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"If any man attempts to haul doicn the American Flag, shoot him on the spot."
VOL. 5.
THE HERALD
, VV.E 1M 1 Y ,
BY
II. D. HATHAWAY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
, corner Mala street and Levee, second
loty.
Tor as: $2.50 per annum.,,
Hates of Jidrertising
iji iare(pee often lines) oue Insertion,
Sin i iai-ei ivit insertion - "
Prt tit il csr.ls ant exceeding six II
--1'irter column or les, per mnnaro
. six month
three months
it tn ball colan twelve months
u six month
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fi io.I j. an twelve month -
six month - " '
' three m-mths " .
Ultra latent advertt-emsnts But be p
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We are pr.onred to do all kinds of
a .tort notice, andjn a stylethat will
fao'Un.
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WILLITT P0TTENGER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PHTTSMOUTH - - NEBRASKA.
X. TI -TI RlitJETT.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
Solicitor in Chancery.
PLATTSMOUTU. NEBRASKA
sTf cooper.
ATTORNEY AXD COCSSEL0R AT LAW.
IIutt.iioutii. Neb.
Will buy od sell Real Estate, and pay taxes f ir
n r wl - tl 1 1.
Iniprnv-d aod u-itrproved lands and lota frr sale, J
Jue5ih uliv..
K. R LTVINOSTON, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon,
T.nders hie professional services to tbe citiiens of
"rtesT.lenee south-east corner ofOak and Sixth
streets; Oftiee nn Main atfeet, opposite Court House,
pUU.moaih, Nebraska. -
Platte Valley House
Ed. B. Murphy, Proprietor.
''orner of Miin and Fourth Streets,
I'latlauioutto, Neb.
TV:., h-oriue b-n re fltt-rl and newiy rnr
.HhedoSer Cat eU accommodations
a iay ar weW-
Board 1-y
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
Or antral L i id Agent,
l.inc.-.n. - - - -ebra,ka.
Will 0-vliM In any ofthe Curts of the State aad
w.M buy ai.d -11 .al k. al.ou cutum-aaioa. py
ra-, examine nt!e, AC
H ,'J4 'til if
4WELL. 6AM. M- CHAPMAN
TI ix well & Chapman,
TTORNUYS AT LAW,
33Ucitors in Chancery.
.jrWfW, - - - SLBRA SKA.
oa.- urr b.aoa. littery A Co'a Drug More,
rl
joseph
SCULATER
WATCYMAKEB and JEWELER,
Mum Street,
PLATTSMODTH, - NEBRASKA
.-u i. old Peni-,
. w.l.. WKrff FHt 'OO
A rood aMortrnen. oi a.- . - , Vl.
j - T, Ll 1 .
oila, Triinminn awy n haQa
A II work com
oilttcdto hi tare
April 10. ieo5.
rill be warranted.
Plattsmouth SVlills.
C. 1IEISEL, Proprietor.
Have recently been repaired and P'J ' lUoTr
ough running order. Cuatoxa work done on skort
IOO.OOO Bushels 'of -Vlicat
Wauted immediately, for which the big est marke
pi ice will be paid-
J. N. WISE,
r r.;r. Accident, f ire, Intend and
. - ' 7
Transit
INSURANCE AGENT
W iU tk n?kst reonablertsia the most reliabl
. ; .. lk ITs.itaari Slatlt1!.
Cj-Odice at the book store.Pla sironth, Nebra.
ITl.t.iiiery & Dressmaking,
MX MISS A. at.
DESPAIR A M.B. P. S.a!lIT
Opposite iht City BaKr.ry.
WE would respectful y announce to the Lajliee
of .lavis.uJuth nd vicnty . that we '
... . i . .a uii aiicliul inter
U.od.,e .nis.ing of r-lowers. Ribbons, v '.
tmmiu- at., AC. We will sel the cheapes' g
'...'aii n ,Ul-T We can accommodate ali our
alJeustom-rsandasmany new uneawiil '
w..h a call. All am.l of w..ra In our line J-ne to
Her. Perfect jataaiaction given or nocnargea
mystf
HEALTH GOMFORr, AND
ECONOMY,
3 REASONS Foil BOARDISG
" with '
GEO. W. XL.VI3r,
OAK STREET, - PLATTSMOCTU
J Two blocks northwest of Brick dchool-Uouse.
TIE has a
BA TH HOUSE, free to patrons; hi a
il rooms are well ventilated
ana nis prices are
July 43 nltf
asooable.
