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Year: 1877

"SHALL PUNISHMENT PUNIsH?" is the title
of an article in the last number of the


GALAXY. The writer strongly advocates the
re-introduction of the "whipping-post." on
the grounds that many offenders against the
law purpOsely continue their offences for the
sake of enjoying the shelter and food that
the State furnishes its criminals, and also
that the punishment of deprivation of liberty
and disgrace are mental, and therefore felt
most by the least hardened criminals, and
that physical pain is the only real punishment
felt by u hardened conscience, a dead sensibil-
i:y and a determined laziness that prefer.
prison support to hard work in freedom.
The writer claims that because the whip
ping post has been proved cruel tyranny in
the hands of the slaye-owner, the absolute
monarch of a ships crew or the unmatched
master Of an old-time prison, is no sign that
physical penalties should never be inflicted
by carefully administered law.


There is much in this paper for thought
ful persons to consider. 1t is a fact that
sentiment may run into such excesses,
and through such channels as to defeat
its own ends. 1t is fact that physical
penalties sesm to be the only real pun
ishment for the man to whom
the prison has become nothing but
an easy place in which to get a living.
1t is fact that tramps who stroll through
country places in Summer, endangering the
life of women by their nameless crimes, and
robbing men of property, throng to the cities
in the Autumn, and often commit some petty
crime sufficient TO give them steady home
through the Wint1r, when travelling is not
comfortable.


After ages of Christian teaching, there is
no danger OF our returning to barbarOus
treatment of criminals, and it might be diff
cult to convince the public generally of the
necessity for corporal punishment; but still
the question, "Shall punishment punish ~ is
a pertinent one. When the sentiment of pity
for the criminal, high or low. in station,
seems to be stronger than for his victim;
when society, uncOnsciously to itself, seems
to Disseminate in matters of physical ease be-
tween the very poor honest and the very
poor dishonest man, in favor of the latter.
the question of duty becomes paramount to
any mere feeling, however lovely that may
be
Year: 1877

CABLE woRK--THE APPROACHES.


With tho exception Of stoppaGe on Friday Of some
seven hours on account Of shortness OF wire tho
bridge work during tho past week has progressed with
great and commcpdable rspldty. The nftn pair Of
down stream strands are stl being Lard, and will be
finished by Tuesday. The regulation and final ADJUST
ment OF the fourth pair OF up stream strands was
completed yesterday by the insertion OF scgments
measuring three and hvc-eighth inches between the
shoe pin southernmost Of the fourth pair of
up stream strands, and one OF three inches on the
northernmost Of the same PAIR OF strands This
operation of inserting segmcnts Is one requir-
Ing good deal OF The shoe bars connecting the
shoes with the system OF stool and Mana ropes and
pueys leading to the engine at the foot Of the anchor
age, and which mad boon removed on letting tho cable
and pinning them between the anchor bars,
again boltcd to the shoe Power s then applied
through the rope system above alluded TO- and the
strand which there Is tho immense pulling
strain OF some sixty tons, slowly drawn
back, leaving space between the slot OF
tho shoe and the pin in the anchor bars SUI
6ciont to allow OF the insertion OF the segments The
pin knocked through sufficiently allow OF one Of
tho anchor bars being ireed This 10 then lifted up by
means OF the derrick and the scgmcnts inserted


WINTER PREcArTIoNs


In view Of the approaching winter the saddle slots
In the towers Of the bridge are being provided with
housing OF boards to protect the workmen from the
wind rain aud snow. few boards have been put up
at the cradles Tor similar purpose, whore the men





protected the severity Of the blast Tho work Of
laying tho cable viii progress throughout the winter,
except when prevented by stormy winds, severe snow
storms or cold.


Al tho approaches the work Is advancing rapidly.
On the Brooklyn sdc tho brick and stone work of the
second pier already above the ground level and In
the excavation for the third pier the concrete s being
laid at end whilo the excavation is going on at
the othor. On the New York side the concreting Of
the second pier foundations still going as well
as the work on the excavation for the third pier,
which will be shortly finished.


