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Year: 1876

A correspondent who visited the fish cries of the North says: It was night fall. The men had just returned from setting their nets and were busily pre- pairing supper. In some of the cabins were ancient and rude freplaces of stone, and from them the fires gleamed warm and cheerful. Great pots of coffee were steaming, and generous slices of salt pork and the daintiest parts of the dainty whitefsh were sputtering in the fryingpans. Two or three fires were burning on the beach, for some of the men have a notion that an open fire is better to cook by than is the stove. and then, too, it affords an opportunity to prepare the fish in the most popular manner among them, that is baking it on board. The fish are prepared and sea- >oned, pinned to board by wooden pegs, and then board and all are propped up close to the fire. The fish is very quickly baked brown, and by this method it retains all it's flavor. Another popu- lar, but lazy, method is to cover the fish with clay two inches thick, and throw it into the hottest of the fire. The clay hardens almost instantly, and the fish in it's tough oven bakes through and through, retaining also it's juices. The clay is then poked out of the fire, cooled with dash of water, and sharp stroke with stick separates it from the fish. The fish's skin peels off with the clay, and the dish is ready. Plain bread and potatoes constitute the rest of the meal. There are no women in the colony; the men are their own housekeepers. After supper the pipes are produced, and the fishermen, gathering in the largest cabins, devote the evening to hilarity and mirth, spinning yarns, playing cards, dancing jubas, and smoking. Every few minutes fishermen stride to the door to get points on the weather probabili- ties for the following day, and every variation in the wind, stir in the clouds, or twinkle of the stars is gravely an nounced to the merry makers within. Everybody assured the visitor that " twas goin' to Flow from the nor'west right steady termorror," and that he might as well make up his mind to stay ashore all day, there would be no getting ont
Year: 1876

The New York EUenSng MaiL amour ces that the inebriate asylum at Bing- hamton has proved failure, both finan- cially and as reformatory institution, and has been closed. This is unwel- come news, as it was hoped that it would prove successful in the great and humane work for which it was established. The M0iI, in connection with the announce ment, says that there ought to be an in- ebrlate asylum for women, as we'll as men that not only base women stagger, drunken and foul-mouthed, through our streets, and lie sottish and wretched in bare homes made squalid by their vice, but homes that to the casual eve are comfortable and happy are made abodes of misery by the tippling habits of women who should be their cheer and moral center"

 This is not 8 pleasant picture of fash ionable life, says the editor of the E2ve,,- Sno Wisconsin, but there is reason to believe that it is too true, not only in New York, but of other large cities. He who shall inaugurate method of treat ment that shall prove successful in cur ing drunkards of their terrible malady will confer boon upon society second only to the removal of the possibility of drunkenness. The number who suffer directly or indirectly from this scourge is appalling to contemplate. The num- Der given to habitual or periodical drunkenness is far larger than the num- Der of the insane, the blind, and the deaf and dumb, while the injury to so- ciety is far greater than would result from all these latter unfortunates put together, were there no care for them ex- tended by the State. The drunken prey upon the peace and bounty of their families and society in one way or an other they fill the criminal docks in our courts they swell the list of pau pers and block the wheels of business, but the State builds no asylum for them, and takes no steps to save them to their friends and society. May not the solu- tion of the question as to the disposal of the drunken be found in building asy- lums for them and in their enforced con- fnement therein until they exhibit evi- dence of reformation There might be enough of restraint about it's manage ment to make consignment thereto a matter of dread, and this would exert a reformatory influence upon those on the road to drunkenness while those con- fined might be so treated as most effec- tually to promote the work of recovery. One reason for the failure of Bingham ton asylum, we think, was the almost total lack of restraint upon the inmates. They were allowed to come and gopretty much as they pleased, if we have been correctly informed. It could scarcely be expected that under such circum- stances reformation would result. What the drunkard needs is to be put beyond the reach of temptation until he has re- covered mental and physical strength to such degree that he can resist tempta- tion.

