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Year: 1877

Inc i0ilOWlng, taken from tnc last
number of "Round's Cabinet" is well
worthy reconsideration. Especially
would we commend it to the perusaI
of those who appear to take SO little
thought in this respect:


With the printing press thus every
where, with papers and books in the
hands Of every one-with the gamn
laughing over an " Illustrated" and
the old man pondering over some
"Thunderer," the Importance OF
sowing only pure seed can be appre-
ciated. But the avarice of portion
of mankind (shame upon themD is
shown by the pernicious literature
scattered through the Countrywide
"blood and thunder" stories; the
more improbable the better relished.
There cannot be too much care in
the sorting of the seed before it is
given to the public. And this sort
ing and sowing is in the hands Of the
editor and printer. He should reflect
deeply upon what his duty is, and
act accordingly. The few dollars he
may make by pandering to low-born
and vitiated tastes-by publishing
matter" he would not have the
ewes Of his own daughters to rest
upon-will prove in the end blight.
ing curse.


To you is given the scattering Of
the seed. Beware it is not filled
with impurities. Once having left
your hard-once havirg been given
to the winds of heavsn-all your
power over it is lost. You cannot
tell into what soil il may find lodg.
ment and sprout and blossom and
bear fruit. But you can tell what
the fruit should be. The harvest
will not be false to the sowing.
Weeds will not spring up on every
side if the seed is pure. The vine
will not be false to the sowing.
Weeds will not spring up on every
side if the seed is pure. The vine
will not be false to the root-the
peach or orange to the bud. Win
now the seed well--winnow from it
all that is vile and false-that will
cause the cheeks Of beauty to fame
and the heart of the good to grow
faint and sad-that will open the
eyes o: innocence to the guilt of the
world.


Printer and editor, ye are the scat
ters of all the mental seed upon which
the world is fed, you alone are respon-
sible for it. Sordid gain and de-
based taste may stand by your side
and plead for the sowing Of tares.
Have none of it. Avarice may tug
at your heart. .strings--even hollow
eyed Want may tempt you to step
aside from the path Of duty. To all
such temptations turn = deaf ear.
Bow not your manhood at such un-
holy shrines. Fetter not your souls
with the fetters of immortality.
Listen not to the syren song Of gold
in such a cause. Suffer want rather
than disgrace. Scatterers of seed,
see to it that it is pure, as you value
your own happiness, and peace, and
prosperity.
Year: 1877

There isa new sect in Russia called
the Purifiers" belong to the Greek
Church. Their leading doctrines
are that all must marry oD coming of
age, and the husband must be subor-
dinate to wife and recognize her as
the head of the family, and that once
a week he must confess his sins to
his wife. Woman's rights there, if
you please.
Year: 1877

The Imperial Office of Statistics
in Berlin, has just published the last
census table of the population of the
German Empire. At the end OF
1876 it was 42,797,36O. The great
est increase was in Prussia proper.
Year: 1877

mutual confidence and affection too
rarely found between father and
son. A third desk in tho room is
used by q Woodworking clerk, who
attends to the correspondence under
the private secretarys direction.
On one side of this room, which by
the way is handsomely furnished
and has lovely outlook on the
lawn and the Potomac, is smaller
apartment, where other clerks are
on duty. On tho other side three
or four stops lead from an open
door down to tho Presidents re-
ception room, large square room,
with heavy green rep curtains, hung
over lace, at tho two windows,
bright carpet, two desks, numerous
bookcases and an abundance of vel
vet cushioned chairs. At q large
desk, in the middle of tho room, the
President receives his visitors. All
who arc members of Congress or
Cabinet ministers come directly in
from the hall after giving their
names to messenger at the door,
and do not, therefore, have to run
the gauntlet of the private secretary.
Every morning, between ten and
twelve, the senators and representa-.
tives come in steady stream. MIR.
Hayes has chair placed facing his,
to which he motions each caller by
turn, rising to shake hands with him
rs he advances, and then resuming
his own seat. Sometimes, when the
conversation is designed to be
especially private ho gets up and
takes his visitor aside into window
alcove, and sometimes, but very
rarely, he goes out with him into
his reliring room, adjoining.
Year: 1877

cldqie tells what Is good That TO- what the author
says Is good-and he ought TO know. He has to make
the comedies "gon and he knows what hard wsrk
that is nowadays Lastly the inquest should be held


