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Year: 1877

When the Mother of Presidents takes Mr..
HAYES to her arms, even the people who cry
"frandn will have to admit that he belongs to
the family.


The export of fruit has grown, by means of
the vario.s devices now employed to preserve
fruit for long periods into great trade, of
which some account is given elsewhere. Every
year is likely to multiply the already numerous
inventions by means of which it is carried or,
and to increase its volume.


The curious story told elsewhere of the
means of detection employed in the old Post
Office will read like romance TO Post Office
clerks in particular, as well as to the public
generally. To the former it may suggest an
inquiry as to the secret means OF watching
their operations employed in the new Post
Office.


A Washington letter printed elsewhere sheds
q needed light on some of the absurdities of
the demand for the Dollars of our Fathers"
For dollar that was their particular prop
erty. the Fathers seem To have cared very lit
tie about it. Very few of them ever saw or
used them, only small number comparatively
have ever been coined, and the reasons which
UidUc III "a proper iuOH'tdif HhiO III 'hN way = WI
the Fathers are equally strong against Its use
as a monetary unit now.


Such controversy as there has been about
Admiral Farraguts being lashed to the mast
and there is always somebody ready to burst
into contrOversy-ought to be settled by the
letter of Major Montgomery, which we print
this morning. Major Montgomery was the
nd
sonal testimony to give, but has collected enough
from all sources to establish the truth of this
historic incident. And now it Is to be hoped
there will be no more controversy.


The impunity with which Gen. Escobedo
and other adhereDts of ex-President Lerdo are
making use of the Texan frontier 10 organize
hostile expeditions is In keeping with the un-
satisfactory condition of that quarter. Although
we have not recognized President Diaz' We
Year: 1877

nears the Rio Grande.


Russia's demands are hardly yet matter OF
practical concern. Differences have, however,
arisen on the subject in the Russian camp,
Prince GortschakOff being in favor OF short
war and mild terms, while General lgnateif Is
disposed to have h0stilities go on until Turkey
is completely humbled. General lgnateif
proposition seems likely to prevail Unlike the
Austro- Prussian war, this conflict cannot close
without the absolute suhjection of the Ottoman
Power. Nothing less will satisfy the Russian
people or insure durable peace.


Florida has been installed in public opinion
as the one State in which cOnsumptives could
not only save life, but enjoy it. But, as letter
from Louisiana on another page shows, that
State can offer an equally beneficial climate to
those in whom the disease has not taken hrm
root. and can also hold out additional induce
ments in the countless opportunities that exist
to obtain employment and make judicious
investment of capital. These opportunities
exist in far greater proportion than on the
sandy soil of Florida. In the instance which
our correspondent gives, that of suear-maklng,
his figures are indeed tempting and the more
so because it seems possible to secure COM
Portable income with a comparatively small
ol
Year: 1877

The account of the Battle of Orlskany, the
Centennial anniversary of winch Is to be non
ored by local observance, will recall to the
reader many Revolutionary events OF MINOR
character which make no great figure IN gen
eral history, but which, nevertheless, were not
without their influence upon the current OF
events. A recital of their particulars recalls
names worthy of the highest honor, but which
TO some extent have faded out of the public
memory. Without doing injustice to other gal
lant men engaged in the hardfought action,
we NAV point with pride to the nobly proml-
nent figures of Herkimer and Willet, both types
of the best character of the time-men who
were brave, modest and able men who were
rs well prepared for any emergency as un-
daunted valor and complete self-abnegatIon
could make them-patriotc gentlemen and born
leaders of patriots


The interest in centennial celebrations has
naturally somewhat abated after the prolonged
excitement of 1876. We are, however, only
at the beginning of days worthy of remem-
blance, which will rapidly recur during a few
years to come. The great aud decisive battles OF
the war; the surrender of Burgoyne and the
capitulation of Yorktown are yet to becom MEM
Grated, as well as the final treaty which placed
this Republic upon basis acknowledged by
Great Britain, as well as by all the other ma
tions of the world The civil events by which
the Union was consolidated will in due course
follow, and their place in the national chronol-
ogy will be duly honored. There will be many
opportunities for promoting a fresh remem-
brance of the struggles and triumphs of the
Unions infancy and we may confidently be-
lieve that they Will not be neglected.
Year: 1877

