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Year: 1876




among the pines, for the free use of
visitors, and these, with the house
occupied by the engineer and the
great engine house buried in the
hill, are the only buildings on Mt.
Pisgah.


From here we go 81 miles to the
foot of Mount Washington, As feet
to the mile down grade. Here an
other stationary engine hauls us up
the mountain, with rise of over
800 feet, and we have reached the
highest point on our trip. From
this point we can see mountain be-
yond mountain, valley beyond val
ley, stretching away until lost in the
far distance, filling one with sense
of sublimity and grandeur beyond
my power to describe, especially
when we reflect upon the millions
upon millions Of tons of coal which
lie buried beneath these mountains,
and the thousands of miles of rail-
road, the Thousands of busy toilers,
who are employed in the darkness,
far down in the bowels OF the earth,
to send forth light and warmth to
the homes of the East.


From Mount Washington to Sum-
init Hill is little more than a mile.
Here is the 'burning mine," which
has been burning for thirty years.
II is but few rods from the hotel,
and of course visited 1t. but little
was to be seen except that the ground
is heated aud scanned with assures
from which smoke and steam are
issuing. The visitor does not tee,
like venturing very near to this
small edition OF the fiery bottomless
pit. fs


Past the burning mine walk of
about a mile takes one to the 'ice
cave" where ice remains the year
around. AS ice was no rarity a:
this season l did not visit the cave,
contenting myself with hearing it
described by party who visited it
on u sultry August day. lie found
the floor of the cave covered with
ice, which, however, was 50 covered
with dust and gravel from the roof
that l. is first knowledge of its pres
enca WAS gained by losing his equi-
librium aud sitting down. lie sat
down in italics, he says. In anoth.
or part of the cave he found "A pillar
OF solid ice, formed aud still forming
in August IRON the water which
slowly trickied from the roof. At
the foot Of the pillar the ice reached
away among the rocks of the foor,
like the twisted ana gnarled roo, OF
great ice tree. The walls of the
cave were of coal, which glistened
in the light of the torch, while the
roof WAS of rock.


A ride of nine miles by another
route, all down grade, A. feet to the
mile, takes us back to the point of
starting at Upper Mauch Chunk
As l am tired and this 10 ter long
enough, will defer speaking of coal
mines and the coal trade till another
time. .|. CRAZY BILL.
Year: 1876

has. The people We're mostly working
men and had not the influence to secure
attention. Now is favorable oppor-
tunity and the whole city will reap a
benefit by paving Walnut street.


The idea of an injunction being placed
upon the work is preposterous. The
Chancellor will not interfere in such a
matter. If the paving of a street was a
new thing or any thing unusual it would
be another matter. Such a matter
would result in great dissatisfaction and
bring the Court of Chancery into de-
rision. 1t would at once give strength
to the assertion that injunctions were
granted to put fees in the pockets OF at-
torneys and call out proposition for
reform and the institution of Courts OF
Cancellation in which citizens might
present and urge their own case, the
Judges OF which should be- chosen by
the people by ballot.


If there is any politics in the question
it is raised by the Republicans. They
hope to regain the 9th and 9th Wards
and carry the Council by seme trickery,
and this opposition to the paving OF
Walnut street is one Of the tricks.
Year: 1876

IT was dark night. There was a
long ladder. The boat was moored
near the wharf. The stalwart young
man rowed beautifully. But she
changed her mind in the middle Of the
river and insisted upon returning to
her father. He implored her to keep
her promise; he wept; he vowed.
went to waste; he had to
back water. They returned to VIII
mington, Del, at daybreak, and there
stood an old man with q shotgun on
his shoulder. ''Papan she said,
we've had such nice ride, on the
river
Year: 1876

I have taken up on my ranch on Squaw
creek one stray mare, dun or mouse col,
ored, with star in forehead. Has no
brand. Also one two year old filly, same
color, belonging to the mare. The owner
is hereby notified to prove property, pay
charges and take them away.


DENNIS CROWLEY.
Year: 1876

It is common opinion that law
and justice are often opposed, and
that skillful lawyers gain cases for
their clients against both fact and co.
uity. But upright lawyers, vino ought
to understand the matter fully, give
different testimony.


