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Year: 1872

intact, but only as balance of power be-
tween the two contending factions of
Radicalism, and not as an ant0go'iStic
party with nominees of its own in the
field. for. office against Radicals. Itmerc-
ly requires Democrats for once to quit
seeking all the offices themselves, and to
help the Radicals destroy each: other in
fratricidal strife for the places.


Only few men do the thinking for the
masses in politics, as in everything else,
and hence it is that every political party
consists merely of leaders and followers.
The surest plan to conquer any party is
to divide it, and as the leaders of every
party govern it, so the safest policy to
overthrow any political organization is
to set it's leaders to quarreling with each
other. The best means to this end is to
start them to scrambling for the public
Offices, in hot competition among them
selves, by relieving them from all ne
cessity of remaining united as hand of
brothers against the candidate of an op-
posing organization.


Every political leader is necessarily
either an office-holder, or an office-seek-
er. Even a great or good man must get
office for himself, or friends to be able to-
carry out the measures he deems best for
the good of tho State, and so must the
little, or bad man, seek Office to effect his
purposes against the country. Therefore,
it is self-evident that to retain or obtain
office is the practical object of first i'm
portance with every POLITICAL leader,
whether he be actuated by love of fame,
love of country, love of power, love Of
money, or love of villainy.


This explains the unquenchable thirst
of most men for Office, and as every man
likes to succeed in his projects, it also
explains why, as rule, candidates are
perfectly unscrupulous in the means
they employ. So common is it for Office
seekers to practice duplicity, sacrifice
friends, compromise with enemies, and
fatter, cajole, or even bribe voters, that
it excites no surprise, even in candidates
who are considered good and honorable
men in private life. When man enters
the field for Office, it is supposed that he
enters to win, as much so as that the
horse jockey runs his nag for the purse.
Both the candidate and the jockey are
expected to put forth all the skill and
power, good or bad, that is in them. The
voters themselves who are partizans Of
particular candidates, (and what voter is
not more or less partizan? p practice
vast deal of rascality to make their favor
ite win. Morever, as candidates arc as
often representatives of measures, as
they are of themselves, voters, in work.
ing for their pet oflice-seekerS, at the
same time work to carry out their own
principles, and as much rascality is ex-
pected in elections as exists in the busi-
ness of private life. SO universal do the
foregoing ethics prevail i'll elections that
Year: 1872

Z


SENATE.


The principal feature of unusual inter-
est in the Sale of Arms discussion of
Tuesday was the lobby aid to Carl Schurz
brought to bear in the galleries by the
Democracy and the boastfl cackle over
it made by the Democratic press. Ap-
plause and laughter to suit was arranged
with as manifest purpose as that Of the
managerial clacquers Of doubtful deb
utant or of new play on the dramatic,
instead Of the political boards.


Driven to despair by the well known
falsehood of the charges that the Govern
ment has violated neutrality laws, and
desiring a good show of a case in ad-
vance against the administration, De-
mocracy brought out all its "fair ladies
and brave men" to jeer and laugh at the
representatives Of the Countrywide grave
and reverend seniors Of the Senate when
hippant insoence was employed against
the integrity of our Government by the
great man who makes Democratic Sena-
tors, and carries the German American
vote in his breeches pocket.


The Champion of Germany VS.. Amer
lea, Senator Schurz, alleged that he
thought there was enough to juStify a
suspicion of corrupt transaction, and yet
he talked to the galleries and the country
through the Globe and Democratic doc
uments for more than two hours in order
to convince people that this country had
acted towards Prussia fully as badly in
violating neutrality laws, as had Eng
land in allowing her cruisers to gobble
up our commerce.


If the galleries and and cloak-rooms
are to be filled with admirers and decoy
ducks who applauded to the echo the py-
rotechnic display of the opposition and
show their hate of our Government, and
if, as it was boastfully announced by the
Baltimore Sun correspondent, Senators
cannot be heard in reply on account of
the noise made by clacquers in rushing
about and making outcries that Senators
spoke lies, the sooner such beer garden
and Kulllux spectacle as that Of the SEN
ate auditorium is closed, the better for
the credit Of our nation and the good
name of republican deliberations.


