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Year: 1876

The occurrence in the city of two cases of
yellow fever Of persons coming hither from
Savannah, where the disease is epidemic, will,
it is to be hoped, stimulate the vigilance of
the health authorities both of the port and
the city. Although We have had no frost
yet, and though the spread of the disease is
possible in the absence of frost, yet with
the cool weather that is already upon us and
a proper diligence on the part of the health
authorities the propagation of the malady is
so far from likely that there is not the
slightest occasion for any uneasiness on the
part Of the people One of these
cases illustrates point we have
often insisted upon, which is the utter
uselessness of the harbor quarantine ns
against maladies in American cities. Won
derful care is taken, codes are constructed,
commerce is interrupted and ships are kept
for weeks or months in the Lower Bay be-
cause they are from Savannah and have on
them persons sick with yellow fever. That,
say the Solons, will keep the disease out of
your city ; and while the ships are waiting
at Quarantine a gentleman at Savannah.
perhaps already ill, takes his ticket by rail-
way. arrives here and dies in a hotel in the
city. Can we have quarantine on Savan-
nah freight or passengers by rail, and if we
cannot, is the other more than o mere an
novanca?
Year: 1876

produced on the flow Of the tidal currents
through He'll Gate by the removal Of Hall
let's Reef there is very little difference
of opinion among engineers. Although tho
river section will not be greatly increased BY
the cutting off of the projection which now OBJ
structs the channel. still the navigable char.
acter of the passage at part which will be
readily availed of by vessels of medium tom
mage will be greatly improved. The sharp
curve which was necessary to be turned in
order to avoid the dangers of Hallett's Reef
will soon be reduced, or rather fattened, to
one which can be more easily passed The
currents themselves will, it is probable, re-
ceive new directions which will, perhaps,
diminish the risk that always attended the
passage of He'll Gate by drifting the vessel
making it clear of the Middle Reef. 1t is
very certain, however, that the principal
changes that will be effected in the tidal
flow will be marked by the increase of theil
velocties and the decrease of their duration.
Year: 1876

Breaches OF the Peace I'm the South.


We deprecate and dctest the ignoblo vul-
garity that is incapable of viewing the state
of Southern society in any other than its
party aspect For the last eleven years an
experiment has been in progress in our
Southern States of deeper interest to philan-
thropists and philosophic observers Of social
conditions than any other in the whole
history of tho human race. That this great
experiment has worked SO well, that it has
been attended with no industrial and very
little social disturbance, that the production
of the great Southern staples has not fallen
of, that o considerable proportion of the
emancipated slaves have acquired property
and the self-respect which accompanies its
possession, that breaches of the peace have
been confined to few scattered localities
and have been the exception and not the
rule, are results which so far exceed the
most sanguine expectations that there
is reason for. devout gratitude to
protecting Providence that Southern
society has escaped the infringement,
disorder and convulsion which might have
~
ton and the disruption and reorganization
of the whole fabric of society Never be-
fore in the history of the world has there
been so extensive remodelling of estab-
lished conditions with SO slight shock to
social order and industrial prosperity.
This gratifying result is creditable to the
forbearance of tho whites and to the good
sense. good temper and quiet spirit of the
emancipated and enfranchised blacks.
If the pcstilent breed of selfish, in
termeddling politicians could have left
this sublime experiment to proceed with
out flinging in frebrands of discord
the transition of Southern society from
the old system to the new would have fur
nished one of the brightest pages in human
history.


Whether the whites or the negroes are more
to blame for the recent riot in Charleston is
o question which cannot be decided without
closer knowledge of the secret springs of
the disturbance The vanton exacgerations
Year: 1876

