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Year: 1876

Very recently, a gentleman giving a
dinner party was persuaded, much
against his wishes, to allow his young
hopeful, a spoiled child, to join the
company.


Thinking that many of the rich dishes
were not good for the boy, he objected
to his partaking of them, but eventually
gave way on the child threatening 4:
eff | am not allowed to have it, I'll
tell I"


This went on for some time, until the
father made a stand, refusing firmly to
let the boy have any wine, adding:


"And you may tell, if you like"


Amidst roars of laughter, the child at
once called out with glee:


"My new knickerbockers are made
out of pair of mas old curtainsl"
Year: 1876

Charity toward those who are accused
of crime may well be exercised, even
when guilt is apparently proved. Sew
eral years ago Boston bank teller was
dismissed from his post because of q
discrepancy of ten thousand dollars in
his accounts. There had been a gen
eral confidence in his integrity, but
the money was missing. The unfortu-
nate man has lived under cloud of sus-
picion; but the other day the lost money
was found in q peculiar place behind a
safe door, where it had got pushed out
of sight by accident.
Year: 1876

1T seems almost impossible for the House
to let the played out Secession alone 1t is
the intrenchment from behind which the
Republican party fight. They bring it up
at every opportunity, and provoking the
Southern members to speak in answer, the
shout goes up all over the country that the
rebel yell is again heard in Congress. We
thought that the folly of Mr.. Blaine in his
blatancy in the Amnesty Bill discussion had
been plainly enough seen to let this matter
drop from debate governed by parliamenta-
nv laws
Year: 1876

TEE failure of the ~Carlist movement
has been indeed sad blow TO the leader,
as by such disaster to himself he has been
foiled in movement that had many ad-
mirers, and laid waste the fortunes of an
ambition he had struggled with great per-
tinacity to accomplish. He has had to
take refuge in foreign country, and like
many other insurrectionary leaders will
leave but little behind him to mark q
brilliant career
Year: 1876

THE Commercial thinks it is matter
for ridicule that The HERALD is cent pa
per. There is reason for us to be congratu-
lated in the fact that if it is only one cent
paper that it is much in little, and has so
far given the strongest proof of being ap-
preciated by the people of the city and
State.
Year: 1876

A RESOLUTION has been introduced into
the Pennsylvania Legislature to make the
10th day of May public holiday. This
seems very fitting as it will be upon that
day that the Centennial Exhibition begins,
and the great evNnt that it is intended to
celebrate could receive no better recogni-
tien than this from the people.
Year: 1876

We are determined to spare neither
money nor labor in still further improving
our Weekly edition, in all that is necesas-
ry to make up great newspaper, worthy
of it's worldwide reputution,
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Ct good faith


Ne cannot undertake to return or reserve cor'mn-
nications that not used.
Year: 1876

THE testimony in the whiskey investiga-
tion Tuesday shows pretty conclusively that
Solicitor Wilson and Commissioner Yalyan
were as Jealous to make Bristow president as
in the prosecution of the whskey ring. And
apparently they conceived the idea that a
quarrel with Gen. Grant was likely to pro-
mote the interests of their favorite.
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
Year: 1876

and the large number of testimonials which are
stantly being received from persons who have been
cured by its use, conclusive proof of its great
value. 1t is recommended by physicians and apoth-
ecaries. AS Blood-Puriier and Health-Restorer,
it has no equal.


VEGETINE is not prepared for fancy drink made
from Door liquors. which debilitates the system and
tends to destroy health instead of restoring it.


Are not the many testimonials given for the differ
ent complaints satisfactory to any reasonable persons
suffering from disease that they can be cured? Read
the different testimonials given, and no one can
doubt. In many of these the persons say that
their pain and suffering not be expressed, as in
of Scrofula where. apparently, the whole body
was one mass of corruption. If VEGETINE will re-
leve pan cleanse, purify and such Diseases re-
storing the patient to perfect health after trying diff
ferent physicians many remedies suffering for years,