SPECIAL PLEADING.


AS special pleader Carl Schurz is GER
tainly great. When he has a private
pique to revenge he can magnify mole
hills in to mountains and have miles of
elevated table land to spare. This was
shown on Tuesday when he spoke for
two hours, aside from vituperation, his
argument was applied solely to bare al
legation that the law against selling arms
OF the new pattern was violated by the
officials of the War Department, when it
Year: 1872

THE San Francisco Post, price one
cent got out double-sheet edition one
day last week, for which the usual price
lone cent? was charged. The Tost is the
biggest little paper in the State, and is
conducted with marked ability.
Year: 1872

at the lowest possible paying rates, but they
would own them. In the latter case they
would not own them, but would eventually
paying high dividends to the shareholders.
As the success Of such railroads is beyond
question, and it is certain that their value
could not fail to increase enormously within q
few years, it is false economy on the part of
the municipal authorities to delay beginning
work SO important to the future of the city.
1t is this consideration which renders the
election of an enterprising and progressive
man to the Office of Mayor SO essential for
in his hands will lie, in great part, the power
of advancing or retarding works of great
public utility. Some progress has been made
on the west side by the establishment of the
elevated railway, which has now been in sue
cessful operation for more than eighteen
months. Unfortunately, the appearance
of the elevated line is not very in
viting, and people in this age are
very strongly influenced by appearances. Ner-
vous people are accustomed to look on the
elevated railway car as a sort Of automatic
Blondin, and decline to make the tight-rope
experiment. But experience shows that after
all this is only prejudice. The tracks
laid on those skeleton supports in practice
serve as well as those laid on the ground.
Certainly they are not more dangerous than
those laid across the Harlem Bridge, which
people cross with so much confidence because
they are used to it. Yet should the cars run
off the track at this point the result would be
just as unpleasant to the passengers as it
would be if dumped from the elevated track.
In either case the only guarantee the public
have is in the care exercised by the employees,
and the danger in one case seems not to be q
whit less than in tho other. This fact is
beginning to be recognized, as well as the
advantages of the line, and the result is
seen in the increased patronage of the
line by the public. Indeed, SO marked
is the revulsion Of the public sentiment
that we believe the company intend
extending the line as far as Fort Washington.
Vanderbilt also is pushing forward his under
ground scheme; but, unless he adopts low
rates, the people will not be able to derive any
very SIcdt duNhutdSc IOlA LIS pIOJcCCcu ilLiO.
It will, however be a great step in advance,
and all hope the work will be pushed on
vigorously to completion. If we are to main
tain the rate of progress which within the past
twenty years has made our city the metropolis
of the Continent, we must supply the pressing
need Of communications that alone will enable
our population to spread out freely. The
authorities ought to assume the initiative to
supply this great public need; and if their
scheme be only broad and comprehensive
enough they may depend upon receiving
generous and efficient support from the
citizens
Year: 1872




Visits from English yachtsmen to this coun-
try are not, we believe destined to be rare,
despite the regrettable unpleasantness tagged
on to our recollections of late visitant who
came to race for the Queens Cup. We have
at present in the port of New York as fine and
trim steam yacht, the Eothen, as was ever
built for private pleasure. 1t is second in
Dimensions only to the Duke Of Hamilton s
vessel, and Is owned by genial Englishman,
Mr. Robert Brassey, son Of the great Eng
lish railroad contrdcicr. We welcome this
gentleman and his pretty craft to our waters,
and hope. that both will give stimulus
to the branch Of yachting in which
Mr.. Brassey takes 50 much just pride. Our
steam yachts on this side are not yet on par
with our sailing yachts but by and by we
shall, no doubt, produce models of beauty,
capacity and speed equal to any that can be
produced in the world The Eothen made the
transatlantic voyage in fifteen days, touching
the Continent at St. Johns, and then steaming
up the river st. Lawrence, afterwards visiting
Halifax, and then quietly dropping down to
Newport and Bristol before coming here. He
will run up the Hudson, to admire its beau
ties, as far as Albany, and will take a trip to
the Delaware, and, perhaps, further South. We
hope that his stay among us will continue to
be as pleasant for himself as it can be.
Year: 1872

worthy of them and attempt characters Of
which they are unworthy.


