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Year: 1875

men. lie has only turned in another di-
rection the same noble powers and Efforts
which made the career Of Sir Roderick
Murchison. Another recent English visit
or, Mr.. Proctor, WAS also a self-educated
scientist, as Hugh Miller was before him.
In all these cases what is most apparent Is,
that in a community rich in moral and In
tellectual appliances, there needs TO be on
ly readiness and determination to use
them, TO open up life of indefinite prog
ress. Books, instructors, apparatus, facili-
ties of all kinds and sympathetic and re-
warding public are on every hand, and all
the aspirant has to do is 10 go In and pos
sess the field.


And he had better go late than never. 1t
Is true enough that the hours lost in youth
can never be recovered, but that is no rea
son why the hours of manhood should be
thrown away likewise. Privileges OF self
culture are like the books of the sybll-
when she had burned up six she asked the
same price for the remaining three. At
any period of life we "have all the time
there is" as the wise Indian said, and we
ought to make the best use of it. We do
not have in mind the rivaling of the ca
reers Of Murchison, Proctor and Varley
and other men of distinction, but the use
of whatever methods of culture are con-
genial with, and may be desired by, each
mind. Thee is not that accumulation of
facilities in this country which is to be
found in rich old nation like England,
but there are altogether too many of them
around us TO excuse Ignorance or Incidence
at any time Of life. The aim and the will
are the main things, and without them
whole libraries are but rubbish and the
wisdom of the ages falls upon deaf cars
Boston Journal.
Year: 1875

That which especially distinguishes a
high order of man from low order of man
that which constitutes human goodness,
human greatness, human nobleness-is
surely not the degree of enlightenment
with which men pursue their own adysnt-
age but ii is sseli-lOrgetfulness; 1t is the dis
regard Of personal pleasure, personal in
dulgence, personal advantage remote or
present, because some other line of conduct
is more right,-FrOude.
Year: 1875

a Marriage Prayer.


BI REv. II. BroRAvn.
"The Lord watch between me and thee. ."-oep. IIIl
40.


watch between us, oh our Fatherl
May our hearts united be,
And the living tie that binds us
Be the thoughts that rise to thee.
watch between us, Oh our Fatherl
Through this day so calm and bright,
While the smiles Of friends shine on us,
While we walk within the light
Lest the darkness come upon US,
Lest we miss thy voice 30 clear;
Lest in feeling we go from thee,
Heavenly Father, be thou near.
watch between us, oh our Fatherl
when the day shall darker grow;
when the wind sighs through the branches,
Aud the air is thick with snow
Lest our hearts grow cold and feeble,
And our sympathes decay;
Lest we strike the notes Of discord
Aud live estranged for aye.
Watch between us, oh our FAtheri
when thy messenger shall come,
And on wings Of love and mercy
Bear our best beloved home
Lest in bitterness Of sorrow
We thy meaning dimly see;
Lest we miss the JOY Of giving,
Nursing selfish misery.
Watch between us, oh our Father
At the closing Of the day,
when upon the long, last journey
One shall CO. the other stay
A little longer, till the Master
Shall have made all things complete,
In the ''housc of many Mansions"
Where again all friends shall meet
Watch between US, oh our Father!
May our hearts united be,
Till the heaven above us open,
And thy smiling face we see.
Year: 1875

know who recall the manner in which Will
lam nj. Tweed by the aid Of this Know Moth
ing society of Sachems was enabled to
crush the "Young Democracy revolution
against his infamous rule and to remain
in power at the head Of the Tammany organ
ization.


