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Year: 1876

When the people of Brooklyn voted against
the "one man power" in politics last year
"boss" Mclaughlin took the hint, bowed to
the popular verdict and resigned his leader
ship in the Democratic General Committee.
The committee was reconstructed and the re-
form element was introduced into the organi-
zation Now that the time for selecting can
didates for city Offices has come round again
the democracy, believing that there was
some intention on the part of the retired
''boss" to again attempt to control and die
tate the nominations, has protested against
his interference and demanded such ticket
as the people want. The ''boss"' gracefully
retires and comedies the right of the party
to take charge OF its own business. He does
not insist upon still naming his own men and
giving q bone here and there to the opposition
leaders in order to quiet matters but is will
ing to keep his hands off entirely. Should
he honestly carry out this policy the result
will be united democratic party, good local
nominations and large democratic major
ity in Brooklyn in November. 1t would be
well for the New York ''boss" to follow the
example set by his Brooklyn copatriot.
Year: 1876

The report Of the receiver of the Mechanics
the criminal neglect of the Bank Superin-
tendent in the discharge of his official duties
or Of his completely with tho rascals who
have been so cruelty robbing the industrious
poor A dishonest paying teller had been
misappropristing the depositors' money
without being called to account by the bank
authorities; the president had been making
illegal loans and investments large sums of
money had been entered on the books MS
having been paid out for double fees, in
creased salaries and refreshments without a
shadow of legal right F; petty officers of the
bank had been guilty Of gross Irregularities,


and yet tho institution had been suffered to
keep its doors open and to 60 on swindling
the public. The case is almost parallel with
that of the Third Avenue Savings Bank. In
that rotten and fraudulent concern o
paying teller, a nephew Of William A. Dar-
ling had robbed the bank, and not only had
he been suffered to escape punishment, but
his mother, Mr.. Darling's sister, who was on
her sons bond, had escaped the payment OF
the amount of her liability; Spencer X.


Green and William A. Darling had made
fraudulent and illegal loans of the bank 8
money; false balances had been struck
and carried on from year to year by the per-
jury of the officers swearing to the reports;
large sums of money had been paid ont for
Year: 1876

TEE HERALD NAVAL REaIsTEn. the
government is too poor to do the HERALD
does to-day, when it publishes the naval
register for September, 1876. It has been
customary for the Navy Department to issue
semi-annually register showing the changes
in the navy, the movements of officers
and the stations and condition Of United
States vessels. Such publication is Of
great Importance, but Mr. Robson cannot
afford it. We have thought it advisable to
supply the public with the facts as matter
of news, and if the government needs any
other assistance Of that kind we shall be
glad to give it all the help in our power.
Year: 1876

TIE WEATHER heavy, drizzling
rain of yesterday was the final instalment
of moisture from the area Of low pressure
that has moved off the Atlantic coast from
Cape Hatteras. 1t is being followed, how
ever, by another depression which is maxi
ing rapid progress from the northwestward,
accompanied by limited rain area on its
northern and western edges. short period
of cooler and clearing weather, with north
erly to westerly winds, will, how
ever, be experienced before the next
rain arrives ut New York. The pressure all
over the United States, particularly south Of
the New England region, is low, and the
temperature continues high and consequent
ly unhealthy along the South Atlantic coast.
Local disturbances continue to occur in the
Gulf of Mexico, giving a very unsettled char
acter to the weather in that region. The
weather to-day in New York will be cooler
and cloudy with, however, a clearing up
during the day.
Year: 1876

If General Newton's stimulated earth
quake" had toppled over four or five hun
dred tall houses and killed few hundreds
of people, after the fashion Of some of the
regular concerns in South America, he would
have been very severely condemned by the
engineering ninnies, the Sabbatarians and
the people generally. The wseacres Of his
profession would have boasted of their own
superior genius and Judgment; the pious
Mr.. Dodge and his associate saints would
have declared the calamity punishment
for the desecration of the Sabbath, and the
people generally would have insisted that
the General ought to have been better posted
in his business than to have blown us oil up
with his He'll Gate mine. Happily, no such
unfortunate results attended the Generals
work. The residences and public buildings
are all safe, their inmates are all alive, and
the two or three hundred thousand people
who went out to see the sight returned
homo in safety and with all the limbs they
carried away with them.


