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Year: 1877

We begin to despair of any action by this
Congress on the important Message Of Presi-
dent Grant. The counting of the electoral
votes so monopolizes attention and interest,
and is consuming so much time, that it will
be difficult to get the appropriation bills
through previous to the final adjournment
on the Sd of March. Night sessions will be
necessary for this purpose during the short
residue of time after the Presidential
question is decided. There are good
reasons for thinking. however, that
even under existing legislation early
resumption is practicable if the
new administration should be courageous
enough to make the attempt The Secre-
tary of the Treasury has full power, under
and half per cent bonds at not less than
par in coin which may be necessary for re-
deeming the greenbacks. The four and a
half per cent bonds are slightly above par,
and it is contended, with considerable
show of reason, that he could dispose of
them for greenbacks provided the green
backs were taken at their coin value. What
the President recommended was a law
authorizing their exchange for four
per cent bonds without regard to
the premium on gold. 1t would
answer almost equally well to take them at
their gold value in exchange for four and a
half per cent bonds. This would. indeed,
swell the interest account somewhat. but
not to any large extent. because very mod
crate withdrawal of greenbacks would bring
them to par The withdrawal of fifty mill
ions would probably suffice, and half
of one per cent interest on that
amount would be bagatelle in
comparison with the incalculable ad-
vantages of sound currency. But it is
useless to discuss the subject in detail at
present for the outgoing Secretary of the
Treasury cannot be expected to take the
subject in hand. But when the new admin.
istration comes into power it will be its
duty to examine it's powers under the Re.
sumption act and determine whether it can.
not restore the currency to the specie stand
ard without new legislation.
Year: 1877

The story that fair woman was found
once great deal of curiosity in minds other
wise careless, and aroused intense and tender
feeling among people who are society's true
Jewels. The continuance of the mystery
which enshrouds the case will greatly stim-
ulate the wonder Of the one and the SEN
sibility of the other class allnded to. Even
vulgar curiosity must unconsciously merge
itself in sentiments more noble as the known
facts of the case make their mute appeal to
human sympathies. The mystery of death
is great enough under ordinary circum-
stances, greater when man is found dead
without apparent cause, but greatest when
womanhood, youth and beauty become the
prey of fate or crime. More touching and
pathetic than the circumstances of her dis
covery and condition is the fact that the
dead woman remains unrecognized and
apparently unsought. This truth speaks vol
umes about the isolation and the friendless-
ness which in large cities may betall even
persons who by nature are attractive It
seems impossible that the case can remain a
mystery. Ordinary means of Identification,
particularly that of photography, will ulti-
mately bring about solution of the puzzle
but until then poor humanity will tempo
rarily rise superior to itself through the
exercise of those sentiments which are
always brought into action by sorrow and
misfortune, no matter what the cause may be-
Year: 1877

EX-SENATOR CREAMER's LETTER to Comptroller
Kelly is full of startling revelations about mat
tcrs which have long excited suspicion hut
which appear of greater magnitude when con
slensed into cold figures. The natural question
is. What are we going to do about it 1t is pity
that the answer cannot be given that the az
crieved villas very cheaply they might-organ-
ixe a private detective force to bring the Of
fouslcrs tp justice.
Year: 1877

HINT TO REFoRMERs.-The complaints
against the management of the Westchester
PoOrhouse were not sustained examination,
yet the committee say in their report that the
investigation will have tendency to improve
the conduct of the institution
Year: 1877

The EMMA NINE BUBBLE like everything else
connected with that famous hole in the ground
is tough. 1t outlasted fifty-two days of legal
abuse before its friends were enabled to take it
n fharue
Year: 1877

WHAT Has BEEN DONE AT CREEDMOOR.-The
report qf the General Inspector of Rifle Practice
shows increased efficiency of the militia marks
men to the extent of three hundred and fifty per
cont
Year: 1877

PEOPLES LANTERN.
Each style being the best of its class in the market
Catalogues of Lanterns and Slides, with direC-
tions for using. sent on application.


Any enterprising man can make money with q
Magic Lantern.


