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Year: 1873




The fact that the Papists are coming by
rapid steps to occupy the position Of a
political party which other parties who have
the power must try not only to withstand but
to weaken, as far as possible, by such legis-
ton as affects them, has several sides to it.
If, on the one hand, the UltramOntanc way
of thinking shows greater vitality than many
persons would have them inclined to ascribe
to it at no very distant period, it must be re-
membered, on the other hand, that it will be
defeated with greater case and unpleasantness
in proportion to the degree in which its posi-
ton comes to be understood and defined,
especially in this country. The one advan-
tagc which UltramOntancs possess is the dis
tinctness and unity of their policy. In all
cases of doubt and indccision this advantage
gives great force to those who possess it, and
in particulars it gives them great apparent
force. The preponderance of the Southern
over the Northern States for many years be-
fore 1861 was a good illustration of this.
Their one OBJ ject was to maintain slavery and
to extend its era, and to this end they worked
the whole power of the Union, of which they
obtained the command by the threats of Sc
cession. The result at last was that after a
whole generation of humiliation the North,
which was in reality ten times stronger than
the South, also came to know Its own mind,
and having arrived at that knowledge, put all
end forever to slavery and the policy that
grew out out of it. Ultramontanism is rap
idly drawing similar fate on itself. NO
political party eyer crowcd SO loud or made
such extravagant claims, or announced with
such passionate eagerness its opposition to all
the established opinions of society, or forced
upon them with such arrogance and self
sufficiency the alternative between absolute
submission to itself and absolute revolt against
the order of ideas of which it claims to be
the representative. The policy has produced
and is producing it's effects. An inarticulate
growl is to be heard in many quarters, which
one day may swell into roar to this effect:
"Well, if you must have it you shall have it.
If we must either submit to you or cast OFT a
great deal which we have hitherto treated
with civility, our choice will not be difficult.
Whatever may be true, you and your creed
are unquestionably false; and by the heavens
above and the earth beneath-nay, by the
breeches-pocket and all that therein is-we
will not only not be l,ullied by you, but We
will consider seriously how far we arc justi-
fed in allowing you to bully your dupes. "
Once in its history the English nation had
occasion to express in an emphatic way its
opinion of the Pope and all his works. If it
is bated beyond certain point, it will be apt
to express the same opinion still more en-
phatically and with wider sweep; and it it
does, it is to be hoped it will make much
cleaner work than it did before.
Year: 1873

THE New York Times, reviewing tho action
of the Republican party the past year in It's
exposures and condemnation OF corruption,
says truly: '.1t is idle to talk of such party
being corrupted. 1t cannot be so until the
proportion of the good men and bad men III
it are reversed. Before that can occur there
must be struggle, in which we believe the
bad will have to succumb. We admit that
the Republican party Will, sooner or later,
have to throw off those of its active members
who are corrupt, or perish; but we have no
fear that it will perish
Year: 1873

During slight lull in business, two little
bootolacks, one white and the other black,
were standing on corner doing nothing
when the white bootblack agreed to black the
black bootblack's boots. The black boot
black was of course willing to have his boots
BACKED by his fellow bootblack, and the
bootblack who had agreed to black the black
bootblacks boots went to work. When the
bootblack had blacked one of the black boot
blacks boots until it shone in manner that
would make any boot black proud, this boot
black, who had agreed to black the black
bootblack's boots refused to black the other
boot of the black bootblack until the black
bootblack, who had consented to have the
white bootblack black his boots, should add
five cents to the amount the white bootblack
had made backing other mems boots This
the bootblack whose one boot had been
BACKED refused to do, saying it was good
enough for black bootblack to have one
boot blacked, and he didn't care whether the
boot the bootblack hadn't blacked WAS black
ed or not. This made the bootblack who had
blacked the black bootblack's boots as angry
as a bootblack often gets, and he vented his
wrath by splitting on the black boot of the
black bootblack. This reused the latent pas
sion of the black bootblack, and he proceeded
to boot the white bootblack with the boot the
white bootblack had blacked. A fight then
followed The fraternity of bootblacks after
wards convened and denounced the action of
the white and black bootblacks as one of the
blacklist in the pages of boOtblack history
Sim TrHnciscO FSOUr0 .. ......
Year: 1873

