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Year: 1876

We saw at the rooms of Messrs.
Doak & Baily yesterday water-mo-
tor applied to sewing machine,
which is the neatest thing in Its line
that ever came under our observation
The power is perfectly formed Tur-
bine water wheel in miniature, en-
closed in water tight cast iron shell
and attached to the machine beneath
the stand where the balance wheel Is
usually hung. Communicating with
this is a supply and exhaust pipe, the
former connected with the hydrant,
and the latter leading to the sewer.
The joints are perfectly fitted so that
there is no leakage. The water is ad-
mitted near the upper part of the
wheel in little jet not more than
double the size of knitting needle.
This causes sufficient power to
run the machin to its utmost capa-
city and it can be regulated to a nice
ty by pedal arrangement which con-
trolls a stop cock. This contrivance
will obviate the chief and only objec-
ton to the sewing machine as run by
foot pedals; in fact it removes all OF
the drudgery and leaves only the fine
art. The attachment can be applied
in any house where water is supplied
in pipes or by tank, and the total
expense will hardly exceed thirty-five
do liars.
Year: 1876

now, as you suggest But the Republican
party will have to think twice before it will
consent to such an infamous proceeding as the
false count of q vote for President of the
United States. Honor, tact and common
sense will array themselves against that in
the mind of every decent Republican states
man. The party would be blind if it should
insist upon any measure in Louisiana, or any
violation of its own precedents in congress, to
elect a Republican President fraudulently. 1t
would by such n course lose the senate as 1t
has lost the house of representatives,, and
Mr.. Hayes as President would then be as
powerless as was Andrew johnson. 1t can
well afford Mr.. Tilden's election, now, by rea-
son of its possession of the senate. 1t could
never withstand his defeat by means of
fraudulent or unworthy technicaGties.


Again, | say, the Republicans will not
dare to attempt a crime against the constitu-
ton and the people. The processes by which
they will be warned against doing so are nu-
merous, outside of their own consciences.
One greau fact is that the constituencies Of
their own strongholds in the east have far
more TO lose than the people OF any other
part of the country through national ag1ta-
ton. The great merchants and bOndhOlders
of the east, especially in New England, don t
want agitation The west and south, nat
urally allied, have nothing to fear. By the
time congress meets Republican senators and
members Will have heard from their cOnstitu-
ents, urging them to go slow And when
congress meets, these senatars and members,
ningling together, will compare notes and
find that their return to congress at the next
elections will depend not so much on their
proving jealous Republicans in this crisis as
upon their retaining from anything which
will have tendency to provoke public dis
content, continue uncertainty and uDsettle
trade That there is such a thing as too
much party zeal the defeated candidates for
the Presidential nomination for many years
past have soundly learned"
Year: 1876

LONDON, November 20.-Mr. Cross, home
secretary, at a banquet in Birmingham last
night, spoke very hopefully in regard to the
present aspect of the eastern question. He
said all the cabinets of Europe considered the
conference to be the means of settling the
difficulty. He thought the conference would
probably meet before the end of the week.
He declared the time had come when the
waste paper currency of Turkish promises
should be paid in sterling coin.


The Ne1cS says Prince Bismarck arrives in
Berlin tonight, almost simultaneously with
the Marquis of Salisbury, who is on his way
to COnstantinople to attend the conference.
Year: 1876

A new refrigerator and water cooler has
come into the market, and superceds all
others. 1t is called the "Climax," and it is
claimed that it is the best ever offered to the
public. Is is constructed on true scientific
principles, at the same time being one ofthc
most practical, simple AMI common sense
refrigerator sever manufactured. One of its
principal features conists in the arrangement
of the ice chamber and water tank the latter
of which is so placed with refe, ence to the
former thus all the water dripping from
the ice is collected in the water tank serving
the double purpose of cooling the provision
chambers and supplying ice water for use ;
thus saving the cost of separate water
cooler, besides obviating the necessity Of a
drip pan under the refrigerator to catch the
drip, (as in the old style,) and the constant
dread of housekeepers lest it overflow and
soil the carpet.