is it not conclusive proof if you are sufferer, you
can be cured? Why is this medicine performing
such great cures? 1t works in the blood in the cir
culating fluid 1t can be truly called the Great
Blood Purifier. The great source of disease origin
ates in the blood; and medicine that does not act
directly upon it, to purify and renovate has any just
claim upon public attention. When the blood be-
weather or climate want of exercise irregular diet
or from any other cause, the VEGETINE will renew
the blood, carry off the putrd humors, cleanse the
stomach, regulate the bowels and impart tone of
vigor to the whole body. The conviction is, in the
public mind well in the medical profession that
the remedies supplied by the Vegetable Kingdom
more safe more successful in the of disease
than mineral medicines. VEGETINE is composed of
roots barks and herbs. 1t is pleasant to take and
is perfectly safe to give infant. Do you need it?
Do not hesitate to try it, You will never regret it,
Year: 1876

The champions of Reformer Tilden will be
obliged to try again. 1t now appears that
Mr.. Tilden was not only the attorney of the
Credit Mobilier bat that he owned stock in
the corporation to the amount of $4,000 on
which he pocketed the enormous dividends
out of the assets of the Union Pacifc-divi-
dends double or treble the amount of his in
vestment. Had his connection with the
Credit Mobilier been merely that of an attor-
ney the excuse that lawyer is not expected
to have any conscience, might go down with
some, but the fact that he was an actual
stockholder in the concern, and pocketed
dividends as well as lawyers fees, identifies
him with it to all moral intents and purposes.
1t won't do to sniff at this as campaign
story. The evidence of it is in the report of
the congressional investigating committee
which investigated the Credit Mobiler.
Year: 1876

ignorance of the machinery the members
were nearly poisoned with the bad air, of
which in previous years there had been no
complaint. But why enumerate? Why go
on to speak of the clerk Smith of New Hamp-
shire, who abused his position to advertise to
secure bounties under bill then pending, of
Hambleton, the cotton claim lobbyist and cop
perhead, who named his child for the mur-
derer of Lincoln; of Broughton, dsgraced
revenue official, and many others, since it is
generally admitted that a record of disoyalty,
dishonesty. ignorance and imbecility is the
rule rather than the exception with the
!. House officials.


But the animus of the Democratic House
was shown in the treatment of the Union
soldiers who occupied and filled acceptably
large number of subordinate positions.
Many of these were disabled in battle and
unable to obtain living without these posi-
tions. Nevertheless, according to a list CIV
en- by the New York Times, FIFTY-sEvEN
UNION SOLDIERS have been discharged our
ing the past eight months by the officers of
the House and an EQUAL NUMBER OF POSI-
TIoNs BESTOWED UPON MEN WHOSE ONLY
CLAIM FOR RECOGNITION is THAT THEY HAD
ASSAULTED THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY.


The above is fair sample of civil service
reform as demonstrated by the Democratic
House. 1t is commended to all fair-mjnded
people and especially those who hold that
the manned soldier of the Republic should
be recognized and cared for by the country
he has saved.
Year: 1876

The policy of the Republican party is
in seeking to fan the dying embers of
sectional prejudice.


The products of the Southern soil are
more abundant, and intrinsically more
valuable than those of any other section
of the Union, and hence agriculture is
more remunerative than at the North or
West. The cotton, sugar, and tobacco
growing regions of the South, therefore,
become the best market for the sale of
Northern products. the home production
of which is either impossible or unproft-
able. With the South prosperous. the
demand for the products of Northern la
bor and Northern ingenuity is increased
in direct proportion. But if, through
misrule, oppressive taxation, and social
disorder, the industrial interests of the
South are prostrated, the consumption of
Northern products is decreased, and the
effect is felt in the commercial centers
as well as in the grain growing regions OF
the North and West.


