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Year: 1878

One of the pledges of that platform was


that all men we're equal before the law.


can say that l have favored NJ race,


party or people in the administration Of


the laws of the State. 1 defy any man
to put his finger on a single pledge Of
that platform and say that I have not
carried it out. | intend to walk on in
the path that the Democratic party has
blazed out for me. l cannot deviatie
from it. I cannot turn to the right or
to tho left without being false to them.
I had expected and desired when my
term of Office had ended. to turn over to
nv successor South Carolina happy and
free. l had no idea of being called
again into public life, and can say to
you that 1 want no place or office. |
would not give to-day the place oc-
cupy in the hearts of the people of
South Carolina for the Office of Prcsi-
dent of the United States. I have pass
ed the charges that have been brought
against me BY as an idle wind, trusting
all to the charity of my people. was
willing to leave everything to the peo'
pie of the Statc-to the men by whom
I stood for four long years-to the old
men, fathers CT those brave soldiers, to
the noble boys who have grown up
since-and above all to the ever-faithful
women, whose instincts are better than
mans reason. can say in the pres
ence of this vast crowd and of God that
I have done my duty to South Carolina.
Had I done my duty to my God as we'll.
it would have been better for me. |
have nothing to ask but justice. l
know that the poisonous seed that some
have endeavored to SOW will find no
place in the hearts of the people. |
commit nv record into the hands OF the
people of South Carolina, hoping that
God may bless them.
Year: 1878

4 young man was arrested 10 New
Jersey town few days ago on the charge
of carrying concealed weapons. On
searching his person bowie knife was
found in each boot leg, a seven shooter
in his hip pocket, slung shot in his in
side coat pocket, q cavalry sword slid
down his back, "billy" in each coat
tail pocket, and dagger up each coat
sleeve. That was all. He was dis
charged when he explained that he was
on his way to Princeton College to en-
ter the freshmen class, and had merely
taken some precautlon to protect himself
from the attacks OF the sophomores.
Year: 1878

There is use in beauty. 1t makes
home attractive, its interior more re-
spectacle, our lives happier our disposi-
tions sweeter, and our social and domestic
intercourse more refined. By all means
plant some little thing of fgrace to tenn
per the rugged surroundings Of the
front yard. Its silent, though eloquent
language, will speak to the visitor or
passer-by word of eulogy for you. The
teart flower or shrub will be some attrac-
ton, curved path winding between
trees to the house mound Of stones
and shell with the ivy trailing over them,
the Towering shrubs or the turf or fern,
all such things are attractive and form
pleasing object for the cye Of even
the most Indifferent beholders.-Mes-
senger.
Year: 1878

The great secret of gaining happiness
in life is to enjoy the present. 10 be
doing one thing and thinking of another,
is very unsatisfactory mode of spend
ing life. Some people are always wish
ing themselves somewhere but where
they are, or thinking of something else
than what they are doing, or of some
body else than to whom they are speaks
ing. This is the way to enjoy nothing
to do nothing well, and to please nobody.
1t is better to be interested in inferior
pcrson, and things than to be indiffer-
ent with the best. A principal cause
Of this Indifference is the adoption OF
other peoples tastes instead of our
own--thc pursuit after that for which
we are not fitted, and to which, conse.
qnentlv, We arc not in reality inclined
This folly pcrvades, moro or less, all
classes, and arises from errors of build
ing our enjoyment on the false founda-
ton of the worlds opinion, instead OF
being, with due regard to others, each
our own world.
Year: 1878

A woman has no natural gift more be-
wtching than a sweet laugh. 1t is
like the sound of flutes on the water.
1t leaps from her in clear, sparkling
rill and the heart that hears it, feels as
if bathed in a cool. exhilarating spring.
Have you ever passed 40 unseen fugitive
through trees, led on by fairy laugh
now here, and now there, now lost, now
found ? We have-and We arc pursuing
that wandering voice to this day. Some
times it comes to Us in the mists of care,
or sorrow, or irksome business, and then
we turn away and listen, and hear it
ringing through the room like a silver
bell, with power to scare away the evil
spirits of the mind. How much we owe
that sweet laugh? 1t turns the prose
to poetry. 1t filings showers Of sunshine
over the darkness of the wood in which
We are travelling; it touches with light
even our sleep. which is no moro the
image Of death, but is consumed with
dreams that are shadows of Immortality.
Year: 1878

One by one the sands are flowing,


One by one the moments fa!l;
Some are coming. some are going


To not strive to grasp them all.
One by one thy duties wait thee;


Let thy whole strength 60 to each;
Let no fi,ture dreams elatc thee.


