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The New York herald., 1877-01-22

YESTERDAYS SERMONS, reported elsewhere,
Dealt with many of the greatest topics Of reli-
Ious thought. Among their subjects were the
superiority Of love to fear; Christ as q witness
10 the truth; the necessity of new truth to re-
Hgious progress; the constituting of the sacred
records by the light of modern spiritual needs; I;
the earthly greatness of Christian manhood {;
the identical nature of wisdom and love, and the
relative exactness of science and revelation
The New York herald., 1877-01-22
NEW YoRK, MONDAY, JANUARY 90, 1877.
NOTICE 70 COUNTRY DEALERS.

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The New York herald., 1877-01-22

Why Do Foolish republican partisans de-
nounce the Electoral bill? Because they
want the republican President of the SEN
ate, by the exercise of doubtful power, to
count Hayes in even if he has not been
fairly elected. Why do reckless democratic
partisans denounce the Electoral bill? Be-
cause they want the democratic House of
Representatives. by o revolutionary pro-
ceeding, to declare Tilden President even if
he has been fairly defeated
The New York herald., 1877-01-22

THE MoDocs are going into agriculture in
the Indian Territory. We hope there will be no
delay in making the necessary appropriations for
implements, seeds, &c. We could bny each one
of them model farm, q handsome house and
grand piano with the usual purchase money Of
one dead ModOc.
The New York herald., 1877-01-22
KILLED ON THE RAILROAD.

BAxooR, Me-, Jan. z1, 1874
Hcrbcrt II. Young an employS OF the Maine Ceo-
trail Railroad, and killed BY shifting en-
CINE on Saturday afternoon
PORTLAND. Me-. Jan. N, 1871
Woodbury. B. Jackman, brakeman on the Crane
Trunk RAILWAY. fell between Two cars. was run over
and killed, near Oxford, on Saturday evening
The New York herald., 1877-01-22

Another RELIGIOUS SCARE.-Bismarck thinks
ne has discovered in France a monastic con-
spiracy to injure Germany. See our special de-
spatch
The New York herald., 1877-01-22

THE Low LIFE OF THE WORLD is not confined
to large cities. Under the head of "a Modern
Cain" one of our correspondents tells story rs
sickening in its details as any that has ever como
to light in the lowest haunts of the metropolis.
The New York herald., 1877-01-22

From reports this morning The probabilities
are that in Nc,o York today it ,cU be cold, fol-
otced by slightly ,rarmer and partly cloudy or
cloudy sreothcr
The New York herald., 1877-01-22
RESCUED TO DIE.

UTICA, N r., Jan. II, 1871.
Charles wooItver, who was buried In a qucksapd d
forty foot well, at Mohawk, n noon on Saturday,
was rescued at midniehL He was alive and apparently
we'll, but died within an hour and half and was
scious 10 the last He Icavcs widow and four chill.
dren
The New York herald., 1877-01-22
BOATHOUsE DESTROYED.

HANOVER, N. H., Jan. q, 1874
Tho boathouse OF the Dartmouth College Navy was
destroyed by heavy gale last night together with ~
contained boats shells and sculls Tho loss 10 esst
mated from e. 600 to &3 OOO
The New York herald., 1877-01-22
DEATH OF A VETERAN.

RyB BEACH. N. H., Jaa 81, 1877
Captain Richard H. Locke, veteran Of 1912 and one
OF the Dartmoor prisoners, died here yesterday.
The New York herald., 1877-01-22
Win ter in Europe.

