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The Negro Exodus.
THE CONDITION Or LAIIOR AT TIIE SOUTH
AND THE CAUSES 01' THE NEURO
EXODUS.
WASHINGTON, September 25.— LA view
of tho attempt to make iolitical capital
.out of the negro exodus, it is but fair
a statement should be made show
ing precisely the relations of labor ami
capital in the South. Washington may
fairly be considered a Southern city in
the sense that it has a largo negio pop
ulation. Today 40 nor cent, of the
population is colored. Who that has
been here will say that the negroes are
a class to inspire any sort of respect?
They aro indolent, without ambition
and ignorant. Yet in proportion to its
size there is no city in the world that
otl'ers better facilities for improving the
condition of its negro residents than
this, but instead of profiting by the in
ducement* they seem to ignore them
and act as though they believed that
iiaving worked enough before the war
they should be maintained as Govern
nient wards now that they aro free.
This is a fact that is patent to any one
i and that every one has observed. Now,
despite their condition, 1 have no hesi
tation in saying that the equulity of the
negro is recognized in this Southern
city more generally than in New York
or Boston. How many men in the
Northern cities would leave a car or
stand up in it rather than take a seat
beside a negro ? I venture to say that
ten would do it in New York where one
would'here. Indeed it may be assumed 1
that many Northern negroes, who are
vastly superior in habits, cleanliness
and intelligence to those in the South,
neglect to avail themselves of all the
privileges conceded to them, because
they feel that public sentiment is not
• yet developed a* fully aa public princi
ple. In Washington they are incapa
tile of any such delicacy. Theories here i
in matters of that kind become practi
ces very quickly, and there is not a
street-car or chariot that does not carry
on every trip a full quota of mixed trav
elers.
Further South their proclivities are
more marked than here. Having been
relieved from oppression they think it
becoming in them to be audacious and
lazy and impudent, naturally enough
perhaps, considering their former con
dition. Left to themselves the differ
ences between them and the whites of
the.South would probably have been
adjusted as soon as the first effects of
non-restraint bad worn off. After that
they would have sought to better them
selves through the agencies furnished
at home for that purpose, and the
South would have regained that nro-i
-jierity it lost by the war and have held I
its population intact. By the time the
outlook could have been as encouraging
there as in any other part of the
country. But meddlesome persons had
to interfere, and what would lmvtC de
veloped of its own accord into a desire
for improvement on the part of the
negroes was diverted into general dis
affection and restlessness, so that in
the South to-day they are no lietter off
and not so contented or hopeful as
they were in 1865. A period of fifteen
years of barbarous agitation has com
pletely demoralized them and they
really do not know what they want and
are ready to take up with anything and
to go anywhere at a bidding. A Mis
sissippi planter who employ* about 150
negroes and who has been a sugar and
cotton raiser for forty year* said to me,
"The negroes have been battered about
so much that they don't know what
they want and will jump at anything
Do you know that 1 believe," he went
on with more vigor than elegance,
"that if all the negroes south of Mon
tand Hixon's should be seated quietly
in heaven and a steamboat labelled
'For Hell' should come along with a
brass hand, every one of them would
jump aboard."' The despatch publish
ed yesterday said that the wages of
farm laborers in the south were larger
the year round than those of the same
class in any other part of the country.
< >ns reason for this is that the land is
worked almost continuously from .lanu
ary until January, whereas in the north
the hands are idle half the year.
Wages vary from #lO to $l5 a month.
In some cases #2U I* paid. This is ex
clusive of board, which consist* of a
. weekly allowance of a neck of Indian
corn meal, four pounds of salt meat
and a pint of molasses. The fare is
simple, but it is abundant and the ne
groes prefer it to anything else, haying
always been accustomed to it. The
method of farm-working most common
in Louisiana and Mississippi is what is
known a* "on shares." A man will
take a farm, for instance, of twenty
acres on which to grow fifteen acres of
cotton and five acres of corn, reserving
a small patch for garden vegetables. If
he can support himself while cultiva
ting the crop he will receive half the
product of the yield. Otherwise he
will receive the amine amount, less an
advance made by the planter in goods
and the prices ruling in the neighbor
hood. The farm-hand baa no responsi
bility and needs no capital, as the plan
ter furnishes team, farming implements
and lodging house. Along the Missis
sippi Valley land will yield a bale of
cotton to the acre, and 40 bushels of
0 corn to the acre. At $45 for cotton
and 50 cents for corn, $775 can be
counted on per year, and the laborer
received $.787 out of that. Out of this
his family expense* only *re to be de
ducted and they need not exceed $5O
if be live* on farm band rations, as
pork cost* him $lO a barrel and corn
meal from 60 to 70 cent* a bushel.
