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& $-.-.. r -w -"- TMJfiLiEAVBNWOItTH WEEKLY TIMES: THUBSDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1878. .pt - & r . .V r . - S tSgwMa 8tes THUCSDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1873. A CABD. The Wai-liicRton correciiondent of the St. '" LouU Republican telegraphs that Ex-Senator Pomeroy has made a written ptatement to the effect tbat tbe dispatches in the Chicago Ttibune concerniic M"re. Pomeroy and ScofieM were pent by we, I have not sent within the lat year a ai'paicu u : Chicago Irilune or to any other Chicago pa per, and have not eeen, within that time, the content of any dwpatch to the Chicajjo Tribune or any other CbicaRO paper, except as I caw them in print afier their regular publication. Moreover I never su-gested.or intimated a Fii?rtion to the correspondent of tbeChiraKO Tribune or to the correspond ent of any other taper that I dexired the publication of arty fact or rumor concerning Merf. Pomeroy and Scofield or anybody else. The di-jutch in the Republican, to far aejt pertains to'ine, is faks in every partic ular, and utterly unworthy of confidence. D. It. Aiuosr. MXV.M.. rilOtnANI. The members of the IJoard of Coramis cioners have been busily engaged for three or four days' in examinine the books and ac counts of Treasurer Geo. S. Smith. The euro of sixty-seven thouand dollars is ptill unac counted for, and all investigation has, so far failed to diclo-e the names of the individ uals or firms who have been accommodated with that um It is supposed the money wai invented in Sew York or Boston. UAl'fV KLW-V. TlieWAshington Star eaya that on Monday last, Sunset Cox wasmore than usually active, spurty and irreprewible inthcIIoue. Final ly, when the House came to an agreement to proceed with the debate on the salary hill in twenty minutes ppeeche. Cox dipatched a page with the following nole: Dear Sin.. SrEAKEn Put mc down for twenty minute-. S. S. C. To which the Sneaker replied: Dcak Cox I would lie delighted if I could keep 30U down half that time. J.G.B. THK CnVMJKllS MEl. 1ICSISEMI. Tlie Grange Council of Jefferson county is taking active measures to ensure the en actment of laws the coming winter that will tend towards retrenchment. They have ap pointed committees to visit the members of the Senate and the Home of Representa tives and learn their vie.s upon the meas ures of reform which they have decided to urge the Legislature to pi?. The com mittee to visit the members of thi county consist of Alexander Henderson, "Win. N. Allen and T. S. Hinklc. They were here yecterday. The Times will publish the .re ult of their action at an early day. THE 1IKY U4JOWM IKABE. The New York Bulldin elates that the fi modal condition of the dry goods trade Vhows a continuous and marked improve ment. There have been no important fail ures in the interior (with a single exception), and the rity jobbers have liquidated their in debtedness with unfailing regularity. The ruoat prominent city jobbers, who were com pelled to ask an extei.sion of time during the late panic, have come forward and anticipated payment f their Janvary enrolments a courfe whiiii they are likely to follow in the future." hluSAllK IM1AI.I.M. The dispatch from tbi city to the Chicago 77i, which axaiU-d Senitur IngalU so shamefully and iinlriiihfully, is published in this pajier to mark theduratttrof the Pom eroy opposition to that S. nator. Mr IngalN enjoys the confidence and deem of the peo pie of this Stale. Kan.im have faith in hi integrity, they rt-ogi7e hit auilily, ami know that he will unke as he ha" promised, a rquare and manly fight again-t the "coni mwial tlwiienl" in Jrtate iolitics. The hanlc to charge the Senator mill the suspected ciiis of others is uu-temly and dis digraceful. IIIlM.M.r.-Jll.N JO 1 Hi: I'li'l.lT. The leader of the Grange movement yes terday, before the Board of County Comnii woners was Judge Iecompte. It w.n ex tremely uufortnnatc for the Grangers that they selected a tool of the old llonler ItuiTi ans to ppeak for them. Judce Lecompte iJ naturally a subservient, lary man, the very last one that ought to have been pelleted to act as the exponent of the farming element. The Judge h by training and instinct oppo-cd to the Granger policy, and had he not failed in his profession he would pcorn to stand by the pons of toil. He never paid ajy tax himself, and is therefore the lat man that should speak for taxpayer. The people de mand that live men who have personal in terests to protect be brought into council. Such men will have no dipoition to op press any one, and will do all in their tower to facilitate the settlement of the Treasurer's accounts. The bondsmen are re sponsible and the county need not loe a cent, and willot if the advice of wije, prudent men is taken. ritl.ETO I'KllICIMi. The Topeka Comnumtccalth wants to pay something about the ScoGeld-Pomeroy ru aaors, Lut does'nt exactly know what il wants to say or how to say it. Two prodigi ously heavy leaders have appeared in that paper recently, but the writer of them leaves the public in doubt as to whether his inten tions are honorable. This much however, the GrnmonueaUh docs say plainly. The treatment ordinarily accorded to a public servant in Kansas tends to deter many of our ablest and purest men from staking any ventures in politics. The quiet pursuit of a private business, with exemp tion from Blander and abuse, is apt to Be chosen by men who have pride of character, however able and honest and arrbitious they may be, in preference to holding positions of public trust when they know that their ele vation to place will be the signal for letting loose upon them a flood of reckless and an noying accusations and insinuations. That is well enough for high toned news paper talk, but we have not been able to no tice any decline in the number of men will ing to serve the people as office-holders. If the Cwnnommifti man knew anything of the Huhject which he professes to discuss so know ingly be would see vastly more harm in a silent, truckling press, than in a press bold and free to criticise and cenure. Ul'K IKlKSiS MAY OT. So far as the suggestion is made that this is a '"trick of Anthony," etc, we belieye the correspondent is in error. From all we can learn, this ab-urd story had another origin. We don't believe Tut: Times ought to have published it, as it bore upon its face evidence that it was a falsehood. But that paper claims, we believe, that the story was being industriously drcubtttd iu private cirdea for-1 political enter; and tbat the nest way to re cure its emphatic contradiction was to make it public iuasttwvpaper. Any one who be lieves ththoth Siessn.ScoSeId and Pomeroy are natural-born idiots, would believe the atory; but no one who thinks them endowed! wiln ordinary common sense wouiu. nci eon Champion. The O-ampion elates the truth. The Tims desires only to compel those who are m.b.ng the charges against Scofield to face the music and prove them true, or else ac kaowledge that they have been slandering him. If there is any class of gosaipera that we detest, it is tbat class who confidentially OMronicate pretended facts prejudicial to those flier would injure. The -dy whisper sag from those who wear a perpetual crclle ham than the open statement in of the leading paper in the Tntw may have acne wrong in the xmmaa, bat oar frieads here, doeamon fhceoUMHu Stale 'tJfenc Mliem.Hr aet. WIIITTKH BTATE- MKSIT." Washington, D. C, Dec- 18 United Sutca Marshal Tough, of Kansas, left this evening for home, carrying with him a writ ten statement from ex-Senator Pomeroy, to that the allegations made by Anthony in the Leavenworth Times and telegraphed to the Chicago Iribune, are false in every part. Pomeroy has made no affidavit, and has no intention of making any revelations. He says Anthony is trying to manufacture capi tal for use in the coming Senate contest. tt'ath. Correti0)tdenee Chicago Tribune. Sir. Pomeroy's explanation is neither in genious or ingenous. It is awkward, trans parent and dumy, and not any keener than his Page National Bank story. He knows that he did place in the hands of his attorney certain damaging information, to be made pnblic if he should be forced to trial, and it is further known that his attor ney, either discreetly or indiscreetly, per mitted the information to reach others. It is lurther known full well tbat the old and steadfast supporters of the ex-Senator assert both publicly and privately, in thdr news papers and on the streets, that Pomeroy is master of the situation, and will never be brought to triaL They crack their whips over the people, and say, "you dare not try him," and, deplorable as it may seem, it muit be confessed that a majority of Kanaans believe he never will be tried. There is no use wasting space in arguing Pomeroy's guilt or innocence. He is guilty. His own courte has convinced the people of his guilt. All the verdicts that could be rendered by all the juries in Chris tendom would not strengthen or weaken that conviction. If Pomeroy was innocent would his attorneys come up at every term of court quibbling and clamoring fcr delay? Innocence never exhibits itself in that man ner. Innocence seeks investigation; guilt, shuns it. Sir. Pomeroy'a position is well understood. We hold that Pomeroy already stands convicted, but we have not damored for his punishment. We have tempered jus tice with mercy, and hoped that Pomeroy would pass to the obscurity where he belong", but it seems that he is determined not to be lost sight of. His strikers in this State are bold and defiant. His old U.8. Marshal Hous ton, in one of his papers threatens fearful exposures if Pomeroy is pressed to the wall, and in the other slanders Senator Ingalls, and openly avows that Tomeroy has "cor rupted and captured courts, attorneys and jurors." SIr?1. 