Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1870 — Page 1

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The Decatur Eagle.

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ATTORNEYS. JAIES R. FORO, Attorney at Itw, DBCATVR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Tax es. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnfitf R. S. PETKRttON, Attorney BECATVR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is a No- ! tary Public,anddrawsDee'ta Mortgages. ' and other instruments in writing. OFFICE—Over Dorwin & Bro's. Drug Store. vl2n33tf DANIEL I>. HI II IR, Attorney oat DECATUR, ' INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. ‘ v!ons2tf D. .STB ■> A BA KE R , Attorney at Liaw, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice law in Adams and adjoining coun’ies; secure pensions and other claims against the go vert, mt nt; buy and sell real estat< ; exnm nc tithe and pay taxes, nnd other bus : ncae pertainingto real estate agency. 13-28 CHARLES W. FRA ACE. Attorney at La at, DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to nil ti.sisiness eu’rusted io h.s cate. Is a Notary Public, Draws Deeds and Nlmtg.igea and other Instruments iu Writing. Office in J. R. Bobu's Law Office. 13:3c P T WE EKS, Attorney at Lavi. DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice law in Adams and adjoining counties. Is Deputy I’ioseeutor. Office opposite the 'Recorder's office. 13:42tf. . PHYSICIANS F.A. JELLEFT. W. >l. SCIf T.CCK" JELLEFF& SCHKCf E, Ptaj'Niclana and Nui£<M-S DECATUR. INDIANA. OFFICE—Ou Second Street, oppusni the Public Square. vbiiluti < T HA R LEfc L. CI R l ISN, Pbyaiclan and Nuigccn, DEUATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently lucattu n< this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vieluity. OFFICE- At the Burt Douse. 11-ut A A1) R E W ITo R C . Physician and Sitrju-on, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFl'l'E—On Second Street, over V . G. 'nicer & Brother's lint dw at r ■ to) < vSn4‘. ts. A. J ERWIA', IN. If.. SurgeoD.' Dispensary, A relink Bl< < k. v11n25 FORT WAYNE, IND. sTcTayer'n, m. RESIDENT Bar and Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west cornel Main £ Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. to“ Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44 REAL ESTATE AGENTS. JAJI E K R . 8080, Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good 1 farming land, several Town tents, nnd a largt quantity of wild land for sale. If you warit to buv a good faint he will sell it to you. If you want your land void he will sell it for yon. No sale, no charge. vlCnfi AUCTIONEER. CHARLEK H. FRA ACL, Auotionoer, DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 NNOUNCEB to the public that lie is j\ a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, nnd will attend all Public Sales when requested; OFFICE—In J. R Bobo's Law office. j. p. wa e « o¥e r , Licenced Auctioneer, RESIDENCE near Salem, Adams Co.. Indiana. P st-Office address, Wilshir.e, Ohio. •. Mjr Special attention given to crying public sales. HOTELS. NIEK»E BOISE, l. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. I Third St., Oppotite the (Jourt Hvutt, DECATUR, INDIANA. > r |’'HE traveling public wftj find this j 1 House a desirable stopping place. i Good sample rooms. vllnb .31 AY ER HOUSE . J. W. BULL, Prupiieioi, Comer of Oulhum and H’«tywe Strtett. FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. ’ vl2n7 , U MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. V ?d 58 -IAN, Proprietor, ' W>*t Main Strrtt. nrar thr I\llir Sqnart FORT W'ANYB, INDIANA.

