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Year: 1876

doubtful States in which the Cooper men
may hold the balance of power. There is a
strong and aggressive greenback party in
Indiana, consisting of men who believe in
the rag money doctrine. A large portion of
them had no hesitation in voting for Will
iams in the State contest, but they are too
fanatical to waive their greenback preju-
dices in the Presidential canvass Ii any
considerable part Of the rag money men Of
Indiana should vote for Mr.. Cooper Hayes
would carry the State The democratic
party cannot afford to lose Indiana.
If they should lose both Indiana and New
York by the greenback diversion the jig
would be up with the democratic party.
We warn the democrats of this danger, but
are not sure that any precautions or exer-
tions on their part will suffice to obviate it.
In contest SO close and doubtful as the
present it may happen, and is not unlikely
to happen, that the derided canvass of Peter
Cooper is the real pivot of the Presidential
election.


We must express our regret that our es-
teemed and venerable fellow 'townsman,
whose name is an honored household word
throughout the length and breadth of the
United States, and especially in this city,
where he is so we'll known and regarded with
SO much affectionate veneration, we regret,
we say, that citizen who has SO many titles
to esteem has permitted himself to be made
the representative Of the rag money heresy.
Mr.. Cooper deservedly holds the first place
among American philanthropists, and there
is no other citizen in whose favor the public
is SO inclined to observe the lenient rule


Be to her faults : little blind,


Be 10 her virtues very Kind.


The unfeigned respect felt for Mr.. Cooper's
virtues has tendency to bribe the judg-
ment and court the support Of citizens who
would not otherwise separate themselves
from the political parties with which they
have been accustomed to act. With all due
respect for Mr.. Cooper's judgment we think
the greenback idea u miserable, illogical fall
lacy, fraught with danger to every business
interest. But we cannot be blind to the
fact that his small squad Of supporters may,
perhaps, turn the scale in SO close an cleo
ton.


L. 49,. - H.. IN <@u,s -
Year: 1876

dilatory few will be distanced in the race
by their enterprising brethren. The action
of the HERALD was taken only after the most
careful deliberation. and, having been finally
determined upon, was not to be lightly
changed at the whim and caprice of faction
OF middlemen, the whole body of whom,
though useful enough. are by no means
essential to the efficient distribution of an
enterprising newspaper. 1t is creditable to
the small dealers that they are selling lots
OF EN-, as one Of the newsmen says, instead
of wasting time in idle protests. BY at
tending to business and promptly accepting
the new conditions they are preparing to
reap the harvest of their industry and sa-
gacty.


The price Of the HERALD to-day and hence
Year: 1876

To-Day AND To-MoREow are the last days
for registration before the coming election.
Those who have neglected this portion of
the duty of exercising the franchise should
secure their ability to vote by visit to the
place of registry to-day.
Year: 1876

SPOTTED TAIL has been made chief over
the disarmed Sioux, but we fear that the
hearts of the warriors go out to Sitting Bull.
Since General Crook has put it out of their
power to go out themselves We must accept
the situation with thankfulness. The dis
arming and dsmounting of the agency In
dians is n sound step toward making them
keep the peace.
Year: 1876

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS BrLLs.-The mid
dlemen who sell the HERALD to our citizens
do great proportion of their business by
delivering the paper at the houses daily
It has been represented to US that some Of
the dealers, who collect their bills by the
week, fortnight or month, have resolved on
charging their customers four cents per copy
for the HERALD. We therefore warn the
public to scrutinize theif newsdealers' bills
and refuse to pay more than the price at
which it is published-namely, three cents
per copy. Attention to this matter will pre-
vent extortion, tor where a dealer is detected
in such practice there will be no difficulty
in applying the remedy.
Year: 1876

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-Prices in the
stock market we're irregular and in the main
lower Gold was steady at 100 81. Money
on call was supplied at and per cent.
Government bonds were frmer and railway
bonds strong
Year: 1876

