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Year: 1879

by community Of political interests that OF Italy
by the family ties which united him to her King;
that OF Germany by the necessity OF putting an
end to ruinous armaments. On being asked what
he would do to prepare the country and his own
party for such restoration the Prince replied by
severe criticism of the policy Of Napoleon Ill., and
comparing it with what his own policy would be.
He said -


Instead of winning the support of the higher
GRASSES by appealing to their confidence Napoleon
III. controlled them by fear. Instead OF secur-
ing the affection of the people by giving them
substantial prosperity he hattered their appotites
and left certain latitude to their passions Instead
OF uniting society he promoted its divisions in
oroer 20 strengthen his rule His ambition was 10
De regarded from above as necessary saviour, from
below ~ q powerful master, aud he only succeeded
in reaping the fruits Of the hatred which he had
Kept up between the rich and the poor That system
OF government not only led the Empire its ruin.
but certainly contributed to the disasters Of 1870
and the social convulsions of 1871.


Prince Napoleon then told his interviewer that he
would do quite the reverse He would reconcile
the higher with the lower classes the 'haves with
the "have nots." make tho lions, wolves and other
predatory animals of the Faubourg ST. Antoine lie
down with the ruminants of the 5ouryeoise of the
Faubourg st. German. He has no doubt that the
people will come to the Empire of their free
Will. What he wants Is to conciliate the
upper classes who refused the advances of his
cousin, and who by merely holding aloof. contrib
uted to his fall Prince Napoleon did not indicate
by what process he would work this miracle. Per-
sonal government requires personal prestige in the
ruler and. as his interviewer rather uncivilly
minded him. that prestige he has yet to acquire. and
does not exactly know how


The publication Of this "feeler" has caused some
sensation The fact that the Bonapartist papers do
not aude to 1t in any way is regarded evidence OF
its authenticity. There be no doubt that in
some points the narrative expresses Prince Napo-
Icons views but II 1t be really authentic it drives
one to the conclusion that hs retains power Of self
delusion not common in a man of his years.
Year: 1879

not 60 on forever, no matter how public
spirited some of our wealthy citizens may
be. The futile endeavor to raise funds sufd-
cient for the purchase of the Castellani col
lections. and their subsequent loss to
America showed the necessity of State aid.
Again, a few days ago we lost much needed
little collection of Tanagra fgurines which
81, 500 from citizen Of Boston secured for
that city. If oil the loaned objects in the
Museum were taken from it the new build
ing at the Central Park would. present q
sorry aspect when opened. In view of all
these facts we again urge upon the trustees.
before the opening of the new Museum, to
bring all their influence to bear on the
Legislature, and theirs, as we'll as that of
many others interested in art, should have
much weight to secure an annual appropri.
alton adequate to all purposes Of proper
maintenance and acquisition
Year: 1879

On motion of School Commissioner
Wheeler yesterday q committee of five was
appointed to inquire and report as to the
expediency of recognizing the departments
of the Board which have charge Of the erec-
tion, repairing, ventilating and warming of
the schools. AS the President Of the Board
is known to be one of the sufferers by the
bad air of schoolrooms, and to abhor incom-
potency and neglect as honestly "a any other
man, he could not have intended to construct
q weak or quarrelsome committee; yet it
seems strange that Of the five members one
should be Commissioner Wickham, who be-
lieves schoolroom air to be as good as
home air, while another is Commissioner
Watson, who has SO eloquently ascribod the
general parental agitation to ter-dollar
bills that INSCRIPTIONS men with venti-
lator patents have placed where they
would do tn, most good. However intelli-
gent and progressive the remaining men,
bers-Messrs. Wheeler, Manierre and Bell
may be- they are evidently in for an unpleas-
ant Job and one out of which any
but the most determined men are likely to
be tormented. In city where the majority
of homes, according to Commissioners Wick
ham, are badly ventilated, it stands to reason
that single schoolrooms, occupied by ten
or twenty times as many people as any
family room ever is, must be in q condition
that urgently demands remedy, and men
who do not see this are decidedly out OF
place on committee which is tho only
present hope of thousands of children who
are daily struggling against the bad in
fluence OF air worse than any animal should
1,o,tbo
Year: 1879

