PLATTSMOtrm VrEEKLY HERALD, TIlUIiSDAY, MAY 19, 1887.
ghc yUtttzmoiith QhcUfo nild.
KNOTTS BROS.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
The Campaign Against Sheridan.
General Itosser, the hero who i build
ing a barbcd--viro fence around the val
ley of the Shenandoah to keep General
Phil Bheridan out, has received reinforce
ments. The Charleston News and Cour
ier has placed itself upon a war footing
and will help at the fenco Fresh from
assisting with all its reconstructed heart
at the effusively eulogistic unveil
ing of a monument to Calhoun, the arch
enemy of the Union, the News and Cour
ier, now unveils its candid opinion of
Sheridan, a staunch defender of the Un
ion, in this stile:
"There is no lingering trace of enmity
in their hearts toward men who fought
honorably and bravely on the opposite
side in the groat war. But the line should
be drawn behind the soldiers. There is
no occasion for honoring any bummer or
incendiary who followed the Federal
armies, or who led them. Brutal and
savage in his conduct of the war, Sheri
dan has shown himself to be no less bru
tal since it ended, and the people of the
valley of Virginia should not fail to ern
phisise in every proper way the utter de
testation in which his character and
shameful deeds are held, and will ever
be held, by the whole people of the
south."
Naturally enough, regarding the great
cayalry leader of the north simply as a
"bummer" and an "incendiary," the fine
Bourborn organ resents the idea that he
should presume to desecrate the Shenan
doah by setting his foot in it. Hence it
is found reporting for duty to Rosscr.
And now by St. Jeff the work tjoes brave
ly on. With Ilosser armed to the teeth
at one end of the Shenandoah, with the
Neivs and Courier brandishing quart
cans of dynimite at the other end, and
"with a barbed wire fence protecting the
entir frontier, the campaign against Lit
tle Phil wears a portentous front. We
do not recall at this -writing a hostile
movement of uglier aspect since the
Pope's bull that gave the comet to un
derstand it ought to be ashamed of it
self. And it is all Sheridan's fault, too. He
began the unpleasantness by not prompt
ly denying the report that he had engag
ed summer board in the Shenandoah.
Had he hastened tQjtelegraph Rosscr and
the Southern press that he was not com
ing down, "prepaying tho dispatch and ex
pressing hia regret that the Shenandoah
should have been made the subject of so
much unpleasant gossip why, then, the
present campaign against him might have
been avoided. It remains to be seen
whether Rosser will order a draft for
more troops. It is certainly to be hoped
that the rumor crediting him with tak
ing out an injunction against Sheridan is
unfounded. We are sure that on second
thought it will occur to Rosser that an
injunction would detract from the digni
ty of the campaign.
A word to the News and Courier:
Keep your eyes on Rosser. True, Sheri
dan states that he never thought of such
a thing as a trip to Shenandoah this year;
but he might change his mind. And if
he should change his mind, just take out
your stop-watch and time Rosser as he
lights out of the valley "and Sheridan
twenty miles away." N. Y. Tribune.
Lincoln and Emerson.
The Cmtury for May says that while
Emerson did not write in verse of Lin
coln, yet in prose he divides with Lowell
the honor of early appreciation and for
tune characterization. In "Miscellanies"
will be found an essay entitled "Ameri
can Civilization," which, according to
a note by Mr. Cabot, is "part of a lecture
delivered at Washington, January 31st,
1863, it is said, in the presence of Presi
dent Lincoln "and some of his Cabinet,
some months before the issuing of the
Emancipation Proclamation." Mr. Lin
coln may have been present, but his sec
retaries have no memorandum showing
the fact, and the Washington papers of
the next day throw no light on the sub
iprtr in fact. Mr. Emerson's son now be-
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lieves that Lincoln was probably not
ttresent The licturer praised the angel
ic virtue" of the Administration, but
urged emancipation; and at the close . of
this essay, as printed, is a supplement
commending the President for his pro
posal "to Coneress that the Government
shall cooperate with any State that shall
enact a gradual abolishment or. slavery.
Next comes his address on the Emanci
pation Proclamation, in which the Presi
dent is greatly praised for his modera
tion, fairness of mind, reticence, ana
firmness. "All these," Emerson says,
"have bespoWi such favor to the act,
that BTeat W popularity of the 1'resi
dent has l re beginning to think
that we.
