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Year: 1876

been buried in his brain. Scarcely a
drop Of blood flowed from the wouni but
the hot lead left path which will nev-
er bc effacet He saw 10 more Of the Old
man. and with beating hear. burned to
resane hi- journey, thankful when be
yond pistolshot Of the lone cabin. but
never ,u~pectiug the cold- blooded plans
Of those hidden therein. IL Was only
when he read the awful expose that be
realized his fall danger Other travel
ers had ocsnpied the same chair at the
same table Old Bender or bis son-in-
law. sanding behind the curtain. had
held = revolver within eight ar nine
TT Of thu gusts head. AMI sent a
ballet .trtiyb. - the mark Under
ti@ house w.s cave or pit. AID under
the table Il tr~p-door The victim had
scarcely fallen from his chair when his
body wss dropped into he pit. 10 be
plauaesssl during the day. and dragged
forth al night. and tumbled into grave
in the blood soaked soil of the back
yard. With the heart of a devil in his
bosom. old Bender had taken his stand
behind the curtain. waited for favor
able momeut, and then fired upon Hast
ings. Some sligh. movement just at
the instant saved the travellers life.
Confused and disconnected, old Bender
hesitated 10 fire again. and the sight of
"a revolver In the traveller grasp caused
him TO retreat. The daughter was
doubtless watching. and she came
around the house and told the story
which had been planned for her TO
tell


Kansas never bad such u shock of
horror as when the bodies of nine or ten
murdered men were exhumed from the
prairie surrounding the lone cabin.
The family deserted the place at the
first alarm, going away so silently aud
swiftly that no trace has ever been
found, and they may live out their
days despite the untiring vigilance of
the law


Ii YOU have ever met the commercial
Traveller with the red scar OH bis cheek,
and wondered how it came there, you
now have its history.
Year: 1876

gal son. A three-day old nosegay
thrown into your lap gives a small
Italian maiden in one garment the
right to cling to the footboard OF
your yettura until you reimburse
her. In driving from Pompeii to
Sorrento, no fewer than fifty Of these
floral tributes will be showered
upon you. The little witches who
throw the flowers are very often
pretty enough to be caught and
sculptured. An inadvertant glance
toward a fellow sleeping by the
roadside places you at once in a
false position. | have known an
even less compromising thing than
a turn of the eye-lid to establish
financial relations between the
stranger and the native. | have
known a sneeze to do it. One
morning, on the Mole at Venice,
an unassuming effort of my own in
this line was attended by a most
unexpected result. Eight or ten
young ragamufins, who had beer
summing themselves at a gondola.
landing, instantly started up from
a recumbent posture and advanced
upon me in a semicircle, with
Salute, signor, salute !" One O.
these youths disturbed a precon
ceived idea Of mine by suddenly
exclaiming:


81 am a boy Americana, dam ?


AS l had not come 80 far from
home to relieve the necessities O.
my own countrymen, and as / re
flected that possibly this rogue
companions were also profanu
Americanos, l gave nothing but
genial smile, which they divided
among them with the resignation
that seems to be a national trait.
Year: 1876

Rev. L. P. Dobbs in the National Baptist


And now we discover the object
Of Providence in the creation of
editors. do not deny (for l can't
afford to credit all men with what
belongs to them, and am not com
PEELED to steaD that l am not a
little indebted to Dean Swift, who
gives as one of the reasons for not
abolishing Christianity and the
establishment in England the fact
that it provided class Of men-the
clergy = whom everybody might
feel at liberty to insult with entir:
impunity, knowing that their pro-
fessional character precluded them
from resorting to the violent meas
ures that a layman would employ.
And so the editor affords a safe
receptacle for all the small spite
which it has pleased Providence to
bestow upon our race, A man
says; g don't dare to touch any of
my neighbars. For reasons which
! will not specify | DO not wish TO
say anything to my wife. But |
can write a letter and blow up the
editor. If he has said, or allowed
to be said, anything that | don't
like, or anything that is capable of
an unfavorable construction, | can
air my cheap loyalty and philan-
thFopy and orthodoxy, and can call
him all manner Of names. Proba-
bly, he will be too busy to reply ;
but l can hope and believe that |
have made him vince, and the
relief to me will be all the same"
And what a delightful thing it is
to think that any one above the
grade Of well, above a very low
grade Of intellect = can stop his
paper,
Year: 1876

Terrible sunerinRs of a SchOOner'A


Crew.


