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Year: 1877

The great reliance of our modern
Indian campaigning is to enlist Indians
10 slaughter Indians Hence when


ever either an ally or an enem Sis kill


cd, we impartially score it as one red
skin less. Ii is rather shrewed to hire
the present friend and prospective err
emy TO shoot or be shot by the prescn


enemy and prospective friend By
this Kilkenny strategy we hope to do
all our fighting by proxy. and in d e
time to have the red race rubLel out.
Year: 1877

HIS YOUTH.
His coat was too thick and his cap was too


thin,


He couldn't be quiet, he hated a din;
He hated to write, and he hated to read,
He was certainly very much in iured indeed
He must study and work over books he de-


tested, [rested;
His parents were strict, and he never was
He knew he was wretched as wretched


could be, as he.
There was no one so wretchedly wretched


HIS MATURITY.
His farm was too small and his taxes too


big,


He was selfish and lazy. and cross as a pig;
His wife was too silly, his children too rude;
And just because he was uncommonly good,
He never had money enough or to spare,
He had nothing at all fit to eat or to wear:
He knew he was wretched as wretched


could be, as he
There was no one so wretchedly wretched


HIS OLD AGE.
He finds he has sorrows more deep than his


fears for years;
He grumbles to think he has grumbed
He grumbles to think he has grImbled away
His home and his fortune, his life's little


day.


But, alas! tits too late,-it is no use to say
That his eyes are too dim, and his hair is


too gray.


He knows he is wretched as wretched can


be, THAN he.
There is no one more wretchedly wretched


ST. Nicholas for December.
Year: 1877

A new and peculiar interest has suddenly
been awakened in Egyptian obelsks, both
by the attempted transportation of one of
the celebrated Cleopatra's Needles to Eng
land, and by the project to remove the
other to New York, and to set up the mon
ument of the Oldest civilization on earth in
the midst of our young republic.


One would suppose that if there was any,
thing likely to be stationary, it would be
these huge blocks of stone; yet they seem
to have decidedly vagrant tendency. OF
the six giant obelisks erected in the old
Egyptian city of On, in the land of Goshen,
but one, and that the oldest, which was set
up more than 5000 years before Christ,
still remains standing. Its mate has van
ished from the face of the earth. OF the


CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE.1
Year: 1877

but as far as the punishment of Robert l..
Case is concerned it matters very little
whether the sentence shall be passed on
him or not. If his prison doors were OPEN
ed tomorrow his freedom would avail him
but little


1t is a terrible necessity which forces on
society the duty of making an example Of
such man, but it is necessity that the
crime of careless and habitual perjury be
wiped out of our community now and for
ever. The public has no idea to what ex-
tent this evil has prevailed. Officers of
banks and insurance companies have made
perjury part of their banking and insur-
ance business, calculating the value of
false oath as You calculate on the price of
stocks or the rise and fall of mercantile
produce. If the evil were confined exclu-
sively to themselves it would be matter
of small moment but on their false repre-
sentations the patrimony of the widow and
orphan has been lost, and suffering and
destitution untold been the consequence to
thousands and thousands.


There are women and children in this
city to-day by hundreds, in the extreme of
poverty and destitution, with starvation
staring them in the face, whose fortunes
have been squandered by these periured
Pharisees, men who have been regarded
as financial oracles, and the staDchest pill
lars and supports of orthodox churches and
of charitable and missionary associations.
Robert l.. Case may himself have been
dupe, and never have realized the extent of
his crime, but it is for this criminal negl-
gence that society holds him responsible
now that the prison door is about to close
upon him, and the brand of felon is to be
stamped upon his brow. Though our
hearts may bleed for his terrible punish
ment, and our souls be wrung with anguish
for his agonized and suffering family, we
are compelled to acknowledge the right
eousness of the decree, "Let justice be
done, though the heavens fallr'


On Monday of last week, an unfortunate
girl in Brooklyn, only sixteen years of age,
threw off her weary load of life in the
Cemetery of Evergreens on the grave of
her dead mother. Betrayed and deserted,
she found no friendly hand stretched forth
to save her. The gambler, the thief, the
murderer and the drunkard. all nave hosts
of friends, but she found no one to aid her
and so she died.
Year: 1877

