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Scnotco to politics, fiitcroturc, Agriculture, Science, illornlitij, anb cucrnl Intelligence.
VOL. 30.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 9, 1873.
NO. 35.
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Published by Theodore Schoch.
TSIV-fS -Tvj lolUrs a yearirt Advance iind if not
fx 1 nefire the eal of tile ye.-ir, to doiiart and fifty
jfnts ill he charged.
" v ? iKfti'itimtc I rtrtt.il ? .irrcaragcs are paid,
itcrpf - 'he (,-!!on of the EJitnr.
iCT.v weriisciients of one j-'imre of (etg'nt lines) or
$s.vi5 nr three insertions $1 50. Each additional
MrtMu, 50 cent?. Longer ones in proportion.
JOR IMtlSTESG,
OP ALT. KINDS,
tciftei in the hliliest rtyle cr the An, and on the
must ni;isnn.ible terms.
DR. J.LANTZ,
Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist,
"Still h is hi office on Main Street, In the second
jilory of Dr. S. Walton's brick bunding, nearly onpo
ite the S'.rouJsImrg House, and he Halters himself
that lv eiti!cen years conslanl practice and the most
.iriie-1 anJ cart-fl Mttenti n lo nil mailers perlaining
Id his profession, that he is fully able to perform all
eppralions in the denial line in the most careful, taste
Ml an.) kili!'ll manner.
Siurct.il aiteiuion given to saving the Natural Teeth ;
a., to the insertion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
R.ilJ. Silver or ('osiliiiuuus Gums, and pertect fits In
all ca-es insured.
Most persons know the great folly and dancer rl en
irns'.ms thglr work to the inexperienced, or to those
living at a distance. , April 13, I6T1. ly
U. G"Ct. W. JACIiSOX
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
Tn the old oince of Dr. A. Tleeves Jackson,
residence in Wyckoff 's building.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
August 8, 1672-tt.
JU. 12. J. I'ATTIKSO.,
OPERATING AND MEC1I1MCAL DEMIST,
Having located in East Strondsburg, Pa., an
nounces t!i.it lie is now prepared to insert arti
ficial teeth in the most beautiful and life-like
nnnner. Also, great attention given to tilling
and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex
tracted without pain by use of Nitrous Oxide
(iaf. All other work incident to the profession
dons in the most skillful ami approved Ftyle.
All work attended to promptly anil warranted.
Charge reasonable. Patronage of the public
elicited.
Office in A. W. Loder's new building, cp-
?oite Analomink Houc, East Strondsburg,
a. July 11, 1372 ly.
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Annonrifs i !i it ha vinjj just returned from
Dental Co!ltgs, he is fully prep:ire:t to make
sriificial teetli in tue mol beautiful and li!e
like mmuer, and 10 fill decayed teeth ac
cording to the most in proved method.
Teetli ex'ract-d with "it piin. when de
nire.J, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely hirm'es. Repairing o'
all kinds neatly done. Ail work warranted.
CJnrges re-isoivible.
Oifico in I. ii. Keller' new Brick build
in?, M ii i S'reet, Stroudaburg-, Pa.
an? 31-1 f
Dll. 4. O. H OFF-WAX, M. I.
Would respectfully announce to the
public that he has removed his office from
Oakland to Canadensis. Monroe County, Pa.
Trusting th-it many years of consecutive
practice of Medicine and Surgery will be a
sutfi ient guarantee for the public confidence.
February 25. 1S70. tf.
TAMES 35. WALTO,
fj Attorney at ILaiv,
O.ft? in the building formerly occupied
Vy L. M. Uur.-on, an t opposite the .Stroufls
bur? H.uik, .Main street, Stroudburg, Pa.
j-in l?,-tf
LACRAWAWA SIWlSiK.
OPPOSITE THE DEPOT,
Ea.-t StrouJsburg, Ta.
Ii. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor.
The contains the choiest Liquors and
the table is supplied with the best the market
affords. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
7lTSOVS
' JloM3it Version SIousc,
117 and 119 North Second St.
ABOVE Aitcir,
FHiLADELPHIA.
May 3D, ib72- ly.
KELLER 3 VILLE HOTEL.
