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Year: 1877




OF PASSENGERS AND rRE1oHT-AN APPEAL
TO THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
BosroN, Feb 16, 1877.
Tho Boston and Maine Railroad strike still hangs
tho company continuing to operate the road as best
they can with engineers and the strikers Grip.
png their efforts In this direction as possible
BY hiring away tho new comers The officials
continue to assert that they have passed
the critical period and have virtually triumrhed
In tho contest, and declare further that they
will have nothing to do either with the strikers ns
body or individually. The old engineers the other
hand claim that tho railroad company will be CON-
PEELED to yield in the end But there certainly no
indications OF such concession at present. Under
these circumstances unless there should be some new
and effective movement on the part OF the Brother
hood, II may be fairly assumed that their strike has
been complete failure, and that unless the strikers
find employment outside OF the Boston and Maine
company they will fall back upon their organ
zaon for support 1t is represented that tho treasury
Is well supplied with funds, and that will be forth
coming If needed.


lr- PROBABILITIES 4 DEFEAT
This defeat If proves to be such will be the first
the Brotherhood has sustained since Its organza.
ton, and Of course tho sponge will be thrown up
hastily or willingly. committee OF brotherhood en-.
Gineers from New York arrived this evening, but the
purposes OF their visit will MOI be developed bcloro
morrow


FREIGHT TROUBLES


limited number OF passenger trains have been
running to-day Attempts have been made TO red ice
the amount OF freight at the different points An
immense accumulation is reported by the officers OF
the Boston and Albany Railroad as being masscd at
the grand junction. Cottage Farm station on their
road. IL includes about 400 loaded with gram
0ur and merchandise billed TO the Boston and Maine
road from points south and west, which have been
steadily accumula;ing since the strike few cars
were moved to-day, but the blockade Is serious ono


SEEKING LEGISLATION.


Tho Railroad Commissioners gave hearing this
afternoon on tho petition OF The railroad company
Tor law which shall make 1t punishable offence
engineer to desert his locomotive before CON-
pletng his trip. The officers OF the road and
Mr. Arthur, Grand Chief OF the brotherhood, and
the committee Of strikers who bad previously waited
upon President White, were present. Mr.. White Dr.
rector Osgood and Mr. Smith, the master mechanic Of
the road, gave IN turn their version OF the trouble
the accounts being tie same MS those given In
views with the HERALD correspondent some days
since. They rcaflirmcd their determination to sus-
pend business before submitting TO the strikers To-
morrow tho Commissioners Will! listen to what the on
ginccrs have 10 say.
Year: 1877

NO INTEREST POLITICS.


HIS father has received several letters from him
since. but In none OF them dd he mention politics or
give any indication that his mi ind dwelling on that
subject The reverend gentleman seemed 20 be so
borne down with grief at the unfortunate affair that 10
would have been not only indelicatc cruel
pied him with questions especially II was evident
that the poor gentleman does know any more Of
the shooting or what preceded than has been pub
lishcd 10 the newspapers II would seem that tho
young man must have been out OF his mind and irre-
sponsibc al tho time Of this He was not
the New Orleans correspondent OF the Philadelphia
Press. nor has he been reporter IN this city or
elsewhere. SO far rs his father knows
Year: 1877

II seems to have been taken for granted by
some hasty statesmen in private life, not to
sneak of statesmen in the Senate, that the
President was bound to settle the Louisiana
problem off hand, by sort of motu prolriO,
before the end OF the week. There has never
been any sufficient reason to suppose that a
decision would be precipitatcd upon the
country. President Hayes has given no ex-
PLANTATION even of his purposes, much less has
he indicated an intention to take any positive
action at the present time; and as he has not
shown failing toward snap judgments
heretofore, we do not see why he should be
suspected of tendency that way just now.
And in point of fact it is not clear that he
will ever be called upon to decide the LOuis-
ana case.


