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Year: 1873

Hope is a charming trait in men.
There is something very admirable
in conscientiousness; in it's depth;
in its endurance; III the acceptance
of iihwelcone labor and duty which
it carries with it. There is also in
the stringency of fear much that is
to be admired. 1t carries with it
great activity and intense provoca-
ton. But, after all, commend to
me the sweetness and inspiration
of hope. Men who have this facul-
ty largely developed, even though
they have but little education, are
children of the daylight. They are
perpetually alive to that which is
sweetest and best in life. 1t is true
that hope itself has its peculiar dan
gers. The whole generation of what
are called schemers are children of
hope. They are not balanced by
suitable caution, reflection and de-
velopment. Schemers are pioneers
of success. We always laugh at
them and never recognize how much
we are under obligation to them.
If you are starting on an unknown
channel, you are not glad Of any
mishap to him that goes ahead of
you; but if he run upon sand bank
he is buoy for you, and you do
not 60 there; and if another strike
some obstacle on the other side, you
take notice of him, and avoid that
obstacle. You profit by the misfor-
tunes Of the two men and 60 be-
tween them. You take the channel
which they both meant to take, but
missed. The men who 60 ahead
concoct new schemes, seeking some
thing better, laying the foundation
tor valuable results, though they do
not reap them. To be sure, the in
ventor in his day, received nothing
from his inventions; but then, that
invention bore fruit in another mans
hand, a little later. 1t is the function,
then, Of schemcrs to go ahead; to be
pioneers; to find new paths; to
break up the wilderness; to prepare
the way for those who come after
them. We speak Of them sighting
ly; we crown their memories with
contempt, almost; we say of them,
"Well, they had no ballast; they
never succeeded" 1t success means
to freight ones own pockets, they
did not succeed; but if a man has
succeeded whose life has been a
benefit to his fellow men, whether
it has benefited him or not,
then they did succced.-W ".
Beecher.
Year: 1873

There l. story OF 4 doctor who
went 70 settle in a village cut west,
and on the first night Of his arrival
was sent for to attend 4 sick child
He looked at the little sufferer very
attentively, and then delivered this
oracular opiaiou: This hyar babes
got the smallpox, and | amt posted
up on pastules. We must approach
this case by circular treatment You
give the little cuss this draught-
Thet'n set him into fits. Then send
for ne. | graduated on its"
Year: 1873

Col. LEWIS, conductor Fifth Cavalry band, gave us call yesterday. Our citi- zens generally will remember him as con- ducting the concerts which the band gave here little over year ago. He informs us that the band will, at half past five o'clock tomorrow evening, give pro- gramme of choice music on the parade ground, and a general invitation to be present is extended.
Year: 1873

THE epizootic prevails lere in mild form. A majority of the horses and mules are afflicted, but nearly all are in use with every prospect of little loss in any form The stage animals westward are attacked but come and go on time. Eastward all seem to be right again. The warm weather is undoubtedly favorable.
Year: 1873

UNTIL further notice, the western stage will leave Tucson at 2 P. M., and the mails will close at l:3O. The object of this change is to give the horses more time on this end of the route while the epizootic prevails. To the public at large the de- parture at two o'clock is just as we'll as at fOur
Year: 1873

. THE weather during the week has been the warmest of the year-except yester- day, the forenoon being clouLy with a northerly breeze of just refreshing warmth and the afternoon clear and pleasant
Year: 1873

DISTRICT COURT is in session and dis posing of business quite as fast as can be with safety. Of the nineteen indictments found by the grand jury, nine were dis posed of up to yesterday. Anthony Dor mans case came up on Wednesday, and teere being no evidence at hand, the jury could do nothing but acquit him which may operate well upon the murdering ele- ment, but we doubt it. Ofhis guilt there never has been doubt, but the Supreme court ordered new trial with the result just stated
Year: 1873

come sufficiently bulky. we imagine
the printer will have to get up and
address to his widely-scattered dollars
something like the following: "Dol-
lars, halves, quarters, dimes and all
manner of fractions into which You
are divided, collect yourselves and
come home. You are wanted. Com
binations of all sorts of men that help
to make the printer proprietor gath
er in such force and demand with such
good reasons your appearance at this
counter, that nothing short of you
will please them. Collect yourselves,
for valuable as you are you will never
pay the cost of collecting. Come here
in single file, that the printer may
form you in battalion, and send you
forth again to battle for him and vim
dictate his feeble credit" Reader, are
you sure you haven't a couple of the
printers dollars sticking about your
clothes? If you have, order them
home Immediately.
Year: 1873

Human life, my friend, is not one


chance, but a thousand. The special


end you toiled for may not be attained:


The steps you took toward that end


will prove of far greater consequence.


