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Year: 1879

Much has been sad and written on the subject of Sunday schools the manner of conducting them, etc. Even since our present plan of read ing essays commenced many good things have been said.

 The excellent essay on "Duty" which was the last one read before the school comprehended great deal of my tavorite subject.

 will try and reimpress the minds of ali who are interested, on the i'm portance of Q readiness to do our whole duty-in the Sunday school everywhere. If we expect to secure the love and esteem of the wise and good, we must be punctual. The tardy, indolent man is always be- hind time. If he uses the means to certain end he fails to apply them at the proper time and the end is not secured. We see failure in nearly all trades and professions. How many farmers have failed to secure bread for their children because they have not studied the great i'm portance of punctuallty and prac- ticed It in their dealings with their fellow men? Their merchant, their grocer, their physician soon find thls out and the result is, that mort gage on their real estate or personal property is demanded befora- they can secure the actual wants for the family. These men may be iltelli- gent, industrious, economlzing, and even church members, yet if they fail to be punctual in their dealings with their fellow men, this fact alone will prevent them from occupying a place of accredited esteem in the minds of all good people. \

 Mechanics often make failures be cause they are not punctual. They will loiter around their shop or or the street when long promised jot IS lying half finished or not com menced at all, and thus their GUS toners lose confidence in them be cause they have not been punctua in fulfilling their obligations. Mer chants have failed in many, many instances because they have not met their obligations abroad and been attentive to business at home.

 A well known lawyer In Wes, Tennessee who was we'll qualified tC to practice his lucrative profession died in extreme poverty because ht failed to attend to the business en trusted to hls care in due time. WC might pursue this line of application still further, but to do so would lengthcn out this essay entirely too long for the present purpose. w will only notice two more of th' most important characters and il conclusion apply the whole to oul Sunday school.

 The physician and the mlnisrer- the doctor of the soul and the docto of the body. what a fearful responsi | biIity rests upon these characters
Year: 1879

There is no "surrcnder" in tho plan adopted ny the House caucus. Itis the honest and fearless utter ance of men who arc confident in the justice of their purpose and have an abiding faith that the country will sustain them.

 There are less than one hundred and fifty words in the new act to prohibit the use of troops at elec' tions, but if Mir. Hayes attempts to climb over them he will think they are as big as mountain.

 Zone of the lost arts, said schol- ar picking up a cherry pic in tue street.
Year: 1879

As MAY BE SEEN BY card In Sat.
urday's REPUBLICAN Mr.. Thomas Johnson
declines to run for Council at the ensu
ing election in the First Ward, though
solicited to do SO by the Republicans
unanimously and by larg. number of
Democrats. We regret that Mr.. John
son cannot see his way clear to allow
the use Of his name tor the position
which he has so often honored when no
other Republican but himself could b-
elected in the First Ward. His excuse
is csrtainly a valid one, and though
We are glad to know that the busines IS
of the large manufacturing firm Of
which he is a member is 80 pressed
with work that it demands the closest
and undivided attention of all its in
dividual members, we still regret that
the First Ward Republicans and Reform
DeUo ocrats who have so often IGNORED
Mr.. Johnson are to be deprived of his
able leadership in the approaching
municipal campaign. As Mr.. Johnson
has declined it now remains !Or the
Repu blicans of the First Ward to be-
stir themselves and bring out an able
candidate that will not only poll all
the Repu 5lican vote but large percen
tage Of the Democratic vote also.
Year: 1879




From the Chester News.


The excursion steamer Clyde has
continued to grow more and more pop.
ular with the people until her success
for the season is assured. Her time
between this city and Bombay Hook is
much shortened and made cheerful by
choice music and all her appointments
are of first-class order. This favorite
craft is under the immediate care of
Capt. Lord, and right good captain
he is, too; while the liberties of pa. SEN
gers are zealously protected by "Judge"
Waite, who presides in the upper court,
where equity is the rule for all; and an
excellent medical appointment is un
der the control of Prof, John +. Cairns,
who is always ready to compound all
Prescriptions that may be ordered by
competent authority. The steward is
Mr.. Il. LaForge and if there is any
thing in the market that can be had to
tickle the palate or to make man or
woman or child feel that it is good
thing to live for in this world, Mr.. La.
Forge is the gentleman to give life to
that most comforting fact. These gen
tlenen and all others connected with
the Clyde do all in their power to make
an excursion on this excellent boat
one of the highest degree Of comfort
and pleasure.
Year: 1879

TODAY Kentucky holds her annual
State election for full set of State off
GERS. That pure and uncorruptibe
Democrat, DR.. Luke P. Black burn, who
tried to infect Northern cities with
small pox during the war to kill
off Northern people, is the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor. His hu-
manitarian IDEAS chime in so agreeably
with Southern Democratic principles of
propriety that he will no doubt be
elected Governor Of Kentucky by some
fifty, sixty or perhaps near a hundred
thousand majority. Walter Evans is
running to get the vote of those Re-
pnbicans that the Democrats in the
kindness of their hearts will allow to
vote, and the Greenbackers have full
ticket in the field headed by John Stew
art for Governor.
Year: 1879

THE IRE1IWENI or me INNf-sL.


