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Year: 1876

Whatever advantages of this sort
may accrue to the Quaker City will
have been most fairly and loyalty
won for, of surety, never was there
a great business scheme of national
Importance carried through with so
clean hands, or such absence of all
speculation as this Centennial Exhibi-
tion. And Philadelphians may we'll
boast, that, at period when the busi-
ness of the country was showing un-
paralleled prostration, and political
and private jobbery were rampant,
they have initiated and pushed to
successful issue a grand scheme Of
international industrial exhibit, in
volving millions of cost, without any
wavering Of faith, or thievish blot
upon its direction. Indeed, in the
whole show there is not to our mind
anything better worth showing than
the steadfast, strong, straightforward
purpose with which Phiadelp phians
have pushed this matter, through
thick and thin, to its final issue, and
the superb disdain which they have
shown for all sorts of scoffers and
and doubters. Pluck of this sort de.
serves its reward, and will have it,
whether it comes by admission tickets,
or in other ways.


And other ways will open whatever
may be the exhibit of temporary pecu-
MARY result. There is the positive
city growth already alluded to-some
Of which must be healthy and real ;
there are the permanent buildings
within the Exhibition incloslre which
inure to the city; there is the newly
established "School of AIT" whose
administrators, with wise forecast, arc
making large purchases of such mate
rial as could be secured under no
other conditions, to such advantage,
as here and now; there is the im-
mense educating influence Of the Ex-
hibition in its entirety upon the popu-
lation of the city; and there is the
further material gain of winning and
holding a reputation for executing
gigantic scheme with steadfast pur-
pose, and tor entertaining a world of
strangers without giving reasonable
cause for complaint.-Scribner's Mon
thly. r..
Year: 1876

What the RECONSTRUCTED" rebels of South
Carolina will do when left to their own per-
verbity is well shown by the action Of the So
called Hampton Legislature in nominating by
q vote of 65 out OF 70 the notorious and ever
infamous General NJ. C. Butler for the United
States Senate. A single act like this does
more to expose the true sentiment of Hamp-
ton and his followers than hundred procls-
nations or pledges can Offset. Butler is un-
doubtedly the man of all men in South Caro-
lima who should have been kept in the back
ground at this time. His very name is a
stencil to Northern nostrils, and the promi-
nence now given him must prove offensive to
the last degree, not only to all Republicans
but to all conservative, lsw-abiding and hu.
name Democrats. If Hampton permits
such of his supporters to come to the
front It will be difficult for him tc
make any one believe that he has either dis
cretion, policy, or common sagaclty, or that
there is any sincerity in his desire for good
relations with the North.
Year: 1876

The Senate's Right to Count the Vote.


The Critic of yesterday quoted from an edi-
torisl headed "ViVG Ia RspTbliqus," published
inthe NATIONAL REPUBLICAN on Monday last,
the following sentence "The Senate, under
the Constitution, has the right to count the
vote" In commenting on this assertion the
Critic says that there is "no warrant for It in
the Constitution" The Constitution, how
ever, distinctly declares that the "Vice Presi-
dent of the United States shall be the Presi-
dent OF the Senate" As we have no Vice
President now, the Senate has the power to
elect President, who will have all the pow
ers of the Vice President in regard to count
ing the electoral vote; for the Constitution,
in giving the Senate the power to choose the
Vice President, also gives the person thus
chosen all the powers of Vice President
chosen by the electoral majority. Therefore,
as the Senate has the right to choose the
Vice President, and the Constitution confers
on this person the duty of opening and count
ing the vote in the presence of the two legis-
latiVe branches, it appears that the Senate
does have the undeniable right to count the
vote through its mouth-piece the Vice Presi-
dent so chosen.
Year: 1876

Soldiers.


The National Veteran Reform Association of
Illinois has recently issued the following sug-
gestiVe circular:


Will you please furnish to these headquarters the
name and address OF any prominent ext Union SOL
dlers with whom you are acquainted who were or
are in sympathy with the principles represented by
importancR to secure the cooperation Of every man
who ever carried musEet or welded sword In de-
You are therefore solicited to give this your ear
Hest attention.


