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Year: 1872

We like to see young ladies who are bitter
enemies kiss each other very affectionately
when they meet 1t reminds us of man
named Judas who lived several years ago.
We like to see fashionably dressed lady
promenading the streets wearing blue silk
dress, trailing yard behind her in the mud
it cleans the street SO nicely. We like to
see young men very polite to other young
ladies, who are scarcely civil to their sisters
at home-it proves that the lords of creation
are void of deception. We like to see little
boys come to church in the evening, and
amuse themselves by sticking pins in their
sleepy neighbors-it shows that they are not
burying their talents in the earth I! We,like
to see man invariably throw his newspaper,
boots and bat on the floor for his tired wife to
pick up-it is evidence that he remembers
the promise to "cherish her w We like to
see the choir spend the time during the di-
vine service in whispering telling stories-it
helps us to appreciate the sermon and convin.
ces us that they are capable of singing "with
the spirit and the understanding also r" We
like to see young ladies' keep their jaws in
constant motion endeavoring to masticate a
huge ball of chewing CUNT looks SO LADY,
like! We like to see man sporting fast
horses, while he owes the printer and gives
nothing to the minister-it looks honorable
There are many other things which we like
to see, but we forbear.
Year: 1872

IF your income is SIS day spend but
four. IF it is one dollar spend eighty cents
If it is but ten cents spend nine. IF it is
three potatoes save half of one for seed
This is good advice, and if adapted by those
who are daily complaining of being ..close
run" aud .thard pushed" from the effect of
too common error, INDUCED in by great
many, of Giving beyond their means" it
would be much better than spending their
whole lives in the vain pursuit trying to keep
up with the "latest styles" thus requiring an
outlay each day of what they earn, to accom-
plish that object.
Year: 1872

Achievement on Foot to Secure the Pardon Of


this Accomplished Young villain.


An effort is being made in this city by Dr..
Weeks, to procure the pardon Of one Of the most
accomplished and desperate OF young burglars
that ever travelled In company with the Sheriff
from Chicago to Joliet, who rejoiced in the SOU
briquet Of Handy Andy" After long career
Of crime, in which he exhibited promise of being
the most unscrupulous rogue Of his gen.
GRAFTON, he was finally captured on the
charge Of burglary. There we're three indictments
against him. On one charge he plead guilty,
and the States Attorney suggested that he
would quash the remaining two it Judge Nc
Allister would give Handy Andy long term in
the Penitentiary. The Judge sentenced him
three years ago next January, to q tan years'
term Of imprisonment. Yesterday Dr. Weeks
lit that is his name) handed to hi, Reed strong
letter from Judge McAllister, requesting the
Governor to pardon this depraved character. Mr..
Reed viewed the document With amazement,
and declined to stultify himself by putting his
signature to it. Handy Andys record is still
fresh in the minds Of his extra -penitential
friends about town, Is well as Of the police,
and at the present season when crime is SO
prevalent, it would be dangerous to let loose
upon the community such a character as this
hardened young Iuf1an.
Year: 1872

w E beg leave to call the attention Of
the travelling public to this well known
Hotel, which we have recently pur--
chased, and placed on footing second
to none in the South.


No excuse will be spared to render it
First Class Hotel in every respect, and
every attention will be paid to the conf
fort and convenience of guests.


Augusta, Feb IA ems
Year: 1872

l am for the principles of the Republican
party in contradiction to Grantism, and l
am for the man who truly represents them.
By these principles I shall stand, for them
1 shall labor, and in their triumph shall
always rejoice. If any valued friend sep
arates from me now it will be because he
places man above principles. Early in
public life / declared my little heed for
party and my Indifference to the name BY
which | am called, and now I confess my
want of sympathy with those who would
cling to The form after its spirit has fed
Year: 1872

COLLECTOR TALLEY's CAsE.-Thc IIenrico
County Court met on yesterday morning at
10 o'clock and the jury in the Talley case
brought into court, but they declared that
10 verdict had been agreed upon. At a
late hour last. evening no conclusion bad
been reached, and they were locked up for
the night,
Year: 1872

