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SEW ORLEANS.
GtSelal Paper t City and County
TRURSDAY MORNING, DEC. SI, ISM.
Charlie
found,
floss has not yet been
The pupils of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum at Delavan, Wisconsin, re
cently mutinied because the Superin
tendent inflicted unjust and cruel
punishments Upon them.
A. young man named Walter Smith
"was arrested at Quincy, III., on the
24th, charged with stealing money
packages from the U. 8. Express
Company, by which lie was employed
as a messenger.
King Kalnkaua was well entertain
ed while in Washington, enjoyed
himself just like a King would, and
made a favorable impression upon all
occasions. And he, it is eaid, got
away with all, with whom he played,
at billiards.
The Nebraska City Chronicle's cor
respondent, "Salt," says the Senato
rial question is decidedly one-Bided,
nud that Gen. Thayer will be elected
on the first ballot. Ho also says the
$5,000 Mbbilier charge will be shown
to be false in dueltime.
Fighting in the Streets Resistance to
National Authority Threatened
About the Itcsalt of the
Cauvasetl Vote TUb
White League
The Lincoln Spy and the Nemaha
Granger seem to worry because we,
In celling things by their right names,
rutber intimated that they were tinc
tured with copperheadism. Can't
help it they should take in their
signs if they do not like to be adjudg
ed copperheads.
The Legislature of Nebraska will
convene on the 7th day of January
for its next session, and on the sec
ond Tuesday after the meeting of the
Legislature, which will be the 19th
day of the month, the election of U.
8. Senator will take place, or at least,
the Legislature will commence bal
lotting on that day.
Hon. Theo. H. Robertaon, an old
citizen of Nebraska, and a prominent
one of Northern Nebraska, died at
La Platte, Nebraska, on the 23rd Inst.
His disease was typhoid pneumonia.
He many years ago published and ed
ited a paper in Omaha, known as the
Omaha Nebraskian. It wa3 the first
Democratic paper started in the State.
Samuel J. Anderson, of Atlanta,
Ga., recently dressed himself for his
funeral and then blew his brains out
with a pistol. He was quite an intel
ligent man, and in his requests and
behests he left the pistol with which
he killed himself to Robert Toombs,
"with my recommendation that he
rid the world of his presence by iinl
tatlug my example."
A New York telegram of the 24th
Inst, says that Whitelaw Reid for
warded that evening by telegraph to
Es-Gov. Saunders, at Omaha, Ne
braska, and Gov. Oaborn, at Tor.eka,
lvaneas, 4,500, being the amount of
the Ti'ibune dollar subscription for the
relief of the Kansas and Nebraska
sufferers. The Tribune is continuing
to receive subscriptions at the rate of
several hundred dollars per day.
The Orleans Sentinel, of Harlan
county, Nebraska, literally skins the
Omaha Aid Society for keeping back
and stopping provisions sent from
different parts of the East, for that
locality. Wo cannot conceive of a
reason why aid should bo stopped as
charged by the Sentinel, and if it is,
through non-compliance with certain
red tape regulations, the Sentinel is
right in lashing the Society soundly,
as It manifests ample ability to do.
The result of the late election in
Louisiana, according to the decisions
of the board of canva&sers, shows
three Republican and three Demo
cratic members of Congress. The
House Is nearly, if not quite, a tie, as
ex-Gov. Hahn and other conservative
Republicans will probably remain
neutral. The constitutional amend
ments are declared carried by about
10,000 majority. Bienville Parish,
which gave Grant and Kellogg GOO
votes in 1872, and Dubuclet no vote
this year, is not counted, and Grant
Parish, the scene of the Colfax mas
sacre, is also thrown out, although It
gave n small Republican majority.
War has broken out afresh In New
Orleans. The pretext now for riots,
murders and affrays, in that unhappy
country, is the action of the board of
canvassers of the lata election returns
who. in some oases, decided adversely
to the democratic party. According
to the decision of the board a republi
can governor is elected, and a small
republican majority in the legislature.
To arrive at this result several thou
sand votes of several parishes were
thrown out or not counted. When
things were made known the people
became infuriated, and bloodshed
upon every hand ensued, and the war
still goes on unabated.
The following dispatch to New
York by ex-Gov. McEnry, will give
some Idea of the feeling that prevails
among the people down there:
"New Orleans, Dec. 25th. The
wrong just perpetrated by the return
ing board against the people of Lou
isiana, and which virtually threatens
the safety and integrity of republican
institutions in the United States, Is a
more crowning Infamy than the ac
tion of the Lynch returning board.
