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vOL. VII.
' A JOB OF WOOD SAWING.
MYAliYRANDOLril. , .
"It's no joking matter, Mr. Allaire,"
said Jemima Pendexter.
"Of course it isn't, Jemima," said
Mr. Allaire, rather more soberly thau
he had spoken before. "But if you
come to that, isn't it a deal jollier, ami
just as cheap, to laugh as to cry?"
Miss Jemima I'endexter was a tall,
blooming brunnoUe, with dark brown
eyes, hair satin black, and a good
healthy bloom ou either cheek, and
her green gingham dress fitted her as
perfectly as if a Broadway mtnlUte
had cut and made it. . Ferdinand Al
laire was a handsome young fellow of
some five or aix and twuuty, whose
dark sparkling eyes sent out roguish
gleams from beneath a pair of arched
brows, and whose teeth were as white
as a fresh cut slice of cocoa-nut.
"But mother wants the moneys"
persisted .Miss I'endexter.
"Not half so badly as I do, Jemima."
"It's too bad," pouted Jemima.
"So it is. But really, J em nn 4. don't
you. suppose I would pay her in a min
ute, if 1 had the moipey? If. For I'm
not a magician whose word can turn
a basket of scrap paper to bank-notes,
or make coined gold out of the cinders
under the grate."
"That's uonsensef said Miss I'en
dexter. "Of course it is. Sense is at a dis
count just at' present. Look at the
pile of manuscript, if you don't be
lieve me, that no editor will buy; see
those elegant oil paintings that De
Beaudin declines respectfully to hang
up for sale! What's a fellow to do!"
"At least," said Jemima, tossing her
handsome head, "you ought to pay
your honest debts!-'
"I know that, my dear," said Mr.
Auire gravely. "And I've writleu
at leasi seven earnestly entreating let
ters to my hard-hearted old uncle, aud
of the seven answers that ought to
have come back, ii?e first one hasn't
made its apjearance. Jemima, I've
an idea!"
"I'tJiaw!" said Miss I'endexter, try
ing in vain to maintain the severe
gravity of aspect that was rapidly
thawing beneath the merry sparkle of
the sloe-black eyes.
"But I have, "really. Suppose you
take me iir part jayinent ol my bill to
Mrs. I'endexter. I believe I have the
elements of a first-rate hu.sband about
me."
Miss Jemima turned resolutely
awv.
".Mr. Allaire, I believe you'd joke if
you were upon your dying bed! '
And she went down stairs.
"A man might do worse lhan mar
ry Jemima I'endexter." said Mr. Al-
. j laire meditatively "She's pretty, ami
I L-ooninrr fi Imnnliiirr.liouse. that, no
keening a
parlicufar objection jrj my eves.
c0mmJotio-u out.
' oiut,
lie threw np the window-sash and
stretched himself lialf-war out. Mrs,
Pendexter, a stout, thrifty matron, in
frilled cap and lilac ribbons, was bar
iraininj; with a ragged itinerant of the
order to hav e a load of wood
"Couldn't do it for less than four
dollars, mem,1' said the Bohemian of
the streets.
"It isn't worth three!" cried Mrs.
Pendexter. , -
"Worst kind o' tnotty wood, mem."
"I won't give a cent more' than
three," persisted Mrs. I'endexter.
''Very well, it'll be to somebody
besides me," said the man, shoulder
ing his axe and passing indifferently
on.
lie supposed that Mrs. Pendexter
would call bim back and accede to tus
terms, but he was mistaken in the
buxom widow's mental calibre. She
was turning in-doors again, when, to
her surprise. sh found herself con
fronting Mr. Ferdinand Allaire in his
6hirt sleeves.
"I'm vour man, ma'am!" said he,
rubbing bis white palms briskly to
gether.
"Mr goodness gracious!" ejaculated
the widow, "what do you mean, Mr.
Allaire?"
"I mean that little job of wood-saw
ing," said our hero. "Bring on your
axe and saw. I ll do it for three dot
lars, and turn it in toward our small
account. Now then, ma'am, wide
awake, if you please!"
"But I beg your pardon, Mr. Al
laire, if you please you're a gentle
man!"
"Very well, what of that? Is there
anything to prevent a gentleman split
ting up a cord ot wood.' A great
tieai more etrenguening to ine mus
cles of the arm than dumb-bells and
Indians clubs, I am sure."
"Are you really in earnest?"
"Yes, I am."
And then Mrs. Pendexter, peeing
no reason why she should not realize
a portion at least ot the back board
for the third-story hall bed-room in
this practical manner, sent Jack, the
errand boy, down after the axe and
saw, and Ferdinand Allaire set brisk
ly to work, whistling "Banks and
Braes" most energetically as he toil
ed-'
Miss Jemima came and looked out
of the window, her eyes shining mer
ry encouragement, and her mischiev
ous mouth iranung itselt in dimples,
Miss Lavima Jones, the elderly maid
en lady who occupied the back par
lor, pursed np her lips, and wondered
"what ridiculous freak that madcap of
a Mr. Allaire wonld be up to next?"
