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Year: 1879

Mr.. Ecclesine enjoys the distinction of being
the only New-YOrk member of the Senate
who voted against the bill to protect Nassau
ST. and Broadway on its final passage. The
bin has now gone to the Governor supported
by the unanimous voice of the business men
and the press of this city, and, with the ex-
ception of Mr. Ecclcsine and one member Of
the Assembly, by the entire New-York dele
CATION in the Legislature. This needless af-
front to the great business interests which
Mr.. Ecclesine, in part, represents, must be ad-
mitted to be Characteristic Of his whole ca
reer His political strength is not with the
respectable classes, poor and rich, but
with the poor who are 50 ignorant that
they are easily deceived and the vile
who do the grimy work of local pol
itics. Mr.. Eccesine has been conspicuous ever
since ne entered politics for attempting to
gain the votes of labOring men by demagOgue
speeches, in the Legislature and out Of il, full
oil the idea of fixing wages by law, prohibit
ing contract labor on Government work, etc.
The most lamentable feature of the case is
the fact that be is not in the least self
deceived. He is q young man OF some
ability, a graduate of Columbia College, who
has deliberately cast III his fortunes with the
low and ignorant classes of society in order
to obtain political preferment, and steadily
lnisrepresents the plainest facts of political
economy in order to win the favor of simple
minded mon who do not know that be laughs
at them while he dcceives them. This is not
a cheerful spectacle, and it is to be hoped
that some transformation in our politics will
soon remove II from the public gaze.
Year: 1879

Superintendent Kidde has himself solved the
vexed question of his continuance at the head
of the public schools, and in the best possible
way. His career of more than forty years in
connection with our school system has been
one of singular usefulness, and his efficiency
was unimpaired, to all appearances, until the
public was astounded by the issue of his book !;
and there seemed at one time TO be d danger
Year: 1879

Secretary Sherman's letter must end all dis
cuSsion of his name as the possible Repub-
lcau candidate for Governor of Ohio. HIS
decision must be regarded as wise one,
both for the Republican party and for the
SeclGtary's personal interests. Some other
Republican can carry Ohio, but probably no
other man could take Mr.. Sherman's place at
the head of the Treasury and complete so
we'll the brilliant achievement of resumption !;
and his position as Secretary will make hlm
quite as conspicuous in the rivalry for the
Presidential nomination as the post Of Gov
eTn0r of Ohio.
Year: 1879

In addition to the enormous balance
of trade already in our favor, our exports
continue large without precedent. The
shipments from Baltimore last week
were two millions, from New York
seven millions and yet the outflow of
grain to supply the European scarcity,
from scant harvests, is hardly begun.
The receipts of cotton at the shipping
ports indicate that the new crop OF
cotton is coming in and the expectations
in this staple will greatly swell the bal
ance Of trade in our favor. There is no
corresponding increase in our importa-
tions and the difference must, therefore,
be made up in payments in gold.
Year: 1879

Barkeepers in this city pay on an average $2
per gallon for whiskey. One gallon contains
an average of sixty-fve drinks, and at ten cents
drink the poor man pays $3.50 per gallon for
his whiskey. In other words he pays So for
the whiskey, and $3.50 to man for handing it
over the bar. Make your wife your bar-keeper.
Lend her two dollars to buy gallon of whis-
key for beginning, and every time you want
a drink go to her and pay ten cents for it. By
the time you have drank gallon she will have
$3.50, or enough money to refund the 81 bor.
rowed of you, to pay for another gallon OF
be able to conduct future operations on her
own capital, and when you become an inebri-
ate, unable to support yourself, Stunned and


despised by all respectable persons, your wife
will have enough money to keep you until you
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
slcases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

IT is said the anti-Tilden Democrats will
force upon the Potter committee the investi-
CATION Of the cipher dispatches. They say
the corpse shows signs of reviving, and they
propose to finish it.
Year: 1879

quently of late for the express purpose of
detracting from General GRANTS popularity
among "Pap" THOMAS old soldiers. But
even if the very worst phase that has been
put upon it were true 1t would serve to add
another and a most effective reason why
General GRANT should be present on the
occasion in question He is too great man
and too much of patriot to hesitate on
personal grounds to do homage to the men,
ory of his iellow-ollicer
Year: 1879