The undersigned having purchased the
iWe well kwa and popular Hotel Proper
tf, vould re.-peeifullsr inform the traveling
public that he has ref'urni.-hed and fitted up
the lintel in the best style. A haiidsonie
r, with choice Liquors and Segars, jxilite
attendants and moderate charges.
CHARLES MAXATa
Oct 19 1871. tf. Proprietor.
This oM established Hotel, having recently
change. haruJ.sf and been throughlv overhauled
repaired, will reopen, for the reception of
f guest on Tuesdav, May 27th.
, The public will ai way 'find this house a de
iraUe place of resort. Every department will
he managed in the best possible manner. The
'"hie will bepupplied with the best the Market
fiords, and connoisures will always find none
hot the best w ines and liquors at the bar.
Good stabling beloning to the Hotel, will be
f,fld at all time under the care of careful and
obliging attandant.
tt7 23, 1872. ANTHONY H. ROEMEK.
Pound out why people go to McCarty's to
ft their furniture, because he buys it at the
v are Rooms of Lee & Co. and Mils it at
advamai of only tvernty-ttco and tico
jfin'i Qr jn other words, Ricking
J-hairs that he Imvsof Ivee & Co. (through
Jhe runners lie don t have) for S4,.i0 he sells
r $5. GO. I 'am him to buy wane, (nod Fur-
LKK k CO.
otroudsburg, Aug. 18, 1870. tf.
CAS YOU TELL WHY IT HS
that when any one crnnes to Stroud
?"r to buy Furniture, tliey always inquire
lorMcCartjs Furniture Store! Sept. 20
Carrier's Addres or
"THE JFFERIONI AN. ' '
JANUARY 1, 1872.
Once more behold jou humble servant,
Kind reader of the Jcffcrsonian,
Who comes with verse, and wishes fervent
Of Happy New Year, and, dear, soon
Wishes and hopes that best of cheer
May bless you all throughout the year.
There was a heavy time last night,
Throughout the land think you 'twas right?
For men and boys, in throngs together,
In epite of dark and bitter weather,
To make night hideous with noise,
Which startled sleep and startled joyg.
By bancing crackers, pistols, guns,
As though the bloody parage Hunns
Had from their mountain homes come down
To hold high carnival in town.
It made me mad, perhaps you too,
That men and loj-s should such things do,
T'disturb our slumbers, and mar our dreams,
Draw us from fancy to worldy schemes,
And rout us from a sleeping peace
To horrors which 't seem'd would never cease.
Rut let such wicked ones roll on,
K'er many years to them are gone,
They'll surely of their folly shame
When others play thetu the same game.
The j-ear just closed had many spots,
Standing as recollection dots,
On which the speculative man
A pyramid of theories can
Build up. Rut thc.ic are not our theme.
With theories wc cannot scheme.
Facts, stubborn fact.-, alone will suit
To urge us on in our pursuit
Of knowledge, worthy of the name
Knowledge that leadcth on to fame.
And yet a look at past events
May bring wisdom, if our intents
Are such as to force on the turn
Of things by which men live and learn.
In the past year we've had selection,
By means of ballot at Election,
Of the man to rule as President.
The strife ran high, but good intent
Govcrn'd the folks, and scarce a crease.
Now mars our country's usual peace.
Much noise was ma le, and windy cant,
Rat 'was no use, for Gen'ral Grant
Was from the first the people's man
And triumph'd as was in the plan.
But sad, indeed, proved the end
The country's and mankinds true friend
The man who to all good gave freely
The matchless scribe, great Horace Greeley.
To the great work of the campaign,
To watchfulness b bed of pain,
To sorrows blighting, sorrows drear
Grown out of death of wife so dear,
Succomb'd, and Horace now has bed
In Greenwood 'mong the silent dead.
The people rejoice at Crst event,
Bat o'er the last, in sorrow bent,
They mourn the loss to all mankind,
The wisdom and the mighty mind,
That 'mid the ranks of Greenwood serried
In deaths last sleep fore'er lies hurried.
We'll drop this theme we have no voice
With which, 'mid sorrow, to rejoice,
Wc'li further on, and try to Cud
Food better suited to our mind.
But where turu our eyes ? Food for pen
Ts sad at best On plain, in glen
Not much to cheer illumes the eye,
That we, in searching, can descry.
