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Year: 1876

PETER FLYNNS D01NGS-N0T A SUCCESS


JAIL DELIVERY.
Regular Correspondence Of the Gazette.


NEW CASTLE, August 8, 1876.


MIR. Peter Flynn was drunk last
evening and in consequence the lower
part of Water street was enlivened by
him. 1t eliminated bv his being
walked off to Fort Lambson by officer
O'Neal, just as he was making an af-
fectionate demonstration with a half
brick towards James Kennedy an old
man about seventy five years of age.
These scenes are of weekly occurrence
and Mayor Giffin would confer favor
if instead of letting Peter off with
mere nominal fine he would send him
up for thirty days.


The meeting to aid the Good Will
Fire Co.. in making up purse to
enable iG to 60 to Philadelphia next
month was not a success by any means
the members of the company even
took no interest in it and as matter
of course, they cannot expect outsiders
to do so.
About twenty five prisoners whose
time have been discharged in the last
week, but in spite of this there have
been so many sent over by the Mayor
and j. P. of your city that there are
now eighty nine inmates who garrison
Fort Lambson.
Year: 1876

I'VE have the Offices and we mean to
keep them we are the Republican party,
and we intendto maintain our rigorous
and registering rule" This is all the
significance there is to the action at Gin.
cinnati. Not q single issue is presented
upon principle. Not a word is uttered
in behalf Of retrenchment and reform.
Not single guarantee is given that a
new and higher policy will prevail. The
oficeholders combined upon candidate;
and that ended the struggle.
Year: 1876

Of course 1t is not unlikely that The
Graphic's diagnosis of the case Is at
fault, and that no such intrigue is on
foot as that detailed in its columns.
There is an Independent Voter, and,
being lively animal, he is not going
to be suppressed. and will have to take
himself somewhere. For our part, iudg-
ing him by his oracles, we despair of
him. lie will never act against the
Republican party in crisis unless the
Democratic party be out of the way,
and that is impossible just yet. We
therefore look to see him Republican,
provided Morton or COnkling is not the
Republican nominee and we do not
expect to find MIN much of disturbing
element at Cincinnati. More's the pity,
we confess; but 1t is well to- take things
as they are. If the Democratic party
with its present advantage has not the
wisdom to work its way nut let it die,
and then the Honest lmpracticableS
can administer on its remains. Until
we can get new party, however, out
and Out,nO more crOokedness no more.
Year: 1876

There is no reason why the street cars
should not be comfortably warmed, except
that it would slightly increase the expenses
of the companies-a reason with which the
public cannot be expected to sympathize.
They could be very effectively heated by
little coal stoves, with a pipe carried through
the top; but as this would interfere with
the comfort of that large number Of persons
who love to hang on by the straps this plan
we suppose could never find favor. Another
plan not open to objection would be the
adoption of the chagferettes in common
use in railway carriages all over Europe.
These are metal foot warmers that are filled
at starting with scalding water. They
retain the heat for two or three hours
They are commonly made very heavy, that
they may retain the heat the better, and lie
on the floor so fat MS not to be an incon-
venience. These, filled ut the end Of every
round trip, would make passengers comfort
able on that long, cold, dreary ride from
down town to streets in the sixties. It
would be happy experiment for line in
which the traffic is not satisfactory and
which runs not far from we'll patronized
line to try the effect Of introducing such an
element of comfort.
Year: 1876


them have been repeated in 1876 The fair
ness and legality of every election must be
determined by the facts and evidence con-
nected with itself; but when there are strong
grounds of suspicion connected with q
new election they cannot be rebutted by ap-
peals to former good character. The fact
that such monstrous frauds have been COM
mitted in Louisiana heretofore was reason
why the Returning Board should have taken
all reasonable precautions against such
suspicious as have arisen in connection
with their recent canvass. Their conduct
when they found it necessary to make
Wholesale reflections of votes and reverse
the certified result of the election, ought to
have been frank and open. Every step
should have been taken in such broad day
light that it would have required no pro-
tracted Investigation by committee of Con-
gress to discover precisely what they did.
Their subsequent refusal to give in
formation to the committee has also
an ugly look, as if their conduct
would not bear exposure. The refusal
of Mr. Long, a member of their own party,
to accept ON office because he had been
falsely counted in, is also good ground for
suspecting that what was done in his case
may have been done in others.