' There is no excuse for fiae-wood, for the
planter's team is at his disposal to gath
er and haul it. In addition to the
amount received from tl e farm the
% laborer is privileged to raise |>oultry and
is usually furnished free pasturage by
the planter foe awine and cattle, the
profits being enti.ely his own. Should
he choose to be a tenant he can rent
land for from sixty to eighty pounds of
lint cotton per acre, the price varying
between these figures according to lo
• cality. Ills expense* tor himself and
team need not exceed $lOO annually,
and ho can net with twenty acres $5OO.
On the Mississippi table lands, which
are less productive than the bottom
lands, the cotton yield averaging a bale
to three acres and corn twenty bushels
to an acre, rents are $2 and $2.50 per
aero cash or in kind, a bale of cotton
for every twenty acres. Vol although
less productive these lands aro the
healthiest in the State, and properly
fertilized could be made to yield as
largely as the bottom lands. Mr. Dix
on, the Georgia agriculturist, demon
strated this with the piney woods lands
which ho fertilized until it yielded three
and four bales to the acre. Moreover,
the possibilities of the tablelands for
raising small fruits, pears, poaches, iii"'-
ons, Ac., are cxhaustless. It is such
lands—bottom and tablelands—thai
the negroes nro urged to leave in order
to compete with skilled white labor on
Western farms. They understand the
Southern lands and know how to man
age their products. It rests entirely
with them to manage them profitably.
The new lands are cultivated different
ly and for crops about which tho ne
groes know little or nothing. Some of
the Republican papers have said that
wages in North Carolina are often as
low as $8 a month. That may he doubt
ed, hut if such wages are to be sneered
at there why should not equal publicity
licity be given to tbo fact that in this
highly enlightened city colored men
and women are socking work for $6
and $7 a month and not getting it?
If it is more culpable to give them work
at $8 than to refuse their services at $7
then the North Carolina planters are an
overbearing set of people. If it is not,
Washington should straightway become
the target for Radical criticism. The
general impression among sensible neo
pie in the South, Republicans aa well ns
Democrats, is that the best thing the
negroes can do in their present condi
t'on ot unrest is to leave the South and
learn by hard experience what they
have thrown away. Could they be left
to themselves without Radical inter
ference no doubt the migratory feeling
would subside, but as there is no hope
of this while Republicanism continues
to tlaunt its war doctrines, the sooner
they go and learn for themselves, the
better it will be for the South and in
tho end better also probably for them.
Wholesale Vilification.
Alluding to the courteous manner in
which the ex-Confederate officers in
San Francisco joined in the reception
of Gen. Grant, an inlluential organ of
the Republican faitli suggests that it
would be well for the General to visit
the South this fall, and in this connec
tion remarks :
"Gen. Grant has not visited any portion
of the South fince the war, and lln-re could
be no more appropriate tune for him to do
so than the present, when the Southern
|A-ople are murdering men because they
dure U> express Republican sentiments, and
when they ore acquitting the butcher* of
whole families of Republicans. The State
of the South now is worse than it has been
at any time since the war, and it will do
the lire-eaters good to look upon tho man
who whipped them once and will do it
again if they force him to it."
It would be impossible to condense,
even by hydraulic pressure, n greater
amount of satanic malice and infamous
falsehood into the same space than has
been gotten into the few lines we have
quoted. Rut if there were only one, or
a dozen, or even a hundred newspapers
engaged in the same occupation—revil
ing and slandering the Southern people
en maut —the fact would not call for
such notice as we propose to give it.
But it is an undeniable truth that al
most the entire Republican press is
working, with zeal and industry worthy
of a lietter cause, to vilify the people of
the Southern States. For a political
purpose only, to "fire the Northern
heart" solidify the Northern people
against the South, this dialiolical busi
ness was deliberately planned, was sys
tematically entered upon, has been
prosecuted without a pause, and is now
l>eing pushed with unprecedented vigor.
