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HOW OUR LAWS ARE MADE. 
We wish every voter in New York State—In¬ 
deed, In the country, for them la comparatively 
litUe difference In the modes of legislation In 
the different States—could have listened to the 
expose of the manner In which laws are made 
iu the New York Legislature, by Hon. L. Brad¬ 
ford Prince, Chairman of the Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee, before the New York Liberal Club. We 
have a far higher appreciation of the ohuructer 
and honesty of our Legislators than we had be¬ 
fore. We do not believe, nor did Mr. Prince 
pretend, that there are no dishonest Legislators 
—that men do not go to the Legislature for the 
purpose of procuring the enactment of special 
Jaws with a view to personal aggrandizement; 
but we do believe, after Mr. Prince’s showing, 
t hat there would be fewer of this class of men 
seeking position as Legislators if the vicious 
system which permits them to curry out their 
schemes, did not attract them there. Few such 
men would spend 100 days at Albany for the 
paltry $3 per diem and t he honor whioh accrues, 
alone. It is the knowledge of their power to 
prey upon the people, to foster their own per¬ 
sonal objects or those of their friends, regard¬ 
less of equity, justice aud the rights and wishes 
of the people, that induces them to seek, aud 
6pend money to secure, places in the Assembly 
or Senate of the State. Some of the statements 
made by Mr. Prince wc summarize as follows: 
1. The rales requtra three readings of all bills. 
This, in practice, is * farce. 
2. The rules require that each bill shall be 
considered section by section, in Committee of 
the Whole. Early lu the session this rule is 
usually observed; but when the rush of busi¬ 
ness becomes groat this is evaded by a little 
finesse, and the floodgates being opened, all 
sorts of bills pass without auy consideration 
whatever. 
3. A substitute for the Committee of the 
Whole is created called the “Sub-Committe of 
the Whole," or “ Grinding Commltte," consist¬ 
ing of 17 members. To this oommittee are sup. 
posed to be referred only those bills of a general 
character to which there are no objections. 
ThS&i&done to facilitate business. Finally, as 
business presses, discretion is given the Speak¬ 
er and Clerk of ihe Assembly to send to this 
•• Grinding Committee," without formal refer¬ 
ence, such tills as, in their judgment, come 
within the rules of such reference. The Speak¬ 
er and Clerk, with 700 to 1,000 bills on file, select 
without regard to law, and send thither bills 
whioh ought not to be so referred, and whioh, 
therefore, do not oome within the scrutiny of 
the Oommittee of the Whole; and even the Sub¬ 
committee do not have time even to hear them 
read, anti they are reported oomplete without 
any one, except the respective Introduoors of 
the bills, knowing their contents. Here is the 
opportunity for vicious legislation which un¬ 
scrupulous Legislators take advantage of. 
4. By means of this mode of legislation, early 
in the seseioD, bills are Introduced, printed, 
read by members, who see no objeotion to their 
passage, and towards the close are, on motion 
of the introducers, referred to the Sub-Com¬ 
mittee; but before getting Into the Bub-Com¬ 
mittee's hands, are "amended" or transformed 
into other bills, are reported by the Committee 
and passed by the Assembly, under the old title, 
members supposing they are voting for a bili 
they h now nothing of, and would not vote for 
if they did. 
6. The cause of all this legislative farce and 
iniquity is the shortness of the session and the 
volume of business wbich is forced upon the 
legislative body. 
6. This volume of business is so great that if 
the introduction, consideration and passage of 
each bill, observing tho rules of the Assembly, 
took but thirty-nine minutes, it would require, 
at that rate of speed, a session two or threo 
times as long as that fixed by Jaw to pa*« 1,000 
bills—and 1,200 to 1,500 have usually to Uo con¬ 
sidered. 
7. T» 1871, of 700 bills passed by the Assembly, 
not 200 received the votes of the mujority of 
the ineuibers. Swiftness In calling the roll was 
a requisite accomplishment by the Clerk in 
those da. i; and Ihe names of 128 members were 
called in sixty.five seconds, uo response being 
expected; all who were present being recorded 
us voting affirmatively; and many who were 
100 miles away finding, on their return, that 
they were recorded as voting for every hill 
passed during their absence. 
