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Year: 1876

We are going, we are going


In the path of beauty rare,
Far beyond the stars of twilight.


To the world that's grand and fair.
And our path is lighted brightly


With the golden lights that shine,
Ever brightly over yonder,


In that world that Is divine.
And they fill our hearts with gladness
Gfadness OF that happy sphere,
That with all its grace and grandeur


Seems to us so very near.
As we view the world of beauty,


Sparkling over there on high,
And the city bright celestial,


Far beyond the azure sky,
We are thinking of the loved ones


Who have only gonc before,
TO the world of shining beauty,
/. And will greet us at the door.
Year: 1876




PAINTING OrFIcE SECRETS. The Bruins
wick Telegraph says that a properly
conducted printing office is as much
secret society, as q Masonic Lodge.
The printers are not under an oath of
secrecy, but always feel themselves as
in honor bound to keep secrets, as
though they had been put through
triple oaths. Any snploye in print
ing Office who will willingly Disregard
this rule in regard to printing Office Sc
crets, would not only be scorned by the
brethren of the craft, but would lose
his position in the Office at once. We
make this statement. because it some-
times happens that communication
appears in a newspaper under an as
sumed signature which excites COM
ment, and various parties try to find
who is the author. Let oil be saved
the trouble of questioning the employees
or attaches of the printing office. They
are "know nothingsa on such points as
these. On such matters thoy have
eyes and ears but no mouth and il they
fail to observe this rule, let them be put
down as dishoncrable members Of the
craft.


MARX OF a GENTLEMaN..-No manIis q
gentleman who, without provocation.
would treat with incivility the humblest
Of his species. II is vulgarity for
which. no accomplished dress or address
can ever atone. Show US the man who
desires to make every one around him
happy, and whose greatest solicitude is
never to give cause of offence to any
one, and we viii show you gentleman
by nature and by practice, though he
may never havo worn suit of broad
cloth nor ever heard of lexicon. We
are proud to say for the honor Of our
species there are men in every throb OF
whose heart there is solicitude for the
welfare Of mankind, and whose every
breath is perfumed with Kindness.
Year: 1876

A Foor LAME, One of the most in
teresting things in the Holy Land is
the fact that one meets everywhere, in
daily life, the things that illustrate the
Word OF the Lord. The streets OF Je-
rusalem are very narrow, and no one
is allowed to go out at night without a
light. Throw open your lattice in the
evening and look out: you will see
what seem to be little stars twinkling
on the pavement. You will hear the
clatter of sandals, as the late traveller


attles along. AS the party approaches,
YOU will see thst he has little lamp
taste ned to his foot, to make his step n
safe one. In an instant the verse comes
10 your memory. written in that city
three thousand years ago" Thy Word
is lamp to my feet and light to my
path. "tEr.
Year: 1876

WILL HUMAN SALIVA KILL SSAKEs ?--
The Marietta (Ga. Journal was told by,
a gentleman the other day that human
spittle was as deadly to poisonous
snakes as their bites were deadly to man.
He says while picking up a bundle of
straw and trash under his arm, while
cleaning o field, a ground ratlesnake,
four feet long, erawled out from it and
fell to the ground at his feet. He at
once placed his heel upon the head of
the snake and spit in his mouth. Short
ly afterward the snake. showed. symp-
toms of inactivity and sickness, and he
picked itup by its tail and carried it to
the house AMI showed it to his wife.
telling her that he had spit in its mouth
and that it was poisoned. At the expi-
ration of fifteen minutes the snake was
dead. To further experiment he came
across blowing adder (snake), which
elected from its mouth yellow liquid.
He caught it aud spit in its mouth, and
it died. He caught another blowing,
and it refused to open its mouth. He
spit upon stick and rubbed the spittle
upon the adder's nose, and it died. At
terward he came across black snake,
regarded as not poisonous, and he
caught il and spit in its mouth. In
stead of the spittle killing the black
snake, as it did the poisonous reptiles,
it only made it stupidity sick, from
which it recovered. This conclusively
shows that poisonous snakes have as
much to fear from the spittle of man
as man has to fear from their bites.
Year: 1876

