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THE GAZETTE.
ISTew Sei’ies.
For The Gazette ]
MOBNING, NOON AND NIGHT.
With roseate hues and smiling face,
Aurora heralds the blushing morn ;
Thus childhood in its beauteous grace,
Begirt with flowers, seems care to scorn.
Blithe as the lark on airy wings,
Soaring aloft the sun he greets ;
The prattling infant gaily sings,
Tasting alone life’s honeyed sweets.
Then as the glorious orb of day
In splendor drives his gilded car—
E’en to the zenith where each ray
Doth far surpass a brilliant star—
So the beauteous maid with dark brown hair,
And eyes as bright as sparkling dew,
Seems to our vision far more fair
Than aught on earth that meets the view.
But bright as shines the sun at noon,
E’en it too, like all else, must fade ;
Must travel onward and, ah I too soon,
Leave earth beneath night's sombre shade.
And so with life—tis short at best,
And soon each one must pass away ;
But happy they who sink to rest,
With Hope’s bright star to light the way.
Elcho.
MRS. GREEN’TsON-IN-LAW,
“Well, Serepta, I’ve found out all
about them.
Mrs. Green sat herself down in front
of the fire, took off her bonnet, and
shed upon her daughter a smile to great
satisfaction.
“Found out all about whom, mam
ma ?” Serepta questioned, with sweet
demureness.
“Well, upon my word, you are the
most obtuse girl of my acquaintance.
When you saw me come in just now,
you understood that I’d been out walk
ing I suppose ? Yes ? Well, I’m glad
you did. You know I don’t often go
out walking without an object, I sup
pose! I’m encouraged to find that you
understand that too. And you remem
ber those two young men we met twice
yesterday when we went to your Aunt
Jane ! Of course you do ; you needn’t
answer that. Well now, knowing that
I have been out, and with an object
does it not occur to you that I went to
find out all I could about those two
your.g men.
It will be seen that Mrs. Green had
the gift of speech in addition to her
many other attainments. Her daughter
too, was a fair practitioner, in her na
tive tongue, but on this occasion she
merely said:
“But I don’t see why you should
want to find out anything about them.”
“Of course not,” responded the ma
tron. “But if I were your daughter,
and you were my mother, you would
understand it well enough.”
“Why, what in tho world has that got
to do with it, mamma ?”
But the young lady still kept her
eyes rather too persistently fixed upon
her little bit of embroidery and it is
to be feared that she was fencing with
her parent.
“You know well enough that it has
everything to do with it,” responded
Mrs. Green. “When two handsome
young men meet us together in the
street, and then put themselves out of
the way to run against us again, you
don’t suppose they take such pains to
get another look at me, do you ?”
“They might. I’m sure you’re worth
looking at twice,” responded the daugh
ter, very prettily.
“That’s nonsense, and you know it.
They wanted to see you. You’re
young and rather good looking, al
though you are not altogether my style;
and there are not so many young and
pretty girls in this village that strange
young men are going to neglect any of
them.”
“Oh, mamma! How you talk.”
“I talk like a prudent woman, and act
like one ; so I went out to find out all
about those two young men. One of
them will do very well indeed.”
“Which one is it who will doin
quired Serepta, laughing, and beginning
now to show a litttle shy interest in the
subject.
“That one with an Ulster overcoat on,”
replied the elder lady, shooting a very
sharp glance at the young one.
“Why, they both wore Ulsters,” put
in Terepta, falling into the trap with
great simplicity.
“Aha! I thought so,” chuckled the
astute Mrs. Green. You noticed them
a little while they noticed you a good
deal. AYell, its’s the tallest one, I mean
the one with the dark complexion and
black [mustache. Charles Edgerton his
name is.”
“The other one is much the best
looking and the most gentlemanly, I
think.” Said the daughter.
“George Merton. Oh. yes; but he
won’t do at all. He is handsome, and
Las plenty of talent too, but he has
neither money nor position. Mr. Ed
gerton has plenty of both, so he’s the
one that will do.”
“Why, I thought”—and then Sarepta
stopped and bit her lip.
