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JANUARY 81, 1872
WEDNTESDAY,
Gold closed in :INN' York last Saturday at
144 11:8.
. A well-Posted Loy ikon, correspondent re
iorts.agit, Dow flint tq Piince of Wnles
gettingvell, the Engl9 Republicans are
laying their plans for it new and more vig
orous campaign of political agitation.,
Thec - ountry owes not a little to Gon,i Gar_
field, of Ohio, the Chairman of the Itome
Committee on Approprialions. He is a
watchful guardian of the public treaury.
Hardly a day passes that his voice i 4 not
heard protesting against some useless or ex
fravagant expenditure of money, and
, though his protests are not always sufficient
to block the pet schemes of Congressmen
.
• ,
and lobbyists, they serve the excellent pur
pose of calling the public attention to those
schemes and of fixing the responsibility for
1 their 911Cieti upon the proper shotilderg.--
flis latest service of this kind that we have
noticed is his statement in regard to the
pubic printing establishment a Washing
ton. He tells us that the Government has
the argest printing-house on the globe,
viler there are over one thousand hands,
empl yea and paid by the ye l ar to early on
tlipt business, pnd where cnongh printing
ink 14ought evt ry year to float the biggest
Inan-of-wio in the navy A train„of army
wagog .l S .
s reaching three-fourths o the way
from VaShingtoli to Baltimore, it acted with
one tot each, and packed as rloi ly as six
mule teams ca 4 he packed, would not be
able to haul the - mass of Public documents
printed every year in that printing-house.
There has just been erected an addition IQ
that building four hundred feet long and
seventy feet wide, and Congress is now ask
ed to appropriate more than two million dol
lars to,run it for the next year. Ire thought
that -unlessthe brakes were soon put on, the
whole thing would become a scandal in the
eyes of the nation. But this is not the worst
pf it. This great mass of docuinents, which
nobody over dreams of reading, is not only
printed:and bound at public expense, but it
loads down the mails, and is transported all
over the country, froip Maine to California ;
at the Public cost, and Congress is every
year called upon to make a large appropria•
tion:to cover a deficiency In the Post Office
Department because of it. Taken together,
the public printing tMd the franking privi-
lege are a gigantic swindle of a long-suffer
ing people. But for that we might have our
letter'pgstage reduced to two cents and the
Department made entirely self-supporting.
The solution of the whole trouble is the ab
olition of the franking burden, ns,Gen. Gar-
tleld aptly terms it. The public; long for it,
and every Congressman knows that is need
ed and is ardently desired; but we don't Iget
it and we almost despair of ever getting it
so long as members can frank all their own
private business letters and those of all their
cronies. But for all that, we are tlninkful
to Mr. Garfield for once more calling general
attention to these twin scandals.
Tr. n WHIMS.
FICEIN
As the time for the nomination of a Re
., publican candidate for Judge of the Su
preme 'Court4s at hand, we deem it our priv
ilege to express our preference for the posi
tion. Among the learned gentlemen who
have been named as candidates, we knoN of
none more eminently qualified to occupy a
seat upon the Supreme Bench than the Hon.
Henry W. Williams, the President Judge of
thls.(the 4th) Judicial District. There are,
in our opinion, many reasons why Judge
Williams should be nominated: He is now
in the full vigor of manhood, and would
bring to the Bench a mind not enfeebled by
tlisease or dimmed by uge. He was appoin
ted Additional Law Judge of this District
-in 1864. In 1865 he Was elected to fill that
office fora term of ten years; and in 1871,
four years before his term expired, he was
selected President Jude of this Judicial
Distik t. From the first he has gis'en great
satisfaction in the discharge of his official
duties. - Being in the prime of life, blessed
with good health, great industry, and a well
developed judicial mind, he has brought to
the Bench those qualities that so well cm`,.
Wet; him to occupy a leading poAtlint among
his fellows while he remained at 'be bar
'Since be has been up,in the lleneh he bus
trivd many closely contc.tf(ll vau-ez:, both in
and out of his District, and so well has he
satisfied both client and counsel, that but
low have been taken to tho Supreme Court
And rarely has
p one been reversed by our
courts of lest resort.
During our remembrance, our courts have
been presided over by eeveral able and dis
tinguit3bed gentlemen, aid we are but speak-
ing the unjvcr , ;al sentiments of our peop}e
when e ;Antal 1,11.11 Itt ever affininis.tered
justice N‘ it h tuhre Inr.);reti nf,ilitC or grvate,r
fuirne , s , ; uri,l by 1114 no:nitration ttiv.l clot. -
lion the State Ivoulti gain, ‘‘ hat thi , 1 t
' wouhl l o se. tin :tt,le, • atal impartial
Judgo
W s e believe Judge Willit:ins ~lumkl Le
i
uominate for another reteoon
Thompsot 1, who retires from the „lunch, is
a teident, (If the initliv,•estern re,•tion of
the State The other four immil,vr-4 of the
._\
Supremo Court reside in one{gle.q cities:
Messrs. 1. - -; iarswood and Reed iti Philadel•
phta, and "illiams and Agnew in Pittsburg,
None of these belong to the ,rural districts
of the State. They are nut, either as 1:;,c
-yen or judges, familiar with the Incletice in
the country; with the trial of ejectments,
or the many difficult questions that are in 7
eident to the trial and settlement of land
titles iiitte Commonwaaltli. As a land
lawyer Judge Willions Gins few equals and
no superior. , With him that' branch of the
law has been a speciality. Ire Niould bring
to the Supreme Bench a fut4of ?nowledgc
' upon that subject that would be invaluable.
While our present Judges are learned and
excel in common law—while they are pro
pund in that branch of civil and criminal
`jurisprudence peculiar to our great cities,
none of them can so well understand the
4vants and necessities of the country and ,
I the administratifln of justice therein, as one
-who has spent tis whole life, either as a
member of the country bar 'or presiding
over a Court of Common. Pleas, in the coup
try. Can it be denied that the country
should have at least one member upon the
Uprolle"Mllch? purely tills is not an MI-
reasonnbie request tihice the organization
of that ( r ourt, tlaree , fourth.4. uY it* Jcidgeo
Lave corii:lrom the great (-hire-4)f tke Com
nonwealth; but few Kaye Wine from the
• .
country. And if the claim o the country
is to be recognized, no one can b ttere fa
vorably ilituated than Judge Williams. The
" .NortlV tier" not only inn Over had_ a
member of thp supreme Court, but shelas
never had a 'thtate official of any kind.
