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Year: 1874

There seems to be. and it has been daily
more apparent, since the election by the
Legislature of Hon. Newton Booth to the
United States Senate, coalition forming
between the leaders of the Democratic and
Republican parties. We have been very
10th to believe that this was the case, be-
cause we thought such a thing impossible
Being yet in tender years, and uninitiated
in many of the mysterious ways OF the
world, we have been credulous enough to
believe that most of the Democratic, and
occasionally Republican leader, were hon
est; and wien they talked or preached the
undying, self-sustaining, lfe-giving principles
of Democracy, or the degrading, tyrannioal,
oppressive, centralizing monopoly principles
of Republcanism, that they meant it; that
they were the sentiments which controlled
their nature; that what they said and en-
deavored to teach was what education and
circumstances had taught them sincerely to
believe, and that in a majority of cases they
could not believe or act otherwise if they
should try. And their principles and teach
ings being as wide apart as the polls, we
have thought the polls could be brought to-
gether as easy as they. But, oh, my!
should we not beseech the good Lord to pity
our weakness For the fact is no longer
disguised. that many of the Democratic and
Republican leaders in this State are using
every means in their power to bring about
spective parties, and all to beat the Inde
pendents. We see efforts of such union
in the Legislature, and in the recent city
election in Sacramento we observe the same
efforts to bring the two old parties together.
How they ever can unite we do not under
stand Many of the leaders can, for they
are corrupt enough to do anything for pow
er and railroad money, and that element of
the people, devoid of principle, will follow.
We say, let them go; let the coalition take
PiaCC 40 Sooii 40 ~ may VIC aiC iCauJ W


meet it. For it is evident that no such CO.
alilion can ever be formed by men of prin-
ciple; and hence it is evident that none will
degrade themselves by such a union. except
those who have no principle to sacrifice.
And it is these unprinciped scamps that the
Independents delight to fight. No sooner
will such an unholy, unnatural coalition
openly take place than every good man will
at once drop in with the Independents, il
being the only party in which good men can
hope for justice. We, as the peoples aa-
vocate, ask no better fighting ground than
the side of honesty, truth, Justice, and con-
sistency against the most unholy, unnatural,
corrupt, unprincped coalition the country
ever saw For it needs no argument to con-
vince that nothing goodcan come from the
rotten, putrid, thievipg elements of the two
old parties.
Year: 1874

SACRAMENTO, March 1S, 1874.
ED. HERALD


"Time and tide do not wait for anyone, and
how often during the past session have l found
this out? Many time would like to have re-
tired to nv virtuous couch; but alas! the HERALD
or the Sun, or the Tribune letter not written,
and the time and tide would not stop But my
object in giving the quotation was to remind you
that the Legislature was about over. That time
had carried it nearly over another space of four
months in our history The history of q Legis-
lature is not like that of the men who compose
it, It's history is written as soon as its laws are
written up.
Year: 1874

This BILL which effects only the city Of San
Francisco directly has reference to a great prin-
ciple whether State can step in and prevent
the expressions of the capitalist or the en-
ployer when the laborer consents, and say to
them, You shall not permit men to abuse
themselves by laboring 16 hours per diem, nor
shall you, sir, hire yourself out to anyone to
labor 16 hours per diem" 1t treats this class as
infants, in this regard, and steps in to save
them, upon the grounds that a State can exercise
certain police regulations for the protection OF
society. l think the law is constitutional,
though many think not.
Year: 1874

IKUER-The word husband, with which young
women before marriage associate so much poetry
and romance, is not in etymOlogy all that fancy
nav represent it. 1t is sAnglO-SaxOn-husbonda
composed Of hus and honda, meaning house bOor.
We fear the significance of the word IS truer than
many spOuses would wish to admit.
Year: 1874

snail Why? Because she keeps her own house.
A good wife is not like a snail. Why? Because
she does not carry her all on her back. good
wife Is like n tOwn-clOck- Why? Because she
keeps good time. y good wife Is not like town.
clock Why? Because she does not speak so
loud that ali tie town can hear her.
Year: 1874

And now for time we will leave our
travellers to pursue their journey, while we
note some incidents that happened on this
side of the ocean.


