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Year: 1874

and reliable as the latest small arm, 30 Iar' az
least, as exploding them is concerned. Steam
has been successfully applied to their direc-
ton, and instead OF being obliged to wait the
approach of an enemy the torpedo has ac-
quired the power of searching him out ana
striking him at the most unexpected moments
This new invention rendes1.s the h..cocKade of
ports practically imreo mr,;eossible. No feet would
o1-~ remain where boat might steal out
In the night and deal destruction to the
strongest ships practically without risk we
hope the Senate Naval Committee will be sui
tciently impressed with the importance OF per-
fecting this cheap and reliable method OF coast
defence. Even Congress, which displays such
direful animosity against the navy, will hardly
refuse to develop a system of defence which
has the two strong Recommendations of being
cheap and effective.
Year: 1874

The news from Cuba shows considerable


activity on the part Of the insurgents. Even
the neglect of their compatriots, who might
afford them important assistance, seems not
to discourage the brave men who fight so un-
finchingly against overwhelming odds. The
spreading OF the insurrection westward, as
proved by the attack on Santi Espiritu and
the numerous engagements in the Cinco
Villas, is of the utmost Importance to
Spain. Should the insurrectionary fame
spread beyond the Cinco villas dis
trict into the cultivated and thickly
populated western district Spanish do
minion will be doomed. A servile revolt
would deprive the island Of all value, and
there would be nothing for the planters to do
except to escape with as much Of their wealth
Year: 1874

The scandal which brought Miss Mary E.
Pomeroy and the reverend Glendenning
prominently before the public has ended in
the death of the unfortunate young lady. Tho
history of her relations with her pastor are
remarkably sad, and show an amount Of heart
lessness on the part of the shepherd Of tho
fold one would scarcely find except
among the most dangerous class of wolves.
If such revelations Of church life continue
people who desire to preserve their homes
pure will think seriously before admitting
clergymen into their families. Certainly re-
cent events would justify much circumspec-
ton, as the wolves seem to hire themselves
out as shepherds, with the object OF
devouring the flock with greater ease and
security. It is really very much to be-
regretted that there is no law to punish suf6-
GENTLY man who under the guise of religion
violates the sanctity Of home and makes use
of his supposed holiness for the purpose OF
seduction. In the case of the reverend Glen
denning Miss Pomeroy distinctly intimated
that he had obtained from her papers of
compromising character through threats Of
violence As these declarations were made in
the presence OF death they have an awful
solemnty, and it is to be hoped that the law
yers will find some way of Furnishing so great
a crime against morality and The common
rights of humanity.
Year: 1874

INDIAN AGENCY FRAUDS. publish a
despatch received from Prescott. Arizona in
relation to frauds alleged to be practised by
the agent in charge Of the Colorado River
reservation The despatch does not reach us
from our regular correspondent but as it
touches on matter of vital Importance to the
citizens we publish it. 1t may be that the
person who sent the despatch is animated by
personal feeling, but the charges of fraud are
clearly made in detail, and it may be desirable
that the authorities should inquire into their
trr1th.
Year: 1874

THE Police JUSTICE LAW. 1t is rumored
that Judge Rapallo is writing the opinion on
the decision OF the Court OF Appeals on the
Police Justice law of 1873, by which the old
Justices were turned out of Office and the
present Justices appointed as their successors.
From this it is coniectured that the decision
will be adverse to the constitutionality of the
new law We must confess that we are una
BILE to see how the writing OF the opinion by
Judge Rapallo, if the rumor be really well
founded, can be regarded as an indication of
what the decision will be. Judge Rapallo is
from this city, and it is natural enough that
he should deliver the opinion, whether it de-
stroys or maintains the law. The case will, nc
doubt, be decided as soon as the Court of APP
peals reassembles, and from the importance
Of the interests involved it is desirable that
the question should be settled as soon as pos,
sible.
Year: 1874

Pcnnsylvania Republican convcntton.