In 1808 she gave General Grant 15,000
majority, and ever since the organization of
the Republican party she has annually given
a greater` majority, for .the tieltel,_than the
whole balance of the State.. Since 18G0,
, ...... ~_ _..
the " Northern - Ter" has saved the State to
the Republican' party. - Her people • have
never faltered in their devotion to, its prin
ciples or measures, and deringall: this time .
they have had no sort of recognition from
the Republican party of the State. The
Republicans of this section have honored
every draft made upon thern, and' now,.
when Itwo of the Justices of the Supreme
Court reside in the extreme southwest:, and
two in the extreme southeast, lie feel that
the Republican party of the State should
how the rural districts and the north some
consideration by the nomination of Judge
Williams. Tioga has ever been the banner
county of the old " Wilmot District" and
of the . Btato. From the first she has given
a greater per cent. of Republican votes than
nay sister county, and.noW, when We present
a gentivman so well qualified for the posi
tion, we hope, and have faith to believe,
that our request will be gratified.
Congressional Suutu►ary.
' In the Senate, on the 22d, the public busi
ness was not advanced much; the day being
spent entirely in talk. Among the'petitions
presented was an interesting one from the
widow of the late Rebel General Lee pray_
ing Congress to appfoptiate $300,000 to pay
her for the Arlifigtoir Estale, the Tuitional
cemetery for Union soldiers, for whiCh sum
she promised to give the Government a clear
title. She stated the property was bequeath
ed her by her father, George W. 1). Custis,
in 1557, and during the war it was sold for
the non-payment of a direct tax -of $92 07,
and by the order of President Lincoln bid
in by the Government for $20,800, although
she claimed the amount of tax was tendered
to the authorities before the sale. A bill for
the relief of Chicago by the remission of
duties on imports was reported. Mr. Blair,.
of Missouri, introduced a joint resolution
directing the President to negotiate with
Spain for the ptirchase of Cuba. Mr., Da
vis, of Kentudky, made a strong efrort to
call , tip his resolution directing inquiry whe
ther the President has conferred. public offi
ces for presents, or been guilty of other mis
conduct, but after considerable sharp de
bate the amnesty bill was taken up as unfin
ished business and the Senate adjourned.—
in the House bills were introduced to repeal
the income tax, for the resumption of specie
payments and the reduction of the national
debt, for the removal of all political disa
bilities, to reduce the duties on imports, to
amend the Constitution by making Senators
and Representatives ineligible to the Presi
dency and Vice Presidency, and to suppress
polygamy and enable - Utah to form a State
Government: Mr. Dawes presented a re
port of the Committee of Ways and Means
on the " Syndicate" busineSs, closing with
a resolution declaring that the Secretary of
the Treasury, - in negotiating the loan, hae
neithCr increased the bonded debt nor in
curred an expendituri contrary to law.—
The report was ordered. printed for future
action. A bill Was passed extending the
time for presenting claims for additional
bounty to the 30th of next January. A res
olution was passed dircctinif an inquiry into
the alleged corrupt prrictices of the new
Territorial Government lef the District of
Columbia. Mr. Furnswiiiyth said,- in rela
tion to it, that the sum of ifsll9,ooo had been
paid to newspapers of the District for ad
vartisina.within the last aright months, one
of them being. a lipte
and another a. sheet lie had never beard of
before, and which announced its subscrip
tion terms-to be "one cent a year, payable
at the end of the year A bill was passed
appropriating $50,000 to defray the expen
ses of
i t\he Embassy, from Japan. Alter an
exciting political - -debate a resolution was
passed to pay the expenses of, the committee
sent to New Orleans to investigate the leg
islative troubles there.
There was a long and very interesting de
bate ; in the Senate, on the 23d, on the am
nesty bill recently - sent up from-the house.
- .4r. Morton, of Indiana, thought there was
a good deal of misapprehension in regard
to the disabilities now resting upon those
engaged in the Rebellion. It was perhaps
not generally known that Jeff. Davis and all
his followers had as much right to vote as
any man who served in the Union array, It
was argued that amnesty would conciliate
the people of the Soiftb; but he believed
that the leaders could no more be concilia
ted in that way than rattlesnakes. could be
conciliated by restoring their extracted
fangs. They would die as the„y had lived—
Rebels. He predicted that if general am
nesty were granted, the next step would be
to pension the Rebel soldiers; the Next to
pay Itebels for their proporty taken by the
Union armies; the next to pay them for
their slave;: and the next to consolidate thu
Rebel debt %% ith tho National debt. He was
in favor of general amnesty, btit believed
universal amnesty *mild be !inhuman add
immorol, because it would be an admission
of the innocency of a rebellion whose con
sequences would linger in the country for
centuries Mr Thurman, of Ohio, replied
that the Constitution prohibited the pay
ment of the, Hebei debt, the payment - of
pensions to Rebel soldiers, end 1110 rt•estab
li,iiment of slavery. He Stli ! !1 hp found
great 'difficulty in understanding this Ad
ministration. The President id his annual
me,sage recommends an amnesty, and here
is the Senator from Indiana, (Mr. Morton,)
one his:chief supporters, denouncing it,
'Via President recommimde civil service re•
form, and the Senafor from Wisoonsin (Mr.