You are business man, perhaps, and
your ventures have miscarried one


after the other, and now you look
sadly back through a long vista of
disappointments and defeat. But
meanwhile you are known to be a
good man and true-a kind husband
and father, loyal citizen and faith
full friend, and many man who has
passed you in the race for wealth and
fame may look with envy upon the
love and respect you have gained by
your personal character and services.
Your want OF success in business life
may be due to some peculiar lack III
yourself, or may result from some
thing adverse in your surroundings,
but remember that while yonr under
takings may fail over and over again,
Yourself may be q glorious success.
And here we touch upon the true So
luton of the whole difficulty. We
cherish this superficial philosophy of
life which makes the end supreme and
counts for nothing the steps taken to-
ward that end, and we produce such
shallow and dishonest types of char
acter at the present day-these shod-
dy contractors, t1ash-in- the-pan gen
erals, sensational preachers, and clap
tran politicians. No, friends, we have
IA right to count effort as we'll as effect
Not the result of u course Of conduct


but the motive and nature Of it, are
the all-important matter. You cal
not command success, whether the
means employed be fair or foul, but
it makes a great deal Of difference te
your personal character and to you'
fellow-men what kind Of methods yor
employ. The consequences of YOU
actions are a great deal more important
than the particular end they are IN
tended to subserve. a good end cal
Year: 1873

not Justify bad means, for these have
already reacted upon your character,
and by force Of example demoralized
others also. But if you fail in man
liness, courage and integrity, then all
outward successes amount to nothing.
The man himself, that is the true
end, and so far as we fall short of that
ideal, we fail. Outward plans depend
upon thousand contingencies, but
this inner triumph the world can never
deprive you of, because the world
never gave it to you. Let us hear no
more sneersfthen at any want Of tenn
poral success, no depreciation of pa
tient painstaking, or laborious effort.
No man fails who does his duty. If
you are conscious of righteous pur-
pose and the use Of honest methods,
you have succeeded already, what
ever may be the result.-C. ". Wendte.
Year: 1873

In murder case tried i'll an Irish
court, there was abundant testimony
that the murder was committed IN
bright moonlight. The counsel for the
prisoner, toward the end of the case,
passed around among the jury an al
manac by which it appeared that
there was no moon on the night OF
the murder. The prisoner was ac-
quilted at once. After the trial, his
counsel sent in bill, of which one
item was: "To printing almanac with
out moon, ESQ"
Year: 1873

The incouigfble Don Piatt, contem-
plating the possibility that Captain
Jack will exterminate the American
people at the rate the very one-sided
Modoc war is going on, throws a sop
to that ferocious chief by saying that
he desires it to be distinctly understood,
before this thing goesan further, that
Captain Jack has always been his
first choice for President. The OBJ
lection to the Modoc is that he new
er defines his position at least our Of
ticers have not succeeded i'll locating
him to their satisfaction. His ideas
in regard to back pay are uncertain,
but he has a way of going for an ad-
versary's back hair which is unpleas-
ant. to say the least of it. On the
stealage question he agrees substan-
TALLY with Oakes Ames; goes for all
he can get and puts it where it will do
the most good. The old reprobate
seems ambitious of making a modern
Pompeii of his lava beds by entomb-
ing the government troops under the
volcanic debris of his retreat. The
ancient Pompeiians inscribed Care ca
nem on the floor of their vestibules, and
the grim Modoc has written on many
a granite rock of his retreat, with the
blood of government soldiers: "Be,
ware OF Captain Jack.
Year: 1873