It surpasses even the midnight order
of Durell, aud would not ho submit
ted to by any free people. Resistance
ro national authority, represented
here by a large portion of the army
and naval fleet, sustaining the usur
pation andj stifling the voice of the
people. ha now been meditated.
(Signed) Jxo. McExitY."
The most important rencounter that
has taken place in the streets of New
Orleans was one between ex-Governor
Warmouth and Dan. C. Byerly,
manager of the New Orleans Bulletin.
Warmouth and Byerly met on the
street, and without exchanging a
word Byerly knocked Warmouth
down with a club, when the latter
drew a knife aud stabbed his antago
nist six times, from the effects of
which Byerly soon afterward died.
Warmouth was arrested and put in
prison.
The riots so far have been confined
principally to small parties of negroes
and whites, which generally result in
several negroes getting killed, while
the whites entirely escape. What
will bo the end of this deplorable state
of affairs Is not easily determined,
but the end is uot yet.
From the beginning of the election
campaign in Louisiana, the white
leaguers determined and pledged
themselves to ban and proscribe all
republicans, black or white ; and
openly declared, as well as secretly,
that they would elect their men at all
hazards. And fur this end they have
imtlmidated voters contrary to law,
and tampered with ballot boxes, aud
because they are brought to account
for their misdeeds, and their knavery
exposed, and because justice in some
degree is being enforced by the re
turning board, they who break laws
and set at defiauce all law and right
by the might of their secret combina
tions, proceed to knock down those
they cannot vote down, and to threat
on even resistance to national author
ity. Let them resist. They will,
possible, "get their rights" again as
they got them at the end of the Jeff
Davis rebellion. It is hoped that at
all events they will got their jii3t deserts.
The Hastings Journal thinks it not
n good thing for Congress to pass a
bill extending the time that home
stead settlers may remain off their
homesteads without forfeiture, and
says :
"We have an excellent class of citi
zens and as good a country as there is
anywhero. Let not the people be
compelled to leave this beautiful
land."
The law will not compel anybody
to leave, but we presume the Journal
means that the people should not be
compelled to leave on account of nec
essaries with whicli to sustain life, and
such a law would not have been nee.
essary had aid that is food and cloth
ing been sent out to the destitute be
fore many had already left for the
east aud other places where they
could live. But those who could leave
left early In the season, thinking that
starvation would overtake them if
they staid where they raised nothing
to subsist upon, and they are now
gone, and would not think of return
ing to their barren homes to be fed
this winter by the charity of aid so
cieties. To such the law will be of
jreat good. They can live by their
own work through tho winter, and
rnanv will accumulate something to
take back to their homestead farms
by the time the terms of the bill ex
pires. But those who, ore now on
their homesteads and are provided
for, with food, clothing and seed for.
next year's orops, should by no means
leave. There Is no perceptible reason
why they should leave.
The Beatrice Hxj)ress, Paddock's
organ, is opposed to submitting Pad
docfl's chances to a decision of the
Republicans of tho Legislature. We
infer, therefore, that Mr. Paddock
does not expect to be elected by Re
publican votes but that he will re
ceive the support of tho Democrutio
members. That the supporters of
Sir. Paddock understand what they
are about may bo easily believed,
when wo remember that the Nebras
ka City News, and other Democratic
sheets, strongly favor Pnddouk be
cause he once headed a Democratic
ticket for Congress. We aro not
afraid to submit the claims of our
friends to a Republican caucus, and
the man who is afraid to so submit his
claims, wo are not in with he is not
onr man. We take Republicanism
straight. When mixed especially
with Democracy it is not palatable.
The next Legislature will be called
upon to elect four Regents for tho
University, and in selecting these
men the members should pick out
the best men in the State. Judge E.
Wakely, of Omaha, and Hon. J.
Sterling Morton, of Nebraska City,
are gentlemen who would bo the
right men in the right place, and we
hope the members will see fit to elect
them. Lincoln Spy.
It is probable that the politics of the
men to be selected as Regents should
not be a test of qualification, but it
strikes us as singular that the best
men the State aro both Democrats.
Tho Spy could not flt all think that
there is a single Republican in the
State fit to be made a Regent for the
University.