The question of the legality of the Repubi-
can administration in that State has been four
years pending in the United States Senate.
1t was brought up Oh the applications OF
Plnchback and Mari for admission, as it had
been previously on the applications Of Ray
and Mcmillan, and it is now raised again by
the credentials of Kellogg. One of the seats
to which Louisiana is entitled in the Senate
has been vacant ever since 1873; the other
has now fallen vacant, and the State is with
out any representation in the upper branch OF
Congress. This is a scandalous condition of
things which admits of no excuse. Repubi-
cans and Democrats in the Senate have urged
their associates to do their duty and decide
upon the claims Of the contestants, but in
vain. The duty has been deferred, and
Louisiana has remained in chaos. With both
seats vacant it seems to us the time has come
when the duty can be deferred no longer.
The Senate must determine which is the lawful
government of Louisiana when it determines
who are the lawful claimants of these two
empty seats.


We do not imagine that the settlement is
to be an easy one; but delay will not make it
any less perplexiDg. Long ago we warned the
Senate that it was nursing trouble by Sinking
its plain duty, adding to the difficulties of the
problem by creating new complications and
Year: 1877

The following inquiry comes to us from q
city clergyman:


TO the Editor Of The Tribune


SIR: How can our young men find empioymentf This
city and other cities full, and know not what to ad
wise young tO do TO make their living Particularly
an interested In young who has been to college,
is willing take hold of any kind Of work, and is witha
of fine personal appearance and yet find no employ
ment which will give him his bread. II he ought to i'm
migrate to the West or South, 1 would gladly pay his
expenses and give him outfit. venture TO ask you
for light on a matter beset, far know, with some
difficulty. l am, Sir, respectfully, X


Ne,o- York. March g, 1877.


Our reply to this letter must needs be gen.
eral, for our correspondent does not tell us
whether his young friend has natural aptitude
for any special calling. Success in life depends
upon other conditions than a fine personal ap-
pearance and a college education, and these
are the only facts which in this instance are
brought to our attention. What may be the
best occupation for one handsome cOlegian
may be the worst for another, and one may
succeed under social conditions and in sec
ton of the country where another would fail;
so much depends upon natural capacity and
the fitness of things. We take it that our cor
respondents friend is a type of q very
large class of educated young men, who
after leaving college are compelled to
earn their living and make their own way in
the world. They have culture, sometimes
deep, oftener superficial; they have had no
special training for business or professional
life; their available capital is their education
IA security on which money-lenders will make
no advances. They are willing to work; but
what shall they dof Where shall they beginf
"Education," they reason, /" is powerful
clever, and we know how to handle it. Only
"gve us a place to stand, and we can move
&" the world"


Ay! if the lever be long enough! Our col
Year: 1877

The new bill to compress the local govern
ment of the City of New-YOrk within reason
able limits contains more robust reform than
any legislative committee has given us for
long time, and far more than we ever ex-
pected to recognize as the product of Mr..
John Morrissey's suggestions 1t provides for
Spring elections-a reform which the pollt-
clans of both parties have been quietly fend-
ing off for years. 1t does not require
the Mayor to submit his nominations to
the Aldermen-a check which works well as
between President and Senate, or Governor
and Senate, but which in practical operation
in this city merely amounts to allowing CO.
terie of mongrel politicians to cmbarrass a
respectable Mayor now and then III making a
good appointment. 1t cOnsOlidates bureaus as
well as departments and reduces the number
of commissioners over each department to a
single head. 1t endeavors to reform even the
Aldermen by lengthening their terms from
one wear to two, so as to give them
larger training and experience. There
is probably too much good in this
bill to get through the Legislature, but we
know of no reason thus far why 1t should not.
The bill contains at least one of the great
features Of the Charter Commissions amend
ments, and these cannot go into effect for
three years, if they should be acted upon by
the Legislature at this sessiOn-an unlikely
contingency. We ought to have as much
change for the better as this measure affords
without being compelled to wait for the slow
process of constitutional amendment; and if
the Ecclcsines and Peter Mitchels will keep
out of the way we can have it. But they
nnNar do.
Year: 1877

entangling higher interests in the snarl. -Four
years ago the decision would have been COM
paratively simple. To-day it will tax all the
sagacity and patriotism of Congress -Four
years hence it may be impossible without doing
violence to constitutional rights. But if hasty
action at the White House is to be deprecated,
so also is hasty action at the Capitol. The solu-
ton ought to be looked for i'll thorough and
fearless investigation of the facts, and frank
conference between all the parties in interest
There should be no attempt on the part OF the
Senate TO forestall the action of the Executive,
but we believe that friendly talk between
the President and the Senators would throw
much light upon the proper course OF pro-
cee1inp
Year: 1877

