gtcratd. LATTSMCUTH, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY,.... .FED. 20, 1SGS. CORRESPOXDE.MC. W re Jisiron ' reJiiWof orrpjo 1 ; ffrom all parts of the State, rilatia"t the material inter esta of the country, together with suh other nut Icr as contributors may deem of interest. Kepubllcan State Convention. A State Convention will be held at Nebraska City cn wednefdav, April iOtli, lSh3. at 12 oVlock M., to elect dcknittx to represent the Republican parly of Nebraska at the National Convention to bo held :it Chicago, May iOtb, next. Also a candidate for Member of L'ongre, Governor, Secretary of M. Aulitor. Treasurer, 3 PreM leutial Klect.ru. and the delegates present from each Judicial district wilt nominate a suitable porf.n fir District Attorney, for their respective districts- . - The Convention wili be orgau"i'd as follows: nic"ir(!on Couuty Nemaha County . ! CJtntK' of Nemaha. Ki-:haidioa ic John- aon Counties of Pawnee, Gage, Jefferaon, da line Lancaster Conntiei of Gage and Jefferfon Johnson county -Ot d J Lancaster do Cass do Cntiei of Ca, Sarpy Saunders, UutUrand Seward Connti' S of Saunder, Seward k Butler Couolhs of Matte. Merrick, Hall. Buf falo. Kearney and Lincoln. '.Counties of Saline, Lineoln & Kearney Sarpy Connty Douglas: do 1 , Dodtte do i Platte Wa!binptoi ciunty 1 .Counties of Wasning- itcn A liurt 1 Comities or Hall. Unf it falo k Merrick 7 Countiet of Kurt and J Cumins 51 Dakota county Counties of Dixon, Ce- dar, L'Eau qui l! Court Conntiea of Dodsre, Cuminjr.ftsnton. Da- I ki.ta. Dixon, Cedar. L'nu(ui Court, aid Pierce. liPawnee county A.State Contral Committee is to 1 elected fur the eoratncira.aia. the placa r,f h .Id in the next State Convention designated, the basis of represuta tlon for succeeding St ata Conventions agreed Pn. and other impirtatt business will b-- brought before the Convention. Republicans send deletes, and let aotonecounty be unrepresented. ST. A. D BALC0.4RE, si,.,. fc T.n 2,1 lSfiS. " chairman. THE IMBROULIO. It is a deplorable fact that the chief officer of the nation, with all the blunter and promise that has puffed him into noteriety, is in fact a bubble. It was clearly his duty as Commander in Chief of the armies, to arrest Gen. Grant and prefer charges against him for in subordination, if he really thought, as lie stated, that the Gen'l was disobedi ent. But with the first breath of Grant's manly and significant refusal to qbey an illegal and indistinct request the bubble was blown to, the tender nurs'mg of the sycophants in his cabinet for an endorsement. How humiliating it must have been for theso names to feel that their statements were neces sarv to keeD this bubble in air a little j 4 longer. The bare idea that a Presi dent of the United States should lack the moral courage to grapple wita a single man, unless supported by his corns dramatinue, is a etty tough pill to swallow. The sneaking from the responsibility, and the hiding under the skirts of those he had pampered, prove .conclusively that he was absolutely afraid ta meet the neople s favorite on ti question of veracity. We think God that such scenes are drawing near .to a c'ose, and that this bubble has been pricked. All the soft soap the Democracy possess will be used in vain to blow him to his lute proporlions. His political epitaph is already written and posterity will pause over the histor ic tomb of Andrew Johnson, to read in ' sorrow: Here lies the political remains of the great American nondescript of the I9;h century. His delight on earth was to wield his goose in defence of a disloyal minority, and to clip the wings of patri otism with the shears of his veto. His history will bejfound in the La Crosse Democrat, beautifully illustrated by drawings from nature, taken at New Orleans, Memphis, and the colored graveyards of the wayward sisters. Sic transit gloria Johnsonii. IYORTII AND SOUTH ROAD Why is it jfcat no convention in the interest of this road has been had? Why should a matter of such immense value to our young State be delayed? If the river counties south of Platte river, will agree on a day, we have no doubt that a large and enthusiastic dem onstration can be had. For one, we submit that a call be issued by Mr. Alex. Majors, who is the leading spirit in this project, and we will guarantee a hearty response. We, of Cass, have completed arrangements to connect with Omaha, so that the chief obs'acle, the Piatte Rirer, will Jbe overcome during the approaching Summer. Let Otoe, Nemaha and Richardson counties exert themselves, and the success of this line is insured, for Cass county is sound on the railroad question, and will move with all her might to