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National Republican., 1877-07-31

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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
81 Y. NJ. e. A.
HABBATH SERVICES.
orEN.ATR MEETING.
At SGioSk M Sosnsr seventh street and Penn
and Pennslvnnis avenue.
SHORT ADDRESSES ny YOUNG MEN.
oosFEG F9!iGTff GhsFrso x
LINCOLN HALF AT oyLocK.
EVERY DAY REASONING; OR THE sclENcE
OF INnuCTIvE LOGIC
BY REV GEORGE p. HAYS. D. D.,
President OF Washington and Jefferson College
i2mo Cloth. $50.
mail postage prepaid, on receipt of price.
CLAYTON, REMsEN q HArFELFINaER,
PUBLISHERS,
si, e,t sss Marke, street, Philadelphia Jy..
ss-NEwMANs SERMONS.
THE POPE fmiT6TToonAruEp" mT Il
For sale Eyerywhere Price: 10 cts le25tf
NEW ADvERTTsEMENrs.
SUMNER BOARD.
At rHE
HIGHLANDS.
SS %G sns C s the And Ohio
road and Old Toll gate road to Blhdensburg.
Apply at ouceto -
Jy3otf Highland Station, oriisdensburg Md.
CHEAP FUEL.
The cheapest and best fuel for cooking purposes in
warn. weather i, COKE II is also valuable i6r steam
% Of soS @ u hs .nsr% market %r " Md
strike OF the canni bOamen. II would he well for per
SSHs Se s 5S 'S.s fHS%sE;' GXs Gs
forty bushels. and SIS, nts Tor loSd Of tweniy:iys
bushels delivered anywhere within the city. lya.ir
O. T. THOMPSON
Jy25.im Corner OF Tenth street aud Louisiana ave.
TT T. oFFLEY & CO.,
fsss f9'1si Efsf!h eps iSsG%'kK
Firsi-ciass investment securities on hand for mme-
mediate delivery.
Gold and Government Bonds and District securI
ties, all issues aud denominations bought and sold
Highest rates allowed for called United States
Bonds either for cash or in exchange for other
rifles
Exchange bought and sold on all points, at home
and abr0ad lyHa
FOR THE LADIES.
SEWING MACHINES,
New white,
Now Improved Davis
| New Improved Wilson,
| Domestic,
Howe.
singer,
Wheeler 4 Wilson.
| Remington.
| SerOr,
McKENSEY 4 %,
m3sm ~ Ninth street northwest.
HALLET, DAVIS & co.
THE MEDAL OF HONOR AND CERTIFICATE
| OF DISTINCTION are awarded the HALLET,
DAVIS q co 's:GRAND UPRIGHT AND
SQUARE PIANOS.
II. L sUMNLE, Agent
ni NINTH STREET NORTHWEST.
PIANOS EXCHANGED
AND SOLD ON INsrALLMENrs
| AT
LOWEST CASH PRICES.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

SPECIAL NOTICES.
ss-MoNEY WANTED
Owing to the great demand for money. we offer to
sell within sixty days large collection OF
GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES,
DIAMOND AND OTHER soLIDooLD JEwELRY.
GUNS. REvoLvERs, &c, &C.,
At EXTRAORDINARY GREAT BARaAINs
Every article n,lly w,rrrnted nt
- Commission Brokers
jy3lf Corner Tenth and ID streets.
% POTOMAC INSTANCE COMPANY,
OffiCE. 5S lituH SrnENr,
GEpR1fTowS, y. G., July %, 1877.
n Thc n1ei me- ns OF &c siocSholdsrs for ,he ece
At % The Office OF the company on Monday the 9Th of
y s. ". H"H bGGRik f2if sSIGSH scpStaEyS w
RILLIARDs.sgAToN HALL.
- Corner Ninth aud u streets northwest
mnlctc hvet{sHHES {sG&EEDS us 'esS So fsvrrle,er
or .Is so ON EEsB!HlEI9s: EsB 5%EH {srSs s No
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Choice on palo,Inss Engraving. clromos, A.
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hiess ssssTERsis Thslsi ScA SGAsm, y ,ie DISTRICT
Please remember name and number. JccsU
ssoRIENTAL CREAM.
o,,aton 10 ns Drug 7Sode and Latte, Of he South.
non " p + oS Fes W GoarSds oriental Cream ns or
Magical Beantiher Is bcilig sent out at reduced
size, bottle, &c, ~ BY my late husband for The last
srS RsSSS''d oO"'O%fl %Tnpa RSsa Gsy HS @ their
s. sfSf hRpf Ss'' RSS
p 81 ns% ~ SsS Poodre
subtle ,.h po,,.. for .en9ySy Snpsrous hair dd ysse
~. ART LEssoNs.-IeSsons in drawing and oil
i3 Seventh and r streets or residence Of pu.
pils. Drawing, y, painting, " per month. y7.im
SO FRrIT JUICES ONLY ARE USED WITH
the soda water drawn from the steel fbunts at the
Temple Drug store. Iel
Sc SODA AND MINERAL WATERS ALWAYS
drawn rom steel founts. jeit
as- TRY THE ICE-COI.D ROOT BEER, AT
Coughlin's Temple Drug Store, Masonic Temple Ave
cents per glass, Jelt
.ss-FLuID LIGHTNING EXCELs ANY REM.
Headache. &C. Sold at Coushlins Temple Drug
Store. ociI
sS-HUMPHREY's SPECIFICS. PONDS EX.
tract, Homeopathic Medicines. sold at Temple Drug
store, Y and Ninth streets. selss-u
as.JusTTs PATENT tsTREI) SOLE AND
HEEL PROTECTORS make your shoes last twice as
Wsrs and BY he inventor 8s street @ norSwe S
CARD.
To nil who are suffering from the errors and indis-
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Station y: bible Honse New York city. ielp1m
National Republican., 1877-07-31

