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Year: 1877

CITY CIRCUIT COURT, YEsTERBAY.-In the
case OF the State Of Virginia Us. The Rich
mond and Danville Railroad Company, on
motion OF the counsel for the State, who de-
sired to appeal from the decree entered in
the cause, it was ordered that the decree be
suspended for a period Of sixty days from
date
Year: 1877

COMMON CouScIL.-An effort was made on
Thursday afternoon to secure a meeting Of
the Common Council to consider the report
OF the Committee on Retrenchment and Re-
form, but il failed. There were only five or
six members present
Year: 1877

DoCKETING OF CAUSES IN THE CIRCUIT
CoURT.-The following is important to the
legal fraternity and suitors can act to
regulate the docketlns Of causes in the Cir
cult Court of the city Of Richmond" ap-
proved March 81, 1877:


l. Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly
of Virginia, That whenever it shall appear
to the Circuit Court OF the city OF Rich
mond that two rules have been taken in a
suit or action at law pending therein, and
the same is matured for trial, the said Court
may order such suit or action at law to be
docketed for trial.


2. Every judgment obtained in said court
upon causes matured for trial under the pre-
ceding section shall have the effect OF lien
only from and after the day when the same
becomes final, and not from the commence
ment OF the term.


8. This act shall be in force from its pass
Year: 1877

occurred in our State. The truth is,
the wrath of the Times was aroused by
Mr. Catching's statement that "the
Government of Mississippi was able 10
take care of itself without any dictation
from the Times. We have only TO say
that in this statement Mr.. Catchings is
most cordially supported by our whole
people.


The Times belongs 10 that class OF
papers which, while pretending to
represent and advocate the interests Of
the South, loses no opportunity to
SANDER and defame her people. We
have given the Times this much of our
attention, not for the purpose of vindi-
eating Mr.. Catchings, for where he is
known as he is in this State, nothing
the Times could say or do could affect
him in the least but merely, that those
of our people who mighthaye seen the
Times article, without having also
read the statement in the Picayune
might the better understand It's malice
aud mendacity,
Year: 1877

The appropriation for the army tor
the present fiscal year, will be made
on a basis of $4,000 men, for next year
for 1900 men. This doesn't look
much like the Democratic party in
tends increasing the army.
Year: 1877

YOTERs of Warren county, you can
low see the object Of the so.called Ma.
t!onal Administration party. It's plain
that it is the purpose of its leaders to
secure Office, if possible, by appeals to
The colored people. They do not seek
the support of the white people, but
not day passes that they do not make
long, highly painted appeals 10 the
cOlored voters, They we'll know that
their purpose Is so transparent that they
cannot possibly gain any support from
intelligent people, aud they are there.
fore engaged In the very same course
that brought so much trouble on this
city and county years ago. We ask the
intelligent OF both races, shall these
men be successful2 Will they be al.
lowed to array race against race, igno-
rance against intelligence, poverty
against property, merely because they
want official positions? We hope not
and we believe not, but there is danger
unless every good citizen in the county
goes to the polls on Tuesday and votes
or the Democratic candidates.
Year: 1877

Col. Furlong has been greatly abused,
and charged with being a very terrible
fellow. He Is made out 10 be nearly
as bad as Mr.. Klein, or the Editor of
the HERALD. Some few political an.
gels who roost up in the garret at
Peine's stable, who claim 10 be so pure
that they are forced by terrible moral
power from within 10 make these
charges, never remember anything that
Col. FHrloDg ever did for the people
Of this city and county. The political
angels who roost over Peine's stable
never think to tell the voters that Mr..
FurloDg was the standby of the peo-
pie OF this county in the Senate for
yeGrs. They fail to tell the people that
If the citizens of this city or county
wanted any measure put through the
Legislature, that Furlong's aid was al
ways sought. They refuse to speak Of
the greEt service that he did the whole
State in time of sore necessity. They
conveniently forget the Metropolitan
Police Bill. They never mention his
glorious and successful fight on Ames.
They have quantity to tell the
negroes about him, but Il never oc.
curs TO them 10 inform them that
he is one Of the best friends the
liberal public school system of this
State ever had. For all the valuable
services he has rendered the people
these political angels have not q single
good word, and they are bothered to
death TO know where be il, and why he
doesn't come home, SO that they may
abuse him more elTec,ually, We do,
not know where he is, and we do not
care If these angels will be little pa.
tient, they will be able to find him in
the Senate Chamber when the Legi.ls.
ture meets.
Year: 1877