Carpotter) pours out, upon it the vials of his
wreili and his ridicule. He could hardly
understand it. But if hel'Ore a suspicious
man, he would say that this is the old trick
of throwing a tub to the whale. Ile did not
clinr:7e hypocrisy upon the President, but it
• did look wonderfully strange that pvery
portant recommendation Made by the Pres
ident is ignortid by his friends in this cham
ber. Mr. Morton replied that the whole
Democratic party were unable to understand
this Administratiog, or the times in which
they lived. They were like a man riding
in a car backwards,'who never sees any
thing until he is clear past IL \ Mr. Scott, of
Pennsylvania, argued in favor of the House
bill, but could not vote for universal am
nesty. In the House a bill was passed to
promote the mining interests of the coun
try. The Committee on Education and La
bor reported a bill to devote the proe'eeds of
the public Malls to educational purposes.—
The LegislatlVe and Executive Appropria
tion hill was taken up, when Mr. Garfield
explained that the total appropriation for
the next fiscal year - would •reach
000, of which G 0.5 per cent. were for ex
penses resulting from the Rebellion, 14 per
cent. for the army and navy, and 25.5 per
cent. for all other expenses. After a short
debate_ the h ouse Lldj 0111'04
in the lienato, on the 24th, the hill dent
.rotlivr
up by the !Joust: fur the relief of Chicago
was debated and passed without amend
.
mein, Mr. Prelinghtlysen, of New Jersey
introduced a bill appropriating $lOO,OOO - 1q
enable the President to carry into effeet the
Civil Service Ilefortn, It was rcferreCto: ,
the Judiciary Committee. In the House the
Education hill passed thnday before= was
debated, the Democrats showing a decided
opposition to it as tending strongly toWard
centralization, and aiming •to deprive the
States of their control of the common
schools, A resolution was adopted direet
ing,the conunittee en,cominerce to investtL:
gate,the obstOctions to commerce- between
the States and with foreign nations:- The
Legislative Appropriation bill was consid-
ered by sections, and Considerable progress
made, when the House adjourned.
A bill was introduced in the Senate;
,On
the 2rith, to prevent American citizens from
_engaging in the alive trade in the South Sea
islands. A motion was made to .reconsider
the vetoon the Chicago Relief bill; but it
was not decided, when the regular order was
called for, and the debate of the Amnesty
bill was proceeded with: Mr. Mora, .of
Maine, spoke at length n favor of the bill
and against Mr. Sumner's CiVil -Rights
amendment, denouncing the latter as uncon
stitutional: In the House Mr. Roar deliv
ered a long speech in favor of the Educa
tional Fund bill. A . resolution was adopted
asking the p i resident for information as to
i. action under the Kuklux act, and as to the
state of society and the security of life and
property in the Southern States. The con:
'sideration of the Legislative Appropriation
bill was resumed. Mr. Garfield stated, - on
the authority of the Secretary •of .the
rior and the: Commissioner of Pensions, that
one-fourth of the pensions'was'paid - to peri .
sons 'Who_ gOt their naives on the rolls by
fraud, and the Treasury is annually cheated
out of about $8,000,000 for the' benefit of
swindlers. - Mr. Hale confirmed the state
meat, and alluded to a batch' of .200 or BOG
fraudulent claims for pensions for the war
of 1812 got up by claim agents in New
York, sonic of whom had :been -convicted,
while others had fled to Canada.
A resolution for the final adjournment on
the 29th of May was puled by the Senate
on the 26th lust. The substitute propelled
by the Judiciary Committee for ttic. Appor=
tionment bill pas.led by the House was de
bated, and it was finally made the regular
order for Monday, the 29th, to which time
the Senate adjourned. The House went in-
to Committee of the Whole op the Legisla•
dire Appropriation bill. Air. Garfield offer
ed an amendment looking to a restriction on
public printing,
.which was agreed to, and
the pin was reported to the House. It op
proprietee Abe% $17,440,001, The Pension
Apprbpriation bill of $80,480,000 wee also
reported to the 11011se. Both bills were af
terwards passed.
On the 27th the House met for general de
bate, and but few members were. proem.—
Mr. Beck made a speech 4guinet the 'postal
'telegraph scheme, Mr. Townsend, of this
State, one for the protection of home in:
dustry, and Mr. Duel! ono for bounty land
Warrants to the soldier 4 and sailors of the
late war. •
The State ! Legislature.
In the Senate, on the 22d, Mr. 4uckalew'a
bill to authorize cumulative voting for
School Directors was debated, and passed
by a vote of 23 to 5. On motion of Mr.
Strang.a supplement to an act providing for
building a jail in potter county was passed.
In the House a bill was read iii place provi
ding for the election of nn Auditor General
next fall. No bpsiness of general interest
was transacted in the Senate on the
In the House an act was passed fL'lltborizing
the electors of the 23d ward of PhiladA- ,
F ula w aectne oy oanot wnether license to
sell liquors in that.ward elzmata be grantO r
also an act relative to Notaries Public' and
- Jiastices of the peace In Tioga county:. -
In the Senate, on the 24th, la bill was read
in place to secure the payment of the wages
of labor in lawful money, and to prohibit
the pass book and order system. A resolu
tion introdnced by Mr. Randall was adopt
ed, to have a committee investigate how the
quack doctors of the United States proem
what it is alleged are certificates from wed ,
ical colleges of Pennsylvania. Mention was
made in the resolution that the Nom* York
Tribune had. published that such " certifi
cates" were in •.eirculation. In the House
Mr. Mitchell o introduced a bill to regulate
the practice of medicine in Tioga county.
A bill Was also ietroduced enlarging the ju
risdiction of Justices of the Peace. The
committee on the time and place for °m
ing the returns: of the late State eleetion
repotted that the 131st of 40‘ick l y, 411:30
A. M.., had been _fixed as the!, tirrielaud-,the
hall of the House of Representatives as the
place.