An important meeting will be held tins evening
For the last few years there has been an increasing
dispostion TO crticise the treatment of lunatics
strained in asyluns good deal Of fault has been
found. sometimes Justly and sometimes unjnsiy;
but altogether the discussion has been somewhat OF
an cr parfe character. and there has been much
more rccrminatiJn than solid Investigation and
wise discussion. But this fault-fnding upon oneslde
and indifference cXtenuaflOn the other colldnOt
20 Oh forever. However admirably some instltu-
tions might be conducted, II made pretty ceI-
tam that others were not without cruel and indie
fcnsible abuses; that the laws regarding admissions
were either loose IN themselves were but loosely
observed; that the attendants IN moi few retreats
were ignorant or cruel, or both; that even the
superintendonts were now aud then neglectlul of
their duties and dele gaed too many OF them to in
competent suboTdinatcs. There has boen also a
growing suspicion. we'll calculated to excite both
pity and Indignation. that not a few patients were
sfilI restrained who should be set at liberty; and
some individual cases were reported which seemed
to be of particular hardship


THIS condition of affairs has naturally excited
the attention of benevolent persons; of which the
meeting at the Cooper Union tonight viii be one
Of the results. If there be abuses. they should be
reformed: if there be personal wrongs they should
b. righted. Lunacy i great misfortune not only
to those who suffer personally from it. but to
families who are compelled To part with those who
are dear to them under particularly distressing rir-
cumstances At the best the separation is most
naipful: but il becomes intolerable whenever there
Is even suspicion thar the afflicted are not treated
with the utmost tenderness. OF course, when there
is any doubt upon tins point, the deranged in many
cases can be removed from one hospital TO another;
but how can tins he done nteligently whom there
is shade of doubt thrown over all Again, TO the
discredit of human nature. il is reasonably certain
that some men and women of sufficiently sound
mind have been committed as insane from motives
of personal interest. Nor have the opportunities
for inspecting asyums always been sufficient.
There has been too much secrecy and too much
mystery. This great mistake the part of
superintendents has proba oly caused them more
than half the trouble to which they have been sub
jecIed.


The meeting tonight will consider the whole
general subject The gentlemen who will conduct
II and take part i'll its proceedings the last per
sons in the world to do anybody Injustice. at the
same time, they are thoroughly IN earnest, and MS
they have only the Improvement of asylums and Of
their management in view trust that they will
have the cordial cooperation of those actually in
charge of such institutions.
Year: 1879

There is probably no great significance In
the action of the National Republican Com
mi,tee. Senator Cameron had the active sup
port Of the Grant men, the sherman men,
and some of the Blaine men, and the active
hostility of nobody and 80 his election
was natural. Chicago fought for the Conven-
ton more zeaously than any other
place. and got it. The Grant men were
willing. and the Blaine men rather more,
while nobody seems to have been very I'M
wiling. There my he strange significance
IN these simple results, but 1t Is not visible to
the naked eve, although the action OF the
Committee Will probably be generally regarded
ms gain for General Grant.
Year: 1879

Congressman Updegrafi's declaration, IN his
speech at the Dairy Fair Tuesday night in favor of
making the Agricultural Bureau full Department
with representation in the Cabinet. derived rs much
significance from the fact that he is practical
farmer as from the fact that he is n Congressman.
Congressman suspected of being please with the
chance to distribute seeds to their constituents and
tickled with various agricultural straws but far
mers are supposed to Judge these things by prac-
tical standard. 1t rs needless to say that The
TRIBUNE does not agree with the Ohio Representa-
tive, bnt it merely fair to note his argument.
He believes that the vast and growing Importance of
the farming interest might justly this to be-
called the Farmers Republic" and that agricul-
ture, therefore. deserves morc distinguished rep
resontation in the Government.
Year: 1879

The case which was brought up before
Judge Van Hoesen Yesterday well deserved
the comment of one of the counsel" Such
"a case was never before heard of in
'1ny court of Justice We hope it may be
long before such a complicated tissue of
rascalities Is again exhibited to the public.
Year: 1879

