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Year: 1873

enough of life to justify the assertion
that it lives at oil. It is trne that
Democratic county organizations may
flourish here aud there for local purpo-
ses few years longer; but, as the
outer branches of some magnificent
forest tree, into whose very heart and
roots destructive insects have carried
death and decay, live on with their
green foliage for a summer or two.
unless perchance they fall to earth
I ON the parent stock, before some
mighty whirlwlnd, SO will some of tho
local organizations of the Democratic


party flourish season or two longer


unless swept away by the uprising Of
the people.-Iiinois State Jouran!.
Year: 1873

If it is right for q public journal to
expose rascality at all, it is right to do
so irrespective of persons. If it is the
duty OF a newspaper to warn its readers
against criminal practices, it is espec-
tally its duty to do SO when the crim'>
nal is intrcpched in high social position
That journal would be cowardly indeed
which would send its reporters to write
the criminal proceedings before the
Police Judge, ferret out crime in the
purlieus OF the Barbary Goa / and
expose the misdoings of the poor aud
frindless rascal, and at the same time
throw It's shield aud mantle over the
reprobate who is favored by education
and high, social position.


When man has been found guilty
Of swindling and detected in criminal
practices, aud when his ofeuses have
been covered up by sympathiziug
friends, who aid him in escaping the
consequences Of his crime, ought the
public press to shield him and couspire
! to keep from the public Knowledge of
the facts ?, To do this is to enable the
Same party to again perpetrate crimi-
, nal acts, and is TO alloalcthers to become
| victims to his sharp practice. - ctron-


icke.
Year: 1873

When the town com mu,ittee had been
nominated, q gentleman arose and said
he objected to one of the members of
that committee because he had said that
If General Batter was dominated for
Governor he would not vote for him.
Nov, saga he, / don't think he hes any
right 70 be- on ourto Committee Then
the man arose, and said, these are the
circumstances: My friend said he was
gong TO vote for General Butter be
cause he believed Mr.. Butler would
enforce the prohibitory law. | said to
him, do you believe General But er is
an honest man? He said no. Now, |
said, for one had rather vote
for an honest Democrat than for . dis.
honest Republican Agreeing with
this view, am here. If satisfied
inlly of the integrity of the candidate,
.am perfectly willing to be bound; but
am not willing to surrender by con-
science and principles to the dictates
of mere temporary majority"


Here is Whit Of fresh air in the
| midst of a stifiag miasma ,and We wish il
might be increased to o gale, and cease
not until the pools and swamps o.
our politics ure thoroughly disinfected
- Resrher
Year: 1873

WAS 1T DEFEAT OM A. VICTORY.
General Butler was certainly beaten
at Worcester ON Wednesday but ne
was not vanquished, for, at the very


moment when his antagonists thought


him completely in their power, he
prudently avoided fight, and effected
mastery retreat, saving his whole
army, guns, ammunition, baggage, and
oil, is now y more formidable political


power than ever before. In one respect
he was even victorious, for he chal"
enged his opponents upon an issue
which they could only meet by evasion
aud artifce. IF there was any truth
lin the indictment which they brought
against him, they were bound TO fight
him even il he had succeeded in get
ting himself nom mated for Governor


but they dared not assume virtue
above their allegiance TO party, and
therefore abandoned the ground on
which alone they would have been
invinoible, descending TO one where
principle 10 subservient to caucus die
| tation, and where they are exposed to al
Year: 1873




WHAT THE CUsToMHoUsE FACTION SOUGHT AND


LosT-How THE DEFEAT WAS BROUGHT ABOUT


REASONS OF SENATOR MGowANs OPPOSITION


THE VICTORY OF THE SENATE.


lFRoa THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUNE.]


ALBANY, April lit may. perhaps, not be clearly
understood by observers at distance that the main
object for which Thomas Murphy and his political
allies in and out Of the Senate, have been struggling
for the last ten days. and is the ousting of An
drew H. Green from the Office of Controller. De-
feated in their main purpose Of grasping all the
patronage of the municipal government, they were
forced to be content with the retention of Henry
Smith, Z. Delafeld Smith, Mr. Stebbins and Mr..
Van Mort in the respective offices they now occupy.
This, to the public, seemed altogether too much,
but to Mr.. Murphy altogether too little. 1t
was then determined by those Republican Senators
who have some regard for the opinion of the great
mass of intelligent and disinterested men in the
city and State nasmuch also they felt themselves
bound by the pledges implied and expressly stated
In Mr.. Thomas Murphy's letter rendering to Mayor
Havemeyer the nomination of the Republican
County Convention, that Mr.. Green should be re-
tanned as Controller. This concession to public opn-
ion was certainly much less than that they had al
ready made in caucus to Mr.. Murphy in keeping in
the Smiths and Van Mort. Nevertheless the Custom
house agents and functionares were vehemently
hostile to it, and we're correspondingly Inundated
and enraged because of their defeat.


