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Year: 1876

Does it ever occur to the average American
that the straps by which he is expected to
suspend himself in the street cars, instead of
being convenience, are an insult to his in
telligence as q man and his dignity as q citi-
zen? If the cattle transported on the rail-
ways were compelled to undergo one half the
torture which these straps signify we should
have Mr.. Bergh protesting within aweek and
exerting all the power of the Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals to put an.
end to the barbarities. Indeed, it is ques-
tionable whether any other animal besides
man would consent to be packed as closely
as the street railroads pack their freight. In
no other city would like indignities
be submitted to, nor would any other
people accept so submissively such
badges of their degradation as q
street car constantly exhibits before the New
Yorker. Straps are an American barbarism,
and it is only American good nature which
makes them possible. But the time is
coming when it will be unsafe, even here,
to pack men and women into crowded cars
and have them endure the annoyance and
discomfort with patience. Ii the companies
fail to provide better accommodation, and
the Legislature refuses to interfere for the
public protection, the people will be COM
PEELED to take the matter into their own
hands. We shall yet find it necessary to
make war upon straps, and the sooner it is
done the sooner will seat be provided for
every passenger. The car companies have
ON easy means within reach Of obviating
great part of the difficulty they might find
in providing increased numbers of cars by
constructing double-deckers, such as are
used in England, merely modified SO as to
suit the climate here. One thing is certain,
their day for making money out of the pub
lie by packing passengers like sardines is
drawing rapidly TO a close.
Year: 1876

A CoLLnBY VILLAGE in Pennsylvania has
been on the verge of riot because drunken
miner died in the police station. Bad whis-
key seems to have been the cause of the
whole affair. The citizens are living under
what our Wilkesbarre war correspondent
compassionately terms "a mild state of mar
tial law"
Year: 1876

About 40 per cent OF bullion produced from the Calf
forna, Consolidated Virginia, Bclchcr and Ophr
gold and much Of it is sent here in the form of
Dore bars Additional mills will be put IN operation
during the last half OF the year. which may greatly
the product Tho OF the receipts the
INST six months are anneyed-
Year: 1876

The action of the Republican men,
oers OF the Csnvsssing Board of Florida,
IN refusing to obey the mandate of the
Supreme Court of the State, requiring
them to recount the vote, is in keepin q
with the Infamous conduct chsracteriz
Ing the whole proceedings of the Re-
Publicans of the South, advised, aided,
and sbetted. as they are, by the GRANT
CHANDLER conspirstors. There are two
things very evident from their action in
this matter. The first is, they are acting
under instructions from Washington.
The second is the returns, if can vassed
fairly, wonld show in favor of the Demo-
Gratis.


AS to the hrst point, the chairman OF
the Board, McLiN, had, in accordance
with the suggestion Of Governor SrEARNs,
called a meeting of the Board on yester-
day for the purpose Of proceeding with
the count in acc ordance with the per.
emptory order Of the Court. But on
yesterday morning ex-Attorney-G General
WILLIAMS reached Tallahassee, doubt
less with instructions from headquarters,
and Secretary MCLIN revoked his call
for the meeting, and together with his
Republican colleague, refuses to proceed
and thus sets at defiance the
highes. judicial tribunal of the
State. We cannot very well see
how Attorney General Cooke can make
up the returns, as by himself he does not
constitute q quorum, and the returns are
in the hands of the Secretary Of the State
who will probably refuse to surrender
them to Mr.. Cooke. At any rate the lat
ter gentleman relieves himself of con-
tempt and shows disposition to abide
the orders OF the courts.


As to the second point, there is no sane
man, who Tor 3 moment will doubt that
If fair count would have resulted
in giving the State to the Repub-
licans, but that they would have counted
the vote cheertully and with alacrty,
and would have been gratitied to have
relieved themselves of the suspicion rest
ing upon them. 1t is a clear case now
that Florida has gone for TILDEN, and
the only chance that the Republicans
have to get over it is by an open and
reckless defiance of law, relying upon the
military power of the government under
the control of the President, to uphold
them in their infamles. II this is their
game, as we have always believed
il TO be, the issue had just rs we'll be
made up right now, whether we are to
have a government of MIGHT or of
RIGHT, and let it be settled, and settled
decisively. The House of Representa-
tiyes have the power to thwsrt these
rsscally plans, and the people now serve
notice upon their representatives in
Congress, that they are expected to do 1t,
and If any one of them has not the
backbone, and does not teel himself
equal to the emergency he is requested
to resign his seat and let the people send
y man there who has the nerve to pro-
tect their interests and preserve their
Constitutional rights.
Year: 1876