assist the coun ties south to construct this great line. Judge Underwood has remanded Churchwell Ccombs to the custody of the military. He decided that Con gress, which is the war-making power had not j'et declared peace, and the country being in a state of armistice the civil courts have no right to take pris oners out of military custody. The case goes to the Supreme Court. The Chicago Times says that Grant has been proved "a liar and a fool." These are the highest compliments that the Times can possibly give. Ex. The Times cannot give a compliment. Compliments are not its forte. Abuse' is its only card; therefore' it is in its eiemeut only when on the altrck. She 3Uimustm THE SECOND GO. A few days ago the Eighth Congres sional District of Ohio fired the first Republican gun in the great campaign of 1S63 and it spoke in thunder tone9. On the 3d instant, the second Re publican gun of the campaign was fired, and from nn unexpected quarter At the charter election held in Palmy ra, New York, on that day, the Re publican ticket was elected for the first time in ten years. A special to the New Votk World of the 15th. says Hie friends of the President think he will soon remove Stanton and appoint another member of the Cabinet ad interim to perform the duties theseof. Th"is course in volves only the peaceful and judicial question. The insubordinate position which Gen. Grant holds towards the Presi dent is mentioned as cause for his ar rest and trial before a court martial. The chances for McClellen's nomi nation as Minister to li,nr:lana is im proving. It is rumored in Washington that Gen, Clay has tendered nis resigna lion as Minister to Russia. The Washington Chronicle, of the 10th instant say?: "Secretary Stanton has retained Matthew II. Uarpenter, a prominent Republican lawyer from Wisconsin, to represent the Govern ment in detense ot mmary omcerB in r l TT ' . ras arisinrr under the reconstruction acts, in which Attorney-General Stan bery declines to appear. Mr. Carpen ter is acknow eareu to ne me aoiesi a . 1 I .1-1.1- . member of the bar of the Supreme Court from the West." The New .York Journal of Com merce (Dem.) in an article on the Pendleton proposition to pay the bonded debt of the United States in a depre dated currency, prophetically say.-: "We do not believe that any large portion of the Democratic party are in favor oC the Stevens-Butler-Pendleton scheme, or that it can in anv way be made a party issue in '.ha approaching Presidential election. But any Nation al Convention that presents a platform having in it such a rotten plank may save itself the trouble of naming a can didate. The purest man in the coun try could not preserve his uprightnes on tuch a foundation, and would de serve to be iirnominiously defeated at the polls." There is considerable comment on the action of the President in sending to the Senate the name of Lieut. Gen W. T. Sherman to be Brevet Genera! of the United States Army. It is sur missed that this is done to snub. Gen. Grant, and some even go so far as to say that the President proposes to issue his army orders hereafter through Gen. Sherman. The President sent a message to the House to-day stating that the De ficiency Appropriation bill for recon struction purposes has become a law without his signature. The last part of the appropriation in the bill is for the Quartermaster's Derartmentof the Army; only about fialf a million being for reconstruction. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs is unanimously in favor of pay ing for the Alaska purchase, and will report a bill to this effect as soon as they settle the question of Perkins' claims against Russia. Senator Doolittle presented a characteristic petition in the Senate to-day from certain residents of Ala bama. It says, among other things: "Continue over us if you will your own rule by sword. Send down among us honorable and upright men of your own people, of the race to which you and we belong; but do not, we implore you, abdicate your own "rule over us by transferring us to the blighting, brutal izing and unnatural dominion of an alien and inferior race." A dispatch from London "of the 11th instant says official advices from the seat of war in Candia, dated on the 26th of January, have been received by the Cabinet ef the Porte. The ad vices detail the movements of the Im perial troops, and call attention to the fact that the United States war steam er Ticonderoga, mounting nine guns, and forming part of an American squadron, had arrived off the coast of Crete, under speci-.il orders received from Admiral Farragut, in command of the American fleet in the European waters. It is also announced