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National Republican., 1877-12-27

WELLS ORIGINAL MACiiISE-SPREAD STRENGTHEN.
ING PLAsTERs.
The Oldest and the best. AL who have used
them attest their merit Sold by druggists Twenty.
twenty. Ave and thirty cents, according TO size.
YOUNG people, pay attention to your teeth. Clean
them daily with fhurstons Ivory Pearl Tooth Pow
der, the best dentifrice known. II will preserve
their whiteness through life, prevent decay and
t0othache. Much pain and trouble Is caused by
early neglect therefore take heed In time Price,
25 and 10 cents per bottle.
THoMPsoNs PoMADE 0PTnE.
An oleaginous compound of singular merit for
dressing the hair. Its renders harsh, dry
hair son and piable, strengthens II when weak,
and gives II that rich gloss which Is the charm Of
| early youth. Price, % and 30 cents per bottle.
CLEANSE the system and purify the blood remoy.
ing dyspepsia sick headache constipation aiIi all
diseases caused by dsordcred stomach or II, er.
Quirks Irish Tea will do it. Sold by all druggists.
Price, % cents per package,
JoUvES's ISoBERous KID GLOVE CLEANSER.
Rpnoyates soiled ploves ghlv md nh icklv
National Republican., 1877-12-27
LOCAL MISCELLANY.

Leh-oh clothing watches, pistols &C., bought ut
HerLogs. slb d street Orders attended TO.
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cuilDsEs's ulsten below cost Eisenan's,
National Republican., 1877-12-27
A Christmas Wedding.

UsEFuL holiday presents for little money at
KATzEssTEiSs Clothing and Tailoring Establish
ment.
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Cas-. suits at cost Eiseman's, seventh and Il.
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CITI' ITEMS.

CnILpREN's overcoats below cost. EIsemsns.
National Republican., 1877-12-27
A Source Of Great Anxiety.

BosTos, MASS, June 8, IsJ2
daughter has received great benefit from the use
OF VEoErISE Her declining health was q source OF
great anxiety to all her friends. few bottles Of the
VEoETISE restored her health strength and appe-
Insurance and Real estate Agent
No. 20 scars Building,
The New York herald., 1877-11-19
Where Is tho Fault

A taxpayer applied to Judge Donohue on
Saturday last for m order directing the
School Trustees Of the Nineteenth ward to
show cause next Saturday why o peremptory
mandamus should not issue compelling
them to furnish accommodation for and re.
ceive into the public schools of that ward
two sons OF the applicant, who have been
refused admission on the ground that the
classes Of the primary department are full.
The order was granted. The people of New
York pay this year about five million dol
lars, including the State tax, for the public
school system, some three and half mill
ions of which are for the Board of Educa-
ton of the city. Certainly this enormous
tax ought to be sufficient to enable the
Board to supply accommodation for the in
struction OF all the scholars requiring admis-
sion to the schools. There must be bad mani
agement somewhere. when the children Of
those who pay this large amount cannot OBJ
tain admission at oil, or when the schools
are dangerously overcrowded. The outlay
is sufficient to supply ample accommoda-
ton for all, if we have good management
and proper economy. Without these the
expenditure might be doubled and the evils
complained Of would still exist.
The New York herald., 1877-11-19

Between the 81 IL pence per ounce,
which was the highest price OF silver in
1872 and the 46 3-4 pence per ounce,
which was the lowest price in 1876, there
was o difference of about one-fourth, or
twenty-five per cent, and metal which
fuctuates SO widely is obviously unfit to be
coined into money and made measure Of
value. Until silver RECEIVERS and maintains
without interruption for series of years
its old steadiness of value it will be unfit to
be used as money except for small change
If we make silver legal tender no govern
ment bond, State bond or railroad bond of
the United States can be sold abroad except
at depreciation sufficient to insure pur-
chasers against loss from fluctuations in the
value Of silver Full remonetization would
ruin the credit OF the United States in for
eign countries.
1t is said that. .remonetizatio would bring
up the price of silver to par with gold. But
who knows that? AS soon as the bill had
passed our silver mines would be worked to
their full capacity and a food Of German sill
yer would come pouring in upon us and the
price would be as likely to 60 lower MS
higher Tho demand for silver in India and
China is likely to go on declining in conse-
quence Of larger importations OF manufac-
tured goods into those countries Fabrics
made by machinery are SO much cheaper
than those made by hand that the East will re-
ceive constantly larger proportions Of goods
in exchange for its exports, leaving
smaller balance to be discharged in silver.
There is another powerful cause which will
diminish the demand for silver in the East.
The new railroads in India have been built
with English capital, and the interest or
dividends which must be sent back to Eng
land will affect the balance of trade and
save tho necessity Of exporting annually to
India an equal amount Of silver Amid
these changes it is quite impossible to pre-
dict what the future value of silver is to be,
and it would be q wild and hazardous ex-
pertinent to logislate on the assumption that
silver will recover and maintain its former
value as compared with gold.
The New York herald., 1877-11-19
A Chance for Jersey Justice.