Liver Disease and Indigestion


prevail to a greater extent than
probably any other malady ,and
relief il always anxiously
sought after. II the Liver Is
Regulated IN its action, health
health is almost invariably Sc
Year: 1877

The speech of Governor HAYES on
Yesterday, at Columbus, in bidding fare
we'll to his friends, proves him to be a
sound political philosopher and patriot
of noble impulses. He struck the key
note to the true principle upon which our
political fabric rests when he said: awe
would have our Union union of hearts,
and we would have our Constitution
obeyed, because the people love
the principles of the Constitution"
No truer sentiment was ever
uttered than that as the government
must rest upon the consent OF the
governed, and not depend upon the
mailed hand for its support.


Yet we do fear that Governor HAYES
with all his patriotic purposes and kind
impulses will fall prey to the ravenous
wolves at Washington and his admins
tration be controlled by the same base
men who go successfully ruined whatever
promised to be good in in his predecessor.
When Gen. GRANT went into the Execu-
i've mansion, he had made record for
fairness in regard to Southern policy,
and the first declaration of his Presiden-
tisl career was "Let us have peace"
Notwithstanding all this, he was con-
trolled by those who had no sympathy
with such sentiments, and his admins
tration has been the reverse of all that
was promised in the beginning. 1t may
be 80 with his successor-snd We have
just cause to fear it.


If Gov. HAYES intends to administer
the government upon the principle en-.
uncisted in his Columbus speech, "Of
doing something in this day of peace,
by works OF peace, toward establishing
in the hearts of his countrymen real
and hearty attachment to the Union and
the Constitution" then the first act OF his
administration must be to rid himself of
the .CAMRRoNs, CHAMBERS, MERToNs
and that class of men who
have exercised such q bsneful
influence over Grant. He must
in accordance with his own ideas
as declared by himself, wipe out root and
branch, the infamous carpet baggers of
the South. He must inaugurate genu-
inc civil service refer in all depart
ments of the government; he must con-
fine the army to duty on the frontier,
and abstain from all interference in the
local elections of the several States; and
when he has done all this he will have
taken a long step toward re-estsblishing
in the hearts of the people a hearty at.
tachment to the Union and the Consti
tuition.


We have more confidence in HAYES
than we had in GRANT, in the first place
because his views are not narrowed by q
military education, and in the second
Year: 1877

YESTERDAY was the most exciting day
in the annals of Congress. The fill
clustering minority, under the leadership
of SPRINGER, for twelve continuous
hours struggled against the majority and
succeeded in fighting off vote on the
Vermont case until late hour last
night, and then were only defeated by
the resolute stand taken by Speaker
RANDALL against them. Mr.. RANDBLL'
who is so thoroughly experienced in
parliamentary law. and who made rep
utation as tillibuster in his successful
struggle of seventy-two hours fight
against the passage OF the supplementary
civil rights bill. had all he
could do to hold the SPRINGER party in
check. 1t is to be regretted that such
disgraceful scenes occurred in the House
of Representatives as were witnessed on
yesterday. Yet il is more notifying
that . provocation for them should have
been given. The minority we're only
giving expression to that feeling of in
dignation which is burning in the breasts
of hundreds of thousands of people
in this country, VINO believe that
nothing could be more digraceful
than that minority candidate
should be forced into the Presidential
chair by the most glsring frauds and
inexcusable rascslities. Yet the ma
jority prefer that fraud should triumph
than that the business interests of the
country should be endangered, and for
that reason it might have been wiser in
the minority to have submitted. We are
becoming materialistic people, and
when interest conflicts with principle
the American idea is to sacrifice
the latter to the former. 1t is deplors.
BILE that such is the truth, yet it is true,
and it is one of the fesrfully demoraliz.
ing effects of the war. Twenty wears
ago q man who would have advocated
such policy would have been hooted at
as unworthy the confidence Of his fellow
citizens, but to. day it is emphaticalIy the
prevailing idea in America. O, Temporal
0, ssoresi
Year: 1877

