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Year: 1877




We wish to make suggestion or two to
our democratic friends about the great fuss
which is about over, our intention being to
help them back to that good nature with
which American politicians ought to meet q
reverse.


In the first place, as to the conduct OF the
commission. Mr.. Hewitt chose, on two
days this week, to make a pretty savage
attack on Mr.. Hoar, and if he had kept his
temper he might havo made good his point;
but as it was he came to grief Mr.. Hoar
helped to frame and supported in
the House Committee n bill which
did give to the commission the
papers and hear evidence. This bill was
not adopted. and the Electoral bill which
did become law clearly left the question of
the powers of the commission to hear evil
dence to the decision OF that body. There
is no doubt in the world about This hence
no democrat has right to complain that
the commission did decide it. That was,
by the admission OF most OF the democratic
authors of the bill, one of the questions
which were left to it to decide. But that
Mr.. Hoar, a careful lawyer, having in the
committee openly taken the view that the
commission had right to hear evidence,
should afterward, as II member Of the COM
mission, turn short about and vote against
hearing evidence, that is matter not credit
able to Mr.. Hoar. and for which he deserves
to be scored. But it does not affect the
honor Of the commission or the validity OF
it's acts only the credit of Mr.. Hoar.


But we come to q more important matter.
Some of our democratic friends assert that
Mr.. Hayes comes into Office with a clouded
title. If they will reflect moment they will
see that his title, on the contrary, is abso-
lutely perfect. We will grant all they say
about the Louisiana and Florida frauds;
but they are away from the point. The two
houses, in accordance with custom as old
as the government, agreed upon "a method
of examining and counting the votes for Vice
President" They appointed commission,
to whom were referred certain disputed
questions, the houses receiving it's report
and voting on it. Mr.. Hayes is President in
accordance with this action OF the TWO
houses He holds his title from them in
perfectly constitutional and legal manner,
and, as we said, this title is perfect.


That there were frauds in Louisiana and
Florida and in South Carolina and that the
votes of those States were carried for the
republicans by military interference or by
frauds in returning boards and in other
irregular ways. is the belief Of a very great
majority Of American voters. For those
wrongs the democratic party can ask that the
country shall punish the republicans at the
next election, which takes place in Novem-
Der of 1878, and we certainly hope that the
scurvy and INSCRIPTIONS politicians who
committed or condoned or whitewashed or
brazenly defended those frauds will be made
to feel the displeasure of all decent voters of
both parties But let us have no nonsense
meantime about Mr.. Hayes title to his Office,
else perhaps the voters next year will forget
the republican rascalities in their disgust
for democratic follies.
Year: 1877

Recent developments must have satisfied
every one that tho management of all local
charities which receive assistance from the
public purse should be thoroughly investi-
gated and subjected hereafter to periodical
scrutiny. The greatest evil of any dishonest
management of these charities is the injury
it inficts on the poor 1t diverts from them


money intended for their relief and it
discourages liberality on the part Of the
people. If there is any one offence
meaner and more despicable than oil others
it is that of putting on the mask Of philan-
thropy for the purpose OF robbing the poor
The committee of the State Board of Chari-
ties is doing good work in probing the
affairs OF the Juvenile Guardian Society to
the bottom and in commencing an
investigation of the management of the
81. Johns Guild. The Master Of the Guild
should court such an inquiry If its business
has been honestly conducted. He will Of
course admit the authority Of the State
Board Of Charities in the matter, as his
Year: 1877

Jack Mccall, the murderer Of "Wild Bill"
left the world yesterday at Yankton, Neb.,
in manner quite unusual to the bor-
der rutfian, but none the less effectual
on that account It is not often that a man
of his style kills another without establishing
some claim for gratitude upon respectable
society; but McCall's victim was man who,
in spite of many faults, had done much
good and needed service to society and his
country, while the murderer never served
either, except when he shuffled of his own
mortal coil. The best that can be said of
him is that, although he lived like
a ruffian, he died like man. Try
ing to maintain his stolidity, he never
theless spent his last moments with the cru
cifx clasped tightly in his hands as he en-
gagged in silent prayer, and MS the drop fell
there escaped from his lips the holy name
which his associates had never before heard
him utter with due respect. The world is
better of by having lost him. Men OF his
type are worse than useless, and the most
tender humanitarians despair Of even
changing their natures. His fate may ter
rify into comparative quiet such creatures
of his kind as have hitherto trusted that
they were to be law unto themselves
and thus Jack Mccall in dying may have
served the world to which while living he
was an unqualified curse.
Year: 1877

