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New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

Why indeed should we have comic newspaper in
America while that dear old grandmother, The Eren-
ing Post, is left to us Here she is again, in full
pursuit Of yet another Convention, which, with I'M
dying hope, she trusts may at last make ticket 10
suit her. Who that has seen the old darings pages
has not shaken his sides sore with laughter over her
solemn love-makng with every Convention in turn
which has thus far assembled throughout this Con-
vention year Who can have forgotten the
columns Of advice which she gave Cincinnati
Who can have forgotten the oceans Of ink shed upon
her pet Steinway Hall Who does not recall with
infinite glee the labouous efforts she made TO show
that the Fifth Avenue Hotel Convention was 10 bs
the sign of deliverancei Who can have forgot
ten the wild anger with which she assailed
The TRIBUNE for suggesting that perhaps that
conference uouh be a good thing; or tho
frantic devotion with which, the morning
after its meeting she attacked, the chief topic of
editorial discussiOn-a late in oats in Chi
cagoi Who does not roar yet in recalling the zeal
with which she then took up the Convention which
nominated Mr. William S. Groesbeck and Mr.. Fred.
Law Olmsted for President and Vice-Presidont of
the United States respectively To this hour We
believe she remains the one solitary sup
porter of that able and unexceptiOnable
ticket from which both Groesbeck and Olmsted
themselves long ago boltedi Next she appealed TO
Baltimore to do her bidding Finally, here she IL
again, hope springing eternal In her venerable
breast undscouraged, forgetful of all the past con
fident of all the future, triumphantly pointing to
the Convention of Straight Democrats to assemble
at Louisville, as the genuine movement which
may yet rise above past and present
prejudices, place the great party Of the
future upon the original Just and
generous principles of Democracy as first delivered
to the saints in The Ereaing Poet four-fifths of
century ago. A whole case of surgical instruments
could MT get joke into the head of the man who
does MT find that record superior TO a complete file
Of Punch, from its foundation
New-York tribune., 1872-08-13
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New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

"You cannot discipline the Republican party.
You may try it if you please, gentlemen The Re-
publican party came into being against discipline
against all sorts of overriding and crushing infu-
ences. 1t itself protest against party dis
cipline and party domination" These are the
words of Gen. Wilson, uttered in the Senate on the
1lth of March, 1871 We call his attention to them.
1t seems to us that he is just now acting upon a
diametricaly opposite opinion-upon some notion
which he has got into his head that it is wicked
and traitorous to oppose the Republican party. To
be sure when he uttered the above truth he was MT
running as the candidate of q Convention for the
Vice-Presidency
New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

The Regents of the University Of New-York
have just conferred upon DR.. +. A. p. Barnard.
President of Columbia College formerly promi-
nently connected with the University of Alabama,
subsequently, with the University of Mississippi, of
which he was for five years Chancellor, the degree
of Doctor of Literature. Two years ago the same
body which is very sparins in its distribution ot
such degrees, conferred the same upon MI. Motley
and last year upon Prof Tayler Lewis.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

The hand is the hand of BlantOn Duncan, but
the voice is that of the Administration so
much one may truly say of the side show of the
Bourbon Democracy. The whole logic of the
case has been from the outset conclusive as to
the completely of the Grant Republicans in
this ridiculous movement. But now we have
ample evidence in the circular sent out by Mr..
j. NJ. Edmunds, Secretary of the Grant Central
Committee at Washington. Here we have
this honest and ingenious gentleman actually
sending out the call for the Bourbon Demo-
cratic Convention at Louisville, and begging
Grant Republicans to help circulate it through
the country. Here is the Democracy hating
Grant party doing its best to keep up the old
" organization" which they say is so damned
with treason and rebellion that a man who
accepts any of its votes is worse than trail
tor. Now, does Mr. Edmunds backed by the
COnklings, Mortons, and Chambers, expect to
"save the country" by touting for Mr.. Blan-
ton Duncan's Bourbonsf or is this only part
of the conspiracy to create diversion which
in this city has resulted in an alliance be-
tween Messrs. Murphy, Tweed, Decoy Bliss,
and 0'Brien.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

