5
f i .-- e
CSUECH, COLHAT? L CO.,
mopmxrrcrj;
McPhersona Block, 2J Floor, Hall Entrance,
BrornrilIe, 3Vel
0 copy one year
ri ve coplea one year..
Ten copies one year
Twenty copies one year,
BOOK "WORK,
And Plaii axd Favct Job Work, done In
good style and at reasonable retes.
ScnrntI Drrsirirss
Cards of five line or less, $5 a year.
additional line tl.
Each
ATTOIUTCTS.
PORTER & BROWN,
Attrmrys at Uw a4 Ld Art,
Offloe In Court Ilonne, with Probate Jndye,
TIPTON, HEWETT &. CXIURCII,
Offloe No. TO McPherKon's Block, up stairs.
THOMAS A BROADY,
Attyat Uw 4L Slleltr In Chameery,
Offlce In District Court Room.
8. M. RICH,
Attrey at Uw and Land Agtat.
Offloe In Court House, first door, west side.
wm. n. Mclennan,
Attamey and Cvnmtlar at Law,
Nelirafeka City, Nebraska.
B. F. PERKINS,
Attarncy amd Cnnelr at Lw(
Teeo n seh , Johnson Ox, NeU.
CHESTER F. NYE,
AlUrstf at Law aad War C11b Atat,
Pawnee City, Pawnee Co., Neh.
N. K. GRIGGS,
Attarmry at Uw A. Real Eatate Agrnt,
Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska.
LAID AGENTS.
R. V. HUGHES,
Real Eatate Agent and J Mat lee mt Peaea,
Offlce in Court II Quae, first door, west side.
BARRET A LETT,
aajad Aacnta d Land Warrant Braktrt.
No. Bl Main Street.
inn attend to paying Tax far Xon-retident.
JertoHOl aueutum tnven to making uucaiion.
ixtadt, imprtn-ed and unimproved, or tale on
reasonable term.
WM. 11. HOOVER,
Kul Eatate amd Tax Paying Agent.
Offloe in District Court Room,
Vnil pire prompt attention to the tale of Real
JUtate and flxymenl of Taxet throughout the
JS emaha Jjand iJistrvt.
JONAS HACKER,
Calleetar far the Ctty af Brownville,
Will attend to the Payment of Tax for Aon-
Jlestdent lwd Owner xn Nemaha IXmnty.
Vurretpondence iauitcUed.
DORSET, HOADLEY t CO.,
Real Eatate Aa-entaand Dealers iaLaad
W trraau ana tautgt acrip,
No. 7 Main Street.
Buy and rll improved and tmimproved land.
7fi(V, m-U md locate jjana M arrmu, ana A.or-
ctuiurai Umii. Careful selection or uovt
tnent Ixmdt Jor Loeatum. Homett-ead. and lre-
empttontmade. Attend to Itontetted Homestead
and JTe-emtttwn case in tne Jjand LKftee. Let
ter of inquiry promAlt and carejulty answered.
(jorresjtondenei: sui ultra.
MOSES IL SYDENHAM,
NOTARY PUBLIC dv L1XD AGEST,
Fort Kearney, yebratka.
Will locale landa for Intending settlers, and
cive anv iuloruiatiou required concerning
Ue lands of Soutli-Westcru Nebraska. i--4o
pirrsiciAKS
IL L. MATHEWS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
USic No.81 Main Street.
A. S. IIOLLADAY. M. D.,
Pfayatelan, Sargeon and Obatetrlcti
Offlce HoUaday t Co s Drug Store.
(iraduaJed in 1S51 ; LttcxUed in Urownrilie in
1 S-'xi. Ha on hatuJ eomjMele set of A tnjnUaling,
Irruhimna and (Mtstetrtcal Instrument.
1: V fitjtecuit attention (nen to Obstetric and
lite 4Uae of H omen aiui i iwurra.
C. F. STEWART, M. D-,
PHYSICIAN AND SIRGEOX,
Office No. 21 Main Street.
r t . i . . , , . O t C 1
WJtre iiwtb t iv v a. .At., onu 4 o um ; j
to
ru y. m.
W. II. KIMBERLIN,
OCULIST AND AURIST,
Rooms at the Star Hotel.
Will Treat all dieaet of the Ae and Ear.
MERCHANDISE,
GEORGE MARION,
Dealer in
Dry Caadi, Graeertea, Baota, Shots, ac
No. 9 Main Street.
WM. T. DEN,
Wholetale and Retail I dealer in
General Mrrcnandtae, and Cantniaalan
and Ferwardiag SlcrcUanl,
No. 26 Main Street.
(yrm planter. J'hnrt, Stoi, Furniture, &c.
Bt'mis on hand. Highest mark el price paid for
Jiutes, Pelt, fur ana iijvntry Produce.
G. M. HENDERSON,
Jpealer in fWeign and Domestic
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES,
No. a 3 Main Street.
J. L. MrGEE A CO.
Deal era In General Merchandise,
No. 7 McPherson's Block. Main St.
DRUG STORES.
IIOLLADAY A CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Orari, Medicines, Paint, Oils, etc.,
No. 41 Main feireet-
McCREERY A NiCKELL,
Wholetale and Retail Dealer in
Drap, Baaka, AV all pa per Statlanery
No. 32 Main Street.
BOOTS AND SII0E&
CHARLES HELMEu7
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
No. C2 Main Street.
no on hand a superior stock of Boots and
Shoe. Custom Work done with neat net and
dispatch.
A ROBINSON,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
No. 5 8 Main Street.
Has on hand a pood assortment of Genf
Jjodie't, M'ssr' and ( fiUdren't Boot and Hhoe.
Custom Work done with neatnest and dupalch.
Rcjxuruia done on short notice.
HARDWARE.
JOHN C. DEUSER.
Dealer In Staves, Tinware, Pmaapa, ek-e
No. 7 9 Main Street.
