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Year: 1876

by a member OF the committee which had endorsed its
late occupant Whether Mr.. Bass had been sent for 10
be converted into Secretary Of War or TO advise the
President and the Council regard TO the prosecution
OF Marsh, he lMr. Blackburn) did not know The Ex-
ecnlive, The gentleman from New York and the Lord
only did know. II that gentleman wantod Marsh de
aimed why did he suggest II TO the President 10
tho Attorney General TO stop himy That gentleman
had the committee room, asserting by mis- silence
tho discharge of Marsh, had other member
OF the committed Whether he tMr Bassl had acted In
good had illustrated his appreciation fair
Treatment he (Mr. Backburnl willing leave the
House and the country 10 determine He repeated that
charge OF the witness (Marsh after his cross-ex9mna
ton and that he the witness leave the with
out making single objection


Mr.. BASS insisted that the record Of the committee
bore out his original statement tha the committee had
held only two meetings prior to teegTaphing for
Marsh, those meetings beng on the I'd and 10Th OF
February As 10 the suggestion about his advising The
Attorney General or the President 10 stop the escape Of
Marsh, he regarded it as too absurd to require
answer. The only tribunal In the world that
had jurisdiction OF Marsh was the Committee on
to the authority OF the House. The witness
had been discharged before any republican
member OF the committee had any knowledge OF IT,
How could the republican members OF the committee
have known when the Chairman left the committee
with the witness what directions be
TO himy Dcnuncations had been hurled in this House
by the gentleman from kentucky at the hcaa OF the
Secretary of War, and the charge made that he had
fought to shield himself behind tho dishonor OF his
family when, as every other member OF the commit
tee knew, the struggle had been made on his part
10 avoid their dIshonor and to shoulder the burden
himself.


Mr. BIScKBuRS said he was glad 10 know that that
sentence had gone record, aud that he (Mr Black
burnl stood before the House and the country one
who had done all that an honorable man could do TO
shield from criticism aud censuTc innocent woman.
The gentleman from New York was welcome TO stand
before the country ne did now, striving to shield
from punishment guilty man applause from the gal


eres and sneers from the republican side othe House
Year: 1876

AT an early hour on Thursday evening last, young
and interesting looking girl TO siagger and fall
the OF Fourth and East Fourteenth
street. She picked up and carried into the Arng-
ton House. When sufficiently recovered she gave her
name as Julia UtIoy, fifteen years old She said she
had accompanied her parents who about 10 visit
Albany, as lar as New York city, and who pass
camc suddenly I'LL subsequently she
moved 20 Bellevue Hospital and there stated
that her parents resided In Railway, y.
j., but that they had Just sailed for Europe on
Of tho outgoing steamers whose she could not
give. Yesterday afternoon reporter OF the HERALD
visited Railway aud learned from the mother OF the
girl that she had been missing three weeks and that
they had offered rewards for information regarding her
Whereabouts without any response, and supposed her
lost Mrs Utlcy declares that her daughter is insane
ana Is anxious 10 place her in Asylum Her insanity
IS supposed 10 be due 70 excessive study.
Year: 1876

AS far back as 1863 Jerry r. Cooper who now
resides In Chicago, at No so Langley avenue, went
the plains, as many boys have done before
him, IN quest Of adventure, and moved by pass on
that he had long ic TO behold that part Of tho world
As to be expected he much that opened his
young eye 20 The wickedncss OF mankind and was
made familiar with the tricks OF which he never before
dreamed and which were the common practice out
there. Ancr varied career, Cooper In 1865, found
his way Omaha. He with the sully expedition
into Minnesota, and came back, at Omaha getting into
the Office OF Colonel Taylor, who was superintendent
of northern agency In 1866 Taylor was relieved
and H. b. Denman went into tho position. Soon after
ward 81 600 900 worth OF goods to be purchased
for the Indians IN New York. and Dcnman was ap
pointed one OF the board to receive them. Cooper
went TO New York to assist but, ho says was such
farce that he threw up in disgust and Omaha
declaring that lac would have nothing to do with IT.
The goods were nothing like the sampcs-werc Inferior
In every respect aud we're


