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Year: 1876

PAST PRECEDENTs,


and put in so many words to express the
intent of the constitution that the votes for
president and vice president should be
counted in the presence of the senate and
the house, and that either body should
have the right to reject the vote of any
state upon the ground of fraud The 22d
joint rule was passed in 1865. 1t was
never re-enacted 1t was used in 1869 and
in 1878 in counting the votes for Grant,
and was no more in force 10 those years
than it is now Mr.. Springer.i in examining
the records closely, has found that there is
a wide difference between Joint rules and
rules that each body Of congress has for its
own organization. There is not in the his
tory of congress single precedent to show
that


A JOINT RULE


has ever been re-enacted. It is only pass
ed by concurrent resolution, and, as 81
passed, is law of the land unto congress
until repealed. AS it required concurrent
action to bring it into existence so it would
require concurrent action to repeal it.
Such action has never been had. Last
winter the senate desired TO get rid of the
twenty second joint rule, and so offered a
resolution beginning, Resolved, by the
senate, the house of representatives con-
curing" and then declared that all of the
joint rules. except the 22d, should be re-
enacted. Upon this resolution


THE HOUSE NEVER ACTED,
This concurrent resolution then falls to the
ground. With all the precedents. as
stated above. and the facts with them, it is
now the declared intention of the Demo
Gratis to take the stand that the 22d joint
rule is still in existence. With the facts of
record, as stated above, this position cannot
be successfully assailed.
Year: 1876

Hon. Eugene Hale, member of Congress from
Maine has been credited with being in favor of abol
ishing the Kittery navy yard, and with having ac-


lively supported moves made in that direction in the
house committee on appropriations, Of which Mr..
Hale Is a member. We have never credited this
story, and are pleased to be able to state
questionable authority, that Mr. Hale has earnestly
opposed any measures looking to the abolition Of this
yard, and that to his efforts in committee is it in
great measure due that the appropriation committee
decided to report in favor of its being retained as
null navy yard.


1t is matter of surprise that anybody could
nave credited report that Mr.. Hale had
been inimical to a navy yard in his own
State. His position on the naval committee
and his aptitude for practical and vigorous
debate have made him specially influential in
naval affairs and there can be no doubt of his
efficiency in securing. the continuance of the
Navy Yard at Kittery against assaults from
other quarters.
Year: 1876

The general impression in political circles
is that Mr.. Pierrepont was made Minister to
England and Don Cameron Secretary of War
to improve the chances of Senator Conkllng
in the Cincinnati Convention. Senator Cam
eron has been most anxious to get his son in
to the Cabinet, and prominent Pennsylvania
Republicans assert that that gentleman has
been ready to turn over the Republican dele.
CATION from that state to whatever prominent
candidate would promise to make Don a
member of his Cabinet. That Senator Conk-
ling is the Presidents preference for the Re-
publican candidate there can be little doubt,
but it is very doubtful if this very remarkable
action of the Executive will promote the in
terests of the New York senator. 1t may
also be proper to remark that prominent
Pennsylvanians assert openly that Senator
Cameron cannot deliver the goods.
Year: 1876

THEY are about ready to shut that centen-
nial safe which is to be closed for hundred
years. A Democratic "reformer" ought to
be numbered among the curious products of
this curious age enclosed In its vaults. When
the fairy burglar kisses its lock with a skele-
ton key century hence he will be duly
amazed at the strange things revealed to his
gaze. On second thought it would be well to
lock up the whole batch of Democratic Gre
formers" The country has no pressing
need of them.
Year: 1876

Reason should teach US that blotchy, rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon internal cause
and no outward application can ever the defect.
VEGETINE is the great blood purifier.
Year: 1876

There is display of potatoes and
onions from Bermuda in Agricultural
Hall worth looking at The vegetables
are of the largest size and the finest quail
ty, showing the productiveness of the soil
in that fertile little island. A good many
of the potatoes would weigh a, ton, while
the largest of the onions is so immense
that sixteen persons could stand around it
and shed tears together.
Year: 1876

