THE DEMOCRAT.
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H. D. niuri.ryientiog.
Illontrose, ,18eflOwidtty; Jan: 2% 1873.
ME MONEY FIIIIABGIO.
WO have ben bhnded, by ono of the
aPillogittliffet anftiotiapraCticettrio era:
olesjndef nay of surk _ ono
_from Abe.
Awl`ork World a.a oir from the Nt
York Evening Po n t,m accompanied by a
short communication, sliding that we had
offetedloadmit a defense and asking us
to publish the articles, with 'comments if
we choite.. 'This correspondent, upon be
ing rertested to attach his name as en
dorsing the said articles, has so far failed
to &ire_ Ea permission. We bare ,plainly
elated .that we were ready to open our cok•
mans to any one provided they would as
-1 3111 us of their conviction of right by
signing their name. There is ft right and
etrottgaido to this question, and a man
who, adtmestes either side must be willing
to face: he consequences or the public
must deem him either selfish, mercenary,
or insincere. As to the articles referred
to, we have not the least objection to pub.
fishing them, for there is nothing con
tained in either of them but the old
threadbare howl of the Shylocks for near
ly a century. The whole burden of both
articles is that usury laws prevent compe
tititinin money and hence create higher
rater; that legislation has no more right I
to fix the price of money than to fix the
price of 'wheat, corn, or clothing, and that
no one but the country farmers and Wall
Street Shylocks are opposed to their re
peal. That "the fear sometimes expressed
by borrowers, arid particularly by the ag
riculturists who borrow mostly on bond
and mortglige that the unrestricted corn
potion in money would raise the price of
it," is wholly gratuitous and unfounded.
Massachusetts and one or two other States
are cited as examples. We are perfectly
willing to publish these articles verbatim
if our usurp friends do not admit that
we have given the whole argument in the
above synopsis save that it is not sugar
coated over with the false sophistry of a
Bryant, a Marble, or a Dix. We conclude
that these articles were sent ns under the
impression that, because the World, the
Past, find Governor Dix, from the great
city of New York, are in favor of usury,
the whole matter for the 'Veer country
pitmlikins"ie settled. It must be accepted
as the us plus ultra of all argument. It
is Arne that the "unsophisticated" often go
to the city to bo humbugged, but he who
putson city airs in the country is quite
ati likely to get the starch taken out of
him. It is a great query to us why all
the Shylocks who now (according to their
own arguments) are receiving higher I
rates of interest than they would if the
usury laws were repealed are so wonder
fully anxious for their repeaL If their
India rubber consciences are now itretch
ed to their farthest tension by the
"pounds of flesh" they are demanding,
how easy it is to allow them to contract by
taking less. "Barkis is certainly willing"
in Susquehanna county. Fie upon such
bosh I It is but a miserable flimsy gauss
to cover a festering canker worm that is
eatingont the very vitals of our industrial
interests. It does well for such men as
Briatit, Dix, and Marble to tell the farm
inkand mechanical interests of the coun
try:Which are the bases of all wealth that
they do not know what is for their best
interest, but that they mast apply to these
NeW York city apostles, for information,
vile do not know enough practically about
eitherlo toll whether butter is made from
Cream ar milked direct from the cow.—
We say right in the faee and eyes of these
tonry apologists that the farmiug and me
*laical portion of the country produce the
thole wealth of the country and are bet
ter.judgealut:ta what is fur their best in
terest than any .capital drone who feeds
upon theirlabors by hie infamous eater
times. •
Great men and journals having form
eda reputation, carry a guilt halo about
their heads, and although they say a vast
amount of very simple and foolish things,
yet peciple tire expected to applaud and
call them good. This might do in a
monarchical form of government where a
foot can inherit power, but it should not
be so in this land of our Revolutionary
father& Here ie.thesgcelobingargument
to which the farmers are subjected. Now
if you ask for restrictions on the accum
ulation of money the Shylocka can s a
de
mand fixed price for-corn, wheat, and
all other agricultural and mechanical pro
ducts with the same propriety. What lo
gic! Don't every schoolboy know that
the differeice between money and Wheat
is as wide as the difference between bread
and atone? One has an intrinsic aid in
separable value, without which life cannot
be sustained, While the other is merely a
vdpreeentative, and its value or price is
already fixed by law as to how much
it shall represent- It eays now that such
0 piece of gold, silver, nickel, or paper
(simply worthless in itself) shall represent
so much of your labor or producte. It
furthermore says that whoever chooses
cannot manufacture this money, but we,
the government, who legislate upon its
value,also legislate who shall snake it,and
just what amount they shill deal out and
no snort. The law filing interest or usu
ry is not fixing the price of money, for
that is ilratuly. fixed. Bat when we bor.