ToHcHLrGHr AND ENTHUSIASM in the inter-
est of Tilden and Hendricks ruled the
streets of New York las. night, and the
fierce democracy certainly made an imposing
display. We may from this date expect the
local campaign to be red hot.
Year: 1876

All those who will prominently display on their
stands notice 10 the public TO the effect that they
selling the HERALD at three per copy will
meet with opposition by boys others sent from
This Office
Year: 1876

A PARTHIAN SHOT. The Westchestrans
are about to celebrate the battle OF White
Plains, which, although literally defeat of
the Revolutionary army, was one of the chain
of events which taught the British how hope
less was the contest where the foe could
strike as effectively in retreat as in advance.
Every step of the patriot army was one
toward victory, although the road was
devious and the skies were pitiless for many
dreary day.
Year: 1876

'OHro DAY. at the Centennial Exposition
yesterday was made especially notable
among the State days by the presence Of
Governor Hayes, the republican candidate
for President. Philadelphia is a republican
city, as New York is democratic one and
hence, although the Governor carefully
avoided politics in his four speeches, he
could not avoid the politicians and their
following Much enthusiasm was evoked
wherever he showed himself, and at last
accounts he was still speaking or shaking
hands with citizens who want to repeat the
operation in the White House.
Year: 1876

THB people of the country will be sure
to INQUIRE very closely into the reasons
why this Congress does not relieve them
from the burden of the infamous monopoly
which now holds all trans continental
trade and travel in its grasp. They know
that the Union and Central Pacific rail-
roads have been represented here by an
immense lobby-one, too, that boosted of
is carloads of money to be spent in de-
festiag the Texas and Pacific bill. Should
Congress adjourn without passing the only
bill which can afford them relief from this
monopoly the people will have the right
to suppose this money was put where it
1Hould do the most good.
Year: 1876

TIE proceedings Of the ex-Confederste
blouse yesterday were not only boisterous
and disorderly, but actually disgraceful.
The members in the majority forgot the
dignity Of the positions they have proved
themselves to be so capable of dlsgracing,
and the day was wasted in unseemly
wrangling, the evident intent of the Oppo-
sttion being not to transact legitimate busi-
ness. but to make capital against the Re-
publican party in the pending New Hamp-
shire campaign. Whatever of gain they


may have made by the exposure of Bel


knlp's malVersation will certainly be
dou0iy discounted by the repetition of
such scenes as those that are SO graphically
described in our reports of the proceedings
Of ti;s wonderful House yesterday.
Year: 1876

WHILE the Confederate and Copperhead
Democracy clamor for the Indictment of
ex-Democrat Belknap and Democrat Marsh,
they take good care that the courts shall
be hampered in the efforts now being made
under the authority of a Republican admin
istration to procure those indictments. 1t
will be in order now for the Detective Press
to charge that the Administration does not
desire to have these econspirators indicted but
a discerning and intelligent public will see
al glance that the Opposition in the House
is responsible for the delay that has &C.
CURED in this matter.
Year: 1876

powerto bring the guilty to justice; Clymer
sat down In sackcloth and ashes, while the
chief witness, charge in the hands of his
committee, deliberately stole of to Canada,
with his ll-gotten gains in his pocket. The
rich capitalists Democrat, by the way
escaped, while the poor and ruined Secre-
tary sat down amid the ruins of his life.
Why. Because political capital can be
made out of the latter, but it pays to have
the informer away from the scene. He
has played out his part in this brief politi-
cal tragedy. Democracy has no further
use for him. The plot now is to have the
disgraced official represent the party and
try il, not him. 1t is a cunning device,
but the people know the difference betweed
real and pretended virtus. notwithstsnd-
inn
Year: 1876

A HoRE revolutionary proceeding than
the interference of the Legislative branch Of
the Government with the Judiciary, as ex-
hibited in the proceedings of the ex-Con-
federate House yesterday regarding the
indictment of the Belknap conspirators,
was never before witnessed in this country.
Year: 1876

