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Year: 1877

GRANT AND GARRISON-WAR AND PEACE.


These are odd names to put together, but
we believe they are those Of good friends,
who will not quarrel if we couple them. Both
these distinguished American characters are at
present the guests of the British Lion. The
first has been invited to a great many dinners,
to meet great many great people. Yesterday
morning the late leader of the Abolitionists (old
school was entertained at breakfast by the
British Anti-Slavery Society. with many mem
bers OF Parliament about the social board War
aud Peace are thus equally hOnOred. One of the
gentlemen is mainly reyered and toasted as
remarkably successful military commander.
Mr.. Garrison, we need not say, is not of q
martial turn of mind. On the contrary, he is
one Of those who are for converting the swords
into plOwshares and the spears into pruning
hooks. Once he was regarded rs thorough
going nOn-resistaDt - one of those op
posed to taking human life, even III self
defense, and, as q natural consequence,
10 the execution of the death penalty (;
aud we have never heard that he has changed
his opinions upon these points.


We suppose it would be quite impossible
10 make Gen. Grant comprehend the Opin-
lDns Oh MI. OdlllH'u upon tntSt lolutS' iCl
altogether different as these men are, one
who is disposed to avoid impracticable ex-
tremes might regard both as in the highest
degree berefactOrs of their race and
age. The war in which Gen. Grant won his
laurcls accomplished the very purpose for
which the Man Of Peace had so long been
working. Indeed, there may be those who
thiuk that but for the Man of Peace there
would have been no war-a few years ago we
could have found a great many such. No
doubt Mr.. Garrison regretted that the cOnsum-
nation for which he had so devoutly wished
could not be reached save through battle and
bloodshed but he may have modified his
vews-men are apt to do so when the most
ardent desires of their hearts are gratited,
even in way different from that which they
desired
Year: 1877

A steamship which will leave Liverpool to-
morrow will bring over about 400 Mormon
converts, mainly Scandinavians. On Monday
evening by special train on the pennsylvania
Railroad, about 1S6 MOrmons, principally
Scotch and Welsh. started for Salt Lake City.
IL has been customary to think and TO say
that the Mormon religion, if not upon Its last
lecs. is mt least IN n shaky condition. Of
course the facts concerning it areinOt under
stood by the ignorant classes abroad, among
whom converts are chiefly made How are
they to know anything of the extremely bad
repute INTO which Latter Day Saintship has
fallen7 Of the execution of Leei Of the
Mountain Meadow massacresf Of Brigham
Young's dubious and dangerous position
They only hear a new faith preached, nor can
they be expected to discover how absurd, het-
erogencous and almost worthless 1t is. 1t Of
fers them chance of emigrating under ia
vorable circumstances, and to emgrate has
long been the desire of a great many OF the
poorest Of them. 1t is no wonder that they
eagerly embrace the opportunity of thus pro-
noting both their temporal and their spiritual
welfare.


Many of these emigrants, certainly the more
intelligent of them, are destined to be greatly
disappointed upon their arrival at the New
Jerusalem. A pretty condition of things they
will find, with one of the Saints just hanged
for committing murder, with the great Brigham
himself in some little danger of a like fate,
and with about 30 Of the older brethren
amenable to indictment. Bishops and Pres-
dents and Apostles, who may at any moment
be sent to Jail, without bail, and capitally
indicted, convicted and executed, for plain
violation of the laws and not as martyrs to
their religious taith--these are the shepherds
to whose care these neophyte pilgrims have
come across the sea to commit themselves!
Clearly great many of them are the victims
of false representations and it is much to be
regretted that the whole strange eventful
history of Utah. so far as it is a religious
State, cannot be made well known to the
whole world. Young early organized his mis-
s0nary system, and it is still going on as
part of the machinery of his establishment.
Conversions in the United States cannot be
numerous at present, but in certain countries
abroad the business is as brisk as ever.


