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Year: 1876

The wavering of Cornell at time when
she can almost with ease extend her reputa-
tion and her influence to degree she
could before have hardly dreamed Of is
surprising. While her graduates stand
ready to do their part, and at their meeting
in this city yesterday passed resolutions
urging their famous crew to meet the foreign
enemy, it is said that Captain Ostrom,
though hampered by no engagement from
reluctant to proceed. Yale and Columbis
are already to the front, and will
give the Cambridge men hard race
while in the coming four weeks Har.
ward, too, may enter. For Cornell now
to hesitate, when many believe she can
row down any student four, if not
any amateur four in the country,
would tend to shake what renown she
has already won. Captain Ostrom should
remember that in question between
loyalty not only to his alma mater but to his
country on the one hand, and his own pri-
other, the latter should certainly give way
He should also remember that in last
weeks race Harvard's bow was good
deal nearer Cornell's stern at the
finish line than it was to Yales stern
two weeks earlier, and that it now lies
largely with him to disprove the very gen.
eral impression that, had Yale also rowed, last
week at Saratoga, Cornell would have fin
ished second instead of first-new position
though it be for her.
Year: 1876

The PLYMOUTH Rock. Jarrett &
Palmer address us a letter explaining that
the drowning of the man and woman who
had been passengers on the Plymouth Rock,
at the Twenty-second street pier, was in no
sense to be attributed to them. The impress
sion conveyed by the news was that the
managers of the Plymouth Rock had, by n
system of bad lighting, led to the disaster
Messrs. Jarrett Il Palmer explain that the ac-
cident occurred three hundred feet from the
steamer, by walking off the pier. The blame,
therefore, is upon the authorities of the city,
who do not properly light the piers, and in
no way upon the enterprising gentlemen
who, as they modestly say in their
letter, do valuable service toward
the good health of the metropolis. :"
At the same time Messrs. Jarrett Il
Palmer, when they arrive at the end of
dark pier at midnight, might illuminate the
pier by calcium light until their passen-
gers have passed in safety to the highways
and streets Of the city.
Year: 1876

20 win that respectable republican element
which breads Grantism, the ablest and most
earnest friend of Tilden in the press must
pronounce against all civil service reform
This came, too at the time when Hayes had
electrified the country by his letter in favor
Of that reform. The effect of this was to
throw the whole conservative element of the
republican party at once into the Hayes
ranks. Civil service reform, like. the one
term, is cardinal point in the canvass 1t
is a reform dear to the best sentiment of the
country--to all thoughtful, honest men, who
see in the maxim that to the victor belongs
the spoils one of the evils of our government.


While these things are disheartening to
good democrats they are by no means fatal
to the Tilden canvass. But unless they are
checked, unless the Governor takes COM
mand of his armies in person, unless he or
rests this process of decentralization, his
canvass will fall into cureless ruin. The
Governor has now to show the possession Of
those heroic qualities which are the admira-
which Mr.. Goodwin informs us he will in
three months reform the finances of the
whole country Let him say to Mr.. Hen
bricks that he must either go off the ticket
or run for the Vice Presidency. Let him say
to the rag money mutineers in Indiana and
elsewhere that unless they mean to keep
discipline they will be drummed out of the
army. Let him say to Sitting Bull Butler
and the Hamburg Sioux that he will hang
negro killers as promptly as he hanged
Dolan. Let him then write a manly, ringing
letter. arraigning the administration for its
crimes and the republican party for its fail
ures, promising civil service reform in its
highest sense, declaring that he will only
hold Office for one term, and will favor an
amendment to the constitution limiting the
Presidency to one term, promising protec-
ton to white and black men in the South,
insisting upon the fullest security for the
public credit. Let there be no equivoca-
ton, no avoiding delicate issues, no misty,
vague phrases, that mean all things to all
men. Then, with the platform thus made
clear, with the ticket harmonized and
strengthened, with good State ticket in
New York-like Marble for Governor and
Dorsheimer for Lieutenant Governor-the
canvass may begin with renewed hope. The
way to do this is for the Governor to take COM
mand and see that throughout the party but
one will is known-the will of the chosen
chief He cannot lose an hour in doing this.
We repeat that with another month of such
management in the democratic party as we
have had since the adjournment Of the Con-
vention the canvass of Tilden will be over
whelmed with tempest of ridicule as dis
astrous as that which destroyed the canvass
of Greeley and Brown.
Year: 1876

