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Year: 1876

In France, as elsewhere, the party in power
deem it out of order that lucrative official po-
sitions should be held by their opponents.
This is the source of the ministerial crisis,
which is daily becoming graver. The Repub-
icans want full control of the administrative
machinery and will be satisfied with nothing
less.
Year: 1876




Cronin was altogether too unanimous Later
advices show that he Overdid the thing from
the start When the Secretary of State OF
Oregon, in his digni6ed way, slipped the GER
tifcates through the door, Cronin, in his
digniied way, plunged them into his pocket
and refused to give them up, though each of
the three electors made three distinct demands
for them. Then it seems that there was no
refusal OH the part of the Republicans to act
with him, but, on the contrary, he refused to
act with them because they insisted that his
authority should be shown. These are, to be
sure the statements of a postmaster and III
these days of official degeneracy postmasters,
if we may believe certain Democrats of stern
virtue, arc objects of well-deserved suspicion,
if not of scorn and cOntnmely. But several differ
entaccounts seem to sustain this version, and the
fact that this is postmaster willing to resign
his position, with all the profits from defalca-
tions and thefts of postage-stamps popularity
supposed to be attached to the office, in order
to vote for Hayes, entities him to considera-
ton. As between Cronn, who takes certiti-
Gates that do not belong to him and fills va
cancies which do not exist with men whom he
has no right to appoint, and postmaster,
wicked and depraved though he must be, we
have no choice. Let Cronin be content.
There is a postmastership vacant, and before
long he will want to hide away inside OF
something.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Randall has suffered his second defeat,
and the second is not only much worse, but much
more important than the first. The first was
the veto of the impeachment project by the
cool-headed successors of the Southern fire.
eaters Of former times. The second is the
Year: 1876

Gov. Grover of Oregon probably cared little
about the law when he made up his mind to
slip one more vote for Tilden into the electo-
raj ballot-box, but those who wish to know
something of the law on the other side will do
well to read the outline of the decision in the
Clute case, given elsewhere. 1t is decision
of the highest court in this State, and fits the
Oregon case exactly.
Year: 1876

The New-York Municipal Society begins its
public work simply and sensibly. Movements
like this In the past have nearly always
ended in efforts to get Office for the lead
ing members. The constitution of this So
ciety seems to make such a perversiOn of
its purpose impossible, and the practical
way in which it has gone to work gives
q guaranty that it is organized with view
to permanence, that its members compre-
hend what such service TO the city as they
contemplate means and requires, and are really
likely to give us efficient aid in securing need
full reforms OF one thing, however, it must
beware. 1t must not be lOng-winded. Long
before the Citizens Association had been cap
tured by the Ring, its meetings were terror
to the newspapers Its fve-column circulars bur-
dened the waste baskets, and the public had
refused TO listen to it,
Year: 1876

complete overthrow by the Senate, its Demo-
cratic members being parties thereto, OF Mr.
Randall's remarkable theory that the JOINT
Rnles were still in force because the House
still adheres to them. Every Republican Sena-
tor and ten Democrats voted to sustain the
ruling of the Chair that the rules no longer
existed and Mr.. Bayard gave Mr.. RandalPs
theory the final and fatal thrust. This COM
mits both parties in the Senate to this posi-
ton. and destroys with one brush of the hand
the fne-spun web of technicalities which the
new Speaker has sought to throw around
simple question. Now the House, in support
of its claim to a right to reject the vote OF any
State, is left without any basis for argument
except precedent created by rules which do
not exist, and perhaps general claim OF the
power of the popular branch of Congress.
Yesterdays Democratic vote is Democratic
disaster


The totals of the casualties at the burning
of the Brooklyn Theater do not diminish as
we had hoped they would. On Wednesday
morning we estimated the number of the dead
roughly at 800. Yesterday morning the Off
cial figures furnished by the coroner placed it
at 292, the actual number of bodies in his
DOSSeSSlOl. i Ills ululHluS NO Si'O 'hO ''''
names and residences of 215 of this number
who have been recognized by their friends and
removed for private burial. In another list
arc the names of II missing all of whom it
is almost certain perished in the flames. 1t
will be observed that the number of names
collected by THE TRIBUNE, in almost every
instance by inquiry Of friends and relatives at
the late residences of the dead, tallies exactly
with the number of bodies reported to the
jury by the coroner great deal OF
care las been taken to prevent the
duplication of names arising from care
lessnass in transcrbing them, and in
this way the original lists, numbering over
$50, have been reduced to the number above
stated. 1t is barely possible that the total
may be still further reduced, but there is little
hope that it can be materially lessened. But
it is certain that the first estimate of The
TRIBUNE will not be exceeded.
Year: 1876