and misstatements of the party press make
it difficult to reach the exact truth.
On the surface the Charleston riot
seems to have resulted from negro violence
and outrage perpetrated under the impulse
of party passions. A republican negro or
ganization assaulted democratic negro or
ganization, and it is probable enough that
there exists among the republican negroes
spirit of fierce intolerance against people OF
their race who act with the democratic
party. 1t is quite natural that they should
regard colored democrats as renegades and
traitors, considering tho kind of influence
under which the negroes have acquired
their imperfect political education. But
the enlightened friends of peace and order
in the South ought to recognize this inevi-
table tendency in the negro mind and to
discourage oil movements calculated to
arouse it. When they inspire and aid the
formation of negro democratic clubs they
offer needless provocation to the passions
and prejudices of the mass of the colored
population. 1t is not to be presumed that
the negroes would organize democratic clubs
without white instigation but democrats
ought to court the negro vote by methods
which do not tend 80 directly to breaches
of the peace. The white population
of the South, as employers of labor, lenders
of money, owners of farms and tenements
let to negroes who must often be in arrears
in paying their rent, have great advantages
for quietly influencing negro votes, and they
should use these advantages in quiet and
non-provoking ways. The Southern whites
have q greater. interest in promoting tran
quillity and good feeling than they can have
in any partisan result, and we wish they
would discourage all movements which tend
to intlame and exasperate an ignorant popu-
lace, whose errors and prejudices have been
engrafted in their minds by INSCRIPTIONS
politicians and carpet-baggers The ne
groes have behaved so WE'LL or the whole,
that they should be treated with great in
diligence and consideration. When the
whites shall have convinced them by steady
kindness and generosity that they are their
real friends they will have little difficulty in
controlling their votes.
Year: 1876

It appears to have been rather hastily
Judged from the graphic report in the Lon
don Times of the battle at Alexinatz, that
the Servian army was there so badly beaten
that it could no longer be regarded as an OBJ
stacle to the Turkish advance. Evidently
the Moslems, though distinctly victorious
there, were themselves badly hurt and gained
their victory at high price. They have
not gone forward rapidly since Tcher-
nayeff retreated on Deligrad, strong posi-
ton not more than two or three marches in
the rear of Alexinatz, having left in the cite
del at the latter place garrison OF six or
seven thousand men. 1t seemed probable
that the Turks could open q limo
of supply by the Danube in which case
they might have boldly cut loose from
Nisch, as Sherman did from Atlanta, and
striking for the Danube reach it by supplies
carried with them and keep Tchernayeff in
his corner at Deligrad Evidently there are
some reasons why such o course is impracti-
cable, and as the Turkish army must depend
upon NischHt cannot leave Alexinatz and
Deligrad behind, and is not strong enough
to leave force there and march on. In the
meantime Tchernayeff seems to be making
good use of desperate opportunity. He
has drawn in the force that was far out on
his left flank, and has thus obtained
strength enough to oppose the attempt OF
the Turks to pass tho Morava and to deliver
telling blow on their flank while they were
engaged in that attempt. This is likely to
improve the morale of his own force and to
damage that Of the enemy. There are few
things SO inspiriting to on army as to feel
that it is moving at the enemy, and as to the
butchering Turks. there is probably nothing
in the world that will make better time than
those fellows if tho Servian commander can
once get them on the run. There is an ap-
pearance that Tchernayeff may at least keep
his enemy in hand till the peacemakers find
o way out OF the difficulty.
Year: 1876




The dangerous work of charging the holes
drilled in the roof and rocky columns of the
Halletts Point excavation is being rapidly
pushed in anticipation of the early destruc-
ton of the great reef at He'll Gate. The
workmen, although accustomed to handling
nitro-gycerine and being as q usual thing
rather reckless, are nevertheless in this in
stance impressed with feeling that death
turks i'll every cartridge flied with the
deadly explosive, and therefore take extraor-
binary precautions against accident The
loading of seven thousand holes with
from seventy to eighty thousand
pounds of compound so sensitive
to the least shock is On undertaking
which needs the coolest circumspection
coupled with the greatest courage, and we,
therefore. cannot help admiring the daring
workmen, who may be said to labor from
morning until night in the very presence Of
death. AS the work of charging proceeds
the final preparations overground will be
completed, that nothing will remain to
delay the destruction of the reef beyond the
date fixed by General Newton for the great
explosion. Regarding the effect likely to be
Year: 1876

TAXING FOREIGN RESIDENTS IN CuBA for
the support Of the Spanish army is likely to
bring about some strong remonstrances from
the governments of the aggrieved parties.
Latterly the Spaniards seem to be growing
desperate and stop at nothing to prolong
their grasp on the island. Their recent
threat of prosecution of English merchants
for war taxes may bring them into war
with Seiior Don John Bull, which they
would not at all relish.
Year: 1876

