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Year: 1873

We print elsewhere much-trumpotod article
frou, tho Now York Tribune demanding M
extra session Of Congress- to provide for tho i'm
mediate resumption Of apoeio payment. It
olrors no plan for tho consideration Of Congress,
howovor, but places its trust in the superior wis
dom Of Gen. Grant and tho Administration
party. This comes like darkne5a in tho light
rather than light in tho darkness. Tho occasion
is undoubtedly n good ono for tho Republican
party to rostoro public confidence, not only In
the financial system Of tho country, but in itself
as Tho governing party. But We fear that tho
occasion will DO permitted to 20 by unimprosod,
as SO many othors have boon. As regards tho
return to specie payment, tho Tribune las
Baid nothing that is calculated to help either tho
Republican party or the country out Of the ON
barraasment. It las simply printed Hopho-
morical article On tho subject.
Year: 1873

Tho Philadelphia Press, as will be Been in its
article published in another part Of this paper,
clamors for Tho Government to MD in tho COM
plotion Of tho Northern Pacific Railroad. Tho
proposition is simply infamous ut this timo.
Tho present responsibility Of tile Government
for tho undertaking, with it's kindred evils, is
limited to the making Of the enormous land
grant which constituted tho objective point Of
tho enterprise, tho only terminus. in point Of
fact, that the railroad is likely to have for somo
time to come. Every additional encouragement
to proceed with tho work would DO an additional
responsibility and in Wow of the recent collapse,
a now sin. However great the deception l,aa
boen, and however soyoro tho resultant autror-
inga may provo 10 be, thero ia no call upon tho
Government to atone for the Hins Of others, or
assume the guardianship Of those who havc boon
betrayed.
Year: 1873

Our Washington correspondent aonds a letter
tracing in All interesting manner tho condition
Of American currency from tho early days Of
wanpum down to tho crisis Of 1867. from which
limo on the present generation ia tolcrably
familiar with tho subject. Ho also 1raws pic
tnro Of President Grant moving tho slip Of
State III tho present storm with tho aid Of his
trurnpot and lis first-mato Dabcocl;, which will
bo found to be striking.
Year: 1873

the frnmors have boon conscious Of tho dapeer
Of dolegating to tile Legislature Of that stato
anything that Gun be definitely settled without
itB Intervention. Tho only danger Is TINT the
Constitution is too good, and will bo defoated
by tho bad political clements tint have ruled
Pennsylvania FOR somo yours.
Year: 1873

COMMISSION THREATENED.


PARTISAN ACTION OF THE SENATE ON THE AMEND


MENTs-AN UNJUST PLAN FOR CHOOSING SEN


ATE-A SCHEME OF THE POLITICAL JoBDERs TO


RETAIN THEIR PRERoGATIvEs.


lBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUsE.l


Albany, May 21.-The Senate's action, to-day, on
the Constitutional amendments is such that the chief
benefit of the abors of the Commission bids fair to
be DESTROYED. The Commission proposed to do
away with the great mass of special legislation
which now makes the Legislature at best neces-
sary evil. The Senate now says to the people,
"You may abolish special legislation if you
will change the mode Of electng Senators" and then
proposes method of choosing Senate, the most
unequal, unjust and pernicous that be
imagined. That method has been clearly designed
for the express purpose Of preventing any change in
the grist which is now ground out at Albany 1t
has the appearance of desperate attempt of egisla
tive jobbers to preserve their full prerogativcs.


The plan which the Senate has adopted at the in
stance of Jas Woods, az already described in THE
TRIBUNE is to elect S5 Senators by judicial districts
the First District eecting six. the Second five, and
each of the others four. In each of the first three
districts there is q large Democratic majority. In
each of the other five the Republicans have for the
last lS years greatly preponGeraed. In any Of the
districts q nomination by tho dominant party at any
time since the breaking up of the Know-Nothing
party would havo been equivalent to an election.


