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Year: 1873

Hon. John NJ. Crebs, representative in the
Forty-seeond Congress from the thirteenth DIS
ct Of Illinois, is to be added to the list Of those
members who, after opposing the back pay grab
BY their votes, had the honesty and consistency TO
Tefase to avail themselves OF the proceeds. He is
Also to be added TO the shorter list of those who
did not use the sWaR TO buy popular tavor by pre-
senting IT to some home institution, TO the State
municipal government but left it in the treasury
Of the United States, from winch 1t should never
haze beea voted in the way it was. Mr. Farms
worth. of the same State, by the way. who took
his back pay and appropriated it to such purposes
Aa he chose IN his own district-thBt is, 10 the
county treasures is regarded potting it just
where it "WOuld do most good" for his own poIti-
cal future. They seem 70 consider in Illinois that
this is . Shrewd dodge for promoting his own pop
ularity Of the next election in his district, and
hence he hatters himself that he shall walk over
the course by this ingenious appropriation OF the
pubic money TO further his own electioneering
purpose How broadly in contrast with this Is
the open and manly course Of Senator BayaTd, of
Delaware, and Others, who have promptly turned
the money over 10 the proper place for 1.-THE
United States treasury-if they did not think II
proper, thoagh Legal, to take it for themselves.
Year: 1873

Too PERsoNAL.-We regret that the gentle.
men Of the City Council should have allowed
themselves TO become 50 much excited during the
debate last evening TO pass from the discussion
of the matter under debate to the indulgence OF
personal references that were in nowise connected
with the questions before that body. Gentlemen
must not forget that they are representatives of
q moral constituency
Year: 1873

The singular action of the County Com
missioners in the matter Of building
bridge over Big Elk in the Fourth District,
still continues to be the subject of para
mount interest to the citizens of that sec
tion of the county. The fact that the
commissioners should decide against the
wishes of nine-tenths of the people most
interested in having a bridge, and against
the public interest as we'll, seems to aston
ish the plain men of that region. They
talk of demonstrating, with a petition
signed by nearly the whole district Only
twelve men they allege, favor the building
bridge at the upper fording in preference
to the lower; but the opinion which seems
to prevail among them who urged bridging
the lower fording, is that no matter how
numerous a petition were signed, request
ing the Commissioners to withhold action,
or reconsider their decision in the mat
ter, that the influences which swayed them
against the unmistakable wish of so large
majority as nine.tenths, while at the
same time overriding the public interest,
would still prevail, and their prayers have
no effect in counteracting the mischiev-
GUS influence of the "Elkton Ring
The upshot of the matter is, that the
county will be put to an unnecessary ex-
pense of five thousand dollars to satisfy
two or three favored individuals Of the
"ring," while the great necessities that
call so loudly for bridge, will remain for
the present neglected and unheeded, and
at future time, near or remote, as circum-
stances may determine, the great demands
of the public will have to be supplied at
an additional cost in building bridge at
the lower fording, where, every body that
knows anything of the business and travel
of the neighborhood agree, that as between
the two sites the demands of public inter-


est in favor of the lower, as compared
with the upper site are ten to one.


Personally we are not acquainted with
the location or travel of the neighborhood,
but what every body says is apt to be true.
If there was any political question involved
in the issue, we could account for the sim
gular action of the Commissioners, but
there is nothing of the kind apparent. 1t
appears to be a spontaneous demand for
bridge at the lower fording by very large
majority of men of all parties, defied and
dsspised by the quiet, invisible influence of
the Elkton ring" for what purpose the
future will develop, perhaps. The moral
is this: while the people continue to vote
like vassals for candidates dictated by the
" Elkton ring" they may expect the pub
lie good to be sacrificed to the interest ola
select few. The stencil rising from the
rottenness of some of the county offices is
enough to produce cholera this Summer.
Year: 1873