TWENTY DOLLARS seems TO have been
the price of an embryo ex,Confederate
Congressman. and twenty thousand dollars
Of an ex Democratic Republican Secretary
of War Verify the early teachings of the
Democracy savoro of strange kind Of
economy.
Year: 1876

The twaddle about Marsh's testimony
baing essential to the prosecution of Bel
kuap is decidedly gauzy. Evidence enough
for that purpose is readily obtainable but
this fact does not relieve the Democracy
from the blame of having aided him to
n.paup
Year: 1876

Some of the rabid Democratic sheets are
calling for the number of Union soldiers now
employed in the civil service also, the mum
Der of widows and orphans Of the Union dead.
This looks as though they desired to equalize
matters by giving the ex-rebels proportion
ate share of the Offices. The Republican press
demand the expulsion from office Of every EN-
ployee who expresses sentiments akin to those
of Hill, Tucker and Toombs. 1t is danger
GUS element to have connected in any way with
the civil service.
Year: 1876

will be both sour and sweet-one half


sweet, the other sour. Over quarter
OF century ago one William Babb, how
deceased, in experimenting, took bud
from an apple tree which bore greetings,
and another from a tree which bore sweet
apples. Cutting them in half he placed
the sour and sweet halves together, and,
budding them to the tree, the above has
been the result. Some of the apples are
entirely green in color, while others have
a yellowish cast
Year: 1876

A paper on Landan's new safety
lamp for use in mines" was lately read
at meeting of the North Stafiordshire
mining institution. The chief peculiar
ity of the invention resides in the feature
that the admission Of gas extinguishes the
flame, so that it cannot under any cir
cumstances be exploded by the lamp.
The whole of the air supply that feeds
the fame must pass through an air
chamber in a limited space at the bot
tom of the lamp, and as soon as the i'm
pure air, such as hydrogen, caruretted
hydrogen, etc, fills up to that limited
space. the passage Of the needful supply
of oxygen to feed the flame is chOked
thereby, and the flame is necessarily ex-
tinguished for want of air. Experiments
made to demonstrate this claim were
quite successful. 1t was further claimed
that the lamp could not be affected by
the strongest current Of pure air, but were
less successful. But while the latter ex-
periments did not show the Landau
lamp to be inferior to others, the former
we're regarded as decided points Of supe-
riority in construction.
Year: 1876

Paris Kentuckian.


DR.. Keller, of this city, successfully
treated the broken leg of a COW belonging
to John c. Brent, in manner entirely
different from any that we ever read or
heard of One of her hind legs was
badly fractured midway between the
hoof and hook joint The animal was
laid down, the broken bones adjusted;
a bandage put around the broken limb,
a paste of plaster of Paris spread around
this, until six layers of bandage and
plaster had been applied. Over the
whole a good coatingof plaster was spread
and allowed to dry, and the COW turned
loose. When the injury was received,
seeing that the brute was suffering in
tensely, her owner proposed to kill her
to end her sufferings. but when the above
treatment was suggested, readily con-
sented, and in thirty-fye days after the
accident, when the dressing was taken
of, the wound was found entirely lealed.
DR.. Keller, knowing that this manner of
treatment of compound fractures had
been successful when practiced upon the
genus homo, could see no reason why it
could not be equally successful upon
broken bones among the brute creation,
and his plan, if adopted in similar cases,
will save many valuable animals. After
thorough dressing an aperture was
made to allow the running out of any
matter, should it form. This IS a valu-
able discovery in animal surgery, and
will be of great benefit to owners ol
cattle and horses.
Year: 1876

New orleans lines.


In Louisiana and all the adjacent states,
the corn crop, though not so large as last
kesr seems to be abundant in nearly
Eery district, and with the surplus of


CORN saved over from last year.


q is no fear Of scarcity, except in a
gw small areas, which can be locally
supplied.


