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Year: 1875

We ask the special attention of the bus-
ness men of Jackson to our schedule of ad-
yertising rates for The DAILY CLARION.
They are exceedingly low, and must COM
mend themselves to all who have any faith
in printers ink. The business season has
now opened, and for the next few weeks
THE CLARION will be extensively circulated
in Jackson and elsewhere throughout the
State. Send in your orders.
Year: 1875

All he inquest which Mr.. Carpenter and his
friends are holding over what Mr.. COnkling
felicitOusly calls the "ashes of his ambition"
various reasons are assigned for the untlmely
end of his career, and various interests are
given the honor of having destroyed him.
Mr. Carpenter chooses to say that he has Deen
struck down because he was the champion OF
the people against the monOpOlists, and Mr..
Russell Sage replies that the Senator asked the
help of the st. Paul Road and did not get it.
We do not know which Of these eminent oper-
ators is in the right in regard to this matter,
but we should hope that Mr. Sage's story was
the more accurate; because certainly TO rail-
road nor other corporation has any right to
throw its influence for or against the election
of any man as United States Senator We
should think that there were few men IN
Wisconsin 80 candid as to believe that MIR.
Carpenter took tho Granger side from any
ardent devotion to its principles, whatever
they may be, or that he would nave refused
to defend the imperiled corporations of that
State if he had been properly approached.


II there is any doubt in Wisconsin as to
what caused the defeat of Mr.. Carpenter we
are glad to be able to inform all inquiring
minds. He was defeated because be had
offended the moral sense of q great many Re-
publicans by sharing in the Salary Theft and
then brazenly defending it in a speech which
showed that he believed his audience had no
more principle than himself; because OF the
discovery that while pretending to oppose the
Louisiana fraud in the Senate, he was actually
in the pay of Gov. Kellogg; because of his
To-, in 1ip
vate and if local politics had any influence
in the result, it was merely because the
Changers and the men Of capital alike feared
and distrusted him, believing that he had no
fixed convictions and would as soon betray
the one as the other.


If Mr.. Carpenter is wise, he Will mediate
on these things and try to reform his errors,
instead of attacking Messrs. Washburn and
Dooitte, or beginning new crusade against
railroads.
Year: 1875

in an equal space of time, than have been
accomplished by the State Charities Aid Asso-
citation, formed less than three years ago IN
this city. Its purpose as we have frequently
made known to our readers, was to supple
ment the work of the official administrators
of public charities by all that private benevo-
lence, intelligence, and zeal could bring TO
bear upon them, to ameliorate as far as pos
sible the inevitable evils that grow up IN
system where the State cannot always com
mand the highest integrity or capacity IN lts
servants. The officers and members OF this
excellent Association are from the best class
of the community, representing its hlghest
culture and character. The energy and sue
cess with which they have labored are only
partially set forth in the report printed to-day
There is scarcely an amshouse OF reformatory
institution in the State where the good results
of their work are not already apparent, and their
plaus embrace a still wider and more comprehen-
siye system of supervision than has yet been
put in practice. They ask for means to enable
them to prosecute their plans, and their names
are sufficient guarantee not only that every
dollar given them will be appropriated to the
legitimate purposes of the Association, but
also that it will be disbursed with the most
intelligent and practical economy.
Year: 1875

The Costigan bill has been fought upon
political considerations, and its fate VIII be
decided not upon its merits but by counting
of party noses The debate however has de-
yeloped some curious theories of government
which seem to prevail among the gentlemen
who make our laws, and it may be worth
while to stop for moment and look into
them. Here is Mr. Hustled for instance object
ing to the bill because its purpose is to throw
the government of New-YOrk into the hands
of the majority of its citizens; while Mr..
Seward contends that the NewYOrk Demo
Gratis have demonstrated by their past conduct
that they are not fit to administer their own
affairs without the restraint of the State
authorities. Stripped of circumlOcutiOn, the
reasoning of these gentlemen, and of Others
who talk in the same vein, amounts to nothing
but an argument against universal suffrage.
Possibly a majority of the inhabitants of the
large cities are so brutal so ignorant, and so
corrupt that they ought not to be trusted with
the ballot. If that is what Mr.. Seward and
Mr.. Hustled mean, let them speak right out


