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Year: 1876

OF the Lieutenant General that beef ought to be sueo
TO them and that they should BE- ordered TO 90 to the
reservation aud be disarmed and dsmounted ana tnai
il they did not do they ought 10 be attacked Commits
sioner Smith showed this correspondence to the Pres
dent yesterday The President expressed great surprise
learning it's character and directed the Commissioner
bring the subject the attention Of the Cabinet
through Secretary Chandler. At the Cabuet meeting 20
day was determined that Gen. sherfaaus order should
be modified to direct Col Hatch to furnish these
Indians with mtaryescort and the necessary ratons
and 10 transfer them to Fort Sill.
Year: 1876

Judge Bush, of Texas, is dying.
Judge Bancroft was arguing some
trifling po mt of law with Judge
Bush when the latter stepped from
his desk, saying: 81 adjourn the
court to give you a licking" at the
same time knocking Bancroft down.
After he got up Bush repeated the
blow, knocking him over a bench
Bankroft drew a knife and cut
Bush twice-once in the face. from
forehead to chin, the other time in
the stomach.
Year: 1876

The Arizona Citizen of the Sd says:
"The death of stephen Bichard, of the
well known firm of VIM. Bichard &
Co., at Sanford, on the 9th uItimo,
and which was hastily announced In
last weeks Citizen, is deserving of
more than passing notice, from the
extended reputation and good name
of the Richards throughout Arizona.
We do not know the exact age of the
deceased at the time of his death but
believe he was about thirty-five years
old. He Was therefore in the prime of
life and at his death the business COM
munity of the Territory loses from Its
ranks an able aud enterprising mem
Der and an industrious and upright
citizen. The Bichard family are Of
French descent, originally from the
British island of Guernsey off the coast
of France, and Stephen and the sever
al other members of the firm have
long been known here as one of the
strong and prominent business houses
Of the Territory. The family have
the sympathy of large circle of
friends in their bereavement.
Year: 1876

AXISDEPESDENT PRESIDENTIAL MovE'
NExr-As will be seen in another col
umn call has been issued for con
ference in New York on the 18th of May
to consider what is the best thing to be
done in reference to the selection oil
proper Imen for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency; or, in other words
to "pTcyent the national election
Of the Centennial year from bcconl'
ing a mere choice Of evils" II this
movement shall have the effect to Kill
off one or two Objectionable men likeIy TO
come before the Cincinnati Convention,
i. will be Of great service to the country.
No doubt, in addition to the names signed
10 it, il has good backing in other
quarters. There is strong undertone
Of popular sentiment to buoy it up
Thinys are a good deal mixed Just now for
the regular machine" men.
Year: 1876

Which has stood the test Of Forty
Years.


There is no sore it will not HEAL. no
lameness it will not CURE, no ache no
pain, that affiicts the human body, or
the body Of a horse, or other domestic
animal, that does not yield to its magic
touch. A bottle costing 25c., SOC. or
100, has often saved the life Of human
being, and restored to life and useful
ness mlny valuable horse. a2o-w1y
Year: 1876

There are many persons unemployed in
Wilmington, and there is some city work,
which ought to be done, now, lying idle,
because, through legal technicality, the
City Council has no authority to provide
the money to pay for doing it. This is
pity. The work on the reservoir needs to
be done, and the expense of it will have to
be paid by borrowed money whenever it is
done. To borrow the needed sum now
when money is plenty and to give the en-
ployment when work is so much needed, is
obviously wise arrangement, il it can be
made.


There are two difficulties. The first is
that Council has no authority to borrow
money, and that, if it proceeds in any way
to expend money, the members who vote
the expenditure become personally respon-
sible. But this difficulty could be overcome
by procuring thirty, forty, or fifty citizens
of standing and financial stability TO be-
come endorsers of the Councils action, or
to borrow the money on their own faith
and credit-until the Legislature acts. Clt-
izens of both parties who command respect
and influence would be safe in entering on
such transaction, for neither the people,
the Council, nor the Legislature would
Ego back on them. We have every assur
ance that the Senators who hold over in the
next Legislature will favor unreservedly
the needed legislation to issue the further
amount of bonds needed to finish the res
ervoir work.


