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Year: 1873

Members elected to the next Congress
may as well make up their minds to vote
at that session for a bill to repeal the law
by which their salaries were increased
from $4,000 year to 81, 500, for there is
no mistaking the will of the sovereign
people on this subject Repeal is what
they demand of the incoming Congress,
and should they fail to comply with
the demand from the power behind, they
may as well make up their minds to re-
tire to the shades of private life. There
is no fact that stands out more promi-
nently than this, that there is a fearful
tendency in the management of our gov
eFnmental affairs to q reckless extrava-
gance in metropolitan life, that lily be-
comes the plain, simple, matter-offact
Republican form of government, the
humble masses of our Republic so ardent
ley love and cherish. The principal reG-
son urged for the increase of Congress
ional salaries is the high price of living at
the capital OF course if a Member of
Congress wishes to indulge in all the lux
uries and all the fashionable and frivol-
Gus vices of Washington City, he may in
crease the luXuries even to the depletion
of the United States Treasury But that
IS not the object for which the people
elect men to Congress. The real object
of their mission is business, and the plain
Democratic Republican masses can't see
any justice in requiring them to pay ex-
orbitant salaries to their agents or rep
resentatives, merely that they may be
able to indulge in all the luxuries, high
life, and fast society, that seems to pre-
vail to a wonderful extent at the capital
of our nation.


The people of this country are by no
means disposed to be niggardly in the
payment of their official employees. They
are willing, always, to pay an equivalent
for services required, or for services rem
dered. but when they desire more than
this the people will not continue to
meet such demands upon their generosi-
ty. The Representative should, as far as
practicable, in his living and general de-
pertinent, whether at Washington City
or elsewhere, represent the plain, simple
principle of our model Republican form
of government. and up to this point,
the people of this country will always be
ready and willing to meet their demands.
Year: 1873

A congressman, or any other man, who


can't live on $1,000 a year. and save


money ought to die. He has no business


in this world A man cannot Law out thai
amount in year, for personal expenses.
without appropriating the larger part to
| useless and vitiating luxuries It used
to be thought by the economists, cen.
| tury ago, that luxury was mere escape.


ment for surplus wealth, that it was the
agency for restoring the equilibrium in


property; but that doctrine is now ex.
| ploded. The luxurious habits of one


man will, as Goldwin Smith expresses it,
consume the incomes" of a half dozen
poor families. If this thing of spending


money could be made the subject of re-


straint, without impairing the impulses


and activities of man, the world would be
so happy and prosperous that we would


no longer pine for any other millennium.


But if there can be no restrictions upon
accumulations, there should be some edu-
cation in the matter of expenditures


When the proposition to increase the
pay of the members of Congress to 81, 500
year was pending, there was splendid
chance for the government to rebuke the
worlds wicked ways of spending money,
for the question was simply this: Shall
we, too, initiate the follies conformities,
and haughtiness of Washington life
Everybody knew the reason assigned and
accepted tor this strange vote for addi-
tional pay: Every thing is so high and
"a man can't be anybody in Washington"
on $4,000 year. The fault is that the
lives of the rich are made to settle the
standard of government salaries, and the
man, who is to represent the purity, in
tegrlty, progress of the Republic, must
swelter in luxury-the rottenness of
riches. This is the disgraceful theory
which the nation has embraced. The true
life is one of moderation, temperance,
simplicity and the safety of the republic
and the welfare of society are constantly
in danger, while in the hands of men
who ignore these virtues. A congressman
to serve his country faithfully, could bet
ter afford to take less than $1,000 than
vote himself more.


