Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 October 1874 — Page 4

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rufcareir KNow-Normm PA&TY. 1%«niiafituteatin »hmuB of wlAfpf+ fa? ||M doctrine of the traaamig's*-' tikm at stools la rsferaaos to yrtliwl fartisa. It is several ysaxs stnes the Know-Nothing party, UNMirlitt Imout Is tha political history of tta Use, dt

OCT. 17,1874.| F*r*«d this Iflh. It was soppoaod to be dead swt butted sod

SECOND EDITION. 1Bnt "v*"*'^« •pl.pwt

ItaM* Uu*i«r«Hnt*m In th* rtrroondln* r«ctknu When it was among us before jit possessed a body made upof native

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lng, got* into tb« band* or nearly »*wy mfot perms In the efty, and tho ftrw srsif this immediate vtelnKy. Rrerjr Week1* Issne la, In 6wt.

TWO NEWaPAPKIW,

la which all Adverttaeinent* appear for wmmm**.

the bands of men who were not thor would a*nme the ruldf over them is I

O. U. A. M.—Franklin OouncU, No. 10, too «»rlv to aDDear in nolitics. We are or ou«rht

Order of Untied American Mectamlwi PMhaps the flres were Kindled too early I ppe are, or ougnt

rtt•°resuroeotioa. Uk'

to dunaitttsMMt from it, onw more tree and breathes ta the political world, may h*» probably 1% a ease of trans*

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rather than it resnr-

It ttMnftr nbw In a body powpoeed of Teutonic members, and adopts tbe pcih

elple that German born Americana «dinll. rule America* The change in fta principles q,iiom(!what important one, iuul yet ne gi«ater than waa rendered abeolately neeeamry by Its altered corpot^ lety.: SeiaabDcaw and bigotry in A maraud

mmmr AND B*K& triumphant!. The 'fcioperaoee people bad no temp-1 icaim demand that/ A?aeri?i«w, taik»a to Tlolate th«4r principle* over I American ideaa abotl rnle, and the same the election. Tbcy kc-pt sober tbroogh- spirit iKXhwewng nny 'other nationality oat Wednesday apparently without an I demand that the men and ideaa of that eflbrt. The rout waa complete. And it nation ahtll be supreme. t"he demands tea very general impreaalon that "The I dififer, bat the spirit is tihe same, We German vote did It." At least we have I are not inclined to defend even the forbeard this hinted on the street Tery I mer Know-Notfeing party, bnt we do atron^jr—With a «trei^h aomc«iiiv» think that it had better reasoofforita exbordering on the profane. Bat whoever ifttence than the present party. Certainly did it, there la no doubt of the (Wot that there I# a fldr show of reason in favor it was done. And the very visible of Americans ruling their own country, broadening and deepening of the smile {and if the term American were not dowhlch lights up the Teutonic eounte- fined so as to include only native born Correspondence of The Mall.] nance gives plamibility to the suspicion I Americana, but were made to include NBW YORK, Oct. 14. all American dttaens wherever torn,! 'TireMpi»c«rAr,coifVENTioN. e- who are In hearty sympathy with Since the meeting of the Evangelical feat, we must say that we think that the I American institutions, then the princi- Allianoe there have not been no many A FIR«T- Temperance people themselves are at pie were a good one. But the principle clergyman in Xew York as there are at fault. Until the holding of the Repub-J that Germans shall rule America has I preaent. Broadway is full of them.

doltara down rest In monthly paynwaa. I Onventton, temperance was the I not the faintest show of reason in its They are unmistakable in their appearAddress W. A^ 24S P.p. .-j I

convemation, and of public favor. And we are greatly mistaken, anoo. notwithttanding the fact that

strOEfg pnbllc sentlment was crea-1 spirit which animates a large portion of I about them that betrays their calling at

ceased. The Temperance not a protest against it at the ballot box

committee and the Temperance people which shall send this party to a death phe city attending the Episcopal Congenerally took back seats. No meetings more sudden and ignominious than I vention. Among the clergymen, there I were lteld in tbe country and very few in that of the old Know-Nothing party. If U8 eyery variety represented. There is

management of tbe campaign, in which upon the American people, the oombin-

I Temperance was the main issue, fell into I ation of Americans against those who M'P.

