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Office, No. 229, Penn Street. [apl9,'7l Miscellaneous. .-1 NOTICE . : .1: TO CONSUMERS. -OF i 04, G.,!i•i TOBACCO e 6 6 1 ;1 The great celebrity of our TIN TAG TOBAC CO has caused many imitations thereof to be placed on the market, we therefore caution all g Chewers against purchasing such imitations. All dealers buying or selling other plug tobac co bearing a hard or metallic label, render them g selves liable to the penalty of the Law, and all persons violating our trade marks are punisha ble by fine and imprisonment. SEE ACT OF 4 CONGRESS, AUG. 14, 1876. The genuine LORILLARD TIN TAG TO BACCO can be distinguished by a TIN TAG on beeach lump with the word LORILLARD stamped 3 . thereon. 0 Over 7,088 tons tobacco sold in 1877, and nearly 3 , 60 persons employed in factories. I Taxes paid Government in 1877 about $3,500,- 1 .000, and during the past 12 years, over $20,000,- F 5 .: 000. These goods said by all jobbers at manufac f.,' turers rates. 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The celebrated author, in his Admirable Messy, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty years' successful practice, that the alarming cohsequenese of self-abuse may be radically cured without the dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife ; pointing out a mode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condi tion may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately, and radically. *yr This Lecture should be in the hands of every youth and every man in the land. Sent under seal, in a plain enVelope, to any address, postpaid, on receipt of six cants or two postage stamps. Address the publishers. THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL CO., 41 Ann St., N. 1 7 ; Post Office Box, 4586. April 12-18784 y. CHEVINGTON COAL AT THE Old "Langdon Yard," in quantities to snit purchasers by the ton or car load. Kindling wood cnt to order, Pine Oak or Hickory. Orders left at Judge Miller's store, at my residence, 609 Mifflin st., or Ouse /taymonds may 3,'78-Iy.) J. 11. D4VIDSO.N. TT ROBLEY, Merchant Tailor, No. &r • 813 Mifflin street, West Huntingdon Pa., respectfully solicits s share of public pat ronage from town and country. [octl6, he I luntingdon Journal. The Huntingdon Journal. GALUSHA A. GROW will take an active part in the campaign. He is popular, honest and eloquent, and his support of the Republican ticket will have a powerful moral effect. HON JAMES P. STERRETT, Republican candidate for Supreme Judge, has had an experience of eighteen years as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county and upon the Supreme Bench.— ANDERSON, the liar and perjurer, who has been manufacturing "cock and bull s tories" for the Potter Committee, and who was employed as night editor on the Philadelphia Nurth sfnierican, has been kicked out of that office. Gov. HARTRANFT has appointed Hon. J. P. Wickersham. of Lancaster, a com missioner to visit the Paris exposition and inquire into and examine the industrial schools and systems of general and tech nical education in the different countries of Europe. M. EDGAR KING, ESQ., the able and fearless editor of the Blair county Radical, will again represent Blair county in the next session of the Legislature. He made an excellent and attentive member, and the Republicans of that county will be derelict in duty if they fail to again elect him Two natives of Huntingdon county have been honored with nominations by the Democracy of Clarion county. Hon. R. B. Brown has been named as the choice of that county for State Senator, and W. W. Greenland, son of ea Sheriff Green land, of our town, has received the nomi nation for Prothonotary. As Clarion is intensely Democratic a nomination is equivalent to an election. We congratu• late our friends upon their good fortune. COMMUNISM.—The country is liable, al. most any day, to witness another outbreak, similar to the riots of last Summer, but perhaps of a worse character. Communism has a strong hold in all the great cities.— They are a secret, oath-bound association, composed of men of the most dangerous character. In Chicago, they have a mem bership of 8,000 armed, and drilled. In New York, they held a meeting, a few days ago, under the leadership of a noto rious French Communist, at which they gave utterance to the most atrocious senti ments. A branch of the National.party, recently organized at Toledo, is secret and oath-bound, and is intimately connected with the Communistic association. The tramps that roam the country have some connection with it, and know the designs and plans; and when the outbreak occurs, they will all be found engaged in it. These are the men who talk of the rights of labor, and lend their aid to break down the great industries of the country, that they may live by plunder. The strikes of last Summer were begun by men who were contending for living wages; but the cir cumstance was taken advantage of by the most dangerous class, for the worst pur poses. The latter are now more thoroughly organized, and prepared to make the most of another outbreak, which they will do their utmost to precipitate. Honest labor ing men should remember this, and not encourage any organization or movement which will result in destroying the laborer and building up the plunderer.