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Year: 1876




against the negro, and she is waiting
to hear the re-echo of her work from
Northern journals. say to you that
I You have Governor who is irving
to sell us out, and that this very same
traitor, this Daniel Ii. Chamberlain.
ought to be in the penitentiary. He
is traitor to the Republican party,
and he will be traitor to the Demo
cratic party. We have got to watch
him close. l am going to make every
vote in Hellholc Swamp tell against
these Democrats at the next cleo
ton.


WE WILL WIPE EVERY DEMO GRAFT FROM


THE STATE.


II Broad street wants war, Uncle
Sam will fight for us, and tell you
what kaow, that Broad street and
Daniel III. Chamberlain will both be
taken care Of when the Legislature
meets again. This meeting in the
liibernian Hall was nothing more
than to start ku-Kluxism again.
They will drive the negroes from the
polls and kill every one, if necessary,
to carry the next election. Broad
street is supporting the Ku-Klux
business, as she did before. 1t means
our total annihiation or the next
election for the Democrats. But don't
be scared. We've got the national
guard and we have the United States
troops to help us. The government
at Washington will take care of us.
| voted for w. j. Whipper, and Ill
do it again.


The requisite amount Ct applause
of tlis ell rt was made up by the
vigorous rapping and stamping of the
crowd on the stand, and the next
speaker was "Red-IIoL" Jones, Sen.
atol from Georgetown. Jones said
that lo was very sorry that be had
not bad the line to prepare an eia
boralc address, and he was sorry to
see so few present, but this he could
account for from the fact that Con-
gresham, who was paid TO be a;
Washington, was in the city trying
to break up the meeting. This is
one OF the most important occasions
at which yon have been called. upon
to attend stand here as q Union
soldier with three wounds on my
body, and stand here to day ready
to be carried home foot foremost if
necessary, This is one Of the proud
est days that [ have witnessed III
South Carolina.


THE MICRO


who has been run down as incapable
and iIliterate has proved himself the
eqnal OF any and every race upon
The face of the globe The great
'ronOle mas been That the negro has
been too godlike up to this time to
elect negro judges. stand here to
day, as did two years ago, denouncN
ing d. ii. Chamberlain. | advocated
Green against Chamberlain because
| knew Chamberlain to be a traitor.
[ only wish to God Green had been
elected. Chamberlain proposes to
sell out the Republican party for so.
cial recognition in South Carolina.-
lie proposes to bind us hand and foot
and make rs worse slaves than we
ever were. | admit that the Repub-
lican party has made grave mistakes,
bnt the election of these judges is not
one of them. In the last campaign
tho Democrats were al down on
Chamberlain; they called him thief,
rogue, and everything else, and
now they hold ont their arms to him
as the great reformcr. Now why, in
the name of God, can't Moses and
Whipper reform too. If there is to
be a general selling out, we propose
to be parties to the sale; and before
we will allow a baldheated Massa-
Year: 1876

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION TO BE READ AT
THE ROOMS OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION To-
DAY.


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALp.1


ALBANY, Dec %, 1875.
Tho Commission on City Government will have q
meeting at tho Of the Bar Association, In New
York. tomorrow when their report to the Legislature
vii, be determined upon. According to the statement
OF n member Of the commission It probable this
port will recommend the adoption OF twelve amend
ments the constitution proposing spring elections
IN all cities, New YORK and Brooklyn included. and
restriction upon tho Legislature in relation tho
tor OF taxation OF cities and the issue OF bonds upon
their credit. The report will probably he unanimous
Year: 1876