Parker, of the Lone Tree Courier,
we judge from an article in that paper
of theS-Uh inst., through a diseased
imagination and a perverted and
most ignorant view of political mat
ters, sees in tho near future, the sink
ing and utter oblivion of the old Re
publican ship. And remembering
the adagtf, that "rats desert a sinking
ship," the Courier man has determin
ed to start in time. A man who en
joys the blessings of pure sound prin
ciples, deeply rooted in an honest
heart and mind, will not, cannot
throw them off as a loose garment,
and deolare that he cau see no good
In that which he has long professed
to cherish. A man who occupies n
position straddle of tho fence, ready
to tumble off with the enemy at the
first adversity met with by friends, is
of little consequence, and we say let
him tumble. We like to see such a
fellow make haste and go where he
belongs. A man who can so easily
forsake professed principles and party
upon the first defeat, instead of
making an effort to reform and save,
really has very little principle to for
sake, and no party endeared for great
achievements. He, seeing nothing
but the errors of a few men in his
party, no good whatever in the party,
i11k the old nreacher's horse, al
ways looking for something to scare
at, so as to get out of the road. And
Parker, of the Courier flops out of the
Republican party nud says "the soon -ere
the party knocks under, the bet
ter for the nation, and we shall hail
with joy, its downfall." But why
will Mr. Parker hail with joy the
downfall of the Republican party?
He give3 his reasons in the article al
luded to. He says, "it is altogether
jtrobable (a Democratic guess) there
will be no legislation (In Congress)
that will benefit the nation in any
manner." Of course, any one that
would hail with joy the downfall of
the Republican party would naturally
think so.
Again Barker hopes that needless
appropriations would be dispensed
with," but he does uot know of au3'
needless appropriations having as yet
been made, at least he mentions none
at all. But then If Congress does
make any appropriations at all, for
any purpose however worthy, they
will be needless, to enemies of the
Republican J party, who will "hail
with joy its downfall. Parker has
another weighty reason, which is that
ho has a financial poiioy of his own,
which, if tho Republican party does
uot make the policy of the party, he
"will hail with joy" the death of the
party. Parker, agafu thinks "it is al
so more than 2robablc, that Congress
will continue to dispense fat jol)3."
ne does not charge them with dis
pensing fat jobs, however, but he is
ono of those kind of fellows who will
"hail with joy" the downfall of the
party because it i3 probable, or possi
ble, or could "dispense fat jobs."
Now is not that editor of the Courier
a forcible reasonerv isut we can see
more method In his objections to "the
intermeddling In Southern affaire,"
by Congress or the Administration.
That's what hurts such-fellows who
would hail with joy.lhedeath of the
Republican party tho worst. When
you touch "southern affairs," put a
quietus upon tho outrageous proceed
ings of White leagueri, and other in
stitutions gotten up for the sole pur
pose of nullifying the laws of tho
country, then you touchthem in a
tender spot.. Parker says that
he has "known that our party
was too corrupt to exist, and in
the fullness of his tremendous knowl
exclaims, "oh for a Clay or a Webster,
a Calhoun or a Douglass," and s.-ivs
ho wants his heart fired with patriot
ism. It certainly needs it but in his
present condition Calhoun would fill
Pajker's bill, and he would have no
use for the patriots named. You
have a Jeff Davis Mr. Parker, who,
with you, would hail with great joy
tho downfall of the Republican party.
Wouldn't he do to warm up your
style of patriotism, if you could get
him into Congress. You will accom
plish it if you are not mistaken in
your hopes aud prayers. Now permit
us to say that we hail with joy your
departure, as we would all whose Re
publicanism is of your kind of flimsy
material. We have no doubt but that
you are qualified to enjoy yourself
with tho raani-colored mal-elements
that combine to overthrow the Re
publican party in the interests of De
mocracy and tho "lost cause."
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The following is tho text of the bill
presented in the U. S. Senate, by
Senator Hitchcock, to appropriate
an amount of money to provide seeds
for the destitute of the west. The bill,
we believe, has passed the Senate :
Tie it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress as-
semmca. Time the sum of thirty thou
sand dollars be, and the same Is here
by, appropriated, out of any mon
ey in tho Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to enable the Commis
sioner of Agriculture to make a spee-
ihi ui5u luuuuLi or seeus to me por
tions of the country whioh have suf
fered from grasshopper-ravages dur
ing me past summer
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has been
sued by a dentist of Brooklyn for the
price of four sets of false teeth amount
ing to $G00, furnished to Beeoher's
wife and father. H. W. denies the
bill.
The following information was re
ceived at army headquarters at St.
Louis on the 25th inst.
Eight warriors, three squaws and
papooses, and sixty-two ponies be
longing to Medicine Water's band, of
Cheyenne surrendered unconditional
ly at Cheyenne Agency on the 20th.
Two white women are now with
Stono Calf, who is said to havo 200
lodges on tho staked plains. Two
messengers from Stone "Calf have ar
rived asking for peace. Word has
has been sent him that he cau sur
render unconditionally, and a de
mand wa3 made for the white women.