A Wilkinson County (Ga.) man be-
came convinced the other day that a
woman's temper is very irregular. He
had been moulding some bullets, and
had neglected to cool off the ladle in
which the lead had been melted. While
he was counting the bullets his wife
came into the room humming tender
love song. Suddenly the song ceased
and the man was made aware that
something had happened by catching
an adjacent cotfee-mill on the bridge
| of his nose. The unhappy wife and
mother had taken this picturesque
mode of informing him that she had
picked up the ladle by the hot end.
Year: 1873

DIVIDING TIE CoLoRED VOTE.-
Those who claim to he the conserva-
tie politicians of this State wonder
why they have not succeeded in di-
viding the colored vote. Other classes
OF voters are divided in their political
sentiments, some being Democrats
and some Republicans, and why should
there not be the same diversity among
the negroes? The reason is manifest.
1t is q general impression that the
conservatives wish to divide a ques-
ton which, in it's nature, is indivisible,
that of suffrage and the right to seek
and hold office. They concede suffrage
and all civil rights, but have not shown
themselves willing to see colored men
seek and obtain important official
stations. 1t is not likely that any
portion of the colored people of the
South will give up their adhesion to
the Republican party until opposing
parties shall become as willing to re-
ceive them on terms of equality in
the nominating caucus as we'll as at
the polls. This question can not be
divided, and the conservatives will
fare better if they will palpably take
one side or the other of the aggregate
issue. 1t is not in reason to expect
the colored people will willingly con-
sent to be rated good fish at the polls,
and spoiled meat in the division of the
spoils of Office. We speak Of this mat
tersimply as Il practical question under
the laws as they are, and without any
reference whatever to the disputed
policy of universal uffrage.-Crcsccn,


MtY.
Year: 1873

The Danbury Ne,rs says: It is a lit
tie singular how well pair Of boots
can be made to fit at the store. You
may not be able to get your foot only
part way down the leg at the first
trial, but that's because your stocking
it sweaty, or you haven't started right,
and the shoemaker suggests that you
start again and stand up to 1T, and he
throws in a little powder from a pep
per box to aid you. And so you stand
up, and pound down your foot, and
partly trip yourself up, and your eyes
stick out in an unpleasant manner,
and every vein in your body appears
to be OIL the point of bursting, and all
the while that dealer stands around
and eyes the operation as intently as
if the whole affair was perfectly new
and novel to him. When your foot
has finally struck bottom there is a
faint impression on your mind that you
have stepped into an open stove, but
he removes it by solemnly observing
that he never saw a boot fit quite as
good as that. You may suggest that
your toe presses too hard against the
front, or that some of the bones in
the side of the foot are too much
smashed, but he says this is always
the way with new boot, and that
the trouble will entirely disappear in q
few days. Then you take the old
pair under your arm and start for
home as animated as relic of 1872,
all the while feeling that the world
will not look bright and happy to you
again until you have Drained that
shoemaker.
You limp down town next day, and
smile all the while with your mouth,
while your eyes look as if you were
walking over an ovsterbed barefoot.
When no one is looking you kick
against a post or some obstruction,
and show i. fondEess for stopping and
resting against something that will
sustain your weight. When you get
home at night you go for those old
boots with an eagerness that cannot
be described, and the remarks that
you make upon learning that you,
wife has disposed of them to a widow
woman in the suburbs are calculated
to Immediately depopulate the earth
Of women and shoemakers generally
Year: 1873

The present Police Justices have not
shadow of a chance at Albany. Popular
prejudice sets against them so strongly that
they cannot hope to stem the current. But az
if this formidable opposition were not enough,
they have encountered another obstacle The
Custom-hOuse Ring has snulfed afar the
patronage involved in the measure, and
claim it. Last Fall, when they were scheming
for a nOn-partisan victory, they promised this
reformation of the courts and the patronage
which would arise from the removal Of the
Judges to the Council of Political Reform, and
thereby gained the support of that infant
(then still-born) organization. Now the Ring
feels strong enough, though not yet fairly out
of its shell, to break faith with the
abortive Council; and has framed new bill
to remove the Justices and give the appointing
power to District-AttOmey Phelps and Presi-
dent Vance of the Board of Aldermen Gus
tom house, and Mayor Havemeyer (Reformer).
The consequence is the revolt of the Reform"
Council, whose leaders bitterly bemOan that
the patronage is taken away from them. But
the public will rejoice, independently of these
considerations, that the removal of the JUS
tees is assured. 1t is not encouraging, GER
tainly, TO know that the Custom-house Ring
will have and hold and misuse this additional
patronage; but it is impossible to arouse the
least sympathy for the Council which deliber-
ately bargained for patronage and were swim
died out of it. We care little to whom the
power is given; the present state Of public
feeling in this city is such that notOriously
corrupt men cannot he appointed, and the
sentiment of the Bar is so improved that the
organization of the minor courts is virtually
compelled.


