"CLEARFIELD lUPHBLICAS,"
rvauiaaa Mrumt wipbbibat, av
QOODLANDER & LEE,
. CLEARFIELD, PA.
KITABLIIHEU IK lT.
riM larfwat ClrealaUaei ereay lnrifi
, la Marts Central Peaaaylvaala.
Termi of Sutuoription.
r pawl ia UfHN, r wnata moatse.... oo
(f paid alur I end kefere 4 moalke a CO
tr paid after ill eaptravioe ef meetke... OO
Rateiol Advertising,
Franltaat adverUaemeatc, par square of lOlinuor
ioae, I tlmea ar laal l at
Fur ..ob subacqaent inecrtloa...... 60
tdiainiatretere' aud Bxeoulore' notloee....... I at
Aadltorc' aotioeo.. ......... &
Cnutioneead R.lray 1 at
IMaeoiatioB notieea. -..... t 00
Profecelonel Carda, I lloaa or leae,l year..,. I At
Local aotlecc.per Umwm,.. ........... to
YKAHLY ADVERTISEMENTS.
I .qaare. M H I ) column ...tt 00
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, , O. . OOODLANDER,
NOEL B. LEE,
Pabllebere.
W. F. REBER,
' ' ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Clearflald, Pa.
' BOAaa la Pla'l Opera Hoaaa, aaaeot Moor,
aapl I, 75 ly
w7c. arIold
LAW k COLLECTION OFFICE,
.i. ; OHRWNtVILI.t. . ' .
"' Clatalf Coaow. Paa'aT""''TSjr'
TB-ua. m-aaar. craua ouBfMta.
MURRAY & GORDON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
-M'U OLKARPIKLD, PA.
" "frank field iNG," t
A TTO RNEY-AT-LA W,
' ClaarfleU, Pa.
Will Ulaa.l ta all kaaiaau aatraatad la al
Biampll; and falthfallj. . Bo.1173
WILLIAB A. WA1.LACB.
BATtb L. Kaaaa.
JOBR W. WBI0I.BT.
ABBT r. WALLAC8.
WALLACE A. KREBS,
(Saxiaaaon ta Wallaaa Flaldmi,)
ATTORN EY8-AT-L AW,
ll-ll'TS ClearHeld, Pa.
A . Q . K R A M E R,
ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW,
Haal Xilala aad Callaalioa Afaal,
tLEARFIEI.I), PA..
Will prompt!; atl.nd to all lafal bulimia aa
trnitad to hif eara.
drOAo la Pia'a Opara Hoaaa, oeaond floor,
aprll 1-Oaja
MBPB . B'BXALLT. BAIIBl W. 'cnBT.
MoENALLT 4 MoOUBDT, "
. . . ATTO K N E YS-AT-L A W,
Claaraald. Pa.
aLegal bttainaaa atundad ta proatptly arftbj
tdelity. Offloa ob Haaoad atraat, abova iba Firat
Natioaal Baak. Jaa:l:74
'"737XRRETT"
Attobnst and CooNsr.toa at Law,
ci.KARnm.u, pa.
, Uartaf mlfoad bt) Jajg.ihip, baa raaumad
.ka praatioa af tka law iB kit old ollioa at Clear
Oald, Pa. Will auead tho auaru of Jeffereoa aad
Klb aoantlaa whao peeially tataioed in oonnaetioB
aitk raatdaBt aonnael. t:U:71
"wm.mT mullough,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Clearfield. Pa.
M-Offlaa la Oaart Hoaae, (RberiaT'l Offlae).
Let at baeiaet. promptly attaaded to. Krai eatale
Soojbt and fold. Jell'Tl
A 7 wTw AL T E R 8
'. ATTOUNEY AT LAW,
ClaarBeld, Pa.
fee4.OA.ee fa Orabaai'l Roa. deel-lj
hTv8M lit H,
ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW,
ClaarBal, Pa. :' "
WALTER BARRETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Claarlald, Pa.
-0B la Old Woetera llotet VnlldlBf,
eeraer of Deaaad and Harket 8U. (aoTll.M.
r ISRAEL TEST,
' ATTOBNRV AT LAW,
Claarfleld, Pa.
ATOlu la Pla'l Opera Boaae. Jyll.'e!
' JOHN H. FULFORD,
ATTORMBY AT LAW,
C'laarCald, Pa.
rl ayOAee la Ple't Opera Haare, Roam No. 0.
Jaa. 1, UK.
JOHN L. CUTTLE
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
nd Heal Relate A feat, Clearflle), Pa.
Uflee ea Tklrd ttreat, bet.ObeiraA Walaat.
aay-Reepaetrally offere htl aarvleee la eellleff
.ad bayiai laada la Olaarleld aad adjelniaf.
taaatieai aad wltbaa eip.tleoeeeloaer taeott
r.ari at a farreyor, tattan ktmielftkat be aaa
reader latleraetloa. I:ilf,
jT blake Walt e rs,
REAL ESTATE BROKER,
Aia aaALaa ra
Haw laog-t and IdUiuber,
CLKARFIKLD, PA. .
Boa la Orabaai'l Raw. . I:J4:TI
J.J. L INGLE,
ATTORKET - AT - LAW,
1:11 Oareola, CltarBrld Co.. Pa. yrpd
jTV. b a r n h a rt,
ATTORN RY . AT - LAW,
Itellcfoute, Pa.
Will praetlea la Clrarltld aad all of lb. Coartl of
Iba 1Mb Judicial dlitrlaU Real eatate bu.lo."
aad eolleetioa of olaiull made 111001111181. al'Tt
DR7W. A. MEAN8,
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON,
LUTHKRflDlRU, PA.
Will attend profei llonal oalll promptly. auIOT0
DR. T. J. BOYER, '
PHYSICIAN ANDSOROKON.
, OSae on Marbat Street, Clearneld. Pa. .
aa-Olea boor.: ta II a. ta , and I to I p. ta.
.R. E. M. 80HKURKR,
HOSKr.OPATIIIC PHYSICIAN,
Ofiao Ik reaideaee oa Market at.
. April 14, 17. ClearBrld, Pa.
J. H. KLINE, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN SURGEON,
H AVI NO laeated at Peaeleld, Pa., ogare kla
prafeoaal aarrleee ta the aaepla af thai
plaae aad larroandlng eowntry. All call promptly
attended ta. aet. II f.
D rT J ,"p BLJR C H Fl E L D,
Lata Surgeoa af the 13d Beglmaat, PeoBaylvanU
Velaaleeri, haviag retaraad from the Army,
elan hla profoaaioeel aervlcea la theelliteaa
ef Olearlaldeoaaty.
aaT-Pruf.ial.aal.alli promptly atloaJod ta.
OBoa ea ieeoad etraet, CormerlyoaeBpled kj
Dr.Waada. , tapr4,'Mtl
DR. H. B. VAN VALZAH,
CLEAKFIKLD, PENN'A.
OFFICE IN MASONIC BV1L1USM.
MT OSae kenn-From II lo I P. M.
May l, 171.
DR. JEFFERSON LITZ,
WOODLAND, PA.
Will promptly attend all cell! la the llae of Ml
profeaaloB. aov.l-7l
G. W. WEAVER dc CO.,
DRUGGI8TS 4 APOTHECARIES,
CVRWENSVILLE, PA.
Bialen a) all kind, ef Drag., Hrdielaei, Faa.
ay Uoada aad bmagiall' landriea.
, Carweaevllle, Marah 17, !).