and be lieved in the political circles of Turkey that the remainder of the vessels of the United States fleet, under Admiral Farragut, will leave their present sta tion at an early day, and sail for the Grecian Archipelago, where they will muster in force. A dispatch from Galveston, of the ISth, says th i convention has unde niably carried the constitution, the Con servatives voting against it, or absent ing themselves from the polls. ' KAIL ROAD IIOXDS. Go to the Polls and cast your vote in favor of Rail R ad BjiiJs. This en terprise is one fraught with impor tance to the future growth of Plaits mouth. It gives us a connection with Omaha and the Union Facifis railroad. t bridges the Piatte river, and it in- . . . . . :.u sures raiiroaj cjnnecuon east wnu Chicago ani St. Louis. We earnestly urge our citizens not only to vote for these b.nd, but to call on Mr. Clark the Treasurer of the. Committee, and ubscribe all they can to fjrward this great enterprise to completion a.s early as possible. Many of our citizens can contril ute ties, piles, rock, labor and other ma'erial. Let them go and do nate all thev can. at once. Procrasti nation and indifference will kill any enterprise; and if they really want a railrcad let them show their earnest ness by moving in tus matter wmiuu. anottier uav s aeiav. ms i,usiuio 1 I 1 T 1 . 1 - . r r c will be here shortly let us be ready for them. A private dispatch front London to the New York Herald, of the ISth, states that the Mexican Government is lo!o? minnd ta repudiate all debts of foreign countries except the United Siate?, which has given use to intense feelin-T. It is stated that the English govern rnent is seriously contemplating fitting up a fleet to take possession of the norts of Mexico, and hold them until satisfaction is given. It is also understood that France, though consulted. Las declined for the present to participate. Earl May, in the House of Com mor.3, made an explanation in regard to the arrest of George Francis Train, ad said that the policeman who ar rpstpd him had received General in structionsto watch all persons arrivin from the United States,- and stop all suspicious parties. Copies of Train's speeches on Ire land were found in his trunk which caused his arrest. He was finally re leased on giving his pledge that he would make no speeches and do no act in sympathy with Ireland. In the House on the 17th inst. Mr Bingham introduced a joint resolution declarmg that whereas a large majority of the votes cast at the late election in Alabama in favor of the constitution submitted by the convention; and vvuereas, a certain combination of citi" zens refund to vote, with the intent thereby to dtf;at the tffoits of the friends of the Union to restore the State to its proper relations to the Union, therefore. Resolved, That the Legislature elect under the new constitution be convened as soon as praticable by the military commander, and upon the ratification by said Legislature, of the fourteenth article of the Federal Constitution, aud the establishment by law of impartial suffrage in the State, Alabama be ad mitted under the reconstruction act. The Tribune's .-pedal of the loth says that Gen. Sherman telegraphs to his friends in Washington that he don'i wish to come to New York, and don't believe the President can legally cre ate a new military division. He is so determined on this point, that he pre fers the-alternative of resignation if ordered to acceptthe post. He has asked his brother to have the military committee to refuse their sanction to the appointment. This action of Gen. Sherman creates much talk, - Gle.vdale, Feb. 17, lSGS. Editor Herald. Dr. Sir: No ticing some observations and queries from your Ashland correspondent, in your weekly of the 13ih, inst; permit me to add a few words on the soft, or property, "Silver Maple." 'Ihis tree is a native of our soil. I have had some experience in both transplanting and raising from the seed. They are easily transplanted, but much more easily raised from the seed; hav great vitality, and so far, hare withstood the severest cold as well as all insect en emies, and aie equally rapid in growth; more beautiful as a shade; more valu able as a timber than couonwood. To plant, lake the seed as it fall t .1- T iromiue tree in June, anu put it a once into the ground, and the ' same II 1 ja year win make a growtn from lb to 30 inhces. It is as easily and surely raised as a crop of corn; and by planting at proper distances, two or three good crops of cjrn may be raised with it on the same ground. A. L. CHILD. . There is great impropriety in say iag ''colored people," because it signi fies that they were