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Year: 1877

ThE high winds of last week have pro- duced a delightful after effect upon our climate, though tLey have caused some seem to have been the flag end of a trench dOus storm on the Eastern coast. Our exchanges rerort many casualties and some loss of life in consequence of it. The weather is now charming and much com mented on by visitors.
Year: 1877

PHOTOGRAPHS of the new bridge, of the first locomotive that crossed the Colorado and of various points of interest around Yuma have been taken this week by Mir E. Comi-lin, ill the interest of the American Press Association. His design is to carry the ne atiyes home with him aud prin. from them there. We hope he will find time to print few pictures from them before go- inc
Year: 1877

A NUMBER of new books by the most popular authors have been received by Geo. Martin. The increased demand for such works is a gratifying proof of the lit erary taste of this community.
Year: 1877

THE Colorado left here for Ehrenberg about sunrise on the 1StiI She was not the regularly aevertised boat, but was sent as m extra to take off some so tons of accu- mulated freight.
Year: 1877

These goods ell Of our own manufacture and any

retailers Offering goods prIco list Offering
feror, worthless trssh Our prices 81 least Is

cent lower than can be offered by out manufacturer



Our goods we'll finished strong and Substantially made

We guarantee them to be just represented

Send for illustrated Catalogue aud convinced that

house underseu M
Year: 1877

Letter from Treasurer Hunter


A New Plan tor Compromise.


To The Editor of tie WING


A few weeks ago I addressed you In
regard to scheme for 4 different
mode OF paying the interest on the
public debt 80 ss to secure something
to t'Ie holders Of the peeler bonds, and
a different arrangement for that debt
generally. Since then modification
of the plan presented at that time has
suggested Itself to me, which, in my
opinion, would release us from much
OF our difficulty, to which no one
could object who admits that the State
would be justified in securing first, in
preference to all other demands,
enough to support the government and
the necessary schools, if it will leave
all the rest To the public creditor and
impose Rs much tax us its people may
be fairly said to be able to bear. Since
the enactment of the whiskey bill in
addition to the existing taxation, it il
probable that the State has under
taken as much Rs she is well able to
boar. The existing taxation last year
yielded about $1,000, 600, and the
friends of the whiskey tax hope for
about $500 900 from that Source. The
State government and its necessary es-
Adjustments, il is estimated, will cost
ten or eleven hundred thousand dol
lars, and the primary schools and Uni
versity, in addition to the township
taxation, will require of the State
about half "A million dollars. If half
the State taxes were required to be
paid in money to be devoted to the
support of the government and schools,
those objects wOnld be accomplished
and the residue would nearly pay the
interest on the debt. To accomplish
this last object equally and justly the
"peelers" ought to be funded with tax
receivable coupons, and let this resi-
due be divided amongst the creditors
in proportion to their claims. All


would thus he dealt with equally, and
the revenue increasing with wealth
and population would soon be ade-
auate for the payment of interest IT,
in addition to this, it were provided
that any holder of per cent. funded
bond might exchange IL at pleasure for
a 4 per cent. bond having nifty years
to run with taX-Teceivable coupon,
which would be allowed instead of the
per cent. tax receivable that II super
ceded. Is the any objection to the
equity of such an arrangemeDt?-
Have not the support of the govern
ment and of primary schools a claim
prior to all others on the assets of the
State, even the payment Of the public
debt Some might doubt the prior
claim even Of the primary schools, al
though | think il might be maintain
ed, but If il should be 80 deemed these
expenditures might be postponed until
the State was able TO meet them. But
the prior claim for the means of sup
porting State government and its ne
cassary establishment none, | think,
can dispute. II so, his must be oapgt
insdna5He triJuS dnHcyris. To enable
a people to pay debt they must be
protected from rapine and ravage. To
enable them to produce the M 'ans To
pay their debts peace must be main
tained within their borders. To ens'
ble labor 10 profit by its work and pro-
vide anything 10 pay debt justice must


be maintained aud distributed, the
Year: 1877

IT is said the President means to
favor the old Wings of the South
first, all things being equal. His
recognition of Hampton is urged
as being deemed exhaustive of the
claims of the Democratic party.
Tho President evidently, from the
time he penned his letter Of ac-
oeptance, has endeavored to build
up respectable support in the
South, and We have no idea he will
be very choice as to their party an
tecedents. Certainly he has ex,
hibited toward the South more
generosity aud fairness than any
other Republican since the death
Of Lincoln
Year: 1877