The present season develops managers as
well as actors who do small things well and
great things ILL While the comedies are nearly
all well put upon the stage italian opera pre-
sents but single swallow to make the Winter
garden of the Academy joyous, and the opera
boufe company at the Olympic makes attempts
almost as ambitious and nearly as futile. The
managers seem to have forgotten that grand
opera has been well done in New York, and
that it was only when it was well done that it
was profitable, and that opera bo4fe, even
when it was novelty, was magnifcently
mounted. Too great ambition as well
as too little brings disaster; and by
singular coincidence some managers are
able to unite both, as we have seen
in the production of 'Don Giovanni
at the Academy and ''Genevieve de Brabant'
at the Olympic. In italian opera we have only
three great artists -Lucca, Kellogg and Janet;
in opera boute only two of average merit
Aimee and Gabel-the last named making a
great deal Of the small part of the gendarme in
"Genevieve de Brabant." As matter of
history, the readers of the HERALD oil know
that opera boaGs was made recognized part
Of the popular entertainments in this city by
Bateman and Grau, and they presented it so
well that inferior work cannot prove accept
able. The present company falls short of the
requisite excellence, and would do better if it
were less ambitious in its undertakings. 'La
Grand Duchesse' went well enough, but
"Genevieve de Brabant'' was the straw which
broke the camel's back. Thus it must be al
ways where the attempt to achieve is beyond
the power of achievement. These things we
conceive to be the lesson Of the present dra-
matte season; and in the shortcomings, as well
as in the successes Of the past, is the promise
of the future.
Year: 1872

hcuntry, whether for the luckleB girls then'-
salves or for the silly youths or sillier mel,
whom these beauties Of the beer barrel so often
lure into dishonesty and crime by only listen
ing 10 and smiling at their inanity and hinted
Or open indecency of conversation. It is q
process which has its revenge on both sides,
for the bedizened barmaid is held in the tolls
she has drawn around her admirers.


/ This system can never flourish in America
while manhood respects itself. Our faults we
are not unwilling to avow but this steady
and universal degradation of women can never
find place here. II is we'll known that the
beings who make night hideous in the concert
saloons are lost before they reach them, and
that these bells are only existent through the
iaxity of the police or tho law. both OF which
we hope to see remedied-the latter by the
next Legislature, IN booming them isrevoca-
bly,. But that q widespread system for the
decentralization of women such as the English
barmaid evil can ever appear among US we are
happy not to believe. Keep your eye at home,
John. for the present
Year: 1872

The Weather In This City Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes In
the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day Of last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Pharmacy, HERALD Building
Year: 1872

The uprising OF the people in support Of
Greeley and Brown is the expression of their
desire for reform. In every department Of
the Federal administrator there is demorali-
zation and corruption. N'hese are the natural,
results of the partizan ajms which rule all the
actions Of the administration leaders, and Of
the low tone Of tharacteg Of the President.
He has shown that he enfe5ed the Presidency
with the purpose oimaking the office an i'm:
strunient for enriching himself and all his re-
lations Of every degree. He has acted steadily
upon this purpose. The people see, with
shame and amazement, that the man who was
enriched by the gratitude Of the adation, for
his over-rated military services, could not free
himself. after he had assumed the Presidency,
from his Unsuitable avarice. They see that
this man has not been content with making
the Presidency source of profit to himself,
but that he persists in using it for the ag-
trast between Grants idea of the Presidential
Office and that Of Washingto ton aid jefferson
With them the Office was great trust. and
their sense of honor would not permit them
even to entertain the thought Of rersonal or
family profit in connection with fhe position.
With GIANT the Presidency is made the
means of building up his own fortune and
providing every relative with a source Of
gain A


is it any wonder that there should be cor
ruption and demoralizatien in the public SER
viccswhen such is the example of the Execu-
tive? The war did much to debase the tone
of official morality. Tie vast disbursements
of the government called around it horde
of adventurers, many Of whom crowded
themselves into office. and carried into
office their own dishonesty and greed. But
the low tone of t,rant's character has done


more to lower the standard of public service
than any other canse-more than all other
causes put together. Is it any wonder that
subordinate officials are willing to look upon
their positions as instruments Of personal
profit. when the President, whois their head.
and should be their example, regards the
Presidency as gift, and is willing to exhibit
himself as the champion giit-taker9 Tire
tone Of the public service cannot be main
tanned when suca man is its chief.


