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Year: 1875

TIE PoLITIcAL STRUGGLE iS oHlo.-
1t is only two weeks from Tuesday
next that the State election OF Ohio
occurs, and it is of great Importance
to the whole nation, as whichever
party obtains the victory the triumph
will reach far beyond an ordinary
party success in State even as large
as Ohio. The result now seems TO be
a doubtful one as between Allen and
HAYES, and this election occurring IN
the year previous to the presidential
contest in The only doubtful State
which votes for a governor IN Octo-
Der, will have an important bearing
upon the coming presidential contest
If the republicans do not recapture
Ohio, what great State which went
over to the democracy last year can
they reasonably expect to win back IN
1876? Evidently this contest is waged
with these contingencies in view, Judg-
ing from the vigor if not desperation
with which it is fought.
Year: 1875

TuE DECADE OF DECADENCE.-From
1866 to 1875, says The WorLd, we
have had ten years of nominal peace
throughout the United States. Tne
radicals have ruled through all, and
Grant through six of these years.
And Ihey, between them have brought
us-whither A financial and indus
trial crisis, which began in 1878 with
the ignominious collapse of two or
three swollen radical banking houses,
the pets and fayorites of the party in
mower. has led lis on TO a financial and
industrial catastrophe involving in one
common ruin he East and the West,
Massachusetts and California, our rail
ways ON land and our shipping on
the sea. The negroes who were to
have been civilized and educated at
the expense alike Of the taxpayers OF
the whole country and of the tunda-
mental principle Of self-goyernment,
are relapsing into barbarism and plan
ming here and there throughout the
fairest regions of the republic new
Haytis and Santo DomingOs. Misery
and lawlessness stalk hand in hand
over the North and the West. Va
grants fast fipehing into ruffians make
the rural homes of New. York and
New England as insecure as frontier
settlements. Meanwhile, al the head
of the government we have self
indulgent soldier whom the war
found eking out an humble and not al
together creditable existence id On
obscure country town, by petty service
in an obscure calling, and who is pow
reckored by his associates with yul-
gar and shameless ostentation among
the new made millionaires " of the
land. This head of the government
has for his right hand minister, also
millionaire" Columbus DelanO,
who has been and is now openly ar
raigned as g public robber and the
friend and protector vi public robbers
by men of his own political faith, but
of stainless private and public repute.
This is the record and the result of
radicaIism in these United States.
How much longer is this disease TO be
lett TO mine its way unchecked through
all the foundations of public order aud
of private prosperity?
Year: 1875

MILlrARY SUPERvIsIOY.-The revival
of scandals concerning the manage
ment of Indian affairs has brought TO
the front the often discussed PROPOSE
ton to place them in the charge of the
military authorities. In time of
peace. it is, in fact, difficult to find
anything else for our standing army
Of twenty thousand to do than stand
guard over the wards Of the nation,


while we have upward Of three hun.
dred officers on the retired list draw
ing pay and doing nothing, a large
majority Of these are no doubt cOmpe
tent for such service, and II would be
the rart of economy at least 10 employ
them in it. They have been brought
up in a service that requires the
strictest accountability to their superb
ors for all their official acts, and, as a
rule. are above the commission OF
petty frauds or even greater swlndies'
The advocates of the present policy
URGE that it has preserved the peace,
but it is likely that the same result
MIGHT have been obtained at less cost
and expense. 1t is DO great trick to
preserve peace with the Indians by
giving them all they want at govern
ment expense, with surplas OF sPolls
for division among the manipulators.
The above views we find in the col.
umn of ali exchange, and they so ex,
actIv express our own ideas as to
the proper management of Indian af
fairs, that we give them entire. Orig
inally the Indians were under the
control of the military, and the change
was made for no olher purpose than
to create places for hungry partisans.
The experiment of civil rule has been
tried al An expense of millions of dol.
lars, and now We are confident the
whole country is ready to see the
Indians again placed under military
control.
Year: 1875