Learn thou first what these can teach.
One by one bright gifts from Heaven,
JOYS are sent thee from above;
Take them readily when given,


Ready, too, to let them move.
One by one these gifts shall melt thee
Do not fear an armed band;
One will fade as others greet thee,


Shadows passing through the land.
Do not laugh at life's long SORROW.


See how small each moments pain;
God will help thee for tomorrow
Every day begin again.
Every day that fleets so Slowly


Has ITS task to do or bear;
Luminous the crown, and holy,


If they set each gem with care.
Do not linger with regretting.


Or for passing hours despond;
Nor the daily toll forgetting,


Look too eagerly beyond.
Hours are golden links. Gods token
Reaching heaven-but one by one,
Take them. lest the chain be broken,
Ere thy pilgrimage be done.
Year: 1878

Gol's goodness is shown US every day.
Ho makes the rain and sunshine and
the grain to grow, giving "seed to the
sower and bread to the eater" He
blcsses us with health and life; and for
all these things We should be sincerely
thankful to him. The Psalmist tells US
tina. "it is good thing to give thanks
to the Lord" and we never should for
get to thank Him every day for His
many mcrcics and blessings.
Year: 1878

Freedom is the natural school of en-
crgy and enterprise. Freedom is the
appropriate sphere of talent and virtue.
The soul was not mad: to walk in fet-
ters. TO act powerfully, it must act
freely; and it must act, too, under all
the far incentives Of an honest and
honorable ambition. This applies cs'
pecialy to the mass Of the people. There
may be minds, and there are, which find
a suliciet incentive to exertion, in the
love of acknowlcd cement, in the single
aim at perfrction. But this is not, aud
cannot be. the condition of the mass of
minds. They need uthcr impulses.
Open then, | say, freely and widely to
every individual, the way to wealth, to
honor, to social respect and to public
office, and you put life into any people.
Impart that principle to nation OF
Turks, or even of Hindoos, and it will
be as resurrection from the dead. The
sluggish spirit will be aroused; the
languid nerve will be strung to new
energy there will be a stir of action
and spring to industry all over the
country, because there will be a motive.
Alas how many poor toilers in the
world are Obliged to labor without re-
ward, without hope, almost without mo-
tive Like the machinery amidst which
thew labor, and of which they are
scarcely more than part, they are
moved by the impulse of blind nccessl-
,y. The single hope of bcttering their
condition, which now, alas never visits
them. would regenerate them to new
l.c,
Year: 1878

Unselfsh people are always polite,
because good manners are only the abb
sence of selfshncss They are doing
unto others as we would wish to be done
unto. A though,fulness for the com
fort of those about US, pleasant smile
a kind word-these are the ingredients
of which good manners are chiefly com-
posed.
Year: 1878

A lawyer not over young nor hand
some, examining q young lady witness
in court, determined to perplex her, and
said "Miss, upon my word, you are
very pretty" The young lady very
promptly replied II would return the
compliment, sir, If I were not on OATH"
Year: 1878

A tramp was arrested in Winona for
drunkenness and locked up. A stolen watch
was found in his cell after he was liberated.
Before hie arrest he had been throwing
stones through the windows of farmers
house, because the women folk had locked
him out. A valuable citizen this, like all OF
his craft.
Year: 1878

For the Gazette


have read hints and insinuations from


Washington daring this session of Con-
gress, proposing to re-enact, or restore
the income tax. After various soundings
and rumbhngs, the House of Represen-
tetives which is called democratic, by a
committee or majority of a committee.


