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Year: 1875

AUTUMN AND REFLECTION --Undoubt-
edly external circumstances and infu-
ences have much to do with the moods
of mind. The Spring is full Of hope
the intense heat of Summer leaves little
room for anything but the desire to be
comfortable while Autumn is especially
the season for reflection. Our thoughts
then become grave and solemn. We are
drawing apace and perceptibly towards
the close of another year and we involun-
tarily ask ourselves what life consists Of,
for what purpose we live, and to what
the journey being traversed SO rapidly
is to lead !? Yes, we ask not alone what
life is, but what death is. and about a fu-
ture life, and what and where that future
life is to be? Autumn speaks to the soul
in voice to which it cannot but listen.
1t seems as if all the dead whom we have
known are beckoning to us now /; but it
it is in vain that we sigh or strive for any
lntelligible communion with them. We
can only submit to the inevitable melan-
choly mood and wait patiently for the day
of greater knowledge. tsN
Year: 1875

A WORD FOB LorrA.-The donation by


Miss Crabtree to the public of San
Francisco. of the handsome drinking
fountain which was dedicated last Thurs
day, was one of the mcst practical tenn


perance efforts that has been made in this
city. Standing, as the fountain does, in
the most traversed center of the city and
within stones throw of score or more
drinking saloons, it will be perpetual
temperance sermon to the thirsty passers-
by, inviting them to partake of the pure,
refreshing water which it freely dispenses
to all. This generous gift. coming as it
does, from an actress, who by her life
dignifes her calling, should be rebuke to
those who, in pharisaical spirit are al
ways ready to condemn. and can see no
good in those who adopt the stage as
means OF livelihood. Whatever position
IN life one may occupy, the opportunities
Tor doing good are not lacking. Pacific
ChurchmGH. 4t4at q
Year: 1875

During the last voyage of the steam
ship Royal Dane, from Copenhagen to
Newcastle-on-Tyne, a serious accident
occurred to Miss Fry, the stewardess.
The sea was rough on Sunday, and, IA
she was going up some steps to the deck
the boat took lurch, and Miss Fry fell
into the sea. The accident caused great
commotion on board, and it was ex-
pected that she would be drowned be-
fore assistance reached her, the vessel
being under full steam at the time. A
boat was got out from the steamer as
soon as it could be stopped, and was
fully manned and pulled back to where
Miss Fry was last seen. She was found
comfortably floating on her back, when
the boat reached her, and not much the
worse for her immersion. She stated
that after she was thrown into the water
she pulled her boots off and swan for
some time. She then waited quietly un-
til the boat picked her up. Miss Fry
belongs to famous Tynemouth family
of swimmers, and she is considered one
of the best female swimmers on the
northeast coast of England.
advertiser.
Year: 1875

In his letter from Paris, Arsene Hous-
saye relates a legend which is said to
have been told among the most exclusive
diplomatic circles in France, regarding
the part the Empress Eugenie took in
starting the Franco-P Prusslan war. After
the more or less pacific explanations of
the last interview at Ems with Count
Benedetti, there was a council at
night at the Tuileries, at which peace
was peremptorily decided upon by the
Emperor, who was the most prudent
of the party, because he hated blood
shed, and who did not think CORY bap-
tism was necessary to the consecratlon
of the Prince Imperial. But there were
two sovereigns at that time on the throne.
Beside the Emperor reigned the En-
press. When everything was peacefully
decided, the Emperor, who was then Ill,
went TO bed like Titus, content with his
days work. But the Empress was more
wakeful. In her turn she held a coun-
Gil with the Duke de Gramont, and
through pure gallantry he left too much
of the talking TO the Empress, VINO
thought that war was the only salvation
of France, and who when she sald France
always meant her son. She took posses
sion of every one. She was really elo-
auent in talking of the national dignity
she said that the Emperors good heart
would gain both France and the dynasty.


Beside. all the newspapers and all the
Deputies were for war. 1t would not
do to swim against the current. They
would gain the Rhine with one battle
they would chastise Germany and return
trinmphantly with the peace of Europe
secured for century. Everybody was
convinced, the Duke de Gramont alone,
perhaps, having doubts of all these fine
things. But IA il was woman who vas
speaking he had the gallantry not to OPP
pose her. They walked mp the Emperor
and extorted from him the declaration
of war. And thus DID France lose two
provinces and five milliards.
Year: 1875

The Herald and the Business Revival.


