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Year: 1876

the many months of their absence. This is
an extreme case, perhaps; but most families
waste much more water than they use.


Some means must be found to stop mere
waste, for no supply will be adequate If
there is not some supervision of the use OF
water in public and private buildings, and
especially in manufacturing establishments.
Year: 1876

The SUEz CANAL PURCHASE continues to
be troublesome parliamentary subject for
Mr. Disraeli. An Irish home ruler init
mated, by question put to the government
yesterday, that Sir Nathaniel Rothschild, q
member of the House of Commons, had a
financial interest in the contract The
learned gentleman referred to explained that
he is not member Of the banking house Of
Year: 1876

WORK OF THE WHIsKEY RINe.-The poll.
ticians of certain sort who, with their allies
of the Whiskey Ring, have been balked in.
their effort to bring about the removal OF
Secretary Bristow by the. overwhelming
power of public sentiment as represented
through the press of the country, have now
turned their attention to District Attorney
Dyer, hoping to demoralize the whiskey
prosecutions in Chicago, Milwaukee and else
where by the suppression of this acute and
faithful officer. Their success in this effort
would have quite as disastrous an effect upon
President Grant and the republican party as
would the removal of the Secretary of the
Treasury and it is to be hoped, in the in
terest of both and the country at large, that
their representations will meet with no coun-
tenance or encouragement at the White
House.
Year: 1876

The STRATHcLYDE-FRANcoNL steamship
collision disaster supplies matter for care
ful judicial watch on the part of the British
government, with the view of ascertaining
where the blame for such terrible fatality
rests. This is as it should be. A great gov
srnment should never permit carelessness
or trifling on the part of its subjects who
may be intrusted with the absolute care of
life and property
Year: 1876

We said recently that we were not done
with spring yet, and yesterday proved it.
That treacherous and notorious season-why
called so we do not know, for it is always
out of season-made its temperance to the
general disgust of our inhabitants "Thank
Heaven r. many a citizen had exclaimed,
''spring is over, and we may now look for
ward to the warm, mild winds of winter,
faint with delicious scent of drowsy flowers" "
These fluctuations had hardly become gen.
eral before spring, which had been concealed
somewhere in the Arctic zone, returned and
covered the city with ice. New York be-
came gigantic skating rink. The glaciers
of Switzerland, the dykes of Holland are not
more dangerous than was this glizade.


Nothing could be more slippery than this
rain, which begat hail, which begat sleet,
which begat ice, which begat all manner of
ills. The whole population began to conjugate
the verb to slide. There was grand metropol-
itan chorus of 81 slide, thou slidest he slides,
we slide, you slide, they slide !" and the sud-
den and abrupt illustrations of this verb fire.
quently resulted in the conjugntion of an
other-'I sit, thou sittest, he sits, we sit,
You sit, they sit !" and this in turn evoked
the general grammatical formula of II damn,
thou damnest, he damns, we damn, you
damn, they damn" We believe they did,
Moody and Sankey to the contrary notwith-
standing. The streets seemed filed with in
Vulnerable Mr. Winkles oil making energetic
butunsuccessful endeavors to skate. But there
We're no Sammy Wellers near by for the Win
kles to hold on to, and had Mr.. Pickwick been
there he would have sternly pronounced them
all impostors who could not skate at all.
Yet he would have cheerfully admitted that
they could slide. How they slid was quite
another matter Here was man following in
voluntarily an isothermal line from his door
step to the gutter, and here another, slowly,
firmly but inevitably gliding toward GER
tain point of contact with the first. The diff
ference between foreknowledge and fore
ordination had numerous examples in these
foreseen but unpreventable collisions. And
now and then the astounded traveller would
meet some venerable and respected citizen
like Peter Cooper, who never was known to
have skated in his life, coming slowly down
the street, with his legs apart like the Colos-
sus of Rhodes, with the wind in his back and
anguish in his eye, sailing like rudderless
ship in momentary danger of wreck. Appa-
ritions of this kind were carefully avoided
by the wise, for they had frantic impulses to
embrace everything they met, from perfect
stranger to heartless awning post. Strange
encounters might have been seen by the
casual observer, of whom we have read so
much Married men embraced their mothers
in-law, and the unnatural spectacle was wit
messed of debtors clinging to their creditors
and refusing to let them so. Altogether,
yesterday was the most remarkable day for
sliding that New York has known for years,
and it is strong corroboration of our theory
that the seasons are all in conspiracy
against the happiness of mankind, that the
malignant return of spring should have been
accompanied by a universal fall.
Year: 1876

