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Year: 1879

identify themselves by the Pension Office
records. it is probable that the bulk OF the
sum would be called for at once. in which
case the Treasury balance would be seri.
ously disturbed. The Commissioners OF
Pensions differs materially with the Secre-
tary. for he estimates that thirty or forty
millions will cover the demand; but how
can the nation suddenly pay out even this
amount without either raising the tax rate
or initiating the volume of the currency !?
We admit an indebtedness is proper and
necessary, but to promise immediate pay
ment when there is no money to pay with
is unfair to the creditor and dishonorable
to the debtor. The soldiers and soldiers
heirs who are to be benefited should look
into this matter of the probabilities of pay
ment before they unload their gratitude
upon the lawmakers who passed the bill.
Year: 1879

performed that difficult task with wise
and considerate humanity which elected
universal encomiums. There is no part of
his long and brilliant career on which he
looked back with greater satisfaction, and
in his autobiography he quoted with undis-
guised pride the eloquent eulogy on this
subject by the celebrated DR.. Charming
But the much praised humanity of General
Scott on that occasion and the splendid ac-
complishment of his mission by mere per-
suasion would have been impossible if he
had not carried with him an army of
regulars, and Of volunteers specially
raised for the occasion, large enough
to be not merely formidable but IL
resistible. His proffers of kindness
were listened to and needed because he had
ample power to compel the submission
which he advised. 'sThe number of volun-
teers called for" says Scott in his auto
biography, independent Of a few regulars,
was overwhelming. Hence. resistance on
the part OF the Indians would have been
madness" Kindness from o warrior with
such force under his command was appre-
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pended on mere philanthropy and per-
suasion would have been despised and dis
regarded. There is as much real humanity
among the officers ofthe army as among civil
ians, and on warlike people like the Indians
the necessity for using force will be small
in proportion to the amount Of force with
which they are confronted. Hence the
superior efficiency Of the army for carrying
out philanthropic policy with the Indians.
1t must be remembered that the great
achievement of removing the tribes hereto
fore mentioned across the Mississippi and
planting them there in peace took place
while the Indians were still managed by
the War Department. 1t was completed
ten or eleven years before the Department
of the Interior was created.
Year: 1879

A theatrical manager takes exceptions to
the criticisms Of our correspondent "Fair
Play" in last Sunday HERALD, and attem pts
to justify the policy of varying the prices
of admission to theatre from time to time
on the singular plea that the public ought
to expect to pay in proportion to the expense
incurred by the management. Thus, when
a cheap play is produced with cheap COM
pany the popular price eofseventy-fve of cents
may prevail, but when more expensive
piece takes its place it is perfectly Legitimate
to raise the price of admission to dollar
and half 1t naturally follows that ifs yet
more costly performance is presented it is
fair to demand three dollars for seats. We
thus have q sort of harmonious sliding
scale for managers and audiences. When
an entertainment is poor seventy-five cents
or dollar is quite enough to pay for the
infection OF seeing it. As it improves
in character tho price rises with the
performance. Tho only difficulty in tho
arrangement is that proprietors and spec
tators might differ in their appreciation of
the value of piece, and while sliding
scale manager might think nm expensive"
entertainment worth the highest ratio of ad-
mission the audience might consider it
dear at the lowest rate.


The people generally regard the charge
Of dollar and q half rs too high for re-
served seats at O theatre, now that war
prices are at an end. They would not.
however, patronizo o poor performance
simply because it was cheaper. If our
managers desire to meet popular sentiment
they can do 80 by adopting popular prices
and endeavoring to make up for the de-
creased charge of admission by presenting
entertainments attractive enough to fill
their houses every night We can con-
ceive of nothing that would be more
ruinous TO management than the
policy Of putting cheap. indifferent
piece on the stage at low price
of admission for three or four weeks and
then supplying good performance for
another three or four weeks ut an advanced
charge. IT one dollar for reserved seats Is
enough to support q good theatre that price
ought to prevail. Many believe that the
increased audiences at one dollar would
bring as much money, especially TO the
large houses, ~ the present prices realize,
taking the entire season through. Persons
Year: 1879

1t is nearly fourteen years since the close
Of the civil war, but there still remains in
the statute book the law that any grand or
petit juror in the Courts of the United
States is subject to be challenged and is
disqualified unless he can make oath that
he never gave any voluntary aid to the re-
bellion. We have not the slightest doubt
that the requirement OF this lest oath ought
to be repealed, nor that President Hayes
would cordially sign bill to that effec'.


