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Show New- trol, Publishfld every WEBVE8DAY and SATURDAY, by the Ojudn Pujblisuiiw Coxpaxit. Ciarks W. Peiirose,"Elitor. - England will have undis- puted control of the legislation and the dictation of all great measures, that will demand action at the hand of this Congress. Mr. Blaine is a favorite of fortuue, and as an intriguer, he is well versed OGUEX. UTAH. . 3," 1S73. ii all the arts of the politician and WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER r. His the intricacies of the is not without great sigcoxsi-wkxcnificance, and he is too shrewd to KUIXOiS POLICY. shut his eye to the advantages, that The sagacity of the nation's rulers may accrue to him by retaining the 1W- the last decade is startlingly exposition of presiding officer of the inmver branch of Congress. He might emplified by the operation 'of the hibitory system, whith their short have successfully contested the senaI sighted policy has established. In torial seat had he so desired, but the their seal to advance the interests of prestige of the mace, he knows to be privileged monopolists they have a powerful aid in advancing his pre erected barriers td foreign competition tensions to the presidential succes:is formidable as Japanese or Chinese sion, lie moreover understands the walls of seclusion. In consequence necessity of healing all antagonisms of this contracted policy, our mer- in his state, instead of opening a chant marine has been supplanted by breach in the ranks of his followers. that of our rivals. The fruit of our His aspirations lead him to cherish industry and our importations are the hope that by prudent managecarried by foreign built vessels. ment, and a cunning manipulation of has ceased and the the committees, that he himself will g navy yards have been rendered use- select, may prepare the way to his less excepting for the storage of mu- elevation to the highest position in nitions of war and the dismantling of the land. wire-pulle- of a - Ship-buildin- nnseaworthy vessels. The country is now agitated by the possibility of a war, and the clamors of a frantic populace, urged ou by blatant rapacious speculators are loud in their demands for decisive The Speakership is a stepping stone to the mansion now occupied by Gen. Grant, and he is not forgetful of the history of one of his predecessors who was translated from the fauteuil of the House to the Chief Magistracy. action, iti overthrowing the rule of James K. Polk, exchanged his seat as the Spanish Republic in America. presiding officer of that body, for the Should the calamity of war overposition of head of the Republic, and take the nation, we are not only un- 3Ir. Blaine has in sight that illustriprepared for the emergency, but the ous instance of the chances of promoundertaking is so gigantic that a wise tion. He is young, popular, and his donia-gogues,au- - d foresight precludes the possibility of contemplating its results with equanimity. It is uot very difficult to in- dulgo in visions of easy conquest and gratify a feeling of national vanity by predicting an almost resistless i tri- maph, which would humble the proud Castilian, and vindicate the dignity of the flag which "manifest destiny" has decreed shall wave over the Queen if the Antilles. The picture which ambition is inordinate. Deeply imbued with all the prejudices of the puritan, he yet possesses the faculty of glossing over his intense partizan predilections, by pursuing an even course ef apparent moderation, and preserving a reticence which disarms The nomination and opposition. election of Blaine td the Speakership next Monday, brings into prominence lis name as a prospective successor to n exuberant imagination may paint the hero of Appomattox. in vivid colors, is, however, shaded in sombre hues. We are without a navy A DEFIANT POWER. able to cope with a fourth-rat- e power. In all the requirements and appointIf the trite saying of the elder second-class first or ments of a navy Dumas "unhappy in love, happy at we aro totally deficient and inferior cards,'.' be accepted as an axiom to to Spain. When it is considered that be applied in politics or finance, then in the event cf hostilities, the United the Union Pacific Railroad Company States must assume the aggressive, has much reason for and that the conflict must be limited Perhaps no corporation in the coun' . . . n. - ' the open ocean, the try is more obnoxious to the people prospect of an easy victory are not so of this country, and held in greater bright as the sanguine hopes of an detestation than this tremendous to operations on unthinking class would monopoly. Yet it has successfully lead them to believe. parried all assaults made upon its weak the on we we are if If sea, power before the legal tribunals of aro without a respectablo navy" apd the laud. Its victories achieved in wanting in all the elements of an eff- the fields of litigation have been so icient fleet, the blame docs not rest cignal, that all attempts to attack it upon the lack of energy and vigor even in its most vulnerable points ' among the people. "The fault must be would appear futile. "It appears to attributed to the' pernicious legisla- be like the invincible Achilles, tion which has dwarfed great inter- impervious to the arrows of its foes, ests iu the truckling subserviency to unless some modern Paris rises to the caprices of privileged classes, aud infix a dart in the only vulnerable to part ' of its huge body, aud thus reiu the eagerness of our propitiate the favor of selfish corpor- lieve its fretful adversaries of an ations. arrogant, insolent dictation.' The Union Pacific owes its sucSUCCESA STEP TO cess to the extraordinary shrewdness SION. which it brings to bear in all its ' Mr. John G. Blaiuo will undoubt-od!