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The New York herald., 1879-09-29
SOCIALISTIC LABOR PARTY.
PLATFORM FOR MUNICIPAL REFORM IN BROOK.
LIN LAID DOWN BY CANDIDATE FOR STATE

PLATFORM FOR MUNICIPAL REFORM IN BROOK
LIN LAID DOWN By CANDIDATE FOR STATE
SENATOR.
Tho Central Committee of the Brooklyn section of
Of tho socialisc labor party recently nominated W.
Macdonald Wood. journalist, for State Senator
from the Fourth district. Mr.. Wood has written
letter Of acceptance to the committee LII his oom-
munication Mr.. Wood ssys:--'The socialistic labor
party claims that the present chaotic condition of
society is not and should not DO permanent that 1t
Is transitory period Of anarchy inevitable In tho
period of revolution from the old autocratic abso-
lutism where tho forces Of society were organized
for tho benefit OF few. to the coming reign
of law. when those forces shall be organized for the
benefit OF tho whole community. We believe that
1t pauperizos labor, handicaps virtue, puts pre-
mium on dishonesty and tends inevitably to widen
on,rnton ~, prodna,o ;,,, ,ni 4;
the euro for evils now deemed immovable,
and that such competition. to be effective.
must be organized OH large scale by the
people through the machinery of Legislation.
What has the wisdom OF the wiseacres--tne
practical mem who ridicule theories
achieved in Broaklyn? They have mortgaged tho
city with debt $37 100000 and burdened prop
erty with such heavy taxes that nearly twenty per
cont OF the annual levy each year remains unpaid
md cannot be collected, while public improve ments
needed to attract and retain population not DO
undertaken. Yet all the while few fortunate cit-
accum ulate enormous fortunes from franchises
which should be held and operated by tho city aud
from WHICH buncicnt revenue ould De collected to
clear of our debt and pay for necessary public works.
II your platform were enforced in practice the city
would own the gas works. as Philadelphia does; It
would own aud operate the ferries, as Boston owns
and operates the East Boston ferry; 1t would own
the railways. as Belgium. and, to y great extent.
France and Germany do; and the profits that now
swell the fortunes OF few favored stockh olders
would go into the municipal treasury to pay of the
debt. to extend our school system and provide for
the creation OF libraries, parks and other public
conveniencos. The cleaning OF streets would no
longer be tarmed out to ovcrgrown contractors nor
the labor OF convicts brought into competition with
honest industry"
The New York herald., 1879-09-29
FOREIGN NOTES.

Cabanc ami Hebert. painters. and Chapu, sculptor.
arc the French members of the jury who arc to
award the medals at the Munich Exhibition.
The Cluny Museum has lately received q number
OF pieces of pottery. vases, glassware, arms and
jewels found in q Gallo-Roman cemetery at Polc-
tiers, France.
dranct, the sculptor. has finished the odel Of his
statue of Montesquieu, to be erected at Bordeaux.
IL Is thought that the Duchess OF Colonna c. Mar
cellos bust of an Abyssinan chief will be placed in
the Luxembourg, AS the author desired.
lu addition to the loans of pictures by Raphael
from the Dresden aud Munich galleries. there
l36 reproductions OF originals. oil. water coors.
engraving and photography at the exhibition of his
works open in Dresden.
The New York herald., 1879-09-29

gave opinion this question quite different
from the conclusion to which arrived Yet did
not observe that they assailed as lawyers try
ing to make the best possible for client who
had retained them to do so. have doubt that
they expressed their honest beliefs without any bias
arising from retainer" fee that is paid he
labor and investigating question o, law
and writing opinion upon il is not retainer
in the "morals Of the profession"
Your obedient servant,
GEO 'rICKNOR rTRTJg
The New York herald., 1879-09-29
DISCORDANT wORKINGMEN.

meeting was held In Turtle Bay Park yesterday
by the members OF the national workingmen's party
to ratify the nominations made by q Convention
held in Glass Hall. East Thirtyfourth street. last
week The chair was takon by Mr.. Conroy and after
some spocchfnaking a resolution was proposed de-
nouncing Mcssrs. Scully and Sanderson for their
connection with the Workingmen's Central Union.
This resolution met with decided marks of disap-
proval and led to the breaking up Of the meeting in
some confusion.
The New York herald., 1879-09-29
STUDIO NOTES.