 We throw out these suggestions in the belief that the day is coming when the work of preventing drunkenness and retaining drunkards must be system atically undertaken, if the race is to be perpetuated in mental and physical vigor, and the industrious and moral re- ieved from the burden of taxation which is now constantly increasing.
Year: 1876

Oh, good old year This nights your last. And must you gol With you I've passed Some days that bear revision. For these I'd thank you, ere you make Your journey to the stygian lake,

 Or to the fields Elysian. Long have you been our household guest, To keep you we have tried our best.

 You must not stay, you tell us; Not cen to introduce your heir, Who comes so fresh and debonair

 He needs must make you jealous. At twelve o'clock tonight Queen Nab Will take you in her spectral cab

 To catch the downward fast train. Some of us will sit up with you And drink . parting cup with you

 While indite this last strain Oh, good, old, wise, frost headed year, You've brought us health and strength an6

 cheer,

 Though sometimes care and sorrow. Each morn you gave us newer hope That reached beyond the cloudy scope

 Of each unseen tomorrow. You go to join the million years The great yelled sky that never clears

 Before our mortal seeing: The shrouded death-the evolving life The growth, the mystery, the strife

 Of elemental being.

 An, no more rhymes for you and mo, Old year, shall we together see;

 For we tonight must sever. Good-bye-old number seventy-fve! Iris nearly time you took your drive Into the dark forever. The train that stops for you will let A stranger out we never met,

 To take your place and station. With greetings glad and shouts of joy They'll welcome him, while you, old boy,

 Depart with no ovation. Five minutes yet? But talk must end. On with your cloak and cap, old friend!

 Too long have been prating. Your blessing now! We'll think of you--- An there's the clock Adieu, adieu-

 I see your cab is waiting.

 m The Independemt.
Year: 1876

s'I don't want you to debate with me. It is your duty to look after these things, and l want you to do it.

 He turned on his heel, affecting in- dignation. Grusom mumbled a final protest, and spiritlessly resumed his quill driving. The appearance of the room ln which this pleasant conversa- tion passed betokened want of care. The windows were dirty, the floor unclean, the chairs out of order, and the spare desk looked as though it had not been troubled with duster for week. Sev- eraI flies lay in a promiscuous heap in one conner account books were piled upon each other without regard to order | ln another; specimens of merchandise, which had no claim whatever to be in such place, were thrown around con- fusedly.

 The impression conveyed at first sight was that this was just the place for things to be topsy -turvey and unbusiness- like; and the opinion would force itself that he who tolerated such state of affairs was devoid of the first principles of business character.

 Nor would closer acquaintance with MT. Goesloe have altered these ideas. He was not one who had received good training for trade. Some ten years be- fore he had gone into business where there was good field, and with his lit tie capital had 8 fair chance to work out an ample competency. But he has never done much. His patrons have never so far increased in number as to necessitate the employment of more clerks than Job Grusom, who came to him as boy, and who is indebted to him for very care less training.

 Goesloe rushes along from day to day, always doing very little, always creating great confusion when doing that little. He never has accomplished much more than a living, and is never likely to.

 Advertised in the papers2 Not bit, for he has "never believed in that sort of thing"

 Possibly if he had he would have been happier and richer to-day. The amount of business which would have accrued to him through them might have taught him to be systematic, and have prevented him from becoming the irritable and comparatively unsuccess- ful man we find him.-Advertdsers' l Gazette.
Year: 1876

Worth the Careful Reading and Consldera- tiOn of All,

 THE MAN WHO ADvERTIsEs.

 "Good morning, gentlemen, said he, as he came briskly into his office, and smilingly saluted his three counting house clerks.

 At nine A. M. to the tick MT. Benson is at his post, and daily he goes through pretty much the same class of work. He is never excited. Bustle is unknown to him. Everything about him is sys- tematic, and all goes like clock work. No one would ever doubt the old aphor- ism, "Method is the soul of business, D who once beheld his regularity and order and the complete success of their working.