—Kansas Chief. CORPORATION CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR. The corporations have two candidates for Governor—Dill and Mason. From one point of view this may seem fortunate for them, apparently giving them two chances of getting into the Gubernatorial chair a person who will suit their purposes. On the other hand, it is unfortunate, as it divides their strength and renders the elec tion of either of their candidates improba ble. It may not be understood why we class Mr. Mason, the nominee of the self pretended anti-monopoly and anti-corpora tion party, with Mr. Dill in this respect. There are some who believe in the outcry against all incorporated companies, and, indeed, against all owners of property, whether incorporated or not, and who be lieve also that the candidate of the party that raises the cry, must be free from any connection with the so-called monopolies. But those who so believe are simply de_ oeived. We have several times pointed out that the Greenback platform declares in favor of re-imposing the State tax on real estate, so that it may be taken off of the corporations, and wo could show how it favors the latter in other ' ways. The corporations are really making use of the party that so violently opposes them, the rank and file being, controlled by the lead ers the corporations have selected• They not only do this in the platform, but have done so in the selection of Mr. Mason their candidate for Governor. The fol lowing is a statement of his busi , ness associations and alliances: Their candidate, Mr. Mason. according to the record of his county, is in the service professionally and other Wise, of the following named corporations : Pennsylvania Company ; Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad ; Atlantic and Great Western Railroad ; New Castle and Franklin Railroad ; Mercer Mining and Manufacturing Company ; Mercer Iron and Coal Company ; Jamestown and Franklin Railroad ; Shenango, and Allegheny Railroad ; Lake Shore and Michigan Central Railroad. One of these eompanieb being a chief stock holder in the Standard Oil Company, Mr. Mason may he said to be allied with the latter also. The Nationals have not been fortunate in the selection of a Gubernatorial candidate, so far as the corporation argument is concern ed. The candidate and the platform are consistent, both being creatures of the corporations. The only inconsistency is on the part of those who will vote for them on the ground of opposition to monopolies. Ely 115e5' Notmer. How Jamie Came Home. BY WILL M. CARLBTON Come, mother, set the kettle on, And put the ham and eggs to fry; Something to eat, And make it neat, To please our Jamie's mouth and eye ; For Jamie is our only son, you know ; The rest have perished long ago! He's coming from the wars to-night, And his blue eyes will sparkle bright, And his old smile will play right free, His old, loved home again to see. I say, for't 'twas a cur'us thing, That Jamie was not maimed or killed I Five were the years, With hopes and fears, And gloomy, hopeless tidings filled ; And many a night, the past five years We've lain within our cottage here, And while the rain-storm came and went, We've thought of Jamie, in his tent; And offered many a silent prayer, That God would keep him i■ His care. I say, for't 'ttcaB a cur'us thing, That Jamie was not maimed or killed ! Five were the years, With blood and tears, With cruel, bloody battles filled ; And many a morn, the past five years, We've knelt around our fireside here, And while we thought of bleeding ones, Of blazing towns and smoking guns, We've thought of him, and breathed a prayer, That God would keep him in His care. Nay, Addie, girl, just come away ; Touch not a dish upon the shelf! Mother well knows Just how it goes ; Mother shall set it all herself! There's nothing, to a wanderer looks, Equal to food that mother cooks ; There's nothing to a wanderer's taste. Like food where mother's Sand is traced ; Though good a sister's heart and will, A mother's love is better still. She knows the side to put his plate, She knows the place to set his chair; Many a day, With spirits gay, He's talked, and laughed, and eaten there; And though five years have come and gone, Our hearts for him beat truly on, And keep a place for him to-day, As well as ere he went away ; And he shall take, as good as new, His old place at the table, too ! And opposite to him, again, Your place, my Addle, gill, shall be ; Mother, your place And kind old face I'll still have opposite to me ; And we will talk of olden days, Of all our former words and ways ; And we will tell him what has passed, Since be, dear boy, was with us last ; And how our eyes have fast grown dim, Whenever we conversed of him. And he shall tell us of his fights, His marches, skirmishes, and all ; Many a tale Will make us pale, And pity those who had to fall ; And many a tale of sportive style Will go, perhaps, to make us smile ; And when his stories all are done, And when the evening well has gone, We'll kneel around the hearth once more, And thank the Lord the war is o'er. Hark I—there's a sound—he's coming now ; Hark, mother 1 there's the sound once more ; Now on our feet, With smiles to greet, We'll meet him at the opening door ! It is a heavy step and tone— Too heavy, far, for one alone ; Perhaps the company extends To some of his old army friends ; And who they be, or whence they came, Of course, we'll welcome them the same. What bear ye on your shoulders, men ? Is it my Jamie, stark and dea? What did you say ? Once more, I pray ; I did not gather what you said. What! drunk! you tell that LIE to me? What 1 DRUNK ! 0, God! it cannot be ! It cannot be my Jamie dear, Lying in drunken slumber here It is, it is, as you have said Men, lay him on yon waiting bed. 