The st. Louis Globe Democrat of We'd
nesiay gives the following accouut Of care
before the courts Of iEis city: Two or
three years ago wild young man Of that
city married beautiful blonde in New
York. and, after living with her couple If
years. separated from her aud returned 10
st. Louis. The ceremony was performed
under peculiar circumstances. aud the
young man did not believe the marriage was
legal. lie became steady and settled down
To business, and, in time. married young
lady Of the highest respectability. After
ward he Thought the first marriage might
have been legal. and SO he applied for and
obtained decree Of divorce fiom the New
York woman. The blonde, finding that he
had wealthy connections. employed law
yer TO get the decree OF divorce set aside,
and this was accomplished several months
ago. The case was taken up 10 the Court
Of Appeals. and the Judgment Of the Cir
cult Court was affirmed yesterday but the
court. on motion for rehearing suspend
ed the Judgment Of affirmation. ami the
matter remains iu suspense. The yonng
man finds himself in an awkward position.
and realizes the fact that the way of the
transgressVr Is hardr
Year: 1876

JUDGE BLACK, one Of the council fol
the defense Of Belknap, delivered lengthy
argument before the Court of Impeach.
ment on Wednesday. The principal poin'
in the case,was definition Of bribery. He
claimed that it was not wrong in criminal
sense for any officer to take present. But
he did not give verdict at all pleasing to
the Republican party, when he stated that
the impeached Secretary was only follow
ing the example of his chief, who gave
his appointments to men who made him
presents. Here is an argument defending
one Of Grants officers because he only i'm
itated his master in receiving bribes. Mr..
Black gave Grant terrible blow, and one
that will have its effect in blackening the
reputation Of the Republican party. Who
will have their doubts now as to how
Grant has been Influenced in making his
appointments.
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning work was resumed
on the new basin. Spades and picks were
supplied. Hardly had the sound of whis.
ties, and the changing of bells, which an.
nounced the hour Of seven ceased, before
eighty-five men were hard at work. The
HERALD representative was on the ground
and ascertained as the reason a full
hundred were not present that the Eighth
ward would not send men because the rep.
resentatives from that ward claimed Ia
have no authority to do so. The Ninth
ward had only one present, and he was q
colored man. Later in the day the Eighth
ward sent five men and The Ninth ward
sent four, and up to late hour in the af.
ternoon the number had reached ninety.
four.


They will be employed as long as the
reservoir fund holds out, and after that the
work must discontinue, as we stated in
these columns yesterday. The effect Of
employing only few, as we had anticipa-
ted, has given dissatisfaction, which was
witnessed at the scene Of labor yesterday.
Numbers left sorely disappointed at not
being successful, and it will have repeti-
tion when another hundred are put on
next week. The hopes of the men have
been greatly raised, and we only wish that
they were not doomed to disappointment.
The full hundred Of the force now EN-.
ployed will no doubt be completed to-day.
Year: 1876

# . bountifu1 Providence, with the coop
Grafton of "Old Probabilities in Washing
ton, and the permission of Prof. T1cE in St.
Louis, will only bless us for few days with
such glorious spring weather as gladdened the
hearts Of the community yesterday, there will
be a speedy recovery from the depression
which all branches of trade have felt for
some weeks past. The winter has been
trying one, Notwithstanding the absence OF
severe cold weather, for it has been long
drawn out, and run over into the spring-time,
leaving the country roads in such condition
as to make it impossible for the farmers to
get their produce to the marketa- This, in
turn, has affected the business Of the towns
and cities. But few days more Of sunshine
like that Of yesterday will dry up the roads
and set the machinery of commerce working
as usual The long faces and blank despair
of the merchants turned into broad smile
under the rays Of the sun and at the first
sight Of green grass and budding trees, and
the general good nature will relieve people to
some extent Of the chronic complaint Of hard
times which everybody has dvelt upon
more genial ibarality on all aides will i'm
prove business OF every kind; and improved
business will in turn promote ibera]ity and
conf;danca
Year: 1876