Tie civil power of the leading MOrmOns is
upon the wane, and their spiritual power must
inevitably follow. There is nothing in the
doctrines and polity of Mormonism which can
give it pelpetuity 1t Is the most absurd and
foundatiOnle5s religious" system with which
We are acquantod and there is absolutely
nothing in it which can secure its hold upon tho
hearts or heads of mankind. 1t will probably
he modified into some decent form of Chris
tianity IN good time. Meanwhile Utah will
be settled by sober and industrious class,
and these emigrants, after the Arch-Sants are
all dead. will gravitate into respectable Gentle
ways, even though some OF the formal absurd
tiles of MormOniSm may remain.
Year: 1877

politics an affair of bargain and sale, OF dol
lars and cents IL President Hayes can put
an end to it, he need not mind the clamors OF
disgusted ofiice-holders and ofice-seekers VINO
fancy that they are the people of the United
States. Let him go on with his good work.
calmly and resolutely history will write his
name on the roll of the country's greatest
benefactors.
Year: 1877

dently listened to the complaints of those who
have already invested large sums in fireworks.
But the Board has made sure of stupendous
Fourth this time by their enactment that this
is to be the last of the noisy and incendiary
kind. The boys will do their best to see that
old John Adams's prophecy is fulfilled to the
last bang,
Year: 1877

The address of Clarence King. delivered
before the Sheffield Scientific School at New
Haven yesterday, which is Published III full
herewith, is the first OutspOken protest against
the doctrines of the Unif0rmitarian school
from within the ranks Of the scientists them
selves Mr. Kings presentation of his theory
of CatastrophiSm is radical boid, and aggres-
sive, and is destined not only to receive wide
attention but to arouse at once an animated
controversy. There has not been for many
years so significant and bold IN utteraGce in
the field of science or so confident a challenge
to the upholders of opposing views The i'm
portance Of MIR Kings theory of the evolution
of environment may be judged from the fact
that its establishment is at once fatal
TO the fundamental doctrines upon which
has been built the scheme of Develop
ment by natural selection and the. sur
vival of the fittest The publication OF this
address will have the effect of changing the
character of the discussion, and in measure
the ield of controversy, for in it Mr. King
has turned the guns of Geology upon the
Biologists, and given them broadside from
their own weapons.
Year: 1877

The Brooklyn Republicans are in tears over
the Presidents order, and have appointed a
mournful committed to inquire at the Navy
Yard if they are not still to be allowed to
decide who shall draw pay from that eleemo-
synary institution. These gentlemen need to
be reduced to business basis.
Year: 1877

The Third Avenue Company's FIVE steam ears are
to be run under the supervision of special COM
mittee of five Aldermen. This makes Just one
Alderman 10 every and affords iine chance to
adapt PancRs famous idea about railway directors
by strapping Cty Father to the front OF every car
To be- sure. this rapid transit may be so slow and
safe that the precaution may seem superiuous. but
the exhibition would at all events show the COM
munity what an Alderman looked like, and mi ght
improve the breed OF candidates
Year: 1877

While the meeting to raise money for the
st. John sufferers was hardly as large or as
representative as it was hoped it would be- it
still succeeded in etiecting an organization
which may do effective work. NewYOrk's
reputation for Open-handed hberality ought
not to be endangered by neglect of the New
Brunswick unfOrtunates.
Year: 1877

At last we shall get a decision on the ques-
ton of allowing the use Of steam on the Belt
Railroad. Even the Aldermen. have grown
tired of the intentional dawdline of the Com
mittce on Railroads and have directed it to
report at the next meeting. When that report
is made. we shall know just how much COM
merca patriotism the Aldermen have, and
whether they have joined the conspiracy to
drive away the trade Of New-York.
Year: 1877

The story is told elsewhere that an i'm
portant witness in a civil suit was arrested by
a New-York policeman in another city, with
out warrant, which had been previously denied
the complainant, and thrust into the Tombs
practically without bail on allegations OF lar
ceny to the amount of fifty dollars 1t is not
at all certain that the woman thus locked up de-
serves any particular sympathy, but il VIII excite
great indignation, and might we'll create some
apprehension in mems minds to learn that
such laxity exists in the administration of the
criminal laws. There is a very grave sus-
picon that this particular arrest was made in
order to get the woman ont OF the way as a
witness. The onOrmity OF the Ofiense OF the
officials will be increased by any evidence oil
conspiracy in the case.
Year: 1877

