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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-15

u EMOVAL THE Security Life Insurance
LIZ and Annuity Company of ew York, have removed
their office from Front Street Exchange No Brinley
Hall, Man st. ALEX PUTNAM Agent
n. J. TESTER, Agent French Department.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-15
COR. FOSTER AND CYPRESS SITS,
Carriages and Carriage Repairing

would announce to his friends and the public generally
that with his increased facilities, he is better than
prepared to execute all orders for
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The Amount OF the Tammany
Theft

A writer in one Of the New York papers
who seems to have studied his figures carefully
makes the amount which the Tammany thieves
I" have stolen or wasted in brides of some sort
to protect their stealing in the last twenty
months TO be "not less than fifty-nine mil.
lions of dollars" The total sum received by
the city government during this period--froml
taxation, the sale of bonds and miscellaneous
sources--he sets down at ninety.n nine millions
of douars. He estimates the Legitimate cur.
rent expenses Of the city to be Sl5, zoo, 600 per
year, which in two years would make $50, 900
600. He then adds $1,000 900 per year for
permanent public improvements, giving an
aggregate of $40. 100000 in two years He
thus reaches $40, 900. coo as the total expendi
ture for two years, on the superstition that the
government of the city had been honestly and
economically conducted, Deducting this from
the amount received in the last twenty months,
We have a balance of $4,000, 600, of which
the thieves have robbed the public, with which
they have enriched themselves, and portion of
which they have used in CARRYING elections and
bribing the Legislature of this State
These figures, which we give upon the author
ity OF the writer referred to, may not be exactly
correct; yet no one doubts whether this Tam
many rascality presents one of the most mon
strous instances Of peculation and swindling
known in the history of the world. Its bold
daring, its Unsuitable greediness, its artful cum
ming, its corruption of legislation and the bal
lot-box, its persistent and determined iniquity,
and fearful success leave no doubt as to the TO.
tai deprayity of these Tammany robbers. Now
that they have been thoroughly defeated at the |
ballot box, let them be hunted by the most |
vigilant and uncompromising justice The |
people should not be content with simply driy- |
ing the m from political power. Their i'll got |
ten millions should be restored to the city
treasury and then the villains themselves |
should be punished TO the utmost extremity of |
the law. A system of laws that contains no |
adequate remedy for such crimes against the
public would be little better than a mere sham
his great uprising among the people is their
solemn and authoritative mandate, directing |
the officers OF law to bring these robbers to /
Justice. If they escape, either by negligence
DR. legal techncalities, the fact will be burn.
ng disgrace to New York.-N r. hide
pendent
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Saved as by Fire.