The Baltimore American of De-
cember IA, says:


Edward Parker, colored, steward
on the schooner Sophia Hanson,
which sunk off Cherrystone light.
house during the gale of Saturday,
arrived in this city yesterday. He
was taken to the Maryland Uni
versity Hospital for treatment for
frozen hands and feet. He says
that during Saturday evening the
schooner gave a lurch and turned
bottom upward. All the crew sue
ceeded in crawling up on the bot
tom of the schooner and there they
passed the whole night in the most
terrible anxiety, hunger and pain
from wet and cold. At seven o'clock
Sunday morning the lighthouse
keeper succeeded in reaching them.
Henry j. Hogan, one Of the crew
of the Falcon, wrecked below
Queenstown on Saturday night, is
also at the hospital horribly frozen.
The Falcon, he says, was at anchor
off Hills point when the storm
commenced, but was dragged before
the hurricane almost to Queenstown,
During Saturday morning none of
us could get on deck, and the water
kept pouring in and filing the
schooner. About s o'clock they
had to lift the stove up on the table
to keep it out of the water, and at
3 o'clock, stiff, sore and almost
starving, we saw that we would
have to break through the ice and
get on deck or be drowned. Some
coffee was the only thing we had
put into our mouths since Friday
noon. After getting on deck Cap
tain Ravel made a fire. Charles
Burke said he could stand the cold
no longer, and attempted to swim
for shore. He died almost as soon
as he was taken out of the water.
At sundown Hogan started for
shore, feeling that he could not live
another night in the wind and wa
ter. After terrible suffering he
reached shore safely, and was taken
TO a farmhouse. The rest of the
crew NEXT morning were all able to
walk ashore on the ice. No one,
he said, can ever tell what we suf-
fered from hunger, thirst and cold
during the thirty-six hours.
Year: 1876

WHATEVER exception may be taken TO
the vagaries of Carl Schurz, it is not to be de-
MED that he entertains a just estimate of the
Democratic party. In his paper, the Vest
Hche Post, of Saturday he says:


Every opportunity of the Democrats is at
the same tune their embarrassment. The party
cannot show itself without revealing its real
form and substance. 1t cannot open its mouth
without scorching it. 1t cannot do homage to
the truth without damaging itself. 1t cannot
refer to the history OF its glory without evckiDg
the memory OF its disgrace Two souls inhabit
its breast, neither of which has the courage to
part from the other In fact, such separation
would be equivalent to its own dissolution and
one can scarcely imagine that it would give up
a fault which involves the giving up of its
whole being Hess. 60 and be executedp said
a pastor of Geissen TO the condemned murderer,
whom, as former school-mate, be had been
chosen to bring to repentance and resignation
it's the only favor you can do me in return ?
We fear that the Democratic Hess is in no hur-
ry to comply. And yet the end of any and all
Democratic policy is and remains the conditlO
sine qua non of new, good departure. A par
ty which-to go back no farther for, the present
nominated a prominent leader in the war
against the South, upon platform that brand
ed the war as a failure; party which after
ward united itself with the independent move
ment for the sole purpose OF betraying il, and
of laying everywhere its own cuckoo-eggs in
the all too generous nest prepared for them; a
party which means one thing at the South and
an entirely different thing in the North, one
thing in the East and another in the West; a
Year: 1876

party which in one place cries for hard money
and: in another dandles the rag-baby on its
knees; which rides the FEee-school nag here,
snch athrough-and-throughs shabby and cheat
ing party has no longer the shadow of a right
to existence, before the tribunal of sound
political morality, and to JOIN in the CRY for
Reform IN its name is nothing but the shallow
est hocus-poous and trckery
Year: 1876