GEORGE H. FERGUSON,
WITH
VI, T. tlPPISCOTT & CO.,
ea!era la
UATS k CAM, BOOTS ft SHOI3,
l it HI Market Street, Philadelphia. If
JLlrery flfci?.",
Til I wadanlgwed kege leave ta lafana tka pae
lla thai he la aow fairy prepared ta eeeemaee
dole all la the way af faralekiBg Horeoe, agglal,
leddlei aad Maraaae, aa tka akoeteat art lee earn
ea reaaeeabto eenae. Reeldeaee aa Laaaet atraet,
ketweea Tkird aad Foarlk.
810. W. OEARHART.
HearleU, Fak. t, IH4.
..II J:
clIarii
: 1 1 m l ,ii 1 1 Mt--m . 1 ,, . ., ,
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GEO. B. GOODLANDEE, Proprietor, t ': W ' ' .r '.".'(. PRINCIPLES. NOT MEN. ' y ' '."" , ' ." TEBMS-$2 per annum hi Advance.
VOL 49-WHOLE NO. 2-140.? - S? VjSiEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1875. v ., NEW SERIES-VOL. 16, NO. 39.
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ra ria aaa-.ara a aHa-aarava.aaaa..aBa.aMaraia
(Cutis, ,
JOHN D.THMP80N,
l Jmtlc of tb Peto and Rertwnrr, ( (
CurwcntvlUe Pa. v -,CollaMttont
n-kilt aad mootf -prvtnntl
p.ld aw. MitHK
io. atLBm-r Btnnr ai.bkkt. ......... w. albkht
W. ALBERT . BR08.,
Mtaafaetareri A ottentire Dealer! la
Sawed Lumber. Square Timber, &c,
WOODLAND, PIHR'A.
tr-Ordan tolieited. Bill! illed oa abort notice
and reaaoBable tenal.
Addreia Woodland P. 0., Clearteld Co., Pa..
,14. 1 j W ALBERT A BRUS.
FRANCIS COUTRlETr"
UEKCHANT,
PrencbTllle, t leardeld County, Pa.
Kaepa eoaataatly ea bead a full aeaartmeai of
Dry Qeode, Hardaaxa, Uroaerie aad everything
aeuelly kit In a ralail etore, wkiok will be aold.
Par aaea, aa eaaap aaaliawBafaia.iaa aoany,.
Fraarkvllla, Juna IT, lBflT-y.
THO M A 8 H. FORCEE,
BBALBB IB
HKNKKAL MERCHANDISE.
(iRAHAMTDN. Pa.
Alfo.eiteailae manufactarer and dealor In Pquare
Xinber aau naaeu bumoeroi an itnu,.
jaWOrdera lollallad and all bill, promptly
tilled. jyit'Ji
REUBEN HACKMAN,
Mouse and Sign Painter and .Paper
Hanger,
Cleirfirlri, Penn'a.
-wA-Will execute jolie la hla line promptly and
la a workmanlike aienaor. afrd.nT
G. H . H A LT ,
PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER,
KHAR CLEAKFIKLD, PKNN'A. . .
aTPumpa alwaya on band and made to order
on ikort aotiee. f ipea bored on reaaonable term.
All work warranted to reader tatiafaetion, and
delivered ir deelred. myUilypd
E. A. BIGLER & CO.,
DEAI.RHI t
SQUARE TIMBER,
and manuraeturrra of
AM. KINIIttOF rlAWl:l) l.I MIIKH.
7'7 CLRARFIKI.D, PKNN'A.
JAS. B. GRAHAM,
dealer in
Real Estate, Square Timber, Boards,
611IN11I.K8, LATH, A PICKETS,
:10f I'lrarllelil, Pa,
JAMES MITCH ELL,
'' uralbb ia '
Square Timber & Timber Landri,
JeU'7 OLKARFitil.U, PA.
hTf. n'aug L E
WATCH MAKER & JEWELER,
and dealer ia . ,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver
and Plated Ware, &c,
ol0'71 CLKAHFIK1.D, PA.,
S. I. 3N YDE R,-
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKKR
abd niALia ta -
IWatvliea, OlockB and Joavalrj.,
Dniaa't , J.rt.l Slrttl,
CI.EARKII I D. PA.
All kloda of repairing in my lioe pnmiptly Bl
ended to. April 23, l7l.
REIZENSTEIN & BERLINER, ;
whftUawl dvaUri m
CESTS' FlRMSnnG GOODS,
Hm rMiovtd to' 17 Chirfh trtrt, bolwttn
Vranklln and Wilt, u Now York. jjftl'TS
J A M ES hTlY T L E ,
Na. 4 Ple'a Opera llnaie, t'lrai Beta, Pa.
Dealer la Oroeetlea, Proeialona,. Vegetablea,
Fraitr, Flour, Feed, etc.. rto. , , .,
aprU'7i-tr
J" AMES E. WATSON it CO.,'"
REAL ESTATE BIIOKKH8,
CLKAHFIRLD, PENN'A.
Hoaeee aad OAeel to let, Colleetiona promptly
made, and flrat-elaae Coal aad Fire-Clay Lead
and Town property for ea lo. OfBee la We.tera
Hotel Rulldiag (Id r). Utroni 81. (oiyl T4y
FASHIONABLE BARIIEK A HAIR IIRES.KR.
CLEAR FIELD, PA.
Shop neat door lo Wearer A Bella' atore, ;
Seooad alrret.
July II, 7j-y
HARRY SNYJ)ER, , Y "
(Formerly wilk lav 8abnlar.
BARRKR AND BAIRDRRSSER.
Shup on Market St.. oppo.ite Court Heme.
A clean towel for erory eu.tomer. may 111, '7a.
I
IME! LIME!
The aaiiaraifaed la now prrpared to fnrabk
Ibe publle witk an exeellent qaality ef
Bellefonte Wood-Burned Lime,
for pteaterlng parnoaea. by the large Ar imall
aaaatllv . Can be round for the prearat at Ple'a
new nulimng, on elaraei atrcer.
octl-If ' li. ri. irK'Ul'I.I.Ul.llll.
MITCHELL WAGONS.
The Best is tbo Cheapest I
Tbuoiu Reill; but rw ivd Bolbr Urgn lul f
MiUbcll Wunni," which rt nng lb wry
bvat KanurnMareid, aid wbicb k wilt Mil it Iba
Ml KMiifttabt ra'.f. Jlii ntnk ImIdiIm alnott
all dkMrialoit)a of mng kv 'larfraiHl umall, wide
and narrow track) Call an I rmm ttirai.
upt U 11IUMA8 REII.I-V.
Joun'aT sTAmrKur "'T
, 1IAKKK, Uatkat St., OleatAald, Pa. '
Prefb Ilrrad, Kti.fc, BoM, 1'ki ami C kn
ot band nr avada lo ardor. A Rnral afcnrlmrnt
of Conrctiltonarlaa, Fiull" and Nuta to itock.
Ira Cnum and Ojr alr In irapa. Pa loco oiarljr
oil pot 1 1 tba rnptofllrt. Trirra tcodrrat. ....
Marcb 10-TA.
" A. H. MITTON, :
' Manafaoturar anrl dealer (n
Harness, Saddles and Bridles.
Collar, Whlplp DuabM, Fly Kta, Trimmlnf.
Hnraa Blaaki( te.
Vaouara. frank ll!kr' and H Mlafitot Oil-.
Agtmi for fiallaj and Wilran'i DuKiiaa.
Ordert and rrpalrlng promptly at(endd to,
Hhop ob Market ft reel, Clrtrtli-lil, Va., In room
fbnnarly occupied by 3$. Alfiandar. fliMTft
C. S. FLEG A L J
Ironsldrs Slorr,
PHiM ipannUfi, pa.
USA1.KH IS
HARDWARE, STOVES, HEATKRS, RANG
ES, WOOD AND WILLOW WARN.