SIIELLENEERGER ERO'S,
Mannfactnrers A. Dcalera In Tinware.
No. 74 Main St., McPheraon'a Block.
Stoves, Hardware, Carpenter Tool, Black
smith' Furnishing, i t, constantly on hand.
SADDLERY.
JOHN W. MIDDLETON.
HARNESS, BRIDLES, COLLARS, Eta.
No. 64 Main Street.
Whip and Lashes of every description, and
plastering Hair, kept a hand. Cash paid for
Hute.
J. IL BAUER,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
n ARNESS, BRIDLES, COLLARS, Etc.
No. 60 Main Street.
Mending done to order. Satisfaction guaranteed.
SALOONS.
--w "w e
CHARLES BUI EG EL,
BEER HALL AND LUNCH ROOS,
No. SS Main Street.
GARRISON A ROBERTS,
BILLIARD HALL AND SAOON,
Basement, No. 48 Main Street.
The best Wine and Liquors kept constantly
an hand. TlHJi.
JOSEPH HUDDARD A CO
SALOON,
No. 4T Main Street.
The brat Wines and Liquors kept on hand.
BLISS A HUGHES,
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS.
Ti"n? attend to the sale of Real and Personal
property tn tnc - cmcutu. su sjvh r ivi
Term
$2 00 f V3 ' V7 V7 V-J W ."V 7 JT J W ' XJ T V Xf V J Vj X T
Vol. 13. BROTOTILLE, NEBEASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 18G8. vn. o
Cards of fire lines or less, f5 year.
Eacli
additional line, .
G. W. GARRISON, proprietor.
Good accommodations. Boarding by ttfe
i dav or week. The traveling puuuc are invi
ted to five him a call. -
STAR nOTEL.
CROSS & WHITE, Proprietors.
On Levee Street, between Main and Atlantic
Th.t TTnujt it convenient to the t earn Bnai
n-nrt the burnnetn txrrt of the City. The
best accommodation in the CUU- J paint will
hr nwirrd in niaJcmfj auettt cornnmaoie. wxw
Stable and OrrraU convenuvu 10 me junuc.
AMERICAN HOISE.
L, D. EOBISON, Iroprietor.
Front SL, between Main and Water.
A ffood Feed and Livery Stable in connection
with the JJovse.
coirrxcnoirci! us.
GEORGE YAUNEY,
Bakery and Canfeetlanery,
No. S7 Jtaln Street,
Offera to the public at reduced rates a choice
stock or Groceries, rroviaions, uoniecuoner-
lea, etc., etc
WILLIAM P.OSSELL,
Bakery, Canfeetianery amd Tay Stare
No. 40 Main Street.
Freh Bread, Cake, Opttm, Fruit, etc, on hand
J. P. DET7SER,
Dealer In Canfectlanerlea, Toya etc
No. 44 Main Street.
J. C McNAUGHTON,
Katary Pmblle and Canveyaneer
Offlce In J. L. Carson's Bank.
A ami for Sational Life" and "Hartford
Live Stock " Insurance COtnpante.
FAIRBROTHER A HACKER,
Sotary Pablie and Conveyancer,
Office in County Court Room.
. W. FAIRBROTHER, JAMES M. HACKER,
Notary Public County Clerk.
BLACKS 1IITIIS.
J. H. BEASON,
Blackasattnlng- and Harae SUaeing-,
Shop No. 80 Main Street,
mzz do Blacksmithina of all kind. Make
Horse H hoexna. Ironing of Wagon and Sleigh,
and Machine Work a &cciali.y.
J. W. A J. C. GIBSON,
BLCILSSIITHS,
Shop on First, between Main and Atlantic
All trork done to order, and tain) 'action guar-
ranteed.
JOIIN FLORA,
B L A C K. S M I T n,
Shop on Water St South of American House.
Custom Work of an kinds tolicited,
BARBERS.
J. L. ROY,
BARBER AND II AIR DRESSER.
No. 5 Main Street,
Ha a tiAcndid suit of Bath Room. Alto a
choice ttock of Gentleman' Solum.
nnnnnnnnwnnnnnnnnnni
GRAIN BEAIXRS.
GEO. G: START A ERO.,
DEALERS IN GRAIN, PRODUCE, &-c.
AspinwaU, Xebraska.
The highest market price paid for anything
the t anner can raise e will buy and sell
everything known to the market.
WORTHING A WILCOX,
Storage, Farwarding and Commltilaa
jnerciiama,
And Dealer in all kind of Grain, for which
they pay the Highest Market J'ricc in LUh.
AIEORTNG
HAUBOLDT A ZECH,
MERCHANT TAILORS, -
So. 5 8)4 Main Street,
Have on hand a splendid stock of Goods,
I and will make them up in the latest styles,
on short notice and reaionable terms.
WAGON MAKERS.
FRANZ nELMER,
Wagon Maker and Repairer.
Shop West of Court House.
Wagons, Buggies, Plow, Cultivator, arc, re-
jrnired on sltort notice, at low rates, and war
ranted to give satisfaction.
nnnmmBnmmammmannnnmmnninwnnmannmi
BOUNTY CLAIM AGENTS.
ED. D. SMITH,
U. g. WAR CLAIM AGENT,
Washington Cty, D. C
Will attend to the nrosecution of claims be
fore the Department in person, for Additional
Bounty. Back I'hv and Pensions, and all
claims accruing against the Government du
ring the late war. 4o-u
SMITH. P. TUTTLE,
U. S. ASSISTANT ASSESSOR.
Offlce In District Court Room.
Xotary Public and United States War Claim
Agent. Will attend to the prosecution of claims
bejore the Department, for Additional Bounty,
Back Pay and Pensions. AUo uie collection vj
semi-Annual Due on rcnsions.
JEWELERS.
J. V. D. PATCH,
Manufacturer an! Dealer In
Clacks, Watches, Jewelry, etc., etc.
