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Year: 1879

Mr.. Guthrie, chairman Of the Finance
COMMITTEES Of the City Council, has
m .ds great mistake in attempting his
defence in the REPUBLICAN instead Of
the "Every Evening" If We are to be-
lisvs what the latter paper said in last
evenings editorial on city finances. on
course hs should have inserted his
communication in the "Evsry Even.
ing" and then it could have been
answered with more ability, more in.
telligsntly and with more courage. We
are surprised that Mr.. Guthrie did not
think of this, but q he wanted to pub
lish his communication in paper in
which the most people would see 1t, he
can hardly be blamed for his partiality
to the REPUBLICAN. Then It must be
remembered that the smart editor, who
didn't know when the fiscal year com.
msnced or ended, the courageous edi
tor who would not resent the insult OF a
baptism in lager beer, had for some
time before been goading Mr.. Guthrie
to explain, but somehow that gentleman
couldn't sea it, or perhaps he barely
knew that there was such paper as
the "Every Evening"" and did not
think worth while to bother himself
about it..


But when the REPUBLICAN bore down
q little hard upon what it conceived to


BE- his doubtful financial policy, he


thought about answering ii, and
he did, in the paper that succeeded in
opening his eyes to the necessity of an
swerins; something which the" Every
Evening" tailed to do. This however
need not deter the latter paper from
answering it now, after We have brought
it 70 the surface, and II it is as that pa
per says, humbug, then let it sail in
and demolish it. Let it open its great
wisdom box as wide as its ears will al
low, and attack it with all its bOasted
the REPUBLICAN is no. caring
how vigorously ii sails in. We have
now scotched the fox let "E. T." catch
him.
Year: 1879

The acreage of newly settled lands
for the year 1878 Is more than double
that Of any previous year since 1873.
This too in spite Of the fact that the
number of immigrants was smaller in
1878 than for several years past. The
settlement therefore of 1881 ,053 acres
was mainly by our own people. 1t i.
expected that this amount will be in.
creased during the present year.
Year: 1879

Ladies' looking for parasols and
sun umbrellas will fail to do
themselves justice unless they ex-.
examine the stock at the Bee Hive,
where they guarantee to give q better
parasol for the monev than can be
found any where else in the city.
Year: 1879

Paul Boynton having investigated
water is going to turn his attention to
air and accompany Professor Wise on
his aerial voyage to Europe. He may
have an opportunity to put his aquatic
knowledge into practice if the bal oon
spould drop somewhere in the middle
Of the Atlantic.
Year: 1879

The Weekly REPUBLICAN for this
week is nun Der of more than usual
interest and can b. had at this otlic.
ready for mailing for five cents. 1t
contains forty columns of mater and is
a complete summary Of news and events
Of the week.
Year: 1879




The" Gazette" affects to be really very
much distressed at our vindioLiveness
toward the Southern people aud thinks
there ight have been some reason f # 1t
in the d days OF slavery, but now that,
that ancient barbarisln has disappeared
there Is NJ longer any conceivable rea-
son for our vin1ictiven.ss. We hop.
our ueighbor will not vex Its righteous
spirit any longer on that score and that
1t will her CATER sleep as sVuudly as
th-se hot sweltering nights will allow
him. We are not blind to the fact that
although slavery has disappeared from
the recognition of the law th-l lsame old
dominating spirit is exhibited by the
South, but in more intense man
ner than ever, over both the white and
black races, unless they all chims in
with the Southern idea of solid Dem
ocratic South, ,and no boIting off into in
d-p-nd-nt movements. The worst sla-
very is not that of the body, but of the
mind, the Immortal part of man over
watch Southern politicians apply the
political scourse to bring it into sub
lection and it is this kind of mixed ty
ranny and slavery that W. oppose, and
We hope always will be free enough
from partisan bias to oppose. We would
not harm the South in her Legitimate
fights, but We shall ever lift our vuices
against the oppression of Southern po-
ltical demagogues and against South
ern outrage. Ii the "Gazette" is losing
any sleep in its anxiety on our account
it is committing very foolish act, and
N order to insure it sound slumbers
hereafter We would advise it to come
out untrammeed in favor of exact JUS
tice to all, irrespective Of color, condi,
ton, party or creed. Then We will in
sure our neighbor sweet, sound slum-
ber no matter how hot the night may
hp
Year: 1879

