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Year: 1872

gates. Official corruption is the third of the dan
gers which in Mr. Colfax's opinion menace the
stability of the Republic. Whether in deliver
ing this warning he thought of the bargains
and sales in patronage, the frauds in customs
service, the misappropriation of money in the
Navy Department, the jobbery in the Ord
nance Bureau, the speculations of. the Santo
Domingo Ring, or the score of other scandals
for which Gen. Grants administration has De-
come celebrated. we considerably refrain from
asking. Perhaps we have misunderstood Mr.
Colfax's character all these years; he may be
terrible satirist.


But there is one remark of the Vice-Presi-
dents which we have no doubt he made in all
frankness and sincerity; he said the reflection
that he was not candidate this time with
Gen. Grant was great relief to his mind.
Year: 1872

Our remarks in regard to Mr.. AtlxnsOn's
plucky but indiscreet declaration of war against
everybody else, have had q startling effect
upon that venerable and highly respectable
paper, The Erening Post. 1t flew into pas
sion yesterday which, considering its age, its
plethoric habit, and the weather, is calculated
to fill its friends, among whom we are
proud to rank ourselves, with profound
concern. We do not know precisely
what has Occasoned this painful excite
ment. We spoke of the Profound People
not only with courtesy but with that reverence
which is their due. We frankly avowed our
opinion that if they only had little common
sense they would have every quality which
ennobles humanity. So it cannot be that
which has stirred The Post up to such danger
ous and apOplectlc fury. 1t is possible it does
not like our referring to the Profound
People without mentioning The Post. The
fact that this estimable paper continually
asserts that the Liberals have repudiated the
Cincinnati nomination gives color to the sus-
picion that it considers itself, and Mr.. Atkin-
son and Mr.. Lloyd, the Liberal party. This
trinity of profundity, so to speak, is the only
object of The Posts worship, and is probably
what it means when it says: "As for me and
"my house, we will serve the Lord,n for it
certainly cannot think of calling Gen. Grant
by so imperial a name.


But while we would do nothing to interfere
WITH The Posts ecstatic contemplation of its
own greatness and gravity, we cannot allow
it to write untruthful nonsense and attribute
it to The TRIBUNE. If our estimable cotem-
porary had read his TRIBUNE with more
candid and teachable spirit, he could never
have said anything so distressingly improper
as this:


Never, says THE TRIBUNE now, In effect there a
OF egresious dos. OF impracticabe jack
asses Of inflated pretendes than these very men,
Their aim is absurd, their motives suspicious, their
method abortve and their pretensons auShable They
are not In the least worthy OF respect because they pro-
pose nothing that the country needs ana they
in the least worthy OF fear because they few in
Liberal Republicans"


This misrepresentation arises from source
we can scarcely refer to without the risk of
making The Post still angrier. 1t comes from
the fact we have before mentioned, that the
square-root of the sub-bolt from the sub-bolt
of the Fifth Avenue Hotel considers itself
" the Liberal Republican party" and cannot
be persuaded out of it. 1t is like that beadle
who having been promptly chastised for some
impertinence, turned and said, In me you
" have kicked the majesty of England"
There were very few "egregious dolts."
Year: 1872

