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Year: 1873

Let us review little. Not by any means
that THE TRIBUNE desires to haunt its Il told
Z" YOU so" in anybOdy's face; but we have OBJ
served that while a great many prominent
Administration Congressman and Senators have
concluded upon the whole that the party is
imperfect, and has corrupt men and thieves in
its high places, and while some of the organs
of the Administration have discovered that the
party needs purging and publication, not one
of all of them has had the grace to admit that
the charges preferred last Summer by the sup
porters of Mr.. Greeley have been substantiated; !;
nor has one of them retracted or qualified in the
slightest degree their persistent denunciation OF
tho men who declined to act with the Repub-
lican party on account of these very scandals.
On the contrary, some of these persons and
presses have the effrontery, even now, in the
presence of the facts brought out under the
recent inquiries, to talk about the "abuse and
slandersr of the Administration in the last
campaign. Under this reasonable provocation
We may be permitted, in no unkindness
toward those who at that time differed from
US, but in justification of great though un-
successful attempt at refcrm, to recite few
facts from current history.


THE TRIBUNE said last Summer that the
course Of the Administration toward the States
Year: 1873

In this world of sorrow and disappointment it is
reviving-we do not know anything more reviving
to read in the newspapers of fortunates who
have had money left them in tn. most unexpected
way. 1t seems to increase ones own chance of a
legacy, and often, it is well-known, ones chance
needs increasing very much indeed. What has hap
pened to one man or woman may happen to another.
There the lady who worked In a factory in New
Hampshire. She was married. but her maiden name
was Butillon. One day she saw the name, which is
not common one, mentioned in newspaper as that
of gentleman in Natchitoches, La, and thinking
he might be a relative, she wrote TO him. They con-
tinued TO correspond; they became convinced that
they were related to each other; and now he has
been good enough to die and leave the lady $500
SO much for being born o Butillon. Now, this is a
pretty story it stands but pair of such will be
prettier than one. Haley, defaultng postmaster
has been since 1871 locked up by the Government in
the Detroit House of Correction The other day his
wife, who is. strange to say, very fond of him. in-
duced the President to pardon him. As she was on
her way to him with the pardon, she was informed
of the death of his father convenient old gentle
man. who had left him farm worth $4,000. Now,
II that ex-postmaster doesn't behave himself in
future he deserves TO go to prison again for the rest
of his natural life and to have another father
leave him $4,000.
Year: 1873

eraI impression has been that they could not
no roflected. but that the Administration
would sweep the State and elect all the
congressman. ... .... ...


The result at this writing seems TO be the
reelection of all three Democratic Congress
men. with no choice of Governor by the peO-
ple. and one branch of the Legislature in
doubt. This is something of a surprise. TO
those who had settled down in sort of
despair TO the belief that the party in power
might be guilty of any fraud or dishonesty without
awakening the people to sense ofperil. theresult
has cheering significance. 1t will make no diff
ference, of course, in the political complexion OF
the XLIIId Congress, and it is matter of very
small consequence whether the State officers
are of one party or the other; but the signifi-
can't feature of it is in the indication
that after all the people are honest and
true, and above party, and will stand
no nonsense. All three of the reelected Con-
gressmen were clear of the Credit Mobil1er
scandal, and the disgrace OF defending it, and
all three opposed the Infamous steal of mil
lion and half of dollars with which the
last Congress crowned its own disgrace. And
the people have indOrsed and returned them


The Investigations have not been without
good results. New-H Hampshire is the first State
to rebuke and repudiate falsehOod in party
leaders, corruption in Congress, bribery by
Christian statesmen, and whitewashing or IN
famous crimes by partisan House and Senate.
1t is not party triumph; it is triumph OF
decency and honesty.
Year: 1873