The Senate having under consideration
the bill (H. r. No. p making appropria-
tions for the legislative, executive, and
judicial expenses of the Government for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1880, and
for other purposes


Mr.. Vance said:


Mr.. PRESIDENT Before entering
upon the remarks which | propose
to make l am requested to say, and
that request accoris with my own
inclination liz the matter, that the
school literature referred to by the
Senator from Maine Mr.. Blaine
is non existent in the Southern
States During the war there was
some literature of that kind prev
alept, but even then it met with
little favor, ard I am assured that
since the war no child, white or
black, in the Southern States has
ever seen any such literature.


And now, Mr.. President, it seems
to be the peculiar misfortune of the
section from which | come, and /
believe it to be also tie misfortune
of the whole country, that no ques-
tion in any way pertaining to the
South or originating with any rep
resentative from the South has
| been able to obtain fair hearing
in these halls upon its merits. In
deed it would seem as if the day
for that kind of discussion had
passed away forever. I had been
taught to believe that the object OF
all discussion was to elicit truth
and not only was it useless but
such discussion was mischievous il
that was not the object to be at
tanned. If this indeed be SO,
might appeal with confidence te
every fair minded man in the Uni
ted States who hears or reads oul
debates here and ask if the discus
sion of the questions now befor,
the Senate has been fairly or log
ically handled with the view to as
certain the truth. It is proposed


First. By the legislation whicl
is now in part before MS and whicl
has been, to repeal the laws unde
which authority is assumed to in


terfere with the elections of th


country by the use of the military


Second. To repeal the laws b


which the United States marshal
and supervisors were authorized t


control the elections of the cour


try.


Third. To repeal the law requir


ing Jurors in the federal courts t
S take the test oath.


Now, these are the question.
R plain and simple, which have Ell


gagged the attention of the Ameri
Z can Congress and the people fC
e the last three months. Commo
e sense and decent regard for til
public interest require that the
. should receive at our hands I'll


calmest and most dispassionat
= consideration which it is in OF
+ power to bestow upon them thi
's they should be abstracted and di
q sociated from every local passi1


or prejudice and viewed solely vii
Year: 1879

WALL STREET.


MONDAY. Feb. 10-6P. M


Stock Exchange matters being left this morning to
aoat with the current. and the current being down.
ward one. 1t naturally resulted that prices moved
slowly and directed to lower figures. This was
particularly true of the Northwesterns and st. Pauls
which fell of from 6 to per cent not from specu-
latve sales upon the part of larger holders but be-
the smaller fry took alarm at report that the
antagonistic granger interest was about to move.
through the medium OF the Wisconsin Legislature.
for revival of the law restricting charges upon
freight. The in the granger stocks speedily
innoculated the whole railway list creating de-
cline-of no particular moment 1t is true, but
still decline. There was very bright spot.
however, in the market due to quotations Of 160
made for Harlem Railroad and sort of cAiayo
relief to the general darkness lent by the strength
the Ohio and Mississippi property, which rose to
l2K It s stated that the oil and water conditions Of
things which have long existed between the diverse
interests Of this company will be shortly made to
mix to the satisfaction OF all PARTIES and the belief is
that stock must necessarily benefit thereby. Con-
sequently higher prices for both common and pre-
terred shares anticipated and the rmness Of to-
days values may be attributed to this expectation.
The coal stocks remained firm and without excite
ment, even the annual report Of the Delaware and
Hudson Company failing to direct more than ordi-
nary interest to this property. Something of an
effort was made during the last half hour to rally
prices. but with only partial success quotations at
the end with the exception Of Northwest preferred
being but shade better than the lowest of the
day. In this way the market closed, free from out
side influences and with the feature Of being If
not positively hilarious. at least well could be
expected under the circumstances.


