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Year: 1873

The World is unfortunate in choosing
the back-pay question and that of the in
crease OF salaries to members of Congress
as the test of sound democracy--the
sound democracy, that is, that the World
represents. Refund and Repeal" it
says, are two words that every member
OF Congress (''Congressman" the World
calls him) "may as well paste in the
crown of his hat" 1t so happens that
the members of Congress who will not do
anything of the kind are the democratic
members. They are resolved not to
''meddle or make" in the business, but
will simply hold their tongues and but
ton up their pockets.


AS hypocrisy is the homage which vice
pays to virtue, it may be that Republic
cans are no better than the democrats, if
we assume them to be hypocrites.
Whether we have any right to make such
an assumption in regard to some OF them,
we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that
enough of these Republicans voted
against the Salary bill at the last session
to have defeated it had not all the dem
ocrats gone in a solid body against them.
When these men paste Refund and Re
peal in the crowns Of their hats it means
something and on the whole we hold it
to be more just to commend the erring
members, who are willing to go with them
now, than to accuse those who have COM
mitted no offence of being hypocrites. Ii
we may not, on the other hand, accuse
the democrats of hypocrisy. it is because
they forbid us to suppose-so far as their
representatives in Congress are concern
ed-that they think it worth while even
to pretend to virtue.


Nobody is so likely to misunderstood
public opinion as a demagogue. In this
matter of the Congressional salaries there
are two mistakes made by that class OF
politicians. One is that the people are
perfectly indifferent to the whole subject,
and that all that has been said about it is
mere newspaper babblement; the other,
that what the people do care about is
that the money shall go back into the
Treasury, whence it was abstracted by a
literal breach of trust. Now the first
suppostion is an egregious blunder. The
act oil the last Congress was so fragrant,
and withal so simple, so transparent a
betrayal OF the faith which his constitu-
ents had put in their representative, that
the people have not needed to DO taught
Year: 1873

and unnecessary vigor, and would actu-
ally rejoice to have slight headache or
backache, as a result of these unusual
3exertions, for the express purpose of
more perfectly acting the martyr, and
thus pecking their hard-hearted hus-
bands in tender spot If, during one
of these silent moods, he should ask her
advice on any subject, he will either begin
to think that he has married a deaf
mute, or else he will be told that of
no use to ask her since her advice is of
no value. srr


We are all we'll aware that some of the
best women in the world occasionally fall
into these sloughs of despond, when they
have the NERVES as Grandmother Rig
glesty expresses it, although they may
have no other interest than their
husbands at heart. But there is another
class who continually use these tactics to
accomplish their petty purposes.
To these we wish to whisper very
few words These little ways and means
which you imagine will irrtate only for
few minutes at the most, will do much
more than you suppose, and may make
wound which lifetime will not be able
to heal.


Better let your kitchen be dirty, my
dear madam, from Monday morning till
Saturday night, and say nothing about 1t
to your careless husband, than to allow
the cleanest floor in the world to stand
between you and his love.


Better wear calico all your days, ii
your husbands S means can afford no bet
tel, than to have the stiffest of black
silks figure in divorce case.


Better allow your husband to sit in the
front parlor in his shirt-sleeves, with his
feet on the mantel-piece, than have a
husband only in name, and lose his
esteem by continual pickering and hen
peckingl
Year: 1873

He was an Irishman, and when frst
seen he was coming down Montague-st.,
Brooklyn, on his way to the Wall-street
ferry. Over his port shoulder hung
bag containing about a bushel of potatoes,
and in his starboard hand he carried
stout stick. Being under full sail, the
momentum acquired in coming down the
steep grade carried him nearly through
the gateway, when, seeing boat about
ten feet from the dock, he shook out
another reef made an astonishing burst
of speed and jumped. just as he reached
the deck the potato bag shifted heavily
to port and laid out Broad-street clerk
who was smoking Henry Clay through
q meerschaum holder, while the stick
hit a rotund South-street merchant In
the waistband, shutting him up like q
iack-knife. and Fat himself assumed an
involuntary devotional attitude. He was
the first to recover his perpendicuiarity,
and as he replaced the bag in its normal
position he complacently remarked: BE
iabers, but got the boat anyhow, Got
the boat?" screamed he of Broad-street.
splitting the pieces of amber out of has
mouth. "Why, you double-blank idiot,
this boat is coming int And so she
was.
Year: 1873