In Brooklyn. too spirit of reform is abroad
which cannot fail to work good. Thus far
only the District-Attorney of the county has
been arraigned, but the inquiry into his alleged
Offenses, even though it fall short of success
or is smothered, cannot but purify the judicial
atmosphere in a district heretofore painfully
corrupt. We have published the charges
against Mr.. BrittOn and his defense, If indeed
he can be said to have made any plea by his
general denial and his arraignment OF the
counsel who drew up the charges against him.
We are panied to see this demonstration on
Mr.. Britton's part; it savors too much of the
demeanOr of Barnard and CardozO when ac-
cused in like manner, year ago, and preju
dices Judgment against him. There is no de-
fense so weak as the abuse of the plaintiffs
attorney. Col. A. G. Davis and Judge Morris
figure before the public in this prosecution
solely as the counsel Of the Committee of
Fifty.


Mr.. Britton is not called upon TO prove them
base, but himself uncOrrnpted; and the public
has no consideration for any side or minor
peEsOnoI issues such as he makes with then.
The people of Kings County remember that TO
Year: 1873

Last week Scotchman living in one of the
outermOst suburbs of Philadelphia, after a day
or two of melancholy moping, put dose of
poison one night into a glass of porter, and,
after giving it to his wife and child, drank
the dregs himself. His mother-in-law was
wakened by the groans of her daughter, and,
possibly because his victims received the first
attention they were saved; but before morn
ing the poor Scotchman had tested the wis
dom of his experiment and gone to COM
pare the experience of the next life
with the evils which had proved too heavy
for him in this. After he was dead, as usual,
"a diligent search was made to discover the
"cause of the rash act" We are used to watch
ing with calmness our fellOw-traveers pushed
to the very verge of the great precipice, and
neither help nor hinder them; but once let
them fall, and all the world is agOg to find the
pebble on which they slipped at last There
really seemed to be no reason why this poor
fellow should not have kept his footing. lie had
no trouble at home, but, on the contrary, was
a fond husband and father: had no debt, was
sober and industrious, photographer by
trade, employed in shop where fair wages
were paid, and where he was already noted
by his employers and fellOw-w workmen as an
intelligent man; fond of hair-splitting de-
bates like the majority of his countrymen;
and especially of expounding to his comrades
the injustice of the rich to the poor No evil
dence was adduced to show that the wages
paid him were not liberal in proportion to his
work: they certainly were three times as
much as he could have received in Scotland.


The truth, however, was that this litho-
grapher, like twO-thirds of the emigrants of
the working classes TO this country. had
false idea of the real chance open to man
through the free institutions of the United
States. He had a conviction that suffrage
made all men absolutely equal, and that it
needed but successful clutch or two for him
to grasp rank, power, wealth; whatever he
had envied in those fortunate classes at home,
from which he was shut out by inexorable
barriers of birth. We need but go into our
own houses to find the same gross mistake.
Biddy in the kitchen and John in the stable
are insolent and careless simply to
show that they are Gas good as"
their employers Culture, refinement, knowl-
edge, count for nothing in their eyes. When
they discover that there are grades and ranks
in men and minds with which the polls have
nothing to do, they grow fractions and discon-
tented, leave their own proper standing
ground, and never find any other. This poor
Year: 1873