The suspension of the Peoples Savings
Bank at Newark is repetition of the old
story. The last annual statement showed
an apparent surplus of between seven and
eight thousand dollars. The collapse comes
and the discovery is made that eighty.two
thousand dollars invested in bonds and
mortgages may dwindle down one-half;
thut fourteen thousand dollars, bills re-
ceivable, can be reckoned in the same pro-,
portion, and that since the last report the
receipts have been thirty thousand dollars
and the outgoings one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. The president is found
to be living in handsome style, and is
said to have been engaged largely in
speculations, and dividends have been paid
with regularity. Among the assets is some
insurance stock which cost par, and is now
said to be worth forty cents on the dollar.
Of course such security has no business
in savings banks assets. New Jersey
boasts about enforcing the penalties of the
law against offenders with extraordinary
vigor. and everybody knows that On execu-
ton on the slightest excuse is the States de-
light. Let us now sec whether our neigh
bors know how to punish those who, through
maladministration or dishonesty, rob the
poor Of their savings.
The New York herald., 1877-11-19
Undue In Il n Q nee.

In the lifetime of Commodore Vanderbilt
it would have been rather laughable for any
one to advance the theory that that appar-
emily adamantine old man was an instru-
ment somewhat like Hamlet's pipe. on
whom the skilful could play any stop they
pleased; that he had so few ideas of his own
that all his actions and course of conduct
were contrived and planned for him by
others, and that he was merely fooled into
the fancy that he was his own master; that,
in short, he was man of very soft and easily
moulded material, neither adamant nor
iron, nor ordinary stone. One Of the very
common experiences Of the history of dis
tinguished men is for the world to find out
that it possessed no knowledge whatever
of those with whom it supposed itself
to be most familiar but we doubt if the
knowledge possessed in this community OF
Commodore Vanderbilt is to come to naught
in that way. The negations and defeats OF
the common conceptions Of mans charac-
ter that result from revelations made after
his death are never SO extreme as to sweep
away the main fabric Of his history. Public
opinion frames for itself an image Of a
mans individuality rather than accepts the
faithful picture presented by the actions OF
his lifetime, and in framing this image it
proceeds on the method of the sculptors,
who seize leading attribute and sub
ordinate all detail to the production OF the
highest expression in that attribute. Thus
if they give us Hercules it is a mass Of mere
muscular force, and if Apollo it is q
luxury of beautiful outline and gentle
dignity but Apollo perhaps had muscles
also not less mighty than those OF Hercules,
and Hercules beauty that in its way was
perhaps comparable to Apollo's. Butwhat-
ever might suggest this is suppressed by
the sculptor as q distinction. Thus IN the
public conception Vanderbilt was framed
as q giant Of our hard practical world--a
railroad king of more than commonly he
roic stature, and all the softer side OF hu-
manity was suppressed in that image; SC
that to hear that the man possessed 1t, and
that he was ever amenable to any will but
his own comes rs contradiction and de.
nial of accepted knowledge. But the com.
The New York herald., 1877-11-19
Worth Re m q IN b berinV.

