The Greensboro patriot [October 29, 1873]

              THE PATRIOT
l'l UL1SHED WEEKLY
AT GREENSBORO, N. C,
IIV DOFFY 4: JIOREHEAD.
I BBH8—Cull invariably iu advance:
On* year $'-.', six monil.s $1.25.
ryAiir JM-I son -endini.-.'irr subscribers will
,-. .-iv....!.-- ,-..jir jr.itis.
The Greensboro Patriot.
Established in 1824. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1873.
Kan H ol Advertlsinff.
t '■'ititfiil'HtS |WjfPM
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Business Cards.
Watch-Maker,
Jeweler it Optician.
tireeaaboro, N. < .,
II.,- constantly on bend
iplendid sssorfcol <»'
} .L.-tl>Ullhli|' Jewelry,
and sunn
M-l'"-'- I
Which will bo ~<>ljl Cli.-iii
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FALLING LEAVES.
IIY TIIKO. CAltrKNTKB.
I'll'' dead leaves of Autumn are falling;
.They are failed, and withered, anil turn:
They shrink from the world ami its luioult
Like souU that are weary and worn.
Not a light wind that weave* through the
branches
But plucks the near learoa from the
spray,—
It il to—in, and tonaea. and tosses.
And twirls them and whirls them away.
Tin--, have Mnurished i*i beniilv and ficdi-
A I >i-t itii iiK-ni'i- gained, we behold in I From the Wilmington Journal.
j the distance still loftier pMka wbicL Solvent Credits and Money on
Deposit
The ■ laughed in the beama of the
..-, cliarge
Professional Cards.
Jno. A i. net
1 . Smitl .
Dillard, Gilmer & Smith,
AT ' 'i;N KYS AT LAW
,-id.li I'lORS IN BAMKBUPTCT,
Bank •■! GrreuaboO), ii|i|...-iiei A WAi
linihow II ■. , t\*!"- ,.
1)i:.\i 1!('K in Mate and Federal Courts. | Mt'talu
s,. VII given i" maltera in, ~.
. .,: I . u i-»*. srising under Inter- , —• /_^5l
|>l,ii i Court ..f Western
^£.^7°
ETWal «. Clocks. Jewelry, he. :M»
china*,4jid l'i-i.,1.- repaired cheap ai .
notice. Call opposite the Old Ali.n. .
Kant Jarkei Street. 10 Ijr
! .' An assorted stock of Gnus, 1'istoi*.
' Cartridgi >. Ate., aluai s on hand.
~W2&. COXJXJI.TSTS,
Cabinet Maker, InuVrlaker.
and'
Wheel-Wright,
Corner of Davis and Sycamore Stieets,
Greensboro, A". C"„
I.WAYSkcopaa lull line of
and Cast Iturial Caxes,
.1
m i i lees arising fnter-
li "\ Carolina Colleelioos in
. I r'ederal Cuurta solicited.
ZO&lV.
I 1». Ml'.M'l Mill I.. JoltN N.SlAI-l.KS
MENDENHALL & STAPLES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
«. it i: i: > s it o it o, > . C.,
the ('"Hit
Walnut anil Rosewood Collins,.
which can be liirnished and delivered
j withiu two hours' notice.
I A good Hearse always in readiuees. A
' good liuu of
rGuiiford,R«k-j BED-BOOM FURNITURE
I ureythe. Stoke., Kan- „„ ,,„,„, or „,„,,,, „ ,.,„„., IlMice.
,-.. I . S. Circuit and „, . .,
,.-,,. girootoL. Picture Frame.
Made on short notice, from either Gilt,
Walnut or Mahogany Moulding.
Repairing of Boggles, Carriages, ore, a
specialty*
To' Country produce good as cash.
feb I: I y
li.sn
H inkriiptey.
jail -V li
II . h. II
.! the s:.,:,-, and to
Ih of Court House. j
il l . Titos, li. KBOGB,
BALL & KEOGH,
ATTORNEYS A T LAW,
ion Lindsay Building,)
J.,:, I*ly
::l KNSHOKO, N. C.
SCALES & SCALES,
Attorneys at Law,
Greenslsiro, N. C,
1)1!At"1 H'Ian the SlateandFederalCoarts.
A M - will attend ill- I'rolaie,
Court of H I ,ii,i.i al Wentwi i li
■ U i| i nferery month. jaiil.Viin p
ItALPIl GORHELL,
Attorney and ltlUII»»llor at Law, In repairiint Watches, Cb-
SULK ITOIi IN li.VNKRI.TTCY,
Greensboro, N. C.,
it-I ihecourteufAlauuuvw,
>> I In lie. n. Ui . rd SI il Randolph, and
Supreme! \ I aroliua.
i the District iu,l Circuit courts
. S it. '.'. • stern Dielricl
• \ i . , Bankrupt-
Internal Keven '
J 'i ,n i
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II thv a
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■ [ions
J. E. O'Sullivan,
Tin Plate & Sheet IronWorker.
DKALRB IN
f'liilll-llrtl. J H |»:in II. (1 A SlHlUpe'il
TIN WAKE, STOVES,
PUMPS, Ui:hiiiiiiL'k.-l-, AwWUtoodl Platoe,
BRAS CHECKS.
f.ir II..t.]-, Balouo*, *<*.