1t may be of interest to know that the
President never draws his salary himself,
but receives it through the First National
Bank of Washington, towhich he has given
the powcry of attorney, and the money is al
ways drawn from the Treasury by the cash
ier of that bank and placed to the credit of
the President in the bank. The warrants for
the salary of the President and Vice Presi-
dent are made out at the Treasury every
month, the former under the new law re-
ceiving S4.166. .G6 per month, and the latter
1888 ::}}3. Members of the Cabinet are paid
from the -olls of their respective depart
ments, and receipt therefor the same as all
other employees The President and Vice
President do not sign any pay roll.
Year: 1873

CLAM A WOMAN."
Iem woman therefore may not
Call TO him, cry to him,
Fly 10 him,
Pray him delay not
And when lie comes to me, must sit quiet:
Still as stone IS,
Harder and colder
Ii my heart riot
Crush and defy it.
Should grow boltcr-
Say one dear thing to him,
Ali my life fling to him,
Cling to him
What to atone ls
Enough for my SHINING?
This were the cost to me,
This were my winning
That he were lost to me-
Not as a lover at last if he part from me,
Tearing my heart from me
Hurt beyond cure
Calm and demure
Then my behavior;
Showing no sign to him
By look of mine to him.
What he has been to me-
Pity ma-O my Savior!
Year: 1873

ROMANCE IN WEST VIRoINIA.-Sarah
j. Winemiller, girl Of about seventeen q
summers, who was convicted of and sent
to ths peniteutlary for burning q small
log church in one of tho smaller counties
Of tho state, having been pardoned by
Governor Jacobs, was released recently.
The manner in which this girl got into
the penitentiary is peculiar. She was
enamored Of . young man who unfortu.
nately was charged with stealing q horse
and was put 10 Jail to await q trial there
for. With a confidence IN the charge
against her inamorata and a devotion to
him that was remarkable, she procee ed
to commit the aet for which she was sen,
up that she might be with him IN the
penitentiary. But, alas the man was
acquitted last fall when his trial came off
and he has ever since, up to the time of
the pardon, been engaged 10 securing bis
faithful sweetheart's release. The facts
Of this notable romance are set forth in
the petition. The happy result may be
imagined.
Year: 1873

Senator Bo2y has lifted up bis voice
10 the United States Senate, Of which body
he is now a member. ItWas on the occa
zion Of the presentation Of the memo
ral to that body to continue the inves.
tion Of the Senator's election, with
which his opponents 10 this state we're SO
much dissatisfied, or pretended to be.
Col Bosy related the circumstances at.
tending his election, and spoke Of the
investigation ac Jefferson City immedi
atcly thereafter. lie said that our state
had bright record, and its escutcbeon
was as clear Of stain as that Of any other
state, aud therefore he might claim, as a
right due himself and bis state, that the
senate at once take up tho cause.


lie further remarked, that if be had
ary reputation for anything above an
other, it was that Of being an honest
man, and though he admitted that he was
an ardent politician, he had never been
charged with corruption. lie did not
like to be held up before the country as
. man who had obtained bis seat there by
improper means. lie could not vote to
expel or retain any senator while he him.
self was subject to investigation. Under
these circumstances he should suspend
his functions on all questions.


Mr.. Bogy said he would claim it as o
right that the senate committee on privi.
leges and elections should take this mat.
ter up and dispose Of it now. while the
Missouri Legislature is still 10 session.
As a matter due to his state and 10 him
personally, he would insist on his case
being disposed Of this session.