AHD UAHVIACTI KKK OI
TIN, 8IILET-IRON Afc'D CtlPrKkWARI.
Prerqalall Street,
Pbillipaliurg, Centre Co, Pa.
M.Uay 1)t.
-JJNI)KRTA1CI
NDKRTA1C1NG.
The aadarelgned Bra aew Nlly prepired la
arry en the haalaeia ef-
UNDERTAKING,'
AT RRASONABL RATES, '
Aad reapeetlally aallaH Ike patronage of I have
aeadlag aaeh eervfeee. -
. OHW TR0I1TMAW,
J JAMIB L. LSAVV. i
CVrarO.ld, Pa., Frk. II, 1174.
frs-!ii?;t-:i'!,7.
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op.
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HON. WILLIAM A. fWAUACft
3 1ELIVF.aci AT"
CLEAHKIELD, SEPyjJo, 1S7."
A laaalle Arralgnaaeut of theltepubtlBali
PartvHie Brie Platliltai IHeceeaeel.
Male PluaueeB Management of aa
Tretaary-Heply ta Pereuaai CLaigca.
At' ft lnrgo and ontbuaioatio meeting
of tho Domoeracj' of Clcarfloltl coiilntj,
held in Piu'd Opera (lotioe, on Tuoild
night, Svptomber. 28, Hon. William A
Wallace delivered the following Ad
dress, which wnrj received with much
Uentlemen: Tho graviijv nl tho I-
auef, tnsl now conlront us una tbo vilal
itniruiUinco Qf tlveir nnipor t(itrniu
tioi ehotild Hnrtul von. aivH all of uw. to
thitt-apint orc-nneorrrand gfnity wbtcfi
will lie the burliingur of victory to onr
cniioignli's ana sttcccxfi to our pnnnt.
pun. t iiivoko uiut ' iiaiiiuuiy aim i
invito you to tho energetic Work that
tho -unity wlneti springa Irom aunegeV
tmn ol aell invariably Hives.
You have tiluzonvd on Jour buitDerf
me numcH m puru ana compuient men.
yoti hnvo tmuncintetl a platform of
principles every inoughl ot which i
lor RDoa government, every impulse in
tho interest of the nianaee. J.tt til
proclaim them now with the ringing
shouts of a united, defiant and aggrvtts-
tvo iwniorraey. .
In the attainment of good ar.d pure
government, In thedcthroning of wrong
ana lue enthroning oi right wo nope
to bo succored and seconded by thou
sands of conservative men who are
weary of tho ceaseless round of gov
ernmental jobs, of continued inturfcr
cnue with local govornmont, of foolish
expenditure of tho people's money and
of a firmnci ;1 system that is tho oni-se
of the country and tho causo of its
business prostration. We invito and
welcome all sucb. Tho tenets of our
political liiith am attracting ciowds of
ot converts, whilst the mismanagement
and axtravaganco of those in power
increase taxation, destroy business mid
absorb the nnrpluli earniiegs of the pew
pic, and whilst ring rule and 1'rauda,
peculation and jobs arouse loathing and
disgust in the minds of honost men
everywhere. The afl'uira of the busi
ness sum languish and ho is njioa toe
verge of bankruptcy ibr want of nienm,
whilst money is a drag in tbo handaol
those who do not noed it and aro afraid
either to use it or to lend it. The se
curity that-. tho majority of business
men aro aide to otter is rejected as in
adequate of the rnto they are compel
led to pay. ibr accommodation is but
ruin postponed. Tho inability ot the
Republican Tmrly to rccogmno and act
in m the plain rules of summon sense
and common honesty iu tbo manage
ment ot ttio nuances liae ' produced
fiuuneinl panic and widu spread com
mercial distress. Halting remedies, in
competency and extrmvaganco at Wash
ington aro the causes, iba Itopnbli-
cun party Is responsibla (or these and
a change of rulers and ot Klicy is the
only cure. Their ignorance and blun
ders are crimes against tbo people and
in the present condition of affairs are
found abundant proofs of their inabili
ty to grasp the timipcinl problem and
of a thriftiest! and extravagant admin
iatration of tbegovornment.
lly statute and by judicial decision,
by tho doctrine of nucessity, and by a
reconstruction of -the mipreme t;ouit
they have forced upon tho country the
adoption of a legal tendur paper cur
rency and have tons violated the teacb-
Inff and traditions nt tho Democracy
us lo the truo meaning of tho constitu
tion, and without preparation and to
the lasting detriment ot the whole bu
siness community they enact statutes
for prompt ruauiuptinu of specie pay
ment. They would adjust the-business
life of ever' business man to their
Procrustean bod. li be be too long or
rerpiiro more time to b ready lor in
evitable suntiKagO, they cut uim off to
tit the bud. .Without preparation,
statutes tor resumption are ricions.
The condition must proccdo the stat
ute, not tbo statute tho coudilion. ' No
candid banker will say that tho coun
try will be in condition to resume in
1879. Why then enact this statute?
Why vex and distress; the business
man f Why has not retrenchment
marked every hour ol. the luutt ten
years if resumption be the honost pur
pose of thoso who rule? During (bur
years ol war wu bavo expended three
thousand Bullions. . lunng ton years
of ireaco we have spent as much more.
1 ho J'.i ie blullorm dues not mean in
definite ptwtrnoiiivut ot specie pay
ments. 1 hero Is no word or line in it
any where that recognizes or enforces
such a doctrine, lis whole thought, as
1 view it. is fbr rase to a hcavilv har
dened and overtaxed people, who are
willing to nay their Hunts II uioy De
given tho time to recuperate their ex
hausted energies. Had those who
thought lis 1 did been permitted to ex.
press their views of the subject In their
own lungnage, wo would nave declared
lor a return to snocio nuvmenU bv
steady nvimiaehos, but for mutmntion
only when retrenchment and economy
mid prouucetl tno condition essential
to its sucoeaa without distress to tho
people; bnt I did not and I do not tlif-
i'er with those who formulated the ideas
d the Uuinocracy nt Erie when they
rrcmandefl that the policy "or B torced
resumption of specio paymciiLo, which
mid already iirougiit uiaasior to me
bnsiursai of the country and Ihrentcns
fcncrul. uaiiKrtiptcy ho abanuoncd.
lay we uul ask iur tims lo breathe?
Is it strange tlint the people grow ftmt
ive nndcr tho system that so fionvllv
oppressos tliem Aro them io bo no
momenta nt mat tor those who nave
saved as well the unity an tho faith of
the rcpiiuiic I ., Is tuts generation to oe
fiirood into bankruptcy in order that
the next may be treed from debt? No
wise government will bankrupt Its peo
ple lor a lanoilul idea. It Is the path
of practical statesmanship to postpone
tho hourof resumption until the people
aro rusted from the exhausting pro
cesses of the post ten yean. Turn
with mo to the nniclal records or your
government and you will bo astounded
as I have been, at the enormous amounts
of money that yon havp paid n that
Inno.
During tho ten fiscal years begin
ning July 1st, lHGft, snd ending June
Stllii, 1R7S, you have paid fur intoroat
rm -t ha nil III iu Ud,L nnvv. war. ftivtl
ecrvire and pensions and Indians a to
tal ol t3.32 l,o0.7S I. The public debt
on July 1, 18uu, was f2M2,mMi6 1
on Mcptemner l, 1W70, it was h.ili,
:i'.13,b2U ; debt pnUl in toil years, 1555,.
11111,11)0. Adding this to thesum total
boforo given wo find that in tho past
ten years we havo paid .i,H7!i,7ua.!rj o.
which is equal to ibo whole national
debt f t.rcat Britain, a no more ex
baiislivs lnbor lias ever been imnosed
upon any peopfa. . is jt strange that
under this continuous sirstn yoei aro
now dislreosod, exbausled sod poor?
