Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-05-14
legislative stationery.

we did not give him more than qulre al time.
ALegdn Record.
l, can be seen from this how sincere the Wing
editors are ON tine score of extravaganza. The
whole truth is the whole stationery story is hum
bug Of the Ogle kind, got up expressly for po!n-
cal eff.c,.---Jackson Patriot.
A humbxg, is III The appropriation bill is not
hambug. The Items in i, for stationery not
humbug. Some 8 500 foe The two houses are
not hum5ug. Some 500 for the Senate alone
are not hunbug. These are stern facts, unless
the statute book is fraud and a h"mbug. This
money was certainly appropriated, and now what
was done with III 4he Allegan Record says
tina, one Of US as reporter was furnished with
eaore paper and quilts than any four senators, bur
no, hor much. We used jus, enough the abstract
of the procee dings published daily, very short
our readers know, for we grudged the space to
their III IL talk. Ours, then, couldn't be much
1.-THE senators each used only one fourth as much,
theirs couldn't be much, al least for "paper and
quil''' But there are the 800. What became
of theml We don't pretend to know in detail,
except a single order which was shown 10 US by
messenger boy. We have heard a great deal a
bout boxes forwarded over the Central railroad,-
about trunk being dropped by servant coming
down the stairs Of public house, aud the contents
being spilled ON the floor, and about gold pencil
cases, silver headed canes and ivory handle kuves
But we know nothing about them personally. All
we know is that some $500 for senate stationery.
II is but Just to add that we never heard any
charge of plundering stationery brought against
individual senators. II such charges were made,
they did not happen to reach our ears. Bnt the
case was very different with individual represen-
ta,ives, some of whom were notorious as fTeeboot-
ers and common pupderers Of stationery.
The Locofoco papers IesoIt 10 various expedi-
ents TO escape from the responsibility and odum
Of these dsgracefu' transactions. Some pass
over the matter in dign6ed silence; others
try to sheer and laugh il dewn others still under
take to browbeat aud viify all who speak of il.
The general charge of plumber against members
and officers of the late legislature is undoubtedly
true. No man who saw anything of matters and
things here last winter, questions it for moment;
10 candid and upright member of tina, Legislature
will deny it. These abuses were as notorious a.
mons our citizens as the Sabbath ndecencies to
which the Representative chamber was prostItuted
and OF which formal complaint was made to the
grand Jury! The party evnced their concIousnes
of its truth by refusing to allow an investigation
into the facts. Had the scandalous reports which
had gone forth, been false, they would gladly
have seized such opportunity TO prove their !al-
siiy by legislative exposition. They refused to
do il by party appeal. and they must the inevi-
table conseqnences.-Detroa Advertiser.
RAILROAD FREfGHTs.-When we pointed out
the gross disparity between the rates OF fare on
the central and southern railroads, II was said
that the rates for freight were the same. Aliho'
difference might he made on foreign travel in or
der to compete with Toledo, none could be made
il was affirmed on domestic produce. But such
10 not the fact. We have no before US the prn-
ted official rates both for fare aud freight for the
present year. and we find tbe same or similar diff.
ferences in the charges on the two railroads. We
shall hereafter make up and publish full c'm-
para;ive statement, but for to-day We will give
the rates on single article, flour. f:om one or
two prominent points on each road. On the south
err. railroad, the freight on -four per barrel from
Adrian 10 Monroe, is ten cents only; while On the
central from Ann Arbor to Detroit, it is twenty
five cents. On the southern from Hillsdale 10
Monroe it is only 81 cents per berrel; but on The
central from Jackson to Detroit, it is fifty cents.
and even from Grass Lake, 69 miles, it is As cents
per barrel. Such facts, drawn from official sour.
cess need no commentary. Every body will un-
derstand their bearing and effect at a glance. II
is not merely the business on and along the GEN.
Iai ROAD tnat suffers. III 0perateS also az u pre-.
MUM paid out of the treasury the agriculture of
the southern iier of counties over the rest Of the
State. The whole farming interest beyond that
favored section pay the difference. How long
will this be quietly BORNE without like reduction
on the central railroad detroit Advertiser.
HIGH L1vING-Reeipe for the Feuer and Agse.
As soon as the ice is out of the river, buy you
cd skifi take part in sane and go fishing on
sheers. Stand ha'f-eg deep in The wafer for six
weeks in succession, with two inchs catfish slime
on your irowsers and baihe the inside with new
whiskey, TO keep it from strkngto your stomach.
Put up couple o. barrels O. catfish for
famiIy's use-sLgh sprnkIing Of salt, plenty OF
Maumee wster---tha,s pretty strong especially at
this season of the year. Take plenty of fresh
air. especially nights. and if ynn cant ga TO sleep
in this dig government purchase. take sleeping a.
par,men, with only two sides. and neither top nor
bottom.
By and by the catfish begin TO show their
SPANKING more salt, plenty more
Msumee wafer, strong smells very healthy
Ea, plenty of catfish broth, and go coonin'
nich hts for exercise. Weather begins TO grow
hot, good plan to get asleep urder the shade OF a
tree, aud let The sun come round and catch you