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It n I :i 1 1 , FOUL B. LEK,
PublLhero.
Cards.
Q T. BROCK BANK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIKLD, PA.
Offloa In Court llouie. ap S6,T7-ly
rein, o'w aura.
' MiClLLOlGH &dTK.
ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW,
ClearUelil. Pa.
All laical buaiae.i promptly atteaded to. Offloa
oa seooad alraet, la tba Maeoate building.
; . 1 Jenli,'7T
'" W. C. ARNOLD,
LAW & COLLECTION OFFICE,
' ' 'cOllWEWVILLE,
' aZA - - Oarleld County. Pena'e. Toy
;S
. V. AVIlSON,
,ATT0UNET AT LAW,
Office one door nut of We tern Hotel building,
opposite Cmjr Houm.
ft.6T7. CI.KARFIKl.D, PA.
TBUl. . MtlSRAT.
CTRUI WORDO.
MURRAY & GORDON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
1 ,'CUEAKKIKI.D, PA.
, 4 aArOfio ia J'io'a Opera llou.o, aaaood Boor.
FRANK FIELDING,
-ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
Clearfield, Pa.
i Will attend to bII buaineaa animated to him
pioiaptly Mil faithfully. jenl'T 1 1
WILLIAM A. WA LI-ACS.
t (AY . WALLA"-
UATID L. IRAae.
JOHN W. WKIOL1T.
WALLACE & KREBS,
(Bmeeeaora to Wallaoe Fielding,)
ATTORN KY8-AT-LAW,
ja177 CI ear He Id, Pa.
WllfMI H'WfAlabV.
Daniel w. a'cimnr.
- MoENALLY & McCDEDY,
' ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW,
Cleartteld, Pa.
ay-Legal baaineai attended to promptly arltbj
oMehty. Offloa on rJecond atraat, abora in. Pirat
Natiooal Bank. jan:l:7
- G. R. BARRETT,
, Attounkt 4ND Counselor at Law,
c "', ' CtEARFfBl.D, PA.
Hiring signed hi Judgeship, ht relumed
the p rue lice of tba 1w in fill old omoe i iat
Held, P. Will attend the nourta of JelTereon And
Klk coontlei when ipeoiallj letAined In connection
with reiident eounael. jtni i
'"' A. G, KRAMER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
RaaI Betu And Culleetlon Agent,
( I IAKFir.1,1), PA
Will promptly attend to all legal builneil
trnitrd to hit eare.
tf-Offiee in Piv't Opera Houte. JadI'7.
H. W. SMITH,
' A TTORNE Y-AT-LA W,
il:l:Jl . riearfleld, Pa.
WALTER BARRETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Clearfield. Pa.
09-Mi In Old Waitara Hotel bulldlne,,
oern.r of Haoond and Markat ftta. taurll.AA.
i ;:. ISRAEL TEST,
ATTORN RY AT LAW,
, Clearfield. Pa.
' at-Odra la tba Coart Uoaaa. ()jll,'7
JF.Kn yt HAGEKTY,
HARDWARE, FARM IMPLEMENTS,
Tluuarc, NiIIa, r,
augl77 fcernd Street, Clearfield. Pa.
7oHN L. CUTTLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
. lurt Raal Ratal Agout, Claarlald. Pa.
r Offloa oa Third atraat, bat. Oherr A Walnet.
' - otaTHaapaotfally affara bla aerrtoea la aalllai
lad buying laada to Clearteld and adJotnlDg
taaaaial p and with aa eiparleaoe or aa.r laiaon
Itua aa a aarvayor, lattara Btnaair tbat he eaa
enter aellereetloa. Feb IS::tf,
J. BLAKE WALTERS,
. " REAL ESTATE BROKE R.
'J I. ' AND ntALtA It
Saw I-aog niul Tjinubor,
" ' CLEARFIELD, PA.
Odea la Urabam'a How. 1:11:71
j: j. lingle,
ATTORNEY-AT - LAW,
LIS. Uaceola. Clearlleld to.. Pa. y:pd
; DR. W. A. MEANS,
.PUYSICIAN A SURGEON,
HiTHKHSmiRll, PA.
Will atteod profeaalonal oalla pronptly. auglt'70
DR. T. J. BOYER,
PHYSICIAN AND SOROKON,
Offloa oa Uarkot Street, OlaarOald, Pa.
aT'Offioa boon : S to IS a. , and t to I p. ai.
rv R R.M SI EURKR,
IIOMWOPATHIC PHYSICIAN,
Offloa Id rtiunee on flrat at.
April 14, Vli. flaart.li). Pa.
DR. J. P. BURCH FIELD,
Lata Barf eoaof the 13d Salnaat,PaaaaylTanla
. Volaataara, aeetag retaraad from tha Anay,
. el.n kla profaaaloaal aerrioea talhaolUaaaa
.. af Olaarleld aoaDty.
aaayPrafeaaloaalealli praaiptly aiteaaed I.
OSaa a rlaeead met, fotaiarlyeaoapled by
Itr.Wooda. , ., apre,'ltU
.:dr;h. b.van valzah,
" " " elEABKIEI.P. pESrA.
OFFICE IN MASONIC BUILDING
ptf OkVt ktKir-.trnm II to ! P. M.
WILLIAU M. HENRY, JorricE
f T orraa Piaci Bcaiaanaa, i-i -o.n
CITT. Colleetiona ajada and aionay proaiplly
paid tver. Artloleaef araenent and deeda el
oen.ayaMe eaUy eteeated and warraated ear.
root or ao charge. WJ"
; JAMES H. LYTLE,
In Kratier llulldla(f, CJearfteJd, Pa.
t)..lr lo Orooarlaa, ProrUloal, VefeUklea,
froili, Fl' ar, Feed, ale., ate.
aerW76-lf .
HARRY RNYDER,
BARBKR AND BAIRDRKBSKR.
" fbop oa Market SI., oppoalte Court Howe.
A aleaa tonal roc trery eaatoraer.
' ' ' Aleo aeufaetarer of
All Klnda of AMIelet In Hatatn'Malr.
. Cla.r6.la, J'a, "ay It,
JOHN A. 8TADLER,
DA R KR, llaraat .. Ckarlrlo;, Pa.
Frb Breed, Rut, Bella, Plei aad Cekea
oa band er Bade to order. A g.neral neeortnjent
mj i ' . - . i ... N.t. ia atoek.
V( i.a.MHWiMin, i i - - -
te Creap. aad 0rUn la ereapn. Saloo, tetcly
pua we I eaicajee. )"" .n...-.
11J
10. 3. G00DLANDEB, Proprietor.
VOL. 51-WH0LE NO.
Cards.
JOHN D.THOMPSON,
Jnitloe of the PAoe and Scrivener,
Curwcnevlllc, Pa.
rfrevOotleotloni made end voneT promptly
pern over. renxi 7111
RICHARD HUGHES,
JUSTICE OF TUB PRACB
ron
Decatur Totcnthip,
Oaoeola Hill. P. O.
11 offlolal bn.lneaa oatreated la bin will ba
proajptly attended to. aaohzt, '7Ai
THOMAS H. FORCEE,
PBALBA M
GENERAL MERCHANDISE, '.
CRAHAMTUH, Pa.
Alae, eiuaatv. Banafaotnrer aad dealer la Sifaare
Timber and Hawed Lumber el all ajuaa.
