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Year: 1878

Moore was sitting in his Office one
afternoon, some years ago, when
farmer friend came in and said: Mr..
Moore, | like your paper, but times
are so hard that | cannot pa for it,


rs that so friend Jones? | am very
sorry TO hear that you are so poor; if
you are so hard run | will give you
my paper"


"0h, no! can't take it as a gift"


"Wcll, then, let's see how we can
fix it. Yon raise chickens, ! believer


ayes, few, but they don't bring
anything hardly


Don't they? Neither does my pa
per cost anything hardly. Now I
have proposition TO make to you.
will continue your paper, and when
You 90 home you may select from the
lot one chicken and cali her mine.
Take good care of her and bring me
the proceeds. whether in eggs or
and we will call it square"


"All right, Mr. Moore" and the poor
fellow chuckled at what he thought
capital bargain. He kept the contract
strictly, and at the end of the year
found that he had paid four prices for
his paper. He often tells the Joke him
self and says he never had the face to
say that he was too poor to take pa
per from that day.
Year: 1878

WHENEVER we have met Charles
'0'Conor in our walks he bad his eyes
cast down, very slightly swinging his
body, sometimes his necktie awry, his
general appearance suggestive OF men
tai abstraction. He wears his hat
like Greeley always did, tipped back
ward, giving room for the brain to
beat in his rounded, handsome FORE
head His chirography is as neat, as
precise, as strongly characteristic as
to details, the forming of a letter,
proper placing of paragraph, punctu-
alton, as poe's. When 0'Conor strikes
cut a word in his manuscript it is i'm
possible TO read it, owing to the care
with which obliteration was made.
He is almost intuitive in his Judgment
of people, and despiSes all shams, vnl.
garity and falsehood with an earnest
ness that leaves him apparently isola-
ted in IN atmosphere Of individuality
peculiarly his own The bound vol
umes of the cases IN which he has iig-
ured will form a small library Dan
bury news.
Year: 1878

Hon. O. Jacobs has introduced


a bill in Congress to review the
cause of the removal of Major
G. o. Haller from the army, in


the early part of the war. Upon


the report of some irresponsible
person of words said to be used


by Major Haller at a dinner
table, Mr.. Stanton, then Secre-
tary Of War, arbitrarily struck
his name from the army roll,
without notice or investigation,
and though positively denying
the charge upon which he was
removed, and repeatedly asking
for trial, no hearing has ever
been granted him from that time
to the present, and for fifteen
years he has been forced to rest
under the imputation of having
been removed from the army
for cause, represented as disloy-
atty to the Government. No
ukase of the Emperor Of Russia
could have been more tyranlcal
or unjust. Now, after these
long years of unmerited odium
upon a faithful citizen and officer
it is time that some measures
should be taken for his vindica-
tion. Had Mr.. Stanton been
Secretary Of War when Jeffer-
SON c. Davis was in command
of Alaska, he, too, would have
been stricken from the army
roll. Charges were preferred
against him in the most specific
form, and the Secretary of War
was about to take action IN the
matter, when it turned out that
the man making the charges
was lunatic. The same man il
now in the Oregon Insane Asy'
lum. The charges against Major
Haller were no better supported
Year: 1878

and clrcumstantial evidence in
advance of Judicial lnvestiga-
ton. Jacob Hoover may be
guilty of the crime with which
he is charged; but if he is, We
shall never be convinced Of the
fact on any Of the testimony
heretofore presented against
the evidence of a life heretofore
above suspicion.
Year: 1878

years, always stood upon clearly
defined and plainly expressed
political principles, which are
now scattered among all parties
and carried out by none. When
we find a party organized upon,
and consistently adhering to,
those old principles, it will have
our enthusiastic support, as in
the past, regardless of personal
or local considerations.
Year: 1878

Six weeks or more ago, we
were shocked and grieved to
SEQ in a public print, a specific
charge of felony against Hon.
Jacob Hoover, a man thereto
fore above suspicion, who from
his youth to mature manhood
all of which had been passed in
Oregon and Washington Terri
tery-borc himself free from re-
proach among his associates and
neighbors. Twice had he been
elected a member of the Terri
torial Council in a district in
which the party opposed to him
politically had a large majority,
and as a referee, trustee and in
other positions Of confidence
and trust, his services were in
frequent demand by persons of
all parties. We were disabled
from making any comments up
on this remarkable matter at the
time, and refer to it now not for
the purpose passing judgment
upon Mr.. Hoover's guilt or in
nocence, but to deprecate the
manner in which the character
Of a heretofore reputable citizen
has been held up to public odium
upon mere rumor and suspicion
of interested parties, without
judicial arraignment Or investi-
CATION.


