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rr. G. F. COOPER
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HYSICIAN & SURGEON,
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CUP.S, GOBLETS, TOILET SETS, SPOONS,
having been recited, and the costumes
prepared, and the spectacular arranged,
it is a matter of profit congratulation
Mr. Abbey had tbecoatage to stop jnat
here and, now. If it had gone on popu-
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mber tbat when looking for a Clock.
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THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT
At half-past 7 o’clock in the morning
the audience is in the theatre. Another
boom of thegnn at 8 o’clock announces
that the play has began, and it goes on
evening. There are eighteen
it play. Act the first, Christ’s
entry into Jerusalem, followed by other
acts, depicting scenes in the life of
Christ, antil the fourteenth act, which
Christ sentenced to death; the fifteenth
:t, Christ bearing the cross; the six
teenth act, the crucifixion and descent
from the cross; the seventeenth act, the
resurrection; the eighteenth act, the as
cension. Joseph Meyer impersonates
Jesus Christ, and hangs for twenty
minutes upon the cross, suspended'by
loop around his waist. Gregor Leek-
sr impersonates Judas, and stirs the
mirth of the audience. Joseph Meyer
chief tragedian, and Gregor Leck-
the chief comedian. Men and wo-
i are elaborately trained to take
their parts, and they impersonate Mag-
PIANOS, ORGANS, YIOLINS,
BANJOS, ACCORDEONS, ANO OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENT!
VIOLIN STRINGS, ofthe best make, ROSIN and Musical Merchandise generally.
dalen, and Martha, and Simon, and
John, and the sanhedrim, and the execu
tioners. At one time on the stage are
hundred people. The scene is over
whelming. Joseph Meyer plays the
rt so well that he is more reverenced
the village than would he the em
peror. When he was a soldier in the
German army the Government made an
especial enactment that he might wear
his long hair uncut. A friend, who
was present last summer at the Passion
Play, tells me that while sharp and
entting hail fell through the unroofed
theatre upon the cheek of Joseph Meyer,
he winced not, and under the most
powerful field-glass no signs of life
could be detected when lie was playing
insensible. A friend of my family tells
n Under feed Mac
THE WILLIAMS SINGER.
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~Woris: Department
Every body knows or ought to know by this time tbat noth
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Watches that have been injured by incompetent workmen
put in thorough repair and warranced Customers’ watches kept
in one of my Fire Projf Safes every night
JTcirelr?/, Clocks ana Sewing Machines
REPAIRED IN THEBES? MANNER.
AID HAIR JEWELRY HADE TO DUE.
tJS^Customers Watches, Clocks and Jewelry left for repairs
are kept insured against fire. JAMES FRICKER,
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IT BET. T. DeVITT T1LIUCE.
THfJ PASSION PLAY.
Son of God afresh and pi
thane.—Hebrews vL, 7
A great pestilence in Germany. The
time 1633. The anperstitions and igno
rant villagers think they may avert the
wrath of heaven by promising every ten
years to enact the sufferings of oar Lord’
Jesus Christ on a theatrical stage. The
decades are to counted from 1640,
Now there were two or three ways to
stop it. One wae the way it has been
■topped, by public opinion end before
these managers went fn with anv great
outlay. Yon mast understand that the
elaboration of thia play, the fixing np
of the stage, the drilling of acton and
supernumeraries in thia matter, was a
very great affair. Yo* must^underitand
that to describe the bloody sweat of
PkJ.t l ik. i:r. vi
and so every ten years, with some ex
ceptions, and for two hundred and forty
ears, the Passion Play was enacted in
leraufa^ The theatre was one hun
dred. aniMixteen feet by one bandied
and sixty^eight. The boom
Christ, and the tide! of lue rnshing
through hie crashed heart, and the sham
lightning and thnnd«r which were "to
depict the awfnl night in which Jesns
died—all that required greet elabora
tion. Having expended so much money
this play already, the . whole play
night when the blasphemy was being
enacted the police of New York would
have inshed upon the scene and. ar
rested the participators. All that
has been averted. The time to ar
rest a crime like that is before it
committed. Some people said,
‘.’\Vby, .this was proposed for De
cember; here we are in November; yon
cannot arraign a crime before it is com
mitted.” Absurd! If yonrlife were
threatened, when would be the time to
arraign the threatened assassin? Before
the murder, or after the reorder? If
some one threatened that he would bnrn
down your barns after the crops were in,
most yon wait untii the match is ap-
E lied? Ah, no! The reason this play
as been stopped—and Mr. Abbey says
, that being present last summer, she
felt the power of this tragedy as she
felt any tragedy before. She
says: “I never fainted before in all my
life, but when I saw the spear seeming
ly pierce the side of Christ, and the
blood and the water flow forth, I fainted
The Passion Play will probably never
be enacted again in Germany, or any
part of Europe. The Pop*.of Rome
has denounced it. Although it had all
the prestige of a religious ordinance,
and the authority of centuries, it has
been enacted for the last time. And
right upon the heels of that announce
ment came to us a few weeks ago the
announcement that the Passion Play
was to become an American institution.