place because we believe him to be man
OF purer character and bitter impulses.
The real trouble in accepting his state
ments with the fullest confidence, is the
most unnatural and unpstriotic manner
in which he slips into the White House
against the will of the msjority of the
American people.
Year: 1877

hO oS e66hS 10 W. S-s~
may be entertained that we will have
peace, even though 1t be the peace OF
Death. This is the darkest day Of
American history, and it was meet that
the final contamination of the great fraud
should fall on Fridsy-a day heretofore
sacred to executioners. It's the black
est day of the week-s day around which
superstition has thrown dark mantle,
because perhaps, of the fact,
that it was the day selected
for the crucifiixion of the Saviour.
Popular Government at an early hour
this morning was executed, and while
the executloners may feel some exulta-
ton over the commission of the hellish
deed, the great mass of the American
people stand as mourners around the
corpse, and in the death-like silence
which succeeds the close of an angry con.
flict, feel all the horrors of the situation.
A death pail hangs over the
Nation, and thousands of patri-
otic hearts are ssddened that
here in this land, the last and
only hope of Republican institutions
the foulest crime of political history has
been committed, and that too on Friday.
1t was on Friday that HAYES was nomi-
mated at Cincinnati. 1t has been on
Friday that the determination of the
Electoral Commission has been promul-
gated, and as we have said, it is most
proper that the end should come on
Friday.


1t is over. 1t is perhaps best
that It is over,-inssmuch as it
had to come. Hereafter shame and
disgrace are the heritage of the
American people. We have reached
that period in our history when false
hood triumphs over truth; FRAUD rears
its head, while HONEST MANHOOD is bow
ed in humiliation. Better, far better,
that the country should have been shiver-
ed into atoms upou the breakers OF sec
tional discord, than 1t should have sur
vived the storm only to 60 down at
last in sea of fraud and corruption.
If Providence, who is more merci-
feel TO US as a nation, than we are to
ourselves, should by strong hand
and an outstre retched arm deliver us, and


the future shape out career OF
brighter bopea, yet the fact remains that
the disgrace of this days act is inetace-
able. Though we should stand as na-
tion until the angel, with one foot upon
the sea and one upon the land, declares
the end of Time, we will not be able to
remove this dark blot from our history. If
we are redeemed from the political sin,
which seems to be unpardonable-that
of self-destrucLion-lt can only be
through an overrullrg Providence, who
turns aside the devices of the wicked,
and manly, determined effort of the
people to wipe out the crime done falsely
IN their name.
Year: 1877

The Ward Reflex says, T. j. Bell,
Superintendent of the Pleiades, has been
making bis presence felt around Ward
for the past week. He is not bit mad
or put out about the prospect Of the
mine under his charge. The shaft will
be sunk iifty feet deeper. When an up
rise will be started on ore, it being
thought that a great deal Of timbering
can be dispensed with by working 1t that
way.
Year: 1877

HENRY WARD BEEoHER's LECTURE.


We anticipate that the Opera House will
be crowded to its full capacity next Thurs
day evening, in anticipation of the appear
ance of Henry Ward Beecher. The subject
of bis lecture is announced - "Hsrd
Times" and Is regarded by those who have
listened to It as one Of the most pleasing
efforts of this celebrated orator.
Year: 1877

A STORY is told of another failure to mar
ry King Louis of Bavaria. The handsome
prince had gone so far as to allow the photo
graph of the bride proposed to be sent to
him; then he excused himself, pretending
that the lady had a low forehead. He de-
clared very frankly to his president of the
council that the sight of face with such
contour would irritate him excessively. he
does not possess the same taste as the an
clients, as sung by Horace, and the Greek and
Roman statues appear to him insipid from
the sheep-like straight line of the nose and
the receding brow. In vain was it argued
with the patron of Wagner that the most
beautiful women of antiquity endeavored to
obtain a small forehead by dressing their hair
as low as possible, and that now in the East
the women bring it almost to their eyebrows,
which is considered mark of beauty; moth
ing could induce the king to change his reso-
luton. Bavaria will have no queen, unlike,
Spain, who is preparing TO welcome new
0no
Year: 1877

