The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-12


French, when he issued the following
order;
HEADQUARTERS 4TH REGIMENTl
WARRENroN COUNTY MILITIA,
At the Court House, December ., lof.)
Special order No. II
In accordance with general order No.
/, i assume command of the military
forces in this county. Commanding
officers of companies will report at
once to these headquarters for orders.
WILLIAM FRENCH, Colonel.
w. A. FAIRCHILD, Adjutant.
New York, December S.-George
Hunter, editor of the Scotchman, was
found dead in the street last night.
Skull fractured.
A negro woman plead guilty OF in
cendiarism and was sentenced to-day
to ten years in the penitentiary. :,
The longshoremen have rescinded
the order that the members shall not
work with non-society men.
The Herald says the message of
Grant is q more creditable document,
both in point of reasoning and litera-
ry worth than its predecessors from the
same source. The president makes it
clear enough that in his view the three
principle causes which have led to the
disastrous defeat of his party are the
prostration of business the condition
of the southern states and the unsuc-
cessful experiment of reforming the
civil service. This is not directly
stated, but is necessarily implied in the
text of his views on those subjects.
The sum of the message so far as it has
,tt hnn N. ic m N
the president to the restoration Of 81
sound currency, an,implied promise to
treat the south with leniency and
justice and abandon civil service re-
form unless congress supports 1t by
legislation. This is the programme Of
President Grant for reinstatiUg the re-
publican party. The president has got
the Spanish question into such state
that it can be famed into q flame
whenever he thinks it eXpedient. He re-
lies on the country to support him in u
war in which the abolition of slavery
in Cuba and the breaking of the yoke
of colonial servitude will be the lead
ing ideas, but General Grant makes
one stupendous mistake if he thinks
he can play this desperate game with
success. Ifhe has pigeon-holed our just
complaint against Spain with such a
purpose, hewill have cause to regret the
day when he meditated such trial.
The financial recommendation OF the
message are sound in principly but
detective in details.
The Times considers that the presi-
dents views on finances have under
gone 10 change, and his proposition to
repeal the legal tender clause is sound.
The president in stating that he will
sustain Kellogg does not say what he
will do about Packard or Casey, which
is pity. The Times thinks the pres
idents reference to southern matters is
plain advice, given in kindness and
frankness. We are sorry that he an
nounces his intention of abandoning
civil service reform unless congress dis
tinctly supports it by legislation. 1t
was an attempt which promised much,
and might have been made to yield
good fruit. With his recommends
tons as to specie payment and free
banking we are in entire sympathy.
The Tribune considers it the best
message of the president, probably be-
cause written under the Christening of
the late elections. 1t condemns his
position towards Louisiana, but COM
mends mainly nearly all the rest of tie
message.
The Sun says the presidents message
ia reasonably sound theoretically on
hard money and a return to specie
payments, but the arguments are not
as uLgent as his theories are sound,
while some of his plans for retiring our
paper money and reviving gold and
silver, as circulating medium, will
provoke severe criticism, not only from
the infiationists but from the hard
money men as well. With the eXcep-
ton of his recommendation of free
banking, the views he now expresses
concerning the currency are but reit-
Grafton of his veto of the greenback
bill of last session.
The World says President Grant and
Secretary Bristow are less in doubt than
the republican press and politicians as
to the Significance of the overthrow of
their party in the late elections. They
have reached a clear opinion by what
means, if by any means, the political
revolution can be stopped midway and
the democratic party hindered from
taking possession of every department
of the government in the elections of
1876.
The immediate steps towards specie
payments, not the promise, for which
taxation is perpetually postponed and
are from tariffs, to the end of obtaining
larger revenue by lower duties OH fewer
articles. This is their concurrent adj
vice, and exhibits the presidents and
the secretary's appreciation at last of
the great evils from which the country
is suffering, and their admission that
these evils are of legislative origin,
and admit of Legislative remedy to
their exorbitances and usurpation of
power on the part of the federal gov
and General Grant and Sec
re tary Bristow will have discovered
precisely the vulnerable points in the
republican policy upon which the
assault has been cOncen-
trated, and they advise congress to
abandon the defence of what is indie
and TO Illustrate further demo-
cratic victories by themselves now do
ing what a despairing people have
elected the next democratic congress
to do.
WASHINGTON, December S.--Com-
mandcr William Il. Cushing. vino cut
ont the Albemarie, has gone Insane
and has beun sent to the asylum.
DIR. Hayes will urge congress to fit
out an Arctic expedition to act in con-
cert with that of Great Britain.
Secretary Bristow's report says, re-
garding Colonel McCall's management
of the printing bureau
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of preparing the bonds, notes and
stamps Issued by the United States,
has led to the conclusion that the
work can be more satisfactorily and
safely done in the treasury department
than elsewhere. The bureau of en-
craving and printing is now supplied
with the best machinery, which has
been acquired at great cost, and the
most skillfull artists are employed by