8. Kalloch, editor of the Lawrence Tribune, with lofty assurance iron ically invites an immediate trial. Other Pomeroy men manifest the same defiant atti tude. What does it mean? It means sim ply that Sir. Pomeroy, has threatened to make disclosures. From sources entitled to the utmost considera tion we get the information that these "promised disclosures" have been committed to the confidence of Mr. Pome roy's attorney. Perhaps the Ex-Senator has made no "affidavita"containing revelations, but all of his old supporters in this country are defiantly asserting that he is complete master of the situation and will use his knowledge oi prominent public men to save himself. If Pomeroy is telling the truth to Washington correspondents, then every one of his ex-office holders and supporters in Kansas is giving him the lie. Let us have Sir. Pomeroj's "written statement," and let u, at the same time, observe that confidence in the Ex Senator's "statements" is a plant of very slow growth in Kansas. l.HMF.KS Aft OFFICE HOLDERS. The Paola Spirit contains aneditorial'arti cle reviewing the political situation, and at tributing most of the official corruption of the period lo lawyers. After submitting many reasons to show that the appointment of U. S. Judge to the Delahay vacancy should not be intluenced by the demands of the legi! profession, the Spirit says: In our opinion, the great trouble with the country now is and always has been be-cau-v public affair have been too exclusively iinnil by tiie lawyers. e are lawyered to death! Almost every thief and corrrup tionWt, marked down as such, connected with lb- governuinit, is a lawyer. Who were the salary grabbers and Credit Slobil ltr swindlers? All lawyers! Who are the Butlers, Carenter, Eldridges, Caserleys, and so on? All lawyers! In every branch of the government, high or low, you find lawyers are the ruling spirit. If a place is in idd vacant, a lawyer springs lo the front to till it. The lawyers rnle the country, and thty are ronible for its corruptions The Spirit we think censures the lawyers rather too harshly, and can hardly maintain its a-enion th it the lawyers are responsible for all the corruptions of the country. It is an undisguised fact however, that lawyers have been in the "leading strings," for the px-t decade, and the people in promoting so many of them to high official positions, hive committed grave errors. Yet the re sponsibitity for the misdoing rests with the voters. It h the duty of electors to scan the record of every man who seeks place of profit and honor in the public service, and when they fail to make inquiry concerning a candidate's fitness, they fail to fulfill the pri mary obligation. It does seem tnin thit a man who accepts a profession hsch holds that it is just as honorable to defend the veriest scoundrel as to serve the purest client, is not, by reason of his calling, better or more eminently qualified than other men to perform the highest political duties of the country. It sometimes occurs to us also that as a lawyer grows in fame, and legal usefulness, he inclines to the service of the more depraved class of clients, where the money consideration for serving the good and the bad is equal. Perhaps it may be offered to offset this argument that legal skill is put to iu severest test when it engages to prove innocent, men who are known to be guilty, and therefore lawyers of ambition and skill accept the more difficult side of the cise so as to give the public an exhibition of legil talent. This argument would have been accepted, twenty years ago, but when we call to mind the multitude of rascals who are running at large, we begin to suspect that "proving a rogue innocent" is no great legal achievement" Tbe Spirit goes its whole length in its op position to attorneys, and presents a new and unexpected phase ef the farmers' movement in this style: and unexpected phase of the farmers move ment in this style : And tearing the mask from the face of the present farmers' movement, it reveals itself as much a war on lawyers as on monopolists and corruptionists. The lawyers are the monopolists as well as the corruptionists. The best point made by our Paola con temporary is the one which calls attention to the fact that the entire Congressional dele gation is at present composed of lawers, and urges the necessity of selecting the next Sen ator from some other profession or occupa tion. UAKIITU COK.K. Ben Butler is the hardest man in America to corner. In fact, that little trick has nev er vet been accomplished. The Council Bluffs Xonporid, however, tells of the fol lowing attempt to capture him: The latest triumph of Ben over adverse circumstances mav be thus related: At the choice of teau'in the House, Ben's lot fell among the Democratic members. He took it with the utmost self-possession and amid a great deil of laughter, the Demo crats themselves making especially merry at Ben's expense. Before the next morning, however, Ben traded off with a colored member, and when the Speaker's gavel called the House to order, there was the som bre shadow of the Fifteenth Amendment lowering from the verycenter of the Demo cratic stronghold. The .House chuckled, Ben looked innocent, end. the Democratic members gesticulated' excitedly, and wanted to know if eorial equality was to be forced upon them,and their daugnters compeiieato many, nc, -, flinched sot, aad to-day from oat that spot- , -x-a f AakhSaxoM -there kxwssa U - . head asri thunrnX fan, tad tfc fretd- rvxEBsrs BCBHWBACUU WOKK. The political atmosphere is becoming more douded. rather than brightening. I have to-day had interviews with several indivi duals nign in we .ronieruj uuui, ana aiso with some of the chosen, according to In galls doctrine. Ibe i'omeroy men are in hieh spirits: the Ingalls people are down in the mouth. John J. Ingalls, the apostle of radical punty, the impersonincation of all the cardinal virtues, may be expected to topple over at any minute. He is, at least, indirectly through Scofield, and it is more thin hinted directly by bis own acta, tainted with the dishoner which attaches to the most infamous of all infamous political bargains ever transacted in Kansas. Among tbe rumors which are flying from mouth to mouth is one that is repeated as heard in high places to the effect that Ingalls and Scofield have been in a black mailing partnership, and that their greatest success has been in unhappy southeastern Kansas, and I am told that the railroad and the settlers have both bled freely to Mr. Sco field, and the profits have been shared by the virtuous Senator. After all, there is no question but that Sir. Pomeroy is present master of the situation. His friends, where they think it safe to mention it, say he will save Scofield. Ortainly, he is the only man that can do it. Ingalls, enacting hi virtuous role, will inist on Scofield'a resig nation, which has been already promised, but is not likely ever to be written. The Pomeroy case will be put off again to the June court, and by that time the witnesses will be all out of the way.and thesnit will fall to the ground. Pomeroy will not thn re veal the damaging proofs of Scofield's cor ruption that are in his possession, and that official will not lose his head. It will be strange enough to see Pomeroy cher ishing the discarded pet of IngalU. There is little doubt but that the document purport ing to be part of the records of the Shawnee county court, showing that a nolle prosequi in Pomeroy's case had been entered, had at tached to i: the genuine signature of Qountv Attorney Ryan, which he was induced to place there while intoxicated. The whole affair was worked by that arch plotter Rev. I. S: Kalloch, and does justice to his ingen uity, but will not improve his senatorial chances. Leavenworth special to the Chi cag Time), Dec 12. The editor of the Times recicved a telegram from W. F. Story, editor of the Chicago limes, requesting a dispatch giving the news in the Pomeroy Scofield case, and offering to pay liberally for the same. We declined to comply with the request. Later in the day one of the editors of the Comnierciaf, C. X. Shaw received a similar dispatch, and in re ply, we believe, sent the foregoing dispatch to the Chicago Times. Mr. Shaw also stated to individuals in this dty that he obtained his information from Col. D. W. Houston, and tbat "he spoke by the card for Col. Houston had seen the papers at Topeka." Gov. Osborn while in this city, on Fri day, the 12th inst., said to a number of in dividuals, in relation to this "slander" that "revelations would be made in a few days that would make the hair of hundreds of men in Kansas stand on end." Henry King of the Topeka Commonwealth, has been for weeks circulating the story that Scofield, by representations to him, Lad secured his en dorsement on a note for two thousand dollars that the note was discounted at the First National Bank of Topeka, that tbe note was protested and that Scofield intendod to swindle him out of the amount. These rumors were disgraceful. If true, Mr. Scofield is unfit to hold the office he now fills. If untrue, those who have been slandering him ought to be made to face the music, and either furnish the proof or ac knowledge that they have wilfully and ma liciously injured an innocent man. The Times did not favor Sir. ScofieM's appointment, but Mr. Scofield has as far as we have seen done his duty. He has pledged his honor to prosecute Jennison, O'Brien and all violators of law. The Times has felt