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Year: 1878

What is there to prevent another rebellion,
and a more successful one than the former one,
whenever the Southern people feel like it; or,
in case of n foreign war; what is there to pre-
vent the coasts of the United States from being
ravsged, and its commerce swept from the seas
The Southern rebel elemrut is stronger in Col--
gress than il Was in 1860, aud the Northern De-
mocracy are more snbscrvient to it than they
were then The whole effort of the Democratic
branch of Congress is directed to rendering the
Government defeneelrss, either from domestic
OF foreign enemies. Before going into the rebel
lion, in 1861, they neglected to destroy the army
and the navy, so that they were quickly brought
into use, when the crisis arrived. But now their
spite seems 10 lac concentrated against the army
and navy. The navy Is i'll a manner worthless,
and the army is being rapidly disbanded, in
consequence of tho refusal to make appropriation
for its support. The Democratic cry against
large army, comes from the fact that the army
put down the rebellion. They do not mean to
leave such an obstacle in the way, when they
are ready for another rebellion. Who can
doubt that they look forward to such an event =
They keep alive the memories of the rebellion,
foster the hope that the lost cause is not alto
gether lost, and keep their military companies
organized in all parts of the South.


In case Of rebellion, what dependence could
be placed upon the imbeciie in the White Houses
He is utterly incompetent for the place, and has
not the courage to act, if he had the will. With
the army and navy destroyed, and the Executive
chair Sled by q nonentity in everything except
the faculty to do evil, who would save the Gov
ernmenti The thanks and the treatment be-
slowed upon the men who rushed to the res cue
before, have been such as to cool the araOr of
the American people in that direction, if not to
prevent another such uprising within the men,
ory of the present generation.


With any sort Of shrewd management, the
United States could be embroiled in foreign
war, and while struggling in her defsncelessness,
tho South could walk off unmolested, and even
unite with the foreign enemy, in consideration
of having her Independence guaranteed. These
are things that might be; and in the light of
past events, and the intense bitterness in the
Democratic party, North and South, against any
thing that was connected with the Union cause,
or in any manner served or assisted it, the im-
agination does not need to suffer any great
stretch to contemplate the possibility, if not
the probability, of another attempt at rebellion,
under more favorable auspices.
Year: 1878

A HARD CAsE.-The Bulletin, as an excuse for
permitting correspondents to inundate it with
blackguardism, makes the pitiful excuse that it
has been compelled to do so, or the Chief would
abuse every person who dared to write for it, no
matter whether it was male or female. That is
q case that calls for sympathy, indeed. From
the very start, the BslletiH became vehicle for
anonymous scribblers to snarl at the Chief
That fellow Quinn, at Iowa Point, without provo
cation on our part, hammered away at us for
weeks before we attempted to locate him, or make
any reply. Another person, who bad always
pretended to be our warm friend, volunteered to
abuse us over the anonymous signature of ~.
Ames," and when we exposed him, he clustered
fearfully, and tried to sneak out of it. Since
then, he has worried considerably on our ac-
count. The Bulletin may as we'll understand
that none Of its ours, be they dog or slut, can
snap and snarl at us, without receiving kick
in return. Smoke that
Year: 1878

= This thing of claiming that the President
is destroying the Republican party, is becoming
monotonous. 1t is not in his power to destroy
the party, if it does not blindly fasten itself to
him, and 60 down to perdition with him. We
find a number of States fully endorsing him,
and then complainining that he is causing the
defeat of their tickets. If they will not learn
wisdom from experience, they ought to be de-
fssted. Let them quit endorsing him, but de-
nounce him as traitor and imbecile that he is,
and kick him overheard and, although it may
lose them some of the Federal loaves aud fishes,
our word for it, the party will at once begin to
regain its strength and success.
Year: 1878

- The gushing writer i'll the Bal'etin who
signs his communications with a star, ought to
preach sermon to suit himself, when he states
a lie for his text He quotes the Chief As saying
that adams cheated Clay out of the Presiden-
cy." The writer must be hard up for subject,
when he is compelled-we were going to say
falsify the language Of another, but he goes
further than that, and quotes what was never
written by u.s.
Year: 1878

