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Year: 1876

The champion mean man of st. Paul is an
individual named Garland, so-called mer-
chant, who took the ASTl-MoNoPoI1sr for
more than year received it every week i'll the
mail, we pre- paying the postage for hun, and
then v hen called upon to pay for 1t fell back
on any number Of contlictlcg subterfuges and
insulted our collector. II he had said, ike
man. that he was poor and could not pay we
should have forgiven him the debt.


We suppose there is no limit to the creative
power OF the Lord, but it does seem to us that
when He makes man who will take paper
for a year and then refuse to pay for it, he mas
about reached the limit OF the possible in one
direction at least. 'The force OF Nature can
no farther CO."
Year: 1876

The New Orleans Picayune of the 10th inst.
contains the following extraordinary article,
in the form of a contribution:


All will admit that 1t is the colored vote of
Louisiana that has ruined the state, and has
nearly ruined the colored people also. They
have been the tools of sharp and heartless
men who have no interest In the permanent
welfare of the state. They have taken black
crew to carry the ship of state ON q reef that
they, as wreckars, may enrich themselves with
plunder Ii is time that the planters steam
boat men, merchants and all others in Louis
lana who give employment to colored voters.
speak out more plainly to these people. Were
it not for those who give employment to the
col0red race of this state half of the negro
voters of the state and their families could
staroe 10 DEATH and the rest eco1ld fare but little
better Were this race entirely out of the state
their places would be filed by white share
hands in multitudes from other climes, and the
state would be better of without than with the
colored race. Negro voters are compelling the
planters to hunt up more reliable class of la
borers, who will not vote to destroy the planter
and the state. And the planters want la
borers who are more honest, more skillful
and more ambitious than the colored man.


The people of Louisiana should say frankly
to the colored population: We do not beg your
votes, but we give you chance to vote for
good and honest men and for our interests. IL
you vote with us we will stand up to you. We
will do you no injustice in any event. But IL
you vote with our enemies, we will cast you off
only as our present necessities COMPEL rs TO
employ you. If you continue to act as our en-
emes while we feed, clothe and shelter you
and your families-if you league with our en-
emies, who are eating our substance aud de-
stroyng our State-we must brand you as our
enemies, as the enemies of the State, and as the
enemies of your own best interests. The test
of negro fidelity in November will be: If you
vote for Packard, you are an enemy of vour en-
ptoyers IN Louesidna; if you vote for Nichols
you are the friends of your employers and of
the State. Let our people assume an aggressive
attitude. The experiment OF reasoniog with
colored men has been often tried and as often
tailed %
Year: 1876

SIxTREN years have passed away, and yet
the Democratic party, in soul, purpose and
policy, is the same as when under Buchanan
it left the country crumbling into anarchy,
a part warning against it and part voting
against it, and both factions teaching that
our country was mere confederation Of
states, too weak to enforce its own laws,
without power to protect its life, and subject
to the veto of any state that chose to with
draw from its power. So declared Senator
Sherman at Marietta, Ohio, few days ago
and yet that party asks the people to restore
it to power, and give it full control of the
Federal Government!
Year: 1876

The Democrats declare in their national
platform that the Republican party has since
the war made no advance toward resump-
tion, no preparation for resumption, but has
instead obstructed resumption by wasting
the resources and exhausting the surplus in
come. These charges are utterly devoid of
truth, and it only needs candid examina-
ton of the facts by any man to convince
him of the falsity of the accusations.


At the time the war closed there was an
unpaid army of a million of men in the field,
great navy afoat. an irredeemable paper
currency of S750,000,00O in use and SUBJ
ject to wide and sudden fluctuations, an
enormous funded debt, and greatly i'm
paired public credit. The task of meeting
and overcoming these difficulties was gi-
gantic one and not to be accomplished in one
year or ten. But the Republican party
promptly confronted it and at once ad-
dressed itself to the emergency. The army
of million men was recalled from the field,
disbanded, paid off to the last dollar. The
great navy was reduced to skeleton. Un-
adjusted balances on contracts, for trans
portation, for arms, for munitions, for sup
plies, amounting to hundreds of millions of
dollars, were audited and disposed Of All
these difficulties had to be met before re-
sumption could be undertaken, for they were
the first steps toward resumption. These
bills had to be paid before we entered upon
the discharge of our other obligations.
When these were disposed of there came de-
mands from the states for payments of ad-
vances and expenditures made on account of
the general government. Then the pension
roll had to be looked out for. After all this
preliminary work attention was turned to
the bonded debt, which was in a confused
state, in many forms, bearing various rates of
interest. The work of funding these at


uniform rate of interest was an arduous one,
but it was successfully accomplished. The pub
lie credit was advanced, American securities
were raised to a high value in the money
markets of the world, and the vast prepara-
tory work of resumption was successfully
accomplished. Continuous steps were made
toward the discharge of the debt, and the
surplus income was applied to its liquidation.
Besides the enormous payments made just
after the war over five hundred millions of
the funded debt we're paid, the annual inter-
est charge reduced over thirty millions. the
greenback advanced in value from sixty cents
in 1865 to ninety cents in 1876, the public
credit so built up that the Treasury was able
to call in $500,0O0,0OO of the 6 per cent.
bonds and replace them with per cents, to
advance our credit so that 6 per cent. bonds
which sold for eS in 1866 can now be ex-
Year: 1876

