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Year: 1877

THK CRUSHING TAXATION ON BANKs.
Shall the banking business of this coun-
try be crushed to death by excessive tax>
alton ?s This is the vital question of the
day. No present issue-not even the
pacification of the South-is as important
as this one. Upon its rightful settlement
depends, in great measure, the future of
American manufactures and trade. The
State of New York holds over 80 per
cent. of all the bank deposits, and over
28per cent. of the whsle banking capital
Of the United States. A large proportion
of this is centsrsd in the metropolis.
Our State and city appear, therefore, to
be more profoundly interested than any
other part of the Union in throwing of
the incubus or unjust taxation. But we
cerned than any other part of the coun-
try ought to be in the fate that must fol-
low the continuance of this oppressive
system. Every State and financial CEN
tire should join with us in procuring re-
peal of the national war tax which is still
imposed en- the banks and amslioration
of those vocal laws which, in some of
the States, more than double that gre
vious weight. The movement for this
relief should be general. Every commu-
nifty should at once dismiss, as fellacy,
the idea-if entertained--that other por-
tions of the country can be benefited at
the expense of the peculiar hardships of
which New YORK complains. The
shrinkage of banking capital at this great
financial focus-in consequence of the
intolerable taxation-means harder times
for every section of the Union. When
this fact is better understood-andit it will
be soon-we may hope to see the efforts
of the New York bankers and merchants
who have hitherto been almost alone
in the work-to cause q repeal of the
Federal tax ON banks, and the passage
of law by Congress prohibiting the an
fair taxation of national banks by States,
cordially sustained on all sides, The bill
offered by Mr.. Willis in the House at
the last session covers beth these points.
Every business man in the country-if he
has clear perception of his own inter-
ests-will do his part to urge the passage
Of this bill next winter.-N. Y. Journal of
Commerce.
Year: 1877

BANQUET TO THE GovERNOR-ELECT AND
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY OF WIN
CHEsTER.-Last summer a number OF our
city officials and other citizens visited the
city OF Winchester while travelling in the
Valley OF Virginia, and were received by
Governor Holiday, Mayor Clarke, and the
citizens Of the town with marked courtesy
and that true and generous hospitality for
which the good people OF our beautiful
valley are so noted. On Monday night next,
those OF our citizens who were entertained
in Winchester, assisted by few OF their
friends, propose giving a banquet to Gov
ernor Holiday and the friends accompany
ing him. The banquet will take place at the
Park Hotel at O'Clock, and it is believed
will be in every respect worthy the occa-
sion. 1t will be strictly private affair, no
one being admitted except the subscribers
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Year: 1877

THE STRAsBURG CLoCK.-Thc daily attend
ance at the Virginia Opera-HoIse to see
this interesting and historical piece Of me-
chanism is steadily increasing as its merits
become known. The model is an exact
reproduction OF the famous astronomical
clock in the old Cathedral OF Strasburg,
combining its many mechanical and astro-
nomical movements with an eXactncsS truly
remarkable. The apostles appear in their
regular procession, receive the blessings OF
the Saviour. the cock on the tower crows
and flaps his wings, Peter denies the Lord,
Judas betraYs his Master, while Satan and
the angels OF death take their part in the
scriptural episode represented.


The astronomical portion in its construc-
ton proves most conclusively the genius
and patience OF the inventor and maker,
and, as whole, forms sight full Of his
toric interest, beautiful to sec as well as be-
ing most instructive and entertaining to all
classes. AS the admission fee is placed at
a nominal price, and the exhibition is open
day and night until 8 o'clock, all can avail
themselves OF the opportunity.
Year: 1877

DIRECT IMPoRTATIoN.-W. ID. BLAIR C Co.
have received another lot of that really fine TABLE
SHERRY, which they offer at $2.4 0 per gallon. The
quality Of this wine for the PRICE Is unsurpassed.
Year: 1877

The MIsTLEToE BoUGH.-The large au-
dicncc at Mozart Hall last night testified
fully their appreciation OF the very accepta-
BILE rendition Of the Mistletoe Bough, and
after the entertainment was over visited the
suppcr-rooms under the hall, where all that
the palate could desire was to be had. The
object for which the entertainment is given
the Retreat for the Sick) is most deserv-
ing one, and no doubt there will be another
full house tonight, when the Mistletoc
Bough will again Represented.


