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Year: 1875

by many distinguished Englishmen.
The little line then opened has since
been absorbed into the Northeastern
railroad of England, an immense cor
poration, whose capital is ESQ, 900, 900,
or equal to that of our whole Pacific rail
road, and even that is surpassed by three
other British railroads. The railroads
of the world have all been created within
this fifty years. The United States have
laid the most length in that time, and
about as much ns oil the rest of the world
put together. The cost and manner of
building has been the most magnificent
in England, where the percentage OF net
return and gross earnings to cost is less
than with us.
Year: 1875

A medical correspondent of the Lam
Get makes suggestion which may
prove useful on emergency to some of
our readers. He says: "In conse-
quence of the difficulty 1 experienced in
removing from patient portion OF
steel bedded in the cornea, which did
not yield to the spud or needle, some
other means of removal became neces-
sary. Dry, soft, white silk waste sug-
gested itself to me, and was wound
round thin piece of wood, so as to
completely envelop its end. This soft
application was brushed once backward
and forward horizontally over the part
of the olnea where the foreign substance
seemed fixed. To my estonishment 1t
was Mt once entangled by the delicate
but strong meshes of the silk, and was
withdrawn with the greatest ease, caught
bv the same. A gentleman, in turning
steel at lathe, suddenly felt that por-
ton had entered his eye. He went Mt
once to a surgeon, who, with the most
skillful manipulation, failed to extract
the same. saving it would soon work out
NJ itself. The next morning the pa
tient saw me, having suffered severely
since the accident, and on the first ap-
plication the portion of steel was ex-
tracted.
Year: 1875

That oOpper-colored statesman, ora
tor and warrior, Hon. Spotted Tail, in a
speech TO the Black Hills Commission
ers, the other day, gave vent to this
burst OF eloquence yesterday, when
we called on you Commissioners, you


ere al drunk, and you tried to throw a


trket over ray head. To-day breathe
the free air of heaven among my own
people, and can now talk to you what
did not wish to say yesterday. If you
Nant our lsad We want the boundary
line OF Nebraska changed, the reserva-
ton enlarged, and we want to know what
you say" Ugh
Year: 1875

HIs LETTER DECLINING THE NOMINATION FOR


GOVERNOR OF coNNEcTIcUT-HE OPPOSES A


THIRD TERM, BUT Is FAITHFUL TO THE


REPUBLICAN PARTY.


NEW HAVEN Conn Dec 13 1876


The Hon. Lynde Harrison, Chairman of the State
Central Republican Committee of Connecticut
recently addressed a letter to the Hon
James Lloyd Greene OF Norwich, other
wise known ''Hundred-Gun Greene," who, as Mayor
Norwich ordered salute OF one hundred guns fred
in honor of President Grants Louisiana Message He
election and was defeated. Mr. Harrison desires to
know IL he will consent to the OF his name as the
republican candidate for Governor In the coming spring


Mr.. Greene replies at some length. He begins by
saying that his salute OF hundred guns purey
expression OF his indignation against the abuse
which at that time heaped upon President Grant
by the entire democratic press" He felt that 1t
tribute to him and was bound TO render it. Yet"
he says ~ was then and am and shall be ut
terly opposed third term He closes the letter as
follows


In the coming campaign there will bo no peculiar
cause which will give me any peculiar strength.
know there better men in party. better quail
fed for the office than am and do not wish ID
therefore most respectfully decline TO be candidate
but, although shall not carry the standard, trust
to be faithful follower of the re-
publican banner upon which is inscribed
universal liberty universal citizenship and universal
education without sectariansm God grant that that
banner long may wave the emblem OF free, educated
honest and hard money people.


The letter is justly considered of some importance
showing the present political opinions of of the
most prominent republicans In the State
Year: 1875

THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD TRYING TO


GUST SETTLERS FROM TERRITORY WITHIN THE


LIMITS OF MEXICAN GRANTs-GREAT EXCITE


MENT IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LAWYERS


TRANSLUCENT FRAUD


SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec II 1875.


