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Year: 1877

There was more real filllbustering In
the House of Representatives on yester.
day than on any day during the session.
It is true the fllibusters are in the minor
ty, but.that minority is large enough, by
making dilatory motions and demanding
the ayes and nays on the various propo-
stions, to delay the count almost indef-
nitely. In fact the strength of the fill
busters was acknowledged by the major
ity last night, when after running
through the entire day and stsving off
vote on the South Carolina
decision It was found at six
o'clock in the evening necessary
to make compromise with them. If
they are strong enough to compel the
majority to treat with them, then there
is no question that they are strong enough
to keep it up till midnight of Saturday,
when the session expires. Will they do
it? This is question that Is puzzIing
more than one wise head. Mr.. SPRINGER,
of Illinois, who is taking the lead in the
tillibustering Var, is a man Of extrsordi-
nary shrswdhess as we'll as firmness. II
he has set his head to do it, as old ETHAN
ALLEN would say, there is not power in
the Continental Congress to prevent
him. If, as our dispatches indicate, he
is merely doing it for the purpose of
concilisting an indignant constituency,
and at last submitting, the universal con
clusion will be that he has made fool
of himself.


As we have said, SPRINGER is q
shrewd man, and we do not believe that
he would be willing to stultify him.
self for the purpose of apparently salts
flying the demands Of his people, there
fore we conclude that he is in earnest. TIL,
western people are determined tc
resist the Inauguration of HAYES
and Mr.. SpRINaER's action in the II ouse
will meet their cordial approval. Mr.


FERNANDO WOOD represents the bonded
interest;;o New York, and takes issu


squsrely with SPRINGER. II will probs
bly, be resolved into a parliamentary wa


between the East and West, with tn
: chances of success somewhat in favor o


the latter.
Year: 1877

We observe singular, but under the
c.rcumstances an exceedingly proper,
.t,ence OF enthusiasm and jubilstion on
the part of tho Republican brethren
over the result. They have got the
whistle and have thus early found out
,4st it was dearly bought.
Year: 1877

p BALTIMORE american: In the present
condition of society and the advanced
ideas which men and women entertain
as to the mode of rearing families, it is
worth the study of sociologists to in
quire into the cause why we find so
many cases of family estrangement, why
we are continually being met by in
stances of dark shadow of grief resting
upon once happy home; and why mag
istrates and judges are daily being petit
toned by parents whose children have
become incorrigible and beyond their
control. We would naturally imagine
that, with the advantage of an increas-
ing civilization, with the aidswhich edu-
cation furnishes and the consequent ex-
pansion of the moral and intellectual fac
Utilities, the bonds which exist between
parents and children would be strength
ened, and that the influence which is
supposed to hover around the freside
would go with the young when they
move out into the world and serve as a
shield to protect them from danger.
Year: 1877

Nay, speak no I'LL A kindly word


Can never leave a sting behind
And o TO breathe each tale we've heard
Is far beneath a noble mind.
Full ofta better seed is sown


By choosing thus the kinder plan;
For, If but little good be known,


Still let US speak the best we can.
Give me the heart that fain would hide;
Would fain another's fault effaoe;
How CAN'T pleasure human pride


Toprove humanity but base?
No; let us reach higher mood,


A nobler estimate Of man;
Be earnest in the search for good,


And speak Of all the best we can.
Then speak no i'll, but lenient be


To others failing as your own;
If you re the first fault to see,


Be not the first to make 1t known;
For life is but passing day


No lip can tell how bries Its span;
Then o, the little time we stay,


Let speak Of all the best we can.
Year: 1877

Twas part Of my wedding portion,


This spot where the old house stands,
And / had the choosingof 1t


From all Of my fathers lands.
We were young, but we were not foolish
Or wasteful, you may depend,
And my mother always taught


Twas better to save than spend.
For while, you know, it was lonely


With me in the house all day.
And no one to come anish me


To hear what had 10 say;
But when | sat vito my baby,


My boy, asleep ON my arm,t
i didn't care much for the neighbors
Or anything else on the farm.
There were Jack and Ben, you remember,
They were all that ever had;
And Jack was his mothers idol,


Though Ben was a likely lad;
And We saved up every penny,


Nor envied another's Joys
For little farm Is little cramped


For couple of growing boys.
l was bent on their having learning, =
For wanted my Jack and Ben
To be able to serve their country