The golden glory of a spring sunset
frightened over the old house where this
story opened. Six years had passed, leaving
no trace Of all that had been in those great
halls, no shadow from grief or death to cast
a gloom around. e rTat


Upon the yine-shadowed colonnade in
front of the dwelling stood the youthful
heiress Of that vast estate. Six years had
borne Nellie on toward girl-hood, but her
face still retained the spiritual beauty for
which she had been so remarkable in her
childish years. Her hair fell over her
shoulders in shower Of bright ripglets
where the glory Of the sulight seemed re-
tiected, and her deep violet eyes had a shy,
Innocent look, like those Of young fawn
just startled from its covert. She was
leaning over the railing, one hand clinging
Year: 1874

What is meant, will the Republican please in-
form us, by It's assertions that the Republican
nomination for the Goyernorship was promised
by certain "prominent gentlemen" of this county
at the close of the campaign of 1870, to some one
person IN Kent county, By whom was such a
promise made? Who were the "prominent gem
uemen 2" Why did they make such an engage
mcnl or contractf And is anybody bound by it
but themselves? Especially and above all else.
let US know are the Republican voters of Della
ware Obliged to raiify that bargain whether II il
best for the party or not? We ask answers 10
these Questions from the Republican. Let it give
reply to all of them. 1t has assigned as the rea.
sou why New Castle county Republican shall
not be nominated, that such bargain exists. -
Now let us know all about that bargain, and
give us an opportunity to see whether il ough,


to bind the whole party unless Il is the right thing
to do.


Will the Republican answer
Year: 1874

NoTICE.-In com pliance with the requirements
~ Of the act of Assembly in such cases made and
provided. hereby give nstice that shall apply in
writing to the Court of General Sessions OF the


n eace ace aaa M pelVery t9e state oi delaware
the l1th day of May next A. d. 1874 being the first
day of the next May Term Of the said Court, for a
License to keep an Inn or Tavern at the Washing :
ton House. on Market street. in the town of New
Castle in School District No 46 and to sell intox
be drunk on the premises, and the following sub
stantal freehGlders of said District recomm nd the
Year: 1874

He Ia a contumacious and unrepentant Of
fender. He has made no pretense Of restitu-
ton. He defies public sentiment in this re-
spect as stolidly to-day as in the time of his
insolent success, when he bOasted in pub
lished card that he was one OF the largest
taxpayers of Ncw-York. Of course his great
estate has dwindled somewhat since then.
Some of it has gone in one direction, some IN
another. His struggles with justice have alb
sorbed good deal. But q large amount of it
remains with him and his family, and not one
cent, except the fine of $3.50 he paid the
other day, has gone into the public chest,
which he plundered so long and so eifectually.
There is no case for sympathy here. 1t is not
given to many men in century to be aole
to do 80 much evil as Mr.. Tweed did during
the years when he governed this city by the
corrupt and vulgar combination of which he
was chief The money he stole was
but one part Of his criminality; the
worst was his systematic debauchery OF the
political circles around him; the ef1rontery
of vice which he made the fashion OF the
| hour about the City Hall, so that an honest
partisan was made ashamed of his honesty,
as chaste cOurtier of the Regency would
have been ashamed of his innocence. Tho
consequences of this infamous regime are not
| yet over, among the lower stratum OF pol
iticians in this city. 1t will take years to
disinfect our politics of the cOarser sort
of contagion which he brought into them.
But this he cannot remedy. The corrup-
ton ho set on foot is beyond his reach. The
case il not the same in regard to the
money he stole. He can ask for no sympathy
as long as that wealth remains in his hands
or in the hands of his family. He has
made no attempt to conceal it, After his SEN
| tence he was allowed all the time no
required to settle his affairs, and the singular
spectacle was presented of tho greatest
thief of the age, on his way to Jail for
stealing, stopping for q week or two, under
the courteous guard of the sheriff, to arrange
for the disposition Of the property he had
stolen. We are good-natured people, and
the public were so glad to see him sentenced
that no objection was made to this extraordi-
nary lenity. After he had retired to his en-
forced leisure on the Island there was no
disposition to object to his being treated with
humanity. But there will be a revival of
public interest in the matter OF his crimes,
il he is now to be turned loose with all his
spoils. His residence in Jail does not
prevent him from engaging in extensive real
estate operations, in property to which he
has no moro just title than any pickpocket in
| Baxter Street. He cannot eat his cake and
have it. If he desires public sympathy let
him give up the proceeds of his ulefts. IL
he prefers to keep his booty, let him enJoy 1t
in the company of other convicts.
Year: 1874