8. One source of all this evil Is the vast vol¬ 
ume of epoclul legislation thrust upon the 
Legislature. A constitutional amendment is 
necessary, which shall provide general laws 
under which corporations may be organized, 
and granting more power to local legislat ures, 
such as boards of supervisors, municipal author¬ 
ities. Ac. Now the legislator from any district 
has autocratic control of all the business of 
that district which comes before the Legisla¬ 
ture. If his recommendations are scrutinized 
and Ills bills rejected, he says la those who voted 
against bis propositions, “ What right have you 
to interfere in matters in my district? I will, if 
that is the game, look alter and meddle with 
your mattersso all local and special legisla¬ 
tion depends for its character upon the honesty 
or interest of the member representing any 
district affected by It; for ho has but to Intro¬ 
duce It, urge Jta passage, and all other members 
vote for It because each has his especial local 
ax to grind also, and reciprocity, in these mat¬ 
tery is expected, nay, required. 
9a Abolish all special legislation. Enlarge the 
pov\vi: of local legislatures (Boards of Super¬ 
visors) [to consider and act i.pon purely local 
questions; compel all bills to bo printed, and 
permit the passage ol no amended bill until the 
amendments have beeu printed; make it a con¬ 
stitutional provision that all bills shall he con¬ 
sidered In Committee of the Whole, section by 
section; limit the time when bills may be intro¬ 
duced to March L, thus securing a full month 
for the consideration of those already before 
the Legislature, and Mr, Prince thinks there 
will be fewer Inducements for dishonest men 
to go to the Legislature, and wo will have fewer 
but better-considered aud wiser laws. We think 
so too; and we commend this whole subject to 
the attention of the people of the State, believ¬ 
ing It a matter iu which they are most vitally 
interceded. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES 
Wool Burned lu Bouton.—According to Uni¬ 
ted States Government statistics, the N. Y. Her¬ 
ald says, the wool dips of the country, the past 
three years, were as follows;—1870, 100,036,825 
lbs.; 1871, 85,609,007 lbs.; 1873, 109,640,358 lbs. Of 
this quantity there had been received in Boston, 
Philadelphia aud Now York, up to date, of the 
clip ol' 1672, 43,9S5,200 lbs.; the corresponding 
period in 1871,83,513,800 lbs.; in 1870,74,820,221 lbs. 
Of these total receipts in 1872, Boston had re¬ 
ceived 17,096,200 lbs. The stock of domestic 
wool in Boston, Jan. 1, 1872, was 4,400,000 lbs., 
making a total of 21,496,000 lbs. available for 
sale during tbe year. During the past ten 
months sales have been reported there of from 
two millions to four millions of pounds each 
month; and during the last five months they 
have averaged two and a half millions of pounds 
per month. Hence, the Herald concludes that 
the wool burned in Boston does not exceed 
2,000,000 of pounds, equal to about 800.000 lbs. of 
clean wool. The total imports of foreign wool 
thus far this year are 95.248.024 lbs., against 
74,602,477 lbs. last year, and 48,600,679 lbs. the 
year previous. 
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Centennial Speculations,—We have very little 
faith in the appeals to patriotism which are 
made to the American people in behalf of this 
or that celebration or exposition—appeals sim¬ 
ply to their national pride. The Phiadelphia 
Centennial Exposition, which is to be interna¬ 
tional, will doubtless gather together a vast ex¬ 
hibition of the natural and manufactured 
resources of this and other countries. That it 
has any claims upon our citizens on tbesooreof 
patriotism we do not believe. We see no reason 
why any one should attend it from mere patri¬ 
otic impulses; nor why any one should contrib¬ 
ute to it for the same reason. That kind of 
clap-trap we have no sympathy with. The ob¬ 
ject Is speculation and profit—not to exhibit and 
stimulate patriotism, except so far as national 
pride and self interest may be appealed to to 
swell the profits of the management and glorify 
Philadelphia. One pica in behalf of the expo¬ 
sition is that it may pay tbe visitor, both in tbe 
pleasure he may derive and the knowledge be 
may acquire to attend It; and it may pay the 
exhibitor as an advertisement. That it Is likely 
to benefit the community, except through indi¬ 
viduals, we do not believe. That It is essential 
in order to establish and illustrate the patriotic 
Impulses of the people and their pride and faith 
in their own land is all nonsense, iu the light 
of the events of the past, ten years. That it will 
aid In developing the resources of (he country 
may be true—to the extent that It attracts the 
notice of the capitalists of other countries; but 
that it, is essential to our development we are 
not convinced. 
