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OjaAIIA VS. COLOIUDU.
It (-Hem to be a prriiy well betiled
itlea with Omaha that their interests I'm
in opposition to those of Colorado, 1:1
common with the North Plane and th$
South Pass route. We cannot see what
the L'auis Ly this opposition, unless the
is prppared to relinijuish Colorado to
the yandotte and ToptUa, and tin;
more southern roads. JJy joining hand
in hand with Colorado, and together
pushing the Railroad up the iSouth
Platte (leaving the Smoky Hill rout-i
out of the question) to Denver, thence
over, on through the Iierthoud Pass,
down the beautiful valleys of the White,
the Gieen, and the Uintah rivers to the
Great Salt LiUe, she stands an even
chance, at leat, with other points on
the Missouri river, to gain the trade of
Colorado. The idea that by sui h means
she will lose the Montana aud Idaho
trade, fallacious; because it is part
of the inevitable logic of events, that a
great national longitudinal railway
frjm the IJ.iiih possest-iuns in the
north, must be built, to the Gulf of
Mexico, on the south, bisecting at the
f S I'll .1
eastern iront or tne oramera, tne
vallry of the Saskatchewan, the North
ai;d South Platte, the Arkansas, the
Kio Bravo del Norte to the tidal waves
on the Southern Seaboard, thus divi l
trig i,e whole of this vast circular cun-
t ii' iital area of Column inti iotit
nearly equilateral triamjies, each oi
which in turn inustngain be subdivided
into a thousand oiher tqnares, circle-
t;d triangular forms, which the inge-
.itii y and ncce-sity of the America-,
peop!e may devise.
Again, then, we would like for Omn
a and Nebraska, through her pre?.
to tell us why she is so diametrically
opposed to the Sou'h Plane, Colorado.
iJerthoud Pas and Uintah alley route i
The above is from the Denver Ga
zette, and is answered (?) by the Oma
ha Herald of the 10th inst , in an edi
torial evidently written by some person
, t , TT 11 ' Ti
connected witn tne unurn 1 acme iv. l-v
Co. Senator Evans aud Gov. I3ro:-s
ire viliili. d as "self coasti'.uted paper
railway men" opposing the interest
if Omaha attempting to embarras
he progress of the U. P. R. U., &c,
tnd "entrally, Omaha, whose exist-
nce ami very strergih to day are the
esu't tif the trade of Colorado, is sv'.
up as the power per se to which t'
State of Colorado must cringe and sa-
aai.i if she wants a railroad.
The most preposierous and outrage
ous tergiversations ot me irum are
reely dealt in to show tint the IJ-r-
duuJ Pass is impracticable. Eut the
sccrd is finally disclosed, to wit: If the
line wtre made to run through Denver
'the road would lose the Idaho and
Montana -trade," Another fling is
maue at uov. r.vans, ana men me
representatives cf Colorado'' are in
vited "to look to Dura xt, the man who
is master of the w hole situation."
Some three months ago we cl!ed
a'.tcn.ion to the elTons being made by
the capitalists of Colorado to cause the
main trunk of the Pacific road to b-
located in the Republican valley from
the lOOih meridian. We then gave as
a reason for our opposition to the State
movement that we tad reason for be
lieving that the hopes of carrying
State" and procuring opposition to Col
orado, Kansas nnd Missouri by our sen
ators and representatives was thr
ground work of this hurried Slate
movement, following so quickly on the
heels of the action of Colorado. The
whole matter is in a nut-shell, Omaha
feels that she will be secand in import
ance if the road gees up the Republi
can and through Denver, and that is
the reason, not only for State organi
zation, but for her selfish and unblush
ing bravado of herself, and the com
plete ignoring of those other towns in
Nebraska which have railroad lines
projected westward from them. To
bamboozle the people take advantage
of the enthusiasm of some of our pol
itician, and push forward the sole im
portance of Omaha and her single con
nection with the Pacific R. R., is so
palpable to any renVciing man that we
feel assured "State' cannot carry.
