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" ny mfln attempts to haul dozen the Jlmerican Flag, shoot him on the spot.
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PL.ATTSMOUTII.
We find the following notice of our
city in a late number of the Watertown
( is.) Democrat:
The many friends of Mr. Augustus
Schnasse in this city, were glad to wel
come him back from the far west last
week, where he ha; sojourned for the
past year. Mr. Schnasse is now a resi
dent of Platismouth. Nebraska, in which
thriving place he is encaged in busi
ness. He is well pleased with his new
home, and believes Nebraska is des
tined to become one of the best Slates
west of the Mississippi. Plattumouih
is a flourishing city of nearly 3,000 in
habitants, constantly increasing, and
surrounded by a rich and fertile coun
try, well adapted for raising grain
The chief draw-back is the scarcity of
limber, but this inconvenience is being
remedied by the extensive planting of
trees principally cottonwood, black
walnut and locust which matures very
fast, and in five or six years are fit for
firewood antl fences. The country is
being settled wi h astonishing rapidity.
The bes-. latds are being taken up and
brought under cultivation, while the
railroads now in course of construction
will havo nn immense influence in de
veloping the resources of the vast re
gion they pass through.
IMJIAN TROUIILES.
There is no use disguising the fact
that the Indians are extremely trouble-
e along the routes through the
mountain, and are likely to be worse
than ever before. Men in whom we
h'.ave all confidence, who have passed
through the country, tell us that there
is scarcely a day but some poor unfor
tunate loses his life and his scalp, and
iht we do nt hear of half the massa
cres, here on the river. We believe
the only plan that ever will succeed in
checking these Indian troubles ia to
arm and equip western men, and put
them under command of men who un
derstand the Indian character. There
is a vast difference between fighting
ihee red-devils and fighting civilized
people.
mare Depredations.
The A'onj-areil f the 24th says,
late last evening, we learned that the
Indians had attacked and captured the
stage on last Saturday, near Fairview
Station. One passenger was aboard
who escaped by getting ui.der the bank
of the Platte. Sunday they took 2o
head of stock from Lncy and Thomas,
contractors on the U. P. R. R., ten
miles west of Furl Sedgw ick, and the
same Dight run off Jack Morrow's herd,
also cut the telegraph line in Laramie
Plains. This information we obtained
from a gentleman who arrived in Oma
ha yesterday, from the plains, and it
can be relied upon as authentic.
!?5rIt. is pretty well established
now ihat Chief Justice Chase fully in
tended to try Jefferson Davis at
Richmond, about the present time, and
that the frustration of this intention by
the erratic Judge Underwood was net
deemed within the scope of probabili
ties. lint a day or two before the bail
ment of Davis, Judge Underwood an
nounced this intention of the Chief Jus
tice. The question therefore arises.
why did Judge Underwood frustrate
the arrangement, by a proceeding so
contrary to all his out-giviogs? It is
true the District Attorney was not pre
pared to proceed, but this looks very
much like part of the arrangement.
There is room for an explanation in
the case. Vho shall make it? Pitts
burgh Commercial,
rS"Dr. White, the State Geol
gist of Iowa, arrived in this place last
evening. He is now engaged in a Geo
logical survey of this section of the
State, for the purpose of ascertaining,
if possible, the lowest strata of coal
veins through this section Professor
Meek:, of the Smithsonian Institute,
accompanies him. We learn that these
distinguished gentlemen are en-route
to Nebraska City, where they intend
to meet with the State Geologist of Ne
braska and there compare notes of
their surveys with him. The people
of this section await the results of this
Survey with a considerable degree of
anxiety, as it will inevitably t establish
some definite conclusions with refer
ence to the coal measures or deposites
of this locality. Montgomery County
JStws.
Curious Customs. Should a Mos
lem, when praying, feel himself dis
posed to gape, he is ordered to suppress
the sensation as the work of the devil,
and to close his mouth lest the fattier
of iniquity should enter and take pos
session of his person. Ii is curieus that
the opinion prevails also among the
Hindoos, who twirl their fingers close
before their mouths before gapicg, to
prevent the evil spirit from getting in
that way.
An exchange in an editorial,
'Ssks, "Does it pay to bo a woman?"
Tlie Scheme for (lie Location
of tlie Public Buildings.
