smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

We have rule that no anonymous
communication will be printed in the
REGISTER unless the authors name is
conHded to the editor as guarantee Of
good faith but, for once, we shall waive
that rule. We have communication,
presented below, from an unknown cor
respondent, but his "good faith" lin MIR.
FAULKNER, at least, J is so apparent, and
the article is such fine piece Of blogra-
phy, that we insert it-asking no ques
tions. Why the author of piece of
such fine writing should conceal his
name from us we are only left to inter: |: |:


In 1874, the Hon. Chas. j. Faulkner
offered himself to the people of the Sec.
ond district to represent them in Con-
gress. He was at once recognized as the
man needed, and was elected by very
large majority. He bad passed through
a long career of public service as mem
Der oil Congress and ambassador to for
eign courts, and always with honor TO
the republic, and credit and dignity to
himself. 1t would be difficult TO find in
political history q Nan who has exhibited
equal fidelity and ability in the discharge
of his representative and diplomatic
duties. Upon every department OF pub
lie service To which he was called, he
brought TO bear the wonderful resources
of mind naturally comprehensive and
acute, and the most varied and extensive
requirements derived from almost every
department of human knowledge. His
state papers are models Of excellence, and
indicate wide and accurate scqualnt
snce with the intricscies of European di-
plomacy. Moreover, in his whole career
as public servant, "he hath been so
clear" that the tongue of malice has not
been able to fasten even the suspicion Of
corruption upon his name.


Since his election To Congress in 1874
not only his district but the whole state
hss recognized his services, because the
interests OF the whole state have been
guarded by him with jealous care, and
now the people feel that a seat in the
United States Senate Is the hit termins-
of SO long and honored career.


During the present congress he deliv.
cred an address in the House of Rep
resentatives on the Mineral Resources
Of West Virginia" which has esrned for
him the gratitude and admiration Of the
people everywhere, and which will be
of lasting benefit IN calling attention TO
the vast undeveloped resources of the
state. The speech is a storehouse OF In
formation. It is the fruit OF keen obser-
yation, of extensive research, Of wide AID
accurate knowledge, and presents, in
short compass, the wonderful sources oil
material prosperity we possess.


The recognition o' the part OF the peo-
pie, of such great ability, zeal and tdel-
ity by the gift Of some high place bett-
ting his services and years, will not only
be hoaoring Mr.. Faulkner, but them
selves; and Il is widely felt, and the con-
viction is rapidly growing, that his long
public career, marked by such purity OF
character, elevation Of aim and devotion
TO the interests Of the whole people can
only be htly rounded by seat IN The
Senate chamber Of the United States.


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Year: 1876

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preston of trade which began in the fall
of 1873, shows but slight signs of nearing
its end. 1t has been dismal period, as
ten thousand bankrupt business men in
the country can testify, and even those
who have managed to weather it vii! re-
member IT'S severity as long as they live.


When the September collapse of 1873
/ came, Senator THURMAN of Ohio ven-
/ tured the opihion in speech in the Sen
ate that the country would not
/ fully recover IRON its effect in shorter
time than tour years. This WAS thought
to be croaking prediction, but the re-
suit shows that it was not far from
the truth. Hard as the times have been,
particularly to the large debtor class in
the country, they would have been harder
still, and attended by q vast amount OF
Individual suffering, if there had been
partial failure of The crops in the West


1t is the good crops OF 1878 and 1874, and
the still more bountiful crops of 1875,
that saved the country and made it posi-
bic for hundreds of thousands Of families
to live on their greatly reduced means.
The crop of the present year is equally
rs good as that of last year was; corn is
being bought in Missouri, Illinois and
Iowa, at Is and 20 cents bushel