The Democrat demands this kind of tar
if in its issue Of the 7th instant. This has
become stereotyped phrase with politi-
clans, and what other kind of tariff we
can have, when there is a revenue to be
raised annually of some hundreds of mil
lions is not easily to conceive. To this
demand we do not think any political party
can object. The revenue must be raised
chiefly by taxing imports, or it must be
collected from the real estate of the coun-
try by direct tax, which would very soon
satisfy every farmer with the " free trade"
doctrine, which the Democracy used to
preach, even as late as the last campaign.
In that canvass it was very common
practice with their orators to read extracts
from the documents of the New York i'm
perters' and British manufacturers Free
Trade Leage, which denounced the whole
system of raising revenue by taxing I'M
tured or produced in this country-tsa and
coffee were two of the main articles that
they demanded an import tax to be laid on.


But we did not set out to write ar tariff
article, only to ask the Democrat to define
that "tariff for revenue with incidental
protection" which it demands, that will
raise some three hundred millions of reve-
nue. annually. We doubt not that many
good partisans of the Democrat would like
their organ to be definite about this ques-
ton; they have read SO much in denuncia-
tien of all tariffs from time to time in that
paper. When hundreds Of millions are
required to be raised by tariff, we think
it necessarily covers pretty broad field,
and protection to our manufacturing indus
tries will be the rule, rather than an excep-
ton, or incidental occurrence. The satyre
thrust the traveller from his cave for blow
ing his hands to warm them and his soup
to cool it, out of the same mouth; and the
paper that has delivered SO many addresses
on the beauties of "free trade" and de-
mands gentle little tariff that will raise
three hundred millions of dollars annually.
and styles it "incidental protection" will
prove as much of a puzzle to the general
reader as the satyre's guest. But tell us,
oh, gentle Democrat, in what particular a
"tariff for revenue with incidental protec-
tion'' will differ from our present tariff.
If protection in a tariff is bad, what
virtue is there to be derived from "inci-
DENTAL" or. in plain terms, accidental pro-
lection? Is there any more virtue in an
accident, than in doing thing with a
direct purpose?
Year: 1873

be commenced until complete plans
models and specifications for its construc.
tion In all Its parts shall be made, and
that when the plans have been approved
they shall not be changed, except upon
the recommendation Of q board composed
of at least five naval officers, and OPP
proved by the Secretary Of the Navy, and
that when such changes are made the
actual cost of them shall be estimated by
such board.


Without further action the Senate went
into Executive session and soon after ad-
iourned.
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, January 2l.-About eight
inches Of snow fell here last night. The
storm extended to the northwest, but the
snow is light and in the city has not
driftel scarcely any, SO that it is hoped 1t
will not interfere materially with railway
travel.
Year: 1873

A SENSIBLE SHERHF.-Two men have been
arrested at st. Louis on requisition of the
Governor of Tennessee, charged with fraudu-
lent breach Of trust. They were to be taken
to Memphis, where the warrant was found;
but in view Of the prevalence Of yellow fever
at that place the Sheriff who arrested them
concluded to allow them to remain in st.
Louis on bail to deliver themselves up to him
when the epidemic has abated, and meanwhile
to report to him daily. The action Of the
Sheriff has excited some criticism and is said to
be unprecedented. At all events it is sensible.
If yellow Jack" should take off the accused
what would become of the ends Of justice
And if the Sheriff should himself fall victim
to the disease what would become of the re-
ward2
Year: 1873

QUESTION OF LAw.-It appears now that
the Taintor defalcation case has been reduced
70 the question whether, under the act Of
Congress establishing the national banks, any
officer Of national bank, who uses its funds
for purposes Of speculation, cannot be held
to answer for an illegitimate conversion of said
funds, even though acting in this business
with the full knowledge and consent Of the
directors. common sense application Of the
law, we think, would hold the offending Off
Ger and his aiders and abettors responsible for
the misappropration Of the funds of the bank
in illegtimate speculation; but there is no
telling what may be the issue among lawyers
and judges upon point of law.
Year: 1873

REronTs WHICH WE ARE SORRY To HEAR
The reports which are coming in from all
sides of the suspension of furnaces, foundries,
factories and public works, with the discharge
from employment Of thousands of working
mon and women. We can only hope that
these misfortunes to our industrial wealth.
producing classes will be but temporary, and
that this financial pressure which weighs so
heavily upon them will soon be removed.