JOHN NJ. CoRsE, Chairman.
This is movement In harmony with the
one in Indiana, where it is said about forty
thousand men are organized and under mill
tary drill. These men are composed of the
bummers, draft-rioters and Knights of the
Golden Circle, body of American citizens
and foreign roughs who compose the Cop
perhead Democracy. This Copperhead faction
was an insidious serpent which fastened its
poisoning fangs into the back of the nation
when our patriot people were laboring under
the awful throes of a civil and
fratricidal war. While our loyal soldiery
was being msngled and lacerated by brave
and desperate foe in the front, this contempti-
BILE rump end of the Dem ocracy was bleeding
the nation like leeches by riots and incendiary
talk in the rear. This calling upon ex- Union
soldiers who welded swords in defense of the
American flag to support Tilden and Hendricks
is like calling upon a Christian institution to
support the evils which abound in our midst
The Union soldiers, except in isolated cases,
are in sympathy with the triumph of Hayes,
and if this association, or any other Demo,
cratic association, depend on them for physical
and material assistance in any hostile con-
tingency that may arise they will be disap-
pointed. True men will work for the triumph
of right, and the Union soldiers, being true
men and patriots, will see that Hayes is
inaugurated, thereby securing that triumph


ARE dishonest CongrssSmet to be GEoged "a
steal The LeopLe's bookS7
Year: 1876

Mr.. scoTT LORD, in answer to question
put to him by the Washington correspondent
Of the Chicago Times respecting the power of
the House to compel the production of private
kilograms, said 1t certainly has the power; for
the same principle that applies in the matter
Of compelling the production of similar evi-
dence in courts of law is equally applicable in
this case. If there is reasonable ground for
suspecting that the telegraph was made the
vehicle for communicating improper instruc-
tions to any member of the returning boards,
then the House has power to compel the
telegraph company to produce all kilograms
bearing on the subject. Ali the House Demo-
Gratis thought the same thing until they
learned that the establishment of precedent
of this kind would lead the Senate to demand
the kilograms sent by Mr.. Hewitt of political
nature before and since the campaign. This
discovery brought them to halt.
Year: 1876

For sublimity of impudence commend us to
the New York Herald. That changeful jour-
nal, having abused and misrepresented Presi-
dent Grant in every way, DOW undertakes to
advise him to be careful of his reputstion, and
does it with patronizing air which would be
provoking If it were not amusing. Happily
the President knows the Herald as the people
know it, and does not look to 1t for counsel in
times like these, but to his own cool judg-
ment, which is better than that OF all the in
dependent editors in the land.
Year: 1876

1t is alleged on the part of the officers of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing that the
work can be done cheaper in this city than in
New York. Upon this allegation an investi-
cation has been ordered by the House, to as
certain why the printing of the internal rev.
enue stamps was transferred from Washington
to New York. This has brought food-tide
of New York lobbyists here in the interests of
the bank-note establishment of that city which
has the contract. They have brought all the
power and influence they can command with
them. They are determined to carry their
point at all hazards. The men composing the
committee of investigation we hope are hu-
name men, who, while looking to the interests
of the Government in the matter, will not
forget the five hundred helpless women who
were thrown out of employment, in an almost
starving condition, on account of this unfor-
tunate transfer. If the work can be done here
as cheap as in New York, we appeal to the
committee, in the name of the suffering and
destitute women who are starving for the want
of employment, to annul the contract and
give them the work to do in the bureau. Down
with the lobbyists, and up with suffering and
deserving humanity! These women must
have bread; and, gentlemen of the committee,
you have the power, and may you have the
wisdom, to give them employment by which
they can honestly secure it.
Year: 1876