THE COMFORTS OF Wool TO BR1rIsu
LAwYERs.-John Paul, writing from
London to the New York Tribune, thus
discourses of the "Woolsack": Strange
how they keep on doing a thing because
some one, years ago, did it onceI Before
cushions were invented the Lord Chancel-
lor sat on a bag of wool. So the Lord
Chancellor of to-day must still sit ON a
wOOlsack. Where's the sense of it3 If
he sat on a file of Tribunes now he
might learn somethingl All very well to
explain the woolsack by the yarn about
wool being once the great staple of the
kingdom, and this bag being intended to
perpetually remind the LOAd Chancellor
that he sits there pledged to protect the
interests of the people. Had they wished
TO remind him of anything they'd not
have given him so soft a seat of it-a few
pins would have been put in. Cheese was
a staple of the country quite as much as
wool. Why did they not set his Lord
ship up in state on fine Stilton3 In
such a case he wouldn't have had to go
out to lunch. No, no; tell you that
our English friends believe in wool /;
they find that two-fold virtue in a WOOL
sack which by Falstaffs fancy lay in a
good shcrris sack-or possibly he meant
wool all the whilel To their thinking
wool carries with it wisdom as we'll as
warmth. And they insist on applying il
to one end or the other Of all their legal
luminaries, while the Lord Chancellor,
who is looked to for opinions of weight,
involving the vastest interests, must have
it at both. For barons of law and barris-
ters only, it is enough to clap a layer on
the head as a wig,
Year: 1876

FISHING IN FLORIDA.-Winter tourists
in Florida enjoy some royal sport when
they go a fishing. Every lake in Florida
is very low, and low, moist places, where
the cattle found perennial grass, or a
spangle Of Towering mOsses picked out
with tiny gold bells, ~ this year dry Hs
a chip. But this low water Is splendid
for fishing. Trout, indeedl His black
back, spoon snout and generally cOarse
vigOr are nothing like our toy trout Of
the mountain brook, marked with butter
speckles. The weight is from four to
ten pounds, and one was taken recently
that weighed fourteen. Your fishing
preparations are very slight. The troll
is for amusement as you stretch over the
fishing gTOund-a bay in low hum
mock, thick with live oak, hickory and
dense herbage, and skiIlful hand will
throw in the little perch as fast as you
can fix your line. The spoil is chiefly
the black bass, but sometimes a lusty
Dream, broad. fat and fat, an almost
round fish. There is also a species Of
pike, sometimes taken Lake Okeecho-
bee and the Lassinee- In Florida, If the
fish bite at all, they bite so fast that in
an hour you can reel up your line, row
about, sketch or go home, dry and COM
Portable, TO luncheon, and brag Of your
piscatorial skill, although the bass would
bite at clothes line and a meat-hOOk.
It is about as much skill as the cook
shows in taking them out Of the basket
to clean them. In this season the tables
are loaded with fish, crisp, fat, esculent
until some of the more dainty visitors
get tired of the smell Of them and abol-
ish them from the dining-room.
Year: 1876




The Waco (Texas) Examiner of theSsd
inst. says: "An old man, his wife and
three daughters passed through the city
yesterday in a covered wagon, On route
to Hamilton County. He stated tn an
Examiner reporter that he was from
Southwestern Missouri, and had left
there four months ago with a family
consisting Of a wife, four daughter
and a son aged about twenty-one years.
While passing through the Indian Terri
tory they were joined by man,
his wife and two small children,
who were also on their way to Texas, and
the two parties travelled together for sew
eral days. They camped one night at a
point near the State line, and during the
night the man who had Joined the Mis-
souri, family took two horses and ran of
with the old mans youngest daughter.
Next day her brother started 10 pursuit and
after following them for several days sud
denly came upon them at a place called
Brush Mountain, in the Creek nation.
The fleeing party was on the alert, and
the young man, the brother, was shot
dead as he rode toward them. 1t was a
month later that the old man heard ofhis
sons death, and he resumed his way al
most heart-broken. He told our reporter
that as soon as he could find a place to
leave his family he intends to hunt down
the murderer Of his son and kill him if it
should be the last act of his life."
Year: 1876

ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF MATRI-
MoNY.-He used to cramp his feet up in
little boots, and limp painfully to her
residence every Saturday evening; but
the morning after his marriage he went
into a shOemaker's, drew a chalk mark
around his foot, and about an inch
distant from it on both sides and at the
heel and toe, and ordered the man to
make him pair of boots after that pat
tern. oh, there's sweet liberty, there's
balmy, boundless freedom in the marriage
state, of which sore-heeled and distorted
bachelors have no conception.
Year: 1876

rs an cyaspcrating little instrument; n lin
tube, Of small diameter, and twelve or four
teen inches long. It's hollow; anybody eau
see through it; kind of unfinished fife, with
all that the word implies, except It's music