LAMAR proposes to turn over the custody
and management of the Government to a
party which has persistently resisted the
great changes and progress of the last fifteen
years. He would turn back the wheels of
Government and Ie-establish the Democratic
policies of the ante.bell,sm period, and re-
store practically the bondage of the four mil
lions of citizens whose chains have been
broken through Republican emancipation.
Are the people prepared to adopt the Demo-
cratic policy as expressed in the session OF
Congress just closed?
Year: 1876

OVER fifty million dollars OF the annual
public expenditures OF the Government, for
pensions &C., are the direct result of the
Democratic rebellion. This sum is annually
taken from the pockets of the people. That
same Democracy now wants to control the
Government in order to vote payment for
rebel claims.
Year: 1876

HAS the Democratic party changed its
policy since it was driven from power by the
command OF the people fifteen years ago?
If so, when did that change take place? Is
it not the same to-day as 1t was under the
lead of Buchanan? And, unchanged as II
is, can the people safely trust it now with the
reins of Government?
Year: 1876

The st. Louis platform commences every
resolution with the declaration that Reform
is necessary for this, that and the other
thing. We submit to the indorsers of that
platform that "Reform" is especially 'neces-
sary' on the part of the Democratic candl-
date, for President IN the matter of making
an honest return of bis income for taxation,
and Reform is very necessary in his ideas Of
the wrongfulness Of perjury and the sanctlty
of an oath.
Year: 1876

They Qhe trainers of the Constitution left rev.
olution organized whenever if should be
demanded by the public opinion of n state
left il with power to SNAP the tie of Con.
federation as n nation might break n
treaty, and to REPEL COERCION as n
nation might REPEL INVASION.


S. j. TILDEN in 1860
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-


cations The name and address of the writer are In


ell cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return reserve commu-
uications that are not used.
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 by demanding
credentials of every person claiming represent
Year: 1876

We mnst take little pride in our prediction
of the success, financially speaking, of the Con-
cert which was given last Monday evening at
ST. Patrick's Hall for the benefit of st. Al
phonsus' Orphan Asylum. The evening proved
very unpropitious, being intensely cold, and,
still, the Hall was filled with one of the best
audiences which We have seen collected there.
Numbers of persons had to leave before the end
on account of their sufferings from the severity
of the weather. yet their presence at all under
the circumstances was proof of our proposition
that any call made by the Rev. Fathers of ST.
Alphonsus' parish, and in favor of work
adopted by tue Sisters of Mercy, would bring
ont hosts of friends and supporters.


The success of the entertainment in itself
was, of course, assured by the leadership of
Mr.. Blake. That energetic gentleman is not in
| the habit of failing when he undertakes to put
a musical performance on the boards. Though
we have no space to enter upon details where
the programme was so multiplied in it's variety
we must not omit special mention of the fine
effects produces by the grand chorus whenever


the orphans and the pupils of st. Alphonsus
sang together. Their precision and skill wer,


remarkable aud reflected great credit on Mr.
| Blake Tor the careful aud laborious training


which must have been required of him befor


such results could have been attained with


class of more than q hundred children.
Year: 1876

Infallibility will continue to encircle his name
even to the end Of timef


1t 10 difficult to decide which OF these two
decrees is the more beautiful or the more sub
lime: IT, indeed, any one dogma can rank In
sny respect above the others. One associated
itself with the interests of eternity, and scared


with it's crown of beauty even to the seat of God,
to her who sits beside her Son the other con-
nected itself with the interests of time brooded
over the head of an old man and crowned him
and with him Peter and all his successors,
past ard future-with q halo of unfading glory.