Young Jessamy of the Occidental
Club nearly got run over, starting
back in amazement at seeing Ferdin
and at work; and' Miss Adele Maurice,
with whom he had led the Grerinan,
three nights beforefor our hero was
what is called a "society' young man"
--stared with all her eyes, and like
priest and Lerite in the parable, pass
ed by on tbe other side. - "
"Let her go," aid Mr. Allaire to
himself; "What do .7 care?"
But as f.n open barouche rolled by,
and a stick of viciously-mindod wood
spun from the rending stroke of the
nxe directly into the velvet-cushioned
seat, opposite a tall, white-haired old
man, who sat there in dignified state,
our hero looked up npologetically.
"I beg your pardon, sir I didn't
menti " he began politely.
And then he stopped, in amazement.
It was Mr. Laurence Allaire, thu very
grim old uncle who had refused to
countenance the unreasonable nephew
who presnmed to preler literature and
the bdks-lcttrf to a seat in the banking-house
of Allaire & Algrove.
"Now I'm done for, past all redemp
tion," groaned Mr. Ferdinand to him
self. " Uncle Laurence M as quite an
gry enough with mo before, but now
h7U have a text to preach a sermon
that will last him the rest of his lifw.
Thu prodigal eating husks the Israel
ites making bricks in a land of captiv
ity. I told you so, aud it serves th
young scapegrace right. Now what
evil genius sent my titiclo Laurence
dowu this street just now, ot all times
in the world? I le cut me out of his
will three months ago; now ho will
add a special clause of obhxpiv and
disgrace. Well, 1 can't help it!"
Old Mr. Aliaire had opened his
keen blue eyes very wide at the un
wonted Mght of his aristocratic neph
ew splitting wood; but it had not
produced exactly the otl'ect upon him
which Ferdinand so darkly prophesied,
lie sat up as straight as ever in his
carriage, gravely meditating.
"Stokes!" said he to his coachman.
"Sir?" said Stokes.
"Drive to Mr. l'ennawinks."
"Yes. sir," said Stokes.
"Didn't know the boy had so much
plttek in him," said Mr. Laurence Al
laire to himself, stroking his froitt
white mustache. "The only relative
I've got iu the world, after all; no use
in making an obstinate old stage un
cle of myself. Pennawjnks."
"Ye, sir," said the lawyer, from his
leather-covered chair, as Mr. Allaire
walked into a unify littlo oilice smell
ing f law books and stale cigarsmoku..
"I want my will restored to its or
iginal form l'ennawinks."
Mr. l'ennawinks elevated his shag
gy gray brows, but made no other
sign of amazement. A"7 ajmimri
was his motto in legal matters.
"Very well, sir. I'll bring it round
to-mono w," he answered.
"No. you'll not. You'll do it now,
while I am waiting. .Vow is the ac
cepted time, for old men like me, l'en
nawinks." "Kxactlr so!" said Mr. l'ennawinks.
".So Mr. Ferdinand has reformed?"
"Well no I can't say that ex
actly." said the old banker stiffly.
"But there's more genuine stuff in the
lad than I liad any idea of. I shall
iuvite him to dinner this afternoon."
But Mr. Allaire had issued his last
duiuer invitation.
"Apoplexy," aid cne doctor. v
"Heart disease." said a second,
"l'aralvsis clearly paralysis," as
serted a third.
And Ferdinand Allaire heard the
news just as he was buttoning on his
cold cuff studs, after finishing the job
of kindling wood the best job, had
he, but known it, that ever he under
took in his life. 1 lis uncle Laurence
was dead, and he was the heir.
"Jemima," said 3Ir. Allaire, com
posedly walking into the dining-room
where the pretty Jemima was polish
ing goblets. "I'm going away."
Tve heard it all,' said Jemima, "and
it's like a storr paper exactly. Who
could have thought things were going
to turn out so? Not I, certainly?"
"Nor L "said Mr. Allaire. "Jemi
ma?"
"Well," said Jemima, surveying a
flaw in the glass of one special chalice
with eyea lull oi resolutely repressed
tears.
"You wouliio't take me this morn
ing, when I offered myself to you.'
"Of course that was all nonsense,"
said Jemima."
"It might have been nonsense then,"
said Ferdinand, "but it's sober car
nest now. I can keep a wife decently
now, Jemima, will you have me?"
"les, I will, said Jemima, laugh
ing and orying at the same time.
And that was what came of Ferdi
nand Allaire's job of wood sawing.
A STORY OF SLI'i:itSTITIO..