and other kinds of grain at
proportionsts rates. These are low
prices and indicate plenty in the West.
Farmers certainly cannot make money
by raising grain at such figures; but it
must be remembered that il grain is
cheap manufactures are cheap, too; what
the farmer has to buy is reduced in price
as we'll as what he has TO sell; there is
general cbeapening all round, and far
mers get their share of the benefit There
is large cotton crop in the
South as we'll as large grain crop
in the West, and the movement
of these to market must bring more
cheerful state of things. The move
ment may be sullen and sluggish, for
those farmers who have the good fortune
to be out of debt will wait as long as they
can before selling their produce. But
what does not 90 to market this tsll will
have to go in the spring-and then we
NAV look for an established revival.
There will be material Improvement in
trade this fall, particularly after the Pre-
sidential election, for the country is not
only nearly bare of comforts, but possess
ed of the means of buying them. A great
deal has been done in the last three years
in the way of paying of individual in
debtedness; and what the industrious
farmer is making now is his own, and
not his creditors. Every debtor in the
land has been stinting himself and his
family for three years TO gather the
means of paying off some pressing debt
contracted in what appeared to be more
prosperous times, and it Is this al most
universal stlnting that accounts for the
depression of trade, and the steady pre-
cIpitstion of prices. The process has
gone. we have reason to believe, to its
limit; prices are lower than they were
before the war, and the already percepti-
BILE indications of a rise are the prelude
to a substantial revival of trade which,
we may hope, will commence this fall
and become fairly Established next spring.
Year: 1876

PHILADELPHIA, August 2S.-A smash
up occurred early this morning at the
junction of the Germantown and con-
Meeting railroad, at half past twelve.
The eastern bound freight train from
New York just as it reached the junction,
jumped the track over which it was
running and twelve cars were thrown
into the cut through which the German
town road passes. The wreck of these
cars was complete. Some four or five
hours was occupied in clearing the
Germantown road and in getting the
connecting road in order for the passage
of trans TO and from New York. No
one was injured.
Year: 1876

Western republican organ recounts the
number of members of the present House
of Representatives who served in the rebel
army, and complains that SO many of them
should now be sent to Congress and that a
number of them we're made chairmen OF
committees. 1t speaks of Confederate
supremacy" and tries to alarm its readers
and to excite their hostility to Southern men,
not on the ground that these have miscon-
Quoted themselves in Congress. but on the
score that in the late war they served in the
rebel army.


This is n very unworthy plea, and is, be.
sides, more calculated to offend decent and
thoughtful republicans than to win votes.
The war is over. What the best interests
of the country demand is that all parts
shall send their ablest men to Congress.
In the Southern States, as everybody knows,
and as General Sherman and other Union
officers long ago recognized, the brains and
ability did go into the rebel army. It ia
very natural therefore, that men who served
in that army should now be chosen to 60 to
Congress. 1t is not only natural but right.
Brains, ability, influence, character. must
tell in every community. and ought to- II
is the fault of the republicans themselves
that the brains Of the Southern States are
now SO generally ranged on the democratic
side. With only fairly good management q
large part of the most influential Southern pol.
iticians and statesmen would to-day be firm
republicans. But they have been rejected by
the republican leaders, and this is one oi
the blunders which the wiser republicans,
openly recognize. To cast suspicion upog
such men is not good policy.
Year: 1876

This eminent naturalist, whose visit to
this country, like that of Professor Tyndall
three or four years back, is regarded as an
event by lovers of science will deliver
course (if three can properly be called q
course) of lectures this week at Chickering
Hall, beginning this evening. When Pro-
fessor Tyndall was here the immense hall of
the Cooper Institute was engaged for his
lectures and was filled to it's utmost
capacity. Professor Huxley is reputed to be
even more eloquent and attractive, and if
his spoken style be at all equal to his writ
ten style he ought to be the most
taking speaker on scientific SUBJ
jects among living men. There are
few English writers in any de-
partment of letters who possess such rich
gifts of expression, and we might wonder,
as Lord Jeffrey did respecting Macaulay,
''where he picked up such a style"
Professor Huxley is master of one of the
most perspicuous, vigorous, apt, various and
luminous styles ever written-not a style
which toys with language to show its PAGES,
but one which moves straight on to deliver
its meaning with vivid clearness.


