The Republican journal., 1876-03-02

A committee of the House finds the
Emma Mine swindlc to be the rottenest
thing yet uncovered, Witnesses testify
that the mine was Il fraud from the De-
ginning, that in the litigation about it in
Utah, Judge Mexican, sat on the bench
while Il stockholder and director; the
marshal was a stockholder, and selected
juries who also held stock Senator Nor
ton, Of Indiana, accepted Il bribe OF $40,
900 tor his services. Albert Graut was
promised bribe Of half a million, JAY
Cook 500 600, Gen Schencll 500 shares
Of stock, Prof Silliman tor a certificate
of assay $50 900, &c. &c. 1t is shocking
and sickening to contemplate Is this
sort of thing to have no end?
The editor Of the Rockland Free Press
recently heard John T. Stevens Of Angus
ia deliver lecture, upon which this COM
ment is made
The history of the services and sacrifices of
the hero-martyr, John Barneveld, was given by
Mr. Stevens in we'll chosen language, up to that
last supreme hour when he laid the offering of
a noble life upon his country's altar
This language is u tritle obscure, and
leaves doubt whether Barneveld or Stew
ems made the sacrifice But little re-
Election will remind the reader that John
l.. has laid but a portion Of his lite on his
countrys altar, and that with a good sal
ary attached. The llollander must have
been the man who lost his head
-APortland ergymanrecently preach
ed against the publication Of Sunday pa
pers, denouncing them as demoralizing.
The Sunday Times of that city calls at
tenton to the fact that the work on Sun
day papers is nearly all done on Saturday.
But labor on the Monday daily, which no
doubt the clergyman reads with relish and
a clear conscience, is about all done on
Sunday, Wherein the editor rather gets
the pulpit at a disadvantage. There is a
great deal of that sort of zeal which ut
runs both discretion and knowledge
A Professor Collins of Whtelield, n H.,
announces that, after fifteen years Of study and
experiment, he has solved the problem of cheap
fuel and light By discovering Il method of burn
ing water, and that he intends soon to take out
patent.
How we shall all thank the Professor,
especially in Maine, where coal does not
grow, and where wood is disappearing,
but water is abundant and cheap. What
a happy season it will be when every man
can catch his fuel on the root of the house,
and store il up in the cistern.
We publish to-day some very curious
extracts from the Prog Age-one portion
Of which argues that Capt. Wirz was hung
for an outrageous " crime against human
ity and civilization" and the other por-
ton proves that the editor of the Age was
an advocate Of the very crimes for which
"irz was hung. They make very inter-
esting reading at this time
What will the patrons of signs and
forerunners say to the destruction of the
Boston big elm? 1t was more than two
hundred years old, and held its branches
skyward when the Mayhower sighted Cape
Cod. 1t was a distinguished landmark
long before Washington was born All
the growth, greatness and history of this
nation were spanned by its lite. And now.
in the centennial year it has crashed to the
ground.
The Prog. Age has communication
which is intended to be very sharp on the
statement by Mr. Frost which we recent
ly published. The poor sneak who wrote
it is so ashamed of himself that he declines
to give his name. OF course no one would
reply to such a cheap piece of impudence.
Probably it was written by Capt. Wirz of
the Age himself.
The Bangor Wing hoists the name of
Blaine as candidate for the Presidency.
The Calais Times, however, thinks that
Bristow would better fit the chair The
Fairfield Chronicle is called to account by
the Augusta Journal for not keeping its
eye on the Kennebec statesman. The
unanimity isn't yet entire