The opening. highest, lowest andclosing prices Of
stocks at the New York Stock Exchange to-day were
"A followe.-
Year: 1879

night and every day engaged and the Gen.
era compelled to decline Sir Harrys hospitality.
There luncheon with Mr. House. the editor OF the
Toxic Times in pretty little house near the Ameri-
can Legation looking out On the sea. had known
House years ago. more years am afraid than care
10 remember. when he was among the most brilliant
OF noted group of young men. who were then max
ing their way i'll the world through the attractive
but not always fruitful fields OF journalism. l was
glad To see him again, and although Time had lain
his hand upon him, fear 1T had upon both OF u.s.
ana there the suggestion OF middle age and care
ana labor in his features. it had not dimmed the
buoyancy, the grace and the genius that made him
in our early New York times attractive and envicd
among men. House even in those days-it was be-
fore the rebellion; Heaven help us! ages and ages
agol-fel. singular in teres in Japan. He had fallen
under the influence of Hldreth. who had made
Japan study and gave us look too wise and true
to be forgotten, am afraid it is. lie became
familiar with the Embassy. the Tycoons Embassy.
in 1860 and his Japan deepened, and every
body was surprised when they heard that he had
ieft career OF promise and renown to seek his love
in the far East. Since then House has given himself
to Japan With spirit that might call the mission
ary spirit Of self-abnegatioh. He has fought her
battles. He has defended her He has
deavored TO win her place among the nations He
has accepted contumely and misrepresentation i'll
nef cause Tor feuna@hoW ID % quickly you ma It
in this far East you bring upon you the rancor OF
the foreigners You are as much an outlaw ss
Wendell Phillips in anti-siavery days
able. You against the interests OF your
own country. You are anxious to see Japan
into the sea. You bribed. bought. corrupted
You possessed of the devil. But House has held
his place and made his fight. and still makes 1t with
all the brillaney Of old days. and his name is
power in Japan. have ventured upon this ausion
to his career because happen to know great deal
about it, and am glad to honor. especially in my
own craft. what seems be lofty aad sef-denying
spirit. And certainly nothing but that selfdenial
which love alone can inspire would have induced
House to surrender the career he was enjoying
when knew him IN New York to bury himself in
Japan.
Year: 1879

This is a maxim which, when reduced TO
practice in private affairs, is regarded as
sound and benefcent, and we see no good
reason why it is not equally applicable in
the affairs of State. Roth the President
and the Secretary of the Treasury urgently
recommend in their recent State papers that
some of the existing laws relating to the
National finances shall be repealed or modi-
fed in such manner as 70 materially re-
strict our money volume 1t is recon-
mended that the legal-tender law be
repealed, under which suggestion the
volume Of our currency is liable to be di-
minishcd nearly fifty millions of dollars
And further, that the Secretary of the
Treasury be clothed with discretionary
power to suspend the coinage of silver at
his pleasure. This, as we understand the
question: is what is recommended both by
the President and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.


Now, without any desire or purpose to
antagonize the positions taken by these
distinguished statesmen, beyond what the
public welfare demands, our sense of duty
leads us to reiterate the admonition "Let
"well enough alone" Under the coinage of
silver the Nation was enabled to resume
and maintain specie redemption. Gold
lost its supreme power in the money
mart under silver coinage, and resumption
became a fixed fact Under resumption
this country now has a currency that is the
very best extant. We have q coin bearing
paper money nt pleasure, which is at par
in every State of the Union. The
volume of this currency is not in excess of
the needs of business and hence cannot be
diminished with safety to the public inter-
est Under our present monetary condi-
ton general enterprise is encouraged by q
wide-spreading prosperity throughout all
the business pursuits of the people, and to
attempt tinkeriug process in regard to it in
any degree is, in our opinion, fraught with
danger, and we sincerely hope that Con-
gress will hands off, and decide to "let well
enough alone"
Year: 1879

efforts entirely upon the former What
they want now is party capital, aud their
condition is such as will warrant any risk
to obtain it. Any change in their pros
poets must Of necessity be for the
"better. Let them therefore eliminate the
word policy from their vocabulary,
"and crediting their constituents with
the possession Of ordinary understanding,
propose and advocate few such measures
"ns common sense and common informa-
tion teach them win not only be popular,
but which must result favorably to the
" best interests Of the country"
Year: 1879

The Exeter On. H. Nc,Cs Letter is boom
ing with a column and a-half of double
loaded boom for General GRANT in 1880. It
booms charmingly and earnestly, and its
boom will be felt and acknowledged in the
Granite State
Year: 1879

