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Year: 1875

Concerning the great eclipse of the which will
occur September 20 Professor Louis Swift to the
Rochester Express as follows:-


There are three kinds OF solar eclpscs and two Of
lunar the former being partial, annular and total the
latter partial and total The coming eclipse will be an
nular and total rng like) caused by the moon being
too small the entire sun, hence narrow bright
ring will surround the black moon, presenting sight
beautiful Its occurrence s rare The eclipse mot the
annuar phasc first touches the earth at sunrise the
Atlantic ocean northeast Of the Bermuda Islands,
and leaves IL at sunset in the southern part Of
Africa. The annular phase, not visible here, first
touches the earth at sunrise tn o shore of Lake
ontario. about three miles northeast Of that narrow
neck Of land separating Sodus Bay from the lake. fol-
lowing the track of the partial phase and leaves the
earth at sunset the Island Of Madagascar ~ line
be drawn a map, commencing about five miles north
of Watertown, through TicondcrOga, TO a point five
miles south Of Portland, Ne, II will nearly represent
tho northern limit the annuar phase parallel this
another line has been drawn, commencing i've miles
north OF Ithaca running about ten miles south Of Cort
land five miles north Of Hudson 10 Duxbury on Cape
Cod it will nearly represent the southern limit Of tho
annular phase Tho distance between these two lines
represents a terrestrial about ITO miles width.
Through the centre of this belt the eclipse will not
only be annular, but will also be exactly central,
the ring concentric with the SUMS centre, and OF
course Of equal width all round. On each sido
of the central line the ring will be eccentric
and OF unequal in width the eccentrtcity In
creasng until each boundary passed when the eclipse
ceases 20 be annuar and the appearance of
long, slender crescent observed this same eclipse
with much youthful curiosity at ts appearance In 1882
though neither annular nor total though nearly
50. The beautiful thoughts connected with II cling 70


me yet and awaken desire 10 observe IL again, which
intend TO do near Syracuse where the magnitude OF
tho eclipse will be the largest-11h digits.
In 1898 this eclipse will again, and every eighteen
years and about ten days thereafter, every Tune pass
ing over tho earth sixty miles farther SOUTH and
will finally pass OIL the earth at the South Pole, after
having appeared seventy times from its rst ap-
pearance at the North Pole, occupying l,35S years
After this il will not touch the earth, but will take
place in space till after the lapse Of IL 492 years. when
II will touch the earth again at the North Poie as be-
FORE to repeat the Same cycle over and over again ior-
ever.
Year: 1875

dsorganizaton TO meet, second time, the same re-
ward It would be heavy sacrifice both as
citizen and Doubtless | should have liked 10
finish what began II is very natural pleasure 1
desire, too TO keep long as can, my place in public
life but as a simple citizen, in that Chamber where
have passed so much Of my life l will therefore not
accept multiple elections We no longer in lS7l
Ifthey do violence shall regret il extremely The
government must go without any fresh shocks
without any extraordinary remedies. l desire
nothing better both for France and myself
Year: 1875

NJ THEIRS is evidently Of opinion that shall not
have to pass through TOO heavy trials g" trust So"
be said "ror my own sake AT my age may be bo


heycd was quite broken down have recovered
bave my health and my faculties. have got rid Of
The bronchitis which cung to me- merely want rest,
so as 10 finish the book Of which we we're speaking
Can again wish for Official positionS Byno means And,
In the FIRST place. It would be sign that France was in
abnormal condition. Besides, should have the
strength could have the desire to begin again tho
same work and to save tho State q second time rom
Year: 1875

HUGHES ON THE RAG MONEY QUEsTIoN-vIC-
TORY pREsAGED-MovEMENTs OF GOVERNOR
HARTRANFr.