A gentleman who resided in this
city has related to us a strange story
of superstition and barbarity, which
he claimed had happened in this city
recently. Our informant was a Ger
man, and the parties in the story are
Polanders, but their names we could
not learn. The story, as related to
us, is substantially as follows: About
the first of December or last of Novem
ber a young Polish woman gave birth
to a child. About two days after
ward she died and was buried in the
City Cemetery. 'After about five
weeks the wife of the brother of the
dead woman was taken very sick, and
it was thought she would die.
It appears that there is a supersti
tious idea among the Polanders that
if one of a family dies, unless the head
of the corpse is cut oft", the whole fam
ily will be likely to follow in rapid
succession. However, if after - oe
has died, another is taken sick, if some
of the blood is procured from the
dead body and administerered to the
patient, he will recover. Iu accor
dance with this superstition, our in
formant alleges, the husband ofclthe
sick woman went to the burying
ground on the night of Jan. z, hve
weeks after interment, dug up the
body, cut. oft the head, and took from
it blood and other liquid, which he
administered to bis wife as a medicine
That' 'after this tho sick woman's mal
ady assumed the- form of small-pox,
from whiph she recovered, and she. is
now entirely well.- Our informant
claimed that many witnesses could be
Drought to corroborate this storyj and
irom what we learned We are to be
licve that there is some foundation
for the story, Tbe person who gave
us our information knows the name
of the Polander in question, but would
not disclose it,
ALBANY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1872.
msCOYKKY OF A NEW WOULD
The Fate rlr John Franklin.
Tho Afton Tribune is publishing a
story which is designed to introduco
tho theory tlmt the Globe is hollow
and inhabited. Thu idea is not alto
gether a new ono as Syinmes long
years ago advocated tho same propo
sition and attempted to prove the ex
istence of a vast mielstrom at the
North Pole, which in some of the ge
ographies is still referred to as
"Symme's Hole." The theory is'
also in accord with thu beautiful le
gend that St. John still lives in an 'en
chanted laud away North, far beyond
tho frozen regions and that at thu
second coining of Christ h will ap
pear iu Jerusalem.
The author of tho story thus dis
poses of Sir John Franklin:
"Sir John Franklin sailed and was
lost. What a world of mystery has
ever since hung around bis fate.
Was he crushed to atoms between the
ice islands of the Arctic sea? Did he
venture too far out on the billowy
plains and perish bj inches for want
of food? Did the vast snows aud
mists elog his suits, until they be
come hulcn reefs of ice, while tho hull
beneath froze firmly into the ice-rocks
that cu ironed' it, and the sea foam,
and the sleet, filled tip the spaces be
tween hull anil masts, and sails, aud
buried all j;i a tall iceberg on some
boreal shore tiiat conceals forever and
ever the dread sleeping place of Sir
John Franklin and Itis luipless crew?
No.
Sir John Franklin JeftLngland with
the brave dclcrminati ii of nettling
the question of an optn inter-polar
sea. He was successful.
Passing out of sight of ti'C barriers
into a smooth expuue of wa'cr, he
struck boldly out, with the jur;co of
passing directly under the polf .md
nuking Behring Strata.
The current set strongly L"t
smoothly Northward, and the witul
was coiiataut and slitf iu the same di
rection. The great navigator's heart
beat high under hi tripple vest of f jrs,
as he anticipated the fame which the
discovery of the Northern passago
would bring turn. But the currents
become more rapid and the winds
stronger, until a vague feeling of un
rest and danger and finally a despair.
creit into the deep nestling hearts of
us crew, aud then ot their comman
der and whisperings caine from white
ips " we arc being sucked into a great
whirlpool."
Down, down, down, sailed Sir John
and his crew through a white glaring,
glistening canopy that slowly roe
above them. No helm could turn
them from its headlight plunge; no
reeling oi sail coum tempi tue prow
from its Northward course. North;
due north, they glded swiftly, smooth
ly; toil was in rain. Prayers were
unavailing. Ihe glistening canopy
revealed itself, a yatrniiui o. Ice
berg, and glacier, and rolling billows.
capped with foam, hung in frown
ing masses and glided in incessant
distant roar over their heads. Through
the telescope they appeared in huge
outline. Now indeed, it seemed to
these bold mariners that all was lost.
Down, down, down, into the deep
mists, and waves of this mighty inter
polar Madstrom. The last prayer
was said, and the souls ot that crew
made settlement with Death.
Death came not. and still thev sail
ed by the compass, North, duw North.
There is no bottom to the gulf, there
is no end to those mists and gloom.
Will this downward plunge last for
ever? are we to go by sea to the
Kingdom of l lutor lias the grim
old ferryman of the Styx been sup
planted by Sir John? Cheerfulness
revives; merriment is grasped from
the jaws of death, and a feeling be
gins to prcyade tho crew of hope and
faith. Hope; lor what? Jfaitli in
whom ? It might have been such ns
was expressed by Byron wheu he
said
"Pursue what chance of fnto proolaiinetU Lett
Peace on shore of Acbern,"
or might have been such as a more
ancient and holy man expressed when
he said :
"Though I walk through the valley of the
buauow or oiatn, i win Ksr no evil.