teen failures. A mournful company this, OF
CAPITALISTS whose only fortunes are of rejected
manuscripts and desultory knowledge. The
ranks of the unemployed intellects are not so
formidable, perhaps, as those OF the unem-
ployed hands, but their stories, If they could
be made known, are no less pitiful. Men OF
talent and education feel the rough jostllng
of want more keenly than the men who are
accustomed to give aud take knocks. Men
who are trained to refinement, and then
through their own or others mistakes bnd
themselves adrift on the world are educated
as the poor blind are-until they learn to be
proud and sensitive, and then arc turned into
the streets to peddle brOoms. With the wise
and discriminating relief with which the Win
ters want is to be softened, the vcriest Grad
grind would not find fault, but this is only
rough approximation to charity, after all.
There is distress that lies too deep to be
reached in this way. Let some good angels
seek out the poverty that hides itself.


A strike Of the students is out of the ques-
tion But improvement is possible for those
who will help themselves, not because
thoy will then be helped Of the gods,
but because they will then need no other help



thousand and one applications Of the old, old
sermon are one and the same-superhclallty'
tho American sin. The vast majority oil these
unfortunates are 50 lacking in thoroughness
and so poorly grounded in their trades, that
tho first rude push shakes them from their
places, and they are stranded in utter help
lessncss. The men who are thorough and
painstaking and well equipped, do not
need to seek; thoy are sought after.
Railroads compete for them. insurance COM
panies and banks are glad to get them at any
price, and occasionally there is President
shrewd enough to ask one into his Cabinet.
ANY man who knows how to do even one
thing thoroughly and well, rarely fails to lind
an opportunity to do it.


Another thing 1t would be well if large
number of persons now engaged III brain
work, or in endcavoring to obtain 1t, would
retire from the business-for want Of capital.
There are various people who are trying to
lecture who would make excellent clerks, or
statesmen of any wares but their own; numer-
GUS briefcss attorneys who would succeed
admirably as lawyers managing clerks or
court reporters; countless newspaper people
who would be more useful in the lower walks
Of agriculturc-for there is absolutely no
limit to the number of those who think
themselves fully qualified to edit newspaper,
without once pauSing to consider whether
they have tho requisite training, aptitude
and ability. A whole army of scribbcrs
and gabblers might be gathered to reinforce
the useful trades, if they could be brought to
recognize the impertinence of their intel
lcctual efforts. For many Of them to persist
ia "brain work" is an affront to common
sense, and the popular favor which some of
them secure is dark and discOuragng mys-
terry. But probably more of them are impOs-
ing on themselves than are attempting to de-
ceve others. The tiddles of a number of our
fellow-countrymen are tuned entirely too
high.
Year: 1874

Those who 60 to the Central Park know
through what tIibulatiOns it is necessary to
pass before arriving at that delightful pleasure
garden. There is not prettier park in the
world, and there is not so bad an approach to
any public grounds within the limits of civ
lizatiOn as our own Fifth Avenue. There Is
no avoiding this road; the avenue: on either
side are occupied by street railways, and the
aristocratic thoroughfare pcrched upon the
backbone Of Manhattan Island is the exclusive
straight and narrow path by which the whole
city must go to its breatilg-pla The adj
vantages Of the Park are as evident as its
beauties. 1t is the only spot on this populous
island where the tired citizen can get
breath of fresh air, sight Of green grass and
growing trees in Summer, and in Winter can
see that Nature is not responsible for the de-
fOrmity and ugliness of the season in town.
For people In health, it affords one of the
greatest comforts in life, and for invalids it is
sometimes essential to life itself. But it is un-
reasonable that the well should be jOted on
the way over so wretched road as to drown
their 4 ense of pleasure in evaporation, and
that tho ill should be made worse by this
rude ordeal.