The first three districts contain 100000 more nhab
itants than the last ve and their preponderance in
population is rapidly increasing. This is an import
ant consideration as the proposed distribution of
Senators is intended to be permanent The same
districts pay nearly threefOurths of the taxes. They
include the great cities of New-York, Brooklyn,
Albany, Troy, and others along the Hudson.
For these reasons they need and are entitled to
full representation in the legislature yet, for no
other imaginable cause than that they inhabited
by more Democrats than Republicans, they are
given a representation of only Is in Senate of S5,
and this monsrous proposition can only be defeated
by voting down the whole Legislative article


So much for an honest attempt Of the gentlemen
composing the Constitutional Commission to reform
the Legislature. 1t is deliberate attempt of certain
Senators to nullify the work of the Commission,
and the least success it can meet with is TO en-
counter the opposition Of the Assembly, which at
the present stage OF the session is likely to be fatal
Year: 1873

PROF. SAMUEL LOCKWOOD gives an in
teresting account of that beautiful bird
known as the golden robin, or Baltimore
oriole, in connection with the common
humble bees. Last June large numbers
of these bees were found under the horse
chestnut trees, then in full bloom, in the
campus of Rutgers College, every one of
them decapitated, and the heads lying
around with the bodies; and it further
appears that every one of the headless
bees was stingless male. The Professor
worked out the case with much patient
perseverance, and found to his surprise
that this wholesale slaughter was the
work of four orioles. Another fac. which
astonished him was, that the bodies of
these insects were empty, the viscera
having been drawn out at the ring-like
opening where the head had been neatly
shipped by the birds. The process was
to catch the bees while lowering at the
ball-like opening of the flowers. After
severing the head, they extracted the Wis
cera for the sake of the honey-sac. Several
very interesting considerations are
brought out in the course of the article
such as the acquired taste; the birds had
found out that honey was nice. Was it
not singular, too, that they had learned
that it could be got in such a manners
And there was also the curious fact that
the bird confined its marauding to the
white headed bees, the stingless males
thus carrying on his terrible work with
impunity, and almost wantonness, as it
contented itself with simply the
honey-bearing sac. Prof Lockwood
also notes curious change
the wonderfully plucky manner of this
l;,tla bird IN OTIS oh inc prOvys
and other large birds, as securing the
general admiration, he says that for him


self that admiration has gone down to
zero, as he has noticed that the bird has
not any true knightly qualities, but can
do some very mean things. The Fro
fessor then instances a case in which
pair of robins had built nest in tree
so near by that the process could be
watched from hehouse. A pair of king
birds kept all the time near, and watched
progress with genuine royal indolence,
and, when all was finished, with kingly
impudence took possession. Therightful
owners made but feeble effort to resist
this invasion. The king-birds retained
possession until their young were raised


More than a year ago, Prof. LocKwoou
likewise called attention to the TACT tnat
the great butcher-bird, or northern shrlke,
contrary to all precedent, had begun 10
visit in winter the cities where the Eu-
ropean sparrows have become natural
lied. The bird in summer collects grass
hoppers, small lizards, ETC., and impales
them on the spines of the locust or other
trees, eating them at its leisure. He no.
tices the case in which q shrike in its
winter visit gibbeted a sparrow in the
city by putting its neck in the crotch OF a
small branch of alarch, and then, having
Knocked in the top of its head, the bird
extracted its victims brains.
Year: 1873

A WEST VIRGINIA RoMANCE.-Sarah j.
Winemiller, a girl of about seventeen
summers. who was convicted of, and sent
to the penitentiary for, burning small
log church in one of the smaller counties
of the State, has been pardoned by Gov:
Jacobs. The manner in which this girl
got into the peniteutiary is peculiar. She
was enamored of young man who, un-
fortunately, was charged with stealing
horse and was put in Jail to await a trial
thereof. With a confidence in the
falsity of the charge against her
inamorata and a devotion to him
that was remarkable, she proceeded
to commit the act for which she was sent
up that she might be with him in the
penitentiary. But, alas! the man was &C
Quilted last fall when his trial came OF,
and he has ever since, up to the time of
the pardon, been engaged in securing his
faithful though rash sweetheart's release.
The facts of this notable romance are set
forth in the petition. The happy result
may be imagined.
Year: 1873

Gold closed in New York on the Goth at
11514@115%.