They point to the monstrOus frauds OF the
Tweed administration as proof that the De-
mOcracy is beast that must be kept chained.
They forget, however, that Tweed was COM
paratvey harmless until he hired Republican
statesmen at Albany to give him the infamous
charter under which his thefts were carried
on and the attempts of honest citizens to get
rid of him were defeated. The charter was
responsible for Tweed, not the voters. In fact
for very many years, what with the Tweed
charter and other mischievOus products OF
Albany legislation, the voters of New-4Ork
have been virtually deprived of the manage
ment of their own affairs. How do Messrs.
Seward and Hustled know that we are not fit
to govern ourselves until they haye tried us I


For our part, we believe that the majority
is honest and capable--even i'll New-YOrk-
and that it ought to have the entire control
of the local administration. Give the people
the power to select the chief officers, and let
that selection be made, not as now, but III
the Spring, so as to separate it as far as pos
sible from political elections and all partisan
considerations. Next, let those chief officers
have ample authority to appoint and remove
their subordinates. Then we shall know who is
responsible for every kind of maladministra-
ton, for lax financial management, dirty
streets, an inefficient police, neglected parks
and pavemcnts, filthy markets, useless hy-
drants, and Obstructed sidewalks.
Year: 1875

We print this morning the substance Of the
report of the Training School for Nurses at
Bellevue Hospital, and call the attention OF
our readers once more to this efficient and
practical charity. There can be no two
opinions in regard to the value and the
necessity of such work as the ladies in charge
of this school have undertaken. Sairy Camp
is not a mere creature of fiction. She is
a present and abiding afiction by thousands
of sick beds in every civilized country. An
invalid requires not only the gentlest but the
most skillful ministrati0ns, and yet the Hands
to which the sick are intrusted are too often
as rough as they are awkward and untaught
The need of trained nurses, of those selected
by capable ladies and gentlemen for such
service, and then thoroughly educated to
their business, is so evident that it requires
no argument to prove its Importance. Iho
only question is whether the plans Of the
school now existing, and the means taken to
carry them out, are adequate to the end to be
attained. In regard to this the certificates of
Dr. Bryan and DR.. Murray, Of the high eff
cheney and intelligence Of those nurses, taught
at this school, whom they have examined, is
of great Importance. The resolutions adopted
by the Medical Board of Bellevue Hospital, at
their stated monthly meeting, giving their cor
dial approval to the school and the system by
which it proposes not only to add to the efli
cheney of the Hospital, but also to offer facii-
ties for supplying trained nurses to the public,
form also gratifying tribute to the man.
ayers of the institution.


Those who have already contributed to this
purpose will be glad to learn that their money
has been so well employed. There is still
pressing need Of funds to continue the work
already begun, and the Committee ask for
further contributions from old friends and new
ones. Subscriptions may be sent to the Treas
urer, Mr.. Henry G. Stebblns, so Exchange
place, or to any member Of the Committee.
Year: 1875

a sacrifpe as the President invites them to.
There is no salvation, not even respite In
it. 1t may be too late to save and. purify the
party and set it forth on new career worthy
it's name and history. However that may BE-
it is not yet too late to save something to the
country of constitutional freedom, and 1t is
for this that we appeal to the patriotism OF
individuals of the party not to allow them
selves to be bound by party action or caucus
dictation in 80 serious an emergency.
Year: 1875

The House Republican caucus has given its
sanction to the carpet-baggers' scheme for con-
tinung Republican ascendency in the South.
We shall now see who of those Republicans
who opposed it in caucus on constitutional
and conscientious grounds will take the same
position ON the floor Of the House.
Year: 1875

Notwithstanding the pressing demand that
something shall be done in the way OF giving
O good government to the District of Columbia,
it seems probable that the problem will DO
bequeathed by this Congress to the next. III
is unfortunate that partisan politics are still
dragged into the controversy over the we'll
matured bill now before the Senate.
Year: 1875