The late Gov. Briggs, of Massachu-
sets, was of such scrupulous honesty
that he would never undertake case
in which he thought his client in the
wrong. But he believed that the de-
cisions of the courts were. generally
in accordance with truth and right.
The following anecdote is told Of him
in the last years Of his life:


A very sensible citizen said to him
one day, Governor, am excessively
perplexed in the settlement of an es-
tate, of which l am administrator. |
am afraid shall be greatly embar-
rassed by the technicalitics of the
law, and make great blunders"


Look here, d." replied the Cover
nor, ''in two minutes | can tell you
how to be a good lawyer-as good
lawyer as anybody. Just look over
your case carefully; understand it,
and then do what you think is right,
and in nine cases out of ten, you will
have the law on your side.
Year: 1876




Some Of the newsdealers in this city who
are opposed to the reduction of the price OF
the HERALD to three cents carry their fac
tious opposition SO far as to assault the
newsboys who have undertaken the sale OF
the paper. In numerous instances yester-
day the boys were roughly handled by the
Dealers and in every possible way they
were impeded and discouraged in their
work. These dealers must understand from
the outset that such conduct on their part
will not be tolerated. If protection is neces-
sary the courts are open to the boys and
will be invoked in their behalf. Besides
this, if the resistance Of the dealers becomes
serious other and adequate means of supply.
ing the paper to the public will be put In
operation. In reducing the price of the
paper the proprietor Of the HERALD con.
suited the interests Of the public rather than
the dealers, but sufficient margin of profit
was left the middlemen for the work they
performed in distributing it. With paper
of the immense circulation of the HERALD
half cent per copy is sufficient profit for
the dealers. If we can print the paper for
two and half cents to the trade there is no
reason why the middlemen should not sell
it for three cents, and we are determined
that the public shall be able to get it at that
price. If the dealers persist in their folly
other persons will take their places, and that
is all there is about it.
Year: 1876

PARK BANK DEFALcATroN.- was as
ccrtained yesterday that the National Park
Bank had been robbed Of thirty-six thou
sand dollars by a teller who had been
eighteen years in the employ of the bank in


different capacities of trust. The crime was
committed by man whose integrity was
beyond question, and it is attributed to a
sudden impulse immediately put into execu-
ton. If this theory is correct it is extraor-
dinary. Sudden impulse to commit the
crime there certainly was, but the impulse
must have sprung from desire to be rich,


carefully nursed for years before it was put
into execution. Here was n man surrounded
by money which nobody believed ho would
ever think Of appropriating to himself lie
knew the usos of it. His salary and posi-
tion were sufficient to lead him to the thresh-
old Of luxury, but insufficient to enable
him to enjoy the pleasures allowed only to
the rich. He brooded over what he saw and
what he desired till in an unguardcd moment
Year: 1876

When Tweed, by some mysterious means
not yet explained, fed from the Ludlow
Street Jail, the old man believed himself
free. But from what was he freep From
comfortable room, from an easy restriction,
from the society of his friends and his fam
lily, and from the city which he loved, served,
betrayed. He escaped in the night, and
imagined that flight meant liberty. But
Tweed was not really free, for to such as he
freedom is impossible. The poorest slave in
the South before the war, who never built o
county court house or engineered o river
dock, might enjoy greater freedom than the
man who once dictated politics to the
metropolis of the American Republic.
He fled like Cain, o perpetual fugitive,
pursued by remorseless foe. The brand
of crime was on his forehead, and he
could only obtain liberty to wander over
the face of the world BY the sacrifice of his
friends, his family and his name. Instead
of Tweed he had to be Secor. This is not
freedom; to be always in disguise; to be
like the Man in the Iron Mask; to surrender
all of the past without the hope of the
future. The world is a prison, Hamlet
said, ''in which there are many confines,
wards and dungeons, Denmark being one
of the worst" So it was with William NJ


Tweed he was in prison here in New York,
in Santiago and in vigo, and conscience
and remorse were his jailers. He could not
escape from the crime he had commit
ted-"Where should Othello ro?" In
short time Tweed will be returned to
Now York. He will have had holiday of
nearly year: yet we doubt that he regrets
its termination. What pleasure can there
be in continual flight? He had better have
the moral courage to accept the inevitable.
He should surrender to New York the prop
erty of which he robbed it, and should trust
to man for pity in his old age, and to Heaven
for mercy in his repentance.
Year: 1876

