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Year: 1879

ton shall support any institutions save those where
every child may get common school education un-
mixed with any atheistic pagan or sectaran teach
ing leave the matter of religious teaching 10 the
family altar and keep Church aud state forever
separate. With those safeguards believe the battles
which created the Army OF the Tennessee will not
have been fought in vain.


The voice was the voice Of Grant, but the worus.
the thoughts the designs and intentions are distinctly
those of Bismarck.


The Catholics of Cork do not forget that when
Grant aspired for third term TO the Presidency OF
the United States he tried to strengthen his position
the republican candidate by importing. in the
most invidious manner. the religious and antCatho-
lie element into the political agitation He appealed
TO the religious passions of the native American ee-
ment in our population and that appeal has now
risen in judgment before him in Ireland.


IT, is openly stated by the friends of the Ameri-
can Bismarck, Grant should be the republican cam
ddate the Presidency 1880 the Catholic voters
of the United States must show their detestation or
his bigotry, not only by voting against him. but by
working hard to secure his defeat Cork has set ire
land in America" good example. and we confidently
trust that countrymen win profit by it.
Year: 1879

0HN. fORTEPS VINDIC4TTON.


There is but one opinion as to the verdict
OF the commission charged with the duty of
lnqu'rlng into the case of Fitz John Porter.
and that IS one of satisfaction that. after 40
many years of undeserved condemnation.
Gen. Porter emerges with an unstained req.
ord and an untarnished name. The com
mission has pronounced the Judgment of tho
court martial of 1868 unjust, but it has not
undone the work accomplished then, for it
has not the power. That resides only in
Congress, and to Congress the public will
look for consummatlon of the verdict OF
the commission.


For nearly sixteen years Gen. Porter has
borne the stamp of disgrace upon his brow.
he has been ostracised from the social cir
oles in which he was won't to mingle, and
even those who believed firmly in his limo.
cence were forbidden to associate with him
or to testify their confidence in his honor
No ostracism is more complete than that de-
creed by military court martial. 1t shuts
one out at once and forever from society and
from business converse with ones fellows
II places him alone among multitude
Against the verdict pronounced upon him
Year: 1879

The socialistic element is not an incon-
considerable one in Chicago. The sugges-
tion few years ago that they should unite
in an endeavor to control the politics of the
city was received with derision, vet it was
adopted, and without newspaper organ to
advocate their cause, or friendly hand to
help them in any branch of the government,
they have grown till they poll an average of
twelve thousand votes, and at the election on
Tuesday succeeded in choosing four alder
men of their own way of thinking. Chicago
is promising field for the gentry who are
just now being invited to leave Germany.
Year: 1879

1T may be of interest to those of our read
ers who hold municipal bonds that have
been dishonored by the maker, to know that
the United States supreme court has made a
decision recently that may prove of value.
In a case involving the legality of certain
bonds issued by the city of New Orleans,
the court decided that the right to incur a
debt carries with it the power to provide fol-
it's payment, and that therefore it is no de-
fense to the payment of debt to set up
that there are no means of meeting it.
Year: 1879

The increase of nearly a million dollars
in the public debt during March must not
be considered as remarkable. The truth is
that there is no general election near at
hand, and there is no immediate necessity,
therefore, of showing decrease. It's only
during political campaigns that the econo-
my of the administration is made manifest
in regular reductions of the public debt.
Year: 1879




The debate in the House on the political
amendments to the appropriation bills is
necessary infliction. We presume that the
public in general is interested in the discus
sion, We hope so, at least, for there is little
else to regale the public with. Mr.. Will
lisms, of Visor nsin, with his curly hair and
his eloquence, succeeded on Wednesday in
e1tinguishiug the last vestage of the rebel
lion that most people had supposed was
quelled fourteen years ago. He declaimed
most vehemently against the repeal of the
law that had been enacted to maintain Re-
publican ascendancy, declaring that it was
the only bar to the indulgence of the Dem
ocrats in their favorite pastime of shooting
negroes. He regarded the prohibition of
troops at the polls as the center OF the whole
question of federal authority and national
perpetuity. We are glad that such an
avowal has been made by authority. 1t
amounts to declaration that troops are q
necessary adjunct of Republican govern
ment, and that without them the federal
authority and the national existence cannot
be maintained. Such a proposition is in
consonance with the whole policy of the Re
publican party, but it is opposed to the ira
ditions and the principles of the Democracy,
and will be opposed by the Democrats as
long as such party has an existence.