Simon Cameron. q youth Of seventy-fye,
saving an orange from the dish of fruit on
the hotel dinner table to give to the sweet
widow Oliver, age anywhere from forty to
fifty, would make pretty picture, full of
poetic sentiment, and the subject is worthy
the attention Of any artist who has taste
for the style of the courtly Corydons and
Phyllises that figure in the dainty French
school, period Vatican. 1t might crowd the
canvas, and stump the imagination of the
artist, yet it would certainly improve the
picture if the accessories could be made to
suggest outside of the great company ut the
table and .Simon's energetic grasp at the
golden fruit his -boyish games up stairs
when he would not hear his grandchildren
knocking at the door, even though he had
strategically provided for the case of their
forcible and enthusiastic entry. General
Butler could be thrown in anywhere in the
character of Simons comrade in scrapc,
determined to sec him through. He ought
to look toward the widow, and have the end
of his thumb against the end of his
nose, and be making fan with his fin-
gers. His eyes ought to laugh stimuli
taneously at the whole universe, especially
at the setting sun and the rising moon.
Altogether we are of opinion that the
great galleries of American ars will be in
complete if proper attention is not given to
this subject. Different painters have done
enormous justice to the fustan of our his
tory; who shall take up the gay side--give
us its poetry-put in the amorous aspects
Of ardor in the breast of the American octo-
genarian, and the fine speculative games of
the widow who, with the poetry of her Irish
nativity in her soul, has acquired sympa-
thetically our national genius for finance
Here are grand themes for the historic paint
brush. No mere Pocahontas here And II
the sceno of o mere Indnn girl marrying q
commonplace En0lishmnn il worth n nanel
Year: 1879

The first message Of President Hayes to
the Forty-sixth Congress indicates his wish
that the extra session shall be short He
lays before the two houses no new matter
on which he invites their action. He
simply asks them to pass the appro-
priation bills which were lost ut the
last session, and expresses his re-
gret at the emergency which requires
q special session when the business of the
country requires Legislative repose. We
are sure that the whole country shares the
wish of the President that Congress may
speedily pass the appropriation bills
and adjourn. He not only refrains
from presenting any new subjects
of legislation. but significantly con-
veys his opinion that the country needs
peace and rest. He sets prniseworthy ex-
ample OF coming straight tothe point, con-
timing himself to the point, and dispensing
with unnecessary words. We trust that
Congress will initiate this worthy example,
expedite its business and make haste to 60
home
Year: 1879

The change OF quarters by the Metro
politan Museum of Art has led 10 the with
drawal OF the Avery collection of Oriental
porcelain which for the past six years has
been loaned to the Museum by the owner.


During that time it his formed one of the


chief features Mt the Museum. That the
institution should own such collection
none will deny, and though there is move
ment on foot to buy it the question arises,
Where is the money to come from2 This
case shows the necessity OF some action
being taken by the trustees to secure a
State grant large enough to allow Of the
purchase Of such collections when needed
and offered for SALE This necessity has
already been pointed out by us. The sub
scriptions of private individuals interested
in the success of the Museum have al-
lowed of the purchase of the Cesnola and
other collections but this sort oil thing cnn-
Year: 1879

