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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27
VETO OF PRESIDENTIAL SALARY BILL

President Grant, on Tuesday, sent to
the Senate a veto of the bill reducing
the salary of the President to $4,000
per annum. The message is very brief.
The President says that the salary of
the Executive was fixed at $25, 5000 per
annum when we had just emerged from
destructive war, that we were poor
and feeble, with only three million
people. At the same period the com
pensation of members of Congress was
fixed at S. per day while Congress was
in session. The session lasted about
one hundred and twenty days, which
made compensation of about $720
per annuin. Congress has several
times increased the salary of its own
members, until it is now $4,000 per
annun. In the mean time the Presi-
dents salary remained the same until
the increase four years ago. The
President says that no one but those
who have lived at the capitol know the
expense. He can have no personal
interest in the matter, but in consider
alton of what he regards as the Interest
of his successor he is constrained to
withhold his appreciation from the bill.
The Baltimore Sun well says of this
opposition of the President to the re
duction of the salary of his successor:
sit may readily be admitted even by
the most obdurate retrencher that if
General Grant is worth $4,000 year
as President, others whom we may
hope to have for President hereafter
will not be worth less.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

Promises are cheap. Conventions Of
the Radical party never fail to insert
IN theh platforms resolutions approving
OF Grants administration and prolnis
ing an honest government. The sim.
pie act OF voting for these resolutions
should be sufficient evidence to anyone
that these party managers, platform
builders, wire pallers or by whatever
name they may be known, are not
honest. Can an honest man approve
lot Grants administration If Grant
should be fortunate enough to escape
from his Office, from the position which
by his drunkenness no less than by the
dishonesty and thisving of his own
family and his cabinet, he has degrad-
ed, his party may be rejeiced. If he
escapes Imprisonment he may not
escape the punishment of an impeach-
ment, if he should escape both these,
there is danger of his being carried
from the White House a victim of dis
ease superindueed by almost constant
lntoxieation. Why annoy him. II
is the administration which the honest
loving radicals approve and applaud
Let the -glories and the honors of thi s
administration be peculiarly theirs.
Let them cherish it as the capstone of
| that sublime monument to American
Liberty which was to be handed down
to all future generations as the grandest
achievement of the Republican party
Let its praises form part of every
platform, and let no other party be
permitted to appropriate to itself the
honors which belong exclusively to the
Republican party For an administra.
ton which threw It's protection over a
set of theiving, pilfering scoundrels,
and committed the most sacred trusts
Of the government into the hands Of
parties who would disgrace the gambl-
ing hells of the lowest haunts OF
America, this administration stands
prominently before the people and with
brazen front is prepared to receive the
resolutions Of approval from conven,
| tons which call for an honest govern.
| r1opt
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27


The editor of the Alexandra Gazette
who is one of the many friends and ad
mirers of the Hon. Jno. Goode, the
able and popular representative in Con
gress from the First district, says in
his last issue:
''It having been announced in some
Of our Virginia exchanges that Mr..
c oode, of Norfolk, would be a most
suitable gentleman to head the State
electoral ticket this fall, we state semi
authoritatively that Mr.. Goode will not
permit the use Of his name in that CON
nectlon, his engagements precluding
the acceptance of such position if
rendered"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

PERSONAL JouRNALsA.-At the
complimentary banquet by the Lotos
Club of New York to Whitelaw Reid,
retiring President, and editor. ln-chief
of the New York Tribune, one of
the speakers referred to the silence Mr..
Reid had maintained under personal
attacks in connection with the conduct
of the Tribune, to which Mr.. Reid re-
piled, saying he believed the people for
whom newspapers are published have
no interest in the personal quarrels Of
the editors Nothing could be more
true than this opinion, but it is pity
that ne truth is less recognized by a
certain class Of newspapers, which
seem to think that the Office of the
press is to stimulate the public mind
with sensationalism and personality,
instead of fninistering to the inlelli.
gence and practical wants of the conn
munty. We hear a great deal of the
power of the press, and there is no
disputing its power, hut it is to be
feared that latterly in this country it is
often made an engine Of mischief and
not of good. In England we find the
press universally and uniformly abstain-
ing from personalities, and exercising
care and discrimination IN that which it
places before the public. We wish
we could say the same of the press of
the United States. But too frequently
our newspapers are mere organs OF
party or faction, or of some private
scheme OF speculation apart from the
journal itself, and what is worse, seem
to take delight in indulging a low
and demoralizing tone. Even when
not willfully making themselves pans
derers to depraved political or moral
taste, there are journals which never
seem able to understand that the legti>
mate business ofjournallsm is to be OF use
and value to the community, and which
unfortunately for Themselves, fall into
the mistake Of supposing that short
and easy way Of building themselves up
is to endeavor to pull others down.
Nothing is so offensive to such papers
as the prosperity Of journals which
have been built up on legitimate prin-
ciples. In some cases these editors
never having been able to conduct a
successful enterprise themselves, seem
unable to conceal their consequent
modification, and are constantly spit
ting their venom at those whose only
fault is that they have not been as i'm
beetle and unprosperous as themselves
baltimore San.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

