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Year: 1876

The last few months have been unusually
prolific in marine disasters, especially in the
dangerous waters on the English coast In
almost every case carelessness or cruelty has
been the cause of the disaster, and the mer-
chant service is at last in condition which
can only be described by that verbal atrocity,
"demoralized." No example more clearly
illustrates this point than the double trouble
on the schooner Jefferson Borden. While
two mutineers of the previous crew are
awaiting trial in Boston the schooner arrives
out on her next voyage after long and ter
rible passage. The new crew are outspoken
in denunciation of the cruelties of the cap
tain, and even aver that the mutiny was the
result of his arbitrary acts. This in itself
would be sufficient to call general attention
to the conduct of the masters of vessels
while at sea, but simultaneously with these
reports the cable has almost daily been
bringing us stories of similar kind. In the
inquiry into the case of the British bark
Island Belle it has been shown that vessels
often put to sea with both nominal and a
real captain, while the American ship Cara
van shipped drunken crew, which became
insubordinate almost as soon as the vessel
sailed. The probable loss of the Harvest
Queen by coming into collision with the
steamer Adriatic--a case in regard to which
the whole truth is yet to be learned-is an
other case in point and one that calls for
thorough inquiry. II there was nothing to
conceal in the matter the delay of Captain
jennings in reporting the accident at least
needs explanation, while, even with O salts
factory explanation, his conduct will be gen.
orally accepted as evidence of want Of dis
cipline and disregard of responsibility at
sea. 1t will thus be seen that the demorali-
cation affects every branch of the merchant
service, and as there is no competent tribu-
nal under the law Of nations 10 deal vigor-
ously with these abuses we can scarcely hope
for their correction. Evidently the sugges-
ton of the German government for an inter-
national conference on this subject ought to
be acted on OF once, and out of it should
come tribunal with concurrent authority
in all maritime countries. This is the only
way by which marine disasters can be thor
oughly Investigated and offences at sea ade-
quately punished. The unity of CONNER
cial relations, which is the result of the APP
plication of steam TO ocean navigation, has
made a common tribunal necessary, and the
growth in the science Of government, as well
as the good understanding which generally
exists between the great Powers, not only
~onIara ernh n erhana daairahla but prarti-
cable
Year: 1876

A fashionable game in England during the
pleasant days of summer is polo. 1t is
purely manly, athletic game, and one that
is both healthful and useful, as it improves
the horsemanship of all who indulge in the
sport. We do not see why this interesting
game is not introduced into this country, as
our young men of means have as great relish
for outdoor sports as those of any other ma
ton, and certainly have the requisites to
become as proficient in all kinds of athletic
exercises as those of their cousins over the
sea- There is no doubt that if the game
of polo was introduced and practised by our
Young gentlemen it could be played in
short time just as well as it is now in Eng
land by their best clubs. In the supply of
horses we have a decided advantage in
breed naturally adapted for the purpose.
We mean the Texas, OF Indian
pony, powerful spry little gem
tleman, that. can run fast. stop quickly,
and wheel on the crown of mans
hat. Hundreds Of the ponies could be had
as soon as required, perfectly broken. and
at low figures. Polo clubs should be
organized in all the cities in the United
States, in the same manner that they are in
England In another column we give the
rules Of the Hurlingham Club, which will be
a guide TO 90 by. Should the game Of polo
be introduced by an organization of gentle
men in this city, we are satisfied it would
not be long before we would hear Of inter-
national games being played between the
New York Club and the Hurlingham Club of
England. There are grounds within the en-
closure of Jerome Park that no doubt could
be used for the purpose, aud games could
be played for the amusement Of the people
on the of days of the races as well as at other
times during the fair days of summer,
Year: 1876

The beautiful weather yesterday left pro
Tossing Christians no excuse for remainina
from church. The principal promenades o,
the city were thronged by the devout and
their light attire and CHEEKY bearing made
the city look as if it had felt that premature
springtide impulse which, we learn.
has brought forth buds upon the fruit
trees down South and beguiled some
inexperienced birds there into building their
nests Comfortable temperature is great
aid to worship and the multitudes opened
their hearts as the skies were opened to the
warm rays of the sun. A great many of the
sermons had been prepared under the inhu-
ence of the cold weather of Thursday and
Friday, and, therefore, had a compensatine
warmth, so that the worshippers seized their
salient points readily without preliminary
thawing out. Thus, in the Rev. MIR. Hep
worth's sermon on the power of Jesus
blood, we find the following warm passage =