Whenevershe needed men. -
And father said was silly,


For he never could understand
The use Of spending money


For anything else than land.
But kept on my way Of thinking,


And, though not otherwise, saw
That both had a taste for study;
; But Jack had a taste for law. -
And / knew that my prayers and prudence
Would after while be acknowledged,
And it paid for all the struggle


When l entered my boysat college,
I can see that father is failing,


Aud there is NO strength III his arm
To swing the scythe in the meadow,
Or do the work on the farm.
And somehow I've lost my courage,
Though try to be calm and brave;
But what can mother do but weep,


With both her boys in the grave?
The house was never 50 lonely,


And my poor old man and
Sit oft in the chimney y-corner


And dream of the day gone by.
And when the too solemn silence


Is broken by sudden noise,
We start with the old-time gladness,
And whisper, "Here come the boysi"
Year: 1877

A FAMILY in Springfield, Mass, which
was disturbed by an untimely ringing of
the door-bell the other evening, at first
supposed it was done by unruly boys,
but after while discovered the dog
with the bell-pull in his mouth, and
ringing to be let in out of the cold.
Year: 1877

New YORK Dispatch: There is a
chicken factory on the Palisades where
the chickens are Matched out by steam.
1t is no uncommon thing when man
goes by with a stove to hear the poor
little orphans say: ;, "There goes the old
woman, but darn me if can tell which. !"
Year: 1877

sPa! what does it mean to be tried
by jury of ones peers?' cit means,
my son. that man is to be tried by a
jury composed of men who are his
equals-on an equality with him, so
they will have no prejudice "Then,
pa, suppose you'd have to be tried by
a jury Of bald.headed men,
Year: 1877

A recent writer in the Baltimore An,eri
can says:


Education should be adapted to the
needs of its recipient. A boy that is to be
brought up tailor should not be obliged
to lose two or three years of his youth in
learning shoemaking. Equally absurd and
unjust is it for him to have to lose said
precious years in the study of Latin and
algebra. These latter studies are very good
for those whose parents possess the means
to keep their sons at their studies during
the years required to master them, and to
afterwards place said sons in either of the
learned professions, or any other position
where it is not necessary for the youth
himself to become his own bread winner.


But apart from the injustice of making
our taxpayers pay for such advanced stu
dies at the public schools, is it not doing
their scholars an injury to keep them there
at these higher branches after they have
learned the rudiments of an English educa-
tion, when by SO doing they are disqualified
from filling those positions in life for which
most of them are destined, and by which
alone they are expecting to win their own
living? allude to the mass of the boys in
our public grammar schools and the Balti-
more City College, who are educated at the
public expense-sons of honest carpenters,
bricklayers, tailors and shoemakers-who
should be learning the trades or occupations
of their parents during these extra years
consumed in useless, profitless studies.
What are these youths to do who go
through the higher studies of the schools
They either scorn the business followed by
their less pretentious fathers and refuse to
| follow it (prefering to eat the bread OF
idleness at the parents expense), or if they
do attempt tc follow it, which is rare, they
are too old to commence at the bottom of
| the ladder of apprenticeship and go up
through all the practical details necessary
to make a skilled workman. They are
spoiled as good mechanics or farmers, and
simply swell the already Overcrowded
ranks of those seeking to enter profession
al or mercantile life; or unable to get the
means to do this, they degenerate into that
most useless and pitiful class-drones oil
society-young men about town, ashamed
of honest mechanical work, and unable to
get anything to do that suits their views
after becoming so highly educated.


What is the remedy? Take them from
school at fourteen or fifteen years of age al
the latest. If by that time they have not
acquired enough education to enable them
to acquire more in the intervals from labor
they are only fit to become hewers of wooo
and drawers of water. Our best anC
smartest men have been partly selEeduca
ted. 1t is a capital school for mental dis
cipline. Elihu Burritt, the learned black
smith, the greatest lnguist in America
taught himself in the intervals whilst labor
ing at his forge. II was never intended
that the taxpayers of our country should b,
taxed for more than the amount necessary
to instruct the boys and girls of the publ,
schools beyond reading, writing, arithmeti
and geography. This over education
makes them all scorn the labor which is t.


