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Year: 1876

We MUsr PUT GRANT THRoUGH.-It is
rumored that President Grant proposes
an entire change of Cabinet, with view
to reform his administration in his last
year. Our advice would be to sacrifice
his wife's relations, who have been too
closely identified with his administration
for its good name. Let brother Oryille
and brothers-in-law Casey and Dent slide.
Like the young physician in his first case
OF accouchment, who, having lost the
child and the mother. thought he could
pull the father through by reason of his
strong constitution, so we, friend of the
administration and an admirer of Presi-
dent Grant. are trying hard to save him.
his Cabinet is past redemption his
friends have fallen from grace his rela-
tlves have gone back on him. There is
swlndllng, fraud, stealing, corruption all
around him. But we are in hopes the
PRESIDENT will pull through by reason of
his strong constitutional r. Chronicle.
Year: 1876

NEAR Nashville the other day a young
man was out hunting and shot a wild
turkey, that fell near something of dark
color, which upon investigation proved
to be an old pair Of saddle bags, partially
decayed. and containing about $50, 900
in gold and bonds.
Year: 1876

A FIFTY THOUSAND FEE.-The invegti-
cation of the Emma mine scandal has de-
veloped the fact that Professor Silliman
got fifty thousand dollars for his glowing
report of the famous Emma property.
The fee was contingent on the sale, and
Of course he wrote strong in order that
the Johnny Bulls might be induced to
take hold Prof. Silliman occupies a
position quite as unenviahle as any one
connected with the Emma transaction
EueEd Sentinel
Year: 1876

The GREAT ITALIAN FoEGEny.
don, March IA Rome special to the
Times contains details of the forgery Of
the bill of exchange purporting to have
been drawn by the King. Mantioazzn
was always hitherto regarded as gentle
man worthy of all confidence. He was
Director of the Modena and Mantua
Railway. Some assert that he has been
employed by the King in financial opera
tons, and has taken advantage Of the
opportunities offered by that confidence
In March of last year henegotiated loan
OF SIX million francs tor the municipality
of Naples, and received the money under
his own control from Paris bankers who
placed the loan.
Year: 1876

The tide seems To be changing and .
Tildens star more resplendant than at
any time since the memorable sth Of
November when all parties conceded I
his election.


Yet while THE Herald feels that the
chances are growing more favorable, it /
cannot very readily give the reasons for !
this faith in better future, To casual
observers the indications are opposed to
a peaceful settlement or an honest /
count. We know that Grant in his !
drunken fright is massing troops at the |
NATIONAL Capitol; we know that the |
navy is being fully supplied with coal
and ammunition and stationed along |
the Atlantic coast within easy reach of
telegraphic communication; we know
that South Carolina has been counted |
out and we have every reason for fear
ing that Florida and Louisiana will be |
treated in like manner, yet with all |
this there is deep down in our hearts a |
voice ever repeating itself" Never des-
pair of the republic" If we were forced |
to assign some definite reason for THE |
HkRllD's belief that the future is not SO |
dark as our surroundings might seem |
to indicate, the principal reason that we |
should assign would be that the great
moral sentiment Of millions Of treemen |
whose sense of honor and justice revolts
at the corruptions and open fraud /
of returning boards and their rascaliy |
abettors, is now sweeping onward, gath
ering strength from its own impetus,
and bidding fair to crush to atoms the
efforts of thieves and adyenturers TO des-
troy the government In advance of
this public feeling aud acting as its
mighty and most fearless exponent |
stands the press of the country. power
so grand in its wide sweeping influence
so outspoken in its knightly defense OF
truth and right. so persistent, able and |
untiatering in its allegiance to the peo
pie, that even venal governors, bribed |
senators, and partisan and inebriated |
president feel the potency of It's utter
ances, fearing, while yet admiring its
matchless devotion TO constitutional |
liberty and Republican government !
This great power-the press of Ameri- |
ca--now in this supreme moment of the |
nations peril, will do more to save the |
country and its institutions than armed |
legions, giistening bayonets and belch-
true, too fearless to cover before |
returning boards or to speak with bated |
breath under tho frovn of despots and
conspiritors.