Park is in some respects tho most remarkable
in the world. There is not much variety in
ii, and it lacks altogether that beauty of
lawns and gardens which makes one or two
avenues in interior cities joy and pride to
the eyes of patriotic citizens. But it is the
most wonderful prospect which the world can
present of rich and costly dwelling houses
succeeding each other with scarcely break
for three solid miles. 1t will be tho favorite
drive and the favorte promenade on this con-
tinent for more years than it is now necessary
to calculate. 1t needs, therefore, good pave
ment; one which shall be pleasant for car
riages, safe for horsemen, and which shall not
be any moro noisy than the circumstances of
the case render necessary. Many incline to
macadam, and many are tempted by that ex-
cellent composite pavement opposite the
Worth Monument, which has for several years
recommended itself with gentle persuasive
ness to every one who has caught a moments
peace and quiet by driving over it. Between
these two we should think the decision might lie.
But the credit Of the city and the comfort of
its inhabitants and visitors require that not
much more time should be lost in giving to
this great thoroughfare q pavement at once
safe, agreeable, and practicable. We hope the
next session of the Legislature may do some
thing for us in this regard. a bill came near
passing last Winter. under which the avenue
might now have been in splendid condition.
1t, or something better, ought to be proposed
early and pressed to q speedy vote.
Year: 1874

THE RIGHT MIN IN TIE RIGHT PLACE.
The friends and attorneys of William NJ.
Tweed are now developing the plans which
they have been maturing for year TO extri-
cate him from prison at the expiration of his
first twelve months Of punishment. Despair
ing Of any prospect of Executive clemency,
now that his most efficient adversary and
prosecutor is elected Governor of New York,
they are seeking to evade the law by means
of law, to get their client out of Jail by the
same way lie went in. 1t is not within
our province to discuss point Of law now
pending before the courts. We have little
fear that the sentence of Tweed will be shown
to have been rendered in haste or ignorance.
He is very rich man; lie has plenty of stolen
money to hire lawyers with. 1t is only
natural that he should exhaust every means
in the arsenal of jurisprudence to save the
remnant Of his life from the punishment
which has been righteOusly assigned him.
We do not think there is any reason for ap-
prehenson that the skill which could not pre-
vent his conviction can now nullfy his SEN
tence.


While we decline to discuss the point of
law now raised, We do not feel called upon to
keep silent in regard to the moral merits of
the attempt now making to restore this great
malefactor to the society he has pillaged and
sought to. debauch. If his ill-gained wealth
had been taken from him and restored to the
public treasury, there would be Little tendency
anywhere to vindictive feeling against an old
and ruined man. But the case ia far different.
Year: 1874

There is always some truculent person writing to
the newspapers who would like to know" you
know; and not seldom the cry of the correspondent
is out Of all proportion to the wool Of the outrage


Cincinnati man read in tho journals that the city
had perpetually leased part of lots and in Kem-
pes subdivision to the Little Sisters of tho Poor at
an annual rent of ST." His soul was at once in
arms and he sent off letter to The Gazette demand


ing an explanation. Were the corruptions of the
New-York Ring to be revived in tho City Of Pork I
Was this transfer legalf Had they Boss Tweed
among themf All this was sublime and patriotic
and philosophical; 10 was only the explanation
which made the matter ridiculous. The land con-
veyed to the Little Sisters was a small strip Of
ground-a bit Of an old abandoned road II, in-
stead Of leasing it, the city should vacate formally
the road this strip would to the adjoining prop


erty-owners-th Sisters themselves In this con-
dition of the ground, it is hard to SEQ what harm
was d0no BY tho execution cf the perpetual lease:
Year: 1874