The Pennsylvania republicans have met in
convention at Harrisburg and sounded the
first war-note of the opening campaign. Not
that the proceedings were marked b. any very
striking originally but because they fur
nrsn Indications Of what the action
of the party is likely to be on the
question which has so long occupied public
attention Grants third term 1t interests
the public very little to be informed that the
Convention voted in favor of protection, de-
manded civil rights in order to please tho
colored people and charged all the villany Of
the republican pet-baggers on the demo-
cratic party. All this and more was expected.


but people were anxious to know whether
C@sarism has really taken deep root among
the rank and file. That question Pennsylvania
has answered in way not to be misunder-
stood. Whatever Custom House officials
and Post Office employees may think
about subverting the constitutional tradi-
tions handed down to us the rank
and file will stand no tampering with
them. They will not have Cesar-they
prefer any other man, and as if to mark the
extent of their opposition, they nominate for
our next President Governor Hartranft.
There is something sublime in this
nomination; at another time it would
be ridiculous but as exhibiting the
willingness Of Pennsylvania to accept
any one rather than Grant this nomination
is sterling exhibition of political good sense.
Year: 1874

THE FoRMosA WAR.-China and Japan, if
the cable despatch is based on fact
seem likely to come to blows over the For
mosan expedition Under the impression
that Japan had no serious intention Of under
taking the war to punish the savage tribes
China gave her consent to the expedi-
ton but since it has been under
taken she has grown jealous and the
telegraph informs us demands that the Japan
ese will of once evacuate the island Our cor
respondence from the japanese camp will be
read with interest. 1t shows that the islanders
are as good-heerted as they are brave and in
telligent. There is ye. bright future in re-
serye for Japan.
Year: 1874

and restrain Tilton, and that Tilton had un-
limited power to procure confessions from his
wife, Mr. Beecher should have Indignantly
deied Moulton and driven him from his house
the moment he displayed the pistol. If Tilton
had then publicly accused him he had Mrs.
Tilton's written statement to show. If her
husband had induced her to recant i she
could have 5sen examined before the church
in the presence of Mr.. Beecher, and would
probably have told the truth. But high
toned man would not have stopped to weigh
consequences. His indignant resistance to q
false and infamous charge would have precipi-
tated the matter to a crisis at once, leaving
consequences to take care of themselves.


. The most surprising part of this strange
history consists in the fact that all Mr..
Beecber's letters of remorse, contrition,
humiliation, despondency aud despair were
written subsequent to Tilton's accusation that
he had made indecent and infamous proposals
to his wife. 1t seems inconceivable that in the
face of charges so infamous and ruinous
a sane and innocent man should have
written letters to his accusers deploring
his guilt and abjectly suing for forgiveness,
without explicitly discriminating between
what he meant to acknowledge and what he
meant to deny. The fact that a false and in
famous charge had been made, infinitely ex-
ceeding in turpitude anything he had ever
done, should have caused indignant denial
and denunciation to take the place OF so
much self-abasing confession and remorse in
those very remarkable letters, which are all
the more extraordinary as having been written
subsequent to and to the very persons max
ing the most atrocious charges against Mr.
Beecher's moral character. A man of spirit,
strong in conscious innocence, should have
Indignantly refused to make any kind of con-
fession at all to those parties until the in-
famous false accusation had been with
drawn.
Year: 1874

as they could carry away. The manner In
which the war is carried on renders repeti-
ton of the ST. Domingo horrors almost in
evitable. Spanish pride will continue the
struggle until the people of the country are
wholly demoralized and ruined. The Quix-
otes will then retire, having wasted their last
dollar and tattegel their last coat They will
have the satisfaction Of leaving behind them
o desert and knowing that all the blood ana
treasure they have wasted has besn wasted in
win
Year: 1874

live with her husband There was nothing in
either to justify an agony Of terror, remorse
and despair. What made Mr. Beecher SO
supremely miserable was Mrs. Tilton's con-
fesson to her husband of an assault on her
virtue. His exaggeration of the other topics
can make no impression on discriminating
readers But what he says of the graver
charge has an air of reality y:-"From the
anger and fury Of Mr.. Tilton I apprehended
that this charge, made by him and supported
by the accusation of his wife, was to be
at once publicly pressed against me,
and if it was I had nothing but my simple
word of denial to interpose against it. This
was doubtless an ugly situation for an inno-
cent man to be placed in, for the confession
of a wife would be pretty apt to be believed,
even against clergyman.


