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Year: 1879

pulse which bore it so far onward in its
career of commercial greatness. AS that
great impulse was the consequence of sur
mounting geographical difficulty, SO also
is the present. Our rapid transit roads
have overcome the obstacle to the growth of
the city which was interposed by the form
of the island. One OF these roads is
already completed to the Harlem River,
the other will be before the end of the
present year, and in the year following
there will be extensions Of both stretching
far up in the direction of Westchester
county. Nothing is more certain than that
these roads will revolutionize the distri-
button of population in this vicin-
ity. Measuring distance by time the
upper part of the island will be SO
much nearer to the fashionable shops,
which are rapidly moving up town,
and to the places of amusement, which are
also moving in the same direction, that no.
body will be willing to cross either river
when equally cheap residences can be had
on the northern part Of the island. The
vivifying effect OF this certainty on the
value of property and on the increase OF
population will not be inferior to wha. took
place in the remarkable years which
followed the completion of the Erie
Canal. The thing is so perfectly assured
that the owners OF property now, as they
did then, will act on this certainty and
anticipate what is surely coming 1t for
tunately happens that the completion OF
the rapid transit roads comedies in point
of time with great expected revival OF the
general business of the country by which
the city would profit even without its new
advantages.


The duties which are incumbent on us in
connection with this improved prospect
and the means by which We may reap the
full benefit of the change are interesting
topics for future discussion.
Year: 1879

streets when the parents rushed to the spot,
ignorant of their children's fate, must have
been painfully exciting, and no doubt
many blessings were showered last night on
the head of the brave boy whose selt-posses-
sion ayerted terrible calamity.
Year: 1879

IT Is ABSURD in the Baptist Conference to
think of excluding the reporters from their
Monday entertainments. What they ought to
do is to hire large hall and charge an admis-
sion fee. Every seat would be taken.
Year: 1879

VERY GREAT CREDIT is due the teachers of
the burning school house in Indiana yesterday,
who succeeded in removing nearly five hundred
children from the building without an accident
Led by the teachers, they marched cut to tho
tap of the gong.
Year: 1879

PoLICY HOLDERS Of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company Will watch with interest the de-
cision of the question raised by some of their
number in the courts as to the right of the
company to issue the new form Of policy.
Year: 1879

dent, which, once established, will lead into
dark and dangerous paths in the history of
the Republic, until II will be starved or vio-
lated one way and another, and will pre-
sent only wreck of its former self, He
cited authorities Of unquestioned Demo-
cratic orthodoxy TO show that it has been q
part of the Democratic creed TO recognize
and justify the interposition of the veto
power to save the Government from the
inhiction of depraved laws. He showed
also beyond doubt that if any measure
deserves the application of the. veto
it is that under discussion. He called
attention, in eloquent and powerful
phrase, to the necessities furnished
in the history of our country and of a mod
ern date why the existing law should re-
main undisturbed as shield to the right
and safeguard against wrong.


Senator LOGAN fortified his position
against the doctrine of State sovereignty
with authorities and precedents until he
was strongly and invncibly intrenched.
He established the fact by unquestionable
authorities that the doctrine of State sover-
eighty was not recognized by the Demo-
cratic party when slavery and the fugitive
slave law had an existence. Then Demo-
Gratis, Wings, and Republicans bowed sub
missively to the doctrine that Federal
power was supreme over all the States
Of the Union for the return of the
fugitive slave to bondage. The cita-
ton of these authorities and prece-
dents brought to light the exceeding
hollowness of the Democratic assertion ol
State sovereignty as supreme over the Fed
eral power in all matters relating to Federal
affairs. The danger of tolerating such a
pernicious dogma in this Republic is made
very apparent.