We publish this morning, n some
what novel bill, providing for the loca
lion and erection of the State buildings
It has been a long time since a scheme
so thoroughly Utopian in charaoter, with
any claim to practicability, has met our
observation. It would do lion r to the
most extravagant notions of Fourier
ism or Free Love, which have been
developed by this age. Buildings
which would cost ordinary mortals bun
dreds of thousands, are to be spoken
or waved by magic wind into mstanta
neous completion. Shades of Aladdin's
lamp, if it had any! Notwithstanding
visions of rack and torture, we must be
permitted to exclaim with Galileo "or
anv other man." that the "world does
move." The tough stories of Baron
Munchausen and of the wonderful for
tunes of the hero who always '.'arrived
safely at Bagdad." are no longer a tax
upon our credulity. A great city, a
"Capital City," is to be resolved into a
huge and perfect existence, with
thronged streets and solid blocks, by
the Nebraska Legislature, at an extra
session ! What oould not be done at a
regular session?
"Please spread out your raap, Mr.
Commissioner. What is the price of
that inside lot at the junction of the
Bayou with Salt Creek?" The word
"inside'' has no reference to ring.
"Only seven thousand dollars, eh?
Dog cheap; I dou t see how you can af
ford it at that. Just as I supposed; yeu
wouldn't sacrifice the property in ihat
way to anybody else. It is on accouat
of my influence! I was anxious for the
location on account ot Being Detween
Punica Fides and Villien Socage!"
So we go, This, we would sny to the
honest tax-payers of the State, is only
the beginning of the end. After a
miserable failure, the secomi part ot
the enterprise will be the presentation
to the Honorable Body of huge un'iqui
dated claims; and they must be paid
because, forsooth, tho claimant was
innocently involved ! It is a good'
thing that the bill provides that this
Cnpilal City shall be the permanent seat
of government. That makes the thing
perfectly safe. While the author is in
that line we would suggest that he re
solve that no further Indian depreda
tions shall be committed upon the
plains. Let every pilgrim carry a cer
tified copy of the resolution in his pock
et, and no red man would have the
temerity to raise his hair. Of course
not.
We take the above from the Omaha
Repvllican. It is not necessary that
we comment upon it people will
,"see it" without. We are loth to be
lieve that the Lrgislature of Nebraska
is composed entirely of either knaves
or fools, as the above would indicate, if
it indicates anything except the bitter
hatred of the writer.
EQUAL, SUTtlAGE.
Womanhood suffrage is now a pro
gressive cause beyond fear of cavil. It
has won a fair field where once it was
looked upon as an airy nothing, and it
has gained champions and converts
without number. The young State of
Kansas is fitly the vanguard of tbi
cause, and the signs of agnation therein
hardly allow a doubt that the citizen
ship of women will be ere long thor
oughly recognized in the law of the
State. Fourteen out of the twenty of
the newspapers of Kansas are in favor
of making woman a voter, and Gov.
Crawford, ex-Govs. Robinson and
Root, Judge Schuyler, Gen Riichieaud
Lieut.-Governor Green, are the lead
ers of a wide spread Impartial Suffrage
League, which has among its orators
Mistresses Stanton, Stcne and Gage,
The vitality of the Kansas movement
ii indisputable, and whether defeated
or successful in the present contest, it
will still hold strongly fortified ground.
Ex-Gov. Foote.of Mississippi, the Sen
atorial rival and professional assailant
of Jefferson Davis, makes the most re
markable of recent contributions to the
cause. He holds that tho universal
suffrage, containing the principle of
Woman's Rights is necessary to virtu
ous politics. "Monstrous half notions
of a bygone age of barbarism " writes
this enlightened ex-rebel, "yet sternly
and unanimously deny the right of suf
frage," and he proceeds to argue that
the women of the land are, at least, as
reasonably and morally qualified to
elect our Government as "those who
now so often elevate to the highest
places of civil rule the drunken, the
corrupt, the imbecile, and tb? profli
gate." We take this expression as a
clear conquest of moral sentiment, cred
itable o Woman's Rights and to Mr.
Foote. He has thus "accepted the sit
uation" in its fullest aspects, and will
yet have a vote if Universal Suffrage
can help him, or the enfranchised
hand of woman take him out of his po
litical quagmire. Tribune.