1t is reported that the democratic MEM
bers of Congress have decided that this
illiberal and absurd test oath must be re-
pealed ut this session, and that they have
resolved to go to the extreme length Of
tacking it to the most important of the ap-
preparation bills, and thereby stopping the
payment of all salaries 10 civil officers if the
republican Senators should vote against the
repeal. This is going too far 1t is Ito
employ the phrase of an English statesman)
an attempt to ''make the extreme medicine
Of the constitution its daily food"


Ordinarily every measure of legislation
should pass or be rejected on its merits. It
must be a very extreme and very urgent
case which can justify the engra.ting upon
an appropriation bill of a measure which
cannot be carried on it's merits. The repeal
of the test oath for jurors is not such
measure. It is certainly bad law,
but not one which works intolerable op-
preston. This is proved by the action of
the democratic party, which has for four
sessions had control of the House, and might
at any session of the four have tackled the
repeal to the Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bill. Having volun-
tarily submitted to the test oath for four
years what special new reason is there for
attempting to force its repeal by blocking
the wheels of the government? When the
new Congress assemblies next December
this odious test oath will be re-
pealed, of course, and having been SUBJ
mitted to for four years why may it not be
endured for an additional nine months
There must by this time be ON abundance
of white jurymen in the South who can
take the test oath. Boys who were seven
years Of age at the close Of the war are now
twenty-one and qualified to serve as jurors.
Citizens who were twenty-one at the close
Of the war are now thirty-fve, and most Of
them can take the oath. The subject is not
of such Importance and urgency that the
advooates of repeal may not brook further
delay Of nine months, and public opinion
would condemn the forcing of ON extra ses-
sion on SO Aimsy ground.


On the other hand it may be said with
reason that, since the repeal of this test oath
OF the next session is inevitable, it is not
worth the while of the republican Senate to
stand out and block the wheels of the gov
ernment for the trivial satisfaction of keep
ing doomed law in force for so brief
period. It would be q wise and graceful
thing for the republicans to consent to a
repeal; but, If they do not. it would be un-
justifable for the democrats to compel an
extra session on matter which admits of
SO early remedy.
Year: 1879

THE WEAriIER.-The depression advanced
into the central valley districts during ycster.
day and now dominates the weather over avery
large area. The extensive area of high barome-
ter that overlies the Atlantic States from the
Gulf Of Mexico to Nova Scotia will tend to direct
the course of the depression moro to the north.
1t will also favor the formation Of very steep
gradients, particularly In the northern districts,
30 that we are likely to experience increasing
winds this afternoon and during tonight. In
the Northwest the pressure has risen rapidly,
accompanied by falling temperature. Rain has
fallen in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys
and the northern lake regions. In the most
northern sections of the latter district it
turned into snow, but the temperature was not
low enough to permit of it's remaining on the
ground very long. The winds have been fresh
70 brisk in the central valley districts and tho
West. They have increased to high in some
sections of the lake regions, and have been gen
orally light elsewhere The temperature has
fallen in the Middle Atlantic, New England
States and the northeastern part of the lower
lake regions, and has risen in the other districts.
The weather over the British islands rs favor
able, the wind being generally strong
from the west to northwest 1t is very
probable that the approaching depression will
develop a storm centre of considerable energy
as It nears the Atlantic coast The weather in
New York and its vicinity today will be warm
and cloudy, with rain and increasing winds.
Tomorrow the same conditions are likely to
prevail, followed by gradual clearing and lower
temperature.
Year: 1879

who are fond of visiting the theatres would
no doubt 60 twice at one dollar where they
now go once at dollar and half 1t must
not be forgotten, too, that the unjust p.ac-
tice of handing over all the desirable seats
in theatre to ticket spectators and com
pelling people to buy OF them at an adj
vanced rate really increases the pretended
price of admission from thirty-three to one
hundred per cent.
Year: 1879