All parties will find the " Handbook of Politics
for 1872" which the Hon. Edw Mcpherson has just
issued, convenient and compendous collection of
indispensable data for the discussions of the cam
paign. Nowhere else can so many of the political
documents involved in the present contest bo found
SO conveniently grouped. Mr.. McPhesons political
manuals have long been a political necessity and
this is equal to the best of them in its collection of
what illustrates the extraordinary movements of
politics in a transition period.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

people on the Justice or injustice Of sundry
petty stories about himself. See President
Grants interview with Herald reporter.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

Travel in Arkansas, exciting though it may
be, is not entirely unattended by danger if
we may judge of the country from a travel
er's recent experience. Our correspondent in
the Southwest, whose letter is herewith print
ed, relates some moving incidents by field and
rail, which will revive the memory of stories
of American travel told in Martin Chussleoit.
For all that, however, Arkansas has many
physical attractions for settlers, and we may
be allowed to hope that 1t will not always be as
it is now, the worst governed Southern State"
Contrast with the condition of Arkansas over
whose unfortunate property holders the rule of
the carpet-bag has prevailed, the condition of
her nearest neighbors, Tennessee and Missouri,
which were some time ago returned TO the
Government of their own people, white and
black. In each of the latter, property is Sc
cure, life is protected, material prosperity is
reviving, and in the blessings Of liberty
which embraces all its inhabitants, each
State is rapidly learning to forget both
the civil war and the long blight of Slavery
New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

Another outrage is reported from the Mexl-
can border. Making due allowance for the
excited state of public feeling in Texas, and
the natural inclination of the people to charge
every act Of violence to the account OIL the
Mexicans, it is evident that the gangs OF Cor
tina's men which infest the region are now
beyond all restraint. 1t is imperative that
Congress shall take some action in these exas-
perating cases when the report of its commit
fee shall be made at the next session.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

That the notable letters of Senator Sumner
and Cen Banks should cause a cOmmotion III
the old Bay State, we must expect But these
letters reflect, in some particulars, the increas-
ing Liberal sentiment of Massachusetts people.
There is a growing strength of Liberalism in
Buffers district as well as new force and life
in the ranks of the party generally and through
out the State. TRIBUNE correspondence from
Boston, herewith printed, sums up the whole
situation, and gives a cheerful view of the
campaign for Reform.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

The Hon. Henry Wilson has published a letter in.
dignantly repudiatng certain remarks insulting to
foreign voters attributed to him in the newspapers.
They and all thoughts and words of like char
acter" he SAYS, are pure inventions, wicked
forgerles absolute falsehoods" And then he goes
on with vehement protestation of his devotion to
the equal rights of all men, native and foreign-born
Still ne does not explain what he was doing IN the
Know-Nothing Lodge, or how he came TO be not
merely a worthy but often hOnOred member of the
Know-Nothing party Unfortunately for himself he
cannot rail away the record We admit that he has
been extremely polite TO the naturazed citizens.
when he thought that politeness would pay; but
that has nit been always the case by any means.
For instance, in 1867, the General making Tenn
perance speech at Worcester according to The Wor-
cester Gazette Oct pa, alluded to the great amount
of drinking done by our foreign-born citizens
especially the Irish and Germans-the first class
drinking the viest whisky and the latter using
ager-beer which made them a stupid race" Perhaps
the General will remember that on the same occa-
sion he said that he would as soon vote to re-
establish Slavery as vote for License Law. The
truth is when a man has made 1900 public addresses
as he asserts that he has done it is MT always easy
| for him 10 remember exactly what he did say.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe is reported by her par
ticular friends the Grant newspapers. 10 have used
uncommonly strong language at Saratoga, during
"a sort of reception" which she gave there. She
said that Mr.. Greeley had stultified a splendid
manhood" therein differing from Mr.. Garrison who
declares that Mr.. Greeley's manhood has been as
contemplate as possible. He has permitted his
enemies continued the lady, to swallow him.
and blot out his work of lifetime" Very well;
when he has been dead for half a century, he may
meet with his reward; for may not some woman
write dirty and scurrilous book about himf-a
| book full of the same feminine vehemence which
leads Mrs Stowe to declare him "a base, dishonest.
trucking, trading politicianG" The opinion of a
woman who talks in this shrewish way may be
much reverenced in certain coterie but its effect
upon the election we inclined TO believe, will be
small 1t certainly will not have any more influence
than that of Col Mosby, who has been making
speeches in Virginia, and characterzing the Greeley
! men as tho meanest, saddest lot of bummers
| and shysters that has ever been got together" We
do not say that the tastes of Mrs. Stowe and Col.
Mosby are exactly alike; but it is evident that both
| the novelist and the Colonel have a weakness for
! adjectives
New-York tribune., 1872-08-13
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New-York tribune., 1872-08-13

