The Greensboro patriot [May 19, 1875]

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The White Dove.
BY WHO
[ Published hy request,)
While wrapped in gloomy sadness,
I sat hy my ohaiulier door
Weepllg almost to madnsss
And till I could wimp no more,
'1 hen turning to the fature
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JEWELLER AN1> OPTICIAN.
Greentboro, -V. ft
Ii., .,. uitly on band » aplendiil »aaort-menl
"I Fa«hionabl* Jewelry, and nom.-
■plendid il • mdCloda.
Which will be m.ld tJU.-u,i> lor C'a»li
C*-\\ atehca, Clocks, Jewelry, Sewing Ma-chine.*...!
I'iwol. repaired cheap and ... abort
- ted stock of UnnB.I istola,
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with ..... I. pin ... Thimble ikein axlaj on
kandormadeto ord*r, Alao BlackamHhing
»nd general repairing dona on ibortaotto-iin.
l in workmanabip
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manner. IV.irk.hop
J. A C. LEWIS.
ODELL, RAGAN A CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in
GENERAL MERCHANDISfi,
Greensboro, Ar. C.
Jan. SO, 1875-ly.
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C. 0. YATES.
JN . ^. SH:BR-M:A.3ST,
Greentboro, K. C.
CONTRACTOR AND BCILDER.
PLANS, Elevations and Specification!
, i the in.-t in.Mom and approved
at) lee, forniahed at moderate pneea
Jan. I. Ii-Tr.;«.in.
JEWELERY AND WATCH
ESTABLISHMENT
, /■ pl«o/ 'rmiutort! and tui-rouiuluiy
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Having opened in your midst a fiiht-claan
\1 id !, Making and Jewelry St..re, I re
A'1
-|.. i ttully ask a share of your patronage.
Having served a long apprenticiidiip
with one of the most celebrated Watch
Greensboro, and ohronometei makers in the country,
""'■' and the anrroun- and having bad Thirty Yeaia Experience
•litig ci.iinirv. on.-in the olhei "'. them in this bnsinese, 1 confidently helieve I
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entn K.I-I may entrust their work to my care.
Market'Str.et. I ihaU keep constantly nn hand a Good
SatiafaMori reference given, if deaired, Assortment of Gold and Silver Watches,
■ran om ri'spectivc patrona during the Clocks, Jewell) ..f all kinda.Sawetaelee,
aaattwelvi oars, ;l:;:ti" Silver and Plated Ware, and Ererything
in my Line. 1 ioe Gold
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is the Book Store ofCD. Vatcs,
Kings and Hair
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GREENSBORO
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OIK I,I'I:STS.
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THE BOYDEM HOUSE;
\ i ii iae, Rlli I irlthnew and eleitant
r. Hue, Carpets, SilverWan, Ac. Clean
'and neal rooms. We guarantee sometaing
to eat, |'"liie ~eiv.nn- and a beartj
W.T. I.INTON,
March 3,-6m. Proprietor.
Swift o'er the lofty mounUins
And o'er deep aonnding sea,
O'er valleys bills and foaniains
Came a snow white dove to ma
And nestled in my bosom,
While she rested from her flight,
As if by heaven chosen
To bring to my heart delight.
SI.e »a* gentle, coy and wary
And grew more en every day.
Till becoming of earth weary-
She took wings und lied away ;
And I hen rrtm lied lay aedueas,
My heart aches, grief and pain,
When hope gave way to madness
Aud tortured my sonl sgain.
So now all sad and lonely
Sit I by my chamber door,
And think of the white dove ouly
Safe on the eternal shore.
Where soon I hope to meet her,
When earth's trials are o'er
And in hliBS immortal greet her,
Where parting shall be no more.
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JOB WORK
Of EVER!" Description,
Exeauted in the
VI'.RV BEST STILE,
And ut New York prices, at the
Patriot Job Office.
CITY ART GALLERY.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Eseeuttd ttitk the Latest Finish and
in the Beit Style of the Art.
1.. W. ANDREWS,
Garrett Building, Greensboro, K, C.
Jnly II. 1874. Se. n.T.lly
W. N. n BBAIE,
ATTORNEY AT LiiW,
WeDtwortb, N. C
PRACTICE in the Courts of Rocking-ham,
Goilford and Stokes, and in the
r 8. Circuit am! District Court* at
.!., neboro.
tT'Special attention given to collec-tion
of claims. apl4-ly
A Timely Shot.