The charge of forging county
warrants, Systematically and ha-
bitually, was first published by
Mr.. Cook, who had been defeat
ed by Mr.. Hoover as a candi-
date for the Council, previous to
any arrest or preliminary exam
ination; and was predicated upon
statements made by an ex-Treas-
urer who had been reme yed
from Office by order of Court for
deficiency in his accounts, and
by his bondsmen, who sought to
account for the defalcation; both
interested in shifting their res
possibility upon other shoulders.
Mr.. Hoover had been dealing in
county orders, and it was stated
that he had changed the figures
upon many orders to the aggre-
gate amount of the deficiency of
the defaulting Treasurer. If
the affairs of the Treasurer's
office had been conducted in a
business manner, such a fraud
might have occurred IN a single
instance without immediate de-
lection; but that it should be
practiced scores, if not hundreds
Of times, upon the same officer,
is as incredible as that a deposit
tor should swlndle a bank by
altering the figures in his bank
book and upon certificates of
deposit repea tedly, without de-
lection. The sole authority for
this charge against Mr.. Hoover
is a detaulting Treasurer and
one of his bondsmen, and its
publication is due to a defeated
political rival. Until after the
publication no complaint was
filed in the courts and no arrest
made, and then only at the in
stance of Mr.. Hoover himself
who appeared before Justice
of the Peace and gave bonds
for his appearance before the
Grand Jury at the next term of
the Court, without the lnterven
ton of any prosecution on the
part Of the Territory. While
, these facts are not conclusive Of
the innocence Of thel accused,
they at least demand a suspen-
sion Of judgment as to his guilt,
and place IN no enviable light
those who undertook to blacken
his character by specific charges
Year: 1878

tuo ACSISldIuIo udu uCtcItulucu
to organize a fizzls in this mat
ter, they could not have hit up.
on plan that would have come
nearer accomplishing the object.
The haste was uncalled for, un-
necessary, and well calulated to
defeat admission on the score
of requisite population, when a
years delay would tend to di-
minish that objection. A spo-
cial election for that object alone,
at the most busy season for far
mers and loggers, could but re-
suit in greatly diminished vote.
With what hope of success can
we 60 before Congress with a
Constitution formed by a conven-
tion showing representation of
less votes than some of the
wards in the larger cities. A
population of 45, 900 in this Ter
ritory should show 5000. votes.
If the election should show only
5000 votes it would very ma
terially detract from our chances
for admission. Nevada, admit
ted on a population no greater
than the present population Of
Washington Territory, gave a
popular vote Of 16,420 at the
first general election after its ad-
mission. Unless we can make
a showing approximating to
that, We can have but little hope
of profting by the extreme case
of the admission of Nevada as a
precedent. Another device to
take the selection of candidates
out of the hands of the people
and centralize the control of the
Convention, was to limit the
number to fifteen Delegates
mere burlesque upon popular
representation in the formation
of basis of government-and
distrlcting them in such manner
as to necessitate the holding of
twenty-slx conventions to give
both parties a chance: two for
the Territory at Large, two for
each of the nine Council Dis
tricts, and six for the Judicial
Districts. 1t is safe to say that
not one voter in twenty took
part in the formation Of these
conventions; the whole matter
l
being left in the hands of few
professional politicians. A Con-
vention Of not less than forty
membership smallest number
that ever formed a Constitution
for a State-elected from each
political subdivision of the Ter
ritory, at general election,
would have had the features at
least ofa popular representative
body, which are totally want
ing in the present attempt.