His three lectures at Chickering Hall, on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings,
will be devoted to the new scientific doc
trine of developments doctrine which is
supposed to be in conflict with theological be-
liefs, and arouses great deal of religious op-
position. We presume few Catholics will care
to attend them not that Professor Huxley's
views are more hostile to Catholicism than
to other forms of Christianity, but because
he has seen fit in his own country to make
Catholic faith. He may refrain from such
impetuous attacks in his lectures here, but
as nobody can foresee whether he will or
not people who do not wish to hear their
faith insulted will naturally stay away.
Professor Tyndall kept clear of such faults
of taste, and that is perhaps the reason why
he commanded so much larger audiences
than are expected for Professor Huxley. 1t
is not merely bad taste, but departure
from the methods of science for a naturalist
TO assail theological opinions Scientific
truth must rest solely on scientific evidence


and science ought, in its own interest


to ignore everything outside of its own do
main. If it can establish its doctrines by
irrefragable proofs the world will accept
them, and men In other departments of
thought will sooner or later modify their
views in conformity herewith, as has been
done on those points in which astronomy
and geology were at first thought to be at
variance with revelation. The new doctrine
OF development must be received or rejected
on its own proper evidence, and its advo-
Gates make mistake when they go out of
their path to picka quarrel with theologlans.
People who are wiling to learn what the
new scientific tenet of devalopment really is.
Year: 1876

The indignity offered to the navy in the
order of Secretary Robeson furloughing three
or four hundred officers is not diminished by
the fact that it prohibits any officer from
wearing his uniform while on furlough.
Placing man on furlough in the navy has
always been a punishment inflicted on
worthless officers or those whom n court
martial could not reach. Perhaps there is
no country on the face of the earth where
such an indignity could be offered to set
of men who served their country so we'll in
its hour of peril. 1t is well for Farragut and
Dupont, Foot and Dahlgren that they died
before this humiliation was imposed on
them. Porter, Rowan, Levy, Almy, Preble,
Nichols, Guest, Bryson and Fairfax are
all men who perilled their lives more than
once and whose names are regarded with
affection by the people. These officers
and many others of less note, have fallen
under the ban of Robeson's displeasure, for
Notwithstanding his ingenious order, in
which he speaks of 'the disagreeabe duty
imposed upon him by the action Of Con-
gress," no one will believe that this act was
not inspired by malice and revenge. There
was no necessity for it. The amount ap-
propriated by Congress was ample to pay
all the officers of the navy full pay for nine
months and half And it is only three
months before Congress could meet to
remedy the deficiency Without doubt
there will be q searching Investigation into
this matter when Congress does meet There
is general impression among members in
reference to the order of Mr.. Robson and
a suspicion that it was issued really to Sc
cure payment for a number of contractors
who might prove troublesome witnesses in
case Of non-payment. In the meantime the
gallant officers Of the navy remain hu-
inflated degraded from their ranks, and
will scarcely feel it an honor to wear again
the uniform which Robson has attempted
to soil.
Year: 1876

HAILErr's PoINr REEF-HELL GATE
The absorbing interest that now attaches
to the magnificent feat Of engineering which
is to be accomplished in few days by the
destruction of Halletts Point Reef demands
Mt our hands the fullest explanation of the
details of this wonderful work We there
fore present to the readers of the HERALD
to-day a full description, illustrated by
carefully prepared plans and sketches, the
character Of the reef and its influence on the
He'll Gate currents, tho progress of the excn-
vation and the nature and objects of the
exploding apparatus by which it is intended
to complete the demolition Of one of the
chief distractions in the He'll Gate channel.
Considering the magnitude and difficulty of
the work itself and the success which has
attended every stage of its progress
we are encouraged to look forward to
the near future for complete clear
ance Of our channels and harbors
Of sunken rocks and reefs, and even Of ex-
tensive mud banks, that now render naviga-
ticn so dangerous. Year by year We are adj
vancing toward the accomplishment for New
York Of her glorious destiny
Year: 1876

the power of suspension equivalent to that
of removal But republican Senate would
not be 70 complaisant to democratic Presi-
dent 1t would not permit officers to be
turned ont except for substantial reasons.
The republican Senators would not be able
to get their own friends appointed by demo-
cratic President, and would have no motive
to treat his nominees with tenderness. There
would be no place either for party favor
itism or personal favoritism in appoint
ments requiring the concurrence of demo-
cratic President and republican Senate,
and this mutual check would be n pretty
good security against bad appointments and
against removals for reasons merely polit-
ical. Mr.. Tilden's election would therefore
irrespective of the sincerity of his pro-
fessions on this subject:


On tho third great question, that of the
currency, the harnessing of parts of the
team to different ends of the wagon, to null
lify each others strength by pulling in con-
trary directions, would obstruct the return
to specie payments. If the Democratic Ma
tional Convention had net perpetrated the
folly Of demanding repeal Of the Resump-
ton act, and Mr.. Tilden had not in
dorsed that stupendous folly in his let
ter of acceptance, the difference OF
political complexion between the two
branches of Congress would have been
no hindrance to sound legislation. If
the infat,onists had not succeeded in put
ting their manacles on the democratic party
and its candidate, there would have been no
difficulty in passing wise law for resump-
ton Of specie payments. The currency
would have ceased to be party question.
The hard money democrats and hard money
republicans could have acted in concert.
But this is made impossible by the inde-
scribable faulty of Mr.. Tilden in indorsing
that part Of the ST. Louis platform. If Mr.
Tilden is elected there will be deadlock
between the Senate and House, and nothing
will be done; but if Mr.. Hayes and
n republican House are elected there
will be a reasonable prospect of efficient
legislation for fulfilling the promise
of resumption in 1879. The republi-
can party is committed to resumption at that
date, and if it should have undivided con-
troll of the next Congress it can easily make
the pledge good if it chooses 1t will have
every motive to do this if it should possess
the power. There can be no great difficulty
in devising methods and means, for prices
are already down to the specie level, and the
simple funding of greenbacks at the rate of
four millions month would bring them to
par with gold long before January, 1879.
But the democratic party, by rejecting that
date and insisting on its repeal, has pre-
cluded itself from supporting measures for
fulfilling the pledge which it repudiates.
That act of repudiation is the capital
blunder of the democratic canvass and will
do more than all other causes together to
prevent the election of its candidates.
Year: 1876

1t is not long since as people we were at
skies and sevens, to use o homely phrase.
We may now find a satisfaction in the fact
that we are coming down to threes and fours.
A few days ago we were informed by tele-
gram that our British friends were selling
their three per cents and consols and invest
ing in our new four and half per cents.
They are at last willing to trust American
credit to give them fifty per cent increase
of income. London banks nre selling con-
soils for the purpose of investing in our new
loan. The comfort in this fact is that the
world is beginning to see MS as we are
and to accept our credit at its real value
This is especially seen in a brief extract from
the London Tines which prints in recent
number an article worthy of republication in
America. Everything at present" says the
Times, 'favors the issue of the loan. Money
is superabundant, investments yielding
steady four per cent nre scarce and the credit
of the United States never stood higher.
Add to this the fact that rs against the five
per cent funded loan the new four nnd.a half
per cents will have IN advantage in the date
of their redemption, and there seems no
reason to doubt that the latter will be rend-
lily placed at good price. The funded Ave
per cents are redeemable at the option of the
government after 1881, and are therefore SUBJ
iect to be sooner or later after that date
transformed into four per cent stock,
which is the only other denomination that
the United States government is at present
authorized to issue. The four and half per
cents now to be issued, on the other hand,
mature absolutely in fifteen years from Sep
tember of the present year. There is thus
n certainty of fifteen years in the one case
and of only five in the other; for, although
the six per cents Of 1887 fall next to be re-
deemed, it is not improbable that by 1881
that redemption may be accomplished and
the way prepared for an operation with the
five per cent funded loan. Many people
may therefore be tempted to exchange their
five per cents for four and half per cents
fo- the sake of the longer immunity from
change, should the price be sufficiently
tempting"