NEvgE EXAMINED ny TIN BOARD,


but accepted as matter of course. THIS. s case
showing h0w these purchases OF stores were made In
1sGs Cooper was made agent ut Fort Laramie did
not remain there long the Indians were ali hostile
at the time and there necessity OF his occupy
ing the post he wrote In 10 this elect. and was
Year: 1876

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


The scandal regarding the sale OF appointments
OF post traders being general topic Of converse
ton, It may be inopportune TO ask the question
Cannot the position of post trader be bcnclciay
abolished and tho canteen system, in the British
army, be introduced why II could not
be- am not familiar with the details OF II, but IL
cooperative in character and the object is TO provide
the men with nccessarIcs, and even luxurles, at the
lowest possible prices, aud Is acknowledged SUCCESS
Legislation should here In other countries protect
the soldier from the rapacity OF human sharks among
whom, think, might very properly be numbered the
suffers post traders at frontier posts Respectfully


ALPHA
Year: 1876

ALBANY, March To- 1876.
The Salary bill reported by the Committee on Cities
to-day is the Peabody bill somewhat amended. The
committee concluded at the last moment TO strike out
Of the bill the clause making tho Mayor, Comptroller
and Recorder Board OF Salaries to fix the salaries
OF all persons paid out OF the City Treasury and TO
point and remove subordinates in the various courts
wcll tho provision compelling all commissioners
tho various departments with tho exception Of the
presidents, TO serve without salary. provision was
inserted in the bill by the committee providing
that at the expiration of tho OF Office OF all the
Commissioners other than the presidents their offices
should be abolished and that thereafter each
sion should be under the control Of but one commits
sioncr but tho vote by which 1t carried
considered just before the bill was reported this
ing, and 1t decided TO let the commissions
stand as thoy are numerically The following tho
salaries as fixed in the bill 1t VIII be that they
are fixed at lower figure than they were IN the orig
inal bill, though somewhat higher than they were in
CRAFTS amendments to the Forster bill, which the
FIRST reduction bill introduced
Year: 1876

p IN


Those early traders and mission
aries who, some one hundred oi
two hundred years ago, resolute!y
turned their frail crafts northward
bent on missions of profit, or fol
the diffusion OF the Christian
religion, must have noticed, Oh
their passage up Lake Huron, q
large and very pretty bay on the
northeast end of the lower PENN.
sula of Michigan, formed by n deep
indcntation of the land. No doubt
like the mariners of the present
day, they may have, occasionally
been forced to run into this bay TO
seek shelter from the storms that
occasionally sweep the great fresh
water lakes with such fury. II
such had been the case, and no
doubt hut it was, they would have
been much impressed by the beauty
of the natural harbor they were in,
and its great adaptation for the
purpose which they had used it
fora natural barbor Of refuge.
If they had examined the bay and
took soundings, they would not
have found any dangerous rocks
or shoals, hut instead, they would
have found one of the best natural
harbors that n storm-tosscd sailor
could have desired, and they could
not but have been pleased at the
beautifully wooded shores and pref
ty islands that almost surrounded
them. This hay is now well known
as Thunder Bay, and not a summer
passes by but hundreds Of vessels
seek its waters TO find a secure
anchorage, where they may ride
safely at anchor until the storm
that delays them has passed over.


The early mariners would, no
doubt, have employed their leasure
time in exploring the waters in
which they were anchored, and
they must have noticed the wealth
that awaited the coming of the
enerjetic Saxon; they must have
observed the abundance Of fish
that sported in the clear waters
the large flocks of ducks, and the
magnificent forests Of pine and
cedar that surrounded them on
three sides. They may have spec
ulated, mentally, upon what a GEN.
tury or so would bring forth, but
they could hardly have imagined
the vast change that less than thir-
ty years has accomplished, and
they, probably, never dreamed that
a ilourishing and rapidly growing
city would be erected where, in
their time, was nothing but the
wilds Of nature, and that majestic
and fast sailing steamboats, would
be daily plougbing the waters
about them.
Year: 1876

the year will probably reach 100000
cases. The larger prunes, running


from 40 to As to the pound, are the
most desirable, but the sizes from


so to 80 are staple. Smaller prunes,
ranging from 90 to 1O5 to the
pound, are generally of inferior
quality, as they include wind-falls
and other unmatured fruit-and
their sale is small. The quality of
our imports this year has for the
most part been very good, and the
consumption has never before been
on so liberal a scale or SO general
Year: 1876

