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Year: 1874

We should not be surprised to see a
gold excitement springing up over this
Intelligence rivaling the California fe-
yer of '49. Already the frontier towns
are in q tumult, and the excitement is
spreading. Little is talked ofor thought
about save the discoveries in this won
derful land. Besides the gold which is
found in such abundance, iron, plum
bago, and gypsum exists in limit'ess
quantities, and the soil and climate are
Of the most inviting description. There
is treaty which makes any incursion
by the whites into this region unlaw-
full, but the government will without
doubt take speedy measures to make
satisfactory arrangements with the In
dams for it's occupancy. It would be
sin against the country and against the
world to permit this region, SO rich in
treasure, to remain unimproyed and
unoccupied, merely to furnish hunting
grounds to savagcs. We owe the In
dams justice and fair play, but we owe
it to civilization that such a garden of
mineral wealth should be brought into
occupantion and Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Year: 1874

On the highest inhabited land in Eus
ropes, 500 feet above the sea, and
rising often above the clouds, too
where the ice never melts, and there are
few days, even in summer, when the
snow does not fall-in the very heart
of the Swiss mountains, stands build
ing called the Monastery, or Hospice of
Mont St. Bernard.


The Monastery is inhabited by about
forty monks. The monks, with one or
more of the dogs, go down every day
to a spot at certain distance at either
side of the pass, and travellers gener-
ally wait at this spot to be conducted
over by the escort. Some occasionally
try to find the way themselves, and
thus it happens that they often lose it,
or are oyertaken by snow-storm or
avalanche. The dogs, by their keen
scent, are able to track out body un-
der the snow, and by sound call the
mems attention to the spot; but per-
haps the chief service they render is in
acting as guides to show the way, for
the snow is sometimes thirty feet deep,
and every sign and landmark is oblib-
Grated then the keen instinct of the
dog comes into play; he marches in
front of the cavalcade with his tail
straight up, which, when the snow Is
soft, is sometimes the only thing visible.


Many stories are told of acts of
bravery by these noble animals. In
the museum at Bern there is stuffed
St. Bernard dog named Barry, who Is
said to have saved the lives OF fifteen
persons. One Of the most memorable
feats recorded of him is his resculng a
little boy whose mother had been swept
away by an avalanche, add whom ne
induced to mount on his back, and
TINS carried safe to the Hospice.


Dog nature has two sides, just as
mans has We have heard OF the
best side in this story of the st. Bern-
ard dogs, but no one would like TO
meet on mountain, or anywhere eise,
one of the old-time war-dog8-


The ancient Greeks had the entran-
ces to theiy camps and fortresses watch
ed over by ferocious dogs, and for
long time the old city Of Corinth had
no other garrison. Rome, also. was at
Year: 1874

Every blade of grass is repre-
sentative of nature and every little
spot, large enough to kneel oown upon,
is an altar at which we may worship
the majesty of the Omnipotent. Life
is a beautiful and endless mystery
Year: 1874

The earth Is every day overspread
with the veil of night, for the same
reason that the cages of birds are
darkened : 50 that we may more read
lily apprehend the higher harmonies of
thought in the hush and stiffness Of
darkness Paul.
Year: 1874

This is the luxury Of music. It
touches every key of memory and stirs
all the hidden sprlngs of sorrow and
Joy. [ love it for what it makes me
forget and for what it makes me re-
member
Year: 1874

Although men are accused for
not knowing thoir own weakness, yet
perhaps as few know their strength
1t is in men as in souls. where some
times there is vein of gold which the.
owner knows not Of Happy is he
who comes to atest hour and proves
strong.
Year: 1874

IHE FRUIT TARIFF gILL.-The bill to correct
an error in the tariff bill Of 1872, passed by the
Senate on Friday of last week, iefers to an error
stated some time ago, being the substitution of a
comma after the word fruit" when it should
have been hyphen connecting the word fruit
with the succeeding word plants 50 that the
clause would read "FruIt-plants, tropical and
semi tropical, for the purpose of propag CATION OF
cultivation" The error alluded to was the cause
Of the collection Of duties to the amount Of s74
600 which was not intended by the authors Of the
original bill.
Year: 1874