The Fire fiend with craving maw
With ne'er a thought of mercy's law
Has, spite of worth, aud wealth, and taste,
Laid man' pleasant places waste.
Why e'en in Boston, there's the rub
He score-hod the pride of the great "Hub."
New York, too, felt his teeth, concaru him,
He even scorched the "humbug" Barnum.
And many others felt his ire,
In, killing, devastating Fire.
And Rail-roads, too, have had their share
Of bloody, burning deeds, not rare.
Indeed, take the year all way through,
There was little of pleasure to pursue.
And, yet, with health and plenty, see
The year came both to you and mc ;
So that, for us, all was not sad,
And we may just as well be glad,
And laugh, aud chat, as well as cry,
The last, you see's, all in my eye.
A Murderous Traffic.
Coroner Herrman concluded an inquest,
yesterday, on the body ol Charlotte Gre
gory ol No 1-PJ Sixth ave., who was fa
tally burned with kerosene oil, on Sun
day night. Two witucsscs testified that
the deceaKed was in the set ol filliug a
lighted lamp, that the oil "isuddeuly puff
ed up," that she then dropped the lamp,
when her clothing instautly took fire.
Prof. Kndemao, who. at the request of
the Coroner, had analyzed a sample of the
oil, testified that it threw off an inflatn
mable vapor at 76 Fahrenheit, L'niied at
'JJ0, was far below a proper standard, and
very dangerous The jury rendered a
verdict against Albert V. Flanders, gro
cer, of No 149 Sixth ave., frotu where the
il had been purchased, and the Coroner is
sued a warrant for his arrest. Tribune,
Dec. 21.
A Maine man has slept on a haymow
every night for the hist twenty two years
.
Mr. Ezr.A Com fort, aged eighty, was
married to Miss Eliza Carr, aged nine
teen, in Chester the other day. Here's
a chance for the pestiferous puns'crs.
Personal Recollections of Horace Greeley.
The following personal recollections are
copied from the Washington Republic
and were written by Mr. J. P Foley, one
of the editors of the Republic, who was
also engaged on the Tribune, both in its
New York and Washington offices, at var
ious times, and who is an accomplished
gentleman His article will be read with
interest, as all personal history of so dis
tinguished a man as Greeley w.ill be :
During 1865 wc saw very little of Mr.
Greeley at the 7V ibune office until toward
seven o'clock in the evening, about which
time he used to cotue down from the of
fice of the American Iustitute, iu the
Cooper Union, where he spent five or six
hours every day writing the "American
Conflict." Mr. Gay was managing editor
of the paper at the time. His room and
and thatof Mr. Greeley adjoined and to get
to "Iloraccs's den," as we called his sanc
tum, it was necessary to pass through the
apartment occupied by Mr. Gay. Toward
the hour that Mr. Greeley was ex
pected, two or three broken down
tramps, a gang of local politicians, oc
casionally a woman with a child or a sub
scribtion paper, might be seen waiting
for him on the iron stairway that led to
the editorial rooms, and he generally en
tered the office with a motley procession
of this character at his heels. Gay, who
was an aristocrat by nature, hated this
class of people, (particularly the politi
cians,) and as soon as Greeley appeared,
he invariably bundled up his papers and
went to a desk at the extreme end of the
office, where he remained until Greeley,
left, about ten o'clock. I have some
times seen as many as ten persons wait
ing in line to get into Greeley's room
The great majority of them wanted assist
ance of some kind, mostly pecuniary I
occupied a desk very near the door of
Mr. Gay's room, and necessarily heard a
good many of the dialogues between Mr.
Greeley and his visitors. Here is a fair
sample of a great many :
"Uncle Horace, I am a poor printer,
and I have not had anythg to eat to day."
Horace, writing away, "Have you had
anything to drink?" "No, Uncle"
"You know you lie. What's the use of
lying about it ? I smell grog, and there's
no grog here except what you brought
in." This of course, led to f urther pro
testations ou the part of the printer, when,
to end the matter, Horace would say,
"Well, go away, here's a dollar. I know
you will go down to the 'Pewter Mug (a
famous pot house near the Tribune office)
and sret druuk. Then you will probably
get killed, but I can't help that. Why
don't you go West, aod be a decent
man?" All this spoken in Mr Greeley's
treble voice, aud with his peculiar em
phasis, was irresistably enmic, but it was
ot almost nightly occurrence in the Trib
une office at the period of which I speak,
and for many long years before.
t remember a very interesting looking
woman came into the office, and asked
for Mr Greeley. She was shown to his
room, and in a few minutes Mr. Greeley
came out into the larger editorial room.