The Speaker of the Senate, an the 25th,
appointed Messrs. Randall, Strang, Billing
felt, Humphreys, acid Nagle a committee to
inquire into the Philadelphia medical col
leges. In the House a bill to - Provide for
training teachers for the common schools
was passed, also a bill to prevent the gale of
intoxifliating drinks on eleetion day, the lat
ter by a v.ote of 68 to 21. A bill was also
passed• requiring the Prothonotaries l or
Clerks of Common Pleas, Nisi Prins, Quar
ter Sessions of the Peace, -and Orphans'
Courts, the Registers of Wills and the Rea
corders of Deeds to pay into the Treasnry,
for the,use of the Commonwealth, after de, ,
ducting all Tit.cessary clerk hire and office
expenses, fifty per centum over and above
the sum of two thousand dollars, which
shall be felted by the auditor appointed by
the Court to settle the aceonnts of county
officers to have been received by any officer
• . 1
in any one year. „
President rant
'Those who have ;watched - the came of
President Grant regard him ap a patient and
much-enduring man. The important dis
patch from Washington printed In another
column will go far toward 'confirming this
impression. The views therein expressed
by the President strengthen the statements
we printed the other'day as tor-his attitude
in this whole custom house business, his res
olution to forward the investigation in every
nay in his power, and to ‘l4al promptly and
sternly with every ono who has brought the
least scandal upon his Administration. Of
course our former dispatch to this effect has
been angrily denied by those organs who
think that in echoing the gossip from the
Pvisident's kitchen they speak for the Pres
ident officially. - Now we hare no' quarrel'
with the members of the President's 0144
family, nor would we ttgoty a single us n'
thought into his serrunts' Wes feel
that the President should have justice, and
we believe that the more thoughly he is
investigated, the more righW u his whole life
is extunincd, the more triumphant will be
his vindication; that lie will come from ev
ery ordeal unscathed—still retaining the
splendor of Donelson and Vitiitsburg—uhd
that 4- grateful and generous people will
re-elect him President ofthe United States.
Thus farlis enemies have failed in every
attempt - to destroy hia . ‘"Charatter. He will
fight it out on the line he occupies if it takes
all summer—and It probably will take all
summer and a goodly share of autumn, Ile
has made a singularly honest ahtl- , Juble ad
ministiation. A@ the elected chief of the
Rqablicap party he has kept every pledge
made by his friebds with Roman sincerity
and-firmness. The most radical Republican
cannot quarrel with Gen. Grant. These 1
who were impatient with Mr. Uncoil, effete— I
such men let us say as Weittlell 1)41111ps and
Gen. Butler!—are Tully satisfied with Grant.
The assaults made upon Akin ? , are. only eve.
I &stets of his streast li with the people/His
enemies have no charges against hint but
leOrner grocery and bar-room .setitidal. - He'
taketis presents; it is said; Mit no one has
heard of a presest accepted byltimsincelie
entered tlrc White Hopse.; -Ae' a ,successful
. General, some of our citizens gave him such
- ii,. token Of their esteerti:tnnd -gratitude, as
was given to Marlborotigkand Wellington ,
'When'they returned froth: pucceSsfill' Warsi
_ such u token as was given to . , Gen. lt'Clel•
lan, who, when he came to live among us,
was presented with a house -in New. York
by several leading Democrats. He has a s
pointed a few relatives to,: unimportanto • t
ces;, but we shall nut feel' very indign t
over
over this,
.; especially. ;when -wc _remember
- that not long - shire :trr. Gladitorie said' in
the House of Commons that-one reason why
, an English statesman, could.nfford to hold
the exacting otlice_of Prime 141.1nNter was
that he had an opportunity of doing for his
- family and frieris'what other eminent and
able men did in private pursuits.- Certainly
)Ir. Gladstone's opinion Will go far with the
most fastidious critics among' our journal- ‘
lits and •statesmen. Beyond this petty tav
ern gossip nothing is Stud; and this . paucity
and monotony of assault form the Peed
dent's best vindication •:- : -
On the °the / . hand, in - every respect Gen.
Grant has met the - highest expectations Of
the country: He has, as we have said, kept
every, pledge Made as - a Reppblican to the
party whiehnotitinated him. `He has made
an honest, patient, resolute exide*r to re
duce the tidtbt, and although we have not,
in all ways, commended Mr. Boutwell's
methods of Ananaging the Treasury, we rec.
ognize 'that the Admintstratio'n has
-meant to
fund the debt, reduce the Interest; and re
lease the people front the burdens of taxa
tiou. W ithout absolving:the Secretary from
auy.of our criticisms, we pass this to She
credit of the Administration. .
In the question of 00 relationsWitliEng
land we have seen the. President grapple
with the gravest problem in our. diplomaby
and settle it, and in that alone win for him
self an enduring fame. In, dealing with
' Spain there has been a patience, a candor a
: giggle-mindedness of purpose'tvhich alto'
at tirnes vexatious to an untiatienenna • •
~. Is lsive public opichrin,=has - kept "tliti pee cis ,
n
,and not permitted us to drift into •-a- fretful
and useless war. In thejnditin queition ho
has shown humanity and breadth of pur
pose wonderfully at variance , with the sav
age and blind traditions of fermer Ad' in
istratione. Every Christian heart in Am ri
ce must throb kindly toward. Gen. G nt
for his humanity and good temper in d al
ing with the wayward children of the or
mit
est. In the Moron question' be -has tr ra
pled upon an evil as gigantic-as that_ of sla
very—upon polygamy—which,, as the re
maining "twin relic of barbarians," has
been a scandal to our age.' Amid so in every
instance of administrative policy. At h Me
and abroad be has preserved the hon e of
the•tittg and the purity of the Aans" ra
tion: tien.- Crime and malfeasance in office h ve
been - severely punished; and we have a
President who will - have' no parley 71th
roguery or incapacity in any departuien. of
the Government. .
. We have said that President Grant
patient and much-enduring mail. Ho
slibivri this in New York, and especially ci
our custom: house matters. Men dos
him, or at least claiming to represent li -.,
have intrigued themselves into positions
-where, from. avarice or an unhealthy yeixn
-44 for power, they have !wen& aeandalto
tll4 Adirthinitration. ' This general. oz ;
business has-been no more nor less . ,tli 111 - '
aeatidal• The merchants of - New - Tork . i re "
been held in terrorism. .-A- ctitt' m i ns
grown. up which is little more /Lan the iii.
ance of a gang of freebooter to stand ver
every caw: that comea -^ ,O the port and ex
act "tolls. ' In tie olden times bandits
viere - Wont to entet what they called "tolls"
from liotte§t:merchants carrying their goods
to Londosi, or worthy husbandmen driving
their tattle into the lowlands. This same
austom has been permitted in New York._
We have no doubt that our custom house
general order people felt they were doing an
honest trade, but the country does not so
Consider it. We agree with Gen. Grant that
the arrangement made by Bixby, by which
$5,000 a year were sent to an officer In the
War Department as "tolls" to -the Admin
istration, was an inexcusable transaction;
and-ive are glad to know, 'as we have felt
all along, that he was in no way responsible
for it and that he will visit the offense, if
not disproved,. with severe punishment.—
The story that there are Senators on this
committee who will not examine this ques
tion thoroughly, because it might screen the
President at the expense of his military
family, is astounding. Certainly no such
evidence as that sent to us,, from Washing
_ r, I t tfa L
'on+, ‘,l; f 4ted by the committee to
their elaborate investien ion. s - it
Let
brought nut 't owes.- We elm ntive no tri
-1 fling, no coucealment in it ,,the matter. The
honor of our President is dear to us, and it
must be protected, no matter who suffers.