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Protection to American Exhibitors nt the 
Vienna Exposition. —Austria, as our readers 
are aware, Is getting up a great Exposition, to 
which she invites contributions from America. 
But American inventors, who may take their 
wares thither, are not yet safe from the piracy 
of their inventions. No adequate protection Is 
afforded them. Their trademarks are protected 
by treaty; and the Austrian Parliament has 
passed a law providing (hat every exhibitor 
may, before placing hla articles on exhibition, 
take out a certificate without charge, which 
certificate shall act as a patent during the exhi¬ 
bition and for two months afterward, and may 
then te made an absolute patent by the pay¬ 
ment of less than $11. But the Patentee must 
establish the manufacture of the patented ar¬ 
ticle in Austria within one year from the dato 
of the patent, or It becomes void. A treaty 
looking to the removal of these objections is 
being considered, and it Is hoped may be se¬ 
cured. Meantime, there Is no safety lor Amer¬ 
ican inventions in Austria. 
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O for Buell a Minister of Agriculture! —Wo 
mean one invested with the powers which seem 
to Inhere in the office of the French Minister of 
Agriculture, and with a will to be old fogyish 
enough to use these powers to regulate rascals 
into honest practices. He (the Frenchman) is 
after all udultorutors of food aud beverages, 
cosmetics, medicines, pills, powders, etc.,—hav¬ 
ing given orders for their analysis with a view 
to bringing offenders to justice. What a blessed 
thing It would lie if the housewife could know 
that when she buys and pays lor a pound of 
coffee, it is not peas or chiccory; or of tea, that 
it Is not raspberry leaves; or u pot of horse¬ 
radish, that it is not two-thirds grated turnips; 
or a barrel of white sugaci that is not mostly 
white earth; ora quart of milk, that it is not 
half chulk and water, etc., etc. Will we ever 
reaob the French state of civilization ? 
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'The Public Hiring Fairs of England are de¬ 
nounced by the better classes there, especially 
by social reformers, us productive of the moral 
contamination of both sexes. Young English 
men and women meet, in a market place, those 
who desire to employ them. There Is higgling 
for prices. The shrewd employer invites the 
sturdy yeoman or buxom maid to a pot of ale. 
The bargain is finished over the third pot. 
There is a good bargain made by the employer, 
and the employee finds himself or herself liter¬ 
ally "sold." It smacks too much of the slave 
market. It breeds vice, and aa effort la being 
made to adopt a system of registry or of intel¬ 
ligence ofliees for each sex separately, with a 
view to correcting the evils of the present 
system. 
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Agricultural Implements In 1870.— The Cen¬ 
sus Report shows the value of Agricultural 
Implements made in this country in 1870 to 
have beeu $52,000,000—three times the value of 
those made in 1860; but it should be remember¬ 
ed that this difference Is due, to some extent, 
to an Increase in the nominal value of mate¬ 
rial made after ten years' experience and prog¬ 
ress ; for the demand lor machinery, growing 
out of scarcity of labor and adaptation of farms 
te Its use, has greatly increased during the past 
twelve years. 
The Deficiency of the Wheat Crop of Great 
Britain, according to one English authorit}’, is 
22,079,200 bushels, not taking Into account the 
inferior quality of a largo portion of that saved. 
