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Year: 1876

TURKISH JUGGLERY, applied to the interest
on bonds in the possession of Englishmen,
does not seem TO be appreciated by the un-
sentimental old lady of Threadneedle street.
The Sultan, finding himself short Of the in
terest on one loan, wished TO transfer tho
Egyptian tribute which is held by
the Bank Of England TO pay the interest on
another loan to the credit of that on which
the deficit exists. This "robbing Peter to
pay Paul" is highly popular in Eastern
finance, where aprovince is plundered to pay
of a brigade of cooks and the cooks are in
turn levied on to restore order in the prov
ince; but John Bull does not believe in such
high art. Let the Sultan beware Such con-
duct is slowly sapping the sympathy of the
English nation With his interesting Empire.
Year: 1876

ANOTHER BATTLE, with defeat of the
Turks, is the insurgent answer to the re-
forms proffered by the Porte. Russia is
bullying Montenegro into neutrality by word
of mouth and keeping up the war feeling by
suggestive winks. Austria is having her
trouble for her pains in preaching peace
when thero is no peace. The Sultan cannot
pay his bills. Tho outlook is not pleasant
for the latter.
Year: 1876

WHES THE PRESIDENT adopted the policy
of appointing staff officers and not statesmen
in his Cabinet he said that 10 was respon-
sible for the administration and meant to
have men that ho could trust. He appointed
Belknap, when no one had ever heard of
him he continued him in Office after his
completely with frauds had been made clear
in the columns of the HERALD, and now he
rescuos him from the Just anger Of the House.
''Let no guilty man escape
Year: 1876

new appointment ana new connrmatlon


by the Senate. His connection with the
Office is not sundered so long as he is not


put in such a position that q new appoint
ment by the President and Senate is neces-
sary to enable him to resume its duties.
Whether the acceptance of Beiknaps resigna-
tion really protects him from impeachment is
a aquestion on which opinions will differ; but
there is no room for question that the pur-
pose of the President was to bar an impeach-
ment and assist q confessed criminal to fee
from justice. This bold attempt to
shield guilty officer from the legal
the President moral accomplice in the
guilt of Belknap. When q member of his
Cabinet who had abused his confidence and


disgraced his administration is on the point
OF being arraigned for high crimes and mis-


demeanors the President ought to aid the


regular course Of justice instead of attempt


ing to thwart and obstruct it. He should sur
render the culprit to the full legal conse-


quences of his crimes.


On the legal point relating to the i'm
peachability of an officer whose res
ignaton has been accepted there was
n difference of opinion in the House
in the brief discussion yesterday, but we
think it improbable that an impeachment
can be sustained. Since the acceptance of
his resignation Secretary Belknap is COM
pletely out of office, and the federal consti-
tuition authorizes the impeachment of nobody
but civil officers of the government. General
Belknap is no longer civil officer, and it
seems very clear that he cannot be impeached.
The point was made in the brief debate
impeach him and leave this legal point
for the decision of the Senate. But
this would be very idle proceeding if there
is good ground for the opinion that the
Senate would be compelled to decide that it
has no jurisdiction in such q case. We have
no doubt that this will be the decision if the
case is sent to the Senate, and we can there
fore see no wisdom in spending time and
effort in n vain attempt. The moral and
political effect of Secretary Babcock's crime
will be terribly damaging to the administra-
ton, and the democratic majority of tho
House will weaken their advantage if they
make an abortive attempt to strain the law
beyond its fair Interpretation.


This startling case makes every former ac-
cusation against an American administration
seem pale and tame. Hard things were said
against the administration of President Bu-
chanan because he had men in his Cabinet
who proved to be secessionists, but the DEM
ocratic disgrace of that period was not SO
foul as the sordid meanness Of abusing high
positions for mere private gain In France
Napoleon Ill entered the road to ruin by his
blind tolerance of corruption in the leading
officers of his government, and the final re-
suit was that when he supposed he had an
army strong enough to cope with Germany
he found on trial that the money which |
should have been spent in equipping it had
been embezzled by his faithless subordi- |
mates. The American government has made
fearful advances in similar course, and it
is high time for the people to come to the
rescue.
Year: 1876

The SILENCE OF BLAINE.-Mr. Blaine had
nothing to say yesterday in the House on
the question of Belknap impeachment. He
had nc word of criticism upon the resigna-
ton of the Secretary and its acceptance by
the President in defiance of the House. Mr..
Blaine had fine opportunity in the House
to show that he is interested in other matters
than the legends o I Andersonyille.
Year: 1876

ruptIon and Decentralization.