There were only two or three in the of
fice at the time. Horace stood at the
door, and, without addressing himself to
any one particularly, said : "Will some
body loan me five dollars?" I think it
was Amos J. Cummiogs, the present
managing editor of the Sun, who gave it
to the old man. Of course the woman
walked down stairs breathing blessings
on Mr. Greeley. Next night when he
came into the office he said, in the same
treble voice, "Somebody gave me Gve dol
lars last night. Here they are."
Finally, the run upon Mr. Greeley be
came so great that Sam Sinclair, the pub
lisher. hired a big fellow, six feet high,
stationed him near the door to keep Mr.
Greeley's peculiar visitors away, unless
they had some other business with him
thati mere begging. I have forgotten
his name now, but it was "Ben" some
thing or other. That man saved Gree
ley at least a thousand dollars during the
eight or nine months that he was there
lie had been in California, and was anyth
ing but ceremonious iu his demeanor. In
addition to the duty of attending to the
door, he had to go to the post office at a
certain hour every night to get the mail
The "bumbs," as Ben used to politicly
term them, soon found this out, and used
to watch for his departure to the post of
fice, when they would steal up stairs in
his absence and get iu to Greeley. Ben
heard of the trick that was being played
on him, and one night returned and found
a fel.ow telling his tory to Mr. Greeley
fie broke in on their conversation with
the exclamation, "D u you, didn't I
tell you not to come here ?" at the same
time catching him up bodily he carried
him to the head of the stairs and let him
drop dowu two or three flights. One
night, between seven and eight o'clock,
Ben got into a rather loud altercation ot
the door. "I have an engagement with
Mr. Greeley." "You cau't play that
game with me ; get away from here ; Mr.
Greeley does not want to see any bumbs'
to oight." Some one went out und found
Senator Wilson in this awkward position.
It was in summer, and Mr. Wilson had
just arrived from Washington. He wore
a linen coat, and was covered with dust.
Ben thought he recognized in him an old
fellow who had bored Mr. Greeley a good
deal, and came very near throwing our
future Vice President down stairs.
As everybody knowns Mr. Greeley's
trreat forte was statistics and election ro
turns. To De up in tnese two rare quau
fications or accomplishment
s j tc nave tne
i .i
number of pounds of last year' wool clip
and the tons of pig iron made in Pennsyl
vania at one's finger ends, was the surest
and easiest way to Mr. Greeley's heart
and commendation. He rarely gave in
structions about the paper or even made
suggestions, except in an editorial way.
but during election times, when there
could not be too many tables to satisfy
him. It was a saying in the office that
he could tell instiuctively whether a col
umn of figures was right or wrong by look
ing at it. The man who blundered once
in a matter of this kiud he never for gave,
and he had no hesitation in telling him
to his face that he was an idiot. I recol
lect one circumstance of this character
which brought his wrath down on John
D. Stockton, the late editor of the Phil
adelphia I'ost, and myself, and which al
most ruined Stockton in his estimation.
There was an election in Vermont, and
Stockton, who was in charge, gave
me the election table to make up.
I knew nothiug about figure, aod could
not then, any more thau I can now, add
up a column of ten lines correctly at
least I would not bet on my totals with
out submitting them to an expert. Stock
ton knew even less than I did. and to
ward one or two o'clock in the morninsi
took my word for it that the table was all
righr. I had a magnificent Republican
majority, but . Vermont always gave a
large majority, so that there was nothing
remarkable about that. The next day,
as Stockton and I were standing near the
table on which the exchanges were open
ed, in the middle of the room, iu walked
Mr. Greeley, rather excited. His hat
was fixed iu a wild sort of a way on the
back of bis head, aod his neckerchief was
in the most beautiful disorder the knot
away under his ear. He fumbled in his
pockets for a few minutes, and finally
pulled out a copy of that morning's Trib
une. Spreading it out on the fable be
brought his hand down on the Vermont
column on the fifth page, and wM.out
looking at any one, exclaimed, "Who in
h I fixed up Vermont last uiht ?" ad
ding, with almost tears in his eyes, "six
thousand more majority than there are
voters in the State." Looking up at mc.
