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Year: 1871

ALoNE-IN CUR GLoKY.-Our ..boss" is
off again, and we swell out like telegraph
pole with the innate consciousness Of our
own Importance. Persons having business
with the COURIER Office are notified, that
willie We are gifted with full power to
receive monies, we are not authorized to
pay out the FIRST darned cent.
Year: 1871

DEMOCRATS love the workingm en-
Cause why, they hire them to work on the
State Capitol for So per day, and then
draw 81 per day. from the State for each
mans labor Such kind of love is both
pleasant and proftable-for the Democrats.
Year: 1871

ANDY CUsIcK's BALL.-Wil come off
at the Tower House next Friday Even
ing. This will be the first grand ball of the
election campaign, and as everybody and
lis wife is expected to be there, candi-
dates had as well put in an appearance
Year: 1871




Sec. 10 Every white male citizen of the
United States, and every white male citizen of
Mexico who shall have elected to become a
citizen of the United States under the treaty of
peace exchanged and ratified ut Queretaro on
the both of May, lS4S, of the age OF twenty one
years, who shall have been a resident of the
State six months next preceding the election,
and the county or district in which he claims
his vote. thirty days, shall be entitled to vote
at all elections which are now or hereafter may
be authorized by law


Sec. II. For the purpose of voting. no per-
son shall be deemed to have gained or lost a
residence by reason of his presence absence
on the service of the United States, nor while
engaged in the navigation of the wates of this
State or the United States, or of the high seas !;
nor while student of seminary of learning !:
nor while kept at an almshouse or other asylum,
nor while confined in any public prison.


Sec. IL. No idiot or insane person or persons
convicted of any Infamous crime, shall be en-
titled to the privileges of an elector.


Sec. l3. A crime shall be deemed infamous
which is punishable by death or by imprison-
ment in the State Prison
Year: 1871

A lady who has been shop
ping in New York, says of an
establishment: In the second
story [ saw the shawl depart
ment, where they had one worth
$500. Ithad a very coarse ap-
pearance, and its value rose from
the amount of needle work
laid out upon it. Only one Of
these highest-priced shawls has
been sold this season, but Of
So, 600 style about twenty have
been taken. From these lofty
figures the salesman can come
downto a s. pattern. The first
mentioned are usally kept in
large chests, which are locked
up at night. The way these
New York ladies dress may be


judged from the fact that one
of them ran, as i was told, a bill
of $4,000 in two months. 1t
may therefore be understood that
the business done here is not
all cash, and indeed any person
who is considered "good" can
obtain a reasonable credit.
Year: 1871

THE TRIBULATIONs OF AN EX-
CoNDUCToR-The "Fat Contribu-
tor," of the Cincinnati Times, has
the following in regard to an old
conductor promoted to train dis
patcher: "Habit was very strong
with the ex conductor. As he sat
in the office he would start every
time he heard bell ring, and yell
-'All aboard. Then he would 60
about the Office at intervals and
try to collect fare of his assistants.
We dropped in casually one after
noon, and Billy wanted to know
if we had a pass. He couldn't get
accustomed to his new position at
all. He pined. to be again on the
road. One day he begged the
boys to put him through a collis-
ion, which they did to his entire
qualification. They tore his
clothes nearly off, blackened his
eyes, broke a kerosene lamp over
his head, and piled a red-hot stove
on top of him. Billy was in an
ecstacy of delight, and declared
he hadn't 'tenjoyed himself SO much
since he had bile" -,
Year: 1871

A young man at Holly
Springs, Miss. recently Tolun-
.teered to aid in taking up a col
lection at one OF the churches
there and succeeded in raising
a considerable sum. He ap-
preached the door, and was a.
bout to go out with his hat full
of contributions on his head,
when the minister said solemn
ly, Young man, if yon leave
here with that money you viii
be damned" The young man,
however, left in hurry, and, as
he shut the door behind him, a
worthy old bachelor, with q
voice in E sharp, who put a dol
lar in the hat, piped out to the
minister, "Well, if he amt
gone with it, III be id J"
Year: 1871

Thousands of wild geese got
lost by getting into the smoke
while flying over Pittsburg the
other day, and they few around
there for several hours, until il
nally a man came along with a
lantern, when they followed him
off into the country.
Year: 1871

