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Year: 1877

The English journals are comment
ing upon the new sCritical History of
the American Civil War;" DR.. A Ma
han. The writer is close critic, who
speaks er cathedra, as if he had the
military experience Of Wellington or
Cesar. He writes apparently to VIM
dicate himself, for in 1868 he read a
paper to Lincoln on the conduct of the
war, and if his plan had been followed,
the war would have been finished in a
year. The great error of our war was
in scattering our forces; although we
had twice as many troops as the rebels,
we always met them on equal terms;
during Grants command the unionists
outnumbered the rebels four to one,
yet in all important battles the forces
were about evenly matched. The Doc
tor lays all the blame on the union gen.
erals; he says that "the union army
was the best constituted and worst
commanded army in the world" ac-
cording to the report of the French ad-
jutant-general. The federal generals
are condemned without reservation,
for sacrificing primary to secondary
objects, for dispensing their forces, for
losing sight of the fact that the con-
federacy was the chief confederate
army, the destruction of which would
have ended the rebellion. In short,
the federal generals were not superior
men, and they received far more credit
for brute force, clumsily applied, than
they deserved. Mr.. Mahan reserves
all his praise for the rebel generals.
The object Of his book is to inform the
American people how their war should
have been conducted in order to have
avoided such tremendous waste of
life and money. A feeble desire has
been expressed to know who DR.. Ma
han is, but no information is forth
coming. If he is as good hand at fight
ing campaign as telling how it should
have been fought, there is an excellent
opportunity for the exercise of his tai
ents on the Danube.
Year: 1877

despair and pain came back to haunt
her as she waited with renewed hope for
tidings.


!" I am growing old and worn," she
said, one day, looking at her pale face
in the mirror; "I am not the blooming
girl Herbert loved, but careworn,
pallid woman


And her own sad eyes could not see
the rare beauty of the sweet face. But,
still thinking of her love, she twisted her
hair in heavy coronet over her shapely
head, and upon one side put knot of
blue ribbons.


+" Herbert liked it so,'' she thought.


Then she pinned blue ribbons over
her gray dress, under soft lace collar,
and put on brooch her adopted father
had given her which was favorite with
Herbert. And thinking sadly of the
change years had made, she was sum-
moned to her sitting-room to meet a
grave, middle-aged man, changed also,
until upon his lips and in his eyes she
read his constancy, and answered it by
her own


Years rolled back as these two, faith
ful through all, met at last to know
their hearts still young, their love still
true, as it was in those days when cruel
fate separated them by so small an agent
as crack in the wall behind a mantel-
piece.-Londoas Bor-Bells. i'.ts=
Year: 1877

Just as the steamer Continental was
starting from Port Canyon on the morn
ing of the Goth, a couple bought tickets
for San Francisco and were assigned a
state-room as Byron Lambert and wife,
In the afternoon the supposed husband
went to Capt. Cousins and confidea to
him the facts: He was not married,
but had been engaged to the beauty
but her parents objected to the match,
and the couple had eloped, and were to
be married as soon as the couple reach
ed San Francisco. The youth gave his
name as Byron Lambert Of Rhonerville,
Humboldt County, and his companion
as Miss, Lille Drake, of the same place
Both belonged to good families, and
the only reason for the opposition Of the
parents was the youth of the bride, who
lacked two months of being eighteen,
ard aipersonalH dislike of the groom.
The conference closed with request
that the Captain should marry them at
once, as the girls father might head
them off at San Francisco by the use of
the telegraph. Capt. Cousins was at
first 10th to meddle in such an affair,
but out of regard for the girls reputa-
ti0n. he thought best to consent. The
other passengers of the ship, seven in
number, with the first officer and chief
engineer, were summoned to the cabin,
and in their presence the Captain per-
formed the ceremony according to the
rite of the Episcopal Church.-,Sas
Fraasctsco Chronicle.
Year: 1877

The hue of her hide was a dusky brown,


Her rbody was lean and her neck was slim
One horn turned up and the other down,


She was keen of vision and long of limb
With Roman nose and short stump tail
And ribs like the hoops of a ahome- made pail.
MANY a mark did her old body bear,


