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Year: 1876

and if, in speaking of these incidents OF the
Southern republican canvass, he should
chance to repeat the phrase which he used
in January Of last year. "Here we have ma
tional gendarmerie instead of civil police
we imagine he may bring dismay to some OF
his audience. If he should warn his party
against these dangerous misuses of federal
soldiery and authority he could not do it
better than in the resolution to which he
spoke on that occasion. which asserted that
"Any use of the federal authority which
teaches the newly made black voters to be-
lieve that political problems can be solved
by arbitrary processes or displays Of physi-
cal force better or more readily than by
labor patience and conciliation, is an offence
against the national safety and welfare which
calls for the severest condemnation"


We may suppose, too, that he will urge
his party to reform of abuses in the civil
service; to the appointment hereafter Of
Southern men to Southern federal Offices |;
to the distribution of the lower offices for
the necessity of selecting the best
and most competent men for the
honorable places in the government !;
to the advisabilty of cutting adrift from the
adventures who in States like Louisiana
and South Carolina mis-ule in the name of
the republican party, and who have too long
been unworthy favorites at Washington.
But whatever he may say on these and other
heads, we shall be surprised if he does not
strongly urge good will, forgetfulness of the
past, fraternal concord between the sections,
and such policy within his party as shall
put o stop to the abuses which have been
favored by it in the South, and which
have there united the whole intelli-
gence and property of the States
against the republican party. and pre-
vented the operation of natural causes 70
put an end to SO injurious condition of
political society. This is our centennial,
and an appeal for peace and good will
by statesman like Mr. Evarts would reach
all honest hearts.


Finally, we must repeat that while we are
sorry the public credit has been dragged
into partisan discussions, as it is there we
rejoice that Mr.. Evarts has consented to give
as his opinion. Aside from the thousands
Of individuals interested in our national So
curities hundreds Of thousands of the labor
ing poor are interested in them through
savings banks and life and fire insurance COM
panies. If an impending and not impossible
event is likely to seriously impair the value
Of these securities tho sooner We know it the
better.
Year: 1876

The paper prepared at the request of tho
American Geographical Society by Com
modore Daniel Ammen, United States Navy,
touching the surveys and reconnoissances on
the American Isthmus for a transcontinental
ship canal is the best presentation of the
question which has yet been made. NJ Leon
Drouillet, French engineer Of eminence
cial geography lately formed under the
sanction Of the French Soci6te de Geogra-
phie declares, in pamphlet very widely
published, that the problem Of interoceanic
navigation is ut present incapable of solution
on account of the insuficiency of geo
,graphical data and of the contradictions
which exist in these data. It is in answer
to these assumptions that Commodore Am
mems paper is written. No one is better
fitted to speak on this question than Com
modore Ammen, and his opinions will be
regarded as q settlement Of the point rnised
by tho French engineer. The American sur
veys from the beginning have been in
measure under his supervision, and he
has made . more complete study of
the subject than any living savant. He
points out the work done by the Navy De-
partment, especially since 1870, under Cap
tain Schufeldt, Commander Selfridge, Com
mander Lull and Lieutenant Collins, and
makes the value of the information thus
obtained SO clear that even NJ. Drouillet
could scarcely overlook its Importance.
The Frenchman chose to put himself in a
queer attitude. He refused to regard the
surveys of the practicable routes as
worthy of his study, and yet COM
plains that those of the impractica-
BILE ones were not made more complete.
NJ Drouillet is hard to satisfy, but it is to
be hoped Commodore Ammcn's paper will
give him clearer views Of a subject upon
which he speaks with SO much confidence
and so little knowledge Besides showing
the absurdity of the French assumption
Commodore Ammen has done an important
work in putting together in compact form
the results of the American surveys, and
the extracts from his paper which we print
this morning will be read with much inter
est by oil who are curious on the subject or
desire to see a ship canal constructed across
the isthmus
Year: 1876