The other difficulty simply is that the ba-
sin work, under its recent management, has
been a party machine, used exclusively for
political purposes. Not colored laborer
has been suffered to have employment
there, and not half dozen Republicans of
any complexion. To assist in getting funds
for such job as this is what no Republican
will do. MIR. Farrell may clamor till he is
tired-though we doubt whether he ever
tires Of clamor-but il Republicans help
this thing upon its feet, it must stand fairly
and uprightly, with no prescription of
any citizen, on account of his pol
itics. And this, we presume, can also
be arranged. Let the remainder of the
work be done under commission of three
citizens whose character will assure that
they will act fairly and employ men with
out regard to politics. Such men can be
found, and the work can then go on.
Year: 1876

General Thomas j. Jordan, the Chairman
Of the Republican County Committee, comes
from Pennsylvania with the reputation of
being acquainted with politics. II this repu,
tation be fairly founded, we may expect to
see him achieve SUCCESS through q well-or-
ganized effort. And we should presume
that he would move promptly to have the
slur thrown at leading Republicans, by the
action Of the Committee the other day, re-
scinded and expunged. Cancellation and a
harmonious effort, General that's what you
want,to throw the opposition into confusion
and despair. They only hope to carry New
Castle county through Republican distract
ions.
Year: 1876

To-day is the eleventh anniversary the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and is ofpe-
culiar interest, as the day of the week and the
month correspond with that sad date, Good
Friday April IA, 1865. 1t is well that we should
call TO mind, in view of what the man ac-
complished and what he left for US to preserve,
that noble and pathetic address made on the
Gettysburg battlefield on the occasion of its
dedication to the memory of the patriotic
dead. Very fitting are those words to-day,
and well for US is it TO remember the lesson
they inculcate:


Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth upon this continent a new IA
tion, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, test
ing whether that nation, or any nation so con-
ceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We
are met on great battlefield of that war
We have come to dedicate portion of that
field as final resting place ror those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live
1t is altogether fitting aud proper that we
should do this. But in a larger sense we can
not dedicate we cannot consecrate, we cannot
hallow this ground. The brave men, living
and dead, who struggled here, have conse-
crated it far above our power to add or Getract
The world will little note nor long remember
what we say here, but it can never forget what
they did here. 1t is for US, the living, rather
to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
which they who fought here have thus far SO
noby advanced. 1t is rather for US to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining beto re
US, that from these honored dead we take in
creased devotion to that cause for which they
gave the last full measure of devotion that
we here highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain; that this nation under
God, shall have new birth of freedom, and
that government of the people by the people,
and for the people, shall not perish from the
earth.
Year: 1876

IT is Mr.. Charles II. Smith of New Hamp-
shire, journal clerk of the House, who is now
called to account. He is the successor OF
Mr.. Barclay, the veteran parliamentarian
whom the Democrats provoked to resigna-
tion. When appointed he took oath that he
was not and wo uld not be interested in any
claim or measure before Congress Now a
circular is brought to light, signed by him,
which has been sent out by thousands
throughout the country to soldiers. in which
he sets forth that there is a bounty bill now
before the House which will bring sum Of
money to every soldier, and he offers TO se-
cure the passage of this bill and collect claims
under it for twenty per cent. of their value.
Year: 1876

A DIsGRAcEFUL piece of jobbery has come
to light regarding the pay of witnesses sum-
moned before the investigating committees at
Washington. There is no money to pay
these witnesses, and the House negects to
appropriate the proper amount, issuing in
place certificates of indebtedness. Now the
honest Democrats are buying up these certifi-
Gates at forty cents on the dollar. As soon
as they are all bought up the House will of
course appropriate money enough to pay
them, and the Democrats will make good
thing.
Year: 1876

THE English people are still grumbling
greatly over the royal titles bill, and talking
once more Of the uselessness and expense of
royalty. Even the Times feels moved to re-
mark that the government goes along just as
well, though the Queen, the heir and all his
brothers are out of the kingdom, and there is
no regency act, and no lords justices are ap-
pointed to take charge of things during the
interregnum. Still all this talk signifies moth
sng, for the Englishman is as loyal as ever,
and is only determined that his constitution
al right to growl shall not fall into abeyance
through disuse.
Year: 1876