TONDEMNED.-BALSA COPAIBA IS CON.
~ demned and discarded heng not only worth.
less. but frequently Injurious II s disgusting In taste
and smell, and will disorder the sOundeSi stomach
and still the quacks the drug. SamarBn'- Gil Is
purely vegetable pleasant to take, and viii always
cure IN from two TO four days II Is the only known
medicine that can be depended on, thereby avoiding
exposure and trouble Male packages, ss female, 81
sold Al Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue and
by drnggsts
Jesiy W D. EHTwISLE.
National Republican., 1877-07-31

RAILROAD strikers should remember that
they assail the rights of the entire community
as well as those of the railroads when they
resort to unlawful violence. Their recent pr
ceodiugs injured millions of persons who arc
not stockholders in railroads, aud worst of all
the consequences of theiI folly will be fell
most by poor working people.
National Republican., 1877-07-31

IT HAS been discovered that DrS. kEESE
ard BLISS are guilty Of the heiuous crime of
being mail contractors while acting as mem.
bers Of the Board of Health. Now, ts the sal
aries OF these worthy gentlemen are but
u.eic pittancc as members Of the Board of
Health tho abSurdity of prohibiting them
f. um ~ u.aging in other business is too mani
T., n.r comment. Such fruirlcsN invcSliga.
ur. rnn ou!y bring the investigators into
.r ...5', %.
." ',n> NgI, u,tn can d"ubt hu, that the
tao H!'~tl -t'mrut inserted IN
.~n,r N.'I Nv attempted t.
- '. a,Ih thr' h'iirf that
IA. re- that the
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05
Improving the Streets.

The work of repaving some of the down.
town streets is progressing with commenda-
BILE speed, and, SO tar as the appropriation of
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
will 60, we shall find by the autumn de-
cided improvement in the lower part of the
city. The granite blocks are taking the
place of the wretched poultice and other
miserable pavements which have so long
stood as monuments of Ring rascality.
Nassau street, which has been in the most
deplorable condition, is on the point of I'M
dergoing a change, and will, when repaired,
be one of the most convenient thoroughfares
below the City Hall and a great relief to
Broadway. 1t is to be hoped that the taste of
reform this instalment of repairs will afford
may induce an earnest demand for suffi-
cient appropriation to put the whole of the
downtown streets into sproper order. The
real solution Of the difficulties under
which the commerce OF New York
now labors will be found in the
sufficient repair of all the business
streets, probably united with two or
three widenings in crowded thorough
fares. The main evils are the time con-
s,hned in the moving of goods and the high
rates of carriage These are consequent on
crowded thoroughfares and the wretched
condition of the streets, rendering it impos-
sible to escape blockades or to draw iull
loads without injury to the horses. With
good roads and with the main thorough
fares relieved thereby the carriage of goods
will be easier and cheaper.
While we are laying new pavements we
should be careful that the few old ones
now in good condition are not destroyed
by the gas companies and others, who tear
them up and relay them in q careless and
improper manner. We shall soon see Mas
sau street, which il one of the most inpor-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05
Our National Guard.