Mr. Butler, of the Sixth Avenue Railroad,
adds himself to the number of those who
testify that the street car system is a failure.
He produces figures to show that if these
cars carry their passengers properly they
will become bankrupt without exception
that unless they have the privilege to treat
passengers as third class freight-iam them
in and pile them up and add few moro at
every corner-they cannot escape the Sher-
if S officer. All this is based, as we have
said over and over again, on false figures.
Nobody cares to argue with these men as to
whether their lines can be operated prop
erly and pay dividends and interest on
presumed capital four or five times greater
than the cost of the lines. 1t is evident,
however, that run as they are they can pay
dividends on an excessive valuation. Now,
if any one of these lines had cost half as
much as its declared value it would have
twice as many cars and horses as 1t
now possesses, and the interest on the other
part of its fictitious valuation would be
enough to pay the supplementary drivers
and conductors 1t would have then all its
actual present earnings to use Just as 1t uses
them. 1t is evident, therefore, that the OBJ
stacle to reform is not the nature of the case,
but the obligation that the companies are
under of paying interest and dividends on
millions of merely nominal capital. From
that obligation, therefore, they should be re-
ieved, out of regard to the interests of the
public. Some owner of bona yfde bonds or
shares should take legal steps to restrain
the companies from paying on shares or
bonds issued without consideration.
Year: 1876

WASTING WArER.-In making a demand
for an increased water supply and better
means of distribution in the lower part of
the city we must not overlook the waste so
generally practised by our people. A story


used to be told of family who went to
Europe for Continental trip, who found
upon their return that the water had been
constantly running in their house during
Year: 1876

The DYER LETTER. The Attorney Gen
eral is unfortunate in his efforts to explain
his letter to the Western district attorneys.
His answer to the resolution Of the House
calling for an explanation, which will be
found in another column. was characterized
by Mr.. Lord, the original mover of the res
olution, rs an admission substantially of all
that was claimed about the undertaking to
interfere with the rule by which the testi.
mony ofaccomplices is taken; and this is the
impression it will create everywhere. The
whole matter was finally referred to the Ju-
dietary Committee, from which we may ex-
pect in due time some additional light upon
what still appears as n very peculiar trans
action.
Year: 1876

When We examine the surface-indications
about US, we are astonished at the little in.
terest that church members have in each
other as such. In many cases those who
enter Christian church are left to struggle
into acquaintanceship as best they may left
to battle with their embarrassments without
sympathetic look or cheering word. And
if members are tempted astray, no one feels
under any obligations to call or lead them
back to the fold again. Not few will stand
ready to say rather complacently than Chris
tisnly:


"Just as I expected told you so.-
Couldn't hold out +" All the while the
truth is this, they are frozen out. And as long
as criticism, censure, judgment, exaction as q
tax, devotion dunned out as toll, are per-
mitted to chill the Church, just so long will
young and tender communicates be killed by
the frost. There is too much spiritual No
vember in our churches. If there were no
youthful and inexperienced disciples, no
timid, tender followers Of Jesus; if religion
we're something to lounge in; if going to
heaven were nothing more than torchlight
procession, then persons might choose their
comrades and adopt their regalia and mot
toes according to tastes and times.
Year: 1876

