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Year: 1873

Believe not them that seem to dcspise
riches, for they desPise them that despair
Of them; and none worse than they who
come to them. Be not pennywise; riches
have wings, and sometimes they fly away of
themselves, sometime they must be set
flying to bring in more. Men leave their
riches either to their kindred or to the
public; and moderate portion prospers
best with both. A great estate left to AT
heir is a lure to all the birds of prey around
to sieze on him, if he be not the better es-
sablished in years and judgment; like
wise glorious gifts and foundations are like
sacrifices without sal,, and bur the painted
sePulchres of aims, which viii soon
putrety and corrupt inwardly. There
fore measure not thine advanccments by
quantity, but frame them by measures =
and defer not charities till death. For
certainly, ifaman weigh rightly. he that
doeth so is rather liberal of another mars
than his own.
Year: 1873

1t conduces much TO our confetti If
we pass by those things which happen


10 our trouble, and consider what is


pleasing and prosperous, that by the


representation Of the better the worse


may be blotted out. If l be over
thrown in my suit at law, yet my


house is left me still and my land ; or
1 have q virtuous wife, OF hopeful


children, or kind friends, or good


hopcs, II l have lost one child, it
may be have two or three still left
mo. Enjoy the present, whatsoever
it may be, aud be not soiicitous for
the future for il you take your foot
from the present standing, and thrus,
it forward to to-merrow's event, you
are in restless condition; it iSiikt


refusing to qaench your present


thirst BY fearing you will want drink
the next day. II to-morr5w you
Year: 1873

We give President Grant and Gen. Sherman
right hearty thanks for having taken a course
at last which averted bloodshed yesterday in
New-Orleans. After what they said the i'll
tempered fulminations of Acting Governor
Pinchback and the indiscreet messages of
the United States Att0rney-General were
insufficient to create any serious disturb
ance The Fusion or Warm0th LegIsia-
ture has met and organized. No col
lision has happened, and we have the
word of Pinchback that this assemblage shall
not be dispersed as long as they do not attempt
to govern Louisiana, which is very good of
Pinchback. His course in this affair is regarded
in New-Orleans as a comedy. Here, however,
knowing something of the antecedents OF this
adventurer, it seems more tragical than cOmical.
This man, it should not be forgotten, has no
more right in the Governors chair than any
other citizen of Louisiana. There is no court
on earth that can give him that right under
the laws of the United States or the State OF
Louisiana. He was a State Senator; the
Lieutenant Governor (Mr. Dunn died, and
Pinchback was chosen President Of the
Senate in his place; while he pretended
TO be acting Lieutenant-Governor, Gov.
Warmoth was impeached by the Legislature
which had been recognized by Durell. He
then claimed to be Acting Governor by virtue
of being Acting ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; and he
claimed to be Lieutenant Governor because
he had been chosen President of the Senate !;
and he had been President of the Senate be-
cause he had been Senator. But, all this
time, his term of Office as Senator had run
out. Indeed, he has not had even senatorial
background to set him off for nearly these
two months; yet, as "Acting Governor" he
"keeps on and ON Moreover, as Acting
Governor, to complete the farce, he has issued
to himself commission as Congressman at
Large, having claimed an election on the
Kellogg ticket Furthermore, he il candidate
for the position of United States Senator be-
fore the Kellogg (or DurelD Legislature


Is not this travesty on republican gov
ernmentf Yet, this is the person who is re-
cognized by the Attorney General of the United
States as Governor of Louisiana. And this Gov
ernor of shreds and patches, having been
promised the support of United States forces
by the Acknowledgement, and having made
proclamation of the fact at the suggestion OF
that high functionary, now threatens the en-
forcement (at point of bayoneD of an out
rageous act to prohibit public assemblages-a
law which is specious enough to seem to be in
the interest of law and order, while it is Sc
we're enough to have suited the will of the
late Emperor of the French. This is what
comes of too much Federal meddling in State
affairs
Year: 1873

New-York has been lying, for more than ten
DAYS in the mire. The snow which fell on
the day after Christmas still cumbers the
streets. The crossings are still, for the most
mart. rivers of slush shoes are useless, over
shoes even are almost vanity; to walk Is
painfnl to ride tedious, and as to stay at
home is impossible, existence has been, even
to the fortunate few who use a cab, an almost
unmixed trouble, and TO the hundreds of
thousands, less fortunate, who depend upon
their legs or the street cars, a WEAKNESS and
disgust. which would be uncomfortable were it
not that the New Yorker has been trained to
dirt and slush, and expects it, as the boys in
Dotheboys Hall expected a doggng.