The Rev. c.. p. Mccarthy, who
breaches every Sunday in thu Uni
verslty Building, Washington Square,


as pastor of what is called the Ameri-
can Free Church, endeavored to aus
Swer the the question:" Who was
Gains Wife p last evening. He
took his text from the fourth chapter
Of Genesis and the seventeenth verse.
The preacher said that he had Sc
lected the peculiar subject annOunc


ed, at the request of several members
of his congregation. Maintaining
that old theories as to the meaning
of the Bible stories had ceased to be
tenable because of the increased light
of science, that the theory held by


many as to Gains wife would also
have to be abandoned. "The otho,
dox answer to the question:" said he,


''is perhaps Cain married his sister. ,
Well, don't think he did. Now, |
am not going to shirk the answering
of this question. | have a theory of
our race which others do not believe


in. Nine out of ten believe that the


human race came from one pair, !
don't believe it. Do you say that
this is heretical ? Perhaps it is, but


this is not a question to be answered
by those who cling to the old theories


That old theory can never answer it.
In the first place, Cain could not have
married his sister when he departed
to the land Of Nod, because he had
no sister. When Seth was born Adam
was only one hundred and thirty years
old, Il very Young man for those days,
and Seth was his third child: There
rs no mention of daughters, In tho
second place. Cain departed to a
country where there we're people, and
he feared these people would slay him
because of his crime. and the Lord
recognized the reality of this danger
and set mark on him that he might
be saved. The Bible nowhere states
that there were only two people origi"
nallyereated. Adam was the generic
name for the human race, aud male
aud female created he them Do you
believe that Negroes and Chinese are
the descendants of the same progenitors
with ourselves ? don't. Cain went
over to the land of Nod, and there
became the chief of race which hC
found there. lie built a city. He
could not have done this alone. This
then, must be the answer to the ques'
Year: 1877

ton; there we're races of people upon
the earth at the time Cain was driven
out a vagabond, and from this race
Cain took his wife"


The preacher dwelt at considerable
length on the lesson to be drawn from
the life of Cain, and exorted all to
avoid the little sins, for even Cain
did not become murderer all at
once, but was led up to that great
crime by envy and jealous feelings
". Y. World.
Year: 1877

The two chief causes that combine to pro-
duce the present terrible famine in British
India are the insufficiency of water during
the dry seasons for irrigating the agricul-
tural lands and the exclusive use Of cereals
as food by the great bulk of the population.
The vast plateau OF the Indian peninsula,
between the Eastern and Western Ghauts, is
peculiarly liable to severe droughts. During
these prolonged suspensions of rainfall the
earth becomes parched and vegetation
wthers completely away, leaving the sur
face of the country bare waste of burning
sand and rock. Crops planted in anticipa-
ton of favorable season perish. and the
inhabitants, having no other food resources
than those produced by the soil, are stricken
with all the horrors OF famine. Under the
ancient native rulers of the country prepara-
ton was made in every district liable to
suffer during tho dry seasons by the con-
struction of vast water tanks or "bunds" in
which the rainfall was carefully stored for
use in times of necessity. Some of these
"bunds," such as that in South Arcot, have
q storage capacity for seventeen thousand
millions of gallons of water, enough to sup
ply a large and important system of irrigat-
ing canals for the greater part of year.
The Hindoos brought the art of canal en-
gineering to great perfection, some of their
works being now the only resources of tho
famine stricken millions of Central and
Western India by which supplies can be
transported from place to place.