ewe a 6610 of wheat or its repiesento ,
tive Vilna in money; it fixes the anunict
we shall return for itatuse,whellieritsh a ll
be a peck,* half bushel, or dotit,ky emit&
stptivalentin money representative. W e
Wine that abstract - right
,je an the side
Osilf.*".4n l3 t l o' l ?*l l 9.*.,lrheat
ogala or iterequivsleat in money we have
sells ;alid the deli to per neishbor, as it
will sustain his life just as long as it
would if we had not borrowed IL The
lendhig being only a neighborly,cbrlatian
accomodntion:lt troi intended,nng should
be so now, that eveiy able-hodie4 person
should nt his bread by the sweat of' his
brow, or in other words should produce
I I as much by his labor as he consumes.—
Every attempt to increase the acenmula
tivellowd of money by usurious interest
is .%P att 9 l ,A t , ° _do qulty ..wlth.thia_true
principle and - increase idleness which is
acknowledged 'to bo "the devil's work
shop." We do not consider ft legitimate
labor to employ the baser faculties of
the mind in devising means to reap the
profits of anther's labor by the control
ling and accumulating power of money.
If money which has no real value, but an
arbitrary one, the pries being fixed by
law, could not accumulate itself in quan
tity, any mere than corn, rye, or wheat,
except by the tame legitimate labor that
brings out these productions from the
soil, men would not'sell body and soul.to
gain its possession. It would not be
worth as much to hoard in safes as wheat
would be to lock np in the granary. It is
unnecessary to multiply words in present
ing a prin.' to which is so plain to the
mind of io ost every one that it has
come to be an axiom, that labor with its
productions is all the real wealth in the
country and anything that embarrasses or
draws from it will in the same degree
impoverish mankind as a whole. •
Who are clamorous for the unlimited
extortion of the money coyotes? Is it
the laboring community,—agricultural
and mechanical—who are the whole
wealth of our nation ? No! It is the
capitalist, the schylock, the speculator in
the bone and sinew of the country, who,
like the drone of the hive would satiate
his lustful maw on the honey gathered
by the industrious, and who seeks to en
slave them by granting unlimited power
to combined capital. It is the men who
make "corners" in every thing and drive
the unprotected into them to rob them.
Men who are endeavoring to so frame
laws as to get complete control of the
money, and through its extortions absorb
the real estate as well, and then a money
ed aristocracy can ride pompously with
its coach and foal over the laboring mas
ses, who would be in no better condition
than that of slavery. It is from these
men who, like the Goulds & Belmonte
might be proved to be but thieves and
robbers upon a grand scale,and their star
aidieed journals who live is the accuraedly
corrupt and speculative metropolan
cities like New York and Philadelphia
that clamor for this tyrranny, and this
very feet is of itself suffiicient to damn
the scheme in the eyes of every Christan
ized community without a single argu
ment. In proof that they would devest
labor of this protection we give the fol
lowing extract from Governor Dix's mos
sae.
"to ruder comm.ua or satiety, Wincu toe la.
boring classes were, to a great extent, depend
ent on capitalists, there was a plausible argu
ment in favor of limiting the rate of Interest.—
Bat at the present thy, when the eagerness to
lend isquite as prevalent as the desire to borrow
and when the labor has become independent and
powerful, it needs no protection, direct or In
direct, against capital in competing with it for
the profits of production.
