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Year: 1875

The army is at present receiving ser
ious attention through the reports Of the
different commanders, all of whom com
plain of the manner in which our Iegis-
lators deal with the military organiza-
tions, and prove to the satisfaction of
any reasonable thinker that instead Of q
gain, serious and unnecessary loss is
9ccasioned by repeatedly arranging and re-
arranging the standard, reducing and re-
reducing the strength, and thereby injur-
inc the effective condition of the service.
AS this treatment Of the army has been
continued under protest of its ablest and
most experienced officers, it is evidently
nothing more than cloak used by So
called refOrmers to withdraw public at
tention from fragrant abuse Of power and
useless souander of the Nations wealth.
But whether the present system OF organ
ization is effective or not, or whether de-
fects are more easily remedied by other
methods, is not at present our concern.
The interest attached to the army by our
people, may be said to have begun with
the first military establishment IN the
Territory, and will never be lessened un-
til the very pressing demand for settle
ment has been fulfilled. Let the reports
be what they may, or let Congress as
sumo any attitude it pleases, no lack OF
interest will be occasioned thereby il this
Territory towards those who protect the
frontiers and preside over the safety OF
otherwise exposed homes. There are
many reasons for this feeling towards the
army-not the army Of distinguished
Generals. however well versed in constl
tutional law they may be; not the army
Of fashionable aides, whose experience Of
military life does not extend beyond street
parades or ballroom tactics; but the
army of officers and soldiers, rank and
file, who perform the arduous duties re-
quired of frontier commands. The Ter
ritory must profit by even a temporary
addition Of such men to its population;
our merchants, freighters, and farmers
would be substantially benefited by the
increase; an additional demand for labor
would consequently follow, and thus the
laboring people would also share IN the.
profit. Beside these important consider
ations, we require more troops for pro
tection-prOtectiO for our frontier trade,


protection for the advance guard Of our.
future State Militia. The immigrant
who believes IN the boasted liberality OF
our government thinks that our frontiers
are guarded in the interest of humanity
and for the safety Of adjoining localities.
Alas how far from correct is this sur
mise. Only when TO recede would be at
tended with greater difficulties than an
attempt to advance does the pioneer dis
cover his mistake. The few scattered
forts where mere handfuls Of soldiers are
maintained afford little or no protection
to the homes Of the settlers, and only
when the savage crawls stealthily up and


stampedes his herds, leaving him, per
hans. without ) uaatina Of his hare. earned
Year: 1875

Carlyle has declined to be 4 Grand
Gross Of the Order Of the Bath and
Tennyson has declined to be a baronet.
This is a sort Of modesty which IS really
an evidence of pride. Ii IS saying In
effect that Dir. Carlyle and Mr. Tennyson
are beyond the reach 81 any honors
which the Government can bestoW upon
them.
Year: 1875

Some republicans Of Massachusetts, are
making serious effort to nominate Charles
Francis Adams for Governor The lesson
that party received last autumn has not been
lost upon men as wise as Vice President
Wilson, Governor Boutwell, and others. The
tidal wave" which swept republican Massa-
chusetts into the control Of the democracy
was too significant to be underrated or over
looked. Since then the republicans have
been on their good behavior. Their task
has been rendered difficult by the admirable
administration of Governor CASTOR. Massa-
chusetts sees that, notwithstanding demo-
crat is in her executive chair the sun shines,
the rain falls, the crops grow and Goldfish
still come to Gloucester. They see that a
democrat in Office makes very little difference
in the state of affairs, and consequently the
leaders of the republican party feel that the
only way to break the power Of Governor
CASTOR and the democracy is to nominate
the best men.