Ep~A school girl in Biddeford, Maine, wrote q
graduating essay, in which she said she was
fully competent to earn living, aud intended
doing it. An Ohio mar read of it, and thinking
that If she was SO confident of her ability to sup
port herself, perhaps she could also do some-
thing towards supporting husband; he there
fore proposed, and they are to be married.
Year: 1878

~ If there are any Union soldiers who take
the Troy Balletin, they will doubtless be highly
edited by reading, in the last issue of that pat
riotic concern, that in the future it will be diff
icult to tell which were the rebels, the men who
fought to save the nation, or the men who
fought to destroy it.
Year: 1878

n Major Hopkins, of the Kansas Peniten-
tiary, writes to inform US that he was not the
chap who was victimized by sharper, by being
induced to endorse forged certificate of deposit
and be is sorry we thought he could be SO green.
Well We could hardly believe that he was SO
green but the mistake was not ours. We found
it in an exchange, which expressly stated that
it was understood Maj. Hopkins was the man,
and We simply made an item of it, emitting the
details. But now we are glad to make the cor
correction, and state that it was NOT him. We
trust tho Major will forget it, and be kind to us,
should be ever get us under his control.
Year: 1878

The American public is familiar with the Advertising
Agency of Geo. p. Rowell Co. If any firm doing bust
ness on the continent afford to on" with


splendid reputation through these hard times this would
seem to be the one 1t is advertised by apprective
newspaper fraternity largely without charge; yet
In view OF all these facts, the list for
month for which they pay price in money by the
inch Is devoted largely to their business The order
takes rs somewhat by surprise and would us


II we were disposed to doubt the wisdom pusay bust
ness through the hardest times We add the benefit
OF the Thomases who may read that Messrs. Geo. p.
Rowe Co. come nearer knowing all about the adverti.
sing business than any other firm having handled mill
ions and millions Of dollars thus appropriated Another
feature worth noting is their Iberaity with Uncle
SAM" They have doubtless expended more money for
postage during the last quarter Of century than any
other firm in the United dStates.-Ckattaaooga Tnes
Year: 1878

n The Champion receutly-completed its 10Th an
niversary. and COL Martin haa. hecn longer in the
editorial harness than any other newspaper man in
Kansas, and only few days since Published Issue
containing some fifteen columns of proceedings of the
part taken by Pennsylvanans in the history of Kan
sas that would make excellent thistory.-Buriingtoa
Pdtriot


Sol Miller. of the Troy Chit. has been longer in
the editorial harness than the editor of The Champion
So has Col Prouty, of the Junction City Union. The
ChanpioR is the oldest journal in Kansas, but its
publication was commenced three years before it's
present proprietor took charge of it. Sol Miller is
the oldest editor in the State length of continuous
seryice.-ItcAisoR Champion.


Yes, and you might afford to acknowledge that the
Chief is the oldest paper in the State II is even So
Year: 1878

u Newspapers that are started where there
is no demand for them, usually float around un-
til they can freeze to something that is willing
to accept them as an organ. We had such an
ono in Troy, that started out as q rip-snorting
Republican, but soon prevailed upon the De-
mocracy to take it in out Of the wet. At Falls
City, . paper called the Record was started, when
there was no more demand for it than for fine
art exhibition in q blind asylum. 1t drifted
along Republican until the new "Nationap par
ty was organized, when it at once grabbed . root
of that party, and is now an organ.
Year: 1878

Some of the streets upon which the
HERALDs inspectors report to-day are not
quite as heavily top dressed with manure
as we'll handled cornfield, and others
lack the ponds and lakes which are so
effective in q landscape, but the average
remains as dangerous as it is disgraceful.
1t is commonly supposed that New Orleans
is very dirty city, and it is certain that
yellow fever did not make prolonged visits
there when the national authorities made
themselves responsible for the condition of
the streets, but New Orleans can show no
such pestilence breeders as the streets ofNew
York. Even the carpet-bag government
never permitted such neglect as our Street
Cleaning Commission is guilty Of Two
hundred and fifty dollars per mile is about
the monthly allowance for cleaning the
streets Of New York, and this sum is largely
increased by the natural cleanliness Of
miles of streets not yet built upon, yet the
expenditure Of quarter Of this sum would
keep some of the worst neighborhoods in
comparatively respectable condition. Why
is it not expended? Is it being charged up
monthly, and then laid aside to influence
the fall elections or legislation in favor Of
the individual Commissioners Has any
one defaulted after getting part of the
money in hand? Is the commission too
busily engaged in the noble work of self
saving to care to save any one else? What
is the secret of the Mulberry street trio
The citizens pay for its keeping, and they
have right to answers to their questions.
If the Commissioners cannot clean out the
streets the public can clean out the Com
missioners, and it will certainly do SO if not
soon relieved of this vile mass of invitations
to pestilence.
Year: 1878

