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Year: 1877

The fact that bookkeeper could steal
$3.50. QUO from bank at the close OF DAY
has caused good deal of excitement among
depositors. The question now comes up
Is any mans money safe in any bank III
New York? had talk yesterday with one
of the most eminent of our bank presidents.
He said there was absolutely no protection
for the bank if the paying teller and
the bookkeeper conspire. No vigilance on
the part of the president or cashier can af-
ford the bank protection if the two officers
ara not honest. The head officials might
stand one over the paying teller and the
bookkeeper. Even then, unless these men
did the subordinates' work, they could car
~ on their game right under their eyes.
The most important officer we have in the
bank is the paying teller. He must have
na,ticular combination to fit him for that
post. He must be quick, expert at figures
and courteoue, prompt and honest. lie
must have an intuition that admits OF no
DELAY even in the doubtful case,


IT. is easy to find men who have one and
sometimes two of these qualifications.
Sharp men are apt to be crusty and courte-
ous men slack. But to find a man who is
both courteous and sharp is difficult The
man who stands at that window pay
ing checks seldom makes mistake. Last
week a check was handed to him. AS soon
as he saw the check he saw that something
was wrong. He had an impression that
the number was too large. The check was
for Ss. 600, drawn by one our most emf
nent MERCANTILE firms. The more he looked
at the check the less he was SATISFIED with
il. It was sent back to the banking house
which sent it. The party who presented 1t
was detained by detective. The check
proyed to forged, but SO well executed that
the firm would at once hays PAID 1t had
their check book have shown any such
amount at the time. There is great deal
of excitement produced by these occasional
emil lezzlements. But the public do not
count up the great army of bank officials
who do not break through nor steal.-N.
| y Car. Boston Journal.
Year: 1877

that without them the republican party


would lose its power in the United


States. Yes, sir, the republican party
did need them and the trouble now is
that therepublican party do notget them.


Laughter.


Why, sir, they talk of intimidation
Here are hundreds of negro men in
Louisiana who come up and say, "we
voted the democratic ticket" l have
seen it stated as high as thousands call
it hundreds if you choose; call it any
number you please they come up and
say "we voted the democratic ticket. +"
What does the returning board say
say "yOu were intimidated to vote the
democratic ticket" What then? They
come up and make affidavit that they
voted the democratic ticket, and that
they voted it without intimidation.
What does the returning board say +?
" You were intimidated to make afiida-
Wit" And so it goes.


Why, sir, where is the end of this
Cannot any man who has the least hon
esty and the least sagacity in the world
see that if such practices as these are
tolerated, anything like republican insti-





ballot are at an end? You put the des-
tinies of the whole states in the hands of
four irresponsible men called a returning
board, and then talk about a republican
form of government You want
to invoke the whole force of the
government, its army, its navy,
to secure to a state a republican
form of government; and you put in the
= r
of the highest character either, the right
to determine upon the phase of govern
ment of that state. And yet you call
that republican form of government !


Mr.. President, it will not do; no, it |
will not do. My colleague said, with /
great force and eloquence, that if cleo
ions were to be carried in this country
oy intimidation, there was end to repub-
ican institutions. l agree with him
md l tell him, and l say to each one of
you, that if elections are to be carried by
he use of the army of the United States
md its intimidation, there is an end of
epublican institutions. Sir, all the in
imidation that ever actually existed on
he part of the democratic or the white
'eople of the south is but drop in the
'ucket to the danger of that intimidation
VnlCH comes from C06 standing army OF
he United States. Anarchy in any
ountry at last corrects itself, for it can
lot be borne but the use of a standing
rmy to control the people has been fatal
o liberty ever since republic existed.
agree with my colleague that intimida-
ion of the voters is fatal to republican
overnment but / ask him while his
mind, heated and excited by what hehas
cen and by what, he has heard. is brood
ng over cases of homicide, of violence,
nd the like, to think of the far greater
anger of intimidation by the organized
ody which carries the swerd and the
ayonet and wields the artillery of the
rmy. / ask him to think of that much
raver danger of intimidation from him
Tho shall hold in his hand the purse and
be sword. ask him to remember that
here have been Caesars and Cromwells
nd Bonapartes in the world who have
verthrown republican institutions
ut republican institutions never yet
ave been overthrown by the kind of in
imidation of which he speaks.
Year: 1877

Maiorities. ASP l64.553
In view of this immense vote and de-
cisive majority, the republican party
ought to fOrtify itself exceedingly strong
before undertaking to override it.