The downfall of Secretary Belknap means
the ruin of the republican party. 1t is only
another of the many streams of corruption
and folly that have flowed from the present
administration and from the party now
in power How can we fail to draw
the inference that is seen in
nature, science and history, that when the
river is polluted the poison is most likely
in the source. What foul streams have
poured forth-the stream st. Domingo,
with the violations of law, jobbery and cor
ruption the stream French arms, with It's
infraction Of international obligations the
stream general order business, with its de-
basement of New York politics; the stream
Akerman, with imbecility and oppression in
the South tho stream Richardson, with The
Sanborn frauds the stream Delano, with
the infamies of the Indian Department the
stream Babcock, with the frauds in the
revenues. These are the currents OF the
present corrupt party. 1t is about time that
the responsibility for this endless and ever
increasing food should be placed where it
belongs-on the party now in power.


Let US see how this party has made itself
responsible for this Generalization. Rich
ardson, who approved the Sanborn fraud,
shameless and unblushing as it was, was
made a judge. Shepherd, driven from power
as one unfaithful to his trust, was made
commissioner, and is the leader of admins
tration society. Williams after his sins were
confessed, was intrusted with high duties.
Schenck, after he allowed his name and his
Office to be the means of swindling women
and children out of their income by bogus
mining shares, was protected. Babcock
came from the dock of st. Louis court, the
cell of the jailbird Mcdonald, to become the
private secretary to the President and Direc-
tor of the Public Works. And now we have
the Secretary of War, resigning his Office,
confessedly corrupt and dishonest man, and
protected from tho just indignation of the
House by the acceptance of his resignation.


The true leaders of the party, the men who
still possess the confidence of the people,
should now take ground. Mr. Conkling
has higher stake in the affections of the re-
publican party of New York than in any pos
sble devotion to the President. Is he in
favor of corruption and maladministration
Let him speak while there is time Mr..
Sherman is the leader of the republican
party in Ohio, State which is impor-
tant to republican success. Does he
approve of this stolid, depraved rule,
which deadens the public sense of
the nation? Let him speak while there is
time Mr.. Blaine is the choice of New
England for the Presidency-the representa-
tive of glorious Commonwealth. Does he
feel that the legends of Andersonville are of
more interest to tho country than these pain
full, ever increasing evidences of shame and
crime? Let him speak while there is time
For the time has come for every republi-
can who sees in his party something more
than dumb echoing of Cesarism and folly
to speak. 1t may be too late
Year: 1876

1t is question whether the whole Cabinet
should not resign. The administration is
rotten, and millions of people who did not
believe so yesterday are convinced of it to-
day. The confession of the guilty Secretary
of War is a revelation. He could not have
been guilty of the crimes he has confessed
and remained undiscovered in a Cabinet
that was pure. 1t is day of judgment
The political heavens are rolled together
like a scroll and are consumed with fire;
vainly the wicked call on the mountains to
wrath to come.


The terrible force of Secretary Belknap's
confession, the horrible meaning that is en-
bodied in his guilt is unbroken by the fact
that there are pure men in the Presidents
Cabinet. He was their associate, and they
were jointly with him the Presidents adj
visers. There is not entirely divided re-
sponsibility in the Cabinet. Mr.. Fish and
Mr.. Bristow and Mr.. Jewell are not merely
officers charged with the conduct of affairs
of State, of the Treasury and the Post Office
The Cabinet is in its highest capacity unit





government in his keeping, and that honor
cannot be lost by one without more or less
responsibility attaching to the Others Were
these men blind, that they could not see, till
democratic Congress compelled them, that
the head of the War Department was selling
the soul OF the government? They we're
blind-for we do not believe them corrupt
but their blindness has given the nation
eternal shame. Because of the indifference
of the President and the Cabinet to the
scandals which long ago darkened the War
Department the country is now humiliated
in dust and ashes.