In passing the House resolution of CEN
sure against members of Congress who
voted to increase their back pay, the Ohio
Senate added an amendment extending the
censure to those who voted against the
extra pay and then accepted it.
Year: 1873

WE slight the gifts that every season bears,
And let them fall unheeded from our grasp,
In our great eagerness to reach and clasp
The promised treasure Of our coming years;
Or else we mourn some great good passed away
And, in the shadow of our grief shut in,
Refuse the lesser good we yet might win,
The offered peace and gladnees of to-day.
So through the chambers Of our life we pass,
And leave them one by one, and never stay,
Not knowing how much pleasantness there was
In each until the closing Of the door


Has sounded through the house and died away
And In our hearts we sigh, "ForevermoreI


-CHan6e7s's journal.
Year: 1873

"A Providence woman was puzzled to
know why she attracted such general at
tention during a shopping expedition, the
other day. An hour or two earlier sne
had been "down street." and returning
had taken off her overskirt, but left the
bundle of papers forming hustle still IN
position.
Year: 1873

A VERY GRAVE MISTAKE. The following
originated, we believe, with the Montpelier
(Vt.) JoW7'al:


A certain marble dealer, residing not a
hundred miles from this village, recently
received an invoice of srave-stones, upon
some of which were inscribed touching SEN
timents of sympathy and eulogy ready
made for the fortunate persons whose tomb
they were intended to designate Among
them was one with AN index finger pointing
heavenward, and under it the motto "No
grades there" One evening this dealer
received an order for grave-stone, the
style and decoration of which were left pretty
much to his own judgment, the price only
being fixed AS he had to leave the city
the next morning, he hurriedly selected the
stone bearing the above motto. The in
dignation of the surviving relatives of Mr..
Graves, for whose cemetery lot this was
intended, when received can be better i'm
agned than described.
Year: 1873

A JEALOUS HUSBAND CURED WITH
LIouoR1cE- wATER.-There is man in this
city who is so affectionately fond Of his wife
that he is jealous if man looks within
forty-ffye degrees of the direction she may
happen to be. The other day gentleman
spoke to her, and he Immediately threatened
suicide. His wife was dispatched for a
bottle of poison, which she had put up at
the druggists, consisting Of a little water
colored with liquorice, and bottle with
glaring poison label outside. When he
threatened to take some of it. and actually
poured it into a wine glass she screamed for
help and ran into another room, where she
could watch him through the key hole, and
saw him cody throw it out. She then
rushed back, apparently frantic with grief
and implored him not to do the rash deed.
He merely pointed at the glass, lying on
the floor, began to kick out his legs like a
jumping jack. She told him she was de-
termined to share his fate and swallowed
the rest of t lquorice water, whereupon
he became really frightened, calling for the
neighbors, confessed that he only slammed,
and that if she only survived he never
would trouble her again. Then she ex-
planned the ruse, and he was SO mortified
he tried to buy up the silence of the
neighbors, but the story was too good to
keep. lie is thoroughly cured. d.--IWusville
(Pa.) Herald.
Year: 1873

| VALUE OF PLEDoEs.-We extract from
the San Francisco Chronicle the following
contained in an article about pledges which
it is well for people to read: "The last
Legislature was largely made up of men
elected on strongly pronounced anti-sub'
sidy platform; yet we all remember how
many Of them fell down--how they de-
nounced the subsidy schemes of the Rail
road Company throughout the campaign,
and became the most obedient servants OF
that corporation the moment they reached
the Capital. That Legislature should be


remembered as the Legislature of broken
pledges and forgotten vows. If the people
of many counties will compare the campaign
speeches of their candidates for the Legis-
lature with the votes of our senators and
Assemblymen in the Legislature, they will
learn lesson which may tend to depreciate
the value of pledges, and teach them that it
is the honest man, and not the money
seeking demagogue, on whom they must
RELY for scrupulous adherence to the prin-
ciples of their platforms, and a willing obe-
dience to the wishes of the majority.


Character, past and present reputation
and fitness tor position are what the people
should consider in selecting candidate for
the Legislature, and not his willingness to
subscribe to any and all promises and pledges
that may be requested or exacied. 1t is
the prerogative of the people to make known
their wishes--to say what they desire to
have done and whatit is they wish shall not be
done-and it is the duty of the candidate to
promise that he will, if elected, obey the
demands of those whose servant for the
time he becomes. But it is the man who will
keep his promise the people must seek
the man who only needs to know his duty
to perform it. Promises are worthless un-
less made by honest men; and unless such
are sent to the Legislature, the most un-
qualified pledges, the strongest iron-clad
oaths, 60 for nothing. Honest men are
whom the people must seek out and select
for their legislators.
Year: 1873