“Thought what?”
“Nothing, only that we were doing
a rather queer thing, discussing these
two gentlemen as if they belonged to
us.”
“Queer, maybe, but prudent,” and
tho prudent mother withdrew to med
itate upon the advantages of a son in
law with both money and position.
The fact goes without saying that
there is more or less wickedness in this
j world. If there were not, good Mrs.
j Green would have been spared the sur-
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ELBERTON GA., JAK’Y 3,1877.
prised, mingled with humiliation, that
fell upoD her the same evening.
Mother and daughter had set tbem
selvesMown beside the evening lamp to
chat and sew and to have an altogether
cozy evening when the bell rung, and
Mr. Charles Edgerton and Mr. George
Merton were shown into the room.
Mrs. Green was almost astonished
out of ail courtesy in contempting the
impertinence of the young men of our
day, who were calling without waiting
for iatroductions. Her surprise was
no means lessened, but the course of her
contemplation was turned when her
daughter showed what the girls of our
day are capable of, by welcoming the two
gentlemen very serenely, and introduc
ing them in a very matter-of-fact way to
her mother.
The explanation of it was tbatThese
young persons had met in the merry
summer time in an out of the way
country nook, where Sarepta was so
journing with a city cousin, friend of
the Messrs. Edgerton and Merton.
Mrs. Green accept the situation grace
fully, and was pleasantly courteous as
became so polite a lady. But when
the call had ended, and mother and
daughter were left again to each other’s
companionship, Serepta listened to
some animated remarks.
“A nice trick you played me !” said
Mrs. Green. “Let me go on asking
questions about those two men, and
you knew all about them all the while!
Why didn’t you tell me ?”
“Why, mamma, i didn’t know that
you wanted to learn anything about
them. The first I knew you had found
out all 1 had to.tell," and more too; so
what was the use ?”
“Well, you might have told me before.
And how was it we didn’t recognize
them when we met on the street ?”
“I did; I bowed and they lifted
their hats the first time we met them.
You did not see them at all that time,
for you were busy looking at Mrs.
Bunce and her new cloak.”
“The first time ! Did we meet them
three times instead of two, then ?”
“I did not count the times, but I
think it must have been three.”
“Humph! Well, I’ve nothing to do
now but to see that no trouble comes
of all your smartness. To begin with,
I noticed that Mr Merton was rather
more attentive to you this evening
than there was. any necessity for. I
want you to remember that he is not
the one who will do ”
There was no reply to this injunc
tion. Perhaps it was not heard, and
subsequent facts rendered this all the
more probable.
The two young'men prolonged their
stay in the village and made frequent
calls together at Mrs. Green’s house.
Mr. Edgerton was all that could be
desired in the way of friendly courtesy,
but George Merton was that, and more
too. It became more and more appar
ent that he aimed to become the one
who would do.
He came often with his friend, but
more often by himself, and one day he
called, not on Sarepta, but upon Mrs.
Green herself. The nature of bis er
rand may be gathered from a remark
of that lady’s during the conversation.
“I am very sorry matters have gone
so far,” she said, “and I tried in every
way to prevent it. All I can do now
is to say that I will never give my con
sent to your marriage with my daughter.
I esteem you very greatly, but I long
since made up my mind that my son-in
law must have fortune and position.
“But, my dear madam—"
“I have had my say, Mr. Merton,
and nothing will ever make me say
differently. I don’t mind saying to
you that the same question from your
friend would receive a very different an
swer.
George Merton went away then, and
Sarepta received a little lecture from
her mother. The girl was a little pale,
but very quiet, and her mother thought
she v/as going to be very sensible. She
felt a little discouraged, however, when
Sarepta said, quite in her natural
voice:
“I know he is poor, and without po
sition, as you call it, but I will never
marry any other man as long as I
live !” and that ended the conversa
tion.
After this matters went on much the
same as usual, except that George Mer
ton came no more to Mrs. Green’s House.
Sarepta was a little quieter than of old
but altogether acted in a practical man
ner that gave her mother very great
encouragement.
