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Year: 1877

The refusal of the two Chambers to answer
questions put to them by the Investigating
Committee is stated to have excited much


dissatisfaction among republicans. Mr.. W..
f.. Chandler states that while in Florida he
became counsel for Governor Stearns and
for the republican electors and candidates
for Congress, and that any information he
possesses came to him in the shape of privi-
legged communications between attorney and
clients. Mr.. Chandler went to Florida as
one of number of gentlemen selected by
the President to see that there was q fair
and honest count of the electoral votes
actually cast. Was lie in position to act
as counsel to the republican electors? II
he really accepted that position was not
the act of itself condemnation of the Presi-
dents commissioned reflection on the mo-
tives that prompted it's appointment and on
the work it was expected to do
Was Mr.. Chandler justified in send
ing out before the world protcsta-
ton after protestation of the success
of the republicans in Florida, and of the
unassailable honesty of the count, in the
Year: 1877

is said that man on whom the eruption OF
smallpox had already appeared lay three
nights and two days helpless in cow yard,
and that when he came out on the morning
of the third day and was washed every pus-
tule had disappeared. One of the most GER
tain facts in nature is the period required
for the evolution of smallpox pustule, and
it cannot be less than eight days, SO that
those recorded as already apparent on this
patient had not disappeared in sixty hours.
or it was an error to suppose they were
smallpox pustules. There appears to be no
evidence that they were except the story Of
a panic stricken Pole. frightened half to
death with fear of the disease.
Year: 1877

It ought not to impair the satisfaction felt
by the members of the joint committee at
the happy result of their responsible labors
to discover that the extreme men of both
parties are dissatisfied with their proposed
method of counting the electoral vote, since
it is the best evidence that could be offered
of the fairness and impartiality of their
plan. Itappears from our special dispatches
that the wrath of inconsiderate repub-
licans is mainly directed toward Senator
Conkling, who is credited mt Columbus with
being 'the leading spirit in bringing about
this result" This is high compliment to
Mr. Conkling, who is thus distinguished in
his own party above statesmen of ripper
wears and longer experience. He may well
feel gratifed at the distinction accorded
him, especially rs he can afford to smile ut
attempts to impeach his motives while he
acts in harmony with such republicans as
Senators Edmunds and Frelinghuysen and
congressman McCrary, Hoar and Willard.
Mr.. Conkling was not appointed on the
Joint committee until the retirement of
Mr.. Logan, and was only one OF seven
republican members five of whom voted
with him in favor of the proposed settle
mcnt. The earnest republicanism of his
five associates and of Mr.. Ferry, from whom
he received his appointment, cannot be
questioned; hence these malicious attacks
upon him are rs absurd MS they are unjust.
Indeed, all the members Of tho committee
who unite in the report may we'll rest salts
fed with the conclusion Of the fair men of
both parties in Washington, who say, 'If
we believe we have q case we cannot refuse
to submit it to such tribunal as the one
proposed by the joint committee"
Year: 1877

1t is not uncommon for people to discover
specific remedies that will infallibly cure
smallpox; and as this disease has been ex-
tremely prevalent this winter at Detroit it
is scarcely surprising that the latest discov-
cry has been made there. An account OF 1t
will be found in another part of the paper.


This discovery is deemed of so much conse-
quence in Michigan that the chronicler feels
justified in defiant reference to Jenner as
not the only man who could help the
world in respect to this scourge.
There are, however, some points III
his narrative over which the judicious Will
grieve as indications that the rest is not
worthy the highest possible confidence. II
Year: 1877

