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Year: 1876

The free and communicative spirit which
President Grant is beginning to indulge be-
tokens not merely high health and good
spirits in his holiday at the seaside, but
sense of relief at the prospect of putting off
the burden of public cares. He is likely to
prove the most entertaining and delightful OF
ex-Presidents. Since he rose into general
officer and but little of the man but
when the heavy weight Of responsibility is
lifted from his mind we shall come to know
him better as an open-hearted citizen and
genial gentleman. He will retire from his
long public career q comparatively young
man, with his faculties in full vigor, and no
other outlet for the energies of o strong
nature than pleasant social intercourse.
If he had taste for literature that might
be resource for beguiling his leisure,
and he might occupy himself in
writing memoirs of his remarkable
life and the great transactions in which he
has borne so conspicuous and controlling
part. But as books do not attract him and
his pen will be idle his chief resource in
retirement will be liberal intercourse with
his fellow citizens, to whom he will have so
much to impart from the stores of his rich
and varied experience He will spend q
year or two in foreign travel. and then make
opportunities for all the social intercourse
he desires with the most distinguished
people Of the country. After so early re-
tirement from life full ofactivity and vicis-
STUDIES President Grant could not be con-
tent in small town, as he has never culti-
waited the pursuits which furnish pleasant
occupation in seclusion. He prefers Wash
ington to New York, both for economy and
because he has lived long enough in
Warrington to acquire o fixed local
attachment. Considering how dependent
he will be on social life he has
made wise choice, and he is likely
to be more sought and visited than any ex-
President has been before him. The whole
country will be glad to note the lightness of
spirits which he seems to feel at the pros
pect of putting off the harness he has SO long
worn. His pleasant domestic ties and the
freedom of wide social intercourse will
probably make his years of retirement the
happiest of his life, crowned, as they will be,
with fulness of public honors and con-
sciousness of great services.


In this new interview the President ex-
presses himself with perfect frankness on
several topics of current interest, such as
the prospects of political parties, the Indian
wnr his reasons for removing Mr. Jewell. IN
all of which he is as naiue and artless as if he
had no thought which he could wish to con-
ceal. We need not summarize this attrac-
tive interview, since nobody will pass it
unread
Year: 1876

Allen, the keeper of the place in Bleecker
stree which was forcibly entered by the
police few nights since, is a philosopher
too, it seems-somewhat in the style of the
famous Jack Reynolds, of murderous men,
ory. Reynolds laid down an axiom in regard
to the administration of justice in this city
to the effect that Hanging was played out"
He was hanged in consequence. Like many
another philosopher, he perished for the
truth, for his statement was accurate but
its cool recognition Of the condition of
justice in the city stimulated the author
tiles for that occasion, and he was
made an exception to his own
rule. Allen, the gambler, has de-
clared, as it is testified in Court,
that the attempt of the police to stop his
game ''had assumed the form of an issue,
and that the house should not be closed"
1t is further reported that he will pursue the
police authorities ''on o charge of burglary"
In these declarations we get measure of
law and justice in the metropolis from the
gamblers standpoint Plain people sup
pose that gamblers are furtive fellows who
live in trepidation lest the attention of the
police should be called to them, and that
when the police do come around with all the
majesty and authority of the law they, the
said gamblers, are desirous that the earth
should hide them. Such conception
is in the natural order Of ideas, but
how far it is from the truth is seen in the
attitude of Allen. He is not q trembling
fugitive. He merely has ''an issue" with
the police-an issue, moreover, on which
he means to fight them-to resist by all the
devices of the law and the lawyers, as we'll
as through oil the relations of political ter
rorism with an elective judiciary. Perjury
is cheap, and he can prove what he will if he
comes to court; but the impunity enjoyed
by men of his class throughout the city
may safely indicate that he will smooth the
ruffied vanity of the police and never come
into court. Allen is no doubt right. His
house will, if ''closed" temporarily. be open
again in o few week, and flourish as hitherto,
let the law be what it may.
Year: 1876