As a consequence the entire I Gennnns combine to force their ideas 1 'he model minister with his well-trim

oughljr In sympathy with that principle, I merely a qu^ion of time. It will bo SS^and^the smallest ^SsfblTTiu^ some t£f whom w#ro decidedly opposed an evil day for this country when the I tacho curling graeeftilly upwards at the to it. It has been the effort of The Mail I different nationalities of which it isjendsv Then there are the old, old-fash-to imp it before tt. people that „lrm»t eompowd eombine jw.lu.t pother. tb$ My h®6 iwft TefflpW|BW» This Tho question whether ft mftn is born nearly touch the ground, Some of these should have been done generally, and it German, Irishman, Frenchman, Eng-1 wear wide-iimmed beaver hats, with would have saved hundreds of votes. I lishman, or even American, ought never I rosettes in the middle, and narrow rib-

meets every Monday evening In Ameri- and burned out. At all events, while to be all American citizens, and act I men among them who wore long drcu^h^d^^n^tm^^S^cl^SS^Au'learly in the campaign the Temperance (simply as such? lar cloaks, like oar great-grand-fathers Member* and visiting members are cordial1* invited to attend our m^etlngn.

"TS? I I BSe^?^tbereDUrelrSm™thS own way, Whisky and Beer came in on mans voted with the Democratic party

1ulyl8-am "borne stretch" most beautifully. instead of the Republican, at the last evidently the English deputies, who But there is no occasion for despond- election, net yet because they voted I create marked attention. «ocy. It must be remembered that this against Temperance, and, as we believe, gj}®£jJchaS in vSk "trSeMieS is the first time that the temperance sen- against law and order, that we enter Laight. Why this gloomy old chapel, timent in this State has been sufficiently this protest. We believe them mistaken away down town, was selected, I don'i to KK-ore th. .ttenUon, mnoh l« In their notion, on the Temperance ^tU!0rl

the support, of either political party .! question, but this is not the issue we are I

All reforms pass through a period of I now making. We protest against their sides tho clerical and lay deputies, ridicule and neglect. Then they come I combining as Germans, and we have en-

to command attention, and are too this same protart when formerly com?J!itively

to be ignored. At this period the question upon which they combined little disputing as yet that will come tbey usually oame into party politics.

was

From this pelut tbey go on through de- di»p«»l of the p.rty.„ith -vhicb feat and partial triamjah to permanent they \oted. We protest respectfully

ascendency. Temperance is no longer! hut very emphatically against a oombi-tasked for already, and the request retoo weak to Tespeet^ but has nation of any nationality to decide what I ferred to a committee. Pf—od into party politics and gained its men or principles shall control in poli-

drat dofeat .t the poll^ It m.y h.™ deotarettafuch combining many more, bnt sooner or later, the J,s Know-Notbingism in its most form, ess at the dourt of that country, has Baxter Mil, or another more stringent I Stippoee a meeting to have been held in I been invited to address the convention and efficient, will be put upon the stat- Dealing Hall, and meetings elsewhere on the subject of foreign missions. It is |ote book with ofpabiie ffinJffiSCBS sentiment behind it that it cannot be I ffinniug, Resolved, That we the Ameri- jjje deputies known her views on the repealed. If any temperanoe people are Ican ^diton of the State of Indiana subject. She is rather opposed to foreign inclined to despondency they only need PledS° onraelves as citisens and editors mi^o^ a rule. Her opinJon wrTv--to study tbe anti-slavery reform. Moral j** »ny ««ndidate at tho com-

