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BROWNTILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUKE 22, 1871.
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Oldest Paper in the State,
VOL. 15 NO. 36.
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OFHCIAIi PAPErv OF THE COUNTY,
SOCIAL DIRECTORT.
LODGES.
ff..in Council No. 3, R. fc S. 31.
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. .rti month. Immediately otter the Cbnpter
MSk! J "" IiuKE, T. lo. L T. A. Cbeioii.
J.ilI,-
jiecoraer-
.. ........I r'nmtitnndorvTvnlfilltTcm-
' Jj'&J Viiar No. :J.-Meets In Masonic Hall on the
,d Saturday nlRht In each rnonin. l
!s. Km. C am. J.no..Dlakk. Recorder.
R. W. Pub-
7TKrovuviHe Chnptcr No. 4. It. A. 31.
Jy lH'uIar Communications Hrst Monday nicht
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.cinnlia Valley Lodce No. 4 A. P. fc
t ii. iteguiar uommunicaiioiis Lranuu
. . . : ,.-i..t tilirlit In rnr-li mnntli. IjOOCC OI
pjrjctJonever Saturday night. JonK Blakk,
' j, ji.r.i ..-..., --.j.
Itrownvillo Ijodcc No. 5, I. O. O. F.
I'jilar meetlnCT Tuesday evening ot each
Ctk. J-bTKVKNVQN, N.G. iJ.O.CRQsa.Secy.
CHURCHES.
?- lrc-l tcrinn Ch arch. -Servicer i each
H33 Sul)batlintlit:n.in.,aiid7:3pp.in. Grayer
Mrt'Ing Wednesday evenings, fcabbath fechool
at io cl(ck p. m.
J.'r. Bairi. Pastor.
r2? sjih.'jjUi at HMO a. m.. and :M P-m. un-
c.y
Jniol at 2' . I), m. Prayer meeting xuursuuj
excnlrg. J. W.'MAgTxy. Pastor.
l-SVhrUV! C'hurcli EpNropal. -Corner
fc.na
bcV ai- -- ;- - ", ti'rst Sunday
II .; ui.i"''"';"'"""'"-tr.iu t..
' r .V h uc utn. fccain iree.
G. It. DAVIS, Rector.
. A.Aa "f .-. Vi nnrl A t.
P&lI' streets. Services every Sabbath ex-
.., t ra in encn iiiuinii, "....-.,
1 'ickcfc '. m. Sunday School at 10 a. m.
ivavcrMtingWeanesuayevning. x.a.a.wM0i,
rr.rhrMian Charch, l.ondon.-DIvineser-Ii
licjivcT Sabbath at II a. in., and In the
i .ev-a-K.
HIurj'N-Epixcopal
Peru. Sen'Ice
l-'Si ,, , , rv Miuday morning and evening.
' -- ' 3d at 3 o'clock p. in. liev. 1L C. Pai
sun-
Talbott.
l'a-
M. r.. (Hiurcb, London. Servlcesevcry
other Sabbath. Rev. J. W. Mav.tix. Pastor.
li
VCXyi. n.C!mrrli, Pcru.-Servlces every Sab
p37 tmt,. Hei.MAltTlN PitlTCUAgp. Pastor.
153PJI. K. Chnrch.
Ncinnba City. Servfces
every other Sabbath. R. Hcnoii. Pastor.
CITY OPFICALS.
KrtJ('jtjCoaneil. Meets the First Monday In
K& eirh month. Mayor. F. A.Tisdel,Jr. Al
draien, V. Lewis, F.E.Johnon,C.Neidhardt,
1 Plaster. Marshal, I). uapniDeii.
H icker. Treasurer, J. W. Mlddleton,
W T.lU'gtrs.
Clerk. J. B
Police Judge,
MAILS.
Wthcrn-Dally-vIarhclps: Departs at 8 a.m.
A-t r at 12 p. in.
-Autiu-rn-Dally via Phelps: Daparts at 8 a.m.
Jr . at 3 p.m.
.Northern ia rem
.oMtiM-rn-Via Nemaha Tri-Weekly: Departs
M aday, Wednesday and Saturday at 7 a.m. Ar
t Ta'-K'dajsatfip.m.
Wcttcrn-Vla Tecumseh to Beatrice Daily:
l,!ar".t7a.iii. Arrives at b p.ni.
Northern la Iindon lo Spring Creek eek
17 Dtjiarl-. Friday at 7a.ni. Arrives Saturday at
i 1
'untlnvcstrrn Via Sherman to Table Rock
n.k.v: Departs Monday at 7 a.m, Arrives Tues
&. T at C p.m.
1 j-t Oilice 3Iurs from 7 a. m., to , ' p. m. Sun
cu. s from 1" to 10', a. m. W. V. POLOCK, P. M.
BUSINESS CARDS.
ATTORNEYS.
11
i A inT fc NEWMAN, Attorneys and Coun
i, : r at Ijiw. Urowiivllle. Neb. Oilice No. 70,
Mi 1"j ron IJl(K-k, up stairs
l?:;LXiU A ROGnilS. Attorneys and Counselors
1 at I w Will give diligent attention to any le-
il ! i .:!es entrusted to their care. Oilice lit Court
Untu'Uhis, Brownvllle, Neb.
i'i UILI)N.AttorneyandCounselorat Law,
a- 1 Krai Lstate Ascnt. Tocumseh, Johnson
v.Ntb.
TO'1S.t imOADY. Attorneys at
Law and
L . "
itors .11 Chancery.
Offlcc in District Court
'i, Urou nville. Neb.
A T JL McLENNAN, Attorney
a Law, Nebraska City. Neb.
and Counselor
T 4 HUMPHREY, Attorneys and Comelors
l l a La.v. Pawnee Cltv. Pawnee Csunty. Neb.
"V K (il.K, T. Attorneyat Law and Land Agent,
- I: a rice, (. 'use County, Ncbriiska.
PHYSICIANS.
TfLNRY A. PAGE, (IjiteSurceon in U.S.
Army)
jx fi.ytcmn ana 5UKeln. .so.
S9Maiu street.
l.r n -i .ue. Nebraska.
w..ii Ir J.Crane.
OIIlcc over the Post Olfice,
i-tt
( Y STEW VltT. M. D.. Physician and Sunceon,
irl
v ir -nvine, iseb. Ufilcei
hours from 7 to 9 a.m.
:an;lC'jto7Jt p. nu
OflicehrlL a Lett's
re.
It" H.KIMJ;KI.IN.JLD..Physlc:anandPurgcon
M . 'j the Ntlir.isita Eve and Ear Inlirmiry.