Meantime, however, the general observance
among our people Of all classes Of the good
old rule Of 'live and lot live" will contribute
much to tighten the general burden Of the
community and the suferings of the unen-
plpyed. the helpless poor and the destitute
Year: 1873

A NUISANCE CHECKED. 1t has been the too
frequent custom Of saloon keepers and others
in this city to place what are called ssorna-
mental lamps" on the sidewalks, sometimes in
front Of their own places of business and
sometimes nearer to the stores or residences of
their neighbors. These ornamental lamps"
are nothing but illuminated advertisements,
and it is not always agreeable to have opposite
ones door blazing notification Of oysters,
liquors or some other articles sold by other
parties. The Commissioner Of Public Works
has drawn the attention Of the Mayor to case
in which the erection Of one Of these advertis-
ing lamps has been authorized by a resolution
of the Common Council opposite private
residence, the owner of which strongly OBJ
jects to this ornamentation of his dwelling
The authority should be revoked OF once. II
it is not the offended citizen should test the
strength Of the colored glass with q stone
about the size of piece of chalk.
Year: 1873

Our CHINESE WALL.-Mr. Seward, in the
book of travels published after his death, men
tions curious calculation made by him as to
the time and money and labor necessary to
complete the great wall of China If we re-
member the results Of the calculation it would
have built our Pacific railways many times
over. Yet as science advanced and fighting
men, even of Tartar blood, came to know the
value of gunpowder, the wall lost it's value


1t is now monument, not defence. Yet
with this Chinese lesson to warn us we have
actually surrounded our country with wall
which costs as much as the great wall that was
foolishly supposed to protect China from the
Tartars. Who will make calculation as to
what we pay every year as unnecessary taxes
upon iron and wool and salt and hides and
precious metals upon tea and coffee and me-
cessary life supplies, upon ships and the ma
terials for ships? 1t will be found that we
pay the value Of Chinese wall every ten
years to support the ironmasters of Pennsyl-
vania and the manufacturers of New England.
Year: 1873

unbiased mind. With the quickness of genius
and true appreciation of the Buchu philos-
ophy he said, 'Let the people pay it"
The government came upon him for his taxes,
and he sent the government into chancery to
quarrel with his lawyers. Some people who
did not comprehend the philosophy of the
Buchu Kings financial experiments went to
Albany and called upon the Legislature to take
cognizance of the fact that an article of prop
erty worth twenty millions was selling for
forty, and that the people were to be called on
to make good the value. But at Albany
gifted and persuasive men, eloquent attorneys
who had been Secretaries of State, and Lieu
tenant Governors were found, in the pay Of
the Railway King, ready to show, by book
and precept, that the thing done was well
done, and the people should pay for it. The
rumor ran in the malignant press that some
obtuse members who could not comprehend
the eloquence of the Buchu rhetoric we're
convinced in substantial way. But we all
know the victory was won. The Midway has
been kept at its new value, and the people
have been taxed to pay for it.


