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Year: 1876

AS we anticipated, the Senate, by a
strict party vote, has given Pinchback
Senatorial salary and perquisites from
the time he claimed to have been elect
ed to the time he was finally rejected
about two years and half. A more inn
pudent and outrageous robbery was
never perpetrated. Dick Turpin or Jack
Sheppard never plundered the public
pocket more openly or more shameless
ly. Pinchback never occupied seat in
the Senate, and consequently never
discharged a single duty Of Senator.
The same Republican majority which
has now paid him for work he never
performed refused to indorse his Gre
dentials and declared that he had nc
right to place on the floor of the Sem
ate chamber. Yet, after virtually kick
ing him out Of doors, these Republicans
throw him some twenty thousand dol
lars of the peoples money!


Who are the men who have done this
thing? They are, one and all, prom
inent members of the Republican party
the party which has just put up Hayes
and Wheeler, and is trying TO convince
the people that these candidates repre-
sent reform; the party which steals
right and left, and asks the people to
extend its opportunities for stealing
the party which actually processes to
believe that the people will give ita new
lease Of power after all 1t has done and
Is doing to prove its own unworthiness.
The Pinchback business is unadulter-
ated Republicanism. Do the people
IKE It well enough TO want more OF the
Same sort?
Year: 1876

IN. 4. HeTdluj


In its present stage the war in Europe
is the fight of four small Christian States
to gain their independence and to be
free forever from all further political
connection with the corrupt and rotten
Ottoman Empire. The united popula-
ton of these small States is about three
millions OF people, or about what the
population OF our own country was when
the thirteen colonies one hundred years
ago began their memorable struggle
against a metropolitan power certainly
far stronger then than Turkey is now


1t is not, therefore, in its most naked
possibility q hopeless struggle for the
Christian States. Doubtless the At
lantic Ocean was our great ally, but
for whose ample breadth and de-
ton OF a people divided among them
selves might not have successfully
resisted the nation whose soldiers won
the battle Of Blenheim. But the Servi-
ans, Bosnians, Montenegrins and HerZe-
govinians have equivalent advantages
in the peculiar nature OF their country
and their foe and their relations to
Christian Europe Turkey is graat
Empire on paper. Butifit is to conduct
this war as war is conducted by civilized
States its resources will not su flee for
one short campaign. Lit has no money
and no capacity to borrow. 1t must
therefore, if it is to fight at all, reeur to
the simple methods that prevailed when
the Asiatic horsemen first came into
.hat part Of the world and il its war is
conducted on those principles, the re-
volt Of opinion throughout Europe will
be such that the wealth of London will
flow into the Seryian Golfers, the army
Of independence will swarm with heroic
volunteers from every Christian land.
and the Porte will be informed
by the great powers that they
cannot idly contemplate the
scene while savages from Asia make a
desert on the Danube. This peculiar
difficulty in Turkeys position points to
the inevitable issue OF the conflict


Civilized warfare to compel the submis-
sion of revolted States implies money,
trained armies, modern implements, a
commissary epartment-all the things,
in short, that bankrupt States cannot
hare; and when Turkey finds that she
has not the capacity to conduct war as
it is recognized by civilized nations,
and turns instinctively to that barbar-
Gus fighting by which alone she could
win, then her operations will be ar
rested by stronger hands. Russia will
certainly protest at the proper moment,
and there will be no power to obstruct
her protest. England, the present great
opponent of the Russian policy, will then
have changed her attitude. Already
the popular opinion Is declared with
great vigor in England against the sup
port Of the Mohammedan power by the
Ministry; and this opinion rises in
way and with force that leaves little
doubt that the Ministry will be COM
pelled to respect 1t or give way to men
Year: 1876

the route from Boston to Chicago via Pittsburgh,
il said viii he shorter than any existing line by
157 miles. This Of itself is of immense, value to the
Nev-England States but what is of faf greater inn
portance is the fact that the line will be able to
supply the entire country east of the Hudson with
coal at reduction of ut least f2 per ton below the
combination price. We are informed that con-
tract has been awarded tO Mcs5rs. Williams *
Woois tor the construction Of 10 miles of the road
commencing at the eastern terminus that they
have already sub-let about ope-haf of their
contract and that ground il to be broken
at once The contractors, a. we understand, engage
to finish their work before the first OF Api1l
next and that the completion of the entire line VIII
be pressed forward with all possible dispatch. With
the completion Of this road the consuncrs OF coal IN
this part of the STATE and New-Engand will no
longer be compelled 10 ray icavy tribute to tho
companies forming the coal combination.
Year: 1876