Advertisers riu please bring in their tarors
before HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK in the
evening. We cannot undertake to classify those
received after that hour. The greatly increasing
demand upon our Press-rOom cOmpeLs as TO send
the variOus Pages Of The TRIBUNE to press at
an earlier hour than heretofore, and thus makes
the above requirement neceSsary
Year: 1875

The brief telegram few days since. announcing
the destruction bv fire of one of tho main halls of
Racine College, conveyed inadequate idea of the
disaster which has befallen that institution. At
five o'clock on the morning of the cOnfagration tho
thermometer was 15o below zero, and furious gale
was blowing. The flames broke out III the upper
part of the structure, and in brief half hour the
whole magnificent hall was blaze Officers, stu
dents, and domeslics fled for their lives, many
of them in night-dress and barefoot on the ice In
the extreme cold the water was frozen, and
the students and authorities were left helpless to
combat the flames a mere pittancc, therefore. of
what was in the building was saved. But the loss
of the hall itself and of the furniture which made


it habitable by the warden, the professors and the
students, is by all. The excellent library
of the college and the apparatus to illustrate the
lectures physics also entirely consumed. Nor
does the trouble end here. Racine has been in the
habit of educating large number of bencfciaries.
and. being unendowed it has depended for their
support on receipts from paying students who Occu-
pied the hall that Is destroyed. Unless
the latter students, therefore, can be re-
accommodated with the benefciaries
cannot longer be supported and taught. There was
an insurance of $4,000 the building but the loss
over this will exceed $4,000. We do not know what
action the trustees will now take but every we'll
wisher of liberal culture cannot but entertain the
hope that the alumni of Racine and other friends
will rally to repair the loss it has sustained


The representatives of the Pacific Mail bribery
and corruption Company are now raising the
pieous cry that TO withdraw from them the subsidy
for the purchase of which from Congress they
squandered million dollars, is an act of bad faith.
Before any more of tho newspapers show themselves
so jolly green TO support tins preposterous claim
it would be well for them to take tho pains to look
at the text Of the act. They will there find that
Congress to itself the power of terminating
the contract at any time it peases. There never
a more appropriate time than Immediately
after the discovery of the means by which the con-
tract was procured.


Acurious batch Of documents has been extensively
circulated in Pittsburgh land we presume in other
towns of the Ohio Valley, "by order of committee"
1t includes extracts from a report of Gen. Hum
phreys on tho Improvement of tho Ohio River /; q
circular inviting the press and private citizens TO
favor petition to Congress for tho passage of an
appropriation AZ asked by Gen. Humphreys"
and the following blank form Of petition to which
Year: 1875

1t will be remembered that Gen. Sheridan
included Arkansas in his list of States over
run by the White League, and in which there
was reign of terror. Certain ex-Federal
soldiers residing in Little Rock denied the
charge and others confirmed it. Gov Garland
thereupoD called the attention of the State
courts to the matter, and urged thorough in
vestigatiOn of the allegations against the good
name of the State. This has proved very salts
factory way of dealing with outrage stories The
Grand Jury of Little Rock have given the sub
ject careful attention, and we now have their
report, showing that not one of the men who
supported Gen. Sheridan's statement was able
to give a single instance of intimidation or
political murder. AS to the White League,
the nearest approach made to finding it was
the discovery of man who belongs to the
Knights of Pythias a secret charitable order,
which has q membership of several hundred
thousands in the North, and of only few
thousands in the South. The publication of
this report is timely, in view of President
Grants message picturing the situation in
Arkansas in sanguinary colors.
Year: 1875

The suspension of the Beecher trial yestef-
day for an extra day comes just at time
when the singularly skillful cross-examination
has raised public expectation to higher point
than it has reached at any previous period OF
the trial Whatever may be thought OF the
general results, there can be no doubt that
Mr. Evarts's success in introducing the "True
STORY" was one of the most adrOit and no.
ticeable pieces of work thus far Oh either side
of the case.
Year: 1875

