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Year: 1877

TO plume themselves upon the steady advance
they have made toward the equalization OF
cold and paper the manner in which they
have thus far carried ont tle provisions NJ the
RESUMPTION Act, and their fixed purpose OF Ma
tlonal honesty.


Mr.. Sherman does not speak of the silver
question, but he treats at considerable length
of fhe methods of resumption, and throws out
n number of suggestions which deserve more
careful consideration than we are now able to
give them Of course, it was impossible for
public man to address public meeting at this
time in Ohio, without proclaiming views on the
relations of capital and labor Ii is pity
because this part of the address is not sensible.
Mr.. Sherman does. indeed, denounce the law
lessness of the strike against free labor, ana
the mob violence against corporate prop
erty. He uttcrs on this subject no uncertain
sound. But alas ! like Judge West and
four or five thousand other statesmen,
he has his specific for the cure of all the labor
troubles. 1t is Federal supervision of the
railways as channels of communication be-
tween the States the Government fixing the
maximum of freight charges in order to pro-
tect the farmers, and a minimum of charges III
order to protect the employees of the road
Surely it cannot be necessary to make any Sc
rous answer to the proposition that law can
insure a man a good income by forbidding
him to sell too cheap.
Year: 1877

Judge Donohue's exceedingly short sentence
of Imprisonment of Striker Donahue will oc-
casion at least a general surprise. The decision
of the Judge Is couched in terms that are evil
IDENTIFY intended to explain this unexpected
leniency. The offence charged vas "cOntempt
"Of Court" There was no defence. The SEN
tence is said to be for as long a period as is
customary where this offence is proved. Ac-
cepting the explanation, the public will
ask whether this Is all the punishment
to be inflicted upon the leader of a
riot Why is he not already indicted and tried
for the larger crime? 1t is hard to be patient
with proceedings which will certainly provoke
people to suspect that BOnahue's trial may
have been adroitly managed to tide over
the public interest in the case, so that ulti-
mately it can be smothered. Unless an indict-
ment follows close upon the heels of this trial
it will have been little more than sorry
farce
Year: 1877

OF course the officials OF our Indian Bureau
think that nothing is to be gained by adopt
ing the system of dealing with the savages
that has proved successful in Canada. These
oldectors TO any Improvement say that the
cases are not parallel. True; but the diyerg-
ence at the end of the story is much greater
than at the beginning. Canada has fewer
Indians and more spare territory; but she
manages her aborigines well, while we misman-
age ours mserably. The present condition OF
Canada in respect TO spare territory and num-
bers of Indians is much the same that ours was
many years ago; our problem is now more COM
plicated but there is not the less need for us
to take lessons from those who have so far
been successful in solving it.
Year: 1877




The rest of the annual reports OF the saw
ings banks in this city being now furnished by
the Department, their total figures can be
compared with those of last year. Both III the
number of accounts and III the amount depos-
tied there has been considerable gain. Tins
is indicative of the general welfare of our work
ing classes, since if the increase OF deposits
had stood alone it might have been attributed
to an endeavor on the part of persons in easy
circumstances to get interest on their money;
but the proportiOnate number of new deposit
ors shows that the individual amounts con-
tibuted were small. and chiefly from those
whom savings banks were meant to benefit.


President MacMahon's declaration that he
docs not seek the success of any particular
party is another indication that he is disposed
to keep himself distinct from Fourtou and the
other adventurers whom, in an iil-omened mo-
ment he placed in authority His zeal for the
triumph of those principles which are
"the foundation of society" is not, however,
a hopeful sign, since in the slang of French
politics this means SIMPLY that he is opposed
to Republican institutions. Perhaps when he
has seen more of the people in the provinces
he will be less alarmed for social order and
national safety.
Year: 1877

nation or excuse for the new order in reply to refusals to serve under it, has been received by the Agent, Agency or Inspector, and such as no officer would regard as instruc- tiOns. In addition to this absence of instructions, the application of the commanding officer of the department for authority to have certain supervisory care over the reservations, was promptly refer red to Agents Cum and Stout for their views as to the advisability and practability of granting such

 authority. The whole matter is yet, so far as known at San Carlos or here, in state of abeyance. No new orders are enforced or instructions given to the Agency for their enfOrcement'- Citizen.
Year: 1877

The most striking illustration of class prejudice this year has been afforded. not by Mississippi or Louisiana, but by West Point. In 1873 Cadet Flipper entered the Military Academy. God had given him @ black skin, a warm heart, an active brain and patrio- tic ambition. He was guilty of no other crime than that of being negro and bent on obtaining good education. He represented race which had done as good fighting for the flag as any done by the fair skinned Anglo-Saxon or Celt. Congress has recognized his right and the right of his race to education.

