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Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, June 2l.--Senator Nor
rill'e nomination and continuation, as Sec
retary of the Treasurer: both took place
while he was temporarily absent from the
Senate in his committee room and without
his having notified the President that he
would accept the appointment.


The news that the nomination had been
either received or confirmed by the Senat
was therefore a surprise to him, as he still
held the offer of appointment under consid-
GRAFTON.


He informs his friends, this evening, that
he had not yet decided whether or not he
will accept the position, but in case he ar
riyes at an affirmative conclusion he will
not enter upon the duties of his Office until
Year: 1876

BY Associated Press.


New YORK, June 2l.-The stock, gold,
cotton and produce exchanges will be closed
from the first to the fifth Of July. Forty
two firms in the iron business in this city
have also decided to close during the same
period.
Year: 1876

Extracting tannin from sweet Tern ana
alder is a new industry which has sprung
up in the county Of Hancock. FROM
d ton OF sweet fern a barrel OF extract
tannin is made worth So, and also bar
rel of second quality, worth 500 per
Dbl From the alder, one cord will make
one barrel OF extract, worth $40; while
from hemlock bark one cord will make a
barrel OF first class extract worth $50
The sweet fern is dried twentyfour hoars
before being hauled to market. and the
price paid tor it at the factory is So per
ton, with Zoe per mile for hauling.
Year: 1876

A boy in Brockton was much exercised for
fear he would not know his father when they
both reached Heaven. His mother eased him
by saying: 'eAlI you will have to do is to look
for an angel with red nose"
Year: 1876

DREAMING TO SOME PURPOSE. Mrs. Al
len of Calaveras, Cal, lives Oh the stage
road between Railroad Flat and West
Point, and she dream strange dreams.
On Oct 24th her house was entered by
robher during her absence, and her watch
and pockebook were stolen. That night
she saw in her dream a tibet enter her
house, take the watch, and follow the
trail up the river. In the morning She
whistled for her doc, mounted her horse,
and followed the trail up stream ride
of a mile brought her to an Old abandoned
quartz MILL and IN the ruins she discover
ed the man she had seen III her dream.
She accused him Of the theft, but he stout
" denied having committed it, Dismount-
inc and arming herself with u stout club,
she coolly informed him that she knew he
| had the watch and money. She let loose
the dog upon him. and dealt him Il blow
upon the head which ielled him to the
ground. She found her watch and her
wallet in his boots Mrs Allen of Gala
| yeras then went home
Year: 1876

There are many occurrences in nat
ural development that we call phe-
nomena which are but the results of
natural laws. The hidden causes of
events of daily occurrence we cannot
comprehend nor the closest scrutiny
elucidate. For instance the earth
quake, tidal wave, sudden floods and
famines, all come under an unerring
system of nature. Again, in yester-
days issue of the HERALD wei chron-
icled the occurrence of no less than
two murders in our State, and two
suicides, all occurring within the
space of twenty-four hours, one of the
former taking place in our own COM
munity and producing a sensation
that we have not experienced for a
long time. 1t has been often re-
marked that the Pacific Coast is pecu-
liar for such incidents. This is true
to certain extent, but the real cause
of their prominence lies in the fact
that as pared with the larger cities
they are out of proportion to our pop.
ulation; but the reason of these events
is conceded by many profound think
ers to be the fastness of our lives, an
excessive desire and strife to obtain
wealth, which induces over-working
af the brain. Still, with the apparent
preponderance of such occurrences
here, they do not affect the general
average of such instances the world
over. However, in our own commu-
nifty we are taught this lesson by such
events: that health aud enduring
prosperity are more surely attained
by legitimate system of business and
proper regard for the laws of nature.
Periodically we hear the remark made
that within q given period of time
there has been q wonderful flood 81
such phenomena. BUCKLE, in his
"History of Civilization" asserts, and
demonstrates by actual statistics, that
during a given number of years the
same proportionate amount of catas-
trophies occur with unvarying reg
ularity; but to make up
this proportion some localities
from apparently,.snnatural causes fur
nish more thar Posi- legitimate quota
Year: 1876