What we say on this matter is simply
from social standpoint. A man, who
gets $4,000 year for what he does is deep
in debt to society; and if it all goes for
lavish personal display and luxury there
is lien on his estate that the logic of
events will soon force. Clergymen and
theologians are too much inclined to
skim over the rich man, the camel and
the eye of the needle. Their explanations
OF plain English are very satisfactory to
the luxurious world. We heard of a
in town who used "thief and
as synonyms. Epithets do
not lie in our liking, so we will not use
them, but we may say that a man who
votes himself $4,000 in Congress or in
private life, and spends it in display and
luxury, is an enemy to God, Government
and Society," and in the essence of affairs,
which the Almighty only regards, there
is probably no difference between that
man and any uncrucifed thief
Year: 1873

In appropriating 81, 900 to themselves
from the Treasury our Congressman did
but enlarge the prerogatives of the peo-
pies representatives. They might have
taken more than they did. They might
have taken Washington's old breeches
from the Patent Office. They might have
taken the Washington Monument-but
they didn't. Some people will continue
to complain &c them, but we are mute
from this moment We apologize to the
whole human race, for every thing. As a
rash and blinded Sunday-school scholar
we may have spoken disrespectfully of j =.
Iscariot The experience of the last six
months shows that Mr.. Iscariot may have
been gentleman who was much misun-
derstood by the people of the period.
Some Scribe probably placed the thirty
pieces of silver where he thought they
would do the most good and when poor
Judas found that he had bought into a
lawsuit (Hon. P, PLATE, Chief-Justice)
he went and hung himself. That was
where he made mistake. He ought to
have sent the money down to the Caper-
naum Female Seminary, and then APP
pealed to the generous confidence of a
constituency with whose feelings and in
terests every throb of his heart beat in
unison. The editor of the Galileean
Telegram would have made very nice
thing of that, and the honorable j.
Iscariot would have been one of the most
prominent candidates at the next elec-
tiop.
Year: 1873

YORK CENTRE, UNION Co., O., MAY s.


1 wish to express some of the many
thoughts that have crowded on my mind
in reference to the conduct of our late
Congress; and while 1 only express a
few of them, l also give the sentiments
of every voter that converse with. In
the first place, the salaries were high
enough for those who fill the offices dur
ing the war, while one dollar in gold
would buy two of paper, and if they
could and did live through it I think
they could live now, while gold has been
worth from y to is in currency, and
while we are carrying heavy debt. To
increase their salaries, or even attempt
the increase, was an outrage on the peo-
pie. wish to say through your paper to
these gentlemen who have thus BETRAYED
the confidence reposed in them, that 1,
for one, have carfully filed the names of
the honorable gentlemen, and, so help
me God from this time henceforth / will
never give my vote, where it may be NV
right to vote, for either of them, and the
President not excepted As they are de-
nounced by every voter of either party,
l hope the next Congress will take warn
ing, and at their next coming together
make it their first business to put the
salaries down to where they were, and if
they dare to neglect it they will share
the same fate of those who had the mean
ness to increase them. l hope the Re-
publican party Will make the reduction
to where it was one of the planks in their
platform, and if they fail to do so, my
word for it, the party will oust all such
men who dare to trife with the rights of
the people, In this section of the
country the people think all one way on
the subject, and, as you, Mr.. Editor have
defended the rights of the people, trust
that you will uot become slack in the
future. There can be no excuse offered
that will justify them or the President
for their conduct, and what makes it so
much harder to bear, we had placed so
much confidence in them. HIS.
Year: 1873

Several Western Congressman who
have pocketed their share of the salary
grab are tiring themselves out by writing
letters two or three columns in length to
explain why they did it. 1t is waste of
ink and paper, gentlemen. That money
belongs in the United States Treasury,
and simple statement that you have de
constituents want from you.-M ?, Zri6-
afaa
Year: 1873