J. G. Brown after spending the early part of tho
summer at southampton. l.. l., made trip to
Moosehead Lake, Maine, in company with his pupil
Gilbert Gaul, from which they have just returned
With couple of Indian guides they canoed it up to
the head of the lake. traverseo the carry and went
down the branch of the Penobscot to Bangor.
Mr.. Brown made great number of pencil studies US
well 4 few oils. We note startlingly life-like
one of the latter Of amateur fisherman just about
TO land trout. called "a Four Founder, by Jove!"
one of Camp Cariboo"-a hunters shelter. an Ind
ian guide. basketmaking and q camp fire. Among
the southampton oil studies is one of young girl
telling fortune to lad seated in hammock with
her. At the latter place the artist secured material
for several beach which he intends to paint.
One will show lot Of children in the surf hanging
on to u safety rope.
arthur Quartey is again in his studio after sum.
mer spent at Cold Spring Harbor. Long Island.
where he found excellent material for studies in
pencil water colors and oil. Of which he has made q
large number. Vessels at dock. sloops sailing up
creeks whaleboats high and dry on the shore, rock
studies and bits or landscape the chief subjects
large view in oil OF the picturesque Laurelton
dock u fine little water color of an early morning
effect on the beach. and clam digging scene ara
especially noted.
Walter shIrlaw has brought back from Vermont
large quantity Of studies. of which number III pen
and ink really remarkable They are in tha
broadest possible manner and very effective. Ex.
tensive landscapes wood interiors through which
the sunlight sparkles and bits OF foreground study
have all been done in this medium A number Of
chicken outlines are inimitabe.
l.. L. Wilmarth is painting ''Peaches'-a pretty
young girl just in from the orchard emptying LOT
OF her prototypes from wicker basket to
table. The peaches are almost finished and are
markaby real. The figure promises well.
j. Alden Weir has painted portrait of j. w.
Twachtman which will attract attention. He is at
work or little girl and on . picture Of =
young lady III Louis XIV. costume reading out OF
doors.
f. $. Church has finished water color Of an old
street body used a chicken house at q squat
ters shanty i'll the upper part OF the city. with
glimpse of tho elevated railroad in the distance. He
has also executed several etchngs OF considerable
power. of which we note 'Sea Nymph" and "Ths
Fiddler Crab aboriginal conceit.
Frederick Dielman has returned to his studio from
q trip to Maryland.
william L. ODonovan, who will leave for Europe
at the end Of October for stay of several years Is
modelling relief portrait of his brother sculptor.
j. s. Hartley.
Carl Hirschberg has made during trip to vcr-
mont, number OF excellent pencil and charcoal
studies.
Constant Mayer has returned from abroad.
Percival de Luce is again in his studio, is F. A.
Silva.
John Lafarge has returned to town.
J. w. Twachtman has left on trip to Cincinnati
The New York herald., 1879-09-29

monthly exhibitions am. receptions Of the Leaguc.
which form such pleasant feature OF the art season.
The antique schools OF the National Academy OF
Design Will open the same day AZ the schools pr
the League. The life school viii open on III l5th
prox. There Will be morning and an evening"
class for gentlemen aud afternoon c'ass
ior ladies' the first and the last every DAY
in the week except Saturday and the second
on three evenings in the week Ihe SIX tch
class VIII meet every afternoon except saturday.
There is 4 probability of there being painting
class under the supervision of Daniel Huntington.
president OF the academy. Oil and water colors, as
well as erayons may however. also be used i'll the
studies IN tue antique and lie schools, when per-
mltted py the professor IN charge. Professor Wll.
inarth VIII remain in charge OF the schools.
On Wednesday, the lst prox., the Woman's Art
School OF the Cooper Union will reopen classes.
and, as usua will be in charge OF Mrs. Susan y.
Carter. X. Swain Clifford will continue as instruc-
tor in painting, Douglas Volk in drawing from the
antique and life, and j. Aden Weir OF tho afternoon
paying class in the same branches. The engraving
school will remain under the direction of Miss Cog
geshal. The schools all full. and there
some three hundred applicants waiting for
ces That admirable feature the class OF Industrial
design, will be continued under Miss Power.
The New York herald., 1879-09-29
JUDGE wEsTBRooK's DECISION.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD
Your structures this morning on Judge Westbrook
arc unfair. Judge Westbrook. who is very highly
esteemed by the Bar Of this city. Is holding Cham
bers for the present MONTH and the rules require
oil business belonging to Chambers to be brought
before him. In the OF the first application of
Mr.. Nichols, which made out of this depart
ment. it Is only fair say that Judges elected in
this district. by Tammany anti-rammsny votes,
would avoid IL possible being called upon. as their
fairness might be questioned. No convcrsant
with courts questions the integrity ability Of
Judge Wcstbrook, who is recognized the best
common law Judge we have. Yours,
GEORGE s. WILKES, Attorney.
The New York herald., 1879-09-29
muSKAcsY's "v1srT To THE nAny"


