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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-01-12
From the Chicago Post.
THE Owe TERN PRg.S'CEPEE r.

The House of Representatives at
Springfield yesterday indorsed the One.
Term principle, expressly excepting,
however, in the speeches of members
and in the limit of time within which
the amendment can 90 into operation,
the case of President Grant If called
upon to express their preferences for
President for the ensuing term, we are
assured that a large majority of the
Legislature would declare unhesitatingly
in his favor.
There is much in the One Term prin
ciple to commend it to popular favor
That the temptation is strong in the
incumbent of the office of President to
place his name upon the page of history
as having so performed the duties of
his Office as to achieve the strongest of
all possible indorsements-the reelection
of the people-there can be no doubt.
That many Presidents have bent their
entire energies and employed the whole
enginery of public patronage to the ac-
complishment of this purpose, is notably
true. To guard against the influence
of this temptation in the case of danger,
Gus men, is the only plea for engrafting
it upon the constitution as check for
all men.
With the expiration of the second
term of President Grant we should
make no objection to the operation of
this reform. We except to its enforce
ment in his case, because of the eminent
services he has performed in preserving
his country in war, and in wisely ad-
ministering its civil concerns during the
early years of its reconstruction AS
properly as in the case of Washington,
and with as earnest feeling and with
unanimity as entire, the people will
insist upon comforting upon President
Grant the honor Of a second term.
Not one Of the advocates of the adop.
tion of this principle but does not take
the first occasion to except the case of
President Grant This was done upon
the introduction of the proposition by
Mr.. Sumner in the Senate, and it was
done in the Legislature yesterday in the
speech of the author of the resolution,
Mr.. Herdman. With this eminently
proper reservation, the people will, with.
out doubt, heartily indorse the proposed
amendment to the constitution making
Presidents eligible to but single term,
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Public Opinion Of the Press.
From Hearth and Home.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.

In the slackening of interest in the
great questions that have agitated the
country of late years, the people are dc
termined to settle some things that have
been overlooked. And the very next
question in the popular mind is not rev.
onue reform, or woman's suffrage, or
prohibitory laws, but the reform of the
civil service. From jackson to Grant,
every administration, Whig, Democrat.
ic, and Republican, has been disgraced
by the system of giving the public
offices, not to capable men, but to serv-
iceable politicians Nothing could be
more demoralizing than the public CIV
ing away of the Offices of the Govern
ment as an open bribe to those who have
secured the nomination and election of
the President or the Congressman
This rot has brought about general
decay of public honesty and patriotism.
Tweed would not have been possible
under better civil.service system. II
the country purposed to drive honest
men from Office, and men of culture from
politics. no more effective system could
have been devised.
The considerations in favor of a re-
formed service are so forceful and SO ev-
ident, that public sentiment almost
vehemently in its favor has sprung into
existence at once, and to day there is no
longer any party or faction that dares
avow an open opposition to this reform.
Its danger lies in the lack of open op-
position. For while there are Congress
men whose only hope of reelection lies
in their skillful manipulation of patron
age, while there are ofice-holders and
ofhce.hun.ers who would stand no chance
under better system, we may feel sure
that there is deadly opposition to the
measure, however covert it may be.
One of the very first effects of the
civil-servicc reform would be to reform
Congress itself. 1t robs the scheming
politician of the "wires" he wishes to
"pull," and of the pipes" he wants to
lay. Civil service is desirable precisely
because it will improve the constitution
of Congress. 1t will be difficult to get,
for the same reason.
A reform in the civil service is a
deadly blow at corruption. A public
officer combines with contractor, aud
robs the government, because he knows
that his time is short, and, like the un-
just steward, he must make to himself
friends of the mammon of unrighteous-
ness. But give the clerk a certainty Of
position during good behavior, with a
chance for promotion, and his position
and character are worth too much to be
risked in speculation.
1t is not mere question of dollars
and cents in the treasury. 1t is ques'
tion of general public virtue, and of the
integrity of the people. The present
system makes public life corruption
and politicians of the lower orders vag-
abonds.
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From the Grand Haven Herald.
The GoueTH THOrshfj5.

