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Year: 1876

At Aiken, in South Carolina, on Friday.
there was democratic parade and meeting.
At the close of the meeting the United
States Marshal arrested Colonel Butler, who
had headed the parade, and several others.
This is neat way Of making arrests. 1t
does not show, however, that the federal
marshal had the fear Of unlawful combina-
tions" before him. He seems to have acted
entirely without fear that any one would re-
sist his mandates. What offence the ar-
rested persons are charged with the tele-
graph does not inform US but as 1t was o
federal officer who took them prisoners they
must be charged with some crime against
the United States. We remark that here IN
the North police officer does not usually
select political meeting rs the place to
make arrests of persons who evidently are not
flying from justice. Such a course would
be thought indecent, and if the persons ar
rested were prominent citizens, not avoid
ing the law officers and easily taken in
more quiet manner, to seize them In p
political meeting would create here good
deal of indignation as being needlessly ir-
ritating and offensive.


Such acts as this in the South remind MS
of the remark of vehement but honest re-
publican, on his return from visit to New
Orleans after the dispersion of the Louisiana
Legislature. Ho had gone South with some
beliefs, which were changed by seeing how
matters really stood there. "The first thing
we of the North ought to remember when we
think of the Southern whites, said he, '1s
that they also are human beings" Suppose
policeman or sheriffs officer had arrested
Blaine as he stepped down from the plat
form at Cooper Institute the other even
ing? What howl of indignation we
should have heard, and what complaints
of the indecency and the desire needlessly
to irritate an audience involved in such an
act The indignation and complaints would
have been just, too. But why should fed
eral marshals make themselves needlessly
offensive in South Carolina just now? There
is already excitement enough there. Ali
good citizens no matter with what authority
they are clothed, ought to take pains to allay
excitement. What is needed there is to
calm and not to exasperate mems tempers.
We are glad to hear SO far of no resistance
to the process of law by the whites and
we trust they will submit quietly and cheer
fully to whatever is done, and stand ready
at all times to protect their political oppo-
nents.
Year: 1876

The public will not be very likely to SYM
pathize with the authorities of the Naval
Academy in the action they have taken
against the cadets who refused to betray
their classmates guilty of the crime Of
"hazing" The morality of the proceeding
is, to say the least, very doubtful, for by it
the innocent are punished for the guilty. 1t
is not claimed or pretended that the pun
ished cadets had any direct connection with
the Objectionable conduct of their comrades.
They are punished because they refuse to
play the role of tell-tale, which all right
minded boys despise. The result is far from
conducive to the good discipline of the
Academy for the sympathy of the students,
and, we hope, the majority of the professors,
is with the youngsters who have sacrificed
themselves rather than betray their Glass
mates. If the authorities at Annapolis
want to put down hazing they should take
such precautions as would enable them to do
SO without tampering with the sense of honor
and manliness which forbids the students to
play tho part of spy or informer on their
comrades. The directors of the Academy
should rather seek to encourage than to up
root this manly feeling. 1t ought to be easy
enough to find out the really guilty parties
by the direct evidence of the parties hazed
without drawing into the question class
mates whose knowledge of the acts of their
comrades, according to all lstudent morality,
is confidential and privileged. Even though
this may be n fiction when examined
through the strict and unsympathetic eyes
Of tho law, it is nevertheless a wholesome
fiction for boyhood These students will
become selfish soon enough, and should be
encouraged to retain the disinterestedness Of
youth as long as possible. We hope the
authorities having vindicated discipline by
dismissing the stubborn cadets, will hasten
to recommend their restoration to their
classes They are evidently plucky md
loyal boys, and we cannot afford to throw
away good material for slight faults that are
accompanied by redeeming qualities.
Year: 1876

New Moral to An Old story.


NO newspaper exists because of its own
will but always because of the necessities Of
the public. If the people do not need it
then it had better not be published, but
when the people want newspaper they are
bound to have 1t. We have no wish
to boast Of the HxRALD's popularity,
but it is proper to say that there was
never any one who complained that
the cost Of copy was four cents The
four cent price, which was created by the
war, was accepted cheerfully by the public
Therefore the HERALD had no reasons other
than those it has given for reducing the
price Of copy to three cents. 1t might
have continued to demand high prices,
and have obtained them; but it is
not published merely rs a machine,
but with motive, and as the reduction Of
the old rates was foreseen the present change
of price only anticipated the inevitable re-
suit.


