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Year: 1870

York Times, is SO well expressed


and approaches SO nearly to the O.
Ipinions Of many leading papers
lorators and quiet people Of the


radical party, that to disbslieye


what it would be to set up ones


own judgment.against that ofall
the classes named as well as the


very respectable class, politically


in the minority just now. Is it


safe to hazard so much assufaEs


ton even by bread and butter


politician ? Read the article and


then tell us whether you will vote


to Perpetuate such party in pow
ter or not:


Washington is almost bare Of


cabinet officials. The government


is running itself-a pretty good
proof Of its capacity to 60 ahead


in the accustomed grooves despite


the imbecility oflthe men in office
under the Grant administration.


If it really did require unusual a.


bility on the part of the head of


departments at Washington, our


government would be in asad way,


and its dissolutioHimight soon be


anticipated; foi President Grant


knows less of statesmanship than


any one of the men he has made


his constitutional advisers, and
with almost a solitary exception


they know still less of statesman
ship than even the ordinary run
of small politicians. From his
secretary of state, who is gentle
manly ignoramus, down to his
attorney general, who is not an
ignoramus of that kind, all are
but respectable, nobodies with
whom he has carefully surround
ed himself to escape being oyer
shadowed in the White House.
Yet the government machinery
keeps in motion, simply because
it was originally so constructed
as ito be selfacting should fate
chance to impose upon it an inea-
.pable chiefengineer and subordi-
mates.
Perhaps it is a fortunate thing
for the nation that President
Grant is 50 utterly helpless an ex-
ecutive, and is unwilling to play
second fiddle to any brilliant mind
BY bringing it into bis cabinet. A
brilliant mind is apt to be ambi.
tious. If Grant enjoyed a master
intellect he might want to indulge
in coup a. etat like Louis lNapo-r
leon, and make himself the head
of an empire. Ii he had a master
mind in the cabinet, it might aim
at absolute power, and by subtle
means instigate revolution. a.
gainst official inbecility to secure
it. We are safe from such perils
now, because no man in federal
has the capacity to stir
up such mischief. General igno-
rance occupies the White House
in point of fact. % General corrupA
ton occupies the capitol. Gener-
al stupidity controls the different
bureaus of war, the navy, etc.
General apathy inspires the people.
We are under military rule, there
fore, in the strictest sense; and e
what would be the civil result if
the Fathers of the Republic had
not so fashioned our government
as to make it 60 by itself, and Mon
roe, Madison, and Jefferson had
not SO set in motion thsti cannot


jump off without a violent dis.
arrangement Of its organization 2
Year: 1870

A late cory of the Journal, of Nancy,
which came to hand recently, says:
That which wounds us more than all
else, is the condition Of our unfortunate
farmers, dwellefs in the country. Our
tears flow at the sight of long lines Of
wagons laden with oats. hay and provis-
ions of every kind to be given over to the
Prussian army. The fine horses, which
were TO prepare earth for the seed of the
future harvest, have been harnessed to
the Prussian cannon. Since everything
is scattered and destroyed on this day
after the harvest it equally follows that
remarkable barrenness Of the country
must cnsue.


! The difficulties of an entire year are
crowded into one moment. The ruin is
complete and unspeakable. Long years
will be necessary to repair the damages
of these few days Of invasion
Year: 1870

A Winstead lady was some time ago
struck by lightning, and lay for hours
unconscious, dead to all human appearan-
ces. She distinctly heard her friends
say she was sunquestionably Dead" and
she would have been buried alive had net
her brother insisted on working for rcsto-
ration, which he at length accomplished
Year: 1870

A good wife is the greatest earthly
blessing. I''I ..N.II .


A man is what his wife makes him


1t is the mother who mouds. the char
acter and destiny of the child


Make marriage matter of moral iudg-
ment.
Marry in your own religion.
Marry into different blood and TEN.
permanent than your own.


Marry into family which you have
long known.


Never talk at one another either alone
or in company.


Never both manifest anger at once.


Never speak loud at one another, un-
less the house is on fire.


Never reflect on past action which
was done with good motive, and with
the best judgment at the time.


Let each one strive to yield oitenest to
the wishes of the other.