Some OF the most curious freaks of the fire
here have not yet been reported
The post office cat is bona fde creature,
one of the best of her kind, and her photograph
has been obtained for HorpeY's WeekEv, and
her royal stereographs are for sale at Shaw's.
But another and still stranger relic has been
exhumed from the ruins of the post Office
building. The wooden cane seat chair-a COM
mon dining chair-in the room of James M
Hubbard, Esq, mail agent, was saved intact.
IL sat IN window, and is not even broken, and
Is only scorched on one side The roof col
lapsed the floors gave way one after another;
the desks and other furniture persisted in
whirl OF lame; greenbacks burned up and
gold melted in the safes; solid granite blocks
tell to pieces, and iron beams were twisted till
they look like gigantic dish OF baked vermi-
CELL, but out comes that chair from the wreck,
solid as ever
Another. On the corner of State and Wash
ington streets on the sidewalk stand conspicu-
ously two wooden poles, unscorched and as
gaudy with paint as before the fire. One, an
mmence telegraph pole, still clngs to its score
OF wires, and swings them CALAMITY in the air
thirty feet from the pavement the other. a
hnical BARRIERS pole, mocks the surrounding
desoiation with its spiral rainbow. Burning
walls fell within two feet of them, and even the
stone tagging is broken up and turned back to
sand at their very bases; but there they stand,
the ashen monument of commerce and the
corkscrew invitation of the lather merchant.
One more. The Elgin Watch Company lost
many watches, baked to sulen brown in their
safes, but their vault was so cool that watches
Kept up their click tick, and three days after
when 1t was opened out ran an enterprising
mouse on a voyage of observation Colonei
w hittie thinks the temperature did not go above
hot
be carried about in the same cage with that
cat Chicago Post.
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Harper's Magazine.
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The ATLANTIC MONTHLY offers attractions
Tor the coming year, unexceled, if before
equalled, in its history.
The resumption of the "Autocrat series in
The Poet at the Breakfast Table" bv DIR.
Holmes, is literary eve0t of the first interest:
and these papers will be more charming than
anything he has yet done in his most character
istlc vein. The discovery Of a complete ro-
nance by Hawthorne is matter of certainly
not less Importance, and the story is all the
more fascinating because, not having received
his final touches, it shows some of the pro-
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takes the reader into bis confidence
Mr.. Partou's Life of Jefferson will APP
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glance at the first chapter in the January
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has never more faithfully and delightfully."-
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Mr.. DeMille appears in the atlantic for the
first time, but his name is familiar as the au
thor OF those amusing extravagahzas, THE
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The Comedy of TerrOrs is in the same
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situations.
The Diversions of the Echo Club" will
contain not only critical notices of all the
prominent English and American Poets of our
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not parodies of single pieces, but admirable
puTlesques OF their general style Of thought
and expression.
The Editorial Department will be enlarged so
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and wall notice, not only as heretofore, the
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OF these heads the Atlantic will, while holding
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the scientific facts and speculations of each
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10 speak with generosity and discrimination
For the other features of the magazine, the
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10 promise more than for the coming year.
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ttc has been national magazine in higher
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"A funny paragraph is on its travels about
girl in Vermont who, having sued her lover
for breach OF promise, laid her damages as fol
lows: Nine shillings per week for !" setting
up WIN cost OF lights and fuel added in.
We may laugh as much as we please at this
but the girl is a sensible damsel, and we hone
that she got verdict. Bringing actions for
damage to the feelings and injury to the heart,
and Tor the value of pangs and delicate disap.
pointments, is great deal more mercenary
than asking for remuneration for loss of time
and even OF fires and lights. A sharp girl has
perfect right to say that, but for the wicked
conduct oil the dishonest swain, she might have
married somebody else; and lawyers, when
they go to the jury for the swindled plaintiff,
should put the case in that way. 1t might
spoil their eloquent pathos; but, after all, that
sor. OF thing has become hackneyed and unim-
pressiye. business is business, and most wo-
men IN this kind of litigation mean business
and nothing else.
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HARPER'S BAZAAR.
Notices Ofhe Press.