'Tis Jamie, yes! a bearded man, Though bearing still some boyhood's trace; Stained with the ways Of reckless days— Flushed with the wine-cup in his face ; Swelled with the fruits of reckless years, Robbed of each trait that e'er endears, Except the heart-distressing one, That Jamie is our only son. Oh, mother, take the kettle off, And set the ham and eggs away ! What was my crime, And when the time, That I should live to see this day ? For all the sighs I ever drew, And all the griefs I ever knew, And all the tears I ever shed Above our children that are dead, And all the care that creased my brow, Were naught to what comes o'er me now. I would to God, that when the three We lost, were hidden from our view, Jamie had died, And by their side Had laid, all pure and spotless, too I would this rain might fall above The grave of him we joyed to love, Rather than bear his coming traced Upon this roof he has disgraced 1 But, mother, Addie, come this way, And let us kneel, and humbly pray. Ely *toq-Etlitr. REWARD OF JEALOUSY. Feeling in a lively mood, this evening, I have concluded to write, for the edifica• Lion of whoever may chance to read it, my experience in love. As you must know, I, like all others, was once young, and like wise had my love-dream, and also my share of trial and tribulations relative to that distressing evil, jealousy. Well, shortly after ray return from col lege, I met and formed an attachment for Ethel Graves, a charnriag little brunette with large brown eyes fringed all around with jet lashes, the daughter of one dour neighbors, a wealthy Southern planter.— Being neighbors. and our families being on good terms, we were constantly thrown together, and in due season my affections were made known, and, I am happy to an nounce, were fully appreciated; so we were betrothed after the usual fashion. One evening, having called on my lady love, there arose a question of which she had been teasing me to tell her, and having it in my power to tantalize her, I made use of the opportunity. "Woman's curiosity," said I with a shrug of my shoulders, "and feminine jealousy—" "Nonsense !" retorted Ethel, coloring. "I suppose men are never curious or jealous either ?" "Never," quoth I, with a smile of calm superiority. "Then you must tell me, Herbert ?" "I think, my dear, that your curiosity and the other emotion need a little dis cipline." Now why on earth I wanted to be so provoking, I can't tell ; the natural per versity of man, most probably • for there was no other reason ; I wanted to tease Ethel, so I withdrew into a veil of unpen etrable mystery. She did not say one word more, but turned quietly and left the room, and as she disappeared through the entrance I HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1878. saw the downward flutter of a little slip of white paper from her dress; now whether it was dropped unintentionally or on pur pose we will leave for the reader to guess. Instinctively I stooped to pick it up, and, as I stooped, I could not avoid reading the character inscribed thereon in a clear, masculine chirography,— "11,3—Clark and Newton. No dis appointment this time. R. C." I felt the crimson flush mounting to my temples as I read and re-read the mysterious words, "R. C." Didn't I remember that Robert Clark was Ethel's second cousin and a provokingly handsome fellow at that ? Had I forgotten that people used to think what a "handsome couple" they would make, before I stepped into the ring ? R. C., indeed ! And I clinched my fist involuntary as I crumpled the paper inside its grasp. "What are you looking for, Ethel ?" She stood with one hand resting lightly on the doorknob, while there was a guilty flush on her cheek. "I—that is—have you seen a slip of paper lying about ?" "No." - I uttered the falsehood with deliberate calmness, even while the tell tale billet lay in my hands. So she was anxious about it. She didn't like the idea that I should have an insight into her little arrange ments with R C. Ah false and fair—all women are alike. "It must have been something very im portant," I remarked, as she hurriedly turned over the books on the table, still searching for the missing treasure. "I suppose I have left it up stairs," she said, artfully evading, a direct answer.— "You are not going, Herbert ?" "I am going. Good night." _ Not until I was in my own room did I open an I re examine the odious little bit of paper. 11,3-of course the whole thing was as plain as daylight. To day was the tenth of the month ; it was simply an appointment for the morrow at three o'clock. I ground my teeth as the truth flashed across my brain. "No disappoint ment this time." I would have liked to challenge Robert Clark to mortal combat on the instant, were it not that duels were entirely out of fashion. What business had be to lay down law to my Ethel ? But there was one consolation. Willie Newton was my old friend ; he would not see me wronged, if he could help it, and I promptly resolved to appeal to Willie for aid and justice. I glanced at my watch ; nine o'clock 3 it was too late to seek out Mr. Newton, who probably was at his country seat long before this. So I lighted the gas, and sat down to chew the cud of my own bitter meditations. The more I med itated on my injuries, the more furious I became, until, as the clock chimed mid night, I took my final resolve. "I will not be made a fool of. I will cast her off as unworthy of my love, but will first possess myself of a clew to this mystery and accuse her boldly to her face." So 1 went to bed, to dream fitfully all night of monster sheets of phosphorescent paper, with "R. C." dancing in scarlet fire all over their expanse. * * * * * Is Mr. Newton in ?" Yes, Mr. Newton was in, and one of the clerks ushered me into the private office, where my friend Willie sat looking over a huge pile of letters. "Herbert Anderson ! Sit down, old fellow ; what good wind blows you here ?" He drew out a large arm chair, but I declined it. "Newton, I want you to do me a favor ; will you ?" "Certainly, if I can." I looked up at the clock ; it wanted just fifteen minutes to three, and I hurriedly