The reason why Senator McGowan, whose reputa-
tion as an honest man is without stain, changed
his vote, yesterday, was that he had received au-
thentic information that the leading men of his
party in his own district would look upon the dis
carding of Mr. Green. under the circumstances, as
outrage Two OF three Senators who had been
counted as opponents of the projects of Mr. Thomas
Murphy deserted to the other side. Among them is
numbered Mr.. James Wood, who is one Of two or
three men who are reported to be guided by the po
Iitical advice which they receive from Thurlow
Weed


To the contrary, il is stated that Thurlow Weeds
name is used by Mr. L. D. Webster and his associates,
who have taken temporary quarters in the lobbies
and hotel corridors at Albany to add weight to de-
examinations formed, not by Mr. Weed, but by Mr..
Webster Mr.. Webster was certainly hostile to the
retention of Mr. Green but that he represented the
wisdom and experience of ThurlOw Weed is doubt
full. Whether he did or not, he, and the shadow Of
Thurlow Weed, and the substance of Thomas Muir
ply were defeated. The Senate, while suffering the
whole territory of reform to beinyaded and pilhged,
have thus far successfully defended single citadel,
for which prowess they are certainly entitled to as
much credit as the French for holding Metz long
time against the Prussians. II they do not sur
render the fortress within the coming 30 days they
win not complete the parallel.
Year: 1873

PROSPECTS, OF THE CHARTER


1T is STILL IN THE sENATR-wHAT WILL THE CUSTOM


HOUSE FACTION DO WITH Tf us LIFE OR


DEATH PROBABLY DEPENDENT UPON SPEAKER


CORNEII's ACTION.


[FRos REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRDUSEI
ALBANY. April 1l.-It was expected that the
Charter would be sent down to the Assembly this
morning, but the Senate has ordered it TO be re-
printed, that it will not reach the Lower House
before Monday night OF Tuesday morning. 1t is no
like the Charter that went up from the Assem-
bly, to the Senate than chalk is like cheese" and
good deal of curiosity is felt to what the Lower
House will do with the plaything when II comes
back in such a mutilated condition. When the
Charter went up from the Assembly to
the Senate the Custom-house leaders said
that it would go through the latter House
without the crossing Of or the dotting OF an l.
Its present condition has established one fact at
least, and that is that Murphy, Bliss, Davenport
and their followers neither prophets
full political leaders If there q clique of
politicians who wele thoroughly defeated, routed,
and brought into disgrace, they are such one.


Charles p. Shaw. whom they deemed hardly ortho-
dox enough to be counsel to the Health Board,
and others equally serviceable, have proved to be
more than match for the whole of them. They
have succeeded in so altering and amending the





Mayor and the political opponents of the Custom
house dictatiOn will have at least half If not two
thirds of the power and patronage of the City Gov
emment. The question now is will the Assembly
concur in the Charter it comes from the Senate,
OF will they continue to insist upon the Custom
house programme, and thus defeat the Charter
altogether


1t has been all along stated in these dispatches
that the Custom-house leaders would rather have
no charter at all than one that is not framed entirely
in their interest 1t is settled that they cannot
have such charter they want and their only
object is to escape the responsibility of not having
any. With that view the leaders have kept away
from Albany this week; but it is well known that
their influence is being used secretly to prevent the
passage of any charter. Whether they shall sue
ceed in this or not will depend on their Speaker, A.
b. Cornell, who has the appointment of q conference
committee on the part of the House, and can ap-
point such committee as viii give New-York
charter with Green retained as Controller aud
appointments to be left with the Mayor and Board
Of Aldermen OF that will stubbornly adhere to
the wishes of the Custom-house leaders, and thus
prevent any charter. 1t rests entirely with the Gus
house men, or with the Speaker of their choice
whether New York shall have a charter not; and
however much they NAV desire to do 80, they can
not escape the responsibility.
Year: 1873