The GEORGETOWN POsT OFFICE.-Special
Agent Smith. OF the Post Office department.
has made his report on the Georgetown post
Office question, bat it viii not be made public
nor Il decision made in the matter until after
the Postmaster Generals return from New
York. Ii seems to he the general impression
that The report is i'm favor OF consolidating the
Georgetown post Office with the Washing on
system.
Year: 1877

In our recent revival of old holidays it is
wonder that Twelfth Day has not been brought
to life again. Our fOrefathers made 1t the
occasion of more merry making than any other
feast, except Christmas. However, we have
grown too wise nowadays for any such tom
fooleres as Brady and Evelyn record. as be-
longing to the day. In certain English shires
q hundred years ago last night was set apart
to invoke blessing on the crops and cattle OF
the new year. On every hilltop blazed twelve
fires in token of the Apostles, one of which
was kicked out at midnight by the farmer and
kinds, a vigorous hatred of Judas Iscariot in
spring their legs. Then they came back to
barns and stables, drank in cider the health
of every separate OK by name and of the best
bearing trees in the orchard, and after plenty
of hearty frOlic and feasting at the farmers
expense went home none the worse disposed
for the years labor. Fancy a New-York
farmer kindling religious fires last night, or
making saturnalia on cider in the barn.
Yet a few more definite opinions about the
Apostles, even Judas himself, would probably
do him no harm, and n little human fellowship
between him .and the men paid by his man
ager would very likely make better workmen





There were other Observances of the day,
much hOnOred now in the breach; especially
the masques and mummeries to represent the
coming of the wise men to the Infant Savior,
with gold to represent his royalty, franklin
cense his divinity, and mynh his suffering.
Thinking people nowadays grow more insen-
sible with every year to the influence of mere
symbols. If the practical man and earnest
woman, working on through life for them
selves and their children do not discover the
unseen Ruler and his divinity in the chances
and changes of their daily surroundings, and
become acquainted with Him as the Man of
Sorrows through the pain and struggles of
their own hearts, yearly mummery is not
likely to open their eyes or understandings.


The principal ceremony by which to-day was
celebrated, however. will seem to us all no
doubt utterly childish. The great Twelfth
Day cake, in which bean was hidden. was
cut i'll every household. and whoever was lucky
Year: 1877

Wade Hampton is getting a great deal of
abuse from both sides of the line on account
of his recent letter to Gov. Hayes. One party
curses his impudence, the other finds fault
with his recognition of the Republican
"pretender" We do not purpose to discuss
the propriety of this particular communication,
but it seems to us that it affords a text upon
which those Southern citizens who are striving for
the renovation of their shattered fortunes and the
refilling of their bankrupt State treasures may
mediate with profit. 1t has been suggested
that when Mr.. Hayes takes possession of the
White House he may find his account III max
ing friends with the Southern Conservatives.
There are Democratic leaders in nearly all the
reconstructed States who would gladly CO.
operate with a Republican President i'll the
reform which the South so much needs and
who are ready to acknowledge that National
politics are of trifing significance to them
in comparison with the publication of their
local governments.


But instead of waiting for overtures from
the President, why should not the South take
the first steps itself? Looking back at tho
experience of the past two months, candid
Southerners must see that they have made
great mistake. They had a decent admins
tration in South Carolina under Gov. Cham
berlain, and for the first time since the war
the affairs OF the State were managed with
common honesty. At the beginning OF the
Year: 1877

campaign the Conservatives seemed disposed
to support Gov. Chamberlain for reelection.
If they had kept to their first sensible purpose
the success of this reform candidate would not
only have advanced the immediate prosperity
of South Carolina, but encouraged respecta-
bility and honesty in every part of the South.
Taught. however, that the National exigcncies
of the party called for strictly Democratic
ticket, they suddenly turned upon the man
whom they had formerly praised, and to strike
him down they clasped hands with some Oh
the worst of the cOrruptiOnists whose enlnity
he had earned. What is the result! South
Carolina is on the verge of anarchy; Gov.
Chamberlain, who was trying to do well, Is
thrown back into the arms of the carpet-Dag
adyenturers; and Southern Republicans receive
notice that responsibility will not pay.