confided the whole story of my wrongs to Willie's honest breast. "My dear fellow, I really think you are attaching too much importance to a mere trifle." “A trifle !” I bit my lips until the blood came. think differently, and it's very easy to see you are not standing in my peculiar position. Newton." "Shall I send for Clark ? He is in the store, no doubt." "You will do nothing of the sort." "Well, then, what is it you require of me?" "Listen ; she will be here, probably at three, to—to see Clark " "Well ?" "Where will he be likely to receive her ?" "In this room, I suppose." "Is there no place where I can be an unseen iisteraer to their conversation ?" "Why, there is the wardrobe, but—" "The very place," I exclaimed, exult antly. "Yes—but, Herbert, wouldn't it be a mean thing to listen to what is not in tended for your ears ?" faltered Willie with some embarrassment. "I don't care a fig whether it's mean or not," I retorted. "I'm in no state of mind, just now, to split hairs. If you are going to oblige me, say so ; if not, I may as well g 0.." "Of course the room is at your service, Herbert. lam going out, but that makes no difference. I hope you will discover that you are in error." I smiled bitterly. I entertained no such hope. The clock struck three as Mr. Newton took his leave, and I hurriedly en sconced myself in the wardrobe, with my head against Willie's business coat, and my other extremities in a perfect grave of linen dusters and obsolete pantaloons.— Altogether, it was not an agreeable position ; a wardrobe where one can just stand erect, with closed door, on a hot evening in August, is not a very enviable place. But I would have endured anything then. "How warm it is ! In fact, it, is getting decidedly tropical," I reflected, as I wiped the dew from my glowing forehead. "Why don't Ethel come, if she is coming ?" And then I began to reflect on St. Bartholomew and his bed of hot coals, as I pushed the door a quarter of an inch open. "Hash—a footstep ! I jerked the door to-again, with au emphasis that made my , prison-house sway in a sadly nervous con dition, but it was only a clerk, sent for something, and I breathed freely once more—that is, as freely as it was possible to do under the circumstances. Good gracious, how hot it was ! A thermometer would certainly have stood at a hundred in this close atmosphere. I was streaming with perspiration ; my hair was as wet as if I had stood in a summer shower; but I would have cheerfully remained there all day, to detect the monstrous con3piracy between my Ethel and "it. C." Four o'clock ; Ethel must have been de tained, I could hear R. C's" voice occa sionally in the store, proof positive, he was on hand. Five o'clock. Decidedly, this was get ting monotonous; I was inclined to be very sleepy; but it wouldn't do to yield to the blandishments of Morpheus. But my patience was not destined to go entirely unrewarded; just ai I was about to give up in utter despair, there was a flutter of garments on my ear, the sound of Ethel's sweet, familiar voice. "I'm Po sorry I lost that memorandum, Robert! It isn't of any consequence, Ethel ; will make it all straight. Let me see," said Robert, reflectively, "you want it lined with crimson silk, with crimson cord and tassels. When do you want it finished ?" "By Thursday, it's Herbert's birthday." "I think I can promise it to you by that time ' • I was sorry to disappoint you be fore, but we really hadn't a bit of anything in the store that was at all appropriate.— This material is elegant." "Beautiful !" ejaculated Ethel. "How, pleased Herbert will be !" If there had been a crack in the bottom of that wardrobe, I most assuredly would have fallen through it, so exceedingly small did I feel. ‘`By the way, Ethel, in what direction are you going ?" "Home," bbe replied. "Then I'll escort you ; just wait half a second until I get my bat." The blood in my veins seemed turned for a second to ice, and then again to fire.— what a blockhead I was not to foresee this emergency ! I held my breath and clung desperately to the inner handle of the wardrobe, as I felt Robert Clark's touch upon the outer. "Why," soliloquized that young gentle man, "whit on earth ails the door-handle ? It won't turn ; and he gave it an energetic wrench, that defied all my efforts to impede its revolution. The door stood open, and there I stood revealed, among the coats and dusters. "Hallo I" ejaculated Clark, staring at me in blank astonishment. "I should like to know how you came here !" My feelings at that moment can be bet ter imagined than described. I knew there was no alternative but to step bravely for ward and face the music, which I did ac cordingly. But I wasn't going te favor Clark with an explanation, so I turned somewhat sheepishly to Ethel, and, draw ing the slip of paper from my pocket, placed it in her hand. "I found that on the parlor floor last night, Ethel ; it excited my curiosity, and I fancied all sorts of ridiculous things, and came down here to—" "To hide in the wardrobe," mischiev ously added Ethel. "Man's curiosity, and man's jealousy. I didn't know that two such emotions existed in the masculine mind." 'Now, Ethel," I appealed, most piti fully, at which that wretch, Clark, broke out in a laugh which grated harshly upon my every nerve. Ethel, seeing my dismay, promised not to mention the incident again ; and though she has long been my own Ethel I have never heard her allude in any way to my jealousy. 