The unsatisfactory result of Capt Nares's
expedition will probably leave the Smiths
Sound route in the future exclusively to Amtri-
can explorers. There is not at present in Great
Britain a great deal of enthusiasm for Arctic
research and what there is favOrs the Spitz-
bergen and East Greenland routes for the next
attempt. The current of opinion there as here
sets toward the colonizing plan, but it has
several strong opponents who think that the
old method is still the best possible, and moth
ing very definite is proposed for a new Arctic
expedition from Great Britain by anybody.
Capt Virgins is, indeed, preparing for trip
to the Yenisce River to get cargo of graph
ito, and will have to. make a voyage through
the Arctic Ocean, north of Siberia, to reach
the Kara Sea. But this will not lead through
higher latitude than 750 N. at furthest. Two
Year: 1877

We may know what form of government we
live under, but Judge Dayiss politics is an
other matter. Yesterday he was classed on the
Senate Committees as Democrat but no one
knows what tie hour may bring forth.
Year: 1877

In few days more we shall know whether
Gov. Robinson will adhere to the PilsbuTy
standard, as it is to be hoped he will, in nam
ing the Superintendent of Public Works. The
Senate passed the bill yesterday, and after the
concurrence of the Assembly in minor amend
ments il will become a law. The Senate
deserves honorable mention for it's prOmptness
in disposing of it when the Canal Committee
once released it from confinement. The COM
mittee-well, the committee sat on the bill in
q mastery manner.
Year: 1877

feel under increased obligations for the patronage so liberally accorded me as inc successor of the old and successful house of Wm. B. Hooper & Co., and while ae- knowledging this fact, allow me to add that those dealing with me will find as complete a stock as was ever offered by the old firm with all that is new and desirable in addi- ton.

 JAMES M. BARNEY
Year: 1877

Gold, Silver, Copper or Lead, will be made at highest possible rates for account of owners. My long experience and con- ncction with buyers in the different mar kets give me q very decided advantage over any one in the Territory in making such sales to the profit of those entrusting them to me. Correct and responsible assays obtained and submitted when desired.
Year: 1877

PREACHER in Allegheny. Penn. was
awakened the other night by u pull at
his door.bsll. He answered from win
dow, and was told by the stranger that
he was needed Fright away TO marry
couple. He made a hasty toilet and
went to the house. and was introduced
TO tho landlady's daughter. who was in
the parlor at one end Of the room. and
a young man well known to the clergy
man at the other. lie was bent over.
with his heal resting in his hands. On
going to the youth the clergyman found
linn In q siupor. His name. age. etc.
was given In an absent. minded way. but
when the minister asked him whether ho
wanted to marry the girl. he raised up.
and said Married married No.
don't want to be married. Who said
20 p" The minister Immediately with
drew. The superstition il that the youth
WAS druggej. and that the girl hoped to
fasten tbs matrimonial tic b-fsre he re-
gained his senses.
Year: 1877

Farming must be conducted on bust
ness principles or it cannot be successful.
The first endeavor Of shrewd business
man is to keep all his capital proftably
employed. He is not satisfied to make
large profits on part while the greater
portion is lying idle, nor will he allow
lack of care or capital to rob him of
profits which he might otherwise have
made. Too many farmers, on the con.
trary, think they are doing well when
they make large profits on one or two
crops, or fields, though other parts of
their farm may not be paying anything.
Often on the cultivated parts of a farm
the results are satisfactory enough,
if it were not that these were
so small as not to pay necessary
expenses of conducting it. The farmer
finds himself as badly off as the merchant
who made a disastrous failure while sell
ling all his goods at one hundred per cent.
profit. The explanation is, that the mer-
chant kept peanut stand and his receipts
were only fifty cents per day. The twenty
five cents clear profit did not pay the
mans board and lodging, and he was
bankrupted by personal expenses.