The republican party is also in condition
Of purifcation. The old mansion has gone
to decay and is overrun with vermin. There
have been strange odors permeating it's halls,
indications of typhoid and malaria. So from
the President down there has been general
process of disinfection, the use of quick
lime, carbolic acid and other poison-destroy-
ing Ingredients. In New York the party.
after having been quite content with all
manner of Indifferent people, made desper-
ate effort to put John Bigelow and Governor
Morgan and William M. Evarts on its ticket
at Saratoga. That high-minded politician,
George William Curtis, was made whitewasher
for the occasion. But Mr.. Evarts and Mr..
Morgan and Mr. Bigelow did not care to be
used as the disinfectants of the party which
had no use for them in its days of power,
when nomination for oflic9 was election.
We question if Mr. Adams will consent to be
used as a kind of political carbolic acid,
even to purify the republican sewers Of
Massachusetts, II is possible that he may
regard the currency question as so impor-
tant that he will take the lead of the party in
the hope of stemming the imitation tide as it
comes from tho West. Otherwise there is
nothing in the proposed nomination to at
Year: 1875

their sense of independence. Had the en-


ployers been wise they would have avoided


these troubles by accepting the first offer Of
submission and refraining from measures


which seem more like punishment and


humiliation than protection of their own
interests. Wilfulness and passion on one
side tend to provoke these bad qualities
on the other, and they are less excusable in
intelligent employers than in the deluded
work people. The mill owners should not
be insensible that they have kindled resent
ments which will not die with this occasion,
but be harbored as an undying grudge in
the breasts of people who will take the first
opportunity to wreak their revenge. The
conditions they so needlessly impose look
too much like trampling on the sensi-
bilities of the conquered and striking
men when they are down" 1t is
defensible enough in point of legal right, but
it is not magnanimous, and we doubt if it is
even prudent. 1t was triumph of the en-
ployers for the operatives to come to their
terms and confess that their strike was fail
ure and blunder. The loss, modification
and distress of these poor people should have
been deemed sufficient punishment with
out trampling on them when they were down
and provoking them to passionate resistance.
Year: 1875

TEXAS The movement to raise subscrip-
tions for the relief of the suffering Texans
continues under the best auspices. We
trust that it will be attended with gratifying
results. We regret that Mayer Wickham did
not see his way toward taking prominent
part in this work. His announcement that
he could do nothing officially is not satisfac-
tory If there is time when the Mayor of
New York should act officially it is in
response to the call of humanity Mayor
Hall did not hesitate to do so when Chicago
was burning and the cry came from the West
for instant succor. Our Mayor could do
graceful thing ON behalf of the city of New
York by taking the lead in this Texan move
ment, by initiating the example of his
brother, the Mayor of Boston, who promptly
sent despatch to Texas announcing that
the people had subscribed q large sum of
money for the relief of the sufferers. He
gave direction and conference to the benev-
olent impulses of Boston This is a much
more important function than receiving rifle
teams and reviewing professions on st.
Patrick's Day.
Year: 1875

Mr. DELANo in recapitulating his duties
for the last four years, says that they en-
braced the supervision of the Land Office.
the Indian Bureau, the Pension and Patent
mass of miscellaneous business unknown to
any except those connected with the public
service" This is true, and it is precisely be-
cause that mass Of miscellaneous business
was unknown to the people that they were
desirous to have Mr. Delano retire.
Year: 1875

NJ Louis Blanc and others who believe
with him have taken ground against the
French Republic as it now stands. Louis
Blanc voted against it in spite of his party
and his desire to sustain the party. He now
proposes to form a political group that will
act alone in the Assembly. The enemies of
Louis Blanc call the new party the ''irrecon-
cilables" and say that they propose nothing
but chaos and will be content with no form
of government. Louis Blanc answers that
the Assembly now in existence should not
have formed constitution that it was not
convoked for that task that the will of the
nation should be expressed, and that it is as
impracticable to expect republic from an As
sembly composed ofroyalists and priests as sit
would be to expect peaches from an apple
tree" He and his friends tell us they fore
saw that an Assembly of this kind would in
vest the President with even more than royal
power that the Senate which it created
''would be one in which Jesuits and the
Bonapartists could hardly fail to have their
own way that such a Senate, in harmony
with an executive like MacMahon, command
ing the army, would be able to stamp out
and emasculate the representatives of the
people, and that the Republic of France would
be governed by men who ''held the Republic
in adherence" and would in time ''make it
odious to the people," M. Louis Blanc
argues further in justification Of these views
that thus far the Republic has done nothing
to merit the confidence of the republicans !;
that it is reactionary; that Bonapartists are
in Office that the state of siege con-
tinues, and that the Assembly is no nearer
dissolution than it was a year ago.


