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the NEW dMSTERDIM.
A stormy Meeting at Length Accepting Namos
TO be sent TO judge Landon.

Stormy Meeting nt Length tcceptiuG Namoa
TO be sent TO judge Lsndon.
Two hundred and f1fty depositors in the
New Amsterdam Savings Bank met in tue Ger
mania Assembly Rooms last evening TO take az
tion upon the appointment Of receiver. Mr..
John Adelman. IA large depositor. the chairman
Of the meeting OF depositors Of over $J00h
signed the call and tried to preside. Mr. r.
Frohweip. President Of the Bank, did what he
could to run the meeting. Il want every
officlal to come up here where he can face the
depositors," he sid. Eight gentlemen respond
ed. Now am going to boss this meeting" he
continued after his company had been seated.
We don't want too much talk here tonight.
We have come to tell YOU how the Dink
stands" Here the speaker WAS INTERRUPTED BY
decided manifest stions of the unwillingness OF
the assembly to submit To President ffohwsin's
dictation. Mr.. Auelman resumed his functions,
and the follow Ing exhlbit was road
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HAyARA, oct. 8-An unsuccessfIl attempt
has be- 10 ,ssu.tr firsIutAt Ia uf h4yiL
Gen. 5alhu on eta - the Tcvo uti mar pary has
embarked al X .Lsn On, JauaiCa. Tor fOrtsu-FrHIt,
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invest Wlnhs. Ncerirs % cooler wesI And nOfub
vest anu Parry CLOUDY ~e.ther
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Tire Therm ometor IN New Sork Yesterday.
At Hudnuts ut o o'clock A. W.. Sc; d tg';
o. a., " h ol' $50 L. NJ. 01' U, 62' v. bs' H. bT'.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-16

GRANTIsM.-It must not be supposed
that Belknap is any worse than the others
because he gets justice first. he has
done nothing but what they have done be
fore him. In its essential character there
is no difference between his act and that
of Gen. Grant in appointing men to
the Cabinet because they had given
him presents. There is no essential
difference between Mr.. Bclknap's ap-
pointing post trader because the man
offers to give his wife $4,000 year, and
President Grants appointing a worthless
character like Jim Casey Collector of
New Orleans because he is his brother-in-
law. 1t is the system now. universally
known as Grantism, which is dishonest,
larcenous, destructive alike of public and
private morality. Grant engages in the
Black Friday gold conspiracy, and $685..
0GO is sent to the White House out of
the profits; Babcock conspires with the
whiskey thieves in st. Louis, and Grant
and Shepherd aid in his defence and
welcome him back to Washington; Mrs.
Belknap is paid $4,000 a year, for the
appointment of a post trader; Robson
steals 5000 for Sccor, induced thereto
by "a present to lady," and prostitutes
the navy to enrich the Cattell Ring; At
torney-General Williams steals the mon-
ey to pay for his wife's carriage and to
pay the wages of his servants: Delano
and Smith rob the Indians by wholesale,
and Grant looks on and approves; Cres-
well robs in the Post Office Department
by means of straw-bid frauds; Bancroft
Davis is proved to be bribe taker by the
Legislature of Massachusetts,, and is
made Minister to the German empire;
Secretary Fish has his son-in-law enl-
ployed at large salary as the agent of
Spain, while he gives a pro-Spanish
character to the policy of the Admins
tration toward Cuba. 1t is the same
thing in every department from the
President down. Bribe-taking, plumber,
larceny, Grantism is the rule everywhere.
The only really honest man is Bristow,
whom Grant has just been violently
threatening to kick out, but has not
dared do it.-M Y SIN.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-16

WHAT SHALL DE EXPECTED OF
WIVES ?3Some husbands do not make
their financial affairs topic at home,
and some better halves know less of their
own husbands affairs than they do of
their neighbors.' Some weeks since a
lady was Informed of her husbands sus-
pension by reading all announcement in
a paper which she accidentally took up
in store while waiting to have an order
filled. Whether it was pride or fear that
prompted the sccresy cannot be stated,
but what can be expected from wives in
the way Of true economy if they arc
only silent partners in the matrimonial
copartnership? In 1857 Il large jcwelry
firm sold costly set of jewels to Il lady.
The firm knew that her husband was in
failing condition, but the lady had been
long and profitable customer. When
the partner ordered his clerk not to
charge the set which had been de-
livcrcd, but to make memoran-
dun on the blottcr, he paid the lady's
integrity high compliment. When her
husband failed the jewclry came back
with note couchcd in such terms that
the dealer only regretted that a gift OF
the set would be construed asan INSULT
Boston Journal.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-16
: There is a man living in Wilson,