With July began the monster camp-meetings
which will probably increase IN numbers, II
not in feryor of spirit, during this month.
Every thoughtful man, whether Il church-mem-
Der or not, feels it to be dangerous expert
ment TO question publicly any well-meant
effort for the bettering of the world. Criticism
of churches and church-work, while it may
reform those inside of the church doors, usu-
ally drives outsiders further from them, and
adds strength to the blatant popular clamor
against the clergy. But even at the risk OF
this we must urgently suggest that more care
be observed in the conduct of these mammoth
religious gatherings this season than was done
last Summer. if it is not wished that the evil
accomplished by them shall very nearly cOun-
terbaance tine good.


The object of these meetings is sound and
rational. 1t is right for people TO 20 out of
the city in Summer, it is right for them to as
socIate together OH their holiday; and 1t is
undoubtedly right for earnest Christians to
make this occasion. season of prayer and
praise and of effort for the conversion of sin
ners, as well as of cheerful social enjoyment.
We have nothing but commendation to give to
this phase of the meetings. When the Master
would teach the highest truths He led the
multitudes out close to Nature, To the fields
and mountains. Neither have we any intcn-
ton of holding the leaders of these meetings
responsible for the disorder, drunkenness or
any other evil practice to be found among the
crowds that flock to them. Wherever there is
a popular place of meeting there is IN attrac-
tion for whiskey dealers, tramps, and every
other class who prey upon human weaknesses
or vice, and it does not matter to them
whether the object be horse-racing or prayer.
The police and other restrictive regulations
are, we are told, as thoroughly arranged as Is
practicable. That is all which can be de-
manded of the managers. Ii may be that in
the great multitudes that followed the Great
Teacher there was frivolity aud irreyerence
which was not cowed even by the Divine
Presence.


The danger in these meetings is that the
frivolity and irrevercnce too often seem to
creep into the pulpits and the prayers. We
would not rebuke or encourage "a smile ut the
most ignorant utterances of sincere man
pleading for God. Such utterances never yet
failed of their effect. The most successful
preacher of the present century is an illitente
man, outside of the Word of God. Neither is
there any extTyagance of thought or diction
which is not pardonabe to the rapture of de-
voton or intense feeling. But a man rises
very seldom in his life to these supreme heights
Of devotion OF feeling. He cannot finish his
mutton-chop at breakfast and at will be car
ried by the Spirit up TO the Hills of Bculah,
coming down precisely in time for more chops
at noon. Yet the prevailing tone adopted in
these enormous crowds iii payers, hymns, and
Year: 1877




There is something almost sublime in the
composue with which the Democrats of Miss
issppi sit down under the eyes of mankind
and proceed to ignore the universe. IL only
bappens once or twice in n decade of years
that their swamps and wildernesscs their reso-
lutions and their police, attract much or the
attention Of the outside world, and under Or'n-
nary circumstances they might commit any
number of abSurdities without remark. But IL
does happen just now that the world Is look-
ing at them and that their behavior Is OF some
consequence to the Democratic party elsewhere
Since they obtained control of their state, by
methods which. to put it mildly, are open to a
GREAT deal of criticism, theonly important event
in Mississippi has been a political massacre
so horrible in its incidents rs to arouse the
whole country. The Democratic county officers
have failed to punish the criminals The Dem
ocratic Governor has failed to teach them their
duty or to interest himself at all i'll the affair."
The Democratic press has kept silent about It,
Everybody, outside Of Mississippi. seems to
realize that the Kemper County massacre has
placed the Democracy of the whole nation at
disadvantage, ilnperilled the permanence of
President HayeS's Southern policy, and thus





tunes One might have thought even Mis-
sissipp Democratic Convention capable OF un-
derstanding the situation.


1he first act of the Convention however was
formally to ignore the kemper County affair
by renOminating Gov. Stone and then 1t pro-
ccedcd to discourse upon the limitations OF the
Federal authority, the sovereignty of the States,
the right of every free people to be let alone,
and the other commonpDaces of a past era.
| What the country wishes to know Is whether
Mississippi has the will and the power to en-
force her own laws, now that the general
government has resolved to let her alone !;
whether she will protect Republicans In their
lives and liberties now that military guards have
been taken away whether "home-rulc" means
immunity for Democratic murderers ; and the
reserved right for which the State is so
anxious is the right to encourage political as
saSsnations. Butthe Democrats of Mississippi
have not heard from outside. Surrounded by
the complete works of John G.. Calhoun they
draft solemn resolutions upon obsolete issues
of politics. and pay no more regard to con
temporary facts than if all beyond the barrier
of cOtton-leld and cypress-swamp belonged
to n world with which they have no concern.


