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Year: 1876

Many people, have the idea that
Custer was a staggering, swearing
trooper. He was just the opposite.
He was as dainty beau in ladies'
society, and as entertaining a guest
at the dinner table as one ever sees.
For years he has never drank drop,
even of the lightest wines. He used
to in the earlier years of the war, but
to his wife's sweet influence he sur
rendered the habit and became even
an apostle of temperance. He never
swore, nor would he allow an oath to
be uttered in his presence. Another
anomaly was that he never used to-
baeco in any form. With one of
the gentlest, brightest wives in the
world, who rode beside him in all
his marches, and slept beside him
many night when they bivouacked
with no coverlid but the stars. Her
last home with her husband was
in house on the frontier where the
finer arts were mingled with the pri-
vations and rudeness of half civiliza-
ton; with a library where Ruskin
lay beside a revolver, and Jean In
gelow kept companionship with a
cartridge box; with drawing room
where velvet carpet was strewn
with half. cured bear and wolf skins;
where delicate lace curtains were
held in place by antlers, and where
elk heads and stuffed owls ornament
ed the piano.


Congress was obliged to reduce
Mrs. Clusters pension from $50 to $50
as her husbands actual rank was only
Lieut. Colonel, and the widow under
the law could not receive more than
$50 a month; aud as there could be
only one pension in any one case
the pension for Clusters mother had
to be based on the death of her son
Thomas whose rank was captain, so
that only pension of $40 could be
allowed. The pension law does not
recognize pension to father where
the mother receives one.
Year: 1876

The New York World says: Last
week an unhappy mother was found
byva funeral party at Greenwood ly-
ing with her four little children hud.
died about her on the grave of her
husband. They were all quietly dy-
ing there Of starvation amid the cost
ly monuments, reared by civilized
opulence and religion to attest the
sancity of human affections and hu-
man hopes. The poor creatures had
been turned out Of their apartments
and found no room left for them any
where among the living in the me-
tropolis of the great Republic. We
chronicled but the other day the ap-
palling fact that in London nearly
fifty human beings annually die of
absolute starvation, in spite of all the
miracles which steam and electricity
have wrought to better human life
since Wordsworth wrote his unfor-
gettable lines:


"HOmeless near Thousand homes stood,


And near a thousand tables pined and


wanted tood." ~


This miserable story Of the day in
New York, following upon half a
dozen others of the same sort during
the present summer, is a terrible and
sardonic commentary upon our own
proud cente nnial boasts.
Year: 1876

We saw her on Fourth street yes
terday. She wore neatly fitting,
plainly-cut and modestly trimmed
calico dress. Her modest face beamed
with youth and beauty beneath the
graceful folds of gauzy green veil,
and her rosy cheeks shone through
it like a pair of cherries. She didn't
carry one-half of her dress in her
hand high up to crafty the vulgar
gaze Of blackguards,or to draw forth
ludicrous and ungentlemanly re-
marks of corner loafers. Nor was
she pinned back so tight she couldn't
step, and her heels didn't kick her
tiller as high as the small of her back.
She didn't walk like mule with a
loose set of harness on and flies bad.
No; she wasn't dressed in style to
attract the attention of any but true
gentlemen, and of these she COM
manded the utmost respect, and it
was paid her by all who, in meeting,
admired her.
Year: 1876

There Mtsst DC Clean S,Ceep.
Day.Book Democrats, there must be
clean sweep this time. Grant is
simply good representative of the
principles of his party, but he is only


one of that party. The office. holders
are determined to carry out Grants
ing certain, what avail will it be to


elect Hayes instead of Grant? 1t will


continue the same old shop, in which


the same thieving business will be
carried on in the same way, by the


same gang of hands; only there will


be another name painted ever the
door; that is all. Would Grants eigh-


ty thousand ot1ice-holders be SO active


in their efforts to elect Mr.. Hayes il
they did not expect to retain their Off
ces under him? What do they care
whose name is over the shop door,
whether it be Grant or Hayes, so long
as they retain the same situations,
with the same emoluments The
change would be mostly a matter of
paint and putty-Grant erased and the
new letters, which spell Hayes, sub
stituted. The change with Tilden
would be radical and entire. New
men as well as new measures will rule
the day. There will be a change,
pretty nearly clean sweep, and we
leave it to the sober sense of the coun-
try il it would not be difficult to make
a change that would not be for the
better. There would be something
more than a change in the name over
the door. The workmen within would
be changed, and the peoples work
would be honestly and faithfully done
by the men who must necessarily come
under the supervision of a reformer
like Tilden. The buzzards favor Mr..
Hayes, because they expect t. re'aiA
the places which they have disa.ace1
Year: 1876