Considerable light is thrown on the half
hearted and dishonest policy so long pur.
sued in our dealings with Indian tribes by
the interesting letter Of Colonel Poland from
Standing Rock. The story Of that agency ID
but q repetition of what occurred in all the
others-acts of dishonesty on the part Of
the whites, leading to acts of violence on the
part Of the red men. This whole system
must be changed. Its result is seen in the re-
lations existing between the government and
the Indians of tho Sioux agencies, now on
the verge of war. So dangerous is the posi-
ton of affairs that unless unusual frmness
is shown in carrying out the order of dis
armament we shall be obliged next spring TO
fight the whole Sioux nation. Red Clouds
and ponies. Rather than do SO they have
elected to abandon their agency at a time
when they will find great difficulty in sup
porting themselves by the chase. Their
action is, in fact, defiance of the national
government, and may render it necessary
for the troops to use force to com.
pei obedience. The present is a very
propitious moment. as the Indians cam
not move with their accustomed celer-.
ity, SO that the troops can make them
surrender or fight. There should be no time
lost parleying with them. Generals Terry
and Crook have ample means at their dis
posal to enable them to reduce Red Cloudi
band to submission, and they should do il
without unnecessary delay, even if it should
involve little fighting. The Custer mas-
sacre has produced on the minds of the
savages it's natural effect, and if they are
permitted to nurse their courage through
the winter we may be prepared for an In
dian war on a grand scale. From the out
break Of the Sioux war it has been suspected
that the warriors at Red Cloud and Spotted
Tail were in sympathy if not in active al-
lance with the hostile bands under Sitting
Bull, and their present attitude shows how
well founded was that suspicion. Men who
knew the frontier well advised oil along
that the proper place to strike at Sitting
Bull was through the agencies, and now
that the government has at length adopted
this same view we hope the generals COM
manding in the field will be instructed to
act with energy and decision. With the
thorough enforcement of the general dis
armament of the tribes we shall enter upon
new era in Indian affairs.
Year: 1876

Civil SERVICE BLAoKMAILINc.-We print
elsewhere definite and serious charge
against Secretary Chandler in relation to
in tho government Offices. Our correspond
ent signs his name and address, and he
remarks rightly that being only white man
and skilled officer Of the government he
was without defence against Secretary
Chandler, though if he had been black and
Southern planter had so treated him he
could have sued his employer for damages.
The republican speakers and organs have
dropped the demand for civil service reform.
II they were in earnest would Mr.. Chandler
be managing their canvas
Year: 1876

JERSEY JUSTICE is notably severe, but in
the case of the indicted prize fighters for
murder in abetting the death of young
Walker it is an injustice to the accused not
10 grant immunity to the spectators Of the
fight who could testify in their behalf
There is no reason or justice in holding
the terrors of the law over persons whose
brutal instincts lead them to look at prize
fipht. disgusting as the exhibition is
Year: 1876

IT Is INTERESTING to see how the politi-
cians figure, and so we have taken the
trouble to obtain q little arithmetic from the
party leaders on both sides in the Preslden-
tial contest who have headquarters. AS a
matter Of course their conclusions are widely
apart, but the reader can compare their
tables for himself, and then make mp his
mind as to which is nearer the truth.
Year: 1876

Too Other Cabinet Members Whose Doom


Is Certainly Sealed.


WASHINGTON, March 5.-It is a sub.
ject of life and death, not only with Grant
himself but with two members of his Cab
met besides Belknap, and with the Repub.
lican party Us o political organization, to
break down the Investigations in progress
by committees Of the House. Unless this
can be done two more members of the
Cabinet must be impeached, and the Pres
ident himself is not safe. There are cases,
partially developed, affecting these two
members Of the Cabinet that are as serious
as the crime that has been fastened on
Belknap, aud unless witnesses are fright
ened away no power on earth can save
these men. There Is also 4 case that goes
directly into the White House, and IL the
efforts at intimidation made by the Ad-
ministration are not successful, the coun-
try within the next ten days will be star
tied by scandal fully as dreadful as that
which has just shocked the civilized world.
N y Sun.
Year: 1876