In the Morgue, where many comedies end that were
just as funny and full OF promise In the first acts and
quite as dreary and Disappointing at the iai OF tho
curtain as any that our best playwrighs have given
us OF late. or course II Will DO necessary
10 have subject and would propose but no.
l have been informed that the entire object OF this
discussion is to galvanze somebody's comedy that 10
said 70 be like O'Caaghan In the play Resenting the
possibility OF such mputation, studiousiy avoid
naming Names as IL might nhict unnecessary pain on
the modest gentleman who wants the desired norma-
tion. BY the by, What Ia the original question What
IS 1t all about, anyhow Is 1t a christening or a
funeral? B.
Year: 1877

heir allotted part in a conspirscyse set on
foot in New York, and that neither knew
Or cared whether they were acting in
accordance with law or otherwise.


When the disbursement of eight thous-
and dollars, very intimately bearing, ap-
parenty, on Growers action. has been
freed of all the mysteries by which it
has been purposely surrounded, We shall
all be better able to Judge Of the motives


underlying the Preparation of the out
rage, and another proof viii be added to
the already long Gst.of the honest meth
DDS adopted to saddle the people of this
natiorhwith @Reformer' by installing
SJ Tilden inthe White House, in viola
ton of every principle of honesty and Of
representative government.


Congress did very tttle business last
week, it being found quite impossible to
obtain q quorum in either House The
fact is that until we, know who IS to be
our next President, business m Congress
as we'll as out Of II, viii only receive
nominal attention. There appears to
have been no progress made by the Sem
ate or House portion Of the joint COM
nittee appointed to devise a meihod for
counting and declaring the electoral
To;e. MAXWELL.
Year: 1877

There was flut er of cardinal red rib
bons, and laugh so shrill that the few
loungers in the little waiting-room
glanced curiously through the window
of he telegraph Office. Without was the
clear and intensity cold twilight Of a
winter evening. a sreak of vivid red
light dying away in the west, and 8
white crescent moon high above it.
Lights vet flashed from the numberless
windows of the great mills in the dis
lance, out of whose doors dark lines of
operatives were still issuing in appear
emily endless succession. Lights stream
ing brilliantly from the windows of store
and dwelling house deEed the gray shad-
ows fh 1t we're slowly settling over the
populous and snowy street, where free.
dom seemed to be running riot in wild
Laughter and wilder shouts, in the beat
Of horses hoofs and the gay chime of
bells Within, through q close atmos-
phere impregnated with stale tobacco,
the gas lamps hared yellowly on dingy
walls decked with the usual collection OF
colored posters, railway maps, and ad.
vertisements. on the rusty pyramid OF
iron used as stove and on lines of rick
ETY. settees occupied by various heavily
coated individuals, who we're doing and
smoking away the ten minutes that must
elapse before the arrival of the night
train from the city.


Reused by the laugh, more than one
sleepy individual enlightened himself
and stared into the telegraph Office
where petite young woman, with the
glossiest of short black curls and the
sauciest of bright black eyes, was leaning
her two elbows on a table and talking
with lank and lighthaired girl opposite


The young woman first mentioned
was dressed in alpaca that was rust,
from long wear, besides being somewha


white in the seams and frsyed at edge
of trimming and braid. Her collar ano
cuffs were far from being clean, but the
coquettishly tied red bow at her throa
and the snowy bracelets on her wris
were supposed to atone for slight defects
The little brown hands that supported
her chin were also somewhat griHiy
She had slipped two broad gold rings OF
the. slight foretinger Of the right one ant
it was the action, accompanied by
grimace. that had provoked her compan


ions shrill laugh. s
Year: 1877

The one hundredth anniversary Of the
battle Of Bemus Heights was celebrated
with appropriate ceremonies yesterday on
the ground on which the memorable engage
ment was fought. To that battle and its
result is attributable the ultimate surrender
of General Burgoyne's army-an event
which is admitted to have had most i'm
portant bearing on the final triumph of the
republican cause. But for the check then
given to the British arms a junction of the
forces of Burgoyne and Sir Henry Clinton
might have been effected at Albany; the
State Of New York, then as now the most
important of the brotherhood, might have
been held completely under the power of
the enemy, and the struggle for indepen-
dence would at least have been protracted.


