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Year: 1876

Colonel Whitley swore before the Com
mittee on Expenditures Of the War De-
partment Of Justice, on Tuesday, that he
paid to Mr. Davenport, prominent Re-
publican practitioner and official in New
York city, by direction Of ex-Attorney-
Generals Ackerman and Williams, thirty
i've thousand dollars Of the Secret Service
money. He swore that he protested
against paying over the money, and Will
iams told him President Grant had
directed him to order it to be paid.


Williams testified that Davenport
brought him an order from President
Grant to direct the money to be paid to
him, that in that order he directed Whit
ley to pay Davenport money as he might
call for it. Williams corroborated the
statement formerly made by Whitley, that
he never rendered an account of how he
expended the money, as he was lot re-
quired to do 90. Whitley had Davenport's
receipt for twenty thousand dollars paid
him in 1872, during the three or four
months before the Presidential election.
Williams also testified that he had fire.
quent conversations with the President
about paying Davenport money, and that
the President said 1t was for the purpose
of making registration that Davenport
was getting up. He further testified that
no bargain was made with Davenport as
to the amount he was to charge, and that
be had no idea of the amount Whitley
had paid Davenport.


y Here we have .incontestible evidence of
the manner in which some of the Secret
Service money was spent. Thirty-fve
thousand dollars paid out for political
registration.


The astounding development is here
made, involving in avery painful man
ner the President of the United States,
which confirms the charges made in New
York in 1872, that the administration had
interfered in an improper and corrupt
manner in the elections Of that year. 1t
il we'll remembered that in that year this
same Davenport became notorious for his
conduct as federal officer, or rather Su-
pervisor of elections, and United States
Commissioner, under the law giving the
federal power authority to superintend the
elections Of federal officers. Mr.. Will
liams was explicit il stating that he
would not have paid the money except by
directions Of the President, and that he
never sought to ascertain the particular
use to which the money was being ap.
piled. The committee have only begun
the investigation of what has been done
at different times with the secret service
funds in the Department of Justice, and
they are said to be on the track of other
expsndituressnot different in kiud from
this made in New York, but in the ag-
gregate very largely exceeding the
amount. 1t is said there has been great un-
easiness in administrative circles, for some
days about coming and embarrassing de-
velopment. The President will probably
be called nnon IN anawer for himself
Year: 1876

On the Centennial grounds will be seats
for the millions, and flowers by the acre.
Even now, the flower beds have put in a
lovely appearance. Six thousand seats
are are already scattered over the grounds
for visitors.
Year: 1876

"Why does the Journal prefer
Blaine to Bristow?" asked a friend
writing from the country. The
Journal does not prefer Blaine to
Bristow. The Journal merely defends
Blaine. who has for years been one
of the great and earnest Republican
leaders In Congress, from the asper-
sions with which his political enc
mics and the over-zealous friends of
his rivals for the Republican nomina-
tion are trying to bespatter his honor
able name. We deem this cowardly
and dishonorable in the extreme.
Mr.. Blaine deserves well of his coun-
try. He has uniformly been true and
faithful to the national cause-to the
cause of political and official reform
-and is high-minded gentleman
a genuine statesman. 1t was he who
first set the reform" ball in motion
by inaugurating the "Credit Mobi-
lier" Investigation. We clearly see
the land of conspiracy and injustice
in the present accusations and sin
vestigations" against him. AS q
Republican newspaper and a friend
of common justice, The Journal can
not and will not give its countenance
t o these attempts to break down one
of the great leaders Of its party. 1t
"believes in" Mr.. Bristow-regards
him as a true man and well-deserving
the applause and confidence of the
friends of reform and right govern
ment-and would right heartily sup


port him for President, should he be
nominated; but it cannot lend itself
to plot or series Of plots to secure
his nomination at the expense of the
personal and political reputation
either of Mr.. Blaine or any other
honorable man. 1t IS the easiest
thing in the world to get up such a
raid against public man, as that
to which Mr.. Blaine has been SUBJ
jected for the past few months; but
candid and just men are not as easily
"roped" into sympathy with such an
unprincipled raid as some suppose.
We say-and we mean it when we
say it-Give every man who is honest
fair chance, and let the best man
win. [Chicago Journal.
Year: 1876