As the leading paper Of the country the
HERALD believed it had the power, the right
and the duty to begin this reform, and un-
solicited it did so. Yet there are short
sighted persons who object to that which
seems to be Of temporary injury to their
interests. Some of the newsdealers and
agents who do not now make asmuch money
by selling the HERALD at three cents as they
did at four held a consultation last night on
the matter. Some of them were inclined
not to sell it at oil unless the old profits
were restored. 1t is in their own
not presume to advise in such delicate
affair. If the public desires to have the
HERALD it will get it, and we do not think
that the cheapncss of this journal will inter-
fere with its popularity. The gentlemen
who wish to stop the HERALD
remind us of that gentleman who
met the original owner of the Phil
adelphia Ledger in the street and said:-
''Sir, I have stopped the Ledger" "You
shock me-" Mr. Swain exclaimed. stopped
the Ledger! Come to the Office and this mat
ter shall be settled" They went to the Of
flee and saw the reporters writing, the
compositors working, the presses all running,
and then the proprietor turned to his friend
and said, II thought you had stopped the
paper" 'I meant that had stopped my
copy" said the offended individual. '.My
dear sir" Mr.. Swain replied, ''is that oil p
The rest of his answer was expressed in
Anglo-Saxon language which we do not at
present remember.
Year: 1876

The hurricane having passed northS
eastward over the Atlantic New York il
now outside the area of its in
fuence but that of the Western storm ID
steadily extending SO as to embrace the
entire North Atlantic coast. The latter dis
turbance is now central over the lake region
and exhibits a tendency to move nearly due
eastward to the northern part of the Allie
ghany range, thus bringing the Middle States
within the track Of the lowest pressure. Aa
it is, the rain area that accompanies the
storm is of extraordinary extent and covers
the entire territory of the United States east
of the ninety fifth meridian, except small
portion comprising the Eastern Gulf and
South Atlantic States. Over this area the
heaviest rainfall recorded during the past
twelve hours has been at Vicksburg, Miss,
where about one and q half inches have fall
len. In the western, central and northeast
ern regions the rain has been such as We
have experienced at New York. The tenn
perature throughout the country yesterday
was comparatively high except in the
extreme Northwest where cool weather pre-
walls. The prospects for to-day are by no
means bright, as we shall have dense cloudi-
ness, morning and evening fogs and light
rain, with slight increase of temperature.
Year: 1876

The lately announced result Of the
enumeration of the Indians at Standing
Rock ought to convince the public and
dealing with the Indian problem is to
hand over to the army the complete con-
troll of the Indian agencies. The HERALD
has time and again urged the necessity Of
this measure, and the first experiment at
Standing Rock shows clearly how sound
were the arguments put forth in support Of
that view. It is not necessary to assume
that all Indian agents are, or have been, dis
honest because we find much less than the
estimated number of Indians at particular
place now when we have concluded to count
them. Under the old system the agent took
the word Of the Indian chiefs, or rather the
word of the interpreter, generally speakinga
most unreliable person. Then the Indians
cared very little for the agent, except in SO
far as he was the dispenser of gifts. They
never thought of obeying him except
they were bribed to do SO, and he
was powerless to make them obey
him. Once the Indians are placed in
charge of the military the conditions
will be wholly changed; the warriors will
be brought face to face with men who have
the will and the power to carry out the
orders Of tho government The issue of
rations will be conducted on the same prin-
ciple as adopted in the army, with o CON-
plete system of checks. 1t will be found q
great saving to the government and great
advantage to the Indians, and will soon put
an end to the chronic state of war which has
existed for years along the border. These
disorders have been wholly due to the cor
ruption of the system we pursued in deal
ing with the red man. Once the provo
cations due to q policy of mingled weakness
and cruelty are removed there is no reason
why we cannot get along with the Indian,
and even gradually induce him to adopt our
system of life. Along the Missouri River
number of the various tribes are engaged in
farming and woodchopping. and no doubt,
under proper encouragement, they could, in
time, be made wholly self-supporting. Up
to the present no honest, sustained effort to
induce them to adopt On industrious mode
of life has been made, except in few isolated
cases, and these have been crowned with fair
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Year: 1876