The human body is n machine, and therefore
cannot endure forever; but, like a watch a sew
ing machine, it will last much longer If properly
regulated and duly repaired, than If no pains
were taken to keep it in order. The great object
Of every one who desires a long and healthy life
should be to put his BODY in O condition to resist
the ifethreateLing influences by which we are
all more or less surrounded; and no invRorant
and corrective at present known so effectively an
swers this purpose as the vtalizing elixir which,
under the unpretending name OF Hostetters
stomach Bitters, has been for more than twenty
years the standard tonic Of America. In crowd ed
cities where the atmos phere is contaminated with
the effuvia inseparable from large populations
in marshy regions; where the soggy soil reeks
with miasma; on the praries and in the forests,
where every fall the air is tainted with eXhala-
tions from rotting weeds and grasses or dccom-
posing leaves-in short. i'm every locality where
malaria exists, this powerful vegetable antidote
is urgently needed. Fever and ague, bilious fe-
vers, dysentery, congestion Of the liver, jaundice,
by infected air, impure water, or sudden changes
of temperature maybe averted by strengthening
and regulating the system in advance with Hos
letters Bitters Autumn is always season Of
peril, especially to weak, susceptible organiZa-
tions. Even the more vigorous are apt to be in
some measure depressed by the humid atmos-
phere, loaded with deleterious gases produced
by vegetable decay. The fall is period Of the
year when the renovation and regulation Of the
living machine is peculiarly important, and the
Bttters should therefore be taken daily at this
critical season.
Year: 1873

Lives are frequently lost by noxious
gases in wells. This may be prevented
by the adoption of the following very
simple means: Take some pieces of car
pet, or common sacks, and make them
into loose bundle, nearly as large
as the area of the we'll. Inclose
in it brick to give weight, and attach
to the bundle rope of sufficient length
to reach to the bottom of the well.
Throw this bundle down the well, and
haul it up again as quickly as possible.
Repeat this operation rapidly for ten
minutes, and the atmosphere of the
well will become quite innoxious, as will
be proved by letting down lighted
candle. The bundle, as is easily un-
derstood, carries before it quantity of
fresh air from the surface, and this, of
course, displaces the foul and dangerous
air from the bottom.
Year: 1873

THERE is no disease flesh is heir to
more troublesome to manage than rheuma-
tism. It comes when you least expect it, and


generally remains till it gets ready to go away.
The most conspicuous remedy for this COM
plsint is Johnsons Anodyne Liniment.- Com.
Year: 1873




TO The Editor of the Commercial:


Allow me, through the columns of your paper,
to address a few words to the race that have
the honor to be identified with. Notwithstanding
all that our friends have done for us, who have
labored necessarily, until at length proportion
ately we are citizens ofe the republic. Our enc
mics on the other hand, have done all that was
in their power, from contention to murder, and
should the victims corpse be cut in pieces, the
criminal, should he confess the crime, judging
the future by the past. jury of our enemies
can be empannelled, whose verdict will be &C.
quittal on the grounds Of insanity. Taking the
above with many other incidents that daily come
under our notice, is it not essential that we COM
mence TO do something for ourselves Viewing
our situation, we are shut out from all machine
shops, factories. &C.. merely because we are not
English, Irish, or French.


Our antagonists forget that we have g
good portion OF means in the savings banks Of
this city which they are using daily, whilst they
are opposing us with all their vigor. Let us
husband our means and instead of doing as
heretofore, make an effort to do as the colored
mon in Baltimore. They have a ship-yard a
brick yard, also. We are informed they are
bossing both. We had as we'll begin. Until we
do something more for ourselves than what we
have done, our ability will ever be doubted GER
tain men will tell to our posterity what our deh-
cencies were, and our actions will sustain
them. The doors of workshops can be opened
to our children by ourselves, and the sooner we
get to work. the better for u.s. and our children.
We see that everything fss being done in the
city and State, for the whites, except the build
ing of large work. house, to accommodate all
of the races. It is to be hoped that agitation
will commence at once, husband our means
amongst and within ourselves, and for the ben
eft more especially of our children.


(lnNaANlTfINfTY
Year: 1873

THg KENT County OouRT.-The fall term OF
the Kent County Court, which begins on the
27th, will be held in theiLevy Court Room q
rather small apartment, but the largest and best
the Levy Court could at present provide, Ar
rangements are being perfected for tue building
next spring of a new court house on the burnt
hotel site. It is understood that but few cases
on the civil list will be called up for trial at this
Year: 1873