She had been target for all things known
On many scar the dusky hair


Would grow no more where it once had
g LII grown; Z 80


MANY passionate, parting shot
Had left upon her lasting spot.
Many and many well aimed stone,
- Many brickbat ofgood1y size
And many u cudgel, swiftly thrown
4fS Had brought the tears to her bovine ewes
Or had bounded off her bony back
I With the noise like the sound of a rifle crack
MANY day had she passed in the pound,


For helping herself to her neighbor's corn
Many cowardly cur and hound


Had been transfixed by her crumpled
Hss horn:
Many tea pot and old tin pail
Had the farmer boys tied to her time worn


tail.
Old Deacon Gray was a pious man,
s Though sometimes tempted to be profane
When many a weary mile he ran


To drive her ont of his growing grain;
Sharp were the pranks she used to play
To get her fill and get away.
She knew when the Deacon went to town.


She wisely watched him as he went by;
He never passed her without frown


And an evil CLEAN in each angry eve;
He would crack his whip in an angry way
And drive along in his zone horse shay.'
Even at his homestead she loved to call,


Lifting his bars with her crumpled horn
Nimbly scaling his garden wall,


Helping herself to his standing corn;
Eating his cabbageS, one by one,
Hurryinp hsme when her work was dOnn
Often the Deacon homeward came ..t


HumTniifg a hymn, from the house of


prayer, .-5.,...
His hopeful heart in a tranquil frame,


His soul as calm as the evening air,
His head as smooth as a well worn plow,
To find in his garden that highway COW.
His human passions were quick to rise,


And striding forth with a savage cry,
With fury blazing from both eyes, 80"


rs lightnings flash in a summer sky,
qRedder and redder his face would grow
And after the creature he would go.
Over the garden, round and round,
y. breaking his pear and apple trees;
Trainping his melons into the ground


Overturning his hives of bees, s..Ls .
Leaving him angry and badly stung
Wishing the old cow neck was Wrung.
The moses grew on the garden wall,
4ia The years went by with their work and
The boys of the village grew strong and tall,


And the gray haired farmers passed away,
4 One by one, as the red leaves fall ~ t-Lss
But the highway COW outliyed them all.
All earthly creatures must have their day,
st And some must have their months and


years:


) Some in dying will long delay t4


There is a climax to all careers,
j, And the highway cow at last was slain
In running a race with a railway train.
AL into pieces at once she went,


Just like the savings banks when they fail ;
Out of the world she was swiftly sent,
Little was left but her old stump tail.
4 the farmers corn fields and gardens now
are haunted no more by the highway COW.
Year: 1877

-Gambetta put out one of his own
eyes when child in a. fit of rage. He
was placed by his parents in the keep
ing Of some people who had Ill treated
him. and he wrote to his father that if
he did not take him back home he would
put out one of his eyes. No attention
was paid to the childish threat, but
Gambetta kept his word and tore out
an eye.
Year: 1877

Mr.. CONKLING AND RAPID TRANSIT.
INDIFFERENCE OF THE CITY DUE TO ITS ENORMOUS
DEBT.


TO the Edttor Of The Tribune.


SIR: | see by this mornings TRIBUNE that
Mr. C0nkng in his speech OF last night caed attention
to the necessity of rapid transit aA improved terminal
facilities in this city. BY implication he points out the
sipiuess and mbeeiity Of the people in allowing such
state OF things to continue. May venture to call MS
attention the real Of this state OF AFFAIRS winch
he and others very careful to avoid In their pnoc
utterancesi when money almost without value.
and call loans made in Welst at to per cent per
auum there must be good reason why capital declines
TO enter into promising field as that OF RAPID uast
and kindred city improvements. The following points
impress me rs apparent:


/. Universal suffrage in this city has enabled the proi
etaran class to load with an excessive debt OF when
1882 100000 is known, and indefinite amount I'M
known. There is apparently no mito an augmentation
Of this debt The class that made it can increase
it indefinitely. Many prudent Investors arc avoiding
city loans, and clearheaded men not AFRAID to ex-
press the opinion that reputation ia inevitable. One
thing be said with cerainty-that city loan
OF any magnitude could not be placed to-day with any
degree OF success.


q Private enterprise cannot be tempted into this, or
any other public scheme because late events have shown
that the projectors and managers such operations are
unworthy OF trusts. They have shown themselves with
In the past year. false every consideration OF honor in

their dealings with stockholders Men OF the most un-
suled reputation heretofore have not hesitated to do
things either from lack CT Judgment or moral sense,
which in any European community would deprive them
of social recognition, IL not Of personal liberty.