louisville, Sept II, 1875


Judge Pershing the democratic nominee for Gov
of Pennsylvania, was serenaded at his residence
last night by several hundred citizens of Pottsvlle
without distinction of party mark of congratulaton
The Judge was introduced by Mr.. Hughes the who
successfully champoned the of rag money at
Erie and warmly received Possibly out of consid
Grafton for the of the demonstration and proba
bly, not hastily commit himself Judge Pershing did
not aude to political question He remained con-
with expression of thanks for the honor Of the
visit and with the statement that he had not expected
the nomination and that he could not promise to attend
the inauguration Of the next Governor of Pennsylvania
Mr. Hughes made speech, In which he congratulated
the citizens of Pottsvie on having from their
number furnished the next Governor of Pennsylvania
Judge Pershing would be elected beyond doubt the
peoples candidate. He had that day received letter
signed by all the officers of great and nonpolitical
organization promising to help swell Pershings
majority to 100, ,0O0 He placed the minimum figure of
that majority at so 000 At Erie there represen
tatves of other political beliefs, who asked to be in
vited to assist in the campaign prominent among them
the liberal republicans Such an invitation had been
extended long letter had been received at Erie
from prominent republicans promising that, If the
Convention adopted platform of financial principles
such were enunciated, the whole western part OF
the State would go for the nominee OF the
Convention He believed the statement. The in
dustres of that portion the State are in state of
terrible prostration and the people believe the only
path leading from ruin by the legal enactment of just
such


A FINANCIAL SYSTEM,


as called for by the Democratic Convention. Tho re-
publicans of Chester and Lancaster counties have
already in their county conventions repudiated tho
financial platform of the Republican State Convention.
Before the contest Is democrats and republicans
will march in to cast their votes for the Hon.
Cyrus L. Pershng The character of Governor Hart
rant for honesty, integrity and patriotism can't be
successfully assaed but the exgences of the hour
mand of wider learning and greater statesman
ship than be ascribed to Harrani Judge Pershing
will make a wise, efficient and impartial Governor.


There is much speculation here to-day whether
Hughes alluded TO the Workngmen's Union to the
Grangers when he spoke OF the great organization
pledged to support Pershng From the known con-
nection of Piolette nominee for Treasurer with the
Changers, it is generally believed the latter
meant.


GOVERNOR HARTRANFT


will review the Fourth division Of the National Guard
here Tuesday next There preparations making
to get up demonstration in his honor in the
Year: 1875

The consuls will reassemble again on
Wednesday and Thursday at Stolatz and in
sion.


If the result is unsatisfactory Server Pasha
will issue proclamation promising redress
of all grievances on the condition that the
insurgents submit within certain time
Year: 1875

Mr. Blaine opposed one feature of the new
force bill the other night in the Republican
caucus, and as erroneous reports were made
of what he said, the Associated Press was
supplied with the authentic outline of his
remarks, which we printed yesterday. Mr..
Blaine confines his objections to the scheme
for suspendine the writ of habeas corpus.
He can see no reason for giving the President
extraordinary powers in Maine, Massachusetts,,
and Virginia, merely because there is tuIbu-
lence in Louisiana and Arkansas; and more
over he believes that our legislation ought to
stimulate rather than repress that intense
jealousy of individual personal liberty which
is the great characteristic of the Anglo Saxon
race.


These remarks are good as far as they 60.
1t would be unfair to assume that Mr.. Blaine
approves all the rest of the bill because he
directs his arguments only against the four
teenth section but we should have been glad
if he had taken the occasion to point out the
radically mischievOus aud un-American char
acter of the whole measure Why, for instance.
should it be made felony punishable with ten
years. imprisonment and $4,000 fine for two
persons to conspire with the intent to interfere
unlawfully with the due execution OF the laws
ef Massachusetts-the liquor law for instance
merely because Sheriff Crosby has been turned
out of his oflice in Vicksburgi Why should
Year: 1875

complished nothing, the time being wasted In
eloquent and passionate speeches accusing
other leading men of treachery. II the Gu
bans could only learn lesson OF their OPP
pressors, it would be greatly to their advan-
tage to see how the practical gentlemen OF
the Spanish Casino subordinate all other con-
siderations to those of business. They may
be Carlists or Alfonsists, or Republicans; they
may think each other rogues and traitors; but
all this does not prevent them from working
together as one man in any scheme which
will forward their cause and enable them to
make money out of the war. If the Creoles
who want to be free could act thus harmoni-
ously together for ten days, the Antilles
would he theirs.
Year: 1875