One word to President Grant. He is said
to meditate a coup d'clat in New York poli
ties :and among our officials here. The
country expects this, and no President has
more certainly answered the country's ex
pectations. He dung to St. Domingo until
it was feared he had blundered. Suddenly ,
he threw the whole matter into the hands of
Congress and the people. He anpported the
late Collector until his party'began -to muti
ny, and, although expressing his own per
sonal esteem and confidence in that gentle
man, lie abandoned him to the wishes of
the party. In these things he showed con
summate • statesmanship. He believed in
St. Domingo; he was fond of the late Col
lector; but he permitted no favorite policy
and no personal esteem fer ,tt Mart to es
trange him from lit:s party and the people.
Let him take another step wild thoroughly
revolutionize the whole civil service in New
Yo lt, PliPialting the guiity,'-remoVing the
tainted; dtscardiK every one whose reputa
ticln: tiaa been nokiewcal by-- the slightest
btetith'of scandal. Then Ile Qati.enter upon
ftli'ctihvfiss -for a re-ueretnation.a3ta,4=elec
tion, confident of a triumph alt Splendid and
decisive as that which came to Washington,'
jcickson, and Lincoln. The people are ripe
for this, rind they . expect it from one who
has. been Ipre-eminently the people's Fred
dent—.Y.' i Herald.
The "Spoils" Sistem
The proposed civil service reform, finds
two widely.dliferent classes of critics. On
the one hand there are its out-and-out oppo
nents, of whose argument 4 •We may take
Mr. Carpenter's speech in the Senate as an
example. Mr. Carpenter thinks the new
system. unconstitutional, and very aiugUlar
ly appeals to Attorney General Aker/nate,
opinion, which expressly approved the very
principle the Commission adopted. Fur
titer, 3fr. Carpenter does pot like the plan
because it is not thorough i —the most impor
tant officials being exempted from-its
_ope
ration. There is a curious ineonsistencrin
objecting that a measure-is bad in principle,
and besides does not go far enough! Mr.
Carpenter thinks that the, system would cre
ate an " jriSt9Praey," by favoring i - the eau
eateA, pees a merchant help to create an
aristocracy" by requiring that life cashier
shall understand arithmetic? We learn
with surprise that it re,itairse great conta ga
and
,self-rlenial for ongressmen tE t e a S
14, 2• • reform.. " To.a 'public officer
:.1 • tor, for instance--with ambition of
re-election, there was great temptation to
yield to the Pressure of the moment." Ad-
Inirable, heroic Congressmen! who will-not
repourico their sacred duty of distributing
patronage, not even though they may lose
te-election by holding on to it!
Mr. Carpenter's speech,
is thoUgh in no oth
er way calling for notice, really q fair ex
ample of the arguments put forward against
the adoption- of the reform. On the other
hand, some friendly critics of the system
' point out that it may not - be a nniVersd pan
acea for our troubles. 131. r. iligginson, in
two e . .itcellent papers in the ./inkperickar„h aa
well stated the drawbacks and' defects of
the competitiVe examinations, tic suggests
that they must be • either purely-echolitstic,
and thus a very imperfect test-of practical
ftl*ty, eit g._eneral in their character a* t o
leave plenty of room for favoritism, It io
somewhat discooraging 10 find that gr.. ,.
ginsoa has tio (AWN positive reetnaVenda
iej“9 offer than that " men of tre'.altit and
Vd4V-€4 10 4: 1 1:4 0 kP i t a matter of etv..iseliance to
attend PriinttrY political tueetir_ ! gs." But he
thinks 1 neN system a grrat improvement
RA the ofldd 000 i and ecorisie.hers its chief merit
to be that "it cuts Up - rip the roots the the
ory that appoint appointinenty are to be made as,po:
litical rewards, and. on a geographical ba
sis."
•
We doubt not that when the reform is se
cured it will, like all, other - reforms, some
what disappoint,the sanguine hopes of its ,
projectors. • But certainly it will be a great
step in-the right direction. The danger
now is, we think, in the self-sacrificing Con
gressmen 'whom Mr. Carpenter represents as
ready to brave public opinion for the sake
of that great prineiple-- i the party spoils.—
We hope they will think better of it. The
people, are very much in earnest about 'this
matter: They consider the adoption of the
new system the greatest political need of
thy time, They know that it is . chiefly. in
danger from the iiltisbness of
parties. It can ottly fail throngl
or covert _ ltepublii
clans. these gentlemen uncle
by hindering this reform they Wi
clear issue between themselves auf
ple, and one that will not becov
forgotten.,Christian Union.
•
= . - The Cause of Cuba.
We are most heartily glad to see that the
cause of the_Quban patriots- is here exciting"
a deeper and deeper interest. And, yet the
interest ought to go' deeper:still. ' It does'
seem as-if it would not he arrileartO at least
ask ourselves.-the-question - if tne time - bas
not - ebine - tiiki:int, belligerent rights to the
Cuban insurgents. , No great berm could
possibly, come from this questioning; and,
on thenther band, it might possibly look
half away fair toward a brave,, atruggliPg
people, who have kept up - se eral, years
warfare in the . face' of 'most . di heartening.
odds against ' a Government w jell' acts no
diabblicoPy that it ie_a simple, anlyvirtue
to rebel. against it. We say t s without
here taking; into account the,aase of our,
own grievances, lhat of- the ves4el Florida,
for example. To be sure the granting a
full belligerent rights might- esult disad
vantageously to Spain in Cub ; but then
a
that, through her own cruelty, d stupidity,
has come to be her own. lookor. Are we
then longer bound to shut our eyes to the
one side and open them-to the ther? • Talk
of precedent and of - this and tat intricacy
'of international law as you ,p 1 aso, but as
for us we find no more fairness nn this strug
gle in Cuba than there is - in the street fight
which makes any honest blob boil-where
one man having a most unfai - advantage
pounds another man ,to deat simply be
cause of that advantage.— WO h. Chronicle.
