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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-30
Mr.. Kerr and tho Greens-Hsrnsy
Scandal.

Mr.. Kerr and tho Gresne-Hsrnsy
The scandal with which an endeavor 10
made to smirch Speaker Kerr is one par
ticularly worthy of note in this era of mud
throwing. The story is simply this:-A Mr..
Greene, of New York, having failed to obtain
an appointment by ordinary and honorable
means, applied to doorkeeper of the House
of Representatives. one Harvey, who pro-
posed finally to get Greene the posi-.
ton through Mr.. Kerr, and upon the
payment Of sum of money. which
was to 60 to Mr. Kerr through Harvey. The
appointment was made, Greene having been
introduced to Mr.. Kerr by Harvey, and hav-
ing q subseqent interview with him, at
which, belt noted. the subject of the money
Greene had paid to Harvey was never
alluded to. Before touching the money ques-
ton let rs glance at another-namely, why
Mr.. Kerr, of Indiana, gavean appointment at
all to New Yorker. The evidence of Greene
and Harvey establishes that Mr.. Kerr had
made an appointment from his district, but
the appointee declined to 60 before the ex-
aminers and the appointment remained
open. This also explains why Harvey
selected Mr.. Kerr as his victim. no other
Congressman being found with an appoint
ment not already taken up. We see the
money safe and sound in the self-confessed
rascal's pocket there is no dispute about
that. But before the committee yesterday,
after display of unwillingness recall
ing the coyness of that monumental
slanderer Iago Harvey asks the world
to believe that he handed the money
to Mr.. Kerr at the latter's request.
Such is the fimsy story to which Mr.. Kerr
yesterday gave an explicit denial, and on
his record and his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of a
man still poor in the midst of hundred
temptations to become iniquitously rich
there is no difficulty in deciding whom
to believe-the thrifty creature driven to
corner and with present partisan cause
for attacking the Speaker of the House, or
the statesman of unblemished character
and proud record. Where the money that Mr..
verdant Greene paid to Harvey remained wa
think can be judged by parallel with the
following authentic case:-A gentleman un-
used to business transactions, about to 60 to
Europe, and not intending to return, was
told bya friend" that he would not only
attend to getting the ticket but procure it at
a reduced rate. The sum named was handed
to the s'friend," who said it was all right,
but deferred giving the ticket until the
steamer was about to sail. Then he
pinned it in the gentleman's pocket to :" save
trouble, avoid risk of thieves" &c. When
fairly at sea the gentleman examined the
ticket and found it was free pass The
beauty of this transaction was that the gen.
tleman had clear evidence that his " friend"
was fraud. This describes Greene's rela-
ton to Harvey. Mr.. Kerr, like the steam
ship company, was innocently abused in
the shabby transaction.
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wintergreen genius Of Augustus Schell,
who comes into journalism as our
old Dandolo, to save it even if he
destroys his beloved Tilden, and who shows
the agility and freshness Of young man in
his management of his journal. Then, com
ing nearer nome-for we never hesitate to
speak encouraging words of those in our
own family-we have Thomas b. Connery,
George w. Hosmer, John d. Stockton,
Charles Nordhoff and John Russell Young.
gentlemen worthy to be named with any in
this catalogue. If we do not have the giants
OF the past we at least have generation Of
men to whom journalism is pride as well
every day in the direction Of public opinion.
We say direction of public opinion"
with reserve, for, as we said in the begin
ming, not even the mature and massive intel
lect Of the veteran of the Sun-who sits over
his laundering presses like an Olympian
god, tossing laurels to some and hurting
javelins at others-not even the varied and
comprehensive powers of the other gentle
men whose efforts we are glad to seek out
and recognize can affect except in distant
and subordinate manner, the result of this
canvass. AS the campaign in favor of Mr..
press, even with Mr. Dana himself in the
advance, SO will it be with these nomina-
tons at ST. Louis and Cincinnati. What we
see is IN earnest feeling in the councils of
