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Year: 1876

Gov. Hendricks fully agrees in "the
principles; approves the policies and
sympathises with the purposes enuncis
ated in the platform adopted 10y the st.
Louis convention. He charges the eX-
ecutivc department of the government
with dishonesty, venality and rapacity,
but says the President alone should
not be nade the scrape-goat for all, as
in some respects he has been the vic.
tim rather than tile author of the Vici.
Gus system; and that the congressional
and tmrty leaders have been stronger
than the President. The financial
system must be reformed. Gold and
silver ':are the real standards of values,
and our national currency will not be
a perfect medium of exchange until it
shall be convertible at the pleasure of
the 1toldet.'' He feiterates previous
statement that he disbelieves in the
possibility of a return to a specie basis
by contraction of the currency, nor
can wealth and prosperity, he asserts.
be created by inflation. lie deems a
revision of treaties with foreign pow.
ers, and the abolition Of the iniquit.
Gus Coolie system as necessary, an


concludes


sit will be seen, gentlemen, that
am in entire accord with the platform
of the convention by which have
been nominated as a candidate for the
Office of vice president of the United
States. Permit me In conclusion te ex
press my satisfaction at being aspociat
ed with a candidate for the presidency
who is the first among his equals as a
representative of the spirit or of the
achievements of reform. In his official
career as the executive of the great
state of New York, he has, in a com
paratively short period, reformed the
public service and reduced the public
burden so as to have earned at once
the great gratitude of his state and the
admiration Of the country. The peo
pie know him to be thoroughly in
earnest. He has shown himself to be
possessed with powers which fit him
III an eminent degree for the great
work of reformation which this coun
try now needs, and if he shall be
chosen by the people to the high office
of president of the United States, be-
lieve that the day of his Inauguration
will be the beginning of new era Of
peace, purity, and prosperity in all the
departments of our government -
Year: 1876

Detroit Free Press.


A day or two ago, when young
man entered Detroit lawyers Office
to study law, the practitioner sat down
beside him and said


''Now, see here, I have no time to
fool away, and if you don't pan out
we'll l won't keep you here thirty days.
Do you want to make good lawyer =


eyes, sir.''


"Well, now, listen. BE polite to old
people, because they have cash. Be
good to the boys, because they are
growing up to a cash basis. Work in
with reporters and get puffs. Go to
church for the sake of example. Don't
fool any time away on poetry and don't
even look at a girl until you can plead
a case. If you can follow these in
structions you will succeed. If you
cannot, go and learn to be 4 doctor
and kill your best friends"
Year: 1876

Money is a medium of exchange Of rec
ognized inherent value. 1t has been made
of all sorts OF materials, but the standard
Of the commercial world to-day is gold,
and in that precious metal the money of
every civilized nation is reckoned. We are
governed as much by the gold standard in
this country as though no greenback had
ever been issued. The interest on our debt
is payable in real money-gold-and the
duties ON imported goods are payable in
gold at the custom houses. Each nation
has its special coins. In this country the
dollar is the money unit, and the dollar is
25.S grains Of gold, nine-tenths fine. The
paper dollar now in use is a promise to pay
real dollar on demand, on which pay
ment is for the time suspended. 1t is SIM
ply forced loan, levied on the people in
time Of war. The paper dollar is called
dollar by courtesy, because it is a promise
to pay dollar, but its real value has fiuct-
uated all the way between dollar and two
tifths of a dollar. California offers us a
good criterion of its valuo. In that State,
though the legal tender law extends over
the whole country, the greenback has new