Cinders, as is well known, are
often used in mortar for plastering,
when the sand is not sufficiently
sharp, and answers well. One
essential to their use in mortar is .
grinding OF mortar mill; indeed
this a valuable adjunct in the man.
ufacture of any kind of mortab as
it insures a degree of thorough in
corporation OF materials that can.
not be arrived at by hand labor.
1t is said to be mistake, however,
to adopt cinders in lieu of sand
they sould be allied with sand, and
so assist in the main composition Of
the mortar Care should be taken,
too, that the sand is clean, and free
from olayey MATTER and that the
lime be fresh, pure and strong, cal.
cined from a class of limestone
highly crystalline in its character
or, in other words, what is called
fat lime, A good mortar may thus
be made of one-fourth lime, one
fourth sand and two.Gorths ash Oh
cinders.
Year: 1876

the heart to overturn. They find they can do
nothing unless they put their hands to turn
the particular cranks which are prepared for
them: hut if they submit to accept these pred
est ined functions, they become the servants Of
taskmaskers for those characters they have no
respect, and whose mastery they despisA. The
political machinery Of the Union may almost
be said to have BEEN DEVISED TO REDUCE THE
MAssEs or The PEOPLE TO IMPOTENCE, and to
give power to those whe have learnt the trick
Of manipulating it SO as to make money by its
use. We cannot wonder that there should be
men who ask whether the forms of the Con-
stitution were planned for the well verning
of the people or for the reward Of professional
politicians: and who retire altogether from the
exercise of functions which impose sense Of
responsibility without power. The abstention
ofcitizens in the United States from public
duties cannot be regarded as surprising. and
can scarcely be condelled, when we under
stand the powerlessness OF the individual
citizen in the midst of the political combina-
tions which surround him. Personal indie
pendence is crushed cut, and, itthere were not
free literature to check and modify the re-
pressiveness of Party machinery, political life
would be reduced to stagnation


There is a world OF truth in this. Party
slavery is one Of the most threatening ol
the dangers which now surround tree
institutions. What we want is an out
crop of individual judgment.
Year: 1876

New York and Boston, and have reached a
point 400 miles out in the Atlantic. Ocean be-
fore the last car of the train would have left the
Minneapolis depot.


A gentleman just from England told
us the other day that the English farm
ers would have to give up wheat raising
their land was too valuable and re
quired too much manure and labor to al
low them to sell wheat at present pri-
ces. Hence large numbers Of the small
farmers have, within the past few
months gone into bankruptcy.


The wheat crop Of the east is growing
less and less every year from the ex-
haustion of the soil. The spring wheat
OF Illinois, Kansas, &C., is not fit for
making -four Minnesota will be more
and more. every year. the great -four
producing region Of the continent.
There is a grand future before it, in this
which even misgovernment
can hardly rob it Of.
Year: 1876

After this week we will regularly
strike off our subscription list every per-
son who is in arrears. This is the uni
form practice of all the great journals OF
the country, and it is the only safe basis
on which to conduct a newspaper. We
hope, however, that those so stricken off
will send in their subscription money
and renew. Our list is too large to carry
on the credit system.
Year: 1876

Our old friend DR.. Manning will trave
through different parts of the state this
spring in the interest OF THE ANTI-Mo-
NOpOLIsr. We commend him to the
kind consideration OF our friends. He
will solicit and receive subscriptions for
u.s.
Year: 1876

dependent voter will exercise that one OF
the inalienable rights Of an American citizen
with uncommon freedom next election day.