1t is to be hoped the dust likely to be
raised over the hearing of the Police Com
missioners before the Mayor will not cloud
from public view the equally important ar
raignment of Captain Williams before the
Commissioners. In the Mayors Office
it is to be made doubtful whether
the battle Of legal technicalities may
not in part or entirely defeat the i'm
piled control of the Mayor over the heads
Of departments, and before the Commits
sioners very desperate effort will be made
to show that Captain Williams is an angel
of light and that all that has been sold in
criticism OF his acts is vile detraction. This
is one of the rights of accused persons
which they sometimes abuse Should the
bullying tactics of the system. that Will
Jams has pursued in Office be contin-
ued man undoubtedly guilty of
the worst misconduct in the dis
charge of his duty may overcome the
attempt to purge the public service Of his
presence or may escape with some trivial
penalty. On the case made by the charge
OF Commissioners Smith no facts can be
heard but such as relate to that case but
that case is probably clear enough if the
persons who witnessed the facts have the
public spirit to come up and testify. We
are afraid that the case may possibly fail on
difficulty Of that nature There is not
enough moral stamina in the public to de-
fend itself in fighting these cases. Un-
doubtedly an attempt will be made to get
hold of the gentleman from Trenton and to
keep him away to make a sort Of moral
clubbing out of witnesses but il the people
who saw this case will not help to make ON
example now they must take their clubbing
as il comes in the future.
Year: 1879

Cooper to disregard the established sig-
nifcation of the word as interpreted not
only by all courts but by the usage Of
bodies which are not bound by technical
rules of law. If he gives the Commissioners
o hearing in the ordinary legal sense he
will certainly be on the safe side, whereas
haste purchased by the violation of legal
right of the parties accused would put him
back after tedious litigation to the point
from which he started. BE that danger
greater or less, it is not wise to incur it
when it can be easily avoided by conduct
ing the hearing to which the Commission
ers are entitled in the customary legal
method.


The necessity for removing the Police
Commissioners is so urgent-it is 80 neces-
sary to the welfare, order, cleanliness and
health of the city-that we should be sim
cerely sorry to see the Mayor foil in his at
tempt by acting on unsouni legal advice
or (what is equally dangerously assuming
to be his own legal adviser and
venturing upon risks in his private inter-
probation of the charter. We advise him to
yield tho ground ne took yesterday and
make sure that his work cannot be undone
by difference between himself and the
courts as to what constitutes hearing. We
desire to SEQ the Police Commissioners put
out in such manner that they cannot get
back.
Year: 1879

The readiness with which the money has
been subscribed in Italy for the carrying
out of the project of establishing an Italian
colony in New Guinea would appear to
show that the Italian government is deeply
interested in the enterprise. Six million
dollars would scarcely be subscribed in so
short a tims by private individuals in Italy,
for the Italians have hitherto shown them
selves adverse to colonizing projects. The
idea that the expedition is encouraged by
the government in the hope of thus getting
rid of the revolutionary element of the
kingdom is hardly tenable. Times are
bad in Italy; there is great suffering
among the working classes of Rome and
other large cities, and such an emigra-
ton scheme, when it costs nothing,
has attractions for the Italian workman,
who can now entertain hopes Of securing u
home for himself instead of helping to
build Roumanian and Turkish railroads for
q pitiable reward. Menotti Garibaldi's
name gives the project certain national
tinge. He is not the acknowledge leader
of any party OF republicans; he is simply
tho son of his father, good fellow
enough, with no particular genius, but
stands we'll MS the fgurehead of the present
enterprise. II he takes with him few
thousand so-called Garibaldians he will
render q service to his country and to the
memory OF his fathers earlier work, long
since completed.
Year: 1879

In community in which the late Com
modore Vanderbilts remarkable business
capacity, sound judgment and strong self
will were proverbiai, no man of common
sense could have doubted that the will lett
by the deceased would be sustained by the
Court, and the decision made by the Surro-
gate yesterday confirming the probate ofthe
will and codicil in all things will occasion
no surprise. If man who up to almost
the last hour Of his life held control Of in
terests involving millions upon millions Of
dollars was to be declared incapable of de-
Gliding how to dispose of his property at his
death tho making of wills would become a
mere farce. But in this particular case it
was recognized that Commodore Vanderbilt
had disposed Of his fortune in manner
characteristic of and in harmony with his
we'll known sentiments, and with the prin-
ciples he had followed in amassing his vast
wealth. He had adhered to the policy Of
keeping his important railroad interests
consolidated and under a single control,
knowing that thus only could they be effec-
lively protected and preserved. He had
given what he considered liberal amounts
to his daughters, and had in his other be-
quests displayed something Of his natural
imperiousness and strong prejudices and
much Of his natural shrewdness. The will
bore Enthusiastically the stamp of its author,
and no one who knew Cornelius
Vanderbilt could have doubted that it
was his work, even if the production of o
number of antecedent Wills carrying out
in substance the same testamentary pur-
poses had not proved beyond doubt that
the final disposition made Of his property
was in accordance with @ long cherished and
we'll settled determipation.


