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The Harvests.
BY ALICK CARRY.
I set my plow in the gooel old earth,
And I turn the furrows over.
And at length I get my money's
worth
In the great globes of clover;
For suns befriended and rains de
scended And I -rot, thrice told, my labor's
worth
In globes of bright red clover.
I learned to whet and swing the
scythe..
As the fields grew ripe for mowing.
And I heard the while, all gav and
Uythe,
The winds of the harvest blowing
Their tunes so blythe to the time of
the scythe,
As if in the haying they bid for the
playing
Of the pipes we mowed in the mow
ing. And when the largp suns slanted
down
Across my e-los-shorn meadows,
And I saw 'my children, tanned so
brown,
Come chasing with their shadows.
There at the even, like sheaves for
heaven,
. With love for girdle and love for
crown, if
I bore them home from the meadow.
And when the sunshine bright on
their heads.
And theirheartsaslightnsa feather
We tucked tliem up in their trundle
beds, land their mother together.
And the moon in its splendor looked
down so tender.
And we thanked the love of the
Father above.
That gave us two harvests together.
AVoa.en and their 3!ai;ners.
From CJail Hamilton's Xew Hook.
It is a .shame for women to be lee
tr.red on tiieir manners. It is a bit
tor shame that they m-cil it. Women
o::gM to give the law, not learn it.
Women are the umpires of society.
It is they to whom all moot points
should be referred. To be a lady is
more than to lie a prince. A lady is
always in her right inalienably
worthy of respect. To a lady prince
arid peasant alike h.nv.
Do not be re.--trained. Do not have
impulses that need restraint. Do
not is!i to dance with the Prince
unsought ; J'f-l ui.'ieroiitly. Re such
that you confer honor. Carry your
selves so ioflily that men shall look
to you for reward, not at you in re
b.tke. The natural sentiment of man
towards worn, in is reverence. He
loses a large means of grace when 1.'
is obliged to account her a being to
be trained into proprietv. A man's
!e;ti is not wounded when a woman
fails in world'v wisdom; but if in
graeo, in fact,
ca. y, in kind
fonnl v.iv.itiu;
ward hurt.
in sei
ness,
' he
itiment, in de'i
s!:e should be
recieves an in-
1!.:mi:m: e::. It is a no less fatal ei
Mr to desjuse lal r when regulated
by intellect than to value it for its
own sake. We an- always, in these
days, trying to seperate the two : wo
want out; man to be always thinki :g
and another to be always working.
and we call one
i gentleman and the
other an operaove, wnei cas i :ie wont
ing man ought always to be thinking,
and the thii.ker to be. w uking ; ami
both should be gentlemen in the
best sense. As it is, we make both
ungentle, the one envying, the oth
er despising his brother ; and the
mass of society is made up of mor
bid thinkers and miserable workers.
Now, it is only by laburthat thought
can be made healthv, and only by
thought that labor can be made hap
py, and the two can not bo scpe ra
ted with impunity. All professions
hould be liberal, and there should
be less pride felt in peculiarity of
mploymcnt, and more in excellence
of achievement.
A "Plot s FnAro." The Syracuse
c"o ". savs : The crreat work of
Iriviug from power this party that
is proved false to all its pledges of
reform begun so well in LS7.", will,
we predict, be prosecuted with una
bated vigor in 171, and fructify in
victory complete in FSTG. The lle-
publiean party cannot do business
much longer on the capital of its
former reputable name. The people
are finding out that it is only a "pi
ous fraud." . The exhalations that
come up from the raking over of the
heaps of ohieiai rottenness in ash
ington are not as savory as to invite
back stray or wavering sheep into t lie
llepublican fold. The turning tide
of 1S,.' will, we predict, increase to
a grand swellinir nood in the year
now follows.
Caleb Cushing's political principles
are much like those of Jay Gould.
The latter swore before an investiga
ting committee that in republican
districts he was a llepnblican. in
Democratic districts he was a Dem
ocrat, while in doubtful districts he
was doubtful, but he was always an
Erie man. When Republican's are
trumps dishing is a Republican;
when Democrats are trumps dishing
is a Democrat; and when trumps are
doubtful Cashing is doubtful; but
he is always a dishing man.