| by the newspapers what to think. If
they have known. they have not cared,
what the newspapers said, but have so
Enthusiastically made up their minds upon
the character of the transaction that we
! pity the man, who was a member OF the
! last Congress from a rural district-where
| men are personally responsible for their
acts to all their neighbors-and went
home with the back pay in his pocket
and kept it there To him and to his is
affixed stigma which not in his lifetime
will be washed out and the one thing
about him which his children will blush
| to remember, when he is dead. will be
| that he was member of the Back Pay
Cangress," and took the money. Nor is
| it because of this ill-gotten money
| though $1,000 is good deal to most peo
pie in rural districts and small towns
where the interest on that sum is as
much as many people ever see from years
end to years end. The money having
been taken, the people care little what
may have become of it, or whether it
shall ever be restored to the Treasury
though they would think the better of,
and no doubt forgive, the man who should
show that act meet for repentance. But
what they do care for is that the man
who on their behalf held up his hand in





TO witness that he wonld be true to its
laws, should, like cowardly thief rob-
bing till, have thrust his greedy hand
into the Treasury, and grabbed there
from all he dared lay his hands on, for
getful of personal honor, of official trust.
and every feeling that should have held
him back from an action us mean and as
mercenary as 1T was contrary to the
spirit of the Constitution which he had
sworn to uphold.


The ''refunding" part of the business,
then, is of comparatively little conse
quence; for the people do not care for
the loss of the money, and the keeping
or returning it is rather a question that
concerns the individual member in his
relations with his friends and neighb bors
If he, for his own sake and his childrens
sake. can afford to hold on to it. his con-
stituents have nothing further to say on
that point. But all the intelligent and
right-minded people of the country do
ask that there shall be repeal of the
law which is a stain on the statute book
of the United States. They are not easy,
and will not be content that such blot
shall remain after the time has come
when it can be erased To refund con-
Germs the sense of decency and of honor
in him that did this base thing. Repeal
is a matter that concerns the whole peo-
pie, and that they demand.


Does the World really hope that it can,
by any iuggle of words, hide the truth in
this matter? The democrats, in their
first caucus and by their nomination of
Speaker, deied and jeered the deep,
stern conviction which the people have
on this subject. They see that while the
better part of the Republicans are de-
termined to have repeal, even if they
take their weaker brethren by the throat,
the democrats stand aside in one compact
body, never more harmonious in any
thing than in this: that the money is in
their pockets and they have nothing
further to say upon the subject
Year: 1873

Professor Hartz, the magician. has
lately been giving a series OF performance
here, some of which are as surprising as
they are entertaining and amusing. One
of them is as follows: A common empty
packing box, with a lid hung by iron
hinges, is placed upon the stage. and
committee from the audience asked to
examine it. They report that 1t Is
firmly made packing box. After
thorough examination, outside and IN
side, they take a rope and tie 1t up, pass
ing twice around the ends and sides,
passing it through the staples for the two
padlocks and then tie the ends hrmly,
and seal them with sealing wax. they
then envelop the box in a canvas, which
covers all six sides, when another rope Is
added, tied and sealed. Surely the box
is safe from any attempt to get into or
out of it without removing the ropes


Professor Hartzs assistant then comes
forward with a canvas sack, open at one
end This is examined by the committee
and by the audience 1t is then placed
over the head of the assistant, and tied
below his feet and the knots sealed. He
is then laid on the box, and the box sur
rounded by screen. In two and half
minutes the sack is thrown over the
screen, the knot and seals untouched.
The screen is instantly removed, and the
committee, after examining the seals and
finding them unbroken, commence unity
ing the ropes and removing the canvas.
The box is opened and the man found
inside l-,Scie1atlfc american.
Year: 1873