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1t is really the only illustrated chroncer of
fashion in this country. Its supplements alone
are worth the subscription price of the paper.
While fully maintaining its position as mirror
OF fashion, 1t also contains stories, poems, bril-
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sip:-Bosfon Saturday EceRiRg Gazette.
The young lady who buys a single number Of
Hd'per's Bdzdr is made subscriber for life
NeW York Erening Post
The Bdzdr is excellent Like all the periodi-
Gals which the Harpers publish it is most ideally
well edited, and the class of readers for whom it
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taking lessons in personal and household and
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EARNING HIS PARDoN.-One day last week
the jail at Augusta, Georgia, was set on fire by
hot cinders from burning chimney falling on
the roof The building was saved by the hero
ism OF one of the colored prisoners, who GER
tainly earned the pardon which the Governor
subsequently, gave him. The Augusta Chronf-
Gle thus describes the incident:
A colored prisoner, named Peter Blair, of
fered to go out on the roof and throw water ON
the shingles. AS our city readers are aware.
the roof rises in the shape of a pyramid, and
is 80 steep that it would tax the in genuity of a
fly to maintain his position. Out on this peril
Gus place Blair went, and dashed bucket full
after bucket full of water on the shingles. while
every minute the spectators expected to see
him fall to the ground and be crushed to death.
When all danger was over he crept back to the
scuttle and into the Jail. Blair was sentenced
last October to six months Imprisonment, but
On account OF the service which he performed a
petition for his pardon, approved by the tailor,
has been sent to Atlanta.
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LIN France the toilettes of the ladies are
made to suit the wesrers, and as no two
persons are exactly alike, SO there are no two
costumes alike; but American women follow
any fashion in dress or manner of wearing the
hair, whether it is becoming or not. simply
because 1t Is the fashion, and thus many sue
coed in making perfect rights of themselves.
And yet we call ourselves an independent
people,
The Car of Russia has appointed COM
mittee of jurists for the purpose of examining
the question OF corporal punishment, and it is
believed that upon receiving their report he
will abolish that penalty. At present any
criminal judge may infilct the punishment OF
one hundred lashes on any prisoner brought
before him.
The wife OF q scissors grinder in Fort
Wayne, Ind, died last week For years the
couple had lived in q tumble-d down shanty in
the most AFFECT poverty After the old lady 5
death an unused bed tick was found and
examined, and the sum of "a. 900 discovered
hidden away within its recesses.
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On the day when intelligence was received
that the ordinance of secession had passed the
Virginia Convention, Captain Farragut deter
mined TO abandon Norfolk and the State. Col
lecting hastily few valuables, he placed his
wife, sister, and their children in a carriage,
put his loaded pistols in his pocket, and within
two hours from the reception of the news that
Virginia had decided to secede he proceeded to
The Baltimore steamer, then at the wharf
Leaving all else behind he resolved not to be
demorallzed or torn from the Union he would
know no country but that which he had loved
and served from his childhood. The next day
he passed through Baltimore. then in excited
Instruction. The ordinary channels of travel
by steamers and railroads were interrupted. and
IN the general confusion il was difficult 10 pro
cure means OF transportation or to leave the
city. He found by accident that common
canal boat was leaving the wharf for Philade-
phia. On this boat, which had Indifferent &C.
commodations for about eighteen persons, there
we're crowded nearly three hundred-fugitives.
IKE himself and family, seeking refuge in the
North lie reached New York after some
and Inconvenience, with bur slight !
peeunlary means TO sustain himself aud his |
exiled and dependent family. Being on waiting !
,rders-ior the department, which did not |
hen know these particulars, was moving vita
'auuons, yiligant, and wary steps, careful and
guarded whom to trust and in the employment
i Southern officers particularly circumspect-
japt Farragut felt his pecuniary resources
sufficient for his support in the great metro
oils. Always modest and unobtrusive, and
lmost stranger in New York, he found
eshng place for a few days under the roof
1 friend whom he had previously known,
ntil ne could obtain a secluded place out of
he city adapted TO his limited means. lie
ucceeded in getting a modest cottage at Has.
ngs on the Hudson, at a rent of $3.50 per an
mn, which he plainly furnished, and to which,
nth one servant, he retired to await events
eady, however, and anxious to serve his coun-
y and give himself to her cause-Gideon
eiles. in November GALAXY. {
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How Tweed Became a Referee
Lawyer.
From the New York Tribune. Nov. l4.l