Woman in Office
A correspondent writing fro
Wyoming Territory, gives the
tertaining account of a new4a
of the Peace in that Paradise
"In December, 1869, the- egisliture: of
Wyoming, consisting .principall.y r .otaingle , '
men, who were, naturally- ad firers of the
gentler sex, and in this case 6 thusiastic on
account of the scarcity of •fe "ales incident
to frontier life, passed a 'bill onferring -the -
D in
right of suffrage upon wom n. This was
truly a maiden effort': The object was, first,
to attract the fair ones to th country for
their own good, of cour s e; a ti second, to
create a society and perha Ei homes for
themselves, lone bachelors . Qf the plains,
and eventually to-increase th census of the
Territory. It is possible ho ,ever -that the
second was the weightier reason, although
it has a flavor of the po]icy of Brigham
Young.
The first action taken under this law was
'Amen under_tnts lak..
the appointment of a female IJ,ustice of tho
Peace, who qualified and eat red upon the
duties Pf the office. For a brae the posi
tion was somewhat embarrassing to the '
newly trade Judge. Leaving the law asioli ,
she had no trouble in delivering . her char
ges and - sentences with grace an d •/egance.
But when called to decide,, ';;on points of
law and the objections, .7.1 c ptions, demur
rers, allPleadwa's o f attorneys, who seem
ed to to e a L lll 4 l °tous deligit in confusing
poor Just ce, she was es
and befogging a le
trenlelYin.:earrassed for law and law terms
to exP"ess in technical language her views
or ''ne case: The lawyers would cite and
, submit l
authorities whicht.. Justice would
i gravely examine before rendering decisions
1 that form en interesting study to the student 1
in seareh of the latest ruLngs and prece
dents.
• It is asserted bye malicious wag
that the lawyers were in th e h abit of asking
an adjournment of court after the evidence
was in, and the costs all mate and fees re
ceived,
. 1
and retiring to deeid the suit by a'
game of seven-up, as the Judge always
agreed with the last speaker, and allowed an
interminable debate between counsel regard-,
less of rules of the opening and closing of
arguments. Both could not speak last, and
neither - was willing to. yield the advantage
of the last word, so dear t' woman and so
powerful with this Judge. I will not vouch
for this, as I did not witnes it, but it seems
to illustrate the feeling if dot the fact.
However, the Judge was' inning golden
ti r
opinions from the heart. of he public. One
thing only lacked test— e supremacy in
woman's breast of justice o, er love, Some
well-meaning, but nevertheless heartless,
people sought an occasionor this test, and
after gettingp•the Justice's once liege lord '
drunk, had him arrested and brought be
-1
fore her Honor on a char e of disorderly
conduct. The scene in the Court was in- 1
structive, pathetic, and amusing. The bus-.'
. ~_ .a-•_--'.- —rr...s.i acc LUG . tilt'
Pere i
nabetween the old, and the new state
of things ; between his w, wife •at home and
her honor upon the ben t . The prisoner
demurred to the authority _ f the Court, and
swore it had no jiitisdicti n in his case.—
1 1
Upon this verbal affidavi , -- Ira - ---declared he
should take a change of venue, and stetted
for the'door in contempt of the order of the
Court. The officer was here directed - ty
her Honor to lock the prisbner up till mot%
ring. He resisted, but the order was obey
ed, and the poor disgracedlhusband was left
in the lock-up by the order of his wife to
ponder upon the situation He thought of
hispast with his pewer, and contrasted it
with his present and his weakeess. Othello' • s
occupation was evidently gone. Impriton
ed by the word of his on c e obedient ' w if e !
On the following utornlni ,l 'e aPP'-ared in
Court an altered man. e hum. ) ',/y entreat
ed the Judge for mercy, plead in eaten
. nation that it was -
and under peculiarly 1° - first offence
try; tg . circumstances,
when lie was not himself , and thought the
Court was not itself. Thelater illusion had
been forever dispelled freM. his mind, - and he
assured her Honor that it shoUld never oc
cur again in public or priyate. •
'Her Honor said:she would not.impese the
fine for contempt of Court, as in this case
she deemed it a contempt of the person and
not of the authority of the.court. She co'd
pardon: this ; but, as theharge 'on which
the prisoner had been brought before that
court was an offense against the public, the
court• --- e - rould_he . __co mpelled to impose the
usual fine. As he prisonef' was ,out of
funds, the Judge altered to go upon hia
bond for the payment of the fine and coats.
The grateful husband Was about leaving
the court,' when her Honor detained him
"one moment" while she,' applied tho moral
lesson, thus brought home, to the priSoner's
mind, He stood lßefore the bar in the pres
ence of the court and an amused audienc'
which crowded the room, while with bowed
head and downcast eyed he received a lec
ture on woman's righta.el, was
The husband of that urt s eVer after
a sober man, and humbl too, in public and
at home. - The jelce hid been carried too
far for him to recover the humiliation;
and he avoided public resorts. He soon be=
came thoiougldy domestcated, and, while
lits-hetter and greater half was administer
ing the among men, he contented -him
serf with (raining his household and conduct
ing the domestic department of the firm.—
It was rumored' that the Judge sometimes
came home in an irritable Mood, and found'
fault with the cook, and' hided her house
keeper- for °late meals ; b ut this was 'Wen
remedied,Tfor he learne d keep court time,
The only living uncompleted in this transfeq
of duties was the obstacle in nature. Bet
tles'and condensed-milk ere fi nally substi
tuted for jfidleialrto • t, and the ail
=linen
dren soon learned to a cept the situation,
and transferred their etre Lions to their mas
culine nurse.