With the beginning of Lent, Society, 80
called, lays aside the worldly pleasures of the
grosser sort, and devOtes itself, let us hope,
to penitence and reform. Neither of these
religious experiences, however, is interfered
with, according to popular belief, by decorous
gayety, such as is to be found in concerts,
quiet dinner parties, lunches, or occasional
dances-wthout a band. "The bands the
ching to touch the conscience of the" devout
waltzor Fashionable religion has phases
more curious and worthy of study than
fashionable dressing. We fancy that with the
great majority of the gay world the cessation
of general festivities il relief. A great ball
or even wedding is an occasion when all the
lower strata of fashionable society make an
anxious, painful effort to rise to higher levels
and prove their right to remain there. When
ever there is contact between different
"circles," "cliques,r the miserable struggle
continues In Lent each class can draw back
comfortably within its own limits. AS long as
il lasts Mrs. Smith does not vex her soul If
she is not invited to certain houses ut whose
doors she pleads for entrance the rest OF the
wear. at is considered bad FORM" she tells
YOU, Gin all respectable circles to appear in
"society during the holy season:"


She knows nobody will dare gainsay the
doctrine of Responsibility -Fashion-the vague
something which molds the lives of as many
men and women in America as does religion.
After all, would it not be worth our while to
gain some definite comprehension of what this
ruling power is There has long enough
been an air-drawn line in every city, town, or
country neighborhood about certain families
or individuals; within the line are the haut
ton, the creme of society" we have dozen
awkward pseudonymns for what our English
cousins can set down boldly as nobility and
gentry. Every reader of THE TRIBUNE can
count off upon his fingers the happy minority
who in his own town dwell within this magic
ring; and he can, il he chooses, tell too Of
the lifelong struggles of those without to
enter into push their children into it. In
every city and village fashionable society has
Year: 1875

resistance to State laws, in any part OF the
Union. be made an offense against the United
States, cognizable by Federal commissioners
Why should Congress impose Draconian


penalties for the vague offense Of an at
tempt to interfere with the due execution


of State laws, when the States themselves


have attached to tho violation of the same


laws other and proportionate punishmentst


Why should the management of the machinery
| of elections be taken away from the local
authorities to whom it belongs. and commit
ted to the appointees OF the Washington


Department of Justicei The purpose of the


scheme is plain. It Is to concentrate In the


Chief Executive powers which the Fathers OF
| the Republic believed ought to be distributed


among the States, and to give him additional
powers over individual personal liberty"
which the Constitution did not contemplate
intrusting to anybody at all The suspension
| of the writ of habeas corpus is the most Of
| fensive in form of the various details of this
| project but we are by no means certain


that it would prove the worst in practice.
Gentlemen in Congress who still believe in


the Republican party tell us they dislike this


measure, and talk in timid way about voting
| against it, because it is "imprudent," "irri-


"tating," unnecessary" because the party


can get along without it, because it goes rather


"too far" but no one has the courage to rise
| in his place and denounce the bill and its


authors in the language which the whole


country feel that they deserve. The bold fac


ton which is driving the party to its ruin is


likely to be defeated; but honest men will
| net be satisfied unless it is both defeated and
disgraced.
Year: 1875

Bishop Huntington in late comprehensive and
eloquent treatise presented clearly the two ways OF
meeting the Indian problem The first, practced
by the Government and States until about SIX years
ago, consisted in gaining possession of the Indian