1t Is said that the Colonels remarks
we're we'll received, and produced q good
impression.
Year: 1873

The selfish vote Of Congrcssmcn to
make the increase Of pay apply to mem


bers Of tie body just adjourned, cost
the countr! nearly 81 100000 Tha. is
to say, that large amount was taken out
of the treasury to pay the Forty second
Congress over and above what the law
agreed to pay them when they accepted
the position. 1t is still worse when we
consider the number Of men who held
seats in the Forty second Congress and
are elected to seats in the Forty third


In each Of these cases the individual
steal amounts to $40, 900, being just tina,
much more for each man than the con


tract under which they entered the public
service. For body pledged to retrench.
nent and reform this is a sorry spectacle
Year: 1873

According to a recent authority,
mourning in the South Pacific is car
ried OF in q manner which to us
would seem very curious. A widow
will lay aside her bonnet and wear
the hat of her late husband; some
times q wi.lowcr will go about in q
loose gown oi his departed wife, worn
over his own proper dress. Instead
of a shawl, a mother will place OH her
back a pair of trousers belonging to
little boy just laid in his grave. In
these hard times quite Oh economical
revolution might be effected in this
way, aud although tho appearance Of
o portly widower in one Of the dear
departed's silks, seated beside lady
over whose shoulders gracefully
dar gled the legs of her lost darling'i
evening trousers, might at fret hav,
a funny effect, We should soon ge
used to it, and there would be tn,
consultations Of rejecting that Christ
mas would bring no odious bill, fol
drcss-coat or lace or cashmere shawl
and thus the wind would in the mos
practical manner be tempsredto th'
shorn lamb.
Year: 1873

A YOUNG man In Boston sought TO
win his sweetheart by strategy. so he
took her out for boat ride and then
threatened to jump overheard IL she
did not marry him. But It did not
work ut all. She offered to bet him a
dollar that he dare not dive In.
Year: 1873

THE Administration has earned praise
from all political parties for its prudent
management OF our difficulties with Spain.
Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky, in manly way,
the other day, expressed on the part Of
the Democracy of the House their appre-
citation Of this fact. He said that "if there
was anything which the President had
managed well, twas the negotiations with
Spain. The President might have plunged
the country into difficulties, and perhaps
aggrandized himself at the expense of the
country but the course he had pursued
had been extremely moderate and wise. !"
OF the secretaries who have had most to
do with this matter, Mr.. Fish is warmly
praised for his tact and prudence in the
management Of the negotiations, and Mr..
Robson for the notable promptness and
energy with which he put the navy on a
war footing in case the emergency should
rise for its use.- Washington Star.
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE GooD CoFFEE.-lt is
singular that SO few women know how to
make good coffee. We frequently SIT
down to q table spread with well cooked
yictuals. The bread IS white, spongy and
moist the butter, yellow and sweet; the
meat and vegetables are cooked and
seasoned nicely. But for taste We might
as well take q dose of bitters as to sup
from the cup set before us. At first we
wonder if. in making the coffee. there was
any Of the real coffee put into the pot:
After tasting few times we discover snat n
the coffee was spoiled in browning. The
natural strength or taste was burned out o.
it and nothing remained but the bitter coal
to favor the liquid. !,
Great care should be given to the
browning Of coffee. 1t should be carefully
picked over and washed. It should bt
cooked over q slow fire and constantly
stirred only such quantity put into the
spider as will stir well, SO that it may b.
Drowned evenly. When it has become
tender and a nice brown. it should b.


taken from the fire.


In e,iading for use it should be groun'


much coarser than we commonly grim


snices. If not, it should be we'll mike


with egg before putting 1t to steep.


should only steep from five to ten minute


"a longer time Injuries the flavor,


Only part Of the water should b
poured upon the coffee until done bofline


The water added should be boiling. !


you have cream, never insult any one D


putting milk into his coffee. You might
well add so much cold water as the blu
milk Western Rural.
Year: 1873

WE have heard that the Colonel curtiss who Is
so busy in organizing " Oranges" in Virginia Is
Radical and connected as correspondent WIN
Radical newspaper. May be there Is a cat In


The above statements from the Lexing-
ton Gazette, and is copied by the Richmond
Wing this morning, with unfriendly COM
ments upon the Oranges. The author is
laboring under mistake as to the politics of
Colonel Curtiss, which, we presume, it will
do him the justice to correct.