In less than four weeks Congress will be
upon us. The excitement over the fall
elections will barely have time TO subside
before the most interesting and important
session of that body since the war will begin.
Meanwhile the public-spirited business men
of Washington are astir, as the increasing
patronage bestowed upon our advertising
columns fully attests, and our people gcner-
ally are preparing themselves for the enjoy
ment of the social and other advantages of
"long session.
Year: 1879

PREPARATIONS for the Reunion of the


Army of the Cumberland and the attendant
unveiling Of the statue Of General THOMAS
have now progressed so far as to assure the


managers thereof in the belief that it will


he the grandcst and most successful affair
of the kind ever attempted in the country.
As we have all along asserted, the proba-


Mlities are that General GRANT will he
present to do honor to the occasion. Not u
few of his political enomies, including
Democratic journals and journalists, have
attempted TO impose upon the public II
ridiculous theory that he will purposely
absent himself or decline to accept the in
vitaiion because Of some alleged ill-leeling
between him and General THOMAS during
the war. The facts undoubtedly are that
it was intended by the ropernuthortes ia
remove General THOMAS from his command
about the time of the battle Of Nashville
but that battle was fought and won before
this intention was carried into effect, and
he WAS consequently retained at the head
of his victorious army. This bit of history


Las been lalsiied aud twisted about fire.
Year: 1879

THE death of Senator CHANDLER has
spread rich feast for the Democratic
ghous, and they are enjoying it with un-
common gusto. When MORTON died it was
the same thing. 1t took the Bourbon and
ex-Confcderate Democrats months to work
oil their bitterness of spleen aud hate to-
ward Senator MoKroN by heaping insults
upon his memory, aud no doubtit will re-
quire more time to discharge the bile of
that class under the death of Senator
CHANDLER, as their gall is more bitter and
their hatred more intense. However,
though MORTON aud CHANDLER both sleep
in death, the principles for which they are
hated still live and will continue to live so
long as the Union endures and the Repub-
lie stands
Year: 1879

,P-The Troy Chief of June l9 commences volume
q The Chief is one of the papers you always Sc
lect out of pile of exchanges, because it says some
thing. There is more good newspaper work put
upon the Chief, both editorial and mechanical, than
any other weekly paper in Kansas. Sol. Miller is
an unfair and ungenerous opponent in q newspaper
controversy, but he is hard-working, independent
editor, who says what he thinks, without fear or
favor, and We like him for it.-Topeka Capital.


Wherein unfair and ungenerousf Because we
take the drop on them, when we can get it
We think that We are naturally fair and gener-
Gus; but we long ago found ont by experience,
that the only way to get along in the newspaper
business in Kansas, is to seize all advantages
that offer, and use them. When you 60 to ex-
ercisng your fairness and generosity, you will
find everything hogged away from you, quicker
than you can say "scat~ At least that has been
our experience.
Year: 1879

A Gross INJUsuCE.-Articles like the follow
papers, now a-days. We find this in the Atcbi-
son Globe:


1t must have been noticed by all intelligent per-
sons that the loudesf champions Of the poor soldier
those who stayed closest at home during the war
There's Mr. Jim Blaine for instance. who is perpctu-
his country when IL most needed his and with hired
substitute. He s the of all Others who has talk
ed most incessanty of the Democratic hatred Of the
Union soldier and he l. an excellent aLamPie OF the
stalwart Republican who has occupied all the posi-
fions Of trust and profit and allowed the gallant sol
dier to shift for himself There is great deal Of
idle buncombe and nonsense in this war OF words
with reference to the defenders Of our liberties The
soldier who Of real ut the critical period
not running around yelling about u, and Therefore
only attracts attention by the arior with which he
pursues the avocatons of peace. Ii is the campfol-
lowers and bounty Jumpers that make the noise 1t
is experience that the political hog will just as
readily swindle q soldier out of office rs anybody
else