No. 3 Main Street.
Silver and Silver-Plated Ware, and all varie
ties of Sjiectaclrs constantly on hand. Repairing
done in Uie neatest style, at short notice. C targe
moderate. 11 ork warranted.
MUSIC.
METROPOLITAN BRASS BAND.
BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA.
Is at all times prepared to play for the pub
lic at anv point within 150 miles of this city.
on reasonable terms. Address,
ll-ttm D. C Smith, Leader.
MRS. J. M. GRAHAM,
TEACHER OP MUSIC.
Rooms, Main, bet 4th A 5lh SU.
lessons eivenon te Piano Organ, Melodeon
GuUsrsnd Vocalisation. Having ka4 eight ftart
STperienct a tracker of Mmic in A'ew York i$
confident af givins tatUf'aciion.
PAINTING.
G. P. BERKLEY,
Hanse, Carriage and Sign PalnKr.
No. 66 Main SL, up stairs.
Graining.Guilding.Glaxingand Paper Hang
ing dime on short notice, favorable term, and
tfarrantcd.
S3S
A. D. MARSH,
Beakaeller and News Dealer.
City Book Store,
No. 80 Main Street, Postofflce Building.
A. STAFFORD,
PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST,
No. 47 Main Street, up stairs.
Peron withing Picture executed in the latest
tyie of the Art, u-ill call at my A rt Gallery.
A W. MORGAN,
PrabateJndgeand Jaatice af the Peace
Office In Court House Building.
J. K. BEAR,
Agent far the M. U. Express Ca,
W. U. Telegrapu Ca.
No. 7 Mcrherson's Block.
C W. WHEELER,
BRIDGE BUILDER,
Pole agent for R. W. Smith's Patent Truss
uriagc The strongest and best wooden
bridza now In use.
E. II. BURCHES,
Landscape Gardener at Hortlemltarlst.
Will plant crop in Garden, and cultivate
same oy comma.
KEISWETTER A EIRSMAN,
Brawnvllle City Heat Market.
No. 60 Main Street.
Will poy the highest market price for tfood Beet
tin f '', t7:ttj. nnrrjt ana sinK.
TJl5r3cs S. Grant.
THE PLATPOEM
' ...
Of the Jfaiional Republican Party. Adopted at Chicago, May 21, 18C3.
The following platform, reported by
the Committee on Resolutions, was
unanimously adopted by the Nationa
Republican Convention in session at
Chicago :
The National Republican party of
tne unitea btates, assembled in Nat
ional Convention in the city of Chicasro
on the 20th day of May, 1868, make
tne roiiowinE: declaration of pnnci
pies :
x iret. V e congratulate the country
on tne assured success of the recon
Btruction projects of Congress, as evinc
ed by the adoption, in a majority of
tne btates lately in rebellion, of con
stitutions eecurine eoual civil and
political rights to all. and reeard it aa
the duty of the government to sustain
these institutions and to prevent the
people of such States from being re
mitted to a state of anarchy.
oecona. i ne iruaramee of uonrress
of equal suffrage to all loyal men of
the South was demanded by every
consideration of public safety, of grat
itude, and of justice, and must be
maintained, while the question of
suffrage in all the loyal States proper
ly belongs to the people of those btates
Third. We denounce all forms of
repudiation as a national crime, and
honor requires the payment of the na
tinoal indebtedness in the utmost good
faith to all creditors, at home and
abroad, not only according to the letter
but the spirit ol the laws under whicn
it was contracted.
Fourth. It is due to the labor of the
nation that taxation should be equal
ized and reduced as rapidly as the
national faith will permit.
Fifth. The national debt, contracted
as it has been for the preservation of
the Union for all time to come, should
be extended over a fair period for re
demption, and it is the duty of Con
gress to reduce tne rate 01 interest
thereon -whenever it can possible be
done..
Sixth. That the best policy to dim
inish our burden of debt is to so im
prove ourcredit that capitalists will
seek to loan us money at lower rates of
interest than we now pay, and must
continue to pay so Ion gas repudiation,
partial or total, open or covert, is tnreat
ened or suspected.
Seventh. I he government of tne
United States should be administered
with the strictest economy, and the
corruptions which have been so shame
fully nursed and fostered by Andrew
Johnson call loudhT for radical re
form.
Eighth. "We profoundly deplore
the untimely and tragic death of
Abraham Lincoln, and regret the ac
cession of Andrew Johnson to the
Presidency, who has acted treacher
ously to the people who elected him
and the cause he was pledged to sup
port ; has usurped legislative and jud
icial functions ; has refused to execute
the laws : has used his high oflice to
induce other officers to ignore and vio
late the laws : has employed his ex
ecutive power to render insecure the
. in l i nr.. r
prosperity, peace, uoeriy, uuu me oi
wig power ; has denounced the Nation
al Legislature as unconstitutional;
has persistently and corruptly resisted,
by even- means in his power, every
proper attempt at the reconstruction
of the States lately in rebellion ; has
perverted the public patronage into
an engine of wholesale corruption, and
has been justly impeacnea ior mgn
crimes and misdemeanors, and prop
erly pronounced guilty by the votes
of thirty-fiA-e Senators.
JNinth. The doctrine 01 ureat lint-
ain and other European powers, that
because a man Is once a subject he is
always so, must be resisted at every
hazard by the United States as a relic
of the fedual times, not authorized by
the law of nations and at war with our
national honor and independence.
Naturalized citizens are entitled to be
protected in all their rights of citizen
ship as though they were native born,
and no citizen of the United States,
native or naturalized, must be liable
to arrest and imprisonment by any
foreign jower for acts done or words
spoken in this country. And if so ar
rested and imprisoned, it is the duty of
the Government to interfere in his
behalf.