 A consequence of his routine way of doing things is that he is never in doubt as to whether he has discharged certain duties, and is therefore very free from anxiety, which more than anything else lessens the energies and impairs the health of men actively engaged in com mercial pursuits.

 Another result is that those who assist him know precisely what labor they have to perform, and how and when it is to be done. Employment is stripped of it's repugnant features. To work is to them a pleasure, for so long as they do the duties prescribed for them they know there is no fear of things going awry, and that nothing unpleasant will by any chance be said.

 Even Mrs. Mccarthy, the clean look ing charwomar, glides calmly along in the methodic groove. She is convert to the faith "a place for everything and everything in it's place." and therefore all is natty, orderly and clean. What surprises old MT. Benson's &C., quaintances who are not very intimate with him is how he managed to acquire such wealth and such influence in the business world.

 It is clear enough from even cursory view that his is branch which depends very considerably upon publicity. It is not by local patronage such 8 trade as his could be sustained. Only by wide spread dealings could it be made even moderately remnnerative. Therefore no doubt can exist that, to have attained to the success he has, MT. Benson must have had connections extending over a wide scope. Nevertheless, it is well known he does not employ single com mercial traveller, and those who have heard him sketch his struggles and ex- periences- both have been more than moderate-say that he ayers he has never used one.

 The secret of his success, he believes, lies in an unfaltering ventilation of what he traff1cs in by means of advertising. In advertising he has been systematic and persistent, and has never broken faith with those who have been led by his announcements to bestow patronage.

 We'll directed, sustained endeavor has done for him what equally hard working but less perspicacious men often fail after lifetime's struggle to accomplish.

 He sits in his office receiving and at tending to correspondence which has directly and indirectly come to him through advertising.

 Others strive to accomplish results equaling his by personal endeavor-re, jecting the aid of the newspaper-and the rewards of their labor are mediocre only,
Year: 1876

Two gamblers have been converted in Portland, Oregon. One of them, upon his first attendance at class meeting, handed to the leader worn dice box and the dice. "Those have been my means of livelihood for years, he aid, "and l have become so expert with them that l can beat game in which loaded dice are used against me. I haven't any other trade. and it is like trading competence for poverty to give up my tools.
Year: 1876

TIE APPEAL will hereafter lie sent
cut on the morning accommodation
train Of the Memphis and Little Rock
railroad, snd viii be sold st five cents
per copy. Our friends will please make
8 note OF this.
Year: 1876

South believe they were right in possessing
property in man, and In believing Ia
classes. They can see no taint In the
presence of the Chinese aud wonderingly
ask why we in country where the cheap
labor OF innumerable hands 10 needed, op-
pose the very means by which our wants
can be supplied. We tell them that white
men cannot compete with the Chinese, and
they sneer at us and as much as say" if
you strong Aoglo-Saxons cannot compete