Such are the missiles that are hurled, unthink-
ingly in many cases, let us hope, at the head
of the true who are struggling against
the revolutionary schemes of the men who
once rebelled against the Government, but
who have again got it almost completely in
their fatal grasp. We are sure that no gallant
Union soldier in the war of the Rebellion would





calm thought of the subject. Where would the
soldiers in the field have been, had not such brave
and able men as Blaine and the others who are
so severely censured, stood mp firmly and guard
ed them from assault in the rear, more danger
ous than attacks in 'front.' When the Democrat
ic party, as an organization, was denouncing the
soldiers in the field; when the Knights of the
Golden Circle were organized all over the land,
plotting active aid for the rebels; when recruit
ing officers and returned soldiers were shot
down in their own houses; when these and thou
sands of other things were on foot against the
soldiers, what would have been their fate hsd it
not been for the "stay at homes" who took care
of the North, carried the elections, and elected
such men as Blaine to Congress, to supply the
soldiers with the necessary means to save the
Government and themselves from annihiatiOn
Blaine and men like him in Congress and the
State Legislatures, were worth a thousand men
in the field. Leave it to the Rebels and sympa-
Tiers to denOunce the men who did not 60 to
war, but who did their part well at home, and
who now wish to preserve what the soldiers
won.
Year: 1879

SOLDIERS REUNIoN.-A soldier of the Union,
in this issue, proposes something that we trust
will be carried out enthusiastically. 1t is re-
union of soldiers who fought for the Union in
the Great Rebellion. Now, moro than st any
time since the war, such meetin 6 is needed.
If the fame and glory of the Union soldiers are
to be preserved from ingratitude and insult,
they must do something to MAINTAIN their just
rights. The men who fought to destroy the
Government, are now making its laws. To have
fought for the life of the Government, is now


held to be an objectionable offence, debarring


the soldier from official position. The men who
went into the Rebellion, now brazenly stand up
in the halls of Congress, and tell the Union SOL
diers that they were the traitors, and that the
defeated Rebels were the patriot, and the friends
of the Union. If the soldiers are true to them
selves and the cause for which they fought,


these things can never occur again, after the ex-
piration of the psesent Congress. By meeting
together, reviving the associations Of the past,
and renewing the pledge to maintain the issues
for which they fought and conquered, they can


push along the good work.
Year: 1879

r Merely to keep his hand in, You know,
the President has vetoed the Judicial Expenses
bill, which was principally drawn for the purpose
of prohibiting the President from enforcing the
laws. The Brigadiers are puzzled; but they
have made up their minds that it will never do
to adjourn without providing for carrying on
the Government.
Year: 1879

= A bill has passed Congress authorizing
the equal exchange Of standard dollars for trade
dollars at the Mint. In view of this, the trade
dollar should 60 in business for the full value of
dollar
Year: 1879

New York, June ga great
crowd was gathered at the Boston pier
this morning to see Chastine Cox, the
murderer of Mrs. Hull. A carriage,
with the horse covered with foam, was
driven rapidly Gu the pier and drew up
in front of the gang-way. Three po-
licemen jumped out, and, as they saw
men and boys running to the end of
the dock, they followed suit, The
cause of the running was that the
steamer Newport was approaching the
pier, but Cox was not on board that
boat; he was prisoner on the Bristol.
That boat was not far behind the New
port, and when she was made fast to
the pier, detachment of policemen
from the Twenty seventh Precine sur
rounded the gangway and cleared an
open space. The crowd by this time
was so densely packed in the small
space at the end of the bulkhead that
no one could find even standing room,
and several had narrow escapes from
being pushed into the river. Cox was
then landed with policeman on either
side. Despite his efforts to appear
composed, it was evident that he was
greatly frightened when he saw the
surg,ng crowd before him, and he
clung close to the officers. When they
bounded up the gang plank, he kept
step with them, aud second later he
was in the carriage. The whip was
Immediately applied to the horses, and
Cox and the policemen were hurled
rapidly away from the dock, leaving
the struggling crowd behind.