B\ ROGER STARBUCK.
In the year 1810, the English
sloop of war Clinton, after cruising
successfully against the vessels of
the French lay anchored off Cal
cult a.
Soon after the anchor was down,
a One young sailor, named Henry
Mellon, a man of refinement and .
education, who however, had ship- i
ped as a foremast liaud, uiade ap- j
plication to the captain for permis
nod to go ashore lo visit his old
mother, who, anticipating the ves-sel's
arrival at her present port,
had sailed hi a trading vessel all j
the way. from England to Calcutta
for thesake of seeing her son.
Too ill to go aboard the sloop, ;
she had sent word to Henry of her
arrival, begging him to come to
her.
Old Capt. Knowles, of the vessel,
was a strict disciplinarian. Al
though his beautiful daughter Sly
veeu, a girl of eighteen, who had
joined her father at a Spanish port,
where she had been staying with
her brother, besought her stem
parent to grant the sailor's request,
yet it was decidedly refused.
The consequence was that nenry
Melton, who had finally learned
that his mother was not expected
to live, deserted on a certain dark
night, in a boat in which he went
ashore from the war-vessel, as one !
of the crew, for provisions.
The young man was.jnst in time
to receive his mother's last blessing,
and to close her eyes in death. He
had with him a snm of money; a
part of this he took to an English
merchant of whom his mother had
hired her lodgings, and from whom
he obtained a promise that the re-mains
of his parent should be decent
ly bnried. I
With the cash he had left, he pur-chased
a small pistol, which he
loaded with powder aud ball, and
concealed in a secret pocket of his i
jacket.
The instrument was one of the
best of its kind. Henry, in his'
prosperous days, bail taken lessons
of a celebrated professor of pistol
practice, who had not only tangbt
him how to always bit liis mark,
but also how to choose a good
weai»n.
He knew that he would be ar-rested,
and be condemned either to j
a dogging with the fearful ' cat-o'- j
nine tails' or death, for his deser-tiou.
Should the sentence against him
prove to be punishineut with the
lash he now had with him the means
of avoidiug it.
Sooner than suffer the disgrace
of a flogging, he would shoot him-;
self through the hea\l with his |
pistol.
He resolved to endeavor to avoid
capture until his mother was buried,
that he might at least have the sat-isfaction
of seeing that cold form
deposited in its final resting-place.
He, therefore, struck far out into
the country, ami finally couccaled
himself In a cavern.
Toward night of the next day,
who should pass his retreat but the j
captain and his daughter, who had
been out all day, accompanied by-guides,
for a stroll T
Unfortunately for Henry, there
was with the party a small dog.
which, soon discovering the young
man, set up a loud barking.
The captain, with his nindoo
guides, attracted to the cave by the
noise, saw the sailor.
■Ha!" exclaimed the old com-mander.
' So here we are ! Arrest
him. guides ! He is one of my men
—a deserter V
Mel lou was soon a prisoner.
' How far are we from the city !'
inquired Captain Knowles of one
the gnides.
1 Six miles," was the response.
' Then we will! pitch our tents in
that plain yonder, aud encamp for
the night. Keep a good watch on
the prisoner, guides.'
'Oh, papa, pleaded Sylveen, with
tears in her beautiful blue eyes,' let
him go.'
' Humph !' growled the captaiu.
' A pietty navy we'd have of it if
we took the advice of the women.—
No, tua.aiu, that man must not go
He has deserted in time of war.—
He will be shot.'
The tents were soon pitched by
some of the gnides, who carried
canvas and blankets.
Though much latigued, yet Byl
veen could nut sleep for thing of
the prisoner.
II;. iv. .... handsome face, show-ing
neither fear nor bravado, when
her l.ither luul mentioned his des
tined fate, haunted her miud.
Through a crevice iu the teut,;
she could now see him standing
composed and cueerful-lookiug, out
iiu-u- iu the clear moonlight, a-mongst
his dusky guards.
At last the young gtil diop)>ed
ofl' to sleep. At dawu she was
awakened by a strauge feeliug of
oppression iu her chest.