Toward the close of last year the indica-
tions were so very marked that the winter
would prove exceptionally severe, both on
this continent and in Europe we took
occasion on December Is to predict such a
season in Europe and to give warning Of the
probability Of grave disasters from gales
and floods The violent storms that have
swept the British, French and Spanish
coasts since that date have caused an i'm
mense destruction of property and dis
tressing loss of life. We had previously
November 81 would be felt within week
on the British coast The details Of the
devastation produced by the gale that swept
over England and Ireland on December Q
gave all the evidence necessary to verify our
predictions. Again, on December 20 we
announced that the storm then moving over
Nova Scotia would reach the coast of Eu-
rope on the 4th of January. Our dispatches
duly informed us that the storm centre,
with a pressure of only 2S SO inches, ar
rived exactly on January and caused inn
mense destruction Of fixed and floating
property throughout and around England
and in Northern France We cite these in
stances in order to show that our announce
ment Of severe winter in Europe was
based upon careful observation of the con-
ditions and indications on this side of the
Atlantic. and verified by similar observa-
tions on the other.
Besides the losses sustained along the
coasts by heavy gales the crops have suffered
from floods caused by extraordinary falls of
rain and snow in northern and middle Eu-
rope, the latter form of precipitation prevail
ing in the mountainous regions of the Py-
renees and Vosges Mountains, the Alps and
over the watershed of the Upper Rhine and
Danube. Already the effect of the satura-
ton of the soil on the hillsides Of Central
Europe is being manifested by landslides
and other disturbances. That on the rail-
road line between Trieste and Vienna, near
Steinbruck, in Styria, has not only over
whelmed the railroad and some dwelling
houses, but also damned the river Save, into
whose bed was precipitated an enormous
mass of earth and rock When the thaw which
frequently follows severe weather and heavy
SHOWS sets in We may expect to learn Of o
repetition of the foods in the Danube,
the Rhine and the Rhone, with the accom-
panying devastation of the valley lands and
villages.
The New York herald., 1877-01-22

AN HONEST, INTELLIGENT TRIBUNAL is all that
IL desired by men confident in the justice Of their
cause. If Hayes is legally elected an upright tr-
bunal will declare; if Tilden is elected such q
tribunal will declare that Which is more likely
to decide corrcctly--a commission composed of
Htteen eminent statesmen and jursts sworn TO do
Justice and acting under sense of responsibility
or the extravagant, oiice-seekng brigade on
both sides. who noisily asseverate that their own
candidate is surely elected and ready to fight
for his inauguration
The New York herald., 1877-01-22

The PRESS OF THE COUNTRY takes interest
in but one topicthe all-absorbing question
of the Electoral Commission This great
measure Of peace and justice is warmly
approved by oil the independent journals,
and nearly all whose constituency consists
largely of the business classes--the mer-
chants. bankers and manufacturers--who
are anxious for cessation of strife and
revival Of business. The journals which
seek TO live by pandering to party passions
like the new Washington Union and the
Washington RepabHcan-are infuriate in
their hostility, as are also one or two jour-
nails in this city which ought to be more
considerats. Certain it is that the business
classes and the iaboring classes are
nearly unanimous In favor Of the pro-
posed commission, and that they will
not follow any journal which is so reckless
as to oppose it. The surcst way for any
newspaper published in a commercial COM
munity to ALLEVIATE and disgust its readers is
by partisan opposition to their wishes and
interests
The New York herald., 1877-01-22

OUR ABSTRACT of Rev. Fred Bells sermon in
defence of the stage should be read by those
who are unsparng in their condemnation of all
things theatrical. The stage has its faults, and
some of them are of grave nature, but they
will remain unchanged by the criticisms Of the
religious public while those criticisms exhibit a
deplorable ignorance of the real status of the
stage and while the efforts of conscientious man.
ayers go entirely unnoticed by those who should
be the first to recognize and commend them.
The New York herald., 1877-01-22

held it would still be competent for Con-
gress to prescribe the method he should fol-
low and provide the agents through which
he should act This is true Of oil
powers vested in all officers, even
the powers of the President himself The
constitution declares in explicit language
that "the executive power shall be vested in
President, but Congress creates executive
departments, prescribes the duties of their
heads, and the President can exercise his
power only according TO law. The Presi-
dent is commander-in-chief of the army;
but he can exercise this power only accord
ing to Law. Wherever the power to count
the votes is lodged Congress is competent to
regulate it in virtue Of its broad and ex-
.plicit authority ''to make all laws necessary
and proper" for executing call powers vested
by this constitution in the government of
the United States or any department or off,
Ger thereof"
The New York herald., 1877-01-22

''ONLY THE BUSINESS MEN Of the country
favor the Electoral bill" is the cry of the
politicians, land they do SO because they
think is will benefit the industrial and
trading interests" Well are not the ''in-
dustrial and trading interests" little more
important than the question as to which set
Of partisans shall enjoy the fat Offices Of the
government for the next four years
The New York herald., 1877-01-22
Power OF tho vic. President.