1t has AL the raspng possibilities OF dat
wcndrous instrument except that Of making u
noise. In the hands OF a small boy of average
"cussedHoss," one pea-shooter is capable OF IA
much disturbance in neighborhood as a we'll
developed fife with full grown man learn
ing to play on it. II does not come under
the head OF heavy ordnance by any means


Lyon tho Navy Department could burst one of
them at the expense of n Gre-cTackor and
cork II is not deadly nor even dangerous


As the Californian said about the small-sized
revolver, "T'aint big enough to make u fell
"ler mad" A man might be surrounded By
small boys and popped at with pca-shooters all
day, and have no special feeling about
it,, except one of disgust that there was
rot really enough of 1t 10 get good
and mad about. It would he such q
ridiculous thing to do, that he would rather
any man Of ordinary sense and sof-control
Year: 1876

The Canadians are indignant because the
British Government regards Their ships as sub
ject TO the provisions of the Merchant Ship
ping bill, which is in fair way to become
law. The difficulty is one of those which must
constantly arise so long as Canada acknowl-
edges imperial control. Since her ships would
be protected ly the British flag in the event
Of war, 1t is reasonable for Her Majesty's Gov
ernment to bold that it has some jurisdiction
over them,
Year: 1876

The chief business transacted yesterday by
the Presbyterian General Assembly was the
PASSAGE of resolutions Of fraternity with the
South Presbyterian Church. The resolutions
were the exact counterpart in form OF those
adopted by tic Southern General Assembly
The proceedings at the Brooklyn meeting
were characterized by an extraordinary enthu-
siasm and unbroken unanimitY This action,
by which North and South are drawn into
closer bonds, Is one of the pieasantest events
OF the centennial year.
Year: 1876

The lumber trade is one of the first to show
signs of Improvement. The demand Is greater
and the prices better than hitherto. This III
mart results from tho care taken in both tins
country and Canada lot to overstock the
market.
Year: 1876

The tariff debate yesterday between Mr. Kel-
lev and Mr. Chittenden dealt with the broad
aspects of the matter and the general theories
on which Protectionists and Free Traders rad
ically disagree. Mr.. Kelley announced that the
late war Of tho Rebellion was Occasioned by an
absence of protected home manufactures at the
South. Dir. Chittenden was equally sure that
The present depression of business is largely


due to protective tariff. But the debate also
disclosed what was well known before, that
there is no expectation of making any tariff
Year: 1876

guise 1 never felt in our grand house as
I feel in this bird-cage of cottage. 1t
must be as Dora says-the spirit of home y


Back came Dora carrying dish OF steak,
while Minnie followed her with the vegeta
bles.


"Sit down, Egbert, while everything is
hot and nice, for expect you to do Justice to
the meal, and commend the cook, she said,
gaily.


A mountain load had been lifted off the
husbands heart, and he complied with a
Joyous countenance.


"Remember, you are not to look on this
as mere freak, darling" she said, serious
ly. "It is not the novelty of appearing in
a new character but a profound desire to
do my duty, to which have 80 lately awak-
ened, that sustains me. Besides, she ad
ded, "I expect it will not be all easy work.
See-I have burnt my fingers already, and
l am quite certain that my hands will be
injured little but they will be useful,
and that will console me for their loss of
beauty"


And so it did. AS she said, Dora Walton
found her new life full of effort but she
was equal to it,and her husbands love sus
tanned her, as we'll as her own conscience,
and made her struggle sweet.


He was not man to remain long quies-
cent to poverty or misfortune his native
energy and perseverance soon built up
again the foundation of new fortune, and
Dora could have returned once more TO q
life of idle splendor before her beauty had
lost it's bloom but she never did. She
had discovered better, truer existence-a
higher and less selfish career-t through the
cloud that proved to have a silver lining.
Year: 1876

vote. Randall demanded the previous
question on the passage of the bill.


Blaine-Does the gentleman desire
to cut off amendment.


Randall desire ia have the pre-
vious question seconded, and then |
will allow half of the hour which the
rules give me to discussion By the
other side of the House.


