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BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1871.
VOL. 15 -NO. 18.
OFFICIAL TAPER OF THE C0USTY.
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SOCIAL, DIRECTORY.
LODGES.
Mi f "nrinrl Cnniiiiundery KnlchtTein-
VS.
niiir . ''" Meets I" Masonic Hall on the
1 -rttunUy mclit In each month. 31. W. Fcn-
eCJt
Kni Com. JMiiWRi iw)iuer.
J&?
.. ...,iillr riinntiT No. 4. It. A. 31.
.. m.a m n ttnn au f dkmtnt it
n nrll I!..OttU
ii otith. I-cl"re Meetings every Monday
n srl t JiHS HWKE,
M. K. 1L r. ItUKUh T.
JU1NM
er
ssr
rniiihn Valley lodce "o. 4 A. F. fc
turd -a
nronv iitiiti - uivitiit. j-j,,
T-i- -f rl)'?n CttlUIUllJ 1IIKHU JUH. IKI
V 31 nvi.Y Fkkncu. cy
-,T3 Itrmvn villc
Lodire No. 5. I. O. O. 1'
.0 Jtculiir mcvtllics
uexlay evening ot ciicn
w-yk
J tkvi:nson, .. J. O. unnss, ssecy.
CHURCHES.
k75 1'i-pf.In tcrinn
Cliurclt.
Strvlcci eacli
Aw Salibatii :il lt30 n. in., and 7.30 p. in.
30 p. in. l'rui er
MJiiiK Wednesdav eeniiis,. .ahti.UH xjjooi
Ui clock p. m. J. T. It 1 1 n i ltor
C--VIctWit" i:. Chiirrb. -Services earl,
.SalihatJi at 10:Tiia. m.. and ...Til p. in. Sini-
hdKtoiat S a. m. rmj er .leeuiiK '"'-""J
-. s. V. JL M. .Vil.T. X'.ustor.
i'kmt' rinireli Eititronnl. Corner
Mf& Miaiine and Second itri-t-. .ervlces every
h
ii)
If..m!tirr -. ll (I VIWt II.
in. Sunday
. o'clock. Kvenlnir x-rvice at . 's o ciock.
ii -f n'miiiilon administered on llielirst Sunday
"rcjulimontii. N-.its Inf. ;. 1L DAVIS. Itector.
i-"VHajUi-t Cliiirrli.-Crner l'ourth and At
f55' 2Atic trce rvices every ahliath ex
rr t'ie i.'nrd m eurh month, at 11 o'clock a. m.,
I-J T clock I", m. Sunday tohool at 10 a. in.
lra-erMp-uiig Wednesday evening. T.S. LOW fc,
I'irtjr
l
nirltian C'luirrbi London. Divine scr
,ceeverlhatli at II .u m., and In tlic
ei ' liR-
I 7SD'-t. 3Inrj's-i:iicopaI I'cni. Senlcc
3 t-S7 pvrry hundsy morning and evening. Sun-
ilnv c!.)ol at 3 o'clock p. in. Kev. iuui aliiott.
lajr
K. Cliurrli, I.ondon.-Servires every
other S.iolialh. I lev. J. W. iAitTi?:, rastor
II. K."hiirrli, I'rrn.-STvIces every Sab
h.ith. Ite iUiiTiN 1'it itch au. Pastor.
M. V.. Cliurcli. Ncmnlia CIty.-Scrvices
rverv other alibath. It. ItrnoK. Pastor.
CITY OKPICALS.
Wiyritj Coimcil.-Mectsthe FlrstThurMlayin
V3 .-ach month Ma or, ('. 1". Stewart. A I-
Ccrr.r'l I- J. I IMiri, Vl . it. l-.in, r. i..iiuiiw.,
C if, .dhardt. D. i'last-rs. Marhliul. D. CapmhelL
.. . -r. ...., .1 V. I ......! 1." I" Inliniilll
t .
J It D.icker. Alt.iruej, .. irencn. irens
urir
J W Middlelon. Kngiueer. r. w. iioworu.
MAILS.
Norlhern-Daily
-via Phelps : Dopartat Sa. m.
Af.esat I" p. ni.
r-outlirru -Ia:i via Plielps
DajiarU at 6 a.m.
Ait .olip.ra.
Northern -Via Peru
iiiilhcrn-Via Xeninhn Tri-Weekly: Departs
M -I'l.t. 'eliieiiay and tsaturday at 7 a.m. Ar
rlies same daxsatfi p.m.
WrHicrn Via TeciimMih to Ileatrice Dally:
Departs at 7 a.m. Arm e at fi p.m.
Northern- Via London tojiring Crei-k U eek
ly" lii-purts Friday at 7 a.m. Arm en Saturday Jit
6 p.n. , , , ., ,
-onlliritern-Via hlierman to Table Ilock
4fWI Depart") Monday at; a.m, Arrives Tues
day at i.pui.
p.rsl (illa-e Hours fnnn . a. in., to txa P- m. Sun
djsfr)in IutolO',a in. V. A. POLOL'K.P. Jl.
'M'J".H'
aw, Aii-'ir."ai
BUSINESS CARDS.
ATTOKSEYS.
TTEVETT.fe N i:OI AX. Attorneys and Coun-
sclorM at Ijw . Itrow u ville, Neb,
Uflice No. 70,
Mcl'henon lllock, upstnirx
IMIEXCII .t ROWERS. Attomuys and Counselors
at Liw. Will gie diligent alteiiliou to any le
ga litiMiie-. entnistol to their care. Ollice In Court
lluut- JJiuJdiiig, Rrownillle, Neb.
TOUA DI MiOX. Attorney and Coun-elornt Law,
J aud lti-.il Estate Agent. Tecumseh, Johnson
I .ii.nt Xeb.
'PHOSLvS.t ItltOAIiY.
L sotfitiirs in Chancery.
It xjin, llninnvitle. Neb.
Attorneys at Law and
Oilice in District Court
"VW II. McLEXXAX. Attorney and Counselor
V 1 jx , Xebrtnka City. Sell.
ATY1 A III'MIMIRKY. Attorneys and Counselors
- at Ijiw. l'a nee. City. P.iw nee County. Neb.
X
K i. RK.iP. Attorney at Law mid Land Agent,
PHYSICIANS.
sTEWART.M.
II., Physician and Surgeon.
( ilHce hours from 7 totm.m.
p m. Ullieclii II. C Lett'.s
. Ii
Ilnivin ille. Neb.
a'ul lto2aiHlb't to7'4
Drug More.
w
t (
M M. DAILY. PhvsM-ian and Surgeon. St.
Heroin. Neb. (;r.tdu.iie of Cinciim.ai l;leo
Uese. .Jy
H KlMUELlX.M.D.PhslclaiiandSurgeon
! the Nebr.is.ka I"e and 1-jir Iiillrm irv.