New-Hampshire is just little outside the
current of political thought. and remote from
what we are apt to consider the CEN
tiers of political agitation. 1t is not a
State in which revolutions take their rise.
Staid and steady communities they are,
agricultural for the most part, which
are not much affected by slight political
disturbances, but 90 on thinking in
the same track and voting the same ticket
till some great awakening takes hold of them
as 1t did in 1854, when the Kansas Nebraska
iniquity reused them to reputation of the
party they had for years supported and sworn
by. 1t has not been supposed that the cam
paign which closed with the election Yesterday
would result in anything materially different
from that of last Spring or Fall. 1t has been
OD both sides quiet contest, with no great
effort by either party to carry it, The Demo-
Gratis and Liberals we're disheartened by sue
cessive defeats, and the Republicans, from
causes which are explicable in the light
of the proceedings of the last Congress, were
apathetic. An Administration victory was
pretty much conceded. The three members of
the last Congress, all Democrats, were elected
two years ago, more through local Republican
divisions than any other cause. and the gen-
Year: 1873

What in the Presidents Inaugural can have
excited the ire of the Berlin pressf 1t cannot
be that the imperial or ministerial organs OBJ
iect to "rapid transit by steam." or to making
the Indian I" a useful and productive member
"of society by proper treatment" as discussed
bv the President. To be sure, he also said that
he believes "that the civilized world is tending
coward Republicanism," and that "our own
"Great Republic is destined to be the guiding
"star of all Others" (that is, all other Repub-
lics). But the first member of the sentence is
a familiar and innOcuous acquaintance, and the
second phrase is part of the creed of all true
believers in Manifest Destiny. The only direct
reference to Europe in the Inaugural was state
ment that under our Republic we support an
army less than that "of any European Power
"of any standing, and navy less than that
of either of at least five of them," which is
statistically correct, no doubt, though q trifio
obscure. Perhaps German imperialists do not
stomach the Presidents assertion of his belief
"that our Great Maker is preparing the world
I" in this our good time to become one nation,
speaking one language, and then armies and
"navies will be no longer required Now
this is noble sentiment; and if the Berlin
newspapers object to being absorbed into a
nation that has a permanent investigating
Committee and keeps a P0mer0y, there ls no
need of their getting into a rage about 1t and
intimating that monarchical governments can
not keep up relations with US.
Year: 1873

When the Senate put Mr.. Patterson's case
over into the Special Session, it was well
known that that was the end of it. Mr.. Pat
terson's term expired on the 4th of March; the
Senate had no longer any jurisdiction in the
case the Republican caucus formally comes
to that decision and there an end. If a great
many other unpleasant things could be as
easily disposed of, it would be comfortable
though disereditable.
Year: 1873

Concerning the prospect for the passage of
the pending City Charter, no canvass OF the
Senate can be safely made. Our Albany cor
respondence gives more hopeful view of the
situation for the cause of reform than has
been reasonably entertained heretofore. The
general impression here, however, is that such
a review of the field is too Aatterlng.
Year: 1873

1t is often and from all parts of the country thai
we get reports of alleged cruelty iii public schooand
the frequency of such must be rather notifying
to those who are attached to system of education
teacher bearing the significant name Of Rspp
is now charged in Cincinnati with causing the death
of a lad by hitting him on the head with books
dubious way, certainly of impartiDg the contents
the volume to the brain. Evidence was heard upon
the case by the School Committee, and the fact wa
elected that the book used 10 correct the lad wass
grammar-an octave of 264 pages" There was also
plenty of evidence that after the boy sickened
became blind of one eye and finally died. IL teach
ers cannot get along without striking children On
the head, they had much better resign.
Year: 1873

Another ghost! We cannot help it; since we
began to mention them. they will come-a fresh one
every day. Bland Billiard, young man Of
Lebanon County. KY, committed suicide three
months ago, and three days before that upon which
he was to have been married. He now makes fre
quent visits to the paternal mansion apparently for
the purpose of annoying his father who had opposed
his marriage He comes at night, and brings with
him light by which he is distinguished and recos-
nized He famlarly opens the door. proceeds to his
old room, and while there employs himself in exam
ining his trunk. Being spoken to- he answers not but
he attempts to molest no One Some think be is On
impostor trying to drive the unhappy father to dis
pose of his farm at sacrifice; Others persist that he
is a true specter.
Year: 1873