FRAUD enough to vitiate the action of
the South Carolina returning board have
been already discovered by the committee
of congress now at Columbia. 1t has
been admitted by a member of the board
that the contents of thirty ballot-boXes
not counted at all, while evidence of the
outrageous swindling of the Chamber
lain gang crops out on every hand. The
scoundrels are industrious1y trying to
cover their tracks and to run off wit
nesses of their villainy, but the proof is
conclusive and its production certain


Chicago Times.


THE shipments of freight west and
south have fallen off greatly since the
conspiracy of the republican ofice-hOld-
| ers to seize the government has been de-
veioped. We fear that before the mid
die OF February the republican merchants
in New York who have tacitly encour-
aged this criminal attempt to subvert our
free institutions, will have deep cause to
regret that they did not take a more
manly stand against the revolutionary
movements of their political leaders,
Ne.O York Sun.


THIS information concerning the Lou
isiana count is brief, exact and con-
yenient for reference: "The Louisiana
returning board was composed exclu-
siyely Of republicans. Although the
returns were opened in the presence of
the two committees, they were can
vassed in secret session, from which all
democrats were excluded"


A PREVAILING impression in this city,
saws the Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, is that both
houses will decide that each has the
power vested in il to go behind the face
of the returns. If such a construction
is agreed upon the election will be
thrown into the house, and the result
will be that Tilden will be elected presi-
dent by that body, and that Wheeler will
be elected vice president by the senate.
This would, of course,be robbing Hen
bricks of his legal rights, but it would
be an outcome calculated to bring peace
and harmony out of what threatens to
be chaos and disorder. IF such is to be
the result, it is predicted that Hendricks
will be a member of the next cabinet.
Year: 1877

Mr.. 1hurman's Speech in the Senate


Sir, I can tell you that these charges
of intimidation will not cease as long as
under the mere pretense of intimidation
you can overthrow the votes of the peo-
pie of state. As long as you have this
machinery of a returning board, a per-
iectly irresponsible returning board, ac-
cording to the present claim that on
vague notion of intimidation you can
change the result of an election, as in
the case of this very same James Madi-
son Wells parish in the count of 1875,
who disfranchised his whole parish on
his own affidavit, deprived it of its three
members whom it had elected to the leg
islature, and put in three men who had
not been elected, on his own mere afi-
davit, alleging intimidation when he was
not there, his affidavit not made in pub
lie, not submitted to the inspection of
the public, but filed after that board
went into secret session, and was never
seen by the men who were elected, never
seen by their counsel, never seen by the
public-as long as such things as that
can be done there will be claims of the
votes of these states being controlled by
intimidation. Why, Mr.. President, it
is a new feature introduced into the
American constitution and the American
system of government. We did think
once that the only question about an
election was, who has a majority of the
votes? That is what we thought that
is what our fathers thought when they
made our constitution; but that is not
the question any more. The question is
not who has the majority of the votes,
but who has the majority of the men
who count the votes?


If you have returning board with a
majority ready to count out democratic
candidates, they have a power as great
as the tribunals of the Roman people had
to veto the voice of the people; not
simply to veto what the people have
done, but to determine what the people
ought to have done, according to their
Judgment of what they think to be best.
That is it, sir


And now my colleague, in the very
impassioned and very eloquent speech he
made to-day, says that this results, as
understand him, from the color line.
tell him that / stand prepared to prove
that the responsibility for the color line
rests on his party. tell him that ]
stand prepared to prove that millions OF
the peoples money have been expended
to establish the color line. know very
well why the right of suffrage was given
the colored man. 1t is not matter Of
speculation; it is not a matter of infer
ence; it was openly avowed when the
fifteenth amendment was under consider
alton; openly avowed in this senate, that
the republican party needed 100000
negro votes that could be given if the
fifteenth amendment were adopted; that
the republican party needed them, and
Year: 1877

pered an invocation, but no one APP


peared, nor did Hall ever make himself


present to his last earthly friend. The


latter was wont say that GHOSTS were
not kind to him.


