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Show mt.. . . A .... V A? . ... .wy PnbllnhM WBDXK8DAY and SATURDAY, by the Ogdb Pcbushiss Comfaxy. IV. Penrose, Editor. Charles and Iiuunens Manager, OGDEX. UTAH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1874. ard," and a dozen more towns that are within a ttone's throw of one another. The revenue of 'Boston has been increased, the law's have been more perfectly executed, and the interests of all classes have been greatly promoted since the union. St. Louis has added to its greatness and CITIES. or The nomination of Attorney-Genera- l e On the first day of thi year the greater portion of the populous and wealthy County of Westchester, was added to the city of New York. But little interost has been exhibited in the union f the two neighbors under oue municipality. Virtually they have been one for many years, and the entire County was considered heretofore as merely a suburb to the rich metropolis. The population of the great city of the utiiou may now be set dowu as not far from a million and a quarter of 'inhabitants. This movement was suggested by causes of an entirely local character, yet it U an evidence of the natural tendency of large bodies in attracting smaller ones. A dual government fur what is to all intents and purposes a single corporation, entails an unnecessary and burdensome taxation, and induces the necessity of maintaining a complex and intricate political machinery and an army of office holders. While the smaller body reaps a decided advantage from its absorption in the larger, the latter is also benefitted by greater equalization and a more general distribution of the obli- enure to the advantage of the honorcapacity. gations resting upon freeholders and able members. They had ample opIt is an auspicious sign, when we all who are compelled to support the for the sentiment portunities testing see the President's servitors pause beThe preser- of their ' constituents during their fore municipal government. they give countenance to the vation of order and the enforcement brief who the sojourn among people conduct of th'eir chief, in defying of the laws are a' so materially assist- selected them to imthe discharge public sentiment by dictating a most ed by additional facilities. The case of portant responsibilities legislation. objectionable nomination for a station with which the recent escape of It must have been apparent to them that is regarded with holy and unafGenet was effected from the clutches thut the three first weeks of tho sesfected reverence. But the persistency of the law, nnder which he was sen sion wasted in wranslinsr and badin-agwith which it is urged, is evidence of tenced to serve a term in the peni could not recommend them to the fatuity of those who scorn the (entiary, might possibly have been ob- - the endorsement of those to whom expressions of condemnation which viated,had the service of process issued they are iudebted for -- seats in the come from every class of the people, from one County to another beeu as halls of the deliberative as highest as unworthy of regard, and as feeble expeditious as the telegraphic com- sembly iu the nation. and evanescent symptoms of popular munication. more a Shortly after the fugidiscreditable re Perhaps dissatisfaction. If Mr. Williams were tive was missed, there is every reason cord could not be made, than that of actuated by a lofty and delicate sense to believe that ho had taken refuge the from the first present Cougress of pride, he would have parried the in the vicinity of some point in day of the session. The disputatious blows which an indignant people Westchester, bu. owing to the delays and coarse verbiage which took the have directed against him, and saved caused by issuing writs to the officers place of solid argunient,tho angry himself the humiliation of invidious 'of another district, it is supposed criminations in which members who criticism to which he has been exprobable that he gainel ample time are supposed to understand the ordiposed. to leave the limits of the State. nary amenities of life indulged, were The President boasts of his firmPhiladelphia was the first city that assuredly out of keeping in an assemand his devotion to the friends adopted the system of consolidation. bly upon whom devolved the sacred ness, who have been faithful to him, and Surrounded as it was by a number of duties of governing a great nation. even though he may be convinced Tho repeal of. the back salary Act thriving towns and flourishing. villathat he has committed a grave error ges, each one under separate local ad- was certainly one which was apt to iu nominating his friend from Oregon ministrations, it was uu easy step for make members peculiarly sensitive, to the ermine of the most exalted trithem to glide into a union4 which re- aud for that vjry reasuu they should bunal in the land, it is not probable lieved theui of the incubus of unnec- have abstained from publicly expos- that he will recede from his false poessary taxation, besides extending ing their fuibles. No equal number sition. Hi3 proverbial obstinacy the superficial area of the city. Other of men could have so successfully forbids tho presumption. What he cities followed in the wake of Phila- violated Scott's injunction, that one calls firmness, sensible people call