In other States. where the circumstances
were entirely different the Conservatives new
ertheless made similar mistake. In Louis
lana, for instance, the one vital cOncafn Tor
the white population was the overthrow OF
KellOgg's State Government and the System OF
fraud and robbery which 1T embodied. 10
that all other things ought to have yielded.
To accomplish that all differences upon Ma
tional questions ought to have been laid aside.
Few competent judges now doubt that If State
and National issues had been kept separate in
the late election a large number of coOred
voters might have been won over to the sup
port of an honest local administration. But
the Conservatives of Louisiana saw fit 10 bend
all their energies to the return OF Mr. llldch'
believing that they could either swamp the
colored vote or abolish it altogether. The
event we presume has satisfied them OF their
miscalculatOn.


We might extend our survey and point out
other instances in which the South has blum
dered in tho same way. The fundamental
error of the reconstructed COnsery itives has
been in imagining that to reform their State
Governments it was necessary in every case to
begin at Washington. Suppose another time
they begin ut hOmef
Year: 1877

enough to find the bean was elected king of
the day. No matter whether he was master or
servant. his rule was absolute. He was dressed
in the best garments the house could afford
and given the seat of honor ; he presided over
the feast paraded through the streets with
pomp, and was Obeyed with all outward show
of homage. The next day, the bean being
wthered, his kingship was over, and he was
plain Bottom the weaver again. These seem
strange antics to us for adult men and women
to play, and yet, when we look closely, have
we not too our Kings Of the Bean' The year
lust coming in is our Twelfth Night cake, out
of which each will draw his slice of good or
i'll fortune: this man bit stale and tasteless:
that, another full of blums, soft and delicious.
One draws the bean, which in America IA
Money, arsti presto be he prince Of men or
boOr, his place is secure: he is forthwith
crowned and anOinted. not for day, but az
long as the money lasts. He shall not only
have the best robe and the ring on his hand,
but the chief place at feasts and at church.
Men with twice his sense and wit shall give
him the wall fair women will pay him hon.
aye. OF course he and they all know it is a
farce, and must end but they make it sharp
and binding on themselves as reality. Some
day the bean is lost or withers away, and the
sham king is stripped and pushed out of the
highway, with none so poor to do him rever-
ence.


"Shut up the box, children" cried grim,
tender-hearted old Thackeray the play is
"played out" But the old Twelfth Night
games even Thackeray would say were better
than OURS.
Year: 1877

sharply contested election upon the fate OF the
Establishment. at is unquestiOnably true" is
its comment, "that if the Anglican Church be
"doclared unnecessary even for educational
purposes, it has no claim whatever to exist.
"Thc London School Board election was not
..quite disestablshment election, but 1T was
every near it,"


And this is undoubtedly the end toward
which all the recent school board elections in En-
gland point. Cautious as the English people are,
they still approach ever nearer to the position
which we have long since taken-the total
separation of the Church from the State. The
State is obviously weakened by the feud
between Disscnters and Churchmen. To many
thousands of Englshmen it has become intoler-
able that discrimination should be made
against them solely because they prefer some
other than the National Church. The equality
of all forms of tho Christian religion before
the law has become ralying cry which cannot
be suppressed. When the control OF public
education is taken by the people from the
State Church, the termination of its ascendency
is not far distant.
Year: 1877

THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION.


The recent election for members of the Lon
don School Board resulted in total defeat of
the defenders of denOminatiOnal education.
In the old board the Liberals could count on
twenty-six out of fifty votes; in the new they
will havo thirty-one. he majorties for the
Liberal candidates were unexpectedly large
In every district excepting one the Liberals
were at the head of the poll. In Hackney,
Sir Charles Reed, President of the first board,
received 25,716 votes, not far from the high
est number given to any candidate; in Mary
lebOne, Mrs. Westlake, another Liberal can
ddate, led the poll the four ladies now mem
bers of the new board are all Liberals. In what
ever way the returns are analyzed, the defeat
of the denOmnationalists becomes apparent.
Especially does this appear when the aggre-
gate vote of the metropolis is considered; the
supporters of the School Board policy cast
about 100000, and their opponents 100000
votes, disparity so great as to show that
any further competition of the Church Schools
with the Board Schools il hopeless.


