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Year: 1876

The Board of Canvass meets at New
Castle to-day, at II o'clock. 1t will take
nearly the whole of the afternoon to
count the votes and make up the official
tables. As soon as this is done we shall
republish our tables of returns in cor
rect and reliable form. At present ac.
curacy can only be closely approximated
However, where the majorities are sc
decisive exactness is so important.
Year: 1876

The foolish people who fancied that
the news of Gov. Tilden's election would
have an injurious effect upon the public
credit and the price of public bonds, did
not find their apprehensionsj justified by
the course of the market in Wall street
yesterday-N Y Sun.
Year: 1876

Mr Henry clews met with very serious accident
on Thursday last which will PROSTATE him for a few
weeks while making call on City Chamberlain Tap
pam the trustee OF his estate ne mstook the door, and
stepping the coal hoist fell down depth OF
forty feet His body badly bruised, and both hts
an kles were sprained Assistance promptly rem
dered and Mr.. Clews conveyed to his hotel The
injuries he sustained though severe not likely TO
cripple him permanently.


on Friday last he received his discharge In bank
ruptcy. He will sull be bound to appear upon sum
mons in any investigations yet TO be made in the
interest OF the creditors who did not oppose the dis
charge. Most OF the assets OF the estate IN South
ern securities and II only two of the suits pend
ing before the courts favorable verdict should be
gained the trustee would be enabled TO pay dividend
Immediately The object OF the suit Is to make these
Southern securities valuable
Year: 1876

and was acting as one OF the said oftne
Department of City Works, aforesaid.


Thai the said william A. Fowler, OF the city OF Brook
yn and the county Of Kings, on the 10Th day OF De-
sember in the year Of our Lord 1874 when being
commissioner OF the Department of City Works IN and
for the city Of Brooklyn Aforesaid did by threats that
he would do and perpetrate injury 70 the Peoples
Gasight Company, O corporation organized under the
laws OF the State OF New York. then and there doing
business in the said city of Brooklyn by means Of an
unlawful and corrupt Of his position and office OF
Commissioner OF the Department Of City Works afore
said the day and year aforesaid, at the city
and county aforesaid unlawiuly wilfully corruptly
exorsively and by color Of his said ooe did demand
and attempt take procure extort and receive from
the said, the Peoples Gaslight Company, and induce
and compel the said company TO pay large sum OF
moneyto Wit the sum OF 81 o0O lawful money Of the
United States OF the value Of 81 0O0-whe in truth
and in fact the said William A Fowler entitled TO
receive sum whatever from the said the Peoples
Gaslght Company, for any purpose whatever against
the peace OF the people of the State Of New York and
their dignity. WINCHESTER BRITTON,


District Attorney
Year: 1876

Mayor wckham and sheriff Conner will not receive
calls at their respective Offices to-day. Neither wall
County Clerk Walsh. The Sherns and County Clerks
departments however, will remain open for the trans
action Of business


The Committee on Rumors around the City Hall had
further statements 10 give out yesterday relative to
the nomination for Commissioner OF Public Works
The Mayor was also non committal on the subject


Comptroller Green was busy yesterday paying OF a
number Of city employees before the commencement OF
the new year The attaches Of the Mayors Office have
not received their salaries for two months
Year: 1876

short session OF the Board Of Aldermen was held
yesterday afternoon. No business OF public interest
transacted other than tho calling up OF the Windsor
Hotel bin for expenses in the entertainment OF King
Kalakaua which, after discussion, was laid
for future consideration. The Board then adjourned
TO meet for the last time on Monday next al ten
o'c
Year: 1876

WHINING.-There is a class of per-
sons in this world, by no means small,
whose prominent peculiarity is whin-
ing. They whine because they are poor,
or, if rich, because they have no health
to enjoy their riches; they whine be-
cause it is too sunny; they whine be-
cause they have mo luck" and others
prosperity exceeds theirs; they whine
because some friends have died and they
are still living; they whine because
they have aches and pains, aud they
have aches and pains because they
whine; and they whine no one can tell
why. Now, we would like to say a
word to these whining persons. First,
stop whining-it is of no use complain
ing, fretting, fault-finding and whining.
Why, you are the most deluded set of
creatures that ever lived Do you not
know that it is a well-settled principle
of physiology and common sense that
these habits are more eXhausting to
nervous vitality than almost any other
violation of physiological law? And do
you not know that life is pretty much
as you make it? You can make bright
and sunshiny, or you can make it dark
and shadowy. This life is meant only to
discipline us-to fit US for higher and
purer state of things. Then stop whin-
ing and fretting, and go on your way
rejoicing.
Year: 1876