We are supposed to have a reformed City
Government, but it has not reformed the
streets We have new Mayor, and doubtless
q good one but the streets are no cleaner.
We have Mr.. Green as COntroller-long may
he remain in the Office which he so honestly
administers-but yet we have streets so dirty,
so horrible, that they make life burden and
citizenship a disgrace. And it is all nObody's
fault Nobody is responsible to the average
New Yorker, when he wades over his ankles
in slush, for his soiled clothes, his cold feet,
his ruined shoes, his worse than ruined
temper. He may imprecate, but his curses
are like the Pope's Bull at the COmet-they
are shots in the air; they don't hit anybody.


Now suppose case suppose New York had
Mayor, who was made by the charter re-
sponsible for clean streets. Suppose he had
by the charter, power to make them clean
authority to see that they were clean and of
course, having this power and authority, he
would be responsible-to us for their cleanness


Suppose such power and responsibility vest
ed in the Mayor, and does anybody believe
that he, let him be what he may, rogue, i'm
beetle, fool scamp, would dare TO let the
whole of NewYork wade about in slush for
ten days-or even after the first failure, for
single day. Is it not certain that he would
clean them-at all hazards, and at any ex-
pense7 And is it not just as sure that-count-
ing the wear and tear of horses, wagons,
drays the injury to mems and women's cloth
ing and health, and the fearful loss OF time
to everybody, caused by such streets as we
have now-any possible expenditure which
would give us clean streets and, keep them
clean in all woathers, would be o splendid
piece of economyi


What is wanted, to clean the streets, is
responsible Mayor. Let anybody ask Mr..
Havemeyer what he would do if he had power
to clean the streets, and IL the people looked
to him, in such a case as this, and he will, we
do not doubt, say that he would clean them.


But until the chief executive officer of the
city is thus responsible to the citizens, and
has this power and duty, without any reserve
except that he shall do the work and publish
his expenditures, we shall live in slush and
mire half the Winter every Winter. We beg
the charter makers 10 think of this
Year: 1873

Since it was determined that the memorial
of Mr.. Greeley should take the form of q
statue, we are glad to be informed that the
subscriptions thus far have been liberal
Some have been received at The TRIBUNE
office, and many others by the members OF
the Committee. Delay is always to be re-
gretted, when work of this particular kind
has been undertaken, since prOcrastinatiOn
though it may be fairly attributable to other
causes, appears at first glance to be- Occa-
stoned by want of enthusiasm and sincerity of
purpose. He gives twice, therefore, to such
a project who gives quickly. The arrange
ments by which the moneys to be raised for
the statue will be paid by the Committee into
the custody of Mr. Controller Green, ought to
inspire confidence in their economical and ad-
vantageous expenditure. The fund could not
have a more trustworthy Treasurer.


1t is for many reasons desirable that the
subscription should be completed as speedily
as possible. Though many very handsome
sums have already been offered, and although
this is case in which those who are able and
who revere the memory of Mr.. Greeley will
be likely to give munifcently, it is desirable
that the movement should be as far as possi-
BILE popular one. There are many who loved
Mr.. Greeley, and to whom his teachings have
been of the highest Importance in suggesting
just views Of the conduct of life, who are not
in position to give much, but who will still
be glad and proud to give something. Sub
scriptions in such cases may be placed in the
hands Of the nearest Committeeman, or
forwarded direct to THE TRIBUNE in New
York. to be publicly acknowledged, and paid
into the hands of Mr.. Green, the Treasurer of
the Fund.