The ladies will have their supper-roon
open from P. NJ. to midnight.
Year: 1877

bly, on an average fifty passengers EACH
To gain ten minutes time for the
steam train between Harlem Bridge and
the depot would require the detention OF five
horse cars, and this would leave two hum
dred and fifty passengers to be carried,
which would need train composed Of six
of the large. open summer cars if all are to
be seated. If horses are dispensed with
above the Sixty-fifth street depot. and dunn
my trains are run between Harlem Bridge
and the depot every five minutes, providing
seats for all, it would require train as long
as three open cars or FIVE ordinary cars to
accommodate the passengers during the
busy hours. We leave the property owners
in Harlem and on Third avenue above the
depot to decide how greatly this would i'm
prove their property and business. Even
then through passengers would not gain ten
minutes time between Harlem Bridge and
the City Hall The idea OF the public being
benefited by this dummy" proposition is
preposterous. 1t may, however, enable the
Third Avenue Railroad Company to substi-
tute some less expensive motive power for
the horse. at the risk of life and to the dam
age Of property, while retaining all the in
conveniences and discomforts Of the present
abominable cars.
Year: 1877

'sStick" is the word now. When the
President asks an ofice-holder to resign he
respectfully declines, after the example OF
Marshal Pitkin. Thereupon the President
removes him, and the ofice-holder hopes
that the Senate will not confirm his
SUCCESSOR and that this will reinstate him.
We doubt if this little device proves
very successful The President is
nominating good men to Office; and there
are enough sensible Senators to confirm
this kind of nominations. rrrDo the Office
holders imagine that they will have the
sympathy of the country in their ridiculous
efforts to fasten a quarrel on the President?
We advise these republican 'soreheads" to
como on in a body and assist at the Tam
many naturalization on the Fourth Of July.
Year: 1877

The contest between Yale and Harvard
to-day promises to be the best and closest
eight-oared race ever seen in this country


Sixteen men have been carefully preparing
for many months under experienced coaches
and with every facility at their command for
the arduous struggle. The two crews will
go to the score very evenly matched, SO
evenly that no man dare say positively which
will win. Yale, by her good work year
ago and her very excellent work at Phila-
delphia last fall. has the immediate prestige,
and to say that she would win because she
then won might be easy were her men
the same as then. But while the four she
keeps are unusually good oars the other
four are new hands--newer than Harvard's.
The latter gets the benefit Of remaining
in the Rowing Association through last
season, for then she had o hard freshman's
race to row, and Brigham and Crocker,
her stroke and bow then, are now proving
good men in the university boat. Again,
it will be remembered that while Yale dis
posed of her a year ago SO easily, Harvard
but few weeks later had made marked
im provemcnt and at Saratoga whipped the
field, save Cornell, and drew on even
her very plainly on the home mile.
While the critics agree that Yale's coach
has his team in better form they equally
incline to the belief that Harvard has
more power. The Yale men are older and
taller and the Harvard notioeably the
heavier. Yale was certainly the favorite till
very recently. and probably is slightly
SO yet but Harvard's race on Tuesday
brought her many valuable bits Of ex-
perience, not the least that Of being second
for the first half mile or more, and then
drawing up to and past her rival. This has
increased the confidence Of her friends. 1t
is nowhere claimed that she does not know
how to use her power or TO get deal Of
speed out of the boat or that she cannot stay.
Altogether Yale can hardly afford to force
the pace this time If she does not, and
Harvard gets the lead, the chances are she
will keep it. If Yale gets away the faster,
unless by decided rush as last year, she
will stand more chance OF OVERRIDING herself
than her more powerful rival. II she wins
1t cannot be by much. 1t will be no sur
prise If, as has happened in tho Oxford
Cambridge match, and twice last fall on the
Schuylkill, that the lead at the finish Is not
q dozen feet. Barring fouls and accidents
Year: 1877

Latest Phase OF the Border Ques-


The firm and manly attitude Of the Score
tary of State in regard to the robberies on
the Texas border has produced, as we ex-
pected, an immediate good effect. Presi-
dent Diaz promptly acknowledged our right
to defend ourselves against these raids and
to pursue the robbers across the border and
we now hear from Washington of mixed
commission, composed Of Americans and
Mexicans, to sit as q court on the border and
have jurisdiction Of predatory offences. BY
this means the two Republics can take legal
cognizance Of such offences, and this mixed
court will be at hand to promptly and ef-
fectually punish the perpetrators, when the
forces of the two countries have caught
them. Before such commission can be
brought proof also that certain men in au-
thority in the northern States of Mexico
countenance and assist the robbers, and
these politicians can thus be punished and
the whole system broken up.