There is not a homicide of any kind
committed in any portion of the South,
no matter what the occasion may have
been, that is not seized on by the Radi
cal press and represented as a deliberate
1 political assassination. Crimes that ore
execrated by all good citizens in tha.
section, as similar deeds of violence and
1 blood would be in any civilized commu
nity. are almost invariably represented
as being endorsed by all the people.
Thus the moral and religious portion of
the Southern |>cople are counted by
J these vile traducers as no better than
the worst class of criminals. Hundreds
of Republican journals daily repeat this
infernal outrage, never omitting a poasi
! hie opportunity to slander in the gross
est manner the honest millions of the
■ South, who have as mnch abhorrence
of murder, as much love of order, as
much desire for the enforcement of
law, as the good citizens of any part of
this or any other country.
! We cannot recall a single homicide
i occurring in any portion of the States
, that constituted the defunct .Southern
| <7onfelermcy that has not been treated
. by the Republican press as a political as
-.awi nation, approved by the whole pop
ulation. Any stranger from Europe,
visiting this country and reading the
Republican papers, would be impressed
with the idea that there are but two
great industries flourishing below Ma
son and Dixon's line—political assassin
ation and repudiation. But tho men
who edit those papers and seem to
glory in their systematic and concerted
work of disseminating diabolical calum
ny know that, as a rule, the people thus
, vilified are honest, industrious and law
abiding ; that they have displayed won
derful energy in repairing the waste and
ruin wrought by the war, and the sup
plemental robbery perpetrated by the
carpet-bagger and negro alliance, foisted
on them by their Northern brethren
and held there by Federal bayonets,
and that the crimes which occur among
, them are as much deplored, as are the
: vastly greater number, which are perpe
; trated in the North, regretted by good
citizens in the States where they are
committed.
tine of the insolent and exasperating
customs of these journalistics vehicles
jof slander is to call on prominent
Southern statesmen to rise up and say
what they think of every successive
homicide reported in the oouth. It is
insolent beyond fill excuse or palliation,
and we can think o( nothing naif so ex
asperating. It assume* that the states
men thus called oif may approve of
murder. Ihjoa anybody usk Senator
Knar what he thinkH of any of tho hor
rid tragedies that have startled the
people of Massachusetts during the last
few months? Are Blaine and Hamlin
invited to express their sentiments on
Maine murders? Hoes any Southern
journal tell Messrs. Anthony and Burn
side to stand up and let the peoplo
know whether they indorse tho last
murder in I'rovidoncc, or tho latest as
sassination in Lonsdale? Is Conkling
kept at work eighteen hours a day de
claring his abhorrence of the infinite
series of bloody deeds in his State? Is
there any disposition on the part of tho
Southern press or people to identify
the public men or private citizens of
tho North with tho detested authors of
bloody deeds? Every one knows that
there is not. The Republican press has
a monopoly of this species of baseness.
Hen. Grant is not responsible for the
beastly taste displayed in using his
name in connection with this torrent of
slander. Thorn were many things in
his Administration that were cruelly
> unjust and oppressive to the South, and
|we don't suppose they are forgotten.
| But if ho were to visit that section as a
I private citizen, not as a Presidential as
:pi rant, there is no question that he
would he courteously treated. If, how
ever. the friends of General Grant should
decide to take him on a Southern tour
and parade him before the populace as
"the man who has whipped them once,
| and will do it again," etc., we would not
| guarantee him a cordial welcome. Such
an announcement would he too insult
! ing for any people to forgive, and if it
' were made by the heralds of Grant on a
| Southern journey we suspect the South
j ern whites would simply keep away
| from tirant and let the show go quietly
on its lonely way.
AII Ungrateful Crew.
• Fn-m'lh*
Mr. Justice Miller, of the Supreme
j Oout"t was reported a short while ago as
| having said that "Mr. Tildcn was elect
j ed in I-ouisiana—that ho got eight or
ten thousand more actual votes than
j President Hayes. The justice has since
declined to be interviewed on the sub-
I joet, hut now one of his "intimate
| friends," who understands his feelings,"
: rises to make an explanation. In etfect
it is that the mere matter of fact stated
was true and that neither John .Sherman
nor any of the other visiting statesmen
ventured to deny it. Whether, how
ever this result, would have been dif
ferent had there been no intimidation
; is a question this able person does not
j enter into. The State of Louisiana had
: created a returning hoard which had
' the power to declare what voti-s should
he received and what rejected ami in o
doing reduced the popular vote. He
then goes on to lay down the extreme
State sovereignty doctrine which the
counsel of the fraudulent President laid
: before the electoral commission. That
such authority, they said, "should he
| conferred uj>ou a board of five men,
alone concerns the State of 1-ouisiana.