But the helpless abjectness Of Mr.. Beecher
| in this trying situation is miracle of mental
and moral imbecility. Accused Of disgrace
full offence, of which he knew himself inno-
cent, and having obtained from Mrs. Tilton O
written statement indicating him from the
charge, he allowed himself to be bullied and
frightened by a display of firearms in his bed
chamber into giving it up. And the man who
thus enforced his demand by laying pistol
ON the bureau near which he stood was soon
after taken into Mr.. Beecher's confidence aa
his closest and most trusted friend What
utter scorn any man of spirit would have fell
for bully who had come to his sleeping
apartment on such an errand And this bully
practised this violence to fasten upon Mr..
Beecher an infamous charge OF which he was
innocent; ; yet he not only forgave him th'
outrage but made him his bosom coun
sellor and put his reputation in tina
miscreant's keeping! A man OF courag
and spirit would have died a thousan'
deaths sooner than call such man his frlent
and put himself in his power. Mr.. Beecher'
unmanly fears and craven conduct can be ex
planned, though never justified. He was mad
An helIav6 that Moulton alone could contro
Year: 1874

We have always held that, in the re-
organization of parties, the great ques-
tion of separation and discussion will be
the power of the General Government
to regulate the.railways. This question
will be only another form of the State
rights controversy, which has existed ev-
er since the formation of the Union. The
new party of progress, by whatever
name it may be called, will insist that
the community, acting through its agent
the Government, shall have power to
protect its interests against the greed Of
railway and other monopolists The
other party, which viii crystalline
around the nucleus of the old Democrat
ic party, will maintain that the Govern
ment has no right whatever to interfere
in the matter, and that the railways shall
continue to be managed by private cor
porations free from any Government con-
troll The latter view is clearly and sue
cincdy stated in the World as follows:


The Federal Government has no right
ful control over their (the railway com
panies') charges at all. 1t is not it, but
the States, that give them the right Of
way. 1t is not it, but the States, which
invest them with their corporate privi-
leges. 1t has no more right to pre-
scribe their charges than it has to fix
the price of railroad iron or the cost
of constructing a car The subject is
entirely beyond the scope of Federal
jurisdiction.


In support of this view very strong
party can be rallied. The old traditions
of the sovereign power of the States still
survive, and their supporters will make
firm stand against the proposal TO place
in the hands of the Federal Government
authority TO control enormous interests
based upon franchises originally granted
by the States. The vast wealth of the
moneyed corporations will be thrown
into the same scale, and the entire con.
seryative sentiment of the country will
be arrnyed against the proposed innova-
tion.-N Y. Graphic.
Year: 1874

range of this awful excitement have con-
eluded that they have but few. more
days to live. About one hundred have
made profession of religion. The closing
scenes of this strange meeting are repre-
sented as most peculiar and wonderful.
THE MILLENNIUM HOURLY EXPECTED.


During most of this period of sixteen
days the mountain had continued at in-
tervals to present the same alarming i'm
pressions; but, having prayed, shouted,
sung, and agonized for this long period,
they separated with the promise that all
would remain and die if necessary. 1t
is said that the awe-stricken countenan-
ces, the melancholy demeanor of this
vast crowd on the breaking up of the
devotions are beyond all description!


SMOKE AND vAPoR FROM THE MOUNT.


A letter was received in this city to-
day by gentleman whose mother resides
near Bald Mountain, stating that near
the summit of that peak an area Of near
ly an acre was agitated by subterranean
upheavals and then sinking, from which
smoke and vapor issued.
Year: 1874

A SOUND SUGGEsTIoN.-Any one who
has taken the trouble to look over the
United States Register, and observe the
number of staff officers and dependents
in military departments at Wishing
ton, will appreciate the sound sngges-
ton of the Louisville Courier-J onrnal
for improving the condition and organ
ization of the army, and which viii no
doubt appear impracticable to very
many officers of the military service. 1t
simply proposes TO reduces the number
of officers who sit about Washington to
the number of our standing army, and
increase the number Of our standing
army to the number of officers who sit
who sit about Washington.
Year: 1874