A MAN who arrived at Fort SuIly few
days ago from the Black Hills reports that
certain claims at Dcadwood were paying
81 600 per day. As high as Zoo in one
day had been taken out of some of them.
Rich discoveries were continually being
made.
Year: 1876

The new Mining Board which held its
fornia enterprise, intended to give our citi-
zens taste of the excitements. pleasurable
or the reverse as it may happen, which make
California and Montgomery streets in San
Francisco so lively. Our kind friends In
California have noticed with pain that money
New York, and that its owners probably
ache to get ten or twenty per cent and they
mean to give us fair chance at their favor
lite investments. They propose, of course, to
alloy US to speculate only in the most solid
and paying enterprises, and to exercise q
paternal care over our purses by listing
none but established stocks. If the new
Mining Board succeeds it will give
Wall street fresh sensation or two,
which it has been wanting for good
while. California street, the Wall street of
San Francisco, is lively place, where
probably more fortunes are made and lost
every month than in any other ''street" in
the world. We should advise the "street"
here to exercise little care, if such advice
were not thrown away on the bright spirits
there, and if they we're not more than likely
to welcome the encounter of wits to which
their San Francisco rivals invite them. OF
the solid wealth of many Pacific mining
enterprises there can be no doubt; and the
effort by prudently conducted organiza-
ton to invite Eastern capital in greater
amounts to invest in such undertakings
is now begun mainly because, we
Year: 1876

Whether the coal combination can recover
its control Of the market remains to be seen.
But it is worth our notice that the sudden
fall in the price Of coal here, consequent on
the collapse of the companies who have as
sumed to monopolize the market, and did SO
long control and fix prices, has at once at
tractei attention in England. A Man
chester paper remarks, in some alarm,
that SO great fall in the price of
coal, if it is maintained, will affect very
favorably the cost of production in
all American industries where steam is
used. The English writer says:-"If the de-
cline should prove permanent we have here
a new and powerful aid to the American
manufacturer. There is, too, the possibility
of American coal being exported in compe-
tition with that of Great Britain. large
amount of English coal is consumed in
transatlantic countries, more especially in
the West Indies and Brazil, and it is not at
all unlikely that American coal may run us
q close race in these markets, at least for q
time. The most serious question for all
concerned is whether or not the reduction
is likely to be long-enduring, and on this
point we have not now sufficient means of
forming reliable judgment. The mines at
present opened are capable of yielding, ac-
cording to the statements Of the American
papers, about three times as much as they
have hitherto done, without the addition of
any more machinery than is already put
down. Under the combination production
was restricted so as to keep up prices, and
the mines were worked only from three to five
months in the year. The cost of pro-
duction must, therefore, have been enor-
mously high. Now, under the open system
the coal owners will be impelled to turn out
the largest amount possible in order to re-
duce its cost. All this seems to make it
probable that q very moderate price will
now be permanently maintained, since there
is general agreement that the combination
cannot be re-established."


Whether the combination" is really
broken remains to be seen. The event is
not yet decided. But it is worth the while
Of American workingmen to remember that
cheap coal enables employers to pay higher
wages and yet produce cheap goods. What
ever is saved in the cost of raw material is
to the advantage not only Of the manufac-
~turer but of the people he employs
Year: 1876