1t is a waste of time to debate theories of
government in a State which does not protect
It's citizens from assassination Oh account of
the unpopuarity of their politics. There are
some hundreds of thousands of sincere people
at the North who believe that the Federal au-
thorties ought to keep such State under
military care, and import carpet-bag Govern
ors and legislators for it; and to talk to them
about the reserved rights of the States is like
arguing with northwest wind They had
their way for the first ten Yeas of reconstruc-
ton, and there is no guarantee that they VIII
not have ii again. Certainly Mississippi is CIV
ing them great deal of help.
Year: 1877

preaching, il that of this exceptional intense
excitement. We do not wish to speak harshly
when we say that it is the fashionable
tone. Truths of awful import are chattered
about in the tents in the same breath with the
sale of oysters and CLANS The salvation OF a
human being, the story of Christs death
every subject indeed which the thoughtful
man approaches in conritiOn and reverence or
soul, knowing how profound and awful are the
mysteries OF which he treads-are made topics
of hourly vulgar chatter, and that expressed
in the grossest hyperboe of feeling. Some of
the trains coming and going to these meetings
last Summer contained spectacles to make
wise man weep: hysteric women, pale iron
nights and days of excitement, with men ana
children, alternately singing hymns OF raptir-
ous JOY or despair, and joking, coarseiy enough
with their acquaintances at each station


We want to be understood. We have not
word to say against this excitement or rapture
when it is real We should hesitate to con-
denim even the falling Christians" in the memor-
able epidemic in Ireland. But we do assert
that when it is simulated, when extrayagant
religious emotion becomes hackneyed, tash-
ionable thing, initiated half unconsciousy by
weak men and women, that a great aud sefi-
GUS damage is done to the cause of Christ.
All that is required of the leaders OF these
meetings to make them the engines Tor good
which they purpose, is absolute sincerity III
themselves and that high reverence III the
treatment of the awful truths they teach
which shall command at least a decent respect
for them in others.
Year: 1877

that the employer shall have no market at all
and that is merely robbery. Aud when this
conspiracy to rob an employer of his rights
aud to deprive him of the money which nc
might save in a free market Is formed III Sc
cret by men who are still receiving his money,
and pretending to care for his interests, In
what respect do they differ from the trusted
clerk who uses his employers key to rob the
oa Sh h.x
Year: 1877

What fine crop of fresh young ward statesmen IS
blossoming inst now in the Custom House Republic
can Associations. But none of them appear to be
familiar to the general public for past eminent ser
vices Is it possible that the names are mere abuses of
the officials who retire in Difference to the Presidents
order Is the reoI ganlzaton i'll good faith 1t III
the interest of the Republican party or the Custom
House faction !
Year: 1877

There is no lack of variety in the work
which is undertaken by our police force
Among the most difficult of their tasks is the
capture of the thieves that prey upon the
shipping in port. These thieves use their row
boats dexterousy and under cover OF night
often get away with considerable amounts OF
plundcr. OF late years the police have been
tolcrably successful in breaking up the organ
lied gangs of thieves that used to make a
business of this sort of crime, but 1t has
lasted long enough TO develop class of river
pirates" who are bolder and more desperate
than their fellows on shore, and in their cap
ture the policemans revolver has often to be
brought in play.
Year: 1877

4
represented at the French International ENhl-
bition Whatever is done here must be chiefly
due TO private enterprise. There is AT least the
consolation that if the United States take Only
q slender part in the show at Paris European
nations involved or deeply concerned IN the
war are likely also to put in scant appear
ance.


Many excellent individuals are wasting tlme
money and effort at Washington. III the hope
of being appointed as Gen. Sharpe'S successor
WHY don't some of these sufferers get together
and form Cruelty to 0Gice-Sce Society Z
Fairly organized in that shape they might
bring united effort to bear upon the Admin
istration. and have Surveyorships and such
things settled without such distressing delays.