Since the recent discovery of that remote
waste the east end of Coney Island, and the
invention and construction Of means to make
it accessible, and of hotels, pavilions and
bathing houses to make it pleasant and
even delightful, people have naturally taken
to wondering why all that was not done
before, and why, with as fine beach as can
be found anywhere in the world within
easy reach, city people were forced to endure
the discomforts Of watering place hotels in
order to get their daily dip into the sea-
Enterprise, like other forces, is moved in
one or another direction very much under
the influence of accidents, and attention
perhaps was not turned that way,
but if it was it was perhaps de-
feated and discouraged by difficulties of
ownership. Apparently the first trouble
was that nobody owned it, Nobody could
be found from whom it could with safety be
bought or leased. But the next trouble
was that everybody owned it. Large crops Of
owners are reported by every mail, and sew
eral States not yet heard from are expected
to count up heavily. We do not believe,
however, that the public need feel uneasy
lest disputes on these claims should deprive
them Of the enjoyment of this new found
place Of recreation. Nobody can aban don
property nowadays and leave to others for a
half century the little formalitios of attend
ing to taxes, &C., with any certainty of a salts
factory recovery when enterprise has given
the land new value, and the present holders
are doubtless safe from disturbance. For
what they have done they will at least have
the sympathy of the city public in any
troubles that may come, and especially of
that important portion of our public that
uses Brooklyn for dormitory. All these
have got Coney Island for a dooryard, and
the railway arrangements that enable them
to run down to the island after dinner,
spend delightful evening and get home in
time for comfortable slunbers, have made a
wonderful change in the comfort the aver
age citizen may take in life at home, even
through all the heats Of summer.
Year: 1878

WHEN WEALTHY RELATIVE intends to give
you fortune, tells you of it beforehand
and keeps his word. he makes you happy in
advance and happy in the end. He thus
increases your term of happiness. This
is just what Mr.. Kelly will do TO the people
of New York if he will let them know in
advance what an excellent candidate he
intends to bestow upon them for Mayor
Year: 1878

WnILE THE List of voluntary bankrupts is
iongcr than could be desired the number Of
those who are Fastening to file petitions before
the law expires is very far lees than WAS pre-
licted when the question was under discussion
in Congress. The comparatively small number
N one OF the cheering signs of the times.
Year: 1878

OLD ABE SAID that ours was "a govern
ment of the people for the people and by
the people" Suppose we should say of a
new Mayor that he was the choice of Mr..
Kelly, appointed for Mr.. Kelly and regulated
by Mr.. Kelly, perhaps the people might
accept the change If they liked the man
but they must know who he is to determine
that.
Year: 1878

each party is watching the other, to take
advantage OF its blunders. We think it not
improbable, tor instance, that if Mr.. Kelly
should suffer Tammany to nominate a


merely commonplace man the Republican
Convention would take up Mr.. Bonner. If
events should shape themselves in this
fashion there is little doubt that Tammany
would suffer another and very damaging
defeat. Our friendly advice to Mr.. Kelly is
to act quickly; to nominate Mr. Bonner,
or if not him then some citizen, if he
can find one, who will be equally
acceptable to the people on the ground Of
merit, capacity and courage. Delays are
dangerous and it is now too late to put up
a third or fourth rate man. Public senti-
ment has been aroused by the discussion Of
the question, and neither party can hope to
carry poor or even a doubtful candidate.
In the meantime we once more urge pub
lie meeting, popular demonstration, and a
peoples nomination.
Year: 1878

A RouND DOZEN of the trustees of the Teu
tonia Savings Bank stood up in one of the courts
yesterday accused Of clnbezzlement of the funds
of that institution. Their secretary is held for
perjury. If the charges against the noble
thirteen are true, they will form an interesting
German hand in Albany.
Year: 1878

