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Year: 1874

When the nominations were made, we took
occasion to congratulate the people of this State
on the certainty that, in any event. they would
have good Governor. Since then we have
had the usual Overhauling of records, garblng
of speeches and miscOnstructiOn of acts, to
which the politicians of each party still think
it profitable to subject the candidate of their
opponents. At the end of it all, we see no
reason to abate our original satisfaction.
On national grounds it may turn out
specially desirable to elect or to defeat par
ticular candidate. But so far as the duties Of
the executive chair are concerned, the people
are sure to be well Off,-to get honest service.
economy, sound policy, decency and dignity
at Albany-whether Gen. Dix or Mr. Tilden
should be the next Governor of New-YOrk.


Mr.. Frederick A. Conkling has presented
pungent arraignment of Gen. Dix for various
acts of his public or business life, and
specially for his connection with the
Credit Mobilier. To this we are not aware
that any authoritative reply has been
made, and we are not clear that any
would be useful. SO far as they could
for that question at all, the people made up
their minds about it good while ago, con-
tinued generally to believe in Gov. Dix's hon
esty, and are not likely now to change. MIR.
John McKeOn presents this morning an in
dictment of Mr.. Tiden It, too, derives special
bitterness from the fact that its author is
an old party associate of the man he
arraigns. Mr.. Tilden's friends are prompt with
a comprehensive, and apparently complete
answer. 1t will be read with interest, but we
doubt if it is needed. Nobody is going
to be deceived about Mr.. Tilden's Ca
reer. He was not rebel. He sus-
tanned the war for the Union from the
outset, with voice and purse. He is not
railroad thief, or the tool of railroad corpora


tons. He was not Credit Mobllerist. He
is the ablest and most effective enemy of the
Ring. His integrity is unquestiOned and his
character stainless. People who have thought
of voting for him will not bo deferred by the
views of Silas Wright or Martin Van Buren.


We have small respect for the party organ
izations behind the two candidates. The peo-
p!e are dissatisfied with One, dhwiiiing
to trust the other, and desirous of 80
voting as neither to indOrse the National
Administration nor to revive the Bourbon
Democracy. But they are in no trouble about
Messrs. Dix and TIlden. They have given
their confidence to both, and will not be made
unhappy by the personal triumph of either.
Year: 1874

mind. But nevertheless, by nature. by habit,
and by choice they are incapable OF giving TINS
City an economical government. The present
government, IN spite of all the efforts OF Con-
trOller Green, is not an economical one. Var
from it. The gigantic debt is still rolling up
at the rate of ten million dollars year, and
bonds of the city are advertised for sale by
the million after nearly every meeting OF the
Board of Apportionment. Nearly hf'y NIL
lions, as Controller Green INFORMS U.s. nave
been spent III "imprOving" the upper part Oh
the island, and the more 1t Is improved tne
more impossible it becomes Tor the citizen 10
sustain the expense of living there Ihere
are miles on miles of avenues, constructed
at a cost of more than half MIL
lion dollars to the mile, lighted more
brilliantly than any street within three miles
of the Post Office, and no structures line
them but stables and ale houses for the
snortino community. 1t is moro thah
sixteen wears since work was commenced on
the Central Park, and there are not yet hfty
houses ON the seven miles OF streets ana ave-
pues which front upon it. Yet law after law
ia nut through the Legislature every year for
the expenditure of more millions for new parks
and drives and boulevards. What care the
men we have mentioned, provided places are
found for their adherentsf Only keep them
in power and they will give the legislators OF
Louisiana and South Carolina cause to shrink
from comparison with them as creators OF
debts for other people to pay.