singular story is aHoat in relation to the
canvassing of the votes cast for Senator in
the Twenty-third Election district of the
Eighteenth Assembly district, part of the
Seventh Senatorial district It is alleged
that the police returns of the vote and the
returns kept by the County Clerk make the
figures in that election distribution Norris
sey, 166; for Schell, 1877. The footings on
both returns show these figures to be cor
rect 1t is further stated that the number
Of votes recorded in the Supervisors returns
as cast for Mr. Schell in that election dis
trict where the number is, in accord
ance with the requirements Of the
law, written out in words, reads
Zone hundred and thirty-soven." But
in the column of numerals the figures given
to Mr. Schell by the Supervisors returns are
1T, thus making his vote in the election
district eleven more than that Of Mr.. Nor
rissey. All attempts on the part of the
republican Supervisors to correct the error
were ruled out of order by the majority.
1t is alleged that heavy bets were made by
certain prominent Tammany politicians that
Mr.. Morrissoy would not carry that election
district
We know nothing Of tho truth Of these
rumors, but deem it worth while to draw
the attention of the Supervisors, who are
acting as canvassers, and others to the fol-
lowing sections of the Election law
SECTION 7l.-Every inspector OF election, poll clerk
or other officer or person having tho custody of my
record register Of voters, or copy thereof, OATH
turn oil votes certificate poll list or OF any paper
document, evidence Of any description IN this act
DIRE ctcd DO maac ned preserved, who is guilty
OF stealing, wiuly destroying, mutiiating dcfacing
fasiiyng, or frauduienty removing or secrctng tho
whole any part thereof or who shall fraudulently
make any entry, crasure alteration therein, except
US directed by the provisions OF this act
permits any other person so 10 do, shall, upon
conviction thereof, be adjudgcd guilty OF felony and
shall be punished tor eacn aud evcry such offence by
| Imprisonment IN State prison not exceeding five
years shall in addition thereto forfeit his oLce
SKC. 72-Evcry person hot an officer such is
mentioned IN the last preceding section who s guilty
auy oil acts specified In said section, or who ad
vses procurcs or abcts the commission OF the same,
any thcm snail, upon conviction thereof DC ad.
judged guilty OF felony, and Tor each and every such
offence shall be punished by imprisonment In state
| PRISON not exceeding lvo yoara
The New York herald., 1877-11-19
Custer and His RIen.

The greatest sacrifice that man con offer
up at the altar Of duty is his life. With it
he yields up everything, for without it
there is nothing. The sublime devotion
that unhesitatingly sunders all the ties that
bind manhood to life and that conquers the
instinct common to every form Of life,
which is the love of existence, is worthy Of
the great Master who expressed His love of
man by dying for his salvation. 10 the SOL
dier, whose profession leads him into dan
gers not experienced by the great majority
of men, this devotion to duty, even at the
peril Of the greatest cost, has ever been the
highest attribute. History is filled with in
stances of glorious conquests over self by
men who loved honor and duty more
than life. But in the wide range
Of examples. through all ages, that
shed such renown on the profession of
arms none are brighter, more glorious, or
calculated to inspire more profound feel
ing Of sympathy with the actors than the
last battle Of Custer and his men. The grim
outlines Of that fatal combat have been re-
traced in the memory Of our countrymen by
the story of the Indian whose influence with
his people created the troubles that necessi-
tated the war Of 1876, and who gave our
representative details Of the fight on the
Little Big Horn which were wanting to COM
plete the history of that bloody sacrifice.
Even this bitter enemy of the paleface gives
his tribute of praise to Long Hair and his
men, and with the enthusiasm of q
warrior calls them ''the bravest Of
the brave" If possible the followers
of the gallant Custer have won even
a higher need Of praise than their leader.
For him victory would bring underworld
renown and probably rich reward. But to
the poor troopers who drew their sabres
and advanced at the word of command vic
tory meant scarcely anything more than
hard fare md more fighting. Yet they un-
hesitatingly followed Custer to the fatal
battle ground and died around him to the
last man.
Now that all is known that can be re-
garding this band of heroes, is it not the
fitting time for something ID be done
toward erecting a suitable monument to
their memory? When the news of the great
massacre at the Little Big Horn was
first received numbers rushed into print
expressing their desire to do something to
perpetuate the memory Of Custer and his
men ; but after little while this
enthusiasm cooled down, to be partially
revived by the obsequies Of the Gen.
eral at West Point. Now is the time
to revive the subject ola monument, to col
lect the necessary funds and to erect it. In
death Custer and his men hold equal rank,
and one appropriate monument should
keep the memory of their glorious deeds
green in the souls of their countrymen.
The New York herald., 1877-11-19
A Long Isla nd Crash.