Everybody knows that the Old State-liouse Bell
in Philadelphia is cracked upon one side Mr.
Garrett of San Francisco, being patriotic man, has
sent proposition for mending this venerable relic
of the Revolution. He offers to take it to San
Francisco to crack the other side, then to subject
the fractured parts to intense heat sufficient to melt
the edges and fuse the metal then he will run in
certain amount of new metal, and the old bell viii
be as good as ever. To which the PhiladelphianA
not without a certain degree Of indignation. respond
that they do not want the bell mended. do not want


patched bell do not wish the bell reeast. True
they say it cannot be rung, but nobody wants TO
ring it, They intimate that if it should go 70
California, it might never come back again and 50
Mr.. Garrett is dismissed with something very like
snub.
Year: 1873

Discussion of the best means to remedy the
defects of the present jury system is going on
among the members of the bar, and We print
to-day some of the suggestions which have
been made by well-known jurists. The sub
ject is one which requires great caution in it's
treatment; but it is satisfactory to know that
the fact that something is needed to be done
is admitted, and so much of beginning is
made.
Year: 1873

Attention has lately been called to the systems
of mail delivery in our large cities and the Postmas
ter-General is reported to contemplate certain i'm
portant reforms. For these when we get them we
shall be duly thankful But meanwhile there d
something wrong in the management Of the railway
mail routes which we think might be mended if Mr.
Creswell would give his mind to it. Here are two
instances of post-oice ineficency which lately fell
under our notice. A letter for New-York mailed at
Jacksonville, Florida, on the 18th of February.
and transmitted the same day. did not reach its des
tination until the 22d although the schedule time
for passengers between the two points is only three
days. letter to the same address was mailed at St
Augustine on the 1ith. The writer started for New
York the next day, stopped four entire days and
nights on the road, and reached this city, simults
neously with his letter, on the 22d. The time 70
quired for the journey is three days and bali.
Why should it take twice as long TO transmit letter
as to transmit passenger and his baggage
Year: 1873

The cunning politicians who constitute the
majority in the Senate are not TO be cheated
out of their little revenge on the minority.
Forced by the power of an old rule to give
mittees, they have equalized things by in
creasing the Committees from seven to nine
members each. The reverend Senators who
are practicing this noble game of hide-and-
seek seem to fancy that they are always to
have things their own way.
Year: 1873

The passage of bill for new line OF rail-
road between New-Brunswick and Elizabeth,
by both Houses of the New-Jersey Legisa-
ture, yesterday, was most significant of the
new spirit of freedom which has arisen III
that State. For many years the people OF
these two cities have sought in vain this sim
pie right from Che Legislature. The granting
of it is favorable omen for the General
Railroad law now in the Senate Committee.
The latter will come up for passage within
few days. At least one Senator who voted
against the Air Line bill has declared himself
in favor of a general law. Let us hope that
one more may be found true to his State, for
then the bill will pass.
Year: 1873

The happy-go-l lucky manner of our National
Bookkeeping is strikingly illustrated by the
accidental discovery that the Treasury has no
returns of the warehouse business OF the New
York Custom house. Some troublesome per-
son has inquired why these weighty returns
do not appear in the last fiscal reports; the
reply was that they had not been received
from the proper officers in New York. And, come
to think of it, says the Department briskly,
we haven't any from any other CustOm-houses
This is rather a nice state of facts, consider
ing that the warehouse business in New-York
amounts to many millions year, and that 1t
affords richer field for stealing than any
other branch of the service. New-England
people would call this sort of management Of
the Custom houses " shiftless."
Year: 1873

AN USsporrED CHARACTER. Money
is a good thing, especially in these
hard times, but there is something o
thousand-fold more valuable. 1t is
character-the consciousness OF purc
and honorable life. This it should be
a mans first aim to preserve at any
cost. In times Of commercial distress,
whilc some are proved and found
wanting, others como forth tried as
by fire. Here and there one comes
out of tho furnace far more Of man
than before. Amid tho wreck of his
fortune bo stands erect---a noble speci-
men OF true manhood. We have oc-
casionally witnessed an example of
courage n such n crisis, of moral in
trcpidty, that deserved all honor
Lot it be the aim of every business
man, above all things else, to keep his
purity unstained. This is tho best
possesson-this is capital which can
never be taken from him-tbis is the
richest inheritance which ho can leave
10 his children. -fa.sr
Year: 1873