THE investigation of the Committee
Oh Expenditures in the Department OF
Justice reveal the disgraceful fact that
one hundred and forty thousand dollars
were expended in New York City, in
last presidential canvass to elect Re.
publican candidates. The peoples
money used to defeat the will of the
people in the choice of a President
This is the administration which the
Republican Convictions endorse. How
easy to resolve that we must have an
honest government, and at the same
time endorse and commend one marked
by every species of crime and dis
LOucsty
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27
VIRGINIA AND TIE CENTENNIAL.

Only three weeks remain before the
formal opening Of the Centenpial Ex-
hibltion Buildings, and all preparatory
arrangements are further advanced than
those of any other Exposition at the
same date, although the exhibitors Of
our own country are behind those OF
any other. Our exhibits will no doubt
be sent in little after the eleventh
hour; the American must always Just
Craze his opportunity, catch Time not
by the torelock, but by the very end OF
his vanishing coat tail. There is one
blank in all reports OF this preparation
which appears to US momentns the
absence Of Virginia from all represent
alton. That she or any other State
should fail to take All active part IN the
Centennial Exposition is not matter
| OF essential moment. States crippled
| by the war, and whose display Of
manufactures in any case must neces-
sarily be inferior to those whose only
wealth or industry has lain for centur,
in MANUFACTURE are naturally indisposed
to. pnt themselves into competition with
their Northern ueiohbors. The qualities
upon which Virginia should rest her
claims for distinction are net TO be
placed ip showroom, or by any mode
transplanted in immature to Phila-
defphia for the ensuing Summer. They
Ans- not matters of industrial or scientific
exhibit, nor of art so muoE-~s-.,ao.al
and intellectual character. You cannot
bring the fair fields Of the Shenandoah
Valley up into the Agricultural Depart
mant to show through what patient,
sturdy labor the ravages of war have
beer repaired; nor can you place the
! Virginia gentleman who owns them
(yery much improved, by the way, by
that war and that labor), or the simple
high-bred women who form his houses
hold on exhibition. Yet here are the
elements of social and domestic life,
more attractive and worthy of praise in
the eyes Of many judges than any other
in America. 1t is useless, of course, to
hope that the Exposition can be, i'll any
sense, representative OF the many phases
OF this social and domestic life in the
country, and therefore it is less i'm
portant that State like Virginia, that
bases her claims to eminence on these
unexhibitable virtues, should take any
part in it.-N. Y. Tribune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27
MANY of the Republican papers

MANY of the Republican papers have
cried out against the investigating
committees. They are too costly
They desire to save the money of the
government How economical! II
costs to ferret out crime Are the
guilty to escape because it costs money
TO convict them of their crime A
rebel congress should not expose loyal
thieves. The attention of the public
should be directed to the treatment o.
prisoners during the war. Anything to
divert attention from the frauds 10
high places. 1t is now too late. The
people know the character Of the
officials which the Republicans place
in office. Do the want the same kind
Of men? The coming election will
decide.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

Harpers' Weekly, a bitter partisan
sheet says: ''Hhere is unquestionably
great fear Of Democratic restoration te
power
TIE thieves at Washington are Of
the same opinion. They tremble al
The prospect of the restoration OF honest
government. The people however
do not fear; they look confidently tol
the hour of their deliyerance from the
present corrupt ring of thieves and re
leiYers of hrihes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

Mr.. John r. Popham, Clerk of the
U. S. District Court for the Eastern Dis
triet of Virginia, in letter to the New
York Commercial Advertiser, says that
the opposition to Mr.. Blaine in the late
Virginia Radical Convention pursued a
course Of mastery inactivity, aud by SO
doing secured the election Of, possibly,
not more than six Blaine delegates to
the Cincinnati Convention, and, certain
ly not more than nine or ten out of the
entire twenty-five. Of the remainder,
Mr. Bristow has one or two, and MIR.
Conkling all the others.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27
Democratic politicians are busy

Democratic politicians are busy at
work. There has been comparatively
little discussion, but the names CT the
eligible are now daily canvassed. Han
cock, Bayard, Black, Davis, Hendricks,
Tilden, Thurman and others have been
mentioned. We have no choice between
individuals We want man whose
honesty and integrity is above suspicion,
one who can command the respect OF
the nation, and will be worthy of the
honor which we propose to bestow
upon him. Give US a good man and
the people will rally to his support.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