Under all these adverse cir
cumstances the chances are
against the formation Of such
Constitution as the people have
a right to demand, or the admis-
sion of the State as early as it
would have been if a more rea
sonable policy had been adopted
by the Legislature. Success
now will be buta lucky accident,
at which we will be much graft
fed. Every citizen is bound to
make the best he can out of the
present opportunities, and if we
succeed in getting an acceptable
Constitution and an early ad-
mission to the Union as State
we will all have abundant cause
to rejoice.


The candidates to be voted for
in this Judicial District are as
follows:


County Of King-L. B. An
Year: 1878

In his admirable speech at Saratoga SEN
ator CoNKLING called attention to the
growing power of the South In Congress
and to the fact that OF the forty committees
Of the House of Representatives the chair
manships of twenty-three are already held
by -Coniedcrates. He might have added
that ou nearly all of the most important
committees cx-Confederatcs were not only
given the chairmanships, but the commit,
tees were so constituted otherwise that these
gentlemen controlled the action in each case


They thus shaped the legislation of Con,
gress. And it should not be forgotten that
the committees were constituted as they
Year: 1878

THE speech of Secretary ScHURz shows
him politically and financially to be q party
unto himself On the question of finance
he differs with the Republican, the Demo.
CRITIC, and the Greenback party. He is al
variance with the Republicans for the rca
sou that he antagonizcs silver and is fol
the gold unit. He is not Democratic fol
the reason that it is soft and he Is intensely
hard, and finally he has no sympathy with
the Greenbaekers in any degree. Politi'
cally lie is not partisan to any apparent ex'
tent
Year: 1878

IT is now definitely ascertained by whom
the removal Of General SPEAR from the
Office of Commissioner of Patents was nc.
complished. 1t had been surmised that the
resignation of that officer was superindrccd
by an insinuating note from the Secretary
of the Interior; but it turns out, unless the
facts are misreprescnted, that the Post-erioI
knew it first, knew it all the time, and was
at the bottom of the foul conspiracy thai
eventuated in the resignation of o capable
public officer. COLUMBUS thought he dis
covered America, aud history has credited
him with the achievement, but it may turn
out that we arc indebted to tie Post-criol
for that boon.
Year: 1878

THE reelection of Congressman DIBRELL,
Of Tennessee, is urged on the ground that
he has done 50 much for his people. 1t is
further said that he represents one Of the
most intelligent and discriminating con-
stituencies in the United States. 1t is
doubtful whether any great number of the
people of the United States would ever
have known that there was such man as
DTBRELL in Congress if it had not been for
the recent announcement that his son had
pleaded guilty to the crime of Illicit distilla-
ton, coupled with the fact that the Con-
gresham did all he was capable of doing
to defeat Commissioner RAUM's efforts to
punish Illicit distillation. If the majority
of the people in his district have the intel
ligence and discrimination that is claimed
for them they will want to be represented
by some one who can do more than defend
illicit distillers.
Year: 1878

The ouly Democrats who can consistently
claim 10 Je isinal Greenbackes are
those-a very comprehensive number-who
compelled the Government to resort TO the
auti-Democratic policy OF issuing paper
money by the aid they gave to the rebellion.
II it hAd not been for their treason, there
would have been no grcenbacks, and they
opposed their issue simply because they
knew they would be used TO overcome their
treason.
Year: 1878

THE South teaches one political lesson
which the North ought to learn and profit by
That is, they send to Congress men who
represent their views and ideas, no matter
how erroneous, false, and unpatriotic those
views and opinions may be. In pursuance
of this plan they are nominating the men
who were prominent in the late Confederacy
No one else stands ghost of a chance among
the Southern Democrats. A Southern rep
resentative must he Southern in everything
The Northern Democrats, on the other hand
put up men to aid the South in her political
schemes. He who can exhibit most sub
serviency to his Southern masters is the
most acceptable to the Northern Democracy
The people of the North should see to it that
men 20 to Congress who will represent theii


interests, and who will not be tools to bt
used by the Southerner.
Year: 1878

THE contest in the second district
Of West Virginia is waxing warm
and the four candidates are using
their best exertions to secure votes. The
present prospect is that if the two Green
hackers hold their forces we'll In hand to the
hour of trial, rs they draw much more
largely from the Democrats than they do
from the Republicans, Colonel BURR will
be elected BY a handsome plurality. This
Is the present surface indication, but the
Republicans must put their best foot for
ward, and remit no effort from this time
until the election il they would win.
Year: 1878

From tue New York Observer.