THERE Cones A RUMoR from France
that the Orleans Princes are about to
rcnounce all claims TO the throne and
ask their friends to support the repub-
lie. 1t is very thoughtful of the Or
leans Princes; but is not their abandon
ment Of any claim to the throne of
France quite needless? ? Such move
at this moment would do much TO
einbarrass the republic without aiding
it in any way. Breathing time is
what the republic needs i'll France and
whatever tends to create excitement
or disturbance only aids the enemies
of popular liberty.
Year: 1875

IT Wox'r WoRK.-The radicals Of
Ohio are trying their best to spring a
religious clement into the political
contest in that State. They allege
that the Catholics are trying to inter
fere with the common school system,
and accuse the democracy with being
accessory to the scheme. But Senator
Thurman, in late speech, di>poses Of
all this by proving that the democracy
was the founder of the free school sys-
TEN and that it has always opposed a
union of church and state.
Year: 1875

SUNDAY LIQUOR TRAFFIc.-The advo-
Gates of temperance are making
strong effort to suppress the Sunday
traffic in liquors, There can be no
doubt of the admirable intentions OF
the promoters of this reform but,
unfortunately for their success. 1t is
one of those questions in which much
can be said on both sides. Legal in-
reference with the liberty Of the lndI
vidual citizen to do whatever he likes,
so long as it involves no interference
with the rights Of others, can never
become popular among a free people.
The poor cherish the right Of drinking
their beer without annoyance from
any sets of enthusiasts, and most rea
sonable people are inclined to support
then, in maintaining their rights.
Year: 1875

ASSInILATISG DlsTASCE.-The fast
mail train from New York reached
Chicago in twenty-six hours. 1t
reached Indianapolis, one of the most
central cities of the West, in time for
the inhabitants TO read the New York
journals of the previous morning at
their breakfast, or twelve hours earlier
than formerly. If mails shall be car
rled from Indianapolis to San Fran
cisco at proportionate rate Of speed,
four days will be the time from New
York to the Pacific coast. And thus
can time and space be melted away
by the improvements in transportation
and the energetic action of the Ameri-
can people. II Postmaster Jewell
could give the people of the Pacific
coast mails from New York in four
days, he would do something to give
life To the stagnssion which rules over
the land,
Year: 1875

TAXING CuUEcH PRoPERrr.-New
Jersey has adopted constitutional
amendment requiring the taxation Of
all church property. The Protestants
generally supported the amendment,
whilst the Catholics just as uniformly
opposed it. We subscribe to the prop.
osition that all property should bear
It's share OF taxation, and there is no
IN ore reason for exempling a church


or eleemosynary building than club
house or a theatre. Of course we
mean no disrespect TO religion in this
comparison but churches are the
property of private corporations, and
are the legitimate subjects oftaXaton.
Year: 1875

THERE are many large and wonderful ami mals but cali speak of but oEe. The bea- yer, though quite small is a hard worker.

 He works as hard as man. In Colorado I saw three large dams built by those indus trious little creatures. These dams were built strong and high ; so that the water flowed over them and fell nearly twenty feet. 1t is pretty sight to see the little beavers swim and play in their watery home. In going from Colorado Springs to Pueblo, distance of forty miles, one may sec as many of these animals as he may wish. I suppose none of Mir. Sherman's pupils ever saw a bca- yer or aprarie dog, yet there arc great many of both in Colorado and sn the plains
Year: 1875

Ir is duty and should be a pleasure to every girl to get up an hour before break fast, wash her face and hands, comb her hair, dress herself neatly, and be ill her place at the table when the bell is done ringing. After breakfast is over and the school books and lunch taken in each hand, and short walk will bring her to the school house. During shool hours it is her duty to attend her studies, obey her teacher and try and learn something each day. When she comes hoine at night, shc should bring a happy heart and face, should run of errands, please the baby or do any thing else mother wish .eS done. Then after supper is done and the day ended, she will be pleased to think she has done some good during the day, and she will sleep longer and sweeter for it.
Year: 1875

THIs tree is found in South America, and isso called because itgives milk. This milk is very rich and good for food, many weary and half starved traveller having been saved iron, death by this good drink The milk is drawn from the tree as sap. Besides being useful for food, this liquid when boiled down to a solid, becomes rubber.
Year: 1875

