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VOL. 6.
PLA1TSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1870.
NO. 25
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S2.S0 if not paid In advance.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
.JOHN TAFFU.
HJl CO VGRE3.3 CONTINGENT:
J. E. LA MASTER.
FORGOVBBtfORi
DAVID BUTLER.
T,a .GCllETAltT OF STATE:
V. H. JAMES.
SX)B TREASCREH:
UKNUY KOEiNIG.
;P. ? I TT. OF PC. INSTRUCTION:
J. M. McKEiNZlK.
(JEOUGK II. BHBEUTS.
IX, K. rrSTRICnATTORNKY 2o DIST.
J. C. CbWIiN.
FJ TRLSON INSPECTOR s
i H. GOULD.
nr.prBLUAN plattfohm.
tr-J-l IfftU RrvMiran Par of
?htrtiinD lhe principle enunciated in
.rueritj on aa enduring oasi.
Jv."rrrf. That we heartily endorse the Ad
mL"triou ot President Grant and wmmend
k i . th wf'l of the people of the btate and
in. nation, for ita riid economy displayed m
I vlry department of the GoTernment ; iu hn
t lad laitaful oollection an debureement of
TW li). Vfuaaa and. abore all for 1U eon-trUu?iS,h?-.t.
the .real
heartily tympatEixe with tbe peo-
??SwViTt&u heroio efforts to pre-
tnA,d. Ttat Wo keartny approve "tion
.1 the present Concros. la orovtdinc for a re
iuctitn of the baraB taaaon upon the
L e u the r-olW of the late rebellion and
iltw.UTor a'.ull further rad-rtio. .so soon
Z it c.a be effected I confidently with the pre
.erTation of the pobliC fjUth and credit.
IUHTRUT CO.KVEBITIOS.
t a mceetinsof the delegate to the R'P'M1"
a'n Si' ""nviion. from the eeunt.es of Caw
' iimifri Seward and Butler, held at
: ,in onlhVhth da", of Au. . i w
??Zx o'clock a. oL for the purpose of ielectin
,eI ..f the aooTe named counties. T he Coan-
. ill ntittexiavo representation in ai-l
-1 it tfa.sVi in theState Convention.
CS dW Sarpy count,
VdeVeVate. Sm4w eoanly 3 delegate!., bew-
rd-
Hamilton county I deleatee. Itriwiuv
delegates. n p HATnAWAY. CVa.
Wm. R. 1)V19. See'.
HEPCBMCAJf rO.COSVEKXIO.
There will be a delefaU convention efthe Re-
ue Stlte tS?.. foor candidate, for member .of
' f the llou.e of Vm7fclS?i&
l.,r rouuty Coramiastener for the 1st district. , toe
be h. i h a' Ashland on the Mthof September,
I for the transact. of.eh ".
,,....rlv come before the aenUon. At said
r-oanty Voneenlion the precmcU wUI J entiuru
iat"oTh
Mi. Pheasant
Kork ISluftl
(ireaimh -
Lf'U iile..
Liberty
A too
UVei.iDi Water
..JO
Kirht Mile Grore
Kimwaofl.
Salt Crk
Htoe Creek
p..uth iad
1 'P:on - ."T.; -: i Mr,t,
It is recommended tnet '.? 7 LVtion of
h ,M their primary meeting fr the elec tion 01
delegates, at the usual place. , -"-f
ti..rs in the respective Urecinet. at .the honr 01
oVloi-k r v.. on Saarday. the 17tn ay ei
heptember. I.U. .
hr order of the Comuattee,
ISAAC TTII.U3. Caiiaifa.
RKI'IHLICAX MCETIX."!.
HW , 1 A. u . "
Osjturr&l. will tvadre
. . . it ot'TI PB anH nm. U H. RUDSRIO'
the people of thi State ip..t the iMueaof the
campaign, at the followm um F'-
Aragu, Richardson Co...
.
Uulu. Uicnaroon ui--
Kails Citr. Rit-hardson Co..
Sulme. Richardson Co
I. inoln. Lancaster Co -
Fremont, Dodge Co
S -huyler. Colfax Co
Corumhus. Platte Co
(iraod Island. Hall Co
Blair. Whin;ton Co
'mnii. Douglas Co
b.l.A.ii. Snrnv Co
2uh.S. m.
Mth.Tp.ni
,.'..0t. 1ft.
... M.
... " t.
.... " &h.
.... " 7th.
10th:
Ky order of theStt. ---.
Th Democracy of Nemaha 'county
can't impre. a single Kaiical with the
K.-linf that our nartv reconiie the Fif
teenth Amendment and Reconstruction
tnoasurs as leeitiraat uws of the land.
when every Radical kuowa well that nine
hundred and ninety miu m every thous
and Democrats are THOROCOHLY HOB
tile to them, and only cait the OP
PiiUTlTViTY TO UNDO THE UN
JIST AND WICKEH WORKS
Dr. Ilrnnk. editor Rulo Remitter, and
mr Democratic Candidate for ton
THE CIIALLENUI.
Gov. Butler has cent a challenge to
flon. (that don't mean honest) John 11
'.'roxton, inviting him to meet him on
1!
tl
stmnn for the Durpo?? of discussing
r .
J-!tios male ud for the campaign.
'A ill Mr fVoiton accept? Ve predict
1 c will not. He has accepted the plat-
f rm of hi nartv. but he does not come
t efore the public and attempt to sustain
i . As we have before stated, the main
t lank of that Dlatform is a personal and
v llainous assault upon Got Butler's
cl aracter, which Mr. Croxton dares not
at (erupt to sustain before the people.