change. 1t is recognized for what it is-a
promise of the Government temporarily
suspended. 1t is bought and sold for what
it is worth, just as it is in the British prov
inces. But The in6ationists Of the Phillips
Kelley-Butler school propose 10 rob the
greenback of what value it has by taking
away from it its promise 10 pay real money.
They would have the Government issue q
piece of paper bearing The declaration,
"This is a dollar" But this declaration
would not make it dollar, nor any part of
dollar, nor anything else but piece OF
paper. That is why we say that they do
not know what money is, for there is no
paper money that is not a promise TO pay
money, and its value depends upon the
likelihood that the promise will be kept.
If any person will consider the question
carefully he will see that there can be no
such thing as an abstract dollar. 1t must
mean something. 1t might be certain
amount of wheat, or cotton, or lea, or soft
soap. But it must be something, and fix
ed amount of something. When we buy a
yard of cloth we know that we get, If we
get honest measure, certain proportion Of
the earth's circumference in cloth. When
we buy bushel of wheat we get certain
proportion of the earth's bulk. When we
buy pound of butter we get a certain pro-
portion of the earth's weight. In the same
way The real value of a dollar must be fix
ed. The word dollar is an abstraction,
not SO definite as "piece of chalk" unless
it is defined 10 mean a certain amount of
something.-BostonH Herald.
Year: 1876

Governor Chamberlain's despatch to the
HERALD contains but little, so far as the re-
suits of the voting last Tuesday are con-
cerned, and that little strangely vague. 1t
is more than curious that in State like
South Carolina the Executive thereof should
not be able to furnish us with some
thing more definite. It will be fairly
believed by the impartial that the DEM
ocrats who have given the count on
the vote for Governor in every county
are correct. The most striking point
in his despatch, however, is the evident
determination to throw out sufficient votes
to give the republicans o majority. Gov
ernor Chamberlain acts precisely as if the
votes cast were to be but small factor in
the determination of the result. The means
taken by the democrats to proclaim the
actual state of the polls at their closing have
forced. the game of Governor Chamberlain,
and a desperate game it is. He has
clearly announced the startling fact that
q board composed in the majority Of
officers seeking reelection to their present
posts shall pass upon the validity of the
returns and throw out districts at will nav,
that enough will be thrown out to settle the
result. After all the parade of troops to
protect the colored citizens" after all the
republican jubilation that now every one
could cast his vote in peace, after an cleo
ton without riot or disturbance Of any
kind, we are treated TO . glimpse of
fabricated charges of Wholesale in
timidation," sort of siokening post
norton and inquest on the '.bloody
shirt" If the troops had not been poured
into the State; if the murders and assaults
and browbeatings of the colored democrats
had not been notorious if the United States
marshals had not had the whole State in
their hands for weeks before the election,
arresting white men right aud left, the
country might for all its suspicion
of the rascals who have ruled in the
South until it is impoverished and almost
bankrupt. have lent IN ear to Governor
Chamberlains ghost stories. They will not
be listened to now. The troops are already
in the State and there is no danger of any
disturbance, but we earnestly entreat the re-
publicans who arc above winning by fraud
to join hands with the democrats, who only
ask an honest count of ON honest vote, to
send representative men to be present at the
canvass by this suspiciously composed
Year: 1876

After q week Of intense excitement New
York settled down to Sabbath yesterday of
more than ordinary quiet. With its genial
influence upon us we can lift the curtain OF
the day of rest and look back upon the fer
ment Of the six days gone by. Monday
came with the earnest thousands busy In
preparation, and the last line OF cam
paign torchbearers filing grotesquely
past behind the last brass band, beat
ing the lively funeral march Of the
Presidential canvass, until the glare
vanished in darkness and the blare died IN
silence. No more gay kerosene for possi-
BILE Tilden, no more wild horn toot Tor Q
possible Hayes Tuesday came with enthu-
siasm turned to grim determination, as
through the rain one hundred and seventy
thousand citizens marched without serried
rank or drum tap or any music to the polls.
Then, like farmers who, having sown in the
morning, expect to reap at sundown, the
citizens came trooping to the HERALD office
to see what man they had elected President
Those who could not find what they wished
to cheer at the HERALD ofice-and they
were hard to please, SO bountifully did the
returns favor each side in turn-went
to other newspaper Offices where hot-cooked
placards blazed for democrat or republican,
as the case might be. All parties went home
excited and happy, but on Wednesday morn
ing only the democrats awoke in good humor.
Throughout the dey they tasted freely of
the inebriating liquor of success, while the
republicans crunched the unripe persimmons
of defeat and made wry faces over the juice.
1t was a very exciting day, but at night
q suspicion came that the banquet had
been spread for the wrong party, and
those that had been eating the bitter fruit,
whose lips were SO pursed that they could
not whistle "Hail to the Chief" made
what demonstration Of delight they were
yet capable Of Under all the outward show
of hesitating exultation and angry doubt
there ran an ominous murmur of trouble
ahead. A feverish night followed, and
Thursday saw the circle of doubt narrowed
down to three names. The parties were ''at
sea-" Between the time they spent in frown-
ing at and threatening each other they
grasped at every straw that foated their
way. Surely one plank of the three would
come to bring the democrats to land surely
we shall get and bind oil three together to
float MS into harbor no less will do, said
the republicans. But all that day both sides
got only straws. Were ever parties in
such need? Friday found them swimming
still, with all hands hoarse and wet, but
determined. Saturday came and shrewd
old political shellbacks saw signs that the
tide was rising which would bring into view
the missing Palmetto tree, the log with a
Pelican thereon and the Alligator that looked
like log The parties wers soberer and
cooler now, as we'll they might be after three
days of cold water. The three floats were
coming down the bay, but for whom? On
this conundrum they went to sleep. The
strain of all this upon the American consti-
tuition was very great, but Sabbath full Of
that rest that Hawthorne longed for between
death and Judgment came, and the people
will rise to-day refreshed and calm to hear
what is to be.
Year: 1876