Now, we are far from wishing mis
fortune to befal Omaha we take pride
in the advances she is making, and feel
that she is destined to be a great town
but when her representatives public
ly and persistently do all in their pow
er to ignore Piatismomh and the Bur
lington &. Missouri River Railroid
nay more, lend themselves to a move
ment calculated to do injustice to Colo
rado. We will expose them at any
and every cost. Our rocd westward
will be built, the land is already with
drawn from market fcr the use cf the
company and if we of the Souih
Platte region, by helping Colorado to
her just dues in the great system of
railways, can secure to ourselves the
prominence of the shortest line up the
Republican valley, and therefore the
controlling line, we are not only con
tending for our own interests, but for
those of Colorado also, to whom we
acknowledge ourselves indebted for
much of the wealth and business now
existing in Nebraska. Mr. Dtirant, no
doubt, is a good worker. His ram'a
horn line south of Omaha is evidence
that he is shrewd; but we believe Gov
ernor Evans to be just as good a man
and infinitely more familiar with the
interests and wants of Colorado than
Durant is, er in all likelihood ever will
be. It is actually suicidal for South
Platte to work with Omaha against the
interests of Colorado our interests are
with the gold-bearing State, and our
reflecting men should do all in their
power to secure the location of the line
of the Pacific road up the valley of the
Republican river and through Denver.
To be hoodwinked by a handful of
-hrewd wireworkers is by no means
complimentary to the iritelligence of
our people, and we hope they will
trou.-e themselves to a full appreciation
of the importance of aiding Colorado
in her tfforts to secure the best, cheap
est and shortest route for the main line
of the s:reat Pacific ruad.
"statk" r.iLi::ia.
Colorado has failed to be admitted.
The reasons assigned are that her en
il ling act had expired before she voted
to become a Stat, and that her popu-
ution is iusulficient. W hat do our
physical-force frif nds of State in Nt-
ijraska think cf their prospects for ad
mission under these circumstances? If
Colorado cannot g-t in, how can Ne
braska do to when she is in precisely
he same position as regards population
tnd her enabling act?
i:i:al statc or Tin: soi tii
w
bi low a 'eiter f rom
rent!eman who ha? ju.-t returned from
ttie South, where he enjoyed unusual
(acuities lor olserviij'r me cli.trac.er
ind disposition of the pecple. We
ommend what he says to the careful
consideration ol our readers and of
Congress. lie presents a sad picture
f the condition of tilings in New Or
leans and Memphis, and shows us
what we may expect if these pi-stilent
t 1 1 1
rebels are aroweu to nave a voice in
the government of tht country that has
just subdued them Chicago llrpub
Hcan. Chicago Dec. 11, 1SG-3.
To the editor of Hie Chicago Republican.
Sir, I have just returned from a
rip South as far as New Orleans, and
conceive it a duty to inlorm the public
mind of the North of the real slate of
a Hairs.
In Louisiana the returned confeder
ites are in possession of the entir
State government. Kvery officer, so
far us 1 know, chosen at the recent
election has been active for secession;
and most of them have held olfice, civ
il or military, in the Confederate or
rebel State organization. Wells, the
Governor, who uuring the war was a
Union man, has gone over bodily to
this combination. The tone and tem
per of ihi people is far worse than it
was a year since. Conspiracies and
associations of all kinds' to prevent the
success of the few Union men, pervade
all classy of society and every depart
ment of industry
Any resident of Louisiana who has
given aid to the United States in any
form during ihe war is a marked man;
and no means that ingenuity or combi
nation can devise wiil be spared, 01
are now spared, to crush hi.n out in
business, aud drive him f rem ihecoun
:ry. To have served ill? Confederacy
during the Rebellion, is the ready pass
port to as.-iotance and prosperity. A -a
single example, showing how tin's
feeling runs through society, take this
case:
There- is now in New Orleans, a
man celebrated as the best pilot on the
Red River. As such he was called
on by Admiral Purler, and acted as his
pilot durit.g the Red River Expedi
tion. His license is still valid, hi
character irreproachable; but he can
obtain no employment. There is gret't
demand for Red River pilots, but uon -for
him. The reason is, that th in
surauce companies of fsew Orleans
refuse to take risks on any b at of
which he is ilot, and this Lr no
other reasou than that lie acted as s'ch
for the United States navy. The ma',
ter is to bi brought before the cour';
but, with a jury such as is likely 10 be
selected, he has not the shadow of a
chauce for justice. This feeling :s
universal. Troops are removed from
inland points, and instantly on th?;r
removal comes the breaking up cf the
fret Jmen's schools and the expulsion
1 of the teacher?. This has been dene
at Franklin and other points, and the
next application is invariably for whie
troops to protect them from apprehend
ed negro insurrection, a they call it.