It tiad of cominc ont like a man and
s-titinsrthe faith that is in him (if he
h:i; mvt and whv he endorses a platform
ot low personalities he is prying around
k. retly in the abstract busines, endeav
orinz to find somethin: to give plausi
bil.tv to the ulatform. He has turned
reporter for the Omaha Folire Gazette,
wl.ich. i.nitiAn hfl inav have the PnTl
lor nf Violilincr for another two vears.
Wi 'uld it not be a good scheme for him
to hunt ud the "abstracts ot the Hern
dor. House, while he is the business. If
we remember right there wa something
like $18,000 "abstracted" from the city
of t )maha on that little speculation.
Will Bro. Miller, of the 1'ohre uaseue.
give us a little history of the affairr
We yerterday copied an editorial from
the Omaha Tribune, headed "The Chal
lenge." which, throutrh the inadvertence
c r ---- - - C2
of our proof reader, was inserted with
ou' any credit, and we now pro?d to
nri tire rrynrrric frrrrrlrA.
TII FACTN IS THE CANK,
The Cbnra-ea of llahewty ami cr.
raptletM prsrrd to be Qronndlsss.
The Democratic patty of NebraiLa, in
Convention assembled, hare passed a
resolation that David Butler, Governor
of the State, is guilty of "dishonesty and
corruption. 1 hid they have done as a
party, and upon this assertion they start
oat to make a campaign. The organ of
that party, the Omaha Herald, attempt
to sustain that platform of principles by
aAMrting wherein Gov. Butler has been
diiboneut. It has had several of its
tools at work for the past six months
o the effort to find Bometbxsg; . whiub.
would appear damaging to Gor Butler,
and for the past two or three
weoks the entire brains of that
groat and glorious(?) party Lave
been concentrated upon this one
object. CroztoB has been at the Capitol
for the past week examining all tho re
cord, books and papers of the various
offices, assisted by Mr. England, demo
crat io candidate for Secretary of State,
and now let us see what this great demo
cratic party has puoceeded in obtaining.
The Herald charges that Got. Butler
tas swindled the State out of large sums
of the school fund money, and three in-
Lances of loans arc given as follows : One
oan of $10,000 to Anson C. Tichnor, one
oan of $6,000, to John Cadnian, and one
ban of $17,000 to David Butler. After
two years of hard labor in hunting up
evidence, this is all that even the Ilcrald
has ever attempted to charge against the
Governor. Now, let us examine these
charges, and see how great a rascal Gov.
Butler is. The loan to Mr. Tichnor was
made as stated by the Herald, but the
Herald does not state how that loan is
secured. It gives only one part of the se
curity and even then fails to make the se
curity appear inadequate. The loan is
secured by a mortgage on certain real es
tate in Lincoln, upon which is situated the
Tichner Hotel. The house is valued at
35,000. and even Mr. Butler's enemies
admit that it is worth $25,000. Besides
this, the property is insured for over $20,
0JO the policies of insurance being as
signed to the State. Does any man of sense
see any "dishonesty and corruption" in
thia? Can you see wherein the State
can lose a single dollar of the $10,000?
The loan of $6,000 to Mr. Cadman the
Herald is forced to admit is amply se
cured, and the only point it attempts to
make upon this is that there L a piior
mortgage of $1,200 on the property.
The truth is, and the Herald knows it
saflEaslAkt
it. I hat shn m&la(Ui
mortgage has been paid off but the parties
hare neglected to mark the satisfaction
on the records. But the security would
be ample in this case, even if the orig-
nal mortgage held as a prior claim, for
the property upon which it is given is
ocated adjoining Lincoln, and every
dollar of the $6,000 is being expended in
improvements on the land. In this case,
also, the insurance policies arc assigned
to the State. These are the only two
instances where the Herald has at
tempted to show anything wrong, and
the facts aro as stated above. In re
gard to the $17,000, the Herald has
made a great deal of noise, but its only
point made is that Gov. Butler used the
money himself, consequently he must
have stolen it. Gov. Butler stated in a
public speech in Omaha, in the presence
of Geo. L. Miller, the "complete history
of this $17,000, and.he showed to the
satisfaction of every man present,
Geo. L. Miller not excepted, that the
State was at least $3,000 better
off in consequence of his having
uped this money, and that the money
was as secure as any loan could be. The
facts in regard to this money are as fol
lows: In the enabling act passed for the
admission of Nebraska there is a clause
which gives this State, from the General
Government, five per cent, out of the pro
ceeds of the sales of public lands within
our borders prior to our ad mission. This
sum amounted to about $17,000, or about
that sum. This money was drawn by E.
B. Taylorlas agent for the State, and
deposited in an Omaha Bank payable to
the order of the Governor of Nebraska.
This was in May 1869. Soon thereafter
Gov. Butler gave an;ordertoMr. Brock,
deouty Treasurer, for the money, and he
drew it and deposited it in the State
Treasury. There was no law placing the
money in the State Treasury except the
clause in the enabling act, and there was
no law for takingit out in fact there
was no State law touching the case at all
The money was placed in the
Governor's hands by virtue of the
enabling act, and there was nothing
to prevent his having ther use of the
same until such tiaie as the Legislature
should pass somo law disposing of the
money. Did the Governor do this ? No.
But he decided, after being so advised by
the other commissioners, to use the
money, and to pay the interest to the
School Fund. He has already paid over
fourteen hundred dollars of interest on
this money, which has been used in the
distributing school fund ; and before the
sitting of the next Legislature the ear
liest moment when a law could be passed
pkc'iDg this money at interest Gov.
Butler will have paid over THREE
THOUSAND DOLLARS interest
money into the school fund. More than
this, knowing that thero were just such
men as Geo. L. Miller in the State (who
were mad because they could not use
Governor Butler) he decided to leave no
clue for fault finding, and secured the
State by a mortgage on over two thous
and acres of land, worth over $50,000.
