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Year: 1876

1t is not to be expected that General Bah
cocks counsel will permit his case to be tried
in any other than a strictly legal way, or
that they will fail to take advantage on his
behalf of every technicality of the law. In
deed, if they should fail in this they might
justly be charged with delinquency in their
duty to their client. But as their defence
spreads itself at the very threshold on
quibbles and objections, and cavils on the
ninth part of hair in every point it makes
all those who remember what they read from
day to day will recur to the attitude so gal
lantly taken by Babcock and his friends when
the famous "court of inquiry" was called
for. They felt then that his honor as a sol
dier was at stake, and they were solicitous
that it might receive no stain, and held that
an ample and immediate investigation into
the facts and into the very nature of the case
was imperatively necessary, They wanted
an investigation where legal technicalities
might neither save nor ruin. 1t was recog-
nized by them that trials in courts of law
may by the ingenuity of counsel be turned
to one side or another, and actually leave the
real issue as to mans guilt or innocence
untried, and even untouched Words could
scarcely picture the dismay with which they
contemplated any such unfortunate issue in
the case of the Presidents secretary, and
hence their eagerness to take the case out of
the ordinary channels to put it before
board of officers who would try it on its
merits, and would not condemn the man
who might be only technically guilty, but
would not absolve him who might be only
technically innocent. But they have evidently
changed their mind about technicalites;
or is it that the counsel try the case as they
please? From whatever reason the difference
arises it cannot help the case in public
opinion and it is as much ON trial in the
public opinion as it is before the Missouri
Jury. In this case the moral and legal as
poets are related very much as they were in
the case of Mr.. Beecher. People did not
want to know, in the Beecher case, if there
was evidence that would convict the accused
in the minds of the jury but they did want
to know if he was guilty. In the case of the
secretary people do not want to know
whether he can be proved guilty, or whether
the dexterity of counsel may cloud the evil
dence so that he shall just escape but they
want to know if official corruption has
actually made its way into the White House.
and they will make up their minds on this
not merely from what the jury says when all
is over, but from what is said by counsel on
the trial and still more from what counsel
endeavors to suppress.
Year: 1876

Public Works" we discover, again ''under
the War Department, demand of Mr.. Bel
KNAPP for So, 044, 900 for Notifications and
other works of defence, against an appro-
priation of $S15, 900 last year. Is not this
also rather steep for year of retrenchment2
We are not going to be attacked we need
not waste this prodigious sum of money in
tinkering at fortifcations the most of which,
when they are completed, will be of no use,
because earthworks alone will keep out the
heavy shot now used in attack. Under Mr..
Belknap's regular estimates he demands one
and quarter millions for armament of for
tifcations ;" last year Congress gave him
seventy-6ve thousand dollars. But besides
the one and quarter millions he proposes
quietly to spend over two millions more, un-
der a separate head, but substantially for the
same purpose. What is the sense in such
extravaganza?


We have not nearly done with Mr. Bel
knap's accounts, and shall have to return to
them again. But we have shown the demo-
Gratis where they can save even without any
material reduction of the army, and by
merely insisting on proper economy, sum
not less than six or seven millions and we
believe it might be made to amount to eight.
We propose to show them another day
where they may make still further econo-
mics in the War Department, which seems to
be extravagantly managed in almost every
part. We confess our own surprise at the dis
coyeries we have made in this matter We had
always supposed Mr.. Belknap to be one
of the most rigid economists our public SER
vice has ever known. We think it pity
that he has not been able to bring into his
department the same genius for making both
ends meet handsomely which has distin-
guished him in the management of his own
affairs He came to Washington poor; he
has had a modest salary of eight thousand
year and no perquisites, and on this, to the
surprise and admiration of all his friends, he
has been able to maintain an elegant house.
hold, to obtain certain fame for the excel
lence of his dinners to keep carriages with
outriders, and altogether to accomplish what
many a man of three or four times his in
come, but with poorer business habits, finds
it difficult to do If he had served the pub
lie with as rigid economy his praises would
be in all the newspapers, and he might even
be numbered among the great host of Presi-
Dental candidates.
Year: 1876