In the special dispatches to the HzRALD
from our correspondent at the camp OF Gen-
eral Terry on the north bank of the Yellow
stone River we are given history of the
struggling and almost objectless movements
of the troops since the date of the previous
information from the field. To say that this
is in any way more reassuring than the
news recently received from the Indian
country would simply mean that we have
suffered no further losses from the
attacks of the Sioux, and that although
our men are enduring severe privations in
an inhospitable region there is prob
ability that they will escape from the
labyrinth of the "Bad Lands" before winter
sets in. The operations which were COM
menced about three weeks ago by the
northward march of the combined col
umns from the Rosebud River, and which
clusion of the campaign, have resulted in
nothing but hunger and misery for those
engaged. No Indians were found, al
though wide ranges of country both
northward and southwark of the yell
lowstone were carefully secuted by the
friendly Indians and the cavalry The
magnificent combinations by which the
Crook and Terry columns were to entrap the
Sioux between the Yellowstone and the Mis-
souri, have resulted in what fishermen call
"water haul" when they draw their empty
nets on the beach. Terry, disgusted with
the issue of the campaign and disappointed
on every side by the erratic operations of
Crook, who seems to have been unwilling
from the start to cooperate with his su-
perior in command. has dissolved his
column and sent Gibbon back with
his contingent to Fort Ellis in Montana.
The banks of the Yellowstone are being
patrolled by small detachments of troops
that are liable ut any moment to be over
powered in detail by even struggling
bands of Sioux. The absence of any news
from Crook ut Terry's camp is easily ac-
counted for A recent despatch shows that
the former has abandoned the field on his
own responsibility and ''struck" to the
southwark toward the Black Hills, with a
large number of sick in his column. One
of the mysteries that will need unveiling in
connection with this the most disastrous
Indian campaign that the United States has
ever undertaken, is the utter absence of CO.
operation between the commanders. The
general plan of operations we have hereto
fore condemned unqualifedly because of
its intrinsic absurdity, but even that was
based upon the supposition that no officer
in the field would sacrifice his duty to his
professional vanity. The cruel Indian war
is over and Sitting Bull has triumphed.
The bones of our slaughtered soldiers lie in
the bloodstained ravine of the Little Big
Horn. A few troops will spend a miserable
winter amid the SHOWS of Montana Watching
the frozen Yellowstone, but the floods that
will pour through its rocky canyons when
spring returns cannot wash the stain of de-
feat from our arms.
Year: 1876

A series of rifle matches will commence
to-day at Creedmoor which eclipse in
interest any contest of their kind that has
ever been waged between the marksmen Of
any country or countries Although we are
regarded in Europe as a people pre-emi-
nently skilful in the use of the rife, and
in short range shooting we do excel, it is a
fact that until the establishment of the
Creedmoor range we possessed very few
rifemen capable of making bull's-eye at one
thousand yards, or even at o much shorter
distance. Certainly, we could not readily
muster a reliable team of eight to compete
with European rifemen for the champions
ship of the world. However, by constant
practice in fair and foul weather and being
filled with an enthusiastic love of the sport,
which made up for many disadvantages,
our men have 80 far improved as to be in q
position to issue a challenge which has been
eagerly responded to by men Of the highest
skill and long experience as rifemen from
four different nations. This, with our victories
of 1874 and 1875, attests the legitimacy Of
our claim to fill the position of challengers.





laurels in contests which have attracted to
the field the most accomplished rifemen Of
the Old World. The courage of our repre-
sentative marksmen is therefore worthy Of
the highest admiration, for they meet before
the butts antagonists worthy of their great
est skill.


The rifle tournament commencing to-day
is SO admirably arranged by the managers
that there is scarcely any possibility Of a
hitch. With such highly disciplined teams
we look forward confidently to a splendid
struggle for victory-one of those contests
in which tho defeated can and will cover
themselves with glory, and in which, by
reason of the harmony existing between tho
competitors, as was said by celebrated
English statesman devoted to play, "the
greatest pleasure next to that Of winning ID
that of losing" So speed you to the lists,
gentlemen, and do your deuoirs. May VIC
tory hover in doubt above your heads until
the last shot is fired and then crown the
winners with the glory their deeds deserved
Year: 1876

