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Year: 1876

Mayor Wickham gave the city an agree
able surprise yesterday by nominating to
the Common Council Mr.. James S. Thayer as
the head of the Department Of Finance and
successor Of Comptroller Green. 1t was ex-
pected that he would name Mr. John Kelly
for that Office and that Mr.. Kelly would be
confirmed at once. The Common Council
were SO taken by surprise that they deferred
action on the nomination until their next
meeting, partly, we suppose, from wish to
consult with Mr.. Kelly and learn from him
whether the appointment Of Mr. Thayer is
in accordance with his wishes. There is
probably no reason to fear that Mr.. Thayer
Will not be confirmed, unless the Aldermen
are led to think that Mr.. Kelly wants the
office. In that case they might reject the
nomination, and every other which the
Mayor might make except Mr.. Kelly himself


We do not believe that Mr.. Kelly will al
low the matter to pass into such shape.
His pride would disdain to seek an Office
for which he was not named after he had
been SO prominently mentioned in connec-
ton with it with his supposed assent. He
would scorn to encourage factious opposi-
ton by the Common Council to a really
good appointment Much less would he lay
himself open to the suspicion to being
party to m intrigue for staving off the ap-
pointment of Comptroller until Mr.. Whit
ney's name is sent in for Corporation Coun-
sci, with view to make o withdrawal of
Mr.. Thayer's name condition of Mr. Whit
IT. Kal1
afford to seek the Office nor to take it, and
least of all to plot and intrigue against SO
respectable an appontee as James S. Thayer.


Mr. Thayer has long occupied place of
distinction in the democratic party of the
State and city. Originally whig, he imme-
diately joined the democrats on the disso-
luton of the old whig party, and has rem
dered brilliant service for more than twenty
years in the ranks of his new associates. He
is one Of the most interesting and popular
speakers in the State, and has always held a
respectable rank as a lawyer. Hewill make o
diligent, capable, upright and faithful Comp
troller. He is gentleman of courteous
manners, the best associations, and is highly
esteemed in every private relation. He can
be firm without being brusque and offensive,
and regards it as SO much matter of course
to be honest that it would never occur to
him to parade his honesty as distinction
whose possession made him supercilious and
uncomfortable. We congratulate Mayor
Wickham on his having gone outside the
ranks Of hack politicians and vulgar office
seekers to find the new head of the impor-
tant Department of Finance.
Year: 1876




The Louisiana Returning Board yesterday
in opening the returns of a number Of par
ishes laid aside uncounted those which
showed large democratic majorities, though
no protests accompanied them. They seem
TO have given no reason for this course, the
rule being to finish all unprotected returns
as they are opened 1t looks as though the
Board meant to see how large the democratic
majority really is, in order the more securely
to cut it down. Members of the republican
committee sent down last year to investigate
the action of the Board in 1874 declared
shameless but clumsy. Remembering the
scandalous tampering with returns, acciden-
tally discovered on Saturday; the refusal of
the Board to allow the democrats member,
though tho law prescribes five members !;
the refusal to admit the press; the
secret sessions; the suspicious and un-
justifable laying aside of unprotected
returns from democratic parishes yesterday !;
the refusal to send for returns Of dem
ocratic parish known to the Board to be
waiting their order in IN express office
honest men in the North will see that the
Board is neither more honest nor more ex-
pert in fraud than it was said to be
two years ago. Another clumsy piece
of management came up yesterday. The
Board suddenly announced that they had
so modified rule eight as to exclude hereafter
rebutting testimony Democratic counsel
urged that they ought to have had notice,
inasmuch as the republican side had had
opportunity to get in their rebutting owl
dence but the Board could not see it. The
Board also declines to hear or read any mo-
tions or protests whatever. These people go
on MS though they really believed that the re-
publican party in the North was rs lost to
all sense of decency and fair play as them
selves They do not appear to see that they
are making it impossible for Governor
Hayes, who is reputable citizen with
character to lose, to accept the Presidency
ut their hands.


From Florida come divers rumors, and at
last an account of the hitherto carefully con-
cealed republican statement of the vote,
which our correspondent gets from Governor
Stearns. The republicans give the State to
Hayes, he reports, by 40 majority. The
democrats claim l81 for Tilden and hope to
increase it by showing frauds and miscounts
on the other side. The Returning Board
began work yesterday, and there seems to
be some reason to hope that it will make
fair and speedy canvass.