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A I tmaiknble Discovery in Sullivan County. 7 be Footprint* of ClviliratloD Discovered One 111 rilrrd nnd Fiahly Feet Eelow tbe Sar.are nt the Earth—A Stea t»errenr a'ao Exbi n «-d. 1 r<m the {•uVivan County Union. Oik- < t ti e ni<>st eitieiilar ami in iklctlul discoveries <1 the age wnsrirde in the Currys'ille coal ' niiiics. a few days ago At a ■ depth <>f ot e hundred and eight) fetl. while the n ii ers veie cutting through a slate stone, they discov ered the pelrif.ed l>< d.v of asta«<rpent We ex: mil. cd this | etrifi cation, and «av with truth, that it is the finest sp« cimeti we ever saw Untortm ately it was broken into tinc e pieces, tnd a piece from near the c< uter is missing— i erh ps thrown <>ut in a sliver of stone A limb had evidently fallen across ti e serpent, al out eight or ten itit lies from the head, and maslx <1 tie part underneath flat, and strange to say, even ibis thin part wt s formed into stone and taken out peifict lie wrinkles in the body of tLe serpent in its writh ings as if to extihate itself from tLe slick ll.at fell across it, were as I eifeet arid natuntl as the day the t-flair took ] la< e. The head isshap id I'ke ll.at of an etl. and tLe tail, from ii <liii.ti< us. n.ust Lave I u sti| | liul will: a I road fin, oi a flat flesLv snbstar.ee, as a ] repeller '1 he eves and m<*utlt can be dis tiiictlv trend while the Lody iscovered with small sunken spots, similar to those on a hog skin, though not so small or numerous 3 his specimen is five feet three inches long, and near ten inches around the largest part of the Lx <ly It. addition to this most singular curiosity, perfect impressions of leaves, limba, brush and other samples of vegetation were taken <i t lit this (norm* ns depth. A n.< i;g these was a l eaufiltil im I icssit n of wf at is familiarly call <d st.'Le weed, or fern, which glows in almost everv vallev tl.r< ughout the western country. *1 lie most singular specimen is <ll toJ t dost til e<l. and in attempt itig to c< n muricate the fact to our ret dtrs. we feel as though the,.his on of < ur eatth is just as much a nysterv to the ptesent g«nernlior. as it was to those wl.o inh: ITc<l jt I < fore the flood— the "half Laving t< t vet Le< n told.” The sole of a 'D *' or sandal, was taken out in a (onqlete state of p< ti ifi< filiou '1 lie i eci is : J nest perfect, and the nprtssion of something in the Loci. r< si ml ling tu< ks or rails, is Ih it :i <1 ilistinct '1 his s| ecimen is 111 tit eight inches long, and of 1| c usual width. V hit: this disci ven is pcriouslv ii'i'slducd in c< nn<<t on with tie ; cDctal foin ation of the earth sot a tin i n fcii tce ol f l out soventv or <i>l tv n iles around— tht re not I e : ng a Lili of an.v material I eight nor n lavine of depth woithv of remark—not a cavern, and the \\ ::1 ash the larg< st stream within tjds stope, nnd the tnrth almost level rnd ihicklv rrd he: vily tim lend, wl-at mind ten go down in to the lire’s ol tLe earth, one hundred and eighty feet leneath t| e dimly roott-tl aged onks of the felt st. aid solve the no fit ries then unfi'lth il ? Wlint intdigent Icing tan stand aid Lok upon these maiks of civilization, which I ave 1 c< n I uried for ages and ages, and feel that he is not treading on "hallowed ground ?" What pin i: n explore or convey a correct ?| I nciatiou of this connecting link, or joining ol hards, as it wile, with those who must have cxistid veers I efore the flooil? Ii deed we are lost in wtu.iler. and shall h ave the solution to the i x peril ncid. In coim luaion we can not refrain from in| reusing our cnrdld I elict that ti e present agt know nothing ot this little •bull of earth ” in <•< ni| arisen to the realities of what |as I een or wl iu is to le. , 'll e | • trifled scrj int wus taken V Terre Haute ami presentnl to Mr Cl'auncev Rose, who will dis |m>sc ot it n> he may think best \\ e su; got. however, that it. with I ti e sin e or sandnl sole and the I ether specimens, le jJaced in the I Noimal School limbing, as relit fi |of tie unwritten history of the I i-aslanis of the Wabash vallev. <_ — A carriage wras passing away aide hut in rural York, when I tin driver heard screams within ns it sonic orc was l»eiiig munlereit j’l l.e di iv er juir|x i d <l«»wn and pu«hI etl o| en the deiir miml asked w hat jw es the n alter TLe w ife brushed I the tanglixt hair out of l.er ves. | I aril looking savagt-ly nt him. said :j J • W e're Laving a little hell of our ’ own and we've got tlivils euengbi j'to run it We don't need your The carriage paeaed vn. I