's' elect ViEtliang. A Quaint Legend of the Rainbow. According to popular belief in Germany, extremeties of the rainbow always touch streams, whence it draws water by means of two large golden dishes. That is why it rains for three days after the appearance of a rainbow, because the water must fall again on the earth. Whoever arrives at the right moment on the spot where the rainbow is drinking can take possession of the golden dish, which reflects all the colors of the rainbow; but if nobody is there the dishes are drawn up into the clouds. Some say that the rainbow always lets a dish fall. This once happened at Reutlingen, in Suabia. It broke in several pieces, but the finders 'received one hun dred guilden for it. At Tubingen, people used to run to the end of the rainbow, which appeared to he resting over the Necker, or the Steinach, to secure the golden dish. Usually it is considered wrong to sell the dish, which ought to be kept as an heirloom in the family, for it brings good luck. A shepherd in the Suabian Alps once found such a dish, and he never afterwards lost a sheep. An un fortunate native of Henback, who sold the treasure at a high price, was struck dumb oo the spot. Small, round gold coins, marked with a cross or a star, are fre quently found in Suabia, and the peasants declare that these were manufactured from rainbow dishes by the Romans when they invaded Germany. In the Black Forest the rainbow used a golden goblet, which it afterwards dropped. A shoe thrown into a rainbow comes back filled with gold.— The Servians have a theory that passing beneath a rainbow changes the sex. When a double rainbow is seen, Suabian peasants say the devil would like to imitate a rainbow, but he cannot succeed. The Esthonians called the rainbow "the thunder of God's sickle." A theory existed in the Middle Ages that the rainbow would cease to appear a certain number of years before the Last Judgment, and Hugo von Trim bar, in an old German poem, - mentions forty years as the prescribed time. Power of Imagination. In the year ISGS, Elijah Barnes, of Bucks county, assisted by his people work ing in harvest, killed a rattlesnake, and soon after, had occasion to go home, took by mistake his son's jacket and put it on. The son was a stripling, and both jackets were made of the same cloth; the old man being warm, did not button the jacket un til he got to the house, when he found it much too little for him. fie instantly eonceived tne idea that he had been bitten by the rattlesnake and swelled from the effect of the poison. He grew very sud denly ill, and was put to bed. The people about him were very much alarmed, and sent for two or three physicians; and one of them poured down his throat a pint of melted lard ; another gave him a dose of wild plantain ; the third made him drink hoarhound tea, made very strong. Not withstanding all, he grew worse, and to all appearance was on the verge of dissolution, when the son came home with the old man's jacket banging like a bag about him. The whole mystery was at once unraveled, and poor Elijah Barnes, notwithstanding his drenches of hog's fat, plantain and hoarhound was well in an instant. A YOUNG man, on becoming affianced, was desirous of presenting his intended with a ring appropriately inscribed ; but, being at a loss what to have engraved upon it, he asked his father's advice. "Well," said the old gentleman, "put on, 'When this you-see remember me. " The young lady was surprised, upon receipt of a ring a few days after, to read this inscription : I i"When this you sec, remember father." SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL Mississippi. THE CRADLE OF MEXICAN POLITICS HISTORIC REVIEW OF THE "MISSISSIPPI PLAN" AND ITS EXTENSION TO THE OTHER STATES AND NOW TO THE NA TIONAL GOVERNMENT-THE WARNING OF RECENT HISTORY-LEAVES OF UN WRITTEN HISTORY. Special Correspondence of the Press ] NEW ORLEANS, June 10.—There are leaves of unwritten history, too, bearing upon 4-evolution conspiracies and designs, as plotted and planned in the not distant past, in the Southern revolutionary field, of which the general public have known but little. This idea of a "solid South" is of no new creation. It dates back in its origin. beyond a doubt, to the days of "my policy" under Johnson. It assumed a tangible shape in the revolution as inaugurated in Louisiana, and in the overthrow and forc ed deposition of Governor Ames, in Mis sissippi. The governments of reconstruction one by one had given way. It is idle at this late day to speculate as to cause. All of argument would seem to have been ex hausted. There are certain facts, never theless, that, underlying the whole, though seemingly overlooked, must be born in mind. There was, there has always been, a general determination and irrevocable opposition to the policy of reconstruction. There was from the first, there is to-day a desperate and inextinguishable hatred of Republicans. The one ran counter to all of the teachings and prejudices of genera tions. The other as the representatives of the Union, had wielded the whip in the crushing of the rebellion. The Southern Republican Governments, then, one by one had succumbed to the pressure. There remained only Louisiana in the south-west, and South Carolina and Flori da in the south-east. The idea of a "solid South" began to be seriously entertained and canvassed by the Southern leaders. Florida, as viewed, afforded at most a case for latter day consideration. The other Southern States once banded together, and she must necessarily fall into line. South Carolina, too, for much the same reason, and because of a superior organization un der Chamberlain, was not the first ex perimented upon in an attempt at revolu tion. Louisiana and Mississippi were peculi arly situated. They were surrounded to begin with by a cordon of Democratic States. The Southwest again was a field peculiar to itself. It contained at once all the elements of lawlessness and revolution at command. It was but necessary to train the one—to •start the wheels