BtrOrd.ra aollalted and all bllla promptly
tiled. (
REUBEN HACKMAN,
House and Sign Painter and Paper
Hanger,
Clearlleld, Peun'a.
t&.V7lll execute Joba ia bit llao promptly and
In a workmanlike manner. af re,A7
G. H. HALL,
PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER,
NEAR CLBARFIKLD, PBNN'A.
eBPumpe alwaya on hand and aaada to order
en abort notice. Pinee bored oa reaeonablo terma.
All work warraoted to render aaliafaotion, aad
dalirered If daalred. Dyli:lypd
E. A. BIGLER & CO.,
SQUARE TIMBER,
and manufacturer, of
ALL fclNDHOPSAWKI) l.HMIII.H.
i-7'7: CLBARFIKLD, PENN'A.
JAS. B. GRAHAM,
dealer in
Real Estate, Square Timber, Boards,
SHINULKS, LATH, TICKKTS,
V:t0'78 Clearfield, Pa,
Warre NTH 6 RN ,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
Market t., Clearfield. Pa.
In the ihop latelv occupied by Frenk Short,
one door weet of Alleghanv Uooce.
ASHLEY THORN,
ARCHITECT, CONTRACTOR and Bl'ILDKR.
Plana and Bpeciltcationa furnished for all kiod.
of buildinf.. All work Irat olaaa. Btair build
lag a epeeialty.
P. O. addreas, ClearBcId, Pa. Jan. 17-771'.
R. M. NEIMAN,
SADDLE and HARNESS MAKER,
Ruwjbarger, Clearlleld Co Pa.
Korpe on hand all kind, of riarneli, fiaddlea,
Bridlaa, and lioree Furni.hing Uoodi. Repairing
promptly attended to.
Kombargar, Jan. 10, 1877-tf.
JAME3 MITC1IELL,
naatta in
Square Timber & Timber Lands,
JeM'71 Cl.r.ARPIKI.D, PA.
J. 11. M'MUIIUAY
WILL SUPPLY YOU WITH ANY ARTICI.B
OF MKKCUANDIHK AT THE VKRY LOWEST
PRICB. COMB AND SEE. (::73j:l
NEW WASHINGTON.
11 very Ntable. :
Til B anderelgned aega leave to iaiora the pub
He that bo ta now fully prepap" to aeeommo
date all ia tba way of fornl.hlng H..aea,Bugglea,
aaddlea and Uarneaa, on the aborteat aotiea aad
an reaeonablo terma. Raaidanoe oa Loeoat alraet,
betweaa Third and Fourth.
OBO. W. flBARHART.
Ileartald. Feb. 4. ID74. .
S. I. S N Y D E R,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER
aaa anALaa l-
Watobet, Clocks grid Jowolry,
6Tr(ila'a Ram, Mariti Strt, '
C'l.F.ARFIEl.n, PA. '
All kind, af repairing la ay lino promptly el
uded la. April IS, 1171.
NEW BOOT AND SHOE SHOP.
The aaderaigned would Inform tb puhlia that
be bee removed bit Uwot and Kboe Hhep fa the
room lately oocapiad be Jo. Dearing, in HbAW'a
Kow, Market Mreot, where be la prepred to at
tend to the wnnta ef all who weed anything ia bia
line. AH work done by bim will be of the beit
materiel, and guaranteed tu tie flrat e la In every
reetiMt. Henairinr nremptlv attended to. All
kiada of Lent her and bhoe Findinga fraale.
JOHN SCHIKr KR
Clearueld, Pa , July 19, l87T-m. . 1
Clearfield Nursery.
ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRY.
rTHB undeMzned. havlne eatabliabed a Wur-
1 eerv ea the 'Pike. abot baJf way betweea
Clratflrld and Cnrwnavilln, la untpared to for
aiab all kinda of FKIMT TKKKs, (atandard and
dwarf,) Bv-rgretma, t)hrnbtery, tlrape vtaea,
tlnalrrv. Lawton lllArkberrv. Htrawbrrv,
and Reapberry Vlaea. Aeo, Siberian Crab Treaa,
Uaieoe. and early ecarlet Khabarb. Ao. Ordera
promptly attended to. Addreaa,
eepIO Carwenaville, I'a.
ANDREW HARWICK,1
Market Direct, Clearfleld. Pa..
M.aoracToaca ann naaLaa ia
BAHNRS8, SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS,
aad all kinda of
hqksi ruKMsmsa eoops.
A fall atoek of Saddlera' Uardwara, Bruahaa,
Comba, Blanket., Robe .to., alwaya oa head
aad far aal. at the loweat aaab prioea. All hied,
ef repairing promptly attended to.
All kinda of bidea taken la aiobanga for bar.
aeae and repairing. All hind, of hareeM bather
kept oa band, aad ror .ale at a amen proah
Clearteld, Jaa. It, Itll. ' '
E. WARING'S ....
LAW BLANKS
Far aala it tba Cl.erf.eU Rart.LlrA oBca.
The en.ai fTmf Mt Urrttl ( I
piank$ pmbliihtd.
Theae Blaaki are ,Mta ap la aupertor atyle,
ire af aairora (lae, aad farnlehed at aery lew
tWrea far eaah.
Call at tba RarraLieal ofteo aad eiataia
them. Ordera by mail promptly tiled.
Addreaa, UOvDLANDBR A LKB, '
Jely . IKtMIr Chjarield Pa.
JOHN TROUTMAN,
DEALER IN '
FURNITURE,
MATTRESS EM,
AND '
Improved Spring Beds,
MARKET STREET, HEAR T. 0.
Tea aaderalgaae) beg. leare ta laform the etll.
. : j .-j .w. Mkiu .MMill,. that
ba bae ea head' a tea eeeertaaeal ef Purairare,
aaeh aa W.laal. vawaiarai eaa r"'" -
. n oi... UuUalae end Batea.loa
Chelra', Ladlaa" and Oeala' Baay Cbaira, the Per-
forelad Dining aaa ranor unaira, v.. -
,.l i..ku u. Aim and altea
lea Ladder., Hat Baeka, Sorabbla, Bra.bea,
MOUlDISq AKO f ICTyBB FSAttan.
uki.. fllua. Ohremia. A... (bleb loald
iub.. f Holiday pr... ..,.,
2,548.
.. THANKSQIVINQ DAY.
Hell, hall. Thank. lrlDg Day I ,
Wrleome toeainte and llnoiri
WHoome la all, both great and email,
Thou day of royal dinnen 1
See how they eonie from far and near,
A troop of "carpet-bigger'
To greoe the beerd with one aoeord,
With appetitei like dagger.
Who oarea fcr Turktih war abroad )
Who oarea for eerf or Cear 1
Oar Tnrkey lioa before oar eyei;
Come end attack hurrah 1
With knlleand fork we win the dy,
A true to eare and aorrow 1
fat wtiila we mey, Thankagiring Day
t Will tide before to morrow.
We're thank fo I for a boat of thiaga
Tee aumtroua te mention :
For aweethearte true and hearti to woo,
And all tbinga wortb attention,
for all euid every thing that give
Our livea ao muoh of pleaaure
We offer thanka. Long uav we taate
Thine overflowing mpaaurt! ( ,
Then bail, ball, T baa k Kg! vine Day !
Thou da ef rovil dtnneraT
Nor will we aare tf the grin nightmare
Should flight the eul within aa
Whrn day la done. Let Turkey ghoat,
With ttie nita and puddinga and wine.
In the dead of eight begie the light,
8tlil victory ia thine !
i Uarper'$ Jofan'aa ur Dtecmhir.