Benjamin Franklin mentions a similar
agreement which he made with a friend
named Osborne, when he was a young
man living in Philadelphia. He says in
his autobiography, eve had seriously en-
gagged that whoever died first should re-
turn if possible and pay friendly visit
to the survivor, to give him an account
of the other world" and, he adds, COS
borne never fulfilled his engagement"
This desire for such mysterious knowl-
edge is so natural that it has been a mat
ter of discussion for ages, and Blair thus
alludes to it in his poem "Ihe Grave:"
Tell us, We dead Will oone Of you in pity
10 those you left behind disclose the sccaet?
y that some courteous ghost would blab II out;
W hat tbs you and we must shortly be
Year: 1877

WE reproduce our table of the vote OF
the central states in order to give the
correct vote of Delaware, and to make a
comparison of the vote of 1868. 1t will
be seen that the net democratic gain is
296, ,005. A larger gain would be shown
by making the comparison with 1872,
but in such case it would be properly
held that that election went so largely
by default as not to afford a true test.
The following is the table:
Year: 1877

THE Hark-Eye says: The other night
woman out on South Hill was sewing
in her room, when she was somewhat
annoyed to see the apartment suddenly
fill with non-explosivekerosene oil. She
felt that she had occasion to go out into
the air, and, as the evening was
cool, she wrapped window sash
around her delicate form and strolled
through the front fence, remarking to
neighbor who was passing, Fire"
heremark attracted his attention, and in
the course of the evening he repeated it
to several of his neighbors and acquaint-
ances, and their curiosity led them to
visit the woman's house and pour eight
thousand nine hundred and twenty-three
gallons of water ON the best carpets and
furniture. The place is now Illuminated
nightly with tallow candles.
Year: 1877

EVERYBODY will concede the ineff-
able meanness of Decoy Bliss, the re-
moved United States District Attorney
of New York. in bringing the Income
tax suit against Gov. Tilden. 1t is ar
unadulterated partisan trick utterly
unworthy an honest or a decent man,
and as such it is regarded by all who
have any regard for the ordinary pro-
prieties of life. We do not for mo.
ment believe that his successor, who
is reputcd to be an honorable lawyer,
will press the suit, Notwithstanding
the instructions from Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue Raum.
Year: 1877

Senator Conkling is hne German
scholar, and made a vote for the next
Presidency (lSS0) by the manner in
which he treated the letter addressed
to him in German by a citizen of Eric,
to which the Senator replied also in
German.
Year: 1877

The immense power which nervous and the
brain possesses the health important pbyo-
logical fact that has been hitherto upon
which proper system Of treatment dep pend.


OF all diseases whch alc the human there not
possessing than aud
debility owing its subtle character and the slow and
steaithy manner In which 1t makes inroads upon the
strongest constitution There little doubt
that year by year II has been Increasing nor
Is this to be wondered The habits OF
the generation such tend debtate the
frame The OF society compel lead to great
life artificial the vices to-day Of
the most enfsebing and dangerous kind There Is no
plant that coser attention than that of debi
Tor Of the fear results OF this dsease is that IL
Is the body only thm suffers but the mind takes OF the
muititucs who might have lived TO be-
society become victims OF misery in
OF their minus becoming weak and believing that
their incurable


Having devoted many wears OF my practice to this
speciality enabled by system OF treatment


have discovered 70 restore health vgor and manhood to
feeble aud shattered constitution
aggravated the case may be or how long standing.
Year: 1877

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE RISEN CAROLINA.
.He serreh best, ,cho iopeth most"


[Coleridge.
They only may be truly said to live
Who nobly live; and all may nobly live;
There is no work 80 mean n purpose pure
May not ennoble it--no life so poor
It may not link itself to issues high
Who knows how far an act or word may reach
1t was Gods will by one perfect life
Lived in a nook obscure, to save tho world;
He knoweth well what thou hast most at heart
To that He counts thy life ut its just weight
Meet but His will, lie will meet thy desire.
How can I serve the State?