One afternoon the young lady dress
ed to go out for a walk, and stood for a
time with one foot on the fender bar
listening to her mother’s talk which ran
pretty much in this strain toward the
close:
“I haven’t seen Mr. Edgerton for
two or three days, have you ? And—
his friend seems to have disappeared
altogether. I must say it was very
proper of him not to come here after I
gave him so decided an answer. Why,
bless my soul! Here he is now !”
And there sure enough he was
stepping leisurely in through the open
door of the room. He had evidently
screwed up his courage, and was keep
ing it up by a little bit of bravado not
quite natural to him. His hat was
pulled tight upon his head, his step
had the least suggestion of a swagger
! in it, and he carried his hands in the
pockets of the short, odd looking jack
et which he wore for the apparent pur
pose of making him look unneccessarily
independent.
His manner put Mrs. Green on the
offensive, as if it were a challenge.
Her face took on its hard, set look, her
hands folded themselves together un
der her apron, and she stood looking
at him very frigidly, and failed to no
tice that her daughter was not so much
suprised as she ought to have been.
“Good afternoon, Mr. Merton,” said
Mrs. Green, very much as if he had been
a sewing machine agent. “We were just
speaking of—your friend.”
‘ Ah Charlie ! Yes, poor fellow, he has
gone back to the city. He really need
ed a longer rest but he couldn’t take it
without losing his situation, and he can
not afford to do that.”
“His situation? Why—”
“Yes, you know he is a bookeeper.
But, no; I remember now, my friend Mr.
Garwood got our names mixed in tell
ing you about us.
“I see,” said Mrs. Green, in a tone
that implied many thing. *
“But come, dear, if you are reedy we
will go for our walk now” said George,
in a queer hurried way. “I just drop
ped in Mrs. Green to take my wife out
for a walk.
“Your wife! What!” and Mrs. Green
sat down and waited for more breath.
“Mamma, you will forgive us, won't
you ?” pleaded Sarepta. “Perhaps it
was wrong, but you were so firm, so
we were married yesterday.”
“Of course I forgive you, now that
there is nothing else for me to do,” said
the politic lady. “And if you will wait
a minute I’ll go with you. It will close
people’s mouths
As they all started out together, Mrs.
Merton said:
“George, you ought to have told me
about this ridiculous mistake.”
“I know I ought, but you see, my dear,
I couldn’t resist the temptation of giving
your mother a son in law with ‘fortune
and position,’ in spite of herself,” here
plied.
World Correspondence: The revolu
tionary leaders have now no hope of in
stalling Hayes according to the forms of
the constitution, and their present plan
is a coup d’etat to seize the city and ex
ecutive departments on the 4th of March
—like the French, who, when they make
a revolution begin by seizing Paris. In
a word, they are a goiDg to do every
thing which it was feared the secession
ist!; might attempt to do in 18G0-61,
namely to capture the Federal capital by
a quick, bold military movement, seize
the Government offices and trust to the
love of peace and qniet on the part of
the people for submission to the revolu
tion. Unluckily for the secessionists of
1860-61 they had no such leaders as
Cameron, Jay Gould, Sherman and Mor
ton ; and they thus lost their opportuni
ty. These men are playing the same
game with a boldness, a vigor and ax
audacity that either of the two Napo
leons could hardly surpass. Hayes is
nothing in himself. But we read in his
tory of many cages where a weak pre
tender to the throno—a child or a wo
man, maybe—was carried into power by
cunning, bold conspirators who had their
profit to make by the operation.
Richmond Dispatch: Mr. O’Conor’s
letter was, we donbt not, written for
private use only. He is not the man to
be reckless of propriety in what he
writes for the public eye. We take it
beyond doubt that Mr. O’Conor did write
the letter. It appeared on Wednesday
in the New York Times, and the next
day in the Tribune, and has not been
disowned by Mr. O’Conor. Indeed, he
has not seen proper to explain that it
was a private letter, not intended for j
publication. In viaw of Grant’s malici
ous attempt to defame the Northern
Democrats in his message we suppose
Mr. O’Conor sees no occasion for expla
nation of any kind, and we are sure the
Democrats generally enjoy with delight
what Mr. O’Conor said of him. The
bold opinion which Mr. O’Conor avows,
that the march of McDowell upon Rich
mond was the death of the Republic, is
one in which a great many people north
of Mason and Dixon besides Northern
Democrats are disposed to concur. The
number of such persons is increasing.