Let self-abnegation be the daily aim
and effort of each.


The very nearest approach to domestic
felicity on earth, is the mutral cultiva.
tion of an absolute unselfshness.


Never find fault, unless it is perfectly
certain that fault has been committed
and even then prelude it with kiss and
lovingly.


Never allow request to be repeated.
81 forget is never an acceptable ex
cuse.


Never make remark at the expense
Of the other it is meannesss


Never part for day without loving
words to think Of during your absence
Besides, it may be that you will not meet
again in life.
Year: 1870

The difference between sealing wax and
women-One burns to keep a secret, the
other to tell it,


Most of the Revolutionary advocates
of woman's rights are conspicuously men
stunned on all sides.


A drunken man, after trying in vain to
keep on the sidewalk, was heard to ex.
claim, There, now go In the street il
you want to-
Year: 1870

How much Of true religion is with th-
poor Christ seems to have taken then
under his special charge. His Gospel
was preached to the poor and this was
one Of the signs which he sent to Johu
the Baptist in prison. With his own
blessed hands he fed the poor by crea-
tive act having compassion on them when
they tainted. His miracles, we have rea-
son to think. were in large majority OF
instances, wrought upon the poor; and
" the common people heard him gladly"
The apostles at Jerusalem were always
anxious that Paul should remember the
poor. And when Christ shall sit on his
throne Of Judgment he will make inquisi-
ton concerning all we have done, or
failed to do, in regard to the hungry, the
naked, the stranger, the prisoner, the
sick, and will regard Us as having done,
nor failed to do all this to Himself


There are powerful motives TO make u,
think of the poor When it /, well with
us, we should remember them when We
hear the storm heating upon our habita
tions. and yet are securely sheltered
warmed fed, sitting over our books or
among our children, we should think Of
the poor
Year: 1870

ADMISSION TO THE BAR.

 When I came to the bar in 1820 there were two grades of lawyers in the State. The first admission only authorized the candidate to practice at the county court, and service of two years was required at that bar before he was allowed an examin- ation for admission to the bar of the Supe- rior Court; and was at the bar of the County Court for Q year or more in expec- tation of undergoing another ordeal in the upper Court In the meantime the stat utes of the State had been revised under the superintendance of Judge Swift and many and material alterations had been made to conform the provisions of the law to the new order of things under the con stitution. The question came before Judge Mainard and he decided that under the re- vised statutes an admission to the bar of the County Court gave the candidate au- thority to practice in all the Courts in the State. and that decision was assented to by all the judges.

 The matter of examining candidates for admission to the bar was. in those days,a an imposing solemnity, and the day for that proceeding was marked day of the term. All the members of the bar were expected to be present and few failed of attending. The committee of examination was occupi- ed the judges seats; the chairman holding the place of the Chief, Judge, indicating to each separate member of the committee the subject in which he was expected to examine the candidate, and thus thorough and searching examination was had. After the examination was closed the candidates retired, and the members of the bar gave their opinions seriatin on the question of the admission of the applicant. Sometimes candidates were rejected. It had been the practice in early times to have an enter tainment at the close of the examination; at the expense of the successfullcandidates, bat this had been dispensed~with when I was examined. Stories were told of some eminent members of the bar who, on such occasions, ,indulged in practices which were not creditable to their reputation for tenn perance and sobriety. Perhaps. it was for this reason that the practice was abol- ished.
Year: 1870

away with slow and dignifed step, show ing that all they want is to be let alone.