A carefully prepared estimate Of the
relative strength of the two parties
in the ., S. Senate, after the 4th OF
next March, shows that the Radicals
will number thirty eight and the Dem,
ocrats thirty-six, but in this estimate
the four Independents, including Mr..
Booth, and a yet to be elected Senator
from Wisconsin, are indulged among
the Radicals, though it is more than
probable that one or more Of them will
vote with the Democrats. In that
event the country will be once more
under Democratic administration,
with united Democratic Congress to
sustain it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

A TRUE AND GRAPHIC PIcTURE.-The
New York Tribune, referring to the
picturesque Southern republican con-
ventions, in which SO many poor, cor
rupted colored men figure, in connection
with the venlal white politicians, and
the fact that they are fair reflex Of
Senator Morton and his bloody shirt
policy, says:
''The country has had enough of un
con Institutional enforcement laws, enough
Of the irresponsible rule of deputy mar
shals, enough of the employment of
troops to carry elections and reigns OF
terror. established by constables shooting
asholein his own hat. Robbing the postof
fee to get funds for political purposes,
treating the Legislators with cards and
dragged whisky to prevent their voting,
establishing a Legislature and a whole
force of executive officers by void
mandamus signed at midnight In a
judges bedroom, breaking up local
political organization by the issue Of
blank orders of arrest, and detailing SOL
tiers to aid in the elevation to power
of ignorant, brutal and shamelessly ve~
nal negroes, disreputable white adyen-
turers, the peddlers of cadetshlps, and
and the judges whose names no honest
American can speak without blushiug,
these are the cl ief features of the Nor
ton programme, which has already made
the South a scandal to civilization, and
threatens to convert it into desert.
These riotous persons at Columbia ale
the full-favored product of the force
bill school OF republcanism, and the
deliberate Judgment Of the nation is
that they are not part Of the South
which needs protection"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

Charles O'Conner denies the charge
that he received $40, 900 as counsel fol
Mrs. Forrest in the divorce case, and
demands thorough Investigation. The
charge, however, is renewed by James
S. Bowman, Esq, of the Portland bar,
who AYERS that Mrs. Forrest only re
eeived $4,000 out of a gross amount OF
S6I 600.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

ESTIMATED CosT OF THE CENTENNIAL
ExPosITIoN.-The third annual meeting
of the stockholders in the United States
centennial exposition was held at Phil
adelphia last Thursday. The financial
report expresses no reason to vary the
estimate heretofore made OF the outlay
which was $S,500,O00 from the begin
ming to the final winding up. The
whole outlay will be provided from the
following sources; State OF Peunsylva.
MIA, 81 100000; city of Philadelphial
$l.5OO,O00; concession, gifts and inter
est, $l,OOO,0OO, stock subscriptions,
81, 100000; appropriation b, the Uni~
ted States, 100000. As this shows
a deficiency Of 81, 50t,O00 that amount
MUST be. supplied from admission fees.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27
Railroad fares, it is pretty generally

Railroad fares, it is pretty generally
commended, have not been reduced suf-
ficiently low to promote general travel
from all parts of the country to the cen
tennial The hotel people who want
crowded houses, certainly think so. If
it could be arranged that only those go
ing to the centennial could have the adj
vantage of the low fares no doubt the
railroads would be more ready TO make
larger reductions, but of course the same
rates have to be given to all travellers.
Every inducenent, however, to set the
people in motion, and at the same time
have them feel that they are not indulg
ing in extravagance.-Rd7t. Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

THERE is considerable anxiety in
Republican circles in reference to the
selection of a candidate for the presl-
dency. There Should be no occasion
for this, for at best, it is but an empty
honor. The people do not expect to
elect man selected by the party re-
sponsible for the official acts of Bah
cock, Belknap, Robson, Grant and
others.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

1t is just as impossible to have high
toned administration with iow-toned
President, as it is to have high toned
household with loafer at its head. The
thing is unnatural and impossible. In
the next Presidential election. the PEG
pie really desire. we believe, to vote for,
and elect, gentleman and statesman
a man who will associate himselfin gov
ernment only with gentleman and states
men, and who send only such to repre-
sent the country abroad. The political
and social tone at Washington is dis
gustingly low. 1t does not represent
the people of America. 1t represents
the party politicians sot America, and
them only. They are our bane and dis
grace; and if they are permitted to kold
their influence through another admlnis-
tration, we shall have ourselves. to blame
DR.. Holland IN Scribaaer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

The venerable Peter Cooper, of New
York, who was eighty five on the 18th
OF February, 1876, announced the
following as his financial platform: at
is my firm belief that Congress can even
now restore prosperity to our suffering
country by recognizing the fact that all
that is now or ever has been required
to cause Treasury notes to be and re-
main as valuable as gold, viii be for
the Government to SO amsudthe law
as to make them receivable for all forms
OF taxes, duties, and debts; and, at the
same time, interchangeable with Cow
eminent bonds at reasonable rate OF
interest"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27
WOODSTOCK. VIRGINIA.
Thursday Morning, April az, 1876,