The ice chamber and water cooler being
separated entirely from the provision cham
Der. Any articles placed in the latter can
not by any means affect the water, SO that
the ice when washed clean and placed in
the chamber produces only clear and sweet
water for the cooler.
Year: 1876

THE New York Herald publishes q
list Of church and other property in New
York exempt from taxation. It shows
that fifty thOu:and Tote, valued at one
hundred and twenty-six million one
hundred and seventy thousand dollars,
pay no tax to the city government. The
COST Of gas to the lsmps kept burning
before the churches at the expense of
the city, is fifty thousand dollars. These
figures and facts are grouped as e note
Of warning on the subject Of church tax
alton, which threatens at no distant
day to be one Of the leading questions
OF the great political parties. The
APPEAL is already committed to tax.
alton Of all bu! free educational institu.
tions,
Year: 1876

THE impeachment of Recorder Duff
il the topic Of the town. We trust it
will be conducted with dignity and fair
ness, and that neither the enmity OF
oliques Eor the prejudice Of pronounced
political enemies will be permitted to
weigh as sgainst the character OF gen.
tleman who, so far as we know, has
never forfeited the esteem or respect Of
those who know him. Let US have fair
play and TO favors-striet justice, with
out fear. favnr or affection.
Year: 1876

The fight of the citizens of New York with
the horse car companies has rallying cry
which comprises its chief object namely,
'No seat no fare" Until that has been put
in binding force by legal enactment the
struggle can ia no sense be ended. Since
the HERALD has given the grievances of the
travelling public the prominence they called
for the railway companies are showing dis
position to be more accommodating. Well
and good They have put on more cars, and
during snow storms we observe that on the
Third avenue line they give transfer checks
to passengers from above the depot at Sixty
fifth street who may not have obtained
seats Formerly in severe weather they re-
fused to give these checks, and passenger
who had no seat before arriving at the depot
would be obliged to travel standing all the
way. In former seasons when snow was on
the ground they doubled up" putting four
horses on half the usual number of cars
This year, during our first snow storm of
last week, they doubled the horses
when necessary and did not sem
sibly reduce the number of cars We
note these concessions frankly, but as they
may form trick to allay popular indigna-
ton while the Legislature is in session we
warn the public to be on its guard against
all such temporizing attempts. The full
measure of ''no seat no fare" must be in
sisted on, and nothing allowed to befog that
issue with the companies.


The tricks of the companies are likely to
take another direction which needs watch
ing. Great care must be taken that sham
bills are not introduced into the Legislature
by members in the interest of the railroads,
though avowedly in the interest of the peo-
pie. The railroad lobbyists who swarm OF
Albany are shrewd enough to endeavor to
satisfy the public with such "a sop to Ger
berus" while taking more tangible means to
settle the question with the consciences OF
purchasable or cajolable members. The
representatives must be watched, and nc
member false to his duty should be reelected,
while the full rigor Of the law should be ap-
piled to. any member base enough to sell
himself Governor Tilden is a New Yorker
and we hope that, as he knows the wants o
our great city in this respect, he will tak'
his eyes Of the Presidency for little while
and exhibit little of his cleverness In an
alvzin0 the "no seat no fare" measures anS
Year: 1876

able director Professor Theodore Dwight this
is the point TO be considered. II is not true
that the students of that or any other law
school are admitted to practice with
out an examination. They are admitted
upon the examination passed for their
diplomas, and may beagain examined if the
judges think proper. The law, therefore,
simply substitutes in certain cases one ex-
animation for another Such as do not
get admitted on a diploma must pass
examiners appointed by the Supreme
Court Ii is pretty well known that
that examination may become, and has
become, farcical formality. Everybody
was member of the Bar" under that
regime, and the honor was one of the things
that even Tweed himself condescended to
take Now. college examination is seldom a
farcical formality, as many sorely plucked
sinner knows. In our opinion the present
system, SO far as it involves the Columbia
school, is a good one and will not be i'm
proved by change. That any law school
ever makes thorough lawyers, or that men
admitted by any system are thorough lawyers
when admitted, no one can believe
Year: 1876