THE opinion that it is in the power of Con-
gress TO count the purchase of any portion Of
the debt of the United States, interest bearing
or non-interest bearing, as contribution of
so much to the sinking fund and fulfilment
of the obligation to cancel one per cent. of
the debt within each fiscal year appears to be
a correct one. Congress has endorsed it in
the passage of the silver bill, and has thus
pointed out the way to safe and easy con-
traction and comparatively inexpensive
method of resumption.
Year: 1876

Following the established usage, hereby appoint,
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council,


Thursday, the Twentieth Day of April


Next,
as day of PUBLIC HUMILIATION, Fasting AND
PRAYER; and earnestly recommend that the day
be observed in manner befitting. the solemn pur-
pose for which it is set apart-the strengthening of
our allegiance to Him in whose hands are the welfare
of men and the permanence of states.
Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta, this
thirty-frst day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy
six, and of the independence of the United
States of America. the one hundredth.


SELDEN CONNOR.
By the Governor.


S. u. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State.
Year: 1876

The Senate apparently entertains the same
lack of confidence in Gen. Babcock which
has been exhibited by the House. The House
some time ago provided that none of the
money in the appropriations made should
pass through his hands. The Senate has
now passed the bill for improving the grounds
around the capitol, aid retained the House
provision.
Year: 1876

THE Democrats have overreached them
selves in this investigation business. They
set out to prove that Republican politicians
were corrupt, and they have only succeeded
in producing an uncomfortable suspicion in
the minds of the people that all politicians
are corrupt. Men cannot be brought to be-
lieve that the Democratic leaders are any
purer than the Republican, and they know
them to be bigoted and reactionary. Because
Schenck has dealt in stocks people have no
idea that the character of the English mis-
sion would be improved by the appointment
of Pendleton. Because Belknap took large
bribes it does not follow that Robbins. who
took small ones, would make a better Sec
rotary
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty oi good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reservf Jmmu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

THERE is a serious disagreement between
the people and the Democratic party. The
people hold that the object of investigation is
to purify the government. The Democratic
party holds that the object is to besmirch
prominent Republicans. The people want
good men to administer affairs. The Demo-
cratic party wants to prove that Republicans
are bad mel, and that therefore the gover-
ment should be handed over to Democrats.
The people are concerned as to the charac-
tiers of these Democratic applicants. The
Democratic party knowing their characters
does not care to describe them, and contents
itself with asserting that Republicans. are cor
rupt. The people wish to know the policy of
the party applying for favor. The Democrat
ic party has no policy that it Care proclaim.
Year: 1876

THE comments on tine Turkish question
made by semi-oficial Russian journal in
st. Petersburg indicate that all attempts at
foreign intervention in Turkey which seem
to iDjure the cause of the insurgents will
meet with energetic opposition on the part
of Russia. The article in question exhibits
profound distrust of both Austria and Ger
many, and distinctly states that though the
interests of Russia require the maintenance
of peace she cannot abandon the protector
ship of the Turkish Christians for the sake
of any alliance, however elevated, or any
friendship however. intimate, and that she
must take the initiative hitherto left to Aus
tria, But Austria appears determined not
to be left in the background. She has per-
mitted the Sclavic bands from Dalmatia TO
cross the line and take possession of all
Turkish Croatia, and she will doubtless claim
credit for this indirect aid to the insurgents.
Year: 1876

A movement is on foot in New Haven to establish permanent museum of art in the old state house.

 The Hon. Vincent Colyer has purchased ths building on the Centennial grounds at Philadelphia known as the New York state building, and will have 1t removed to hia place on Contentmsnt Island. Workmen will start the coming week from Darisa to do the job.

 A drunken saloon keeper in New Haven, James Doyle. was found insensib!e along. side the Shore Line track near the Wallace street bridge. Saturday morning. It wa supposed that he had been victim of foul play, but it turned out that he had simply fallen down in \ drunken At.

