oor polkie*
hernia, tbe East is maiuiy traceabl ^
tbis Celtic Irish element, ptpwwbi*^
susceptible to the control of demag^ugú,
A high authority the subject of ra a
thus characterises the Irish Obits : "'As 5
a general rule the Celts-aP** warifcty.
race, brave, bot toójoften raak^nd hastyé ,
generous and Wrfa* • ■
ideut, hospitable, affectionate
ful for kindness, zealous <
dreamy, full of deep sympatíiieS
irgscibie, Uncertain tteaebavoás;
despising peaceful arto ordár, economy j
and cleaniineas, tbey are deeply rel^r
gious, aud being so are but toy trequeut-
ly Victims to superstition, under tbe inn
fiuence of which tbay aTe oft«^a jrey
to tbe most abject-torrar, ar sasoeptib!
of being excited to outcagaoas violence
and bloodshed without rewrse or pity,
Tbey are essentially clannisli for wam
of self reliance, tbe strongest evidence
of which is the faet that t^ey always
herd together in some«tíá qUarter uf
tbe town, where a largutiumber o*tb<m
ara to be found.'.' BumU tóUawiugíi
tbe most important poiut ia unueetion
with our eystém of popular gelfcgovei
ment: "The cbatrfctér óf íbe Colt
race establisb«s I
are not fitted,''!
organising or living
system of constitution!
left to themselves I"
fall into tbe hands or a _
or «lee anarchy ii the
Fortunate it isfor tbe 1
goverumeut that the ve
of the Germanic and
ment of onr '
migrant, a t
creasing
Celt harmless"
that he is understood.
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