the minimum Of intercourse between their
governments. We have had of late years
many European visitors of birth, breeding
and culture (Lord Houghton is recent in
stance), and every such person having
proper title to social consideration is made
the recipient of hospitable attentions, and
carries home and diffuses in his own circle
juster ideas of American society than could
be acquired through aldermanic or federal
hospitality. Our most opulent and culti-
waited classes are not, as a general rule. the
most active in our politics, and large pro-
portion of our intellectual and social culture
is found in other walks of life. Many
foreigners Of distinction will doubtless visit
the country during the centennial year, and
there is no reason to fear that they will be
sighted or that they will depart from our
shores without having had opportunities for
estimating American culture in its best
aspects 1t is rather what the cultivated and
influential classes in Europe think of us
than what their sovereigns may think that
must raise us in general foreign estimation.
Considering the class of men who manage
our politics we fear that little would be
learned TO our advantage in the formalities
of official entertainments. Such considera-
tions may, perhaps, help to reconcile us to
the foregone impossibility of procuring from
Congress an appropriation for marking our
appreciation of foreign sovereigns.
Year: 1876

Every community is Immediately and


deeply interested in the instruction of its
lawyers, and the loose or insufficient study
that throws upon the public horde of in
capable and unframed attorneys and coun-


sellors is great public evil. But if COM
munity has already tolerably well organ
lied system for the instruction ofyoung gen.
tlemen in the law the very apprehension of
the evils referred to should make it regard
any change as hazardous If the system is
reasonably good it is infinitely more likely
to be made worse than better by any change
whatever. In the present crusade against
the Columbia COLLEGE Law School and its
Year: 1876

PARAGUAY will soon be left to shape her
own fortunes, by the withdrawal of the
Brazilian and Argentine delegates from
authority in her limits. What these limits
are on the side of the Argentine Confedera-
tion will be decided by President Grant
who is named as the arbitrator. The lesson
taught Paraguay in the Lopez war. will not
soon be forgotten by that combative Re-
public
Year: 1876

theyotes Of the city members upon them
Every vote must be scrutinized, and no
member allowed to think that he can sell
himself In any shape to the grasping horse
car monopolies without paying the full pen
atty of his offence. Look out for tricks!
Year: 1876

CHINA, 1t appears, is now a source of trou-
bic to England, and when Englands policy
toward the Celestial Empire is recalled it
need not be wondered that she should be
always apprehensive of that harvest which
comes to those who SOW the wind.
Year: 1876

The Secretary of the President will be
called on tomorrow to plead at ST. Louis to
the indictment charging him with conspiracy
to defraud the government. In yesterdays
issue was published an interview with Gen
eral Babcock, in which he made some very
strange assertions which we are at loss how
to construe in his favor. AS he is not on trial
in these columns we do not care to enter
into the question of facts and i'm
plications on which the prosecution
relies for conviction, but in so far as his
own utterances foreshadow his defence we
may comment. When Mcdonald stated,
after his conviction, some weeks ago, that all
the ''Sylph" and 'Mum" kilograms were
about lovely woman, and not about crooked
whiskey, his forecast was evidently very near
the truth, if not the truth itself, for General
Babcock says the telegram of which the
HERALD published fac-simile ''was purely
a social affair." in which the signature Sylph


was used as a joke" If his able counsel
intend to waive off the whole affair as joke
while bringing evidence to support his gen.
eral character and eking ont the whole by
abusing the plaintiffs attorney we cannot
think that they are about to present strong
case for their client. But whatever may be
said of this, his championing of his especial
friend" Joyce, who now ''wears a striped
suit, ani his opinion that it was ''a' damned
shame" to convict Avery are unseemly
exhibitions, which it will be found
hard to reconcile with any other belief than
that he thinks his case a companion one to
theirs. If he holds such belief his outlook
for the centennial year is indeed a dismal
one. Much more unseemly was his in
Weighing against the character of the Missouri
juries that tried the cases of his predecessors
in the dock. To charge that officers of re-
publican administration carrying out gov
ernment prosecution have deliberately
selected Jurors who are under what
he terms 'rebel influence" is very
serious and betrays mind rather a
prey to despair than dominated by
the easy complacency he wishes to assume.
This want of ''good opinion of the law" has
an unpleasant suggestiveness, and when he
sees spiteful enemy of his in the HERALD
he does not brighten the picture. The Pres
ident will probably be called to the witness
stand in the course of the trial, and all the
influence which he left unused after the re-
moval of Mr.. Henderson from the prosecu-
ton would seem to be needed in behalf of
General Babcock if an acquittal is desired.
Year: 1876

