Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 March 1872 — Page 2

The PreslUeuc) as a Perquisite. From Hi rtiictjco Tul uiuWhen the motive in seeking hmI accepting office is to get money out ol it mid out ot its opportunities, the mode of performing its duties is generally that which -.v ill insure the mo.-t money. There is a prejudice in the minds of the masses ot the American people gainst BM who carry an "itching palm' into tho higher offices of the Government. . Statem mship, palriotUm, and impartial judgment can rarely he looked tor from one whose estimate of the duties of his office makes the salary his chief inducement to accept it. Win n. therefore, Colonel Forney exhibits himself before the country as dickering with President (Ir.int as to whether thelattor could atlbrd to resign a life office of eighteen thousand a year in consideration of one term of the Presidency at twenty-five thousand a year, and when we find the President accepting the firt terniorlv on an implied promise that he should have a second at the same salary, we are compelled to ask, in what estimation does the President hold his office? If it is valuable only for its perquisites, there are ceitain railroads

and several lite inurance companies which would pay as high a salary hs the Presideroy. The position of Collector of tie Port of New York, which the President has so jealously kept wit!. ü the limited circle of his confident:.!-! friends, would pay at least twice as Brack, True it has dignity, and ftffof 1fewer oppoitunitios for molding the Ivlicyof the nation. It is not so subimo I field wherein to exercise the powers and display the acquirements of a deep, powerful, and diversified mind, in a manner to quicken the match of progress, or enhance the welfare of the country or the world. But for all this, a man whose thoughts are upon money does not caie. He necessarily despises them ns visionary and meaningless phrases. This conversation with Forney harmonizes in spirit with the general drift of the President's personal and official course since his election. His Cabinet appointments, -as originally made, were parcelled '".it among a few very rich men, who had led the wty in m iking him valuable presents of houses, ic, while a General Two of them were

given to his two personal advisers while a Uenora!. Gratitude for past favois, or services ;o himself individually, dictated the appointment of Rawlins Stewart, Bone, Fish, and Hoar, no one of whom, except, perhaps, Mr. A. T.

of gain in the towns that have been li.ard from would tend to show that the majority w ill I e considerably above the figure. The resi It is the t-lection of the Kepubliean ticket of State officers the election of three Republican mem Ik r of G ngre.-.s t take the seats now OCOUpted by three Democrats ; and the election of a Republican Legislature, which will elect a Republican United States Senator. It is no secret how this success has been achieved. The Radicals hive labored vith an energy and desperation rarely equaled in the history of American politics. They have been assisted by the entire stiength of the Adminis

tration, and by several such rich and powerful monopolies as the Union Pad fie railroad, tho Secretary of which corporation was the chief organier of the Campaign, and is a prominent candidate for the United States Senatorship. Radical orators have discoursed at every QTOat fOodl) and Senator Wilson, the Oily Gammon of radicalism, was sent thither to explain, not how pure the Administration had been, tor even Wil-on repud atcd that task. but how good it wa- going to be. Over and aliov,- all these extraordinary effort! is

the fact that New Hampshire is a Hepublican State. Two years ago the Republican candidate for Governor had a majority of nearly 10,000 over the Democratic candidate, and, with the single exception ot last year, the State has gone Republican lor the last twelve years, at lea-t. The defeat U abundantly compensated by the moral which it affords. This moral is embodied in the obvious deduction that the Democratic party alone stands no shadow ot a chance to prevent the re -election of Grant. The

most hopelessly pig-head Bourbon in the party must now recognize the fact that a Democratic candidate for President could not carry more than onethird of the electoral vote. It follows that the hope of rescuing the country from imperialism and corruption depends solely on the union of all the eh ments of opposition. Tosecure this union, and to achiuve the victory which it almost assures, it is only necessary that the Convention at Cincinnati shall recognize the wide and spontaneous expressions or popuiar approval that have been elicited by the selection of a candidate which was made at Columbus. Chieajo Times, l StA.