THE ELECTOR A L FliAVD !
JUDGE nf.ACKU REPLY TO MR.
E. W. KTHIIUIITON.
Defenae uf Mr, llurhauau'a Admllilatratlou.
THE 8TOUOI1TON ARTICLE IN THE "NORTH
AMERICAN REVIEW " FOR OCTOBER
PLAINLY DEALT WITH.
H'oncludctl from lost ,.
I am tolil, and I inclino to boliuve,
tliut you did not wrilo Ibis part of Uio
artulo tvliieh jiuiwos for yours. Komo
tniart furpot-lmngor put It together,
and gave it to you, to try how much
bo could make- you diaruvu yourmll
(or bia amunomtmt or Lis nuilicc, and
you put your name tu it without know.
in;; whether it was right or wrong.
Tina iv 1 invert you from the imputation
of duliburuto falsehood; but why, oh I
why were you silly enough to become
the catnpaw ot such a mischievous
monkey ?
I have spoken mainly of the Louis
iana cohc, because that is the one of
which you ought to have some special
knowledge. You have, however, gone
into Kloriclu, and tried to defend the
decision io fuvor ol that fruud. As
might havo been expected, you make
a bungle of it. I will re-Btato the points
as held by tho commission so lur as
you attempt to indicate them.
Professing to vindicato the great
principle of Sluta rights, the commis
sioners forced upon Florida electors
whom the Suite had rejected when she
made ber own choice, and against
whom all tho department of her gov
ernment bad protested. The liuudulent
nullity manufactured by two canvass
ing officer was allowed to outweigh
the will ol the Stuto a expressed by
ber executive, her Legislature and ber
courts, as well as the solemn voice of
tho people in their primary capacity.
The commission invested tlio can
vassing officers with judicial authority,
and held that tbeir cortilicato was the
decree of a tribunal. It is perfectly
certain that by the law of the Bute
the canvassing omcers havo no such
power. Tba act of the Legislature
doe not give it to them, and the Su
preme Court of tho Stato had docidod
in the most emphatic manner that
thotr duties were purely ministerial,
Tbeoommisslonerswentanotherstop.
Two clerk being metamorphosed into
judges contrary to tho law of the
ntuto, it was next maintained that
their fraudulent act was as good as an
honest judgment, and this was against
the law ot the whole civilized world.
All the questions of law an: laetcon
trovertcd beforo tho commissioner,
with reference to the voto ol Florida,
had been adjudicated by a Suite coart
of competent jurisdiction in a canso be
tween the same parties. It was not
open to anotlior Bearing, nut tno
Clglll UUItlllllBaiuliern, ivenivno VI luon
pluin duty, or not unuurstitnuing it,
tliougn wurnca oy ineir uroinron,
made doelsion dinmctrically oppoBito,
and the fraud that had been legally
crushed wis restored to another life.
It might bo possible for a very inge
nious man to gloss over these anom
alous rulings with somo appearance of
plausibility. Hut yourargiimcntoiiiv
sets thcm'in a worse light. Your weak
and awkward detenso of them willcon-
tlune any intelligent man who reads
it that they are wholly indelensihle.
If the commissioner were not asham
ed of their orroit . before, they must
havo blushed when they saw liiem
snpported by sncb twaddle as yonrs.
You ate naturally offended by my
reference to tht eeniluct of Mr. Slier
man'svisiting commiiu-d, of which you
were ono. You call it an attack ; but I
I mi ant it for tho best defense 1 was able
to furnish; and 1 will not now bo pro
voked to utter ono harsh word about
tbem. I am willing to admit that
when I said they "aided and abetted
by every vieant in their power, lb. por
pctiatioB of the Great rraud," I used
loo strong an expression.
Their easo is loo serious to ho dealt
with lightly. So far as depends on
mo, I will not suffer them to be preju
diced by yonr hindering advocacy.
But thoy have hurt Ikrmselvet Very
much by declaring insincerely and un
truly that they went to Louisiana on
ly jo tcifncM tho count of tho doctoral
voto by tho rolurning board. Nobody
believe that they would drop their af
fair at borne, Hart immediately after
tho election, travel all the way to Lou
isiana and sUy- tlitwe,l great expense,
for montb, merely that tber might be
present a tpectatort when Wells, An
durson am) tho two mulattoca would
cipher up the, returns. No; thoy
meant business of nomo kind, good or
evil, and evil ii always autpected of
that which covers itself under . sham.
Another protenco of thoir fail to
bear examination Jbcy ald thoy
could not adviso an honest count or
reprobate a false ouo without fear of
olfenco to the returning officer. This
extreme dclirney hi all simulated.
Nothing oould b moro ridicnlout man
the idea ihat lb comniittea waa re
strained by politeness from interfering
to top the Iraud. it tucy wanicu u
stopped. Thoy cpud bavo crushed It
with a word. If they bad simply said
that an honest Count must be made of
all ho legal Tote actually cast, and
that fto man thould, with their Don
sent, b recogniBtxl, proteotod or re
warded lor falsifying or fraudulently
altering rcturut, tho eonspiracy would
have dissolved that instant, , Their re
fusal to do this or something equiva
lent, when p rented and solicited by
lha Democratic committee, nocds to
be vindicated by to roe bettor reason
tbsn any that baa yet been given.
Thev not onlv did not prevent the
Great Fraud when Jhey might bavo
don it o caiily, but they e.conroged
it, intentionally or unintepuonany, 07
telling the ponspinitoni that power to
disfranchise the ciliion of tko Stato
miirht ennstitutionillv be exorcised by
(he returning board; and to give this
''''''Paiffa, e
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1877.
plausibility thoy cited a void statute
and a decision of tho Supromo Court
which had never been mado. By rea
soning wholly unsound thoy made the
conspirators beliove that if they put
their fraud into the "form of law, it
could never bo questioned.
Moroovor, after tho fraudlcnt al
teration of tho voto bad boon mado,
they prouonced It a righteous thing.
How far thoy wore conscientious Hi
this, I do not pretond to say. But if
a man approve of a consummated
orime, it does not require much fuith
in human weakness to believe that ho
might havo holped it along while it
was yet in fieri.
Again : the chairman of that visit
ing committee has sinco become Sec
retary of tbo Treasury, and controls
the appointment and removal of Custom-house
officers at Now Orleans as
well as elsewhere. Wells is surveyor
of tho port, and Anderson is deputy
collector. Aro those offices tho con
sideration, in wholo or in part, of their
corrupt service in the returning board ?
What other claims to thoso lucrative
and highly responsible places could bo
preferred by this braco of detected
criminals?
Though thoso tacts make, an impres
sion very unfavorable to tbo commit
tee, thoy aro but moral circumstances.
Tbo public is not yrt in possession of
any direct evidence which shows either
01 them to bavo actually participated
in concocting perjured affidavits, bar
gained for fulsified records, or made
special promises of reward for corrupt
services. Allot them are men of good
general reputation ; mostof them stand
so high that a charge against them of
willful dishonesty, unless supported by
overwhelming proof, must be rejected
as incredible. Some, perhaps, wcro
tied to tho tail of the committoo who
had not knowledge enough of the sub
ject to ruukj thorn fuirly responsible
tor what they said or did. r ou your
self are in no dangor if you got proper
credit for your mentul imbecility; ut
least 1 think it can bo easily shown
that greut allowance ought to bo made
for you on tbut score.