If Tammany Hall, instead of being secret,
oath bound, dark-lantern, Know Nothing
club were truly representative of the demo-
cratic party in New York, its leaders
responsible to the masses of the party for
their good behavior, William NJ. Tweed would
never have succeeded in sitting that Young
Democracy revolution. New York would
have been saved millions of dollars which he
stole from the treasury. The democratic
party would not have undergone the defeat
which fell upon it in 1872, when it tried to
run a candidate for the Presidency with Tam
many Hall upon his back. The danger from
which the city escaped at that time is
vivid to all minds. Tammany is the cause
of that danger. 1t is the machine" which
may lead us tomorrow into the same
misfortune. 1t is as repulsive to the
minds of all impartial, fair minded Ameri-
cans as was the Stamp Act to the minds
of our fathers, and it should be destroyed.
The way to strike down Tammany Hall is for
the Legislature when it meets to repeal the
charter granted to the Tammany Society.
That charter has been vitiated. 1t has be-
come an abuse. 1t is no more a part of our
system than the Alien and Sedition act It's
leaders have the power of the forty tyrants,
a dangerous power which cannot exist with
out putting our city and its freedom and its
credit in constant peril The Tammany char
ter should be abolished. This dangerous
power should be cancelled. We should have
the elections for municipal officers in the
spring, not in the fall as now. Citizens
should be invited to take part in the
government Of the city, not as democrats or
republicans, but as honest men who feel
that they wish the metropolis governed like
a large wholesale business-on mercantile
principles. To do this Tammany must be
destroyed, and we trust the Legislature
when it meets will set about this work at
once and do it so effectually that this
monstrous system will no longer be part
Of the democratic party of the country to
bring shame and discredit and misfor-
tune upon our city and the property Of the
people
Year: 1875




There has been an evident purpose to be
very active in the navy yards, but the inten-
ton of this activity is in doubt 1t is thought
that it may have meant ''hostilities, and
that il may mean only demonstration. !" At
the time of the Virginius affront we made
demonstration" "a regular naval war on
Spain, in which we never fired u shot, though
we must have bought great deal of tarred
rope and driven many nail. That cost us
about four million dollars. At the end of
it all we accepted the outrageous settlement
of the case that Spain was pleased to put
upon us for even four million dollars worth
of paint and tarred rope and copper nails
would not make our navy effective against
even the few good iron-clads that Spain
possesses. In weighing the character
of the activity recently inaugurated in
the navy yards it is to be remembered
that His Excellency the President does
not yet possess the power to make
war under the constitution of the United
States. No such acts of foreign enemy are
in any way so imminent as would authorize
hostilities under cover of the general power
to see that the laws are faithfully executed; !;
and in the absence of a pretext of that sort
it is the duty of the Executive to
lay the case before Congress, which as
sembles in little more than two weeks.
1t must follow, therefore, that as the
President cannot make war he means to
make a demonstration. His communication
IN Gaparo1 Snowman pafa,raI 10 in fbic
nection, is also evidently demonstratiye. 1t
is somewhat laughable to find that the Presi-
dent would not, in this case, have had the
demonstration all to himself Don Carlos in
tends to demonstrate also. IL is not often that
the cable gives us bit of genuine comedy !;
but the dispatches which recount the Don's
projects and propositions apropos to Cuba
are in a vein Of political drollery that no
writer Of comic history has ever approached.
Carlos shows what use may be made Of Cuba
even by throneless monarch, in the noun
tains of Navarro His capacity to make what
he calls ''war" is now thoroughly exhausted.
He has not a foot to stand upon, militarily
speaking, and 50 he proposes to discontinue
his operations, to consent to truce, in
order not to be an embarrassment to the
operations Of his little cousin against the
United States in case Cuba leads to war.
Poor Don Quixote What wrong has been
done him in the assumption that he was mad !!


Happily the pacific reports which follow
50 often on hostile preparations are already
afoat, and we are assured that Spain's re
sponse to the United States is SO peaceful in
its character that war has ceased to be i'm
minent.
Year: 1875

WE PRINT this morning an interesting COM
munication from a stockholbcr in the Panama
Railroad Company in reference to the estab-
lishment Of line Of first class steamers
between New York and San Francisco. Our
correspondent shows that this proposition is
feasible, and that if steamers Of proper calibre
should be built for the Central and South
American trade it would result in a great
benefit to American commerce. lie thinks that
the Panama Railroad directors are capable of
managing this line. We trust that the enter
prise may be successful. The Pacific Mail
has not only been q monopoly on the Pacific,
but il has been 50 badly managed as to be-
come scandal. We believe that the more lines
wo have running on the Pacific coast, not only
between California and the East but between
Year: 1875