But another cause for the famine exists in
the grasping policy of their European mas
ters, which has tended to disturb, and fire.
quently to destroy, the time tried systems of
the natives The railroads constructed by
the Anglo-Indian government have been de-
signed mainly MS strategic lines of commu-
nication between important military sta
tions. They are of little use when wanted
to transport food to the centres Of distress.
The public works carried on during the
famine years are mainly public roads and
railways which form a part Of the system re-
ferred to- The enormous revenues of the
British government derived from India arc
the results of a grinding taxation from
which the population derive little or no
benefit. If comprehensive and liberal
policy were adopted toward the natives by
which every rupee over and above the gov
ernmcnt expenses should be devoted to the
construction of irrigating canals and other
works Of equal utility, the teeming soil Of
Year: 1877

Not the least depressing feature of the
prevailing distress among the poor is the
work that remains undone by many people
who have both money and the charitable
impulse. These individuals are touched by
the miseries of the destitute they long to
be useful, but their usefulness is impeded,
if not entirely arrested, by o lot of fanciful
notions which they fondly cherish for tEeir
own sake. If they haunt the courts of
ging to be committed as paupers their
pocketbooks remain closed because they do
not see interesting looking objects of charity !;
if they eye the sad line of applicants at st.
Johns Guild they search for some attractive
face, while they neglect the wretched
mother whose every lineament and every
rag of covering is eloquent of WOO; if they
visit nsylums with the view of adopting an
orphan child they demand some one with
graces and virtues not to be found
collectively outside Of the kingdom of
heaven. Charity was not administered in
this style in Judea nineteen centuries ago;
the hungry were fed because their stomachs
were empty, not because they were pleasant
to look upon; the sick were healed because
they needed to be made well, even if their
maladies were self-inficted; the prisoner
was visited because he was in Jail, even if
there were no extenuating circumstances in
his yillany. To let women and children
suffer because the head Of the family is o
drunken brute, to neglect shivering chill
dren because they carry dirty faces and out
rage every grammatical rule, or to allow a
starving man to suffer on because his face is
unshaved and his gait is shambling is to
mistake the true nature of charity and to
convict the would-be philanthropist of
something worse than blundering.
Year: 1877

The cry for low canal tolls is naturally
popular among forwarders and boatmen.
But if we are to preserve the State canals we
must make them pay their own expenses.
While they are not designed to yield
revenue neither are they designed to
be burden on the State. Low tolls
may, however, be secured-lower than have
ever yet been imposed-if we follow out the
simple policy Of getting rid of the lateral
canals, which not only fail to pay their own
way, but nre burden on the system,
and of practising such strict economy
in collection, superintendent and re-
pairs as will reduce the expenditures
to the minimum amount consistent
with prudent and efficient manage
off unnecessary expenses and improper
leakages, but more remains to be done, and
under the new policy inaugurated by the
recently adopted constitutional amendment
there is little doubt that the tolls can be put
low enough to satisfy all those interested in
canal transportation.


report just made by Lieutenant Gov
ernor Dorsheimer and Canal Commissioners
Adm, Thayer and Ogden, as committee of
the Canal Board, calls attention to one inn
portant point in our canal policy which re-
uuires review. At present the Legislature,
on the recommendation of the Canal Board,
fixes the rstes of toll for tho year. These
rates cannot afterward be reduced
by the Board, although they may
be increased. It is obvious that this
is an unwise restriction on the power of
the Board, because it leaves them wholly at
the mercy of the railroads, and prevents
them from giving the transporters the bene-
fit of reduction if an unexpectedly large
business should increase the revenues above
the required amount. The railroads make
an illegitimate war on the State canals
and the Canal Board should have the
power of decreasing the tolls when
ever the unfair competition Of the rail-
roads may render it necessary. AS the con-
stitution stands in the way the difficulty
might be overcome by fixing the tolls by
legislation so low as to be really nominal +;
then the Canal Board, having the authority
to increase the rates, would find margin
enough to meet and thwart the railroad
policy. TO accomplish this the Canal Board
Committee recommend the Board to request
the Legislature to abolish tolls upon boats
and to reduce the rates of 1876 on grain and
lumber fifty per cent. This seems to be a
desirable policy, since the Canal Board will
be certain not to make the rates so low as
| to injure the interests of the canals, while
the power will exist to meet undue compe-
| tition.
Year: 1877

