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Year: 1877

"Glory is like circle in the water"
Adolph Won Steinwehr was good soldier
and served through the war; but at only q
little more than thirteen years from the
time the battle of Gettysburg was fought the
obituary notices of this officer name, as
though it were his greatest act of service to
the nations cause, the fact that he once made
an effort to hold the people Of district in
Year: 1877

New Streets in the swamp District.


Any one familiar with the plan of the
lower and oldest part of New York will
readily recognize how important 1t would be
to business interests if certain streets were
widened and improved and new avenues
opened connecting the central with the
waterside thoroughfares. AS the city grows
narrower south Of Grand street the principal
streets converge to common point at the
City Hail. Therefore in that vicinity the
concentration of traffic which can find no
loss of time in the transportation OF freight
and merchandise, besides creating an
undue wear and tear on the street
pavements. Broadway is constantly crowded
with vehicles of every description, and q
frequent interruption of traffic takes place
trifing nature. Nearly all the heavy busi-
ness of the city is transacted within an area
bounded on the north by Grand street.
Within it we find the principal warehouses,
stores, depots, factories and markets, each
having their special needs for free communi-
cation with other points in the city. We be-
leve therefore that comprehensive scheme
of street widening, opening and improve
ment should enter into the general plan in
contemplation for increasing the trade facili-
ties of New York. We must have wide and
we'll paved avenues uniting the centre of
the city with the docks and piers, and SO
planned that the streams Of traffic can be
divided into smaller and more manageable
currents when they enter the narrow pre-
cincts Of the business section of the city.
An opportunity can be now created in con-
nection with the completion Of the East
River Bridge. Property must be purchased
for the bridge approach, and we see no rea-
son why sufficient width should not be Sc
cured to afford broad avenue which would
lie parallel with the viaduct. Weregard with
favor the proposition to open wide street
between Chatham square and the Battery.
Such can be secured by improving the New
Bowery to Water street and widening the
latter to the South ferry. But we must also
provide for lateral traffic. A wide street
from the City Hall Park, through Frankfort
street to the East River, and the continue
ton of Park place to West street would give
fine cross town avenue. This, with the
widening of Chatham street and the inn
provement Of Pearl street, would give us
much needed business outlets. If any plan
for improving the street accommodation in
the Swamp region is adopted let it be
comprehensive one that will meet the
present wants.
Year: 1877

LADY CORRESPONDENTS writes to complain
of the difficulty which women experience when
iii search of employment. The answer is hard
one but nevertheless true: ladies who want to
acquire the manly right to labor will get some
valuable hints if only they will consult the
HERALD.
Year: 1877

Hayes Cabinet, we rejoice to note. will be
full. If there was any anxiety in any quar-
ter lest there would not be found in the
country men capable of filling and willing
to fill all the places that anxiety is now
happily dispelled, for large number Of
the distinguished men who ''made" Hayes
are coming to the rescue. Naturally they
cannot permit that their handiwork shall
prove failure for want of little more per-
sonal devotion on their part. The distin-
guished MIR. Blinl1inbright will be Secretary
of State. He was present at the Cincin-
natl Convention, where he perceived at
critical moment that Mr. Hayes
was about to be nominated. He i'm
mediately went over to Hayes with
his whole delegation, and thus determined
the result. Mr.. Botherbox, who has hith-
erto occupied several important Offices, will
accept the Treasury as q small recognition of
his services in having carried the news to
Columbus that the nomination was actu-
ally made. Mr.. Latherem will be Secretary
of War. lie secured the nomination Of
Hayes at Cincinnati by defeating the nomi-
nation of Blaine. Blaine would have been
nominated on the night of the first day that
ballots were taken, but Latherem had the
gas cut off and bought up all the candles in
Ohio so that they had to adjourn All the
other places will be given to men equally
famous for the fact that each one was the
real author of the nomination of HAYES.
Year: 1877

The CRooKEDNEss OF CHICAGO WHIsKEY is so
contagious to affect even sworn evidence. No
man whose conscience cannot turn a corner both
ways at can learn anything definite from
the testimony given in the New York case.
Year: 1877

A MERcIruL JUEY.-It is difficult to
say whether the result of the trial Of
the so-called "cart rung murderer was
due to the jury taking the bit in its
teeth and fairly running away with the
case or whether it was due to an unac-
countable Misunderstanding of the Judge.
His Honor charged the case as one Of mur-
der in the first or second degree, and the pun
ishment for the least grave of these offences
is imprisonment for life. But the jury rem
dered verdict of manslaughter in the
second degree, and the criminal thus gets
only seven years imprisonment But inas-
much as prisoners sentenced for life in this
State are incarcorated only for an average
term Of seven years the culprit is at least on
his average.
Year: 1877

Forgive me, George" she pleaded, ear
nestly,-"forgive me ? A mad, unwomanly
freak has robbed me of the happiness OF
lifetime.


