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Year: 1877

The saddest sight in Russia to traveller is
the manner in which civil prisoners are treat
ed. It is q common spectacle to see three or
four hundred poor wretcbes on their way to
Siberia under military escort for most of
them are chained together in couples, while
the women and children who have elected to
share their bread.winners' lot have also to
submit to be treated as criminals. Poorly
clad, and apparently halfstarved, the won
der is that any of the party should ever sur.
vive the dreadful journey. A Russian crimi-
inal, condemned to exile, is sent away with
very little ceremony; but when an officer of
the army or other person of note has been
sentenced to banishment for life, he is dressed
in full uniform, and led to scsffold in some
public place. In the presence Of the crowd
be is made to kneel, while his epaulets and
decorations are torn from his coat, and his
sword broken over bis head. he is declared
legally dead his estates are con6scated, and
bis wife can consider herself a widow, if she
so chooses. From this scaffold he starts on
bis Journey for Siberia. His wife and chill
dren, sisters or mother, can follow or accom-
pany him, if they choose, but only on condition
that they share his exile. Mr.. Arnold, in his
book entitled Through Persia by Caravan"
relates how, when passing through Russia, he
saw party of prisoners embarked on board
steamer on the River Volga. They were
positively Gagged amidships, so that every part
of the interior could be seen, just as in the
lion.houses Of the Geological Gardens, with
this diference-that in the case of the priso-
ners there was no overhanging roof to prevent
rain or sunshine from pouring in upon their
wretchedness. At the back Of the cage there
was lair common to all, without distinction
of sex or age. And when all were secured,
including the guiltless women and children,
fights occurred for the places least exposed to
the east wind. This is a system which must
surely fade away beneath that public opinion


which is fast becoming too strong for even
autocratic monarchs to despise; for we are
told that the emancipation Of the Russian serfs
has made vast legal, social, and material
improvement in the low orders Of the people /;
and it is to the. people that the world will
look for that much.needed reform which will
enable Russia, perhaps at no distant day, to
take an honorable place among civilized ma
tions
Year: 1877

vo;cos and bad grammar shock the ear, and
tho coarsest manners give an ugly emphasis to
tbe coorsest conversation. Here ignorance
bourccons and blossoms into the flaming
peony of vulgar osteDtaiiDn.


II is notorious that the educated and refined
people who Give tone to the best society of
our largo towns and cities are learning to
sbun the places where their comfort is spoiled
by bad company and their children are exposed
to bad examples. If hotel proprietors can ex-
clude the class of visitors who have done so
much to injure their property, they VIII DO no
more than prudent business men ought to do,
and all respectable people will thank them Tor
doing it. But tney must base the exclusion on
ncrsonol considerations. not on differences of
race and creed. If they draw the line ut Jews
they will leave the evil ms bad as ever.
Year: 1877

The vilcst reptile has its uses, and the most
unwec0me phenomena Of nature, like earth
q lakns and yisitatOns of graSshOppers, serve
a beueHccnt end IN the sc.emCs of Divine
Providence. So we may hope that even so
gross an Oicnsc against American ideas OF
Justice as tne exclusion OF respectable gen
tleman from n n tel on account of his race
or RELIGION may result in public benefit 1t
has certainly called attention in Il most eiiec-
tive manner to abuses which have become
pretty serious in American h tel-liie. Gentle
men who den,unce Judge Hilton in vehement
terms for his treatment of Mr. Segnan,
praise him in the same breath for his
promise to exclude vulgarity from the
parors and pilzzls of his hotel; and
with the chorus of Indignation come up
fir, quent com, laints of the ruin Of this or that
pleasant resort, the decline OF once fashionable
hotels, in consequence of the influx OF class
of people against whom MIR. Hilton says that
ne has set bis face. That Mr.. SeligmaD does
not belong to the class everybody seems tc
admit; but the class exists; it Is becoming Il
great nuisance; and the Grand Union lis not
the only house at w.ich IL has been resolved
that such guests shall no longer be received.


