Elkhart Democrat Union (Newspaper) - September 6, 1872, Elkhart, Indiana ' ' a Year W. - ' or all e of until will at precisely 6 K. er of Main and Jackson neatly on of Uain and l. J. R. 8. a deals a dt and Bonds and other Attention given to hours from 8 tola A. M. and 1 to 4 P. and dealer AND No. 188 Main St. Ind. All and loss of eyesight made honra from 6 a. m. to 4 p. D. for the U. S. Express Great Wert em and Local Ticket Agent for the N. Y. Brie Atlantic Great Western Livery on of and I ' L. MARBLE and dealer Tombstones t Post to his care will receive Elk of in and Mato and Pigeon G. DE Peace and Notary o opposite ha Con Leases always on H. at Law and Notary A. Ind. Practices in all Courts Main i at Notary Office Second Sonth of the B. Office and Second and ite Elkhart AND Over Bakery 96 Main No. 3 High nearly opposite the j fTC tte J. AND Ind - tir 4na ba over HUl No. 90, Wednesdays and Urom 8i M. imd 2 td of 3d and Franklin passes to go and then two in The r servite ' in 5. d ihe t e iij iiii if n of SEPTEMBER 42. B R V S THB IN TICKETS from ' % Great Western Steamship Steamers leare and Liverpool every every nn tbo Boyal Bank of and all Cities on at the LOWEST U D. Masonic Oxide the Painless extraction of Upper Setts of the finest quality I A ll TtS ET H at to e. extracted without pain by the new of Nitrons Gas Wyman Michigan J. B O I success In of li i c. JD Ls are for tbe patient to neither is it for the Doctor to see the All that is requited is tbe age oi the Cases be transmitted mail or private Michigan Sonth Ind. ang 25 Main and A. Conn's where he may comer of Main and Jackson Ind. kept in and at and will kept ax a nasT class Hotet with and reasonable and near the Ind. Our is J. D. Travelers and In style at nable located at Main street of Main and Railroad near the has been recently fitted op In first class and new Board only per Pleasant and and especial provisions made White taken charge of the above refitting and the same it Is now open to this traveling with the beat of this locality will please take in the occupied as a by Dr. they can find Assortment of Latest SPRING which are being sold UNUSUALLY at all in a manner warranted to give in. of and test onr style of doing and if it pleases give A. S. May loft at receive attention by MUSIC i Musical D. and the of baye Mairi they for sale a full stock of W. Omnibus to and from tha of Canal Grand of the Just North ol the Day and Weekly I i Boarders PIGEON known as the Bating ' Good Board and well famished Rooms for the comfort of Ladies and Charges B. 9t yr pt of di Street Wines MAIN ST. W M. i iff kinds of Pics etc. - always on t Cold LunCh all hours of the day of this Presbyterian lately received an excellent assortment and Hats of tbe Hand Dress and proposes to keep of very choice and Hair not be and cheap for ' on fw Music Music BRADBURY others of manufacture on hand at all of aU and Singing with Books acd Sheet Mutic at at prices from to to 3 IN. BROWN CO. Dec. 29.1871. New Grocery of Time Table July 1872. and improved Drawing Room and Sleeping all modem are run on all trains irom Niagara Cleveland and Cincinnati to New direct connection with all of Foreign and Coastwise Steamers Kailway lines for ton and New England s i would to tM public that stock and Family also a MEAT in Derr's tbe Rolling Mill and Repair kept in either lire of will be as LOW PRICES as at any other place in Call In and your selves of this f i JEv 9,19.-I 2. Day IS No 4, Night 1 s Salmanca 8.00 12,(I5AJI Sns AM 7.ao 7 30 3.40 1.45 5,40 5.45 10.12 11.00 11.50 Addison 4.48 6,05 7.00 9 05 10.10 11.15 1.60 3 15 4.05 1.03 no 6.35 6.S5 1U.02 SImim pm 12.42 1.20 7.BS 8.40 12.30 5.08. 5.49 SO 10,05 12.05 2.33 3.02 3.15 4.(1,3 4 32 6.04 27 2 10 2 41 2 55 4.16 6,04 7.40 7.55 8.47 9 20 11.10 j 2,17rM 7.48 52 3.53 50 7.46 8,03 8.35 12.42pm 1 1........... 00 j 2.35 54 15 3.S0 New 9.40 7 00 PB 31 except Avon and except Avon and of Kooin and Sleeping Coaches from Cleveland to Drawing Room from Suspension Niagara Falls and to New No. Coaches from Niagara and to from to No. 4 Coaches from Suspension Bridge Niagara Falls and to New No. 8.Sleenlng Coaches from Suspension Niagara Palls and and Drawing Room Coaches from to New for tickets via Erie for sale at ail principal N. General Shore Mich. No. 10. and after Sunday June 2 1872,Trains will be run as Chicago at 12:35 A M 6:50 11:00 A arrive 4:(;0 p 7:60 25 p 8:00 P arriving at W. 1:50 A 2:40 Chicago 6:50 a 12:15 A Cleveland p Toledo 11:50 p arriving at EI khart at 4:10 A Chicago 7:50 A 9:00 P Cleveland 5:35 a 10:55 a arriving at Pigeon 4:0UP m 5:00 9:40 p ives 9:00 p. 5:35 A 11:10 arriving 4:45 9:40 White Pigeon 13:50 p. m 1:01 B. 1:12 p. m. Elkhart 1:30 p. Rapids 9:10 a 9:6 a east. o at 8:00 12:-05 A. M arriving 6:00 p. Cleveland 10:25 p A. N. Y. Chicago 9:50 A 110 P p m arriving at 0:1,0 p M 10:25 p 4:05 Chicago at 5:35 p 9:5-5; arriving at Toledo at 2:E0 A 7:25 A P Chicago at 9:20 F W. 1:50 A arriving at Toledo at 6:25 A 10:55aji; 5:30 p Chicago 9:50 2:45 p 3:05; 3:l>i; arrives at While 3:30 p. Chicago at am arrives at Elkhart at 13:05 a 5:30 10:25 p 4:05 a Rapids 6:20 a arriving at White 0:10 LINE Chicago 12:35 a 6:00 11:00 A arriving at 3.