nounces its platform as follows: " Let it bt understood that we do not want a Democrat to be elected next fall half so much as we want a gentleman, a states man, ami a man of honor, no matter what his politics, elected over a nepo list, a gift-taker, and a corrupt head of a notoriously numerous and corrupt family." At last one of tiraut's relatives has been f und who does not belong to that class of officeholders who never resign and rarely die. Gen. Lougstreet, Surveyor of the Port of New O leans, has thrown up his office, and. it is said, has at the same time protested against the management of the custom house at that place. Lest any should indulge in the nope that his example may prove infectious in the Grant family, it should be borne in mind that he is not an otlshoot of the genuine Grant stock, but is only a distant connection of the family by marriage, and there is therefore little hope that the complaint will run through the family. It is stated that some time prior to the assembling of the convention at

Chicago in ISttO, Mr. Lincoln recommended .ludge David Davis as the candidate for the Pre ideney, as a man possessing all the qualifications for the position, and of unquestioned integrity. The New York World has a correspondent who advocates the nomination of the Hon. Charles Francis Adams for the Presidency by the Democrats, and the World cordially seconds the suggestion. In doing so, howevt i, white declaring that Mr. Adams's qualifications

for the office are pre-eminent, tho World expresses its willingness to support either Mr. Trumbull. Judge Davis, or Gov. Brown, if nominated.

The Nevada Democracy. At a recent metinsi of the Democratic

Stewart, would have been, at that time, State Central Committee of Nevada the

selected by any other person for a Cabi

net position. I he Cabinet appointments seemed to be valued as perquisites for paying private debts, not as a means of i lacing statesmen in charge of the Government. Messrs. Fish, Borie and Hoar were appointed for the pleasing manner in which they had entertained the Pres dent. Of course, such a mode of appointing invited the whole country to compete for office for making presents and rendering other pecuniary and personal services. In these or any other appointments, no Republican leaders were consulted. No impression gained entrance into the President's mind that the Republican Earty, and its leaders in the Senate and louse or country at large, were to have voice in his counsels. The Vice-President and the leading Republican members of Congress might as well have been Democrats for all the share they were invited to take in the counsels of their Chief. It was not a Republican victory, but the victory of the Geneial and his family, that had lifted him to power. We have not often alluded to the ar

poiiitments of relatives, becau-e, however numerous or worthless they might be, we do not regard them as publicly to demoralizing as the appointment of patrons, of men who have only earned their positions by subserviency to an individual whether by entertaining him, giving him houses, or otherwise pushing hi private interests. Where this system of polite corruption contami nates the fountain of official dignity and power, the lower stream cannot run clear. The favoritism of the President for Murphy, growing out of the social festivities of Long Branch, may seem tobe mere good-fellowship so long as it is confined to the amusements of the watering-place. But when Murphy receiver instructions to pack the New York .State Conventions, in 1871, with delegates wko believe that Grant ought to he renominated in 1872, and when he proceeds to do this by fraud, force and bullying, we perceive a relation between the watering-place festivities and the diigraceful and tyrannical movements in the primary conventions which is not attractive. We cannot assent to the low estimate which regards the Presidency, with all its great powers, exceeding for the time those of any other human potentate, as the mere means of enriching one's self and relatives, and rewarding those who aid in the same work. Yet this has been President Grant's esti mate of the position, and the consequences have led to most of the com plaints against him. it is not so much that he is not a statesman, as that he does not conceive that he ought to be. He assumes that any other person in his place would have the same picay une ideal of the objects for which he was placed there, viz. : to get money, and to help those who help him. This, in legislation, is known us log-rolling, and the courts o, laW have called it by some severe nones. Whether it is any better in Executive administration, the people are beginning to inquire. The Result in New Hampshire. The advices that have been received from the election in New Hampshire, on yesterday, indicate that the Republicans BaVO carried the State by at least 1,000 nvijority. Indeed, tho percentage

following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, In view of the early meeting of the National Democratic Central Committee, to decide upon the tuture policy of the National Democracy, it becomes appropriate for the Democracy of the several States to express their opinion as to the course most conducive to the spec iy and permanent success of the Democratic party ; that said Committee may act intelligently and in full harmony with the Democracy throughout the country; therefore,