WE LIKE THEM.-This is just about
the time when Over-zealous Democrats
hunt up Rep publicans who were supposed
to be admirers Of Blaine, to ask them
how they like the nominations" We
have not yet heard Of an instance where
one OF the aforesaid over-zeaous DIS
got the answer hoped for. The plain
truth of the matter is, that all Republi-
cans know that the ticket presented by
the Cincinnati Convention is uueXcepta-
tionabe in every particular, and though
there are few reading men of the party
but had their hopes that some one who,
by his public record had became their
favorite would receive the honor, yet all
freely acknowledge the worth of the Re-
publican nominees, and the general feel
ing among Republicans is that the ticket
could not be made more acceptable.


Whichever our individual wishes may
have been, we were willing to yield them
for the general good. Aud the general
good requires continuance of Republi-
can rule until such scenes as that recently
enacted at Hamburg will be impossible
without the offenders are brought to ans
wer at the bar of Justice. If Tilden were
all that is claimed for him by his over
Jealous friends, the fact remains that he
is Democrat and as such can be relied
on to carry out the programme which is
foreshadowed by the action of the lower
house Of Congress. The JOURNAL en-
dorsed Blaine, and believes that gentle
man to have been the choice of a large
portion of the Republicans of California,
but the electoral vote of this State is just
as sure for Hayes as it would have been
for Blaine.
Year: 1876

On Tuesday tie Senate took final
vote on the impeachment case of Bel
knap, and he was acquitted-the vote
standing 80 for conviction TO 25 against, q
two-thirds vote being required to convict.
We are not surprised at this result-in
fact it is just the vote we expected when
the vote upon the question Of jurisdiction
was taken. Concerning the guilt of Bel
KNAPP there can be no two opinions, and
we think that when the Criminal Court
to which he is held to answer tries him
he cannot fail of being convicted. 1t log
ically follows that those Senators who be-
lieved the Senate had no jurisdiction of
the case for the reason that Belknap was
not an officer Of the government at the
time the Impeachment charge were pre-
terred, to be consistent would vote against
his conviction, holding that as they had
no right to try, they as certainly had no
right to condemn.


That Belknap should have been dis
graced legally for his offence, no one will
deny. That he is dlsgraced as effectually
in public esteem as he could have been if
the Senate had pronounced him guilty
must be equally apparent. The fault
that he is not to suffer the full penalty of
his crime, lies in the fact that President
Grant too hastily accepted his resignation.
What the Presidents motives were in so
doing, the public have no means of know
Ing, but the enemies of the Republican
party will, of course, assert that it was
done to shield his favorite from the con-
sequences of his crime. And in view Of
the fact that the President is somewhat
noted for ''sticking by his friends" the
charge must seem plausible. We are in
clincd to the other belief, that Grant did
moi know the extent Of the charges which
had been brought against his Secretary.
But in either case it is the same, by the
hasty action of the President great
criminal is permitted to escape the full
penalty Of his crime. This is not what
IDe people WdHI. Inc Jaw 0HOuio stiIhO
at crime in high places, as well as in the
humber walks of life. The Republicans
were almost as unit in the hope that
the verdict would have been the other
way.


But we believe those Senators who
voted against conviction did so from con-
scientious motives. The question Of
jurisdiction in a case of this kind is a new
one in the history OF jurisprudence. If
it is legal to briug charge involving i'm
parchment against an official out o. of
fee week, it would seem to be legal to
bring charge involving matters years
before. In this manner the design of the
Constitution creating an impeachment
court could be prostituted to partisan pur-
poses, and in the present state of party
feeling there is no knowing where such
proceedings would end.
Year: 1876

thirty thousand being added to the pop
ulation of the State from that qurrter
alone. 1t is not the nature OF the aver
age American to live great while with
out some form of government and law'
hence we need not be surprised that ear-
ly steps were taken 20 provide tor the
formation of State constitution. But
for one reason or another the election for
delegates was rot held until late IN the
Summer and the Constitutional Conven-
ton met on the first day Of September
1t is high praise tc the trainers of our
organic law to say, that though many OF
them were of Southern birth and sympa-
thies, no thought of yielding up the rich
gold fields of California to slave labor
entered into their minds. Her Constltu-
was framed and adopted by the people
by sngularly unanimous vote, l2,O64
for, and 81 against. But though these
proceedings were taken in 1S49, the State
was not admitted until the September
following, for reasons which we shall
brie fly explain hereafter.
Year: 1876

