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Year: 1876

A book whose like you've often met,
With menths and days In order set
Brief record of the changing year
A calendar / carry here.


But see Within each tiny space
NY busy pen has left its trace,
The story OF the days to mark
For some were fair and some were dark.
Note first cross as black as Jet.
II tells OF bitterest regret
For all the words did not say
When parting with friend that day.
That star-a precious letter came,
Twas thus marked the writer's name,
The tender words brought only bliss
sealed that record with kiss
Now ciphers stand in drear array,
A long, dull evening to display;
Kind, prosy soul too meek to see
My smile was worn unwillingly.
These dots, that faint and fainter grow,
tale OF weary waiting show.
The torture Of hope deferred
Was mine-t0o keen for sign or word.
Next, brackets. three brief days enfold,
Whose flying sands were mixed with gold
Oh sweetest days of all the year,
Ye bring again one presence dear
So, marking cares Of joys or woes,
Onward my little record gees,
Till with December's latest day
The tiny book is laid away.
The penciled leaves once shut from sight
Perchance may never see the light,
And hurrying years must soon ehace
What now 1t pleases me to trace.
But he who portions smiles and tears
Keeps truest record of our years
Writes there the oft-sought "reason Why"
And makes all plain beyond the sky.


-Neio York Commercial Advertiser
Year: 1876




A dispatch reaches us that the work
of cutting through the San Francisco
Tunnel, on the Southern Pacific Railroad,
has been completed. This is one of the
greatest achievements in railroad con-
struction accomplished on the Pacific
Coast. The length of this tunnel, cut
through the San Fernando Mountains,
is six thousand nine hundred and sixty
six feet, or one mile and one thousand
nine hundred and eighty-six feet. With
the completion of this work the Southern
Pacific Railroad between San Francisco
and Los Angeles will soon be opened for
traffic. There have been some remark
able specimens of engineering skill in
building this road. The tunnel through
the Tehachipe Pass is unique, from the
fact that in the windings of the tunnel
one part of the roadway is over the other.
The San Fernando Tunnel is by far the
longest one on the Pacific Coast. The
longest on the Central Pacific in crossing
the Sierras is not more than one thou
sand two hundred feet, not fifth of the
length of this one piercing the San Fer
nand0 Mountains. The work has also
been carried out with unprecedented
dispatch. 1t is not two years since the
first borings were made. Many Difficult.
ties had to be encountered. San Fernando
is the petroleum region of Los Angeles,
and there were some fears lest in tunnel.
ing the mountain the workmen might
come upon some vast reservoir of petro.
leum, or some equally noxious fluids and
gases. The great obstacle has been the
character of the rock, and the enormous
pressure upon the timbers placed as sup
ports. To obviate this pressure, the
tunnel will be lined with masonry oil
strong resisting power.
Year: 1876

NEW ENGLAND sailors assert that
potato-bugs walk the sea as well as the
land, and that millions of them have
been seen on the waves. This will
scarcely be believed by people who have
supposed that this interesting insect con-
fined itself to fields and gardens, living
only on love and potato-vines,
Year: 1876

1T Is stated at the Bureau of Internal
Revenue that it will be impossible to
collect the tax on whisky, in consequence
of the twenty. five per cent. reduction to
be made in that Bureau under the act OF
Congress. Additional detectives will be
employed, who must be provided for In
the Deficiency Bill next winter,
Year: 1876

WE REoRET EXCEEDINGLY that the Alder
men, by their action in reference to the ex-
emption of the trustees of the Catholic
Cathedral from the payment of sewer per-
mits, should open disagreeable question
by their ill-advised and selfish action. In
stepping aside from the course adopted
toward other churches and sects in this
matter they have acted from. mean and paltry
motives. seeking to gain credit with certain
Of their constituents by trick rs sharp
as the unjust stewards. Furthermore, they
have put an ancient and honored Church
under the ban of the ''deadhead"- position
that its venerated ecclesiastics and rich con-
gregations in this city by no means desire
to fill. 1t asks and need ask no favors in
advance of other religious bodies. All de-
cent men will turn aside with disgust from
this act, which seeks petty personal adj
vantage at the expense OF tho great Church
which contained all there was Of Chris
tianitys until the Reformation, and which
since has remained intact while the follow
ers Of Luther are split into numberless
fragments.
Year: 1876