'betterpart of Ihisl ysior.v fhe did not
wish TO be shot It " as quite right to avoid
being shot at. We wish to be fhir in
this matter as in all others. II one Of
the Delaware Senators were to be called
to expose his body as the target for one
of the Massachusetts or New England
hot-bloods of the Senate, we should oh
ject to it most decidedly, on the score Of
''inequality" as well AS of morality. We
should say they should refuse at once
The difference in the value Of the lives
exposed alone would decide us in this
matter, if we could allow oursclf to
throw aside other considerations. And
the wonder to us is that the Hon. Mr..
Lowe should have allowed himself to be
led so far from what we consider he
owes his family and friends as to send a
challenge to Logan, who has long been
considered the Republican bully Of the
Senate.
Year: 1879

Justice Field, of the Supreme Court,
says that the jurors test-oath is odious
and Invalid. The Democratic party
makes the same observation and, unless
prevented by the veto of the Fraudulent
President, will wipe the unconstitutional
fungus from the statutes before leafy
Lima
Year: 1879




The tone OF President Hayes veto of
the army bill must dissppOint very many
who had been led to believe that he was
prepared to accept all the laws of pc ,ce
and to remove tie country from all the
irritating and arbitrary laws of war. H.
is written in credilable temper and has
none of the clsp-trap or fiery sentences
Of the Stalwarts, but it deliberately takes
Issue with Congress on the use Of Fed
eral troops at elections, and defends the
pierogatives of the Executive in main
tanning peace at the polls by lha bayonet
regardless oi the laws of States OF the ae-
ton Of the properly constituted authori-
ties.


This Is a most vital and fearfully
fatal mistake on the part Of President
Hayes. He can no more maintain the
Executive control Of elections, under the
pretencs Of ke.plng the peace at the polls
than he can turn the currents OF N iagara
backwards. What he supports in his ar
gument in favor OF the use of Federal
troops al elections, is neither possible OF
exc utlon in fee country In time OF
peace, nor can 1t serve party purposes, in
the present attitude Of paities, except to
furnish pretexts to Democratic Senate
and House for rejecting the Presidential
vote of any State where the policy OF
military Intervention has been foolishly
attempted.
Year: 1879




A rather unevenly balanced document
is that sent 10 the House of Representa-
tives yesterday, giving the Presidents
reasons for his veto of the Army bill. 1t
would have far more force il il had
omitted three-fouiths of its contents.
The first half, besides being very faulty
in its reasoning, is entirely unnecessary
to the making out Of his case, and one
half of the remainder rather weakens the
fourth and concluding part, which is
quite strong and directed to the point.
The message recites number Of sections
of the Revised Statutes which are intend
ed TO prevent military interference AT
elections, and, arguing that these are
| quite sufficient in that direction. infers
| that there Is, therefore, no necessity fol
the further prevention contained in til,
sixth section of the Army bill. But few
disciplined minds will be able to per
ceive any force in that logic. Every pre-,
caution within the limits of the Consti
tuition should be provided against army
interference with elections, and the fact
that some such are provided is no argli
ment why others should not be, if the un
gardcd points present opening and temp
tations to Inscriptions partisans, eithe
in the army offices or the Executive de
partment of the Government in time
of high political excitement. The logi
cal inference is just in the opposite iii
rection to that taken by the President
for nothing is more epugnant to the in
stincts of the American people than tb
intervention of the military arm of tn
Government at election time. Hcno
all that portion Of the message coul'
have been left out greatly To the advant
are of the rest
Year: 1879

COMMUNISM IN AMERICA. by HENRY AMdON JANEs


syo pp SO. Henry Holt co.


Ia this essay, to which the trustees of the
Porter Fund ia Yale College awarded the prize for 1875
The subject Of Socialism is treated from historical
and practical point view presenting the results Of an
evidently careful study Of leading authorities with
clearnes and for tue most part with accuracy There
is certain want OF maturity in many Of the statements
which bettay the handOf inexperienced writer but
on the whole the essay contains valuable summary
OF such know Of the subject as can be obtained
from the examination OF books, with various cursory
reflections which il not very profound, are often sug-
gestye and perhaps Of equal importance with those OF
more ambitious writer's The final conclusion OF the
author after a somewhat prolonged discussion, is that
The actual strength Of Socialism IN this country cannot
al present be correctly determined 1t is difficult enough
10 gather into compact aud nellgble form the vision
AIRY schemes Of the learned and scholarly writers OF the
radical type but Is quite impossible TO decide to what
extent the dissatisfaction OF American wOrkingnen
a. tinctured with the leaven Of socialism. Still more
certain would be the attempt to predict the probabi
ties Of tie future In the countries OF the Ola World
where social distinctions more CALLING class is ar
rayed against class the workman wages against the
independent proprietor In the United states the


ent is subtle, but not the less dangerous The
democratic constitution OF American society which
clothes the masses with power, gives the most inferior
persons a keen sense OF their political possibilities,
makes them impatient Of the guidance OF enlight
ened minds and cOucedes TO ignorance and passion the
influence which due alone to wisdom and moral worth
Year: 1879