We have thus very briefly sketched the
disease which has fastened on the vitals of
our City, and which threatens to destroy
either its credit or its trade, and possibly
both. 1t remains for our business mensinclud
ing the surviving members of the late Com
mittee of Seventy who are out OF Office, to
send to the Legislature men of standing in
the community. We vouch for it that if such
men are elected their views will have weight
with the country members. In no
other way that we can see can the
prodigal waste of the credit and resources of
the City be stopped For three years of So
called Reform" Legislatures and City Gov
ernments we have seen this extravaganza 60
on, and now that business is depressed, rents
are falling and prices of real estate are wilt
ing like the shOrt-lived morning-g glory, people
are beginning to realize that the money which
goes into the pockets of the "big pipe men"
and little pipe men," and pipe-layers gener-
ally, from the Battery to the Capitol, does not
rain down from Heaven. If they are satisfied
with the bills, let them continue to be repre-
sented at Albany by the same men who have
been doing their business hitherto, and who
intend to do it next Winter, and they Will
have more bills of the same Sort We warn
them in time.
Year: 1874

MAKING IND UNMAKING GOVERNMEN rs q.


discussion has been raised in The Herald
by the contradictory opinions of Messrs.
Charles O'Conor and Reverdy Johnson as to
the effect of the Presidents recognition of the
Kellogg Government. Mr.. Johnson contends
that Gen. Grants decision in the case was
final. When he pronounced in favor of the
usurpation he exhausted his authority he
cannot reopen the question; the judgment is
binding even upon himself. From this view Mr..
O'Conor dissents. He believes that it is
ALWAYS possible for the President to correct
his mistakes and that he can now withdraw
the recognition which placed Kellogg in an
Office to which he was not elected. We cannot
see that Grant has shown any disposition to
reverse his first judgment, though he has more
than once intimated that he thought it rash
and ill-advised. In the message which he sent
TO Congress in 1873, he confessed that the
latest developments threw great doubt upon
the reality of KellOgg's election, and in the
message which he wrote year afterwards, but
did not send, he must have acknowledged the
notorious truth in still palmer language. But
he never proposed that he should repair the
wrong he had done. He wished Congress to
overturn the Kellogg Administration for him,
not because it was fraudulent, but merely in
order that his brOther-in-law Casey might
mack new Legislature with members pledged
to return him to the Senate. Since that
scheme has failed it is highly improbable that
the President has any desire to disturb the
existing despotism.


The action of the President, however, as
both parties admitted in the Louisiana debate
in the Winter of 1928, does not bind Con-
gress, and the case of the conquered State
must come up for discussion in the Capitol at
every session until it is settled one way or
the other. 1t is to Congress alone, not to the
President. that the victims of Kellogg, Casey,
and Packard turn for relief. If the legisla-
tive branch of the Government had no power
Tn undo the great mischief which the execu-
tive has done, we should feel ourselves very
near despotism of the most cruel kind.
Year: 1874

the country hell upon earth. But these
armed bands invariably disappear upon close
inquiry. We search the scene Of bloodshed
and desolation and find everything serene
and prosperous. Dead mean come to life and
make affidavits. Martyrs put away the crown
and tell us they have not earned it. But
Republican politicians go on chattering all the
same about reign of terror, tossing their arms
in wild excitement. and clamoring for more
troops" 1t will not do. The people of the
North are not fools
Year: 1874

terest, "reminiscences Of the eminent men born
in that section Of the State, and the need Of
a uniform currency and exemption from ex-
cessive taxes supplied the bulk of his topics.
There are other important themes on which it
will be desirable to hear from him before
election day approaches.
Year: 1874

The story that Marshal Serrano was willing
to cede the island of Porto Rico to Germany
long ago lost most of its claim to credibility.
Admiral Polo de Bernabe has published an
indignant denial of the part attributed to him,
thus giving it finishing blow.
Year: 1874

The report of more bogus bonds in South
Carolina will surprise nobody; but there is
virulent contest going on there, and the con-
testants are none too scrupulous at best. while
the very handiest charge lying around any
where in the State is that of bond forgery.
People who are unlucky enough to hold South
Carolina securities would be wise to await
further particulars before submitting to yet
nearer approach to nothing in the quotations.


Gov. Dix's speech at Utica. though brief was
GOOD as far as it goes. Pleasant compliments
Year: 1874

land taken on the ground that they had dedicated TO
public portions Of IL taken for the avenue. Several
objections TO the report made the ground that
there had been no dedication.