. s.raa... -tnet. Brownville, Neb. Oilice hours
Ir ia , .n. to C p. m.
"IT '. T1ICRMAN. Pltyslcian and Surueon, No.
r,A"''n trtet, I'.rownvillc.Neb. Oilice hours
-r l C to 11 a.m. and lrom I to 4 p. m.
fl" L. -J Titrws. Physician and Surgeon. OfTiee
J a. ,n i nty Drug Store, No. 32 Main street, Brown
i ', Nib.
LAND AGENTS.
P COO
WELL. R.-al Estate and Tax Pitvinc
-V. a
eiit. Oilice in CocsaeU Block, corner First
u:u v
ar icatreeto. Will give nrouu attention to
c sv- of R-al iMate and tiie l'ayinent of Taxes
rr . i jdt the Nemaha Land District. 7tf
"OI 'IARO V. HUGHES, Real Estate Acent and
i 1V I.ir Pilhlti- nilirnln lrnntuiflirfl lnVlt'a
I -r. tare store. Brownville, Neb.
'IlLTAM IL HOOVER, Real Estate and Tax
img .geau Uiiice in iiLstnct Court Room,
"--tfve r- mot attention to the sale of Real Es
t i'i? 1jyci eat of Taxes throughout the Nemaha
X--3 DLstnct.
GRAIN DEALERS.
MERCHANDISE.
J
IS McPHEIlSOS. Dealer la General Merch-
-Ma..
i reet. Brownville. Neb.
:r"", iwai m j-ti'neisoa jaiuea, .vo, oo
15-15J-
1? -- iIIN'- X ,t CO., Dmders in General Merch---
-, i o. t; Main street. Brownville, Neb.
- UAM r. Dire. Dealer In General Merchan-
t. X-
t Jialn str.t. Brownville. Neb. Corn
-. .v, iu.ituj .aiiu V.U1UIUIUIUU .Jiurtu-
i"V -rl?. ''i0". Stoyes. Furniture. ttc.. alwavs on
r w a t ttiQtiy I'roduce.
NOTARIES.
j .MJi'IGHT. Notary Public and Conveyancer,
..- - x - Mam street, second floor, Brownville,
i- t v5cntfortliel'iuitable aud American Ton
- ?surance companies.
JUSTICES.
Y MOimx, probate Xude and Justice of the
J e 's2' OI!ice Court House Building, Browa-
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
TrUCS til LiiEUT. County Sur-eyor. Pos-tot;
L ev;. t iiftoii, Nemaha County, Nebraska.
stoilice
SADDLERY,
J I Kit. y R, Karnes. Bridles, Collars, Etc, Na
;aa'b.rect,BrowavilIe.Neb. Mendingdone
. i.-r. v.lsfrj.-tinn Cisaranleed.
HLACHSr-IITHS.
t. A-g.th the times.
T. s-t.9- 0IB0. Blacksmiths and Horss
i-' a- .i"1 strict, between Main and Atlantic.
t'Wtf'.?' Work done to order and tetisfce-
BRIDGE BUILDING.
A M;V noBISON. Boot and Shoe Maker, No.
Ivonu' s,ret, Brownville, Nb. Has constant
.1 JLi . a Ktri- assortment orGenfs, Ladv's,
i r: and Children's Boots and Shoes. Custom
C "o v w:th neatness and dispatch. Repairing
t 12"' " notice.
HARDWARE.
Sy-KMlEUGERr BUOS.. Dealers In Hard
l iTv,it?vcsTI,lware. Carpenter Tools. Black
vr' a.rWHngs, Etc, No. U Main street, Brown
'.eb.
D- tr1? & Srtl&TS. Hardware Mercliams, No.
f". street. BrovnvHle, Neb. Dealers In
. -unjn;, uc.
TAILORING.
L" J-UBOLD.- Merchant Tailor, No. 02
Plfcal?'j c1' brownville. Neb. Has on hand a
lilM ?K, 0T Goods, and w III make them np in
lais. "J'esi on short notice and reasonable
SALOONS.
J i?.?-?n".'iPnDAnD .t co..pMi.im(ioiiws!i.
bat Winiw ?ln feet. Brownville, Neo. The
IvioS? HVUPSTER, Alkambra Billiard Sa
tc,t WtLVV H'J? t3!111 i! rect- Brownville. Neb. The
2iiana Liquors constanUy on hand.
i -.. i.uuni Kept oa nana.
ggSTAURANTJg.
? AEHAarx-Oeo. n&u?UertyfPi
v. w-:i. v ta y.t. Krr-liJ, Ni
Ni,
r-
-uaoats. uru7-c-Forwt:-.
i;t i WOSTIIING, Forwarding and Commls-
ft" " 3Ierc1.int, and Dealer In all kindsof Grain
- I ojitry I'roduce. (Julee and Wareroom, No.
'OUnk.trtt, Brownville. Neb.
J 1J:i.EAv'?:S'. General Blacksmith, Main street.
of tr",J-i V"2'"' J" 1'repared to do all khuls
t . ttl:, iron, on Kbcf ?otlr nm! Mf tv-!o In
-. -. .'-"- -- - J'vw fcu
C .Vi ,IE',LHn, Bridge P.Btlderand Contractor,
l'a V?. a v'Il.Jxeb. Sole agent for R. W. Smith's
ki u'-o-;- "Bridge The strongest and best wooden
r1 - h m use.
u500TS AND SHOES.
BrSHJESS CARDS.
HOTELS.
SJIKKMAN HOUSE. C. 5L Kauffman. Proprie
tor. No. 4G Main street. Jlrownvllle, Nebraska.
TloroughIy remodeled and refurnished, reed sta
ble In connection with the house. Stages for all
points west and omnlbnvses for all trains.
Uf
EYNOLDS nOUSE, J. N. Iteynolds, Proprietor.
Newly rumlshcd throughout; thoroughly remod
eled from cellar to attic Tlrst Class Sample Itoom
on Hrst floor. Most convenient House to tile busi
ness part of the city. Livery accommodations con
venient. Stages for all ioints leave this House
daily, making close connections with all Railroad
trains. '?
os. 88 ,t00 Main Street, opposite ruaiumcc
l MEKTCAN nOUSE, I D. Bobison. Proprietor.
J Front street, between Main and College. Good
Feed and Livery Stable In connection with this
House.
DRUGGISTS.
- r-CREERY fe NlCKEMi, Dealers In Hrugi,
jL htatlonerj-. Etc., No. 32 Main street, Brown
ville. Neb. Full aviortment of Drugs, Paints, Oils,
Books, Statioiiary, etc on hand, and sold at whole
sale or retail.
J. W. APPIiEGrATE,
HUli!