THE scenes at the st. Louis convention as
described by the correspondents are those to
be expected from the loud-voieed and short
haired strikers of New York, the long-haired
chivalry of the South and the whiskey.guz-
zling brawlels of the West. There has been
continual dispute and personal quarrel.
Men afame with drink have crowded the
hotel corridors, uttering wild yells of defiance
or delight as the names of obnoxious or fay-
orite candidates were mentioned. Monday
witnessed three genuine fights of the old
Democratic kind in the halls of the Lindell
House, in which one delegate lost a large
part of his nose. Tuesday night one delegate
drew pistol and attempted to shoot another
delegate. The same evening a New York
delegate, roaring drunk, ran muck with an
umbrella, making terrific lunges on all sides
and doing his best to convert. the conven-
ton into an assemblage of Cyclops. And
these are the men from whom we are told to
expect administrative reform Why their
first measure would be to abolish the whiskey
Year: 1876

difficulty arise, would no more think of ap-
pcaling to the company than of appealing to
the Vatican. What he wants is to arrive safely
at his point of destination, and even this, on
Monday night, was denied him.


We do not pretend to discuss the quarrel
between the New-Jersey Central Company and
its engineers. We make bold, however, to say,
first, that the company should, II possible,
have prevented the detention which has 0c-
Cured upon its road at any cost whatever
and, secondly that the engineers should nave
remembered that theirs was q continuing con-
tract, renewed with the going out OF every
train. An engineer starting with his l0como-
tive thereby agrees to drive the engine to
certain point He may refuse to start but
having started, it is his business to go on,
until he has accomplished what he undertook
to accomplish. 1t is evident that upon
any other principle it would always De
possible for the employed to subject
their employers to infinite loss, damage,
and expense not taking into account the
trouble, vexaton and hurt to which the public
also NAV be subjected. The time for striking
is before the business is undertaken. When 1t
is once in hand, 1t should in law and equity
be continued until it is accomplished. The
engineers of the Ncw-Jersey Central Railroad
complain of a sudden and great reduction of
their wages. 1t is clearly their right to stop
work if dissatisfied; but they have no right to
stop it in way which will damage and annoy
others. This however. they do in their eager
ness to subject the company to the greatest
possible pressure. We know that like adj
vantage has been taken in other branches of
industry, and the effort made to prevent en-
ployers from filling large contracts at the time
appointed, unless they consent to an advance
of wages. But in each case the morality OF
the matter is the same, only the railway
striker is in position to make his proceeding
public calamity.


These railway difficulties are sure to be In
some way speedily adjusted-Our only wish Is
that this should be done after n minimum of
inconvenience to the public which, without
being a party to the dispute, bears more
than equal share of its Inconvenience. What
we ask in behalf of the public, is that it shall
not be subjected to anOyances which may be
under some circumstances extremely import
ant to individuals. Certainly the New-Jersey
Central Railroad Company can afford to be
little consderate of the comfort and OF the
rights of the community, to say nothing OF the
comfort and the rights of the engineers.
Year: 1876

Most strikes are productive of inconvenience
to the public; no affair of the kind could be
mare 80 than n strike of railroad engineers.
But even this may be more or less toerable


People who start upon Journeys do not like to
be stopped and detained midway. Men who
are expected home are naturally uneasy ut de-
lay, and think how others are measlly think
ing of them. Those who have business at dis
tant points may lose money, and are pretty
certain to lose temper, if kept from making IA
prompt arrival. An arrest while travelling is
awkward, sudden and long stop is Tltat-
ing; and OH the Ncw-JerScy Central
Road last Monday night it meant nowhere
to lay many heads, and very little to put INTO
many stomachs. We submit that these are
difficulties, annOyanccs, and losses to which
the public should not be subjected Any man
agcment which results in such an absurd state
of things must be bad management. The
public cannot be expected to comprehend the
merits of the question, when there is dispute
between railway company and ITS engineers !;
but what it does most fully understand Is that
whereas the company has agreed to convey
them 10 and fro promptly and speedily, such
conveyance suddenly becomes impossible, and
that, too, when it is extremely necessary.