Ju'solved, lhat, in the opinion of this Committee, the elements of the opposition to the present Administration, whether they exist within or without the organization of the Democratic party, should be consolidated in the approaching campaign, that the united people may be afforded one more opportunity to express and enforce the convictions of a majority of the Republic, and that in furtherance of this purpose we invite the co operation of all who entertain similar views, irrespective of past partisan associations. Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Committee, the adoption of what is known as the Missou.-; policy in the nomination for President of the United States is expedient and advisable, and promotive of the best interests of the Democratic party, both nationally and in the State of Nevada; and we therefore recommend to the consideration of

the National Democratic Central Committee, and to the National Democratic Convention, the adoption ot thai policy, shouid the Cincinnati Convention evince, by its proceedings, a similar desire for mutual co-operation and action.

Political Notes. The Republican sentiment of West Virginia, so far as the press indicates its character, is averse to the renomination of Grant. The Sacramento (Cal.) Reporter hoists the Labor ticket, subject to the decision of the National Democratic Convention. A Southern correspondent of the New York Administration organ says : " I predict that the Congressional delegations from the Southern States to the next Congress will be almost tolidly Democratic." Francis W. Jacobs, Democrat, was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, on the 11th, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles Hale, receiving 539 votes against 270 for Lewis Rice, Rt publican. Grant's chances before the Philadelphia Convention have been materially impaired by the discovery of a man in Kentucky who has 104 brothers-in-law and other relations in proportion. Horace Greeley writes to the editor of the Alexandria (Va.) Slandard under date of New York, March 7. in substnnce as follows: "1 am wt rking in the interests of the Conservative party, and will continue to do so unto the end, not caring who the candidates may be: but if the Cincinnati Convention puts an anti-tariff plank in their platform, you may count me out." The Booneville (Mo.) Advertiser favors whatever policy gives the best pronii e of defeating Grant and securing an honest, faithful and economical administration of the government, and an-

Hanging Baskets. No floral ornament is more graceful or charming than a hanging basket, well-tilled and in a thrifty condition. There is scope for a wide range of taste and style in both the material of the basket itself, as well as the plants with which it is filled. If one lives within reach of a good green-house, and can afford the moderate expense involved, the least troublesome method of obtaininga hanging basket is to order one ready filled and growing. They generally sell, complete, from a dollar and a half to six or eight dollars, according to the materials and contents. All the care that the purchaser need exercise is to see thai the plants contained in the basket are such as are adapted to the location it is destined to occupy, in respect to temperature, sunshine, etc. It is also necessary that all the plants

contained in the fame basket should have similar conditions of growth. I f a Coleus, Begonia, or Tradescantia is planted in the same basket with a pansy or Chinese primrose, it would prove a failure, for the first three require a degree of heat which would be speedily fatal to the latter. A judicious florist would, however, avoid ßueh an error. The material of the ready-made bas

kets U generally wire, terra-cotta or rustic work. The wire baskets, lined with thick, soft moss, are much the rettiest, but require more care in ;eeping well watered, and there is constant evaporation from the entire surface. But no one need be deprived of hanging bakets by reason of inability to obtain them ready filled lrom the florist. With no expenditure except that of a little labor, directed by taste and skill, articles have been produced which surpass in elegance of appearance the choicest pioductions of the green house.

Half a cocoanut shell, a superannuated wire dish-cover, a china bowl swung up in a netting of crocheted zephyr, a wooden bowl covered with rustic branches, any shallow affair which will hold from a pint to half a peck of soil and can be conveniently suspended, will answer the purpose. The steel springs of a discarded hoop skirt furnish the material with which a variety of baskets may be fabricated. If a dish of any kind is used, always see that ample provision is made for drainage, by means of a hole or holes in the