We congratulate our people on the steady
advance of our credit in the money markets
of the world. 1t shows that in spite Of the
wrangles and dissensions in our politics
we are marching steadily ahead, and al
though one great party talks about reform"
and corruption and would change every de-
partment of the government in the interest
Of purity" we are enabled to redeem bonds
which bear six per cent interest and find
abundant purchasers for new ones at four
and a half. This reduction of the interest
on our debt from six per cent to four and
half is one of the triumphs of Grants ad-
ministration and will be remembered to the
Presidents credit long after the detractions
of the hour are forgotten.
Year: 1876

How THE Coop News Was CARRIED. The
public will read with amusement and admi-
ration the story of how Captain Jack, n
special courier of the HERALD, beat the gov
ernment in bearing the news of General
Crooks Indian victory. 1t was race which
he won, not only by his endurance and
pluck in riding three hundred and twenty
five miles in six days, but by strategy and
skill. The account of the fight, which we
published yesterday, was on the wires before
the government reports; but we do not think
that nybody will complain because Captain
Jack beat the United States.
Year: 1876

The Dubuque Nowa) Times prints q
letter from q citizen Of that town, at
Niagara Falls, In which the writer 6 ives
this bit of graphic description The
falls look to me like a river standing on
end and trying to walk off on stills.
The only thing I can compare. Niagara to
is Julian avenue, and that covered with
sleet and ice, and about thirty boys and
girls riding down on handsleds OF 8
moonlight night at lightning gait, and
fetching up at the Lorimier House all
pellmel, with a few legs and: arms
broken after running over three or four
horses and carriages. Our Dubuque
water works don't begin to compare
with Niagara asto quality and noise, but
the water is better for drinking purposes,
and comes out OF great deal longer
hole. "A person viewing the falls has q
sort of nervous feeling-almost afraid
the water will run over before one can
have q fair look at it.. The water after
it passes through the fallsand rests from
its labors in the abyss below, collects
itself together and forms itself into q
river again, and passes down the deep
gorge at rapid gait, .whirling, leaping,
and foaming like thousand whales
when it reaches the great whirlpool ;
there it performs duck waltz, and after
sashaing up the iver short distance it
finds q narrow opening and passes
on to mingle with the briny deep, never
to return until taken up by evaporation
to the clouds and brought back by the
winds of heaven to take the same fearful


cap again.
Year: 1876

Some years ago a benevolent lady
took little girl into her family,
intending to give her a very thorough
moral and religious training. Unfor-
tunately the child was much given to
lying, and though the mistress strove
necessarily by precept and example to
eradicate this vice, her efforts were far
from successful. One LAY, returning
home after some hours absence, the
lady was met at the door by her hand
maid, who with many tears informed her
that she had broken a very valuable
china pitcher, an heirloom in the family.


Here was light in the darkness at last,
strict truthfulness in the face of reprl-
mand or punishment, and the good
mistress was delighted. Such an oppor-
tunity to reward and strengthen virtue
must not be lost; so the lady magnani-
mously forgot her annoyance at the loss
of her cherished pitcher Zone of pair,
and taking out penny, said, kindly
"Well, Jenny, since you have been
such good girl, and told the truth 80
quickly, I shall not even scold you.
Here's penny for you"


Alas the next morning the lady, on
returning home from market, was met
at the door by her promising pupil, who
dCightedly exclaimed: "Oh missus! 1
have broken the other pitcher. Won't
you give me another pennyl"


Further description of that good
woman's state of mind would be super
fiuous,
Year: 1876

gN : g : ~
: Long ago frontier scout named Hank
Clifford, who had taken squaw' from
the Sioux nation, said that he had often
heard them declare that if ever the an
tagonism between them and the whites
grew to final struggle there was coan-
try in the north where they could take
refuge,s and could never be conquered or
dislodged-. They would wait there to
receive the force sent against them, and
could hope to destroy it before it could
escape. This region they described as
extremely rough, where steep ridges,
precipices and deep canyons formed a
chaotic surface upon which the force
first in possession could fight success.
fully three times; their own number.
Clifford believed it was the Rosebud
mountains, where the terrible fight with
Custer and Reno took place, to which
they referred, as they are nearly impreg-
nable to an invader. r. e .