There are two notable points in the Sur
rogate's decision, of which we are enabled
to present only briet abstract. He con
demns in strong, but not too severe.
terms the aspersions upon lady's
character shadowed forth in the open
ing Of the contestants counsel, and de-
clares the subsequent but tardy apology,
made after diligent and persistent efforts to
secure witnesses capable Of testifying to the
charges, to be .'but sorry and meagre
amend for the endurance by a delicate. SEN
sitive. cultivated woman for two years Of o
baseless slander." Every right-minded man
will approve this rebuke of gross abuse
Of a. counsers privilege, and it is to
be hoped that it will, as the Surrogate
says, ''be lesson to those who are prone
TO assail private character and revel in pro-
miscuous defamation" The other point in
the decision is the overhauling Of some OF
the witnesses whose testimony the Surro.
gate believes is open to the reasonable
apprehension that it may have been fabri-
Gated" This certainly deserves the atten.
ton of the District Attorney. But unless
the cause OF Justice should demand some
criminal prosecution it is TO be hoped that
the Surrogate's decision is the last that will
be heard Of this offensive and it would
seem wholly unnecessary case.
Year: 1879

in the ro.unda in the National Capitol,
where. oh where shall we place the plastic
chronicle Of the games Of the widow Oliver
with the owner Of the State of Pennsyl-
vauia ?-the Senator, the plenipotentiary,
the cabinet minister, the chief of the Winne-
bagoes. But let hone of those Washington
women paint it. We infinitely prefer that
it should be done in Puck or the Graphic,
where it will be done with genius and will
only cost the people five cents copy.
Year: 1879

A COUPLE of German friends were examining
an old pistol yesterday morning. or course it


was not loaded. yet it sent of those friends
TO hospital bed and the other to n station house
Year: 1879

THE DIVISION of the gate money of the great
pedestrian match made yesterday, the
amount awarded O'Leary being invisible to the
naked eye. The cx-champion would apparently
do well to remember that with the odds against
him the best thing he do is to first take what
money he can get and take his growl afterward.
Year: 1879

A newspaper in the inside coat
pocket saved a New Workers. lie from
an assassin's bullet. The time is not
far distant when IL will be suicidal for q
man not to take paper. Now is the
time TO subscribe for our bullet.proof
journal. Don't expose your life to the
pistol Of the ASSASSIN. See terms at the
head Of this paper.
Year: 1879

An old Pennsylvania farmer says
zone night mine old dog Bose be bowls
all the evening, and he howl like every.
tings when me and mineirau 60 TO bed,
and in the night Katrine she wake me
up and say, "Hans, | not sleep pretty
much any. Bose he howl so, vat is de
matter n And lsay Somebody will be
dead pretty quick already And den
we go to sleep nit ourselves, and dc
next morning ! look in mlne paper
and, by jingo, dere was a man dead in
Cincinnati"
Year: 1879

The footprint Of the savage traced
in the sand "a sufficient to attest the
presence of man TO the atheist, who
will not recognize God, whose hand is
lnprssssd upon the cntire universe.
Year: 1879

| trust and believe, is about to return
full-hedged to power. l think it will
have possession of every department
Of this Government. 1t certainly will
have il If we convince the people
North and South that we deserve to
have it for evidently the people are
well satisfied that the Republican party
does not deserve TO be continued in
power, and the only question with the
people is whether the Democratic
party does deserve to bo intrusted with
power. If ! had control OF the party,
as have not, and shall never have, il
my voice were worth anything, there
are four things | would have the
Democratic party to proclaim to the
world in most convincing terms and
adhere to with unfinchlng fidelity. /
would have the party to say


l. We will not pay war losses, loyal
or disloyal, unless we make few ex.
ceptions of religious, educational, and
charitable institutions, and very few
OF these.