That New Jersey jury has accepted the
plea of insanity to make killing no murder
marks very forward step in favor of that
mode of defence, for Jersey juries have sell
dom or never missed chance of hanging
their men. Yesterday morning, in accord
ance with the verdict, Lands was liberated,
and wherever he goes hereafter he carries
with him certificate that insures him an i'm
munity from punishment, no matter whose
life he may choose to take. The jury
which laid the medical portion of the case
aside and declared his act the irresponsible
impulse of lunatic has added another to
the army of homicides who may at any time
break into ''the bloody house" of life with
out fear of the law. There must be con-
siderable number of these uncomfortable
people ABROAD, and, as the case of Scannell
shows, they are likely to go on increasing.
Under the law, as it is interpreted, it would
be hardly safe to say that the children or
any of the near blood relations of these GER
tifcated homicides could be convicted of
murder, and this opens up the way
for very wide class who shall be
as much protected from the effect of their
lethal doings as the Sovereign of England,
who, technically ''can do no wrong" Harsh
as it would be to follow this argument out to
its legitimate conclusions, we still submit
that there should be some steps taken to
limit the liability of such men to repeat the
act which procured them their certificates.
1t is not at all an imaginary danger which
threatens society, and if it were expressly
provided that a man once acquitted of mur-
der on the ground of insanity should be
kept for the remainder of his life where he
could do no further homicide we should all
be able to feel more at ease when we learn of
such a farcical ending to solemn trial.


The PORTE, FROM IT'S STooL OF REPENT
ANcE promises to carry out the five leading
points of the Andrassy note The reforms,
if honestly applied, must prove great amel-
ioration of the condition of the unfortunate
rayahs in the revolted provinces. We fancy
that the Porte offers to do more than it can by
any possibility perform, but it is possible
the Powers will endeavor 10 let Turkey try.
The hand of Russia is said to be seen more
actively in the rebel movement than was
believed, although her interests in tanning
the insurgent flame have long been admitted.


Hence the question arises, How will the
Herzegovinians be induced TO lay down their
arms and trust To the mercy Of their foe3
Year: 1876

The LETTER OF JEFFERSON DAVIS will be
read with considerable pain by those who
wish to see the events of the rebellion re-
garded without an awakening of the passions
of the time when they transpired. If any
thing can add to the contemplate feelings
with which all honest men regard the ghoulish
work of Mr. Blaine in the amnesty debate it
will be this miserable effusion by the ex-
President of the Confederacy, who fingers
BuperAuous on the scene, and can only
when he unties his tongue serve the unscru-
pulous partisans he seeks TO controvert
Year: 1876

A more varied experience than that OF the
last two or three days in respect to weather
is scarcely conceivable. The whole repertoire
that is possible in an American Winter has
been performed within Saturday, Sunday, ana
Monday. On Friday evening we had the cool,
crisp air and frozen ponds that delight the
skater, but furious blast came up that
snoiled the Saturday holiday for thousands OF
expectant schoolboys. On Sunday the whu
went down, the temperature moderated, anu
for while the sky was clear but sunday Is
not the schoolboy's holiday. Yesterday started
off with every indication OF an oid-tashloneu
snow-storm by noon 1T had failed mis-
erably, and steady rain seemed to nave
replaced the snow. OF course the thermom-
eter rose while busy citizens trampef or rode
tbrourh the slush, and flattered themselves
with the hope that the rain would WASH the
snow away. But not even the rain had stay"
ing powers; it turned again to snow, and that
grew harder and finer, till the last OF
it in the early evening struck tho way
farer az with needlc-points. And then
came starlight, and wild, wintry night--a
night in which the comfortable citizen, toaSt'ng
his toes at the hot air register or drawing an
extra blanket about his ears, Involuntary
thought of the perils Of ships at sea IN tho
driving gale, or of the poor people huddled III
tenement houses and valnly trying to keep
out the cold.