Concerning the situation in South Caro-
lima we have written elsewhere. The demo-
Gratis have requested the attendance of Chief
Justice Waite at the hearing of the habeas
corpus case in the United States Circuit
Court We trust he will go; the case is of
the first Importance, and Judge Bond ought
to be glad of his help.


From North Carolina comes a report that
Mr.. Keogh, Chairman of the Republican State
Committee, has filed a protest against a dec
laration Of the vote, taking exception to the
returns of twenty-three counties, and assert
ing that the State should be given to Mr.
Hayes.
Year: 1876

The SEPTUAGENARIAN who writes the
breezy story of ride on Colonel Delaney
Kanes Pelham coach, which we copy else
where from the Spirit Of the Times, certainly
does not show his age in the fresh animal
spirits that bubble over at every line. 1t is
enough to give vim to man with the most
sluggish blood in his veins.
Year: 1876

Owing to the action OF portion Of the carriers and
newsmen, who determined that Tie public shall
not have the HERALD at three cents per copy they
prevent It, We have made arrangements place tho
in the hands Of all readers at the reduced
price, Newsboys purchase any quantity they may
desire at No. ! 265 Broadway and No. Ann street
Year: 1876

part of his Cabinet in whose judgment and
discretion the country has most confidence.
If he takes no steps of which Secretary Fish
is unwilling to share the responsibility, and
which Mr.. Evarts, the foremost republican
lawyer, is not willing to defend, he will be
on safe ground and may defy the carp
ing criticism Of mere politicians. But
if he surrenders himself into the
hands of Chandler and Cameron, whom
without the approval of his wise and
cautious Secretary of State, he will get into
hot water. If Mr.. Fish should resign, as
Mr. Cass felt constrained to resign in the
last months of Buchanans administration,


because he was unwilling to share the re-
sponsbility of acts which he disapproved,
the House would be greatly strengthened in
impeaching the President, and the best re-
publican lawyers would decline to defend
him in his trial before the Senate If Presi-
dent Grant should be put in this unenviable
and humiliating position it would be in con-
sequence of listening to bad advice.


His unscrupulous and wrong-headed ad-
visers will have no power to protect or
shield him after they have pushed him into
acts which would make him liable to i'm
peachment. He will have to bear the con-
sequence Of their sins. The country will
not stoop to notice them in such a conjunc-
ture The people will fix the responsibility
where it belongs in law, lie where it may in
fact. Hot-headed partisans like Chandler
can do nothing to defend him. He
will have to bear the whole brunt
of the accusations, and he will find it n
great misfortune in such an emergency that
the wise members of his Cabinet and the
great lawyers of his party find it impossible
to justify his conduct Men like Chandler
and Cameron will be frail and broken reeds
for him to lean on in the event of an i'm
parchment. He would have to breast the
storm alone. If he makes an unconstitu-
tional and indefensible use Of the military
power as he did in Louisiana, it will not be
question between the two political parties
but question between the American people
on one side and faithless guardian Of their
institutions on the other. Whatever he does
in this extremely critical posture of affairs
he needs to do it with the full appreciation
and declared sanction Of those eminent
republicans in whose moderation and wis
dom the whole country has confidence.
There must be no more assumptions that
"all Of us" approve what the wisest men,
bers of the Cabinet condemn. There must
be no more examples of unwarrantable mill
tary violence which the great republican
lawyers think it q dnty to denounce. We
appreciate the difficulties Of the situation
but these difficulties only make it all the
more imperative that no steps be taken with
out the best advice and unequivocal sanction
of such republicans, both in the Cabinet
and out of it, as the people feel it safe to
lean on in great and delicate conjunctures.
Year: 1876