N i Main street. Ilrowiu'ille. Neb. Olhee hours.
Ir Ui " "uin. to ii p in.
II C TIICKMAX, Physirian and Surgeon
No.
J i s .MHin !ir-el. HrowiiMlle. Neb.
r i,i i, to 11 a.m. ami Irom 1 to I p. in.
Ollice hours
II L MATH KWS. Physician and Surgeon. Office
Drug Store. No. 32 Main street, Rrow n-
x He, Xeli
J- -I-. ill l IIV
LA N'O AGENTS.
1 P COCSwr.LL. Renl Estate and Ta Paving
-i -. Agent. O.'his- in Cogswell IJlock. corner First
a 1 C.antic streiHs. Will give prompt attention lo
fie S tie of Ileal L-tate and the Pavinent of Taxes
t:.r jughout the Nemali.i Ijmd District. 7tt
1 ICII villi V. HUHEs. Real Estate Agent and
JV NuUryPuMx, Ollice in lIanii.itonI.V.McFaH's
t jni. lute Store. Rrownville, Neb.
AVIII.IAM H. HOOVER. Real Estate and Tax
" I'avins Akciiu Office in District t'iurt Room.
lgixe prompt .mention to the sale or Real lis
i "." l'"v"entor Taxes throughout the Nemaha
I-iiid liMriet.
GRAIN DEALERS.
1?AX WOltTIIIXG.
aid Countrv Preduee, Oihce and Wareroom, No.
Main strwt. Hrow iiville. Xeb.
-- -iuii titrn-iiaiii .itui ihmion
Illular in .Il LMiiikitfl !i..ii.
f'FO
Vl U1K"
fJ. START RP.O.. Deiil-rs In firaln Pro.
mice. c. Aininuull X..I, n.i,K. .ni-...
J i rice i:d for anj Hun- the fanner tarn niu-e. We
i.l bu and sell cverj thing known to the market.
aiERCII.VXDIsE.
TOIIX McPREIlsOX. Dealer In General Mrreh
,.! . - .i-!,e r,M"n '" McPlierson Illock, No. 66
a, ,inri, iiruwiiviue, Neb.
tvr.y
V iJOII-:0:l.,CO.. Dealers in General Mercli
A . andise. No. 72 Main street. Drow n Ulc. Neb.
AV
M.11'1 J- "EN. Dealer in GenenilMerchan-
diM 3111(1 KrlMn!iiii nml f Vttiiit.,r.. t. 'i.
1l,, o, Ma,n S,rt',t- "rounvl'le. Neb. Corn
i.'i !, ""NStoyes. runiiliire.etc.. always on
liauj
i -is a
V'"""1 marKet price j.aid Tor Hides, Ptdts,
'idCouiitij Produce.
NOTARIES.
JUSTICES.
T. '-"I'ICHT.NoUrj PubhcandConvevancer.
- ao .. Main Mreet, second lloor. niwnillc,
- V, i -"Pa tor the 1 Suitable and American Ton
sjie j.iie lusiintnee companies.
m MWfJAN, Probate Judge and Justiceof the
m ui' v11 Ollicein tourtlloiLse Building, Rrow n-
E X 21- Nrti.
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
J lLIMr :AI;L,EUT- County surveyor. Postoffice
J address. Clifton. Nemaha County, Nebjra-skn.
SADDLERY.
I ILUAl-l-n
1 HAltl slrt llr..,, ...iuA -v-.!i.
Harness,
Ilridles, Collars. Etc-No.
.!!! NlI Af !!! tlir ilntkA
onler.
. -.v.,...,.,lc,.,v.-,
SatLfaction Guaranteed.
RLACICS3IITHS.
T.Inm,wTV.N-;e.ncr1 Blacksmith, Main street.
rV(rL"i,Ip'X,'u- i Prepared to do all klnd4
taping wUu&V.mVi.011 "0tiCe' aUd at ,,rICtS, ln
J.h.iLiV- I:ON. Riatksuiiths and Horse
ilmn r ,J v' fct'et.betw reu Main and AtlauUc.
"n raVrunWd!" 1""t' '" ordL'rrtna sutLsfac-
RKIDGE UUILDING.
V '.tro-lle1''".1.1- "ndge lluilderand Contractor,
Patent S'.-1'- Sole ,t,It ,0" "- '.Smith's
brides i,.!.V,rM5e- T1 st rongest and best wooden
:e now m Uvt
ROOTS
AND SHOES.
Af-JJ0 iEsox, Boot nnd Shoe Maker. No.
lvon i,;',I!,reetBniwnville.Neb. Ilascoiisumt--IssM'anrt
:,m';!m,h1 assortment or Gent's. Lady's.
Tkdnn.. "'"dren's Roots and Shoes. Custom
ue on sunn Ta,,leSS and lllsP:llch- itl'mng
Jl AIID WARE.
S"aJJ'vEUGKU BROS!.-. Dealers" in Hard"
stuith F,Vr,V,Ts,Ti,,W3Wie- Carpenter Tools. Rlack
v"Ie. Xeb. " S' Ktc" Xo' 4 itain strest Bn,w n
lXPo.. .S1I'BTS, Hardare"MerchanLs.No!
te'ves Tf,' tl, RroanxilK Neb. Dealers in
"uware. Etc
TAILORING.
lJj"n'JAF1A0LnT' Merchant Tailor. x7."c
'Pk'NdidV,, ".Brown ville. Xi-t. Has on hand a
"i Iau li i of t:ods. n"d w ill make them up in
ternn llJ,. on short notice and reasonable
'.MUSIC.
-'t Mab.'iJl-G.Il.A,l-VM.Teacherof Music, Rooms
JrkhV. lHflw'e"-Wu and "'th- Rrownville.
unienioiS Kue instructions In Vocal and In
M Pn, S r?lc' an1 k "Kent for the best Organs
Cadv chtll " "ie country from the ilrms ol Roott
SUaVar iu7, ' ,Vl" Bradbury. Sleek, Clilckering.
arr4.nt?"lBros-Cae,rgand Viupel. All
kdurer-Vll ru" ears, and will be sold at mauu-
, R-kstatjrantjT
RANK
"R:TACRANT.-Geo
Daughcrty, Pro-
Brnwiiville. Neh.
SfcaliS ,V, ':."- Aln street.
MH hours.
Roard by thdayorwet.
BTTSINESS CARDS.
HOTELS.
C'lIEI'.MAX HOUSE. C M. Knnffman. Propric
i ' tor. 'o. 46 Main .street. ISrowiivllle. Nebraskn
. . .t.rt l.vJ-fc A4 A.I41
I'ropric
L'bnvska. Tlioroughly remodeled ami refurnished. Keed Ma
ble in connection with the house. Stages lor all
points iest and oninilniascs roraiirain-v
1? EYXOLDS HOUSE, J. X. lleynohls, Iropr etor.