TIE ISJuRED WIFE and the truant husband
met in the quiet little town of CooperstVwD, on
Otsego Lake, yesterday. The way in which all
the old pet names came back to his unaccus-
toned lips under the soothing influence Of six
shooter vas something marvellous.
Year: 1878

ACCORDING to the latest dispatches the yell
low fever is unfortunately on the increase in
Memphis, one hundred and five new and
fifteen deaths being reported yesterday. At New
Orleans nearly two hundred fresh victims were
stricken down.
Year: 1878

The SYRIAN MMIGRANTs who arrived last
week and took out their naturalization papers
yesterday will probably be running for some.
thing or another on q reform ticket in couple
Of wears.
Year: 1878

MARY's LITTLE LAMB. The yerita.
ble"Mary (who) lad a little lamb whose
fleece was white as SNOW. visited tie
Old South Spinning Bee III Boston late
3 and told the ladies present the story
of the lamb. When she was nine years
old and was living on farm. .one morn
she found twl little lambs. one Ol them
nearly dead. So she took it into the
house and sat up all night nurseing It,.
The next morning the lamb could stand
M It's leCt.and grew stronger every day.
Owing 10 her loving care the lamb be-
clme so attached to Mary that it follow
Il her about and one day to school,
where She hid it under her deck. so that
the teacher did not know it was in
shool until Mary was called up to re-
cite. Then the lamb came out from
is hiding place, and made the children


LAUGH and shout so that the teacher was
obliged to turn it out The poem was
written by friend ofMary's (the ven
cradle Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale. who
mas just retired from the editOrship Of
Goiey's Lady's Book) soon after the
lambs visit to the school-room. Mary
vas married many years since,and lives
near Boston. She brought in some OF
the first fleece of her famous little pet.
Year: 1878

\ CONSCIENTIOUS WIDow.-A poor
man OF his death bed made his will. He
called his wife to him and told her ol
its provisions. Il have left, "he said, my
horse to my parents, sell 1t and hand over
the money you receive. leave to you
my dog. take good care Of him he will
serve YOU faithfully" The wife promls-
ed to obey, and in time set out for the
neighborng market with the horse and
dog. "IIow much do you want tor
your horse?" inquired the farmer. Il
cannot sell the herse alone, but you may
have both of them at reasonable rates.
Give me one hundred dollars for the
log and one for the horse" The farm
cr laughed. but as the terms were low
ne Willingly accepted them. Then the
worthy woman gave the husbands pa
rents tie dollar received for the horse,
and kept the hundred dollars for her
self.
Year: 1878

No danger of that. With my fore
thought shall not be likely to be de-
ceived.'


But if, after your chrysalis puts on
the gorgeous garments Of the butterfly,
what if she should spread her wings
and revel in the surrounding splendor
In other words. what il the uplifting
from poverty to riches should make her
giddy and wild? The change from a
country girl to a city belle is very
great, and has turned the head of many
a one.'


Granted but shall guard against
such a thing


Educate her up!' laughed Fred
We'll, l wish you success. But where
do you expect to find such a paragon oi
lovellness (or with your aesthetic tastes
YOU would never marry any but a
beautiful woman) and good sense and
pronounced character? Certainly not
in the city,


L can scarcely ndorse such sweep
ing denunciaton. Yet / intend 10
look about in the country


Among the green valleys and for
ests primeval = / wonder how 'Priscil-
la, the meek and loving, would have
stood such an exaitation? and whether
Miles would have believed in your
theory p And Fred laughed heartily al
he thought OF the stern Puritan Captain
aud his quaint idea of courtship-his
Steady, strightfof wsrl aud strong, with Irresistible


logic.