All the machinery for that production
bad been prepared. Vast expectations
had been created in some quarters.—
This morning the play is withdrawn.
Pnblic sentiment came up through the
press, came up through the pnlpit,
and Gentiles. Protestants and Roman
Catholics, from North and South, East
and West, and all that feeling was
haricu in one darning, thundering pro-
against the proposed infamy. 1
thank God that ithas been withdrawn,
and it is the grandest compliment
given to the Christian sentiment of
America.
lint, my friends, are yon nnder the
delusion that this announcement, which
has come to me since I entered the pnh
pit—the withdrawal of this play—that
because of that withdrawal snch plays
are not to be attempted in other cities?
Are yon not aware of the fact that there
are being enacted in this country, win
ter after winter, great indecencies in the
way of pnblic entertainments in the
opera-honses and the theatres and the
concert halls of this country—great '
decencies upon which the law of
cities and the law of the United States
Government ought to put their hands 1
Now is the time, in this particular crisis
while the whole attention is drawn to
thisambject, that the churches of Jeans
Christ, the printing-presses, and all the
influences that are abroad in the com
munity ntter themselves most emphati
cally, and say in regard to all balefnl
styles of amusement, “Thus far shalt
thon go, and no farther.” Why, w<
began to think in thia country peopli
cards in the show-windows of our stores,
shocking the common decency of*the
people who passed down the street, and
there were no police, and there were no
mayors, and there were no members of
common councils that dared anathema-
those things. Now, my friends,
there will be a change on this subject,
and the officers in onr cities who have
control of all these matters will begin
■’ * ’ a force of poblie
see that there
opinion that will hold them np
attempt they make for the overthrow oi
bad morals and for the establishment
good morals. There was no class of
f ersons so much interested in the pro
fiting of the Passion Play as the
dramatists. Some of them have been
toiling a long while for the elevation of
the stage. They have declared that it
was a school of good morals, and they
wanted Christian people to help them
in the reformation of the stage. Joseph
Jefferson, and Edwin Booth, and Mr.
Wallack. and other reformers of the
stage could not afford to have the Pas
sion Play enacted, and therefore there
came protests from across the sea, aad
protests from all parts of the land:
These men understood that once the
Passion Play enacted oa the stage of
Booth’s Theatre, the theatre would suf
fer a degradation which these reformers
of the next twenty years coaid net have
cored. The men to / discipline, the
churches are churchmen. The men to
discipline theatres are theatrical mea.
Things were growing so hot that I be
lieve if this play had not heen with-
drawn. the managers and the leMe*s,.th«
tragedians and tha commedisne, the
employers and the employes of .onr
theatres would have banded together,
and they wonld have gone to the Mayor’s
terest of their p
down, and put down immediately.
his card this morning—the reason
(topped is because pnblic sentiment
condemns it, and I tell yon this is a
Christian nation. It may be very dif
ferent from what we would like to have
it, bat so far as that is, it is a Chris-
nation, and no man can afford to
offend the Christian sentiment of this
country. People say: "Oh, these church
people, these Christian people are of no
very great importance; they have no
special iufluence; they are a goody-
goody sort of people, well enough to
have in the world, but they can easily
be quelched." Yon cannot qnelch them.