= There is q man living in Wilson, N.
c., ffty-four years of age, who never
owed a cent to a living soul in his life,
and, as the records will show, was the
first man for the past thirty years to pay
his taxes to the sheriff. Though black
smith and plough maker by trade, he cuts
and makes his clothing, and when en-
gagged at his work if there is a call at the
shop his wife goes to the anvil and will
shoe horse, brace plough, upset an
axe, or perform any other job in the
line with as much skill as her husband.
- Frank Beard, the artist, while at
dinner recently, was told of a man in
Nassau street with three hands. GLOW
is that?" asked Beard. He's gotta little
bchind-hand," was the reply. "-ou are
more extraordinary. man," was the re-
ply, "for you have two heads; you have o
head of your own, and you've got ahead
of me-"
- 1t was Belknap who sent to Sheri-
dan, when he took military possession of
the State government of Louisiana, that
memorable telegram: "The President
and all of us approve your course"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-16
TO BE CONTINUED.

EXPERIENCES IN BATTLE believe,
writes veteran, no two good soldiers
will widely disagree as to their sensations
during battle. take it to be q piece
of ofbravado in any man to assert that he
had no fear during the progress of a long
and severe engagement. A battle is a
veritable hell upon earth; not to be in
serious apprehension while it lasts is to
be either drunk, crazy, or insensible.
The highest type ofbravery is that of the
man who realizes the full extent of the
peril, but sticks resolutely to his duty.
1t was my experience, and that of all
those about me, repeated dozen times,
that shell firing is not ordinarily nearly
80 demoralizing as that of musketry. 1t
is not often that shells are thrown so that
their fragments scatter death and wounds,
and their loud humming overhead does
not cause that nervous tingling which al
ways follow the sharp zip Of the rifle
bullet. The peculiar cutting of the air
made by half a dozen of these at once is
apt to give the soldier the idea that the
whole air is filled with them, and that
he is certain to be struck by one of them.
All believe, will agree as to the sensa-
tion first caused by the impact of bull
let. 1t is stunning, numbing feeling,
which for long time overpowers the
local pain of the wound. In my expert
ence, a single buckshot near the hip
knocked me flat, and for two days after
gave me such acute pains and such mus
cular disturbance from knee to shoulder
that could not stand erect. Soldiers
have frequently been Frustrated by spent
balls. A curious effect of shell wounds
is that they do not bleed i; the hot frag:
ment sears the torn blood vessels and
stops the efusion. A Mimic ball extract.
ed from the human body presents q re-
markablc sight. l have seen them where
the resistance of the flesh had turned back
the pointed end on all sides with such
regularity that the ball resembles sau
Ger of a flower
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= The following story is told in Wash
ington Of the late Senator Salisbury OF
Delaware The Senator had the repu-
tation during the late years of his Sena,
torial term of imbibing very freely, and
it is told of him that he was accustomed
to have two cocktails carried to his room
in the morning before he rose, and when
asked by friend why he had two cock
tails, he replied that after taking one he
felt like another man, and thought it
would be mean not to treat that other
man.
Mother-"Charlottc, how do you
like your new teacher. ?" Charlotte
80, she's splendid teacher. She don't
care whether we know our lessons or
not"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-16

= There is large share of COM
mon sense in the worlds average iudg-
ment, after all. If it sees man with the
ten commandments on his lips, and some
thing quite different written all over his
life it will be apt to point to the discrep-
ancy and utter some harsh criticisms,
but who can blame it?
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-16

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Anderson, 5. C..
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-08-05
Food for Reflection.

Tilden has been Governor Of New York
for two years, and in that time he has
reduced the expenditures of that State
from sl5,000,000 to sS,OOO,0O0 Make
him President, and he will cut down the
public expenditures of the government to
what they were before the war, when we
had an honest government. Then they
were s65, 100000 per annum; now they
are Sl35,O00, 600, besides the public debt
Then the number of Office holders was
A ,928, now the number has been swellcd to
94,ll9, more than double the former mum
Der, and this army of Office holders is eating
out the substance Of the people. In 1868
the Indians cost s3,99s, ,35359; iu 1875,
they cost ss,3si, ,656.s2; more than dou
Bile what they cost eight years ago. So it
is in every department Of the public SER
vice, the expenditures bave been largely
increased. Is this State of things to con-
tinue2 Will the people decide for reform
or will they not? The Democrats propose
to reduce the number Of Office holders and
cut down the expenses. The present
Democratic House of Representatives has
saved to the people about SAC, 900 900,
but the Republican Senate has resisted
this saving at every step of its progress,
and threatend to bring the government to
stand still because it could not get the
extnvagant appropriations of former years.
Can any reasonable man longer doubt which
is the reform party, or which of the two
parties is most deserving the public sup
port and public confidence?
These are facts from the record which
cannot be denied; facts which come home
to the sober reflection Of every man. Let
the people ponder over them, in the light
Of reason and common sense, and act for
their own best interests. Their interests
are the interests Of the country; the nation
is but the aggregate Of individuals. The
abuses Of government must be reform ed
the expenditures must be reduced, and
the Democratic party have set about the
WORK in earnest. Let all good men, of
whatever political afiliation in the past,
aid them.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-08-05
Our Congressional Delegates.