<i;iM Ki.:hi;r, ItiKifiiiL', Oott«r*ng,Ja'f.1pr»ni|o»lv
Itcrobuitfl art inviii-<! to examh <- u y -" i
Lwfiira pirrl.;>. intr CIMWIWIW. j:* n "i5.Ir
DAVID SCOTT,
Jeweller and Watchmaker,
Norili Kim St.. Gael ■ ■ "i il..- i o-m Uou .-
Will Work for fialf-Price
Jl We'll V.
•vpril J."». 1/
S H. D. WILSON,
LIFE ii FIRE INSlKANC . A«KNT.
Oraensboro, X. C,
REPRESENTS iiiM-< U-s Companie.-
with an aggregate capita] of over
THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS,
ami can r;irrv a fn
i-?<)iii.
II V
BHII :
They have wept when the heavens were
unwindowed :
They have sighed when the darkness
le-guu.
Let them fall: it is well; let them perish]
'1 heir youth and their sweetness are lied;
Never uiote will they waken In beauty
From the limitless Land of the Dead.
For the Patriot.
Letter Irom California.
SAN FBAHOISCO, C'AL., (
September 20th, IST.'f. )
lift up their glorious suow-capped
summits.
Having surveyed "the gloriom
L'DIUII" in ejrten.'O, aud havingjxjck-eted
a portion of the Rockies as a
sonveuier, we comuieuced a rapiti,
wild, rugged descent.siionreiieliiiir
Laramie, in Wyoming, where, flint
to the World, was empanelled a fe-male
jury. Thence down to the
Great Sail Lake, we pass some of
the grandest, wildest scenery im-aginable.
The beautitnl i-ifjons,
the deep, iiuirotv piiSoTe, throngli
Preaideot Grant' a Baa* Pay-
—The President U Mora to
Blame than the Baok-
Pay OoneTeasmen.
l'rom the Times sod Reporter, a Bapub-lioau
paner, Aariaa, Miohn Oct. 10.
Sundry political conventions bare
met since tie adjoarnmeot of Con-gress,
and all or nearly all, hare
had their say about what ia known
as the "salary grab." Bot none of
them on the Republican side hare
had the boldness to place the re-sponsibility
of the salary bill be-coming
a law where it belongs—
with President Grant.
So far as the mere matter of in-creasing,
by fifty per cent., the
. salaries of members of Congress is
It is l,APJ'rt8 'ort,Mf y**r ending June i concerned, no one finds much fault.
Board of true they are authorized by Cou- ,' ,. ?• "mounted to t (503,410,597,1 It may be that'for such men as
are also ' f1*" as a currency convenient and u ,T- l",1'48?'937 WM specie and onght to go to Congress, #7,500 a
charged by law with the high duty lls«"1"1 for circulation, just as State ?.U' on'
of seeing that.such taxable property | }}**& bills are authorized by the
{New Series No. 295.
of the State government or for pri- [ The Import and Export Trade.
vate profiu; so the power of the! T. _ *^ "
State to tax the circulation of na- lbe B"re»» of Statistics, in the
Boards of township assessors ' 'i00*1 hauks depends n]»n whether J522 ^hich a b*'ing P1*!""-6" <or
have a required duty to perform as *■»* are for ,he United States Gov- I M"""9"i shows that the toUl
to the listing of solvent credits and I ornment or for prijate profit,
money on deposit. The
County Commissioners .
i domestic exporta for | year may not
«">78,938.t)85, of which ; pensation. 1
The
> year were 1
ia listed, and handed over to the I 8tate- B
sherift by a prescribed time, now ,uev net,«
passed, to collect. It is an estab ' witD tbe Government. The act of
lished fact, of much importance, Congress authorizing National
that not one dollar has been re- ^anks imposed a tax on their cir-wrded
in the tax books, tin' codec-| c,",at'°" 9(2 percent., and snrely
have been it thej
as a part of the
that would have
8ut in neither case have L-e.Jptc"' an" htaHon amounted to I seems tike good pay
•essarily any connection ' • I™?.'646- Tne foreign exports service of about fire
be too large a corn-
To common people it
which, beside the roadbed l,,'s-—■ —^,0™,™inTp^on ! that woniil nol h«
and dashes a 8U«w.fed Btreaa. of, o, sjjd fc'filCT had been regarded
pure^-v.,,,., beiKiemitg gorges =»•"«' u,.riffwi|1 ^ , ° "J , Government, as t
pendenl .Ittls, all „, eontmu.-d I ,^aoljsU(.u that solm) %™ " I n the same as
EDITOR PATRIOT; Leaving your lit entrance to Great Salt Like am
city,slopping in Washington ten,ami | llie City of Saints. This " Sew
wondrous Chicag
I line at tatr rales
irs over Wilson A
urwlolicil '":'■•» Bank. niMlertheetlieicnts.:: e.-. is
D. A. & R. F.
Surgeon
. I, ii|)|Mj«ite tl,«-
ROBERTSON,
l>entists.