Do IT Now-Don't live a single hour
of YOUR life without doing exactly what
is to be done in it and going straight
through it from beginning to end. Work,
play, study, whatever it is-take hold at
once and finish it up squarely and
cleanly; and then to the next thing.
without letting any moments drop out
between. 1t IS wonderful to see how
many hours these prompt people con-
trive to make of day; it is as if they
picked up the moments that the dwind-
iers lost. And if ever you find yourself
where you have so many things pressing
upon you that you hardly know how to
begin, let me tell you secret; take hold
of the very first thing that comes to hand.
and you will find the rest file and follow
after like company of well-drilled sol
diers; and though work may be hard to
meet when it charges in a squad, it Is
easily vanquished if you can bring it into
line. You may have often seen the an
ecdote OF the man who was asked how he
accomplished so much in his life. My
father taught me- was the reply, when
had anything to do, to go and do 1t.
There is the secret-the magic word
"NoW
Year: 1873

LAWFUL RICH" - We have lately
heard vague rumors of the unprecedented
richness of certain mining claim on
Trinity Bar, just above Douglas City.
During the past week the rumors have
assumed more definite shape, but as we
received the news al second hand we re-
frain from giving details just now. Suf-
flee it to say, for the present, that a late
visitor at this wonderfully productive
mine reports two colds to one dirt. Also
that on the bedrock, where the little dirt
that is mixed with the gold has been re-
moved, the rock is covered with the yell
low metal. We have also been informed
that the proprietor of this claim finds it
necessary to require visitors, when walk
ing over the bedrock, to draw their gum
boot legs up to the full hight, as when
they are turned down the gold-dust is
liable to flow over the top, get into their
boots and hurt their feet. tits also stated
that wading through gold-dust of such a
depth has tendency to tire ones ankles.
We are anxiously awaiting further par
ticulars,
Year: 1873

RETURNED.-Mr. o. M. Loveridge,
who has charge of the location and survey
Of the Stuart's Fork Ditch returned last
week from a trip to his home in Nevada
county, and a visit to San Francisco on
business connected with the building of
the ditch.
Year: 1873

CONCERNING THE ELECTION, - The
Election to take place next Wednesday,
will be, perhaps, the least exciting one
ever held in this county for local offices.
For about three weeks the candidates
have been laboring with the people, with
what result next Wednesday will tell
The opposing parties are very evenly di-
vided IN this county, and circumstances
not foresecn may decisively affect the re-
suit. SO far as we are able to judge from
our Intercourse with the people, the Re
publican ticket, as q whole, stands high
est in the estimation of the Masses
Democrats seem to have no ground for
attacking their opponents. tits not nee
essary for Republicans to urge objections
to the Ring ticket, for there are plenty of
Democrats to do it. We don't mean
that Democrats object to the whole of the
Dolly Warden ticket, but some oppose
one man and some another until, by their
own showing, the whole concern should
be defeated. This is certainly encoura-
ging to the Republicans. From this it
appears that there will be considerable
scratching" done; in fact, we believe
that in some precincts half the tickets
will be scratched. The Democratic can
didates, feeling that they will lose many
Democratic votes, have been moving
heaven and earth to catch Republicans.
To such an extent has this been carried
that the ring masters have put one Re
publican on the ticket, and would have
had another if they could have got him
All that Republicans have to do is to
stand by their men and they will elect
tl1cm.
Year: 1873

A DOLLY Warden TIcKET.-The tick
ct which Democrats are asked to support
cannot be called party ticket. One of
the nominees is n Republican and they
would have had another one if they could
have got him. This was done with the
hope of catching two votes. Democrats
and Republicans alike will easily see
through such fimsy Arrangement to
catch votes.
Year: 1873

The New York police board recently
adopted resolutions placing the supervision
police, and making each police captain re-
sponsible for the condition of the streets in
his precinct Ssrgeants and roundsmen
are required to report any neglect of duty
on the part of street sweepers or csrtmen.
This regulation will save $S5,000 annually
to the city.
Year: 1873

The Chinese have no dime novels, no
billiards or lager beer, and there is no place
where young man can pawn his sleeve
buttons to get money or to take Ills girl to
the opera. &. t.ts'it
Year: 1873

On Tuesday night, the twelveth instant
very destructive fire occurred at Mansnra
burning the fine dwelling house OF Mrs
Nelson Durand and also burning hel
kitchen and carriage house. From intorma
ton received, the fire broke out in the
kitchen about eleven o'clock at night
caused by hot ashes and Goals being left IN
barrel, which caused the barrel to burn
and then communicated to the kitchen
which was attached to the house.