In time, hciwever, an ey nt occurred which
admitted. ofno substittition for maternal
function. The court was compelled to ad'.
punt, Couched in beau id language, wli t ' •
a delicate blush overspre ding her face , the
1
Court annoueded that it , as often - - • -
. 1 , permit
ted in older conun, nuttiest() 11dp,;,:r . , to ta k e a '
vacation during the hut aterin. Although
the law of that ter/ 4 ., .:to kisickno provision
for such vacati,ork; she Sted thegood pee
pie of, her dlar:nei w ‘ oltgrticiousiy - accord
her a nito'_: weeks r , - as" - the' duties-of
her OV_ce had - been labO'ous and trying dur- -
mP'the first term. Beira now more familiar
- r iFth-those duties, shel oped hereafter not
to be compelled to ask • uch indulgence.-- 7
Accordingly the court. would adjourn , till
!
three weeks from date. Louring this vaca'-
tion the jail was filled to
.overflowing, and
criminals were allosied to, go .unarrested i _no
other justice residing in 'that district. The
village became disorderly, and• riot ran mad:
Finally a new jail Wes extemporized to meet
the demand until'her Hertor could recover.
I El a
a, B
in
to
,
TEMPHRANQE IN CO - auss. Senator
Wilson lately delivered a temperance lecture
in Boston in which he stated that there were
fewer drinking men in Congress now than
when he first went to it. IFormerly the night
sesions were dreaded, on account of the 'de
bducliery to wnich they gave rise. Now
about one-quarter of the Senators are'pledged
temperance men, and th4e-is not what may
be called " a hard drink4r"in the Senate at
all. The facts are ,fibot the -'same in the
House of llopresentatives' Once the Depart.:
ments were full of.drun .en men, now they
are the exceptions. Co ing from a source
to be relied upon, these interesting aucl
ch.eeringfacts. - ••
Application for License.
interestedopen
41.1 p
an Ull L
.stand that,
1 r.naki - 3 - a:
&the peor
• cd up,,o-
NoTicr, 28 HEREBY GIVEN, that the following
named persons have made application Tor Tavern
- n comes and Eating House.' Lionises, and that . the
same iiilli.-mostented to the Court of - Quarter Sea
alonathe 212th - day of Jan; inst., at 2 o'elOok, Pl AL When
an thiareated rosy attend if they think proper. .
..,
',!,•. ,-, ~, • .North. - - -
".,...'," italiralkelOy, , Lawraanevhie. , , - f
0.13. 'Whlt#44 - 13losobArg. - ' . '
'John A. Martin, • ~
U. C. Vernal/yea, Gaines.
Clinton Guild, Cbathani.
Peleg Dbud.,Wellabor . ,
'.- Sol: Bunnell. *,
Charleis B, Goodrich, elson.
J. 0. Price, C * 1
13.11. Thoni=ll aburg.*,
E. M. Smith, Tioga.# -,
Lewis Daggett, Law onosvillo.•
Gao. Close. Westilel ,* .
Mlles O'Connor, We how.*
ii
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'rhos. Graver, Cov a.* - 1 -
David Irvin, Union.ilto
c ,
Obinliill & ElClriillge, Clymer. • • ,
J. P. DONAz.j
i sON. °
, Clerk.
Jan. 10. 1872-3 w.
The Condition Or our Navy. ,
A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, af
ter minute analysis of the "Navy Register,"
sums up our available naval force as follows:
• This Is our great navy, then, In round numbers:
Si:lirst rates available ; but some are rotting.
Five second rates, avail able.
Four second rates can be saved from rot and made
available; but it won't do to defer much longer.
. Elgbt third rates. These are gunboats, available.
Seven fourth rates. Small gunboats; are av able
and Canbe counted as part of a navy.
,Eight fifth rates, available by repairs, an by Du
Work on them at'fftre. . They can be saved-lf talc_ in
lio.vessels are building to replace losticon
demnad, sold or rotting.
• The repairs are of the smallest possible Agora, such
ceouomy, indeed, as we doubt the Department o any
individual would regard as such if applied to their per
sonal property or real estate.
The above is the most favorable figure that can be
made. These vessels are fast going to pieces, and if
this system of economy does on, a few years (four or
five) will see - the government resorting not only to tugs
again, but to ferryboats.
Thirty-eight vessels are all that this country can
count on as its national arm for general service. For
special and unimportant services there is an immense
force. It is well for the country, for its commerce, its
legislators, its Cabinet and Congress, to look well to
this state of things. ' Ito ships-of-war are, building,
very few indeed are repairing or -fitting for, rise, and
our material on hand Is rotting fast. In a few yeari
mare the ll*tod' States will' have neither -ships not
gunbiats and,_siddest of all' neither officers - nor .aaa-
Cheyenne,
ollowing eirt
iglcd Justice
f -women:
E. B
Booksellers and 9.4talioners,
WO) Paler. vii4 " 'Shades,
Window Fixtures,
- Musical lnitrugnents,
tln k . .4 Notions, 't
-Pictars Frames and Glass, ,
Pictures, all aorta,
Picture Cord,
•
-Law Blanks
Jut Joe Blanks,
Law Books,
itadlial Books
mull ovary article In our line of trade.
--Nay Yu*lßMs& at One Dollar a mord&
--illintra DIMS at IS Coats a month.
—ikiboarigunir for a week, or month, or year.
—Orders Books not in stook promptly attended to
--.411.4 Uprose package reocived ' from New York as-
UT day.
Jan. 24, 1872-Iy. E. B. YOUNG & CO.
W:10 !J
Lecture Cource-1871-'72.
rfIRE following leaturors have been engaged for' the
.L Hermitic Lecture Course for the ensuing seam: -
HEOROE WILLIAM CURTIS Feb.l2. 1872
ANNA E. DICKINSON ' March 4,1872
OFA)ROIC VANDENROFF . Jan. 10,1872.
HON. WILLIAM PARSONS .Jan .24. 1872.
PArBIJII V. NASHY Jan. 30, 1872.
BD IN H.OIIAPIN t March 12,1872
HS RY WARD BEECHER..
CHARLES 'CARLETON" CUFF IN ..