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tbere tUl they leaven the entire lump, tare, etc. Resolved, That in the coming version of their souls is attempted Whisky to triumphant at the polls to-1 «*mpaigt w© shall use onr influence in JJ®»Smwl whc^Mra. day, but sooner or later it must go down faw °f that organisation which Bhall I j^nowens presents her views. Not tefore amoral sentiment, which,is in-

most

creasing to power every year. Tbe bis- views and desires, etc." Suppose again, that they will hardly^be in accordance tory of reforms generally, and tho his- that jt»st upon the eve of the election a I Hhthoee of the convention, torv of ieinttManstt larialatlatt in tbe call had been issued through the press older states i^ve this Misorance. forth® American Republicans to moot ?t--z in .iitt-i I ftwr oonsaltatlon as to how they shouldl world aiono. At Steinway Hall, Miss

forth. American IiepubMcn,to meet|

vot««

protest against the custom of making

our agricultural fail* attractive by

been raised the hue and cry of "Know

v, A

&tYlatd«s detracting from tbe merits of| »*»t that an American agrees XL 1 1 wholesome cow^etHion among farmem I offlos-hoidor at a meeting of hiscountry-1

to* dioice of husboodry^ tt» "WO. ff of whom wondem may safely be predict-

xi_ nx —3 I heads of their sons and daughters aro *hioh be professed to be la sympa- ed. Master Leopold Llclitenberg, who

too*** and a gait gmterim-j Amerk«n thanfor any other reason-!

{jpoft to the rising farmer then improved I

were

«wn«HallVwhM1nM*Ht««'»•«"°®«»oandldates

vote

rn I miemmmammmiB |candidates tor those county and stale10j(jer ^rformers might esvy. He has from CtD to OU l)fir cent I heu«v«d that the Iiaxt«r BW will offices whioh do not concern your Amer- all thefire of a genius, and knows how Jr* iltt k«pt In force, With some amendments lean ideas,. If such a condition of affairs I to Uirow paSOon Into his playing.

sr.sJasi«5sbrssrss:

TK.ASK- Watches Ann I ^t'fcaadatkm to build on. jthfa Know-Nothing spirit? And more, an embryo prima rfoano, madeherfeefrsf.

09 the 3rd of Nwvemtttr, twenty-on® [mates wltt hold etocttom, including

wtnij,i

IllOirUUlOO WUI JLUlDuftuUj^.^^ muw-« wi—n.i wi««i l«—»-j 'n*n*f We from "Lucla." and she acquitted herself n.-truriitr nf"^ T,,- 1 *ith credit. This young (imviantt, howa majority of tbo G«i*-19Y6r

for Mm, and wKh bis Imosnhrid effects moved ineinnal this week. aau^JUaiaMaji'iiMMeMa -.v. •. tin. Biarmafe has i« it 'J-:-

k. 1

nwd apfrtyi*1 then old-faaMonod Kno^fMoUdagtein pwvatla, When tba Editors and Uermaa Re» oall thair maoitoga dacHe how Gertnana shall vote and declare by their call, "No Irish or Yankees need apply" it Is Koow-Seth ingism all tb« name. We alfo that UwflM^flaJHiil

there

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somo of Uiem dre8s

men 08

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ciei"8y a»d

med

ahoar^hat

we lutw entared sasae pjro^t vfhen the ^ttmans votsd tho Kepotilican V«k et,iHmi manifested In 4he* U»i» same Wfe forty ^bpt the leading Qarnuwi ^«vef ^en atiolt a course to create aotf dia^jien^^pr^u*. dice sgairrat tb^^ t»atiort»Rl^, *&iat thej bare done so, 1» mti*ut}t, and the nnftvrtanaie «ff»op«, af' the atfuir is that the htiiMMt au(l«ur .Mrtth the goilty.

THUS MlJh&tfONS.

