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Year: 1876

In my judgment an amendment of the
constitution ought to be raised sepa-
rating into district bills and appropriations
for various departments of public vice and
excluding from each bill all appropriations for
othsr objects and all Independent legis-
lation. In that way alone can every power OF
each OF the two houses and of the ex ecutive be
preserved and exempted from moral duress,
which often compels assent to Objectionable
appropriations father than stop the wheels
of The government
Year: 1876

do not understand the repeal of the resumr-
tton clause OF the act of 1915 to be backward
step tn our return t. specie payments, but the
recovery OF false step; and al hough the re-
peal may Tor time be prevented, yet the de
termination of the Democratic party on this
subject has been formally declared. There
should be no hindran3es put IN the way of a
return to specie payments. GAS such a hind
rance" says the st. Louis platform, "We &C.
nOuEce the resumption clause of Lha act of
1873, and demand its repeal" 1 thoroughly
believe that by public economy, by official
retIeuchment, and by a wise finance, ena-
bling us TO accumulate the precious metals
resumption at an early period is pOsSibe
without producing an artificial scarcity of
currency or disturbing the public or CONNER
c1 al credit; and that these reforms, together
with the restoration of pure government will
restore general confidence, encourage useful
investment OF cap tai, furnish employment to
labor, and relieve the country from the par.
Rlysis of hard times.
Year: 1876

Consistency Thou art IA Jewel.
Editors of the Register:


Dantord said last night he did not in
tend to ''flauEt the bloody shirt" and at
oIce pitched into the South with all the
bitterness and hate of a man who had
never fired a gun in defence OF his
country. He Haunted nothing but the
bloody shirt


Daniord said he had nothing to say
against Mr.. Tilden and then charged
him with having been an
alder and abettor in all the
corruption Of the Tamany Ring.
Whist reason or consistency is there in
such words2 If we are TO form conclu-
siors at all from such denunciatory lam
guage and sectional doctrine, must they
not be diametrically opposite to the
views and wishes of the speaker last
night?


From one who would like to see the
people of the South spoken Of as natives
f the United States, and not as heathens
or canibsls. INDEPENDENT.
Year: 1876

Board, which acts as jury to find the facts. When
found, the law prescribes Judgment BY that
Judgment we must abide as fully as by the IUdg-
ment Of any tribunal acting within the jurisdiction
prescribed by the Constitution and law. There Is
no question of carpet-bagism about the board-all
are of Louisiana: most of them natives two OF
them are very able men, long and well known In the
State"


Mr.. Kasson says that the Northern Democratic
press is misleading the public by erroneous state
ments as to the exact issues in the disputed States
On this point he stated to-day:


"The effort of the Democrats North and South has
been to create prejudice in advance against the en-
tire action of the Canvassing Boards OF the three
Southern States in question. They have led the
public to believe that the only question involved
was that of a fair count by the boards. The ques-
tOn OF Democratic frauds at the election precincts
has been suppressed by them. This question lies
behind the count There can be 10 fair count with
out executing the provisions of law for the detection
and elimination of these frauds whether committed
by one party or the other. n Louisiana the
law is imperative, compelling the board to
inquire into the fairness of the election in
the parishes. To assume that the legal tribunal
provided for determining this question IL going to
violate rules of law and justice is wrong in principle
and not justified by facts. Their duty Is the same
that of the public which is to abide by the law
and the results ascertained in conformity with the
law No amount of vituperation can change or
destroy the effect of final Judgment OF loca'
tribunals. Public opinion must await the legal
proof and adjudication of the questions upon the
facts presented. cannot fOretell what Will be the
result in Louisiana. only feel it strongly my duty
as it is the duty of the public, to await aud to sup
port the conclusions that shall be arrived at by tbe
proper tribunals. acting in exact conformity with
the law. OF course, with my knowledge OF the
previous elections in the disputed States anu
of the fact that the majority OF voters
have heretofore been Republican added to the fact
that the Presidential Republican ticket has run
ahead of the local ticket this election, cannot
entertain a reasonable doubt that upon fair adJu-
dication Of the disputed questions Gov. Hayes has
carried the three States. Whether the evidence pre-
seutcd to the proper tribunals is sufficient aud VIII
verify this opinion is question only to be solved by
the decision which will soon be rendered by them.
What yer dissatisfaction may exist among disap-
pointed politicians. 7 cannot doubt that the masses
# the people of beth lries will not only accept
the results legally aimed, but will oheerfully
support the Adl.lstra. established IN accord
ono. with Them
Year: 1876