Tenth. Of all who were faithful in
the trials of the late war there are none
entitled to more especial honor than
the brave soldiers and seamen who
endured the hardships of campaign
and cruise.and imperiled their lives in
the service of tiieir country. The
bounties and pensions provided by
law for these brave defenders of the
nation are obligations never to be for
gotten. "The widows and orphans of
the gallant dead are the wards of the
people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to
the nation's protecting care.
Eleventh. Foreign emigration,
which in the past has added so much
to the wealth and development of the
resources and the increase of power of
this nation, "the asylum of the op
pressed of all nations, ' should be fost
ered and encouraged by a liberal and
just policy.
Twelfth. This convention declares
its sj-mpathy with all the oppressed
people who are struggling for their
rights.
On motion of Gen. Carl Schurz, the
following additional resolutions we
unanimously adopted as part of the
platform :
Unsolved, That we highly commend
the spirit of magnaniciity and forbear
ance with which the men who have
Berved in the rebellion, but now frankly
and honestly co-operate with us in
restoring the peace of the country and
reconstructing the Southern State gov
ernments upon the basis of impartial
justice and equal rights, are received
back into the communion of the loyal
people : and we favor the removal of
the disqualifications and restrictions
imposed upon the late rebels in the
same measure as their spirit of loyalty
will direct, as may be consistent with
I the safety of the loyal people.
Scnnylcr Collar
Resolved, That we recognize the
great principles laid down in the
immortal Declaration of Independence
as the true foundation of democratic
government, and we hail with glad
ness every effort toward making these
principles a living reauty on every
inch of American soil.
Seymour as a Statesman.
A queer basis, the claim of Horatio
beymour to statesmanship nas, "wnen
you come to look, at it."
He opposed the Wilmot Proviso.
He supported the Fugitive Slave
Law.
He sustained the Nebraska bill re
pealing the restriction on slavery ex
tension. He apologized for or defended the
border ruffian outrages in Kansas.
He sustained Breckinridge against
Douglas in 1860.
He threw the blame of the begining
of secession upon the Republicans
while Mr. Lincoln was only President
elect.
He asserted that to call out troops to
suppress the rebellion was more "rev
olutionary " than the rebellion itself.
He declared the Montgomery con
stitution better than ours, and ex
pressed the opinion that the war
ought to be avoided by the North
adopting it, thus giving the highest
possible sanction to treason.
ie never in the last eight years once
delivered any argument, appeal.
denunciation or censure against the
rebel cause : and never failed to charge
revolution, usurpation, outraged op
pression, tyranny and all the political
crimes in the calander upon the Re
publcans. July 4, low, while Lee's army was
in Pennsylvania, on its way to Phi
adelphia and New York, and he had
heard only of its success, he delivered
an oration in New York, imploring
the North to compromise, warning it
against civil war at home, and de
nouncing the Republicans for " in
fringing upon our rights, insulting
our homes, and depriving us of those
cherished principles for which our
fathers fought, and to which we have
sworn allegiance.
In oration aforesaid he warned the
Republicans thus : " Remember this :
that the bloody, treasonable, and
revolutionary, doctrine of public nec
essity can be proclaimed by a mob as
well as bv a Government."
When Lee had been defeated, and
nevertheless the mob arose, which
his language had invited, he address
ed them as his " friends," was receiv
ed as their "friend," and promised to
get what thej- were fighting for, the
suspension of the draft.
He told Mr. Lincoln that the draft
act was unconstitutional, and warned
him that if it was enforced his 'friends'
might resist it.
He presided at the Chicago Conven
tion, and, with it, declared the war a
failure, and called for an immediate
peace that is for disunion.
He opposed, and now opposes the
Fourteenth amendment, and all mea
sures marking treason as a crime.
Finally during the last eight years,
he has been admired and honored by
every rebel in the country, and dis
trusted and hated by ninety-nine out
of a hundred of those who demanded
the suppression of treason.
What a strange record of "states
manship!" Patriotic Gems from the Kext
President.
"I care nothing for promotion, so
long as our arms are successful."
Grant to Sherman Feb. 1862.
"If my course is not satisfactory re
move me at once. I do not wish in
any way to impede the success of our
arms." Grant to Ualleck, February
6, 1868.
"No theory of my own will ever
stand in the way of my executing in
good faith any order that I may re
cieve from those in authority over
me." Grant to Secretary Chase, Mav
29, 1863.
"This is a Republic, where the will
of the people is the law of the land."
Grant's Letter to President Johnson
Aug. 1867.
"I shall have no policy of my own
to interfere against the" will of the
people." Grant's Letter, May 29.
1868.
"Human Liberty the only true
foundation of human government."
Grant's Letter to the citizens of Mem
phis. "Let us have peace." Grants Let
ter, May 29, 1868.
In his speech. at Carlisle, Ohio, Mr.
Stanton says: "I have been told bv
those who have visited their friends
in Europe, shortly after the close of
the war, that in every household in
every place, by every fireside, there
hung the portrait, more or less rude
of Abraham Lincoln." '
Mr. Lincoln's portrait is found in
Asia as well as in Europe, and in
parts of Asia where Americans are'
rarely seen. Mr. Thomas W. Knox,
in his journey through Siberia two
years ago, frequently saw portraits of
our martyred President hanging on
the walls of the wayside statiSns and
VJJ. i?anLds of wealthy citizens. At
Ekatermeberg, in the Ural mount
ains, he was shown a bust of Mr.
Lincoln that was being made to the
order of a wealthy Russian. The
bust was five or six inches high, and
cut in topaz from a model procured
from America for the purposed
cJhe 'orld6fates that Seymour will
stump Pennsylvania next'week.
1 he election of Covode in Pennsyl
vania is still in doubt. The conference
Judges in his district are divided on
the question and two certificates were
a , Governor, cie declaring
Covode elected by S2 majority,-an3
the other declaring Foster elected by
41 majority.
rrora Kerr Mexico.
EMB2IS, Sept. ;.5th, 1SCS.