In South Carolina the Republican party
seems to have abandoned itself, if the Charles
ton election is a test. Though the county was
two-thirds Republican on the vote of last No
vember, 30 opposition was made yesterday to
the Democratic ticket for members OF the
Legislature. The Democrats rather ungIa-
ciously refused to nominate a coalition ticket
Of ten of their own party and seven RepubIi-
cans but they made at least a slight conces-
sion in putting three negroes among their can
didates.
Year: 1877

No such list of failures among insurance
companies follows the great fire at st. John
as was the case with Chicago and Boston.
The people of the burned city are fortunate
in having for the most part obtained their
insurance in large concerns that can meet the
loss without hnchng. But the experience OF
British fire underwriters in American risks Is
not q fortunate one, and their prospect OF
making profits enough to balance losses on
this side of the Atlantic must again be post
poned fur few years.
Year: 1877

Details of the damage by the storm at the
West show that it extended over vast area.
There are few instances of loss of life, and
although 10 great calamity is recorded
from any one place, the aggregate destruction
of standing crops, houses. barns bridges, and
fences is very large A storm of more or less
violence is apt to close term of hot weather
when the air has been unusually damp FOR
two or three days. and we may esteem our
selves fortunate when, was the case III tins
city last night, only heavy shower onsues
after such sulhy weather Several of the
storms of the present season at the West and
South have been remarkable for the great
amount of their rainfall, and the Nebraska re-
ports notice that as feature of The storm Of
Monday.
Year: 1877

The value of five minutes was pretty well
illustrated the other day in the Grndt case.
Though many persons were present in court
whom this defauting "banker" had swiDdled,
the lawyer who had evidence on which he
could be held under a criminal charge was not
t'are and did not get there until five minutes
s'.er Girndt had been discharged. Now he
has disappeared again, and though every day
reveals another sad case of the hardship which
his vilainy has brought upon many poor people,
there is 30 sign of the man himself
Year: 1877

The German Catholic Association ol
the United States in Convention to-day
decided to abolish the Immigrant Central
Committee. The work heretofore done
by that committee will now be done by
the local societies at the ports OF entry
A committee Of seven was appointed to
report resolutions on the school question
Tomorrow.
Year: 1877

PARIS, May 22.-Le Temps Athens
special says war between Greece and
Turkey is considered inevitable. The
Premier at the opening of the session Of
the Chamber will deliver a speech tending
towards war, which it is thought viii
break out in 20 days at the latest.
Year: 1877

BERLIN, May 22.-The arrival OF Prince


Bismarck in Berlin is not the result OF
any sudden determination, nor is there
any special political reason for it, it hav-
ing been arranged before hand a. part
OF the general programme Of his journey.
Year: 1877

At the Cabinet meeting to-day the
various appointments were considered


but no conclusion was reached in any
case with the exception Of Roger S.
Green to be Chief Justice of Washington
Territory, vice Jas. Z. Lewis resigned


A number Of territorial appointments
were discussed and persons selected fol
two or three positions in the far West
but their names have not been made
public and will not be until they have
been notified and informed the Attorney
General that they will accept such posi-
Year: 1877

The chief ground upon which | ven
ture to recommend that the teaching of
elementary physiology should form an
essential part of any organized course of
instruction in matters pertaining to do
mestic economy, is that knowledge of
even the elements OF this subject sup
plies those conceptions of the constitu-
tiOn and mode of action Of the living
body, and of the nature OF health and
disease, which prepare the mind to re-
ceive instruction from sanitary science


1t is, ] think, eminently desirable that
the hygienist and the physician should
find something in the public mind to
which they can appeal some little
stock of universal truths, which NAV
serve as foundation for their warnings,
and predispose toward an intelligent
obedience to their recommendation.


Listening to ordinary talk about
health, disease and death, one is often
led 10 entertain doubt whether the
speakers believe that tire course Of nat
ural causation runs as smoothly i'm the
human body ~ elsewhere. Indications
are too often obvious Of strong, though
perhaps an unavOwed and half-uncon-
scios, udercurrent Of opinion that the
phenomena Of life are not only widely
different, in their superficial characters
and in their practical importance, from
other natural events; but that they do
not follow in that definite order which
characterizes the succession Of all other
occurrences, and the statement of which
we call law Of nature.