In this respect The people demand reform.
Tliey wish to see a man iii the Presidency
suhn.is not only himself honest and upright,
OUT VINO mas an eA.sitrd standard of puhlic
morality nian who will not toIel ,to ,r;ft
taking a-or corruption in his subordinares-a
man who will bring to the Presidency the
personal purity. the incorruptible integrity,
the steadfast uprighlncss. which were the
honor and glory Of the Office In the better
days OF lie republic. Such man is Horace
Greeley.
Year: 1872

Soon after Mr.. Greeley's action i'm bsiling


jeff. Davis. in 1867. he was notified that it was


contemplated to move his expulsion from the


Union League of which he was member, or


to formeEly censure. his action at their next


meeting. On being notified of this. he aub-


lisned the following letter:


GENTLEMEN: shalfnot attend your meet
ing. have an engagement out of town, and


shall keepit do not recognize you as ca


pable of judging, or fully comprehending
me. You only regard me as sentimentalist,


nlisled by maudlin philosophy. | arraign
you as narrow-minded blockheads, who
would like to be useful to q great cause but
don't know how. Your attempt to base d
great and enduring party on the hate and
wrath necessarily tngendered by bloody
war, is as though you should plant colony
on an iceberg which had somehow tlrited
into tropical ocean. tell you here, that
out of life constantly devoted to the good
OF human kind, yonr children will select my
going back to Richmond and signing tnat
bail bond as the " isest act, ard will saw that
it did more. for freedom and humanity than
all OF you were competent to do, though yon
had llvedtto the age Of Methuselah ask
nothing of you, then, but that you proceed
to your end by 9 direct, frank and manly
way. Don't sidle off into mild resolution
of censure, but move the expulsion which
you propose and which deserve, if deserve
any reproach whatever. All [ care for is.
that you make this a square stand up fight,
and record your judgment by yeas and nays.
1 care not how few vote for me, or how many
vote against me. for / know that the latter
will repent in dust and ashes before three
years have past. Understand, once for all
that dare defy you, and that propose to
to fight it out npon this line that have from
the day of Lees surrender. So long as any
man was seesing to overthrow our govern
ment, he was an enemy; from the hour he
laid down his arms he was my formerly err
ring countryman. So long as he is opposed
to national unity. the federal authority, or
the assertion of equal rights to all men, which
has become practically identified with loyal
ty and nationality, / shall do my best to de-
priye him OF power; but whensoeyer he
ceases to do this, demand bis restoration to
all the privileges Of American citizenship.
give you fair warning that shall urge the
northumberland of those now prescribed
for rebellion, SO soon as I feel confident that
this is consistent with the freedom OF the
blacks and the unity Of therepublic, and that
4 shall demand the recall Of all now In exile
for participating in the rebellion, whenever.
the country shall have been so thoroughly
pacified that its safety will not thereby be
endangered. And SO gentlemen, hoping that
you win henceforth comprehend me some-
what better than you have done, | remain,


Yours. HORACE GREELEY.
Year: 1872

Indifference to the whole subject. There
are many clergyman in New York who
have wine upon their tables and who
furnish it to their guests. We keep no
mans conscience, but we are compelled
to say that they sell influence at shame
fully cheap rate. What can they do in
the great fight with this tremendous evil !?
They can do nothing, and are counted
upon to do nothing.