There has been added within a few DAYS to the
magnificent collection in the Stewart Gallery an i'm.
portant picture, by Michael Munkacsy. which
foreign critic who had seen both canvases, said
would cause surprise in the world OF art equal ia
that which the Milton" lsoon to reach New York.
has produced The of the picture is elegant
Partisan bedchamber furnished IN the most costly
and artistic in tho prevailing brc-a-brac
style OF the day. couple OF ladies have to
visit the young mother. and having congrstu-
lated her. stand looking at the baby, which the
smiling. pretty nurse his just taken from its
dainty cradle and holds in her arms for their
pectior The little fellow stares brayey into the
eyes OF the first of the visitors, who bends over
him, while her companion looks from behind and
waits for her turn to grow enthusiastic or 'the
finest baby" they have seen. This group is ad-
mirably composed. Leaning back in an arm chair.
shielded from draught by large screen, with her
siippered feet on cushion is the convalesccns
mother, smiling as she looks at the baby and its
courtiers. The dresses OF the visitors are very
tasteful and Parisienne of the best type while tho
Semii-nfgtige of the mother is rich and very artistic.
The effect Of light and shade is fine. the faces
Inarkaby individual and the spectator feels that he
has been privileged to have witnessed this charming
scene of ta re inae. The picture is some five feet
height. The price paid was some 75.oo0f 5,ooo.l
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06

A LEssoN.--After describing somewhat
in detail the great variety show which the
Rev. Murray has had on exhibition for the
last few years, an exchange concludes with
the following words of wisdom; And now
a catastrophe has overtaken him which con-
firms the public impression, shows his loose
and lawless methods and probably eclipses
all his usefulness and standing for the fu-
tuIe. His property is seized to satisfy pro-
tested notes and checks on empty or over
drawn accounts. The sheriff pounces on
his stock, while his wife looks on in distress
and he is hidden away, no one knows just
where, in the depths of his favorite North
Woods. His church went to disaster some
time ago. His newspaper, after varying
fortunes, is on the ragged edge of dissolu-
ton. His lectures are not quoted in the
market as they once were. And this cul-
minating misfortune looks very much as
though his course had been run. We are
sorry for it-sorry that he so misused a
great opportunity in his fresher days he
was unquestionably man Of real power and
capabilities. He has spoken words which
were worthy of any pulpit. Many of his
earlier efforts were strong, suggestive and
enkindling. They were the healthy, whole
some utterances of what seemed to be q
healthy mind and heart. Had that first
purity and strength been preserved from
deterioratiug influence, he might have lived
long, eminent and useful career. But
false currents entered, and we see the re-
suits. His large talents remain, and we
hope that, chastened and refined by his un
fortunate experience, they may still serve
him in good stead.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06

UNION BRIGADIERs.-The New York
Herald announces that the Republican out.
cry about rebel brigadiers in congress is
likely to have an effect which the politicians
who raised it little expected. 1t says the
cry has aroused the Union soldiers all over
the North, who ask themselves, "Wby not
Union brigadiers, too ?" General Wade
Hampton said in the senate, when some Re
publicans recounted the number of ex-con-
federate officers in that body, |" believe the
best and ablest men, North and South, en-
tered the armies and fought in the war. We
in the South are surely not to blame If we
send our best men TO congress. Why do
you of the North not send your soldiers,
tooY You ought to, but you do not, and it
is mistake that you leave them at home"
The Herald says General Hampton's opinion
finds echo in the meetings of the Grand
Army of the Republic. That body is not
partisan, but it cherishes the soldierly spirit
of comradeship. At meeting held at Ith-
AGA, Herald correspondent reports, while
the members differed in politics, there was a
unanimous determination TO require both
parties to select for public Office able men
from among those who distinguished them
selves in the war for the Union, aud feel.
ing that the politicians had better take
back seats for while.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06

