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Year: 1876

Gold has been steady all the week at 113 f127S
113H the close being made at the opening figure.
Nothing occurred m the market to excite comment
and business was spirtless The following were the
Year: 1876

reflected the that attends upon abundant sup
ply at low rates These on call loans have ruled at Eve
and per cent with stock collaerals and three and
four per cent with governments. Discounts were
lower than during the preceding week. sales OF prime
commercial paper being made at 56 per cent with the
other extreme about 7 Y per cent Foreign exchanges
were for time irmer, but subsequently became
sluggish owing to the non-arrval OF expected coupons
and securities from Eurone
Year: 1876

The undersigned would respectfully re-
turn thanks to the Democratic voters of the
First District for the undivided support
given him on Tuesday, and If ever in his
power will return the compliment.


HENRY BRADLEY.
Year: 1876

hindrance TO the proper discharge ftheir
legitimate duties. 1t ought to be abolish
ed. The reform should be thorough,
radical and complete We should return
TO the principles and practices of the
founders of the Government, supplying
by legislation when voted that which was
formerly an established custom. They
neither expected nor desired from n pub
lie officer any partisan service. They
meant that public officers should owe
their whole service to the Government
andto the people. They meant that the
officer should be secure in his tenure as
long as his personal character remained
untarnished and the performance Of his
duties were satisfactory. If elected, l
sha" conduct the administration Of the
Government upon these principles, and
all the constitutional powers vested in the
Executive will be employed to establish
this reform.


The declaration Of principles by the
Cincinnati Convention makes no an
nouncement in favor Of single presiden-
tial term. ! do not assume to add to that
declaration, but believing the restoration
Of the civil service to the system establish
ed by Washington and followed by the
early Presidents can be accomplished
by an Executive who is under no temp
tation to use the patronage OF his office
to promote his own reelection, de-
sire to perform wha: l regard as a duty
in stating now my inheXible purpose,
if elected, not to be candidate for
election to second term"
Year: 1876

Is the course Of all the discussions
growing out Of the reconstruction Of the
Southern States and the changed status
OF the negro, j. is noticeable that Demo-
crat never charge the Republican party
with numbering negroes or intimidating
either black men or white men that they
never accuse them OF interfering with
free speech at the hustings or preventing
lall, fair vote at the poles either in Ala
bama, Minnesota, or any State between.
All that Republicans have ever asked is
equal and exact justice for all. black or
white: and practically the Democracy
stands opposed to this vital principle on
which alone rests our liberties.
Year: 1876

President SEELYE is said to have
been converted from an Independent to
Jealous Republican by his term of Con-
gress. lie is quoted as saying that pos
sible return of the Democratic power is
serious thing to contemplate.
Year: 1876

MCCLELLAN is out in a letter advocat-
ing Tilden and Hendricks. This is right.
The one resolved that the war was a fail
ure and the Other came very near making
it failure. And the pair of them will
be found to be failures as Presidential
timber.
Year: 1876

THE nomination of ex- Governor Nor
gan by the Republicans of New York for
the Governorship, gives great and gener-
al satisfaction, and will help to swell the
Republican majority in that important
State at the next election.
Year: 1876

4 FEARFUL SITUATIoN.-Al lady of this
place, says the Whitehall, (N.Y.) Times,
was quietly sitting at her sewing, one
day last week, when she observed a
neighbor approaching the house whom
she did not care to see. She quickly
dropped her work and stepped into the
closet, so as not to be sat home" to her
caller The closet door closed with
spring and imprisoned the lady. The
caller, finding the lady absent, did not
stop, but when the lady tried to open
the door, she discovered, alas, that she
was a prisoner. The lady realized that
she was consuming the air very fast, yet
she was powcrless to release herself from
her prison. She remained in the closet
about four hours, and when her husband
returned home at supper time, he miss
ed his wife, but thought nothing about
it. Having occasion to look into the
closet, he discovered his wife lying in
sensible on the floor. He quickly drew
her inanimate form out, when the air re-
vived her, and thus was prevented what
q few hours longer might have proved a
sad catastrophe.
Year: 1876