he screamed, "Was it you?" Before I
had time to answer, he turned to Stock
ton and said, "Who was in charge last
night?" to which Stockton replied, "I
was, sir." Mr. Greeley, without saying
another word, marched off to his room,
but I do not think that Stockton, who
was one of the best and strongest writers
on the paper, particularly on reconstruc
tion, ever recovered the old man's good
opinion. I never was asked to make up
another election table in the Tribune of
fice. His recollections of unmes and dates
was wonderful, and we had a tradition in
the office that he remembered the initials
of every man who ever ran for sheriff in
every county in the country.
Mr. Greeley could never acquire suf
ficicnt facility to dictate an article or even
a private letter to a stenographer. He
tried to do it when he was writing the
"American Conflict," but his secretary,
Mr. N. D. Uruer, who wrote the cele
bratcd report of the burning of Barnum's
Museum, told me that he could write
long hand faster than Mr. Greeley could
speak, aud that nearly all of the "Con
flict" was written in that way. Mr.
Greeley, however, imagined Hhat he was
doing an enormous amount of work, and
that Uroer had taken the entire book in
short hand, while the fact is that he took
little more than one half of it. Mr.
Greeley rarely recognized auy of the men
who worked on the paper outide the
office exceptiug his two or three im
mediate lieutenants.
I remember Hassard, who had been an
editorial writer on the paper ; a writer on
the "American Cyclopaedia," and who is
now one of the principal editors of the
Tribune, coming into the office one morn
ing very indignant. He said that he had
met Mr. Greeley in the cars and saluted
him. Greeley looked at him in a wonder
iog sort of way as much as to ask him
who he was. Hassard declared that he
would never speak to him again. When
Mr. Greeley bailed Jeff. Davis there was
a good deal of excitement in the Tribune
establishment, aud some of the stock
holders were by no means satisfied with
his action in the matter His celebrated
letter to George W. Blunt anJ others,
and the threat of a party in the Union
League Club to expel him, and the possi
ble effect of his unpopular action on the
paper were for about two weeks subjects
of the liveliest interest and discussion in
the office. Mr. Greeley was not in the
least agitated, aud seemed uot to care a
straw about the entire affair. Tho Tri
bune lost about fifteen hundred sub
scribers, but it gained more thau twenty
five hundred. The first of its new readers
was Roger A. Pryor. 1 was sent up to
the club house to report what took place
ou the night the resolution of expulsion
came up, but no one was admitted except
the members of the club. Two or three
friends of Mr. Greeley who were inside,
however, came out aod enabled me to
make a report. If I remember aright
now it was decided not to print anything
at all about it cxcepting'an editorial
paragraph announcing the result.
Mr. Greeley never held eommunica
lion with any one in the office about the
paper excepting through the managing
editor. He alone knew whether Mr
Greeley was pleased or displeased, what
he wanted done or what he wanted not
done. His instructions were always brief,
anl he generally wro'o every morning a
criticism of the paper. I have one of his
brief notes before me ndw, written when
Mr. Young was managing editor. It
reads: "Have an cditoiial on Grant's
letter to Isaac N. Morris, of Illinois, in
cluding the letter. IL Graeley." It has
been asserted in the late camapign that
Mr. Greeley was not responsible for the
course of the Tribune during the itu
peachment trial of Andrew Johnson, and
that he wrote none of the articles on that
topic. I was connceted with the Washing
ton office of the Tirbuneat the time, aud
have now on my table the manuscript of
an editorial which he wrote, and which
was telegraphed to tho paper in regard
to the vote, which explodes that story
Mr. Greeley was always held in the
highest esteem in the office, and by none
more so than by the printers.' The man
ucript of his articles about.1805 7. and
for aught I know after, but ccrtaiuly at
that time, was always preserved by the
proof readers, aud given away to curiosity
huuters. 1 have known men to come to
the office and buy it, which is hardly
surpisiog, considering the fun that has
been made of his writing all over the
country.