But for the doubt that has recently been
thrown upon the possible conduct of Rus
sa imm edinte war in Europe would now
seem imminent, since Turkey is in the way
to prepare that condition OF facts which it
was at cne time declared would compel the
movement Of the Russian army across the
Danube. The decision of the grand coun-
Gil against the final demand Of the
governments represented in the Con-
preliminary to the rejection OF that
demand; for in the sudden assumption of
the character of constitutional sovereign
the Sultan puts upon the shoulders of ad-
visory bodies the responsibility for all those
acts that were before constructively his own,
and it would not be constitutional for him
to adopt in an emergency like the present
course contrary to the one advised. AS this
is a constitutional era in Constantinople
this reasoning is, doubtless, to be ap-
piled to the judgment Of the grand coun-
Gil, though no such body is known
to the Turkish constitution recently pro-
mulgated. All that Europe has proposed
as Wise anu eXpeuIeuI III tAo pIeSeuI clI-
cumstances is rejected as contrary to the
dignity, integrity and independence of the
Ottoman Empire" Turkey, therefore, as
sumes an attitude of defiance. She is with
regard to the other nations, her neigh
bors, in the position of man who
keeps dangerous combustibles on his
premises, and. being demonstrated with
by the occupants of adjoining houses,
declares that it is impertinent for them to
pretend to dictate what he shall keep in his
house, and contrary to his dignity to listen
to their propositions for making the COM
bustibles less dangerous Meantime they
live in hourly peril of explosions more or
less ruinous. Evidently their only recourse
is to the police. Will an analogous step be
taken with regard to the Sultan? There
seems little doubt of this, and yet it
is difficult to see how Europe can
admit that it was prepared to intervene in
the Ottoman affairs until forced by the cir
cumstances, or that, being forced by the cir
cumstances, it can relinquish the case without
having secured remedy. Russia is the
Power depended upon to move. and the
doubt as to her intentions will be solved in
| few days.
Year: 1877

A singular story is related in our columns
this morning Of the disappearance and sup
posed murder of a Brooklyn drug clerk
this young man the supposition may be dis
missed as improbable. The reasons for
Jousset's disappearance are in themselves
sufficiently strong, but it is not easy to un-
derstand why he should invent such re-
markable story as that of the impend-
ing duel to account for an act
which needed no explanation. If it was
for the purpose of deluding his wife
he was committing the extreme folly OF in
viting police investigation into every act OF
his life. The newspapers, too, he was well
aware, would give all these stories the widest
publicity, and yet he even asks his wife to
learn his fate from the public prints. Take
it as we may his action was illogical, for it
is not to be supposed that he took both his
wife and her brother into his conf
dence and induced them to assist him
in perpetrating stupendous folly,
which, in any event, would make
his ruin irretrievable. The question, then,
is whether there was third party in this
case and who was the mysterious French
man with whom Jousset once fought duel.
II there was such person there may have
been q conflict in which it was the mask
who was made to suffer. In such case the
device would be French masterpiece, but
what motive even a Frenchman could have
to put the police on his tracks when his only
purpose was to run away is one of those
things to which Dundreary refers as beyond
the power of the philosophical vision.


1t is not impossible, however, that, as has
been reported, the whole thing is hoax.
But, then, again, the motive which could in
duce man to commit such an offence is not
so much subject Of wonder as the readi-
ness Of his wife and her brother to enter
into his plans. The whole thing. evidently,
in some way is trick but as trick it is
clumsy, and without adequate motive in
any direction. The police theory, that it is
device aimed at the wife, is even more
puerile than the folly itself
Year: 1877

assumed character Of one Of the Presidents
commissioners, when he was all the while
the secret Counsel" Of the republican
electors. Governor and Congressman Sec
retary Chandler pleads his privilege as a
Cabinet Minister to avoid answering the
committees questions. But did he act in
his capacity as Minister while managing the
republican Presidential campaign? Both
pleas are unfortunate and likely to damage
the cause the witnesses support
Year: 1877

TIE SOCIETY for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children is exerting rcformatory influence upon
parents. The father of one set of juvenile aero
bats wants to take his children out of business
and the custody of the socety-and send them
abroad to be educated
Year: 1877

IT Is ODD that jury is unable to agree
promptly on a verdict in the Jersey ferry con-
spracy case. Were the case their own, coming
in the ordinary course of business, there would
scarcely be two opinions.
Year: 1877

Our Montreal dispatch Ahows that the


apprehenled collision between the
Oiapgemen and Catholics Of that city
and vicinity to-day, has been provided
against. There will DO no procession Of
tn, Orangemen and consequently there
will be no collision. Wethink that the
decision arrived at was wise. A parade
ia certainly not worth bloody riot, and
itseems almost certain that there would
have been u riot had the contemplated
denomination taken place.