Having a-- i
I. ,1 liien.-, Ivea
in the praei ice ol
Dl N riSTRY,
W. II.
h'» will al all lintel
1 who do»irc either
Life or Fire
mar I l:lv
1111.!..
be glad to v. a
Policies.
Chas, G. Yates,
iniiiiaiRi.H or
Tin, sheet limi .s. I o|>|)< i Wart
ND dealer in Dry Goods, Hals, ltool- slid
profession-1 .iA. Bboea, Wood Ware, Lamps, Crockery,
L j# :: ervicesto thelandGlass Wsre, Groeer^s, BtoTea, an,I a-spectfulli
offer A N'D d.
,: profi s»inn-' -iV. Baoa
y-,^vo L'lllZ ft
Grrt-naboro,
aud ihe norronn-
(he alhet of tln'in
'"■ foilml .it their office oa
; ii i• stair*, uitimiMM Kaci
■ MI..I.
-i;n i.n v i< f.r. nee given, ifdeaiied,
dtii ir-|»<ri\.- patrons during the
■ i tiiii. II yeara. 2}.Utf
DR. i: A. CHEEK,
sorted Goods, generally.
Street, Oreenabore, N. C.
cash, or barter.
No. -.'1 South Kin
Goods sold low fo
jau 19:1j
N.ll.D. WIISI.N.
WII.SOV i
Cii.s. E. Siu.io.i.
siiuitKie,
and in '• Chicago," twen-ty
lour hours, we arrived safely,
and not to say the least, without
fatigue,at this city of Cosmopolites,
ill exactly nine days. Although
the requirements of space and the
limits of our own powers forbid
justice being done, we will essay a
brief chronicle of the "trip across
the continent," hoping, in so doing,
not to transgress npoii the many
readers ot the Patriot, but rather
at one aud the same time answer
a number of requests.
We lay over in Washington, on
our second day, from 1-, M. toil,
I'. M., thereby making quick time
and-lose connections on all subse-quent
days, besides giving oppor-tunity
of '• doing tip" the capital,
which ol course we did, and in the
same length of time Ceo. Wash-ington
I'liipps did up Paris, and of
passing the Allegliauies by the
light of the sun, the prime desidera-tum.
UudergoingBaltimore through
variation, conspire to form a series
of wonderful surprises to the
traveller and inspire hint with a
.sense of personal insignificance
blended with wonder and admira-tion
at the works of Onuiilic Hand.
The beauties of Wasatch, the Cas-tle
Rock, Echo Canon, Weber Ca-non
aud river are so majestic that
they mock description. A linger-ing
adieu given, we pass the-'One
TuousamlM ile Tree,'"'I>evil's Slide,"
through grim, unshapely ways.
Anally through "The Devil'sGate,''
ml
ew
Jerusalem" is connected with the
Pacific R. ii., by the Utah Central
li. It. of which Briguam himself is
President
Thrift and energy are character-istics
of the Mormons.
lint on .' still westward ho! and
we speed around the noil hern shore
of the Cleat Salt Lake with all its
delightinl scenery ; on into Nevada,
down the beautiful rich valley of
Iluuiboli.'r. Passing tlnoiigh the
•• liuli.v." •• Diamond," •• Paradise"
and "Eden" valleys, thence through
"Goiconda,""Gold llil!." "The
Golden City." '* You Bet," tbe cli-max
of the Sierras is reached, bat
two liiiiiihi.l mill's from the sea,
yet 8000 feel high.
Here Hie 'he Alps of America,
rivaling in their passing grandeur
the Alps of theolilWi.ild. Here the
lofty mountains ami deep ravines,
the sparkling waterfalls aud crystal
lakes which ftr below appear as
—-P
I'oards listed such property and
some did not. It is equally true
that some of said assessors, if not
all. were instructed by an employee
of the Board of County Commis-sioners,
not to list such taxcble
for the Govern
ment to tax itself. The truth is
that the United States Government
has interests in National Banks.—
It authorizes them in order to pro-vide
a currency, not for the Gov-ernment,
but for the people, and it
for an actual
.. months in the
I",-1873 *e™* *-3,14S,418, and in'year. But it was the retroactive
Is.2, |22,7C9,949. Makiug allow-! feature of the salary bill that excited
ance lor tbe difference of commodi-1 the greatest indignation among the
ties remaining in warehouses of the , people. It was the fact that men
Lnitetl States at the elose of the who bad already performed the
year, the imports were in excess of work for which the people had en-the
domestic and foreign exports ■ gaged them, had been paid for that
SHU -•°.t<!'.? ,lt„,le.or?r •100,000,000.1 work.and had receipted for that pay
, had then,by their own act,increased
the pay for that work fifty per cent.;
the mammoth tunnel, thence via ol spiuce ami pne
Northern Central to Harrisbnrg,
there boarding the Pacific Express, i
we made Altoiina, the location of
P. ('. li. It. Shops in opportune
ti..ic for a good breakfast Honor
done lo uur host and oiliselves, and
two huge locomotives attached to
our long train, we were soon thun-dering
at terrific speed over the just traversed, which lies far and
BANKEK8,
0RBBN8B0B0, X. C,
(South Klin Stifljet, opponl*] !■'.> |-i •■--- '»;?>
Physician and Surgeon, B'*,"'
13 ears. off.
sitisena
11- 11,1 ...i experiem
M -,-rvi,
and ii- iniiy.
i li ace on WaM atsrket St.