once white, and have been colored by some process. Ft. Smith U-r. Is there not also a "great impropri ety in saying "mulaltoes," because it fifnifies that they were once black,' and have bt?en ivhitened' 4by some' Democratic 'process?" White Cloud Chief. Gen. Ord. who is not a Radical, says he has no doubt that Arkansas will pass through all the steps of re construction under the present laws during the coming spring. luipurtaut Siiferiiitl iievcuue Decision. tProm ti:3 E.isi t. ConS.u-.rci it a.s'Ittin, Fe1'. a Commissioner R0II113, of the Internal Revenue Bureau, huj recenity sent the following decision- tu a gentleman ot this city, which will be of general in terest: "Every change ia a firr.i by which a member retires from ihe same, whether a new partner lakes his place, rr the surviving pariuecon'dus the business alene, or by which a' former proprie tor disposes of his entire business, ana a fuccessor takes his place, constitute alike in contemplation of law, a new per son or firm liable to special tax for ine balance of the year fur which tax has once been paid by the original firm or owner. No provision of law exists in relation to special tax receipts similar to that which formerly admitted of a lir.ense fYoin one nnrsnn or firm .to a successor by indorsement of the Lol lector, and vou will therefore nerc'ive 1 that in the case vou cite, the party con tinuinrr the business must be held liable for speci tl tax from the first of th3 month in which he became the succes sor of the firm In the case of dealers, manufacturers, hotel keepers, and some o hers, having paid special tax as sucu, when it appears t the satisfaction of the Assessor on the first day of May, lbOS, that the sales, pro iucis, gro. re ceipts, ns tne case may ve, or any pri son or firm, have not exceeded S1.000 in value for the year then ending, the Assvssfr or soma assistant will aid in oreparinir a proper claim upon the of fice to have the tax paid refunded. Bankers, brokers, liquor-dealers, and some others who have done any uusi ness as such, are not thus privileged with respect to refunding taxes paid. If the Alabama constitution is de feated as is claimed, it has not been by votes against . it, but by the tactics of ex-rebels in not voting and the terror ism they exercised over Union whites who did not dare vote. It deserves therefore, to be said that the House, by a solid Republican vote before the holi days, passed a bill providing that the constitution might be adopted by a ma inritv or the vote; cas ; taai mis mi has been buried in the Judiciary Com m!:tee of the Senate; that a majority 0 the Reconstruction committee earnestly asked action on it in vain; that many Senators and Representatives have personally urged that It be taken up and passed, and that the Judiciary Com mittee have refused and still refuse to do anything therewith. The Judiciarr Committee of the Senate must be held responsible for the defeat of recmstruction in Alaba ma, and the conssq'ient extra expense which must be incurred before that State ca'ir-gT-inurthe Union. Rtpub. In the Georgia vs Stanton, Grant nod Popo,case, the"9tuprenie Court gave a unanimous opiuio.t that it had no jurisdiction over the.matter because it was a purely politica question. This deci.-ion that only Congress can deal with political questionsand that the re construction laws are Purely political laws, is a virtual decisim that they are constitutional; for the mtnner in which Congress deals with poljtidal questions is final. In it3 action it demJes the constitution tl point itself. From its decision there can be 10 demurer, for it is at supreme in pclitiul questions aj the Supreme Court is inlaw questions. The decisive vote in tie House Re construction Cjmwittee against Thad Stevens" proposition of irnr0achmont probably brings to nn eni this agitating question. If Confess cannot find any constitutional grounds to imponcb. the President in any ol the many acts of his OlScial life which luve aroused popular indignation, it must bo because he has technically kept within the bounds of his powers, while grossly prostituting them. Unless ha shaU be suilty, at some future period of his term, of some offense more defined than those past, the present un successful movement looking to bis ar. rai'nment promises to be fi jal. But if not impeached before Congress, he has been by the public opinion, and will be in the tribunal of history. Chicago Re publican. Prof. Landore, of the Muscatine Commercial College, dislocated his jaws by gapinsr on Tuesday last. It took two men half an hour A straighten his grinders into working order. Mrs. Jane Swisshelm has just had a decision rendered in