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Year: 1876

an admirable one, and not u day ought 70 De
lost in taking it vigorously up. But it would


be presumptuous of our students and quite
out of their province to send the chal-
lenge in that case. That should come,
not from any institution or cluster
of institutions, but from the nation.
AS the rifemen of America have ex-
tended hearty greeting to the chosen
shots of Ireland, SO the amateur oarsmen
Of the nation should see to it that the best
rowers In Ireland have ON equally hearty
welcome, and start beside them on the
Schuylkill. And SO they have already done;
for the invitation of the Centennial Com
mittee, forwarded through the British Com
mission, and just now arriving out, is
meant to include the very flower of the oars
men of the United Kingdom. If it cramps
them by limiting them to members of indi-
vidual clubs instead of a national team it
yet cannot have been meant to do so, or,
if it does, it ought to be amended at once.
The Irish way of treating our rifemen is al
together too green in our minds to permit
our recent generous hosts to have any con-.
Germ about the sort of time they will have in
our country, and the whole plan is to in
vite, not simply the best men of some corner
of any land, but, as all other productions,
those of the whole land.
Year: 1876

All the flags in the city were flying yester-
day and half the people were in Broadway
waiting for the military parade in honor of
George l. George Ill never has his birth
day celebrated in this country. Why is
this? Let us not write again the histories Of
England and America; it is enough that of
the two Georges who fell out at the close of
the last century America much preferred
George L-George the first in peace, George
the first in war, and George the first in the
hearts of his countrymen.


We suppose that many people remembered
that Washington, about eighty-seven years
ago, had his home IN New York. and the
house where he lived still stands and is used
as hotel. The stairs which that great and
good man assembled any man may ascend
still, and may be incontinently kicked
down those immortal stairs if he does not
pay his bill to the landlord. At that period
Washington was in no danger of such an
experience, for he not only always
paid his bills, but was President to
boot. His diary, which we have been
reading with deep interest, is full of
"reminiscences of this time. Washington
evidently took great delight in the Bat
terry. Thus we read under the date of Sat-
urday, November IA, 1889, the following
entry :-"At home all day, except taking
walk round the Battery in the afternoon"
On the 18th he 'took a walk in the fore
noon," doubtless on the Battery, and on the
30th he 'went to the play in the evening,
but where or what he saw the deponent did
not say. On December his diary has this
brief record :-"Walked round the Battery in
the afternoon" On December he simply
Observes "Walked round the Battery" On
the 14th of the same month we learn that he
''walked round he Battery in the after
noon" On January 4, after long interval
of bad weather we are again informed that
he walked round the Battery in the after
noon" On January 6 he reverses the form
of this expression by saying, '1n the after
noon walked round the Battery" On the
9th he says again that, 'In the afternoon
walked round the Battery" 1t is not
strange that on January IS he should
record in his diary that he is "Still
indisposed with an aching tooth and
swelled and infamed gum" But we
find that on the 30th he ''walked round the
Battery in the afternoon" 1t is plain that
George took deep interest in the Battery,
and it is not strange, for it is a beautiful
place, with superb view. Perhaps, also, it
was habit of his, formed during the war of
walking over English batteries But, though
he asserts that he often went on the Battery,
his diary contains no admission that he ever
went on batter Herein his Immortal ex-
ample is not initiated by the modern patriots
of New York We fear that in the cele-
bration in his honor yesterday his favorite
walk was followed in general only SO far as
the first two syllables. We hope, however,
that the quotations we have made from his
diary will have the effect of making the Bat
terry more fashionable than it is. We cannot
do better than to follow the footsteps of the
Father of his Country.
Year: 1876