Hall.
i:,.i ) KKM-IS :
Hi Wra I Howard, Baltimore, lid; Dra
w iii.ni.,n. M C ; Dr K
Hal. gh, N C. In J II
. N C. ap oiHim
II IMIlt'. IIUTEI..
i'ti is litMisi- IN |il<';is,anll> locat-
I.,- Street near the Court
the reception o
ale and Government Bonds. Kail Koa.i
Slocks and Bonds. Ac.
rVKeeeii-e Moliev on de[s,sit snl.jei'1 lo
SIGHT CHECK; and allow IsMcreM
iu kind upon liniedaposiUofCUlUtlUJC)
or SPECIE.
I >i-. .mi,! Ztii«in**MH X*ii|,«'r!
ollections made at all accessible points.
Sept. Kith. Ijr
for
res
.t l-.i ills sup-l.
o; lorn and j
- ■
ind fravi
Till: TABLE
tppbed ii.th the best ihemar-
\E S T A E L E S
'■:'u! slid attentive host-iri
<pared in any
• o table.
BAR
f "... -i 1 .-I
; W
PVERY STABLL'J
., ;„ this Hotel,
■ .yancea, can be
"dated wiih «.U(,.| I,;,,,,..
.r*^fr,ci ' lowei than am
other hotel in ion JOHN r KEESI
Proprietor.
I OOK HERE HI Vlsur.V
I i I am ] in i.i- . game for the Lead
II -- - ii. timore sad Kiel,
pav .i- lnk'li t,,r
, i.lIu.KS.
WATCH-MAKER, JEWELER AND
OPTIClAlSr,
I
Marl
1 -:
Del -"-'■."'I li.
v., If
HARES, oVC.,
a in.- al my room on
ippusite Planter's
'.Saddle and Hai
U. li. DAVIS.
AK'T .^'l'rjJIO!
So.11 S. i Ih Kim Street, Ureenshoro, N.C.
AS .i brantifnl s.ocl of Watchi -
(locks. Jewelry, Plated Wsre, Pis-
See. Alt repair-
IT
tola, Cartridges, Notion*
inn warriiain:. A :.n • and fine I
• ■oil P de( ".-.-l .
tf
^oroBoo/cV
% C.W.DGBDRN/.
'*e '•.vsitoito.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE MILLION
Cl "I and see—in Gsrrett lunldinc—
"i.i In. I'ouik.■- Store.
1-. W. ANDREWS,
Ureenshoro, it. C.
Lime IIIKI t'ciueiii.
- Lime.
Cement.
, ' " Calcined Plaster.
JAS SLOANS' SONS.
1 ■"'li S« ..1 Wauled.
JAMES sLOAira SONS.
STOP AT THE
YARB0R0UGH H0USB I
Raleigh, N. C.
6. W. Bhicknell, Proprietor.
JOB WORK
OfEVEBV Deaeiiptlon,
Executed in tho
VERY BEST STYLE,
And at New York prices, at the
Patriot Job Office.
mountains. The scenery along the
picturesque vallies of ihe Susque-liatitia
and the eliaiiaiug blue
Jnniata is truly beantifnl; while
the rush around the Horse Shoe
Bend, presenting, as it does, on the
one side, deep ciiinotis and fearful
chasms, on tbe other, bolder heights
affords a view which is no less llian
grand, and second only l.. that dis
played while rounding "(ape
Horn," on iHe Siena Nevadas.—
Connecting at Pittsbnrg, the city
jl fiery furnaces and smoky dark-ness,
with the Ft. Wayne & Chica-go
1;. K., we rapidly ran ihiongh
Ohio and Indiana, and with great
expectancy, reached Chicago. A
veritable Babylon modernized, un-abridged,
universally noted for the
terrible conflagration which so
swiftly bore disaster to its walls
and tenor to its stricken people,
marvelous lor the rapidity with
which it was rebuilt oil a finer,
grander scale than before. Well
could the otie of yore, or any
modern Nero, have been envious of
Mrs. CYLcary's cow. Misfortune,
though exceeding, was but a dis-guised
blessing lor Chicago. She
was brought low, but to fret the
sky with spires more numerous,
with domes even more magnificent.
She is notably characterized for ber
determined energy, wild yet me-thodical
rush. Cliicagoans are
justly proud of their great city,
their imposing edifices, their large
and numerous hotels—among them
the largest iu the world. •• The
Grand Pacific" truly deserves its
title, having been built at a cost of
lour millions dollars. Not satisfied
with their "tunnel under the
Thames," the project now is, to'
span the river the whole length of
the city with one solid cootinous
arch.
Leaving Chicago tho journey \
really begins, for on the train you j
now take up your residence. Hence
the Puliuian Palaco and sleeping
car is near a necessity. Having
procured our department in this
car, we enter sur parlor and our
castle, loitilled, 'i' desired, against
all ineoyiiito.i; free, to-day to gaze
upon the boundless prairies, to utor-row,
to behold long ranges of snow-clad
in tains : free to read, write,
sleep, and eat adlibitum of the well
Galelcd elk, buffalo, antelope, and
every variety ol lood suited to the
moat tas'.idioustastes.