ANOTHER BRUTE IN BUTTONS Police
Justice Kilbreth did good thing yesterday
morning when, after hearing the complaint
of burly police officer who charged a
prisoner with assault, he turned to the
bruised and battered creature at the bar
Just recovering from debaucl and asked
him to tell his own version Of the story.
That was soon done. The poor fellow re-
membered being drunk and coming in con-
tact with the officer did not remember
irving to strike him, but his next recolec-
ton was that of becoming sensible that
somebody was bathing two deep gashes on
his head made by policeman's club, and
that his body was covered with bruises.
The Justice adjourned the examination until
the afternoon, by which time witnesses came
forward who testified that the assault of the
police officer on the prisoner was unjusti-
fable, brutal and bloodthirsty. SO the
prisoner was released, the brute in buttons
took his place and was held in five hundred
dollars bail. Now, let his trial be as swift as
that of Joe Coburn.
Year: 1877

Mr.. John Morrissey is supplied with an
amount of common sense which leads him by
direct and short paths to practical reforms.
On Wednesday last he introduced bill in
the Senate to discontinue the Department
OF Docks and 20 transfer all the dock busi-
ness to the Department of Public Works,
under q bureau headed by an engineer of
docks. This simple law would at once
get rid Of an expensive and unnecessary
department.. which has already cost the
people five million dollars for one million
dollars Of actual work, would do away with
the separate law by which the management
of the docks is carried on without any re-
sponsibility to the Board of Apportionment,
and, by bringing the docks within the pro-
visions Of the city charter, would compel
the work upon them to be done
6y contract. We need scarcely say
that Mr. Morrissey's bill receives our
approval and will be warmly indorsed by
the taxpayers of the city and by all the
business community. If we get rid of the
needless cost of maintaining the Dock De-
partment with its salary list of two hundred





costly method OF doing work. we shall have
just so much more money to expend in i'm
proving the docks and piers and extending
the much needed accommodation to the
commerce of the port.


1t is not impossible that the animus Of
Mr.. Morrissey's resolution may infect both
houses and be general in its effects. The
latest advices from Albany announce the
appointment, at a joint session Of the two
committees on cities, Of o subcommittee.
which is to embody in a single bill
the most important features Of al! bills
on the government Of New York city,
consider the propriety of reducing each Of
the departments to one head, provide other
wise for retrenchment and report on Thurs
day next. The appointment and instruc-
tions of this subcommittee are the most
cheering indications that tax-ridden New
York has beheld at Albany for years.
Year: 1877

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The market was
,ctivc and irregular, with general depression
III the prices of leading active stocks Consider
able attention was paid to the Granger stocks.
and they declined on the news of an adverse
decision at Washington. Gold opened and closed
ut 1O4l2 having i'll the meanwhile fallen to
lO43s Investment securities were irregular
and generally lower. Money was very easy at
2 a per cent on call
Year: 1877

counsel implies but it is to be hoped that
he will not consider it necessary to turn
what should be. and no doubt will be,
friendly investigation, made with deter
mination to get at the whole truth. into
sort of legal contest to be fought by sharp
lawyers and marred by legal bubbles.
Year: 1877

THE ALDERMEN YESTERDAY received a petition
from taxpayers calling attention to ;il.hy streets.
If all such documents which may with cause DC
presented are to he received tho sale Of thel. ut
the market price Of waste paper will do u great
deal toward cxtinguishng the city debt.
Year: 1877

Getting Rid OF q White Elephant.


The President Of the Board Of Police is
strongly in favor of using the Little He'll
Gate passage as dumping ground, for the
reason that it will at once relieve the Police
Commissioners from an awkward dilemma.
The question is how to get rid of the city
refuse. It cannot be used to fill the sunken
lots, says President Smith. because Of the
cry of malaria and disease. It cannot be
dumped in the lower bay, because the Pilot
Commissioners protest that it will fill up
the harbor. It cannot be taken out to sea
by means of steam tugs and scows during
the winter or in stormy weather. So the
President of the Police Board and his asso-
ciates Jump at the chance of pitching it
into the Little He'll Gate passage and thus
getting rid of their white elephant without
any further trouble.


The prospect of immediate relief is so
tempting that the Police Commissioners
propose to commence the work by violating
the law Housekeepers are required to sepa-
rate the ashes from the garbage, or rather to
place them in distinct receptacles for col
lection by the street cleaning carts, and
the street cleaning authorities are required
to gather them and dispose of them sepa-
rately. They are forbidden to dump the
garbage where it will prove danger to the
public health. But President Smith argues,
on the authority of that remarkable body
known as the Health Board, that the
dumping of garbage in Little He'll
Gate will not be unhealthy. In
fact, he insists that We can make pest hole
of the passage, spreading malaria and dis
ease, without offending the nostrils of the
people or risking the public health. This
will scarcely be credited, even on the au-
thority of the Health Board, by those cit
liens who have inhaled the perfume Of the
Harlem fats and who know that only good
fortune and favorable weather prevented q
pestilence from being carried through the
city on the fetid vapors of the flats two
years ago.