 Their food is in great part vegetable, and

 they have not, therefore, the blood thirsty

 disposition of many of the strictly carniv-

 erous animals. So many accounts of their

 ferocious depredations had been published

 that had formed an erroneous opinion of

 them, and feel I owe them an apology. l do not wish to be understood

 that I would like them for playmates,

 only say consider them as harmless as any animal when undisturbed. When pur- sued the law of self preservation demands that they should defend themselves; when hungry, that they should kill the first OK or sheep that can be found, which is noth- ing more nor less than is done by man. And in these days of all being ''born free and equal" I advise the latter to cast his eye about him, and with his great amount of charity and iberality surely he can find more sagacity and intelligence in what are now termed wild animals than in the mix cd conglomerations of miscegenated Me- groes, Indians, Ohinamen, &c. Now don't understand me to say am against the Eff tesnth Amendment. Oh no, only want it extended, even to woman, if the wise body that framed the Fifteenth Amend. ment can conscientiously discern wherein she is considered to be free and equal. Enough of this minor theme then, will leave it to demagogues and tuln off to the nobler creations of God. The eagle, the emblem of the United States, adopted when love of country exceeded love of self is quite numerous here. They are en- couraged by the settlers on account of their destruction to the ground squirrel and gopher, by which this country is infested. It is very seldom they attack any of the domestic animals, although they undoubt- edly will destroy lambs or fowls. Nothing but the empty honor of killing an eagle ever tempts person to shoot one.
Year: 1870

The late Legislature of Massachusetts, passed
an act whereby each city and township OF that
State is authorized to license the sale of Cider
and Beer, if majority of its legal voters
shall see fit. Under this act vote was taken
last Tuesday, and most of the cities decided
to license while majority of the townships
said No


We consider this legislation an experiment,
but we shall not condemn it untried. Its
central idea is identical with that of the act
passed last Winter by our Legislature, where
by the Supervisor and four Justices of each
township are constituted Board of Excise,
and empowered to license or not as they shall
Judge expedient. But this act constitutes the
Excise Board according to what the people
thought one to three years ago (when ma
iority of the Justices were chOsen) when they
may have seen new light since then. Our Re-
publican State Convention more wisely and
frankly


ReSored That soong the people of towns villages,
and Cities have the right by law TO license the sale OF in
tOxcang liquors in their several localities they also by


majority OF votes should have the right to prohibit
such sales.


This is that Wanted Fright of Local Self
&" Government which our Sham Democracy
profess so TO venerate. In essence the re-
solve is clearly right. Let those communities
which choose to license the Liquor Traffic do
so, and reap the consequences; let those which
prefer not to license enjoy that immunity from
drunken brawls and crowded pOOr-houses
which the absence of grOgshops secures. We
ask no more for Temperance than that the
People have full and fairsoppOrtunity to regu-
late the Liquor Traffic as to them shall
seem good Let the legal voters of each
City and Township be authorized to choose at
each municipal election three persons to con-
stitute a Board of Excise, and let this Board
have full authority to restrict or to suppress
tppling- houses and liquor-selling, and we ask
no more. If the Board is more stringent or
more " liberal" than public sentiment ap-
proves, its members will soon be replaced by
others, who will embody the public judgment.
The Liquor question will thus be taken ont
of politics. and License will be granted or
withheld as the majority-instructed by ex-
perience-shall from time to time decide.
And, when a majority, thus enlightened, has
expected to acquiesce.


We much prefer this to wholesale Prohibi-
ton with retail (or partiaD Enforcement. We
want the discussion of the rightfulness and
expediency of licensing the Liquor Traffic to
proceed from year to year, until the public
mind, thoroughly enlightened, shall have ar
rived at clear and definite conclusions. VIII
the uphOlders and benefciaries of the Traffic
meet us on this grouudf
Year: 1870

Minister Washburne has notified to NJ. Jules
Favre the formal recognition of the French
Republic by the Government of the United
States and has performed this duty, as it
would appear, in terms of exceptional cordial
ity. We are rejOiced that America has been
so prompt and so hearty in extending the
hand of fellowship to the new Republic. There


is no power from which liberty and popular
government have received more practical en-
cOuragement and have right to expect more
vigorous moral support than from the United
States, and there is no people in whose well
fare we take a warmer interest than the
people of , France, who stood our
friends in the dark hours of our own
revolutionary struggle. In the war now vir-
tually ended our sympathies have been en-
listed rather for the German than the French
cause, but we have been careful to distinguish
between the French people, whom we have
always admired, and the despotic system of
Imperialism which has been the foe not less of
France than of the whole of Europe. Out of
the humiliation of a military defeat France
has now wrought a great political victory, and
we congratulate her with all our hearts upon
the prospect of happiness and glory which
opens before her.