I was once thanked by Mr. Greeley
while I was a reporter, and the occasion
of it was this: He had gotten into one
of his numerous quarrels with Mr Rryant
on the subject of the tariff, and I was
detailed to visit the New York lib rary
and cull from the columns of the Even
ing Post what that journal had said about
the-tariffin 1840 or 1SU I found some
predictions ot Mr. Bryant's tint if a cer
tain taiilf measure, then pending in Con
gress, was passed, our commerce would
rot at the wharves, and much else of a
similar import. Altogether I copied
about twenty pages ol foolscap, which
kept Mr. Greeley going for about twu
months. I believe he wrote more than
one hundred articles on that material
from the columns of the Post nearly
thirty years before. Mr. Greeley sent
for me one day and told me that "it was
just what he wanted."
A cotemporary recently said that Mr.
Greeley was accustomed to write four
columns per day. Mr. Greeley has not
averaged a column a day in the Tribune.
for the last ten years, and never in one
day wrote four of its present columns
Before it was enlarged in lLVi it was
only about the size of the Philadelphia
Inquirer, aod looked somewhat like it
Somewhere in his "Recollections of a
Busy Life" Mr. Greeley rather hoastingly
says that he wrote at oue time two col
utnos per day, but that was iu the early
days of the Tribune, when it was even
smaller than it was in 18(50.
Mark Twain in a Railroad Car.
I got into the cars and took a seat in
juxtaposition to a female. That feamle's
face was a perfect iosurance company for
her it insured her agaiust ever getting
married to anybody except a blind man.
Her mouth looked like a crack in a dry
lemon, and there was no more expression
than there is in a cup of dry custard. SI e
appeared as though she had been through
one famine aud got about two thiids
through another. She was old enough
to be a great-grand mother to Mary that
had a little lamb. She was chewing prize
popcorn, aod carried in her hand a yel
low rose, while a band box aud cotton ug
brella nestled sweetly by her side. I
couldn't guess whether she was on a mis
sion of charity or was going west to start
a saw mill. I was full of curiosity to
hear her speak, so I said :
"The exigencies of the times require
great circumspection in a person who is
traveling."
She she, "what ?"
Says I, "the orb of day shines resplend
ent in the vault above."
She hitched around uneasy like, theu
she raised her cotton umbrella, and said.
"I don't waut auy of yoursass git out;"
ad I got out.
Then I took a seat alongside a male fol
low, who loved to see the ghost of Ham
let lengthen out. He was a stately cuss,
and ha was reading.
Said I, "Misier, did you ever see a
catnellcopard ?" I said camel leopard be
cane it is a pious ammal, and never eats
any grass without t'etting down on its knees
He said he didn't see a camel leopard.
Then said I, "do you chsw ?''
He said, "no sir."
Then I said, "how sweet is nature."
Ho took this for a conundrum and said
he didn't know. Then lie said he was
deeply interested in the history id' a great
mau. "Alas!" he exclaimed, "we are
but few."
I told him t knew one; "the mm that
made my cooking stove was a great man.
Then he asked, "would I read ?'
Says I, "what you got ?"
He replied, "Watt's Hymns," "Be
veries by Moonlight," and "How to Soend
the Sabbath."
I said, "none of them for Hannah,"
but if he had an unabridged business di
rectory of Now York city, I would take a
little read.
Then he said, "young man, look at
these gray hairs."
I told him I saw them, and when a man
got as old as he was, he ought to dye
S.-ii I I, ''you need'nt think those hairs are
any sign of wisdom, it's only a sign that
your system lacks iron, and I would ad
vise you to go home and swallow a crow
bar."
He took this for irony, and what liable
entenate corJiale there was between us
was spilled. It turned out he was cli3p
lain of a base ball club.
British and American Manufactures.