There are intimations Of sharp contest
Tor the Congressional nomination from the
Second Maryland District among the Demo-
Gratis, Il having been said that Mr.. Roberts
is out Of the field, the party paper in his own
county announces that he is not going to
strive for denomination, but that he will not
refuse it If II is rendered. There is a strsng
opposition to Mr.. Roberts, and it is based on
the complaint that he has been silent and
inactive member during the whole of the ses-
sion now approaching its close. The same
criticism, however, might very properly be
applied TO all the Maryland delegation. Mr..
Roberts being a comparatively young man
and neophyte in the broad field of politics,
there is nothing surprising in his failure to
cut a prominent figure in politics. Bot very
much more was expected Of such veterans as
Governor Swami, Governor Thomas and Mr..
Walsh. Governor Swami has, to be sure,
had an important position placed in his hands
in being made Chairman Of the Foreign At
fairs Committee, and he has had probably
done great deal Of work in committee, but
he has not been heard from ON the floor of
the House. II was certainly anticipated that
Mr.. Thomas and Mr.. Walsh would do better,
but it appears that they have been struck with
an enduring flash OF silence, They are clever
men, good speakers and experienced polite
ians, and no doubt their constituents looked
to them to do honorable service among the
political majority OF which they are part
As they have disappointed these very reason
able expectations il would not be surprising
if all the six members ofthe delegation should
be turned down in the making of the party
nominations of this campaign.
We clip the above extract from the
Baliniore american, Of Monday last.
The american exposes itself to the charge
of not being very wide awake or vigilant
journal. At the time Of the publication
Of this extract in its columns, three of our
delegates, Messrs. Thomas, Walsh and
Roberts, had already made speeches upon
the floor of the House, Mr.. Thomas as far
back as May last, and a copy Of his speech
on the Hawaiian Treaty is now before us.
Mr.. Roberts addressed the House on the
18th Of July, on the subject of the Taxa
ton on the Circulation of State Banks
This speech was published the next day
in the Congressional Record, and we shall
lay it before our readers in our next Mr.,
Walsh had previously addressed the House
on the General Condition of the Country.
The charge Of silent membership
therefore, which the American brings
against the members from this State, falls
to the ground Not only in the commit
tee rooms, but upon the floor of the House,
our members have been vigilant and zeal
GUS in guarding the interests Of their con-
stituents, and their constituents mean to
reward their fidelity to their respective
trusts by electiug them again. As to the
@sharp contest" for the nomination which
the American alludes to in this district,
il is not true; the wish is probably father
to the thought. Mr.. Roberts will be re-
nominated with very little If any opposi-
tion.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-08-05
NAVY DEPARTMENT.