Sweet would it be to die


Or live for her! but
Can only love my State.
How can l servo the State?
But SsaS her II Thy heart =,
And thou shalt serve thy State"
How can I serve the State?


"No proof of love il were
To serve thysclf by her
Through office Of the State
How can I serve the State?


'By service indirect


Thou mayest we'll protect
And help;to build thy State"
How may serve the State?


There is no lot so low


But thou may'st use il so
AS well to serve thy State"
How may serve the StateH


''Scrve him who placed thee thore,
And think not that by prayer
Thou dost not serve thy State"
How can l serve the State?


"Work at the task God sent


Fulfill His high intent;
Trust Him to keep the State"
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON.
The Prospective Holiday Re-
cess Favorable to An
decentralization


Cabals.
A General Understanding that
There VIII Be No Senate


Vote This Week.
Most Of the Time to Be Devoted to
q Discussion Of tho Sil-


ver Bill.
A Senator and a Representative
to Address the People in


Favor Of Silver.
Belief in the Existence of a Dcna-
ocratic Conspiracy Against


the Army.
Secretary sohurz silences tho Gossip
About Sending Him to


Berlin.
Morrison Evlnclng q Disposition
OF Christian Forgiveness


Toward Randall.
Year: 1877

The claim of the United States for
the return of the 81 $780, 900 lent to help
out the Centennial Exposition has been
rejected by the United States Circuit
Court at Philadelphia, although there
are abundant funds remaining in the
hands of the managers with which to
satisfyit. Consequently, unless the de-
cision of the Court is reversed on ap-
peal, the $1,50O,00O will be distributed
among the shareholders in the enter
prise, and be just so much taken out of
the public treasury for their benefit.
That this would be the result was fore
told by the opponents of the loan at the
time it was proposed, and was indig-
nantly denied by its friends. Some of
them, at least, were disingenuous in
their denial, and intended that the
money should be gift and not loan,
as is evident from the peculiar wording
of the bill appropriating it.


The clause which was relied on to pro-
tect the interests of the Nation, and
which was used to secure votes for the
grant, runs thus:


"The appropriation hereinbefore
made shall be paid in full into the
Treasury of the United States before
any dividend, or percentage of the
profits shall be paid to the holders of
said stock"


The advocates of the grant professed
to read these words with comma
after the word ssdividend," and per-
suaded the public that no dividend of
any kind would be paid to the stock
holders until the loan from the United
States had been first returned. Now,
by their counsel learned in the law,
they have successfully contended that
there is no comma, and that only a
"dividend or percentage of the profits"
was intended. Inasmuch as a dividend
of capital is not dividend of profits,
they have got the Judge to say that the
stockholders may pocket the 100000
as returned capital, and the United
States must loose the whole.


This is not the first time that COM
ma or the want of it has been made q
fish-hook by which to pull money out
of the public Treasury. A clause, in
the tariff act of 1875, by the omission of
this modest sign of punctuation, admit
ted free of duty all kinds of foreign
fruits, when the intention of Congress
was merely to exempt fruits imported
for the sake of their seeds. The trick
in that case was universally denounced
and speedily frustrated, but in regard
to the S1,500,000 now in question the
Nation is very possibly without remedy
Year: 1877

The Indian has actual and common
experience of many articles of civilized
manufacture, the simplest of which is
as entirely beyond his comprehension
as the most complicated. He would be
simple exclamation-point did he show
surprise at every thing new to him, or
which he does notunderstand. He goes to
the other extreme, and rarely shows or
feels surprise at any thing. He visits
the States, looks unmoved at the steam
boat and locomotive. People call it
stoicism. They forget that to his igno-
rance the production of glass bottle is
as inscrutable as the sound of the thun-
der. A piece of gaudy calico is mar


He knows nothing of the comparative
difficulties of invention and manufac-
ture, and to him the mechanism of
locomotive is not in any way more mat
ter of surprise than that of wheel


barrow. When things in their own
daily experience are performed in what
to them is a remarkable way, they do
express the most profound astonish-
ment. l have seen several hundreds of
Indians, eager and excited, follow from


one telegraph pole to another repair
er, whose legs were encased in climb
ing boots. When he walked easily,


foot over foot, up the pole, their sur


prise and delight found vent in the


most vociferous expressions OF applause


and admiration. A white lady mounted


on side-saddle, in what to the Indian


woman would be almost am impossible
position, would excite more surprise


and admiration than would Hoe
printing press in full operation.-The
Happy Hunting Grounds of the Great
West 80 & i...s - 20 fs-3 2
Year: 1877

A little better class of the tramps, but
thorough tramps, nevertheless, habitu-
ally haunt the reading-rooms at the
Cooper Institute and Astor Library.