JL. 1 Tbe Dictator. TBie Most Poworful A rm.rrd Ship Afloat v —ller Merits and Defects. from the Auburn (A~. I") Xewt. Through the politeness of a gen- i tieman. resilient in this city, we ! have been allowed to extract from a private letter the following very interesting details with regard to the Dictator, which is without doubt, the most powerful vessel ::fl<>at: As to the Dictator. I will try to briefly describe her to you. She ; is the largest and most powerful ; monitor yet commissioned; has all the improvements suggested by the original one, and may be 1 regarded as the exponent ot Ericsson's system—tile embodiment of all his idea. She is truly a mag- . nitkeut iroy-clad. and can whip j any armored ship afloat; at least.' we are willing ti» try. Hes dimensions are as follows: Length overall. 315 feet; be,ween per pendiculars, 286 feet; lx. am, 50 feet: dranght. 21 feet 9 inches; thickness oftnrret 15 inches : con- | structfil ns follows : . First, 6 one . inch plates, rivetted anti secured in , the most improved manner; thei ‘ a plate of solid iron (annealed). 4 i iiH'hes thick, shrunk on when hot, as neatly as a glove: ope inch plates secured as- the first; it thus becomes impossible for an\ bolts to be driven through l>y concussion, as was the case with the original monitor. Side armor. 10 inches of iron bi»cke<l by- 3 feet of wo< d The : fighting pilot house is 13 incliesE thiek;jand its diameter being less ; than half that of tbe turret, its strength is proportionately great er. The main engines, with an es tirnated horse power of 5.000 tons. 56 furnaces in two tiers, but we onlj use the lower, and have I never attempt to develop'd! her i full power. Besides the engines ' lor propulsion, there are 14 smaller ! ones fertile blowers. t»> turn the ■ turri t, to work one of tLe guns, to weigh anchor, hoist a.-hes. to priup ship out. Ac. Armament— Two 15-inch guns, slud weighing 460 pounds. One gun works by I ai d anil is run out by three men. ! The other rati be worked by either ■ steam or liimd From practice I ■ pn ter to work b\ hand, unless the 1 cngageiuent were to be a prolong ■ < d one, Our present complement (the! n i’litntim) consists of 90 Iduo jackets, ami 80 fireman and coal j heavers. When infighting trim ! we are eighteen indies out of wa- ! ter. As a sea boat she is excellent, but needs one improvement, whidi ! I shall speak of -later. From ' Hampton Roads to Key West we| met four modeiate gales, and she, behaved well. She is remarkably , buoyant, and much more lively ’ than 1 anticipated; burying herself three or foui feet in the sea. she would rise easily, hurling the' water in sheets across the. deck, I forming as pretty a n imature wa j terfall on the lee side as one could wish to see The first night out; tn m Tvlx-e Ronds, we carried a | way our wheel rope, and broach , ing to, lay in the trough of the, sea for four hours; every wave swept her. but she rode all grace fully : and had not a serious acci. dent occurred to one of our convoy nil would have been well; ns it was we were obliged to return to '1 y bee. Now. having spoken of the good qualities. 1 must mention one or two seii<>us deficts. Ericson is ur.doiibteillv a man of wonderful genius, but is unwilling to listen to the practical suggestions of those ••whost? business is on the great waters. ’ and who. were he to stul.bondv hold to his plan, would indeed verrity tbe first portion of that Ixautitul psalm. The ••over hang” is not adapted to #ca use. I and no ship, however strong, can , long stand tbe heavy shocks we are sid jicted to in a gale. She rises on one sea. and down she conies in its follower witha shock that strains the whole ship, and throws the spray far al<>ve the turrit. Were she s|n>nson«l the whole diflk-nlty would be over- < <»me, and she would be the best sea boat I ever put my foot in.... The other defect is that the ventilation is imperfect. The air js drawn down the forward ven tilator. first (xissea through the wardroom, then through the berth deck, where the men mess and swing.then it reaches the firemen in the fire room, not quite as fresh as nature intended; then rising, and with no outlet, flows back flgain to the. blowers, t<» l»e redriven to the hire room. Lastly, the j steering'gear is altogether wrong j There are places where, should it i part the sea-wav or in action, we I would l»e perfectly Iwlpless.' In pine case the sea Would prevent our I r<-[ mi ring, in tbe other the enemy's I fire.