II is curious to observe that in this strike,
rs in many others, the interests of the public
seem to be entirely disrcgarded. The railway
company is the creature of the people and 50
indirectly are the engineers. These corpora
tions have great privileges which, properly
managed, produce great sums of money. We
say it in no odious sense, but every one of
them is monopoly. Having granted so much,
conscious that they make railways profitable
and dividends possible, people who travel
have some faint notion that they are entitled
to consideration and to the best of accomm0-
dation. 1t is true that this notion is kept
down and prevented from becoming arrogant
by constant consciousness of the absolute
necessity of the railroad. For this reason,
travellers submit to a great deal and this Sum


mer, especially, their patience has been sorely
tried But as rule, the average traveller is
meek and long suffering, looks upon the con-
ductor as q superior being. and should any
Year: 1876

The universal alarm at the Southern claims
for damages during the war has penetrated
the Democratic citadel. For the first time III
the campaign, if not for the first time in his
political life, Gov. Tilden has been startled
into prompt action. The panic in the Demo-
cratic camp, indeed has been so great as to
induce the managers to forego the customary
reserve with which a Presidential candidate is
expected to hedge himself about. Gov. Til
den has been induced to violate the
usages speak in his own name, and appear in
the newspapers in a card over his own sigma
ture, setting forth what he would not do about
Southern claims III case he were elected to
the Presidency. He rccites very properly the
constitutional provision on the subject and his
own public cOmmttals, most of which are
greatly to his credit. He then says, with more
distinctncss than we are used To III his prOduc-
tions, that so far as it would depend on him, if
he were elected President, no claim for any loss
or damage incurred by disloyal persons arising
from the late war, whether forbidden by the
Constitutional Amendment or not, would be
recognized or paid.


We congratulate the country very heartily
that the agitation Of this subject has thus
avertcd the greatest danger connected with it,.
After this cOmmttal, the bald robbery of the
treasury by the payment of these Southern
claims in the naked form i'll which they have
been hitherto presented. would be impossible,
even if the disaster of IA Democratic triumph
through solid South should Oycrtake us.


But, although the most startling, that has
never been the most imminent peril. Ii was
too gross, too open, too repulsivc to the COM
mon sense of the whole country. The effective
Southern approaches to the treasury are likely
to be made by covered ways. If the South
cannot be reimbursed directly for its losses by
the war, it can be indirectly. 1t can have
enormous subsidies granted 10 build railroads
out into the wilderness, to dig new lines of
water communication, to rebuild broken levees,
to repair in hundred ways the ravages of war by
public improvements, to distribute throughout
the whole Southern region, under such covers,
the same money which it would be plainly i'm
possible to get on direct appeal for rem-
Year: 1876

An opportunity will be given tonight at
Cooper Institute to hear two notable speeches.
Attorney-General Taft has been compelled by
the requirements of his official position to de-
vote especial attention to the disturbances in
South Carolina, which are to-day the foremost
theme in political discussion, and his we'll
known moderation and fairness will make what
he is likely to say on that subject of great
weight and moment. The other speaker is
another Ohio RepublCan-Mr. Murat Halstcad
of The Cincinnati Commercial. Mr.. Halstcad
makes his first appearance before New-I York
audience, but is not altogether new to
speech-making. Now and then he is screnadod
in Cincinnati, and when the band fails to
come around he prints, in his dry way, the
impromptu speech he would have made, with
the remark that it was too good to lose. We
may add, however, that the band, knowing
what good speech is, very seldom fails to come
around. We advise all the New Workers that
can to como around too.
Year: 1876

And those who sympathize and apologize, and
denounce the Government for interfering,
are doing exactly what they did in 1851
They were both cowardly and dlsloyal then,
and are the same to-day.
Year: 1876

Senator Conkling has already given the best
possible refutation to the rumOrs that he dld
not at heart desire the election of Gov. Hayes
and Gov. Morgan by making long and care
full speech in spite of the protests of his
physicians, and he is determined, so letter
from a staff correspondent reports, on making
still another. His condition, nevertheless, is
evidently such that he might with entire JUS
tice claim a place on the sick list. While the
active management of the party in Oneida
County has passed out of the hands of his
personal friends, there is no reason to suspect
any such secret opposition as has been charged
upon them. Oneida County ought to be good
for an old-fashOned Republican majority.
Year: 1876

Seeing that she cannot withstand Russia
Turkey has consented to the six weeks
armistice, which the latter demanded. Having
earned this pOmt Russia is willing to submit her
other demands to a conference, with the un-
derstanding, no doubt, that it will promptly
sanction them. But peace is not yet Servla
and Montenegro must be consulted. The latter
has already asked for the surrender of MOstar
the capital of Herzegovina-prior to consent
ing to the armistice. As their protector,
Russia can of course induce these States to
acquiesce in her proposal, but she will not
coerce them should the fortune of war render
truce undesirable. The direct result of the
recent commotiOn has been to make Russia
master of the situation. Upon her depends
peace or war
Year: 1876