"The oppositions of science, falsely So
called, which assail Christianity on every
side, probably give more trouble to believers
than any real danger to be apprehended
from them requires. The simple truth of the
Bible will prevail. The holy lives and USE
full works of faithful disciples of our Lord
will commend themselves to every mans con-
science in the sight of God. The ark is safe,
we need not fear. He that believeth shall
not make haste. The men who are trying
with all the talents that God has given them
to undermine the foundations of our faith
are themselves living proofs of that divine
civilization which they labor to destroy. Il
the Bible, which they affect to despise, had
not shed its benign influence on the lands in
Year: 1876

grow slowly and BEAUTIFULLY without resOrtng
to any exciting stimulus, or to the still more
poisonous pecuniary inducements that have
driven so many of the Independent working
people from the Bible class and the Church.
These teachers are incessant in seeking out
the neglecters of their souls, removing preju-
dices, drawing them 70 the class through
loving kindness evinced by acts as we'll as
words, praying for them and also with them
Individually when suitable occasions occur,
or can be made, and following them up until
they have become stable Christians.
Year: 1876


The way is dark, my Fatherl cloud on cloud
Is gathering thiekly o er my head, and loud
The thunders roar above me. See, stand
Like one bewilderedl Father take my hand


And through the gloom


Lead safely home


Thy child
The day goes fast, my Father and the night
Is drawing darkly down. My taithless sight
Sees mostly visions. Fears, spectral band,
Encompass me. o Fstherl take my hand,


And from the night


Lead up to light,


Thy child
The way is long, my Father and my soul
Longs for the rest and quiet of the goal:
While yet journey through this weary land.
Keep me IRON wandering. Father, take my hand,


Quickly and straight


Lead to heavens gate,


Thy child!
The path is rough, my Fatherl many thorn
Has pierced me and my weary feet, all torn
And bleeding, mark the way. Yet thy command
Bids me press forward Father take my haad'


Then safe and blest,


Lead up to rest,


Thy child
The throng is great, my Father many doubt
And fear and danger compass me about;
And foes oppress me sore. | cannot stand
Or 90 alone. o Father take my hand,


And through the throng


Lead safe along,


Thy child
The cross is heavy, Father have borne
1t long, and still do bear it. Let my worn
And tsinting spirit rise to that blest land
Where crowns are given. Father, take my hand


And, reaching down,


Lead to the crown,


Thy child
Year: 1876

which they were reared they would probably
have been heather. Christianity is the
mother that gave them their intellectual
nourishment and their social and moral ele-
vation, and now their hands are turned
against her. P.
Year: 1876

FIXING THE TRUTH.-When Dagusrre was
working upon his sun-pictures, his greatest
difficulty was to fix them. The light would
imprint his image, but soon as the tablet was
taken from the camera the image vanished.
AT last he discovered chemical solution
which would fix the image and give him
permanent picture. So the truth is hard to
fr in mans heart.
Year: 1876

Where is the Franklin and where is our
"Twid ?" Have they taken northwardly
passage from vigo, defying the tides and
winds, and are they now bearing down upon
us from the neighborhood of Cape Race, or,
as is more probable, have they dropped
down south Of the Azores, and are they now
coming up to US with the stream from some
point north of the Bermudas? Will they be
caught in the hurricane which, starting from
st. Thomas, has passed over the West Indies
and is following the course of the Gulf
Stream, threatening to strike Bermuda?
Will bowling winds and angry seas give
the captive "boss" some foretaste of the tenn
pest that awaits him in New York and re-
mind him that the way of the transgressor is
sea sickness preparing our returning
'Twid" for the lesser agonies of
an apartment in the Tombs and
cell in Sing Sing? Above all,
will the good ship franklin arrive safely in
port, will its lusty passenger turn out to be
in reality the missing ''boss." and will he
reach New York before the election? These
are questlons OF deep interest TO the polltl-
clans. The whispered rumor has gone forth
that Developments are to come with "Twid"
that will blow the democratic Presidential
candidate, Governor Tilden, out of water.
The illustrated papers have given us in ad-
vance pictures of Tilden's CONSERVATION at
Tweed's arrival. On the other hand we are
assured that Governor Morgan and all the
old Albany politicians are praying for ad-
verse winds and short coal for the Franklin.
Let us hope that our ''Twid" will be safely
with us within the next five days, SO that
Sheriff Conner's wish to get his hands once
more on his old Ludlow street boarder may
be gratifed, and the people may get at the
bottom of the startling disclosures which
the returning "boss" is said to be ready to
make.
Year: 1876