EST" Colonel Parker, of Grant's
staff, and Gen. Sully were at Sioux
City on the 27th of May, en route fer
the Yellowstone. They confirm the
reports of the hostile attitude of the
Northwestern Indians,
DISCISSION" AT THE .SOUTH
The N. Y. Times, which disparaged
and discredited Senator Wilon. when
he started on his Southern tour, now
speaks approvingly of the general ten
or and effect of bis speeches, yet takes
occa?ion to denounce "the mischievous
and disorganizing mission of Judge
Kelley," and strongly asserts ihat "Mr
Kelley echoes the violence of a fac
tion."
We are amazed at the ignorance be
irayed in these imputations: tor we
cannot believe iheir untruth intentional
Judge Kelley has spoken through the
chief cities of the further South, and
been heard by men of all parties with
attention, interest aud general approval.
save at Mobile, where lie was not heard
at all. We have printed all he said
there, us reported in an unfriendly
Mobile journal and there is not a word
in it that any Candid person could have
taken offense at. His allusion to the
armed force at his back did not provoke
the riot, but was manifestly provoked
by it. The murderous attack, whereby
his meeting was broken up, was a wan
ton outbreak ot the Keoel spirit, as
causeless and inexcu-ubia as the bom
bardment ot r on oumter. it nas al
ready cost the authorities of Mobile
their places, and is very likely to delay
the re admission of Alabama to her
forfeited positiou in the Union.
Everywhere else in the South, in
cluding Montgomery and Ilunt.ville in
Alabama Judge ivelley has been wel
comed by leading Confederates as well
as Unionists of other days, and has
ppoken so kindly and wisely as to com
mand general and hearty approbation.
His principal topic has been labor its
importance, necessity and rightful dig
nity, with the consequent duty of edu
eating the laborer and increasing his
efficiency by machinery and the con
trol of natural forces water, steam,
&c. Judge Kelley has urged that the
South formerly mistook her true policy
in keeping the laborer ignorant, de
based and contemptible, and that her
comparative poverty and raggedness,
in spite of her gnat natural advantages
n soil and climate, are the natural
fruits of this mistake. He urges her
people to profit by he hard lessons of
experience and adopt a radically dif-
erent policy to provide tor common
schools free to all, to encourage indus
try by fair wages and honorable con
sideration, and to lend every energy to
the development of the immense yet
hitherto neglected natural resources of
their States, by building mills and fac
tories on their innumerable streams,
and by mining coal und iros from their
teeming hills. In short, Judge Kelley
has urged the whole Southern people
to forget the errors and feuds of the
past m one united, energetic eliort to
render their industry more effective and
general, and consequently their wealth
more abundant and widely diilused,
than those of the North and East.
These views have been listened to
with satisfaction by the foremost men
of the South, including ex-Govs. Brown
of Georgia and Vance of North Caro-
ina, Gens. Barringer, Wofford, and
other leading ex-Confederates, who
have urged him to speak as widely and
as frequently throughout the South as
possible, If he would consent to make
one hundred speeches more, he would
have distinct, urgent invitations from
those who have been Rebels for every
one of them. He ha3 everywhere dis
couraged the idea of CenuNcation and
told the Blacks that they can have
homes of their own by working hard
and saving what they earn not other
wise. He has told the Southern
Whites that their Slates will be prompt
ly restored ifnhey in goed faith comp'y
with the provisions of the Military Re
construction bill, and not without. In
short. Judge Kelley is now working
his way northward and eastward
through North Carolina, everywhere
pressed to speak on this side and on
that, surrounded by the whole people,
save a few implacable Rebels, and do
ing more in a week toward pacifying
and harmonizing the country than all
his maligners have done in two years,
or wiil do to the end of time.
We urge the Republicans of the uni
formly loyal States to send their rep
resentatives to visit the South. If forty
of our ablest members of Congress
could give two months each to speak
ing below the Potomac, we might have
every State fitly and safely restored to
self-government and to loyal represen
tation in Congress before the 4th of
March next. Others may do good
there; but members of Congress speak
with authority, and command an atten
tion that is not accorded to any beside.
Let ui all unite to urge on the good
work so auspiciously, because so ably
and wisely, begun by Messrs. Wilson
and Kelley. Tribune.
ESfA Montreal despatch says,
bands of Fenians are reported prowl
ing along the eastern border of Cana
da, preparing for a demons ration.
The authorities are fully informed as
to their movements.
ESTThe Nebraska City JYews says:
"A gentleman from New York, said
to be worth three millions of dollars,
entered, last Thursday, in the Ne
braska City Land office, 11,000 acres
of Nebraska land."
