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Year: 1879

DR.. HOLLAND writes we'll in the last number
Of Scri6ner's -AontAly about social drinking.


we fully understand" he says, "the power
OF social influence to hold to the wiue-cup Is
symbol of hospitality. It is one OF the most
relentless despotisms from which the world
suffers. We do not suppose that very large
number OF drunkards a1e made By wine drunk
at the table, in respectable homes. The worst
social result that comes Of this habit is its
paralyzing effect upon reform. It Is only the
total abstainer' who can be relied upon to work
for Temperament We have no doubt that,
within Itntts this is true. It is, at any rate,
reasonable statement. Little effective reform
work can be done By moderate drinkers, for the
reason that their Own babitual example is ru-
1nous to habitual d1uukards- The Habitual is
constantly challenged by the example of the
Moderate to drink wisely; but, from the naturs
OF tie case, must drink unwiselv or not at all.
Year: 1879

History is full Of warning as to the
downfall Of republics. Corruption
and extravaganza first sap the moral
foundations, and then an army Of rnex-
cenaries complete the work. In his
memorable Grafton at the completion
Of the Bunker Hill monument. Daniel
Webster describes the present situa-
tinis with almost Of pr1pIsesy in these
striking words


Quite too frequent resort is made to
military force; and quite too mnch Of
the substance of the people is con-
sumed in maintaining armies, rot for
defense against foreign aggression,
but for the enforcing Of obedience to do
mestic authority Standing armies
are the oppressive instruments for
governing tie people in the hands Df
hereditary aud arbitrary tnouarchs j
military republic. government found
ed on mock elections and supported
only by the sword. is movement in-
deed. but retrcgra,ie ard disastrous
movement. from the regular and old
fashioned monarchical systems.


Ifmen would enjoy the blessings Of
republican Government. they must
govern themselves by reason by NUT
aal counsel and consultation by
sense aid feeling IF general interest.
and by the acquiescence Of the minor
ity in the will Of the majority, proper
lg expressed; and above all, the mill
tary must be kept, according TO the
language Of our bill Of right, in strict
suE5ordination to the civil authority
Wherever this lesson is not learned
and praeticed there can he no pSlitic-
al freedom Absurd. preposteruus is
II, scof aud a satire ON free forms Of
constitutional liberty, for frames of
Government to be prescribed by mill
tary leaders. and the right Of suffrage
p be exercised at the point of the
sword


When Daniel Webster gave utter
anee 10 these American sentiments the
country was al peace as it now is,
and Tire regular army was little more
thaa third IF its present number.
Year: 1879

coLoRrD PEOPLE IN THAT STATE RESOLVED TO GO


WEST IN SEARCH OF FRKEDoM-THE BARRIERS


WHICH ARE vAINLY THROWN IN THEIR WAY.


tBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNEl


WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-About two months ago
colored school-teacher from North Carolina arrived
here on his way to the West He was going thither
to select homes for large colony of colored people
who had determined to leave their old homes for
land which promised them more freedom. He was
the bearer of excellent testimonials from residents
of North Carolina as to his ability as a teacher and
character as man.


When he returned to the State and the white
people became aware of the nature of his mission TO
the West. they manufactured charges against him,
and had him arrested for larceny. His bail was
fixed at a sum which it was supposed he would not
be able TO command because il was the intention TO
hold him in confinement until Spring. The colored
people rallied, however, and by contributions OF
small they finally raised enough TO release him
upon BAIL so that he could accompany the emil
grants TO the West


The party of colored people which reached here
night before last numbered 225 persons. They re-
port that although there was previous understands
ing with the railroads that they to be carried
at reduced rates, the companies were induced by
the popular clamOr to refuse this concession. Even
the children were compelled To pay full fare. The
colony were so determined to leave North Carolina
that in spite of their destituton they crowded into
the cars and came away. Some or lhein had iunSs
sufficient to carry them to their destinations III the
West Others remained here. The funds OF the
Emigration Aid Society have been exhausted III
helping destitute emigrants who had passed
through previously but the members of the society
have begun TO solicit contributions for these people,
and they hope to send them all along very soon.


