Ellsworth American., 1874-06-04

ding c5rtcge. when he led Miss sksston To The
altar, aud are ready to declare that mo goo
ever came Of fore .eigncrs-ihere was Bonapartc
the head of 'em, and see what he was al.us up
to-
TIE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
The civil rights bill passed the Senate amer
long discussion. aud by nearly a party vote.
NJ Thurman and Mr.. stockton opposed it
W considerable e5racstnasS a. unconsiiiu-
uenal. aud a, interfering with purely State
matters. while they believed that no good cou'd
come to the colored people by forcing the
question Of mixed schools. Frcliughuv-en
and Howe lei the Debate on the other side ar
guing thlt cqga iiv Of rights must be mai aiutain-
cd and consequence. would take care OF tn m
selves. Their was = far sprinking of cplo-cd
men in the gentIemen- gallery. and dccil-l
lack of white listeners during the Il bate. and
il VS.. found impossible TO create ans lirr de-
zee Of interest 10 thr question. II needed the
voice ami enthusiasm of sumner - arouse
f.'I.as. and without him Ia the PLAY. i; became
almost no p.ly o. al. AMI tim. The -r.at a.i-
ia'i7n.-whish SERIOUSLY began with john
QIncy Adams abou, forty years ago retire,
fom the Hall, Of Congress. with t.. most cl,-
quent champ parting without makin.
ripple.
And with thi> agitation apd summer. IL W.,
al>o apparent. that the prestige OF MA,>a,hu-
srtts ia the senate Ia, departed also. There
wa, uc leaier-hip By the Bay STATE on This o.
c.,ion-,ac stood behind Wisconsin. and l.e-
hindNew jersey, her glory mtnifc,t'y gone.
/ IL,
manship to grace the OCCASION. Boutwell,. IL
i true i. not very well. but hal It been other
wise. the result would have been the same. a.
he lacks the power 10 cicctrify the senate
Thurman predicts that the Supreme Court will
find the bill unconstitutional, and a. lawyer.
be is one Of the aLlcsi in the Senate.
MONDAY IL THE HOUSE.
on Monl.y Butler tried n o.' -" s..
plil referred 10 hi committee. but failed. As
sisiant Secretary SAWYER put into the commit
tee Of Ways and Means, sharp document de-
Tending his course in the sanborn business
The paper i able. AMI will attract attention.
Oid Rear Admiral Shubrick, the senior Of
ficcr Of the L. :. Navy, died on Wednesday.
. at the age ofsl. !!c wa, what i. called a gen.
tleman Of the old school. and have noticed
for some time. that most ofthe gentlemen who
reach that age, are apt 10 be regarded a, OF
that school. AMI /, not 4 bad school to b.
in either. The Admiral wIs good specim n
/ Of an old salt, haze, courageous, runc:iious.
with = good snare Of roughness and ;,olitcnes.
( iutermxad. lie wa. many years at the head
Of the Light House Board. having succeeded
Admiral Davis, who was not quite SO much Of
sai.
There was messenger in the Office named
Brown. brother OF John Brown. Of Ossawot-
tame ofthe new school perhaps. and he and
Shubriek didn't hitch very well together. both
: being independent In their natures. shubrck
called Brown up one day. and ask-d him Il
/ question about some small matter. ami the lat
ter replied. Il don't know Then he asked
( him another relating to the same matter aud
T Browns reply again WAS Il don't know -
We'll" said the Old sea dog. What in the
1 HI do you knowT' why" said Brown
I Il know Admiral Davis is a gentleman"
An Iri>hman right from Cork. could not
have met the emergency in better style; but
Shubrick WAS not interested in the personal
accom- pli,hments oI hi, brother officer. and re-
ported Brown 10 Mr.. Chase, as having insult
| el him. Mr.. Chase was not a facatoas man
/ by any means. but he appreciated the rea /,
wit of the messenger. and instead of reno ying
him for di,re-peet TO HIS superior. transferred
him &c another Bureau.
shurbrick wa- gallant trusty officer, and
one who served wei his country, and add ID
to the rep ltiiion ofthe navy.
The resolutions Of censure aimed at Mr
Richardson, were not reported on Monday. a.
il became known that they would cause a rup.
ture, and it was given out that the Secretary
would resign If they We're not pushed. But
the Committee perpetrated 4 gross blundel
when they decided to Sensure the Treasury of.
dciais, after they had exonerated them from
corrupt motives. They set out with the A.
sumption THAI extra facilities had been giyer
cadb0rn with view 10 enable him TO makt
money solely by those extra facilities. Now i
they had no corrupt motive, their only othei
motive must have been TO make the law effec
tive, aud this they did, because s4nborn wa,
the only man out of many in many years who
ever made contract work. But now tn,
Committee turn round and say that Sawyer
and Richardson were negligent, and ali Ia,
trouble comes in that way. When they yer,
deemed corrupt, they accounted for their ener
gy on the score of their interest, and when
they lind them not corrupt, they purpose tC
apply the bastinado for lack of interest. anC
negligence. Surely committee couldn't get
into more illogical aud ridiculous position
than this. When they found them innocen, in
motive, and Mr.. Beck affirmed this the graya
81. Il. I'll
means that are dark cannot change activity
that was great enough TO excite suspicion o,
guilt, into negligence that is almost ss damna-
bic as corruption itself. That wont do. But
the committee mbst lind something. They
were under compulsion as much as the boy
who was out for wood-ehuck on Sunday, an
met the minister, who told him he could'n,
find one on a Sunday-".fad one! thundera-
ton aud Moses l must find one, for the Par
son is coming to dinner, and we haven't got
| no meat
| MIRACLE WORKING.
This is an age Of wonders-of great discover
les. The scientific world is overaowing with
them. But greater than them all are the ccn-
slant Developments Of SO called spiritual
phenomena. Scientists have, from the first,
Ignored investigation into this philosophy, un-
til it has come to be considered quite the thing
to condemn, without examination. This prac-
tice is changing, and occasionally we find
scientist, like Prof. Crook Of London, serious
ly, conscientiously and earnestly bringing the
facts of science to bear upon well established
results, in order to discover, il possible, the