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Year: 1876


Gather them close to your loYing heart


Cradle them on your breast;
They will soon enough leave your brooding core,
Soon enough mount youths topmost stair,


Little ones in the nest.
Fret not that the children's hearts are gay,


That their restless feet will run;
There may come time in the bye and bye
When yon'll sit in your lonely room and sigh


For sound of childish fun;
When you'lllong for a repetition sweet,


That sounded through each room.
Of Mother!'" " Mother |" the dear love calls
That Will echo long in the silent halls,


And add to their stately gloom.
There may come time when you'lllong to hear


The eager, boyish tread,
The tuneless whistle, the clear, shrill shout,
The busy hustle in and ont,


And pattering overhead
When the boys and girls are all grown up


And scattered far and wide,
Or gone to the undiscovered shore
Where youth and age come nevermore,


You will miss them from your side
Then gather them close TO your loving heart


Cradle them on your breast,
They will soon enough leave your brooding care,
Soon enough mount youths topmost stair


Little ones in the nest,
Year: 1876

The REVIVAL AT TRiEfY.-The great re-
yiysl at Trinity church has Just closed its
fifth successive week. The success of the
work has aslonished even those engaged in
it. There hax been scarcely night that the
church was not crowded with interested
hearers from every part Of the city. The
humber of Young men and ladies who have
professed conv srsion is very gratifying. The
week has closed With thirty-six conversions,
making in all two hundred and four, and
the interest has scarcely slackened any. Or.
Biedsoe will give notice on Sunday OF the
continuation Of the meeting. On Sunday
morning after the sermon the ordinance OF
baptism will be administered and members
received into the church,
Year: 1876

BADLY BuRNED.-About 4 o'clock yester.
day morning young colored woman named
Rose CabInett a servant OF Mr.. George e
Crutchfield, Jr., who lives on Cary street be.
tween Fourth and Fifth streets, was terribly
burned while sitting too near wood fire
She was to have gone to Petersburg on the
early train, and Sat down near the fire and
fell asleep. She was awakened by the flames
burning her clothing, and rushed into an
adjoining room for help, but before her
clothes could be torn from her she was SO
badly burned that her physicians say she can
not survive, although at late hour last night
she was still alive.


Mrs. Crutebfield hearing her cries for help
ran to her assistance, and ln endeavoring to
smother the flames had her hands burnt very
bldly.
Year: 1876

HURRY DuMPTy.-There wes another
large audience at the Theatre last night to
enjoy Humpty Dumpty and his curious and
amusing performances. The house was
kept 10 roar Of laughter throughout the
performance; and everybody pronounced it
"splendid." This afternoon there will be
matiree, and tonight the company will give
their last performance 10 this city.
Year: 1876

is acknowledged and recommended by physicians
and apothecaries be the best purifier and cleanser
Of the blood yet discovered and thousands speak In
Its praise who have been restored 70 health.
Year: 1876

the peaceful avocahon Of clerk to carry q
loaded revolver as practice, and that the
fact of so carrying it will be an evidence OF
the absence of malice whenever it Is used
for its deadly purpose, no. one-not even
Judge McAr11sTER, we think-wil1 deny that
pretty much every restraint upon the taking
of human life has been removed. II this
judicial advice is to stand uncontroverted,
then it is tolerably certain that every man
will buy revolver-they are now down as
low as SO apiece, so as to come within
the means Of all-in order that
the evil-minded may have the proper legal
excuse when they assault, and that the peace
full citizens may provide themselves pro-
lection which the Court has denied them.
We should think that the pistol -manufac-
turers and tradespeople would quote Judge
McA111sTEn's instructions at the head Of all
their advertisements, and that it would
scarcely be possible for them to supply the
demand for revolvers in this community.
Fortunately, there is enough of intelligence
and peacefulncss about the Chicago people to
deny any such monstrous rule OF law, and to
insist that it shall not obtain, in spite of the
dctum of q single Judge, who was picked out
by q criminal to acquit him.
Year: 1876