1t is seldom we are called upon to
chronicle the suicide Of person who
has reached the advanced age of sew
eaty-six years. Old people are more
tenacious of life than those OF middle
age, and the annals of self-destruction
contain but few instances where men
who have reached the age of WILL
LIAM WORKMAN have deliberately
committed self-murder. The manner
of his death has shocked the whole
community. Living as he did, re-
tired, quiet life, the effect of the fail
urc of the bank with which his name
was connected, was not known except
perhaps to the members of his family,
and none supposed the unfortunate af-
fair weighed so heavily on his mind
as to impel him to self-destruction.
The certainty that his cherished
home, the Puente ranch, would be
swallowed in the vortex and himself
thrown upon the world without
means, drove the old gentleman to
desperation, and in moment of wild
despair he sent the bullet crushing
through his brain. 1t is deplorable
circumstance, and has cast a gloom
of sorrow over the entire valley.
Year: 1876

word is honesty. Give us an honest
man, such as TILDEN, ia the Presi-
Dental chair, and BLAINE may crate
on railroad bonds and patriotism,
BABCocK may lecture upon the spirit
of '76 and crooked whisky, GRANApn
General GUSTAV and magnanimity,
and we shall be able to get along very
well Notwithstanding. The spirit of
1876 is common sense-at least, we
hope it will prove to be that. AS soon
as we have attended to the exceeding
ly practical details of dollars and
cents, as an element of our Admins
tration, we will take more kindly to
the sentimental portion of the busi-
ness. Most people are so constituted
that they cannot give their whole soul
to the rendition of "Hail Columbia'
when they know that their pockets
are being picked" The above is from
the Virginia Chronicle, and we en-
dorse every word of it.
Year: 1876

The San Francisco Post is not en-
tirely satisfied with the Commission
ers selected by Governor IRWIN. 1t
believes SMITH to be fully qualified.
DOYLE does not receive its approval
on the ground that i'm the practice of
his profession he has had more or less
to do with railroad corporations. AT.
ter assuming that General SToNEMAN
is a Republican. which he Is not, it
pronounces him Ineligible for the fol.
lowing reason:


He was commissioned a Lieutenant
Colonel of the regular army of the
United States. July 2Sth, 1856, and on
the llth of May, 1870, was retired on
half-pay. Though not in active SER
vice since that retirement he still re-
mains an officer of the United States
as long as he accepts his ray and till
he shall resign or be dismissed. AS
he is yet on the sunny side of sixty it
is 10 be expected that he will give up
his life estate in the retired list for a
State appointment of two years on a
salary of only $4,000 year. Being
an officer of the United States, his APP
pOintment to this State office is void
under our Constitution, which pro-
vids (Sec. q, Art. w the "no person
holding any lucrative office under the
United States shall be eligi-
ole to any civil office of profit under
this State.n This Commissionership
is civil office of profit, and We don't
see how General Stoneman can legal
ly exercise its duties and draw its pay
without resigning his Federal office.
And it is difficult to see how the Gov
ernor, sworn as he is to maintain the
Constitution of the State, could find it
in his conscience to make such an ap-
pointment.
Year: 1876

The New York Herald says: What heal
ing effect 1t would have on the public mind if
the centennial year could be an "era OF good
feeling" between our political parties and be-
tween the South and NorthI If all our do
nestle dissensions could be dropped beside
the graves OF our ancestors: If, by common
patriotic impulse, our people would unani-
mously support Presidential candidate
whose name and ancestry are associated with
Revolutionary memories; II we could max c
q new departure, in 1.-THE spirit of 49," what a
rem waiting effect 1t would have on public
morals and pride of country What is want
ing Is not q citizen around whom the whole
people could gather with just confidence, but
the unselfish and patriotic spirit which is
willing to sink party squabbles in magnan-
imous exhibition OF public spirit and love Of
country.