THE Rev. TAIMAGE is prosecuted" and
his church does not propose to stand 1t.
The proposition is to withdraw from the
Presbyterian denomination, until it can
treat its pastor with proper respect.
Year: 1879

OF the 5OOOO,OOO of people in this coun-
try the South comprises less than 10000
600, or about two-ffths And this popular
minority essays to rule the remaining three
tifths by virtue of caucus dctaton wherein
u half dozen Bourbon Brigadiers COM
bined with u few mongrel Northern Dough-
faces, give ont the law and gospel for the
majority party in our Democratic Congress.
But their attempts are, happily, futile, and
the day is not far distant when this aggress-
i've and impudent, as well as imprudent,
exercise Of domineering power will no
longer be possible. The next census will
serve to rearrange and equitably redistrb-
ute the balance Of sectional power in the
country, so that the accession of the colored
vote TO Southern citizenship will no longer
work TO the political disadvantage or those
who created ii.
Year: 1879

IT is now intimated that it cost General
BUTLER S275OOO to steal one Democratic
convention and have his ambition twice sat
down on by the people of Massachusetts,
and yet he is not happy
Year: 1879

IT is intimated that the egrcss of the
Posts cocktail reporter from Senator HAM
LIS's presence when he invaded his quar-
tiers and attempted to insert his siphon into
the Old Roman was little more precipi-
tate and with little more aid than is con-
fessed by the elected interviewer himself
1t isn't the safest thing in the world to go
fooling around that quarter.
Year: 1879

Now we are informed that 1t was the
Third-Termers who brought General GRANT
back from his Eastern travels und placed
him "on the track" for the nomination
next year This information will be accepted
for what it is worth and no more as coming
from an inimical or anti-GRANT source.
But if our memory serves us correctly the
theory was advanced few months ago that
il General GRANT was really candidate
for reelection he would remain absent from
the country until after the nominating con-
ventions had been held. However, this
question of his candidacy is not to he
affected either one way or the other by his


own desires or the ISLANDERS of his enemies.
Year: 1879

The beautiful statue of the Prince of
Wales presented to the citizens of Bonn
bay by Sir Albert Sassoon was on the
26th Of June unveiled by his excellency
Sir Richard Temple, in presence of
great concourse of Europeans and ma
tives, drawn together in spite of heavy
rain to do honor to the occasion. 1t is
the first equestrian statue which has
been erected in western India. In his
speech at the ceremony, Sir R. Temple
said:


" Let me draw for your considera-
ton, and especially for the consideration
of our native friends present, just one
moral which is to be deduced from the
Year: 1879

ELCHANAN's ILLNESS.


A few weeks later deep grief pre-
vailed in the house of Rabbi Simeon.
Elchanan became very ill; the life of
that bright and hopeful child was in
great danger. The Rabbi and his wife
were sitting at the sick-bed sorrowfully
watching their beloved child, and Mar
garet, the nurse, was busying herself
with preparing and handing the bever-
age which Rabbi Nathan, the physician,
had prescribed for the invalid. 1t was
a heartrending sight to view the little
sufferer laboring under the strong fever
that befell him. He restlessly moved
about in his bed with burning face and
forehead. He called in delirious fancy
for his parents, talked to his brothers
and playmates, and repeated whatever
sentence or prayer he had learned by
heart. He would call in the most plain
tive tones for his nurse; but when she
approached him, he would push her
away, violently screaming. He would
then fall back exhausted, crying: " El
czanom mochlatho benoam zehashpar." !"
Rabbi Nathan, the physician, once en-
tered the room just when the child
made such an exclamation. He was as
tonished to hear such expressive words
from the lips of the delirious child, and
looked inquiringly at Rabbi Simeon


:" 1t is verse of poem which [ have
composed for the New Years day." an
swered the father to the inquiring glance
of the physician. "The boy came into
my study and found the manuscript on
the table. He rejoiced to see his name
at the beginning Of that poem. [ ex-
planned to him the meaning Of the SEN
tence and he learned it by heart"


" [ told you oftentimes, Rabbi" re-
Joined the physician, that you exert
too much the brain of that child Chill
dren of his age should have no mental
exertion whatever, until their physical
strength is sufficiently developed. Your
boy is very ILL.," he continued, shaking
his head as he examined the invalid,
and he must be watched with the
greatest care. He has a strong fever,
the crisis of which is not to be expected
before the ninth day from this date.
But 1 would not advise you all three to
watch him together. Your own health
may be affected by overwork."