The CONNECTICUT INFLATroNIsTs have nom-
mated State and electoral ticket and are
ready for the canvass. The platform adopted
expresses notions of finance so crude as to
excite the derision of schoolboys, and yet
we find men gravely entering upon q cam
paign in behalf Of these puerilities.
Year: 1876

FAVORABLE REPoRTs of the condition of the
crops in India have been received from Bonn
bay. The vast population that is solely de-
pendent on the native food productions
makes this question of supply one os para
mount importance not only to the people
but to their government
Year: 1876

The COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY of New York
is endangered by the want of such terminal
facilities as will reduce the cost OF handling
goods in trdnsitu to the minimum. The prop
osi;ion of the Cheap Transportation Associ-
alton to use the Bel; line of railway for tho
purposes of commerce seems a feasible one
and no obstacle ought to be thrown in the
way OF its adoption.
Year: 1876

CUpA appears to swallow her enemies.
Thousands of Spanish troops continue to
pour into that fated land, but they
never return to their native Spain-they
disappear in the Central and Eastern De-
The merciless policy Of the Spanish govern
ment toward its own people is in no way
more terribly displayed than in booming the
youth and manhood Of the nation to certain
death in the fatal jungles of Cuba.
Year: 1876

The DEATH OF HENRY A. WISE will occa-
sion no surprise as it has long been nntici-
pated, but the event recalls the stormy days
before the war; when he did so much to pre-
cipitate and promote the rebellion. His
stern policy toward John Brown and his
associates was the real beginning of the civil
war, an event of comparative insigniicance
being magnifed by his action and the action
of Browns admirers into the most potent
nntagonism of the cstranged sections.
Year: 1876

A SToEY OF INDIAN MAGNANIMITY comes to
us this morning which in measure dis
credits the reports touching the condition of
the hostile Sioux of which it forms n part.
1t is not likely the Indians are overfed or
too we'll supplied with arms and ammuni-
ton, but they can fight such indecisive
commanders Crook and Terry as long as
buffalo meat lasts and powder can be pro-
cured Mt the agencies with which to kill the
buffaloes and an occasional detached COM
mand like Clusters little force.
Year: 1876

WHAT is known as the "PIERsON
Divorce Bill' has passed the Senate
by vote of two to one. 1t reduces
the causes of divorce to two-extreme
cruelty and infidelity. 1t is humane
and generous measure for which wives
ought to feel forever grateful to the
author of the bill and to those who are
assisting him to convert it into
law. The husband may whip
his wife in moderation, treat
her reasonably rude and semi
cruel; he may let her go almost
naked but not quite; he may starve
her half or nearly half to death and
he may subject her to a degree of cru
city equal to that to which the noble
red man sometimes imposes on his
squaw, but he must not proceed to
extremes. That would be grounds fer
a divorce. Really the wives of the
State ought to present PIERsoN with
a leather medal.
Year: 1876

be reaching a realizing sense OF their
duty. The press gag bills would have
passed early in the session, now they
are hopelessly dead. If ARCHER had
pushed his bill for the destruction of
railroads at its introduction it would
have passed both Houses and been
knocked on the head by the Governor
long ago. Now it could not get through
the Assembly which passed it few
weeks ago by an almost unanimous
vote. We have hopes of the Legisla-
ture yet. 1t is very sick body, but it
may live--not to do anything that it
should do, but to undo some of the
mischief it has done.
Year: 1876

LAST Saturday Senator NUNAN, of
San Francisco, rose to question OF
privilege on an article in the Post
and during his remarks stated that
the man controlling the Post is Col
onel JACKSON, the agent and general
business manager of Senator JONES.
The Post will of course deny this but
the charge is true. JONES owns a
controlling interest in the Post and
he also controls the Express of this
city, and yet both these papers moan
about tee "subsidized press"
Year: 1876

The corporation organ has found a chance
to question the truth of the Express state
ment that Col. Crawford had telegraphed TO
Senator Laine that he could operate his road
under the Archer bill, and make money for
the owners.-ErpreSS.