bottom. For contents, the forests, fields and roadsides furnish an inexhaustible variety. Plants of dwarf, compact habit are necessary for filling up the center, and those of a trailing habit to hang over the sides. For the latter purpose, Moneywort (Lysimachia nummularia), Nasturtium (Tropoeolum majus), Lobelia erinus, are all neat and pretty. There is a little creeping plant with a square stem, rounded kidney-shaped leaves, and blue flowers, called Gill (Nepeta Glechoma), which is regarded as a weed in the country, but which flourishes nicely in hanging baskets, and is sometimes sold by city florists for that purpose. Some of the prettiest baskets we ever saw were home-made, and filled with forest plants : Trailing Arbutus (Epigcea repens), Wintergreen (Gaultheria pto cumbens), Partridge berry (Mitchella repens), the barren strawberry (Waldsteinia fragaroides), and directly in the center a strong rhizome or "root" of fern. The latter continues, during the entire season, to uncoil its rich, feathery fronds, in striking yet harmonious contrast with the bright green foliage, delicate bloom and brilliant lerriea of its trailing neighbors. This collection had the additional advantage of being able to flourish in a cool, sunless, north room. Care should be taken to see that hanging baskets are not permitted to suffer lor want of sufficient watering. Wire baskets, line! with moss, should, in addition to the usual sprinkling, t e dipped in water every few days.

An artist painted a cannon so naturally that it went of!' at a very good price

A Startling Discovery. Captain Samuel C. Scott, of (!o. E, ;ilst Indiana (Col. Charles Ciult's) regiment states that upon a certain time, late at night, dark and laming, and down in Alabama, his regiment marched into a village, slid lound that all the white inhabitant had lied, leaving undisputed possession to the regiment of brav- boys. Seeing how matters stood, the p:ivates were told to ((Hinter in . uch vacant houses as they wished, and Company K. headed by their gallant captain, entered a small house near by. Uroping their way in the dark, they found a rear, and still further back was another room with the door locked. A bayonet soon opened it, and it was at once tilled with the company, who sat dow n on the floor around the walls, in the dark. A soldier, after locating himself comfortably, thought he would take a good smoke, and for that purpose lighted a match. This quick flitting lu lit only lasted long enough to show the horrible surroundings. In the middle of the room, hanging by the neck, from a ring in the joist, was a large, naked human being, with his flesh about half carved from his bone, and hanging about, him in strips a yard long or more! " (iood Lord," bursted from every lip, and such a scramble to leave the horrid premises was only equaled by tho gentle departure from Bull Run, in which some of our cit eus took a praiseworthy part. The investigation in the morning showed that they hud taken DOOtOWioO of a doctor's office, the roar part of which was a dissecting room, and that the doctor, just then had a fresh sub

ject on hand. The captain further states that, thereafter-, Company I never bivouacked in strange premises at night without first having some light on the subject. Terre JIaute h.xpress. A Curious Breach of Promise Case. The curiosities of breach of promise suits have had a notable addition in a case recently decided in an Enelish

court. Miss Alice Wat kins, a dressmaker, sued Mr. William Rainey, described as a negro from Sierra Leone and an English barrister, to recover damages caused to her lacerated heart by that gentleman's 'ailme to fulfill his plighted troth. In consequence of her engagement with Mr. Rainey, Miss Wütkins asserts she had refused two offers of marriage one from a Walsh

gentleman, the other from the son of a barrister of long standing. From this she would appear to have been a young woman either of unusual personal attractions or some social st tiding. Yet by her own admission her first acquaintance with the defendant MM made while walking in the street one evening with her sister. It was evidently a case of love ai first sight. "Othello " promised at once to marry the fair dressmaker, and " De.-deniona" coyly consented. Only to fave time all tiresome

formalities were waived, and the happy twain repaired at once to the barrister's chambers. On parting, the dusky swain presented his spouse with a sovereign, and mil her in an omnibus. After a

while Rainey returned to Sierra Leone, where he kept up an animated correspondence with his intended. In many of his letters his promise to marry was renewed, but at his request all these valuable epistles were carefully destroyed by the confiding plaintiff. In spite of the defendant's energetic denials, the jury promptly rendered I verdict against him for 330. Perhaps this is not more absurd than most breach of promise canes, but it certainly looks on its face like a scandalous perversion of justice. A New Swindle.