-40 p V 7:50 p 6:05 a m 2:25 8:00pm; arriving at 2:35 a 6:50 a m. - Pacific 12:15 Cleveland 7r25pM; 11:50 arriving at Elkhart at 4.-05 a 7:50 a 9KI0.P a 11:55 a arriving at 9:40 p m. l 9:00 6:35 11:10 a arriving at 4:45 p 9:40 p Elkhart 12:10 a arriving at 6:35 P 10:16 F 4:05 Y. 9:50 a 1:40 P arriving at 6:00 P 10:25 4:05 a t 5:35 P 9:55 p arriving at 2:50 a Cleveland 7:25 a 1:35 p 1:10 6:i5 a 10:55 a 5:30 p p a arriving at 10:25 a 4:05 p 2. No 4. Stations No 3. No. 1. 4,05 p.m White 9:00 p.m 12,3na.m 4:35-' Three Rivers 8:30" 8:15 Kalamazoo 7:25 10:40 8:30 Grand Rapids 5,00 8:00 TABLE No. 6, Takes effect June 2nd, 1871. No. 1 11:35 am. 10:40 10:20 9:40 9:20 8:40 8:!5 7:30 2:20 3:00 3:0 3:40 4:20 4:45 5:30 Wants a Home? A FARM OF 172 near Thompson's five miles northwest of with a smr 26X40 and a new barn 30 together with com wagon shed and other a large thrifty all and good water facilities for Acres is well adapted for grain Tbe entire premises will be PEE accommodating or will be exchanged town property In of the same In the are at from to per Reference can be had by calling at the opposite the Clifton No. 3 No. 4 No- 2 7:00pm 7:'Sam 6:35 New 7:35 6:10 8:05 5:10 8:35 9:05 4:10 Silver 3:10 1P:45 2:00 12:00 Close made at Goshen with Shore 4 for all points east or and at Warsaw with the Fort Wayne Chicago R. Peru and a. No 1. 3 10 AM 5 10 and alter July 2Ist, 1S72, Two Dally Passenger Trains leave as No 2. No 4 te 9.30 a M 12 15 a M Kankakee ID 01 12 60 1011 l 02 10 46 ] SO Rochester 1143 2 48" Pern 12 45 3 53-Indianapolis 445 p m 730au 39 5 27 150 12 55 11 45 49 4 39 4 05 312 V 210 FORTY-ACRE bor I hat man of on a forty of neig stalwart lives in peace and men are all around us with hands and hearts two aud still aro wanting more is a pretty a pretty little has a loving as quiet as a children play around the thuir father's life to as the little weeds tbo Lo thistles in the i horses show good by their and glossy cows within tlie the their gentle from the tho fields on Satarday he leaves no cradled be gathered on the morrow for fear of coming keeps the Sabbath holy the children learn his plenty Alls his bam and bin after tha never has a law suit to take him to tho the very simple reason theie are no Hue fences in tho village does not for him have a can always find my on his acres arc so very plows very hands that turned tho handf tust reap place for place has a place for everything and things arc smiles upon his fields contentment on his we not learn a wife from prudent neighbor not for what we haven't vent to and rich always happy nor free from life's blest are they who live though small may be their the N. BARK BAT IX SEW IN 1780. D. T. tho 19th of 1780, the inhabitants of New England and the adjacent parts were witnesses of a phenomenon never seen before nor and which to this day remains The year was celebrated for its auroral exhibitions in this They ered the midnight heavens with of red and silver and streamed like says one fairly to flash warmth in the The winter preceding was marked by extraordinary Snow lay on the ground from the middle of November to the middle of In December and January a stoim continued for seven successive and the snOw fell to a depth of four feet on a level in this single and with drifts eight and ten feet were buried in the drifts for many and even men animals Island Sound was crossed by heavy artillery on the ice. froze over so hard that men traversed the icc from Providence to New port io skating and from Fall River 10 Newport loads of wood were conveyed on tbe ice through Bristol to the 18th a vapor filled the air for several There was a smell of The morning of the 19th was overcast with some clouds and rain fell over the country with lightning and Scarcely any motion was in the what wind there was came from the By nine o'clock in the without warning the darkness stole gradually with a luminous ance near the as if the obscuring cloud had