Tho immense crowd that thronged the
Exposition Building last night to hear Alr.
BLAINE, and the equally 1arge crowd that
turned away unable to get within hearing
distance, attested, in way that could not
be mistaken, the lively interest the people
Of Chicago feel in the present political can-
vass. The enthusiasm with which Nj.
BLAINE was greeted WIS an ovation to the
hero of the Andersonv1lle debate such as it
has been the fortune Of few men to re-
ceive. His speech, which is reported in full
in TEE TRIBUNE this morning, was master
II presentation In his own trenchant style of
tha vital issues Of this campaign, namely:
whether the control of the Government
is to be handed over to the very
men who sought its destruction; and
whether every TIN, black or white,
entitled to vote shall be protected in the free
exercise of TINT right everywhere throughout
the Union No voter in the city should fail
to read it. There is little Of the stump
speech order about it. But it contains
mastery review Of the situation and such u
1aassing Of the indisl,utable facts as makes
it impossible that the sinister aims of the
pretended Reform Democracy should be mis-
taken. It is one of the few speeches that
deserves to be read and pondered-
Year: 1876

Our cable dispatches this morning confirm
the report that the. next step in the Turkish
Se1vian complications will be the arrangement
Of an armistice, when will occur the trouble
some question of conference Russia will,
it is reported, insist that Turkey be e1-
c.uded from the conference of the Powers
called to decide upon her fate. What England
will propose in event of an armistice as tho
basis of conference is the maintenance Of
tie independence and integrity Of the Otto
man Empire, aud that the object of the con-
ference be narrowed to the amelioration Of
the condition Of the Christian subjects Of the
Porte. The conundrum which it is now i'm
possible to solve is whether England can
effect alliances powerful enough to secure
6ny such basis of conference, or to go to
war to secure it.
Year: 1876

The day the SULTAN trial was concluded,
when Judge AcA11.1srEE was interview ed
relative to his proposed action in case the
petition for his resignation should be pre-
scented to hin, he limited very strongly that
he would commit anybody for contempt who
should dare to present him such a petition
We hope the "sober, second thought will
convince Judge McA111srEn that such q
course would bo at once despoic and ride
ulous,- ,-despo.c in the effect and ridiculous
in the outcome Is the clay superior to
the potte7?" McAL11srEn as Judge is q
creation by tho people; and, though nobody
has the right to Insult him on the Bench, OF
impede pending trial, it is simply prepos-
terous to presume TINT the people mny not
express to him desire that he shall yacate q
trust which they reposed in him, when they
do it in N orderly and becoming manner.
We do not think the Judge is dangerous in
this matter, nor do we believe that he has
the power lie limited at
Year: 1876

o'clock in the opening prospects OF ous1-


ness and religion. Yes, it is o'clock, and


time to get up. Good mornirg!" This re-
minds one Of the correspondent OF an East


ern religious newspaper who wrote from
this city q mixture Of the most heterogeneous
news, and was consequently said to make
sometimes q s'sad mixture Of pork and
piety."


Why is it that we find ourselves more and
more led to suspect not only the good taste,
but also the thorough honesty, OF the gush-
ing religionists Largely, because SO many
facts look in that direction, and because that
kind of sentimental practice is so unnatural
as to SAVIOR Of artifce. One may not com
mence it with any purpose Of deception. he
may even fancy that he is rising into high
er phase of piety. But in the attempt to
feel and talk in this unnatural way, and from
the habit of using metaphorical words and
phrases of lofty sound, he will gradually fall
into religious cant, and this will 1ntalhbly
generate disingenuous state OF mind. 4
mans words soon outgrow his actual feel-
ings, md then they tend to become g cover
for positive evil. How can we help suspect
ing one who, when called to face hard facts,
and to oct upon clean-cut principle, begins
to talk sentiment, whether it be IN
politics or in religion? The people have
finally discovered that the Hon. Mr. Bag Of
wind, who e1patiates on the Rebellion and
the iniquities of Slavery, when asked about
Civil-Service Reform, or who glor1tes the


tbattle-b born and ssblood-stained national
currency, when urged to vote for return to
specie-pnyments, is an unreliable character,
and should be left at home, instead of being
sent to Congress. He has evidently been
studying how to draw applause from On lg-
norant crowd, or how to please the specula-
tors who long for return to. " klting times.
Can we judge differently the gushing religion
ist whose whole capital is set of phrases,
ringing of changes on favorite figures of
speech, and display Of 81 true in
wardness to the outside world? To con-
demn his bad tsste is not to sit in the seat Of
the scoffer, but is to protest, in the name of
religion itself, against the holowest OF
shams, which threatens to bring into disre-
pute all that is sacred. Give us earnestness
in religion, as in everything else, but deliver
11s from t e71sl"
Year: 1876