The governor—to criminals always do—
hs' left p point uncovered which leads to
his conviction. In his admission that
"when the laboring classes were depend
ent on capitalists there was a plausible ar
gument in favor of limiting the rate of
interest," he condemns his own position
and shows his hypocrisy in the interest
of the shylocks. He admits, and so does
every ottier honest man believe that the
usury laws protect labor. In that lies
the gist of the whole matter. We would
like to have, governor Dix come into the
State of Pennsylvania and into this
and adjoining counties and point out to
tiv those persons who are so eager to lend
as to bid under for the privelege. We
will risk a small bounty if he will produce
the head of one "in a charger." We say
to the laboring masses that this subject
has no party politics in it but it is one
which must be met, and acted upon with
vigor. Let these "Curb Stone Shyster?
threaten io leave the Old Keystone "hive"
and take all their ill-gOtten "honey" with
them. We can sincerely bid them good
speed. Whatever they may do, let us do
our best to" sting them out" from robbing
the hives of the industrious "bee? by pe
titioning oar legislature for a stringent
Usury Law.
SErsvoirs TRUMBULL and NYE recent
ly overhauled the present management of
Indian affairs in a sharp, searching man
ner. The Senator from Illinois declared
that in 1840, when the Indiana were re
moved west of the Mississippi, the appro
priations on their behalf rose to 62,250,-
000, and now it is proposed to spend $5,-
500,000 for the support and maintenance of
less than two hundred thousand Indiana.
At this rate, said Senator Trumbull, the
government was paying 827.50 for every
Indian, man, woman, and child. Ho de
nied that the expense" of the army had
decreased, as the Indian appropriation
had increased, and rema4ed that this
vast sum of money was to be given to civ
ilize the Indian!, and yet by the same bill
it was provided that five hundred Indians
in Wisconsin, who were _surrounded by
civilized ingAences, sbpuld he transferred
west of the Miaannippi. In his speech,
Senator Nye, of Nevada, declared that all
treaties with the Indians ought to be ab
togated, arid - that the only tray to civilize
the red men was to surround them with
ciT)lizing influences,. instead of driving
them away to lead savage lives on their
reservation*. It must be satiated by
both Senators, however, that 'the govern
ment should' protect the. 'finan' ffom
robbery and wrong during the period of
their progress towards civilization,
(30V. GEARY has pardoned Robert
Lister, Smith-who was serving out a term
of imprisonment in Moyamensing,for as
fault and battery with. intent to kill.
This.will not be welcome news to the
peaceable citizens of Philadelphia to
whom the name of Smith has for years
been a terror. But then he is one of the
gang and a bully boy on election days.
his crowd did good work in staffing
ballot-,bozes for liartratift, and the release
of their crony is no doubt part of their
reward.
The Credit Mobilier investigation dis
closes a new stream of corruption. Not
only did the holders of that stock think
it for their interest to place it in the
hands of members of Congress, but they
also thought it worth while to pay heavy
sums to advance the election of parties.
lar members. Dr. Durant testifies that
he gate $lO,OOO to secure the election of
Senator narlan, of Iowa; Cornelius S.
Bushnell testifies that be gave Senator
Thayer $5,000 when ha was a candidate
for re-eleetion from Nebraska.
GOVERNOR WASHBURN, in his late
message to the Legislature of Wisconsin,
holds that under the Constitution the peo
ple are absolute masters of every railway
in the State. Corporate powers in the
United States are vast and overshadow
ing, he says, and a just cause of alarm;
but, if Wisconsin railroads oppress the
people, the Legislature can, if they will,
diver' protect the public, who, on their
part, can always control the Legislature.
This is an advanced position, and is like
ly to create considerable attention and
discussion in the country:
GEYERAL FARNSWORTII put the spurs
into General Butler in the
House yesterday, offering and hav
ing passed a resolution instructing Credit
Mobiliar Committee to inquire whether
any member of Congress has received any
money from the Credit Mebilier corpora
tion at retained counsel, and if so, who.
Mr. Farnsworth did not hood the object
he had in view by offering the resolution,
which is to direct attention to the
fact that General Butler received six
thousand dollars as counsel for the Cred
it Mobilier, old to have it go upon the
records of the House as a part of the his-
tory of the member from Essex.
A CLEA R case of wholesale bribery has
been made out against CALDwx.II., the
new Radical Senator from Kansas.—
Judge Sentoos, formerly Treasurer of
.that State, has testified before the Senate
committee that CA LinvELL prid from
81,000 all the way to 85,000 for a vote.
We may be somewhat particular, but we
really think the man who purchased the
votes of members of the Legislature as
well as the miserable knaves who sold
themselves should one and all be im
prisoned for life. Talk as you please,
thie.(o4. nf. Lhinga is tha vary worm& tort
Of treason, and is becoming alarmingly
common under our present Radial die
pentution.