her favor by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania which gives her some S60.000 worth of prop erty, lojated near Pittsburg, to which her divorced husband had caimed ex clus.ve title. To remove warts, soak them three or four times daily with spirits of tur pentine. I have removed between forty and fifty large ones from my hands in this way. Southerner. Chicago possesses forty distilleries twenty five lirge and fifteen small makes twenty-five thousand barrels of spiritous drinks a year, and has two thousand saloons, or one to every sixty members of her adult papulation. Willoughby, in his work on or- thinology, speaks of a goose that had attained the extraordinary age of one hundred and twenty years. We hope there is some mistake about this. Think of Andrew Johrson living one hundred and twenty years. That would be a ripe old age of cussedness indeed. A boardin? hous keeper in Buf falo, ho died a few days ago, left a handsome legacy to oue of her board ers, whose only claim to her favor was that he never found fault at the table. i'ailure of tlie Second Attempt at. Impeachment. The Reconstruction Committee held a brief session on the morning of the 12th, all the members being preseut. Thaddeus Stvvens stated that he wanted to briug the subject of impeachment to the test in the Committee, lie reliev ed the investigation had gone far enough, and the time had come when ome laugible action should oe taken. Ie had prepared, he said, the follow ing report to the House, and he would now take the sentiments of members of the Committee thereon: "The Committee on Reconstruction, to whom was referred the correspond ence of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, and Ulysses b. Grant. General Commanding the Army of the United Siates, having considered the same and the evidence do rfport: That in virtue of the powers with which vour Committee have been invested thev have fully examined the evidence before them, and are of the opinion that Andrew Johnson, President of the United States is rruilty of itinh crimes and misdemeanors, and therefore rec ommend the adoption of the following resolutions : Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, be im peached of hh crimes and misde- meanors. Resolved. That a committee ro to the Senate, and at the bar thereof, in the name of the House of Representatives, and of the people of the United States, do impeach Andrew Johnson, Presi dent of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeaniors, and ac quaint the Senate that the House of Representatives will, in due time, ex hibit particular articles of impeachment against him, and make good the same. Resolved, lhat the said committee do demand that the Senate take order for the appearance of the said Audrew Johnson, to answea the said impeach ment. This resolution was discussed with much spirit. The point of the debate was as to whether the President had violated the bill by the effort to induce Gen. Grant to hold the office of Secre tary of War at the disposal of the Pres ident, after the Senate, by its resolution had restored Mr. Stanton. Finally the re?oIution was tabled by the following vote: Ayes Bingham, Iioaman, Payne, Hurlburd, (Republicans,) and Brooks and Beck (Democrats). Nay? btevens, rarnsworth and Boutwell After the vote, which created consider able excitement, the Committee ad- juorned, when Mr. Stevens invited Messrs. Bouwtell and J- amsworth to meet with him in order to lake other steps on the subject. Mr. Stevens is greatly chagrined at the result, ihourrh he says he did not expect it would be much different. He eays the Republican party is virtually defeated, and all through the cowardice uf Its own members. He attaches much of the blame to Gen. Grant and his mends, who. he says, became frightened and demoriized, for what reason tie does not exactly know. It is his firm belief that had the friends of Grant, as well as Grant himself, kept their hands oil, nothing could have saved Johnson. ao ends the second attempt at 1m peachment. inao. otevens nas just written a letter upon the question cf negro suf. t f f irage wtucn rrom us contents, merits attention. It reads as follows: "bo far as I took any position with regard ;o negro suffrage, it was and is lb ai universal suffrage is an inalienable Ui?lii, and that since the amendments to the constitution, to deprive the rie gtoes of it would be a violation of the constitution, as well as of a natural risht. True, I deemed the hastening ot the bestowal of that franchise as es se.uial to the welfare cf the nation, be cause without ii I believe that the gov eminent will pass into the hands of rebels and their