prompted to acknowledge tbat thus far he has acted fairly. Slen high in position have for weeks been whispering the vilest slanders against him. Under these cir cumitances The Times deemed it wise to call attention to some of the thousand and one rumors affecting hi3 integrity. The "slanders" were made po often so publicly and by so many parties that any attempt to repress the rumors would only tend to injure Sir. S., and subject th pres-) to the charge of weakness and truckling. Thu3 for the parties making thp accusi lions have failed to pub'tantiate them. The Times, however, would pugget that gentle men plop denying that which has never been charged. Stop telling what they don't know, and suggest that Pomeroy, Scoticld, Slartin, Ryan, Slortoo, King, Houston, Os born and otlids tell all they do know about this matter. IT. K. SE.1AIUK .MHIII.V !! Til. The election of Gov. Xewton Booth of California to the United States Senate, is the first substantial an I important vii tory of the anti-monopoly element in our politics. His success is jieculiarlv gratifying from the fact that it was achieved right in the face of one of the most powerful railroad monoi-oliej on 'he continent. The iasue in California was clearlv defined. There was no middle or conservative cround. It was a contest be tween the people and a giant monopoly, Governor Booth was the representative of the anti-monopoly element in the contest. He proclaimed war against that grasping and powerful corporation.the Central Facific Railroad Companv. in a speech which commanded the attention of every influential journal and public man in the nation. Newton Booth is a consistent and outspoken Republican. He was elected Governor of California in 1871, by a majority of five thousand ot er Uaight the Democratic can didate. He was chosen United States Sen ator last week by Republican members of the Legislature, aided by a few anti-monopolists from the ranks of the Democrats, and will take his place in the United States Senate as one of the ioremost representatives of tbe new era. JUSTliE UK VKJieEABCE. When th:: news of Treasurer Smith's de falcation was first given to the public, The Times, in commenting upon the losses, said: "There should be no sensational noise or threatenings during the settlement of the difficulties. The wreck is disasterous enough let us go about the work of saving what there is left with cool decision. Let us deal fairly'yet firmly with the guilty ones, keep. ine in view always that the claims of the community are paramount to the claims of the individual." Yesterday, during the sea son of the Board of Commissioners, a num, ber of dtizena grew impatient over the reti. cence of the Treasurer in communicating in formation to the Board, and permitted their zeal to get the better of their judgment. We regret any action that has even the show of mob violence, and trust that the liaard ot Commissioners hereafter, while hearing all suggestions from the people, will condemn, without hesitation, any interference by force. It is true that the people of Leavenworth county have been robbed time and again by public plunderers, but it will not help the caue of true reform to go beyond the law for redress. It is justice we want, not revenge Let us apply every legel remedy to secure our rights before using, measures of violence. Kaakia'a EeceMlrlclty. Ml. Buskin gets very peculiar. His lec tures at Oxford University are varied by passages that are startling and painful. When in the dty the other day on a short visit, I was told of two strange outbursts of his eccentridty. It eeina that one of the Oxford ir&det men has built himself rather a pretentious) looking shop, with granite, and ftaral designs carved in stone. The mass o people would admire; the few would declare it to be vulgar. Mr. Buskin iu lecturing proceeded to contend that there was a con nection between bad taste and hid morals. "Now," suddenly exclaimed the lecturer, "in the High street (mentioning the worthy sSopkeeper by name) is a viliian. At some tiBse or other he, or the architect he em ployed, has "committed come great crime. It must be so.' ' At another time, hearing a dap of thunder, he stopped and (aid that that noise rnBTinced hira more thaw ever that the devil was oa carta aad waa at that moaMat tryfeg" toiatarraataai (Mr. tumkmt) lectare. Lmimj imlja Iisartn mr rrrfn "vrr Hts. b. p. avewEW PMMTiejr In the House of Bepreaentativealast Wed nesday Hon. D. P. Lowe, of Kansis, ex plained briefly his record on the increase sal ary bill of last session. When the House resumed, as the regular order of business, the consideration of the bill (H. B, No. 793) to repeal the increase of certain salaries, Mr. Tremain offered an amendment, the object of which was to leave the Cabinet officers, and the second and third officers of the Govern ment, where they were left in the act which it was proposed to repeal, and upon this amendment Mr. Lowe spoke aa follows: Sir. Lowe: Mr. Speaker, I rise pro forma to oppose the amendment. In the five min utes to which I am limited, I cannot enter upon a general discussion of this bill, and I shall not seek to contribute anything to the sensationalism of this debate; but, as one who participated in the deliberations of the last Congress, I desire to express in the brief est manner my own position in respect to the subject under discussion. W ben tbe propo sition to increase ralaries was presented to the last Congress I was unable to give it my ap proval, not so much from any conviction that the increase proposed was disproportion ate to the reasonable needs of Slembera and Senators in the efficiennt and honorable exe cution of the duties of their offidal life, as because I deemed it unwise and injudicious in the then existing state of the country, its fi nances and its obligations, to enlarge expen ditures in tbat direction, and I was of opin ion that it was better for Congressmen, Sen ators, beads of Departments, and Supreme Judges to await tbe advent of more prosper ous times before insisting upon more com plete and adequate compensation. I there fore opposed and voted against the measure in all its preliminary stages; but after it had been attached to the genersl legislative, ex ecutive, and judical appropriation bill by a majority vote of the House, and been ap proved by the conference committee of the House and Senate, I favored the adoption of the report, coven ug as it did other legisla tion of vital importance, the question upon which could not be divided and tbe failure of which would jeopardise the entire bill. The circumstances and consideration which led me to the views I then entertained, ad verse to the measure, still exist with in creased force: and as the question is now again presented unembarrassed by complica tions witb otber legislation, l snail laver and vote for the reinstatement of the former rule of compensation, or any measure that approximates it. Sir. although upon the hustings, anfl in much of the sensational journalism of the country this snbject has been largely discussed as involving a question of moral integrity, I insist that it is not actually euch any more than is any other subject of legislation within the proper scope of congressional ac tion. In view of the undoubted constitu tional power of every Congress to fix the compensation of its own members, in view of the fact that that power has repeatedlyt been exercised by Congress with the approv al of the country, in the same mode as was done by the Forty-second congress, and by the most honored names in our history, he must be a bold man, or a man ignorant or reck less of the facts ot history, who would for that cause impute a want of personal or offi cial integrity. Whether the legislation of 1873 upon this subject was wise and jud. dous or not, if those who participated in its enactment are to be impaled in obloquy by reason of its retroactive features, then it is an obloquy that must be shared by the members of the Thirty-fourth and Thirty ninth Congresses, and they, embracing such names as Solomon Foote, John P. Hale, Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson, William H. Seward, John J. Grittendtn, Benjamin F. Wade, Stephen A. Douglas, Hannibal Hamlin, Lyman Trumbull, William Pitt Fessenden, E. B. Washburne, Robert Schenck, and Thaddeus Stevens, must like wise be placed in attainder of perpetual re proach; for of these, and all the other mem bers of Coneress in 18oS and I860, some voted for, and all, (with one exception) re ceived the benefits of, tbe retroactive salary bills of those years. Such names as these cannot be divided from the glory of our his tory, and no principle can be just tbe appli cation of which would consign tbem to re nroach. If in principle there was any dif ference between the act of I860 and that of 1873, it would certainly have been sharply developed in the course of this debate; but even the industry and acumen of the gentle man from Ohio Sir. Lawrence have been unable to discover any distinction, and when pressed upon the point is compelled to con cede that the ouly difference between the two is that one was more generally approved than the other. Frequent reference is made to the alleged public will of the country upon this subject. It is trne that. sir. that it has been the sub ject of wide uVctission, and while no one doubts the fact that the adverse criticism has largely proceeded from honest conviction and pttriotc effort and purpose in the direc tion of a just administration of government, it is not ntcesary to disguise from ournelves the fact that no inconsiderable ortioii of il liberal criticism has been the offspring of eronal and political hate