A thrill of horror went through
her frame. Motiouless—speechless
with fear she lay, al sight ol a
iiiile.ius looking serpent coiled upon
her breast!
The monster was about four feet
long, its folds wound up iu three
rings, in the center of which was its
head, slightly elevated, its two glit
tering eyes turned full upon her
lace, its forked tongue moving back
and forth with lightning rapidity
iu its hall opened month!
The body was a dark color, and
had the appearance of being cover-ed
all over with slimy-looking spots
of scales. Under the throat were
two stringy appendages like minia-ture
hammocks to that part ot the
creature, and adding to the uncouth
aspect of the reptile.
Sylveen bad heard descriptions
enough ot this fearful pest of India,
to realize at a glace, that her ter-rible
visitor was the terrible cobra
de capello—one of the most veno
motis of the serpent tribe.
What could she do t
The slightest cry—the feeblest
movemeut on her part would insure
her destruction.
The creature had its gaze upon
her, aud the moment she should
stir it would doubtless thrust its
horrible head against her lace or
neck and make her feel the fatal
bile of its poisonous tangs.
Scarcely daring to breath, she
lay, keeping even her eyelids steady,
while a cold perspiration bathed
her brow, and her heart beat loud
and fast with a wilder terror that
almost deprived her of conscious-ness.
Meanwhile, outside the tent she
could hear the voice ot her father
and the guards, as they moved to
and fro, ignorant of her perilous
position.
Would they never come ? Vaiuly
she listened for her father's ap-proaching
footsteps. Several times
she saw his shadow across the
threshold of the tent, and once she
beheld his arm ; but he did not en-ter.
Suddenly the serpent elevated its
head higher than before. The beat-ing
of her heart, the heaviug of her
breast, which she could not sup-press,
had probably roused the
creature to action.
Slowly the head was thrust for-ward,
then its slimy touch was on
her flesh—it lay nestled ou her
white throat! In a few moments
she would probably feel its horrid
fangs!
Just then her father looked in
the teut. He saw the serpent at
once—at once realized the peril of
his child. An involuntary cry es-caped
him. The Hindoo guides
were soou at his side.
They looked ho|«-lessly at their
muskets and their knives. They
could neither cut nor shoot the ser-pent
lyiug so close against the girl,
without mortally wounding her.
For them to attempt to seize the
creature with their hands must also
prove fatal to the young woman.—
The moment they touched it, it
would bite her throat.
What was to be done! How was
the serpent to be removed !
Not one of them could think of
any plan, and the old captain
wi uiig his hands in silent agony, be-lieving
that the fate of the child
was sealed.
Suddenly Henry Melton made
his appearauce at the door of the
tent. The guides and the captain,
in their trepidatiou and alarm, had
forgotten him. He might have es-caped,
had he so wished.
The moment he beheld Sylveen's
situation, bis eyes gleemed with a
cold, steady glitter. The girl lay
on her back, her right side toward
the door of tho teut. In this posi-tion
her throat, with the head of
the serpent nestled upon it, was
distinctly revealed.
Henry raised his left arm. as a
sign to the party to make no noise.
With his right he drew his pistol.
' Hold !' whispered the captain,
seizing his wrist. ' If you tire at
the serpent you will kill my chi d !'
11 will save her,' answered Mel-ton.
' My God! I cannot risk it.' Your
bullet will fail—it must fail, with
the serpent right on her!'
4 Have no fear, sir!' answered
Melton, calmly.
He looked so confident that the
captain, who had heard that he
was a ' crack shot' from some ot the
midshipmen aboard, let go his wrist.
Then kueeliug, Henry leveled his
pistol straight at the serpent's head,
which still rested ou the girl's
throat!
There was a moment of fearful
suspense. The guides shook their
heads solemnly, believing that the
voting womau's doom was sealed ;
and the captain was about seizing
Henry's arm again, when a fiery
streak of flame leaped from the
pistol, followed by a sharp, ringing
P64P'a!le as death, the captain rush, ed^
to his daughter. Henry striled.
The serpent lay dead ou the ground,
its bead crushed by the bullet,
which had not even grazed the
throat of Sylveen!
' He has saved you ! cried the old
captain, straining the girl to his
bosom.
' Yes, papa! Oh, papa, now save'
him, too!'