We are panied to be compelled to say that
this sublime achievement has not been alto
gether unchallenged We manage to worry
along with the Midway here in New York,
meaning some time or other to inquire into it,;
but in the West the people are in rebellion.
They do not accept the Buchu principles in
their railways. They complain that prices
have been SO far advanced for freight that it is
cheaper to burn corn for fuel than to send it
to the seaboard. They argue that to pay the
interest on the bonds of these railways and the
dividends on the extra shares-in other words,
to pay the interest of forty millions on property
worth twenty-takes the whole value of their
crop. AS some of their imprudent orators say
they pay twice the value Of cream for skim
milk. And although able writer's and speakers
demonstrate that property is sacred, that Ameri-
can credit must be preserved, that if a Buchu
issues shares to the value of forty millions for
property worth twenty the duty Of the people
is to see that he receives good dividends on
the increased value, that to interfere with o
Buchu in this work or to protest against it is
repudiation, dishonor, bankruptcy, they will
not be convinced And there is no knowing
where we are drifting. We have fallen on
evil times, and it would not surprise us at all
if these wild demagogues Of the West were to
rise in anger and deal with Buchu and his
imitators as the madmen in France in 1893
dealt with the wise, gracious and wealthy
mobiles of that day, who insisted that there
should be forests for wolves rather than bread
for the poor.
Year: 1873

The FOLLY OF THE HoUR.-The ballooning
mania seems disposed to run its course. We
are q good deal like boys in our popular
fancies First is one game, then another.
Some three or four years ago we were all
riding velocipedes, and people talked seri-
ously of building wooden railway over the
housetops to enable our people to go to Har-
lem in fifteen minutes. This lasted until peo-
pie grew stiff in their joints, and the veloci-
pede was thrown aside. Then we had base
ball mania, and distinguished citizens spent
their autumn afternoons over in Hoboken and
Brooklyn watching alert young men throw
heavy balls across field. After it was dis
covered that now and then ball would cross
the bounds and nestle in hat, or PROFOUND
itself on an observing nose, serious minded
people remained at home. Now we are all
going up in balloons, and London journal
informs US that one Of the prodigious charla-
tans Of the age, who has given long life to
reduce the principles of successful lying into
o science, means really to send up balloon.
This will continue until some aspiring youth
scars too near the sun and finds himself i'm
paled on the point of Trinity church steeple.
just now it is the folly of the hour 1t will
have its hour and fade.
Year: 1873

A PUZZLE The Scriptures tell us that the
Jews found that while one king punished them
with whips his successor used scorpions. The
people Of New York are asking now whether
the scorpions of the Yankee masters who now
rule our city are easier than the whips Of Tam
MANY.
Year: 1873

The ITALIAN ARMY is to muster two hundred
and fourteen thousand men ON peace foot
ing The military law was promulgated in
Rome yesterday. What's the matter2 Wan.
Of industrial employment or q spcck Of war
Year: 1873

1t is the duty OF every good citizen to
go to the Polls to-day and vote for the
best men in nomination. The Democrat
ic Conservative ticket is a good one and
deserves united support. There is not
a name on the ticket bat what has the
best Interests Of the town at stake Pom
der well, Tay,Paycrs of Van Durcn, be.
fore you throw away your votes on tick
cts there is no possible chance for sue
cess. Vote the Democratic. .Conservativ c
rickct-and vote it without scratch.
Year: 1873

When the INST juror was called on the
new panel in the Tweed case, to-day,
counsel for the defense objected to the
irregular manner in which it was
drawn. After a long argument, the
court decided that the panel was regu-
lar, and the work Of getting the twelfth
juror proceeded.
Year: 1873

LONDON, November 12.-The commit
tee of the stock exchange have adopted
a resolution that four shillings of British
money per American dollar shall be the
rate of exchange after the third of No
VAN har
Year: 1873

SLOWLY. steadily, under the moon,


Swings the tide, in its old-tme way;
Never too late, and never too soon


Aud the evening and morning make the day.
Slowly, steadily, over the sands,


And over the rocks, to fall and how.
And this wave has touched dead mans hands,
And that one has seen face we know.
They have borne the good ship on her way,
OR buried her deep from love and light;
And vet as they sink at our feet to-day,


All, who shall interpret their message Alright
For their separate voices of grief and eheer
Are binding at last in one solemn tonei
And only this song of the waves hear,


Forever and ever His will is done!
Slowly, steadily, to and fro,


Swings our life in its weary way;
Now at its ebb, and now at its flow


And the evening and morning make the day.
Sorrow and happiness, peace and strife,