Russia and England, if we may accept
plain, semi-official declarations, are so far
agreed upon the reforms necessary in
European Turkey and upon the guarantees
to be required of the Sultan that difference
between them upon these points is very un-
likely to ruffle the harmony of the Confer
ence; but Turkey strenuously stands by her
rights and appeals to the Treaty of Paris.
As the Earl of Beaconsfeld also appealed to
the Treaty of Paris in his Mansion House
speech this appeal of the Sultan will cer-
tainly be heard with sympathy, and it is not
certain to what extent it may receive the
support of the Marquis of Salisbury. The
his guarantee is the ninth article. That
article is as follows:-"His Imperial Majesty,
the Sultan, in his constant solicitude for the
well being of his subjects, having granted q
firman which in ameliorating their condi-
ton without distinction of religion or race,
devotes his generous intentions to the
Christian populations of his Empire, and
wishing to give new evidence Of his
sentiments in this respect has resolved to
communicate to the high contracting Powers
this firman--the spontaneous expression of
his sovereign will. The high contracting
Powers recognize the Importance of this
communication. 1t is understood, however
that this will not in any case give to the said
Powers the right to interfere collectively or
separately in the relations between His
Majesty the Sultan and his subjects, nor in
the internal administration of his Empire Z"


Now, is this q guarantee of the Treaty Of
Paris for the perpetual independence of the
Sultans Empire? Not at all. This article
deals with communication made by the
Sultan to the Congress. That communion
ton related to the internal administration
Of his Empire. The fact of the making Of
such communication might in the future
have been interpreted as an admission on
the part of the Sultan of the right of
the Powers to supervise his domestic
administration, and tho last clause
of tho article is simply precautionary,
to guard against such an interpre-
tation of the present communication. 1t is
not, therefore, declaration in general terms
of immunity from Intervention, but only
specifically that the Sultan's having made a
certain communication shall not be pro-
duced against him in the future.


On the contrary, the Treaty of Paris,
when it does touch the general subject of
the internal administration of the Ottoman
Empire, touches it in a way that His Majesty
will, perhaps not quote as a precedent
for it exhibits by its example its opinion
that general congress has supervision OF
such concerns. In fact, the Treaty of Paris
did actually deal with the internal affairs OF
the Sultan's Empire by its declarations in
eight articles, from twenty-five to twenty
nine inclusive, in regard to the principali-
ties and to Servia; and if that Conference
might act thus with regard to those prov
inces another may exercise tho same au-
thority with regard to Bulgaria and Bosnia.
Year: 1876


WASHINGTON ,17th.-At an adjourn
ed meeting of the caucus of Republi-
can Senators to-day, after long dis
cussion, it was unanimously agreed
that the necessary efficiency of the
civil service would be seriously inn
paired if sweeping reduction be
made in all its branches by the appli-
cation of the reported policy of the
House Committee to cut down nearly
all salaries ten per cent. and the force
employed 20 per cent, and thai the
action of the House on the PROPOSE
tion to abolish number of our mis-
sions to South America and reduce g
the salaries of the principal Ministers
in Europe is unwise and impolitic. 1t
was therefore agreed that the Senate
Committee on appropriations should
pass upon each item of reduction, in
various bills, separately, and should
recommend concurrence only in those
reductions, which, after separate ex-
animation, are found compatible with
the continuance of requisite efficiency
wherever such reduction can be made
and Republican majority of the Sem
ate will vote for them; but on the
contrary, unless similar good reason
can be shown for concurrence in any
recommendation of the House touch
ing matter of Importance, the issue
will be met with unyielding firmness


Man Killed at Tehachape.


TEHACHAPE, 1S.-Sidney Lafton
was shot and almost instantly killed
by G w Thompson at his place to-day
Bitter feelings have existed between
the parties for some time past, Laf-
ton killed man by the name of Glib
son one year ago in Cummings Val
ley. Thompson shot Lafton with q
shot gun. Thompson is under ar
rest.


Meyerstein's new sign at the Lafay-
Year: 1876

One night, while lowly shepherd swains


Their f1eecy charge attended,
A light burst Ger Judea's plains,
Unutterably splendid.
Far in the dusky orient,


A star unknown in story
Arose TO food the armament
With more than morning glory.
The clustering consultations, rest
So gloriously cleaning,
Waned when its sudden splendor burst
Upon their paler beaming.
And heaven drew nearer earth that night
Flung wide its pearly portals
Sent forth from all its realms of light


Its radiant immortals.
They hovered in the golden air


Their golden censors swinging,
They woke the drowsy shepherds there


With their seraphic singing.
Yet earth on this her gala night


No jubilee was keeping;
She lay, unconscious of the light,


In silent beauty sleeping.
No more shall brightest cherubim


And stateliest archangels,
Symphonious sing such choral hymn
Proclaim so sweet svangels.
No more appear that star at eve,