The Japanese houses are entitled to even
more careful regard. and show charming
novelties in their joinery, and expressive
carved work, as well as an almost perfect
system of tile roofing. In this latter re-
spect. no structures on the grounds, and
no houses in the country, will compare
with them. It is not so much that the
tiles are sonnd and firm in themselves, as
that they are laid with such precision, and
so solidly bedded, so sharply trimmed In
the valleys and SO thoroughly dressed,
and capped on the ridges and hips of the
building,-that they would seem To defy
alike winds, snow, rains or the wear Of
time. Add to this the graceful jutting
rooflets Of their polches with the charac-
teristic droop Of rafter, the valleys and
ridge upon porch being treated with the
same rigorous precision and care as the
longer valleys,-and the result is roof
that seems almost perfect in its Office, and
is picturesque in the extreme The side
walls sheathed up after their own fashion
with covering boards which are uncolored
and relieved with no architectural deco
ration, are only noticeable for the extreme
nicely of the joinery. The same Is also
observable wherever imbers meet but
we question much if our Japanese friends
have taken sufficient provision against the
merciless intensity of our American sun;
unoiled and unpainted wood win have
serious work in resisting the fiery glare
without opening its seams, or showing
rank cleavage Of its joints.-Donald G.
Mitchell, IN Scribner for Sept.
Year: 1876

CONCERT. - The Concert at College
Chapel last Friday night was one of the.
most delightful entertainments ever given
in the city, meeting the universal approba-
tion of all iii attendance. We are sorry
that space does not permit us to give de-
tailed report of it.
Year: 1876

It is the solemn thought connected with mid
die life. that life's last business is begun in
earnest; and it is then, midway between the
cradle aud the grave, that man begins to mar
vel that he Jet the days of youth go BY so ball
enioyed. II is the pensive autumn feeling
!, is the sensation of half sadness that we ez-
perience when the longest day Of the year is
past, and every day that fOllOwsfs shorter, and
the light fainter, and feebler shadows tell that
nature is fastening with gigantic footsteps to
her winter grave. So does man look back
upon his youth. When the fTst gray hairs
become visible, when the unwelcome truth
fastens itself upon the mind that man Is no
longer going up hill but down, aud that the
sun is always westering, he looks back on
filings behind. When we were children we
thought as children. But now there lies be-
fore MS manhood, with its earnest work, and
then old age, and then the grave, and then
home. There is second youth for man, bet
ter and holier than his first, if he will look on
aud not look back.
Year: 1876

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
fasic On JOHN K. Payne. Of Ndss. Organ an'


Orchestral accompaniment.
Our fathers God from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains of sand,
We meet to day, united, free,
And loyal to our land and Thee,
To thank Thee for the era done,
And trust Thee for the opening one.
Here, where of old, by thy design,
The fathers spake that word Of Thine,
Whose echo is the glad refrain
OF rended bolt and falling chain,
To grace our fcstal time from all
The zones of earth our guests we call.
Be with us while the new world grcets
The old world thronging all its streets,
Unwilling all the trumphs won
By art or toll beneath the sun;
And unto common good ordain
This rivalship of hand and brain.
Thou, who hast here in concord furled,
The war flags of a gathered world,
Beneath our Western skies fulhn
The Orient's mission Of good will,
And freighted with loves Golden Fleece,
Send back the Argonauts of peace.
For art and labor met in truce,
For beauty made the bride of use
We thank Thee, while withal we crave
The austere virtues strong TO save,
The honor proof to place or gold,
The manhood never bought nor sold.
o! make Thou US, through centuries long,
In peace secure, in justice strong;
Around our gilt OF freedom draw
The safeguards of Thy righteous law;
And. cast in some diviner mould,
Let tie new cycle shame the old
Year: 1876