Glass-cooking utensils are employed in Berlin
instead Of enameled pots. The glazing used to
cover iron pots often contain arsenic and cases of
poisoning have been traced to this source. A
peculiar kind Of hard glass can be heated over
free IRE without cracking, and 1t has the ad-
vantage Of Keeping perfectly clean and being
free from any contaminAttng poison
Year: 1876

by shrewd maripulat!ons of the political wires,


should secure him the wanting electoral vote,
here is a lion in the way which must neces-


sarily defeat him. The doctor does not say
just where this alien preteuder frst saw the
light of day. he may have been born on board
of ship bound from Dublin harbor for the
port of New York, or away among the can
nibal Fejee Islanders, perhaps under the balmy
skies of Italy, or at the base of Olympus,
where the gods held council and directed the
siege of Troy. Other places of his possible
nativity might be mentioned, among them
New Jersey, which is generally considered as
foreign State. However, it is selfsuficient
to know, even from such an obscure source as
the eminent doctors friend, that Mr.. Tilden is
an alien born, and not constitutionally entitled
to the prize he longs to grasp. Once more the
country can congratulate itself, once more the
clouds of war are dispelled and white robed
peace appears in all her reassuring presence.
Year: 1876

There will be Social this evening,
given by the Good Templars for the
benefit of the Band of Hope. There
will be an excellent literary and mus
ical entertainment, and lots of good
things, and as the fee of admission Is
small there is no reason why even
persons of small means should not
have pleasant evening. We hope
the hall will be crowded.
Year: 1876

from the Luzerne Leader


The terrible accident at the railroad bridge
at Pittston, by which Robert Helme was al
most instantly killed, is of too recent date
70 have been Forgotten by our readers. The
sstorrowful disaster brought to the home OF
Ihe deceased terrible desolation, and the
wle who was left to mourn his sudden loss
was nearly distracted. For many days after
der husband was buried she continued TO
aeplore his death, and went nearly wild
Whenever she thought Of It. Her nights
were were gloomy and restless. It was feared by
ner friends that her mind would become dis
eased II her grief was not in some way as
suaged. At last she dropped asleep one
sy ssunny afternoon, and while thus at rest she
SIeamed that her husband came to her, and
lending over her, implanted kiss upon her
PROV. PROV. She asked him to remain with her,
uut ne told her that he could not, that he
was, was TOO happy where he was, but that they
would meet In the better world. The vision
passed and she awoke. Since then her
thoughts have been at rest, and she 10 thor
ISughly impressed with the belief that her
husband ~, is happy, and that she Will 80 TO
s.o s,M when she comes 70 lie down ~ the
Year: 1876

It has been customary on the railroad to
allow Indians to ride free provided they rat
on the platform. Yesterday after the arri-
val of the train an Indian entered she'd
with large bundle. His manner excited
suspicion, and man was detailed to watch
him. The fellow, on getting inside the
shed, stripped off his old leggins, moccasins
and other aboriginal paraphernalia, and put
on the garb of civilization if not of gentility
He then took out bottle of water, wet a
handkerchief and washed the paint off bis
face, and 10! he was no longer an Indian,
but white man who had been stealing a
free ride from Reno.
Year: 1876

From the Virginia City Chronicle.]


The race track was enlivened yesterday
by q very attractive programme, in which o
fight between dog and a monkey was the
leading speciality. $50.


While the amusement was progressing a
stranger hove in sight with small black
dog, and sauntered up to post upon which
the monkey was basking in the sun. To
all outward appearance the monkey was
dead, and seemed TO have been hung up on
the post to keep him out of the way of the
chickens.


The stranger moved up to the monkey
and poked the lifeless animal with his cane.
At the touch of the cane the animals legs
SWING back and forth without Wilton on
their part.


"When did this monkey die9" asked the
stranger of a small boy.


Before the boy could furnish an explana-
tion of the monkeys taking off, the black
dog came up and sniffel the animals tail.
The next thing anybody new was the fact Of
the monkey sitting astride the dog and the
dog bowling and squealing like neglected
candidate. The monkev had fallen on him
like cloudburst, and Immediately the wild
est excitement prevailed. The crowd was
on hand at once, and Daggart, rushing
about and 1ourishing an immense cane,
acted as master of ceremonies, and Joe
Stewart, pulling out handful of twenties,
wanted to lay odds on the monkey.


As soon as the dog recovered from his sur
prise and realized the somewhat important
factthat the monkey was one of the quick
instead of the dead, he rose to the situation
and made vigorous defence. The monkey
got the dog by the collar, and then winding
his tail about the post, held him with a
pretty substantial grip in one hand and
cuAed him vigorously with the other. I'm
der this treatment the dog howled for mer-
cy, and tugged and scratched until the latter
gave way, after which he started for the
back yard. The monkey resumed his tor
por on the top of the post, the boy simply
remarked; "Don't act like be was dead"
Year: 1876

We prin: to-dey an earnest address
from the National Committee to the
Democracy of the country, congrstuiat-
ing them upon the recent brilliant VIC
tories and appealing to them for renewed
and vigorous efforts for the great final
struggle on the 7th of November.