Though glimpses Of its glory
Are seen by those who still believe
The shepherds simple story.
In faiths clear armament afar
To unbelief stranger
Forever glows the golden star
That stood above the manger.
Age after age may roll away,
But on Times rapid river
The light Of its celestial ray
Shall never cease to qulver.
7rail barges on the swelling tide
Are drifting with the ages;
The skies grow dark-sround each bark
A bowling tempest ragesl
Pale with alright, lost helmsmen steer,
While creaking timbers shiver;
The breakers roar-grim Death is near
Oh who may now deliverl
.ight-light from the heraldic star
Breaks brightly o'er the billow,
he storm, rebuked, has fed afar,
The pilgrim seeks his pillow.
,ost, lost indeed, his heart must be
His way how dark with danger,
whose hooded eye may never see
The star above the manger.
Year: 1876

FITzHUGH, late Confederate door-keeper of
the Confederate House, is proving a very dis
agreeable fellow. He makes statement that
10000 volumes of books belonging to the
government including many valuable works
which cost $40 volume to print have dsap-
peared from the House folding room. The
Joss to the government is said to be many
thousand dollars. 1t is further stated that
some of these valuable books which Congress
men find it very difficult to obtain can be pur-
chased at junk shops. The Committee On
Accounts are to look into the matter.
Year: 1876

OUR numerous Aroostook exchanges are
giving up their columns to personal politics
in the form of long communications. It
must be very bad spell for the thin skinned
"a sort of political fly time. The fight be-
tween the two factions of the Republican
party there is very bitter-never more so.
Year: 1876

ACCORDING to the World the New York
Democracy are something in the state of
mankind as described by the negro preacher.
The World says that Gov. Tilden cannot
carry the State because he has aienated from
himself so many of the party; and again it
says that no other Democrat can carry it be-
cause he will ALLEVIATE the masses who believe
in Tilden. A bad condition of affairs, truly!
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable. necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1876

Editor ofths Herald -


Twas sorry to notice In THE HERALD of
Monday an attack upon the police force,
through the editorial columns, that is war
ranted by none ofthe complaints mentioned.
The force is as judiciously managed as It
is possible for it to be, under the peculiar
and embarrassing circumstances surround
ing it. There are only twenty one men on
the force and 1t is impossible for them to be
ubiquitous. Increase the force to proper
size and they will be on hand when wanted.
They already do four hours more work q
day than the police of any city in the United
States. K.
Year: 1876

United States Senator j. r. West arrived
yesterday in town for short respite after
having fully aroused the fifth con gressional
district by canvass sthrough the greater
number of it's parishes. Our reports from
the country of his service and speeches
have been frequent and enthusiastic, and
we have to congratulate the Republicans
of the fourth congressional district, whom
he will next address in mass meetings as
elsewhere announced, that SO honored a
public servant and so convincing an orator
is to present the vital issues OF the hour
General West is fully persuaded of the
coming triumph of the national and the
State Republican tickets, is an accurate in
terpreter of the temper of the people
among whom he was born and has spent go
many years, and was prompt to announce
his prediction OF euccess to the numerous
visitors at his rooms yesterday. 1t is a
pleasure to find the General in good health
as we'll az in good spirits. He, Attorney
General Hunt and Marshal Pitkin will be
soon called upon to speak in some leading
hall of the city, other than Mechanics In
stitute, where the Conservative element
may hear cogent appeals by Louisianians
to Louisianisns why that element should
disown its present baneful Democratic afi-
liation. Let the Republican State Cam
paign Committee look to this.
Year: 1876