1t must be remembered that the bulk
of the Southern products exported was
grown in the States which the Demo.
cratic party has had control of, and this
result is at once an argument infavor Of
the ascendency of that party, and proc
positive of the falseness Of the " "outrage
Year: 1876




A clever writer says: Providence
meant women to make the world beauti-
full as much as flowers and butterflies,
and there is no sin in tasteful dress, but
only in devoting to it too much money
or too much time" This is a most SEN
sible view, and is the true ground of me-
diumship between the one extreme OF
straight and rigid simplicity, and the de-
votion of the best energies of a lifetime
to vanity and frivolity. But, after all,
what is all this rage for dress but an eff
fort after the beautiful? /? The reason why
the beautiful is not always the result is
because so many women are ignorant or
merely initiative. They have no sense
of fitness; the short wear what belongs
to the tall, and brunettes sacrifice their
natural beauty to look like blondes. That
which is inappropriate is never beauti-
full, no matter how fashionable; but who
does not know some woman whose taste
and training are 50 perfect that fashion
becomes to her'as means of grace instead
despot, 80 that even the worst fashions
seem to them but chain of roses?
Year: 1876

There was some time ago considerable
controversy about the Caldwell dis
patches to Blaine. Mr. Proctor Knott,
chairman of the judiciary committee of
the House, alleged that these dispatches
were concocted in the United States.
Mr.. Blaine, of course, swore that they
were not, just as he swore to everything
in his case, until he found it essential to
get sick, so as to avoid swearing at all.
The truth of the matter is, that these dis
patches were written in Washington, in
the square near the Arlington House, the
night before they were ostensibly tele-
graphed from Philadelphia to London
and back. The parties present were the
mysterious Favo, whose identity was
subsequently established as being a
clerk and confidential agent of Caldwell,
and two members of Congress from
Maine, closely connected with the dis
graced Speaker.


The whole transaction about Blaine's
investigation by the Congressional Com
mittee was carried ON by detective in
trigue. The people of this Blaine party
were constantly meeting each other un-
der false names, in dark places, and
hurrying from point to point in obedi-
ence to mysterious kilograms. They
must have all belonged to the American
Alliance, or some other equally dark
and mysterious order. because they did
nothing in the open light of day. Pro
scription, sectional hate, and public
plunder are natural allies, and man
who is willing to rob the public treasury
is willing to prescribe his neighbor
for the crime of not agreeing with
him. Such men are not Americans,
for the American principle is to allow
each man the full chance which bis
merit may secure him. " A fair field and
no favor" is a good motto, but one
which the Radical conspirators, who
own all the doubtful and desperate
claims against the United States, and
who have plundered the Southern States
bare, have no confidence in.
Year: 1876

ste ries" which the radical press and ora
tors so industiously circulate. 1t the
Southern people in the cotton States
habitually maltreat and oppress the ne
groes, how comes it that so much cotton
is grown3 1t can not be grown without
the labor of the negroes, and as rule, it
is grown on the shares THE owner of
the plantation supplying the land and the
capital, while the negroes supply the Ia
Dor and divide the product. That this
system results in decided benefit to the
negroes, is evidenced by the fact that the
official statistics of the State of Georgia
show that the amount of taxable property
owned by negroes in that State averages
500 per each head of family-an exhibit
that can not be made by any other labor
ing population in the world.


Is it wisdom or folly TO pursue policy
which must stimulate the people of that
section to develop and build up their
country as rival to the North? 1t is
the habit of many intelligent Northern
men to sneer at Southern industry,
Southern energy and Southern persever-
ance. The talk about the South having
been demoralized by the system of slave
labor; about the energies of the South
ern people being paralyzed by that curse,
and point with becoming pride to the
wonderful progress which the Northern
people have made in the inventive and
industrial arts, and smile complacently
when Southern competition is men
toned. They forget that the Southern
people have been purified in the furnace
of affliction, and that new people was
born during the four years of dreadful
war through which they passed. They
start far behind in the race and are handi-
capped with many disadvantages, it is
true, but they have the advantages of
climate and soil, and with industry and
thrift equal to that of their Northern
competitors, the Southern people will
prove no mean rivals. Their agricul-
tural products exported, alone equal
two-thirds of the entire exports of the
whole country-and this, be it remem-
bered, has been accomplished under the
most unfavOrable circumstances.