The engagement of September 10, 1777, was
by no means q decisive one. The British
had hoped to gain possession Of the high
ground which commanded the left wing Of
the Americans; but tn cir right, under General
Frazer, who fell in the second engagement,
on the 7th of October, encountered the
fiery Colonel Morgan with his rifemen and





hours fighting were stopped in their adj
vance. General Burgoyne, indeed, because
he remained in possession of the field of bat
tie, claimed victory as the result Of the days
struggle but a check was under the cir
cumstances a defeat to his army. The Amer
leans were constantly receiving additions
to their force and were well supplied, while
Burgoyne could hope for no re:nforcements
and his supplies could not easily be replen-
ished. The American position was too strong
to be successfully assaied and now the
British had been taught that they had some
hard fighting to do before they could hope
even to approach the patriot camp. Every
days delay brought new dangers to General
Bureoyne, and the fact that his army re-
NAMED inactive from September 10 until
October Z a period of eighteen days, is the
best proof that the result of the first battle
of Bemus Heights was substantial victory
for the republicans.


In this year of centennial celebrations,
when we live over again our early trials
and our early triumphs. no events are more
deserving of commemoration than those
which have made the picturesque region
along the Hudson River between Saltwater
and Schuylerville landmark in our ma
tional history. Yesterdays jubilee was the
first or preliminary one only, and will be
followed by more imposing celebration at
Schuylerville on the date Of the surrender,
when the corner stone of q monument COM
memorating the event will be laid. But
the patriotism which found vent in Saratoga
county yesterday had sufficient to justify
it. On Freeman's farm the blow was struck
which paralyzed Burgoyne's movement and
made the eventual surrender inevitable.
The ceremonies were held on the heights,
ut the spot where the fortified log barn,
dignifed with the name of Fort Nelson,
stood and where the American breastworks
confronted the royalist army. Although
this was not the real battle ground its ele-
vated position affords view OF the entire
field Of operations. From the heights the
Year: 1877

more absolutely it requires the widest
markets, because the more certainly will
what it can produce exceed in quantity
what it will itself consume.


1t pleases us, therefore. to believe that the
administration of President Hayes is to be q
business more than political administra-
ton. and that the President and his Cabi-
net really mean to attend to the industrial
questions, which have been Sc long neg
lected, because the war and its conse-
quences fixed our attention on other mat
ters. Nor Is Mr.. Evarts mistaken in believ-
ing that If the present administration re-
stores the country to prosperity that will
give it an honorable and glorious place in
our history. There are high and mighty
politicians who turn up their noses at such
petty considerations as these, and who
scorn ''bread and butter policy" just rs
when Mr.. Hayes began his new Southern
policy and restored the country to peace
there were politicians who manifested
noble contempt for peace and were certain
that the Southern policy was blunder
But this kind of craftsmanship finds no
enduring sympathy in the public mind.
Let the administration go on. 1t has given
us peace; let it now give US prosperity, and
it will matter little what the chronic
grumblers, theorists and partisans have to
Year: 1877

eye is enabled to trace the routes by which
the British army advanced to the engage
ment; the line along which Morgan and Ar
mold led their eager troops against Frazer's
command; the spot where the hostile
forces suddenly found themselves face to
face; the farm on which the fercest part OF
the struggle occurred, and Mill Creek, at
the bottom of the middle ravine, across
which the contending troops were driven
backward and forward, as the tide OF battle
set now in favor of the English and now OF
our sountrymen, until its ripping stream
was Redeemed with the blood of the slain
Certainly no more important events than
those which marked these stirring days OF
September and October one hundred years
ago can be commemorated by Americans,
and the people of Saratoga are to be con-
graduated on the marked success Of the
first of their centennial celebrations.
Year: 1877