The pure members of corrupt admins
tration are like living men chained to q
corpse. We presume that the first thought
of Mr.. Fish when he knew of this fearful fall
of his colleague was whether he could in self
respect remain a member of disgraced Cab
met This is not the first disgrace, but the
elimination of long series of infamies that
are part of the history of the administra-
ton. The corruptions of the government
are so numerous and notorious that it is
question whether the selfrespect of an
honest and honorable man will permit him
to be connected with it. We are more sorry
to write this Of the government of the United
States than any American citizen can be to
read it {; but we write simply what is the
truth.


1t is question, We say, whether the whole
Cabinet should not resign, and happily, we
arc not called upon to answer it. Mr.. Fish
and Mr. Bristow must Judge for themselves.
But one duty they have 90 perform is plain
If they remain in this rotten, disgraced ad-
ninistration, they must demand Of tho Presi-
dent the authority 90 reform it That is the
only condition apon which self-rsspcct and
Cabinet Office can now be rcconcilcd. If
the President refuses to conocdc this right
the sooner all honest men leave Linn the
better it will be for themselves and for the
country.
Year: 1876

CHARLES O'CoNoB appeared in the Su-
preme Court yesterday on the side of the
sprosecution in the Tweed trial. This fact
will rejoice thousands and we hope to see
his presence there become so common that
municipal thieves of high and low degree
shall resume the quaking they left off when
the Nestor of the Bar lay in the hands of the
doctors
Year: 1876

General schenck and Little Emma.


We have now the intelligence that Minister
Schenck is about to return home to explain
his connection with the deplorable Emma
Mine business but before he leaves the
teeming world of London behind we hope
he will give promise to go back at an early
day. His own fair fame and the sadly shat
tered honor of his country alike demand
such a pledge. Sheltered behind his
diplomatic immunity he may remain safely
in London /; but once leaving it and then
disposing of his Ministership the wronged
and robbed thousands of English investors
would find the chance of testing General
Schenck's responsibility as small as that of
getting back their money. Hence our Min
lister Mt the Court of st. James should volun-
tarily give bonds to return. 1t may be
essential to General Schenck to fight the mat
ter out in Washington but unless he stands
his ground in England his future will be as
clouded as that of the whilom republican
Presidential candidate who stands con-
demncd by French law to a fclon's cell in
cont,rmdcian for his part in q similarly bot
tomless stock swindlo. English law does
not try a man in his absence but the eva
sion of trial WILL in General Schencks
case, be as morally destructive of his char
acter as the sentence of the French court on
General Fremont.


This Emma Mine business shows the gull
libility of the English people in a peculiar
light. England is full of people with small
fortunes who do not desire to invest them in
business, but are always on the lookout for
any stock investment that will bring any
rate of interest higher than the old comforta-
bic three per cents. They are not rich
enough to 60 to the fountain head for infor-
nation like large capitalists, and hence must
rely on the representations of others. They
mostly belong to the decent classes and to
thousands of them the loss of their fortune
means beggary. For them is the glittcrine
prospectus made. For them is it studded
over with names that seem synonyms
of honor, stability and safety. For English
projects n man or two of title is necessary
but for IN American trap no bait could be
more alluring than the name of tho American





business, TO be sure. is not promoter of
bubble companies but his name in pros
pectus is as incontestGblc n fact as q fly in
amber, although it may trouble every honest
man i'll America to know how it got there
How did it? The casual visitor to Sclt Lake
City in the summer OF 1871 could learn that
the Emma Mine was only u rich 'pocket,"
with oil its wealth in sight, and that
the chance of finding q true vein of
ore within the radius of the claim was as
gcologcally remote as the prospects of a
poker player 'iilling his hand when draw
ing to a single ace-a form of comparison we
have specially used to bring the matter home
to General Schenck. twas even reported that
the owners were afraid to work the mine for
fear of it's prcmaturely "petering out. Were
General Schcncks means Of information in
ferior TO that of the stray visitor to Ciah
Or did he lend his name to the speculation
without taking the trouble to inquire
Decidedly, the plea of being victim IS
as dangerous to him as any other he could
make.
Year: 1876