Ii Xos. 88 90 Main street, opposite PostotHcc.
Newly furnished throughout : thoroiiglily niod
cled rnim cellar to attic First Clm bump e Koom
on Hrst floor. Most convenient House to the busi
ness part of the city. Liver "mmolatIoMcir
venient. Stages for nil iKint.s leave this House
dallv. making close connections, with nil Railroad
trains. 2
7 MKRICAX HOUSE, I- D. Rohison. Proprietor.
A iAf .iru.i bPinnon Main and College, Good
Keed and Licry Stable
House.
lu connection with tins
rmtTGGiSTS.
M'CRIXRY t XICICELL. Dealers in Drugs,
Staiionerv. Ktc. N'o. 32 Main street, Rroun
ville. Neb. Fu!l asbortment or Drugs, Paints. Oils,
Rooks, stationary, etc. on hand, and Mdd lit whole
Mile or retail.
SALOOAS.
TOEPII IIUDDAKD A CO., Pence and QnletSa
') loon. No. 47 Main street. Rrownville, Neb. The
best Wines and Liquors kept on hand.
T) ICIIARD II RPSTER,
Alliambra Billiard Sa-
loon. No 13 Main street, Rrownville, Neh. The
bet Wines and Liquors constantly on hand.
SlMJ'tt UXJL.-H
GEO. DAl'GHERTY,
"
PROPRIETOR,
s
SANK RESTAURANT
No. 37 Main St.
KROIVA'VILLE, XEB.
THE SHERMAN HOUSE.
-10 3Inln-st., ISroiviivillc.
CM. RAUFF3J4K, Proprietor
iri2:it:r stable
IX COXS'KCTIOX WITH THE HOUSE.
This House has been remodeled and refurnished
throughout, nnd afTords the ltest accommodations in
the city to the local and traveling public. It is cen
tral! v located, stages for the We&t, and Omnibuses
for all trains, go from the Sherman House. Fair
lirst class, charges moderate. 15-tf
J. RBMICK,
REAL ESTATE ASENT
rn
For the purchase and sale of Real Estate In
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, K:ii'
sa.s, IVcbrasKiv and Col
orado, PAYING TAXES, &c
Valuable Lands in above named States for sale
on long time.
onicc-19 Midn street.
BROWXYILLE, NEBRASKA.
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer la
KENTUCKY
Pure Wines, Bitters, &c,
G:j 31 A IX STREET,
JinOWN VILLE, NEBRASKA
H." H. BRYAKT,
House, Sign and Carriage
p A INTER,
Graincr A' JPaper Manger
No. 00 MAIN STKEET,
Brotrnvillp, Nenroslia.
.TOIIIV I5ATJFI3SX-.X,
Bricklayer and Plasterer,
Brownville, Nebraska.
Is prepared to take cn tracts in his line, in city or
roiiiiirv. All work done in the best of rttyle. Also.
I willli.iV.d Cisterns, and warnmt them peifect. 2."
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry
JOSEPH SHUTZ,
No. 59 Main Street. Brownvillc.
v Keeps constantly on hand a large and well
V-7 assorted stock of genuine articles in his line.
,SrV& Repairing of Clocks. Watches and Jewelry
done on short notice, at reasonable mtes.
ALL WORK WAltRAXTKD.
John L. Carson, Banker,
JiliO W'XVJLLK, XEMIASKA.
Exchange bought and sold on all the principa
cities. Also dealer in
(.'old and Sihcr Coin. Cold Dust, and Covern
nient llomls.
Deposits received, payable at sight. Intend paii
on time deposits bv spis-ial agreement. Taxi-s -for
non-ri-salents. All kinds V S. Ronds wanted.
PEAHZ HSLMER,
agon &laoksiviithsop
ONE DOOR WEST OF COURT HOUSE.
WAGON MAKING, Repairing,
V Plows, anil all work clone in tiicncsi
manner and on short notice,
anteed. Givelilmacali.
Satlstaction guaran-
3l-ly.
Ix-. C- J?. TIXXISATT-F,
6ermanPhysician& Obstetrician
OFFICE IN TIIURMAN'S DRUGSTORE,
IJnm n illc, Nrlniikn.
IlOSiysiNG an Electro Magnetic Battery, lie
will be fully able to attend to all Nervous and
oilier diseases.
Will be In Hrownville from the 1st to the 5th, and
from the 11th to the lsth of every mouth. 5tf
& ii
Itrowitvillc, Nebrusliu.
STEVENSON & CROSS,
PKOl'RIETORS.
General R. R. & Foreisrn Ticket Office.
O.MNUU'SSI-BTO ALL TRAINS.
DpUy Stages for All Points West.
JUXT SAMPLK ROOM IX THE STA TK
JOIIX Q. A. SMlTlf.
K. II. WII-CWC
, FOfiliD
AND
COMMISSION- HOTJS
OF
SMITH co WILCOX.
Dealers in all kinds of Grain. Tor which they
pav the highest market price in Cash.
JSTg-oniceatStoreof F C Johnso- Oi. lSim
FREMONT HOUSE.
BROAD ST., RET. 3d & 4th,
FREMONT NEBRASKA
S. IT- FOWLES,
PROi'RiirroR.
This House is within 30 rod of the U. P. R. R. and
P. C. P. R. It. Depots. Hacks leave lor West
Soint daily, and Lincoln tri-weekly. 6-tr
"Waldter & Xiemmon,
House, Sign and Carriage
No. .G Main St.
iliO ir X VILLE.
Mized Paints
FOR SALE
G1LDJXC
GRAINING, SMARTING,
FROSTINTG, KALSOJIINING. ETC.
1"-"
OLD
mmm m Llyllun5
m,
aiNTEBS
C8-iy
THE ADVERTISER.
BUOAViriLLE, NEB.,
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1C. 1571.
The Future of the Republican Part'.
BY SCHUYLER COLFAX.
To all "the prophets of evil," who
presume or predict that the great par
ty which won the three last Presiden
tial campaigns, and has controlled
the National House of .Representa
tives during fourteen out of the last
sixteen years, is destined to pass away
before the next election and to he suc
ceeded by some new organization, I
answer that it is imposible. Politi
cians did not create it, for it rose into
power by u spontaneous movement of
the people. Jt has fearlessly confront
ed issues before which all other par
ties have quailed. It has gone for
ward from one issue to another, with
the buoyant, healthy, elastic step of
patriotic progress. It has written a
history for itself, and for the nation
as well, which has no parallel in the
annals of parties in the whole civil
ized world. It has maintained its
predominance through canvasses of
national despondency, as in 1SG2, and
canvasses of political disaffection, as
in 1S70. It is the hope to-day of the
millions who dread the result of a vic
tory won by those who ruled the
Democratic National Convention of
1SG8. It is anchored in the affec
tions of those who rejoice over what
it has done for the nation, and they
will not allow it to die.