family and Ministry TO keep him company
in Paradise. The arrest of the chief con-
spirators has for the present paralyzed the
action of the party of reaction, but the Sui
tan has no lease of his life or his throne so
long as the embers Of revolt shoulder in his
dominions. General Ignatiefi"s expressions
OF friendly regard for the ancient foes of his
country have contributed somewhat to Sc
curing the granting Of the demand for a six
weeks armistice; but no one who has studied
the history of the relations that really exist
between the two nations can be deceived by
the diplomatic soft soap which Russia has
used to move Turkey to the acceptance of
her terms.
Year: 1876




1856, General Taylor only forty-seven per
cent, Mr. Polk trife less than fifty
per cent. The popular vote for the two
candidates is entirely irrelevant to the
question which occupies the public
mind. The single pertinent question Is
whether Mr.. Tilden or Mr.. Hayes has re-
ceived majority Of the electoral votes fairly
given and honestly counted. The election
must be decided in accordance with the
constitution, and it only confuses the pub
lie mind to withdraw it from the law and fix
it upon the popular vote. The popular vote
is not to be considered at all if the Presi-
Dental electors have been legally chosen. If
they have not been legally chosen in any
State the popular vote in that State becomes
a legitimate question, but not otherwise or
elsewhere


We believe that the public sense Of fair
play can be safely relied on to prevent the
election of President by fraudulent count.
We think it wild and absurd to imagine
that in any contingency the democratic
House or republican Senate will refuse to
meet for the counting of the electoral votes
or will retire in the midst of the count.
The law gives them no such liberty; the law
makes it their duty to be present, and it is
not supposable that majority of either
house will desert their posts and violate
their oaths. If either party were bent on
revolution it might resort to this revolu-
tionaIy proceeding; but we have too much
confidence in the good sense, steadiness and
patriotism Of the American people to believe
coup detat, and too much knowledge of poll
ticians to believe that they would fly in the
face of their constituents in such crisis.


We have but little patience with the spec
ulative refnements of irresponsible cavil-
ers whose chicaning imaginations suggest
that one or the other house may do this or
do that to precipitate the country into anar-
chy. We believe that the sound good sense
and broad patriotism of the people will
frown down all such wild and insane sugges-
tions, and that the majesty of the law will
prevail over i'll regulated impulses. The
men who transiently hold seats in Congress
are created by the breath of the people, and
the DIeatQ WHICH CIeuLSu may 10 30 bWllL 10
destroy that they will not dare to
defy the steady devotion of the
people to law, order, equity and peace
We have faith in the rectifying
good sense and controlling influence of
the American people, who will not per-
NIT the country to be precipitated into
another civil war to crafty the ambition of
any man or the greed of any party. Long
before the day arrives for tho final counting
of the electoral votes it will be fully known
whether any of them are tainted and nulli-
fed by fraud, and neither party will dare
to perpetrate a great wrong in the full blaze
of exposure. It is possible that all alarms
may be rendered idle within the ensuing
two days by the admitted certainty that
some one of the three doubtful States has
given its electoral vote to Tilden but, in
any event, the country will know the pre-
else state of the facts long before the second
Wednesday of February, and fraud has no
chance to prevail against the honest public
sentiment of the people,
Year: 1876

The Water Famine-Imm m ediate Relief


Needed.


