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Year: 1876

It is amusing to find one of those ira
ditional jokes which everybody reveres be-
coming reality. There, for instance, is
the story of the rivalry between two BARRIERS
in an English town who kept reducing their
prices until one of them offered to shave his
customers for nothing The other, not
be outdone, put up q sign in these words,
"what do you think? I'll shave you for moth
ing and give you drink" Some Of the
BARRIERS of New York, observing the reduction
in the price Of the HERALD and the down
ward tendency Of prices generally, have de-
termired to make their prices for shaving
five cents. Others, afraid OF the loss of
custom, have not only reduced their prices
to fve cents, but for this insignificant
sum offer ga good shave and good
cigar" 'sa good shave and glass of
beer" and one atrocious barber even
announces 80 good shave and a schooner Of
beer" AS general thing we are in favor of
reduction in prices. But the BARRIERS
method is very like cruelty to animals. The
man who smokes cigars or drinks beer
thereby obtains decided advantage over
the man who does neither; but it must be
confessed he runs o greater risk. In bar
Der shop where you are shaved and receive
cigar it would be bad enough to be COM
pclled to inhals the poisonous atmosphere,
to say nothing of the strangulation and ex-
pectoration that would follow smoking one Of
the weeds. Then we are afraid that the beer
also. especially in the schooner establish
ment, would be as dangerous almost as a
cup Of poison. Apart from all these risks, it
is we'll known from the traditional anecdote
that BARRIERS always punctuate in their heads
and that the famous sign should have read,
ssWhat! do you think I'll shave You for moth
ing and give you q drink" We trust that
nobody else will do anything SO utterly alb
surd. Even the barber is worthy of his hire,
and ten cents is little enough for shave
nowadays. especially when we consider q
tonsorial artists manifold duties to his GUS
toner. 1t is expected Of him that he will
talk his subject SO nearly to death that he
lives as if by miracle; that his up strokes
shall threaten his customers nose and his
down strokes his ear without touching them


that he shall carefully scan the beard SO as
always to go against the grain, and that
by all the means in his power he shall min.
lister to the discomfort of the poor wretch in
his hands Ten cents is little enough fol
such desperate operation, and it is idle te
talk of cigar or schooner Of beer in such
A cnse.
Year: 1876

From every part of the city-as shown by
our article printed on another page OF to-
days HERALp--complaints are pouring in
regarding the disgraceful failure Of our Cro-
ton water supply. We soy disgraceful be-
cause this calamity was avoidable by the
most moderate exercise of engineering skill
and executive foresight We are aware that
the department .scannot control the heav-
ens," but we fear that it, like the water
system it does control, has lost its head in
the presence of the difficulty that now
presents itself 1t is useless, however,
to waste words on the incapacitX dis
PLAYED by the successive Commissioners
and their agents who have brought upon MS
an artificial water famine. The evil is done,
and the question now arises, What are wa
going to do about it? A population OF over
one million cannot be permitted to suffer
the intolerable misery Of prolonged want
of water. The health of the city would soon
exhibit change for the worse that would
render necessary the expenditure Of MILLIONS
of dollars to stop the ravages OF pestilencs
in the overcrowded dwellings Of the poor.
This danger threatens us at the present mo-
ment, and no hesitation must be dis
played in meeting it. We cannot apply
the abundance Of scientific drivel with which
we have been overwhelmed in official re-
ports to the solution of the problem.
Work, real practical work, intelligently
designed and directed can alone save US
from q disastrous prolongation of the present
condition of affairs. There are thousands Of
workmen idle in this city who could be prof
itably employed in embanking and damming
the valleys and streams of the Croton water
shed, so that if Providence does send us
copious rainfall we will have at least tempo
rary reservoirs ready to receive it. The Phila-
delphia Exhibition has number of pumps OF
oil kinds in operation, which will be available
for use in few days. Selections from these
can be made at once. and preparations for
their erection completed within ten days If
the city authorities so will it. The cost
of this plan Of immediate relief may be very
considerable, but there is no time to spare
for such considerations now. We must have
water at any expense, or the consequences
will be appalling. Will the officials for once
get out of their groove and show themselves
equal to the emergency?
Year: 1876

France.