The Governor paid $40 an acre for a
part of the land. These are the facts in
regard to the great bugaboo of "dishon
esty, and corrupticm." and tlrtSs are
atl the far?U that the Omahi Herald,
in support of the Democratic platform,
bases it charges of stealing, and thes
are all the facts ascertained by Mes..
Croxton, England & Co., after a long
siege of hunting np evidence to sustain
their charges. Honest voters, does this
look like Gov. Butler was a thief? Does
the fact that Gov. Butler is placing
$3,000 interest money at the disposal of
the school fund, without any law com
pelling it, appear as though he was rob
bing it?
A CHALLAHQK.
ITon. John II. Croxton, Democratic can
didate for Governor, Nebraska City,
Nebraska :
Dear Sir : The representative of the
party that in convention nominated you
as their standard bearer in the present
campaign, adopted at the Fame time a
platform which you accept as the declar
ation of principles, upon whieh you take
your stand before the people, and claim
their support.
One of the principal planks in 4hat
platform, contains the following clause.
"That tee especially oppose and denounce
the dishonesty and corruption of the pres
ent Governor of this State, in his man
ipulahon of the School and other State
lands and property."
I think, sir, that you will agree with
me, in the belief that it is due to the
people of this State and to the Executive
officer thus denounced, that these charges
of "dishonesty and corruption" bo fully
and specificially made out, and the issue
fairly and freely presented at the bar of
public opinion.
In no way can this be done so well as
by Joint discussion, and I ask you to
meet me and discuss thU "dishonesty
and corruption," together with the other
issues, made by our respective parties.
My appointments have been made out,
and if it suit your convenience, the time
shall be divided between us at each
place.
If these appointments are objection
able to you, I shall be happy to make
any changes that may seem desirable to
you.
Trusting you will give my request early
attention, I remain,
Yours veryre9pectfully,
DavidButler.
A WEIGHTY IDEA.
Tfco Last Plea ot its ntKbty CromCon.
The logical (?)
Croxton has at last
Spoken, and he has promulgated an idea
(provided Dr. Miller did not write his
Ir'') must have weighed hoarily
upon his brain if it has .Jaia thre Mug.
He has written a letter declining Gov.
Butler's challenge, and takes the position
that because Gov. Butler has been
charged by "ten cent Miller" with offi
cial corruption, therefore Gov. Butler
stands convicted unless he disproves the
charges. It is said that Croxton is a
lawyer ; but if he can find another man
in this state who can read and write and
will endorse his position upon this ques
tion, we advise him to withdraw in the
fellows favor, for it certainly seems that
the Democracy must hve been hunting
for a man devoid of brains when they
put up a candidate for Governor who
would claim to be a lawyer and then ex
pose his ignorance in public print by
claiming that because a man is charged
with a crime by an enemy, that he must
be convicted unless he is able to prove
that the charge is false. Does Mr.
Croxton have any idea of the amount of
business transacted by the Governor
during the past four years ? Docs he
know that over a million dollars have
been handled by him during that time?
How long does he suppose it would take
a dozen clerks to furnish a complete ab
stract of the business involving the
handling of this vast sum of money ?
Governor Butler has stated in every
speech he has made just where every
dollar loaned or used can bo found, and
just what the securities are, and he has
defied Mr. Croxton, George L. Miller,
or any other man, to show wherein he
has wronged the State out of a single
dollar, and they have failed to show it,
because it cannot be did. It is a very
easy matter to charge a man withacrime,
but sustaining the charge is another
thing. Suppose we should charge Mr.
Croxton with stealing a horse (that
would be looked upon as a worse crime
than Btealing $1,500 from the Otoe
county Agricultural Society), would he
assume that it was our place to prove
the charge, or would he admit that he
Bhould be sent to the penitentiary unless
he was able to disprove it. He might
successfully refute one charge of the
kind, but how long would it take to make
another? We might keep Mr. Croxton
constantly disproving charges. No, Mr.
Croxton, you and yoar party have charg
ed Gov. Butler with "dishonesty and
corruption" and you have, according to
your own admission, been laboring long
and faithfully to find some evidence to
substantiate thatcharge, ' and, according
to your own admission, you have COM
PLEXLY FAILED to find anything
which would be in the least damaging to
Gov. Butler as a State officer or a man,
and now vou have the brazen effrontery
to come before the public and claim that
Gov. Butler t-hould be guilty of these
charges unless he produces evidence to
show his innocence, Shame upon the
man or the party that will assume this
ndioulous position.
Wanli A Cfcaua-o.
No wonder Dr. Mliler wants a change
n the Gubernatorial chir. He has tri
ed to corrupt Gov. Butler and has failed.
He has probably heard of Croxton's
doings and thinks that he is the man
that is wanted. There is a natural affin
ity between bounty brokers ind cotton
THE V1I.LIAXT EXPOSED,
Crouton to br rlwufhterrd .
A w .Man lw b Eleeted.
Tho Dfinoeiacy unmindful of the ad
vice of that fjn at Matuian, Abraham
Lincoln, are about to "Vwap horses while
fording the stream" known as the Dem-
e.-e tlf I . 1
ocratie Myx. e hare it irom gooa au
thority that the meeting is already called
for the purpose of striking Croxton's
name from the head of the ticket. This
is not to be done on account of the many
"low down" things Croxton ha3
been guilty of, but because he
has been caught at them. It is
important that Miller should have
a smarter tool than Croxton one who
will not be caught iu his every act of
rascality. It is ungrateful to Croxton to
thus stone him aside because he ha not
the ability to be a first-class rascal. He
may develop better under the fostering
care of such very successful plunderers
as Dr. Miller. It must be remembered
that Croxton has not had so large a field
to operate in as has Dr. Miller, conse
quently he has not had the same amount
of erperiencc. Ho has done well for the
chance he has had. The fiat has gone
forth forever, that Croxton is to be
slaughtered, and the great question is
what other tool of Dr. Miller's is to take
his place. Will Croxton submit without
a struggle? Probably he dares not
resist.