3. The unbushing spoation TO which In this country
the public and private creditors subject mt the hrst
pinch hard times and theirinabity TO obtain prompt
redress through process Of law have made home capital
hide itself and has driven foreign money IN disgust from
shores


If Mr. Conkling will carefully digest these three points.
and consider the effect upon hc average man ot means
OF the blatant demagOgy OF the West about silver and
paper money and resumption, he will find reasons not
only for the Indifference Of this city to these present
pressing needs hut also for the unparalleled depression
thrC ugout the country md also for IFS 5000 900 OF
unemployed wcrkmen. He will also fud scope for the
USE OF his mrivallcd oratorcal powers in iinproy-
Ing the moral tone OF the community, and In per-
suading the people and his follow-Senators of the
absolute necessity at this imcture OF public ana
private honesty And he may depend upon u,
this issue is Infinitely more vital and pressing than
even Southern question the troubles OF Oice-hod
Yours, very respectfully, An


Aetr York. Aug H. 1877.
Year: 1877

THE CONTEST FOR THE TROPHY.


BRITISH AND AMERICAN MARKsNES COMPARED.


Now that the selection of the American rifle
team has been made, upon plan which admitted OF no
fayoritisn the that the members may make IN
their weekly practice VIII he watched with Interest
Within the next ten days the British team probably VIII
arrive. This has been selected from moro than
score OF renowned marksmeu-incn who carried OF
honos before the bntts years They come here
with improved arms with which they have been drilled
In competitions have been keen and exacting They
also with renewed ygor which has been shapencd
by the recollection OF the surprisingly Successful career
OF the American rhemen The Of the American
oeen due the mutual hepfnlness Of its mcn-
bers. This demonstrated as year hen each OF the
ish rilemen have heretofore been obliged To work
Individually, without receiving any assistance from
from bis fellownembers Of the team, except through the
Captain. Whether this principle will be followed this
remains be They here with the pur
pose Of taking away the trophy and Will probably take
advantage OF every favorable point which viii tend
towards success After the arrival OF the mixed team,
there VIII be opportunity for Judging to what the re-
suit Will be- as both teams will practice at Crcedinoor,
and the in the shooting will probably be the
best that they capable OF doing.


The following average scores made by The Individual
members OF both tcams-the Americans nc Creednioor
and the rflemcn Of Great Britain at Cambridge-n com
preventative teams. will give comparison of their pre-
Year: 1877

Tho Illinois House yesterday occupied
much Of Its time in tho discussion Of bill
legalizing compulsory education. Tho feel
ing In that body was sufficiently hostile to
secure q rccommittal Of tho matter to d
committee which, 1t is believed, will do all In
its power to defeat tho measure for this
acssiorl.
Year: 1877

THE First Ward Night School has been
closed on account Of the unruly conduct
Of snumber Of boys in attendance. Their
carrying on became 80 iutolerable that the
City Superintendent felt called on Tues.
day night, to close the house at night for
the present. This is the only case of the
kind in the city. The other night schools
areIgeneraIly speaking, giving no trouble,
aud most of them are progressing very
satisfactorily. We are particularly graft.
fed to learn that the COlOred night school
isamodel Of industry and decorum.
Year: 1877

IT is ever pleasing duty to direct the at


tention of the rising generation to self-made


man. Self-rnade men, while young. are in


variably to be found reading books upon
arithmetic, law, or history in the corner of a
field, while the rest of the family are at tend
ing to the wheat or corn department. Think,
boys, all We who sigh for the free and inde-
pendent life of a pirate, or the bold and ad-
venturous career of scout or trapper. think
of Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse is self-made
man. He started life without hair he could
call his own. By dint of long career OF
energy and skill he is now the happy possessor
of thirty-fou scalps. II boys cannot expect
to reach this giddy elevation, but there is no
success without toll or even danger. The
ambitious boy of the period may not live to
be a crazy horse, but if he keeps on trying he
may in time approach the dignity of telera-
bly, insane donkey.
Year: 1877

The Republicans of Ohio have suffered a
decisive defeat. Bishop is elected Governor,
and with him the whole Democratic State
Ticket, by majority not yet definitely SET
tied. 1t may be 10000, or even more. The
Democrats have also carried the Legislature,
making sure of the election Of United States
Senator in place of Judge Matthews. Moth
ing is wanting to make our reverse complete
and sweeping.