make up the future greatness and pros


perity of our Republic.
Year: 1877

ITEMS ABOUT Boss TwEED.-ln letter to
Mr.. Charles OConor VIM. NJ. Tweed, the
famous "BOss' of New York city, sur.
renders at discretion and offers to give up
all the property that remains to him, and
to make such disclosures as may be re-
quired. He has fought as long as he could,
he says, to shield others, as well as himself,
and that whilst personally he was willing
to have made restitution and reparation
long ago he was prevented from so doing
by their counsels and his ENHANCEMENT
with their interests. He pleads that he is
now old, broken in health and spirits, and
is willing to mako any sacrifice to escape
an Imprisonment that is wearing out his
life. He reminds Mr.. O'Conor that as the
avowed objects he had in view are the vim
dication of principle and the publication
of the public service, he is prepared to
respond in any manner that will promote
these ends, but he appeals to him to keep
from publicity any revelations that may be
made to him affecting others. The end of
it all is that Tweed's release has been
Professionally agreed upon, and he looks
forward for his future to the realization OF
certain plans in connection with railroad
work in Spain.


The New York Tribune says among the
documents of Tweed now in the hands Of
Harper & Brothers for future publication i;
said TO be the evidence that $250,000 was
divided among FIVE republican Legislators
to secure the passage of the city charter
The suppression of this evidence, it is un
derstood, will depend upon the alacrity
with which those who received it repay i
to the State. Those thus implicated arr
said to have been moving heaven and eartl
to break off the compromise, at least SO fal
as any exposure of themselves is concerned
Year: 1877

He made his wife a present of nice
diamond ring, and as they rode along in
the street-car he noticed that the hand
upon which the ring sat was kept bare.


aren't you afraid your hand will get
cold ?" asked he


"Cold ?'' exclaimed she; yon don't know
much about woman il you think her
hand could get cold with a ring on it like
thatm


And she adroitly smoothed down her
dress with the iewelcd hand in full view of
every passenger Chicago Euening Journal.
Year: 1877

The Saturday ReUieO has an article under
this title, meaning proposals for marriage.
Some of the various methods of "popping
the question" are novel, and as such are
here given. AS an instance of the serious
method is the following:


An Irish girl, who was very anxious that
her scatterbrained brother should not be
refused by the demure young English
woman with whom he had fallen desper-
ately in love, implored him to try to pro
pose with the seriousness becoming the oc-
casion. lie vowed solemny that he would
behave as if he was acting as chief mourner
at his fathers funeral. The demure young
lady, in imitation of many of her sex, gracious
ly accepted her serious lover. She, however,
confided to her female bosom-friend that
Edmund had proposed in rather an odd
way. Lie had taken her to see the family
vault, and had there, in a sepulchral voice,
asked her if she would like to lay her bones
beside her bones. This he evidently
thought was a proper way to fulfill the
promise made to his sister of treating the
matter with becoming seriousness.


There are the shy and oblique devices:


When a man says to girl, with whom
he has waltzed several times, that, if ever
he becomes a Benedict, he hopes his wife
VIII NNdCGlN ICSGlIOlO lCI anu QISSS pre-
cisely as she does, if the girl answers " You
must ask papa" there may reasonably be
difference of opinion as to whether the
pretty speech can be twisted into proposal
or not. When, however, shy man, hav-
ing got his mother to plead his cause, says
to the beloved one, with tremulous gasp,
Wont you do the thing my mother
asked you p there is no doubt that, to all
intents and purposes, he has asked her to
be his wife. More than one proposel has
been made by underscOring the lines in the
marriage service, "Wilt thou have this man
to be thy welded husband?' and passing
the book and pencil to the adored one
1t sometimes comes back with II faint but
| still visible stroke under the " will"
a bold and audaciOuS method is illus
trated by the subjoined:


The officer whose furlough had nearly
expired without his having been able tc
bring a pretty little coquette to the point
of acknowledging that she cared for him
even little, was not unwise to take her
Ostensibly for the purpose of sketching, tc
the top of the church tower, to lock the
staircase-door, put the key in his pocket
and VOW that, if she did not promise tC
marry him within month, he would throw
himself Oft the parapet before her eyes.