There is sacred duty devolving
upon every man who has shouldered
the responsibility of family--it is to
provide them with home. And even
those who hold the responsibility in
Anticipation should take initiatory steps
towards the performance of this duty.


i" y homo Of our own" This is the
contiaual aspiration, and q worthy ono
Il Is, OF hundreds OF ZOO wives, who
yearly and half yearly huadlo aud
so from orc uncomfortable house 10
another. y home OF ort own; with
this hope in their hearts how bravcly
they buffet the waves Of caro- that
moving here aud there heaps upon
them How fondly they look to tho
day when, once established within that
homo, they cen say goodbye 10 that
lug-bcar, rem. day, enl arrange per.
mauently within their own door oil tho
useful and tasteful appliances of home
life, and train around its exterior tho
graceful cliugirg vino


Every man Of family should lay aside
monthly from his income, be il largo
or small, sam, no matter how little,
10 form nucleus of the home fund,
and TO be invested in piece of land
it may be q fraction Of lot with very
limited improvements, or it may be
vacant, ground, and ii ho is a good
mechanic, skillful economist, clever
fnancier, he will soon have n house
upon it, and he and his family will
real2n from blessed experience, that
of all the pleasant spots on earth not
one is halr so pleasant as n home OF our
own.
Year: 1871

Nay, speak no III kindly word


Can never leave sting behind;
And oh, TO breathe each tale we've heard


Is far beneath noble mind;
For oft better seed Is sown


BY choosing thus n kinder plan;
For IL but little good we've known,


Let's speak Of all the good VIC can.
Give me the heart that fain would hide,


Would fain another's fault cfacc.
How can Il please our human pride


To prove humanity but base'
No, let II reach higher mode,


A nobler estimate Of man;
BE earnest In the search Of good,


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


To others feeling as your own;
IT you're the first fault TO see,


BE not the first TO make IL known.
For life is but passing food;


No lip can tell how brief the stay
Dc earnest in the search for good


And speak Of all the best we may.
Year: 1871

vcnturcd to sayat Halifax the other even
ing, that | had understood from scholars that
the best translation Of those divine words,
''In my Fathers house are many mansions, "
was this, "In my fathers house are many
rooms" If that is Sd, We get fresh truth
from this text, because it tells Us Of one
great home, with a great many different
rooms, each room opening into the other, the
children living in the room they ike best,
and letting the rest live quietly in the others.
Your Methodist prefers to live in a noisy
room he likes to be where there is a great
racke5. Your Calyinist prefers to live IN
rather shady room: he does not like over
much of the pure sunny light of heaven.
Your Unigersalist likes the sun blazing night
in through the windows all the time, and he
will not have any curtain down 10 hide it
away. They say the Unitarian prefers
rather cool room. The Quaker wants a
quiet room, and Brother Spurgeon over
thcrc-well, they say he prefers the bath
room. We must understand, dear friends,
we cannot make men or women Other than
they arc. You may tell a man who is a
Methodist that ne ought to be ashamed of
himself, that be ought TO come to the Unita-
rian meeting, that it is a disgrace to man
with a great level head to be a Methodist


he does not understand you, and he is not go
ing to be anything else than he is unless
vision comes TO him, as it has come TO some
that know Of, and shows him that he cannot
stay where be is any longer and then he
has to say, ''If thy presenes 90 not with me,
carry me not up hence" But the presence
gees with him, and he goes.


Now, there is one thing more | want to
say. While We have this great heart with
regard to other denominations, that docs not
mean that we are for a moment to neglect
the great privilege of being ourselves Unita-
rians. Of being pioneers in every way We can
in this great movement upward toward the
perfected man on the earth. When YOU 90
to the hnsbandman, to the pomologist q
think that is the right name) | don't think
he imagines that an apple is any better be-
cause it tastes a little ike plum What
he wants is that the fruit should taste accord
Ing to its nature, that an apple should be a
real apple and grape a real grape. So
say that we. growing in this great garden Of
God, are no better for being Unitarians, and
tasting at the same time very strongly of
Orthodoxy. We want the real favor of
Unitarianism right down TO the heart. That
is the sort that the Lord approves best.
Though, as we walk down vistas of this
garden of God. we shall see that some how
the grapevine is twisting in amongst the
branches of the apple tree, and the plum
leans over. and touches the pear; ye. when
we come to see where they really belong, and
trace them down to the stem and up to the
spray. then we zee that the apple belongs to
the annle-tree. the pear to the pear tree, the
grape to the vine. and the plum to the plum
branch-From Sermon by the Robert Col
lyer.
Year: 1871