With SO many reasons for doubling tho
honesty of the canvass the investigation
must 60 on. 1t ought to be rigorous and
thorough, and both parties should con-
tribute to make it 80. 1t is infinitely
more important that we have honest cleo
tions than that any Presidential candidate
should be installed in Office. If it is our
misfortune to have o weak or a bad Presi-
dent we can do better next time If the ballot
boxes truly reflect the public will; but if
our elections are to be controlled by fraud
we are deprived of our only remedy.
Honest elections are the corner stone of the
Republic. All parties have an equal in
terest in maintaining them The real
truth about the Louisiana election can be
ascertained if party feeling does not obstruct
the inquiry or distort the facts, and when
the truth is once established there need be
no difficulty about the final counting of the
electoral votes. Before the second Wednes-
day in February it will be known with rea-
sonable certainty whether Mr.. Hayes or Mr..
Tilden is fairly entitled to the votes of
Louisiana and Florida; and then the truth,
however unwelcome or disappointing, must
be accepted with patriotic submission.
Year: 1876

Several important statements have been
sent abroad from Constantinople since the
adjournment of the preliminary conference.
which, taken collectively, certainly encour-
age the view that the difficult points of the
negotiation will be overcome by Russia's
becoming rather less resolute in her de-
mands, and, in short that war appears far
less inevitable than it did several days
since. These rumors have had time
to reach st. Petersburg where they
have, doubtless, attracted as much at
tention as elsewhere, and we receive
from that city a despatch which seems to
cast doubt upon one of these statements. It
is said that nothing is known at st. Peters
burg of the proposed extension of the armis-
tice. If this be true the extension is only
rs yet project of the diplomatists; for Ser
via would not enter upon step Of this
consequence without the knowledge Of her
great ally. But it is significant that this is
the only one of several important statements
to which any reference is made in
the despatch and though in such q
case the failure to mention them
does not go far as confirmation, yet
it indicates that they are not idle rumors
or they would have been denounced. 1t
may, therefore, be accepted as in high de-
gree probable that Russia has SO far modi-
fed her demand for the occupation of Bull
garia that it is not now on the board as an
imminent danger to the peace of Europe. It
is likely that the change of Ministry at Con-
stantinople was brought about through the
influence of General Ignatieff, and was one
of the conditions Of the practical withdrawal
of Russia's demand.
Year: 1876

TIE BENEFITS FOR THE BROOKLYN SUFFER-
ERs.-The dramatic profession has never
failed to generously respond to the cry of
the distressed, and could not but feel pro-
foundly the terrible calamity in Brooklyn.
The action of the managers, actors and at
taches of the principal theatres of New York
in giving performances for the aid of the
sufferers deserves the fullest support We
trust the theatres will all be filled this after
noon. Time enough has passed since the
fire to permit sadness and pleasure to bo
united in this strange way, and no one will
less enjoy the performance because of the
knowledge of the cause in which it is given.
Joy and sorrow are closely interviewer in
our lives, and the Muse Of Comedy, with
smiling lips and fearful eyes, kneels by the
side Of the graves in Greenwood.
Year: 1876