The Me,o Hork Saa makes the follow
ing comment upon the report from the
Naval Investigating Committee
The fact that all the Republican mem
bers of the Committee on Naval Affairs
join in whitewashing Seco. Robcson, save
Mr.. Burleigh of Maine, who has been re-
legated to private life by the party man,
ayers for protesting against shameful
abuses in the Kittery Navy Yard, is sig
ni6cant, affording additional proof that it
is folly to hope for any reform inside of
the Republican organization. The report
Of the majority of the committee was very
mildly drawn so far us comment was con
cerned, though the quotations from the
testimony taken in the investigation re.
veal the most startling evidence of cor
ruption and maladministration, proving
enough crimes and misdemeanors to Justify
the impeachment Of Robson twenty times
over. The committee point out more than
twenty sections of the Revised Statutes
that have been violated, many of them
Systematically and habitually; they show
how he has built worthless ships in viola
tion of law, wastefully expended millions
and millions of dollars in defiance of acts
of Congress, corruptly used the navy yards
as political machines, unlawfully loaned
millions of dollars to his friends, and,
while illegally squandering the most cnor-
nous sums of money, has succeeded in
running our navy, so that the most expo-
rieneed officers in the service characterize
it as disgrace to the country, The tax
payers of the United States have paid
nearly s400 1000, 900 since the close of the
war for sustaining and improving the navy,
and this is the result of it all. Yet this
extravagance, dishonesty, incompetence,
and lawlessness are what the Republican
party, through its representatives on the
Committee on Naval Affairs, commend us
highly proper and satisfactory, because the
man who is responsible for It is one of the
most intimate friends of their President I!
Mr. Harris, Republican member from
Massachusetts,, while ddressing the House,
on Saturday last, on behalf OF the minority
Of the committee, made the following con-
fession of fraud and peculation in that
Department.
will not stand here as Republican
member of this House and Republican
member Of this committee and declare or
permit any man to infer that | have not
found in the course of this investigation
grounds for charges, direct and specific,
which can point out, and which | could
ask the House and the country or any le-
gally constituted tribunal TO pass upon.
There are offenses; there are Irregularities;
there are peculations; there is fraud in the
administration of great Department like
that of the Navy. There always were,
and when we remember the infrmities of
men, we may say there always will be.
And yet it was our duty as a committee
to point out to the House the men who
committed these crimes and these frauds,
to point them out by name, and designate
the testimony upon which they might be
convicted in any proper tribunal having
charge of those matters.
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We must say that the evidence against
General Belknap is of the fiimsest nature.
Had he breasted the storm in the beginning
he would still be in the Cabinet. ."-Eorney's
Press.
Belknap confessed his guilt Stronger
evidence could not be adduced. We can
not see how an honest man can wish him
to have done otherwise. So the guilt was
concealed, Forney thinks it would have
been all right. Forney was himself con.
victed, by the exposure of his own letter,
Of suborning witness to give testimony
in eliminating Mrs. Forrest, and yet he
stands high to-day among Republican
leaders. To use his own language, he has
breasted the storm, and he fourishes like
Babcock and Shepherd. Forney is lead
ing journalist, who supports the present
administration and the dishonest practices
under it. He also supports Hayes, under
whom, if elected, these dishonest practices
would be continued, beca use he would be
surrounded and upheld by the same men.
With FOrney as the leading Radical organ,
and Zach. Chandler as the head of the
party organization, what could be expected
Of Hayes2 He would be mere nose of
wax in such hands; and as he is pledged,
in his letter of acceptance, not to turn out
the present incumbents of Office, we would
simply have Hayes instead of Grant as a
figurehead Of the Government, while all
its machinery would run on, as now un-
der Grant. Is this the reform to which
the country is invitedp Let men who
are capable of laying aside their political
prejudices look at this question in the
light of true devotion to the public veal.
If they viii do so, they cannot vote for
Hayes and Wheeler, but must vote for
Tildeu, who is pledge to retronchment and
reform, and whose record is guarantee
that his nIedoe will ha radaanod
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Congress National Expenses.

The prospect Of adjournment is still re
mote. The members having worried
through the heated term, are now in bet
ter condition for legislative duty, and very
much business yet remains in an unfinished
state. The present session may possibly
last some weeks longer. Several Of the
appropriation bills are still pending in
the hands Of the conference committees,
the Senate struggling against the House
70 retain the extravagant expenditures of
Former years. Allmoney bills are required
to originate in the House. That body is
largely Democratic, and at the opening of
the session, when the estimates Of the en-
suing fiscal year were received from the
several departments, they were cut down
about sixty millions of dollars. The per.
sistent opposition of the Senate, however,
which is Republican, has prevented the
saving ofthislarge sum to the treasury, and
lessene the proposed retrenchment to some
thirty or forty millions instead Of sixty.
This istheprice which the country is paying,
IN this centennial year pitts history, for Ro-
publican extravagance and misruIe. In
the last year Of the Democratic admins
tration, IN 1860, the government did not
cost n al is departments, ever s65 ,OOo.-
900, Now, under tho extravagauce Of
the present administration, il costs more
than doublethat amount. The Democrats
in Congress have tried to reduce the pub
he expenses to what they were when
they held control, 70 one-half their present
sum, but through the opposition Of the
Republican Senate. they have been pre-.
vented from reducing them more than
ene-fourth. d is something to make
note q, however, that they have saved
thirty nillions Of doIlars 10 the people in
one year. asd would have saved twice that
san, had meta Republican Senate persist
ently opposed The goverpment should
cosf no more now, than Il did in $50, but
The reckless ektraraeanceof the Republican
party which Ias had esnsrA fsr sixteen
years has run up the annual expeaditure
70 more than double what i was uhen
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