. v Estimated the capac
V the Divine Provi
rumest of benefit
Permitted to do
other Ameri-
n the same
'-f but mem-
which ho says: "lie is tho true history
of the American people in his time. Step
by step ho walked before them; slow
with their slowness, quickening his march
by theirs, the true representative of this
continent; an entirely public man; father
of his country, the pulse of twenty mil
lions throbbing in his heart, tho thought
of their minds articulated by his tongue."
Again, in the essay on "Eloquence" ("Ea
says and Social Aims"), Emerson praises
the Gettysburg speech, and in the essay
on "Greatness" in the same volume he
gives Lincoln as an example of the
"great style of hero" who "draws equal
ly all classes." "His heart was as great
as the world, but there was no room in it
to hold the memory of a wrong."
Land Crabbing.
A few days ago the Supreme Court of
the United States confirmed the celebra
ted Maxwell Land Grant of 1,700,000
acres lying in New Mexico and Colorado.
It is probably the finest tract of grazing
lands in all of the mountain regions.
There are on this tract several important
cities and towns, including Trinidad
with 4,000 inhabitants, and the entire
population on the grant cannot be less
than 20,000 to 25,000, all of whom lose
their lands and homes, or will have to
redeem them from a rapacious foreign
land syndicate.
A brief history of this grant will show
how our public domain is being stolen
from the people. In 1832 two French
men by the names of Beaubien and Ma
randi, who were traders among- the In
dians at Taos, New Mexico, procured
from the Spanish Government, through
the influence of the Viceroy of Mexico,
an immense grant of land, but which
originally called for only 92,000 acres.
But by official corruption and fraund-
ulant surveys, has been enlarged to
1,700,000 acres. Fifteen hundred thous
and acres of this land grab lies in North
east New Mexico, and the balance across
the line in Colorado. It includes that
grand Moreno Valley, PJacer Mines, and
several other gold quartz mines, includ
ing the Aztec. Beaubien and Marandi
obtained their grant on condition that
they would liberally colonize it with
French Canadians, but they paid no at
tention to this condition, and imported
no settlers. At the treaty of Guadaloupe
Hidalgo the Government of the United
States, on that territory being ceded,
agreed to respect and sustain all lgal
grants made previously by the Spanish
authorities. Mirandi sold his interest in
the grant to Beaubien, the latter haying
one heir, a daughter, who married a man
by the name of Maxwell, and he inherit
ed this grant through his wife. He be
came insolvent, and this grant was seized
by his creditors, and was sold under an
arrangement to a party of Amsterdam
Dutchmen. They had a plenty of money
and were great schemers, and by corrup
tion and bribery have swelled their orig
inal grant of 92,000 to about 1,700,000
acres. Knowing the main part of this
grant was fraudulent, Commissioner
Sparks in 1885, forfeited a large part of
it, and declared it a part of the public
domain, and opened it for public entry,
at least fifteen hundred thousand acres
of it. But this Supreme Court decision
restores it to the foreign holders, and it
is presumed they will take some such
course as they do in evicting renters in
Ireland, or homesteaders on the Crow
reservation in Dakota, to evict the resi
dents on this Mexican land steal. And
this success of the Amsterdam Company
will embolden other claimants for Span
ish grants for a few acres, which by
fraudulent surveys and bribed officers,
have been swollen to millions of acres.
It is not expected the U. S. Court can de
cide otherwise than as the facts are pre
sented. But by the aid of large means,
the records, surveys and officials' reports
have been cooked to suit the corrupt
syndicates. Iowa Register.
And now the saloon has given an
other eyidence of its desperate spirit by
a fresh murder, that of Roderick D.
Gambril, editor of the Sword and Shield,
a paper published at Jackson, Miss.,
which is the prohibition organ in the
state of Mississippi. Meager special re
ports show that Gambril's life had been
repeatedly menaced by the rumsellers,
simply because he was exercising his
right of free speech against the rum busi
ness, nis right to do so was just as clear,
just as absolute, as was that of George
C. Haddock in Sioux City and Dr. North-
rup in Haverhill, O., or of Elijah P.
Lovejoy at Alton, 111., in reference to
slavery, and he is just as much a martyr
to the cause of free speech as were they.