THERE is one word which, if you change the place of one ofits letters means exactly the opposite from what it did at first. What is the word It is united. Place the after the t and it becomes united.
Year: 1875

three miles and half from San Ber-
nardino, and will be the nearest sta
ton to that thriving town. There is
q street railroad project on foot among
the citizens of San Bernardino to
connect their town with the depot.
When that project is carried out, the
facilities for reaching our neighbOr
will be perfect. In the meantime, it
is great convenience and matter of
surprising Importance to be placed in
so direct communication with the
capital of our sister county. The time
schedule of the cars has not yet been
prepared. 1t will be published before
Monday next.
Year: 1875

A man named Niles Taylor. of Smeth-
port, Pa, while driving with q friend,
was forced to jump from the carriage,
owing to the breaking of an axle. He
was unhurt, but he had considerable
difficulty in getting the carriage home,
and on arriving there he was very tired
Having eaten his supper he went to bed,
from which he soon afterward arose IN


his sleep. and, going to side e. dHoT IN ne
He was picked up conscious, but his in.
iuries were fatal. 1t is supposed that he
was dreaming of the accident which had
happened only short time before, and
while dreaming, sprang from his bed and


leaped through the door.
Year: 1875

The LIFE TO COME.-What does a
man take with him when from the eX-
treme verge of life he launches into what
lies beyond2 Itlooks as he took moth
ing. Death seems to pass a sponge over
all that has gone before. Be it the end,
or be it a new beginning 1t seems Il
total breaking off from all that life has
hitherto consisted in That is what
makes it terrible.


But if we look at it truly, his past life
is lust the one that a man does take with
him when he dies. He takes himself.
And that self is the product of all his
past experience and actions. As an oak
bears in itself the result of every shower
that through long years has freshened it,
of every gale that has toughened it or
stripped its boughs, of sunshine that has
fed it and the drouth that has parched
it, so nun, when he stands at the end
of life, is what he has been made by all
his joys, and sulIsrings, aud actions.
That is what he takes into the other
world-hS own character.


The life to come and the life that now
is, are parts of one another. They are
related. The man is not the same that
the boy was, but what the boy was, en-
tered into the mar as a part of him.
The strength we gain by our victories
this year, and the weakness into which
we come by defeat, will be a part of Us
next-year So there is not an act, not a
word but casts its influence forward into
the tomorrow that lies beyond death.
Year: 1875

MAKTyG BOXES. The Swiss have a
clever way OF making cheap boxes with
out the use of nails, the mitred sides
being fastened together by wedge shaped
pieces of wood. in English inventor
has recently patented another process
which Iaay D- used for heavy as well as
light boxes. The two pieces of wood to
be fastened together are first .iIitred in
the ordinary way, and hole is then
drilled in each piece vertically from the
bottom upward, at Il short distance from
the mitred edge. a channel or groove
is then cut by a saw or otherwise from
the mi red edge to the drilled hole. This
channel is of less width than the diane
ter of the hole, and may be eqt either
parallel to the sides of the piece OF wood
or at right angles to the mitred edge, so
that when the two edges are pat to-
getiier there shall be a continuous chan
mel from one side to the other, shaped
somewhat ike dumb bell, and running
from the top to the bottom of the box.
A KEY is formed by running a fusibIe
metal, such as lead, into this channel
The key may BE- made separately of solid
metal and driven into the channel; but,
in either way, a joint is formed which
can be broken only by tearing away the
mitTed edges of the wood.