A FOI L SLAHHEB.
''Omaha, September 16.;
"The republican state centra! commit
tee have leen summoned by thair chair
man
here
Govern-
Rpnutilit-an candidate for Goveraor
They have already been in couucil 'and
decided io forte him to withdraw. ThU
action was brought about, it is said, by
the determined and unreiiiwd attack ot
numerous parties against Butler's ad
ministration during the past two years."
We find he above dastardly attack on
Gov. Butler in the regular Press Asso
ciation dispatcher published in the St.
Joseph Union, and presume it has been
published rill over the country, wherever
the Wo.-tcrn Association nws reports
e taken. Why is this untruthful dis
patch sent from Omaha, and who is re-
spom sible for it? We call upon St. A.
D. Balcombe, proprietor of the Omaha
Republican and President of tho West-
i. t.:
crn 1 ress Association, to reiuie una
slander upon Gov. Butler, the Repnbli-
n party and the State Republican
Committee, and to ece to it that the man
who is guilty of the gross outrage of
furnishing this report be summarily dis
missed and his infamy proclaimed to the
world. Will Mr. Bali mm be attend to
this matter, at nnce.
HIM Will KI.(4RD.
Croxton's war record is about equal to
hia "temperance" record a shown by a
card over his own signature iu to-day's
pater; and his "honesty" record will
probably share the same fate in a few
days. The two paragraphs following
will give some idoa of what Croxton was
about during the war:
During the war Mr. Croxton sustain
ed the cause of the administration in all
nroner effort for the suppression ot the
relcllion and stood firm in the supiort
of the government as a war democrat."
Statesman.
Yea verilv! During the war Mr.
Croxton was engaged in the patriotic and
high minded profession of Subs' it ute
Broker in Ohio. Oh. didn t he sutler
fur his countrv! Thank you for remind
ing us of his war record, Mr. Statesman.
State Journal.
MOKE f.TIDE.'VrE.
As another evidence th:i the Democ
racy are not in earnest when they tell us
they "accept the situation," we quote
the following from the Democratic plat
form of Tennessee :
"Declares the Fifteenth Amendment
enforcement law uncoustitutional, and
urires its repeal. It favors the taxmgot
Federal bonds denounces the recon
natianal banks ; denounces the recon
struction laws and nieces the Demo
cracy of Tennessee to unite with those
of the north in maintaining the rights
of the government."
Do the brethren of Nebraska expect
to control all the other democrats of the
United States?
THE RE.tH(l!l.
The reason for Geo. L. Miller's bitter
hatred and persecution of Gov. Butler
is accounted for by Mr Ticknor. who
proclaims to the world that Miller wrote
him a letter in which lie made a proposi
tion to defraud the State .4" her salt,
provided Gov. Butler could be corrupted.
Mr. George L. Miller is a lteautiful sub
ject to talk about "dishonesty and cor
ruption."
Does the very upright (?) and smooth
speaking Croxton know anything about
a little discrepancy of eleven thousand
dollars between the amount of Nebraska
City bonds authorized and the amount
issued? Probably the "abstracts" of
the Treasurer and Recorder's btoks at
Nebraska City might not be uninterest
ing at the present time.
A Muff, plain man, like Gov. Butler,
will always let the world know if he
chances to make a mistaki; but a suc
cessful lionnty broker is a hard man to
catch in his trickery.
While the meek and demnre looking
Croxton is hunting up "abstracts" will
he be so good as to tell us which pays
the best, "abstracting" the funds from
the Otoe county Agricultural society or
following the 1-ounty brokerage business.
Isn't it a little funny to hear the Oma
ha Herald accuse Gov. Butler of dis
honesty and corruption? The Governor
says he never yet put his property out of
his hands to avoid paying his derds,
neither did he ever redeem his own paper
tft; ten cwtrts en tftc dollar.
Geo. W. Ambrose, to assemble.J-""'""" "r'V b i
for the purpose ot wit hdrawiHg L:nu0.
or Butler froui toe held , as ttet rT.J. iL u
THE CIIAI.1.E.K
Of Gov. Butler to Mr. Croxton, is rich,
rare and racy, and means tight. The
Governor goes into it on his muscle and
naked strength He is to strip for the
contest; and when he shies his castor
into the ring, with a crowd of hardy
woteru lxys looking on, we fear that
Bn. I'roxtoii's amiable goodness will get
sadly knocked out of time the first blow.
Virtue is a good thing in politics, and
e.-scntial, indeed, of all enduring politi
cal life and prosperity. But virtue alone
won't be much against the brawn and
trained muscle of David Butler. We
pity the gentle gubernatorial candidate
of the Democrats. His look ahead is
not a pleasant one. The stone in the
bliog of our ebra?ka David incapable
of t:rli;iutit work, and though this Dem
ocratic champion's weapon is as long and
large as the weapon of the ancient Go
liah, we fear that the naked power of
David's simple atones will lay him low.
The fact is that the political life of
this day and hour demand the best abil
ity as well as the faintliest virtue. To
put a man in high official position be
cause he is a good man, and nothing
more, is a poor policy, we want to call
out our strongest manhood. A political
"Miss Nancy" is only a pitablc tool in
the hands of abler, though it may bo
worse men Negative goodness, indeed,
is a very poor kind of virtue; and a
negative man is only a cross between an
old woman and a pious devotee. Give
us goodness by all means; but give us
mauliness, strength, pluck, vigor with it;
never give a man high office simply be
cause he is negatively virtuous for this
kind of virtue is only the result of inca
pacity to know and feel the power of
temptation. A holy Governor or a holy
Congressman, without other qualities of
power for this to direct and use, stands
a slim chance of being anything but a
victiru and an instrument of wiser and
keener villiany. We look forward with
I tnf Avm-t- s I d i j 4tirw, titur KnriCAun no fro -
l De unuer tne Fanciiiyinir inuueuin ot re-
tying
ligionf Omaha Tribune.
