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Year: 1879

The harmony that prevails in the coun-


lis of the Democratic members of the Legis-
lature, es evidenced yesterday in their action
upon the question of fixing day for the
electlen of officers to take charge of the
benevolent institutions and State prisons, is
gratifying. Every Democratic mem
ber seemed to be animated by
parpose to carry out the
wishes of his constituents and to legislate in
the interest of a majority of the people of
the State. The speeches that were made by
distinguished representatives had in all re-
CARDS the true ring, and as they warmed TO
the subject under discussion, it was pleasant
to see the party coming together in solid
column, dism1ssing every real or
supposed cause for division, and
uniting upon questions of supreme import
ance. AS result of all this. we are led to
conclude that during the remainder of the
session harmony in caucus will result in
speedy and prudent legislation. If there
have been Republicans who sntici pated tri-
umphs for their party by virtue of
Democratic dIsagreements they may as well
abandon their hopes and conclude to
submit gracefully to the inevitable. Demo-
Gratis do not carry little differences upon
MINOR questions to extreme lengths and
their wisdom and sagacity, as also their de-
votion to principle, always set things right
at the proper time. We congratulate the
Democracy OF the State upon the hattering
nutloat
Year: 1879

are guaranteed to other people. This work
we regard as noble philanthropy, and Mrs.
Packard in making 1t her life work ls max
ing of the beatitudes of Heaven and earth as
Howard and Florence Nightingale secured
for themselves.


We are not surprised that Mrs. Packard
has concluded to devote her time, her
talents and her energies to this great
work, for the story that she tells of
her own cruel and protracted Incarceration
is enough of itself to move Legislatures to
act Refined and educated. endowed with
intellectual abilities of high order, Mrs
Packard differed with her husband, who
God save the mark.-was an accredited min
lister of the Gospel of Christ upon some of
the more repulsive doctrines of Calvinism.
To guard against the conquest that such a
mind as Mrs. Packard's was making in the
congregation over which he was called to
preside, ne conceived and carried into exc
cution the fendish idea of silencing
her influence by declaring her insane, and
upon his own ipsc DIRT shut her up in mad
house. There, however, the cogency of her
arguments and the sweet serenity of her
mind convinced the officials that she was
not insane, and just here comes in chapter
OF her history well calculated to make men
doubt as to The possibility of fathomipg the
depths of human depravity; for rather than
let this victim of cruelty go tree, the officials
of the Illinois Insane Asylum placed Mrs.
Packard in company and in contact with per-
sons who were raving maniacs and where she
was hourly in danger of being killed. Mrs.
Packard is of the opinion that If the inmates
of insane asylums are permitted to write
letters to friends and relatives il will IN
great measure relieve asylums of the Gus
stody of persons improperly incarcerated,
and De means Of comfort and solace to
those whose minds are sick. Every word
she utters upon the subject is full of interest
and meaning, and the work in which she is
engaged has no purpose whatever except the
amelIoration of the oppressed and afflicted,
and we are glad to believe that here in Indi.
ana she will find the representatives of the
people ready to hear and ready to act in con-


sonance with her beneficent schemes.
Year: 1879

TIE indications now are that in the future
doctors and druggists, who do business in the
State of Indiana, will have to pass search
ing examination before they ara permitted
to ply their vocation. Legislation upon the
subject is move in the right direction.
Year: 1879

ONE reason why American bonds are IN
high repute in Europe is that the capitalists
of England and the continent no longer
have faith in any Of the rotten dynasties


and refuse to loan them money at any rate
Year: 1879

The Springfield Mass Republican
prints the subjoined extracts from lettel
written by former Union soldier al
Aberdeen, Miss, to a manufacturer in
Holyoke, Mass:


We'll, | must talk politics again.
When | came from the woods on the
evening of election, we met numbers ol
freedmen who were not permitted te
vote. The election was a mere farce
The Democrats, by armed force, seized
two of the heaviest Republican boxes (or,
as it is at present, the Independent party
in the county, and they were not count
ed. They also stole the poll book ai
another precinct, so there was no voting
done. They now openly boast that they
will do the same next year, and that they
will rule the county in spite Of the id
Yankees. This not the language of the
rabble, but of the men that boast of their
superiority. | Go not know what kind OF
Government We have, if they are per
nitted to go Oh in this way The negroes
are very much disheartened, and the least
encouragement from the white men
would make them rise up and have a
general massacre. But this would not
do, as they would afterwards be slaugh-
tered like rats. The Democratic party
is banded together here in the nature Of
a conspiracy to deprive the negro of his
rights under the constitutional amend
ments. The Government freed them,
and cid 1T as war measure and [ think
they are entitled to protection. The ca
pitalists of the East have some interest
IN the cotton culture of the South, but If
the negroes are not given justice they
will leave the cotton culture of the South
to grow up in weeds White labor can
not cultivate these prairies like the ne
groes. 1t strikes me that the white Re-
publicans of the South are entitled to a
little consideration at the hands of the
present Administration. [ am greatly
encouraged from the present and recent
attitude of the President. He no doubt
meant well but he did not know the depth
of ingratitlde Of these people. I was
very much rejoiced at the news from the
North this evening, and was glad that
political demagogue, Butler, was defeated.
1t was glorious victory all through.
We want next year to swell the triumph
no matter who the Republicans nomi-
nate. If the Government will give us
such protection as will secure a fair cleo
sion and fair count, we will bury the
solid south out of sight. This solid
southis only so by virtue of the shotgun
policy and all other manner of intimi-
dation. If the South is solid at all, it is
solid Republican. know you are tired
of my writing politics, but if you were
here and witnessed the arrogance of these
would be aristocrats, it would make your
blood boil. And what are they but a
parcel Of slave overseers and their pro-
geny? / will close with three cheers
for the Republicans Of the North, East
and Vest
Year: 1879

The agent of the Society for the Preven-
ton OF Crime is no doubt sincere in his
desire to rid the city Of gambling houses
and other illegal resorts and to make all the
people of New York pious and virtuous.
But he does not appear to be very successful
in the first part OF his praiseworthy under
taking. BY some means or other the gam
blers are informed OF the agents approach
whenever he organizes q raid, and when he
puts his hand on them. like the Irishmans
flea, they are not there. His efforts to cap
ture some OF tho fraternity last Wednesday
night were wasted, and places which he had
been led to expect would be in full opera
ton were found dark and deserted.


1t is evident that these spasmodic raids
are not the proper mode OF stopping vicious
and illegal pursuits and enforcing the law.
We have had them periodically when they
have been more successful in small way
than those undertaken by the societys
agent. Places have been pulled" their
contents confiscated and their proprietors
arrested; but they have generally been
poor devils who do not belong
Year: 1879

Mr.. Gretton's famous horse Isonomy yes
terday returned the compliment paid him
by Parole at Newmarket last spring by
beating the American gelding in the race
for the Goodwood Cup. Fortune did not
favor Parole in any of the circumstances at
tending the race. Rain fell in torrents
during the morning, making the track
soggy and heavy, and this. with a two
and half mile course and powerful horse
and good slayer to contend against, was not
promising tor the gelding These are plain
facts, and are not mentioned as an excuse
for the disappointment of the American
stable. Parole was fairly beaten, taking
the third place, while Isonomy justified the
judgment of his hackers by capturing the
prize.


These two famous horses are now sseven
up" Each has defeated the other in we'll
contested race. Parole beat Isonomy for
the Newmarket Handicap. and now Isonomy
beats Parole for the Goodwood Cup. The
challenge race proposed some time ago by
Mr. Gretton tor five thousand guineas would
now be most interesting event and would
create an immense sensation in America as
well as in England. The owners OF Isonomy
and Parole have full confidence in their re-
spective horses, and every turfman would
be pleased to see the question of superior
ity settled by fair. square race. With one
victory scored to each this can only be done
by third trial, and if the engagements of
the horses will permit, a challenge race be-
tween these two favorites would be one of the
most interesting turf events of the season.
Year: 1879