It is o rule to which there has never been
an exception that the Vice President or
President pro tempore of the Senate, always
acts under the direction Of the two
houses Of Congress when the electoral
votes are counted in their presence.
There has never been an instance when
they did not fix the place of meeting,
never an instance when they did not appoint
tellers, nor when the tellers did not count
the votes. The President of the Senate
has never counted them on any oc-
casion, but has always Immediately
on opening the certificates handed them
to the tellers. He has never declined to
entertain nm objection offered by a men,
Der of either House, and has never assumed
to decide any question connected with the
correctness of any certificate or the validity
of any electoral VOTE Congress has always
those rules have always been followed by
the President of the Senate. So far as any
record, certificate or document asserts that
the Vice President counted the electoral
votes, it asserts what was not true in fact.
The very form of the certificate which was fol-
lowed for SO long period was drawn up and
prescribed by the Senate and signed by the
Vice President in obedience to its direction.
Had Congress prescribed any other form he
would have signed it with equal readiness.
Those who claim on the strength OF that
form that he did presumptively. though not
q Ill H. A.
admit that, in legal intendment. the count
ing by others under the direction of Con-
gress was the act of the Vice President. But
If this is all they mean the claim they make
for the President Of the Senate is futile. If
the acts done by the tellers under the direc-
ton of Congress were his acts then the
decisions made by the electoral tribunal
in pursuance Of law Of Congress
will be also his decisions It really
makes little difference what power Is
claimed for him or denied to him so long
as Congress prescribes the mode Of its exer-
else and selects its own agents to conduct
every part of the process save the mere open
ing the certificates. The truth is that this
is the only thing that the constitution
requires or permits HIM to do. 1.-The votes
shall then be counted"-by whom? The
constitution does not say; but it does say,
Congress shall have power to make all
laws necessary and proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing powers, and oil
other powers vested by this constitution in
the government of the United States, or in
any department or Office thereof"
The PRESS or THE COUNTRY takes interest
in but one topic-tle all-absorbing question
of the Electoral Commission. This great
The New York herald., 1877-01-22
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

A4MUDEMEN y ~ NIUllls
LvCEUM NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF VEyicx
Park THEArgE.-Lxp AsrgAY.
FIFTH AVENUE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
wALLACK's ruEATRE-ALL FOR HKa
BROADWAY THEATRE--UScLX Tors CAB,K.
UNION SQUARE THEArRE.-Miss MuLrox.
NIBLos GARDEE.--AnouNp rHR WORLD
BOwERy THEArRE.-TBx Two OwrHASa
GRAND OPERA HoUsE..-MAS wiyA
GERMAN1A THEATRE--DKR AcgIxysuD,Krk.
THEATRE CoNIQuE--yAEisrr.
TONY PASTORS THEATRE. .-NAnrrr.
TIvoLI rHEATRE-vARKrr.
EAGLE rHEArRE.-vARIxry
sAN FRANCISCO MINsTHELS
KELLY Icons MINsrRELS
NEW YORK AQUARIUM
uELLER's ATRE.-PRxsrIprGnArox
EGYPTIAN HALL-sENsAroSAL VARIETY.
GILMORE's GARDEN.-GRASp EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL
PARTISAN VARIETIES
NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM.
COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE.-vAMxry.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-11

WASTE OF LAND.-If O farm of 160
acres is divided by fences into fields Of
ten acres each, there are five miles of
fences. II each fence now is one rod
wide, 10 less than ten acres of land are
occupied by them. This is equal to six
and one-fourth per cent. of the farm, and
the loss of the use OF the land is exactly
equal to a charge of six and one-fourth
per cent. on the whole value of the farm.
But nearly every fence row in the coun-
try is made a nursery FOR weeds which
stock the whole farm, and make an i'm
plense amount of labor necessary to keep
them from snothering the crops. Much
damage always results to the crops from
these weeds, and if these expenses are
added to the first one, the whole VIII
easily sum up to twenty per cent. or a
tax Of one-hfth Of the value Of the farm.
10 remedy this we would have fewer
fences, OF we would clean and SOW down
the fence rows to grass or clover. and
NOW them twice q year. Ten acres of
clover or timothy would at least supply
a farm with seed and a few tons of hay
every wear. We would in short consid-
er the rows as q valuable part of the
farm. and use them as such.-Eir.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-11