A short and stirring address from the
Democratic committee of Pennsylvania
has also been issued. twill be found
in this issue of the REGISTER.


The Democracy of West Virginia are
entitled to and are receiving full share
of the glory of the grand victory; and
they are appealed to to pick their tlints
and prepare for another triumph more
brilliant than the one of October 10th.


Let us go in with an irresistible
whoop and hurrah!
Year: 1876

n Z. Herald


JACKSON, Miss, April l, 1876.
To the Editor of the Herald:


There is considerable disappointment
in this section at the agreement entered
into by the leading railroad hnes-tha1
the reduction from regular rates during
the Centenn ial Exhibition season shall
be only TWEEN ty five per cent. and that
the ticket must be used within thirty
days. | can say that there will be but
comparatively few excursion tickets pur-
chased on those conditions. Thousands
who may wish to go from the South
would not be restricted as to time for the
paltry reduction proposed, and thousands
will not 90 at all because of the apparent
disposition of the railroad lines to take
advantage of the occasion. Railroad
officials generally understand their own
business but | submit, in no spirit OF
complaint, but with desire to encourage
attendance from this section, that in the
action referred to the railroads have
committed mistake, which, it is hoped,
may yet be corrected.


The regular fare from this city to
Philadelphia and return would be S76 90;
the proposed reduction would make it
S57 35, and for the difference of S19 10
the ticket must be used within thirty
days.


Should the fare be reduced one-half,
or one third even, and the time for using
the ticket extended to ninety days, the
attendance from the South would be
very largely increased.


Very respectfully,


a2a- j. L. POWER,


Sec. of Miss. State Centennial Board.
Year: 1876

Ex-Governor Ames is said to be going
into the lumber business in Minnesota
Can't he induce bis father,in-lawB to
JOIN hIm The country would bid them
God-speed If they would devote them.
selves to lumber and let statesmansbin
alone. New York Tribune.
Year: 1876

WE breathe freer. The Pacific Rail
road bill has been laid aside for the pres
ent session of Congress. Let the decks
be cleared for the Presidential fight. Next
year will be splendid time for taking
hold of the Pacific Railroad matter.
Year: 1876

THE death of A. r. Stewart, the
merchant prince, will create profound
sensation in commercial circles. He was
the possessor of millions, but his death is
a yerifcation Of the sentiment so we'll
expressed by the Latin poet. Pale
death comes alike to the mansion of the
rich and the hovel of the poor.
Year: 1876

list of passengers did not contain any OF the bottled
names. The agents OF the steamship company at the
wharf said they had the account Of the being
found but did not attach any importance TO It. Mr.
Behrens and some travelling companions they said, had
probably thrown the names overheard the outward
voyage TO whether the bottle would wash ashore
The agents declared that the Neckar had made the voyage
in excellent time and without any accident.
Year: 1876

A communication has been received at
THE HERALD office, suggesting o plan by
which the Centennial Fund in this city
could be greatly increased. It is q very
simple one, and one that is within inc
means of all, and that rs for each child at
tending school in the city OF Wilmington 70
contribute penny every morning ior q
month. The writer states that It need no,
be compulsory, that the teacher should
simply make such request OF the children
which they could submit to their parents
who are the proper ones, of course to bejud.
ges of their children's actions. HI thinks thai
II it is urged by the teachers, that the pa
rents will very readily respond in the way
suggested to such noble object. At any
rate there could be no harm IN making tht
trial.
Year: 1876

Wednesday evening at late hour, as
young man living i'll the neighborhood OF
McDowellville, was passing by Brandywiue
Cemetery, on Delaware Avenue he became
greatly alarmed at white object perched
upon the railing. Thoughts OF hobgoblins
fitted through his mind In rapid
succession, and he sought safety in flight.
Meeting gentleman few squares further
on he related to him what lie had seen, and
the two repaired to the place aud found
that the object Of alarm wac y large white
cat, that had, perhaps. takeu this lofty po-.
sitlop to sing some gentle cat refrain to a
ate upon the palings on the opposite side
of the street,
Year: 1876