WHILE THE BIG POLITICIANS are longing
for q triumph on the broad field Of national
politics the hoarse hum Of the city sover-
eigns, anxious for the more modest but not
less lucrative berths in the departments, is
heard on the breeze. Comptroller Green
expires shortly and becomes plain Andrew
II. Green, unless Mayor Wickham lends
an attentive car to the seductive
song of the sturdy official who does
not want to 60 to grass Mr. Green is said
to have arranged with phalanx Of his trusty
contractors, backed by the blind men, thu
organ grinders, the scrub women, the biz
pipe men, the little pipe men, the porl
packers, the fat renderers and the peanut
vendors, to keep up stream Of deputations
which will not only prevent the considera-
ton Of anybody else's claims, but prevent
His Honor from even taking his usual game
of leap frog with his patient secretary.
Year: 1876

Important news from Cuba reaches us in
the latest dispatches from Havana. The
efforts of the insurgent Cubans have long
been directed against the town of Puerto
Principe, the last Spanish stronghold in the
interior Of the Eastern Department of the
island. Rumors have been floating around
for some days in New York regarding the
capture of the place by the patriots, but
they lacked any shadow of confirmation.
Now, however, we learn from Havana that
"well grounded rumors re current" of q
fight at Puerto Principe which resulted dis
astrously to the Spaniards. The report is,
as usual, supplemented by another of the
capture of Cuban correspondence, &C.. but
the public are already too familiar with
such cheap glory valiantly won by the
Dons from the coast fishing boats
There is the usual announcement of
an execution for political offences, but
in this case q woman is the victim to the
reported capture of the Spanish steamer
Moctezuma by Cuban refugees, off the coast
Of ST. Domingo, shows how daring the
Cubans have become in their operations
against their enemy. The killing of the
captain, chief officer and engineer was, per-
haps, unnecessary but it is probable that
these officers resisted the attack and lost
their lives in the struggle. The action Of
the government toward the patriotic Cuban
priests named in the despatch will have the
effect of weakening still more its hold on the
people by arousing their religious zeal
against n power that seeks to regulate by
police ordinances the prayers that are ad-
dressed to the Almighty. None but weak
government could be guilty OF such mon-
strous piece Of stupidity. We must there
fore conclude that the Spanish government
in Cuba is both weak and stupid.


The Senate in the eye of the constitution, is no
more than the House. II the former upon ap-
pontments the latter holds tho purse and the
sinews Of wal. ar.-ErpresS


Is it not premature and slightly incen-
diary to suggest just now ''the sinews OF
war;" What does the Express mean?
CRooK AND THE INDIANS. interview
which we print in another column between





company him in the character Of soldiers will
be read with no little amusement. 1t recalls
scene from opera boufe to see the sergeants
and soldiers talk up to their generals and
prescribe line of conduct for them. One
cannot help thinking that soldiers of this
class are not very likely to prove very effec-
tive allies, and if the government would
only undertake to encourage the soldiers Of
the army to do their own scouting the
result would be found to be much more
satisfactory than depending on treacherous
savages, who only wait good opportunity
to betray the paleface. The experience Of
the last campaign showed that the private
soldiers were both able and willing to dc
the most difficult and dangerous scouting
service. We are glad that General Crool
has made up his mind to push on the cam.
paign rapidly, but we hope precautions will
be taken to spare the troops unnecessary
hardships.
Year: 1876

A WARNING TO SAVINGS BANK oFFIcIALs-
If any of our savings bank presidents and
trustees should in the course of human
events find it advisable to leave the United
States and make pilgrimage abroad they
will do well to avoid Russia. The President
and officials of the Commercial Loan Bank
of Moscow, in that country, have been SEN
fenced, some to perpetual banishment and
some to imprisonment and fine, having been
convicted of '.irregularities" III the manage
ment OF the institution. Yet their offences
were trivial What would have been their
punishment had they offended like some Of
our savings bank ofhcerss
Year: 1876

unscrupulous demagogues, they must
see that this is time conspicu-
ously for moderate speech, for mu-
tual conciliation, for conservative lam
guage and conduct, for instructing
their people in the ways Of peace and honor;
and not for misrepresenting the facts of the
difficulty, melting to suspicion and distrust,
and thus infaming the minds of the ignorant
members of their party with sentiments
which can lead only to riot and civil dis
order and which to the cursory reader seem
deliberately intended to produce these
effects.
Year: 1876