In addition to the thirty odd thousand
dollars paid the Insane Asylum at Brattle-
boro annually, the state paid last year the
American Asylum for deaf and dumb at
Hartford, Connecticut, 90, 559.74; the Clark
Institution for deaf mutes at Northampton,
Massachusetts,, 1915; the Perkins Institute
for the blind, at Boston, $3.50, and the
Massachusetts, school for feeble minded and
idiotic children, at Boston, $3.50.
The above sums constitute the main items
of expenditure of the state for the past year.
They are well worthy Of study and intel
ligent criticism, to which we invite the at
tention of all.
But while our state finances are in the
main in a creditable, If not fattering, con-
dition, we must yet bear in mind that many
of our towns are burdened with load Of
local or municipal taxation, which is ex-
ceedingly grievous to be borne. II is there
fore only by the wisest and strictest econ
omy that we can expect to be prospered as
people and flourish as community.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06

THE REBELLION.-In recent converse.
ton General Longstreet is reported to have
said that the Southern armies were never so
well organized and disciplined as those of
the North that there was probably as much
courage in one army as in the other; that
individual bravery amounts to little in
battle, as men must be fought in solid
blocks, as parts of machine that at no
time during the war did he think the re-
bellion would succeed" that the sentiment
in favor of the Union and its flag was "quite
as strong and perhaps stronger than the feel
ing aroused in defending states and homes; !"
that Grant was the greatest federal general
and Johnston the greatest confederate leader
that Lee lost his head at Gettysburg or he
never would have fought the battle, and that
Lee asked him, after the war; Longstreet,
why didn't you stop that thing that day 2"
that the surrender at Appomattox came
none too soon, and that the last time he saw
Lee al said that before | drew my sword
again would be sure that it was necessary.
did not believe and do not now believe,
that the war was justified on either side.
1t is terrible thing and should be resorted
to only in absolute self defense-just as kill
ing in private life. Besides, had fought all
the time knowing that our plans were wrong
and believing that we could not succeed"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06

HARD TIMEs.-The north of England to-
day is strewn with wrecks. In June an auc-
tion sale took place at Gunnergate Hall,
Yorkshire, the magnificent residence Of Mr.
Vaughan, which was furnished in a style of
fabulous splendor. His father made vast
fortune out of iron, and the collapse of that
industry has ruined the son. The present
is fine time for persons having money to
invest ia the English manufacturing dis.
tricts, where houses can be purchased, with
their contents, for less than the bare frame
cost. Probably there has never been such a
change from afluence to penury since the
West Indian Emancipation act. Daring the
cotton trouble, while the working class suf-
fered heavily, to the manufacturer the
trouble was only temporary but in the case
of these iron people the prevalent feeling is
that the trade is gone.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06
Stick TO the Farm.

The United States steamship Minnesota
has been up the Hudson river on recruit
ing expedition. The physical statistics
gathered by the examining physicians pre-
sent some interesting facts, and plainly in
dictate where the bone and sinew Of the
country are TO be found. During the trip
two hundred and forty-four boys offered as
recruits, and out of this number one hun
dred and thirty-one were found to be phys
ically sound aud were accepted, while the
remaining one hundred and thirteen failed
TO pass examination. The rejected boys
came mainly from Albany, Troy and Co
hoes, where factory life and work on the
canal have impaired their physique and
brought on all sorts Of imperfections, includ-
ing varicose veins, which are remarkably
prevalent. The most perfect and strongest
lads were received at Newburg, Poughkeep-
sic and Rondout, where the boys are mainly
engaged in agricultural pursuits and are
brought up on farms. Not more than FIVE
per cent of the Albany, Troy and Cohoes
boys were accepted, against an average of
fifty per ceut from the other river towns.
It was also observable that color blindness
prevailed to great extent among the appli-
cants from up the river. This is fatal de-
feet in the navy, on account of the necessity
of sailors being able to distinguish the diff
ferent colors of the signal lamps carried by
vessels at sea in the night time. It is be-
lieved that several collisions which have oc.
Cured at sea have been occasioned by color
blindness in the pilot or lookout,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06