There is, however, a higher standpoint
from which to appeal to the Northern
intelligence; and we would invite all
patriotic men to give more than passing
attention to what we have to say. Dur
ing the past five years the balance Of
trade has been largely against the United
States. The gold, or its equivalent, re.
quisite to pay the interest on our ma
tional debt, and to pay for our foreign
importations has been drained of, and
hence we are cursed with an irredeema'
BILE currency. Whenever our exports
largely exceed, in gold value, the inter,
est on our public debt and the importa.
tions of foreign products, then we will
be ON the high road to national prosperity
This cannot be without prosperous
South, and prosperity, misrule, social
disorder and excessive taxation, never
come together.
Year: 1876

tunates; but, alas stranger appeared
in place of their own little one. Yet the
stranger seemed to them like an angel.
Her cheeks had beautiful bloom, and
long faxen hair fell in curls upon her
shoulders. She brought to them bread,
and small basket of other provisions.


"Your girl" she said, twill not come
back, perhaps, to-day; but keep up your
spirits! See what she has sent your


After these encouraging words, the
young messenger of good put into the
hands of the father five francs, and then,
turning round to cast look of pity and
satisfaction on the poor family, who
were dumb with emotion, she disap-
peared.


The history of these five francs is the
most remarkablep part of this affair. This
little benevolent fairy was, it is almost
unnecessary to say, the same pitying spec
tator who had been addressed by the abb
stract or of the loaf at the police office.
As soon as she had heard what was said
there, she had gone away, resolved to
take some meat to the poor family.
But she remembered that her mamma
was from home that day, and was
at a loss how TO procure money or food,
until she bethought herself of ofaresource
of strange kind.


She recollected that hairdresser, who
lived near her mothers house, and who
knew her family, had often commended
her beautiful hair, and had told her to
come to him whenever she wished to have
it cut, and he would give her louis for
it. This used 10 make her proud and
pleased; but she now thought of it in a
different way. In order to procure money
for the assistance of the starving family,
she went straight to the hairdresser's,
put him in mind of his promise, and Of
fered to let him cut off her pretty locks
for what he thought them worth.


Naturally surprised by such an ap-
plication, the hairdresser who was kind
and intelligent man, made inquiry into
the csuse of his young friends visit.
Her secret was easily drawn from her.
and it caused the hairdresser almost to
shed tears of pleasure. He feigned to
comply with the conditions proposed,
and gave the bsrgainer fifteen francs,
promising to come and claim his pur-
chase as some future day.


The little girl then got basket,
bought provisions and set out on her
errand OF mercy. Before she returned,
the hairdresser had gone to her mothers
found that lady at home, and related to
her the whole circumstances; SO that
when the professor of the golden tresses
came back she was gratifed by being re-
ceived into the open arms of her pleased
and praising parent.


When the story was told at the police
Office by the hairdresser, the abstraction
of the loaf was visited by no severer pun
ishment. The singular circumstances
connected with the case raised many
friends to the artisan and his family, and
he was soon restored to health and COM
fort.
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning Coroner Groves held
an inquest over the body Of a young colored
child by the name of johnson, who lived
with its parents at Eleventh and Clxymont
streets. The child was one of twins, and
had never opened It's mouth since its birth,
about one week ago, and threiore death was
caused by the wanting of food. A verdict
was rendered in accordance with the facts
Year: 1876

The Historical Society will meet this
evening at 7:3O o'clock, in its rooms,
Masonic Temple. The unfinished exercises
of the annual meeting will be taken up, and
the subject of erecting a tire-proof building
f,r the society will be discussed. The pub
lie are cordially invited to be presesnt and
participate in the discussion of this subject.
Year: 1876

There was q. good deal of vociferation and
gesture, the tumult was finally quelled and
Il was agreed that Mr.. Blaine should close
the debate tomorrow, and that he should
call the precocious question at the close Of
his remarks. The House then adjourned.
Year: 1876

Our friend and neighbor Mr.. C. E..
Girardey, so we'll known in the commu-
nifty for his affability and courtesy, as
well in business as In social intercourse,
throws again this week new induce
ments to purchasers in the shape Of real
estate. Upon the present occasion he
has for sale, together with a choice lot
of city property and furniture, a fine
plantatian in the parish Of Pointe
Coupee. Let those who have money to
invest keep vigilant eye on the st.
Charles rotunda.
Year: 1876

Editor N, @. .xDem0crat--Tbe Bulletin
OF May 18th ridicules the idea OF the
Democratic party resorting to the testl-
mony OF such men as Seelye to expose
the scoundrelism of the Radical usurp
ers OF this State. It is an almost daily
experience TO be brought to wonder on
which side the political fence the But-
letin is. The course OF the paper Is
really enigmatical Instead OF pointing
to the true cause Of the country's evils,
and denouncing the villains who incite
them for their party purposes, it walls
and weeps over the occurrences, and SO
words it's wailings that one would sup
pose the good people who are only en-
gagged In suppressing disorders are
really to be blamed. And now it OBJ
jects to Seelye's testimony.