They hold the balance of power in the
United States to-day. No man can be
fleeted to a Legislature or a Congress,
>r to the Presidential chair if he be a
pronounced infidel. Christian people
may seem to be very indifferent and
very careless, bnt when once yon insnlt
their Lord they are folly armed. People
Why have all this ado about
the Passion Play, when Christian min
isters and very good people again and
again have seen it in Bavaria, and have
wept nnder its enactmennt.” Ahl my
friends, the circumstances were very dif
ferent. They were a simple-minded
people over there. Amid many crude
images of religion they performed this
play in gratitude to God for the avert
ing of the pestilence. The people, for
the most part, who took.ftny .interest in
it and who played upon the stage were
people consecrated to the work from
their infancy. All this did a&t excuse
it, but it alleviated it. I tell yon it
would have been an awfnl calamity to
have the Passion Play enacted in New
York city. A gentleman who waspres-
with his family at the exhibition
Germany last summer, told me that he
regretted exceedingly that he had taken
his children to see it, for, he said, there
many ridicnlons things ‘
Passion Play tbat his children n<
not read the scriptures without bursting
into a guffaw at the rememberance of
something that transpired in the Pas-
the gates of the Pacific, and now it was
proposed here. It is driven or to be
driven from the city of New York. I
ies,*bnt o _ ^
cities so damaged that it will attract
bnt little attention elsewhere. It had
been received here, and successfully, it
wonld have been welcomed elsewhere.
People imitate success. They never
mtitate a failure. Now, I do not shp-
poe$ it is possible for ns to estimate the
outrage that was just ahead of ns. I
make a hypothesis. Yon remember all
the scene around yonr father's death-
bed—yon ^weeping mother and sisters,
the physician standing with a watch in
his hand, the blinds darkened, the last
daep sign that put an end to the pil-
grimage of earthly vicissitude, the obse
quies, the funeral psalm, the awfnl
bnrial, for though there ware flowers
npon the casket and there were many
consolations of the gospel offered, still
death was awfnl. For now mnch would
yon consent to have that death-scene of
yonr father enacted on the boards of a
theatre by 'strangers. Imitating yonr
weeping mother and yonr weeping sis-
ten, and a stranger enacting yonr dying
father? Why,, sirs, if there were not
law enough to stop it, yon would with
your own right arm break in upon the
scene though you perished in the at
tempt. Now, I want you to know that
Christ is nearer than' any friend, nearer
than father, mother, husband, wife,
son, daughter. How shall I prove it?
Why, I shall prove it by the fact that
men have given up their home and
gone out to die on scaffold or at the
stake for the Lord Jesns Christ. Now,
let those who manage the amusements
of this country keep their hands off the
cross. Yon can better afford to go into
Germany and insult their popular Em
peror, or int6 England and insnlt her
magnificent Queen, then anywhere in
Christendom and insult Christ. Have
so exhausted in onr amusements
country that it is necessary in
any of oar cities from this time forth
to pat the Lord’s sapper and the crnci-
fixtion before the footiight? One would
think we wonld not be very mnch
crowded in this country or in this world
for amnsements, for entertainments—a
world where out of three hundred and
sixty-five days of the year we have
three hundred of snnshine, and the
manufactories are turning out Antes,
and harps, and violins, and pianos, and
cornets, and organs, and we have great
singers all the way from Jenny Lind to
Emma Abbott, and great painters all
the way from Benjamin West to Bier-
Btadt, and great, humorists all the way
from Jack Downing to Burlington
Hawk eye, and concert halls and
lycenms, and skate and hat and oar, and
Christmas tree and Thanksgiving fes
tal, and day and night. Never let ns
open the door of darkness and invoke
anything evil to come forth to itmnae
ns to snch a glorious world, with ten
thousand opportunities of innocent
ambsement. 1 shall be glad that this
attempt was made if it awaken the
whole land to put prohib’tion npon un
righteous entertainments. If this in
fluence began this morning goes on, if
the common councils of onr cities, if
onr mayors, if onr men in public places
shall fake conrage now and say, “We
going to sweep Brooklyn and New
rk and all our cities of these abomi
nations,” then it will be one of the most
fortunate things that ever happened
that the Passion Play was threatened
for New York. Besides that, it will be
a good thing if it aronses onr loyalty to
the Lord Jesus-Christ, who hung upon
the accursed tree. When I meet Him,
when yon meet Him—and we soon shall
God grant we all may—when
ill™ I. i l. li r :r .