Senator LOGAN opened up from the page
of history, sustained by facts and figures, q
full justification of the law the Democrats
now propose to repeal. 1t came of necessi'
ties created by Democratic disregard OF
right and honesty in the conduct of our cleo
tions, and hence the architects of that ne
cessity now clamor for the overthrow of the
law. The closing portion of his effort /!
marked with peculiar force rs an arraign


ment of the Democratic party, and rs ;
warning against the consequences of it
present line of policy.
Year: 1879

We yesterday morning published Il lib
eral synopsis of Senator LoGAN's speech,
delivered in the Senate on Tuesday, on the
army appropriation bill, but that abstract
but feebly portrays the real power of the
effort. 1t should be read entire to give the
mind just conception OF its true merit as
an arraignment of Democratic hypocrisy
both as to the effort now being made to
remove existing safeguards from the bal
Iot-box and the elective franchise, and as to
the assertion of the doctrine of State SOW
ereignty or "home rule" as it is now
termed by those who insist upon elevating
the State above Federal power as it may
suit those who believe in secession and a
final subiugation of the Federal to State
domination.


Senator LOGAN has aimed in this effort
to show the hollowness of the plea that
there is any necessity now for the repeal OF
the law enacted for the protection Of the
elective franchise as it is attempted in the
bill under consideration, and he accom-
plished his work with signal success. He
rebuked in a very proper and forci-
BILE manner the attempt made
to pull questionable provision
through to the statue book by attaching il
to u measure of absolute necessity to the
operation of the Government. lie warned
of the danger that must inevitably attend
these departures from usage-these en-
croachments which, when tolerated, will
follow each other in rapid succession unit
the whole fabric Of law and government viii
be subyerted. The danger is in the prece,
Year: 1879

EVEN the post is moved to remark because
we made reference 10 the departure of a
cargo of mules for the Zulu war. The DEM
ocrats seem to be getting pretty generally
excited over our allusion to this scrap of in
formation. A fellow feeling, no doubt,
moves them,
Year: 1879

THE New York Tribune expresses the
opinion that General BRAGG will lose by
"his effort to abolish the Southern Claims
Commission much of the credit which he
"got by denouncing Southern claims" The
General is entitled to public sympathy. He
is attempting 10 be a Bourbon Democrat
and patriot at the same time, and it taxes
his skill at equipoise very severely.
Year: 1879

THE Democratic papers, one and all, cry
out against the attempted assassination Of
the Car; but they condone or excuse and
deny the Wholesale assassination of Amer
lean sovereigns, by means of which their
present majority in Congress was obtained.
Year: 1879

IT is full time to close the debate on the
army bill in the Senate. The arguments
on both sides have been about exhausted,
and the general public is now more anxious
to read the veto message than anything
else
Year: 1879

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN naturally oh
jects to the exodus Of mules from this country
70 Africa. Its editors already begin to feel
Ionesome.-Riclihond Wing.


Our lonesomeness on that account will
not begin until after the editor of the Wing
has departed. The aching void may then
begin. At present the braying of the re-
naming members of that family oyer our
remark is quite cheering.
Year: 1879

THE desire Of the Democratic majority
in the House to begin general business is
almost irrepr ,ssible. The new members
want to know, you know, what they were
elected for, and many Of them stand
pledged to procure the enactment of GER
tain especial measures at the earliest pos
sible moment. But the Republican minor
ity is doing the best il can to hold them in
check and prevent the disaster to general
commercial interests which would other
wise ensue
Year: 1879

SIIAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDY OF HAMLET. With


introduction and notes explanatory and critical


For use in schools and classes. BY Rev. HENRY N


HUDSON Boston: CHM d Heath.


The subject Of this volume is among the
finest creations of shakespeae'sl transcendant
genius. 1t is adapted to school study, and can
not fail, even with its tragic character, to i'm
press itself upon the mind of the student. The
introduction imparts historic interest to the
play, while a study of its speech enriches the
mind and the power of language on the part
of the scholar. The appended notes and criti-
cisms are valuable to the student in opening
to him the true inwardness of the production
Year: 1879

SENATOR BEcK's speech-which was be-
gun on Tuesday and was postponed until
yesterday, to give him an opportunity to
recover his head, which got astray early
has been pronounced by Senator THURMAN,
and nobody else, "a magnificent effort" The
Vice-President pro tenn. had just began to
warm his seat and felt "wondrous kind "
you know. But Senator BECK worried
through his labored effort yesterday, and in
its closing passages is presented n cave on
his pronounced and emphatic programme,
which equals in magnitude the mammoth
cave that underlies the soil of the State he
represents in the United States Senate. In
view of this performance il must be n great
comfort to HENRY CLAY, his "illustrious
predecessor" to recognize the fact that he
is dead.
Year: 1879