2. We will vote no more of the pub.
lie money and no more of the public
credit, and no more OF the public lands
to build up or enrich mammoth mo-
nopolies in the shape of railroad cor
porations.


3. We will in good faith pay every
dollar of the public debt, principal and
interest, in good money Of the standard
value.


4. We will restore the Constitution TO
the country and honesty and economy
TO its administration, confning the
general Government TO its limited, dele.
gated sovereign powers to promote the
local welfare of the people.


Do these four things, and, in my
judgment the child is not born who
will witness the termination Of Demo.
cratic administration in this country,
and the tongue has not been gifted
with language that can express the
prosperity which will follow to all our
people in every section Of our country.
Year: 1879

trolled by conscientious motives. He
never voted for bill merely because
it would please this or that person.
After careful examination of a mea-
sure his vote was recorded according
to his convictions of duty. An inves-
tigation of the House journal will
show that he was always on the
side of enconomy, and Systematically
opposed to every claim against the
State in which there was the slightest
possibility of job. As speaker he
is forcible and fluent, and was ever
ready to take the floor in defense Of a
just measure OF to oppose an unjust
one. During the latter part of the
session of 1879 he led in a successful
fight against bill to reorganize the
Hamilton County Court House. The
ability he displayed in that debate
drew forth several lettars of thanks
from citizens of Hamilton county.
When an attempt was made to pass a
resolution requesting Congress to
pension jeff. Davis along with the
Mexican soldiers, Mr.. Paine came to
the frort and, in speech full of fire
and earne stness, he fought the in
iquitous proposition until it was with
drawn. Mr.. Paine is before the peo-
pie OF his county as a Republican.
Every citizen of Jackson county,
whether Republican, Democrat or
National, who wishes to reward man
Of conspicuous merit, should give him
a vote.


jackson may be classed among


THE CLOSE COUNTIES


Of the State. The Republican major
tiles generally range from two to five
hundred. Last year it was 2S2. This
year the Democrats have made no
nomination for the Legislature, pre-
ferring to take their own man after
the Nationals had put him up. They
expect to gain votes this year among
the miners and other workingmen.
One charge that they make is that
Mr.. Paine voted for the tramp law,
which was introduced by Democrat
and enacted by Democratic Legisla-
ture. The appeal is made to the
Communistic sentiment, which does
not exist to any great extent in this
region. MIR. Paine's action against
tramps should secure him the support
of the farmers in particular, as it was
chiefly in their interest that the bill
was passed.


AT WORK.


| find upon examination that there
is work here at fair wages for all who
want it. From two to four hundred
coal and ore miners find work at from
one to two dollars and fifty cents per
day. Two blast furnaces are in opera
ton and ~anotileF is soon to >besirir-
work. Under the cheering influences
Of the revival of business the Republi-
cans are hopeful of carrying the
county by an increased majority The
fight is almost entirely confined to the
two candidates for Representative.


J. G. c..
Year: 1879

The Montreal UdHeSs says that by the
Halifax award the fishery question was set
tied for Il term of years but nothing is
settled until it is settled right" BY that
award the United States WAS to pay and did


pay n certain sum of money for what the
Canadian authorities claimed were great adj
vantages. Our Government now says that
what it pays for is of no value, and it gives
notice that our fisherman do not consider the
rights that have been bought for them Of any
particular consequence, and that it proposes
to terminate the treaty under which they
were granted The Canadian authorities
ought not to complain of this, and they
would not if they were receiving payment
Justly But the fact doubtless is, as stated by
the Boston TrlceHer, that under this treaty
the Canadian fishermen derive more advan-
tages than to do the Americans The Cana
dians have obtained the money damages un-
der the treaty, but they will not be permitted
to enjoy their bread buttered on both sides.