Fear and rejoicing. its moments know
How, from the discords Of such a life,


Can the clear music of heaven noWz
Yet to the ear of God it swells,


And to the blessed round the throne.
Sweeter than the chimes of Sabbath bells


HForever and ever His viii is done!
Year: 1873

"A West Chester (Pa } merchant SET a
steel trap in the cellar to catch rats, ana
the next morning it was missing. "A
few DAYS thereafter, boy saw strange
cat enter the cellar carrying piece
of meat in her mouth. She went De
hind lot of empty barrels, and pres pre-
emily returned without the meat. Inc
barrels were removed, and there was
cat eating the meat, with one leg fast IN
the missing steel trap.
Year: 1873

The owners of the new glass works
at New Albany, Ind, the only place IN
the United States where plate glass IS
made, recently imported from England;
at their own expense, a number OF
skilled workmen, and had just got them
settled at their work, when they all
struck and left town.
Year: 1873

TIE AGED BRoTHERHooD.-At this season
of the year when such number and variety of
entertainments adapted to the age and taste OF
our community, and crowding upon each other
as they do, in rapid succession, it would seem
almost presumptnous in the Brotherhood to slide
in their claims upon and their appeals to be-
nevolent people. 1.-THE poor ye have with you
always and when you will yon may DO them
good; these words, uttered by Divine Teach
ermore than eighteen hundred years ago, have
Rost none OF their applicability and force to our
day, nor will they to any generation that will
succeed us, to the latest time. Some of our
members in their old age APE in narrow circum


stances, which it is our purpose 10 relieve. and
as far as we have means, (Which have hitherto
been limited) to extend our charities to desti-
tute widows of deceased members. People of
Portland is not the object worthy of your high
est regard? Is it not one to arouse and put in
action the generous sympathies of your hearts?
If so, then open your hands, With something in
them, to aid so benevolent an object
Year: 1873

DENIAL.-The proprietors of the Wilson
store on Exchange street, deny the statement
that woman fell over ''skid' in front of
their store. They don't leave their property
about loose in that way. The accident occur
red in front of another store.
Year: 1873

LIEBIG's LIQUID EXTRACT OF BEEF does not
require cooking or warming-Is in the form of
a Foreign Liqueur Is composed Of Beef Bran
dy and Tonics-Sold by Grocers and Wine
Merchants as high class Cordial or Liqueur
and by Druggists as superior nutritive Tonic.


dc9-1m
Year: 1873

There might have been disastrous fire on
Fourth street on Saturday but for the hero
ism displayed by man named Sweetman.
He was passing along when he saw little
flames creeping around the chimney. and he
dashed into TO the hou>e. He shouted ''fire"
until the house rang; while he seized a bu-
reau and threw it over, he called to one Of
the family to 90 and sound the alarm. The
bureau was left lying on the floor, and Sweet
uan gathered up a table and ran into the ward.
He sent small boy to sound another alarm.
and ran in and began raching a bedstead to
pieces, at the same time ordering the women
to throw everything out of doors. He got
the bedstead down and ran out doors and
rushed third boy to fire alarm box, and
then went in and carefully brought out the
wood-box and a floor-mat. The women were,
meanwhile. showing the parlor furniture out
doors, and as soon as Sweetman had flung
the looking glass through the back window,
and torn the baby's crib to pieces. he ran in
and helped them while another messenger
was sent to jerk an alarm out of letIer-box
on the lalnp-post. While >weetman was
thus working heroically, another man had
climbed upon the roof with a pail of water
and put out the fire, and three or four more
came upon the scene just in time to prevent
Sweetman from throwing the piano down ce,-
lar to give himself room to woik.-Detroit
Free Press.
Year: 1873

LONG ISLAND CITY.-The MayOralty contes
case which was TO have been ned yesterday had to b
postponed in consequence OF the failure OF the pah
counsel 10 have the case noticed for trial and put h
court calendar Ii will probably be tined III March.