Tim captain did so. Henry was
pardoned fur his temporary deser-tion.
In the course of lime he be-i
oame an officei and married Sylveen I
(.Detroit Free Praia.]
He Pit with Stonewall Jack-son.
He was at tho Central station
yesterday, waiting to go to the:
county insane asy In iu. There was ,
a wild look in bis eyes, and now
and then he muttered to himself;
but one would sooner think him the .
victim ot poverty ami hard lack ,
than a lunatic. His garments were
faded and reut, the It-It arm was off j
at the elbow, he had a painful limb,
■ad he was old and gray. Sudden- \
ly pausing in his walk, he stood at I
" attention " and exclaimed :
" Rightdress—front!"
Some of the men looked up, and I
the old man continued:
" I fit with Stonewall Jackson—
that's what ails me."
" Were you a soldier f asked one
of the men who had carried a mus-ket
for three years.
The old man regarded him with
a look of pity and contempt, and
loftily replied, " I will show yon !"
He had his coat and vest nil in a
moment, and, pulling open his old
woollen shirt, he pointed to a terri-ble
scar.
" Was struck there with a bayo-net."
said the old man.
He exposed his left thigh, and
there was another terrible scar,
showing where an ounce ball had
ploughed its way, and explaining
why he limped.
"Got that lighting with Stone-wall
Jackson P" he said, his voice
betraying pride.
He mutely pointed to his maimed
arm, waited a full minute, and then
whispered :
" And I got that under Stonewall
Jackson, too!"
He stood at '• attention "' again,
his eves fixed on the wall. His fact-was
stern for a moment, but then
it softened and lighted up. He
seemed to see a picture of the past
on the blank wall, aud presently he
was wearing the gray again. He
trembled with excitement as he
wheeled around and exclaimed :
"Did I light with Stonewall
Jackson t You bet 1 did !"
Waiting a moment, he sat down
and continued: "'Member when we
'nns came down ou you 'uns in the
Wilderness T I saw him a dozen
times that day, aud we 'uns knew
you 'tins would catch blazes. For
ward, forward—march, inarch, all
day long, no rest, no rations, no let
up. Old Uncle Robert (Geueral
Lee) had sent lor Jackson, and
Jackson was bound to be thar on
time. Along the roads, across the
fields, and jist at daik we struck
yon 'uns—struck like a tornado.—
Down along tha thickets—through
the woods—across the swamps, and
yon'nns didn't see us'uns coming."
"Great blazes!" continued the
old man as he sprang up. " We
charged right down among you'uus,
don bled the line up. and drove it.
That's who Stonewall Jackson was,
that's how we fit ! I got this'ete
hurt in the hip there, and while. I
was lying there yon'nns chawed
this arm of with a grape shot! Dief
Lots of graybacks would have died;
but wasn't I under Jackson—old
Stonewall T We tit, sir: we couldn't
stop long enough to die I"
His eyes flashed, color came to
his face, and lor a moment he show-ed
all the pride of a veteran of Wa-terloo.
Then his true situation
.-a in.- back to him, and he sat down,
excitement and exultation all gone,
and said :
" I haven't money enough to buy
a crntn.li, aud my head isn't exactly
right. I've surrendered to yon'nns,
and you'uns ate going to take me
somewhere. I'm old and used up,
and I wish I'd a died under Jack-son
!"'
The men waited awhile, and then
questioned him ; bnt he lixed his
gaze on the wall and would make
no reply. When the officer came
to escort him to the depot he no-ticed
tho old man's lameness and
asked :
" Shall we take a car V
" No, sir." was the prompt reply:
" forward, guide right, 'arch ; I fit
with Stonewall Jackson !"
The Results of Radical Mis-rule.
The following, which we find in
the Richmond Dispatch, is a synop-sis
of facts from the very able
speech of Senator Johnston, of Vir
giuia:
Austria Population, 35,604,435;
peace establishment of army,345,-
00(1; aunual expenditures, t261.-
000,000.
France—Population, 36,102,821;
army peace establishment, 420,000 ;
annual expenditures, 1444,120,000.
Great Britain—Population 31,-
317,108; army, 133,S49; the largest
navy in the world aud a debt of
$4,000,000,000; annual expendi-tures,
8343,140,000.