She said no more, for, with her arms en-
twined lovingly around her murderers
neck she, without struggle, was waited on
the angel wings to her Creator. What words
can describe such agony, such utter desoa-
ton as mine BY one rash act had robbed
myself of more than life, and would not
live to endure such bitter remorse as mine.
] placed the pistol to my head but ere
could fire, my arm was grasped bya hand Of
Steel and the weapon dashed upon the
ground


My firing had awakened those living close
by, and they came just in time to save me
the crime of triple murder


made no resistance, and was conveyed to
prison, there to await my trial, which came
off in two months. | was condemned TO
death. My execution will take place four
weeks from tomorrow. l shall cheerfully
meet my fate, for who would endure life
when rendered SO peculiarly miserable
The wretched Melville here ended his
tale of woe. No tears moistened his eyes
his grief was too depressing for tears it
preyed upon his heart, drank the vital
streams of his life, and burst in convulslve
sighs from his burning bosom.


The day appointed for his execution drew
near; his past and approaching fate filled
my breast with sympathetic sorrow.


He saw his venerable father, his mother,
his friends and acquaintances, with several
pious clergymen, who entered the cell to
comfort him. His mind softened by their
advice and counsel. Frequently he would
burst into tears. Often in the solitary hour,
of the night was lie heard addressing the
throne of grace for mercy and forgiveness.


But the grief that preyed at his heart hat
wasted him to mere skeleton. A slow
but fatal fever had consequently implanted
itself in his constitution. Exhausted natur,
could make but faint struggle against dis
ease and atiliction like his, and about a weel
previous to the day appointed for his execu
tion he expired in his mothers arms with
the name ofhis loved and lost one upon hi
lips-leaving conclusive. incontrovertibl
evidence Of the evil influence of jealousy.
Year: 1877

In the town of Auburn, Oregon, gold dig
gings have been found under peculiar cir
cumstances A boy had been fitted out by
his father with the implements OF mining,
and set TO work near the roadside merely for
amusement and to give the youngster some-
thing to keep him out of mischief. The
ground was staked out formally in mining
style, and some waste water was turned into
-luices, so as to wash the dirt. The boy
worked for few days faithfully, and to
everybody's surprise, he at last panned out
a small quantity OF gold dust. Laborers
were then employed and the work was
deepened and EXTENDED, gold continuing to
be found at last accounts, in profitable
quantities.
Year: 1877

Tie present week will close the MOODY
and SAskE1 campaign in this city. 1t has
been a great popular crusade, and the hold
these gentlemen have taken upon the conf
muuity has steadily increased. We believe
it has been pretty generally admitted by
those who have taken pains to observe the
work, even when not personally in sympa-
thy with emotional religion Of any kind,
that vast deal OF good has been accom-
pished by these daily meetings. Certainly
a large number of people have been led in
the way Of religious ind moral thought
whom tho usual routine of church life
would not have touched, and the hope of
permanent impression is found in the ab-
sence Of the former indulgence of animal
magnetism in revirals which carried people
of their feet for the time being,
hut did not hold them. There has been
little Of the shouting and outward manifes-
tations peculiar to the old-style camp-meet-
ing and "love-feasts," but the interest which
thousands and tens Of thousands have de-
veloped in the cause has been Of more
rational and intelligent character, and there
is no doubt that there are to-day fewer
wicked people and good many more we'll
disposed people III Chicago than there were
before these meetings were started.
Year: 1877

According to the latest foreign dispatches,
it is not Turkey but Russia that is weaken
ing. The impression is gaining ground that
the great trump card of declaration of war
will not be played by Russia The dispatch
es state she is giving out hints that the cause
in issue is European rather than Slavonic,
and therefore the other Powers should assist
in coercing the Turks, which they refuse to
do, and that the Turks have not failed to
perceive an advantage accruing to their
cause from the irrresolution Of Russia and
Europe, and are not unlikely to continue
nnmanageable and stubborn as long as they
can fntter themselves that the Conference
will break up without any other result than
leaving them masters of the situation.
Year: 1877