- y speculations, and to the cunning achieve an easy triumph in the which distinguishes its gigantic oporganization of the House of Repre- erations iu the fancy marts of the sentatives next Monday. His claims country It has suborned Legislatures d as a question pt party and Governors of States to its to even invaded the sanctity of expediency aro superior to considerations of political propriety. JWith a the halls frqm.whioh pur issue grave measures of national Massachusetts President of the Sen. ate and a Maine Speaker of the lower moment., When detected in its nefarious scheming,' it always manages branch of Congress, and the most committees under their con to bo on the safe side, and while to ; law-make- Tin: rs .V ( inter-estSjan- law-make- ut rs appearances it ; is armed in the vicpanoply of right and justice, its tims are mercilessly sacrificed to its rapacity, without evoking a feeling of remorse or sympathy from its obif it can be said durate conscience to have any. Oakes Ames, whose memory is tarnished by his subserviency to its influence; unhappy, broken hearted Brooks, who sank into thegrave,his name covered with obloquy! Colfax martyred for his servility to its power, and a long desorrowful procession of votees to its interest appear like the ghost of Banquo to reprove it for its faithlessness; but it is immovable, remorseless and defiant. The disclosures made by the investigations into the Credit Mobilier frauds compelled the Government to all , ill-fat- institute legal proceedings against the ' Among his colleagues were Lincoln, Mattcson and Trumbull. He attached himself to the Whig organization and was returned to Congress, a position which he held, we believe, from 1840 until 185-1- . His influence in the lower House, was marked, and although in the minority, it was felt by the ability 'Which he displayed in his forensic efforts. Ardently opposed to the institution of slavery, he leader. incurred the displeasure of his constituents, and was defeated for reelection. In 1S3G he was elected Governor of Illinois, as the candidate of the Republican party, which had two years before come into existence, born amid the ruins of the Whig and Know Nothing parties. During his administration occurred the famous contest between Lincoln aud Douglas for a seat " in the United States Senate, an event which attracted univcrsl attention. When the war between the Northern and Southern sections of the Union, was announced he issued a proclamation to the people of his state, which aroused an enthusiasm that could not g be curbed by the calm and modpeople who counseled eration, before engaging in internecine strife. Among his first acts issued to U. S. was a commission Union Pacific Company to reclaim the rights of which it had been defrauded, and recover the privileges which had been usurped. Nearly one hundred suits had been entered against the Company in the United States District Court at Hartford. After resorting to the various expedients in which it has always been successful in baffling the course of justice, it has again emerged from the conflict with the national authorities, The Grant, as captain of a volunteer triumphant and unscathed. opinion of the District Court was Company under peculiar circumstanfiled yesterday, in which the juris- ces. Grant left his home in Galena, diction of the Court to adjudicate the and called upon the Governor at the important issues involved is main- Capital. He was unknown and extained. The government is allowed pressed his wishes to offer his sword the shell, but the meat is carried off in the service of his country. Yates The bill was dis- scanning closely the imperturbable by the Company. missed on the ground that the dam- countenance of the applicant advised age to the government by the Credit him to enlist. Grant reminded him Mobilier fraunds was too remote to bathe formerly held a commission be reached by the process pursued, in the regular army. He was then or any other, and that it has at pres instructed to raise a company in ent no pecuniary interest to be reach- Springfield, and the world knows the ed by the proceeedings. '"A Daniel rest of a career that has amazed the come to judgment." "Most potent world. At the end of his gubernaand learned judges !" torial term he was elected to the If there had been any sincerity on Uniteo! States Senate, but a cloud the part of the government and its dimmed a name that wielded an alagents, so lame a conclusion would most magical power, lie fell a vie-tinot have been arrived at;so ridiculous to intemperance, and became a travestie on a equity and justice slave to the temptations of the bowl. would not for a moment have been Indeed, it is bo exaggeration to say so insult to an entertained, glaring that he became a confirmed drunkard. the intelligence of the victimized tax- The light of a brilliant intellect payers of the nation would not have waned before the spell which the albeen tolerated. Another victory is lurements of the cup had wrought. recorded for the insatiable