Brownville, IVcbrasUa.
WILL DO ALL KINDS OF BUILDING. TRE
pare Plans, Draw Designs, and Furwl'th Spec
fTcations. Satisfaction guaranteed. Job Work of
every description at short notice. Shop on First
Street, between Main and Atlantic. 26-tf
JACOB n. 3EKKX.EY.
sticirAEi. fiWiTzrn.
BEEELEY & SWITZER,
Wagon & CarriageMakers
BLACKSMITHS.
COLLEGE STREET,
BROWNVILLE, - NEB.
CUSTOM WOItK
TN.ONE ON SHORT NOTICE, AND IN A STYLE
AJ nnd mannerwhlch will guarauteesatisfaction.
Mr. Berkely does the Wood Work, and Mr. Switzer
the Blacksmithiug and the Iron Work, aud profess
es to be a superior hand at
HORSE SHOEING.
flSTGive us a call.
2G-3m
GEO. S. PHILLIPS,
Livery,Feed,& ExchangeStables
BroTcnvillo, Neliraaka.
J. BLAKE,
EIIIJT
All Operations Per
formed In the best
manner.
Ofpxck:
Over CltyDrug Store,
iroMt room.
wsgxmsammm
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GEO. DAUGHERTY,
PROPRIETOR,
BANK EESTAURANTl
BKEiBE3BaBBIKSIISX3XZX3SaCKaaBBzf
8 No. 37 Main St.
BROWNVILLE, NEB.
John L. Carson, Banker,
JiliO WXVILLE, NEBRASKA.
Exchance bought and sold on all the princlpa
cities. Also dealer In
Gold and SIlTer Coin, fioM Dnst, and Gorern
xtient Bunds.
Deposits received, payable at sight. Interest pah'
on time deposits by special agreement. Taxes
for non-residents. All kinds U. S, Bonds wanted.
THE SHERMAN HOUSE.
4.0 Inln-s,, Broivnviile.
CM. KAUFFJIAW, Proprietor
IX C0NXECTI0X lVlTII TIEE HOUSE.
This House has been remodeled and refurnished
throughout, and atrords the best accommodations In
the city to the local nnd traveling public It Is cen
trally located. Stages for the West, and Omnibusss
Tor all trains, go from the Sherman House. Fair
Grst class, charges moderate. l"-tfi
Ix-. C. IT. TIIXB.XJ'X',
GermanPhysician & Obstetrician
OFFICE IN Tin.TRMANS DRUG STORE,
llrovruville, Nebriwlta.
POSSESSING an Electro-Magnetic Battery, he
will be fully able to attend to all Nervous and
other diseases.
Will be in Brownville from the 1st to the 5lh, and
from the loth to the l"th of every month. atf
W. B. WRIGHT,
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer la
OLD KENTUCKY
Pure Wines, Bitters, &c,
G3 3IAIS STREET,
BROWNVILLE, XEBEASKA.
JOHN tJOTJSITX3EIL(r,
Bricklayer and Plasterer,
Brownvillo, NeLrasfeo.
Is prepaid to take contracts lo bis llnu, la city or
country. All work dojtsin the best of btj'le. Also,
wlllbutid Cisterns, and warrant them perfect. Soy
Clocks, Vatches, Jewelry
JOSEPI-I SFTUTZ,
No. 59 Main Street, Bro-pmvilla.
Keeps constantly on hacd a largcand well
a&sorted slo;U of genuine articles in his line
t Repairing of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
'done on short notice, at reasonable rates.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
FRANZ HELMER,
fAG0H &LACiCSM!THHQP
ONE DOOR WEST OF COURT HOUSE.
WAGON MAKING, Repairing,
Plows, nnd all work done in the best
manner and on short notice. Satisfaction guaran
anteed. Give lilmacall. Sl-ly.
onx q. a. siimr. r. ir. wiixx
AND
COMMISSIOH- HOUSE
OF
SMITH & WILCOX.
Dealers In all kinds of Grain, for which they
pay the highest market price In Cash.
3-Oftice at Store of F. E. Johnson & Co. H-r.ni
"Waldter & Lennnoii, .
House, Sign and Carriage
PUITEBS
No. 56 Mala St.
EEOWXVIZLE.
Mixed Paints
FOR SALE.
GILIIjSrG
GRAINING, SMAXTING,
FROSTING, KALSOMINING, ETa
28-ly
S T O "V -E S!
ALL SIZES AND rTTEBNS,
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stqbag, mmm,
THE ADVERTISER.
OROWNTILLE. NEB.,
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1S71.
ANECDOTES OFPUBnC MEN.
BY COL. ,T. W. FORNEY.
No. XXI.
From thj Philadelphia Press.
Called to "Washington on official
business, I find myself this warm and
breezy morning ot the 30th of May
seated at the open window -of my old
room at the Mills House, once more
looking over into the sacred grounds
of-Arlington, where twenty thousand
Union soldiers sleep their last sleen.
and silently yet sternly sentinel the
capitol they saved. And this is Dec
oration Day ! The departments are
closed in honor of the dead heroes.
From Main to Mexico, wherever the
grave of a Union man is to be found,
it will be visited hy some Union man
or woman.
Such graves as theso are pilgrim shrines,
Shrines to no code or creed confined;
The Delphian vales, the Palastlnes
xne Jieecas 01 me minci.
The fervor with which Decoration
Day is venerated -proves the undying
love of our people for their country."
The sentiment ia a conviction, that
grows with every hour, aud ripens to
be renewed in freshness and vigor.
Decoration Day, is therefore, another
Independence Day ; precisely as the
abolition of human slavery in 1803
gave force to the abolition of British
surveillance iu 177G. But it was more
thau this. It was the intellectual
distnthralment of four millions of
black and thirty millions of whites.
It revolutionized the wicked work of
ages of misrule. It wrought in less
than nine years the destruction of the
evils of almost as rnairy centuries.
Where were we all on the 30th of
May eighteen hundred and sixty-one?
As I ask the question, Robert E. Lee's
Arlington house shines out white
from the dark green foliage of the
southern side of the Potomac, and
Beems to answer : "Ten years ago this
day my owner had just tendered an
unstained sword, with a troubled
heart, to his country's foe. Ten
years ago Abraham Lincoln, Stephen
A. Douglaa, Stonewall Jackson,
James Buchanan, Edward D. Baker,
Howell Cobb, John B. Floyd, Lewis
Cass, Owen Lovejoy, were living;
they have since gone before the Great
Judge, and have answered all their
mortal decils. Ten years ago the
thousands of slain around me, nnd
'three hundred thousand more,' were
active and intelligent men, useful
fathers, husbands, sons and brothers.