Frentice. From among the numerous anecdotes in circulation illustrative of the celebrated journalist's char- 1 aider, we select the following: He accepted the Kentucky civilization with true Yankee grit, and fought his way inside of it Once a man met him on the sidewalk, and fired deliberately at his heart Prentice knocked him down and put his foot on him, "Get up,” lie said. "I don't care to kill yon ” I They met again, year afterward at a Kentucky watering place; the , assailant was dying of consump 1 tion, and he came up, a toughing spectre, and thanked Prentice fur , his life. Mr. Prentice said of journalism j in the days of Clay and the jour j nalisni of the present: "I did n<>t take the monev nor the enterprise . in those days that are now reqnir- • ed. A newspaper did not trv to 1 do much: a political' head was; mainly necessary. Now. the newspapers are able to net on without any polities, in some instances” • If your life were to go over azain I would you choose i forvour profession ? ’ "I don't' know.” he said with a smile; "I would ” Reuben Durrett was editor of; the Louisville Uourrer. the princi j pal local opponent of the Jonrn<d. i in 1858, and kept a >ly paragraph i in its c damns for several days, in i tiinating that Mr. Prentice, while . “under a cloud.' had fallen from a ; gangplank of a steamboat into the ■ I water. Mr. Prentice was intensely . aggravated by this little paragraph , He did not deny its truth. It ■ might have been true, but it was certainly no less objectionable on that account. Probably lie felt that even his great command of i language would pot permit him to ! Ido justice to the subject. He sim i plv announced that if the para-I I graph appiarisl again he would; ; hold the editor personally respon | sible. Os course the paragraph i appeared again next morning — Mr Prentice immediately waited; upon Mr, Durrett, tired twice at i liirn, received two shots in return,' ’the police ititerfered, honor was I ! satisfied, the paragraph* was "can • I celled. ’ and each editor had a ball 1 extracted from under his hide. Win. E Hughes, another riyal j editor, sent Irish llijcrent card up . to Mr. Prentice during a popular ’ ; excitement, and received the fol ■ i lowing reply : "Tell Mr. Hughes' 1 that 1 will be down as soon as I j load ray pistols.” llughe.. how ever, unwilling to give his enemy ! everv advantage of ground and I preparation, withdrew in haste. When the news of the Bull Run ! fight reached Louisville, the in tensest excitement prevailed, and the rebel population paraded the ' streets swearing vengeance against all loval men who came in contact with them. The Journal office I had long been floating a I'uited j States flag from a staff on the roof, ; hnt ’he staff, being too short for ; the flag, a carpenter had been sent ; for • arly in the day to put up a ! longer one. .He arrived at the ; time that quite a threatening dem • onstration was being made in ’ front. The Courier office, which was on the opposite side of the street, was intensely rebel, and it was bruited aboift that a confed’er ate flag would be hoisted upon it I during the day The crowd be tween the two offices was clamor ! ons for the raising of oue flac and the lowering of-tlie other. At this juncture Mr Prentice was inform ed by an excited employe from the counting-room that someboiL. was on the roof pulling down the flag. The old man’s eves flashed fire. ••Then, bv G—d.” said h'\ “go up there and throw the scoundrel ; down among the mob ” During the davs jus? preceding , the war. Mr Prentice became a ( great favorite with the hardy back woodsmen of Kentucky. wh<« nsn all’, came to see him when they ’were in Louisville on business; , not that they were acquainted with him. buL as they tlteniselves would ■ tell him. just to see what he look ed like. Such visits were of course ; 1 |>eculiarlv fwinful tn a sensitive ! nature; though Mr. Prentice had ■. no. recourse birt to endure them Reception rooms are not generally ’in use among, the “provincial” •! newspaper*, and a knock at the i j door is the only intimation of a I, visitor l»cfore he enters the ro'ttn. i j One of these enthusiastic indiv i<lu i! sis shook Mr Prantice warmly by . I the hand one day. when tie ha<l ! come, as he sahl. on a visit of “di i riositv.' ami. sf.er wanning the •■editora features iu various lights I dr« w liiniself up and said : "So. you’re old George D PrvntK*e. air ■ von? Wrill. I'm migiitv glad to i' *ee you Jim Dodd l»et me von ’.jwas goad b»«>king. and I het y<»u i wasu't; ami I think J're trow i ar