It begins to be too apparent that the
subjugation of the South has led very
nearly to the subjugation of national
liberties. If there be recuperative pow
er enough in the people to re-establish
them a short time will show it.
What his Angel Saw. —He had just
wedded a little angel with a musical
voice, limpid blue eyes and a brow on
which candor had set its seal.
They made their bridal tour to Venice,
where they went from palace to palace,
watched the pigeons wheeling round the
towers of St. Mark’s, explored the mys
terious canals in their gondola As they
are returning homeward at night the
young husband, whose fall heart is over
flowing with emotion, says :
“Well, my love, what, has impressed
you most of all that we have seen in this
wonderful city?”
The young wife timidly cast down her
eyes.
“You remember the cafe on the Pia
zetta?”
Yes, my angel.”
“Well, at the third table from the door
I on the left there was a duck of an officer,
with such a love of a mustache!”
Indian scalps, with right ear attached,
are worth SSO apiece at Dcadwood City.
Vol. Y.-No. 36.
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THE CHILDS PLEA FOR GOING TO
SCHOOL.
a song.
Boy. —l mean to go to school to-day,
With marbles, bat and ball;
For I do dearly lore to play,
And I can beat them all.
0, I will go to school,
O, I will go to school;
O, how I’ll play and frolic there,
For I will go to school.
Mother. —lf that is all you’re going for,
You need say nothing more ;
For yon will make a vagabond,
And beg from door to door;
So you can’t go to'echool,
So you can’t go to school;
I have enough for you to do—
You cannot go to school.
Boy . —l’ll learn to spell and read and write
And metaphysics too;
Philosphy and algebra ;
O, mother will that do?
O, so studious I’ll be !
0, so studious I’ll be I
I will be kind and good to all,
And they’ll be kind to me.
Then, mother, when you have to lie
Upon your dying bed ;
I’ll take my seat close by your side,
And bathe your fainting head.
Can I now go to school ?
Can I now go to school ?
I’ll love you when you’re in the grave,
For sending me to school.
When you’re among the blest above.
On Canaan’s oeaceful shore,
I’ll try to meet yon, mother dear,
When life with me is o’er :
O, how joyful to see I
0, how joyful to see !
My lovely mother throned above ;
How happy wc shall be I
Mother. —O, dearest boy, make haste and go,
And study all you can ;
Be kind and just and good to all,
And make a Christian man.
Yes, you may go to school,
Yes, you may go to school ;
For if I fill a pauper’s grave,
I’ll send you oa to school.
Stinchcomb.
Elbert County, Ga.
TERRIBLE FIGHT BETWEEN POLAR
BEARS.
The Cologne Gazette contains an ac
count of a combat which took place in
the zoological garde; s of that city be
tween two Polar bears, which, that jour
nal remarks, “a Roman emperor would
assuredly have paid a million sestertii to
witness.” These two bears had been
brought from Spitzberg five years ago
and had been placed in a large pit, with
a tank in the center.
Until recently they had remained upon
excellent terms with each other, but a
quarrel ensued between them, the result
of which was that the female bear took
refuge upon the summit of a large rock
in one corner of the pit. The male did
not attempt to follow her, and she re
mained there three days, when, pressed
by Lunger, she descended again. As
soon as the male bear saw her he imme
diately rushed at her and attacked her
with his forepaws. The keepers at
tempted to separate them, and belabored
the male with heavy iron bars, but the
bones in the head of the Polar bear are
so much harder than those of the ordin
ary bear that these blows took no effect.
The male bear continued to wreak his
vengeance upon his companion, and, af
ter having almost torn her body into
ribbons, he dragged her to the bottom
of the tank and held her there until he
felt assured that all sign of life was ex
tinct. He then brought her body back
to the floor of the pit and dragged it
round the tank for nearly an hour. Af
ter this he withdrew into his sleeping
den to rest from his labors, and the
keepers at once closed the iron bars upon
him.