The public good is superior to all mere
party considerations. In fact, no party has
anything to commend it to popular prefer
ence, unless its claim Of superior ability to
promote the general welfare. In the admin
istraton of local government the public in
terests can be best promoted by the selection
of such officers as by experience, intellectual
ability, and personal integrity can perform
their duty the most etFectually, faithfully,
and honestly. That party which fails to
present candidates thus qualified and com
mended fails to deserve popular support, and
it is the duty Of every citizen to defeat the
candidates who lack these qualities.


We wish to call the attention of the voters
Of this county to an impending calamity, for
which both parties may be held responsible.
We refer to the two important Offices of
Sheriff and States Attorney. These Offices
are of vital concern to the peace, order, and
safety Of the community. Without under
rating the importance of the courts, it is not
the less true that an incompetent or untrust-
worthy Sheriff, or weak, incompetent, or
faithless States Attorney, may defeat the





safety Of life and property in the communi-
ty, and allow crime and the criminal classes
to have complete sway over all things, social
and political. in Chicago


The candidates named for these Offices
are, for Sheriff, Mr.. JOHN FL C1ouGH, by the
Republicans, and saloon-keeper named
CHARLES KERN, by the Democrats; and for
States Attorney, L. L. MILLS, by the Re
publicans, and EGBERT JAMESON, by the
Democrats. Citizens of each party have
direct personal interest in the character and
fitness of the candidates Of the other party.
Each voter who has the least solicitude for the
common welfare is personally interested in
the character and fitness Of any man who,
being candidate, has even possible
chance of being elected to an Office of such
vital public Importance es Sheriff OF Public
Prosecutor. The Sheriff is the executive
officer of the judicial branch Of the Govern
ment. He does not cxpound the law nor
give verdicts, but he selects the juries who
sit in the nine civil courts Of this county,
and the grand and petit jurors who pertain
to the machinery Of the criminal courts.
He has it in his power to aid and promote all
the ends Of justice as between itigants, and
between the public and the perpetrators Of
crime. He may make the administration of
Justice respectable, honest, and effective, or
he may make it disgraceful, dishonest, and
abortive, as it is now, in great degree. He
may, by the manner Of executing the laws
and the duties Of his Office, repress crime,
encourage respect for law and authority, and
contribute largely to the elevation Of social
order and public safety. He may be Sher-
if to the great benefit Of the community, or
Sheriff more dangerous aud fatal to all
public interests than the worst criminal
whom he confines and boards.


The States Attorney is also an Office of no
less Importance Like the Court, he may be
aided in the performance of his duties BY an
honest and competent Sheriff, or he may be
Year: 1876

Judge MCALLIsTER intimated to reporter
that he might commit for contempt the citizens
who brought him the petition requesting him to
resign! The first parties who should move in
any CONTEMPT proceedings should be bis seven
associate Judges whom he contemptuously pro-
nouuced religious fanatics unfit to try murder
case On account OF ignorance Of the law and
prejudice against crime
Year: 1876

There was one statement Of Mr. BEHRxs
thnt should rot be overlooked, and that was
to the effect that some Of the jurymen COM
planned bitterly OF the want Of whisky while
they we're confined One of them needed
his ''tod" so badly that he was ready to
throw BErnx ont of the window, SO the other
eleven could report their agreement.
Year: 1876

to buzzard, but we are merely il,
lustrating the position that there is
something in the fitness of things
We may bo blamed for the opinion,
but somehow we can't help thinking,
that the buzzard as a songster, would
be failure! But we do not protest
that we arc not opposed to buzzards
we like them. We don't oppose
sugar as such; hut we don't like it on
our oysters, nor our eggs.