The fact that many of the daily


papers arc engaged in discussing the
doctrines Of the churches, is not to be
looked upon fasorablY. 1t is n novel


field for them to enter upon, ahd the
result can DO beneficial neither to
morality nor religion. The subjects
brought uuder review are grave, re.
condi,e, and solemn. They relate to
immortality, to a life Of happiness or
misery beyond the grave, and they fall
within that line Of investigation which
is best pursued within tho privacy Of u
mans own heart, home aud conscience
The tlippaucy and coarse wit which
often characterize their treatment in
tue daily papers, bring down the mos,
mOmentus questions to tho level of the
news Of the day, Of broken banks aud
defaultiug brokers, Of the markets and
police reports, and they tend to pro-
mote carelessncss 10 investigation and
Indifference to the truth, 1t is not
paramount question whether the com.
mon ideas Of heaven or hell are cor
rect. whether Mr. Beecher is, or is not
consistent with his teachings, but it is
Of very great Importance that Christian.
ity, Of whatever class or color, shall
not be brought into contempt and DO
risiou. 1t is not tho province Of the
newspaper to discuss theological dog
mas. The mind Of tho ordinary writer
Of the press is not trained to the con.
siicration Of such subjects, and while
in doing so be can by nc possibility do
good be can very easily work great
deal Of mischief.
Year: 1878

-Nssth sAOAesoj SetA


Marancy Hughes was married in
September last to a person who was
known as Samuel M. Pollard. Her
relatives opposed the match, and
she eleped and was married with
out their knowledge, and q short
time after their sasaEgiage Pollard
confessed to her that she was a wo
man, that she had tseuble with her
relatives in the East, had lost her
property, and assumed the disguise
of a man for the reason that ave.
iaues for making money would be
open to her in that character which
would he closed to her ais a woman.
Pollard has never given her any
particular reason for doing her this
great wrong, but is believed to have
been actuated by a foolish pride i'm
appearing as a married man. The
victim was ashamed to acknowledge
that she had been so imposed upon,
and shrunk from admitting the
truth. Pollard, without actually
threatening her life, repeatedly in
timated that it would he bad for
her If she exposed her, and SO she
kept silence until q fortnight ago,
when her aunt got an intimation OF
the fact, and questioned herclosely,
and she related to her the whole
story. The victim says that tho
woman's real name is Sarah M. Pol
lard, and that her trunk is filed
with feminine apparel. A COM
plant was filed yesterday by J. g.
Howerton, accusiag Pollard Of per
jury in swearing, when he took ont
the marriage license, that he was q
male. R
Year: 1878

attention was drawn to the mon. he called in County
Physician Converse, and the latter, after examining
him, ordered his immediate removal to the hospital.
he had been In the institution only Tow days when
he died. No onslknew anything OF him except that he
bad been lodging at the house OF Mrs. Bowen.
Bergen plank road. and belonged somewhere Iili-
nois. Toe body was kep at the hospital for a day and
then consigned 10 grave In the Polters Field The
police authorizes have not yet mado any inQu uiry
concerning his family or relatives.
Year: 1878

The following is the weekly statement of the canal
collector at this port, showing the total quantity Of
east-bOund freight arriving here by canal from No
yembCr 30 to 80, inclusive
Year: 1878

A THREATENED STRIKE FOR AN INCREASE OF WAGES.


There has been a feeling of discomfort
among the journeymen plas;erers of this city and
Brooklyn for several months account Of a
reduction in wages. Until the beginning of the
last Winter plasterers received 50 so per day,
aud workmen skilled in ornamental plastering received
So and 50 so per day scarcity Of work brought down
the prices to 81 per day. Many plasterers left the city
search of employ men and unsuccessful. Dur
ing the Winter many pasterers glad TO get work
Sl so ans. 81 25 per day Although many buildings
are now going up. there has been increase of pas
tercrs' wages. Many wOrkmen complain that they are
unable procure the necessities OF life with the pay that
they receive.