Yet, singularly enough, the immense tri-
umph of the General, so quietly and peace
fully won, called down upon him almost as
much indignation as would have been
showered on his head if he had swallowed up
Astoria and knocked down the houses on the
opposite shore like 80 many tenpins The
thousands who went up to see the explosion
came back denouncing it as 'sell." They
had enjoyed no fun for their pains. No
damage had been done no one had been
killed there had been no excitement only
a rumbling noise, commotion of the river,
q throwing up of water and debris, and
Hallctt's reef had been knocked into
cooked hat" So General Newton was voted
a humbug simply because he had not raised
He'll (Gate obstructions) in such ON exciting
name. as would have pleased the multi
tnde
Year: 1876

A RADICAL POLITICIAN, writing from Loui-
siana to bosom friend in Washington, says
that the democrats in that State are making
such nitro-glycerine canvass that there
will not be republican official left after the
election. That brood will be as little re.
gretted as Hallett's Point Reef
Year: 1876

The FRANKLIN special cable despatch
to the HERALD says that the franklin is
momentarily expected at Vigo to bring Tweed
TO this country, so that the manner in which
he will return may be considered as def
oitolv ceff1ed
Year: 1876

GENERAL NEWTON ought to be q proud man
to-day He has proved that he was right in
his calculation of the explosive force of the
enormous mass of dynamite, and his great
experiment deserves to rank in kind, if not
in degree, with the achievements Of such
engineers az Stephenson and De Lesseps.
Year: 1876

Ir Few OF THE TURKISH MONSTERS who
carried destruction and death to the Bull
garian peasantry, and Of whose atrocities
further details are given elsewhere, had
been anchored over Hallett's Point Reef yes
terday very few in New York would have
had any doubt about where they would
have rnna when He'll Gnta was blown open
Year: 1876

Appucrrxa AN HEIR is a favorite device
of dramatists and novelists whom they wish
TO mystify tho characters and the readers
as to who is Who From Boston we learn
of case where childless young
couple, to whom nm heir would be
pecuniary advantage, are alleged
TO have had n child stolen from poor
woman. Happily for the future of the
American race there is not likely to be any
widespread necessity for abduction in this
particular line. 1t illustrates the difference
between an apparent heir and an heir ap-
parent
Year: 1876

Congressional resolution was an indict-
ment of the Democratic managers in the
Southern States or it had no meaning
at all. Whatever interference with the
right Of suffrage occurs is, confessedly,
directed against oolored voters who are
Republicans; and as this inference Is
possible only, "where the Democracy
are IN power" or where, as in south
Carolina, they are in armed and organ
lied opposition to Republican authority,
1t follows that Mr.. Lord, in his anxiety
TO atone for an indiscreet utterance Of
the truth, now goes a step or TWO be-
yond the truth TO serve his party. &c.
Year: 1876

The Democrats In Congress ac-
knowledge that the Republicans have
a strong ticket; 1t is said an attempt
will be made soon In the banking and
currency committee 10 adopt some
measure looking to the repeal OF the
resumption act Cox and Payne think
the repeal would help Thurman or
Hendricks; but the hard money DEM
ocrats are not alarmed at this move
ment. They say If the resumption act
is repealed by the House, 1t must be
by the union of Republican with
Democratic votes. In that case 1t
will so far put Republicans in the
wrong, as to make the nomination of
two hard money Democrats possible
and advisable at st. Louis. 1t is very
possible that the st. Louis Conven-
tion will readopt the currency plank
of the Cincinnati Convention. They
cannot do less without going over to
imitation and soft money. Republi-
cans consider the resolution concern
ing the granting Of money to relig-
ious corporations, as the most telling
part of their platform; but that also
may be adopted at st. Louis.
Year: 1876

ST. LOUIS, September 29.-The dispO-
sltion of the people oftnis city is to make
the st. Louis Fair next to the Centennial
Exhibition. All the space in the exhibi-
ton building Is engaged and much more
could have been disposed OF. Every
pen, stall and stable on the grounds has
been taken, and temporary quarters will
have to be provided for much stock.
The special attractions in the horse
line will be the now famous racer, Ten
Brook, the fastest four mile in the world.
All the hotel keepers have made extra
ordinary preparations FOR the guests and
everything promises not only most re-
markabe exhibition of all those things
which make up 4 first class fair, but an
unprecedented attendance.
Year: 1876




