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The New York herald., 1877-10-29
A DAUGHTERS CHOICE.

warrant was obtained from Justice Riley, of
Brooklyn, on Saturday last, by John Barrett white
man, for the arrest OF his daughter Mary on tho
charge of vagrancy. The accused, who is rather a
pretty grl OF seventeen years oil age was arrested
by officer Brady, OF the Thirteenth precinct,
aud taken TO court Mr. Barrett testified that
mands and had finally left the house Al the conciu
sion OF her fathers testimony Mary aughngly said
II wish that was the Almighty, then wouldn't pun.
ish youl, In reply TO tho charge Mary produced
from hcr pocket a marriage certificate, which set
forth that she had been duly married TO Payne Odol
Her husband lis negro, black as tho ace oi spades.
She was discharged from custody.
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
A TAX COLLECTORS COLLECTION.

David H. Crawford is the tax collector OF the Tontn
ward OF Newark. According to an affidavit made by
Mrs. Charles Gelb, Of No. los south Orange avenue,
that city, DAVID has been exercising insoence Of
Office which calls tor reDuke. MIRA Golb alleges
thai Crawford called at her house repeatedly in search
OF her brothern-aw, delinquent taxpayer. She told
Crawford that Jacob ielb did not live with her. but
elsewhere, giving him the address, Failing 10 find Gelb
there Crawford returned TO Mrs Gelb and demanded
that she pay tho amount due by him. This she re.
fused and finally, AS She avers Crawford forgot him.
self IN his fury and struck severe blow, knocking
her over against tho stove. She laid the complaint
before Justice Olto, who caused Crawford's arrcst
anu required him TO give bail to appear before tho
Grand Jury.
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
A SAILOR DROWNED.

Captain John Savage, fifty years Of ago. and master
Of the sloop Jane Notta, lying at tho foot OF
West Eleventh street, mysteriously disappeared on
the 26tn inst and traces OF HIM could be lound.
As he was known to have been intoxicated on that
day II was feared that he had fallen into the river
hcsc Tears were fully realized yesterday morning,
his BODY was iound noatlng In tho North Rvor,
where hts eloop was lying by two OF sloops hands
an examination was made oy the Coroner who ascer
tanned that death was caused by drowning and tho
body was sont 10 the Morgue
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
A YOUNG HOPEFUL.

August Baumgartncr, aged ten years, Of No. "a
Stockton street, was arrested yesterday In Williams
burg or stealing sll from his mother. Whom
searched at the station house old watch without
hands or handspring, brass cham and pocket
knife were all that was found TO represent the stolcn
money. few weeks ago the lad committed a bur
Rlarv tho vicinity, and was reeased tho parties
robbed by him would not prosecute him OF
his youth.
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
ITALIAN SUNDAY ADJUSTMENTS.

During controversy last night between Dettses,
about thirty years of age, Lethcha Careesa and
Franchi Paamaso, Italian laborors, Dettsos received
cut the loft temple with razor. The mon
lived Third avenue near 106th and l07th streets,
their residence at tho time the quarrel
took place The wounded man was attended by DR..
steenorl, who stated that the temporal artery was
severed.
Petro Paaricno and Giuseppe y Dcvillo got into dis
pute last evening in Newark, N. j., during which
Pctro stabbed Giuseppe six times IN the back Pala-
RENO then made good his escape His victims wounds
are said not TO be dangerous.
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
SUICIDE In A CEMETERY.

Tho body OF an unknown man was found yesterday
afternoon suspended by the mock from the limb Of a
tree In a secluded part Of Greenwood Cemetery Tho
deceased about sxty-avc years OF age There was
nohng found on the body by which could be deuti-
ned. IL was evidently case OF suicide
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
RUN OVER BY A STREET CAR.

James Slater, lad residing at No. 165 North Fourth
street, Williamsburg, was yesterday knocked down
and run over by car No. 277 Of the Graham avenue
line Tho wheels passed his right hip, decorating
IL 30 badly that no hopes OF bis recovery are cnier
tained The driver OF The car, William Auldoon was
arrested
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
NOT A CANDIDATE.