We learn that the Baptists Of Boston
have voluntarily decided to urge upon
the Legislature Of Massachusetts the
justice Of taxing churcl, property. They
say that the impost would put a stop to
the unnecessary multiplication Of places
of worship, and prevent the erection Of
too large and too expensive churches.--
They further urge that it is wrong to
invest 100000 in an edifce, while one
worth $4,000 would answer the same
purpose; and if churches would be ex-
empted from taxes because of benefit to
the community, railroads and manufac-
turing corporations should have confer
red upon them similar advantages.
Year: 1874

Representative O'Brien, of Maryland,
has introduced bill in Congress, for the
reform of certain abuses in the civil SER
vice in the District of Columbia, which
will attract some attention. The bill
has whereas setting forth that slavery
has been abolished, and that private liv-
cry is a mark of servitude derogatory to
the dignity of a citizen or soldier of the
United States The bill then provides
that any Government official, of whatev-
er rank, grade or branch Of the public
service, who shall Use for his private
purposes any of the property of the
Government shall be deemed guilty of
embezzlement, and, on conviction there
of,punished accordingly, as already pro-
vided by law, and in addition be remov
ed from his office; that all the necessary
transportation for the departments and
officials in the District of Columbia
shall be had by means of plain, strongly
built wagons, constructed for the pur-
pose, and the use Of pleasure carriages or
family coaches at public expense is es-
pecially prohibited The bill directs
that If any Government official in the
District shall provide himself with any
carriage, laundalette, buggy, or any 9TH
er description of vehicle for his private
use at the pnblic expense, or shall use
the horses belonging to the Government,
or procure or compel any employe of the
Government to act in any capacity of
driver or servant for him, or to wear his
livery, such official shall be held guilty
of misdemeanor, and be liable to impris-
onment and removal from office, or may
be, if found guilty by a Court Of law,
fined not to exceed 800, or imprison-
ment not to exceed one year, or be sub
jected to both penalties, at the discretion
of the Court. The bill concludes with a
provision that if any Government official
in the District shall compel his servants
to wear a black cockade, which is the
distinguishing mark of the menial SER
wants of the British Crown, he shall, on
conviction before a Justice of the Peace,
pay a fine of 800 for each offense, the
money to go to the school fund of the
District.
Year: 1874

/ did not see Horace for long time,
so that when at last they let me see him
the first bitterness of his grief was past.
He asked me many things about that
day, and told him all-save the horri-
BILE truth that had killed her. / told
him how Elsie had clung to me in her
fear, when that awful wind swept so sud
denly across the sea; but how she had
grown so weak at last and despairing,
that she fell with the second wave and
never rose again. He sat beside me
while told him this, and then it seemed
to grow natural to him to sit beside
me; and at last watching his face
saw its sorrow fade, and the old look of
content return to it. At first it was in
silence that he sat beside me, and this
silence 1 could understand and share;
but gradually he would win me on to talk
to him, and his eyes would brighten as
he listened. So we grew dear friends
again, dearer than we had ever been;
and l forgot that white drowned face
which lay now side by side with my
own mother under the old cedar in our
churchyard on the hill. tH


One night we had strolled there to-
gether to lay sum autumn blossoms on
the grave; and SO long he fingered there
in perfect silence that all my fears and
my despair came back to me in over
whelming force. Why had he brought
Year: 1874

be frightened, Horace; you are my hus-
band, and / will not leave you. Did you
dream that | could be cruel? l was not
half so cruel to her as that would be-"


He turned from me, shuddering
through all his frame, and then I knew
that the love which had been my very
life was dead forever / saw in all its
fullest, darkest horror the long anguish
of the life TO which he doomed me; and
standing still l took my burning head
within my hands and atttered shrek on
shrek, until the silence of the winter
night was all alive with sound, and the
beauty of the moonlight vanished in a
great black darkness.
Year: 1874