Intense excitement exists in this State because Of
recent developments in the matter of lands within the
exterior limits of Mexican grants claimed by the Gen.
tral Pacific Railroad. By all precedent in depart
mental rulings, well by the decisions the courts
this class of lands have always been held reserved
and subject to pre-emptons and homestead location.
Late decisions of Deano, however, stultihed him.


II was lately discovered that in which the rail
road had both sides had gone by default in the United
States Circuit Court in this State and was In the Su
preme Court OF the United States. Upon this the
settlers here sought to employ eminent counsel to
defend that to prevent a decision evidently
desired as precedent Through their attorneys they
made application to a late eminent United States
Senator from the Northwest who by letter. agreed
defend the case Later developments reveal the fact
that he had received retainer from the railroad COM
pany the other side OF the same case and that he
case on the docket, which had been denied Still more
recent developments show that late officer, very
prominent in the Land Department, is interested in
the matter and that he, too although in the
ploy OF the settlers has received fee OF ST. 900 from
the railroad and his receipt for the money is in San
Francisco AS the Mexican grants cover about one
and about oneourth OF all the choice land as the set
tiers have lived upon and improved these lands for
years thousands of them have paid for their lands
and received duplicates and patents for them, this is
the most gigantic fraud ever attempted to be perpe
trated on a people hundred million would not
cover the amount involved.
Year: 1875

To THE EDITOR OF TER HERALD


Will you permit constant reader and admirer OF the
HERALD to make a few observations through your COL
umns with reference the OF tho steamer Dcutsch
land-


FSyst-I find that from her time of sailing up to the
time ofher striking the Kentsh Knock twenty hours
the ship had made about 3l5 miles, nearly l5A miles
per hour. Now, clam that soundings taken when
ship Is going at such high rate OF speed caAnot be
relied on, when patent lead is used


Second-How far would a heavy ship like the
Deutschland run, even at hah speed, with gale OF
wind and heavy following during the time which
must necessarily clapse between soundingss From
one and half te three miles much further than any
beacon, buoy or hghiship can be seen IN stormy
weather.


Tnird-what hope is there Of backing OF q large
steamer after running her shOal at the rate Of
eight or nine knots2 None whatever.


Foupth-With as many officers, wite their fine marine
glasses and sailors should have been on the look
ont how could they possibly mistake the Galloper,
with her 1xed lights, for the North Hinder which
shoxs only one and always, during thick weather,
boil Is struck every fifteen minutes preceded and fol-
lowed by a stroke Of gong which can be heard at
considerable distance when TO the ceward Of the light
ships


ships position aud knowing what dangerous channel
he had to through, why did he not solve the ques
ton at Onceg The answer Is simply thishe could not
aord to lose time fifteen or twenty minutes was more
precious his soucss owners than the lives or all his
helpless passengers and And, truly, the
rcckles., devIl.may care manner IN which our
steamers driven across the ocean, at the
present time, IS shame and disgrace 70 any
entrcl to blame, tor have been told by several
that ii they fo not make good time they cooy
vited to step own and out Nevertheless, there Ia
the public will until these wholesale murder
crs are broughtto justice. Respectfully,


An OLD sHfrMAsTFR
MlEQRp. Cont. Dec. 70. ls7a.
Year: 1875

have large and complete stock OF Diamonds and otheE
precious stones. all selected with the greatest and
which have been purchased with all the advantages iu
cost which depressed cf the market has permitted


Until Christmas the will be kept open in tho
Year: 1875

OF its notes to Washington, together with all
other expenses, direct or incidental, attending
the redemption of the same, and for the return
OF the notes to the residence of the holder.
For The notes of Ill banbs which have failed or
gone into voluntary liquidation prior to the
18th OF June last, and also of the same num-
Der of other banks that are retiring all or part
of their circulation, there have been deposited
in the Treasury legal tender notes to the
amount of circulation outstanding or to te
retired: Such circulation is by law redeemable
Oy the Treasury; yet as matter of fact, these
notes or nearly all of them, are presented to
the treasury through this agency; and as these
banks nave no five per cent. fund TO which to
charge their pro rata share of the expenses,
the same can only be apportoned and assessed
uDon the banks still in full operation There
was "n deposit in the Treasury on the 50th of
June, 1875, $1S, ,203.667 o. in legal tender notes
for the purpose of taking up the circulation of
such backs, the government getting the benefit
of this deposit without interest or expense, aud
yet under the law the expense of relieving
such circulation is taxed to the remaining
banks, who have had no benefit therefrom.
This is manifestly unjust, as the profs of this
banking system are diminishing because OF
Increasing taxation and untriendly legislation.
The humber of banks Withdrawing their circu-
latou is rapidly increasing, and to the same
degree the proportion of this unjust levy upon
the remaining Oanas will Increase"
Year: 1875

