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Year: 1877

Marshal MacMahon will probably not
issue any more manifestoes Immediately |;
but the views of the Due de Brogie. as
given in our dispatches to-day, indicate that
his overwhelming defeat has not altogether
opened the eyes of the Premier as to the tenn
per of the country. He seems to fancy that
q judicious use of rhodomontade may bully
the Chamber into acting as if the judgment
of the country had been in favor Of the Min
istry instead of against it, and the absurd
notion he possesses of the concessions"
that should be acceptable to the triumphant
party would be laughable if it were
not melancholy sight to observe
the tranquility of great country depend
ing, though only for a time, on the will OF
man either without political common
sense or SO wickedly disposed to deny the
first principles Of parliamentary govern
ment. If Marshal MacMahon had proposed
after Sedan that the Germans should sur
render to him for the sake of peace his
proposition would scarcely have been more
ridiculous than that Of the Due de Broglie,
who comedies" that the Left Centre may
now .come over" and support the gov
ernment if it will agree not to demand the
removal Of the projects appointed since the
10th of May. In the insane impudence OF
this fancy and in the ignorance of practical
politics with which it is supported
there is to be found this instruc-
tion-the government intends to en-
deavor to divide the republicans and
to hold it's position through such division;
to corrupt and seduce in one direction and
domineer and threaten in the other. 1t
will offer the Left Centre two minor places
in the Ministry on condition that it will
make no demands as to the composition of
the administrative machinery and will for
this small price support the reaction by its
votes. With this poor temptation held out
as lure to one group Of republicans it
simply proposes to intimidate the others
by threatening another dissolution if they
stir hand or foot II they propose
impeachment, or if they annul elections
for bribery or undue official influence or
other Irregularities, it will decree another
dissolution and put the whole country un-
der martial law. The government is so used
to finding the Senate submissive and SUBJ
servient that it never takes into considera-
ton that that body may have will of its
own. Dissolution without the Senate is
not possible, and the Senate will not ignore
the response of the country even if the
Ministry does. All this about dissolution
is therefore mere vaporing. It is a pity for
France that places SO high are open to men
SO paltry.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Woodin has retired from the Senate
rial canvass in the Twenty fifth district. He
has acted wisely in declining a contest which
was as unjust to his constituents as it would
have been damaging to himself. In the last
Senatorial election, when rumor alone asso-
ciated his name with the old Tammany
transactions he ran down handsome re-
publican majority to a mere plurality OF
three hundred and eighty, secured through
detection or corruption in democratic dis
tricts. This was sufficient evidence that the
moral sense of his party was opposed to his
candidacy, and the Tweed developments
must certainly have intensified this feel
ing. Even if Mr.. Woodin is in his own
heart conscious OF his freedom from any i'm
proper association with the old corruptions
it would scarcely have been just to leave his
party in the dilemma in which they were
placed by his candidacy in the absence Of
explicit proof of his innocence. On the
democratic side we have scarcely less dis
tinguished withdrawal in the case Of Alder
man Purroy. Mr.. Woodin withdraws out
of respect tor his constituents Mr.. Purroy
out of respect for himself An unfortunate
and hasty act placed the latter in false
position, and his positive refusal to be can
didate for office in the present election is a
manly acknowledgment of the error.
Year: 1877

The Schuylerville celebration in CON-
memoration of the final surrender of Gen
eral Burgoyne, an account of which is
published elsewhere, was perfect success.
The weather yesterday was unusually pro-
pitious, and the day was one which will
long be remembered in Saratoga county as
festival in more ways than one. The
addresses Of Seymour and Curtis and the
poetry of Street afforded splendid literary
repast. The military display was feast
for the eyes. The Masonic ceremonies and
the brilliant crowds gave zest to the
appetite for enjoyment. Young and old
were in state of high-pressure excite
ment and delight from the roar Of the
first gun which ushered in the proceedings
Of the day until the last sound Of the de-
parting bands expired on the air. The
scene was that of general jubilee.
Year: 1877

According to the dispatches from Gen.
eral Terry's camp, received from the
HERAIDs special correspondent and pub
lished yesterday, the expedition was, on
October 13, one hundred and three miles
from Fort Walsh, Canada, where Sitting
Bull it was expected would be willing to
await it's coming. 1t is, therefore, probable
that by this time General Terry has met the
Sioux Chief and submitted to him what
ever propositions the Commission is author
lied to make. The Commissions instruc-
tions have been kept secret; but if they are
based on what common sense points out as
the only efficient policy in regard to the
treatment Of the Indians the expedition
may not be fruitless Of good results.