Capt. D. LAKOO Sc CO.,
"K Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Wines and Liquors,
' Alan a very choice selection of ; ' I
Tobacco and Cigars,
Mtin street, second door east of Seymour Heme,
Jii'i t 0 tv, Nebraska
Are Inst r-celving a new stork of Gemutn Old
WW direct rieaa beaTbea a.aaty, Ky., Bitters.
a. jwyl w
Ir. J. W. THOMAS.
Having permanently located at -
WEEPING WA'lEU FALLS'
tender hid pro(esitiai services to in- ci'irens oi
Cam conuty, Nebraska. Ji7'69:f
NOTICE.
JAMES O'NEIL 1 my authorised Agent for It
eolpctionof all arena n to due the undersigned for
medical service; hi. reeeii t will be valid for the
payment of any monies on said .eeoonts
Auo,tl4. 1S67. K. R. LIT1KQS10S.1I D
IVLTXSlO TLOCiaislc!
PIANOS.
0 It MA INS nLODEOIV'S!
I am agnt for the best sfiteic ' I oslrnowiits amide.
Person wishing to buy Piano. Caolnet. .tlro-n-litan
or p-H-inble Oigans, or IMeh.tleonj, co pur
chase through my agency on us liberal t.rm.aaibey
ran from tbr manuia m en themselves. All Iu'ru
ments fnliy warranted. J. i. WISE.
a,rillf -
FOR SALE OR TRA.DJE 2
gocd dwelir g, containing six rrx ma. a rood
ccl.ar, arid citem, a well, stable word thed
and b itii hed on the lut. situate on the enri er f
Seventh and Locust sireetx ; al-o a two story brick
1 tiiidii.tr. 2936, with two Ints. siiaate on Fifth Hrret
m.r h of iiii lh above propei ty lll be sold
cheap tor rab or traded for an imprvVtfi farm in
Cakconnt
I'or particulars apply on the premise.
v GtO. BOECC
All persons Indebted to me are reqnested tocall
and se'tie irnmedintely, as I must ai.d will have
th'-m settled forthwith. ..
XnvliKf. v . GEO- B0ECK.
IVS I L L!N ERY .
MRS J F- DOUD.
Having just te'eiv d a rhoice aelirtion f Mi'lin
ery Goods irom I biladelphia, uow effera them ior
inspection and sale at rain'a e prices. No pains
has been spartd to obtain the fiuert. material and
latent etylea.
flease evil ard rxamit t at liei residence, one and
a half uiilesrooth of flaUsmouth. oiii5tf
Sheridan House,
Wm. W. Irisu, Proprietor.
Corner of Main and Third Street,
Plattsiiioiitli, Reb
l"oard bv the day
or week. Charges
House daily for
jderate.
I S'aees leave thi
1 point
OlS-Tt.
-or'h. Smith. Et ard West
9 s ; 4 .q 8 f ;-q M 4
To thb WoKXiaa Class: I am now pr'par.d
In turn lh ail clase with con-taut employment at
t'ueir h-ime. the whole of tlie tim, or for the
(a e niomeuti". Business n'-w, liht and pn.fitHb'e
Firty c nts t" (5 per evening, is easily earne.i by
lrfons or eirl.er i-rx. and the bo s and jrirls ea-n
nea'lv as niarh as mn. Great tndnceinent. are of
frreii I ho"- bo will devote heir wh'.le t;n-.e to the
basice ; and, thai every person who seen thin no
tice, may "end me their addre and lest I he bui"esa
for th.mselTe. I make the following unparalleled
fir : To all who are not well ati-nd with the
lm-ine, I wiH send $1 to pay for the iroiiwe
writing me Full particulars, directions ate, Bent
free. Sample sent by mail for 10 c's Addres
aprS E C. Abl-fcJi. Auanata, Me.
LIVER Y, FEED,
AND
Sale staTDle,
BY"
WM- J' HYA'IT, Proprietor,
PLATTSM0CTH, yEBRASLA.
First-rate StablinE and Wagon Yards for the ac
commo'Ution of the pul Ik-, alo a good stock of
HORSES AND CARRIAGES
to let on very reasonable t rm.
Mablenn Main stre-t. n-;v opposite tn m ii
D AN HOl'SK. Plaltsmouth, Xeb. Dtc31tf
SHANNON'S
Feed. Sale and Livery
STABLE.