Hence, think, arises the want Of
heartiness OF belief in the value Of
knowledge respecting the laws Of healthl
and disease, and of the foresight and
care 10 which knowledge is the essential
preliminary, which is 80 often noticea-
Bile; and corresponding laxity and
carelessness in practice, the results Of
which are unfrequently lamentable.
Year: 1877

Ii was one of those pretty houses.
surrounded by shrubbery and flowers,
about which almost every passer re-
marked, Oh how should like TO live
in that pretty housep" Such is the
description OF house we have i'm our
minds eye, and il could be true of al
most every farm house in the land, did
the occupants only will it 10. A few
flowers, little grass and few shrubs,
all well cared for at a trifiing expense of
money or labor, and the thing is done.
little care each day would keep every
thing neat and in order and little
thought each week would regulate that
care TO the best advantage. We do not
live in this world for ourselves alone !;
but for the whole world Upon this
principle, we know woman who al
ways keeps n light in the front rooms of
her house every winter night because, as
she says, owe not only have the warm
glow of IL ourselves but TO every passer-
by II gives out cheeTful message which
produces in his imagination picture of
comfort and happiness within. So it is
with the adornments around the house.
They not only give enjoyment to their
possessors, but TO every one who passes
they send a message of thrift, refine
ment, and happiness, which should alone
be sufficient compensation for the little
labor and expense they may cost.


We remember once passing through a
little village in which almost every house
was surrounded with flowers, shrubs and
vines, and which left upon our mind an
inefIaceable impression. Though nearly
twenty years have passed since then, we
still think of it frequently with pleasure.
Could the occupants Of those pretty
village places only know of this, they
would doubtless feel amply repaid for
all their trouble. In all your calcula-
tions on the profits of your crops, by all
means fail not to include your crop of
household adornments. The profits on
your grain may be lasting, probably will
not; but the profits on your pure, God
given pleasures, though not counted in
dollars and cents, can never vanish.
Year: 1877

lDfs Firih'h Letters IN tho EVauReitHt.I


One of the great industries Of Burmah
is the timber trade. The teak wood,
which is the chief timber cut and ship
ped, is very heavy, and requires prodi-
gious force 10 handle il; and a. the
Burmese are not far enough advanced TO
use machinery for the purpose, they
employ elephants, and bravely do the
noble beasts perform their task. In the
timber yards both at Rangoon and at
Maulmain, all the heavy work of draw
ing and piling the logs is done by them.
j have never seen animals showing such
intelligence and trained TO such docility
and obedience. In the yard that we
visited there were seven elephants, five
OF which were at that moment at work.
Their wonderful strength came into
play in moving huge pieces Of timber
j did not measure the logs, but should
think that many we're at least twenty
feet long and foot square Yet male
elephant would stOop down, and run his
tusks under log and throw his trunk
over IL and walk off with IL as lightly a.
gentleman would balance his bamboo
cane on the tip Of his finger Placing IL
on the pile he would measure il with his
eye, and If IL projected too far at either
end, would walk up 10 IL, and with a
gentle push or pull, make the pile even.


II a still heavier log needed 10 be
moved on the ground to some part Of
the yard, the mahout, sitting on the cle-
plants head, would tell him what 20 do.
and the great creature seemed 20 have n
perfect understanding Of his masters =
will. He would put out his enormous
foot, and push il along; or he would
bend his head, and crOuching half way
TO the ground, and doubling up his trunk
in front, throw his whole weight against
II, and thus, like a ram, would butt Z"
the log into its place or If IL needed 10
be taken n greater distance, he would
put a chain around 10 and drag 10 Oft be-
hind him. The female elephant espe-
cially was employed in drawing, ~, hav-
ing no tusks, she could not lift like her
big brothers, but could only move by
her power Of traction or attraction.
Then using her trunk as deftly ~ n lady
would use her fingers, she would unite
the knot or unhitch the chain, and re-
turn to her master, perhaps putting out
her trunk 10 receive n banana ~ = re-
ward for her good conduct. II was a
pretty sight, and gave us a new idea Of
the value Of these noble creatures, and
Of the way in which they can be trained
for the service Of man.
Year: 1877

TnE principal use of an opera glass in
place of amusement is to draw toward
us the attention of good looking people
at whom we level our own.