A
Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Com nnial savs- "The
Sargeant-at-Arms of the House is en
titled to a messenger at an annual sala
ry of si-(,.,0 For some vears Ord
way has had his son's name carried on
the pay rolls as holding the position,
and has drawn the salary for him
wjtu cheerful and healthv re-Miliri-ty.
During all the time", however
i ! 1 1 1 1 n rttfjirt.i:.. II .'
Xew England."
in
Sly Qi-ekry. That is a good
story of a little boy, who, going into
q bookstore with his mother, crept
up to the juvtsnile of the establish
ment with the slyquerry, "Say, have
you got any books for boys that ain't
got religion in 'em?"
An Open Letter n ttoriicy-CJcncral
Williams.
SprNGFii:i.i, Jan. lltli, 1874.
Geo. II. Williams, Attorney-General,
Washington City Dear Sir:
Your letter to the President asking
the withdrawal of your nomination
for Chief Justice is before me, and
likewise an article in the Dtih Ore
tjonlan of yesterday in which it is stat
ed that "those who never indorsed
Jiippie were they who made
Senator.
you
The burden of your letter, coupled
with the paper extract, brings vivid
ly to memory the true history of the
brief years that connect these events.
You must bear with me in recalling
portions of it to your memory, lest
in your forgetfulness you faif to rec
ognize the fruit3 you now reap as
legitimate.
The Ore'joii'uui , In the article quo
ted from, says yon are "not naturally
a man of bad purposes, of dishonest
instincts, of a corrupt heart ;" and
you say of yourself: "I performed
with clean hands and upright pur
pose all the duties of public trust to
which I have been called." And
therefore you complain that "the
lloodgates of calumny have been open
ed upon you." If this be so or not,
it is clear that there s wrong some
where, and I piopose, unasked, to
help you rind it. I have helped you
in other days, and have yet your
written acknowledgement of the ser
vice. It is no mean ollice to help a
great man, though fallen; and with
me it is now a privilege and responsi
bility that I hasten to assume.
"F.cee Homo" enlightens the world
of thought with the broad declara
tion that "in dillieult circumstances
.ir iu,;i can wield extraordinary pow
er long without positively commit
ting cr'utte.y If this be true our dif
ficulty, and my labor, ;s half through
with. I recollect, too, that the phil
osophers imagined some such situa
tion, and presented it in tin f ible of
the "King of Gyges.' The question
with them did not involve a doubt of
t.'io position of "ee Homo," but
"vh"t':er the power," under circum
stances like yours, "to distinguish
ri'Jtt and vroini did not vanish alto-
gether." I propose to show you by
the presentation of a few brief facts,
that this question on the mind of the
philosophers no longer exists to puz
:'le the minds of this, nor coming
ages ; but. that it has been ,)oi
slrnfed ii 'on. In doing so, I must
be prc-mitted to take for granted,
that what yon say of yourself, you
think ; and that the estimate made of
you by the editor of the Oseinnti'n,
in his youthful days, was correct and
just.
In Anril, 1870. and at the National
Hotel breakfast table, in Washing
ton, yon handed rue a dispatch and
asked me, did I think it genuine.
The dispatch was from Oregon, and
was signed by a resident of Corvallis,
and II. W. Scott, now editing the
lhtll-'.'iu but then the Ororjonitm. It
contained a call o 'on for more nion
ry, stating that the amount sent was
insufficient; that it would take at least
five thousand more to carry the elec
tion. Prior to my leaving here in
March, reports were circulated
through the medium of the Demo
cratic press, that you had sent home
money to corrupt the election to
come oir in June following. In an
swering yon, I called vour attentiou
to those reports, and being in some
measure convinced by your question j
that they were partly true, and think
ing that the gentleman of Corvallis
had better sense than to send such
an open dispatch over the wires, and
therefore that some Democrat had
sent it to entrap you, I so answered.
At that time was, or had been recently-pending
a measure to J'rlfii
the elections in the1 city of Now York,
which had your support. I called
your attention to that fact, and to
the further fact that the Republican
party of Oregon had not began its
leing. nor gained its victories up to
that date, by bribery and. corrup
tion: that no party ought to succeed
by such means; and that public men
couldn't succeed permanently who
resorted to their use. I advised yon
not to send money, nor have any
thing to do with parties who resort
ed to its use for such purposes. You
received my consel in silence. After
wards you informed me. upon inqui
ry, that the dispatch was genuine. I
saw developing in you then, what I
had never seen before, and knew
what treatment myself and others
who had made yon Senator must
henceforth expect at your hands.