It is sign of the determined patriotism
of the American people that Washingtons
Birthday was celebrated yesterday with so
much fervor all over the country. In this
city business was generally suspended, there
were the usual parades and festivities, and
the streets presented an animated and brill
liant appearance. One of the most interest
ing events of the occasion was the reunion
of the veterans of 1912, most of whom are
we'll up in the eighties. These men,
soldiers in their time, are the con-
Meeting links with the Revolutionary strug-
gle, and some of them in their childhood
may even have seen the father of American
liberty, in whose honor the day was observed.
At Richmond there was a novel celebra-
ton, consisting of vice-regal court
ball of the time of Lord Botetourt.
But in Philadelphia, which occupies a sort
of centennial pre-eminence, the day was
even more generally celebrated than in New
York and other cities. The streets were gay
with flags, and the multitudes which went
and came gave the city the appear
ance of great bazaar in which military
parades, decorations and illuminations were
an important part of the pageantry. 1t may
be very trite reflection, but it is one worthy
to be recalled that the Republic which Wash
ington did so much to found will always be
safe while the memory of the Father Of his
Country is held in such grateful reverence
as the celebrations of the centennial year
show it to hold in the hearts of his country
men.
Year: 1876

THE REPUBLICANS of this State go to work
early in preparing for the ensuing Prcsiden-
tial campaign. Yesterday the State Commit
Tee agreed to call the convention to elect
delegates to the National Republican Con-
Eention to meet at Syracuse ON the 22d of
March. This looks as if the nomination of
Senator Conkling was to be vigorously
pressed, the early date for the selection of
delegates being chosen so that his friends
may have official recognition before the dele
cations from other States are made up.
Year: 1876

Captain Leslie, of the Dublin University
Boat Club, as mentioned in our Dublin
letter on Monday, said to our correspondent
that "the suggestions in the HERALD of the
10th ult, if acted on, would 60 long way
to facilitate the project" of having his crew
row here and we are glad to add that these
very suggestions are now about certain to be
acted on. The difficulties have all along
been three-the expense, the early date at
which they were asked to row (July 20), and
the style of boats (sixes). BY deferring the
race a month, so that they can get well
through with their home engagements and
have abundant time on this side, and by
changing the race to fours, they are entirely
suited, and we have it from excellent
authority that both these changes are


likely to be promptly and gladly made /;
also that preparations are making to
have oil their legitimate expenses met
from the moment of their landing in
this country until they leave it. Instead of
the Dublin University Boat and Rowing
clubs sending each a crew it is the desire of
our students to meet the best team that can
be made up from the two clubs-in other
words, from the entire university. Captain
Leslie's plan of having not crew from the
university simply, but from oil Ireland, is
Year: 1876

In SPAIN the royalist successes continue
and the Carlist cause must be regarded as
hopelessly lost. Like all the Carlist strug-
giles which preceded it it was useless from
the beginning. and the sooner it is brought
to an end the better.
Year: 1876

The INDIANA PLATFORM adopted by the Re-
publican State Convention at indianapolis
yesterday is it is true, a bundle of plati-
tudes; but these are not without their inter
est, especially as regards the vital issues of
the day. 1t is plain that in spite of all their
declarations in favor of universal amnesty
the republicans of Indiana will make war
upon "unrepentant rebels" as long as it
is to their political interest to find them.
On the school question, too, there is
an unnecessary declaration, intended solely
for political effect But the resolution
on the currency question is the most re-
markable of all. 1t is impossible to deter
mine whether these Indiana republicans are
in favor of imitation or opposed to it Their
declaration is only turgid succession of
platitudes extolling the glories of green
backs. 1t is plain enough that they do not
want resumption, and it is equally plain that
they dare not say what they do want.
Year: 1876

The DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION is
10 meet in ST. Louis on the 9th of June.
All the arguments in favor of the Centennial
City and the Fourth of July we're unavailing
With the committee, and we presume the
party goes West for quiet time and care
full calculation Of chances.
Year: 1876

The CALIFORNIA HORSE RACE, which has
been hanging over since last November, was
run yesterday, Foster winning in two
straight heats. Rutherfurd was second, and
all the others were dstanced There is some
comfort in knowing that this long deferred
race is over at last
Year: 1876

JUDGE PoRTERs ARGUMENT in the Babcock
case yesterday was mainly devoted TO as
saults upon the press and laudation of the
President. The speech is a striking one and
was evidently made for the country even
moro than the Jury
Year: 1876