THE CLUB AeAIN.-Policemen use their
clubs too freely, and some of them deserve
to be made examples of. If the facts be true
which are presented in another column in
respect to the clubbing of Mr.. Kochler, an
aged German, the officer is unfit to be on the
force and deserves moro severe punish
ment than mere dismissal The people
want men, not brutes, to be in charge of
their lives and property.
Year: 1876

1T Is ANTICIPATED that the condition Of
the poor next winter will be deplorable, and
the thoughts of tho charitable are already
turning toward means of relief. Where en-
ployment can be afforded it will be a nobler
Gift than charity
Year: 1876

CoLoMBIAs REVOLUTION promises to be
one of those chronic affairs which form the
principal amusement in the Spanish Ameri-
can republics. More labor and less fighting
or more fighting and less talk would be q
good rule for these pugnacious republicans.
Year: 1876

THE Work OF CHANGING the galleries at
He'll Gate was begun yesterday, and will be
finished in about fortnight. We can only
trust that this dangerous work will be COM
pleted without disaster.
Year: 1876

.BrrrEns. of sardonic humor have
ntimated from time to time that the famil-
lar inquiry, "What will you take to drink ?"
should be, for perfect accuracy, I'm what
form will you have your poison?' But the
truth of this jest has never been shown with
such brutal nakedness rs in the current
chronicle of the barkeeper who, mistrusting
the fatality of his brandy, keeps solution
Of prussic acid on the bar for tho concoction
of more effective beverages. 1t is truth
which needs to be brought to public notice
occasionally by cases like the one to which
we refer that the brilliant colored fluids
which decorate the average bar derive the
least of their flavor from either grape or
grain, but are the fabrication of so-called
'liquor compounders," and are in reality
mixtures compared with which the shell
broth" of Macbeth's witches might be called
an innocent and nutritious soup.
Year: 1876

tram pling it in the dust and the party
If the democracy Of New York treat Mr.. Til
den's vaunted reforms with contempt or seem
to slight and undervalue them the campaign
is lost. The party has nothing else to stand
upon On the currency question it is like
the image, mingled clay and iron, described
in the sacred volume, which was easily shat
tered into fragments because the materials
were so incongruous. On the Southern
question the drift of public sentiment is
against the democratic party. The reform
issue, as represented by Governor Til
den, is the only one on which tho
party has the slightest chance of
carrying the Presidential election, and
this chance would be utterly flung away
by the nomination of candidate who has
not supported his administration. This is
Governor Tilden's view, and it is likely to
be the view of all impartial judges. To fou.
and contemn his pretensions as reformer
by presenting n candidate who has not sup
ported his measures would be an act of po-
litical sucide. Most assuredly he will not
permit this if he can help it; he would
sooner see the Convention break up in n
row.


The only safe thing for the Saratoga Con-
yention to do when it reassembles tomorrow
is to nominate some unequivocal supporter
of Governor Tilden's reform measures.
Year: 1876




Senator Bayard was recently visited by a
reporter, who, having found him playing
with nine of his own children, suggested
that such family added to his fitness for
the Presidency.


"No,' said he; 4 often think that pub
lie man should have no children at all to be
able to devote himself wholly to the good OF
his country. And he added, with much
feeling, 1T was beautifully said of Washing
ton, you know, that he had no children, SO
that the whole country might be his child
public man should not have all the do
nestle cares incident to a large family to
divert his attention from the welfare of his
fellow men,"


Our view of this matter differs from that
taken by the distinguished Delaware Sena-
tor. We think that public man is all the
better for being man of family. We know
that his family, instead of interfering with
the proper performance of his duties, lis more
likely to be a help and an encouragement
to him. Most of the great men of action
and affairs have been men Of families. We
feel grieved that our Uncle Samuel Tilden
does not possess family household. We
object to his continuing to feed on the dry
husks of bachelordom. But perhaps he in
tends to enter upon the holy and blessed
estate Of matrfmony before he assumes the
severe duties ofthe Presidency.
Year: 1876

Louis j. Jennings, in his London letter to
the New York World, gives us the follow
ing of the great Premier, Disraeli:


To look at him one would suppose that
he could not last twenty -four hours. had
not seen him for seven years till the other
evening, and he seemed to have grown
twenty years older in the interval. He
never was of very ruddy complexion, but
his face now is of an ashy hue, and time
and care have written their marks upon it
with something more than their usual
force. But, whenever an emergency arises,
he still goes into the fight with resolu-
tion and energy which neither infirmities
nor sickness have the power to subdue, and
he astonishes his friends and foes alike by
the power and vigor he displays at unex-
pected moments. He can still wind up a
debate at two in the morning with as much
freshness ana ability as he displayed a
score of years or more ago.
Year: 1876

We hear from all quarters of the
Nation the appeal of the Democratic
orator for the young men to join the
Democratic party.