with this inferior and half. bar barous race,
then the sympathy of the world will never
go ont toyou ii you are undone by China
man." And yet that is the point wherein
the whole trouble lies. The Chinese live
on food which the White man could not
swallow if he were furnishing he sleeps
in cribs that would suffocate q W white labor
or and with all restrictions taken off there
is not a trade of the white mans that the
Chinese could not in five years monopolIze.
There is no invention in the race but their
faculty for imitation is marvellous. Show
them once how boot is made and they for
ever after will make boots as nearly like
their fret model as one birds nest is like an
other. In all the western Pacific Islands and
on the Indian coast they have driven every
competitor away and they control the
trade there, neither English, Germaa, nor
Dutch, not even the Jews, can compete
with them. For our good on this coast we
wish dozen chip loads of coolies could be
landed in New York, enough to make q
Chinese quarter on some street in that city.
1t would do some Eastern editors good to
see how they live and to tiud out how one
of their dens smells. They would begin
then to realize that if there were a million
of them instead of few hundred, New
York city wouid be poorer instead of richer
for their presence. They would begin to real
ize that 10 newspaper would ever be sub
ecribed for by even one of all that million
that no pnblic work intended for the health,
prosperity or intelligence of the people
would ever be helped by them tney would
see that trades were falling ito their hands,
but that the public somehow were not pros
periDg, see that from their quarter of the
city the other races were drawing away as
from a pestilence, and wonld understand
that in case of danger million of these
is simply business look, but going fur
ther they would See that every woman of
the race was q slave, that they were being
bought and soid daily, and that every
effort of courts and officials could not
check the vice for moment. This might
be extended Indefinitely. 1t might be
shows that under our laws they but follow
the laws of their own country in all their
relations with each other, and that there ia
not power enough in either police or courts
to change this state of affairs for moment.
The European soon merRes with our peo-
pie, and it is hard to tell after generation
or two whether q man is of English, Ger
man or any other European descent. But
the Chinese have not changed for thirty
centuries, and all other lands, except China,
are to him and his, foreign shores forever.
biiities of the evils they may bring to our
people in the future, is more serious prob
lem than the American race have yet been
called upon to decide.
Year: 1876

Virginia tNev) Entsrprse.l


The learned men who conduct command
ing Eastern Journals cannot understand why
the people of this coast are opposed to the
influx of o race which all admit possess
are lpeRceable citiEenR, and who ask for
nothing except what they can oAFh. They
khink it 70 but prejudIce Of education
which maases us inyeigH agGinst khe Cain
Year: 1876

Sibley prevented the enemy from reaching tins camp,
subsequent to the Little Big Horn battle, thereby at
least sparing the sensation of grand stathpeoe
of stock ~ OF attempt to do So The INDIANS nave
tried to burn out the camp by setting the grass sr
rounding it on fire, but rain prevented the grass
burning. Gen. Crook has never been entrappeu
during almost quarter Of century of Indian fight
ing. and does not mean to be in fighting the Sioux
tribe.


Regarding the exceedingly lively skirmish which
took place on the Rosebud River on June II, feel
that omitted to give due credit to the infautry
engaged therein. The infantry were the first sol
diers other than the scouts to confront the enemy
in actual lire Of battle at an important pont. Inc
more that battle is thought about the more delicate
is considered the position Of the troops during the
action. As yet we have not received the Indians
version of the battle although it has doubtless
reached the rest of the world by way of the agencies
between which and the hoStiIes there is quick and
almost perfect communication. That the enemy felt
sore after the battle of June II is certain from the
fact that he has kept at most respectful distance
ever since and did not follow u.s. The enemy left
irore dead on the field than we did, and how many
their killed and wounded they succeeded i'll carry
ing of we have as yet failed to learn. Gen. Crook
estimates the value of one mounted Sioux as equal
To two cavaIrymen considering that 1t requires at
least one in four of the latter to hold horses lie
values a soldier Of infantry, armed with the long
Springfield needle-gun, rightly mancuvered, as equal
70 six mounted Sioux hence his desire for more
infantry before again marching into the enemy5
strongholds. The weak spot in the late campaign
was the indisposiiou of the Crow and Snake scouts
to go FAR enough ahead of the command on the day
before the hg.t so as TO Obtain definite knowledge
"a TO the location of the village This duty was
urged upon them, but there was no power to enforce
thence the cncmys advantage.
Year: 1876

THE HARBOR BILL LhNGUISHING N THE SENATE


THE sCNDRY CIVIL BILL TO BECOME LAW


WITH THE PRESIDENTS SIGNATURE.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRiEUNE.l


WASHINGTON. July 26.-After the impeachment
trial was closed to-day the transaction OF some
important business took place, and the Senate then
took up the River and Harbor bill. There is no
change in this unhappy document. The flibustcr-
ing and the lack of direct action on this measure
lead to the inference that the Senate as at present
guided is not particularly anxious to dispose Of it
in any way until after the legislative bill is out of
the way when it may be laid on the table, and the
President thus saved the trouble Of vetong it. The
for this is found in the fact that the House
might get restless and unreasonable over the lcgis-
lative bill in the other, in which they are so
much interested, was hopelessly tabled.