The Allegan journal asks the Repub
licans of Western Michigan to concen
trate their strength on Stockbri1ge fol
Governor thereby securing a Western
candidate. 1t says Stockbridge is Al
years of age and in the prime of vigor.
Gus manhood; that he would gil the po.
sition with honor and flelity. 1t is
quite certain that unity is requisite for
Western men to carry their point The
spirit of unity and mutual confidence
should be cultivated We are in favor
of Col Stockbridge, but if another West
ern man of equal ability should be found
to be more acceptable, we shall support
him. While we urge the consideration
of Col Stockbridge, we do not disparage
the consideration of other nominations,
Unity can be best secured by spirit Of
mutual concession. There is ample time
to arrive at unity when all the candi-
dates are brought forward. If the new
district be organized on the Lake Shore
as proposed, we may want Col. Stock.
bridge for Congress, unless Allegan
proposes to supply both Congressman
and Governor, which perhaps she would
be kind enough to do if urged.
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Harpers' Heekly, in temperate and
and candid article entitled "The Cam.
paign of Slander," in which it shows the
lack of foundation for most of the at
tacks upon the official conduct Of presi.
dent Grant, closes in the following sens.
ible remarks -
"But meanwhile the President is not
harmed in the judgment of candid
men-and they are the great majority
by slander and misrepresentation. Al
though he smokes cigars, and likes fine
horse, and owns stock in Senaca stone
from which he has no dividends, and a
house was presented to him as q token
of patriotic gratitude, and there dozen
of his relatives in Office, some of them
not appointed, but merely not removed,
by him-although these things are true,
it is also true that the great results of
his administration are such as the coun-
try contemplates with pride and salts
faction. 1t secs its wise and humane
Indian policy, its reduction of taxation,
and the diminution of the debt, its
peaceful and honorable settlement of for
eign questions, its protection Of all good
citizens everywhere, its amnesty, and its
reform of the civil service; and the
country forgives the President his occa,
slonal drives and his cigar. Indeed,
when the real services of General Grant
to this country are considered, the pitt
tul character of the vituperation to which
he is constantly exposed becomes still
more despicable And if any Republi-
can who unwillingly believes that there
must be serious reason for such insinua-
tlon and SANDER will only trouble him
self to analyze the stories, and to reflect
upon the immense Misrepresentation to
which every conspicuous public man is
subjected. he will be rejoiced by discov-
ering that if the falsehood and the ex-
aggeration are removed, the personal
gossip about the President is as cause
less as it Is contemplate"
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DECEMBER, 1871.
PAW PAW RAIL ROAD.

Trains from Paw Paw connect with the same
named Trans on the Michigan Central Railroad
at Lawton, going east and west.
LEAVE PAW PAW.
500 a. m Kalamazoo Accommodation, west
1880 a. m., Mail Train, east.
2:1O p m,, Mail west and Way Freight east.
S:I5 p m. Kalamazoo Accommodation cast.
eB- Trains return to Paw Paw on departure OF
Michigan Central Trains frsm Lawton.
&. ID. STEPHENSON, Sup't.
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The Examining Committee appointed
by Congressman Stoughton to determine
by competitive examination who should
receive the West Point Cadet.ship APP
pointed from this District, met at Kal-
amazoO last week and selected Charles
Foster, a young man from Dowagiac.-
There were seven candidates. Young
Foster is very highly spoken of, and
doubtless the selection in this case is a
judicious one, but as n rule, we have
little faith in any such tests. Too often
a young man of practical common sense,
good judgment, tact and nerve, would
have to stand aside for more brilliant
but less sensible youth, one who could,
to use homely phrase, give committed
book answers to any prescribed quest
ions, but might be wanting in almost
every essential element necessary to the
make up Of good soldier or officer
Niles Republican.
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WHY 1T EXPLODED "A New Orleans
journal is inclined to be facetious over
the sudden demise of worthy citizen
of "Yellow jacks Paradise" whose
sole offense was that, unlike most in
ventors. his first experiment was per.
formed on himself. Mr.. Gray, so runs
this "o'er true tale" had discovered a
non.explosive Illuminating fluid, and to
prove its quality he invited a few friends
to his room, whittier he had brought a
barrel of the fluid, which he az once
proceeded to stir with red hot poker.
AS he went through the roof of his house,
accompanied by his friends, he endeav.
to explain to his neighbor that the par.
ticular fluid in the barrel had too much
benzine in it; but the gentleman said
he had an engagement higher up. MIR.
Gray continued his ascent until he met
Mr.. Jones, who informed him that there
was no necessity for him to 90 higher,
as every one was coming down, so Mr..
Gray started back. His widow offers
for sale the secret Of the manufacture
of the non.explosive fluid at q reduced
rate, as she wishes to purchase a silver
handled coffin with gilt plate.
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FOR SA-LE !
a Rare Chance for q Business
Man with a Small Canital.