I coma now to your abuse of tbo
Buchanan administration. It is as
difficult to analyze as the scolding of a
fish woman." liut out of your reck
less and half crar.y circumlocution I
am nolo to extract the following
charges:
1. J hat the rresidont and other
members of tho administration wero
in fnvor of tho soccssion movement,
and desired it success.
2. Tbut to make it successful they,
and particularly the President himself,
Dt'haved treacherously and uniail lilitl
ly to tho Federal government.
a. I hat tho President comhined with
secessionists in the treasonable plot to
break up the L'nion, establis'jod an in
dependent Southern Confederacy, and
cause It to be recognizad as a separate
nation by foreign governments.
4. That in pursuance of this plot,
and to carry it out, tho President not
only abandoned but denied tbo right
of tbo) government to preserve itself,
or to maintain its authority, or to ex
ecuto its laws, or to put down resist
ance by force.
5. That a a oonsequenco of thoso
and other evil deeds, tho Buchanan
administration became accursed as tho
causo ol the civil war, with all its loss
of blood and treasure.
I will not now write an essay on tbo
history of that period, or go into a gen
eral explanation of the events which
took place on tho eve of tbo war. I
am wholly on tho defensivo, and my
present duty is merely to stato certain
fact already well known, and which
show that your charge aro fulso and
groundless.
Mr. Buchanan's regular message of
December, 1800, addressed to a Con
gress in which all tbo Northern and
Southern States wcro represented is an
unanswerable' argument against tho
right of separation, and tho most pow
erful appeal to tho American ponplo,
excepting, perhaps, .V ashington s lure
well address and Jackson's proclanin
tion. No ono can read it now without
feeling that if his wise counsels had
been heeded, the unity of the ltepublie
would have been preserved in the bonds
of a lusting peace.
Only thoso who know, of thoir own
knowlcdgo, what relations actually ex
isted between tho administration and
tho leading advocates of separation
can see how preposterous is the charge
of a conspiracy between them. For
many Southern gentlemen tho Presi
dent, no doubt, bad a warm affection
which it wa not easy to teur from
hit heart 1 and thoir atuicbmont to
bim had been long and faithful. But
the moment ho assumed his public at
titude of opposition to their movomcnt
thoy fell away from him in a body and
bocamo his unanimous oneniics as fur
as they could be so consistently with
their rcsiect for bis acknowledged
personal virtues. Even the Southern
mombeni of bis Cabinet could not rec-
oncilo it wilb tbeir principle! to hold
office nnder him. Tbo great gulf, soon
to bo tilled with blood and tiro, was
already openod. Tbo . administration
was on one tide ot it and tho secession
ists on tho other. Does that look like
a combination to effect a common pur
pose by oonoorl ol action 7
Not loss absurdly falso is tho charge
that tho administration denied tho
power of the Fedoral government to
maintain its Just supremacy uy lorco.
We held not only that no right of
separation existed, and a a logical con
sequence that all State ordinances of
secession were more nullities, but we
claimod for the government of the Un
ion the right to save its porfect integ -j
rity by the nso of all tho physical
force which might bo found necessary.
This power wa given by tho Consti
tution itself, according to our exposi
tion of it, thu : , , . , , 1
To take or retake and keep posses
sion of all forts, arsenals, dock yards,
eustom-nonsos.postomccs. land and oth
er public property of tho United Statu ;
to collect the dutios, impost and taxes
whorever due ; to execute the laws by
enforcing the judgments of the Federal
court and the legal orders of all Fed
eral officer, and to do this by military
power wherever the civil authority Is
not stronir eoouirh ; these are the co
ercive power bestowed on tho general
government lor Its own preservation,
and thoso, instead of being abandoned
by the Buchanan administration, wrre
most distinctly asserted.
What we did deny wa the right of
the United State to make war iiponn
Ulale at a Slate,, declare all tho inhabi
tant beyond lb protection of law,
and put tbem all tu tho sword as pub
lic enemies, for theoretical heresies ex
pressed by a low of them, in the form
of void ordinance. We thought, aa
Washington. Madnon and Jackson
thought and said on similar occasions,
that the force which mpported tho
law ought to be directed against tho
individual who opposed it, and not
against Innocent ponion who happen
ed ta live In the same titate.
The United State, being (within
aJ-
PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN.
cortain limits) a sovereign government,
to winch obedience wus duo directly
from the people, it took no notice of
Stuto lines, and could not mnko war
upon a Slulo any moro than a Stale
could make war upon a county. Tho
opposite doctrine, which would inter
pose tho State between the pcoplo and
tbo Federal government, wus tho doc
trine of tho secessionists, which we re
jected as unsound and heretical.
. 11 tho executive had ut that limo
openod an indiscriminate and aggres
sive war, it would not only have boon
luwless murdor, but it would, as ovory
one now can sec, havo ended in com
plete disaster, and tho cause of tho
Union must have utterly perished.
Tho execution function is confined
by tho statute book as well as tho Con
stitution. Tho , President could not,
and ho said plainly tbut ho would not,
vloiuie LI. untt vi omca uy tiaurping
power which tho law withheld from
him. But Congress could givo him nil
that was needed. It did not do so. On
the 9th of January he sent in a special
mossago, describing the dangers to
which tho l'nion wus exposed by the
inaction of Congress, and showing the
inadequacy of his means to control the
rising revolution. Congress would not
vole a man or a dollar, nor in any way
strengthen tho executive hand.
1 but these views of legul and con
stitutional duty wero true and right is
not open to the slightest doubt. 1.x
cept tho Soutburn members who retir
ed, all tbo Cabinet fully and heartily
concurred in them, tumoral Lass, lien,
eral Dix, Mr. Holt, Mr. Stanton, Mr,
Toucey and Mr. King wcro as trua to
them as 1 was, and 01 course support
ed them witli much greater ability.
Wo differed several times with one an
other and with tho President on
points of policy; but on the law wo
were of one mind and one heart. Our
exposition of it was not to my knowl
edge thought or said to bo erroneous
by any member of that Congress. Our
successors, of the Lincoln administra
tion, adopted it in nil it length and
breadth. To this day no lawyer of
average ability has ever fairly consid
cd it and then candidly put in a dis
sent. It is so manifestly correct so
simply just and right that all rhon
agree to it.
Such being tho true stuto of tho
caso, as tho record shows, you assail
tho Buchanan administration with
filthy abuse, and charge Mr. Buchanan
himself, not only with entertaining
opinions totally different from those
he ectually hold and expressed, but
with criminal acts of tho darkest dye.
Apart from tho pulpublo falsehood
of these accusations, your attempt to
criticise a man like Mr. Buchanan is
iinpardonably presumptions, Your
judgment upon his character or con
duct, even H honestly expressed, is not
worth a straw. Doubtless bo had his
share of imperfections ; but how could
you tell his faults from bia virtues?