Question" is rather good. But if
by F" Corporation organ" is meant the
HERALD, we beg to disclaim all con-
nection with the question of veracity
between the Colonel and Jones' Los
Angeles paper. 1t was the Colonel
who "found chance to question the
truth of the Express statement and
he did it SO emphatically, that it read
very much like that's false ~
Year: 1876

ONCE more FRANK PIXLEY has
severed his editorial connection with
the Chronicle. This event has hap
pened about every three months for
the past four years. In few weeks
FRANK will be again editing the
Chronicle and the Chronicle will be all
the better for it.
Year: 1876

THE people generally will be glad
to know that the Legislature must ad-
iourn on or before the third day OF
April. Nine more working days and
the Ides of March, or rather of April,
will be passed.
Year: 1876

Our invariable rule is never to en-
dorse anything in the line of a remedy,
an idea or an invention till we know it to
be good. Some months since we were
asked to speak favorably of IIolman's
Fever and Ague and Liver Pad, ::and de-
clined doing SO till we had seen it tested
and could be convinced that it was really
good. We have tried one of them in our
family, and found that this little bag full,
OF herbs, and weighing but an ounce or
two, worn next the skin over the pit Of
the stomach, has in four weeks done for
person what n half dozen physicians
and several thousands of dollars ex
pended has failed to accomplish. It is a
remedy Tor fever and ague, torpidity of
the liver, sluggishness of the blood. and
that train of evils following such con-
ditlon OF things. After wearing one of
these pads for four weeks, the patient
was III better health than before. for fiy e
years. 1t is u remedy that is fast SUPER
seding the use of quinine and other
drugs taken internally, and operates by
absorption. We consider it one of the
most valuable OF all the medical dis
coverics ever shade. The remedy is to
the Liver what the proper external ap-
plication is to u burn. 1t draws out the
fever, gives tone to the stomach. and
thus follows, life to the blood. "-Er-
change.
Year: 1876

In France the postal cards appear
in great variety, because it is legal
for any man to make his own, the
payment being by an adhesive stamp.
The result is that some are ornament
ed with elaborate designs on card.
board of various colors and materials
Year: 1876

The friends of the Orleans Dramatic
Club, with some warmth were entertained
at the Varieties Thestre last night by the
performance Of the society comedy called
Extremes; or, Men of the Day" The
comedy was given with the following cast
Year: 1876

Burglar 4Arrested.-George w. Browder
was arrested by officer Smith short dis
tance from the city on the charge OF break
ing and entering the dwelling OF Mr.. En-
met Nunnally and stealing a lot OF wearing
apparel. He was locked up for hearing
tn-Ioy
Year: 1876

MATCH GAME OF BAsE-BALL.-A match
game OF baseball will be played at the Fair
Grounds this evening between the Vir-
einia and Atlantic baseball clubs OF this
city. and it promises to be one Of the most in
teresting OF the season. The same clubs
will next month play game for the benefit
OF the Lee Monument fund.
Year: 1876

remember a morn behind the MILL


When blackbirdS sang


And shrep-bells rang,
Far on, and all things else were still


But the rising Dream


In the pictured strtam,
And the noise OF water about the mill.
i remember n maid in her sweet youth,


W hose gtntle days


In village ways
Were passed In simple works OF truth;


The summers day


Sped ftSt away
In a dream oflove, I'm the time of youth.
remember the spring In garb OF green,
The light heart giee


That came TO me
With the smile of my love at seventeen;


Her laugh that went


Like woOdla nd scent
To my soul-that time on the daisied green
And though ! know the days are spent,


That love was lost


When came the frost
At summers close of my content,


Yet some joy stays


In winter days,
And brings its joyous complement.
Year: 1876

set aside and declared void or
in holding the directors personally
liable il damages. If the guilty parties are
still directors of the company. the courts
allow stakeholder to bring action against
the company and the directors guilty of the
breach OF trust.