The Little He'll Gate passage should be
filed. There is no doubt that the closing
of the passage would benefit the Harlem
River. The ashes and dirt Of the city could
be used for that purpose at great saving OF
expense to the city. But the garbage should
be collected separately, as the law requires,
and disposed of either by being carried out
to sea or in some other manner not hazard
Gus to the public health. Even to relieve
the Police Commission from embarrassment
we must not create another and OIL aggra-
waited Harlem flats nuisance in the city.
Year: 1877

How Proud THE Descendants of the fill
busters of 1877 will be of their ancestors The
.ecord of the deeds of these brave Congressman
can never be lost, for files of the Congressional
Globe endure forever
Year: 1877

but sudden new convert, like Mr..
David Dudley Field. The democratic party
of the State cannot fairly be held response
BILE for man whose course is disapproved
and repudiated by all the representative
democrats of the State.


The filibusters have an advantage in
the use they are able to make of the
parliamentary rules established for the
protection of minorities. Those rules
are wisc and proper, but like oil good
things they are subject to great abuse. The
most important OF them, the one which is
the most potent engine of delay, is in the
constitution itself. We. of course, refer to
the rule which requires tho yeas and nays
to be taken on any question on the demand
of one-ffth of tho members present. AS it
takes fully two-thirds ofan hour to go through
the roll call and record the yeas and nays,
process which may be repeated on every
question that arises, it is easy to see how
powerless the Speaker is, and tho majority
of the House is, to squelch all dilatory pro-
ceedings. But there is . limit to the
potency even Of this engine of obstructive
ness and with two full days still re-
manning it is a clear impossibility for
tho filibusters to prevent the completion of
the count and the Inauguration of President
Hayes. we therefore advise everybody to
keep his temper, to be rs good natured as
he can, and be thankful that nothing worse
than little delay and vexation result from
the most exciting Presidential contest that
has ever taken place in our history. Even if
all the appropriation bills should not DO
passed an extra session is no great evil,
especially rs the members receive IN an
nual salary and get no additional pay, but
only mileage, in the event of called ses-
sion. Instead of losing our temper over
the abortive attempts Of the filibusters we
should rather congratulate ourselves that
they are able to do so little mischief Let
US extract all the consolation we can from
the maxim that "Alls we'll that ends we'll"
Year: 1877

Evarts, have been sent But there is
feeling that the partisans of Nicolls,
relying upon the assurances that have
been repeatedly sent by their prompt
ers here, TO the effect that The troops
will soon be withdrawn in any event.
and urging them to reject every prop
osition that does not yield to them
complete control, will allow no com
promise and that the President will
finally have to decide between Packard
and Nico!ls.


1t is said the rolls as prepared By
Clerk Adams and transmitted to the
Treasury to govern the officials there
IN making payment to the Representa-,
tlves, will give the Democrats major
liy of fully fifteen at the opening of the
extra session; and all hope of over
coming his uDjustiGabIe award of seats
in contested cases and in the case of
Colorado, by possible conversion by the
Presidents Southern policy, seem to
have been generally abandoned; and
Raodells friends profess to entertain
no doubt Of his triumphant election to
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the Speakership. Advices from South
Carolina render it probable that Hamp-
ton may find it rather troublesome to
dlspossess some Of the State officers
there, and there is strong hope in
certain quarters that they may only
be constrained to yield to actual force


MAXWELL.
Year: 1877

BY reading the following enactment
which stands upon our starute books,
II will be seen what the law requires Of
hotel keepers, and they will under
stand whether they are complying
with said law OF not. Let all read it:
AN ACT to provide Tor the furnishing


by hotels aud inn keepers of escape


10 case Of fire.


Section /. It shall be aud is here.
by made, the duty Of every hotel or
nn keeper within the state to provide
for and furnish every sleeping room or
apartment, on or above the third floor
of such hotel or inn. with a good and
substantial rope or chain ladder, snd to
keep the same in some convenient
place WITHIN such room or apartment
easy OF access in case Of fire, in order
to facilitate the means of egress from
such room or apartment by the occu-
pants thereof,


Section :. Any hotel or inn keeper
within this State who shall neglect or
refuse to comply with the require
ments of the foregoing section. within
three months after the passage of this
act, shall not be allowed to receive or
recover any charge whatever from any
traveller, boarder or other guest. oceu
pyin5 rooms on or above the third
floor of such hotel or inn, SO long as
the provisions Of this act are uncom-
piled with
Year: 1877