Play. On this side of the Atlantic
there could have been no alleviations.
It would have been very easy for us,
perhaps, to have found people who
wonld take the part of Judas, or Herod,
Pilot, or Csiaphas, or Msgdalen, bnt
where wonld we have found a Christ?
my profession, not in yonrs; not
_ medicine, notin law, not in merchan
dise, not in agriculture. Wonld he
then, from the drama?
Where, would yon have found the sin
less being? Where was he born? How
old is he? Where is the man whose
thoughts have always been pure, and
whose actions have always been self-
rilicing, and whose file has been per
fect? Bring him forth, then. Let
see who he is. Pat him in a golden
chariot. Let him he' drawn by white
horses. Oh! those who proposed to en
act this play made no snch pretension
of goodness. They did not pretend to
be perfect of heart, or perfect of life.
Jnst ordinary players, were, in this the
latter part of the nineteenth century,
and in the fall blazo of civilization aud
Christianity, to treat the world to
crucifixion. There are many disap
pointed people this morning. There are
infidels and skeptics in this country
who hoped to have the last scene of the
Savior’s life tamed into * scenic farce.
It would have been no difficult thing to
get executioners, not merely to slay in
optical delusion James O’Neil, bat the
very Christ whom he prophesied to im
personate. Christ has been an offense
to the impurity and the wickedness of
the world so long a time. There
men who wonld like to pat Him ou
existence, who, if they coaid reach the
‘ Idlil
throne of God, wonld like to dethrone
" ‘ a. Ah! my friends, Jesns Christ—
d we might as well understand it now
ever—Jesns Christ stands nearer to
the Christian heart; nearer to the hearts
of millions of people in this country.
than any other being, and I want to tell
yon who have the management of the
amnsements in this country, yon must
keep your hands off the cross of the
Bon of God. Do what yon will with
Christ’s manger, with Christ’s .sepul
chre. Hands off the cross! .Keep un
holy hands off the npiight beam of the
for against that Christ’s fainting
head leaned; off the horizontal beam of
the cross, for against that Christ!
hands were pinioned. There is only on
stage appropriate for snch a tragedy
stage appropriate tor *utu a n*gcuy—
the rocking mountain back of Jerusalem.
The only drop-scene fit for snch an oc
casion, midnight Callen'on . inidtaoon.
The only appropiiste spplsudits, the
crash of the falling locks, and the opeo-
ing of the sepulchre, and the stalking
forth of the sheeted dead, abd the fill
ing ofthe blanched spectators Upon their
faces as they cry: “This is the 8on of
God!”
My friends, I am dndjjtat this
is been smitten tyith'Bipolar indl_
tion. Ianppo4e it will W taken tn nthkr
cities. This is not the first trfal. It
tried San Francisco,, and was hnrlid
back, and San Francisco has iertainly
never been charged with being sahrti-
monions or over-righteous or bigoted.
The Passion Play waa driven back from
quiescence of good citizens, in the resnlt
of the election, gives gratifying assur
ance to onr country, and to its friends
throughout the world, that a govern
ment based on the free consent of an
intelligent and patriotic people posi
elements of strength, stability, and per
manency not found in any other form
of government.
eights or ciTiritxsair.
Continued opposition to the fall and
free enjoyment of the rights of citizen
ship, conferred npon the colored people
by the recent amendments to the consti
tution, still prevails in several of the
late slave-holding States. It has, per
haps, not been manifested in the late
election, to any large extent, in ac
violence or intimidation. It has, how-
\ by fraudulent practices in connec-
nection with the ballots, with the reg
ulations as the places to and manner of
voting, and with counting, returning
and canvassing the votes cast, been suc
cessful in defeating the exercise of the
right preservative of all rights, the
right ot suffrage, which the constitution
expressly confers npon onr enfranchised
citizens.
■ the desire of the good people of
the whole country that sectionalism as
a factor in onr politics should disappear.
They prefer that no section of the conn-
try should be united in solid opposition
any other section. The disposition
refuse a prompt and hearty obedience
the equal rights amendments to the
constitution, is all that now stands in
the way of a complete obliteration of
sectional lines iu onr political contests.
As long as either of these amendments
'» flagrantly violated or disregarded, it
s safe to assume that the people who
flacetl them in the constitution, as em-
lodying the legitimate results of the
t that
act togethi
they shall be obeyed.