At first some of the more radical mem.
bers of the Republican party seemed TO be
startled at the word "pacification" and
looked upon such q movement as being
full of grave dangers to the interests Of
their party. They did no, seem to
realize the fact that pscifcation means
equal justice, the recognition OF all the
Constitutional amendments, peace, good
order, equality and liberty everywhere,
both North and South. But they are
rapidly coming to sense of the true
meaning of that word aud will soon all be
found heartily indorsing any policy which
will secure its true meaning


Pacifcaion not only means peace,
equality and liberty. but 1t means re,
newed prosperity. With pscificAtion es.
tablished the South will rise like phpniI
from the ashes of her desolation and put
on the garments Of a new commercial life.
The North will also awake from the
leihargy Of business enterprise, and oncs
more confidence will be restored in the
stability OF our institutions, in the integ
ri,y of the public credit, in the sovereignty
of she States and in the rights Of TIT
citizens,
Year: 1877

When VIC speak of local self-government
for the District Of Columbia il Is not be-
cause we feel lily served under the rule Of
the present Commissioners. On the con
trary, the people Of the District have great
cause to congratulate themselves upon hav-
ing men as their rulers whose integrity Is
undoubted and whose zeal in behalf Of our
local interests has been worthy of the high
est praise. In Gov. DENIsoS the people
have found strong friend and the District
benefactor. He has left 10 stone un-
turned by which he could advance the ma
terial interests of the place or secure the
welfare of the entire people. As much
can be said Of Commissioner PHELrs and
ex Commissioner KETcauN. both of whom
have performed excellent services for the
people and National Government in their
respective stations. But when We speak Of
local selfgovernment We do it because we
believe that people burdened with the
heavy taxation which our citizens now ca
dure should have potent voice in the ad-
ministratlon of the local government
This we believe is an ins!icnable right,
and, it also being in accord with the tend
epcy OF the new Administration, the pros
poets Of securing 1t are growing brighter
and brighter every day.
Year: 1877

rows, and robbed the people not only Of
their property but of their peace.


These great wrongs are now being com
pretended by the American people. and
they are restlessly waiting for the Govern
ment to take some positive action which
will undo the great evils which we as .
nation have perpetrated upon this patriot
people by remaining in passive silence
when their voice was pleading to US for
help.


1t is with great rejoicing, therefore, that
the American people welcome the incom-
ing Administration and its patriotic Secre.
tsry of State, whose love Of the eternal
principles of justice and right will, we be-
lieve, in due time bring relief to the sirug.
Cling Cubans, whose independence We now
believe is near at hand.
Year: 1877

To discriminate between the dual gov
ernments Of Louisiana and South Caro-.
lima is the first and most important duty
which the new President is called upon to
perform, and whichever way his decision
is rendered contention and disappointment
must necessarily ensue. In view OF all the
facts involved would 1t not be the best and
wisest plan that the contending factions in
the two States agree to settlement OF
their differences by an appeal to the arbi-
trament Of the ballot. box, due care being
taken to secure fair election and an i'm
partial count Of the votes cast! Republi-
cans, who claim majority in both States,


cannot object to this method of compro-
missing mstters, and the Democrats by re.


fusing to accept the proposition would
show decided weakness. Certainly the re.
suits would be satisfactory, and the Presi.
dent and his administration would thereby
be relieved from certain and perplexing
embarrassment. Let the party leaders on
both sides consider this suggestion at once
and arrange the details for carrying 1t out
Year: 1877

The death Of Judge MosEs has created
new aud greater complications in the politi-
cal affairs of South Carolina. Both HANP-
TON and CHAMBERLAIN are expected to
appoint his successor, and each appointee
will find one Of the present Justices willing
to sit with him. This will result in dual
Supreme Court, and In one sense 1t will
be q good thing for all litigants, for If q
plaintiff cannot get justice in one court he
can carry his case to another and try it
over again.
Year: 1877