 But his classmates decided that it should be denied him. If they had possessed the brutal courage of the murderers of Chisholm they would have shot him, or whipped him, or hanged him; but they were not brave enough for that. and they invented ins- tead punishment worse than the state has inflicted upon its most brutal criminals. They condem- ned him to four years of solitude and silence. For four years not a classmate spoke to Cadet Flipper; for three years he did not hear his own voice, except in the reel tatiOn-rOOm, on leave of absence, or in chance conversation with stray visitor. Then another ne- gro entered West Point, and he had one companion. The prison walls of a Sing Sing cell are more sympathetic than human preju- dice. And in all that class of TT there were not to be found a dozen men brave enough to break through this wall of silence and give the imprisoned victim his liberty. At least two. thirds of the class are Republican ap- pOlntees; and not one champion of equal rights. In all that class but one hero-and he negro. Seventy.five braves against one! And the one was victorious. He fought out the four years cam- paign, conquered and graduated. Honor to the African, shame to the AnglO-SaxOn.-[Christian Union.
Year: 1877

It is reported that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company have engaged a quarter of 8 million eu- calyptus trees from a gentleman at Pasadena. The object of the con- pany is to plant the trees along the line of their track, and they will use the timber when suffi- ciently grown, to replace the ties which may decay and wear out AS the eucalyptus is very rapid grower it would doubtless attain sufficient diameter for railroad ties in five or six years and then, be- ing very straight and tall, several could be cut from each tree.
Year: 1877

An unfortunate citizen of San Diego, who lost his reason some time ago, was sent by due process of law to the Stockton Insane Asy- lum. It is said that since his ad- vent in that institution, the luna- ties have held an average of three railroad mass-meetings day and, frequently, an extra one at mid night. The ruling passion will never leave San Diegan.-L. A. Express.
Year: 1877

AN abestos mine was discovered in the San Jacinto Range, not far from the railroad about a year ago. Lately considerable work has been done upon an extension of the mine and developed a won- derful deposit of flores over two feet long. This is longer than anything heretofore discovered. The value of the mineral depends materially upon the length of its fibre.
Year: 1877

The entire length of railroad and telegraph line of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in the State of California is 664 miles, running through the following counties. The pro rata of value of rolling stock in each county is
Year: 1877

The Board of Health. which is slow to
move when action is demanded in the
public interest, has ut last been induced to
take notice of the dangerous filth Of the
streets. The Sanitary Inspectors have dis
covered that the district below Fulton
street is ''overfowing with ashes and gar
bage and the streets are Uttered with de-
caying animal and vegetable matters" that
the condition Of the tenement house dis
tricts in the First and Sixth wards and the
accumulation of filth on the sidewalks" is
''frightful" that the Fourth, Seventh,
Tenth, Eleventh. Thirteenth and Seven
teenth wards are in "a generally filthy con-
dition," and that ''the streets in the Eighth,
Ninth and Fifteenth wards have not been
cleaned with any regularity for two weeks.
while those paved with cobblestones are
particularly filthy" All this has been
known to the people for some time, and
there has been much curiosity to know how
the money which is regularly drawn every
month by the Street Cleaning Bureau is
expended, since 1t certainly is not
spent on cleaning the streets. But the
Board of Health, like respectable. sleepy,
inefficient body MS it is, has only just be-
come aware of,the facts and made the sur
prisingly scientific discovery that If the
snow and frost come upon US before the
streets are cleaned the reeking filth and
garbage which now rot before the eyes Of
the people on the foul streets are very likely
to form .the first stratum Of those mounds
which accumulate through the winter and
are disclosed to view when the snow melts
in the spring"