The only reason we can give for
this, is, that sugar in oysters, or on
eggs, violates our sense of the fit,
ness of things
Year: 1876

Hot Work AnEAD.-The Charles.
ton News and Courier says: "Ihero
is hot work ahead and plenty of it.
The thieves are not going to yield
the control of the State without a
desperate resistance; and nothing at
this time encourages them moro
than any sign ot'discord in the De-
mocratic ranks. The main point to
which the honest people should ad
dress their efforts just now is to So
cure wise and truly representative
Democratic Convention"
Year: 1876

Tho Senate bill to provide fora now
apporLionmont ofthc Representatives
was finally passed. to third reading
by vote of Ga to ID. Tho following
table will show the changes mado by
the bill:
Year: 1876

ARLINGTON, Feb. 26.-The prin~
cipal question at issue here outside OF
the strong financial problem, is
whether or not it would be we'll to
issue silver in the place of fractional
currency. The Secretary of the Trea-
sury is disposed to do it; but when
he makes up his mind to 60 ahead he
is confronted by the laws of supply
and demand; because silver demon-
etized in Europe can be monetized
here and in Asia or nowhere. at
present, as near as may be, the value
OF pure silver is eighteen ounces to
one ounce of gold, and in order to re.
tire it to any us other than currency,
the premium on gold would have to
go about 100. The Secretary appears
to have some doubt whether, if he
were to issue silver in the place of
fractional currency as legal tender
under the present law to sums a.
mounting to five dollars, it would
stay in circulation. II people hoard
it that would make no difference, be-
cause there is plenty; and whether
they would like silver botter than the
trad hal currency or not is soine-
thing 20 be tested. lie does not be-
believe that gold will go to 100; docs
not see how it can under any circum


stances, except war, which is not in
view. 1t will take about six weeks
to give the country all the silver il
wamts, and it would not be surprising
if at any time the printing OF fraction.
al currency would be stopped, aud a
strong, over-howing issue OF silver
take it's place. The Secretary Of the
Treasury stands doubling in every
respect that touches now thing in
relation to the currency, because Of
the collecting elements at work at
the capital. He cannot tell whether
he is to act under the Resumption
Act or not, or whether some new
fedged concern of important proper
tions may not come forward to thwart
every plan laid under the Resnmp~
ton Act; but he is seriously inclined
to issue silver in place of fractional
currency, and he honestly believes
that silver will stay in circulation
He has about $12,O0O,OOO worth to
start on, and enough coin to keep the
demand supplied. If he starts, he
means to coin silver pieces Of a dollar
and less as fast as they are wanted,
and very little gold coin in the com
parison Of the number of pieces.
Year: 1876

No POLITICAL tactics ever brought out
such ingenious evasions Of party crimes, as
this campaign has with the Republican
party. The national party tells the country
that the hard times will continue until we
have honest money, and the working man
must remain idle until then. Mr.. jenkins
in begging for seat in the Legislature,
lodges the main reason, and like the man
striking at the rat in the dark, hits all
around the mark and never strikes it.


aHe smothered it all up in the tarifques-
ton, and wore it down until it resembled
what the countryman described as the little
end of nothing Whitfield down to a point.


But he never told the audience why it
was they were working on half time in the
machine shops, the founderies, the car shops
and the ship yards. He only stated that
the owners of these places preferred Hayes
to Tilden, and that was all the satisfaction
the idle workmen Of Wilmington obtained.
The working men were eulogized a little
to make apology for the insult Mr.. Conrad
offered them, and the meeting closed with
q libel upon craftsmanship, truth, virtue,
honesty and integrity.
Year: 1876

The signals Of distress thrown out by
the advocates of HAYES at all points of the
compass during the past two or three
weeks, and: particularly within the
last three or four days prove conclusively
that the tide has turned against them, and
that their rotten craft is about to 60 to the
bottom.
Year: 1876

THE game is up. There is no doubt Of
the triumph of Tilden and Reform. But
the victory should not merely be made
certain. 1t should be overwhelming. Let
the people carry for their candidate and
their cause those fveor six doubtful States
whose votes will give them majority Of
two to one over Hayes and corruption.
Year: 1876

No sooner was the Indiana election over
than Sitting Bull Morton fled to the Pacific
coast. Itwas Morton that raised the bloody
shirt and gave the contest its sanguinary
aspect. Does any one believe that he would
have skulked from the field had ne not
known that all was lost?
Year: 1876