In a judicious article on Stanley's latest
success the Tribune says of the expedition
thus ended that lit stands alone in variety
and Importance ofachievement in the records
of African travel" This seems to us fair
judgment. 1t is, we suppose. the opinion
of O writer who, by an extensive study OF
the subject of African exploration, is better
know what is new and important in African
discovery. AS the opinion of such writer
it prefgures what will be the ultimate judg-
ment on Stanley's labor; for it is the privi-
lege of intelligence to perceive Immediately
that which is only to be seen much later by
the many, whose first vision of any great
event is always distorted by prejudices or
clouded by the various vapors Of their sur
roundings. AS further evidence Of the
fact that superior intelligence perceives
Immediately what is OF really great
value in the substantial acquisitions Of
knowledge we notice that our always able,
but sometimes tart, contemporary, the Sun,
promptly offers it's congratulations to Stan
ley as having "gained the distinction Of set
tling the only remaining problem of African
geography" This is tribute to be held
in peculiar esteem and to be treasured like
certain gems that connoisseurs value less
for their splendor than for their rarity.
Our contemporary recognition of the i'm
portance Of Stanley's last contributions to
geographical knowledge is not open to any
suspicion that it is base result of per-
sonal admiration for that traveller At
time when the whole world Of journalism
was in blaze of generous admiration over
Stanley's discovery of Livingstone the San
distinguished itself by lofty superiority
to the passion of the hour, and proved that
It was not as other journals are, at least so
fur as relates to sympathy with the impulses
of the people. At the risk of showing that it
could not tell real news from o counterfeit
article it elaborately endeavored to show that
Stanleys stories were not true; but at least
it showed then the resolute honesty Of its
intentions, and that resolute honesty gives
value to its present recognition From the
Times also comes q very handsome and
hearty recognition and appreciation Of the
success Of our correspondent. In the
country press the tone Of comment is all in
generous recognition of the great achieve
ment. In fact, they are all proud of it,
for all Justly perceive that o triumph like
this is not the possession of any one estab-
lishment, but of the whole newspaper
press
Year: 1877

Yesterday was proud day for this distin-
guished and popular democrat. TO the great
surprise of everybody he was nominated for
Governor of New Jersey without any personal
effort and while he was absent in distant
State. At about the same hour when he
was SO unexpectedly nominated at Trenton
in one of the widest scenes ever presented
by political convention, General McClel-
Ian was receiving a splendid ovation
at Faneuil Hall in Boston, offered
by personal admirers and old COM
panions in arms, without any thought that
what they were doing could be OF any politi-
cal significance. Nor would it have had any
if those who assisted at that splendid COM
pliment had not unconsciously exceeded
their intentions. The Boston friends of
General Mcclellan "builded wiser than they
knew" and helped his canvass for Governor
all the more effectually by not intending it.
His nomination, as soon as it is known, will
send on electric thrill through the New Jer-
sey democrats, and their enthusiasm will
be kinded to the highest pitch when
they find that their candidate, at the very
hour of his nomination, when neither he
nor his Boston admirers knew what was
coming, was receiving great ovation which
demonstrated his wonderful personal popu
larity. The demonstration in Faneuil Hall
is worth to his canvass hundred ratifca-
ton meetings, because it was great COM
pliment paid to the man and the soldier
under circumstances which attested it's full
sincerity and unaffected warmth


General Mcclellan owes his nomination
to the rivalry Of the contesting candidates,
which had become so heated as to threaten
the unity of the party. In this state Of
things his name was suddenly sprung upon
the Convention. It ran like wildfire in o
heap of combustibles The frantic efforts to
fight it by friends of the other candidates
caused grotesque and lively hubbub; but
it was all in vain, his personal popularity
blazing through the Convention and sweep
ing all before it. There can be no doubt of
his election. The democrats would have
carried New Jersey this year with any can
didate on whom the party could have
united; but they will now carry the State
with brilliant enthusiasm, which will be
famed into sudden intensity by the oppor-
tune Boston compliment
Year: 1877