We wonder how many times, in the past
thirty years, we have been called upon to ex-
pose that typical old rascal who runs such
merry career around the country, assuring
mankind that he is one of the chief editors,
or writer's, or correspondents of The TRIBUNE,
and on the strength of that fictitious dignity
living at free quarters in the best hotels
riding without pay on the railroads, and push
ing himself into all sorts of places where he
has no right to be. Now and then perhaps he
borrows money of credulous landlords; but as
an ordinary thing his operations are conducted
on a much smaller scale. If there is any one
boon especially dear to his heart it is free
pass To go in for nothing when other people
must buy tickets is the summit of his happi-
ness We hear of him at all the theater box
Offices He haunts the doors of the opera
house and the concert room. He has been
known to beg for complimentary admissions
even to the boats of the Union Ferry Com
pany And strange to say, managers, collect
ors, conductors, and people of that class who
ought to know better generally trust him.
Time and again we have warned them that
we never ask favors that our people never
travel without money to pay their way; and
especially that we hate even the name Of a
railway pass. And yet every few days the
familiar form of the Chronic Dead Head still
confronts us, misrepresenting THE TRIBUNE
with all his old effrontery and all his old
success.


We forget what name he bore last month,
or in what particular little swindling opera
ton he was then engaged but just now he
turns up--we think it is in Washington
under the appellation of Benjamin f. Camp,
and his pet project is the renewal of an
annual pass over the Philadelphia, Whining
ton, and Baltimore Railroad. Mr.. Camp seems
to nave held a pass over that road "On ac-
"count of the n. Y. TRIBUNE" for the year
1872, and he asserts that the connecting roads
between Washington and New-Yogk have
shown him a similar favor Why did not the
kindly Superintendents refer to us for Mr.
Camps credentials He does not belong to
THE NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE He has no con-
necton with it, direct or indirect. He was
never employed by it, to the best of our be-
lief, in any capacity. II he pretends to have,
or to have ever had, any influence or control
over any department of it, we have only to
say to mankind in general, Don't believe him.
IL he asks for free board, or a free ride, or a
free ticket to the circus or the minstrels, "On
"account Of THE NEwYoRK TRIBUNE" we
particularly request that he may be suddenly
sent to the right-about. Mr.. b. L. Camp is a
Chronic Dead Head.
Year: 1873

The annual report Of the State Commission
ers of Fisheries, of which we present the IN
teresting portions elsewhere, encourages the
hone that within a very few years the finest
fish will be the most abundant food in our
markets In three or four years, for instance,
if but a seventh of the young fry artliiclaliy
hatched last year in the Hudson return to 1t,
fattened by feeding in thesOcean, they VIII
double the annual catch of shad IN that river;
that the actual result will far exceed this in
crease seems probable. The old notion that the
young fish starts on "a long journey in the ocean,
is entirely disproved. Old fishermen may stlil
believe, if they prefer to, that the three or
four years which are needed to mature thc
infinite number of small bones III the shad,
find him vOyager to distant shores, perhaps
even around the globe The evidence now Is
to the effect that the world of the individual
shad does not extend far beyond the mouth
of his native river. We need not fear that
the fish launched by the Commissioners in the
Hudson will be broiled by ScOtchmen on the
Clyde, or fried by negroes on Cape Fear
River If they survive their finny Toes I'LL
1876, they may be expected then to take
start for an early Summer vacation near the
Troy Dam, with every chance of contributing
to fishermen's luck in their passage.


There seems to be no limit to the increase
of resources for our market possible from
these processes. Salmon we may have In
plenty; and salmOn-rout, black bass, white
fish. and brook trout are to be abundant deli
cacies. The Commissioners propose in regard
to some of our inland waters what may be
called a rotation of crops; first filling them
with the smaller varieties of fish, which when
grown shall provide food for other fish of a
more vigorous and marketable kind. The
effect on the inferior fish is severe; but the
improvement to the superior race is manifest
in avoirdupOis. None of the econom-
ical inventions of the present day com
pares in efficacy with the general results OF
fish culture. Ninety-five fish are saved by the
artificial method where one would be preserved
in the natural way. Pound for pound there is
no article of human food which can be sold in
the markets of this city more cheaply than
fish will be when this system is fairly at
work. In the early days of Manhattan this
island had special celebrity because Of the
numbers and variety of sweet fish within
"the waters around it." We may soon hope
to see those waters again more fruitful than
the land.