very few impracticable jackasses," very
few " inflated pretenders in the I'm
cinnati movement. They are all out OF IL
now. and vet we could not bring ourselves to
characterize them in language so unreseryed
as that used by the authority which knows
them best. But The Post must not assert that
we say the Liberal Republicans propose
"nothing that the country neecs," because tliS
is not true. They have proposed, in our opinion,
precisely what the country needs. "Ihey are not
in the least worthy Of fear;" that IS true
becouse their aims are such as all good men
should desire to see prevail. They are not
few in NUMBER They number far more
than we dared to hope when we eniisteu III
this campaign for reform, and their numbers
are increasing every day. Not only in number
but in weight, the array OF their
names is imposing. Governors Palmer and
Brown, who have borne themselves unspotted
in their great office; the two Senators Trum-
bull and Schurz, who in themselves are the
best representatives of that unfiinching de-
yotion to law and justice WHICH is the first
need of the hour, and Of that high and cul-
tivated aspiration for political and admins
tratiye reform which is the best hope
of the future White and Halstead,
Watterson, Bowles, and Bromley, the able and
incorruptible journalists who contributed
more than any other agency to make
this great campaign possible, and to
raise it to plane above mere par
tisan squabbling, all these men shared
in the Cincinnati movement accepted
its result and are at this day doing
yeomen service to realize, by the election OF
its candidates, the hopes and purposes with
which it was begun. If The Post says we
speak in any sense but honor and respect OF
these men, and the thousands who think and
act with them, it says what is at once absurd
and malicious. If it means only that itself
and Mr.. Atkinson are Liberals, then Liberal
ism becomes a question Of definition where
we should probably not agree.
Year: 1872

Some kind-hearted people, we perceive,
have been arguing in favor not only OF the
woman Garrabrant's escape from the galows,
but of committing her term of imprisonment
to a very limited period. Her youth and
pretty face, and the caressing term OF Libble
which the public use to her, Is ar
gument enough with tender-hearted rea-
soners that the laxest and most
lenient treatment is all that is needed
to restore her to virtue and usefulness
Hanging would be now, as it is always, III
our view, the most unchristian and illogical
act of a Christian society to any of its mem
bers. But opposition to hanging should only
stimulate common sense. Because we refrain
from choking guilty wretches like dogs, we do
find it necessary to make them the subjects
of tender sympathes and turgid pathoS such
as we never give to the hard-wOrhng me-
chanic or labOrer.


The plain fact about this woman Garrabrant
is that she is, both physically and morally in
curably unsound. Whether her condition is
due to birth or disease is question for pbySi-
ologsts but We doubt if she possesses any
moral perceptions, save enough for the grace
of God to work upon. 1t is right and proper,
doubtless, that such an effort should be made
But in the meantime society should protect
itself from her and her like. The poor girls
life was simply that of an animal when she
was free 1t will be that of a comfortable ami
nal with the chance of reform in confinement
(unless she happen, indeed, to fall into the
Connecticut State PRISON.. If she were lber-
ated tomorrow, no reason has been offered
why she should not go on strangling men with
each new lover, or as often as a set of cham
her furniture offered a sufficient inducement.
Year: 1872

The defense in the Stokes case began yester-
day with an effort to break the force of the
evidence for the prosecution to show that
Stokes had followed Fisk and laid in wait for
him at the Grand Central Hotel. If the effort
had been completed as it was begun, and az
the defense claim they can conclude it, 1T would
have been very effective, but unhappily the
witness who was to have forged the last
link In the chain was absent. He may still be
produced, but not with the effect that would
have followed had his testimony been de-
livered yesterday in the proper chronological
order. As it was, the testimony very clearly
showed that Stokes was followed, in the mat
ter of time at least, by Fisk rather than Uics
UerSd, as charged, and the original evidence
of those who saw the murderer pass the Erie
house and land at the Grand Central has little
force left. Before finishing the testimony on
this point the defense was compelled to 90 Oh
to show what took place on the stairway.
Whether it has any other testimony on this
point than that of Stokes himself, remains 10
be seen. Nothing more was done yesterday
than to impeach the evidence of one OF the
boys who swOre he saw the shooting.
Year: 1872