Guide-Hoards.
Ed. Herald: Let me call the at
tention ef Road Supervisors to Section
'11 of the road laws :
"Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the
Supervisors ef the several Districts to
cause a guide-board to be placed at the
beginning, terminus and intersection of
any county and territorial road in his
district; which guide-board shall be at
tached to durable ports or other perma
nent fixtures, and the names of and
distances to the principle town r pla
ces on said roads shall be legibly print
ed thereon.
The Indians attack Judse K I ti
ll ey and 1'arty .
i We clip the following from the Den
ver JVeirs:
Bridge Ferry, Dakcta Ter'y,
March 16, 1867.
Lds. INews: Indian Commissioner
Judge Kinney and party were attacked
by Indians at this place yesterday.
The purpose of the Indians seemed to
be to secure slock rather than the kill
ng of any of the party. They charged
down the Bluffs in solid column, drove
n the herder on a double quick, and in
rest time than it takes me to write it,
had surrounued fifty head of stock.
Col. Green, in command of the es
cort, immediately ordered Capt. Wells
in pursuit, and in an incredible short
space of time, all the cavalry were on
the opposite side of the river, the Cap
tain at the head of his column, and
went dashing over the bluffs in gallant
style. They pursued them for about
five miles, when the Indians were dis
covered on a high bluff preparing to
make a stand. He immediately charg
ed and drove them from their position,
although their number more than treb-
d Lis, and scattered them in every
direction and secured all the stock.
Ui fortunately the sun went dawn, pre
venting a farther search; and, but for
this circums-tance, the Indians would
lave received a punishment for their
rashi.es that would have been a. good
3on. The fruits of victory were two
onies captured and one Indian killed.
Capt. Wells lost none of his party, and
there is much credit due him for his
bravery and coolness, as well ns the
balance of the officers and soldiers.
They are all brave, and agree to wipe
cut sj;:;a cf tho atrocities of the red
heathen, and do away with the false
impression that soldiers will not fight
Indians,
Experiment witli-teat.
An experiment was made yesterday
in tetir.g the qualities ef Peat as a
generator of steam at the boiler works
No. 414 Water St., before Gen. Gra
ham. Peter Cooper, and several otner
fjentlemen largely interested in the
manufacture or use of steam machinery.
The peat used for the occasion, taken
fronithc:jDismal Swamp and condensed,
was placed in a super heating steam
boiNr, with a fire-place measuring 42
hy 36 inches, with two series of 3 inch
tubes, each four feet long, on the same
rade. An artificial draft was used,
similar to that employed in the con
sumption of anthracite coal, except that
n deeper body was kept upon the grate.
Steam was raised with double the rap
idity that it can be by coal, but it re
quired more peat by weight than coal
o evaporate the same amount of water,
on account of the strong draft, which
ifl.s too powerful to enable the operat
ors to burn it eeonomically. An exam
ination was also made with peat for
working steel, which resulted satisfac
torily. jV. Y. Tribune.
CiSF" Mr. Hamilton, cashier of the
First National Bank of Washington,
meeting an old friend of Mr. Lincoln's
one morning remarked, "That Presi
dent of yours is the oddest man alive.
Why, he indorses notes for niggers."
It seems that some time before, a' col
bred man, finding himself in danger
of losing his house for the want of
3150, went to Mr. Lincoln and told
his ttory. The i esult was that the man
made a two months note, nud Mr.
Lincoln indorsed it. The note was
discounted by some one. and found its
way into Huntingdon's bank for collec
tion. Upon its maturity the colored
man failed to respond. Instead of
serving the customary notices upon the,
icdorser, the cashier took the note
in person to Mr. Lincoln; who at once
offered to pay it. Mr- Huntingdon
said, "Mr. President, you have tried to
help a fellow mortal along. I am not
willing that you should suffer this en
tire loss; we will divide it between us "
Ana the affair was thus settled.
3 The first Conterence that met
in the second century of Methodism
was that of the India Mission, of which
the leading incident is thus reported :
The great event of our young Con
ference was the establishment of a
College in Lucknow; to be affiliated
with the Calcutta University. This
Centennary College is felt to be neces
sary to the interests of Methodism in
our Conference, and we all feel that
we are unworthy sons, of Wesley, if
we iet it fail. It cannot fail. Funds
enough are already subscribed to put
it btyoad a doubt.