Tnaxg hundred thousand dollars is
asked for by the Attorney-General of the
United States to cover deficiencies in the
DepaNment of Justice for 1872. The
regular appropriation to the Department
named for that year was $3,200,000. In
1871, the expenses of the same depart
ment were $09,567.35. But 1872 was
marked with a Presidential election, and
this most extraordinary increase in the
cost of maintaining the Department of
Justice. Prior to the State election in
North Carolina, which was regaraed as a
preliminary skirmish of the Presidential
battle, more than two hundred thousand
dollars were sent to that State for Court
expenses. No such a sum was needed for
the purpose stated, and hence the infer
ence that it was used for election expens
es. In Other quarters like facts justify
similar conclusions, and explain how an
appropriation to the Department of Jus
tice of $3,200,000 could be exhausted in a
year, and a deficiency created of $300,-
000. When this matter comes up in Con
gress, we hope it will be ventilated, so
that the people can see all the:facts in the
case.
Ai: editorial in the Public Ledger on
the subject of reforming the pardon abuse
concludes as follows:
Criminal law and the proceedings ender
it needs revision more than any other
branch of jurisprudence. In the first
place it is simply absnrd that any one man
like Governor Geary, for example, should
have the power of granting pardons or in
other words, overruling the courts and
conferring immunity upon eriminals.—
All the labor of weeks, or it may be of
months, the learning of lawyers and
judges, the inconvenience of witnesses
and the expenses to the commonwealth
of these proceedings are set aside by the
simple u ill of one individual. And worse
than this, the moral eilhot intended to be
produced by punishment, the will of the
people as represented in the statute, and
the safety of the nomumnity against fel
ony and; misdemeanors, are sacrificed to
the "amiable" or other "weakness" of one
man. Worse still, it may be that be or
some one or more persons near him traf
fic) in pardons, either for personal mercen
ary motives or for political considerations.
And, even worse than this, the pardon
may be dictated by the conviot himself,
backed by the threat of evil coneequen
aes to other parties, or dangerous revela
tions implicating them. Before, however
this final not in the farce called justice
is reached—and superseding it—there
may he ingenious evasions which screen
the culprit, whom the citizens—good easy
souls—suppode to be secure in the hands
of the law. All these things require
amendment, and it is tote hoped, rather
than expected, that they dill receive IL—
Whatever may be done towards a result
so desirable; will be something gained ) at
any rate,
Tag public debt increased it 1,500,1Xtt0
December. An editorial I rom the Ilexttb-
Nom it, it order. •
Mn. KERR, of Indiana, expressed the
condition of 'the State government in
Louisianwoo4rictly when In; said, in the
Moose, on Monday .
It had not been overthroirn bfthe peo
ple'uf Lduieieda ;,it had been overthrown
alone by the lawless conduct of one man,
aided by many others of equally bad and
revolutionary character and infamous
purpose, and that one man was an officer
th Federal government—not one of
the State. It witsthe,,j4dge of a United
States co urt in Louisiana, who,
without one single scintilla of legal right
or authority, undertook to step in between
the people of Louisiana and the result of
a legal and constitutional election held in
that State, and to put It in the power of a
combination and clique there to take con
trol of the State government by overrul
ing the popular will. They all knew that
the infamous Pinchbeck government was
not elected, and they did not claim to
have been elected.
It was for the purpose of setting aside
the judgment of the people that that in
famous judge gave the hand of the Fed
eral power to a combination of lawless
men.
- Tho Pardon or It. Lister Smith.
The Harrisburg correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, under date of Jan
uary 9th, writes as follows to that paper
concerning the pardon by Governor
Geary of the notorious roman R. Lister
Smith :
Smith's pardon was not in the office of
the secretary yesterday ottoman), nor
were any papers there relating to it, such
as a formal application, which is required
in the case of ordinary criminals; The
purpose of this course of procedure must
be patent to all.
Now, let me tell your readers what I
know about the immediate preliminary
work to obtain the pardon. On .Sunday'
night, December 29th, 1872, the Hon.