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Extracting BuUet* From Wounds by the aid oF Elec- , tricity. A writer in the last number of j The Gentleman x Magazine. savs : I ‘•Curing should boas important as ' killing in the arts of war; extract ing your enemy’s bullets from your own flesh is next duty after putting your bullets into his flesh. Now. , bullet probing is a tiresome and | painful operation, one that ought to be reduced to the perfection of simple certainty So humane phi iosophcrs have thought; and they j have done their best to give their ’ thinkings tangibility. But we are j b mnded by our means; and while there wpre none known whereby a lump of buried lead could be told from a fragment of shattered bone. j probing was slow work. However, j the next time—fur be it—that! i wholesale bullet extraction has to i , be performed, it is to be expected ! i that the army surgeon’s labors will | j be lightened by the help that elec j tricity will ass >r I; for two inveni tors have independently proposed i methods of searching tor and I drawing out metalie missiles from ■ the wounds they have inflicted B >th men told their ideas to the j French Institute atone and the (same meeting (luring the past ' month. M. Trouve was one, he who i made the electrical jewels that de ; lighted fashionable Paris for a few j months two years ago. His new I , bullet probe is a double pointed : needle, each point being connected j by a wire with a little electric bat ■ tery and a bell which rings when- ! ever thev both touch a piece of ' metal. With this divining rod bill i *et searching is a simple business ! The suspected part of the body is ; probed with it. and the instant the ' points touch lead the bell annouuc ies the fact The bullet found, the j worst half of the extractor’s task isover This plan was suggested Iby an Englishman, I fancy, some ' two years ago, but not put to trial . till M. Trouve made an instrument The other proposed is of more liin | inted application, M .Melsons b i its author, and he piomises to [draw fragments ot iron or steel : from a flesh wound by the help ol ! powerful magnets. He can do nothinjb with lead, though, because lit does not follow tire loadstone, i Trouve's is the best idea. There I is qnaintness in the idea of a bul- | let telegraphing its whereabouts.

Romance of Real Life. John M. W<o<d. of North Ad ams. Mass , who was reported to have been garroted and robbed, had the good fortune to win the nf lections of a young lady in New York, who dying left him her prop erty, and this was supplemented upon the death <>( the girl’s moth er by all of her fortune. Alto gether Wood received about 50, 000 in money and an elegant resi deuce in the metropolis. The story of the courtship is somewhat romantic. He was on his way to New York on board one of the Troy steamers, when he met the voting lady. They fell into con versation, and it was soon evident even to Wood's imple understand tug. that the lady was desperate!) in love with him. Whether she forced the courting, or whether he firs • told his love,” we are unable to say; but it was not long Indore Wood was the happy possessor of the infot mation that the young la dy had loved him because of his resemblance to a yoyng man to whom she had lieen engaged, and who was torn troin herby the rude hand of death. She loved him , not so much for himself as for an other: and dying she testified her devotion by leaving him all her propertv — TroyTimes. Necessity of Lore. I Carlyle—is it not?—says that to “cease to fove is to cease to live.’’ True is it that the heart is sending out the tendrils ot’its as fvctioii after Aome object co.ntin ally. But it can never he content 1 with any,hing save God alone. Man is always longing for some thing new, but no sooner is the coveted object attained than it palls upon his taste. And this strong necessity of loving something a man form idols for himSeif, which he invests with fancied perfections, rind when all these fade atfay in his grasj>. and he finds their nnsubstantialitv. he must either lie come a misanthrope or a Christian. When a man has learned to know the infinite Mve of God in Christ, then he thscovers something which will not elude hisdiold and an at section which will not gr -w cold, for the comparison of God’s long suffering and repeated pardon with his own ingratitude, convinces him that it is an Unchangeable Uove.” ’ - • •*