About month ago. the Manhattan Lodge
OF Operative Plastcrers OF this city resolved
increase of wages. The uniform of So so per
day named the lowest to be received by the
bers of the organization, who directed to refuse
work unless their terms were complied with. The
Brooklyn plasterers adopted similar resolutions April
fixed as the day for making the demand for in
Of pay. 1t well known that there many
houses building which the contractors had promised
have ready ior occupation by May l. and II believed
that the need OF pasteiers during the present month
would great enough to make the demand for higher
successful strike among the plasterers at
time seemed probable Yesterday, movement toward
strike could be discovered None Of the plasterers left
work. although their demand for increase Of pay has
not been granted Some prominent members Of the
Manhattan Lodge said, yesterday, that strike would
probably occur unless some advance made In the
wages OF the paserers who they said able to get
steady employment only during portion OF the year.
said the oniy organization OF piasterers IN this city,
and at one time numbered about LOO members Two
years the organization broke up on account OF the
dcfacation OF OF It's 0ncers but III had Deen reOr
ganizcd and now had about 700 members. There viii
be meeting OF the organization at No. 1876 B0wery to-
morrow evening. The Brooklyn plasterers Will have
meeting this evening They have already requested the
psserers of this city seek work In BROOKLYN in
the ovent Of strike there.
Year: 1878

Mayor Howell sent to the Brooklyn Alder
men yesterday four veto messages The first expressed
his dsapprova OF the resolution In the minutes of March
49, which added TO the regular minutes Of March IL
the proceedings after President Fisher declared the
Board adjourned. The Mayor said that the Board was
properly adjourned. and that the proceedings of the
secondary meeting could form part Of the lawful
regular minutes. This veto referred to the special
committee appointed to consider similar veto message
at an expense exceeding $3.50, monument over the
grave Of James Donon, " ho lost his lie in attempting
to save that of Miss Emma Barnes, who over
and killed by train the Atlantic Avenue Railroad.
Mr. H0wels reason for this action Is that the Common
erection OF monuments He feels sure that the citizens
OF Brooklyn will not leave Donlons grave without
suitable memorial. The other vetoes had reference To


the lighting Of street lamps and the remission Of certain
assessments.
Year: 1878

Henry Hoffman, a child eight years old, on
his way school. Jumped the platform Of car Of
the Hudson River Railroad to steal ride from
Thiry-ninthst to Forry-fourth-st According to his
story the conductor kicked him of and he fell so that
the passed his right leg TIE court below dis
missed the complaint. The Superior Court General Tern
reyerses the judgment. holding that though the boy
was "A trespasser. had right Remove
him reckessy to impcr his life aud limb, and the
question whether he acting in pursuit OF his
patton or nacousy should been submitted 10 tho
iurv
Year: 1878


Oh Father, while hero through life's desert


stray,


With the rays of the sun beating hot or my way:
While the sand of the desert is scorchiug and


dry.


Lead me to the Rock that is higher than IL
Lead me to the Rock; in its shade would rest
When weary of travel, forlorn and oppressed.
To its shelter I'd haste to its refuge would fly-
Lead me to the Rock that is higher than L.
And then. though the clouds gather thick DER


my head,
And darkness cnvelops the path tread.
Then, Father. when darkness and tempests are


nigh.


Lead me to the Rock that is higher than t.
Lead me to the Rock that was smitten to show
Where the cool. living waters forever do flow !;
Let me there quench my thirst in that stream


flowing by
Lead me to the Rock. Shat. is higher than t.
Yes. there let me hide in the cleft of the Rock /;
No trouble peril NV spirit can shock.
There safe let me rest till the storm passes by,
Lead me to the Rock that is higher than.I."
And oh when my journey is ended at last;
The desert gone over, the wilderness past;
Even then. though DEATHS billaws be raging


and high,
Lead me to the Rock that is higher ihan II


-Lt!hsrGn O5scrrtr.
Year: 1878

= Il is said that SO acute is the sleeps
sense of hearing that she can distinguish the
cry Of her own lamb among as many as a
thousand others all bleating at the same
time and the lamb, too, is able to recog-
nize its mothers voice even though it be in
the midst Of large flock.