CONVINCED.
A correspondent of the Omaha Re
publican, who says he has resided in
OmahVfor six years without identifying
himself with any political party, says :
"I have for the past two years read,
for amusement, the witty, sarcastic
slanders heaped upon the Governor of
the state, whom I had never seen, but
whom I had learned to respect, because
the dogs all seemed to bark at him con
tinually, without ever having the power
to inflict a wound. Saturday night I had
the pleasure of hearing the honorable
gentleman, and Sunday morning, after
reading a copy of the Herald, and also
the Republican, I sat down, and adopt
ed the following resolutions:
Whereas, Geo. L. Miller seems to
have but one great aim in life, and that
to defame the character of David Butler ;
aud whereas, he fails in every instance,
even to attempt to bring a single proof to
Substantiate his charges; therefore,
Radial, that truth and honor have
been strangers to him for mauy years;
and,
Whereas, Geo. L Miller so earnestly
protests against Mr. Croxton accepting
the thai Ian ire of Gov. Butler to public
discussion of affairs of state,
Resolved, That he well knows su;h a
discussion would be a complete failure,
and re.-ult in a total wreck to the Demo
cratic platform.
Resohetl, That in bestowing upon Mr.
Miller the "meddle" moulded for the
"champion thief" of the State, of Ne
braska, David Butler exhibits a sagacity
worthy of a detective chief, and also
froves that he has learned a profitable
esson from the book which says: "Give
unto Ceasor that whieh is Ceasor's."
Resolved, That, all tilings considered,
David Butler is as much superior to Geo.
L. Milbr as President Grant ia to a rot
ten oyster; therefore,
Resolved, That my "maiden vote"
be cast for David Butler for the next
Governor of theState of Nebraska, and
in view of past neglect, I henceforth
work with a double energy to secure the
ends of justice and right in affairs of
Government."
CHOXTO.' RECORD.
Head. Tein pert nee Men.
From the Chronicle f Sept. 20tn.
It is stated on every street corner that
Croxton will carry the entire Methodist
and Temperance vote. In view of this
fact we reproduce a liitle card whieh
we clip from the Nebraska City Times
of last ApriL This individual had been
nominated on a temperance ticket and
very prompt y published the following:
A CAItn.
Having seen in the Daily News of to
day of a report of a temperance meeting
to nominate a so-called reform ticket to
which my name is appended as chairman
I hereby declare that I was not present
at said meeting, nor was I chairman
thereof, and furthermore do neither
sympathize with bolters, srtre heads or the
so call d Tcmperauce move. I support
the regular Democratic ticket and no
other. J. H. Croxton.
Read the card and ponder well the
character of the man who is trying to
get Republican votes on the ground that
he is a church member and a temper
ance man.
We clip the following pointed item
fiom the Brownville Advertiser:
It seems they have some "people's
ticket" men, among the Democracy in
Otoe county. What's the matter with
Bro. Croxton's home district?
That portion of the Democratic party
endeavoring to bolster up the rotten
hulk of their long since extinguished po
litical organization seems to be more
concerned for the welfare of the Repub
lican party than anything else just now
Thanks for kind intentions, but the Re
publican party is abundantly able to
take care of itself.
The Democracy of Otoe county have
issued a circular charging the Republi
can partv with erecting and maintaining
a State Government in Nebraska at the
expense of the people living within the
boundary lines lines thereof, as though
that were an unheard of and genarous
crime. It is a round about way they
have of finding fault with the poplc for
not voting the Democratic ticket, and
tor not electing Democrats to offices of
honor, tru.st and profit.
The Burlington and Southwestern R
R., to run from Rulo to a point on the
Republican, has ten miles already com
pleted and the bridging and tiemg is
: completed ten miles further. Beatrice
Express.
, an j vast conccrn say3 you can see
i '"gaiety" illustrated by putting a strange
I rr
! rit?r rn a ralfry yard.
Special Correspondence of the Republican.
Eettes- from Xcbraska.
Plattsmouth, Neb., Aug. 2S, '70.
Wc had already decided upon airing
ourselves on the high plains of Nebraska,
and by 8 o'clock in the morning our mux
tangs were dashing "o'er and far away,"
en route to the enchanted vales of the
Big Blue, the cool breeres of the pam
pas making us tightly grasp our shawl
while our enmpagnos du voyage held tho
reins. The frontier cabins passed, we
soon plunged into the boundless pastures
"where a sweep of sea and sod lie bask
ing in the sun," and the grey deer frisk
about unmolested, and the tierce cayote
with glaring eyes and sharp incisors
holds the "balance of power" when the
evening shades appear.
Tho country looks as wild as on the
morning of its creation ; vast grassy
plains dotted over with flowers of every
hue as far as the eye can reach, with no
trees or rivulets discernible: now rising
into retreating swells, now descending
into subdued valleys a land of magnifi
cent distances, whose very beauty and
fertility become monotonous and tire-
some. Mounting another eminence, tnu
"county seat" of a "homesteader,
several miles in the distance rises into
view like an oasis in the desert, and upon
nearing it wo find the solitary occui ant
living like a hermit among the fowls of
the air and the beasts of the field, hold
ing his "claim." and will in due timo
"prove up" and become the lawful
owner of his patch of land.