dropped down from There was a yellowness of tbe atmosphere that made clear silver assume s grass green Then a dense vapor settled rapid ly and aerial movement over all the land and ocean from Pennsylvania to the gulf of St. the darkness it caused sinking by until the was shut Ordinary cloud it was The rapidity with which so large an extent of country was enveloped precludes the possibility of supposing this to have been b natural cloud moving Besides the day was too calm to imagine such a Down came the darkness thicker and By ten o'clock tbe air was loaded with a black The heavens were tinged with a yellowish or faint red the lurid look few if ordinary were The sun in took on a brassy The brassy color spread above and The grafS assumed the color of the and all out doors woro a wierd and melancholy dusky appearance as if seen through a smoked By eleven o'clock it was as night and irom this time until three in the afternoon the darkness was extraordinary and extent of the darkness was greater than is related of any other similar phenomenon on not excepting the celebrated dark days over Egypt and It reached south to the northern half of Pennsylvania and from thence along the coast to tbe wilds of eastward to the Gulf of St. and out at sea 120 miles southeast of and undoubtedly much west to the valleys of Lake and the Hudson and north into undefined regions in Canada Boston New West Point and Albany were affected by it. But degrees of darkness differed in different tho deepest night settling over New A tract ot land and sea 800 miles in length and 400 miles in embracing an area of 320,000 square was known to be covered by the and so far as can be a population of 700,900 sat fur a portion of the day and night in a gloom more or leas profound and how dark the day is attested by The hour minute could not be discovered on the face of a clock or watch by persons of unimpaired Candles became an absolute necessity both out doors and as it was impossible to transact ordinary business without Fires on ihe hearth stone shone as as on a less November and all were set with lighted candles upon them as if it were the evening The keenest eyes in doors could not see to read the common So far beyond any ordinary fog was the effect that stages on the road either put up at the nearest hotel the mid day the Cincinnati Eud of the candlis or lanterns to enable the driver to well see ihe bruie and creation seemed and agitated The and them selves in the of the they sa ig evening s at and then silent on ihc wing look to the sheker of the forest they do ai The as if it were truly his song through the which are night whistled ns do in the night Bafs came of their g and flew The solemnly to their roost as they only do at after for awhile oyer the mastery oF so short a became Cocks crowed as is at nightly intervals and the early breaking of Frogs peeped evening and dogs whined or howled and ran away as on tho approach of an of cattle on New sought the shelter of or as they canie to the sheep huddled around the circle with their ble token of apprehended tbe human family the was still more curious nnd The mechanic left his tools in the farmer his plow in the and each moved in silent mood toward the barn or On the home hold they were met by pale anxious who is The alarmed seeking the sympathy of his fellow man as one impressed with a put tip at the and bis anxious foreboding with those of the Strong met and spoke with on their and little children peered timidly into the and then sought the sheltering parental Schools broke up in and the wondering pupils scampered homeward with many expressions Of childish Tho candle shown ont of tbe windows of all gathered in hearts were filled with fear of an unparalleled or the occurrence of a terrestrial but it was not the blackness of the storm such as with frightful breaks over a single It was a silent spreading of the oyer the earth by invisible Many anecdotes of terror are In from the hours of 11 or 1 till 3 business was generally suspended and shops were At court was in in a lull of largo us was the style of bouses of but at half past eleven all faces began CO ar the magistrate and suit with all New and called lor lighted Connecticut went totally under the cloud The journal of the House of puts on record the fact that could see to read or write in the or even at a or distinguish a person at a or uny distinction of in the circle of attendants ut eleven o'clock adjourned the till two Amid the deep gloom that about tbe darkened tbe rooms of tbe Stale House and set the law givers with