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Year: 1876

We owe an apology to our good friend,
George Russ" the popular and able cor
respondent of the Little Rock Gazette,
for overlooking him, in our last issue.
The fact is, " George" we did not know
YOU We're ON the train. Unfortunately
We did not meet you. Russ certainly
must have been behind one of those big
sandwiches, or we should certainly have
seen him. The train was half hour
ahead of time, and we did not get there
on its arrival. Consequently we missed
some of our Little Rock friends that it
would have given us pleasure to have met.
What we meant as failure, was that the
leading citizens of Little Rock were not
as largely represented as we expected
to see. Those present were all that could
be asked for, but lacked in lumber what
we had been led to expect. The deco
rations were elegant, George" and we
looked upon them with wonder and as
constituent, and Van Buren would have
been pleased if there had been thou
sand more of the good citizens of Lit
tie Rock, along" Let us have peace
Year: 1876

Springfield IN Union If half the
army could be devoted for the space OF
month to the purpose of shooting the
Indian traders and driving them out OF
the country, it would be the shortest way
to end the war Until this policy rs
adopted the Government will stand con
victed of iinbecillty.
Year: 1876

There is q special consideration which
should prompt every Republican voter in
Chicago to cast his ballot for the Republican
nominee for Congress in his district In ad-
dition to the fact that in each of the three
Chicago districts the Republican candidate
is in every way superior and preferable to his
Democratic opponent, it is not impossible
that the election in these three districts NAV
determine whether the majority in the next
Congress shall be Republican or Democratic.
The most careful estimates that have been
made on the political complexion of the next
House of Representatives place the issue as
closely as this, aud conclude that there will
not be q majority Of more than three or four
either way. The three Chicago districts are
unquestionably Republican On full and fair
vote. There are no local issues now which
are detrimental to the Republicans, and the
difference between the candidates is all in
their favor. The National cause, therefore,
is entitled to expect return of three Repub-
ican members from the Chicago districts
and If every Republican votes for the party
candidate [and there is no reason in any case
why he should mott, Chicago will do its full
share in securing Republican majority in
the next National Legislature
Year: 1876

After looking over the ground, and allow
ing for the greater cost Of supplying the
West Division with street-lamps, We conclud-
ed that the offer made by the BILLINGS
Company may have been fair after all, and
advised the Council to accept it. Their re-
fusal to do SO has sent the West-Side Com
pany into the Courts, and an injunction has
been applied for in the United States Court
to restrain the city from infringing upon the
existing contract with the Gas Company. If
this injunction be granted, and made perma-
nent after an argument on the merits, the
city would have done better to accept Mr..
BILLINGS terms, because it will then be
forced to pay the old contract price Of SO
per 1000 feet, instead Of 50 per 1000 feet,
which was BILLINGS offer. We presume it
is too late to retract, and on some accounts it
will be Of value to have the question tested
whether the rights Of municipal corpora
ton may be bound down for long term of
years through the action Of Council that
had life Of only one year. If they can,
then Chicago must suffer the penalty of an
unwise contract, and the same danger is i'm
minent so long as q new Council is chosen
every year.
Year: 1876

The United States Supervisors have been
industriously at work going over and inspect
ing the lists Of registration. We are in
formed that they have found good many
bad nests of fraudulent names, and many
names Of suspicious characters. They have
active detectives out looking up the sus-
picious characters and spotting them. It is
expected that large number of arrests will
be made at the polls Of rascals attempting to
get in fraudulent votes. By Monday night
the officers expect to have perfect list
completed of the repeaters, where they live,
and the different precincts where they in
tend to vote. They have discovered the most
Illegal registration in Bridgeport, the Sixth
Ward, aud the Town Of Lake; but
they also uncovered good deal of villainy
in the precincts of the Eighteenth Ward, and
in parts of the Seventh and Eighth Wards.
The "Reformers" will undoubtedly get in
some fraudulent work on election-day, and
some Of them also will get into jail, but the
amount Of successful repeating and bogus
voting will be vastly less than the engineers
had calculated upon The United States law
is found to be an excellent net for catching
such catfish and eels.
Year: 1876