This plan strikes as ns we'll calculated to
put an end to the border troubles with
out war, which nobody wants, and with
such friendly cooperation between the
two governments as cannot help but
bring them into good accord on other
questions, such as those Of trade. 1t
is thus once more shown, as we have
frequently remarked, that o firm and manly
foreign policy, requiring Justice, is the
reverse Of warlike policy. The plan
of mixed commission will probably set at
rest the rumors of intrigues for the acquisi-
tion of Mexican territory which have been
for some time in circulation and of which a
Texan correspondent speaks elsewhere He
proposes that the United States shall take the
northern States Of Mexico and in return as
sumo the debt of about two hundred millions
of dollars which Mexico is said to owe to
European creditors. 1t seems to as scarcely
probable that the American people will con-
sent at this time to add two hundred
millions to the national debt We prefer
the plan of Secretary Evarts, Of mixed
commission Two hundred millions is not
a trifing sum in these hard times, or indeed
at any time.
Year: 1877

The Aldermen having authorized the trial
Of "noiseless steam engines" on the Third
avenue horse cor line have deputized five of
their number, who know as much about
steam engines as about astronomy, to direct
and supervise the experiment The only
questions that should be considered In
deciding whether steam engines ought to be
allowed to run in the avenues and streets of
the city relate to the safety and convenience
Of the people and the proper protection and
free use of the public highways. The OK
pertinent, if permitted at all, should be
made under the supervision of some intelli-
gent and capable authority, such, for in
stance, as the engineers Of the Department
of Public Works The Aldermen are elected
to protect and promote the public interests
and not the interests of railroad corpora
tions, and however profitable the use of
steam engines or dummies might prove to
the Third Avenue Horse Car Company it
ought not to be authorized unless it can bo
shown to be Of decided public advantage,
and to be wholly free from objection either
on tho point of danger or obstructiveness.


The experiment" is to be made with five
steam engines, and it is left discretionary
with tho Aldermen where they shall be run
whether over the whole line or only over
part. The only practicable use Of steam on
the Third avenue road would be between
Harlem Bridge apd the Sixty-fifth street
depot, dispensing altogether with horses.
It would be absurd to use both dummies
and horse power, since it would be neces-
sary to stop the horse cars certain length
of time in order to leave the track clear for
tho dummy train. This would cause such
an accumulation of passengers that it would
require on impracticably long train to carry
them. For instance, cars are started from
Harlem every two minutes in the busy
hours of the morning and carry proba-
Year: 1877

THE REDUCTION OF Ten PER CENT in wages
ordered by the Erie and Lake Shore railroads has
naturally created good deal Of dissatisfaction
among those affected by the new scale Of compcn-
sation. A remonstrance has been made by the
engineers the Erie line, but the order will not
be revoked, and there is no way to compel Mr..
Jewctt to do SO. The reduction undoubtedly
bears hard on these harl-working men, who
probably are paid less in proportion to their
responsibility than any other class of employee
In any other business but what can they do I
Strikel 1t is to be hoped they are too sensible
for that. The best thing they can do is to ac-
cept the situation and await better times
Year: 1877

THE CORNER STONE of the Episcopal Cattle
dral, to be erected by Mrs. Stewart to the mem
ory of her husband, was laid yesterday in Gar
den City with interesting and appropriate cere-
monies The attendance was very large, num-
bering between six and ten thousand persons.
Bishop Littlejohn preached an eloquent sermon,
and addresses were made by other distinguished
clergymen. The event is an important one in
the history of the Episcopal Church in the
United States
Year: 1877

The STAGE Coach from the Black Hills has
been robbed twice within week. The robbers
find that dividing gold dust with a spoon is not
always satisfactory, and have sent with their
compliments q request for pair Of scales to the
proprietors of tho stage line. If the United
States troops catch them they will probably need
coffins instead OF scales.
Year: 1877

PRESIDENT HAYES must have spent pleasant
day in Rhode Island yesterday. His reception
was hearty and enthusiastic, and everything the
little State could do to pay him honor and make
him feel at home was done. Thousands of per-
sons turned out to welcome him, and, with excel
lent good TASTE there were allusions to politics
by ANYBODY.
Year: 1877

Doc BIrE.--A little girl was bitten by dog
in Hartford six weeks ago, and is now at the
point Of death. Recently, when Professor
Alvergnat died in the same city from the same
cause, the theorists said it the result of NEIL
tai excitement from reading on the subject.