A subscription is being cir culated to raise a sufficient amount of money to start timber factory m Pine Blutt.-Pine Bluff Press.

 Send your capitalists up to Pope county, Maj. Newman, and they will find plenty of timber 'sready made of the very best quality.
Year: 1876

EDIroR TINES Those wero brave
and excellent remarks IN tho lead
ing editorial of your paper Of the
lst, in which you urge the young
mon of tho country to come for
ward and assert their manhood.
These remarks are true to the let
ter +:


"The fact il, the young men OF
this county, as we'll as every other
portion OF the state, have too long
bcen subject to the call and beck of
tho would'bc party leaders. The
tune for old fegy mon and fogy
principles isfast passing away. We
cannot afford to sustain the record
OF those who once had charge Of
public affairs, nor can we afierd to
pay for the mistakes Of the past,
much less make apologies foi
them"


Coed. The young men of AR.
kansas arc not responsible for the
blundcrs Of those who foisted foui
million debt upon us on account Of
the real estate and state banks
they are not responsible for the
manner in which ourpublic lands
were "gobbled" up prior to tho
war; they are not responsible fol
the squandcrlng of our school fund
during the same period nor arc
they responsible for what followed
during tho dark and bloody foul
years war which ragged between
1851 and 1865 nor again are they
responsible for the acts and doingl
nf tho swarm of Radical thieve,
foisted upon us by congress il
1868, who increased our debt by
millions, and outraged every form
Of decent government. No, SIR
the young men of Arkansas-whe
have always been true, and who
have followed in the thickcst o
the fray, wherever their old lead
ors bid them go are not response
bic for any Of these things, and n
is their fault now If they do not rs
sert their manhood and clam wba,
Of right belongs to them-the rlghl
to lead, instead of being led. They
cannot, nor do they propose to At
tempt TO defend tho blundcrs (to
say no worse OF it) prior to the
war any more than they would
think of attempting to defend the
rascalities during reconstruction.


To tho front, young men Of Ar
kansas! If you arc no more eapa.
bio of governing than were those
prior to the war, or thoso who out
ragged us afterward, then Is Arkan-
sas in bad way indeed. But they
ars All they want to do is to as
,ert their own manhood.


You've MAN.
Year: 1876

LOSING BUTToN.-Walter Scott tells
the story Of boy who was with him in
school who always stood at the head OF his
class. 1t was the custom of the scholars TO
change places in their classes according to
failure or success in recitation; but though
Walter was number two, he never could
get to the head because this boy never
missed. But Walter noticed that he had
habit when puzzled by hard question, Of
twirllng button on his jacket, and this
seemed to help him think out a right an
swer. Walter, more through mischief,
than any worse motive, cut of the but
ton slyly one day to see If it would make
any difference. The lesson was spelling
lesson, and several boys at the foot missed
a hard word. 1t came round TO the head.
The boy instinctively put his hand to the
button. 1t was gone. He looked down to
find II, grew confused, missed the word,
and Walter went above him. The boy new
er got to the head again, seemed TO lose his
ambition, settled down into second rate
scholar and never accomplished much in
life. Walter Scott declared that he often
suffered sharp ronorse at the thought that
he possibly spoiled the boy for school and
for life by cutting of the button that had
done such good service.
Year: 1876

DIR. McCosh, President of Princeton Col
lege, has written long communication TO
the New York World combating the po-
siton Of those scientific men who maintain
that the idea of personal Creator is not
necessary in accounting for the develop
ment of the earth and its occupants. We
are inclined 10 think that the class OF men
referred to is mostly imaginary. Tie
champions of the theory of evolution do
not in general hold this position, and Pro-
fessor Huxley, in his recent lectures in
New York, explicitly declared that he
dealt only with the order and succession of
development in nature and not With its f.
nal cause. Because study of nature re-
flutes the hypothesis that the world was
created in its present condition by fiat of
the Almighty, and shows that it has been
built up by process of evolution which
may be traced back through long ages, and
because speculation carries this process
back until it resolves all the universe into
mass Of vapor which contained the po-
tency of every form OF life, it does not by
any means follow that creative Being is
an unnecessary conception.