The centennial managers have de-
cided not to open the exhibition during
evenings. They state that they "sTe
afraid to undertake the expense Of illu-
minating the immense buildings, and
have determined on daylight exhibi.
tous only" This decision, taken in
connection with the fact that the build.
ings are to be closed on Sundays, will
give vice Of every sort in Philadelphia q
grand impetus. AS there will be posi-
lively nothing else to see ~ Philadelphia
but the exhibition, the crowds will be
thrown on their own resources for
amusement during the intervals OF the
show and great deal OF dsviItry is
likely TO result. The pious people would
have done well to insist upon night and
Sunday opening Of the buildings.


The st. Lawrence river is clear Of ice
and navigation is open.
Year: 1876

THE ALDERMANIc INVESTIGATION OF THE BROOK


LYN CITY WORKS DEPARTMENT.


The special committee of the Common Council ap-
pointed investigate the several departments OF the
city of Brooklyn met again yesterday afternoon for
the purpose of inquirng into the management of the
Board of City Works at the Office of Mayor Schroeder
and notified Water Purveyor J. II. Rhodes to appear
before them. The committee, Thursday afternoon,
held lengthy secret session, proceeding that ex
cited the wrath OF Commissioners Fowler aud Adams OF
the Board OF City Works, who, at the commencement
Of the meeting yesterday presented protest against
the sessions being held in secret


After consulting about ono hour the committee de-
cided TO hold open sessions and adjourned TO the Com
mon Council Chamber Alderman Rowley presided.
The filed with spectators and officials among
the latter beng General Socum and Commissioners
Adams and Fowler. Water Purveyor Rhodes was
summoned before the committee and questioned very
mnutey about the workings OF the department During
his exam inaon, which occupied about three hours he
testified that there a number OF men employed in
the Department OF City Works whose services
not necessary some of the men employed were not
competent as the men he would employ II he was
to employ them privately. On being asked by one OF
the committee whether private management would
change the method OF conducting the department. Mr..
Rhodes replied in the Affirmative, but said that at
present there was something in the way OF change.


Alderman Rowley asked what was in the way Of
change. Mr.. Rhodes replied that 1t was politics He
thought the department could be managed more
nomcay II politics were out of H. The witness could
not state positively whether all the the pay
rolls oi hts department performed their duties not


Alderman Rowley asked Mr.. Rhodes II he couldn't
require all OF his subordinates perform their duties


Mr.. Rhodes reloined that II did not perform
his duties, and had good strong Alderman at his back
he did not know how he could make him perform
them


The inquiry then turned upon the allegations that
Water PurvcyOr Rhodes had employed the workmen OF
the City Works Department to lay pipes private
dences at the expense OF the city. Upon being
questioned on this subject he said that he
had employed OF the workmen TO lay
pipes in private houses but for the time they had been
engaged he had paid them of his pocket and
made a corresponding reduction in the city payroll SO
that part OF the expense for work done private
individuals would fall on the city. After listening to
detailed statement OF MIR. Rhodes duties Water Pur-
veyor and the labors required Of his subordnates the
committed adjourned until next Tuesday at eleven
o'clock Previous to the adjournment the chairman
OF the committee expressed the hope that all citizens
who had complaints 70 make would attend at the next
meeting
Year: 1876

The German Consul General in this city was requested
by the Court now investigating the case OF the dyna
mite criminal in Bremerhaven to institute inquiries
here relative to the matter the hope Of dscov
ering his accomplices, IL any there werc in America
DR.. Hinke, the Consul Generals representative, was
visited by HERALD reporter yesterday in relation to
this aar, and no said that thus far nothing OF nature
10 be made public bad been received and
that the report which must when finished be an
entirely unofficial document will not be completed for
two OF three weeks The inquiry will have to be OF a
character Invested OF everything akin TO what might bo
considered judicial and DO prosecuted quietly and in
measure irregularly Many facts have come 70 the
knowledge OF the consulate that have been transmitted
by letter to Bremcrhaven; but nothing yet has been
learned that would be likely the most remote degree
70 connect Tomassens name with the loss Of the City
Of Boston