Colonel Curtiss has been an earnest and
we presume On honest opponent to the
Republican party to our own knowledge
for six years. He was one Of the earliest
advocates of the farmers movement and of
that phase Of it known as the Oranges or
Patrons Of Husbandry. He was gallant
soldier of the Union army, serving in its
ranks with distinction from private to the
command of regiment, and was terribly
wounded at Charlottesville. No truer .
purer,, braver man lives than he. We
have known him for over twenty years,
and his whole life has been devoted to the
elevation and improvement of the working
classes. Much Of the time he has devoted
to editing or corresponding for agricultural
papers. We employed him for time in
that capacity, but he has not been
connected with The JOURNAL fol
several months. We assure our
friends of all parties that Colonel Curtiss
is not politician, and that his work as
Deputy Of the National Grange has no sig
nifcance beyond the simple desire to MAKE
our agriculture more prosperous and pu
our people in conjunction with th'
mighty West for the common cause Of in
dustry against monopoly. a'a
Year: 1873

OUR thanks are due to Senator Ferry,
of Michigan, for his persistent demands
upon Congress to give the people more


money and break up the present outra-
geous monopoly. He is man of rare
powers, young and strong, and will occupy
large place in the future Of the country.
Year: 1873

THE proposition Of Secretary Richard
son to increase the taxes on spirits, and to
tax tea and coffee, is a most unfortunate
one every way at this time. It has been
fifty met by Congress in the PROPOSE
tion to recast the estimates for the
current year. We have plenty Of leaks
to stop. Twenty millions out of the fifty
millions now uselessly spent on the army
and navy can be saved, and we would be-
gin there. Smaller economies would soon
make up the forty million deficit. 70 sys
Year: 1873

At the Farmers and Workingmen's
Convention at Long Lake adopted the
following resolutions


WHEREAS, Recognizing the fact that
political parties are called into existence
to be used as the machinery through
which the public voice finds expression
and being firmly impressed that both
the Democratic and Republican organiza
lions have become simply and truly
the tools of rings and monopolics
and


WHEREAS, Legislation, both State
and National, for many years, has
seemad to be entirely in the interest OF
concentrated capital as against labor,
and believing that the time, has come
when the masses of the people should
themselves assume the reina of power
hitherto held by the politicians there
fore,


Resoloed, First, That We, the farms
ers aud workingmen of Hennepbin
County, in mass convention assembled
do hereby sever our connection with
the great political parties of the coun-
try, and pledge our sacred honor tc
stand side by side in the coming
struggle for the rights of labor against
the encroachments of combined capita
until the battle is over.
Year: 1873

DRINKING IMPURE WATER.-Set
pitcher of iced water in room in
inhabited, aud in few hours it will
have absorbed nearly all the perspired
gases OF the room, the air of which will
have become purer, but the water ut
terly filthy. This depends on the fact
that water has the faculty OF condensing
and thereby absorbing nearly all the
gasses, which it does without increas
ing its own bulk. The colder the
water is, the greater its capacity to con
tain these gasses. At ordinary temper
ature, pint Of water will contain .
pint of carbonic acid gas and several
pmts OF ammonia. This capacity is
nearly doubled by reducing the tenn
perature awhile is alway unfit for use
ard should be to that of ice Hence,
water kept in the room often removed
! whether it has become warm or not.
Year: 1873

WALL FELL IN.--One of the brick walls OF
the new Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
building, at the corner of Ninth and Frank
lin streets, fell in yesterday from the heavy
pressure of earth against it.
Year: 1873

matter, and he had told him the same thing
he had just sworn to. Did not get the $40.


After thorough sitting of the evidence
in connection with the facts developed by
the autopsy the jury unanimously rendered
the following verdict:


"The jurors sworn to inquire when, how,
and by what means the said George +. Der
do say that he came to his death by acciden-
tally shooting himself with a shotgun on
the 14th day Of August, 1873"


It is proper to state that the father of the
deceased was present ut the inquest and is
perfectly satisfied of the truth Of the verdict.
Year: 1873

IsA1uRDAx EvKENo, May g..