It is the rule that whenever great public
calamity threatens, such as the more than
possible water famine in New York, there
are not wanting individuals who see ways Of
avoiding it; but their plans nearly always
mean only the substitution Of another evil for
the one they seek to avert. In our CORES
pondence recently published we find the sug-
gestion that water meters would prevent the
waste of the precious Croton, and thereby save
us from water famine. In theory this is cor
rect, but in practice it would lead to o
condition Of things very little less
dangerous to the sanitary condition of the
city than the present intermittent supply
and the waste. We must, therefore, con-
demn the use of meters in regulating the
household supply as calculated only to sub
stitute one evil for another. We do not
believe that the question of using salt water
has received . proper consideration from the
authorities. The cost of laying additional
pipes and erecting pumping stations will
not be too great to warrant the rejection Of
that scheme, and some other and more
valid objections must be raised before
the proposition can be safely dismissed as
unworthy of adoption. We ask, therefore,
another investigation of its merits and
clear explanation as to why it should not be
tried, even on y small scale. The increase
in the height Of the water at the Croton
dam, while it is encouraging in the face of
the present condition of the water supply,
proves beyond a question that we must rely
on rain storms in the future for our water,
for the Croton watershed appears to possess
no resources beyond those common to the
ordinary house tank or old-fashioned catch
water barrel. Whatever remedies are
adopted let us have them applied without
delay, for the sufferings Of the people in
some districts are really intolerable.
Year: 1876

CAPTAIN Mares NARRATIVE Of his recent at
tempt to reach the North Pole with the
British exploring expedition will prove
highly interesting to our readers. While we
cannot but believe that the gallant Captain
was mistaken regarding the permanent char
acter of the ice that barred his advance we
must accord to him and his brave COM
panions the fullest measure of praise for
their conduct in an undertaking fraught
with so much difficulty and danger.
Year: 1876

DANGERS INNuME8ABLE seem to surround
The throne of the new Sultan Of Turkey,
Abdul Hamid. In our correspondence from
the Turkish capital, printed elsewhere, we
are told of the existence of o widespread
conspiracy to dethrone and murder the
reigning sovereign and to send his entire
Year: 1876

LAUDABLE ENTERPRISE is that Of the
"Ladies' Protective Union and Directory"
organized for the relief and protection of
female servants when sick or out of employ
ment The good ladies who have charge of
the institution appeal to the charitable for
be made in vain
Year: 1876

AN EXPECTED METEoRIc DISPLAY tonight
and tomorrow night attracts the attention
of the curious. We print elsewhere full
description of the phenomenon as witnessed
on former occasions, and also the scientific
theories regarding these brilliant November
visitors
Year: 1876

A FIRE IN BROADWAY HOTEL, during
the progress of which some narrow escapes
from death took place, should warn us that
with the present deficient water supply in
New York terrible catastrophe may at
INV moment occur. While we economic
fire
Year: 1876

WE publish in another column a letter
a idEessed to cold Wings" which just
now Possesses more than ordinary in.
terest. It is an answer to ell cavil and
an sppeal TO such as feel in the least dis,
contented with the present political sit
ustlon. 1t points = wEy plainly and
persussjvsly for al who would see the
government placed in competent hands
AMI rescued from the Radical corrup.
tioni5ts who have been the bsne and
curse Of the country, especially here at
ahe south. We commend the letter Of
ID Wing as one worthy of careful
reading.
Year: 1876

tBy Telegraph to the Senttnel.l


WAsHISGToS, Dec. 23.-CrOnin, of Oregon
made two attempts to deposit his return
to-day with Vice President Ferry. but could
not find him. He Will be introduced to-
morrow by Senator Kelly.