Ia it the part of wisdom to continue
j I i)
this destructive process, or shall we
recognize existing facts and make baste
slowly in our onward march to a spe
cie basis?.. . ,i . ; ..
.1 Note tbe figures as 1 road ; see that
we have paid of interest alone over
twelve hundred millions of dollars. See
too that thirteen and a half millions
have been paid as premiums to lift the
bonds already an highly privileged.
We must nay tbe holders tbe highest
rate ot interest ever paid by any solv
ent government and must pay a pre
mium for the privilege of lifting them.
To this singular item it ia worthy to
add that tbe oost of administering your
government has steadily Increased Irom
IWiH to la7a, until now It costs nearly
twice as much lor civil sorvico as it did
ten years ago. Then,, the eost was
forty-ono millions, now, it is nearly
seventy millions., f .,,., .
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871..
June 10, 1S85..
Sept. 1, 1S74....
Debt paid
444,m,l0
We pay a higher rate of interest on
our pit!
italic debt than any solvent na
tion on earth. We owe every people
with whom we trade. There is a glut
n tho production of every article we
munufacturu. Supply exceeds demand
wherever we turn. , The cost of our
State government is mure than double
what it was in 1H0U, and that ot the
general government more than three
fold. Retrenchment and economy an
found nowhere; extravagance pervades
every department of public life. Is this
tho ruuu to prosperity t Wbei-e ai
evidences of our ability to pay our
notes? Where are the signs of prepa
ration for resumption ? Tho teachings
of tho . Democracy give no uncertain
sound upon tbo subject ol financial
management, their doctrines are,
"Save vour inouoy to Day your debts,"
"The true money of a republic is bard
money." As the man who cannot pay
bis debts is compelled to oircuinscxitie
his operations, to retrench his expenses
ana to praciico economy, so 1110 gov
ernment that is unable to pay its notes
on demand should lessen its expenses,
reduco (not Increase) salaries, lower
the rate or interest it pays, decrease
the sum it pays interest upon when
ever possible, dismiss its useless officials
and husband us resources py tno exor
cise of rigid saving. When, by follow
big such an old fashioned path, the
ability lo pay shall have como and its
promises do not bear a falsehood on
their lace, men resumption is no long
er a farce and statutes for resumption
are no longer a sham. We believe m
paying Our debt in gold when we shall
have recovered irom tne exhaustion
Consequent upon a fearful civil war antl
Irom tho extravagance mat nas fol
lowed in its wbko.' Wo believe in
saving our money to surely accomplish
that result, w e uo not, neuere in tmna
rupting tho pcoplo to try the fanciful
experiment of specie payment without
preparation.
Economy in administration means
the pruning knife to every useless ex
pense, une or the largest items 01
this kind is tho bonus wo pay the
national banks for the privilege we
give them to issue their 'notes. Our
proposition Is' snbstitntlon of legal
tender notes for tbe national bank cur
rency. ' By this process w extinguish
nearly 40(1 millions of onr Interest
bearing debt and savo annually to tho
people nearly twenty minions in gold
wbioh now goes lo swell tbe prOflUi of
the national banks. ;i o are already
the guarantors tor these notes, and aro
ultimately liahlo lor their redemption.
It is tho exchango of our liability as
guarantor for that of a payor. It ia tbo
redemption or an lalerest bearing loan
with a non-interest bearing debt. The
saving of twenty niilions in gold an
nually, with The proper reduction 01
other expense, prepares the way to
resumption at onoo. I bis is not In
flation. It is simply substitution.
What answer can there bo to this
proposition ? Is it that the legal ten
ners are unconsuonai r rtni we al
ready bare then, tboy Are fixed upon
us by the party ta power ana it is
impossible b retire tuom witnout nttor
ruin to the business . man. Is not
the barm that may come from their
issues thr more than compensated by
tho saving wo make ? Is the objection
made that the pational bank currency
is the arenuo to specie payments by
tho gradual retiring of the legal ten
ders? Hut as we retire legal tenders
we mnst either issue bank note In
Ihcrir mom thronirh ire banking or
contract tho currency nearly one half.
t he latter would bo destructive ; mo
former adds six dollars ol interest on
nually to our expenses for every 1500
of notes we Issue, and when wo shall
have retired all the legal tenders, and
maintained thevol.imsof the currency
at its present amount, Instead of pay
iniv twnntv mi lions in troiu snnnaliv.
it will be fortv millions. 1 bis would
...n ........ 0----v:
bo a saving with a vengeance. Hub
stitutlor. tines not add lo our liability
or bring reproach upon our ability to
pay.. If every national bank in the
country were to go into liquidation to
morrow we could be caned upon to re
deem tholr paper, And we would do so,
. -i r i!.. ; i i . i . .i
not in goiu uu hi legal wimi'iwi uiv
formor would be Impossible, the latter
compulsory. - The national banks can-
not roeanee until uio people inroogn
their government i are ready. Tba
government can never bo ready with
out economy.. Where can we begin to
economise so jnstiy or so bencncisiiy
to all? ' ' " " "" '" '
Is It strange that wo should seek to
3L
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X .,. ... tsl
separato banking organizations fioiu
the government ? These are in our
view now as they always havo been
private and not public agencies. We
would not only ueexiitralize them, but
so fur as we curt would disconnect
them from Statu Joontrol. The Just
province of tbe Stilo ends with tho
inuiuutioii iu tnc civiacii in inn jimiHTLy
against fraud and wrong from those
who originiitti iiS' dlreot banking In
stitutions. ,i
We proiiose no'violent charges, no
sudden overthrow if any of the in-
tAirests ol the people, nut we proposo
by gradual amendmint of tbe national
bank act to relievo It IVoni its odious
and onnressive features, and bv nro-
cesaos as natural as was its growth to
substitute other ugtnciea in its room.
No one socks to cbaigo the uniformity
of tbe notes or to Icwcn the security of
tbe noteholders. At I read tho Erie
pUUurtn botli of - jevw io Lo pre
served, us they oiurht to be, but an
amendment of the law by which the
banks will bo restrittcd to legul rates
of interest, prohibited from puying in
terest upon deposits, required to sus
pend the interest npun their bonds de
posited in exchango for currency, anil
permitted to accept charters under
State organizations and surrender
those they now hold, seem to me to bo
tbcpurioes had in view by those, who
framed this plunk in the platform. To
all ot these nono of the objections can
be urgod of which wo hear so much.
Ibo Democracy, when it comes to
power, will bo conservative, as it
always has been, and not violent. The
rights as well of the capitalist as ol the
laborer will have just care and protec
tion; but it is time that Icirislation
should show equal respect for every
f;rcai interest in tno land. Tbolegis
iition of the past filteen years bos
been too much in the interest of cor
porate and aggregated capital. The
time for a change of policy in this re
spect has conic. Legislation ought no
longer to be shaped exclusively lor tbe
protection of wealth, but tho producer,
tho business man ami tho laboror are
entitled to equal care.
Rostoration of tho fullest measure of
productive energy ia every part of
the republic is indisponsiblo to national
prosperity. Tbe surplus products of
tuo north run and ouiiit to dud a
market in tbo south. The withdrawal
of federal interference there and per
mission to govern themselves under
tho constitution will do much to restore
tho attachment of its people to tho
Union, to increoso tho production of
thotr invaliiahlo staples, and to open
aguinthe commercial avenues in which
both sections found prosperity. The
federal bayonet must bo replaced by
tho ploughshare, the tramp of armed
soldiery give place to the peaceful arts
ol commerco and the color line be
erased by mutual forlicnrnnco, conces
sion and profit. .
J.ct us tarn now to our domestic con
cerns. Let us examine the manage
ment ol state finances.