There is but one decently loyal paper
in New Orleans, and that is "the Tri
bune," cotiTolled aud edited by color
ed men. "The Crescent," is edited
by Boi.kner, but is no more southern
than any other. Notice the piru
graphs of ful.-ome praise to the memo
ry of Mulford (whom Butler ju-tly
hung,) upon the occasion of the return
of his widow; see the addresses of. the
professors of the school of Medicine,
in fact, the reading of any days issue
of any of the papers is enough. All
this is the result of the extreme liber
ality and tenderness of the Executive,
and of the toadying propensities of the
money getters of the North, who hove
nattered these returned rebels to the
very top of their ben'. They accept it
as homage due them; and. instead of
viewing themselves as criminals, they
consider thtmselves as distinguished
citizens returning after valuable ser
vice 10 receive their welcome.
The Slate of Louisiana is utterly
incapable of maintaining a loyal gov
ernment, and accepting its relation to
'he United States with safe;y to the
r ederal Government. Mississippi i?
m the sa ne condition. The balance
of power iu favor of Confederates is n
day strong in Memphis: and I have no
hesitation in saying that Forrest is
now the most popular man in the city.
He has b en accepted as a partner iu
the house of Tate, Gill, &. AUe, and
without capital, solely for his influ
ence. The senior partner of that
hnuie, Siunuel Taie. president of the
Memphis and Charleston railroad, al
though tl.e most actively useful to the
Confederacy of any man within their
lines, is paid oned and restored, and
vindicates his claim to pa;don and good
citizen.sh p by employing id man on
the road or in its shops unless he has
been in the Confederate army or
w orked on Confi derate railroads, and
op-nty gives tbi out as Lis policy and
course c: action.
Congress must provide the remedy.
Disfranchise these willing and unre
pentant rebels, or else the peace and
-efety of the nation bus not been se
cured. Oppression and wrong under
-pn-irna disguises wil! envelope the
loyal white arid loyal black people, and
legai sut.terf uges and corrupt combina
tions will restore in some form or oth
er the very evils we have fought four
years to eradicate.
Hercules could crush the heads of
the hydra; but he required Iolas to ap
ply the actual cnutery to kill the ven
ouiotis growth. The army has done
the work of Hercules; it is for Con
gress to perform the duty of Iolas.
From the Bj-toti M di.'al au.l Surgical Journal.
COI5ll.IC l!l!LITi' Ol' CIIOL.-
cie.t.
(CAR ASTI SE. NEC1SS1TY OF COXORES-
SIOXAL ACTION.
At a meeting of the Commissioners
of Health of New York city, held Jan.
:23d, the Resident Physiciau, Dr. Sayre,
announced that 'information had been
obtained by the last arrival from Gju
daloupe.that the cholera was introduced
there by a trunk containing clothing ol
two persons who had died of the dis
ease while on passage from Marseilles,
where the disease prevailed; and the
tact that the woman who washed the
clothes and all her family, died almost
immediately; and that a number of per
sons attracted to her house by the sud
den moi tnlity were also attacked, many
of whom died." He also read a letter
from Dr. C. A. Lee, Professor of Hy
giene iti the Buffalo Medical Uuiversi
ly, which we give as a fair representa
tion of the views concerning the com
municableness of cholera now almost
universally adopted by the profession
in Europe, and w hich we are convince '
will be largely endorsed by physicians
in this country also, when the facts upon
which they are based are fully under
stood ;
Buffalo Uxiversitv, i
Medic .n Department,
January 17, 1&6G. J
Leicis A. &iyre, M. D.:
Dear Sir Some time since you
did mi the honor of requesting my
opinion in regard lo the contagiousness
of cholera. Circumstances beyond my
coniroi have prevented attention to
your request, and even now I can only
britfly indicate the conclusions at which
I havt.5 arrived, after close and varied
personal observations of its progress,
both in oar own and foreign countries.
"In the first place, then, I h ive seen
no reason to believe that the disease is
ever communicated directly from one
person to another, even under circum
stances of the greatest intimacy. In
other words, it is not cont lgiuus, ac
cording to the common understanding ef
that word.