Strikes interest everybody. No better proof
of the Importance and real dignity of labor
could be adduced than the share OF public at
tention it commands. Labor has only to
stretch out its hand, and the vast machinery
that begins with the bricklayer and ends with
the millionaire is stopped on the instant. The
strike is a peaceful revolution-the Anglo
SaxOn's barricade. Labor was always power,
even when in chains; the trades-uniOn has
made it terror. But there is far more
highly civilized, though Jess numerous class,
who are much more helpless and yet much
less needed. Their wants are often no less pro-
nounced, and yet they can never organize to
make them known. These are the needy men
of brains, unsuccessful writer's teachers, clergy
men, and lawyers men who do not struggle in
the contest for bowl of free soup, who
button up their hunger under threadbaro
brOadclOth. They make no stir in the public
prints, run no candidates for Mayor. organize
no parties on the platform Of o general divi-
sion Of all property but their own, form no
unions, indulge in no strikes. They are in
capable of helping themselves by any but
individual effort, and must be until the full
ness of time shall bring about trades
union Of poets or q strike Of paragraph
writer's. This class of unfOrtunates maintain
such o reserve that the existence of their
wants is often unsuspected, and thus goes on
much Of that silent and poignant suffering
which never reaches the public eye or ear.
The cold Is just as keen when it strikes
through rusty black as when it pierces a
workman's blouse. Hunger gnaws just as
cruelty at the waistband Of the professor as
of the peddler. The stomach is republican,
whatever the social rank Of the brain. The
artist and the scholar must eat as well as
grosser people; and pigments are not pork,
and square roots are not potatoes The class
is by no means small Not a daily newspaper
in any large city that is not overrun with
more applicants for work on any terms than
could find standing room at one time in its
offices. Not o school but is besieged by men
and women ready to teach at starvation
wages; not q school where teachers do not
cling to their posts as with the grip Of death,


even when most unwiss Commissioners reduce


their pitiful salaries. Not a position in the


country requiring brain work for which
score of rivals will not fight iercely
when death or chance makes va
caucy and for every success there are nino.
Year: 1874

The greater part of the expenditures of the
Government consists of salaries and pensions
payable at fixed and regular periods. The pen
sOns are payable quarterly, and during No
vember between three and four millions
should have been drawn from the Treasury
in preparation for tho disbursements by the
agents which commence this week. But the
total amount of warrants drawn on account Of
Pensions, Indians, and the Department Of the


Interior, was last month only S2,464,395
against $4,5SO,25O in November last year for
the same purposes. We do not wish to seem
censorious. We simply ask in behalf of the
public, who furnish these enormous sums of
money, that the information which the Gov
ernmcnt publishes in regard to the finances
shall be such as not to mislead. The
statesmen of former generations, when
the aggregate cost of our Municipal,
State, and National Governments was not
one-tenth what it now reaches, always
regarded with dread the tendency of
our republican institutions toward extrava-
gance and fraud in the use of public money
Experience has shown that their fears were
not without good foundation. Those already
pensioned on the public Treasury and those
who are eager to attach themselves to it are
a truly formidable phaanx. We think there
is not single city of one hundred thousand
inhabitants in the Union that does not count
its indebtedness by millions, the greater part
of it in most cases having been wantonly if
not dishonesty appropriated. The people
have chosen representatives only to be be-
trayed and tricked by them. What is now
called for is the clearest statement that can
be devised on all matters relating to public
expenditures, to the end that what is wrong
may be brought to light, tho causes of our
severe taxation understood, and the proper
remedies applied. We therefore look forward
with great interest to Mr.. Brstow's forthcom-
ing report on the finances. We sec much to
approve of in his administration thus far, and
we hope to see a great deal more.
Year: 1874

There must be better way to prevent steal
ing by the Democrats than leaving them
nothing to steal. These three months may be
very proftably occupied in setting the next
Congress an example of economy, frugality,
and industry. And it is the only thing tho


Republican party can do to regain puoilc
Year: 1874

The abandonment Of the general strike on
the part of the 1ongshoremen, is the beginning
of the end. Although those that work ON
steamers still undertake to hold out, the strike
is completely shOrn Of its importance, except
TO the unfortunate men whom it has thrown
out of work for the Winter.
Year: 1874

the reforms introduced there, that tho com
panies belonging to the Board may take such
individual action as they think proper on the
subject of Chicago insurance. This Will DO
good news to tho many Eastern men who own
buildings or mortgages in the Lake City.
Year: 1874

ANY SENSIBLE GENTLEMAN WOULD BE
delighted to receive FUR CAP of FUR GLOVES or
a handsome CANR from lady friend as holiday gift
and in return the lady woull be grafed with nice
UMBRELLA These articles OF superior quality can be
found at KNOXS. 22 Broadway and in the Filth Avenue
Year: 1874

town shall have the right to levy OF collect a
TAX on sample merchants. And It is further
provided that no nonresident sample MGR
chants shall sell to any person other than a
manufacturer or licensed merchant without
taEing out the additional license required Of
resident merchants.