Sitting Bull has been overtaken q last,
and, II not very severely punished, he has
at least been forced to fy. with Miles bull
lets whizzing thickly about his ears. Our
dispatches, which afford MS this intelligence
this morning, give us no details of the FIGHT
but it seems pretty clear that Colonel Miles
force is in hot pursuit of the flying warriors
We trust the savages will be overtaken
and that the campaign viii be pressed until
complete success crowns the efforts of our
little army. 1t is the halts and delays which
allow the Indians to avoid the troops and
escape from their pursuit. and if proper
steps be taken by the military authorities
to enable the troops to keep up tho pursuit
without unnecessary delays the Indians will
be caught or compelled TO surrender.
There is little probability that any large
body win be encountered, but the bands Of
Sitting Bull can be beaten in detail The
policy of disarming the agency Indians
should be carried out vigorously. When it
has been accomplished the Indian question
will be In fair way to be solved. This is
apparent from the impudent proposition of
Sitting Bull touching a peace. That willy
warrior makes the sinews of war the basis OF
his negotiations; in his opinion powder and
bullets are indispensable to diplomacy. The
manner in which these were given to him by
Colonel Miles is the only way in which they
can be given with safety or effect 1t has
too long been the policy to arm tho Indian
previous to fighting him. Now we can only
make peace by continuing to fight him in
the hills and disarming him on the reserva-
tions. And next to the Indian we must
look after our Indian agents. These officials
usually do more to bring about war with the
tribes than the Indians themselves, and to-
day we have despatch relating the queer
conduct Of Mr.. Howard, lately the Indian
Agent at Spotted Tail In Mr.. Towards
opinion it is wrong for Indians to assist the
government in fighting Indians, and we
trust the agents will receive the same rig
orous treatment that is due to Sitting Bull
and the others.
Year: 1876




Nearly all the danger to the democratic
national and State tickets that was caused
by the division and warfare of the city demo-
Gratis has been put aside at one stroke by the
manly. politic and straightforward course of
Mr. O'Brien. He has acted boldly the part
which. as we have several times pointed out
to the democratic leaders, was the only
one that could save their national
ticket from the ruin that must certainly
follow the division of the democratic vote in
this CITY, He is the only one of those who,
justly dissatisfied with the control Of Tam
many and resolved to fight its abuses to the
last, has had the sagacity to perceive first
that in the present occasion Tammany has
yielded to public opinion in the choice of
candidates, and therefore has corrected for
itself its greatest abuse, and next, that
to continue the fight against Tam
peril the national ticket is simply to
burn down ones house in order to roast
chestnuts. That the anti -Tammany demo-
crats were in treaty with the republicans for
a combination on candidates which might
defeat the Tammany ticket by union of
republican and anti-Tammany democratic
votes is, Of course, we'll known. In ordi-
nary cnnvasses such course would be justi-
fable, because in such times the only prin-
ciple there is in our local elections is to beat
Tammany. But when behind Tammany
there is national canvass Of great
consequence, and when the national
ticket must be certainly injured by such
q combination Of discontented democrats
with the republicans. then the combination
becomes party treason This is the senti-
ment evidently involved in Mr.. OBrien's
declaration in favor of the support of Mr..
Smith Ely-a course which we fancy has
thoroughly broken the estate" as to hybrid
ticket. Mr. Morrlssey did not appear prom
inently in the proceedings, but as he cannot
possibly be party to any move against the
Presidential ticket he sympathizes, no doubt,
with the views expressed by O'Brien, and
gives them an effective support. The
failure to connect with the discontented
democrats compels the republicans to nomi-
nate full ticket Of their own--which is the
best they can do. II will not afford them
chance to carry the city. but it will help to
bring out their full vote.
Year: 1876

Mr.. /. p. Morton, of the house of Morton.
Bliss d Co., is the republican candidate for
Congress in the Eleventh district, and his
election would insure to that district q capa-
Bile representative and to Congress men,
Der eminently fitted to be useful in its most
serious deliberations. Mr.. Morton has been
a merchant in this city for many years and
is acquainted with the whole fabric Of our
commercial interests, while there is GER
tainly no man in Congress better fitted
to give a practical direction to financial
legislation than the head of house which
has had leading relation with all financ ncial
events of any consequence since the war.
In other parts of the country--in tho minor
cities and the little towns-wherc tho con-
troll of conventions is in the hands Of the
people, they send their leading bankers and
merchants to Congress. Here we send, with
very rare exceptions, mere politicians.
Hence it follows that the metropolis is COM
monty Of no consequence in Congress- and
any little town outweighs it where practical
knowledge is called for {; but If the example
set in the Eleventh district should be sue
cessful at the polls and should be followed
the city might cut different figure in its
influence on legislation.
Year: 1876