How 4 CAT Woy A WAGER A mum
Der OF persons met in the American
House billiard saloon last night, when a
man came in with cat in his arms. A
momentary wonder was expressed as to
what the eompanionslIip meant, as men
are not in the habit of going about with
eats in their arms. The observers had
not long to wait, as the cat-carrier ex-
claimed: ''Bet anybody this eat will
carry bottle of ale ten feet" Some
body, either doubling that pussy would
perform the feat or willing to see it done,
took the bet. Two chalk lines were
made on the floor, the bottle was pro-
duced, and the performance began.
The bottle was placed on one mark, and
the cat was to carry it to the other.
Seizing the animal by the tail, the man
hung her head down over the bottle.
Obeying a known impulse, the cat
grabbed the bottle tightly with her fore
feet. The man walked over the chalk
mark, and the cat, clingiDg desperately
to the bottle, carried it along the floor
to the specified distance. The wager
was won Miners Journal.
Year: 1875

LIVE FOR SOMETHISG.-Ies, live for
something worthy Of life and its eapa-
biIities and opportunities, for noble deeds
and achievements. Every man and every
woman has his or her assignment in the
duties and responsibilities Of daily life.
We are in the world 70 make the world
better, to lift it up to higher levels oi
enjoyment and progress, to make its
hearts and homes brighter and happier
by devoting 10 our fellows our best
thought, activities and influence. IL IS
the motto Of every true heart, and the
genius Of every noble life, that mo man
iyeth to o-hinself'-Iives chiefly for his
own selfish good. 1t is law Of our IN
telIeetual and moral being that Ee pre-
mote our own happiness in the exact
proportion we contribute to the comfort
and enjoyment Of Others. Nothing wor-
thy of the name Of happiness Is possible
in the experience Of those who live only
for themselves, all obvious OF the vel
fare Of their fellows.
Year: 1875

Some of the promises OF God are like
the almond tree, which hastily blossoms
in the very early spring There are 9th
ers which resemble the Mulberry tree,
which is slow in putting forth its leaves.
Then what is man to do if he has a
mulberry-tree promise which is late in
blossoming2 Why, he is to wait till it
does blossom. If the vision tarry, wait
for it till it comes, and the appointed
time shall surely tring it.-SpUrStolC.


Gods promises are dated, but with a
mysterious character; and, for want of
skill in Gods chronology, we are prone
to think God fOrgets Us, when, indeed,
We ourselves in being 50 bold to set God
a time of our own, and in being angry
that he comes not just then to u.s.
GUmdU


God may sometimes delay his PROMISE,
but he will not deny it. He may some
times change it, but he will not breakit
-WGtSon.


Every promise is built upon four pill
lars. Gods justice and holiness, which
will not suffer him to deceive; his grace
or goodness, which will not suffer him to
forget; his truth, which will not suffer
him to change; his power, which makes
him able TO aecompIish.-SGlter.


Gods promises never meant to ferry
our Iaziness. Like a boat, they are to
be rowed by oars, but many men enter
ing forget the oar, and drift down more
helpless in the boat than if they had
staid on land. There Is net an expert
enee in life by whose side God has not
fixed a promise. There is not a trouble
so deep and swift running, that we may
not cross safely over, if we have courage
to steer, AMI strength to pull.-Beeeher.


Gods promises are a defense against
mans threatenings. The promises of
the gospel are sealed to US by the word
of the Father, the blood of the Son, and
the witness of the Spirit.
Year: 1875

Governor Tilden was visited by reporter OF the
HERALD yesterday, at his residence Gramercy
Park and asked his views about the escape of Tweed
Mr.. Tweeds escape.


'Who is responsible, GOVERNOR"


''The Sheriff alone is responsible"


''what is the penalty which may be visited upon the
Sheriff for permitting his prisoner to escapc2"


''Ho is held in the amount OF the prisoners bail"


''Notin the amount of the Shern's bonds S'


''No, sir. Sheriff Conner, under the law is respons
BILE for the whole amount of Tweed's bail, which is
So, 900, 000n


'Is there no responsibility attaching to the Warden
of Ludlow Street JAN ~


mo- the whole responsibility is the Sheriff He
is the head OF that branch Of Judicial government and
his subordinate must be OF his apponees, who is
necessarily under the direction OF the Sheriff"


''Under the law passed at Albany last winter-the
Civil Remedies LAWS not the Governor OF the state
bound TO prosecute delinquent county officials f'


