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21
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March
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1873
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The lono, rambling, point-no-point speech made by ex-Vioe-Presidont Colfax at South Bend, on the occasion of his late reception by his " admiring " constituents, showed what he did with the money paid him by step-father Matthews and " given " him by that " stran ger '' Nesbitt, who only wanted Schuyler to to cali on him sometime in tho fu.ture, but utterly failed to teil what was done with the proceeds, principal or interest, of his Credit Mobilier stock. His feat might be equaled by an attempt to niake his dear, confiding constituents believo that he wasn't in Washington at any time during the last ten yonrs bocause he is now in South Bend, or that beouuse hS' has regularly drawn his salary as member of the House, Speaker, or Viee President, bo couldn't have realized any nioneys from any other sources. This speech of Colfax contrasts widely with the plain statement of Oakes Ames to his equally admiring and confiding constituents. And Ames made at least ono point: " That committee [the Poland] made the wonderful discovory that I was guilty of selling stock for less than it was wortb, but that the partios taking the stock and keeping it were innocent, and that I had the extraordinary ability to give men a bribe without their knowing it, and to do they did not know what." "A hit ! a vtry palpable hit." - Hon. W. E. Roberts, of New York, set tho commeiidable cxample of refusing to reoeive tho $ 3,000 voted him in com mon witli othor mombers as iuoreased back-action salary. His example has been followeiï by Hon. C. N". Potter, of N. Y., atid by Hons. Jatnes Monroe and W, H. Upson, of Ohio. Tho two New Yoikers are Democrats, tho Ohioans Republicans. Hon. Geo. S. Hoar, of Massachusetts, received his $5,000 and dispeused it to charitable institutions. It either absolutely belonged to Mr. Hoar or the United States Treasary ; if to Mr. H. hig charity ís to be praised ; if to tho treasury he ean't " whip the devil " round tliat stump so easily. We have yet to read of any Michigan niembor refusing to take his allowance : when we do we will make haste to givo ïtim credit. - The Supreme Court of Massaehusp.tts has held the act of tho Legislature authorizing tho issue by tho city of Boston of $20,000,000 fire bonds, in aid of the sufferers and for the rebuilding of tbe city, unconstitutional. The court concludes its opinión : " The expenditure authorized by this statute, being for private and not for public objects, in a legal sense, it exceeds the constitutional power of the Legislature, and the city can not legally issue bonds for the pttrpeses naiued in the act." How much does that come short of fully sustaining the principie laid down in the anti-railroad aid decisión of tho Michigan Supreme Court ? - Grant has always been excused for keeping his brothpr-in-law Collector at New Orleans on tho groirad that ho was appointed by Johnson, but now that ho bas commissioned Casey for anothor term that excuse is no longer good, and the President must be held responsiblo for Casey's ineddling with eYerything except the dutios oí ms own ornee. - Butler has secnred a morsel of sop for his disinterestod labors in getting the President's salary doubled. One Parker, brother-in-law of Butler, has béen appointed Surveyor of tbe port uf New Orleans. " You ticklo me, Billy, and 111 tielde yon, Tommy," is the maxim both in high and low ciroles. - Having secured the seat in tbo Sen ate vacated by Senator Wilson, Mr. Boutwell tendered his resignation as Secretary of the Treasury on Monday, which was accepted and Assistant Seoretary Itichard?on appointed bis successor. No other cabinet changes are to tako place. - Bontwell had an eye on the main chanco - his salary, and heH on to tbo Treasury department until the Tery dny of taking his seat in tho Senato, and will probably draw doublé pay from the 4th of March to the 17th- both as Secretary and Senator. - Edward "W. Barber, of Charlotte, Mich., has boen appointed and confirraed as Third Assistant Postmaster-öeneral. - Barber's dish is always up when it rains porridge. Out of ono office into another haabeen his motto - and praotioo - thoso many years. - The Toledo Blade makes Grant say to a Senatorial applicant for an office for a " friencí," tbat he proposed to have souie mfluenco with tho present administration himself: and forthwith Cusey was again inflicted upon the peoplo of New Orleaus. - The Ohio Sonate amended the Tluüse resolution ceusuring those Congressmen voting $5,000 into their own pockets, so j as to include those who voted against ' back action salaiy and then passed it. - Certain medical experts havo boen fooling away niuch procious time in testing the mental conditions of George Francia Train, with a view to deterinining bis samty or insanity. - Over five tons of worn out hank note plates were meltod at the Navy Yard m Witshington on the loth inst., in présenos oí' a eommittee appointed by the Seoretaiy of the Treasury to witness the process. - That 'resignaüon of brother-in-law Casey, made to take effect on the appointment of his successor, has been made effeotive : but Casey is his own sucuessor. - One "lame duck" has been provided for: it is ex-Senator Sawyer, cf South Carolina, who has been made Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. - Mr. Disraeli declined to organizo n. " government ; " Lord Derby couldn't ; and so Gladstono is likely to remain at the head of the ministry. - Senator Carpenter has been eleetsd President pro tem of the TT. S. Senate, Vico Senator Anthony who declined a re eleotion. - Tho frïailüs of djfettted Dawes now announce him a candidate for Sumner's seat in the Sonate. " On time " is their motto. - A. B. Tumor, of the QravnX Rapids Eagle, has been