The theory of evolution, SO far from
eliminating the Creator from his universe,
makes his constant presence appear all the
more necessary. 1t is just as difficult TO
conceive that matter in its most primitive
nebulous form should exist and be endow-
ed with forces that set it going upon pro-
cess OF evolution through which the sue
cessiye stages of development were attain
ed, including the appearance OF constantly
improving forms of life, without an intelli-
gent designer and director, as to conceive
that the world should have sprung into be-
ing all at once without q Creator. The
work Of creation has been going on for un-
told ages, and is, perhaps, not yet COM
plele. From the beginning there have
been evidences of design and Of method
which exclude the idea of chance, or the
mere operation OF force upon matter. Take
the evolution theory in all its breadth and
depth, and it seems to US that it involves
the necessity of a constant intelligent pres
sure to supply that unknown and unknow-
able element without which we cannot ac-
count for anything. We may show the or
der of development and prove that there
have been no sudden sPas.ns of creative
energy, but that does not account for the
wonderful processes which we are study
ing. We may say that they come from the
steady operation of natural forces upon
matter, but yet the origin of those forces
and that matter and the direction of theii
operation TO the production OF results
which we trace are unaccounted for. We
must, after all, fall back upon a Creator
and we marvel more and more at His in
finite wisdom and The perfection OF His
| plan of creation, the more we study His
handiwork. Old and crude conceptions o.
His methods may be displaced, but belle
in His existence is just as necessary to al
understanding of evolution as to compre
hension of Millions theory of the creation
Boston Globe.
Year: 1876

The DoRY HERo.-The Cape Ann Ad-
vertiser says that Capt. johnson, the dar-
ing sailor who recently made the voyage
across the Atlantic In dory, is now at
Liverpool, where the adventurer and his
little craft are the lions OF the day. The
exhibition fee is sixpence, and the room is
thronged day and evening by those who
wish to see. johnson is now in good health,
having fully recovered from the fatigues OF
the voyage. He stated that he would not
attempt the feat again and pass through
what he did on that trip across tho Allan
tic for a million Of dollars.
Year: 1876

The vagueness and incertitude of the st.
Louis platform, not to say its duplicity and
evasveness, are exposed in very strk-
ing way by the conflicting interpretations
already put upon lt.-N. Y. Ecening Post.


BY assiduous practice they (Tilden and
Hendricks) hope to be able to stand with
their legs stretched at an angle CT about one
hundred and sixty degrees without serious
inconvenience to themselves and to the great
admiration OF the public. Worcester Spy.


The Cincinnati Enquirer urges that the
Democratic fight for State officers and Con-
gressmen be made ON the Ohio greenback
platform, ignoring the hard-money platform
on which Tilden and Hendricks were nom
mated. Uncle William Allen offers similar
advice. 1t will be difficult to ignore national
platforms in a presidential year. The spec
tacle of the Ohio Democrats dehouncing
"hard-money until October, and then shoul-
dering and fighting for S'hard.money" plat
form until the presidential election, will be
interesting and instructive. The fellows who
run the machines can do it; but there are in
party ranks nowadays not a few who despise
political jugglery. Memphis Aualanche.


AT st. Louis there was not single colored
delegate, nor single voice raised for Justice
to the negro. To all Intents and purposes the
colored race, embracing nearly five million
souls and probably a million voters, was un-
represented in the Democratic convention,
and their rights and interests utterly ignored.
From this we infer, and We put it to any in
telligent man to say if the inference is not
true, that the Democratic party is the party
of caste, of political intolerance, of dwarfed
and narrow ideas, of mean and illiberal
prejudice. 1t cannot rise to the level of a
just conviction, or to the realization of a
broad and generous citizenship. It's idea of
model republic still is that one large class
of the population should be politically ostra-
cised.-Indtanoposs Journal, Rep.