Meantime we repeat that good deal de-
pends on the vote of New York. Both, or
rather all, parties, will do well to leave
nothing undone to secure large share OF
the registered vote. When we hear the talk
of the politicians of all parties we are con-
vinced that this present election is un-
usually uncertain. The democrats claim
the State by from sixty to seventy thousand
majority; the republicans are sanguine that
they will carry it by fifty thousand; MIR.
Cooper is too willy and astute politician to
let his estimates be known, but he would be
more or less than human in such year as
this if he reckoned on less than twenty-five
thousand; and Mr. Green would probably
growl that the city was without gratitude
if it gave him less than hundred
thousand. The independent voter, counting
up on his fingers Ill these amazing and graft
flying maiorities, is more than ever con-
vinced that no course is safe or prudent for
him except to vote for the best man and
trust to the counting of the ballots for the
rest. 1t is, as the leaders of all parties have
solemnly assured us, in public as yell as
privately, a most critical time for the Re-
public If either Tilden or Hayes or
Cooper is elected we could bring affidayits
of eminent citizens to prove that our
liberties will be gone that prosperity will
sail from our shores in the first steamer /;
that our bonds will be worthless, except
so far as they can be sold as curiosities, and
that our public credit will be as ragged as
a last years political banner. On the other
hand, and not to leave the independent
to produce affidavits of eqally eminent men
to certify that if either Tilden, Hayes
or Cooper is elected, the country
will enter at once on a career of unparalleled
prosperity; that our credit will be good for
thousands of millions our liberties so safe
that the most anxious citizen may securely 60
to bed, and, in short, everything will be
lovely. Under these solemn circumstances
it seems to us advisable for the republicans
to find, as soon rs they can, candidate for
the Mayoralty Of such resplendent abilities
and unprecedented popularity as to give
him at least as great o majority in this
city as the combined estimated majorities
of all the Presidential candidates in the
State. If they can do this they will secure
gratifying success.
Year: 1876

Advice Gratis to Comptroller Green.


Our interest in the fortunes of Mr.. Green
does not cease. When he received and ac-
cepted the unanimous nomination of the
contractors we applauded. When the con-
tractors were followed by deputation of
the blind men we showed our appreciation of
this important accession to Mr. Green's
strength by urging the organ grinders to
come forward and speak out like men. But
the organ grinders seem to US to take good
deal Of time to make up their minds, and
meanwhile there is a cessation of delegations.
and matters do not look SO prosperous for Mr..
Green. He could receive two, or even per-
haps three delegations day, and in the last
week he has received none Does he forget
that only ten days remain until the eventful
morning when, ballot in hand, the citizen
of New York will 60 forth to decide who
shall be Mayor? There is still time; at tho
rate of three delegations n day Mr. Green
might receive before election day say twenty
one societies and his plan of getting
himself elected by such pocket constituent
cies is so novel and SO ingenious that we
should like to see it have fair trial. He
ought to summon n deputation of the Ethno-
logical Society, and another of the Metro
logical Society; the American Microscoplcal
Society would be an important accession to
his banners; the Colonization Society might
give him useful hints on q timely subject;
the services of the Genealogical and Bio
graphical Society would be important as a
means of perpetuating his memory after the
election; and the support of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks would be in
valuable, as he will readily see.


But these are only few Of the societies,
deputations from whose halls ought to
Year: 1876

rally dislike to expose their little ones to the
modification of appearing shabbily clad.
This is an abuse which ought to be reme-
died. The public schools are for all the
children, and parents who are pros
porous ought to take care that they do not,
by needless indulgence to their children,
arouse spirit of caste and make the schools
disagreeable to the children of the poor.
Our correspondent remarks:-''Girls &C
there in silk and jewelry. and, sitting mex
to less richly attired children, taunt them
with their poor attire. The poor child goea
home with tears and will not return to
school until the hardly earned money Of its
parents is expended in more costly clothing.
The children of the very poor, therefore.
cannot go at all" Is not this shameful
picture of society which calls itself Chris
tian and democratic?