Main St., Plattsmouth
I am prepared to accommodate the public wtt
Horses, Carriages and Buggies,
Also, a nice Hearse,
On short notice and reasonable terms. A Back wiH
rnn tn steamboat landing, and to all parts of the
city when dcaired.
mr29 J. W. SHANNON.
DR ,TI II iTrciaUSKY,
D TC jST T I S T ,
Will be at D'. Ll'inltstor's Office during the last
vtek In earn month A 1 orders left in the poot-
office will promptly. atleudtd to.
July. .
NEW TOBACCO STORE!
ON MAIN STREET, OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE,
PLATTxlI OUT11, 1 aC Bs.
We wave on baud a la-ge assortment of
CIGARS & TOBACCO,
Consl-ting of.tbe best qualltW of
CIGARS, IINE CUT, PLUG AUD
SMOKING TOBACCO.
As we deal exclusively in Tobacco we can sell as
cheap.it not cheaper than any .there tore in the city.
Give na a call before yon I orrh.se elsewhere, as
we know you will go aw-v sa't fled.
L. DROJ1 &, CO..
February 11, tstiStf.
B. el P Vat LOCK, - B.BXTEuiDHAai
Co. Clerk and Recorder, Dept'y Clerk Kec'i.
Spnrlock 8c Windham,
FLA TTSXO VTB, NEBRASKA
FRONT ROOMS OF C0DRT HOUSE,
Clerk and Treasurer's Office-
LANDS BOUGHT &. SOLD.
Titles Examined, and '
' CoiiTcyances iflade.
Taxes paid and receipts forwardt
r- : promptly.. - : u ; '
riawaeMtitfc. Juaelt.lMS all.
PLATT;SMOU T1J,
NASU1.
The Patriots of the Corners in Humble
Imitation of the Late : President
attempt to Circumvent the African.
Tree Result oj their Little Maneuver.
Fust Urns, Coseedhit A K iads. i
(U'icbis iuthehiatMi Ky ,)
Aptil 16, 1869 )
The tpeech marie by his Ex excel
leocy, A. Johnson, 10 the niggers av
Nathtrille, struck me ez bein a s'roke
op pol cy wich we ought by all meitu
to mutate ' 1 Lev bio long uv tn opin
loo that tnre aiut no fMruiiy yoose in
.1 a nd in iu ttoiit u trie car uv progress-
thtt we must either aet oiuo it tr be
mashed. 1 sed ' -z much to Di-ekm
Pogrom and Elrl-r Pennibacker, and
tli-y yielded t reluuiam assent.
Tl:e nigger is goin to vote any
how," remwrki I; -and bed n't we bet
ter L'obtle our r-bare uv tnem votes
C7
than to tir-v them alt agin us ('
I eejested n meetin to be held at the
t-hurcti. to wich our colored brethren
ehood be all invited, and it Wich the
hatchet shood be forever berried a
sort uv polnikle love ' feast, in wich
there fhood be a sort uv minglin. a
subMdin. a runnin logeiher, ez il
were. Deekin I'ograni entered into
the tkeent wiih considerable energy
after De comprehended il. and Ua
cum, with a bizims sagaity that makes
t.iut one uv the grt financeers uv
the agt, favored it, remnrkiu that any
iiioveiiieni wich wood traiia'orm men
into Deuiokrats must be advantnju to
him. t
I entered into the wurk with more
than my yoosual energy. I d-loraied
the church with mottoes and transpa
rencies. I hed it swept out Even
V I L . I
sum uv toe moitoes wuz ruuier mgu
ecerjtid for the Deekin, but I soothed
him by athourin him that they wuz
only for effctk, and that there wuzn'i
noih.n more iniendsd by them than
there is yoo-ually ii party platform..
I instructed the Deekto and the oih-
er.-fully ez to wot they must do to
make it a perfect success. They mut.
told fin, not only be crrjel o the
niggers thereeelves, but tneir wives
nnd son and (laugh ers must be like-
wie. The Ethiopians muM be made
to understand that we wuz in ernet;
that lhey wuz to be reely counted in z
human?, and by us. "VVe must." I
remarkt, "cut under the Abli.-hnits.v
Everything succeeded beyond my
wildest hopes. The white inhubitanif
u the cornei s wuz all (here, and at
least t ao loird- uv the niggers. I hed
an Jiivi.luinary ti:tidder ez I noiist Joe
Bitiler huiI PtIUck tuarthtt.Iia the nig
gers, but 1 hed hopes, ez the mttetin
wuz called for the purpose f recog
liiztn their files', that they wood let it
go off without interrup hen.