We try 20 get away from these burdens. but God
along takes by force and puts into the
furnace Your child dead, not hot enough your
money gone not not enough vet; then He takes US
and puts into the furnace seven times heated with
out money and without children, and leaves US alone
like Scared tree, and then. perhaps, we learn the



man give in exchange for his soulS"


The vast agglomeration of brickwork.
masonry and humanity which we call New
York is ever a fruitful theme for the preacher,
as it would be for the novelist if we had one
of the power and breadth of Dickens. Its
miseries and its splendors move side by side
and even mingle in q way to illustrate the
greatest lessons of life at every step. No sub
ject can be more touching than that of ''City
Missions" particularly when the work
includes the saving of the body al
well as the saving of the soul The sermon
by the Rev. Morgan Dix at Trinity church
yesterday dealt with this, and in vindicatins
our city from the bad name with which it is
by the thoughtless often exclusively associ-
ated, and pointing out it's splendid efforts on
the side of virtue in It's churches, schools
art homes, bethels missions and charitable
institutions, he did much to encourage thai
stretching of the hand to the lowly and the
fallen which is so much to be desired.
Mr.. Fulton, amid a blaze of scenic acces-
sories, preached patriotic centennial SER
mon and enforced the idea that just now
the nation is fronting new responsibilities,
among which is the problem of assimilatine
our foreign population to American institu-
tions Rev. David Gregg fercely defended
the Bible in the public schools and Rev. j.
Hyatt Smith hotly proclaimed that Popery
must be checked. Mr.. Beecher dwelt on the
school of Christ, and Father Preston, at
St AIMS, denounced the sensuality oil
modern amusements, which lead man to i'm
purity and perdition.
Year: 1876

vised edition of that of Mr.. Payne, is open to
every objection which lies against the latter.
They are identical in repeating the Resump-
tion act of last winter; in postponing re-
sumption until the Treasury and the banks
have reserve of gold equal to thirty per
cent of their circulating notes; in leaving the
present volume of the currency undisturbed
until after such reserves shall have been ac-
cumulated There is oply one point of diff
ference between the two bills Mr. Payne's
bill requires the gold reserve both of the
Treasury and the banks to be accumulated
at the rate of five per cent per annum on the
amount of their circulating notes, whereas
Mr. Morrison's bill does not provide for any
such fixed and definite rate 1t requires
the government to set aside all its surplus
coin for this purpose and the national banks
to apply all the gold interest they receive on
the bonds deposited to secure their circula-
tion to be applied to the same use This
has an appearance of fastening matters
more rapidly than the bill of Mr..
Payne but it is a cunningly contrived
deception. 1t leaves a future democratic
Congress at liberty, if the party should come
into power, to stop the accumulation of gold
in the Treasury altogether by so reducing
the tariff, in accordance with the democratic
tenet of free trade, that only gold enough
would be collected to pay the interest on the
public debt. Mr.. Paynes bill would bind the
government TO accumulate sufficient re-
serve in six years. but Mr.. Morrison's would
leave Congress at liberty to suspend the ac-
cumlation at any time by carrying out the
democratic demand for great reduction of
the tariff Both bills are framed with the
same leading object, which is to postpone
specie payments indefinitely under decep-
tive hard money mask, settling the quarrel
with the Western democrats by giving them
the oyster while the hard money democrats
keep the she'll
Year: 1876

The strike at the Lonsdale and other mills
belonging to the famous manufacturing house
of Brown Ives, on the Blackstone River,
in Rhode Island, is upon question so sim
pie that its wisdom depends entirely upon
the equities in the case. 1t is undeniable
that the reductions in the wages of the oper-
atives during the last few months have been
enormous-t -thirty-three per cent since 1874.
1t is equally plain that one dollar per day is
unremunerative wages for Rhode Island
operatives. But there is question back of
all this upon which the solution of this prob
lem depends, and by which it will be
necessary to judge of the action Of the God
dard Brothers, as we'll as the wisdom of
their work people This is the point raised
by the work people-that the Lonsdale Com
pany is able to sell at fairly remunerative
prices all the cloths which it can manufac-
ture. AS the reduction is based upon the
allegation that the dulness of trade makes it
necessary the truth of this proposition be-
comes an essential element in the settlement
of the trouble. Not even the Ions
dale Company, rich as it is, can
be expected to keep its mills running
at loss merely for the purpose of giving
good wages to its operatives, and the adjust
ment of the difficulty should be made en-
tirely dependent upon this question. The
matter, it strikes us, is one for arbitration,
and if the Goddard Brothers, who, we doubt
not, represent the fairness and iberality of
the distinguished men whom they succeed,
will offer their operatives a settlement by
this plan, it is to be presumed the suggestion
would be acceptable. The operatives in the
employ of Brown 4 Ives have always been
unusually intelligent, and the meeting held
at Lonsdale on Saturday shows them to be
exceedingly moderate and reasonable. Their
position on this question entities them to
respectful consideration and just treatment,
and both on account of the millowners
which cluster in the valleys of the
Blackstone and on the line of the Provi-
dence and Fishkill Railroad, it is impor-
tant that the settlement should be upon
a broader basis than either a successful
strike or an overpowering reduction. If the
present strike is not maintained other man
ufacturers are likely to follow the example
of the Lonsdale company, while its mainte-
nance is equally perilous alike for millown-
ers and operatives. The way to end it hap
PLY for all concerned, and at the same time
to fix a good precedent for the future, is TO
refer the whole matter to three or five COM
petent and disinterested men, for this, at
least in case like the present, is the best
vav for ending strike.
Year: 1876