How They MARRIED IN 76.-A
hundred years ago Virginia belle was
not to be won without foolscap and
red.tape. This was the certificate
which the bride had TO sign before her
lover could get marriage license ;
"rhe bearer hereof has my permission
TO procure from the authority the
necessary credentials, which shall duly
and honorably merit my attention in
the support of my affections, to con-
tinue through the end of all things,
which shall reflect every ray of honor
ascribable TO so resplcndcnt an element
or sentiment of my right mind, and
which shall henceiorth be strictly ad-
hcrcd to thcpropcr form, at my instant
and his Importantly, in the making
valid all things pertaining TO thestream
of my desire TO become his partner in
the vigor of my youth, in the morning
of affections, properly directed to the
momentous obligation of conjugal en-.
braces in endless felicity. In witness
to the above ] have hcreunto," etc.
Year: 1876

Horticulturists and economists have
for years been warning us that at our
presentrate ofconsumptiona few years
would see our forests entirely cut of,
while we were making no effort to re
place them. Statistics show us that
everywhere this destruction has pro
duced climate changes uniavorable TO
health and to agriculture, and yet we
have gone on stripping hillsides and
plains of valuable TIMBER entirely reck.
less of the future Some few Of the
Western States, on whose vast prairies
the absence of trees brings the subject
moro sharply into notice, have made
an effort by salutary onactments to re.
place the timber they have cut down,
but this is n small offset TO the thou
sands of noble trees that have been
wantonly destroyed merely to clear
the ground.
Year: 1876

WHEAT CRop OF 1S76.-The wheat
crop in Kansas is now sufficiently Sc
cured to warrant reasonable estimate
Of the yield. From our exchanges,
and from all other sources within our
reach, we gather that the acreage for
the current year is at least SO per cent.
greater than last year, and that the
yield per acre will be somewhat larger.
The cold, wet spring, which has re-
tarded the growth of spring crops, has
been peculiarly favorable for wheat,
and the unanimous verdict is that the
berry is larger than ever before raised
in this country. In some instances it
is so full as TO cause considerable waste
in harvesting. The crop of 1875 was
nearly thirteen and a quarter millions
of bushels. We think it perfectly safe
to estimate the crop Of the Centennial
year at twenty millions, The farmers
Of the State are just beginning to re-
alize the fact that they have the best
soil and climate in the world for wheat,
and that fortunes can be rapidly ac-
quired by raising it. The Texas steer
is no longer King OF Kansas. The com
mon sense Of the people has decided
that the poorest use TO which our rich
lands can be put is to pasture them.
The wheat crop of the State increased
from two millions in 1870 to thirteen
millions in 1875, Notwithstanding the
unusual discouragements of two out OF
the five years. We predict that we
shall produce one hundred million
bushels OF wheat in 1880.
Year: 1876

The horrors and lndecencies of the tene-
about for years, have attracted the attention
of a multitude of humane citizens and have
repeatedly been reported to the Legislature,
but without effecting a remedy. 1t is a fact
that one-half of our population is still
crowded into houses unfit for their proper
and in great proportion of cases impossible,
for children to grow up into either healthful
or virtuous men and women where tho
infant mortality is shockingly great, and the
poor, besides their other privntions and suf-
ferings, are forced to see their little ones die
surroundings. And it is equally fact that
while more than half of our people ore
thus crowded and abused there is suffi-
cient land on the island to accommodate
them with roomy and cleanly lodgings,
which could easily be made accessible by
proper and not expensive railroads. Rapid
transit would surely cure the worst evils of
the tenement house system, because it would
enable thousands of families of the laboring
poor to remove to the upper end Of the city.