GLORY OF CREATION. Where can the eye
behold more lovelness and grandeur than
what the art of God creates at the close of
day from the mere vapor that appears for a
short time, and then vanishes There is no
scenery more majestic than that of clouds
massive as atupendous mountains, scooped
out into yawning ,cayerns or towering into
precipices from sea to zcnith, yet poised n
mi air pure as the snow-hake-now light
and transparent as the luminous mist, and
again solid as granite walls. Ghere is no pa
geantry more sublime than whep, by some
subtle chemistry, the mountain shapes slow
ly and imperceptibly change to bars of gold,
or float as purple islands on purple sea.
When clouds gather round the setting sun,
the hand of the Almighty seems to be
stretched out to adorn the heavens with all
the brilliancy of color which mortal eye can
gaze on--ruby, amethyst and sapphirc-in
gems--in foods-gleaming, dawning, fad
ing-and filling us with a breathless sense of
splendor and magnifcence. Only behold
even such a scene as t!s--one of the most
common presented to the eye-and add to it
another featTc-that of "a silent mountain
peak of alabaster snow, tipped with golden
fire, resting on the deep ocean of the illimit-
able sky, and say whether God may not,
from even such transtory elements as these,
hang such drapery around the great white
throne as shall be fitting symbols of Hin
who is coming in clouds of glory, and whom
every eye shall -McLeod
Year: 1873

A western paper tells story of two doc
tors who went to a grave yard one dark
night, and by the aid of colored assistant
dug up the body of person who had beer
hanged. BY the aid of a galvanic battery
he was brought to life, and when he sat up
in his coffin, the darkey yelled Justify, al
which enc of the doctors split his head open
with an iron bar. lie died and was buried
in the coffin, from which the culprit had
been removed. The latter was given some
thing to drink which completely revived him
so be told all the particulars of his hanging
sensations to the physicians, which he sale
were rather pleasant than otherwise.
Year: 1873

A recently married man in Franklin
County, Mass. coming home rather late the
other night, took an umbrella from the
rack in the hall and proceeded to his room.
The grieved and indignant wife opened her
eyes, and seeing her husband supporting
himself by the foot board with one hand,
and holding an umbrella spread over his
head with the other, cried in astonisment,
"What are you doing? Are you crazy %
"No, said he in an unsteady voice, "but
-hic-I supposed there'd be a storm-hic
and so I've come prepared for it,
Year: 1873

A SOUND PIATgoRM. The farm ers of
Livingston county, Illinois, have a pretty
correct appreciation of the manner in which
the Federal, Government has been admins
tered by the Radical party during the past
ten years, and have. concluded that a change
"a new departure on important questions,
materially affecting the agricultural, labor
and business interests of the whole country
is of vital consequence to our progress and
happiness as people. Their ideas are ex-
planned by the following resolutions adopted
at a reaent convention held to consider the
political situation and promulgated as Farm
ers' Platform:


This organization is opposed to railroad
steals tariff steals, salary grab steals, bank
steals, and every other form of thieving by
which the farming and laboring classes are
robbed of the legitimate fruits of their labor.
1st. We are in favor of controlling by law
the railroad corporations of the State


End. We submit to direct taxation and
duties to meet the necessities of the Govern
ment, but denounce as unjust and oppressive
all taxation for the benefit Of special classes


3rd. We are in favor of the present bank
ing system being so changed that all men,
by giving the proper security, shall have
equal privileges, SO that supply and demand
shall regulate our money market


4th. We are opposed to all further grants
of land to railroads or other corporations, and
believe that the public domain should be held
sacred to actual settlers.


We are in favor of a true system of Civil
Service Reform, making honesty and capaci-
ty the onl ly valid claim for public employ
ment; and we believe that the office should
seek the man, and not the man the office
Year: 1873

The best Dolly Warden story yet, is told
of young lady of Little Rock, Arkansas,
who had very small kitten she named
Dolly Warden, but as it progressed in age,
and other developments, she discovered, by
close observation, that it was not that kind
of cat, SO she rechristened it Thomas
Warden
Year: 1873

RECENTLY young man who was attend
ing night writing school near Danevile,
Ohio, was smitten by the charms of a lady
who was present, and at the close of the
school hustled forward to solicit the pleasure
of escorting her home. eyes" said the
lady, eff you will carry my boy" He
wilted and the young matron walked home
alone.
Year: 1873