But in various quarters is heard the
cry: "It has performed its mission,
and a new party is therefore inevita
ble." Precisely such an assumption
fell from the lips of Andrew Johnson,
in the summer of 1SG8, when he had
resolved on that treachery to the par
ty that had elevated and honored
him which became so manifest the
succeeding winter. His argument
was that, the Rebellion having been
crushed and slavery destroyed, the
work of the Republican party had
ended, and new political eombhfations
became a necessity. The Philadel
phia Convention of the next year was
the result of this pron'unciainento.
To it came, in "person or by letter,
senators, cabinet ministers, represen
tatives, editors, ex-governors, ex-em-bassadors,
prominent oflice-holders,
etc., who had stood high in the confi
dence of the Republican party, weild
ing, as they supposed, sufficient polit
ical and personal influence to make
their wishes good. Indeed, such an
exodus would have been more than
sufficient to shatter any of the parties
of the olden time. Butwheu the con
test came at the polls, the grand and
patriotic Republican party proved to
be stronger than ever. Men calling
themselves leaders had left it ; but
they had no followers. The people
stood firm and steadfast.
This noble organisation has proven,
too, since 1SG3, that its work, even of
that era, was by no means done when
Mr. Johnson and his friends were so
willing to pronounce its funeral fare
well, and bury it from the sight of
men.
Some of its proudest triumphs for
the nation and its own history have
been won since the close of the Re
bellion. Not hastily, and sometimes
after months of consultation aud de
batesometimes, too, without the
hearty concurrence at the outset of all
its representative men it has gone
forward in its work of national regen
eration, of humanity and justice and
equal rights, often defying the preju
dices of generations, often risking po
litical defeat, but ever animated, in
spired, and strengthened by the right,
until it has achieved results that five
years ago would have been deemed
impossible. Let us group together
briefly its advancing steps during the
past decade. In IS'JO it only struck
at slavery extention. In 1802, amid
political reverses, it hazarded even its
political existence by standing with
its leader on the platform of his im
mortal Proclamation of Emancipa
tion. In 1SG4 it demanded the extinc
tion and perpetual prohibition of sla
very by an indisputable constitution
al a"mendment. In 1SGG it rose in its
demands, and planted itself on the
Civil Rights Rill; audit ako organ
ized a Freedmen's Bureau, for the
protection of the millions it had en
franchisee!, regardless of all the clam
or as to its cost to the Treasury. In
18G8 it advanced still further, and de
manded that equality under the law,
the validity of the war debt, aud oth
er essential provisions, should be for
ever fixed in our National Constitu
tion. And in 18G9 it resolved that the
ballot should be made, by the Consti
tution, the protector of all men in
our land the poor as well as the rich,
the humble as well as the strong, the
black man as well as the white.
An organization that has thus prov
ed its ability to confront and settle
such progressive issues as the necess
itv of the times or its duty to the na
tion required, and that has won these
victories over the powerful opposition
of a party that had for so many years
dominated in our land, is not to be
cast aside as affete and incapable un
til it has had time to grapple with
newer issues, as they are similarly de
veloped and rise into national impor
tance. And the people who have giv
en in its strength and power (I mean
the people at large) will not be driv
en from its support by hostile clam
nrC or fririrfeins. Rtiv more than they
were in 1SG-3 and 18GU. Precisely as
was the case then, the only persons
who talk of disintegration of the Re
i.nliliriin uartv are tlio-e who have
been diligently striving to disinte
grate it, and with whom "the wish is
father of the thought. ' .
What wiser, better platform can be
devised for the present time than this
terse, compact, irrefutable one em
bodied in the conclusion of President
Grant's last Message?
1. Thorough enforcement of every
law.
o
3."
4.
Faithful collection of every tax
Economy in disbursement.
Prompt payment of every debt
of the nation.
5. Reduction of taxes as rapidly as
the requirements of the country will
G. Reduction of taxation and tariff,
to be so arranged as to affiird the
greatest relief to the greatest number.
7. Honestv and fitir dealing with
all other peoples, that war, with all
its blighting consequences, may be
avoided ; but without surrendering
iinv rijrht or obligation due to us.
S. Keronti in the treatment oi vi
dians, and in the whole civil service
of the country.
9. Securinir a pure, untranimeled
ballot, where every man entitled
cast a vote may do so just onceateach
election, wiinoitfc leai ui uiuirsiauuu guiia, w nu nieu inc wue oi in. Liai
or proscription on account of his po- evrie Dusailant; a hillock of earth
iitical faith, nativity, or color. carried from America covers his ash-
Is it not a striking fact that, out oi
all our forty millions of people, no
critic has been found, of any party,
who has attempted to antagonize a
single one of these nine points, em
bodied in the President's platform?
But there are other and vital reas
ons for the maintenance of the unity
and power of the Republican party.
It alone prevents the Democratic par
ty from weilding the authority and
controlling the legislation of the na
tion. Is any warning needed to prove
the necessity of this, more than the
whole public see whenever the hope
of a Democratic triumph revives?
The demands of those who were
found to be in the ascendant when
the reunited Democratic party met in
National Convention in 1SGS, are not
forgotten. With their party in pow
er, especially if that victtny was large
ly achieved by Southern electoral
votes, the mastery as to its policy
would be with them, as of old. Was
not the Democratic success in New
York last November followed by re
newed outrages of midnight assassins
in Kentucky, which the whole land
hoped had ended, but which were so
infernal that its Governor was com
pelled to brand them as disgraceful to
the State, and to offer large rewards
for the discovery and punishment of
the offenders? Did not the recent
canvass in Georgia elicit a bitter proc
lamation from Toombs and Linton
Stephens, denouncing the Fifteenth
Amendment, its enforcement law,
and the election law, as infamous?
Was not the Democratic victory in
North Carolina followed by the
prompt election to the Senate of its
rebel governor during the war, whose
disabilities had not been removed,
when there were thousands of other
Democrats who were eligible ? Was
not the next step the impeachment of
the Republican governor of the State
by the Democratic legislature? And
does any one, in the party, believe
for a moment that this would have
been attemptedif he had notstriven to
protect the poor and the humble from
outrage, Hoggings, and murders, and
to punish their oppressors? Doesany
one believe that anything saves the
Republican governor of Georgia from
the same Democratic discipline, since
the Democratic victory in that State,
but the fact that the "term of half of
the State Senators has expired? Are
not the well-known resolutions re
cently offeied by Southern Democrats,
in both branches of Congress, most
significant indications?