And now the mists begin to lift;
tho clouds begin to roll away ; the
suppressed roar seems more distant;
the current is not so rapid; the wind
is not so strong, but still tho compass
says, JSorthwaru, due ;Sortn.
There are icebergs ahead, there are
dark rocks too, and above the heads
of the crew how strange ! there are
llocks of water fowl pursuing their
war Northward." Here there is a
sure ground of hope. The wild goose
is our pioneer, liut the darkness and
mists are gone; there is light ahead.
It is a beacon light at the North pole!
It glows and gleams. 'And now we
are passing frozen shores, with here
and there large tracts ot rocks cover
ed with linchens and mossus. The
air is growing more temperate, the
light grows stronger, the prospect
widens.
An idea dawns in the mind of the
.navigator. lie invokes the aid of the
telescope again, and Sir John Frank
lin and his crew now realize that the
great old earth is hollow, and that in
hunting for the North pole so success
fully they have sailed, sheer and clear,
into the light ol the coronal of elec
tricity, into another world, the world
ot the J. rans mundane.
It i3 related that a Massachusetts
school-boy (though tbe story "can be
told as well of any othpr) was asked by
his teacher bow manrc-'Qmmandments
there were. "Ten, was the prompt
reply, xne teacher said there baa
been one added, and asked him what
it was. Ihe boy looked perplexed,
scratched bis bead a moment and
then triumphantly replied, "The Fif"
teenth Amendment."
Girls, make a note of this remark
of an old worn out beam "A man
who most compliments a woman id
the one who most despises her,"
From Willamette Farmer.
HOLLAAY'M INTIJIIUATORW.
When Jim Fisk, Jr., was murdered
in New York, thero were not a few
newspapers to exult over the crime,
ns if Fisk was the meanest, most las
civious, and despicable wretch unhung.
Yet circn instances are coming to light
every ilay that demonstrate that the
railroad ring in Portland is incompar
ably meaner and more dangerous than
ever was the Krie ring, of which Fisk
was the head. So complete is Holla
days ring organized, that if any body
in Oregon otFends against him, he
cracks his whip in the style of a ring
master to a circus, and out trots one
of his sleek hash -aters, appearing as
if a half a barrel of lard had been used
in putting him in "condition," receives
his orders, and executes his commis
sion with an alacrity and subserviency
that would surprise the most visionary
writer Of fiction If the offence has
been committed in Portland, Salem,
Albany, Kugeue, or any other town of
tho valley, all the trained hounds of
the ring in that particular locality are
turned loose upon the track of tho of
fender, and ho is worried by libels aud
falsehoods, and all nutans adopted
from which will result inconvenience
and vexation in business.
Tho J'armrr has seen proper to
compliment Mr. llolladay s energy
on several occasions, but recently it
hns deemed it a duty to warn the peo
ple against allowing themselves to be
drawn into this man's power, which
would chain them more securely than
wa ever tho most abject slave that
moved under the burning sun of the
equator to the flourish of the master's
whip. To silence this insubordination
ou our part, it was circulated around
the streets of Portland that we had
made a proposition to llolladay to
buy us out, Ad that, failing, we saw
proper to make an attack on him.
Failing to accomplish anything by
this report, Mr. Holladay's paper, the
JiiiUrtiii, has turned loose its last gun
aid thinks to send terror into our
c imp by calling the farmer a "JJan
ic -i 'tic organ." This is too thin. If
Mr. lolladay expects to skulk behind
tho j tepublican party aud call persons
"Dem.'"cratic," or if ho thinks to crawl
in the rear of the Democratic party,
ami den. uuce all men as "Republi
cans," bec-tuse they oppose his heart
less scheme. to enslave our people, he
hows a we.i.'er brain than we have
triven him credit for.
Tho V" amirr .nission is to advise
and counsel the eople as to their best
interests; Mr. IIoH.-tday's business is
to fleece them to the last larlhiug.
We shall continue Oi iu the discharge
of our dutv, regardless of threats, and
we expect Mr. llolladay to continue
on his present courao I'litil he is
brought up at a "snubbirg-post" by
the people.
(Pr-itn tbe bvtroit Free Pr.J
RADICAL DELINQUENCIES.
"When Kogara Fall Oat IIoaet
.Ucb Come by their Own.'
The President claimed in bia roes- j
sage that all the defaulters under his
administration bad been subject to
rigorous prosecution and punish
ment. Senator Morton reiterated
tbe same statement in the Senate,
but when pressed to the wall could
only cite one case where prosecution
and punishment bad followed offi
cial defalcation.' lie was not cir
cumscribed as to the number of de
faulters. This list is far too long,
and the amount too great for tbe
Senator to be embarrassed in that
direction. The Democratic National
Committee at Washington are engag
ed in making np a book, which will
give a full hot, oh far as tbe facts can
be obtained, of the Government plun
derers and the amount stolen. Tbe
following, in the absence of the book
alluded to, will satiate tbe public ap
petite until further facts are revealed:
Norton, Sup't of Mncy Dep't,
New York Post office Hi, 000 00
It ha been mid that NortoV
delalcation ba Wen. or will be,
made pood by bis bondsmen.