The cause of amateur rowing in America,
indeed of rowing itself, never received a
severer blow than that struck by the two best
known rowing colleges when they voted
recently to withdraw from the association.
To be sure, they will continue contending
with each other but they have left a contest
to which they were admirably suited and
chosen one as ill-ftted to them as they are
new to it. For rowing in eights there are
two essentials, one of which ordinarily
does not exist in our universities,
and for the other there is no
call or need. The first is men heavy enough
to carry coxswain over not merely three
miles, the uniform course in our college
racing but over four The record taken for
many years together shows that the English
university oarsmen outweigh ours by an
average of ten pounds a man and that the
heavier crews win. While we have individu-
ais who are large enough for this work it
will almost certainly prove too wearing on
our crews as they run. The other innova-
ton -coxswains-is a necessity on a narrow,
crooked stream like those in England, but
on our broad waters is worse than useless
encumbrance, forcing men when tired out to
continue carrying weight, hundred pounds
or more, beside their own. But the greater
harm done lies not in this misstep, but in
making it so easy for several of the other col
leges to leave the association that its disso-
luton after the next race is altogether too
probable. If it comes whatever smaller
gatherings may result in the future will lack
the spur to first class work now existing,
and the time, instead of improving, will
doubtless materially retrograde, thus max
ing our student oarsmen no longer the really
dangerous foe the best of them now are.
The blame will then justly belong to the
first deserters from the association-Yale
and Harvard.
Year: 1876

THE DIABoIIcAL CoNTRIvANcE by which
Thomassen hoped to have sent the Mosel
with all on board to the bottom of the sea
has now been fully disclosed, and it
seems that the very care he en-
ployed in devising it became the in
strument of his own -struction and
the Illustration of his plan. Elsewhere we
publish full details of the unravelling of the
hideous plot, and also report of the indig-
nation meeting of the American colony at
Berlin to protest against the unjust asper-
sions upon America in connection with the
crime of Thomassen by portion of the Ger
man press.
Year: 1876

suffered severely for their fault. All the bit
terness Of the Saturday Revie'O cannot put
Mr. Boucicault on the wrong side, and this
must be his present consolation and that OF
the tens of thousands who sympathize with
him
Year: 1876

The REFORMS which Andrassy's note would
introduce into the local administration Of
the Turkish provinces are sketched in de-
spatch from Vienna They are all needed,
but whether the Sultan can apply them if
ever so willing is not at all certain
Year: 1876

ade is "an intoerable nuisance to which the
Union League refuses any longer to submit"
That is word spoken not day too soon.
Unless a delegation "wholly unpacked anu
unpledged can be conceded, the Union League
"refuses to be bound by the actor" OF the
Convention. This is a real declaration OF IN
dependence. To outsiders ii has long
seemed passing strange Chat men OF
culture and power, character and patriot
ism, allowed themselves to be bossed ana
bartered away by tho Hessians OF the Custom
house clique. As long az the coarse mercena-
ries of q corrupt Administration were allowed
to manage caucus and convention, while the
best men of the Republican party were salts
fed to cast all their influence for any ticket
however nominated, the Union League was
really little better than the respectable figure
head for set Of scamps. II was high time
for a revolution; all honest men will rejoice
that it has come, and will not criticise now
too sharply the long delay.