There is friend Of the heather who risei
to explain that it is not Turkey, but Russia
that the world should dread that Turkey
is tolerant. civilized. amiable,. polite. and
Russia coarse fierce. savage and terrible Il
man with tracts and subscription books
There are always plenty of people who SEE
any case that comes up in way precisely
different from that in which it is seen by
human creatures generally. There is mar
somewhere who believes that this earth is
as to its form, as flat as copper coin, and
who roundly abuses everybody who believes
otherwise. There are plenty of people who
scout the astronomical explanations of the
appearance of the heayens, who not only
doubt that the stars are fire, but hold TIM,
the armament is only greater colander and
that the general illumination outside seen
through the holes is the real cause oi
the appearance of the bright points called
stars. Perhaps the missionary is of that
perverse race. He gives, however n definite
reason why he wishes to keep the Turks
where they are rather than have the Rus
slams there, and his reason has relation to
the occupation of missionary. With the
Turks in that country it is fine, rich field
for missionary effort but with the Russians
there it will be quite ruined in that respect
1t is to be hoped Europe will consider the
interests Of the missionaries in this case be-
fore permitting Russia to exclude the Turks
Year: 1876

SouIH CAboLISA.- Hampton
advises the people of this unfortunate
State to submit to everything. His advice
Is wise. We cannot imagine anything more
humiliating to braye soldier than TO be
turned into a political tool. Our special
dispatches from Columbia indicate that the
DEMOCRATS are resolved to prove the Presi-
denis proclamation unfounded. To send
troops 70 the South without cause is to


make votes for the democracy in the North.
Year: 1876

come it-every evil with remedy. There
Is no knowing to what wonders we may
reach in this process Of the exclusion Of in
termediate agencies, but there is every ap-
pearance that we may one of these days have
merely to turn crank and start into auto
Ioatic activity the operations of such a mu-
nicipal universe as this metropolis, just as
Aladdin started his airy steed in the story.
Year: 1876

Owing TO tho action OF portion Of tho carriers and
acwsmen, who arc determined that the public shall
not have the HERALD three per copy II they
can help It, have made arrangements to place tho
HERALD In the hands OF all readers at three
per copy. TO that end VIC have secured wagons and
nswsboys to patrol every horougharo OF this city
accommodate readers Newsboys can purchase
any quantity they may desire from the wagons at tho
usual Wholesale price,
Year: 1876

THE CANVASS IN NEW YoRK--New York
is now the State Of all States that both par
ties desire TO carry. Upon its thirty-fve
electoral votes the Presidency of tho United
States is likely TO depend. We have given
the country information ofthe progress of the
campaign from time to time, desiring that
the facts should be known, and to-day pub
lish letter in reference to Monroe county
which will be interesting to both republi-
cans and democrats.
Year: 1876

ADVICE TO yoTERs. The correspondent
who asks us to say whether he should bet
upon Mr.. Tilden or Mr.. Hayes is respect
fully informed that he had better not bet
at all. But if he will bet we advise him,
and all of his ilk, to hedge on Grandfather
Peter.
Year: 1876

The MOLLY MAGUIREs make great trouble
in Pennsylvania, and we publish letter
which is full of information. But so for as
the testimony in the trial of one of the
Mollies reflects upon the action of Governor
Hartranft we have no doubt it is entirely
untrue.
Year: 1876

Hereafter copies Of the HERALD will be
sold by the train agents of the Union News
Company at the out of town depots and on
all the trains of the principal railroads at
the reduced price of four cents, instead of
five cents as formerly. The railroad lines
on which this reduction will be enforced are
the following


The Erie.


The Northern New Jersey.
The New York and Harlem.
The Hudson River.
The New York Central.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
The Flushing, North Shore and Central
Of Long Island.