There would be no great difficulty about
the Indian question If there were not hid
den behind it masses of selfish intrigue, COR
ruption and plunder. So long as the Indian
bureau exists the government will be
robbed and the Indians wronged and driven
to revengeful acts. There should be no
longer an excuse for supplying the Indians
with arms and ammunition, nominally for
hunting but in reality for war and massacre.
The interesting letters recently written by
General Sherman show how the buffaloes
are disappearing, and that the Indians can
no longer subsist by hunting. They will not
starve if they can get food, even if they have
to fight and kill for it. The clear way out
of the difficulty is to place them on reserva-
tions, surround them with military posts,
supply them literally with cattle and let
them 60 into the stock raising business,
which is nearest akin to their pursuits and
fancies. They cannot at once be made agri-
culturists; but taste for agriculture and
its study should be encouraged among them
by the award OF premiums for farming skill
and products. II the offers to be made to
Sitting Bull have this direction they may
result in practical good. Such policy as
we hint at would paralyze the arm OF plum
der, but it would promote the cause Of peace
and humanity.
Year: 1877

The cigarmakers' strike has assumed
large proportions, and will throw out Of
employment great number of persons who
money they earn from day to day or from
week to week. The HERALD has always in
sisted that labor has the right to strike
when dissatisfied with the compensation it
receives, and as the cigarmakers appear TO
have held themselves strictly within the
law and to have relied upon argument and
not on force to draw all their fellow work.
men into the movement nothing can be
said against their action except on the
ground Of its inexpediency. If they feel
that they are not paid fair, honest price
for fair, honest days work, they are en-
titled to demand more, and to endeavor to
enforce their demand by striking and striv-
ing to induce all their fellow workmen to
do the same. But it must be remembered
that by this step they entail idleness, at
least temporarily, on many thousands Of
men and women who have not dollar TO
fall back upon, and who must, until again
employed, be a tax on the hard earnings Of
other workmen.


Such condition Of affairs cannot be too
speedily ended For the sake both of en-
ployer and employed speedy settlement Of
their differences should be made. The en-
ployers by their readiness to concede some
increase on the present rates of compen-
sation admit that the workme en- have hereto
fore been paid too little. They will do well
to stretch their liberality and make fair
step forward to meet the employees. The
latter, on their part, should be careful not
to be too exacting in their demands at this
time, when business is only just on the turn
of the scale in improvement, and when a few
weeks idleness will entail upon them and
their families serious loss and much suffer-
ing. Let both sides show disposition to
meet half way and the difficulty may soon
be ended to their mutual advantage.
Year: 1877




AT the opening meeting Of the newly
formed Metropolitan Association of ANA
teur Oarsmen yesterday afternoon on the
Kill Won Kull the Columbia College four
scored another victory, leading the Argo-
nautas only by part of length Eustis
and Downs won the pairs away from Levien
and Walsh, and the Carmansville Club
made good work Of it in the gigs, while at
the senior sculls Lee led Fearon, Of Yonk-
ers, by only three feet. The presence Of
of large tows passing through the Kill and
turning up just when least wanted
gave our oarsmen sample of
what English rowers have to con-
tend with on the busy Thames, and
called for sudden judgment and action
which are not known on clear courses, and
which availed Eustis and his mate greatly
yesterday, they going over the rope between
a steamer and its tow, while their antag-
onists took the long route around the tow.
The very careless running down of Eustis'
pair by the steamboat Peter Crary after their
race, and the narrow escape Of the rowers
after swimming under the steamers bottom,
and the sinking OF one tug by another while
chasing one Of the races, show the urgent
need of placing all accompanying steam
craft under one head and assigning them
positions from which they must in no
ordinary event depart.
Year: 1877