have reported in favor of said revival of
said od.ous rdscaRy income tar, that was


only to be considered necessity during


the war. Now, / warn the northern


democrats, for if they forsake their


manhood and bow their heads to south


ern lead and pressure, we are all gone


under again for all time. O'Byrne


OF the Herald goes astray sometimes, and
he accuses me of the same failing, but in
his opposition to the att tlempted restora-
ton of the income tax he has my heart
lest sympathy, and l say Johnny hit the
tricksters sledge hammer blows, the
south tried to break this old union up,


they lost their stake and their bonds,
ana now out of piece of vengeance try
TO get the democratic party to espouse
their scheme of putting an extra tax on
northern men who may have happened


to made some money by helping or favor
| ing the eternal holding together of the


old union. The Northern men (Republi-


cans) done,I will argree, some hellsh


acts, one of them franchising the negro


and told some of them when they were
getting I'D that measure they would curse
the day they fastened it ON the country.


Delaware acts manly, her democrats
only ask white mans aid but the
Southern democrats vote Republican
| negroes TO keep Southern democrats or


more properly the Southern clan in office.


L shall urge if L am at the county and


state democratic conventions this year,
to pass resolution setting forth our OPP
position to a revival of the odious income
| tax and forbid the candidate for Con
gress we nominate, from voting for the
| renewal of the said income tax if he is
| elected.


SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, April Y, 1873.
Year: 1878

WE DO NOT ADVERTISE BOGUS PRICES. NOR ARE
WE IN THE HABIT or ADVERTISING TEN YEARS.
TIME As AN INDICTMENT To THOSE DESTROYS OF
PURCHASING TO VISIT OUR HOUSE.


IT Is ABOUT TIME THAT THE PUBLIC SHOULD
UNDERSTAND THAT SYSTEM OF BOGUS ADvERrls-
ING WE REFER TO.


WE DO SAY THAT WE ARE PREPARED TO GIVE
LONGER TINE AND As LIBERAL TERMS AS ANY
OTHER HOUSE IS OUR LINE OF BUSINESS NOT
wITHsTANDGNG THAT THEY OFFER 10 YEARS TINE,
AND EVEN TO THE NEXT CENTENNIAL


WE MOST RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT THOSE DE
sTRoUS OF PURCHASING WILL GIVE Us CALL BE-
FORE GOING ELSEWHERE. WHEN WE CAN EASILY
SATISFY THEM THAT TO US BELONG so FICTITIOUS
PRICE LISTS. AND ALSO THAT WE ARE PREPARED
rOGivE LONGER TINE AND MORE LIBERAL TERMS
THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN THE CITY.
Year: 1878

To this heading wish to call the especial attention Of
customers who may wish to pay on instalments for
soons purchased at store. There are many in the in
stallment business who make practice Of charging eN
orbsnt rarsfor goods so purchased who on the nr'
failure to pay seize the opportunity Of taking back
their goods thereby the paucst sense deraudins the
customer Of the amount paid insiallneuts l. there.
fore think my duty to lay before the public my plan Of
dealing in fairness with those who may paronile me,
and this practice have followed since l have started
business sell teash advertised rates Inever harass
or dive people but act toward them in every lenient
way possible, extending ami roextendnS the periods Of
payments when their circumstances may require It,


thereby helping them by every possible means aud II 1t
becomes necessary take back goods carefully store
them charging nothing for storage, and return them
back without interest extra charge, at any moment
they may wish TO have them back.
Year: 1878

Hundreds of preachers in New York and
its vicinity will go into their pulpits to-day
with sermons which, in point of proportion,
diction and other literary graces, have been
carefully prepared. There is another
quality, however, which every conscien-
tious minister will admit is necessary to a
sermon-it is that of moral and spiritual
effectiveness. To be effective a thing must
be strong. Strength is not inconsistent
with grace and elegance, but without it the
latter are useless. But how can sermon
be strong when its subject matter is diluted
to the very verge of destruction with words
Soups and broths are very well as portions
of a meal, but of themselves alone they
are very unsatisfyiug TODD. A valuable
idea is as practically imperceptible in a
mass of verbiage as sugar and salt are in the
fluids from which they are obtained. Like
these the sermon should be boiled down
until it's essential quality is tangible, visi-
BILE and of the greatest possible strength.
1t is mournful and enraging task to re-
duce any artistic work to its merest ele-
ments; but if preacher has not the rare
faculty of combining elegance and force
the important nature Of his work should
reconcile him to personal loss that the gain
of his hearers may be increased. 1t may be
possible that in rare cases the boiling down
process may be continued until nothing
whatever remains, but in such event the
fault is not of our advice 1t is to be traced
directly to the utter worthlessness Of the
sermon as il originally stood.
Year: 1878