What the evil is which could thus be
cured, and which cannot be remedied in
any other way, is shown in a recent report
by DR.. Bell, printed by the Legislature. He
shows that while of the tenement house
population nearly 3S in every 1000 die per
annum, of those not living in tenement
houses only 20 1-2 per 1000 die. He shows
that in two contiguous tenement houses,
containing "a families and 349 persons, 115
were ill on tho day of examination, which
was in the healthiest part of the year; that
in single year, 1874, S,725 people died in
the tenement houses over their due proper
ton of deaths, and died from the effects of
overcrowding; that half these deaths were
of infants and children under twelve years,
and that the cost to the poor parents of the
illness and death of this number was over
five hundred thousand dollars, which was
loss out of their scant wages. He shows that
Mt very low estimate the cost of the extra
sickness and extra mortality caused by over
crowding in our tenement houses is not less
than six million dollars per annum This,
he says, is 'the cost of premature deaths,
lives lost, sickness and funeral expenses
chargeable against the tenement houses.


The mere pecuniary loss is startling. But
what is even that when wo compare it with
Year: 1876

the needless sorrow, suffering and de-
moralization bred in these houses? Yet all
or most of this could be prevented. Give
New York rapid transit, enable an indus
trious poor to reach the northern extremity
of the city cheaply and rapidly, and we shall
save thousands Of lives and millions of
dollars every year. 1t is in the interest of
the laboring poor that the HERALD has SO
long and so constantly demanded rapid
transit Once more somebody stops the way.
street railroad company this time forbids
the poor of New York to have cheap and
npid access to the upper part Of the
city. Let it be plainly understood
what delay in this matter means. 1t
means the sacrifice of over eight
thousand lives in every year. 1t means the
needless loss of over six million dollars
by the industrious poor of New. York every
year from their wages. 1t means demorali-
zation, sorrow and suffering to large part
of our population. Who bars the way to
rapid transit?
Year: 1876

1t is reported from Washington that il
Sitting Bull and his redoubtable warriors
shall take refuge from the pursuit OF our
troops by crossing the frontier into the
British Possessions our government Will
demand their surrender from the British
government, that they may be punished for
their crimes. This is, apparently, the comic
aspect of our relations with the Sioux and
with England. 1t is true that the pursuit OF
our troops has not yet pressed the Sioux SO
sorely that they are in great need of
refuge. Indeed if there were not such
painful incidents in the case the country
would already be comparing the pursuit OF
the Sioux by the troops to that famous pur-
suit of wolf by trusty hound, in which,
when last seen, the hound was little ahead.
With the whole of the country open and
no other obstacle to their movements than
the army under Crook we do not see why the
hostile Indians need trouble themselves to
winter in SO cold a country as Canada.
That they may do so, however, seems to be
deemed possible by persons who should be
regarded as experts in knowledge OF the
habits of the Indians, and we would not OPP
pose our opinion to their judgment Should
the Indians do this thing and should our
government demand their surrender from
England the world will be treated to tho
monumental spectacle of the age in interna-
tional relations If Secretary Fish is ever to
be put beside Mr.. Seward in bronze because
he has been Governor and Secretary of State,
and if the artist who is to do him is still in
the flesh, that artist should endeavor to
catch the expression of the great Secretary
when he directs his subordinates to make
the requisition on the British government
for four thousand Sioux, ''be the same more
or less" It is not statuesque countenance
in it's ordinary moods, but glorified by the
sublime faith in red tape that this de-
mand will imply. One cannot say to what
heights of splendor it may rise. How will
England respond to this demand? Will
she surrender the Sioux Perhaps not
But she may balance the account by calling
our attention to the Treaty of Washington
and requiring us to prevent the invasion OF
her soil by hostile expeditions prepared on
our soil or to pay the penalty in cash.
Year: 1876