II is said that the Treasury Depart
ment are about to issue S3, 100000 of
silver coin that has accumulated Indc-
pendently of the mint This can be is
sued without regard to the recent act OF
Congress, and may possibly relieve to
some extent the ''small change" famine.
Thus far the attempt to resume specie
payment with silver by the five dollars
worth at time has been dismal fail
ure. Fractional currency disappears,
silver does not take its place, and the
only result has been to create cOmmodi-
ties of both silver and fractionals, leav-
ing the people without small change.
Year: 1876

In the search for prccedcnts applicable to
the question of counting the ELECTORAL vote,


the curious discovery Is made that at no
time since tho formation Of the Republic Inns
TN Electoral return bocn rejected or even
objected to on tho ground Of frn,d in the
election or fraud in Returning board. The
problem now presented is entirely new
in the history of Presidential elections in
Year: 1876

We copy the following from the
Richmond Register:


Judge Durham alone occupies the


field as the Democratic candidate for
Congress in this the Eighth Congress.
sional District-Col. Thomas 7. Hill
having first withdrawn, and Charles
A. Hardin, Esq, having since yielded
the track-and we therefore run up
his name at the head of our columns.
In his published card to the Democrats
of this District, Mr.. Hardin says that
conventions having been held and in
structions given in a sufficient number
of counties to determine the contest as
between himself and Judge Durham,
he feels it his duty to withdraw from
the contest. Mr.. Hardin pledges
himself to work for the party. and as
he steps back into the rank and file he
insists that all his friends and support.
ers shall unite with him preserving
the unity and harmony of the Demo
cratic party" Mr.. Hardin is an ar
dent Democrat and a thinking man
who would have done credit to the
district; but he is young yet and can
afford to wait.


The withdrawal of both Hill and
Hardin is therefore the best evidence
that Judge Durham is the choice of
the party in the pending race. and the
fight is now made up between him and
Bradley, the Republican candidate |;
and there can be little doubt rs to
which of the two will be the successful
man. The very earnest and attentive
manner in which Judge Durham has
represented his district, always dis
charging his duties with the most punc-
tual fidelity, and attending with great
psomptness to all matters entrusted to
his care by any of his constituents,
leave no room for doubt up this sui
ject. Judge Durham's reputation at
Washington is that of one of the hard
est working members in the House,
one who is always in his seat and ever
ready to perform any duty which may
be assigned him. In the presence Of
the writer of this article, only few
days since, Hon. S. s. Cox, Of New
York, and Hon. Sam. Randall, of
Pennsylvania, the leaders in the
House, both bore unsolicited testimo-
ny to the great usefulness, diligent Ia
Dor, the quiet and thorough work IN
one of the most important committees
in the House, of our member. Both
these distinguished gentlemen were un-
stinted in their praise of Judge Dur
ham, and said they looked upon him
as one among the most useful and in
dustrious members of the present Con-
gress, and one whose place it would be
most difficult to fill.


AS the choice Of the party We take
it that Judge Durham will now receive
the united support of the Democracy,
and that personal friends of Col. Hill
and Mr.. Hardin will come up to his
aid as against Mr.: Bradley with cor
dial support and will assist in increas'
ing the majority which was thrown by
the Democracy in the last contested
race in this district. We have faith
that the majority can be run up to
one thousand, and the Democracy
should not be content with less. Mad.
ison can certainly be counted upon for
her part of the work.
Year: 1876

most heartily indorse that section Of
the platform which declares the civil ser
vice ought net to be subject to change at
every election, and that il ought not to be
made the brief reward Of party zeal, but
ought to be awarded for proved competen-
cy, and held for fidelity in the public EN-.
ploy. hppe never again to see the cruel
and remorseless prescription for political
opinions which has disgraced the admins.
traiion Of the last eight years. Bad as the
civil service now is, as all know, it has
some men Of tried integrity and proved
ability. Such men, and such men only,
should be retained in office, but no man
should be retained, in any consideration,
who has prosiituted his Office to the pur-
poses Of partisan intimidation or compul-
sion, or who has furnished money TO cor
rupt the elections. This is done and has
been done in almost every county in the
land. 1t is blight upon the morals Of the
country, and ought TO be reformed.
Year: 1876