1t is to be understood that full lists of the
names of subscribers will be published with
the amounts Of their subscriptions. We are
informed that there will soon be meeting of
the Committee, after which particulars of the
state of the subscription will be given to the
public. The work of erecting this statue
should be promptly and handsomely ac-
complished. In this way the men of the pres
ent generation may prove to those who are TO
come after them how greatly even in his own
time for which be worked 80 well, Mr.. Gree
ley was honored. This is a kind of testimo-
nial which, however well merited, men have
often been content to leave to their children /;
but,Mr. Greeley bpfe 70 euipeDuy y part "
Year: 1873

Legislature. Becoming suspicious of his own
adherents, he outrageohsly abused them' anu
was finally shot by his nephew, and expired
in the arms of his daughter. These
details are horrible enough, but the
facts of the case still give some
encouragement to hope for the ultimate ter
mination of these disorders. The attituue o,
the people was praiseworthy throughout anu
upon the death of the President successor
to the chief executive power was selected
without the least disturbance and In the regu-
lar constitutional way. His associates are men
of distinguished ability; and the Council OF
State which is legally entitled to remain in
power for some years longer, is anxious to
surrender its authority to the people.
Year: 1873

nous verdict; and the uppermost feeling in
the city - after the first astOnishment has
passed-is one of qualification that Justice
has resumed her sway, and murder is here
after to be punished, as well as minor crimes.


But is itq How many other murderers are
there now in the Tombs, and when are they
to be tried The danger is that the public
demand will be satisfied with this spasmodic
severity, under cover of which dozen other
criminals, as bad as Stokes, will escape.
When is the next murderer to be tried
Year: 1873

The sentence of Stokes will meet with gen.
eral approval. Everybody is rejoiced to feel
that hanging is not played out in w-York,
while hanging rems'ns the punishment for
murder, and the cells Of our city prison are
thronged with murderers. b. There is wide
and sincere sympathy for the criminals
family and there has been some doubt raised by
the remarkable evidence intended to show
that Stokes was not the aggressor. But ne
body is likely TO question the iury's unani-
Year: 1873

the events of his day, some of which are rap
idly becoming historical, that it behOoves those
who worked with him, who listened to his
precepts and knew him from personal obser-
walton, to honor themselves by honoring him


after the appropriate manner determined upon
Year: 1873

We have to-day an account of one of those
ec,s of violence which render public order
uncertain in the crude state of society in South
America. Gen. Morales, President OF Bolivia
having been deranged by drink, first
iosulted and then forcibly dissolved the
Year: 1873

There seems at last prospect that the claim of
the widow and children of Admiral Dahlgren will
have a hearing in Congress. The Senate has already
passed bill authorizing the Court of Claims to
decide what is honestly duo to the family for the
of the Admirals inventions. 1t will come be-
fore the House. and it is hard to what objection
can be made to it, The nation has used the product
of Dahlgren's labor and genius for twenty years
without penny of compensation. If he had been
private citizen bis children would now possess
colossal fortune. 1t is not fair to rob them simply
because their father was devoted and loyal officer
Year: 1873

Photographic as an art has just reached new
dignity--it has got Professors chair, and Pro-
fessor TO fill it, The fortunate man is DR.. Vogel
Photographic instructor in the Berlin Royal Indus
trial College. This academic action is very proper
and only just to the profession which is fast growing
in thoroughness and in conscientious zeal for iu-
provement and new discovery. To compare photo
graphs taken in 1863 and in 1873 is the best way in
which to realize what the art is doing for itself.
Year: 1873

There is noted revival preacher who is making
a great sensation in Dubuque, his name being the
Rev. E. p. Hammond The ways of this apostle are
eccentric. The other day, he mounted fiery steed
and oanterng through the streets of the city, cried
ont at the top Of his voice, Come to Jesus" This
was way he had of advertising a meeting which
he was about to hold. A few days previously he
made similar sensation by going into rum-shop
and loudly exhorting both the barkeeper and the
boozy TO repentance; but upon this occasion he was
treated with rreverence by the aforesaid barkeeper
who simply asked the reverend gentleman What
he would take.' 1t isn't for us to decideiwhether
people are to be made any religious in this odd
way: but we must own to doubts about it.
Year: 1873