and rivalries and personstil political ambitions. Still after making due allowance for that which is only the considered vituperation of speech and pen, and which entitles itself lo no considera tion 1 think in fairness it must be conceived that the settled judgment of the country in sists UKn a reinstatement substantially of the old law. To the considered and well ascer tained judgment of the country, upon any proostd subject of lawful legislation, I should be disjiosed to defer, even if my own views were otherwise. But in addition to the considerations originally involved in this subject, but tbe question comes upon us now, when the condition ol the country uemanas our earnest effort in the direction of re trenchment and of husbanding of the resour ces of the country, and whatever may be our own view of the value ot congressional ser vices, we cannot do better than to begin econ omy and retrenchment with ourselves. A Scene In Couxress. Washington Correspondence Danbury News And the ladies, too. God bless 'em; how they chatter and snigger, and wave their headdresses of every conceivable stjle and attitude! and how they munch peanuts and apples, and work gum-drops, mixed candies and figs while they while away the time! How they stare at this arrival and that, lev eling their opera-glasses over the rail, and with what anxiety they display a knowledge of the peculiarites of certain honorable mem bers. And with what startling accuracy! There is a long, gaunt Virginian, with spindled legs and beautiful yellow hair in shoulder curls, covering an intellectual head.and a name to match the legs and hair, who has been keen enough to represent a district in Indiana in default of better stuff. "Ah!" says the lady with a glass, pointing him out to a companion, "yon see that tall man?" . "Yes; who in the world is he?1' "He? why, that's Private Dalzell!" "Indeed? Is he in Congress, sure enough?' ' I thought he was crazy from the way papers talked about him." "You see that tall man with the greasy, yellow hair? says the next lady to htr companion, that's Private Dalzell you know he's said to be crazy." The gentleman on the third seat back says, "there's tbat Dalzdl him with tbe long legs and dirty shirt," and lends his opera-glass to his wife. And that's the way it goes with variation, until it gets to the doorway, where the door-keeper corrects the the exclamation with: "So, sir; that's General John Peter Cleaver Shanks, ex-member and member elect from Indiana!" A BIlKBt Mistake. The Cindnnati correspondent of the Cleve land Leader tells this story about the adven tures of s stranger in the Constitutional Con vention of Ohio: A spruce, trim fellow came into the Con vention on Tuesday, before it began business. He seemed restless, like a cat in a strange garret, and hung around the Cleak's desk in a timid manner, waiting for some one to ask bim what he wanted, but no one asked him, ard he finally mustered up courage to in quire of one of the Secretaries for the Chief Clerk, and Rhodes was pointed out to him, 'and the shadows of suspense left his anxious face as he approached the solemn Secretary and said : "I believe you are the Clerk; wdl, I want to join this Convention." Dud looked at him inquiringly, and said : "Want to do what?" "I want to join this Convention. A look of pitv and commiseration came over Dud's thougaltul lace, as aouou oi me fellow's sanitv begun to dawn upon mm, and he said: "Why my dear sir, 1 don't understand vou." -'Why, I'm from Indianapolis and he grew four inches taller J am acquainted with Gen. Sol. Meredith and Gor. Hend ricKs he rtraightentd about four inches more; and I want to join this Convention I This is the short-homed Convention, ain't it?" . . A Short-Horsed Cattle coaveation met at Mozart Hall the aaaae day, aad the delegate beat Iadiaaapoliabad got taiap auxed. THE CSHWHACKlfta BBAcear. The good Deacon Houston exults. He rejoiceth. He believes The Tmes in mak ing public the "Pomeroy-Scofield rumors" hurt the wrong man. The good Deacon is not the only Pomeroy man that cherishes with much joy this belief, and hence is not the only one that will be doomed to a very sad and unexpected disappointment. To-day the good pious Deacon is cheery, he laughs, makes merry and forgets his past iniquities, but he and all of his ilk will find very little to provoke laughter within the next four weeks. The Times has cent no boomerang to re bound and destroy its friends. It did not overshoot tbe target and cripple one of its own, as the good Deacon tbirrks it did but contrariwise sent the shaft where it was most needed. The wisdom and justice of our comments, on the scandal which the Deacon enjoys so well, will be apparent to all in due time. There is no need of haste. The truth will come out of the confusion of rumor soon enough, and the eminent gentleman whom the Deacon hopes to find badly crippled po litically and disgracefully besmirched per sonally, will be found untarnished individu ally, and stronger than ever in -the confi dence of the people. We know, and so does every well informed Kansan know, whose reputation Decon Houston, and other Pom eroy men are trying to blacken with the in sinuation of infamy. We know further that nothing will be withheld from the public, or the public journals. Honest people .will get their dues, and the rogues who have been exulting in the prospect of gaining a distinguished accession to their ranks in the person of one who ha stood above the re proach of suspicion, will laugh on the other side of the mouth. Deacon Houston undoubtedly believes in his own professions. He reasons, probably just as a man familiar with all kinds of cor ruption would be expected to reason. He reaches a corrupt conclusion by a system of corrupt calculations. His estimate is the fault of his dishonest political training. He accords to no man honesty of purpose in political life. He enriched himself unjustly in office, and supposes all other ntcn will do the same thing when opportunity presents. Deacon Houston says he never fights on the defensive. We never knew a guerilla that did. The bushwhacker fires a dastardly shot from the atnbusb, and eeks the density of the underbrush to avoid detection. The Times can fight on the defensive. It can defend integrity with the same vigor that it assails infamy. TIME FOR IJtTEKFEKEHCE. If the workingmen of the country do no speedily emancipate themselves from the control of the demagogues who are leading them to ruin, they will wholly lose public sympathy and resp-ct The other day, la borers in Cincinnati struck for higher wages when their leaders were threatening a riot if they were not furnished work to avert star vation, and now many of the weaver Jn Philadelphia are engaged in still more dis graceful proceedings. Some of these arti sans being willing to work for the sake of keeping their families from want, at the re duced wages offered by the manufacturers, have been prevented by their comrades, and have not only been assaulted, but seriously injured. It is evident that it is time for.the law to step in and protect tbe mechanics who are willing to work. If any of them desire to remain idle and starve, there is not the slightest objection to their doing so, but they must be prevented from compelling more sensible people to keep them company. The meanest and worst tyranny is that which labor exercises over labor. An end must be put to it, or the condition of the mechinic will soon become deplorable. Xey YorJ. Times. Our New York .contemporary utters a timely truth. The brutal interference of reckless and profligate workmen, hasbiought untold suffering to the doors of de-erving mechanics. Intelligent mechanics who have families to provide for can pee that the pressure of hard times renders it necessary for sacrifices and concessions to be made on all sides. They are willing also to concede what seems to be just and right, but are pre vented by threats of personal violence from the performance of the highest obligation of man, namely, that of providing bread for his own household. Workingmen must re pudiate, disown and condemn the worthless, nois7 vagabonds who infest their organiza tions and incite mobs and strikes. Tlie Kjr Who Would n Jlonuey He. Sir. Frank Buckland mide a singular discovery a short time piuce. While in specting a Salmon river he noticed a re markably active and intelligent little boy playing about the weir, whose story, rcl itel by his father, he commends to Dirwin's consideration. Last Christmas the little fellow was taken to see a panto nini?, in which monkeys performed a greit pirt. The scene so impressed the chi'd's mind that the next morning he im igined himself to be a monkey. "He would not Fpeak; no kindness or threats would make him say a single word: he would.not.sit at the table with his brothers and sisters at meal', but would only eat out of a plate placed on the ground, being on all fours. If anything to eat was presented to him he always put it to his nose and smelt it just as a monkey docs before eating it. He was continually climb ing up trees and throwing down boughs, and grinning at the people below like mon keys in the cocoanut trees in the pantomime. When his father tried to correct him, the little fellow, still on all-fours, ran after and bit him on the leg. He would serve bis sisters and brothers the same if they teased him." Fortunately the freak has passed off: but it will be necessary for the parents to exercise considerable caution in . his edu cation in theatrical matters. Certainly the case is an extraordinary one, and Mr. Dar win's opinion on the subject would be inter esting. A KoadaMe Colloqajr. We were on John Fowler's stage, riding from Bridgeton to '.Norway. The outside was crowded with passengers, among them was a young sprig with two damsels in charge. In the edge of Harrison John pulled up at a wayside fountain to water his horses. Not far away, upon the oppo site side of the road, was a farmars cot, and in a neighboring pasture were several cows grazing, At thewatering trough was a tow headed, freckled-faced girl of some 15 sum mers. She may have been older, but she did not look it. She had set her pail under the end of the spout and was waiting for it to fill. The city youth was smart and grand, and he was at times inclined to be facetious . As wished to entertain his bloom ing companions, and the thought struck him that he would innocently do it at tbe expense of the tow-headed girl aforesaid. So he addressed her: "Say my good girl, do yon lire over there?" pointing to the black cottage. "Yes, air." iTcdi.'