Major J. L. Hodges, Army Pay
master. 473,929 27
1 1 bis amount wa lot in stcck
and real extate speculation in New
York. Tbe defaulter bat been
tried and sentenced to ten year'
imprisonment.
O. 8. Pine. N. Y. Post Office 6,000 00
J. F. Daily, Interim! Revenue
Collector, New York 1,140,000 00
Q. E. bourns, Sup't of Assay of
fice, New York 80,000 00
J. Hpear, Collector of Internal
Revenue. Leavenworth, Kan... 150,000 08
The Government recovered
f50,hll0 of the inonty.
T. O. Uerrisb, of Lowell, Mas.,
defaulter 50,000 AO
Andrew Stafford, Mail Agent...... 10,000 00
Frnnk Snule, Internal Revenue
Department 1,514,719 00
A. II. Woodcock, P. M., Pied
mont. W. Va 10,000 00
Mnj. Landor, PoaUuanter, Kalem, '
Mass . 6,000 00
O. 0. Rutcheldor, Kocretary Da
kota Territory . 8,000 00
G. D. Ordner, Colloctor of Inter
nal Revenue, Fifth District,
Missouri 6,000 00
Col. 8anilrs, Deputy Colloctor of
Internal Revenue, Fifth Dis
trict, Missouri 8,000 00
P. II. Hathaway, Post , Office,
Hartford, Con 1,000 00
Col. Wellinan, Collector of Cus
toms, Savannah, Oa 8,000 00
Sheridan Shook, Collector of In
ternal Revenue 1,043,(147 00
E.8. Hunt i 250,107 00
D. C. MoCartney, Post Offioe Dis
bursing Officer , - 30,000 00
It. A. Guernsey, Collector of In
ternal Revenue, Eighteenth
District, Penn 91,000 00
Alex Spaulding 3,490 00
II. Dewerman, Custom llnuse,
Baltimore, Md.. , , 80,000 00
Whitaker, Postinastor, Hartford.
Connootlout 160,000 00
W. P. Cunningham ,... "92,460 00
United Statos Treasury Depart-
mnt of looking-glasses. ..,,.. $0,000 00
W. B, Field, .Internal Rpvunu
. Department 432,879' 00
W. Flung. Internal Revenue De- '
pastinent 227,307 00
Cba. Collin, Internal Revennk
Department 092,504 00
. J. JJ. Bryant, Internal Revenue
DopnrtoiFnt....i..i...iii.. 434,000 00
Charged different army officer,,
defaulter during the war... .... 19ffi3,B0O 00
Charged up to July , 187f
against defaulting Internal Rev
J eriue Collecturs id different
, purl of the country, but most
ly in New England 2(700,000 00
Then we have the defalcation of
K. Kendall, Treasurer of Boon -
'' Co., Illinois.. ... , 2.0,000 00
Col. Rhodes, Trsas'r Nv ......
M. K. Sualskl, City Treasurer.
St. I.oul, Missouri . ,
Add to those the- amounts
charged on the Treasury book
axainst United Htates offlners In
the Hoot burn blates a follow!
t Texas.
M llton Ktrnpp . ..,
1 17,000 00
101,000 00
61,339 00
241,449 00
191,974 70
9U.664 20
638,601 00
4b,V03 60
6,762 84
1I,29 82
172,323 97
622 84
WM74 49
46,636 27
307,022 27
37,274 30
812,2(6 97
67,422 1S9
6.623 83
80,352 28
72,711 6
. ft,68l 41
188,661 66
52.92.1 14
26.-1.436 42
61.768 64
71,801 22
21,768 49
1,621 36
69.206 62
66,813 60
6.1.412 04
167,621 86
57,493 49
61,68 II
4.191 22
147,342 S
2?4,S4S 7
703 21
15.313 85
14,28.' 85
MS ,628 89
41,807 17
51.227 24
21,722 07
274.616 94
26.443 25
28,443 25
129,862 II
S6.3U6 96
84.324 26
31,454 25
It. 1. Kingsbury
R. H. Litne..
D. li. H..nf..cr
L. D. fcvjm
ALABAMA.
T. A. C. Dexter....
James liernoy ...... ........ .....
Oeo. W. Cobb
John T. Tanner ...'. .
.-I. 17. . WVW. .,.,... ,.
Robert Job
TISSSSSCS.
Ruel risush-..... .'.
Elijah Xluierly
J, L. Abernethy
... ... ..,... ......
..... i
J. M, Deamlng....
Joufpb Ramsey
r. w. Keen.