SERVED RIGHT.-The secret of Thur
mans prolonged stay in Canada has been re-
vealed, and it adds not little to the COM
plexity of the Democratic troubles. He
was written to to come home and inspire
his friends with something of zeal for Ewing,
but in letter to a Washington gentleman,
he unburdens himself as follows Z" have
no heart to work for General Ewing or the
party in Ohio this fall. Neither he nor his
friends have treated me and my friends in
any way except in such as is calculated to
humiliate us and drive us away from them.
Until General Ewing finds me to be some
thing more than an object to be openly
warred upon and secretly maligned, am
inclined to let him fight his own battles"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06

SUSPENSION BRIDGE.-The suspension
bridge at Niagara is grand piece of mech
anism which has stood the test of immense
strains day and night for twenty years. A
recent inspection results in the report that
there has been no loss of strength in the
cables, which have been kept carefully
coated with paint, applied in part by ap-
paratus constructed for the purpose. Roe
bling, the builder, it is presumed took a
hint from the spider before shooting his
line across the surging chasm. When John
Quincy Adams first looked upon Niagara he
is said to have exclaimed: "This was too
much for the possession of one nation in
the ordering of Providence it is divided be-
tween two" This beautiful thought is sug-
gested by the artistic wonder that spans the
flood a mile below
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06
State Income and Expenditure.

We present our readers this week with
the detailed statement of our state treasurer,
enumerating the various sources from which
our yearly revenue is derived and the various
channels through which il is distributed.
A careful study of this document discloses
the fact that in order to defray the expenses
of the state for the coming year the treasurer
has on hand, after paying the claims prop
erly chargeable to last years account, the
meager sum of scarcely thirty.fve thousand
dollars. To be sure, this sum may be in
creased by the early payment of the tax for
next year and by using this income for the
present years expenses, instead of APP
propriating it where it belongs, he may pos
sibly bridge over, and not be obliged to Dor
row very large sum of money during the
current year. But this is all wrong. A
state cannot be run without necessary and
unavoidable expense, and this penny-wise
and pound-foolish practice of anticipating
our revenues is not creditable to the state.
The main object of our representatives
SttDlS W bc, W pc hbio W ~ hDhhS wiz ~
form their constituents that they have re-
duced the state tax, and in this they glory
abundantly, not taking into consideration
that by so doing they are involving the state,
and really working against its best interests
The plain fact is that the amount Of cash
on hand will be entirely expended by the
first day of September, and the state will
be not only virtual but an actual borrower
for the coming eleven months to pay its nee
essary expenses. This was plainly told the
committee of ways and means at the last
session of the legislature but they entirely
disregarded the warning, and this is the re-
suit. A redeeming feature of this situation,
however, may be found in the fact that the
credit of the state is second to that of no
other in the Union, and money in any neces-
sary quantity can be readily procured at the
very lowest rate of interest.
Another pleasing fact is that our bonded
war debt with trifiing exception, not yet
presented for payment) is extiuguished. 1t
is paid, not refunded, or its obligation re-
newed. We doubt if any other state in the
Union can show so good and creditable a
financial record. The following is the treas
urer's statement:
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06

LONDON TRAvEL.-The rapid transit of
London is done underground. The lines of
the great Metropolitan railway run through
dark, damp, gloomy tunnels. The semi
annual meeting has recently been held, and
the reports present some interesting stats
tics. They show that in the half year just
closed the road carried nearly thirty millions
of passengers. There was decrease of one
hundred and thirty-two thousand in first
class passengers over the previous half year,
and of iorty-eight thousand in second class /;
but this deficiency was more than compen-
stated in the remarkable increase of five
hundred and forty-two thousand in third
class passengers. The daily number of
passengers is over twenty thousand more
than are carried on the three elevated roads
of New York. The capital of the London
road stands at l4,535,000, and its net rev.
enue has shown an increase of fifty per
cent in seven years. London clearly does a
great deal of travelling underground.