Judge Lawrence decides that he cannot consider ohec


ons not raised before the Commissioners. He decides
that the sale Of the Dyckman estate. which made
the year before the map OF the extension of the
was hled by the Park Commissioners was made under
such circumstances TO refute idea of dedication
and Joues that they recognized the intended lines OF
the yet these cOnveyances made before
the map fled aud without reference map, 1t
does not come within the declaring what is dedi
cation 10 the public USE, and the rule of those
should not be extended The report is therefore, sent
back TO the Commissioners to he corrected.
Year: 1874

THE election in this county passed
off very quietly yesterday, there being
a slight decrease in the vote polled at
the last general election. As will be
seen by the report of the result, the re-
turns show Democratic victory. To
be sure, Jones has small majority
over Wade, but the districts to be
heard from are so strongly Democratic
that the election of Wade is conceded
by the Radicals.
Year: 1874

OUR special dispatches are unusually
full mad readable this morning.
We have spared neither pains nor ex-
pense to obtain the election returns
from every important point IN the
State.
Year: 1874

The stagnation in business In the Eastern markets
has given opportunities to make LARGE CASH
PURCHAsES under the favorable conditions and
enables to offer patrons goods exceptionally
Low Prices


We have deferred announcing the arrival of NEW
GOODS until our entire stock in and arranged
exhibition. We are now prepared with a large and
unusually well selected exceIled
in any market embracing every article for gentlemans
complete outfit.


Our stock of Gent1emen's Ciothins. for Fall and
Winter in medium and fine goods surpasses in 1T
style and make. anything offered by heretofore. We
manufacture stock, pay no manufacturing
profit, buy exclusively CASH thus enabling us to
offer extra inducements in prices
Year: 1874

y The zEire eDepartnentwas called out
fifteen minutes past three o'clock yes
terday morning, and found the Stearns
Mill in the northern portion of the
city enveloped in flames. The fire
had already obtained such headway
that all attempts to save the building
and contentswould~have been futile,
and as an additional horn to the dilen-
ma the mill ditch was found to be dry
as also was the zanja. The hose was
finally attached to the nearest hydrant,
4alIlofthe hose belonging to- the COM
pany being barely sufficient to reach
the required distance. The. mill was
stored full of grain nearly all of which
together with the machinery and
building is rendered useless. The mill
was owned by the Stearns estate and
was partially covered by policy in
the London end Liverpool and Globe
for $4,000 in favor of Mrs. Stearns.
The mill was operated by. Messrs. r.
Weber & Co., to whom it had been
leased for term of two years. They
! had held possession oDiy about three
months and had expended some three
thousand dollars in new and improved
machinery. They held a policy OF in
surance in the Commercial Union for
$4,000 and also one in the. State In
vestment for a like amount. 1t is
thought that a small part OF. the grain
will be saved in a damaged condition,
but the loss at best must prove heavy
on the firm. Different opinions are
prevalent concerning the origin of the
fire, but the general impression is that
it was the work of an incendiary. The
loss of this mill so soon after the de-
struction of the Also Mills is heavy
blow upon the interests of Los An
geles. We can only hope that both
will be rebuilt and placed in operation
at the earliest possible date. m


A second alarm was sounded about
two O'Clock yesterday afternoon and
the Fire Company were again sum-
moned to extinguish some Of the grain
which was still burning.
Year: 1874

nm The tide ofinmigration Is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. ol They say there Is no
mparison between the two. e..f ayfe 2}so z
Year: 1874

HINTS ON SLEEP.-To literary men,
preachers, teachers, lawyers, doctors, jour-
nalists, and brain workers in general, the fol-
lowing hints are exceedingly worthy Of at
tention: The fact is, that as life becomes
concentrated, and its pursuits more eager,
short sleep and early rising become impossi-
ble. We take more sleep than our ancestors,
and we take mole sleep because we want
more. Six hours sleep will do very well for
ploughman or bricklayer or any other man
who has no exhaustion but that produced by
manual labor, and the sooner he takes it ait
er the labor the better. But for the man
whose labor is mental, the stress is on his
brain and nervous system. and for him who
is tired in the evening with a day Of mental
application, neither early to bed nor early to
rise is wholesome. He needs letting down to
the level of repose. The longer interval be-
tween the active use of the brain and the re-
tirement to bed, the better his chance OF sleep
and refresbment. To. him an houi after
midnight is probably as good as two ours
before it, and even then his sleep will not so
completely restore him as it will his neighbor
who is physically tired. His best sleep is in
the early morning hours, when all the ner-
yous excitement has passed away, and he is
in absolute rest
Year: 1874