Another authority places the crop twenty per 
cent, below the average In England proper, and 
not half an average in Scotland. Add to this 
the deficiency in the potato crop, and the wide¬ 
spread disease among live stock, and the Winter 
prospect is not a hopeful one for the poor of 
the British Isles. 
Yick'» Floral Guide, (James Yiok, Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y), is now published quarterly. The 
first number for 1873 is a most attractive one— 
brilliant in its Interior and exterior illustra¬ 
tions, and filled with practical Information. 
This, together with the beautiful ehromo we 
received from him not long since, places James 
Vjok first in the field among the seedsmen of 
1873. This Guide is sold at 25 cents a year. The 
number before us is worth $1. 
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Better than Described.— J. H. H. Lovett, Clin¬ 
ton Oo., Ind„ to whom we recently sent our 
Premium Engraving, writes:—“Am in receipt 
of a Splendid Picture from you. Thanks for 
the same. Think it far surpasses your descrip¬ 
tion," 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Ransom, Luzerne Co., Pa., IVov. 18.—Tho 
weather during the Fall thus far has been quite 
wet—go much so that some farmers have not 
yet got their buckwheat crop gathered. Most 
of the buckwheat crop has been threshed when 
very damp and the yield of flour will be light. 
The corn crop is good. Potatoes average about 
100 bushels per acre; quality not as good as the 
average; price, SOc. per bushel. Wheat and rye 
sown this Fall looks well. Hay was ml Her light 
In most places; quality good generally; price, 
$23tf£25 per ton. The Fall has been favorable 
for grazing, and very few persons have fed 
their stock any dry fodder up to this time. For 
the past three dnys the weather has been cold 
and raw. The horse epidemic has made its ap¬ 
pearance among us, and one-half of ihe horses 
arc how more or less afflicted. Mules and oxen 
are in demand. Cows are worth $25 per head 
on an average, if public sales determine their 
value. Coal retails at the mines for $3 per 2,000 
lbs. Coal lands arc fast passing into the hands 
of the large coal companies.—* * 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
Commodore Vanderbilt’s trotting horse, 
Mountain Boy. is dead. 
Maine's wheat crop for 1872 is reported the 
best m twenty-five years. 
UriAS. E. Tousby is Informed that Albert 
Bresee s address Is Hortonvillo, Vt. 
-. W ». a f^ no ' v Jr t,fero the receipt of catalogue of 
the Michigan State Agricultural College. 
Brandon, Vt., has a general market day 
every Saturday. Those held have been very 
successtul. J 
I. N. West, Yates City, III., recently lost 180 
lugs tronj Cholera, 68 of which were fat, ready 
for market. 
YY/afcii' 90011 ' . r11 " bo r n in 1 ' 97 * 1,1 the 
District of Maine, a pioneer horticulturist iu 
llliuois, died Oct. 31st. 
Our Vouno Folks, advertised in this paper, 
is a favorite wit h both the risen and rising gen¬ 
eration. ami worthy of u cordial reception iu 
©very family. * 1 2 3 
We have from Col. Harris a report of pro¬ 
ceedings of hwiue Breeders’ Convention at In- 
dianap< .Us; received too lato to print this week: 
will appear In next issue. 
All manuscript designed for the Ritual 
jSKw-i okkkb should be addressed to this office. 
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being Bead Pencil, Esq. 
Over £00,000 will be paid out In Berlin, Wis., 
n f y , ,>r cranberry picking this season. 
On two principal marshes there have been em¬ 
ployed an average of 2,700 pickers daily. 
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BUSINESS NOTICES. 
HORSE EPIDEMIC. 
A physician in a communication to a Buffalo 
paper about the Horse Epidemic, saysExter¬ 
nally 1 used and would recommend Dr. Trask’s Mag. 
netic Ointment to the throat, around the ears and cn 
the forehead. This ointment contains tobncco und 
lobelia, ami operates upon the mucous glands of the 
bead and throat by causing an increased flow of secre¬ 
tion from them, at the sum* time by i te relaxing efleet 
removing the stricture and giving almost Instant re¬ 
lief to the cough and breathing." It is kept by all 
Druggists. 
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