A TEST CAsE.-Reynolds, convicted
Of polygamy in Utah, was sentenced to
two years imprisonment, and the Utah
Supreme Court confirmed the judgment.
The case is now before the Supreme
Court Of the United States, and herein
we may zee the chance for the over
throw of the other twin relic."
Year: 1876

SMALL PoX.-This virulent disease is
beginning to spread over the State, and
the only wonder is that it has not done
80 before. Five cases are reported in
Stockton. With the advent of cold
weather it may extend TO the mountains,
aud our people should at once provide
against it by vaccination.
Year: 1876

AN ITEM ON ECoNoMY.-Over six hun.
dred millions Of dollars OF the national
debts paid off under Republican rule
may be a small item in the line of eco.
nomical administration, but it is more
satisfactory than sixty millions added tc
the debt Of the city of New York during
the same period under Democratic rule
Year: 1876

The California Democracy are stuck ;
after the eighth commandment Thou
shalt not steal" If the Democrats are
learning the commandments, we recon-
mend the party at Hamburg and Angus
IN to study well the one " Thou shalt
not kill"
Year: 1876

A PIUTE never looks ahead one day
to another. If his stomach is satisfied
to-day it is matter of unconcern to
him where to morrow's breakfast is to
come from but for money to play
poker with he will do that against which
his very soul abhors-
Year: 1876

Yesterday evening, at six O'Clock,
before Judge Lynch of the Superior
District Court, the case Of Triplett and
Turnbull, the Union Rights Stop OF
Baton Rouge, was called and, on mo-
ton Of attorney for the Sheriff OF East
Baton Rouge, the writ was dismissed
and the accused handed over to the
Deputy Sheriff Of Baton Rouge, who
took them up the river on boat leav-
ing in the evening; they were accom-
panied by one Of the deputies OF Sheriff
Fagan, the latter having promised to
see the prisoners safely incarcerated in
the Baton Rouge Jail, and without be-
ing molested.


The result Of the affair is due to the
impossibility of counsel for Triplett and
Turnbull to make out a case for thelr
clients after the filing Of the affidavit
made in this city before Judge Adams,
of the Fourth Municipal Court. the
grounds for the writ being based on the
original affidavit made in Baton Rouge,
through which they were arrested and
lodged in Jail here, and which was con.
siderod informal and illegal.
Year: 1876

The Bulletin says the DEMOCRAT has
shown q disposi ton to poo-pooh Its
suggestion that Gen. Nicholls shall deny
the rumor that, after being elected
Governor, he Is to be sent to the Sem
ate, and says our comments on the
matter are calculated to give currency
to the story. We care very little
whether our remarks give currency to
the rumor or not. The rumor is very
foolish one, and is calculated to do no
harm. The Bulletin Is correct when 1t
SAYS the DEMOCRAT Is not In the con-
fidence Of Gen. Nichols. We are not
even personally acquainted with that
gentleman, but he is the candidate Of
our party, and we should very much
regret to see him lessening the con-
fidence the public have in his judgment
and common sense, by writing an epis-
tie to the Bulletin. on every nonsensical
or vicious rumor that gets abroad.