There is another reason that might
be assigned for TuE HEEALp's beliefthat
the country is not lost, and for its ad
vice. never despair Of the Republic
That reason rests upon the love of lib
erty and free institution innate in the
Angio-Saxon race it rests upon the inn


mortal traditions and heroic triumphs
Of the past ages that yet live in the


hearts of all men il rests upon the


great throbbing heart of mighty ma


tion that will not and cannot permit


itself to be destroyed What steps will


be taken TO right us what course of


procedure will be determined upon by


Congress. The HEsALD will not under


take to forecast. but. in the face of all


the threatening and adverse circum-


stances that surround u it believes that


there is life in the old land yet and that


no true patriot will despair Of the
Republic"
Year: 1876

We are becoming, what so many APP
pear TO be in our day, practical ma
terialists and atheists. Present life and
surroundings, present profit and pleas
ure are our all in all We rarely reeog
nize the existence of soul within us
having distinct needs and immortal in
terests. Our thoughts are centered
wholly on the comforts and pleasures
of the honr and on that which advances,
best our earthly ambition Our skepti
cistn is too coldiy intellectual respect
ing the Bible and its teachings, too
critical AMI protestant to ard q Christ
while Yet intensely practical in regard to
humanity itself We believe that with
rare exceptions men and women live
for their own profit and pleasure, aud
that religion and ereeds aud diverse be-
befs, are simply matters of custom and
fashion, or the accidents of birth Only
the recollection of the reverence in
which religion was held in our old
home by our pious progeniiors, prevents
US from sharing fully in the cynieism
and contempt which much Of the world
now entertains sor it We cannot alto
gether ,iispise cur mothers faith, but we
regard her as a gentle enthusiast in
what she does net fully understand.


For preachers we have recoliections
of passionate and iittimed sermons or
feelings of distrust based npon our
seeming discovery of afiectation and
hypocricy OF our future and of Deity.
We have views so vague uncertsin and
unsatisfactory that the mind refuses to
entertain them even in its moments OF
introspection, and We relapse into the
accustomed groove of business or pleas.
ure. Do our Sunday thoughts over
draw the picture. friend?
Year: 1876

The special correspondent Of the 81.
Louis Republican teIegrsphs that he Is
more fully convinced than ever thst
the Returning Board here will attempt
. coup d'etat similar 70 that Of the
South CaroIina canvasserA


From the time the result Of the cleo
ton In the State Wa known it became
evident that
Year: 1876

it the use of Christianity WI be ad
vanced and nation firmly cemelted. II
this sffiliation be genuine, the people of the
whole South, and Christians of all denom-
inatians may rejoice that one of our mos:
Powerful enemies has been converted into
q friend. II this be 50, good government
for the whole nation viii follow. 1t is
Christian to see the Il error of ones ways,
and repent, and recognizing that the evils
which have come upon this couDtry spring
in very great measure from Northern
MethodIsm, it is exceedingly proper that
this branch of the church should now set
itself earnestly to work to repair the bitter
ness and unchristian spirit which has been
engendered through. such action.


The arrangements established between
the two churches was the work of a joint
commission appointed for that purpose, and
refers mainly to the settlement of differ
ences about church property, irrespective
of legal points, and upon those of equity,
directed by Christian spirit. The address
of the commission, after going through the
details of settlement agreed upon, closes
as follows:


In order to further promote the peaceful
results contemplated by this JOINT commits
sion, and to remove as far as may be all oc-
casion. and especially to forestall all further
occasion, for hostility between the two
churches, we recommend to members oi
both, as wise rule of settlement where
property is in contest and one or both are
weak, that they compose their differences
by uniting in some communion, aud in all
cases that ministers and members recognize
each other in all relations of fraternity and
as possessed of ecclesiastical rights and
privileges OF equal dignity and validity
they should each receive frem other minis
ters> and members in good standing with
the same alacrity and credit as if coming
from their own churches; and without each
others. Institutions and missions, they
snouid nevertheless cooperate in all Chris
tian enterprise.