EDITOR REPUBLICANS:


see that the private secretary of Gov.
ernor Tilden, in attempting to explain
away the charge of perjury made against
the great "retormer." in the matter of his
income tax, states that the $40, 900 received
by him in one fee during the year 1862
(the year in which he swore that his total
income from all sources amounted to but
$7llS), was in payment of services covering
more than one year. Consequently it was
not income from that year, and no tax
should have been paid on it.


Is is not this explanation characteristic
of the old Credit Mobilier attorneys L. is
too thin for anything. Of course the tax
on that money earned was due some time.
He could not be expected to pay tax on
it before he received it, and he would not
probably have the hardihood to claim that
he had paid it in advance. 1t therefore
was due, and should have been paid when
he did receive it. It was properly income
of the year 1862. Ifit were possible for a
man to allow all the money he earned in
one year to pass over until the next year,
and then collect it, according to Mr.. Til
den's theory no tax would then be due on
it; and if everybody took that course, the
government would never collect any in
come tax at oil. If the old man can not
get up better story than this, he he had
better step down and out Hancock would
do better. TRUTHFUL JAMES.
Year: 1876

If there is any ground for the exciting
dispatches telegraphed down from Monroe
by Messrs. McCranie and McEnery to the
Picayune and Democrat. the best thing for
General Sherman to do is to throw q regi-
ment of soldiers into that neighborhood
right away. Of course the law is made for
the protection of Republicans and Demo
Gratis alike, and if the bloodthirsty Radicals
have begun to intimidate the harmless and
inoffensive Democrats, the sooner General
Sherman takes notice of it the better.
Year: 1876

We understand letter has been received
from this gentleman oonsenting to be q can
didate for reelection as Administrator Of
Public Accounts in compliance with the
wishes of number of citizens, as signified
in public call addressed to Mr.. Pilsbury
and himself.


Mr.. Brown is Democrat, owes his elec-
ton to the Democracy, and according to
the ethics and practice of that party should
be judged by his polite Il opinions, and not
his official acts. This is the way Republican
officials are treated by Democratic journals.
BY this rule Mr. Brown would merit only
abuse and denunciation at our hands on the
occasion of his second candidacy. Profess
ing and desirous of showing that we are
capable of rising superior to this bigoted
and intolerant party spirit and of melting
out justice to political opponent, We are
glad of the opportunity to bear our testi-
mony to the uniform courtesy We have re-
ceived in our official dealings with him, and
to declare our opinion, that the city has never
had the services of more capable and eff
cient officer in the department over which
he presides.


We trust this evidence coming from a
Republican source will not injure him in
the estimation of his Democratic friends.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, August 30.-Although no
recent intelligence has been received at
army headquarters concerning the move
ments of Crook and Terry, it is believed
their operations against the hostile Sioux
will be ultimately successful in all respects.
The country in which the Indians now are
affords but little support, and they may
disperse into small bands, but the troops
are so stationed as to render them powerless
for mischief. Since the Custer massacre
temporary military posts and depots for
supplies have been established which will
aid materially military operations, and hem
in the savages from escape. Recruiting is
progressing satisfactorily, and in short
time all the men authorized will be OBJ
tanned
Year: 1876

pr0Clatlng the courtesy LnaI placed IL un-


der him, he believed the timber was not


strong enough to prevent its breaking down


before the campaign was over. He would


Judge the two parties as tree, by their fruits;


reject the bad and accept the good. The


Democratic tree never did bear any but


bad fruit. In 1856 the Republican party


was formed to prevent the extension of


slavery. The Democratic party claimed


the right to carry it into the Territories.


In that issue the Republican party did not


triumph. In 1860 it did. The Democratic


party has learned nothing since then. In


1864 it resolved the war was failure.


There were not so many Confederate Cen


erals in the convention at Chicago as at St.