Oar C ivil Service. ■ » < ■■■ One hundred millions »*Krnllar», one fourth the revenue to be raised by our tax nod tariff laws, vanishes before it reaches th? Treasury. One-f jurtlr .of the impost laid for the support of government upon the labor of the working classes and the ability and capital of those who do not live by wages, goes to maintain idlers and cheats in the public offices. One fourth the price paid by toil for its protection by law feeds the worthless lives of those who creep into place to cor nipt or break law. It Ims come to this, that the greatest good of the greatestjmmber manages its pe cuniary affairs for the benefit of the worst few at the cost of the many. In the customs department, it .s estimated by the highest an , thorite that from negligence and connivance, which defects in the law assist, the governrarnt doos notj receive more than one half the d itie it is entitled to. At the port of New York atone there is a year ly loss to the revenue of over thirty millions The tax on spirits fails by tens of millions to yield its due fruit. The journals teem with accounts ot frail Is an 1 defalcations in the public service, in 1 which the successful scoundrels i scorns tn swoop at less than afori time. These operations vary in their methods, being” conducted sometimes with the secrecy of collusion, and sometimes with the * boldness ofdefiance. The scent of such corruption attracts from afar clouds of obscene birds who settle upon our coa<ts as fraudulent importers. thrive by the aid of ve ml accomplices, and return home with their sopil to defame republican institutions. The gibbet, that melancholy sign of civilization ; which greeted the voyager to a ! strage shore, should rise beside our light-house to punish that combined breach of hospitality mid honesty committed bv these Hessian ot trade. Other plunderers along our extended frontier, uniting skill with daring, elude the payment of duties by smuggling, to the ruin of honorable merchants as well as to the injury of the government. Still more outrageously. illicit distillers, trusting the supineness and disdaining the safe purchase of official friends, intrench themselves in the heart of cities, and wage a little war against the troops sent to dislodge them. And others still, boldly steaming into the 1 rgc ports, buy or watch : the opportunity of landing parts of j their cargoes in fraud, and |4ty i from the plunder for the desperate services rendered in. some-cases by their villaifious tools in maiming and murdering the faithful officials set to watch them. No wonder that, with decency discouraged by

such associations, and honesty deterred by such dangers, t-he ei\ il sery'ce sinks steadily into deeper discredit. No wonder, w hen Congress rejects an enlightened plan for its reform,, that on the very day that plan Was defeated, a fraud by a Treasure clerk should have been detected to an amount that would have paid for the expense of establishing it. Thus, instead of creating schools for training voung men in the various branches of the civil Service as other governments have done, we convert <>nr public offices into seminaries where every art of fraud is taught, am! pav our pupils for learning to die tus more shrewdly. The United States indeed “bnilded worse than they knew” in erecting on the island of Manhattan ’hat «ta elv pile which invites tenants worthy of the edifices of Blackwell's. shelters inmates whom the hospital and the bridewell would welcome home, and promotes its candidates from the pot house through public service to the pen-itentia-y. I’ity that so few- exchange official pap for the more wholesome black* bread and bioth of Sing Sing. Yet this dilapidation of our finances, and the consequent strain upon our resources, grave as these mischiefs are, do not complete the view of the serious evils inflicted bv the wretched condition of our civil service These conspicuous samples of negligence pennitted ami wrong tolerated by the supreme power deprave genor al morality, and loosen the strictness of integrity in private affairs. ilt is a grievous evil that dishon ■ est officiate tempt and taint their associate; is. a fearful ganger then every four years new hordes of unprincipled men. despising work, are cast out from the public offices to get their living at the expense of the communitv ; hot this influence is farle-s subtle and corrupting than is the idea thus impl nted in the publiffmmd that the state does not need or care for virtue in its civil servants. What sqneamishness to coinplain of in- ! dividual breaches of trust, of legI islative brilierv. of venality in the ' courts. of universal faithfulness in work, when the state ittelf found a perpetual lottery o! license, ami distributes . its quadrennial prix it among th< most cunning ami I rapaehjos h— A R MaOoxocgH, in Harptr'» -W'ty'izmt.fbr' JbrreA. i Victoria has £2,000,000 laid up. * a