The significance of this election can hardly
be overestimated. 1t means the adhesion of the
English people to an unsectarian system Of
public education and the reputation of the
attempted control of education by the State
Church. The London Telegraph points the
moral of the result thus: "We regard this
ELECTION as proof that the rate-payers of
London believe they and not the clergy
should look after the public instruction of
"the young" The Weekly Dispatch says: "The
result of last weeks battle is great and
decisive victory over that immense majority of
"thc Anglican clergy, who have been doing their
"utmost so to hoodwink the public and 80 to
"subvert the Pubic Education Act of 1870 as
"to sacrifice the interests of the rising genera
"tion to their own greed of ecclesiastical and
Theological authority" The Tablet (Roman
Catholic) sees clearly the bearing Of this
Year: 1877

Tweed sailed better than he knew. The ex-
tradition treaty with Spain results from his
trip to Cuba and subsequent voyage to the
picturesque Bay of Vigo. He has something
now on which to base his claim of having
been pubic benefactOr.
Year: 1877

The public dinner rendered by prominent
citizens to Mayor Wickham is a compliment
which he has well deserved by bis admirable
appointments during his term of Office, and
his persistent efforts to elevate the character
of the City Government. The signatures at
tacbed to the letter of invitation prove the
non partisan character of the testimonial A
retiring Mayor whose administration is 80
warmly commended by such men as William
Y. Dodge and William Adams, August Bel
Year: 1877

1t is to be hoped that the movement, of
which an account is elsewhere given, for re-
ducing the debts of Virginia. North Carolina,
and Tennessee, and funding them in new
bonds, on which these States will be able to
pay the interest, will meet with abundant sue
cess. The proposal comes from the bond
holders, and involves a sacrifice on their part
of considerable proportion OF their claims.
Its acceptance, on the other hand, will re-
establish the credit and readjust the finances
of these cOmmOnwealths, and remove some
thing of the stain which the default of any
State puts upon the whole American name.
Though it is not the highest consideration to
urge upon debtors that unless they evince
disposition to deal honestly with their neigh
bors they will hardly prosper in business, new
ertheless it may not be amiss to remind these
delinquents that honesty pays best for States
as well as individuals.
Year: 1877

The Commissioners of Taxes, in COM
municatiOn which we print this morning, cx-
plain why it is that the tax upon the capital
of the New-YOrk Central Railroad is not COL
lected in this city. They do not show, and it
is not their business to show, why it is not
collected at Albany. Plain people who know
what the law is, and know that the tax ought
to be assessed at the State capital if not here,
will be at a loss to understand how it is that
this rich company escapes its obligations al.
together, and the public treasury loses
ST, 100000 year to which the Court OF
Appeals has decided that it is entitled. The
Legislature will do we'll to make some sharp
Inquiries
Year: 1877

The Cronin Electoral College seems to have
gone in {" for the old flag and-an appropria-
I" ton" The suspicion seems now to be pretty
well defined that CrOnin was not the only man
who had his expenses paid. This idea OF
paying electors and messengers out OF the
funds of campaign committees is the latest
sweet thing in electoral colleges, but we
should prefer ourselves to see the fashion
rage as far off as possible.
Year: 1877

Two legal arguments of Importance In their
bearing upon the Presidential muchness are
printed in another part of this issue. Both
cover the same ground from opposite points OF
view, Mr. Z. w. StOughton urging the right
of the President of the Senate to count the
votes, while ex-Judgc John A. Campbell
whose words as a former member OF our high
est court would have greater weight II he had
not afterward been a Confederate Assistant
Secretary of War-uphOlds the exclusive power
of Congress. 1t is worthy of note, however,
that Judge Campbell believes that all action
must be concurrent to be valid.
Year: 1877