At tho engineers Office IN Brooklyn MI. Wander
bosch has commenced detailed drawing IN elevation
OF the suspended Of tho bridge from
anchorage to anchorage, which Will be some sxtytwo
feet length, tho scale beng i've ieet TO the nch
II will be work OF between two and three months.
ON the Brooklyn tower the workmen still at
setting the pafapet stoucs at tho roadway.


Tho contracts for the stone the approaches have
us yet boon given out The work OF tearing down
the buildings the lino Of tho New York approach Is
going on steadily. Tho building on the Of
Pearl and Frankfort streets 10 down, us IS nlso the
fourth building from Franklin square, Har-
per's establishment The Intervening buildings are
nearly Eutted and work was commenced yesterday
morning several OF tho low buildings on the north
side Of Frankfort street.
Year: 1877

To TnE EDITOR OF HRRALD:-


Let me direct tho attention Of your readers to the
way In which those subscribers OF the Mercantile
Library treated who subscribed to that institution
in ordor read the daily papers le thcro These
Alcs have been taken from tho commodious room
the second floor and crowded into room OF much
less up stairs, and into such smat
space that there IL no room for the files Il
be, as formerly, placed open on stands, bu
they are hung up on racks in such q way that ono ID
obliged TO hunt some time to find them. Tho writeI
does know any Of the present Board nor dooa
he care who Is 10 who Is out, but any complaint ID
treated with utter contempt by the present manager
II seems, however, that this institution is now run
for the porquiscs and that the present ring Is 50 IN
stalled In powcr that Is impossible to get them out


AN OLD SUBSCRIBER
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


respectfully invite you some evening. at six
O'Clock TO take bird's-eye Wow OF the inner work.
ings Of the palaiia business house Of Arnold Con-
stable, SO that may enlist your sympathy IN behalf
OF the Of females who nightly struggle down the
six long flights OF stairs. In view OF tho many dis
asrous ana the irghtu loss of life we daily read
OF there should be some Improvement madc IN tho
single mode OF Imagine, In case Of fire. three or
four hundred females crowding down tho winding,
three foot wide staircase and squeezing through the
twofoot aperture digufed by the name OF door. IL
is truo oveIy precaution has been taken to prevent
OF tho multitude to gain tho open air through such
narrow space? AS one OF that multitude echo the
demand OF all by calling on tho Building Department
TO have this fault remeded IN time. The ventilation
also Is exceedingly bad and ought be remeded Our
theatres are looked AFTER and why not the busy hives
where hundreds gather dayS ECHO.
Year: 1877

THE opponents of the Union Pacific,
by fortunate parliamentary dis
covery, succeeded in passing in the
House the Chaffee resolution of in
quiry, which has been stubbornly op-
posed in the Senate. The resolution
was introduced early in the day in the
House, and went over upon objection,
but just before adjournment Critten-
den, of Missouri, who presented the
resolution, discovered that to-day was
the first of the six days before the end
of the session, within which motions to
suspend the rules at any time are in
order. He had strength enough to do
this, there being less than fifty oppos-
ing votes and the House having consid-
cradle more than quorum. Thus the
opposition of the Union Pacific people
in the Senate will avail nothing, as the
resolution goes to the President in ex-
actly the language in which it was pre-
sented by Senator Chaffee.
Year: 1877

We have genuine dramatic novelty
at last. A young woman whom we had
scarcely heard of before her first appear
ance here, has bounded into the good
will of the critics and the public at one
spring. The name of the phenomenon
is Miss Mary Anderson. She is, we
believe, native of Louisville, and only
eighteen years old. She is playing
pauline, Z" in Bulwer's Lady of Lyons,
at the Fifth Avenue, N. Y, and play
ing it so well, that all who see her are
astonished. Miss Anderson has three
qualities which mark her out for
distinction on the stage. These are,
exceedingly handsome person, a rich,
full, melodious voice, and a fresh and
original mind. Her Pauline is the best
in conception as well as in expression
that any inexperienced actress has yet
produced. It fairly took the critics
and the audience by storm the first
night, and the good impression then
made has since been more than sus.
tained. If Miss Anderson can do as
well in other parts, she is destined to
reach high place on the American
stage. Youth, beauty and power she
already has, and experience will bring
her whatever she needs else. Her en-.
gagement at the Fifth Avenue is
already an emphatic success, and is
profitable alike to the manager and his
youthful star.
Year: 1877