Tho police reserves OF Brooklyn wcro kept on duty
at the station houses during the whole yesterday in
anticipation OF disturbance among tho striking grain
shovcllers. The strikers stood on the corners of
Columbia and Furman streets and discussed the stua-
ton quietly. There was no breach o: peace. In
spcctor Waddy was informed that threats had besn
made against him by the strikers who look upon him
as an enemy To their interests Supcr ncndcnt Camp.
bell sent Tor the captains OF several precincts iass
night and instructed them to the disposition Of their
men at the threatened points OF duty this morning,
when II IS probable that largo body of new workmen
Will be employed. There will be 300 policemen on
duty along the river front today, when the reduction
Of wages will be made general
Year: 1877

New York's Great Natural Advan-


tages and Their Utilization.


The unsurpassed natural advantages pos
sessed by New York in her geographical
position and the character of her surround
ings should make her the greatest centre OF
commerce in the world. Compared with
Liverpool, London, Bristol, Havre, Mar
seilles and other great European seaports
New York stands without rival in
the completeness with which nature has
adapted her for the purposes Of trade. She
needs no such system of floating docks as
has been found absolutely necessary at Liver
pool and London. She requires no break
waters to protect her magnificent harbor from
the violence of the waves. Deep water ex-
tends along the line Of her water front, which
after the removal of the obtructions to
navigation ut He'll Gate will encircle
her completely with n line of dock frontage
every foot of which will be available for
commerce. The same conditions prevail
along the frontage of her sister cities OF
Brooklyn and Jersey City, SO that as
whole the metropolis lacks nothing that
nature can give to make her the most
favored centre of trade in the world. With
foreign countries rs with every settled
section of the American Union New York
possesses direct and favorable lines of COM
munication. Once n ship leaves the shell
tered lower bay her bowsprit can be pointed
to any coast without risking the dam
gers that bcset the entrances to other
American ports. The Hudson is but
system which unites New York with tho
North and West The Sound is like n broad
river leading to the manufacturing centres
of New England. In word, Nature has
done her part for us, but have We availed
ourselves properly of her gifts? The answer
must be in the negative for if we had the
results would be very different from what
they are. Why is it that the trade
of New York is falling off? Simply because
we have bedevilled it with restrictions and
port charges. We have failed to provide for
it the accommodation it demands We
have no docks, no facilities for rapidly trans
fcrring freight from the ship to the railroad
Car no StOrcnOuScS IOT lucICuuuuloc pIOP-
erly located along the water front; no
local system of rapid transit by
which the population can separate
the dwelling house from the store and the
factory for the one crowds on the other and
creates a confusion disastrous to trade. All
these things react on our prosperity and
cramp enterprise paralyze trade and create
uncertainties which neutralize every advan-
tage possessed by New York by virtue OF
her position. Let it be remembered by
those in whose hands the destinies of New
York now lie that emigration to for
eign countries has actually CON-
menced. Let US hope that the
tiny stream which has begun to- flow
from our country may not swell to the
proportions of great river. We must
burst by mighty efforts the bonds that now
limit the development of New York's great
ness It can be done only by honesty.
energy and foresight on the part of New
Workers tor we cannot expect any assistance
| from outside.
Year: 1877