Mr.. Hilton describes the habits of the class
with a startling accuracy, which must be the
fruit of long observation, but he makes great
mistake in naming it. The "trade jew" is
not different from the genteel Hebrew, and
Israelites us a general rule are not different
in their manners from Christi of n core
spending rank in society. Both the old faith
and the new furnish their full contingent of
representatives to the horde of underbred and
overdressed men and women who make life
hideOus at the watering places and on the
routes of Summer travel, and who carry
the report of American vulgality from
one end OF the civilized world to
the other. Neither creed nor race has any
thing to do with their bad manners. TO de-
scribe them all as trade jews is an injustice
alike to the mercantile and the Jewish com
munity. and it is quite natural that the appel


latiOn should be bitterly resented. No one,
however can have studied the peculiaritirs of
fashionable existence mt American watering
places without observing that the fortunes
made so quickly during our recent era of
speculation have very often fallen into the
hands of those who do not know how to spend
them The hotel table has become place for
the exhibition of all those faults of manner
which good society regards rs crimes, and
those violations Of etiquette which are
the most offensive of all social er-
rors because they spring from sellishness
and guttony rather than from inexperience


The hotel parlor is resort which the careful
head of family forbids to his daughters, if
he wishes them to preserve the modesty of
youth and the refinement that belongs TO their
sex. The piazza is turned into a platform for
the display of incongruous fnery and moppor-
tune jewels a crowded rendezvous where loud
Year: 1877

At the ant-Rapid Transit meeting held at Chick.
ering Hall on Thursday evening ther. are said to
have been present by actual connt but three hun.
dred persons The meeting few DAYS before in
favor of Rapid Transit filled the hall and was
marked by real enthusiasm. But on a full vote
Rapid Transit would have larger majority than
that
Year: 1877

There is in fact no reason why they should have
declined the Royalist challenge, and allow De
Brogie to boast that they were afraid to appeal
to the reople. They will enter the campaign with
a defined objert-the defense OF the Constitu-
tion-and will labor with that vigor which a
sense of wrong incites. MacMahon's follow
ers, on the other hand, will go to the county
with sordd desires and divided aims. The
Bonaparllsts will entertain hopes OF an impc-
ri restoration; the 0rleanists will expect to
have the wealthy and chil less Due d'Aumale
act as President, until it is expedient for tie
Comte de Paris to succeed him as King, while
the LeGitimists will MAINTAIN that it is about
time for the COmte de Chambord to ascend
the throne Of his ancestors. The honest men
who seek simply government for the people,
"by the people," will undoubtedly outnumber
these misguided adherentS of a lost cause.


The many thousands of the people of this
city who are interested in the subject OF the
Hunters Point smell, whether because their
personal comfort or the value of their properly
is affected, will be glad 10 learn, from the ac-
count in another column, just who the men are
who are inficing this nuisance upon great
city. While we wait for legal measures to dis
cover whether redress is possible, it Is at least
some poor comfort to know just who the men
and the corpor~ lions are who are Responsible
They have been engaged for years in business
which lessons the value of property and
the pleasure of life to several huad ed
thousand people on this side of the East
River, and for years somebody has been bully
ing and buying NJ Legislatures in their inter
est. There seems to he 10 good reason why
these men should not be pUt in the pillory,
and we give the public accordingly look at
tlcir names as wei as an account OF their
business. Many q man has suffered severely
at the hand of the law for much hghteI
o.lense against personal comfort and property
than this, and, in the ideal future, socl ty
may find some WY of properly panlshing the
manufacturers of smells
Year: 1877

When the Presidents order is issued, hang
mg around Washington and Quarreling over
the offices ought to he defined as practical
participation in politics. Then the North
Carolina oflice-holderS ought to be reformed
out in a body; and then the other set ought
not To be reformed in.
Year: 1877

The story of the German banker, Gimdt
whose crimes are narrated elsewhere, is an
interesting one. His dupes, whD are many and
poor will be r,joiced to hear of his capture If
they regret that he had the good fortune to
spend some portion of his supposed absence
in so comfortable place as his refrigerator
they can console themselves with the thought
that he will be restricted to a higher tempera-
ture for some time to come.
Year: 1877