The INDIAN CAMPAIGN.-The reports which
reach us this morning from the Indian
country do not show any well defined plan
of campaign for the winter, but they indi-
cate what is of much more importance-an
intention to deal sternly and vigorously with
the returning braves. General Crook, il
seems, is on his way to Red Cloud with his
command, and Colonel Merritt, the de-
parture of whose scouting expedition was
reported few days ago, is reported to be
moving toward the same destination by way
of Spotted Tail. These movements show
something like comprehension of the real
situation. The seat Of war now is on the
reservations and not in the hills. A little
honesty at the agencies and some severity
with the savages who are returning from the.
warpath is the only way to prevent useless
and disastrous campaigns like that of last
summer. It is refreshing to find SO much
sense in the management of Indian affairs at
last, and if the policy that is indicated in
our dispatches is faithfully pursued it
cannot fail to have the most beneficial re-
suits,
Year: 1876

TO charge two one half cents Very respectfully
yours GEORGE l. TYSON


The case of the newsdealers is skilfully


stated in this letter. and from their own


point of view it may seem just. But they
seem to forget that the most important party
in this matter is not the middlemen who
stand between the HERALD and the public,
nor even the HERALD, but the public itself.
Our determination to give them a cheaper
paper is so obviously in their interest that
we are sure of their support. If they are
obstructed in getting the paper they prefer
through particular set Of middlemen they
will get it in some way. The appeal which
this correspondent makes to us to put the
price of the HERALD SO low as to cripple
or destroy its contemporaries is repugnant
to our sense of justice and to our uniform
treatment of other city journals The di-
versity of tastes in this great community
supplies field wide enough for all, and
nothing has ever been further from our
wish than such a monopoly as is here
suggested. The New York journals
are not tame patterns of one an
other; each has it's distinctive merits
and excellences which adapt them to the
wants of different sections of the public,
while there is also large class who read
several journals from wish to view events
in all the various lights in which they
can be presented. There is field
of usefulness and profit for all,
and the public is great gamer
by the honorable rivalry which is the best
stimulus to enterprise and excellence. We
have merely done little in advance what
all must soon do, and our correspondent
does not seem to consider that the
whole journalism of the city, as we'll as
the whole public. have ON interest identical
with that which is represented by the pres
ent action of the HERALD. It is inevitable
that every branch of business must yield to
the general situation which imposes q uni
versal reduction of prices. The HERALD has
taken this step after full reflection has taken
it neither too soon nor too late ; it will firmly
adhere to it because it is not freak of
caprice, but the acceptance of a new bust
ness situation which all classes and en-
ployments will be compelled to recognize,
and if any do not float down with the tide
they will be stranded on the shore as the
penalty of their obstinacy or want of fore
sight.
Year: 1876

Progress Of the Hurricane and the


Western storm.


The latest advices from the Gulf and
South Atlantic coasts inform us that the
movement of the hurricane now in progress
has changed from westerly to a northerly
and possibly northeasterly direction, pro-
ducing strong gales and heavy rains on the
coast. These cyclonic disturbances rarely
pass far to the westward of Florida in de-
scribing their peculiar parabolic curves
from the tropical seas, that of September,
1876, being one of theslpw exceptions on
record. The present Sooen has evidently
been DETECTED from the coast, and is now
moving rapidly northeastward, and will pass
right across the track of outward and inward
bound European steamers. While the
storm centre is probably considerable dis
tance seaward the coast lines coming within
the circumference of the hurricane will suffer
in proportion to their proximity to the
centre. There is also probability that as
the hurricane approaches the high barom-
eter now moving off the New England coast
the force of the wind will increase consider
ably and as the barometric gradient grows
sleeper. In the West the storm area moving
toward us has assumed considerable proper
tions and is accompanied with much rain
and high local winds. The pressure at the
storm centre has fallen to 80 10 inches, and
consequently the atmospheric inflow is very
great, especially on the eastern side. Cloudi-
ness, with rain and an increased tempera-
ture, will be experienced in New York to-
day, due to the movements of the hurricane
and the storm in the West.
Year: 1876

Our Water supply-Facts Worth


Noting.