friends, and that such an event would be disastrous to the whole country. With universal suf frage. I believe the true men of the nation can maintain their position. Without it, whether that sullrage be impartial, or in any way qualified, I look upon this republic as likely to re lapse into an oligarchy, which will be ruled by coarse copperheadism and proud conservatism I have never u- sisted that the franchise should be un justly regulated so as to secure a Re- pub'ican ascendancy; but I have insis' ted. and do insist, that there can be no unjust regulation of that franchise which will give to any other party the power; if the Republicans are true to themselves, and do not fa'.l into their usual vice of cowardice. The Repub licans once beaten into a minority by the force of negro prejudice, will never again obtain the majority, and the na lion will become a despotism." A 1 . T , x lyunTnA st. iowa nas been a T LI.' iepuuncau otaie since J.000. liis- - T .-, , souri was lemocrauc until me year 1662. Iowa has bunt 1,209 miles of railroad, costing 10,191,450. Mis souri has built 9S4 miles, costing S55, 751, 10a. Under Republican rule Iowa does not owe a single cent. Under Democratic rule, Missouri had a debt in lbb2, amounting to a jout S24.000 The expenditures consequent upon ihe war increased lhat debt, but it has since the war been decreased under Repub lican rule to about what it was in 166" These figures prove a thousand times more than the absurd fustian and rani of Democratic papers about Radical corruption and Radical misrule. Vol umes could not tell more powerfully the beneficent effects of Republican victo ries. Patrick was in charge of a ferry boat. A lady passenger bfing fright eited by the wavp?, asked him "if peo ple were ever lost by these boats?'' gave ihe encouraging reply, "Not often, ma'am; we generally find them afterwards by drr gging the river." (SABiEK'S EXECUTION. ' On last Friday, at 10 o'clock. Oiwny r .1 1 f G. Baker, convicted .cr tne muruer ut Woolsey D. Iliggins, on the morning . & 1 1 r j- " of the 23J of November, louo, was executed in the city of Omaha. He , .1 c M ..... i.n n ?a cci .1 r ..rl made tne louuivu m-v"-....; before his execution. No speech was made by him at the gallows. He met his fate with more ccolness lhan could bs expected of one guilty of so horrible a crime: Omaha, Jan. 23, 1SG3. It is not my intention to conceal any- ihiuT connected with this heinous crime, though as the details cf the circumstan ces connected with it will only serve to open again the yet bleeaing wounds of Mr. Hugh Iliggins and h:s iamny, i did not at first intend to make- them known. Mr. Doane in his theory carne very near the tacts in me ca-e. I first r anned this horrible crime in the old store, but was prevented from executing it by God's mercy until that nicht; not th; t there was not money enough on several occasions there was more. I went to bed tkat night nbout half past eight; what time Ilig gins came to bed 1 do not Unow. hen I waked I got out as easily as possible. went all round the center tier of boxes to get on the south side of Higgins, , . iv i came up, made one or two oners, anu was on the point of giving it up, when the devil put it into my head lhat Hig gins had only been shamming sleep, and would tell i U that I had done. This gave me the heart to commit ihe crime. I struck the first blow. He drew a long breath. I thought he was on ihe point of hallowiDg. I gave him another; then went to ihe safe, goi the money, put on my clothes, went out of the back door do.vn lo where the mo ney was found, leaving the bacli door open till I came back. When I came back I pulled off my clothes, went into the cellar, set fire to the building by selling some boards up against the floor; took ihe oil-can, put some coa oil in some old rags, set fire to them and then went up stairs. I ihen went to the back door, and stood there with ihe pistol in my .hand until the fire burneJ through the floor and the smoke had filled the room. Then I firej the shot which wounded my arm; then gave the alarm; threw the pistol away, but the devil always looks out for his own, he carried it to the fire. 1 ran out of trie back door hallowing fire, murder, thieves. The first man that came up had on a grey overcoat. At this time I was at the corner of Farnham and Twelfth streets. There I threw away my hat. The man went to the engine housi to ring the bell. I ran back wards end forwards iwo or three times there; when three or four more goi there, I burst in the west side door; went in, got my boots, threw one large case of tobacco out of tha doorway, and then put on my boots. By this time there were six or