To An unbelieving world. these two person
ages are simply Jewish maiden and Roman
priest, but in the eyes of faith, one is the
Mother of God and the other His Vicar upon
earth while we who know that these two
dogmatic decrees-like crowns of light-have
added to the glory of the Virgin on FER
throne and the pontiff in bis chair, most
conclude that he who was thus instrumental in
the hands of Providence of uniting the int
of time and of eternity, and of mingi!ng to
gether, as it were, the glory of heaven and ot
earth, is indeed deserving to be called the
grandest figure on the page of history, aud he
greatest among those who have rendered illus-
trious the throne of the Prince of the Apostles.
Year: 1876




Rev. Father Ryan has facility for selecting
grand subjects. Could finer theme or one of
more absorbing interest be selected than that
ON which he lectures sto-night-"Modern Science
in the Presence of Christ"i There you have
Power on the one hand and Pride on the other,
the calm dignity of Authority confronted by
the insolence of Revolt; you have the great
Author Of nature and natures laws sitting 4
judgment upon those wise fools who, having
studied the work without discovering the
workman, call their lsbors science


These men are puffed up with confidence in
their own judgment. Meeting a mystery
which they cannot analyze, they scornfully re-
ject it as false, and thereby convict Themselves
of being mere empyrics, for the first truth in
all human science is the littleness, the feeble
ness, the utter insufficiency of human judg
ment.


Now Father Ryan is the right man in the
right place to get hold of these conceited
quacks, aud probably it will come within tbe
scope of his treatment of the subject to give
them handling. AS usual, a large and
highly Intelligent audience will doubt
greet him, thus at once assuring themselves of
o charming and intellectual evening's enter
tainment and contributing towards the COM
pletion of our city's great architectural pride
the new st. Joseph's Church.
Year: 1876

Treason has been committed. In a mon
arcby the right of succeeding to the throne
is generally fixed by law of inheritance,
and the sovereignty of the nation is in such
q case identical with the heirship of the
successor. Deny his heirship and you
strike at the sovereignty iteelt In a re-
public the sovereignty is located in the
popular suffrage; it's voice dictates the
hands into which the reins of government
must be given. Disregard that voice, refuse
to be guided by that suffrage, and you
strike at the sovereignty as effsctually sc
in the case frat supposed. In either case
the crime is, in all its elements, the same al
in the other; it is High Treason.


Thls cEims hes @ All appearan6e beer
Year: 1876

1t seems surprising that people having SO
many instances against ways that are dark,
will allow themselves to be taken In by that
class Of gentlemen who live by their wits


In the last case Of this kind that comes to
light, prominent merchant of Wilmington
figured corspicuously. He had been to
Philadelphia to purchase goods and while
At the depot awaiting the departure of the
train for home, was accosted by stranger
with the salutation Of "How do you d. Un-
cleP' The next moment woman beckoned
to the stranger. He informed his newly
found uncle that 1t was his wife, and that she
wanted some small change, and Tat he
would be under many obligations to HIN 4
he could change him twenty dollar go.d-
piece, which he profered. The Whining
ton man told him that he had but eleven
dollars. This he gave him, and held q
bundle for him until he returned. But alas
tie stranger did not returned. An investi-
cation of the gold piece and the bundle de
stroyed all hope that he would ever return.
The bundle contained dilapidated hoop
skirt, and the gold piece was brass badge
Peace hath her victories, but the swindled
merchant can claim none over his troubled
conscience.
Year: 1876




NORWICH, Conn.,, March ia jury Of
inquest into the cause of the death of four
teen persons in the poor-house fire on the
night of March 10, find that the victims
came to their death from the said fire, the
origin of which is by them unknown, but
from the evidence offered, they judge it orr
ginated in the furniture room, and they
further find that the superintendent of the
premises used his very best efforts with the
means at his disposal to save the lives Of
those persons in charge, that the great loss
Of life was attributable to the improper con-
struction of the building from its great
height, and having no means of escape
externally, and that the internal arrange
ments were such that they were entirely In
adequate to furnish egress from the upper
stories in case of emergency, and that nc
facilities whatever in the way of water
were on the premises for the purpose Of ex.
tinguishlng the fire.
Year: 1876

ALL that Republicans in the South ask
is that the General Government protect
them from murder and outrage because Of
their political opinions. 1t is unreasonable
to suppose that this class will be able to
maintain themselves unaided against the
ex x-rebel masses, who for four long years
defed the national authority, often making
the safety of the Republic tremble in the
balance. Every obligation of public faith
impels the Government to go to the rescue of
these unhappy people, who are doing no
more than exercising privilege accorded
them by the Republic. To do less is to
sacrifice with apostacy a long-suffering
class, whose only offense appears to be
their devotion to the Republican party.
Besides, there can be no general prosperity
in the South until all classes of her people
are taught to respect the laws and accord
to their fellow citizens justice and equal
rights. 1t is not q question as to whether
or not Federal soldiers are to be put at the
polls, but it is simply designed to prevent
rufians from massacreing inofensiYe and
defenseless citizens, who are endeavor
ing to exercise their dearest rights. The
experience in the past few years has been
that wherever the soldiers have gone in the
South their presence was attended by civ
ilizing effect and no greater blessing can
be conferred upon the Hamptons and
Buffers of that benighted land than to be
perpetually reminded of the grandeur and
resources of the Government, whose strong
arm they have more than once felt.
Year: 1876