From that time. except vour treaeherv
in overthrowing1 the Humbolt R. R.
bill, no transction of yours lias been
a surprise to me. Your bargain with
Holladay in reference to that matter:
your contract with 3fr. Meldrum:
the attempt to sell D. Y. Thompson
an interest m the stone contract, at
Washington through Kincaid ; your
removal of Gibbs for the faithful per
formance of oflicial duty ; the at
tempt by your dojs here to blacken
mv reputation, by asserting that I
had attempted to bribe von with O
B. P. C. R- R- stock, are, sir, the
bits of history that will remain as
fresh in memory as the name of Geo
H. Williams. Please see them stript
naked of the obfuscating sophistry
of yourself and your guides; then
contrast them with what a irie.jsi,
vjirifpd and Jtoaest course would be.
and see solved in yourself the prob
lem of the philosophers, and a new
demonstration of the declaration in
"Ecee Homo."
I was treacherously slain in the
house of mv friends by ingratitude.
But more terrible is the gleaming
blade of avenging justice that now
liffhts upon your head! "Misery
likes company."
Your obedient servant,
B. J, Pen-gba.
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G rant's Load.
WHAT A PKOM1NENT GENTLEMAN JUST
liETL IiNEDFKOM WASHINGTON" SAYS.
New Orleans Picayune, Jan. 27.
A gentleman, prominent in rail
road circles, and at present sojourn
ing here, has just returned from
Washington, which place he visited
for the piuqKxse of interviewing the
President and ascertaining his exact
policy with reference to the Louis
iana case. The nature of the remarks
addressed to the Executive will indi
cate plainly enough the inferences
his interlocutors intended to draw,
and, though he maintained through
out the whole ailair that brilliant
silence for which he is so eminent,
it is only reasonable to assume that
the desired effect was secured.
Knowing that the gentleman in
question had been to Washington
for tlie purpose stated, and feeling
certain that the immense interests
he represents had secured him an
audience, a representative of the
Picainne yesterday made inquiry
touching the event, with the follow
ing result :
A. I have been in Washington
for the last three weeks. Things are
assuming quite a complex shape
there. Gen. Grant is in a very un
comfortable position. I called on
him in company with Gen. Butler,
Senators Sherman and Thurman and
a Mr. Meyer. Gen. Butler was our
spokesman. He said in substance:
Mr. President we have called upon
you to ascertain what your policy is
t be in relation to matters in Louis
iana. Mr. Kellogg, as soon as he
found himself finally seated, made
repudiation of the State debt the fea
ture of his Administration. The
people down there want to pay their
honest obligations, and if let alone
to govern themselves, they will.
Mr. Kellogg, in his annual address
to the Legislature, claims to have
collected seven millions of taxes, and
of that it takes three? millions to jay
the interest on the debt. What be
comes of the other four millions?
It only requires one million to run
the great State of Massachusetts;
certainly it cannot require four to
run the little State of Louisiana.
Mr. Kellogg has made a diiect at
teinpt to take our railroads from us,
one oi which is mainly owned iy a
iirm who Jinbscribed largely to aid in
vour re-election. Now, sir, we de
sire to know whether it is your poli-
cy to
support
this Administration V
If it is
let us know it.
Mr. Meyer then spoke up: "I
represent the syndicate; in Frankfort-on-the-Main,
who hold eighty mil
lions of United States bonds. We
de-sire to be informed if you sanction
tne repudiation of the Louisiana
del); if so, Mr. President, we touch
no more of your bonds. (At this
point in the interview the President
arose and paced the lloor, much agi
tated.) Will you express your views
on this point?"
The President was sileut aiul the
deputation withdrew. They met at
the door of the While House a dele
gation of Pennsylvania Radicals,
headed by old Simon Cameron, who
sought too President. Mr. Cameron
opened the conversation: " We have;
come to ascertain whether you can
not do something to save our State.