both parties. The republicans fight for
power, for continued and growing power,
for the immense results Of the war. They
fight, as the canvass now looks, O winning
victory, which we are assured the astute men
who lead it will not throw away. The dem
ocrats fight for victory in administration if
possible; for recognition at the best as
loyal party competent to rule the Union.
The interest of the situation is the interest
that men always feel in any supreme mani
festation Of strength or activity or enthusi-
asm, which is inspired by battle, tenn
pest an aurora, swelling sea, parade,
an angry mob, q world drama like Appomat-
tox or world pageant like the opening of
the Centennial. We look at the canvass
in this spirit. We note its changes,
its advance from day to day, the rise of one
flag and the fall of another. We record
these incidents with fitting comments /; but
none of us, not even the mighty editor Of the
San, are in direction. That authority is
with the people, who after all form the two
parties and who mean to nominate and elect
the President of their choice, whether in
doing SO they please or displease the press
Of New York and the country.
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so rich man should die and leave nothing
TO pack Of persons claiming to be his
blood relations is nothing new. and in .
man growing from the small begin
nings Of Mr. Stewart it is not un-
natural that he should have hosts of thir-
ty-frst cousins that he never knew or
dreamed OF, and who from their poverty be-
came separated from him by hundred bar
riers. That such man should make his
wife residuary legatee is as just as natural.
With an adviser as astute as Judge Hilton
there is not the faintest probability that
there was legal flaw in the will, and that it
expresses Just what the shrewd merchant de-
sired is the smallest tribute we can pay to
Mr.. Stewards sense.
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We fear that the brightest and shrewdest
Of our city contemporaries does not always
sreck its own rede," and that it sometimes
gives advice to others which it is not scru-
pulous to follow itself It is not long since
it.warned the younger writer's on the World
against attempts to initiate the style of Mr..
Hurlbert, man Of genius, telling them that
imitators never make much of mark,
and that genuine silver coin is better
than bogus gold one. But is our
contemporary quite free from the fault
it deprecates in others when it advises Mr..
Morton to turn over his strength to Mr..
Conkling? Itmay, perhaps, strike readers Of
the HERALD that they have seen advice Of
this kind before. Imitation" some ono
has said, lis the sincerest fatteiy;" but
even the recipients of this kind Of homage
have more respect for the genius which
strikes out new paths. Still, borrowed ad-
vice may be good if it was sound in
it's original source, and if the Dor
rover applies it to analogous circum-
stances. Our contemporary tells Mr..
Morton that che can do great thing
for himself and delight his party by making
an alliance with Senator Conkling and put
ting the nomination of that gentleman by
the Convention at Cincinnati beyond any
shadow of doubt or uncertainty" LET
him make friends with Senator Conkling and
render his nomination certain. There is
nothing else in this world SO beautiful as
cordial affection and brotherly harmony
among politicians Of the same stripe" Ad-
vice in this vein is familiar to readers of the
HERALD although they have not seen it offered
to Senator Morton. If he were strong candi-
date it might, perhaps, be more appropriate
as applied to him. But his chances of sue
cess are so slender that his withdrawal
would be no great stretch OF magnanimity.
Mr.. Conkling is his natural ally, and we ex-
pect to see Mr.. Mortons Southern SUM-
porters go over to Conkling but this seems
so in the stream of natural tendencies that
we have thought it superfuous to tender the
advice. 1t is q thing that will come of itself.
Advice is more properly given to people
who have choice; but Mr.. Morton has
really no option as to where the Southern
delegations will go when he is out OF the
field. The influence of President Grant
will inevitably carry them to Conkling, and
it is futile to advise Mr. Morton to favor
result which he cannot help
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-30