'i'iie n.uie lrotn Chicago through
Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska as tar
as the siiinuiit of thej Rocky Moun-tains,
is characterized by somewhat
of monotony, barring the relief af-forded
by the numerous incipient
cities; the great " Father of Wa-ters"
transmitting his liquid vol-umes
whence they came; tho
Missouri "dyed in mud," the longest
rivers of earth ; the Indian and his
wigwam; tho antelope gracefully
gliding " o'er the plain ;" aud the
trequcut "cities"' ol praiiie dogs.—
Leaving Omaha, situate on the
.Missouri, we made an ascent so
gradual, so imperceptible, that al-ter
a ride of 550 miles, we were, mi
awares, on tbe summit ot the Rocky
Mountains., at an elevation of 8250
feet. Donning our overcoat,—for
at this height the temperature had
fallen to chilliness—we left our
course be for the proper legal tti
btinal, to decide. That a serious
violation of law, has been commit-ted
and that it gravely involves
very important interests and rights,
is evident to all. The liabilities in-curred
by them who are guilty of
this disregard of an important law
of the Legislature, will be a ques-tion
for the consideration of the
proper official authorities, including
the State Treasurer, the Attorney
General, and the Legislature, soon
to assemble. The Supreme Court
of North Carolina decided in June
last or the very first of July that
solvent credit and money on deposit,
as explained under Section 9 ol the
Machinery act, m«»f be luted and the
taxes collected. This gave abundant
time for those who prepared the
tax books to observe this require-ment
of the Legislature and the
Supreme Court But it wss not
done. Are the edicts of these high
est tribunals of the State to be thus
disregarded by those officers of the
couuty and State who have sworn
to support them t Head below the
decision of the Supreme Court on
this grave question, as rendered by
Judge Reade:
SOLVENT CREDITS—DECISION OF
THE SUPREME COURT THAT TIIKY
MAY BE TAXED.
We collate important parts of the
decision of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina, rendered last Mon-day,
ou the quesliou whether sol-vent
credits can be taxed:
The ease was Huffiii vs. the Com-missioners
of Orange. The plaintiff
listed for taxation "$15,000, money
on de|H)sit." The amount of tax
was $163, and she asked to have
the I'llimaThulei.f all rail-ioading. . ihe amount stricken from her tax
list ; or, if IT. S. Treasury notes are
exempt and National Hank bills are
not, then that $18 shall be stricken
Irom the list.
The Commissioners refused to
alter the list, aud the plaintill ap-pealed
to the .Superior Court, and
that Court directed the Commis
sinners to correct the list by strik-ing
out $102, his Honor holding
that neither United States Treasury
than a thousand feet ' notes nor National Bank bills were
property. Who is responsible for I has ,lle power to regulate and pro
this grave dereliction of official | '''rt ,,le"1. To this end it provides
duty in New Hanover, it will „f! for the redemption of their notes,
silver settings in de •p, dark forests
and fir, afford
scenes of matchless beauty, of deep-est
interest to llredileilantiolevery
school. Hut il..ill we go. through
fort)' miles of slow sheds, con-structed
at a ens', ol 910,000 per
mile, plunging tbioiigh tunnels,
turning hither aud thither, now
running back parallelwith the track
projects them from imposition of
counterfeits, and from injurious
coinjietitiou of State Banks by a
heavy tax on State Bank bills, and
no doubt might further protect them
by forbidding the States to tax
them. But this has not been done,
and until it is done we suppose the
State has the power to tax them.—
It seems that all that is to be in
ferred Irom the decision in Veazie
Bank vs. Fenno, supra, is, that not
the National Bank bills are exempt,
but that Congress has '.he power
to exempt them from State taxa-tion.—
Reversed. READE, J.
At a meeting of thiee OGrjaannd Lodge
OrfTer
above us. Erqi! Behold the glori-ous
'•Ilotn"! the marvel of tbe
whole transcontinental trip; as yet.
When tin-road-bed was first con-structed
around "Cape Horn," the
workmen who formed the first foot-holds
were suspended au< held by
ro|K's till they could make larger
excavations. Here is a pros|M-ct !
truly sublime, awe inspiring—mi '
manning the nerves. On he right I
the lowering peak* rear th-'r daik, I
barren crests nl.di i.. -ay.-. lie<|o!ii| i
the clouds; « hile\u the intnediate !
left, and in
below, is a Lively Itttli valley,
threaded by a silvery Stream bask-ing
its waters in the rays of none
other than the noonday sun, lor at
other hours these castellated monu-ments
throw their Ion; weird
shnlows far across this lovr.y vale.
The Cape rounded, we ire pass
ing through the rich minr.g dis-tricts:
Sacramento, the Stale Capi-tal
is reached, admired ind left
behind : and in a few hour.- ride we
arrive at Oakland, related ti San
Francisco, as Brooklyn t> New
Yolk. Across the Bay in an ele-gant
boat, we are in the gnat Cos-mopolitan
City, scarcely it all
fatigued, for ihe twofold eason
that we were supplied with in ele-gant
luiinc-on wheels', and I at con-stantly
in view a vast panorama
without surcease of interest
But where! oh wheie an we!