Our FLORIDA LETTER on "The Southern
Problem is an unusually fair and thoughtful
presentation of those social features which in the
South seem doomed to the curse of partisan feel
ing. AS party politics in any section have an in
direct effect upon the country ut large no mem
ber of either party can afford to be ignorant of
the aifairs about which our correspondent writes
Year: 1877

DIR. BoYNroN in his lecture on the Deluge
secuted at the probability of such an occurrence
but the lecturer would find no such doubt among
the sufferers in the recently inundated district in
PENNSYLVANIA.
Year: 1877

India would mover fail to supply her dense
population with abundant food The world
would then be spared the awful spectacle OF
millions of human beings dying of hunger
in the most fertile land on the globe. The
present famine in India, like those OF recent
years, must be regarded as the direct result
of a system of administration that recognises
only the interests of the government.
Year: 1877

A TREMENDOUS TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT is
In progress mt Trenton, N. j., and if it is not ar
rested in its course there will either have to be
an adjournment of the Legislature or disband-
ing of the lobby. Legislative jobs cannot be
managed without whiskey.
Year: 1877

The CoSSACK CAvALRYMEN are all COM
paratively young men and have young
wives. Whenever they set out on a CAM
paign, they buy a white scarf or handker-
chief to lake with them. At the close of
their period of service, they return to their
villages and are met by the whole popula-
tion. Now a wife who has been unfaithful
to her lord, kneels down before him in the
road, puts her face in the dust, and places
her husbands foot upon her neck. This is
a confession Of guilt, and at the same time
a prayer for forgiveness. If the husband
then covers his wife's head with the white
scaif it means that he forgives her and
az ees TO forget her fault. If the white
handkerchief is not produced, the woman
returns straight TO Ler fathers house with
out again entering ber husbands dwelling,
and divorce is pronounced. Mr.. McGra-
ham recounts tlagical story which SOL
dier told him on the Danube. A returning
Cossack was informed by a malicious
neighbor before he reached his home that
his wife had been unfaithful. His COM
rades perceived that he had all of sudden
taken TO drink and dissipation, although
he was not a man given to these vices.
When he reached his village his wife, as he
feared, came forward, knelt down, aud put
her face in the dust at his feet. The spec
tators saw him look at her as she lay in the
| dust for long lime. Two or three times
he put his hand in his breast for the white
handke kerchief asif he were going 10 cover
the repentant woman's head-two or three
times the movement was restrained. FL
nally, as if driven by sudden impulse, he
drew his sword, and with one stroke sever
| ed her head from her body. The punish
ment for the crime was two months i'm
prisonment, while the malicious neighbor
who had taken The trouble TO inform him
beforehand Of his wie's misconduct was
sentenced to Siberia for three years.
Year: 1877

The last halfof the Table Rock at Niagara
broke off on May "a, and fell into the river.
The mass weighed nearly sixty tons, and
up to 1876 the names of over four thousand
visitors had been carved upon it. The part
which recently fell was only half the origi-
nal rock, the rest having fallen many years
ago. On January /, 1920, surface Of the
rock, supposed 10 be the size Of half an
acre, forming the bed of Maiden Walk,
broke loose, and was precipitated into the
immense chasm below. The crash was
heard for distance of five miles, aud the
effect in the immediate neighborhood re-
sembled the shock of su earthquake. The
water running under the bank is supposed
to have caused the recent fall, and the shock
when the rock struck the water was dis
tinctly felt for three miles from the fall.
Several of the trees which stood on the rock
are now seen standing in the river as erect
as when in their original places on the rock.
When the rock shelved off from the bank,
at distance of twenty feet from the top,
can be seen the root ofa tree estimated 10
bs two feet In diameter.
Year: 1877

wine;


shine.
Batter the love of gentle heart than beautys favors
proud
Better the roses living seed than roses in crowd,
Better be fed by mothers hand than eat alone at will
Better to trust in God than say, my goods my store
house fl"


event;


rent
Better death when work Is done than earths most
favored birth;
Better a child in Gods great house than the king Of
all the earth. [George Macdonald.