II. T. Ilaiiton. ...... ...........
It. H. Kauudur
Mltsissinrf.
Kdwln O. Cm,k..........ii.tJ....:...
X. H. Haul
Martin Henry.
11. II. rilieppard..
SOKTH CAHOLIXA.
William Rent
W.C. Uftin
L. i. Kate
U. W. W.M.Ien
J oh n Reed. .)....
Wlllium II. Thompson
John O. Weavers.......
VIROIXIA.
William James. .........
Seori; C. Tylrr
riamuel D. Sterling
r-tmon Ht'ine ......
William Kelden
X. b. I.ancantor.......
J. V.. Muir-.rd
tieorge C. Tyler..
J. II. Anders-.n...
William K. Well.....
Otis II. ItUSMill
K. II. Pendleton
T. II. hanborn..
deorge W, Jacksun ..................
Lol"lA.
Oeorr f. Dennlson ......... .........
W. E. Wbitake ... .......
Charles Smith
W. Denton
Jamrs 11. teal man
A. Da ir M. .. '.
K. M. Houl.ifny ....... .
I,. wis IS. ColHoi... ..............
Eugene Tisdale .
ruattA.
M. A. WUtlams........M .......
esoaoiA.
A. If. Wilson ......... .......m .....
J. C. Barney
W. II. Il.rd
Xedroa L. Augler
SOVTM CABoLIBA.
Famuel Maraot
K. II. Kioith ..
614.753 36
83,915 14
1S9.655 82
651.617 21
478,897 28
18,975 84
42.93 46
90.761 61
94,430 25
8,938 89
62,778 93
1,169 63
47.207 71
F. A. Sawyer ...
T"lal ........ .... ..... .37, 464.562 44
To tbi may be added tbe recent
defalcations in the Treasury Depart
ment, amounting to ?C2,U00. The
$221,000,000 titolen from the South
ern States should also be added to
swell the aggregate. And yet the
end is not reached. The labor ac
cumulates as tbe investigators pro
ceed in their work. ' No wonder tbe
friends of tbe Administration seek to
stifle investigation in the manner in
which it and its friends bare dis
charged their official duties.
HAIR A AX IXDICATIOX OF
CHARACTER.
' Straight, lank, stringy-looking bair
indicates weakness and cowardice.
Curly hair denotes a quick temper.
Friz.dy hair, set on one's head as if
each individual bair were ready to
fight its neighbor, denotes coarseness.
Light auburn denotes intelligence,
industry anc? a peaceful disposition.
Coarse, straight, black hair denotes
a sluggish disposition, with but little
ambition, and a Jore ot ease, with a
disposition to find fault and borrow
trouble. ,
131ack hair, very little inclined to
curl, with a dark complexion, indicates
personal courage, especially when one
is cornered, with a wonderful degree
ot pertinacity, and a disposition to
hang on until whatever is undertaken
be accomplished.
Ited bair, if straight, denotes ugli
ness, and a haughty, domineering dis
position. Lightish, red hair, somewhat given
to curl, if it be fine rather than coarse,
indicates ambition, but deceit, treach
ery, and a willingness to sacrifice old
friends for new ones, er for personal
advancement.
What is called sandy hair indicates
a jovial disposition without much en
ergy or power of calculation for bar
gains. Such personsare good fellows,
content to work for others more than
for themselves.
Brown hair denotes fondness for
life, a friendly disposition, ambition,
earnestness of purpose, capacity for
business, and reliability in friendship,
in proportion as the hair is fine.
Light brown hair, with a clear skin,
is a very certain indication of courage,
ambition, reliability, and determina
tion to overcome obstacles. Nearly
all the best business men of the coun
try hare this kind of hair, The
and more silken the texture, the finer
the organization, and the more touch r
and inflammable the disposition. If
such hair be straight and fine, it in
dicates an even disposition, a readi
ness to forgive, with a desire to add
to tbe happiness ot others.
Persons with fine, light brown or
auburn bair inclined to curl or friz,
are quick tempered, and are given to
resentment and revenge.
Light brown hair, inclined to red
ness, with a freckled skin, is a certain
indication of deoeit, treachery, and a
disposition to do something mean by
a friend, when that friend can no long
er be used to advantage, .
Straight black hair, crisp and
glossy, indicates great power of en
durance, indifference to danger, and a
strong predisposition to revenge
wrongs, or insults, real of or fancied.
The coarser the hair, tbe longer will
the person having it nurture his re
venge, till there comes a safe chance
for its gratification'
, Hair that is inclined to change its
appearance with tb weather, with a
sort ot recklessness. to its style, indi
cates a corresponding recklessness, or
rather independence 8? to the speech of
people,
NO. 135.
A PRONOUJVCED RADICAL
PKKMIDK.Vr CIBANT.