LET THEM REsIGN.-Some of the states
men who serve the city complain because
Comptroller Green makes them swear
they do their work before they draw
their pay. This is hardship. Con-
sidering that most of these statesmen
would now be digging up on the Fourth
avenue improvement if they had not suc-
ceeded in securing fat berths elsewhere, and
that most of them, if turned out on the
world to earn their living, would find it hard
to do so, it does seem to be hardship thai
the Comptroller should make them take an
oath before they take their money. But
there is no reason why we should have any
trouble If these statesmen don't want to
swear let them resign. That will save
trouble We offer to find men within
twenty-fou hours abundantly competent ts
do the work and to swear once day that
they earn their wages if the law so directs
Rather than submit to Green's tyranny le
the statesmen resign. That will show man
hood and independence and self-respect-
Year: 1876

Yesterday tho work OF stretching the nrst carrfor
rope position continued, under tho supcrvs-
ion OF Mr. Martin. the assistant engineer. and Mr..
Harrington, the master mechanic. Tho end OF the
cable passed iron beam six inches in dam
ctcr the New York sidc and the rope which, after
being towed the river lay at tho bottom of the
a depth OF sixty feet. gradually tightsncd
by the action Of the engine and brought slowly TO tho
surface II raised altogether distance Of 25l feet
from tho rivers bottom TO altitude OF l9l iect above
the surface OF the water. The strain the cable at
sne time Of raising IL equal to nine ten
pressure During the tmc occupied la hosting Tho


carcr" navigation was OF course, interrupted at that
part OF the which lies between the PIERS but this
interruption did last than fifteen or twenty
mnutos Both sides OF the river and adjoining piers
were crowded with people
Year: 1876

Tho commission appointed to examine into tho osndi.


of the railway postal service continued their inves
legations tho st. James Hotel yesterday morning.
Mr. II. J. Jewett, Receiver Of tho Now York ana
Eric Railway Company, was the first TO appear be-
fore the commission. His interview in reference
the proper basis upon which railroads should be re-
munerated Tor mail service. In his opinion it should
be determined according weight an agreement beng
had 10 the amount OF service, and then nxed sum
agfccd upon for n term OF, say, four years


Postmaster James also had hearing before the
commission His conference related almos; wholly TO
subject of the last mail service He gave as his
positive judgment that nnety-nne out OF overy ono
hundred business OF tins city anxiously desired
last mail line The Postmaster also submitted re-
port upon tho local letter carrier system Tor the con-
siderntion OF the members Of the comm ission.


Those gentlemen from the Produce Exchange and
Chamber OF Commerce whose presence had yesterday
been expected iailed 10 put in an appearance Thcy
sent notices their inability TO attend and IL Is likely
that whatever communication they now have with tho
commission will be done In writing.


On Thursday Jay Gould held "A conferences with
tho commission, which Is stated to have been quite
informal and only had reference 10 what Mr. Gould IN.
tends hereafter TO propose.


THIS practically closes the session OF the commits
sion In this city.
Year: 1876

am tell you one thing" said General Newton to a
HERALD reporter at He'll Gate yesterday, call these
sgntsccrs who think going to bring heaven and
earth together are going TO be disappointed. ! feel
very sorry for those people who hiring reserved
seats the Harlem shore 81 each or this occasion
only and who expect TO enormous water spouis


uphcavAs OF rocks and all the rest Of IT, II could
give them little exhibition I should like TO. for I
Year: 1876

with us at arms length, for simple
contact and not fusion. If now
they desire to become citizens, to
acquire the acquaintance with our


institutions, which will make them
good citizens and school their tastes
and habits to conform to those of
the people among whom they now
expect to live and die, large part
OF the argument against them is de-
molished. We have no right to
oppose the admission among us of
any persons merely because they
will reduce the market price OF labor,
or because of their strange manners
and costums. If they are persons
who are avowedly opposed to the
Who'll e spirit of our political and So
clal institutions, and they are in suf-
tcient numbers to be likely to de-
stroY or seriously injure our institu-
tions, there is certainly a moral
right to prevent the admission of
such persons, and it should be made
a legal right as soon as possible.