MEN know how thunder and lightning
come from the clouds in summer, and
thew went to thunder and tighten some
times themselves; but it is better that
the contents of the clouds should drop
down in gentle rain, and make some
thing grow, than that there should be
flashing and resounding in the heaven,
and that the oak should be crushed to
pieces which has been growing for a
hundred years; and it is better, not that
men should produce a great racket in
the world, and work destruction around
them. but that they should create happi-
ness among their fellow-men.
Year: 1879

SIR GARNET WOLsELEY's AFRICAN EX-
PEDITIoN.-He has supreme authority.
He has the prestige which comes of uni
form success-unless his administration
of Cyprus must be accounted failure,
where he had innumerable silk purses to
make out of proverbially unsuitable
material. For the first time, however,
he will find himself in command of a
considerable foyce-near 10000 men of
all arms and races. It would hardly
help you to estimate his chances of win
ming glory if dilated on his social quail
ties; but may say that he is personally
popular, that he has the difficulty of at
taching men to him, that his officers
served him zealously and that his only
very marked antipathy is to special cor
respondents in the field. I met him
shortly before he went to Cyprus. Heis
man of slight frame and middle height,
quiet in manner, with something about
him that marks in every glance and ges-
ture his life of arms and adventure. The
most striking feature of his spare brown
face scantily fringed with whisker, in
in the epes, which are rather small, but
curiously reckless and keen. He is
reckoned the most favored soldier in Her
Maiesty's service. Perahps no other
man, not of royal birth, has had such
chances, or risen SO rapidly. He is Sc
much in request that I heard an Eng.
lishman say recently, almost bitterly
that whatever had to be done there was
but one man to do it. Another limited
at the same thing when he said that Sil
Garnet Wolseley was liked by every
body except the officers over whose
heads he had been promoted-a toler-
ably numerous company.
Year: 1879

If high scientific attachments ought to
confer a title to respect and attention, the
opinion of Sir William Thompson, Pro-
fessor of Natural Philosophy at the Uni
versity of Glasgow on the subject of the
electric light is worthy of the fullest con-
sideration. The science of lightning by
electricity has been SO developed that
the possibility of its general application is
no longer matter of doubt It is at once
the cheapest, safest and most brilliant IL
Illuminating agent that has yet been dis
covered. Sir William Thompson believes
that its general introduction as means
of illumination in every position in which
fixed light is required will certainly
take place in the near future. The most
improved form of burner that has yet
been devised is that constructed by
Messrs. Siemens, of Woolwich, and used
in their factory. 1t was this description
of lamp that was exhibited by the Pro-
fessor at Glasgow University and afforded
the subject of his lecture. Sir William
Thompson believes that it will shortly be
adopted as the means of lighting streets,
public buildings and the interior of all
large rooms where much light is required.
The Professors enthusiasm on the SUBJ
ject may by some be thought to be
tinctured WITH extravaganza when be sug-
gests the possibility of lighting an Ameri-
C<au COllIlucuG Will cleCIriClIy S0uerdIoQ
by means of engines worked by the stu
pendous water power of Niagara. We
clip from the London Times the portion
of Sir William Thompson's remarks in
which he refers to this subject


He-was also of the opinion that great
deal of natural energy which was now
lost might be advantageously applied in
the future to lighting and manufactures.
There was deal of energy in waterfalls.
in the future no doubt, such water as the
Falls of Niagara would be extensively
used-indeed, he believed the Falls of
Niagara would in the future be used for
the production of light and mechanical
power over a large area of North America.
The electricity produced by them might
be advantageously conducted for hum
dreds of miles, and the manufactures of
whole towns might be set in motion by it.
Powerful copper conductors would have
to be used,-conductors of a tubular form,
with water flowing through them to keep
them cool. There would be no limit to
the application of the electricity as mo-
tive power. It might do all the work that
could be done by steam engines of the
most powerful description.


AS to the use of electricity by means of
the Falls of Niagara, his idea was to drive
dynamic engines by water power in the
neighborhood of the falls, and then to
have conductors to transmit the force to
the places where illumination or the de-
velopment of mechanical power was
wanted. There would be no danger of
terrible effects being brought about acci-
dentally by the use of such terrific power,
because the currents employed would be
continuous and not alternating.
Year: 1879

This being the last week of the Fall
term the usual examination in the
studies during the term took place.
The examinations in most of the CLASSES
we're written, and reflect great credit
upon the pupils as they are very salts.
factory, and show that q considerable
amount of good work has been accom-
plished by them. The Winter term Of
Rugby will commence on Monday next,
December lat.
Year: 1879

The twenty inch water main in Sec.
ond street between Orange and Tatna]l
street, bursted last evening. Men were
at once put to work aud spent the great
er part Of the night repairing the leak