OS
Theodore Til ton, editor of tbe Gold
en Age, formerly . of the New York
Independent, has all his life been a
liadical of the most pronounced and
extreme character. He is a man how
ever, who does not hesitate to speak
bis mind freely, and who. though once
a strong supporter of Grant, sees little
in the present attitude or conduct of
our chief - magistrate to admire or
commend. Speaking of Grant's neg
lected opportunity m a late issue of
his paper, he says :
"Perhaps no President ever bad a
bettwr opportunity for the display of
Administrative abilities and a high
order of patriotism than Grant has to
day. We leave the matter of states
manship entirely aside. According to
his own theory, he is merely the admin
istrative head of the Government. He
lays no claim to the character of a
statesman. Not even his most extrav
agant admirers in their their most ex
cited eulogies claim that he possesses
that high quality of mind, that com
prehensiveness of view, that intuitive
penetration into causes and forecasting
of events, and grasp of circumstances
which enter into our idea of states
manship. He is merely the executive
head of the Government. But as
such he has to-day the most splendid
opportunity ever offered an Ameri
can Chief Magistrate to signalize his
Administration by acts which would
render it famous forever.
The present Administration inher
ited a vast amount of corruption.
1 he machinery of the government had
been used very largely to fill tbe pock
ets of peculators, and secure positions
for ambitious politicians. The pres
ent Administration changed the men,
but retained the mechanism. We
see the results. The public service is
demoralized. Stupendous frauds
have been discovered in many places.
The taint of corruption covers every
department of the government."
There is scarcely an office-holder in
the United Slates but is haloed with
suspicion of dishonesty. Every new
investigation unearths a new mine of
guilt, and discloses more of the vast
system ot fraud and villainy which
nets the whole country with its rami
fications, and is rapidly rotting away
the foundations of national honesty.
The people of all. parties begin to
comprehend the significance of the
facts and the real dangers to which
our institutions are exposed. They
demand reform. Tbeir determination
has shaken Tammany into the dust.
It has compelled a reluctant commit
tee to look into an equally offensive
mass of corruption iu our Custom
House, and though they tried their
utmost not to see anrthing in particu
lar, they were compelled to turn their
faces away in disgust. The same dis
graceful and danererous facts' exists
everywhere, and everywhere cry
aloud for reform. Reform is tbe only
hope of tbe Government, of tbe coun
try. And if reform is not speedily
organized and carried energetically
into every department of the pnblic
service, that service will sink below
contempt, and office-holder and robber
will be uni-versally regarded as syn
onymousterms. Old party issues are dead. There
are not sound planks enough in any
ot the old party platforms for a decent
man to stand upon to-day. The one
real issue before the country to-day
is, Suili ire lutve an honest Govern
ment All other questions are en
tered in that penetrating, burning in
terrogation. .Things as they are. or
things as they ought to be, that is the
sharp alternative. Corruptionist or
Reformer, which shall bear sway ?
Gen. Grant has the opportunity of
putting himself at the bead of a grand
popular demonstration in favor of re
form, a demonstration which Bhall
shake this continent with its magnifi
cent tread and benificent effects. He
ran put his Administration directly in
the van of the greatest popular enthu
siasm this nation has known since the
uprising at the beginning of the war.
The way is open. He can forestall
the action of any man or body of men
by a right earnest policy of his own.
He can make Republicau and Refor
mer stand for one and the same thing,
and so preserve nnbroken the unity of
a party identified with all tbe great
achievements and beroio memories of
war, by his own determined acts
pledging that party to. the most earn
est, determined, radical measures of
reform. He can sweep the States
so clean at the next election that the
scattering votes will not be worth the
counting, if he will shake himself clear
from all complicity with or responsi
bility for the men who are suspected
of plunder and peculation, and make
his Administration utterly honest.
1 ill he do this r Alas, we see not tbe
remotest hint that he comprehends
ihe situation, and every step of inves
tigation that he has taken has already
been taken "against bis will. His
friends are beginning to be looked
upon as the public euemies, and every
day he seems more and more de
termined to let things run on in the
old grooves toward destruction. And
still the occasion waits for tbe for tbe
Man." -
A handsome young gentleman
walked into the Adams express office
the other day, and desired to express
a package of letters, to a. lady, to
whom he desired to return tbm.
What are they worth? asked tbe clerk,
who in making out bis acoount desir
ed to know what was tbe risk. The
young man hesitated a moment, then
clearing bis throat from a certain
buskiness, replied: 'Well, I can't
say exactly, but a few weeks ago they
were worth about four hundred thou
sand dollars."
A Wisconsin editor Was called oat
of bed one night to rec ive a sub
scription. . AfteT that He sat dp nights
for s week, but the ofjensa was not
repeaterj, y
Business notice in the Local Columns, 26
cents per line, each insertion.