1t is not to be supposed in respect of
some matters of mere opinion that all min
listers and memDers in either church will
be IN accord, but we trust and believe that
a spirit of fellowship and mutual regard
will pervade the reconciled ranks of the
entire ministry and membership of both
churches. We believe also that the su.
preme allegiance to the cause of the Great
Master will triumph over all variation of
personal sentiments, and will so exult the
claims of brOtherly affection that from this
suspicious hour new epoch in Methodism
will begin its brighter history, SO that we
shall know no unfraternal Methodsm in
the United States or even in the wide
world. - -. .-a. ..srI Er.g....... t...
Year: 1876

faiihful, upright, and honest officer. As
an evidence of the manner Of man he is,
we are pleased 70 give the following
incident, which occurred on the morn
ing of the first day of September: ::
Thursday, being the end of the fiscal
year, Comptroller DsrdeL called vall of the
clerks IN his department together, and
made them clever little tallso He said be
was grstified that during the fiscal year
just ended, no unpleAsantness had occurred
between him and any clerk in his Office, and
he hoped they would continue in harmony,
but he took occasion to remark that,
in future, all clerks must continue en-
ployed from $50 A. N. to 1880 P. NJ, and
from to 5 P. NJ, and that conversing
among themselves or with visitors during
office hours, except upon direct business
pertaining to their special work, should not
be indulged;s that the reading of newspa-
pers would not be tolerated during the
time they were upon duty for the State;
that they should not think it hardship to
be kept thus closely employed, as he asked
nothing of them that he did not expect
to perform hlmseIf; and that the early
opening and late closing of the Office was.
perhaps, more disagreeable to him than any
of them, since he residedin the country three
or four miles, and nearly all of them lived
in town; that it was their duty to keep at
work no less so, being in the employ of the
State, than if employed BY an individual


On the whole, his remarks were signalized
for their practical good sense, and the mat
ter of fact and yet respectful manner in
which he reminded clerks of their duty.
Year: 1876

Five per cent, and perhaps ten, can
be added to the amount of milk obtained
from the cows of this country, il the fol-
lowing rules are inexorably followed,
says the Iowa Live Stock Gazette:


l. Never hurry COWS in driving to and
from the pasture.


2. Milk AS nearly at equal intervals as
possible. on in the morning and s at
night are good hours.


g. BE especially tender of the COW at
milking time.


A. When seated draw the milk as
rapidly as possible, being always certain
to get it all.


3. Never talk or think of anything be-
sides what you are doing when milking.


q. Offer caress and always a sooth-
log word when you leave the cow. The
Better the cow loves you, the more free
and complete will bs her abandon as you
sit by her sll"
Year: 1876

In addition to the errors detected in
the counting Of votes in one Of the pre-
cncts of the Thirteenth Ward. as men
toned in the STAR Of yesterday, mis-
take which took off one hundred Repub-
lican votes, it was ascertained later in
the evening that new precinct In Spen-
Ger Township had been left out OF the
calculation ltogether-Turkey Bottom.
This precinct had been created by the
Legislature last winter, but the fact was
not generally known, even the party
managers of the county did not know
anything of it until the day previous to
the election, and in consequence the
name of Turkey Bottom was not down
on the list. q


The precinct cast firty-seven Demo-
cratic votes and four Republican votes
throughout the ticket, except for Har-
mon, Pugh and Johnston, who got only
filty-six. The vote for Infirmary Direc-
tor cast at Dent was omitted in the
footing. There are large number OF
rumors of mistakes In several wards.
but the above were all that could be
traced.


Making these corrections, the votes
and majorities stand as follows:
Year: 1876

NAN FALLS FROM THE CANAL BRIDG e


ON THE DELAWARE RAILROAD.


This morning Lambert Elliner. the
tender of theDelaware Railroad bridge
over the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal, about mile below Kirkwood,
met with fatal accident.


He was on the south end of the
bridge, tagging an approaching train,
and as the train drew near he stepped
back from the track, missed his footing
and fell from the trestle to the ground
below, a distance of over fifty teet.-
The body was recovered as soon as
possible, but life was extent.