IT is evident that Senator" SPoFFoRD is
engaged in laying the basis of claim for
compensation for expenses incurred in con-
testing Senator KELLoGG's seat, and nothing
more. He cannot expect to get possession
of that seat, unless indeed, he expects the
Democratic majority to stultify itself on the
record it made in the BUTLER-C -CoRBIN
contest, wherein the binding force of the
principle of res agudicdtd in such cases wa:
established as pertinent precedent The
developments of the manner of his so-called
election will not rebound TO his creditif the
investigation is carried to that extent but he
probably thinks it worth his while, even al
the cost of some reputation, to make the at
tempt to get his money back.
Year: 1879

With this issue we commence the pub
licatlnn If the Alert. We have no
promises to make further than this: We
propose to pu lisi, first class local paper
and devote it to jamestown and vicinity
To those who are anxious to know our
political persuasion, We would simply
say, republican, but We do not propose
to trouble ourselves 1t present about poll
tics When this beautiful valley shall be
dotted with farm houses and the barnes
and stole houses OF our husbandmen are
sled with the fruits of industry, we will.
If not too deeply interested in matters Of
more Importance, devote little time and
space to political affairs. At present we
d. not think it policy to enlarge the
ALERT. but propose to do so about the
first OF April, making it 2 col. folio
Trusting that our coming among you will
result in good to all concerned We, to use
Z vulgar expression wade in."


Yours respectfully. ..


MARSHALL MCCLURE.
Year: 1879

ST. Louis, Aug. pa very strong
disposition to strike for higher wages
manifested itself among the mechanics
and some classes of laborers here dur
ing the past few weeks. The coopers'
strike of more than month ago is not
yet arranged. The action Of the cigar
makers two or three days ago has be-
come SO general that nearly all the
members of that craft have stopped
work, and quite number of the man
ufacturers have agreed to pay the ad-
vance asked.


Yesterday there was a movement
among the stove moulders for an in
crease Of Is per cent. This has been
refused by most of the foundry proprie-'
tors, and nearly all the stove moulders
in the city stopped work to-day.


The street car conductors and driy-
era have now got the fever to some ex-
tent, but they have determined upon
no plan as yet. They don't want more
pay, but a less number of working
hours. They now average about fifteen
hours.
Year: 1879

The owners of the Republic have Of
fered the services of the boa', free of
charge, to take the inmates of ST. Peters
Orphan Asylum on an excursion to Cape
May, on any day which may be named.
The offer will be accepted, but the day is
not yet fixed.
Year: 1879

The undersigned takes this his thanks
to the people of Yankton particularly and to his
friends throughout Dakota and Nebraska for the
patronage which has been bestowed upon the late firm of
DUDLEY & aAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried on business in this city, and h.
desires call the attention of these friends and that
the people generally to the enlarged facilities
sve assortment and comodous which the late
had provided and which the Dudley
& Hawley, now possesses.


In the line of the Hardware trade
Tin Copper and Sheet Iron Ware he claims
equal in all anything the north
west occupying three grand 25xloo
tent.


In the future. by constant application business hopes
the Hardware trade of the which
uary to to this point hee spare
make it for the interest Of the people within this REGION
chase their Hardware Tnwae Copper Sheet Iron ware
Stoves, and all other articles in this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully


GEO. e. HAWLEY


Union Block Third st.
Year: 1879

The speech ofPresident HAYES at Youngs-
town, Ohio, to his former comrades in arms,
n large portion of which we published yes
terday morning, does credit to the head and
heart of the Executive of this great Nation.
1t sounds strange indeed for q President of
forty-fve millions of people to feel called
upon to warn any considerable portion of
that population that the amendments of
the Constitution growing out of the war
must be regarded as in force and entitled to
full respect. But so it is, and President
HAYES has fearlessly and faithfully dis
charged his duty in this regard. He re-
minds the South that the issues of the war
were settled by the war, and that the re-
vival of them at this juncture has not been
by the Republicans, but by the Democrats
in and ont of Congress. The address through
out is not only patriotic, calm and conclu-
sive, but it is essentially Stalwart in its
utterances, and will inspire the Republican
heart throughout the entire country with
renewed zeal and confidence. Every posi-
tion, argument and utterance is thoroughly
and soundly Republican. One of its argu'
ments is so pertinent and so forcible at this
period that it should affect the obdurat'
spirit of the South, though it may fail il
accomplishing such work. He reminds
the recalcitrant people of the late Confed
crate States that no community can afforc
to allow any of its citizens to be op
pressed-to lose their rights. To be in
different on this subject is to disregart
interest and duty" There is enough il
these brief sentences to convert the Who'll,
South to loyal duty if they could sink int
good and honest hearts
Year: 1879