Parties are still divided in France as to
the relation that the yet unpunished Com
munists bear to justice and this issue, on
which passion could rage furiously enough
on either side, might become source OF
trouble if the government were less wise
and moderate than it is. Hitherto the spec
tacle has not been presented in France OF
government that yielded any part OF Its con-
victions because evidence was given that q
great part of the country was against the ex-
treme term of these convictions. Authority
there has assumed that the course proposed
by the government was an Interchangeable
postulate, and that in proportion as the
country opposed such o course the country
was wrong and needed to be suppressed and
dragooned until it penitently recognized
that the government was right, or until 1t
barricaded the streets. This was the course
of French governments in republican re-
gimes, as in all others, and seemed to be less
q Characteristic of any dominant party than
Of French nature. But that it was not nec-
essarily characteristic Of French nature
must be considered as proved by the differ
ent course that the government has several
times pursued in the yet short history of the
existing Republic and for the present Min
istry to yield on the issue named is su-
preme evidence of their purpose not to per-
NIT the success of an effective government
to be compromised by issues that factious
demagogues could utilize to the injury Of
the whole country. To reasonable creatures
outside of France there can be no doubt that
the Communists should be dealt with by the
criminal courts and not under any political
code ) for their revolt was against the will of
the nation, properly declared by the most
fairly chosen Assembly ever seen in that
country. This is the position of the gov
ernment. But there is large party which
holds that the revolt should be covered by
the immunities that republics extend to
political differences; and this is specious,
and can be argued on till eternity. It was
eminently wise, therefore, to agree to the
compromise that only recognized crimes
shall be punished and this, we believe,
yields but little, for the government has not
within year or two punished any Com
munard except for completely in robbery,
murder or incendiarism. The pardon Of
fifty-two participators in the Communistic
insurrection, announced in our dispatches,
is proof that the government in making
the compromise is in earnest.
Year: 1876

The interesting account of the military
operations on the Yellowstone, which we
publish in another column, brings with it
q large grain of comfort. At last some sue
cess begins to attend our arms, and there is
a prospect that the hostile Indians may re-
ceive such lesson during the winter that
there will be no need for ON expensive spring
campaign. Too much credit cannot be
given to General Miles and Colonel
Otis for the promptness, energy and
decision they have displayed in deal
ing with such bands of Indians as
have shown themselves in the vicinity of
their commands If their success has not
been as complete and the punishment, of
the hostiles as severe as could be desired,
the fault lies not with these officers, but in
the failure of the administration to supply
them with the necessary means. Perhaps it
is only just to say that circumstances pre-
vented the carrying out Of General Sheri-
dams order for the stationing of cavalry on
the Yellowstone, and it is to the absence of
this arm that the Indians owe their escape
from exemplary punishment. However,


the country asks rather for the restoration of
peace and the placing of the Indian ques-
ton on sound basis than for vengeance,
and will be satisfied SO long as this end is
attained. The establishment Of posts on
the Yellowstone and Tongue rivers has been
severe and fatal blow to the hostile In
dams. 1t deprives them of their last place
of safe refuge and cuts them off from
the great buffalo range of the North. So
long as they could raid on the bor-
ders in the spring and summer and


retire in safety here in winter they


cared very little for the hostility of the
troops, and welcomed war as an exciting
pastime in which they could indulge with
comparative safety. All that is now over
the tramp of the soldier and the axe blow of
the pioneer are heard in the last hunting
ground of the Sioux, and they know they
must either surrender or perish.


