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What a picture ! The old pagan bacchanals 

 over again in this grand Republic in the year of 

 our Lord 1881 ! 



There are Congressmen who urge in defence of 

 this course that if we entertain visitors from abroad 

 we must entertain them according to their own 

 customs. Must we, then, provide dog-meat for 

 our Chinese guests, and share it with them ? Let 

 us not plead that national hospitality required this 

 at our hands — not, certainly, till we have forgot- 

 ten the disgraceful arrangements in connection with 

 the funeral cortege of our lamented Garfield. 



TOBACCO CENSUS. 



The United States census of the tobacco crop 

 for 1880 is truly a disheartening document. With 

 the honorable exceptions of Colorado and Wyo- 

 ming, Montana and Utah, all the States and Terri- 

 tories are implicated in this business. The number 

 of acres devoted to the weed throughout the coun- 

 try was 638,841. The number of pounds raised 

 was nearly 500,000,000, — bringing a vast revenue 

 of gold and silver to the government coffers, and 

 an equally vast revenue of penury, wretchedness, 

 and shame to countless homes and hearts. 



During the year 1882 more than three thousand 

 millions of cigars and six hundred millions of ciga- 

 rettes were manufactured in our country, showing 

 an advance in both together, over the preceding 

 year, of three hundred millions. 



In the city of New York twenty thousand per- 