SAYING HATEFUL THINGs.-What q
strange disposition is that which leads
people to say "hatefup things for the
mere pleasure of saying them! You
are never safe with such person
When you have done your best to
please, and are feeling very kindly and
pleasantly, out will come some under
hand stab which you alone can compre-
bend, a sneer which is masked, but
which is too well aimed to be misun-
derstood. 1t may be at your person,
your mental feelings, your foolish habits
of thought, or some little secret opin-
ions confessed in moment of genuine
confidence. 1t matters not how sacred
it may be to you, he will have his fling
at it; and since the wish is to make
you suffer, he is all the happier the
nearer he touches your heart. Just
half dozen words, only for the plea
sure of seeing cheek flush, and an eye
lose its brightness; only spoken be-
cause he is afraid you are too happy or
too conceited. Yet they are worse than
so many blows. How many sleepless
nights have such mean attacks caused
tender-hearted mortals! How after them
one awakes with aching eyes and head.
to remember that speech before every
thing-that bright, sharp, we'll aimed
needle of a speech, that probed the
very centre of your soul!
Year: 1876

WHEN MEN ARE AT THEIR BEST
DR.. Beard states that from an analysis
of the lives of thousand representa-
tive men in all the great branches of
the human family, he made the dis
covery that the golden decade was be-
tween forty and fifty; the brazen be-
tween twenty and thirty; the iron be-
tween fifty and sixty. The superiority
of youth and middle life over old age
in original work appears all the greater
when we consider the fact that all the
positions of honor and profit and pres
tige-professorships and public stations
are in the hands of the old. Repu-
tation, like money and position, is
mainly confined to the old. Men are
not widely known until long after they
have done the work that gives them
their fame. Portraits of great men are
a delusion statues are lies! They are
taken when men have become famous,
which, on the average, is at least
twenty-five years after they did the
work which gave them their fame
Original work requires enthusiasm. II
all the original work done by men un-
der forty-6ve were annihilated, they
would be reduced to barbarism. Men
are at their best at that time when en-
thusiasm and experience are most even
ly balanced. This period, on the aver
age, is from thirty-eight to forty
After this the law is that experience
increases, but enthusiasm decreases.
Year: 1876

TEACHING CHILDREN COURAGE
Courage is a vital element of Chris
tian chivalry. Without it, indeed,
neither truth nor fidelity to promise can
be hoped for. The coward is sure to
lie when truth means punishment, and
sure to retreat from his engagements
when they involve peril. We need
valiant souls that have learned to en-
dure and scofn pain, and to face danger
fearlessly and promptly when duty re.
quires. Some parents evade this vital
part of training by CLOSES and decep-
ton. A mother who has taken her boy
to the dentists to get tooth out, will
often say, if he is shrinking, "Sit still.
nv boy, it won't hurt you" Now she
knows it will hurt him, but thinks if
she can only get him by this device to
sit still and let the dentist get hold Of
the tooth, then his discovery Of the pain
will not hinder its extraction. This is
a double mistake. 1t destroys her boys
confidence in her; for he detects her in
a lie. And though it gets the boy this
time, to sit still, it is under the delu-
sion that there is to be no pain, whereas
he should be taught to face the pain
and to scorn it. This makes the differ
ence between the towards and heroes.
A regiment Of poltroons could march
up to battery as cheerfully as regi-
ment of heroes, if they thought there
was no enemy at the guns. The differ
ence is that heroes know the danger and
vet face it valiantly.
Year: 1876

ONE STEP AT TIME.-A great many
people dishearten themselves BY worry
ing too much about possible future
troubles. Prudence and forethought is
commendable, but mere unreasonable
worry should be avoided. 1t is an act
Of folly for man to conjure up all the
troubles that might befall him, and
mass them before him as so many OBJ
stacles to overcome at once. A man
at the foot Of fight Of stairs which
he is about to ascend, would be foolish
to assume that he must take all the
steps at once, and that because he can
not do that he cannot ascend the stairs
at all. He has only to take one step at
a time, and when he gets to the top step
he takes that almost as easy as he took
the first. But when he gets to the top
let him be careful lest he does not fall
all the way down by one misstep. It is
the same way with the affairs of life.
All we have to do is to take one step
at time.
Year: 1876