We call attention to an article published
elsewhere in this mornings HERALD which
treats fully and clearly on the present con-
dition of our National Guard and the re-
forms needed to render it thoroughly eff
cient force for the maintenance of public
safety. There is no reason whatever why
the several States of the Union should not
each have q thoroughly organized and well
equipped force of militia, under competent
officers, always ready to suppress internal
disorder, as we'll rs representing IN the ag-
gregate the broad foundation of grand
national army. As our article states, the
necessity for a militia force in each State
has been proved by the recent unfortunate
outbreak of workingmen in Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland and West Virginia, and
also in New York and New Jersey. In all
large populations there are elements OF dis
order which can only be kept under control
by strong repressive force. That this
force should represent the business and in
dustrial elements of the population is the
surest guarantee of public safety. Every
honest workingmsn, clerk and merchant
who enters the ranks of our National Guard
devotes himself to the maintenance Of order,
and should be encouraged by every possible
means. Unfortunately, through narrow
minded legislation and an improper con-
ception Of the value of our militia organiza-
tons as the protectors of life and property,
the men who voluntarily sacrifice their time
to this duty are not fairly dealt with. In
stead OF being encouraged by liberal
appropriation of funds almost the entire
burden of the expense Of maintaining the
militia is thrown on the officers and men.
The consequence is that good soldiers are
lost to the service of the State because they
cannot afford the double cost of membership
represented by their time and their money.
Important military commands are held by
wholly incompetent men, merely because
they can better afford to maintain them
selves than more deserving aspirants for
such positions. We have had q humiliating
evidence of this recently in Pennsylvania.
The recommendations embodied in our arti-
Gle deserve the serious consideration of the
authorities. They are based on experience,
and if adopted would tend to make our
National Guard real protection to the
community. AS far as New York State is
concerned we have magnificent material
wherewith to organize really effective
military force; but the incompetent and
the merely ornamental should be at once
weeded out, and none but the really eff
cient officers and men retained. Then, by
dealing in liberal spirit with these, they
would form substantial barrier against
disorder within or danger from without.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05

younger, but the Union Springs man should
hardly feel his age for several years yet.
The hesitation of Gulston and Labat to
face Courtney on the Schuylkill, actually
declining to row, although they had en-
tered, and both the acts and words of the
English professionals while here, all point
to the conclusion that Courtney could give
Trickett or any other oarsman alive terri
BILE race if not disastrous defeat And it
would be we'll that the race be rowed on
American waters. Hamill, it will be remem-
bered, went to England; SO did Walter
Brown when he beat the younger Sadler
and even though as matter of right Trickett
could properly insist that as he holds the
championship the aspirant who would take
it away must come to his country, still we
hope he will consider the much greater
number of oarsmen here than there who
would delight to view such contest, to say
nothing of those who would come from Eng
land and her provinces to share in the treat,
and that he will crafty them with a race on
New York waters. Now is Courtney's chance
to redeem his reputation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05

We are in receipt of two circulars, one
marked "Oiiicial document No G." which
purport to set forth the principles and OBJ
jects OF the "Independent Bread Winners
League" and of the "independent party"
organized by and acting under the auspices
of the said league" The principles are
death to all monopolies, labor to be pro-
vided for all by the government, money to
be issued by the government ad iib., rail-
ways to be under the control of the govern
ment and good time generally for all non
capitalists The Immediate objects are to
organize in Assembly districts, to hold a
mass meeting tor that purpose on August
Is at Cooper Institute, to elect men,
bers of the league to Office and to save the
country from bloodshed. In the addr So
the people are especially warned against
chronic office-seekers who are always want
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY AUGUST 187-oUADRUPLE SHEET

tant thoroughfares in the city, in good
condition. But no one can tell how soon 1T
will be torn up by some gas company, and
the stones thrown back again as carelessly
as recently in some parts of Broadway.
New York needs thorough change in
her street management. The Public Works
Department should be fully authorized to
do all relaying and repairs, and to collect
the cost of parties in whose interests the
pavements may be disturbed. The depart
ment should also have authority to select
what pavements shall be laid. so that 1t
might, if it deemed proper, macadamize
Fifth avenue or any other thoroughfare in
the city and keep it in proper repair. We
have sturdy pauper population in the
Almshouse, supported at the public ex-
pense, and there is no reason why they
should not be put to work at repairing the
streets as in European cities. 1t would save
money and it would drive away number
OF our chronic paupers
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05
The Professional Scullinx Champion
ship of the World.