We advise the colored voters in the South
ern States to support the democratic State


and local tickets. They will probably, In


general, want to vote for Governor Hayes,


and this they can easily do at the same time


that they vote for the democratic local and


State tickets. II is time for them to exercise


discrimination in their voting. To ''vote


the straight ticket" is not, as they have been


taught by corrupt white men, the highest


duty of an American citizen. They may
reasonably say that they prefer republican
federal administration but in such States
as South Carolina Louisiana and Mississippi,
they ought to see that they have been in
local politics only the instruments of bad
men, who mislead them and use them for
purposes antagonistic to their own interests
and to those of the communities of which
they are part Senator Boutwell,, one
of the most jealous and watchful
friends of the Southern colored men,
was so impressed with the condition of
Mississippi politics that he advised the
colored leaders in that State to nominate
none but leading white men of character and
standing in the community, native born and
property owners, to the Offices, and to sup
port these faithfully. This was sound ad-
vice. If they do this they will give the State
peace and themselves the good will of the
whole community. So in South Carolina,
General Hampton, one of the foremost citi-
zens Of the State, solemnly and publicly
pledges himself that, if he is chosen Gov
ernor, he will execute impartial justice
between white and black and sec that the
colored people are secure in all their rights
in every part of the State. We advise the
colored man to take him at his word and
give him trial He promises more than
Governor Chamberlain has performed, and he
has the ability to do what he says. In
Louisiana there can be no doubt Of the duty
Of colored voters; they ought to support the
conservative State ticket and put down the
corrupt republican ring which has SO long
kept the State in turmoil. If the colored
voters in these States should declare openly
that they mean to vote for Hayes, but that
they will everywhere support the local dem
ocratic tickets, they would put new face
on the campaign in the South, and they
would only be doing, after all, what honest
white republicans in Louisiana and Missis-
sippi have been doing for several years.
Year: 1876




We publish this morning two additional
letters from our correspondent in Indiana.
Although they do not furnish any very clear
indication Of the result Of the contest they
give abundant evidence of its vehsmence,
and prove that both parties are fully alive to
the consequences which may follow victory
or defeat. 1t is quite possible that the Presi-
Dental election may be virtually decided by
the citizens of Indiana one week from to-
day. If the democratic party should lose
this State without regaining Ohio no intel
ligent politician will thereafter think it pos
sible that Governor Hayes can be defeated
in November. But if on the other hand,
the democrats triumph in Indiana they will
have chances Of electing their Presi-
Dental candidate even if Ohio should
go against them. The democrats
have never expected to succeed in Ohio
until within the last two or three weeks.
At the time Of their National Convention
they deliberately conceded it to the repub-
licans by their nomination Of Governor
Tilden, who was SO distasteful to the Ohio
democrats. If they should carry that State
in October, after all, they will be filled with
hope and courage by SO unexpected sue
cess, and will command that floating vote in
all the doubtful States which seeks the win
ming side. But it is hardly to be supposed
that Hayes will lose his own State, and if
Ohio goes republican all the chances of
the democratic party are staked on its
ability to carry Indiana next Tuesday The
contest is SO close that the majority will be
very small whichever party wins. During
tho present week the battle will be fought
with desperate energy, and the attention of
the whole country will be concentrated on
the contest
Year: 1876

suppose the need of more capital
is felt out there to develop recent
discoveries. We notice in San Francisco
journal for September % notice of new
assessments on mining shares, amounting
in all to million Of dollars for that month
alone. These assessments are ''for the
development of the Mines" and said journal
remarks that the delinquent assessments"
for the nine months preceding amount to
nearly eight millions. Evidently they need
out there either more money or more faith,
or both
Year: 1876

