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Year: 1874

The political campaign this Fall so far as National
politics goes will turn largely three OF four points
the Salary Grab, the interference Of the Admins
tration in Southern politics, financial legislation
the railroad question: and the extrayagant appro-
priations. All the essential documents concerning
each of these topics will be found fully and fairly
set forth in McPhersons Handbook of Politics for
1874" just issued and for sale at THE TRIBUNE office.
1t is the recognized authority for all parties, and
the painstaking and accurate Clerk of the House,
who has so long compiled it, continues TO give it
the guarantee of his careful personal attention.
Year: 1874

A tale of red-tape. NJ. Smith of Boston sent the
other day a letter TO Mr. Brown at Long Branch, and
being either careless ignorant, permitted his mis-
sive to go underpad by the amount OF One Cent
Thereupon the authorities, as by law directed for
warded this letter to the Dead Letter Office at
Washington. Thence official note was dispatched
to Mr.. Brown to say that n letter addressed to him
was lying at that office. and would be sent to him
upon his payment of One Cent Mr.. Brown, slightly
growing, filled up the printed blank inclosed III the
note, put in the stamp demanded, while on the
envelope no placed the necessary three
cent stamp Thus. to end the tale alb
ruptly Mr. Brown was obliged to pay -Four Cents
for a letter of no importance, and the Department
gave the price of the official stamp and several min
utes of clerks valuable time to get it to him. Why
the One Cent could not have been collected by the
Postmaster's subordinate in Long Branch Is ques-
ton which nobody outside the Circumlocution Office
can answer. Mr. Brown thinks that while that our
Cents did not form all his worldly wealth. it was an
outrage TO make him pay Three Cents for MI.
Smiths stupidity OF want Of knowledge. An Illus
trative instance of red tapcsm is that ChiefJustice
Chase living within block of the Department and
certainly well known to its officials, was once
Obliged 10 send the sum of One Cent to the stated re-
cpents before he could get letter clearly addressed
to him and publicly advertised as being over
wei ghed to that amount.
Year: 1874

The Police Board are at deadlock over a
political question which has come before them.
MIR. Disbecker wishes to examine the list of
Republican Election Inspectors, doubtless with
the design of expunging the names of all
obnoxious Republicans. We hope the fate of
former meddlers with Inspectors has not been
forgotten. Too much care cannot be shown
in the selection of the guardians of the polls
nor, for that matter, in the selection of those
who are to revise the lists.
Year: 1874

Let us give credit to Mr.. Francis d. Moulton for
AZ least a neat bit of characterization. Said Mr.
Beecher in his cro5s-eXamination asked Moul-
ton one day. What under the sun is sCarpenter doing
around here meddng with this matterP Moulton
summarily damned him. and represented him as
a good-natnred and wel-meaning busybOdy." In the


language of the worldly, that seems to be just about
the size of it, But Beechcr himself improves little
the picture He says he found Mr.. Carpenter one OF
those good-natured men whose philanthropy exhib-
tied itself in trying to settle quarres and difficult
ties by picking up everythi he could hear said by
for OF against man, and carrying 1t to the parties
where it would do the most harm possible. lie was
a kind of genial good-natured fool; and in all this
matter he has been tool more than helper. He has
never once done anything except IN the kindest way
and never once done anything in the whole of this
matter from beginning to end that was not stupid
blunder." incidentally it comes ont that this good
natured fool was the author of the preposterous
story that Mr. Beecher to assume the editOrship
of a new Republican organ in this city.
Year: 1874

The failure of the Messrs. Terry, leather
merchants, was evidently the result of mis-
taken and unfortunate sDeculatiOns rather
than of any depression of the trade generally.
A chief cause of their embarrassments seems
10 have been a failure to protect themselves
against the fluctuations of currency values
during the last ten years.
Year: 1874