The rice has had just the weather suited
to that crop, and all of the largest crop
ever raised in this state has been saved
without any loss, and in the fines. condi-
ton for market.


Cotton is arriving in large excess
over the receipts Of a year ago, owing to
the fine, dry weather, so favorable to
opening and the picking of the staple.


The worm has done no material dam
age in any large district, and wherever
if appeared came too late to do much
harm. as the cotton was too far advanced
toward opening.


The receipts of New Orleans are one
third more than this time last year.


The great crop of Louisiana is sugar,
and though showers of rain would have
given a large growth of cane, yet the dry
weather has not been unfavorable, and
the cool nights with the light frosts have
tended to check the growth of the cane
and rapidly ripen it. With the prospect
of an early winter, this is an excellent
condition of the crop, as it enables
the planter to work off his crop with less
boiling and less expense for fuel and Ia
Dor. Grinding has already begun.


Taking it all in all, the crop prospects
are better than they have been for years,
and the planters are freer from debe
and more Independent than they hav
ever been. 1t has been a year of good
cheer.
Year: 1876

A CURIOUS APPLE TREE.-There IL
growing in Pochuck, Vernon township
Sussex county, an apple tree which bears
both sour and sweet apples. Not only
this, but sour and sweet apples grow on
the same limbs, and some of the apples
are both sour and sweet. One can PICK
an apple and find it intensely sour,
then pick another from next to it ana
find it exceedingly sweet; still another
can be picked from the same limb and It
Year: 1876

A SUBSTITUTE for gunpowder has been
invented in England, in the shape of
paper impregnated with a chemical COM
bination of chlorate of potash, and nitrate
of potash, prussiate of potash, and chro-
mate of potash, coupled with a little
powdered charcoal and tinder. The
paper is rolled around these latter in the
desired sizes for cartridges. The advan-
tages offered are that no danger of ex-
plosion exists except from actual contact
with fire, the interior of the arm is not
soiled, less smoke and less rebound are
made than with gunpowder, and less
damage takes place from humanity.
Very satisfactory trials have been made
Of the new material.
Year: 1876

The ingenious littie instrument-the
diamond drill-not only cuts into the
bed of the mine, but bores hole through
the speculator's pocket The mining
papers of the Pacific coast have come to
regard it as a gambling tool. The direc-
tors and superintendent of mine play
with marked cards. BY learning promptly
what are the results of test drill, and
by Withholding information from the
public for few hours, they can buy or
sell and make enormous profits, while
the share.Owners pocket the losses. One
journal urges the enactment of law
compelling superintendents to make pub
lie the results of diamond drilling with
out a moments delay.
Year: 1876

The German government has built the
mammoth kitchen. 1t is one thousand
feet long and constituted of stone and
iron, and is designed TO supply food for
the army in times of war. Two eighteen
hundred horse power engines drive the
machinery, which is capable of boiling
down and cOndensing tor transportation
one hundred and seventy oxen and will
grind three hundred and fifty tons of
-four and make three hundred thousand
caves of bread daily. 1t can also supply
enough preserved oats for one DAYS
feeding of the horses belonging to an
army of two hundred and eighty thou-
sand men.
Year: 1876

Those innocent lambs, the followers of
Kellogg and Packard in Louisiana, have
begun their scmi-annual cry of outrage and
murder, and we learn once more that a
white republicans life is not safe in that
State. But the State is in the hands of the
republicans. Why do they not enforce the
laws and repress disorders? What is the
use of Governor Kellogg and Of the two or
three thousand republican oifice-holders
under him, if they do not execute the laws
and protect and defend the constitution of
the State as they have sworn to do? Cover
nor Kellogg has greater power, under tho
constitution and laws of Louisiana, than
any other Governor in the country; in
fact, he has the powers of dictator.


lie may appoint in any parish in
the State an extra constabulary force,


with power to arrest summarily. He
may even march the police of New
Orleans to any parish in the State to put
down disorders. Apparently he now, as on
former occasions, prefers to let them 60 on
unchecked and unpunished in order to give
Marshal Packard on excuse to call for troops.