The principal feature in the local money mar
ket this week is the turn in exchange in favor OF
Chicago and against New York, thus showing that
the flow Of capital to New York has ceased, and
that currency will move Westward instead Of
Eastward as it did during the whole OF April.
As yet this change has had no effect
upon the money market, but it may reasonably
be expected to make an easier condition here
during the current month The demand from
the country for currency is also increasing, and
this indicates the probability Of larger receipts
Of grain. The supply Of money in the
open market is good, and prime commercial
paper, and also satisfactory raal eatata
paper, both find ready market at from 10 to Ia
per cent. Exchange was sold between banka
to-day at par, aud also at 5oc per 1000 dis
count There is considerable activity in local
stocks, as will be aeen by the List OF sales below.
The clearings Of the Chicago banks for the
week we're:
Year: 1873

Zone thing may be remarked that the Post-Ot-
Rce Department has regarded the Office in this city
as well conducted, and complaints against its man
aQement have been very rare. The present cloud
over II Is therefore especially to be regretted not
only by the Pharisaic Ga-efte, but by faiT-minded
and unbiased people, Commercial


The above, we presume, is intended for the last
apology the Commercial will make for the Viii
mingtOn PSst-omce. II clings to the worst char.
a,ters Of its party with pertinacity that is as
tOnishing 10 honest men. The wonder is how any
one who is not as culpable as some of those whose
names are connected with the Post-Ofics embeE-
aelment case, in the face Of public opinion can
defend the worst managed and most corrupt Post.
Ohce in the country.


II the Commercial cannot furnish better de
fence than the above, from yesterday evening, il
ought to "shut up" For really, if it continues
1t will soon be regarded as having been bought up
As a defender OF crime and political corruption by
members OF its own party. Docs it suppose there
are not enough honest and faithful Republicans il
Wilmington from whom to select sufficient
force TO run the Post Office honestlyS One might
suppose 90 from its manifest desire TO have The
once continue TO be run by those who have beer
proved both negligent and wanting in capacity.
Year: 1873

Owing the geneal depression business, and scarcity Of money we
deermneds M goods prices that will be the reach OF every one reg
less of cost for the next thirty days.


LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES
We offering best calf stitch boots usual price $500 at
Year: 1873

sPECIK PAYMENTs.-The government COM
menced paying out silver in small quantities, at
the several mnts yesterday. This is commend
able movement, and we hope ii will be continued
as long as possible. There was only SlOO Payed
out in Washington yesterday, showing that the
people do not care for such money and that de
m md for either gold or silver may soon be SUP
phed.
Year: 1873




you on the list of our most valued COM
manders. will, myself, furnish you,
as far as it may be in my power, With
opportunities of regaining the esteem of
your country"


This Was more like an: euloeium
than reprimand j.; but it did not touch
the heart Of Arnold, who went from
the presence of his commapd not to
regain the esteem of his country, but to
betray that country.


A year passed away. He ws in
command At West Point; In correspond
ence With the enemy. Whether she
shared her husbands secret during
those months Of preparation, will per.
haps never be known with certainty.
Just before the explosion Of til. treason
At West Poist, Arnold sent for his wife
and child t. join him, and I have seen
the letter which he wrote to her On
this occasion, telling her Of the best
way Of reaching him, and what houses
she could stop at on the road.


Arnold and his wife were seated at
the breakfast table, with Hamilton,
Lafayette and an aid. In the midst of
the meal q horseman alightsd at the
door and, moment after, letter was
placed in Arnold's hands, which in.
formed him Of his ruin: He controlled
his couutenanee, rose quietly from the
| table, and bsekonsd his wife to follow
Year: 1873

This subject is growing to be one of
national Importance, and strongly recon-
mends itself to electors in making choice
of national, county, State, and municipal
officers. We know of no better criterian for
a public officer than those qualities which
fit man to prosecute honestly and ably
his own business. A man who is capable
and faithfully transacts his own business,
will in the main make safe candidate to
tie to. The people have been SO eyre
griously cheated by professional office seek
ers, and office holders, who lend themselves
to designing men, and lose sight of the
public interest in promoting their own, or
the interests Of their managers, that they
are suspicious of every man who is found
"lobbying" for nomination. Honest
and capable men are beginning to exert a
more powerful influence among the mass
of thinking people, than the potent spell
of party discipline which has proved rich
mine in the past for rascals.