The condition of the treasury in 1853
under tho administration of Governor
ltlHu- i ...Duty vests ago, is quoted at
Heading by tno ii,mi..i..
tbe Lancaster platform as an argument
lavor ol the retention ol tho liopub-
licuu organization in power in the Com
monwealth. Is it not wise that wo
should look to the events of tbe recent
past, rather than to those that occurred
a generation since ? The use of publio
moneys by those in charge ol the Slate
treasury Las been so patent for years
that it is scarcely worth whilo to at
tempt to argue llittt such a fact exists.
Tho maladministration of thoso finati
ces,tbe misappropriation of the proceeds
oftbosinkingftindthoniakiiig;of money
from interest upon the public funds are
all justly tbargeablo upon those in
control ol the treasury and wo charge
that thoso who administer tho finances
of tbo Stato and control tbe -linking
fund havo broken tho constitution,
have violated a plain stutno und have
misapplied tho assets ot tno Common
wealth. .
. Under Uio lost Democratic State ad
ministration, tho constitution was
amended by a provision that looked to
the gradual but certain payment of the
State debt ; by the constitution itself,
certain assets and ruvenues belonging
to tho State were devoted to that pur
pose, and it ordered tho legislature ol
1858 toseloct and apply othor resources
to the same important end ; and the
constitution, in section 4 of Article) XI,
expressly ordered that none of theso
resources should bo usod or applied
otberwiso than in extinguishment of
tho publie debt, until it was reduced
below fivo millions of dollars. Tbo
legislature of 1858 did designate these
resources, and under those provisions
all of tho money arising from tho pro
ceeds of the sale of the public works,
their net annual inceme, tbe income or
proceeds of stocks owned by the Stato,
all license lees, collateral inheritance
taxes, taxes on bank charters and divi
dends, on corporations, on auction com
missions and entries, on writs, etc, on
public offices, on foreign insurance
agenclos, on enrollment of laws, on
pamphlet laws, on loans or monoy at
interest, on tonnage paid railroads, all
linos and forfeitures, revenues from
lands, escheats, secrucd interest, re
funded cash, and gilts to the State, was
to be inviolably applied lo payment of
the nutto debt, the uovornor and
tho Treasurer each swears that he will
support the constitution of this Com
monwealth. J lint document requires
them to apply all thtw. monryt to the.
payment of the rftw. Have they dono
so r i Xh is can best be settled by ex
amining their own reports and ascer
taining what they have received from
these resources and what they have
paid upon tho Slate debt.
Taking up tho tun fiscal years that
commenced December 1st, 1BU5, and
onded November 30th, 1874, wo find
that in tho year ending November llll,
lHlifi, they received from these sources
:i,757,74li ; in 1807, 13,045,017 J in
1888, 1.'l,423,5li4 ; in I8G!1, 3.5(i4,5(i() ,
in 1870, 13,881,064; in 1871,14,442,-
055: in 1872. $4,512,852; in 1873, 13.
1182,971 ; and in 1874, 11,315,052. To
tal received in ten years, 135,524,801,
every dollar of which should have been
applied to tho payment of the Stato
debt.
lias this money been thus applied ?
0a neeeraher Itl, HSt, tbe whule
debt an... f,i:,7,SS
0a Deeember In. 1874, the whole
doM wu l,4IM,fa
Whale debt paid la ten yeera ....II,007,2I
Tbe Interact petd upoa 'tka public
debt during tboieyeert amounted lo
tbe cam ef.... 411,411,3111
' 1,10!,ISS
the whole e.aela received by the
Traaeery with wblck ta pap wer... H4.HI,tl
lavlag a kslanee el......... .,1 ,H4,I4
Which belonged only to the sinking
fund and could only bo legally appro
priated to tli payment of the interest
or the debt, and which, in violation of
law and of the constitution bare boon
wrested from their legitimate purposo
snd otberwiso diaposod of. These
rsots cannot be denied.
, Ifto these figures we ruld the 2.14!',.
I V .
EIPl
' . .'.. . ., ) i
000 for tbe on per cent, ot Interest
tbey added upon tbe 123,000,000 ol six
per cent, loan, unnecessarily placed
durinir the vuars 18G8. 18ti. 1870. 1871
1872, 1873 ami 1874, and the cost ot
placing the same, we find that tbo
State debt should huve been reduced
by at least eight millions more than
it is, if the plum policy of the amend
ment of 18u7 bad been carried out
I set out to prove violation of official
duty and misapplication ot trust assets,
and these faots and figures are tbo
evidence. ,
Tbe expenses of your State govern.
ment have increased from (446,000 in
18ti0 to l,01t,158 in 1874., Tbe con
trol of patronage, power and place is
venieu in a euuni 01 men wuo uiciaie
nominations, proscribe legislation and
farm the revenues of your irroat Stato.
A system of taxation devised in their
interest fills your treasury at the ex-1
pans ol your inuueiruu, KAfpK.ew.tmua.
or is so imposed us to be wrung ulti
mately Irom the people, taxes upou
real estute have been repeuled to give
the excuse for tho change of your loans
Irom s nve to a six per runt., to the
end that a lull treasury might bo at
hand lo make earnings for personal
gain and political purposes, and the
people wore niado to pay thereby, since
1807, moro than two millions of dollars
by this act alone.
This subject is one that is worthy
the consideration of the gentleman
who opened tho campaign at Reading,
and as its results are upon us yet and
daily afiect the finances of the State, it
is pertinent to inquire how it was done,
what has been dono and why it was
done. The act of February 2d, 18G7,
originated in the treasury. Its specious
prutext was the lifting of our overdue
debt and funding it so as to meet it at
maturity. It increased tbo interest
upon tweuty-thruo millions of the State
debt from five to six per cent Sco its
first effect upon tho taxpayers
0b beoeiaber I, litis, tho wkole debt
waa $3S,tm.5
Oa thia we paid aa aanaal interact ef... 1,807, IS
Oa Deeainbar 1, ISU7, Ike whole debt
wu M,7M,I
0a thia we paid aa annual Interoat of.. 3,17,U33
So that after paying .355,621 of the
publio debt, wo wore required to pay
149,897 more interest than we did the
year boforo. For the seven years that
have passed from December, 18C7, to
Docombcr, 1874, ono per cent, upou
the whole twenty-three millions has
been annually paid by tho people ;
(230,000 por year for scvon years
makes an aggregate ol si,bio,ouo ; add
to this tbe cost of placing the loan
$89,606 ; interest paid in 1867 moro
than in ItioU, 44'j,!i7; total cost ol
new loan lo tho people toPecombcr 1,
1874, 2,14U,80J.
What was the ulterior purpose of
this change ol loan r 11 was to increase
the balanco in tho treasury ; It was to
fill up tho vaults tor use by those who
controlled the finances.
See iu result. Ily the report of the
State Treasurer for 1867 we find that
ho had iu his hands an aventgo monthly
balanco of 13,582,214. By tbe same
report for 1868 the avcrngo monthly
balance is shown to bo f 2,3(IH,fM)(1.
vk ,M"d tntjile. aiorioiis pick
ings for skillful financiers, rich placers
for political use. ',
The glorificaiion over tbo reduction
in tho total of tho debt prompts me to
give it a glance in passing. It is to be
rcmemDcroo mat ine sinning itinu
policy and its results belong to the
Democracy, for tboy originated it, and
without tlioir active aid its effects
would have been utterly destroyed.
Official records fully provo this fact.