1 wuznpptnted cbuitnian. uv course.
and the new A-es-or, wich is a nig
ger, wuz made Vice Piesident.
I opei ed wiih a tribute 10 ihe cru-r
a aa a a
after and qutlities uv our AiriKin
breihereo. I ashoortd Vro thai I hed
the highesi respect for nn, individoe
ally and collectively mid that, so fur
ez I woz concerned, I wuz prepared to
receeve on terms uv perfeck eLttlry ui
everything. "I my hev prejuodies
1 remarkt. "I may hev allowed thrrn
prejoodies to carry me beyond the
bounds uv rile at time, but, thank
Heaven, them prejoodise:. is cured. 1
km take ihi worthy mat) by the band
(at wich p ui I took : the A er-.-or by
the hand and ehook it, the effeck uv
w th tahloo. however, wuz marred by
his wipin hi hand keerfully and oj
teii'a.-hiily on his breecnes ez soon
ez I let go uv it. at wich the niggers
linered). 1 took him by th- hand,
and in uoiu it I wi-h to be undetbtood
ez slink iu ihe entire Afrikiu race by
the hiiiid. My soul goes out i:i love
toward all uv 'em." .
Deekit! iPitgram remrkt ihut he
cood endorse all that the cheerrnati h-d
sed. He fell that the lime hed now
come when color shm-d not be consul
ered Ble ihe Lord," said the
Deekin. 'I kin my that I look upon
adult niggers ez brothers, ih ymiuger
ones ez children. Hies the Lord. I
kin recognize in the Afrikin my ekal.
and I insist they thel be. from this
time henceforth and forever, on per
cUelv the same footin we stand onto.
Frcm ibis time I t-hel know no white,
no black only nei and wimen The
colored yooth sbel be to me ez the
white yotith.! Bless the Lord. '
Elder Penoibacker. I?saker Gavitt
nnd Ba scorn rhouted "Ameii,'' arid the
Deekin wuz ah ut to perceed. but h
didn't. Joe B'gler jumped onto ihe
platform, and embracin the I'eekin
vocifeTou-ly remarkt that this wuz the
bfginnin uv a new era This wuz the
commencement uv the lying down' uv
ibe 4iqn with the lamh together with a
little child to lead Vm. -Let a," sed
Josef , "let us ' iinike this prertical.
Come up my caddie colored friecd
tome up and errtrace your kindred
Mingle yoor teers, and be quick about
it.",
Iminejltly evejry mulatter. mate and
female, in the bouse r:z to their-feet
ana made a rush. Twelve uv Vm uv
all shade, from ihe ree'r tan color
up to th nearly white, fell onto Dee
kin Pop ran. the men all ehakin bun
by the hand and the jvimmeo all kiin
him. and all in ' korious txclaimin
Kaiberr
"Look upon 'em ea children, Dee
NUBUASKA, THURSDAY,
kin! sung out Bigler, "you've a nacu
rel rue to. Every otie uv et hez got
yoor noze, and hereafter there's to be
no difference !'
An ekul number, or perhaps more,
wuz performin likewise onto Elder
Pennibacuer, Capt. McPeher and
Bascom.
Quitiin the old men, these entboosi
asiic niggers, stimulated thereto by
Josef Bigler, who kept clappin his
hands aud ejaculaiin, How, lovely
Oh. wat a mmglin ! How pleasant 'lis
io see brethren agree !" et tettry,
made rushes for Is.-aker Gavitt. Be
nta Pogram, Ehphalet Penuibacker,
and young Huh McPeher an'i their
sisters, and fnllin onto their r.rcks kist
Vm, ejaculatm -Brother!" or Sister!"
as the ca-e mite be.
"Now," ed Josef, "let the colored
mothers uv these newly recognized
lambs go to ihe elderly white female
saints and embrace Vm in sisterly
love. Troo they aim blood relahens,
but there is nevertheless a lie wich
binds. The sons and daughters uv
these shaded sUiers is blood relasheus
uv the pure white ot.es. In this happy
hour all these differences is to be
bur.fd."
And immejuly a score or more uv
wenches nz and undertook to enibrace
an'' kirss the wives uv Penoibacker.
Pogram, McPeiter, Bascom, tt al.