Cen de Cissey has given palpable hint to
the French Assembly that it can only adopt
constitutional scheme conforming to the Gov
enments ideas of prOpriety. Its tame submis-
sion now to the dictatOrial language of the
Ministry is in sharp contrast with the haste
with which it endeavored to vindicate It's dig
nifty during NJ. Thiers's term. Although the
Objectionable amendment to the Senate bill
was adopted, the Legitimists plainly permitted
this only to secure the final rejection of the
BILL Only one member appears to have pro-
tested against the course Of the Government.
However, the coalition between the Republi-
cans and the members of the Right Center
was broken without this interference. In the
end the Republicans will profit more than
their late associates, by the present state of
DISCRIMINATION, which points unerrngly to
speedy dissolution of the Assembly.
Year: 1875

1t would be very unwise for the Home Rulers
in Ireland if they should carry out the
plan ascribed to them of withdrawing from
Parliament in case their demand for a repeal
of the Act of Union is rejected. There is not
the least doubt in the world of this rejection
If any such resolution has been adopted by
the Home Rulers, they have made up their
minds with perfect knowledge of this fact.
The injury which they arc likely to do to
their own cause is so clear that we are uu-
willing to believe the story.
Year: 1875

The action of the Senate yesterday in re-
fusng by vote of as to 2 to order Rail-
road Subsidy bill to a third reading indicated
pretty clearly that such schemes will find little
favor in that body during the present session
of Congress. The issue was well defined, Mr..
Sherman answering the urgent appeals of the
friends of the bill by the emphatic declaration
that while the present depleted condition OF
the Treasury continues, no time should be
wasted in the consideration of propositions for
building railroads with Government money.
1t is gratifying to hear from Mr.. Freling-
huysen that of the balf-dozen similar bills
before the Senate Committee on Railroads not
one is likely TO be reported.
Year: 1875

The appointment finally of the New-York
members of the East River Bridge Directory
ought to be an assurance not only that the
mismanagement Of that great enterprise is to
end, but that work on it is to be speedily re-
sumed. 1t is of too vital importance to the
welfare of both Brooklyn and New-YOrk to
be permitted to remain in all unfinished state.
The towers are now nearly completed, and
the most difficult if not the most costly work
is practically finished. 1t has been done, it is
true, at heavy cost, but the abuses of the old
management have been largely remedied and
can hardly be revived while the public re-
mains as watchful and suspicious as at pres
ent. Some legislation is needful to raise ad-
ditOnal funds, but the Board, as now consti-
tuted, ought to command this and also funds
to continue the work promptly.
Year: 1875

A bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush. That, on the whole. seems to be the
Judgment of the President and Cabinet,
and of good many others, concerning the
propositions of the Pacific Railway Com
pany. Thus far the Government has
had nothing from them but success
full resistance TO every attempt to
get any thing. A voluntary offer now of half
to three-quarters of a million year is not
a thing which, in these tight times, it is easy
to refuse; and the prevailing impression seems
to be that, if the Company can be fairly COM
mitted to this much, the Government will
have better luck than has been hitherto ex-
pected.
Year: 1875

While st. Louis is triumphing in the
discovery of Texas, she seems to claim all
its productions as sort of property for
which there can be no competition, aud
any invasion of her territory would be a
ground of complaint upon her part.


So assured is St. Louis of this vested
interest that she has taken no steps to
express pecuniary sympathy with Texas
in her late terrible calamities. The mayor
OF the city responded to the cry for help
that there were no corporate funds SO
applicable, and turned it over to that
great Exchange which builds ships to run
to Liverpool and Brazil; that body made
similar response, and added, that from
all they could learn, Texas was better
able to help her unfortunate citizens than
st. Louis was. So st. Louis resumed
the pleasing duty of addressing circulars
to the planters and merchants of Texas,
and left to other cities the humane duty
of burying the dead and nourishing the
living unfortunates Of Texas.