We have received circular from Mr.
Oliphant, chief representative in Amer
lea Of the Direct United States Cable
Company, in which he informs us that
his company is struggling to break down
the monopoly in cable telegraphy. We find
however, that the Direct Cable charges as
much per word for the transmission Of de-
spatches from America to Europe as the
other line, the rate to France, Great Britain
and Ireland being seyenty-fve cents word
in gold. This is more than was charged be-
fore the cable was snapped, which, unfor-
tunately, happened few weeks ago. Mr.
Oliphant informs US that, owing to the ex-
pense consequent to the delay in laying
down the cable and recent obstacles to its
successful operation, the managers ''regret
that they are compelled to put the tariff at a
somewhat higher rate than the one origi-
nally intended but they trust, as
soon as their second cable is laid,
still further to reduce it.. The
managers of this line will discover,
as has been discovered by the managers Of
all other telegraph companies, that the cheap
est rates in the long run will bring more
business and consequently inure to the
greater profit Of the owners Thus far the
promise TO reduce rates is little more than a
promise II would be stroke Of genius for
Mr.. Oliphant's company to send messages
over the ocean at a shilling q word. This
would be q great advantage to the people,
and in the end we arc sure would be to the
profit Of the company itself
Year: 1875

work as the beginning of a revival Of re-
ligion No doubt Moody and Sankey are
phenomena of an unusual character, and the
estimate placed upon their efforts by an OBJ
server as cautious and able as Mr. Nordhoff
will be read with profound attention.
Year: 1875

CENTRM PARK The trouble With Cen
trail Park is that il i becoming about
as popular place of resort As n
graveyard. Even laying aside the bad
drainage and chills and fever in TIE
ponds the restrictions are of a character 70
drive all citizens out Of its limits who 40 not
care to be troubled BY the police. There
should be an instant draining of tie Park.
The waters Of the lake should BE freshened.
There should be bride path running par
alIel to the drive, and the foolish restrictions
imposed upon children who wish 70 romp
and citizens who would like to stroll over the
meadows should be removed. What VIZ
want is a park. not panorama,
Year: 1875

TwEED's LAWYERS fight for every inch OF
ground. Their present contest arises on an
Interpretation Of the decision given by the
Court Of Appeals. AS that Court decided
that only one penalty could be inflicted it
decided thereby that there was only one
cause Of action. And as the culprit has been
stitutional immunity from further molesta-
tion
Year: 1875

THE VICE President, if he had broken
leg, would not try to walk ten miles with it
before breakfast; but having a crippled
brain he does not observe the simple pre-
caution that he would with his broken leg
Year: 1875

DEFICIENCY AS the Custom Houses were
formerly sustained in part by the receipt of
moietes, and as tie moiotios are no longer
collected, the service threatens To run short;
but the Secretary objects y calling On Con-
eress y make up the deficiency. IIe proposes
that the service be cut down accordingly.
Year: 1875

CROOKED WHIsKEY The testimony in the
case against corrupt officers of the revenue
department is continued. It exhibits pretty
clearly the limit Of corruption for no mat
ter what the tax may be the expenses Of
bribery will always ultimately be far heavier
Year: 1875

The letter addressed by Andrew Ii. Green,
the Comptroller Of New York, to Fitz John
Porter, the Commissioner Of Public Works,
published i'll yesterdays HERALD, deserves
attention as an interesting and important
document. In this letter Mr.. Green arraions
Fitz John Porter for his management of the
public works, and incidentally defends him.
self from the charge of having, as Park Com
missioner, voted for measures of which, as
Comptroller. he does not approve. Our OBJ
lection to the Comptrollers letter is that Ire
shows a narrow -mindedness in dealing with
the future of New York. He is wrong when
he opposes the Improvements in the upper
part of the island. 1t is a mistake
to say that New York should not have
boulevards and sewers and streets beyond the
line OF population. 1t is as necessary to pre-
pare for the growth of a city as it is to build
railroad before we have villages. If Mr..
Green's policy had governed the builders OF
the Pacific Railroad that enterprise would
never have reached San Francisco because
we should have waited until cities were
built along the line. Instead of O railway
following q city the city should follow
the railway Instead of boulevards and i'm
provements following the growth of New
York they should precede it. 1t is just as
necessary to have boulevards and ''improve-
ments" in the upper sections Of the island as
it is for the farmer to SOW the soil with oats
if he expects a crop. The money thus ex-
pended is never spent in vain provided it
is honestly devoted to the improvement OF
the town.