The committee appointed by the citizens
of the new wards to take steps for procur-
ing the speedy construction of rapid tran
sit roads in the city above Harlem Bridge
is prosecuting the work intrusted to it
with commendable energy. 1t has been
determined to request the resignation of the
present Rapid Transit Commission and to
commence the work anew. SO as to get rid of
any feeling that may have been engendered
by the recent sharp controversies over the
commissions reports. This is the right
course to pursue and as all the present
Commissioners are gentlemen of response
bility and are deeply interested in securing
rapid transit in the newly annexed district.
we have no doubt that they will cheeriully
fall in with the committees views Rapid
transit roads are necessity in the upper
part of the city, and ought to be secured
without delay and without any jealousy or
strife among those who will benefit by their
construction.
Year: 1879

When Secretary Sherman made his second
speech in Maine the other day he was sur
prised to find a number of troublesome
questions put to him by persons in the
audience, and these and other questions
repeated in the journals of the State are
said to have given him good deal of
trouble. The story goes that some one
who had seen the Glover report had
used the material there furnished to formu-
late inquiries directed to the Secretary, and
it is possible that he may meet elsewhere
during the campaign similar queries.


Mr.. Glover complains, 1t will be seen,
that he prosecuted his official inquiry
against many obstacles, as the Treasury
rules forbid clerks to give information
willing to risk discharge by being over
communicative. His report and the evil
dence ought to have been printed before
now, and would have been, had not the re-
publicans constantly and with great deter
mination used the rules of tho House
to prevent vote on q proposition to
print. We shall not here attempt
to give any account of Mr.. Glover's charges
and discoveries. Republican politicians
have constantly asserted that he has dis
covered nothing but mares nests and it
is quite possible that he has not been able to
get to the bottom of all that he looked into.
1t is to the interest of party that has long
held power to prevent all disclosures ofwrong
doing; and those scandals of the last admin
istration, like the Belknap case, which
were brought to light, were discovered by
accident, and not by the help of those in
power. The whiskey frauds were covered
up, so fur as the chief men engaged in
them were concerned, in spite OF the efforts
of Secretary Bristow.


Whatever may be said of the Glover re-
port, its exposures will probably convince
many voters that 1t is we'll to have o
change of parties and let q new broom
into the departments at Washington.
When the democrats first got pos
session of the House Of Representatives
many honest republican members privately
confessed that it was good thing for the
country, because they could and would
bring about reforms and economies which
the republicans, even if they wished to do
SO, could not effect because it would re-
quire them to work against their friends.
Year: 1879




We copy elsewhere an article from the
Evening Express on General Ewing's can
vass in Ohio, which is SO sound and sem
sible that We commend it to the Generals
attention. II the democrats want to carry
elections they must agree to disagree on
incidentals and minor issues and combine
solidly on those questions on which they
are agreed General Ewing is, as his
opponents are obliged to acknowledge,
an able and honest man; he is a man
with career before him. If he can unite
and harmonic the democratic party, and
by SO doing carry Ohio. he will be worth a
dozen of the theoretical politicians like
is to divide their party and leave it in the
minority. Let the democrats here and in
Ohio take example by what the republicans
have done. They were and are as much
at loggerheads on the currency ques-
ton as the democrats There is no
shade of that question which has not
republican representatives and republic
can following, and the Warner silver bill
was passed in the House by the help of re-
publican votes. But they have stopped all
their dissensions in order to carry Ohio,
and if possible New York also. Let the DEM
ocrats act with the same prudent general
ship. The Evening Express is right and wise
when it wages: -''Let all democrats stand
squarely together on the broad common
ground of their historic principles, leaving
personal and peculiar opnions to those
who hold them. and there will be no diff
Guilty in preserving the harmony which is
essential to success"


The strong points of General Ewing's
canvass are the democratic economies in the
expenditures and the questions relating to
troops and other federal interference at the
polls. His showing of the saving
which has been effected in the national
administration since the democrats came
tives is unanswerable, and it will strike
the people. The single notorious fact that
since the democrats obtained the mastery
of the House the lobby has utterly disap-
peared from Washington is an argument
which every farmer and mechanic in Ohio
can understand. 1t means that huge and
wasteful leaks in the Treasury have been
stopped.