The De*'mcrary «ury this State by fa majority of about lS,0«lb. Tlio JUegli ture will stand: 8l»iy»|e, Itwnoomts, JRepublJcana, 21 ItaJspendenta,

S. Li'jr

er IMHISQ, Deinoen»(!!, 52 Republicaits, 47 Independents, 11. Hunter is elected to Congress in this district by about lt» n^jority.

In Ohio the Democnrfa also ha#a|4ajortty of 18,000 to 90,000. Iowa goes Bepublicmi as usual by sqpo .000 iimioritv. ^'4 40,000 majority,

Nebraska kilo goes Republican, some 10,000.

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

like clergy-

possible, there is a certain air

Thero aro alwut six

hundred of

as many more laymen in

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whiskers, clean shaved upper

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fl-ock aI,fl

UPto th?

VGn well

vest buttoned

chin. Then there is the dandy

bon? mn,ninK fron?tho

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to si ot-

the brim

hat. I saw some old

priesUy-looking men,

(,tl!lr6t.

an(j the

S.lM.mS,

Hudson river freight depot. Be-

are large numbers of visitors who

merely their share of tho offices at later. There are several weeks of the

cano,^ forbidding ritualism, has been

FOREIGN MISSIONS.

th0 minds of thc

election for State offices and Legisla- reoeive some education before the oon-

nearly represent our (American) that they aro not perfectly sound, but

districts. Be- voting with Germans were proscribedIt^tod. HerperIbrmance*however,iS .be merits ofj^'t and that all that an American agreeable, but lacks tho lire and finish of A young violinoat this I

WSs

"vote for tbe best men," which 8an Francisoo. He cave him a few les-

mm* 4u.(amyookn«Mlciiditigi or, to put in I tiie city in a few days to Join his tnaste/.

Mm. teptea, wben exists among Gorman* appearance wan made In the mad scene

sachttsetta, Michigan, Mfawonri, Wlseon .iui» HQ dtwf iatpofWMsf fMim «o 1 »«*»o«ratleticket thrtj^ong*other CKimkthefiicl thata rao-' fflwnntnea

Instead of Americans In fenot

ths* the air Indianapolis fa too warn I mwessary to make a reputation. 7^,,7™." She lias studied In France, Oermanv they drink—which some Americana did I and Italy, but her mu»i«d MtoeatkMi

ttot-hnt twamM tbey combined toforoe anpreroney tbpir idefiHi and as Oermans. When American edi•m. trr* American mll nativs

heathen'should

R3BCKNT DEBCTTBi

Would there not at once have .Sophia Flora Hfilbrons, a young lady of

about seventeon summers, made 'her

iebuL Miss li oil broil is a pianiste, and

Nothing, in all the uerm&n papersT j,aa been heard with great favor in pri-

TiT-miTTnT of horsewfiicfog. It is clairnsd Suppose .again that the feeling among I vate circles. She plays with care and iBi». 1 Americans were so strong in favor of! brilliancy, but is hardly yet equal to -v-I -.«.•! kL..... it I such tto iiiiiiieiusely diitloult pi «e tbw created, particularly in oertaih American Id™thatJj«,«rSinK^.™Swi til© porely agricultnral detracting from tbe

discoveml by Wienutwski, in

the of my eons in that city and also in New York.

not, tbe protest bejust? Would Miss C^lvUle's praises have been sound-

curioaity

has been quite excited Ifer first

IIOTIIUWBW. ilWJ UII»

th«m Know-Nothing* in «ws in a small Italian town is not all

to learn, and

Her voice to come. It strengthen

ing and flexibility. Miss Colville is not the only ung «in«wr should err, Mave

JII I»M

my mrn' Indiscn

bornAiiMvieapitfefy aboil vtxie, anTby. urai»s fa tbo wont thliw Ja tbe world of Difedfe *o4d«irain, and mat call doelafS'-No Dutch ar Iri*|#cWvKfi jm^ old words ware kind/th^y warsootaipalEsm •kdy.

to her on to harrf« s**MJy. The fourth detmtumtg was Mile. Donad^o, of tbe Italian troupe, who tuade her flmt appearsnoe in Amerioa in

Opera House," Hits. Donadlo has alight *ofc»of nlossant quality, but she is sot*

rbowevsr,

kt j»rim«dMma by My means. 8b» a valuable addition to tbe Company of which she is a member, for tbero »rr many pacts that sha can fill acceptably.