The Rabbi need not watch here at
all, said the worthy housewife. His
health is altogether taxed too much
without that by constant studying, writ
ing and teaching. Margaret and myself
can change off with one another at the
sick-bed and the Rabbi should retire to
rest himself"


The advice of the physician was fol-
lowed. Rabbi Simeon retired to his
apartment, agreeable to the desire of
his wife, and the latter changed off with
Margaret at the bedside of the sick
child. One evening, when the mother
was persuaded by the urgent request of
the faithful nurse to retire for few
hours rest, the girl was left alone by
the invalid. Elchanan fell into rest
less sleep, and his nurse watching him
sank into deep revery. Her thoughts
ran to the following effect:


" Poor child You are so young, and
unmerciful death is already claiming
you. There is not even the hope of
heavenly bliss for your soul, for you are
of the accursed Jewish race that cruel
fed God You are so beautiful and so
bright, and I love you so afectionately !!
Oh, if l could only save you, my dear,
Year: 1879

A Scotch clergyman by the name of
Watty Morrison was man of most ir-
repressible humor. Gu one occasion
young officer scoffed at the idea that it
required 80 much time and study to
write a sermon as ministers pretend,
and offered bet that he would preach
half an hour on any passage in the Old
Testament without the slightest prepara-
ton. Mr. Morrison took the bet and he
gave for text, @And the ass.opened his
mouth and he spake." The parson won
the wager, the officer being rather dis
inclined to employ his eloquence upon
that text.


On another occasion Mr.. Morrison
entreated an officer to pardon poor
soldier for some ofense he had COM
mHted. The officer agreed to do SO if
he would in turn grant him the first
favor he should ask.


Mr.. Morrison agreed to this. In a
day or two the officer demanded that
the ceremony of baptism should be
performed on apuppy. The clergyman
agreed to it; and party of many gen.
tlemen assembled to witness the novel
baptism.


Mr.. Morrison desired the officer to
hold up the puppy, as was customary
in the baptism of children, and said:


Gas I am minister of the Church of
Scotland, must proceed according to
the ceremonies of the church"


Certainly" said the Major; II
expect all the ceremony"


well, then, Major; I begin by the
usual question, You acknowledge
yourself the father of this palppy?'"


A roar of laughter burst from the
crowd; the officer threw the candidate
for baptism away, and thus the witty
minister turned the laugh against the
infdel, who intended to deride the
sacred ordinance.
Year: 1879

A young Russian pobleman, having
squandered his fortune, appealed to his
sister to relieve his wants. This she re-
fused to do, and he thereupon deter
mined to make away with her for the
sake of inheriting her property, and
found means to give her a draught,
which was probably intended to kill,
but which only produced a deep sleep.
The funeral was hurried forward, and
the service had beenperforlned over the
body, when one of the lady's friends
stepped up to the coffin to impress
farewell kiss on the corpse's cheek
previous to the interment. Taking it
by the hand, she was surprised to find
some traces of vitality still remaining,
and begged that the interment might
be postponed, to try if her friend might
be recalled to life. The brother, OF
course, would not listen to this, but
treated her request with ridicule. She
then hurried off to the authorities and
stated the case, and proper persons were
appointed to return with her; but her
friend had been already buried, and so
great is the veneration for the dead In
Russia that for a long time her desire
to have the body disinterred met with
most violent opposition. At length,
from some circumstances which trans
pired, the Commissioners Of Inquiry
conceived some suspicion of the case,
and determined on opening the grave,
when it was discovered that the lady
had been buried alive, as her face was
much lacerated, and impressions of her
nails were found on the coffin lid. The
brother was taken into custody, con-
fessed his crime, and underwent the
punishment he SO richly deserved.
Year: 1879

THE parks present an unusually
bright and charming appearance for the
time of the year. The grass is as fresh
and green as in summer, forming a
cheerful contrast to the thousand hues
of the autumnal leaves. They are well
worth visit.