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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
4 Curious Breach Of Promise Case.

The curiosities of breach of promise
suits have had a notable addition in a
case recently decided in an English
court. Miss Alice Watkins, dress.
maker, sued Mr.. William Rainey, de.
scribed as negro from Sierra Leone
and an English barrister, to recover
by that gentleman's failure to fulfill his
plighted troth. In consequence Of her
engagement with Mr.. Rainey, Miss
Watkins asserts she had refused two
offers of marriage-one from a Welsh
gentleman, the other from the son of
barrister Of long standing. From this
she would appear to have been a young
woman either of unusual personal at
fractions or some social ST nding. Yet
by her own admission her first acouaint-
ance with the defendant was made
while walking III the street one evening
with her sister. 1t was evidently case
of love &C first sight "Othellon prom.
ised at once to marry the fair dress
maker, and Desdemona" coyly con.
sented. Only TO save time all tiresome
formalitles were waived, and the happy
twain repaired at once TO the barrister's
chambers. On parting, the dusky swain
presented his spouse with a sovereign,
and put her in an omnibus. After a
while Rainey returned to Sierra Leone,
where he kept up an animated cores
pondence with his intended. In many
of his letters his promise to marry was
renewed, but at his request all these
valuable epistles were carefully de-
stroyed by the coniiding plaintiff. In
spite of the defendants energetic de-
mails, the jury promptly rendered a
verdict against him for 1880. Perhaps
this is not more absurd than most
breach of promise cases, but it certainly
looks on its face like scandalous per.
version of justice.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
Lucy Ann. Lille Tcmpinflon.

Lucy Ann was the little girl. Jane
Maria was the doll. Lucy Ann said to
Jane Maria, one day, "Now, you've
just gone and got the humps, and I'm
going to doctor you up right smart, or
you'll be having earache or something
thing all winter; and like as not you'll
be down sick when Christmas comes,
and | shall just have to stay at home
and take care of you."
Lucy Ann went into the kitchen to
make poultice (poultices were the
thing for mumps,s she thought, and Jane
Maria was let alone.
Only the cat listened to poor Dolly's
doleful words. "Oh it's dreadful to
be DOLL she said. Z" am all twisted
up. Lucy Ann tells folks the rheu-
mates did it; but know twas herself
pulling me so, and twitchering me
when she gets mad. Wish / could get
mad, too, sometimes but / guess
wouldn't tell folks a story bout it, Oh
it's awful to be doll, and have a new
head put on and | know I've got to, if
she puts that thing on for it's just q.
going to stick fast, and pull all the red
off my face. know it is"
Dear me! how loud you do purr -
said Lucy Ann to the cat, going into the
room and taking up Jane Maria in her
arms, Kittie followed them into the
kitchen.
Now, there's no use in your making
one bit OF fuss, for you've got to take il.
Castor oil is always good for babies. if
they're sick or anything, said Lucy Ann.
when the bread and milk poultice was
bound on Dolly's cheek, and the cat was
licking the milk from the dish. The
spoon was full. A knock at the kitchen
door startled Lucy Ann. The spoon
shook, and down spread the oil over
Dolly, Lucy Ann. dress, and the cats
fur.
9 thought twas mother come home, :"
said the child, springing up to hide her
doctoring" from sight.
mol it's just me-" said Sarah Burns,
and I've come to see if your mothers
got any castor oil. Mrs. Browns baby
has been taken sick, sudden, and they
cant wait to send to the DOCTOR"
Yes, here it Isl" said Lucy Ann
fright here"
Sarah Burns took the bottle and ran
with it to Mrs. Brown.
" Isn't II lucky for me-" thought Lucy
Ann, that she came for what would
mother say to this oil? And now she'll
think | spilled it out, getting the bottle
for Miss Brown" After while the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
The Overthrow OF Rings.