The World gives an extract fr0m q Kan
sas paper on the death Of Satank, an Indian
chief, sentenced to death by hanging. for
some depredatiOns. The Indian hated to die
the death Of a dog, and when in the wagon
on his way to the place of execution set upon
his guards and wounded one. lie was sum
marily shot down. The rest Is best told in
the extract


\ carbine bullet broke his right wrist, and
two or three more tore through his old red
blanket. lie grinned and clenched his teeth
and still tried to press back the lock with
his wounded hand, glaring on his tormcutors.
\ more carefully aimed carbine lodged bull
let in his head, and with ringing whoor he
fell back IN the wagon, covered with his own
blood. \ messenger sent back to the fort
met on officer with a squad Of men approach
ing, the firing having been heard. lnquir-
ing what was the matter. the messenger re-
Piled that, 'Old Sltank got on the rampage
and they had 10 shoot him. Wen throw
him out Of the wagon, said the officer you
don t want to tote him to Texas Saauk
was accordingly tossed out in the dusty road,
and the trtin went on. Hardly a glimmer
of life rems ned in the resolute old savage,
hut that spark he used in preparing himself
for bis reception into the happy hunting
grounds. Wrilhing with pain, covered with
blood and dust. he twisted his body some
distance from the road and party from the
fort that went out several hours afterwari
found it decently composed with head and
feet due east and west, according to the 4bo-
riginal idea Of dec0rous dissolution.


This account of brutality and barba1ism
in a United States officer with i1rtitudc and
decency in a savage, is singulariy enough
placed next after one Of Mr.. John FISK :
wonderfully profound lectures on the intel
lecual growth Of man and his progress in
civilization. We have a good deal to do yet,
before we shall begin to be perfected. An
old Indian ism much, but we would rather
take his chances than those of that officer
Year: 1871

dies by putting too great a task upon his
strength is as truly criminal as he who
dies by putting bullet through his head
If certain amount of rest and recreation is
necessary to a mans health and life the
omission to take it is as great an offence
against God s law in nature, as would be
the omission TO take food; and death by
wilful starvation is no more an act of selfde-
struction than is death by wilful fatigue.
Year: 1871

heed our advice, he will keep on travelling.
lie will be rich man by the time Congress
meets"


The only amusement of the cetizens oi
Calhoun. Ga, is that Of tying tinware TO the
tails of the village dogs. The dogs are 80
well trained that whenever one of them sees
an oyster-can in the street be backs up and
waits for some one to tic it on.


A little Kansas girl who built fire IN her
fathers barn, and found it getting beyond
her control, FASTENED to hide what she had
done by covering it with boards. The mo-
tive was pardonable, perhaps, but the result
was not satisfactory.
Year: 1871

The GoHen Age, in an article on the Eth
les of LOefng, says well The one thing
that our ablest men are unable to do is-t6
loaf. The very air Of this age is charged
with the oxygen of restless enterprise, and it
acts upon men souls as a new and more
furious alchohol. The high places of the
land contain men guilty of gross intemper-
ance in work, regularly drunk with eager


ness to toll, sots on the fiery liquor of tyr
annous and unintermitting industry. 1t NAV
be question whether the best assurance Of
long life is not feeble constitution. The
men of iron frames, of muscles wrought of
the heart of oak, Of giant energy and endur-
ance, are the very men who presume upon
the extent of their physical capital, and
soonest become bankrupt in vitality. The
ethics of loafing need to be expounded; and
the Sin of inordinate industry to be denoun-
ccd. No man has better right to kill him
self by over working than he has to do it by
overdrinking. lfsuicidc be a crime, he who
Year: 1871