AN EXCEPTIONAL CoUPLE.-There is
a man living in Wilson, N. c., fifty -four
years Of age, who never owed cent to
living soul in his life, and as the records
will show, was the first man for the past
thirty years to pay his taxes to thesheriff.
Though blacksmith and plow maker by
trade, he cuts and makes his own clothing,
and when engaged at this work IL there Is
call at the shop his wife goes to the an
vii and will shoe horse, brace plou, up
set an axe, or perform any other job in tho
line with as much skin as her husband
Year: 1876

The sad and terrible story told in our
Washington dispatches might well make
every American citizen hang his head in
helpless shame, were it not that the remedy
is in our own hands aud the time for its
application so near. For our self-respect
as people, we may pray that this corrup-
tion, already reaching within the White
House, may not include 10 It's foulness
the President through whose weakness
and selhshness and coneeit all this shame
has been made possible. .--Bos,on Post,
Democratic


The Republican party Is tainted clear
through, 20 far as its prominent represen-
tatiyes are concerned. All are implicated
in Grantism; all are responsible for the
wrongs and rascalities which have been
perpetrated. FROM such sickening spec.
taclcs people will turn with new hope to
the DeniOcracy for relief They want a
President who will not certify to the good
charactef Of every rogue sent into retire
ment BY the people. albany Argus, Dem.


II would be scandal Of almost inconcei-
vable enormity which could now astonish
anybody who is familiar With affairs at
Washington. Corruption has become
more tho rule than the exception at the
capital Of the United States. Providence
Press, Liberal Republican.


Who can read the story of the disgrace
which has overwhelmed General Belknap
without sense Of deep sorrow and intense
modification Pa sorrow far deeper than
would have been felt If the telegram which
told us Of his downfall had brought the
news of his death by some sudden and
terrible calamity.-Phiia. Ledger, lad.
Year: 1876

Union Soldiers. (See FORTS speech and


PIdtfornas.)
These are the soldiers at Fort Sill
Who paid for whiskey dollar gill
To reimburse Marsh and Evans for
The Bribe that took and didn't abhor
The model Secretary Of War
That was put m the Cabinet Grant built.
Year: 1876

LONDON, February 2.-The details OF
the proposed international rifle contest
are not so easy of arrangement as at first
supposed. There was an implied under
standing when the National Association
accepted the American challenge that the
team selected whould be the only one
from Great Britain. The efforts OF the
Americans to induce teams from Scotland
and Ireland, to 90 out will lead to re-
opening of the whole question, if not the
withdrawal OF the rifle Association from
the field altogether A meeting Is 10 be
held to reconsider the matter, and unless
the team is strong enough TO satisfy Sir
Henry Haford that it can be relied upon,
the association will certainly not send
any representatives.


The statue of Lord Palmerston in the
Palace Yard. Westminster, was unveiled
to-day. There was no ceremony.
Year: 1876

SAN FaANCnCo, February 2.-The
Jury in the crooked whisky case against
the Antioch distllery went out yester
day afternoon, and this morning an
nounced their inability to agree, and
were discharged. A new trial will be
had without de ay This is considered a
test case, and If verdict can be obtained
for the Government many otncr suits
will be brought. The impression was
widespread that the jury as constituted
would in no event have brought Il YER
diet for the Government.
Year: 1876

LAUGHING CHILDREN. Give me (says
O well known writer) the boy or girl who
smiles as soon as the first rays of the
morning sun glance in thorough the
window, gay, happy and kind. Such q
boy will be fit to make up" into man
at least when contrasted with sullen
surly cur, or one who growls and grunts
like an untamed hyena from the mo-
ment he opens his angry eyes till he is
confronted" by his breakfast. Such
q girl, other things being favorable,
will be good material to aid in gladden.
ing some comfortable home, or to refine,
civilize, tame and humanize a rude
brother, making him gentle, affection
ate and loveable. It is feast to even
look at such joy-inspiring girl, such a
women girl, and see the smiles flowing,
SO to speak, from tho parted lips, dis
playing o set Of clean, well-brushed
teeth, looking almost the personifca-
ton of beauty and goodness, singing
and as merry as the birds--the wide
awake birds that commenced their
morning concert long before the lazy
boys dreamed that the sun was approach
ing and about to pour whole food Of
warmth and light upon the earth.
Such girl is like gentle shower to
the parched earth, bestowing kind
words, sweet smiles and acts of mercy
to all around her the Joy and the light
of the household.
Year: 1876