We DO not know the loss Of Mrs. Ourand
but suppose it is very considerable. We
understand she had barely time to save
herself, and was severely burnt.


The property was not insured.-Aroyelles
ReOubHcdn.
Year: 1873

The reward Of clergymen in Nebraska
seems to be not. great. One writing from
there recently, says:


last Sabbath preached in the morning
and Officiatsd 1T the Lords table with a
pair of boots on, one leg of which was en-
tirely gone, hut we had q rich and blessed
time. did not think of my boots, but my
wife did. We economical and scrimped
and pinched to get along during the past
wear without going INTO debt, and have
nearly kept clear, but it has been Dy living
in q sod house and denying ourselves many
of the yery necessaries of lite"
Year: 1873

The President recently said that he
would be glad to receive suggestions from
members Of the bar throughout the coun-
try respecting the appointment of a Chief
Justice, but he does not want advice from
apy politician. As the court does not meet
until December the appointment will not
be announced until the Senate assemblies to
act upon the nomination.-New York Her-
Year: 1873

At the installation of the Prince Of
Wales as grand-master of the united or
ders of the grand conclave of Masonic
knights Templars of England and Ire
land, his royal highness announced that
the queen was already patroness of the
craft of masonry, and would be patron
ess likewise of their united order.
Year: 1873

Origin Of the Difficulty Between
the Whites aud Negroes


of COlfax.
The Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
Responsible for the Trouble


and BlOOdshed.
The Citizens who 'sCIeaned them
Out" Acted by Virtue OF Law
and Under Orders of


the Sheriff.
Radical Version of the Origin and
Severity Of the Affair
Capital for the Next


Campaign.
Year: 1873

will be repeated in many of our interior
parishes. Such conflicts may be pre-
vented by the federal soldiery, but not
by the metropolitan brigade or any State
militia that can be raised. Exasperated
beyond measure, the people will not
submit to what they consider as base
imposition, if the men whom they pay
for better service are made the agents of
their oppression. By the difficulties
now taking shape the industrial as well
as the political condition of the State
will be seriously deranged, and if they
are not speedily settled confusion worse
confounded must ensue.
Year: 1873

To be saved from plunder all local OF
preston would he so great blessing that
the taxpayers of Louisiana would hail
with hearty welcome the hand that
delivered them, even if it held sword
and were covered with mailed gaunt-
let. Their present rule is doubly intol-
erable, for it means at once eonfiscatiOn
and degradation. They cannot bear it,
and unless by some adjustment it is rem
dnrnd mora fnlara hln the
Year: 1873

whose minds are somewhat inqusitive as
to matters in general had child in small
carriage on Canal street Yesterday. and to
improve their uncultivated minds repeat
edly stopped to look into shop windows.
While intently engaged studying the beau
ties Of some nude chromos they forgot about
their iatan. in tine three-wheeled concern.
but brisk wind was more mindful of
young humanity and gently waited it Off.
the vehicle making as straigh. "a line as if
guided by rudder. Wheu the girl in
charge. weary of gazing a. pretty things.
turned to push the little cart. she was ut.
terly confused at not finding anything. for
the wind had been more faithful than she.
Half square distant she found the baby
perfectly happy and contented.
Year: 1873

Coroner Grayer yesterday completed his
inquest in the case of Demasselier, and the
Jury returned a verdict that deceased came
to his death at the hand of Nelson SEVERN.
The evidence before the coroner furnishes
but a few items not already published in
the REPUBLICAN,.
Year: 1873

Josephine Ray. for a term quite quiet.
once more appears on the surface. this time
as witness against somebody who stole an
album and q satchel from her. Human
mutations teaches her how it is herself.
Year: 1873