The closing words of this fine set of res
olutions will ring through the land as the
war cry of those who are fighting corruption,
and that besOtted partisanship which msures
corruption: "Tbe exigencies of tho party as
"well as the country demand President who
"shall be deservedly recognized as a Reformer
Gas well as a Republican, The decisive fact
of the situation is, that no mere partisan can
be elected; that every Republican leader
who has not been actively fighting cor
ruption rests under suspicion, because he
has permitted, without recorded protest
and persistent opposition, those abuses which
have brought dishonOr upon the land If there
are very few who have been thus open in
protest and faithful in warning against fraud,
80 much the worse for the many leaders who,
during all these years Of corruption, have
cared more for party than for country. The
next President, if Republican at all, will be
one who is deservedly recognized as Re
former as we'll as a Republican" If the
rings defeat the nomination of such man,
they defeat and destroy the Republican party


Honoring the Union League for Its timely
words, we must nevertheless add that words
are not enough Men who SEQ what the cOun-
try needs will not do their whole duty II they
merely resolve and demand but do no work.
The time requires earnest, Jealous, we'll
directed work to overcome the corrupt
rings and schemers in the Republican party.
If that effort should fail, if the rings should
defeat any RefOrmer and force upon the party
any candidate not "deservedly recognized as
"Reformer," effort in another direction Will
become the duty of every honest citizen.
Year: 1876

When the Union League speaks ir earnest,
il is the most powerful political clfb in this
country No loyal man will forget che glori-
ous service that il rendered in times OF ma
tional trial. Even in its greatest error-and ITS
members now seem to realize that 1t was
an error TO reflect President Grant
this organization had immense power.
Most heartily We rejoice, therefore, to find
its acknowledged influence exerted braycly on
the right side. In the resolutions adopted on
Thursday night the Union League speaks the
will of millions of voters. If 1t will put forth
all its power. with determined purpose TO give
effect to those declarations, il will do even
more to save tho Republican party from de-
structon than it did in the proud days gone
by TO secure the victory for the cause OF free
dom and justice.


A party run by the bread-and-butter brig
Year: 1876

greater one would be to enforce the lying pre-,
tense of the Administration against poh.ic"i
assessments, OF to go still further ana clean
out tho Administration itself which has ioS-
tered this sort of thing.
Year: 1876

The struggle between the CFspin Society and
some of the boot and shoe manufacturers I'D
this city is exceedingly bitter. 1t will not
help the vorkingmen of New-York to succeed
in this contest with employers, since the result
of that will be to drive the industry out OF
the State
Year: 1876

An utter failure of evidence TO support the
Belknap impeachment stares the House in the
face. The Democratic Committee that let Mr..
Marsh escape may as well admit tho blunder and
shoulder the responsibility for it at once. The
Republicans will of course make all the capital
they can out of such position but the gen.
sral public will only zee in it an occasion for
increasing disgust with both parties.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Blaine has so far recovered that
he made a brief but ringing speech at
the republican convention of his dis
trict, last week. His presence created
great enthusiasm and it was some min
utes before he could proceed. from the
prolonged cheering. After having con-
graduated his old district, upon the har-
mony with which they had made their
nominations for his successor, he said:


Since the second election of Mr.. Lin
coin, no national contest has been more
tar-reaching in its consequences than that
now pending. The democratic party
represent and embody all that there is
in this country of disloyalty and repudi-
alton. / do not say that every democrat
is disloyalist or a repudiator, but it is
patent to the most careless observer that
the converse of the proposition is true.
Mr.. Tlden has the reputation among
his political friends in New York of
being wary, not to say wiry, political
manager. He has also the reputation
of possessing large wealth, and of being
ready to use it to promote political ends.
1t is said that he has marked the State
of Maine as good field for the invest
ment of his political funds, with the
hope of reducing our majority in Sep
tember. Certain well-known democrats,
who are now on the itinerant list in this
state. are said to be part of the mobol-
lied army of Tilden. Watch them, and
follow them, and counteract them and
let them know that the republicans of
Maine are not to be bought, but that it
will require all of Mr.. Tilden's spare
cash to keep his own troops in line, and
to prevent many of them from passing
over to the ranks of the republican 10y
atty and national good faith. Let me
conclude, gentlemen, by thanking you
most heartily for the overwhelming and
almost embarrassing cordiality of your
reception, and by expressing the hope
that, as my health grows frmer, shall
meet you again during this most impor-
tant campaign, and meet you always
with words of cheer and assurances of
victory.
Year: 1876

CURRYING HORSES BY MACHINERY.
"A new invention is being tested here
for horse cleaning by machinery. A re-
volving brush of bristles is worked on
the same principle as those used in the
great hair dressers' establishments, with
the exception that the rotary motion can
be reversed by means of a spherical
handle which can be put at any angle.
The saving of time is enormous, as COM
pared with grooming by hand, and the
machine is said to do the work much
more thoroughly than the man. The
first trial of the machine took place at
the Agricultural Hall and the results
were entirely satisfactory London Let
ter.