The attack by our troops which followed


the remarkable but futile parley between
General Miles and Sitting Bull was success
ful, and though the Indians suffered very little
loss in men, they seem to have become CON-
pletsly demoralized. Taking advantage OF
Sitting Bulls retreat, two powerful bands, the
Minneconjous and the Sans Arcs, deserted
the hostile camp and surrendered to General
Miles, giving up five of their principal chiefs


as hostages for their good faith. This was
really q great success. 1t has taken his
principal warriors from Sitting Bull and left
that remarkable savage q wanderer and Q
fugitive. The victory is none the less i'm.
portant for being comparatively bloodless,
and the country will fail in its duty if il


does not mark in a special manner its ap
probation Of General Miles prudence,
energy and great success.
Year: 1876

AdAo AiCSloCnSAul CuuNhSS thC AAASaA@D s'esS
stood alone in the field of independent jour
nalism, in which ''the harvest is great but
the laborers are few" The HERALD alone
has acted in the spirit of Washington's
patriotic counsels in this interesting ami
versary, when even the party journals should
have paid them some respect How ire
pressible is party spirit when nearly all the
independent journals have been swept into
the maelstrom!


We have, nevertheless, undiminished faith
in the stability of the Republic, because it is
in the manifest tendency of things that all
the greater organs of public opinion will yet
become independent. child in its first
tottering efforts to walk is subject to fire.
quent falls, but after each fall it will again get
upon its feet and at last acquire firm tread
and steady gait. 1t is chief duty Of the
press to moderate the baneful excesses Of
party virulence and to show how much more
important are the things in which citizens
agree than those on which they differ. The
hollowness of our partisan calumnies is
illustrated by the promptness with which





are dead. "But die and she'll adore you, !"
said the satirist to husband who had ter
magant wife. Our political parties are ter
magants of the same sort. When Jefferson,
when jackson, when Clay, when Lincoln
and the list might be indefinitely increased
who were SO foully abused in the days OF
their influence had paid the last debt of ma
ture, their political assailants united to do
them honor and venerate their memory.
These posthumous Acknowledgements are
neither insincere nor undiscriminating.
They have never been paid to men of the
type Of Arnold or Burr, or any who did not
mean well to the. Republic. The HERALD
aims to do the same discriminating justice to
our public men while living that posterity
will award them when dead.


Our last words to the electors are not in
fammatory, like those of the rabid party
organs, but quieting and assuaging, like
the counsels Of Washington. Whichever
party succeeds, it will be watched and held
in check by formidable opposition. This
is necessary consequence of the closeness
of the contest Whether Governor Hayes or
Governor Tilden shall be chosen Presi-
dent his administration will be con-
fronted with vigilant and powerful op-
position, strongly represented in Con-
gress, and efficient for preventing noxious
measures. That portion of the press
which has lapsed from independence
in the fervor of an excited canvass will re-
cover its position and aid in bringing just
public opinion to bear on the government.
The party which succeeds will have too
feeble majority to defy public sentiment,
and the independent press will be in posi-
ton to exert controlling influence on the
measures of the administration. High as
party spirit has run during the canvass we
trust and hope it will not break out in
scenes of violence on election day; and, this
danger escaped. it will be safe to take o
cheerful view of the future.
Year: 1876

The joint discussions between Judge Settle
and Governor Vance, the rival candidates for
the Governorship of North Carolina, have
closed, after an interesting canvass, which
reflected great credit upon the orators on
both sides and the party which they re-
spectively represented. These discussions
teach one important lesson which has been
too generally overlooked in dealing with the
Southern questionable necessity of having
two political parties in the South, cham
pioncd by able and worthy men. If the
republican party in South Carolina, Missis-
sippi and Louisiana had few such leaders
as it has in North Carolina and Virginia,
sues of the day, there would be compara-
lively little danger of negro domination.
Then the colored vote would be the object
of political rivalry, and there would be negro
democrats as well as negro republicans.
While the whites are all on one side it is,
perhaps, only natural that the negroes
should all be on the other; but in the end
race or color will not be the test Of political
sentiment even in the South. Probably o
"solid South" will accomplish this result
sooner than it can be accomplished in any
other way, since concentration of power
always leads to dsintegration and division.
However this may be, it is clearly to the in
terest of the whole country that both parties
in the South should have both black and
white following, and we know of no way by
which this can be so easily accomplished as by
means of joint discussions similar to those
which Settle and Vance carried on with such
good results. Both of them being able men
and courteous even in their criticisms, each
commanded respect from the other and the
others followers. In consequence the sec
tionalism of party disappeared entirely from
the canvass, and the people were asked
simply to choose between the parties and the
candidates as a matter of political expe-
diency. If there had been more of this spirit
in the South after reconstruction there would
not now be black side and white side
and conflict OF races Unfortunately the
Southern people arrayed themselves on one
side. and the blacks were left to the control
Year: 1876