How to choose time and place is wei
illustrated by the following:


A young parson travelling in Palestine
and asked to join pleasant party, among
whose members he found notable heires
of passionate piety, did we'll to restrain The
expression of the ardor of his affection
until he found himself lying at her feet OF
the slopes of the Mount of Olives, lookin!
toward Jerusalem. Scarcely any girl will
a spark of religion or poetry in her com
position could have said "no" to a whit,
necktie and pair of handsome blue eye
under such well-chosen circumstances
Year: 1877

THE SPECIAL Session OF CoNGHgSS-Wash-
ington dispatches indicate :hat the extra
session of Congress will be called for the
middle of May, instead of in June, as
heretofore agreed upon. 1t is found that
more business will come before the extra
session than has been anticipated. Begin
ming with last week, there appears to be a
deficiency OF three months pay of officers
of the navy, and the Navy Department win
submit deficiency bill covering that
amount to the next fiscal year, in addition
to the army appropriation bill, for which
the session is more especially called.
Year: 1877

A New OCEAN PRoPELLoR.-A new form
of propeller for ocean steamships has been
patented in England, and is on exhibition
in Liverpool, 1t is patterned something
after the style of the stern.wheels some.
times used on river steamboats,, and the
claim is that it cannot be broken or lost,
and at the same time will give tho ship
applied power than the ordinary form of
screw.
Year: 1877

When Senator Blaine arrived at his home
in Maine on Saturday he looked exceeding
ly well and was enthusiastically received.
He declined the public demonstration and
formal reception which his friends desired
to give him; and indeed it is said that
during the whole of Mr.. Blaine's long Con.
gressional service he has never been willing
to accept from his friends and constituents
any such exhibitions of their trust and
liking.
Year: 1877

A St. Louis school boy gave his teacher
this excellent definition Of possibility:
Boys has two buttons for their s'spenders
SOS to keep their pants up. When one
button comes off, why there's a good deal
of responsibility on the other button"
Year: 1877

The Southern humorist known as Bill
Arp was recently killed in Texas by falling
from wagon. He was not literary man
by profession, but was a farmer. His squaint
ideas were put into shape for publication
by newspaper friend.
Year: 1877

When a State Government is suffering
from duality, the party which collects the
taxes and pays its bills is liable to hold the
fort. The other men will pledge their
sacred honor with profusion, but they will
be more economical of their lives and
fortunes-especially the latter. There was
once a revolution in Guatemala which cost
the insurgents $3.50 and they found only
s. in the treasury As a consequence there
ensued stable form Of government for
more than six weeks. Revolutions which
don't pay are apt to be unpopular, and an
administration whose tax gatherers fail to
gather enough for their own salaries is in a
fair way to evaporate.
Year: 1877

The report of wedding in Kentucky
concludes in this wise: The bride was
far from being handsome, but her father
threw in span of horses and seven mules,
and the bridegroom was satisfied.
Year: 1877

Undoubtedly the most important politi-
cal contest of this year will be. waged in
Ohio. A Governor is to be elected, and a
Legislature that will choose successor to
Stanley Matthews. The prominence which
the State now occupies in national politics,
and the elosenoSs of the vote at the last
elections, lend an additional interest to the
coming contest. The Democrats will make
an earnest struggle in the hope of breaking
the line of Republican States and Of estab-
fishing an advance line from which the
President battle of 1880 can be fought.
The Republicans have all the eclat of
victory, and will go into the fight with
strong hopes of accessions from the Liberal
and German elements.
Year: 1877

New York, Nov. 1.-EX-Mayor \.
Oakley Hall has returned to town from
his foreign tour He says: $50 long as
my brain will hold out i shall resist
every attempt to make it appear that
former mayor of this great city de-
liberately planned and carefully exc
cuted and profted pecuniarily by a
criminal conspiracy. All there can be
to say about the mode of my leaving
is, that no person whatever knew of it
directly or indirectly and that, as
now know, l had not for a long time
prior been myself. With this strange
absence the ring troubles had nothing
proXimately to do. OF course there had
been great strain upon my brain and
will power during the six years in
which these troubles have been upper.
most in the public mind. principally
regret that so much romance became
necessary to invent, and especially tc
the disparagement of an innocent in
dividual.'
Year: 1877

Kelley said the fact remained. The
navy was suffering.
The resolution was then rejected
without division.


The Speaker overruled Springer, who
tried to bring before the House again
the bill repeating resumption.