A FINANcIER of Oshkosh knows how
to resume. He proposes that the gov
ernment shall put two-and-a-half or
three cent postage stamp on each green
back dollar, to make up the difference
between the gold and the paper dollar,
and thus settle the whole thing. This
is several hundred per cent. easier than
rolling off log, and would have the
same effect on the finances,
Year: 1877

SENATOR SPENCER is very angry in
consequence of a remark by Senator
Hamlin, that he regretted to be COM
PEELED to sit in the Senate chamber with
carpet-baggers, with no fixed political
principles.
Year: 1877

WE paid 100000 for the Sitting
Bull Commission. If anybody will tell
us what good it has done, we will be
prepared to pay out 100000 more as
reward of merit for the greatest dis
covery of the age.
Year: 1877

THE penny system exists among every
rich and powerful nation on the face of
the globe. If our country is pressed by
hard times, it is because she has neg
lected the honest, modest penny.
Year: 1877

which Judge Spofford alluded to. When


Judge Spofford read to the committee


his fourth charge, as to the completely of
Kellogg with the returning board in
illegal acts, Kellogg got up to join issue
with him, when Hoar, a member Of the
committee, objected. Spofford did not
make his charge behind the door, but
said he could prove it, and so far as any


testimony having been taken last win
ter on the subject, Spofford said facts
had recently come 70 his knowledge.


He (HilD appealed to every Senator Of
this floor to sink partisan feelings for
the moment and not deny the right Of
this contestant to take testimony, which
any court ON earth would not refuse
him. Kellogg came here now to claim
the price of his fraud; he came here to
ask that this Senate would give effect
to that fraud. A committee had been
appointed to examine all such cases,
| and this committee said: 1--WE have


taken so much testimony about return
ing boards that we will take no more. :"
Wadleigh said the Field committee
took testimony on this very point.


! Hill said the Field committee took


testimony regarding the electoral vote


that was closed, and as far as he was
concerned it should be closed forever.
Mcdonald inquired of Wadleigh if ht


did not know that members of tht
| Louisiana returning board refused tt
Year: 1877



 Any man who can swop horses or catch fish and not lie about it, is just as pious as men ever get in this world.

 An asperslon of the memory of the great Cristoph Colomb says that be once left for parts unknown.

 After boy is tired out hoeing potatoes, nothing seems to rest him more than to dig over few square rods of green sward in search of bait.

 Children who are remarkable for what they know at five years old, are generally more remarkable at twenty-five for what they don't know.

 A wise daughter is the pride of her father yea; heE mother also doth delight Tn her but tx foolish maiden bringeth sorrow. She bangeth on the front gate she tippeth up her hat over her lett ear. Her eye is full of the old Nick. She Rlaneeth over her left shoulder when she promenades on Main street, Her handkerchief also is seen. Then the dry goods clerk says "Ha hap He snileth to himself: he maketh mistakes in the measure of calico.

 When little Henry Augustus was repri. manded by his father for throwing stones at another boy, and told that he might be hanged some day if be was not better boy, the lad said he didn't care if he would be, "for then the papers would print my portrait. and the girls would send me flow CTS in jail, and I'd go to heaven, and that'd be bully" The inference is plain that Henry Augustus reads the daily papers.
Year: 1877

sulphur induces mo to let my medical brethren know of the plan that they may apply the same without delay. All the cases ID winch I used 1t were well marked, and the epidermis on the arms in each case came away like the skin of a snake. The following was the exact treatment in each case: Thoroughly anoint the patieI t twice dailywith sulphur ointment.and give five to ten gr aims of sulphur in 8 little jam three times a day. SuficIent sulphur was burned twice day lon coals of fire on shovel to fill the room with the fumes. and of course was thoroughly inhaled by the pat ient. Under this mode of treat ment each case improved immediately, and none were over eight days in making a complete recovery"

 These remedies are very simple, and may bs of value. They were used and recom- mended by the regu ar practitioners.
Year: 1877