The paramount question still is as to
the enjoyment of the right by every
American citizen who has tlie requisite
qualifications, to freely cast his- vote
and to have it honestly coanted. With
this question rightly settled, the conn-
try will be relieved of the contentions
of the past; by-gones will indeed be by
gones; and political and party issues
with respect to economy and efficiency
Him it will be well for
misused His name, or dishonored His
influence among the nations. On that
day it will not be an impersonation with
gory temples and bleeding side, on the
boards of the theatre, bnt it will he the
Emperor of the universe on a throne,
and burning worlds the footlights, the
mnsic the archangel’s trumpet, the
choir the one hundred and forty and
four thousand leading, the congregation
made np of kings and queens and con
querors. Unto Him be glory and do
minion, victory and song, now and for-
i heaven. Amen
Seven People Dying in Agony from
Eating Sausage.
Joseph Falenght, an Italian frnit-
vender, living on West Randolph street,
Chicago, with a wife and five children,
all sick, the parents being at death 7
r. The doctors say they are victims
of trichna; spiralis, which they took ii
their system some three weeks ago by
eating ham sansage, of which they were
very fond. A microscopic examination
of a piece of the eansage revealed myri
ads ot the dangerous parasites. This
sausage was purchased of Arnold broth
ers, batchers, who made it of apparent
ly healthy meat by a peculiar process,
the hams being corned and smoked in
stead of being cooked. It is very mnch
eaten by Italians and other foreignet
The physicians say that if heated to
boiling point all the parasites would be
destroyed, bnt taken into the stomach
raw in about six days they begi
multiply nlmoat immediately. Old and
yonag wander about and pierce the lin
ing of the stomach and intestines with i
million of infinitesimal holes. The re
sult is inflammation, nauseau, and loss
of appetite. When the parasites pass
into the muscles and flesh they cause a
dull pain like that of rheumatism; the
patient is nnable to retain food on the
stomach and finally dies of exhaustion.
Nothing can atrest tha progress of tri
china after it leaves the intestines.
Floxkeyism ix Cucncii.—Grant
tended Beecher’s church last Sunday
and at the. conclusion of the services
nobody moved, the congregation wait
ing to see .Grant walk down the aisle.
For once in his life Beecher said the
proper thing.. He mounted the plat
form and desired that the audienct
would pass out. He added: "A special
service can be held if yon wish to wor-
•hip * man. This is a house for the
worship, of ; God.” At this General
Grant rose i
e and started down the aisle.
joiirrestbya sick child suffering and cry
ing with the excruciating pain of cutUsg
teeth? If eo, goat oaco aad gets bottle of
Mas. Win low’s aoorarao eratrr. It will
reUovetho poor litUoeuffi
depend upon it; there is ao mistake' about it.
There is Hot a mother oa earth whs has
used it. who will aot tell you at ease that it
wm regulate the boweia,and give rest to th#
■Wj end-reBefaad health .tothechild,
PRES’T HAYES’ MESSAGE
Hia Last and Longest.
We give a comprehensive syndpsii
of the President’s message—not having
space to carry the whole document.
The first part, giving his sentiments
on the foremost political points, we give
t fall:
The occurrence of the twenty-foaith
election of chief magistrate has afforded
another opportunity to the people ot the
United States to exhibit to the world
significant example of the peaceful and
safe transmission of the power and au
thority of government from the public
servants whose terms of office are about
expire, to their newly chosen ancces-
rs. This example cannot fail.to Im
press profoundly, thoughtful people of
other countries with the advantages
which repnblican institutions afford.
The immediate, general and clieerfnl ac-
cal action of private citizens or of t
cial subordinates, is greatly tobede-
roi.va.iMY.
It is, the recognized duty and purpose
of the people of the United States to
suppress polygamy where it now exists
m our territories, and to prevent its ex
tension. l'aithful and zealous efforts
have been made by the United States
authorities in Utah to enforce the laws
against it. Experience has shown that
the legislation upon this subject, to be
effective, require extensive modification
and amendment. The longer action is
delayed, the more difficult it will be to
accomplish what is desired. Prompt
and decided pleasures is necessary.