Having examined the body of the dead
bear, they found that it had received
more than a hundred wounds; the neck
and head were crushed almost to a jelly,
and the flesh was hanging in strips from
the back and sides. During the whole
combat neither of the bears uttered a
cry or sound of any kind; but, except
in this particular, it must have borne a
singular resemblance to what may some
tirnea be seen in Lancashire without pay
ing a million sestertii.
A curious discovery is announced by
Prof. P. B. Wilson, of Washington Uni
versity, Baltimore, that minutely pulver
ized silica is taken up in free state by
plants from the soil, and that such silica
is assimilated without chemical or other
charge. The experiment consisted in
fertilizing a field of Wheat with the in,
fueorial earth found near Ricbmond-
Virginia. This earth, it is well known,
consists of the shells of miscroscopic
marine insects, known as diatoms, which,
under a strong magnifying power, reveal
many beautiful forms that have been re
solved, classified and named. After the
wheat was grown, Prof. Wilson treated
the straw with nitric acid, subjected the
remains fo microscopic test, and found
therein the same kinds of shells or dia
| toms that are in the Richmond earth,
! except that the larger sized shells were
! absent, showing that only silica particles
above a certain degree of fineness can
ascend the sap pores of the plant. This
discovery opens anew line of research
in agricultural investigation, from which
important results and very much addi
• tional knowldedge may accrue.
0(1 B WASHINGTON EETTER.
FBOM OUB REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION AND INACTION
GRAVE PROBABILITIES —PATRIOTS VERSUS
PARTISANS —A SCENE IN THE GALLERY
THE “lobby” HOW IT OPERATES THE
STORY OF THR SPIDER AND THE FLY —
HOW VICIOUS LEGISLATION MAY BE PROCUR
ED THIS SESSION —BTC., BTC.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 14, 1876.
A few days, and tvro Weeks will have passed
since Congress assembled ; yet little or nothing
looking to the connlry’s weal has been accom
plished. The intense excitement caused by the
existing state of political affairs ; unsatisfactory
debates, pro and con, in the Senate and in tho
nonse; dilatory motions (known in congression
al parlance as “filibustering”), and partisan
harangueß have se far consumed ranch of the
time that should have been devoted to an earn,
cst and nnpartisan consideration of measures
that arc essentinl to the common good and
closely identified with that spirit of liberty and
progress, which (if it docs not) ought to char
acterise the entrance into our second centennial
epoch.
Worse still, there is no prospect of a speedy
settlement of the vexations questions now pend
ing, in fact, it is not nt all probable thnt tho
fourth of March, next, will definitely settle mat
ters. It is very evident that the Democrats,
believing they had honestly and fairly elected
their candidate, will take, a firm and decided
stand ; while the Republicans are, on their part,
equally undisposed to yield. The address issued
yesterday by the chairman of the(National Dem
ocratic Committee has been met to-day by a
similar document issued by Mr. Chandler, chair
man of the Republican National Committee ;
one insists that Mr. Tilden, the other that Mr.
Hayes, is fairly elected. And when it is remem
bered, that the political gulf between the House
and Senate, instead of getting bridged overby
the re-adoption of that now famous “twenty
second joint rule,” is.beeoraing widerjday by day,
each of these two legislative bodies manifesting
a dogged disposition to stand on its dignity and
insist upon any prerogative to which it may as
sume itself entitled, it must be admitted that
the prospect before us is anything but bright,
and that it behooves all good men and true, ir
respective of party, to endeavor to pour oil upon
the troubled waters, and to remember that it is
far more noble tD boa patriot than a partisan 1
As was to be expected, the assembling of
Congress under the peculiar circumstance
brought hither a much greater throng of sight
seers than is usual on the opening of a congres
sional session, and the galleries in the Hall of
the House of Representatives, where the greatest
excitement centers, are crowded day after day.