Ca Visitors to the Centennial Exposition will do
wisely to defer purchasing goods in our line unit
they come to our stores in New York. whore they
will find greater variety and more moderate prices
and can select more at their leisure. But We have
concession to sell some styles OF our goods ia tn'
building of the Department of Public Comfort, anC
those not coming TO New York invited to call
our representation there.


ga fall stock of Views of the Exposition Build
ing and their contents.
June %, Tome
Year: 1877

A BEAR FIGHr-The Cologne Gazette
contains an account of combat which
took place in the Geological Gardens
of that city between two Polar bears.
These two bears had been brought
from Spitzberg five years ago, and had
been placed in large pit, with tank
in the center. Until within the last
few days they had remained upon ex-
cellent terms with each other, but last
week a quarrel occurred between
them, the result of which was that
the female bear took refuge upon the
summit of a large rock in the corner
Of the pit. The male did not attempt
to follow her, and she remained there
three days, when, pressed by hunger,
she descended again. AS soon as the
male bear saw her, he Immediately
rushed at her aud attacked her with
his forepaws The keepers attempted
to separate them, and belabored the
male with heavy iron bars, but the
bones in the head of the Polar bear
are SO much harder than those of the
ordinary bear that these blows took
no effect The male bear continued to
wreak vengeance upon his compan-
ion, and, after having almost torn her
body into ribbons, he dragged her to
the bottom of the tank and held her
there until he felt assured that all
signs of life was extinct. He then
brought her body back to the floor Of
the pit and dragged it round the floor
for nearly ar hour After this he with
drew into his sleeping den to rest from
his labors, and the keepers at once


closed the iron bars upon him. Hav-
ling examined the body of the dead


bear, they found that it had received
more than a hundred wounds. The
neck and head were crushed almost to
a jelly, and the flesh was hanging in
strips from the back and sides. Dur
ing the whole combat neither of the
bears uttered a cry or sound of any
kind
Year: 1877

How often we hear persons say there
Is no great loss without some small gain.
We are prompted to the thought from
the fact that we hear so many people say
at this time, Somebody must be compeli-
ed to suffer a loss, while the public are in
so great degree the gamers, through the
immense sacrifice being made in the
great assignee sale of clothing now-tak-
ing place at the store No. 76 Woodward
avenue. We are liable to forget that
brains and hands have toiled long hours,
and perhaps years, ambitious for success
and distinction in q business point OF
view, and there in that store is being sac
rificed the fruits of life's labor in order
(it may be) to satisfy creditors, and pay
honest claims. But selfish human nature
says 1t Is a blessing to the many, while
but perhaps q single individual suffers,
and the anxious thr0ng rush in and carry
away the well made garments at tithe
OF what they cost to manufacture them,
and the public sentiment says that Mr..
Smith becomes public benefactor by
bringing the great sale iuto our midst just
at this season, and oh how opportune.
Since the goods are in the market, we ad-
wise all who need to go and secure the
bargains. We feel we are doing no in
justice when we step in and procure an
OvercOat, business or Sunday suit.
Year: 1877

All readers will admit that thorough.
bred bulls frequently produce from
common native COWS grades that make
milkers superior even to thoroughbred
COWS. Our farmers should not be sat
isIied to keep inferior cows that are q
source OF constant loss.


A remedy for choking cattle is OPP
portube about this time when they
are more than usually exposed to the
danger OF getting an apple, potato or
small turnip stuck In the gullet. A
certain remedy Is said to be to open
the mouth Of the choking animal and
throw upon its tongue, away back, a
tablespoonful Of saltpetre, then letting
the beast go, and the obstacle will
either pass out or In In very short
time.


The season sales of shorthorns In
England indicate q strong feeling In
favor Of this branch Of stock raising.
The Farmer, speaking Of the sales Of
shorthorns by Hon. M. III. Cochrane,
rom Canada In August, says: "The
sale resulted In quite sensational pri-
ees, and throughout proved that there
stlll continues q great demand for
shorthorns Of certain fashionable
strains" The average for 81 COWS and
calves at Mr.. Cochrane's sale was E42O,
and Of eight bulls 400. ~.