CUSTOM HOUSE DIscoURTEsY.- would
surely rebound to the credit of Philadelphia
10 see that the foreign exhibitors when re.
moving their goods. which have made the
Exhibition instructive as we'll as attractive,
should experience no vexatious delay. A
little attention by the Centennial Commits
sioners in the shape Of a representation of
the facts to the Secretary Of the Treasury
should suffice to have the number of ap-
praisers increased until the work Of remov-
ing the exhibits could proceed without inter-
ruption.
Year: 1876

TRUANcY.-The Board of Education is en-
titled to particular credit for its endeavors
to deal with the knotty question of habitual
truancy in this city. 1t may be taken as
rule with few or no exceptions, that the hab-
itual truant of the lower orders is destined to
become a unit of the army of criminals later
in life, and every little brand OF humanity
snatched from the burning will be well
worth all il will cost.
Year: 1876

Incendiary Appeals to tho People.


The Express is, in some degree at least, q
recognized organ Of the local leaders of the
leaders of the party. It is the exponent of
theirideas, the supporter of their theories and
the vehicle of their hints and innuendoes
It criticises our argument that, SO long
as the political machinery Of the gov
ernment operates in its accustomed way,
so long as the law is observed
and acted upon in the choice of the Presi-
dent, the people must and will accept the
result, though there may be moral convic-
ton in some quarters that the election is de-
clared dishonesty. This argument needs
no support 1t is obviously true, unless the
public mind is already made up for another
civil war, since opinion is actually in such
a condition that if Hayes is declared Presi-
dent the democrats will believe they are
cheated, and if Tilden is declared President
the republicans will believe they are cheat:
ed. The moral conviction of wrong is GER
tain to exist on one side or the other But,
under the pretence of objecting to
our argument, the Express insidiously
urges that if the result shall be
declared against Tilden the people must
resist. They are reminded that the war
power of the nation is in the hands Of the
democrats that, to use its own words,
the democratic House ''holds the sinews
of war" They are told that the HEnALD's
argument for moderation proposes
cowardly surrender Of their rights. In
short, the poison of dissatisfaction with the
possible result Of the canvass is instilled
into the minds of the democratic voters on
no good basis of facts on no evidence that
there is dishonesty or is likely to be dis
honesty, but only on the wild theory that if
the result is against the democrats it must,
therefore, necessarily be a vllanous de-
ception~ Does this incendiary and suicidal
appeal represent the policy and the pur-
poses of the leaders of the democracy in this
city?
Year: 1876

The two houses are coordinate branches Of tho
Legislature, and tho attempt to set ono above tho
other to deny the powers OF either, or TO leave
making OF President to the Senate nttcr the elec
ton has been practically decided by tho people, 10
simply tho use OF the pen TO encourage the usc Of tho
sword-Erpress


This is very mysterious. What does the
Express mean?
Year: 1876

the Rocky Mountains. except in the Lower
Missouri Valley and at a few places in the
Upper Mississippi Valley where the weather
is clear or partly cloudy. The weather in
New York to-day will be cold and cloudy or
partly cloudy, with, possibly, light snow.
Year: 1876

Owing to tho action OF portion of tho carriers and
pcwsmen, who determined that tie public shall
not have the HERALD at three per copy II they
can IT, We have made arrangements place the
HERALD in the hands of all readers at the reduced
price, Ncwsboys can purchase any quantity they may
desire at No 1865 Broadway and No. Ann street.
Year: 1876

THE Protestant EPISCOPAL CHURCH in
America opened its annual congress yester-
terday in Boston. The subject Of discus
sion was Freedom of Thought"-a very
wide one and scarcely to be disposed of in
few hours.
Year: 1876