The fight goes bravely on, everywhere,
and against all sorts of peculation and
jobbery. This is the year Of investiga-
tons. Not that there are more thieves
in this year of grace 1871 than in any
other year of grace. But the great po
itical questions are in some sense out
of the way, and now the public con.
science has come with a swift and sud.
den retribution against the unfaith-
full stewards, who, having presumed on
delay, have wasted their masters goods
in riotous living.
In New York the overthrow of the
Ring becomes every day more and more
utter Last Thursday, as Mayor Halls
trial dragged its slow length along, and
all had grown tired of the tedious battle
OF technicalities, Andrew j. Garvey, the
swlndling plasterer Of the public build
ings, who spread on his charges entirely
too thick, and who has been Tor long
time in hiding, was suddenly marched
out OF private room, to the great con-
sternation OF all concerned in the de.
Tense of the Ring. He comes prepared
to make clean breast of it, as soon as
the technical points raised by the law.
yers will allow his testimony TO be given.
Connolly is said to have fled the city,
Tweed is in hiding, and the battle seems
to be pushing itself to the last refuge Of
the thieves, who are already politically
ruined, and who can hardly escape the
punishment due their crimes.
At Washington three Congressional
investigations are pending-one into the
New York Custom House and General
Order abuse, and two into the French
arms business. These committees ought
to investigate thoroughly and conscien.
tiously, in the interest Of pure govern.
ment, into the conduct of all officers of
the Government connected with both
these affairs.
In the South the reckless adventures
who have plundered the States under
pretense of governing them, are coming
TO grief, and, on the whole, we believe
this TO be year of reforms. The old
abuses, always hiding away in the city,
State, and federal governments, can
hide no longer against an awakened
public conscience.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
Imprisonment for Debt.

In the worst days Of debtors prisons
in England, imprisonment for debt was
wholly illegal. When acreditor wished
to incarcerate his victim, lie OBJ.
tanned an order directing him, in the
Queens name, to pay the debt. AS he
could not do so, he was straightway ar
rested for wilful disobedience to the
Queens command, and kept in Jail un.
til he obeyed it. Ludlow Street Jail is,
apparently, becoming the Fleet Prison
of New York city, and by much the
same indulgence in legal qUibbles. New
York law permits the arrest of any one
who has fraudulently incurred debt by
getting articles for which he knew he
was unable to pay. The result is, that,
whenever debtor fails to keep his
promises, his creditors can at once &C
cus1 him of fraudulent intent, send him
to Ludlow Street Jail, and put his pro-
perry in the hands of Sheriff, where,
of course, il is sold at n ruinous sacri
fee. Some pair ful instances of legal
lied injustice have been revealed,
which show that the jails, as we'll
as the Judges, of Gotham, need to be
reformed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29

darkness began to gather in the tall
evergreens by the kitchenwindows, and
Lucy Ann began to feel very unhappy.
She had burned up the poultice, put
away the dish i'm which it had been
made, and hidden Jane Maria, so that
no one should ask any questions about
the cheek that had no paint on it. The
evidence was out Of sight, but the little
actor did not feel one bit better.
At last her mother came home. AS
soon as the lamps were lighted she saw
the oil on her childs dress.
Lucy Ann, what is that on your new
dress?" she asked.
1T is castor oil, mamma"
How came it there?'
Lucy Ann hung down her head, and
it was still in the room for minute.
Then the little girl looked up, and a
twitching about her lips disappeared
with the words;
" | spilled it. | was playing give Jane
Maria some, for the mumps."
"Playing with castor oil-and in your
new dress ~ exclaimed her mother,
who knew nothing of the temptation
her little girl had resisted.
"You shall go to bed for that without
any light"
Lucy Ann went slowly up stairs. The
big round moon looked into her room,
and lit it up while she undressed. The
cat had followed her. 1t jumped up
upon the bed, and curled it itself close
beside the little girl.
" i don't care, pussy, if | am sent to
bed" said Lucy Ann, sobbing. " | told
the truth anyhow, and I'm real glad |
did. And won't mamma be glad, too,
when | tell her all about it to morrow ?"
Pussy didn't answer, but Lucy Ann
was comforted Just the same.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
The Survivor Of the Celebrated Dia.
mOnd Wedding.