THE FATAL FRONT PLATFORM In our
court reports will be found a suggestive case
showing the willingness of the horse car mo-
nopolies to have young mans leg broken
in getting off the front platform without any
desire to compensate the young man for the
same. In defiance of their printed rules the
companies try to make the sardine-packing
process as little bar to running trips on
time as possible by hustling passengers on
and off the front platforms at the risk of their
lives The companies, we see, insist that a
man should be privileged to stand in car
if he likes standing Fifty-fve such men is
the Third Avenues limit, while the Second
Avenue can take ffty-eight. All these men,
too, should, the companies believe, be
allowed to break their legs or their necks in
getting of or on if it is their pleasure They
would not, moreover do this at the COM
panies' expense, if the arguments of the lat
ters' lawyers were law.
Year: 1876

''No SEAT No FARE. The bill intro
duced into the Assembly by Mr.. Killian
providing that horse car companies shall
under the penalty of a fine of one
hundred dollars for every such neg
lect, is threatened by the railroad
lobby with suffocation in committee. We
should like to know what, the members OF
The bill is printed in full elsewhere. We
can promise the lobby, the committee and
the Legislature in general that it shall not
be lost sight of.
Year: 1876

THE LOUISIANA RADICALS have shaped .
measure for keeping the State republican by
creating Returning Board of three repub-
licans and two democrats, in which the
majority can throw out the votes of any elec-
toral division they please. The section de-
scribing the pretexts under which this can be
done is printed elsewhere, and for infamous
audacity and defiance of every citizen right
is without parallel in the history of in
famous and audacious republican misrule at
the South. 1t is a good democratic cam
paign document, and it remains to be seen
whether it will not prove too strong for even
the ostrich stomach of the rule-or-ruin re-
publcans at Washington.
Year: 1876

How TO GET THE INSURGENTS in the Turk
ish provinces to lay down their arms and iet
the Porte try Andrassys plan of reform upon
them is nice problem. A denial has been
sent to the statement that the six consuls at
Mostar had received instructions to begin
the task. Whatever truth there may be in
either the report or its contradiction the
means taken to pacify the rebels for the pur-
pose of giving the Turks another chance to
Year: 1876

ment, 1t seeks an outlet of escape. which it,
as general rule. finds. Now. if the surfac,
of the continent is liberating heat in excess
of the natural loss by radiation the effect
on the advancing storm will soon be OBJ
served We take an opportunity of recon-
mending increased vigilance to the sanitary
authorities during the coming spring and
summer. We are passing through a season
of great peril to the health of the city of
New York
Year: 1876

WHEN BISMARCK says, I'VE live in a state
of the most profound peace; we have no
wish for conquest; we are contentod with
what we possess; we have no thought of
threatening any one" il is high time to look
out for declaration of war in some direc-
ton. OF course Germany needs peace, but
Prince Bismarck should not say so lest the
sceptical should doubt it.
Year: 1876

The TorAL MONEY Losses by the Broad
way fire will not, il is thought, reach more
than three million dollars, which is said to
be pretty well covered by insurance. The loss
of life is already known. 1t is not so easy,
however, to gauge the criminality of construct
ing such lumber piles in the business heart Of
a great city, and we could point to a great
many other pretentious buildings in New
York which are only awaiting stray un-
auenched cigar stump, match on the floor


a faint breath OF fame, as it were, to spread
similar, if not greater, disaster This is
a good time to begin an examination of them.
Year: 1876

We published a few days since long COM
munication from Atlanta. Ca, purporting to
be circumstantial statement of facts con.
Meeting Mr.. Bristow with an alleged Presi.
Dental intrigue in the Southern States. and
asserting that he is actively employing the
patronage of his office in that section of the
country to influence the choice of delegates
to the Republican National Convention.