Tho delegates to the Kings County Republican
County Convention will be called reassembe during
the place In nomination a candidate their
tcYet in place of George A. Kingsland, the nominee
of that Convention for Supervisor-ai-Large who
determined not for the office Mr. KIngsland is
a member Of the Socumite Democratic General Com.
mittee.
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
A REMINDER OF HALE's FACTORY.

Some pieces of human flesh and few bones were
found yesterday among the ruins of Halcs factory,
Thirty-inh street and Tenth avenue 1t Is believed
that tho fragments are parts OF remains already
recovered.
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
RAID ON a HOUSE OF ILL-REPUTE.

The police radcd tho house No. ia ElIery street,
Williamsburg, yesterday morning. and arrested three
women and two men, who gave their names us Annie
Markoc, housokecper; Teresa McCauloy, Annie Wise,
James Jones and John Keller
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
ASSEMBLY NOMINATION.

Thomas Foley last evening received the ant-Tam
many nomination for Assembly from the FIRST dis
trict Of this city.
The New York herald., 1877-10-29
THE RESULT OF FREE TRADE.

startling illustration OF the extent to which for
cisn competition is undermining English labor is
gwen In the arrival of the steamer Cambria with
cargo which includes several hundred collins imported
from Norway, ready tor immediate use.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14
Foolish and Malicious.

The democrats in the House of Represent
tatives at Washington, by their committees,
have shown how foolish and how malicious
a political party can be. liz the matter of
the imprisonment of the members of the
Louisiana returning board, the House com
mittee has done that which is an outrage
upon the rights of citizens. These members
are committed for contempt, but in all such
cases the commitment is usually matter of
mere form. Not so in this case. These
men are subjected to an imprisonment in
the sub-basement of the capitol-a dark,
damp and unhealthy place. There is no
danger that they would run away the only
reason for this extraordinary proceeding is to
be found in the weak and wicked purpose
of the committee TO subject the members to
as much annoyance and ignominy as posi-
BILE. In the matter of the examination of ex-
Governor Wells, of Louisiana, and the exam.
ination of private bank accounts, the demo-
Gratis have gone the whole length of inso-
lence and usurpation. The intention in all
this will fail. Even the democrats possessed
of sense and manliness are ashamed of Field
and the way in which he has managed their
case, and more than ashamed of the abuse
of the returning board. Upon the public
mind, the effect will be to imprint the con-
viction that a party of such temper, and
such methods, is not party to be given the
government of the United States. Since
the democratic party passed into, and under,
the direct control Of Samuel j. Tilden, it
has not been strengthened in the allegiance
of its members, nor in the respect aud conf
dence of the people.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14
Important Point Gained.

In our Washington news will be found the
details of the first important decision of the
Electoral Commission. Speaking mildly, it
is eminently gratifying and inspiring to
Republicans. 1t is a clear, full and unms-
taxable sanction of the Republican position
and claims, and by tribunal that ought to
stop the mouths at least of all democratic
gainsayers. Not only does this decision sus-
tain and establish the sound principle upon
the immediate question at issue, but in its
indications IL gives strong assurance of the
final result. While it gives Florida to Hayes,
it means more. The order adopted is so
comprehensive in its terms, so direct in its
application to the other cases, that it points
with irresistible force to one conclusion.
The Commission decides that it cannot 90
behind the certificate of the state-in other
words, that the vote of the lawfully declared
electors is final and conclusive. II excludes
all evidence except that which is involved in
the certificates themselves and that which
relates to the eligibility of electors. Where
there are two papers purporting to be certi-
ficates, it simply inquiries which is the gen.
uine one. When the genuine certificate is
identified it is accepted and counted as the
vote of the state. All the testimony of the
Congressional committees goes for nothing.
All the INSCRIPTIONS and disgraceful efforts
of David Dudley Field are wasted. The
Commission respects ana follows the consti-
tutional principle that the state appoints the
electors, and it only asks what electors the
authorities of the states have declared ap-
pointed.
This decision practically settles Louisiana
as well as Florida in favor of Hayes, and
makes the Presidential contest, to all human
appearance, depend upon Oregon. The best
portion of the democrats, even, will refuse to
dirty their hands with the Tilden fraud in
Oregon, and so we are full of confidence in
the speedy and entirely favorable settlement
of the vexed question. But let us patiently
bide our time
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14
Advantage in Position.