VIII be found to possess those qualities necessary
to the total eradication of all bilious attacks prompt
to start the secretions of the liver, and give
healthy tone to the entire system. Indeed, it is no
ordinary discovery in medical science to have in
vented a remedy for these stubborn complaints,
which develop all the results produced by here
tofore free use of CalUmel mineral Justly dreaded
by mankind, and acknowledged to be destructive
in the extreme to the human system. That the
properties of certain vegetables comprise all the
virtues Of calomel without its injurious tendencies
is now an admitted fact, rendered indisputabe by
scientific researches; and those VINO use the Man
drake Pills will be fully satisfied that the best
medicines are those provided by nature in the
common herbs and roots of the fields


These Pills open the bowels and correct all BIZ
lious arrangements without salvation or any of the
injurious effects OF caomel or other poisons. The
secretons OF bile is promoted by these pills as viii
be seen by the altered color Of the stools. and dis
appearing of the sallow complexion and cleansing
of the tongue,


Ample directions for use accompany each box o
pills Prepared only by j. H. Schenck Il Son. a


their principal flee, conner Sixth and Arch Street
Philadelphia, and for sale by all druggists ant
Dealers.


Price % cents per box.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20-It can be
stated that the president sees no reason
or occasion for war with Mexico. Intimate
friends of the president end Secretary
Evarts declare that neither the president
nor the secretary of state desires war, aud
that the reports charging them with such
desire Go gross injustice. The information
OF late from the Rio Grande is of a re-
assuring character.


The policy of the administration will be
to avoid all complications and to adjust
those which may arise by peaceable means
alone The president viii protect the
border and will also maintain peace he
states that very emphatically to-day. The
administration authorities DO not think
that the governor of Texas can be justified
on the bulletins, in which he charges the
Mexicaus with the responsibility for the
I'll Paso troubles.


The house investigating committee
seemed to have proved that since the 4th
of March not more than three parties have
crossed the border from Mexico for the
purpose Of pillage on the lower Rio Grande
country. In the upper Bio Grande section
the raids have been almost altogether con
fined to the wandering bands of indians.
Year: 1877

Understand the reasons, and all the


reasons, why the habit injurious. Study
the subject until there is no lingering
doubt in your mind. Avoid the places


the persons, and the thoughts that lead to
the temptation. Frequent the places,
associate with the persons, indulge in the
thoughts that lead away from temptation


Keep busy; idleness is the strength of bad
habits. Dc not give up the struggle when
you have broken your resolution once
twice, thrice-a thousand times. Thai
only shows how much need there is fol
you to striye. When you have broken
your resolutions just think the matter
over and endeavor to understand why it is
you failed, 80 that you may be on your
|guard against . recurrence of the same
Do not think it an easy
thing that you have undertaken. 1t Is q
folly to expect to break off . habit in q
day which has been gathering long years.
Year: 1877

The project of bringing to New York and
setting up there the obelsk familiarly known
as "Cleepatra's Needle" which is now stand
ing at Alexandria, receives much and serious
attention. Already considerable progress
had been made toward obtaining by subscrip-
ton the sum necessary,-a hundred thousand
dollars-to pay the expenses of transporta-
tion when the World, in whose columns the
announcement was first made that the Khe-
dive would permit the removal of the stone,
stated that wealthy citizen of New York
would assume the whole expense himself So
rthe success of the plan seems assured.


1t would certainly be a fine thing for New
York were the great monolith to come into
her possession. She would have an archi-
tectural ornament enriched by the historical
associations of three thousand years, and as
gift from the Oldest nation of the earth to
the youngest it would possess value as SYM
Dol of the close intercourse of the peoples oi
the world, and of the universal brotherhood
of man. The erection of the shaft in some
public square of New York would mark. the
beginning of period when our greatest city
shall have sights to show worthy the atten-
tion of tourists of the world, and when she
can exhibit to the traveller from overseas, OF
to the eager American objects of interest
other than her prisons and her hospitals.
The spectacle of a monument which has
seen the historical vic issitudes of thirty CEN
trrios +ba roiopo of Phor,obs o,d ptoJano;a ;ae
and Caesars and Fatimites and Ottomans,
which has stood for three thousand years in
a land where civilization came to birth in the
travail of time, must exercise great and SOL
emn power over the imaginative mind and
exert an educating influence of no small
value to young and growing nation. For
these reasons it is good that New York
should have an obelisk.