The logic of Louis Blanc's position is per-
feet. At the same time we think it would be
a mistake for him and his friends to injure
the new Republic by over zeal 1t must
grow slowly. even as it did in America The
men who founded our Republic were as con-
servative, comparatively speaking, as
MacMahon and Buffet, and there was as
much difference between the republicanism
of Washington and Hamilton and that of
Jefferson as between that of Louis Blanc and
NJ. Theirs. But our early radicals like JEFF
ferson saw that it was wise to support the
Republic and to strengthen Washington,
and to win over the conservative elements of
the country by showing them that the effect
of republican institutions was not to disturb
society, but to give the people liberty and
order and peace. Marshal MacMahons Re-
public is not by any means ideal. 1t will do
many things grievous to republican minds I;
but after MacMahon, if republicans are wise,
we may have party and a leader who will
do for France what jefferson did for
America namely, make it possible for a
government of the largest liberty to exist in
harmony with law, precedent and authority.
Year: 1875

CABINET CHANGES. A well-informed writer
in Washington gives elsewhere some gossip
about the resignation of Secretary Delano
and about the Cabinet in general, which is
interesting at this time. He recalls the fact
that Mr. Delano, who has Of late been so
anxious to retire from public life, at one time
Rspired to be Secretary of the Treasury and
came very near the attainment of his hopes;
and he gives a curious inside view of the
divergent sentiments Of the Cabinet.
Year: 1875

ARCTIC EXPLORATION. We are glad to hear
a good account of the Swedish Arctic expe-
dition. The warm attack made upon the icy
barriers Of the Pole this year by so many
nations ought to be successful. Some of these
days the Pole must surrender and we hope
the time is not distant.
Year: 1875

CARDINAL McCLosKEY's interview with
Cardinal Antonelli will probably alarm those
good and timid people who see in the Pope's
recent recognition of the Catholic Church in
this country deep laid plot Of the Jesuits
to overthrow the government but nothing
could be more natural than that those ven-
cradle dignitaries should consult with each
other upon ecclesiastical affairs. The
majority Of people have not yet been able 10
believe that the good Cardinal McCloskey
has any evil designs against the Republic
under which he was born.
Year: 1875

AN ELECTION for members of the Cortes will
soon be held in Spain, and its result is likely
to make some change in the political COM
plexion Of the government The republicans
will have chance to show whtther their in
Huencc has declined as the upholders of the
monarchy have recently pretended.
Year: 1875

MURDER, OR WHAT?-An excursion train
was run from Philadelphia to New York on
Sunday last On its return to Philadelphia,
when within the city limits, it collidcd with
a passenger car and dummy. Five persons
were killed, seven dangerously and thirteen
slightly injured Such a catastrophe as this
must be the result of criminal careless
nAss- There can be no conceivable excuse
Year: 1875

WALL STREET YESTERDAY Currency,
measured by the closing price Of gold, was
worth only 1898 on the dollar Gold
opened at 116s and closed at 1863 Foreign
exchange was dull Money on call easy
Stocks generally lower
Year: 1875

Some of our contemporaries are urging the
election of a republican Senate this year, on
the ground that such body will hold a
wholesome check on the democratic Execu-
tive This position might be well taken pro-
vided the Governor did not possess the con-
fdence of the people and had not signalized
himself as a Jealous and faithful champion
of administrative reform. If we had an Ex-
ecutive whose principles were doubtful, OF
who would be likely to promote and approve
corrupt legislation, it might be wise to fetter
his hands and block the wheels of govern
ment. In such case inaction might be
better than action. But if any relief is to be
afforded to the State, and especially to the
city of New York, it must come from the un-
doing of what has been done by former
Legislatures by the repeal of laws passed
by republican Senators and Assemblymen in
the interest of democrats who have been con-
signed to felons' cells or driven into exile
mainly through the we'll directed efforts OF
Governor Tilden.