These females nad been biiin dooriu
the entire percedin, and this nuisht
tnem. It wuz straight hair ag'u wool
immejuly. Mrs. Pogram. who is
ruther bony, laid out iwo uv the firs;
wnh come at her, aud her daughter
Mirandy, takm example, went for
them wich wuz affecshnately callin
her sister. The file become general
in less than a mi nit among the wiruin.
I beard no more ihe gentle word "sis
ter." On th contrary, other words,
not so refined in their nacher, were
yoosed to di-signate each other. And
at ii they all went tooth and nail, the
entire tilen uv 'em. male aud female,
black, white and yelUr and others,
kickin, s rugg'in, bum and sweann,
on the floor. And all this , time thai
cuHd Bigler wuz on the top uv two
seats-, snoutin encourasinly to both
sides, and Pul'ock was bustin out in
penis uv the most uproarious laughter
The struggle nnai.y eudid, fie com
batants bein' cmnp eiely epgsausted.
There wuz ou t . floor ui least a
bushel uv hair, wool, cotton, false
teeth, real leeih, ribbons, stays, bon
nets, el settry, wiih an occasional spot
uv gore. And. to add insult t injury.
Joe Bigler threatened io whale us all
for not carry m out the programme ez
wuz originally contemplated.
'Myself and friends, remarkt il is
oiimii'gated wretch, "hev bin swin
died iutocomui here Aud Oh, Dee
kin. when I think that at sich a time
yoo cood b- so cold hearted as-lo re
sist nachrel insunks! When yoo
were surrounded by yoor offspring,
didn't yoor heart warm toward 'em?
Why did yoo tat Vm off? Ef yoo
can't recognize the ekaliiy uv a nig
ger when that nigger resembles yoo,
when kin y-o? And wot kin our
colored voters expect so long ez yoor
wife en'eriHios the same prejocdis
agin your children? Deekin, for
shame !"
And the wretch rolIed.-cfF. winkin
a moi itisultinglv meanin wink at me.
I tear me that this arrangement, like
meny others I hev made, wuz a fail
yoor. Well, we are no worse off
than before; we caot be.
Petroleum V. Nasbv, P. M.,
(With means Po.-t Master.)
They have a queer rharacier in one
of the town' on tre lonnecticui nver.
He is a man of considerable property.
nnd, we believe, unmarried. He wil
never go near a lady if he can possi
bly help it. It is sid that it i- tre
tjuenily the case that be wi.l posipotie
a visit to New York for a day because
a lady happens to be in the stage m
which he mu.-r ride to the train. At
one lime he sent to the driver cf the
stage to stop for him on the following
day, as he intended to go to New York
When the stage came down the next
day the driver stopped ai requested.
and asked if was going io New York.
The gentleman at fiist said be would
then he wouldn't, then coucluded he
would, then gave it up again, and
finally asked if there would be any
ladies on the trip. The driver told
hint pr-bably not, so he emtarked. A
short distance on the rouie a lady got
nn board ; a lutte further another came
on. Another followed, and ' finally
there were seven ladies in the stage
and only ne man old Eccentricity
h mself. He was caughi thai tuuif and
never recovered from it He Dires
room at a hotel in New York by the
year, as he is there a good part of the
time. He never ises the wafb-bow
nd pitcher furnished by the hotel
but ha one of bis own, which he keeps
locked in bis trunk. If he knows i
he will not al'ow the room to be orcu
pied by any one save himself. One
morning he walked mio ihe offic held
out a long hair to ihe clerk, and saying
found that in my room,' walked off.
His acquaintances know but liule of
him socially, and he is in every re
spect a strange being
Nashville papers call : cases , of
drowning "premature battiim.
MAY 13,1869.
dieu. Lee's Visit to rliuglon.
We take the following extract from
the Washington correspondence of the
Cincinnati Commercial:
One dreary, f"?gy morning, late
last autumn, a gentleman, unattended
rode up - and dismounted near the
house He was a man of military ap
pearance, although in civilian dress,
save the army cloak be carried aud the
spurs that rattled at bis heels. His
face furrowed with care, and his hair
and beard white as snot, indicated
more ate than his form, which was
.
erect, and his movements, that were
remarkably firm and active, although
measured and dignified.
Visitors to this noted place are so
frequent thai his appearance attracted
no attention. He walked through the
dreary hall aud looked in ou ihe wide
vacant rooms, and pa"sii,g to me front
stood for sometime gazing out over the
beautiful panorama, wiih its one great
feature, the new dome of the oid capi
tal surmounted by a bronze statue of
Liberty armed, with her back to him.
gazing seaward.