But these dad have left behind les
sons and warnings that will not die."
"Ah, gentlemen," said Fredrick
Douglas, the really great leader of the
colored race of America, yesterday
afternoon, "who shall tell thestory of
these last ten years ! I cannot. To
me all is cuangea ; ana wnat an un
utterable, indescribable change!
From slavery to libert, from ostri
cism to equality, from ignorance to
self-respect, from sin to schools, from
the lash to the light, from the bludg
eon lo the ballot, from a country
bound in chains to a nation robed in
glory, from a capitol that seemed to
be rooted to despotism to a great city,
free and wholesome and beneficent.
Find your orator to tell us of these
marvels. I have no speech to de
scribe, though my heart cherishes
them all."
"Blessed be this night," said an
other of the same race on another oc
casion. "Five times have I been
sold into slavery in Washington
three times on I ho block, and twice
with the ball and cain on my feet;
and now I am free, and all my chil
dren and their children's children."
And what could John M. Langs
ton, the law .professor of the Howard
University, say? The son of a gen
tleman of Virginia by his own slave,
he lives to represent the intellect of
his father and his accepted offspring,
and to honor and bless his mother.
But on this sacred day other mem
ories are revived. I recall, as I write,
the face, the form, the character aud
history of James Jackson, of Kentuc
ky, who sleeps with the blessed Un
ioh martyrs. The readers of these
hasty anecdotes will perhaps recol
lect my reference to him on the night
of my Mazeppo. speech, on Missouri
avenue, after I had been elected Clerk
of the House of Representatives, in
December of 1859. Jackson was af
terward a Whig Representative iu
the Thirty-seventh Congress from
Kentucky, and when elected was
about forty. He was chosen as a pro
slavery man, with intense attach
ment to Henry Clay, John T. Crit
tenden, and the old leaders of that
school of politics, but also with in
tense attachment to the Union. I
never met him until I met him as a
Representative iu the great Congress
preceding the rebellion. His genial
nature, his extremely handsome face
and athletic form, his eloquence,' of
speech and magnetism of manner, at
tracted me ; and yet, although some
what differing in" politics He as the
ideal of the old Whig party in its
best days, aud I as the ideal of the
better days of the Democracy we
coalesced in ardent devotion to the
TTninn. "ITo was airainst mo for
Clerk, vet he was triad I was elected"
not because he cared for me, but
because he desired to rebuke the Ad
ministration of Mr. Buchanan, whose
course on the Kansas question he djd
not hesitate to denounce as unuttera
bly bad-
On this decoration day, as I look
out upon Arlington Heights and hear
the trims thundering over the graves
of those who perished that their
country might Hve,.I think of hand
some Jackson, and of an incident re
lated to me bj one of his devoted:
Kentucky friends, now ftolding a
high and honorable position under
General Grant's administration.
Jackson left his seat iu the House to
offer his life to the Republic. In do
ing this he felt that he was separated,
from many near and dear friends in
I Kentucky, all of whom, equally de
voted to the Union, were also devo
ted to slavery. He had served sever
al months in the war when slavery
was abolished in the District of Col
umbia. His old associates, believing
they could swerve him from his fidel
ity to hia country, conceived that
emancipation would greatly disap
point him, and one of their number
wrote him a letter, stating now that
the Yankees had shown that this was
simply aa Abolition war, he ought to
leave the "Federal" array and come
over to his old friends, in which case
a better position awaited him. This
letter, owing to circumstances unnec
essary to relate here, fell into the
hands of his brave wife, a Kentucky
women. She was so indignant at the
atmpk tp debauch her husband that
she tore it up, but immediately after,
believing that he had better see it,
womanlike, gathered the fragments
and sent the missive foward to her
husband. He received it in the com
pany of friends, laughed heartily at
it, and referred to the Confederate
who had written it as a capital good
fellow, but as one who had wholly
misunderstood his character. Among
those who heard of the letter was the
well known Brigadier General Wil
liam Nelson, subsequently killed by
General Jefferson C. Davis in a per
sonal rencontre at the Gait House, in
Louisville, on the 26th of September,
1802. Nelson remarked, after the let
ter to Jackson had been read, that
the writer seemed to know Ins man. or
he never would have written it. This
observation was reported to Jackson
by some convenient friend, who be
longed to tho school of men who al
ways report unpleasant remarks, and
resulted in a challenge from Jackson
to Nelson. Nothing prevented a mor
tal meeting hut the intervention of
the venerable John J. Crittenden,
the friend of both, who came from
Louisville to the camp and stepped be
tween the young Hotspurs. But they
never spoke until after one of the sub
sequent battles, in which Nelson dis
played almost superhuman bravery.
Jackson's cavalry regiment could not
be called into the fight, and ho lay
chafing at a distance from the field.
But when he came into camp aud
found that praise of hia adversary was
in the mouth of every soldier, he
rushed up to him and threw his arms
around his neck- and said : "I can
never be the enemy of a man vUio
has fought so bravely for the old
flag."
Thev both died in 1802 Jackson at
the head of his regiment in the battle
of Perryvillc, and Nelson, as I have
said, by the hands of Jefferson C. Da
vis, a bravo and noble soldier, now in
New York, whom Nelson had grossly
insulted. Jackson and Nelson were
both men of strong convictions. They
were men of stqrm and tempest, but
of noble hearts. They loved Clay,
Crittenden, Breckonrldge, Preston
and Prentice of the Louisville Journ
al. To go into the Union cause
against all their social prejudices and
friends was a great struggle, but go
they did. Tliey died young, but
they had lived a long experience.
Nelson was a commander in the na
vy, and died a 'Brevet Major General
in the army. Jackson had just got
into Congress when the war broke
out, and died before he finished his
Congressional career. They are both
iu Heaven.
THE DOLLINGER SCHISM.
The excommunication of Dr. Dol
linger is creating no small stir iu the
religious circles of Europe. The lime
has passed by when spiritual despot
ism was supreme, and priestly fulmi
nations possessed transcedent power.
The venerable head of the Romish
Church has, in his old age, become
engaged in a controversy which can
not but weaken his spiritual power,
almost as effectually as his temporal
authority has been lessened. It
brings him not only in collision with
the clericle dignitaries, but also with
the jealous prerogatives of the Catho
lic Monarchs of Europe, who as far
less subservient than they once were.