seven men there; then Iwo shots went off. I got uway from ihe door, bat the other two shots did not go off for some time after, per haps two minutes. That was a'l the shots which I hpard, and all lhat was fired in my belief. When the crowd got there with ihe engine, the west ide doors were closed. This was some more of the devil's work. Now, when ihe engine began to play, the fiie had got upon the swinging shelf; ihe water was now thrown on the matches, which wer.t tumbling down on the bed. This was not the work of the devil, il was God's hand wh ch threw the matches down to show the devil that he might help the guilty, but God w.is the one who administered justice. The fact of the matches bjiniiscattered till over ihe bed. led lo my arret, but ihey formed no part of my plan. The Jamp-buwier was an old one winch had been saved from the old store. There was only one fire kindled, that was done so as to cause the floor to break in there, so that the body would be crushed by the weight of the goods. It -was not my intention to bum the whole store. There were on'y five thots fired to my knowledge, on befoje the alarm and four after. There was no noise to my knowledge in the store lhat night; if there was it was while Mr. Beale was there wi'h Iliggins; if they made any. ildid not awaken me. After I had mv arm dressed I we.it back to the front of .t mr r i i me store, air. reaooay said to me, "If I had a friend in there I would go in in spite of any body." Then I broke open tbe front door, the one with the iock on it. l broke ihe glass out, pulled back the bolts and went in, but could not go back a great ways for fear the uoor would give way. I dressed and undressed before I gave the alarm; thea put on my boots after there were three or four men there. I alone am guilty; let me pay the penalty of the crime. I should have had lo implicate others who are innocent had I got new trial. nun regard 10 tne two previous fires, I desire to state that I set the new store on fire to prevent W. R Kin trom moving m so soon. I did not stop mere over nve minutes atter 1 bad done it, for fear I should be missed from the store; ihen I got back to the old store without either Mr. Nave or Hi?rnns knowing that I had been out, and went to bed. Afterwards I set fire to Hell man's warehouse to drav Higgins' at . : j i - icimj.-i, anu nestaes to prevent anv deposits from being made on that dav when this nre was discovered I was down at the new store at work, ant had been there about twenty minutes I did not start at the first, but waited until there was quite a crowd; then I had no idea it would do so much dam age as it did. Mr.. Donovan has been a sufferer by me also on two difftre.-it occasions. I went into his thop .when he kept on Fourteenth street, and on each occa sion took two pairs of boots, amounting in all to about forty dollars more or less. I must now return mv sincere thanks to Judgij Lake for his lenienrvtnivnnl. me all through this trial. Mr. Doane will also accept my t.ianks fur the feel ing manner in which he prostcu:-?! me. Mr. Rcdick, I freely forgive you the way in which you r.iude ycur plot in this caure. I must not forget my own co in'-el, for they have labored with the tittnu.n faithfulness ever siiice I have ben in carcerated to obtain lesli i ony and counsel for me. I return them my heartfelt thanks for the same. I am also thankful to Mr. Hopkins, al?o Mr. Parks, who exerted himself in my de fqnee with his able talent. Mr. Mor ris has not only given me legal advice, but hr s done me itnny personal favors. Col. Savage has all the thanks imagi nable for the able manner in which lie has conducted my case since he has been connected with it, May be never again whilst a member of this bar have so unworthy a clietit. I have never let any ono into my confidence until after the Sjpreme Courl was in session, so lhat neither one or the other of my counstl knew whether I was guilty or innocent. I thank ihe community for their leniency towards me. Had this been in any" other part of the State cf Nebraska besides Omaha, I should never hate had any trial; but, thank God, the law has had its course, and I have had a fair and irnpartiial trial. Not forgetting my kind Sheriff, Mr. Hoel, and Jailors, Messrs. Reese and Kane, for many favoro which they hnvo shown me; alto Mr. Most and Mr. Crowell, night watchmen. I thank them all for their kindness to one to undserving. I freely forgive all in connection with my trial, both prosecu tors, witnesses and jurymen. Thank God, they haye done their duty; and I hope they will forgive me, ns 1 have forgiven thm. and expect to be for given by my Father who is in Heaven. And I hope