Whatever may be the result of the Presi-
Dental question before the Electoral Com
mission, it appears that in respect to the
great legal and constitutional questions in
volved in the issue the attitude of the Re-
publican party is infinitely superior to that
which their opponents have been forced to
assume. The Republican position rests
upon the recognized structure of our politi
cal system and upon faithful observance
of the established division of powers be-
tween the states and the general govern
ment. The appointment of Presidential
electors devolves upon the states Each
state appoints its electors in such manner as
its legislature directs The whole control is
committed to its hands. 1t determines how
the electors shall be appointed and what
method shall be adopted of declaring who
are appointed. The electors derive their
title from the state under and by virtue of
the state law. When they have met and dis
charged their duty, the federal government
first acquires cognizance of it and accepts
the result-accepts it not for review, but as
the completed action of the state, represent
ing and embodying its voice and to be re-
ceived as such. If there be dispute-if
there be two rival bodies claiming to be cleo
tors-the simple question for Congress, and
for the Commission as its representative and
agent, is what was so concisely and accu-
rately defined by Judge Matthews: (which
set, by the actual declaration of the final au-
thority of the state charged with that duty,
has become entitled to and clothed by the
forms of law with actual incumbency and
possession of the office ?" In other words,
taking the case of Florida, which set were
duly declared elected by the canvassing board
established by the state laws for that pur-
pose2 When that question is answered the
whole case is decided.
The democratic position was in general
terms, that Congress could go behind the
returns. How far it could go, how it could
conduct its inquiry, what limits and boun-
diaries there were, the democratic attorneys
did not clearly define. Nor did they recog-
nize the respective functions and powers of
the state and general governments. Their
position, so far as they made any tangible
point, was entirely at war with the time
honored state rights doctrines of Jeffersonian
democracy. 1t is little less than amazing
that democrats like Thurman and Bavard
could urge the taking of alarger step toward
Capitalization and the utter destruction of
state rights, than has ever yet been taken
by any party, or even advocated by the
Father of Federalism.
The Republican position is firmly based
upon the constitution. 1t may or may not
be true that the certificates of the states
ought to be fnal it may or may not be true
that there ought to be power in the Federal
authority somewhere to review them; but
as matter of fact, under the constitution
as it stands they are conclusive. If it isn't
right, let us amend the constitution but
so long as it remains as it is, it must be
respected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14
Philadelphia Permanent Exposition.

The International Exhibition Company,
of Philadelphia, has made its first report,
from which IL appears that the enterprise
promises TO be great success. The com
pany has purchased tine huge Main Build
ing Of the Centennial managers and the
right for it to remain upon its present adj
mirable site, and designs to render IL attract
i've and satisfying for all corners by filling
IL with choice specimens of the goods, wares
and merchandise Of various nations of the
earth. And while it can never hope to be
the irresistible Main Building that it was
last year when all the world was at once ex-
hibitor and visitor, it will doubtless con-
tinue TO entertain and profit. The Centennial
organ will be placed in the centre of the
building, and in front there will be an audi
torium capable of seating eight thousand
persons. Extending from the south nave
will be the fine art department. and front
ing on the main nave the foreign courts,
each of which," says the report, twill be
formed by Enclosures erected in the style of
architecture peculiar to the respective coun-
tries, and will contain characteristic ex-
hibits. Similar articles of the same group
will be placed in juxtaposition, and each
group in either the nave, transept or one of
prominent cross avenues. There will be an
educational department showing all the
modern Improvements that have been ap.
piled to schools and that " department of
public comfort, which proved such boon to
those who attended the great show of last
year is to be revived. The Centennial Exposi-
ton was ga thing of beauty" and it is to
be hoped the attempt to make IL "a joy
forever" may justify the most confident an
ticipations of those who are engineering it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14

MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. - The
agricultural section of the Massachusetts
census has just been published. 1t shows
the farming interest in the old Bay State to
be in much more favorable condition than
is generally supposed, There is a decrease
in the production of barley corn, oats,
potatoes and wheat, but there is a greater
yield of these in proportion to the acreage
planted, and there is quite a decided in
crease in the production of beans, onions,
turnips and hay, and the much greater yield
per acre bears testimony to considerable
advance in the arts of husbandry. There are
forty-four thousand five hundred and forty
nine farms in the state, and of these forty
three thousand four hundred and ninety-five
are carried on by their owners; the farms
include three million four hundred and two
thousand three hundred aud sixty-eight
acres their total value is one hundred and
seventy-six million five hundred and seven.
ty-nine thousand nine hundred and sixty
five dollars There are thirty-fve thousand
four hundred and lightweight persons en-
ployed in agriculture; their wages during
1875 were five million six hundred thousand
nine hundred and nineteen dollars. A com
parison of the total products of the state for
1865 and 1873 shows gain of two hundred
and fifty.fve million six hundred and three
thousand two hundred and lightweight
dollars on gold basis, an increase of nearly
eighty.one per cent.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14
What our Churches Cost Us.

ScriJner for January contains an article
with the above title, in which various com.
PARSONS are made to prove the relative
cheapness of church work. We quote the
authors summing up; awe have found
that it costs less to carry on the average
church than the average business establish
ment; less for the subsistence of those who
perform the necessary service, and less for
their savings and accumuations; less to the
community, and less to the individual patron.
The church is worked more cheaply than
any self-supporting business, because it is
worked at no higher figure than the bare
cost, and more often at less than actual cost,
as a semi-charitabe institution, and to a
large part of our population a missionary
society. As dispassionately and dryly as
becomes the statement of statistical facts.
we have shown that no such pecuniary re.
turn is made on investments in an education
for the church as on investments regularly
made in other lines; that no such compen-
sation is granted by the wealthiest churches
to the ablest pastors as is commonly granted
by large secular corporations to those at
their head that service in the lyceum is
more highly paid than service in the church,
even where the same individual serves in
each; that concerts and theatres cost more
than churches; that various articles of
luxury, and even our very dogs, make a
larger figure in our expenses than the sub
sistence of the ministers of the churches,
and finally, that it costs Christians less to
support their religious institutions than it
anciently cost the Jews to support theirs,
and less than it now costs the heather to
support theirs"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14

WELL GUARDED-Thed democrats console
themselves by saying that should the com
mission refuse to go behind the certificates,
it will deprive Hayes of a vote in Oregon
and throw the election into the House. But
the Republican lawyers have not stepped
into the trap which Tilden's attorneys have
so cunningly baited for them, as they have
refused to assert or 10 admit that the certif-
icate of Governor Stearns was conclusive
of the right of the Florida electors. On the
contrary the Republican lawyers have dis
tinctly claimed that full force must only be
given to the certificate when there is no
other person present exhibiting better war
rant and showing by unmistakable evidence
that he is the legitimately chosen electoI:
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14

A Coon WAY.-Rev. f. F. Hale proposes
to solve the tramp problem in Massachusetts
by the issuance of circular from the Gov
ernor to the town authorities, urging them,
on day indicated, to arrest and prosecute
all Migrants in their jurisdiction the night
before The result, Mr.. Hale thinks, would
be that one thousand and five hundred lazy
loaiers would be at work the next day, and
from that time, for five years, there would
be no tramps in Massachusetts. The remedy
seems to be good one The tramp has a
prejudice against work, and would speedily
abandon state where his prejudices were
not respected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14