THIS anecdote is told of Dr.. Sam'l
Johnson and his wife previous to their
marriage. He said to her that he
very much wished to marry her, but
there were three obstacles First, he
was of very humble origin; second,
he had no money; third, he had an
uncle who was hanged. In reply, she
said she honored no man more or less
because of his parentage; second, she
had no money herself; and third, al
though she had no relatives hung, she
had twenty who deserved to be, and
she wished they were.
Year: 1876

SWIMMING HoRsE.-On reaching
deep water, the rider should relieve
the horse Of his weight, by sliding in
to the water beside the horse, grasp
ing the name near the withers with
one hand, thus requiring the horse
simply to tow the rider, the latter as
sisting him in this by using his and
free arm,in the same way as in legs
swimming. In crossing rivers with
rapid currents, the rider should take
the downstream side of the horse.
Year: 1876

The determination of one tribe of
the western Indians is fully in prog
ress. Three years ago Captain Jack
and other leaders of the Modocs were
swung out Of existence at the ropes
end. What was left of the tribe after
the lava-bed war, about l53 redskins.
were soon after removed to reser-
vation near Seneca, No. Since their
arrival in this, to them, new region,
the hand of disease has been complet-
ing the work begun in the lava-beds
and on the gallows, and now only
ninety Modocs remain outside the
happy hunting grounds"
Year: 1876

ECcENTRIcrT1Es OF THE BUFFALo.-The


winter of 1871-72 was unusually Sc


we're in Arkansas. The ponds and the


smaller streams to the north were all


frozen solid, and the Buffalo were
forced to the rivers for water. The


Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road was then in process of construc-
ton, and nowhere could the Buffalo be


better studied than from its trains.


If a herd was on the north side of the
track it would stand stupidity gazing
and without symptoms of alarm,
though the locomotive passed within
a hundred yards. If on the south side
of the track, even though at distance
of one or two miles from it, the pas
sage of train set the whole herd In
the widest commotion. At its full
speed, and utterly regardless of con-
sequences, it would make for the track
in it's line of retreat. 1t the train hap
pened not to be in its path it crossed
the track, and stopped satisfied. II
the train was in the way each individ-
ual buffalo went at it with the desper-
alton of despair, plunging against or
between locomotive and car, just as
the blind madness chanced to take
them. Numbers were killed, but num-
bers still passed on to stop and stare
as soon as the obstacle was passed
After having trains ditched twice IN
one week, conductors learned to nave
a very decided respect for the idlosyn~
cracies of the buffalo, and when there
was a possibility of striking herd
ION the rampage for the north side OF
the track, the train was slowed up
and sometimes stopped entirely
Boston Transcript
Year: 1876

ONE Of the most sensible items in
the new postal law, and one which ev-
erybody will appreciate, is that which
allows person to write his or her
name on the wrapper and also the


word "from," to let the party recciv-
ing it know who it is from without. Vi
oIating the law.
Year: 1876

A YOUNG lady, who recently had her
beau taken away from her by another
girl, told one of her bosom friends that
she felt as if great, dark cloud had
settled down over her life; and when
her friend suggested that there might
be silver lining to the cloud, she ex-
claimed, "what would be the good of
that when there's big discount on
silver?"
Year: 1876

w ASHINGTON, october lbtn.-lnere
has been considerable discussion late
ly about the possible course of the
electoral votes on the second Wednes-
day of February next, in case the
Presidential election should be turned
upon the counting or rejecting of one
state. The Democrats have said that
if the election should turn on accept
ing the South Carolina vote, the House
would object, and, under the twenty
second joint rule, which provides that
if either house persist in objecting to
receive the vote of any state it shall
not be received, they would prevent
it's being counted, and thus defeat the
election of Hayes by the vote of the
state. Several similar cases have
been the subject Of discussion here.
It is fact, however, though not gen.
orally known, that the For;y-fourth
Congress has not adopted any joint
rules. Each Congress enacts its own
rules. The practice has been at the
opening of each session to pass a res
olution adopting the rules of the pre-
vious Congress, and generally such
resolutions pass as matter OF course.
At the last session the House adopted
the rules, but the Senate failed to con-
cur. ard the consideration of the ques-
ton went over under objection to pre-
sent consideration by Edmunds. As
q final result the session closed with
out adopting the twenty-second rule,
which leaves the convention for count |
inc the electoral votes without rules,
except the Constitutional provision
for it's meeting, and the opening Of the
votes by the President of the Senate
and the counting Of the same. |
Year: 1876