I allude to these things in no spirit
of partisan bitterness; but they are
essential to the scope of this review,
and could not bo omitted.
What preserves the republic from
the rule of the Democratic party,
which contains these elements with
in it, is the continued power of the
Republican party. And it is because
the voting masses of this patriotic or
ganization, who, without the lead of
politicians, created it, realize that it
was a reform party at its birth, and
has been a reform party during all its
existence, and has cairied through
more vital reforms than all other par
ties in our century of national life,
and can elaborate and consumate all
needed reforms in the future as their
necessity becomes apparent, that they
intend to win another triumph for it
and its standard bearers in 1S72. How
ever the President, its successful can
ditate in 1SGS, may be criticised or at
tacked, I believe him stronger with
the people at large than he was when
lh! chosen. Then there were fears
i'h some that, though a Republican,
lif might not be on its advance line.
Who fears it now? Some doubted
whether, with a life spent in armies
and all his fame won there, he might
not be too quick in pushing interna
tional questions to a warlike pettle
ment. Let his stand in regard to Cu
ban intervention, despite his personal
sympathies with that struggling peo
ple, prove how these doubts have been
disspelled.
i.ij - o.
?Inu Going, the Earth Abiding.
Everything seems to abide but man.
The world is the grave of our race.
Men who have prevailed to open the
glorious book of nature, anil to look
thereon, who have deciphered the
mystic characters, traced by an etern
al hand on its earliest stone pages,
tell us that between the successive
acts of creation whole eternities have
intervened. And yet while in this
inspired volume we read, "Thou,
Lord in the beginning has laid
the foundation of the earth, and the
heavens are the works of Thy hands,
they shall perish, but thou remainest ;
and the3' shall wax old as doth a gar
ment, and as a vesture shalt Thou
fold them up and they shall bechanc
ed." There are no signs of decay.
The stars that met the wondering
gaze of the world's first fathers look
down in their calm and quiet beauty
on the men who are but strangers and
sojourners here. Nature puts" oft" her
vestments when they have, become
faded and worn in the heat and dust
of the world, but in the spring-time
sue put on garments as beautiUil as
ever, that have been woven in her
own loom during the deadness of win
ter. We are told that the worshiper.
are greater than the temple; and yet
we see generations; treading its aisles
and presently they are lost to view,
hut the temple abides. It seems as if
the world continued and only men
pass away.
A Beautiful Custom. In the
mountains of Tyrol, it is the custom
(if the women and children come out,
when it is bedtime, and sing their na
tional song, until they hear their fath
ers, husbands and brothers answer
them on their return home. On the
shores of the Adratic such a custom
prevails. There the wives of the tish
urmeu come down about sunset and
sing a melody. After singing the
first stanza, they listen awhile for an
answering strain from off the water,
and continue to sing and listen, till
the well known voices come borne on
the tide, telling that the loved one
are almost home. How sweet to the
weary fi hernian, as the shadows
gather around him, must be the song
of the loved one at borne, who sings
to cheer him ; and how they strength
en antl tighten the bonds"that bind
together these humble dwellers bv
sea! Truly it is among the lowly of
this world that we find some of the
most beautiful customs in practice.
LaFayette's Grave. The ceme
tery where rests the remains of this
immortai patriot of two hemispheres
is in the garden of the street of Pic
tus. ItJ-s twenty-two English feet
wide, and one hundred and sixty feet
long, divided into one hundred' sep
ulchres, and that of the Lafayette
familv is
at the further extremity
to ! Hi? a ave :s beside that of Mndnme
; Lafayette and of their daughter Vir-
, es, and two modest grave-stones cover
j those of his wife and daughter.
From the. Worklngman,
'TIs Better to Smile than Sigh.
BY 8. JKXXIKJONKS.
There are thorny paths that we all must tread.
And though both you and I
May deem ours thorniest of all,
'TIS better to smile than sigh.
Though darkly gather the cloud o'erhead,
Beyond Is the bright blue sky;
And however long theshodows may be,
'TIsTietter to smile than sigh.
There are heavy burdens to bear aloft:
But, though others have mounted high
On the ladder of Life, whtlexve grope below,
T"is better to smile thau sirfh.
There are sunshine friends, who, on cloudy days,
Are fain to pass us bv;
Rut, with virtue within, nnd God, above,
Tis better to smile than sigh.
Our brightest dreamsmay fadoin air,
And vanish our castles high.
But while strength remains to do and dare,
'Tts better to smile than sigh.
There are many wrecks on the stream of life.
For tbijjoysof earth must die:
Rut, with work to do. and a crown in view,
xis oeiier lasmuc uinu signi
The Pawnee Tribnne on Geogrnphy
and Population.
Editor Advertiser: I like 'cheek'
and believe a certain amount of it, to
be necessary to success, but some men
have more than their share. The
Pawnee Tribune of Feb. 4th, in an
article headed "The Census," says:
"It (Pawnee county), has not quite
half as many as Richardson, aud
only about half as much territory; it
lias about two-thirds the population
of Nemaha, and about the same pro
portion of territory. Thus it will be
seen that Pawnee i? as thickly settled
as Richardson or Nemaha. Johnson,
with two-thirds more territory, has a
population of G-54 less than Pawnee."
Now let us see what the map of Ne
braska says: The man shows that
Pawnee county is
square miles.
Johnson county,
IS by 24 or 432
18 by 21 or 37S
square miles.
Memaha county, IS wide, by
average length of 22 miles, or
square miles.
Richardson IS miles wide, by
average length of 32 miles, or
an
39G
an
57G
of
square miles.
Now for densitv
population.
Richardson, pop. 9730, square miles
57G. to square mile, 1G:91.
Nemaha, pop. 77o9, square miles 390,
to square mile, 19:59.
Johnson, pop. 342G, square miles 378,
to square mile, 9:0G.
Pawnee, pop. 4180, square miles 132,
to square mile, 9:07.
There are the figures. Will the
Pawnee Tribune please to copy them?
W. A. Polocic.
a a -T
For the Advertiser.
HASTE.
It is an old saying, that "haste
makes waste." How true is this in
all life's thorny way. Comparatively
few deliberately consider, before en
gaging, even in the rao't intricate af
fairs of life. The child's almost every
movement seems rushing headlong
into danger. Youth hastens to leap
over the wall regardless of the thorns,
brambles and pit-falls on the other
side. Lovers enamoured, mistaking
mere animal passion for true love,
beauty for amiability, and cunning
for genius, have hastened nuptial ties
to their life-long sorrow. Boys over
desirous to become men, have im
bibed the habits of some men, cover
ing themselves with shame, are on
double quick for ruin. Girls in inno
cent verginity, on ambers of passion,
dance to the tune of deceit played
upon a false tongue, and barter all
chastity. At sight of glittering dust,
men make haste to get ricli and die in
the alms-house. "1'crcs" is written
over against nations in haste for vain
gloiy. In these fast days, birds must
fly swifter; insects must creep faster;
the steed must make quicker time;
thesailing craft must trip along; the
mad monster on the iron track must
bound his mile a minnte, and the
news messenger must hasten his elec
tric click. This is haste in physical
life. Christian, apace. Thy deeds of
kindness and acts of love shall waste
thee nothing. Sinner, apace. Thy
return to God cannot be too soon.