Another fatal case of hydrophobia is re-
ported, and Of course the chronicle involves
another Spitz dog. If we might mix natural
history we should call the Spitz dog rattle
snake on four legs. No person, or certainly
not many persons, would keep rattlesnakes
as pets to be about loose where their children
are /; but put little white, fluffy hair on
him, and four legs, and call him dog, and
he has the liberty of hundreds of thousands
Of houses, though he is unchanged as to his
venom. In none of the numerous recent
cases Of hydrophobia has the virus come from
dogs of any other breed than this, and if we
recur to cases where the victim was bitten
by dog of another breed the probability
arises that that dog was previously bitten
by one of the breed 80 dangerously sub
ject to the fell disease. Thus Spitz
dog is not only danger in the house where
ho is kept, but q danger throughout the
neighborhood; for he communicates the dis
ease to breeds in which it originates so sell
dom that the susceptibility to it may be
regarded as bred ont. Before the introduc-
tion of the Spitz Dog there was hardly
doctor to be foundi in the cities of this coun-
try who had seen case of death from rabies.
1t was the rarest possible incident in medi-
cal history. But now scarcely week passes
but one is reported. In the Spitz dog the
disease occurs, from appearance, sponta-
neously, rs it occurred in the dogs which Dr.
Kane carried from this country to the Arctic
regions, and obviously results similarly
last case the 10y was the son Of him who
owned the dog, and that is a sufficiently
terrible penaEy on the father; but in any
other case the remedy by damages might
establish in 'alutary way that it is danger
Gus pecuniariy, as well as otherwise, to keep
these animals.
Year: 1876

The COLLISION which occurred yester.
day on the Elevated Railroad was, almost
miraculously, unaccompaniod by loss o.
life; but this fact should not lessen the en-.
ergy with which the guilty switchman il
pursued. The accident was in no way
peculiar to this sort of road, but was due
entirely to trait of human nature against
which the richest and most careful corpora
tions seem unable to protect themselves.
Very few tracks upon terra firma would have
retained the cars in such case as securely
as the Elevated rails did.
Year: 1876

Very cold weather continues during the
early morning all over the country. Yester.
day at seven o'clock A. NJ the temperature
at st. Marks, Fla, was six degrees below
freezing, and in the Northwest and in Lower
Canada more than ten degrees below zero.
The depression which we announced in yes.
terday's HERALD as advancing from the west
ward. is now entering the Ohio Valley
from the Lower Missouri region, and
a general cloudiness prevails eastward of the
ninety-seventh meridian, except in the ex.
treme Northeast and along the Soutf
Atlantic coast. A snow storm in the Ohio
Valley and over the lower lakes is probable
for to-day. The temperature will rise slowly
at New York, with increasing cloudiness,
and we may expect light snow by this even
ing or tomorrow morning,


In the Atlantic very tempestuous weather
has been experienced, especially by west
bound vessels. We predicted this condition
Of weather at sea as most likely to result
from the recent storms of the 9th and 18th,
which left our coast at Nova Scotia. Much
damage to shipping, as in the case of the City





of these storms increased after they entered
on their unobstructed transoceanic pas
sages. We earnestly recommend to the
Signal Service Bureau the enlistment of the
cooperation of sen captains in establish
ing system Of daily observations of the
weather during their voyages to and from
Europe. The Bureau should be fully in
formed on everything relating to the
progress of storm centres across the
ocean, and such information as can
be easily obtained for the trouble Of
asking for it would enable meteorologists
to warn shipmasters in European ports Of
the approach of dangerous storm. 1t is
strange that such important sources of me-
neurological information rs the ships log
books should have remained so long un-
consulted by the Signal Department. Every
interest Of commerce calls for immediate
attention to these neglected indicators to
the storm movements.
Year: 1876




Once.