One of our Washington correspondents
has undertaken to investigate the statements
of the Atlanta letter, and, as the result OF
his inquiries, he feels justified in contra
dieting both the main allegation and the
particular facts cited to support it.
The writer at Atlanta gave such an
air of circumstantial plausibility to
his narrative, and furnished so many
clews for testing his accuracy, that IN
vestigation has not been difficult, and the
result, as will be seen, is a complete exon
Grafton of Secretary Bristow from the charge
of seeking the Presidency by the vulgar
methods of ordinary politicians. If the
country has thought of him as a candidate it
is solely in consequence of the resolute
and successful energy of his magnificent
campaign against official corruption. He
ought to have sagacity enough to perceive
that if he has any chances they rest solely
on that basis, and that he would only
weaken them and sully the lustre of a bright
and enviable record if he should descend
to the level of wire-pulling schemers. Sec
retary Bristow has strongly intrenched him
self in the confidence and esteem of his fell
low citizens, and not even the Presidency
would be worth purchasing by acts which
would cause any abatement of the warm
public approval which he has SO nobly
earned. -
Year: 1876

THy SIX MILLION SUIT against the fugitive
Tweed was progressed little yesterday,
when Garvey, the Ring plasterer, swore to
the thievish doings of his confederates. The
senior counsel for the defence, in his usual
able manner, assailed the newspapers in the
course of the proceedings, it being believed
to be necessary preliminary exercise to
some of his herculean labors.
Year: 1876

THE REPLY TO Mr.. JAY, which we print in
another column, shows that we were not
mistaken in predicting that his recent COM
ments on the Vienna scandal would lead to
eral Van Buren, send us o joint commune
cation, which we print, because fairness
requires us to give both sides hearing
We take no part in the discussion, and
regret that it occasions SO much acerbity of
feeling.
Year: 1876

Dr. Dittmar the surgeon of the steamer Rotterdam
belonging the line which Winsow the Boston for
ger crossed recalls incidents OF the trip gener
ally known. winsow noticing that Dr. Dttmar observed
a certain anxiety in his behavior, said that through
tho fault Of partner in Boston he got into trouble
thought it better leave the country for time The
captain hearing of this from Dr. Dlttmar, eager to
get rid of hs unpleasant passenger who with his wife,
child and sister alone occupied the cabin. He there
fore made Winsow leave on the pilot boat Wnsow
landed at Calais whence he proceeded TO Brussels
Meanwhile he sent telegram 10 his wife, who landed
ut Rotterdam. When the vessel arrived he on tho
pier receive his relatives. Having found that the
Dutch police could pursue man for using an alias 10
commercial paper, and passing at the time under the
name OF Clifton, he was very much disturbed about
$3. 900 draft he had with him. Although watched by
the police, he managed TO escape 10 London His wife
returned the amount of the draft to the American
sui at Rotterdam, that her husband should not be
pursued on the charge Of using ali las TO commercial
paper


One night while on board the steamer Winslow crc-
ated quite sensation, rushing into the Doctors cabin
and begging him for Gods sake to him. saying he
did not to die yet He then rushed into the steer
aye and reused all the passengers. After time he
quoted down again and returned TO his cabin.
Year: 1876

CoscoRp, ~ H., March 10, 1876
The political canvass in this State remains un-
changed the republicans maintaining their confident
front and the democrats quietly hoping a reverse
of the judgment Of last year. More than this 1t is not
possible TO say until the election day is nearer
at hand and may be that will not be possible TO
predict the result then. Both sides apparently
expect elect their candidate for by the vote
of the people, but neither claims a large majority in
case OF success The fear OF the democracy is In


THE USE MONEY


by the republican leaders, and one OF the political orators
brought into the State by the republican committee told
your correspondent this morning that in many OF the
out of the way places where he addressed gatherings of
the party he found abundant evidences that money is
habtuay used carry elections 1t is asserted by tho
democrats that effort is to be made this year TO
chase all of the disposabe population, aoatwood,'
the people who sell their votes called in this
State and color is given to these runors by tho
presence this city of William E. Chandler. the Sec
reary Of the National Republican Committee who camo
from Washington this morning and coseted
during the greater part of the afternoon with Mr. Dam
el Hail. the chairman and Mr. 4. H. Rollins, the
tary of the State Committee Rollins has long aspired
TO become Senator OF the United States and has
always been disappointed He has high hopes at this
time that he will be enabled Senator Cragn
and he is