New Orleans on the contrary obeyed
that impulse which gave aid to Texas in
her struggle for independence. We affirm
without contradiction and upon the testi-
mony of history that without the aid of
men, money and munitions furnished by
New Orleans Texas could not have fought
the fight of San Jacinto, nor attained her
position at that time among the nations
of the South. So when New. Orleans
learned through q similar circular ad-
dressed to the Mayor that Indianola had
been swept away, that very night-that
very moment a voluntary association of
her men and merchants came together
and said, "a boat leaves in the morning
for Indianola; we must send help to
those poor people. We will take the
responsibility and rely upon our
fellow-citizens to make good our en-
gagements. They telegraphed cor
respondent in Galveston to prepare for
shipment by the vessel then to be on





her way to Galveston an invoice of food
and raiment, to an amount not to exceed
three thousand dollars, and to draw on
responsible names given for the invoice.
The next day the city was canvassed,
every interest applied to responded gen.
erously, and the men who had pledged
the city for deed of mercv vaco;vod coc
tributions which, in few days, far ex-
ceeded the sum necessary to comply with
their engagement The supplies went
forward, and just when st. Louis decided
that Texas could take care of her own un-
fortunates, New Orleans had landed on
the devastated shores of Lavaca the spon-
taneous and instantaneous tribute of sym
pathy for misfortune.
Year: 1875

Tweed pays $50 per week for his accom-
modstions in the Ludlow street Jail. Of
eourse he is very happy to be out of the
State prison; but it does seem as if q man
With his means might get more agree able
quarters than he is now occupying, and for
2eAe money.
Year: 1875

There is talk Of engaging William Allen
for stump speeches in New York after the
Ohio election is over. 1t ii thought by that
time William will be able to accommodate
himself to q hard money platform.
Year: 1875

About halfway from the summit, on
the western slope Of the once famous
Winding Ridge, on the old National
Road, stands the ruins Of a primitive
cabin that had once q melancholy in
terest attached to it, from an occur
renee that deeply shocked the people
Of that regioa. an gaze 70 The C--
inous name that heads this paper.


Tragic occurrences were not IN
frequent On that road in It's palmy
days. Nearly every bill and hollow
bad its legend II is impossible at
this late day to tell why this particu-
lar suicide should have made such a
deep and surprisingly durable az im-
preston. Such was the fact how
ever. The old house was allowed TO
decay; indeed, every passing youth,
whose inherent vandalism was not
checked By awe Of the place and
dread Of some internal appearance,
sels called upon to hasten its destrue-
ton By throwing down or tearing
away parts oft at every visit. No
family could be found hardy enough
to occupy it. None but the very bold
est could be prevailed on to pass it
alone after nigh;fall Even il the
daytime nameless dread and gloom
seemed TO hang over and about the
Year: 1875

THE COUNCIL CHAMBER-It was
expected that the City Council would
meet tomorrow evening in the new
Council Chamber, at the City Hall,
but the work has been not progressing
as rapidly as was expected, the past
week, one more meeting will have to


be held in the saloon of Odd Fellows
Hall.
Year: 1875

women 10 join in this work as we'll as
men.


Women, however, are not altogether
responsible for the artificial habits of
dress common to their sex. These
habits are the'result3 of false public
sentiment on the subject. A senti-
ment which little by little, is being
corrected, and in the good time com
ing, the dress will be made for the per.
son, not the person for the dress. The
dress will be the servant not the mas
ter. And womtl L as well as men in
this Land of the Free and HON,
the Brave" shall be free indeed; free
to consult their own comfort, conven.
ience and health in the question OF
bodily attire, without asking those
few Parisians whose trade il is to
make the fashions for the world.
Year: 1875

Some months ago large and power
fully built man went into the Office of
Judge Smith, of Austin, Texas, and ask
ed the Judge to send him to lunatic
asylum. The man said he was dan
gerous madman, ard not fit to be rum
ming around loose. His appearance of
blunt candor did not convince the Judge
and he told the man he could do moth
ing for him. The man went his way.
The other day he visited the Office
again, and the Judge recognized him.
There was another man, Mr.. Denton,
also in the Office, and it was we'll he was.
Judge Smith asked the visitor what he
could do for him. and the visitor drew a
long knife and told the Judge he had
come to kill him. Now, big knife
drawn in the hand of big man in
Texas means something. The Judge
grasped his heavy cane and Denton
picked up a chair. There was a lively
scuffle, at the end of which several chairs
were, broken, the cane was splintered
and the man with the knife was lying on
the floor with bleeding head. This
time the Judge thought the man was
mad enough to send TO the lunatic asy-
Ium, and he sent him accordingly.