We will add that we do not believe
that there is particle ct truth In the
story, and that we never heard Of 1t
until we read Of it In the columns OF our
contemporary. &oa@ a5 1io -t.
Year: 1876

Coroner Chastant yesterday continued the in
vestiGation Of the killing OF Daniel Paul. better
Tuesday last on Church street. The examina-
ton went to show that the deceased had been
stabbed with a, double-edged dagger. and that
brother to consummate the bloody work. The
death dealing weapon was produced and recog-
nized by several witnesses a. the knife that
Tasev used. The Jury returned a verdic that
the deceased came to his death from knife
stab in the left breast. the weapon being in the
hands of one John Casey. now in custody. and
nennis Casey as an accessory before and after
Tie Tact TO the killing also in custody.
Year: 1876

programme, issue the reports of the judges
lust as they made them, and correct all
errors and omissions by supplementary re-
ports signed by the appeal judges The course
adopted laws the Commission open to the suspicion
of being accessible TO the improper influences winch
are ALWAYS Al work at a Worlds Fair to secure the
granting OF awards. The action of the entire Com
mission has generally been discreet and sanitary,
but experience has more than once proved that ITS
work cannot safely he intru>tcd to the members
who remain in Philadelphia when the body If nonl-
nally in perpetual session. If Gen. Hawley could
get the whole Commission together this bad botch
that has been made of the system OF awards might
perhaps he corrected even at this late hour.


What have said above does not apply to the cor
rcction Of errors IN the phraseOlOgy Of the judges
reports or such alterations are necessary to make
them correspond with the form prescribed by the
Commission in its instructions to the judges. ms
work is being, as / believe, faithfully done by
committee upon which are Commissioners Lynch
and Boteler. In some cases they have found 1t
necessary 10 strike out eXtraneous matter hut the
substance of the awards is not interfcred with.
Very different is the performance Of the COMMITTEE
on Appeals. They exercise the power OF doctorihg
the ndgcs reports to suit themselves, and OF making
new awards on their own responsibility. Two OF
three of their number have not the ability or eX-
perirnca to make competent judges at q country
cattlr-ShOW. X. V. -
Year: 1876

Courage is vital element of Christian
chivalry. Without it, indeed, neither
truth nor fidelity to promise can be
hoped for. The coward is sure to Lie
when truth means punishment, and sure
to retreat from his engagements when
they involve peril. We need valiant
souls that have learned to endure and
scorn pain, and to face danger fearlessly
and promptly when duty requires. Some
parents evade this vital part of training
by CLOSES and deception. A mother
who has taken her boy to the dentist g
to get tooth out will often say, if he is
shrinking: "Sit still, my boy, it won't
hurt you." Now she knows it will hurt
him, but thinks if she can only get him
by this device to sit still and let the den
tist get hold of the teeth, then his dis
covery of the pain will not hinder its ex-
traction. This is double mistake. It
destroys her boys confidence in her for
he detects her in lie and though it
gets the boy this time to sit still, it is
under the delusion that there is to be no
pain, whereas he should be taught to
face the pain and to scorn it. This makes
the difference between the towards and
heroes. A regiment of poltroons could
march up to battery as cheerfully as a
regiment of heroes, if they thought
there was no enemy at the guns. The
difference is that heroes know the dan
ger and yet face it valiantly.
Year: 1876

What leprosy is no one who has not
seen it can we'll imagine. In the jam
setjee Jejeebhoy Dhurrumsala, refuge
for the destitute and sick in Bombay,
the Lancet, on the authority of the


Times of India, says that there are some
hundred and twenty lepers lodged at
the present time, sharing it's scanty &C
commodation with all approximately
equal number of the poor, aged, and
crippled. The lepers live in what are
called chawls or cells, some six feet long
by five feet wide, and the institution is
so full that often two lepers are crowded
into one of them. They are without
furniture or even cooking utensils, but
each of them is allowed two pounds of
rice and three pice with which to pay
for fuel to dress their food. They con-
sist of men, women and children, the chill
dren being the offspring of the men and
women, some of them being born in the
Dhurrumsala itself, for no separation of
the sexes is attempted or, it seems, even
thought of. Unfortunate creatures with
"their limbs wasted till only the outline
of the bones remain, or else swollen out
of all form of limbs" sit or lie about as
they choose, without supervision or
medical care, except from one charitable
physician whose name is withheld, at his
own request seemingly. They are visited
by no friends and by no minister of any
religion. They are abandoned, says the
Times of India, of God and man, and
were it not that the Dhurrumsala gives
them the half of six-foot cell in which
to lie, and handful of rice with which
to sustain life, they would die in their
sores along our streets and in our COM
pounds. Only those who are very much
afflicted are admitted into the refuge.
Those who are not in SO advanced a state
of disease are sent away to beg in the
public highways and byways until they
are sick enough to be taken into the
Dhurrumsala.
Year: 1876