You belicvo that tho fraudulent alter
ation of election returns to cheat a na
tion is tbo "cxerciso of a wise discra
tion :" you buliovo the Louisiana re
turning law to bo just and constitu
tional ; you belicvo it right to nuoto a
judiciul docision for a principle which
tbo case does not contain ; how, then,
can any moral standard of yours be
applied to a statesman whoso lifo was
upright, pure, aud patriotic? Your
faith in, and affection tor, tbo carpet
bug knaves makes it a necessity ol
your nature to vilify Buchanan, who
was in all thing! tbeir opposite. Bis
intellectual as woll as hi moral supe
riority puts you so widely apart that
you can never know anything whatr
ever about him. I do not wish to ex
aggerate his magnitude or your little
ness ; and I could not if I would try ;
for no comparison of minocan describe
the ditleronco botween you. Uypenon
and Satyr; the towering eagle and
tbo mousing owl ; tho King of tho Ti
tans and tho dwarf at his foot; the
builder of the solemn temple and the
fly on ono of its columns nono of
theso trite similes gives an idea of tho
immeasurable distance which separates
you from him. ISobody expects the
scurvy politician, alio busies himself I
fixing up fulso election returns, to un
derstand the thoughts, motives or acts
of the incorruptible magistrate whoso
walk is on the mountain range of tho
law.
Let us look for a moment at your
method of supporting tho charge you
mako and sco Iiot worthy it is of you
and your carpet-hag associates. In
substance, your accusations aro that
he and bis administration, being in
complicity with treason, favored the
right of tho States to separate, from
tbo Union at pleasure., and, in the in
terest of tho seceding Stales, denied
the power of tbo general government
.o maintain its authority by force. Tho
message honestly quoted proves ex
actly tho reverse. But you suppress
all that it contains upon thoso sub
jocls, and quoto ccrtnin sentence re
lating to a totally different mutter,
namely, the right of tho general gov
ernment to muke aggressivo war upon
a Sluto, and all thu people thereof,
without regard to tbeir personal guilt
or innocence. Because he shows that
tbo Constitution bus wisely withheld
(Ait power from both tho President
and Congress you say that ho aban
doned mid denied tho other powers
which, in fact, ho asserted and claim
ed in that "nine message
I do not ask if this bo a fair way to
defame a mun whom death has disarm
ed of the power ol self defence ; for I
suppose tbut, In your eyes, il is emi
nently proper. oil hnve no doubt that
it Is "a wiso discretion, hko tnut 01
Wells and Anderson when they tnins-
Ksted tho figures on the return from
V ernon parish. ) be trick, to do sure,
is perfectly transparent, but your men
tal calibre is just small enough to let
Ton think, tliut oven a detected false
hood is hotter than nono.
Nor would I adviso you to cease your
vituperation ol the dcud President. His
memory is intensely hatod by many
powerful persons to whom his digni
tied and virtuous iilo was a constant
reproach. To slander him is tho surest
way to carry favor with them, and thoy
can assist you to get a foreign mission,
or some other offlco for which you are
equally unfit. Lnso no opportunity,
thoreforo, of being Biiporserviceablo.
Tako every necasioti lo load up as much
dirt as your little cart will carry, and,
however far it takes you out of tho
way, drive around and dump it on the
gravoof Buchanan. It will not disturb
his repose, and no doubt il will increase
your chance of promotion very much.
It is always moro or less awkward to
speak of one's self. But you havo drag
ged my Individual lifo into this discus
sion, and falsely accused mo of gross
misbehavior. 1 shall make my defenoo
with as little egoim as the nature uf tbo
cso will permit.
Yon havo positively averred, pub
lished and proclaimed that I adopted
the view of the secessionists, and en.
teted Into a "devilish cunning" con
spiracy with tbem to destroy the Un
ion ; that I brought the "accursed ad
REPUBLICAN.
ministration" Into this traitorous com-
binntion, expressed the opinion that
oacn citato nau a right to separate Irom
thu l'nion at pleasure, and declared tho
government tiustituto of all power to
proscrvo ilsell by com polling obodionco
lo it law, with much moro to tho
samo effect.
To this I oppose my explioit denial
I docluro that all you say about me in
this connoction is perfectly and entire
ly iuiso, not only in It general tenor,
but in evory detail. No ttot that I ever
did, no lino that I ovor wroto, no word
that I ever spoke can give the slightest
support to any ono of your charge.
un tho contrary, all my utterance,
puniic aim pnvaio, are diametrically
1110 reverse 01 this.
Up to this point I bavo boon willing
to excuse you on tho score of incapaci
ty. You could not bo expected to soo
the unconstitutionality 01 the returning
onuru law, or the legal right ol tbo poo
plo to choose thoir own elector, or tbo
dishonesty of altering election returns,
or tho rulo that fraud makes void what-
over it taints by it touch. In quoting
uiu jiuiuniuiiu court 10 provu a princi
plo which il did not mention, perhaps
you only repoated like a parrot what
others said beforo, without knowing
what it meant. When you asserted
tho conclusiveness of tno returning
board's notion on tho authority of the
statute, and ajudicial decision, you may
havo omitted tho word "prima facie"
from your rendering of both, because
you thought that conclusive and prima
facie were synenymou terms. You
probably did not wtite that part of your
article which most fulsoly accuses me
ot admitting, and justifying the murder
of innocent ami helpless peoplo by
tbousunds. All your misstatements up
on the Florida caso could be accounted
for by your lack of legal knowledge.
Kvon your misrepresentation of Mr.
Hucbunan might be considered lha un
avoidable blunder of a narrow mind
struggling with a subject beyond its
comprehension. But this slander ot mo
is a different thing, (living you credit
for as much ignoranco as yon can possi
bly pleud, and making all allowance lor
the curious moral strabismus with which
you are afflicted, still judgment must
go aguinst you, that here yon bavo triK
fulhj broken tho ninth commandment.
Manifestly you sought most diligent
ly for evidence to show that I had been
opposed to tho Union, favored secossion
and advised against the right of the
government lo exocuto it own laws.
Tho further you went in your search,
tho more proofs you found to contra
dict tho calumny which you bad pre
determined to utter, and you found ab
solutely nothing, tor nothing existed,
to sustain it. But, truo to tho morali
ty of tho returning board, you resolved
lo make what you could not find. You
took my opinion of 20th of Novomber,
I Will, and there you saw an exposition
of tho subjoct precisely tho opposito of
that which you wished to imputo to
mo. J lien you lulsiticd tbo record, sup
pressed what I actually wrote, and at
tributed to mo sentiments which I nev
orentertained or uttered. Youraocount
of the paper and it content is not on
ly different from, but directly contrary
to all that is contained in tho paper
itself.
That is bad enough, but that ia not
tho worst of it. In ardor to give some
show of authenticity to your fulso ver
sion of my opinion, yon protend to
transcribe a paragraph ; but your tran
script is basely fraudulent. Lot any
man tako vol. 9 of the Attorney (Jen-
oral's opinions, look at this one on page
5i1, and compare your protended copy
with tho original. 1 ou pick out sen
tences hero and there from different
places, and presont them to your read
em as if I had writton thorn continu
ously. What you slriko out is absolute
ly necessary to a proper understanding
of what you leave in. A most serious
and embarrassing difficulty had been
brought upon tho administration by tho
resignation of all tho federal officers in
South Carolina. Tho Preisdent, anx
ious to perform bis whole duty, requir
ed my advice Of course I did not say
that this was c,iu belli as against tho
Stuto. We oould not lawfully kill the
wbolo population because our officers
vacated the pluces to which wo had ap
pointed them. Military force might bo
sent there to aid tho civil officers in ex
ecuting tho law, but wo must first
hnvo civil omcers to be aided, ror this
1 gavo reasons which any ono who
reads tho opinion will perceive to bo
entirely satisfactory. ou mako mo
talk nonsense about it ; I seem to pro
pound a question which I do not. an
swer; to describe a difficulty without
proposing any relief, and to draw a
conclusion from no premises Having
thus deprived the passago of its real
meaning, you ascribo to it a fulso ono,
and assert that it contains sontimonts
inspired by "treasonable allies" of tho
administration "in aid of tho great re
bcleion." In law this is not a forgery. But
among men of avcrago honesty the
fraudulent alteration of a paper to in
jure another' charactor passes for about
as shametul anil boso a thing as can bo
done. Let ma illustrate by cases which
I need nut say uro merely hypothetical.
aiippose yoursell appointed to tho
mission you havo sought o oarnostly.