LET'S see-thcre's big tunnel on the
Cincinnati Southern, isn't there? Well,
now we can understand why excursions
over that road are SO popular.


APPROACH man in the proper man,
ner and you can wheedle him into doing
anything within the possibilities except
to build new house without bay
window.


IF the Ohio don't soon get on the rise
! financial depression will come sweeping
along like a threc-cornered simeon and
drive about half our milk-men to beer
or bankruptcy,


TINS is great age for gambling and
chance games of all kinds. They now
sell pools on about everything uncertain
except the number of bald-headed men
In the parquettes of the theaters.
MANY will stick to il that autumn is
the most delightful season--the "crown-
ing glory" and all that sort of nonsense; :;
but do they ever stop to think that il is
sure To hiring the oyster-man, with his
lungsot brass, throwing out noise enough
to till a barrel every time he opens his
MOUTH "Oy-oy-y-y-y-st-uh-u -uh-uh-ersv


He was man with a zebra suit, and
sleeve-huttons heavy as compound in
terest He could talk baseball and
politics with an air that would make
you feel as small as the prospect of
peace, but he couldn't 20 over the Rhine
on Saturday night and get back sober to
save the life of n poor man with large
family.


MANY of our eastern exchanges con-
tain the advertising portrait of flashy
quack, with long curling locks parted in
the middle and pasted down over each
eye. Somehow or other no western man
can take the second look at that portrait
without being almost pulled into the
street with an ardent longing To buy
pair of stogy boots, with bob-nailed soies.
aud take the first train toward the RISING
san.


The blacksmith shop has been inn
mortalized by the famous anvil chorus
of Verdi, which found birth i'm his brain
while seeking shelter from the storm;
but the diigent buz-saw is suffered To
whiz along in obscurity, scattering its
melody broadcast free as coal dust, and
never getting line imprint except in the
most scurrilous prose. Can we wonder
that IL sometimes turns upon man and
repays his remissness by chawing off
some fingers, or a hand or two?


WHEN you take the swnrthy son of
Ham and thrust him into scarlet
raiment covered with spangles, fill his
hands with flaming handbills printed in
red and blue hand him brazen-faced
banner punctuated with exclamation
points, and tell him to make walking
advertisement of himself all along
fourth-street, you give him a grip on
the Archimedian Lever he wouldn't
relax for all the corals of India or IL
watermelon the size OF furniture-car.
Year: 1877

The statements which have been
circulated to the effect that General
Wade Hampton Of south Carolina
defrauded his creditors in the settle.
ment oe their claims a, the close of
the war, is emphatically denied 10y
the man to whom be was most largely
indebted. General Ilamptun's LA
bilities reached over a million Of dol
lars, but when they were incurred
his property was largely in excess Of
that amount. His property in slaves
before the war was valued at 500
600, and this was of course a total
loss. He had 5000 bales of cotton
destroyed by fire, which on a mod
crate valuation was worth 81 100000,
and his landed property was quite
large. His losses forced him into
bankruptcy, and all his property and
that of his wife, which she had inher-
tied in her own right, was turned
over to his creditors and faithfully
applied, SO far as it would go, in dis
charging their claims. For some
time he was reduced to actual pow
erty. His settlement with his cred
itors is declared to have been in
every respect honorable, and he is
regarded by them as possessed of
" singularly scrupulous and high
minded sense of honor"
Year: 1877

DECIDED.
Scene at the Close Of the Joint


Session Of Congress.
EAYES and WHEELER PROCLAIMED.
How the Country Received


the Decision.


NEW YORK UNDEMONSTRATIVE.
Subduing Effect Of Long Drawn Con-


test and Rainy Day.


MR. WHEELER AND Ills TRUNK
Mayor Ely and Comptroller Kelly on


the Democratic Future.
VIEWS OF THE SORE AND THE GLAD
A General Hope That Business