Celery can be perfectly kept during
the winter In trenches; in fact, have
often taken 1t out In fine condition
while spading up my garden forspring
planting. But 1t Is often not 30 con-
venient to get at IL in the middle of
winter, with the surface Of the ground
as hard as adamant. A much more
convenient way of storing q small
quantity is as follows: Knock out
both heads of a barrel, and sink 1t about
three-quarters in the ground, vertical
ly; lift the celery carefully, and place
1t In the barrel In an upright position,
packing the roots as closely together
as possible. Draw up the earth In q
bank around the outside Of the one
fourth of the barrel that is above
ground, to keep out frost; throw little
light litter over the celery, and in
crease the covering of litter as the cold
weather increases. Finally, before
snow falls, put over the whole any
convenient covering Of boards, old
carpet, oil-clOth, ETC., to keep out snow
and rain. In midwinter It will be
found very easy matter to go out,
lift your board or carpet, pull out
hahdfull or two Of the litter free from
snow or ice), take up what celery you
wish, and replace the litter and cover
ing. A barrel will hold from 80 to rs
plants.
Year: 1877

We learn wisdom from our failures
much more than from success. We
often discover what will do by finding
out what will not do and probably he
who never made a mistake never
made discovery. Horne Tooke used
to say of his studies in intellectual
philos ophy, that he had become all the
better acquainted with the country
through having had the good luck to
sometimes lose his way.-[Samuel
Smiles
Year: 1877

the owner of:each hogshead (of five pounds,
say)f for the sample drawn. It was, how
ever, argued that the sample Is used as much
in the interest Of the planter as for the
buyer, and thut it was often sent away to
distant parts Of the country in the hope OF
effecting q sale, and not infrequently with
out the attainment OF that result, and that
in all other markets the sample belongs to
the buyer. These considerations and others
induced the meeting not to adopt the sugg-
gestion OF Mfr. Mayo. The latter said that
bis experience was in the manufacture OF
tobacco here, and he had not thought OF the
custom OF sending samples away; still he
was Of opinion that some Arrangement salts
factory to all concerned ought TO be made.
One gentleman stated that to his personal
knowledge the practice OF not giving the
sample to the buyer had lost very consld-
erable trade to Richmond.


The propriety Of electing a general sam
pier for the city, somewhat after the plan
in operation in Cincinnati, was talked over
incidentally. The general sampler for a
small bonus guarantees all samples drawn
by him. One or two gentlemen thought
that the warehouse samplers here. would
willingly enter into such an arrangement II
the trade desired.


It seems to be the determination OF the
trade to keep itself right on the record and
right in business practice with the planters,
and not to put itself in position OF hostility
to the laws present or prospective.
Year: 1877

He makes various recommendations in
regard to different departments of the
government. and urges upon Congress
the propriety and necessity of immedii ite
legislation looking 10 the completion OF
the Washington monument, and says the
present unfinished condition of the mon-
ument. begun SO long ago, is a reproaSh
to the nation. It cannot be doubted that
the patriotic sense of the country will
mainly respond to such prompt provision
as may be made for its completion ut an
early day.


In regard to educational matters, he
says the wisdom of legislation upon the
part of Congress in ait of the states for
the education OF the whole people i'm
those branches of study which are taught
i'm the common schools OF the country,
is no longer question. The intelligent
Judgment of the coGiItry goes still fur
ther, regarding it as also both cOnstitu
tional and eXpedient for the general gov
crnment to extend to technical and high
er education such aid as is deemed essen
tial to the general welfare. and to our due
prominence among the enlightened and
cultured nations of the world,
and concludes by recommending
such legislation as will render available
and efficient for the purpose of instruc-
ton. so far as is consistent with the pub
lie service, the cabinets or museums of
invention, of surgery, of education. Of
agriculture, and other collections, the
property of the national government.
He says the capital of the nation should
be something more than mere political
center. We should avail ourselves of all
the opportunities which Providence has
here placed ut our comma nj to enhance
the general intelligence of the people
and increase the conditions most favor
able to the success aud perpeluity of our
institutions,
Year: 1877

and deed we confess Christ before men
he will confess us before his Father and
the holy angels. The day of our final
vindication will come. We can afford to
wait for it


g. Christ ians should not be unduly af-
fected by earthly popularity.