1 on wish lo ruin some man, or woman,
by trumping up a lalso accusation
aguinst bim, or her, and you try to do
it by diplomatically misrepresenting
tho contents of a writton document
which vnu have in vnur nnssession and
from which you mako false quotation ;
you are detected and exposod ; what
would be dono with you r All further
intercourse with you would bo declin
ed; your recall would be immediately
demanded ; you would be kicked out ot
tho country a ignnmimously a the
rules of international law would per
mit.
Imagino yourself in court as a coun
sellor with a papor in your hand whoso
contents it is necessary for yon to make
known : rou misalato the wholo tenor
and purpose ot it ; you pretond to read
a part ol it, but read il falsely thai Hie
truo sense ot it is altogether obscured.
If yon aro caught in the trick you are
certain to bo expelled from the profoM
ion.
Suppose another caso : A fedoral offi
cer is impeached for being engaged in
a conspiracy against tho government,
and you being a witness, testify posi
tively that ho It guilty borauso you
havo seen a papor written by the ao-
cuscd in which sentiments are ex ores
ed favorable to tho conspiracy ana hos
tile to the right of the govornmcnt to
execulo it own laws. Moreover you
produce a copy, mado by yourself, of a
narairraph. which you swear to be
plenary proof ol an intent lo surrender
the power ol the Union to the conspi
rators. After that you are indicted for
perjury, and it i proved that no tuch
onliment was expressed in the piper,
but tho direct contrary, and that your
copy ia a fulso copy, palpably made for
tho purpoao of doooption ; would you
have a dufvneo ? Could you esoape con
viction? If convicted what would be
come of you ?
NEW
Of course you havo nover done oilhor
01 thoso supposed acts. Jput tho cases
merely to bring tho principal down to
a lovol with your understanding, and
to show you how dangerous is the prac
tice you indulgo in ot falsifying docu
ments and misstating tbeir contents.
When you soo how It would work if
carried out into other departments of
business you will comprehend the in
iquity of trying to fusion the highest
crimes upon innocent persons, dead and
alive, by such method as you have
adopted.
A to Oregon, it was not assorted bo-
fore tho commission that anything crim
inal had been committed. T he question
whothor Cranio or Watts was elected
involved a doubtful and difficult ques
tion of law on which there woro differ
ent opinions and iudiclnl authorities
seriously conflicting. That Governor
a .. atawt . i.....ir A ,,...1
ing to hi bust judgement, there can be
no doubt in tho minds ot reasonablo
and fair minded men. Tho presump
tion that he acted with all duo fidelity
to the law is much strengthened by
yonr assertion that he was guilty of
loathsome fraud. lourabusoot any
man is very powerful evidence in his
invor.
In like manner I take your diatribe
upon Mr. Tilden and tho Now York
Democracy. 1 know nothing of tho
matter you refer to ; but I do not be
liove a word you say. liumembering
your monstrous falsehoods about Mr.
Buchanan ; Boeing tbo largo, loose, and
lavish mendacity ol your charges
against myaell, and applying the max
im, Jalsus in uno falsus in omnibus, 1 can
only regard your abuse ot Mr. Tilden
as strong proof that bo is a just, up
right and honorable gentleman. Thus
you furnish mo with a cheap and casi
mode ol praising him. I ho chosen
chief ol ihe nation swindled of bis right
doe not want any eulogy lrom me.
out 11 1 am called upon lo show the
grounds of his titlo to general respoct
and admiration 1 need not describe the
rreproacbable walk of bis private lilo
or bis high publio caruor his brilliant
oloquonco or bis solid judgment bis
tireless struggle against corruption in
tbo city of Now York or hi beneficent
administration of tho Stato Govern
ment ; it is enough that I simply show
your attempt to defame bim ; for that
itself is a decoration ol bis charactor.
Y'our fling at Mossrs. Field and Car
penter is hardly worth notice Far as
thoy stand above your reach, you at
tempt to malign tbeir mottoes for op
posing the Gioat Fraud; thoso of ono
you pronounce te bo morcenary and of
tho other "mixed and mysterious.
Tbey belong lo a class of men who act
habitually upon motive which must
always bo a mystery to yon, for you
cannot comprehend them. You chuckle
over the fact that their logic and elo
quence wasunsucesNfiil. That is prop
er enough.
J be decision ot tho commissioners
gavo to stupidity and fraud a groat
triumph ovor the honesty aud ability
of Messrs. Fiold and Carpenter, and in
this triumph you bavo an unquestion
ed right to rejoice. You add that
tbeir joint cnort before tho commiss
ion was a not inefficient aid in preparing
the minds of thoir auditor lor tbo ju
dicial result which followed." This
seems to mean that cither from lack ot
faithfulness or want ot capacity they
injured their cause by pleading it. But
you would scarcely presume lo pro
nounce such a Judgement on men whose
superiority ovor yourself is so marked
and so well known. One other con
struction of your words is possible Tbo
commissioners were the auditors and
their minds were prepared to docide in
favor ot the fraud by the mere fact that
Messrs. Field and Carpenter, Itcpubli-
an lawyors, appeared in opposition to
Did tho commissioners Indulgo a
feeling so unworthy ? Did thoy pros
titute their judicial functions to satisfy
it? Certainly no reasonable man can
evor believo tbut without authority
much bolter than yours. But most
probably you had no meaning at all.
It is mere drivel, and only furnishes
another proof that whon your masters
at Washington entrusted you with tbo
Great Fraud they put the business in
to most incompetent hands.
J. S. Black.
HIE DEATH OF (IKS ERAL
RHADDOCK.
A THEORY THAT HE WAS SHOT BY A VIII
(1INIA ncNTXa TO AVENUE A
rkothf.r's wbobo.
"There i a tradition still lingering in
the neighborhood, that a bullet from
tbo rifle of a Virginia Hunter, and not
an Indian, laid tho British leader low,
in rcvongo for some wrong inflicted up
on a brother of the reputed assassin.
Tbora is not a little romance connected
with this wholo story ol Braddock and
hi defeat tho heroio exploits of tho
then youthful Washington, and tho
capture of Fort Duquesne evonts
which occurred a oentury and a quar
ter ago. Tho writer of this has ram
bled ovor theso mountainous regions
several time In former years, visiting
all tho points of interest along the old
Braddock road, from Cumberland on
the Potomac to the battlefield ol Mon
ongahela. It is, indeed, mostly a wild
region, but an interesting ono mainly
because of the events which transpired
along the old lino event which wero
the turning points in American history.