ha7e so increased as to justify the establish
ment of court for probate business alone.
There can be no question that the business
Of our County Court las so increased as to
render it impossible for one Judge, even
though he hold court daily throughout the
year, to perform the business. The probate
business alone is sufficient to give full occu-
patton to Court who shall give the proper
deliberation to the consideration of the pro-
ceedings in that class of cases. The estab-
ishment of this Probate Court would still
leave the County Court with considerable oc-
cupation. In that event, all appeals from
Justices of the Peace in this county might
be transferred from the crowded dockets Of
our other courts, and made to the County
Court, where they could DO heard
and decided promptly. Appeals from
the County Court to the Supreme Court
in cases originating before Justices Of the
Peace should be restricted to cases involv-
ing the validity of a statute or of municipal
ordinance. This would work most beneficial
effect. 1t would relieve the Circuit Courts,
and would secure prompt hearing and de-
termination of these appeals, which are
largely taken for purposes Of delay. 10
the same Court there might be given other
jurisdiction, so as to embrace certain busi-
ness now required Of the Circuit Judges.
The Legislature has full power over the
question Of the jurisdiction Of the County,
Probate, and other Courts, and In this way
NAV give eren more satisfactory relief to the
Courts of this county than would be obtained
by the mere appointment Of another Judge
of the Circuit Court. It would enable the
probate business to be attended to without
the interference OF other business as now,
and generally promote expedition, avoid
delays, and improve the administration OF
the lazy.
Year: 1877

unusual, but evidence will probably be forth
coming that Mr.. BUSH was TnDExs financial
agent in Oregon. The extreme nervousness
and anxiety on the part of Senator KEENAN,
Of New York, to repress further testimony
and clog tho investigation also indicate that
the Senate Committee have got on the right
track. But still more significant circunl-
stance is in the fact TINT Mr. MARTIN was
followed to Washington by one HARRISON, who
endeavored to s'coach" him (A1ARTn) as to
what evidence he should give before the
Committee. This man HARRISON, who was
formerly Private Secretary to JEFF DAVIS,
and has more recently held the same position
in the employ of Mayor W1oKHAh, was be-
fore the Committee yesterday, and was
questioned as to the person or persons who
induced him to follow up the banker MARTIN
HARRISON at first refused to reveal who his
employers were, but, under pain of commit
ment to jail for contempt, he finally acknowi-
edged that he was set upon the job by one
PErroS, aoho is P,iuah Secretary to Gop.
TnDEN.


OF course, it is too carly yet to have dis
covered all the links that connect THDEN
directly with the effort to purchase an Elect
oral vote in Oregon, but it is reasonably cer-
tain III that, if T11DEs were in no wise con-
nected with 1T, he would not evince so much
concern about the testimony to be given con-
cerning it; and (2) that TuDEN himself could
scarcely have given better evidence OF this
personal concern if he had followed the New
York banker in 4'7vpria persona than by send
ing his Private Secretary on this mission It
is not easy to characterize in proper terms
the infan,y of the plot. It. is treason in
spirit and design, if not technically SO under
the law. It is of the same criminal nnture as
the melting Of people to revolt against Or
ganized Government It is an effort
to cheat the people Of their consti-.
tutional right of choosing q President
by the base means Of bribery aud
corruption. The conspiracy was infamous
enough while it was supposed to be merely
partisan trick undertaken by TnDIN's fac
tious friends but now that the evidence nc
cumulates that the suggestion came from
T1pES himself, that he furnished the bribe-
money, and that he seriously thought Of nc
quiring the Office of Chief Magistrate by this
means, the case stands without parallel.
It SO completely overshadows all the charges
of unfairness in the case of Louisiana that
The people Of this country will not easily be
led away from it to furnish any aid or conf
fort to the man who has not hesitated to
prostitute the chief Office in the nation to tho
humiliation of purchase from me1cenary
ppliticiaus
Year: 1877

There is undoubtedly a large increase in
the public apprehension Of serious and
pretty general panic among the 1ife-insurance
companies of this country. For years We
have been told that life-insurance is based
upon such absolute calculation of the chances
that failure is impossible, and the practice of
taking out policies for the benefit Of surviv-
ing families hns probably become more gen
eral than in any other country in the world.
The theory of life-insurance may be ns trust
worthy as it is represented to be, If it were
honestly carried out But in this, rs in other
business, speculation and competition have
become SO rife as to jeoparlize the integrity
of the system. All sorts of new devices
have been introduced to attract in
vestmcnts, and no other tradie has been SO
universally and persistently urged by person.
al solicitation Meanwhile it is notorious
that the expenses of the life companies have
been reck1essly e1trayagnnt, and the invest
ment of the funds has been in keeping with
the careless and speculative tendency of the
times. The failure Of two or three promi-
nent companies has naturally directed atten-
ton to the character of the assets and man.
agement of other companies thnt have stood
still higher and commanded greater conf
dence. The disposition to investigate ought
to be encouraged, and every policy y-holder in
whatever company will do we'll to promote
and assist tho most rigid scrutiny of its af-
fairs. It is notorious that many of our
life companies have for years been the
means OF paying officers and agents the
most extravasant salaries. and their expenses
in the way Of lavish appointments and
special efforts to solicit business have been
out of all proportion. It is equally notorious
that the investments and assets of life COM
panies have shrunk like oil other property
and securities, and it is high time that more
rigid laws be adopted by all the States, and
greater individual precaution taken against
Investments in policies. No disappointment
is keeuer than the loss of money paid to Sc
cure future return for wife and children,
and no deviltry more outrageous than to
swinde men out Of earnings and savings in
vested for so loyal purpose. We are salts
fed that the time has come for q general
overhauling of the life-insurance companies,
no matter how high or low.
Year: 1877