In the first place, it is an imposition
on any we'll bred girl o keep her up later
than half past ten o'clock, when you
have the opportunity of seeing her often.
If you always leave her with the wish In
her heart that You had staid longer, you
gain 80 much. Never run the risk OF
wearyiug her with your presence: BE
Just as earnest and Straightforward as in
your honorable dealings with men. I'M
press your friends with the worthiness
and seriousness of your love, SO that vul-
gar and senseless bantering will appear
to them as such. Love is religion-the
supremcst happiness; wear it manfully
and proudly, but holly. Woo a woman
bravely. If there is anything humiliat-
ing to a woman, it is to have lover
whom she wishes to honor, weak and
vapid, ever yielding and half afraid OF
her. She longs to tell him to "act like
a mani" The man who conceals or de-
nies his love for fear of being laughed
at, is q coward. A love that has no
divinity in it is not love, but passion,
which, of itself, has nothing ennobling.
That was beautiful inscription on an
engagement ring: Each for the other
and both for God"
Year: 1876




Childhood is the sleep of reason.


A good conscience is continual
Christmas.


Most men are afraid OF bad name,
but few fear their consciences.


What we cell conscience is in many
instances only wholesome fear of the
constable.


There is no outward sign of courtesy
that does not rest on deep moral foun-
dation.


Without content we shall find it al
most as difficult to please others as our
selves.


A good word is an easy obligation; but
not to speak illrequires only our silence,
which costs us nothing:


We must be as courteous to man
as to picture, which we are willing to
give the advantage of good light.


Covetous men need money least, yet
they most affect it; but prodigals, who
need it most, have the least regard
for it.


To neglect, at any time, preparation
for death, is to sleep on our post at a
siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at
an attack.


We look at death through the cheap
glazed windows of the flesh, and believe
him to be the monster which the
fawed and cracked glass represents him
to be.


The greatest man is he who chooses
s-l.A H.
tion; who resists the sorest temptation
from within and without; who bears the
heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is
calmest in storms and most fearless un-
der menaces and frowns; whose reliance
on truth, on virtue and on God is most
unfaltering.
Year: 1876

Sitting before . blazing woodgrate in


a farmhouse in Bridgehampton, Z. !.


an old gentleman told this story: Many


years ago, our fathers tell us q strange


woman dwelt alone in little cottage on


the headlands OF tho coast upon the out


skirts OF the village. She was not OK.


actly insane, but she had curious ways,


and people wondered that she should


choose to build her house ON the very


verge OF the stormy ocean. II was


Q warm and snug little cottage, and over


its walls crept green vines and ivies, and


flowers varied and beautiful filed the


garden in the summer time. She was 0


curious soul and she had nothing what


ever to do with the village people, but


kept close to her home and spent her


time in adorning its walls, in reading,


and in talking TO herself. But she had


one strange habit that no one could ex-


plain. It was this: Every afternoon


Just as tho village clock struck three, she


might be seen standing, with streaming
locks, on the edge of the head, looking
straight out at sea and making faces at
and wildly taunting the roaring pillows
that tossed tangled sea wreaths at her
feet. She would stand in this way for
several minutes and then she would re-
turn to her home. People said, but
with what truth no one ever knew, that
this woman had once been comely
maiden, the belle Of Connecticut vii
lage on the sea coast that she plighted
her troth to q sailor on a headland of the
sea one afternoon on the day of hie de-
parture for long ocean voyage. They
were to be welded on the day Of his re-
turn. Three years passed and the sailor
had not returned and the Connecticut
maiden did not see her lover again until
his ifeless body was rolled up at her
feet in the surf waves in terrible tom
pest that shook the coast. She was made
insane by the shock and soon after began
to wander up and down the ocean beach
at the hour at which her lovers body
had been washed in upon the shore,
out her hands and mouthing
at the waves. She at length came over
to Long Island and here she died
withered old woman. On the day fixed
for her burial a stranger came to the
village and stopped the funeral rites,
saying that he was the brother of the
dead woman. He took the body to Con-
necticut and it was buried by the side of
that of her betrothed, and the two graves
look out to-day upon the sound from the
crest of gnarly hilltop on the Connecti-
cut shore