AH1et4I W AI1A q NJ"AAN"A1 NcNI IJAONVLs
0NE-QUARTER OR ONE-HALF INTEREST IN A
STEAM SAW AND planning MILL.
The Store uow occupied by John VI.
Ridon, in the Village of Lawrence.
The Mill earns large percentage on
Capital invested The Store is now
under reut Of $500 dollars per year.
Possession gwen edia'cy. The
above properly will be sold cheap and
on reasonable terms.
JOHN y. POTTER.
Lawrence, Nov. 8, 1871. S6S
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7 X. BIBBLE, n. H.. Physician and Surgeon.
L. Ofice In Granger Block.
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PENINSULAR RAILWAY.

TEN DOLLARS WILL BUY
One-half Dozen Table Spoons, Double Plated
One-half Dozen Tea Spoons, -
One-half Dozen Medium Forks, 4"
One Butter Knife, -
One Cream and one Sugar Spoon I" -
At I. w. MELCHOR d SONS.
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7 DOwD, General Dealer in Family Groceries,
.sJ Crockery, etc Teas made q specially. Phelps
..rpet. Decatur, Mich. b2o
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MICHIGAN CENTRAL.

MAIN LINE.
Trains leave Lawton as follows
EAST. WEST.
Mail, i1:I3 a. m 242p. m
Kalamazoo Acc. S:4S D. Ill. 5:23 a. m
Evening Express 1903 a. III.
II. f. S ARGENT, Gen. Supt
c. H. HURp, Asst Gen. Supt.
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+ G. HOLMES, photographer. All work done
ing negatives, from A. NJ, TO Pm. Babies
nictures taken Mondays and Tuesdays Picture
Frames of all kinds on hand. Rooms in Hoor's
Block, Decatur, Mich. go
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TT c. CHURCH, Justice of the Peace, and Con-
III. yeyancer. Office over *. Church's Grocery,
Decatur, Mich. o2o
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PAW PAW DIRECTORY.
BUSINESS GarSs.

A LBERT JACKSON, Attorney and Counselor.
~ Office with : IL. Blackman, Paw Paw. sS
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New York Items.

New YORK, january 25.-The police are
guarding the Comptrollcr's Office against
threatened descent of unpaid pipemen.
General Halleck's family decline military
funeral.
\ dispatch from Albany states that the
Supreme Court has decided the cases OF
Tweed and Connolly, affirming the decisions
Of the special term as TO bail, and ordering
the arrests, with costs.
1t appears that the man who was murdered
in Brooklyn last Tuesday night was not as
saulted in q horse-car, but was garroted on
the street and picked up by citizens and put
into horse-car to go home. The same gar
rioters about the same time assaulted another
citizen, but he drew his revolver and drove
them off. There is no clue yet to the mur-
derers.
The Mayor of Brooklyn offers reward of
$500 for the arrest of the murderers OF Pro-
fcssor Panarmo, the party referred to above.
Samuel A. Gurley, a letter-carrier, of Brook
Ign, has been arrested for robbing letters.
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COMMERCIAL.
CORN AND FLOUR EXCHANGE,
RICHM2SD. VA. January IS, is7a.
FFFERISGs

- 4
DFTERlSGs.
WHEAT.-Whitc, 5I bushels.
CoRS.-White. ,oss bushels.
OATs.-965 bushels.
CLOvER-SEED.--s bushels.
CHoP.--so bushels.
WHEAT.-White, S. bushels ut 81. 10 for very good
CORS.-Wlite, I,oes bushels prime at CSC.
OATs-30d bushels at sBssc. for very good spring
CLovEn-sEEp. bushels Virginia on private
terms.
CRoP.-so bushels at &c. II d.
RE-E&HIBITED.
OATS.-2Oo bushels.
REMARKS.
The offerings of wheat arc very light, and price
remain unchanged, with good demand. Offering!
or corn only moderate: demand active and prices
steady. Oats In fair supply; demand not so active as
II mas bccn and prices checked in their upwarI
tendency.
The New York Journal of Commerce. Of the 2.tI
instant says:
BEEADsTrFFs.-The market for State and west.
dcmnnd 4, r u ia prices arc IN buyers favor The
ers, and willie holders do not press hnsiu tI
have In several instances made CONCESSIONS fn,I
sGl1; extra State. Se.!5F:S7.o5 super. western Z;
4lSd.11; extra WESTERN S635lI$T.a extra Ohio. ro
ex., S7.2OMl*7.iO; extra st. Louis, .e.7o6s05o.
SOUTHERN FLOCR.-Tic market Is quiet, but We do
not learn Of any decided change In values. The sale:
$50 barrels at SGC5dS73j for extras, and $500
$3.50 for good 10 choice.
WIIEAT.-Thc market Is dull and prices are lower
Foreign advces are unfarorablc and dctuin export.
from operating. and millers supply only pressing
wants.
OATs.-The market Is dun, and prices arc lower
The sales are $4,000 bushels at 5lsM5c. for western
and Ohio. in store and alloat. The market closes
with little more stcadinCsS
CORN.-There Is moderate business doing, but al
shade easier rates We learn Of sales of $4,000 bush
t
ut 7o67l;c. aud 72G72tc. for western white and yel.
low.
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Mormon Affairs.