SALT LAKE CITY, April lit is known
that Brigham Young will resign the Presidency OF the
Utah Central and Southern Railroads and accompany
the Missionary Company TO Arizona The company will
be large as they are intended be employed In build
ing the Southern Pacific Railroad Emigration will be
promoted in order TO increase the mission and the
political control Of Arizona 10 looked TO.
Year: 1873

partof in many matters Of detail connected
with the Erie management. He signed vouchers for
large sums of which he had little recollection, and Of
which he was not sure that he knew much at the
time of signing them. If they came to him from the
proper department he assumed their correct
ness and attached his name without reading
the contents. He also had clerk who imi-
tated his signature with such exactness that he
could not tell genuine one when he saw it. Not
much was brought to light in reference to the legal
services" which were rendered by Tweed,
Barber and Van Vechten at Albany; but
the means by which Mr.. Gould provided
in advance for friendly legislation by using money
in elections brought out for the first time in this
investigation. The witness said he thought money
so spent was o good investment for his Company
and did more good than money spent after
election. He sometimes caught Tartar
but generally the people he aided were faithful to
his interests Mr.. Goulds examination will be ocn-
tinued to-day at p. M, the Committee having ad-
journed at midnight.
Year: 1873

1t Is Not Just the Thing TO Ask People
70 die as you would ask them get married. because
everything is cheap but II they are going TO- or have
already il is Just well to know that Mourning
OF the very best quality Just be purchased at
vary prices Moreover many ladies black who
are not mourning. and these also recommend to
to neutrality-suspicious. is JACKSoNS Mourning Goods
Store-or Black Dress Fabrics. Grape Is almost the
only distinctive mourning fabric in use; cashmere
has superseded bombazine, and cashmere Is ms much
mourning. The point however, Is this,
that


Mr.. JACKSON 729 Broadway,
is selling fine awool Cashmeres, over yard wide, ut
and 81 per yard and Tamise and Barritz Cord at
stock they fresh and warranted Apacas also Of an
excellent quality offered for 81 yard-really
less than they could have been bought tor gold before
the


very short time Black goods and all fabrics Tor which
demandElre the rise, stocks IN the f-
porters' hands being very light In the auction room
they l2c upon the yard within week-Daily
Year: 1873

Additions to the Concessions-How the
Formal Salute May BE Given to the


Flag-The Diplomatic Correspondence


Ready for Congress.


WASHINGTON Nov. 90 1873.


Oncia information received by the Department
Of state this morning confirms the Madrid despatch
dated to-day relative to the agreement OF the
Spanish government in regard to the virginus,
with the additional fact that our nag is to be
saluted.


1t is probable that the arrangements to be per-
fected between the two governments ior the
saluting of the flag of the United States by spain,
in reparation of the indignity suffered by our
national emblem when it was improperly hauled
down from the vrginius by the boarding officer
from the Tornado, will be modelled upon the
transaction that took place between the United
States and France, in the latter part OF
to the French nation, in the person
Of its Consul at San Francisco, by
a compulsory process issued against the Consul
from the United States District Court. After q
long and somewhat heated. correspondence it was
finally agreed between Secretary Marcy and the
French Minister acting for his government, that
when French national ship or squadron should
appear in the harbor OF San Francisco the United
States military or naval authorities there
stationed should salute the national nag
national salute at an hour to be
previously agreed upon with the French naval
commander and that the ship or squadron whose
nag was thus saluted should return the salute gun
for gun. strict observance OF this well consid-
cred precedent would require the impending
salutes to take place at Santiago de Cuba but is
possible that our government, IN spirit of
accommodation and concaton, and in recog
milton OF the peculiar embarrassments OF the
Spanish government In Cuba, may consent to
Havana, where they could be the more easily
performed or even to Cadiz or some other port in
Spain under control of the republican government,
where there would be still less disturbance OF
popular feeling. The alternative method of render.
ing the salute would undoubtedly be less accepta-
bic to the Spanish government, as it would require
the hosting of our nag at the lore on Spanish
notilla in one of our own ports.