! The Raleigh North Carolinian says


"The Siamese twins, Eng and Chang,
who are now living in the western por-
ton Of this State, and one OF whom is
lying dangerously i'll at the present time
were born in a, small village on the
coast Of Siam in 1871. Wear in pos
session OF some particulars concerning
them which may be of interest to our
readers. Their parents got their living by
fishing and until 1929 when Eng andr
Chang we're brought to the United States,
they made their living by selling she'll
fish. Their mother bore seventeen chill
'dren.. At one time she gave birth to
three, and never less than two. But
none of these children were deformed
They are united at the anterior part
of the chest by a prolongation of a
kind of Aeshy band, the size of the hand,
This band of aesh is sbopt two inches
broad and fourinehes thick. The whole
mass is tough and capable Of being con-
siderably extended. While you may
whisper in the ear Of one without the
other hearing; while volatile salts applied
to the nostrils Of one has no effect on the
other and while pinching the arm Of one
excites no sensation in the other; still, if
you but stick pin in the exact vertical
center Of this connecting link, both will
finch from the hurt. These twins are
seldom observed to converse with each
other. They play a good game of drafts,
make pretty much the same moves, and
St thSJsame time, and frequently play


Nisst each other. They are both mar
y and s2ye grown children"
Year: 1872

The. Utah correspondent Of the New
York Tribune writes:


The human fruits which this mis-
shapen tree oof epolygamy has borne,
though considerable in numbers, are yet
too immature to WELD extended iRhuence
upon business or social life. A few
have attained 20 the age of twenty-five
years; hundreds are twenty and more,
while those ranging from ten to twenty
years of age may be numbered by thous-
ands. These young men and women
will compare. favorably in intelligence
with the young people of any land under
the sun. In that kind of worldly wis
dom which the pioneer and frontiersman
require, they are vastly the superiors of
the young folks of Massachusetts-the
native home Of your correspondent In
mountain lore, woodcraft, hunting and
horses, the boys beat the world" In the
economies of the householdsthe girls are
the equals of any in the land They
are beautiful, too, in large proportionate
numbers, and if not highly cultivated,
are at least gentle and pure. They like
to dress finely, for this state of polyga-
nous grace, event if as purely spiritual
as its followers claim, does not seem to
work any remarkable change in the
natural man or woman either. Here
are wives for thousands Of young men,
the daughters of polygamous connec-
ton, yet perfectly chaste. They are
self-sacri6cing, as woman ever is, but
their unselfshness rarely goes to the ex-
tent of embracing polygamy for them
selves. In the face of facts like these,
for the truthfulness Of which can
voucb, and in support of which could
adduce abundant testimony if it were
prudentoit is folly to tell me that po-
iygamy has not yet begun to die out.
Year: 1872

Will the Board of Health now do its whole
duty by the cOnscienceless mlk-venders 80
completely exposed by THE TRIBUNEf We
are glad that the exact and honest details Of
the business of milk adulteration which were
spread before the public yesterday have already
commanded such general and indignant atten-
ton. 1t could not be otherwise, for the fluid
which has been made an article for adultera-
ton and dilution enters into the consumption
of every family, and forms the chief means
of sustenance to thousands of the chill
drcn of our citizens. The exposures Of
The TRIBUNE are so circumstantial and trust
worthy in every respect that no room
is left for doubt in the minds of those who
pay the least attention to the subject. We
have obtained sufficient evidence to convict
let the Board of Health proceed with the
prosecution. The dealers, in many cases, plead
guilty, urging only in extenuation the pitiful
plea that they must adulterate and dilute their
milk because others will do it and undersell
them. There is not even shadow of reason
in this argument, as the price of the impure
and watery article vended under the name of
milk is already extravagantly high.


But this confession of guilt should awaken
citizens, as well as the proper authorities, to
the duty of pursuing the offenders and break
up traffic in the lives and health of milk
consumers. For the mere waste of s2,7OO,OOO
paid annually for water and drugs is but a
titbe of the gross result of wrong done.
The loss of health of many and tho premature
deaths of children are to be charged to this
wanton trining with one of the chief supplies
of homes and families We have furnished
the names of many of these thoughtless crimi-
mails, disagreeable as the duty has been; and
we are determined that nothing shall be left
Year: 1872