Germauy—Population of 41,058,
139; peace army, 402,500 ; expen-ditures,
8383,120,000.
United States—Population iu
1870, 38,555,083 ; army, 30,000 ; net
ordinary receipts, 8395,059,883; the
States, #243,303,824. Aggregate
taxation, |G44,203,707.
Thus it appears that the people
of the United States pay in taxes
817 per head average on all ages,
sexes, and conditions—three times
as much as Austria, over one-third
more than France (recently from
Prussian conquest, indemnity, and
spoliation,) aud twice as mnch as
Great Britain and Germany.
From 1800 fo 1804, inclusive, the
United States exported to Great
Britain 127,OOO,O00bushels of wheat;
Russia exported to the same coun-try
47,000,000 bushels of wheat.—
From 1808 to 1872, inclusive, Rus-sia
exported to Great Britain 117,-
967,000 bushels of wheat; and the
United States exported to the same
country 116,462,000 bushels—the
Uuited States declining in the com
petition 11,000,000, Russia increas-ing
70,000,000, aud exceeding by
1.500,000 the export of the United
States to (ireat Britain.
Cotton—In 1860 England reced-ed
from the United States 1,115,-
890,008 pounds; from all other na-tions,
275,048,144 pouuds—excess
from the United States, 840,842,-
402 pounds. In 1870 all other na-tions
sent to the same market 78'!,:
237,312 pounds; the United States,
625,600,080—United States exports
to th.it market falling off 490,290,
000 pouuds, the other nations in-creasing
their;supplies to it 508,189,- \ Yok V
freight from nine lines of oceanic
steamers show from 47,000.000 a de-
Th 3 Cause of Poverty in North
Carolina and Tennessee.
Dr. Redfield, in a letter from
Ch itUnooga, Tennessee, says; The
|K>\ erty of the two States to-day is
lue in no small degree to the mul
titude of worthless curs, which con
sume as much as the hogs ami i
as much aa the schools, ami pro
dnce nothing. In the rural diet]
there are nearly as many dogs' as
people, showing of itself a state ot
civilization not the highest. Not
long ago a plaintive appeal was
sent to Nashville trom 143 colored
people from Rutherford county,
saving that last year's dry weather
2!>«2■?■2«■2■2.twSwBttWi±. ^WShen2£. ; -'"t off the crop and that they arge ,, , g 9^^
numbers returning enter to swell
this amount the number ot immi-grants
is very small. Those return-ing
carry back reports of a govern
raent young in years,but in taxation
and corruption gone ahead of the
old governments of Europe,
It may be added that our ship
building interest is crushed, our
manufactures prostrate, our agri-culture
bankrupt. A tew individ
nals have acquired millions: the
masses, taxation, poverty, debt,
distress. These are the results of
radical rule in less than fifteen
years Born aud existing by sec
tional hate, it can now wage equal
war for prolonged power.
We are invoked to celebrate the
centennial of the birth of American
liberty. May we not soou mourn
its demise f The subject States may
have cause to envy the liberties of
British colonies.
How Mozis Adums was got in-to
Serious Trouble.
" Mozis Adums," who went on a
recent voyage to New York, travel-ed
by way of the Old Dominion
line of steamers. The first letter
giving an account ot his adventures
and experiences appears in the /'/>
Bates of yesterday. We copy the
following extract, showing how one
of our citizens got the old man into
serious difficulty.
Bermudy Hunduds soon diverted
my mind, but it wus a tuelankolly
divurshuu—looks like a village ou
Nootky Soun—barbus and tuiser-bul.
At Sitty Pint, wick is a depo,
with plenty uv bar-rooms, old rail-roder'un,
and littel nigger gals tot
in' water, Mr. Jon Wats, the great
ajuut uv the compu'y, come abode,
aiid lookiu' at me sinrnly, he sais:
" Oie man, have you splyst the
main brais V'
I sais, " No."
" What!" he sais, " goiu' to see
'thou', splysin' the main brais '."
"You'll die, Splys, sir." Winch
, is takin' uv a drink.
U's sph soil. Theu he sais to me,
. " Who's yo' cons,nee t"
Sir. P I sais.
" Who ar' you cousined to iu Nu
000.