carry the State, and especially the Legislature He
is regarded the best organizer in his party in tho
State and for this the republicans do their
keep him in the traces, and when he and Chandler
put their heads together the democrats pretty ccr
tain that the conference means harm Indeed lively
the fears OF the democracy this subject that they
are afraid night that Chandler is the bearer of tho
sinews of for the contest on Tuesday,
especially they feel that the national administration
cannot well afford be in this State. The dem
leaders equally aware of the Importance OF
victory them and their efforts toward that end will
be relaxed until tho contest is The meetings
in all parts of the State continue On the republican
side Congressman Frye is at Manchester tonight Con-
gresham Hale at Ptsheld, Senator Oglesby at Roch-
ester, General Garfield at Pennington, and Governor
Noyes at Manchester; while Of the democrats, Gov
ernor Walker is at Portsmouth, Congressman Tarbox
and the Hon. Clarkson N Potter at Lttleon, and Mr..
E. K Apgar at Lancaster All these gentlemen "a
remain in the State until the close Of tho canvass
Year: 1876

To the EDITOR TIE HEgALD.-


see very plainly that you are inclined 10 let all tho
blame OF the recent college fall upon the Fresh
man class. This is really very unjust, as Freshmen
and sophomorcs alike willingly participated. Any
blame disgrace should come upon all concerned The
boys OF the Col ege cannot understand how you camc
have account oil tue 'rOtm IN Saturdays paper
as very late indeed when tho affair occurred.
have heard that the HERALD Is a very "wdc-awaken
Journal and u must bo to get arclc alter IL has
gone press. think that your reporter was the in
stgator Of the hght that he might steal march
the other papers. FRESHMAN
Year: 1876

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


occupy fat and having used gas at cost OF from
SO TO IS a month determined to follow the example
OF the Brooklyn people | had lamps applied TO my
nNtures and used kerosene and have had superior
light and used more burners cost Of s. 90 10 81
per month. Let others do likewise and they will use
no more gas. Respectfully HOUSEKEEPEk
Year: 1876

Nessrs. Tureman and Guthrie have
returned from the Centennial hale
and hearty. They were sbesus
about three weeks and had q hugs
time seeing the elpshant. They
seem to be glad to get ssssty back to
our little city and surely We are
glad to welcome them.
Year: 1876

Some our friends while on their
way to the Centennial got very sea
sick That is the way they tell it.


We expect they were homo sick
TO see sthe girl they left behind
them


How was IL B. B. TT
Year: 1876

arecent lecture on "Early Chicago"
the Hon. John Wentworth told the fol-
lowing:


Soon after my first election to Con-
gress, a young man who had rendered
me material service, made me call,
and observed that postage was very
high; in which sentiment l concurred,
aud promised to labor to reduce it. He
then remarked that | would have the
franking privilege; to which assented,
and promised to labor to abolish it.
But all this did not seem to interest the
young man, and was perplexed to know
the drift of his conversation. Finally,
with great embarrassment, he observed
that he was engaged to a young lady at
the East, and wanted to know if l could
not frank his letters. l explained that
there was but one way to avoid the re-
sponsibilities of the law, and that was
for him to write his letters to me, and
then l could write letter to her, call
ing her attention to his, and she could
have the same privilege. The corre-
spondence took this form until the Con-
gresham from her district asked me II,
at the close of the session, was going
home by the way of his district. l did
not comprehend him until he stated
that he was well acquainted in the fam
lily of the lady with whom | h I'D been
corresponding, and suggested that, if L
was going to be married before the next
session, it would be pleasant for us to
board at the same house! This put a
new phase upon my way of dodging an
abuse of the franking privilege, and
wrote to my constituent that he must
bring his courtship to close, and he
did so. Four letters from him and three
from her covered the transaction, and
stand indebted to this day to the ''con-
seience-fund" of the Post Office Depart
ment for 81 IS. But this was very in
significant sum to pay for the securing
of a good Yankee girl to the West in
those days. Besides, there are seven in
the family now, and one went to the
war; and that 81 rs was an Insignificant
bounty to pay for soldier.
Year: 1876