The Southern Of Long Island.
The Long Island road.
The Rensselaer, and Saratoga
The Albany and Susquehanna
Besides this, the HERALD will be sold here
after at oil ferries connected with these lines,
and all depots in this city, at three cents q
copy, and we shall be obliged, if any over
charge is made, to have the fact reported to
u.s. when proper measures will be promptly
taken for the protection of the public.
The managers of the Union News Com
pany have shown an enterprising spirit,
which will be appreciated. In contrast to
their action we would call the attention of
Colonel Thomas A. Scott, President Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to the
course of the news agents on his trunk
lines. They have intimated that they will
not sell the HERALD ut reduced prices,
and thus assume to dictate to the
press and blockade the public. The
people will have the HERALD but
is it right that any combination should
compel them to pay more for it than it's
proprietor chooses to ask? News agents
who would force the public to pay high prices
will find themselves in the position of MIR.
Stephenson's celebrated COW. That famous
railroad pioneer was asked what would be
the result if COW should happen to get be-
fore a railroad engine, and he replied, 1T
would be bad for the COO" The moral does
not need explanation.
Year: 1876

THE GLORIOUS FOURTH DAY


OF JULY-AS 1T HAS BEEN AND


Is NOW.


On this centennial Fourth dag OF
July it may not be either Improbable
or uninteresting to note the changes
in the sentiment of our community
about the celebration of our chief
national holiday, and this fortunately
our flies enable us to do for fifteen
years before secession as well as for
the fifteen years Immediately follow
ing that memorable day.


It will be seen that since the Goth
of May, 1861, the day on which North
Carolina Withdrew from the Federal
Union, only to be dragged back at the
point of the bayonet, all the "gush"
has left Fourth of July celebrations
SO far as white people are concerned.
The day is still remembered and still
celebrated as one of the proudest in
the history of the country, but the
manner of doing the thing has changed.
In the olden time patriotism demanded
the most strenuous exertions regard
less of the weather, and the day they
celebrated way before the war was any
thing but one of plesure. There be
many still living who recall with pain
full recollections the slow forming pro-
cessions, the long march in the hot
broiling sun, seated in an open carriage
side by side with the chaplain, the
crowded courthouse or church in
which they paid the penalty of being
young men by doing duty as orators
and readers. But these are memories
of the past. The present system is
much more rational.
Year: 1876

Logan, Sargent and Boss Shepherd,
have been getting ever with Yaryan.
went to the President when the Bah
COCK excitement Was pending and rep
resented to Grant that Yaryan had
said that he had at last traced
those whiskey frauds to the White
House. Grant wrote note to Mr..
Pratt, stating Yaryan's language as 1t
was reported to him by Spencer. The
committee at once sent for Yaryan.
Spencer happened at the time to be in
Pratt's office. Yaryan came down at
once and was informed by Pratt of
what the President had said about him.
Yaryan at once turned Spencer and
asked him whether 1t was true he had
made any such report to the Presi-
dent.


Spencer began mu milling sort OF
.lenial, when Pratt produced the letter
ia the Pre- esident's own handwriting.
Then he was silent. Yaryan at this
swore and said TO Spencer, "All that
ave to say to you is that you are
Cd id liar" Spencer turned
very pale at this, and said, "A man in
nv position cannot notice such a res
mark" Then said Yaryan, you are
a d ID coward as we'll as a liar, and /
want you to understand that / do not
shelter myself behind the treasury
building in making snch remark. L
live at the same hotel that you do. AID
you can see me there if you like, !"
Spencer afterward sent word to
Yaryan to ascertaiR whether the
latter intended to sttack him per
sonally. Yaryan sent word back that if
Spencer could swallow what he had
already tnld him, that he. of course.
did not care to demean himself by
making an attack upon man who
had lost his own self-respect. Com
missioner Pratt thoroughly sympa-
thizes with Yaryan in his fight. The
President would like to secure the re-
moval of Pratt, but he cannot be made
to go, as the Senate will stand by Pratt
and refuse to confirm his successor. A
prominent republican member of the
House said to-day, when he heard of
Grants obeying the behests of the
whiskey ring. "My God, can Grant be
such fool as to put such load on US
now. when the only issue of the cam
paign is reform ? That will be hard
thing to manage"