Time hastens; Eternity is beginning;
Judgment is setting ; Sent.-nce is pass
ing; haste thee sinner, haste.
Waste comes ol haste in worldly strife;
Just .so It is In moral Hie.
Haste licglns e'er life's, scarce begun;
'Tis solemn madness thus to run.
Yet 'tis well t' run In christian life
If not In haste for worldly .strife;
Running well itissald, betimes
Leads us to God, In fairer clinics.
E. D. Phillips.
Tecumseh, Neb. Jan. 31. 1S70.
An Indian Confederacy.
The Indians located in the territo
ry south of Kansas held a general
council recently at Ocmulgee, and
cei tain members of the Boarl of .In
dian Commissioners were present.
Delegates were in attendance froni
the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws.
Cliiukasaws, Seminoles, Ottawas,
Eastern Shawnecs.Quapaws, Seuecas,
Wy.tndottcs. Confederates, Peorisis,
Sacs and Foxes, Great and Little
Osage.-, and Shawnees. The council
was in session several days, and the
proposition to ask for the permanent
organization of the Territory in an
Indian government, subject to the
several treaties with the various tribes
after a long discussion, was adopted
by a vote of 4S to 5. The council, hav
ing resolved upon this, also consider
ed and adopted, as the basis of their
proposed government, a bill of rights,
the same, essentially, as that in the
constitution of Illinois. The plan,
which is recommended by the 'Board
of Indian Commissioners, is for Con
gress to organize this Territorial Gov
ernment for tl'e Indians, giving to
each tribe or nation now in the Terri
tory a Representative, and additional
ones according to population. The
Commission ak for such legislation
as will abso'utely protect the Indian
Terijjtory, both east and west of the
9Gth parallel of west longitude, from
settlement by the whites, in order to
preserve the same permanently for
the location of such other tribes 03
may be induced to settle there.
The Indians of the Territory are
more c r less civilized ; the Cherokees,
, iJrceKS ami t'nociaws iuuy so
They
have all abandoned the nomadic hab-
Its and now follow agriculture. Tho
Cherokees and Choctaws have for
many years cultivated cotton, and
when the Territory shall be brought
nearer to market, by means of rail
ways, there is no reason why these
Indians may not become a Wealthy
community. The climate and soil
aro well adapted to all crops, and es
pecially adapted to stock raising. In
dustry, or that industry which is
shown in persevering physical labor,
is a matter of slow growth among a
people whose habits and tra
ditions, to the remotest periqd, have-,
held it to be degrading. It is difficult
to reduce nomadic tribes to the com
paritavely uninteresting drudgery of
the farm. Yet it has been done. The
example of the Cherokees has had its
effect upon the neighboring tribes,
and one after another they have re
sorted to agriculture, to slock" raising,
and to the general business of earning
their living by labor. With laborious
habits, thrift has been promoted, amL
with plenty to eat and drink anil
wear, there has sprung up an ambi
tion to be something better. The
family relation has been purified, and.
education encouraged ; and while they
have surrounded themselves with the
comforts of civilization, their isola
tion from the white race has preserv
ed them from many of its vices. These
men think their safety depends upon
the continuance of their absolute sep
aration from the whites, and no doubt
they are correct. If they can be giv
en a general government, composed
of their own people, which, without
violating the tribal relations, will au
thorize a general supervision of the
local affairs, will enable them to make
roads, and regulate the management
of property, and adjust personal and
political differences, they think they
can so promote the general welfaro
that many other tribes, nowekingont
a miserable and uncertain existence
on the plains, will be drawn in and
become members of the community.
Civilized Indians arc not warlike. If
these predatory tribes, who give so
much trouble, and are so expensive to
control, whether in jieace or at war,
can be induced to join their fortunes
with this Indian Confederacy, the re
sult will be that we shall have no
more Indian wars. The capacity of
tho present Indian tribes in the Ter
ritory to manage a government is not
to be doubted. The affairs of the
Cherokees Iiave been managed for
many years oy a local government,
including a Legislature, and the great
progress antl success of tho people
have been, in a great measure, the re
sult of that government.
Mr. Shanks, of Indiana, has pro
nosed an amendment to tho Indian
appropriation bill, setting apart the
territory lying between Arkansas and
Missouri on the east, Kansas on the
north, Texas and New Mexico pn the
west, and Texas on tho south, as a
permanent home for the Indians now
there, or who may hereafter go to the
Territory. It also provides, in pretty
nearly the general form, for the es
tablishment of a Terrliorfal Govern
ment for the Indians. The Governor
is to be appointed by the President,
but is to bo selected from the residents
of the Territory. Tho Judges, and
all officers of the Territory are to be
Indians, elected or appointed by the
people or the Governor.
Who Wore the First Rlngl
"Conclusive evidence is not obtain
able," remarks a recent writer, "when
rings were lirst used." Rut one fact
is plain, they are of great antiquity,
were always worn as tokens of trust,
insignia oi' command," pledges offaith
and alliance, and, equally strangCj as,
marks of servitude. The religious
system of Zoroaster is exceedingly an
cient, and in some of the old sculpt-1
ures ol that sect, images hold a ring,
indicative of omnipotence and power.
And to this day the Persians, Hin
doos, and all the eastern nations, at
tach great significance to the ring..
The Egyptians were particularly fond
of this ornament. There are speci
mens in the museum of tho Louvre.
Some date as far back as the reign of
Moeris. At the British Museum
there is an exceedingly fine specimen.,
This is a lingof the finest gold, of the
Ptolemaic or Roman period, with fig
ures of Serapis, Isis, and Ilorus. The,
same collection has also others of a
similar metal, .set with the scambieus
or sacred beetle. Others have tho
names of Thothru.es III and Ramese
TIL The most ancient ring in exist
ence is that formerly worn by Cheops,
the builder of tho great pyramid,
found in a tomb in the vicinity of that
monument, of the finest gold, with
hveroglvphics. Sundry passages of
Holv Writ prove the antiouity of
rings. When Pharoali 'confided the
charge of all Egypt to Joseph, he
took the ring from his finger and com
mitted it to him as a symbol of com
mand. Ahasuerus did in like man
ner to his favorite. Human, and sub
sequently to Mordecai. The impress
ion of the monarch's ring had the
force of a command. "Write ye also
for the Jews, as itliketh you, hi the
king's name, and seal it with the
king's ring, may no man reverse."