FEDERArES


The Chicago Times crihcizes General
SHERMAN's North Carolina letter by i'm
putting to him "a habit of saying unpleas-
"ant things when there is no pressing ne
"cessity for their utterance." This may be
so, but the experiment on the part of the
North Carolinians of endeavoring TO seduce
General SHERMAN into position where
he would even tacitly admit that the Con-
federate soldiers battled for cause in any
degree entitled to his respect and honor,
was o hazardous one, and those who at
tempted it ever SO courteously should have
known better. The Times adds: at is far
from probable that the North Carolina
Confederates had any idea that he would be
"present. Their invitation was courteous
:" one, and called only fora courteous reply
II the North Carolina Confederates had an
idea that General SHERMAN would not at
tend, that idea was undoubtedly based upon
the questionable propriety and taste of eX-
tending such an invitation under the cir
not have been INDUCED. General SHER-
MAN is loyal, brave and blunt SOL
der who can never entertain a high
respect for the enemies of his country,
no matter under what guise they may pre-
sent themselves. While he would have
been glad to let bygones be bygones, the
last five years of Southern history has not
tended to pacNtion or confidence in Con-
federate sincerity, fraternity and loyalty.
They have shown by their numerous acts OF
dsloyalty that in unlriendlness of spirit
they are scarcely remove from that of the
years of the war. They will not let by
cones be bygones, and hence they cannot
expect to reap q crop different from that
which they SOW. General SHERMAN has
been taught by the Confederates during the
last year that they are no more entitled To
his respect now than when in arms against
the Union--for their spirit is unchanged
though war is not now expedient. He is nc
hypocrite to affect a respect and confidence
which he does not entertain.
Year: 1879

No better service has latterly been rem
dered to the Republic and the Republican


party than that performed by General
WooDFoRD in his recent report of the man
ner in which the Southern courts are pros
tituted to the basest partisan use of pro-
tecting political murderers from punish
ment But we have reason to believe that
the natural conservative bent of his charac-
ter served II bad purpose in closing his eyes
against many irregularities connected with
the CHISHOLM murder trial. lie argues that
the prosecution therein and the court itself
were terribly in earnest, and that the bias
of the trial, if there was any, was against
the prisoner all of which may be true.
But we submit that, if it is true, the ac-
quttal of GULLY was greater enOrmity
than has ever before been evolved from
straightforward and unprejudiced sources.
In other words, we believe that it will yet
be proven that the seeming earnestness of
the prosecution and the alleged bias of the
court against GULLY were parts and parcels
of the conspiracy, The old game of serving
the devil in the livery of Heaven was
played right under General WooDFoRD's
eyes, and he was unable to see throughit.
Year: 1879

A FEW dozen individuals who profess to
be Independent Republican voters in the
city of New York propose to prove that
they are such by declaring their intention
to vote against part of the Republican
State ticket This is political consistency
as practiced by class Of men who are only
convenient Republicans 1t is well that
they start in early, for it will afford them
the more time to repent and reform. True
Republicans invariably support Republican
nominations. This is Il sure test.
Year: 1879

IT appears from THE NATIONAL REPUB-
LICAN's interview with Hon. STEWART l..
WooDFoRD that his only hope of better
state of things at the South is in dividing
the white vote there. 1t seems to us that
we have heard of similar proposition be-
fore Certain mice once proposed to put a
bell on the cat as peaceable and judicious
way of evading probable and extensive
slaughter
Year: 1879