GRANT has vetoed the bill reducing
the salary Of his successor to $25,
He foresees the awkwardness in which
the government would be placed if no
one would be willing to ill the Office at
the reduced salary.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

MURDER IN VIRGINIA Information
has been receivedin Alexandra, Va,
that Mr.. VIM. Farinholt, the treasurer
of Essex county, was murdered on Sat-
urday last near Union wharf, in Rich
mond county. He had crossed the Rap.
pahannock at Bowlware's Ferry, in dis
charge Of some official duty, ard was
killed, ii is thought, for The money it
was supposed he carried.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

eff Grant, says the N. Y. Sun, ''has
been surrounded by thieves for years
past, he ought to have found it out
before everybody else did, and before
the evidences of it were piled up
mountain high on all sides. 1t is ab-
surd to suppose that he could live
among a disrepusable gang, year after
year, seeing their coiloqthes, and obser-
wing their fortunes, while yet he took
them to be mea of high character,
honest principals, integrity, and honor!
This would imply that he was both
blind and senseless, or else that he did
not know honor and honesty when he
saw them. Put any other man of ordi>
nary intelligence in the company Of the
men who have been Grants companions
favorites, and parasites, and he could
not help finding out that they were
mercenary, greedy, and constituencies
knaves. The trouble with Grant has
been that be did not care whether they
were knaves or not; that he kept them
about him regardless of their being
so; and that ne gave them places OF
responsibility without caring what they
did in them"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

The Washington correspondent of
the Boston Post in writing of the
deserved castigation given Mr.. Blame
by Mr.. Fucker, says: "Blaine got
another severe drubbing in the House
to day at the hands of John Randolph
Tucker. Blaine had gone ever to the
Democratic side to listen to Tucker
remarks, and having repeatedly inter-
rupted the latter by intersections of
questions, etc, went 80 far as to cri,icise
fuckers legal abilities, for which he
was rewarded by some hard knocks
from Tucker, who proved that Blaine
was no lawyer at all, and got the laugh
on the latter by good natured though
cutting irony and sarcasm. Blaine soon
left for bis own side of the hall, betray
ing evidences that be was a sadder if
not wiser man"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

SALE OF WmTE PAuPnRs. The
Raleigh News, in an article headed
'srhe Selling of White Paupers,' says
"White men of North Carolina, re
member that the poor unfortunate OF
your race in Jones county, perhaps else-
where. are put up on the block and
cold to negroes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

The s'silver bill" Is now law and
the Government is paying cut silver ia
place OF fractional currency. Orders
have been issued to the TreasHrer of
the United States and to assistant
Treasurers to redeem the fractional
currency in sums Of FIVE dollars, or
maltiples thereof, in silver OF like de-
nominations, III any amounts MOTTO ex-
eeed $l0u,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

IF Grants administration has been
worthy of all commentator, why not
try him for third terms The radicals
arc TOO sharp for that. 1t will be ne
eessary tor them to seek some one
"hoSs s-'i~--ail-..Las. not been sullied
by TOO great an intimacy with The pres
ent administration.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

''Orvllle Grant, yelled the President,
Selling his trembling kinsman by his
left ear and wrenching it violently.
you're pretty sort of brother; you're
a nice third term sardine, amt you'll
"Did | mean to hart your whimpered
'tha-offandar- ssDid | say who got pa,.,
Of the money!" ''S'pose I'd do any,
thing against the family 2" 'Idiot =
shrieked the President, tightening his
grip and jerking the miserable culprit
to and fro. 'Let go of me" cried
Orville, his wrath rising ''Let 90 of
my ear, 'Lyss Grant, or III make such
interesting reading for this people that
novels won't be anywhere" Then his
excelleney released his grasp and sank
back exhausted on pile of cigar boxes,
while Orville, gathering up his quiver~
ing auricular strobe modify out of the
apartment for a bottle Of arnica.-
Brooklyn Argaes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27

As the canvass now looks Conkling
is therefore the favorite. When we say
that Conkling is Grant man we ex.
haust our resources of condemnation
He does not lie; neither does he steal
He never runs away from friend OF
an enemy. Even in time of universe
defamation of character no one has ev-
er whispered a suggest on against the
honor and purity OF Conkling. IF be is
Grant man, what are all of the Other
Republican candidates? Which of them
has ever said word against Grant
On this record they are equal The par
ty is Grant party. 1t is weak as he is
weak and strong as he is strong. Nc
man can be nominated who will not rep
resent Grantism as fully as Mr. Conk
ling. No one will, perhaps, represent
Grant as strongly because out of the
multitude of aspirants for the Presiden,
cy. Grant has selected Mr.. Conkling as
the one man he delights to honor. -
N. Y. Herald.