''The spirit of 1776 has done its work
80 has the spirit of 1851. What we
want now is the spirit of 1876. AS lit
tie sentiment ought to enter into the
election Of a President as would enter
into our selection Of tailor to make
our clothes. We only want to feel
that he will do his work in a work.
manlike manner, and that he will be
honest. The spread-eagle business,
revolutionary measures, pride of conn
try, patriotism and magnanimity are
all very well in their place; but what
we want just at present can be boiled
down into one plain word, and that
Year: 1876

On Tuesday evening there was a
meeting of some very refined and dig
nified gentlemen at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel In New York, who in the inno-
cence of their hearts imagine that
they will be able to revolutionize our
system of politics and bring order out
of chaos, and morality out of political
corruption. Such an endeavor is a
worthy one, and the gentlemen who
are assuming to perform this feat are
all eminently respectable citizens, but
nearly all of them have thus far
proved absolute political failures; and
it is pretty well established that their
influence, whatever it may be in po-
litical point of view, is confined to
very limited circle. The ADAMsEs,
both senior and junior, and WILLIAM
CULLEN BRYANT are gentlemen whose
traits of personal character are recog-
nized the world over as estimable, but
in political circles they have outlived
their usefulness. This meeting was
what might be termed a wake over
the ghost of HORACE GREELEY. There
is but one feature in the proceedings
as reported that really commands at
tention, and that is the announcement
by CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr.,
that if the movement just Inaugural
ted did not succeed, his second choice
would be TILDEN for the Presidency.
The chances of BRISTow for the nom-
ination at the hands of the Republi-
can party are very slim. The contest
lies between him and BLAINE, with
| the latter the leader with great ad


vantage. 1t is quite remarkable that
Mr.. ADAMS should express his prefer
ence for these two gentlemen, and
shows both his sincerity and good
sense in one respect. He is of course
in favor of BRIsTow, and is at heart
Republican, but his Independent spirit
prompts him in characteristic man.
ner to fearlessly compliment Mr.. TIL
DEN, a political opponent, in the man
ner in which it was done. Even
the parties who form the clique
that has resurrected the Independent
movement know that they have no
positive power, and should appreciate
the fact that at this date political
movements will not be governed nor
led by mutual admiration societies.


Yet there will in some States be a
vote of sufficient strength from this
class of citizens to turn the scale on
election. So far as the utility of this
genteel assemblage goes it will amount
to but very little. However, there is
no harm done in their exhibition of
their admiration of each other. There
is gracefulness in their motions, al
though their results may he trifiing.
All of their acts show that they have
no hope of party nomination nor of
popular suffrage. A large portion of
this faction which is eminently con-
servative will come to the Democracy.
Year: 1876

of incident. This suggestion applies
to the Pacific coast most aptly; yet
the events come as it were by waves.
From time to time the excessive men,
tai labor to which our people are ad-
dicted produces its effect, and all at
once a general crash comes from all
quarters. These events are emphatic
tutors, teaching that the more legiti-
mate our pursuits and the more natu-
raj our habits the greater will be our
longevity.
Year: 1876

The century plant in the Round
House Garden is in bloom and an in
vitation is extended by Messrs. Ar
mand & Ruttger to visit them and see
this wonder. The Garden is pleas
ant place, but with the century plant
In bloom the attraction is doubled.


Acacia Chapter, Eastern Star, meets
Tonight in regular session at y o'clock
sharp, at Masonic Hall. A full at
tendance is requested.
Year: 1876


Near by foul, meandering stream, whose


sides are lined by bog,
And o'er whose bosom nightly creeps a dense


malarious fog,
There stands upon the rising ground farm-


house old and gray,
That bears upon its roof and walls the hand OF


slow decay.
Here Edna lives aud here her face looks well


come to her guests,
Who ofttimes seek the old farmhouse to min


gle with her jests;
But some there are who do not come for play


of wit alone;
They come 10 win the heart that beats beneath


her silvery tone.
For of all the country daughters round, there's


none fair as she;
Nor is there one with heart more warm,


half SO gay and free;
And many a swain at parting waits, when faint


gOod-byeS are said,
To look again on tresses dark that crown


1aultlesS head.
And then upon the tapering hand the eyes i'm


pulsive dwell,
AS if within its velvet touch lives all the witch


ing spell.