We cannot say that we admire this way
Of purchasing peace in free country.
All orders and associations that are law.
iul in their character should be free TO
pArad, the streets, one as well aS an
other. There is therefore something Of
humiliation in the fact that any body Of
respectable citizens should be compelled
to forego parade for feArof being set
upon on the streets by mob. II recalls
the old times when auti.slavery men in
this country were compelled not to hold
public meetings because their principles
were so obnoxious to their fellow citizens
asto provoke maltreatment.


The great American principle is that
one mans opinions and creed are just as
good as another's, and no show Of brute
force is in order for the purpose Of over.
aWiug a lawful expression on the part OF
any sect or organization. The fact there.
fore that an Orange society is not as free
in Canada or this country as Hiberniun
or St. Patrick society is something which
Is not creditAble to the timcs in which we
live.
Year: 1877

MONTREAL, July 1l.-At an Orange
mass meeting last evening to decide
whether the 0rangemen should parade on
the 18th, Colonel Grant, Deputy County
Master, in the chair, it was decided by a
vote Of 62 to IS that the Orangemen as a
body should not parade, but that such
individual members as saw fit might walk
to the Knop Church, where special SER
vices are TO be held; but that they should
do so without regalia. 1t is understood
that this decision was arrived at through
the influence OF joint meeting OF the
National Temperance and Benevolent
Societies Of this city. The President and
Secretary Of the 0rangemen attributes the
result OF the vote to the influence OF u
subcommittee appointed by these socie.
ties. A vote Of thanks to the Orangemen
OF the city Of Montreal was passed BY the
different societies when they received the
result Of the vote.


In announcing the decision arrived at
by the Orangemen TO the committee Of
the National Societies, Mr.. Grant, County
Master, said there had been u large at.
tendance Of the members Of the order,
who, after discussion, had come to res.
olution, which had been carried by 4
small majority, not to make a public
demonstration. The society reserved the
right to march when they pleased, but
there would be no procession on the 18th
Of July this year. Tho members would
proceed to the church about 1l:30 A. NJ.
and he trusted there would be no disturb.
ance or endeavor TO hinder them in the
discharge Of the privilege aud duty Of
going TO church.


A vote Of thanks was passed to the
Orangemen and all who had co.operated
to this good result.


On the announcement being made TO
the Irish Catholics, after the discussion,
it was resolved:


l. That the Irish Catholic societies &C.
cept the report just made by Mr.. Deylin
and receive ngood faith the undertaking
made by the Orange society OF their
abandonment OF the parade on the 18th,
and that our thanks are due to the
priests OF the local societies, Protestant
and Catholic, whose efforts brought about
this end, so desirable in the preservation
Iot the public peace and in perpetuating
good feeling in our community.


QUEBEC, July lib battery is under
orders to leave by train tonight for Mon.
treal. The 0rangemen Of this city de-
cided not to parade tomorrow, but will
hold grand picnic.


MONTREAL, July 1.-THE city wears a
peaceable aspect tonight. The Chief Of
Police and other leading authorities
think no disturbance will occur during
the day, but fear trouble may arise in
the evening from indulgence in drink,
The Irish Catholic Union is holding a
private session tonight.


Orders were received from Ottawa to.
day for all the volunteer regiments to
hold themselves in readiness for any
emergency.
Year: 1877

Perhaps no report that will come from
the departments at Washington will at
tract more universal and interested at.
tention than that bearing upon the inter.
nal commerce Of the United States as
related to its Railroad system. With our
magnificent rivers and grand chain Of
inland seas we have been accustomed to
associate the vast bulk Of our inter State
traffic, and il will no doubt be a matter
OF surprise to even our best informed
business men to learn how completely our
railway system, new as it il, has revolu-
tionised our carrying system, and the i'm
mense disparity in values between our
railroad and water shipping inter estF,
both domestic and foreign, as well as the
percentage of business done by both.