Captain Williams had secured the
bridal chamber of the Bristol for the
trip, and as soon as the passengers
learned of the murder of Mrs. Hull
was on board, efforts were made to get
a glimpse Of him, aud the state-ronm
door and window overlooking the guards
were besiesed by men and women who,
however, saw little. After supper
and smoke, Cox reclined on the bri-
dal couch and chatted good humoredly
when the subject was broached. to the
murder. He was firm and positive in
his denial that he was assisted by any
one, and adhered to the statement that
he did not intend to murder her, but
that his object was robbery.
Year: 1879

The GRAND CANON Row,-ST
LOUIS, Juue 25.--A Denver, Col dis
patch says: Justice::Miller, of the su-
preme court of the United States, this
morning, on motion of the Rio Grande
counsel to execute the mandate of the
supreme court 10 Grand Cauon, went
into general review of the mandate
and stated in plain terms that the pri-
ority Of rig ht of the Rio Grande Co.
in Grand Canon covered only that part
which was too narrow for two tracks.
that before the Rio Grand Co. could
be granted prior right under the man
date they must first pay the Santa Fe
Co. the cost of construction of the road
through that part Of the canon known
as the Royal Gorge, aud they could not
accupy it until they had paid for it
Then the right of the Santa Fe Co. to
occupy the track jointly With the Rio
Grande Co. must afterward be settled
by the court. He would not turn the
Santa Fe Go. out of the canon, but
there must be speedy settlement OF
these difficulties and by both parties
coming together and settling on an
equitable basis.
Year: 1879

The young men employed in beer
gardens to furnish guests with the am
Der nectar are selected for the position
on account Of the keen eye-sight and
ability to carry fourteen beer-mugs in
one hand .-Norristown Herald.
Year: 1879

The ONLY WAY TO BURY THE
LOST CAUsE.-It is observable that
while JEFF. Davis claims not to preach
a new revolt at this time, he gives no.
tice that the mothers are training up
those who will yet "vindicate the lost
cause. 1t is plain that the only way
to stop all this nonsense. to check the
flow of these bitter waters from the
Southern beart, to squelch out once for
all this "vindicaton" Of the rebellion
and to establish beyond cavil or ques-
ton the national authority over every
inch of the national domain is to re-
buke the Democracy thoroughly and
soundly throughout the North. The
past few years have shown that the old
virus of secession testers and inhames
anew with every Democratic victory
The remedy which will destroy that
virus forever is ready at hand and the
people have made up their minds to
administer it 10 powerful doses.--AL
bany E0ening Journal (Rep.l
Year: 1879

The Canadian Government does not
believe in armed parades outside of its
militia. 1t has refused permission to
the Sixty.ninth New York Regiment
to enter Canada bearing arms. The
New York regiment had been invited
to ioin in social celebration at Mont
real by local military companies, but
this Governmental order will break up
the programme.
Year: 1879

HEROIC DEED BY A LITTLE GIRL.
JERSEY CITY, June 23,-Charles
Frazer, engineer, as his locomotive was
rounding Franklin Crossing in Passaic
going west Wednesday evening, saw a
seveo-year old girl run upon the track
in front, Frazer whistled down brakes,
reversed his engine and with his fire.
man leaned forward to watch the child.
The locomotive rushed upon her, and
the watchers expected to see her killed
When escape seemed almost impossible
the girl succeeded in lifting a baby
from between the ties where it had
been previously invisible from the loco
motive, and throwing it On the soft
ground at the side of the track. She
bounded after it just in time to mar
rowIy escape the wheels, then she pick
ed up the baby and walked away.
Year: 1879

THEIR YOUNG FATHER.-A rich
widow, lacking only two years of half
a century and dressing her hair six
times day, in Elizabethtown, Ky.
fell in love with youth of nineteen
who had been working on her farm.
Her two step-sons ordered him to leave
the town, and threatened to use shot
gun if be should ever attempt to re-
turn. The v,doy took the lad to towa
purchased for him pew suit of clothes
and charged him to get license. The
young man did as be was told, and
when they were married she carried
him home and asked her step-sons what
they meant to do about it.
Year: 1879