twas before,
For each one finds in Edna's face some charm


he must adore.
No voice but hers such music gives, no other


eyes such light;
Like some magnetic glow within two ebon
Those eyes at once electrify, then in an instant


freeze
One glance contains the flash of love, the next


the smile to please.
Among the herd of human forms she reigns


the fairy queen,
And sheds around a lOftier light, like angels in


dream.
Long may she live, and may the power that


called her into life
Bless and protect her and the man that some


day calls her wife.
Year: 1876

A lady who suspected that her hus-
band was in the habit of kissing Katy,
the maid, resolved to detect him in the
act. After watching for days, she heard
him come in one evening and pass
quietly through into the kitchen. Now,
Katy was out that evening and the
kitchen was dark. Burning with jeal-
ousy, the wife took some matches in her
hand, and hastily placing her shawl
over her head, as Katy sometimes did,
entered the kitchen by the back door
and was almost Immediately siezed and
embraced in the most ardent manner.
With her heart almost bursting with
rage and jealousy, the injured wife pre-
pared to administer terrible re6uke to
her erring spouse. Tearing herself from
his foul embrace, she struck match
and stood face to face with-the hired
man. Her husband says his wife has
never treated him so well since the first
month they were married as she has for
the past few days.
Year: 1876

BASE BALL.-The Quickstep players
have secured Lomas of the Campbell
club Philadelphia. for pitcher and will
play one or two games in this city, be-
fore leaving. They desire to raise
money enough to leave the city in fair
style. with everything settled up
Should the weather prove favorable
they will play this afternoon, with the
Western club.
Year: 1876

There was lively work in the stock market to-day.
the usual quiet of the Exchange being diversified by
an active tilt between the buls and bears The
early trade noted for the smart advance In the
Granger stocks which improved from y TO above
per cent from last nights latest figures. But while
these stocks were buoyant Pacific Mall Wa weak
and much pressed for sale. the forcing proce"
evsutualy 10 down over psr cent from yes
Year: 1876

I'VE are sorry to see that the
Rochester Post continues its war
fare against Senator Window, using
as a pretext his advocacy of the
Fox and Wisconsin river improve
ment and objecting to his neglect of
Duluth harbor river. The editor of
the Post can hardly be ignorant of
the fact that Duluth harbor was
blockaded by ice till nearly the 2oth
of June last, and that this is conse-
quently bad season to ask Con-
gress to appropriate money for its
improvement.
Year: 1876

PUBLIC OPINION. Mr.. Dsraeli is
credited with this reminiscence: ! re-
member that | once asked one of the
most sagacious gentlemen who ever sat
in this house-Mr. Walter, the father of
one of our colleagues now in the house
of commons who had great knowl-
edge of the press and of public opinion
i asked him, How do you ascertain
what is public opinion? ?" "Well," he
he said, the way | ascertain public
opinion is this-petitions may be got up
and meetings may be got up, or the
country may feel great deal without
expressing its opinion either by petitions
OF by public meetings; but" he said,
"therc is an infallible test, and that is
the post. The way always know what
is the real feeling of the country is the
letter-bag." He then had the conduct Of
one of those powerful journals which it
is the fashion now to quote in the house
of commons. II was never so when |
first entered it. He said: 81 receive
about one hundred letters day, per-
haps moro, when there is anything stir.
ring in the country and understand
and find out what is public feeling from
the post bag. 1T is that which tells me
what the feeling of the country is, and l
know it before petitions or public meet
ings-they follow it,"
Year: 1876

Mr.. BUCKLE states that human ma
ture has changed very little in the last


three thousand years, but we do not re-
member any record of Roman senator
trying to account to his wife for a light
deposit Of pearl powder on the left shoul-
der of his toga on the ground that he had
been playing checkers in grist mill.
Year: 1876

In the memorable year 1860 when the trai-
tor Breckenridge was the leading Democratic
candidate in opposition to Abraham Lincoln,
there were not wanting thousands of politi-
Clans who declared that the safety and pros
perlty of the country depended upon the
Kentuckian's election. All men knew full
we'll before year had passed how irreparable
a disaster was avoided by the choice of Lin
coin in his stead. The most extravagant Re-
pablicans had only claimed that Democratic
successor to Buchanan would, by the aid Of a
Democratic Congress, nationalize slavery,
carrying it into all the territories of the Unit
ed States and making an extension of the
area of freedom impossible. They did not
then know that the plot for the disruption of
the Union was already formed and that, with
the man at the head of affairs who took his
place among the Confederate leaders few
months after officially declaring Lincoln the
legally chosen President of the United States,
the plot could easily be carried into effect. 1t
is now hardly conceivable that any candid
Democrat can look back at that critical era
without feeling of qualification at result
which he at that time so heartily and perhaps
sincerely deplored.