George" said Mr.. William Nj. Tweed, sew
eral years ago, when first attempting to rec over
from financial bankruptcy through political
intrigue, GEORGE" addressing the Hon. Geo.
q. Barnard, then as now Judge of the Su
preme Court, Il hear these referee cases are
very profitable, and I'd like to have q share
in 'em."
"You can't, Tweed was the answer of the
honorable judge; "you amt lawyer
Well can't you make me lawyer? ?"
Yes, after two or three years study
But amt there some quicker method. ;,
asked Tweed.
oh, yes said the complacent justice ;
certainly there is. Go to Professor - ;
tell him you are friend Of mine, and he III
give you diploma in the shortest way pos
Accordingly Mr.. Tweed repaired to the Pro.
lessor, when the following conversation is said
to have occurred:
Mr. Tweed. Professor, my name is Tweed !;
am friend OF Judge Barnards, and want
10 be lawyer. How long is it going to
Professor. Well, about two years.
Mr.. Tweed. Two years, Professor, Wbv
George told me you could fix it for me right
away. AT the same time opening a ell-fiIed
purse.
Professor. You are friend of George Bar
nard's, you say?
Mr.. Tweed. Yes. Now, couldn't YOU let
me have the diploma at once2
Professor, tsmilingly.) Have you ever stu
died law, Mr.. Tweed?
Mr.. Tweed. Yes, sir-that is, / have had
considerable practice in it for number of
years.
Professor. Well, If you have studied law
and are friend Of George Barnard's, think
we can prepare your diploma and sent it to
you.
And thus Mr.. Tweed, with capacity which
must have astonished as much as his liberality
delighted the Professor. prepared himself in
ave minutes tor the practice of profession a
knowledge Of which the ordinary intellect
requires years to attain. But those who are
inclined to smile incredulously at Mr.. Tweed's
assumed knowledge of the law should remem-
Der that he has made all the law we have had
in this city and county for years
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| would like to hear of my father, Sandy
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Lawson Alexander. ANY information concern
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Justin Mccarthy writes 10 the New yorL
Adtf that John Bright il as well as h. ever
was, and will remain SO as long "a be !. con,an,
to wholly abstain from any mental eysr,;on
whatever. III ne should once break that con.
dition, his mind would be gone in : wssL
There is no prospect that he will ever resn
pear in public Life his career il over npi.
physicians have told him that he could not
recover from third mental attack. "o'
The successful men of this world ara no,
those who go of at full gallop, but, if NAV
use racing phraseclogy. those who .stav. - II
often happens that those whose early career IL
slower and gentler than that of others. exhibit
greater amount Of mind, and other staviny
powers, and come in at the winning post at
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General Sherman says that he is going to
Europe as private gentleman that he draws
no pay while abroad; that he goes on the
wabash by courtesy Of its commander. and
that his course OF travel while on that vessel
will be regulated entirely by the orders under
which it sails. Lieut.. Grant accompanies him
because his father thinks it is good opportu-
NIFTY Tor the young man to visit foreign coun
tries. Doth gentlemen are to pay their own
way, ana Doth are subject to an order to return
at any moment from the Secretary of War"
ness facts are communicated to the public
by the E0enang Post. That it should have
been thought necessary to state them at ali is
a Curious comment on the line of attack which
Is adopted ln some quarters toward the Presi-
Gent ana his family. 1t might have been
thougnt that young man could be permitted
10 make visit to Europe without provoking
ihsinuatlons as mean as they are unfoupded.
AS Tor Gen. Sherman, his high personal char
acter and the many claims he has upon the
respect OF the nation, might have saved him
from the paltry reflections which have been
cast out respecting this journey of his Few
great meh-and Gen. Sherman is a very great
man, man OF very rare and remarkable
type OF character-have troubled the public
less, or have kept more studiously in the back
ground, asking no favors, and showing no
q desire TO take any advantage of his Just popu-
rarity. Since the war closed, Gen. Sherman
has never sought to engage public attention in
any way, but has busted himself in the thor
oqgh and conscientious discharge of his duties.
lie is about to take a tour in Europe. and
young Grant is very fortunate in having SO
]udicious man to travel with him. But there
straightway arose all sorts of charges about
state VISIT, made at the "expense of the
people and many other remarks were made
We hepe the high spirited grumblers will
be satisfied with the Post sex PLANTATION. Both
gentlemen are to pay their own way This
assurance will, perhaps, satisfy the worthy
persons who have shown so great an anxiety
about the public money! T. Times.
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a member Of > fam;lv i

A member of family in Germantown
was awakened few nights since by . singular
noise. and arose on the lookout for burglars.
but was surprised to find his alarm occasioned
by two rats, which had evidently formed
partnership. Oae rat was on the attic floor.
rolling walnuts to the top Of the stairway. and
.hen throwing them of the top step, whence
.Iay would roll down to the story below,
. wners ms partner took charge of them, and
rol:eo tnem into . hole in the vicinity of the
stairway, where they were deposited.