His hut is constructed from the thick
matted sod of the prairie cut into blocks,
. .1 .1.1 A
regularly piled up and tnatcneu over at,
l,o tnn furnished with door and win
dows, and sometimes plastered inside,
a . il. .
anording ample protection irom me
blasts of winter. Not far off is another
l-',r.A rP tnanamn tvlid TL "ducr-OUt." in-
habited by a similar specimen of Alex-
anuer CtClaira;, who u;a iii.i
tation out of a hillside, carefully covered
front- ornamented with door
and window and a stove pipe penetra
ting up througii tne root.
TKpsp rmmhle cottaires are non-con
ductors of heat, are cool in summer and
warm in winter, and always fire-proof.
During the course or tne aay we saw
mnnv nf t.hes huts, and now and then
children playing about them.
Uur liovernmcnt nas certainty aone
. , . i r " 2'
much good to tnousanus oi muieni.
fkniilie hv orantintr them homesteads on
the public domain on the simple condi
tion ot living upon tnem ior nve years.
In the older settled paris inese squui
tora li!v niitirrown their circumstances.
and now have fine fat ms and comfortable
homes in the most lovely country in the
world. This is so much better than liv
inrr fVnm "hand to mouth." as thous
ands do in our crowded cities, who, by
"roughing it awhile in a new country,
may become wealthy and independent in
a few years.
In one ot these nuts we were sur-
1 tr hp.ir th Hweet notes of a
guitar, accompanied with vocal strains,
and seeming more like a dream than a
reality. A prominent minister oi me
Gospel, residing in Omaha, told us that
he was invited to preach one Sunday in
"dug-out" far away into the wild prai
ries, and out of an audience of twelve
persons, gathered in for miis arouna,
graduates of colleges.
IVUI V V M ..v-w w
a larger proportion of graduates than are
usually iound in congregations cibcu;ic.
Itnr na an m.inv of the ruost intelligent
n.l onirnrionv vonnir men 111 it? rate to
the w st in pursuit of fortune and fame.
it is easy to account loruuuius tmi;u
intellects almost anywhere out here.
Arriving at the Big Blue river, at the
rtnint vUro tlif "Hurliiicton and ilis-
souri Oliver Railway in Nebraska," will
nrncc Wrt h nrf OlirsPlVOS SUgllllV HI U-
vance of the tracklayers of the road, and
in the midst ot a flourishing settlement,
where a village has just been founded,
and will soon be surveyed and laid out
accordingly. It will bear the name ot
Mapleton, or Big Blue City, and aireaay
speculation in town property has begun.
A nlrnw frrvtn Massachusetts will soon
settle near by, and the rich bottoms will
blossom like the rose. I ins large stream
runs through a fertile and beautiful
country, and hnally empties into tne
Kansas river at .Manhattan, ine crops
along it are in good condition, and the
scenery magnificent. Large numbers of
beaver live along its banks, and wild
game abounds in the timber-belts and
prairies. .
TKnm rr numerous mill sites on the
river, and we visited two large mills in
successful operation, eight miles apart.
Two leagues turther up, on tne west,
side, near the diminutive hamlet of Cam
den, in Seward county, we drove into the
celebrated "Prairie Dog Town," known
far and wide, lhe dogs and pups were
holding high carnival as we dashed un
heralded into their camp, taiting mem
entirelybysurpri.se. lhey were play
ing, jumping, running, roiling, eating
roots from their paw.-, and at every ken-
npl stood a sentinel on his nind legs
guarding its portals. They made a gen
Li.inifli uti.l roapViinir their hillocks
Ciai oiauiin '-. " . o
set up a fierce barking, hundreds at once,
.
and only retreated into meir caverns
when we tried to catch them, lhey
resemble little dogs in many ways, and
vary in size from a chitmonk to a half
grown cat, have short legs, round bodies,
hie tails, canine heads, ana are oi an asn
brown color Their town is situated on
high land and covers a hundred acres of
curs, who always live in communities,
and are quite unknown east of the Mis
souri. 1 hev are a great curiosity, ana
are not easily doniestieated.
From ihe towering elevations of the
Tllii Tvinnr.mi of rare grandeur and
u i u .. S - - (
beauty is spread out before us, of wind
mg river, lines ot timber, wide valleys
and rolling prairies, surpassing in extent
and grandeur anything of the kind we
have elsewhere seen ; more like a fairy
land than a prairie land ; but of such 13
the vast, illimitable, changing West, to
become the homes of millions yet un
known, and a new paradise upon earth.
Pnrthfr rtn toward the Republican
river everything flourishes in a state of
primeval grandeur, and the buhalo ranges
around in his native clovi r.
Returning by a northerly "trail" we
traversed "unexplored regions" to our
heart's content, following for miles the
old route of the "prairie schooners" and
rnsiniT the leaten paths of the buffalo.
and again arriving in the settlements, we
., i v.ii .t.
were in another nour in iuu iew oi tue
beautiful city of the plain. Reaching
Plfittsmniith next dav bv rail, we con
cluded to spend the Sabbath with our
friends there. Ihis is a prosperous city
of some four thousand inhabitants, lavor
hta located on the Missouri river iust
below the mouth of the Platte, and is
. a i ,
spread out over as many lovely hills as
thp citrnf Unmp. Shade trees abound.
nn.i u-ivn the nlace nuite a svlvan air.
Ihere are many pleasant residences, nne
I. ml" .-1,
- . 1 . .-i
churches and large mercantile nouses,
and its neniilA ara noted for their intelli
gence and morality, enterprise, sobriety
ami hnfrtit-alitv-
Its railways extend toward the four
nnints nf tho cnninass. and from its sit
uation on the rivTT 5? rrdmirably ndapted
to tho purposes of commerce, tho entre
pot for tlu vast country back of it, and
with a railway to the interior it docs a
large business already, and is bound to
become a place of iuijHjrtancc. Every
thing indicates that.