No Rapid Transit next Winter. This is
probably the meaning of the adjournment oil
the Court Of Appeals until the middle of Sep
tembcr. without decision on the Rapid Tran
sit cases, unless indeed the door is left open
for decision at an ca ier date by the word
ing of the order which authorizes the Cmcf
Judge to call the cOprt together for consuta-
tion and the rendering Of judgments on casrs
already heard. 1t goes without saying that
this announcement will be received with gre t
regret. The Court OF Appeals is, OF course, It's
own master and can delay its deci ions rs
long as it chooses; but there WAS special
urgency in these cases which the court, with
out any impropriety, might have recognized
and respected. Each Winter that goes by
without Rapid Transit Is another Winter o.
distress and discomfort TO a large proportion
of the inhabitants of this clty, another Wint +
of bigh-prced and crowded homes for the poor
and middle classes, another Winter lost t. the
growth and development Of this city. No one
wOuld be so bold as TO seek to influence the
decision of the court in the sligh est degree,
but there has been general expectation and
hope that the court would make that decision
in Il reasonable timc-iOr the time has been
anD,rently ampe-so that we might know TINT
Rapil Transit was either possible or Impossible
by the methods we are now using in dcfnult
of better. That it has not done so VIII be a
great disappointment to the whole community.
Year: 1877

Until President Hayes has issued his order
forbiddng ollice-hoders to act as members of
political conventions and committees, it will,
of course, be impossible to say just how far it
is likely TO succeed in curing the evil of Gus
tom-hCuse politics. The President has now
undertaken perhaps the most difficult task of
all, for such an order can be obeycd 10y the
Office holders TO the letter and yet It's spilt
may be stcld'ly disregarded. 1t is easy to
conceive of many ways in which Oilice-hOl lers
cln, though refrainiHg from taking ior-
nal part in conventions and COM
mitteeS, still be as active IL pohti-
cal intrigue as ever without perhaps
doing anything which can be defined as vio-
lation of the Executive order 1t Will neeh
the utmost watchfuness and the utmost firm
ness to compel obedience to the spirit as wed
as TO the letter of the new regulation, and its
full enforcement is likely to be the work OF
many years rather than of many months. But
the President has taken the first step, and the
first step is always the hardest When 1t Is
once thoroughly understood that oilice-h0lders
cannot properly belong to delegations and
Commuters and they are seen to be rgldly
excluded from them, public opinion will be-
gin to form winch may be as eiiec-
tual in compelling ollice-holders to abstin
from secret "management as the Presidents
order Will be III debarring them from open
partnership with the machine. At all events
the President will have deserved well of his
country for doing what no President before
him since jackson would have Jared to do, or
perhaps ever thought Of doing.
Year: 1877

The Coroner held an inquest yesterds =
afternoon at Hockessin, upon the body of
Frank Gillespie, young man about %
years of age, who was killed by the caving
in Of kaolin quarry. 1t was fonnd that
his pick had run into his shoulder and
pierced his lungs. The jury rendered a
verdict in accordance with the above facts.


Last evening an inquest was held on the
body of an unknown female child which
was found in an apple orchard back of q
hedge, on the farm Of John A. Moore, in
White Clay Creek Hundred. When found
decomposition had taken place, and the
entrails had been eaten out, probably by
hog or dog. The jury rendered a verdict
of death from unknown causes.
Year: 1877




A few days ago novel race took place al
tavern, on the Kennett Pike, known as
the Columbus Inn. The race was not be-
tween two horses, as person would sup
pose, but between men, whose names we
refrain from giving. Now the stakes Of
this race were as follows: They were to
run certain distance up the pike and re-
turn, and the man who came in the door of
the tavern last, was the beaten party, and
as punishment he had to treat all In the
house, while the first man came off clear.
In order to give more rapid transit, one of
the party took off his shoes, and ran in his
stocking feet. There being about an inch
of snow On the ground, added much to the
novelty of the race. OF course the betting
ran high, at one time it being s to in ia
vor of the man In stocking feet; ;but It didn't
turn out that way, for as they came around
the corner of the yard both men were near.
ly abreast, with pair of stockings worn
out, and pair of bleeding feet. But now
they are nearing the goal, each strives hard
to be victorious. But, alas they both
tumble into the door together, head first.
Whiskey beat both. The consequence was
both had lost, and both had to treat. They
had no Returning Board.
Year: 1877

FIRST UNION REGATTA OF THE MANHATTAN


YACHT CLUB.