Another false account of the Nathan murder
has been concocted has had brief existence.
and now goes out in darkness There is really
no prospect at all that the mystery of that muir
der will he unravelled. No event in the whole
criminal history of this city has ever been more
thoroughly Investigated, and the total failure
of the search has long been admitted by our
police and detectives. They do not even pre-
tend to have a clew, and that is something
which can be said concerning very few great
crimes in New-YOrk.


The Worry of the Democrats of Ohio over
4heir state nominations keeps pace with the
CONGRATULATIONS of the Republicans over theirs.
The grumbling in the Democratic camp over
the record OF Mr. Bishop is widespread and loud.
Many Democrats are represented as saying
that they will not vote for him. Possibly they
will not, but it would be a mistake for the
Republicans to build their hopes too largely
on such threats of detection. Democrats are
apt TO growl-and vote the ticket.


Nearly One-sixth of the whole amount of
legal tenders is lying idle, piled up Oh de-
posit in the vaults of the Treasury. The bus
mess of the country has no need of this sur
plus. The fact should be a sufficient answer
TO people who suspect that the Government is
contracting the currency. As to circulation,
the currency contracts itself, in accordance
with the contraction Of trade and enterprise.
Government neither makes nor mars the pro-
cess and could only interfere by upsettmg
the natural laws of trade.


The decision of the Attorney General, that
the letters of Senator Sargent recommending
nersons for Federal offices cannot be dragged
into court as evidence in libel suit, is pro-
babIy sound law. SO far as members of Con-
orcss are concerned, the decision may serve
fo check a growing vice in our practical poll
tics--tLe raking up and display before the
world Of the business and affairs of our public
men. But while Members of Congress are
thus protected as to their own correspondence,
Year: 1877

England is using all the commercial
and political influence that it has to &C.
cure free trade with the Continent, but
France, In the depressed condition Of
It's Industries, is not likely to yield. The
reason is obvious. The trade and naYi-
cation accounts for March show an in
crease OF more than Is per cent In the
value OF the imports and a decrease of
over Al per cent In that Of the exports,
and the Times says the tendency
OF our exports to decrease In
value month by month seems to be
continuous, while the increases in
the imports are Of a very ftful charac-
ter" The exports to the United States
Tor the first quarter OF the year show a
decrease In everything except iron,
lead, paper, salt, silks, spirits, tin and
wool. In these articles there is slight
increase over the first quarter OF 1876
but there is falling off Of four mil
lions In cotton goods, thirty per cent In
haberdashery and hardware, q million
In linens, fifty per cent in machinery,
forty per cent In wooiens and over six
millions In worsted stuffs. The United
States, on the contrary, for the first two
thirds Of the fiscal year, show decrease
OF twenty millions in the imports. or
six per cent, anda n increase in exports
OF forty-six millions, or sixteen per cent.
Year: 1877

LChicsgo Timesl


WAsHtHGroN, May7.-There Is n move
ment on foot against Mexico. The oh.
ieetive point is Sonora and the purpose,
from what can be gathered here, seems
to be TO annex this province TO the do
main OF the Texas Pacific Railroad. and
incidentally to Uncle Sam. The move
ment is said to have wide mifications.
Ihe deposed President Lerdo. who In
living here In seolusion, Is a silent part
ner In It, The headquarters are natn-
rally IN. Philadelphia. New Orleans ID
the basis Of active operations. Tho In
terested parties here are trying TO see
how much toleration they can count on
from the. national government when
they begin active operations next all
tumn: They propose. 1t is understood,
TO oolonize the State Of Sonora with
some thousands OF Americans, and tn
set up an independent government
there. Then they will play the role OF
Texas over again. and endeavor TO So
cure admission to tho union 90 n federal
State. The Texas Pacific railroad at
one point will run along the southern
borders Of Arizona. and almost touch
the territory Of Mexico. The anarchy
that prevails In Mexico opens the way
for this new colonization scheme. There
Is said to be great deal Of money avail
able to carry out the enterprise. IF q
new government should be established
IN Sonora, Lerdo will undoubtedly be
tho nominal head OF II. The means for
establishing il will be- furnished from
this side OF tho border. The capture Of
Sonora would inevitably carry with 1t
the control OF Lower California and tho
addition OF the territory to the Amer
lean Union, and will extend our territory
two degrees south on the Pacific coast.
IL is highly attractive scheme. Sonora
is the State in which tho Mexican ma
tional authority Is naturally the weak
est. The defenders Of the scheme say
that the Mexican authority is at an
end, and that there can be no govern
ment there unless it IL sustained from
this side Of tho line, ana that the time
has come to make another huge addi-
ton to our territory on the southwest.
You will be likely to hear good deal
about this matter before the summer Is
ont
Year: 1877