REVIEWING the speeches made at the re-
cent Syracuse pow-wow in the light of calm
after-thought, the regret is forced involun-
tarily that SUNSET Cox failed in his rhe-
torical effort on that occasion to commend
the economical administration of affairs in
New York city by the late WILLIAM NJ.
TWEED. This was part of SUNSETS regu-
lar speech when TWEED was alive and in
power. Why does lie omit it now that the
old man is dead and gone to his last ac-
count? Is it possible that SAM Cox is an
migrate?
Year: 1879

ALECK STEPHENS late exhibition Of him
self at the Louisville Expositi on was sadly
out of taste and deserves the reprobation Of
every consistent Democratic journal in the
country The idea that the ex-Yice.Presi-
den Of the ex-ConGedeTacy should exhibit
Year: 1879

himself at fair the same as "that man
HAYES" does is simply shocking. We
add there is moro attraction about the
STEPHENS exhibit than the other, for 1t is
easy to see that President HAYES is simply
a man. has beard, and bears the SEM
blance of NAL. humanity in his general
makeup; but who could have told without
inquiry what STEPHENS was, seated on u
platform and making speech Ia Tom
THUMB-except that Ton is very fat-who
could have told, we ask, whether he was
a squeaking dwarf or speaking mummy ?
The thirty or forty people who crowded
nearest to him may have heard few words
of his address upon industrial topics but
to the rest of the gaping audience he was
really the rarest curiosity in the show.
Year: 1879

THE oblteration of all vestiges of Radical
rule when the Democrats return to power
when they do, mind you-will include n
revision of our coinage system ON a method
more extensive than that already begun by
ALECK STEPHENS. All the dies will be
changed; the motto In God we trust" will
be abandoned, and the profile of some
Southern goddess will be substituted for
the representation of that chuckle-cheeked
Philadelphia damsel on the new dollar. In
lieu of these plug of tobacco, a jug OF
whisky and brace Of shotguns and revolv-
ers will be substituted on one side of the
coins, and on the other will appear the
figure of an independent citizen dying Of
wounds in the back-the whole to symbol
ize the Yazoo plan of free elections.
Year: 1879

How remarkable it is that whenever an


enthusiast IN reIigiOn gets new light, and


adopts what he considers ''advanced views


he almost invariably begins to tamper with


marriage! In this tamperlng be always be-


trays the charlatan, and sufficiently warns all


who are tempted to follow him to beware Of


him. There is no better test of a new system


or scheme of life than its relation 10 Christ


ian marriage. Ii it tampers with that it is


always bad, and can by no possibility be


good. The Shakers form community built


on this rotten foundation. They have no


place for love, and enter into determined


and organized fight with the God of Nature,


who, Gy the strongest passions and impulses


He has ever implanted in the human soul,


has commanded them to establish homes and


families. Shakerism is good for nothing if


it is not good universally. But universal


adoption would be the suicide of race, and
race has no more right to commit suicide
than man. Besides, the damming of one


of the most powerful streams in human nat


ure only sets the water back to cover the


banks it was intended to nourish and drain.
1t is too late to talk about the superior sanct-
ty Of the celibate. We have no faith in it


whatever The VOW of chastity simply en-
phasiZes in the mind the passion it is intend
ed, for spiritual reasons, to suppress, and
fixes the attention upon it. The Shaker, in
denying love to himself and all the hallowed
influences that grow out of family and home,
gains nothing in holiness, if he does not lose
irretreyably. He is the victiE4 of shocking
mistake, and he disgraces himself and his
own father and mother by his gross views of
an institution before whose purity and benef-
cence he and his whole system stand con-
demned. Of course we do not need to allude
to the Mormon. His views of marriage-re-
vealed, of course-are simply beastly. But
these new schemes of life, religion and phil
osophy are constantly springing up. 1t is
very difficult for any system of socialism to
establish itself without tampering with mar
riage, and one Of the best arguments against
all sorts of communities and phalansteries
and what-nots of that sort, is that the family,
as a unit, is unmanageable with them. Tney
take in and organize miscellaneous mass of
individuals, and provide some sort Of dirty
substitute for marriage, but the family both
ers them. 1t is government within a gov
that they cannot get along with. So
the marriage test is good one in all cases of
the kind.