stolen by these cormorants. With regard to
the threatened resignation of the President
of the Board, if the Ring is not allowed TO
have fuu sweep, we have only word to soy.
Nine-tenths of the people Of the CITY ana
county, ore hoping, longing, praying Tor
HOLDEN to resign. II he will only do SO, he
will be the most popular man in Chicago the
day after his resignation The people will
then find different man to fill the place:
Any change would be an improvement.
Year: 1877

The failure to approve the bond submitted
by NIKE Evans has probably disposed of the
claims of that statesmen to the South Town
Collectorship. Yesterday Was his last day to
submit fresh undertaking, and, unable to
secure good and sufficient sureties, he let it
20 by default. It is now in order for Col
lector CAL1AGHS to replenish the Treasury
by sudden and etfectu1 exercise Of his func-
Year: 1877

nomenal fact that though a carpet-baggger,
he is a respectable gentleman, alike in mem
tai attainments and moral character and be-
cause OF the paradox that he is both the last
and the best Of played out race. Judging Of
the merit OF Leonard's purposes by the can
dor OF his conversation, I feel safe In predict
ing that so far as the material interests of
Louisiana and the Southwest are con-
cerned, he will be found faithful
and active representative of the whole
people, and that when purely political ques-
tions arise he will not be found guilty OF the
regulation Radical sin of accommodating his
conscience to the demands Of his party
am glad of this because when have In times
past told the Northern people Of the enormi-
ties OF the rpet-baggers, they would retort
that If Saint Peter himself had gone South as
a carpet-bagger he would have been maligned; |;
and | want to be able to show such people
that the Southern press is entirely capable OF
courtesy to even carpet-bagger who deports
himself in q manner to warrant courteous
treatment.


To turn from West and Kellogg to Spofford
and Eustis in the Senate, and from Morey,
Darrall, Sypher and Sheldon to Ellis, Gibson
and their colleagues in the House, is trans
formation OF such thoroughness that / will
not undertake to illustrate it by any Of the
feeble figures Of speech at my command. It
is really Joy to serve as Washington cor
respondent OF the leading newspaper of a
State with such delegation to watch over


They are my Constituents" so to speak,
and shall do my best to represent them
accurately. A. G. Il.
Year: 1877

PARIS, Oct. 1S.-The all prevailing topic of
conversation and speculation is the probable
course of the Ministry, and espec ally of Mac
Mahon, and the speculations give rise to a
multitude OF contradictory rumors. The
Ministry Is now reported as showing an in
clination to resign, but are withheld by the
Marshal, whose friends and advisers claim
that he cannot, without violation of pledges
repeatedly made, yield TO the dictation of the
Democracy. He would, however, be willing
to compromise on q government of the Left
Centre, upon the severance of their connec-
tion with the extreme Left


Meanwhile


the Left is confident and boastfuI and as
sumes a threatening attitude


The Couusels


pressed upon MaeMahon are considered dan
gerous, and it is, therefore, not surprising
that vague reports Of a proposed coup d'etdt
find circulation and that during the past two
do vs. business has grown slack and that the
situation, which seems to grow more gloomy
rather than to improve, causes great uneasf-
ness and disquiet.


Nor Is 1t strange
that under such circumstances we should
find, as is announced by the Dir-neluiems
Steele, that all the Republican deputies elect
will be called upon to attend a meeting at the
capital to consider the situation and shape
the future policy of the party.


LIE Temps


says that it believes that the government will
resign after the election of Councils General.
Year: 1877

New YORK. Oct. 1s.-The Posts Washing
ton special says that from utterances of lead
ing Democrats it is regarded as reasonably
certain that they intend to have nearly con-
tinuous session until the first of December A
leading Republican Representative said to-
day that he has found strong disposition on
the part of those Democratic Representatives
who mark out the policy to be pursued, not to
make the session brief, but to extend it in the
expectation that differences in Republican
ranks will prevail. The Republican members
generally favor a brief session.
Year: 1877

The Mayor was also visited yesterday by several
citizens residing in the neighborhood Of Jackson
and White streets, who complained that the
negro church which is in course of construe~
ton at that corner was intended in fact for
gambling and drinking saloon, and not ut all for
house OF God. The Mayor advised his visitors
to wait until breac OF the peace had been COM
mitted before complaining, there being no law TO
punish person for intending to commit viols-
ton Of the law relating to such cases.