From the first annual report OF the
internal commerce Of the United States,
just delivered by the Public Printer, we
learn among other things, that the "vnlue
Of the railroads Of the United States is
about twenty.three times the value Of the
shipping engaged in our foreign com.
merce, and that the value Of our internal
commerce is twenty-five times the value
Of our foreign commerce; that 81 per cent
ofthe grain shippedirom the West to the
sesboard during the last year wa, trans.
ported on the rail lines, and that over 90
per cent Of the entire internal commerce
of the country is on the railroads, Al
though the total amount Of contributions
Of the government, up to the close Of the
year of 1875, in the aid Of railroad CON
struction, amounted TO sl44OO0,OOO,
embracing the land grants and subsidies
to the Pacific railroads, yet this sum is
only three per cent Of the entire cost of
the railroad system OF the country"
Year: 1877

The banks claim that only The amounts
above returned by them were in taxa
BILE shape on the lat day OF February last.
On the other hand, the City and County
Assessors claim that the amounts return.
ed are VIGOROUSLY deficient, and repre-.
sent deductions which will not stand the
test in law. The Committee OF Equal.
zation on the part OF the city have decided
to allow the banks to verify their returns
under oath, and IL thus verified to receive
them without further question. What
the County Board Of Commissioners will
do remains to be seen.
Year: 1877

PRESIDENT GRANT is packing up, prepar-
atory to moving out to make room for Presi-
dent HAYES. The people will say GoD blessed
the old; may GoD bless the new occupant Of
the White House. We hail with JOY the ris-
ing sun, and honor him whose race Is run.
Year: 1877

Horace Greeley used to tell this story: He
once sent claim for collection to Western
lawyer, and regarding it as rather desperate
demand, told the attorney if he collected it,
he might reserve half the amount for his fee.
In due time Mr. Greeley received the follow
ing laconic epistle: 'Dear sir, l haye
cei7ed my half of that claim. The balance
is hopsless."
Year: 1877

BY PROF. w. G. SUMNER OF YALE COL


LEGE.


The world has heard a great deal
about liberty for the last century. We
in the United States make it our great
est boast that we have accepted this
broad principle absolutely, and ap lied
it fearlessly; nevertheless, we, who are
met here tonight, are associated to de-
mand more liberty. There is no body
of our fellow-citizens worth mentioning
who deny the right and the expediency
of private property. What we have to
demand, and what the majority of our
fellow citizens-sO far as their will has
yet been constitutionally expressed
deny us, is the privilege of using our
property as we like, that is, of exchaug-
ing it when and where and with whom
soever we will. When we demand this
privilege, which belongs to us on the
simplest principles of right reason and
common sense, we are met by a specu-
lative theory based on artificial assump-
tions, put forward sometimes on bare
considerations of selfish interest, and
sometimes with no little parade of alb
stract philosophiziDg. We are told,
"Oh, no! 1t is not best for the state
that you should do as you like about
making your exchanges. The legisla-
ture must consider the question, and
prescribe for you with whom and for
what you shall exchange. If you deal
with the designated persons, your coun-
trymen, they will gain, the wealth OF
the community will increase, and you,
as member of the community, will
participate, and be better off in the end
than if you had been let alone"


Now, we dispute this theory at every
Year: 1877

1t was about eleven o'clock at
night. Nellie and were sitting
by the bow window in our drawing
room, which she had thrown wide
open, The day had been most OPP
pressively hot, but now a faint


breeze was coming In from the sea,
most refresbingly welcome after
the sultry, sitting heat Of the day.


1t was quite dark-that soft vel
vety darkness that belongs only
to q perfectly moonless, starless
night. iE8tfn nri't


Just down below our window
lay the yard or two Of garden,
thon the long, straight line Of the
Year: 1877

The Presidents message is confined
to appropriations asked for the Army
and Navy and suggestions relative to
the French international Exhibition.
and the International Prison Congress.
Year: 1877

The following spring poem was
received at this Office without the real
name OF the author. It purports to
come from Atlanta, but as the envel-
ope bore Boise City post mark We
are little befogged. However, re-
garding it as one Of our best spring
productions" we deviate from our rule
and publish it without knowing who
the author is:


No morning CLEAN, no opening flower,
No ripening fruit, no noon-time hour,
No sunset, that SO brightly glows,
No twilight in its calm repose,
No sleep that comes its balm to shed,
Like fairy whispers round my bed,
Bear on their wings such JOY to me
AS one brief hour of love with thee;
For in thy gentle, sweet caress
Is whole life of happiness
Thine, the pure thoughtthe heavenly mind;
Thine, the quick sense; the soul refined
And thine the ra e, unconscious art
That chastens love, and purifies the heart
AS trodden fields, by April rain
With bud and blossom smile again;
So, when thy heart to mine is prest
Awakened raptures fill my breast;
For know, our Father, from above,
viii keep us safe and bless our love
Year: 1877

SCHOOL LANTERN FAMILY LANTERN,


PEOPLES LANTERN.
Each style being the best OF it's class in tho market
Catalogues Of Lanterns and Slides. with direc-
tions for using sent on application


Any enterprIsing man can make money with q
Magic Lantern.