The society reEews its appeal to charltlble peo-
pie in the North to contribute funds to help these
people along. The society is entirely non-poiItica
Ii does not encourage emigration, but confines its
efforts to helping those who start of their own ac-
Year: 1879

PASSAGE Is DOCBTFUI.


lar TELEGRAPH THE rRIBUNE.l


WASHINGTON Dec. 5-There is an impression
here that Senator Bayards resolution, taking the
legel-tender quality away from the grcenback. is
gaining strength in the Senate. Some Western
Democratic Senators whose financial record las
hitherto been antagOnistic TO any legislation III
tins direction, are known TO be favorable TO it,
There is not sufficient ground 10 expect its passage
by the Senate, however; and the feeling III the
House is known to be strongly opposed to II.


An Eastern Senator, member of the Finance
Committee said tonight that Mr.. BayardPs resou-
ton has not been taken up by the committee. lie
SAID that there differences of opinion as 10 what
ought to be done, but that there cannot be two
opinions az 10 what will be done Congress will not
pass any measures embodying the views of the
sound money men at this session. and the President
will certa NV veto any unsound" financial legis-
lation which might be sent 10 him.


Western member of the Republican Senatorial
Caucns Committee, who declined 10 say anything
abont the proceedings Of the committee. said TO-
night that the financial question would not make
disturbance IN the Republican party. If the Dem
ocras conclude to make financial issue, the Re
yubhcans Will probably divide according to their
individual on sectional inclinatiOns.
Year: 1879

As the banks have increased their aggregate spe-
Gle reserve in the last two months the passage of
the Banking and Currency Committees bill would
not to-day transfer a single gold or silver dollar
from the Treasury TO the vaults of the National
banks IL would not, therefore. release single
legaltender dollar held by the banks as re-
serve IL might prevent the future accumulation OF
legai-tenders In the banks, if tendency to hoard
them should manifest itself at any future time;
but at present there seems to be a disposition OH
the part of the banks TO let the legal-tenders 20
as the demand for them increases and to ill their
places with com. This movement will probably
continue as long the United States not only keeps
at home the enormous bullion product of her mines
but continues add to her store of gold and silver
by constant impOrtatious from Europe.


Ii is understood that another reason which
governed Mr.. Buclner desire to
get some of the silver dollars now III
the Treasury into the vaults of the
country banks. The hope that this bill would do
this even if the banks should require more specie,
is regarded by one gentleman, who is a high author
ity ON subjects pertaining To the currency as purely
thimerlcal This gentleman says that OF course HE
banks would exchange their surplus legai-teudcis
for gold coin instead of silver, and that the latter
would remain where II Is. .


committee to-day. the resolutions OF Messrs Fort
aud Price were called up. Mr.. Cbittenden moved
that the resolutions be laid aside until after the
HOLIDAYS together with bill introduced by Mr..
Iouusbury last May providing for the repeal of the
LEGAL teDder clause. Mr.. Chlttenden urged this
course on account of the Importance OF the subject
and the need of careful and mature CELEBRATION
Mr. Lonnsbury moved that the subject be LAID over
until the next meeting Of the committee. Alter
same informal discuss on this was agreed TO. MI
Chittenden understands that the matter Il not 10
be taken up and disposed of by the committee until
alter tue holiday recess.
Year: 1879

nocentlv made to de facto officer in Ignorance OF
where the true title is. and continue to make pay
ment to Mr. Hall, or In of the facts thus JUDI
cialy determined with reference to the retnsns,
can hold the money for the beneft of the rRhtini
erence TO the provision of the law that the Board
of Aldermen should be the Judge OF the election re-
turns and qualifications OF its own memDsIs, s SUD
tent jursdiction the decision of the Board deter
mines simply which of the two claimants shan sit
in the Board. and be dc facto officer. Inc law
gives n no binding effect elsewhere. According 10
the principles announced by the Court In Dolan
against the Mayor. neither the determination OF the
of County Canyassers would prevail against the
rightful title.