The war with the Sioux revives species
of adventure and escape-as in the case of
General Custer and his mems dashing bra
very and death-of which we have had few
instances since the early New England mas
sacres and the French and Indian wars


History is enriched with new instances of
undaunted heroism in this the latest, and
probably the last of the great Indian wars,
and among these no adventure is so remark
able as Lieutenant Sibleys escape from
the savages, of which we have already
printed graphic narrative, and to which
we now add the story of Mr. j. f.
Finerty, of the Chicago Times, who was
one of the party Almost every sentence
of Mr.. Finerty's narrative recounts
miracle. A race of forty-fve miles through
the Big Horn Mountains, on foot and with
out food, after battle which lasted several
hours, is feat which few men have been
able to perform, and in this instance it is
likely the attempt would have proved futile
but for the skill and foresight of one of the
scouts, Frank Grouard. To this man Lieu
tenant Sibley and his party owe their lives
ana the country u ueDt VI SIhtltuue III is not
easy to repay. On other occasions we have
heard of Grouard performing acts of valor
and skill deserving the highest recognition,
but his conduct in this adventure surpasses
oil his previous achievements In brilliant
foresight, determined courage and able gen.
eralship it is unequalled in the history of
Indian warfare. The escape from the battle
field to the hills was in itself piece of won
derful strategy, and for the rest of the jour
ney Xenophon showed no calmer courage or
greater foresight in the conduct of the re-
treat of the Ten Thousand than was dis
played by this scout in leading his compan-
ions back to camp. Danger lurked every
where, and it had to be provided against as
if there was an Indian behind every tree and
o band of warriors in every ravine In all
this Grouard succeeded. Such abilities as
his ought to be rewarded, and we trust this
achievement will bring him the recognition
| and reward he so eminently merits.
Year: 1876

THE GARBAGE WAR took no new phase
yesterday. The men who were arrested by
the Shore Inspector were admitted to bail,
and no fresh offence was committed or at
tempted by the scows of the Street Cleaning
Bureau. We trust there will be no dump
ing in the Bay until the whole question is
legally and equitably adjusted, and the
spectacle of the police of the two
cities in armed and hostile array
must not be presented again. Up
to the time of the garbage war the people of
this city were in almost blissful ignorance
of the fact that Messrs. Wheeler and Nichols
are Commissioners of Police but these gen.
tlemen would earn better and more honest
fame if they set Superintendent Walling and
his men to catching thieves and other offen-
ders instead of carrying them out of the
county to do battle with an official in the
possible performance of his duty.
Year: 1876




The HERALD has always contended that
the attempt to connect the President with
the frauds upon whiskey would react upon
those who inspired it. The Presidents
record, as it comes to light point by point,
shows that he was as earnest in his desires
to have the frauds prevented and the per-
petrators punished as Bristow. Common
sense would have proved this; for if the
President had wished to protect the thieves
he could have done so. The evidence of
Bluford Wilson is an exoneration of the
President. The country should rejoice at
this. The fame of the President should
always be dear to the people, more especially
when the President is a man like Grant, one
of the most conspicuous figures in our his
tory whose name will be among the glories
of our country when Tilden and Hendricks,
Hayes and Wheeler, Bristow, Jewell, Blu
ford Wilson and all the rest ere forgotten.
No one has censured more severely than the
HERALD the blunders of the administration
No one regrets more than the HERALD that
the administration should have failed to
meet the wishes of its friends. But we
should deem it q calamity, which every true
American would feel, if the victor of Apo
mattox should prove to be venal, corrupt
man. We have no such fear, and the vindi-
cation of Wilson's evidence is precisely what
we expected from Wilson when he was put
under the solemnity of an oath.
Year: 1876

The authorities in Canada do not like the
abolition of the Extradition Treaty. Lord
Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, has
proposed to our government that, pending
the new treaty, the United States and his
government will exchange criminals. We
presume this suggestion comes with the as
sent of the Queen. 1t may be that Lord
Derby referred to this the other day when
he said it was proposed to make provis-
ional arrangement with the United States
until a new treaty could be signed. The
President could not assent; he had referred
the whole matter to Congress, and, more
over, having a question with the mother
country, he could not very well enter into
negotiations with a colony. The practical
point is that the abrogation of this treaty
is felt in Canada more than elsewhere.
Canada now becomes not merely the asylum
for the Tweeds and Sweenys, but for crimi-
nails Of higher grade. No Governor Gen
eral can look on such q condition of affairs
without alarm. The connection between
Canada and the United States is too close
for Canadian affairs to be managed by the
imperial government Extraditions, tariffs,
reciprocity-all these questions belong to
the home government, and not to England.