There are grim dramatic elements in the
horrible tragedy which took place in this city
on Sunday night, when q blind French musi-
clan killed his infant son, fatally wounded
his wife and shot himself dead. Jules
Blanc, the murderer and suicide, who leaves
letter accusing himself alone, had, it APP
pears, been tenderly reared, but loved
lite Of adventure, and followed this i'm
pulse by leading a seafaring life until disease
came and yelled his eyes with a
'drop serene" He was married, and
as the blind professors income was but
scanty his wife became chorus singer at
the Academy Of Music and afterward fol-
lowed the rollicking fortunes of Mile.
AimGe's opera boufe, occasionally getting
small parts. The blind and disappointed
man and the light-hearted young woman,
with her head full of airy tunes, were not
calculated to pull pleasantly along through
life. So weird, mocking picture steals be-
fore our eyes. The cleaning of many lights.
the false glitter of the life of the stage in its
widest freaks, the ring of the merry chorus,
the intoxication of tumultuous applause
are in the foreground. Back Of that we
see the blind husband cropping through
his little room, prey to the bitterest
Of pangs. He is jealous and he is blind.
Jealousy does not want eyes to picture its
fancied wrongs but it needs all the senses
to blot the visions out. II have loved my
wife and she loved me- too," he wrote, but
the thought that must have wrought most on
his disordered mind was can she, the young,
the gay, no doubt the tempted, still love me,
the poor and blind? How the blacklist
thoughts distorted Their selves into fendish
shapes we can dimly imagine. There was for
him no awaking from this nightmare of the
brain. He was blind, and he could never
hope to start from his imaginings as Richard
springs from the rack whereon he has tossed
in the blindness of sleep to cry


Have mercy, Jesu Sof did but dream


Ben Jonson, in his best comedy, gives
picture of husband, jealous without cause,
who asks, while his fingers tremble, (Which
of them kissed my wife first ?" There we can
laugh, for we know he is q victim to busy
brain, and can be undeceived. Jules Blanc
u Luc60
thoughts trooped to his brain, but he felt
that with his wife in all the Fictitious dazzle
of her life, amid Establishments and fat
tery-in the furnace Of the passions, az il
were-he had no safeguard for his honor: he
was blind. Wretch that he was he never
dreamed once that he could trust the woman
who washed the paint from her cheeks and
stole from the stage to their humble home
where her child and her husband waited.
He was blind to the world without and all
eyes for the grinning demon within. Cow
ard, he could not trust as he could not
watch; and the demon told him he could
murder. To look from him and his bloody
work to the picture of John Milton, old and
blind, and enduring his domestic infelici-
ties while he gave to the world the incom-
parable fruits of his great poetic soul, Is
like shifting the glance from hell to heaven.
Happy it is that such crime as the blind
musicians can be oontrasted before weak
humanity with the great blind singers
blameless life.
Year: 1876

No VULCAN YEr.-All day long tho as
tronomers watched the face of the sun for
the appearance of the little black spot upon
his face. They rubbed the glasses Of their tell
escopes and gazed at the luminary: no spot


They rubbed their eyes and looked again
until their optics watered and the sun
danced jig in the high heavens: no spot.
They relieved guard and still looked when
he was high at noon. No spot. They fol.
lowed him down the western slope of the
heavens through the afternoon. No spot
At last the sun grew abashed at all the
telescope eyes which were turned on him.
He was used to seeing the bottoms of
tumblers turned heavenward by the thou
sand in the old Ring days in New York, but
that is long ago. He remembered the in.
auisitiveness of the old scientists when
Venus was brushing his cheek. At the re-
membrance of the little pleasantries Of the
goddess he blushed crimson and hid himself
for the night. As the astronomers turned
to each other at sunset the younger and
more profane applied the same epithet to
the spot that would not come out as did
Lady Macbeth in her sleep-walking speech.
Year: 1876

To "GrvE AWAY" or not to ''give away" is,
in the refined parlance of our politicians,
the question with regard to the surrender of
Tweed. Some there are who dread his
coming and talk uneasily, but the majority,
whatever they fear, say they have no
dread at oil. As the ex-Boss gets little
nearer to Ludlow Street Jail we shall be
snabled to judge how far the gentlemen
whose opinions are recorded elsewhere will
change their tune.
Year: 1876

CRUELTY TO CHILDREN. work Of the
,ociety which has for its object the preven-
lion Of cruelty to the little ones goes on with
rigor. The monthly meeting of the society
s reported elsewhere. The object is q
worthy one, and, if it is not pushed to
Anaticism will surely count as beneficial
factor in state of society which is far from
perfect.
Year: 1876