Deceased was about "a years of age,
and resided at Christiana, where he
leaves young wife to whom he was
only recently married.
Year: 1876

ATTACKED WITH CHOLERA MoBUE.-
Early this morning Seth Stewart, the
fire watch in the City Hall tower, had
a sudden and and severe attack OF
cholera morbus. He descended to the
police station where the officers gave
him what assistance they could and
then took him to his home. This
morning he was somewhat better.
Year: 1876

The PRESIDENCY.-We have no
manner of doubt that the people of
the United States have fairly chosen
Samuel j. Tilden 10 be their next
President. L is trrse that conflicting
claims of success have been made in
several States. But honest men who
have not been craized by passion will
have no trouble whatever in deciding
which of these claims to credit and
which of them to diseredit. On the
one hand are men tainted with every
infamy which public men can commit;
on the other are the most reputable
and responsible citizens Of their re-
spective States. On the one hand are
men whose whole career before the public has
been career of fraud, corruption, misrule,
and vice. and on the other the hereditary
owners of the soil, trained in the theory and
practice Of free government. The men who
claim that the Tildeu electors are chosen are
the peers of the puress and most honored in
the land those who make the counter claim
bear names that have become synonymous
for yileness and rascality-
Year: 1876

A New POINT Il RAIsED.-Theories are
numerous as 20 what course shall be
pursued in the event of the election OF
the PTeident aud Vice President of the
United States being RENTED TO Con
greSs. The opinions of several distin.
guished men have been given on the
subject. These are conflicting. While
much interest continues to be felt in
the matter, the readers attention Is
directed to point raised by the CHI
cago Times, a journal of strong demo-
cratic proclivilies


Suppose that the election be thrown
into the House Of representatives. Un-
der the twelfth amendment of the
constitution, the House would choose
he President, the Senate the Vice
President.


The choice would be confined to The
parties named by the electoral college.


The House, which has an anti re-.
Publican majority sufficiently large for
the purpose, would, Of course, elect
Tilien.


The majority of the Senate is re
publican, and would prefer to elect
Wheeler, bgt would it not be compell-
ed TO choose Hendricks.


Fllien and Wheeler are residents
OF New York.


The twelfth amendment provides
that ''the electors shall meet in their
respective States and vote by ballot
for President and Vice President, one
of whom, or at least, shall net be an
iuha6itaut Of the same State with
themselves"


Would not Congress therefore, lee
compelled to choose President and a
Nice-President from different States


The Senate could not make is choice
first and thus forestali the action Of
the House, for the constitution pro-
vides that the election failing by the
usual means "the House of reprtsen-
tatives shall choose Immediately, by
ballot, the President.


The Senate woald be restricted in
the choice of Vice President, to
Wheeler and Hendricks, for ''if no
person have a majority then from the
two highest numbers on the list the
Senate shall choose the Vice Presi-
dent


Suppose the House choose Tilden
President, the Senate Wheeler Vice
President, how are We to get over the
difficulty about both these gentlemen
being inhabitants of The same Stale ?


TIE Senate would have TO give way.


II would still be Tilden and Hen
dricks.
Year: 1876

now proposed fill one vacancy in
the board by the appointment of Fisn-
ders, 4 federal Office holder, Assistant
United States treasurer, the manager
for Packard in the last Louisiana re-
publican convention, and who brough,
about his nomination for Governor.


Can the national republican party
afford to counteuance and TO take ad
vantage of such methods as these, no
matter how strictly they may be &C
eording to the letter OF the law? Can
1t afford to be put before the country
as the alder and abettor in such mani
testly unjust, sueh glaringly indecent
proceedings And can it afford to
declare, by the help of returning
boards so constituted and of political
appliances of such nature as We have
rec:ted, that its candidate is elected.
unless This shall be shown to the en-
tire satisfaction of both parties We
believe not. If its leaders hope for a
political future, if they have any re-
gard for the esteem of The nation, they
must te day prefer that Mr.. Tilden
shall be returned. II is almost i'm
possible for them, under the circum-
stances. to obtain a verdict favorable
TO their candidate which shall not
bear the fatal tslnt of fraud !; and We
so!emnIy warn them that it is quite
Impossible i'll such case for them 10
escape the Indignation Of the North,
which will cling to them aud ineyita-
bly, sweep them out of political life.
Under The circumstances the democrats
have only to wait. They occupy a
position Of advantage which only their
own folly can deprive them OF. But
the republican position is painful in
the highest degree. To satisfy the
public mind thai no wrong is done,
where so many circumstances point TO
deliberate intention of wrong, is
very difficult for them. To count their
candidate IN without so satisfying the
public mind and disarlning suspicion
is TO court disgrace, and at The next
election 10 meet an irresistible burst
of popular indignation. They may,
by the methods which they are using
and which we have described above,
legally return Mr.. Hayes, and there
vii! be no legal me:hod of setting
aside the result. The nation must
peacefully accept such lega; result.
Bat the republican leaders, will, in
the act, dig deep their own graves,
and two years hence they will be
buried without hope of resurrection.
Year: 1876