A little too much Importance has been
given, perhaps, to the money and influence
Of the man HOLE, who is the "Reform -
candidate for Congress in the First District
The fact is, that he is simply local "boss "
in the employ of the Michigan Southern
Railroad. He is superintendent Of loading
freight -cars on the Stock-Y Yards section Of the
Michigan Southern, draws pay in proportion
to the irresponsibi1ity Of the place and per-
quisites in proportion to his own notions Of
honesty, and has never risen above the dig
nifty Of section-boss" Of small number
Of day-laborers. He has been put forward
as the Congressional candidate by certain
railroad interests, and it is said that the
money that has been and is being used to i'm
port and buy votes for him which he could
not get honestly has been furnished by those
who are interested in having tool in Con-
gress. He is opposed by the most inanen-
tial men engaged in business at the Stock
Yards, because they know his personal un-
fitness and are familiar with the disreputable
means BY which it is proposed to elect him.
It is not probable, under the circumstances,
that enough fraudulent votes can be polled
to elect him.
Year: 1876

At q meeting Of the Bar Association yes
terday afternoon, resolution was introduced
providing for the appointment Of Com
naittee Of Thirteen to Investigate the
charges preferred by the press and
great number of citizens against Judge
McA111srEa, consequent upon his rul-
ings in the case Of ALEXANDER SULLIVAN,
indicted for the murder Of FRANCIS HASFoRD.
The attendance YVES very large, and the mat
ter was discussed at great length for several
hours It YVES urged by many that i'm
mediate action might have an undue weight
on the pending second trial Of SULLIVAN, and
for that reason it Was finally resolved to
postpone the question indefinitely. A full
report of the discussion will be found in an
other column.
Year: 1876

Can it be that the Democratic Committees
are not aware that one ut least of their can
didates for the State Legislature is named on
the records of the Criminal Court of this
county as convict2 He was one Of the
old-style Justices Of the Peace, and an e1-
animation Of the records will show that he
wns convicted Of fraud, or e1tortion, or
bribery, before Judge McA111srER, and sen
fenced by that officer, who accompanied the
sentence by some observations which the
Democratic Committees might read with
great propriety and profit
Year: 1876

of Commissioners. we invite attention to
the names:


FITZGERALD, HoPPMAN,


BRADLEY, LINEN.


F. We regret that the people Of this city have
not a personal acquaintance with these per-
sons. We have too much respect TOR the
mass of Democratic voters to believe that
these candidates would have the remotest
chance Of election, if they were known, even
by sight, to the general public. Their
strength is in their obscurity, which also
hides their personal undtness, their total
want Of intellectual qualification, and their
want of experience and knowledge Of public
matters. It is enough to say that the cleo
ton Of these four men will place the public
hopelessly and helplessly in the hands of the
present ruling faction in the Board


These are the Reform" candidates. Ex-
Alderman FITZGERALD is to "reform the
County Board, and HICKEY, and KEARSEY,
and SEXTON, and EszESBAoHER, and DELANEY
are to reform the General Assembly Of the
State of Illinois!


The Municipal Reform Association have
afforded the people nh opportunity to escape
bad government in this County Board, by
naming as candidates Messrs. PIKE, Nor
TIMER, NEwcoMB, and HAwKNsoN. The
majority Of these are also Republican candi-
dates, but We do not understand that any
citizen cares button as to the politics Of
the Commissioners. What is wanted in that
Board is personal integrity, and these four
gentlemen have that to recommend them.
# the general voter will remember that this
Board of fifteen members have the absolute
disposal of all the money they can raise BY
taxation or by the sale Of county bonds, he
will understand the great importance there
is Of electing competent men Of integrity to
that Board No man Of any party should
hesitate to scratch the county ticket vigor-
ously to defeat corrupt or incompetent
candidate.
Year: 1876

The meeting at Farwen Hall last night, q
full report Of which will be found in this
issue Of TIE TRIBUNE, emphasizes the deep
interest the solid men Of Chicago feel in the
result of the election ne1t Tuesday, because
Of the effect it must have upon the national
credit, and through that upon all CON-
mercial and industrial enterprise. It
was q demonstration that the work
of the Republican party in reduc-
ing the debt, and thereby steadily
strengthening the public credit, is fully ap-
preciated by our business men. It demon
strated also that the disastrous impairment
of that credit which would follow the til
umph of the party Of war claims and Of the
Solid South is none the less fully appre-
ciated by our business men. The
resolutions adopted present forcibly the
actual situation which u bahooves
Year: 1876