The GIRL or THE PERIoD-She wore
round hat put upon Tie back Of her head like
the aureole Of a saint. to whom her sweet face
gave her an appearance Of kindred. HeF boz
dice was close-ftiDg-indeed, drawn tight,
about the waist, ike the bark Of young ten
der tree. Her scant skirt, pulled tight in
front 20 Is TO show her firm, and {" tied back"
terminated behind 10 a short fan ike tail, liko
the tail Of a mermaid. She was mounted ON
shoes seven sizes too small for her feet-indeed
only her toes appeared to have accommodation
10 them and the high heels coming under tho
instep tilted her forward and completed the
grace Of her carriage. When she walked she
put down one little foot after the other as If
each leg were as elastic as an iron rod. twas
great pleasure 10 see Der peppiog along,
thing Of perfect beauty, like some Of the
drawings Of some NEUROLOGICAL biped by one
Of the old masters-Hdrtford Times.
Year: 1876

An exchange says: Compare Tie publish
or Of newspaper, who has to go all around
the country 70 collect bis pay, to farmer who
sells biz wheat on credit, and not more than a
bushel to Que person. II any farmer will try
the experiment of distributing tho pro-
ceeds Of his labor over two or three distant
States for one year, we viii guarantee that bc
will never, after that year. experience, ask
publisher to supply him with paper q year
or two without toe pay for it."
Year: 1876

A Kansas woman lost a gold ring in a straw
bed the straw was emptied into the barnyard
and with the manure, was spread upon iielJ.
10 the fall the woman found her ring in
boiled potato that came from the field.
Year: 1876

At this season the question which interests
boy is not SO much whether his life will be
crowned with glory aud honor, as whether bis
new summer vest Is going to be made out Of
bis fathers old trousers.
Year: 1876

Married her for money, did he?
Why did be not kill her outright,
and take it? Indeed, that is what
man who makes a match with
such motives would really like to
do. He wants the hard dollars, not
the soft woman who owns them,
and be hates her because he has
had to take her also.


Poor little heiresses, with such
delightful fortunes-poor little
widows, with snug sum settled
on you by the husband who had
your comfort at heart, how much
better that you should be penniless
women, sewing for your living at
ten cents a shirt! Then, some
strong, loving hand might gather
you up to a tender heart, and you
might be very sure it was all for
yourself-all, every bit. Now,
with so many fortune hunters
ahoat, what are you going to do?


Married Tor money, was she!
And that is why her face is so hard
and her eyes so cold. She knows
it, one can see.


She remembers the kisses that
were so much cold "courting, "and
did not come from the heart at all.
The vow that was lie, when,
instead OF saying | take this wo-
man for better or for worse, he
should have said, II tako this wo-
man for her property


Married for money-and yet she
was as sweet and as pretty then
as many girl who is married for
pure love-a rosebud that might
have been plucked to wear over a
true heart. What did the fortune
hunter care for that? A man who
woes woman with mercenary mo
tives, is rather apt to hate her the
more for being worthy of a better
fate. And in any case, man
hates woman who adverses the
proper state Of things, and "en-
dows" him with her "worldly
goods" 1t is contrary to the pray
cr book and contrary to nature.
Year: 1876

The following letter is in the line Of
our article published few weeks since,
and we cheerfully give it place in our
columns. We fear, however, that the
Christian people of Minnesota are not
equal to those of Missouri in faith, and
that they propose to manage the grass
hopper themselves. They are probably
like the little Sunday School boy who
never prayed except at night "'Cause
most any smart boy could take care of
hisself in the daytime:"


W0RTII1NGTON, Sept. 4, 1876.


EDITOR ADVANCE: Thinking you
would give me q short space in your
columns, l would like to say a few words
On the subject of grasslIoppers. The
people have devised all kind of plans
20 dispose of these terrible pests, and
have not, as yet, been successful; and
1t is my opinion they never will be, Just
~ long as they depend on their own
wisdom and strength. Now, God has
sent the locust among us in order to
make MS more thankful, and also to
make us live nearer to Him. We, like
Ills ancient people, do run astray
from God, and we believe that He takes
means Of this kind to bring us back to
Him. Now, if God has sent the grass
hopper among us, would it not be wis
dom to ask Him to take them away?
say yes. If we have grasshopper meet
tngs, let them be to ask God to rid us
OF these plaques. They are nothing
more or less than the fultillment of
the word of God. For four years we
have suffered from the effects Of them.
we have tried catching them, we have
tried burning them, III fact we have
done almost everything that mankind
II able to do, wit the exception Of ask
Ing the Almighty to destroy them. Has
our plea with God been i. general one?
I answer, no. Now, let our leading
men call a meeting for prayer; let tho
Govern or of the State call the people
together and let the cry be rs tile cry
Of one man. and let the ple;. he us one
pea I'd tlio Lord Of Hosts. And will
I've not hear and answer?