The farce Of Tweed's so-called examina-
ton was continued yesterday, and served
to further illustrate the real object with
which it was started Much of the time
was occupied in political fencing between
the republican member of the committee
and the Assistant Corporation Counsel but
the witness remembered nothing of inter-
est and was remarkably oblivious OF the
names and services of the old Tammany
hacks who had clustered around him in the
days Of his glory and are still shin
ing lights Of the Wigwam. In written
statement Tweed set forth how much
money he had received since the exposure
of his fclonies and how it had been spent


With the most cbnsummate effrontery he
admits to the receipt of just upon one
million and q half dollars since the autumn
Of 1871, and proceeds to show how he ex-
pended this stolen money. While the people
he had plundered are still suffering from
the effect OF his robberies this impudent
thief coolly sets down the expenses of his
family for little over four years at two
hundred and twenty thousand dollars, or
nearly quarter OF million The re-
mainder he pretonds to have paid mainly
to his fellow thieves, his counsel and for his
attempted escape, and then having, as he
asserts, nothing lett, he asks for his liberty.


One cdrious feature of this expense ac-
count will strike every reader. How was it
that Tweed was enabled to dispose of real
estate, mortgages, bonds, jewelry and other
property to the'large amount of one million
and half dollars after his crimes had been
discovered and when the law was supposed
to have spread its meshes over him? Would
it not be pertinent to inquire who assisted
him in these financial operations-who sold
for him and who bought of him-so that the
whole story of how the city was dcfrauded
of restitution after Tweed's robberics were
known may be placed before the people?
Year: 1877

The Fire Department appears to be in
some trouble in relation to number OF men
who, having been illegally removed by the
Commissioners, were reinstated by the
courts, and are now likely to recover their
back pay. The department finds that it has
on its hands more men than the appropria-
tions warrant, and that 1t would be short of
funds fifty thousand dollars if it should be
Year: 1877

ACCORDING TO a PAPER read at the Presby-
terian Synod there are at present five hundred
unemployed pastors Of that denomination and
more than five hundred churches seeking shep-
herds.
Year: 1877

Fox HUNTING is undoubtedly destined to be-
come one of our most popular sports The meet
ing yesterday shows conclusively that it will
require only little time to place it in the fore
WAS larger field than any day since the
initial hunt, and, in addition, several ladies gave
zcst and charm to the occasion by their pres
encc, and supplied the only element Of interest
and picturcsquencss that lacking at the
earlier meetings.
Year: 1877

CHIEF ARTHUR's ADDRESS to the locomotive
engineers is full of sensible advice, not only to
the class of workingmen to whom he particularly
speaks, but to the great army Of labor gcner-
ally. 1t is so sound in most of its positions that
it is pity it should have been marrcd by the
introduction of matter hardly relevant, and
which is liable to misconstructon. His repudia-
ton Of Communism will be approved by every
sensible person.
Year: 1877

JUDGE GILDERsLEEvE's WARNING to the Grim
inal classes in jury charge yesterday, is cx-
ceedingly timely, and, it is to be hoped, will have
the desired effect. Marked crimes against the
person have not been very numerous lately, but
it is just well to remind those likely to com
NIT them that the courts are awake, and that in
every case the full penalty of the law will be
metcd ont to It's trunsrressnrs
Year: 1877

The Governorship of Louisiana slnm-
bers until after the usurper Hayes shall
have been insugurated into an Office for
which he was beaten by over quarter
of million votes. Then Usurper
Hayes will send down an army to sns-
tain Usurper Packard in a community
which has repudiated him by at least
ten thousand votes. Grant was too
sharp to be canght that way; be knew
that the recognition Of Packard could
only result in his reachment and be
did not think. it was worth the powder.
Same in South Carolina.
Year: 1877

Within the past sixty days over
130 names have beer added to the
subscription list of our weekly edi-
ton. This satisfies us that our labor
has not been expended in vain and
that Puget Sound will support a pa
per which affords, for the low price
of three dollars per year, such a
diversity of reading matter.
Year: 1877




The strike in the Wellington mine,
at Departure Bay, caused the own
ers of that property to send below
for new men. The discharged men
sent over here and published a
warning to miners to keep away
from there; but they will find that
the Molly Mcguire business won't
pay il that blahsted country, at all,
YOU know. The new comers don't
average an inch high on the fore
head and will be able to do their
share of fighting, if called on. By
the next trip of the Panama hun
dred more are expected.
Year: 1877