The one thing which the Ohio democrats
have to remember is that they must unite
if they mean to carry the State, and if they
act together they will have an important
influence on their party in New York.
Who knows-we may have democratic
President yet.
Year: 1879

EVERY DAY Now brings with it record of
deaths by drowning. One of the saddest events
Of the kind this season is described elsewhere,
but it is attached to no ameliorating circum-
stances. Several valuable lives have been
sacrificed to the stupidity of incompetent and
irresponsible managers Of an excursion, and
there is no redress. Nobody was to blame |"
One cannot witness our own crowded steam
boats and harges without feeling of grave
anxiety, for the loss of life that would cnsue in
case of "A serious accident to them is fearful to
contemplate.
Year: 1879

Once again the Health Officer of the port
has been compelled to recall to Quarant tine
q vessel which had been admitted to pra-
tique and Tor the same reason that led to
similar action in the former case. Both
the steamer City Of Merida and the bark
Wallace, examined at Quarantine, and one
of them held for fourteen days and then
admitted to the wharves, yet proved to be
injected vessels, and cases of sickness sent
from each to the hospitals were definitely
recognized as yellow fever. 1t would be
advantageous to have such cases more
clearly made out before the vessels are per-
mitted to leave Quarantine but since the
medical skill directed to that point seems
inefficient in that particular respect the
next best thing is done in prompt and
effective action when the case is made out


An officer in charge of an important quaran-
tine post, and who is expected to protect q
great population from the introduction Of q
virulent malady and at the same time to
put the least possible obstacle in the way of
commerce, is in on exceedingly delicate and
difficult position. DR.. Vanderpoel detained
the bark Wallace for period sufficient to
permit the DEVELOPMENT of the fever in any
person who had taken it at Havana, but
subsequently to that time the stewardess
became ILL Now, where did she get the
fever? On the ship, certainly. 1t is the
ship itself that is infected. and If she had
been detained month longer and then
sent up she might still have brought the
fever to the city. This is one point in
which they are right who sneer at all quar-
antine for certainly detention at a quar-
antine post and ordinary fumigation will
not cleanse q thoroughly infected ship.


There is but one way to prevent such oc-
currences as this OF the bark Wallace, and
that is to entirely forbid entry TO the port
TO ships from Havana, and the Health
Officer may feel assured that the entire de-
strnction of the trade with that port would
lie preferred Ivy the public here to the intro.
Year: 1879

The improvement of the Harlem River
and the connection of the Hudson and East
rivers by canal navigable by large vessels
has been an undertaking favored by far
seeing business men for years. The i'm
portance of the work to the city of New
York and its benefits to commerce generally
are self-evident, and Congress has wisely
made a first appropriation of four hun
dred thousand dollars for the pur-
pose of its commencement, with the
proper proviso that no portion of the
amount shall be used to pay for right of
way. Some property owners on the line Of
the proposed improvement, thinking to
obtain large amounts for their land. have
stood out for payment and have thus
last session. to get rid of this selfish OBJ
struction, passed law authorizing the
requirement of the land for public uses and
the assessment of damages to owners.
Nothing has yet been done under this law;
but General Newton, in an interview pub
route for the canal has been selected. and
everything is ready to commence work ex-
cept the right of way.