Marshal MacMahon's address to the peo-
pie of France is pitched in tone that
would be proper and in character if he, in
stead of being citizen temporarily intrusted
with the duties of the executive Office, were
an absolute sovereign who disdained other
intercourse with the nation than such rs
sufficed to declare his supreme will and in
dictate tho consequences of disobedience
He tells the country that he dissolved the
body which represents the nation and
is the constitutional exponent of the ma
tional will because it "forgot the share
of authority which belonged to me-"
He stigmatizes the majority of that cham
ber as demagogues. 1t is proverbially easy
to call names, and the use Of opprobri-
Gus epithets will not help bad cause and
is not likely to be resorted to in the interest
of a good one. It is the policy Of the re-
dictionary party in France to endeavor to
frighten the nation out of its republican
principles by holding that in republicanism
there is no mean--that it is impossible to
draw line between Theirs and the Com
munists. Hence the policy of constantly





gogues. But the French people have sud-
denly parted with a great deal of shrewd
good sense if they do not see through this
contemplate manDuvre. But suppose for
an instant that the men called dema-
gogues are demagogues- what then? If the
French nation in choosing it's representa-
tives chooses majority Of that sort, has it
not the sovereign right to do SO? and is
there any one possessed of 'divine right"
to review and correct this expression Of the
national will? Yes this is the claim of the
President--a claim presented in words of
unparalleled arrogance and evidently put
forth as the official answer to Gambetta's
''Se sownettre on Sc dkmettre." When France
has spoken, said the republican orator,
they who now dispute her will ''must
submit or resign" When France has
spoken, says MacMahon, there will be
tranquility if she speaks the words
have set down for her; but if she pre-
tends to anything like will and words Of
her own there will be can aggravated con-
fict between the public powers )" and as to
me personally, II can neither become the
instrument Of radicalism nor abandon the
post in which the constitution has placed
me-" I cannot resign, and / will not ac-
cept as On expression of the national will
the votes of Chamber Of which I dis
approve. Never did IN Executive address
free people in words more astounding
than these.
Year: 1877

The WEATHER.-'The progress of the Gulf
cyclone is now the most interesting mcteorologi
cal feature. Our special dispatches from New
Orleans describe the ravages OF the storm, which


include the destruction of valuable dwellings
and crops. The cyclone is now central on the
coast of the Eastern Gulf and is moving into the
South Atlantic States in u northeasterly direction
that will bring it over very near Cape IIattcras.
as announced yesterday. The high pressure
Immediately in advance of the disturbance re-
tards its progress considerably, but this resist
sncc will pass away to-day and the storm will
advance quite rapidly. Tho Nova Scotia
depression has already passed OF the coast
and is followed by another which ap-
proachcs the lakes from Manitoba. The
temperature is rising in the West, but has
fallen in the Eastern and Southern districts very
decidedly. Rains have fallen chiefly within the
area Influenced by the cyclone They have been
heaviest ut New Orleans, Mobile and in Northern
Florida. This storm liz of local development,
dependent on peculiar relative arrangement of
the areas of high and low pressure. Consequently
It lacks the fierce energy OF n storm originating
further to the eastward and gathering force as it
advances in "a westerly direction before it de-
scribes its peculiar parabolc curve and takes
nm oppositc direction. The weather in New
York today will be cool and cloudy, probably
with ruin aud increasing winds from the north
Year: 1877

the local party convention that the anti
Conkling candidate for State Senator has
thrown up the sponge and made formal
Joseph r. Swan, Jr., writes a manly and
creditable letter to the Utica Herald stating
that he finds the opposition to him so great
that he is unwilling to endanger the har-
mony of the party by permitting his name
to be longer used. This signal retreat of
the leader of the opposition proves that
whatever may be Mr.. Conkling's strength in
the other parts of the State it is vain for
republicans to fight him in his own county.
Year: 1877

In HALE's PIANO FACTORY, according to the
Fire Marshars report there was no provision
whatever for extinguishng the flames. How
many equally dangerous fire traps are there in
the city
Year: 1877

THE UNION PACIFIC train robbers made
clean sweep of it. Travel on the Plains is be-
ginning to be more perilous than in the early
days when the Indians amused themselves by
throwing trains from the track.