Philadelphia is so large a city that il
ought to be able to accommodate even the
crowds which flock to the Exhibition with
out danger of suffering either from impure
water or imperfect drainage. Yet it is noto-
rious that scarcely one in ten of those who
visit the Exhibition, even if he remains but
a few days, escapes severe attack of diar-
rhna or dysentery, and we hear of many
cases of typhus and typhoid fever. The
evil has increased of late and has become SO
serious that it is not advisable for persons in
feeble health or those of constitution easily
attacked by such diseases to visit the Exhi-
bition until after severe frost.


The physicians of Philadelphia and its
Board of Health ought to look into this
matter. The water supply of the city
has usually been good; it is certainly Of
poor quality this year. The long, dry
summer may have affected it, as it has
that of other cities. Whatever may be the
cause it is certain that strangers now going
to the Exhibition subject themselves to at
tachs of disease, which are in not few cases
severe and dangerous. We advise visitors
to drink but little water, and to use all the
precautions which suggest themselves un-
der such circumstances. The inconvenience
and danger are real and too serious to be-
trified with.
Year: 1876

Dorsheimer did not desert the republicans
until the Greeley campaign Robinson went
back to his old democratic associations i'm
mediately after the close of the war. His
connection with the republican party was as
transient as that of. Andrew Johnson, be-
ginning with the war and ending
with it. He stands in very di.-
ferent category from Dorsheimer who
went headlong into the republican party
with his father, Philip Dorsheimer, at the
beginning of the Fremont campaign, re-
manned in it until Sumner and Schurz re-
belled against President Grant, and during
that long period never professed to be o war
democrat, but q republican pure and
simple Under the new stress of circum-
stances which has arisen since the Maine
election the regular democracy of the State
will make no difficulty in accepting Robin
son.


1t may be asked what is gained by taking
such candidate if John Kelly was correct
in his speech at Saratoga two weeks ago,
when he maintained that the liberal repub-
licans had gone back to their old party, and
that nothing could be gained in catering to
their sentiments. The answer is that Mr..
Kelly in that intemperate speech ignored
the German vote. Our German population,
both here and elsewhere, have evinced
strong disposition to support Mr.. Tilden.
They are numerous enough in New
York, and perhaps also in Ohio and
Indiana to turn the scale against
the republicans. Except on tho old
war issues their sympathies are naturally
democratic, especially on the liquor ques-
ton, the free trade question and the money
question, so far as they can be persuaded to
regard Tilden, and not Hendricks, as repre-
senting the democratic party. The Germans
might revolt against an old copperhead
Bourbon; but against candidate like Mr.
Robinson, who was strenuous supporter
of the war, they will have nothing to say
The last hope of the democratic party hangs
on the possibility of controlling the German
vote, and it was therefore expedient to nom-
mate q candidate for Governor whose war
record is unassailable.


The nomination of Robinson is victory
for Governor Tilden. He was the choice Of
the Governor and is democrat of the pro-
nounced Tilden type 1t would have been
bad party strategy to discredit or humiliate
the Presidential candidate. To have nomi-
mated an anti-Tilden democrat would have
seemed like q Reputation of the reform
issue and fouting of the pretensions of
Mr.. Tilden as o reform candidate. This
would have been an infinitely greater mis-
take than the preponderance which has been
given to the liberal republicans in the COM
position of the ticket We incline to think
that the Convention has done the best thing
possible under the circumstances, and that
it is fortunate for the party that its leaders
were scared by the Maine election into a
surrender TO Goyernor Tilden
Year: 1876