In '72 we carried it for yon by a ma
jority of thirty thousand; this year a
Republican measure has been defeat
ed by one hundred and forty thou
sand votes. Mr. President, you must
stop breaking up the party in tins
manner.
During my entire stay at the capi
tal the President was thus visited
daily by disaffected parties whe at
tributed their defeats, m their re
spective States to the course of the
Vilministration in the person of Gen.
Grant. He is having anything but
a lovely time.
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1Iei;e is a elomestic drama from
Paris: A young girl was about to be
married to a journey man carpenter,
whose suit was by no means agreea
bly to her. She had refused and
protested against the match, but her
father was inexorable on the subject,
and insisted on the marriage, though
the mother would willingly have
yielded. At length the bride-elect
resigned te her fate, and the father
pointing out the happy result of his
firmness, to his wife, triumphantly
exclaimed, "I told you so." Next
elay, however, the poor girl, having
left a letter at home explaining the
cause of her action, jumped oil' the
bridge of Austerlitz into the Seine.
She was, however, saved and car
rieil home by two sailors. The fath
er returned home just as the drip
ping giil was placed in safet3" besitle
the paternal hearth, when the moth
er, with perhaps more point than dis
cretion, simply observed. "I told
you so."
Jefferson county, New York, has
furnished temperance lecturers with
another subject for explanation.
Robert Sixbury died at the age of
110 years. In his early days he was
a noted hunter and Indian tighter,
and his life was spent to within a few
months of its close in a log-house.
He chewed and smoked tobacco, and
when about sJ years of age fell into
the tire-place, while unfortunately
under the influence of liquor, but
was rescued to have a leg amputated,
and be an awfnl example f or i0 years
longer, '
Pkotixtion to Settleks. Sena
tor McKusick has introduced a bill to
protect pre-emption and homestead
settlers. This is a very important
measure, and one that is based on
the broad ami deep principles which
make secure the prosperity and well
being of our people. This bill rec
ognizes the paramount importance of
throwing the shield of law around
the hearth-stones of
those whose
homes are the abodes of intelligent
I 1 t - .
ami mgu-mmueu nctmcii,
fiOTTRTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
The Drcd Sentt Decision.
The country ought to-day to be
sufficiently removed from the ex
citements that followed the famous
decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States in the Dred Scott
case, to do justice to all concerned
by an unbiased examination of the
facts. No judicial decision in this
country has been so extensively dis
cussed, and at the same time so little
understood and so universally mis
represented. The name of Chief Jus
tice Taney , who delivered the judg
ment of the-Court, has been branded
with infamy bv thousands who never
read the opinion, and who honestly
believed ttiat he had formally ad
judged that in the United States "a
negro had no rights that a white man
was bound to respect." That phrase
has served as a text in thousands of
pulpits for denunciation upon the
Court, and especially upon its sup
posed author. It has serred party
orators with an occasion during sev
enteen years for the most fervid de
nunciations of that Court, and it
cannot be denied that. the decision
itsrlf hastened by many years the
overthrow of slavery. The decision
iv-fis sufficiently attrocious without
this misrepresentation.
Dred Seott was a slave and as such
had been carried by his owner into
one of the territories of the United
States. Subsequently he brought
suit for his freedom. 'The Court be
low dismissed the action on the
irround that he was not a citizen of
the United States, and, therefore,
was not entitled to bring suit in the
United States Courts. From this de
cision the case was taken to the Su
preme Court, and was there, twice
argued. That Court decided als
that Dred Scott was not a citizen of
the United States, and therefore
could not bring suit in the Federal
Courts. "While this was the point,
and, in fat, the only point decided
by the Court, the decision had a
much wider sweep. The great po
litical question of t hat day w a ; wheth-
er slavery aid or did not extend it
self over all the Unioa save when
it was exclude. 1 by State laws, that
is, whether it did not extend intu the
Territories. In IS"!) an attempt had
been made to avoid the issue by tlw
legislation known as the Compromise
measures of that year. In ISo-l, upon
the passage; of the; Kansas and Ne
braska act. a judicial decision upon
this question became a political ne
cessity, at least to the; Pro-Slavery
party. In the decision that I") red
Scott was not a citizen of the United
States was devolved an inferential
decision ef the political question,
and that Court, in the opinion de
livered by the Chief Justice, made
an argument to sustain this theory,
that the right to hold slave; pmperty
existed in all parts of the country
where it was not prohibited by State
law, and hejre was the real attroeitv
of the de'eision. In the course of
this argument the Chief Justice gave
a historical rerume of the previous
conditions of the negro, and no well
informed person will question the
accuracy of his statement. It reads
as follows:
It is ilillieult at this day to realize
the state e public opinion in rela
tion to that unfortunate race, which
prevailel in the civilized and en
lightened portion of the world at
the time of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, and when the Constitution
of the United States was framed and
adopted. But the public history of
everv European nation displays it in
a manne r too plain to be mistaken.