The House committee on railroads
has reported favorably upon extending
tthe ime allowed for the completion of
Northern Pacific Railroad, eight years
longer. This will insure the comple-
ton of the road. Thus within eight
years, Seattle will be connected with
the great marts of the East by the ties
that SO intimately blend together the
interests of far distant points. The
Seattle & Walla Walla railroad will
then not only connect us with the great
grain fields of the Columbia, but will,
by forming a junction with the North
ern Pacific. place US in our desired po-
sition-in direct railroad communica-
ton with the rest of the world. What
then will be the result ? With our
grand harbor, which on the line OF
"great circle-sailing. DER the short
route around the world, with the coal
fields that surround US; with our almost
inexhaustible forests; with the huge
mass of iron ore that lies in the noun
tains back of us; with the fields of
cereals just over the Cascades that are
larger than the like fields of California
and fully as productive; with an i'm
mense and never-ceasing flow of the
commodities that will pass through
Seattle en- route to and from Asia; with
our picturesque and grand scenery,
which not to have seen. will be. not to
have done the world; with our health.
giving climate; all these combine to
raise the well based hopes of him, who
fondly believes that Seattle will yet be
the New York of the Pacific coast.
Certainly we have the factors of wealth
which We have mentioned, and what
other place outside of Puget Sound can
show half as much However, We will
not expatiate too much. but with tho
facts related, we leave our reader to
form his own conclusions.
Year: 1877

The affair d d'hOnneur between May aud
Bennett. is reported to have taken place
resulting in the wounding of Bennett in
the bowels. As they are two unmarried
men, perhaps the offense is not SO grave
as would it be, we're they Benedicts. AT
best dueIling is poor practice and
gives but little satisfaction to wounded
honor. However, notwithstanding laws
for its punishment the practice is still
continued by some and that too, in the
face of public opinion which is strongly
yet against it. The code which was once
popular on the Pacific Coast received
its death blow, so far as its being coun-
tenanced by the public is concerned. in
the death of Broderick.
Year: 1877

The way in which Kaiser Grant gives
Blaggard Bill Kellogg the ''gAff, " would
indicate that the Man with the Cigar
has got another scare on about impeach-
ment. Six months hence, he will be q
more pitiful wreck than he was at Van
Year: 1877

From the Martinsburg Statesman.l


1t may surprise the Ledger, but it is nev-


crthclcss true, that nothing approaching a
riot has taken place, unless the unwise and


hasty action Of Governor Mathews in order
| ing out the military was Il riot. We assure
the Ledger that from the moment the dis
turbance commenced between the Baltimore


and Ohio Railroad Company and it's EN-.
ployes there has not been any disturbance


Of the peace in contemplation Of law with


the exception OF the unfortunate wounding
OF two men, one soldier and the other a
railroad hand, which was more the result
OF excitement than that OF predeter-
mined purpose TO commit breach
OF the peace. In all the consequent
excitement, and even this kept within pro-


per bounds, not a pins point OF the COM


pany's property has been disturbed or de-


stroyed, nor that OF any individual citizen.
At no time have there been threats Of yio-


lence to persons or property, and not an
| hour, day, OF night when the most tlmid


persons feared to pass the streets or along


the line of the road; and it is notable fact
that the strikers, in taking off from the en-
gines those who volunteered to ran them,


have done 1t in great good humor, and with
out danger to life or limb. Will the Ledger.
do the people OF Martinsburg the justice to
make the proper correction
Year: 1877

ONE OF THE PRISONERS at the penitentiary
who was sent from this city has completed
since his arrival there q full-rigged ship in
miniature, and sent the same as token OF
regard for kindness received to eX-Deputy
Sergeant Edward Curnmlns. IL IS very
complete in all respects.
Year: 1877

What would happen do You suppose
II the mignonette should say to the rose,
THE pride of roses hate to see;
Why don't you keep near the ground like


me-"


What if the rose should say to the phlox.
My form and color are orthodox
To please your Maker, you've got to be.
Precisely in all respects, ike me.
What il 3 grape should say to pear,
why are you Haunting about up there:
Beware of swinging alone and free;
Why don't dou cling to trellis, like me!"
What if river should say to rill,
IF you weren't too lazy you'd turn mill
Study my method, and try to be
A rushing, roaring river like me"
What if a swsn should say to crow.
You belong to the race of so-snd-so,
It's deadly SIN for you to be free;
Your only hope il in serving me-
What il q goose should teach wren.
Or an eagle to follow hen.
What If the monkeys should all agree
That there ought to be uniformity,
What if man should say to another,
Differ with me and you're not my brother,
have the truth as the orscles tell,
Go with me or you'll go to hell