The President has decided not to sign the Sundry
Civil bill nos before him. but 10 allow it 10 become
law without his signature, which it viii do in ten
days If not vetoed. The time viii expire next Mon
day. His reasons for this are that there are some
things III the bin which he does not approve Of but
there are 80 many desirable features IN the bill that
he mas decided TO let it become a law II VIII he
remembered that in one Of his messages the Presi-
dent wanted an amendment to the constitution
allowing the President to approve such portions Of
ali act OF Congress as he tit and dsapproye sucb
as did not meet his views
Year: 1876

FOR POsTrONING VOTE.


fay 1ElKGRAPH 10 THE TRIBUNE


WAsHINGToN July 2G.-Speaker Sayler ruled this
morning that the contested election case of Platt
against Goode being the unfinished business, must
be disposed of before the morning hour. and thus
prevented the House from proceeding to the consid-
Grafton of the Silver bill to-day As the contested
election case was not decided it will still stand IN
the way of morning hour Tomorrow, so that Mr.
Bland Will probably be unable to obtain the tloor
until late in the day Every days delay i'll the con-
sideration of the Silver bill makes its passage more
and more doubtful. Many Representatives who
were first led asfray by the sophstres of the silver
inlationsts have had their attention called
to the inevitable results of passing either Of the
bills proposed, and VIII vote against them in future.
Besides this the chances of using up the time by
fbustering become better the close Of the ses-
sion approaches. Nh Homan's amendment, by
which he proposes to repeal certain portions Of the
Resumption act will be FIRST attacked a point of
order objection being made that it is not german to
the BILL The decision of this point of order viii
certainly occupy the morning hour for at least one
day. and may be made TO up the time for several
DAYS Other points of order will follow, and all the
well-knOwn legislative cxpedents for poStpouing a
vote viii be resOrted TO. If it is desirable for Con-
gTess TO egslate at all upon this subject, every
who has given il the least study admits the wisdom
Of making haste slowly and OF avoiding any legis-
latiOn which is not well considered.
Year: 1876

Very few Of the central ward clubs


will have time to hold meetings before


Monday to elect their commissioners OF
registration This duty will. therefore,
deyolye, in accordance with the rc3olu-
tions Of the Parish Committee, on the
presidents Of the respective central
clubs. The resolutions Of the Parish
Committee referred to were adopted
with the determination that the prelimi-
naries Of the coming campaign should


be carried on in the wards with the ut
most fairness and free from the tUrbli-
lence that sometimes attend "prelimi-
naries." It Is sincerely hoped that the
presidents Of central clubs will emulate
the spirit Of the Parish Committee, and
in every case where the duty Of appoint
ing these commissioners shall deyolve
upon them, commissioners shall be Sc
lected with impartiality and all sides
shall be represented. There is no real
reason to apprehend unfairness, but 1T
is well to impress this fact upon the
minds OF the ward presidents, in order
that nothing shall be done to mar the
harmony OF the workings OF the De-
mocratic Conservative party in this city.
Year: 1876

Several other gentlemen eorroborated
the above and affixed their names to the
document


An examination Of tho vessel after the
explosion showed that she was badly
torn to pieces aft the mainmnst. Mr.
Vineyards hand IL severely burned.
owing, rs the report goes, to the silk
glove with which he held u glass tube,
not being a sufficient non conductor.


II is said, however, that n few minutes
before the explosion tho schooner was
boarded by several persons in slon
who were seen ta make u hasty retreat
thereafter


The only regretable portion Of this
affair Is that the committee did not visit
the schooner before the explosion, aud
that persons were permitted to board her
before il took place. Had these rrecau-
tions hepn taken Professor Vineyards
title To the discovery of Il wonderful
force would not be disputed