THERE arc many in toHr who are
dancing attendance and waiting in eI-
pectsncy with very inpeeunious pocket
books In their cases hope deferred
msketh the wallet collapse. There Is no
help for il. The Prtsident has said that
NO official shall be removed except for
sufficient cause. and he will stand BY his
word.
Year: 1877

Now that the Southern question has
been disposed of, for time at least, it Is
10 he hoped that the reform Of the civil
service viii receive more attention than
has yet been awarded To il by the new
Administration. IL is by all odds the
moss important question of the hour; in
fact. it is the only one whiGN demands
! immediate settlenent.-N. Y. 14mes


Mr. Hayes has given early and close
attention TO civil service reform. To
conciiate Morton he farmed out to
him the Northern post office appoint
meuts, putting in his mau Tyner to
oversee Mr. Key, who lately wrote to
his brother at Chattanooga that unless
the Sonih susiains the A Administration
of the President, Hayes will be com
PEELED to use his official patronage in
such way as to give him strength in
his own party That is, unless the
South consents to sell itself for Offices.
Hayes will carry his goods TO another
market
Year: 1877

From Inc DoyIestown Uemoc


Hayes and those Immediately about
him are full of the idea of forming a
new party with the present in
cumheuf Of the White House as the
grand central figure. Ills advisers
have deluded him with the belief that
this is really practicable and they
have got him to believe that the next
Speaker can be elected in his interest
Bur in little time both his vanity
aud his. ambition will receive fall.
Year: 1877

THE Washington Military Ring
would evidently not object to brush
with Mexico The profits of large
military establishment are too lucrative
a prize to be sacrificed to the popular
demand tor army reduction.
Year: 1877

The Reformers are getting used to sur
prises in the shape of parties, &c.; but must
have been wonderfully surprised last night
that the moon shone on them at Brown
town, as they were informed when they
reached there that a certain gentleman had
said, as he locked up the lantern, that they
should have no light.
Year: 1877

The Cabinet were in session today till nearly
o'clock. Some time was occupied in a discus
sion upon the affairs of the New York Custom
House and proposed reduction of force iD
that branch of the public service was made,
but no conclusion reached The matter will be
further considered by the President and Secre-
tary OF the Treasury, and may yet be further
considered by the full Cabinet


Foreign affairs were not subject of atten-
tioD, either as refers to the appointments abroad
or concerning our relations with Spain or Mex
ico


The Cabinet discussed certain matters of dis
cipline in connection with the management of
the Naval Academy without action.


The discussion relating to the New York Gus
tom House was upon the question of sustaining
heTecommendations of the go called ssRichard
Grant White commission" as opposed to those
of the 'Jay commission, in regard to the ex-
tent to which the employees can be reduced with
out detriment to the needs of the service. The
whole commission have reported that the re.
duction recommended by the Jay commission
would be too sweeping, and that about sixty


more persons should be retained.


The discussion regard to matters of discipline
at the Naval Academy was in regard to the ad.
visibility of modifying the sentence of dismis


sal imposed by the Academic Board upon seve


raj cadet m!dshipmen recently found guilty OF


taking the questions to be pfopounded at the


annual examination from the room of one Of


the professors.


The prevailing Indian war was the principa


matter of consideration, and engaged consid


garded as necessary to take every proper meth
cd to end and forever the hostile demonstra
tions of the Indian tribes.


The Arctic Expedition,
The Secretary of the Navy has addressed {
letter to Capt Howgate, the originator of thu
plan to establish a colony for Arctic explora
ton in the far North declining to detail civi
IN
Howgate made application to have Capt Ty
son, now in the service of the Navy Depart
| ment in civil capacity, detailed for the expe
dition, he having been with Capt. Hall on th
Polaris. The Secretary regrets that he canno
| comply with the request, as he does not con
| slider himself authorized to detail civil Office
| for such service, and for the same reason re
| grets he cannot comply with the request for
loan of instruments belonging to the navy fc
| use in the expedition.