If the men and women of good society
wish to have less drinking to excess, let
them stop drinking moderately. IF they
are not willing to break off the indulgence
of a feeble appetite for the sake of doing
a great good to great many people, how
can they expect poor, broken down
wretch to deny an appetite that IS stronger
than the love of wife and children, and
even life itself? The punishment for the
failure to do duty in this business is
sickening to contemplate. The sacrifice
of life aud peace and wealth will go on.
Every year young men will rush wildly
to the devil, middle aged men will booze
away into apoplexy, and old men will
swell up with the sweet poison and be
come idiots What will become of the
women? We should think that they had
suffered enough from this evil to hold it
under everlasting ban, yet there are
drunken women as we'll as drinking clergy
men. Society, however, has great add
vantage in the fact that it is vulgar for
woman to drink. There are some things
that woman may not do and maintain
her social standing. Let her not quarrel
with the fact that society demands more
of her than it does of men. 1t is her
safeguard IN may ways. = Scri6ner's S
Monthky.
Year: 1872

The Norristown Herald says: We re
corded the death of Mr. Chas Lyle
gate keeper, by lightning, on the night OF
the 18th inst. We also stated that no
marks were visible upon his body indicat-


ing that death followed from other than
natural causes. We have since learned
however, that in preparing the body for


sepulchre, Mr.. Now day, the undertaken,
could distinctly see where the electric
fiui d had entered and left the body 1t
appeared to have commenced at the left
shoulder, and taking downward course,
crossed the breast to the right side, De
sccndiug the RI Sht leg, leaving an abrasion
of the skin between two of the toes. But
what is quite wonderful in connection
with the matter the fact that upon the
right breast was the print of leaf found
on the floor of the piazza at the dead
mans feet. The leaf was from an A alan
thus tree in the yard, and with the stem
measured about five inches in length
The ribs, veins, and cellular texture of
the leaf were perfectly printed upon the
skin, the whole having red appearance


Mr.. Lyle died in sitting posture, upon
a chair, and when found his head inclin
ell to one side. AS his clothing was not
disturbed in the least it would appear im


possible for the leaf to have come in con
tact with the skin. tu comparing the
leaf found with the impression on the
body The two were exactly alike in size
and development How the impression
was made on the skin is mystery 1t
may have been the result OF !, species of
photography familiar to scientists, but
our readers would no doubt be cratiEed
! II somebody would Iise to explain.
Year: 1872

The errant Prince, the Graffa Duke
Alexis, who was here a year ago, has
been drifting with regal leisure around
the world, touching occasionally upon
a communicable point and then drop
ping out OF sight for a season. At last
advices he was hobnobbing with the
Maharaiah of lahore he may
be--and receiving at The h&dds of that
monarch the entertainment common to
the country. The principal fete for the
edi6cation Of the Grand Duke was a
contest between tiger and o buffalo.
To make the combatants equal, the
tiger was given opium and the buffalo
arratk. This nompensative arrange
ment was somewhat ovefdone. When
the curtain rose the tiger tried to sneak
away, but the intoxicated buffalo was
eager for the contest. The tiger fell a
victim after some little clawing and
chewing. This SPECTACLE ended, fetes
and ban4uets followed, His Majesty
drinking the health of his royal guest,
and Alexis responding in the brief but
sufficient phrases with which his Amer
lean entertainers were made familiar a
year ago.
Year: 1872

A man whrs las been sick unto death,
and very often, at sea, writes an ac-
count of a recent voyage for Indie, atii
how he circumvented the attack:


My remedy Was this: [ did not,
like So many passengers who felt so
well and jolly with the sea breeze and
still water, go down to d,tner, but sat
quietly on dect Til such t1me as [ felt
a little hungry, and then went down to
my berth, had some toast, lying down,
though it was then rough and we were
III the open sea. ard slept well during
the evening and through the night. [
cfd not get up next day, though [ felt
quite well, but at the stewards favor
ate quite good brealsfs3t md dinner
lying in my Berth. I arose on the
Third morning, feeling perfectly well,
and from that day and all through the
voyage, [ took my meals at the table,
ate heartily, having found; as l then
believed, and still &1ii assured of, per-
feet cure cor sea sickness. I may men,
ttcn that fully 'one-thlrti of the passen-
gers were sick, and number did not
make their appearance at the Table till
a day or two after rae, and / can only
attribute ny unwonted immunity from
The miserable complaint to lying in my
berth till such time as my system had
become accustomed to the rolling and
pitching motion.