FIUtHES YIIKSUS FAMICS.
It is the custom of nervous and timid
people to groan over every fluctuation
in business, or in prospects, and to pre
dict that every thing is tending to a gen
eral smash; and latterly this chronic
symptom has become quite an epidem
ic. And this state of the public pulse
seems to be quite a Godsend to Copper
head editors, who seek, by the most
dreadful and astounding portrayal and
prophecy of imminent genera ruin, to
alarm the public, and throw it into 'fits'
of despondent desperation; these edit
ors being like the quack in the story,
''great on Jits. And imitating the tac
tics of the "quack," these fellows iry
to make the public believe that thi
ctuntry is suffering dreadfully, and on
the very verge of death, and mat they
alone are capable cf administering the
remedies and the treatment that will
save it. For they know, full well, that
so long as there is any earthly hope,
by any other means, of escaping threat
ened and imminent dissolution and ru
in, the people will sever again commit
the country to ib.e manipulations of
Copperhead surgery. Hence, from all
quarters, Copperhead speakers and
Copperhead journals, are whining and
groaning over the distress of the coun
try, the financial ruin in which it is
plunged, and the deluge of destruction
which the river clouds are pouring
over the land.
It so happens, however, that in the
ordinary line of their vocation, these
same editors occasionally produce facts
and figures in their columns for the in
formation of the public, which do not
harmonise with these sombre fancies
aud prophicies of ruin, "brought upon
the country by Republican rule." A
notable instance of this kind we find in
the New York World's financial de
partment, in the synopsis of the annual
report of the saving s Banks of that
Stnto.
The World says :
The annual report cn Savin rs Banks
shows that there are in this city twen
ty-five of these institutions, which had
in January last, an aggregate of SS6,-
574,343 deposites, and 370,193 depos
itors, or nearly one depositor to every
three inhabitants. The ten cent sav
ings banks in Brooklyn exhibited at the
same time by,414 depositors of S17,-
160.474. and the interior towns had
S2S.031.257, and 111.695 depositors,
makinz for the entire State, a total of
8131,769 074, and 31S.501 depositors,
or one in every eight inhabitants. This
is certainly a cheerful indication of
thrift ar.d foresight, since these recep
tacles of the savings of a working peo
ple are the great reservoirs from which
supplies for support are drawn in eea
sons of depression, when work is scarce,
or when sickness or other evils come to
the household. The following is a
statement of the aggregate amount on
deposite in the savings banks in this
city in January of each year since
1SS0:
1SS0
lt01
$43,410,083
43 t"H8 829
13B4 62,174,604
1865
1SC2 45 0S.",0-25 1866 76,989.893
lt.63 51,23!,25 1S6T 66,o74,343
These figures are significant, and
worth oceans of wishy washy fancies,
as the basis for calculations on the prps
ent and future prospects of the people
These Saving! Banks exhibit the sur
plus earnings, on deposit, of the labor
ers of the country, and the table shows
that they are double the amount they
were in I860. And what is true of
New York, holds good throughout the
county, that the masses are making
more and saving more now than they
did in the ' goed old times" before the
war, when the Democracy was in
power, and Buchanan, Jeff. Davis,
Floyd & Co., were administering the
affairs of Government. In spite of the
dreadful and exhausting war, brought
upon the country by their manipulations
and the immense debt piled up to pros
ecute it, and the heavy taxation re
quired to meet that debt, and all the
evils resulting from it, the masses of
the people have more comforts, are in
a belter condition, and eave more mon
ey now, than they did in the "halycen
days" of the peaceful Democratic rule
of the "Old Public Functionary."
The income returns, it is true, show
a very great decline amongst merchants
and speculators, since last year or before,
simply because goods are declining in
stead of rising in the market. Bui
this decline is no indication of ruin or
of declining business and prosperity in
the country; and we doubt not, a cartful
investigation would show that the ave
rage incomes amongst the wealthy por
tions of the people are larger than they
were in 1S60. These facts and figures
are open to every man's inspection,
and are within the limit of every man's
comprehension. Let them te ponder
ed thoughtfully, and let the people com
pare the present with the past, and
there will be less groaning and com
plaining, and broad beams of bright
sunlight will play across the dark and
lowering clouds with which a distemper
ed fa ncy aud foreboding fear having
enveloped the financial sky. Gate
City.