The time must come when the relations be-
tween the United States and Canada will be
upon different footing than those between
our country and England. This extradition
question shows the Importance of having
these relations adjusted as soon as possible.
Year: 1876




We think we may we'll doubt the story Of
disaster to Crooks command which comes
to us this morning by roundabout ways and
from uncertain sources. At the same time
it may be true. Ever since the defeat
Of Custer and the annihilation of his COM
mand there have been forebodings of disaster
to Crook. The Indians were known to be
swar1ning in great numbers in the neighbor-
hood of his camp. They were elated with
victory and confident in their strength.
The fact that there was little or no demon
stration against Crook was in itself ominous.
1t was believed, besides, that Crooks COM
mand was too small to cope successfully
with the Sioux by whom he was surrounded,
and fears were entertained that the meagre
reinforcements which have been sent to him
yet known whether Merritt, with the Fifth
cavalry. has been able to join him. This,
it must be confessed, is dark outlook, and
against the probabilities which can be based
upon it there is only the doubt which be-
longs to story coming as this one
comes. Lame Deer may prove myth. His
story is in itself too circumstantal to be
trustworthy, when it is considered how
short was the time after the battle which he
allowed himself to get to the point where
Mr. Fray heard his tale, and from
whence it was brought to Sidney. We
are told SO much about the disaster
and its consequences that it is not
easy to believe there was a disaster at all.
At the same time the story proves the neces-
sity of strengthening Crook as speedily as
possible. What we doubt to-day may be
true tomorrow. We must not only guard
against disaster by making it impossible, but
do it SO speedily that none of the conse-
quences mentioned in Lame Deers tale may
accrue. We should not wait for Crook to
ask for further reinforcements, but, know
ing as we do that he needs them, send them
to him without any further delay.
Year: 1876

THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN seldom performs
an act which does not require an opinion
from the legal adviser of the Corporation. Mr.
James J. Slevin was yesterday elected to fill
the vacancy in the Board occasioned by the
death of Patrick Lysaght, and now an opinion
seems necessary to establish the legality of
the election. The City Fathers would do
themselves honor if they first ascertained the
legality of any proposed action.
Year: 1876

The TURKISH RUMoRs this morning are
ominous According to one Of these Abdul
Ahmet is regent of the Empire, and another
story reports the Sultan as dangerously ill.
This intelligence seems to indicate fate for
the present Sultan not unlike that which
befell his uncle; but how long his brother,
who is his junior by two years lacking a day,
will be permitted to reign in his stead is q
problem.
Year: 1876

In Hrs NOVEL Of VANITY Fair Thack-
cray said of his heroine, Becky Sharp, that
30 good that you could know she was not d
born woman of fashion," SO it is only from
the simplicity of Uncle Sammy in not writ
Ing his letter of acceptance at the right
time that we know he is not real politi-
cian
Year: 1876

WALL STREET YEsTERpAY.-The stock mar
ketwas active and speculation attended by
considerable excitement. The coal stocks
were lively and higher Gold was steady at
Ill 7-S Money continues easy on call at
per cent. In government and railway bonds
there is no material change.
Year: 1876

RUSSIA is not likely to stand quietly by
and see Bosnia divided between Austria
Eervia and Montenegro Such evil fortune
has attended the arms Of the Servians and
Montenegrins that some action by the great
Powers may become inevitable, and the feel
ing among the Russian people may precipi-
tate q European war at any moment.
Year: 1876

You've KING ALFONSO is to have n wife, and
his mother is on her way to Spain to ar
range for the marriage. 1t is to be hoped
the old lady will reside quietly in her sons
dominions, and this end will be best attained
if all parties treat her with Indifference.
Year: 1876