The ORIGIN OF MAHOGANY FURNITURE.
The facts regarding the first introduc-
ton Of mahogany as material for furni-
ture, though long known, are not the
less interesting: A physician of the
name Of Gibbons, who resided in Lon
don, received in 1725 present of some
mahogany planks from his brother, a
West India captain. DIR. Gibbons was
then building house, and he desired
his carpenter to work up the wood.
The carpenter had no tool hard enough
to touch it; so the planks were laid
aside. The doctors wife, after the
house was finished, wanted candle
box, and the mahogany was again
thought of. A cabinet-maker of the
name of Wollaston was applied to;
and he also complained that his tools
were too soft. But he persevered, and
the candle box was at length completed
after rude fashion, no doubt. The
candle box was so much admired, that
the physician resolved to have q ma
hogany bureau; and when the bureau
was finished, all the people of fashion
came to see it. The cabinet maker
procured more planks, and made q for
tune by the numerous customers he OBJ
tanned. From that time the use of ma
hogany furniture went forward among
the luxuries; and the drawers and bu-
reaus of walnut tree and pear tree were
gradually superseded in the houses of
the rich.
Year: 1876

81" Many of the French admirers
of our institutions propose to erect on
an island in New York harbor colos-
sal copper statue of Liberty, over q
hundred feet high, as an expression of
the sympathy of the countrymen of La
fayette, and commemoration of the
centennial of our independence. The
model for the statue has been prepared,
and the projectors are taking steps to
secure the needed funds.
Year: 1876

s The Catholic and the Ritualist
must pay duty of eight cents a pound
on the wax candles which they burn
upon their affairs, but the Heathen
Chinee is permitted to import his joss
sticks or joss-lights, which they have
no use except in the ceremonies of the
Chinese idolatry, free of duty.
Year: 1876

A WEAsRL's STRATAsEM. inge-
nuity with which some animals entrap
their enemies seems moro like reason
than what we consider instinct, though
what instinct really is, philosophers are
undecided. The following story IL well
authenticated:


ga grist-mill was infested with rats,
until weasel came there and destroyed
nearly all of them. There was, how
ever, one large rat he could not con-
quer. They had several pitched battles,
in which the rat whipped the weasel,
until whenever the ret appeared, the
weasel would seek safety in flight.
They were watched for several days.
when the weasel was observed to be
digging a hole in the earth under q
pile of lumber. After he had complet-
ed it, he approached the mill, and the
rat ran after him as usual. He made
some show of fight until he got the rat
into his hole. The rat followed, when.
the weasel was seen to come out at the
other end OF the hole, and run in at the
entrance after the rat. Subsequent ex-
animation proved that the weasel had
made the hole large enough for the rat
to enter, but had contracted the. other
end SO that he could no get out. Hav-
ing thus entraped his antagonist, the
weasel took him in the rear and easily
conquered him..
Year: 1876

| I have often wondered concerning
the mysteries Of sleep. If you have
watched any one slumbering, you must
have felt that there is something absent
which is there when the sleeper is awake.
Thought in moment can fly to the
other end of the earth. A woman born
and bred in Australia, being in London
can constantly conjure up the home
stead. Why, then, shall the soul be
able, when the body sleeps, to go--who
knows whittier?


Sometimes, when We wake, for some
moments we appear to be struggling
with something, and then, suddenly we
are still again.


Where are the souls of the mad
The soul being perfect existence, if it
were with the mad, then its perfection
would overcome the madness. A man
who has never known any impurity of
thought becomes mad, and his fancies
are in the last degree terrible. Can the
soul; which guided him when sane, be
still with him when he has become
something worse than q brute?-who
know? fa


Mohammed, wishing to illustrate the
wonders of sleep, told how a certain
man, icing sheik, found himself, for his
pride made poor fisherman; that he
lived as one for sixty years, bringing
up family and working hard; and how,
upon waking up from this long dream,
so short time had he been asleep, that
the narrow-necked gourd bottle filed
with water, which he knew he over
turned as he fell asleep, had not had
time in which to empty itself.


How is it that sometimes, when we
go to q strange place, we fancy that we
have seen it before ? Is itpossible that
when one has been asleep the soul has
foated away, seen the place, and
has that memory of it which so surprises
us? In a word, how far real is the
life of o man, and how far not?