SALT LAKE, January 2l.-The Territorial
Central Committee of the Liberal party are
making arrangements to call meeting in OPP
position to the admission Of Utah as State
into the Union.
General Conner will write letter for pub
lication on the situation.
Prominent Gentiles charge boldly that a
part OF United States Attorney Bates's mis-
sion to Washington is to effect the removal
of Chief Justice Mexican. Judge Strickland.
and Governor Woods, and, further, that the
Mormons have secured Mr. Bates's influence
against any further prosecution of the church
leaders, and for the immediate admission Of
the Territory into the Union.
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LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Spaiu.

M MADRIp, january PA royal decree WINS
t ,s.a IN tnc Cortes yesterday dissolving the
rsiIlte ano Congress. Elections for the new
I t were ordered for April I'd. The new
ooog nave been convokcd for oath April.
England.
LONDON, January 25.-Christiana Ed
monds, the prisoner who isunder sentences NJ
death, has received respite. ''''''n'' y
- Lazy franklin has offered reward Of
$4,000 for the recovery Of the records oe the
Erebus and Terror, supposed to hive he aau
deposited in King Williams Land.
Bullion in the Bank of England ina de-
creased FL GOT 900 since last report.
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NORFOLK MARKETS

JANUARY o. L0ttoR.-Thc saes amounted TO Is
halcs on Il basis Of 20@21tc. for low mlddng. Tho
receipts were l,5G bales exports 900 bales and stock
on hand and awaiting shipment 1858 bales.
COrp.-A dull market 1T i decline; sales were
made OF some 1000 bushels coru: common white,
$50. highly mixed, s90le3c. /; and yellow at SIC.
PedautS.-NIarket firm and active ut an advance.
The sales reached $50 bags, at prices ranging from
Sl75 TO 81 There were sales Of very inferior nuts
ut lower prices. Sales Of 20 bcgs Of 4 very fancy
god-edgc style were made day two ago at $a.25.
The nut was 2 very superior article.
PeaS.-Saics of biacR-eyes at 81 aud black at 4l6D
SI.05; clay are very much In demand, and will bring
from $40 10 $l.l5 III large quantities. There Is
stock in the market
VIZ ITnOrel dull.
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PETERSRITRG M.REETs

JANUARY S.-Coton.-Markct was quiet and
weak, ana the sales very limited We quote inferior
AT lSglssc.' fair to prime, receipts mode
rate.
HHeat.-Prime white sl.e5; very good, sLso fair
rcd Lancaster, sl.55 prime rcd purple straw, si.5e
Is1.J9: common red to fair. Sl.2oGI sl.tV.
C0rR.-Ofd corn, S00Is5c. new, e5Il7Oc.
mountain, l>Q2sc. Ample supply on the market.
Lire Chttle.-No. smooth, s to &C. gross; good,
20 &C.. mutton. 81 70 - per head Lambs, $3.50 TO g.
-PtnRMs.-Thcrc Is n fair supply. We quote at
Sl.2o@l 81 .c0-accoriing to quality.
.Pork-Scarce and In good demand for nice lots at
63M7c.
Potatoes.-Ncw, for shipping. 1926 per barrel.
Appte Brandy.-Scarcc and In demand ut S,.1o to
-.
appics.-si.
OulS.-SprIpS, CSC, winter SIC
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Missouri Liberal Republican Conyen-
stnsp