THE RU-RLUX DEBATE IN THE SEN1TE


Decidedly, the Senate does not easily take a
hint The House of Representatives on Mon
day passed the joint resolution TO adjourn on
the Goth of this month, and in this vote gave
the clearest indication Of their attitude'0n the
question of the Ku-Klux legislation now en-
crossing the attention of the Senate. Last
week the House acted with equal energy and
decision upon the proposition of Gen. Butler
to accomplish the object of extending the Ku-
Klux act over the Presidential election by the
trick of prolonging the session. In every way
the House of Representatives have given ex-
preston to their conviction of the uselessness
and improperly of this legislation in the in
terest of a candidate for reelection. But In
spite of all these sufficiently clear warnings the
Senate keep stoldly at work debating the
Ku-Klux bill, as if they had the whole session
before them. The only action they have been
induced to take by this vote of the House is
to postpone the discussion of the Supplemental
Treaty until after the adjournment, 80 that
they may devote the week which remains to
purposeless talk about this dismal anachro-
nism To judge from the language of the
Administration press and the utterances of
the favored friends of the Government, nothing
could be more important than this Supple
mental Treaty, which is to do such indescrib-
able things for the peace of the world and the
good Of mankind. But the Grant men in the
Senate contemptuously thrust this beneficent
instrument aside, and leave their friends and
supporters in England prey to the widest
anxiety, to devote themselves day and night
to devising means of coercng, by the use of
bayonets, the Southern vote in favor of their
candidate.


So sordid and so reckless an object of course
infects the means and manners through which
it is accomplished. There have rarely been
more disreputable debates heard in the Senate
than those which are now marking the progress
of this discussion. The measure is a selfish
and partisan one F.; and it is only natural that
the members of the Senate should feel that the
matter is as much theirs as Gen. Grants. and
should consider it exclusively from the point
of view OF their own interests or prejudices.
They were elected, as he was, in the stress
and confusion of the closing war. They
have held their places as he has. with
more thought of their own interests and
qualifications than the good of the country.
They are beginning to think seriously, as he
is, whether it is safe to trust TO the unfet-
tered voice of the country for reelection. For
these reasons scarcely man has spoken or
will speak in this debate without tinging his
remarks consciously or uncOnsciously with the
color of his own supposed interests They
will do this neatly or coarsely, after their
kind Nothing could have been more inno-
Gently ridiculous than the debate of Monday
between Mr.. Alcorn and his colleague, NJ |
Year: 1872

Ames Each was full Of such childlike eager
ness 10 abuse his fellow statesman and to
cav good word for himself that the squab-
bic became more amusing than sadden-
ing. They were pretty fairly matched
One could call the other carpet-bagger and
the other could retOrt with the word Rebel.
Ames said Alcorn made bad Governor, and
Alcorn offset that by declaring that although
Mr.. Ames gave Natcbez as his residence, he
chad never had shirt washed there" Thls
Mr.. Ames bitterly resented. 1t was an impu-
tation upon either his cleanliness or his solv-
ency, for the willy Alcom had left the question
in the deepest mystery whether this default
of neutrality-suspicious. in Natchez proceeded
from scarcity of funds or scarcity OF linen.
1t was on this lofty plane that the two law
givers squabbled through the evening. The
debate will hardly rise above this level while
it lasts.


There is no decent excuse remaining for
this legislation. 1t is time for the war to end.
There is no general disturbance now existing
in the South and no more local irregularities
than the people of good will profess them
selves able and anxious to regulate. Seven
wears have passed since the last hostile shot
was fred against the flag. II the people OF
the South are ever to resume their consttu-
tional manner of political life, it is certainly
time for them to begin. If this were an or
dinary time, there would be no excuse for
such continued exceptional legislation; and
now, when the President is endeavoring to
secure his reelection, there is a positive inde-
cency in the clamor of his partisans for Congress
to put the sword of martial law in his hands,
and then to go home, leaving him Dictator
and Candidate.
Year: 1872