Looking at the subject from this point
of view, we have innumerable agricul-
tural and other journals urging farmers
to reduce their expenses--to economize
to the utmost extent in their homes, in
travel, and on the farm itself. They
seem to forget that farmers are already
far more economical than any other class,
and, without any prompting, have denied
themselves luxuries, and even comforts,
deemed almost indispensable by the resi-,
dents of the city. The great majority OF
farmers, knowing that they cannot econo-
mize in their homes and personal expen-
ses more than they do, accept this advice
as recommending the hiring of less la
bor--planting and sowing fewer acres,
scanty manuring and imperfect cultiva-
ton. In the meantime, family and per-
sonal expenses remain as before, because
they have already been reduced to the
lowest limit. 1t is easy to foresee that
such policy can only result in smaller
profits and greater pecuniary embarrass-
ment.
Year: 1877

A CURIOUS CUsToM.--In one of his ad-
mirable letters from the East, Bishop
Marvin thus refers to custom among
the Brahmans of Madras: People here
indicate their faith by wearing mark
on the forehead. Is is put on in chalk
dust, generally white, but sometimes col
ored. We saw the pigment exposed for
sale in the temple portico. Sometimes it
is u broad band across the forehead,
sometimes a spot just above the base of
the nose, sometimes trident extending
upward from the base Of the nose, the
outer lines white and the central one
brown. This trident is worn by Brah-
mans, and there are two forms of it. In
one form the lower extremity of the fig
ure makes a regular curve, like horse
shoe; in the other little point extends
downward from the extremity. These
different forms represent differences of
doctrine--slight, very slight, differences,
venerable wearer of the horseshoe told
US; but when the two meet in the temple,
they sometimes make the walls resound
with the vigor of their angry reproaChes
and recriminations.
Year: 1877

THE EMPTINESS OF Wealth
is not a good thing in itself; it is only a
means to some good end, and like all
good things may be perverted so as to
prove direct curse to you and your fam
lily. Many man in the outcome of life
has reason to regret that he ever possessed
wealth. Material prosperity has proved,
in his household, moral ruin. The riches
so generously given are moth-eaten. The
man has proven delinquent in the duty
pertaining to his high trust. Wealth is
not a safe possession without high NOR
al aim, and the use of that wealth to pro-
mote that aim..--Zion's Herald.
Year: 1877

A MAN cannot walk down street now
with his collar hanging limp and starch
less about his neck, his forehead beaded
with perspiration, and his shoes smacking
as if he had been wading in water, with
cut some chap asking him if it's warm
enough for him to-day. There are some
men in this world who are too inquisitive
for cOmfort.-OH CITY Call.
Year: 1877

Laugh and be merrie," the maxim of the
ancient philosopher, is the time-honored
formula for the observance of Christmas. 1t
was SO in the beginning and it will un-
doubtedly be so to the time when Christmas
shall be no more. There are, of course,
great many people in the world upon whom
this injunction of ancient philosophy will be
entirely lost. Almost every one can count
among his acquain tances one or more sour
visaged and still sourer souled persons who
never laughed in their lives to whom the
world seems to be o perpetual funeral pro-
cession and they the real or hired mourners.
Such persons are probably OF some use IN
this many hued and many sided thing We
call life, but we have never been able to
understand exactly what it is. Anyway,
they will be good persons to avoid this
pleasant Christmas morning, when the glad
tidings are ringing out on the crisp, bright
air, and millions of homes are happy and
full OF JOY, and the laughter OF millions OF
little ones is pcaling upward over all the
land. After all, for the one reason why we
should be sad there are in the lives of all OF
us one hundred and one thousand why we
should be merry. The trouble with most
of us is that we persist in looking at the
dark side Of the picture. There is silver
lining to every cloud; but we think only Of
the gloom and the darkness and the shadow.
1t is one of the beautiful and blessed attri-
butes of Christmas that it predisposes may,
compels--us to see only the sheen of the
silver lining. And if it brought us no other
gift than this it would still be the sweetest
and most precious Of days. The merry
making milestone, in our journey every
year, as we come to it this morning, let US
make it as it was intended it should be
made in deed as we'll as in name "a merrie
Christmas.
Year: 1877

unusually even terms, as is shown by the
delay in the challenge between them for the
university race next spring, it being the
custom for the one last beaten to send 1t.
Last years race being tie, neither Is now
willing to admit that she was then beaten.
When the Henley meeting is over the
Columbia team will probably 60 to Paris in
time to take part in the Exposition races,
and if she fares well at Henley she will
stand an excellent chance on the French
water Also II both Harvard and Cornell
are not there to meet her then they lack the
energy which in the past has made them
famous Mt the oar
Year: 1877