II THE FOURTEEN HUNDRED WoRKINGMRN
who have struck on the Metropolitan Railroad
because of reduction Of their wages are wise
they will accept the terms of the company. EN-
ployment, as they have good reason to know, is
hard to obtain. If they can do better, why of
course well and rood
Year: 1879

Two INTERESTING POINTS have been raised
In the Blair court martial-frst, that no name
is signed to the charges against the accused /;
and second, If the General of the Army comes
forward iu that capacity he cannot prosecute in
q court Of his own creation.
Year: 1879

TIE REMNANT OF THE CHEYESxEs from Camp
Robinson have arrived at Sydney, Neb. Wild
Hog and his fellow prisoners tell pitiful tale
of misery and starvation, and if there is par
ticle of truth in the statements made to the
HEIsALD correspondent, it is evidently the duty
of the government to find out what the Indian
agent in Arkansas did with tho supplies with
held from the red men.
Year: 1879

The CHARITY BALL last evening was in many
respects the most brilliant and successful event
of the kind that has taken place in many years.
1t was attended by the wealth and fashion of the
city, and the handsome sum realized-between
sixteen thousand and twenty thousand dollars
will be the means of relieving many a poor
family
Year: 1879

PASSENGERS ON the IL" roads will feel more
security because Of the precautions that have
been taken for the regulation of the trains in
the event of fire along the route The moro
safeguards that are applied the better.
Year: 1879

STEAMBOAT CAPTAINS will do we'll to make o
note OF the suspension of two Of their number
who have been found guilty Of culpable care
lessness in the recent collisions in the harbor.
Year: 1879

surd humanitarianism which has been
brought into play for tho last eight or ten
years with reference to the Indians. We
are in entire accord with the pacific Quakers
and other squeamish Christian philanthro-
pists in their amiable sentiment that per-
suasion is much better instrument than
force. But in dealing with the Indians
persuasion is impotent and ridiculous un-
less there lies behind il force strong
enough to compel. The Indians can be
persuaded only by men whom they respect;
but their native character and all their
traditions and training make 1t impossible
for them to respect anybody but warriors.
We might as we'll send philanthropio
women among them as philanthropic civil
ians; they would regard tho former as white
squaws, and they regard the lattor as little
better than white squaws in male attire.
II is ingrained in their nature that they are
incapable OF respecting any but warlike
qualities. Kindness is wasted upon them
and despised unless backed by courage,
determination and power. We must treat
tho Indians in accordance with their mental
habits and modes of Judging.


General Scott understood this perfectly,
and he acted on this principle when sent
by President Van Buren, to remove the re-
calcitrant Cherokees from the States
of North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee to the place assigned them
Swest OF the Mississippi General Scott
Year: 1879

assure us that the best brains in public life
usually come out of the country. Six gene.
rations in city often produce such physical
deterioration in family, that its public power
is lost. Certain it is, that in American states.
manship, and had almost said in American
authorship and science, the more prominent
names are Of persons first awakened by the
American common school system, and not
lulled in the lap of languid luxury until they
had lost that love of exertion which is the un.
failing characteristic of high capacity. 1
would have no child lifted above competition,
and lulled in the the lap of luxury, until he
loses the sense of what he can do. | would
have no child placed too low for competi-
ton, and benumbed in the caverns Of poverty
among the icy masses until he losses the de-
sire to climb. do service both to those
who slumber in the lap of luxury and to those
who lie asleep in the benumbing cold of pow.
erty, when melt out the ice from the caves
of want, and send those who are benumbed
by it into the SUMMER portions Of society, to
awaken the sleepers there by their competi'
tion.-From Lecture delivered by Rev. Jos.
Cook.
Year: 1879