Canadians will never cease tlmidly to joke about


some body of people from the United States pro-


posing to invade Canada. In England the matter


is no longer regarded as worth the humor for Can


ada is of less concern to England than to us. But


we presume that what the United States are is of


greater importance to Canada than what England
thinks If the Dominion is ever to find market for
her nascen. industry, it would be in her own limits
sooner than in England. Her laborers, finding their
wages low are coming to the States for higher She
is rapidly becoming uncolonized. Her cheap grains
and timber become cheaper because she has neither
a good market nor plenty OF manufacturing con-
sumers. Lying directly on our northern border,
law and trade borrowed from England, she Is in the
same condition she was in half century ago. Her
old settlers have never lost the semblance of set


tiers. San Francisco is nearer TO us than Montreal


China is more directly in the course of legitimate
trade; Arizona is more interesting TO us why 7
Because her customs her shadow of royalty with
out its light, her msmanagement of all her dearest
interests Of labor aud trade, are borrowed by q
people who are very awkward even at borrowing,
and because her Government is the chid's-play of a
drama in larger proportions belonging TO a strange
across the Her people poor because
they belong TO the classes of this world that
ally poor-farmers lumbemen, and fishermen. The
only help for this condition Of affairs is tho making
of market for herself Ii there were score of fac
torres planted alongside the magnificent streams,
and wen defended by proper regulations. her
Year: 1872

undone to follow up effectively the exposure
of this and similar impositions The dealers


may grumble and threaten; but the duty of
an Independent and public-spirited journal is
very clear. The law upon the subject of adul-
terations in food is plain and in force; if it has
failed heretofore, it has been owing to the
lack of official vigilance, if not to the easy
indifference of consumers themselves. The
exposure made by THE TRIBUNE has created a
panic among the middlemen and dealers; it
has spread a volume of damning evidence
before the authorities and the public; and
now we hope to see speedy end made of
the business of diluting and adulterating milk.


The accused cry guilty" let them be pun


ished and compelled to deal like honest men.
Year: 1872

Gov Hoffman has now before him three
bills providing for rapid transit through the
city. These are known as the Vanderbilt Tun-
mel the Swain Three-Tier, and the Gilbert
Elevated roads. The details of all these
schemes are tolerably well-knOwn to the
readers of THE TRIBUNE, and need now but a
brief reference. The Vanderbilt road is to be
a double-track, underground line, connecting
the city below City Hall with the railroad lines
clossng Harlem River, with branches above
Union square. The Swain Three-I1er Is a
more extensive plan than the others, as 1t Is
designed like a three-stOry structure; the sub
way is for freight, the surface tracks for way
Messengers, and the elevated tracks Tor
express or fast passenger lines. The general
direction of this road is, of course, north and
south, with branches; and it must be on the
west side of Sixth-ave. or the east side OF
Tbird-aye. The Gilbert Elevated Railway
Company propose tubular structure built on
iron arches which shall span tho streets from
curb to curb; this line has the same general
direction as the others, and Is to take the
route roughly designated by the Bowery ana
its extensions. Certainly, in these three plans
we have much wisdom and, though the Cen
trail Underground appeared to promise the
cheapest and least Objectionable design OF op-
erations those which survive seem to be feas-
ible and fair.


At any rate, we hope the Governor will give
the projectors Of all of these schemes Tor
rapid transit opportunity to demonstrate their
feasibility and worth. Mr.. Vanderbilt, we are
assured, is ready to begin operations at once
and push the work to speedy completion. 1t
is to be presumed that the parties who have
the Swain line in charge are also prepared to
90 on forthwith in their moro arduous under
taking; and we have assurance that the Gill
bert Elevated Railway Company have already
secured the money needed to complete their
road, and will break ground as soon as their
bill is signed Their plan seems to be not
only practicable enough, but it Obviates all
difficulties in the way Of rapid transit at COM
paratively small cost. 1t is less Objectionable,
in most respects than an ordinary surface
road. and has none of the dangerous features
which attach to the ordinary elevated railway
New York has certainly long enough suffered
for want of quick, easy, and cheap transpor-
tatiOn between the business and home parts
Of the city; and the evils of which We
complain grow more burdensOme daily
New jersey has prOfited by our supineness
and innumerable towns and villages within q
radius of one hundred miles of the City Hal
have grown up under the influence of New
York carelessness. Our own uptown residents
and those who have their homes across Harlem
River daily suffer the horrors of "the middle
passage in the crowded and often filthy
street-cars, without which we should be indeed
destitute. But it is not necessary to multiply
arguments; the interests of trade, society, and
economy demand quick transit. Will the Gov
ernOr give it to lis n0wi
Year: 1872