ST. Paul experienced both extremes OF
treatment from the people at Melita.
They first shrank f ON him as man of
extraordinary wickedness. Then they
looked upon him as worthy of divine
honors. But he was affected with neither
extreme. ~


Popularity is sometimes more of a
test than its opposite: A Christian can
sometimes bear to be canonized less than
10 be canonaded. An excessive love of
popularity is a great snare TO any Chris
tisn, whether he be preacher, teacher,
or an ordinary member.


4. A Christian should everyone would
seek to be useful.


Paul was prisoner, most unjustly &C.
cused, deprived of his liberty, and on his
way to trial and to martyrdom. He had
been through scenes of pe.il anG ex
haustion. He had barely escaped the
dangers of the sea He might have spent
his time at Melita i'm rest and recupera-
ton, or in preparation tor the scenes
which awaited him at Rome. But he
desired everywhere, and in all ciIcum-
stances. to be doing good to vthers,in the
name OF bis Master. So lie spent
his time at Melita in healing the sick
and doubtless in instructing the people
in the glorious truths of the Gospel.


What an example for us all We too
are on our way to the Eternal City. not
to be condemned and mariyred. indeed.
but to be saved and glorified. Let us be
useful by the wayi Let us preach, and
teach. and heal, and comfort ignorant. sin
ful and sorrOwful men, and thus prepare
to enjoy the rest and glory of heaven.
Year: 1877

II was at first decided to hold the funeral
OF Hackett tomorrow, but the time has
since been changed to Monday to allow
members of the order from the west who
wish to attend the funeral time to get here.
He will be buried with full Orange honors.
Year: 1877

We are in receipt of "a circular from
New Orleans firm setting forth the
advantages which that port presents
AS shipping emporium for the grain
trade of the Mississippi Valley, now
that Eads' jetties have proved a sue
cess. There seems to be no reason
able doubt that these jetties will sf-
ford continuous depth of 25 feet of
water through the South Pass by
March next, aud as s0Gn as % feet is
assured many new lines af steamers
and sailing vessels will be drawn to
New Orleans. A wealthy and enter
prising firm of Liverpool are going to
put on barge line of steamers, each
with u capacity for 50, 600 bushels. of
grain. Large elevators have already
been built at New Orleans in antici
patton of the flow of grain through
that outlet, and st. Louis has been
for years organizing lines of harges
for the large down-riyer grain trade
which is expected to follow the deep
ening of the channel of the South Pass.
There can be no question that the
opening of the mouths of the Missis-
slppi to ocean shipping will give a
mighty impulse to the development
of the river traffic along its whole
length from New Orleans to st. Paul,
and that the Mississippi will thereupon
be the cheapest outlet for the grain
aud all the products of the great val
ley to the seaboard. The cost for
transporting wheat by barge from
Minnesota to New Orleans will prob
ably not exceed 25 cents, and it is
doubtful whether the eastward rail
and water lines can compete with the
downward current of tie Mississippi
in the movment of grain to the ocean.
The flow of grain for export to Europe
once established in this direction the
redux tide of foreign importations will
naturally and necessarily seek the
same channel to great extent. The
ocean shipping engaged in the grain
and cotton trade will give low freights
tor return cargoes of merchandise,
and the same principle will rule the
freight rate of the upward bound craft
from New Orleans. Of course to give
Minnesota the full benefit of this great
competing outlet to the ocean it is
necessary that the work of deepening
the channel of the river in its shallow
places, by the application of the ietty
system whenever necessary, should
be prosecuted along its entire navi-
gable length. One or two hundred
thousand dollars tlns expended would
give channel FIVE feet in depth in
the lowest water from st. Paul to New
Orleans.
Year: 1877