Money has been in rather better demand but the
simply was ample at 2G2l and per cent Oh call.
Prime discounts are selling at to I. The Treasury
received in National bank notes to-day S5O0,0OO


Government bonds have been fairly active and
Year: 1874




The senate met at one O'Clock. After
the reading OF the journal of yesterday
Senator Upton said he arose to move q
correction therein, The journal showed
that the senate adjourned to meet at one
O'Clock to-day, but there was no men,
tion made of that fact in the record. In
view of the fact that the record was al
ready correct, he inferred that the jour
nal clerk was mistaken, and therefore
moved a correction, to strike out that
portion relative to adjournment.


The chair Senator Carpenterl said
that the Journal was correct, and the
senator should give in to the correct re-
cord.


Mr.. Tipton-Then move to correct
the Journal to read as follows: "Ordered
that when the senate adjourn it be to
meet at one o'clock tomorrow, on ac-
count Of the marriage in the family of the
President of the United Slater, which is
to be consummated at the hour of eleven
o'clock tomorrow morning."


Senator Hamilton-I believe the mo-
ton to adjourn over was made yester-
day, but no reason was iven by the
ehair-none whatever.


Senator Hamlin said he did not know
by what power the senator from Ne
braska CTipton1 proposed to coDstrue
the motives of senators in adjourning
over.


Senator Upton said that when he
came to the capitol this morning he
found the house in session. He did not
hear the motion to adjourn yesterday,
and not finding the senate in session he
inferred that something unusual was
going on. Now that time was precious,
he had come to the conclusion that an
adjournment for over two hours must be
for an event known to the whole country.


Senator Fenton suggested that in view
of the explanation OF the senator from
Maine, and Of the chair, the senator
from Nebraska withdraw his motion.
Senator Hsmlin said as a motion to
amendment the journal only expressed
the views Of the senator from Nevada.
Senator Hamlim moved to lay on the
table and the motion was agreed to
without dissent.


Senator West, from the committee on
! transportation, reported two senate bills
| for the improvement Of the mouth of
| the Mississippi with written report.
Placed on the calendar.


Senator Fenton introduced bill to es-
tablish the compensation of certain Gus
toms officers to regulate the service in
the collection of customs st the various
/ ports IN the United States and disposi-
tion of fines, penalties and forfeitures
incurred under the laws relating to Gus
toms. Which WAS referred to the finsnce
committee.


Among the salaries fixed by the bill
are the following: Collector at Chicago
and surveyor Of customs at st. Louis
Year: 1874

In the House of Representatives,
Dec. 18th, Mr.. Hale, Of Now York,
made a violent personal attack On
Judge Wilson, who had introduced an
amendment to the salary bill provid
ing that if any member Of the Add
Congress was in the employ of the
Government as agent and counsel Of
the United States, that compensation
for such service should be deducted
from his salary. Mr.. Hale, felt him
self "hit,' and entered into personal
explanation, giving a perverted ac-
count of Judge VS. action ON the
salary bill at the last session, and con-
cluded as follows:


II have seen, Mr.. Speaker, cur
emerging from puddle, with his hair
dragging with filth, force his way
among decent people, and thrust him-
self upon them, or shake his filth up
on them. have known that expert
ment tried, and have known decent
people to be smirched; but 1 have
never discovered that the eur who did
it remained anything but dkty dog.
And l believe that will always inevit
ably be the case. y


Mr.. Wilson, Of Indiana. The gen.
tleman from New York seems to have
been stirred up by proposition that
| made yesterday to amend the bill
that was then before the House, COM
monty known as the salary bill; and
since yesterday afternoon he seems to
have busted himself in hunting up my
record on that question. Mr.. Speak
er, the record l made on that question
l have never shrunk from. have
not gone about the country calling out
salary grab" nor have l ever in any
way, to any man, under any circum-
stances, conceded that | had done any
thing that I had not the right to dc
and that I could not do consistently
with my integrity and my honor.