That was tho gateway through which
passed the civilisation that now rules
the wcsl and is the glory of our coun
try. Theso wild adventurer had to
do with the retirement of tho French
power in America and tho establish
ment of the Protestant form of Chris
tianity. The place on the right of tho
old National road on Iho western de
clivity of the Allegheny mountains,
marked 'Braddock' Grave,' is undoubt
edly tho spot where bis remains woro
finally interred. Tbo late Hon. An
drew Stewart, for many year a mom
bor ol Congress from Pennsylvania,
onoo stated in the presence of the wri
tor that hi father lived near this place,
and many year wa supervisor of tbo
highway. On one occasion, whon they
wore repairing tho road, one Tom Pau
sott, an old man and a noted hunter,
one ot the first settlor In that region,,
waa present Fausett said Dial he and
his brothor Joseph were iq the battle
of Monongahela undor Braddock, and
that ho bad himself assisted in thebnr.
ial ol the British General, 'Now,' said
the men one day, 'yoo have alwaya
claimed that you helped to bury Brad
dock j show ua whore be lie and we
will dig him up.' Fausett took somo
observation and bearings, and then,
pointing to a particular spot, said: 'Dig
here. 1 am not six feet from his bono.'
lie continued: 'We buried him in tho
road, and drove tho wagons over tho
grave so the Indian could not find him.'
Tba workmen dug right w 11 ere no ui
reetod them, and, sure enough, lound
the remalni of a man which all admit
ted must bavo boen those of the unfortu
nate British General. They were then
re interred at the foot or a large nK
TEEMS $2 per uuao in Adranoe.
SERIES - V0L. 18, NO. 47.
troo near tho road, and that placo has
ovor sinco been pointed out to the
tourist as Braddock'sgruvo. Mr. Stew
art said be was then about eleven years
old, and was an eyewitness of these
proceedings. Somo English gentle
men traveling in this country within
a few yonrs havo placod around this
spot a substantial tenco, out of respect
lo tbo memory of their countryman.
But now comes tho question, who kill
od Braddock ? It must bavo been this
samo Tom Fausett. There once lived
in tho fumily of tho writer of this
sketch a man by tho name of Leonard.
For a number of years Loonard's futu-
or kept an old township pauper who
was this sumo Join l-ausett, and who,
as bcloro Btatcd, with his youngor
brother whom Jlraddock struck down
with his sword for taking shelter bo
hind a tree to escapo tbo deadly am-
I-..A. .w-1-.k. . r L.J IUIIh..
When Tom I'uiisett, as slated by Leon
ard, was old, dim of sight and feeblo, ho
used to sit in tbo Summer time all duy
long under tho shade of an old apple
tree in the front yard, and repeat to
himsell over and over again: 'lhoy
say I shot Braddock ; well, if 1 did, I
shot him with two silvor sleeve but
tons.' There was an old superstition,
which may exist yet for aught wo
know, that a gonoral could not bo kill
ed with Iced, but with silver bullets
only. Fausett was enraged at Brad
dock for having struck down bis
brother, and so most likely, cutting off
tbo buttons from the sleevo of bis uni
form, which wero called 'silver' even if.
they wero not, used them instead of
lead. Poor Braddock tell mortally
ounded, and in tour days was buried.
Ho died saying: 'Who would have
thought it? Wo shall know bettor
how to deal wilb tbom another time.'
If Fausett did shoot Braddock, ono
could hardly blamo bim, for it was bis
full tbut saved tba army from entire
destruction, such as tbut which Custer
mot upon the plains of tho west. If
lfraddock bad not tullen we might never
havo had our ashington, tor the en
tire army, routed and confused, would
bavo been the prey of the French and
savago Indians." Dr. Trafton in the
national Kepmitonj.
RAISING PORK.
I wish to givo your readers my plan
of raising pork cheaply, and if any
brother larmor has a bettor way I
should liko to know it, as I am open
to conviction and anxious to learn how
to mako tho Most money out of my
hogs in tho shortest time aud at the
least expense. My plan is to secure
as good a breed of hogs as possible
(my prcterenco is for the Poland or
Magics). During tho summer 1 allow
them plenty of rungo on a good pas
ture ol mixed grasses blue grass,
timothy, whito and red clover and
plenty ot pure water, and good sheds
to sloep or lay in out of the rain and
beat. I feed tho young pigs shelled
corn soaked pretty freely, if I havo it.
Tho older hogs get no corn from June
1 until corn begins to harden, say
September 1. I gradually iucrcaso the
teed, and am careful to keep plonty ot
salt, ashes and slacked limo in a trough
whore all can havo access lo it. About
October 1, 1 will turn my entire herd
of 200, littlo and big, into my field of
red iirazman artichokes. Of thoso 1
havo seven acres, and I think tbey
will supply tho herd with all tho food
they want until winter closes the
ground, and when spring opens will
supply (hem with food until the mid
dlo of May. During this time my
stock hogs will get no other food ; but
tho fattening hogs will havo in addi
tion a feed of corn ut night.
Artichokes bavo boon used hero sev
eral years, and thoso who have used
them longost like tbem bost. In Held
culture wo have no trouble to eradicate
them ; in fact it is necessary to uso
a littlo caution, or tho bogs will root
tbom out so there will not bo enough
left in the ground for sued. But dur
ing the winter is when wo all fail in
handling hogs. Tho long months with
but one kind ot food, and that a kind
that makes but very little bono or mus
cle, virtually a fnt producing food only,
tho best article to lay on tut with, but
not the best to build up the constitu
tion and givo healthy and strength. I
bavo this year raised an aero ot nutnglo
wiirtxul and sugar beets, also half an
acre of turnips ; these I will put where
I can got at them in tho winter and
when tho weather will permit I will
feed them freely. The ino oat them
eagerly, oven now, and I feel sure that
such a chango of diet occasionally in
tbo winter will bo a great benefit. 1
shall also cut a few acres of clovor
(second growth) euro it carefully, salt
it well, and feed it during tho winter,
perhaps cut short and moistened. 1
will have quite a number ol late pigs ;
these 1 intend to feed during tho win
ter with one good feed each day, all
they will drink of warm swill mado of
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nn, .mi., m.inl anil at n.,.1.1 tnr.il nl :
corn. Jew, with this bill ol faro and
variety of diet I hopo lo secure health
tor them and profit to myself. A part
ol this is yet to bo tried, and is an ex
periment with mo, and 1 am aware
some ot yonr reader will say, will re
quire too much lubor; but I think 1
will bo well paid lor my labor; at
least 1 bavo never found tho success
ful stock raiser thai either shunned
labor or care, and if your readers do-
sire it, at some future timo, I will givo
them tho bonclit of my experience.
E. F. llrnckmiu, in iTxune farmer.
Tab Water roa Insects. Fur the
last flvo years 1 havo not lost a cucum
ber or melon, vino or cabbage plant.
Get a barrel, with a few gallons of gas
tar in it; pour water on tho tar; al
ways have it ready when needed, and
when tho bugs appear givo llicm a no-
oral drink of tar-watcr from a garden
sprinklor, or otherwise, and if tho rain
washes it off anil they return, repeat
the doso. It will also destroy the Col
orado, potato beetle, and frighten tho
old long potato bug worse than a
threshing with a brush. 1'ivo years
ago this summer, both kinds appeared
on my fate potatoes, and 1 watered
with tho tar-water. Tho next day all
Colorado that had not been well pro
tected from Iho sprinkling woro dead,
and the others, though their name was
legion, wore all gono, and 1 have nev
er seen one ol them on the farm since.
I am aware that many will look ttHin
this with indifference, becauso it is
so cheap and simple a remedy. Such
should always feci both their own and
their neighbor hugs, as they ireqnont
ly do. t'hicago Tribune.