If the Millennium of journalism is to come
when newspapers no longer print advertise
ments the HERALD has no reasonable hope Of
sharing in the blessings of that time. Instead
of happy decline in our advertising pat
ronage it is steadily increasing. and this,
according to the millennial theory, is not to
advance but recede. We cannot help it. If
the public insists upon advertising in our
columns we must cheerfully consent If
the millennial journals hereafter proudly
point to their columns unstained by
single advertisement and laugh at our
well filled pages we shall humbly bow to the
reproach, and go down to the journalistic
devil, escorted by procession of advertisers
which would reach from the new Post Office
to Union square.


Yesterday we printed the HEnALD as a quin-
tuple Sheet containing twenty pages and one
hundred and twenty columns. OF this i'm
mense sheet sixty-seven columns were filled
with advertisements, representing every busi-
ness interest of the country and contributed
by thousands of individuals. This enor-
nous clientage shows that the millennial
theory has not yet excited popular enthu-
siasm, at least so far as the HERALD is con-
cerned. This spring food of business pat
ronage, however, was not permitted to sweep
away our usual reading matter. Fifty.three
columns were devoted to the news of the day.
and the live, interesting matter supplied
equalled in extent, and far surpassed in va
riety, that of any magazine


AS it is not unusual for the HERALD to issue
such an edition, our principal pleasure in the
paper of yesterday is that it indicates
the revival OF business which has been
SO long desired and expected. The
advertising in the HERALD has grown
to be the measure of public prosperity. AS for
the non-advertising millennium, We think 1t
will come to the HERALD only at that distant
period when nobody has anything to sell, and
everybody has no money to buy
Year: 1875

Certain events hove happened in Washing
ton in the last few days which, while appar-
emily escaping general observation, are
worthy of the sravest consideration. AS our
readers will remember President Grant cele-
brated the death of the last Congress by can
ceiling the civil service system. The point
upon which he based this action was that as
Congress had failed to make appropriations to
enable him to carry out the rules, he was no
longer responsible for their enforcement.
This has been followed by system of ap-
pointments in various parts of the country
that represents what is even more fatal de-
parture from the true principles of republican
government than would be embodied in the
success of the third term. We refer to the ap-
pointment of so many members Of the last
Congress to different positions. Here, to be-
gin, is that fine Hooser statesman, the con-
noisseur in corn and bacon, Mr. Orth, who
goes to represent America in the courtly city
Of Vienna, and whose only remarkable contri-
button to foreign politics was prophecy
made some six months ago that sin sixty days
the Prince Imperial would be Emperor of
France Then we have Maynard, member
of Congress from Tennessee, who began his
republicanism by fcrocious speech in be-
half of secession, who goes to Turkey. So
on down the list Congressman after Congress-
man has been dumped into places, from the
mission to Vienna down to the Postmastership
in Little Rock with which humble Office the
President closes the ambition of his candidate
TOR the Governor of the State. We do not
know how many ex-Congressmen have been
appointed, but the shoal of benefited repre-
sentatives is large enough.


There is, of course, no reason under the
constitution why gentleman who served Us
Year: 1875

The devotional exercises of the week will
be commemorative of the religious tragedy
which will remain forever in the human mind
as the greatest of all human events, divine
sacrifice in atonement for the sins of men.
The daily ceremonies in the Catholic and
Episcopal churches will reflect this
event; in the former the religious OBJ
servances are very imposing and solemn.
The Office of the Tenebrm, which will be
chanted at the principal Catholic churches on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings,
is full of significance in describing the pas
sion and death Of Christ The blessing and
distribution Of the palms OF the early services
yesterday represented the enthusiasm of the
people who strewed the path of the Saviour
when He rode into Jerusalem, as the prophet
Zacharias foretold in those words, "Be-
hold, o daughter of Jerusalem, thy King
will come to thee, the just and saviour
He is poor and riding upon on ass" In Rome
this festival is celebrated IN the most imposing
manner, the Sovereign Pontiff being the prin.
cipal feature in the celebration. On Thursday
the conservation of the holy oils used in the
administration of the sacraments and the
washing Of the feet of twelve poor persons, in
imitation of the scene at the Last Supper,
form the most interesting features at the
Cathedral, where Cardinal McCloskey will
officiate
Year: 1875