.Iy, and with a cour tesy. "Does your father live there?" "Yes, sir." "Are those his cows?" "Yes, sir." "Do you have to bring all your water form this place?" "We do now, sir, in the drouth." "You don't sell milk, do you?" "Yes, sir father sells a good deal." "And carries all his water from here?" "Certainly, sir," her eyes opening and her lips tightening. "Then he can't afford to put much in his milk." "Well, sir" indignantly "if he does or doesn't, what's that to you?" "Nothing, only I like iy milk without water." "Indeed, sir," (the freckled free flaming and the areat blue eyes snapping) "why need joufret?" Why don't yon get your milk as all the rest of 'em do? Our calves never run the risk of setting watered milk. Sfercy! you muit hate outgrotcn your natvref" The tow head and the full pail of water walked off, and the young gentleman from tbe dty was glad enocgh m h:de his face be hind a sun umbrella belonging to one of the blooming damstls. lUlBC. Herman Brandt, a tall slim young man about seventeen years old, in the employ of Oscar Bracklein, Druggist, had some diffi cultv with his employer and left Thursday night "for parts uckpown. At the time of his disappearance he iras dressed in a light grey woolen coat, with dark pants and rest of same Bacteria), silk hat. His father, Herman G. Brandt, will thankfully receive may iafbnnatioa coaferaiag the whereabouts of hie Ma. SeejhbaAaal aeasai wfll plea copy. LESAPE TWWHSHIP. Tax Payers esalatlea. A tax-payers meeting wns hdd at Lenape, on the evening of !S.h inst., L. J. Baldwin, presiding, and Homer Dunn, Secretary. The following resolutions offered by J. A. Blackman. Believing that it is the right and duty of cit izens to deliberate upon matter of Govern ment and politics, and to make known the result thereof for the guidance of those whom they have chosen to be their servants in of fice, it is hereby resolved. That as times now are in Kansas the ut most economy should be practiced in the administration of our State and local gov ernment in order to lessen as much as possi ble the now almost insupportable burthens of the tax-payer. That in our opinion the expenses of our State governnment might and should be ma terially curtailed. The average levy of seven or eight miles for State purposes indicates unwarrantable extravagance, and we call upon our representatives in the legisla ture to use their votes and influence against all unnecessary expenditure and appropria tions. That we are in favor of a change in our State Constitution providing for bienial in stead annual sessions of the Legislature. That changes might be made in our Coun ty and Township municpal regulations that would materially, simplify and reduce the cost thereof. Let unncessary affairs be abol ished, and unnecessarily liberal services be cut down. We favor the adoption in the main, of the changes suggested by our new ly elected County Clerk through the county journals. That we recommend such legislation as would hold Township officers to a more strict accountability for the public money that may come into their psssession. That we approve the course of our State Auditor, D. W. Wilder in exposing and op posing the use of the state finances for pri vate and unauthorized purposes; and also for his expose of the discrimination which is made in tbe favor of tbe property of rail road corporations in the matter of taxation. We call the attention of our legislature to this matter, and demand that these corpo rations be required to be aa their just share of the pnblic burthen. That all processes and considerations that have heretofore provided in the choice of the U. S. Senator for the State of Kansas ought to discarded, and a new departure made, with a view to the choice of a man worthy that high position. After considerable discussion turning mainly upon the matter of the 50 per cent tax penalty, and the alterations proposed by Mr. Diefeudorf (County Clerk) the reso lutions were unanimously adopted. Upon motion of J. A. Blackman the Sec retrry of tbe meeting was requested to fur nish for publication a report of these pro ceedings to the'editor'of the Leavenworth Times, and to forward the report so pub lished to our representative elect of this leg islative district. L. J. BALDWIN, Chairman. H. Dcxs, Secretary Lenape, Dec 19th 1873. 1 1 emu. "Her face was her fortune" has just been issued, it will speedily be followed by "His Cheek Was What Slade Him." St. Louis Democrat. "Good-Rye, you old scolding, red headed heathen," wrote a Dubuque man to his wife the last thing before suiciding. She says she'd like to have got hold of him for about one York minute. Wendell Phillips in a lecture entitled 'Ulances Abroad," delivered at Association Hall last Saturday night, said: God forbid that we shall ever return to the delusion of specie payments." New York Post. Providence, in beautiful accord with its name, has pnch thoroughfares as Faith street, Ilope street, Joy street. Benevolent street. Happy street, &c. The other day a man was found fainting from starvation in Benevolent street, and was carried through Happy street to an hospital. Job says his tiatience is nearly exhaust ed by witching the woman of the period. He met Slisn Fuss-and Feathers lately in Broadway. She wore a crown of plumes around her head,and long trailing ones down her back; her jacket was girt round and about with feathers. She could not have carried more feathers unless previously tarred. "In fine," quoth Job, who is fond of .Scriptural quotations, "she looked as though she had taken up tier bed and walked." A Syracuse pipjr states that a "lady kleptomaniac" in that city has stolen goods to the amount of $10,000 and her husband has invariably footed the bills. Her latest theft was a box of kid gloves; the husband paid the bill as usual, and then asserted, with a tear in hi-, eye, that he had tried every jo.ssib!e remedy to cure his wife of her unfortunate malady. What must the ordinary atmosphere of a Pennsylvania school-room be? Seventy children were nearly suffocated by coal gas in a school-room at Oakland, Pa., tha other day, and the teacher never perceived that there was anything unusual in the air of the room until the simultaneous falling of twenty children from their eests suggested that something was not quite right. "Who hurt you, bub?" asked a pedes trian yesterday of a small boy who sat howl ing on the curbstone. "Johnny Kydd," sobbed the victim. "I'll see about him if he does it again," remarked tbe man, condol ingly, but the boy suddenly stopped howling and exclaimed: "Just leave him alone. When I grow up I'll get on the police force, and then I can belt him all I want to !" It is related of one of the children of Sir. Sigourney, of Boston, whose family was lost on the Ville de Havre, that prior to their sailing though elated with the pros pect ot a voyage, she presisted in saying: "But we are going to be drowned!" had they reached France in safety, nothing would have been though tof the childish ex pression, but now it is remembered aa prophetic. Mark Twain, at a public dinner in London, recently, responded to the toast "The ladies, and in the course of his re marks said: "Ah, yon remember, vou re member well, what a throb of a pain, what a great tidal wive of grief swept over us all when Joan of Arc fell at Waterloo. Laugh ter. Who does not eorrow for the loss of Sappo, the sweet singer of Israel ? Laugh ter. Who among us does not miss the gen tle ministrations, the softening influences, the humble piety of Lucrezia Borgia? Laughter. Who can join in the heartless lible that woman is extravagant in dress when we can look back and call to mind our simple and lowly mother Eve arrayed in her modification of the Highland costume." Visiting cards for this season are of the finest unglaized Bristol board, and a little larger than formerly. Some are in delicate tinf. The shape is more oblong than square. The London styles for gentlemen are very small those for tbe ladies very large. When the words are not printed on the corners of the card.turning them down in the following order will denote the object of the call: The right hand upper corner is used to denote a simple call or visit; the left hand upper cor ner signifies congratulation alter weddings, engagements, etc. The left hand lower cor ner is used for condolence; and the right hand lower corner for a visit previous to leaving town- It is customary to have the words vitite, fdicitalion, condoleanec and adieu printed on the reverse si Je of the corners. When leaving for a long journey, or voyage to the other side, it is necessary to send cards to friends with the simple word eongr, or P. P. C, In the left hand lower corner. Abb Eliza Tanas;. The Hcond lecture of this briliant and ac complished lady was dilivered at