The remedy suggested by the Health
Commissioners is unique They propose to
the Mayor to call together the Commission
ers Of Police and themselves to consult on
the matter. As the Commissioners Of Po-
lice are the inefficient, worthless officials
who have squandered the peoples money
while allowing the streets to remain in the
filthiest and most disgraceful condition
they have been in during years OF misrulc,
and as the Board of Health are the incapa-
bles whose eyes have only just been opened
to dangerous nuisance which has been
notorious to oil the rest Of the city for many
weeks, what can be the use Of consulting
Year: 1877

It is long while since We have had in
any OF our harbors the sort of sensation
they now have at Bristol, where q very
fast vessel lies under the guns Of govern
ment ship instructed to prevent her de-
parture at all hazards but the scene was
commoner in the days before the war, when
sympathetic democracy, interested in the
extension Of the area of freedom and the
trade in slaves, was always on the qui vire
to lend hand to rebellious movements in
Cuba. In the present case it is alleged that
the Estelle, built ostensibly as yacht, and
said to have great speed, is equipped
for q voyage to Cuba to carry arms
to the insurgents As the charge is made
by the Spanish Minister, whose duty it is to
watch cases of this nature, there is probably
good ground for it; and our government,
appealed to in the case, can do no less than
adopt such measures as are actually taken
to prevent the violation Of our neutrality.
BY the particulars we lately had from Mad
rid it appears that the Spanish government
has now one hundred thousand troops in
the island of Cuba, and though there is no
rebellion there, as the government holds, it
it is yet with all this force unable to keep
the peace. Therefore, the arrival Of few
thousand rifles might prove fatal to Spanish
supremacy, and we ought to be very careful.
Year: 1877

tinue to pay the interest on the national


bonds in gold how would it obtain gold
coin for that purpose? At present it has
an ample resource in the gold paid at the
Custom House. But if the Silver bill
passes all the duties will be paid in silver
as soon as sufficient amount is coined. and
the government will have to sell its silver
bonds. The bill, however. makes silver a
medium of payment for the principal and
interest of the bonds as we'll as for duties
on imports. II the government avails itself
Of this permission and pays silver. to the
public creditors its credit will be prostrated
in foreign countries. 1t will be unable to
sell another bond, and the country will
continue to pay six per cent interest on the
public debt when strict adherence to the
gold standard would enable il to refund the
six per cent bonds at four per cent. The
President will be shamefully recreant il he
fails to veto q bill which would utterly ar-
rest the refunding of the national debt.


The first effect of this bill would be, we
have no doubt. to put silver coin very
nearly at par with gold, and it would be all
the more mischievous on that account, be-
cause it would be SO deceptive. 1t is only
the coined silver that would be at par, not
the value of the bullion. To the importing
merchants silver dollars would be as valu-
able as gold dollars, but they would be
equally valuable to nobody else. Until the
coinage Of silver became sufficient for the
payment Of oil customs duties in that metal
the silver dollars would be in great
demand by the importers; but as soon as the
supply exceeds the demand for the pay
ment of duties, and the merchants can
obtain silver dollars without any trouble,
they will cease to be worth any more than
the bullion contained in them. Meanwhile
gold will have been banished from the
country, and instead Of double standard
we shall have single standard of silver
o species of money in which we cannot pay
our debts abroad.
Year: 1877

them on the subject2 II the Mayor would
remove the Police Commissioner who has
SO inexcusably neglected his duty as head
OF the Street Cleaning Bureau, and would
overhaul the Board Of Health, he would do
more to give US clean streets and to avert
the danger of o spring pestilence than by
the proposed constitution. The Police
Commissioners yesterday adopted resolu-
ton to give the garbage and sweepings free
of charge to any farmers or others who may
be willing to remove them. This is very
proper thing, provided the garbage is not
given to contractors and used by them to
fill lots and create another Harlem flats
nuisance
Year: 1877