Mental excitement will not apply in the present
Year: 1877

Spring is trying season. Indications of sick
ness should at once be attended to- Fatal diseases
may be caused by allowing the bowels to become
constipated and the system to remain in a dlsor-
dered condition, rntil the disorder has time to de-
velop ilself. An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure, is al old and truthful saying
Therefore, we advise all who troubled with the
complaints now very prevalent headache, indiges-
ton, disordered liver want Of appetite, nausea, or
feverish skin, to take, without delay. Schenck's
Mandrake Pills. We know of no remedy go harm
less and decisive in its action. 1t at once strikes
at the root of the disease and produces healthy
bone to the system. People never need suffer from
any disease arising from disordered condition of
the liver if they woud take this eXcellaRt medicine
when they feel the first indications of the malady


Families leaving home for the summer months
should take three four boxes of these pills with
them. They have an almost instaueous effect
They viii relieve the patient of headache in one or
TIVE hours, and will rapidly cleanse the liver ol
surrounding bile, and will efectually prevent q
bilious attack. They are sold by all Druggist.
Year: 1877

New YORK, May 13.-The steamer
City of Brussels the third day out broke
shaft and is now proceeding under sail.
She was met Tuesday last by sister ship,
City of Richmond. that arrived this morn
ing, and brings the intelligence that all on
board are well and in the best of spirits.
The oficsls Of the Richmond express the
opinion that unless me City of Brussels
is delayed by a calm or head wind she
will make her port in eight or ten days
from the time they fell in with her.


LONDON, May l3.-The Times says that
already on Friday night the 1nmans had
dispatched Challenger and Blazer, two
most powerful tugs, in search of the City
of Brussels. Each took good supply of
provisions aud a powerful hawser. 1t is
expected that one of them will take the
northern and the other the southern route.
There is little doubt one or the other will
encounter the Brussels,
Year: 1877

THE HOTEL DEyoNsHIRE. OF New
Is a spick and span bran-new
6rst-clasg hotel Every room is bright
and cheerful, we'll ventilated, and elegantly
furnished. 1t is located just across the
street from the Grand Central Depot,
where every traveller may stop without
having to hire carriage 1t is kept on
the European Plan, and the scale of prices
is very moderate. Don't fail to give it a
trial on your next visit to the city.
Year: 1877

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING New
YoRK.-One of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and
others to stop at when in New York is the
Grand Union Hotel, nearly opposite the
Grand Central Depot, kept on the Euro
pean plan--you therefore only pay for
what yoa get. Everything is first class,
and prices moderate. adapted to the string
ency of the times, You save the expense
of carriage hire, and by leaving your bag
gage check on the counter Of the Hotel,
your baggage will be delivered in your
rooms, fifteens minutes after the arrival
of the cars, free of expense. We advise
you to give the Grand Union trial.
Year: 1877

LUCKY Is THE BABY whose Mamma
uses Glenn's Sulphur Soap, with which to
wash the little innocent No prickly heat
or other rash, can annoy the infant cuticle
with which this cooling and purifying anti
scorbutic comes in daily contact.