The Grst union regatta OF the Manhattan Yacht Club
win take place to-day from of the club house, foot OF
East Eghty-ninth street. There will be 1--WE clssses
the for the hrs second third and fourth being
from anchorage of the club house TO the southwark
and eastward Of Wards Island; thence to the north
ward and westward Of South Brother and Rker's
islands; thence 10 the southwark and eastward Of
Throggs Point Buoy thence to the westward Of Step
ping stones Light and thence TO and around the Gang
way Buoy, returning TO the course, passing be-
tween the home stakcboat and the club house. The
course for the fifth class will be the tho
others. excepting that when round the light Step
ping Stones they return to the starting point. The
entries tor this event-so tar rs reportedare fol-
lows.
Year: 1877

The opening exercises Of the American Institute ex-
hib,ion will .aKo place at their Rink Third avenue,
above sixty third street. tomorrow afternoon at two
O'Clock The exhibition will be opened by the formal
address OF Mr.. Nathan Q. Ely and the
informal addresses Of the president and Sec
rctary Music will DO furnished by the Thirteenth
Regiment Band OF Brooklyn. Every industry is repre-
ntcd at the Rink, and the space allotted each
being small there Is much confusion consequent upon
the placing OF the goods In position. One of the
features Of the exhibition will be the telephone for the
use OF the visitors
Year: 1877

I'm not q superstitious man,


With any blind belief in fate:
But through my veins q shiver ran
At something which l read of lst {,
glanced book of proverbs through
To pass some moment spent alone,
And there the saying met my view,
That "Soon or late all things are


known"


/ laid the book aside and thought
About the secrets of my life;
A wild career. with failings fraught
And long grepented errors rife
What rnattered that above the heap
The lapse of years a mound had


thrown.


The az of fate goes straight and deep,
Aud Soon or late all things are


known"


Nay. gentle reader, do not start
And picture me q man Of crime,
Because I'm faint and sad at heart
To think Of what may come in


time.


Let him be FIRST to raise his hand,
And cast at me the cruel stone.
Who feels he can unflinching stand
Where "Soon or late all things are


known"
Year: 1877

in and TO his real estate and vesting it
in his wife in fee absolute, and the
Cause in court continued is, We hope, to
be dismissed. The beautiful daughter
of the noble dead mother is DOW hap
PLY married, and the father is prepared
to bring his first love and only child TO
their new home, where it is hoped they
will spend their days in the enjoyment
OF peace and happiness.
Year: 1877

There was good deal said during the
presidential campaign about the Demo
Gratis refundiDg the cotton tax if they got
into power, and some little capital was
made out Of the story. All tie time Deu.
ocrats knew the thing had heen, was and
would be always Republican job. for the
simple reason that a lot of Republican
sharpers had got hold Of all the claims, yet
it was not easy to convince honest Repub-
licans that their press and speakers were
lying. But the motion of 6. Wiley Wells,
the modtl carpet bagger from Mississippi
made early Sunday morning, just at the
close of the last session, that the house sus-
pend the rules and pass this very bill, gave
the Democrats good opportunity to show
that they had 20 interest in the job. His
motion got very few votes, but it served a
good purpose in showing that the refund
ing of the cotton tax is wholly and entirely
a Republican scheme.
Year: 1877

TO find yourself nearly suffocated with Catarrhal
matter in Your head and throat? Have you
noticed what depressing influence ii exercises on
the mind, bunting its faculties, besides enerVaing
the body as well? How difficult to rid the head Of
this foul matter ali can testify who afflicted
with Catairh. How difficult TO protect the system
against Its further progress towards the lungs and
bronchial tubes all physicians testify. II ie
terrible disease, and cries out for relief. To be
freed from the danger of suffocation while lying
down; to breathe freely, sleep souudly and und1s


turbed; to know that 10 poisonous. putrid matter
defles the breath and Indcrmines the system: to
know that the body does not, through its veins,
ry the poison that is sure to destroy, is indeed a


blessing To purchase immunity from such fate
should be the object of all afflicted. But those who
have tried many remedies and physicians despair Of
rel ef er cure. They become incredulous. With
such the l'ng array of testimonials from our best
Year: 1877