While no professional sculler now in this
country has yet proved hims elf a thoroughly
first class man, and Faulkner, Regain and
even Plaisted, good as their record is, have
done nothing which looks as though either
could ever be justly so rated, there is strong
reason to think that Charles Courtney has
all the qualifications not only to so stand,
but even to prove the best man at the SOULS
who has ever arisen in this country. While
he has not yet openly entered the profess
sional field his course in allowing Riley to
hold the amateur championship so long un-
challenged, taken with his statement that
he will never row another race except for
money, leave little doubt as to where he will
hereafter probably be found. wise thing
for him to do just now would be to arrange q
match with the champion professional
sculler OF the world--Trickett, of Australia.
AT preseut-a thing not common in Eng
land--there is no especially good man there,
as Trickett found when he encountered Sad
Ter, and as Courtney himself learn ed when he
took Higgins measure 80 thoroughly ut the
Centennial races. Trickett, too, Is man
more after Courtney's own style-very tall,
well made, though not 30 well as he, and
quick tor 30 large a man. He is some years
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05
The Danube Campaign.

There cannot be less than three hundred
thousand Russians south Of the Danube. 1t
does not seem credible that the loss of seven
thousand men should paralyze the opera
tions in which these were engaged From
authority upon which we can depend we
know that there were only between thirty
five and forty thousand men engaged in the
sixty thousand not so engaged must be
able to take care of themselves wherever
they are. There is nothing in the actual
loss Of this battle that involves great evil to
the Russian cause, or from which they can
not readily recover Only the disclosure of
a fatal defeat in the whole plan OF opera
tions would be alarming. But no such de-
feat is proved. On the contrary, the
fact of the battle is susceptible of
quite another Interpretation. 1t may
be indeed accepted as an evidence
that the Russians were informed Of q
progressive concentration at that point and
hoped by vigorous blow to scatter this
force. With Mehemet Ali concentrating for
q blow near the Balkans and Osman Pacha
posted to operate simultaneously on the
lower end Of the Russian line, the Turkish
scheme of campaign was a dangerous
one for the invaders; and if they have
penetrated it and delivered blow in
anticipation it may prove wise movement
and not altogether unsuccessful in view of
its objects. In o short time we shall know if
any battle occurred simultaneously at
another point on the Russian line, and may
be able to contemplate this lost battle as
but one incident in comprehensive series
of operations.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05

The removal of the Forty-second Street
Reservoir will, no doubt be decided upon
very shortly, there being no longer any
necessity for it's continuance as an auxiliary
to the water supply of the city. The only
question to be decided is what to do with
the valuable ground it occupies, and this
ought not to take long to decide. A valua-
ton put on the lots, supposing it should be
sold for business purposes and Forty first
street should be opened through to Sixth
avenue, makes them, at present prices of
real estate, worth two million seven hun
dred and thirty-six thousand dollars. This
estimate is reliable one, as it has been
made by Chief Engineer Campbell, of the
Croton Department, competent authority.
But in good times the lots would
easily command five million dollars, and
in fifteen years time will no doubt be worth
more than that sum under the progress of
the metropolis. To sell the lots now would
not only be an act of folly, but would prob
ably afford the opportunity for q job in
which the city would as usual, be the suf-
ferer No person who can hold real estate
thinks of selling at this depressed time if
he can possibly hold on. The property
sold now is sold under foreclosure of mort
gage or because the owner cannot afford to
hold it. The city is not in this condition,
ard hence would not be justified in sacri-
fcing this very valuable property
The reservoir should be removed and the
ground it occupies thrown into Reservoir
square, making fine miniature park in
part of the city where it would
be of public advantage, and where
it would greatly enhance the value of the
surrounding property. We have not enough
squares and parks in the city, and now that
we can secure one which will not only cost
nothing but will increase the valuation of
property in the neighborhood, we should
not neglect the opportunity. The Commits
sioncr of Public Works strongly favors the
retention of the property and the construc-
ton of a park, and his recomm endations
should be promptly acted on by the Com
mon Council. There is no reason why we
should not have handsome flourishing park
next summer on the ground now occupied
by the reservoir, and the work of removing
the reservoir and constructing the park will
give employment to quite number of
laborers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05