understood to night that Commits
sioner Pratt will resign in short time.
Disguised with the conduct of the
President, he is also adverse to re-
naming in Washington the remainder
of the summer. Yaryan has made a
long statement of what he knows about
Brashears' conduct and his certain
knowledge of Mcdonald and Joyce's
connection with the crooked distillers.
For several years it was known at the
internal revenue bureau that illicit dis
tillation was going on in st. Louis, but
as often as it was proposed to raid the
distilleries the shadow of Grant dark
ened the door of the bureau, and the
excuse for non-action was mcdonald
is the Presidents pet and Joyce is
Babcock's bosom companion"
Year: 1876

PAlG<.


The Radical army OF plunderers has
been driven back, step by step. until
il now stands in the last ditch, expect
ing. with desperation, the fierce on
slaught about to be made upon it. But
it by no means intends to give UP
without struggle. The horde OF
officeholders have enjoyed too long the
spoils of govern nient to give them up
willingly; they will rather resort to every
possible device to avert the doom i'm
pending over them. Bot it matters
not with how much zeal or with how
much ability or with how much des-
peration they may fight. Their fate Is
fixed and inevitable defeat awaits them
in November next, if the Conservative
party will only make a proper use OF
the vantage ground they occupy.


The people will not hesitate mo-
mont in choosing between Couserva-
tive and Radical candidates when they
have been shown how much the Con-
servative party have accomplished IN
so short time, in both the State and
national governments, in the way of
retrenchment and reform and econom-
ical expenditures of the public money,
how much that party has done to re-
store constitutional government to the
country and thatin the presentcampsign
it seeks by making necessary changes
in the State Constitution to complete
this good work at home and thereby
to. reduce taxation to the lowest possi-
BILE rates, and that the Radical party
is opposed to all these things SO neces-
sary to the peace and prosperity of the
State.


All that is needed is a plain, truth
full statement of the facts to induce
the people of North Carolina to con-
sign to merited infamy Radicalism and
its upholders in this State. The proof
is abundant, and it is the purpose of
the JOURNAL to do its full part IN lay
ng it before the people. AS the best
means in our power to this end the
JOURNAL will be presented at such low
rates as to put it in the reach of every
one during the present State and Pres
idential campaign.


The JOURNAL will be furnished to
CLUBS, from the 18th July to the 18th
November, at the following rates:


copies WEEKLY JOURNAL IS 2 90
10 copies WEEKLY JOURNAL. 3 90


copies DAILY JOURNAL. ..... 10 90
10 copies DAILY JOURNAL. ..... Is 90


In every case the paper will be sent
until the returns of the election shall
be received and published, aud weinvite
the attention of Executive Committees
of counties and townships to the Cam
paign JOURNAL as a sure aud cheap
means of furnis ling information to the
people.
Year: 1876

In suite of it's being Centennial Day
the Fourth was celebrated in our city
day before yesterday in much about
the same manner that has been custo-
mary since the surr ender. Everybody
that could get out of town almost did
so. that is to say white people, in the
earnest hope of finding pleasure and
recreation. Our colored citizens had
all the military part of the celebration
to themselves. The city was orderly,
peaceable and quiet. and the small boy
with his irrepressible pop-oracker was
by no means an intolerable nuisance.
Every body, we believe, was in COM
paratively good humor and is now
none the worse for the holiday. OF
course it is not to be expected with the
thermometer away up in the nineties,
that our people should enthuse much
even if the occasion was the "glorious
fourth day of July" No. 100.
Year: 1876

Make up your clubs for the JoUNAL
and send them in. The subscription
price puts the JOURNAL in the reach
OF all. Remember the valuable Wheel
er and Wilson Sewing Machine given
for the largest number Of subscribers,
Year: 1876

In every case the paper will be sent
until the returns of the election shall
be received and published, aud we invite
the attention of Executive Committees
of counties and townships to the Cam
paign JOURNAL as sure and cheap
means of furnis ling information to the
people