A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Times tells a story about a Cossack Cap
tain, of magnificent physique, who sat
down to dinner with him at q decent
Servian table a. hOte. His ample dress
hid a splendid small sword as sharp as a
razor, a revolver with sixteen chambers,
and two others of smaller size. lie had
two formidable knives, Is and Is inches
long, and bitterly regretted not having
his rifle with him. Asked the use of the
knives, he laughed, and said : "Why,
to be sure, to scalp the Turks we never
take Turk alive. I have five hundred
Cossaclzs, every one has knives, and every
Turk will be scalped." His views on
matters generally were equally singular.
He pitied Turkey, which, he said, they
would overrun in fortnight, and spoke
scornfuliy Of Germany, saying that when
Russia had done with Turkey she would
invite France to divide Germany between
them. The Cossack Captain was quite
in earnest, and was evidently an intelli-
gent man, speaking English and French
duently.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-11

No MORE WAR FOR Us.-Ihe Atianta
(Ga.) Constitution says: The war talk
we see in the newspapers is not refresh
ing Tt makes us shudder. There is
something 50 sanguinary in the spect-
acle of consumptive editor, with his
shirt collar cut low in the neck, and his
pantaloons calling loudly for reform,
squatting himself upon his eloquent
launches and firing offimaginary horse
pistols, that we inyoluntariiy desire to
retreat to the rear. Not that we are
opposed to war-not at ali; but if there
is to be war, we want the patriots of the
north and west to have it out among
themselves. The south has been crush
ed in the struggle, and the northern
democrats have stood by and watched
the crushing process with infinitely
more curiosity than interest. Howbeit
the turn of the wheel has brought them
face to face with the same deadly ele
ments of despotism. If they submit,
well. If they resist, they must fight on
their side of the line.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-11

IL New York a new method has been
devised for loading vessels with cotton,
by which it is claimed at least one-fourth
more cotton can be packed in vessels
hold than heretofore. The cotton is
first pressed in a compressing machine,
and bound with iron bands, as is usual
with all cotton cargoes. The bales are
then put into the ship, side by side, and
pressed longitudinally into their places
by patent hydraulic machine. They
thus get a pressure both ways, and it is
this second pressure that makes this
saving of room. The entire cotton car
go thus forms compact mass in the
hold, and its weight is proportionately
SO much greater than ordinary cotton
cargoes that the necessity for ballasting
the ship is obviated.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-11
CHRISTMAS IN NORWAY.

The great festival of the year in Nor
way, as among all Germanic nations, is
Christmas. Whether it owes all its sanct-
ity to its association with the birth of
| the Savioris, however, an open question;
for many customs still kept alive in the
remoter valleys seem to point beyond
the beginning of the Christian era, to
the time when the Norsemen ate horse
flesh in honor Of Odin and Thor and
Frey. The festival, as the retaining of
the old name indicates, is as Jet strange
ly tinctured with reminiscence Of the old
pagan Yule. Tracing the character of
Christ and his apostels as they appear
IN many popular 91earche1e and legends,
the conclusion lies near that the people
have, consciously or not, transferred
much that was dear to them in the old
gods to the new deity, and thus, by
sort Of compromise between the old faith
and the new, have produced divine
type which is, at all events, sufficiently
national to appeal strongly to their Morse
hearts. This Matchmaking of ones di-
virity is, OF course, not peculiar to Nor
way it Wonld have been more singular
if Norway had shown no trace CT It,
The preparations for the Yule- tide, in
the way of provisioning the house, would,
to American eyes, look perfectly enor-
nous. Baking and brewing and butch
ering keep the whole household busy
during the last three weeks preceding
the festival. And the fact that the pro-
cess is repeated year after yearprobably
proves that it is necessary. Every man,
woman, or child who comes within
stones throw of the house during the
holidays (Which last until q week after
New-Year) must be invited IL and urg-
ed to eat and drink without regard for
comfort. Even the birds are to have
their share of the Christmas Joy. AS
soon Is the ciiurch-beus have s.rung in
the feast at five O'Clock in the afternoon
Of Christmas Eve, the father of The
house takes his richest sheaf Of oats or
barley and attaches it to the end OF
pole, which is nailed to the gable of the
barns, or the tore-houses. The moth
er and the children stand by enjoying
the sight OF the happy birds futtering
around the sheaf, while the father viii
perhaps quote the passage about Gods
care even for the sparrow; wherefore it
is right that the sparrow too should re-
ioice on the day when Christ was born.
Among the many evening visitors
which are sure to drop in to taste the
Christmas brew, some are apt to be dis
guised by grotesque masks, and other
wise Enthusiastically accontared These
are called Yule-bucks, possibly because
the most common mask may have been
that OF goat or some other horned
creature. At present [ DO not know that
any special kind of disguise is preferred.
The rule seems to be, the more grotes-
que, the better.
The German custom of having poor
children wander about on Christmas
Eve, carrying q large lighted star of
canvas, representing the star of Beth
lehem, prevails also in Norway. No
one can hear their shrill, tiny voices in
the snow under his window, singing the
dear familiar carols, and refuse them
their well earned penny.-,Scri6neq for
.JQ?25GTu
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-11
STEINBERGER' sNIILLIoNDoLLARCL CLAIM.