, From thi be passed to the garden,
and looking over the line of officers'
graves thai bound its sides, saw the
dying fl wers, and willed borders, and
leaf strewn walks; aud continuing
after a slight pause, he slopped on the
edge of the fields, where the 16.000
Union soldiers lie buried in lines as if
they bad lain down afur a review to.
be interred io their places. Some ne
groes were at work here raking up the
fallen leaves, and one old man stopped
suddenly and stared at the visitor as if
siruik with mute a.-tonisbment. He
continued to gaze in this way until the
sirauger, walking slowly, regained his
horse and rode away, when he dropped
his hoe and said to his companions:
ihur as de Lord, men, dai was ole
massah Lee."
One hastens to imagine the thoughts
and feelings that mu-t have agi.ated
ihi- f. Ileu chief as he stood thus, like
Marius amid the ruins of Carthrge,on
the one spot of all oilier, to realize
the fact of the Lost Cause, and it"
eventful hi-tory. About him were the
cenes of his you'h the home of his
honored manhood the scenery that
gave beauty to the peaceful joys of
domestic life. They were nearly all
the same, and yet beiween them and
now came ihs finite war, ihe hoge
cam pa inns and hundred of battles,
oud wi ll the ro ir of mouthing cannons
and rattling mu-ke.iry, and stained into
history by the blood of thousands; the
smoke cf burning houses, the devasta
tion of wide Stales, and the desolation
of the hu"eholds. and all in vain. He
stood there, old before his time, the
nationality so fiercely struggled forun
recognized, ihe great Confederacy a
dream, his home a graveyard, and the
Capitol he sought to destroy grown to
twice Us size, wiih ihe bronze Goddess
gazing calmly to the Easi.
se sii
Tlire Yards Lous" Rip.
There are people who carry the
business of (he day out of the snop, and
even sleep wiih it through the ni0ht.
the following illustration will show:
A clerk in a dry goods store retired
one night, having for his bedfellow an
acquaintance dating back to school
days. Our infoimaut slept in the next
room adjoining, the door of which was
partly open. In the middle of the
night he says he vm awakened from
sleep by hearing the clerk in a loud
voice exclaim :
How many yard- did you say you
wanted, marm? Three yardseuough?"
and the next thing heard was a tear
ing norse, and the bedfellow of the
clerk thouiiiv' out: ;
"What are you doing? You have
torn my shirt from top to bottom !"
The poor dreamer imagined himself
I i
in bis store, waning ou a lauy cus
turner, who wanted three yards of
calico. The shouis of: meriiment
wl ich the event created can be well
imagined.
Tre oldest Mason in the world is
supposed to be resident of Giles
county, Va., Mr David Eaton. The
Harrisburg Gazette ays be was born
in Ireland, but does not kuow bis ex-
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act age. ' Me nas, nowever, tnree
diplomas a Blue Lodge, Chapter and
Knight Templar. They all bear date
in 1802. the year that Mr. Eaton emi
grated. The Knight Ten plar diploma
state lhat he became a Knight Tern
plnr on the 7th of February, 1790, a
little over seventy nine years ago.
A Washington letter says: "Riding
up the averAie last night in the street
cars. I taw opposite me a man: with
hit clothes so badly torn that he was
in an indecent condition. He wa un
der the influence of liquor, and any
body could perceive that he was but a
hale way from the drunkard's grave.
In fact both feet were in and it can be
only a question of weeks and months
as to the end. Yet this man was for
eight years our Consul . General in
Canpda. and drafted the reciprocity
treaty."
' The Senate Chaplain prayed the
other morning in behalf of the disap
pointed office seekers who. he prayed
might return home and become virtu
ous citizens ence more. Score one
for the Chaplain. ' ' '
MISLKLLA.fcOl8.
Thinv four journals have been start
ed in Paris within five years; two
still survive.
Letters from Rome say there is
much sickness among Americans now
in that city.
Five years ago no white man Iired
within ix miles of Ottawa. Kansas.
Now the place has 3,000 inhabitants
In the year 1S6.3. 62 100 emigrant3
- . . a . a - . I
lefi Irish ports, ana it is inougti toe
number thi year will oe sun greaier.
An old lady who has just died in
Boston, bequeathed her property to a
friend, conditioned upon the mainte
nance of a surviving cat.