TMpEN, in his speech at New York on
Friday night, was true to his instincts as a


demagogue and a sham. Addressing the


torch bearers, he exclaimed: t*This is not a


compliment to me; it is an expression Of


the popular will in behalf Of Reform At


Now, the character of this declaration may


be judged when it is known that all Demo-


cratic torchlghts in New York City pro-


cessions are borne by men hired at so much


per night per man, and the "pageant which


TuDES greeted as popular outburst for Re-
form he knew was paid for out of his own
money, and was nothing more than pro-
cession Of hired showmen.


He followed this up by declaring that his


"success On Tuesday next means peace,
reconciliation, and fraternity among all our
people Of every class and race" When he
uttered this he knew that his supporters in
the Solid South looked for "peace, recon-
ciiation, and fraternity" through the pay
ment Of their claims, and, failing this, looked
forward to an Independent Confederacy, with
slavery Of the black race restored.


When he spoke of his election rs securing


' q restoration of national credit, a frugal
administration, and an honest and just gov
ernment, II the question must have suggested
itself, When did Tammany Hall provide a
frugal administration or just government?
He had the boldness there at midnight to
declare that his election would enable the
Government to reduce the interest on its
whole bonded debt to 4 per cent, and thus
save the interest proposed to be paid on the
a per cent bonds. This extraordinary state
ment was the most glaring piece of dema-
gogism Of the campaign. 1t was intended
to Offset tho great SUCCESS Of the Repub-
Icans in negotiating the y per cent loan.
He had the hardihood and the etfrontery to
declare that, if he were elected, the Govern
ment would be able to borrow enough money
to refund the whole bonded debt at per
cent. Mr. TnDES was fully aware that he
was stating what was not true, and that the
whole financial and business community are
at this moment dreading his election as fatal
to the public credit. This speech, in which
be declares that, in case he is elected, the
Government credit will be SO advanced as to
borrow $4,000, 100000 at per cent, was
pure bravado, but nevertheless characteristic
Of TnDEN. The mans desperation is evi- /!
1enced by the desperation Of his talk.
Year: 1876

What are we to do with these peo-
pie ? Bow is this disease to be treat
ed i? These questions demand an
early answer, for the evils to which
they relate are increasing with alarm
ing rapidity. There is the general
feeling that they will take care of
themselves, as soon as prosperous
times shall return; but, rs we have
already sad, this is mistake. The
dead beat will never reform. The
tramp will be tramp for life, shifting
from country to city as his comforts
may demand, and ready to be led into
any mischief which will give him grub
and grog. There ought to be. this very
winter, in every Sta.e in the Union,
such laws passed as will restrain the
wanderers, aud force them to seh-sup


port in some public institution. \
standing commission OF vagrancy
should be instituted in every large
city, and every county in the land /;
institutions Of industry established tor
the purpose of making these men self
supporting, and Of curing them Of
their wretched disease. We have lu.
natc asylums, not only for the benefit
of the lunatics, but for the reliet OF the
community, and among the dead-beats
and tramps we have an enormous
number ot men who are just as truly
diseased as the maddest man in Utica,
or at the Bloomingdale Asylum.
Something must be done with them,
ami done at once, II we are 10 have
any comfort by day or safety by
night for men who are so demoral,
lied as TO beg from choice, and lie by
profession, have but to take Il single
step to land in ruffianism. Already
they intimidate, and rob and murder,
to get the means to support their use
less lives -[From "The Disease OF
Mendicancy," DR.. Hollands Topics
OF the Times Scribner for January.
Year: 1876

Condemn no man for not think
ing as You think. Let every one en-,
joy the full and free liberty of think
ing for himself. Abhor every approach
in any kind or degree, to the spirit of
persecution. If you cannot reason or
persuade man into the truth, never
attempt to force him into It, John
Wesley
Year: 1876

An obituary notice of a young
man was handed in last night for in.
sertion in our columns. concluding
with the following touching remark
"Gone before the Returning Board
above; May he be counted ill., IN Y
Express.
Year: 1876