The best standard soft food is ground
oats, if procurable; barley meal will
make an excellent food, and if mixed
occasionally with potatoes well wash
ed, turnips, beet or mangold-wurzel, so
much the better. this food should be
given only in the morning, and then
warm, especially in the winter season.
Buckwheat as grain is excellent food.
and when fowls get accustomed to it,
eat it readily, SO is good barley and
oats; peas, beans, and Indian corn may
also be supplied; but as already men
toned, to supply only such wastes of the
body as these materials are capable of.
Spiced food is frequently recommended
by poultry writers; some advocate the
giving of raw onions at least two or
three times week, with good supply
of cayenne pepper in their food; others
advocate the use of condiments, all of
which are largely made up of stimu-
lants of various kinds. There is no
doubt all kinds of spiced food materially
tend to hasten maturity, whether it be
to the chicken, the pullet, or the hen
that they are supplied. Chickens when
thus fed when young, will attain to
large size and lay earlier, commencing
at about four months old, and hens will


laying, but breeders will do we'll to
bear in mind that the continuance of
stimulating fowls beyond reasonable
time will result prejudiciously to both
old and young fowls. 1t cannot be
denied, however, that when judiciously
and moderately given, used at certain
times only, such food is highly benefi-
cial. If given to chickens when ledg


ing, it greatly assists in this, to them,
exhausting process; and when given to
dropping fowls has marked effect, quick
ly restoring them to their former healthy
condition 1t is a good thing, too, to
give stimulating food to old fowls in
cold or wet weather, and when mout-
ing, and to hens that do not lay in due
time in early spring; but in any case
when the desired effect is produced,
spiced food should be discontinued and
the usual plain food be again restored


In old birds, if given too frequently or
continued beyond the time already men
toned, it produces diseased organs,
and in pullets stunted growth. In the
care of chickens of all the larger breeds,
the longer maturity can he postponed
the larger the birds are likely to be, and
no matter what may be said to the con-
trary, the same feeding which produces
forced and rapid growth during the
very early period of chickenhood, will
of necessity, if continued beyond this,
result in stunted, because precocious
adults-large size and early maturity
cannot be had in the same bird-they
are Incompatible. For many purposes
then it is well to have stimulating food
always on hand, or the means by which
it may be prepared at moments
notice. The following condiment mix
ed with oatmeal will be found highly
beneficial: Take of ground allspice
two ounces; ground black pepper two
ounces; ground ginger half pound, and
brown sugar one pound; mix together
and add to usual food in sufficient
quantity to cause slightly sweet and
hot taste. When prepared it should be
kept in a well corked bottle, ready for
use when required. The profits of the
poultry yard, then, depend on the pro-
per feeding of fowls; inattention in this
Year: 1873

respect leads to more than half the dis
appointments and loss to poultry breed
ers, and tends to produce disgust in the
minds of others Food must be given
regularly and in moderation, not too
frequently, nor yet too much at time;
in this consists one of the great secrets
of profitable and successful poultry
breeding.


Canada Farmer.
Year: 1873

BoTs IN HoRsEs.-In the POPULAR
SCIENCE MONTHLY there is short art-
Gle relative to the power of endurance
manifested by the Larvae of some insects,
and among them of the bot-fy. 1t
mentions case where piece of the
stomach of dead horse which was
covered with bot-worms was spread on
board, and spirits of turpentine was
poured on the worms, yet after an hour
not one was detached from the flesh
Then whale-o was poured on them,
when they all let go their hold, and
died almost Immediately. Hence the
inference that whale-oil should be used
to detach the worms from the living
horse when attacked by bots.
Year: 1873

. MIXTURE FOR STocK.-Equal parts
of salt, lime and fine wood ashes well
mixedtogether, and given in tablespoon
full doses two or three times week
will be found beneficial to cattle, horses,
mules and swine. Sheep should have
access to salt at all times, and pure
water. is necessary for stock Of every
sort.
Year: 1873

The eighth and last resolution of
the Iowa Republican platform, de-
clnring it the duty Of every Republi-
can to participate In politics." and
10 ''opose the election of a bad and
incompetent candidate, whether he
be q candidate upon our own or any
other ticket" has been very general
~ commented on, and almost uni
versally endorsed by the press of the
party in the State. And many prom
inent Republican journals outside
the State have commended it in en-
phatic terms. There is little ques-
ton that il will be ratified by many,
il not nearly all the County Conven.
lions of the State, as it ought. Our
State Convention has taken such ad.
vancei ground upon this question as
few conventions in the country have
ever had the courage TO take. That
the heart of the party has for years
been ready for this bold stand, has
been shown conclusively by election
returns. Invariably, when a man
suspected of lack Of either Of the es-
sential qualifcations-honesty and
capability-has been placed upon the.
ticket the returns have shown
that many Of his party have failed
to support him at the polls. The
factthat candidate has "run behind
his Ticket" is not always proof that
he was not q good man for the place
sought; butin some cases familiar TO
us, where the candidates forced
themselves, or were forced by others
upona ticket, against the wish of the
party, they have been rebuked by u
diminished vote or by defeat.