Up in Canada some colored persons had
and one of them, William Custard,
lad the top of his head blown off by some
well-planted shot,. Without stopping to re-
mark that the victim must have had an un-
usually soft head, we content ourselves with
that this receipt for making cold
Custard seems to be a success.
Year: 1874

Discrimination and frankness often exist
together in high degree. But when we
have once learned to know the dssimulation
OF aperson we suspect it most of all just
where he is the most frank.
Year: 1874




Honey can be saved by out of
town people by cal ing on us and
securing GREATER BARGAINS
In CLOTHING than were ever Of
fered to the people of this vicinity
before.


Any person who purchases any
Garment OF us and finds that they
can do AS WELL OR BETTER
OF ANY OTHER DEALER, MAY
RETURN THE GOODS AND RE-
CEIVE THEIR MONEY.


Any Garment not entirely salts
factory we will
Year: 1874

Hear this true story: Not long ago, lady,
a graduate Of one of the most famous schools
In the land, upon an anniversary was asked
to return to the school for a day and read an
essay upon an important topic. The essay
was rarely beautiful and inspiring On their
way from tie hall one of the witnesses asked
another, "Was not that fine?" "Yes," re-
piled her friend, ''but what mean little trail
she wore." Fancy man remarking, at the
close OF lecture by George William Curtis,
SIT was fine, but his coat-tail was too short


by an inch and half"
Year: 1874

The London Times of June 9, publishes
this advertisement:


Should this meet the eye of the lady who
got into the 2:30 train at New Cross Sta
ton on Friday, May Is, with two boys, one
Of whom was evidently just recovering from
an illness, she may be pleased to learn that
three of the four young ladies who were in
the carriage are very i'll with the measles,
and the health Of the fourth is far from what
her relations could desire.
Year: 1874

She knew that at The word '.smote~
the fat iron was sent through tie textile
frabric. while TO the music of over the
iron swung back. This is only one ex-
pericncc out OF hundreds. II old Ren
Butler and Charlie Sumner don't stop.
the foundation of our social structure
will he 'tore up"
Year: 1874

The other night, says the Burlington
Haockeye, a man who lives out on Columbia
street kept down town until a very late
hour, and and his wife knowing how cold
he would be when he got home, put an iron
on the stove and when she heard him open
the gate, she jumped up and hurriedly
wrapping the iron in piece of flannel, put
it in bed for him to warm his great ugly
feet by. The man was cold and taciturn
and cross. He crawled into bed with q
groWl, and shuddered with cold as he
stretched himself out. Then he gave yell
and jammed his head against the head
board and screamed fire and waltzed out
on the floor and around the room in the
dark, straddling rocking chairs and break
ing his shins on corners and knocking down
brackets with his shoulders and upsetting
one or two things and filling the darkness
with wierd fantastic profanity. When his
wife lighted the lamp, they discovered
beautiful photograph Of sad-iro on tho
bottom of that mans foot and it was found
that the flannel lad somehow got off the
foot-warmer. The may says that, hereafter,
If he must sleep with a hardware store, he
wants it cold,
Year: 1874

An old man up in Connecticut had poor
cranky bit of wife, who regularly once
week got up in the night and invited the fam
ily to see her die. She gave away her things,
spoke her last words, made her peace with
heaven, and then about eight o'clock she
got up in the usual way, and disappointed
everybody by going at her household duties
as if nothing had happened. The old man
got sick of it finally, and went out and got
a coffin, real nice cashmere shroud,
wreath of immortelles, and with "Fare-
well, Mary Ann worked in handful of
silver plated screws. Laying the screw
driver beside the collection, he invited her
TO holler die once more. "Do il" said he
land in you 60, and this farewell business
is over" Mary Ann is at this moment
baking buckwheat cakes for a large and
admiring family, while they dry apples IN
the coffin up in the garret.
Year: 1874

Twas the night before Christmas when all through


the house


Not creature was stirring, not even q mouse:
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that st Nicholas soon would be there.
The children nestled all snug in their beds
Whlle visions of sugar purs danced In their heads
And mamma in her kerchicf, and in my cap.
Had Just settled our brains for long winters nan
When out on the lawn there arose such clatter
sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window few like flash,
Iore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
Ihe moon on the breast of the new-falen snow
Gave lustre OF midday to objects below;
Wnen, what to my wandering eyes should appear
But miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer
win little old driver, so lively and quick
l knew in moment it must be ST. Nick
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came
And he whistled and shouted and called them bv


name:


"Now, Dasher! now Dancer! now, Prancer and


Vixen!