GOVERNOR TnDEN the other day went out
for horseback ride and ran into buggy
and smashed it badly. This is judgment
his letter of acceptance the calamity would
not have occurred and he would have saved
the expense of mending the broken wagon
Year: 1876

THE RIFLEMEN from New South Wales have
reached San Francisco. The first to arrive,
there would be poetic justice in the good
fortune to carry home with them the honors
of the International match
Year: 1876

Much of the economy which has charac-
terized the House of Representatives is
detrimental rather than beneficial to the
country. The refusal of a sufficient appro-
priation to the Weather Bureau is an
instance of this unwise economy. Not only
has the force been cut down, but the number
of stations is to be diminished Even points
rs important as Newport and New Haven
are to be deprived of an observing station,
and the publication of the weather maps
is to be discontinued. These maps are
invaluable to commerce, and their dis
continuance will be public calamity.
Instead of diminishing the service
of the bureau it ought to be in
creased, and Congress is only penny
wise in the adoption of this niggardly plan
of economy. So far the Weather Bureau has
proved of great Importance, and the value Of
is services to the people and to trade has
been moro generally recognized and has been
more thorough and complete than in any
other country. "Old Probabilities has not
only proved himself an acceptable weather
prophet, but his services and scientific
standing have reflected great credit on the
country We regret to see the bureau ham,
pered by insufficient appropriations, and we
trust before it adjourns Congress will recog-
nize the necessity of affording it sufficient
resources to make it effective.
Year: 1876

Owen hcKeAna, aged thirty years. OF No. 255 East
Thirty second street, while At work repairing a
truck At the or Forty seventh Fourth
avenue yesterday morning struck on the head by
the step OF a car which was being backed down, and
was killed
Year: 1876

Next to an oyster-the shell.


Always operating for rise--emet-
les.


Poor bread makers-average dough-
mestics.


Always happy to meet his GUS
tomers-the butcher.


Love is like battle-when it comes
to an engagement.


Though her own, yet wont own it
a woman's age.


Which is the coldest seat in street
car? The one nearest the Pole.


What is the right kind Of timber
for castle in the air? A sunbeam.


When can a lamp be said to be in
a bad temper? When it is put out.


When is an umbrella like person
convalescent? When is is recovered.


Why is the letter G like matrimo-
ny? Because it is the end OF court
ing.


Which is the most celestial part Of
the British Empire? The Isle Of
Skye.


What throat Is the best for singer
to reach high notes with? A soar
throat.


A Western man says that figures
won't lie unless they happen to be on
gas meter.


Why does a sailor know that there
is man in the moon? Because he's
been to sea.


Why is a horse the most miserable
Of animals ? Because his thoughts
are always on the rack.


What should you do if you split
your sides with laughter? Run till
you get stitch in them.


Why does a widow feel her bereav-
ment less when she wears corsets p
Because she is solaced.


Why should it be easy to break in
to an old man house? Because his
gait is broken and his locks are few.


Why is talkative young man like
a young pig? Because, if he lives,
he is likely to become great bore.


They have got SO now that they
blow up whales with torpedoes, and
it won't be long before the women
will get hold of the Invention and
scatter an intoxicated husband all
over the ceiling.


A few days since man convicted
of drunkenness stood up before his
honor at the police court, and his hon
or said, in his slow, solemn way, "lll
give you $40 or thirty days. "Well,
I'll take the $40, squire" said the
fellow.


How much Go you ask for that
there velvet by the yard said Mrs.
Rural at Stewards the other day.
That, madam, said the clerk, holding
it up, is nine dollars, formerly sold at
fourteen. Thought so, said Mrs. Ru-
raj, now where's them six cent cali
Goes | seed advertised in ther paper.