There is something of cruelty as well as good
deal of nonsense in these promiscuous newspaper
nominations for the Presidency. BY this is meant
not so much the suggestions of outsiders through
the peoples column for these generally result from
genuine admiration and sincere conviction, but to
those gay and careless paragraphs which the west
ern journalist throws oil airy at midnight to I'LL up
his first editorial column. Let any Governor or
other shOrt-lived official make bright political
stroke winning him popularity and temporary men
ton in the papers, and he is at nominated for
the highest office in the gift of the people,
or for the highest seat in what once lofty and
able body. And here comes IN the cruelty which
the needless paragraph does not consider. 1t
Is fun 10 him. but death to his candidate. Think OF
innatng the weak breast of Gov This, or Gen.
That Col. T'Other, or the Hon TOtherest with the
notion that he is the proper man to preside over a
Union of thirty-seyen Statesl His head swims
with thoughts of elevation and distinction, until
some day he wakes up to the cold and Interchangeable
fact that nobody serious in talking about it, and
that he is nothing but a commonplace individual
after all Certainly if this journalistic paStime has
no other evil result it to cheaper the public
estimate of an Office which of late years has been
made only too common and cheap thing The last
nomination was Gov. Hartranft; is the next to be
that of Yerke3f
Year: 1874

day night. The man has been recognized. and
though the police have found no clew to the
assassin, they have satisfied themselves that
there is a woman in the case. 1t is matter
worthy of remark that while less horrible and
mysterious murders in Brooklyn have agltated
that quiet, suburban city for weeks at time,
this tragedy is almost unnOtced, almost uh-
heard of amid the excitement over the greater
tragedy in which characters are sacrhced.


Murders and suicides come thick and fast
upon us, but scarcely attract passing notice
in the midst of the Brooklyn storm. Besides
the mysterious Italian murder in Brooklyn,
we have case of suicide by chlOroform at
the Ashland House. of drunken mans blow
ing out his brains in Canal-sty and OF a
Germans shooting himself in Water-st. be-
cause of his belief that low girl IN one OF
the vile concert saloons in the nelghborhOou
was untrue to him. Besides, we nave
drunken carpenter shooting his wife, at'enip',
ing to kill a policeman, wounding c'''u,'i
citizen and blowing out his own DraihS' Is
there madness in the airf


A new road between New-fork ana fhiia-
dephla seems at last certainty Inc rou'o
is three miles shorter than the exlstlng roao'
and the President of the North pennsylvania
which is one of the lines used to make the
route. thinks that on account of superior ad-
vantages in getting out of Philadelphia, and
no delays in running at low speeds through
towns like Trenton and New-Brunswlck, the
reduction in time will be fully half an hour.
II is not good time for building new roads,
n1c thn no
the North Pennsylvania, the Bound Brook and
Delaware, and the New-Jersey Central; and
the authorities promise the completion OF
these by the end of 1875.


Chief in importance among the proceedings
Of the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science reported on another page, is
the address of the retiring President, Prof.
Joseph Lowering of Harvard University.
Addresses of this sort are apt to consist for
the most part of the gitteriDg gencralitles OF
science the attempt to include too broad
field weakens the entire picture. Prof. Lover
ing has adopted q more fortunate method he
has undertaken to set forth only the most
recent and important advances of science,
preluding their description by only so
much of the history of each case as is
necessary to a clear understanding of the sub
iect, and to render evident the progress that
has been accomplished In this review he does
not hesitate to deal with the more recondlte
theories of the physical constitution of the
universe of matter and force; and the address
is consequently of interest to all who would
be informed as to the direction in which scien-
tiic thought is tending. The report of the
proceedings will be found to contain the dis
cussons. which are not less interesting than
the papers presented; and of the latter the
abstracts are unusually full
Year: 1874

The recognition of the Spanish Republic is
q triumph of German diplomacy which Marshal
Serrano cordially acknowledges. The reluctance
of Russia to join in that timely act because
abe would thereby aid the Republican cause
savors of the days of the Holy Alliance, and
"a not creditable to the astuteness of her
Foreign Minister. 1t Is striking example OF
the results of the tortuous modern statecraft
that the Power most friendly to the American
Republic during the civil war should be the
least willing TO be on diplomatic terms with
q Republic-suCh as it is-in Spain.
Year: 1874

THE Women's Centennial executive committee of Washington, D. C., hereby have our acknowledgment Of an invita- ton to attend grand Tea Party to be giv- ell in that city December l6-the anniver- sary of the destruction of the tea of revo- lutionary fame, in Boston harbor. The party is to be given in the Rotunda of the Capital, which place was granted for the occasion by special act of Congress. We regret our inability to be present, for the result will be a grand, good time, and we hope much money for Centennial expens- eS
Year: 1874

No one feels the death of a child as
the mother feels it. Tho father can
not realize it thus. True, there is a
vacancy in his home, and a heaviness
| in his heart. There is q chain of asso-
citation that Mt set times comes round
with its broken link; there are men,
cries of endearment, Il keen sense OF
loss, weeping over crushed hopes, and
a pain of wounded affection over them
all. ..