delphia, and experience has confirm- should not expose to public gaze mulishuess. , No man was more dised the wisdom of that policy, as it his dirty linen. It we could hope tinguished for firmness than Andrew simplified the form of government for no further agitation f a disrewhen he nominated and contributed to tho strength of putable measure, we might have Jackson, yet, Roger B. Taney as Secretary of the the treasury. some reason for congratulation. We and the Senate refused to A few years ago Boston adopted believe that the cauntry itself scan- Treasury,. confirm him the only objection betho experiment so successfully tried dalized, as it had been by the impuing that he was a Horn an Catholic in other cities, and the greatest ben- dent course of its representatives, he gracefully yielded- - As a more efits have been derived from tlc an would be willing to cry :qnits" and liberal sentiment gained ground, he nexation of adjoining towns and cit- withdraw its attention from a humiliappointed Taney as Jadgc of the ies, which were divided from one ating spectacle. Supreme Court, and never was an We are, however,-constraineby imaginary lines, Koxbury, to honor worn with more dignity and 'harlestown, Brighton and other rich beiievcj that the debate of the first than by this illustrious juaist. and prosperous towns havo been few days on the subject was only a grace If the Senate should adhere to its in the municipality of Boston, gentle breeze, compared with the to let the nomiwhich now occupies a front rank storm which will certaiuly rise when apparent resolution, nation of Williams die a natural and the House bill returns from the SenMiuong American cities. So successunlamented death, it would be an acful has been the result of this union ate modified and so mutilated that indication on its part to cut that it is now proposed to swallow up the pupular branch will Dot recognize ceptable loose from the trammels of power ' Cambridge the seat of 'old Harv their own bautlirg. and place. e. :;u-oih- cr d cm-brac- CHIVALRY IX THE u. s. SEX ATE. Oakes Ames has found an apologist aud his name is Flanagan. Who is Flanagan ? to fame he is unknown,, but along the banks of the Rio Grande the raDcheros hail him Williams is most likely to be consigned to a deserved fate in the secret recesses of the rooms of the Judiciary Committe, there to rest as a memento of the stupidity and ob- as a sort of demi-goa nondescript stinacy of the President. For the character, an adventurer who suddenfirst time since this administration ly appeared among them as an ordercame into power has President Grant ly to King Scott, the railroad monmet with a persistent opposition, in arch, and a tender to the Texas giving an unqualified sanction to his Pacific road. How he ever obtained nominations. a seat in the United States Senate So deeply had his mind become is one of those mysteries which can imbued with the belief that a truck- be penetrated only by those who are ling Congress would refrain from dis- familiar with ''the ways that are obeying . his mandates, that he has dark ani the tricks that are vain." with unwonted prodigality and The tactics that have of late years lavished his rewards been introduced in the reconstructed upon pampered favorites, whose mer- States, are unaccountably effective its are conspicuous solely for medi- in producing a discipline, that old With the Sam Houston never dreamed of, when ocrity and indifference. exception of the recent appointment he handled his scarred veterans at of Minister to Spain, he has not made San Jacinto, where the "lone star" a single one, to a prominent position, flag was unfurled over a victorious that can commend itself to the en- field. But then Flanagan was not dorsement of the nation. The mem- there. bers of his Cabinet have been selectTexas was nobly represented in the ed without regard to fitness or adapt- Senate yesterday by her chivalrous ability for the most responsible offices Senator, that is, Flanagan. He sumwithin his gift. The weakest of our moned up courage enough to laugh public men have been accredited to at the taunts of the demagogues foreign powers, and their appoint- whose denunciations of the salary ment will be a lasting reproach to grab bill and the lamented head of wealth, and good government by encroaching upon its neighbor, Caron-deleand presents now a river front of twenty-fivmiles, while the little French town has increased to such an extent, that it presents a stately appearance, and boasts of an activity and industry formerly unknown to its people. It is easy to foresee the consequences of the consolidation of Westchester and New York. An initiatory step has been taken to expand the territory of the latter still furth er. The opulent and magnificent metropolis looks upon its fair and highly moral neighbor across the river with yearning gaze. Coquetting has been going on between the two for a long time, and in a short time the bride will be won. Brooklyn's maiden nume and estate must inevitably be surrendered to the ambitious but irresistible wooer. New York is destined to draw into its capacious fold, - the third city in the Union,and with near two millions of busy, active and restless people, its destiny is beyond the prediction the present Administration. Surely, of the most visionary minds. there is not such a dearth of comIIONOIMHLI