of the other. There was Texas, too, ever ready to assert herself as a veritable empire of her own to count upon for aid. A movement was inaugurated looking to a general and armed organization. It is worse than idle to speak of the rifle clubs springing up as if by magic in every local ity in the Southwest, as simply so many mere outgrowths of local feeling. They were part of a general organization that was intended to be, as it was, in fact, well nigh as perfect in detail and management as an army in the field. It was an organi zation of men armed and trained for a purpose, regular officered and classified in to companies, batalions, regiments, brigades and divisions. It had its local and its general commanders. It was subject again to a recognized central po'wer— a revolu tionary junta. . . The movement began in accord with a studied and regular programme. The or ganization was to show a solid front on the Texas line, It was to extend into, and to show itself to some considerable extent in Alabama. It was to make itself manifest in Arkan sas. It was to centre at once in Louisiana and Mississippi. In Louisiana there was a dispute as between rival governments. That claimed as represented by McEnery, as now simply notorious, was returned by a Democratic board, even only through wholesale fraud and corruption. The peo ple, dissatisfied and turbulent for a time following the election, gradually settled down. The Kellogg government had come to be generally recognized and enforced. The taxes were being generally and prompt ly paid. Everything was comparatively peaceful and quiet. Such a status of af fairs was not to be permitted. The people, as decided in revolutionary circles "must be stirred up." "The Louisiana case," as declared by a prominent Louisiana Demo crat on the stump, "must be nationalized." Revolutionary juntas and revolutionary organizations became the order of the day. Assessments were made and arms purchas ed. The community at large, excepting main ly those of the more staid and orderly, were drawn into secret, oath-bound socie ties. The younger and more inflammable elements, again, enrolled as members of this or that "rifle club" or other similar military organization. The status was much as in the early days of '6l. Louisi ana became, in truth, as deliberately plan ned, a revolutionary field. There followed, naturally enough, an outbreak—the armed rebellion of the 14th of September. THE MISSISSIPPI STRONGHOLD, Mississippi, left in peace, was the one stronghold, of all others, for the Republi cans. The Mississippi delta was, and is, the natural home of the blacks. They were, and are, given a fair and honest showing, Republican to a man. The party started out with a thorough and efficient organization. The leaders, much as has been said to the contrary, were, in the main, men of character and ability. General Ames, as Military Governor, drew about him men that were certainly above the ordinary type. It may be all very well for the purposes of the Democra cy, as it has been the custom with weak kneed Republicans, to seek to deride them as "Carpet-baggers." These men, "Car pet-baggers" it' you will, were officers and soldiers of the Republic. They came South with the tread of the armies of the Union. Many of them were officers of rank, men who had won their commissions with their blood. All were of those who risked their lives in the country's cause. They settled, as they had the right to do, in the land they had come to redeem. They were true to the flag under which they had fought. They aided in the reconstruction of the government that had been steeped in treason. They were opposed only by those they had forced into submission. They rallied the blacks, as the only ele ments of loyalty that were to be found. It is but nonsense to speak of the errors of administration. A people, truly enough, always get just such a government as they deserve. The reconstructed government in Mississippi was at least formed out of the material as available. The men in the lead were of those as in the lead in Illinois, in lowa, or in Wisconsin. The masses of the whites were bitterly and relentlessly hostile. The Conservative elements—if there ever were any—had but to rally to its support to insure a government to their liking. They held aloof; they put every obstacle in the way. The government as administered by Governor Ames may have been imperfect; what one is not, and who, again, is respon sible ? What of the government, too, to day ? What of the Chisholnt massacre. Mississippi, then, was overwhelmingly Republican. The movement began for the Republican overthrow. Bodies of rifle clubs were formed in every locality. They assumed the form of a general and thor ough military organization. It was well understood by Gov. Ames to extend into the bordering States. It meant the political subjugation of the blacks ; IT MEANT A SOLID SOUTH. For the State government to organize in self defense was in effect to organize the blacks as against the whites. It was to make, as it would be everywhere accepted, and as it would be understood in the North, a race ise—to inaugurate a war of races. Governor Ames was a tried and able soldier. He could have organized any number of blacks. He could have officer ed them with the officers and soldiers of the Grand Army. He hesitated none the less at the undertaking. He was in just the position that bad been foreseen. His forces would but constitute an army of "carpet-baggers and niggers." He would be arming the blacks as against the whites. The issue would be accepted upon that basis. There would be a general uprising of the people. The people of the North, too, were blind to the facts. They would condemn the movement in the bitterest terms. The