"On the other hand, facts a bun lantly
proke that the disease is partuUe, and
always follows the great routes of trav
el and commercial intercourse. I hold,
also, that we have saiisfactory evidence
that the disease is communicated
through the evacuations of those infect
ed wi;h it. and in this way only. 1
could add ice many instances where
there can be no question that the choi-
era aas teen conveyed to hitherto
1
healthy localities by means of one in
fected person, in whom the disease has
manifested itself only by an apparently
trilling diarrhcea. Persons so affected
may doubtless travel from one place to
another, without serious development of
the disease, and leave behind in privies
anl wa'er-closets germs whijh may
give rise to a deadly epidemic. It is
this fact, so generally overlooked, or
not recognized. thai lias throw n so much
mystery over the cause and mode of
ex'en.-i n of this most fatal and myste
rious malady.
"This fact also explains those appa
rent anomalies in the progress of the
di-ease, why it often takes no d.-fined
course in its wandering, but spreads
indirferently in difierent directions ami
to different quarters, now with the w ind
and now against it now following the
main routes of travel, nevertheless often
deviating from them, but traveling no
faster in any case than ships, railroad
cars, and men travel. Those great
leaps which it sometimes seems to lake,
and which have been supposed to be
owing to the cholera being carried by
winds, are thus satisfactorily explained.
' Although cholera is undoubtedly
communicated by the fresh dejections
of those infected, I think there cau be
but little doubt that, if the poison may
not be actually present in the stools just
discharged, it may be generated in
them nl a later period under certain
condiiions favorable to its development.
Tfie.se condi1 ions are now: pretty well
understood. The contact of such dis
charges with putrid animal and vege
table matters is very certain to develope
the poi-on of cholera, and an impure
atmosphere from the presence of simi
lar matters favors its rapid dissemina
tion. The accumulation of filth and
organic r.-mains, imperfect sewerage,
overcrowding cf tenement bouses, uud
the saturation of the earth with ihe
products of decay, are the chief causes
of the greater intensity and diffusion
of the disease in large cities thau in
other localities. To these, however,
may be added the great imprudence
with which cholera discharges are
emptied into common privies, gutters
and sewers, which serve as foci from
which the malady spreads in every di
rection. Hence, we fidd fha. in locali
ties visited by the disease, the houses
and streets in which those infected re
side are the places of the greatest dan
ger. But while these are being depop
ulated, the epidemic spreads rapidly;
attacking first those low, filthy, over
crowded places, where the predisposing
aud favurin? causes most abound; after
wards ravaging portions of a city and
localities which were at first wholly
exempt, and which were probably
deemed safe from any danger of an
attack.
I think the experience on board the
Atlanta tends strongly to confirm the
c"i redness of these views. The dis
ease originated in the steerage, where
it may have ben brought by one indi
vidual laboring under chottrine. As the
water-closets used by the steerage pas
sengers were not used by ihe first
cabin passengers or the crew, not one of
these latter were attacked by the dis
ease, while large numbers of the steer
age passengers, who exclusively used
them, were seized by the malady.
Does not this theory also afford a good
explanation of the fact that the disorder
is generally more active on lines ol
travel by water than by land? Although
these views seem 10 me to be abundant
ly sustained by well known and acknow
ledged facts, I r in ready to admit that
there are some phenomena which chol
era exhibits in its wanderings, which it
is difficult to explain by any existing
theory. But this ought not to prevent
us from profiting from what is actually
know n.
"The practical lessons which f!ow
froin these considerations are the ful
lowing:
1. Quarantine regulations cannot be
too strict nor too rigidly enforced.
i!. The most thorough sanitary meas
ures must be enforced and carried out
in all places exposed to the invasion of
the disease, especially iu large cities,
where every effort should be used to
have all houses, streets, alleys, privies.
drain, cess -pools.
I.S.'-
c.
thorough'y
ted.
3. All intercourse with places infect
ed with the disease must be absolutely
prohibited, or at any rate guarded with
the greatest care and precaution.
-1. Should the d sease unfortunately
be introduced into a place, cholera
stools should never be emptied into
necessaries and water-closets in com
mon use. 1
J. The police should be instructed to
pour into every privy and water-clo-ei
suitable disinfectants, cr furnish the
same for this purpos.2."
Foot Race. Somf two or three In
dians got iri'o a small fight wi'h a squad
of boys on the corner of Famham and
Twelfth streets this afternoon. At
length the Indians turned their backs
and fled, as if they had got enough. -
The last we could see of them, they
were going for dear l.fe up Eleventh
street, with a hundred or less boys ami
dogs after them, halloing, jeering and
barking. It was a lively foot race, with
the copper-colored individuals a leetle
ahead. Omaha i?ej?.,.lo,.h.