To DINE AT GUILDHALL is a great social
advance on dining at the Mermaid, and il
Lord Mayor Cotton cannot spin good poetry
he paid fine tribute to art when he invited
the authors and actors of London-the wefa
and the warp of the drama-to eat with him in
state. What yarns they reeled off after the
good fare had been disposed Of is chattily
told in our London letter. All honor to
Lord Mayor Cotton, who remembered Ham,
let's injunction to Polonius about the
players. "see they are we'll bestowed"
Year: 1876

In ITALY the progressists or radicals seem
again to have the best of the appeal to the
people. If the government is to pass ulti-
mately into their hands it will be the better
republicanism gradually educated In the
responsibilities of Office. The world may
require 'slittle wisdom" to govern it, but
the qualities which make stable government
possible are many, and they can only be
acquired by gradual experience.
Year: 1876

Owing TO the action OF portion OF the and
ncwsmen, who arc determined that tie public shall
have the HERALD at three per copy II they
can prevent It, have made arrangements oplicc tho
HERALD In the hands OF all readers the reduced
price. Ncwsboys purchase any quantity they may
desire No 1895 Broadway and No. . Ann street
Year: 1876

IQelT l6tucIS dAu tuAb Ia III CiSCbAOA
which the two parties have made substan-
TALLY the same declarations of policy in
their respective platforms. Could there be
a more melancholy demonstration of the
untamable ferocity of party spirit, or more
signal vindication Of the grave warnings of
Washington?


A still more noteworthy evidence of the
headlong tendencies of party spirit is fur
nished by its conquest Of portion of the
American press from which something bet
ter might have been expected. Immediately
after the Presidential election of 1872 quite a
number of the ablest and most widely cir
culated newspapers in the United States
enlisted under the banner Of inde-
pendent journalism. Nothing ever gave
us greater pleasure, since we believe it to
be one important Office of the press to mod
crate the heat of party contests, check
the excesses of party spirit, and,
to repeat the language of Washington,
'by force Of public opinion to mitigate and
assuage it," The prosperous journals of the
country have no pecuniary temptation to
lend themselves to partisan objects. The
day is long past when tho leading journals
of our larger cities needed to court the favor
or fear the frowns of politicians. But our
Joy in seeing so many journals ranged on
the side OF independence was premature and
short lived. 'They did run well for sea-
son;" but they have nearly all succumbed to
PARTY spirit In The Asst aesious trial. pusina
Year: 1876

stay may even now be decided in the
Degati i've by the Counlniss toner's. These
Objectionable pieces Of art are nearly all
oi women, but this is not her only rep
resenfatlon. We will leave the Art
Gallery and make hasty visit TO the
Women's Pavilion, where we trust we
will find something of different
Character We see the engine and ask
TO be shown the engineer, and TO our
surprise a beautiful young woman is
pointed out TO us. Her name is Emma
Allison, and she is very beautiful in APP
pearance and is dressed as neatly as
though she was going 10 DRAWN &
room She is by birth a Canad ian but
has spent much Of her time in the United
States-sbe has been familiar with en-
glnes from early life, but this is her first
practical experience. We find many
other women engaged in various ways.
Among the inventions here, we will
name-a bath chair. n life-saving mat
tress- griddle greaser, a dish drainer,
various dress charts, a babys exercising
corset, needle threader for sewing
machines an invalids chair, a smooth
ing iron, awindow shutter and In stener-
trunk hinge, postage stamp mo istene + {;
there are a great many IN ore W hich we
cannot think Of mentioning. They are
mostly Of some practical utility If we
would see woman in the grandeur OF
her usefulness and power, We m ust visit
the w Women's Pavilion.