It might by its legislative enactment
have given it to two or to one man, and
such an act would have remained un
I challenged under the < Constitution and
the laws. Having given it to a return
ing l-oard their decision wss as final as
any act limited in the rights of a State,
Whether the trust was honestly or dis
honestly discharged, from their deci
sion there was no apjwa!, and neither
under the Constitution nor tinder the
laws of the Slate of I-ouistana was there
any remedy for alleged venality. The
act of the !,oui*iana returning hoard
was a states right act in its supreme
sene. The decisions of the electoral
commission were based upon the lover
! eign right of a State to legislate as it
chooses on all matters expressly declsr
ed by the Constitution." Mr. Conkhng
has not denied that he said to Mr.
Mines, referring to the steal of the
Louisiaua vote: "I believe that when
j the whole truth is known it will sink
this administration, President and all, to
the lowest depths of infamy." and yet
I Conk ling voted for the I-ouisiana steal
| —on .State sovereignty grounds. He
j couldn't go behind the returns. Now
all the Republican conventions are lay
ing down the doctrine that "this is a
nation and not a league of States," and
rejecting "the damnable heresy of State
rights." R. B. Hayes. John Sherman,
Garfield and other lieneflciaries of the
steal are now going about campaigning
' against State rights. These worthies
j should tie frequently reminded that
the tie /aelo administration owes its ex
istence to the assertion of the extremest
State sovereignty doctrine. In the Flo
rida case a fraudulent electoral certifi
cate was returned. This was made in
violation of the order of the court of
appeals of the State ; the exact nature
of the fraud was exposed and the court
of appeals ordered a new certificate
correcting the fraad and casting the
true vote of the State of Florida. It
was held by the electoral commission
that the State of Florida wa* sovereign,
and that no power existed in Congress
to correct even an acknowledge! fraud
in its proceeding* as to the electoral
vote. The vote was counted for Hayes,
and now he and the visiting statesmen
who were paid with offices the fee# of
fraud are going atmut the country de
nonliving "tho damnable heresy of
Stales rights."
Comparative Strength of Explosive*.
The report of the United States board
of army engineers, just published, pre
sents the following interesting table aa
the result of two years thorough trial of
the relative efficiency of the various
modern explosives, taking ordinary
dynamite aa the standard : Dynamite,
No. 1,100; gun cotton, 87 j dunlin, 111;
rendrock, 94; dynamite, No. 2, 83 j
Vulcan powder, 82 i mica powder, 83 j
nitroglycerine, 81 ; Hercules fiowder,
No I, 100 ; Hercules powder, No 2,83.
Samuel Sterrett, a well known cill
sen of Baltimore, died on Sunday night,
aged forty-six years. He was a son of
the late Commodore Sterrett, U.S.N.
During the war he waa in the Confed
erate service, wa* captured as a spy and
condemned to death. President Lin
coln commuted the sentence to impris
onment during the war.
Song of the Fiddler Man.
Tim mmi MM old arid gray,
Tim fltldlwr tintll vttt* thin ;
And lila fiddle* It Imd it K>tl<^>lii a riy k
All up and down it* poor old Imi k,
And It l l u tlltdofd In.
Itut ttlu mver lie wi<,it, or wlnwvrt It# * ttiio*.
Tin* W'ldlkr'l M'droitiu MRS HIWNY* L|l MTLIU* ;
And til#' llntl In- MR tig lf*d n ' liter; ot|iid
A lld.tv n IM- Irttrelml hie wrmty round ,
•'Tin- "till limy "bin®, and tho rain may full,
Itut tho <;,*| mleth o?r nil,"
HHK lII® fiddler old and Kiy.
The fiddler man had to Ithor lands.