They had for more than a century
before been regarded as beings of
an inferior order, and altogether un
fit to associate with the white race,
either in social or peditical relations;
and so far inferior that they nad no
rights which the white man was
bevr.nd to respect; and that the negro
might justlvand lawfully bo reduced
to slavery for his benefit. He was
bought oral sold and treated as an
article of merchandise and trathc,
whenever a profit cemld be made by
it. This opinion was at. that time
fixed and universal in the civilized
portion of the white race.
There can be no ihrubt f the ac
curacy of this historical statement as
to the general opinion in 177t-'s. of
the white race in all nations as to
the inferiority of the negro -and the
lawfulness of reducing him to slave
ry. That judgment had been stamped
upon the statute-books and customs
,.f ..vow American colony. In no
part of the United States had the '
trade; in negroes as merchandise been
more extensive than ameng the com
mercial colonies of New England.
The general opinion of the inferior
ity of the negro and of his political
incapacity survived the adoption of
the Constitution, and was preserved
in the constitution and laws ef a ma
jority of the States. Down' to the
verv beginning of the late war ne
groes were prohibited by penal laws
from moving into or residing within
many Northern States, and color was
declared by law to be primn-farirx ev
idence of slavery, subjecting all per
sons of African blood to arrest, ele
tention, and sale of slaves. Down to
the time of the time of the Dred
Scott decision, sales of free men of
color were held in Illinois. In 1S02,
six years after the Dred Scott elecis
ion, and ninety years after the time
referred to by Judge Taney, the
people ef Illinois, by nearly a unan
imous vote, decided that no person
of negro birth should be allowed to
enter the State ami remain there.
The antagonism to the negro race,
and the assertion of his social and
political inferiority, were as strong
in some parts of New England as in
other States of the North; and al
though slavery itself was prohibited,
the judgment that the negro was of
an inferior race, to be denied all po
litical right, was fully as stron"- in
the Northern and Southern States.
i Judge Taney's statement of the pre
i -1- l' . ... . .
vailing judgment of the white race,
f
concerning the negro at the time of
the Declaration of Independence and
formation of the Constitution, was
not exaggerated, but was entirely
true. o true was it that there can
lardly be a doubt that, at that time,
it was never contemplated or ex
acted, that the negro should ever
be classed as a citizen, or admitted
by law to any political or social
standing.
The occasion of the Dred Scott de
cision has passed away. The decis
ion has been reversed bv a protract
ed and expensive war, but there is no
reason why history' should continue
to be falsified.
Judge Taney's offense consisted in
allowing the Court over which he
presided to be made the instrument
and vehicle of a political dictum im
plying that slave property was con
stitutionally entitled to protection
in the Territories the same as other
property. His historical narrative,
in which the famous phrase occurs
that the negro, at the time named,
had no rights which a white man was
bound to respect, was literally true;
for after a man has been by universal
consent made an article of merchan
dise, it would be hard to mention
ai y rights remaining upon which the
respect of anybody could be be
stowed. Y. II. Kcmhlc and His Associates.
From the Philadelphia Age.
See the loud and flashy dress, the
vulgar excessive display of diamonds,
false and real, the swagger, the gen
eral tone of rough. Where elo these
men resort in .hours of liesnre? Go
to the gambling dens; go to the keno
banks; inquire at the notorious "Pig
and whistle." Thev speml some of
the money thev have made off the
citv in these and similar places.