One of the most important uses Of the pub
lie schools is to bring together the children
Of all classes. the rich and the poor; to cause
them to know each other at an age when il
may be supposed class distinctions are not
felt; and thus to give to the prosperous
kindly and Christian relation to the less
fortunate of the community. But if parents
foster foolish and wicked pride in chill.
dren-a pride in extravagant dress-they
necessarily raise a barrier between their chill
dren and those Of the poor which mus
harden and injure their own, while
it makes the public schools, to large
extent, useless to the people whose children
they ought in an especial manner to take
in. We shall recur to this subject again, as
well as to some other points raised by our
correspondent.
Year: 1876

Through the long dreary watches of yes
terday the revenue cutters, with their damp
wings outstretched, waited around the Light
ship for Tweed. and he did not come. If
that West Indian hurricane has had him in
its parabolic curve Sheriff Conner may not
see his old friend until after the election.
Such things as forty days passage from
Vigo are'not unknown, but it is confidently
expected that the heroic old American tub,
the franklin, will do it in about thirty
two. If he should only arrive to receive
the election returns announcing the elec-
ton of Tilden it would hardly add to his
satisfaction at seeing the new tin roof
on Castle Garden. Yet it would be so like
his luck that it would scarcely surprise even
the Boss himself to see his arithmetical
enemy mounting into the Presidential chair
on the ruins of the Ring as he hoped into
the Governorship. We suppose that as the
Boss rolls back and forth on the Atlantic bill
lows he must cast an occasional thought on
his old cronies of the Court House. Per-
haps the thing which will most astonish him
on his arrival will be the sight of the board
ing around the rear of that marble monu-
ment of misappropriation. His liveliest
pang of regret will be that the work of fin
ishing it has fallen upon men who will not
be able to make it yield so large O profit as
he wonld, no matter how earnest their inten-
tions. ''Oh, for o day of Sweeny and Slip
perry Dick r he will murmur Dreams Of
Watsons, with ribs proof against the erratic
poles of runaway sleighs; of Sweenys more
mysterious; of Slippier Dicks; of un-
squealing Keyscrs, Garveys and In
gersolls; of cheaper and more steadfast
Tammany republicans than those that came
from the Mohawk Valley and elsewhere, will
come up in this train of thought. Doubt
less his experience has taught him that the
must attend. strictly to his business and not
let the dreamers who wish to stretch his
prehensile plans until they embrace the
nation in their tentacles interfere with
him. When he was tempted to think of
making his puppet Governor into n puppet
President he lost his head and his hold.
The old fable of tho dog who dropped his
stolen bone to snap Mt its magnifed image
in the water was written in vain for the
Tammany thieves. All these things will
enter the mind Of Big Six as he rolls to and
fro in the Rear Admiral's bunk on the Frank
lin and casts up his accounts with fortune,
unless he has been reduced to the dismal
condition of Mark Twain who believed that.
during fit Of sea sickness, he had least MP
his immortal soul" Even Charles O'Conor
would pity the Boss If he saw him in the
latter extremity.
Year: 1876

The republicans are crying out "Hayes!
"Hayes" but they seem to forget the city
nominations. General Arthur and Mr.. Dar-
ling and the other city republican man.
ayers keep US unduly in suspense. They
may have nm angel in reserve as o candidate
for Mayor and an angelic choir to support
him in the minor city offices. We like Mr..
Smith Ely; but, after all, he is only mortal
man, and if Mr.. Darling should trot out an
angela real angel, seraphic creature,
heaven-born candidate, SO to speak--the
HERALD, which is the organ Of the indepen-
dent voters, might feel compelled to support
him, and no doubt that would elect him.


But we must tell the republicans that
there is such thing as holding even an
angelic candidate in reserve too long. Here
we are within ten days Of the election, and
with good candidate for Mayor already
nominated by Tammany and the demo
crats-a candidate who, humanity speaking,
would make an excellent Mayor,
and who is liked by the Germans
and the Irish and the Americans,
and will make hole in poor Mr.. Green's
celebrated deputations. And here are the
city republican politicians seeming to know
nobody but Hayes, and giving even
Governor Morgan touch of cold
shoulder, as though they might ex-
change him for Hayes if the strug.
gle should prove close. We advise the
republicans to hurry up their nominations,
and by all means let them select q candidate
for Mayor who can count. If he cannot add
up column of figures we will have none
of him, if he is ever SC angelic. It does not
matter about his general knowledge of city
affairs or about his judgment on city inn
provements what is needed is that the
republican candidate shall be able to do
sum in adc cition. We do not mean 10 say
that even with this transcendent and TRIMS
cendental qualification he can bo elected
but at any rate he will be able to divide Mr..
Green's vote with him, and that is, perhaps.
rs much as General Arthur and Mr.. Darling
expect.
Year: 1876