But we warn the republican leaders in the
country that calling for troops" is not
popular this year. If they allow Packard to
elect himself by the help of United States
soldiers they will risk several Northern
States by the operation, for there are tens of
thousands of republicans in the North who
will not vote for Hayes if they see troops
used in the South. 1t is very well known
that Governor Hayes does not favor furthox
Year: 1876

federal interference in the local affairs OF the
Southern States. He believes, with the best
and wisest men of his party, that it is nec-
essary and safe to leave the people in those
States to manage their local affairs precisely
as the people of New York, Massachusetts
and Ohio do theirs.


On the other hand, we advise the Southern
democrats to be very vigilant and energetic
in repressing and Furnishing murders and
outrages just now. If they are apathetic, if
they are seen to be careless in such matters,
they will alarm and disgust Northern voters,
and will do more than any thing else can do
to defeat Mr.. -Tilden. Here is the case of
Dr. Dinkgrave who has just been assassinated
in northern Louisiana parish; it was an
ntrocious and cold blooded murder. But
we do not hoar that the white people, the
democrats of the parish or neighborhood.
have shown the least feeling about it or
taken any measures to arrest the murderer
Their apathy in such case is not only q
crime, it is a grave political blunder; for it
creates storm Of feeling in the North which
turns against Mr. Tilden and the democratic
Oartv
Year: 1876

The Horrors or tho Custer Massacre


The country had hoped that the massacre
of Clusters command was complete, that not
q man had been taken prisoner by tho
Sioux. Tho happiest fate that the mothers
and wives and sisters of those brave soldiera
could have wished for them was instant
death on the battle field, for, when we rend
the story Of the scene which Gibbon beheld
when he rode along the Rosebud Valley and
saw the mutilated bodies, 1t was plain that
death was the only mercy they could have
But this was denied to some Of them. If the
account given by Mr.. Ridgely, trapper,
who was held prisoner by the Indians, be
true, and we see no reason to doubt it, six
unfortunate men survived their companions.
They were burned alive in the Indian camp,
and their torture was prolonged with devilish
skill. Ridgely could not give the names Of
these sufferers, and it is perhaps better that
they should remain unknown.


Ridgcly's description Of the battle corre-
spends with the facts already ascertained,
and confirms the belief that Custer was COM
pletely entrapped by foe which had
watched his every motion. He was over.
powered by superior forces in situation
from which he could not escape. Tht
massacre did not last moro than ffty-fivs
minutes, and it is probable that the Indian
losses were much smaller in this fight than
in that which followed with Reno. Rene
had the good fortune to secure o fortified
position, but Custer was caught at thu
bottom of o ravine.


What will those philanthropists Like Mr..
Wendell Phillips say when they read OF
these terrible tortures? They have justified
the massacre Of Custer on the principles Of
retaliation. Mr.. Phillips has said that we
made war on the Indians, and had to take
the consequences of war. But there are sew.
eral kinds of war. There is the war which
the Turks make against Servia, where
poisoned bullets are used, and the
Indian war, in which victory is celebrated by
burning at the stake. We do not think that
the rules which apply to what is called war
among civilized nations should fetter us
with such enemies as the Sioux. They are
savages and should be treated as such by the
government; yet they 'have been supplied
with arms and ammunition, and fed all win
ter that they may fight us all summer The
Commissioner of Indian Affairs issued
orders forbidding the sale of guns to
the Indians, and, no doubt, would
be glad to escape responsibility for
the fact that they are as we'll armed as our
own troops but it is clear that his orders
were not obeyed, and it is doubtful if they
were energetically enforced. We shall be
much surprised if the shocking story told by
Ridgely does not arouse q spirit of just
wrath which will sweep all the red tape and
corruption and imbecility Of the government
and all the false philanthropical theories Of
Mr.. Phillips and his class into the sea- and it
would be we'll if the Sioux could follow