With almost the expiring breath Of spring
the day comes round again to lay garlands
of bright flowers on the resting places Of
the dead Of the war. 1t is now eleven years
since the strife they fell in closed, secur-
ing. we trust, forever the stability of the
Union. If from this day forth the graves
were to be forgotten and unlocked, and all
save the names of the mighty captains of the
war, the fights they made and in what cause,
were to be obliterated, this year, at least,
should the beautiful practice be observed.
In this year are joined two mighty warlike
memories, that amid oil tho softening dis
tances of time call out to US for homage.
We dare not let them pass without respon-
sive throb, and though our tears are not yet
dry upon the chaplets of one struggle
we cannot ignore the glory of the Gen.
tennial dead The human pity that twines
garlands for tho graves Of gallant friend
and gallant foe of the struggle but
decade dead has been eliminated
from our regard of the throes that shook a
continent when our Republic was born. In
dividuality has faded FROM the mass of
ragged warriors that bore our flag of thirteen
stars. and their hallowed bones form but the
pedestals of the few giant figures that crown
the monuments to American liberty. Here,
then, as North and South bend flower-laden
to-day above the graves Of the battle slain,
with scattered seeds of hate perchance still
lingering in their breasts amid the blossoms
of sympathy and love, is mighty object to
which both can lift their eyes and see how
the passions Of the present become trans
muted in the light of the past. We would
not spare tear or flower or myrtle or
cypress branch that is given to any grave in
the wide world, and least of all to those
which typify the exalted love that comes
nearest in the short reach of human expe-
rience to the love of all human kind-the
love Of country. In the South as in the
North the ennobling idea Of patriotism
comes forth grandly and surely, if slowly.
from the yearly tribute to the remains of
those who stood shoulder to shoulder with
the living in the smoke and trial of the fray.
Then, as the Moslem, in whatever land he
be, turns to the East at sunrise, as the Chris
tian in the busy city or the trackless wild
raises his prayer to the one God, let the
children of the Union, blue and gray, North
and South, raise their eyes to-day from the
mounds they beautify with fading flowers to
the great genius of American liberty that has
taken its human type in the majestic form
of Washington. AS thousand attributes of
other men merge in that mighty figure SO
let the thought Of the dead we honor now
become an outer circle of the halo around
the ideal Of national liberty into which
Washington is TRANSPORTED. Time will
bring this about within another decade.
whether We will or no, but we can anticipate
the hoary teacher by taking calmly to heart
the lessons he has stored for Us. While .
beautiful custom survives let US better our
hearts by learning and applying its noblest
lessons.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-30