Editor Advertiser : In my last letter
to you l promised a description of this
river ar.d valley, to which the atten
uon many of our friends was di-
recteo last Spring; and as some of
those were desirous of emigrating
here, for their benefit I will give It aa
I see it.
After traveling west from Ft Cum
min gs fifteen or sixteen miles, over
dry, parched plain no water the
plain covered only with mosquitoes,
brush, tnd a sparce growth of bunch
grass we come in sight of a few small
scrubby rrlllows and cottonwoods,
scattered. sJong a narrow valley near
the bn-e of some bleak, barren hills,
We find, on coming near them, a small
stream of running water, eight or ten
inches deap, and from ten to fifteen
fet wide. Above the road you notice
a narrow strip of land, with corn grow
ing on it. Near the crossing you find
a comparatively substantial looking
one story stone house, of the Mexican
style. This is the residence and ranch
of Col. Porter. It is surrounded by a
few Mexican huts or abodes. This is
the Rio Membres and its valley. The
general appearance of the whole is not
prepossessing, but the reverse ; and it
strikes one very forcibly that tis pretty
near the end.
The population consists of ten or
twelve white men, one white woman,
(Mrs. Porter,) and forty or fifty Mex
icans assorted.
On examination of the soil, I find,
although it contains considerable al
kali, that it produces better crops than
any we have yet seen in New Mexico.
A specimen of wheat grown here,
shown me by Col. Porter, was good.
The crop of corn now growing is a
very fair one ; and wejdso find veget
ables, such as onions, tomatoes, cab
bage, melons and cucumbers, but no
potatoes they will not grow here.
The valley comprises, probably,
200 or 300 acres of tillable land, the
most of which is claimed by Col. Por
ter. Outside of his claim there is but
little land of any value, in fact the
whole entire valley does not contain
enough tillable land to make one good
Nebraska farm ; as only such land as
can be successfully irrigated is worth
anything, as land, to irrigate should
have equal drainage, for if a portion
of it is flat it will, as they here term
it, "sour" the land or "fire" the crops
before the other portion of it is suffi
ciently watered.
The stream of water is now at its
heighth, be'g.just at the end of the
rainy season. During dry seasons,
and in fact the greater portions of al
most every year, it ceases to run, the
water standing along it in pools ; and
at all times the whole stream sinks
into the sand a few miles below here.
There is a spring near the ranch, but
the water, like that from the creek, all
tastes of the alkali. There is no tim
ber except on the mountains twenty-
five miles from here except a liitie
suitable only for fuel distant from
four to six miles which is procured
by sending an armed escort with the
teams to protect them from the Indi
ans. There is tolerably good grazing
here, and hay is procured by cutting
this short bunch-grass, either with a
hoe or with a short crooked knife.
The grass is so short and light it can
not be cut Either by a scythe or ma
chine. The Mexicans cut it by hand
in this way at fifty cents per hundred.
There is little or no demand for stock
here. Oxen, such as are worth in the
State $150 per yoke, will not here
bring $50; and Texas or Mexican
four or five year old steers are not
worth over from $15 to $20 per head ;
though at present no sale for any kind.
Stock cannot be kept here with any
degree of safety whatever, on account
of Indians. Armed herders have to
be kept with them constantly, and all
attempts to extend the settlements
from here farther up the creek have
proved a failure for the same reasons.
The location here is not healthy.
Billious diseases prevail to a consid
erable extent ; and the fever and ague
shakes the inhabitants all very liber
ally. Apart from this, as a location
at which to keep a ranch, it may be
considered a good one, being on the
main southern route to Arizona and
California, and twenty miles from
this stream, either way, to water, and
about equi distant between Ft. Cum
min gs and Bayard ; and there is about
enough travel on this route to con
sume all the grain can be raised here.
A few miles above here a spring of
water bursts out, boiling hot. We
saw a chicken sufficiently scalded by
merely dipping it in.
We find some mines in the moun
tains presenting strong inducements
for investment, and the very kind of
location we are seeking, but the want
of any protection, and not being suf
ficiently strong to protect ourselves
prevents our locating. The policy of
the Government in being so sparing
of her troops is having the effect to
seriously discourage emigration here.
There are good paying mines of gold,
silver and copper in this country, but
the risk is so great that the expense of
prospecting or working them is too
large for men of moderate means, and
these are the kind of men who first
develop a country. Give this class of
men ample protection, and in a 6hort
time the emigration here will make
the country able to take care of itself.
Yours, J. S. MINICK.
The opening prices of green teas by
late advices from China are reported to
be considerably higher than last year.
The shipments of the season to Great
Britain at latest telegraphic advice
had been 81,500,000 pounds against
52,000,000 for the same period of 1867.
An Appeal to Democrats. -
To that class of Democrats who
make Sham Democracy pay a divi
dend we make no appeal. We can
argue against doubts, but not Eainst
dollars. But to those who vote the
Democratic ticket from some intend
ed reverence for the former principles
of the Democratic party; to those
who have come to believe that the
Democratic party is truly con
servative; to those that have
the notion that some feature
of its financial policy would
be favorable to tax-payers to any
who, from honest motives, design to
vote for Seymour, we put the direct
question : Can you yourself afford to
have Seymour elected?