you may pray for rue an inheritance in the Kingdom where the weary are at rest. I desire also in this coi nection to thank all those who would put religious in ruction within my reach, but I be lieve only in ihe Catholic Church, anJ wish to die in her com in union, as it was their instruction alone that brought peace and hope to my soul. 6 G. BAKER. A great Indian light occurn d be tween the troops and the Wallipi In dians near Brale Springs, Arizona, rn the 6th. Chief Zeruu'x was wounded and 10 Indians killed. The iroops were repulsed with two wounded. The Savages fortified themselves behind the rocks. Slew SVrtvrvtbcmcntjJ. NOTICE In Ihf District Omrt oftlie Fa'- of Vbrka, 2J Ju.liehil District, in aud fur tl.c Cot'.uty if Cm. Jarim E. Kvtf, Vl'tT, 1 8't Willis Stevens Duf t. J WiMU Ft-rcn!,ta!;i. nn'.lrn, t!.;it ou Tie f!li -Mv ft rclmiiiv, lifts, th HaintifT In Hie rf rmltt'il hc iun tl ie'l hi I'tnitjtiri ia tris a! re n.iineil t'miri. 'l'lie il j'-ct. of tlnw artioti is t- r.btjtio rfymnt of & certain promissory nitn oxe-'uti d ati-1 -lelivei ! l-y you ti l'Liiniiff. tlic 'J j 1 U day uf Auj;u-l, li.'i-. for the Bimi of '2'47, with iiitcriiKt tlii-rt on from Ui 7lti day of Aunust lsi'J, at the r.ite of forty per i:-tit. ver an num, a iitT Maid otu; and In default of payment, to have a certain tract ot'lanJ hs you niort'auej t se cure the payment of taiJ not, -.old according to law and tlia proceed of mirfi applied. to llie payment of i.ai-1 note and intcresi. anil to have yoar eo'nty of rooeinnt ion, an'! any int re-t you. or any pernor. a claim ir. K u'idt r you, nud itihe pieut to mid mortptgi-, fi-rever forecl-i-H.l aud barre-1. V liicn rntid laud m described n follow, to wit : The aoiitli half (.' "f oulh i rhi qr. (I4 ), of M-ction No thirty-two. 12,) and wiuth-wei-l qi. fj of M.iith-vi et qr (ft) of sir! 1011 t'niny t' re- 1ownlilp No eleven, (11,) linage Mo. twelve, (1.) aulitie norin-weti ii. i-j, or me una-ta- qr- ("-j) seetiou No 11 v, (.,) In Town ship lo. ten. (10,) noitu of rai.ee No. twelve VI ) eat: lying au l bei'iK I I. ana l,oiiny. Nebraska: and yoj are reo-iin-1 to HVp- ar in tlio above named Court 011 the 3nili liny i f March, ISO'S at.d to nn.wer th-' peiition hereiu, or too name will be taken as true, uu.l judgufiixm nii lered nccuid intfly. j a it us r .-suAi,, rrn. THOS. Ti. STEVENM N, All y. Ordered puldo-hed In the '-Sehrak lUrall" four couseculi e noth?. WIM.IAM I,. WEM.S. fcbl3w I Clerk of Dial. Court. KOTICI?. In the Di triul O .urt of the 2 I J'l licial District, In apd for I'wi t'ouuty, Mate of N Uk, Jaiius b. Nea', Henry C. Majflell The defendant, Henry C. Mayfi I I, wilt take n tire that on the 4th diiy of February . IsGf, the plafti tilT, Jarius K Nea!, filed hi petition iu the a'love n tilled cau-e, 'he object an 1 prayer of tai l etui'. 11 buiuK to obtain payment of a uroinit-oty note for two hundred and eighty CJS") dollar, ix-.i nt- d by you on theiid day of Mirch 1-soJ wi'h iutermt iift. i' due at forly I-er rent p -c annum, and lu '1. f mil nf tlio payment of the money due o-i taid 11. a--, to have a certain Hart of land by yon in -t.'.if I on Ih - am--date of a ii-1 D-i'e to secure I lie payment ol the moo, y mentioned In the note iu one year, j!d accord. n to law. and 1 ti proc ie Is appii' d 10 the paym 11 . 'it th amount I y tlio c mrt proved to b" iltl" th'.- hue! 5, arid to foreclose vour eq-n y of relitipt:o i iu iit:d t , tlia mnrtrxt;a? d lireini.n s, heirs th out!i h ill (.'-, 1, cf the Kouth-wenl qiiatltr aiol the went half ( V), i-f the toulh-eai-t quarter of ec:iou twenty -four 4 t, 1 o Township twelve (1), n--ri!i ol rauire eleven (il), east of thv sixth I'mieipal .Meridian, in Caae Corny Nebrabka- You are ie iiiiird 10 appear aud in'wcr, plea 1 or demur to the aaid vmliiioo on or b -for Monday the 3(lth day ol March, l.Vi-j or the f.ii-1 p tii ion will betaken a, tm", aud judgement rendered accordingly, JARH'S K NKai., By THOS. B. fcTKVfc SSO.V, A'.fy. Ordered pno:t-hcd in the "Jf brisk 1 llu-ald' four conHL'CU.ive weeks WIM.IAM I. WKI.I.J, f'-bl3w4 Cleik ol V.H. Court- Teachers Wanted. To engage with us during t),e Spring au l Sum mer, In bu-iue- by which they can clear frotu to tiW per moutt. Addrea at once, ZEIQLEn, McCCRDY .f- CO.' No. 177 West Fourth St febI3w4 Cixci saTI, 0, J. W. JENNINGS, AYOCA, CASS CUUXTY MM-, (Jenningt A Dill a f lour and Woil Mil'- Dealer In Dry.Goods, Groceries, Hats and Caps, lioota and shoes, Hardware And sack articles as arc adapted to a Farming Community. WE WILL SELL CIIEA I' AS A. V, Or exchange for Produce. We t-ay the HIGHEST MARKET PKIt'E for grain of all kinds -or Uke Ir xrhn-j f r s 0, 1" febm8