Orthodox. flashing convict on right Into the hear
OF the heather,
Year: 1878

If you had money enough and to spare
and could do just what you wanted to
do. could YOU make choice: We have
thought the matter over very carefully,
and have concluded ihati if we could do
exactly what we wanted to do We would
do-nothing. And in this decision we
represent the larger part of mankind.
Year: 1878

Ifa woman wants to FAINT in compar-
atiye safety, Maine is the place to do 1t.
A woman tainted in car on a Name
railway and thirteen liquor TASKS were
promptly placed at her disposal. In
this connection it may be incidentally
stated that there were Just thirteen men
in the car,
Year: 1878

If Your minister does not preach well
enough don't go the rounds Of the par
ish with prolonged grumble, but just
send him dozen books containing the
best thoughts Of the times. 1t will give
a new start to the brain cells and cheer
his heart.
Year: 1878

A young widow was asked why she
was going to get married so soon after
the death Of her first husband. "Oh,
Ia" said she, Il do it TO prevent frettiug
myself to death on account Of dear
Ton, -
Year: 1878

Ii is a curious TACT that the more YOU
really know the more you know you
don't know. No one is so sure that hs
is right aud everybody else wrong as the
man who mistakes hrs predudices forhis
brains.
Year: 1878

A Frcnchman thinks the English
language is very tough. 'Dere is look
out he says, which is to put out your
head and see; and look out, which is to
haul in your head and MT for to see
Just the contrary
Year: 1878

When you speak evil Of another you
must be prepared TO have others speak
evil of you. There is an old Buddhist
proverb which says:-'Ile who indul-
ges in enmity is like one who throws
ashes to windward, which come back to
the same place and cover him all over
Year: 1878

The little life-boat of an EARTH with
its noisy crew Of mankind, and all their
troubled history, will one day have van
ished, faded like a cloud speck from the
azure of the all! What then il man! He
endures but Tor an hour, and is crushed
before the moth. Yet in the being and in
the working of faithful man Is there
already Gas our faith, from the beginning,
gives assuranee) q something that pertains
not to this wild death-element of time, that
triumphs over time, and is, and will be,
when time shall be no more. Thomas
Carlyle.
Year: 1878

THE E1press Of yesterday eve
ming has some reflections upon the
municipal election which comes
off next December. We bsg to re-
mind our contemporary of the
scriptural aphorisru that "enough
for the day is the evil thereof"
The election in which the people
Of Los Angeles are mainly inter
ested is the Congressional election.
which will begin in Kentucky in
August, which will tell the COM
plexion of the next House of Rep
ressntatives before the middle of
November, and which will be com
plsted in this State In little more
than year from to-day. Before
the fall rains we shall be consider
ing election returns which will be
far more important than even our
own local matters, important as
these last undoubtedly are.
Year: 1878

MEN-rhe great want OF this age
is men. Men who are not for sale.
Men who will condemn yr0ns in
friend or foe, in themselves as we'll
as others Mou whose conscisnces
are steady as the needle 10 the pola


Men who will stand for the right
il the heavens totter aud the earth
lssls Men who can tell the truth
AMI look the world and the devil
right iu the eye. Men that neither
dag nor finch. Men who eaa have
courage without shouting to it,


Men ia whom the courage Of ever
lasting life ruus still deep aud
strong, Men who 10 not cry or
cause their voices to DO heard on
tho streets, but will not fail nor DO
discouraged till Judgment DO set in
earth Men who know their places
and fill them Men who know their
owa places. Men who will NOT he,
Men WAC are not too lazy to work
aor too proud TO be poor.
Year: 1878

[Olympia Tr4nscript.''l


The merited rebuke which the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company has re-
ceiyed ut the hands of the people, if the


last vote may be judged as the result of
their feelings, should teach the lesson that
the rights Of community cannot be
trampIed upon with impunity. 1t has
trodden Oh the rights of the people until
the latter have no ontitlence in it nor its
promises. The last attempt to get its ne
hrous plans bolstered up by an endorse
ment from the people has totally failed,
and it stands to-day in the attitude of
hostility to the best interests of the Terri
tory. The principal objects appear to have
been to have the vote Of the Territory en-
dOrse its demand tor an unlimited extern
sion of time, for building the railroad,
and to defeat the peoples desire for the
Territory to become a state. On both Of
these questions it has lost the day, and it
should learn something from the lesson.
The PEOPLE of the Territory desire rail-
road across che Cascades. but they see lit
tie prospects of its being built by the
Northern Pacific while that company de-
mands an unlimited length OF time for its
construction. It's hostility to the con-
stitution, and its failure to relinquish
lands withdrawn, all show the same
treachcrous line of policy which has been
followed since the company first set foot
in the Territory. And unless the com
pany soon acts more honestly and fairly
than iT has done, it need never expect
much aid from the people OF the new
no thwest.