Louis. If there had been the resolution


would not have passed, for the Confederacy


was an eggshell. Ever since it has had


some catch penny cheap words to capture


the people. In 1872 il was the shaking of


hands by Horace Greeley from q railroad


train and calling it over the bloedy chasm.
In 1876 it is reform. But there is
them. When there was he would shake
hands. But they hold on to their preju-
dice. Now they have got done denounclng
the negro, and pitch into the few Chinese
in California, because they must have some
body to be down on. They now say they
are the true friends of the freedman, and
ask, Didn't you work for US half our
lives, play with US, 60 fishing with us,


work every day, and amt we your best


when it returns the value received. But
do they give you q chance! Do they
put you at work on the streets, or even
make you q doorkeepel? That's the test.
And we want to see guarantee of the


leaders that there will be no more Ham
burg, Coushatta or Grant parish work. A
peaceful election is not to be credited to
otherwise; it won't be allowed, and it
wouldn't be profitable to them.


Judge Southworth then referred to the
Lord resolution. He did not know why it
was introduced, if it was trap or not, but
it was certainly q plea in confession and
avoidance of all that had been done. An
other battle cry was against the carpet
bagger in 1868 and now. If that meant
there were white men here who we're not
able to trace their birth to the time of the
Indians, and who were conscientious in Re-
publican principles, there were not enough
to alarm anybody; but if it meant all who
were not born here, regardless of their
opinions, there were heap of them. Any
one who came here, even the DAY before
yesterday, from Five Points, New
York, with q commission from Tammany
in his pocket was all right, but II
he was Republican he was carpet-bag-
ger if he had lived here all his life. Louisi-
ana was part Of the United States, and
any citizen was entitled to come and go,
believe in any politics, and should have
none to molest or make him afraid. He
touched lightly on the financial question
and Mr.. Tilden's income returns. All knew
the candidates on the State ticket. He had
yet to hear aught against the ability and
integrity of Mr.. Packard or Judge Dibble
As Mr.. Packard was from Maine, 90
much the better, for Maine sent ont only
Year: 1876

THE RELIGIOUS HERALD, OF this city, Is the or
gan OF the Baptists OF the South whose membership
Includes more than q million Of commandments.
The Herald goes into every section Of the country,
and Is read by thousands Of good people who rarely
see any other paper. 1t Is one Of the best mediums
for reaching the public eye that the country aGors.
Its charges for advertising are very low considering
the immense circulation Of the paper. Office on
Main street nearly opposite Dispatch Office.
Year: 1876

Several of the pastors Of the city churches
who have been absenta portion Of the sum-
mer in order to secure rest and recreation
have returned to the city, and on Sunday
nearly nil of the churches that had been
closed for some weeks were re6pened.
Year: 1876

In his recent visitation sermons the
Archbishop Of Canterbury takes pains
To impress upon his clergy that the
the questions Of the age are not to be
put down by ecclesiastical authority,
but are to be answered out Of the re-
sources Of an abundant culture. He
said, with great force: There are some
among ourselves who think that they
find refuge from infid.lity ia the main
tenance of superstition, but l believe
that they are few even in numbers, aud
fewer still in their general influence
upon the whole community and on the
intelligence of the age" He would
have tho clergy go beyond newspapers
and review learning: "A man may
have picked UP here and there Q good
deal from reviews, and yet not be able
to meet an intelligent mechanic, whom
he comes athwsrt in bis daily ministra-
tions. and who has got, by what means
We know not. some real acquaintance
with subjects Of which the clergy is
most profoundly ignorant" These are
wise counssls. and as applicable to this
country as to England.
Year: 1876

1t is proposed to build bridge over the
Harlem River at some point between Fifth
and Fourth avenues. At the meeting of the
Board of Apportionment on Tuesday Mayor
Wickham moved to issue bonds to the
amount of ten thousand dollars with which
to begin the work. Mr.. Green opposed the
motion, but he was beaten. The motion was
passed, the bonds will be issued and the
work will begin.