SENATOR Morton was interviewed the
other day by representative of his home
organ, the Indianapolis Journal, as to the
next Presidential canvass. He said:


entertain but little apprehension about the
result of the next Presidential election. The
Democratic party is under the control of the
old anti-War politicians, who sympathized
with the Rebellion, and although these men
are trying to talk loyalty, yet the people have
not forgotten their record, aud will not trust
them; and L believe that the Union soldiers
and the people of the North who took part in
the Rebellion will be better united against the
Democracy than they were in 1866 The pres.
ence of between eighty and ninety Confederate
officers in the next Congress is a fact the sig-
nicance of which is not to be mistaken The
recent demonstrations throughout the South
in favor of jeff Davis and the heroes and priu-
ciples of the Rebellion have not escaped the
attention aud consideration of the people Of the
North. 1n short i am satisfied that the people
of the United States are not prepared to trust
the mlnistration of the government, its
finances, its honor, and Its prosperity in the
hands of its late enemies, who have tor twenty
years shown their incapacity Tor everything but
crimes and blunders.
Year: 1875

Much ado about nothing is the comment
made by Democratic journals upon the re-
cent article published in favor of third term
in an obscure Sunday paper in Washington.
Importance is sought to be given to the art,-
Gle by calling the journal in question Forney's
Chronicle, and mention is omitted cf the fact
that the Forney in question is not the Phila-
deiphia editor, but q nobody-in- particular
who claims kinship with the eminent Penn
sylvanian. The Chronicle is in pretension an
independent paper, but for many months it
has been actively Democratic, and the article
so widely commented upon is evidently de-
vice of the enemy.
Year: 1875

THE adoption of the new constitution in
Alabama is certainly matter for regret, as
the instrument does away with the clauses of
the old constitution which rendered the sup
port of the common schools imperative, and
contains clauses providing a way for the re-
pudiation OF the public debt. After doing
away with her school system and repudating
her debt Alabama can with great reason
claim 10 be representative Democratic
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Year: 1875

GOVERNOR JACOBS, of West Virginia, in
his message to the Legislature, gives rather
a gloomy account Of the business prospects of
that state. The depression continues with
no indication of an early removal Tie
finances are not in a hopeful condition.
The receipts are much less than they were
last year, and are about thirty thousand
dollars bshind disbursements. West VIr-
gina is about as thoroughly Democratic as
it can be, and yet its finances are not in g
pleasing condition. What is the matter?
Is it .sreform?"
Year: 1875

THE Chinese are about to launch their
first ironclad. The vessel is small one of
only 105 tons measurement, with q inches
thickness of armor, and with a ram bow.
She is armed with a Krupp gun which the
Chinese insisted upon having stationary,
nothing being able to persuade them that if
the gun were brought over to fire from either
side the vessel would not inevitably keel over
and capsize.
Year: 1875

The news of the burial of Guibord will be
hailed generally with feeling of satisfaction.
People feared that the ceremony would prove
a sort of seed-iuncral producing many others.
Doubtless such would have been the case had
the mob attempted a disturbance; for British
soldiers are very apt TO obey orders to ''fire
low," and are never known to fraternize with
1l1
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
catons The name and address Of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return CT reserve conma-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