A CITIZEN.
Year: 1876

TEE Commissioner of Pensions has re-
piled 10 the Sherman resolution, asking
the probable outlay incidental to the pas
sage of the pension bill now before the
Senate, as reported by Senator ingalls,,
from the Committee on Pensions. He
estimates that the arrears provided for in
the bill will approximate sixteen millions.
If it is true that we owe the pensioners
this amount, we have no hesitation in say
ing that 1t should be promptly paid. 1t is
simply the part of the price" which has
been wrongfully kept back for several
years. 1t is a fluid in which half mil
lion of people are directly and remotely
interested They feel, as they have the
right to feel, that they have been out
ragged by the conduct OF the Government
in thus keeping them out of their equitable
dues. We trust the Senate will at once
see to ii that this omission shall be sup
piled; that tardy justice may be rendered
without delay. The sum due to any one
individual may seem comparatively trifing
to people of thrift and substance, but it is
of vital importance to the poor pensioners.
1t will rarely exceed thousand dollars,
and will average much less probably, but
even these few hundreds that have been
dreamed of and hoped ard prayed for
these many years appear q colossal for
tune 10 the paoT beaeficiaries.
Year: 1876

The present effort to enact law requir-
ing the equal distribution of clerical force
among the several Departments Of the
Government has too much of the old State
Rights doctrine about it to meet with the
approval Of the average American. What
the nation wants most in Office is ability,
sobriety, industry and integrity. Assured
of these essential qualities, it matters little
whether the material comes from one State
or another. Our own opinion is that as
rule the worst use you can put young man
of talents to is to make him Department
clerk. II is pretty sure to finish him.
From time to time organized efforts have
been made to restrict appointments from
the several States to their proportionate
number, based on population, and to apply
the same rule to the District of Columbia


We have faith enough in the good sense of
Congress to believe that nc such unreason-
able restriction will ever become law.
The District of Columbia must and should
always have larger proporttonate repre-
sentation than any of the s.veral States.
It's citizens have come from all the States


Their residence here is owing to their par
ticipation in the Government. Families
have grown up around them during this
service. Through long years of service
tney have lost their citizenship in the Sec
tions where they were born aud brought
up. Still they are American citizens, aad
TO debar them and their children from Office
because they live here instead of in some
distant State is to discriminate uniustly
against them.


The whole business life of Washington
depends upon the existence here of the
Government Departments. In other cities
the head of family can find many chan.
neIs If trade open for his children when
they become of working age. Here but
few czn be found. The only inviting
channel lies through :ne Departments, and
this amounts to qP-si geuteel slavery to
partisan influence. To apply suy rigid
rule of clerical apportionment to the citi-
gems of the District would be to drive
Year: 1876

many of its best citizens away and to COM
pei young men and young women to leave
their homes and seek living in other
cities. This would create hardships that
few reasonable men would care to approve.
This rigid system of apportionment Is
urged by some on the ground that the
Northern States are holding the offices at
the expense Of the States Of the South.
1t should be remembered that up to 1881
the Southern States had the lions share OF
public offices. At home and abroad Gov
eminent patronage was controlled by the
South. If exact justice is to be done on
the basis of population, let us start the &C
count with the beginning of the Govern
ment, and see if the Southern States are
not still in debt to the North on the score
of office.