The autumn of the year 1864 was on the
whole time Of Encouragement. We were
three years from the beginning of the war,
the flower of the youth of the country had
been sacrificed and the financial resources of
the nation severely tried. Gen. Grant was
tenaciously ''fghting it out on that line,'' but
the summer had passed without the expected
consummatlon, the sad fall days had come
yet Lee was still defiant, and the Confederate
power apparently unbroken. Under these
circumstances the Democrats declared the
war failure and nominated Gen. Mcclellan
as representative of the peace on. any-terms
policy. Once more they assured the voters
of the United States that the salvation of the
country depended on committing its destinies
to their hands. "What do you fear% they
said. "Our Gen. Mcclellan has proved his
loyalty On the field of battle. You can appre-
hend no sympathy with traitors or unfaithful-
ness to the flag on his part. Do but place
him in the White House and this deplorable
war will soon be at an end and our country



once more happy and united" But who is
there, Democrat though he be, who will not
now confess that, had these suggestions pre-
vailed, slavery would have been preserved and
the Confederacy would have dictated the
terms of reconstruction, doubling the present
national Indebtedness and leaving fastened
| upon the country the gigantic wrong which
could not fail to be the germ of future wal


and anarchy? What Democrat now lives


who does not IN his heart rejoice that Abra-


ham Lincoln was elected for second term


In 1868, the country was still in the ago


nies of reconstruction. The states of Vir'


ginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia were


not restored to the Union and the fifteenth
amendment was not yet secured. The Dem
Year: 1876

There ought to be no necessity of impress
ing upon every Republican in the State the
vital Importance of voting to-day. In indicat-
ing her choice between candidates and poll
cies the voice of Maine must have no uncer-
tain sound. Our opponents are laboring with
all the zeal which desperation lends to reduce
the Republican majority, to make it appear
that Maine is wavering in her preferences,
and that another year will give her into the
hands of the Philistines. They do not them
selves believe that Maine can change, but
they will seek to convey that impression to
the voters of the Union, and Republicans can
only foil them by going in full numbers to
the polls; ior Maine will be judged by the
vote she casts. A greatly diminished Repub-
lican majority is a result TO be strongly dep
recated, and can only be brought about by
over-confdence on the part of Republicans.


The national contest is between the union
and reform sentiment OF the country on the
one hand, and Tilden, Tammany Hall and
the Solid South on the other. Every Repub-
lican should esteem it a high privilege, not to
be neglected, to record his protest against the
allied forces of barbarism and corruption
which are struggling for the possession of the
national Government. 1t his sacred duty in
this hour Of peril 10 deposit his ballot for
freedom and honesty and good government.
The Republicans of Maine have never yet
been found wanting in national contest
To-day they meet an enemy flushed with an
ticipation. They have but to rally to put
him to utter rout. Let them discharge that
duty in The strong hope that their brothers
in other states will do as well and so save the
the nation from the dangers of Southern su-
premacy.


We call upon all Republicans TO give this
day 10 the safety of the nation. Let each
one cast his ballot, and not content with that,
hasten his laggald or doubling neighbor to
the polls. The Republican majority in Maine
is to be kept to its high mark.
Year: 1876

THE Democratic papers are fond of remind.
ing their readers that "the war closed eleven
years ago." Then why are rebel rifle-clubs
still maintained In the South? Wbv is a
campaign OF intimidation carried on against
all the Republicans of that section9 The
Northern people will believe the war is over
in the South when the shotgun policy is
abandoned.
Year: 1876




HERE is the situation as it will be if Tild en-
is erected clearly stated: The solid South
will clamor for rights destroyed by acts OF the
war. An unhealthy sentiment will be Gre
ated anew in favor of unrepentant rebels who
at this hour are wreaking vengeance on
white and colored Republicans all over the
rebellious region who, by their sufferings
and shedding of their own blood, enabled us
to sustain our Government in the crisis of
treason. Thousands of those unfortunate
colored men are now at the mercy of the un-
restrained passions of people smarting
under defeat. The ballot, instead of being an
armor Of citizenship to the colored men in
the South is, in fact. his greatest present
peril. While it should give him protection,
opportunity, and education, it is the cause of
prescription and ostracism. Unless the bal
lot is made his strong arm, and the protect
ing influence of the Government thrown
around him, there must be endless war.