Young man, pause and reflect for
a moment. Our nation has lived
one hundred gears. Do you want it
to live hundred more?


Examine the principles of the two
parties carefully, then join that par
ty whose record is the purest, and
the one which will give you the long
est national existence.


Does the Democratic orator give
you any rational reason for asking
you to support his party? No. He
merely wants your assistance to put
him into power-the power which
the party demands and will use so
injuriously. Young gentlemen, this
is one of the most glorious nations
upon the face of the earth. The sons
Of Freedom can enjoy their rights
any where in our wide domain unmo-
Tested, This land of ours, that ex-
Year: 1876

tE Nine. Suzanna LAGER, q good
actress, bot extremely stout, was one
night euacting part of q melodrama
with Taillade, the original Fierre" OF
the 1ieo Orphans, who had. at one mo-
ment. to carry her fainting off the
stage. lie tried with all bis might to
lift the fair heroine. but although she
helped her little comrade by standing
on tiptoe III the usual manner. he was
unable to move an inch At this junct-
ure a boy in the gallery cried out.
Take what you can, and come back
fqr the rest"
Year: 1876

Tho schooner J. W. Scott, Captain Daily, from New
York Tor ST. Johns. with load Of -four aud meal,
run into one night last week, on Long Island
Sound, by an unknown propeller, supposed to be the
Electra, OF the Providence line. She split open
forward and hed in i've minutes. The crew took to
tho longboat and pulled tor the Long Island shore,
landing at Worthwhile in the morning. The schooner
driited the bar about hall mile east
OF Luce's Landing, ana some OF the cargo
drifted ashore Some OF tho residents OF Worthwhile
rolled out about $50 barrels OF flour and meal before
tho return Of tho crew, who had gone to the village.
Wreckcfs from New York engaged In the at
tempt 10 get the vessel or Meantime the residents
claim salvage for the portion OF the cargo saved which
the captain and undcrxrers' agent refuse 10 allow.
and Is probable that there will be litigation the
ham counsel The Captain says that the propeller,
after the collision proceeded her course without
schooner.
Year: 1876

The Bulletin this evening says. editori.
ally: The grand jury is sort of mirror
in which the board OF Supervisors is re-
hected with sharpness Of character
somewhat startling. 1t is a suspected
body, and every vote and every proceed
ing will now be watched with the great
est interest. Federal officers have been
sent to the peRitentiary for administering
public affairs corruptly. How many of
the present board Of Supervisors, in the
light of the grand jury report are candi-
dates for the same institution.
Year: 1876

Agrecaby to tho proGnostcations Of the Weather
Signal Bureau tho thermometer fell few degrees yes
terday afternoon and vigorous storm began
The flakes fell and furious and the wind increased
rapidly, so that the movements Of pedestrians
much impcded and wayfarers made uncomforta-
bic The atmosphere filled with the cecY particles
and the pavemcnts white and wntry looking.
Everybody seemed to consider the storm moro in
the light OF good joke the part OF Old Father Win
tor than serious demonstration OF the rigors
Of the People laughd at each others
whitened coats, and tho travellers on the
joked with the conductors about the danger OF
blockade II being, however, the end OF March
fears entertained that we're at last
20 have real old fashioned snow storm AZ ten O'Clock
the storm turned to rain, which continued 20 fall
heavily TIL late hour. with prospect OF present
abatement Now that the sun Is gaining strength as
the season advances shall not probably have any
Then hurrah for spring
Year: 1876

GREEN RIVER, March 20, 1876
The Union Pacific Railroad is blocked with snow
between Rawins and Bitter Crock. The passenger
train bound west due here at A. NJ to-day is lying
Separation. The passenger train bound east which
passed here last night is now lying at Washakie.
Year: 1876