We see it stated that, though the
Bavarian Ambassador at Rome, the
Pope threatened to excommunicato
the King of Bavaria for his friendly
course towards Dr. Dollinger since
his repudiation of the dogma of infall
ibility, but that on the following day
Cardinal Antonelli called upon the
Ambassador and withdrew, in the
name of the Pope, the threat and ap
ologized therefor. Throughout the
Catholic countries of Europe, espec
pecially in the feeling of dissatisfac
tion is strong. In Munich, an ad
dress, approving of Dr. Dollinger's
views, is being signed by the students
and it is to be forwarded to the other
universities of Germany, and to
Switzerland. Eighty Catholic Par
ishes have also signified their assent
to his opinion,
1VEST OF THE MISSOURI.,
Detailed Description of Some of the
Principle Counties In tlio Interior
of Nebrnslia.
Ed. Plalismouth Herald: Having
just, returned, as you know, from
quite an extensive trip through our
State, I desire to publish some facts
in regard to the various portions of
the State, from which can be deduced
some idea of the agricultural resourc
es of Nebraska. I havo lived some
three years in the State, and although
I do a fair amount of reading I have
never found anything from which I
could learn definitely of the quality
of land, &c, in the counties west of
us. I now propose to take the coun
ties in detail and give you facts as I
observed in'passing through each, and
to commence I will, omitting Cass
and Lancaster, come to
SALINE COUNTY.
This county 13 situated between
ranges one and four, east of the sixth
principal meridian, and its south line
is twenty-four miles from the Kansas
and Nebraska State line. Its princi
pal towns are Crete, De Witt, Pleas
ant Hill, and Swan City. It is wa
tered by the Little Blue River, Tur
key Creek and Forks and Swan
Creeks, all of which are quite heavily
timbered. The general surface of
the country is a gently rolling prai
rie ; the soil is good, being a dark
sandy loam with a subsoil of clay of a
quality which holds moisture so well
that even should no rain fall for a
long period, vegetation would not be
apt to die out. Just now they are
having a struggle over the location of
tne county seat, and I believe thej
have an election every three weeks
about it. The last I heard was that
Pleasant Hill was ahead, but I am
told that the Cretans cried fraud and
I suppose another election will come
off shortly. Passing through Saline
county, we came to
FIL1IORE COUNTY.
There are not so many streams run
ning theough this 'county. The
north part of Turkey Creek being the
principal one, and in the north-west
corner School Creek, both being well
timbered. The prairie is good and
will make beautiful farms. There is
plenty of Government land in Fill
more county subject to Homestead
and Pre-emption. After leaving
School Creek, where we camped for
dinner, we came, in the afternoon,
into
CXAT COUNTY,
The locution of the B. & M. R. R.
through the north tier of townships
in this county has attracted a good
many settlers. I think by the census
of 1870 the population of this county
was 35. It is now over 200; and con
stantly increasing, though both tim
ber and water are scarce.
AD.UL3 COUNTY
Came next on our line. This coun
ty is very much broken, it being the
head of the Little Blue, and west
fork of Big Blue ; and near the center
of the county a colony of people from
Michigan have started a town. Ow
ing to the extreme reticence of the
most intelligent looking man I saw
there, I ws unable to glean any
fates in regard to Adams county
which I can give you, and- to speak
from what I saw there would be so
unfavorable to that county that I re
frain from abusing it and ' pass on to
KEARNEY COUNTY.
This county, after vou set bevond
the sand ridges that border the Piatte
River, is most beautiful. It has. no
running streams in it of any conse
quence; but the prairie 13 so level
that when rains fall the water finds
the lowest-places aud forms small
lakes, which" aro seldom or never
dry, affording plenty of water for
stock. All along in this county we
saw plenty of Antelope, and from ob
servation I know they are not found
in any country where they caunofc
obtain water. Passing on through
Kearney, county we struck the .
RCPU11L1CAN VALLEY.
We traveled up this valley for
about sixty ingles west of the western
boundary of Franklin county. There
are a good many bodies of Cotton
wood timber on the Republican Riv
er, which wili make good house logs
and can be sawed into boards which
will be used for building purposes. In
passing up the river the distance I
have named, I should say that from
the north side a creek runs in at an
average of every live miles, some of
them quite large and all well timber
ed. The sqil, both on the bottom and
and the up land, is good and suitable
for all kinds of farming; and as a
stock-raising country I think it is un
surpassed this side the Rocky Moun
tains. Judge Cook, Mr. Painter, aud
several other gentlemen, have laid
out a town and county next west of
Franklin county. They have named
the county Harlan, and the name of
the town Alma City. A few miles
above we find Republican City,
which is a stockade, built for protec
tion against Indians. Here we found
Mr. F. A. Beiyon, a very intelligent
gentleman and whom every settler
who goes to the Republican valley in
that locality should consult, as lie is
thoroughly posted. Some 24 miles
above here the county and town of
Arapahoe was located, after which we
returned to Kearey City, when, cut
ting loose from the train, I crossed
the Platte River and found myself on
the line of tho U. P. R. R. atKearney
Station, which, is in
BUFFALO COUNTY.
From what I heard about it, I had
imbibed the 'nation that the upper
Platte valley was a vast saud plain ;
but I was mistaken, and my surprise
was great to see isucli fine, magnifi
cent bottoms, upon which is now
grass plenty large enough to make
hay. This co.yn.ty is well watered by
the Platte, and branches of the Loup
and Wooti Rivers, the latter being, I
think, one ofthefineststreams I have
seen in Nebraska. It is in this coun
ty the junction of the B. & M. R. 11.
with the U. P. R. R. will be made,
and if so, I predict for it a very lively
growth. Passing along down Wood
river, 1 was (leiigiuea witn me oeau
tiful aspect of the country. On one
side was the Platte, its oceassioiialJy
visible, flashing brightly in the dis
tance ; on the other, the small bluffs
gently rising from the plain which
was dotted all over with dwellings.
ITeie you have no difficulty in find
ing the railroad sections, 11s all, or
nearly all, the Government laud is
taken up while the Railroad land is
vacant, but it will not be so long.
The usual price which the U. P. R.
R. asks for their land, and the very
liberal terms which they give pur
chasers, will insure a speedy sale of
all their lands in that locality; end I
do not see why people do not buy
these lands more rapidly than they
do. Go where you will and the set
tlers will sa3r, "well, we'll have a rail
road in a few years." But here they
have one at their doors, and one of
the best railroads in the world ; and a
man can buy a quarter section of
land, move on to it and make his
home nnd pay for it, and in less than
five j-ears his farm will be worth $5,
000. These are my impressions. We
next come to
HALL COUNTY.
This is also situated on the Platte
river, and is quite well watered and
and timbered, though I noticed near
Grand Island the soil was sandy.
They expect the Midland Pacific
Railroad to go through this county
and up on tho Loup Fork country.