In the matter of depriving the colored chill
dren of opportunity to acquire common
school education, it would seem that Ken
lucky vies with Alabama. The apportion-
ment in Kentucky is so managed under the
present statutes that to the white schools
the allowance per pupil is nine times that
made to the colored schools per pupil enrolled.
To further increase the discrimination, all
whites between anG 20 years of age are en-
rolled as school population, while only the
colored youth between the ages of 6 and 16
are so enrolled. The colored peoples School
Convention, held at Lexington few days
since, appointed a committee, headed by ex-
Attorney General Speed, to petition the
Legislature at the approaching session to so
modify the law as to extend to them full
equal advantages of the public schools.
Year: 1875

or all virtues patience is the easiest to
practice. Or will the reader say it is the
HARDEST It is only waiting; is it not
easy enough to wait 1t is not doing with
laborious and wearisome exertions. 1t is
not resolution spurring on the weak or


reluctant mind. It is not courage in the
midst of dangers which the common mind
might fear. It is keep still; and is it a
virtue to keep stillp 1t is much needed
in domestic life, and in many private and
public relationships. Can we not have
more of it? And is it some deluslon thai
enables us to say it is only through mo-
mentary thoughtlessness that we ever
violate it's important acquisitions 1t is
80 great an excellence that. upon thought
we shall find it the prime element OF all
others, at least Of which partake In any
way of self-denial. It is not exercised
alone in waiting for dilatory friend to
ride or walk with US; in suffering in our
poverty the long delay Of the debtors
promise in endurance Of the tedious cum
ming of the suit-at-law. The vices and
crimes of individuals are eminently owing
to a want of patience. The slave Of in
temperance thinks he cannot wait till his
appetite shall have passed. He cannot
wait till sleep shall over take him, and he
forgets it. He cannot wait till he can
reach better company than his own soh'
tude or his common companions, and .he
Year: 1875

Frank Il. Mayors attempt to kill him
self in San Francisco failed through no
fault Of his. Defective cartridges caused
the disappointment. He loved girl who
loved not him, and he wanted to die. He
bought revolver and box of ammunition
and engaged room in hotel opposite the
house in which the young lady lived. TAX
ing position at the open window where she
could see him, he pointed the weapon at
his head and pulled the trigger. The girl
tainted at once, without waiting to observe
that there was no discharge. The car
fridge would not explode, and Mr.. Mayer
to his own great astonishment, was yet
alive. BE tried another and anothe~, but
they would not 60 off. Before O fourth
effort at elf-destruction could be made the
door was burst open and the young man
was disarmed. The cold girl, however,
is warming now, and says she will marry
him.
Year: 1875

The Washington correspondent Of
the Baltimore Sun writes: "1t is very
gratifying to record that for the
first time in the long period ofthe ten
years which have elapsed since the
close of the war those who sit in high
places exibit no disposition TO stir up
political feeling against the South.
This is the first Summer since 1865
that this city has not been made the
headquarters for the dissemination all
over the country of the most malign
slanders upon the Southern people.
1t seeems safe to say that this unhap:
py business is at last at an end. The
Southern people mnst have some feel.
ing of this kind, for all the intelligence
which comes here from that section
represents the aspect ofbusiness affairs
as most hopeful"
Year: 1875

The delusive prosperity which Germany
enjoyed while the French indemnity was
passing into the country has resulted as
disastrously as the similar condition OF
things consequent to our war did with us.
At the close Of hostiities there was much
to be done, money was plentiful, and wages
high. Everybody believed that a new era
had dawned for Germany, and that the
speedy development Of its resources could
receive no check. A feverish energy Of
achievement took the place Of sober calcu-
lation, and wild extravaganza in every form
of enterprise was mistaken for substantial
business growth. The stolid German be-
came as speculative as if he had been
transported to America, and with precisely
the same result, 80 far as nationalprosperity
went.


Describing the industrial and financial
experience of the past five years in Ger
many, Tribune correspondent pictures a
condition Of things very easily understood
in this country:


"The abundance of capital gave rise to a
reckless prodigality in all sorts of private
enterprises. New railways were under
taken, great manufacturing companies
were established to rival Krupp, and ship
yards to compete with the Lairds were or
ganized. Above all, new and costly houses
sprang up in all parts of Berlin, and almost
every other city. The most popular sort OF
investment was in stock companies, and
the multiplication of stock companies in
1871 and 1872 was marvellous Money was
plenty, wages were high, and hod carriers
drank champagne at their daily work. But
this did not last. First the stock compa-
nies began to. totter, and at length there
was general crash. Then wages began to
fall, while the necessaries of life were sta
tionary. The fortresscs were completed,
and thousands of workmen thrown upon the
market. People began to leave Berlin on
account Of high prices until the evil spread
and distributed itself throughout the coun-
try. The stock companies went to pieces
one after another in all the chief cities un-
til that sort of organization became another
name for everything unstable and treach-
erous. The new palaces Of Berlin stood
unoccupied, and fewer new ones were Of
course begun. In short, a complete trans
formation has taken place; and in spite OF
the five milliards, it is to-day very difficult
to raise money, and still more difficult to
realize it on investments. Now it will help
no emigrant's fortune to return to Ger
many, even if he escape impressment into
the military service