to expect genuine reform from this change
if it shall be made, notwithstanding the doubts
expressed by Mr. S. S. Cox, who failed to
convince his own party in Congress OF the
danger to be apprehended from the transfer
The employment in the Indian service OF a
large number of unemployed army 'oihcers'
who are maintained on the frontiers IN any
case, ought to make decided saving OF
itself. There will be a saving, in addition to
this, Of the cost incident to the dllatory pol
icy of the Indian service under the manage
ment of civilians, and the opportunity Will
be afforded of breaking away from the Vul-
lures who have lived and fattened on indian
contracts. The country will be seriously dis
too, if the army officers as class
shall not develop higher order Of official
responsibility and personal integrity than has
been the rule under the management Of the
Indian service heretofore.
Year: 1876

people of all parties might express their rep
rotation of Co1yn's usurpaton, aud their
wish for a change. That end was accom-
,,lished by the almost unanimous vote against
Co1y1s. Mr. HOME would doubtless regard
it as a personal calamity TO be compelled
to act as Mayor, and will unquestionably CO.
operate with the friends of good government
in all measures that will expedite the change.
It will be noticed that the title of Mr.. HOME
to the Office, and the title Of the person to
be chosen by the Council, must both rest
upon the assumption TINT there was legal
vacancy. Now; it has been suggested that
!alr: HoYSE at the proper. time take the oath
of Office as Mayor, and that he then resign
the of1ice,-thus relieving the person elected
of the counter-claim that the vacancy was
filled by the popular election, and transfer
ring to that person whatever legal force
there may be in such claim. The Mayor
elected by the Council will then represent
the united opposition to CoIvn, and such
Mayor will hold all the title which rests on
the assumption that legal vacancy existed
A triangular fight for the Office would add to
the complications of the case, and would
have the effect of strengthening CoLyES's
usurpation, dividing the friends of good or
der, and tend to further embarrass the city,
while union Of the anti Colvinites, it be-
ing no party question, would render the con-
tinuation of the usurpation extremely haz-
ardous
Year: 1876

thus taken, and the primary meeInB oeEoA-
crates into scramble between factions which
resort to the most disgraceful and fraudulent
devices to secure success. Thus 1t Is TINT
candidates and delegates, representing but
faction of the more disreputable class, aro
forced upon the people, and manage and get
absolute control of the machinery Of politics.


Under the circumstances, the primary sys-
tenn becomes perverted /; it defeats instead
of executing tho public will; it fills the pub
Lie service with scoundrels, thieves, 1oafers,
and incompetent men; makes peculation and
fraud Of common occurrence; and it de-
moralizes public sentiment. One of its most
dangerous results is That tho primary meet
ton, ballot-box stuf6nS, repeating, and false
returns in tho regular elections, and that
they offer q pecuniary reward to the whole
class of criminals, who are ready at any time
to enter into contract to nominate or elect
any person who will pay for the work.


There are two remedies for this condition
of things: ~ To purify the system, and (2)
the union of al honest people to defeat at
the polls the election of improper persons
nominated by dishonest means. Obviously,
the first of these is the better plan. The he
publican party has club organization IN
every ward in the city. There is no more
useful feature of an organization than
knowledge of the names and residences of all
the voters in every precinct of every ward-
This is almost indispensable to any
thorough, intelligent action. The Repubi-
can Club Of each ward should have
full record of all the voters, Democratic as
well as Republican these should be record
ed, and the registration thus made should ab-
solutely govern the right of suffrage at the
Republican primary meetings. No person
unwilling to register himself on the books of
the ward club as Republican should bo
allowed to vote at Republican primary meet
ing and to protect the registration from
fraud by colonization, Or by sudden inronds
of men from other wards to vote at the pri-
maries, this registration should be closed
some weeks before the meetings. It is an
easy matter for these clubs to canvass the
wards by blocks aud ascertain the names
and residences Of the whole number of voters,
and their general politics and this informa-
ton, while furnishing complete defense
against false voting at the primaries, will also
servo as check upon and the means Of de-
tccting stuhing tho boxes, or false returns at
tho regular elections. As We said in the be-
ginning, the primary system rests upon the
only true principle by which the popular
choice Of candidates can be made. The evil
is in the perversions and abuses Of TINT sys-
tenn, and the non-participation Of the people
therein, not only rendering fraud possible,
but inviting it by the immunity offered The
remedy therefore is not in the abolition Of the
system, but in its publication and by pre-
ventiye regulations.
Year: 1876