HIS BUSINESS I3T THIS COUXTItY.
From The Friend of November 24,
a paper published in Honolulu in tho
Hawaiian Islands, now before us. wo
notice that the 16th day of November
was the Thanksgiving day in those
Islands, appointed by King Kalakaua
who now is in this country. It was
also the thirty-eighth birthday of the
King. His Majesty and suite attend
ed the churches of the three principal
denominations in tho city of Honolu
lu to join in the prayers offered up tn
his behalf. The King made the fol
lowing remarks to his people at oneof
the churches:
My People: On this, the first an
niversary of my biith day occurring
after my accetsion to the throne, I
have thought It fit and proper that it
should be made a day of national
thanksgiving to Almighty God, for
his many mercies and blessings to us
as a people, and as it occurs on the
eve of my undertaking a long journ
ey to a fur county, that you may al
so on this day implore the Divine pro
tection for me in my absence, aud a
blessing on my mission.
In the history of nations wo may
learn that it fa no unusual thing for
the head of one government to visit
that of another for the purpose of
seeking the welfare of the people. It
is for this purpose in the endeavor to
forward the best interests of you, my
people. that I am about to visit the
seat of government of our good
friends, the United States of Ameri
ca. That government lias given an
other instance of Its frieuclsnip to us.
hv nlacinconeof-Ita-own vessels at-J
my disposal 'tceonyey mo to it
shores. To-dayouf coGntry needs
the aid of a treaty of commercial re
ciprocity with America in order to
insure our national prosperity, aud I
be'lleve that if such a treaty can be
secured, the beneficial effects will soon
be apparent to all classes, and our na
tion, under it3 reviving influences,
will grow again.
He then added that he appointed
his brother (who is the heir apparent
to the throne) as Regent in his ab
sence in conformity with the consti
tution. It will thus be seen that the mis
sion of tho King and his ambassa
dors to this country is to procure a
treaty of reciprocity between the two
countries. That will bo understood
to be a treaty by which each country
will enjoy the equal privileges con
cerning imports and duties thereon,
or, in effect, that duties on imports
from those Islands should bo remov
ed. The arguments In favor of tho trea
ty are, the geographical proximity to
our western border; the commercial
and social intercourse past and pres
ent, there being a large number of
American citizens in business upon
the Islands ; the increased prosperity
of the Islands (now suffering from a
great depression of business) and the
benefit such prosperity will contrib
ute to California and tho wholo coun
try ; the importance of the commerce
of the North Pacific which will thus
be fostered ; and the popularity and
patronage which it will give to the
California route from Western Eu
rope to Eastern Asia. Tho objections
which have always been urged to
such a treaty, are the diminution of
the public revenue, and the precedent
which such action would sot for the
future, for it is said if such policy Is
adopted towards the Hawaiiau Is
lands how can we repudiate the same
policy when urged by Canada.
The Hawaiian Kingdom Is suffer
Ing a severe depression in business,
owing in part to the decline in whal
ing. The trade between the Islands
and tho Pacific coast has lean steadi
ly diminishing. This trade has been
diverted in a large manner to the
Australian colonies by a reduction In
the duty on imports in their ports to
about one-third of tho duty which
our government imposes.
It i3 of the utmost importance to
the United States that neither France
nor England nor any other European
nation should assume a protectorate
over these Islands, and if this could
bo provided against by a treaty of re
ciprocity with them, wo should be in
clined to think it good policy that,
upon this ground alone, if no other
argument can be advanced in its fa
vor, the treaty should be effected.
STATE KETVS.
Platte Enterprise has
also has the Lowel
The North
nlnved out. SO
Register.
Mc Waters, the notorious Nebraska
City criminal of which our readers
ha've heard so much, has been sen
tenced to the penitentiary for twenty
one years.
The Seward Reporter says a child
in a family named Bray, in York
county, recently died for want of
clothing to protect its body from cold
and exposure.
A iittie girl of Mr. Letcher, atLonS
Tree, recently fell before a slowly
moving locomotive, and was pushed
along the track some distance and
finally off, without receiving fatal In
juries. The Fall3 City Journal eays that
one week ago last Saturday and Sun
day the wild geese were flying north
over the town of Blair, Dakota coun
ty, and the young grasshoppers
hatching out by tho millions. How
is that for Nebraska winter.
The Omaha Republican says Lieut.
Trout received and stored on the 24th
In the supply headquarters in the
Grand Central hotel one hundred and
thirty-two large boxes of government
clothing for grasshopper suffers. As
this Immense lot was being unloaded
In front of the headquarters, it showed
con cl usively by i ts large quan ti ty that
Ihe government was.lending Its great
aid to some purjfose tqjthe grassb'op
per sufferers.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
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THE LEGISLATURE.