But the mother feels that one has
been taken away who was still closer to
her heart. Hers has been tho Office of
constant ministration. Every gradua-
ton of feature developed before her
eyes she detected every new CLEAN of
infant intelligence; she heard the first
utterancc of every stalnmcring word
she was the refuge of it's tears, the sup
plier of its wants and every task Of
affection wove new link, and made
dearer to her it's object. And when
her child dies, a portion Of her life, as
it were dies with it. How can she
give her darling tip, with all these low
ing memories, these fond associations
Timid hands that have so often taken
hers in trust and love, how can she fold
them on its sinless breast, and surren-
der them to the cold grasp of death
| The fect, whose wanderings she had
watched 50 narrowly--how can she bear
to see them Strengthened to go down
into the dark valley? The head that
she had pressed to her lips and bosom,
that she has watched in peaceful siurn-
bcr, and in burning, heart-satdening
sick ness, a hair of which she could not
sec harlned-how can she consign it to
the darkness Of the grave? 1t was a
glca,n of sunshine, and n voice Of per-
petual gladness in her home; she had
learned from it blessed lessons of sim
plicity, sincerity, purity and faith it
had unsealed within her n gushing, a
ncvcr-cbbing tide of affection; when
suddenly it was taken away, and the
home is left dark and silent and to
the vain and heart-rending aspiration
shall that dear child never return ?
there breaks in response the cold grave
silence-neverrnore! The heart Is like
IA forsaken mansion, and those words
go echoing through it's silent cham
| bers.
Year: 1874

lFrom the Londen Correspondence New


York Times


The third and concluding volume of
Mr.. Forster's "Life Of Dickens" has
just been published. 1t presents mel
ancholy picture of decaying powers,
morbid unrest, and corroding discon>
tent. 1t may be doubted whether
Dickens, who is supposed by many of
his readers to have been one of the
most genial and jovial Of men, was
ever a happy man; but it would GER
tainly appear that in his later years he
was supremely wretched. AS a young
helped to take him out Of himself. He
was satisfied only when he had an ad-
miring company around him. He was,
in fact, essentially an actor, and miser-
able without an audience, and his gay
ETY. was forced and histrionic. There
was no repose about his character. He
could never endure to be simple and
plain and natural; he wanted to be
always fireworks. At home he was
seen at his worst, suffering from the
reaction of excitement in company,
and weary with his elaborate efforts to
alnuse and startle. Mr.. Forster passes
as gently as he can over the domestic
n.isati ventures of his hero. 1t is not Il
pleasant page, and one is, glad to turn
it. Dickens was always fond of the
hustle and change of travelling, and
after 1860 his restlessness seems to have
become almost Il mania. He had no.
tions of burying himself for whole
six months in some of the reccsses of
the Pyrenees, or of spending a winter
in some elevated and secluded convent
in the Alps. His work had evidently
begun to tell on him. His invention
was less fertile, his composition less
spontaneous. 1t had become an effort
for him to write, and hc.was haunted
by the fear, which was partly true,
that his prime was over and that he
would never again be what he had
been. He had, in fact, lost his elastici-
ty of mind. All this nccessarially
gives rather bad tone to this conclud-
ing volume; but Dickens, though he
confessed himself to his friend, was
tho more resolutc in showing II bold
face to the world, and his letters are
full of dash and humor. He went about
good deal and used himself merci-
lessly. The fit of paralysis which fin
ally killed him had apparently been
impending for some years before his
death. The railway accident from
which he narrowly escaped with his
life must also have shaken him more
than was suspected at the time.
Year: 1874

a woman at Fort Laramie has sued
q paper for saying that she has muir
dercd three husbands, when the fact is
that she has murdered but two, the
third one getting away with broken
rib. There is nothing like being accu-
rate when dealing with such grave mat
tarI
Year: 1874