We continue to receive letters of COM
plant against those recalcitrant newsdealers
who either charge their patrons more than
the legitimate price for the HERALD or do
not supply them at all. In both cases we
shall see that the remedy is applied and
that the increasing demand is met promptly
by an ample supply of papers at the low
price. Meanwhile it is creditable to tho
body Of small dealers that they are attend
ing to business and profting by larger
sales of HkRAIps instead of wasting
their time in useless protests. "By SELL
ing q hundred additional HERALDs," Z"
said . shrewd Newark dealer, II get
the other trade of those hundred GUS
toners" This principle is not confined
to any particular branch of business.
Every grocer knows that refined sugars are
necessary to the completeness of his stock
in trade, notwithstanding the fact that they
are sold Mt such . trifing advance over
refners' prices that the profit is merely
nominal, and that there are often times
when slight fluctuation in the sugar mar
ket compels the grocer to sell his stock at
loss Yet no grocer would think of refusing
to sell refined sugars, or much less of
charging more than the market rate for them.
He knows that if his customer cannot get
them Of him he will go elsewhere, and he
deems it to his interest to keep the Gus
TONER'S trade ''My father stopped taking
HERALps when the price was put down, said
the child in charge of one of the Harlem
news stands as reported elsewhere, ''but SO
many people called for em he had to put
'em on again." This states the whole argu-
ment with the veracity proverbially accred-
tied to fools and children. The dealer found
it o business necessity to supply his GUS
omers with the HERALD. He did not reason
further than this immediate necessity, but
like many others is finding by experience
that increased sales are not only helping
other trade, but gradually bringing back
the former profits on the sale OF HERALDs
Those who learn the lesson first will soonest
reap the benefit. "'Tis the early bird catches
<ba uyoryu
Year: 1876

We must not only protect tho treasury, but
society. The Prison Association of New
York believes that system of discipline and
economy can be secured by the oonstitu-
nonal amendment now before tho people.
IL Is designed to withdraw the prison admin
istration from political influence and mako
~ independent of parties We urge every
democrat or republican who wishes to re-
iorm tho evils of the present prison manage
ment to cast his vote for this important
amendment
Year: 1876

It is to be regretted that the very serious
Centennial Guard by the French Commits
sioner to the Philadelphia Exhibition did
not receive more attention from the authori-
ties Of the national show. The free citizens of
this great Republic are so much accustomed
to be treated with inciviity and rudeness by
minor officials that we would not think Of
complaining about trifing annoyances, such
as have ruffied the good temper of some Of
our visitors. We take these things as q
matter Of course and put up with them
philosophcally. It is evident our French
friends have not yet been educated quite up
to our standard, and look for something like
the Difference and respect to which they arc
accustomed in their own country. The men,
bers of the Centennial Guard evidently for.
got the difference between . guest and the
mere American publican oversight that
grieves us considerably. A little considera-
ton for the good name Of their fellow citi-
zens might have induced the subordinate
officials at Philadelphia to strain point in
favor of the foreigners, even if they were
to treat the natives with q little additional
incivility as some compensation for thei1
sacrifice of official dignity. Il Is some con-
ISOLATION to know that tho higher authorities
at Philadelphia have shown every desire to
treat our visitors with all due consideration,
and that rudeness and want of civilfty wers
confined to those who wore ''only subordi-
mates"
Year: 1876

WALL STREET YEsrnnDA1.-
vas dull and marked by sharp decline in
several Of the favorite securities, the cause
assigned having relation to the inability of
railway managers to adjust their mutual in
terests- Gold was quiet at ITO o 100 rs.
Money on call was supplied at z. and 2
Per cent Government and railway bonds
vere Arm
Year: 1876