A word may be appropriately said in common
dation of the character Of the Meonian series OF
social dances. Unlike most gatherings of this
kind, they are made up of such material and are
conducted in such a manner as to insure high en-
joyment, and at the same time exclude all that
tends to make dances obnoxious. The managers
and all who have attended this series can but feel
highly eraifed at the success they have alta ned.
Year: 1876

The great temperance drama of "Ten Nights in
Bar Room, or the Fatal Glass is to be brought
out at Granite Hall on Friday and Saturday even
ings of this week, by the Boston Dramatic Com
pany, of which Mr.. II. Price Webber is manager
This troupe has received first class notices from
the press in the localities where it has appeared,
and we are assured by Mr.. Webber that the great
drama will be presented here in manner BETTING
its life like picture.
Year: 1876

Are the democrats in this town so totally deprav-
ed and ignorant that they have an idea that they
can, with impunity, pull down the voting lists ?
They have several lawyers among their number,
and from these they ought to seek little legal ad
vice.
Year: 1876

The Royal Arch Masons have an interesting
meeting at Hallowell this evening. Those who
desire to 90 from this city, should leave their Or
ders with Frank Farrar at the Cony House stable.
Year: 1876

A glorious revival is in progress in Waterville.
AT meeting last Sunday evening one hundred
and thirty six persons took part. Some eight or
ten students at the University have recently been
Year: 1876

SA devoted father entered q sa-
loon with a ho,se-whiP one night last
week. and found his son playing euchre.
He tanned the Young mans jacket and
sent him home, and then set down and
finished the game himself.
Year: 1876

Macarthur, Smith &c Co. lost one OF
their best horses last Monday in rather
singular manner. AS is we'll known
they have horse and man at work on
their burning saw dust pile scraping back
and putting in place the saw dust as it
comes from the mill. The fire has un-
dermined the pile in many places, and
great care had to be exercised to keep
both horse and man from danger. On
Monday, however, by some means the
horse fell into one of these pits and was
burned to death. Il was very
fortunate that the man did not get
in also.
Year: 1876

GAS HOUSE BLOWN UP AND TWO MEN


INJURED.


Shortly after eleven O'Clock on Sunday night por-
ton Of the Tarrytown and IrviDgton Gas Light Com
panys Works at the former place exploded with a
loud report causing good deal Of commotion among
the inhabitants OF that village, many OF whom had
already retired to rest. number Of citizens
hastened the scene Of tho accident. not know
ing what the results Of tho disaster might have
been In loss of life and property. 1t appeared
that q brick structure, detached from the main
works, and containing receptacle by which
the local supply oil gas regulated was almost COM
pletcy demolished, and that two night workmen-
Patrick Haekott and his son-were seriously injured.
The explosion caused by the giving way Of chain
sustaining immense weight, which acted as gauge
for the gas admitted from the retors to the tank
IN the building indicated above. This produced
sudden rush OF the gas which nlcd tho place. and
with jet Of lighted gas, produced
the explosion. Before II occurred. however, Hackctt
and his son hastily entered building the hope OF
preventing the accident but peresiving at once tho
situation jumped through window to save their
lives. The elder Hackett was shockingy burned In the
face and hands, while the doctor attendance him
yesterday expressed his tears that the had also
been injured internally. He Is still in prccarious
condition His was badly burned about the face,
and in addition sustained severe bruises while
getting out OF tho burning building Tho loss she
company is estimated at about 00o
Year: 1876

When told that she evinced per-
feet self.poSscssion when she made
her first appearance on the stage in
Boston IS IN actress, Anna Dickin-
replied;


"oh, yes, but did not feel it. l
had nothing like stage fright, and
my audience did not trouble me. ]
am too well used to them. But my
surroundings were so strange, my
clothes were so new, and l had such
u sense of them; then when l lecture
| have everything my own way, the
platform is clear, AID go where !
will. But here it is different. ]
would start on some quick impulse
and suddenly find u human opposing
my way, or would become painful
ly aware Of a chair or table, and it
was such a shock to my enthusiasm,
like a cold water plunge. When /
get accustomed to Others presence and
to the stage accessories l shall be
much more free in action.