TWILL be seen by reference to our local
columns that a committee of those of our
citizens most interested in the proper man
agement of our public schools called yes
Ierday upon the District government and
recommended a reorganization of the
Board of Trustees, in accordance with the
suggestions made in these columns We
are glad that this course has been pursued.
Our only regret is that any attempt should
have been made to select names for the
Commissioners unasked. There are num-
bers of our citizens who are thoroughly
capable to administer school affairs who
are well known to the Commissioners.
We have little doubt that they will con-
slider this subject carefully in the light in
which it is now placed before them and
decide TO infuse such new material into
the composition of the board as will make
it thoroughly efficient
Year: 1876

the price for which they sold possession
from the common stock of the phslsnstery
should serve as an awful warning to the
Ishmaelite. We will not quote the passage
on him. lest the reading ofsit should thro "
him into an apoplexy such as afflicted
Sapphirs when she learned of the death of
her husband. 1t is well to remember that
the penalty in this case was less on account
of the theft than the lying about it after
ward. The Ishmaelite, according to all
accounts, has been little less than a living
and acting lie about the disposition OF the
Brook Farm property and the Irish famine
fund during these last thirty years. Three
whole decades of mental agony!
Year: 1876

TIE final fusion ofthe two great factions
Of Methodism in the United States, after a
disagreement of many years, is cause for
the most genuine and profound congratula-
ton among Christians, as well as of graft
tude to Almighty God. We trust nothing
more will occur to disturb the unity and
brotherly love of the Church, and that its
future efforts in behalf of the political union
NAV be abupdantly blessed.
Year: 1876

THE Democratic papers are boasting of
the thirty millions saved by the Demo
cratic House. 1t turns out that this saving
was mostly brag. And the rest was simply
q postponement of the appropriations until
after the election. Deficiency day will
come in December.
Year: 1876

AND now the CASHIERS of South Caro-
lima have thrown of all disguise and openly
declare that the Republicans shall hold no
meetings in that State which are not par
ticipated in by the rifle clubs.
Year: 1876

OUR horse -shoeing blacksmiths will do
well to order at once large quantity Of
toe and heel corks. AL horses that travel
the Avenue next winter must be sharp
shod, or 90 down frequently.
Year: 1876

Messrs. G. F. Foster, Son s. Co., Market
street, Chicago, have hit the nail on the head BY
designing the only genuine Continental hat and coat
for campaign uniforms in honor Of the heroes Of
1778. They deserve the thanks OF the Minute Men
and Boys in Blue for providing for them go app7o-
pirate, unique, and elegant an equipment for the
Centennial Presidential contest. Their suit, with
the beautiful new torch in the shape Of star.
japanned in national colo:s and gold and silver is
the most noticeable hit OF the campaign.
Year: 1876

A famine in a portion of Iceland is fear
ed. 4 letter from Copenhagen announces
that the last mail from Iceland brings some
very serious news, being nothing less than
the report that some 500 people, inhabiting
the small group of islands called the West
man Islands, are probably dying from star
walton. On account Of the i'll success of the
fisheries last year it was feared that the
supply Of food would run short during the
winter, and small coaster was sssent to the
capital Of Iceland, Reiklavik, to ask gift Of
five-and-t twenty quarters of corn, and an ad-
vance of 1000 crowns to buy another ive-and
twenty quarters were given as a present, and
with these thirty quarters the boat return
ed to the islands shortly before the winter
set in. About month ago a bottle was
found on the coast, which, when opened,
contained letter from the resident medical
man on the Westman Islands, stating that
there were only supplies for one week more,
after which famine was inevitable The
sea is SO dangerous in this neighborhood
during the winter that all direct commu-
| nication between the island and the main
land is nearly impossible. Most likely Il
steamer will be dispatched from Copenha-
gen, the expenses being raised by public
subscriptions.
Year: 1876

FIDELITY OF A SwITcHTENDER. A
switchtender had just taken his place to
change the track in order to turn train
which was in sight SO as to prevent a col
lision with another train from an opposite
direction. At this critical moment, on
turning his head, he discovered his little
boy playing on the track of the advancing
engine. He might spring to the rescue and
remove him safely, but then he would not
have time to turn the switch, and hundreds
of lives might be lost by his neglect. In
an instant his resolution was taken. ellie
DOWN. he shouted to his boy, and the child,
happily accustomed to obedience, promptly
threw himself on the ground and the whole
train thundered over him, the passengers
little dreaming how much their safety had
cost that father. The trembling man
rushed forward fearing to find only man.
gled corpse, but no words can express his.
joy at seeing his child alive and unharmed.
The next day the Emperor, having heard
of the circumstance, sent for the man, and
presented him the medal of honor for his
bravery.-Berlta Tolks6lGtt,