The resolution is a good one, and
Just such as the times demand, al
though it is subject to abuse. We
must all admit that circumstances
might arise under which it would be
wrong not to withhold our votes and
influence from some man on our par
ty tieket. We have no desire to en-
courage bolting," in fact we think
il sl1f,uld not be done without some
very good cause. A party ticket
rep}esents, or should represent some
principle or set of principles which
have been adopted by the party; and
theb bersons who make the ticket are
IN s8pit sense justly considered pledg-
ed ench other to support those
principles through the ticket,4bes "
is simply preposterous to say they
must vote the whole ticket in case,
for instance, known villain has by
unjust means secured place upon j..
The members of party should be
able To trust each other to vote the
ticket straight, except for such rea-
son as the individual conscientious
ly believes makes it his duty to do
otherwise. In substance, all will ad-
NIT that this is all there is in honest
party pledges. Anything beyond
this is bad in tendency at least, and
is likely TO be 50 in results.
Year: 1873

The Chicago Post ID responsible for
the suggestion that ito carry the
management Of the National Grange
to Washington is like establishing
snug quarters for a lamb in wolves
den. Merciful Providence might
suffer the lamb to escape just as it
may the Changers, but it is not well
to rashly tempt Providence.
Year: 1873

The Washington Chronicle says the
general opinion among the profess
sion, embracing men of all shades of
political opinion, seems to be very
unanimous in favor OF Justice Miller
of Iowa, RS successor to Chief Justice
Chase.
Year: 1873

INDIA RUBBER - IT'S MANUFAc'
ruRE.-India Rubber, in the condi-
ton in which it is when first i'm
ported, has much irregularity Of
texture, and it is also contaminated
with much dirt and refuse. Tc
separate these, the India rubber is
cut into very small fragments, and
then stepped in warm water, BY
which the dirt is precipitated. The
fragments are dried and thrown
into a kind of kneading machine.
where immense pressure is employ
ed to bring them to one homogee'
neous mass. There is in this knead'
ing process evidence afforded Of q
very remarkable difference between
gutta percha and India rubber; the
former requires to be heated to q
soft state before being placed in the
kneading mill, but the India rubber
though put in cold, becomes so hot
by the agitation that it can not safely
be touched by the hand-it being
necessary to supply the machine
with cold water, which is made
nearly to boil with caloric driver
out of the elastic mass. So thor
ough1y is the mass pressed, rolled
pricked, cut and kneaded by thi'
operation, that all dirt, air, water
and steam are expelled, and it pre-
sents the appearance Of a darl
colored, uniform and smooth mass
1t is then put into cast iron mould'
of great strength, and brought by
hydraulic or screw pressure to th'
form of blocks, slabs or cylinders
according to the purpose to which
it is to be applied.
Year: 1873

LEAVING made slight change in
HH my business, which will enable
me hereafter to keep a more complete
Stock of DRUGS and FANCY ARTl-
Giles, together with few other goods
which I have not heretofore kept,
beg to in form you one and all that am
still at No. Whites Block, ready and
willing to sell and serve all who have
the money. I am compelled hereafter
to require cash for all goods on delivery
do not forget this, and when sending
orders and prescriptions, (Which shall
have my prompt attcnlion) to send the
cash.


W. T. PENNEY.


Feb 10. 1S72-45-tf
Year: 1873

science, for science could not reveal the
bravery and del;cacy OF bis heart.


"We have heard much of Fsraday's gen.
tleness and sweetness and tenderness. It
is all trhe, but it is very incomplete. You
cannot resolve powerful nature into these
elements, and Faraday's character would
have been less admirable than it was, had it
not embraced forces and tendencies to which
the silky adjectives 'gcotle' and tender
would by no means apply. Underneath his
sweetness and gentleness was the heat Of q
volcano. He was q man of excitable and
fiery nature but through high discipline he
had converted the fire into . central glow
and motive power of life, instead Of permit
ting it to waste itself in useless passion"