As WAS EXPECTED.-The majority re-
port of the House Louisiana committee on
the late canvass says, that the means by
which large number of colored votes were
secured for the democratic ticket at the late
election, were not such as can be rightly or
legally characterized as intimidation. They
were, when stripped of the false presentation
made Of them by the knavery of those who
are to profit by their scheme, no more than
such as are resorted to in all the cities and
states of the Union at every election in
which large public interest is elected. The
minority report declares that the result in
Louisiana was determined and promulgated
by the proper authorities under all the forms
of law that the returning board acted in
the spirit of the law creating it, and its de-
termination is final and that Congress has
no constitutional power to review the case
after the result has been officially declared.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14

WELL SAID.-That old conservative jour.
nal, the New York Evening Post, speaks thus
approvingy of the decision of the Electoral
Commission in respect to Florida "When
the passions of the hour have cooled and
when contemporary interests are forgotten,
we believe that many, even of those persons
who are now dissatisfied with the decision,
will rejoice at it. Whether an inquiry into
the election in Florida or Louisiana and a
review of the proceedings of local officers in
those states would have resulted in the cleo
ton of Hayes or Tilden is a doubtful ques-
ton; but there is no doubt that it would
have gone far to change the nature of our
government. Before the war nobody ever
hiuted at such an invasion of state rights as
would have been involved in a decision
different from that which has just been rem
dered. The measures of the war itself
which were most stoutly opposed were those
which seemed to be federal encroachment
upon state jurisdiction. Whatever excuse
for such encroachment existed in time of
war does not hold good in time of peace.
We believe that democrats like Thurman
and Bayard will yet rejoice that the country
has escaped great danger"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14

Coon lNDICATIoNs.--At the administra-
ton of the Lords Supper in connection with
the services of conservation of Trinity
church, Boston phillip Brooks, pastor), re-
Gently, an incident occurred illustrative of
the growing harmony among the clergy of
all denominations. Among the congregation
were Rev, Edward Everett Hale, Rev. Rufus
Ellis, Rev. James Freeman Clarke and other
Unitarian clergymen, who approached the
altar and received the holy communion at
the hands of the Episcopal bishops. 1t is
doubtful if such an occurrence was ever
witnessed before.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14

SPECIE REsUMPTIoN.-The premium on
gold is now so small that the country can
look the question of resumption fairly in the
face without fear. With balance of trade
in our favor of more than hundred mil.
lions in six months, a stationary bullion
movement, and our whole production of
precious metals accommodating on our hands
at the rate of ninety millions year, with
Unlimited credit at four per cent, and UNI
limited willingness on the part of the public
to surrender legal-tender notes for bonds
bearing that rate of interest, President
Grant is quite right in assuming that specie
payment is entirely within our grasp at any
time when we choose to offer the bonds.
The accumulation of gold to redeem three
hundred and sxty-five millions of dollars of
lega-tenders, the present volume of the
government dishonored obligations would
be quite task; but, with this amount re-
duced a hundred millions, or even fifty mil
lions, by the issue of a convertible bond, a
comparatively small body of gold would
suffice to redeem all that would be pre-
sented at given date. An outlay of four
millions of dollars for interest, and perhaps
less, is all that is now needed to bring the
currency and the country to "hard-pan in
the best sense of the word.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14

Biting A FLE,-Those judges of the
Supreme Court belonging to the Electoral
Commission and voting against the demo-
Gratis, have suddenly become politicians, and
have forfeited all claim to respect as i'm
partial judges. Hear the enraged New
York Sum "The fury of an honest and in
dignant popular opinion, rising, as it assur-
eddy will, like a whirlwind and storm, may
safely be trusted to drive the present nom
inal judges from their places upon the bench,
substituting a judiciary for that political
body"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-14

Too MUcH.-The Springfield Republican
graciously says "On the whole, il would
perhaps be well enough for Mrs. Hayes to
begin getting the household into shape for
an early moving. To be sure, it isn't yet
settled that they can get four years lease
of the White House, but the prospect is so
good that prudent housewife would run
the risk of little unnecessary work, the
next ten day, rather than be "hurried to
death " about packing up, the last of the
month";"