I found at Grand Island some very
clever and intelligent people, among
whom wa3 Mis. Eberhard, the edi
tress of the Platte Valley Independ
ent, whom, as the Irishman said I
found to be a most "gentlemanly
lady," and from whom I obtained a
good deal of information in regard to
the country. She tells me that the
Loup Fork is a splendid country and
is rapidly filling up. I also met
Messrs. Handy & Thummel, in the
real estate and law business, and who
are ready and willing to give to stran
gers all the information in their pos
session in regard to the country.
Leaving Grand Island I crossed the
Platte river on a bridge, or a lot of
bridges, as the river here has a half
dozen channels. The bridge had re
cently been finished, and is a free
bridge, built by Hall county, and
owes its existence to the energy of
the people of Grand Island, and I
have no doubt it will prove a paying
investment for the county and the
town. Again on the south side of
Platte, we come into
HAMILTON COUNTY.
This county is watered by the
Platte river, Lincoln creek, Beaver
creek, aud the head of the North
fork of the Big Blue river. I think
this to be one of the finest counties I
have been in on this trip. The soil is
black and rich, the vegetation is
abundant, and where there is the
least appearan.ee of a creek I found
good timber growing. Elder Stafford
bos a fine farm at what is called Staf
ford's grove, sixteen miles east of
Grand Island. Coming further on we
next strike
YORK COUNTY.
It is almost exactly like Hamilton,
except that the people cannot stay at
home and see the Platte river. A
town is started called York Center.
This town was commenced by some
gentleman in Lincoln, who expected
the JB. & M. K. K. would run tnrougn
fhprA hut fh in crof nr noil nnr. flifTprpii t
ly from what was expected, apd so
. v. v , , fc .. mi ... w a. .... w. w .
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that town contaius to-day two houses
and a large number of stakes which
mark streets, squares, alleys and
blocks. York county is a rich coun-
I ty, and I would say here; that in all
the counties I havo named, there is
plenty of vacant land, aud people
who desire to settle in either of them
will find people ever ready and will
ing to extend to them all the aid and
assistance mcy aesi re in minting up
good iocntions. We came next to
EEWARD COUNTY.
which is so well known that I cannot
give any additional information
about it only that the roads are so
crooked through it that a man has to
drive from two to three miles in. order
to get one in the proper direction;
and I think it would be well if the
Commissioners' of Seward county
would regulate the roads and not per
mit every farmer to turn the road
every time it suit3 his caprice.
AN IBISECT TEAR.
The present year bids fair to be one
of the worst insect years ever exper
ienced, xne Jttessiau uy lias commit-
ed extensive depredations on wheat
in Tennessee, Kentucky, and 'South-
em Indiana; scores of complaints
of chinch bugs conic from Illinois and
lowu, and some from other sections;
in still other places immense swarms
of black caterpillars, and army worms
(the true army worm that lives on
grass and other vegetation on the
ground) are doing great damage. But
the worst of all is is the Rocky Moun
tain potato bug; this pest, it appears,
prevails much more extensively than
ever before, at least so early in the
season. They are also fast pushing
their way east, having entered Ohio
on the south line of March, and cross
ing the Detroit river in swarms on
the north.
The Detroit Free Press says, "every
chip, plauk, stave, bark, board and
floating thing, large orsmall, in shore
or channel, in stream or eddy, was
filled with a crew of potato bugs,
calm, contented, aud as much at
home as if feasting on the jiotato."
Most of them were taken by the wind
across to the Canada shore; others
"struck boldly and rapidly down the
rapid enrrent, still eastward bound,
via lake Erie to Bufi'alo." And it is
said they will either disembark at
Buflalo, or continue their course
down the Erie canal. Now, leaving
all pleasantries out of the question, it
will not be at all strange if the potato
bugs should make their appearance
in the vicinity of Buffalo in tho
course of tho season. Indeed, it
would rather be surprising if they did
not secure transportation on some of
the passing propellers, and finally
reach tho potato fields of Western
ii(iY York. Meantime, says the
Free Press, "the potato bug possesses
the laud. Farmers do not nope to
save the crop at all. From all parts
of the State (of Michigan) the same
cry comes up, and potatoes have
greatly risen in price. Let the citi
zens of New York pray shipwreck of
the fleet on Lake Erie:"
There seem to be but two remedies
for tho pest ; one is picking ofl" the
bugs, which, when they get so nu
merous, is impracticable; and the
other is Paris green. Tho Free Press
says : "All sorts of remedies have
been tried. Paris green seems to
have the most reliance placed upon
it. The druggists of Detroit have
had their stock exhausted. One firm
disposed of a ton in three days. Tel
egraph orders have been transmitted
to New York to forward with all speed
a new supply."
Thus it is seen that the present sea
son lor some cause as a very early
and in many sections dry spring, or
perhaps some other phrase or phrases
in the weather is very favorable for
insect depredators, and that if no
neavy storm?, lnendiv insects, or
other preventives come to the farm
er's relief, they are likely to do im
mense damage during the season.
V33jDEIj PHILLIPS AT BOSTON.
Mr. Phillips being loudly and ira
impntiently called for, said:
Ladies and Gentlemen and Mr.
Chairman : The extremes of the
earth meet upon this platform to
night. Here wc are, the fruit of two
or three thousand years of civiliza
tion. All that art and letters and re
ligion could do for us we Jiayp inher
ited. We harness the steain ;ve send
lightning on errands; wc subjugate
nature. More than that, wc have
learned the omnipotence, the abso
lute omnipotence of order. We know
what patient, persevering effort, gen
eration after generation, marrying
the ages together, can accomplish.
We are educated by a thousandjyears
into the consciousness of the sacred
ness of the law. These are very great
powers. Now we stand side by side
to-night with the rude tenents of the
forest; men with few ideas, scanty
traditions, rude arts. They come to
us with only three elements of hu
manity. One is the indestructable
sense of right and justice, which we
never found a race so demoralized
that they did not possess it. In their
case theso are added to an eloquence
to assert their rights, and a courage
to defend them, which places the In
dian side by side with tiie Saxon and
the Greek. No race ever outdid him.
There is a class of men in our coun
try that gather up the tradition of In
dian violence, from Massachusetts
Bay back to Colorado, and try to fire
the heart with revenge. Why, fellow-citizens,
if from Phillip Pokano
ket down to Black Kettle" on the far
prairies, the Indians had resisted us
inch by inch for every acre of land
that we stole from him, I should be
ashamed of the soil that fed him and
the sun that looked down upon him.
What is to give our children courage?
This same climate and this same sun.