THE AGE OF MAN.-Leyel having,
in positive way some forty years ago,
put back the birth of man to an indefi-
mite period, the anthropologists are en-
deavoring to throw further light on the
supposed antiquity Of man on the earth


The researches made in the Kent cavern
seem to show that at that far distant
period when geologically France and
England were joined, the primeval man
existed. Efforts have lately been made
to fix mans recognizable presence on
this earth as far back as 800, 900 years
ago. The theory which gains ground,
in some minds, every day, is that Of
the gradual development Of man from
some semi-human form through count
less ages of barbarism. If. however,
our present type is not persistent, per-
haps in the ten millionth year from
now, future anthropologists will be in
the same trouble as they are to-day.
Year: 1876

There are many young working men
who are anxious to improve their minds
by reading and study out Of business
hours. But too many grow discouraged
and fail in their efforts for self-improve-
ment, although they begin with the
best intentions.


A want of thoroughness in whatever
is undertaken is, perhaps, one great
cause of such failures. A practical
writer on that topic gives the following
good direction: "Never leave what
YOU undertake to learn until you can
reach your arms around it, and clench
your hands on the other side" It is
not the amount of reading you run over
that will ever make you learned; it is
the amount you retain. DR.. Abernethy
maintained that "there was point of
saturation in his mind" beyond which
it was not capable Of taking in more
Whatever was pressed upon it after
ward crowded out something else. 1t
is probable that few of US have minds
more spongelike than that of the great
doctor.


Every young man should endeavor
to perfect himself in the science Of the
business he has chosen. Without this,
he must always content himself in the
lower walks Of his calling. The cost Of
few cigars will buy all the books he
requires and his own diligence may be
made to well supply the place of tutor.
Without such diligence, the best teach
er in the world could not manufacture
him into scholar. If once going over
a point will not master it, he must tackle
it again. Better give weeks study to
a page than conclude that you cannot
comprehend it.


But though it is wise to give your
main strength to your own speciality,
YOU should not con6ne yourself to such
studies exclusively. The perfection ol
all your powers should be your aspira-
ton. Those who can only think or talk
on one subject may be efficient in their
line; but they are not agreeable mem
bers of society in any of its departments.
Neither have they made the most ol
themselves. They become one-sided
and narrow in their views, and are re-
duced to humiliating dependence on
one branch Of industry. 1t costs moth.
ing to carry knowledge; and, in times
like these, to be able to put his hand te
more than one branch of industry often
serves man good turn.


Do not attempt too much in the way
of study to begin with; you will surely
lose heart if you do. Be humble II
your aspirations, and if you are dill
gent. never fear but that you will heal
a voice saying, &" Come up higher" y.
Be content to gather the precious gole
of learning grain by grain; you viii
soon be able to see the pile growing
and will learn from it the wonderful
power of the Titles, which is felt ant
shown in the mental as we'll as in tn
golden grains.
Year: 1876

A LAcK.-The great trouble among
American youth. says an eminent au-
thor, is the lack of application and
thoroughness in what they undertake.
Anything that cannot be learned with
superficial study is given the go-by for
something less tedious and irksome.
Study and hard labor are looked at from
wrong point; and, as a consequence.
the clerkship ranks are full of unem-
ployed and half-starved fellows, and the
professions are overAowing with mcdi-
ecrity, while good mechanics find plenty
Of work at living prices. The evil
spoken of is seriously felt. Those who
work at a trade do it in so loose and
careless a manner that they are not
competent to do the work they promise
to do Among the loudest declaimers
for the rights of labor are men and
women who can claim no rights that
belong to labor we'll performed.
Year: 1876