Has the Bulletin never heard OF men
being hung for committing murder, oil
on the testimony OF confederate who
had turned States evidence Is 1t not
aware that the discovery OF oil sorts OF
crime probably oftener hinges on this
kind OF evidence than otherwise Every
man. whatever be his character. is re-
ceived on the witness stand, and the
only question in the premises Is, how re-
liable is his testimony? This is to be
determined according to circumstances.


We are now engaged in ferreting out
the villainies OF the Radical scoundrels
who have been expressing and impover-
ishing US. Good men have not been
engaged with them. but men Of the
class we would rid the State OF. If any
of these men are willing to turn State 8
evidence, and help us in our work, well
and good. 1t is hard to imagine any
other source through which the desired
evidence is to come


Another point. From the beginning Of
the whisky trials in this city the Bulle
tin has been casting ridicule and cold
water on official efforts to detect the
robbers OF the Government treasury.
This is all wrong. IT parties have been
enriching themselves by robbing the
Government (Which is stealing and the
man who steals is thief, let them be
convicted and punished. Innocent men
are not going To be found guilty. The
danger is that all the guilty will not be
convicted. IT high man is guilty let
him fall from his spurious pinnacle and
be spurned by honest men. II a low fell
low Is crawling to so-called influence by
force Of fraud, let him be stopped in his
career and dropped back into the scum
whence he rose. The want Of this peo-
pie for years has been for the return OF
the rule of honesty. In the name of
decency and prOpriety let US not throw
an obstacle in the way of that return.


LAST DTTCHER.
Year: 1876

1t is now said that Grant has been
piled with whiskey by the Radicals for
several days, and instead of keeping his
word TO recognize the legal legislature of
South Carolina, may be induced to '.drive
Wade Hampton and his friends out OF
Columbia at the point Of the bayonet.'
Let him drive, his end is nigh.
Year: 1876

The Radicals are great Constitution
members. Whenever they can't succeed
in cheating under the Constitution with
out being caught they propose an amend
ment. Under new party affinities and
names they have robbed the treasury and
the States and the people of the States.
There Is no mistake about this they are
the same men who broke up the Wing
party because they could not get hold of
it; and whenever they did get hold Of the
government they commenced to steal /;
and to cover their robbery by amend
ments 10 the Constitution. They now
propose TO steal the Presidency for four
years and to cover that by an amendment
to the Constitution to prevent its being
done hereafter by any other party. Now
there is no use in this. The man that
will steal will lie and in four years the
same party that is seeking to amend the
Constitution would swear that it was
not TO prevent their stealing the game in
some other way, which way they would
be sure to seek out. Charge thief with
stealing sheep out of the stable and he
may protest that he is innocent as babe
Of that charge, simply because he took it
cut Of the yard.


Mr.. Morton's proposition to amend
the Constitution comes too late. The
election Of Tilden and Hendricks Presi-
dent andVice- President shows clearly that
the Electoral College cannot now be i'm
proved; and that cheating under it is too
difficult to be accomplished-that to de-
feat one candidate and ''count in" an
other under it all laws must be set aside.
Mr.. Morton wants an easier mode than
this. 1t is too risky and requires men
who had been already stepped in crime
TO such degree as to be outlaws; char
acters who could not find place in any
other party, and who had been denounced
by men Of all parties for relessness in
yillsinies. The United States COnstitu-
tion does not rest the election of Presi-
dent and Vice President in the hands of
negro returning boards, and when Mr.
Tilden issues his first Message on the
convening ofnext Congress, he will doubt
less show the people the defects that ex-
ist in the present system, ifthcre are any,
and propose proper mode and remedy.