We agree with Mr. Green in his comments
upon the work of laborers that are so often
employed by our Public Works, and in his
criticism upon the manner in which these
selections are made If stranger came to
New York, and happened to pass by
where the city laborers were at work, he
would wonder at the apathy, the indo-
lence, the want of energy shown by them.
We have no doubt that thousand well paid,
active men under such a discipline as is inn
posed by private gentlemen in managing
their own affairs, in building houses and
opening parks, would do as much work as
three thousand ''ticket'' laborers on the pub
lie works Comptroller Green deserves credit
for ms courage IN exposing tnlS abuse.
He shows that Fitz John Porter,
while good man and more sinned
against than SHINING is unfit to hold
his present high position. A Commissioner
who testifies that he has allowed BARRIERS and
politicians and worthless people generally
to act as inspectors of sewers merely because
he was told to do SO by Tammany Hall is
unfit to hold position 50 important as the
head Of the Department Of Public Works,
and it is no defence that he was told to do SO
by John Kelly We want a strong man in
this department, and now that General Por-
ter's term is expiring we trust that his sense
of unftness will become manifest, and that
we shall have a new, resolute, strong minded
business man in his place
Year: 1875

Among the archives in the Office of the County Clerk
at Jersey City indictment against the New Jersey
Railroad and Transportation Company bearing the date
1S4O for maintaining nuisance by 'creatng great
noise in the passage of trains bcfoung the air with
dense smoke from locomotives and endangering the


lives of citizens by too rapid passage of trains But
the indictment never tried. The Common Council
alterward passed ordinance prohibiting the running
of trains through the city at greater speed than
six miles an hour yet except in few instances the or.
dinance has been enforced To this day trains
dash through the city at the rate of from thirty to forty
miles an hour The number Of fatal accidents during
the past year than double those of any former
year Eight years ago the then superintendent Of the
railroad Mr. H. W. Jackson, and committed
for trial by Coroner Kristen, yet the Grand Jury
no action of the case. The proposition to raise the


great measure all grounds for complaint The officials
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company have at last
agreed TO meet special committee OF the Jersey CITY
Board Of aldermen during the present week and hold
conference the subject
Year: 1875

Crop reports from the Northwestern States, in that
section of country drained by the lines of the Chicago
and Northwestern and Milwaukee and ST Paul roads,
thus far quite favorable and the wheat harvest at
latest dates progressing rapidly, with every prob
ability of large yied. With good weather for few
days in that section there every to look
for heavy grain traffic during the coming autumn.


The production Of anthracite coal for the last
July, about $4,000 tons, is probably the maximum
capacity of the anthracite regions We conclude this to
bo the from the fact that the miners always make
the largest in the week which closes the payroll
and the mines in all the regions in operation If
this rate of production be maintained for the
mander of the year the supply will equal that of 1874
1t is not generally believed however, that the market
will require that amount, and it is probable there will
be large surplus stock to be carried into year.
Year: 1875

John Evans aged twenty four years, residing at the
of Ninety fourth street and Fourth avenue
companed by friends went on an excursion yes
terday on board the yacht Bella Beam and when OF
Great Neck, L. L. Evans attempted to swim TO the
Shore but drowned. His body was recovered by
Martin Kaiser and taken on board and brought TO this
city The boat landed at the foot of 10lth street East
River and the Coroner notified to hold an inquest
Year: 1875

Last evening, shortly before O'Clock, as loco
motive Of the Staten Island Railroad was backing upon


turn table at Clifton il struck and over young
Of Captain Youngs. Both the bOys legs were cut
oh-One AZ the ankle and the other at the thigh He
taken to the Sailors Retreat
Year: 1875

While Officer Uhl Of the Seventeenth precinct, was
arresting Edward Doyle of No 495 East thirteenth
yesterday charge of disordery conduct the
officer was assaulted by Doyle and compelled to use his
club on the head Of his assaant before he could DO
hrorcbt in n neaceable manner to the station house.
Dovles wounds we're dressed by police surgeon at the
Fifth street station house, after which he was locked
mn The prisoner will be arragned before police
magistrates at tho Essex Market Police Court this morn
Year: 1875

SNTEREsT OF THE SOUTH IN THE FORTHCOMING


NATIONAL CAArPAIGN-How THE SELECTION OF


THE CANDIDATE Is TO BE CONTROLLED.