JEFFERSON CRY, Mo-, january 25.-The
Liberal Republican Mass Convention held
here was the largest ever assembled i'll the
State. The following resolution was adopted !:
60 Resoiced, That the shameless abuse Of
Government patronage for the control of
conventions and elections, whether in the
interests of an individual faction or Of z par
ty, with its consequent corruption and de-
moralization of political life, demands the
rough and genuine reform of the public SER
vice; that those who would suppress inves-
tigation forget they owe higher duty to the
country than to any party, and that it is time
to stop the growing Entertainments of Exec
utiYe power, the use OF coercion or bribery
to ratify treaty, the packing of the Supreme
Court to relieve rich corporations, and the
sealing of members Of Congress"
A dispatch was received yesterday from
the Cincinnati Ger1nail-Amcrican REFORM
Association promising hearty cooperation
with the Convention.
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Snow In hiHbansa--- abroad Collision

SELMA, Ala, January 25.---The weather
has been intensely cold for several days. A
snow-storm prevailed to-day, which was the
heaviest in ten years.
a collision occurred to-day on the Alabama
and Central railroad seventy miles west of
Selma, in which one person was killed
and several badly hurt. Both trains We're
badly smashed.
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A Reward to be Offered for the North
Carolina Outlaw.
Special telegram to the Dispatrl

Special telegram to the Dispatch.
RALEIGH, n. c., january 25.-In the House
of Representatives to-day bill was passed
authorizing the Governor to offer reward
of $4,000 for Henry Berry Lowcry, the no
torious outlaw Of Robinson county, dead or
alive, and s, 900 piece for each Of his gang.
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Found Dead.
Special telegram to the Dlspat'

Special telegram to the Dispatch.
DANvILLE, VA, january %, 1S12.--Dr.
John Burton, a prominent physician of Pitt
sylvania, was found dead this morning about
five miles from Danville, supposed to have
been frozen to death while on his way home.
He was for fifteen years practicing physi-
clan of our town. He leaves wife and seye-
raj children.
Weather extremely cold.
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The Alabama and Chattanooga Rail
road. \

MOBILE, January 2l.-In the United States
Court to-day, in the case of Drake rs. The Ala
hama and Chattanooga, Railroad ct ais,
Judge Woods decided against the motion to
appoint 4 receiver on the ground that Charles
Walsh is receiver of said road under the APP
pointmcnt Of the State Chancery Court in
the suit brought by the State of Alabama be-
fore the institution of brakes suit.
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
New York Stock and Money m,r,xe.

New York, January 25.-Moncy very easy
Mt 3 to Q per cent. Sterling, to 81. Gold.
1904 to 1904. Governments steady. States
steady, except new South Cardinals, which,
have declined to4. Tenncssee's, G5; new.
&c. virginia's, so; new, 81. Louislana's.
SIS; new, so. Levee's, 90; SIS, 10. Ala.
bama's, 90; SIS, 90. Georgia's, 10; rs, s..
North Cardinals, 80; new, 153. South
Carolina's, 90; new, 2s!.
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TOBACCO MARKETS.
RICHMOND, VA.

JANUARY ?5.-Reccipts are improving slowly III
quantity and quality; market firm. The present
severe weather will have tendency to retard re-
cepss. We quote rs before for new tobacco
Lu9s-Common to cood................ 50 0oe3 so
Lsaf-Commnn To Cood................. O0Ml2 10
.&enm iag-Conimun to good. o0G1l2 %
BRIGHT wRAPfERs.
Common 70 good El5 ooIY 30 w
Fire ~ wy =" w
Extra. no demand.
Bright sTnoSihe 10 VtH@-o w
4 letter from prominent citizen Of Halifax coun-
ty, and addressed TO 4. Y. STOKES, Of this city,
gives the following interesting items concerning
the tobacco crop:
..The tobacco crop of Halifax for market In 1917
will be from oe-!otrh 70 one-tird short In pounds
of the crop marketed In 1871. About one-third OF
the shipping tobacco WAS cut green. ana not more
than one-th!rd OF the shipping crop Of GOOD qaatay'
oue-thlrd nondescrfpt.
"Onc-third green, one-thrl nandescript, one-third
good shipping. Crop very short In quantity ana IN
length or leaf The most of the 0rigtstooxcSo IL "
dugy, notified color. With dark spots on the lefu
from s,orfngscr rotting before ripeniug ana cut
tiug The tolacco Intended for bright wrappers msus
taken from the ground in very bad conditon iog
curing. You viii find 4 very small propoTtiog vi
extra 1t weighs very light, and Is mostly suiteu sor
smoking. There has been great scarcity OF pan.ss
aud great difficulty In securing an early SfoMsm "a
every kind. THIS particularly applies % the Yellow
wrappers. From this county you VIII not eA Guy
fourth Of extra Of tho last years CROP