In this proposition resides the difference
between the two parties. The Republican
ho1I 10 +ho ho1io of rot &hn
employment of force, government is a
failure. The Democrats hold that the peo-
pie are competent to govern themselves, and
ought to be entrusted with that privilege OF
duty. The Democratic idea is that man
ought to be allowed to cast his vote as he
chooses, without molestation, and that even
the suggestion of force is an infringement of
the rights of the citizen. We claim, on behalf
of the people, tho right to deposit free bal
lot, without menace from federal or any
other authority. We insist that the federal
government has no right under the constitu-
| ton to attempt to interfere with the free ex
preston of the will of the people at the bal
lot box, and that the presence of troops at
the polls is positive threat to every citizen
to vote as the central power that governs
those troops may direct.


In Minnesota we know but little of bayo.
net rule. But in other sections of the coun-
try the case is different. The experience ol
the past has been sufficient to show to US
that the army can be used as political en-.
gine, and we know by common report that it
has been used thus in other sections of the
country. Therefore, while we do not com
plain that the presence of troops at the polls
has abridged the rights of any citizen of
this State, we claim that it has been so used
| elsewhere. We insist, therefore, that this
interference with the freedom of the fran.
chise be prohibited at once and forever. The
Democratic party needs no support other
than that which comes from the people, and
it asks none. 1t does not propose to leave
upon the statute books an act that is in it.
self an imputation upon the integrity of
| every person who casts vote.
Year: 1879

were simply his ideas as citizen, and not as
an offioial; that he was in his official capacity
to enforce the laws, not to make them,
and was ready at any time,
and always has enforced, SO far as he has
been instructed, the laws, and he considered
it taking an unfair advantage of any official
when their private opinions were taken down
and served up under the head of an s'inter-
Year: 1879

HAYES backbone is the subject of good
deal of sollcitude just now. There never
was mortal who was so anxiously watched
or whose vertebrae was so tenderly cared for.
Whether he will or will not sign the appro
priation bills with the political amendments
attached both friends and foes alike want to
know, but none seem able to discover.
Year: 1879

To avoid all misapprehension, desire to
state that, while am engaged in printing the
whole or q portion of large number of papers
have no pecuniary or proprietary interest in
any papers save the daily and weekly GLOBE,
and weekly journal styled the ST. PAUL NEWS
IAPER UNION. All other issues are merely
printed by me for their respective publishers


H.P. HALL.
Year: 1879

Gen. Porter protested. He asked its reversal
or revision, and scorned executive clemenoy,
though it was frequently rendered
him. The mention of pardon fired him
with indignation, for he was conscious of
the commission of no offense. What he has
importuned for has at last been granted.
He has had a hearing, and all the circum-
stances having bearing upon the trans
action for which he was originally con-
demned have been rehearsed, and it is the
unanimous opinion of the court that he was
blameless. The members of that commits
sion were army officers of unquestioned
repute, some of them going to the duty
prejudiced against Gen. Porters cause, but
as men of honor they were compelled to
abide by the evidence presented, which left
them no other alternative than the decision
arrived at.


Gen. Porter's future is not matter of ma
tional interest. He can probably dispose of
it to his own and others satisfaction. His
case has assumed national Importance
simply from the fact that it was the only in
stance in which general officer had been
charged with disobedience of orders and
cowardice on the field of battle, and the sus-
picion that the charge was made and the
conviction afterwards obtained for political
ends. The wrong done to his reputation has
finally been righted. He asks no more, yet
it is a duty that Congress owes him to make
some amends for the wrong that he has been
compelled to suffer. If he is not restored tc
the rank of which he was deprived, he Ger
tainly ought to receive compensation in some
way for the large expenditure he has made
in the endeavor to have his case revised
To do less would be to consent to an inius-
tice almost as great as that which deprived
a brave officer of his rank and fair fame
and consigned his name to infamy.
Year: 1879

he who claims a partisan advantage arls-
ing from the municipal elections that have
recently taken place may be set down as an
arrant fool. General politics are seldom
brought into local contests, but men are
chosen to Office on account of their fitness or
their personal popularity, and therefore no
political significance can be attached to the
results reached.
Year: 1879

the sea, they had no communication with
the outside world. Their life, full and
comfortable, was unnatural, being abso-
luely without background.