in Congress should not. at the end sf hA
term, accept another public Office. But how
can We have independent representative gov
ernment if we leave in the hands of the Presl-
dent the power of bribng the majority of the
represent atives? What is it but bribe, this
giving high place to o representative at the
close of his term because of ''his fidelity to his
party?' If the President had been governed
by sense of public fitness alone in selecting
his candidates for missions he would have sent
Schurz to Vienna and Carpenter to Russia.
But the only consideration that seems to have
controlled his mind is the fact that many poll
ticians have been thrown upon the cruelty Of
an unkind world by the recent political revo-
luton, and that, having served him
well, having obeyed without o whis-
per every command from the White House,
having supported his administration, not
with the generous consideration of the manly
representatives Of free people, but as the
staff of general, he is bound, therefore, to
give them employment out of the public Treas
ury. What is this but Casarsm? For what
Is C@sarism but the power of a ruler to pay
his followers for their vassalage out of the
public Treasury? What more could Caesar OF
BUnaparte do than General Grant is doing
now? He places the resources of the Treas
ury, the appointments to high places, en-
bassies and judgeships, at the control of the
men who have followed him aud who will fol-
low him to the end, just as Bonaparte made
tho men who obeyed him in dissolving the
French Assembly and destroying the French
Republic dukes and marshals and kings. Is
there any difference between the elevation of
Murat for instance, to be prince and mar
shall because he carried out Napoleon's orders
on the 18th Brumaire and the elevation Of
Orth and Maynard to embassies because with
bated breath and trembling acquiescence they
followed the instructions of Grant through
the last Congress- The principle is precisely
the same, and to our mind it represents a
higher type of corruption than any we have
yet seen under our government


We do not say that the government will not
be we'll served by many of the gentlemen
thus shunted from their seats as congressman
into Office. Against them personally we have
no complaint; but the principle that the
President of the United States at the close OF
Congress should have it in his power to be-
etow the honors and emoluments Of this
nation upon any Congressman who has
obeyed him is a corrupt principle, in
compatible with freedom and representative
government and, we repeat, is On illustration
of Cesarism in its worst form, quite as
dangerous to the true liberty of the country
as would be even the election of His Ex.
cellency to the third term.
Year: 1875

for that polemic and bitter Professionalism
which refuses to treat the members OF
the Catholic Church as fellow Christians
and sows bitterness and strife where there
ought to be mutual respect and growing good
will These polemical partisans are really
forwarding the cause of the Church of Rome.
The Tablet, referring to our new Cardinal,
says: :-"Amercan Catholics accept the COM
pliment to the American Church with grateful
hearts and hail it with satisfaction rs m in
PRODUCTION, SO to say, of their young but
already fourishing Church among the old
nations who have for ages been the bright
gems of the Church. The United States have
now representative in the Sacred College
and voice in the election Of the Sovereign
Poutiff"
Year: 1875

There is nothing that Christianity owes to
Judaism which is Of more value to humanity
than the Sabbath. 1t does not in the least
matter that the day generally observed is the
first and not the seventh of the week, for the
changes of the calendar and the obscurity in
which the custom had its origin forbid us to
believe that the Creator made any special dis
tinction between Saturday and Sunday. No
one believes now that the Mosaic account of
the creation is literal; that the Lord labored
for six of our planetary days and rested from
his weariness on the seventh. The ablest of
tbeoogians admit that the sacred writings of
Moses do not teach scientific facts, but moral
truths, and one of the profoundest thinkers
and sincerest Christians OF modern times,
Thomas De Quincy, has pointed out that
because of this there can be no real
conflict between science and the Bible
A scheme of religion revealed in the
phraseology of modern science, and
based upon the principles that Copper
nicus, Newton and Kepler discovered,
would have been incomprehcnsible to the
Jews. But the primal spiritual truths of
the Scriptures were proclaimed for all time,
and exist eternally for all men, whether phys
ical science vanishes from the earth or ad-
vances to unimagiDable discoveries.


The institution of the day Of rest is, there
fore, not less divine in its origin than any
fundamental doctrine of the Christian reli-
gion The method of its Judaical observance
was undoubtedly opposed and modified by
Christ. His teachings were contrary to those
of the Jewish priesthood; He took more lib
eral view of the duties of the day than they
and illustrated it by His example. To Him the
world owes the declaration that man was not
made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for
man. The value of the seventh day to the
world is, from the true Christian point of view,
Inestimable. 1t is almost equally with sleep
''kind natures sweet restorer.' To o
countries it is the greatest bless
ing that society bestows upon them.
1t suspends labor, confers repose and
descends upon the earth like the
angel of heaven to interpose between the
weary animal, man, and the hard master,
tomb.