The influences of the war will be
beneficial to this country. Breadstuffs
will increase in price, and large guam
titles must be shipped. This will fur
nish work for our railroads. Arms
and munitions of war must be largely
purchased here, aud in many ways this
country will be benefited Thus our
industries will be revived, and the
country prosperous. The war will prob
ably be OF extensive scope, and evi-
IDENTITY will include strong effort to
capture ConstantlnopIe. II this sue
ceeds, Turkey in Europe will be blot
ted out, aud the map Of Europe must
be readjusted. With all this il is not
surprising that the entire world should
watch the strife with deep interest.
Unless other nations intervene the
Turkish Empire will struggle in a
death grip. 1t is not, however. to be
supposed that Sic is not prepared for
a strong effort, nor will she break in
pieces under the first shock The war
will probably be prolonged and the
struggle fierce. The full tide Of war
will probably develop rapidly, and its
first shocks be soon experienced.
Year: 1877

The sewing machine combination
has large representation at Washing
ton, preparing for an onslaught on
Congress as soon as it shall be in sess.
ion. The purpose IS to get an extern
sion ct the patent on the feed motion
which Is used by the Wheeler & Will
son and several other popular ma
chimes. This patent expires on May
$, aud, unless it is renewed by action
OF Congress, the combination will be
broken down, and the prices for sew
log machines will drop to such a
point as competition shall dictate.
Year: 1877

OUTRAGEs NORTH AND SOUTH
The Newark (N.J.) Adgestiser, strong
republican journal, remarks that "out-
RACES occasionally occur at the North
which, if done at the South, would
taint it throughout as savagely disor-
ganized." Reference is made to lynch
law of the most revolving kind which
was lately applied at Waterford, Pa,
to a woman. She was taken from her
bed at night, tarred and feathered, and
ridden upon rail for mile and a.
half. The Advertiser remarks that,
though a bad woman doubtless, COM
munity which can permit such doings
in its midst should be relegated to
heathendom, and that Pennsylvania
has too many blots upon her name
already to permit of many more, and
especially in the shape Of such out
RACES on decency as this. The law
and order population of Pennsylvania
are not responsible for these crimes,
but they should reflect that neither are
the mass of the Southern people re-
sponsible for the work Of bad elements
in their midst.
Year: 1877

The annual publication Of the Ii
cense List is a sort of business ex-
ponent. In showing the tax paid by
various merchants and tradesmen il
makes an expose Of the amount Of
business done by them. Some mer-
chants are a good deal given to
blowing" about their business and
frequently represent it as far greater
than it really is. When the license
list appears their big talk is often
found to be all bosh: for the figures
don't correspond with their declara-
tons. If they told the truth to Mr.
Springer when they applied for their
license, the published figures should
tally with the amount of business they
profess to do. If they don't there
must be something wrong.


Not long since, Wilmington paper
told an astonishing story about the i'm,
mense amount Of business done by q
certain establishment in that place
that its reporter had been shown a bill
for $4,000 worth of goods bought al
one time; that the said house often sold
as high as $1,000 or $1,000 worth o.
goods in one day, and that its great
army of statesmen were busy all the
time. &C., &c. Now all this may bt
true, and we don't say it isn't, but the
published figures don't bear it out


for they give the said firms bushes.
at $4,000 per annum. Either theil
business has vastly increased sinnetha.
license was taken out or there wa
some queer swearing done last spring
Year: 1877

than it has ever before bad we will be
vastly in error, if its calculations on a
great circulation in the country dis
tricts are not mistaken. The people
in the country generally take but one
daily paper, and they want that one to
be the best they can get hold of, and
no paper that does not have plenty OF
news from all parts of the world will
stand any chance with them. To get
the large circulation it bids for, then,
the Morning Edition Of Euery EUeiaing
and Commercial must be fully equal to
the Philadelphia Times, Ledger or
Press, or the Baltimore Sun, Gazette
or american. If it can reach that
point, it may succeed, but if it does
not, its publishers needn't build on
much ofa support below Wilmington.
However, the Every Everi1ag men have
plenty of vim in them. and if anybody
can make a morning paper go, they
Year: 1877




THE EUROPEAN WAR.-At last the
tide Of battle seems to have turned and
the Turks who have been manfully
holding their own and inficting serious
defeat upon the hordes of their invad-
ers have suffered great disaster in
their turn and have been overwhelmed
in defeat. Late dispatches received
from the scene Of the war in Asia, re-
port complete and terrible rout Of
the Turkish army under Muhktar
Pasha with great loss in both men and
guns. The Turkish general retreated
to Kars and sought refuge in the forti-
fcations around that city. His army,
however, had been cut in two during
the battle, and the separated portion
was surrounded by the victorious Rus
slams and compelled to surrender.
This was comprised Of three divisions
and thirty-two guns, besides an i'm
mense amount of material. An other
great battle is said to be imminent.