general government, called upon to interpose, was in much the same predica ment. President Grant well understood the situation. He knew full well of an armed organization extending throughout the Southwest. He understood its pur poses as the supervision of the Republican State governments. There was to be a gradual encroaching upon the blaeks. Re sistence on the part of the State would be in effect for the State itself to inaugurate a war of races. There would be precipi tated at once a general uprising as against the blacks. The trouble, unfortunately as viewed, was not so much in dealing with any such uprising in the South, as in deal ing with public sentiment in the North. The people of the North simply could not be made to take in the position. They had become impressed with the senseless cry of "Carpet-baggers and niggers." They would uphold nothing that looked like overawing the whites at the instance of the blacks. The President could not see his way clear in sustaining Ames. There was an election, too, penithag id Ohio. The issues were viewed as eileedingly doubtful. To interfere in behalf of Governor Ames was more than likely to insure the defeat of Governor Hayes. The President decided that as the scales were balanced, Ohio was of mote consequence than Mississippi. Governor Ames was abandoned in Mis. sissippi to secure the election of Ruther ford B. Hayes in Ohio. Ames, left to himself; brave and able soldier as he was, was hopelessly in the toils. The blacks, seeing themselves beset on every hand, and abandoned by the gen eral government, were naturally enough overawed and intimidated. The Democ racy, with the logic of the shot gun and the torch, gradually obtained control. They got the upper hand in the General Assembly. They proposed to depose the Republican Governor by impeachment. Governor Ames was compelled to resign. Mississippi having at the time, as she still has, not less than thirty thousand Re publican majority, was given over, bound hand and foot, to the Southern democracy. THE MISSISSIPPI TACTICS EXTENDED. The Mississippi Tactics, or "Mississippi plan," as known, was rapidly extended. The "rifle clubs," and other military organ izations, sprung up in South Carolina, and to some extent in Florida. They made South Carolina, as a veritable pandemoni um of massacre, murder and outrage. They converted the state, as they had done in Mississippi, to the Democratic fold. CIVIL WAR NEARLY REACHED. The final issues were narrowed down to the results in Louisiana. The Mississippi plan had been effectual in the supervision of the Republican vote. The Republican Board came in as a bar to the expected restiks. There were two rival govern ments, as in 1872. Would Hayes, in ac cordance with the returns, recognize Pack ard as Governor. That was the question as presented to a revolutionary Democracy. How near we came to a second civil war, just then, the masses of the American people have never even dreamed. There most certainly was a deep-seated and widespread conspiracy to that end. Governor Packard, and his more immediate advisers, will not to-day , hesitate to tell you of an intimate knowl edge of the facts. The men marshalled under the banners of Nichols, on the day of the fatuous raid on the Supreme Court, were not all citizens of Louisiana. The hosts were largely made up of Mississippi ans, of Texans and Alabamians. They came to New Orleans in aid of the cause. There were regularly organized companies of militia, too, from the neighboring States in the city as visitors. There was a con spiracy on foot, as is now well understood, that looked to the banding together of the Democratic hosts, of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas in a common cause. An effort was made, as well as known, to draw in the authorities of Arkansas.— It is said to have been, to the credit of the authorities be it said, but cooly received. There was no trouble, however, as under stood with the other States. The Demo cratic government in L.zisiana was to be sustained at all hazards. A. recognition of Packard was to be resisted to the death. There was to be inaugurated a veritable rebellion—a sort of Southwestern Con federacy—that was to draw in naturally enough the whole of the cotton States— that was to divide the North, and over throw the Union. Pending the recognition, or otherwise of the Packard government, there were Democratic representatives of the contigu ous States here in New Orleans. They met at various times and places in con junction with the Louisiana leaders in secret council. Governor Packard, can today, if disposed, give the names, dates and places of meeting. He knew, too, of the subjects under discussion. The parties met to perfect their plans and devise ways and means for their exe cution. There were forces in abundance, as calculated, that could be thrown into Louisiana from the other States. Thirty thousand men, if need be, could be forth coming upon demand. The only trouble, as canvassed, lay in the way of means for transportation and subsistence. The.mata ter fell through, of Course, with Packsrd's surrender. The objects of the coalition were accomplished. There was to be, henceforward, a "solid South." WHAT TO CONSIDKR. It is this "solid South" that the North is called upon to consider. A "solid South" means, at once,- counting out Thornburg, of East Tennessee, one hun dred and five Southern Democratic mem bers in the House of Representatives.