The proper use of this period of rest, which
all civilized governments have rightly recog-
nized rs legal, is therefore ofgreat importance
to mankind. No better employment of part
of the day, we think, could be had than in
listening to such pious dlscourses rs we print
to-day. The metropolis is fortunate in having
an intellectual and faithful clergy, and we
commend their sermons to the public.
Year: 1875

IF Mn JOHNSON is to speak on the Louisi-
ana question it will be really more TO the
pablo than TO the Senate, and, therefore, if
the republican majority should choke him
oft by ordering All executive session when he
has the floor, it would be national injustice.
We have no apprehension Of such deliberate
discourtesy to the new Senator from Tenne-
see. II Mr.. johnson wishes to speak no
doubt he will have hearing.
Year: 1875

The controversy nov pending in the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church over the election of DR..
De Koven to the bishopric of Illinois calls out
an elaborate review OF the principles involved
by the Chicago Interior, which, alter showing
historically how the Prayer Book came to
teach both High and Low Church doctrines
and after demonstrating also the illogical
and inconsistent position of High
Churchmen, concludes that the Refor-
nation has not spent its force, and that
there is deep underlying Protestant senti-
ment in the Church which only needs to be
aroused to defeat the Romanizing efforts of
the High Churchmen. The Baptist Weekly
takes a little different view of the controversy
II believes that the doctrines and practices of
High Churchmen cannot be made acceptable
to the general American mind, and are him
drance to the progress of the Episcopal body,
yet they will every year become more domi-
nant in its ministry. Instead Of the action
concerning De Koven and Jaggar being prom
ising to the Professionalism of the Church it is
more likely spasm which prece6es its final
subjugation. One more such victory and the
Low ChuIch party will be ground to powder.
The Evangelist is satisfied from its point of
observation that, should DR.. DE Koven be
confirmed Bishop of Illinois Bishop Cummins
would have a moro efficient coadjutor in
him than in Bishop Cheney; for he would
drive out more than the others could attract
The Church journal controyerts the theory
that diocese should have the bishop it
wants, whether he be High or Low Church,
that it is nobody's business beside, and argues
that, the Church being a unit the man, while
lac may have special care for q particular
diocese, does nevertheless govern, logislate
speak for and represent the whole body. And
hence his character and doctrinal antecedents
become questions of direct and vital inpor-
tance TO the whole Church.
Year: 1875

RAPID TRANSIT IN LoSDos.-The advocates
of rapid transit in New York may profit by
The study of the railway system in London.
which is the subject OF an interesting letter
published IN our columns to-day. Rapid
transit in the English capital is not only q
public convenience, but financial success
Our Albany letter shows the present condi-
ton CT the plans before orr Legislature.
Year: 1875

The MEXICAN GOVERNMENT is said to have
given satisfactory assurances to the United
States in respect to the massacre at Acapulco.
1t condemns the crime and promises to pre-
vent other outbreaks. The Senate might
properly ask the President to furnish it with
the Official correspondence, as the public is
anxious to know what action has been taken
Year: 1875

AURORA, ISp., June CA difficulty
occurred last night between young man
named Frank RossRCld and n saloon
keeper named Ross. They had some
few words when Ross ordered ROssIicld
out Of the saloon, and upon his refusing
to 10 Ross drew q revolver and shot him
above the loft eye, killing him instantly.
Ross gave himself up, and was taken to
inil ni I.nMfcncChnrg.
Year: 1875

EDITOR HERALD: Reading your
paper I noticed that nearly all the
towns in the county have been heard
from, and thought possibly that a
word from our new but growing place
would not be amiss.


Santa Monica has sprung up as if by
enchantment, and every day is adding
to her population and Improvements,
not drawing her people from other por-
tions of the county, but from abroad.
Nearly all are strangers who have
come here with means to establish
themselves and make homes.


Politically, Santa Monica is Demo-
cratic. The Express in its statements
that seven-tenths of the newcomers
to the county are in sympathy with
the Republican Independent move
movement in this county, is far from
the truth, if we may judge by the
political complexion of this place. At
least eignt-tenths of our population
are newcomers, and nearly all are not
only Democrats but true to their po-
litical faith, and on the first day of
September will give Santa Monica a
Democratic baptism. The Express
must not suppose that the majority of
the people who have come here in the
last two years are renegade Democrats
and radical Republicans, but Demo-
Gratis who are as true and devoted to
their principles now as they ever were,
and will teach those old resident Dem
ocrats who have fallen from grace and
been made the tools of their enemies,
that inside their party organization is
the place to correct real or imaginary
wrongs. DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1875

On Sunday Washington Garden was
the great attraction for the pleasure
seeker. Whether it was the charita-
BILE object, the genial weather or the
elegant garden that was the attraction
the crowd was there and the enjoy
ment was general. The street cars and
other vehicles were crowded during
the entire day by a multitude of our
best ladies and gentlemen. Piepen-
berg's band discoursed excellent music
and the dance was continued with un-
tagging zeal until q late hour. We
are pleased to learn that everything
passed off agreeably and the Turn
Verein realized large sum for the
benefit of the hospital fund.
Year: 1875

A telegram from New York says COM
plaint in suit brought in the name C
the people against Peter B. Sweeney, to
recover over seven million dollars, ale
legged to have been iraudulently alb
straeted from the treasury Of the county
of New York, was yesterday filed in the
county clerks office.