There is great trouble at Washing
ton, a regular shaking up of the dry
bones amongst the office holders. The
idea of letting 60 their sixteen year,
old hold upon the public teat is not
a pleasant one. They have been feast
ing upon fat things, and are 10th to
give mp the flesh pots. But fate is in
exorable.
Year: 1876

Wo invite attention to the communication
Of Judge LAWRENCE, Of this city, in reply to
an article in tho last Now York Nation OH
tho silver-money question. It is strongly
written, and does not leave much Of tho
Nations article unlemolshed. The Judge
is sound on tho silver question.
Year: 1876

The strength of the American Repub-
lie is the universal desire to own a
home. 1t is molding all the people
native and foreign born, into one homo
geneous mass. The ownership of a
home is something neither the Irish
peasant nor the German Iaborer have in
their own country. any conception; but
here it is the goal Of their hopes and
desires. Education comes next; it is a
something the need of which is not felt
until the adornments of home are thought
of. This desire to own the roof under
which one sleeps is distinctively an
American characteristic, and seems by
nature adapted to the growth which is
raising US in importance in the scale Of
nations. 1t is the link which connects
the man with the Government; it add
to his interest, in the making and exeu


ton of the laws, and identities him with
the usages and customs of the people


1t is this element which gives the people
of Switzerland their unity and power
and the lack of it causes nine-tenths O


the unrest in Ireland. No feeling i.
stronger than the attachments of home
and no nation whose people possesses
this as a common sentiment can lose its
libarfios
Year: 1876

The latest French Journals recite the
discovery in France Of match for the
too famous Thomassen in the person of
a merchant in Paris, who recently i'm
ported from Switzerland several casks of
what he declared to be undutia BILE "elay."
The Custom House officers suspected
something, kept the cases at the ware
house, and sent for a chemist The
chemist was puzzled with his first speci-
men of the contents, until he bethought
himself of testing small piece of the
pretended clay with fire. 1t instantly
exploded with loud noise. Another
very small piece put into mortar ex-
ploded on being sharply touched with a
pestls. 1t proved to be dynamite. The
casks ontained enough, had any one Of
them been rolled off cart upon the
ground, to have blown up a whole quar-
ter of the city. Fancy such cask in
the hands of pair of American bag
gage-smashersl Legal proceedings have
been taken against this wretch, who
thus risked the fves of thousands to
save himself few francs.
Year: 1876

A Detroit lady purchased jacket at
Woodward avenue store, and the clerk
said he would send it right home inside
of half an hour In about four hours a
package boy appeared with the garment,
and the impatient lady exclaimed: "You
boys are the greatest nuisance in town.
| suppose you stopped to play marbles
or hunt up lost dog!" "lndeed did
n't," he replied. 81 went home to change
hats, and ma she had to try the jacket on
and parade before the glass. Then Katy
put 1t on to make call, and when she
got back ma was determined TO walk ov-
er on Woodward avenue to show il of,
and / got here as quick as I could" y
Free Press.
Year: 1876

The exact end positive proof that the
plum knot is not the work of an insect,
but is the work of minute fungus, has
now been made manifest by Prof. w.
G. Farlow, of Boston, who, In the pro-
ceedings of the Bussey Institute, has de-
scribed and figured the whole process OF
termination of the fungus, and its in
huence on the wood of the tree from the
beginning TO the end. The little fungus
grows from seed Ike spores. These
spores germinate in early spring. They
attach themselves to the bark from the
outside and penetrate to the new wood
that is being formed, and in the delicate
substance easily play destruction The
fungus runs riot through the substance
passing through its various stages all
the summer season, not until near win.
ter does it ripen set Of spores for the
next winters work