I recommend that Congress provide
for the government of Utah by a Gov
ernor and Judges, or Commissioners,
appointed by the President and confirm
ed by the Senate—§ government analog
ous to the provisional government estab
lished for the territory, north west of the
Ohio, by the ordinance of 1787. If,
however, it is deemed best to continue
the existing form of local government,
I recommend that the right to vote, hold
office, and sit on juries iu the territory
of Utah, be confined to those who neither
practice nor uphold polygamy. If
thorough measures are adopted.it is be
lieved that within a few years the evils
whch now affiict Utah will be eradi
cated, and that this territory will in
good time become one of the most pros
perous and al tractive of the new States
of the union.
tries have been those of nndistnrhed
peace, and have presented
for concern as to their continned
The President devotes much space to
the explanation of points of minor in
terest to the interior sections of the
country.
COMMERCE. .
The efforts of the department of State
enlarge the trade and commerce of
the United States, through the active
agency of consular officers and through
of administration, iuternal improve
ments, the tariff, domestic taxation, ed
ucation, finance, and other important
subjects will then receive their full
share of attention; bnt resistance to and
nullification of the results of the
together in resolute purpose
for their support all who maintain the
authority of the government and per
petuity of the Union, and who adequate
ly appreciate the value of the wonderful
victory achieved. The determination
proceeds from no hostile sentiment oi
feeling to any part of the people of oni
country, or to any of their interests.
The inviolability of the amendments
rests npon the fundamental principles
of onr government. They are the solemn
expression of the will of the people of
the United States.
The sentiment of all that the consti
tutional rights of onr citizens most be
maintained, does not grow weaker. It
will cotinne to control the Government
of the country. Happily, the history
of the late election shows that in many
parts of the country where opposition
the fifteenth amendment has hereto-
e prevailed, it is diminishing, and
likely to cease altogether, if firm and
well considered action is taken by Con-
I trust the House of Represent-
tatives and the Senate, which have the
right to judge of the elections, returns,
and qualifications of their own members
see to it that every case of vidla-
of the letter or spirit of the fifteenth
amendmendment is thoroughly investi
gated, and that no benefit from snch
olation shall accrue to any person ..
party. It will be the dnty of the exec
utive, with sufficient appropriations for
the purpose, to prosecute unsparing all
who have been engaged in depriving
citizens ofthe rights guaranteed to them
by the constitution.
not, however, to be forgotten
that the best and surest guarantee of
the primary rights of citizenship is to
be found in that capacity for self-pro-
tection which can belong only to a peo
ple whose right to universal suffrage is
supported by universal education. The
means at the the command of the local
and State authorities are, in many <
wholly inadequate to famish free in
struction to all who need it. This is
especially tree where, before emancipa
the education of the people
neglected or prevented, in the interest of
slavery. Firmly oonvinced that the sub
ject of popular education deserves the
earnest attention of the people of the
whole country, with a view to the wise
and comprebensiva action by the Gov
ernment of the United States, I respect
fully recommend that Congress, by suit
able legislation and. with propet safe
guards, supplement the Ipcal education
al funds in the several States where the
grave duties and reeponaibilUies of citi
zenship have been devolved on educated
grants of the public lands, and, if ne-
oessary, by appropriations, from. the
Treasury of the United,States. What-
the government can fairly do to
ICfefclUTj Mother! I Mother!
Are jou disturbed at night and brokra of promote free popular education ought to
. k, - be done. , Whefevcr getqefal edumition
is found, peace, virtue, and, sociitl order
prevail, and civil and religions liberty
Mr. Hayea claims that mnch has been
Haves«
.plisbed in tha matter of civil ser
vice reform, and gives an idea of bis
plan, as follows:
, Competitive examinations, ia aid of
impartial appointments and promotions,
and post-offices of the larger ci
the conntry. In the city of New York
over two thousand positions in the civil
service have been snbject, in tlieir ap
pointments and tenure of place, to the
operation of published rules for this
purpose, daring the past two years,
rhe results of these practical trials hav*
been very satisfactory, and have
firmed my opinion in favor of this sys
tem of selection. All are subjected to
the same tests, and the resnlt it free
from prejudice by personal favor or
partisan influence. It secures for the
position applied for, the best qnalifica-
tiona attainable among the competing
applicants.