I. 4: You are opposed," you say,
" to the Congressional plan of Recon
struction." Very well. What could
beymour do about it if he were Presi
dent? You had a Democratic Presi
dent and Cabinet in office during the
whole contest which resulted in the
abandonment of Reconstruction on
the Democratic, or White basis only.
and the substitution of the Republi
can plan or universal, oriSegro Suf
frage. What, with a Democratic President
in office, you could not prevent, how
would you with the aid of another
Democratic President, reverse and
undo? If with your bullrush you
could not check Niagara, how would
you with the same weapon set it run
nine backward? The Southern
States are reconstructed on the basi3
of Universal Suffrage. Some of them
are restored to the Union. More than
two-thirds of Congress passed and
will maintain this policy, whoever
may be President, This majority
cannot be overcome in less than four
years. After the Blacks have voted
four years, do you hope then to dis
franchise them? Seymour as Presi
dent, therefore, could do nothing to-
which Johnson has not already done,
unless, as indicated by Gen. Blair, he
should use the army, in defiance of
Congress and its laws. This would
be revolution and rebellion. You
tried these remedies under Jefferson
Davis. Do you need to try th em again
to recall their "effects? Seymour,
therefore, could avail you nothing
whatever in the matter of reconstruc
tion. II. " You would like," you say, ' to
see taxes diminished." No tax is so
disastrous as the depreciation of the
currency. Yet your Democratic party
proposes to convert the entire national
debt into currency by paying it in
greenbacks. This would reduce its
value to a nominal figure or destroy
It altogether, so deranging the busi
ness of the country as to bring ruin
on millions of people. Your Demo
cratic party would have a President
assume the rod of a dictator, prop
himself up by a standing army, and
defy the laws which he is sworn to en
force. Such a course would call your
6ons or yourselves again into the field
to fight, willing or unwilling, and
would drain the country of countless
millions of treasure to be destroyed in
civil wars. Can you afford it ?
III. " You adhere" you say, " to
the ancient principles of the Demo
cratic party." If so, that forms the
most conclusive reason why you
ought not to support its present plat
form and candidates. The Democrat
ic party believed anciently in a specie
currency. Now, it would flood the
country'with irredeemable paper mon
ey. It believed anciently in free
trade. Now its platform contains an
insecure and hypocritical clause ad
vocating a protective tariff, put in to
catch gudgeons in Pennsylvania. It
was jealous anciently of a despotic
Executive, and labored to maintain
the liberties of the people, and the
power of their representatives. Now
it indorses one President for attempt
ing to override Congress, and nomi
nates another on his promise to re
peat the effort.
The Democratic party was formerly
jealous to preserve the rights of States.
But if that question is in any waj in
volved in this contest, the Democrat
ic party is on the Federalist side of
the controversy. It acknowledges
the power of a President of the Unit
ed States to annul and destroy ten
State Governments, some of which
existed from the formation of the Un
ion, and to substitute for them new
governments dictated by himself,
without any authority of law. What
power can be more Federalistic, more
subversive of State rights, or more
autocratic and despotic? It then de
nies the power of Congress to enable
by law the whole people of
these States to form State Govern
ments of their own, based on univer
sal suffrage. What doctrine can be
more flagrant Federalism or more sub
versive of State rights than that a
President .may create ten new States
without consulting the representatives
of the other twenty-seven, or any
portion of the people ?
Finally, the Democratic party was
anciently the party of Universal Suf
frage. Noah Webster, himself a Dem
ocrat, forty years ago defied a Demo
crat to be "one who advocates the
extension of the elective franchise to
all conditions of men.'' But the De
mocracy of to-day rests solely on the
hobby of the exclusion of a whole
race of native born citizens of Ameri
ca from the franchise. What princi
ple of Democracy can inhere in a par
ty which, abandoning State rights and
popular sovereignty, sustains the most
despotic usurpations by the Executive
of legislative powers? what in a party
that abhors universal suffrage and
clings to caste? what in a party that
advocates protective tariffs in Penn
sylvania and free trade inAMaine ;
that substitutes for the will of the ma
jority the threat of revolution? Ev
ery Democrat who believes in the suc
cess of time-honored Democratic prin
ciples should vote for Grant and Colfax.
X. Y. Tribune.
We learn that Hon. John A. Hel
man, (our candidate for Presidential
Elector) lost by fire on Friday, 9th,
all his grain and hay stacks, stubling,
sheds and other property to the ex
tent of over $ 1,000. The fire run in
from burning prairie. Mr. H. saved
his horses only at great personal risk
to himself. The only stock lost was
two valuable sows. In consequence
of this misfortune, Mr. Helman, hav
ing nothing to feed his stock with,
offere for sale his personal property,
and will abandon farming, at least for
the winter. Statesman.
Chicago, Oct. 20.
Gen. Grant was telegraphed yester
day that the great Presidential cake at
the Hebrew Ladies fair in Quincy.HL.
was his by a large majority, and asked
what disposition should be made of it.
The General replied, "send it to Mrs.
Grant, at Galena." This morning &
committee started with it from Quincy
for Galena. The cake netted the Fan
$1,250. The vote on it was for Grant
8,637; for Seymour 3,353.
"Do Steamers Una Above Oma
lia, rfebraslial"
What a question for the President
of a New York Bank to put! Yet he
so inquired of a friend of mine the
other day, who is in the banking bui
ness at Omaha, and does hi3 eastern
portion of it through this same New
York bank. And the moneyed man,
who knows Wall street so well, and
probably Liverpool and Canton, did
not know, that from Omaha, steamers
run up twenty-three hundred and
sixty-eight miles to Fort Benton. If
he had stood on the levee at Omaha
the other day he would have seen the
steamer Success come down that long
run, and round to, with $300, COO in
treasure.
When will eastern capitalists, and
politicians, and Christains, learn
where and what the West i3? Some
seem to think that it is the Holland
Purchase, or Genesee country, or at
the farthest, Ohio. Ohio is "down
east" to a western man. Our ideas of
the national domain are sadly dwarf
ish. The growth of them ha3 by no
means fcept pace with our increase.
lhe Louisiana purchase in 1803 for
$15,000,000; the Florida purJhase in
1819 for $3.000,000 ; the annexion of
Texas in 1845 ; the California, New
Mexico and Utah purchase in 1843 for
$io,uuu,iJUL; the Arizona purchase in
18-54, for $10,000,000, and the Russian
purchase for $7,500,000, were purchas
es that would have bought out central
and southern Europe and the British
Islands. A provincial eastern mind
has no tolerable conception of the
magnificent distances that measure
and bound these regions. The banker
asked an innocent question, not
dreaming that an American can run
between the banks of one of his own
rivers more than three thousand mile3
on a steamer up the Missouri.