An experienced farmer says that in all
schemes for feeding animals in yards and
stables, instead OF allowing them to
get their own food in woods or
pastures, there is one thing lost sight Of;
namely, the necessity Of physical exercise,
in order to have the best of health. We
know how it is with men and women who
do not take exercise enough. and it is as
true of animals. They need something to
do as well as something to eat, and the
wise man is he who finds his animals ex.
ercise as well as food. One of the best
chicken ''culturlsts" that we know acts al
ways on this principle. They are usually
so situated that the birds cannot have full
range, but have to be kept confined in a
rather small yard. They generally look
pitiful when penned up in this way. but
here they look as cheerful as if they were
in the open air, because something is
found for them to do. In the fall of the
year leaves are thrown in about the yard,
and the grain on which they are fed is
thrown in about them, so that it takes
considerable scratching about before they
can find it. At other times they are treat
ed to load of sand or earth thrown in
the yard, in which they scratch and amuse
themselves, and sometimes through the
season the hired man forks up the ground.
These and similar thoughtful plans for
finding work for the feathered flock are
practiced, and our friend believes with
much profit to the birds.-Erchdnge.
Year: 1876

Love, give me ore Of thy dear hands 20 hold.


Take thou my tired head upon thy breast
Then sing me that sweet song We loved If old


The dear, soft song about our little nest.
We knew the song before the nest was ours;


We sang the song when frst the nest We found;
We loved the song in happ! after-hours,


When pcIee came to us, and content profound.
Then sing that olden song TO me tonight,


While l, reclining on thy faithful breast,
See happy visions in the fan srelght,


And nay whole soul is satisfied with rest.
Better than all bygone dreams Of bliss,
Are deep content and rest secure as thi-
What though We missed loves golden summer time
His autumn fruits were ripe when We had leave
To enter joys vineyard in our prime,


Good guerlOn for our waiting TO receive.
Love gave US no frail pledge Of summer flowers,


But side by side We reaped the larvest-feld;
Now side by side pass the winter hours,


And day by day new blessings are revealed
Tie heyiay Of our youth, It's roseate glow,


It's high desires and cravings manifold,
Tie raptures and delights OF long ago,


Have passed but we have truer JOYS to hold.
Sing me the dear, old song about the nest,
Our blessed home, our little ark of rest
Year: 1876




country by bayonets. Take the negro
sote away from the Republican majority
N Pennsylvania and the Democrats will
nave majority of 10000; take the ne
gro vote away from the Republican party
IN Ohio and Tilden and Hendricks will
nave majority of 10000. of what use
S the negro vote to any party if it can be
"j,tinidoted' as they say it was in South
Carolina, Florida and Louisiana? OF
what use has the 5000 negro votes foist
apon the people of Delaware been to the
Republican party, but to make that party
the laughing stock of the intelligent peo-
pie of the community? We know
earnest, working party men in the Re
publican party who declared before the
late election that the candidate who Sc
cured the negro vote would be sure to be
defeated. and il was so. There is now
feeling of this kind in the Republican
Party-there is a class of honorable men
N it that know they never can rise be-
cause they will not seek the negro vote;
and as a balance of power it is always
against such honorable men. Now, in
he three States the Republican party
claim these men as theirs, and we do not
feel disposed to deny that the negroes are
Republicans, for in such badly managed
l,,,f NJ ~ ('hinaSp
Japanese or fools would vote with the
party if they were not paid to do so.


But We do say that if the negroes be-
ong to the Republican party that party
should see that their votes are polled and
.egally polled; and then legally counted,
and only such as are polled legally al
lowed TO be counted.


We do protest against any white mans
or any Democratic vote being thrown
cut to put negros in, or because ne
gro's might have been put in and was
aot put in.