What has become of the Steilacoom
Express? II came cut in full bloom
about two weeks ago and was decidedly
newsy; but now we don't get sight OF
it at alt Julius have you gone into
The Rip Van Winkle business again?
Year: 1877

Well that was nice little game
the Bummers' Telegraph gave us
about the Oregon vote being only
two for Hayes. We console ourself
with the reflection that it made US
feel good for little while. anyhow.
It turns cut now to be "phrod'' as
the late John Covode would have
said. The whole thing is over and
Hayes is President, in spite of law
and decency, so there is no further
use of kicking against those things.
A strict partisan vote, from one end
to the other, has decided the case.
Tilden could not have been made
President, if he had million major
ity over Hayes. One mans vote
Bradley decided the whole affair,
SO they might as we'll have left it to
Grants decision in the first place.
It would have saved some money
and a great deal of time.
Year: 1877

wealth increase; for their intelli-
gence directs and controls the
changes of matter, so as to make
every change contribute fresh ad-
vantage to mankind-more food,
more clothing, better houses, more
spare time to refresh the body by
rest from labor and the soul by in
nocent amusement and by studies
which give it greater power to con-
troll the changes Of matter. This
power Of man to control the
changes Of matter-his ability to
labor and thus increase the ability
Of matter-is the one thing which
perishes if it is not Immediately
put to use. An hour that is wasted
is gone forever. 1t can never be
brought back. Therefore the most
important duty of every government
is TO secure the continual employ
ment of all its people, SO that no
man shall be idle who is able and
willing to work"
Year: 1877

The Cheyenne the Portal to she


Slack HilIs.


Cheyenne has become the great
rallying point for the bulk of the
Black Hills travel, and the town
flourlshes with luxuriance only
equaled by the mushroom cities
that sprang up SO magically or the
border in the palmy days of rail
roading. A rowing correspondent
writing from there recently, says:
To say that the Black Hills pill
grims swarm in Cheyenne is to ex.
press it feebly. The streets were
full of them at 10 am, and at noon
more of them sprang up apparently
out of the ground, like grasshop-
pers. Two hours later the West
bound emigrant train came in, and
nearly hundred more of them
disembarked and distributed them
selves wherever there was room for
them. The saloons are nearly all
full by this time, and the variety
theaters were not open, conse-
quently there seemed to bo no
place for them anywhere. A band
of Maine men, fresh from farms
and logging-camps, stopped at the
Inter r-Ocean, and as the house was
already full, it taxed Gould's inge-
nuity to dispose of forty more.
But infinite are the resources of
hotel men, and their cots are never
all spread in Cheyenne. Cheyenne
by lamplight is quite a different
scene from the same city under the
broad glare of day. AS the lights
flare out the crowds seem to swell
and fill the public resorts as if by
magic. This place that looked so
quiet during the day is John Ohase's
celebrated saloon and gambling
house. Half a dozen places are
going, and all crowded with play
ers, especially the one presided over
by a lady, French woman, bright,
vlvacous, coquettish shapely
head rising from fair, round
shoulders; every motion as
quick and light and graceful as a
dainty bird, and yet marked by y
certain feline swiftness as She
reaches her white hands across the
board to "rake down" some unlucky
victims pile when it has fallen
forfeit to her skill, for she is said to
be the most successful dealer of
vingtun in the country. But that
smile which haunts her fair face
continually is a study for physiog-
nomists. What does it mean? One
might almost swear it means every
thing, or nothing. There it is before
you always, as constant as truth
itself in its countenance, yet per-
haps no two men of the thousands
it has lured to that table have read
1t alike, and not one of them right
ly, But it is a good card, though,
and she plays it as deity as She
does the rest Of the deck.
Year: 1877

A young man who lives on farm
near Bockara, Australia, lately went
to sleep on a sofa after a hard days
work, and had been lying there
some time when ne got up and went
outside. His companions observed
that he walked with a staggering
gait, but little notice was taken of
the matter, as they expected him to
reiOin them Immediately. The
somnambulist, for such he was,
passed through three or four gates,
untYing and tying the fastenings,
which are made of rope, and made
his way to the woodshed. There
he hung his coat upon a nail, took
down a pair Of shears he mad been
using in the daytime, aud proceed
ed to sharpen them. He next
caught a sheep, and had just fin
ished shearing it when he was
wakened by the sudden arrival Of
his friends, who had come with a
lantern to search for him. The
shock of awakening caused him to
tremble like a leaf, but he soon re-
gained his equanimity. The sheep
was shorn as well as if the work
had been performed in broad day
light, and the night was by no
means clear one.
Year: 1877

remedy of the courts or submit TO connsca-
ton.