For legal and transient adrertisemerts Si 60
per square of 12 lines, for the Srst rnnertleu,
and $1 00 per sqnare fur each subseejneat in
sertion. ,
Tram W. H.'(Cnmeerd) P'pl,)
DEMOCRATIC EXTRAVAGANCE
Vn. RADICAL EtOSOWY,
We are not disposed to deny that
there hns been reckless extravagance
and unblnshmg fraud in the manage'
menl of the financial affairs of NeW
York City. We hare no doubt that
such is the case. We have contended,
bowerer, that the Democratic party i
not responsible therefor. It is true
that party has been in the ascendancy
in the city lor years, bdt it , is also
true that the chef facilities for fraua
were placed in the hand ef the city
government by a liadical Legislature,
and hare been nsed by a ring made
up of both Democrats and Republi
cans, whose operations were finally
exposed by a Republican sharer ia the
plunder who was incensed because be
was not allowed tbe full amount
which be demanded.
But granting, temporarily, for the
sake of the argument, that the De
mocracy being in the ascendancy are
responsible for all this extravagance
and fraud, let ns take the financial
condition of New York as it is, and
compare it with that of another city
which the Uemocracy do not eontrol.
Let us, compare it with that of Bos
ton Puritan Boston, which boasts,
and honestly too, of being the cradle
of modern Kadicalism, a eity which
has done infinitely more to direct the
course of the Radical party than New
xorlt with all its power and wealth
has to shape that of the Democratic
party.
It appears by tbe report of Comp
troller Green, that the total amount
of tbe ascertained debt of tbe Citr
and County of New York, together
with the presented claims on the loth
day of December, was $94,523,
This is truly an enormous
debt, and its exisence is a crushing
weight upon, as well as an undeniable
disgrace to, tbe people of New York.
The total debt of the city of Boston
at the same time- was $29,383,
390.52. a much smaller sum. it is
true, but there is something else to be
considered. The population of New
York according to the last census is
while that of Boston is 250,
52G. This gives a debt of 99.95
per capita for New York, and one of
9117.29 per capita for Boston.
These figures furnish their own com
mentary. It, then, it shall be said
that Democratic extravagance and
fraud has piled an enormous debt up
on the shoulders of tbe people of
New York, what shall we say that
Radical economy and honesty has
done for the people of Boston '(
Now let us go still further and con
sider the matter of taxation. Taxa
tion in New York has justly been
complained of as burdensome in the
extreme. The aggregate of taxes col
lected of the people of New York
Citr for the rear 1870 amounted to
827,403,859, or S29.08 per
capita, while the aggregate of tbe
taxes of Boston amounted to $9,-
UdV,-VU, or pauper capita: X bus
it seems that taxation in Boston is as
much higher, proportionately, than in
New York, as the indebtedness of tbe
city is larger, which fact shows tbe
financial management of the former
city in a far more damaging light
thaa that in which the latter now
stands before tbe public.
There is nothing like coming dewn
to hard facts and plain figaers in con
sidering this matter of the compara
tive extravagance or economy of Dem
cratic and Republican management.
and there is nothing which our oppo
nents so greatly dread, unless through
tbe remarkable ingenuity ot a man
like Boutwell, the figuers can be
made to do what it is said they will
not lie.
NO WOMASf WITHOUT HER
VALUE.
A poor peasant, who had seven
children born to bim in marriage, had
bat one daughter left, and she was of
a form so truly hideous that it might
be said, as Shakespeare expresses it:
"The cars barked at her as she halted
along." There are other allurements
to enter into the wedded Htate, how
ever, than those of figure.
A showman, on bis way through
tbe village in which she lived, saw
her, and asked her in marriage.
-"Sir," said the honest rustic to the
suitor of his daughter, unwilling to
take advantage of any man, "hare
you observed tbe unseemly . form of
my daughter? Are you aware that I
nave no -hing to give her?"
"These," replied the other, "are
objects of no weight with me." :
"But she is both hunch-backed and
hnnch-breasted. Her akin is like
shagreen.''
"I am rejoiced at it."
"You cannot perceive that she has
a nose."
"Good." (
" She is hardly three feet high."
"Better still."
"Her legs are like drumsticks and
her nails like clawa."
"Best of all."
- "To cut the matter abort, beiieve
me, she is almost dumb, and altogeth
er deaf."
, "Is it possible," exclaimed the lor
er. "You transport me! Long have
I searched for a wife nearly formed
like your daughter; but was afraid to
flatter myself with the hope of find
ing such a one. I am now happy
beyond my hopes. She fully corres
ponds with my idea of perfection.
How rare it is in these days to meet
with so accomplished a figurs!"
"But, my good friend," interropt
ed the father, "I cannot conceive
what you propose to do with a wife
who is so ngly and so deformed; who
is always sickly and hath not a peo
ny." : ' ' . "
"Do with her? Why, IU travel
around the country and get my bread
by exhibiting monsters. I will put
her in a box; I will carry her about
cwith me; and as for a fortune, let
ma olnna tnr thu aerl nisition of that.""
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One hundred rears ago there were
; b-.it foir newspapers in America.