Mtla. Albaal, whose aimesranee we, are eagerly awaiting, will make her debut in opera in Amerioh. on Monday ttteUKfcim*.

VKSBSAREmFOtRST

Theoft repeated cry, "where are tbe poUeefeanreadfiv be answered, .is a rule tbey are standing an the street corners talking with thtnr Mends or flirting with the nursery maids in the parks and on the avenues, and i# fact doing anything but their duty. The police fbree of this city has been so often abused that its members are getting callous to fault-finding. There may be cases where censure nas been unjust, but they rare, it is enough to try the patience of a more amiable person than your correspondent to be kept blocked up in a fetage on Broadway fbr half an hour, while the police stand idly on the curbstone and make no eflbrt to bring order out of tne chaos. I have seen a lady stand hopelessly on a corner waiting for a break in the line of vehicles so that she mlgfci get across street, and I have seen a stalwart officer standing within five feet of her, and neveroffer to pilot her across. I have sten men get into drunken brawls within ear-shot of policemen who have never raised a rebuking club, and I have seen small boys led off to the station-house, Who have merely solicited alms from ladies on the street. I have seen a watchful officer club a drunken man within an inch of his life for being caught sleeping on a park bench, ana I have seen an officer give a signal at a side door, after dark, nich a suspicions looking bottle has been passed for his refreshment. The police force of -this city, with nota ble exceptions, is a disgrace. President Matsell has given it as his opinion tbst a policeman should be an automaton." With snch views the police of this city most be exactly to bis mind.

WASH1NGT0N LETTER,

CorreapondcnOe of The Mali.] WASHINOTON, Oct. 14,1874. There is something very interesting and wonderfully provocative of thought in the looks and ways of old department clerks. I have seen many of them beside whom a mummy would look young. Here tbey have worked day after day, year after year, for more than an average life-time, doing always and ever the same thing, and that thing generally as simple and unvarying as turning a grindstone. Plodding thus from yonth to age in the B&me ceaseless round, they have worn deeper and deeper the ruts of habit, until their heads are below the surface of the great world's life, and their poor littlo world of daily duty is the universe to them. I remember ihat Dr. Holmes, in the last volume of the "Breakfast Table Series," tells of a human curiosity something like these ancient servants of our great Republic. An astronomer invited"the Poet" and all his fellow boarders to visit the observatory and look at the heavens through a famous telescope. All the company gladly accepted the invitation except "Scarabee," an entomologist enthusiastically devoted to the parasites, a particularly interesting specimen or which had just come into his possession. "The Poet" thought it the drollest thins in the world that a fellow creature, who was asked to see all the glories of the firmament brought ck.8e to him, should be too busy with a little unmentionable parasite that infests the bristly surface of a bee, to spare an hour or two of a single evening for the splendors of the universe. The Scarabee was like the old clerk, only he trudged in a different rut.