SWELL yes; but you must understand that there
several embarrassing clauses in that law which
in some measure Illustrate the object OF the framers
While II is my purpose TO prosecute all officials who
violate the laws of the State, am OF circum-
that interfere against reaching the vioators-
The question of party never enters my mind when an
affair of this kind presents itself Sheriff Conner may
be q democrat but that shall not prevent from pro-
ceeding against him the same any other man. "


''Do you intend to issue proclamation for the re-
covery OF Tweedfn


.sCertainly not That is not my business The
offence local and 1t should be the Office of the Mayor
OF New York city to offer reward All my duty in
the premises that the county officials do their
duty and If they do not 1t Is my privilege to suspend
remove them with proper causes of complaint"


The Governor did not TO go very fully into the
affair of Tweeds escape and gave more information
the reporter than what contained in the foregoing
interview.
Year: 1875

Among those who would heartily rejoice If the fugi-
tive Tweed back in his old quarters there was
rumor yesterday morning that recently he had been
seen 10 company with Colonel Jacob Long, Of Harlem
The Colonel sought by HERALD reporter and
found during the afternoon at his usual dining place
the Mount ST Vincent restaurant. Central Park A
striking similarity exists between Tweed and the Col.
onel The latter s the better looking man, however.
The Colonel did appear surprised At the visit thus
made him, and when the subject OF his intimacy with
Tweed was broached readily and cheerfully answered
every nterrogatory The gis OF long interview is as
follows:


Tho Colonel has not Bill Tweed since his lncar-
coration Years ago he was very friendly terms
with him, but 10 the days OF the Young Democracy
they had falling out the result Of unjust charge
by the Boss" TO derogatory remarks said 70 have
been made by the Colonel about him. This quarrel,
not Of long duration, subsequently adjusted but
the sting Of the insulting language used by Tweed at
The time could not be forgotten by Long, and cooncss
ever aiterward existed. "Oftentmes.


HAvB BEEN TAKEN FoR TWEED


said the Colonel, "and on scores OF occasions when
down town have heard people say, There goes old Bill
Tweed look at MIN That never troubled me though y
continued Long, with smile, "for knew wasn't the
old man. and didn't want 10 be"


NO, no, pledge you my honor came from the
Year: 1875

The Tweed escape continued throughout yesterday 10
be the one subject Of throughout the City,
The principal topic referred to, however the work
performed By the HERALD in bringing to light the story
OF the carriage hired from the Lamb stable. That
this was tile carriage in which Tweed escaped,
subsequent circumstances narrated elsewhere
fully determine. 1t further appears that
the whole Eplan OF escape most eaborately
planned but that Notwithstanding all the extraordinary
precautions taken TO prevent the Leaking out Of the
facts Incidental thereto the HERALD alone has been
able to throw some light tho apparent mys-
terry That another resembling Tweeds old
coachman have been employed to drive the
riage which took the party from the Jail is beyond
question: and that this mans identity has been estao-
lished there is every to believe The drives OF
the carriage which was hired from Lambs stable on
Forty ninth street. undoubtedly George Hoffman,
the man above all whom he most trusted. This will
be from the accounts elsewhere published


The story also, graphically told as it s describing
Tweed's route along the Boulevard eastward 70
point near West Farms thence through the lower West
Farms road leading to the East River and his being
seen about nine O'Clock driving down in car
riage and pair similar to that taken from
Lambs stable and driven by Tweeds own coachman,
who was 1t is said, the man who always used to drive
him Undoubtedly George Hoffmanl which suose-
quenty landed him on the Long Dock at Hunts
Point and from which party to get out and
get on yacht at the end Of the pier, is also
most interesting and important adjunct to the history
OF this whole case.


The story too Of the British bark Lord Clarendon,
which cleared from this port the 18th Of October,
and about which particulars could be obtained other
than that she had been hoverg of the coast VIII also
be read with interest, it probably elucidates the
mystery The other facts given also form chapter in
The which is alone interesting but instructive


telegram received last night from Congress
s. S. Cox, stating that Judge Campbell was his
guest in Washington, thus dsproving the statement
circulated by Mr.. Campbes political opponents that
DE probably had cognizance OF Tweeds escape.