But other things of more worth should
not be sacrificed to the possession of an obe-
lisk. The expense of transportation will be
but a small portion of the total expense ol
placing the monolith. Much money will be
required to arrange public square suitable
for it, for Central Park evidently is not fiji
place. A half million OF dollars is not an
extravagant estimate of the sum required
1t is urged as reason for the expenditure o.
this large sum the great influence to be ex
erted upon the study of art and history and
antiquities by the possession of the mono
lith. That influence is vastly exaggerated.
The Metropolitan Museum, inadequate as il
is, is of incomparably more benefit to the
students of art and of ancient history. a
half million dollars expended upon it woulG
give it good position with its kind in The
Old World. The Castellani collections, o
great value to artists, antiquarians and histo.
rians, can be obtained for third of the sun
which Cleopatra's Needle cost, and when OBJ
tanned will be of far greater worth to the CITY
With the two-thirds the Museum can be still
further enriched. The rich men of New
York should see that the Metropolitan Muse
um is properly equipped and endowed. Then
if their generosity will carry them SO far, the.
may bring the obelisk of Thothmes from thu
Nile-Land to the New World.
Year: 1877

guard of the party. 1t is positively childish
to pretend that the Ohio endorsement of the
policy" was not mistake.


Public opinion in Western New York is very
much the same as it is among the farmers of
Ohlo. 1t would have been reckless defiance
OF it to have engrafted upon the platform of
the Rochester conventional an unqualified ap-
proval of the administration scheme of pacifi.
cation. What was said about it in that COM
pendium of principles was temperate and
kindly. There is not a line in it to which rea-
sonable exception can be taken, There was
disposition among the delegates to take ground
against the Washington authorities, but the
desire for harmony prevailed Iand conciliatory
course was determined upon. Any different
action would have amounted to a virtual sur
render to the Democracy. AS 1t is we shall
have spirited contest and the State Commit
tee are not without strong hopes of success.


1t is matter of congratulation both on the
score of decency and of regard for truth, that
the senseless hubbub which was made about


the Convention for day or tw after its adj
iournment has completely died out. The


meeting the other night reflected this improved
condition of the public temper in a marked


manner. 1t was started in spasm of wrath,


but the frenzy did not last till the night ar


rived upon which it was to be held. Perhaps


the returns from Ohio had a soberiug influence


upon the assemblage. 1t certainly was calcu-


lated to produce that eject. And now, if


people will only restrain their impetuosity till


the 9th OF November-the policy men and the


apti-policy men as well-we shall have an ex-


preston of the popular will which caunot fail
TO assist US materially in solving the political
problems of the hour. Meantime 1t isn't best
for members of the same party to get excited


and call each other names. Especially it


seems to be excessively bad taste to assail Re-


publicans-whether they be leaders or rank
and hle-because they are somewhat tena-
cious of opinions they have held ever since
their organization was formed, and convictions
SO deeply rooted and grounded in their moral
nature that an abandonment of them has in
their eyes the guilt of apostacy.


The self-restraint which an old school Re-
publican is under, when he is discussing the
Presidential policy is severe test of his pa
tience and moderation. The forbearancs
which has been shown towards the administra-
ton by the men through whose exertons it
was brought into power is deserving of high
praise. If those who profted by it presume
upon it too far they will discover their error
only when it is irremediable. YARMOUTH.
Year: 1877

THE Shoe and Leather r eporter says: The
receipts of hides at the port of New
York for the nine months from January 1st
to October 1st were 1928, 715 ;-same time
last year, 1888, 1853; increase 6S9.952. These
figures it adds, are very instructive, and
should be carefully pondered by everybody in
the trade. They obviate the necessity OF
arguing that leather is, and is to be for some
time exceedingly abundant, because they fur
nish mathematical demonstration of the
proposition. They make plain what would
be otherwise incomprehensible, and that is
the fact that sole leather, in spite OF an active
demand for it will not command price enough
to cover its cost. All the other branches of
the trade are thriving. The shoe manufac-
turers are having thoroughly successful
season; those who turn leather to practical
account in any of the various forms into
which it is convertible are meeting with a
fair share of success, but the tanners of sole
leather.are bearing the heat and burden of the
day without requital. The figures quoted
above partially explain the reason of this. A
comparison of the quotations the past year
and the present one will render the demon
stration complete.