Laing's hall Iat evening to a large and apprecia tive audience. Although laboring under a plight indisposition Mrs. Young succededin making a clear comprehensive statement of the affairs of the Mormon church and the making of the business and political organi zations in the territory of Utah. This is the second time she has deliverd this lecture and the masterly manner in which she ac quitted herself reflects great credit on her ability a public speaker. Tbe lady ex pressed herself as being well pleased with Leavenworth so much so in fact tbat we have in no le s authority than that of her agent Mr- J. B. Pond that she intends tak ing dp her residence here as soon asher lec tnrs engagement? in the East are finished, as Mr. Pond contemplates doing the tame identical thing there is bo occasion for any farther comment. Mrs. Young leetnree ia Kansas City to-night aad leaves this after noon oa the Missouri Pacific road for that delectable place. TOPEKA. Gossip from the State Capital Something about the Organiza-. tion of the House and the Grasgers. Tormut, Dec. 21, 1S73. JUor Tints: During the past week several gentlemen and members of the Legislature elect, be longing to the Grange order, have been in Topeka in consultation with men here look ing towards perfecting an organization of the Grange members, and Democrats and Inde pendents in opposition to the Republican party. Prominent aiuung those mentioned is Col. Potter, of Coffee county, a member of the House, and although no newspaper mention of it has been made, and tbe whole thing is working in secret, I have gained sufficient of the programme adopted to state the following: A circular is to be immediately issued to the Grange members elect, stating in strong terms the necessity of standing aloof, in ths organization of the Legislature, from the Republican party, but to nominate and sup port candidates of their own, and inviting them to attend a caucus in Topeka one week previous to the assembling of the Legisla ture. Should this meet the views of all the members of the order elect, and they are willing to pledge themselves in caucus to adhere to their own nominations, then the opposition in the shape of Democrats and Independents will be asked to coalesce with them, and in this way control the House or ganization. It was stated by Col. Potter that he felt confident the Grange members would readily assent to the programme, and give their best support. They not only hope ur this movement to control tbe liou.-e, but elect thdr man for Senator, whoever he may be. I did not hear any name broached. John Martin, Esq., member from this coun ty, was consulted, and tendered a prominent position in the' new movement, but he de clined. Although he assured them that he would vote with the opposition in the House, he could not consent to any leadership in any political movement at present. It was stated that the Hon. Sidney Clarke favored the programme which I have men tioned, and it would meet with his unqualifi ed 8Upport,whether it succeeded in controlling the Legislature the present winter or not. The organization he thought would at least, if made thorough, grow in strength, and next year be a power in the State iu shaping a State ticket. This new movement may seriously disturb the present status of things, and while I do not believe that Republicans will leave their party, or be cajoled into anything of the kind, there is no doubt that care and judgment, in the organization of the House, as well as in the character of legislation enacted the com ing winter, and the choice of a United States Senator will have to be exercised to keep the party strength in next summers canvass. What positive strength the new movement will get in caucus, of course must be deter mined hereafter. There are some very wily men at work, who have grown gray in politi cal cbicanry. Although they have been "shelved" some half dozen times in the his tory of the State, like Banquo's ghost, they are Lard to wipe out. The Scofield-Pomeroy matter has been the gossip of the week in legal and political circles. It has overshadowed almost every thing else. The Kansas City Times keeps a man here bushwhacking tbe politicians and legal gentlemen supposed to "know 'for cer tain" all things, but he has made little head way yet. Sir. Kyan, Schoueld a deputy, has been to say "red-hot" for a week or more, though there would seem to be no necessity for his "taking on" on account of Sir. Sco field. Time will show whether he Las been wronged or not. The first Slonday in January may develop something in regard to the trial of Sir. Pomeroy; but it is a mere matter of specula tion yet whether a nolle will be entered, or the defence ask a continuance. If there are those who know, they are keeping sly at present. Kaw. Th(t Late I'rof. Aeaili nnil Ni!rlln.-l-!.. A CARD FROM ROBERT DALE OWES'. lo the Editor of the X. Y. Tubunt. Sir: A biographical notice of the late Prof. Agasiz in to day's Trioui ha- thii; His love for truth in science was only equalled by his antipathy to shams and falsehood. In the rare Jinst-inces where he thought imposition was practiced, it called forth from him a fierce wrath that a.-toni-lieil those who had seen the gentler side of his nature. Some friends made an arrangement when a noted exhibition of "Spirtu ilNts" was in progress, to have a scientific investi gation of the alleged "phenomena," andj in vited Prof. Agassiz to make one of the party. He turned his back upon hi? friends, point ing them to the open door in almost epetch less anger, and only adverted to it afterward in expressions of surprise that anyliody who knew him should inult him by asking him thus to waste his lime. Tardou me if I doubt the accuracy of this statement. Xot the fact that the Professor declined to be present at the proposed meet ing, for I have heard that he did, but the "speechless anger," ascribed to him, and the resenting as an "inult" a lriendly invitation to look into a subject that has engaged the attention of earnest men in all civilized countries, including among the number emi nent scientihc names. With his hands, alas! over filled, it was natural and reasonable that he hould refine to engage in a field of inquiry foreign to his pursuits and where he probably thought it to be unlikely that anything positive and use ful would be found. But I respect too high ly his good temper and good sense, I know too much of his genial and kindly nature, to credit the alleged manner of his refusal. He probably knows by this time, as we shall all know by and by, that the field he was too busy to enter i, of all scientific fields, the one that yields most toward the ethical pro gress and the dvilization of our race. Henry Ward Beecber, in an address made last year to the theological Etudents of Yale College, said: "You cannot afford to Bhut your yea to the truths of human nature. Every chris tian minister is bound to look fairly at these things. I read that ?Huxley refused to at tend a seance of Spiritualists. He said, con temptuously, that it was a waste of time, and gave expression to other sentiments of disdain. I am not an adherent to the spir itual doctrines; I have never seen my way dear to accept them. But phenomena that are wrapping up millions of men, and vitally affecting their condition, are not to be dis dained by scientific men whose business it is to study phenomanology in all its brenches. A scientific man may say that he has no time to examine them, and that some otherman must investigate them; tbat would be right; all men cannot do all things. But to speak of anything of this kind with contempt is not wise. I am not afraid to look at this thing, or at any thine." Is not that the philosophical view to take of a matter which may give us assurance of an immaterial aud immortal part within u, aud of a world, still of human relation, be yond that which is now open to our senses? Robeet Dale Owex. notel Branting, New York, Dec 15, 1S7S. If kere Shall me Public Uoney be c pualtcd t This is now a grave question. Stale, coun ty and city treasurer"' defalcations are the order of the day. Where can we find a sa'e place to deposite our funds ? The safest place we know of is to purchase a handoni diamond ling or pin, a gold watch and chain, and such other Jewelry as are always valuable. Messrs. Hervhtield & Mitchell are offering their entire stock of the finest qual ity. Jewelry of every de-cription, for less than wholesale prices, thus enabling you to invest your money safely. They are celling all their goods at 50 per cent, less than their regular prices, thereby paving you a hand some in t treat in advance. Call and er imine their immense stock at 219 Delaware St. A. Taxpateh. Lives there a man with noe so red who never to himself has said, "I'll pty bejore I go to bed, the debt I owe the printer''' Brandon Republican. Te, there are rome I know full well, but they, I fear, will go to well the place where there's no winter. i'lino'a Star. You're blind, Star, you're reason's dim, or you'd not argue such a whim; e'en Satan bad wonld not have him, who fails to pay the printer. Tupelo Journal. We're glad to know the mearu are found to bring tbe back subscribers round so when you've run your course of yearn, pay then at last your full arrears; bat no arrears to have to pay hi better far, we think and say. LtmdOtcner. THETEAPAETY. How the Bestos People Celefen ted the AniTersary. The Tea Party of 1773, as im ported by the Bestoa Ad Tertiser at that Time. From Hit Boston AdvertiMr, Dc 16, 1373. Tbe extra issued from this office oae hun dred years ago on the first inst. has been precisely copied in fac-simile by the care ot Sir. Drake, and by this time