Alack, at Modern Babel! "which
I wish to remark and my language
is plain." of cities that are lai/e and
cities that are strange, 'Frisco is
peculiar:—which we wish to re-mark
'• in oar next." IoElU.
of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, re< tly iii Baltimore the
color question came up and was
promptly met as, follows :
This subject came up iu four
shapes, each delicately and ingeni-ously
worded. One was from Wis-consin,
proposing a repeal of the
clause which excludes "Indians and
persons of mixed blood ;" another
from Honolula, asking a mollifica-tion
so as to allow initiations of
those half white, half-native; the
next from sundry citizens of New
Haven, Connecticut; the last from
Australia, proposing to take of all
all restrictions in regard to who
should he initiated : but all suffered
defeat by majority sufficient to indi
cafe, now and henceforth, that
American Odd Fellowship is to be
composed of the white race, and
that all proposal looking to any-thing
else is time thrown away, and
the agitation of which can only be
dissension and discord.
But since tbe 30th of June the bal
ance of trade has inclined ranch
more iu our favor and continues to
be so. In fact, while we are export
ing more domestic products we are
importing relatively less mercban
dise, and this favorable stale of
trade is bringing specie aud bullion
in large quantities.—A'. Y. Herald.
Audacious Attempt to Steel a Lo-comotive.-
Some bold rascal took
advantage of the engineer au fire-man
being at dinner the otbe.'day
at Hoopeston, III., to detach aloco-motive
from a freight trail and
start lor the Chicago expositfon.—
The agent at the station ahead was
telegraphed to open a SWltcl and
ditch the engine, but the thief met
another train,coinpc.ling him t> run
some distance back, when In set
the brake and escaped to the wiods.
American (Tine*.—Light nttive
wines will soon be luaiiul'aetiiml in
such large quantities in this country
that the alleged results of thei use
in diminishing the consumptiin of
strouger liquors should in r few
years be made apparent, if ther use
is to have such results. It is said
that this year California wil pro-duce
twelve million gallons of wine
and a largo quantity of branly.—
Forty thousand acres of land i: the
State are iu vineyard, and Imides
the grapes used in making liniors
there have been produced, doing
the year, two millions |>oun<s of
grapes for table use.and fifty tkuis-and
pounds ot raisins.—liichtond
Whig. m
Southern Mannfactnrct.—Twolrst-elass
UjcaTmotivcs have lately seen
tin tied out of the South Gaiblna
railroad shops at Charleston, at a
cost considerably below Philadel-phia
prices, and the Charl«s;on
Courier says fuHy the equal of the
drawing-room for reconnoissance.— best Northern built engines.
subjected to taxation by the Stales.
Whether that be so or not, it
seems" hot to be necessary to the
decision of the case, because it is
plain that the plainiitlliad neither
United States Treasury notes nor
National Bank bills " on hand" or
" on deposit." It is true she had
deposited 1*10,000 in bauk, but it
was not a special deposit, as a pack-age
to be kept for her and returned
in kind when called for, if so, the
money, Ihe very money deposited
would have remained hers. But it
was a general deposit entered to
her "credit." not returnable in
kind, but "payable" to her order
with " interest." So it would seem
that she had no money at all and
ought not to have listed any. The
point most discussed at this bar
was. whether United States Treas-ury
notes and National Bauk bills
were liable to taxation by the State.
And although sis we have seen, it
is not necessary to the decision of
the case, yet, as his Honor's judg-ment
was based upon it, and as it
is a matter of general interest, it
may be proper that we should ex-press
onr opinion upon it. it
seemed to be settled by unmerous
cases in the United States Supreme
Court, cited in plaiutffTs brief, be
ginning with McCulloch vs. Bank
of Maryland, that United States
Treasury notes cannot be taxed by
tho Slate, because they are the
means used for the support and ad-ministration
of the United States
Government. And if a State could
tax them, then uufrieudly States
would so tax them as to destroy
their usefulness; and in that way,
and to that extent, destroy the
United States Government. And
it is equally well settled that ihe
United States Government cannot
tax any of the necessary means
used to* administer tbe State gov-ernment.
But whether a State can
tax National Bank bills seems to be
a debatable qnestion. The cast-cited
agaiust the power of the State
is Veazie Bank vs. Feuno 8 Wal,
533. We do not think that cast-supports
the position. It Is there
decided by a divided court that
Congress may tax tbe circulation
of banks chartered by the State.—
And that although the tax was so
heavy—about 10 per cent.—as to
destroy tbem. It is not pretended
that this tax could have been im-posed,
if tho bank had been char-tered
for the use of tbe State, aud
as a means of administering gov-ernment.
Bat it is put upon tbe
ground that they are corporations
for private profits. And as the
power of Congress to tax tbe cir-culation
of State banks depends
npon whether they are for the use
.,1 White Savage.—A Detroit wife
has demanded a divorce from ber
husband upon thelollowiuggrouuds:
1. He is inebriated on an average
twenty-seven days in every month ;
2. He cut off her hair while she
slumbered: ;i. He is accustomed to
awake her at daylight by throwing
several pails of cold water over the
bed ; I. He has attempted to force
kerosene oil down her throat; .">.