Importance of Healthy Bl0od.-Every drop
Of blood that circulates through the veins even
tually becomes solid particle of the body Flesh.
bone and muscle are merely soiiditied blood and
upon the quality OF the blood depends the coudi.
tion Of the whole physical system. Unless the
liquid material by which tho human substance is
renewed and sustained pure and nutritious, it is
impossible that the body can be healthy and
strong. One of the most importan: properties of
Hostettei's Stomach Bitters is that OF improving
the condition OF the vital fluid when infected or
impoverished. Acting directly and powerfully
upon the stomach, in which the manufacture Of
the blood is commenced, and upon the liver which
secretes fluid next in importance to the stream
of life itself, this powerful vegetable tonic and
depurent has an immense indirect influence upon
the circulation. Hence the extraordinary cures
wrought bv the bitters in OF general debility,
malari0us fevers rheumatism, bili0usness cOnsti-
patton, etc. iyl6 st cod W
Year: 1873

Prospectus for 1S73.-6th Year THE Es, An Illustrated Monthly Journal, universally admitted to te the Handsomest Periodical in tho World.

 Representative and Champion of

 American Taste
Year: 1873

A lady living at a hotel in Trey allowed
her baby TO lie around loose. and the result.
was thatit got mixed up with d Tot of dirty
clothes and was carried off unobserved by
the laundry maid OF the establishment.
When the loss was discovered a diligenr
search .Eas instituted and eventually,
after sorting over the contents Of the !auns
dry. the baby was discovered.
Year: 1873

q kind luminary recently asked his pet
scholar why they took Stephen outside the
walls OF the city to stone him to death. The
little fellow was silent for moment, as
though absorbed with the problem, when,
Frightening up suddenly, he replied: so
they could get better crack At him"
Year: 1873

had looked down upon what had been the
First Republic" and then upon empires ris-
ing and falling with their varied fortunes. 1t
saw the past glory of the Caesars and the cru
city of Nero 1t had seen grand armies of
invasion going forth to conquest. 1t had also
seen countless hordes of northern barbarians
plundering and sacking its wealth and beauty,
and witnessed one of their number (Odoacre)
seated upon the throne of the Caesars. And
now in the years of its great age, with pater-
nal anxiety and sorrow at heart, it watches the
tottering steps and the faltering gait of decrep-
i'd age and departing glory.


fully agree with the Poet who believed that
the Colosseum would stand as long as Rome
STOOD aud why should old time separate them
They have been friends SO long, sighing and
smiling together they have seen aud heard so
many things that would startle US. This ven
erable wreck will stand for many and many
years-long after you and | and all of us have
mouldered into dust. | can but think of it
kindly. and even with feeling akin to awe, for
the days of its pride were the days of it's
darkness, with scarce the CLEAN of dim re-
llgious light" to show that might does not make
right, as it was so often written in letters of
blood 10 that olden time. When In Rome, the
first object visited after my arrival was this
Word-tamed monument, and nothing that
saw afterward impressed me more Should it
ever be my good fortune to again fnd myself
In that historic city, my first walk would take
me once more to sit beneath those time-worn
arches, and by those solid columns and pillars
to muse again over all the past.


OCULAR"
Year: 1873

Why was the Shah of Persia. during his
visit 10 Eogland the best card player in the
world? Because the swes gave up their clubs,
the workmen threw up their spades and the
ladies were within an ace of losing their hearts
when he came to show his diamonds.
Year: 1873

ion ready to tear each other 10 pieces, and
to lead a crowd of ignorant and morbid clec
tors was as much a necessity as saving the
army Our only hope for the maintain
ance of our country in the rank to which it
belongs is to pull it out of this hideous
scramble for power and profit 1t was the
uppermost thought Of my mind, when the
offer of the Presidency was made me To
reorganize the army, and to make it a hal
wark of French liberty ought to be the aim
of every true Frenchman There is na
reason why the present regime, in its ex-
tended constitutional forms, with militia
ry executive who should reign over the
country and rule over the army. should not
become established in France When the
words Empire and Republic become
synonymous with the discipline of every
citizen and soldier and servant of the Re
public, there will be as little strife or
wrangling in the country as to who shall be
Minister as there is at present as to wh0
shall be Marshal
Year: 1873

We see by the Chicago papers that
PRoCToR & GAMBLE have reduced the
price of their long established and popular
brand NOTIFIED GERMAN Soap, its pres
ept price and superior quality makes it the
cheapest as well as the best soap for CON
sinners 6-23d3m