No unnecessary delay ought to occur in
the appointment of commissioners to con-
demn the land required for this improve
ment. and if the right sort of persons are
chosen Tor that duty General Newton be-
lieves that it need not be more than four
or five months before the work is COM
menced. A shorter plan suggests itself by
subscription to purchase and pay for the
land, and as the business of the city
will be greatly benefited and improved by
the work there ought to be enough
public spirit among our capitalists to make
this proposition practical success But
at least the State law should be put in op-
Grafton to secure the title at the earliest
possible moment. When the general gov
ernment stands ready to expend nearly
three million dollars on an Improvement
ofimmense advantage to New York it seems
preposterous that few selfish property
owners should be allowed to stand in the
way of the public good.
Year: 1879

before the Convention meets. And if in
spite of wise counsels Mr. Robinson and
Mr. 'Tilden insist, it will then be plain to
every democrat in the State that they are
the men who for personal and ulterior pur-
poses deliberately sacrifice their party at one
of the most important elections OF recent
years, and that their talk about estate
issues" is the merest empty pretence, by
which they hope to conceal personal
schemes which they are prosecuting at the
cost of their party.
Year: 1879

''TEN CENTS ON THE DOLLAR" is the paltry
sum that relieves of our Police Commits
sioners from his mercantile Indebtedness. Mean
while will he rise and explain an alleged deficit
in the public fundsl
Year: 1879

= IT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT and convenient
change when the mllers of Europe and America
adopt the Genital system and make barrels and
bags of flour, meal and grain of uniform weight
The matter is being agitated in the Produce
Exchange
Year: 1879

THE SIXTH REGULAR DAY of the Saratoga
Racing Association attracted a large and fash
ionable attendance and several excellent horses.
There is, however, an abundance of room for
thoroughbred stock.
Year: 1879

gentleman's official record in Louisiana,
which no Senator could allow to so unex-
planned without suffering in his reputation
as an incorruptible legislator


If the Senator said or meant to imply, that
the gentleman TO whom ho referred, by means
of his official position, corruptly made money
or if the Senator said or meant to imply that
he made what money he has in the Auditor's
office, then the Senator did not toll the truth.
The ex-Auditor brought to the State cash
capital Of $4,000, on which he commenced
business, aud upon which he has continued
In business, moro or less successfully ever
since. For the correctness of the first of these
statements VIC refer to the books of the late
City National now Germania National Bank.
To the truth of the second statement we call
to witness the cotton and provision merchants
of this city generally, by whom our associate
Is quite willing to be judged.


We have no desire to disparagc Senator Jonas
His assault from his high station will, however
Justify us In reminding him that he may not be
so immaculate as he wohld have tho world
think. There are a good many people In
Louisiana who know that ho has been leecl
OH the treasury of the city of New Orleans fol
some years. His fees have not always been in
proportion to tho value of his services and
never commensurate with the impoverished
condition Of the people. We and many other
have not forgotten that one of the last thing
he did whilo city attorney was TO charge the
depleted city school fund-already so low that
the poor school teachers could not be paid
81 900 for services which he owed to th,
school board as the corporation attorney.
Year: 1879

THE New York World mildly remarks
that the enactment of the Subsidiary iu-
dicial bill providing against the support of
supervisors and marshals would "not avoid
" the appearance of obstruction" True
very true; and it would not avoid Also the
charge of scditious nullification.
Year: 1879

Tue tcst-oath repeal is the big wheel and
the nulliication of the supervisors act is
the little one in the new Bourbon caucus
bicycle. The big one may stand the racket,
but the Presidents veto will knock the
spokes out of the smaller one. At best this
arrangement presents very unstable seat
for its riders.
Year: 1879

The Democrats, especially of the South,
are Repudiatonistsn rs well as Nullitiers from
sheer force of inherent prejudice. Every
Southern State under Home Rule has made
more or less progress during the past three
or four years in the direction of repudiating
its lawful debts the excuse being offered
that those debts were contracted by Repub-
licans, This fact must and does serve as an
admontion against their complete restora-
tion to power in the National Government.
The same excuse would then sustain n prop
osition TO repudiate the national debt. A
word TO the wise, &c
Year: 1879

The newest development in modern
Democratic statesmanship is plan to enact
laws by segments. In this way they pro-
vide for their retreat from the broad pro-
gramme they announced last March through
Il very small and tortuous pathway-whittle
their original designs down, so TO speak, to
the most inGnitesmal kind Of nothnguess.
And this is tho Outgrowth Of the presence