From Lecture in Troy, N. VI


The bible is not a good school
book. 1t was not meant to be q
reading-book in the schools. Let
it be read if it is the wish of all. Or
let all sects meet and choose men to
make selections and put them in a
book to be read in the schools. If
there is objection to bible-reading
there should be no controversy,
But it would be said, would you
have the schools goddess? The
answer is, is God shut up in the
bible, and there alone? Let the life
and character of the teacher be an
epitome of bible truth, and the
school will not be goddess. 0ul
schools should not be optional. II
is the duty of the State to see that
every child passes through the
school to the ballot box, Let all
go to the schools, from the highest
to the lowest, and let the hands O.
intelligence be laid upon their heads
in blessing. 'o
Year: 1876

Ike Marvel's declining the offer
Of the nomination of Governor by
the soft money. party in Uopnepti-
cut, is probably the most pictu-
rescue political document on rec


ord. al would rather be farmer
than Governor he says. 81 would
rather sit in my library Of an after
noon and watch the growing corn
undulating in the western wind
than sit in the chair of state sign
ing bills for public acts, and the
bright flag floating above the capi-
tol would not be so pleasing in my
eyes as the smoky banner Of the far
off steamer seen athwart the dane
ing waters silyered in the June
sunshine" 1t reads like a page
from "Dream-Life, or the "Reve.
Tries Of a Bachelor" and is very
Inice reading too.
Year: 1876

A correspondent writing to the New
York Evening Post thus describes his
sensations on frat viewing the pyramids:


Let US suppose now that you never
saw a pyramid. You may have reserved
those at Geezeh for the last, and If. in
your reading, you have ever stumbled
upon any specuiations as to the original
design and motive of the pyramids you
may possibly have turned from il as an
extremely mouldy and uninteresting
topic; but as your donkey. making his
last turn, clears the shadowing palms
and brings you out upon the desert, you
are confronted with something concern
ing which, as it rises there before your
eyes, it is just as impossible not to be
curious as it ia not to breathe. That
huge and towering mass of stone, whose
very simplicity of outline and utter sb-
sence of ornament lend to it a majestic
grandeur and dignity which are all its
own-who reared it there? What did il
hide9 And whether or not you have an
answer ready for these questions, this at
least you know, shat those mighty mon
uments have not beep reared in vain.
If they were meant to perpetute she
memory of great peo ople, verify they
have done it. The race which could
plan such structures and then rear them
the kings who could make their tombs
80 stable that already they have out-last-
ed fifty centuries, and look down to day
upon the ruins of mightiest empires
kings, wicked, cruel, remorseless though
they may have been, were men and not
children, rulers and not puppets. And
YET all this is not the mere ruperlative
of a heated Imagination, it is the simple
truth. If we can be certified of any
fact On earth, then we may be sure of
this-that il 10 more than 5000 years
since the supervising architect of the
Great Pyramid Of Geezeh walked into
the throne-Eoom of Cheops and said.
Sire, your tomb is finished" You re-
member that the pyramids of SAX Karah
are even older than this, and while you
are trying to grasp this fact, your guide
beckons you down into one of the splen-
lid tombs which lie at the foot of these
pyramids. and you find yourself snr-
rounded by a wealth of color and pro-
fusion of adornment which scores of CEN
turies have not been able TO dim or efface
"Who were the people that did these
things?" you ask yourself, and at once
piqued and stimulated by you own
ignorance of them. you ride slowly back
to your dAha5seh again, busy with a
hundred questions to which a month be-
fore you never conceived it possible you
could take the trouble to seek for an an
swer.
Year: 1876