 A half dos.n thieves with James Judge jail hard, for their leader, went to Water bury Friday night. for the purpose of steal ing Ovsrcoats from the dressing room ai the ball at the City Hall was in progress. Their design was frustrated by the police, and one of the fellows was arrested in the act. after which the others kept shady. The Atlantic and Pacific telegraph com pSnY at New Haven. are about to introduc' tue domestic telegraph arrangement. A little instrument of the simplest kind ii placed in house or office and the pressurt of finger will bring to the house or office boy to run errands, policeman, ths fire department Or doctor, according to the sig nsl given. Tue expense is small and thu accommodation great.

 l The foot ball match at New Hsven Sat urday, between the Yale and Hartford elevens, resulted in victory for Yale, whs won one goal, Harvard scoring none. It the first three-Quarters of an hour Harvard scored one touch down; in the second three quarters of an hour Yale scored { goal. Thompson of the university crew be ,ng credited with the play. After this goa Harvard scored another touch down, anc this way the game stood at the close.
Year: 1876

1t ought to be stated to the or lit of
the Democratic Party, that although
Hon. JOSEPH ?. CoMEGYs may not have
be en- actively a po' tician connected with
either pa y, he cast his influence and
placed his contributions where they would
do most toward keeping out of our State
the party influence that has degraded
suffrage and overrun and robbed the peo-
pie Of the South, and would have done
the same work in Delaware had it Sc
cu~cd the power.
Year: 1876

For the Middle States, rising follow
ed by falling barometer, southeast to
southwest winds, generally warmer.
partly cloudy weather and local rain
especially in the western portion.
Year: 1876

ncuIties OF timer Mag you not ind through the ages
a direct tendency 70 exat and carry up men toward
righteousness and carry them forward 10 an ult-
mate disclosure OF Joy and peacef


A COMPARISON


The preacher here compared life q whole 70 the
build ng OF organ in which every key is capable OF
producing little note, and in which little by little
each stop brought into accord with its ne!ghbors
The amount OF groaning and screeching and whining
and driving up ana down required In this process be-
fore the whole noble instrument s completed
and brought into tone vas almost incredible. SO the
whole creation, he said, has groaned until now You
not the whole Il You single
pipe IN ono stock in multitude You
to be tuned each in himsef then you arc TO be
tuned with each other and then with the state and the
State with the neigboring State and the globe Is yet
TO be touched by the hand OF God and every pipe In
the vast family TO sound In sweetness In beautiful
voice and in absolute harmony with every other voice
We are in that process OF upbuilding now. ye I'M
born men; ye that are crying in labor pains; ye
who groan, you groan in concert with the whole crea
tion. Oh do not lose faith in yourselves or in the minis
tratons Of Divine Providence that IN its root and
heart is love- DO not lose your faith that all which Is
inexphcabe and obscure to you only because you
small and undeveoped and leads 10 the JOY the
and everlasting salvation which Christ came to
make known and into which by faith He VIII bring you
Year: 1876

Uner%yes ana ears are rs dead and deaf those or
the men ! mention We receive by nature from the
hand OF the Creator various gins; the brain TO think
WITH the heart 10 love with and the will 70 work our
purposes, yet without are educated to their use
they as II we possessed them not We must OBJ
tain the Christ nature-Faith, Hope and Charity-and
all OF the virtues ougrowng from them before
properly do the Masters work We may have


THE THREE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES,


but we must cultivate them as we do the brain any
other organ, TO bring forth all their qualities and
powers. The things OF the flesh what we feel; the
other things are apPrehended spiritually steamer
may have excellent engine but IL useless without
steam ship excellent sails but IL cannot move with
out Wind so man needs not only the virtues named
but also the seven gifts Of the Holy Ghost TO use them
properly The structure of the spiritual man is just as
complicated ns the structure OF the natural man. Law
surrounds us from the outside. II says, Thou shat
ness within the heart The holy apostles speak or
love- JOY peace gentleness, patience long suffering
meekncss temperance and chastity, and all these are
possessed by the Christian. They have foreaste OF
heaven.
Year: 1876