Mavor Cooper said last night that he had decided
to send "a letter to the Controller asking him To
make out an individual warrant To each Alderman,
is done in some other departments, and the Con-
troller could sign Mr. Halls warrant in that ca se
while the Mayor could exercise his own judgment.
Year: 1879

Lieutenant Montgomery, of the Ham
mond-street District, this morning, report
ed to Colonel Wappenstein that while he
was making his rounds among the patrol
men last night he discovered two of them
James Dore and A. Cunningham, dead
asleep in a hack on Sixth-street Hill. The
young Chief Immediately suspended them
from further duty until they are inyesti
gated by the Board of Police Commission
erS
Year: 1879

On account of an accident to our en-.
gine yesterday afternoon, just before the
printing of the third edition of the SrAB
was finished, some city subscribers and
quite number at other points missed their
papers. The accident, though most annoy
ing, was unavoidable. 1t was impossible al
the late hour of the occurrence to get the
break mended in time to finish printing the
edition.
Year: 1879

FROM the number of NANCY ours that
run riot through our streets at night, yt'p-
lug at every jump, it wculd seem that
either our dog law Is not riSidly enforced
or our citizens are getting in good circum-
stances. At any rate somebody supports
considerable canine.
Year: 1879

Fred Gramlich ofPhiladelphia, of stone
mason and digger has several Philadel-
phians at work in the basin square
preparatory to the erection of the new
County buildings. The men are at
work on the North West corner OF the
basin and are engaged in taking out
the stone. This morning Mr.. Gramlich
informed representative OF this paper
that he intends to put on a force OF
workmen from this city as soon as the
ground becomes dryer. Fully one hun
dred men were at the basin this morn
ing anxiously waiting to be put TO
work. All of the workmen speak IN
bitter terms of the contractor employ
ing Philadelphians to DO the work
when so many men in this city are un'
employed.
Year: 1879

The boys who have been in the habit
of congregating at the corner OF Elm
and Jackson streets and annoying the
neighbors by their conduct, will please
take notice that one Of the citizens has
resolved that he will appeal to the law
for protection and make every effort to
insure their proper punishment on
repetition of the offences complained OF.
Year: 1879

Democratic Recognition in New York


by Mr.. Hendricks.


The greenbackers are moro active~
ly ut work for the ensuing political
campaign than most people believe.
Not only has compact organization
been perfected of the distinct greens
back representatives in the Forty
sixth Congress, but plan has been
arranged for a demonstration in
New York State which will compel
Democratic recognition of the
greenback issue in tho fall election
there for State officers. This plan,
as far as rgreed upon, is to hold o
q State Convention at Albany or
Syracuse early in the summer, or at
least not later than the first of
August, and to nominate Sunset Cox
for Governor, that gentleman having
within the CAST few years changed
his position on tho money question
and being now pronounced green
backer. The expectation is that
with Mr. Cox already III the field the
regular Democrats will, at their
State Convention, be forced to On
dorse him or run the risk of defeat
for both wings of the party should
they put somebody else on the reg~
ular ticket for Governor.


TO make the complication still
moro perplexing, it is asserted
by intimate personal friends of Mr..
Hendricks that he will not consent
n second time to take the secondtrlace
on the Presidential ticket. These
friends say that this decision on the
part of Mr.. Hendricks was, reached
by him ut the conclusion of the
ba in. IS o. the ST. Louis Convention
but was only recently declared by
him in view of the movement to re-
nominate in 1880 the ticket Of 1876.
The sentiments Of Mr.. Hendricks
on the financial question are in
harmony with those Of the majority
Of the Western and Southern De-
mocracy, and it is claimed that, if
there is to be any vindication next
year of the result of the last Presi-
dental election, it can be more
surely attained with Mr.. Hendricks
at the head of the ticket.
Year: 1879

A newspaper and newspaper
editor that people don't talk about
and sometimes abuse ure rather
poor concerns. The men and busi-
ness that an editor sometimes feels
it q dnty, to defend, at q risk OF
making enemies of another class,
are often the very first, to show
their ingratitude. The editor who
expects to receive much charity or
gratitude will soon find Tout,his mis-
take but he should 40 on Nand say
and do what he conscientiouly thinks
right without regard to frowns and
smiles.l Wdterloo Observer.
Year: 1879