Is our race in the next thousand years
to run into cowardice, into pigmy
thoughts, into standing cowed and at
bay? The Indian who taught us
what this American continent can
make of manhood has written that
record in a resistance that neither the
omnipotence of civilization nor the
overwhelmning numbers of forty
millions of people could ever reduce
into yielding to us tamely. I thank
him-" I am only proud- of my coun
tr3T as a continent, because tbe race
that preceded U3 was no race to yield
up tamely their rights. I should be
ashamed to be the successors of some
of the races that go out in history.
Why, you know, fellow-citizens, that
the darkest page in human record is
the contact between civilization and
the aborigines. The contact of civil
ization with barbarism is the scandal
of history. The civilized man ap
proaches his victim, demoralizes him
with his vices, and then crushes him
under his feet. And if we were to
measure the justice or the merit of
civilization by the fringe which comes
in contaot with barbarism, as we ad
vance we snouiu nave to cover our
T .. a
- - -
faces aua put our nanus upon our
t lips, for it i3 a record of infamy from
the earliest stage which history has
recorded down, to the present dav 1
and the only and the brightest spot
I ia that section of our history is that
the Englishman, with all his art, with
all his wonderful superiority, with
all tho omnipotence of his warlike
I machinery, nnd his overwlielmnlng
numDersnas never yec met tne In
dian and frightened him anywhere.
you say, these representatives of
three hundred thousand men, they
can only appeal to onr pity. From
Massachusetts Bay back to their own
hunting grounds, every few miles is
written down in imperishable record
as the spot where the scanty, scatter
ed tribe made a stand for justice and
their own rights. Neither Greece,
nor Germany, nor the French, nor
the Scotch, can show u prouder rec
ord. And. instead of searintr it over
with infamy and illustrated epithets,
the future will recognize it as a glo
rious record of a race that novel- died
away, but stood up manfully, man hy
man, foot by foot, and fought it out
for tho land God gave him, against
the world, which seemed poured out
over him, I love the ludlah, because
there is something in the soil and cli
mate that made him, that is fated In
the thousand years that aro coming
to mould ua, and I hope we shall al
ways produce heroes as persistent as
Philip and 3Iekavoku, the Philip Sld
uey of tho prairie.
Now one wort! more. Do yon know
the history of a single aboriginal race,
brought in contact with a great civil
ized wave, that has ever behaved any
better? Can you show me a finer
record on anycoiitinenl? When the
barbarians of India met Alexander of
Macedon, and the Macedonian. King
hurled in their faces the same re
proach that the press of America does
at the Indian, "You defend you -selves
savagely I" the haughty chief
replied, "Sir, if you knew how sweet
freedom was, you would defend it'
even with axes. !" That is what the
Indian says tp us. No matter what
be tho masacrc ; no matter what be
the weapon ; .no matter what be the
ruthlcssness with which I assert my
righ against your uncounted millions.
If you knew how sacred justice was,
and how sweet liberty, you'd recog
nize that I was right in defending it,
even with these stern methods.
But still there is another word to
be suid. Every fair-minded man that
approaches the Indians comes back
with the Earae testimony. Every
gentle heart, be it in the bosom of
man or woman, every fair-minded
man, be he soldier or citizen, comes
back with the same record. Tho or
dinary rulhan paints him black ; he
has to in order to excuse himself. But
ask Jessie Fremont, after her years of
residence, with no man within reach
but an Indian, in her lonely home,
where the General left her week after
week and month after month, and
nothing but women under the roof!
"They told me," said she, "to lock
every door, to leave no article of prop
erty outside my walls. I never drew
a lock ; I never brought in an article
from the lawn, ana I never had an
unkind word, nor the triflingest arti
cle stolen in that whole two yeas."
You go from the women to the Epis
copal Bishop of Minnesota, Bishop
Whipple, twelve years at the head of
that diocese, and within its girth the
representatives of some of these tribes
and their neighbors. I was his guest
far a day. Suid he : "I have traveled
on foot and iu the saddle over every
square mile of my diocese. I know
every Indian settleqient in it. I have
watched them for d dozen years.
Some of them will drink and some
of them will steal, and they are of
Our race, for they have the same vi
ces ; but iu every difficulty that has
occurred in this twelve years of my
residence between the Indian and the
Government, the Government has
been at ways wrong and the Indian
has been always right.?! But he was
a Christian priest perhaps judged
from a sentimental point of view.
We will go out to St. Louis. We will
open the door of that old rough fron
tier soldier, Gen. Harney, graduated
at West Point and sunt out to the
frontier when 19 years old, living
there 5Q years quljl to-day. General
Harney, cradled in "experience with
the Indian tribes, grown gray in their
companionship, what does "he say ?
I never yet; knew an Indian chief to
break his word J TApplauscf Search
me now Mr. Colyer, forgetting his
own education, called our great men
at Washington our chiefs search me
now the catalogue of great chiefs
from Maine to Florida, and find the
man of 70 years that can lay his hand
on his heart, and say, I never knew
an American brave to break his word.
Put into one scale the Cbrh-t'an, ith
his education and his honor, his in
stincts and his chivalry, and put into
the other the savage, and then sum
mon your witness of fifty loug a,nd
weary years, and find me a man so
green, from Bangor to Texas, that he
has not found the larger number of
American chiefs havo sadlv broken
their words. Well, General Hamey
goe3 on to say, "I have lived on this
frontier ou years, and I have never
yet known an instance in which war
broke out between these tribes that
the tribes were not in the right.
Why, I can tell you that every one
or tuese men witn us to-day is able to
say of the United States, 'Its word is
a he ; its treaty is a suare ; it3 flag a
shame.' " Mr. Phillips narrated Gen
eral Harney's experience in attempt
ing to keep faith with the Indians,
and referred to the last war with the
Cheyennes, in which thegovernment
spent nine million of dollars and
some hundreds of lives in the killing
of six Indians. Thatwa an expen
sive way, it tney undertook to kill oh
the 3o0,000 and their descendants. At
that rate Boutwell would have to at
tempt some new arithmetic to settle
the national debt. Langhter.J He
then presented in a telling manner
the worse phases of the governmen
tal relations with the Indian tribes,
recalling the incident of two of the
most atrocious massacres, and con
trasting the whole pojicy of thp gov
ernment and ihaof the Canadian do
minions, which ninety years ago an
ticipated General Grant by protecting
the Indian, and have never had rrtuch
of any trouble with him. We have
spent a thousand millions in fighting
mm anu nave never Deen just to mm.