We shall not have the full record of the
damage done by this gale for at least "a
hours to come. Telegraph wires weighted with
snow that had been wetted and frozen, gave
greater surface than usual to the wind,
and are broken down on many routes; but
the prostration of the wires Is not so general
as to cut off communication with the leading
cepters, I'm violence this gale will rank at
least equally with its predecessors OF the
OH and 10th inst, and it was preceded
by even greater barOmctric decline.
These rapid and great changes ot the
weather make their record in the mortality re-
ports not even Americans are accllmated TO
such variety. In a recent address at Paterson,
Mr.. John Ryle, formerly Mayor of that city
and well known as a silk manufactures, al
luded to the sudden extremes of weather in this
country as being n permanent source OF high
wages In his own experience he had become
satisfied that the American w0rklng-people
cannot under any circumstances be clothed,
warmed, and fed as cheaplv As those OF
Europe. The changes of the weather
compel better habitations, better clothes,
better food than are required for peo-
ple of the same rank in life anywhere
abroad. Hence it appears that the hardships
of our climate bring with them more than COM
pcnsating benefits to the poorer classes, while
the people who do not belong TO those classes
ought not to be in need of pity for the dis
comforts of the weather.
Year: 1876




We are surprised that the Democrats do not
make more frequent and joyful reference to
the wonderful revival in Mississippi. Over
80, 900 men, it appears, were suddenly con-
yerted from the error of voting against the
persons who distinguished themselves by the
Fort Pillow massacre and the Vicksburg mas
sacre, and awakened to full appreciation of
the beauty and glory OF Tlden and Reform.
That nearly all Of them must have been
colored men renders the miracle still more
astounding. No doubt it is most unreason-
able prejudice which has led cOlored men to
vote against those who massacred so many
HELPLESS colored men, women, and children IN
order to get control of the offices in Vicks-
burg, or who shot down III cold blood so
MANY unarned and defenseless cOOred soldiers
after they had surrendered. But we all know
that such blind prejudIces are uncommonIy
strong in ignorant minds, and it is therefore
the more remarkable that over one-tbird of
the ignorant colored men of Mississippi have
suddenly risen to moral grandeur of Chris
tian forgiveness which, we venture say, no
class Of white men has ever surpassed. The
following shows the vote in that State at the
last and the preceding elections:
Year: 1876

In its terrible aspects the disaster at the
South Wales colliery yesterday might be com
pared with the recent calamity in Brooklyn.
Happily the loss of life is considerably less.
The need of greater caution in mines is being
learned dearly.
Year: 1876

Turkey would no doubt willingly extend the
armistice until March in the hope that the war
fever may subside. Unless it is the interest OF
Russia to prolong the truce, Servia will Ger
tainly reject the proposal.
Year: 1876

To talk of compromise is one thing, and to
reach compromise is another. The moderate
men of both parties seem to be desirOus of
adjusting all differences at the earliest pos
sible moment, hut in every path by which they
seek to reach this result they confront, sooner
or later, the necessity of some concession
which virtually yields up the whole contTo-
versy. For instance, Mr.. Proctor knotts Dill
can never pass the Senate because 1t provides
that all disputed questions, in counting the
electoral votes, shall be decided by a majority
vote of the House and Senate sitting in joint
assembly. Under this plan, the heavy Demo-
cratic majority in the House would infallibly
give the Presidency to Gov. Tilden. Another
instance may be found in the mOOted question


whether the objection of one house Will be
suficicnt TO throw out the vote of state, or
whether the two houses must act concurrent
lv. This is the one point about which prOmi-
nent Democrat saws, in ouT Washington dis
matches, that he is doubtful of an agreement


And yet, until this point is disposed of, set
Element seems as far off as ever. If the House
yields its claim of its right to reject the vote
of a State 1t abandOns the whole contest, and


tbe same would be true of the Republicans if
they should concedc that claim. The faith OF
both parties that their candidates have been


honestly elected is so strong that plans for
counting the vote can hardly be said to be
considered on their merits as they would be
under other circumstances each party takes
sides as the plan favOrs or threatens It's inter-
ests. 1t is this condition of things that stands
in tbe way of the compromise Of which many
at WaI ington seem more hopeful than many
outside observers. Nevertheless it Is STUN
bling block that all will be glad to see re-