re-appointed post muster of the Valley City. - Train asserts his own sanity, and Colfax his own honesty. - Foster, the car-hook uiurderer, is to bo hung to-day. - " True gold:" Oakea Ames. The Republican effieials of oite-stded, straight-grained New England are by no ineiins as narrow and contracted and partisan in the discharge of their duties as those jnst now inflteted upon Michigan. In Vermont, wherG the bigkest judicial officers are clected by tho Legïslature, it has been the invariable rule to give the small Democratie minority representaron on tho Supreme Court. And in New Hainpshire, when the Governor appoints, the same rulo is observed. Cio-v. ísteaw has just appointed Hun. EliLEBY A. Hibdakd, a Democratie membor of the late Congress and a defeated candidate for re-election, Associatc-Justice of the Supreme Court. Gov. Baoijey, of this State, in violation of precedent establishei by Govs. Crai0 and fiALDWtx, declines to recognize the lprge number of his Democratie folio w citizens as having any rights that he is b"und lo respect, and considere it his soleinn duty to keep tho courts free from Democratie contamination. Witness his refusal to appoint Mr. Huxtington Jiudge of eiBCuir,. on the unanimous romination of th-e bar, for tho sole and only reasoa that he does not bow down and worship before the Radical shrine. TilE Legislature has before it a joint resolution amending the Constitution by striking out the clause prohibing licensea fór the sale of Kquors : also a bilí substituting a stringent exciso or tax law - $."00 a year upon manufacturera and wholesalo dealers and $200 upon retail dealers - in placo of the present deadletter prohibitory law. Both joint lution and bilí ought too píws. A stringent Ho inse la w - not a. law licensing an evil but recognizing it existenoe by a restraining tax with bonds such as can not be required - would rnforce itsolf and do ra-ore lirniC saioows anti' cfrec& dVnScnness than prohibitition which is equivolcnt to free tralö. Bufore the Constitution can bo araended a tax or exciso law would do muoh in the way of restraint whioh tho present prohibitory law does not. The Senate bill providing for or ordering the appointment of two Homeopathie professors in the University passed the Houso committee of the whole on Wednesday, and was placed on the order of third reading. The vote on its passage was probably taken yesterday - and the bill passed. The seems ntrrely ignoran of two eid: maxims, " Let well enough alone," and CK1 and water won't mix." ii iw ii - The Legi8lature, or some merabers thereof, proposes to adjourn to the first Wednesday in January next. That way of getting an annual sessio will hardly be approved by the people. TUE U. S. Sonate divides its daily sessiona between discussing tho Caldwell ease and considering nominations sent in by tb,e President. Make up your míud to vote for the new Court House loan. From the Pacific Methodist of the 2Oth of February we copy the followinf; obitunry notice of and tributo to Gildebt Shatïitck, formerly a well known and universally respected oitizen of this city : The Last of Eabth. - The age of man is HmiteJ by tlie laws ot nature and the design of providence. The laxgè majority of our nvee die in comparativo youth, more than one-third of mankind die before the age of thrce years. But a few by the special accidents of fortune, or by peculiar vifïor of constitution attain the full age of man, and leave the -world only in the ness ot tune and the ccmpleteness ot a woll rounded lite, merely dropping into the long sleep, without diseaso, and without suggestiona of áeath. The subject of this obituary, Gilbert Shattuok, was. bom in the fcown of Colchester in the State of Conn., in the year 179:. He emigrated to the territory oí Michigan in the year 1831, Steven T. Mason being Governor of the Territorios. In the year liS35 sat in the ehamber of dclegates, and assisted in forming the constitution of the State of Michigan. In 1837 Michigan was admitted into the Union, and Shattuck was a moinbcr of the fint assembly, and at the next eleetion ho was returned as Senator. He took a laie interest in the politics of Michigan and held offices in the gift of people, but never held o-r sulicited a Federal office, or any position in the gift of one man. His only child havÍDg married and removed to California in 186S, he soon after rctired from all active pursuits, and in 1863 followed his duughhis to California with his wife, only tïve yeurs ter junior. They came by the war of Nicaragua, Teaching California in improved health notwithstanding the very fatiguing voyage. He soon after pim-hased a small place in the town oí Bonoma :nul dovoted his last years to the cultivation of his vincs and trees, for which hc had the fondnoss which most men fcel as tho iinal days of Ufe approach. His oightieth birthday occurred on the lst of February of the present year. The following doy, Sirnday njorning, he was taken with a cliill and severo pain in the liead. The pain increased and his sufferings beeame alaruiiiig. He grew worsc aml on Tuesday night it beeame evident hia end was very near. Dr. Wooster, of San Francisco, his sonin-law, and Dr. Cox, of Sonoma, were in constant atbendauoe nul did all thatskillcould doto restore hini. But on Wednesday, at ten minutes before four o'elock he calmy passed away, surrouncted by )iia wife, daughter and grandchUdren, ueighbara aud friojids. Deceased was a Royal Areh Slason for more than ftfty years, but not a inember of nity clmroh. His religión was goodwill toward a.ïl men, absoluto uprightness, and au unsolflsh Ufe. He was a man of few words, of courtoous and quiet inanner, and of a dignilied and sustained repose of eharacter which inspirea th respect and admiratioo of all w-lio knew iim. Tho good man, the good citizen. the patriarch in character and length qL days sleep tho sleep of the just.

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