Mr. Phillips closed as follows : What
I want of every one of you to-dav
what I want of every editor in Mas
sachusetts is that you should say to
Grant; Forget republicanism, forget
democracy. Deep do w n in the hearts
of the people in a substratum, which
no division of party can reach, there
resides the indefeawible purpose of
the New England people that the law
shall bo as potent ou the prairies as it
is in State street, that these ruffians of
Arizona and these iaurderers of the 1
Apaches shall be hung justo3 certain
ly a3 If they committed murder in
the yard of tho State house, or upon
the very steps of the capitol. Don?t
fear that when you halve carried out
that exact justice to the very shores
of the Pacific that it will weaken the
Republican ranks or lose you a single
vote. We assure you that the justice
of the American people, the honor
they give to their flagj tho respect
that they pay to law is so perfect,'
that it overrides tho lines of party,
and will not only savo but lift highec
the man who, risking office, tramp
ling under foot party lines, forgetting
all the greed of Indian rings, shall
carry out the most perfect protection
in the minutest particular to everjr
atom of property, and tho most tii-,
fling right of the smallest Indian
tribe. Let our pride be, fellow-citizens,
that there is not an enemy so,
weak, that there is not an Indian
tribe go small, there Is not a lonely
cavern beyond the Rocky Mountains,
so distant that tho American flag and
the American arm cannot reach there,
and make the law triumphant over,
every force. Applatise. ' "
0 . .,
AWFUL EAi-THQ,UAKE.
Destruction-of tl Town of Bntlmnfrt
In CUlna Nearly Three TliousaudT
Prlfcsta, Soldiers and People XClire&r
Washington, Juno 4. '
Our Minister in China, Governon,
Lowe, has forwarded to the Secreta
ry of State the following translation
of a report of an earthquake in Ba
thang, in Szchuen, made by tho Chi
nee Governor-Deueral of the prov
ince in which it occurred :
I have ascertained that Bathang
lies on a very elevated spot, beyond
the borders of the province, aboud,
260 miles west from Litang, and more,
than thirty post stations from tho dis
trict town of Ta-tsien, on the high
road to Tibet. .
About 11 o'clock a. m., on tbelltl
of April, 1S71, the earth trembled sq
violently that the governmento!Uce3,
temples, granaries, stouo and stored
houses, and fortifications, with all
the common dwellings and Temple of-Ting-Lin,
were at once overthrown
and ruined. The only exception was
the hall in the temple grounds called
Ta-Chao, which stood unharmed in.
its isolation. A few of the troops and
people escaped, but most of the in-
mates were crushed and killed undec '
the falling timber and stone. Flames
n'so suddenly burst out in four place-,
which strong winds drove about un
til the heavens were darkened with
smoke, and their -roaring was min-.
gled with the lamentations of'fhe dis
tressed people. On thp IGth tho,
flames wero beaten down, but the
rumbling noises were still heard un
der ground like distant thunder, qud
the earth recked and rolled like a
ship in a storinyat the mercy of the.
waves. The multiplied miseries of
the afflicted inhabitants were increas
ed by a thousand fears, but in about
ten days matters began to grow quiet;
and the motion cease.
The grain collector at Bathang says,
that for several days before the earth
quake the water had overflowed that
dyke, but after it tho earth cracked
in many places, and black, fetid wa
ter spurted out in a furious manner.
If one poked it tho npurting instant
ly followed, just as ia tho caso with
the salt -yells and firo wells, (in the,
eastern part of the province,)' and
this explains how it happened that
fire followed the car.thquajie in Ba
thang. As nearly ns is ascertained, there
were destroyed two large temples,
the ofFpcs of the Collector of Grain
Tax, the local magistrate and the
Colonel, the Ting-Lin Temple, and
nearly sevep hundred futhpmsof wal
around it, and three hundred and fifty-one
rooms in all inside; six small
er temples numbering two hundred
and twenty-one rooms, besides 184U
rooms and hpuses of the common
people. The number qf' people sol
diers and lamas killed by tho crash
was 22S8, among whom wero the. lo
cal magistrate and his second in of
fice. The earthquake extended from Bn
thaug eastward to Pang ch&h-muh,
westward to Nan-tun, on tiie south to
Lint-ah-shih, and on the north to the.
salt wells of Aluntcz, acircnitof over
100 miles. It occurred simultaneous-:
ly over the whole of this region. In.
some places steep hills split and gunk
into deep pits ; in others, hills on lev
el spots became precipitous cliffs, aail
the roads and highways were render
ed impassable. ' '
The people were scattered liko au
tumn leaves, and this calamity to tho
people of Bathang and vicinity was
really one of the most distressing and
destructive that has happened. Th6
Governor General twice memoralized
the Eiqpcror respecting it, who grant
ed aid to relievo the misery, re-open
the roads between the post-houses',
and rcbnild or repair the offices and
dwelling as they are needed. Many
are now resuming their occupations,
and the roads are everywhere passa
ble. ' '
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PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF TIIE
SAVIOUR.
We reproduce, for the benefit of
those who may remember to- havo
met with it in family newspapers
many years ago, this most curious, if
not unquestionably authentic, de
scription of the appearance and man
ner of our Saviour while on earth :
a DEscnirnox of the. pehson op jedci
ciiiuyr, as it was voxjsd ix ancibnt
V.JL' V CHXJT3IXT11Y rCBI,!TJS LI8NTtri.CS,
rKSIDk,-TOrjLlJKA TO THE SEKATEOP
KOMK.
There lives, at this time, in Judon,
a man of singular character, wlioo
uame ia Jesus Christ. The barba
rians esteem him a prophet, but ItitJ
followers adore him 3 the immediate
offspring of the immortal God: He
is endowed with such unparalleled
virtue as to call back the dead from
tbeir graves, and to Ileal every kind
of di-ese with a word or touch- Hia
person Is tall and elegantly shaped,
his aspect amiable, reverend. His
hair flows in those beautiful shadea
which no united color can match,
falling in graceful curls below Lis
ears, agreeably crouching on his
shoulders, and parted on tho crown,
of his head like the head-dress of the
sect of the Nazarites. Hid forehead
is smooth and mouth is formed with
exquisit symputhy; I1I3 beard ia
thick, and suitable to the hair of his
head, reaching a little below hischin,
and parting in the middle like a fork;
his eyes are bright, clear, and serene.
He rebukes with majesty, counsels
with mildness, and invites with tho
most tender and persuasive language.
His whole address, whether jn werd
or deed, being elegant, grave, and
strictly characteristic of so exalted a
being. No man has seen him laugh ;
but tho whole world behold him
weeping frequently ; and so persua
sive are his tears, none xran refrain
from joining in sympathy with him.,
ae is very mooers.te, temperate nnti
wise. In short, whatever this phe
nomenon may turn out in the end,
he seems at present a man, for ex
cellent beauty and divine perfection,
eyery way surpaiqingthe children of
me
Crop prospects were never fceer;-
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