By shedding his blood the rum traffic
adds another to the list of the victims
which it has slain in the desperate effort
to suppress free speech and free action
within the law. The bloody list of these
yictims is getting to be a long one. It is
too long already. It is about complete
in this: it is due and unmistakable notice
that the liquor traffic is convinced that it
must suppress free speech in order to save
itself. When slavery reached that point
the people had to strangle it, and they
did it with mailed hand. Whiskyism
seems to have reached the tame' stage of
intolerable offensiveness. Sioux City
TheTall and Musclesof the Whale.
The power of thin tromendous propul
sory apparatus is almost beyond concep
tion. The weight of a full-grown whale
may be appreciated when the reader re
flects that the famous elephant, "Jumbo,"
would have to be multiplied many times
before his weight would equal that of a
largo whale. Yet the lata Capt. Scott,
royal navy, told me that when on the
quarter-deck of his own ship he repeated
ly saw the whales leaping in mere play
so high out of the water that the horizon
was clearly visible under them. Now,
Capt. Scott lived to be nearly 100 years
old, and when he was in active service
the quarter-deck of a man-of-war was at
least thirty feet above the water, and to
this measurment his own height (he be
ing rather a tall man), and the reader can
then appreciate the terrible power of the
animal's tail. I may here mention that
its habit of springing out of the water is
called "breaching" by whalers. Besides
the great muscular apparatus which has
just been mentioned, the whale possesses
another muscle which surrounds the body;
it is scientiffically and happily called
"panniculus carnosis" or "fleshy rag"
and is developed in varions ways,accord
ing to the animal. It is with this mus
cle that the dog shakes his skin when
he comes out of the water.. The hedge
hog has it very powerfully developed in
order to enable it to coil itself into the
snikv ball with which we are so famil
iar. The mania, Armandillo and echidna
also possess it and use it for a very simi
lar purpose. Man has but verry little of
it, the chief vestiges of it being the mus
cles of the face, which give to the human
countenance its changing expressions.
The whale wants it for two purposes, lie
wants it to enable him to bend his body
a function easily observed in the dol
phins as they curve their graceful course
througli the sea; but chiefly ho heeds it
because by contracting it he can make
his body heavier than a corresponding
bulk of wator. This he has no drliculty
in doing, and when he wishes to seek the
smfice he has only to relax the pressure,
when the body regains its original size
and becomes lighter than the same bulk
of water. By means of this same muscle
hippopotamus, the elephant and the seal
can sink themselves below the surface
and rise again without moving a limb.
For want of it man cannot perform this
feat, and the best swimmers in the world
are not able to sink and rise again to the
surface without moving hand or foot
Longman's Magazine.
The "Self Annolnted" Contingent
- Henry Watterson in his speech before
the Kentucky Democratic Sate convention
very happily referred to the mugwumps
as the "self annointed" members of his
party. The title fits them well. They
are the Pharisees of modern politics,
boasting of their goodness and thanking
Heaven that they are not as other men.
They are the "self annointed" priests of po
litical virtue and morality, claming de
scent apostolic succession from the origi
nal essence of truth and right. But their
annointing is not from on high, but from
below. The ointment of an assumed
superiority they have applied themselves.
They deserve to be known as the "self
annointed" contingent who have set them
selves up as belonging to a higher caste
than their fellows, and too good and
pure to associate with common mortals.
Although traveling with the Democratic
party and professing to be governed by
its principles, they are nevertheless, mas
querading so much that the other element
of the party, the "great unwashed," can
hardly locate them when needed. But
despite the anomaly of the association,
the "self annointed" and the "unwashed"
are to-day the chief hope of the Democrat
ic party. Without either contingent,
the Democratic party would have little
expectation of winningjan election, or ex
erting any marked influence upon public
affairs. The third element of the. party
to whom Mr. Watterson alluded in gener
al, but not specific terms, are the protec
tionists, whomhe.characterized as enemies
"flying the flag of a spurious Democracy."
"I had rather meet fifty enemies on an
open plain in an honest fight," said he,
"than one single enemy disguised as a
friend." With true Bourbon fervor he
delcared himself unwilling to yield "one
inch of the people's ground to the en
croachments of innovation." All that a
Kentucky Democrat needs to know about
a political issue, to make him drop it in
hot haste, is that it is something new.
That settles it, to far as he is concerned.
It becomes at once in his mind "an inno
vation," and he has no patience with inno
vations. Reform of the civil service,
federal aid to education, protection to
American industries, arr all "innovations'
in the opinion of the true Bourbon, and
treason to old fashioned Democracy.