And now it turns out that Mr.. Davis Hatch, whom
Baez and Babcock kept imprisoned in Santo Do
mingo for fear, they said, ho would oppose the
annexation project. and at whose release President
Grant was much displeased was not an opponent
of annexation at all, but the contrary did all he
could to make it popular with the Dominicans.
Why then was he kept in jail There Is mystery
about this ease which needs to be cleared up. aud
the suspicion naturally arises that he knew too
much of the specuatons of the Santo Domingo
Ring to be left at large.
Year: 1872

few weeks ago the denomination organs
were convinced that the most ludicrous fea-
ture of the whole farce enacted at Cincinnati
was the apparent belief that the Cincinnati
ticket could by any possibility be accepted
at Baltimore. Now, these same men are all de-
claring that they always knew it was going
to be accepted at Baltimore, and that this Is
precisely what they have all along wanted
Like certain unlucky commanders during the
late war, they have not been defeated at ALL
they have merely succeeded in getting the
enemy lust where they wanted him.
Year: 1872

citizens are within easy journeying distance
of these centers that formal glori6cation is
more conveniently attainable now than
formerly. Our countrymen dearly love speech
making and the Fourth of July fortunately
gives them an opportunity to enjoy this
national luxury in foreign land.
Year: 1872

Another great fire is devastating Constantl-
nople. This unfortunate city is mainly built
of wood, and has an imperfect system OF fire
extinguishment. The city has been devastated
many times by fire and peStilence, and this
visitation, severe as it threatens to be, will
not be likely to make great deal of difier-
ence in the municipal management OF the
fataIist 0ttomana
Year: 1872

How old are you? Twenty.iive' Thir-
ty? Are you happy to-day Were YOU
happy Yesterday Are you generally
happy? Ii so, you have reason to judge
that you may be happy by and by. Are
YOU SO busy that YOU have no time to be
happy? and are you going to be happy
when you are old. and you have MOI 50
much to dos No, you will not. You
now have specimen OF what you will
be when YOU are old. Look in the face
Of Today. That is about tho average. -
That will tell you what you are going to
lie. What you me carrying along with
YOU is what you will have by and by. If
you arc SO conducting yourself that you
have peace with God. and with your fel-
low men, and with your faculties; il ev-
cry day you insist that duty shall make
you happy, and you take rs much tins as
il ueediul for the culture Of your social
faculties, you will not be exhausling lie,
and it will be continually replenished.-
But il you arc saving everything up till
YOU get to bc an old man, habit will stand
like tyrant, and say. "You would not
enjoy yourself before, and YOU shall not
now" How many men there are who
have ground and ground to make money,
that they might be happy by and by, but
who, when they got to ho fifty or sixty
years old, had used up all the enjoyable
nerve that was in theml During their
early life they carried toll and economy
and fugalily to the excess of stinginess,
and when the time came that they OK.
pected JOY, there was no JOY Tor them -
II. ". Beechcr.
Year: 1872

An intelligent young Englishman who
recently travelled somewhat extensively
in New York, examining oar farming.
writes to tho Utica Herald his views from
which we take !he following


was much pleased in my progress to
find 50 much good machinery and imp!c
ments in general use among iarnels.
Your grass mowers, reaperS, horse rakes
and thrsShing-machinss ara lighter than
ours though strong enough, and are, so
iar as am q Judge, better. Blu. you
harvest your corn and hay in an @ntidy
manner. Your farm.yard manure-wc
think good deal OF farm.yard manure
is almost entirely wasted. You GER
tainly cart iseut on the land, but gen
orally when good deal OF the ammonia
has evaporated, and then apparently more
to remove it out Of the way than ior The
good it does But rich soil and bountl'
iul natusc have made you prodigal OF
your advantages in these respects.


saw good deal OF your factory
method of cheese making, and was
much interested Herewith. In this re-
spect YOU are far ahead Of us, and your
cheese improves every year. while ours
goes the other way. Still even you are,
in sense, only jusl over the threshold OF
the excellence and exactitude OF which
cheese. making, as an art. is susceptible.


Your dairy stock, generally. is much
inferior To ours, and so is the herbage
they live on; but | certainly saw some
Short. horns that would have done credit
to any English stock exhibition whatever.
You will improve in this respect every
year.


Your sheep, too. are very inferior.
both in respect of wool and mutton
decidedly so than the cows are.