Mr.. Bristow's letter to the President in
reply to the one the President addressed to
him giving him permission to testify before
the House Investigating Committee in regard
to any and all conversations had with him
relating to the prosecutions of the whiskey
ring is creditable to his Judgment and good
sense. There is a very wide difference be-
tween an investigation and an inquislton,
and we can conceive of no more impertinent
assumption of Unauthorized power than
for a committee of Congress appointed for
the purpose solely of obtaining facts in aid
of legislation, to put witness upon the
stand and pump him for mere opinions of
which he might have lear ned something in
the communications of official business or
confidence OF private friendship.-Boston
Herald.
Year: 1876

DESPITE the fact that the Tilden ratifca-
ton meeting was a failure here, it was suf
ficently important abroad, or, at least, the
speech of Gen. Anderson was so noticeable
as to call out very amusing editorial in the
New York Tribune. Everybody will read it
because it is very funny.
Year: 1876

The confederate element of the Missouri
Democrats won great victory in the state
convention the other day over the conserva-
tives, nominating their candidate for govern
Or by ninety majority. And the convention
pledged the state to Tilden and reform by
GO, 900 majority,
Year: 1876

On the 9Th of January, 1862, at the
State Convention of the Democratic
party, he made the most celebrated
speech of his life, in which he at
tempted to show by labored areu-
ment that tho interest of the North
western States was wholly with the
South, and not with the East, that
the New England States had been
Year: 1876

With majority OF nearly two thirds
in the House, they have wholly failed for
eight months to produce any plan, scheme
of relief, or policy, upon the subject of
currency, banking, tariff, or any other
economic question. While abusing every
thing that exists, they produce nothing,
can suggest nothing. They have displayed
imbecility, incapacity, and stupidity of
thought and conception heretofore un-
known in the history of parties. They
have shown strong predictions for the
detective business, but have done nothing
to elevate its character or remove the sus-
picion that naturally attaches to it. Utter
ly unable to build themselves up, they seek
to pull others down.


|, The composition of the present House
Of Representatives at Washington illus
trates the strength and organization of
the Democratic party. The Southern
members constitute the body and brains of
the party, shape its action, and control
whatever policy it has. They are the
head and body of the animal, and the
Northern Democracy constitute the tail,
and our acquaintance with all quadrupeds
Year: 1876

Perhaps no political career of equal
extent in this country can be refer
red to which. has been so barren of
good or important results. In the
winter of lS60-6l he stood with Blu.
chanan and the leaders of his party
in denying all right of coercion, in
justifying tho South, and throwing all
blame for the then threated rebellion
upon the Republicans Of the North.
After the breaking out of the war he
sunk from sight for time, ana his
position was wholly unknown. To,
ward the conclusion of 1861, when
the country was depressed by mis-
fortune, he again came to the surface
along with the leaders Of his party,
and was bitter in his donuucations
against the war and the Govern
ment.
Year: 1876

New YORK, Dec. 27.-A Washington
special contains the report of the Commits
sion appointed by the President to examine
the several reports of surveys which have
been made at the expense of the United
States to ascertain the practicability of an
inter oceanic canal across the Isthmus.
They favor the Nicaragua route, and fix its
cost at about 500, 100000, and estimate
that its construction will take ten years.
They also State that an inter-oceanic canal
across the Isthmus shold be under the pro-
lection of all the nations interested, and
that they should guarantee not only the
neutrality of the canal and its works but
also of contagious strip Of territory on each
side of not less than 100 nautical miles In
breadth, and of the ocean approaches for a
distance Of not less than 100 nautical miles
in any direction along the coast and outsea-
ward from each end.


The President believes that the prospect
of an early beginning of the work on this
canal is very favorable. Under bis direc-
tion communications have been sent to the
principal powers of Europe in regard to
the subject, directing attention to satisfac-
tory results of the surveys which have
been made, and to the views set forth in
the report as to the best route. Replies
have been received from several of the gov
ernments thus addressed, in which they
express themselves favorable to an early
beginning of the work, and seem to ap-
prove the wisdom of making 1t interna-
tional in character by an equal participa-
tion of the great commercial powers in its
construction, and the maintenance for it of
an inviolate neutrality.