M. F. ELLIOTT, Proa'S
/ JOHN I. MITCHELL,
HUGH YOUNG,
JEROME B. POTTER,
J. H. BOSAHD, f4c'y.
Jan.1.1872-tt Managers
Plaster ! Plaster !
undersigned, having purchased the Pfastr x
ono mile south of Mansfield, and stial, e d
another at the month of Hill's Creek, near lion? .e).
orstaircat to =man arranin
Cayuga, Plaster
lkom either point, at Use lowest waxiest 'price for Clash.
The Mansfield Miperel /VW% tar3o be found for
sale at bothplaces,. ANUS PiTTNAM,
Att. 17, 1872-4 t, . 1 Mansfield, Pa.
AT
SPENCERS i I ART 'GALLERY I
RANK SPE2IOO. has just returned from the
dty with a fine Assortment of goods in Ids
wh i ch
are choice ever brought into Tioga oonnty, among
Choice Frames of New Styles
Carved Walnut Goods,
=II
TielmmiL2apros,
Ana ht style, and at the very lowest prices. Be is pre
• pared to wake
First-Class Portraits,
in all the hest styles of the day, from skillfully iro
touched negatives.
It L always a pleasure to show tootle ; ao don't ba
baiekward or bashMl, but call early and often.
I -
,Manlileld. Ps.. Jan. 10.1099.-am
BOOTS- .4.7r.4) SHOES'.
s, INIUMS vtug Piet 01 : 4 = 1 th lt
cr one
jjolusurv„pre Ma in ou7tv,
is wan.
j y t : UM xiCifW A - dog tornt ere end thopUb•
Maar bettor se/acted:stook of -
'ROOTS .AND BEOEI3
_
ea> ever before presented in the borortigh of Tliksw-
Aillir ware of Burro Make; ecloatesittr on hand. Al-
MMus & Hamlln's Organs o ittial wvariety of styles
to seleot from. All 'are invired to, call and esaulfile
Pr
and onality. - ff.' E. SMITH & SON.
trga, Jan. 1, 1872.-11.
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WALICER. ,a LATIEEtOP.
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EIARDWARIC, IRON,1.1X„I NALLS, • •
• STOW*. TTN-WARE, BEIVMNO,
- SAWS, 017/YERY. WATER
LIME.-AgiEICULTURAL
EbEfImvENTS,
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- -
• 'Carriage .and Harness Trimmings, •
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VA
MUSSES, SADDLES, - ,to.
fig. N. Y., .lau. 2, 1872, -
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*. To .Far'ere.
undersigned oLleri for us for breeding purpos.
Chester. White Bba,r,
litmauesed at SmitheClle, Obembrigo Co., N. Y. He tan
-be found on the road from Wellsboro to Babb'* Creek.
about 23i miles trout Wellshoro. Charges $L •
Jan. 10.41'w. 0. 13. t 3/ E.
Partri for Sale.
NE Ett/NE+RED ACRES with eighty acres improved,
O
alid situated r tear the State Road, south of lirattut•
but*. Tbisfarm.comaines a comfortable house,. tyro
good barna and tittoety fruit trees: it is well adapted
taidatrylitig lu:4l,astaulture.
,Terms easy: Incutro• of
tb.# at'atainatnarg,
Zu.ne lA, mil: J. A. BDUE.
HUGS You y 6.
E. B. :Young & Co.,
YOUNG
(Successors of Hugh Young k Co.)
az : l4 76 ,...ea1ers iu -‘1
Moak Books, tal sizes,
Newspapers,
W 3 11 4 4V4k5,
Artists Goods,
• -
Religious Books,
New 'Year Goods I
,-Ch,7.0m05, --7-.
and a great variety of
FRANK SPENCER
New Store
AT TIOGA, PA.,
and an entire new Stock (tf
i I
IZ.Z.I,AA~
Stock of Winter Goods
HZAVY , SP.I.LNG STOCK
411 °titer Goods will be sold at ffreatly reduce
Waaborp, Jan. 27,1874.
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THE= BEST AGAIN IMPROVED I
WEED SEWING lAACHINBi
Km men* been improved, and L now without a doubt the nri7 beet
(
11111CWIINT431 - 14 1 1-A-41al3ilV]Wa
In the world for Metal lue•
Does every. kind of Work with the. least Trouble,
Never gets out of order, sad will run a lifetime without repairs
Don't purchases Sewingllnshino of any kind until you Lave seen the
EE' IMPROVED "WEED,"
A. BODINE, Agent, Welbsbor% Pa.
Agent, irargilZ
-14
J. • o:ll , pit Jr., Agent, Tices, Pa.
Dry \ Goods Line
compass, HATS, OAPi3, BOOTS AND SHOES, 'READY MADE 'ammo,
)i an endless variety. Call and seo.
WeiLbw*. lft, J.. 1. 1672.
I=lll
Winter Campaign.
bohLad o MEM BABIIIIDADE OF 000D8, Toady to moot a (largo from all our 012 ousto•
soots, sith awmany new ones as may chose to favor as with a call. In itetalUon to o full stook of
Fancy and Staple Dry Goods,
F
I
we make the followirwibranohat of our brud'Utee 8 des. . ..
. ,
• DIIIN3 000i19, of which we have a lame variety.
.CW=B 4WD OBatIIKEREI3, whloh(we Doll by the yard, or makolo by tbe molt experience wadinum au duct Witco.
UNDER' GARMENTS,
for Ladles, Di Cakidren, Gentlemen and Boyit;
I• •
One Hundred Pieces,
t an
Our elk& is the largeal, Qooaa •
. . „
**Yoe 44 1, 1872.
IS 14014' LIG sla EtattlE
i f 1
4..7r 4COS9r,
TO MAKE BOOM Ma A
graces.
THE NEW IMPROVED
J. B. TILLOTEGN, General Agent, 33 Lake Streat, Elmira, N. r
Clias. V. Mathei.s,
Ma as endless varlet! of evarStbing in the
=1
WI Ira now fully Asmad and Ikutpped for Ms
Winter Campaign.
cYA.3Ftrib3marilst,
a fall atoe4i, embracing
: from 26 coati to 62,50 per yard
Prima tha iowest, of say . Store in orning, an 4 Prob 4ll4
SOntliefftlitif
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