A curious incident occurred few
days since short distance from Bal
timore, 0 local paper says: One Of
our well.known merchants had gone
out on visit to friend, at whose
houso thoro was bright little boy,
and one day, to please the child, ho
manufactured very large kite, and
ms the wind was strong enough, tho
kite was raised at once. After IL had
gone up nearly half mile, u large
crowd Of country people collected to
admire it, as such magnificent toy
had never been seen in that section
before. While the spectators were
admiring IL, a very largo hawk was
seen to fly slowly out Of neighbor.
ing grove and 20 directly toward the
kite. Tho hawk approached within a
few feet of the strange looking object,
and then circlcd abeut under IL for
perhaps fivo minutes, when he few
Just above it and again circlcd around
It several times. Suddenly he hover.
cd directly over the kite, and after
looking at il intently for short time,
darted downward, and striking tho
paper, passed directly through tho
kite, coming out on the other side
After this strange experience, which
no doubt puzzled the hawk vastly, he
few offa short distance for reflection,
but still keeping tho kite in view
Not being disposed to give II up so,
he quickly rotuine TO tho charge, and
this time fastened on tho long string
Of rags that wcrc used as tail 10 the
lfito, which no tore and scattered in
the air in o savage manner. Finding,
however, no resistance on the part Of
the kite, ho bcoamc disgustcd or scared
and flew away toward tho whods
whence be oamo. The gentleman says
that whenever the bhwk mado an at
tack he would retreat . little, as IL he
expected tho strange bird was going
10 return the assault. re
Year: 1873

oinity thereof, as may be desired, and
to fix hydrants and fire plugs where
socver they may deem proper; and
they shall further have power and de.
termine the rates and prices TO be paid
by the citizens for the use of tho wa
terj Provided, That tho owners of the
freehold on and upon which said wa
ter Is taken and used, shall, by them
selves, their agents or attorneys, in
all cases, be the parties with whom
snch contract for the use of the water
shall be made, and tho said real estate
shall be bound for and liable for the
payment Of the same, reserving the
right to the said burgess and town
council 10 contract with the lesseos of
tenants should they sec proper to do
SO and tho said burgess and town
council shall further have tho power
to ordain and enact all needful by
laws, ordinances and regulations, and
generally TO do all things requisite
and necessary for carrying into full
and perfect effect all the objects con-
templated in this act. haia


ApPRovED-The eighteenth day of
February, Ammo Domini one thousand
eight hundred and seyenty-one.
Year: 1873

WHEN will ship and rail be brought
together in San Pedro bay, and all the
delay in transfer avoided? The steam
er is delayed at the port one entire
day simply because the railroad COM
pany will not, or are not offered in
ducements enough, to run their track
either on the breakwater or along the
shore to San Pedro. This would not
injure Wilmington; OH the contrary,
it would be benefited in the end-fOr
the harbor must be dredged in any
case, and, if the railroad runs clean
along, the wharfage would be the
finest in the world, and the chance
that Wilmington would be CONNER
cial port Of great Importance, would
be increased. The greatest injury to
Los Angeles is experienced in the fact
that passengers meet with so much
difficulty in getting here. Santa Bar
bara and San Diego can be seen from
the vessels, and show all they are at
first sight; while Los Angeles, doing
six times as much business as either
Of them, makes only about one-sixth
Of the show. A three-mile railroad
ought not to be beyond the means of q
city whose citizens possess as much
wealth as those of Los Angeles.
Year: 1873

All over the land the cry is anti
monopoly. In Chicago, the Nation
al Board of Trade has just met and
adopted resolutions to the effect that
Congress should prevent unjust dis
elimination by any State upon inter-
state commerce, and protect the peo-
pie of each State from exorbitant ex-
actions of roads within the State, and
that the only permanent guarantee
against unjust rates is found in the
opening and maintaining of free
highways by water channels. The
railroad question is also under the
consideration in the Farmers COnven-
tion. Some of it's members advocate
building railroads by the Government;
some are in favor of great highway
to be built and owned by the farmers.
Year: 1873