Chicago is frequently advertised to the
milton in manner scarcely calculated to re-
fleet credit on the community, though serv-
ing I'll the same to fasten public attention
upon this marvellous city. We have become
as conspicuous through our calamities as our
good fortune. Mr.. BARNEY CAuLfH1D
threatens to be one Of these. The peculiar
unfairness and capacity to blunder which he
has exhibited since he went to Congress have
given him an unenvieble sort of prominence,
which Chicago must, perforco, share with
him. He began his career Of misrepresent-
ing this city by appearing on the floor of
Congress as an apologist for Ben Hill and
the fre-eating Confederate sentiment in the
Democratic Congress. This was peculiarly
aggravating in view Of the fact that Chicago
Was as loyal n city as there was in
the War, and probably contributed as
largely as any other to the successful
prosecution of the Wa1. As long as CAu1-
FIELD was content to stand by. the Confcder-
ates in Congress, the Democrats stood BY
him; but when, as Chairman Of the Com
mittee on Expenditures in the Department of
Justice, CAu1FnLn began to blunder, the
Democrats lost confidence, and have now
robbed him Of his opportunity. They have
taken from his committee the investigation Of
the allegations against Secretary Bn1srow, and
turned the matter over to the Committee on
Ways and Mems. Congress has also notified
Mr.. CAu1rre1D. that he must henceforth con-
duct his other investigations publicly. His
colleagues are evidently disguised with the
failure in the Presidential sensation which
CAu1r1rLD had promised them, and are also
determined not to lend themselves to the
smirching Of character by Misrepresentation
of secret investigation which subsequent pub
icity shows in its true light CAu1rH1ps
foTte is evidently not Congressional service.
Year: 1876

AN UGLY AFFAIR IN SUssEx.-Last week
a man named Collins, down in Broadkiln
Hd., Sussex CO., penned lot of strange
hogs that had been eating his corn, and
when a neighbor claimed them Collins re-
fused to let him take them until he had
paid for the damage they had done. That
night lot Of masked men went to Collins
and took the hogs, and when Collins went
out and discharged his gun into the dark
ness the masqueraders returned the fire,
and put several bullets into the door in
which Collins and his wife were standing.
The matter looks like an ugly affair for the
masqueraders. Collins was acting in con.
formity with the law.
Year: 1876

A TIMELY HINT.-SAm. Townsend has
written letter calling attention to the ar
rest and imprisonment of persons for petty
thieving, thus filling the Jail, and subjecting
the county to a heavy expense. For in
stance a poor colored man was arrested for
stealing bucket of COAL and imprisoned
until the meeting of the Court in May next,
at a cost of about $2l6. Mr.. r. suggests
that it would have been much wiser for the
Trustees Of the Poor to have given the man
a bucket of coal, thus opening up the ques-
ton whether it would not be much cheaper
for the community to look after the poor,
keep them in New Castle for months at the
public expense.
Year: 1876

The Rev. Dir. Manning testified on Tues
day, in the case of the Old South Church of
Boston, Ia Revolutionary rclcj which is
now before the court on a proposition by
the society to sell the property. lie gave
1t as his opinion that the property should
be sold, on the ground that the secular as
sociations connected with the building had
tended to destroy its spiritual character.
DIR. Manning said that he very seldom had
an inquiry from strangers about the reli-
gious services at the church, but he was
very often asked into which window Warren
climbed, and if this was the church where
the British stabbed their horses.
Year: 1876

GRANT DON'T WANT IT.-The Washington
editor of the New York Tribune sent the
following to that paper OH Monday:


1t is learned to-day that President Grant
has formally signified to Senator COnkling
of New York and others that he has decided
not to he candidate for the Presidency,
and has pledged himself not to accept a re.
nomination. Similar reports have two or
three times recently been in circulation,
but there are some special reasons for at
taching more credit to this one. Itappears
that Senator Conkling is acting upon the
notification that he has formally avowed
his own purpose TO be a candidate, and has
already formally begun the organization of
his campaign. The confirmation of this
may soon be looked for in such Republican
papers as assume to speak with party eu-
thority.