On the 24th Inst, a shooklng ail-
way accldeut occurred near the town
of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
An express train on a branch of the
Great Western Railway was thrown
from the track and percipitated down
an embankment. Several of the car
riages fell into the canal skirting the
road, and sixteen of the passengers
were drowned. Another dispatch
says 30 persons were killed and 50
wounded.
The following Is a3 correct a list as
we cau get, of each member of the
legislature, his post ofllce address and
political complexion :
SENATE.
T. C.Hoyt.Rulo, rep.
J. B. Fisher, Aspinwall, rep.
J. E. Lamaster, Nebraska City, rep.
S. M. Chapman, Plattsmouth, rep.
J. S. Spaun, rep., and C. B. Russel,
dem., Omaha.
Waldo Lyon, Lyons, rep.
Dr. A. Bear, Norfolk, dem.
H. D. Perkey, Wahoo, dem.
G. C. Barton, North Platte, rep.
R. J. Abbott, Pawnee City, dem.
C. C. Burr, Lincoln, rep.
N. K. Griggs, Beatrice, rep.
REPRESENTATIVES.
E. S. Towle, Falls City, rep.
H Fisher, Arago, rep.
g. W. Beales, Falls City, rep.
Church Howe, Brownville, ind.
C. M. Jhlayuen, London, ind
N. R. Pinney, Nebraska City, rep.
L. Enyart, dem.
E. Munson, dem.
J. H. Tomlln, Nebraska City, dem.
John Brown, Plattsmouth, rep.
H. W. Farley, Weeping Water, rep.
W. F. Wriirht. Pawnee Citv. ren.
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At Memphis, Tenn., recently, Ben
Scott shot and killed John Ransom,
while engaged In a flght. Both col
ored. At Evansville, Indiana, on the 24th
inst. an attempt was made to rob Jas.
A. Robinson, a bog buyer, near Fort
Branch. He was shot twioe, ono ball
lodging in r. package of money in his
breast coat pocket, another passing
through tho skirt of his overcoat.
An express wagon run over a Mrs.
Moore in Nashville, Tenn.j on the
24th, breaking her arms, legs, and
crushing her head, fatally lnjuriug
her.
Secretary Delano has written a let
ter to the Secretary of War, in which
he says that the Black Hills country
Is secured by treaty to the Sioux In
dians, nud respectfully request that
tho most effective measureo within
the power of the War Department
may be adopted towards all persons
making encroachments upou said ter
ritory, and that all intruders bo pur
sued, overtuken and expelled from it.
Joseph Morris, an old citizen of
Marion county, Indiana, was killed
on the 23rd inst. while attempting to
cross a railroad track in front of a
train.
The suit of Josephine Mansfield
against the estate of the late James
Fisk, Jr., to recover the value of two
promissory notes, with interest,
amounting altogether to $25,000. re
sulted in favor of the plaintiff.
Near Jonesboro, Wisconsin, on the
24th hist, a Howe's truss bridge gave
way beneath a freight train, throw
ing the engine and eight cars into the
river. Quite a number of persons
wero on the train, but remarkable as
it may appear, no one was seriously
hurt.
A Dr. Roy, of St. Paul, was recent
ly arrested aud sent to jail for per
forming an abortion on the person of
Mrs. Jennie Wiilioms.
Daniel Mara, a farmer of Eau Clair,
Wisconsin, was recently shot and se
riously wounded while sitting near a
table reading. The assassin shot
through a window. A mau named
Bill Campbell is suspeoted of com
mitting tho crime.
Jas. Walker, D. D., formerly Pres
ident of Harvard College, died at
Cambridge on the 23rd inst., aged 80
years.
Tho wealth left by tho late Mayor
Huvemeyer, of New York City, is es
timated at about $5,000,000.
A German living near Clarlnda, Io
wa, a few days ago, whipped his little
girl, twelve years old, to death, be
cause she could not repeat her lesson
to him on her return from3chool. Af
ter the child was dead and the raou
etersaw what he had done he attempt
ed to escape, but fortunately was ar
rested and placed in jail. It is a won
der that his neighbors do not hang
him on the nearest tree.
At DeKalb, Mo., on Christmas day,
J. B. Sprattand his son, and John
Brown engaged in a fight, and Brown
shot Spratt in the cheek, making a
seriou3 wound, when young Spratt
drew his pistol and shot Brown in
the breast, but the ball glancing, he
was not dangerously hurt.-
In Caldwell county, Missouri, on
the 25th, Q. W. Henderson while
hunting accidentally shot and in
stantly killed himself. He leaves a
wife and child.