Blaine-That cuts off amendments.


Randall am quite aware of the
object of it. / have for twelve years
learned its effect in adversely under
your direction, and that of your side
of the House.


The previous question was seconded
by $50 to 95.


Randall-As have one hour for de-
bate propose


Garfield Observation-Disclosures what
rule? This bill is not report from a
committee and therefore there is no
debate allowed after previous question
being seconded.


Blaine insisted on the same point
and said the rule as to allowing an
hour for debate after the previous
question, applied only to the reports
from committees and the previous
question in this case cuts off absolute
ly every movement of debate.


The amnesty bill having finally
been forced to a vote, without any
amendment being permitted, the Re-
publicans voted solidly against it and
it therefore failed of the requisite two
thirds vote.
Year: 1876

This must not only have amused you but served dispose
of part of the pleasant weather have enjoyed until with
the last few days. There time the Bible says for all
things and better time could have been for such
than the few weeks taking the weather into con.
sideration.


But that it is cod and the weather liable to remain
would like to call your attention facts that
we desire for your consideration.


We would ask you Would you believe man, even II he
your father if he should tell you that he paid his rent
clerks hire taxes insurance and other bills and yet sold goods
less than cost?
Year: 1876

Velvet will be the fashionable material for
dress bOnnets


Seal skin trimmed with beaver can not be
worn with Grape.


Link buttons are again fashionable, in
place of sleeve studs.


There are bright silk pockets introduced to
wear with any toilet


The style of cloak that will be most worn
is the deep plain overcoat. with the three
fourthS or half fitting back, and Sacque front
Wide square pockets are set on the outside


Linen collars and cuffs viii be greatly
worn this season. the former with small
square corners, turned over, but not laid
flat. and the latter round and small The
long reign of rutfies seems partially over at
least for street and home wear Only on
dresses of silk will laces and the finer quail
tiles of ruffiing appear.


The long clOaks that will be worn do
away happily with the extrayagantly large
bustles worn at present. The long slender
hustle that holds the lower part of the skirt
away from the feet will be retained, though
even for this purpose the pleating of crino-
line on the underskirts is preferred The
slope from the waist must be natural look
ing, otherwise the effect of the new dresses
and clOaks is lost.


Embroidery, which was so very much i'm
vogue this summer upon cambric and toilet
dresses, will continue to be in high favor
during the winter, transferred, in much
richer style, to velvet silk and cashmere.
Satin-stitch and open-work embroidery are
now worked as beautifully upon the thickest
and richest of materials as upon the finest
muslins. Embroidery forms a most beauti-
full trimming for fiounces the tablier cuirass
and polonaise. 1t is worked in thick purse
silk, either matched or contrasting with the
material.


Combination costumes will retain their
hold on popular. favor. This economical
fashion will commend itself to those who de-
sire to make a little go great way The com
binations consist of suits of different fabrics
as well as of different colors. Therefore. scant
patterns and partially-worn dresses can be
Used as parts of new suits. Thus the dark
colored silks of last Winter will do service
for underskirts to be worn with overdresses
of wool or silk brocade of the same color
which may be frightened up with facings
knots and pleatings of the all-pervading car.
dinal silk.
Year: 1876

/ sat alone with my conscience,
In place where time had ceased,
And we talked of my former living
In the lands where the years increased.
And felt should have to answer
The question IL put to me,
And to face the answer and question
Through an eternity.
The ghosts of forgotten actions


Came floating before my sight
And tOings that thought were dead things
Were alive with terrible might.
And the vision of all my past life


Was an awful thing to face
Alone with my conscience sitting
In that solemn silent place.
And thought of a far-away warning,
OF a sorrow that was to be mine,
In land that then was the future,


But now Is the present time.
And thought of my former thinking
OF the judgment day to be,
But sitting alone with my conscience
Seemed Judgment enough for me,
And wondered If there was a future
To this land beyond the grave;
But no one gave me an answer,


And no one came to save.
Then i felt that the future was present,
And the present would never go by,
For 1t was but the thought of my past life
Srown INTO eternity.
Then woke from my timely dreaming,
And the vision passed away,
And knew the far-away warning


Was a warning of yesterday
And pray that may not forget it,


In this land before the grave.
That / may not cry in the future.