1t happened the other day on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad. The train had
just left Easton, and the conductor was
making his first round, when he OBJ
served a small white dog with a bushy
tail and bright eyes sitting costly on the
seat beside a young lady so handsome
that it made his heart roll over like a
lop-sided pumpkin. But duty was duty,
and he remarked in his most depreca-
tory manner:


"Pm very sorry, madam, but it's
against the rules to have dogs in the
passenger cars"


"Oh, my, is that so ?" and she turned
up two lovely brown eyes beseechingly.
"What in the world will 1 do? l can't
throw him away. He's a Christmas
present from my aunt"


"By no means, miss. Well put him
in a baggage car, and he'll be just as
happy as a robin in spring"


"What put my nice white dog in a
nasty, stutiy, dusty baggage car ?"


"Im awfully sorry, miss, l do assure
you, but the rules of the company are as
infleXible as laws of the Medes and them
other fellows, you know. He shall have
my overcOat to lie on and the brakeman
shall give him grub and water every
time he opens his mouth"


81 just think it's awful mean, so l do;
and [ know somebody will steal it, SO
they will, !" and she showed half notion
to cry that nearly broke the conductor s
heart, but he was firm, and sang out to
the brakeman, who was playing a solo
on the stove:


"Here, Andy, take this dog over to
the baggage car, and tell 'em to take
just the best kind of care of him."


The young lady pouted, but the brake
man reached over and picked the canine
up as tenderly as though it were a two
weeks old baby, but as he did so q
strange expression came over his face
like wave of cramp collie, and he SAID
hastily to the conductor:


Here, you just hold him minute
till l put this poker away" and he
trotted out of the car door and held OF
to the brake-wheel, shaking like man
with ague.


The conductor no sooner had his hands
on the dog than he looked around for 8
hole to fall through.


"Wh-wh-why, this is a worsted
dogw


"Yes, sir" said the little miss, de.
murely. "Didn't you know thatW


mo, Pm most awful sorry to say
didn't know that" and he laid the
Christmas dog down in the owners lap
and walked out on the platform, where
he stood half hour in the cold, trying
to think of a hymn tune to suit the
worst sold man on the Lehigh Valley
road. Eagle.
Year: 1876

A BRAVERY THAT IS Nor BRAvADo.
A painful interest always attaches to
the demeanor and conduct of a human


being who is about to find closing upon
him the dark door of the tomb, and who
knows that it is about to close upon
him. That moment is calculated to test
the courage of the human heart and try
the steadiest nerves. But yesterday,
free, safe, alive, with the fullest life,
and now, fettered, condemned, with
death approaching steadily and surely A!
At Ole instant strong and active man,
with every pulse bounding, every mus
Gle obedient to the will, every vein full
of warm red blood, with the sun shin
ing for you, the birds singing, with the
laughter of the happy children in your
ears, aud all the abounding charms of
various and delightful life your own
and at the next moment, or soon, so
soon to be an inert clod without sense
or motion! The nerves are tried at
such time, and the man shows speed
lily whether he is brave or the opposite.
Year: 1876

In Sermons to the Clergy" recently
published, Gail Hamilton defends our
government against the charge of cor
ruption, and gives the accusers some
sharp hits. AS ex-President Woolsey
and James Russell Lowell have Joined
in the cry of corruption, she turns upon
the colleges with comparisons OF her
own. 1t almost seems like an impro-
priety for a man to criticise a college;
but to a woman, educated when the
doors of colleges were closed against her
sex, it might seem gratuitous to deny
that liberty. So she says, with some
pungency, that "the success of colleges
in compelling their own students to
virtue has not been so brilliant as to
make any large portion of our country
men desirous to change, with all its
drawbacks, the national for the collie
giate form of government" But this
form of argument does not prove pol
itics to be pure, whatever other effect it
may have. But she makes a better
point when, having asserted or shown
that a majority of men in public life
are graduates of colleges and members
of churches, she says: "If, then, the av-
erage wisdom and honesty of the gov
ernment be less than those of the out
side world, it certainly leads to the sup
position that church and college train
to weakness and wickedness, and not to
purity and strength" This is enough
to dispose of the notion that, if dis
honesty and folly be detected in the
government, it is only necessary TO turn
out the old officials, and put in a new
set to purify it. There will not be
much fraud and speculation in public
life if there be none in private life;
and, if the government is to be no re-
proach to US, the fountain of power
must be kept pure.
Year: 1876