The bankruptcy Of Mr. Conrad Poppen-
husen, the Long Island railroad magnate,
is the latest nine days wonder in Brooklyn,
and will last the people of that remarkable
city rs subject OF gossip until a new excite
ment turns up. Mr.. Poppenhusen embarked
some few years ago in the enterprise of
making Long Island railroads remunerative,
and no doubt has at last discovered what
has long been known to others-namely,
that only one man was ever sharp enough or
niggardly enough to accomplish that feat,
and then only on a small scale. Nothing
can be much clearer than the fact that Mr..
Poppenhusen was not fitted to make money
out OF railroading His enterprise and
liberality were Of great advantage to the
public but ruinous to himself. He is said
to have sunk over five million dollars cash
in extending the Long Island lines, inn
proving the tracks and rolling stock and de-
veloping the traffic. and ho continued to
pour out his money freely as long as it
lasted. The result might have been an
ticipated by any one who gave the subject
any attentive consideration. The bankrupts
liabilities are over eight million dollars and
his assets are set down as more than
seven millions, but tho latter, of course, in
clude securities that will not realize any.
thing like their face. Among tho assets APP
pears the item OF two hundred dollars, the
The New York herald., 1877-11-19

They were mostly built in times when sani-
tafy precautions were quite disregarded.
and are often as badly placed as they are
badly constructed with regard to the re-
quirements of drainage and good air. Alter
ations made in them are also always made
in absolute indifference to what is changed,
save with respect to the picturesque or archi-
tectural effect Thus it happened that the
Prince Of Wales caught typhoid fever by
sleeping in room built over the
opening Of an old cesspool Indif-
ference to facts Of this nature is
not con fined to England. There are per-
haps thousand houses on Murray Hill most
ingeniously constructed SO as to have
enormous volumes of sewer gases discharged
into all the sleeping rooms at fixed hours
every day. This is the plan:-Pipes
from the stationary washstands and bath
tubs lead down to the sewer and are closed
by the trap for the greater part of the time.
But certain establishments have the privi.
lege to discharge superfuous steam into the
sewers. The active expansive force Of this
steam in the sewer opens the traps and
drives the gas up into the houses, so that
typhoid poison is disseminated far more Of.
tectively in that quarter than in Mackrell.
vile.
The New York herald., 1877-11-19
Fluctuations in the Value OF Silver.

Fluctuations in the Value OF Silver.
The most important requisite of money is
steadiness of value. A vast mass OF Pc
cuniary obligations are contracted to be dis
charged at future periods. Fairness to the
debtor requires that he should not be COM
PEELED to pay more, and fairness to the
creditor that he should not be compelled to
receive less, than was stipulated in the con-
tract. The bonds of the federal govern
ment, of our States, our cities and towns
and our great corporations are of long dates,
and mortgages on real estate generally run
for term of years. So long as silver
had the stability of value it main
tanned for the first seventy years
Of this century it was proper
enough material for money, but in recent
years the fluctuations in it's price have been
so violent as to have upset all confidence IN
it as money with the financial world at
large. We insert the following table, show
ing how comparatively steady silver was
previous to 1873, and how enormously it
has fuct uated since that year,
The New York herald., 1877-11-19

of the citadel called the ''Karadagh" or
are built on the bare rock and are con-
structed with earth and other material
brought mp from the plain. The country
around Kars furnishes very little material
for siege works, SO that regular approaches
to the defences involve enormous labor, loss
and uncertainty.
The description Of the town and defences
Of Kars. as we'll as the interesting references
10 former sieges, also published to-day in
the HERALD, will be found well worthy
Of close study. From the nature of the site
it would not be too much to say that Kars is
probably one Of the Oldest fortresses in
the world. 1t is certain that in the
early ages of the art Of Defence the
place being adapted by nature for strong
hold was occupied for that purpose, as it
did not require the elaborate works neces-
sary on other Sites Occupied by the Rus
slams and It's forts reconstructed and armed
with modern artillery it will become a
Gibraltar in strength and position which
the Russians will never consent to give
up. Full particulars of the capture have
not yet reached us, but we anticipate
that the spoils OF the victors will be ex-
traordinary even if their losses in winning
them are great. The garrison must Of ne
cessity be prisoners, for there was no line
of escape by which they could avoid that
fate, all the passes westward being held
by the Russians. The effect of the fall OF
Kars on the Mussulman population of
British India will be very great. The event
will furnish them with another evidence of
Russia's power in the East. The fact that
England was unable to protect the Sultan
will strike them as it did in 1866, when
the first signs of the Indian mutiny
began to appear after the capture of
Kars by the Russians. All the inde-
pendent and tributary sovereigns of the
East will attach significance to the fall Of
Kars highly favorable to Russian interests
in Asia, for on that continent many devout
Mussulmans know oil about Ksrs and
Erzeroum, while they have only heard of
Stamboul
The New York herald., 1877-11-19