He has forced her to go without
shoes and stockings; fit He pnts
hot pulai.H's iu her bauds and then
mashes them by squeezing her tin
gers. li is thought by a majority
of the best lawyers in Detroit that
this singularly treated dame is enti-tled
to a separation ; but it isn't a
case upon which we should like to
express an opinion until we hear
what the husband has to say about it
Pauengen anil Freight on the Clies-apenlce
and Ohio Railroad.—The
throng of passengers and immense
freights from the West and South
are taxing the capacity ot the Ches-apeake
and Ohio railroad to its ut-most.
The company find it difficult
to increase the number of their lo-comotives
as fast as they are needed,
and even now the necessity for a
double 'rack is pressing. The tun-nel
through Church Hill, now great-ly
facilitates the company and ship-pen
in through freight, both Nortn
and Sooth.— Richmond Whig.
The sugar crop of Louisiana this
year will probably be au average
yield, although in some districts toe
canes have not obtained their ordi-nary
growth, owing id wet weather
in the earlier part of the season.—
The dry weather of the last few
weeks if continued may invigorate
the cane as it has yet two months
during which to grow, it may at-tain
a fair size iu all parts of the
State. ^^^^^^^^
The Boiiham (Texas) Enterprise
says: "On the 33rd of September,
ofle year ago, tbe first tiiwu lot was
sold in Deiiisoii, and the site on
which the city was built was an
open prairie; but now she can boast
of her .".000 inhabitants, graded
streets, magnificent scone buildings,
fiue churches, and the finest school
house in the State being construct
ed. This shows what energy and
enterprise will do."
Several plans have been submit-ted
to the President aud Secretary
of State for transmission to Con-gress
for tho distribution of the
115,000,000 in gold made by the
(ieiieva Conference, but it is learned
that they will simply report the re
ception of the money, and leave its
mode of distribution to Congress—
either through the courts or a com-mission—
as may be deemed best.
Copious showers of manna are
rcproted in Hill county Texas. It
resembled gum, and had all tbe
sweetness aud flavor of honey.
Lexington, Ky., thinks of making
a wooden railroad to the iron and
coal regions in Eastern Kentucky.
it was this feature that has, more
than anything else, raised the "bile"
of the American people. Tbe busi-ness
feature of the case—an em-ployee
having virtually contracted
to do certain work for a certain
price, having been paid for that
work, then " grabbing," because he
bad the power, an addition of fifty
per cent, to bis original compensa-tion—
this was a kind of commercial
transaction which the people took
no stock in.
And in regard to the President's
salaiy. This was not made retro-active.
<ien. Crant was saved that
stain. And it was believed that
tbe President's salary was inade-quate.
It was said, and with truth
that if 925,000 was a just compen-tion
at the beginning of the century
when money was vastly more valu-able,
ajOJHlO was none too much
now. But it appears that the spec-ial
appropriations for the White
House for 1873-74 reached tbe enor-mous
sum of $73,000, and that all
the expenses paid from the Presi-dent's
salary are tbe personal ex-penses
of his family and tbe pro-viding
tor his table. It this is true,
there was not the excuse of inade-quate
compensation for the increase
provided lor in the hill. We hear
much talk about "providing a
competence for the President of the
Tinted S'ates," and if it was plainly
stated thai the object of the bill t
was lo pension the President after
he ceased to lie such, we should not
greatly object,and we do not believe
tin- people would, but if that was
the purpose, it should have been so
stated. It was not so stated
Another reason, and it appears an
incorrect one, was given for this
increase, aud tho [>eoplo are not
pleased.
President Crant bad the greatest
op|Hirtunity ever presented to a
President of the UuitedStates when
this bill was laid before him By
vetoeing it he would have endeared
himself to the American people
more than he could have done by
. . any other single act. He did not
lcVs- r „„„-. _4 BI ! (l° '*> aml every true friend of bis
For Lovers ot Flowers. | must be sorry that he missed his
A most beantifnl and easily at-' opportunity. But it is said a veto
tained shows of ever greens may be '■ Of the bill would havo necessitated
had by a very simple plan. If ge-' the expense of an extra session ;
raninm branches, taken from luxu-1 and the figures of the cost of such
riant and healthy plants just before i a sessiou are shown to be larger
the winter sets in, be cnt as for slips ! than the amount _of tbe Congres-
Waking up Girls.
Waking up one hundred and
thirty-two girls at once can be done
uo where but in Staunton. An
omnibus drove up to a female sem-inary
here the other night at 3
o'clock, and did it without a flaw.
They all sat stock-upright in bed,
clutching at each other in the dark
and screaming " It must be a man."
Somehow, nothing ever hapjieiis
that a girl don't swear it is "a
man." Of the whole number, one
hundred and twenty-eight cried
"Oh, where's ray pat" The old
man is never wanted except when
trouble comes along. A girl may
have a hundred new dresses to
show, and its " Oh, ma," but the
minute she stnmps her toe its
"Where's my paf" One hundred
and eight said " the house is on
fire," and started down stairs eatrv
ing one hnndred and six cologne
bottles, ninety-eight copies ofByron,
one Shorter Catechism, one bun
dred and three braids, and eighty
three bustles. At breakfast next
morning they compared statistics.