From ISS0 to 1874, iaalullve, the treunry bu re
ceived from the people tbe cam 01116,13,1111
The pablle debt December, '
I Hit, wu ....... U37,S07,Nr '
Tlrepnblledobtbeoomber, i ,
S74, ia 1I,SSI.034 ' ;
Whale each
aib paid eadebt..4ll,l0,IS
paid en pebllo debt JS,6,l.iJ
Iatereet
41,350,104
Moaey On ha Beeeualad for.-j. ...444,41l,f
'Thirteen millions ol debt have been
paid and forty-four nnd a half millions
of money have still to be accounted for.
VVhoro are they ? 1 .... . .
They can only be accounted fix by
reckless expenditures extravagance in
administration and misappropriation
of assets. A full treasury to produce
interest for those who rule at ilarris
burg has been the policy for years, and
in the attempt to expose it you and
your representatives have boen turned
from its doors and denied the right to
know how and whore their monoy is
kept. These illegal earning have
airain and nsain beeu used in political
contests to determine results against
your will. Infidelity to publio trusts
bas boen tbo rule, personal gain tbe
controlling inougnt, auv uaun anu
intelliirent scrutiny of a capable exeou-
tivo who will wield hi veto power and
his control over the (Jommiasioners ot
tbe sinking fund with decision and
force iu the interests of the people, an
honest and faithful administration of
the Stato treasury, through which its
exact condition will be unrolled as a
scroll for the inspection of the pooplo
are now indispensable in tbe interoat
of all. Tbo polioy of tbe past and of
the present must be reversed, Salaries
must he reduced. Economy and re-
trenchmtneut must become the rule.
An empty treasury with ease In taxa
tion is infinitely better than overflow
ing cullers lor tbe profit ol those who
rule. Prompt application of the mon
eys of the Stat to the payment of the
debt Mo perquisites lor omoials save
tho salaries fixed by law. , Tb books
of every deportment open to publio
.: .... 1... a .... lrLu.
insneeuoii hi a,.i w at w
are onr nledimi to those whose vote
wo seek. With such a record, both
State and national, a our adversaries
have made, with bard tunes, oppressive
taxation and complicity with corrupt
rulo, justly chargeable to them, It is
not otrango that the pooplo are restive
and tlomand a chaiiKO. ' .
Be it our duty to proclaim their
wrongs ana snonoomings in wvcry
hamlet, nt every cross-roads and in
every school bouse in all this broad
Commonwealth from this day forward
until to the ides of November.
Pardon me tor a word personal to
myself. When 1 lost occupied this
stand, a year ago, I was your eandi
dnte lor a fifth term in tho Pennsylva
nia Senate. During twelve years of my
pnhiie life as your Senator I had tried
to represent yon noneaiiy anu conscien
tiously, snd I met my reward in your
almost unanimous re-nomination anu
in a re-election by a larger majority
than ever before. . Errors of judgment,
mistakes nnd shortcomings I bad of I
oonrso boen guilty of, bnt no man had
ever-dared to impute to me a dishonest
or corrupt act as a Senator, and in-1
your approving voices I felt tbe antety
that comes lo a citizen from tb ap-
Froval nf thorn among whom be livo.
dared to aspire to a higher plaee and
at once the floodgate of calumny were
opened upon me, and I, who bad been
ever intuitu to your principles, was m
cased of complicity with tbe enemy
I who had tried, a a Senator, so to
walk that no breath of scandal should
cms. my path, was arraigned for cor
MCA!
rupt practices snd bold up to public
scorn as unworthy of publio trust or
confidence. 1 could not and I did not
reply, but I endeavored so to bear my-
seil in tbe race that 1 might be a tit rc
resentatlve of an honest constituency
and that whatever might eome to me
no barm should befall your great or
ganization, For thjse reasons and be
cause that fortitude to boar tbe assaults
of calumny unmoved seemed to mo to
be a rjuallncatlon for publio position, 1
was silent. In tbe caucus of my party
your choioe was ratified by seven-
eighths of tbe Democratic members of
the legislature, and I was chosen to
roprcsent you in a higher place. It
would seem that this selection by the
people of a groat Htnto should have
been my panoply and shield until by
my official acts I bad proved myself
faithless ta my. publio trust. But
again the floodgates of calumny have
buunjbrown fpn..jind again J hayc
been arraigned tnrouen the imorte cVr
those whoso ambitious paths 1 impodn.
and again I have tried to bear myself
with equanimity. I come to you, my
friends and neighbors, who know me
best, for that support in which you
have never failed me. I appeal to yon
for the truth of my declaration that I
have tried to serve tbo people with
honesty, euergy and sell'denial. 1
challenge the most rigid scrutiny of
ovcry official act of my Senatorial life.
1 invite the most thorough examina
tion ot my relations to every public
trust. Judge tne with charity for my
errors of judgment. Do not hesitato
to condemn mo if am vile, As your
Senator for thirtoon years I won your
approval. As one ot your Senators in
Congress 1 ask for tolerance ' and
chanty. Judge me by my ofllcii.1 acts.
I shall try so to bear myself that I will
not forfeit your esteem.
THE STORY OF WALKER. '
HIS CAPTURE AND OCCUPATION OP NICA
RAGUA, AND INCIDENTS CONNECTED
WITH IT, AS RELATED BV AN EVE
WITNESS.
The history of Walker and his 'ca
reer at Nicaragua, In 1855, is again
brought before the public by tho nar
rative or ono oi his otneors, 1 01. r rnnK
Anderson, who tells the story in brief
as follows:
At Rivas the first liniwrtunt battlo
occurred, and it was dissstrons to
Walker and his party, particularly to
Anderson, who was shot in the head
and leg, and had two ribs broken.
Anderson says that Walker was the
bravest man a soldier ever followed.
Nothing ever oxeitod, daunted, or
frightened him. Ho hesitated at no
obstacles, and although he attempted
desperate things, such as fighting one
thousand men with fifty, ho never lost
his coolness and self-possession. In
Rivss, when surrounded by the whole
army of the enemy, who had fired the
building in which with his men he bad
taken refuge, be said, in tbe most de
liberate and modorate tone : -
Well, boys, 1 think it is about time
we were getting ont of bore." Then
lie Lu.ot op... .I.. ... -!-
.l y-.ll, r..Uo.rd by- kla ohAntilip; Com.
fades, he dashed through tho enemy's
lines, sweeping about him with his
sword, and shooting rapidly with his
navy revolver. The natives were no
match for such bravery, and Walker
escaped, leaving nearly half of his
force On the field dead or wounded.
Anderson got away with him, although
terribly wounded. Those who escaped
were more or loss used tip. Some
were' wonnded, alt were hungry and
worn with ' fatigue, snd their feet
were full of thorns. They wero in a
swampy forest or jungle, going they
knew not whither, and momentarily
fearing they wonld he overtaken and
slaughtered by the natives. It was
Walker s purpose to reach Uosta men,
which be thought was thirty miles
distant' He knew ho would' lie safe
there ' on 1 neutral ground. ' But the
parry were unequal to the journey,
and alter hobbling along in the des
peration to detest and Icar ot death
thr about fifteen miles, the lender
strnck for the coast. Fortunately fbr
him and his followers, a brig laden
with coffee lay-to near the shore for
water. It was the work of half an
honr to Coptttre ' tho brig, and tho
crew, numbering a half dozen men,
were sent ashore to shut for tnem-
solvcs. Tho hnlfstsrved adventurers
theft sslled away.' They landed at
Sail Jnan del Snr Anderson at tho
point of death and Walker swinging
In his hammock and burning with
fever. ' Hero tbey mot a man named
Girsrd, who gave1 Anderson, whoso
wounds were lull of fly blows, two
eggs, a cup of coffoc, and a thin sonp,
which be thinks ssved his me.