lands; by treaties disregardng the treaties and
pressing the discomfort and revenge of the Indian
by military force. The second way was to fulfill
all treaty obligations hcnorably to protect the red
man. 80 far as practicable, from the piage and
vices of the white and to labor earnestly in his be-
half for his civilization and ChristianizatiOn. The
result has been an unhoped for actual progress on
the part of the savages, and a sudden development
of their real character under honest treatment and
the warmth of kndliness, and recognition of it by
the public No man. not even redskin, is likely to
show his most amiabe characteristics to the man
with one hand at his throat and the other in his pock
et Bishop Huntington gives individual instances of
the rapid advance made by them. 1t is a notewor-
thy fact that not single tribe has failed so to ad
vance whom brought under the influence of honest
dealing and Christian teaching In cases where the
new policy has been at work but three years the wild
rovers of the mountains have built up settlements,
carry on farming the raising of cattle. etc. and
have become. in a word, quiet industrious citizens
and sincere Christian converts Another pregnant
fact we suggest for the consideration of readers
The whole number of Indians is about 3O0000; the
total list Of the murders and robberies committed
during the last year by them upon the settlers does
not equal the murders and robberes committed by
the white citzens of one State upon each other L.
there not room to suspect that the bloody savage
has long enough played the part Of bugaboO such
used 10 scare children With


There is sort of personal beauty in this world
whose uncertainty and general pectedness
render it excessively bewitching. We speak of
those orbs which poets. pugilists and other great
people usually describe "squinting "-orbs of
which one has the power of fixing you with its glare
while the other about surveying the surround
ing scenery. Such orbs were possessed by a young
matron who entered ST. Louis horse-car recently
with her infant and nurse. The matron sat on one
side Of the car, the infaut on the other where it
was presently the recipient of mods and becks and
wreathed smiles from its fond mother. There would
have been little of consequence in this had not
very bashful young man happened to be seated bo-
side the chuckling infant and to become convinced
that the soft grins and glances were intended for
him. HI bushed up into his hat ard rushing from
the car in frantic agitation wildly contided TO the
first frend he met that beautiful girl had fallen
30 deeply in love with him that sho could not re-
strain herself from declaring 1t in public. And the
fat baby and tho fair young mother went calmly on
their way.
Year: 1875

Gen. Burnside, the Senator elect from Rhode


island, made sensible and notable speech
before Post of the Grand Army of the Re
public yesterday in Providence His voice is for
peace and he secs no cause for alarm IN the
Year: 1875

election of ex-Confederate officers to Con-
gress. Here is another illustration of the fact
that tho men on either side who fought while
the war was going on are disposed to cease
fighting now that it is over.
Year: 1875

The bill for the improvement of the mouth
of the Mississippi River by means of the jetty
system was reported favorably to the House
of Representatives yesterday, and its reception
was such as to warrant the expectation that
its merits will secure for it an easy passage.
Year: 1875

The Connecticut Democrats meet in Conven-
ton to-day to make up their slate for the
approaching election of State officers. They
have an opportunity to renominate Gov.
Ingersoll whose discharge of the Executive
duties has given general satisfaction. and who
is likely, if placed in the field again, to walk
over the course with ease. The danger in the
way of these Democrats is that Of gratifying
the Republicans and weakening their own
ticket by going elsewhere in search of can
didate. staff correspondent of The TRIBUNE,
whose letter is printed on another page.
sketches the circumstances attending the as
semblng of the Convention, and reviews the
situation in the several Congressional districts.
1t seems that by the exercise of little COM
mon sense in making nominations the Demo
Gratis may easily retain the State offices and
the Legislature and elect two. if not three


Congressman. .,e
Year: 1875

The great reduction announced by the At
lantic and Pacific Telegraph Company in its
rates between New-York and Washington.
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Albany. and Boston,
has, with some delay and apparent reluctance,
been met by the Western Union, whereupOn
the Atlantic and Pacific promptly come down
again one-half. At this rate we shall
soon reach an end of dividends on
watered stock. and get telegraphing for
something like o fair profit on its
actual cost. Meantime, since the companies
are so strong as to be able to reduce prices in
this fashion. are they not strong enough to
get their wilderness of wires out Of our way in
the public streetsf Will they insist on continu-
ing to stick up their poles and increase their OBJ
structions in the streets, until the Legislature
forces them to carry their wires underground
Can't they do this, as well as reduce rates,
without being forced to it'll
Year: 1875