1t would be well to have a reasonable
discrimination exercised in appointments
to Office, but this should be left to the judg-
ment of the heads of the various Depart
ments where the law and the Constitution
placesit To attempt to govern 1t by law
will be to seriously cripple the service by
lettering the hands of those who a1e held
responsible for the proper management Of
affairs


If the nation needs civil service reform,
it can secure it by enforcing few simple
rules. The applicant who could sstisfac-
torIly answer the following simple ques-
tions, and establish each beyond doubt,
would make good timber for any Depart
ment, whether he comes from Maine or
California, the District of Columbia or the
State of Texas: First. Are you loyal
American citiZenf Second. Have you the
requisite abilityH Third. Have you the
integrity7 Fourth. Have you been, and
are you still, loyal to the Federal Govern
ment as supreme authorityf Settle these
points, then appoint none but Republicans
TO Office under a Republican Administra-
ton, and we shall have the best civil
service in the world. If our friends insist
upon reform, let their efforts be exerted in
the dirc ction thus indicated.
Year: 1876

LET 60 honest man hereafter dare to say
that Hon. James G. Blaine will attempt a
mean revenge on his rivals at Cincinnati
If he fails of success himself The noble
and cbivslric bearing of Mr.. Blaine toward
his enemies IN the House yesterday utterly
precludes the notion tn t he will suffer his
influence to favor any dog in the manger
policy By his friends at Cincinnati. We
trust that all Republicans will labor with
generous rivalry for their faVorites in the
convention, subject to careful consideration
of the risks involved in the campaign, and
with united purpose to select the strongest
possible ticket. 1t must not be forgotten
that success is the first consideration. Sue
cess alone will insure the perpetuation of
Republican principles. Let the ground be
well examined and the men named who
will best insure their triumph.
Year: 1876

The Republicans are making clam
or over that plank in the S.. Louis
p'a' form which asks for repeal of that
clause of the resumption act fixing Jan.
1, 1879, as the lime when the Govern
ment will begin to pay its notes in coin.
This makes it proper to call frequent
attention to few facts.


When the resumption act was under
discussion in the Senate, Mr.. Thurman,
Mr.. Carl Shurz, and especially the lat
ter, opposed it because it furnished no
adequate means for executing its own
provisions; aud they denounce that
clause which fixes the period of resump-
ton as false pretence. intended merely
to carry the Republican party through
the next Presidential election. Schurz
may have forgotten this, but the pub
lie have not.


Previous to the assembling of the
Cincinnati Convention the question of
the repeal of this act was discussed in
many quarters, and indeed it had as
sunned something of a formidable as
pect. In the Committee on the plat
form in that Convention o resolution
was introduced opposing the repeal. 1t
was voted down in committee by de-
cisive majority. That was the end OF
tho matter; and the platform does not
contain one word on the subject of the
resumption act.
The committee ON the Platform at
st. Louis reported resolution in favor
of the repeal Of so much of the act as
fixes the precise day when resumption
is to oegin. They did this because
they agreed with Schurz in what he
said about its being mere evasion for
tiding over the presidential struggle.
Gen. Ewing of Ohio moved to amend
the report Of the committee by resolu-
ton favoling tho repeal of the entire
resumption act. A sharp debate fol-
lowed. when the Convention rejected
the amendment by vote of about three
to one. and then passed the original
resolution with scarcely dissenting
voice.


With these facts before the country,
there are set Of Republicans who in-
sist that their party alone is oppose to
the repeal of the resumption act, and
that the Democratic party is almost un-
animously in favor of its repeal. If
they will read the record, they will see
how wide of the truth such statements
are. Sun. t~ ---.,
Year: 1876

meeting Of the property owners opposed to the
construction OF an elevated railroad Chatham
street. the Bowery and Third avenue was held at tho
Grand Union Hotel last evening Ex-Alderman
Charles G. Dean presided, and Mr.. D. B. Chappell
acted as secretary.


After the meeting opened the secretary read the fol-
loving as his special report


The Commissioners appointed by the Supreme Court have
closed their labOrs holding concerned
and will make their report and will that
port to the Supreme Court for confirmation.


There have been placed before the Commissioners ada
Wits of large number OF property showing damage
of from fifty should elevated railroad be
allowed upon Chatham Bowery and Third
Also reports with adavts from first class engineers
such General Yele General showing to be
impossible build elevated railroad the route
named.


Mr. H. p Smith said that his opinion was that the
elevated railroad project would nave to be fought
in the courts The question now was,
care the property owners willing to stand
together in light before legal trbunaY'


He followed by Mr.. Lawrence Drake, who ex-
pressed himself strongly favor of rapid transit
but open cut railroad and not elevated one. He
thought it great mistake for the association TO put
themselves forward opposing rapid transit Tor the
mind OF the people bent it, and any effort 10 op
pose II would be ruinous