There is no reason to suppose that the
President, in retiring from the list has in.
dictated preference for any of the remain.
ing competitors; but it requires no effort
Of the imagination to suppose that he
is grateful for Senator Conkling's forbear-
ance The chances are, therefore, that the
Senator will enter the field with as much
assistance as anybody is likely to get from
the Federal ofiice.holders Democrats
believe that the effect of the Conkling move.
ment will be to force Gov. Tilden more
prominently to the front; but Republicans
| here do not attach equal importance to
that idea, and outside of New-York do not
seem to consider the plans Of Mr.. Conkling
of much consequence.
Year: 1876

Two decisions of the Supreme Court
Of the United States bearing upon the
scope and purpose Of the enforcement
act, and on the proper methods OF de-
fining offenses arising under it, will be
found in our columns to-day. The de-
cision in the Louisiana case points out
with admirable elearness and emphasis
the distinction between rights conferred
by the Constitution and rights which
the Constitution simply guards against
infringement either by Congress on one
hand or by State governments on the
other. The source Of a good many Of
the blunders made in Interpreting the
legislation arising out of the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments IS shown to
be the tendency to confound the rights
which one citizen must respect in an
other with the rights whose enjoyment
the State must guarantee to all it's citl-
Zens. The United States have neither
the power nor the obligation to do police
duty in the States a fact which both
Judges and legislators have committed
serious mistakes in ignoring.
Year: 1876

from the st. Louis Republican,


The torpedo um mbrella resembles IN its
outward appearance the ordinary silk or
cotton side-arm, but its stock is some
what larger in diameter, and consists of
wooden piston, the latter forming the
handle Of the weapon. Within that
part of the tube which projects beyond
the frame Of the umbrella, and forms
what is commonly called the point, is
incIosed a cartridge containing a heavy
charge of dynamite. This cartridge can
be pushed forward and exploded simply
by pressing the handle Of the piston
rod. and as the force Of the explosion Is
exerted on a line with the tube, the cart
ridge can be fired without danger to the
operator. especially il he first spread:
the umbrella, and thus interposes
shield against any possible splinters ol
flying fragments Of an enemy.
Year: 1876

:


TfIden and Thurman thus come To
occupy the front place to-day IN the
list Of Democratic candidates. Men ol
character and power and experience
men with strong political andpersonal
capital behind them, they are the be5'
representative politicians OF the party
The nomination may pass beyond them
because Of the exingencies Of the cam
naign hut we believe it has already
come up to them, and will not go back
There is a small faction IN his OWL
State bitterly opposed TO Thurman, 6u1
the same men are equally lrreconcilel
tn Tiiden Governor TiIden certainly
stands to-day the ablest and the brav
est representative Of political reform
and administrative power that the Dem
ocratie party can offer.
Year: 1876

The following anecdote Of ChiefJus


Chase Is told by the Toledo Commercial
..Soon after Chief Justice Chase assumed
the gubernatorial chair in Ohio he issued
his proclamation appointing Thanksgiv
ling day. 10 make sure of being orthodox
the governor composed his proclamation
almost entirely Of passages from The Bible


which he did not designate as quotations,
presuming that every one would recognize
them and mire the fitness of the words
as well as his taste in their selection. The
proclamation meeting the eye Of a Demo
cratic editor, he pounced at once upon il.
ard declared that he had read it before
couldn t exactly say Hhere-but ne would
take his oath that 1t was downright
plagiarism from beginning TO end. Thai
would have been pretty fair joke; but
the next days Republican editor came out
valiantly in defense of the governor, pro-
nounced the charge libelous, and challeng-
ed any man living to produce one single
line of the proclamation that had appear
ed In print before.''
Year: 1876

Mr.. BEECHER wants "every man,
woman and child" everybody in
Heaven and everybody in Heir who
knows anything about him to speak it
now, or henceforth forever hold their
peace. A pretty strong invocation,
second only to his challenging the AL
mighty Himself to speak the truth in
his case. In face of these utteraaces of
the reverend gentleman, the conclusion
cannot but be reached. that HENRY
WARD BEECHER is either the worst per-
secuted man on the face of the globe, or
he is the most recklessly vile man who
was ever born.