How PMS ARE MADE.-A snappish,
voracious little dwarf of machine
pulls the wire, bites it off by inches
necessarily, l40 bites minute, and
just as it ceases each bite a saucy lit
tie hammer with concave face hits
the end of the wire three taps and
"upsets' to a head while he grits it in
countershank hole between his teeth
and lays it sideways in groove,
where levers and springs, playing like
point the pins and drop
them into a box. The pins are then
polished. and two very intelligent ma
chimes reject every crooked pin. An
other automaton assorts half dozen
and perfect genius of a ma
chine hangs the pins by their heads
and transfers them to slips of paper
and by one movement sticks them all
through two corrugated ridges in the
paper when the work is finished. The
pin machine is one of the nearest ap-
proaches to the dexterity of the human
hand that has been invented. 1t is
about the size of sewing machine,
which it very closely resembles.
Year: 1876

Democratic members OF Congress just begin
to realize what risk they are running. Long
AGO We warned them that deadlock on the
appropriation bills would be most disastrous
to them. Yet tho most important, and or
dinarily the most difficult of all the ap-
preparation bills TO pass, has not yet been re-
ported from Committee; others still hang
in the House, and others, framed by the
House as if with especial intent to cause 4
deadlock, and thus to block the wheels Of
government, are hanging between the two
houses on disagreeing votes of con-
ferences. Nre days remain to the end
of the fiscal year. The Presidents very
proper and courteous message, calling atten-
ton to the fact, has been treated by the House
with contempt. The utmost proposed Oh be-
half of that body is to authorize the use of
the unexpended balances to meet the immedi-
ate needs of the Government; and even this
the House has not yet done, while, if done by
both houses, 1t would still leave some depart
NETS without required funds. The Senate
has a perfect right to take reasonable time to
consider bills, especially when the disposition
of the House to make unreasonable changes
has been so clearly shown.


Mir. H0lman's excuse will not satisfy public
opinion. He claims that the House is in the
right because the changes proposed are "in the
interest of economy" That does not account
for the neglect to report, during session which
has already lasted nearly seven months, some
OF the most important bills. 1t does not account
for the neglect of the House to act upon bills
which, reported unrtasonably late, have been
further deferred by the general Incompetence
Year: 1876

The Democratic delegates are going to st.
Louis dazed and bewildeTed. They are III
doubt not so much in regard to their
candidate as with respect to their prln-
ciples. They are uncertain what it will he
best to believe, and hesitating between two
plans of campaign which there is no pos
sibility Of combining. When the Representa-
tives of tie Republican party assembled Mt
Cincinnati it was easy to determine their policy; /;
the platform naturally shaped itself, for on all
The chief points to be covered by such an In
st1,ment the record of the Republicans was
clear, and the only question was IA To greater
or less courage and fTankness of expression.
But with the Democrats the case is very dlf-
fereut. Tho awful specter of the Rag Baby
il ever before their eyes, and the voice OF
William Allen rings in their ears like warn
ing of destruction. Shall they make rush
for the West with paper money, or tight for
Nev-York under the banner of all honest
currency7 This is the great problem that vexes
them.


The advocates of the imitation policy assume
that it will enable the party to carry Ohio end
Indiana in October, and that the prestige OF VIC
! tory in those preliminary contests will cOun-
! terhalance the bad effect of paper-money
platform in the few Northern States winch are
counted in the Democratic column for NoveIn-
Der. But the Democracy have already fought
the currency battle against Hayes in Ohio and
have lost it. They had all the help and all the
advantages last year that they are likely to have
at any time, and Hayes beat their fa9orite
Allen, as he had previously beaten their favor
ties Pendleton and Thurman. In tho larger
contest of this year Gov. Hayes is morally GER
tain to carry his own State against any Demo
crat who may be nominated, whatever the
platform. And If Ohio goes Republican the
! Democracy are hopelessly defeated unless they
can hold New York.