Multitudes Of great manufactures are
unable to keep up operations, and whole
sale discharges of hands are the result.
The reduction in wages has been twice as
severe as in this country, with proper
tionally larger number out of employment.
As an instance, the fact is mentioned that,
in Berlin, in 1873, lit was difficult to get
street laborers at two dollars a day, while
last winter an indefinite number could be
had at one third that price.
Year: 1875

An unsophisticated IN agaziue writer
says: "When young girl reaches the
age Of fifteen or sixteen years, she be-
gins to think of the mysterious subject
Of matrimony, state the delights of
which her youthful Imagination sbad-
ows fourth in the most captivating
FORMS" If this writer were to sit
down on the curb-stone and listen,
just after school is dismissed, he would
not only hear girls less than nine years
of age talking about marriage, but he
would actually hear them discussing
the day of the week most auspicious
for putting their absurd little heads
into the yoke. There never was a
time in the history of the world when
well conducted converts were so nee,
essary as now, and a very large pro,
portion of all the female babies should
be put into them three weeks after
birth.
Year: 1875

will be ashamed of indulgence, and find
denial easy in the society Of the pure and
good. He cannot wait, waking and alone,
till the fire is consumed and his nature is
all calm again; and impatience, doubtless,
is the cause Of large proportion Of the
intemperance Of the land. The child in
early years was never taught to wait.
What it wanted it wanted at the moment !;
and at the moment the parent always
hastened to crafty its imperious desires.
We need have no laws for the suppression OF
intemperance, none to prohibit or license
the sale of liquor, if we could only in some
way teach men to waiu. And the passion
that demands relief in the use Of. intoxicat-
ing drinksis thostyp of ali other passions,
all to find their remedy ID the same way.
Revenge would stay its hand If it would
only. consider. The grosser vices that de-
stroy the body and the soul would change
to health and purity if the guilty. would
but wait to know what they are about.
The irritations of domestic life and COM
mon relationships that impel to unkind
words, unkind deeds, and to alterations
and hatreds would never be allowed indul-
gence if people would but wait before they
spoke, or thought, or felt. And the dis
taste that some have for the society Of
their fellowmen, which they think them
selves comes from o sense they have Of the
unworthiness of other people, might find it's
easy remedy in patience-a patience that
can look for the origin Of peoples evil and
the way to the end Of it, and can overlook
the pressing view and take knowledge Of
existing virtues also. I1mpatience is come
times a sort Of arrangement, From be-
ing habit of thought it gets to be habit
of body. Itisa arrangement Of ideas come
out Of their proper order arrangement Of
the nervous system also the blood quick
ening along it currents, habitually rushing
up to overfn the brain. And their habit
ual arrangement, though it may not be
great enough to send its victim to an in
sane asylum, but only enough to make
friends and family wish that he would
hold his tongue, or stop his crossness, is,
during it's seeming Observation-Disclosures as
as much an insanity, though not as great q
degree of it, as the rawlings Of the maniac
which also are sometimes cured by con-
tinued efforts of self control. The irritable,
impatient, passionate man, what ever form
that his passion ma. assume, for in spirit
they are all the same, only the manifesto
ton being different-needs often the CON-
posing draught to quiet his nerves as much
as the crazy man does. Happy if he has
allowed his impatience so to get the
better of himself that he cannot al
ways control it by just moments con-
alteration.
Year: 1875

The Washington, correspondent :of
the Baltimore Sun" writes nIts is
very gratifying to record that for the
first timo in the long period of ten
years which have eapse since the
close of the war those who sit in high
places exhibit no disposition to stir
up political feeling against the South.