Samuel Josephs, Alderman Wm. MMul
lin and John Tobin left Philadelphia and
arrived in this city at an early hour on
Monday morning. Mr. Josephs' is the'
only name of the three appearidg upon
the hotel register. Hie traveling com
panions did not register, or put down fic
titious names. Certain it is, these three
were in Harrisburg on Monday, Decem
ber:JO. They were extremely cautions in
their movements, and did not care to be
recognized. Mr. Josephs did not seem to
care so much about recognition, bet the
few persons who did see the trio were em- !
',bait:ally cautioned to "say nothing
about the Alderman and Tubin being'
here."
Between ton and eleven o'clock Monday
morning the three mysterious pilgrims
visited his excellency, the governor, and
left for home, apparently pleased with the
result of their mission, by the two o'clock
try in. lat once suspected the object of
this visit was to secure the pardon of.
Smith, and have since been daily expec
ting to hear of it. There is no doubt in
my mind that the terms and conditions
were settled upon the occasion of this
visit of Josephs, M'Mullen sod Tobin,
ane it was arranged that Mr. Josephs
Should take the documents, fresh from
the gubernatorial peu, to the snperincen
dent of the prison, so that this poor vie
tim of "other instances strongly excep
tional in their character,' might be liber
ated before the public would know of the
active efforts made for his pardon.
Ur coarse yahoos speculations are in
dulged as to the cense that induced Gov-'
error Geary to t hue make his last official
days notorious. Nobody attempts to
juStitv the pardon, as nobody can bc in
thine(' to believe in the existence of a
single plea that conld be need upon which
to base executive clemency. Tu the hotel
lobbies and on the hill some think the
governor, in issuing this pardon, but ful
filled a comport male to a certain class of
democratic politicises and your row offi
cers in connection with the late elections
Others think the admirers of Itob
Smith must have furnished a full and j
solid equivalent for the pardon, and that
Messrs. Josephs, Mlttillin and Tobin
convoyed the convincing argument upon
the occasion of their mysterious visit on
the 30th of December.
Of one thins I feel confident. The
pardon of Robert Lister Smith was de
termined upon not later than the 30th
of December. The governor's annual
message and pardon report and dated
'Executive Mansion, January 8." Smith
could have been included in that report
sod the publio made acquainted with the
names of the parties, if there were each
parties, who had petitioned for Smith's
restoration, unless there had existed
peculiar reasons for another course of
procedure.
I visited the office of the secretary of
the commonwealth this afternoon and
learned that Smith had been pardoned,
and that the pardon ad been issued last
night, but this wayAbont all I was able
to learn. Mr. Josephs left here on the
late train last night, having presionaly
telegrapbeij, to some of his coafefierates
in Philadelphia that he would take the
order of release with him. He obtained
the document from the governor in per
son, and the record of the issue of the
pardiitt was•tnade this morning in the
office of the secretary of the common•
wealth.
Ocz of the latest schemes tending to
ward Centralization is the bill for the en
couragement of the foreign commerce of
the IJuited States. It constitutes the
secretaries of the Treasury, Navy and
Interior and the Postmaster General a
board of commissioners to be known by
the name of the board of commissioners
of commerce, whose duty it shall be to
prepare end execute and to cause to he
enforced, all tiontraots and laws in rela
tion to the foreign and domestic com—
merce of the United States, and to have
charge of all other matters relatiug to
commerce. Tho Republican members of
the committee are in favor of the bill,
while the Democrats oppose it; the com
mittee expect to bo soon ably to report
the bill.
A catoman issued by the New Orleans
typographical union to the printers
throughout the country, recites a mourn
ful condition of aflsirs in that city, as a
ditect /result of the . Pinchbeck usurpation
sustained at Washington. It says.: "Re
centrcornmercial, fin sncial and political
events (principally the latter), have res
ulted in the suspension of two of our
daily journals, and thsi English side of a
third; while the existence of those still
remaining is rendered uncertain and pre
carious in the last degree." With over
one hundred men in idlenesa out of a to
tal of tio -hundtdd and fifty-two, the
'printers congratulate themselves that
they "are" "no worse off than any other
clan of working men" in that city.
Confession of Lydia Sherman
Tho confession of: the Connecticut Bor
gia, Mrs. Lydia Sherman, who has been
sentenced to the penitiarynt New Haven
for lifo, is published; and We featful story
of oritne. The following .are the malt'
pointa:
Mrs. Sherman was arrested in June,
1871, at New Brunswick, N. J., on the
charge of having murdered:ller husband
Horatio N. Sherman, at Derby, in 1871.