Mrs. Merriwether says "men do not
like to admit or think of women as
slaves, hence all their nonsense about
wOman's greater purity, etc., being
jeOpardized by political rights. They
endeavOr to cover up our claims with
flowers" Our task should be to show
our servile position and make our petit
ton to our masters in such humble
terms as to revolt their sense OF decency
and mock their sense Of justice. We are
in truth nothing but absolute slaves to
men, without one right they are bound
to respect, or that we have power to en-
force.
Year: 1876

Did you ever watch the noiseless
movement of a pretty girls lips as her
dress is trodden upon, and marvel at
the self-command which enables her TO
do the situation justice in so quiet a
manner? A dozen fonts of type
wouldn't furnish dashes enough to rep
resent the remarks of the average man
under like excitement.
Year: 1876




The particulars Of the Erie settlement, stated by
Mr. Jcwett to-day and given to the public. tho
effect that he had conference, public and private,
with parties representing as he believed, great ma
jorty Of the bondhoders who accepted the proposi.
tion Of reorganization with but few EXCEPTIONS and
agreed to tho funding OF the coupors named in the
public scheme and to permit the money to be applied
the improvement Of the road, which s equivalent to
loan OF that amount They further agreed that all
stockholders may come IN on the payment Of tho
sessment specified in the programme such pay
ments to be secured In the manner the bond
holders secured for the coupons thoy fund. Fur
ther time than that named in tho programme may be
given tho stockholders for the payment of the money
The time OF foreclosure wholly indefinite Mr. Jcwett
further that he found tho feeling abroad to
that the road fully worth its Indebtedness; hence
the claim that the stockholders who had the largest
interest improvement should advance the capital
for that purpose Both Scotch and English bondhold-
ers who constitute the bulk of the creditors
iscd with the plan adopted this expectation
and harmony and confidence in the future
administration OF tho property. The details
of tho scheme of reorganization and the csti-
mates connected herewith ere yet to be completed


ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC rkLRGRAPH


Tho Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company have
made . further concession IN rates.
Year: 1876

The arrival of the fleeing Pretender, Don
Carlos, in London last evening ends for the
present the troubles he has brought upon
Spain during the past five years, three of
which he spent in that unfortunate country


He can now show his fine form in perfect
safety to the admiring gaze of the London
ladies. The English press do not take
kindly to him, thinking that whole skin is
not much to his credit If he pays the mill
ion he owes to his English admirers the
papers will not judge him so harshly, for no
one can discriminate better between the
scorn to be pointed at worthless Pre-
tender and the respect to be paid
to customer than your Englishman.
Disraeli, on whom the sun shines now,
even if it leaves all else in London rayless,
keeps on his conquering way. If he scorns
any title himself he may make his Queen an
Empress, and that is q sort of privilege that
in land of caste he may be well envied for.
From England, too, the Belknap shame
comes back to make us hang our heads. The
dubious greed of Bacon, the corruption Of
Walpole, the avarice of Marlborough,
belong to the past, and we can only resolve
that in the future we shall be able to look
back to the time of Grant and Belknap as
calmly as the English historian looks back
to the worthless we have mentioned, and when
even Mr.. Schencks dealings with Little
Emma will be confounded with another
kind of scandal On the heels of
Little Emma comes to us a racy
description of the sport over which London
is going mad-the rinkomania. 1t went
mad over velocipedes just as we did here
some years ago but the enthusiasts think
it will only fall when London Bridge is
tumbled into the Thames. How our Ameri-
can horses are faring in England is also re-
ported, and with the chat of the theatres
and gossip of q dozen kinds our London
letter is repleto with varied interest.
Year: 1876