SlliY'KR. D13IKS.
A "Washington correspondent of the
St. Louis Democrat, speaking of the
new finance bill which has just been
agreed on and passed nearly unani
mously by the Republicans of the
Senate, makes following good hum
med and cheering remarks about the
"small change" that is to take the
place of the present ragged fractional
currency.
"Then, too, it strikes a chord In tho
popular heart that is always throb
bing for those old and halcyon days
of actual bilver dimes and quaiter3.
It proposes to change the fractional
eurreliey into silver, as soon as the
money can be coined at the mint.
Just think of the millions of young
eagles and goddesses of liberty that
will come glowing from the coining
machine, just to jiugling among a
fellow's keys. Think, too, of those
little eagles and goodeses that have
been roosting and sleeping in old tea
pots, stockings, corner cupboards and
dark vaults these twelve years past,
and now they will come out from the
Rip Van SVinkle slumber just as
bright and beautiful as ever. Think
of the bigger loaf of bread for rive
cents and the drink of whisky forten,
and in second class saloons for five.
Think of the luxury of getting blind
drunk for five cents worth of bad
whisky, aud then think of the mill
ennium. The writer then speaks further cf
the bill In the following approbative
style :
Joking aside, the bill is a good one,
and meets the approval of many Dem
ocrats who -voted against the meas
ure simply, because it was the enemy's
thuuder. It will give a settled poiioy
to the country and. help to restore
confidence. We want faith more than
finance. The money affairs of the
country have been so terribly con
vulsed that people are afraid of their
own shadows. The money Is all iu
the country, but untold millions are
locked up and Inoperative. The man
Who could borrow a million two years
ago upou his simple name, might uot
be able to borrow a thousuud to-day,
although the schedule of bis property
should remain the same.
3I0RE. WORK AND ilORE WAGES
This first stroke of the Republican
policy will tell amongst the people,
and bring loud acclamations of ap
proval. But even the restoration of
confidence is not a radical cure for
the evils that afflict us. The coun
try is suffering from a terrible paraly
sis, that ha3 settled down like a horrid
nightmare upon all its industries and
commercial interests. A million of
men are asking for work and its nat
ural sequence, bread. How can these
idle hands be put to work and these
huugr3' mouths be fed? Not by the
financiers. All the money tinkers
from Lycurgus, of Sparta, to Kelley,
of Pennsylvania, cannot solvo the
problem or relieve the difficulty. If
there were plenty of work and suit
able rewards for labor, the trouble
would disappeav and prosperity be re
stored. Where shall the work be found and
the money to pay for it? Not in the
centers of Eastern capital, but in the
undeveloped regions of the great
West. The idea is gradually work
ing its way through the hair, pene
trating the sutures of tho skulls and
permeating the brains of politicians
that the West is really a big country
and deserves some consideration.
Having become sensible of past injus
tice to this section of the Union, there
is a stronsr disposition amongst the
Republicans of Congress to give the
opportunity, redress the wrong, and
mete gut even-handed justice- to twen
ty millions of people.
SENATOR. THAYER. A3D .3IARSHAI.
DAILY.
Hon. John M.' Thayer;
Dear Sir: It has been intimated
by some of the press of the State
aud also by parties in private convo
cations, that you promoted in some
way, if you did not instigate the late
movement in congress for an investi
gation Into the official conduct of
William Daily, V. S. Marshal, and
others connected" with the United
States court of thi3 District.
If you have no objections T would
be pleased to receive a statement from
you for publication as to this subject
matter. Yours truly,
ST. A. D. BALC03IBE.
OiiAHA, Dec. 15, 1S74.
0:.rAHA, Dec, IS.
Maj. St. A. D. Ralcombe:
Dear Sir. In "reply to your inqui
ry, I have to Say I have ho knowl
edge whatever, either direct or indi
rect, of the movement of Hon. J. S.
Cox, for au investigation into Mar
shal Daily's office until I read the re
port of it in the Omaha Herald, of
Tuesday last. I never spoke or wrote
to any one in reference to it, and I
never had on intimation from any
source that such a step wa3 contem
plated. It was ns much a surpripe to
me as to any one else. Very truly
yours, JOlix M. Thayer.
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A bill has been Introduced in Con
gress, reduciug the President's 6alaty
to .what it fgrjnerly
was, $25,000 a
A conductor named Rich, on the
Missouri Pacific railroad, and his son,
a brakemau, and a man named Ma
honey, were recently arrested at War
rensburg, charged with being con
nected with the murder of the two
young men found dead on the rail
way last week.