It would be interesting to follow tbo
fortunes of tho filibuster. They
fought again and again, sometimes as
winners, sometimes as losers. Walker
had natives tinder him. but they wero
A rule cowardly." However, lie
finally aiieeeedod, and boeams msstor
of the country, as though he bad been
its acknowledged ruler. Anoerson
got well. An embassador, Parker H.
r rencb, who lost an arm in tno Mex
ican war, was sent to Washington,
and Nicarsun was at peace for six
months, with wsiKer at tne neim oi
State. Anderson was sent to the
United Btstc to recruit a regiment
for :Walkcrs's service, and opened
an office at No. B Broadway, New
York: He said bo had 400 or BOO
men, and every arrangement mad
for shipping them on Morgan k
Garrisons line to Nicaragua. This
firm had agreed to assist Walker in
ercrv wav nonsibl. and Anderson
said that fleorir Law was ono of
the most active and liberal mends oi
the Nicaragna undertaking.
To ono cause, and only ono, aocs
Anderson' attrlbnte the failure of
Walker. Hut for tbis he thinks
Walker wonld have owned and con
trolled tho whole of Central America,
That one cause was the opposition of
Mr. Vandeiilt. The latter owed tho
Nlcaragnan government 110,000.
Walker dcmandoil payment. Jiir.
Vaiiderbilt relnsed to pay, and a
quarrel arose between them. Mr.
Vaiiderbilt, as the story goes, bonght
up all opposition, the steamer oi
Morgan k (iarrison wore withdrawn,
and the regiment of Col. Anderson
remained in New York. Walker
never got his (10,000. Mr, Vandor-
bill monopolised th Nlearaguan trade,
and finally Walker Inst his life. Al
though Anderson could not taK uia
regiment, be embarked alone a soon
he could to Join Walker. 1 Before he
reached Mcarairtia lh story or sik-
er's failure overtook bint. ' His chief
surrendered and suffered sn Ignomini
ous death. ' It was no pIsco Ibr An
derson. ' . 1 1 'V ' '
Th Democrats hav majorities In
tb (Minwaional delegations of twen
ty-two States, lb Republicans in
thirtcm. On Stats, Louisiana, is
evenly divided, and one, Mississippi,
elects representstives in ovcmoor.
A TERRIBLE STORY.
THE FOII.V AND FATE or TIIUKK BEAUTI
, . ,, VOL SISTERS. (
' ' From tbe St. Louli Tlmca.j
I Iur readers may possibly recollect
the circumstances of a fatal duel.
widely published at the !!"" ",lich
occurred on tho 3d of April, 1874, on
the old duelling ground, on tho sandy
stretch of shore fronting Bay St. Louis.
The participants were Artelie Bien
vonne, a broker, and Andrea Phillips,
A lawyer, of New Orleans. It was on
the samo sjiotjwhcro tho fatal bullet of
Rhett, of the Picayune, spod to flight
the gallant spirit of the Intrepid Coolcy ;
tho ground on which the riflo shots of
Badgor and Carter were exchanged ;
where Scott and Campbell met ; and
where many a previous bloody episode
had expiated a real or imaginary fault.
Aside from the fatal termination ol
alaa, iwaeelinajyvilew : wenieoi lietavonra
rniliips and menvenuu nMii,.,
been unusually remarkable but for the 1
fact that it was the final scene in tho
tragic wedded lives of three women
sisters whose husbands fell by the
e
hand of violence, incited by the evil :,
courses of their wives. ' ! ' . "
Bora of reputable Creole parents,
these sisters were inheritors of vast j
wealth and a stainless name, nnd dis-
tinguished for personal beauty in
land whore the loveliness of women
was proverbial, lonoor y rearca ana
lly educated, with possessions
that rivaled in extent and excellod In
value a German principality, It is not
surprising mat uiey oocame uie mil-
terod belles of society, and were tbe
boast and pride of tbe merchant and
planter beaux in all the wild coast
country. That thoso brilliant pro-
tcgos of tbo haughtiest aristocracy of
the old regime should no destined to
exerciso the fatal influence they ex
erted on the men who loved them and
made tbcui their wive is indeed sur
prising. But they were flirts from
their cradles. Born to admiration,
tlioir lives were spent from 3"oiith to
maturity in an atmosphere of fictitious
sentiment and unreal passion. Tbey
looked upon men as mnrely the minis
ters of pleasure, and as the mediums
through which their flattered vanity
might grow und oxpand, as the flower
blooms in tho warmth of the sunshine
AU tho aims and duties of lile wore
bounded by tho ambitions of society.
Admiration to them was appreciation.
Taught to regard their individual pleas
ures as superior to sll considerations of
convenience to others, it is not sur
prising that selfishness, indifference
and tolly became tho mainsprings to
their sctions.
Nor is it astonishing that they ex
ercised the fatal influence tbey did up
on men. Their beauty was glorious.
The youngest was tbo living type of
tho other two. As tho writer saw her
a little over a year ago, she rises be
fore his vision now, a tall, graceful,
slender woman, litho, willowy form of
splendid ccniour anu exquisite aym
mctry. The oval, tinted luce glows
with health, and is radiant with intel
liowtc,. l)nn slionlwifMis black eveg,
unfathomable in their depths, which a
word can kindle with excitement or
make aglow with passion ; a quocnly
woman, regnant in youth, grace, and
tbo empire of men's hearts. Tbo rich
ooils of hair, black and intense, wore
wound above tbe low, broad forehead,
and formed a raven-like crown to the
dusky splendor of a dark Egyptian
thee. Men paused to look at bor, and
women sighed with envy as sh passed.
What she was in ber yotithtul bride-
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what her Sisters were In their matured
and splendid womanhood, tho enthusi-
ast's imagination alone can picture.
And now tor tbe story ol thoir lives.
Tho oldest sister war married to Dr.
Sharp, ot Tuscaloosa, Ala. a polished,
graceful gentleman, whoso love and de
votion might haW contented any
woman less prone to tbe allurements
of society and the admiration of men.
It was in the first year of the wnr, aud
and the most brilliant society in the
South was gathered at Mobile and
New Orleans. With an appetite
whetted to fever boat by A few months'
abstinence from social plessures, she
plunged recklessly into a whirlpool
of gaiety. ' The married flirt wears no
armor of innocence. Her love of ad
miration is pitted rgtiinst man's du
plicity and cunning. She asked nnd
lost. From folly there is but one step
to Imprudence, and that I stop was
taken, despite a husband s jealousy and
sense of honor. The end was incvila
ole:a challenge and a duel, nnd hor
husband fell pierced to tho heart by
tho bullet of her seducer. Thoro was
no pity for a woman like this ; society
repelled ber, and sbo fled to -Sew Or
leans to lead the life of an adventuress.
Tho second sister shortly afterward
married the son of s distinguished
journalist of Mobile. " Tbe futo of her
older slsicr was no oar ion career oi
similar folly. ' Kociety received her
with open arms. Wealth, influential
connections, antl alliances with a dis
tinguished family obscured tor a time
tho recollections of a sister's Impru
dence. 1 Bnt gossip Soon grew busy
with her naino. r rom one lolly to Sn
othor she passed with fatal baste and
seeming indifference, until in a fatal
hour her husband learned thai uio
woman be loved, tho wll'o that ho idol
ized, was a thing to he) Scorned'.1 It
broke bis heart, , Willi the downhill
of his idol bis reason wavered, and ho
perished by his own bund, ror ail
his brilliant luleuls, and the promise
of a splendid woman, he died the vic
tim of a woman's perfidy." 1 -.'
Tho younger sister hecamo tho wife
of Blenvenuc, a young broker of New
Orleans. Rich, beautiful and ac
complished, sbo was nt once a leader
in society. Courted, flattered and
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her women haled and smiled upon
bar. What cared she? Beautilul,
reckless, heartless and indifferent to all
alike, she cared only for that social
admiration which was the sunshine of
her life. Her largo flirt nnd gave her
nn Income in her individual right.