She was also charged with Murdering two
of his children, but was only tried for the
first crime. Besides these she was said to
have poisoned two other husbands and
several of their children. The trial oc
curred in March, 1872, in New Haven,
and was noticable among poison trials
fur the very clear testimony of Prof. Bar
ker, of Yale Colledge, who had examined
the remains of the first mentioned victim.
Tho trial resulted in a verdict of murder
in tho second degree—the jury united in
considering her guilty, but allowing that
the circumstantial nature of the evidence
permitted of a reasonable doubt. Since
she leas been imprisoned her mind bas
been seriously troubled, and recently she
has made a full confession of her guilt,
and expresses herself as much relieved
thereby.
On the 28th of December she began
her story to the jailor, Capt. Webster.--
Mrs. Sherman is a very ignorant woman.
She can scarcely write at all. She is una
ble to remember dates with accurracy ; so
that part of her narrative is vague. Mrs.
Sherman's story is as follows :
She was born in New Brunswick. N.J.,
in 1825, and was early left an orphan.—
At the age of 17 she joined the Metho
dist church, and at a loye-feast there she
met Edward S. Struck, whom she sub
sequently married. Mr. Struck, in time,
became a policeman at Yorkville, one of
the suburbs of New York city. One night
there was a row in a saloon on his brat
and a detective was killed. Struck was
off without leave; lie was reprimanded
and disgraced. It troubled him very
much, and weighed so ou his mind that
he became crazy, and had a softening of
the brain. lie then was dischaiged.—
When he recovered, it was only to be very
feeble, physically, and mnahle to get any
work, so that he was only a bnrden to
hi s it
One day a male friend of hers suggest
ed to her that she could get rid of the
man by poison. She t:wk kindly to the
idea mid gave hint some arsenic in his
food, and she also, with some poison, kill
ed their toungest two children, so that
they also ,hould not be burdens to her,
and should not bare. es she save, to grow
tip to life's earee. She was not suspected
of this murder, and soon after she went
to Litchfield to lIVR.
Here she met one Dennis Hurlbut,
and married him, but she didn't get along
satisfactorily to herself with him, and so
she poisoned him. Soon after his death
she teas toll by a friend that there was a
man in Derby named Horatio N. Sher
man, who had plenty of money. and had
lost his wife, and that by skillful manage•
went. if she wanted a third husband, she
could probably get him. Ai-cordingly
she went there and applied to him for the
place of housekeeper in his family, Red
he engaged her; and subsequently she
succeeded in marrying him.
Ile had two small children, Ada and
Fraukie, and these she determined to
poison, and did poison ; but she did not
plan to poison Sherman.. She intended to
employ the artente upon rats in her house
as welt as to kill the children, and ,she
purchased it in New Haven, in Peck's
drug store, with the first-mentioned ob
ject. She took the package homo and
put it on a shelf beside a similar package
of salerates. Mr Sherman need a great
deal of eider, into which he would put
saleratus to make it foam. This was has
favorite. drink. The saluratns and the
arsenic on the eh f became mixed to some
way. This wa4tot, t hen:fore such a clear
case of murder as the others. In fact
she merely neglected to want him of his
danger. It is curious that the only death
for which she could not be held account
able, according to her story, should be
that for which she has been convicted.
Winyah, Extravagance
Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, the gentleman
who so ably represented the Lexington
detrict—tho oue formerly represented by
!leery Clay, and in latter dines by John
C. Breckenridge—a district fated to be
always represented by men of great in
tellect—in a speech in the House a few
days since stated some startling facts
which should be re-published every ;
where.
He stated that in the seven years end
ing in 1872, the Government had collect
ed from customs and internal revenue
nearly three thousand millions of dollars.
and besides the proceeds of the sale of
military stores unman tine to $
During the same period $125,000,000 were
gathered in by the Post-office Depart
ment and $4,500,000 by the-Patent Office.
During the whole period named the ag
gregate receipts were $3.402,536,852.
Of this sum $427,3K541 had been paid
on account of the public debt—leaving
$2,973,139,811 to be accounted for at the
rate of $423,010,987 a year!