1 also recommend snch legislation
while leaving every officer as free as
iy other citizen to express his politi*
il opinions and to nse his means for
their advancement, shall also enable
to feel as safe as any private citi-
in refusing all demands upon his
salary for political purposes. A law
which should thus guarantee true liber
ty and justice to all who are engaged
the pnblic aervioe, and likewise
tain atringent provisions against the ase
of official authority to ooeroe the politi-
lieved the fall legal strength is the
possible force at which the preset
ganization tan be maintained having
view efficiency, discipline, and econ
omy. While the enlistment of thia
force would add somewhat to the ap
propriation for pay of the army, tne
saving made in other respects would
than equivalent for this addi
tional ontlay, and the efficiency of the
army wonld be largely increased. ,
rnoviDixo fob gbaxt.
I commend to the attention of Con
gress the great aervioe of the Com-
' armies daring
mander-in-Chief of <
the war for the anion, whose wise, firm
and patriotic conduct did so much to
bring that momentons conflict to a
close. The legislation of the United
States contains many precedents for re
cognition of distinguished military
merit, authorizing rank and emolu
ments to be conferred for eminent ser
vices to the conntry. An act of Con
gress authorizing the appointment of a
Captain-General ofthe army, with suit
able provisions relating to compensa
tion, retirement, and other details, wonld
my judgment, bo altogether fitting
and proper and wonld be warmly ap
proved by the country.
Onr relations with all foreign c
THE JUDICIARY.
The necessity for additional provis
os, to aid in the transaction of the
business of the federal conrts, becomes
each year more apparent. Tlte docket
of the Supreme Court and of the circuit
conrts, in the greater number of the
circuits, are incumbered with the con
stant accession ot cases. In the for-
cour*., and in many instances in
the circa it coarts, years intervene be-
practicabie to bring cases to
the dissemination of information ob
tained from them,have been nnrclaxed.
The interest in these efforts, as develop-
commercial communities, and
the value of the information secured by
this means to the trade and mannfactnr-
-s of the country, were recognized by
ongress at its last session, and pro
vision was made for the more frequent
publication of consular and other re
ports by the Department of State, The
first issue of this publication has now
been prepared, and subsequent issues
may regularly be expected. The im
portance and interest attached, to the
reports of consular officers, are witnessed
by the general demand for them by, all
classes of merchants and manufacturers
engaged in our foreign trade. It is be
lieved that the system of such publica
tions is deserving of the approval, of
Congress, and.that the necessary appro
priations for its continuance and en
largement will commend itself to yonr
consideration.
FIXAXCES.
The condition ot the financial affairs
of the government, as shown by the
report of the Secretary of the Treasury,
is very satisfactory. It is believed that
the present financial situation of the
United States, whether considered with
respect to trade, cmrency, credit, grow
ing wealth, or the extent and variety of
onr resources, is mote favorable than
{that of any other conntry of onr time,
land has never been surpassed by that
of any conntry at any period of its his
tory. All onr industries are thriving;
the rate of interest is low; new railroads
being constructed: a vast immigra-
i is increasing onr population, capi
tal and labor; new enterprises in great
number are in progress, and onr com
mercial relations with other countries
e improving.
The amount due the sinking fond for
this year was $37,931,643 55. There
was applied thereto the sum of $78,904,-
617 71, being $35,972,978 86 in excess
of the actnal requirements for the year.
The aggregate of the revenues from
all sources daring the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1880. $333,520,610,98, an
increase over the proceed ibg year of
$59,699,426,52. The receipts thus far
of the current year, together with the
estimated receipts Joy .the remainder of
the year, amount to $40,000,000 which
will be sufficient to meet the estimated
expenditures of the year, and leave
■orpins of $90,000,000.
THE SILYEB DOLL in.