— With one hundred and five Democratic members from the South, there is required only forty-three in addition from the North to secure a majority. Forty-three Northern doughfacee--i. e., Democratic Representatives—secured, and the general government passes under the control of this "solid South." Who will say, in view of the possibilities, that the results of the war have not been well nigh frittered away. The Potter investigation, as calculated, is to finish the work. The President is to be morally impeached, and the Republican party to be morally damned. The Northern Democratic leaders are but playing with the revolutionary fires. Does any sane man imagine for a moment that the ball once fairly in motion can be stayed in its course ? Does he not see the certain end to be a Mexican:zed republic ? Talk of Southern Republican frauds, forsooth; let the reader look a little into the history and purposes of a "solid South." RENO. How to Live Two Hundred Years. If anybody wants to live a couple of centuries, (1) let him never overfeed; and (2) let him never get drunk. At least, those are the rules of health laid down by Minguel Solis, a half bred farmer in the foot-hills of the Sierra Mesila, New Gren ada, who confesses to being 180 years old, but is believed by his neighbors to •be really much older. Dr. Lutz Hernandez, who recently paid him a visit, found him at work in his orchard ; his skin was the color of parchment; but he was robust and active; his snow white hair was twisted turban fashion round bis head, and his eyes were so bright that the doctor felt quite uncomfortable when they were taro ed upon him. Minguel said that the secret of his living a century was very simple—simply never getting drunk and never overfeeding. "I eat only once a day, a big, hearty meal, which it often takes me half an hour to get through with, but, you see it is not possible in half an hour to eat more than you can digest in twenty-four." He went on to say that he had not made up his mind about meat, but did not eat much of it. He fasted on the first and middle days of each month, eating nothing, but drinking all the water he could swallow. He always let cooked food cool before tasting it; and to this pre caution he attributed the fact that his teeth are as sound now as they were 108 years ago. Dr. Hernandez was informed by some of the oldest inhabitants of the district that they well remembered Min guel as a reputed centennarian when they were boys; also that the name of Minguel Solis, colored farmer, appears in a writ of the contributors to the building fund of a Franciscan monastery near San Sebastian, whieh was founded in 1713, and that the present abbot is positive it is the same man. But protracted as has been his sojourn on earth, he has not succeeded in winning the respect of his fellow-beings. The In dians in the neighborhood firmly believe that he has sold his soul to the devil.' The Effect of Diet on Liquor Drinking. Charles Napier, an English scientific man, has been testing the troll of Liebeg's theory that liquor drinking is compatible with animal food, but not with a farinaceous diet. The experiment was tried* upon twenty-seven liquor-drinking persons with results substantiatiug the Liebeg theory. Among the more striking instances of re form brought about by a change of diet was that of a gentleman of 60 who had been addicted to intemperate habits for 35 years, his outbursts averaging once a week. His constitution was so shattered that he had great difficulty in insuring his life.— After an attack of delerium tremens, which nearly ended fatally, he was persuaded to enter upon a farinaceous diet, which, we are assured, cured him completely in seven months. Ile seems to have been very thin at the beginning of the experiment, but by the close of the period named had gained 28 pounds, being then about the normal weight for a person of his height. Among the articles of food which are specified by Napier as pre-eminent for antagonism to alcohol, are macaroni, hari cot beans, dried peas and lentils all of' which should be well boiled, and ' flavored with plenty of butter or olive oil. The various garden vegetables are said to be helpful, but a diet mainly composed of them would not resist the tendency to intemper ance so effeetually as one of macaroni and farinaceous fool. From this point of view, highly glutinous bread would be of great utility, but it should not be sour, such acidity being calculated to foster the habit of alcoholic drinking. A like remark may be applied to the use of salted food. if we inquire the cause of vegetarian's alleged disinclination to alcoholic liquors, we find that the carbonaceous starch contained in the macaroni, beaus, or oleaginous ailment, appears to render unnecessary, and there fore repulsive carbon in an alcoholic form. Eloquent. The latest American romancer burst forth in an opening chapter in the follow ing eloquent manner : "The lambent rays of the afternoon Run were gently sliding off io overalls into the western atmosphere. The blue and gray flecked clouds of September's autumn were taking an invoice of remaining cucumbers and ripened cantaloupes. The spring chick ens and sucking colts flooded the broad pastures and stinted hen-coops with rare music and aroma, while the belated grass hopper and disgusted potato-bug sung in secret conclave the blighted melodies of' the past, tunefully arranged by the bob tailed rooster, who is ever on hand at the very moment he is not wanted. The lap stone of the village shoemaker rang en the perfume laden air, while the bunions of Parson Domiker reminded him of tighten ed times, boos and home-made cheese." AN individual who is suffering from dyspepsia calls at a physician's house du• ring his consultation hour. The practi tioner examines him and declares : see how it is ; yon need a great deal of exer cise, but perhaps your business does not leave you time. What is your occupa tion ?" "I have been a letter carrier for twenty-five years." NO. 25.
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