the apprehension that the Day of Judgment was at when the motion ibr was Colonel Abraham afterward Judge of Conn and State Councilor in the Legislative Chamber at am against the Either the Day of Judgment is ut it It it is not there is tio cause for If it I wish to in the line of my I wish candles to be of the day having been succeeded an hour or two before by a partially clear and tbe shining of the still obscured by the black and vapory interval was followed by a return of the obscuration with greater that rendered the half of the night hideously dark beyond all foriner of a million saw have surely escaped ihe of which some people were very mankind have often been alarmed by but all have turned out to be We can't nay that one at some time or destroy the but we consider that within a few years hundreds of them have come and we are justified in refraining from at the prospect of and from at their is now another cause of disquiet according to the speculations of certain We are in danger of terrific flames great solar luminary from to the nebular our poor little globe and on which it is dependent for its continued exis For some time have been appalled at the solar revelations made to them through the spectroscope ard the There are evidences of stupendous convulsions and mysterious changes in the flaming essence of the sun and the gaseous envelope of called the which surrounds it. they may protend to scientific ioves can but it from very recent observations that are at work upon the sun which at any time suddenly destroy his power as the light aod life of the planetary Whether he lose his light and beat through these or whether he may become a hundred fold brighter and hotter than he is no idea can be but if either of these tl i should take our globe among the In tbe present position of sidereal astronomy tho it is quite impossible confidently one event or the other might not take pi tee at There are or in our heavens which have shone for ages and suddenly and there are which have blazed out for a with vasily greater luster than they previously is impossible to consider the solar phenomenon recently ed by the Italian asin and discussed in the Spectator -an in altogether any which hitherto being struck by tbe evidence which it of solar is not while getting If onr earth imperilled by by disturbances in- the or by the glowing vapor of which has been streaming from the blading itself into its can't We may the or fly from tbe or escape the but if tbe Fun is undergoing such a change as has been referred our slobe may at any be turned into a molten r gaseous which will be swept to its original and disappear in the solar The only comfort one can in. presence of such a is that of the devout who knows that the governed by infinite wisdom which acts through fixed and that no changes in can take place by accident or is worth to stand that just such changes as are now taking place in the sun may have occurred countless times without having been It is only within a recent or since the remarkable discoveries through such astronomical methods and as solar spectrum analysis and Why is - - The was love one day In wanton away flower lo ' A rose tree in The spreading leaves concealed a By which the foot was precious drops in flow Fell on a And all her enow wbite virgin pure Carnation ' To tell to limpid unborn ' How love was wounded by a pain tad g boy to Venus flew But few the Ills which boye endure A mother's cannot for such Love wou Id be often - Por the Propagation of that the observations of these changes lias been We would have no knowledge of them now but for these and they would go as they are without exciting slightest Perhaps changes of an analogous kind took place in the days of or at the lime of Julius but as neither of these personages had the telescope or tho they passed their life in fui ignorance of the dangers were impending over the When we are told by Tacchini that the solar he has are altogether unlike any hitherto we need not infer that they are unlike any which have occurred we must read in the light of the fact that not until a recent was it in his or the power of any other to know if about them We have learned something about the elementary ofthe tempestuous ita ways and its within the quarter of a but all we have learned does not enable us lo speculate with any certainty about such phenomena as have lately been observed from Perhaps by entertaining the opinion that tremendous solar indy have in other ages and that may often have from the 3 its we may be able to indulge in tbe satisfactory