GOVERN YoURsELF.-A hasty temper
often misleads young men into great
mistake. 1t frequently causes them to
misunderstood an employers intention,
and to resent as an insult what was
meant only as just rebuke. In this
way young man sometimes loses a
valuable situation, and has to begin the
world over again. And, unfortunately,
his hasty temper does not permit him to
learn wisdom from his own experience
On the contrary, it often leads him
again into the same mistake, and he is
again set adrift. His temper grows
worse and worse, until, at last. he be-
comes unbearable, and nobody will long
keep him in employment. On the other
hand, good temper and an obliging
disposition. when coupled with honesty
and industry, are invaluable qualities
in every one who has his way to make
in the world.
Year: 1876

shouts, the crack Of firearms, the sounds
Of some conflict


What COULD it all mean? The min
utes were all hours till 1 heard key
turn in the door Of my prison and a
moment later two tender arms were
round my neck and Alice was whisper
ing in my ear:


"They will come in few minutes,
love. to let you free! The villains left
the key in the doc r! 1 thought of that
before I started, but there was a man
at the front watching, I crept around
the house and l saw him though I did
not dare to be SEEN"


"But have been to Postville ?"


"Yes, dear"


"In all that storm p


"Selim seemed to understand. He
carried me swiftly and surely. was
we'll wrapped in my water proof cloak
and hood. When l reached Postville
the train had not come up"


"But it is here!"


"Only the locomotive and one car
riage. In that carriage were sheriff,
deputy sheriff and twenty men armed
to the teeth, to capture the gang at the
embankment. / came, too, and they
lowered me from the platform where
the speed slackened so that I could run
in here and tell you all was safe!'


While we spoke my wife's fingers
had first united the handkerchief around
my neck, and then, in the dark. found
some Of the knots of the cord binding
me. But l was still tied fast and strong,
when there was a rush of many feet
upon the staircase and in another mo-
ment light and joyful voices.


We've captured the whole nine p
was the good news. "Three, including
John Martin are desperately wounded,
but the surprise was perfect! Now old
fellow for you'll"


A dozen clasp-knives at once severed
my bonds, and a dozen hands were ex-
tended in greeting


As for the praise showered on my
plucky little wife, it would require a
a volume to tell half it.


The would-be assassins and robbers
we're sent for trial and sentenced to penal
servitude.


Alice and left for more civilized
community the following year. But
before we went, there was an invitation
sent to us to meet committee from the
railroad company at Postville. We ac-
cepted ; had dinner were toasted and
complimented, and then Alice was pre-
sented with a silver tea service, as a
testimonial, from the passengers upon
the threatened up train, the company
and the railroad directors, in token OF
their gratitude for the lives and property
saved by my heroine.
Year: 1876

The town of Indianola. Texas, which
was almost destroyed by the gale Of last
autumn, has of late been infested with
a gang of tramps, who have made a
number of attempts to burn what re-
mains of the place, but in every case
the fires have been discovered in time
to save the town.
Year: 1876

Would a man frequently calculate his
income and expenditure, he would es-
cape many bitter reflection; for he
must be lost to every generous feeling
of pride and honorable principle who
wantonly incurs debts, which be cannot
discharge.
Year: 1876

A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT.-I confess
that increasing years bring increasing
respect for those who do not succeed in
life, as these words are commonly used.
Heaven is said to be place for those
who have not succeeded upon earth,
and it is surely true that celestial
graces do not best thrive and bloom in
the hot blaze of worldly prosperity. Ill
success sometimes rises from super
abundance of qualities in themselves
good-from conscience too sensitive,
taste tco fastidieus, self-forgetfulness
too romantic, modesty too retiring. I
will not 60 SO far as to say, with liv


ing poet, that the world knows nothing
of its greatest men, but there are forms
of greatness, or at least excellence, that
die and make no sign; there are martyrs
that miss the palm, but not the stake;
there are heroes without the laurel,
and conquerors without the triumph
Year: 1876

"Go away! leave me with my dead
Let me fling myself on his coffin and
die there!' This was in Nebraska six
months ago, and now the widow has
won another trusting soul, and No. rs
portrait is in the attic, face to the wall
Year: 1876