We called in at the office of Colonel Crawford yesterday, and saw the full profile of the line from San Diego to the crossing of the Colorado at Yuma, the approaches to which the men are at present engaged in grading. The through distance is 19315 miles Col. Crawford forwarded his report yester- day to the headquarters of the Cumpa- nv at Philadelphia. Accompanying the report he sent a map of the line showing all the changes which have been made from previous surveys, together with a reduced profile. of the divide between the Colorado river and the Pacific ocean. The profile was arranged in subdivisions of ten miles with the estimated quantities of excavation and emBankment calcula ted ready for letting. All advices re ceived from the company denote that they are agreeably surprised at the re suits attained by the recent survey and that the Board of directors only await the detailed report of the en gineer in charge of the California Di vision before taking decisive action San Diego Union, December 2.
Year: 1876

THE Anaheim Gazette is authority for the statement that Vice President Green of the Pennsylvania railroad, during his late visit to Los Angeles, informed a gentleman that the Texas Pacific people had very little hope of legislation favorable to that road dur ing this session of Congress.
Year: 1876

The game Of baseball at Chicago
yesterday between the Chicago and
Boston clubs was won by the former,
the score being eighteen to seven. The
chief feature Of the game was the very
heavy batting, each side doing some
thing wonderful, but the Chicagos max
ing three errors and the Bostons six.
The game is remarkable when it is
known, as the telegram announces, that
the Chicagos made seventeen base hits
aud the Bostons thirteen base hits, the
former club getting nine runs in the
third inning. The playing was remark
ably irregular, the Chicagos earning
four and the Bostons two runs. The
following is the score by
Year: 1876

We read that the President was "astound-
ed" when he heard of the knaveries of Bel
knap-that the whole thing was "a surprise"
to him, that he had never heard word
against his Cabinet officer, and that his
emotion" when the discovery became
known, was something terrible"


Now if the President had read the New
YORK HERALD of February 10, 1876, he would
have found a despatch from Washington,
column in length, reciting certain facts. he
would have there learned that his Secretary
of War had farmed cut trading stores and
posts. He would have found that the store
at Camp Supply, Indian Territory, paid ten
thousand dollars year, that the store at
Fort Sill paid six thousand dollars year
(precisely as Belknap confesses), that store
in Kansas pays eighteen hundred dollars
year, while Fort Dodge returns two thou
sand. He would have learned that one of
his wifes relations-a real Dent-has
a store in New Mexico, while a rela-
tive of Babcock controls one at Fort
Wallace. He might have gone over the
whole field and easily calculated that the
trading stores at the various forts paid to
some one very near his person at least hun
dred thousand dollars year. He would
have read the charge there distinctly made
that the recipient of this blackmail- black
mail levied upon the poorly paid officers and
soldiers of the army-was his own Secretary
of War. He would have read in these
columns the very facts which Belknap con-
fessed.


President Grant is not fool What was
printed to the world in hundred thousand
newspapers was certainly within his reach.
If he were an honest President, seeking to
do right, he would have inquired at once
into these charges. We made them because
we knew them to be true, not to annoy the
administration, which is far from our intent;
not to destroy General Belknap, for whom
we had no feeling but kindness, but to ex-
pose q crowning shame We made these
charges in the interest of the public The
President in ignoring them failed in his
duty.


Now let the President-having seen that
a part of this news is confirmed by his own
Secretary of War-refer to the files of the
HERALD and read our further narratives. Let
him inquire into the New Mexico stores, and
see how much money one of the Dents has
made out of the soldiers. Let him ask Bah
cock how much money his relatives make
out Of Fort Wallace Then let him send for
his own brother and question him about the
money that was made in the Sioux country
by starving squaws and children. The
President will find it all printed in the
HERALD of last July, column after column,
in great detail from correspondent sent
by us into that country to seek out these
frauds.


The President is certainly not fool. His
friends impeach his sanity when they say
gravely that he is ignorant of facts which,
as we have shown to-day, and might con-
tinue to show in even greater detail, have
all been printed in the HERALD.