the proceedings. No harm was done.
Peter and Samuel have been gratified
by receiving the electoral vote of one
State, and the wags concerned in the
matter have attained a little notO-
riety and established precedent that
may find many imitators hereafter.
The galleries we're again crowded by
the benefciaries of the plan adopted
of dividing up the seats among mem
bers of Congress-each member hav-
ing allotted to him three tickets,
which he disposes of according to
the dictates of his own sweet will.
People were in town who had taken
the trouble to start from their homes,
twenty or thirty miles away, in the
night, that they might obtain a seat
and witness one of the great events
according to emotional and fanciful
correspondents-of our century of ma
tional life. Fancy their disappoint-
ment when told that they could only
gain admittance On presentation of a
ticket. These could be purchased for
prices ranging from 81 to So from i'm
pecunious favorites, but in many in
stances the money couldn't be spared,
and having no acquaintance with
members of Congress, the visitors re-
turned to their homes dissatisfied
with the arbitrary arrangement which
excluded them and made admission
matter of merchandise.


Very little of interest to the public
has transpiled in either House since
tay last. The appropriation bills have
been lost sight of in the committee
rooms in the general Generalization,
and it is difficult TO see how an extra
session can be avoided.


SENTINEL.
Year: 1877

on the Commission. This fight is for
purpose. Even if Tilden is defeated
they have hopes that President Hayes
can be bulldozed into being very lib
eral in the giving of places, for the
sake of conciliating them, and healing
their bruises. The action of the Com
mission meets with approval from the
business men of the city, irrespective
of party affiliations, and the attempt
of the hot-heads to go back of its de-
cisions and prolong the contest, finds
no backing. The point now is to
have the agony over and the question
settled, and there will be acquiesence
in 1t, no matter which way it goes.


There are $4,000 men in the city of
New York out of work, with every
prospect of remaining so till Spring
opens. There was but little building
last summer, there has been none do
ing this winter, and in all the me-
chanical pursuits stagnation has been
the rule. Every body wears their
boots and clothes a month or two
longer than they did, and nobody
buys any thing in the way of furniture
or furnishing who can possibly avoid
it, and consequently heavy per cent.
of those formerly employed in these
pursuits are sitting still, and many of
them starving. You can get men by
the hundred for eighty cents day,
and strong men are willing to take
Office boys places at Sd a week. A
car-driver exposed to rain and frost,
standing on his feet from FIVE in the
morning till ten or eleven at night,
gets 81 80 day. Its hard times,n
said one to me; but what are you
going to dof If should quit, there
would be thousand applyin' for the
place in an hour. I'm glad to get
even this" Aud women why an ad-
vertisement for woman to do any
thing, at any price, will bring thou
sand answers by noon of the day it
appears. The charities are overbur-
dened, and private individuals are
beset. The professional mendicant,
with thousand different dadges,
takes away a large part of what the
really honest poor ought to have, and
so half-fed, and scarcely clothed at
all, they exist somehow, waiting till
the Spring opens and some kind of
business commences.


Business begins to show slight
Improvement. There are great many
merchants in the city from tie South
and West, and they are buying more
literally than for some time. The
resumption of business by the manu-
facturers of New England is also doing
something to make better feeling.


The most curious phase of the re-
ligious feeling now prevailing, is the
series OF prayer-meetings daily for the
Wall Street gamblers. The bulls and
bears have been finally touched, and
the place of meeting is daily thronged
with them. And they show q great
deal of feeling. Let us hope that it
will stop some of the gambling that
has made that street by word and
reproach. If they should all get de-
Gently converted it would make q
wilderness of it. The spirit is among
them, though, and they appear to be
affected as other sinners are when
under influence. If any thing is ac-
complished among these men it will
be triumph of Christianity that will
outweigh the talk of all the infidels
in the world. PIETRO.
Year: 1877

The French government has sub
mitted TO the Chamber of Deputies a
proposition to appropriate 100000
for the purchase of silk fabric in Ly-
ons, in order to give work and relief
to the suffering operatives out of en-
ployment.
Year: 1877

Ancient fraud? Was there ever
fraud like this a? In all previous ages
fraud has succeeded only because 1t
has been backed by the sword, and
protesting people have been powerless
IN resist the force Of armed battalions-
Never, before now in The history OF
the world has a fraud succeeded
AGAINST the conscience and the will Of
a self governing people II it succeeds
now let US take dove the statue on
the dome of the Capitol which every
morning faces tie coming light. Let
rs cIotEe ourselves in sackeloth and
sit in ashes forever"