Mr.. Washburne was very properly in
structed to defer official recognition until the
new Government was apparently well estab-
lished throughout the country. The fact that
he has acted so quickly confirms, therefore.
the impression conveyed by all the press dis
patches, that the revolution has. everywhere
been accepted either with satisfaction or posi-
tive enthusiasm. There has been no opposition
and no disorder; Paris and other large cities
are Enthusiastically glad to get rid of the En-
peror, and not Bonapartist is now to be
found-except at Hastings and Wihelmshoe
The new Government at the present moment
is probably as well established as the Empire
ever was and the spirit in which it now ap-
proaches its labor gives us much reason for
confidence in its permanence. We trust it
VIII show the world an example of mOdera-
ton, prudence, and wise patriotism and with
hopes that it will do much for France and for
civilization, we say, God save the French
Republic!
Year: 1870

The truth must be told we do not relish that
picture of Eugene on the back-stairs. We
are ready to cry La d6ch6dnce! with the loud
est Republican who yelled ViUe rEmperem
yesterday so long as it includes only the
Emperor; we can hear of "the cOnvulsve
"quivering of his waxed mustache," or see
him "wipe away the tears with his glove,n
and smile with stern composure. It is the
progress of free ideas, we say, that has over
thrown this Dagon of tyranny. But-let us be
honest-when free ideas drove the Empress in
shabby cloak into a hackney coach across
the quai they nauseated u.s. She is no Dagon.
We remember at once that we are
men, and she is woman More than
that--a wOmanish woman. In these days when
our wives and daughters have in turn each
been ga Spirit yet a Woman tOO" and Broker
and PromulgatOr of Infinite Truth into the bar
gain, what a relief our souls have received
afar off in the wife whom Napoleon had hap
PLY found, with her wonderful beauty and
small cunning, her extravaganza and fascina-
ton, her bigoted devotion to her church, and
her large, cear-eyed devotion to her husband
and her child. The old-fashiOned types of
woman have matched each other on the three
duJOinluB isdDtild,
the dull, domestic British matron, and this
rare plebeian Spanish girl, who bore the crown
of Cbarlemagne with royal grace such as no
Bourbon ever lent toit. Let her have credit for
so much. Let us comfort our Republican souls
as we will with the truth which this great
drama over in Europe teaches that monarchy
is crumbling sham, and Kings are but pup
pets, whose strings work more awry with
every year. This puppet, at least, while her
partner could be seen of all men to be but
decayed wood wore the golden rigol with
queeDly spirit, impregnated her royalty with
her own life and beauty and grace. We re-
member, long ago, to have seen photograph
of young girl, half Irish by blood, just past
childhood, in a simple dress, handkerchief
closely knotted about the throat. The pOr


trait was shown to us because of the wonderful
beauty of the face and the singular forebOding
of the eyes, prophetic of ill fortune. 1t was
Mile. de Montijo, unknown to fame or the
world. We should be glad if the eyes could
plead for the woman with the world as they
do with us. Our judgment, of course, ap-
Year: 1870

p,auds those far-sighted thinkers among us
who have been shifting the air IA tainted for
months about the NapOleOnic dynasty. and
launching herculean invectives at Eugenie's
paniers and puffs our conscience also must
approve the rejoicing of the Advanced Female
pointing her moral with the fact that this
goddess of dress was forced to leave all her
trunks behind her. "Where be your jewels
"nowi Your hundred millinersf Your flashes
"of genius in robe or coiffure that were
"wont to set the world of women in
"hamei Not one now to mock youf
"Quite chapfalen Now, get you to every
woman's chamber and tell her, let her paint
Z" an inch thick, to this complexion must she
come at LAST We know this sermon
ought to be preached by every sound female
thinker on next Sunday. But we are un-
sound We protest that this poor lady, who
used her beauty and her skill in dress for the
service of her husband and her child and her
church, with such persistent purbind fidelity,
is one of the most pathetic and picturesque
figures in history Republicanism is great
and good thing. But a fair figure regally draped,
giving the world glimpse OF refinement and
grace, has it not also its uses We do not
choose to give it up Are all men and women
made only to shove on Liberty and Progress
Were Cleopatra, and Helen, and Eugenie born
to be hashed up into morals to feed our chill
dren withall We will not look at her in
hackney coach, nor grin when her trunks are
left behind. We choose to think her refusal
to allow her claim to be forced on the people
81 can bear their pity, but not their hatred
a right royal utterance. Better, In that
mood, she had died "a Queen, name for
"ever.n We enter protest in the name of the
eternal fitness of things against her life ending in
that free land where, as Nine. de Stael testifies,
the exile's pain takes the shape of fat paw
on ones shoulder or glass of beer by ones
plate. We will not hear of her in England
drinking tea and playing c-ibbage like Madam
Amelia. We will not have her at Newport
and Fifth-ave. growing stout and vulgar un-
der our eyes. Has Wilhelm no st. Helena
Or must she get her to nunneryf Let
Louis and II turn into British citizens or
be chopped into purSt-nO matter. But let
history keep the shadow of this fair, sad-eyed
woman undisturbed, and when her epitaph is
written let Gradgrind stand back and uncover
his head.
Year: 1870