Bill Radifer; who recently escaped
from the Indiana penitentiary was
again captured at Memphis, Indiana,
after a severe fight, and placed back
in his old quarters.
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j. xiojmes, lecurasen, rep.
J. B. .McDowell, Beatrice, rep
A. G. ZTastiugs and L. Helmer,
Lincoln, rep.
Rolles Ashland, dem.
D. C. MoKillip, Seward, tep.
G. H. Hastings, Pleasant Hill, rep.
F. J. Hendershot, Hebron, rep.
H. Nance, Osceola, rep.
T. J. Chapman, Ashland, rep.
James Davidson, Sarpy connty, rep
Benj. H. Barrows. J. M' Thufston,
Jacob Weidensall, John Baumer, rep.
Frank Murphy, A. H, Baker, dem.,
Omaha.
E. S. Gay lord, Fontenelle, rep.
W. G. dinger, Pebble, rep.
J. C. Crawford, West Point, dem.
B. F.Chambers, Dakota City, rep
Frank Folda, Schuyler, dem.
Robt. Lucas, Schuyler, dem.
Lorande Clark, Albion, rep.
J. W. Barnes, Plattsmouth, rep.
W. V. Moudy, Lowell, rep.
At Cleveland, Ohio, John Johnson
has been tried for the murder of An
drew Johnson, and found guilty of
murder in tho first degree,
On Christmas day, says the St. Joe
Herald, at Chillicothe, Mo., a colored
man, named Dan Skinner, celebrated
the occasion by drinking three pints
of "rot-gut" whisky without stop
ping. He accomplished the feat suc
cessfully, and died iu a few minutes
thereafter.
A boy named Wm. MoPherson, at
Osborne, Mo., was accidentally killed
while out hunting.
Jacob Nei3wander, living fifteen
miles north of Columbus, Ohio, is
supposed to have been murdered and
cremated. He left home nearly three
weeks ago, and was invisible until
oaiumuy jusi, wuuu ne was seen go
ing towards nis nome with a satchel.
Heegain disappeared, and this week
his family deserted the premises. The
neighbors made an investigation in
the hou35, and found bones in a large
heap of ashes in a fire-place.J Two
sons of the missing man have been
arrested ; they are boys fourteen and
eighteen years old. There had been
contention in the-family, and one of
the boys confessed to having wound
ed his father with a butcher tnifo air
most a month ago.
Editor Advertiser :
Dear Sir : I notice in your Issue
of December 17th, a communication
from "A Looker On," noticing the
Graugo supper in Washington pre
cinct, in whloh he says, "We have
exciting times here, the Grangers all
met for n grand supper and celebra
tion." He also says, "they had count
ed the cost, balanced their books, aud
found they had made so much money
by doing theirown business, shipping
their own grain keeping down the
middle meu &c, they concluded "to
invite outsiders to their feast of fat
things ;" he further says, "the Gran
gers have shown the outsiders the
inward workings of the Grange," &c.
Now if "Looker on" Is .what I take
him to be, if a member of the Grange,
a knave, or if an outsider a fool, it Is
no more than could be expected that
such as he, accepting the invitation of
the Grangers and partaking of their
hospitality, should pen Buoh a scur
rilous article for publication, and as to
his insinuations that the Grangers
have shown the Inside workings of
the Grange, in trying to keep down
middle men, by such insinuations
and others of like character in his
article, he shows tho extreme" of ig
norance or downright meanness.
Again, he says they have shown how
it enables them to pay their debts.
Now, I will wager a Guinea pig that
the Grangers, as a class, pay their
debts as promptly -as our friend
"Looker On." Again, he says they
set out a table spread with cakes that
cost two and three dollars apiece and
all the good things of the land.
About the time the table was spread
it must have been exciting times for
"Looker On," and he must have
gorged himself and been sick for a
week, or he could not possibly have
had the audacity to pen such an arti
Mr. Charles P. Thompson, the man
who has made himself immtfrtal by
defeating Butler, seems to be a most
desirable kind of mau to have in Con
gress. Ho made a speech at a jublia
tion ineetiug'fh Gloucester recent
ly nnri. in it uttered,, these
itMmforiiknhlv sound .ideas: iilstand,
now as no partisin.v3r.am not the
servant of the Democratic party ; I
am not the servant of the Republican
party. I shall advocate thosw meas
ures and only those measures that I
believe to be for the common good. I
shall never adovcate a principle upon
party grounds. I shall be unworthy
of the confidence that has been
placed in me if I understand what
the Democratic party meant when
they put me iu nomination, which
was that I should carry out those
principles which I believe to bo right
that I should serve3 my country
first, and by serving my country I
know I can best servo my party. In
this canvass there are some important
questions. One of them is the finan
cial question. I know that my Re
publican friends who voted for me did
so because I was sound upon that
question. You may ask me if I am
iu favor of the colored man. I an
swer, yes. I am In favor of the white
man and the colored man. I believe
they are both entitled to equal rights
under the Constitullon. I believe in
equality of riehts and equality of du
ties. I .would not go for a law that
wonld discriminate in favor of a
white man or a black man. I want
the same law for all."