BY TELEGRAPlj.
TO THE DAILY HERALD.
New York, Much 11. At the re
quest of the minister of Fmat.ce, of
Canada, the Secretary of the Treas
ury yesterday gavi to the Canadian
authorities power to place their offi
cers at all railway points on our side of
the St. Lawrence lor the purpose of
examining baggage and freight started
for the British ' provinces. United
States officers are allowed the same
privileges cn the other side of the
river. The second comptrolh r ha-d 0
cided not to allnv claims for rent or
other use of rebels property ; seized
during the rebellion, captured in South
ern cities and used by officers of th.s
Northern army for military purposes.
Herald's Washington Special gives
the following particulars regarding
supposed identification of Quantrill,
ihe Guerrilla A man was arrested
yesterday in New York and in the
custody of an officer was brought to
this city last night and is now in jail
as the notorious Quantroll who com
mitted such dreadful crimes in Missou
ri and Kansas at the head of guerrilla
bands. Senator Lane and othersfrom
Kansas identify him as the man, the
Secretary of war says that as soon as
the identification is fully established he
will turn hnn over to the Kansas au
thorities for trial. Persons have been
sent for who know hi.n well and are
expected here in a few days. In the
mean time he will be kept in close
confinement.
New York, March 14. The report
of the U. S. Revenue Commissioner
iu regard to ihe relations of foreign
trade 10 domestic industry and internal
revenue w ill be sent to Congress to-day
by the Secretary of the Treasury. It
gives a review of the rapid progress
which has been made here in manufac
turing enterprise, showing the lei.dea
cy westward of the wealth of the coun
try, and taking ground in favor of the
liberal policy on the part of employers
in regard to ihe compensation of me
chanics and laborers.
New York, March 11. The inter
nal revenue commissioners are still en
gaged in investigating the frauds al
l.jred to have been perpetrated by the
whisky distillers. Thirty six -persons
hare been arrested and required to give
bail before Commissioner Belts on the
grave charge of having bribed an in
ternal revenue officer. IMore arrests
are expected to be made to-day.
Mr. John Anderson, a resident of
Newr Brunswick, mad? affidavit yester
day that his son, John Henry Anderson,
and two other boys, had broken into
his bureau drawer and taken S2.G00 in
U. S. Treasuary notes and two gold
watches. Two uf the boys have been
arrested, but young Anderson has not
yet been secured. The lads are 17
and IS years of age.
New York, March 15. Tribune's
special says a cabinet meeting was
field yesterday afternoon, and it is cur
rently reported that the remcval of Mr.
Clark was the subject under considera
tion. . .
The King of Belgium has sent a
special embassy to Washington to an
nounce his accessioa to the throne of
ihat kingdom. The embassy consists
of Gen. Delcanluv, with two aids and
a secretary.
The House Naval committee yes
terday heard Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, Fox, who earnestly advocat
ed the immediate adoption of League
Island as a naval station; he pronounces
it the only available location in the
country fit for the purposes and needs
of the iron-dads.
The large number of appointees to
fill vacancies in the army, recently
nominated from the various Congres
sional districts, and passed the exam
ining boirds, were sent into the Sona'e
yesterday, but were not acted upon in.
executive session. Two thousand mil-
itary appointments are awaiiicg con
firmation. The Commissioners of Pensions yes
terday decided that the provision of
law granting'pensions to mothers w hoi
ly dependent, was not merely prospect
ive, but actually existed.
Seventy-five members of the society
A Friends, from Randolph county, N.
C, arrived in Washington yesterday
en route to Indiana, and assert they
were forced to leave their homes from
he persecutions of ex-soldiers cf the
rebel army. One hundred and fifty
more of their persuasion, bouod for
he west, will arrive here in a few
lays.
9 m .
if Tom Thomas in removing the
building this morning, belonging to Mr.
Yates, east of the Seymour House,
picked up from under the sill of the
house the sum of three hundred and
twenty dollars in greeabacks. Ae6.
City .YVu's.
JgO1 The Coal Mining Company
have put their shaft down three hun
dred and forty feet. The prospect of
striking the second fein of coal soon,
is very flattering. Should the news of
a coal oil well spread through our streets
within a week or ten days, n one need
be surprised. -A'eirs. '
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