William G. Bryant's party received,
while in Havana, many courtesies from
Madame Oviedo, the heroine of the
diamond wedding in New York in 1858.
The Rev. J. II. Bryant writes thus to
the Princeton (Ill.) RepubGcan:
She was a New York girl, named
Bartlett, who married, some years since,
a rich old Cuban, with tinge of African
blood, | am told. | remember there
was a great noise about it at the time in
the New York papers, and the vast
sums of money that were spent at the
wedding. Mr.. Oviedo did not live long,
and his young widow now lives in his
spacious and splendid palace, in all the
luxury OF princess. We called upon
her Sunday night, to thank her for
kind attention, and found her alone
with another widow, sister-in.law,
younger than she is. Mrs. Ovedo is an
intelligent woman, talks like a book,
and seems TO understand all about the
politics Of the island. | am told she
manages or oversees her business. She
has large sugar plantation near Man.
tanzas, where she spends the summer.
The income from 1t is SS00,000 yearly.
She is strongly in favor of the annexa.
ton of Cuba to the United States, but
says she does not talk about it except
to Americans.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
An Absurd Law.

The English are talking of amending
their burial laws, and apropos of this
the Pail Mall Gazette thinks that it
would not be amiss to revise marriage
laws also. At present no one can be
married after II o'clock in the day, and
this absurd regulation imposes upon
the relatives and friends of a happy
pair the necessity of eating cold CHI cken
and drinking champagne almost imme-
diately after breakfast. After doing so,
of course no one is fit for business dur.
ing the day, indigestion and waking
nightmare set in, and these terrible re.
suits are brought about by holding to a
"vestige of barbarism."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
BRYANT on Darwin.

Mr. William c. Bryant, at a recent
meeting of he Alumni of Williams
College, opposed to the Darwinian
theory a very ingenious reverse PROPOSE
ton, which may hereafter be known as
the Bryantian theory-at least it would
become known as such if some wiseacre
would only write three.volume book
in support of it. He said
1t is not more likely that the easy
road downward has been taken, that
the lower animals are derived from some
degenerate branch of the human race.
and that, if we do not labor to keep
the rank we hold, our race may be frit-
tered away into the meaner tribes of
animals, and finally into animalcula
Then may our Tweeds become the pro.
genitors of those skulking thieves of
the Western wilds, the prairie. wolves,
or may swim stagnant pools in the
shape of horse-leeches our astute law
yers may be represented by foxes; our
great architects by colonies of beavers !;
our poets by clouds of mosquitoes,
iamished and musical our doctors of
divinity say it with all respect to the
cloth-by swarms of the mantis or
praying insect, always in the attitude of
devotion. If we hold TO Darwin's theory
AS ] do not-how are we to know that
the vast multitudes of men and women
on the earth are not the ruins, so to
speak, OF some nobler species, with
more elevated and perfect faculties,
mental, physical, and moral, but not
extinct2
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
A Prolific lrishman.

There was very much married man
in Texas, o Neal 10y name, who, even
for an lrishman, is an extraordinary
propagation of his species, for, having
been married eight times, he has forty.
one children. lie is 65 years old, and
his personal ambition is to bring the
numbered his wives up to fifty, doing in a
legitimate way that which the Mormon
patriarchs do in an illegitima,e way.
Perhaps Mr.. O'Neal does not intend u
wait for the opportunities afforded by
bereavement, but proposes to try the
shorter cut OF divorce. If so, in some
OF our States, he need not limit himself
to such an insignificant number OF
spouses rs half a hundred.