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAM-Telegrams
from Madrid inform us that the crews of FIVE
Spanish vessels Of war have revolted against
the Republic. The Madrid government has
issued q proclamation declaring the men
pirates, and authorizing their capture and
treatment as such by any foreign power on
the high seas. This news is not only i'm
portant, it is alarming. Have the Spanish
naval mutineers of five really powerful vessels
gone to SEQ in their lawlessness Are they
about to do SOP Is there danger of their
hosting the "black fag' on the ocean, and
has the Executive of the Republic invited,
by its acknowledgment Of feebleness, the
active interference Of foreign police in the
matter Of the internal affairs of Spain2 If the
dispatches are worded correctly we incline to
the opinion that these questions must be
answered in the affirmative. If so, Spain has
arrived in reality at grand point Of public
crisis Surrounding peoples will, perhaps
commence to inquire if their particular
property can remain safe while their near
neighbors ignite and maintain national con-
Aagration. Perhaps tho navy has declared for
Don Carlos. Hso Barcelona will be in danger
of capture
Year: 1873

Tho Propagation OF the British Par


1t is now positively announced that the
British Parliament will be prorogued in the
first week Of August. Somehow the British
Parliament this session, has but little in
terested the world. Mr.. Gladstone meant to
make another great sensation when he intro
duced his bill providing for Irish university
reform From variety Of causes, however,
the Premier's pet failed The House Of Com


mons would not have it. The Prime Minister
showed, at once, his high spirit and his
great strength by resigning, and the House of
Commons expressed its good nature as we'll as
its incompetence to find q successor by well
coming him back to place and power The
session since has been dull, for the reason that
the government has pushed no new or daring
measure As yet, however, although the Par
Lament is comparatively old, there is no sign
of dissolution. It is said that the liberals
are losing their hold on the country; but it
will not be at all wonderful if, in the next ses-
sion, Mr.. Gladstone introduces measure
which will give him good right to appeal to
the country, and so inaugurate fight out of
which he will come forth victorious As
Parliamentary leader he is to-day without
rival.
Year: 1873

rces all the same in the name Of an emperor as
in the name of the people M


II may be urged that this governmental ma
chinery existed In the time of Washington,
jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln; if it was good
then. IL must be good now; if it is dangerous
now, it must have been dangerous then. But
there is in this only the color of truth
thing may have the elements of danger always
and yet be innocuous for many generations
Though the organization of our government is
highly favorable to the sway Of C@sarism
there is no harm while the spirit OF
C@sarism is absent. It is only when
power begins to sing slumber songs to liberty
that we see that the department and the de-
partment bureau, the custom house and the
custom house clerk are the sdjuncts of the one
and the foes of the other. When men begin
to talk in favor of ceHtralization and strong
government, to advocate long terms of politi-
cal oface-holding and to deprecate frequent
changes in official position, we open our eyes
with amazement to find that the power to
support throne already exists, and only the
throne is wanting. Through long years an
official class has been growing up among US
class of barnacles which civil service re-
form will fasten immovably to the ship Of
state This class has the disposition to hold
Office forever and to govern us forever All it
needs is life President, and then it is
sure there will be no more rotation
in Office, and no tremblings over
the results of popular election. The dear
people have no interest for the perpetual
ofice-holder after the people cease to be king
The placemen always turn to the Caesar of the
moment and worship liberty or adore tyranny
as their interests may require. Our Cesar
should he ever come, would find them in their
places ready to welcome him. Indeed. so far
as governmental machinery goes, our Caesar is
already come. The President rules his Cabi-
net, and tho committees of the House and SEN
ate rule Congress. Already there Is too much
Capitalization, too much concentration of
power in few hands. The Congress COM
mittee must not much longer be secret
conclave. fostering and aiding corrupt legisla-
ton. The Cabinet must owe some ministerial
responsibility to Congress and the country,
and we must in some way neutralize the power
for evil of the bureaus which are preparing
for the coming king
Year: 1873

The Board OF Health and tho Re-


movsl OF Nuisances.