Steamer above Omaha ! Why, man
of Wall Street, after a steamer has run
three hundred and fifty miles above
Omaha, on the Nebraska shore, she
runs on somewhat diagonally across
Dakota Territory (as large as seven
Empire States, as large as forty Bay
States), and then is nine hundred
miles below Fort Benton, where the
Success took on board your $300,000 in
treasure.
And &3 vast as these distances, and
territories, and steamboat excursions
seem, to one going W est, the idea is
to be taken into an Eastern mind, if
possible, that our geographical center
for the national domain, is a long dis
tance beyond the head of steamboat
navigation up the Missouri river, that
being thirty-one hundred and seventy-
five miles above St. Louis. Our pres-
ent center is near the mouth of the
Columbia on the Pacific, measuring
from Eastport, Maine, to the extreme
western Aleutian Island in our Rus
sian purchase. If one would measure
the whole, by two Titanic steps, star
ting from Eastport, hi3 dividing foot-
Srint would rest somewhere about
ohn Jacob Aster's old Astoria. Our
extreme northern limit, Barrow's
Point, is seventeen hundred miles far
ther north of this m its latitude, as
well as being so much farther west.
About one-third of our circumference
of the globe is now spanned by our
territory!
When the Englishman boasted to
the Indian that the sun never sets on
British soil, the Indian replied : "The
Great Spirit no trust Englishman in
the dark." It certainly is to be hoped
that our pride will not swell with our
domain, or our spread eagle sprain his
wings by stretching them to our two
extremelimits in some national flutter.
The mileage now drawn by the del
egate in Congress from Washington
Territory is about $11,000 for each ses
sion ; for a delegate from New Arch
angel it must be at least $20,000 ; and
when one shall come down from Bar
row's Point to represent in our nation
al halls his polar bear and walrus con
stituency, his mileage must go vastlv
above a score of thousands.
I cannot compute it exactly, a3 Mr.
Seward has not made known by what
sledge path and line of kayack3, the
Esquimaux delegate shall take his
route to Behnng s Strait, and btika.
Lively work in politics, no doubt,
the mileage and pay will make among
our .Esquimaux citizens, ana will
give us in Washington politicians
more oily, if possible, than we now
have there.
"Do steamers run above Omaha?"
And Eastern id?as are quite as crude
about the growth and population, and
power or the W est. Indians, log cab
ins, immense forests, clearings, and
vast prairies, as manv suppose, are
the "far West," out beyond Buffalo
and Chicago. They cannot realize
that if all the population of New Eng
land were dropped from the census, it
would not reduce it one-tenth, nor
can they-imagine how the entire area
of New England could be taken out
of Minnesota, and yet leave land
enough for four States and over like
Conneticut.
Still fainter is the Eastern concep
tion of the growth of the West. In
the full of 1840 I hot quails in the
streets of Quincy, 111. In April 1S67,
I met in the theological hall at Chica
go, to wnom ins liberality gave tne
name, Dea. v ulard Keyes, one of the
log cabin founders of Quincy, now a
fopulous, wealthy, and powerful city,
n the spring of 1841, 1 spent two days
at Keokuk, Iowa, a village of. twelve
log and two frame houses. In these
it had thirteen grogireries, and a mot
ley population of Indians, half-breed-j
and whites, perhaps a hundred in all.
Now, Keokuk hast a population of
about lo,000, twelve churches, three
daily papers, a medical college and
two or three classical schools. Its
main street is about a mile long, hav
ing man j- substantial brick blocks for
bank3, offices, hotel, etc One railroad
connects it with Des Moines, the cap
ital, one run around the rapids and
up toward Muscatine, and one East
connecting the city with leading
points in Illinois.
About the same time I visited Da
venport, Iowa. Then the place had a
population of about six hundred, and
few farms were opened beyond Duck
Creek, four miles west. Now it has
twenty thousand or more people, with
a 6core of churches, splendid hotels,
theaters, banking houses, and private
dwellings that are princely. Beyond
Duck Creek now it is farms, cities and
railroads four hundred miles to Coun
cil Bluffs, opposite Omaha. From
Omaha the Pacific railroad is running
at the rate of three miles a day, and
has already gone about eight hundred
miles.
Yes, steamers run above Omaha,
and it woulll be a good thing if the
heads of some of our Eastern financial
and political and religious organiza
tions would take passage on them.
Correspondent of CongregattonaLut.
Ban Francisco, Oct. 18.
The Oregon Legislature has adopted
a resolution withdrawing the consent
of the State upon the passage of the
14th amendment to the constitution
of the United States.
Ce secure. Cm '"'' -
Each suijTiont insertion...
Business Cards. (Ave Ljjos or le';.
Each A-Mltional Line
Cc'thtti, one year , ,
fne Coiama. !x dostts..
One Colnmn, three mrm-ha.
I!alf Column, one yr
J'i':f Column, six mnnrhi . , ,
Jiiif Coinmn, tare mn'hTI ,
. J! rf
. .. v
. 1 iJ
. m
- l
. S) ut
, M !
, '1
. CT i-J
; t
is a
21 OJ
li C
I ) &?
Fourth- ('oInm&ft!i year.
Fourth Column, six in on:
Fourth Column, three mon:
J-iiriTn l oiairm, ont year
l uhth Column, six months
liinth CWiimn, three nmriim.
Stray Notices, (each heai,.
3
Transient auvertiiserr:--: payable in aaranrw.
Call for TTlsccnsln
Rivers Improvers
xmJ rox
venllon.