Figures are said to afford a dry subject,
fur study ; but surely when they indicate
such recklessness and criminal waste of
the public money, it will pay the mass of
the people to devote more attention there
to.
TILE COrRTFSY OF TOE MEDICAL Fat•
TEEN ITS.—A writer in Lippincott tells
the following of that ct.urteons and well
bred manlier w h ioh:distingu ishesthe med:-
cal faculty in their dealings with each other•
A gentleman fell down in a tit, and a
physician entering saw a man kneeling
over the patient and grasping him firmly
by the throat; whereupon the ph: siciau
exclaimed. "Why, sir, ,you are stopping
the circulation in the jugular vein !"
"Sir," replied the other, "I am a doctor of
medicine." To which the first M. D. re
plied, "Ah beg your pardon," and atom]
by very eompiaseilly until the patient was
comfortably dead. •
M. MALL STANTON, who h 5 an end
neatly praotioal statesman, has offered a
resolution in theconstitutional convention
that the Rev. James Curry,a delegate from
Blair county, be requested to open the
proceedings of the body hereafter with
prayer. The resolution was adopted and
Mr. Curry, who was, of course, taken by
surprise, modestly consented. Many per
sons have wondered what use the Rev.
Jamea'Curzy, of Blaiumaunty,could be put
to in a constitutional convention. But
the practical Mr. Stanton has founds tile
for him. The convention will• certainly_
not neglect to- pay Mr. Curry for ins
prayers.—Patriot.
The peghilature.
In the senate a resolution of Mr. M'Clure
was adopted instructing the finance com
mittee to inquire what measures should
be taken to collect the moneys due the
commonwealth by George 0. Evans, arid
to guard more' of against inch
defalcations in hittire. A batch of pri
vate bills was throvrii into the mi.l,a por
tion of which was passed finally, when
the senate proceeded to the consideration
of the house bill to increase the 'gover
nor's salary. Senator IlavieditlitOtthink
the salary voted by the house, sufficient
and moved to strike out the sum of "nine
thousand dollars" and insert "ten thou
sand dollars." The auaeudment was
agreed to, sixteen senators voting
,in the
affirmative and eleven in the negiative.—.
The bill goes back to the house to give
those republican members who voted lot
week against ten thousand dollars an op
portunity to concur. The governor elect
will douigless he duly grateful for so o
p
plopriate a New Year's gift from the
lgislature.
In more expensive times, with the pub
lie money far more deeply depreciated.
Governor Curtin managed to get along
with half this salary and never asked for
an increase.
In the honse the messhge of Governor
Geary still lies unnoticed on the desk of
the clerk. The speaker issued his writ
fur a spcehil election in Green county, on
the 28th lust. to till the vacancy caused
by the death of John Hagan, member
elect from that county. A resolution to
refer 60 much of the governor'_ message
as relates ton geological survey ton special
committee of live members was postpon
ed for the present. ksimilar disposition
was made of • resolution proposing an
additional standing committee to be call
ed the Sanitary Committee. The usual
resolution to furnish each member and
clerk with Pardon's and Beider's Digests
and Ziegler's Manual was hurtled through
without a call of the yeas and nays.—
At twelve o'clock the two houses met in
the hall of the boon and opened the re
turns of the election on the adoption of
the constitutional amendment providing
for the election of state treasurer by the
people. The votes were 6e1,620 for the
amendment and 4,393 against it, where
upon the speaker annenaced the anent
ment as part or the constitution of the
slats. After ae passage of a private bill
the honse adjourned.—Pafriot January
Tits 'Emperor of Germany has recent
ly adopted a new line of etiquette with
reference to German Princesses marrying
into the Russian Imperial family. Here
tofore they hare been compelled to join
the Greek Clinrch. At the recent Imper
ial meeting in Berlin, its seems there was
a question of the betrothal of the .Grand
Duke Vladimir, of Russia, to a datithter
of the Grand Puke of Mecklenburg
Schwerin. Upon that occasion the Em
peror declared that thenceforth German
Protestant Princesses marrying into the
Itussi:in Imperial family most be allowed
to eon Ilium in the Protestant faith.
Now 11.cisrertissomeatar
QTRATIiD.
I. Came into the eneMenre of the •obseriber. on
Friday, Jan. 10. 18711. a Chesinnt Male. with two tin! ,
hooey nn her hind feet. Any one pruning property and
paying charges can to►o b.r away.