Tbe last words of Goethe, expt eased
in tho briefest manner tho passionate
quest of hi lilo. Ho is generally re
membered only a a poet and a dram
atist, but possessed the rare quality of
being not so much supreme in one
walk a eminent in many. He wa a
man of science, ol letters, ol the world,
of politics a many-aided man, and his
last worn were, "More iignt.
FERTILITY OF WESTERN
TEXAS.
The yield of the cereal there ia
simply enormous. Tbo corn is twice
a high us your bead in May, and the
grass has twice boon cut by that ; evory
known vegetable baa long been in the
market then. The awoet and luscious
fig are ripo, and pear and applet,
apricots, plums and peaches are ready
to gather ; whilo, later la the year,
uiid sweet as ouo nmioiiJi'
else. Thoro are fields about Sun An
tonia where 1 100 an acre have been
realized out ol sugar csr.c, although
that is an extremely exceptional yield,
the proceeds being partly due to the
sale of cuno in the streets, it being a
choice morsel in its season. Largo
quantities of it aro fed to cattle also ;
and for them, as another delicacy, the
prickly pear is raked into heaps, and
scorched ot its thorns by the fire. The
Spanish moss is found in immonsa
quuntilies on tho trees in certain por
tions 01 country round aun Antonio, as
wen as all tbo way to tho coast. It is
an epiphyto, not a parasite, drawing
its sustenance from the air, and not the
tree, to which it does no injury ; and
it ia already forming a good branch of
commerce, as, being well rotted and
driod, it mako a valuable substitute
for curled hair in upholstery. Cotton,
too, is almost equally prolifio with
everything else. In (act, thoro is noth
ing which tho rich earth docs not seem
capable of producing, and producing at
its best. A you seo it lreshly turned
up, clean, dark, and glistcnir.g as though
il held hidden sunbeams, it seems, ac
cording to the old saving, fairly iropd
cnougn to eat. It would excuse the
clay-eaters themselves if it woro on
such substance that thoy led ; and one
would well wish that, Laving the tra
ditional pock of dirt to oat, it might bo
eaten in San Antonio. Ono does not
wonder to soe this sod break into blos
som tho day after it is cut.
"A footfall there
Suffleea te upturn te the warm air
Half gorminating epioee; mere'deoay
Produoea rioh lil. ; aad day by day
New police oa the lily petal growa,
And anil more ledy labyrinthine bade the roee.
And San Antonio in this matter is but
the typo of all Western Texas a land
of promise and of plenty ; a land flow
ing milk and honey (if, with tbecattlo
roaming in multitudes, ono wero not
obliged to uso condensed milk in one's
coffee) ; a land whoro tbo vagrant can
sleep in comfort under a tent in open
air all his lifulime, and may live in
luxury, scarcely lifting his hands to
labor, and where the cnorgolic and in
telligent bind f'ortuno hand and foot
and compel ber to thoir service Near
ly three hundred thousand people en
tered il in the last year, aud sought
permanent homes; many mora, wo
understand, contemplato tho samo
movement in tba coming year. And
their success is entirely in tho meas
ure of Ihoir endeavor ; for with oggs
selling from six to ten ceuts a dozen,
and with beof from live to eight cents
a pound, the cost ol liviog is at it
minimum. Kent are the only expen
sive item, and the climate makes a tont
sufficient shelter till a house can be
built. Ilarjier't Magazine.
MAXIMILIANS TOMB.
Lighted by a taper in tho bands of
one of the brothers, says a Vienna
correspondent, we descended to the
gloomy crypt in the old Church ol the
Cupucines, where Austrian royalty is
buried. In tbo dim light we picked
our way through many metal caskets,
occasionally having a horrible sensa
tion by .banging against one and being
startled by the noise of the contact
with such an object in such a placo.
At the oxtromo end ot the repuUive
vault tho long robod monk balled, and
in French indicated that we were bo
side tho casket of the Archduke Max
imilian, Emperor of Mexico. Poor
Maximiliun ! The victim of tbo man
who presumed to bang the trappings
of imperialism on the border of the
Republic; the brother of the Austrian
Emperor, who oxebangod a happy
homo and high position for the fatal
illusion of a monarch's titlo ; tho schem
er, driven from the throne, die an ex
ile, and the victim, slaughtered within
aight of hi throne, is brought home to
ho among bis people. Abe love that
was borne the Archduke is evinced by
exquisito offerings of fresh flowers, tiod
with broad white ribbons embroidered
with gold, which are constantly re
newed on hi coffin. Not far from
where Maximilian rests is tho plain cas
ket containing tho remainsof the young
man called Napoleon II. He is close
to his grandfather, the Kmperor Fran
cis I., and directly beside his mother,
the wife of tho greut Napoloon. The
most conspicuous casket in tbe crypt 1
tho ostentatious piece of silvor bronze
which encloses the great empress Ma
ria Theresa. Tbo vault of tho Church
of the Capucines contains the bodies
of the royal fumily ; tbo Cathedral of
Si. Stephen, thoir bowels, and tho
Church of the St. Augustine, their
hearts. In tbe latter tbe rows of sil
ver urns in which tbo hearts aro placed
can be seen by looking through a small
grating in the door of the cell. As ouo
isUma in the di91nal pttc0 ,urronnded
by tho Collins ot tho dead, the sight ot
urns produce a atrango impression.
It is a luxury to escape from tho do
pressing sepulchre and again foel tho
warmth of tho genial summer sun.
A PtoNKiR IlovsEWirs's Sport.
Ono afternoon in the latter part of last
month tbo wifo of W. G Livingston, of
tbe Boyno, noticed four young bear in
tbo wheat field. Mr. Livingston being
absent at the time, sbo at once proaceiT-
cd to drive tbo intruders oil, when ono
trHk to a treo on tho bank of the nvr,
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about one hundred yards from the
house, and tho other three took to
their heelB and disappeared, so far as
this story is concerned. Mrs. Livings
ton stationed herself under tbo tree,
whilo her littlo daughter ran to the
house and brought a double-barreled
gun. Both barrels wcro discharged at
tho bear, which, while it was seriously
wounded, was still able to mako at
tempts to eomo down tbo tree. Am
munition having given out, Mr. Liv
ingston armed herself with an ax-handle,
and with that weapon successful,
ly resisted tho endeavor of bruin to
escape, whacking tho bruto on the
paws ovory lime bo camo in reach.
I bo treo wa guarded till evening,
when Mr. Livingston returned homo
ith his rifle. Mrs, Livingston tbon
took tbe weapon, fired, and tho animal
fell dead at her feet. The bear weigh
ed 120 pounds, dressed. Winnipeg
tree Itch.
Wo mis Containinu the Five Itm-
i'i.ar Vowels. There are a number
ot words in the English language, each
of which contains all the tivo regular
vowels, but it would puzzle almost any
one to think of moro than one or two
at a short notice Tbo following mar
be givon as example : Education, rep
utation, regulation, emulation, pertur
bation, mensuration, repudiation,. Be
tides these there are several words,
each containing all tbo vowels, includ
ing the "y." Of course wo may men
tion revolutionary, elocutionary, and
unquestionably. The word invisibility
may be noted as a peculiar word, lor
it contain tbe letter " 1 " five time.
Mississippi and Tennessee are each
spelled with only four different loiter
of tho alphabet, although one contains
elovon letter and tbe other nine.
Schnapps, a word of one syllable and
eight letters, contain but one vowel.
There are no word in tbo English
languago ol more than eight syllables,
and of those containing that number
may be mentioned incomprehensibility.
Poverty is in want of much, but.,
avarice of everything.
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