When replies have been received from
the other nations communicated with the
President intends to submit all the papers
and correspondence to Congress, with q
spcial message, in which he will urge that
the United States take steps necessary to
the beginning of the work.
Year: 1876

At the police court yesterday, the busi-
ness was very dull, the only party who ap-
peared In the dock was Thomas Casey, who
was unable to inform his Honor, wether he
had home or not, or II he lived anywhere
he was again placed in the cells to refresh
his memory.
Year: 1876

We know that old age approaches,
many worn with heavy cares often ihinh
thew would gladly cast off the burden
of household responsibilities, and ENJOY
the rest and freedom they imagine may
be fourd in boarding but we nave sell
dom if ever. found one who. having
made the experiment, felt in the end
that il was successful.


If our Young people would tie wise
enough to begin their married lie IN a
small house. or better still, on single
Aoor-a fat-how much more of true
happiness they might experience.


With good health, and only two to
provide for in the beginning, no queen
on her throne could be more independ-
ent than a young Kousekeeper, even
with limited means. Such care and
labor can only be a pleasure, while 1t
insures good health, and prepares the
wife by experience to perform such
added cares as coming years may bring,
and with much more ease and comfort.
But if young people will begin by
assuming the cares which must come
with large house, and fill it, as 1t Is
naturally filed, with daily guests, they
verv soon become disguised with house
keeping and seek refuge in boarding
house.-ChriStian Union.
Year: 1876

KEEPING ENGAGEMENTS Miss Marie
Poirson, of Paris, has Just done q very
pretty thing. She had been betrothed
to the young Count de Foisant before
the war, in which, while serving in the
artillery, he had the misfortune to lose
both his legs. After that fatal shot at
Sedan, the Count must have thought
the chance Of his love keeEing her word
with him was but small; but she has
just done so. The marriage has taken
place. During the Indian mutiny
precisely similar misfortune .befell an
officer, who obtained the Victoria Cross
at the price of the loss of his lower
limbs; and in this instance also the girl
who had promised her love to him did
not withdraw it. Such loyalty can by
no means be reckoned upon in the other
sex; and often an attack Of smallpox or
otherilln is as fatal to mans fidelity
as to his loves good looks. The late
Duke Of Wellington took a very charac-
teristic middle course under circum-
stances of this kind. He was not senti-
mental nor chivalric, but he had a
strong sense of duty. When the wo-
man to whom he was engaged wrote to
say: "My beauty has gone, he replied.
from Spain: 81 am sorry for it; but
viii marry you still if you think proper
to hold me to my bargain" And she
did think proper. 1t Is scarcely neces-
sary to say that the marriage did not
prove a happy one. f
Year: 1876

He liveth long who liyeth we'll:


All else is life but flung away;
tie liveth longest who can tell


Of true things truly done each day.
Then fill each hour with what win last;
Buy up The moments IS they go;
The life above when this is past


Is the ripe fruit of life below.
Sow love, anu taste its f-litage pure;


Sow peace. and reap its harvest bright
Sow suhbeams on the rock and moor,


And tind a harvest home of light.
Year: 1876

The building committee of church recent
ly finished IL N. Jersey wanted stone
slab over the t0or. with the name of the
church ard y Scriptural motto. 1t occur
red to chem that nothing could b. better
than MY house shall be called house Of
prayer So one OF the committc-men n,
who was in great hurry. told the stone
cutter to chistl the thirteenth verse Of
the twenty first chapter OF Matthew. He
thought the verse ended with the word b..
wanted to use. The stor ecutt-r took the
whole verse from the Bible and faithfully
copied 1t to the end. Imagine the horror
Of the Committeeman when the stone was
delivered. 1t rean: My house shall be
called a house of prayer. but ye have
made 1t den of thieves.'' The stone
cutter insisted that he had obeyed orders.
But the committeeman insisted that the
motto lie had inscribed was not wanted.
and that it would be Of no particular use
to them. That slab is now in The stone
cutters yard. and anybody who wants it
for a tombstone can probably buy it
cheap.