Long BRANCH August Is, 1875.


The South is we'll represented this season at Long
Branch both in beauty and in politics. Some of the
most attractive Of the ballroom bellies from the
Southern States and nowhere the political affairs of
the nation discussed with zest and greater
intelligence than among the reconstructed groups
the balconies and in the halls of the
hotels In conversations with representative citizens of
Mississippi Texas, Alabama and Louisiana some facts
have been gathered which will he found interesting and
suggestive to those who may disposed to study the
political horoscope at the present time. It
is noteworthy that In all discussions of the
: sspects Of tho approaching Presidential con-
test the interest in the probable course of
the democratic pary in the platform likely To be laid
down, and the nominations likely to be made by the
democracy, and that comparatively little Importance
appears to attach to the action Of the republicans
While year ago the absorbing topic among politicians
the chances for against third term nomination
for President Grant no one now cares to inquire
whether he will succeed in making himself candidate
for reelection whether the choice of tho Republican
National Convention will fall other asprant
Does this indicate a conviction in the public mind that
repubcanism, whether under His Exceency any
other standard bearer doomed 10 step down and out
Year: 1875

Yesterday the body Of woman who died in tho
Kings County Hospital at Flatbush, taken TO the
Brooklyn Morgue and Coroner simms was notified to
hold an inquest with from the Superintendent OF
the institution, to the effect that the sup
posed TO have died from medical malpractice The post
mortem viii be made by Dr. Shepard to-day at the
MoTgue.
Year: 1875

The citizens Of Newark intend to follow the example
of this city and give several free excursions to poor
children. Bath, L. l., IS the place TO which tho chill
dren will be taken The first excursion will take place on
Tuesday. committee of ladies and gentlemen will ac-
company the children and attend TO all their wants The
band Of the First regiment viii furnish music during the
daW
Year: 1875

This IS the way Tue Montpelier Nv
gus and Patriot feels over its delinquent
subscribers list: "IIave you ever seen a
citizen of African descent recumbent IN
the repose Of death, with copper coins
lying on his eyes, and then seen some pu-
issant mean white slyly slide up and
steal those cents 7 Such a thief would
be despicable libel on humanity, but
even he would not be more Objectionable
in our view than a person who will de-
liberately steal reading matter for himself
and family by taking paper, and not
paying for it."
Year: 1875

A Western editor did not wish TO hurt
the feelings Of a gentle poet, but apollo
gized for the non.appearance Of long
and tender poem by saying: beautiful
Spring was crowded out of our Sunday
edition to make room for an account Of
the great snow storm"
Year: 1875

YUyHE MAGNOLIA HAS BEEN FITTED


up in the most attractive style possible,
with o view to the convenience and comfort
Of patrons. The proprietor desires to call the
attention OF customers, friends and the public
to his superior stock OF
Year: 1875

1t is fine commentary on the character OF
the Democratic policy that the passage of no
fair measure of equalized representation is look
cd for by its advocates. Some of them propose
one scheme, and some another, but mono have
the hariihood to presume that the citizens and
tax payers of this county will be granted an
equal voice in the Legislature. We are invited,
indeed, to state what sort OF compromise, what
form of concocted arrangement. we are willing to
petition the Legislature for, being told, III the
same BREATH that of course Equal Representa-
tion-a plain, square measure of Justice to the
people of Northern Delaware-is ont of the
question


How different it would have been had a Re-
publican majority been chosen to the Legisla-
tine, last November. A bill to give all the citi-
zens of tho State equal voice in that body would
have been promptly passed, and then a Consti-
tutional Convention would have been called.
1t would not have been necessary to propose to
divide this county it would not have been a
subject for discussion whether all sorts of un-
necessary, or absurd, or mischievous eXpedients
should be adopted in order to secure something
of just repre- sentation; on the contrary, where
there is now shifting and shullng over the
question, there would have been plain straight.
forward manly action upon it.