A FRENCH WoRKINGMAH's CONGRESS, we are
Informed by cable, has convened in Paris.
It's object is stated to be higher wages and
Parliamentary representation. There is
probably too much Utopia in the brains of
the organizers to hope for much solid result
from such gathering, and yet, if properly
directed, what useful suggestions for their
class could be formulated by a sensible body
Of representative workingmen
Year: 1876

THE LATE Mr.. LICK asked for mountain
to be his tomb He was not believer in
revealed religion. This will explain his de-
sire to be buried near the observatory he left
the money to found. 1t will be awkward if
The trust deed gets into the courts and is set
lside
Year: 1876

GoLpsM1rH MAID did not beat her time Of
2:14 at Philadelphia yesterday. They were
very sanguine people indeed who thought
she could do it. Of course the wind and the
state of the track we're against the very high
sst speed, but the seconds below 2:16 are
,nly earned with every favoring condition.
Year: 1876

OCTOBER TERM found all the judges in
their places in the various courts yesterday,
but the lawyers were not SO generally ready
to go on with their cases as to necessitate
any mitigation OF the feeling which made
Shakespeare place 'the laws delay" among
the intolerable ills of life.
Year: 1876

From what our reporters gathered OF tho
proceedings of the Tammany and ant-Tam-
many conference yesterday evening it ap-
pears that the two factions of the democratic
party in this city which follow the lead Of
John Kelly and John Morrissey respectively
have agreed to unite on the basis of giving
the latter's party two-fifths of the nomina-
tions to be voted for by the united
party We have not heard that there was
pies between the high contracting parties,
or, indeed, that there were any to quarrel
over This is smooth and lovely, and it only
remains to be seen how enduring it is to be.
When the republicans come to put their can
didates in the field it may turn out that there
will be some detection in the rank and file
who have been learning for some years past
how to disobey even such important people
as Mr.. Kelly and Mr.. Morrissey The diff
Guilty Of splitting the tickets on basis of
two-ffths of the nominations to one party is
in itself very great, and to do it without
making soreheads Of the sorest kind all but
impossible. 1t is quite possible that the
anti-Tammany leaders may deliver large
part Of the vote they contract to have at the
polls on the 7th Of November, but there il
every likelihood of the opposition getting
some Of the democratic vote. if the fusion
candidates should be in any instance
speckled with bad association or stained
with old corruption. The fusion now said
to be all but perfect makes it all important
for the democratic nominations to be of the
most unassailable kind. Otherwise Mr..
Kelly and Mr.. Morrissey will have fused in
vain.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1875
\ RUAoR THAT GRANT HAS EXPLICITLY con-


DEMNED THIRD TERM NOMINATION IN


LETTER TO GOVERNOR MORGAN.


1t is reported here among republican politicians and
members OF Congress that Governor Morgan ofNew
York, has a letter in his possession from General
Grant, In which the President in direct and explicit
language, declares himself opposed TO a third
term and asserts positively that he will re-
fuse a denomination It is impossible to trace
this to authentic source. but 1t is the
subject of good deal OF quiet talk among republicans
who say that Mr. Morgan has such letter. or II the
President has written one, 1t ought made public
quickly possible ''for the good OF the party"
which, 1t is generally agreed would DO greatly strength
ened all over the country by the Presidents
public and unequivocal remuneration Of third term
project The belief that the President desires
mother term and win use his potent inau.
TO obtain o denomination is so general
and, indeed, universal among republicans here and is
90 generally regarded as the most serious danger
threatening that party now in relation the voters of
the country that the publication Of explicit renun-
saton Of another term would be received by the repub
cans as very great piece Of good fortune The Pres
ient has taken great interest in the debate the Am
pesty bill during the past week. and has concealed
rom his friends his pleasure at it, He thinks it has
seriously crippled the democrats