We are in favor of building not only this
bridge but of giving bridge to every ave-
nue. across the Harlem. In time this river
will be spanned with bridges even as the
Seine and Thames are now. We approve of
this, but not of the manner in which it is
done. This issuing of bonds for every i'm
provement is driving us into bankruptcy.
There can be no economy in any business or
government managed on this plan. If we
were in a war, or in the presence ofsome great
calamity, or if we were called upon to
meet some sudden emergency, we could see
the wisdom of issuing bonds. The credit of
But this is not the time Instead of issuing
bonds we should be recalling and extin-
gushing them. This is what the national
government is doing and what the city gov
ernment should do. If we build bridges we
should pay for them. If we have no money
we should raise it by taxation. We should
so grade our receipts and expenditures every
year that we could have a surplus. This
surplus should be applied to the payment of
portion of the debt.


This business of issuing bonds for every
want is wasteful, and will in time be ruin
Gus. Some means should be taken to with
draw the power to pledge the city credit
now possessed by the Board of Apportion-
ment Every dollar of debt we create now
is only tax upon our children. New York
is rich enough to pay as she goes and we
trust that the friends of municipal reform
will insist upon her doing so.
Year: 1876

mentary vote in a republican convention.
The lesson should not be lost upon Mr.. Cur
tis and Mr.. Roberts; for, as our readers
may we'll understand, we regard this cry
about Conkling and "Grantism" as the
veriest cant. No man in the State
has done as much for Grantism as Mr. Curtis,
unless it is Mr.. Roberts For seven years
they have stood by the administration,
smoothing over every blunder, extenuating
every knavery. Therefore for them to come
into republican convention and ask the
party to repudiate Mr.. Conkling for being
the same manner of republican as them
selves is to insult the intelligence of the
party and its sense of fair play. These gen.
tlemen, and Conkling with them, must stand
or fall together They are weak as Grant is
weak, and strong as he is strong. 1t is too
late to ask the sympathies or even the pa
tience of republicans in their efforts to
reform party" they have been supporting
for seven years. This is the lesson of the
Convention at Syracuse. 1t did well not to
be driven into false and cowardly position
by the political assassins who followed the
lead of Mr.. Curtis of Staten Island


New York. therefore, has spoken, and the
question is, What of the country? There
is candidate even stronger than Mr. Conk-
ling, who has supported Grant without in
curing the odium of Grantism; who has
done the party and the country a grand SER
vice; who has passed through the fire of in
vestigation without even the smell of fire on
his garments; man who is regarded ms the
embodiment of reform-Mr. Bristow, of Ken
lucky. The real value of Mr.. Bristow in the
canvass must be considered at later period,
when we see what Grant will do. As it now
stands the Convention places Conkling in
the field with the power and majesty of the
Empire State behind him. If to this we
have the deciding voice of the President
there is q fair chance that the momentum of
this support will make Conkling the candi-
date of the National Convention. If Grant
should say nothing and the mutiny which
came to q disastrous end yesterday takes
new life and spreads over the country, Mr..
Bristow will have position which cannot be
challenged. AS it is now the Convention
presents the name of Conkling, and in doing
SO has done worthily. There is no reason
why Mr.. Conkling should not be the repub-
lican candidate When it comes to elect a
President it will be time to inquire whether
he is the fittest man for that high Office
Year: 1876

The rascality and corruption which honest
manner when he was at the Court of Madrid
were not greater than the revelations at
Washington this winter Gil Bias tells us
that everybody bribed or was bribed at court
for places, from the Prime Minister down to
the lackeys; and so it is at our American
Court Belknap supplied the tragedy, and
General Z. w. Rice, of Iowa, now supplies
the burlesque. This veteran hero is the man
who charged poor Mr.. J. S. Evans one thou
sand dollars for introducing him to General
Belknap-the highest price which perhaps
any one over paid for that felicity and
not have known many people in Washing
ton, or that General Belknap must have
been extraordinarily inaccessible. Perhaps
he supposed that General Rice, of Iowa, had
unusual influence with the Secretary. But,
whatever may be thought of the necessities
or simplicity of Mr.. Evans, what must we
not think of the meanness and colossal ra-
pacity of Rice? Was it his business to in
troduce strangers to the Secretary, and did
he always charge that fee? There is moth
ing more absurdly contemplate in all the
scandals than this charge, which is more ex-
cessive than even Pendletons. One thing
is sure-Mr. Evans would not pay General
Rice that sum now for an introduction to
General Belknap, and if he should sue for
his one thousand dollars he might get it
hack with interest