system, monarchical or republican, that did
not hAvo its sewers Of corruption We have
no doubt that il, like Asmodeus, we could
lift the roofs from Washington life we should
find thousand cases of peculation as
iagnnt as this of Delknap. The discovery
is the scandal. Tho fact that an officer who
sat at the side of the President as his trusted
counsellor, and had the care of one of the
most important departments of the govern
ment, should show himself to be not only
common thief but an oppressor of the poor
soldiers shows the insensibility of the
present administration to the common obli-
cations of any government to the people. 1t
must not be dismissed as an isolated case,
but as a symptom of deep and terrible
disease.
Year: 1876

tion, TO compel reluctant Lincoln to obey
its will and to drive Johnson to the verge
Of impeachment, to hold the true culprits
responsible. These men have been the
leaders of the party for years.


There is not q republican Senator
who can escape this condemnation. If they
had been true to the party and the best
interests of the country if they had held
their high place free from the contamination
of patronage; if they had felt that some
thing was due TO the spirit of our institutions
and the welfare of the party as well as to the
stubborn ambition of q military chief there
would have been an end of this long, long
ago. As it is if the country, as now seems
probable, will turn upon the republican
party and repudiate it, the blame will rest
upon Grant and his subservient Senators.
The power that was given them has been
used for their own aggrandizement. Belknap
in the dock or at the bar of the Senate is
only typical of the position which the
republican party in the persons of its
trusted leaders now holds before the coun-
try. al are guilty alike-guilty of subser-
viency to the will of military dictator,
guilty of selling their Senatorial influence
for patronage, guilty of betraying their great
party into the hands of gang of military
adventurers who only came into the party
when it gave them Office, and who have no
sympathy with it outside of the gains it
has bestowed upon them. Because of the
slavish submission of the Conklings, the
Shermans, the Blainos, the Mortons to the
will of the President this shame has come
upon the nation. Men not only say that
the institutions of a republic are INSULT
cient for the purposes of an economical
and free government They ask whether,
after all, we should not, in this CEN
tennial year, take the whole fabric to
pieces and see if we cannot have an al
ministration machine which will give us
something other than ''cronies" in the
Cabinet, slaves in the Senate and thieves
in the public offices.
Year: 1876

Our Paris letter gives an account of this
the last great theatrical event in France-an
event that has a certain interest for readers
even at this distance, but in which our
countrymen and countrywomen resident at
the French capital have much more lively
concern. 1t has been understood that the
character in this play from which it derives
women as they are seen in the glare of Paris
gaslight. Indeed, this fact has been so gen.
orally given ont that, as we have already had
occasion to inform our readers, nj. Dumas
underwent the labor, the torture, we might
say, Of reading thirty books about America
in order to prepare himself for the tre-
mendous feat of presenting to the Partisan
audiences n man and n woman of this profit
gate race But for the fact thus made
known of his intention to have the heroine
of his play understood to be an American
we cannot sec that any one would have
guessed her nationality, and his American
woman might very well be classed with
those supposititious Arabs in the zouave
regiments who were all born in the Fau-
bourg st. Antoine. She is an American who
has never breathed any other air than that
of Paris. Her first appearance is as an in
trigrdnte. She is matrimonial mannu-
vress and if this is one of our national in
dustries we were not aware of it. Her next
appearance is that of woman in love and
jealous. Neither is this Characteristic of us
as nation to our knowledge. Nor can it be
said that under impulses thus arising this
woman acts otherwise than women do in
most countries, but more particularly in the
country with which NJ Dumas is best nc
quainted. 1t is singular that NJ. Dumas
should attribute some extravagant passions
in this woman to the fact that there is negro
blood in her veins; and it is singular that he
should himself be personally qualified to de-
pict passions that may have such an origin.
This is strange psychological fact. There.
is only one trait even in the husband that
appears to be American this is that when
he has duel he kills his man. That, at all
events, is not French,
Year: 1876