After six years and half of distinguished
service in the New Dominion rs its Cover
nor General Earl Dufferin sailed from Que
bee yesterday for England. bearing with
him the atfectionate good will of the Cana
dian people. The scene of parting, which
our special despatch describes, was a re-
markable one. Cold winds and heavy rains
could not chill the warmth nor damp
the ardor of those who gathered on
the banks of the st. Lawrence to
bid him farewell. Still a young man,
Lord Dufferin bears with him in those
hearty cheers which sum up the general
verdict upon his administration the prom
ise of future even more brilliant in the
Old World. The tact and graces which
served him so well in harmonizing conflict
ing interests and smoothing over difficult
ties will probably before long find loftier
employment In the settlement of the
Ministerial question by the swearing in of
Sir John Macdonald he has removed every
trace of unpleasant duty from the
first steps of his successor, the young
Marquis Of Lorne. who will find
the new Cabinet in working order
upon his arrival. Canadian expectation
will now be turned to the new conner and
his royal wife, and in the evident determi-
nation of the home government to dignity
the entry of the young Campbell by every
available pomp of circumstance and Sign of
power they will find much to crafty their
curiosity and promote their loyalty. Yet it
is plain that Earl Dufferin will not be for
gotten amid these official rejoicings. 1t is
scarcely too much to add that when Canada
rests contentedly as part of our great fed
Grafton His Lordship's memory will be
cherished as that of the good Haroun al
Raschid is in the song and story Of the
Orient
Year: 1878

Shortly before the Hanlan- Courtney race
the iavorite in the betting began to lose
ground. Rumors we're rife that in his own
home at Union Springs, at Auburn and all
through Cayuga county, his best friends
were deserting him; that intimates of his
and of his hackers were in receipt Of word
that men were leaving Auburn suddenly
for this city and Montreal in hopes to
hedge and cover their threatened losses.
The unquestioned fact that brother
of one Of Courtney's hackers was
openly avowing in Auburn that Hanlan
telegraphed to n prominent pool room in
this city that Courtney had sold the race,
gave force to the ugly news, and soon it was
flashing all over the land. Canadians, all
along confident that their man could win,
we're focking into Montreal by the thou
fabulous rate of three and even four to one
on Hanlan, with scarcely any takers. All
this time Courtney was well, indeed in
high condition, and no reason was known
why, if he wished, he should not make o
wonderful fight, If not certain victory.
And yet, when the race day came, he was
almost without friend, and when the race
was rowed, though over and over he collared
and passed his man, almost fouling him at
the finish, he stopped rowing for a moment
and was beaten by half length.


At once the press of the country were on
his trail. Every sort of inquiry was made,
and while latterly the light begins to break
in his favor it was hard to tell how
Year: 1878

much confidence to place in mere hearsay
stories Of reporters who had nothing over
Courtney's own name. But he has recently
challenged investigation, and besides enter
ing suit against one newspaper in his own
locality for libel he has now freely unbo-
somed himself under oath in a statement
which will be found on another page OF this
paper. Strangely enough the whole mat
ter practically Sits down to two facts
Courtney did not know the course, and the
brother OF one of his hackers actually had
been talking him down before the race.
But it was only to bring down the odds
which then favored Courtney and make the
betting better for his friends, which result
it certainly effected with vengeance. But
it is very clear that Courtney was party to
no wrong act nor cognizant OF the mad
step his friend was taking, and it is equally
plain that his hackers honestly stood by
him to the bitter end. 1t is but simple
justice to him, then, that until sworn proof
is shown to the contrary he should again
receive the confidence so freely accorded to
him before, and that slanderous charges
which, under sworn proof, are shown to
utterly lack foundation should be silenced
a. once.
Year: 1878