There is q pocket telephone


stretched across from the hoIse of
a young man in this town to the
window Of his sweetheart just op-
posite.aaThey are to be married
soon, and it is a touching sigh to
watch the little sparrows perch on
the string and peck at the taffy as
it slides along Waterloo Observer.
Year: 1879

THE cost of advertising can be CAL
culaied with proximate extctness.
The value and rumber Of sheets print
ed, the cost of type setting and space oc-
cupied are known n every advertising
merchant. II one newspaper print 1000
and another 1000 copies the latter
reaches twice as many readers as the
former and should be paid accordingly.
The quantity of paper and press work
in the latter case cost twice as much IS
in the first, and yet the Houston Age
says public advertising should be done
by the paper that will serve the court
or clerk or sheriff for the least money.
Nothing could BE- more absurd.
Courts and clerks AID sheriffs should
pay regular commercial rates aud these
are easily ascertained. Ask any shrewd
merchant. He knows the price and
value of an sad" in any named news
paper as we'll as the value and price of
yard of domestic. 1'Conmercial rates.
should be the laws standard of prices.
The State does not propose to rob
or to be robbed.
Year: 1879

THE greater the number of pupils
registered and entering the public
schools, the sum paid teach
ers for each remaining the same,
the shorter the term through
which they are taught. Three
months tuition, when the pe1agogue
is only employed through three months
and cares nothing for his own reputa-
tion and only for the money coming
from the State, is of no service to the
children OF Texas, and yet the Free
Press says:


Hon. John Styles, OF Red River
county, has introduced bill in the
House to extend the scholastic age
from six to eighteen years. This is q
decided Improvement on the sugges-
ton to decrease it TO ten to fourteen
years.


II only those children between ten
and fourteen years were admitted to
the schools, the number of pupils
would be so reduced that they could
be taught by the State nine months
each year. Schools would be perma-
nent and continued by the same teach
ers, at the same place, year
after year. The children would
be we'll instructed and not for
get faster than they learn. The
Free Press is at fault, and the represen-
tative from Red River, to the extent
that he would bless the people of
Texas by his proposition to multiply
pupils in the public schools, has taken
a step good sense will soon prove to
him to be an improper one.
Year: 1879

Those Sunday laws that are never
obeyed should never be enacted. The
worlds experience has taught us the
necessity for ga day of rest," to which
those who desire it may attach any
idea of sanctity they like. If Hebrews,
because of convictions of religious
duty, would hold Saturday sacred,
they should be left perfectly free to
sanctify the day and keep 1t holy,
while Christians, in like manner, may
dispose of Sunday. Others, regarding
the day one of ''rest," may find it
agreeable to amuse themselves in town
or country. If they interfere with no
body and derogate in nothing from
the equal rights of Others and violate
no code of public order or decency,
they should be as carefully protected
by just and wise government as the
reciter of psalms and prayers, or
counter of beads. The only business
of the State is to promote the observ-
ance of day of rest and to protect
the poor and rich alike in its perfect
enjoyment. The rich should not be
suffered to compel the poor to toll,
and contracts made or to be executed
on the ''dsy of rest," designated as
such by the State, are made voidable,
but beyond this the law-making pow
er cannot rightfully go. 1t cannot un-
dertake to bind peoples consciences
or legislate religiously, and therefore
the widespread approval by the press
of the speech of Senator Terrell. Cap
Itsl, if the law create the legal holiday,
cannot take advantage of poverty and
make it toll seven days each week.
Population is not dense enough or
poor enough, and will not be for q
century IN Texas, and if it were so
poor that it could be forced to toll
when no law prohibited it, the law
would only prevent unwisely and uD-
justly the acquisition of bread by hun
CRY industry, The Legislature cannot
go beyond that restriction upon popu-
lar freedom, which makes Sunday con-
tracts and business agreements voida-
BILE, and then the sale of msddening
intoxicating beverages on Sunday may
be prohibited in behalf of public peace
and order.
Year: 1879

THERE is bill pending in the Sem
ate to regulate the practice of medicine,
and modes of appointing local boards
of medical examiners. 1t may be well
for the Senate to have before it this
brief and incislve paragraph from the
State Constitution:


Article 16, section 81, page 5S, "The
Legislature may pass laws prescribing g
the qualifications of practitioners of
medicine in this State and to punish per-
sons for malpractice, but no preference
shall ever be given by law to any
schools of medicine"


The law now in force in Texas
gives the power to appoint local
boards of medical examiners TO district
Judges. The bill pending in the SEN
ate gives the appointing power to the
Governor. The purpose of the bill seems
to be to get rid of the present boards
of examiners, and the proposition is to
have the Governor appoint FIVE physi-
clans in each congressional district
to discharge their Office. Under
such claw" the Governor might fail
to recognize different schools of medi-
cine; but his exellency will not fail
to recollect the terms of the organic
code, as this bill surely does. The
constitutional question is, what is
a ''preference" of a ''school of medI-
cinef" Suppose the bill enacted and
the Governor appoint, in making up a
board, all honGopaths, will not the
allopaths have infinite reason to COM
plain, and will they not swear that the
Governor forgot the generosity of the
rutabaga constitution Fix it how
you will there is, while the Constitu-
ton subsists, an irrepressible conflict
between the wings of the medical
profession, and this bill will fail ut
terly, we greatly fear, while the Con-
stitution stands, to put an end to it.
viii not the Governors conscience
compel him, as 3 strict constructionist
of the Constitution, to put at least
one or two allopaths on every board,
and we don't see how the steamers
can be left out.
Year: 1879

Would it not be well, in view OF
defaleations in Missouri and elsewhere,
to make it penltentiary offense for q
Texas officeholder to enter a gam
bling hell. Such men. even in this
city, have beer seen in such places,
even when thousands were lost and
won. 1t was the peoples money that
was endangered, and respectable"
ropers-in are ever on the alert to mad
den with drink and.then inveigle into
these hells those who may check upon
a public fund or treasury.
Year: 1879

THE Btenham Banner thinks that
they blunder most fatally who vote or
speak in the Legislature with reference
to their own popularity. Members
that rise In honor and Office are those,
and those alone, who consnlt the best
and most enduring interests OF the
commonwealth. These are the states
men, the Others the demagogues of
Texas. The people disapprove the


measure that the hungry schoolmasters
and mendicants and speculators Of the
country demand, and when the
school and university lands are gone,


with but little in the State Treasury to
speak for them, these legislators win
find that in this instance at least they
calculated falsely. The people viii
blauxn;hem for their error and lack OF
Year: 1879

Mr.. CoLEMAN's saying that i: is an
outrage to pay a man So per diem for
five minutes OF prayer is widely copied
and some of the papers say each MEM
Der should do his own praying and
that government has no right to rec
ognize any religion. 1t is matter Of
individual conscience with which gov
ernmeut has no more to do than God
with State governments and boards of
aldarman
Year: 1879

WHEN the Legislature thrusts
upon the market school and
university land it puts down
the price of real, property every
where in Texas. That few squatters
and spectators may be enriched and
posterity poverty stricken, and schools
made forever as worthless as to-day,
these lands are to be sold and every
land owner and farmer of the COM
monwealth finds the value of his little
homestead stricken down.
Year: 1879

GES. RoBERTsoN, writing from s..
Louis an loving Texas as he does, is
almost persuaded that it is "a CRIME to
divest the State of its title to the
school and university lands." He says
We are thus about to sacrifice the
chiefest hope of the future greatness
and learning of Texas.
Year: 1879

Cardinal Rienelieu, we are told, spent
his hoarIof relaxation in leaping over. the
furniture, and on enc oecasin he was dis
covered jumping with bis servant to try
which could reach the high side Of a wall.
.DeGrammont, knowing the Cardinal to be
jealous Of his powers, offered 70 jump him
for a vager-a proposal which shows the
courage as much as the event showed the
diplomacy of the eourtier The offer was
accepted, but DeGrammont took care
that his leaps should never quite reach
those Of his Eminenee, and thus he lost
few louis, but gained speedy and high
promotion by the favor Of his triumphant
and gratifed opponent.