The NIGHT EDToR-AN IDEAL PICTURE-
The Night Editor is remarkably portrayed
in the current number of IIarper's weekly
by Mr.. \. Lumley. The honorable gentle
man is sitting composedly (which the night
editor never does; in a good chair-which
the night editor never has with unrufled
shirt bosom and countenance-which the
night editor never wears his stylish coat
not even tucked up at the wristbani-the
night editor spurns coat; in statuesQuely
photogra phIc POSe-the night editor never
poses; doing nothing which again the
night editor never does. To him enters a
slave Of the wires respectfully and deliberately
these boys generally make at You like n
mad Irish bull-and presents an unfolded
message-which he ought 10 be walloped for
taking out Of the envelope The unc9nccrn
OF the night editor is the more remarkable for
that he evidently has the delirium tremens-
If the snakes and other insects buzzing around
are to represent his thoughts. His lamp is
burning contrary to all known laws ofnature,
for the flames are rushing down upon his
head, while, if he isn't burned, he Is in the
way to be drowned, for a whole ocean is
pouring down upon the other side. and if he
escapes drowning his skull is sure TO be
cracked by ''Progress. an old fellow above
who is at once quitting a head on hin, =
and quitting his foot in it" In the middle
of the sea is a bust ofa military looking man.
whom from the inscription on the PEDESTAL we
find to be General News. In fact. this
picture of The Night Editor is one of the
triumphs Of pure imagination, and if any one
would know what the night editor isn't. let
himinyest ten cents-N. Y. Mail
Year: 1871

tba vraouer IN wht~N tHn ~-'~'ev ~ ma WV
fraee VIVA attacked by tho manufacture or
fraudulent naturalization papers IN the
Supreme and Superior Courts. We showed
who the criminals were and how they per
netrate<l the outrage; and il Tammany nad
not then been all powerful, signal punishment
must have followed the exposure The evil has
since been abated; but the offenders are still
on tho bench, and the frauds may at any
time lie renewed.


Reform Of the judiciary is now the pressing
duty of the hOur.-mOre important even than
the prosecution of Tweed, Connolly, and Hall,
and not second in consequence TO the renOVa-
ton Of our city charter. The means of reform
are within easy reach. It is for the Bar
Association to move first. Members of the
profession have knowledge Of the nlscon-
duct of more than one Of tho judges and
can substsntiate with well attestcd facts
tho charges which are now in cverybOdyS
mouth. Thoir committee should frame definite
accusations and prepare testimony; and then
the Legislature can act at once. There are
two methods of proceeding. impeachment can
originate in the Assembly by vote of ma
jority of all the members elected. The court
to try it will consist of the President OF tho
Senate, majority of the Senators. and ma
iority of the Judges of tho Court Of Appeals,
and A vote Of twO-thrris Of all the members
present will be necessary to convict.
Meanwhile tho impeached officers will
be suspended If the moro direct but
more dangerous expedient of simple
resolution of removal should be preferred, the
State Constitution provides that justices OF
"the Supreme Court and Judges of the Court
"of Appeals may be removed by concurrent
" resolution of both houses Of the Legislature,
IF twO.thirds of all the members elected to
tho Assembly, and majority of all the
members elected to the Senate. concur there
Gin - and that other judicial officers, except
justices of the peace and judges and justices
of courts that are not courts OF record, may
"be removed by the Senate on the recon-
mendation Of the Governor" The accused
is entitled to be heard in his own defense
and the Legislature naturally has not full
facilities for preparing the case; but the BAL
Association has, and upon that body, conse-
ouently, our hopes of action depend More
than the necessary majority OF the Senate and
Assembly for either course OF action belongs
at least in name to the party Of reform, and
will feel bonnd to give proper attention to
any charges that are properly presented. Now
then. gentlemen of the Bar, will you furnish
your Committee with the abundant facts in
your possessioni DO you really want pure
judioiaryi Or do you want your profession
degraded to the position of pimps for these
judicial prostitutes! The case the Bar Asso
citation is able to mako mp for tho Legislature
from the notorious facts in the possession OF hall
the lawyers in the city, will be tho sufficient
answer.
Year: 1871

WHO TRIES TO CRIPPLE INVESTIGA7 TONI


The U. 5. Senate spent yesterday in debate
as to whether the late Retrenchment Commit
tee should be revived. with such power of in
vestigatOn as II heretofore possessed. The
strict Administration Senators tried To
prevent it, aud permitted themselves to
assume the attitude of opposing lib
eral powers for investigating official cor
ruptiOn, because they believed it was in
tended to use them against the Administra.
ton There was nothing wrong. they argued,
which the Administration itself did not take
the promptest measures to expose and punish.
Therefore there should be no such investiga-
tion with power over persons and papers as
that which, last year, began considering the
affairs OF the New York Custom. House.


| At the very hour this debate WAS going on
the bank troubles here were dragging to light
the astounding fact that Mr.. VIM. Calender.
| the United States Bank Examiner for this
District, has been in the habit Of borrowine
very large sums Of money from the banks on
whose financial condition it ID his svorn
duty to report, and suppressing tho fact
Of such loans in his rcports, whereon
the public have accredited these banks A
sound From one he had received seventy.
five thousand dollars from another fifteen or
twenty thousarS in each his worthless mem.
or.ndun checks had absolutely been reported
and coupted as legal tender and it is feared
that the end Of this wretched work is not yet
| reached.