So Visitors to the Centennial Exposition will do
wisely to defer purchasing goods in our line until
they come TO our stores in New York where they
will find greater variety and more moderate prices
and can select more at their leisure. But wa have
concession 10 sell some styles of our goods in the
building of the Department OF Public Comfort and
those not coming TO New York invited to call on
ogC representation there.


&C. full stock OF Views Of the Exposition nuild-
ing and their contents


June 20, 'T6-m6.
Year: 1877

ny THE AUTHOR OF THE RISEN CAROLINA.
''He scrrcth best, toho loueh most"


[Coleridge.
They only may be truly said to live
Who nobly live; and all may nobly live;
There is work so mean purpose pure
May not ennoble it--no life so poor
It may not link itself to issues high
Who knows how far an net or word may reach
1t was Gods will by perfect life
Lived in n nook obscure, to save the world;
lie knoweth we'll what thou hast most at heart,
To that He counts thy life at its just weight
Meet but His will, lie will meet thy desire.
How can serve the State?


Sweet would it be to die


Or live for her but
Can only love my State.
How can l serve the State?
.TholA seemest set apart;
But bcnr her In thy heart
And thou shalt serve thy State"
How can serve the State?


"No proof of love it were
To serve thyscf by her
Through office Of the State"
How can serve the State?


'By service indirect


Thou mayest we'll protect
And helpito build thy State
How may 1 serve the State?


There is no lot so low


But thou may'st use it so
AS well to serve thy State"
How may serve the State?


''Scrve him who placed thee there,


And think not that by prayer
Thou dost not serve thy State.'
How can l serve the State?


''Work at the task God sent


Fulfill His high intent;
Trust Him to keen the State
Year: 1877

We look round and recognize few such
friendships as are the theme Of moral
lists and historians. They are the great
alleviations Of great minds under unusual
pressure of circumstances; but in the
more social aspect OF the virtue, our own
age has many pleasant example. And
notably Sir Walter Scott, whose heart
was large enough for troops of friends.
each of whom might have thought him
self pre-eminently favored. He was
equally great in the pleasures and the
duties of the relation. His mind quick
to catch the occasion when he might
serve friend; his affections warm, and
sympathy overilowing, where these alone
found exercise. And what he bestowed,
he also desired on his own account. He
was gracious, but not condescending


The tenderness that soothed and COM
forted so many in their trouble he was
grateful for when his own trial came.


He had none of the reserve, fastidious-
ness, shyness diIidence, eYclusiyeness
which make friendship difficult, but felt
what is quoted in Cicero-"There is
enough in every man that is willing TO
become friend" HE talks 10 all Of
US, said his poor neighbors, as if We
were blood relations Rank was no
hindrance, poverty no bar. He needed
not one friend, but many. and of all de-
grees, to fit into and satisfy the various
phases Of his large nature. And yet he
was not indiscriminate; he chose his
friends for what was good and worthy in
them; aud had some to whom his heart
and thoughts were open. who We're neces-
sary to him in more intimate and es-
peciI sense. To all he was faithful; nor
DO We detect any trace Of the too COM
monelfeet of time in slackening ties which
demand tenacious regard to keep
up. Peoples friends slip from them for
want of vigisnt holding the absent in
remembrance. Sir Walter Scott's cor
reSpondcnce continues various and faith
ful 10 the old names TO the end. In no
point is he more an example than in this
of friendship-not as feature Of one
period of his life, but as 4 constant in
tluence to the end No one more uni
formly and implicitly followed the rule
laid down by the son of Sirach-The
man who hath friends must behave him


self friendly -BllckToOd MGgGziAe.