THE FLORIDA cAsE-


Both parties are waiting for Florida.
Morton and a few more like him pretend to
place no significance on the events in that
state, but the republicans generally are on
the anxious bench. Democrats differ as to
the merits of the question as il would be
presented in case the canvass was re-
opened and the result changed. Some
claim that as the supreme court has no
power to create new college the vote Of
the state would have to be thrown out


Senator Jones and others argued that the
present college has no legal existence, be-
cause it is not an expression Of the popular
will. and hence the college constituted un-
der the revised and corrected returns must
be recognized by the joint convention of
congress. He is in favor of going behind
the certificate of the governor, and thinks
this will be done in the case of Oregon.


SENATOR coNKnSG-


The republican senators continue TO be
exercised over the position Senator
Conkling will take. So far they have not
been able to obtain his views and this leaves
him open to suspicion.
Year: 1876

thrown beyond the surface As the explosion IS
over the work Of dredging will be begun at once so as p
make the channel open 70 navigation at the earliest posi-
BILE time As the floors OF the tunnels slope from


depth OF SO to AZ feet below low water mark ana te
depth Of water required for navigation in the neigDo
is plain that afte the explosion and the subsequent
dredging will be pie for the largest ships
in she world reach NewYork Bay through the waters
off no goru
Year: 1876

THE palace of Peterhoff is situated
on an eminence facing the bay, and the
space. between the extensive, but
rather plain, building has been con-
verted into a beautiful park. From
the central portico of the palace a
broad, sloping avenue leads down to
the beach, with wide stream of wa
ter in the middle, ripping over bed
of marble, and a line of splashing
fountains on each side for mile and
a half. AT the head of this avenue
there is large circular basin with a
group of marble Nereids in the center,
from which several immense columns
of water ascend to a height of sixty or
seventy feet. Around the basin there
are number of dolphinS, dragons and
nondescript monsters, who all send out
streams of water, and the whole sur
rounded by very pretty fence formed
by diagonal slender jets of the spark
ling liquid, crossing each other. The
waters had only just been turned On,
and the bands of music were tuning
their instruments, when / entered one
of the many shady walks which spread
out in all directions, and a few turns
brought me to small marble building
in Grecian style, half hidden by foil
age, with small knot of people loung-
ing about the entrance. A short dis
tance away groom was leading a
white charger UP and down. Upon
inquiry [ found that the EN-
peror was in the building, which
contains bath, and that the
people were waiting to present to
him complaints or petitions. Several
old women wanted to have their con-
Scripted sons returned, while others
We're suing for the pardon of some
criminal, and though had nothing in
particular to say to his Majesty, | con-
cluded to stay and have goo0 look at
him. We did not have to wait long.


The folding doors opened, and with
rapid strides tall form passed by and
had reached the groom with the horse
before any of the petitioners could ap-
prOach him. AS he mounted, had a
full view of his fair open countenance,
but his steed was a more beautiful OBJ
ject to look upOn-the nobleSt horse [
ever saw; of pure Arab blood, milk


white, with rosy nostrils, and grace
fulneSs and strength in every move.


When his imperial master seated HIM
self, the gentle animal turned its head
and affectionately attempted to nibble
the Emperor's boots, but "a single word
started him off on a canter, much to
the dismay of the petitioners, who en-
deavored to keep up with him, holding
out their papers. The Gar shouted
back a few words telling them to come
to the palace, and disappeared from
view. For. the sake of the beautiful
horse, I was glad to hear that there is
a park at Tzarskoie Selo, where all
horses who have ever carried his
Majesty on their back are kept in idle
ness and abundance when their time
of active service has expired, and
there is no degradation in store for
them to carriage or even cart horses
when old age comes on.-St. Peters
bllrg Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Year: 1876

tried, or of paying sickening homage
to the concerted chatterboxes of little
moral. sense and principle. What we
would indicate is that while noisy dam
Sells will often turn out to be gaudy
imposters, many quiet ones will amply
repay the time, trouble and love which
any one may beStoW upon them.
Year: 1876

An. English gentleman residing near London
recently applied for summons against neigh
Dor who had cock which commenced Growing
at one o'clock in the morning. The magistrate
advised the applicant to send an officer to the
owner of the fowl and explain that it YVES
great nuisance; then, if no attention were paid
to the notice, some action might be taken. At
the time the last steamer sailed the birds life
was not thought to be worth ipsuring.