The committee find that many reforms
might be fDaugurated In the manner of ma X
ing assessments and give relief to the peo-
pie, and hold themselves ready to assist the
general committee In any Recommendation
the general committee may desire TO make
to Congress.


Respectfully submitted.


WIN. n. CLAGETr


Chairman Committee on TAXATION
Year: 1877

in these days along the waters Of the Santa Cruz. By prospecting the various mill ponds above town the boys catch some very nice fish. We saw a string of fish the other day some Of which were a foot long. They are a very palateable fish too, though we don't know their prop CT name. Perhaps speckled trout or rock cod or sturgeon. There Is said to be some first rate fishing in spots along the river.
Year: 1877

4 FAMILY came in from Sonora the first Of the week, having the smallpox. One Of the children died with the disease at Canos, and when the family got here two of the other children were down with it. Underth excellent sanitary management by our city authorities the afflicted fam fly was quickly but humsnely isolated and it is to be hoped that the disease will not spread. It is pronounced a mild form Of smallpox, but unless it's for the good Of others, we'd rather not have even the prickly heat.
Year: 1877

A SLlGur MISTAKE There's good
story. and true one withal, relative to
Mr.. Gill. long reporter OF the Boston
Post, and we'll known as fellow of in
finite Jest He was reporting dinner
Of the seventy first anniversary Of the
battle Of Bunker Hill. The dinner
was a splendid affair, and everybody
was patriotic Gill. when the excite
ment was at boiling point, whispered
to friend. one of those gentlemen who
was always happy" Ii speech-making.
that his father was engaged in the bat
tie Of Banker Hill. The orator arose.
made a brilliant speech. alluded to Gill's
father and Gill in the highest terms.
aud proposed ellis health. which was
drank with the usual honors, and one
or two more There were shouts OF
Gill Gill ~ and he made speech
returning thanks in the usual manner.
aud said,--


but my learned friend omitted one
fact important fact of which he
might no. have been aware. My father
was in the battle of Bunker Hill, bat
he fought on the British side


There was not quite so much enthu'
siasm after that and Gill has not III
dulged in speeches slhce.
Year: 1877

The following incident occurred dur
ing a general review of the Austrian
cavalry some months ago:


Not far from thirty Thousand caval.
ry were in line A little girl Of not
more than four years. standing in ,lg
front row Of spectators, either from
fright or some other cause, rushed out
into the open field just as a squadron
Of hussars came sweeping aronnd from
the main body. They made the detour
for the pur pose Of saluting the empress.
whose carriage was drawn up in that
par. Of the para'e ground. Down
came the flying squadron, charging at a
mad gallop-down directly upon the
child The mother WAS paralyzed. as
were others, for there could be no rescue
from the line of spectators. The em-
press uttered cry Of horror, tor the
chld's destruction seemed inevitable
AMI such terrible destruc,ion-tbe
trampirg 10 death by thousand iron
hoofs. Directly under the feet OF the
horses was the little one-another III
stance must seal its doom-when stall
wart hussar. who was in the front line,
without Stacking his speed or loosening
his hold. threw himself over by the
side of his horses neck, seized and lifted
the child, and placed it in safety upon
his saddlebow; and this be did without
changing his pace or breaking the cor
rect alignment of the squadron. Ten
thousand voices hailed with rapturous
applause the gallant deed. and other
thousands applauded when they knew.
Two women were there who could only
sob forth their gratitude in broken &C.
cents-the mother and the empress.
And "a proud and happy moment it must
have been for the hussar when his en-
peror. taking from his own breast the
richly enamelled cross of the Order OF
Maria Theresa. hung it upon the breast
of his brave and gallant trooper.