Whether the story be a fact or only n
sailors tale, it has II terrible truth in it.
For we are all making haste to bring our
selves into the condition of these men OF
Samoan. From childhood to old age, we
hurry on in pursuit of money, dropping at
every step some priceless possession which
we can never take up again, though we
search for it carefully and with tears.
The young man finds his father a bore and
his mother old-fashioned, and he shoves
them and their affection into the back
ground, out of sight of his new compan-
ions, he falls in love presently, and 1t is n
| genuine healthy action Of heart and soul,
but after II year of mari led life love begins
to seem mawkish and sentimental; he and
his wife turn marriage into hackneyed,
tedious partnership, and give their real
energies to business and to society; when
| the first child comes, both of them proba-
| bly, feel throb of real emotion; but very
soon the child is II burden, and is thrust
off on nurses and teachers. Friends he
suffers to fall away one by one. Religion
he utterly neglects. Nothing as he crosses
this great sea of life seems worth saving
to him but the means of living. Suddenly
Old age comes npon him. and he stands
upon rock like the shipwrecked voy-
ayers, with nothing left but food and
clothes


When we come to stand where he does,
what shall we have brought with us out
of the long storm of lfeo The blessing
of the old father and mother whom we
have tenderly lovedp The strength given
bv the love of wife and children to whom
we have been faithful, of the friends dear
to us, of the poor whom we have helped,
of the Master whom we have served
When we start upon that last voyage Of
all, 10 which we can take not penny OF
our wealth, these things shall go with us.
How many of them have we lost this
year? ?-Ira6une.
Year: 1879

SELF Observation-Disclosures ON yourself;
Never initiate. Your own gift you can
present every minute with the cumulative
force of whole life's cultivation; but OF
the adopted talent of another you have an
extraneous, half possession. That which
each can do best, none but his Maker can
teach him. No man yet knows what it is,
nor can, till that person has exhibited it.
Where is the master who could have
taught Shakespeare? Where is the master
who could have instructed Franklin. or
Washington, or Bacon, or NewtonP Every
man is unique. The Scipionism OF
Scipio is precisely that part which he
could not borrow. If anybody will tell
me whom the great man initiates in the
original crisis when he performs IL great
act. will tell him who else than himself
can teach him. Shakspeares can never be
made by the study of Shakespeare. Dc
that which is assigned thee, and thou cans
not hope too much or dare too much
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Year: 1879

NERVOUSNESS OF GREAT ORATORS
Great orators generally suffer from nerv-
Gus anxiety in beginning their best speech
es. Speakers who are always cool and
self-possessed never attain such eminent
success as those who possess more sens-
tive organizations. Robert Hall never
went into the pulpit without fear of fail
ure. The father of the present Lord
Derby, of England, was one of the best
debators in parliament. He was COM
plimented AS the Rupert of debate" and
was noted for apparent composure. Yet
he said TO II friend, " My throat and lips.
when l am going to speak, are us dry us
those of u man who is going to be hang,
ed" Tiemay, famous for his readiness and
tiuency on all occasions, said he never
spoke without feeling his knees smite to-
gether when he rose. Canning, one of the
most brilliant speakers in the whole his
tory of the House of Commons, said he
always knew when he was to do better
than usual, by the quickness of his pulse
and the trembling of his limbs. 1t is ont
of the compensations of nature that or
those who suffer most in advance is be
slowed the highest triumphs.
Year: 1879