assurance that such may orbe in our without our poor which by the favor of the ia rather to see that scientific undertaken the busio ness which formerly was confined to of the end of the to be at the death of Christ his followers began to look for the of Kll things and the arrival of the day of About the of the the years of the Christian again there was an impression throughout that the last was and would listen for the s iund of Gabriel's The same at times Midille in present century the Millerites have fixed the date for the end of the and they gathered their to be ready lor the at once dreadful and glorious then 10 be In recent of- has again fixed the of the final but the days and years of calculations have passed away and left the in its Numberless Biblical commentators hkye - the time of the at every year of the present They have taken the Book of and the Revelation of St. have the and time and a half have interpreted mystery of the beasts with seven heads and ten have opened the shown us the and have determined from ail that tbe end of the world must Be in 1830, or 1850, or 18G5, some of the years between or near to They have terrified many people by saying that such was the revelation of the Divine which would certainly be Many have believed the predictions or calculations of the modern and have waited patiently through years for the ing of tbe Son of or the arrival of the Day of the advent of the But tbe globe haa stood and the firmament has remained Biblical have at last got rather tired of their But they have hardly had time to give them up when astronomers take np their spectroscopes and and tell of the fearful solar phenomena or other celestial perturbations which threaten the existence of the acd may at any time bring it. to an wrongs of those who have been deprived of the most ot nature's the of body and by parental incapacity and bad social cry aloud for not only our numerous hospitals asylums and but from nearly every in the Is it not time social reformers and statesmen w. re turning their attention to the of the rights of coming as well as the against tho supreme ignorance and criminal of their desi n of the age Frenchman to an is 01 vord in your I do not and ze time I hear it. you The Insisted that no such word exists in While he was his came to put coal on the when he said that'll The Frenchman jumped np exclaiming say him sare vat great men been famous for their bad A good story is toM of When the reform was before the House of the noble Lord offered an amendment that no one should be allowed tbe franchise who could not write his name in a legible It was the of the clerk ut the table to read the amendment aloud to the but so had his lordship written for the life of the clerk couldn't make it of human One that bu applied as an for the improvement of nor are we so far Irom the realization of the blessing as many may A birth of a genus or an idiot is no more the result of an accident than the rising or setting of the sun. Law rules supreme in every of all effects have corresponding nothing ii Now many of the so less than the laws in accordance to which they that produce such in offspring while it for ingenuity and severance to collate and arrange them in to lay a very for the desired this day of high communication both political and the ramification of affairs becoming so extensive and complicated that we are sadly in want of able brain and tongued bodies master the increasing and this is a truth which many of our thoughtful men women already We are in crying says an for a greater fund of ability iu uli tor neither tho classes of nor up to the modern complexity in their several ed civilization like ours comprises more interests the ordinary statesman or philosophers of our present race are capable of dealing and it exacts more intelligent work than our artisans and laborers are capable of Our race is and appears likely to be drudged into acy by that exceeds its powers to this Mrs. fitly than it is of move importance what kind of a child we raise than how It is better to produce one lion than twelve jacks We have got jackasses let us get into the lion what effort be on the part of any man or woa man than an attempt to by an intelligent observance of or if divine such an exalted specimen of the human race as a or a Madam De Florence Nigh ati Elizabeth is honor due to of noble a but much greater would it be were such the result oi the careful obedience to laws like the stars of presido over the birth of stimulated by the eternal principle of progress is certainly eventually