THE WEATHER.-Thc cold wave accompany
Ing the advance Of high pressure from Manitoba
aud the Northwest has already reached the
Middle Atlantic coast. This change was duly
announced in yesterdays HERALD, and there
fore did not come as u surprise. On the northern
margin of the low pressure area that is now
moving eastward over Canada toward Maine
and the Atlantic the precipitation has como in
tie form Of light SHOWS, and in the lake region
~ rain. From the westward series OF areas
Of low pressure nrc advancing near the
northcrIy line Of our territory, attended
by rains and snow. The depression with rains
which VIC announced NJ likely to advance from
tho southwcstcry district is already manifesting
!tself in that section but Is not very extensive.
In New York and it's vicinity today the weather
VIII be cold and fair or partly cloudy.
The New York herald., 1877-11-19
Typhoid Fever In Palaces.

That typhoid fever is not confined to the
novels of the poor and the haunts of
wretchedness and misery is shown by the
experience Of the English royal family, in
which this disease occurs with unusual
frequency. How narrowly tho Prince of
Wales escaped death in 1879 will be gen.
erally remembered and the occurrence OF
two recent cases OF this disease in his family
has called attention anew to the fact Of tho
neglect of simple precautions for the
preservation of health where it might
be supposed that pure air w0pld Pe
more especially cared for BelsfffYs, : are
commonly old structures, and old houses
are not the healthiest for several reasons.
The New York herald., 1877-11-19
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

The following Americans registered at the HRRALD
bureau In Paris yesterday
/. W. Fathers, Boston, Spendide Hotel
Dr. J. Mccormick. New York, Graud Hotel
G. NJ. Fairchild, Now York, Splendtde Hotel
c. J. Bridgeman, Brooklyn, No Ruc AonieE
Miss Kate McKirdy, Boston. No. l Rue Colis6e.
M A O'Rclly, New York, Avenue du Bois de Bou-
lognc.
D. G. Hood and Miss Addie Hood, Brooklyn. No. /
Ruc Colisoe.
Table mustard is said to be full OF clay, -four, plaster
ofParis, &C., &c. Tho only genuine kind 10 theGau
Hamilton mako. -
short cake is curried fg - & rit.
It's wiso child that knows It's own pap. s.-,ssz
Tho Turkish ship OF state is hard up Ports. i "a
Health seekers are sea bathing At Santa Barbara
CAL
In the Hohokus valley N T. there is an epidemic OF
twins.
Bostonians destroy harmless gulsin the harbor. Do
not fight init sca-gulls
The Rochester Democrats tart man agrees with,
Voorhees, in wishing that Morton had lived.
Count dc Suzannct, Secretary OF the French Lega.
tion at Washington, Is at tho Hotel Brunswick.
An Illinois pocless rapturously speaks OF "the lono
Lightning But 1t Is not alone; It - accompanied by
thunder.
Chicago critics go into raptures over concert
which has been given to Mmc Rive-King and At which
played.
The Hessian ly has invaded Illinois wheat fields.
In washinQtons day you could have the Hessian
ny in New Jersey.
A; $500 house. the paint used by the ladies' Of this
country for their faces would nearly twenty.
soven thousand houses
Rev. Dr. Robert TurnbulI, the widely known Bap.
tist clergy man, OF Hartford, Conn, Is very low and
cannot live many days.
Upright pianos becoming very fashionable, and
man doesn't have to knock out tho top OF
omon box to get q good scat
MIR. J. IL. DO Hegormann- Lii ndercrone, Danish
Minister q; Washington, arrived ut tho Albemars
Hotel yesterday IRON Boston.
No girl over shot herself because sho was In love
with Mark Twan.'-NEw YORK HERALD. Perhaps No
girl set her cap for him. SEQ the percussion f"-
L. c. Jour.
Tho Boston Advertiser editor likes only two at table
when goose is to DO caten-himself and the other
goose. Why not mako throc by inviting somo litte
duck to dino with you?
rhe newest German pianist who will visit London
Is Frau Thekia That Is kind
and q half octave name, don't itg
The Esdm'sscr, FREQ trsde organ says that y Just
because our proppcdup industries arc arnncinl that
the sudden adoption OF free trado would cause In
America widespread and prolonged misery.
Darlington Hdckeye.-" III, sagely remarks our good
brother Of tho NEw YogK HERALD II you lie about
man, you always think less oil yourself Not 80 much
less OF yourself as moro aboutthe man, especially II
you hear he is around asking for you with gaarlol
and rugged clubs