The CLEAN NEwsPAPER.-rhere is a
growing feeling in every healthy commu-
nifty against journals which make it their
special object to minister to perverted
taste by seeking out and serving up in a
seductive form disgusting and licentious
revelations There is good reason to be-
leve that the clean newspaper is more
highly priced to day than it was four or
five years ago. 1t is also safe to predict
that as people in all ranks of life who pro-
tect their own, at least from contamina-
ton, become conscious of the pernicious


influence of q certain class of journals,
called enterprising because they ;lre ambi-
tous to serve us dirty scandals, they will
be careful to see that the journals they per-
NIT to be read in the family circle are of
the class that never forget the proprieties
of life. Already men and women Of re-
iinement and healthy morals have had
their attention called to the pernicous in
tluence of bad literature, and have made
commendable efforts to counteract the
same, by causing sound literature to be
published and sold at popular prices.
These efforts are working u silent but
sure revolution. The best authors are
more generally read to-day than at any
previous date. The sickly sentimental
story paper and the wild ranger and pirate
story book are slowly but surely yielding
the field to worthier claimants. TO the
praise of the decent newspaper it may be
said that where it has place in the fami


ly and has been read for years by young
us well as old, it has developed such 1
healthy tone and such II discriminating
taste that literature of the slums has nj
admirers. Fortunately. the number o
such families is increasing in the land, ant
as they increase the journal devoting itsel
TO sickening revelations Of immortality will


be compelled to find its supporters among
those classes who practice vice and crime
or are ambitious to follow such ways,
Year: 1879

SEA SIcKNEss.-lt is q common theory
that sea sickness is the result of the imag-
ination acting through the sense of sight,
and that If one were resolutely to shut his
eyes during the whole period of voyage
he would escape nausea. If this theory
were valid it would follow that persons
totally blind would be free from sea sick
ness. To test this hypothesis we have
made inquiry at the asylum for the blind
We are assured, however, that blind
peoble who 60 to sea are neither more
nor less liable to sea sickness than other
people. fact which we commend TO the
theorists as profitable for their instruction
and reproof. f.-Nep York World.
Year: 1879

CURE FOR SLEEPLEssNEss-Eat two or
three small onions. If a person cannot
sleep, it is tecause the blood is in the
brain; the remedy, therefore, is obviously
to call the blood down from the head.
This can be done by eating one or two
small raw onions, or biscuit, q bard
boiled egg, piece of bread and butter, or
something. Follow this up with o glass
of milk, or even water, and you will fall
asleep. Onions are also excellent things
10 eat when exposed TO the cold.
Year: 1879

There Is great difference between
resolutions and resolution. Almost every.
body Is full Of resolutions at the opening
of the now year. We can judge better a
few weeks hence who of these persons
have any resolution to speak of.
Year: 1879

A GREAT deal IL being said By and
through the state press upon the
subjec, OF county scrip and us IRE.
form" seems to DC the watchword,
in the way OF removing all means
and sources of Illegal speculation,
le, the legislature take this most
important matter in hand. With
icw exceptions every county IN the
state is ut the mercy OF few sharp
era, who run down and bay up, and
then run up and sell out county
scrips al their own prices. Let the
constitutional committee, now re.
vising or drafting new cons'ltu.
ton, 40 amend and say that all tax
es, both state aud county, shall be
paid IN current par funds, gold or
silver; then lot each county fund
ITS outstanding Indebtedness pnya'
ble ut u stated term OF years, with
moderate interest, and the source
or evil acd annoyance will have
been removed.
Year: 1879

couldn't help falling in love with her
And she thinks no end of me, and all
that.


John knew that I wasn't bit
afraid of him ; but | felt an elderly
sisterly sort of interest in his happi.
hess, and had never liked so we'll as
at that moment. And this was the
dreadful news that bis father had
come to break to me, when his narra-
tive was nipped in the bud by my
revelations, and the interview ended
in far more satisfactory manner
than either Of us had anticipated


So | kept my promise to John, af
ter all, and as Miss Rose kept hers
he is steady married man, and a
very agreeable son-in-law.
Year: 1879

judicious. In the case Of the Register-Mr. Loew-
the charges should hsve been dismissed the
was injudicious to keep charges suspended over
him. With regard to the Police Commissioners.
don't think need say anything cannot help but
vised and the result has been issue between him
and the Tanmany Hall democrats"


WHAT TAMMANY CAN DO.