Bowen-one of the best abused men of the
time-a man who had veritably become q
sort of Brooklyn sphinx-has at last written
and published a statement, with proper
reservations, of his knowledge of the career
of Henry Ward Beecher. 1t is a terrible
story, and the least important indication it
gives is that on the famous trial for adultery
the Plymouth pastor was saved by the legal
strategy that shut out the testimony of nearly
every important witness 1t is nearly
two years since the Beecher scandal came out
in such q shape as to force Plymouth church
to take public notice of it, Before that even
much had been whispered of what Mr. Bowen
knew, and not week has passed since with
out mutterings from some quarter of the M
turo of the revelations he could make. In
such circumstances much promised or much
threatened disclosure is discounted in the
imaginations of the public. Men and women
speculate as to what it may involve, and they
carry their speculations very far, and
generally they go in this way SO much
beyond what can be truthfully disclosed by
anybody on any subject that the very dis
closure when it comes is thought tame and
falls fiat. 1t is just measure of the gravity
and severity of Mr.. Bowen's recital to say
that it does not fall flat in the circum-
stances, and that it is beyond what
was pictured as possible by any
person having no other acquaintance with
the facts than what was accessible to the gen.
eral public. Bowen does not pander to any
prurient curiosity He does not give the
names of the women to whom he refers as
the victims of Mr.. Beecher previous to his
Hdison with Mrs. Tilton, but he states the
cases sufficiently, and has declared already
in what circumstances he will give the
names. 1t is not enough to answer this with
q defiance to come out with the whole story.
That sort of evidence of clear conscience
may be given the more easily and cheaply
because it is known that Bowen is man
who can hold his tongue, and will do so if
he deems it proper. Meantime, Bowen's
declaration is a challenge, specification to
Plymouth church on what terms exactly it
can have all the facts it pretends to want
and it takes very great pains not to meet the
challenger on the ground he has chosen. But
there is one way, clearly, in which the
church can have the facts, and that not
Bowens way. Mr.. Beecher can now sue him
for libel. Mr.. Bowen has written this state
ment, and he, we suppose has made it pub
lie. Here, therefore, is chance for the
whole story to come out, and on trial for
libel all the parties would be competent wit
nesses, even to Mrs. Tilton herself
Year: 1876

Under various pretexts of one sort and
another there has grown up in the commu-
nifty prejudice against uniting with tho
Church, and under the specious pleading
that If one is a Christian he or she can be as
good out of the Church as in it. Mr.. Hep
worth will dispel that illusion to-day, and to
emphasize his arguments will receive thirty
three persons into his church membership,
over whom the eye of God as well rs tho
eyes of the Church will rest. When the Mt
traction of the Cross is felt and its infu-
ence and power presented as Mr..
Lloyd will present them; when tho
meaning of salvation is understood
and made plain rs Mr. Soitz will make it,
and when tho spiritual transformation has
taken place which MIR. Herr will describe,
Year: 1876

TIE INVESTIGATION of the muddled ac-
counts of the Third Avenue Savings Bank
has developed that the officers kept set of
ledgcrs in which the entries do not corrc-
spond, and consequently no one can tell
which of them is correct. In order to
establish beyond doubt the beauty Of the
style of bookkeeping in favor of the broken
bank Colonel Sellers has been employed to
find out if there's millions in it" The dis
appearance of the savings of the dupcd de-
positors sets OF rest oil doubts on that score.
Year: 1876

The revelations in reference to the War
Department cannot be dismissed rs an incl
dent of the hour, as the crime and the folly
of one man, to be punished by his impeach-
ment and Indictment; nor are we disposed to
admit what the Paris newspapers say as to
this being an evidence of the decadence of
American institutions. The French news
papers forget what was proved by no less an
authority than the Due d'Audiffret-Pasquier
as TO the jobbery under the Empire. II is
idle rhetoric TO attempt to show that the
crime of a man like Bclknap is an evidence
of the corruption of whole party or whole
people. There has never been o society or
Year: 1876

A DESERVED MEASURE. Strahnn has
introduced into the House at Albany bill
in reference TO arrears of taxes in New York.
This bill provides that any person may pay
TO the Comptroller the amount of any tax or
assessment upon property, real or personal,
within year with interest at seven per cent
from the time of its assessment. The effect
of this measure will be to aid the Comptrol-
Ter in recovering unpaid taxes and assess
ments, and to aid the owners of property in
paying such taxes or assessments. As o
measure of relief and of revenue it deserves
the attention of tho Legislature.