MoopY AND SAxKEr AND METHoDIsM. The
ministers Of the Methodist Church are en-
dcayoring to measure the effects of the re-
cent Hippodrome revival by counting the
converts made during that period of religious
enthusiasm. The results do not appear to
give satisfaction, and it is the almost unani-
nous opinion of the experienced Methodist
clergy that revivals do not reach the public
heart as well as the regular church mission
ary work.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-30

The INVESTIGATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
will probably set the investigating mills in
England going briskly. The Emma mine
inquiry here will doubtless be followed by
one at the instance of the English House of
Commons. The currents Of corruption, like
those of the ocean, touch many lands, and
in this instance the English have an oppor-
tunity of gauging the density of one of our
Gulf Streams of jobbery and fraud.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-30

TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE.
VARIETY, at T. NJ. Matinee At 2 r. NJ
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
CONSCIENCE. at r. II. g. r. Thorne, Jr.
PARK THEATRE
UNCLE TOMS CABIN. at 8 7. NJ. Mrs g. c. Howard
BowERY THEATRE.
CHATEAU MABTLLE VARIETIES,
atSP NJ Matinee at 2 NJ.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
HUMPTY DUMPTY, ats +. VI. Matinee at . p. N.
PARTISAN VARIETIES.
Ats NJ Matinee at J.. N.
rHIRTyFcURrH STREET OPERA HOUSE.
VARIETY. atSP. NJ.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
PIQUE, atsP NJ
GLOBE THEATRE
VARIETY, atsP.M.
KELLY 4 Icons MINsTRELs.
WOODS MUSEUM.
LIFE'S REVENGE. Mt 8 7. NJ. Matinee at p. N.
HowEs 4 CUsHING's CIRCUS.
Performances at r. NJ. aud r NJ.
BROOKLYN THEATRE.
LONDON ASSURANCE Mt n. NJ. Lester Wanack.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs.
THEATRE coMIQUE.
THE PHOENIX, ats 7. NJ. Milton Mobiles
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN
ORCHESTRA. QUARTET AND CHORUS, at p. NJ {;
FREE CONCERT from to 7. NJ
GrLMORF's GARDEN
GRAND CONCERT. at r. NJ onenbnch
wALLAcK's THEATRE.
THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at S T. NJ. William J. Florence.
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How TO SURRENDER A FoRGER GRACEFULLY
is one of the things on which we cannot in
who gives quickly gives twice, we would
suggest prompt delivery of Winslow as the
most satisfactory and, perhaps. the most
graceful thing under the circumstances.
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THE ENGLISH STocK EXCHANGE shares the
general European fever over the Eastern
question After vain effort at a rally from
the depression of Saturday it suffered bad
relapse. The pulse of the stock market is q
fine indication of the health of the body
politic.
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PRESBYTERIAN UNITY. long existing
breach between the Presbyterian churches
of the North and South has Mt length been
satisfactorily closed, and both branches are
again united in the bonds of fraternal friend
ship. This is only as it should be, and augurs
well for the re-establishment of complete
union in political sentiment as we'll as in re-
ligious faith between the lands of the blue
and the gray.
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THE OLD, OLD STORY of protection was low
ingly told by Pig Iron Kelley to the House
yesterday to ears not so likely to be charmed
with his sonorous tones as were the houses
of the not so long ago.
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WALL. STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks were
uneven in their movement and less active
than on Saturday. Money loaned at 2 1-2
3 per cent, Foreign exchange is firm.
Gold opened at 113 and closed at 112 7-S,
selling meanwhile at 113 1-S.
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POLICE OurRAcEs.-We hope that the cases
described in to-day's HERALD will afford an
opportunity to the courts for administering
a wholesome lesson on the duty and its linn
itations of policemen.
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BURGLARS IN VIRGINIA are treated in
manner not at all calculated to encourage
the fraternity. The volley with which the
owners of the burglars tools. described in
our Norfolk despatch, we're met on their
calling at the railroad station for their prop
erty and the fight that ensued shows what
capacity for melodrama lies in the Old
Dominion
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I RIPPLE S HE E t.
NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 80, 1876.

From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the wedther to-day ,ciA be cooler, partly
cloudy, ariM possibly local rains
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The STEWART WILL excitement is one
Of the things which could scarcely attain
its present dimensions in any city outside
New York and scarcely could grow at all
in any other country than America. That
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-16
San Bernardins Items.
From theITimes of March Ia.

The woolen mill is rapidly an.
preaching completion the machinery
is all on the ground and in very
short time San Bernardino will be-
able to supply her home demand as
well as that of the mines north and
east OF us with woolen goods. Mr..
Sacriste is gentleman of large exper-
fence in this line and under his man
agement the works cannot fail of be-
ing a success.
We are sorry to learn that our Coun-
ty School Superintendent, Mr. C. r.
Paine, met with severe accident near
Metcalfs s yesterday. He was attempt-
ing to mount his horse and had his
foot in the stirrup when the animal
took fright and threw him VIOLENTLY
on the ground, ,spraining his left ankle
and putting his left arm out of Joint.
He will be unable to get around again
for q week at least,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-16
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THE RAILROAD HOUSE

IS no longer in danger of falling, and those
who have temporarily been suffering the
pangs of hunger, by living at other hotels,
and boarding houses, are hereby
notified that they can obtain relief on Sun
day morning March r. as the Railroad House
will reopen for breakfast on that day, with
its usual we'll set table.
GEO. X. STANSFIELD,
Proprietor.
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Snow Slide In UIah.

SALT LAKE, March IA snow
slide occurred at Ophir, Utah, carry
ing away the boarding house of the
Poorman mine, burying with it VIM.
Higgins, James Higginson and Thos.
Lynch. There are no hopes of recov-
ering their bodies at present. The
storm is still raging, and probably
great loss of life and property will
follow.
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To the Trustees of District Schools
Of Los Angeles County.

= HE law requires that you set out trees on
! yotr school grounds. AS matter in
which both pleasure and economy may be
you appoint some time, say the 18th, 10th or
18th of this month tMarch) to be devoted,
when practicable, by the teacher and pupils
to the setting out of ornamental trees and
flowers on your respective school grounds.
THOS. A. SAXON,
County School superintendent.
County papers copy one week,
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To Whom it may Concern.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Cerro
~ GordO Freighting Company do not re-
cOgnize their Station Keepers as their agents,
and will not be responsible for their acts, as
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ty, or make any bargains or trades for the ac-
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II. MADE Al,
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