There can be little doubt that we are about
to enter on an Indian war which may extend
over the wide tract of territory lying between
the Missouri River and the Rocky Noun
tains. The endeavors to prevent it by
peaceable negotiations last fall failed be-
cause the Sioux chiefs could not agree
among themselves as to the indemnity to be
collectively asked by them of the govern
ment, and the individual demands were
either of q preposterous nature, such as no
government could afford, or personally avar-
icious and puerile. The council was broken
up without approaching a conclusion, and
the government Commissioners barely
escaped massacre at tho hands of tho wild
bands through the timely aid of one of the
chiefs, who not only informed the troops,
but made such disposition of his warriors
MS to foil the threatened repetition of the
scene at the murder of General Candy
There is something very tragic in the con-
dition to which the indian has fallen at
our hands. We are prone TO condemn the
greed and brutality with which the Span
iards treated the aborignes of Cuba, forcing





that the race entirely disappeared within a
few years but we have nothing in our treat
ment of the red man 10 congratulate our
selves upon. He has been sacrificed by us
as fast as sacrifice became necessary to our
aggrandizement. lie has been pushed be-
fore civilization or trodden down in its
march. He has been taught all the vices a
civilization, and has improved only in learn
ing the art of killing. lie cannot under
stand that ii is useless TO keep up The fight
with destiny The white man has found
gold in the Black Hills, and we arc now face
TO face with the fact that body of for
tune-hunters can force us into a war
which will COST more, perhaps than the
greatest sum asked b. the Indian chiefs
last fall. We are very likely to loo: sharply
after anything like allowing ourselves to
drift into a war with foreign State, but our
War Department has within its discretion
the power Of making wars that will REQUIRE
army supplies and bestow fat contracts on
quite an extensive scale. While. therefore.
it may be necessity 70 strike and punish
the marauding bands, wo commend the
entire question to the democratic majority Of
the House Of Representatives to SEQ that tho
acquisition of the Black Hills is not accom-
plshed at q huge cost to the nation to the
benefit only of thieving contractors and ac-
companicd by a further wholesale and un-
necessary destruction of those whom our
centennial orators call with unconscious
irony, "the wards of the nation"


PooE TWEED He has been called thief.
Year: 1876

A ADDRESS TO TH S G 4.
Do you want to purify the system?
Do you want to get rid Of Biilousness
Do you want something to strengthen you
Do you want a good appetizer
Do YOU want to get rid Of nervousness
10 YOU want good digestion?
Do you want to sleep well?
Do you want to build up your CONSTITUTION!
Do you want brisk and vigorous teetng


IF Won do take
Year: 1876

FACTS WORTH HEEDING WHILE THE MER-


curry Is AMONG THE NiNETIEs.


The report of the Sanitary Com
mittee of the New York Board Of
Health upon sunstroke says: "Sunstroke
is caused by excessive heat. and especi-
ally if the weather is 'muggy. 1t is
more apt to occur on the second, third,
or fourth daybf heated term than on
the first. Loss of sleep, worry, excite
meut. close sleeping rooms, debility,
and abuse Of stimulants predispose. 1t
is much more apt to attack those work
ing in the SUI, and especially between
the hours of IL o'clock in the morning
aud o'clock in the afternoon. On hot
days wear thin clothing. Have as coo!
sleeping rooms as possible. Avoid loss
of sleep and all unnecessary fatigue.
If working in doors and where there is
artificial heat, see that the room is well
ventilated.