Nor floclifl, nor horde, nor Kd<i,
Ills oar new 1 what he had of rmut and drink,
Ami I'dglng, and riot hoe, ami a Idt of t lilnk,
With hi* ftddlo •< t rm/ kod nod old ,
Aa tip and down through •* h treat and len#*
In the ftultry aim or the hilly rain,
With twang at ring, hut with cheery "train,
ll* fiddled and mug the old rofrain—
• The etui ttmy ahltie ami the rain may fell,
Itut the K'*d Hod ruh lit over all,
And ell ar* ft*l t#y hi* hand*."
The fiddler man had wealth untold;
A) "lire lie had Kr*t g*Jt);
F#r he roitie and went, a* Ire. ** air,
Ami hie browe were bent with HO I'l'wmllur care
A- he trudged through "treat and lane,
And o'er Ity pavement*, hot ami dry.
Or in i;ra*y lane* 'neatlt the open eky,
A In toiled along on hi* huey ft,
The children hastened their atepa to greet,
A* he rhorily wing to the great ami "mall
Of the tjnd who mleth o*. r all,
And whoa love ta letter than gold.
Ah, fiddler n an, the graaa | green
Alaive the . hurrhvard hill.
And the fiddle that hidwrii a grtieaoin* < rack,
All up and down |u poor old leack,
Forever more t* "till.
Itut wherever thy name, the fiddler * name,
111 kindly welcome t* ever the same .
In the r*. hedge lane or the city'a •treel,
Where oft wnt "fraying hi* weary h t,
Fond heart" re-erho the heery w mi nd,
of tlM* fiddler'" "ottg. with itafvith profound.
"TTnoigh the *un may hlnw or the tain may fall.
Vet tb dear Uod ruleth overall.
Ho they keep hi* MM moiy green.
llciulricks' Appeal to Ohio.
Froiu llendrh k*' Kat< n Hpeech.
The responsibility now renting upon
the Ohio Democracy is exceedingly
great. I am glad to know that the
candidates are worthy the highest re
spect and entitled to themoat cordial
support. The result of the election
may have much influence upon the
national contest of |KWJ. Why hesitate
alfout carrying the State? The cause
is worthy your utmost efforts. Democ
racy, as defined by the founders of our
parly, as written in your platform, de
mands justice for ail, favoritism to none.
In the race of life give all an equal start
and a fair chance. My hope and pray
er will bo that our success in I**o shall
mean and signify the permanent resto
ration of fraternity ; the preservation of
our institutions, State and Federal, in
accordance with the letter and spirit of
the t'on-tifution : no innovations ; obe
dience to the Constitutio i and the en
fo.cet.ient of the laws; protection of
all in the enjoyr ent of all constitution
al and legal rights by the authority
upon which the duty to protect is un
j.oscd ; harmony between capital and
labor, and the enactment of such laws
as the protection of the rights of either
may require : the alioiition of tho coolie
system from our country, so that no
more Chinos bondmen shall he brought
to cheapen and degrade lslior ; the w ill
of the people not to he defeated by the
exercise ot tho veto j-ower in cases in
volving only judgment and discretion ;
free and fair elections, and the inaugu
ration of the man whom the |>eople elect.
The lh(*rlsßcd Bond*.
WHAT THE I EOISI. ATI VE COMMITTEE Al'-
IMIXTEW TO INVESTIGATE TIIEM
M I 1.1. RRroRT.