It i3 pleasing to note that no sooner
had Congress, assembled, than Ne
braska's true friend, Senator P. W.
Hitchcock, stepped forward and sub
mitted a bill oppropriating $100,000 for
the relief of IVebraska sufrerers, and
providing for the issuing of condemn
ed clothing to the destitute In our
midst, thus proving that our Senator
both knows and cares for the wauts
of our people. The Senutor s an ex
cellent worker, and there is a fair
prospect that ho will at an early day
secure the passage of this bill, which
will do a great deal towards alleviat
ing suffering in this State.
If you are able please -point out to
us a man who I more prompt and -energetic
in working for his constituents
than is Hon. P. W. Hitchcock.
Grand Island Independent.
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The St. Joe Herald gives the fol
lowing cheering words:
Better times are ahead. During
the three weeks from the 1st of Jan
uary ensuing, a total of not less than
$150,000,000 will be distributed in div
idends on government, railroad and
other securities in New York alone.
Including Boston. Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Chicago and other business
centers, the aggregate will be largely
increased, and will reach a total of
several hundreds of millions. All
the indications are favorable for a de
cided improvement In business from
and after the beginning of the New
Year.
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Harness, Boots, Sh ). .
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The receipts of grain and grain in
flour, at Chicago, from January 1st to
December, ISth, Inclusive, were 93.
723,750 bushel, and the shipments 85,
010.34S bushels. It is safe to estimate
the total receipts of grain and grain
in flour for the j'ear at 95.000,000 bush
els. The receipts of other articles have
been proportionately large, among
which were 25,000,000 lbs. of but 'er,
47,123,650 lbs. hides, aud 30.000,000 bs.
wool;, all showing n large incre se
over 1873. St. Joe' Herald.
A child belonging to a family nam
ed Vitter, at Cincinnati, recently suf
focated by Its drunken father nnd
mother, lying on it in bed. The
Corpse remained In the house two
days before It was discovered by some
neighbors. The parents were still
drunk, and made no attempt to bury
it. They are now in the station
house. The father" is suffering from
delerium tremens.
Tho calaboose at Osage Mission,
Kansa3, was recently burned, and
two men, named Carter and Fox,
perished in the flames.
The Governor of Iowa ha3 offered
$500 reward for the detection aud ar
rest of each of thoIynchers of Char-
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cle, if not, be certainly must have
been "non compos mentis," or evi
dently has not been able to have a
cake for years, or ho would not place
an estimate at least three times as
high as tho actual cost of any cake
on the table showing that he knows
about cs much of the cost of cake3 as
a hog does about Latin. Now, I
think if he was capable of under
standing the proper place of a guest,
ho would not be guilty of eating a
piece of a two or three dollar cake
and other good things of the land and
then go home and pen such a sweet
scented article for publication. Now
if the Grangers see fit to make two
and three dollar cakes for the benefit
of "Looker On," whose business is
it? Oh! shame, where is thy victo
ry? Now if "Looker On" had sign
ed his proper name, I would not sign
mine,
More if You Want.
1 ley Howard.
In Camden, Ohio, on the night of
the 25th, C. W. June was shot dead
by a Mrs. Strauss while he was en
deavoring to force an entrance into
her husband's saloon from which he
had been ejected a short time previously.
Two new suits growing, out of the
old New York ring operations have
begun to recover $525,000 for the city.
Beecher's last sermon was on "The
Fall of Man," but we hasten to say
that it was not an autobiography.
When they hang you in Texas you
stay hanged and eventually die.
THE "OLD-BELIABEE"
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siacuon guarantee A to eostomers. 17-22-iy
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nsenil and will cure. IJctifjr
are cansed by a rush of I
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lluptures and Hernias r '
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nished on short nolic-f '
ty. Address Dr. ". S. I"
Street. Chicago. 111.
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located Hotel In the City; fronting on
market space and thftPTP.it. MnornT A.-inn
V, ell. Persons visiting the Capital will flndJ
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