THERE Is MucH GOSSIP and speculation
touching the attitude of the independents
and Germans since the Endorsement Of
Smith Ely, Jr., for Mayor by tho anti Tam
many party. The conferences to-day are
likely TO decide the whole matter; but the
course Of these organizations is no longer of
much Importance, let the policy finally
determined upon be what IL may.
Year: 1876

On Saturday evening at Gas an unknown
colored man was killed at Ridley Park
bridge about three miles above Chester,
or the P. W. & B. Railroad. The
man was walking upon the track
and hearing the train coming was
in the act of getting of, when it struck
him. The remains were taken to Chester.
Year: 1876

I


WASHINGTON, July 2.-There is tonight
no probability that any change will occur
in the present condition of affairs respecting
the Secretaryship of the Treasury, before
next Wednesday. Of course no new war
rants or other papers requiring the signiture
of the head of the department can be issued
tomorrow, but as the month is just begin
ming, and Tuesday will be a holiday, this
fact is not likely to cause much incon-
venience.
Year: 1876

JoBBING IN DELAWARE SHIP TIMBER
Mondays Baltimore Gazette contained the
following special from Washington:


"George P. Fisher, ex-United States Dis
triet Attorney, says that some time ago he
called at the Navy Department to see if he
could not sell large lot of ship timber in
Delaware to the department, and was in
formed that there was a large supply on
hand, and no purchases would be necessary
for years. A few weeks after this a party
went to the place where the timber was
stored, and purchased it for a low figure,
and then secured contract from the Navy
Department on an order to purchase the
lot at almost twice the price it could have
been purchased by the department. The
contractor is Orville Grant, brother of the
President"
Year: 1876

SuNFLowERs AND THEIR UsEs.-lt is not
everybody who knows the various uses to
which that old lady like plant, the sun
flower, can be put. A few stalks of this
plant grown near the house promote good
health by absorbing any malarious gases
that may be in the air; the seed is very
good food for chickens in the winter and
spring, and also a most healthy feed for
horses; a half pint a day keeps them
healthy and spirited, and makes their coats
sleek and fine. 1t prevents " "heaves," and
is speedy cure for founder and some other
diseases. pint of whole seed mixed in
the animals regular food upon the first dis
covery of founder will, it is said, effect a
perfect cure. They are great favorites with
small birds, who eat the seeds in preference
to fruits and berries, and thus the latter
escape destruction.
Year: 1876

All the members of the Methodist Epis-
copal Conference at Baltimore were presen-
ted on Monday with invitations from the
President and Mrs. Grant to attend a social
entertainment at the White House in the
evening
Year: 1876

THE Senate judiciary Committee
has agreed npon and reported an
amendment to the Constitution pro-
hibiting any State, Territory, ,muneipsl
or other government from making any
law respecting an establishment OF
religion, preventing the free exercises
thereof, or giving any assistance either
directly or indirectly to the support of
any scctarian school. The article. how
ever, does not prohibit the reading of
the Bible in any school or institution.
Year: 1876

Around the top of the cup are festoons of wreaths, surrounding spaces for the names of winners. The base is rich ly ornamented in repoussee style, and the arms on the side are similarly decorated, and the wreaths are also of the same ele- gant style of workmanship. The trophy is inclosed in an elegant case of black walnut and French walnut, the interior be ing lined with blue puffed satin. On the sides are silver ring handles, and on the top an engraved plate. The trophy is one which will arouse the ambition of rifle men and stimulate interest in this gentle manly sport. Mir. T. Sedgwick Steele, to whose good taste and liberality the asso- citation are indebted for the prize, is him. self good marksman and interested in sports of the field, and in the liberal gift shows his appreciation of and desire to encourage the manly sport of rifle shoot ing.

 The prize will be open for competition to teams of four from different towns in the state, the members of the teams be- ing required to be members of the Rife assoclation. It is not definitely decided just how the competition will be held. but it will probably be for scores of fifteen shots at 5OO,70O and 900 yards, orpossiblv 50O.800, and 1000 yards.