A member of the committee of the
legislature investigating the Vnatter of
the alleged overissue of State hoods,
states that the committee will report in
substance as follows :
"We have found that the loan of the
4th day >f May, J s '>2, for #'#.*",a"had
been all issued, and s.'ioo,t*Si of the loan
of 10th of April, I*.'!.!, bad been signed
and placed in the Girard hank. 1400,000
of this loan w negotiated and used in
taking up over-due loan* of the com
monwealth of that date. The bond* of
thi* last loan commenced with number
5,001, and were numbered from that up
to .'>.300. fine hundred of these bonds,
of $l,OOO each, deposited with the Gir
ard hank, were not used, hut left with
the bank. The day previous to the
expiration of Mr. John M. Birkle'* term
as State Treasurer, he called and found
the $lO,OOO bond* were in the Girard
hank and unused. Subsequently the
hank gave a receipt to Joseph Bailey,
his successor a* State Treasurer, for
these bond#. The receipt was handed
by Bailey, at the expiration of his term,
to Kli Slifer, hi# successor. These
bonds remained at the Girard hank un
til Henry S. M'Graw was appointed
State Treasurer in 18.WI. It ap|ears
that he became anxious to recover these
bonds and have a settlement with the
Girard bank, and that from an entry in
the book* of the treasury department
during hi* term and made by him, he
had a settlement with the Girard hank
on tho Vth of Iecerol>er, IH.V. From
an entry it appear# that the Girard
hank had used $49,000 of these bond*
and was unable to deliver them to M'-
Graw. But in lieu of these the hank
delivered to M'Graw $28,000 of the 5
per cent, certificate loan and twenty
one bonds of $l,OOO each of the loan of
the 4th of May, 18.V2, and fifty-one
bond* of the 19th of April, 1854, of
$l,OOO each. M'Graw received at the
same time the interest which had ac
crued and a check for the difference be
tween the market value of the 5 per
cent, certificate loan and the bonds
which had been used."
IM Sweden tho Government has
wrestled successfully with the problem
involved in imparting industrial educa
tion through the medium of the schools.
There are elementary and professional
technical schools, and night schools for
workmen who can not attend in the day
time, There is a Government school,
exclusively provided for iron and steel
workers. The various communes in
general maintain these professions! pri
maries, l.ut they are helped by Slate
grants. .The School of Arts and Trades
at Stockholm in 1877 instructed 2,073
pupils, of whom 810 were women and
girls. The elementary technical schools
give a higher grade of instruction, in
volving a course of three years, and in
cluding chemistry, mechanics, mineral
ogy, geology, mathematics and work
shop practice. At Boras there is a tex
tile school for weaving, the course of in
struction in whioh is from one sod a
half to two rears. These schools are
tsrgely attended, are yearly growing in
efficiency and have fully vindicated the
expectations of their projectors.
The America* Way.
• n of tho secrets of the variety and
success of American manufacture* i
the readiness with which the manufac
turers receive sugge-tions from their
customers. If a buyer from a distance
Hays that an article would better meet
the wants of his locality if certain alter
ations were made, the American maker
hastens to supply him with the thing
he wants. Not unfrequently he will
send a competent man to study the
conditions ol the distant region, that
the required adaptation may he more ,
certain or an entirely new
contrivance invented to supply tho
need.
In English and other European shops j
the man who wants something new
constructed, or an alteration made in
some standard article, is very apt to be
snubbed. They have no time to waste
on such experiments ; ond even if the
new device should prove a slight im
prove, they think it wouldn't pay to
alter patterns and machinery to make it.
The result is, American manufacturers
are not only monopolizing the home
trade by the superior quality and fit
ness of their products to meet borne
wants, hut by the *at..c tactics they are
gaining a permanent footing in foreign
markets.
A characteristic illustration is fur
nished by aco respondent of the !/>n
don T\mm, writing from Sidney, New
South Wales. lie say* :
"it i* a great thing to get control of
the market, and the first thing is to get
a good footing, and the Americans are
certainly pushing for that with an ener
gy which at least deserves success. Our
railway department is putting together
three large locomotives from I'hiladel
phia. Their design is the result of
close personal observation of our precise
wants by ore of the partne.s in the
firm of Baldwin A Co. I am not pre
| pared to say whether these engines will
prove in every re-jxsct better than those
which we get from Kngland, Lut I do
not remember any Lnglisb firm taking
the same pains to study what we want
to ileal with most successfully—the
steep gradients and sharp curves of our
railroads on the Blue Mountains. Per
haps it is not worth the while of the
English makers to attend to sreli petty
detail*, hut the Americans think differ
ently."
And, we may add, American ninnu
! facturer* do not consider such details
i "jwtty." Tools and machinery are
I somewhat like animals and plants, in
I needing to he thoroughly adapted to
| tliear environment. The difference he
j iween an organism which thrives in
England hut will not in Australia, and
i "lie of the same genus which will thrive
jin Australia, tnay be inappreciable to
; the unskilled observer ; hut it is vital,
■ and outwr-ign* all the point* of resem
j blanee. So a machine, perfect from the
standpoint of England or America,
j might fail utterly to meet the different
j need* of another region, though the
alteration required to adapt it to the
new condition* might he comparatively
slight and easily ja-rccived by an ex|*-rl
I on the sfot.