to utilize means of advancing humin improvements which the all wise and beneficient Creator has seen fit to place within their This may possibly occasion a change in Pur habits of thought and The will justify the Of the comparatively few writers from the days of Socrates and Plato to who have the scientific generation of the larger tion directly or the adoption bf a system similar to that practiced by breeders of domestic i. from the breeding in and in objections the application of such a system are too numerous and palpable to require It like the ancient or the modern of ihe Oneida labored under that it was the available there which is npt only but vastly more accordance with the spirit of our judicial and religous Space will not ot even a limited sketch of its native or fundamental These presented hereafter to the readers bf Union in a brief article upon the ' F. L. tie Grant the Beauties Civil Service Kef Salem lady says it is always safe when traveling to enquire the price cf any article before deciding tn She bases this opinion on ihe fact of restaurant taking fifteen a cup of tea from all who ask the price and only ten from those who copy the following the Washington and it should read by every who desires the restoration of and purity in affairs The whole ery of 1.1.8 being to secure the re of Grant and the of the It death Chandler and and they will leave no means to the continuation of their The Patriot entire Senate wing of ti e Capitol of the United States hits into a. the use of the and clerks d from the different of the committee room and lobby is furty are employed in folding and preparing for the and belonging to the people is being used at the rale of over thousand dollars worth daily Query Whf is it that pays for the paper and too at one dollar a Who pays the waces of forty at 840 per Who pays the room and echo who virtually been removed from F between Seventh and Eighth to the and the Hon. J. Edmunds occupies for his official headquarters the room of the committee on of Chandler is Here the Postmaster may be seen daily from 10 lo 3 controlling all matters connected with the diffusion of such interresting as the New York - the Journal the and Horace Greeley about this and and fhe contrary to for on the 20th of June 1872, John A. J Postmaster General issued a entitled regulations under the new postal 1872," in which appears the following paragraph the franking following persons are entitled to frank by himself or his private to cover all mail Vice-President to cover all mail chiefs of the several Executive and Delegates to and the of the Clerk of tbe House of Representatives to cover their and all printed matter issued by authority of Congress and all no person entitled by law tne privilege 2>haU exorcise said privilege otherwise than by his written autograph signature on the matter And all mail matter not thus franked shall be the legal rate of postage 180.] will carefully observe the foregoing A. - Postmaster June 20,1872. the face the above law twenty bags of mail matter are sent c aily from the Capitol by the Radical franked mostly iiy lady These bags contain about one letters upon which the postage amounts to three thousand near one hundred thousand dollars per and ati this is under the direction of J. M. Postmaster bf the city of Washington Chairman of this A ihas been established in the room on Publio and Grounds in the senate wing of the and here twelve girls are ployed daily in: folding documents by Senator James Harlan and proprietor of the above paper and United Senator from tho state of lit wa until March 4, The same has also Major ter of the United who draws his pay from the States but who is detailed for this special committee is used oy eight or ten lady clerks whose sak arles amount to dollars per and paid out of the to frank letters to all parts - the Tbe other rooms now occur by the administration are the ' room on Mit es and room on room on roem on Private and room on room on of on and Post room on public Committee room on enrolled Reporters and in front of the on Post Offices and Post rooms are to New to each of these rooms is detailed few days we published the names of a few of the clerks detailed to work in this great political One of. thera A. H. has seen fit to deny i hat he in We have pains to the matter and that he was discharged from the census Bureau on or about June 1, 1872 ond about July 1, 1872, appointed a temporary the Surgeon Gener at per and ordered to to the Radical R lican Committee at the Capitol for and the week has been at work OF TUB