The products of Louisiana be-tween
1860 and 1870 decreased
from thirty-one to fourteeu millions.
The writer adds : The receipts iu
Richmond (Governor's ^statement)
from the James river and Kanawha
canal declined between 1860 and
1873-4 : In flour, 83 per cent.; in
wheat, 87 per cent.; in tobacco, 63
percent. From another source he
learns that the production of flour
by the city mills was: In 1850,
" Oh !" sais I, " I ketcbed you'
ineanin', now, I'm way billed iu the
keer uv Mr. V. Danny, eleben han-dled
aud elebenteeu, elebenlcm
bundled and elebenty-lebeutli street
Est side, Nu Y'ok.''
" Good!" he sais. " Boy, fetch
me a inarkin' pot."
So he fetch it, aud Mr. Wessla-billed
me right iu the middel uv the
back uv my ole long-tail while sur
toot with a Dimon like this [M. A.,
V. D.] me.cnin' 'Mozis Adums iu
went through the poveriy-stricken
districts of that county, and his bus
iness being to enumerate the popu-lation
he enumerated the dogs also,
aud found more dogs than people.
What was fed to the dogs would
have fattened hogs enough to have
furnished the population with a
reasonable amount of meat.
Corse the worthless dogs! Who
ever you find them in great num-bers,
you find the people corres-pondingly
|>oor and the country
wretched. I wish the tax on each
dog was twenty-five dollars, and
the proceeds given to encouraging
the raising oi sheep. Here is i
great central State, adapted by na
tare to the production oi wool, and
wool, too, of such superior quality
that it has taken the premium more
than once at the World's I' I
on account of the myriads ot worth-less
curs which prey upon shtt
there is not one quarter enough
wool produced for home consump
tiou.
In twenty-seven counties of
State, average counties, the dogs
last year killed 11,469 sheep. In
the county of Giles they got awaj
with 1,750.
A northern farmer who settled
in Coffee county was telling nu- a
few days ago of the tine location In-had
for sheep raising as compared
with the North. It cost only one-half
to winter sheep here aa in the
North. The cold weather nevei
killed his lambs, no mattei what
month ol the year they were.born.
Hut there was one drawback thai
spoiled all that was promising and
fine. The worthless dogs killed his
sheep and destroyed all the profits
ol wool growing. He was power
less to remedy the matter. The
country was fairH alive with dogs,
every family having from 'two to a
dozen, the poorer and more wretch
ed and ignorant and worthless the
funily, the inure dogs they keep.
-60 600,000 barrels; id 1873-4 250,- tbe keer uv v. DabQoy.. »
000 barrels-eked out by 60,0001 .. jjrow» h(! 8ai ., von ,,„„,, jt
bushels of wheat from the West. I ]o8t. Wbeu you git to the Dock !
" So much tor our agriculture.- thev.]i piIt you ou , (i|.av aud vou.„ |
How is it with our shipping, upon ' go rite 8trait to the plais you ar i,
which we so much prided ourselves, j g0j„ j0 „0 [0_n i '<**« •
In 1860 our tonnage was 5,924,285; j buttoned up rnvkuts wilh H S;,lilr-V'
in 1873, 3,612,000. '- """"
The Costly President.
Such a man as Grant, With his
dictator airs aud sullen disregard
Of every principle and prat
Republicanism, is " deai " al anj
price. The old salary ol 625,000
would be too much to pay him.
Hut when we reckon up tbe dimes
and dollars he annually costs the
country (the loss by business de
rangeinent, depression and nnc.-i
taiuty no man can estimate, by no
arithmetic is calculable,) we are ap
palled and stand aghast al the
tience of the people. Truly mi.
a long-suffering and Moaea-meek.
oi «l«e a passing stoical p
when figures like these do nol raise
each particular taxpayer. Tin-.
figure* area list of tin- personal
expenses of the occupant of the
While House which were voted by
Congress or allowed by law in I
tons; In 1800
the foreign tonnage entering the
ports of the United States was 2,-
353,911 : iu 1873, 8,033,0.17. Our
tonnage has declined 40 per cent.;
foreign tonnage has increased 340
my kote with a ,
deep feelin uvsekuritv, made him a ,,lvau' secretary,
lo bow, and said, " I'm igstreemly i
obleeged to you," and we parted in
frendship. A good, kiue, thotful
man, that same Jon Wess.