Here are some very obvious and yet very
startling principles. If applied, they would
revolutionize half dozen of the principal
corporations in the country, and give
number of prominent financial gem
tlemen excellent chances to play the
role of defendants in suits for breach OF
trust. Until the ideas az TO the sacredness OF
p trustees duty and his responsibility to his
stockholders, which underie this opinion be-
come the binding rule in all moncyed corpora
tions. and until stockholders are themselves
ready to enforce upon their directors Their
plain duty, the present depression in their Sc
cmitics has not gone far enough.
Year: 1876

On Monday last the Forrest Home for Aged
and Drcayed Actors in Philadelphia was
opened, without the prospect, we believe. OF a
single actor dccayed or otherwise, to occupy
it. There is u good deal of gibing in consc-
qucnce, at Forrest and his Folly, as the Dsti-
tuition is already called. There is no need for
any such ridicule. The charity was doubtless
conceived in genuine sympathy with the class
which it was intended to benefit. Forrest,
whatever his other faults. was Il zcalot III his
art, and during the later years OF his life he
was shut IN with it, being debarrcd for many
reasons from those social and domestic ties
which cheer the old age of other men. Out
Of his long life he had brought neither wife
nor child, nor friend, except one or two fol-
lowers, of all the hosts whom he had
known. In his great, silent mansion his years
of decay ami inlrmiy were given to the study
of the art which he could no longer practice.
and to living over again his own battles and
triumphs.


No man can be wholly selfish as he near5
death. 1t was natural that the old actor with
his wealth should think of other old actors
poor and homeless and plan this splendid
home for them, where in quiet halls and





talk over their old victories, people the dusky
alleys with the fantastic visions 50 real to
them once, and happily go down TO the grave,
not needy paupcrs but the kings, the lovers,
the Cordeas which they had been in youth.
1t was "A pathetic fancy which prompted the
bequeSt but, unfortunately, Mr.. Forrest had
neither the refinement of feeling. tact, nor prac-
teal knowledge to make his fancy successful.
He saddIcd the institution with some 'oblga-
ton by which it was to be made "self-sup-
porting" How the aged actors are to work
for their living does not very clearly appear.
One thing is very certain, that such bequest
required the utmost delicacy in its proffer to
make it cffective-a delicacy which Mr.. For
rest never possessed.


Actors are as class exceptionally sensitive
to the estimation in which they are held by
the public. A man who all his life has sought
popular applause is the last man who will
willingly take at its close the position of a
pauper in any almshouse, however splendid.
Year: 1876

Besides, 10 profession is so well paid as this;
the higher class, the true artists in it, are IN
lut little danger of needing such refuge, and
it wa, not with its brOken-down witless mob
and scalawags that Forrest peOpled in fancy
his stately mansion and its fair surroundings.
He designed, too, to unite with this retreat a
school for oratory and acting, but so lar the
trustees have made no arrangements for carry
ing out this part of the scheme, probably
because even did pupils offer, teachers are
lacking. In short, the Home of Forests
fancy, where aged Keans should strut out
their last brief hour and youthful Keans come
to prepare for their future work, and both
together should applaud Forrest dead, bids
fair TO be the most fantastic, unreal deception
which ever he planned or acted in.
Year: 1876

Has il then come to thisY No wonder there
is n feeling of indignation at all the bead
ouarters of Tilden and Reform. No wonder
the heart of the earnest RcfOrmer Is stirred
within him, and a thrill runs through the
corners and the sums. For there is to be to-
day at indianapolis a gathcring-a reunion, so
to speak, of those who never mct-of " The
"Boys who wore the Blue = and the minions
of power are taking account of them as they
assemble, and comparing them with old de-
scriptive lists of deSerters and bounty-iumpers
and with police records and penitentiary re-
ports. Simply because these noble survivors
are about to meet at indianapolis, by re-
markable but very happy coincidence within
five days of the Indiana election: and be-
cause there appears to be no special pretext
for such a meeting at such time and place !;
and because the order of The Boys who
wore the Blue" is a new organization that
seems TO have sprung full armed from
the brain of some kind of commit
tee; and because it is suspected that
many of "The Boys who wore the
"Blue as il matter of fact wore the black
and-blue, and ought to have worn more of
it /; and because many of the delegates are
proposing to remain in the State until after
the election ;--merely because of these things,