A statement made in the House yesterday
in the course of the debate on the inviola-
bility Of telegraph messages SO seriously
inculpates the integrity of the national Post
Office that Mr.. Hewitts charges should be
private correspondence is no longer safe in
the mails. This is an alarming state of
things if the facts be as they are represented.
1t is hardly to be supposed that Mr.. Hewitt
would have hazarded such a statement in
the face of Congress and the country un-
less he had reason to think it true.
He says that for the last month
his correspondence has been tam
pered with, the letters bearing evident
marks of having been opened by the appli-
cation of steam and resealed with fresh mu-
cilage. He states that he has submitted
them to the examination of experts, who
confirm his own opinion, and that he is ready
to submit them to other experts if Congress
sees fit to order an investigation. He
does not direct suspicion to any particu-
lar post Office, and probably has no means
of knowing whether they were opened at
the place where they were mailed or at the
place of delivery. He has been in Washing
ton during the greater part Of the month, and
his correspondence has probably been chiefly
between that city and New York. 1t is
difficult to believe that anything of the kind
has been done in the New York Post Office,
and it is certain that it has not been done with
the knowledge or completely Of Postmaster
James. Wherever the crime was committed
it was probably done by bribing clerk, but
that clerk must have been tool of poll
tcians. The motive for this violation of
private letters is obvious enough in the
present case. 1t could not have been done
by pilferer in search for money, for Mr..
Hewitt is not man who either sends or re-
ceives money by mail. He is regarded
as the most trusted political confidant
of Governor Tilden, and if his CORE
spondence has been tampered with it
was doubtless for the purpose of learning
the democratic hopes and plans in this
emergency. 1t is base and rascally busi-
ness, and Congress should spare no pains
to ferret out the authors. No man of char
acterin either party will hesitate to denounce
it or refuse his aid in bringing the sneaking
villains TO exposure and punishment. Let
us hope, however, that Mr.. Hewitt is mis-
taken but even if he is, the necessity for
an investigation is imperative to vindicate
the character of our postal service when it
is aspersed from SO responsible quarter.
Year: 1876

A CoNTEMpTIBLE DoDGE.-We are loath to
believe that the arbitrary and absurd order
of the Pennsylvania Railroad officials limit
ing the delivery of the early mails to boat
nearly nm hour and half in advance of the
train is sanctioned by the responsible heads
of the company. The motive of this order
seems to warrant the belief that it may be
the work of injudicious subordinates anx.
ious to commend themselves to the favor OF
their superiors. The mails carry the news
papers at much lower rate than that
charged by the express companies, but the
railroad company gets larger profit
from the carriage of express mat
ter. For the sake of making this
profit the railroad officials arbitrarily
assume the right to delay the whole mail by
an order merely intended to exclude the
newspapers and force them to be transported
at express rates. This contemplate trick
can hardly have the countenance of Colonel
Scott. AS the deliberate policy of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company it would be an
incredibly mean and paltry piece of busi-
ness But if, as we chnritably incline to
suppose, it is the work Of officious and ire
sponsible subordinates, we trust that they
will speedily be brought to their senses by
hint from headquarters.
Year: 1876

Owing to tho action OF portion OF tho carriers,
that the public shall have tho HERALD at three
cents per copy they prevent it, we have made
arrangements to place the HERALD in the hands OF
oil readers at tho reduced price. Ncwsboys and
dealers purchase any quantity they may desire
at No 1865 Broadway and No. Ann street. and
also from our wagons on the principal avenues. All
dealers who have been tErentened by the news COM
panies requested to send in their orders direct
us, at No. Ann street,
Year: 1876

Relief for tho Poor and the People.


Two pressing subjects came up for con-
sideration before the Board Of Apportion-
ment yesterday at special meeting of that
body-the relief of the outdoor poor of the
city and the cleaning of the streets for the
next few weeks during the probable prev
alence of snow or slush. The Aldermen,
at their last meeting, adopted resolution
requesting the Board Of Apportionment to
appropriate one hundred thousand dollars
for the former purpose. The Board, how
ever, find that the money collected for ex-
else licenses now amounts to nearly three
hundred thousand dollars, and instead of
making any additional appropriation, de-
termine to apply this fund to the relief of the
poor, Through the several benevolent and
charitable associations by which the work
can be done most effectually." There has
hitherto been o disinclination to devote the
excise money wholly to charitable purposes,
but certainly it cannot be put to better or
more appropriate use. If we license the sale
of liquor it seems only proper that the fund
realized thereby should be applied to the
relief of the want and suffering that liquor
does so much to promote. But care should
be taken that the money is placed where it
will be used for immediate relief during the
severe winter months without the benevo-
lent association formalities and red tapism
which too often make charity nockery.
When family is freezing and starving in
garret or cellar or a poor wretch is perishing
on the sidewalk of cold and hunger it will
not do to delay the aid that is required until
the sufferers are relieved by death. The
Board should provide some method by
which the money can be made available on
the instant in cases of emergency, and
should take care that it goes to tho relief of
such cases, and is not locked up in societies
which, however excellent in their way,
have different charitable objects in view