Copies of all the correspondence on file or on
record at the state Department in relation to the
matters OF controversy with Spain are now being
made Tor the Senate and House, to be sent In on
the first call for information from friend or foe OF
the administration. The documents to be furnished
range the whole field from the outbreak OF the in
surrection to the last and greatest rage. Mr.. Fish
is OF opinion that the correspondence VIII frame a
huge indictment against Spain for the consideration
OF whatever arbtrators may be called in to settle
the questions of indemnity for the seizure and
slaughter OF the virginius and her crew, and re-
veal numberless violations OF treaty obligations
interna tiona law and the principles OF humanity
on the part OF the Spanish government and its of.
Gcers, with strongly contrasted forbearance and
strict observance OF law aud obligation on our
part.
Year: 1873

In different community, this mar
trydom of innocent life might at least
have born harvest of love and charity
for other starving souls to reap; but
in that strange land whose silver boards
benumb the heart, the sacrifice was
lost, like bubble in the sea. I do not.
even know there was any record of it in
the Daily News, for the next day there
was a development in the mines ;"
which made every one wild with excite
ment, and editors and readers alike
were absorbed in their own sordid pos
sibilities. OUerE01ad 1fonthLv.
Year: 1873

BOXING THE EARS tends to dull the
sensibility of the nerve, even if it dose not
hurt the membrane. I knew a pitiful
case, once, of a poor youth who died
from terrible disease of the ear. He
had discharge from it since he was
child. OF course, his hearing had been
dull and what had happened was that
his father had often boxed his ear for
inattention Most likely that boxing on
the ear, diseased as 1T was, had much to
do with his dying. And this brings me
to the second point. Children should
not be blamed for being inattentive,
u1.il it has been found out whether
they are not little deaf. This is easily
done by placing them at few yards
distance, and trying whether they can
understand what is said to them in a
rather low tone of voice. Each ear
should be tried, while the other is stopp-
ed by the finger. I do not say that
children are never guilty of inattention,
especially to that which they do not
particularly wish to hsar but do say
that very many children are blamed and
punished for inattentoin when they
really do not hear. Three things should
be remembered here: First. That slight
degrees of deafness, often lasting only
for a time, are very common among chill
dren, especially during or after colds.
Second. That slight deafness, which
does not prevent person from hearing
when he is expecting to be spoken to,
will make him very dull to what he is
not expecting and third. That there
is kind of deafness in which a person
can hear pretty well while listening,
but is really very hard of hearing when
not listening.-Dr Hinton.
Year: 1873

Always carry a revolver when you
go out horseback riding with a young
lady. Mr.. Bragg, of Visalina, Cal,
carried one when he>took Miss Kemp TO
ride, the other day, and as they were
both on the same horse, when the weap-
on went of, the bullet entered the
young lady's knee and came out at the
ankle. Her dress was set on fire, and
she was seriously injured by the falling
from the horse, but such incidents are
trivial in comparison with the sense OF
security an able-bodied man derives
from, the possession of pistol.
Year: 1873

OUR PERSONALITY IN DREAMS
remarkable thing as to the stuff of our
d1eams is we'll worth moments con-
sideration-and it is this OF whatever
stuff we are ourselves made $50 far as
regards our moral constitution and
character that is of such stuff our
dreams will assuredly partake in a very
great degree, whatever may be the
forms and phases grotesque and ridic-
ulous or awful and solemn under
which they occupy the mind in sleep.
It has been frequently asserted by
writer's on this subject, that the dreamer
is at one time brave as lion, at another
a mere poltroon-at one time knave,
at another a saint, ETC., etc. But all
such descriptions are false and baseles,
the moral individuality undergoes no
changes III dreams. The coward never
dreams that he is valiant, or the brave
man that he is a coward; the sordid
man has no generous emotions in the
land of shadows, nor does the free
handed, hospitable man become a churl
in his sleep. The dreams of the miser
will never be visions of self-sacrifice
and benevolence, nor those of the base,
mean and impure, be whit more noble
or elevated than the acts of their waking
hours.
Year: 1873