SAME SORTi All the clerks the Interior who signed a call for the mass meeting soldiers and to make arrangements to attend the vention at Sept in the interest have been promised ten leave of and a free pass there and All who belong to Indiana and are to have leaves of absence from September 12' until November 12 Its party may ed in the pendii g nu it will be ihe imperative duty ot ' to take hold with a vigorous hand and sink of the New Custom The reader testimony brought out by the has little purpose if not come to the conclusion that among the many gross and shameful abuses of our ci vil sei this one is the and It was proven by - the testimony of witnesses that the officers of that custom House are 8ppoinied> fiom the collector down not for but political and personal the test for for has been party standing that removals of good and efficient officers made for no reason save the political independence of that to the of two on the are exacted from the subordinate that what is known as the ' general the storage and cartage of imported goods preceding has managed for not in the interest of still less of the but the interest of Leet Stocking a favored firm of have made about year of that brines are constantly by and other that these bribes are taken in defiance of a stringent law prohibiting any perquisite or extra and of an oath taken every month by every that he has no other compensation than his salary from the that the accounts of the are so confused and a over one million dollars was found between the accounts of Collectors office and the Naval that Mr. Thomas for two years the Collector under the present was ignorant of the duties of tbe spent his time I energies in running it as a political that his interference in the politics of New and his use of the patronage of the to control political primary was that he appointed ward to sinecures with the express understanding that should do no that the grossest and most oppressive searches nnd have been made rf merchants accounts and on trumped di aries of defrauding the ers aud spies have been armed with to intimidate importing inerch and have abused power money out of the and that a systematic has been carried on law ' in the management and especially such awakened the remonstrance of the mercantile community of New York of the Government is that it can scarcely be J Nearly three quarters of the v revenues of the to about two hundred dollars a is ' bf thei Collector holding that The office is to in the Cabinet in the powers responsibilities which it So the more vast business should bein uf the highest and capable of selecting ordinates of the requisite adi ministering every branch of the service in the interest of the Government Yet the York is full of the of to whom are intrusted duties upon the honest and discharge of which dependent the revenues of a great is but one sample of the this from the testimony of William E. of the firm of known the country over for its high honor and fail to be a charge the of New York to have its a hospital A has been in for ten years knows how to do tho where to find the necessary papers In his place there comes have to tell how to do his business and show him where to find The character of the men employed in this the enormous sum of six millions of dollars was received in a single of the present month of is shown in the evidence taken by committees of Senator Patterson Chairman of the committee of 1871, stated that one all of the Custom House who had before the had testified that they were in the habit of taking bribes for the discharge of page 154.] And by the law of 18, 1866, the stringent oath provided for in the following extract is taken every month by each of these or person connected with the customs or internal as a -ment to them of any payment for is required to make an oath the period for which he or she is to receive pay for neither he nor she nor any of his or her has either by the of another any money or compensation of any description nor any of the either directly or for in connection the 0U.<<tOm,s. : - - i a fearful amount of systematic perjury is added to the continual bribe taking by which the interests of the United States or less When any of the Service of the Government has become so corrupt and demoralized as it- is high service should General Order about which the have within the past only a very small part of the corruption that prevails in this great establishment for the collection of the This was only a system by which the commerce of York through that of the was subjected to an OH