Gray Heads daily grow black or brown.
Cause, Hills Hair Dye.
Year: 1877

Though il has been the subject Of many
Jokes the present condition of the New
York streets is no laughing matter. From
an accurate description which we publish
to-day of the appearance and contents
Of certain roadways the reader may form
some estimate of the masses of filth that are
awaiting removal. OF the quality, however,
of these monuments to departed official
ability it is not so easy TO judge at sight. If
the dirt were only common earth its pres
ence would be annoying to every one and
disgraceful to the authorities who are paid
to devise means of preventing its accumula-
ton. Not one-tenth part of it is earth how
ever; it is principally composed of decaying
vegetable and animal matter, which, cast in
small quantities from almost every residence
and business house, is ground to powder and
paste by passing vehicles, but never changes
its original nature excepting through de-
cay. The exhalations from such foul mass
are dangerous enough at present, though
the process of fermentation is greatly re-
tarded by the low temperaturs. Given q
single day of warm sunshine, however,
which often comes more than once in
March, and the unlocking of the poisons of
this vast store of filth will work physical
harm to degree simply incalculable. a
serious misapprehension is that of many
people that only the inhabitants of the
dirtiest localities will be the sufferers


The atmosphere of large city is
not laid out in districts; the foul
emanations from the side streets reach
the pedestrian on Broadway and the occu-
pant of the Fifth avenue carriage, and
though its effects are not always SO marked
as they are upon the underfed, poorly
housed dcnizens of squalid neighborhoods
the insidious letting down of the general
tone Of the system makes swift the progress
of many q constitutional ailment. 1t should
be remembered that disease from this cause
is beyond medical control; absolute recov-
cry can take place only on the removal
either of the cause or tie invalid. The con-
dition of the streets becomes, therefore, q
matter of the gravest personal concern. II
public means are inadequate to the removal
of street filth true economy will prompt
private and cooperative enterprise to at.
tempt it. A few experiments under compe-
tent direction would at least have the effect
of displaying in their proper colors the in
capacity and carelessness of the men who
are paid and sworn to fulfil this duty and
provide means for its accomplishment.
Year: 1877

The walk to-day in honor of st. Patrick
will be in snow or rain, but those who
honor the Saint will be only the more en-
thusiastic for the difficulties. st. Patrick
travelled throughout Ireland on foot and
never wearied of his labors in the cause of
Christianity. That he was really great
and good man is proved by the respect which
after so many hundred years is still paid
to his memory. The legend that he
expelled snakes from Ireland is prob
ably myth, meaning that he was
the man who dealt the first and
great blow at heathenism in that island.
The Scriptures always allude to the serpent
whether the story be fact or religious
myth the devotion shown by our Irish
citizens to st. Patrick is something
beautiful in its sincerity. 10 them
the anniversary of his birth is fes-
tival in which patriotism and religion
are blended, and neither snow nor hail nor
rain will prevent It's formal observance.
The procession will be immense, notwith-
standing the unfavorable weather. and will
furnish q new proof that the ardor of our
Irish citizens is united with their Order.
In the evening many societies will cele-
brate the birthday of the Saint by
banquets, and at the dinner of the
Friendly Sons of st. Patrick Mr.. Hugh j.
Hastings will preside, and, under the in
spiration Of q four-leaved shamrock, newly
imported for the occasion, will explain the
mysteries of the Saints birth and Of the
origin of the celebrated round towers OF
Ireland. To-day "The Wearing of the
Green" will be the most popular song in
the city, and we wish all success and joy to
those who celebrate the great event.
Year: 1877

South Carolina got rid yesterday Uf four
of her dangerous characters by the only
legal method that never fails-the scaffold
The crime for which these negroes were exc
cuted was murder, but all the condemned
had already been guilty of every villany
that was possible to men of their class and
surroundings. Their last moments very
much resembled those of white men
on similar occasions. The brute
courage which had supported them
in their careers Of rascality proved utterly
unavailing against the cowardice which al
ways afllicts natures morally low, and the
conscience which they had steadily stifed
rose to condemn them by showing that it
had never been dead. Each one of them
found his only strength in reliance upon the
mercy of the Being whose every law he had
broken, and each one fastened to make
earthly confession before he should have to
do it in q court where false testimony
and false witness can never prevent n
righteous verdict. Each one, too, acted
as spokesman for rascals of almost
every degree by charging his fate to
whiskey and bad company. BY this last
earthly act these ignorant negroes preached
a sermon which is worth being listened to,
even as far north as New York, and not only
by the lower classes either. Like causes
produce like results, and there are men who
wear fine clothing, carry university diplo-
mas and drink only the best of liquors. who
are as thoroughly curses to humanity as the
South Carolina murderers, and are prepar-
ing for tho same cowardly ending, even If
the method Of their taking off be moro
fashionable and less public.