Poetry never paid a nobler tribute to the
fallen warrior than the following oeautiiui
lines written by Confederate officer, nor
could there be better evidence of their ap-
preciation than the fact that the last four lines
of the first stanza are engraved on the marble
monument at the soldiers cemetery on Ar
lippton Heights
Year: 1876

TRENTON, n. D., January G.-For
sometime past the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company has kept an engine on
the track at Hopewell to prevent the
Delaware & Bound Brook Railroad Com
pany from laying frog, and to secure
the crossing on the approach of trains
the engine would run on q siding and
would resume lis former place when the
train had passed. Last evening as an
engine passed on the siding about two
hundred laborers in the employ of the
Delaware & Bound Brook road suddenly
appeared and took up the siding and
built temporary structure to enable
them TO 90 on with the work
The Pennsylvania railroad official on
being informed OF the act, sent an engine
and broke through the temporary struc-
ture, but in doing so it ran oil the track,
and was knocked down the hill. In the
meantime the frog was put down and a
Bound Brook engine placed on 1t and
chained down to the ties with immense
chains, and barricade of rails and wood
built around it. The excitement has be.
come intense, and FIVE hundred people
are on the ground this morning.


Reinforcements for both parties are
arriving from all quarters. At one
o'clock A. NJ. fifteen hundred people are
on the ground and u collision is expect
ed. The Governor has orded Colonel
Augell and four companies of the seventh
regiment to the scene Of war.
Year: 1876

The Washington Chronicle objects to
the proposition to make retiring Presi'
dent Senator for life. II thinks "some


few ex- Presidents, in the course OF a GEN.
tury, might accept of the humiliation ii


they were rery poor, for the sake of the
pension they would thus secure. But


nine out Of ten of the retiring Presidents
would look upon the transition as COM
spulsorv humiliation" If there were any


money in it YOU may just bet that GRANT
wouldn't object; and he is not re''y poor


either.
Year: 1876




It's getting lively up there at Los
Angeles. The Herald speaks Of the
Express as having read or exhausted
Baron Munchausen; and the Express
alludes to the Herald as the ''Trojan
horse" Let the fur fly, and . plague
of the under dog in the fight.


Quite severe accident occurred to
Miss Goodrich, a lady stopping at the
Horton House, to-day. While out
horseback riding she reined her horse
in too suddenly, causing him, to fall
backwards. The lady was caught In
the fall, and somewhat severely
bruised, but we are glad to learn not
dangerously so. Our fair visitors
sometimes ride recklessly, and this
may serve as warning and prevent
more serious disaster. tt8Af EssfNsl


A terrible runaway and smashup
occurred last night. AS the coast line
stage was leaving the express Office on
the turn in front of Wolfsheimer's,
the stage upset and the horses took
fright and dashed madly up the street.
On turning over the fore wheels came
uncoupled, and the horses swung in
on the sidewalk, ran over one Of the
hitching posts in front of White &
Adler's store, smashed up large table
and heavy counter that was setting
In front of the store. In the collision
with the post, the near wheeler was
knocked down and dragged up the
street to near the postofiice, where the
train was stopped. Mr.. Geo. Treanor,
who was on the box with the driver
when the coach upset, was thrown
violently to the ground and seriously
bruised, but not dangerously. For e
short time it was safer off the street
than on it. 4e
Year: 1876

OVER two million people have already
attended the Centennial Exhibition, and
yet II is stated that the receipts must be
considerably larger or the enterprise will
be financial failure. During the present
fiery period it is not surprising that the
attendance should be comparatively
small. The cool weather okseptember,
however, will probably bring it up to a
paying figure. There are thousands oil
people engaged in agricultural pursuits
who intend to see the great show later
who cannot absent themselves from the
harvest fields to do 30 now.
Year: 1876

The Chicago Tribune publishes a
variety of reports from Northwestern
Illinois going to show that the wheat
and barley crops in that region have been
almost totally destroyed by chinch bugs
As an Offset to this, however, it is graft
flying 10 have the assurance that "the
corn and out crop rests on solid basis
Of ascertained facts" and that the yield
Of both will be among the largest on
recnrd