Avery large proportion of the audience are
colored people ; but a majority of these, who
belong to the poorer classes, probably geek
snelter here because it is warm and Co9y, and
better, by tar, than to walk the streets or sit in
a cold, comfortless room. It not seldom happens
that some robust durkey will fall asleep, to as
tound his neighbors and the august assemblage
on the floor presently with a snore of immense
proportions, as if half a dozen alligators were
simultaneously replenishing their breath through
the nostrils. It was on such an occasion that
“Big Jake,” a stalwart negro well-known in
Washington, having gently entered the realms
of morpheas while seated in the House gallery
just opposite to General Butler’s chair, caused
that gentleman to tarn a back-banded sumer
sault in his chair, and present a resolution af
terwards, to the effect that no person having
oyster-horns in their possession should be ad
nutted to the galleries. Mr. Holman only rose,
said. “I object!” and then sat down again I
One would think that, in view of the import
ance of the questions which now agitate tho
entire country, and which can only find a peace
able solution in Congress, that vicious element
known as “the lobby” would meet with little
encouragement aud postpone its operations till
a more auspicious period. Not so, however.
The new-comer will not readily detect the lob
byist amongst the hundreds who daily crowd
the galleries, passages, and even the floor of tho
House before and during each session ; but to
the habitual frequenter of the capital the men
and women who, headed by “Sam. Ward,” the
king of lobbyist*, percolate all branches of our
legislature are well known. Their perfidious
influence makes itself felt everywhere and is by
no means limited to the Halls of Congress,
which is simply their workshop. Let the new
member, who is iuexperienced in the ways and
wiles of these tascinating tempter*, beware, for
his weaknesses will soon he found out and ho
made the most of. Confidiug and unsuspicious,
he is inveighed into the dangerous net betore ho
lias the least premonition of danger; it is the
old story of the fly and the spider repeated
every day and hour. The single vote of a Con
gressman is ofteu worth many thousands of dol
lars to the parties who employ the lobbyists, so
they can afford to be liberal, and are. But very
seldom is a vote bought for the actual cash “in
hand paid,” because that is too dangerous and
revolting, but it is ofteu purchased with a din
ner, abi ief period ot dissipation, or the smiles and
soft whisper of a pretty woman. The choicest
dinners may fail, however, and wine and tho
theatre may possess no attractions ; but the last
and mod powerful tempter Eve like, generally
carries the point 1
A book could be written on the peculiar insti
tution known as the “lobby,” to which we are
indebted for neatly all the bad or vicious legisla
tion which encumbers our statute books. Point
me out a single scheme of successful public
plunder, and I will show you the particular lob
by through which it was effected. Unscrupul
ous, bold men and dashing women come hero
tram all parts of the country, and after a session
or two, retire with a handsome competence made
by successful “lobbying.” Comparatively few
operate on their own account; as a rule, (at
least, where important measures are involved,
which promise latgt gains) there Is a concert of
action, and all plans ate iuid carefully before
hand and manipulated with a inaster-hand for
evil. This session tho lobby is as active as ever,
in the hope, doubtless, that measures which in
volve pecuniary gain to somebody may be tacked
on to “some of the appropriation bills,” and, in
the excitemcntof the moment, be carried through
without scrutiny. Iu this, it is probable they
will succeed, unless, indeed, the House should
witbold all appropriations (except pensions)
with a view to enforce the recognition of Mr.
Tilden. Should the House of Representative*
pursue this course, the complicated machinery
of the government must stop running after the
first day of July next, unless it can run itself on
credit, for the very good reason there will be no
money in the Treasury with which to defray
government expenses ! L. J}.
How the Boat Goes.— Agentlenan on
board a steamboat with his family was
asked by bis children: “What makes the
boat go ?” when he gave them a very
minute description of tUe machinery and
its principles in the following words:
“You see, my dears, this thingumbob
here goes down, down'througli that holo
and fastens the jigmaree, and that con
nects with the crinkum crankum ; and
that man—you see he’s the engineer, you
know—kind o’ stirs up the what do you
call it with a long poker and they all
shove along, and the boat goes ahead.”