South Caroliua is soon to hold an
agricultural -ouven ion, al which an
endeavor will be made to form county
societies to impart white labor.
On the soutbeat coast of Madagas
car a large sperm whale was recently
harpooned which contained 2S5 pourds
of ambergris, worth about S25.000.
The Grind Army of the Republic
meet in Nationa' Encniipmeut at Cin
cinnati on the 9ih in?t. It is thought
Gen. - Burnside will be chosen Com
mander in-Chief. .
A Washington correspondent says
the colored cooks at the White House
have declined to perform their duties
on account of the appointment of a
while steward over ibem.
A wealthy Nw York lady, lately
deceased, left S300 000 in gold and
greenbacks buried in a crock in her
cellar. Fortunately for the heirs she
left instructions where to find it.
The Mount Cenis tunnel has pen
etrated through the quartz, and has
come to n stratum of soft stone, which
is so easily worked that it is now ex
pected that the time of opening the
line may be set six months eatlter
than heretofore.
The last poetical story about the
auroral display is that of a correspond
ent of a.New Haven paper, who looked
at the telegraph wires, aud saw
Darks of electricity bop along them
like infiuiiesinially small i'luminaied
loads. ' .
The English Parliament is investi
w
gating the Sunday sale of newspapers
in the kingdom, and thinks of com
pelling the Sunday paper proprietors
to publish on Saturday. Six thousand
persons are employed in Joe iramc in
London every Sunday.
A Ciuii'inatian appealed lo the
courts last week to rid him of his
mother in law. The Court ordered
the old lady to change her residence.
and the complainant gladly paid the
costs and expressed nimself delighted
wiih the result.
The great aquarium in Berlin will
soon be completed. Eight thousand
living varieties of fish, lobsters, crabs,
starfish, and other forms of marine
life have been collected, and are
awaiting removal to the crystal palace
which has been built for them.
The Grand Duke of Oldenburg,
Germany, has issued a proclamation
releasing all of his former subjects
who emigrated to the United States,
and who owed him military service
prior to November, 1S66. from the
penalties incurred by their neglect to
reuder such service before ibeir de
parture from their native country.
A committee of the Bloomington
(III ) Temperance League recently
made a canvass of the women of ihi t
cny, as lo their position on the tern
pern nee question. . This is ihe result
Women in favor of prohibition. 1,33
Women opposed io prohibition. 143
Women neutral aud indifferent. 33
A resident pul $1,000 in 8100
Vreasory notes under his carpel for
safe keeping, about a year ago. and
shortly afterward found they had dis
appeared The "mysterious robbery'
wax unexplained until last week, when
S800 of the money was found in the
palpitating bosom of his little girl's doll.
An itinerant quack doctor in Texas
was applied to by .oue of Col. Hay's
rargers to extract the iron point of
an Indian arrow head from his head,
where it had been lodged fr some
time. "1 cannot 'stract this, stranger."
said the doctor. bekaae to do so would
go n'gh ki'lin' yoj; but I tell you what
lean do; I can give you apill that will
melt ii in your bead." . -
A farmer of Cudrefin. Switzerland,
while recently digging the founaation
for a bain, found from 500 lo 600
pieces of old money, including five
gold coins of the sixteenth centuries,
two of them being Swiss, one Spaoi-h.
one .Polish and the other Arabian;
three silver of Alessandro Farnese
(1592). Philip ot Spain (15SS),and
Augustus of Saxony; besides 560
pieces of Swiss money.
A Texas 1 paper observes: "The
price of Indian scalps has advanced
since the notorious outlaw , Wanton
made a contract wit t the auihorites of
Chihaubau, Mexico, to furnish them
at ten dollars per head, and attempted
to ring in Mexican scalps at the same
price. Col. Buck Barry, of Bosque
county, in wriuog to a gentleman of
Corsicana. says that a purse of S 1.000
has been made up for tbe scalp of
each and every Indian or thief lulled
hi that ectioD,"
AO 6.
Twenty-Five TaTcara Ago.
The coutrast between the slow and
tedious modes of emigr ting from the
Eastern lo tbe Western States twenty
five or thirty years ago, and the quick
and easy way of traveling now, is so
great that 1 will give your readers
some of my experience. Th re hay
ing been no through line of railroad to
Chicago in 1815, , a. journey thence
:rom the Eastern States, often occupy
ing three or four weeks, waa more
tedious the than now. Soma of fath
er's friends bad made the entire Jaad
route of 1,000 lo 1,200 miles 'with
horses and covered wagons, but the
distao.e by way of the lakes, a favor
ite early route, was much greater.