I Now, sir, when l discussed that
question here before the House few
days ago l declined my position upon
Year: 1874

On the evening succeeding his cleo
tion to the United States Senate, Gov
ernor Booth, of California, was visited
by his friends at his residence in Sac
ramento, and being called upon for a
speech, responded as follows: .


Il wish my heart was as big as all
yours put together. You do not know
how l have leaned ON you-on all the
people-in every hour Of discourage
ment, calumny and vituperation-and
l have had a good many of them-but
l never failed to get strength when |
touched the hearts of the people; and
when 1 prove false to them may my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth
There is no room in my heart for
any recollection Of injury l ever re-
ceived in my life
Year: 1874




the gentleman was pleased to say
about the members of the Forty
second Congress in his speech of the
| day before yesterday.


The Clerk read as follows:


THE third proposition ON which
this popular condemnation rested,
and, in my Judgment, the weightiest
of all, relates to the manner in which
the act was done. 1t was not done by
square, manly, honest legislation. This
House in the Forty y-second Congress
repeatedly, by large majorities, voted
down the proposition for an increase
of their pay when presented as a bald
and naked proposition, and then by
trick, and subterfuge and evasion, in
grated the increase upon bill on
which they could have some excuse
for saying, We vote ourselves increas-
ed pay purely as matter of necessity,
because we must do it or defeat the
appropriations for the support of the
Government


Mr.. Wilson, Of Indiana. Now, I
call the attention of the House, and
especially of gentlemen who served in
the Forty-second Congress, to the
manner in which the gentleman has
seen fit to talk about them. He says
that the thing was not done by fair,
manly, honest legislation. He means
by that, as matter of course, that it
was unmanly and dishonest legisla-
ton. That is what he is charging
upon the members of the Forty
second Congress.


! That is the manner in which he has
been talking about this matter, and
any man who will 60 and look at the
Globe will see that the gentleman
made an assertion here that was en-
tirely without foundation in fact, and
if he had been as industrious in
hunting up the facts Of the case as he
was in hunting up my votes he would
Year: 1874

Il street fight occurred here last Tuesdav
between Brig. Gen. C ?. Adams and NJ
Pettlbone in which the former got worsted
and paid five dollars for the privilege Ci+v
ahead.


The open winter is It grand thing for the
mills on the Vermillion. Last year at this
time none of them could run for want IF
water, now they are all doing a. fair bus;-
ness


Another fight on Thursday between Sam
,uel White and Hi. Haslett. respectively
the champions of Pettibone and Adams
White being the first aggressor was fined
$500 The city got the best of it this time
also


deputat'on Of citizens waited upon cur
City Council last Saturday night to inform
that body that they contemplate having O.
masquerade ball, at which they proposed
to keep beer stand, and as it was more
than probable that some of the party might
indulge too freely and become troublesome
SAID deputation modestly requested that
the council employ couple of extra police
Tor the occasion, but the strangest part Of
the affair is that the council refused to COM
ply with the request, they having got it into
them heads that beer could not be lerallv
sold without license, and that to appoint an
extra police force to protect an unlicensed
beer shop, is hardly what they were made
aldermen for.
Year: 1874

There is many rest in the road of life,


If we would only stop to take il;
And many tone from the better land,


If the querulous heart would make it.
To the sunny soul that is full of hope,


And whose beautiful trust ne er faileth,
The grass is green and the flowers are bright,
Though the winter storm prevaileth.
Better TO hope though the cloud hang low,


And TO keep the eyes still lifted,
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through,
When the ominous clouds are rifted
There was never night without a day,


Or an evening without morning,
And the darkest hour, as the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning
There is many gem in the path of life


Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jeweled crown,


Or the miser's boarded treasure
1t may be the love of little child,


mothers prayer to heaven,
Or only beggars grateful thanks


For cup of water given.
Better to weave in the web of life


A bright and golden filing,
And to do Gods will with a ready heart,


And hands that are ready and willing,
Than to snap the delicate, minute threads


Of our curious lives asunder,
And then blame heaven for the tangled ends,
And sit and gricve and wonder
Year: 1874

The lamented death of Mayor Havemeyer
occasions some important changes in the city
government. Mr.. Vance, the President of the
Board of Aldermen, becomes Mayor, vested
with all the powers and duties of the Office.
The Board of Aldermen elect temporary
Chairman to take the place of the President
thus transferred to the Executive Department
and the temporary Chairman is vested with oil
the powers and clothed with all the duties of
member of the Board of Apportionment, which
consists of the Mayor, the President of the
Board of Aldermen, the Comptroller and the
President of the Department of Taxes and
Assessments The character of the Board of
Apportionment will, therefore, be materially
changed. Alderman Flanagan was yesterday
called to preside in the Board of Aldermen,
which is an indication that he will to-day be
chosen temporary Chairman. In this event the
Board of Apportionment will consist of Mayor
Vance, Comptroller Green, Commissioner
Wheeler and Alderman Flanagan. Hitherto
the Mayor and Comptroller have acted to-
gether in that Board, generally in opposition
to their two associates, and this is alleged to
have prevented the proper reduction of the
city estimates. The deadlock will now be
broken, and as the whole subject of the ap-
preparations will be reopened on the making
of the final estimate it seems probable that
the enormous tax levy for 1875 may yet be
materially reduced.


The Board will also have power now to COM
pei the Commissioners of the Department of
Docks to comply with the requirements of the
city charter The department Is one of. those
confirmed by and embodied in the charter,
under article fifteen, section eighty-eight.
The charter requires all departments to ''send
to the Board OF Apportionment an estimate in
writing of the amount of expenditure, speci-
flying in detail the objects thereof, in the re-
spectivc departments, including statement
Of each Of tho salaries of their officers,
clerks, employees and subordinates" It
further provides that 'tho same state
ment rs to salaries and expenditure shall
be made by all other officers, persons and
boards having power to fix or authorize
them" The Dock Department has refused to
make such n statement and has asserted its
independence of the Board OF Apportionment
II has been impossible hitherto to compel
compliance with the law on account of the
deadlock in the Board of Apportionment.
There is no doubt now that the majority of
the Board will insist on a report from the
Dock Commissioners before another dollar is
appropriated to the department.


! The complexion OF the Board of Street
Openings and Of the City Record Commission
I VII also bs changed by the sad occurrences.
Year: 1874

difficulties Of transition period in our muni-
cipal politics put him at sea without chart


A party Mayor has many advantages and
securities. All the trusted chiefs of
his own party stand around him.
ready to give their advice and support, and
anxious to save him from mistakes. But Mr..
Havemeyer came into Office at his last election
by the votes of citizens Of both parties, ard
he had the difficult task laid upon him of try
ing to please men who agreed in moth
ing beyond their confidence in his in
tegrity. 1t was the old and insoluble
problem of serving two masters. Hav-
ing been elected neither as a democrat
nor as a republican, no attempt to trim be-
tween the two parties could satisfy either. and
tility of both. Sensible Of his alienation
from both parties, he followed his personal
predictions, which is, perhaps, the most un-
safe rule public officer can adopt But for
this error he paid heavy penalty, and it
should be no longer remembered against
him.


Mr.. Havemeyer belonged to q class Of old
New York citizens of whom the city will
always have reason to be proud. Born and
bred among us, and having first established
his credit as an honorable merchant, he was,
more than thirty years ago, elected as our
Mayor, and, after serving with great accept
ance, he was elected again to the same Office
in 1848, when his administration was
equally popular. He was taken up by the
so-called reformers two years ago on the
strength of his former unimpeachable record.
If we throw a generous veil over the
errors of the last few months Mr.. Havemeyer
deserves to stand in the first rank of our old
and honored citizens whose lives bear testi-
mony to the sturdy virtues which may be
nourished and built up in community de-
voted to commerce. Our citizens, and es-
pecially that part of them who were born and
have grown old as the contemporaries of the
late Mayor, will pay willing homage to the
purity of his Intentions the integrity of his
life and his superiority to sordid or unworthy
aims as public officer
Year: 1874