CRoroN WArER.-In order to second as far
rs possible the efforts of the Water Bureau
10 economize the present meagre supply
would it not be we'll for manufacturers to
examine into the causes Of extraordinary
consumption in their large factories, and
particularly into that of the sugar works on
West street, whence small river of water
is continually flowing along the street
cutters? The stream is fully one foot wide
md nearly six inches deep, and flows at the
nate of about three feet per second, or nearly
nine hundred thousand gallons per day.
Year: 1876

The BROTHERHOOD OF SCIENCE the
least part of the debt which the American
world of science will owe to Captain Mares,
the leader of the latest English Arctic Expe-
dition, will arise from his kindly act in
placing memorial tablet upon the shores
Of Polaris Bay, where the bluff and whole
hearted Captain Hall lay down to die, and
where his remains were laid amid the dark
ness of the Polar night. Acts like this break
down barriers between peoples more effec-
lively than treaties.
Year: 1876

THE WEATHER. storm area in the
West has developed rapidly, and its ad-
vanced isobars now oyerrun the entire
country east of the Mississippi. Rain has
prevailed from indianapolis to the Atlantic
In belt embracing the lower lakes and the
Ohio Valley and the coast as far south as
Baltimore. The heaviest rainfall has been
in the Ohio Valley and the lightest in the
vicinity Of New York, where, up to five
o'clock last evening, only one-hundreth of
IN inch had fallen. The temperature within
the storm area is high, but in the early morn
ing it is low in the Northwest. During to-
day the weather in New York will be cloudy
and warmer. probably with rain.
Year: 1876

coming week. He should summon the Az
cient Order of Hibernians. the Friendly
Sons OF St Patrick, the Irish Emigrant So
clety; he should inveigle with his bland
and artful smile tho members OF
st. Patrick's Mutual Alliance, of the
Father Mathew societies, of the Knights OF
ot. Patrick, the Limerick Guard, tho Ros-
common League of Friendship, the Emerald
Social Club, the Connaught Benevolent
Association, the County Cavan Benevo-
lent Society, and 80 on to the end of long
chapter In fact. if he had begun early
enough in the year he might have called for
adeputation day Sundays excepted), and
the City Hall would have been pleasing
and instructive spectacle if they had all
come


Tho Peace Negotiations In Europe.


There is satisfactory prospect for a
peaceful solution of the trouble between
Turkey and Russia by the acceptance on
the part of Turkey OF Russias proposition
for on armistlce, with condition as to its
possible extension put in to save the Dig
nifty of the Sultan. Although not formally
accepted the armistice is nevertheless re-
garded as determined upon. This will keep
the peace until the middle of December,
even without an extension and if
at that time the negotiations are
in such position as to promise good re-
suits the armistice will be extended, of
course. The point of interest in the case,
therefore, now becomes the likelihood Of
successful negotiation of the difficulties at
the bottom of the trouble. These diff
culties, grouped in crude unity under the
name of the Eastern question, have defied
diplomatic treatment for some generations,
and it seems, therefore, a ridiculous propo-
sition that they may now be settled
in six weeks, with all the Powers,
in the presence of the armistice, somewhat
in the constrained attitude of Horace's
poets standing on one foot" Bit it
must be remembered that there has been
partial show of hands; the adversaries have
felt each others strength; it is known who
holds strong suits and where the trumps
are. This sort of knowledge is calculated
to modify extreme pretensions and extreme
pACoCAAoAOAo AoSO uAW0yo OCSA tAo SICut
obstacle to settlement. The prospect is
hopeful, therefore But England it is note
worthy, proceeds with caution not unlike
that of Russia in regard to the guarantees.
The next step is conference of the Powers
If England enters that conference she will
be bound by its decisions, and it is very
certain that she may be overruled on every
vital point. She will not enter, therefore,
unless she can previously secure herself by
o pledge of the Powers as to the limitation
of the functions of the conference. She de-
mands, consequently, that the conference
have for its basis the maintenance of the
independence and integrity Of the Ottoman
Empire, and for its object the amelioration
of the condition Of the Christian subjects
Of the Sultan. Since it seems to be the
policy of Russia to be satisfied with an ad-
vance secured step by step this English de-
mand will probably not defeat the projected
conference. All Russia's objects, moreover,
may be accomplished inside the line thus
| drawn