This guvo wings to the extravagance
and enable her to contract bills in ber
own name. . One of them a milliner's
bill was overdue, suit wns brought
sud execution issued, which Mr. I bil-
lis, the lawyer, hsd levied lor satis
faction upon her carriages and horses.
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in n interview Slinseqnrnuy uau
with the lady, regarding the settle
ment of the bill, words which she con
strued inlo an Insult were charged
upon the attorney. Her husband re
sented It a cnouengo ensued anu
then the fatal duel on that sad April
morning, when a husband's life ebbed
swsy its ptupi Mo upon the loneiy
beach, tb last unhappy victim of the
sisters' folly and extravagairac. ;
A law in Nebraska requires every
business firm to register its name snd
kind of business snd tbo nam of each
member of th firm with the County
f'lcrk nnder penally of (1,000 (Inc.
WOJtps FOR XVOMEX t
ft f :? n ' r
' Some kind soul, for the onoourug.
ment of women who fear that tun
will rob them of their fascinations, has
ransacked history lo collect accounts
of women who hsve charmed when no
longer young. Tbe list is a long one,
beginning witi Helen of Troy who is
said to bar been over 40 when she
eloped with Paris, and thus set all
Ulcere by tbe ears and gar us two of
tbe greatest epics ever written. For
this sotion it sueins thai she could not
plead youth as an oxcuse, although wo
respectfully submit that the aooounts
of her age, like everything else in her
story, are rathe apocryphal. More
reliable are tbe records winch com to
ns from Aspasia, whom Petiole wad
ded when sbo was 30, and who, for M
years or more, maintained an undi
minished reputation Ibr beauty and
powers of fascination ; of Cleopatra,
who charmed Maro Antony when she
was past 30, and maintained her em
pire lor nearly ten years longer, and
of Livia, who at 33 won tho heart of
Augustus, and bettor still, kept it to
the last. In modern history tho famous
tian of Poitiom wan 36 wlion nbe won
the heart of Henry II, (then Duke of
Uricane, una just hall Her eg), ana
she was considered the first lady and
most beautltai woman of tho court ip
to the day of his death. After her
came Anne of Austria, Ninon de l'Er
clos, Bianca Capello, Madame de Main
tenon, Catharine II of Russia, Mil.
Mars, tho famous French tragic actress,
und last ami perhaps most beautiful of
all, Madame itecamier. AU of these
were admired and loved long after
they had passed what is generally con
sidered as the buy -day of woman's
charms. It is a noteworthy fact that
a melorUBT of these wwnsea war tuier v
French or lived in France and con
formed to French mannersand customs.
It is not probable that this is because
the women of France are any more
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of , Frecnh wom0 sbout whom
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in (?,, whieh opens the world snd
k,, ju pt.urc. opportunity for con-
t int.udc( w . Woman inly arior
sbo is married, bas caused French wo
men to cultivate with car their
charms, both of mind and person, and
it0 prcH0rv9 them onp, pro8erT,
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tion is possible. Fascination becomes
an art worthy of their deepest study.
To degenerate . into tbe "household
drudgo" uncultivated, untidy and un
lovely, which seems to many of the
women nf tho Tuctonio races to be tbe
type of female womanhood after mar
riage, ia furthest Irom their thoughts.
Tho stato of affairs which this custom
produces, and of which it is an indica
tion, is not to be either envied or imi
tated ; but could American women
learn from their French sisters tho art
of being charming, nay, fascinating, up
to and beyond middle ago they would
be the happier lor it. To win hearts
is the easiest thing in the world; to
hold them one of the hardest. Tbe
French women desire to win and hold
many ; her English or American sister
is, or ought to be, satisfied to win and
hold one. It is just us hard to do the
latter as the former of these things, but
upon doing the latter depends tho hap
piness of every woman and her family.
She who does not put forth her best
efforts to do It must bo content to look
upon hor life as a failure.
Very few, probably, of the thousands
who throw old shoes after bridal par
ties as tbey aro leaving borne know
anything of tbo origin of the custom.
Liko almost all of our common customs
its origin is ancient, and can bo traced
to Bible times. It was then tbe cus
tom for the brother of childless man
to marry his widow, or at least be had
tho refusal of her. If bo chose to re
joet her, the ceremony was publio, and
consisted in ber loosing his shoe from
bis root and sptmng In uui race, ms
giving up the shoe was a symbol of his
abandoning all dominion over ber, and
her spitting in his face was an asser
tion of independence. There was an
affair of this kind between Ruth and
Boaz. In somo parts of the East it
was a custom to carry a slipper before
a newly married couple as a token of
the bride's subjection. Tho custom as
it exists with ns is very old In England
and Scotland. Tho usual, saying is
that it is thrown for luck, and that is
tbo idea in this oountry, bnt originally
it meant a renunciation of authority
over the bride by the parents. It was
formerly a custom among the Germans
for the bride when she was conducted
to hor bed-chamber to take off her
shoe and throw it among the guests.
Whoever got it, in tho struggle to ob
tuin it, received it as an omen that Jie
or she would Boon be happily married.
Train, in his history of the "Isle of
Man," says: "On the bridegroom leav
ing bis bouse, it was customary to
throw an old shoe after him, and in
liko manner an old shoe after the
brido on leaving ber borne to proceed
to church, in order to insure good luck
to each respectively, and if by strata
gem cither of the brido's shoes oould be
taken off by any inspector on the way
from church, it'had to be ransomed by
the bridegroom."- In Kent, England,
niter tho couple bare started on tbeir
tour tho single ladies are drawn up in
one row snd tho bachelors in another.
An old shoe is then thrown as tar as
possible, and tho ladies run for it, the
successful ono being supposed to be
tho first female who will get married.
She then throws lb shoe at the gen
tlemen, and the one who is hit by it is
deemed to be tbe first male who will
outer Into wedlock. Generally It is
considered the older the sbo the
bettor. ' - i - ..,
A correspondent discourses thus In
diifiiantly of the present mode : "The
law which Lycurgus introduced into
Sjiarta for tho promotion of matrimony
wore so extraordinary mat an ouicry
would be raised if any of our nowspa
pors wors to quoto what Plutarch has
snid, in his life of that law-giver, upon
this subject. An attempt bas recently
ben made, In obedience to tho orders
nf some priestess ol fsshion, as yet un
discovered, to approach, in some de
gree, to tbe plans of Lycurgus. Of
course, I refer to the offensive and dis
gusting style of dress known as tho
pull-back. ' As it is a maxim of the fair
sex 'that it is better to be out of tho
world than out of the fashion,' sit fol
low it without regard lo the claims of
modesty. It Is a style of dress utterly
displeasing to persons of lines of the
sreona iwnrs
second jointt ol the ladies (to adopt
innaaal H an I
houses) displayed almost as completely
as if the dames and damsels had noth
ing around them but wet sheets.
Those females who imagine that they
make themselves attractive to the
other sox exceedingly underrate the
modesty of mankind. 1 have yet to
bear any man siieait in mis indecent
Blylo without decided expressions of
discus t. It is said that tho decree lias
gone forth that what are Called low-
necks aro to Do still lower. J bis re
minds mo of a little anecdote, as Father
Abraham used to say. A gentleman
who was asked what he thought of a
lady who bad appeared in that half
dress which is called full-dress, replied :
'She wss a very handsome woman i
far ns etmld ter.' "
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a sufficient quantity of tb niter to
ovolva oxygen enough to oombin with
tb phospborws. And tb effect Is to
firoduoo th most magnificent whit
ight which chemistry can afford.