There were 800 Of the canine species yesterday
at the Dog Pound at the foot OF East sixteenth
street. respite was granted the doomed
animals until to-day, when about 200 of them Will
find mortuary repose IN the wooden vat Yester-
day the usual whining filled the market building
with most uneMthly nOise ana the dogs seemed,
by their anxious looks at visitors, to feel as If the
truth OF their doom was known to them. While
the reporter was speaking to Captain Marriott two
boys entered to release handsome terrier that
had found its way into the precincts Of destruc-
ton, ana when the terrier was being conveyed
away, bounding ana barking with delight, his
Old comrades In misery set up such horrid
yelplng as never was heard before IN
pound, as If they were jealous OF the terriers
escape. The dogs now arrive at the Pound daily
to the number, on An average, OF about TO- cap
tain Marriott states that he has given orders for
the construction OF the iron crate, by means OF
which the death OF the dogs shall be effected by
drowning in the river. Some time since tnis
method was rested by Alderman Norris and Cap
tam Mcdonald IN presence OF a HERALD reporter,
and found TO he the speedlest and easiest by which
the canine destruction cOui0 be secured. The new
machine will be ready within week.
Year: 1874

Il0Mr, Foh, 30 lsi9" SATURDAY EVENING.


Oh! did ever man love 50 grandly as
my beloved? Other friendships, public
affairs, all fall to naught when | come to
you, Though you are in Decorah tonight,
yet | have felt your love, and am very
grateful for it. had not received line
since Monday, and was so hungry and
lonesome that took out all your letters
and INDUCED myself as at feast, but
without satiety,and now long to pour out
into your heart of my abundance. | am
conscious of three Jets to the fountain Of
my soul To the Great Lover and your
self, to whom as one | am eternally welded,
my children, and the dear friends who trust
and love me | do not want another long
separation while we are in the flesh. Let
us abide together
Year: 1874

To say that have church on my hands
is simply enough but to have the hun
dreds and thousands of men pressing me
each one with his keen suspicion, or anx-
| ;atv or zeal to see the tendencies which,


;f not stopped, would break out into a


ruinous defense of me to stop them with


ont seeming to do it; to prevent any one
Questioning me; to meet and allay preJu'
dices against T. which had their begin,
uings years before; to keep serene as IT L
was not alarmed or disturbed to be cheer
full at home and among friends, when l was
suffering the torments of the damned 10
pass sleepless nights often, and yet 70 70
come up fresh and fair for Sunday; al
this may be talked about. but the real
thing cannot be understood from the out
side, for its wearing and grinding on the


nervous system. r. A.,


In still another letter, written for the
same purpose as above, Mr.. Beecher


IF nv destruction would place him Mr..
Tilton1 all right, that shall not stand in
tbe wav, | am willing to step down and
ont No one can offer more than that.
That T do offer. Sacrifice me without hesl-
tation, if you can clearly see your way to
his safety aud happiness thereby In one
point of view, could desire the sacrifice
on my part. Nothing can possibly be 50
bad as the power Of great darkness in
which | spend much of my time. look
upon death as sweeter far than any friend
| have in the world. Life would be pleas
ant if could see that rebuilt which is
shattered. But to live on the sharp and
ragged edge of anxiety, remorse, fear, and
despair, and yet put on an appearance OF
serenity and happiness, cannot be endured
much Tor eis l'nger. @ I am we'll nigh discouraged.
IF YOU cease to trust me, to love mel
am alone. do not know any person in
the world to whom | could go.


Mr.. Tilton yielded to the above quoted
and other similar letters, and madeno de-
tense of himself against the public odium
which attached to him unjustly


MRS. TILToN's EARLY LOVE FOR HER
Year: 1874

Do not think my ill-heath is on account
of my sin and its discovery. My sins and
life.record Ihave carried to my Savior. NO
my prostration is owing to the suffering L
have caused you.
Year: 1874

Liver Compliant is one of the most prominent
causes of Consumption.


Schenck's Seawecd Tonic is Il gentle stimulant
and Alternative, and the akaI in the Seaweed, which
this preparation Is made Of assists the stomach TO
throw out the gastric JUICE to dissolve the food with
the Pulmonc Syrup, and it is made into good blood
without fermentation or seurng in the stomach.
Year: 1874

We caution all friends Of the anti. Ring
ticket to look out for and beware Of all
last hour reports and accusations about
this and that candidate on our ticket this
morning, 1t is an old, but pretty well
played out trick, to circulate these eleventh
hour roorbacks just as the polls are open.
Ing, when there is no opportunity to re.
iute them. Itiis always safe to utterly
dlscredlt such scare'crow stories. The
very fact that they are held back until
the last moment is sufficient to condemn
them in the eyes Of intelligent people
Pay no attention to them, but vote and
read them at your leisure afterwards.