Your farm horses are much lighter
than ours, though think they answer
your purpose quite as we'll as ours do.
We err in opposite extremes. But
have capital roadstcrs-better o b
erage than ours. Your breeds Of 5
qnite equal ours.
Year: 1872

There, is scarcely one in this
large class OF our people, whether
male or female, old or young, that is
not ambitious to rise in position
and pay. Many youth Of ofbri)liant
capacity sees the plodder advanced
above him, and thinks his own
merits underrated. Many girl
aspires to the confidence OF her en-
ployer, and longs to be treated as an
equal rather than an inferior. We
propose to put all these striving
souls in the pos ssion of tho secret
by which they may attain their de-
sires. The very first quality taken
into account by one who is looking
for help is trustworthines,. Is
this man or woman an eye servant"
is the first question IN the mind of
the employer, careful though he is
not to express it. Ability, ex-
perience, skill, may all be requisite,
but Of what avail are they if the
man or woman cannot be depended
on2 Suppose we could not trust in
the stcadfastness of nature--we
could not be sure that the sun
would rise just at such time every
morning and set at the due hour at
night; suppose we find water run
ming up hill, and weights rising sky
ward instead of falling to the earth
how utterly baseless in such o
world would all our plans and hopes
become. We want to feel the same
confidence in those we depend on
as we feel in nature. "Louis has
been in my employ for fourteen
years, and he has never once disap-
pointed me. He is always prompt,
faithful, trustworthy So said a
friend the other day, and straight
way Louis, took rank in our minds
with George Washington-both
men that could be trusted. God
give us more of them. There is u
large class Of men and women who
can succeed in life only as they link
their fortunes to those wise in turn
ing the rudder bonds and shaping
their course to the desired haven.


Left to themselves, they drift on an
uncertain sea, often upon the shoals,
rarely into deep soundings; smooth
waters, currents and eddles bear
them now here, now there; upon the
rocks, upon the sand. Best it is
for such to hitch with Il many
stranded cable to some powerful
craft, and speed direct over the
main The advantage need not
at all be one-sided. Dropping the
metaphor, there is no man in heavy
business that does not need q stead
fast, trustworthy, right-hand helper


Does he find such Il one? How soor
the world knows it, for this same
right-hand helper becomes partner
in the business The reputation
one wins who is always where he is
expected to be doing as he is expect
ed to do, is better than gold more
valuable than rubies. This will
place-him Oh the roll Of honor III
the estimation of all noble souls.
This will put in his hands the gold
en- key that opens the palace Of ctor-
nifty, for no human lips that will
utter the words, "Thou hast been
faithful over u few things; 1 will
make thee ruler over many things;
enter into the joy ofthy Lord"
Year: 1872

The Committee on Army Reor-
eanization in the French Assembly
has agreed to recommend the adop-
ton Of the rule that soldiers unable
to read and write at the expiration
of their terms OF service, shall re-
main in the army until they can.
Year: 1872

Who will bell the cat? Who is
daring enough to be the first to dc
wise thing? Only some eccentric
person. There are no people who
can more fully justify their right of
being on the earth than eccentric
people. They are,for some purposes,
the salt of the earth. 1 do not
know how we should ever get any
thoroughly new and wise thing done
without their aid. 1 would rather
let all the wise and prudent people
in the world die out from it than
part with the eccentric people.
They are always the leaders OF So
cial freedom.-[ Author Helps in
Good Words.
Year: 1872

The Patriarch Of Politics I'm o Critical


Condition OF Health mt His Home in


Twelfth street, but Somewhat Better


than q Week Ago.