A Cincinnati mother learned of her
daughters intended elopement, and on the
night appointed for the fight she put some
laudanum in the girls tea. She fell asleep
and did not wake up until the next morn
ing, and in the meantime Romeo got tired
of waiting and went home disgusted. He
goes with another girl now.
Year: 1873

THE 'Inda-rubber hustle is again heard
from. This time it was Brooklyn young
lady who was thrown from her carriage
coming down the hill from Prospect Park.
She made ninety-seven and half bounces
in all, and was finally rescued by hook and
ladder company from the top of a telegraph
pole, where she had stuck in attempting to
complete her last bounce.
Year: 1873

u If the population of Tacoma is
made up of the quality of loose adven.
lures and skinfints such as we could
name leaving this part of the country
for that part, we exclaim: Goodness
gracious, and God save any honest
man who CHANGED to be among them.
Nobody worth mentioning" has left
Astoria for Tacoma. Historian
Year: 1873




A RAILROAD Rowan exaggerated
account of a difficulty smong the labor
ers on the railroad reached this place on
Thursday evening. 1t was said that
twelve Cinnamon had been killed, one
after the other, and about fifteen more
badly wounded. The facts are these: o
gang of Cinnamon had difference with
their boss, and in the evening beat him
severely with shovels and pick. Next
morning, to have satisfaction and learn
the heathens better manners, some
white laborers burnt the Chinaman' S
tent and as the Chinese came out, they
each received a thrashing. No one
killed or MANNED. .-Steildcoom Express.
Year: 1873

- The " India, rubber hustle" is
again heard from. This time it was
Brooklyn young lady, who was thrown
from her carriage coming down the hill
from Prospect Park. She made ninety
seven and half bounces in all, and was
finally rescued by hook and ladder
company from the top of telegraph
pole, where she had stuck in attempting
to complete the ninety-eigth bounce.
Year: 1873

Lovrne On THEIR WAY TO THE PBsr
HoUsE.--About 10 O'Clock yesterday morning
people along Michigan avenue heard a loud
voice crying, "Out-of-the-way Pye got
the smallpox and after getting safe dis
tance, they had time to observe a negro and A
negro woman making their way up the street.
Clear across the street one could see the pust-
ules on the mans face, and be was so sick and
tired that he would have fallen but for the sup
Lort of the woman, The walk on one side of
the street was kept clear of pedestrians until
the pair passed, and no one approached tn m
until they were crossing to Campus Martius,
when two of the sanitary police put in an APP
pearance and hailed the woman, while crowd
collected at a safe distance She gave the
mans name, but the police neglected to lot it
down. She stated that both lived IN Trenton,


and were engaged to be married. The man
was taken down with smallpox a few days
ago, and there being no public institution at
Trenton where he could be cared for, he re-
manned at home until he found that he must
die or get better care. The woman came for


ward in this emergency with heart as brave
as ny heroine's and offered to accopp pany
him If he would come to Detroit. They start
ed about o'clock Monday night TO come
distance of fifteen miles and half The man


was so i'll that he had to sit down and rest
every half mile, and light rain tell at night
and all the forenoon yesterday, making the
roads so slippery that the feet would hardly
take hold. The woman knew that she would
also have the disease, and wanted to go to the
pest-house with her lover. They were given
explicit directions, and passed up Gratiot
street, shoutingto warn pedestrians. If there
are any societies around to give medals to
brave and self-sacriicing young women, here
Is chance to bestow one where it has been
justly earned.-Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1873

1F BAD KNOWN IT LAST YEAR-Tnis Wac
the language of poor cripple. who, fourteen
months ago, was smashed under an iron beam.
he nad been allowed to suffer pain and assume
mass OF deformity-but he had now recovered
the use OF one knee by the Centaur LinimenI
We hear such language every day There n
no pain this liniment will not assuage, no
lameness it will not alleviate, and no swelling
it will not subdue. 81 tn se-I r
Year: 1873

A Partisan philosopher has just died leav-
ing the following testament: SIT is my will
any one of my relatives who shall presume to
shed tears at my funeral shall be disinherited
He who laughs most heartily shall be sole
heir" t.
Year: 1873

1t is not easy tor some readers to take in
the fact that Morris the poet is none other
than the veritable Morris, the glass yorker
and artist, who is furnishing our chnrch win
dows with reproductions Of a lost medieval
art. The practical and the poetical, for once
in the world have struck hands together.