TIE WEArnER.Thc area OF highest pressure
now extends over the lake region and the Upper
Mississippi Valley. In the Northeastern districts
the barometer is low, and quite deep dcpres-
sion is central III Nova Scotia. Another depres-
sion is central in Western Dakota. In the South
Atlantic, the Gulf and Southwestern States the
pressure is below the mean, but westward of
Kansas aud in Northwestern Texas the barome-
ter is high On the Pacific coast another de
preston has reached Oregon and will soon move
eastward into the Upper Missouri Valley. Light
rain has fallen Mt a few points in the Northeast,
the Gull States and west Of the Missouri. The
has risen in the Northwestern and
Southwestern districts, but has fallen elsewhere
High winds prevail along the Middle and North
Atlantic coasts and west of the Upper Missis-
sippi. attending the deprcssions The weather
in New York to-day will be cool and clear or
partly cloudy, with brisk northwe'terly to
uoatherly winds.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05

in proportion to the effectiveness of the
drainage. There may, of course, be thor
oughly healthy places where not dollar
has been spent on drains. That, of course,
is because the natural conduits of porous
soil do all that is required but where the
subsoil is rock or clay, and is conse-
quently impenetrable by water, this is
retained and poisons the atmosphere,
causing not only the commonly recog-
nized miasmatic Diseases but also
rheumatisms and neuralgias and ag-
gravating every form of zymotic disease.
There is scarcely any city built upon site
requiring artificial drainage but what some
provision is made for this in the budget of
city expenses but in our easy democratic
system seventy-fve per cent of this money is
stolen by the persons appointed to handle
it, and with the rest some pretentious
sewerage is provided for that proves utterly
inefficient. That is the condition of our
own city, whole districts being subject
to malarious poison, and the parts not thus
ravaged being made unhealthy by the re-
turn into the houses, by the pipes and
through the cellars, of sewer gas. There
are thousands of houses in this city in
which the rats commonly pass from the
sewer to the cellar, and by the passages thus
made deadly gases at all times find their
way and fill the houses. In these houses
there is always diphtheria. The rate of
mortality is exceptionally high here, but
with good drainage it would be as low as in
%ba haoltb;acf nit; as in, fba would
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05

GREAT RUSSIAN RoAD.-One of our CORE
spondents with the Russian army gives an inter
esting account of trip over the Caucasus,
which the Russian government has made "a COM
paratively easy matter by the construction OF
probably the finest military road in the world.
1t sometimes touches Oh the snow line, is
hard and smooth Us marble, and in every
sense one OF the great engineering works of the
century. Evidently Russia can teach some les
Sons TO the countries which sometimes sneer at
her MS seIni-civilizcd, if not barbarous.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05
Pulpit Topics To-Day.

With the incoming of August the few pastors
who have stood in the breach during the
last two months are dropping off to the
mountain or seaside resorts to snatch lit
tie respite and rest from labor and care.
Others, who have been away, are returning.
to their folds DR.. Talmage will be in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day, after having
been absent for several weeks. The Rev.
Mr.. Hull of the Tabernacle Baptist Church,
being absent his place will be filled to-day
by DR.. Holme, who, having enjoyed coun-
try rest, will describe its pleasurableness
and encourage his hearers to make
permanent investment in religion, which
is better than country real estate.
The Rev. J. E. Searles, vino has
been rusticating at Shelter Island, will
tell his people what is the true object
of life's labor, and the Rev. John Johns,
who has returned also from his vacation,
will offer something fresh, but not green, to
his church. The position and standing Of
that hodge-podge which calls itself the re-
ligion of humanity will be analysed and
criticised to-day by Mr.. Mccarthy, who will
show when and where religious retcence
should be practised. The difference be-
tween the professions and practices OF
Christians have often been noticed and
commented upon, and DR.. Wescott will
emphasize it again. Contention for the
faith will be encouraged by DR.. Osborn, and
the temperance cause will receive another
push to-day from Mrs. Evans-Peck and the
Temperance Union.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05

ing to live at the public crib, and corrupt
Judiciary, acting under the baneful lnhu-
ence of political parties And the call and
the address are signed by-John McCooi
and Albert Cardozo!
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-05

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Yes terday was
another dull day Oh the Stock Exchange, and
!he opening and closing prices of the principal
stocks were almost the same. Gold opened and
closed at 1852 selling in the meantime Mt
1855. Government bonds were firm, State
securities steady, while railroad bonds were
dull. Money Oh call was easy at 3 per cent,
closing at l u n 2 per cent.