The application of the Police Commits
sioners for the transfer of ten thousand
dollars from an unexpended appropriation
of former year to the street cleaning fund
for this year should encounter no opposi-
ton. The reasons given for the transfer are
amount locked up when it is needed for the
public health and convenience. 1t is to be
hoped that this og-in-the-manger policy is
now ut an end. The street cleaning is now
we'll conducted and with this transfer the
authorities will be bound to protect MS
against snow encumbrances during the
winter.
Year: 1876

Sailing THE TRACKs.-To throw salt in
the streets is contrary to law; yet two men
were busily employed in South street last
night in throwing shovelfuls of rock salt on
the Belt Railroad tracks The fact that the
work was being done at night proves that
the company knew that il was violating the
statute. Ice and snow impregnated with
salt causes the hoofs of horses to rot, hence
the law prohibiting its use.
Year: 1876

RESTORING THE CABLE MONOPOLY -Ru-
mors have been flying to and fro of pro-
posal to amalgamate the Direct United States
and the Anglo-American Cable companies.
Whether or not they have any foundation in
fact it is manifest that the consummation of
such scheme would be detrimental to the
public. The old monopoly would be re-
established and rates would advance to the
former high standard. But this might, after
all, prove to be a blessing in disguise.
1t would be a real benefit if it
should cause the combination Of the
newspapers, the merchants and others
to whom cheap system of ocean
telegraphy is a necessity for the laying of n
new cable We would be glad to subscribe
toward this object, and have no doubt that
the necessary sum of about four millions
could be raised in event of return to the
old monopoly rates. Four millions is not
too large a sum to be readily subscribed in
view of the advantages to be derived from
on independent cable. We are not sure but
the proposed amalgamation is the best thing
that could happen; for new cable would
most assuredly be laid within two years
The watering system has never been sue
cess.
Year: 1876

ALL THEATRK-GoERs will read with interest
of the experiments made yesterday at Wal
lacks in non-infammablo scenery and stage
fixtures. Several managers are SO we'll salts
fed with the method applied that they in
tend to avail themselves of it at once, and
own box offices good cause for regret
Year: 1876

COMMISSIONER WOODS recommendations
the Board of Education indicate some desir-
able reforms which should not have been
deferred as long as they have been. The
money expended for the education of the
children of New York city should produce
better results than it does.
Year: 1876

The WRIT OF ERROR in the Brock murder
case gives the convicted men q new hope of
life, and they have conducted themselves in
such a manly way while under sentence that
every one will hope that in their case JUS
tice will lead to liberty.
Year: 1876

DANGER OF double DEALING.-A
" stock - story is told of the late Sultan
Of Turkey, AbdIl Aziz. The Sultan, it
is said, was fond Of gossip and news, and
obtained it from other than official sourc-
es. He was in the habit Of summoning
a certain banker to bold pleasant chats
with him, during which the Sultan
could lay aside his dignity, and the bank
er, in part, at least, forget his fears. On
one occasion, as the banker was being
admitted by a palace official to confer
eDce with the Commander Of the Faith
fui, the titled usher besought the banker
should the Sultan question him on the
subject of the funds, to say they were
selling at thirty, as the Ministers had so
informed the Sultan. The banker prom
ised. The Sultan asked the question,
and the banker replied as he had agreed
to do. The Sultan was delighted at the
confirmation of what his Minister bad
told him, and handed the banker a large
bundle of bonds to sell for him. The
banker was dismayed, but could not help
himself. He sold the bonds at twelve,
and paid his royal client thirty. Rather
a dear experience this Of fbbing. Pos
sibly, however, it may not be necessary
to go to Turkey for proof that honesty is
the best policy, even in stock operations,
and that "a ornnka1 etotonnapt NAV ratt,rn
to plague the utterer.