General Sheridan's testimony as to the
condition of tho country on the Rio Grando
and the disposition Of the people on either
side OF the river has the value Of a stale
ment that rests on positive knowledge, and
must, we believe, be accepted as finally
puncturing the war balloon that has been so
industriously filled by the persons whose
interest it was to bring about a war with
Mexico. General Sheridan has no faith in
the reports of cattle stealing that have been
SO industriously spread, and directly afiirms
that the only invasion OF our soil from the
Mexican side was made by troops in pursuit
OF an expedition that had first crossed from
our own territory. This entirely puts the
outrage boot on the other leg, and the
more closely the case is examined the
more reason there is to believe that the
less We say about outrages in this. connec-
ton the better it will be eventually for our
own sclf-respect
Year: 1877

AS TIE MONEY carried away by the abscond-
ing Excise Commissioners is not properly excise
money, and is, in fact, money taken from liquor
dealers without warrant of law, the ocity does
not, we presume, suffer any loss, though this
may yet be nice pcint for the lawyers
II the victims act together they may have a
remedy yet within their reach. not ont of
Murphy's estate, however. But this money
was not extortcd from the liquor dealers by
him, but by the Excise Commissioners. and
they must be collectively and severaly liable.
Murphy is the only one who has run away, and
the owners Of the money would do well TO take
some proper precauton with regard to the
others
Year: 1877




Columbia, instead of being annoyed by
Harvard's refusal to row her, has decided to
enter the lists in contest which, in point
of general and even national interest, will
throw the Harvard Yale race and all the
other home events of the coming year quite
into the shade. Having had very success
ful season and confident that with her
present team she could have made very
brilliant work Of it even in the Centennial
races, she now purposes entering tho race
for amateur fours open to the world at
Henley on Thames, in the latter part OF
juno next. BY doing this she not only
avoids the elaborate and troublesome task
of a special contest like that OF Oxford and
Harvard in 1862 or Of the Atalanta and
London Rowing Club, but is in way to
meet crack teams. not from one university
alone, but from Oxford, Cambridge and
Dublin, besides the best British amateur
oarsmen outside of the universities, such
as those Of the London Rowing Club. This
is modest and sensible way of going to
work. and the encouragement already held
out by her friends in their patronage of the
Columbia ball at Delmonico's foreshadows
easy work in getting the requisite funds.
Oxford and Cambridge, the rivals she would
like best to meet, happen to be just now on
Year: 1877

The WEATHEg.-Ycstcrday very general
rains prevailed from the Mississippi Valley east
ward TO the Atlantic coast, and from the lake
region to the Gulf Foggncss extended from
the Middle Atlantic coast across the lake district
to the Upper Mississippi Valley. Indeed, the
aspect over u very wide area of territory was
extremely nniayorable. The northern belt Of
districts from Nova Scotia TO Montana had
very variable temperatures the thcr-
nometcr falling eastward and westward
from Minnesota. The highest pressure
continued over the Sc. Lawrence Valley and the
lowest in the Middle Mississippi Valley, fol
lowed from the southwestward by rising barom-
eter. The only portions where cloudincss did
not prevail in the forenoon were in New Eng
land and the British Atlantic provinces In the
afternoon. however, the rain and cloud area con-
tracted somewhat, especially from the south
westward. The temperature fell pretty gener-
ally, except in the lower Ohio Valley.
The lowest pressure is in the
Mississippi Valley, with q general northeasterly
movement. The weather in New York and its
vicinity today will be cooler and cloudy, or
partly cloudy, with threatening of rain To-
morrow 1t will be colder and cloudy. probably
with rain.
Year: 1877

RECEIVER BEST makes the welcome Christ
mas announcement to the National Trust Com
panys depositors that he is anxious to pay them
fifty per cent Of their deposits. The balance
will be ready in January
Year: 1877

MATAMoIos seems to be loyal to Diaz. One
Of the well known followers OF Cortina entered
the city few evenings ago for the purpose, it is
supposed, OF testing the fidelity of the garrison,
and was put in jail for his trouble.