The FRENCH ASSEMBLY met yesterday at Ver-
sailles and held brief session, and the diff
ferent parties were especially busy in caucus
in organizing their plans of battle. The
republicans continue to have the advantage
in the municipal elections. The Count de


in the Assembly, in which he says he
will offer them no advice, and then
advises them to do nothing that would delay
the restoration of the monarchy. He might,
with greater reason, advise them to do more
TO prevent the restoration of the Bonapartists.
Year: 1874

but as only q month intervenes before Mayor
Wickham's accession to Office these changes
will not be material. That in the Board of
Apportionment is, however, important mas
much as the present Board is called upon to
make the final estimate upon which all the
expenses OF the municipal Offices and the rate
of taxation for 1875 will be based.
Year: 1874

The REPORT of the Commissary General Of
Subsistence is elsewhere published, and in
cludes statement Of the cost of providing for
the army and recommendations for the better
supply Of distant stations The necessity Of
some reform has been shown In the recent
Indian war.
Year: 1874

the Democracy


When the democrats return to power, which
seems now an inevitable result Of republican
misrule, they should learn from the lesson Of
experience to avoid partisan legislation
framed for the purpose of securing temporary
party advantages. Such policy recoils upon
its authors often with damaging effect. The
old Tammany Ring, confident in their strength,
passed laws bestowing appointments on them
selves for long terms, intending to secure an
extended lease of power; but, on their sudden
gathered by their enemies. The republicans
in their turn concocted charter designed to
protect their own political friends in the city
Offices tor number of years, and now it
threatens to be the instrument Of their down.
fall. Fearful Of trusting the Mayor, they tied
his hands by providing that his removals from
Office should require the Governors approval
before they became operative. Now demo-
cratic Mayor and democratic Governor
are about to take Office Independent
of the fact that they would be
likely to act in accord in the matter
of removals, it is not at all probable that
democratic Governor would so far violate the
principles of his party as to oppose the Mayor
in any changes in the municipal Offices he
might deem it to the interest of the city to
make, SO that the charter designed to extend
the term of the 'reform" heads of depart
ments beyond that Of the Mayor will operate
as the instrument of their removal
Year: 1874




that it is not living in an inn or caravansary,
but home, and in this great busting city
the only anchor for hearts which rest on
abiding attachments is that part of our popu-
lation who were born and nurtured on this
island. Accordingly no member of an old
New York family can die, even if he has no
other distinction than that of being native
of the city, without exciting q kindly
interest and pensive regrets in the
hearts of our old inhabitants. Mr. Have
meyer, as an old New Yorker, born and
bred among us, would have touched this
chord of sympathy if he had died a private
citizen without the adventitious circumstances
of his being the chief magistrate of this an
cient Dutch city, in which he drew his first
breath and the affecting suddenness of his
demise. But Mr.. Havemeyer was not only
an old but truly honorable citizen of this
abode Of the original Knickerbockers.
He grew up among us as an es-
teemed, enterprising and successful mer-
chant in a community where honorable
and successful merchants have always been
held in honor. The credit he had won in
mercantile pursuits made him Mayor in 1S45,
and again in 1S4S. and il his third election to
that Office in 1872 depended on accidental
circumstances it was also owing, in II great
measure, to his long Identification with the
interests Of the city. No fiashy new conner
could have so easily won the confidence of
our citizens, many of whom voted for Mr..
Havemeyer on account Of ''auld lang syne'
as well as because they thought him trusty
representative of municipal reform.


Mr.. Havemeyer was an excellent and popu-
lar Mayor during his two former periods, and
if his recent service has been less accepta-
BILE to the city IL is not because his intentions
were less pure and upright, but because the
Year: 1874

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