If confirmation of the arrest Of Tweed were
needed the statement of Mr.. Gushing, United
States Minister to Spain, which we publish
this morning, would supply it. In an inter-
view which our correspondent had with Mr..
Gushing at his home in Newburyport, Mass,
yesterday, he said that cit is an absolute fact
that Tweed is in custody precisely as was
stated in the HERALD's cable dispatches ="
The American government was not in any
way surprised at the arrest, and although Mr..
Gushing is reticent in respect to himself it
is clear that to his forethought and energy
the apprehension of Tweed is in large
measure DUE Doubted at first, it Is now
believed, that Tweed has been captured; yet
many people cannot credit that he will ever
be delivered in New York. Mr.. Gushing
gives ample assurance that this part of the
plan has been attended to, and says that it
would have been child's play to have
arrested Tweed unless arrangements for
bringing him here had been fully and def
nitely made. He seems to think Tweed al
most as foolish as knavish in not seeking to
obtain q compromise of some kind by restor-
ing the city the bulk of his plunder. We
showed long ago that the great municipal
robber could not expect any mercy so long
as he clung to his ill-gotten gains; but per-
haps it is better as it is. New York can
easier afford to lose six millions than to lose
the opportunity of making an example of
the man who took them. The effect of the
arrest Of Tweed upon the Presidential cam
paign Mr.. Gushing does not consider of much
importance. 1t would help Tilden, he says,
if Tilden could have the criminal promptly
punished, but adds that Tweed can hardly
arrive here in time for Mr. Tilden to act be-
fore the election. It would, therefore, appear
polite in the administration, which supports
Mr. Hayes, to delay the return of Tweed.
and in that way deprive Mr.. Tilden of q
much-coveted opportunity. But it is hardly
likely that the American government would
thus trife with justice for the benefit of party.
Tweed ought to be in Havana about the first
week of October, and as all the arrangements
are completed for restoring him to America,
he should be in New York before the middle
of next month.
Year: 1876

The first day Of the International Rife
Match passed off successfully particularly
for the Scotch. Creedmoor was thronged,
upward of five thousand persons being in
attendance, and the excitement was intense,
at times mounting to enthusiasm. The ar
rangements were generally excellent, the
only improvement that might be suggested
being the appointment of an earlier hour
for the beginning of the trial; but
when the distance of Creedmoor from
New York and the difficulty of reaching it
are considered perhaps this would not be
practicable. The plans for the protection
of the markers from stray balls and of the
were better than at any other match, and
complete order was maintained.


On another page we present diagrams of
the one hundred and twenty targets That
were made by the contestants. The diff
Guilty of obtaining an exact transcript of
the fifteen shots on each target is apparent,
but we believe that there is not single error
of importance in placing any of the eighteen
hundred shots that were fired during the
day. These diagrams are made by the
closest measurement and represent the re-
suit of each marksman's aim with surprising
accuracy 1t will be seen by reference to
them, as we'll as to the numerical scores.
that the shooting was of o very high order
The averages were good for the leading
teams, and some extraordinary displays we're
made by individuals, particularly by Messrs.
johnson and Mlllner, of the Irish team Mr..
johnson hit the bulrs-eye at eight hundred
yards fifteen times, making seventy-five
points-a feat accomplished but once before.
Mr. Millner did almost equally well in
hitting the bulls-eye thirteen times at a
thousand yards but DR.. Mitchell, of the
Scotch team, bettered this by making the
surprising score of fourteen bull's-eyes at
the same range. The fortunes Of the day
were varying. The Americans led by fifteen
points over the next highest team at the
eight hundred yards range, but lost part of
their advantage at nine hundred yards,
and at thousand yards were passed by both
the Scotch and Irish. When the day ended
the Scotch were four points ahead of the
Irish and the Irish five points ahead of the
Americans. The Australians were thirty
two points behind the Americans and the
Canadians were almost one hundred points
behind the Scotch. The battle of the first
three teams could hardly be closer,
and will add much to the excitement to-day.
The Americans had the misfortune to
make important errors. Mr.. Fulton missed
his target once, and General Podine made n
bull's-eye on the wrong target 1t would be
impossible to predict which of the three
leading teams will win to-day, but our only
wish is that it will be that with ''the best
men"