in the hands ot more people than ever read the original. Ia our weekly issue of tbe 20th of December, 1 1 1 3, was given the following account of the transaction at Griffin's wharf, which to-day celebrates : On TupsJjv but the bodr ofMocIeot this and all the a-ljacent towns, and others from th distance ot tweutj miin, asiemoied at ta oiatoutn meet in2 bouse to inquire the reason of thedelav In lead in; the ship Dartmouth, Kith th tjit India Tea I.jcL to London, and having found that the own er nsu not taken tne necessary uepa lor mat par Kose, ther eniovned him at his peril to demand ot the collector of the customs a clearance for the hip. and appointed a committee oi tea to m it performed; after which they adjourned to the lnurMijrioiiowiDi, ten o'clock, ineyinra met and twin; intormed by Mr. Botch, that a clearance waa retued him. ther eojorned bim instantly to enter protest and apply to the gotenour for a pas port by way of the castle, and adjourned again to three o'cioiK lor tne same day. jli waica tune they ajain met and alter waiting till near sunset Mr. Hutch came in and informed them that ha had accordingly entered his protest and waited oa the gorernour lor a pass, but excellency tola mm mat be could not consistent with his duty grant it un til his rcel wis quained. The people finding ail their efforts to prrserre the property of the East India Company and return it sale to London, frustrated b j th tea consignee, the collector of customs and the gorornourof the province dissolvkd their meeting. But behold whs t followed! A number of brave and reseiut men determine! to do all in their power to sav their country from the ruin whl'h their enemies had plotted, m lesa than lour hour emptied every chest ol tea on board the three ships commanded by the Canuins Mali, Bruce and Coffln amounting to Si: chests, intothe sea. without the least dam age done to the fhipt or any other property The masters and owners are well pleased that their ships are thus cleared ; and the people are, almost uni TervtUy congratulating each other oa th happy erent. In an other part of the same paper was nrinteii a letter from an Mmriartial Unaer- vtr," who affected to be a Khode Islander visiting Boston . He says : Previous to the dissolution a number of neneoi supposed to both Aborginat native from their LomMita, approaching near the door of the as sembly, cave the war-whoop, which was answered by a few in the galleries of the house wnere the as sembly was convened, hilenee was commanded, ant a prudent and peaeable deportment again en joyed. The savage repaired to tbe ship which contained the pestilential Tea and had began their ravages previous to the dissolution ot the meeting. They applied themselves to the dxtraetion of this commodity in earnest, and In the space of about two hours broke up 31.' chests and discharged their contents into the s oa. A watch aa 1 am informed was stationed to prevent (nibeizlement and not a single ounce of Tea was suffered to be purloined or earned otT. It is worthy of remark that although a considerable quantity of goods of different kind were still remaining on board the veanl, so injury was sustained ; uch attention to private property was oberred that a small padlock belonging to the Capt. of one of the hipj beuig broke, another.wa procured and sent to him. The consignees must attribute to thmelvs th Iosof the property of the fast India Companv. Had they seasonably quieted th mind oi the peo ple by a resignation, alt had been wU. The cua- torn house officials and man whodisgroces majesty by repreentinit him. acting in confederacy with the enemies of their country, era alone to b held answerable for this distraction. The reader of to-day is accustomed every morning to read in his newspaper the per sonal biography of every person who had an important part to play the day before. Our own reporters" give to him, from each ac cessible point of view, the most minute detail ol every event described. To the reader thus rained the brief narratives copied above which are all that our predecessors in this office thought proper to print regarding tbat action in which began the separation of the United States from England may seem strangely, even absurdly, lacking in detail. He may draw unjust inference aa to the spirit and the method of the journalism of the fathers. The truth i-, that the plan for action was formed under the roof of the man who wrote the narrative. In his rarlor the band ol dis guised Indians assembled. From his house they repaired together to the scene of their enterprise. As has happened in a hundred other cases of critical iniKrtance, the office of the journalist wu itself the place where a great resolution was taken and a great deed wji horn. Benjimin Edesat that time pub lished ami edited the uoeton hazette, which, with every other iournal then published in Boston, except the Massachusetts Spy, long Hince lapsed into the journal whicn were united in life office of the Daily Adcertiicr more thin forty years ago. Benjamin Edea w one of the men who saw theneeemity for action, and was pot afraid to take the respon sibility of action. In the room over his printing-otfice the leader met to consult, and in his house the actors who had been agreed upon as-jumed their disguises. From his hotue Ihey started to do the duty assigned to them, which proved to be nothing leas than tbe division of an empire. In his desk, until his death, was the only correct list ever made of the actors in the affair. He in not .known ever to have exhibited it. After his death it was taken away, and it was in all nrlnbilitv destroyed. There is a pretentious system, now, of what i called journalism greatly bepraised sometimes which would maintain that the duty of Mr. Bleu to his readers required him to print this document the next morning. Under euch ppurions "journalism," one add another newspaper in the late war offered constant aid and comfort to the rebels in arm. But the Boston Gatette in this exi gency was true to the duty of a newspaper. The conductors of the QaztUt knew that their first duty was to their country as their successors, under whatever name, have always construed theirs to be. It may be to late for us to offer an opology for any short-coming in our report of the Boston Tea Party aa nublL-lieil at the time, isut tuts is our apoi- czv: That the editor of the print which this journal succeeds was one ot the prime movers in the deed ; and that tbe narative which he published ia studied, word by word, in the arrest of the cause which he espoused. The tei party proper took place in Faneuil Hall and was presided over by Col. T. W. Higginson. The real object of the meeting was explained in the followinz introductory remarks delivered by Col. Higginson. Ladies and Gentlemen: I have been requested to call this meeting to order; but it is not easy lo call such a large assembly as th'u to order, because there are so few seats for its accommodation. We had not expected so large a gathering. This has been called the "cradle of liberty," and women have the right to understand any thing so domestic as a cradle; but the cradle they rock to-day is the cradle of women's right's. We hare met to dedicate old Fan euil Hall to another one hundred years more "taxation with representation." We shall fight it out on that line if it takes another century. For years the women ol New Eng land knew what was coming if the men did not; four yearn before the men did their part 300 women of Boston, in one week, had sent in their names as abjuring tea; 126 unmar ried ladies also sent in their names and pledged themselves to renource tea. The Boston ladies of to-day keep the tea and the memory also. At the same time a meeting was held in the Old South to take measures against the landing of tea, and the three most prominent men were Adams, Quiacy and Phillips; from that day to this there never has been a time when a Phillips has been wanting to speak the truth and shame the sinner. Among the notable speeches ol the day, were those of Wendell Phillips and Fred erick Douglass. Mr. Phillips in the course of his remarks said: "The representative of Benjimin Frank lin to-day is not the man who puts up light ning rods. He is a Morse inventing the tsl egraph, a Cyrus Field hiding it in the ocean, and a Whipple giving us a map of tbe moon. The Hannah Moore of to-day is not writing essays on education. She is going from Bolon to St. Louis, every night work ing for the ballot In the hands of women. Applause. The Copernicus of to-day is not the man measuring the distance to the snn or weighing it with a greater accuracy. He is the illustrious scholar wbo has just left us at Cambridge, to whom nature revealed herself in a new language, and who ha taught us;how the worlds themselves were made. And thin we are to read the duty of history, which is to pick out the lemon and the inspiration of a hundred years ago, not putting our feet down actually in their tracks, but doing what they would have done had they stood here to-day. Mr. Frederick Douglass made a character istic speech advocating the claims of women to the ballot. He spoke as follows: REMARKS OF FREDERICK DQCifAK. Frelerick Douglas) was then introduced, lie spoke a3 follows: I am quite unexpectedly railed upon, la dies and gentlemen, so say my word, and I hardly know, in consideration of the fact that I am rtquiredfo be in another place in a few minutes, that I ought to occupy any of your time. I was just meditating an escape I am up to tbat trick, you know when I was called upon by your chairman to say a few words lo yon. The oaly thug that I can say ia eoaaectioa wkh this great eabjeet ambeeaweusmii eenersai