The most alluring swindle that a pen
ny.wise and pauud.foolish public economy
even forced upon the masses, is poor and
cheap school. The sons of the rich, whether
aided by public law or not, will have good
teachers. The sons of the poor, if a false
economy is practiced as to common and
high schools, obtain only third and fourth
rate instructors. Penuriousness as to the
public schools widens the chasm between
rich and poor. A system providing one
kind of education for the rich, and another
for the poor, would delight the black an.
gels, because it would lead to the forma-
ton in the United States Of an ignorant
class, and of wide hereditary distinction be-
tween the wealthy and the INDECENT. Every
advocate of republican institutions will be
forced, by political necessity, as we'll as by
philanthropy, to defend the educational
rights of the children of the poor. In plead.
ing for the poor, I do not attack the rioh, but
defend rather the intereats Of property, by
defending the education of the masses who
may learn to steal it through maiorities at
the ballot boxes, or to burn It In riot, unless
they are educated, If there are any limp,
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taxed for schools, where they send no chill
dren to them, I beg leave to say that 1 am
speaking for the protection of such aristocrats
when l defend an educational system that
opens up the faculties of the child of the
poor man, until he knows what he can do in
the world, and so does not, without reason,
accept position below his ability. 1t Is the
glory of American political principles that
they bring rivalry into activity in society, be:
tween the children Of the poor and those of
the rich, and give the former chance to aid
the latter, by keeping up to the mark Of their
own capacity. The children of the rich may
easily drop into the diseases of luxury unless
they are mercilessly held up to their work by
the danger of competition, A healthful col
lision Of intereats occur in the great protes.
siops when the question arises which shall sue
oeed the better-a Daniel Webster, Injured to
hardship from the first on the frontier, or a
son of a millionaire in the city, who has not
been taught to, work physically or mentally.
The question is whether Henry Clay, as the
"Millboy of the Slashes," if he have fair op-
portunities in the common and high schools,
may not so awaken his soul as to perceive
what he can do for the nation. II Is no slight
public benefit when a Horace Greely, or an
Edison, born far down in the ranks Of social
merit, as the aristocrats say, 10 aroused by the
American common school system and taught
that be can teach his age. The physicians
Year: 1879

The general subject of cooperation
was brought up last week before the
Social Science Association by o paper
to be regretted that Americans, par
ticularly those who believe they pay
too dearly for nearly everything they
buy, do not give more practical atten-
tion to O means of self-help which else
wherein England, particularly-has been
very successfully used. The cooperative
store, of which several specimens exist in
the United States, is not costly or difficult
enterprise to go into. Five hundred me-
chanics, laboring men, clerks or farmers,
each with ten dollars which he is willing
to invest in q store instead Of putting it
into the savings bank, could supply
oil the capital for, say, we'll stocked
grocery and provision store, name their
own directors, appoint q storekeeper and
buy Of themselves at first cost with only
cost of handling added. They would re-
ceive dividends upon their money in the
shlPe Of savings in expenditures; they
could satisfy themselves about the first
cost of every article of home consumption,
about the various grades of each, and also
upon such tricks of the trade as they may
have suffered by. They could sell to out
siders at profit. enlarge their association
until it could buy and sell for them cloth
ing, furniture and everything else they
need. They could also, as they surely
would, learn of some of the at present un-
suspected ways by which the apparent first
cost of various articles Is raised, and also
OF the difficulty which every dealer has in
obtaining careful and honest employees.
Let some of the victims of high prices try
the experiment.
Year: 1879

democratic vote as large as possible, and
their joint efforts may save the bulk
of the ticket while giving the Gov
ernor to the republicans. Should
this be the actual result all the
democratic opponents of Mr.. Tilden will
rejoice, since it would put Mr.. Tilden out
of the field and, at the same time, leave to
the democratic party hope of carrying the
State next year tor some other candidate.