1t is now to be determined wheth-
er Hong Chung and his countrymen
are sincere in their new professions
Or whether these are but subter-
tuge to allay the growing excite
ment.- Milwaukee Commercial
Times.
Year: 1876

AAOoub LIidU Wal oS IbN ~ ~i1GLS n
inaw railroad business. 1t appears
that the eastern parties to whom
the board of control had decided to
award the contract failed to con.
meet on ednesday last, at which
time they were to be in Detroit,
sign the contract and deposit their
bonds. There has, it is evident,
been a counter influence at work
which has been bro ght to bear
upon the parties in question to cause
them to reconsider their own pro-
position, and decline TO carry out
the arrangement. 1tis understood
that when the parties met the board
in Detroit early in March, they
came prepared to close the arrange
ment by signing the contract and
depositing the necessary bond; but
the board, i'll its excessive wisdom,
listened to proposition from other
parties, who offered to take the
grant with twelve years exemp-
ton from taxes instead of sixteen,
as authorized by the act, and ad-
iourned until the Goth. W hen they
met on the 29th, the twelve-year ex-
enption party came in and demand
ed further CXtentlon of forty days
o enable them to make further en-
quiry concerning the value Of the
lands the eastern parties were not
personally present, but advised the
board by telegram that they were
willing To abide by their former
offer. Thereupon the board award
ed them the contract, and arranged
by telegram for meeting at De
troit on The 18th, a which time the
contract was to be signed and the
bonds deposited. Considering the
matter closed, the board, or some
member of 1t, very lnjudlclouSIy
gave to the press the names of the
contracting parties, whereupon the
in>idlous influence OF the Chicago Il
Northwestern railway was set at
work to convince the party that the
grant was wholly valueless, and
thus induce them to torego a com
pletion of the arrangement. 1t was
through the same influence that the
Chicago company were lead to de-
mand further time to examine the
lands; and the publication of the
names Of the gentlemen comprising
the party upon whom the grant had
been conferred, enabled that same
influence to defer the consummatlou
Of the enterprise.


The Chicago d Northwestern
company look upon the building o1
the Mackinaw road as being inImi
cal to their interests, and will spare
no effort to defeat it. They very
naturally desire TO retain their pres
ent monopoly Of the Lake Superior
trade, and the state board will have
TO be more retie ent in the future, i
that powerful corporation does no
find the means to hinder, delay ol
defeat every negotiation INTO which
it may enter 10 king to the construct
ion of rival line.


We are assured, however, by
those who ought to be well posted
that other parties (otber than the
Chicago company stand ready tt
accept the contract on the same
terms made with the eastern men
and that the road will certainly bt
commenced at an early day. W.
hope and trust that they may not
be mistaken ; and more PARTICULAR.
that the names OF the new contract
my parties may be withheld from
the publicuntil all the arrangement
are compieted.-M~qaette Jour
Year: 1876

face, but by being like Him, doing good


Use your profits for God, feeding tho hum
CRY, clothing The r..:d, wiling the sick,
comforting the wretched, spreading the Cos
pei far and wide. What field you have to
glorify God in, just where you are! If you
have nothing else, use your tools for Him;
He can glorify Himself with them as easily as
he could with shepherds stick, an oxgoad,
sling, or two mites.


A poor girl who had nothing but her sew.
ing machine used it to aid a feeble church
and all her earnings above her needs were
given towards building house of worship;
and in a year she paid more than others a
hundred times richer than she. So you can
do if you will. Think of the widow with her
two mites; the woman with her alabaster
box, and Dorcas and her garments; you can
do as much and have as great reward.
Year: 1876

But how shall we impress our readers with


the idea of his oratorical powers! Hisprinted
sermons manifest richness of thought, q
power of imagination, and a force of express
sion, which must at all times command ad'
miration. But we must 60 to his contempo-
raries to know what he really was. If it be
the characteristic of religious orator to
rouse his audience from "moral stupidity to
moral consciousness, to stir up within them
the dormant religious sentiment, to force
them, by some mysterious power peculiar to
himself, to contemplate themselves and their
lives in the presence of the ideal, and to hu'
initiate themselves before it--if it be the
mark of great orator that he knows how to
make himself gradually master of the soul of
his hearer, to make it think, and feel, and
live with him for the time, however much it
may be opposed to him when the spell is
broken-if it be, in short, the badge of the
orator to WELD power, to make the truth live
before his hearer and reign with him--then
Saurin is an orator, and only next to the
three great preachers of Catholicism.
Year: 1876

How prone we are to give broken things
to God J.! How the old Jews set US the ex-
ample. How they would persist in bringing
the manned, and the halt, and the blind, for
sacrifice, when God demanded the spotless
and the uublemished. In one of our secular
papers, not long since, We saw the statement
that the deacons of certain Church out
West usually spent large part of Monday
mending the broken scrip which was put into
the contribution box on Sunday. No doubt
the statement was exaggerated. But We
question if there was ever Church treasur-
er who did not have considerable of such
work to do. And sometimes the scrip afore-
said is not only broken, but not even worth
mending.