Of what do these men think? Over
plans to ro! the citv; to pile u
debts for "jobs" in which thev have
a hand; to inaugurate new jobs yield
ing paying dividends; to evade elec
tion laws in repeating, rounding, ami
counting m, to subvert the will of
the 'ieope.
Of what peditical party are thev?
Of the one that is in power always
because it pays. What are Demo
cratic or Republican principles to
them? lhey care not one whit for
for either only as a stepping stone
upon vhich their own coarse ambi
tion may mont to rule, and thus their
greed and vulgar love of more vul
gar glitter be stilled. Thev wonh
overthrow, if possible, the Republi
cr" art" as eomolaeently as render
a false election return or ileal a card
from the bo: torn, provided it suite
their end to do so. Were the Dem
ocratic pa-tv in power we. would
sonn see them "hedging" around
and endeavoring to creep into small
ofiicial places for plunder.
Have not such men ruled Phila
delphia long enough? Ha-e they
notlong enough defiled our elections?
Have they not long enough handled
our money? Have they not long
enough disgraced and endangered
the party to which they for the
time being profess allegiance? Have
thev not already piled a sufficient
load of debt upon ns? Look at the
McClurc-Grav testimony, the lGth
of December "last, the S'".000,000 of
debt contemplate the disgust that
has seizeel many honest Republicans
by reason of their nefarious doings.
Do Not Cijiticisk. Whatever you
do, never set up for a critic. We
do:t mean a newspaper one, but in
private life, in the domestic circle.
m society. It will not do any one
any good, and it will do you harm
if vou mind being called disagreea
ble. If you don't like any one's nose, or
object to any one's chin, don't put
your feelings into words. If any
one; s manners don't please you, re-membe-r
your own. People are not
made to suit one taste; recollect that.
Take things as yon find them unless
you can alter them. Even a dinner,
after it is swallowed, can't be made
any better.
Continual fault-finding, continual
criticism of the conduct of this one,
the dress of the other, and the opin
ions of t'other, will make home the
nnhappiest place under the; sun. If
you are never pleased with any one,
no one will ever be pleased w ith you.
And if it is known vou are hard to
suit, few will take pains to suit you
PitorosEi Amendments to thi:
Constitition. The following is i
t r e a. i -t i
usi eu me ameimmeneinients pro
posed to the Constitution of the
United States, now before the House
of Representatives, and being earn
estly discussed. They were offered
by Wilson of Imliana, and are:
i t it
x. v,ongresss snau net pay any
eieois oi a rsiaie or lerritorv, nor
loan tl le credit of the Government,
nor make grants of land to any cor
poration.
2d. Every Act of Congress shal
embrace but or e subject, which must
apppear in its title.
Id. A Congress shall not increase
its own salary, but only that of its
successor.
4th. The President shall be elect
ed for the term of six vears.
5th. Senators shall be elected bv
ballot by the people.
Cth. Congress shall have power
to pass laws necessary to protect the
financial affairs of the people.
A young woman of a very prudish
turn was hurt in a railway accident
and taken to the hospital, when the
doctor askeel her what was the matter
with her. One of her limbs, she said,
was injured. "Well," lie returned,
"but which limb?" "Oh, I can't tell
vou, doctor, but it is one of my
"limbs," "Oh, nonsense!" cried the
doctor, out of all patience, "which is
it the limb vou thread a needle
with ?" "No, sir," she answered with
a blush, "the limb I wear a gaiter
on.
Thin Delusions.
The Trou Times thinks tho enk,,.
bill which has iust o...i
will be generally satisfy
And then it exclaims, "Let the sal
ary grab be buried out of sight !"
Jut this cannot be. Tim
dent's salary is h f t bv this 9,,n t
the rate of iO.OOU a year, and that
in a time of general distress when
Hundreds of thousands of firm.i-
and mechanics find it dillieult to pro-
il. r 1 - X
uure me means oi living. r
The doubling of the President'
pay is one of the most odious fea
tures of the salary grab. There was
no reason for it except Gen. Grant's
greediness for monev. The old sal
ary of $25,000 a year Mas' amide for
Dim, as li nau oeen lor every one of
lis predecessors. They haiLall saved
lamlsome sums out of it? and he
more skilled in saving and monev-
making than any of them, was eloiug
the same. More than this, enormous
'special allowanceswere made, him bv
Congress, amounting in addition to
ns salary to more "than 75,000 a-
vear. .Moreover, he lias agreed when
he was eh-e-teel that he wtmld serve
for 23,000 a year; and thus he vio
lated the rules of decorum, if not of
the Constitution, w hen he beset Con
gress for a larger salary, and signed
the; bill granting it.