There il an ignorance which ia far too
wide concerning the preparation of veg
eiables for the table. They ought to
have cooking very simple and very per-
feet. and they do not always get it. One
of the most delicious and healthful of
summer foods is the tomato, and it Is al
20 one of the most abused. Raw. il is
often brought to the table cut mp into
unshapely Jumps with the skin still ad-
herring TO them. Cooked. il generally
appears merely watery red mess, inter-
spersed with pieces half done, hard and
greenish in color. The ideal dish of
raw tomatoes is thus prepared: Choose
only those which are large, compare
lively smooth. firm, and thoroughly red
ripe. it is an absurdity TO offer small or
immature specimens in a salad, and if
you can't find such as are here recon
mended, you must not attempt to eat
raw tomatoes. Put them in a tin pan
and pour over them boiling water, pour
ing il of Immediately. This so loos-
ems the skins that they can usually be
pnlled off easily, without any violent
application of the knife. Then with
very sharp knife slice them across, dis
carding the first piece, which has the
hard base of the stem, and the last piece,
which is too small Make the slices
thin rather than thick, keep them large
and whole, and pile them carefully in
layers in a pretty dish, delicately sprink-
ling salt and pepper over them. Then
put them away to get thoroughly cold in
your cellar or refrigerator. Prepared
thus they are simply ambrosial, and on
ly pagan could -corn them. If any
body wants to add sugar and vinegar to
the seasoning, that can be done at table
by the eater. Slices of the large yellow
tomatoes scattered among the red, some.
times make the dish look very tempting.


For stewed tomatoes, peel as above,
but cut in pieces, not in slices. Put
these in a two-quart tin basin or a por-
celain-lined saucepan, and add salt and
just enough water to keep them from
burning. While they are simmering
comfortably throw in a very little pep
per, a good large piece of nice butter,
and enough fresh soda cracker broken
into small bits to thicken the mixture,
without making it like pudding. 1t
should be thin enough to run easily
from the spoon. and yet not be watery.
This dish is also exquisitely inviting.
There are other methods Of cooking to-
matoes-stewing with rice, stuffing and
baking, etc.-but in no gniae are they
80 good "a those described above
T TWostern PuraI
Year: 1876

There comes TO us from the Western
district a story on the details Of which a
Bret Harte or a Colonel John Hay
would found a poem. The other day a
gang of laborers were employed stack
ing blocks Of stone on permanent way
of the Great Western Railroad, between
Keynsham and Bristol. In fact, the OPP
eratiOn of stone stacking was carried on
within a few yards of the Brislington
tunnel. II wac at the time Of day when
the most wonderful express train in the
world, called the Flying Dutchman,"
was expected, and by some unlucky ac-
ciJent a large block Of stone rolled down
the embankment and lodged on the rail
way line. At this instant the roar Of
the Flying DutchmAn" WAS heard in
the tunnel. There was not a moment to
be lost, 80 swiftly down the bank sped
one of the brave navvies to remove the
stone and save hundreds of innocent
a wife and family at home, but he never
thought Of them. His life was in his
hand, but he never thought of that.
Down the steep embankment sped the
brave fellow, nerved with the combined
strength of Sisyphus and Atlas, to move
the stone and save his fellow creatures.
On sped the Flying Dutchmanw-
Quick, for your life, Jim," shouted the
companion on the bank. Alasl il was
just too late the stone was rolled out of
the way, but the hero was cut to pieces
by the fangs of the lDurderous train
This is as grand and noble story as ev.
er was told. II IL finer than the tale of
jun BlndsS," the moral of whose story
il told with such impetuous vigor and
truth by the author Of" Little Breeches:"


"He know'd his duty dead sure thing,


And he went for it thar and then;


And Christ amt agOing 10 be too hard


On man that died for nenp'


If even there was brave fellow who
laid down his life for the sake of his
fellow creatures, il was this hero of the
BrisliHgton tunnel. His wife and chill
dren onght to be looked after. and have
no doubt come under the confederation
Of the citizens of Bristol But the story
ought to live forever
Year: 1876