S OX DUTY manding ability and sterling merit in this country, to justify the caprices AG A I JT. of the President in bestowing the Congress yesterday, honors of office to incapable partizans after a vacation which we trust will and conferring a premium upon int, coxsoLiiATioar PERVERSITY. OF THE PRESIDENT. d, The Hired (Jirl. There is one reason why we shoulj regret to have tne present troubles with domestic servanfs ended. It is because women derive so much pleasure from discussing the subject. Place two women together, and, it makes no difference where the conversation starts from, it will be perfectly certain to work around to the hired girl question before many miu-uthave elapsed. We have seen an elderly house keeper with experience in conducting the talk iu the right direction, break into a discussion of Pythagoras and the doctrine of tho transmigration of souls, and switch off the entire debate with such expedition that an unsophisticated listener would for some momeets have an indistinct conversation referred to the inefficiency of Pythagoras as a washer and ironer, and to the tendency of that Imathen philosopher to take two Thursdays out of every week. And when a woman has an unusually villainous hired girl, who tjurns up the coal, wastes the butter, mixes her hair in the biscuit, and stuffs her illations with sugar, it is interesting to observe how she glories in the superiority of her sufferings to those of her neighbors, and how, as she tells of them, she gloats over her misery and feels good about it. Max es Adder, A will admitted to probate in Buffalo has this odd provision : "Iu case one or the other of my childnen shall be put to State's prison, or other house of correction, for bad conduct, through his or her owu fault, for the term of one year, such child or children shall have but 5 for their share after they are twenty-on- e years old." the Credit Mobilier, were like the noxious exhalations of a putrid mass, offensive to his nostrils only for their smell. He soared above the petty considerations of unreasonable faultfinders. Instead of ei?ht thousand dollars, the salary of a member of Congress should be ten thousand. Why did he not fix it at twice ten 'i His modesty and t assurance are at fault. Ames, in his opinion, was one of the best men he ever knew. Did S.T-1860--X not his colleagues wince at this thrust ? To give force to the declaration of his faith in the virtue of the salary bill he pulled out of his pocket a roll of greenbacks, aud triumphant- ly exclaimed that ho had drawn his salary and intended to "make hay while the sun shines." Perhaps it may be imagined that Flanagan is merely an eccentric and g His dignified personage. colleagues may not have been edified by his ranting, although they might have admired his pluck in advocating an unpopular and odious measure. But his vapid declamation meant more than they are williug to acknowledge. If they were brought to tho confessional with the hope of absolution, they would admit that he fun-loviu- Tnii CELEBRATED TONI O- APPET IZER, only expressed the feelings of a large number of their body, but they lack TS PUT.ELY A VEGETABLE PHEPARATION, composed simply of ROOTS, tho courage to speak out in as unHERBS aad FRUITS, combined with othv measured language as the sans ropcrticB, which In t'ici;- - nature are Cathartic, Aperient, Nutritious, Diuretic, Alterative an.l eulotte of Texas and his name is wall-know- n Tnc whole ia preserved n a mift-eiequantity of rpirit from tho SL'GA.21 C'AE to keey tiicta in any cliin&te, which raabes tho Aibi-Biliou- Flanagan. "Grangers, I will sell you coffins cheaper than any other man in the city," is what a Council Bluffs man advertises. "What ailed Mr. and 3Irs. Cump-ston?- " is now a nt 1LAITAT11 I BITTERS standing conundrum eneoftho most desirable Toniaa anl CBristol, England. The vulgar athartics ia the world. Tiey an inteaJai .imply say: "Gin!" Ths facts are, strictly a that Mr. and Mrs. Cumpstou, comfortable residents of Leeds, beiu"' on in & a visit, to Bristol, stayed at the Vic toria Hotel, harly. in the morning both screamed "murder!" and when Mr. Cumpston had discharged a revolver the affrijrhted pair iumned from their window and ran to a railway station. They explained that they heard strange noises: thev had called out and their words had been echoed back to them. Sudden ly their bed had opened and thev una hiiien mto a prt beneath. Both having scrambled out. the valiant husband shot at the bed., An exam ination proved the bed to be of an ordinary kiud and the room secure. Hence the conundrum. bed-roo- m cinpcrancc Bitters only to he used aa a ia?dieiae, aud alwaya cordis to directions. ao of the feoblo and They arc the sheet-anchdebilitated. Thoy act npon a dinoiced liver, and stimulate to such a degree that a healthy neUon Is at once brought about. As a remedy to vrLIeh "Women are especicU-- subject it ia superseding every other stimulant As a Spring and Summer Tonic they have no equal. They are a mild and genii Purgative as well aj Tonic. They purify tho biood. They are a splendid Appetiier. They inahe the wert strong. They purifytaid Invigorate. They euro Dyspepsia, Constipation and Headache. They net as a specific in all species cf disorders whicU undermine the bodily strength and break do a tho animal spirits. Depot, 53 Park Place, Hew York. |