Giving broken things to God! What null
titudes of impenitent sinners are doing it or
proposing to do it, "Give me thine heart, +"
says God. Give it in youth. Give it in
manhood. Give your best days, your best
strength, your best services, your best powers
of mind and body, to God. But no, not now
is the response. Wait-wait till old age
comes-till sinful indulgenceS no longer ex-
hilsrate. Wait till death stares me in the
face. Then I'll give myself to God; then,
when am broken, and helpless, and useless.
On, for shame


There is one broken thing which God calls
for and never will refuse. 1t is broken
heart. Give him that, but let all your other
offerings be sound and wholesome.
Year: 1876

There can be no impropriety in calling at
tention to the fact&hat West Hanover is the
"banner Presbytery, as regards the mea-
sure of attention given to the collections re-
quired. The institution of comparison be-
tween the PresbyterieS as to the average
amount given per member, does injustice to
those whose congregations are financially
weak. But it is altogether fair to compare
the degrees of attention given to the matter
of afOrding the people an opportunity to
give; for in this respect all stand upon an
equality, both of opportunity and ability.


The number of churches contributing to
all six of the regular objects has more than
doubled within two years; and in this respect
every Presbytery has made an advance.
Year: 1876

WHAT have you to show for your religion,
as you call II" said mon not long ago of
Monday morning to a recent convert. 81
have this to show" was the reply, and he
took from his pocket his last weeks wages.
1t was. a new experience, for Saturday night
and Sunday had previously seen every penny
20 the way Of dissipation.
Year: 1876

| DISLIKE all interference with the do
mestic habits Of poor people. Treat them
well--snd trust them, but let them manage
in their own way. And take care never to
give them anything gratis, unless when they
are under the gripe of immediate misery
Consider it sin to do anything to make
them lose the precious feeling of indepen.
dence.
Year: 1876

The Massachusetts Democratic State Com
mittee give notice that the Irish vote must
aud shall be secured, and Herculean efforts
are making to induce Charles Francis Adams
to wear green necktie.-Brooklyn Argus,


Business continues to improve despite the
distractions of TIE Presidential election and
the uncertainty that clouds national affairs.
The fact of an improved state of trade can be
learned by inquiry in almost any branch.
The great trading and business public is
daily gaining confidence, the full restoration
of which will bring fBir measure of old
time prosperity. Transcript.


The death of F. o. j. Smith brings to mind
one of the old scandals of the administration
as far back as the days of Tyler. When Dan
iel Webster left the Cabinet his accounts did
not square. There was a deficit which he
made up out of his own pocket, but he de-
clared that it was occasioned by the loss of
certain vouchers. He was accused in Con-
gress of making an improper use of the Sc
cret Service Fund, and letter from F. o, J.
Smith, who had acted as agent in securing
the consent of Maine to the adjustment of the
northeastern boundary, was quoted to prove
that money had been used to influence the
press and public opinion OF that state. Some
other explanation Of the letter was found,
and Mr.. Smith testified that he did not use
public funds to corrupt the press in Maine.
The matter made a good deal of stir at the
time and was investigated, but the result, as
usual in such investigations, did not clear the
matter up very satisfactorily. GLOBE.
Year: 1876

The confederate evangelists are preaching
the doctrine that 'the South must be carried
solid for Tilden at all hazards" with great
vigor and effect in every Southern state.
Gen. M. W. Gary is stumping South Carolina
and does not hesitate to proclaim that the
rifle and the shot gun are the agencies which
must be relied upon. His exact language is:
eff it becomes necessary to shoot them (the
white and colored Republicans) in order to
remove them, we must be prepared to shoot
rather than be prevented from redeeming the
state from Radical rule" This is the infa-
nous mississippi plan."