Around and above all other distinc-
tions, there are two great classes Of con-
versers; those who MAKE You feel that
you are Of some account in the world
and those who have a subtle way Of con-
vincing yon that you have no right to
exist. The latter class is small in num-
Der; but what they lack in quantity,
they make mp in sting. Sometimes they
are gifted with sharp tongue and an
nnerring faculty of saying the most
grinding things Sometimes they are
apparently suave and considerate in
manner and phrase. But, in either case,
You go away from them with a feeling
that the world is stuffed with saw-dust,
that yOu yourself are an imbecile and
an impostor. IL may take days for yon
to recover your proper standing with
yourself. Then, If you ask your soul
what fatal gift has the tormentor, which
carries with it this power of making his
fellow-mortals miserable. you discover
that it is gift Of selfshness. The per-
son to whom you have been talking is
ungenerous. A:generous man, n Rener-
ous woman-you cannot come near such
an one without receiving something that
makes amends for your own disappoint-
ment with, your own i'll opinion of,
yOurself An ungenerous person adds
the weight OF another to your eide of
the scales. and down you Ro!-[The Old
Cabinet; Scribner for July.
Year: 1876

The Co BETwEEN.-There is, per-
haps, not a more odious character in the
world than that of a go -between-by
which we mean one who carries to the
ears of one neighbor every injurious ob
servation that happens TO drop from an
other. Such person is the slanderer's
herald, and is altogether more odious
than the slanderer himself. By his vile
officiousness he makes that poison effec
tive which else were inert; for three
fourths of the slaDder in the world would
never injure their object, except by the
malice Of go-betweens, who under the
mask of double friendship, act the part
of double traitors.
Year: 1876

Rev. G. G.. Smith, of La Grange
Ga, in an address on Decoration Day
said:


"Go lay your garlands on those graves,
and il perchance some one who wore the
blue, who died far from his Northern or
Western home to save a Union he had
been Taught to idolize. lies beside him
who wore the grey, lap garland upon
his tomb. And il may be on each grave
some little vinelet may take root and.
both reaching toward the sky, they will
embrace one another. and towering, each
shall shed common fragrance on the
graves Of those who loved duty more
than life So be IT,"
Year: 1876

II would require the application of
tremendous mechanical power to stretch
bar Of iron only the fraction of an
inch in length; Jet when heat expands
it to the same extent il does it at the
expense Of precisely the same amount of
force. The same principle 10 forcibly
illustrated BY Q wagon tire which some-
times crushes wheel by its contraction
when the heat is removed.
Year: 1876

Shortly before ten o'clock last night an alteration
took place between two Italian booblacks named An
drew Masante aged twentythree years, living at No
80 Thompson street and August Donera, aged twenty.
seven OF No 81 South Fifth avenue, during which Ma
sante stabbed Donera In the right side
wound IL appears that Masante at Donera 8
house and after some conversation they quarreled
Masane dared his companion TO go into the street TO
hght, threatening If he did TO kill him Donera
accepted the challenge and the two went outside
They had hardly reached the sidewalk when Masante
drew a pocket knife and plunged it into his
assailant's side, after which be away. Tho
wounded man staggered 10 the house ana the inmates
to his relief physician was summoned and
dressed his wound which he pronounced dangerous
Word then communicated to the Fifteenth
precinct station house and detectives aftor
Masante, but up midnight they had not succeeded
in finding him. general alarm also teegraphed to
the various stations Rivng description OF the fugitive
The wounded appeared loath TO give tho police
further information as to the aray and declined going
TO the hospital
Year: 1876

h1rNoTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT.-The NKw YORK
HERALD has adopted distinguishing Coson night signal for
board the HERALD yacht, showing while burn
ing the coors red green red changing from TO the other
in succession several miles distant Cap
tans OF vessels upon seeing this signal will obge us by
preparing any marine they have for the Ship
News Department OF the HERALD.


Person derous Of communicating with vessels arriv
ing New York do by addressing such vessels
of HERALD yacht pier No East River New York
received from all parts of the world and promptly de-
livered Duplicates required