others, I taoackt if I bad aa of apeakiag hen that Iwoaldaayiai aesrrae soBMUinc of tae vast ia ia the coaditiaa el tW colored i country ekee hehea beaa allowed to vote. However, before I had this illastratioa, be fore the exaariasaat wsa tried, kiedaata rnvsdf to ary that I was decidedly ia fcver , oftheexteaanacaasatowosaea. Ia- deed, from tart hrfianiag nf aiy ronaerttea with the ahedkioBJsU I eaw that the prie rlale oa which I deataaded freedom for the hlaek raaa applied equally to wosea. Applmaa. -I believe that this mvet-ameat will acver he , ia a safe or ia a healthy tioa until all the good people uader it, ail tne taa people, aim, hall aava tie at least ecored to taem of IwianasT of good or whatever of bad there at ia intothe governsaent; aad I am aoirat my religious opinion, so eaurely free that notion of tne total depravity of maa, and such a believer ia the. moaoademiiat: good ia human aatnre, that I believe that all the bad can be treated with that of the geoa, tbatalljibe igaoraace caabo trusted warn all the intelligence, aad that th ment will never be what it ought to be all tbe people wbo live under it aava method of dintuing or infusing into the government. I am not giving yea much light, I know. I wonder why aeeale make speeches at all, why they argue at aH. I used to wonder why men argued the right of the negro to freedom, and woadered how men could even differ about it. The oary idea the abolitionists enunciated pie it did not rr quire argument. LEGAL. SheriftSale. STATE OF KANSAS. County or Lkavsswostb. ' In the District Court of the First Ju J icial District of the State of Kausas sitting in aud for Leaven worth county in said Mate. EmmaG. Halsey assignee otth German asings Bank of Leavenworth, Plaintiff. i ' I A. C Van Duyn, adniinis-1 tratov of the estate of) Madison Mill, deceased, Lafayette Mills and J Margaret; Mills, widow ofsaidIadlsoaMllIs,El.lc . , IenM. Mitchell, wife of .'" '3 William U. Mitchell, Emma J. Brewer, wife of Dr. John W. Brewer, Frank U. Mills, Clara Mills, and MargaretMiUe, heirs at law of Madison Mills, deceased, Defend ants. TsUBUC notice I hereby i given that under aad L by virtu of th judgment rendered ia th abov numbered action, in and bv th above Court, and of an execution issued ea said Jd( roent to me directed and delivered, I will oa Thunday, the 29th day of January, A. D. 1374. at 1 1 o' clock a. m., of said day. at th Court Hi door in th City et Leavenworth, In the county state aioreaaia, oner at nuouc ai ana sou rstelv to th highest bidder, for rash la each of the following described tract of land, situate, lying aad being ia the County of Leavenworth sad Stat of Kansas, naatelr : th west half of the southeast quarter ot section number seven (7) township number nine (B) ol rang number iwb-tv-tbrse (3) containing ekhtv (SO) acre move or Isee,and th whole of lot number two (2) of atid section number seven IT) to said township number nine () of said range number tweaty-thre (a) containing according to th government survey thirty-four and nay one-hundredth (34 60-100) except one and thlrty-ave one-hundred ths (135-100) acre ol of tbe south end thereof, and the east twenty eight and 8T-10O (2$ 87-100) acres ot a tract of I contain hlty-seven and TJ-t Wt.57 75 100)acra. whist tract of afty-saven and 75-100 (57 75-M) acres comprise according to the government survey th whole of lot numberthrse(3)which contain forty-seven a 15-l(iO (47 15-100) acre of said section number sev en (7) in said township number nine () of said range number twenty-three (iS) and the east tea and 60-100 (10 60-!uu) acre of let number lour (4) or said sectlcn number seven () in sauu lownanip number nine (9) of said rang numbertwenty-thr (23). Said property baa been levied upon and is to be sold as th property of (aid defendant Madison Mill. THOMAS LEONARD, Sheriff of Leavenworth County, Kansas. Sheriff's oOce, Leavenworth City, Kansas, De cember ZSrd.A. D. 1S73. BvaoN Siikbbt, Attorney tor Plaintiff. SherlaTa Sale STATE OF KANSAS, I Cocmtv or Lkavijiwoktu. j In the District Court of the First Judicial District ofthe Mat of Kansas, sitting in aud for Leav enworth County, in said State. Emma O. lialsey. Assignee 1 ol J. L.Aberoatby au.I j. N. Abernatby, partners! as Abernatby bros, Plain- tiff. I vs. I A. C Van Duyn. Adiuinis- I trator of the Estate ofl Madison Mills deceased ; Case No. 1,JJK Margaret Mills, widow ot said Madison Mill. El len M. aiitchell, wife of William G. Mitchell, Em ma J. Brewer, wife of Dr. -John W. Brewer. Frank M. Mills, Clara Mills and Margaret Mills, heir at law of Madison Mills, de ceased. Defendants. J PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that under and by virtue ofthe judgment rendered In Use above numbered attlon, iu and by the abov named Court, and of an execution blued oa said Judgment to me dliected and delivered, I will on 'Ihunsday, the 29fA day of Junuary, A. D. 1874. at 11 o'clock a. u. of said day, at the Court House door in the City of Leavenworth. In the County and State aforesaid, offer at public sale and sell separately to tbe highest bidder, for cash in hand, each of the following desrrlfeed tracts of land, situ ate, lying and being In the County of Leavenworth state of Kansas, namely: tbe west half ofthe southeast quarter of section num ber seven (7) in townshlpnumber nine (!!) of range number twenty-three (Si) containing eighty (90) acres more or less, and the whole of lot number two (2) of said section number seven (7) in said township namber nine ('J) of said range number twenty-three (1) containing according lo the gov ernment survey thlrty-fuurand 50-1UO (34 5U-10V) except one and 35-100 (I 35-100) acres off of the south end thereof, and the east twenty-eight aad ST-lOl (JS 37-luQ) acres ol a tract of land coatalnlng nny-eerenand 75-10 (17 7"-l"0) s eras' which tract of nfty-sevsn and 75-1' "J (57 75-lon) acre comprise according bith government survey the wholeof lot number three (3) which contains forty-svo and 15-100 (47 15-luo) acre of said section number seven (7) la said township number nine (9) of mid range numcer twenty-iuree i) ana me east ten and 0-10l (10 0-100) acres of lot number four (4) of said sectl n number seven (7) in said township number nine (V) of said range number twenty-three Said property has been levied upon and is to be old ss th property ot said Defendant, Madlsoa Mills. THOMAS LEONARD, Sberlffof Leavenworth county. Kansas. onenrrs umce, iavcnwona city, December 23rd. A. D. 1573. Bxaox Saaaar, Attorney for Plaintiff. Sfceri.T'B Stale. STATE OF KANSAS, County ot Lear eaworth, I In the District Court of l be First Judicial District of the State of Kansas, sitting in and for L enworth County, in said Stat. William Dennlstown, PlaintiaV va A. C, Van Duyn, administrator of the estate of Madi son Mills, deceased, Mar garet Mill, widow of Mad bon Mills, Ellea M. Mitchell wl e of William. O. Mitchell, Emma J. Brewer, wife ot John J. Brewer, Frank H. Mills. Clara Mills and Margaret Ml Us. bcira at law ot Madison Mil!, Atlantic Bank of New York, Emmati. lialsey, Bobert Hai sey and Stewart Van Vliet, Defendant. Ca4Xo.3.52S. PUBLIC NOTICE la hereby glten that under, and by virtue of the judgment rendered In th above entitled action In aad by th abov named Court, and of a special execution Issued oa smid judgment to me directed and delivered, I will oa Thurtday, the 20(A day of January, A. D. 1874, it 1 1 o'clock a. in., of said day, at th Court Hooae door in tbe City of Leavenworth, In the County and State afoneaid, offer at public sale and sell sa erately to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, rack of the following descriLed tract of land, aitnat. ItIdi and being in tne Loontv ot taveaworta savs State of Kansas, namely: th southeast awaits of section one (1). town nine (), range twmtytwe (2J), east, containing one hundred and sixty acres; also fractional section six (), town nla (), south of range twenty-three (3), east, con taining seTenty-nve and 25-10O acres, and adjoia iog the above named 10) acre on the east, aad) bounded on the east by the Missouri River, Said property is to be sold aa commanded by th said special execution, and In pursuance ol add ' a .rfmw.u irniriftn A Il.7JaAJ B.K-KM S. A4MT, Bnna ol learenwonn tjounty, Kan Pheriff'aoInce.LeaTenworthUty, Kansas, ber. 23d A D. 1873. Brio Smxar, Attorney for Plaintiff. dec2wtf SherlaTa) Sale. STATEOFsTAN8A, 1 Cof!iiroLBAVaawomi. J In the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State ol Kansas sitting in and forLsaven- wcrth County la said State. Bobert H. Ecton, Plaintiff, 1 TL I J. M. Gallagher, Louisa Gallagher aad L. C Holmes, Defendants. r Caw No. 5,r", Tt I and hv virtue of the judgment rendered la the aboTe entitled action in and by th abovo naaved Court, aad of aa execution issued on said Julgsamt to m directed and delivered, I will oa Bja) Saturday, the 21A day if January, A. D., 1874. at It o'clock of raid day, at th Court House door. In th 3tv of Leavenworth in tbe County and Stat ifi III oiler at public sale and sell separately to th high est bidder, tor cash ia hand, each of the folium; described tracts of Land, situate, lying aad beiag la the County of Leavenworth and Slate of Tea, Namely: Lota number twenty-eeree, (27), twenty, eight a) and twenty-nine (') la block number n(ty-ooe(3I) In the orignal plat of the City ot Leavenworth. Said property ha been levied upess n.i la ia be sold as the strooertr of th abov on- ed Defendants, J. M. uauagacr ana xaMtias uaua- gher THOMAS LEONARD, Sheriff of Leavenworth Conaty, Kane SberiiriOmcv, Lanveawortb. City, Tiaaii. December 33d, A. ., UTS. 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