The proprietor of contemporary
daily remarked some days ago that
he had noticed with pleasure the eff
forts of the HERALD to settle the
much vexed question of lighting the
city. He added however, II am afraid
you will get sick of it in time, 1 have
tried it myself without effect" The
ground which this journal takes is
that it is of no consequence who is
right or who is wrong. The city ought
to be lit. Some eastern people stay
ing at the Pico House a short time ago
remarked that there seemed to be gas
works and were evidently lamp posts,
but that they supposed the city was too
poor to pay for its lighting. The cap
tious and snarling enemies of Los An
geles in other towns, are always ready
to pick up little items to its disadvan-
tage, and here they have an undenia-
bly, big one. From San Luis to San
Diego, they can all quote clos Angeles
city is not lit with gas, it is perfectly
dark and disgrace to all other towns
of its size" The gas company denies
that it is in the wrong, states even in
yesterdays HERALD that it has Offer
ed unusual facilities to the city for
lighting the streets. The HERALD is
not prepared to accept these state
ments as truth, mcontradicted; but
it desires to sift the matter to the bot
tom, and it will never cease to agitate
the question until it knows whether
the city is wrong or the gas company
is wrong, and what is the remedy of
suffering citizens.
Year: 1873

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. %.


Benjamin Palmer was indicted for
manslaughter and tried to-day in the
18th District Court. The plea was
self defense and the Jury this after
noon returned q verdict of not guilty.


The Jury in the case of Mary Mont
gomery are still out and unable to
agree on the verdict.


The trial of Captain Clarke of the
ship Sunrise was resumed in the Unit
ed States Circuit Court at II A. NJ. The
testimony for the prosecution is not
yet closed.


The jury in case of Mary Montgom-
cry for the murder of Henry Sanchez,
was out all night and have so far failed
to agree on verdict.


Last night Peter Knapp, while cut
ting wood ruptured an artery and died
in few minutes. He was Janitor of
Red Mems Hall.


There is great activity in the lum-
Der trade in this city. All the mills
are crowded with orders, Large guam
titles oflumber are being shipped into
the interior of the State.


A public reception was given on
board the ship Three Brothers to-
day. She will sail tomorrow for Liv-
erpool.
Year: 1873

DR.. Coe, living at Montecito, went
to the house of neighbor named Es-
teven Urquides, with whom he had
had some difficulty of late. Urquides
opened the door and stepped aside to
let him enter. AS he did so COe raised
rifle and fired. The ball passed
through the tieshy'part of Urquides'
arm, entered his side and ranged
around toward the spine, The wound
is painful though not dangerous. Coe
was arrestedthis morning and brought
to this city, where he was lodged in
Jail to await an examination.
Year: 1873

The genial author of "Cast allan
Days." illumine5 the New York Tfj-
6lTe with this delicate bit of irony:


Far be it from US to undertake to
instruct the undergraduate. As well
paint the lily or gild refined gold.
And yet there are things that are not
intuitive to the wisdom of the under
graduate-things gathered from ex-
perience, not plucked from the tree
of knowledge which over his head
waves 1eatiess branches, its buds aud
blossoms, fruit and fragrance, gather
ed and possessed. We beg to say, ac-
eOrdingly, That the average under
graduate labOrs under a delusiOn. A
harmless delusiOn, arising out of his
mOdesty, but one perhaps he will
thank us for dispellIng. 1t is not from
any fancied superiority in literary or
scientific attachments that we under
take to enlighten him, we only use
the privilege of age, and offer the re-
suits OflOng experience. The mistake


of the undergraduate is in suppOsing
that he would not be recognized as an
educated man unless, when he arriveg
at a hotel, ne registers his college,
"Hale," Harvard or what not, as
his place of residence. An educated d
man is always recognized by his
wearing a stOve-pipe hat and carrying
cane. If this does not answer to the
uneducated mind, it is only neces-
sary to order breakfast III a dead
language, and accOst the waiter in
prOfane. These signs are unmistak-
able. But even if you should stop at
a hotel and run the risk of not being
recognized as man of liberal eduea-
tiOn, don't register the name Of your
college. 1t does not pay. All of US
have done it, and all Of US are
ashamed of it. Now that we have
grown old, aud don't know anything
like as much as We did then, we begin
to realize that it was not necessary 70
advertise ourselves as scholars. 1t
might be now: it was not then. Ap-
preciate your opportunities, young
gentlemen. Let an ignorant and
uneducated generation 90 round you
and find you out. 1t heightens their
admiration, and we may add their
reverence for found learning.