THE

It is understood, here, that Vice President Wilson will return to his old quarters, at tbe Washington House, next month, and will report for duty as presiding officer of tbe Senate when Congress convenes. To tbe casualobserver, Mr. Wilson appears to be in the enjoyment of excellent health. He is in good flesh, stands erect as one of the Capital pillars, walks as briskly as a letter carrier, and goes up stairs like an agile bell boy. But tbe trained eye of medical science sees in him a man whose life hangs by a frail tenure,—by a little thread liable to be snappedSsunderat any moment by a second attack of paralysis. This being the case, he ought to avoid tho fatigue and excitement incident to the discharge of his official function, particularly as there is no public or private necessity for him to do anything but take care of himself. I think it was tho elder Adams who grumblingly remarked that the Vice Presidency was

thla imnn„rt

truth in the complaint. Aside from occupying the chair of the Senate—in which he is slow and awkward to the last decree,—Mr. Wilson is simply the piece oftlrttber out of Which a President will be mad© in the very improbable contingency of a vacancy occurring during tue present term, provided Mr. Wilson should then be living. As a Senator he was useful and powerful. Now he is neither one nor tho other. But there area number of Senators who are admirable presiding officers. Matt. Carpenter fills the bill so as to leavo nothing to be desired. Anthony of Rhode Island and Ingalls of Kansas are scarcely leas suocoasftil.

SOLDIERS' SOAKS,

Vanity Fair," a sprightly writer who •does" the "gossip" for The Daily Critic, claims, with entire accuracy, that among the many beautiful Southern cities, there are none mere so than Washington during this month, where its numerous avenues of trees, Its public squares, and the adjacent woods, that make so fair a background to tho Olty, aro tinged witb the warm crimson and yellow of early Fall, this was Impressed forcibly during a walk to and from the Soldiers' Home a few days since everything in this charming plaJb is In sach exquisite order, and art is so ingeniously combined with nature, that while its original beauty has been left intact, not an opportunity has been lost of enhancing its natural advantagea. Tne grass looks like velvet, and tbe rustic vases and bridges ate covered with trailing scarlet vines and hardy Fall creepers the maples in many places gleam like flames against the

singing of Uw grand old book, *^od made tbes* •oough things aad wwttaft tbey were mod

One of the saoat beautiful views Lere is

44CspJtol

__ the Grand

Vista,** where, though an a ve

nae of stately trees, is seen looming np the dome of tbe CfcpitoL standing in its whita beauty, acknowledged by foreigners aad traveled Amerioans the most beantiAU battding in tbe world. I know that there are those who disparaeo this incomparable edlll«. If such grumblers ever get to tbe Better Land,, they will write volumes in hostile criti. ebm of the New Jerusalem.

TARDY AXP COSTLY.

Mom than three score and ten years nave elapsed since the CSpitol of tbe nation was moved to Washington from Philadelphia: and yet it haslnst been discovered that the beautiful grounds surrounding the Capitol Building need to bo made over under the direction of Olmatead of New York. The East Park is being cut down—that is, the surface lowered by grading—from two to fifteen feet. Parts of the West Park are to bog correspondingly raised. Birtand con-S fusion reign supreme on the premises*^ mid it would be hard to imagine anything more unsightly. Thls wlll be thecase for years for the work will drng^ wearily along, costing many hundred^ of thousands, perhaps a million of dollars. Greenough's statute of Washington la perched high in air, like Saint Simeon Stj lit^s, thesurrotmdiHg ground having been carted off. Oeorae look* lonely, up th©re( but he will be let down sometime.

MKMCAI. StCSKCM.

Therc'ti no other building'"1 on1"tliis continent so familiar to, and so ssdly remembered by tbe people as Ford's old theatre, the scene of Lincoln's assassination. As everybody knows, it is now tbe Medioal Museum of tbe United Ststes Army. The exterior remains aa it was on that awfttl April night in 1885, but the interior has been ao much changed, to adapt it to its present use, that scarcely remains.