Rings among the God-favored people,
when used as seals, were called "ta
baoth," the name of a root, signifying
' . m . 1 rati
to imprint anil also to seal, i iiey
wore commonly worn on the little
finger of the right hand. Younff La
dies' Journal.
Daniel Boone's Grave.
The grave of pioneer Daniel Boone,
says a writer from rrankfort. Ivy., is
marked bv a monument rather im
posing in 'size, but the chief impres
iveness is from design rather than
size. It is a square block or blocks of
marble without profuse ornamenta
tion. There are four scenes from the
grand pioneer's life, one on each side
of the four sides. On the south side
he is represented as being engaged in
a death-struggle with Indians. He
lms his foot on the breast of one al
ready slain, unc is making a thrust at
another who has his tomahawk raised
to strike. The reiic vanuais nae
brolen off a part of the arm of one of
the fudians, and the left hand of
Boone. On tho west side Boone is
represented as being in a dense forest
with his rifle by his side and a slain
buck at his feet. This picture is per
fect, except that some unfeeling brute
has broken off Boone's nose and taken
it away. On the north side the pic
tnm is so defaced by relic-hunters
that it is hard to tell what it was the
intention of the designer of the pic
ture to represent. On the east side
Boone's wife. Rebecca, sits at tho door
of her log-cabin milking a cow. One
of the cow's horns and a part of the
milk-buekec have been broken off by
wicked sinners after relics.
Thiers Elected to the Assembly.
London, Feb. 8.
Thiers is elected to the Assembly
Iiiy mi vuriieuuiiij; iiiujuiiiy. xiis
success was beyond 11 expectations. -
by an overwhelming majority. His
iTltUe by Little.
"Little by little," tho torrent said.
As It swtpt along In Its' harrow bed,
Chafling in wrath and pride;
"Little by little, nnd day by day.
And with etery wave it bow? away
A grain of sand, from the banks, which lay.
Like granlteVaUs,. on either kiihj.
Itouneagaln.andtlieTushlnc tide
Covered the valley tir and wide,
Forthelmlghty banks uvre gona.
"Little by little, und day by day,"
A grain at n time they were swept awny.
And now the lie-ds juid meadows lay
Under the wave, for the work, was done.
'Littlf by lilt Je." ?m-0 and slow.
e fashion our future of bliss or woe.
As thq present mses my
r ieetnrecllmbiiicthcnathv
Our leet are climbing the pathwliy bri-jht.
Up tothereloh-orendltaw light.
Or glidlug'dow nwnrd Into thenight.
"LUtlaby little, and day by day-".
From the Evenln
rTost.
..A Financial Policy.
NFi-y.YoRK:, Jan.,2lst, 1871.
To the JEdilorxof the Evening Post :
As sound principles of finance, ev
er the same in essence, yet vary with
the times and circumstances of men
and things in their expression and
application we have primarily to in
quire: what are.b.0 results and what
tire the ends that a secretary of the
Treasury, in the presont condition of
this country and its debts, should pro
po-ie to attain by the adoption ot a
settled line of financial policy, and
what are the outlines of the course to
be pursued?
I propose to answer in my way botli
of these questions.
As lo the first, ltshould be the study
of the Secretary to reinstate the na
tional credit, to fund tin-matured and
maturing obligations of the govern
ment at a lower rate of interest, to re
lieve the, people of all imposts and
taxes other than those absolutely nec-
lessarv to meet the current expenses,
and pay the interest on the bonds.
To rein.sfate the national credit it is
the dictate alike of common-sense
and of t'lie- highest 'financial insight
that he.should first devote his atten
tion to regulation and adjustment of
his matured debt; in other words, to
the payment of tho .funding of his
irredeemable legal tender notes those
notes which now constitute as far as
the government is concerned almost
the sole harriers to its entire resump
tion of specie payments.
To pay off the'debt, or to effect its
conversion into time obligations, could
be achieved as I have already stated
elsewhere by making the National
Currency act a free banking law, and
asnewanks were established and
currency issued, the notes could be
called in with out disturbance of val
ues or shock to commercial credits.
The additional sums required to be
raised for the payment of the inter
est on such portions of the legal ten
der notes as should be luntled would
be far more than made good by the
saVing that would accrue from the
better attainable terms m the general
funding of the great mass of the
debt in consequence of the advance
ment of the national credit.
The relief afforded the government
by tho cancellation of the legal ten
ders and by its final retirement from
the business of banking, followed or
accompanied by one more good crop
of corn and cotton, would enable it
and the country together to resume
specie payments, and thus place the
United States once moro upon an
equal footing with other nations in
tho money markets of the world.
Then the Secretary, clothed with the
proper powers from Congress, and
taking advantage of low rates for
money here or in Europe, could ne
gotiate his loans and place his bonds
for the funding of the maturing debt
as fast as wanted and on the most fa-
vnrable terms, thus accomplishing
the second essential feature of his fi
nancial scheme.
In the meanwhile the methods of
taxation should be simplifiedthe list
of articles to be taxed reduced in
number, and the amount of money
thus raided each fiscal year accurately
adjusted to the sum total of the inter
est of the debt, the current expenses
and a moderate surplus for contingen
cies. What proportion of the amount
should be raised, by internal reveiiuc
ami what proportion by a tariff on
imports I do hot propose here to in
quire; that matter must bo regulated
bv.tlie sentiments of the nation ex-
pressed through its members of Con -
gross
No attempt should be made for ten
vears to come to pay off the principal.
The people should be allowed every'
possible opportunity to repair past I
losses, and to gather new strength by j
a relief from imposts to the utmost j
extent compatible with the present
determination to maintain the nation-
al financial honor under all circum
stances. With this .system of finance, thus
rudely chalked out, put into effective
practice, our country under the slim
ulus of the native energy and indus
try of the people-and the advantages
to be derived from the constantly in
creasing Immigration of the better in
formed and better conditioned classes
from Europe, would in ten years'
time reach a -point of development
where the payment of the principal
might be again safely and judiciously
commenced and carried out to a suc
cessful termination without in anv
injurious degree taxing tho resources
or disturbing the business prosperity
in the coiymunuy uoin oi which
uiupre?eiinii-a.iMcu ciu.il .s "'
to a serious extent.
The incidental advantages to be de
rived from the adoption of the meas-
I ure I have proposed only surpassed
in importance bv the resu-itation of
the national credit and the economi
cal funding of the debt may be suc
cinctly stated.
Tho obliteration of the legal-tender
notes will at once relieve the depart
ment from the standing menace of a
call loan of $300,00v,00i) and the stig
ma of broken repudiated promises.