N. 0. PAS9IIOIOL
East Bridgewater, Jan. 21, 11973.
A DMIIVISTRATOWS NOTICE.—te the estate of
/a. Morton 11. lisle, deceased_ letters of Admitlee
train In the told notate. have been granted to the no.
da 'signed. all persons Indebted to mold e.tate,sre ban
by notified to rc.ako Immediate pap:neva to the ►data.
lair/vol.; and those having claim. agolost the
re , 111,..11 to present thew et once
riOURTS OP App t..—Tea romusmowcas es eta.
quell:inn& County have fired tipaa the tail•whig
dace •ti date* restievii•ely, for hearing appeal few=
the amioalavair fur the vrwr 13n, •t the CO/11211..100-
are Oar • to Mo•tria.., to wit :
Apnlaron. Cbocnont. Little 14 eadoarr Doroorb.
SU
ak Laic. and Furent Latta. Monday. February Mb,
FrirodsT r, Middletown. Franklin, Liberty, Maws.,
Jeo.op. and IN-h. Tuesday. Fab. 11. 1R 3.
Iffinock. Lathrop. Onto:weld°, Gibson, and Eldooklyn,
Wedocords). Prb IL Is 7&
tares, Bend, Great Brod Bororigh, New MI fold Bor.
oath. New Milford, Thomson, and Ararat, Thursday,
eh. 13, 1a73.
Harmon) . .
Mood. Jackson. El usizothaano Borough
•nd BArford. Fri dm • . Vet, 1116,1 CS
.. - .
Clifford. Uaadad, Lem,. lierrtek, Bridgewater, and
Moutrote, ttatnrdny. Yeb. IS DIM
Sy order of the Ilommhortnners.
d. A. CUOSSMUM, Clark.
Coariewoßinti Orrice,
Montrose, Jan'y IS, Int
MANHOOD; HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED.
, Jett published, • new edition of DE. ;
CtiLV ERB ELL'S CELEBRATED Es
4, 1 . ,
SAY on the tunic.. censiwithout VLF
Noe, of s r AAA 1,1II6(114, or 6,113/11.11
Weakness. In r..inntary Seminal Lotweit„ Impute." ,
Mental and Phyeleal Incapacity. Impediments to lien!.
age. etc al.o, Consumption. Epilepsy, cod Vita, induced
by *elf Indulgence and seer.: eatrara,gaoce.
M .— Price. In a sealed envelops, only G cents.
he celebrated author, in Ws admirable essay. clear ,
ly demonstrate, from a thirty yaws'. emcee...fel practice
that the alarming consequence. of relishes. may b•
radically cared without the dangerous u.e of Internal
medicine or the application of the knife; pointing out
• mode of care at once simple, certain, and Itemised,
byns of
may
every sufferer, no matter what hi.
conditio mea n may be. may tore himself cheaply, privately;
and radically.
or 'rids tertnre should be to the heeds or every
youth and I very two In the land.
Cent, uodet feel, Ina plata envelope, to to) address,
pOrtpalii In reript of viz Cent.. or two port stamps
Ale., Dr .I.theervell'• ••1111arrtage G01d.," price nee.
.addrele the Publiehere.
Cll.lB. J. C. KLINIC • CO.,
12; BOOOrX, F.. Votk. Post-021os Box 410.
Pursue SALE.-
The subscriber will sell, at public sale,
on his farm in Bridgewater, on Saturday,
Feb: let, 1873, the following property, to-
wit :
One Ilorse, five yeah? old, one Mare,
vino years' of age, in good condition,
one lumber wagon, double harness ;
one buggy and single harness, one cutter,
pair of new bobs, 11 cows, one churning
sheep, dairy -futures, a quantity of °eta/
rye, corn, and buckwheat, about 50 bush
els of potatoes, from 15 to 20 tons of bay,
quantity of oat and rye straw, household
furniture, farming untensils, and other ar
ticles not mentioned.
Torras : All BUM of RS, and nnder;
cash ; over 85, six months oredit with ap
proved qeonrity. Stu EON Ulna
13rnIgewater, Jae. 22, 1873.-2 w.
IL H. layous dc. .Co.,
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DRUGOETS, TRUNKS, SATCH
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PAPER, WINDOW
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