Our friends wrote back 6uch glowing
accounts of the soil, climate, and the
hospitable .fr. ntier .people, that my
father determined to uy his fortunes
in the West. Accordingly, long be
fore sunrise one September morning
in 1845. he and mother, with five chil
dren, and a few housekeeping articles,
drawn by a wu horse team, were
slowly moving aloDg the' dusty road
from Rutland, Vi.t lo Whitehall, N.
Y. The good-byes with the neigh
bors and schoolmates, whom be ex
pected never to see again, had reeo
said the day before'. About noon we
reached Whitehall, and were soon
rausferred on board ibe canal line
boat Red Bird, bound for Oswego, N.
Y. Our quarters were probably more
comfortable on the boat than they
would have been on a crowded packet.
We cooked our meals in tbe "cuddy.
ate in the cabin, tnd at night swung
our hammocks in the cabin. It took
ihu boat several days to traverse the
l ing lines of .ihe Chainpjaiu, Erie and
Cswtgo duals, and we were detained
several days al Oswego, waiting for
the proneller Syracuse, which was to
tike u across Lake Uniarif, tbrouga
ihe Wetland canal, and across Erie,
Huron and Michigan. The small pro
peller was loaded with 300 or 400 pas-
sengers, mostly tor Wisconsin ana
Illinois ports, besides ' consicerable
merchandise, and how she ever reach
ed: Chicago is a wonder, for w eu
countered a fei rful storm one dark
night, and ware driven back eighty
miles through the straits of Mackinac.
Long stops were made at many of the
Lake po Is, but finally, after about two
weeks from Oswego, the anxious emi
grants landed in the busy city of Chi
cago the gate of their golden ex
pectations. ' Ihe streets were crowded
with grain wagons (or - "prairie
schooners," as they were called), from
all sections of Illinois, and il was easy
to find a rude conveyance in these
homeward bound wagons to any point
within eighty or ninety miles . Late
in the afternoon of Oct 20, we left the
city on one of these teams for our des
tination Bloomiijgdale, Du Page Co.,
uow on tbe Chicago and Northwestern
railroad, and thirty miles from tbe lake.
I shall never forget my first eight on
tbe prairie. Ii was dark and cold.
with a dense fog peculiar to Illinois
shrouding everything and making the
air uncomfortable to breathe. Late
in the evening we stopped at a farm
house on the dark and muddy O'Plain
river, and asked for shelter for the
rest of the night. The house con
tained obly two rooms, but as the
owner had once been an emigrant and
understood our "situation," we were
welcomed to slay by his fi e. I never
more thoroughly enjoyed a' good bed
at a well kept hotel, after a hard day's
journey, than I that night enjoyed a
piace on the lloor and a blanket around
ihe kitchen fire on the prairie. The
next forenoon completed our journey
of over four weeks. We met wiih a
w rm welcome at our, new home.
People in a new settlement ; welcome
emigrants among them, and help them
in a manner unknown in older and
wea'thier States. Springfield(Jilass.)
Republican.
The tobowlug has been banded us,
with the request thai we give it a place
in our co'umns: -
"Wasted One hundred and seventy-five
young men, more or less, of
al! shapes and sizes, from the tall,
graceful dandy, with hair sufficient to
stuff a barber's cushion, down to the
little bow-legged, freckled-faced, carrot-beaded
upstart. The object is lo
form e gaping torpj, to be in attend
ance at the church doors at tbe close
of diviue service each Sabbath even
ing, to stare at the ladies as they loave
the church, and io make gentlemanly
remarks on their persons and their
dress. AH who wish to enter into the
above corps will appear on the steps of
the various chcrch doors on next Sun
day evening, where they will be duly
in-pected, their names, personal ap
pearance and uniity of brains regis
tered in a book kept for that purpose.
To prevent a general rush, wi-.will
state that no one will be ealiste- who
possesses intellectual faculties above
that of a well bred donkey." . .
Dr. Benjamin Ayer, tbe member of
tbe. Georgia Legislature who waa
lately murdered by the roadside near
Louisville, in lhat State, .waa a native
of Pennsylvania and a graduate of the
Philadelphia Medical College; for
forty year he had lived in Sooti
Carolina and Georgia. . He was the
only white map inhts county, it is said,
wbo bad tbe ejxirage to vote for Grist.