New York has never suffered more severely
from bad legislation than in years when the
political power has been divided. and when
neither party has had direct responsibility.
The bargains made at such times enabled
Tweed and his associates to secure their mill
ions of plunder. If the people believe that
Governor Tilde4 can be trusted to give us
substantial reform, to bring the State and
city governments back to the principles oi
economy and honesty, and to relieve prop
1,.,-1 k1a
wisest thing they can do is to give him
legislative majority that will strengthen his
hands and enable him to carry outhis policy.
To be sure, the election Of democratic
Senate would turn out of Office number Oh
republican harbor masters and port wardens,
but the interests of these gentlemen can
hardly be accepted as Of sufficient impor.
tance to outweigh the interests of good
government. The atmosphere of the State
Legislature has been unsavory for the past
fifteen years. both under republican and
democratic control We have now Cover
nor who certainly exhibits energy in the
cause of administrative reform, whose infu-
ence over his party cannot be questioned,
and who seems to possess the confidence OF
the people. If he should have to encounter
partisan opposition from the Legislative
majority next winter he could not be ex-
pected to carry his policy to successful
issue. No responsibility would attach to
him in case of failure. On the other hand
if the people strengthen him by giving him
good working majority in the Senate and AS
sembly, he must fulfil the promises he has
made and satisfy. the expectations he has
raised, or stand condemned as an impostor.
Year: 1875

WAsHINGroN, April l2.-Among the
later rumors OF Cabinet changes are to
the effect that Attorney General Will
iams will soon retire from his present
position He does not absolutely deny
the truth of the report, but admits it Is
probable he may before long engage in
other pursuits. Some of his most inti-
mate friends say from indications he will
resign at the end of the present fiscal
year. if not sooner.


Commissioner Ingersoll to-day held EX-
Marshal Kinds, accused of completely in
mail frauds in $500 bail to await the
action OF the grand Jury.
Year: 1875

THE New REsERvolR.-Some of the men,
bers of the Committee on Water Of the City


Council were engaged on Saturday in getting
up complete history of the new reservoir
flom the time the Mayor sent his message to


the Council in relation TO the number Of per-
sons in the city then out Of employment up
to the present time. The City Engirear is
also engaged in preparing detailed state
ment" for the City Council. These reports
will probably be presented to the Board of
Aldermen at their meeting on Monday next.
Year: 1875

LOWELL, Mass, April 17.-The wanpis
gradually giving out in all the mills, and as
it does so one after another is compelled to
discharge its help. All the rug.spinners
were discharged this morning until Monday
The agents have made a careful estimate and
say that in less than aweek three thousand
operatives will be out of employment. Tha,
will be substantially, the basis on which The
miNs can run Indefinitely. That is about
two-lhirds of the full average capacity OF
most of the corporations. "
Year: 1875

A Public School building, to cost over $4 900
before the second sale. The percentage of the
last sale devoted to the erection of this build
ing amounted to over 5000, and the same
pa per cent. on farm property will be given
for the same purpose from the proceeds of the
next sale
Year: 1875

for I have to work far into the night
It is the person we addressed as the
reverend who takes my place here
That pious gentleman is the son of one
of Poland's martyred priests. Tonight
my work here draws to a close. You
would be surprised did / tell you the
amount Of money | have collected and
transmitted abroad for the sacred cause
Clerks at Brown Bros and Belmont's
were amazed at the appearance of a
miserable looking object like me buying
such bills of exchange. Now there will
be war between France and Germany
If France is successful, she incurs the
enmity of Russia; if Germany conquers
it will be the same thing. But we won't
90 into politics of the highest grade
All we care for is that there is going to
be trouble in Europe, not for the next
few years only, but for twenty years
to come, and when thieves
fall out there may be chance for Po-
land. Remember me always as Quasi,
who robbed an Irishwoman of her goat s
milk. What a delicious draught it was
Now, adieu," and we shook hands and
parted.