A lively daily newspaper, tho Platts
mouth Daily llemld, conducted by Hon.
11. 1 Hathaway, a gentleman of ability
and sterling worth, meets with generous
support from tin citizens.
The surveyor general of Ioaa and Ne
braska. (Gen. R. IL Livingston) resides
hero, bavin? long been identified with
the place. This city is also the home of
the lion. Turner M. Maruuett. who set
tled here soon after tho organisation of
the lerritory, and ha-i had much to do in
framing the laws and directing the affairs
of Nebraska ; having perved in both
branches of her Legislature, and repre
sented the State in tho lower house of
Congress.
We heard a Una sermon in the Metho
dist Episcopal Church from Rev. Mr.
Maxrield, and were favorably impressed
with Plattsmouth and its people. W.
i Ki:Rti. ndlui eb.h.
The Law Jlvlng- tine Hundred aed
Mi at y Acre or Laud to Every,
body Wbo Nerved In Cbe War.
Tho following is the text of tho in
structions forwarded from the general
land office to all registers and receivers
in regard to pre-emptions under the new
army bill :
Department ok Interior. General
Land Office, August 8th, 187(. Gen
tlemen The following is the 25th eeo
tion of Urn act of Congress approved
July 16, 1870, entitled, "An act making
appropriations for the support of the
army for the year ending June '60, 1871,
and for other purposes; vie :
Sec. 26. And be it further enacted.
That every private soldier and officer who
has served in the army of the United
States during the rebellion for ninoty
days, and remained loyal to the govern
ment, and every seaman, marine, and
officer and other person, who has served
in the navy of the United States, or in
the marine corps or revenue marine dur
ing the rebellion for ninety days, and re
mained loyal to the government, shall,
on payment of the fee or commission to
any register or receiver of any land office
required by law, be entitled to enter one
quarter sectiou of land, not mineral, of
the alternate reserved sections of public
lands along the lines of any one of the
railroads or other public works of tho
United States wherever public lands
have been or may be granted by acts of
congre.-s, and to receive a patent tl ercfor
under and by virtuo of t he provisions of
the act to secure homesteads to actual
settlers on the public domain, and the
acts amendatory thereof, and on the terms
and conditions therein prescribed ; and
all the provisions of said acts except as
herein modified, shall extend and be ap
plicable to entries under this act, and the
.commissioner of the general laud office is
hereby authorized to prescribe the neces
sary rules and regulations to carry this
section into effect and determine ull facts
necessary therefor.
By these provisioTO-theiroracsteadlaw
of 2'Jth May, 1862, and the act amenda
tory thereof, are modified so as to allow
entries to be made by tho parties men
tioned therein of the maximum quantity
of one-quarter section of 160 acres of
land, held at the double minimum price
of $2.50 per acre, instead of one half
quarter section or eighty acres, as here
tofore. In case of a party desiring to avail
himself thereof, you will require him to
file tho usual homestead, application for
the tract desired, if legally liable to entry,
to make affidavit according to the form
heretofore annexed, instead of the usual
homestead affidavit, and on his doing so,
allow him to make payment of the $10
fee stipulated in the act of 20th of May,
1862, and the usual commissions on the
price of the land at $2.50 per acre, the
entry to be regularly numbered and re
ported to this office in our monthly
homestead returns.
Regarding settlement and cultivation,
the requirements of law in this class of
entries are the same as in other home
stead entries.
Very respectfully your ob't. scrv't.,
JosF.pn Wilson,
Commissioner, Register and Receiver.
affidavit.
Land Office, at 1, ;
of , having filed my application
No. , for an entry under the provis
ions of the act of Congress, approved
May 20, 1S62, and desiring to avail my
self of the 25th section of the act of
July 15th, 1870, in regard to land held
at the double minimum price of .$2.50
per acre, do solemnly swear that I am
the identical , who was at
in the company commanded by captain
, in the regiment of ,
commanded by in the war
of 1 61 ; that I continued in actual ser
vice for ninety days, and have remained
loyal to the government; that said ap
plication, No. . is made for my exclu
sive benefit, and for the purpose of ac
tual settlement and cultivation, and not
directly or indirectly for the use or ben
efit of any other person or persons, and
that I have not heretofore had the
benefit of the homestead law.
Sworn to and subscribed this day of
, before .
Register or Receiver of the Land Office.
Approved : J. 1). Cox, bee y.
Department of the Interior, Augusut
8th, 1S70.
Where any party was a regimental or
staff officer, or was in a different branch
of the service, the affidavit must be va
ried in form according to the facts of the
case.
lhe Journal oj Chemistry says:
When wc pour milk into a cup of tea
or coffee thealbumen of the milk and
tannin of the tea instantly unite and
form leather, or minute flakes of the
very same compound which is produced
in the texture of the tanned hide, and
which makes it leather as distinguished
from the original skin. In the course of
a year, a tea drinker of average habits,
will have imbibed leather enough to
make a pair of shoes if it could be put
into the proper shape for the purpose
At the salt works of Messrs. Smith &
Greene, two miles from Lincoln, recently
from one vat 12xC0 feet, and about 2J
inches of water, the amount ot salt pro
duced by evaporation was 3,500 pounds,
c . a. t: i 4 7
oo says me Lancoin siuvcnxser.
The productiveness of Nebraska can
not be better demonstrated than by the
fact that the cradle and carriage offered
as prnmiums for the first male and female
children born of parents married in Oc
tober last, have been taken. Chris.
Knoell cams in a few days since, and by
presenting a fine ten-pound boy won the
cradle. Usher h Fuller say they are not
in the premium market any longer,
F-rmont T.ihxme.
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE WM.