The reports we have published of previous
meetings of the American Institute of Mining
Engineers indicated that the Association,
though young, was doing good work and
making rapid progress. The proceedings Of
the present meeting, which viii occupy some
days, will, if we may judge from the opening
address of Mr.. Hewitt, which we give in
another column, fully equal its predecessors
in interest The address furnishes many in
teresting facts concerning the comparative
production of iron in Great Britain and this
country. 1t is shown that with our present
rate of increase we shall soon equal, perhaps
pass, England in the proportion of the
consumption of iron to pOpulation-a test Of
the progress of civilization. This proportion
in England is 200 pounds per annum per
head; here it is already 15O pounds, and,
with the destruction of our forests
and the substitution of iron for wood
in buildings, must rapidly increase. In the
production Of iron, there is an equally en-
couraging class of facts: we are at present
only 25 years in the rear of the magnificent
production of Great Britain, and she cannot
keep up-from natural defciencies-her pres
ent annual rate of increase, while we can,
and fairly may expect to add largely to the
rapidity with which we are overtaking the
mother country. The profession to which the
majority of the members of the Institute
belong has but recently attained i'll this
country q consideration which is its duej but
now that it has become part of the curriculum
of our best colleges, we may hope for higher
order of knowledge among Mining Engineers
than used to be expected of the expert with
the divining-rod and the witch-hazel.
Year: 1872

In The Rocky Mountain Ners, printed at Denver.
Colorado we find droll account Of the vaccination
of $50 Plan Indians by DR.. II. X. Steele. The Plans
have great adherence of smallpox and cheerfuly
submit to any measures which may promise them
safety from its ravages. One thing, however, they
did growl at. They objected to washing their arms
before the operation. They don't like smallpox but
neither do they relish any kind of ablution. Soap.
if it is of good quality they eat with great relish
they consider the use of it as detergent simply
wasteful That they submitted finally to " ash their
arms was considered strong proof of their nyincble
dread of something worse.
Year: 1872

After a stormy time, in which some Mem
bers exhibited much ill-temper, the House
agreed to the Senate amendment to the Post
Office Appropriation bill increasing mail ser
vice between San Francisco and China. There
really did not seem any occasion for the
unpleasant debate which attended its final
passage.
Year: 1872

The Sunday law was recently violated by re-
spectacle citizen of Brookline Mass, who was
caught by policeman, the Lords Day, tying
up some flowers in front of his house. Taken
before Justice, the offender pleaded guilty" was
fined, and has appealed to the Superior Court. In
regard to Sabbath observance, we think that the
right rule is pretty plain one. man on that day
has no right to do anything which will interfere
with its quiet and unmolested enjoyment by
others and this rule implies general suspension
of business. But if the law allows any man to be
crminally convicted for doing anything upon his
own premises not in itself criminal and not annoy
ing to his neighbors, then, we think. the law
requires revision.
Year: 1872

In the anniversary meeting of the American
Baptist Missionary Union, yesterday, among
other interesting reports which were made, was
one rather astonishing statement from the mis-
sion in Japan. 1t was said enthusiastically of the
Jealous missionary in that country that, among
Ills converts, he was able to include the Mikado
himself. Can this be truef If so, it is likely
10 effect more decided revolution in the
affairs of Japan than any other recent event.
Year: 1872

rural Grant organ in Pennsylvania says Tho
Democracy cannot vote for man VINO went to
Arkansas to bail jeff Davis, and to HarpeTs Ferry
to help hang John Brown who is in favor of Protec-
ton for New-York and Free Trade for Pennsylvania
and who was imprisoned in Paris for defrauding his
creditors, and in Fort Lafayette for advocating
Secession" We submit that there New-York
editors who might sit at the feet of this provincial
fabulist and learn things The skill with which he
congresses into half dozen liues SO much invention
reminds ono of that thesis written by competitor
in a Civil Service examination who was required to
write grammatical sentence containing the words
pig, goat DOCTOR orphan. The result was goat is
stronger than pig goat looks at you and SO dose
the doctor but q goat has fore legs boy who amt
got no mother is an orphan if be amt got no father ho
is two orphan"