The Tammany Convention yesterday con-
cluded its labors by the nomination of can
didates tor the offices to be filled at the next
the political gossips were not sustained,
and they were either at fault in their infor-
nation as to the make mp of the slate or
the slate was changed at the last moment.
Tammany, therefore, presents tor the SUI
trages of its lieges Mr.. Schell for Mayor,
MI. Frederick Smythe for District Attorney,
Judge Bedford for City Judge and
Alderman Tuomey for Coroner. Our
opinion on the one glaring defect
in Tammany ticket has been
declared and is known. Aside from that
weakness there is no fault to be found with
the ticket now made. Ithas, indeed, an in
herent strength in the character OF the
names it bears Mr. Schell is well known
in his party and to the general public as
highly respected citizen, and rs one
against whose intelligence, credit and char
acter not word can be said. Mr.. Smythe,
now nominated for District Attorney, is the
gentleman who stood as the Tammany can
didate in that famous conflict which re-
suited in the election of Recorder Hackett
1t was then conceded that he was gentle
man in every way worthy the public conf
dence, and even that the case OF the
people against a factious attempt to
displace an admirable functionary was
made more striking than it would otherwise
have been by the admitted merits OF the
man it was necessary to defeat tor the as
sertion OF the principle OF popular SOW
ereignty. Judge Bedford is remembered by
the public for his conspicuous success in his
former discharge Of the duties of the position
to which he is now again nominated. 1t is
pity that this ofice-or, indeed, that judiciary
offices generally should be involved in the
whirl and strife of party politics, and re-
grettable that when a good and capable man
like Judge Bedford is brought forward
the parties could not agree to make his
election certain by making the same nomi-
nation on both sides. Now that Tammauy
is fairly in the field We shall soon hear
from the opposing elements that it was at
one time hoped could be brought to combine
upon a ticket that would command all
the Independent votes. Perhaps the pub
lie needs scarcely to be told at this time that
that hope grows small by degrees and beau
tifully less. Intrigue is busy on that side
in the great effort to put the popular inter-
est aside and turn the whole movement to
the profit Of sly, slow politician OF whom
the people have, we believe, had more than
enough. Tammany's great defect is of that
nature; but if this defect is even more
fragrant on the other side, as it now bids
fair to be- there will then be no choice be-
tween the two tickets on the ground of
principle, and if the public must choose
only as to the respective merit Of the candi-
dates, all that has been heard Of what the
combination proposes to do leads US to be-
lieve that the Tammany ticket, as now pre-
sented, will be decidedly preferable to the
other.
Year: 1878

What the Candidates Have to Sny.


In another part of to-day's HERALD the
reader will find the opinions of q large
number of candidates for office on a variety
OF topics of immediate interest in the
politics of the day. Inquiries made by our
reporters of candidates for Congress, for
the Assembly, for the Board Of Aldermen
and the offices Of District Attorney, Alder
men and Mayor are responded to by men
of all parties in variable spirit and to
very contrary effect rs the parties differ, but
altogether very frankly and plainly. Re-
sumption, the national banks, the army,
the navigation laws. fraud, the wages of
laborers employed by the city, the powers
Of the Mayor, the reapportionment of the
State, the duties Of district attorneys
are some of the topics on which the men
who request the suffrages OF the people
of the city give their opinions. With
these responses of candidates before him no
man can declare himself entirely ignorant
Of the candidate for whom he deposits his
ballot. Commonly the people get in their
hands on election day beautiful variety
Of little tickets covered with the names of
men Of whom they never heard before, and
between the different aspiranis for any
given Office that can make no other distinc-
tion than that one is called a democrat and
the other a republican. With the record
we spread before the public to-day an i'm
provement is possible, for by this the voter
can at least discover what the candidates
opinions are on points of decided moment
in the concerns Of the day; discover that
some candidates have good, distinct, de-
fenslble opinions that may be wrong; that
some are very habby-witted on all subjects,
and that some have no opinions at all.