Messrs. Senator'S! you mistake the temper Of
the timesl Till yesterday the public knew
nothing Of this Calender; but they fear there
arc more Callenders in Oflcel We protest
against tho wautOn aud stupid injury you do tho
Year: 1871

One class of claimants under the Treaty Of
Washington is of persons who seek TO hold
the Government of the United States liable
for acts committed upon the persons or prop
erty of British subjects by Rebels. The first
important decision Of tho Commission now
sitting at Washington is to disallow claim
Of this kind 1t IL held that the United States
is not liable for injuries committed by Rebels
over whom they could exercise no CONTROL and
whose acts they could not prevent. This die
tum will give satisfaction in this country, and
it must have been reasonably expected by all
candid observers.
Year: 1871

From Cuba we have the ancient story Of the
surrender of innumerable insurgents at Las
Tunas This ingenious falsehOOd does not i'm
prove by age, and to it is added the gratuitouf
information that fifteen thousand insurgents
have surrendered during the past year. We
are not sure of the exact number, but we have
IN impression that the Spaniards claim to have
killed about ten thousand rebels, and, as they
admitted the existence Of only eight thousand
insurgents in the first instance, it must be seer
that the Cuban rebellion is pretty efectnallJ
stamped out by this time--if the Spanist
authorities are to be believed.
Year: 1871

In the multitude of reports concerning tho
condition of tho Prince of Wales, we appear
to discern the fact that. though rallylng
slightly yesterday and tho day before, bis
favorable symptoms do not continue. 1t seems
almost impossible that he can recover, though
the signs Of his mending have been encOur-
aging up to the issue of the last bulletin.
American readers will be shocked to learn
that some London circles affect to believe that
reports of the Princes illness have been ax-
aggerated purposely to create sympathy for
him. Such suspicion is uncharitable and
offensive, to use the mildest expression.
Year: 1871

The story Of the "Gratzes" ia once more
taken up, this morning, in our columns, and to
such purpose that the profits of Referee lawyers
in the future may be expected to make y les,
brilliant showing Bnt are the members Of the
profession, while gladly accepting tho help Of
The TRIBUNE in the battle for judicial Reform.
doing all they might to help themselves
Shall not the Committee Of the Bar Assooia
toD have before it by the holidays such facts
as shall warrant the Legislature, on its first
working day after NcwYear's, in taking the
preliminary steps for the impeachment Of our
unjust Judgcs4
Year: 1871

The escape of Charles Moore, tie emlgraht
robber, from the clutches which Justice once iiad
ON him is disgrace to the Police, the District
Attorney, and the Judges. They have virtually
been parties to the compounding of an infamous
felony, and must expect to be held Responsible
for the crime. Moore was not prosecuted Dy
the District Attorney at all; he made no earn
eat effort to convict him, rs in the cases OF MS
fellow criminals. The Police permitted him TO
escape, and though it is morally certain that
the Detectives knew where he was. no effort
was made by them to arrest him. Finally,
when his frightened bondsman compelled
MOOre's return, Judges Cardozo and In
graham consented to trick OF the law Dy
which the only witness against the thief was
spirited out of the city. Now this man Moore
is yet to go through the form Of trial before
Recorder Hackett OF Judge Bedford. we urge
that neither of these Judges shall make HIM
self a party to this infamous transaction by
which Justice is cheated, but that they shall
insist that the delinquent District-Attorney
shall make all effort to secure the return OF
the witness Kcrnach. Let Moore be kept in
prison at least as long as his victim was de-
tanned while efforts are making to secure the
evidence which his friends have sent out OF
the way. KOrnach, we understand, has gone
to Indiana or Illinois; we shall be obliged for
any information of his new address, with the
view of securing his return to prosecute this
dangerous criminal.