On motion of Kelley the House went
into committee of the whole on the
state of the Union, to allow the gentle
man an opportunity to speak on the
pending bill.


Hunter then argued that National
bank notes were safer and cheaper
money than greenbacks.


Kelly sarcastically felicitated himself
on getting the House into committee Of
the whole, where bankers feelings and
wrongs had been so feelingly stated. He
was sure bank officers and stockhold-
ers were ignorant of their suffering,
and would surrender their circulation
when they read Hunters speech. He
knew of no Pennsylvania bank that
had declared dividend of over one
hundred per cent, but it was common
to declare 10 per cent. dividends semi
annually and put large amount TO the
reserve fund.


The committee rose.


Springer offered resolution for the
linal adjournment of this extra session
of Congress on November 2Sth. Re
ferred.


Adjourned.
Year: 1877

AT meeting Of the New York
Chamber of Commerce on Thursday,
the executive committee presented a
report upon the advisability of repeal
ing the bankrupt law. The report is
adverse to repeal, but favors modifica-
ton Of the present law.
Year: 1877

THE intricate parliamentary struggle
over the Resumption Repeal bill yester-
day ended in leaving the measure in
nearly the same position, to allpractical
intents and purposes, that it occupied
on Wednesday, when first reported to
the House from the committee.
Year: 1877

THE New York Chamber of Com
merce adopted the following resolutions
Thursday: Resolved, That Congress
be requested to refrain from any leg
islation for issuing silver coin as legal
money on private account and in un-
limited amounts, but rather to issue it
only on government account, at its face
market value, in moderate and unlim-
tied amounts, in the discretion of the
Treasury, as proper auxiliary of gold
coin, for the purposes Of commerce.
Year: 1877

When reference is made to tide lands,
most persons on the Sound will involun-
tsriIy refer to tho reclaimed tide marshes
& the Stillaguamish or Swnomish, the
garden lands of the Territory. Few are
aware that on the lower course of the
Snohomish are situated equally good
tide lands, costing no more to reclaim,
aud possessing many extra advantages
not possessed by many other tide
marshes.


All the tide marshes in cultivation on
the Stillaguamish and around the mouth
OF the Skagit, Swinomish slough, etc,
arc not over four thousand acres, while
there are about as much more diked that
will be brought into cultivation the COM
ing season yet this has been sufficient
to build up the fiourishing towns of La
Conner and Centievile, and established
grain trade in ocean steamers direct
Win Dan rTanClSCO.


1t is not generally understood that be-
low the head of Steamboat slough, on
Suohomish river, there are upwards of
ten thousand acres Of excellent tide
marsh to be found.


In last weeks paper we gave quite a
careful description OF the lower Snoho-
mish, and stated that in this number we
should describe the tide marshes of the
river, point out some OF their advan.
tages and show wherein they differed
from bottom lands farther up river, or
from other tide marshes


This river drains,quite large tract Of
country between the Cascades and the
Sound and is fed by the SHOWS on the
mountains whatever causes "a sudden
melting of snsw in the mountains will
cause freshet in the river, consequently
q warm southerly wind will raise the
river very rapidly, this melting the snow
quicker than anything else.


The river is liable to raise at any time
from October to April /; after this there
is usually a slight raise, causing small
freshet in May or june termed the June
freshet; again the river raises in Septem-
Der or October from the fall rains. Not
earlier than November nor later than
March do we usually find freshets that
interfere with cultivation of the bottom
lands.


The tides are less and less felt az
person goes up from the mouth, having
but slight degree Of influence q few
miles above Snohomish City, which
place is some twelve miles from the
mouth of the main river.


On the contrary the freshets rise
higher on tho Skikomish aud Snoqual.
mie than they do after their union in the
Snohomish, and their influence is grad
ually less and less perceived as we ap.
Proach its mouth |; especially is this very
quickly noticed as soon as tide water is
reached, the rise being very much less at
Snohomish City than at Fiddler's Bluff
not three miles above, while six miles be-
low, the freshess rise only about one
half as high at Lowell as at snohomsh
City; while below the head of Steam
boat slough scarce any freshet makes
more than foot or two difference in the
general level Of the river, 1t being only
by the union OF the very highest tides
and freshets at the some time that any
,appreciable difference would be noticed.