Many of our citizens are doubtless ignorant
of fthe fact that we have our own election mud
dies at home, as well as those in the South, to
amuse US. Certain enterprising politicians
who maintain that the election of aldermen
provided for in the charter by Senatorial
districts is illegal, and that the City Fathers
must be chosen under the Aldermanic dis
trict system, have got their names voted by
few persons in the old districts. and
now claim to be the regular Board OF
Aldermen of New York. Last year Board
of Assistant Aldermen was chosen in the
same manner and claimed to be regularly
in Office as portion of the Common Coun-
Gil. But their official services have been
only imaginary, and we presume the duties
of the contesting Aldermanic Board this
year will be much the same. Neither body
will be likely to receive its pay, and its en-
terprising members will always remain in
their own opinion much wronged creditors
of the city, unless, indeed, in some future
day, when Tammany resuscitates its Tweeds,
the contestants should get their claims
audited and settled. There is also an indi.
vidual, we believe, who claims to have been
elected Comptroller and to have legal title
to that office, but his case, although it occa-
sionally appears on the surface, does not
seem to make much headway in the courts.
At all events our election muddles are not
at present SO exciting as those in New Or
leans, Charleston and Tallahassee.
Year: 1876

The VIEws OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE in this
city and elsewhere, which we publish on the
question of the Presidency, may not be
of much value rs guides to solution Of the
great difficulty, but are certainly straws
showing how the wind blows.
Year: 1876

II Is ingenious and carefully prepared and it's sub
stance is that tho people must submit to the Of
tho United States Senate, whether right or wrong in
declaring who snail be President Erpress


Is it not on incendiary instruction to hint
that the people should not submit to the
appropriate authorities? What does the
Express mean?
Year: 1876

In the city of Paterson diphtheria pre-


walls to such an extent that the Mayor has
deemed it advisable to initiate extraordinary
ton of the city in its sanitary aspects.


Though official notice seems not to have
been taken of tho fact Jersey City is
scourged in an equal degree by this terrible
disease It's severity in the latter city is
readily enough accounted for by the general
filth of the place, its horrible condition as
to miasmatic emanations, and, above oil, by
the fact that the drinking water is
drawn from a stream contaminated by
the sewage Of the city of Paterson, as well
MS by the sewage from Newark, which is
sent up the stream by the tide. Paterson is
in better position with regard to the water,
but the sewers are in very bad way, and
are q source Of extensive contamination of
the air. This is factory town, with q
crowded and ignorant population, not only
unacquainted with hygienic needs, but in
different to all notions of that sort, and dis
posed to treat scruples in regard to cleanli-
ness as a kind Of fashionable nonsense. The
original Jersey element in the population is
not superior in this respect to the factory
operatives, and is equally intolerant of new
ideas in regard to the way in which people
live. With this sort of people there seems
to be sort of preference to sleep six In a
room as near as possible to the open mouth
of sewer or other source of poisonous gases,
and an epidemic is a necessary consequence.
Year: 1876

We occasionally hear of an excitable
democrat here in the North who NUT
ters threats of what may happen if mat
ters do not eventually 60 to his liking,
and who 'feels in his heart that
Tilden is elected" 1t would be well for the
democratic party if such persons would for
the present keep silence. The country does
not forget that in 1860 similar threats were
made by democrats. and that in 1861 the
greater part of that party attempted in a
violent manner to overturn the result
Of fair election. Nothing can be
more damaging to the democratic party,
or can more quickly deprive it of
all public sympathy, than the utter
ance of foolish and perfectly vain threats
The country is not just now in o temper
to bear with such things. The cleo
tion is not yet lawfully decided; it will not
be until the returning boards in the dis
puted States have done what the laws in
those States command them to do. 1t will
take some time to complete the investiga-
tions prescribed by the laws; and what, in
the meantime, any one may 'feel in his
heart" is not evidence and is Of no impor-
tance. Measures have been taken to see that
the returning boards conduct their investi-
cations fairly; in New Orleans leading
democrats have invited leading republicans
to council for joint action, which is emf
nently proper, aud at this stage of the bust
ness no one has right to say that foul play
will be successful or even attempted.