They strive to wear some semblance of
shabby gentility, shave themselves with
razors which they carry carefully in
their pockets all the time, wash their
faces and hands occasionally, and are
seldom seen without paper collars, even
if their coats are pinned tightly over
their breasts to hide the absence of
shirts, and their pantaloons are held to-
gether by hundreds of pins. They do
not frequent those places to read, but
to have in the open books before them
excuses to sit in a warm place. 1t is
really wonderful how well soundly
sleeping hummer will simulate wake
fulness. A lot of them used to frequent
Mat Gooderson's in old times, and sit
about the stove to snoOze, which an
noyed the proprietor to such an extent
that he took the chairs away. Then
they would lean up against the wall,
and sleep standing. Determined to put
stop to their slumbers, he made
regulation that every one of them should
hold paper up before him as if he were
reading, whether he could read or not,
and, if one went to sleep and dropped
his paper, he should be expelled. They
speedily adapted themselves to circum-
stances, and learned to sleep standing,
holding the paper up mechanically all
the time. Then he required that they
should keep one foot moving constant
ly, to show that they were awake. Even
that did not trouble them. They would
stand up, hold the paper, wag one foot
steadily, and still sleep soundly, and
some of them, it is averred, acquired
such practice in the art of deception
that they could even do all this and
sleep-witb their eyes wide cpen.-New
York Times.
Year: 1877

A smoke from the leaves of BELLA
donna possesses much more power in
cutting short an attack of asthma than
that from stramonium. A long pipe is
the best means of smoking them, the
patient being instructed to draw the
smoke deep into the chest. Ii when
the attack is at its height he has not the
power of doing this, the leaves may be
placed in saucer containing lighted
charcoal or wood ashes, which should
be placed on a chair in front of the pa
tient, this chair, as we'll as his own, be-
ing covered with a large sheet, so as to
confine the fumes, before leaves are put
on the hot charcoal. From two and
half to five grains Of the leaves are suf-
ticient when smoked, and from to ~
grains when burned. If the smoke is
drawn deeply into the chest, the relief
is immediate, expectoration of phlegm
taking place. 1t is in the spasmodic
form of asthma, where there is little or
no expectoration, that the greatest re-
lief is obtained; for, when the tubes
are loaded with mucus, the smoke can
not get access to their muscular tissue.
lThe relief is most marked when the
remedy is used soon after the paroxysm


has commenced, before the spasm pre-


vents access of air to the smaller tubes
| and air-cells. Tobacco-smokers do
not receive the same amount of relief


as others Temporary headache of a


throbbing character may be produced


If the leaves are used too freely.-Mef-
| 5os4ri.e Medical Record.
Year: 1877




Mr.. Hale Of Maine moved to amend BY increas-
ing the appropriation for pay of officers and sea.
men OF the navy from Sc go 900 as appropriated
in the bill, TO 81 100000.
Without vote on the amendment the commit
tee arose.
The conference report on the bill providing for
deficiency appropriation for support of the public
printing office was agreed to.


The house at 4.55 took recess until 730, the
evening session to be for the consideration Of the
naval appropriation bill.


The house went into committee OF the whole on
the naval appropriation bill the pending question
being on the amendment of Mr.. Hale.
MIR. Wilson of Iowa favored the amendment,
but wished more light Could be thrown upon the
whole subject.


Mr.. Banks spoke in favor of the amendment
The United States flag was without sufficient pro-
lection on thd high seas and was liable to be in
suited


Mr. Holman Of Indiana thought that consider
ing the situation of the country the United States
navy was very considerable, and was stronger
than ii was in 1889
After further debate the amendment was re-
jeeted.


Without finishing the bill the committee rose ct
10 O'Clock and took recess until ten O'Clock to-
morrow.