 The workmanship of this cup shows that it is not necessary to go out of Hart. ford to secure work of this kind upon special orders-for boating, rife, or other prizes.
Year: 1876

The work has been begun after long and careful preliminary labor and with the ample resources for carrying it on to successful term mination. 1

 None of the original stereotype plates have been used. but every pase has been
Year: 1876

From the New York Herald of Yesterday. ]


Our City Fathers yesterday appointed a
committee to consider how the city should
celebrate the hundredth anniversary OF the
nations existence, and also how "a friendly
cartel can be established between New York
and Philadelphia to further the objects OF
the International Exhibition" This mystic
rious clause looks as though the visitors to
the Centennial were to be held as prisoners
of war by the hotel keepers Of both cities
and exchanged in some " friendly way
through the Aldermanic committee as long
as their money lasts. Until we are reas-
sured on this point we shall continue to
view with alarm this startling assump-
ton Of warlike powers in time OF pro-
found peace
Year: 1876

From tne MeClOulst.I


What putrid mess of vulgarity, were
Mr.. Belknap and his two wives. At the
funeral of the first wife 1t is arranged with
the accomplice that the stolen money
should thereafter be paid to the sister, who
in time becomes the second wife. Do lives
of open shame afford more vulgar exhibi-
tions of unclean human nature!


The usual blubbering and soldering Of
sickly sentimentality has begun. "flne
fellow; sorry for him-sorry for his "ife.1 -
Are you? you will say "No'' with a hard
emphasis before the nation can be healed
When men set their teeth tight and draw
down their faces to the manner OF hxeo
purpose, and begin to say Removed the
vile things out of our sight" then we shall
approach daylight.
Year: 1876

On our recent visis to Tucson we found that the people of that region had great faith in their

 mines. And we'll they may have, if we may judge from the amount of bullion coming in daily. We

 met one old acquaintance, Tom

 Roddick, an old resident of Yava- pal county, who showed us some gold bullion that he had just

 brought in from his mine the "Yellow Jacket" He had one

 chunk of gold worth S175 which

 he took from one ton and three quarters of rock. His ledge is

 five feet thick on top and it is esti-

 mated that there are 1000 tons of ore in sight on top. The shaft is 50 feet deep and at that point the ledge Is over ten feet thick. Tom

 has delivered 50 tons of the ore to

 the mill of Hank & Yank, called the "Ostrich !" mill. We saw

 many rich specimens of bullion,

 (not rock, from other mines, and all the owners seemed to be in

 good heart.
Year: 1876

BoxISc THE EARs.-It is known that
the passage Of the ear is closed by a
thin membrane, especially adapted to
be used by every impulse of the air,
and with nothing but the air to sup
port it internally. What, then. can
be more likely to injurc this membrane
than sudden and forciblc impression
Of the air in front of it! lfany one de-
signed to break or overstretch the
membrane, a more efficient means
could scarcely be devised than to
bring the hand suddenly and forcibly
down upon the passage Of the car,
thus driving the air violently before
it, with no possibility of its ESCAPE
but by the membrane giving way
Medical authorities assert that many
children are in this way made deaf by
boxing on the ear.
Year: 1876

A story is told Of . Gloucestershire
peasants remarkable curse. He had
been wrestling for long time with 9
very tough piece Of oak, which he was
endeavoring to split, and at last. una
BILE to make any impression upon it
burst out. Dom th' pigs that didn't
eat thee when thou vast an acorn"
Year: 1876

young lady graduate of West
ern medical college, when asked by
her father what he should get her for
a birthday prcsant. caused that gen.
tleman to turn pale by exclaiming
20 my darling pa! if you would only
go to the hospital and buy me the
head and arm Of a man, ! should DC
the happiest girl in the world. | coald
dissect them ON the kitchen table, you
see"
Year: 1876

We learn our virtues from the bo-
som of friends who love us; our faults
from the enemy who hates us. We
cannot easily discover our real foe
from a friend. He is a mirror, ON
which the warmth of our breath i'm
pedes the clearness of the reflection.
Richter.
Year: 1876

A rRANscENDENr faith, q cheerful
trust, turns the darkness of q night in
to . fire, and the cloud BY day into
perpetual glory. They who thus
march on, are refreshed even in the
wilderness, and hear streams trickling
among the rocks.