Julia Blodsden made the bottom
step of the lowest flight," carrying
her trak, the washstand, the bed-stead,
and two window shutters in
two minutes and twelve seconds.—
Julia is a truthful scholar. Marv
Lobsby put up her back hair, fixed
her banged front-hair, and pinned
on a ruff iu. one minute and three
seconds, and Ellen Pitchfelder put
on both shoes, three pair of ear
rings, and a polonaise in five
seconds. But the prize scholar ex-cited
the hatred and envy of all by
proving by the cook that she fainteil
"stone dead" twice—Staunton ( Fa.)
Vindicator.
and immersed in soap water, they
will, alter drooping for a few days,
sioual back pay. That may be true.
, But it mnst lie remarked that by a
shed their leaves, put forth fresh proper showing the expenses of an
ones, and continue in the finest j extra session would be oflset by-vigor
all winter. By placing a j succeeding years of increased Cou-number
of bottles thus filled in a ' gressional and Presidential salary,
flower basket, with moss to conceal and nobody is insane enough to say
the bottles a show of everylasting I that with this oflset the balance
' would not be ou the side of the
Treasury.
We are opposed to the Congres-sional
fcatnro of the salary bill, and
we hope to see Republicans in every
part of the country denounce not
green is easily insured for the whole
season. Thev require no fresh wa-ter.
A queer discovery has been made
respecting the Civil Rights statute
in Arkansas. The expulsion of a only the men who aided in the pas-person
of color from a first-class sage of the measure, but all men
railway car developed the fact that who took the money. And it is
the statute, by tbe omission of the the part of manhood" and honesty
word "not," negatives itself, for it j uot to forget that President Grant
reads as follows: "Noperson shall had it iu his power to squelch this
make any rules which shall affect
all persons alike without regard to
race or color." This would seem to
render it incumbent upon railway
and other coronations to make
distinctions on account of race ami
color. _^
An Iowa minister, in discoursing
to his audience a few Sabbaths ago,
said : "Religion in the heart, my
friends, is like like four aces in the
deck ; without it no man can hold
a certain hand." To some of his au-dience
his illustration was forcible,
In their judgment the "deck" would
be a barren pack without the four
aces. A few, however, "flushed"
with indignation, arose "straight"
up, and "passed"out the door.
raid on the Treasury, and that he
did not do it. And we fail to see
any great difference in point of
morality in a Congressman voting
himself 92.500 increase of salary,
and a President signing a bill which
cave him an increase of 925,000.—
This difference does exist—a single
Congressman could not have pre-vented
the bill becoming a law ;
that power did rest with Prevident
Grant. The people will not adopt
a rule for public action which pre-scribes
penalties tor minor officials,
and leaves equally guilty ones of
higher isisiiiou to go scot tree.
A second Methuselah has been
discovered iu Brazil. He is one
liunilred and seventy-nine years of
age and speaks of bappeaings a cen-tury
aud a halt ago. He reads the
news from Spain with great inter
est, and urges some of his children,
grandchildren, and great grand-i.
liildirn. of whom he has 294, to go
and enlist iu the .Spanish army and
honor their old sire.
"Drown It In a Boat ~—The Obi
cago Tunis says : "General A. E.
Burnside, of Rhode Island, late a
MnjorGeneral in the Union army,
and General Buckner, of Kentucky,
late a Major-General in the Confed-erate
army, dined together at the
Sherman House, in Chicago, ou
Sunday last, and in a glass ot chain
pagne drowned all memories of the
past."
Troublesome people will not let
llic i'lcsidein and his increased
salary of lilt;,- thousaud dollars a-h
• A Mr. Willard has found
out that the appropriations for
1873-74 to iheexiieiises of the White
Hoii-eaie|alMiui seventy-seven thou-sand
dollars, in addition to the fifty
thousand dollars recently voted.—
Most persons think that the Pre-'
sidenr keeps up the White Honse.
Not at all. How erroneous sneb au
idea.is will be seen from the follow-ing
appropriations by Congress:
Furnace keepers, 9"20; two police-men,
92,040 ; one night watchman,
9900; usher, 91,200; two door-kee|
iers, 93.400; steward, 92000;
messenger, 91,200; secretary and
clerk, 910,000; contingent expenses,
96,000; annual repairs, White
IIonse,91»,OOOi refurnishing White,
910,000; fuel, i.i,000; green house,
910,000; grounds, 910,000.
Iu old age incrustations form on
the arteries, cartilages and valves State Orange are busy organizing
Missouri now claims to rank sec-ond
in the farmers' movement as
regards tbe number of granges aud
their influence. Fifty agents of the
of the heart. Tbe deaths after tbe
seventy-fifth year are often caused
by such incrustations. They can
be removed, however, by lactic acid.
As buttermilk abounds in this acid.
M. Robins, in a communication to
the French Academy advocates its
use as a means of prolonging life.
new granges at the rate of fifty a
week, and it is believed that when
tbe movement is two years old it
will number no less than two thous-and
granges. Meetings are held
almost daily in the State, with an
average attendance ranging from
five thousand to ten thousand.