All women and most men have an interest
in weddings. The rite Of marriage is made
easy in these times, SO that anybody
can be welded free of cost and
in . surprisingly short space who
possesses the proper qualifications and is
not nice about who performs the simple
contracting ceremony. In the old times it
was not 50 easy, and in old countries is still
difficult Mother Church. whether Protes-
tant or Catholic. insisted on grave formality
and much putting Of banns and asking Of
troublesome questions from the pulpit or
the altar about the impediments, if any.
that lay in the way. We do not believe that
people Of connubial turn of mind let these
difficulties stand in the way. 1t is SO
humanity interesting goal that greater bar
riers would be cheerfully surmounted to
reach it by the orthodox road than ever
priest or parson dared to put in its way.
All men must die, and the necessity of mar
rying is nearly as great. The cottier or
woodman that helped to draw the Duke and
Duchess Of Norfolk home to Arundel
Castle on Wednesday last is just as
much convinced Of the truth of it as the
Duke himself Yea, even the sanity prel&tes
who ofaeiated at Brompton in the morning
have had to put q solemn VOW on record
to remind them that they have made them
selves exceptions to this good rule, and
live in the hope that their lifelong
surrender thereof will recommend them to
the commiserate bounty of Heaven. The
marriage Of the Premier Duke of.England
to the daughter of another noble house,
with all its attendant pomp and
solemnity, gives the world an idea Of how
really important an epoch it makes in
life. Hence our London correspondent
was right when, finding that in the first
despatch concerning this notable wedding
all the interesting things that happened
had not been told, he decided to transmit us
the fuller details which we publish to-day.
We spread them before our readers in the
belief that thay will be read with interest.
They carry their own story with them.
Surely the Roman Church has sounded the
deepest chords Of human harmony when it
dignifes with its stateliest ceremonial
tho joining of hearts and hands,
making matrimony sacrament by
oil the outward signs of impressive
ness. Not, of course, for one pair in
O million can such a ceremony before such
stately company be, celebrated, but still
We hope that, taking heart of grace, many o
maid and bachelor reading this pretty story
may be induced to go and do likewise,
means and opportunities may impose
Year: 1877

There is certainly no likelihood of the
adoption of the proposition of the Rfp.Jlique
Fancaise in regard to convention Of the
two houses to put On end to the crisis in
France. An acceptance Of this proposition
by the government would be only . form Of
surrender, since on joint ballot the repub-
licans would have clear majority Of about
the conference of house that supports
the Marshal's policy with house that
opposes it, and in that light it would seem a
fair basis Of ofcompromise; but on any principle
by which the two bodies could act together
as convention the overwhelming majority
against the Marshals policy in the Lower
House would altogether swamp the small
superiority he has thus far secured in the
Senate. Within few days it was thought
in Paris that it was only troublesome
sense Of the humiliation involved that stood
in the way of the establishment Of proper
relations between the Marshal and the ma
jority in the Chamber and if that were
really the case this conference or congress
Of the two houses would afford happy
means of escape from the difficulty; for,
though all the power would really be in the
hands of the republicans, yet there is
enough appearance of equality in the
project to enable the Marshal to accept it
without any obvious surrender of his pre-
tensions But the names Of the new Minis
try indicate that the supposition was
erroneous which presented the Marshal as
ready to accept the situation if way
were found by which it could be done with
out hurt to his dignity. Announced as
transition Ministry the new Cabinet really
possesses all the characteristics of a goauerne-
ment de combat, and if it has been palmed
upon the Marshal as Ministry likely to be
less ON offence and defiance Of the majority
than the one that has just gone out of Office,
then he has been again duped by the arch
intriguer of the 10th of May. There is not
man ofmoderate opinions in it. Bonapart-
lists, legitimists and clericals-men equally
resolute and impassioned in their hostility to
the Republic, are the men who are presumed
to stand midway between De Broglie's
intrigue and the republican party, though
even De Broglie's preference would not have
gone to the extreme of any one Of these
phases Of reactionary opinion. In leaving
to the Marshal-President the legacy of
Ministry like this De Brcglie may have In
tended little vengeance for the Marshal's
failure to 60 to unconstitutional lengths in
the establishment of throne; for, while this
Cabinet leaves between the Marshal and the
republicans the same chasm that existed be-
fore, it cuts him off from that support in the
Senate which made possible the vote for dis
solution and the recent vote covering the re-
treat Of the Cabinet Of the 10th Of May.
With this Ministry the President will not
have the support of the Orieanist- party in
the Senate.
Year: 1877