Pound sociabilities, where every
body sent in a nornd Of something or
other, were recently all the rage
among The colorel people Of a village
near Cleveland, Ohio, until some das-
tardly villain one evening sent in
pound Of dynamite, and then, for feat
some Dina-might bchlowel ur, they
adjourned SINE die,
Year: 1876

A man was Indignantly exclaiming
that his knife had been stolen, when
at last one Of his neighbors, whose
garden had been raAed a short time
previous, said to him II found Your
knife among my cabbases; how c'me
it there o. lne man va: struck quite
Year: 1876

A HINT FOR BoREs.-Some time
ago there lived a gentleman of indo-
lent habits, in Sussex, who made it a
business in the winter season, to visit
his friends extensively. After wear
ing out his welcome in his own i'm
mediate vicinity, last winter, he
thought he would visit an old Quaker
friend, some twenty miles distant,
who had been an old hool-fellow Of
his. On his arrival he was cordially
received by the Quaker, he thinking
his visitor had taken much paines to
come so far to see him. He treated
his friend with great attention and
politcncss several days, and, as he
did not see any signs of his leaving,
he became uneasy, but he bore it
with patience till the morning Of the
eighth day, when he said to him


"My friend, I'm afraid thee'll new
er visit me again"


"Oh, yes, | SHALL said the visitor,
I have enjoyed my visit very much
| shall certainly come again


Nay" said the Quaker, II think
thee will never visit me again y


"Nhat makes you think | will new
er cone again r asked the visitor.


If thee never does leave. said the
Quaker, chow cana't thee come
again.
The visitor left.
Year: 1876

A lady was telling friend from
the country Of very grand party she
had given recently. ave lad two
Generals, one Judge, popular author
and play writer - "Yes,' chimed
in her wicked son, "and there was a
deputy sheriff too, who said he want
ed to see dad, and they went out be-
fore supper, and dad hasn't come back
yet When that youth went to
school the next day with his head all
tieG up, he told the boys he had a
dreadful toothache.
Year: 1876

A MANS FRIENDs.-1t is very cer-
tain that mans intimate friends are
often the last to hurry to suspect his
possession Of unusual abilities. This
is trite observation, but one is con-
stantly being surprised at some new
proof Of its truth 1t was not long,
long ago that a gentleman told us
that he did not believe a certain cell
ebrated poet had any real genius, be-
cause he once lived in the same town
with him, and knew that his family
were no better than they should be.
He had never read any Of his books,
however. 1t was the old story over
again. "He a great man Non
sense | knew him when he was
only that high y
Year: 1876

10 tho Editor af The Tribune.


CHICAGO, July 15.-l wish to call the attention
Of the people to the fact that there is q dead
dog On every street in the city. would sug-
gest If the city cannot afford to carry away the
dead dogs, that it stop buying the poison and
meat, "Which Of course cost money!" and wait
till it can afford to indulge in both of these luz
uries without causing any Inconvenience to the
public, G. q. W.
Year: 1876

European capitalists as a general thing arc
represented as very much down on the war feel
ing. Agood many of our citizens too are daily
down on the wharf, eeling.-New York CONNER
Mi.
Year: 1876

The President returned to the Senate
this evening the bill which provides for
reducing the salary of the President to
s25 900 per annum from and after the
fourth OF March next, with message
stating his reasons for not approving 1t.
The veto message was not, however, read
IN 1av
Year: 1876

THE finest railroad opportunity in the United States, says the Los Ange- les Express, is the route between Los Angeles and the terminus of the Utah Southern. The business that can be developed on that route would give a railroad the most profitable employ ment of any railroad in this country. It would open to life and activity some forty or fifty mining districts that are lying dormant simply because they cannot be successfully worked as long as they are isolated from the outside world. It would create 8 market for the products of Southern California that would insure a very large freight tariff. ItwOuld inaugurlte an overland trade by way of the Union Pacific which would in time become almost as important as that by the Central Pacific. It would develop a lateral trade which would supply one-half the ter ritOry lylng between the line of the new railroad and the Central Pacific, and nearly all the territory of North ern Arizona. It would benefit the peO- pie of San Francisco and those who live along the line of the Central Paci- fic by a connection that would force down the tariff on the only road down in operation through the region, and would be a corrective of the freights and fares generally exacted by the great corporation It is impossible that a route possessing the manifold advan- tages which are conceded to the Los Angeles and Independence road can long remain unutiliZed. It needs but that the capitalists at the East should be made conversant with the possibili- ties of the route to render the scheme of its construction one of the most popular investments ever placed upon the market The proper parties are now promoting the enterprise in New York, and we shall expect shortly to hear good news from them.