Almost as soon rs the shades OF night began
to envelope the city preparations wore made in
both the upper and lower districts to illumina ate,
not only public, bnt private buildings, and at
dark on nearly every street could bo seen the ro-
suits of the Efforts Of those who


CELEBRATED THE DAY
set apart for Thanksgiving for tho blessings of
the Providence which gave to all once more a
FREQ government.


Canal street also came in for


ITS SHARE OF THE GLORY,
and the stores on that thoroughfare were in MANY
instances brilliantly illuminated with hundreds of
gas jets and vari .colored Chinese lanterns. The
cluh-rooms wore also their brilliant decorations,
and on some of the streets in the upper and lower
parts Of the city not only were the residences
handsomely Illuminated, but the yards attached
bore evidence Of the taste OF the proprietors in
he handsoms array


OF CHINESE LANTERNS
that were displayed, hanging from the limbs of
the magnolia and other trees, the shrubbery in
m ny cases being fairly ablsze with the beautiful
colored lights reasc ed from these ingenious
Celestial contrivances.


Taken altogether the night ecene was one Of
grand splendor,


WHICH has NOT BEEN WITNESSED
before in years, and one which convinced the
Year: 1877

and one which will long be borne fresh in The
memory of people that for Ten years could not
say in their hearts that they could conscentiotsly
give thanks except for blessings from u Divine
Providence.
Year: 1877

i ladies' who do not use the fragran. Sozodont
will compare teeth with thoec who do, they will
see In an instant more reasons for adopting it
than can be composed into newspaper paragraph.
Year: 1877

THE ORUANGsT's DUTY IN THE SAKCTU


ARY.-Whethcr proiessed Christians OIL
not, believe the organists first duty i,
to consider his playing and all his act,
in the sanctuary, as worship. To enter
the place for personal display; 10 show
what skill is in feet and fingers; 10 ex


hibit his knowledge in the art OF regis
tration; tosImply earn some money, OF
have fine entertainment, is all false anI
wrong. hold that no person, believer
or inidel, Christian or heather, has any
right TO step foot inside church door
without full sense OF the sacrcdness oil
the place. On the Sabbath day or any
worshipful occasion the organ should
simply guide and sustain the service OF
the Sanctuary. That is: il should not
festival days, perhaps, excepted-become
prominent or aggressive, nor should the
organist during the service seek to dis
play either the instrument or himself.
Let the service prelude, except on iestal
days, be always Of quiet and meditatiyc
character, or of solid, noble and lignilied


harmony; rarely, il ever, employing
more than the fundamental registers Of
the organ. In he anthems and other pieces
for the choir, let the organ simply and
tully sustain the voices, and never at
any time be played 80 as TO render the
voices obscure or the words unintelligi.
BILE. When played for the congregation,
AS it always should be at least once in
every service,-let it give full, deep,
grand undertOne which shall sustain and
uplift all who may care to Join in the
grandesL and noblest Of all praise. After
the benediction, let there be short aud
quiet response which shall Gttingly close
the service. Then believe the time has
come for the organ to speak us only this
king OF inStruments can speak. Save on
occasions Of morning or sorrow, let il
speak forth the everlasting beauty and
power Of music, and the unspeakable
goodness and glory OF the Infinite Father


Is there anything beautiful in the organ


let it speak OF infinite beauty. Is there
anything grand in the instrument, let il
speak Of the grandeur Of the universe


the goodness and greatness Of Gods in.
finite mercy and love to his children


For this and this alone should the organ.
ist acquire and use his powers of heart
and mind.-Eugene 1hayer in The Golden
Rule. .-. .'..1 .raIr-r .7. 90