The coinage of silver . dollar, under
the net referred to, began in March,
1878, and has been continned as .re-
qmired by the act. The. average rate
per month to the present time has. been
2,276,492. The total amount coined
prior to the first of November, last was
$72,847,750. Of thia atnuant $47,-
084.450 remain in the treasury, and
only 25,763,291 me in.the hands of the
peotile. A constant effort has been
made to keep this, currency in circula
tion, and considerable expenses has
been Mceaearily incurred for this pur
pose. bnt its return to the treasury is
prompt and sure. Contrary to the
confident anticipation of, the friends of
the measure at the time, of its adoption,
the valueofltbe mlverdollar, containing
412} grains of silver.haa not increased.
nin « l 7 to ninety-two
, w «h(he standard
gold dollar. During the last year the •go-
average market value Of the silver dol-
lar.Jus been eighty-eight and a half
-rt&jKKUU
of| the last Congress in' regard to sliver
tarns it was based on an anticipa
ted rise in the value of silver as a re
sult of that legislation, has failed to
produce the effect then predicted. The
longer the law ieuttinaln force; requir
ing as as it done the coinage of a-nom-
inal dollar, which r -Jn reality, iff hot a
dollar, the greater beoomes the danger
that this country will be forced to ac- r
the sotetegaU/*^
cept a single metal
standard value, in circulatum and
a standard of less value _ than it 'phr*.
ports to be worth in tKe recognized
money of the world.
expenditures of the war department for
the fiscal year ended Jane 30,1880,we^
*■ The appropriations
ityei
$39,934,773.03. „
for thia department, for the current fis» •
cal vear, amount to $41,99,630.40.
With respect to the army, the Sees
rotary invites attention to • the face
that its strength is limited by statue
(section 1116. revised statutes,) to. not
more than 30,000 enlisted men, .but
that provisos contained in appropria
tion bill have limited expenditures to
the enlistment of but 25,000. It m he-
* i least
hearing.
The attorney general recommends
the establishment of an intermediate
court of errors and appeals, It is re- -
commended that the number of jndges
of the circuit court in each circuit, with
the exception of the second circuit,
should be increased by the addition of
another jndge; in the second circuit,
that two shonld be added; and that an
intermediate appellate courts should be
formed in each circuit, to consist of the
circuit jndges and the circuit justice,
and that the event of the .absence ot
either of these judges, the place of the
absent judge should be supplied by the
jndge of one ofthe district courts in the
circuit. Such an appellate court could
be safely invested with large jurisdic
tion, and iu decisions wonld satisfy
suitors in many cases where appeals
would still he allowed to tho Supreme
Court.
PUBLIC LAXDf.
A large increase is reported in the
disposal of public lands for settlement
daring the past year, which marks the
prosperous growth of onr agricultural
industry, and a vigorous movement of
population towanl onr unoccupied
lands. As this movement proceeds,
the codification of onr land laws, as
well as proper legislation to regulate
the disposition of public lands, become
pressing necessity, and I there
fore invite the consideration of Con
gress to the report and the accompany
ing draft of a bill, made by the pnblic
lands commission, which were comma-
nicsted by me to congress at the last
session. Early action npon this impor
tant snbject is highly desirable.
A Judgment of God.
Henry Lemon a yonag man residing
with his grandmother at the Temple, a
little village five miles from Reading,
was arrested last week on the charge of
having robbed an old lady of some
money and other valuables. While in
the office of’Squire Bntz and before
being taken to prison in default of
bail, yonag Lemon became very much
agitated, and in piteous appeals declares
his innocence of the crime, saying that
he hoped that Almighty God wonld par
alyze hjm and strike him dnmb if ho
waa gnilty. Lemon, despite his protes
tations, was sent to jail, and while there
confined was stricken with paralysis.
He shortly after obtained bail and
was taken to his house. The sodden
answer to bis petition * lias created
quite a sensation in the community
which he lives.
A terrible tragedy occurred near
Cookstown, Ireland, Wednesday morn
ing. A bailiff named James Mnlholland
was tmployed to execute a decree against
a farmer named David Gormley, living
at Lough Fay, a wild part of tho coun
try. The decree was at the suit of a
trader, (wo of whoaeclerks accompanied
Mnlholland. Upon arriving at Gorm-
ley’a house the latter came ont with
shotgun and called ont to Mnlholland
to stand. Then drawing a line across
the road he threatened to shoot Mnlbol-
land if he crossed it. Mnlholland paid
— heed to the warning and advanced.
Gormley then raised hia gun and shot
the bailiff through the. heart. The
corpse was soon afterwards removed to
Cookstown. Gormley fled. Most of
tha polios were sway at ftrooks^rongb,
where a land meeting was in progress.
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wid. end constant use for nearly an entire
generation, they have Attained wellmeriied
rank among the few staple remedies ofthe
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