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sly anything of the original. Nearly oppowte the old build-,

ing is the house to which the Martyr President was taken and iu wliich he breathed his last. The Museum is visit-, ed by hundreds daily. As the visitor enters he is confronted by a strange' looking personage with redundant and long yellowish grey hair and whiskers. His face and eyes are of the same color, producing a peculiarly harmonious effect. Tbe duty of this venerable official. lis to see that visitors record their names and places of residence in a register kept for that purpose. I don't happen to sec the use or this, but it may be important, hundreds of years hence, when a railroad or a cotton factory covers your grave, and your name has long passed from human recollection, to have some antiquarian find your signature in a moldy old book, *1 he second story of tho building contains a vast collection of specimens mainly interesting to surgeons. Every imaginable kind of wound aad horrible deformitv and distortion is shown with terrible fidelity. Among other limbs and parts of limbs, may be seen the leg of General Sickles. Aside from the saa hibtoric associations connected with the place, the sights which it presents are sucn strong reminders of awful events, so suggestive of direct agony, that one feels a positive relief in getting out of the building after a hasty glance at its contents.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFTICK.

One of the most interesting objects in this city is the public printing office, mammoth establishment where most of

painted yellow and located about a third of a mile north of the Capitol. It is under the superintendence of Mr." Clapp, an officer whoso tenure of office is dependent on the President and Senate. Hon. J. D. Defrees, a well known citizen of Indiana, formerly filled the position and did not vacate it very cheerfully or gracefully. Another prominent citizen of Indiana, an ex-journalist,tried last spring to get into this coveted birth. But Mr. Clapp seems to bo firmly seated and will not be likely to go out until General Grant vacates the White House. The President seldom, if ever, goes back on a friend withoat good cause. Fifteen hundred men, boys and girls find profitable employment in this office. More than fifty presses, all in one room, are kept running most of the

time,

ngress, tbe lebates and is printa correct

Record—official report of de other proceedings of that body ed here. The Record is nearly report, but it sometimes fails to give the

ionate or foolish words that fall tbe lips ol Senators and members in tbe heat of exciting debate. This is wrong. Speeches should not be revised by tbeir authors, except so far as may tend to insure grammatical accuracy. Hie Record should show what a speaker has said, and not what he may wish be bad saia. Such a report would put a decided check on many tonguesq that wag wratbftilly or foolishly. Let it be known that every word uttered in debate would be stereotyped and preserved in the Record, ana many an offensive and indecent utterance would bo avoided.

ZOOTXJGICAL 0ABDEN*

In his clear and concise report, rc« cently published, General Babcock, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, In the District of Columbia, who is, by the way, a thoroughly efficient officer, having done a vast deal towards beautifying tbe many parks andreservations under his care—makes a strong recommendation to Congress in favor of a Zoological Garden, lie says "The President presented to this office handsome specimen of an American ?ag]£? Which ha»5 been sent tohlm from Wisconsin! A cage Was constructed for It and placed in? Franklin Square, thus adding to this aqnon* a feature of much Internet to the children of tlie city. Specimens of animals arc ffts, nnently offered to this offlcc from ofDciaW of the Government and private individual*,' which are often declined for want of mean*' to properly liooe# and care few them. In at few yean, and at a comparatively small ex% penae, a very fine collection or American and other animals cofctd be collected. Such: a collection would be a great source of en-'' tertalnment to the pronto of the eapltoliA and those visiting tt, beidde being of (creatkvalue to tbe students of natural history. would respectfully recommend that an ap91 propriation lie made tojprovide for recelv-' ing snch contribution*.^

At the present date "the collection" consists, not of that solitary eaglo from Wisconsin, but r.f four eagles, one owl and two doers. will be seen that ornithology greatly preponderates. Thc nucleus of "the collection" was the owl and he is still quite lonely, though ho looks as wise as a cabinet minister and imitates senatorial dignity with wonderful precision. How many great political fortunes and high reputations for statesmanship have been made on Just such capital as this solemn, sage and dignified looking bird possesses?

background of pines and cedars, while There are verv few self-made men but, tbe bright October sunshine, flooding! if yon depend on someone etoe making tV whole, and dropping through tbe you, as a general proposition, you'll -i on the ground below,reminds o.ic never be made.

SELF-MADE MEN. [Andy Johnson.] talk about "self-made men."