'Jr:m i S ptcml r 'J)2
A Ktttr ffi.ru Bi.-n arck tf the 1Mb
Fay.:
Tin! i: xf pliac in this v..nJr rfiil Kur
will be the in c.-tBii-nt, and hohopid the
occupation of Paris; and nil l.opt of
Miocessful resist .wo l;n thru over,
there Tuut be peace. Tho government,
of France, or those in power, whoever
they may bo, cannot desire further
slaughter; when all that will be required
of them will be to give certain nb.-oluto-guirantecs
that tho peace of Europe
will not li again disturbed by the ambi
tious aspirations or deirf of their peo
ple, and that the misery which they
themselves brought npnn the two nttiom
may never again be ropated. I nee I
hare been paraded in the columns of the
several journals as having Mated what
those guarantees must and muM not be.
Of course these statements arc merely
romances. When approached by gen
tlemen of the press, I g,caii rally give
them civil answers; their imagination does
the rest. You know what guarantees
are necessary to seeure n lasting pence.
It is rather a political than a military
question. No overtures of pence can lo
well received until tho army is beforo
Paris, but the safety of Germany and
tho peace of the world secured, Germany
will not opposj a termination of the war,
from which she will never retire until the
legitimate aspirations of her children are
secured, and Germany is free frooi a fu
ture cruel and unnecessary slaughter.
Berlin, September 20.
The North Germany Gazette says Bis
marck consents to see Favre, promising,
however, that Germany is nut disposed
to intermeddle in tho into nil affairs of
France. The German States are ready
to recognize the Republic when they aro
sure that the French people prefer that
form of Government; but to protect mil
itary operations, it is necessary to recog
nize in the territory actually occupied, tho
authorities left by the Empire. More
over, it is still unknown whether Ua
saine recognizos tho Republic and the
Government at Paris. Indeed it is re
ported that he expressly disavows both.
Tours, September 20.
All telegraphic communication with ,
Parisceased yesterday. There is ap pre
hension that Tours will be attacked, in
which case the government will probably
remove to Bordeaux. Thiers started to
day for Vienna, from whence ho will pro
ceed to St. Petersburg.
Florence, Scptem!cr 20.
Tho Official Journal publishes the
following details of the Roman question:
Orrin, th North German Embassador
to the Pontifical States, has written a
letter to Lieutenant General Co.irdora,
commanding the Italian troops, inform
ing him of the complete failure of his
attempts to prevent resistance to the
Italian occupation of Borne. The foreign
legionaries defy tho People's wishes in
that regard. .
The Italians must now take by force
what it was impossible to get by diplo
macy. The Italians aro in force on all sides ef '
the city except to the eastward.
In their preparations to receive any
assault being made, th Romans provide
as far as possible for the security nf
property, the venerable monument , and
the lives of non-combattants.
17. . C . , ....
rumwtz, "eptemoer a. in.
The siege of Rome has commenced.
Five divisions, under Gen. Cadorna. iu-
vest the city.
London, September 20.
The Times' Berlin correspondent con
firms Prussia's readiness to treat with
any French government which is capable
of making and guaranteeing peace.
Barricades are rapidly forming at ParN,
inside of the fortifications. Lyons is in
completo state of defence. Mam-
troops arc posted there.
CHICAGO MARI4ET.
Cn cauo, September 20.
Wheat-Irregular, unsettled and lower.
New No. 2 selling before 'change at 1 lOi
and opening on 'change at 1 08, settling
lown to l Ob and tinned up and closed
at 1 08 cash ; seller for October ruled
about a half cent bettor than cash ; No.
closed at 1 08i(l 07 ; .No. 3 new 1 00:
old 9091 : oil rejected at 80.
Corn rainy active but prices lower.
No. 2 closing at 62 for cash and seller
October ; rejected closed at 63.
Uats ixjwer, closing steady at a de
cline; No. 2, 26(5j:37 cash.
Barley Dull and lower ; No 2 closing
at 107: .No. 3, 90V,95. according to
ocation ; tho Utter price in Rock Island
Elevator.
Cattle Receipts, 2,175. nearly all com
mon ; for which there was no demand,
and the market ruled dull. Sales at
5 255 75 for fair to medium ; 6 20(i
7 4o tor good smooth shipping steers.
noes Keceirt.-. 2.882: market un
changed at 653,9 25 for fair to choice.
STArE ITEM.
Of a man who recently died, it is
said, "his name will bo remembered
wherever his deeds and mortgages an
known."
Emigration i.j rapidly pouring into
Webster and Nuckolls counties in the
southwestern part of the State.
Tecumseh has bought anJ paid for a
fifty foot Miller tubular bridge to be
thrown across the river Nemaha at that
place.
A'new bridge i to bs built across the
Elklrorn between Fontenelle and Maplo
V alley, the new station on the r. tj. and
M. V. R. R. It will have three spans
of fifty feet each.
A mammoth tooth, weighing six pounds
and one ounce, was unearthed this week
by workingmen engaged in grading down
an embankment near town. It is iu :i
decaying condition, and the animal it be
longed to has probably been dead tor
centuries. Little lilut.
Parties ocenpying the B. & M. Rail
road grounds have been notified to re
move their buildings at once, prepara
tory to the company erecting a fine pas
senger depot thereon. Chronicle..
Maj. Daily, who has ju-t completed
taking the census of th;s District, was in
the city to day. From him we b-arn that
the entire population of this District is
about twelve thousand. Tho mortality
one hundred and twenty. He promise
us the other items when bis books arc
brought up. Advertiser.
District Court met yesterday. The
application for injunction in the B. h M.
Bond case, was argued liy Gen ft. Sco
field for the people and lion T. M. Mar-
3uctte fo tho I'ai'roal company,
udgement is reserved for tue present.;
Xeip. City Chrorrrrfe.