Reasons for this disaster will now be in or
der, and they will be offered in abundance on
all sides. The Democrats will continue to
talk of hard times, of forced resumption, of
Republican misrule-the staple of their cam
paign editorials and harangues. In Republi-
can circles, there will be every variety of ex-
PLANTATION. The management of the canvass,
from the very start at Cleveland, will be
found full of serious mistakes and lamentable
ineficiency. One will claim that the indorse-
ment of the Administration was too strong,
and that its Southern policy was given too
great prominence in the canvass, when the
only issue on that subject was scithin the Re
publican party. Your truly liberal, indepcnd-
ent disorganizer, on the other hand, will con
tend that this policy was not made prominent
enough-that it ought to have been indorsed
with greater emphasis, crammed down the
threats of reluctant Republicans with vigor.
and washed down with pepper-sauce. Some
will say that there was disaffection with the
policy of Civil Service Reform; that the
methods of reform adopted by the Admins
tration were in themselves unsatisfactory and
unpopular; and that continual departure
from the policy proclaimed, and repeated vio-


lations Of the pledges made before election,
have made the matter still worse. Many Re-
will be found indorsing the DEM
Year: 1877

Claiboru F. Jackson, a native of Ken


lucky, was once Governor OF the State


of Missouri. He joined the Southern


Confederary, :snd d ed during his


term at n farm house opposite the city


of Little Rock, among strans sers,
no kind hand of with affection near
to soothe his pain and rob his
death bed of half its anguish.
The most remarkable fact connected
with the history OF his life is perhaps
the statement that ne married five sis-
ter In one of the most respectable,
wealthy and distinguished familliesin
the State; that as soon as one wife
would die would 60 and marry her Sis
ter in reasonable time. Ofcourse, some
of them were widows when he married
them. In connection with the mar
'iagos there was a standing Joke told at
he expense of the Governor. which
vas that when he went to ask the old
consent to marry the last
me the venerabless'atheri Is reported to
lave said; "Yes, Claid, you can have
Ter. You have got them, all. For
GOODNESS sake don't ask me for the old
3i3 7 i-ilss
Year: 1877

TIL man who discovered typograh-
ical error In the paper, and thought
himself wise for having done SO, Is the
same inividual who wake seven miles
trying to get perpendicular view OF
the rainbow last summer. He Is also
identical person who tried to buy post
age stamps ssat whOlesale'-four for .
dime. He will commit suicide some
day by blowing his brains out with q
pair OF bellows.
Year: 1877

The latest returns from Georgia in
dicate majority of 100000 for the
Constitutional Convention, the north
ern counties being almost unanimous
for it,


Great preparations are making for
the reception of President Hayes on
his arrival IN Boston on the 56th inst
and it is believed the popular demon
stration will be fully equal to those
accorded former Presidents of the
United States.


Secretary Sherman states that the
letter of Assistant Secretary French,
concerning the payment of the bonds
in gold, was intended only as an ex-
preston of the individual views of
MIR. French, and is not TO be regard
ed as the official action of the Trea-
sury Department. The Secretary will
take no action in the matter, as to do
SO would seem to preclude any action
of Congress on the subject.
Year: 1877

The Journal of Inebriety, published
in New York, attempts to solve this con-
undrum, in this wise, arguing from the
premise that large majority of tramps
are Incorporate men:


"The State should organize work
houses, and make this class sef-support-
ing. Through this means many poor
chronic inebreiate might be restored to
society and usefulness Asylums could
be built at less expense than supporting
them in the present way, and as matter
of economy the State would be large
gamer every year The almshouses are
found to be breeding places. where pau
pers and drnnkards are raised yearly to
infest the land


Confne them in large, judiciously
managed warehouses; or asylums, whore
labor is a part of tho treatment, and we
shall check the stream of desolation and
ruin, which flows through every town
and city. Begin with the inebriate /;
isolate and quarantine him, make him
self-supporting, diminish his power Of
spreading this disorder and bringing
ruin on others as result of his own
wretchedness, and the wealth of the State
is largely increased--the happiness of
the citizens enhanced.