On, Comet on, Cupid! on, Donder and Btzen!
10 the top of the porch to the top of the wall
Now dash away, dash away, dash away ALI
AS dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fiy,
When they meet with an obstacle mount to the sky.
Lo up to the hopse-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys-and st. Nicholas too
And then in twinkling heard on the roof
The prancing and paving of each little hoof
AS drew in my head and was turning around
Down the chimney st. Nicholas came with bound
He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot
And his clothes all tarnshed with ashes and SCOT
A bundle of toys he had lung on his back
And he looked like pedler just opening his pack.
His eyes how they twinked! his dimples how merry
His drolI little mouth was drawn up like bow
And the beard on his chin as white as the snow
The stump of pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like wreath
He had broad face and little round belly
That shook, when he laughed like bowl full of jelly
He was chubby and plump-a right jolly old elf
And laughed, when l him, in spite of myself.
wink of his eye and twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know had nothing to dread.
He spoke not void, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with Jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose
And giving nod up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh to his team gave whistle
And away they all flew like the down of thistle;
But heard him cxclam, ere he drove out of sight,
Happy Christmas to ALL and to all goodnight


--CLement c. Moore.
Year: 1874

! From the Louisville Courier-Journal.


A woman in Berlin, F." says an exchange,
"has forty-nine children" We are not
| Informed as to what~she intends to do
about it, but if we were in that woman's
place would make it an even fifty, or freeze
in the attempt.


A Detroit paper has an article headed:
"a Young Girl Made the Victim of a
Bogus Marriage" This is shocking. In
these days of dissolute young men it is
quite bad enough for a young girl to be
| made the victim of genuine marriage.


An Albany man who enlisted in the army
two years ago has already deserted seven
times. He set out it would seem, with
the determination to do the rough deserting
OF the whole regiment, and the undertaking
does not permit him to stay at his post even
long enough at time to be shot.
& A prominent Western journalist, who
recently retired from the newspaper bust
ness, is about to marry, it is said, widow
worth $4,000 People who are wondering
why he sold out ought to know that it
takes mighty enterprising man to manage
daily paper and rich widow at one and
the same time.


The Detroit Free Press tells us that Mark
Twain uses silver-plated boot jack. Mark
married a fortune ana has made a fortune
by his books. He is therefore abundantly
able to use boot;jack of solid silver, and
his failure to do SO is, to us, far more
humorous than anything he has ever writ
ten.


Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth
better half, or rather the nineteenth better
eighty-seventh, of Brigham Young, was
expelled the other day from the Mormon
church. AS this expulsion is simply an
imperative command to st. Peter to slam
the door in Ann Eliza's face when she
approaches the entrance to Paradise, the
poor creature now has no more chance for
heaven than an ordinary Christian.


A man named Lyons attempted to elope
the other day, in Brooklyn, with thirteen
year-old girl If the Lyons that go about
seeking whom they may elope with and
silly female infancy can be restrained in no
other way, we shall have to send for Cor
don Cummings to come over and hunt them
to their lairs. thirteen-year-old girl has
no more business with husband than a
superannuated pauper has with a broken
legged elephant.


The Milwaukee Sentinel says: ga five
legged mule is Texas object of curiosity.
We would like to run carpenter shop and
make speciality of repairing stables in
the vicinity of that animal" Yes, but I'M
less you displayed more ability in running
carpenter shop than you exhibit in run
ming newspaper, you would very speedily
break at the business.
Year: 1874

Rev. Glendenning's defense is that the
woman ran after him and showed him too
much partiality. This tendency on the part
of the woman to show pa.tiality for the
pastor, is one of the reasons why we have
steadily declined becoming preacher
Nil. Sen.