Some months ago I was on an ocean
steamer, bidding a friend goodbye. In
the steerage passed an old gentleman
quietly sitting on trunk, who was So
lacing himself with a pinch of snuff.
recognized him as the right reverend of
Quasi's farewell dinner. ssAnd Quasi y
l asked, :what of him? l met YOU ,
sir, once at dinner with Quasi :"


HQuasi," said the old gentleman
"Ah, yes, I remember him! yes, that
was his name here. I had almost for
gotten about him. Oh, he was shot by
the Prussians or French, forget which !,
for spy. Quite capital kind of a
person; you were friend of hisP Quasi
bore name illustrious in our unhappy
Poland. He made the twenty-sixth man
in the same family, in this century
alone, who gave up his life for his
mother. It would be of no use to tell
his name. You Americans mangle our
names. You have hardly yet decided
how to spell the names of our Polish
heroes who died in your revolutionary
times. Yes; I am going over for the
cause. Things are moving. may not
live to see our mother free; even you
who are younger may not, but your
children may. So you knew Quasi,
and have thought of him? Goodbye, !,
and never cease thanking the Almighty
that you are free." And saying this,
the old man, with trembling hand
drew breviary from his pocket and
was soon absorbed in its contents.
Year: 1875

A recent exciting boat-race at Wash.
ington has demonstrated the fact that


aquatic sports are no longer to be en-


tirely monopolized by muscular athlet-


les OF the sterner sex. In this particu.


lar regatta the contest was between five


double-sculls, in one of which a young


lady, Miss Antoinette Bliss, pulled an


oar. Miss Bliss is described as being


quite young, probably 20, little above


the average female height, of fair COM


plexion, with light hair and blue eyes


not stout in the sense of being corpu-


lent, she has well-developed figure,


the result of her athletic exercises; and
the broad, solid shoulders and solid i,


wen-turned arms gave evidence of a
strength not often found in young wo-
man, as was proven by her splended eff
fort in the race. She was attired in a
skirt of black silk, with jaunty jacket
of nautical cut. On her left breast was
a pretty button-hole bouquet of tea
roses. Her walking hat had been dis
placed by a white silk handkerchief
bound in boating style about her fore
head. On her hands for protection she
wore a loosely-ftting pair of gloves,
and thus attired she was ready for the
race. The boats got in their respective
positions in good order, and at the sig
nal started away well together. Miss
Bliss and Mr.. Lambie, after the second
dip shot little ahead, and then, as if
to force the race from the start, they
bent to their oars with fearful vigor,
pulling at least forty strokes to the min
ute; which of course gave them lead.
The lady thought she could hold this
gait, but she soon discovered her error.
Nothing short Of steam engine could
do it the distance they had to row, and
as soon as the first dash was over the
speed was decreased, and the second
and third boats caught and passed them
after about the first half mile, and in
this manner they rounded the stake
boat. The plucky lady and her COM
panion worked well and hard, but it
was impossible to regain the strength
they had thrown away, and the home
stake was reached by the first boat in
10 minutes; second 1915, and Miss
Bliss and Mr.. Lambie in 10: :25, after a
race that had been gallantly rowed and
well contested.
Year: 1875

Sergeant will you permit me to see
what drunken women you have arrested
tonight" asked neatly dressed, stout,
intelligent looking young girl of Ser
gcant Meakin, Of the Mulberry street po-
lice. The request, although contrary to
police rules, was granted, and the young
woman went down into the cells. Com
ing back in few minutes she showed
the names Of two prisoners whom she
said she would assist in their trouble.


Sergeant, as you seem astonished at
my VISIT said Anna Kennedy, Il will tell
you lis purpose. Three weeks agoI took
the first glass OF wine ever took in my
life, at friends house. While going
home felt its effects and came to this
station, told you Of my mishap, and you
allowed me to sit in your back room.
While there I saw miserable women
dragged in. Since then l have gone
night after night to the different stations
in this city in the hopes of being able to
reclaim or assist poor women. You will
find my name in your own blotter. I
have determined to devote my life to A.
sist in reforming poor women"


There was not dry eye IN the police
station as Anna Kennedy, bowing to her
hearers, quietly passed out.-New York
Sun.