Removes by a single application the hard, encrust
ed matter from the nose, opens up the nasal pas
sages. allows the sufferer TO breathe freely and
Joy for the first time the pleasure of full breath
Year: 1877

A "society for the mental improvement
of cats" has been formed in Belgium. The
felines are to take the place of carrier
pigeons. 1t is common saying that dogs
are attached to persons and cats to places.
A full-grown cat tied up in bag and
carried twenty miles from home will be
sure to find its way back and rush into the
house some morning when the kitchen
door is opened.
Year: 1877

1t has been truly observed that all
great moral reforms begin at the bot
tom of society and work their way up.
The temperance movement is a marked
instance of this observation. The So
cicty founded by Il few poor men in
Preston, Lancashire, has so extended
and so leavencd English society with
its principles as TO have gained con-
verts even among royalty itself, as the
following extract from the Lancet will
show:


The gratifying announcement that
Her Majesty the Queen would become
a patron of the Church of England
Temperance Society is followed up bv
the almost equally gratifying statement
that the Rev Basil Wilberiorce has re-
ceivcd letter announcing that his Roy
al Highncss Prince Leopold will be.
come president of the Oxford Branch
of the Church of England Temperance
Society. The church of England can
do no higher service to this country
than by cnlisting the sympathy of roy
atty and rank in the temperance move
ment. 1t is high time that the amount
of drinking that goes on in all parts of
the kingdom should be abated, as
something intensely degrading and dis
graceful, having no foundation IN
either sense or morality, as il certainly
has none in physiology. Let us hope
that we are at the beginning Of II great
religious and patriotic effort to increase
the temperance of every section of the
community. Mere patronage will NOT
do It, But we shall have more assis-
tancc in this enterprise from the Royal
Family than is implied in mere patron-
age; and not the least glory of the Vie
torian reign will be the perception ofa
great social vice by Her Majesty, and
her desire personally to help in lis re-
moval.
Year: 1877

One of our exchanges is responsible
for the following: Lightning struck a
hive ofbecs in Kansas, the other day.
The painful story is soon told. The
misguided lightning came ont of that
hive quicker than it went in. and went
off into space with its tail between lis
legs. Moral-Ncver pick n quarrel
when You are not acquainted with tho
folks
Year: 1877

A witty French lady, who was an
adopted member of famous military
corps, when a cigar was lighted in her
presence with the remark. ~ suppose
they smoke in your regiment" said she,
'Nes, but not in my company
Year: 1877

English ladies now raise their hats in
acknowledgement of the salutations of
their male friends, but complain of the
unequal courtesy of the arrangement
when they have to elevate a three pound
hat to sixteen shilling one.
Year: 1877

All intelligent travellers who have visi-
ted Brazil speak in the most glowing terms
of the country. Professor Agassiz re-
garded it as the most productive and
interesting country on the globe, and the
one in which it is easiest to obtain live
lihood. Some who have sailed up the
Amazon declare that vessel can be load
ed with Brazil nuts at an expense of few
pence per bushel, These constitute a
valuable article of commerce, while the
oil extracted from them is very desirable.
All the tropical fruits are produced in
Brazil almost without cultivation. The
soil in many parts of the country will
produce twenty successive crops Of cotton,
tobacco, or sugar cane without application
of manure. No country in the world ap-
proaches the land of Don Pedro in the
variety Of its forest productions. Profes-
sor Agassiz states that he saw one hun
dred and seventeen different kinds of val
liable woods that were cut from piece of
land not half mile square. They rep
resented almost every variety of color, and
many of them were capable of receiving a
high polish. One tree furnishes wax that
is used for candles; another a pitch that
is used in the place of intoxicating liquor


There is single variety of palm from
which the natives obtain food, drink,
clothing, bedding, cordage, fishing tackle,
medicine and the material they manufac-
ture into dwellings, weapons, harpoons, and
musical instruments, Doubtless the day
is not far distant when the valuable woods
of Brazil will be used for various useful
and ornamental purposes.-M y Mer-
curU