The health authorities have at last made
move in the right direction in the removal of
pestilential and death breeding nuisances.
The unsavory booths of Washington Market
which blocked up West street have been at
tackled by the crowbar brigade despite the
remonstrances of marketmen, who prefer to
wallow in filth rather than surrender grace
fully to sanitary demands. The work, how
ever, Is not yet complete. The street should
be cleared to the curbstone instead of removing
only five feet from the end of the market.
Indeed, the sooner this ill-drained, badly
ventilated nuisance of o market is entirely
done away with the better it will be for the
health of the city. The cutters and sewers
around it are but stationary receptacles Of
filth and disease and need thorough cleans
ing and repairs. The whole building is in o
state of noxious decay.


After two months warning to the bone
boilers and fat meters up town the Board of
Health give the gratifying announcement
that the police will begin to-day to
root out their fou1 smelling establish
ments. This will be welcome news to the
entire community, especially to those who live
in the neighborhood Of such nuisances. The
insolence of the bone boilers towards the
health authorities would lead one to suppose
that they had on their side some bubble Of
law to enable them to continue their horrible
business right in the midst Of crowded city.
But it is to be hoped that the Board of Health
will not finch for moment in their determi-
nation, for they have the good wishes of all
with them. These nuisances have been per-
mitted to remain too long in this city, and the
wonder is that the people did not assert their
own sanitary rights, as was the case few days
ago in st. Louis We want to see this good
work brought to successful close, no matter
what the threats or remonstrances of few
unscrupulous individuals may be.
Year: 1873

MINNEAP0LIs, July 81, 1873


Since the adjournment OF the Republican state
Convention facts have come to light proving tha,
washburn was nominated on the third formal
ballot BY majority of three over All
The four votes that were cast for the Attorney
General on that ballot were intended for WASH
ought to have been, instead Of being counted scat
tered, Washburn still had majority OF
three. knowledge OF these facts Ii creating deep
feeling throughout the state and the question Il
whether, under the circumstance, Davis can AFFORD
to accept the nomination received by mistake.
Year: 1873

A QUICK TRR.-The new Inman steamship
City Of Chester arrived at this port yesterday
from Queenstown, making the run in little
over eight days. This, for her first trip, estab-
fishes the fact that this steamer possesses the
requisite of speed in high degree. We
hope that the equally important essentials Of
safety and comfort will net be forgotten
hereafter by her officers in their ambition to
make ''good time" We have wrecks enough
for one season on the rocks of Nova Scotia Of
ships sacrificed TO good time.
Year: 1873

ONE DAY's FATALITIES IN BosToS-A man
stabbed, man killed by falling from awin-
dow, child killed in being run over by
hack, woman killed by suicide and man
drowned Yet they tell us that Boston Is q
model of good government law and order and
of security to life and limb.
Year: 1873

MARSHAL SERRANo's LuE IN DANGER An
attempt has been made to assassinate the dis
inguished Spanish soldier and statesman,
Marshal Serrano, at his place of exile retreat
in France. The assassin, who has been ar
rested, made the assault while Serrano was en-
joying outdoor exercise in the grounds attached
to his villa The demoralizations Of Spanish
politics are tending rapidly towards national
degradation,
Year: 1873

The CHOLERA IN THE SOUTH AND WEST
Although the danger is not entirely over, yet
apprehensions of the spread of the cholera
in the South are not SO alarming as they were
q week or two ago. The disease seems to have
in some degree subsided in places where it
was most virulent, and to have disappeared
altogether in localities where 1t made its ap-
pearance in o mild form. This however, is
unfortunately not the case in the West. In
the interior of Ohio and Indiana .the cholera
has broken out with some violence, and the
most energetic sanitary measures are required
to keep it from spreading and becoming
epidemic. Hence it behooves our city health
authorities not 10 halt for moment in their
efforts to protect our city from visitation of
the dreadful pestilence. There is no knowing
at what day or hour it may be among our
people. and it would be criminal to miserably
economize in the matter of placing the
metropolis in as sound and healthful condi-
ton as it possibly can be.
Year: 1873

The Weather In This City Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes n
the temperature for the past rwenty-iour hours n
comparison with the corresponding day OF last year.
as indicated BY the thermometer at HudnutI
Pharmacy, HERALD ButldinQ:-