This sort of doctrine is accepted by the
"unwashed" without difficulty, and by
most of the "self annointed" as weiL
So the Bourbonism of Kentucky having
relieved itself againstjthe parody on states
manship that dwells in the White House,
looks upon the situation with great com
placency and confidence in the f uture.
liegister. Two hundred and sixty-two pairs of
twins were born in Chicaso during 1886.
An Unloeked-for Contingency.
When Mr. Jeukins went to his bed
room at half-past one, it was with the
determination of going to sleep, and with
another determination that he would not
be interviewed by Mrs. Jenkins. So as
soon as lie had entered tho door and de
posited his lamp upon the dressing table,
he began his speech:
"I locked the front door. I put tho
chain on. I pulled the key out a little
bit. The dog is inside. I put the kitten
out. I emptied the drip pan in the re
frigerator. The cook took the silver to
bed with her. I put the cane under the
knob of the back hall door. I shut the
fastenings over the back row in windows.
The parlor fire has coal on. I put the
cake box back in the closet. I did not
drink all the milk. It is not going to
rain. Nobody gave me any message for
you. I mailed your letters as soon as I
got down town. Your mother did not
call at the oilice. Nobody died that we
were interested in. Did not hear of a
marriage or engagement. I was very
busy at the office making out bills. I
have hung my clothes over the chair
backs. I want a new egg for breakfast.
I think that is all and I will now put out
the light."
Mr. Jenkins felt that he had hedged
from all inquiry, and a triumphant smile
was upon his face as he took hold of the
gas check, and sighted a line for the bed,
when lie was greeted by a ringing laugh,
and the query from Mrs. Jenkins:
"Why didn't you take off your hat?"
TJi9 American.
Keen as a Razor.
Countryman That feller in the tele
graph office up there thought he was
mighty smart, but I fooled him.
Policeman You did! How?
Countryman Oh, easy enough. You
see I went in here yesterday to send a
message to St. Louis, and told him what
I wanted. "All right," sez he, "75 cents,"
So I paid him the 75 cents, and I'll be
darned if he did a thing but rap that old
brass clicker of his fifteen or twenty
times, and then hang the message on a
hook.
Policeman Well, do you call that
fooling him?
Countryman You just hold on, and
I'll tell you. To-day I wanted to send
another message to St. Louis, but I'll be
gosh-darned if I wanted to pay another
75 cents. So I went up to the office,
kinder polite like, an' sez I "Mister," sez
I, "there's a young lady outside as sez
she wants to speak to you. I'll tend
office for you while you're gone." Well,
sir, he bit right away. Off he went in a
hurry, and before he got back I had plen
ty of time to clink his old brass machine
all I wanted and hang my message on
the hook just as he did the day before.
I know they got it, too, at the other end,
for the minute I got through the old
machine went to clinking like blue-bla
zes, 's much 's to say: "All right, old
man, w hear you." Oh. I fooled him
good, I did. Your Uncle Peter lives in
Wayback, but he ain't no fool, he ain't,
not by a long chalk, no-sir ee! Somer-
ville Journal.
It may not be generally known that
both the war and navy departments have
bureaus of information whose business it
is to obtain knowledge of military pro
gress and preparation in this and foreign
countries. It happened that during the
time when the fisheries dispute had as
sumed a somewhat threatening aspect these
bureaus were uncommonly active in the
search for information, addressing inquir
ies to Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania,
among others, as to how quickly the state
militia could be concentrated at a certain
point, equipped and ready for service.
A reply that must have been entirely re
assuring to the bureau officers was sent,
duly filed and pigeon-holed. The gov
ernor nursed this ciacumstance for weeks
as a profound state secret, but feeling
that all danger had passed, he a few
days ago disclosed it as evidence that the
country was for a time on the veay verge
of hostilities with England. It was a nat
ural inferrence, perhaps, for the gover
nor to make under the then existing cir
cumstances, as he doubtless knew noth
ing of the existing bureau, but he would
have shown discretion in making in
quiries that might have prevented his be
ing led into a confession of amusing sim
plicity. Omaha Bee.
The Argentine Republic, too, is
about to increase its tariff on some com
modities. The principal article to be af
fected is sugar. No such change will
iniure the United States, however. This
country does not figure very largely as an
exporter of that product. Louisiana,
notwithstanding the aid given, that State
by the tariff, furnishes only about one
tenth the cane sugar which the country
cc-sunies, and this proportion is steadily
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