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A What-I-It.
THE r-Eori.R or HERE* norvmr txcivxp
OVER A M TSTERIOt'S AMI M At.
Quito a large searching party has been
organized in eastern Berks for the pur
pose of scouring Muhlenberg and Bus-
I rotnbmsnor townships to hunt up and
capture, if possible, one of the strang
est looking beast* ever heard of within
the border# of thi# county. What
give# emphasis to the sincerity of the
]>eople engaged is the fact that the re
-|ensthle and reliable were first to report
having seen the so called monster. A
son of Prison Inspector Schemhl was
the first to bring the intelligence to
Topton Station. O. 11. Hmncrshitx,
proprietor of the leading hotel there,
and a number of other* went in pursuit
jof what Mr. Schemhl described. The
monster had been reported on previous
occasion* and when Mr. Schemhl saw it
' it was lying near a gate entrance to a
field through which he wa# about driv
ing a lot of cattle. The "what i*-it" is
represented to lie al-out four feet tall,
long arm*, with but two lallon-hke fin
gers on each paw ; fect.without toes, fur
rows on it" head, body smooth and
| naked, quite yellow, looking as if it hail
•>een wallowing in clay. Jared Hismil
j ler heard of the animal. It had run
- toward Schemhl with extended paws,
and then darted into a cornfield and
! was lost to view. The two men then
went in search, and discovered the ani
mal on the other side of the field lying
near the lenee. It reared up it" hind
leg* like a man. Itumiller say* it i*
yellowish brown in color, ha* no hair,
small eyes, and face, arm* about four
teen inches long, legs some what longer,
the band and feet resembling those of a
j human being, and has tiro horns on the
, top of the head. The young men
I made a raid on the monster, when they
! say it darted toward the forest and was
' oon lost in the foliage. A Mr. Heck-
I men, also residing near there, i* report
ed to have seen the beast and he is in
clined to believe that it is • large sized
|-e. that may have "scaped from some
travelling menagerie. Every cornfield
is to he searched, together with the
neighboring swamps, for the pupoee of
ascertaining what the young men have
really seen. After the recent rain* the
farmer# plainly aaw very strange-look
ing tracks in the sand on the roadside.
They have al*o heard very unusual
howls at night and the dog* of the
neighborhood have been trying to hunt
down the beast without suceesl. At
first a large number of people were
disposed to view the thing as a joke,
but this feeling is gradually changing.
No efforts will be spared to solve this
matter and to discover all that there is
in it.
IT is * fact which cannot be gotten
rid of by any amount of robust lying,
that the Democrat* in Congress through
out the war, were far more liberally dis
posed to the soldier* than was the dom
inant party. Whoever will take the
trouble to refer to the Qmgrruioiuil Glnh
for that period will find that the De
mocracy, in both Senate and House, per
slstently strove to make up to the sol
diers for the depreciation of the curren
cy in which their pittance was paid. This
effort was resisted and defeated by the
Radical majority. The Republican press
miy deny this till doomsday, hut it will
(•till remain an immutable fact, attesting
the devotion of the Democratic party to
the men who fought for the I'nion cause.
Dispile ita Intel prnfe-nior.N of regard for
the hoy* in blue, the Radical party i*
tinctured with u deal of the spirit'that
animated the Whig paity toward* the
■oldiera in Mexico thirty-four year* ago.
It will never he forgotten that a num
ber of leading Whig* in (k>ngrea* stead
ily voted against pay and supplies for
Scott and 'laylor. The Republican par
ty inherits much of that sentiment.
Kven when it wanted soldier* to fight
.under a Republican Administration it
grudged thern their pay. Ami since
that time it has had little u-<- for the
soldier, except to vote him.
♦
HelM'olored ('holograph*.
Many attempts to fix the native hues
of object* by photography have been
made hitherto, hut all have failed. It
is as etching of light and shade, rather
than a painting, which the run gives.
