The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1857-04-17
Tha Oinoinnatl Oommarolal.

tVtlput u never bttrlOukeS an honest mo-
tive 70 any man for anything he does. Ii
seems to act on the principle that all men,
(outside Of its own Immediate circle, are
I iknaves; that virtue and morality in pub
| lie life have no existence; hence. deirac.
tion and denunoiation are its iayorite
weapons
I That the Commercial is conductd with
a certain degree Of ability. no one viii,
deny; but il is ali Of the baser sort We
question whether its advocacy Of Repub-
hCsn principles Is not more than counter.
balanced BY il studied detracton Of lead
ing Republicans When the result Of the
i last Presiden tial election was ascerlained
! The Commercial came out in violent
i philippe against Mr.. Greeley, and other
4 prominent members Of our party, for
what il was pleased to term the mistakes
Of the canvass Greeley had said at the
Pittsburgh Convention Cha, all the friends
Of Free Kansas, without regard to minor
differences, should unite III the election
Of Republican President; and this the
! Commercial construed into an approval
loF coalition With Know Nothingism,
though il Well knew that Greeley neyor
had particle Of sympathy With the Sc
oret ofdeF-had, in fact, denounced its
principles from The start" Again, some
Eastern Locofocoi paperAor perhaps II
was the N. " HetaldAstarted report
that Lieut.. Gov Ford had received mon &.
ey in New York to buy up the Fillmore
party Of Ohio to vote for Fremont, which
money the Lieut. Governor had pocgeted.
and this. though sheer falsehood, was
eagerly caught up by the Commercial, 4
spread before its readers and. IL we re-
member rightly, was never contradiCted
by that sheet. nai oi 0r' l
For the past few weeks, the CONNER
cial has been inhamed with desire "a
outvie the most rampant Locofoeo journal
lin the State in denunciation Of the Re-
publican majority inthe Legislatures IL
, finds fault with this. that, and the other
nothing that has been done satisfies IL
It even charaoterizes the Legislature ss
an ignorant and knayish body. because Il
adopted resolution authorizing Justices
, to purchase out OF fines collected, War.
ren's Ohio Criminal Laws and Forms, a
5 book which all Justices need, vpd which
r from their scanty remuneration, they car
1 lily afford TO purchase But the Ca
Z nal Contracts have afforded the CONNER
7 oial its strongest pretext for attacking III,
3 Legislature. A brother Of the editor o.
that sheet applied to the Board Of Publ,
Works for the Office Of engineer on tn,
canals. but was not appointed: and now
I the Commercial is down on the Board
and upon everybody who don't 20 in fol
the reputation Of the contracts. IL
t columns daily TEEN with slanders upo
1 the best men in the bst men in the State
!, and its large circulation gives it no incon
! siderable degree Of influence in promo
a ting dissension in our ranks.
If a few thousaud Republicans woul,
|; Withdraw their support from this bloate
= concern. and bestow it upon our State or
gan, the o. S, journal, and the local Re
+ publican Journals which bear the brun
j. of the battle, we have no doubt our caus
! would be materially benefited.
TIE RloHEsT CoMMUElTY IN THEW WoRLn
q ----Lo the poor Indianl--A day or tw,
Q since we had occasion to mention tina
u the result of the late sale Of tho Delawar
! Indians trust lands was S47G, 900. TIL
+ lands sold were only those comprised il
, the eastern division of this great reserva
ton. The western division is now ad
Il vertsed 10 be sold. That contains som
100000 acres, and will undoubtedly
d bring an aggregate of at least 5000, 00C
i The tribe are also the owners Of a hom
y reservation almost Immediately adjoinin,
4 Leavenworth City, forty milesilong bl
! ten broad. That would sell to-morrOI
readily for $i0per acre, or an agSregat
. Of 80, ,000,0O0 odT hus their total wealth
= independent Of personal property-~lan,
= some Of them are men of ofconsideFsble i'm
= dividual means-is about S4,070. .00l
y They number in all some niue hundFe,
= souls; and from the real estate describei
~ above are worth an average Of S4.44
s per soul, or %, ,220 to each family Of 6v
= persons among them. ~ WashiHgtOn Sta'
= THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH FoREsH4r
D. OWED. "Baileyy Dictionary !" edition {
"a 1880 1877 years sgoMunder the wor
10 ''loadstons," is the following foreshad
u owing the electric telegraph:
h. "Some authors write, that BY the bel
n. ofthe magnet, or loadstone, persons ma
10 communicate their minds to friend at
4. distance; as, suppose one to be. at Iohdo
as and the other at Paris, if each oflthel
1e have a circular alphabet. like the dia
"a plate Of a clock, aud a needle .ouche
1. with one magnet, then at the same tin
!, that the needle at London was movet
Of that at Paris would move in Ike manns
adj provided each party had secret notes f
rk dividing words, and the observation VI
"a, made at a set hour, either, of the day
of the night, and when one party woul
y. inform the other Of any matter he Isl,
% move the needle to those letters that Wi
. form the words that win declare what
nr would have the other know, and the OIL
To- or needle will moVein'the same manner
no This may bJ done TeeiPr Oeallg," n
4; MosT IMPoRTANF FROM UTAH-T!
- Washingto Star states that there Is ph
~ tive information in Washington th
- -. Brigham Young snd his crew have bur
- ed the United States archives, court re-
~ ords, &C., in Utah Territory that the
have demanded the appointment OF ona