IT it should turn out that Robinson's vote
for Governor plus Kelly's vote for Cover
nor makes conjoint democratic majority
in the State. many democrats will look
upon such result with satisfaction in
spite of Mr. Cornell's election. 1t
will enable them to say to the
Democratic National Convention that New
York can be carried for some other demo-
cratic candidate, but not for Mr.. Tilden.
1t would put it in their power to show that
his candidacy would divide the democracy
and again lose the State whereas an accept
able candidate, who could unite and con-
solidate the party, would carry New York.
It may not have entered into Mr.. Kelly's
calculations to play such n game, but the
cooler and more dexterous enemies of Mr..
Tilden may be willing to turn the bolt to
account in this direction.
Year: 1879

Our special report of the conversation on
larger politics between the Emperor of
Japan and General Grant may not excite as
wide interest as was manifested upon the
occasion of the publication in these col
umns Of the famous Grant-Bismarck con-
fab of year ago, yet in many respects the
interview at Enriokwan was the more i'm
portant affair of the two. AS the ex-Presi-
dent said to the Emperor, Japan and China
are the only remaining Asiatic countries
that have the ability to become great-that
are independent of European dictation.
AS their population comprises about
one-third of that Of the world, and
as they are the only two Asiatic ma
tions with which America is likely to have
close commercial and diplomatic relations.
their future is of more real Importance to
us than any of the changes of European
politics can possibly be- The suggestions
of the General upon the State policy of
japan in the important particular of keep
ing clear of foreign interference by refrain
ing from fighting or borrowing show how
keen an observer of Continental policies
the ex-President has been. Add to all
this the fact that the Emperor departed
immeasurably from traditional custom by
visiting the General, and the interview
rises to the level of the memorable ones of
history.
Year: 1879

trip that seclusion which the cabin OF a


steamship seldom grants but to purchase


privacy at the expense of sitting waist deep
In water through three days gale is more
than can be expected of even the most de-
voted couple during their honeymoon. As
Tor the tiny boats themselves, be they per-
fectly seaworthy, the fact is of no interest
In marine architecture, for what shipbuild-
ers want to know is the extreme size that is
consistent with safety in boat building. A
craft that cannot carry over American
wheat or bring back British gold
is OF no commercial interest whatever.
Her proper sphere of action is the waters
where the bluefish chase menhaden within
sight of popular hotel, the male boarders
at which will pay handsomely for facilities
to chase the bluefsh. If to display sea-
manship is the object of the shippers of
these wee barks let them select stormy
day and cruise off Coney Island or Long
Branch, where people can see them from
hotel windows and bet on the chances Of
their being drowned. They can thus crafty
their longing for appreciation and ut the
same time avert the gloom that comes to
weather-bound humanity, whereas on the
wide Atlantic they display only their own
foolhardiness with themselves for sole spec
tatOrS
Year: 1879

The fate of the little boat Uncle Sam,
swamped and scuttled off Newfoundland,
is not to be lamented if it will dampen the
ardor of such mariners as are still prepar-
ing to cross the Atlantic merely to show in
how small craft the trip can be made


The Uncle Sam was less than twenty feet
long; her crew consisted of seaman and
his wife; the lady became dangerously i'll,
80 that her husband was compelled to re-
main awake continuously for several days,
and in heavy storm; the boat filled with
water; nearly everything gave way, the pro-
visions were ruined, and the crew was
picked mp, not an hour too soon, by n
British bark. No possible practical pur-
pose is served by sailing these mina-
ture ships, even if some of them get
safely to Europe. 1t may be demonstrated
that man can go from America to England
in fifteen-ioot boat, with no company but
dog, but the tendency of modern travel
lers Is toward two-iooted compognons de
voyage. Another small craft may be roomy
enough for man and his wife, thus Offer
ing newly married couple on their bridal