The conversion of the national cur
rency act into a frco banking law
would, among many other benefits,
dry up one of the great sources from
whence pour in upon Congress a con
tinued stream of applications for spe
cial legislation one of the direst of
evils and throw open the busincs"
of banking which, like every other
trade, occupation or profession, should
be free to all men alike under just und
general rules and regulations.
The simplification of the methods
of taxation, nnd the Icsseirng of the
number of articles taxed, would re
duce in like manner the number of
the tax-gathers an army, even in its
best estate, always demoralizing, al
wiys odious; but as it exists today
among us, and execrated body of men
and in such formidable force," nnd the
instrument of such insufferable ex
actions that no administration, how
ever strong, however popular, can
hope Ions to survive under tho dead
J pressure of its weight
mat tne people or tnis country,
with neither its industry nor its
strength recovered from the disorgan-
t ization and exhaustion of a terrible
i war, snouiii iiuvu uorut' up so long
! uuder the burde of a .cruel taxation
war, should have borne up so long
enforced upon them in an attempt to
pay off tho principal of tho debts is
an exhibition of vitality, endurance'
and patience not often witnessed.
Finally, emboldened and encour
aged by the example of tho general
government in the reduction of tax
ation and in the economical manage
ment of its finances, wc, the dwellers
in the cities, might also make a suc
cessful effort to introduce the like
much needed reforms in our own
more special municipal affairs.
All the expert bureaucratic mlnut-'
ness of detail required to carry out
the above plan I omit, as not neccs-i-i
an to its comprehension.
J. L. Worth.
o a
'Oliul-tllls" N'oLonf-er.
The fundamental principle of tho1
Republican party is that all men aro
equal before the law. The doctrine,
ot the Democracy is that the poor, or
working classes, are the "mud-sills of
society." Not one honest measure'
for tho permanent benefit, elevation,
or enlightenment of the blacks at the
South, or of tho laboring classes ag
the North, was ever originated or car
ried through by the Democratic party.i
They have been the persistent ene
mies, in the Federal Congress and in
the State Legislatuies, of whatever
was calculated to disseminate educa
tion among the people, or to render
them at all independent of dictation,
from the landed aristocrasy and cap!-,
talists who aspired to rule the couu
try. The system of free schools, has
contributed to the elevation of thoi
workingmen and their families, anil,
helped to carry into practical-effect;
the theory that the people are their
own rulefs, was fiercely opposed in
New England by the Democratic
leaders; and the States which have,
adopted and applied the system had
first to emancipate themselves from
Democratic control.
In the South, as it is well known,
there never has been such a thing as
practical education for the masses. To
the cotton-lords nothing was so terri
fying as tho idea of popularizing in
telligence or extending the facilities
for enlightenment among the people.
They knew well that ignorance was,
the parent of Democracy ; and no fact
is better known than that the Demo
cratic majorities have disappeared in
direct ratio with the spread of educa
tion. There is an "irreuressable con
flict" between the two, and as tho
Democracy find it utterly impossible
to uproot public schools, when that
system has once been established in a
community, the political theory must
go down before its powerful untago
nift. The fact is that tho word Democra
cy, as applied to a particular party in'
the United States, was alwavs a mis
erable misnomer. It was a Democrat
who compared the laboring whites of
the North to the nogro slaves of the
South, in a speech in the Senate of
the United States in 1S5S, calling both,
the "mud-sills" of society, and tho
idea has not been abandoned by Dem
ocratic leaders yet. Not only frco
schools and all systems of popular
education have been fought by them,
step by step, with persistent ohntina
cy, but everything else whose tenden
cies, immediate or remote, were to
benefit the poor.
The Homestead law, for example,
could not find a place upon our stat
ute until the Democratic party had
let its ascendency, and every man
was then enabled "to become a landed
proprietor. In order to maintain
their domination over their dupes,
! sl:Jti trallie tho more securely in their
ji-norancc protended measures for tho
good of the laboring classes, or hypo
critical proiessions oi irmuustup iui
foreigners were oceasonally resorted
to, but these were invariably shams,
and intended to cheat the eye with
delusive hopes. It was the policy of
the Southern aristocrats, who for
vears dictated every measure of the
Democratic party, to keep from marr
ket the unsettled lands in the Territo
ries, or hold them subject to entry in
tracts which could only be taken by
capitalists and speculators. The lato
Tammany Convention has freshly
shown the jieopJe of the United.
States that the same Southern leaders
still shauu th policy and nominate
! the candidates of the Democracy.
Intelligence and independence ot
monied dictation are the mortal foes
of Connerhead Democracy, and its
very existence depends upon keeping
the masses ignorant und helpless,
jjut the issue, happily, is not for a
moment in doult. In the old battle
between truth and error, intelligence
.md ignorance, there has ever been
but one result. As well might tho
owls and bats hope to prevent the
risimrsun from tinging the wholo
earth with its golden rays, as these
adherents of aristocracy and "prive-
leged classes' seek to stay the pro
gress of civilization, enlightenment
and true Republicanism.
j i m
God in the Constitution.
Upon an examination of the princi
pal religious weeklies of this city, to
see what attitude they assume toward
the movement brought into promi
nence hist week by a Convention held
I in Philadelphia for incorporating in-
tlln
Constituion ot the united
, StatC;. a1 nJ-rno-vIci!gment of "God
i .IS the IMti,nate source of all authority
hintl oower in civil government, and
of Christ us the rightful Ruler of Na
tions," it appears that The Observer,
The Evan rctiH. The Methodist, The
Examiner, and Chroncle, and 2'he
Christian Leader have nothjng to
say, editorially, upon the subject
perhap-5 because they think the move
ment of small importance, pos-dbly
because it fai ed to attract their notice.
From a letter in The Evanyeti.it, it
seems that while the number in at
tendance on the Convention was not
large enough to indicate a very gene
ral interest in the subject, the extent
of the country represented (thirteen
States), "showed that the leaven was
well distributed and beginning to
work in manj- quarters. Of our own
city pastors but few were present.
Outside of the Covenanting body,
which seemed to form the "staple of
the meeting, there were hardly a doz
en who came in even as spectators, or
half that number who seemed dis
posed to participate With the laity,
the amount of interest exhibited was
still less." A". I". Tribune.
Elections for the Assembly.
Bordeaux, Feb. 9.
hi the elections for the Assembly
the Republicans have been successful
at Perpignan and Oranun, and in tho
departments of Ardecepe, Murnot,
Loire, Ariege, luilre aud Heraulfe.
Conservative candidates are elected
from Poictiers and Montanban, and
in the departments of Tarn and Gar-
! Tit. 1
I onne. uanuiuaies or uie xnoerai
Union Party have been elected
throughout France wherever they
have been put in nomination. The
Republican majority in Bordeaux is
i xiepm
f large.
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