We had a splendid supper uv ev-per
cent. Before the permanency I crything iu the world, incloodiu di
of the prohibitory tariff our com-mercial
marine, for our own trade,
was four times that ol any other
nation ; now it is only 44 per cent.
How is it with our foreign trade.—
In 1800 American tonnage entering
British ports was 1,717,811 tons;
in 1870, 479,670—decrease. 73 per
cent. British tonnage entering our
ports in 1800 was 1,130,364 ; in 18711.
2,778,823—increase, 263 per cent.—
Our lossen have been similar iu
every quarter, Ol the tonnage en-tering
the United States ports from
the West Indies, in 1861 86 per
cent, belonged to the United States;
in 1870 but 12 per cent. Our ton
nago to Denmark, Holiaud and Bel-gium
has decreased from 21 to 7
per cent.; to France, from 89 to 22;
to England, from 71 to 19 In that
proportion have we been superseded
by other nations.
"" The great iron interest is in the
same unhappy condition of decay.
The consumption of pig iron in the
United States in 1S73 was estimated gentilmen, come in and gi
at 3,023,058 tons, ot which 2,868, i bail an(i wt me flee. i wer,
278 tons were home made. In 1874 ! grateful, but Mr. Hopes pu
,!.„ ..^tliiKituil homo Timilnct W9fl t_:_ l.. ' - u... ..— .I .n.~l.
zurt, at six o'clock (seusibul hour
and arter a smoke in the smokin
room (they've got one, spleshly,) I
laid me down in the lo'int shelf in i
my littel room and sleep iu peace
tell day.
By the time I gotdrest we was in
Guawfork—a fiat town, but very ,
slippy, biznissy, and oottonyfide ;
having also some peanuts and
gaieen-greens iu the spring ov the
year—a nine plais; larger than
Foinvill. But as I was going inno-sent
along one ov the back streets
a temendus row uv boys and nig-gers
riz up behind me, a In...pin
ami hollerin, and the first thing I
ki.nu id I were erested and carried
befo tho Mayor, Mr. Ned Yuker,
and loiinii 8500cash for disturbin
in- the peace! and I hadn't iim a
thing, uot opened my month even,
igsept to spit. I chaw a heap.—
What on earth to do was If In
the neck uv tiem, Mr. Ham. Cham-blin
and Barrin Hopes, 2 editor
give my
were very-put
on a
650,000
2,500
8,000
L200
851
I..T/11
1,320
900
Ixecutive Clerk,
Steward,
.Messenger,
i Fireman,
: Policeman,
Assistant Policeman,
Night Watchman,
Three Door-keepers—one for
the night and two for I In-day—
twelve hundred each. 3,600
Incidental Expenses, 6,000
Postage Stamps, 600
Repairs in the Execotire Man-sion,
20,000
| New Furniture for White
House, 10,000
For I'uel and Hot-houses, 5,000
For the Care of and Repairs
in the Hot-houses, 5,000
For Leveling South of the
Executive Mansion, 10,001)
For Repairs lo Pavement in
front of While House, 1,690
For Repair of a dam iu the
Nursery Garden, 1,200
For Repair of Fountain South
of Executive Mansion,
Total, 6121,894
Now if the American people H
elect this extravagant man, espc
dally after be has shown that .--.
travagance is not bis woi
. they will deserve to " bleed " to ;i
the estimated home product wasI 0jK curly brim hat and took me in bigger amount than tbe above and
A Stupendous Work.
It is estimated that it the Eng-lish
Channel bo successfully tun-nelled,
the 300,(100 travellers who
now cross it will increase to 3,000,-
000. A journey from London to
Paris will then take but five or six
horns, with the dreaded rough sea
voyage taken out. The boring is
to begin simultaneously in England
and France, from the bottom of
t ,vo wells, 100 feet deep. The bore
is to be nine feet in diameter, by
machinery invented by Dickson
Brunton. The debris made from
the excavation is to be continuous
ly carried ont the whole of the bore,
and the fresh air breathed by the
workmen is to be continuously fore
ed in. When Charles Dickens made
Montague Tigg the projector of a
plan for tunneling the English
Channel he did so in the nature of
a huge joke, that was intended as
a satire upon some of the chimeri-cal
financial schemes of tbe period.