The Republican party forced the negro
vote upon the country against the ma
ority of the people, and it cannot now
require the Democrats to guarantee that
The negroes do vote. Here in Delaware
we are furnishing schools to negroes out
Of taxes upon the property OF white men
while the negro's property is not taxed at
all for school purposes; and the Republi-
can party is not satisfied. We allow all
their negroes to vote that 90 forward and
nave their names put on the tax lists, and
he Republican party is not satisfied. Our
collectors 90 after the negroes to get their
names. and they or their wives deny they
live in the houses won't furnish any
names, and the Republicans are not
satisfied and when the names are put
On by the Collectors the negroes won't go
forward and pay the smallest tax as
struck oil. This does not satisfy the Re-
publicans, in fact they want the Demo-
crafts to gather up this ignorant, imbecile,
ragged and useless class of bummers and
bring them to the polls to vote Republi.
cans into Office. Nothing less than thi,
will satisfy the Radicals in Delaware
and this is what Grant is endeavoring tC
force upon the whites of the South in or
der to keep the Reform party from get
ting into power and showing up the
scandalous robbery tha- has been goin.
on in Washington for the past decade. l
can't be done. Tilden is elected and h,
will be inaugurated in spite OF the army
and Grant and the Shelmans.
Year: 1876

And now Tantalus Pinch is on the
extreme verge Of another ragged edge :;
for several weary years the Senatorship
was kept shining before his eyes, always
within seeming reach, but receding
beyond as soon as his outstretched
hands ventured for grasp. At length
the shining light was extinguished but
the glitter of gold replaced it. For a
Pinch gold may replace fame; but now
even the gold appears to vanish, the
dispatches state that the contingent
fund Of the Senate is exhausted, and
Pinch's pay depends upon the contin-
gent fund.- for the current year concern
ing whose amount the Confederate
Brigadiers" have something to say. This
makes Pinch's $4,000 tolerabiy uneer
tain He thinks there is very little fun
contingent or not, in that.
Year: 1876

Bill Murrell, the irrepressible, has
broken loose In Madison parish again,
and has been renominated by an enthu
siastic convention for reelection to the
Legislature. Murrell has been quenched
a dozen times was even ANONYMOUSLY
kicked out OF the last convention, but
even that does not dismay or alarm him,
and he comes to the front again q can
didate for legislative honors. Anxious
inquiries are being made at the State
House as to where and when Murrell's
convention met, as nobody seems to
know anything about it save its nomina-
ton.


We congratulate the Radicals on their
first candidate for the Legislature as
proof Of how earnest they are for re-
form. Bill Murrell is their first in the
legislative field and Bill Murrells name
Is synonymous with reform.
Year: 1876

The situation IN the East is rapidly
growing to be a full sized bore. The
kilograms have got both sides whipped
several times already since the begin
ming Of the war, and the average intel
lect is very nearly dazed by the cables
conflicting sparks. This is not Serriaa
the public right.
Year: 1876

If THE CHARGES in regard TO the Demo
cratic onslaught intended against the
Treasury were untrue, we should long
ago have had full report of the facts. 1t
is well known that q number of these
claims are ready to be reported, but have
been laid over by advice and agreement,
and are to be taken up and passed early in
the session. 1t was part Of the "reform"
policy of the Democratic House to avoid
the payment of honest claims to show re-
duction in expenses until after the election.
Members OF the Claims Committee said
again and again that there were more than
q thousand claims before it. 1t would be
an edifying document, and we suggest the
publication of the amounts, residence and
character of the claims, number really to
be reported, &C., &c.
Year: 1876

SENATOR BLAINE, in his speech at Gin
cinnati during the October campaign,
analyzed and left in scattered fragments
the political carcass of Charles Francis
Adams, the degenerate son of worthy
sire. Mr.. B. gave a complete history of
the conduct of Mr.. A. in 1860, showing
that he was willing for any sort of COM
promise; that he favored giving to single
slave State absolute power over the whole
United States, and that he was even will
ing under certain contingencies to favor
then demand for division. He declared
his course to be one of humiliation and
treason to the cause of human liberty, and
produced the facts to prove the charge. A
copious extract from this scathing indict-
ment was then printed in the Southern
Democratic papers without comment. The
purpose was evidently to let The South
know how truly loyal Adstns is to the
South, and how completely Northern
dough faced Democrats have toadied to
the South in nominating men who have
earned the right to their confidence by
their disloyalty to the Government and to
human rights.
Year: 1876

INTHE South the present campaign is
being fought for principle and the right to
live and be protected as free American cit
izens. In other words, the cardinal princi-
Piles of the Republican party are being
fought for and opposed in that section. Tue
issues Of the war are at stake there-:ssues
for which the blood of thousands of Union
soldiers was shed, and which should yet be
paramount in the minds of loyal men the
cOr nfTy over