There is clcarlY-tlcdncd suspicion that all
the stiaks arising from the Town OF Like do nut
come from tho rcndering-houses, but that sorne
OF them arise from tic rotten Board Of Village
Trustees.
Year: 1877

EDrToRs Born, NOT MADE. The
young man may be well grounded in
history, the classics, the sciences, and in
political economy, may study the sub


ccts that seem lest suited to editorial
needs, and yet fail rs an editor. Besides
knowledge he needs tact, insight, judg-
ment of men and things, and a kind of
newspaper sense, which we have some
times called the "sixth sense" the jour
nalistic sense II u man is not born with
it, he can only acquire it by actual ex-
pcrience on newspaper. The trade
cannot be learned except in the trade.
No professor in college can teach jour
nalism. Ne can teach much that is
indispensable to it, but after all the
workman must learn to use his tools in q
newspaper Office. We should say then,
that the best plan is to give the boy the
best general education he can get in q
college, having his course in life in mind,
and then let him learn practically the
business Of a journalist as he would any
other.
Year: 1877

JUST MEDITATE ON THs.-Our Min
lister to Holland reports that there has
been no bank failure there for forty years
and that the paper money of the banks
equal the gold. These is no failure of a
fire insureance company on record, and
the companies realize sixteen per cent.
yearly, although the rate of interest is
only one half per cent. First class rail
road travel is only one cent per mile,
yet the roads pay good dividends. Pill
lering officers are scarcely ever heard Of
and are severely punished and forever
disgraced when exposed. No free passes
are granted to anybody Dishonesty or
failure in business means public dishon-
or. Four millions of people live within
10000 square miles, and appear pros.
porous and contented. All live within
their income and are industrious and
honest.
Year: 1877

The dwelling house with two lots, corner 5th
and Mulberry streets, will be sold at reasonable
figures and on favorable terms. The house is
provided with good cellar and fine well of
water. Applyto


j. PARKER HAYWARD.
Year: 1877

gallant young gentleman, well known about
town, is just now in the midst of Of troubles.
His hair was thinned out by his better half last
night after the opera, and he had no appetite for
breakfast. In order to revel in the sweet notes
of Pappenheim, he invited his spouse and lady
friend to attend "Faust" at the Opera House.
After the first act the gentleman withdrew to
smoke cigarette during the entire acte. when he
met an old friend he had not seen for some time.
A glass of wine was proposed, and the two old
companions walked up the street. They
talked about old times and old friends,
smoked more and chatted, longer until immersed
in the pleasures OF the "sweet recollection Of the
things gone by" they became oblivious to the
passage of time. To the amazsment of our
friend, Tyler's clock sounded, and he started
with rapid strides for the Opera House. Horrors!
The place was closed, the lights out, the curtain
down, the p ace deserted. Timidly he let him;
self into his house with bis night key and then and
there met the onslaught of an offended lady.
The two ladies had had to walk home alone wi b.
out an escort, and that there was some sharp
talking it is safe to guess. The poor fellow had
no excuse and now mourns his absent-minded-
Year: 1877

Following their visit to the Mayor few days
ago, the lady managers Of the Poydras Female
Orphan Asylum have addressed petition to the
City Council, asking for an annual appropriation
OF $lA for each orphan in the asylum, the amount
10 be applied to the payment Of the State tax.
The petition was accompanied by . resolution,
adopted by the board Of managers, reducing the
from the rolls Of the institution the names Of
fifty beneficiary widows.
Year: 1877

These Irregularities, which are limited to no
season of the year, sufficiently attest the inef-
fcency Of this service over the present route.
They are a source Of scarcely less embarrassment
to the postofce officials than to the public atlarge,
as they necessitate the employment Of an extra
force, and greatly interfere with the work OF the
office. In any other city on the continent they
would not be tolerated month, and IN the cor
rection OF this evil alone the commission will con-
fer an inestimable boon upon the whole COM
munity.