And no one come to save.
And so L have learned "A lesson
Which ought to have known before,
And which, though learnt it dreaming,
hope to forget no more.
- sit alone with my conscience


In the place where the years increase,
And try to remember the future


In the land where time will cease.
And know of the future Judgment


How dreadful sO'er il he,
That to sit alone with nv conscience
WAi be- Judgment enough for me.
Year: 1876

abasement We remained for several days,
and saw some coming into the camping
ground, measuring their length upon the
ground. One came long journey on his
knees, another on his hands and feet, like
dog. One deluded wretch came rolling over
and over in the dirt, as you would roll log
They never put pebbles in their shoes, for
they never wear any One of these devotees
has not risen from his knees in twelve years,
and will never rise again, for the bones and
muscles of his limbs have become rigid
Year: 1876

THE REV. MR. TALMAGES EDITORIAL WORK.


The Rev. II. De Witt Talmage yesterday
made the following statement to TRIBUNE reporter
with reference TO his withdrawal from The ChriSttGn at
Work.


NV leaving The Chrisiicn Gt Work WAS not sudden.
-Four months ago gave notice that this Autumn would
retire from the paper At that tmein JuUeI made an
arrangement by which either party intending 10 fosake
the engagement must give a months notice Of the
fact On oct. 6 / wrote legal resignation and
sent 81 10 the chief On last Mon
day afternoon I found that The Christian at
Work mad been surreptiOusly sold TO the publisher OF
Unitarian paper in this city The agreement OF sale was
to be passed tine following day OF this surreptiuous
act I was informed by friend who the documents,
and als0 heard IN adjoining room the conversation
concerning The agreement As had received no infOr-
nation regard this sale felt that there. once and
forever relations with the paper must cease, ana IN
doing 80 feel that took the position which any editor
under the SAINT circumstances would adopt.
Year: 1876

APPARATUS FOR TAXING FLYING SOUND NGs.-The apparatus for taking flying soundings- an English invention = has attracted much notice from naucalit men. It consists of an oval weight of lead, thirty pounds, attached by half a fathom of hemp cord to ring or thim- ble properly secured on one end of length of 200 fathoms of piano-forte wire coiled on an exceedingly light wheel of thin galvanized sheet iron of about foot diameter, mounted on . framework fixed in convenient position on the ships taffrail. The wheel has second rim, with a simple kind of fric- tion brake, by which a constant force of five pounds is applied to it when the wire is running out. There is also att tached to the same shaft ratchet wheel and pawl, which can be thrown out of gear or into gear at pleasure. A counter to count up 200 turns completes the ap- paratus. To take sounding by it the plan is to let the weight hang by short cord direct from the wheel and clear of the taffrail, and then to lift the pawl and throw it out of gear, holding the wheel by hand till ready to begin, then to let go the rim and stand by. The moment the wheel is heard to go slower the rim is to be laid hold of with both hands, pro- tected by 8 piece of canvas or thick leather gloves, and stopped. It is only necessary to read the counter, and the sounding is complete. Two men, work ing on handles applied for the purpose, haul in the wire and recover the lead easily and speedily. .......
Year: 1876

INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE THE VELOCITY OF PRoJEcTILE.-- The Boulanger in- strument which measures the velocity of projectiles may be briefly described as follows: Placed in front of the gun, at an interval apart, are two wire screens, so arranged that the projectile in its flight tears through them one after the other. From two magnets attached to the in strument hang two metal rods, and the instant the first wire screen is torn by the shot a current of electricity is broken and the first of these rods falls As No. l is in the act of falling, however, the second wire screen is broken by the shot, releasing No. ? rod, and this sets in action complete trigger which strikes No. l rod before it has yet completed its fall. If the shot has been slow in travelling from one screen to another then rod Mo- l has naturally enough nearly fallen it's entire length before it receives a stroke from the trigger. The higher the mark is upon rod No.r1, or the more it has fallen, the less rapid has been the passage of the shot. After the mark is made, reference is made to a scale where velocities have been calcu- lated.