CONGRESS has effected loan of one mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars to the
Centennial, in order that it may be the
grand display that the rest of the world
expect us to make it-that it may be as
good or better than the great fairs OF
London, Paris and Vienna. Of the three
Congressman from this State only one, Mr..
Bayard, voted in favor of the measure.
Messrs. Salisbury and Williams had con-
stitutional scruples on the subject, and
rather than err against the Constitution
they preferred to put the nations pride at
a risk. The one best qualified to judge
had no scruples of that kind.
Year: 1876

WEDDING PARTY on STREET PARADE.-At
Baltimore, on Monday afternoon, the novel
spectacle of a street parade by a wedding
party was presented. The party, which
was composed of young bride and groom,
with bridesmaid and groomsman, walked a
half mile to church, where the ceremony
was performed. The bride wore blue
dress and the bridesmaid one of tan color
and each had lonE white wells reaching
from the back of the head to the ground
They also wore handsome head wreaths ot
flowers. The groom and groomsman were
kid gloves.
Year: 1876

DOES PARIS GREEN PRoDUcE Hoe CHOLERA? ?
Paris green is a deadly poison to bug or
beast. When used upon potato crop to
kill the bugs it is left in the land a perma.
nent poison. When hogs root they eat a
considerable quantity of dirt. If that dirt
is largely impregnated with Paris green it
must be poisonous material for hogs.
Farmers think of this, and if your hogs
have been dying after roofing in such land
let us hear from you; send the results OF
your experience and observation to the
Weekly Sun. j. G. III.
Year: 1876

The Washington correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Times, disgusted with the
prolixity of the Centennial debate in the
Senate declares that constitutional amend.
ment Is needed, making man ineligible
Tor the Senate until he shall have served
two years on the editorial staff of a paper
zzxze, and acquired the art of getting all
the news within that space.
Year: 1876

RUMORs OF TwEEDs RETURN..-After
Tweed's escape from Ludlow St. Jail it
began to be surmised that his whereabouts
was not far from New York, and certain
sanguine persons, some of whom were for
merly on intimate terms with him, made
offers to wager that, in case of the trial of
the S6,000,000 suit now pending, Tweed
would suddenly appear and testify in his
own behalf. The suspicious and surmises
thus engendered and broadly limited al
have thickened and grown within the past
few days. The argument in favor of the
statement was that Tweed had left Ludlow
Street Jail not from any desire to escape
trial, but, simply toavoid long and tediou,
imprisonment, and that, now that there
was some probability of verdict being
had in the suit from which he had most t
fear, he was willing to stand his trial, feelin,
confident that nothing could be proved t
fasten liability upon him. Dudley FielC
and other counsel in the case when visited
and questioned about the matter woulC
neither affirm nor deny any of the rumOrs
Inquiry at Ludlow street ~ failed to dis
cover Tweeds presence
Year: 1876

This is an Indiana story, told by the
Evansville Journal: A night or two ago
one of our prominent merchants went
home late with his mind distracted by
columns of figures, and a little absent
minded The house is on a corner, and
a gas light throws its enlivening rays
straight through the front parlor win
dows. He opened the front door, and +,
after locking it, opened the parlor door
to walk through. The blinds had been
allowed to remain up, and as he walked
into the room his shadow fell full and
plainly on the opposite wall. He stop
ped short at the sight, and in moment
thoughts of burglars sailed through his
mind, and he felt for his pistol pocket,
but there was no weapon at home. Then
he began to back quietly outo of the door,
with the hope that if he got out without
giving the alarm he would not be shot
by the burglar, whom he saw feel for
his pistol simultaneously with himself.
Then he backed to the front door and
opened it rapidly, after losing sight Of
the intruder. AS he was backing out Of
the door, however, the shadow fell on
the door also, and it looked so familiar
he stopped and reflected-and then went
in and got 10 bed