Mrs. BATTLES suffers from cold feet,
and the other night she warmed up IL
brick, intending to take it to bed with
her. She laid it down by the bedside
while she attended to the baby and then
forgot about it and turned in. After q
while Battles came over to the bedroom
and when he had assumed his night
shirt he began to say his prayers. When
he was about half through he happened
to move his knee little to the left and
it came in contact with the brick. For
an instant he thought that something
had stung him, and, jumping up, he came
back to ascertain what it was. He saw
the brick lying there, but it never oc.
CURED to him that this was the cause Of
| the trouble, SO he picked it up for the
purpose of throwing it out Of the win
dow. Then he suddenly dropped it will
a cry of pain, and, after an indignant dc
nunciation Of Mrs. Battles, he procured
piece Of paper, and in furious rage
hurled the brick through the window
sash. It hit policeman who happened
to be standing on the pavement below
and in less than ten minutes Battles wa


on his way to the station-house, wher'
he was locked up all night on the charg


of assault and battery. He was released
in the morning after paying SEQ fine. Il


has not finished his prayers yet, and Mri
Battles now warns her feet with flar
mel petticoat. t.-Nar Adsler.
Year: 1874

ANYTHING but the man who whincs
A man with grievance is infinitely more
cndurablc. We can endure the bellicose
individual who is always on the alert to
have somebody tread on the tail of his
coat, the citizen whose bristlcs, if we may
so speak, are always on end; we can get
along with those black and-tans of soc-
ETY. whose sharp bark and ready DISPOSE
oSIsss 1852


stagnation, by keeping the social system
stirred up to healthy activity. And we
can appreciate to certain extent the
spheres Of usefulness in which the sus-
picous man moves, the ferret OF the
community, who probes into the dark
corners of every question, and turns the
subject over and over with his lnqusl
tive, restless nose; who asks all manner
of unconscionable questions, ana makes
one feel uncomfortable by a wonderful
variety of suggestions that no one else
would think of. But the man who
whines, whose face is always screwed
up into an expression of martyrdom who
| is always imagining himself an abused
| individual, an ill-treated man, and mar
tyr deserving Of all sympathy, is an in
tolerable bore, with whom the world has
no patience. A man has no right to
whine if he is jostled and thumpcd he
must ostle and thump back, and if his
ailments are only imaginary ones ne
must look well to himself that
while he stands whining over what


he imagines an injury he does


not get really and soundly thwackeo


for standing in the way with his tiresomt


complainings No man can win sympa


thy by weeping and snivelng over Sights


and affronts that he thinks are put upor


him. No man ever yet set himself III


for martyr on his own hook that wa


not very quickly martyred in styl'


vastly different from anything he antici


pated or desired. Life is too short tt
waste many Of its golden moments OF
the man who whines There is some
thing materially out of order with such


man. He frequently imagines that n
; has an excessively delicate organism
+ that he is too sensitive for the rough, ur
cultured world around him, and that Ii
is martyr to his own highly, too highly
developed intellectual organism, whel
r in fact all that ails him is an ill-treate
; stomach, dyspepsia, hypochondria.
YOU think you are cufied, cuff back, an


if YOU aren't big enough to fight, run
run as long as shoe leather lasts and you


winds holds out, but, in Heavens name


don't whine. You will feel better an


5e more respected, and will think bette
: of yourself if your life is spent in on


long succession Of retreats and lodging
r than if you whine away the dreary yeal
if with dismal ADMINISTRATIONS Haze
Year: 1874

Colonel E. G. Boudinot, the Chero-


kee refugee, is now in St. Louis. on


his return from Washington, and, in


conversation with reporter of the


Republican, gave an account of the


present standing Of matters relating to


the Indian territorial question Among
other things, he is reported to have
said:


About the time Senator Dorsey in
troduced his bill knew it had been
represented to my people that Presi-
sldent Grant was opposed to any terri


torial organization, notwithstanding
the repeated recommendations in his
messages, though they were somewhat
indefinite. Therefore, [ have since
called upon the President to ascertain
bis views on this question. The Presi-
dent received me very gracefully, and
introduced the question at once on
seeing me. He went on to state to
me that he had always felt, ever since
he was young officer in the army,
great interest for The Indians; that i'll
early life he had been stationed among
them in the West, and had seen how
they were swindled by traders, agents,
and everybody else who had any busi-
ness with them. He said that since
he had been President be had endeavor-
ed to put a stop to these impositions
upon them. The President continued
addressing me: AS for your civilized
Indians in the Indian Territory, /
think it would be best for you to have
a Territorial Government organized
over you by Congress, which would
provide for the surveying and section
izing of the country. And the allot-
ting Of your lands in lseveralty,:: with
United States courts and representa-
ton in Congress. Each man, woman
and child should have at least l60
acres or land set apart for them in fee
simple, which land should be inalien-
able for twenty years, to guard against
the ignorant and improvident being
swindled out of their proportion Of
land by designing men. AS for the
balance of the land remaining after the
division in severalty is made, it mi ght
be sold to Indians outside tine Terri
tory and to any persons wishing to
purchase, giving the first chance to In
dams outside" There were,' says
the President, mo doubt a great many
shiftless and worth ess Indians, as
among all other people, who would not
be much benefited by the wisest pro-
visions for their interest. Here, even
in this enlighted community (alludlng
to Washington city,, there are many
to whom, if you should give l60 acres
of land to-day, to do with it as they
chose, they would not have an acre in
a week. BY adopting the plan | sug-
gest the best of your people will have
an opportunity to acquire a home and
a title to their lands which no power
can deprive them of, and the worst
portion Of your population, the worth
less and improvident, will be protect
ed at least twenty years in spite Of
themselves
Year: 1874

The sanguine expectations which


were common throughout the country


in the earl y spring with regard to our


Immediate business future have been


materially modified with the lapse Of


time and under the Influences of fact.


For the facts are that the country has


recuperated from the effects of last
years panic much more slowly than


was confidently anticipated; yet, as We
fr,nly y believe more solidly. While
every branch of trade has been slack
and there has been much financial dis
turbance and no little Inconvenience,
the number of absolute failures in the
last six months has besn less than
might reasonably have been anticipated.
Whether houses have been holding
over, by-hook -or-by crook, in hopes Of
sudden and vigorous upward move
ment in the fall trade, We cannot say;
it looks somewhat like it, and there
are not wanting croakcrs who proph esy
any number of failures presently.
And, indeed, this is not altogether im-
probably, though We are rather in-
clined to think that the contraction Of
business has been rather the result OF
rigorous determination toward econo-
my, than to any temporary hopes Of
the autumn season. 1t is very certain
that the indications of the time are In
favor of this belief. The falling off
in importations and the increase If
savings bank deposits in this State,
are both to be considered in this light
Of the latter it may be said that they
present a solid frsnt of prosperity
which should be peculiarly gratifying
to those who have the interest of the
community at heart. An increase of
million dollars per month for the past
seven months. and the fact that our
savings banks are to-day in a stronger
financial condition than ever before, 20
far to display the good foundation Of
our present business situation. The
excess of assets of the savings banks
of this State amount to S23, 3,051 1853 on
June 80, an increase over the surplus
Of last year of s1,S56,925. With
these encouraging facts before us We
are convinced that although We may
not look for any immediate burst into
business prosperity. yet We may proper
ly look for a gratual but decided ina
provement in trade, each step Of which
shall be progressive and secure. 1t
would indeed be unreasonable to look
for any more rapid recovery than from
so serious and wide-spreading a panic
as that of last fall That We are able
T. see any such prosperity as is for
shadowed, is positively more than could
have been justly anticipated. But we
are convinced that our business men
have acted with more than customary
discretion and foresight in their affairs,
that they may hope to reap the reward
of their good Judgment and ecouomy
in renewed stability, and a certain re-
covery of our former business elasticity,
when the years produce Of wealth shall
have time to make its influence felt on
the different branches of business.
Large Credits very desirable thing,
certainty; but wise economy and the
festina lente principle, are the safest
guides in the long run. N. 7. Com
merciol Aduertiser