onr account If any one who work.
for us does not earn his wages. wa
pay and discharge him y the Government.
we trnst, does the same. And be is mistaken or
willfully false who asserts or insinuatea that
we ever sought OF wished any person to be EN-.
ployed by the Government in order that ba
might be paid from the Treasury for doino
our work. We have no right to ask the d;s'
charge of any one from official employmept
because he is or has been also employed bv rs.
but we insist-as we have already often done
that no person be employed in the Customs or
other official service because be is connected
with The TRIBUNE. When we can't pay orr
help, we will shut up shop.
Year: 1870

1t would be singular if in some part of Italy
the Republic was not proclaimed at this time
of political excitement consequent on the
revolution in France. But we imagine that
the rumOr which comes from Marseilles of the
revolution in Florence is not worthy of credit.
For the present the unifcatiOn of Italy-nOw
apparently secured-will satisfy the Italians,
and they are not likely to Overturn the Gov
ernment which has secured this end in the
moment of its success. We shall hear news
from Italy of a government strengthened, Of
States united, and of people happy in their
union, before there comes intelligence of revO-
lutions that weaken, and of people cOnvulsed
by DaSsiOn.
Year: 1870

We invite attention to the letter of Mr..
Charles Bowles on the Finances and Financial
position of our country involving the ability
Of our Government to fund the bulk of its
Debt at lower interest than it is now paying.
While we agree with most of Mr. BOwless
suggestions, it seems to us that a more posi-
tive and vigorous policy on the part of our
Treasury is essential to any decided success
in funding. With One Hundred Millions lying
dead in the Treasury for year'and the Gov
ernment banking for the gOld-gamblers by
boarding their gold and supplying them with
gambling-checks in the shape of Gold Certif-
Gates. we shall not reduce the bulk of our in
terest to II per cent. very soon.
Year: 1870

The Radical monOposts rule is nnous alike 20 capt
tai and labor No wonder that their organs seek foster
the foolish belief that capital Is hostile TO laborw


VIII The World Oblige us with the names
of these "Organsf" We have heard low
order of demagOgues talk AZ though "Capital
is hostile to Labor" but they always wound
up with an exhortatOn to Laboring Men 10
vote for Sham Democracy and against Protec-
ton to Home Industry. VIII The World either
justify its assertion or back out Of it'
Year: 1870

The Sn reports three persons as earning
our money and at the same time earning
more in the Revenue service in our City. Two
of these are nowise connected with or en-
ployed by TIE TEIBUNE-whether they are
by the Government or not, we cannot say
but we give all concerned full notice that we
pay al our employ6s in full, and wish none OF
them employed 10y the Government on
Year: 1870

proyement will cost, or how it is to be
paid for.


We urge the Water Works Com
mittee to furnish us some light on
this subject. Are the bonds to be
sold at any sacrifice, in case the city
vote afirmatively on the proposition
submitted, or will the Council only
regard the vote as indicating the wish
of the people to have Water Works
constructed, provided they can be
built on reasonable terms, with which
the city can comply without imposing
upon the tax payers burdens too
erievous to be borne?
Year: 1870

A bug that Aourishes all the year round Big Bug. While all of the foregoing is not original with us, it is true of our famous min ing district, the Big Bug, sixteen miles south cast from Prescott, where gold bullion is now being taken out by the pound.