Y'et here, today, is a practically
and scientifically organized scheme,
backed by large capita!, for the ex-ecution
in earnest of the task be
proposed in jest and ridicule. As
suredly, it is unsafe to ridicule al-most
anything, to matter how im-practicable
it looks at the moment,
for posterity turns our ridicule upon
ourselves.—Bait. Sun.
ouly 1,900,000 tons. Furnaces have
stopped: thousands of workmen
are out of employment and their
families suffering; riot and blood
shed are common in the iron dis- j Bnti 8'jr) onr8 js peaceful and law
a alley and made me a speech. to have the whole State system
"Mozis," he said, " Y'ou will par- overthrown and their libertii
don me for calliu' yon by yo' first taken away,
name, you bein' uv a aged man.— ——^^_
triets. and tbe police and militia
have been called in to preserve or-der
and protect life and property."
The debt of the country held
abroad is estimated by well-inform-ed
men at from 81,000.000,000, to
81,50ii,0OO,0O0,the interest on which
is annually sent abroad. Mr. John-ston
might have added the sums
spent abroad by absentees ami tour-abidin'
kominunity, and. sir, wo ar
not accustomed to these vilent ex-hibishunsuv
temper. You gentle-men
from the provinses must re-strain
yo' nnlewterd rooral pashuns,
aud not attempt to bully and beat
down humble and industrius citty-zens
every time yon come to town.
The great sentres uv civilizashnn
cannot be thus decomposed. To
An invention is reported
Pans which, it is said, is ;;••'
do away With the use ot n, iti
The invention consists of an ele
battery small enough to be carried in
one's waistcoat pocket, and COB
onlv five cents.
ists, who find it cheaper and more come t0 tne pjnti 8ir) you mustn't
agreeable to spend tueirtime abroad ' meu£ JO> drinks unite so ofting."
Although a woman's age is unde-niably
her own, she does not own it,
than at home. This has beeu esti-mated
at tens of millions annually.
This was supposed to be in part
compensated by immigration, each
immigrant being a producer as well
as bringing money with him.
The report of Commissioner of
Immigration in 1851 states that the
annual sums thus brought by the
Germans alone amounted fur three
yeais to 811,000,000 per annum.—
The statistical tables of the Duchy
of Baden fix the amount brought
by each immigrant at 898 in gold ;
Bavarian. 893,20 ; Brunswickers,
890 ; Wurtemburgers who oame in
1856, and 8134 each iu gold; iu
1857, 8115; aud in 1858; 8310. The
statistics of immigration have not
been received, but it is known that
there is a large reflux returning
with their means. The returns of
receipts for steerage passengers and
Julian Hawthorne says Uiat then
were lint two men in the wil
boat in tbe Oxford Cambridge
that would lie considered an acq
tion to a Harvard crew.
Tbey say that .Senator Joni
'Sir,' I said, " Is I dirranged, or
you disf racktd f I haven't tetcht a
drop since here l'te bin, and you speml 8150,000 in building h
a palace in Washington. Il
rival the Honest Miner's imp.
How artless! When the Cro<
omnibus stops before ■ 8 u
story mansion, one. of the
women getting out iavariabl
marks. " Home al last."
know it."
" But, sir," he sais, " Mr. Jon
Wess writes me that you splvsed
the main brais repeatedly on bode
the l>ote."
>• U's a falsity," I thundered, mad
as giiig.-r: ami I a went for his hat
aud specs of Captain Chamblin;
hadn't a come, took me to his house \
and interjnsed me to his family at |
dinner, whar I set about eight squar
inches uv shadd and a pile uv tur-niptops
that canned my mind a
good deal.
And all this rumpus, as Mr.
Chamblin tole me oi our way back
to tbe note, come from Jon Wess
puttin' that dimun on the back uv
my sirtoot, and I've my opinyn uv
that same Wees to this day.
Unless a Milwaukee girl can
a brick in each hand and make.
feel and tour inches at a -
jump, she rarely gets admitted into
the best society.
Senator Andrew Johnson will
bring a suit against the New Or-leans
77»i« for libel in assei
that he made use of mot;-■•>
cure bis election to the I
States Senate.