Now does anybody suppose tho
salary grab can be buried out of
sight so long as the greatest. "v:ililipr
of all is al lower! and enntimips tn
draw from the Treasury his indecent,
avaric.ous gams? 1 he question an- 0
swers itself. Neither the grab, nor
it history, nor the damage it does
to the Republican party, can be bur-,
ied out of sight so kng as its most
conspicuous, most repugnant, and -most
shameful feature is kept alive
and forced continually upon the at- O
tention of a nauseated people. Biy y
it by all means; we will agree to that;
but let it be entirely repealed before
hand.
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Maisktages of Bloop Relations.
Statistics piesent -d to the French
Academy show that the marriages of
bleod relations form about two per
cent of all the marriages in France?
and the deaf and dumb offspring, at
birth, of consanguineous marriages,
are in propeu tion to the deaf and,
dumb born in ordinary wedlock at
Lyons, full 25 pr cent. ; at least 25
per cent. in.Paris. and CO per cent, in
Bordeaux the proportions of the
deaf and dumb, by birth, increasing
witli the degree of blood relation
ship. The elata obtained show that
if the danger of having a deaf and
dumb child in ordinary marriage,
represented by figure s, is one, there
will be IS in m images between first
cousins, J!7 in marriages between
uncles and nieces, and 70 in mar
riages between nephews and amits
It appears, too. that the most healthy
parents, if related in blooel, may
have deaf and dumb children; while
eleaf and dumb parents, if not rela
ted, very rarely have deaf and dumb
children.
How it Struck Him. TheueBtor
of the Iirnnsiiii-ler has been to hear
Phoebe Couzins' lecture, and tin is.
what he thinks of it :
JJ'One i luft at:on :t uck us as pecu
liarly apt and happy, hue said that
she once saw a horse in treadmill
one of these; infernal arrangements m
for sawing wood, in which the ani-.
mal is compelled to climb up a planD
toiling ceaselessly in one spot for
the benefit of a master. She yearned
to tear th bars from around that
lorse, and let him kick and grunt.
Such, she said; was the condition of
woman at the present elay an aim-.
ess, thauivless struggle for the tv
rant man. As the fair spcaKer grew
eloquent on this theme, she flrev
every heart m the anaience insensi-
bly toward her, and the re was not a
mm in the audience 1 u felt like ris
ing in his might, tearing down the
bars of oppression that hedge in wo
man, and saying, " Go, God bless.
you ! go, anel kick and grunt.
A lady was asked by her Irish ser
vant girl about the nature of the
next world, and whether it would bo
just like this. The lady being blest
with a happy family of eleven chil-.
dren, has a ske leton in the house in
the shape of a stocking basket that
never gets empty, and at whose side
she has spent many a wcarv midnight
hour in dareing. With this Specta
cle before her eyes, she replied to the
girl playfully: "I don't think we
shall be; required to darn stocking
after midnight.'' "Sure, an' that's
true for you, mum; for all the pic
t tires of angels I have ever seen
were barefooted."
The New York Graph i: an n ounces,
seriously that it proposes to publish
portraits, accompanied by brief bio
graphical sketches, of the leading
idiots of every township in the coun
try, and asks readers to send in pho
tographs and sketches lifted to adorn
the proposed gallery, being careful
to write on each photograph or
sketch the name of the person it re
presents, so that no idiot will le
credited to an undeserved locality,
and there will be no danger of con,
founding the idiots with the states
men and other prominent persons,
whose portraits are naturally looked
for in the illustrateel journals of the
day. No Seccrnd-rate idiots need
apply.
There are many shrewd devices in
advertising, but "the safest and surest
way, and one that's certain to pay in
the end, is persistence the constant
keeping of vour business lefore the
public eve." There is no man who
letter understandsthis than Barnum
In one wav or another he maintains
himself continually before the pub3
lie, and his success is commensurate
with his adertising geniu?. Jute?
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