Quimbo AppO retires to private life for a
season in the TOmbs. He will doubtless be
restored to the bosom Of society in time for
his next murder. The precedent has been set
too often TO be disregarded.
Year: 1876

learned of it after that event. If he
was anxious to shield his wife's hon
or, if he was afraid that q reputation
OF the corrupt contract would causc
the parties to expose the means BY
which it had been obtained, he might
have allowed the appointment tc
stand, but he should have refused to
accept one cent of the bribe money
Instead OF doing this ho quietly re-
cognized the arrangement and con-
tinued to receive directly what he
had before received indirectly, and
drew his share of the spoils regularly
as they fell due. From the testimony
now before us it is plain that Belk~
nap and his wife were jointly impli-
Gated in the transaction and that the
payment were made to Mr.. Belknap
in accordance with Dangling design
to conceal the fraud.


General Grants conduct in the af-
falr Is not made to appear any bet
ter by his explanation. His excuse
Is as lame as the one offered by Gen.
Belknap. lie says he would not
have made such indecent haste to
accept Belknap's resignation if he
had knoAn that the Secretary of
War was an active participant in the
fraud. He declares that General
Belknap deceived him by stating
that he concealed the transaction only
bccause he did not wish to disgrace
the memory. Of his dead wife. There
fore he accepted his resignation in
order to prevent his impeachment
The explanation will not relieve the
President of any OF the odium which
Justly attaches 10 his action. He was
the author of the declaration that no
Government official should resign
willie under fire. He had just learn.
ed that evidence had been adduced
going to show that an appointment
belonging TO the War o Ice had been
disposed of in accordance with the
terms OF corrupt contract. The
Secretary of War came to him with
his side Of the story and a request for
permission to resign in order to es
cape impeachment, and without wait
ing to hear the other side Of the case,
without caring to inquire into the
facs, with pausiug long enough to
communicate with the Investigating
Committee Of the Government, Gen.
Grant made haste to comply with the
request and to protect to the extent
of his ability the guilty whom he had
recently declared should not be ell
lowed to escape. Did not the Pre-
sident know very we'll that Belknap
could not DO impeachcd if the evils
dencc only proved that his wife took
bribes without his knowledge or con-
sent2 Gen. Grant deserves the Sc
verest condemnation and the House
should promptly vote a resolution of
ccnsure.


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Year: 1876

Stockmen say that feed on the plains
is not so plentiful as last year, but it is
twice as good. Water is getting some
what scarce SO that cattle have to travel
far to find it. The snow will help them
a little.
Year: 1876

In December. ls.& He was the only republican men,
bsr Who the investigating committee who went
TO Knery invesg,te the charges last year. and he
speech sustained that he maniiess now In regard to
the building OF the Enterprise tho minority quote tho
law and say the Secretary OF the Navy had other
duty but 20 obey tho law and that tho
IN accordance Herewith


In regard 10 the alleged gra;utes paid to Griffith the
minority say that there not pretcnce of evidence
going show tha, H.nsoomb acted corrupiy making
allowances. or that he In any derived any benefit
from them The conclusion of the majority that Grif
nth paid s33 ss2 than he entitled to is
mAnlfcstiy unjust. and could only have been reached
by following the pdre statements OF persons admit
ted TO be hostile 10 Grnih and opposed tho system
Of building vessels by contract In tho navy yards and
rejecting entirely the testimony OF other witnesses
quite intelligent and honest, and bearing equally
just conclusions In regard to the utility
CT the bending machine tho minority ind the
testimony conflicting but incline to the opinion that
the weigh, OF the evidence rs In condemnation OF the
machine as a thing OF practical value Mr. Hanscomb
probably made mistake In It's purchase that time,
but there is nothing 10 warrant suspicion OF
rupt motive hts part In conclusion they say that,
proved would have justified refusal OF appropriations
for the kttcry Navy Yard, those charges not being
sustained reasonable and proper appropriations should
be made for working II SO long the yard is deemed
important Tor the naval service.