ALPHA SIGMA
Year: 1876

THE letter of Nathan Appleton, urging
the immediate passage of bill providing
for funding large part of the national debt
at four per cent. should command the prompt
attention of Congress. At this time there
is in the money markets of Europe very
large amount of capital seeking investment.
The general alarm existing over the Eastern
question and the high credit of this country
combine to afford a rare opportunity for
placing these bonds. By this act of funding
the Democratic House can save ten times the
sum of money it purposes To save by pairing
down the appropriation bills and reducing
the salaries of half-paid clerks. But the
House prefers to make political capital.
Months ago the Senate passed a bill by
which saving of one-fourth was provided
for in the interest now paid on two hundred
millions of six per cent. bonds. This bill
the house refuses to touch, and lets pass
without improving the best opportunity for
years to negotiate bonds bearing low rate of
interest.
Year: 1876

PRESIDENT GRANT has addressed letter to
eX-Secretary Bristow, who is now at Sarato-
ga Springs with his family, in relation to the
matter of the latter's position before the
whiskey ring investigating committee Of the
House. 1t will be remembered that when
Secretary Bristow was before the committee
the other day he declined to answer certain
questions about Cabinet transactions, on the
ground that all Cabinet consultations were
matters of the highest confidence with which
the House had nothing to do, and he shell
tered himself under this privilege. President
Grants letter releases Mr.. Bristow from all
obligations of this character, either expressed
or implied, and advises him 10 Withhold no in
formation from the committee under his
privilege. The President writes that he has
no fears that any thing Mr.. Bristow can say
will be of injury to him or to the public, but
on the contrary, many misunderstanding
and misconceptions of the true condition of
things may be corrected.
Year: 1876

THE only hope of Democratic success next
fall is in united Democratic South. The
Democrats expect and intend TO carry every
ex-rebel State, South Carolina perhaps ex-
cepted. Their only fear is that the strong
arm of the federal government may interfere
to secure fair election. Take away the
troops and they care nothing for Republican
majorities. They have promised the South
government aid to the Texas Pacific rail-
way, government assistance for the construc-
ton and maintenance of levees along the
Mississippi, and the repayment of the cotton
tax, and in return they count on its electoral
votes. If Tilden should be elected, it would
be by the South, and he will have a great
debt of gratitude to discharge.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
ncations that are not used.
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal
Year: 1876

THESE soulless corporations are at it
again. Here is the Reading railroad which
had to omit paying dividend last year on
its twenty-five million dollars of capital ow-
ing to the striking of its coal miners, now
taking the miners to the Centennial free of
charge, paying their charges at Philadelphia,
and employing guides to show them round.
Year: 1876

The culvert between Madison and Monroe
streets, became so swollen from the great
amount Of water fallen, that its walls could
not contain the volume, and 1t broke the
sidewalk on Fourth street to considerable
extent, and became 20 high on Front street
that it became impossible. A small boy
would have been carried through the cul-
vert on Frort street, had it not been for a
man standing near by, who rescued him.
Year: 1876

The New York SUa is in favor of shut
ting ont all dead heads from the Centennial
Exposition, and putting the price Of odmiss-
ion at the low figure Of % cts, We endorse
the. sentiment, md 90 little further we
are in favor Of having the exhibition open
every day in the week There is no Justice
in closing iton Sunday. Every day in the
week is a sabbath TO some civilized nation,
It is not christian exhibition exclusively
We invite the whole world, and should not
parade our pccularitics before it. Let it
represent all sects but favor none