There is nothing young unmsrried man
likes better than to go to dinner at the
house of friend and to be asked to carve
the turkey. He never carved q turkey in
his life, and with an old maid on one side
of him, watching him closely. ami on the
other side fsir girl for whom he has ten
derness. he feels EN- m5arrassed when he be-
gins. First he pushes the knife down to-
ward one Of the thigh joints. He can't find
the joint, and he plunges the knife around
in search of it until he makes
mince meat out of the wholo quar-
ter of the fowl. Then he sharpens
his knife and tackles it again. At last,
while making terrific dig, be hits the joint
suddenly, and the leg flies into the maiden
lady's lap. while her dress front is covered
with q shower of stufiug. Then he goes
for the other leg, and when the young lady
tells him he looks warm, the weather
seems to him suddenly to become 1000
warmer. This leg he finally pulls loose with
his fingers. He lays it on the edge of the
plate, and while he is hacking at the wing
he gradually pushes the leg over on the
clean tableclOth, and when he picks it
up it slips from his hands into the gravy
dish and spiashes the gravy around for
six square yards. Just as he has made up
his mind that the turkey has no joints to it's
wings, the host asks him if he thinks the In
dians can really be civilized The girl
next to him laughs, and he says hs will ex-
plain his views upon the subject after din
ner. Then he sops his brow with his hand
kerchief and presses the turkey SO hard
with the fork that it slides off the dish and
upsets goblet of water on the girl next to
him. Nearly frantic, he gouges away again
at the wings, gets them off in a mutilated
condition. and digs into the breast. Before
he can cut any of, the host asks him why he
don't help out the turkey. Bewildered, he
puts both legs on a plate and hands them
to the maiden lady, and then helps the
young girl to q plateful of stutfing, aud
while taking her plate in return knocks
over the gravy dish. Then he sits down
with the calmness of despair and fans him.
self with napkin, while the servant girl
clears and takes the turkey to the other end
Of the table. He doesn't discuss the Indian
question that day He goes home right
sitter dinner and spends the night trying to
decide whether to commit suicide or to
take lessons in carving.-Philadelphia Bul-
Letiu.
Year: 1876

C0nGressma0 Levy IN Ctuctnnat1e


The Cincinnati Commercial of the ninth
has the following:


The Hon. William M. Levy, member of
Congress for Louisiana. speaks for the
Democrats in Rshinson's Opera House this
evening. 1t is Mr.. Levy's distinction to be
opposed to the intimidation of voters and
think it the better policy to show the colored
citizens fair plav. He was beaten for re.
nomination by his party simply and solely
because he was against prescription and
only policy in the solid South that is salts
factory is that of intolerant pursuit of all
who are not ready to yield to the very class
of politicians who got the South into trouble
sixteen years ago.
Year: 1876

At this writing (SA.N there IS no


doubt Of the fact that Tilden and Hem
drick. have been elected President and


Vice President Of the United States.
While we apprehended this result, we
confess that we were hardly able to per.
suade ourselves that such result
was probable. We failed perhaps
to measure the wide spread impression
that had been made upon the popular
mind by the cry for Change and Reform.
We have in another article discussed this
impression, thus effectively made upon
the people, by that specious but decep.
tive cry. The Republican party has
fallen in the contest just closed, not for
faults OF its own, hut because Of the times
that have come on US in consequence OF the
Panic. Not that the Republican party is
without faults. Readers OF the ISrEILI-
oEScER know that we have not failed to
point out its faults. But il had within
itself the salt that would have saved it.
tits essentially a party Of Reform, and
it would have reformed itself under
the administration OF Rutherford B.
Hayes, who would have attracted around
himself the best men in the party and
given the country four years OF most
benefcent civil service. Hayes had
marked out the way fOEs. great and
needed reform in the Government-one
OF the most essential character--nnd he
would have bravely led the party in per-
forming the good work. But the people,
impatient Of present and apprehended
ills, have been lured with the cry for
Change and. Reform. We can only hope
that these promises OF the canvass, so
temptingly held out to the people
to induce them to forget their
deep seated prejudices against the
Democratic party, will no. 'uru out ere
long to be Apples Of sodom, fair to the
eyes but ashes upon the lips. In the
uncertainties that now becloud the tu.
ture Of the country We prefer to believe
that everything will yet work out we'll
for the government.
Year: 1876

ERIE, Pa, Oct. H.-1n consequence of the
repairs now being made to the North Channel
Pier of this harbor, section OF the pier having
been removed, 1t will be impossible to exhibit
the West Channel Pier light during very
stormy weather, but at such times hand-lan-
tern will be exhibited from the pier, about 800
feet to the eastward The interruption will
probably not continue more than two weeks,
unless the weather should cause suspension
Of the work.