Here are some more interesting pro
blems which nrc respectfully submitted
for the solution of those remarkable
American politico economists who profess
to doubt whether Prutectiou does really
protect. Coming from a Free trade source
they will perhaps deign to give them at
tention. A certain wealthy English manu
facturer, a 31 r Brassy, has just publish-,
ed an essay on "Work and Wages," cm
bodyiug the resuts of his own observation
during the past several 3 ears Among
other things he shown that production in
the United States is cheaper than in Eng
land, because the higher cost of labor
cads to greater iu veutiveness The iron
masters of this country, lie states, are able
to make cast iron wheels that will stand
an amount of wear and tear which even
wrought iron wheels in England can hard
ly endure. A rain water pipe here will
often be scarcely more that an eighth of
an inch thick, while in England it would
be five times that thickness In the hard-
t
ware trade an American wotkmau can
earn double the wages of an English work
man, but labor saving appliances have
been brought to such perfection that in
twenty five classes of hardware goods the
Uuitcd States are able to export largely
to countries in which the pay of artisans
is hardly is.orc than one fourth of the
wages paid here. Coming as it docs ft cm
an intelligent national and comtuerical
lival ol our own manufacturers, this testi
mony to the merits of the Protective
Tariff, and its influence upon the
well
being of our working clashes,
is partr-
cularlv valuable It is hoped surra ffi-
cious "Revenue Reformers" will make
uote of it. American Mnmficturir.
California
Quail Introduction
Bird to the East.
of the
Postmaster General Cresswell received
a coop of California quail or partridges at
Washington this week, and sent them to
his pla e at Eikton. lie proposes keep
ing these beautiful birds till spiing. and
then letting tbem go. There are three
or four ditzcu of the birds, and if the cli
mate is adapted them and o ;rching guu
ners are restrained or persuaded to spare
theni, they will soon spread over the coun
try The California quail is slightly
larger than our pat ridge, but resembles
it very much
and fvathers.
in its
The
general appearance
male bird is striped
wi;h white on the sides 0: the head.. Mm-,
ilar t our paririgne. and the under feath
ers of the two speeches boar a strong re
seuibLnce, but the back of the Pac-fio
bird inclines to dove color. The head of
the male bird has a beautiful crest, un
like any of the birds which inh ibit t) e
Atlantic Stntes or Mis;-isippi Valley
The female is plainer in her plumage,
has no stripes on her cheeks and a very
small crest, apparently one feather rising
about three fourths of an inch and curv
ing at the top. The crest of the male is
of the same character, but much larger.
If Mr. Cresswell is successful in propagat
ing the species it will prove a beautiful
and valuable acquisition to the birds of
our groves and fields. Cucil Vhnj
Ages of Distinguished Hen.
Mr. Greeley, one of the most intellec
tual meu ol our time, was cut off in his
G2d year. His temperate habits aud
custom of out door exercise would have
led one Jo expect for him a much longer
life. Mr. Summer is only of Mr Gree
ley's age. Mr. Chase in (. ; Bennett liv
ed to be 71 ; Ben Wade is 1'Z ; Webster
held out to 7U ; and Clay to 75 ; while
Van Buren, though one of the worst
beaten of Presidential candidates, was 80
when he died. Thurlow Wend is living
at 75 : and Mr. Seward has just died at
71. Mr. Greeley has perhaps woiked
harder thau any one of these, but Lord
Brougham worked severely aod continual
ly, and lived to IK), and Thiers is 75
Mr. Gladstone is Go. and Disraeli G7.
Lord Palmertone lived to be 81.
Barnum's Museum Eurned.
There were two hirge fires in New York,
on Tuesday of last week. By the first,
Barnum's Museum and Menagerie, Grace
Chapel, and Grote's ivory establishment
were destroyed and several other build
ings were partly destroyed or damaged.
The Acadeny of Music narrowly escaped
destruction. Only two of the animals
were saved. The total loss is estimated
at $1,000,000. By the second Gre tho
whole block on the west side of centre
street, between Leonard and Grosby. was
laid in ruins, a number of business firms
and storekepers and many families being
burned out. The loss by this fire is esti
mated at 500.000. Two girls and two
men were injured, ono of the men rer
haps fatally.
An lliinoisan advertises for a femslo
servant. "Nut," he says, "the ordinary
girl, who comes into families and stays
for her board and o'othes a howling in
fart with a red fire and no teeih, swath
ed in flannel and very partial lo colic ;
tut a broad tdiih!f red, I'eep chested,
two fisted servant giil c I hair, f eckles,
and general ugliness preferred, on account
or the oldest boy in the fimil)."
A SitATtniNO affair at Y r'c on Tuesday
night, in which Jacob Cookes cut Jacob
Chrisiiiu with a kuile, is likely to j e
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