"If working in the sun wear q light
hat (not black, as it absorbs hcaD aud
put inside OF i; on the head 4 wet cloth
or large green leaf; frequently lift the
bat from the head and see that the
cloth is wet. Do not check perSpira-
ton, but drink what water You need to
keep up, as perspiration prevents the
body trom being ovcrheated. Have
wherever possible an additional shade,
as a thin umbrella, when walking, 4
canvass or board cover when working
in the sun. When much fltigued do
not 90 to work, or he excused from
work, especially after IL o'clock in the
morning on very hot days, especially
if the work is in the sun. If a feeling
OF fatigue, dizziness, headache or eX-
hauslion occurs cease work immediate
", lie down is a shady aud cool place,
apply cold clothes to and pour cold wa
ter over head aud neck Ii any one Is
overcome by the heat give the person
cool drinks Of water or cold black tea
or coffee, il able to swallow. II the
skin is hot and Cry, sponge with or
pour cold water over the body and
limbs, and apply to the head pounded
ice wrapped in towel or other cloth.
II there is no ice at hand keep a cold
cloth on his head, anG pour cold water
on it as well as on the body.


"If the person is pale, very faint, and
pulse feeble, let him inhalc ammonia
for few seconds, or give him tea
spoonful Of aromatic spirits of ammonia
(har,Shorn) in two tablespoonful OF
water with little sugar.
Year: 1876

CoNGREssMAN FAULKNEK-Is THIS
CoRRucr!-The Wheeling Evening
Standard says: We are informed that
in recent letters to, and conversations
with his constituents, Congressman
Faulkner has indicated his intention to
make no canvass for re election TO his
present seat in the IIouSe Of RcprcSen-
taliycs. Probably the principal reason
OF such declinaion is founded upon the
proposed presentation OF his name be-
fore the legislature next winter rs a
candidate for Senatorship, and while we
should dislike to see him give up his
seat in the house, on any uncertain
prospect of n seat in the other, the re
tusal to make any contest for his pre-
sent place pending the settlement OF the
senatorial question, is perhaps well
founded. There is 4 not unreasonable
unwillingncss III the popular mind OF the
State, against taking a man from one
important political position for the pur-
pose Of giving them another unless ap-
parrut necessity exist, for such transfer.
What the exact necessity Is in the case
under consideration, We are not now
prepared to state, bat perhaps Mr..
Taulkncr's conclusion to give up his
seat under all existing circumstances, is
a wise one. At any rate it will he ac-
ceptable to a good many aspiEants for
Congressional houors in the second
District.
Year: 1876

GIVE THEM CoLD WATER.-lt is very
doubtful if there is single possible
disease in which the patient should not
have cold water Gb hbdum. Oh, how
little babes often suffer for cold water !!
A nursing baby is given, no matter how
thirsty, netting but milk. The little
lips are dry and cracked, aud the little
tongue is so parched, that it can scarce
ly nurse, and yet it has nothing but
milk to assuage its craving thirst. Try
it yourself, mother, when you have a
fever, and we are sare that ever after,
when your darling is dying with thirst,
the teaspoon and tumbler of cold water
will be in constant use Deny it milk
and give it plenty Of Geld water, and it
has a chance of speedy recovery.
Year: 1876

GETTING MoNtY The most unfortu-
nate day in the career of any young
man is the day in which he tancieS there
is some better way to make money than
to earn i; for from that feeling arises
the many extrayagant and visionary
schemes which are INDUCED in for the
purpose OF gaining livelihood without
labor. When a young man become;
thoroughly infected with this feeling,
he is ready to adopt any means for the
accomplishment Of his object and if his
plans are frustrated and he is tCiIed in
his efforts, upon the crest of the wave
whicn he thinks must inevitable follow
in the wake of defeat. To those he
yiclGs, and the first he realizes he finds
himself the yiolator Of the law, and
criminal in the eyes of the community
and an inmate Of the prison, waiting
trial, all brought about for the want of
a little manly lirnness in the outse: or
life to prompt him to chose an avccl-
ton in lite where the penny carried
would bring witn it snre reward. Then
let our young men spuru the idea Of OBJ
tanning money without rendering an
equivalent let them be ready and will.
ing to occupy positions in life which
Will give them the best possible oppor.
tunity to develop their natural talent,
and do good to others while helping
themselves III this way we may have
a nation of noble men and women,
which will be a source of profit and
pleasure TO u, and an object Of wonder
and admiration to the world.