The officials of the Department of Public
Works. who control our water supply, claim
that the storage capacity of the lakes in the
Croton watershed is greater than all the pos
sible demands of the city can exhaust. OF
this there can be no doubt if it is only pos
sible to utilize the quantity of water which
they contain when full. But, unfortunately,
the lakes are not full, nor can we draw on
their stored waters except to very limited
degree. The measure of their capacity for
the supply of New York is governed by
the levels of their several outlets. When
these are situated only few feet be-
low the surface it is of no service
to us if the basin below that level
contains billions Of gallons of water. Take
for instance a lake having an area Of one
hundred acres It's average depth, when
full, is, say forty feet, and the water it con-
tains equals 1,049, 796, 600 gallons. Now, if
the level of the bottom of the outlet is only
ten feet below the highest water level the
actual quantity of water that can be drawn
from the lake, as storage reservoir, will be
only 1852, 449, 600 gallons, or one-fourth the
entire quantity. The remainder cannot be
obtained without expensive pumping en-
gines. Here is an important consideration
worthy of public attention, as it furnishes
clew to the mysterious exhaustion of our
storage lakes in the Croton Valley. We
have been doing business on an imaginary
capital When we desire to draw on our
reserves they are beyond our reach. Is it
not time that thorough investigation
should be made of this vital question of
the water supply for New York before an
epidemic brings death to furnish us with
reliable facts and figures?


The price Of the HERALD today and hence
Year: 1876

The CuEApSEss OF LIFE in the city is well
illustrated in murder case now on trial in
the Court of General Sessions. As the
crime was developed by the testimony yes
terday. as will be seen by our court reports
this morning, it was murder which was
simply the result of the disregard OF the
sacredness OF human life consequent upon
the uncertainty of the law and OF punish
ment where murderer is concerned. III
xhe testimony is trustworthy the crime is
clear, and yet the legal definiti n OF murder
in the first degree is SO hedged about that
evan in such cose conviction is doubtful
Year: 1876

for the commerce even of Eastern Cali
fornla. The result was disastrous to the
San Franciscans for time; but the wiser of
them saw that they could easily afford to
lose local trade if they could get in ex-
change for it share of the vast commerce
with China and South America, and it is for
these prizes they are now striving against
vexatious laws hampering the free and use
ful interchange of commodities.
Year: 1876

WE PRINT this morning two versions of
the Cainhoy affair, one of them being the
official report Of the United States Marshal
and the other private letter of an eye
witness. Between them it is not diff
cult to extinct the truth in regard to the
occurrence. One or two deductions, how
ever, are worth stating-the impolcy of
holding joint discussions during the present
heated condition of political feeling and the
impropriety of Charleston politicians at
tending in such large numbers these joint
meetings in the negro districts.
Year: 1876

EVEN GREECE is preparing for q general
levy and the reorganization of the army.
good many years ago the Greeks were accus-
toned to take hand in nearly every fight on
either side of the Hellespont; but the oracles
have been silent so long that the moderns
are better off when they avoid war or even a
semblance of il.
Year: 1876

THERE Is WAR OF PERSONALITIES between
Judge Hoar and General Butler in their can
vass in the Seventh Massachusetts, district.
manifesto, part of which we print which re-
fleets the character of the campaign on one
side. As General Butler is not deficient in
the use of personal epithets we may expect
\ lively answer from him.
Year: 1876

PooR SLApE is becoming victim. Three
new summonses have been issued against
him. Evidently his English prosecutors ara
determined that he shall suffer, and his only
chance of escape apparently is through
spiri tual aid
Year: 1876

Our EXPOSURE of the petroleum plot yes
terday excited great interest among busi-
ness men, and to-day we present a mass Of
statistics showing the magnitude of the
business and the necessity Of curbing the
selfshness of the monopolsts.