BAYARO BOOMING. -Ci arlcston
Is. CO., News and Courier, Senator
Bayard has won the admiration of those
who agree with him, and the respect
even Of his oponents. by his unflinch-
ing adherence to his convictions, and
his manful refusal to consent to COM
promise on the silver bill. The events
of the past fortnight have lifted him
into greater prominence than ever as
the man for 1880. The silver men,
however, out of revenge, may toma-
hawk him in the Democratic Conven-
ton. But Bayard is one of the men
that would rather be right than be
President. We wish there were more
statesmen in Washington of that
stamp.
Year: 1879

The 60-4 proposition is voted down
by an estimated majority variously
ranging from fifteen to twenty-five
thousand votes. Middle and West
Tennessee went against it while the
East gave it but small majority. The
vote was One-third short Of the aver
age general vote usual in the State.
While we heartily supported the COM
promise, believing its adoption to be
best for the State, yet, now that it has
been defeated, we hope the result will
conduce to the largest public good.
In our support of the measure we
knew that we confronted Il formidable
opposition among the people but on
this public question as well as on all
others of similar character, we did
and will always conscientiously take
om stand in support Of what we con
ceive to be right and leave others to
exercise the'same privilege of free citi
zenship. And now that the struggle
is over let us as people, who are copart-
ners in the veal or woe reserved for
the future Of the commonwealth, stand
shoulder to shoulder, determined to
cling close to the State amid whatever
perils threaten her progress.
Year: 1879

The truth is that these too frequent
unhappy marriages are the offspring
of ignorance quite as much as Of actu-
al sin or wrong. Fools, and especially
vicious fools, have no right to get pos
session of an honest woman's life and
soul which they can not comprehend,
and the elevatin@ influence Of which
they throw away even more by stupid
ity than byWilltulness. A woman, by
her sex and character, has claim to
many things besides shelter, food and
clothing. She is not less a woman for
being wedded and the man who is
fit to be trusted with a good wife rec
ollects all which this implies, ,and shows
himself perpetually chivalrous, sweet
spoken, considerate and deferential.
The f)ols and brutes who abound
among US may think such demands
hard but they are not nearly as bad
as to live the cat-and-dog life, missing
the dearest possibilities Of human inter
course.


What right has a man to expect
happiness in Il household who brings
no sunshine into it? What right has
he to look for the graces and retinements
Of early love when he violates them by
rough speech, iil-manners, and the
disregard Of those little things upon
which the self-respect Of wife is built
and maintained? The cynic who rails
at marriage Is generally one of the same
with the thoughtless egotist who files
into the presence of his wife careless,
stubborn and sour-tempered, though
he never went to his mistress except on
his best ehavior. The fate is horrible
which poor and faithful girl may en-
dure by encounter.ng in him whom
she weds not mere actual cruelty or
/ injury, but stupid incompetence to
understand a woman's needs, dull, for
getfulness of the daily graces Of life
and oblivious # the fact that while men
have the world women have only the
home. These grossnesses of masculine
ingratitude no not, indeed, often lead
to visible catastrophe nor grow into
absolute tyranny, but they equally
tend that way. They drag down q
wife's soul to the point where she must
despair; they change the sublime
meaning Of marriage to vulgarity and
WEAKNESS they spoil the chance OF
that best and finest of all education
which each man obtains who wins a
reasonably good woman for his com
panion, and they cost more to a million
households than money or repentance
can ever pay back.-YOnkers States,
man.
Year: 1879

couple OF satellites, armed with sharp
switches. They argued the matter with her
lGdyship-so much so that when her lord
reappeared she brought him slippers and
sat at his feet.


Many Of the marriages made in such haste
last winter were a source of serious evil
to the men involved. Very few Of the en-
ployes had received any pay for upward OF
year, and were in a state of great want,
and to give them several extra mouths TO
feed was not quite a reasonable method OF
alleviating their misery. One of the latest
marriages was that of one of the younger
sons Of the Khedive, Mahmoud Bey, to his
cousin. The Princess had something near
100000 a year, but was twenty-four years of
age. Mahmound was only sixteen. His
elder brother, Ibrahim Pasha, was married
to a younger sister, aged twenty-about his
own age. This marriage was by proxy, the
Prince being in Europe. Mahmoud com
planned bitterly of being married to such an
old woman, the more so as he IS very jealous
of his brother, who has always been the ia
vorite son of their father.