The Republican of Springfield, Mass., calls attention to a new swindle that is being practiced on larmers in that vicinity. The swindler makes a tempting offer for the farm, causes stories to circulate of his wealth and solidity, and proposes to take a deed of the real estate, conditioned for the payment of the full amount of the purchase, including personal property, possession of the real estate to be given at a future day, and the first note payable, also, at a future day. The deed and notes are executed. A bill of sale of all the stock,

personal property, etc,, is made out to him, and, as the purchase money is included in the note secured by the conditional deed, it is receipted and delivered. The personal property is imra diately or soon after claimed either by, or sold to, or attached by a third party, "an innocent purchaser in good faith," of course, and removed. In one case a bill of sale covered property to the value of over $1,600.

London Poor. The evils of M overcrowding " are bofinning to attract general attention in Ingland, and it has been found that in Hanover Square, London, 25 houses contain 450 persons, or several times as many as a moderate regard for health would allow. In one district of tho parish of St. Giles there were 570 families, none of whom occupied more than a single room. This was the ease throughout a doaen districts. In one room, 12 by 13 feot, and 7 feet fi inches high, eight persons were packed ; in another, only six and one-half feet high, a man, his wife, and five children were crowded. The worst features of the overcrowding is the occupation of the same bed by two eUof people during the same night. Certain classes attending the theater every night ballet dancers, tupeg, und the mob which is attached to a pantomime let their beds to market people, who aro just ready to get up and go to work when the theatrical folks come home. Heart Hungry, Mrs. Westmoreland's new novel, is already in its fourth edition. Robert Hale Owen's 11 Debatable Land" is selling the seventh thousand. Carleton fc Co., publish both.

The Overthrow of Klug. The light goes bravely on, every where and against all sorts of peculation and jobbery. This is the year ol in vestigalions. Not that theio are. more thieves in this year of graee 171 than in Hny other year of grace. But the groat o. liticul questions are in some sense out of the way, and now the public conscience has come with a swift and sudden retribution against the unfaithful stewards, who, having presumed on delay, have wasted their masters' goods in riotous living. In New York the overthrow of the King becomes every day more and more utter. Last Thursday, as Mayor Hall's trial dragged its slow length along, and all had grown tired of the tedious battle of technicalities, Andrew J, Garvey, the swindling plasterer of the public buildings, who spread on his charges entirely too thick, and who has been lor a long time in hiding, was suddenly marched out of a private room, to the great consternation of all concerned in the defense of the Ring. Re comes prepared to make a clean breast of it, as soon as the technical points raised by the lawyers will allow his testimony to be given. Connolly is said to have tied the city, Tweed is in hiding, and the battle seems to be pushing iUelf to the but refuge of the thieves, who are already politically ruined, and who can hardly escape tho punishment due their crimes. At Washington three Congressional investigations are ponding one into the New York Custom House and Genend Order abuse, and two into the French arms business. The e committees ought to investigate thoroughly and conscientiously, in the interest of pure government, into the conduct of all officers of the Government connected with both these affairs. In the South the reckless adventurers who have plundered the States under pretense of governing them, are coining to grief, and, on the whole, we believe this to be a year of reforms. The old abuses, always hiding away in the city,

Mate, and lederal governments, cm hide no longer against an awakened public conscience. Mammoth Cave Fishes. Wilbur F. Parker of Meriden, Conn., has three eyeless fish taken from the Mammoth cave. They are alive, quick as lightning, and almod white in color. The specimens are about two inches in length, though the fish frequently reach six and eight inches. In shape they are something like a "bullhead." Mr. Parker also found specimens of craw fish looking like white lobsters. These are also blind, and white in color. Pints and Quarts of filthy Catarrhal discharge. Where does it all come from ! The mucous membrane lining the chambers of the nose, and its little

glands, are diseased so that tney draw from the blood its liquid, and exposure to the air changes it into corruption. This life-liquid was to build up the system, but it is extracted and the system is weakened by tho loss. To cure, gain flesh and strength by using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which also nets directly upon these glands, correcting them, and apply Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy with Dr. Pierce's Nasal Douche, the only method of reaching the upper cavities where the discharge accumulates and conies from. The instrument and two medicines sold for $2 by all druggists. 68. Five thousand feet more of tunneling will let daylight through the Iloosac mountain. Tue famous Halford Leicestershire Table Ssuco has become National. It is in use from Portland to San Francisco, and from the Lakes to the Gulf. Its merits have scoured for it the most unprecedented demand. Com.

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