The receipts from customs at this port for
the first IS days of February have been
s6.A96,9OO. against Ss1S7,sl4 for the entire
month of January. AS the new tax bill does
not at all increase the duties on any goods
now on shipboard for importation or in ware
house in our ports, this favorable showing can
hardly be attributed to dread OF that act.
The receipts yesterday were s746.o0O. which
we ascribe to the arrival of fleet of delayed
steamers on Saturday and Sunday.
Year: 1875

The advice of the Democratic Congress
men to the people of the South as to the
propriety of making changes in their State
Constitutions is probably wise and timely.
The Constitutions of several Southern
States are defective, and any one of those
States has the right $50 far unquestioned
except indirectly by the President)
to revise and modify its fundamental
law under the. restrictions applying as well to
States that have not passed through the pro-
cess of reconstruction. and subject to none other.
But in view of the policy of Misrepresentation
adopted by the supporters of the Administra-
ton it may be well to refrain from the exer-
else of such right. Certainly there is now no
State Constitution too burdensome to be borne
a little longer.
Year: 1875

cause" mentioning men whose only passion
in life is Cuban Independence. Even Cespedes
could not do enough to protect him from this
fatal disease of suspicion. The night before
last there was meeting of prominent Cubans
in this city to concert means to give greater
efficiency to their work of liberation. 1t ac-
Year: 1875

Can you wonder that American wo-
men so quickly lose their beauty Shnt
up in houses nine-tenths of their time,
with either no exercise. or that which
is of limited, irksome sameness, they
are, as consequence, unnaturally pale
soft, and tender their blood is poorly
organized and watery, their muscles
small and fiabby: and the force and
functions of their bodies, as a whole,
run low in the scale of life. A spurious
fullness is often seen in the outline
during girlhood, which usually melts
like snow under an April sun whenever
the endurance is put to the test, as in
performing the functions of a mother.
The change in appearance from the
maiden of one year to the mother of
the next is often so striking and endu-
ring that it is difficult to believe We
are looking on the same person. The
round pleasing shape is prematurely
displaced by pinched angularity, and
an untimely and an unseemly appear
ance of age. And it is all nonsense to
blame our climate for this sad state of
things; blame only their hot house,
enervating mode of life. Englishladie
of rank, who, by the way, are celebrated
for keeping their beauty even to ripe
old age, think nothing of walking a
half dozen miles at time while Amer
ican ladies would think such a thing
perfectly dreadful" If American
women, SO daintily and richly fed, will
sit in dark and sultry rooms the live
long day, they must expect to bloom
too soon, to hasten through this charm
ing period-at the longest in about ten
years-and for twenty five years after,
have the grim satisfaction of being thin
wrinkled, angular and sallow.
Year: 1875

ComprehensiOns of the thoughts
generated in the primitive man by his
converse with the surrounding world
can be had only by looking at the
surrounding world from his stand
point. The accumulated knowledge
and the mental habits slowly acquired
during education must be suppressed,
and we must divest ourselves of con-
ceptions which, partly by inheritance
and partly by individual culture, have
been rendered necessary. None can do
this completely, and few can do it even
partially. Ii needs but to observe what
unit methods are adopted by educa-
tors, to be convinced that even among
the disciplined the power to form
thoughts which are widely unlike their
own Is extremely small. When We see
the juvenile mind piled with generali
ties while IL has yet none of the con-
crete facts to which they refer-when
we see mathematics introduced under
the purely rational form, instead of
under the empirical form with which it
should be commenced by the child, as
it was commenced by the raee-when
we see a subject SO abstract as grammar
put among the first instead of among
the last, and see it taught analytically
instead of synthetically we have ample
evidence of the prevailing inability to
conceive the ideas of undeveloped
minds. And, if, though they have been
children themselves, men find it hard
to re-think the thoughts of the child,
still harder must they find it to rethink
the thoughts of the savage. To keep
our autOmorphic interpretations is
beyond our power. To look at things
with the eyes of absolute ignorance,
and observe how their attributes and
actions originally grouped themselves
in the mind. imply self-suppression
that is Observation-Disclosures Science
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