EST" A vile old batchel r says that
Adam's wife was called Eve, because
when she appeared man's day of hap
piness was drawing to a close.
A released convict from Au
burn'states that ha admires glossy curls,
bat has lost all love for Auburn locks.
Cats Any Oue Tell?
Can any one tell why men who can
not pay small bills ran always find
plenty of money to buy liquor, and
tret when happening among their
friends?
Can any one tell how young men
who dodge their washer woman and
a re always behind with their landlord,
can play billiards night and day, and
ure always ready for a game of aeven
up or poker?
Can any one tall how men live and
support their families who have no iu
cotne and do not work; while others
who are industrious aud constantly em'
ployed, half starve?
Can any one tell how it is that a
man who is too poor to keep a news
paper is able to pay a dollar or two a
day for tobacco, whikey or eigars?
Good Advice. An advertising
agent gives this good advice to business
men. It will pay to heed it: "The
time has passed for people to wait qui
etly in their stores, and trust to circum
stances for their customers. The as
pect of business has been entirely
changed the old landmarks have been
removed, and new channels opened.
People should not now sit quietly in
their stores and gaze upon the dust
gathered around their wares, but with
becoming shrewdness, place their pens
. l a
n paper, enumerate tneir articles, ana
announce through the advertising col
umns of widely circulated papers the
luality of their articles, and where they
may be lound. luen or small capital
long since discovered this sure road to
wealth, and he who does not follow in
in their wake will nnd nimseil dis
tanced."
fy'SfA person calling himself Mau
rice r rieuman, a native of. .Russia,
about thirty years of age. five feet six
inches high, auburn hair, sandy inous-
tache, dark hazel eyes, and prominent
nose, is traveling about trying to inv-
pos himself upon ihe Masonic fraternity,
asking charity which be does not need.
nd to which, as an imposter, he is
oct entitled.
&2FThe London papers by the late
taamers notice the continued withdraw
al from the Bank of England of Amer
ican gold eagles, not for direct trana
m us ion to the United States, but Ger
many, for the use of emigrants proceed
ing to this country. This is an impor
tant ar.d suggestive fact. It indicates
that a proportion of the specie sent from
the United States to pay for our impor
tation finds its way back to us indirect
ly, and reinforced by the bone and
muicie that are far more valuable, in
all the essentials of true wealth than
mere geld and stiver.
l$2fA small sensation has been
created in a limited religious circle in
New York, by the discovery that two
clergymen there both delivered ser
mons, word for word identical, en the
same day. The inference is that they
both by a singular coincidence, mada
the same selections from their librar
ies, or tbey purchased from one pro
fessional manufacturer of the article,
who "manifolded" them.
An editor had a new shirt collar pre
ented to him, and he is now waiting
for some one to give him a shirt.
a
New Orleans, June 3. Sheridan
publishes an order from Stanton direct
ing the suspension of duties at the Le
vee." The Commissioners, Governor Wells
and others having applied for the re
vocation of Sheridan's order removing
the Board of Aldermen, and the Secre
tary calling for Sheridan's reasons, tho
General rerponds in this wise :
"I say unequivocally that Governor
Wells is a political trickster and a dis
unionist. I have seen him turn out
Union soldiers and put in rebels still
clad in prey. I have seen him skulk
away during riots. His conduct is as
sinuous as the mark of a snake in the
dust; his dishonesty is more than I am
expected to tolerate.
Then follows an order removing
Wells and appointing T. J. Durant
Governor.
Another order ramoves Street Com
missioner Baker, for neglect of duty in
not cleaning the streets.
Judge Frazier, of Tennessee, for
some time on trial in the State Senate,
was yesterday found guilty and remov
ed. He is forever disqualified from
holding office.
Atlanta, June 2 The reversed
order suspending the National Repub
lican declaies that it is the duty of the
military to secure the utmost freedom
of speech, and the Press, and orders
officers and seldiers not to interfere
with the newspapers. -
Raleigh, June 4. The President
was escorted to the Capital and receiv
ed a cordial greeting from both whites
and blacks.
The monument was dedicated by an
oration delivered by Hon. D. L.Swain,
closing with complimentary allusions to
the life of the President. He said the
time had arrived when patriotism, not
less than Christianity, requires the for
giveness cf all.
At the cloe of the ceremonies two
young negro girls laid bunches of flow
ers on the grave,
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