Moreover, if the laws and the men who
execute them are bad in such States as
Louisiana, we beg the democrats down there
to modestly remember how they became SO.
If they had accepted their defeat in 1851 in
good faith they woald not be where they
are now. We do not countenance injustice,
nor does the North desire it. The recent
election should show the Southern whites
how little the North sympathizes with wrong
doing in the South and against the South.
Thousands of lifelong republicans here
have voted against their party on this South
ern question alone. We warn the Southern
whites that they will be sorry in the end for
any course which shall make these republi-
cans regret their votes. The laws as they
exist must be faithfully executed and scru-
pulously obeyed until they are lawfully
changed. That is the sound and only rule
in free countrv
Year: 1876

Every one knows that this means submission to
partisan and partial tribunal which there is
believe has made up It's mind in advance to throw
Mr.. Tilden and to count in Mr. Hayes, although Mr..
Tilden may have fairly and legally majority Of the
electoral votes as well as overwhelming majority OF
the popular votc-Express.


Is it not playing with fire to endeavor to
excite the people on dangerous assumptions
like this ? What does the Express mean?
Year: 1876

prest harm would be done # it were kept up
till New York should be forced TO aoanaon
tha lateral canals and run the Erie Canal on
it's own merits and as economically as posi-
BILE. Nor is the apprehension that the RAIL-
roads will enjoy an undigpated monopoly
well founded, for it leaves out OF account the
Canada system, Of canals which will be q per-
manent check upon the greed Of the railroads
after while.


It is for the interest Of Chicago that me
lake trade (not necessarily the Erie canal
trade) should be treated fairly, but there
have been better reasons for complaint N
this regard than the present policy OF 9ne
New York Central Railroad. AL that VAN
pERDnr maintains is, that the PennsylVanla
and Baltimore T. Ohio Railroads shall NOT
claim the right to carry grain to the seaooaro
at Philadelphia and Baltimore at lower rates
than the Central shall carry it to New YORK
vAspEnDur's opposition tothisss based upon
sound reasoning, and it is the common IN
terest of New York and Chicago that ne ot
cuctaine6 in it.
Year: 1876

The complications in South Carolina were
thickened yesterday by tho action OF
two colored Republican members OF
the Legislature in going over to the
Bump. Assembly. Both Legislatures were
still in session, but it begins to
look as though that bar1 of money was
to play prominent part in the solution
of the very much mixed situation in
South Carolina To further, if possible,
1nuddle matters, WALLACE, Speaker of the
Rump Legislature, yesterday applied to the
Supreme Court of the State for mandamus
upon MAckEx, Speaker Of the House. to COM
Del him to deliver to the Bump
Legislature, to be canvassed, the returns
of the election for Governor. Application
has also been made to the same Court for
wit of quo .rayranto against the H4fEs
Electors, requiring them to appear and show
BY what right they assume to exercise the
Office of Presidential Electors-that Is, to
fetch the question Of their election before
thzt Court
Year: 1876

The rebellion which broke out IN japan on
the 23d of October seems to have been sup
messed almost immediately, the Imperial
Government being forewarned- The revolu~
ton Was set on foot by one Of the Dalmlos
belonging to the disbanded caste OF tne
Samurai, who number not less than 4oo'ooo,
and form medium between the bravo and
the soldier. Since the suppression OF the
rebellion, the Government has determined
to avoid ths possibility of further trouble
from them by coloniziug the whole caste
upon the Island Of Yesso.
Year: 1876

Il the cremationists Of the New YORK Iheo-
sophical Society are going to burn the late
Baron De PALM, why don't they go about it!
From somewhat intimate knowledge OF the
late Baron's disposition, we know that he
would express himself in a very emphatic
manner st the conduct Of his pretended
friends, who are exhibiting his remains tor
the delectation Of reporters, and making a
public show Of him before burning. Either
plant the old Baron or burn him without
further ado. His forthcoming cremation Is
too mach like circus show.
Year: 1876

The London Spectator Of recent issue
stops in the midst Of its grave papers upon
the Eastern question and the relations OF
Russia to Turkey to present some very curl
Gus information relative to ostrich-fa farming,
and to point out the remarkable extent OF
the traffic in the very unhandsome feathers
of that very ungainly bird. The figures are
very interesting, as well as astonishing,
since among all the statistics Of luxury these
have hardly, if ever, been presented before.
The exports of feathers from the principal
African ports per year are set down by the
c,o1oto3n,. nc fo11ouo