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Day
22
Month
November
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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- Horatio Seymour don't exactly beliove in the whippiug post of Delaware, but inclines to it iu prefereuce to the common jail which he holds to be a school of viee, where the unïnitiated or the novice is trained nnd educated by the expert and hardeued criminal. He beHeveB u niaking tlie professional tramp work' - say at breakiug etone for the highway. He also believes ia the watchful supervisión of crimináis of established reputation, keeping them under the eye of the pólice, and seems to favor the disiranchiseraeut of the persistent and oftan convicted violator of the law. Iu thia he speaks the sentimento of mauy. The constant habitués of the ail and the prison, the men who live on and by crime, .should be perniittad no voice in caucus or convention, aúd shonia have no ballot at the polls. As to the jail, the statute should prohibit its use except as a house of detentiou, either for witnesses or partios waiting trial, and in the lattr case old offenders should not be confined with the beginner in crime. When tried and convicted the sentence should be to a work-house, and 6teady labor furuished. - Commeuting on a recent attack made by a number ot hot-headed students on a house of ill-fame- au attack unwarrauted and brutal and desecving no apology- the Lansiug Republican saya : " If there is any way to keep 'liigher education' from siuking into the Iower grade of dissipation, buuiniensm, and brutality, let it be tried ; meanwhile let the pursestring be tightened on the Uuiversity until it brings forth different fruit." Let us retort : If there is any way to make State ojiicerB and members of the Legislature pure and virtuous, moral and rehgious, to make them prooi agaiast the wiles ot the "nymphü" who gatlier at Lansing every two years, or to prevent Senïtors or apologies for Senators from leaving their confiding wives at home, passing themïelves off as unmarried, and entrappmg Lansing belles into entangling flirtations, let it be ione : meanwhile Iet tha Capítol be closed and ihe purse-strings tiglitened until Lausing doses its rum shops, baniahes all its fallen women, ana guáranteos proteotion to and against legislators and other officials. - The Detroit Evenmg Telegraph " suspended" on Friday last or merged ïtselfinto the Post and Tribune. The latter paper came out on Saturday morning a 40 column paper,- the largest daily in the State. We are corfident that the Post and Tribune Company are now on the right track : Oue paper and no more di3sipation of means or energies. .Kor one thing we like the Post and Tribune,- the good fight lt haa made in favor of honest money. Otherwise its politics is execrable. See piospectus in another column. - "Out of the old house into the new : that ii the order of business at L&nsing just now, aud by the end of this week all the State officers will ba located in the new Capítol. The Supreme Court will follow at the neit term. The Senate chamber has the seats numbered by districts in order, leaving no choice to individual membera, while members of the House are already making their selection of seats. either in person or by proxy. It would be well to adopt the plan of the House at Washington,- draw tor a choice of seats. The "early bird" plan ii not exaotly a fair one. - After the flrst day of January uext the National Banks will be prohibited from issuing any biils of a less denomination than f5. Qreenbacks of the small denominations will be kept in circulation, but silver coin is expected to come into general demand in place of the bank notes driven out. - Somebody connect'd with the Detroit Post and Tribune has coined the vile word "re-Seuatoriue." Capital punishment would be too good for the fellow. - No more will Republican journaliats poke fun at Charles Francis Adams, of Mass. Cause He voted the Eepublican ticket at the recent election. - Gov. Croswell haa followed the lead of the President and proclaimed Thanksgiving for Xovember 28.

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Michigan Argus