5TEINBERGER' DOLLAR CLAIM.
The Baltimore Sun says: The ex-premier
Of Samoa, A. B. Steinberger, writes to
friend in Baltimore that he expects to
reap rich bonanza from his recent ad-
versities and experiences on board an
English man-of-war. He was kidnapped
at Samoa and placed on board the vessel
by Capt. Stevens, her commander, at the
instance of his political opponents on
the island, where revolution was III
progress, and Was held in irons for forty
days, and finally put on the FIJI islands,
with no wardrobe but that carried on his
back. He made friendly among the na-
tives. and procured q vessel, which was
dispatched to Samoa, and returned with
some OF his effects. He worked his way
to one of the British provinces, and Sc
cured passage to London, where he is
now staying. He has claim for q mil
lion of dollars against the British gov
ernment and Capt. Stevens for spiriting
him away. He says the justice Of his
claim has been admitted by prominent
lawyers and leading members of parlia-
ment.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-11

was momentary pause another ember
fell, and L recognized the PROSTATE form
of the girl of the stone mission. She
crept closer when her head touched the
face of Grey, and there was a sound as
| ii lips touched in q fervent kiss. Then q
knife cleaned, and I heard the thongs
that bound the captive snap as the liga-
ments separated.
He was as free as air. Another flash
from The almost dead embers, and saw
two brawny arms twined round the neck
Of the strange girl, whose head was nest
led in the desperado's bosom. Only a
moment, and he stood butkling belt,
containing pistol and knife, around his
waist He lifted his saddle and blankets
from the ground, and soon the tall out
law and the strange girl faded in the
darkness that enveloped the camp.
Morning, sober and staid, came on,
and one by one the Texans arose from
their blankets, and as they stretched
their drowsy limbs they mechanically
looked for Grey.
He had fed
They swore loud and deep, and gal
loped to the mission and aroused its
sleeping inmates but they could give
no information in relation to the outlaw.
Next they visited the abode OF the girl
Of the mission. Her room was entered,
but it was found empty. ~
'sWe must give up the search" said
Haskell the little tigress turned him
loose. He is armed and will fight like q
demon beside he is many miles on his
way to the Nueces. This is bad work
for u.s. Tie latter sentence he mutter-
ed in low tones, as if dreaming of the
future.
The rangers left me at the mission,
and one month from the night of Nus
tang Grey's escape [ was again in Vic
toria on the Gaudaloupe, where / learn
ed that the girl was the daughter of Grey
and that she inherited all the ferce traits
of her father. =
That eyentful night she rode in the
gloom in the direction Of the Rio Gran
de, the route to which wild stream she
knew as well as any frontier scout.
While the conflict ragged between the
United States and Mexico, Mustang
Grey proved himself Of service as scout
and carrier in the American service, and
] II l. L. -,
wound and died at Puebla.
The history of the child is unknown,
as she faded from sight and memory OF
men, as she sunk into the darkness OF
the night when she and her father fled
from the old mission.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-11

THE recent journey of Mr.. Giles across
Australia shows that a large portion of
that continent is exceedingly arid and
desolate. He went from the western
coast far into the interior, through a re-
gion which he describes as can open
spinifex sandhiIl DESERT" and thence
southwark to the British colony of South
Australia. Cannels were used as bag
gage animals, and there WAS one march
of ten days on which 10 water was met
with. When they first entered on the
desert many of the camels were poisoned
by eating a plant believed to be new to
botanical science, and at all events diff
fering from the position plants in the
settled districts Of Western Australia.
The weather of the past Australian win
ter (our summer) was very cold, and the
expedition recorded minimum temper
ature of IS degrees daily for many weeks.