Mr.. Thurlow Weed has been for the last week or
two confined to his room at his residence in West
Twelfth street. He is suffering from an Old trouble,
the chronic effect of sunstroke that occurred two
years ago. He is daily visited by numbers Of his
friends, and receives, perhaps more letters than
any other politician living. At present hls health
seems to be getting somewhat better than II was a
week ago, and hopes are strong that the veteran
celebrity will not yet for long time be called from
his place In tue constellation q public genius
Year: 1872

cnurcn, preached there yesterday on the de-
velopment of the grain Of mustard seed into a
tree. Christ was that seed and the Church is
the tree in which the fowls of the air may
lodge. From the same sermon as a base,
Father STAIRS traced the progress ofthe Catho-
lie Church, taking substantially the same ideas
STAIRS looks forward to the time when the
mustard seed of Catholicism in this country
shall become the wide-spreading tree. Father
Merrick diversified a similar line of thought
by claiming that the Roman Catholic Church
is the elect and only true Church. Father
Lory, in Jersey City. preached on prayer.
Year: 1872

On here that the government would not oe-
part from its peace policy toward the tribes,
and that they might continue in their exhila-
rating and profitable business of rapine and
murder with impunity. They have active
allies in Mexico and ready market for their
plunder. and they are not very likely to be
dissuadsd from taking ''the bad road by
Quaker pats on the back and presents of wax
dolls. In Spring. when the grass begins to
grow and the ponies to fatten, we shall, doubt
less, see the effects of the arrangement with the
Kickapoos. In the meantime, would it not
be well for the administration, while so careful
of the lovely savage, to consider the claims of
the outraged people of Texas on the protec-
zion of the government?
Year: 1872

The Weather In THIS CITY KcstcrdNy.
The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twentyfour hours in
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Pharmacy, HERALD BUILDING
Year: 1872

Few securities have ever been placed upon the
market which, In so short time, have taken so high
a stand or become 80 widely popular with prudent
investors as have the First Mortgage Bonds of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The Seven
Thirty Gold Loan OF this Great corporation "a
present daily sales are
Year: 1872

That most railway accidents, and espec-
tally those which are the result of collision,
can be avoided by proper care and foresight
is undeniable. This is shown by the com
paratiVe exemption from accident which
some railroads in this country, conducted
on proper principles, enjoy. Even in regard
to the breaking Of rail, as in the Lehigh
accident, which the cOroner's jury in that
case treats as an unforeseen and unavoid
able" thing, it is said that in Germany an
accident has never occurred from the break
ing of a rail. The New York Euening
Post says that not person in that country
has lost his life nor person been mutilated
from this cause in allthe thirty and more
years that steam carriages have been rup-
ming on iron ways. The reason is plain.
1t is determined, by scientific experiment,
how long iron will resist, on the average,
the beating of wheels, and then the law re-
quireS the railroad companies to put down
the rails periodically, whether those in use
exhibit signs of weakness or not. While
this involves expense it is so managed as tobe
gradually distributed over period Of years,
a small part Of the road being renewed each
year, until the whole Is completed within
the given time. Here, on the contrary, up
on many railroad lines little attention is
given to the selection ofrails, and less to
their renewal at certain periods. Few CON-
panies incur the expense Of substituting
steel for iron rails, though the former are
far more durable. In like manner the same
false economy in all that would give IL.
creased security TO the public is one Of the
chief causes Of the frightful perils on rail-
way travelling.
Year: 1872




WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.--Writhing under
the terrible blows inflicted upon it by the
independent Republican Senators. the ad-
ministration, through its organ, foreshad-
OWs warfare upon all those oficeholders
who indi ate any sympathy with Schurz
and Sumner. The following Is its language
toward the humble disaffected: "Many Of
ficeholders have been corrupted with the
prevalent cant Of the party whip, and need
whipping back into the traces. It is noto-
rious that persons favored with the conf
dence and best gifts of the administration
have been decidedly shaky In their allegi-
ance to the Republican organization that
has made those ingrates so fat that they
have kicked out of all discipline. There
have been patience and long suffering, and
we believe the largest liberty; but there
must be limit to all things, and men sus-
tanning the detection of Schurz, Sumner &
Co. must choose quickly whom they intend
to follow and serve. Treason to party can
not be perm tied among men holding place
right here under the shadow of the Capitol.
Good nature and sufferance toward such
men is most imbecile, and can no longer
be admitted as wisdom. Men can change
coats no longer easily and comfortably; but
they must not be permitted TO wear
our party uniform while holding communi-
cation with the enemy"