Except In the city of New York don't believe
there will be any material opposition to Governor
Robinson; in the city if it were not tor the deter
mined opposition on the part of many democrats
to Mr.. Tilden-whose representative rightly or
wrongly don't pretend to say. many people con-
would not be alarmingly formidable Underlying
all the dificuhies at the present time is
Tiiden has been. by his position, the leading
democrat in the State. and very many democrats
who have supported Governor Robinson have caused
his particular friend to suffer thereby. All these
things manifested themselves in the Convention,
before and during the Convention. If there had
been much wisdom as there personal ambi-
ton and personal anger the present issue, which
seems likely to imperil the democratic party.
Trained to believe that feuds among democrats
should end with tho nomination of the ticket. and
should be renewed only when the democrats nomi-
support of the regularly nominated ticket in accord
ance with that training. don't think that any DEM
ocrat should bolt the regular nomination because
one set of democrats have been turned out Of Office
and another set put in their places By thus defeat
ing the ticket they render it certain that
those places will be filed by republicans.
II the republican candidate elected. and he il ad
mitted to be a machine candidate the Legislature
will be republican, and this will put out of office in
every city every democratic official and put
publican in his place. The local governments
from Brooklyn to Buffalo will be organized in the
interests Of the republican party, and will
strengthen It to greatly aid il the perpetuation
OF its power"


MR.. TLDEN AND THE PRESIDENCY.


'Idont think that the fact that Governor Robin
son g election might strengthen Mr.. Tildens pros
poets for the Presidential nomination should lead
any democrat to oppose it on that ground. Every
body knows that have never been an ardent sup
porter of Mr. Tden. but his future prospects shall
not deter me, and should not deter any other demo-
crat from the discharge of his present duty.
great deal may happen in year."


"what do you think of the chances of q COM
promise?


"wen. hear some talk about 1t. but don't
much probability Of it. The feeling between the
men and their followers seems to be too strong. If
the men who profess to be the leaders, and who, in
fact leaders in the democratic party had meant
to avoid the issue they would have had enough
to have done it before the at it. If the
democratic party fails this time in New York it is
because principles and policy sacrificed to per-
sonal ambitions and personal politics."
Year: 1879

Coroner Ruempler. of Jersey City. yesterday
afternoon held an inquest i'll tho Gregory Street
Police Court in the of John Flanagan, the
young who was shot and killed Saturday
night last by Police Officer Michael Walsh, of the
First precinct station. number of witnesses were
examined, but their account OF the circumstances
attending the shooting did not differ from that
already published in the HERALD. The jury rendered
verdict to thc effect that the shot fired by the
officer while in discharge of his duty and that the
deceased did not receive proper medical az tho
hospital Officer Walsh released from custody.
Notwithstanding the verdict District Attorney
McGill will present the case TO the Grand Jury.
Year: 1879

Rooms have been engaged for campaign work by
the Democratic State Central Committee at the st.
James HOTEL but they will not be ready for occu-
pancy until Tuesday next. The republican head
quarters being at the Fifth Avenue HOTEL 1t will be
seen that the campaign both sides viii be con-
Quoted from points in close proximity.
Year: 1879

The hearing Of testimony in the case Of Sheriff
Reilly to have been continued yesterday, but
when the counsel appeared before Commissioner
Curtis Mr.. Bush announced that both sides had
agreed upon u stipulation as to the account sales,
and that he rested his the part of Governor
Robinson. An adjournment was then taken until
this morning, at eleven o'clock.
Year: 1879

WORCESTER. Mass, Sept. 16 1872
The Butler democrats will hold their State Con-
vcntion here tomorrow. and probably adopt pre-
amble aud resolution recognizing Butler as
candidate and indorsing his candidacy on
state issues. strong effort win be made to
keep him and the platform, which will be
thoroughly democratic on national issues. separate
order to secure the admission OF the four dele
gates be chosen by the Convention 20 the National
Democratic Convention. Nominations will be made
for the other positions to be filled. Few delegates
In tho city tonight and IL is decidedly dull tor
night preceding state convention.