monarch, He closed his career as a statesman another victory registered in the in the vigoi of manhood and retired cause of fraud and plunder. from which he was to sober-thinkin- m . V' I A Eon- - lUhUJt would, have been better "' - fiJr r, Samuel Dunn if he had laid down h bones on one of the battle-field- s 0fth! 1 lyinouth Wayne county, MfchiJ the age 81 years but wan viS ally dead and buried twenty yeur8 lVn except that his perfect healthy CdY had to be fed and cared for all that tune. The Pioneers' society of Mich igan lately unearthed his life, or rath er his living death, and call him character." The fact is h0 has S no character. Any healthy, strong-limbeman who suffers himself to liQ jn bed twenty years, to be taken care of is not much by his daughter-in-laof a character. He was an 1812 soldier and did good service. Id 1832 he moved from Nen-Yor- k to Michigan and settled on a farm near Plymouth! He went ou sprees, and got 'very drunk, and became very noisy, but was not quarrelsome. He had camp, all himself in a ho'lmv by meeting tree on his firm. That's the way he wound up his frolics. After one (f these revivals he went to his house took a bottle from the shelf, took a drink, and then made a solemn vow that he would never touch another drop of liquor or utter an oath aain while he lived. He im mediate v pulled off his outer garments, went to bed and stayed there nineteen years and nine months. During all this time he was never known to dress himself or walk a step. He never took any medicine, and was never known to be ill. lie ate two meals a day, but would never cat in the presence of anyone. His victuals were brought to his bedside and left there. They disappeared. He slept ten or twelve hours out of the twenty-fouand never conversed much, nor read anything. His early life was active and useful, his middle life was s and intemperate, and his latter days furnish an unexampled instance of sloth, and a void more blank even than the grave. a - d w, r, bok-erou- The late Mr. George Clark, the thread manufacturer, left a legacy of 20,000 for the erection of a new town hall in Paisley Scotland. The trustees have purchased a site for the building. The hall, w'hich is to cost 15,000, is to include a large public reading room, to be open from 'six a. is. till midnight, for the use of working men, w"ho are to bo permitted to read the newspapers gratis, and to be at liberty to smoke without restriction. - private life, called to accept an obscure position, which gavd'him a limited income. RICHARD S. YATES. ;i Richard S. Yates was a man of The death of Hon. Richard S. sterling quail it ics, generous to a fault, Yates, of Illinois, is announced this and eveu in the hosr of his fall, commorning. A life eventful and che- manded the sympathy of friends and quered with the varying smiles and foes, and the admiration of the pres frowns of fortune has closed, inculcat- ent generation, in remembrance of ing a lesson that is engraven upon his past triumphs.' the tablets of the nation's history. Richard Yates emigrated to the State That was a verj touching incident of Illinois torty years ago, poor in that of the little school girl vho t he goods of this world, but possessed refused to define the word clown as of a stout heart, stalwar. arm and in- "a low, vulgar fellow," and for her stubbornness Was punished with the domitable energy. Illinois was then ferule and detained in play hours, all a barren field for the display of the to no reformatory end. The little innate qualitie3 with which he. was child's father proved to be a clown gifted. He at once turned his atten- in a circus. tion to the necessity of, earning a A writer on French manners oblivelihood, adopting different occupa- serves: "It is one of the highest tions, until he entered the profession merits of the system that it tacitly lays down the principles that all perof law. Gradually, as a genius ensons meeting in the same house know terprise, converted the endless prairie each other without the formality of imd stagnant swamps into smiling an introduction. Any man may ask farms teeming with the fruit of in- a girl to dance, or may speak to anyat a private party. Another dustry, and as numberless towns and body merit of French manners is the genervillages arose where there was naught al absence of false shame. If a boy but a boundless waste, he advanced drops his book at church, he picks it with tha growth oflhis adopted State. up without blushing. " A French woWhen yet a very young man he man takes off her bonnet and arher hair before the glass in a was elected for several consecutive ranges without even a railway waiting-roothe Legislature, where he to of the tepis thought presence of " became conspicuous as a debater and , tf . m ,; Ko Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain are not long unwell, provided their bones destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and the vital organs wasted beyond tlio , point of repair. Head-ach- or Indigestion, lyep5a l'ain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness Sour e, Eructaof the Chest, Dizziness, tions of the Stomach, Bad Tasto in Hie Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of tne Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain m the region of the Kidney, and a hnndrea other painful symptoms, are the oifcprmga of Dyspepsia. 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