The entire question of dealing with
pauperism and chronic inebriety is very
clearly foreshadowed in the excellent re-
port of DR. Wilbur, on hospitals for the
insane and sick in Great Britain, pub
lished in the ninth annual report Of
public charities Of Now York State. -
He shows that labor is being INTRODUCED
into all the charities Of Great Britain
with profit to both the institution and
patient.


If this can bo done with all the cumb-
rous machinery of the old charities abroad
what may wo not do here, where we
have the facilities for change, and rapid
adaptability to circumstances p
Year: 1877

It would be well if we had less medi-
cine and more cures; less cant and moro
picty less law and more justice.


We touch not wire but it vibrates
in eternity, and there is not voice that
reports not at the throne Of heaven.


The tall mountains are the sublime
apostles Of nature, whose surpices are
SHOWS, and sermons are avalanchcs.


Commune often with yourself No
doubt you might commune with much
wiser persons, but with none more profit
ably.


Give little to those who ask. even
though you suspect them TO be impos-
tors. 1t may not do good to them, but
it will to you.


MajesticalIy mournful are the words
"no more " They sound like the roar
of the wind through forest of pines.


Beauties often die old maids. They
set such value on themselves, that
they don't lind purchaser until the
market is closed


The mind is weak when it has once
given away; it is long before a principle
restored can become as firm as one that
has never been moved.


The man who walks "a thousand
miles in thousand hours" is more gen
orally admired than he who walks up
rightly through three score years and
ten.
Year: 1877

The following is from the rcveries of
bachelor, by Ike Marvel


A poor man without some sort of
religion is, at best, but poor reprobate,
the football Of destiny, with no tie link
ing him to induity and the wondrous
eternity that is even worse "A hano
without a heat, d rainbow without
color, flower without perfume A man
may, in some sort, tie his hope and bis
honor to this shifting ground tackle, to
his business or the world, but woman
without that anchor called faith is a drift
and wretch A man may have somo
sort of moral responsibility out of re-
lation to mankind, but woman in her
comparatively isolated sphere. where af-
fection and not purpose is the controlling
motive, can find no basis in any other
system or right action but that Of faith
A man may craze his thoughts to truth
fulness in such poor harborage as fame
and reputation may stretch before him,
but woman, where can sho put hopes
in storms If not in Heaven2 And that
sweet truthfuness, that abiding love,
that during hope mellowing every page
and scene in life, lighting them with
radiance when the worlds storms breaks
like army of cannon. Who has enjoyed
the love of kind Christian mother but
will echo the thought with energy and
hallog it with tears p
Year: 1877

I'd rather walk through shower with thee
Than with another when the air


Is soft with summer and as fair
The heavens above as as a sea


OF him, unfathomed sapphire, where,
Slow drifting on liquid sky,
The white-saied ships of God hoa, by.
Sweeter in storm to be with thee;


Dark waters round us, and the roar
Of breakers on nm unseen shore
Resounding louder on the lee


Than with another, sailing DER
A rippling lake, where angry gale
Nay never rend the silken sail.
Year: 1877

The torpedo-balloon is the inge- nious suggestion of Scientific Monthly correspondent, and that journal, approving the idea, says: "Ft is not a difficult matter to cons truct a balloon capable of lifting sufficient nitro-glycerine for the purpose. This might be inclosed in shell and suspended as a car under tke air ship. A simple mechanieal,device could easily be provided for dropping the load, and this device might be controll- ed by light wire through which an electric current could be sent. The besiegers have only to wait for a .air wind, and then start their balloon from a point far be- yond the range of the most power full guns. It would be easy by the aid of instruments to tell just when the balloon had arrived over the desired point, and the pressure of the key would transmit the cur- rent and drop the mass of eXplo- sive. The effect of a quantity Of nitro-glycerine blowing up in a city or fort would be terrific"