DANBURY SPEoTACLEs. When an
elderly individual loses an article, the
entire neighborhood is quite apt to hear
it. There is an old gentleman who re-
Gently lost his spectacles, and he tore
around the house, and out into the
yard, shouting, "Where's them specta-
cles ?" "Merciful heaven won't any
body find them spectacles?" ?" And he
kept this up for days at time, stirring
up the whole community into state of
excitement that was extremely hurtful.
He looked himself into every place
where a pair of spectacles would be
likely to conceal itself, such as under
the wood-pile, in the parlor stove, and
on top of the barn, but to no avail.
Saturday morning he was taking a sit
ting hen from the nest when he found
his glasses. She had probably seen
they were not her size, and had con-
cealed them there until an opportunity
offered to exchange them for suitable
Year: 1873

We knew the fool would turn up
somewhere who would put his postal
card in stamped envelope and mail it
that way. Covington, KY, is response
BILE for him, and he thinks the cards are
a great convenience.
Year: 1873

THE FALLIBILrrY OF OPINION. Moth
ing is more difficult and requires more
care than philosophical deduction, nor
is there any thing more adverse to its
accuracy than fixidity of opinion. The
man who is certain he is right is almost
sure to be wrong, and he has the adj
ditional misfortune of inevitably re-
naming so. All our theories are fixed
upon uncertain data, and all of them
want alteration and support. Ever since
the world began, opinion has changed
with the progress of things, and it is
something more absurd TO suppose that
we have sure claim to perfection, or that
we are in possess ion of the highest
stretch of intellect which has or can
result from human thought. Why our
successors should not displace us in our
opinions as we'll as our persons, it is
difficult to say it ever has been so, and
from anology would be supposed to
continue so; and yet, with all this
practical evidence Of the fallibility OF
our opinions, all,--and none more than
philosophers,-are ready to assert the
real truth of their opinions.-A. Fdr-
rUddy.
Year: 1873

There is something interesting in
observing two women looking disdain-
fully at each other, but when two old
ladies whose front teeth are gone curl
the lip of scorn, the effect is very de-
pressing.
Year: 1873

THE SENSATION OF DRowNING.-Dr.
Hoffman, survivor of the Dixon disaster
thus gives description of the sensation
of drowning to the Chicago I1fbmnc: 81
was greatly astonishcd at the number of
events that passed through my mind
while under water. Nothing that occur
red during childhood was evident, but
everything that occurred since was nine
teen years old appeared before me as if
photographed" When he was rescued,
the doctor says "The sudden transition
from the beatifc state in the water to the
dry land seemed to have a bad effect on
me, and made me Indifferent as to what
was going on around me. Something
analogous to this is related by DcQuincy
out Of his own experience. What good
thing it would be for newspaper publish
ers if few hundred thousand of those
fellows who never pay their little bills
because "thcy forgot all about it" were
to be given a view Of the great hereafter
through the medium of water.
Year: 1873

An ENORMOUS JoB.-The proposition
to add to the public debt the debts of the
Southern States is to come before the
next Congress, and it is expected that the
solid vote of the States to be relieved,
aided by some judiciops bribery among
the back pay grabbers, will carry the
thing through. We cannot imagine
what arguments will be used in favor Of
this job, but doubtless there are Congress
men who would undertake to prove it to
be mcritorious act to rob bank. Yet
we regard this as serious matter never
theless, because it IS plain that millions
of money would be made if bonds now
worth from six cents pound to ten, ff-
teen, twenty, forty and fifty cents on the
dollar could be raised in value to one doll
lar and twelve cents, which is the current
quotation of United States currency skies.
Money could be paid out by the million
to secure such a result, for the proposed
robbery would put clear one hundred
million dollars into the pockets of those
who might own the now almost worthless
paper which now goes by the name of
Southern securities. The scheme, we OBJ
serve, is seriously advocated by several
journals, and very tenderly handled by
some northern ones, but we do not thinl;
it will meet with much favor from the
taxpayers of the North, whom itproposcs
to load with two hundred million dollars
Of additional debt.-Ncv York I1ib1ne.
Year: 1873

A WESTERN Congressman carries his
back pay in leather pouch attached to
a strap about his herson. The device
works admirably. Whenever he has any
talk with good, conscientious people, and
begins to feel that he ought TO return it,
lie just takes the money out, turns it over
two or three times, and the feeling is gone
at oncc.-N. Y. Com. AdU.
Year: 1873

CALEB CUSHING says that he believes
his late affair about the yellow dog has
given him greater notoriety than any 9TH
er act Of his life. He is constantly re-
ceiving newspapers containing editorial
comments on the suit, and people point
him out in the street as the man who put
an Injunction on that dog.