Nevertheless, the climax to which all
photographer* are working is a mean*
of producing nun-pictures which shall
faithfully represent nature in all her
varied livery of color. Toward this
goal an important step has recently
been made by M. Fro*. who, by combin
ing three separate negatives ol the same
i object, taken with different components
j of solar light, has managed to produce
a resultant portrait having all the tints
iof the original. One negative is taken
with the light reflected from the object
deprived of its green rays by Wing fil
tered through a solution of nitrate of
j nickel, the second is taken with the
j light deprived of its orange ray* by be
j itig tillered through a solution ol chlo
' ride of cobalt, ann the third is taken
; with the light deprived of its violet
rays bv being filtered through a solu
j lion of bichromate of potash. The
I first negative is therefore not im
pressed by the green ravs coming from
the object, the second is not impressed
by the orange rays, and the third i* un
affected by the violet rays. If. then,
each of these negative* be illuminated
: by the kind of light which it haa been
deprived of, the lacking colors will le
restored to each, and if the three
image* so obtained be blended together
by means of total reflecting prism* of
glass, a resultant image of the object in
its natural colors will be obtained.
To Attain Long Life.
He who strives after a long and
pleasant term of life must seek to attain
continual equanimity, and carefully to
avoid everything which too violently
taxes his feeling". Nothing more quick
ly consumes the vigor of life than tho
.violence of tho emotion* of the mind.
We know that anxiety and care can de
j stroy the healthiest body ; we know
that fright and fear, yes, excess of joy,
j become* deadly. They who are natu
rally cool and of a quiet turn of mind,
upon whom nothing can make too
j powerful an impression, are not
want to be excited either by groat sorrow
or great joy, have the best chance of liv
ing long and happily after their manner.
Preserve, therefore, under all circum
stances, a composure of mind winch no
misfortune, can too much disturb. lx>v®
nothing too violently ; hate nothing
too passionately; fear nothing too
! strongly. For still, eventually, every
! thing that befnll* thee, the good as well
as the had, deserve* neither immoderate
j hatred nor love; for already on many
I occasions hast thou peroeivod, though
often truly too late, that thou hast
| placed too high a value on those things
j which passionately charmed or pained
j thee.
-It is.r Jerk S. Ri.ack, of Pennsylvania,
' yields to the Washington Pott his view*
j upon national politics, to the effect that
the treachery of Tammany i* enough to
j make a true I>ciriocrat "curse his belter
angel from his side and fall to reproba
| tionthat Tilden, in hi* opinion,
doesn't want to be the candidate in
IHBO, but that he can have the nomina
tion if be is willing to lake it: that -hia
personal preference is not for Tilden,
but for ffeneral Hancock, "because he
wa the first officer of hi* rank in the
! regular army that lifted his voice to aay
i a good word for constitutional liberty
j but he thinks Tilden deserves a vindi
j cation as the victim of fraud and slan-
J der. -fudge Rlack says the talk to the
I effect that Tilden ought to have seised
the Presidency and had himself inaug
urated at all risk* ia "unmitigated non
i sen*e.' - If the House had declared him
elected, then he would have been un
faithful to hi* duty if he had not taken
■ possession ; but when hi* political sun
porters in Congress permitted him and
his constituent* to be juggled out of
their rights, h# could not remedy tho
wrong.
The West Point men, who put on so
many air* about the appointment* from
civil life, and who look upon tboae gen
tlemen who obtain commissions except
through West Point a* interlopers, will
be surprised to know that the officer*
from West Point, in point of fact, are
in a considerable minority in the army,
and that the armv was never command
ed by a West Pointer until General
McClellan received command. That,
however, is the fact. Of the staff corps,
the number of graduate* of West Point
i* 2.11, while there are 2*9 staff officer*
appointed from civil life. Of the line
officer* the number of West Point grad
uates is 59?, and the number appointed
from civil life 637.
There is in the Treasury but about
sf>, 179.000 in gold in denomination* leaa
than twenty dollar*. Thi* amount not
being sufficient to meel any active de
mand for the small gold coin, it i* un
derstood -to be tho intention of tba
Treasury Department to recoin at the
Philadelphia Mint most of the foreign
gold received at the New York Assay
Office into #5 and $lO piece*.
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Just before reaching ber landing at
the foot of Oanal street, New Orleans,
the cotton on the New Natche* took
fire, creating a great excitement among
the passenger*. The boat landed and
threw overboard three hundred bales
of the burning cotton. The boat was
•lightly damaged. The damage to car
go is estimated at $30,000.
The free bath* in New York were
patron ited by 50,174 person* last week.