Last evening at council, Mr.. Lynch hand
d in the annual report of the Fire Com
mittce, which is in substance as follows
Upon visit on Tuesday evening, we found
the Department in excellent order. We were
received by the members of the different
companies with great kindness. A high
gentlemanly tone seemed to pervade the en-
tire Department. We are of the opinion that
our Department, considering the facilities ut
their command, has no superior in the
United States, either volunteers or paid.
1t is, we think, fully prepared to combat
any ordinary fire that may occur, but in
case of serious conAagration, we are
afraid that there Is not sufficient quantity
of hose at their command, and we think
that it would be wisdom on our part to pur-
chase suitable quantity Of hose, SO as to
have It on hand In case Of emergency.
We also think that the fire bell should lie
higher SO as to throw out q better sound,
for In its present condition 1t is no benefit
to the department. We earnestly recon-
mend that donation be made to the Wash


ington Fire Company to assist them to
repair their Hook and Ladder Truck. We
also recommend that fire alarm telegraph
be introduced into our city as soon as pos
sible, as 1t might be the means Of saving y
vast amount of property.


Our First Department consists of 412 &C
tive members and steam fire engines,
hose carriages, l hook and ladder truck,


$3.50 feet Of hose, 800 feet Of 1t being
first class gum hose the balance being light
er. .
The horses belonging to the different
companies are all well aud ready for ser.
vice at a moments notice, as 1t was fully
demonstrated to us that they could be
hitchel up to the engine and leave the house
In ten seconds. The houses of the different
companies with one exception are in goot
condition and credit to our city.


I'tf .Y"r TEE COMMITTEE.
Year: 1876




From the Burlington Hawkeye.]


A left-handed man on North Hill rushed
ont Yesterday afternoon to chain pump to
pst a bucket Of water. He made some
iii.natured remarks about men making
pumps wrong side to and commenced to
grind. He turned and turned and turned,
and ground and ground, and stopped and
rested, and talked softly to himself, and
ground again, and kicked the pump, and
took off the lid and looked down into the
cistern, and put on the lid. and sat down
to think, and got up and turned the crank
and sweat and kicked the pump again, ana
there hung that bucket as innocent OF mols-
ture as an independent political reformer OF
truth. And there came woman to the
back door, and voice fell like falling
star: "Turn that crank the other way,
YOU stupid thing or you won't get any
water tonight. . ..-,
Year: 1876

Personal attraction most girls possess,
at any rate in sufficient degree to rem
der them attractive to somebody; for
although there are standards of beauty
yet these do not prevail with all people.
The following sensible article from a
leading paper in the West will apply to
ladies here as well as to women of the
locality for which the article was intend.
ed "There is something wonderful in
the difference Of aspect which the same
face wears to different beholders. Proba.
bly, the philosophical explanation of this
is that which is hidden from all becomes
Immediately and instinctively apparent
to the eye of love. How can moder.
ately good-looking girl increase her at
fractions? BY culture She must cul
tivate her mind. An ignorant woman
even if she attracts attention, cannot re.
tain the interest of an intelligent man
She must do this by reading, study, re,
Election, and by familiar conversation
with the best and most highly educated
persons with whom she comes in contact
But the heart must be cultivated as vel
as the head. OF all things" exclaimed
an elegant and refined gentleman" o.
all things, give me softness and gentle
ness In woman" A harsh voice; &
coarse laugh trifes like these have sud
denly spoiled many favorable impres
sion. The cultivation Of the heart must
be real, not feigned. A woman whc
studies to appear rather than to be gooc
and generous, seldom succeeds in deceiv
ing the other sex in these respects. Sh,
who in truth seeks earnestly to promote
the happiness Of those around her is very
apt soon to obtain admirers among men
Above all other requisites in woman il
conscientiousness. Without this on,
touchstone of character, no matter wha
her charms and requirements, she can
not expect to command the lasting re
gard of any man whose love is wortl
having.