Common sense dictates therefore that they
should make their fight here, and to win in
this State they must have candidate at least
as sound on the money question as Gov
Hayes himself. Even with so good man as
Tilden it would be hard struggle; with q
trimmer the Democrats would have no chance
Year: 1876

A good move has been made toward securing
some part of the facilities this city so sadly
needs for transferring merchandise between
the railroads and the wbaryes. The Belt Rail
road passes through streets that are almost
deserted at the hours when it is proposed to
run dummies and freight upon it. The only
neople who can be incOnvenienced by the plan
are those who now gather their wagons around
the markets; and they have so long been IN
the habit of obstructing the streets that they
would be laughed out of court if they OBJ
jected to the railroad freight as street OBJ
struction. Good as is the proposed measure,
it does not, however, go far enough. What Is
needed is railroad on the piers or above
them and close to the rails should also be the
warehouses and elevators. Short of this, New
York must fall behindhand in the race.
Year: 1876

The Presidents message formally recite5 the
circumstances which have LED to the release OF
Winslow and Brent by the British Govern
ment; and asks Congress to determine whether
the extradition section of the treaty need longer
be considered as of any force. Great Britain
has placed herself in false position in thls
business, and her own writer's and jurists do
not hesitate to tell her so. While cur Gov
ernment adheres to the stand 1t has TAKEN
there seems to be no other way open Tor Great
Britain but to back out-ot course as grace
fully as possible.
Year: 1876

There has been a suspicion that the per-
formances of the Democratic House in cutting
down appropriations to absurd ard lmprac-
ticable limits were not the offspring of over
flowing virtue. 1t has been thought barely
possible that some of these gripping sqneezeS
of economy were indulged in merely to en-
barrass the Republican Senate and for general
political effect. The people who have INDUCED
in such suspicious will have chance now to
say 81 told you sop since tho House has
passed the old piece of jobbery known az the
bull for the Equalization of Bounties, which, II
it ever becomes law, will equalize somewhere
from ten to a hundred million dollars ont OF
tie public purse and into the pockets OF claim
agents.
Year: 1876

There being for the moment strong induce
nlents for the Anglo-American and Direct
Cable Companies to combine, it ia natural that
rumors should be current that they are doing
50. In time both corporations will find it their
Year: 1876

Messrs John Kirkman & Son, the enter
prising livery men at Third and Poplar sts.,
have recently purchased at sherifs sale the
old coach shops..at Tenth and Tatnall streets,
which they are having fixed up, with a
view to using it as livery stable. They in
tend to stable half a dozen horses and cor
responding number of carriages and If the
business is as prosperous as they expect, 1t
is their intention to tear the old building
down next Spring and rebuild it with q
handsome stable. The enterprise no doubt
will be a paving one, and surely If there is
such trade needed in the neighborhood. The
Messrs. Kirkman are deserving of it.
Year: 1876

EDITOR HERALD:-Iwas glad to see .
correspondent of your paper styling himself
against an editorial attack of your own. l
force and its workings, and must state that
for the small number of men employed they
do very WE'LL One officer in the north
western part of the city has beat extend
ing from McDowellville to Eleventh Street
Bridge. Another has a beat of nineteen
squares to 90 over. You will see at once
that these men having such large:territories
as this to canvass cannot be on hand when
wanted. JUSTICE.
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning a horse belonging to
VIM. J. Morrow, was so overcome py the
heat that it was necessary to take him from
service. Mr.. Morrow was driving across
the Christiana bridge at the time, when the
animal sat down in the harness, and was
unable to proceed farther for some time. 1t
was finally taken to the stable on French
street, where it grew rapidly worse, and it
was found necessary to remove 1t to the
street, where it remained during the entire
afternoon, rolling about, and groaEing with
pain. Medical aid was employed, but
nothing seemed to have any effect.
Year: 1876

The managers of the Brandywine Sum-


NIT camp met on the grounds last Saturday
afternoon, and after general conversation
upon camp meeting matters, agreed to make
q reduction of one dollar on the rental of
old tents, but agreed to keep the price Of
new ones at eight dollars. The managers
have not yet decided upon the time for the
rental of tents, but II will probably be about
the fret OF August. e.