State of Wisconsin,
e of Wisconsin, 1
rXVE DCPARTMTNT,
)isoN, Oct 2, l-.i. J
Mad
I, Lucius Fairciilld, Gcverccr cf
the State of Wisconsin, tcgrther with
the Governors of other States, unithrtr
in this eall, and whose signatures are
subscribed hereto, do hereby give
notice, that at the city cf Trsirio da
Chien, on the 10th day cf November.
A.D. SCS, a convention will be hell
for the purpose of maturing measures
to impress upon Congress the l?t
sity of making immediate and suffi
cient .appropriations, tr s re ii-pro-rent
of the navigation cf the I'cs
and Wisconsin rivers.
Now, therefor?, the Governors i.'ora
said, moL eamcsiy rt coir. rr.v. i, that
the cities, villages "and counties cf the
Northwest, boards of trade and other
business associations throushcut the
country, be represented in the conven
tion. The importance cf cennectin
the waters of the Mississippi river and
lake Michigan, by improved naviga
ble channelscannot be overestimated.
To the people of the Northwest and
the entire country, the project aa a
military measure is cf the greatest im
portance ; and, as a commercial meas
ure, an' immediate necessity. A con
sultation of representative men can
not fail to advance it.
Lucius FAixicrrrLX).
frovemrrr of WvfConsiSV,
WM. R. MARSHALL,
rwfrnn- rrf JTrmeatS.
SAMUEL MERRILL,
Governor rf yj.
THOS. C. F LET CI I Eli,
Governor of Missouri.
From TTlsconsln.
Asylum, Madipon, Wis.,
Sept. 20th, 1S38.
T. DlNlNY, Dear Friend: Don't
expect much of a letter from me this
time. I have a sad story to tell. 1 es-
terday, about five minutes to twelve
o'clock, an explosion took place at the
engine house, which resulted in the
death of three fine young men J. J.
Doyle, engineer, Frank Carson, Fire
man, (a S weed,) and a young raamea
man from G ree Bay. Doy le was killed
instantly. The boiler maker from
Green Bay lived about twenty min
utes. Frank Carson lived till 6 o'clock
in the evening, in the most excrucia
ting pain.
lo be brier the circumstances are
these. A new boiler from Green Bay
was purchased last winter by the trus
tees of the hospital. The toiler was
put up some weeks ago. The first fire
was put under it lastWednesday two
weeks, when Doyle and I were watch
ing its progress, and the steam blew
out a stay and bolt before it was actu
ally hot through. Doyle took out tne '
fire Instantly. He then reported to
Mr. Mills, who wrote the maker to
come and fix it, and have it tesUni.
A man was sent on Wednesday last,
who fixed the stays, &c, and on yes
terday forenoon proceeded to test the .
boiler, and had on not more than .
sixty-seven or sixty-eight pounds of
steam. While they were watching
and waiting, away it went. Doyle
was blown about four rods, the boiler
maker about six, and the fireman could .
not tell where it did take him. He
got up and had strength and knowl- '
edge enough to go to the house. The
front end of the boiler, doors, firegrate
and ail, were blowu seme twenty rcxlj.
This is the la3t of Jim Doyle. I
don't know whether they will bury
him to-morrow or not.
Write me soon.
Respectfully,
WM. BIRD.
For the first, we must give the pro
prietors of the radical press, from ths
New York Tribune down to the Omaha
Republican, due praise for the persis
tance with which they have forced
their newspapers on the public; and
to the masses of the radical party
credit for the willingness with whicu
they support their partizan literature.
In that respect they do well. Yet, in
doing so, an amount of bigotry and
intolerance i3 manifested that is abso
lutely surprising. By means of can
vassers sent out without regard to
expense, by attractive premium list3,
by clubs, campaign rates, and all the
artful dodges known in advertising,
the radical newspapers get great cii di
lations, and then by a system of the
most plausible, and therefore the most
wicked lying, get hold of the popular
heart, and prevent, (by actual advice)
the denial or refutations of the false
hood from being read by their readers.
Thousands of men have voted thia
fail in favor of the radical theory of
government, who blindlv swear by
those mendacious sheet the Tribunes
of New York and Chicago, and who
have not read one word during the
whole season from a decent democratic
newspaper or a speech by a conserva
tive statesman. Such electors can
not cast a ballot understandingly.
They know as much what they are
voting upon and about, a3 the follow
ers of iiuhdism know of right and
wrong, when never having read any
thing of Christianity they chuck th3
missionaries into the Ganges because
they preach about strange gods.
We may be told with some show of
truth that for one-sided reading demo
crats are just as bad &a their opponents.
It is true, but in a much e mailer and
different degree. The democrats do,
not read, or at least do not support
their party press. We know that the
Press of Nebraska City circulate
nearly two thousand copies of its
weekly edition, and that the News
office sends out about 500. The coun
try circulation of the Omaha Republi
can is over five times that of the ier
ald. The Brownville Advertiser has
six or seven times, and the Journal
three or four times the weekly issue of
the Democrat. A voting population
of some 500 democrats in Cass county
does not try to support a county paper;
while from the 750 radicals therein the
Herald proprietor makes a decent liv
ing. One-fourth of the democrats ia
Lancaster county subscribe for the
Statesman, while three-fourths of the
radicals patronize the Commonwealth.
If Democrats do not patronize their
own literature; and the majority of the
radicals pay exclusive devotion to their
own, we do not see how it is possible
for the truth ever to reach those who
are in error. When democrats will
support their own newspapers, and
when radicals will read "both sides,"
think for themselves, and for then
selves pick out the kernels of truth
from the skucks of error, we shall
then be sure, that whatever way pop
ular elections may go, honest convic
tions by the people will be at the bot
tom of their policy, and that leaders
chosen to carry cut policies founded
upon honest convictions will not ra
far out of the path of rectitude before,
they will be checked in their course.
Neb. Statesman.
Washington, Oct. 21
Mr. Johnson stated to-day that he
was confident Gen. Grant would be
elected unless Mr. Chase was taken up
by the Democrats.