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    THE NEBRASKA HERALD
19 PCBLISniD WEEKLY BY
II. D. HATHAWAY,
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VOL. 5.
PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 2-2, 1869.
NO. 10.
tnrrr mourn. '"
AH transient alertionient munt ho pai l tir
in advance. .
EMAIL
IHASO.MC.
Plttsmouth Lodge No. 6 A. F. Jt A. M.
KeiiaUr meetings at their bull on the first and
third Monday evenings of each month. Trans
ient hretheni invited to visit.
JOHN W. SHANNON. W. M.
J. N. Wis. .Set-.
Maooy Lodok U. D. A. F. ic A. M. Regular
lueetinirs second an-1 fourth Fridavn of each
uiouth at Masonic- Hall. J. WlaE, W. AI.
. WlNTEKSTINE. Slc.
N tp.KA-ik a CiiAj-TiK No. 3 R. A. M. Regular
auu vocations second and fourth Tuesday eve
bniKi of each month at 7 o'clock . in.
K. T. PUKK. II. P.
Eastern Star DkcrekLoim;b. Regular ineet
liiKof tho Family are held on Wednesday eve
ning, on or belore the full luoon of eah month.
All Master Masons, their wive, sisters and
J-iuglitcr are invited to attend. I'lirnarried In
dies must be over eighteen years of sige.
D. 11. WHEELER, Patron.
Man. C. A. IH'kk. Patroness.
J. N. Wise. Recorder.
St. I,uke's Inrisli.
" Monthly meetings of the Vestry 1st Tuesduy
veuing of each month, at the Rectory; Quartely
meetings of Vestry 1st Mondays of May, August,
November and February.
H. St. (iKO. YOUNG. Rector.
Wji. L. Wells. Clerk.
U1L,I,1TT rOTTKXGClT
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Plattsmouth. Nch.
X. if I. MAHQUETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW and Solicitor in Chan
ry, I'lalLsmouth, Nebra.-ka.
S.
F. CO(JlEll.
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Pluttsmouth. Neb.
W ill buy and tfcll Real Estate, and pay taxes fir
Luii resiileuts. Improved and unimproved hinds
and lots for sale. LjuneiVtiH.
fc. MAXWELL. SAII. M. CH.IPU.4X
n.iXiVKLIi & CHAPMAN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW and Solicitors in
Chancery. Plattsmouth, Nebraska. OUice over
While A JJutU'ry'a iirug Store. luprl.
II. s. jem(;s,
TTOHNEY AT LAW and (Jeneral Laml
Ageut. Lincoln, Nebraska. ill practice in any
ol the Courts of the State, and will buy uud sell
I'.'.il Estate on comtuisaioii, pay Taxes, examine
Titles, Jte. nov'Stf.
Ir. J. If. THOMAS,
Having permanently located at Weeping Wa
ttr Falls, temlcrs his prffcssional services to the
eitiiensof (Jass county, Nebraska. IjanT'Oi'tf.
IC. 11. i.ivi.;sto., 91. I.(
PHYSICIAN AND SL'Rti EON tenders his
professional nervier to the citizens of Cass coun
ty. Residcncesoutheast corncrof Oak anil Sixth
treets; office 011 .Main street, opposite Court
Huu-te, Piattsniouth, Nebraska.
J. W, ItAWLIXS, M. D .
PHYSICIAN AND SURtlEON . late a Sur-
?fon -in-Chief of the Army of the Potomac.
'lattsiiioulh. Nebraska. Hlii e with r. R. R.
Lit ingston. on Main street, opposite the Court
11 oust. Private residence comer of Rock and
11th streets, two doors south of P. P. tiass'.
t. n. WIIKELKK. L. D. BKNNKTT.
1). II. WIIEEKEIK & to,
Real Estate and Tux Paying Agents. Notaries
Public, Eire and Life Insurance Agents, l'latts
uiuulh. Nebraska. je'.'4tf
PLATTE V.tLI,i:
HOUSE.
1. I!. Muridiy. Proorietor. corner
of Main
anJ 4th streets. Pliittsiuoiith. Nebraska.
liuviriK been refitted and newly furnished offers
first class accommodations. Liourd by the day
or cck. augS.
PLATTSMOUTH MILLS.
C. II KISKL. Proprietor. Having recently been
repaired nnd placed in thorough running order.
Custom work done on slmrt notice, loo.lioii 15ush
els of Wheat wanted imitMvliately, for which the
highest market price vili he paid. aug-Ktf.
J. X. WISE,
ttcnen.l-L'tf:. Scolder t. Fin'. Inland andTrans
1 leumnce 4jrot. Will take risks at reason
able rates u tl.e most reliable Companies in the
. nited States. Office opposite the Court House,
Vlaltsmoiith, Neb. miiy'Jltf.
SJKS. J. F. DOUI,
Slaving just received anew sup!y of (ioods,
now offers Hats at a trifle above cost, and Rou
nd of assorted silks and laces, also colored
cra'-es in latest styles at from Sri.-TO to JM.tm.
ttoods kept at lr'vc s mid Wiggenhorn A- Co.'s
stores. mar'J-Mf.
NOTICE.
J AMES O'NEILL is my authorized Agent for
the collection of all accounts due the undersign
ed for mejjeal services: his receipt will be valid
ijr th j.avment of itnv monevs on said accounts.
AuKit-t i l.f.7.1 R. R. LIVINGSTON. M. 1.
JMLul&Ic 3VL nslo!
PIANOS.
41 lUi 11 I2E.OD EOS!
I am Agent for the best Musical Instruments
made. Persons wishing to buy Pianos. Cabinet.
Metropolitan! or Portable Organs, or Mclodeons
e'i purchase through my Agency on us liberal
lerii:s as tlie can from the maut'acturers them
Sflves. All Instruments tully warranted.
prltf. J. N. WISE.
Capt.l. LA IIOO & CO ,
Wholesale and retail dealers in
WINKS AND LIQUORS
Also a Tiy choice selection of
TOKACCO AIN'D CIGARS,
Main street, second door east of the Seymour
Home. Nebraska City. Neb.
Are just receiving a new Stock of Genuine Old
lioiirlMin direct from lioUrbon county, Ky Iiit
tcre, etc. uiyTSw.
Ilraltli, Comfort and Ecouomy
Three reasons for bonrding with
OKOIlCJrE W- COLVIN,
OAK BTRKRT, PLATTSMOfTIt, SEB.
Two Mocks northwest of brick School House.
He has a RATH HOl'SE. free to patrons: his
rooms are well ventilated, and his prices are rea
sonable, julyiitf.
JLilVEKY, FEED,
AND
Salo Stable,
DY
WM- J- HYATT, Proprietor,
Jl'lattsmoutti, Nebraska.
First rate Stabling and Wagon Yards for the
accommodation of the public. A good stock of
'.SIorscH aiitl Carriages
To let on very reasonale terms.
Stable on Min
Sheridan House.
street, nearly
opo?ite the
decSltf.
J. W. SHANNON'S
FEED. SALE AND
LIVERY STABLE,
UilH STRUCT, PLATTSMOITH, XKB.
I am prepared to accommodate the public with
Oorm, Carriage, BvOOc nnd A So. 1 Hearnt,
i-hort notice and reasonable terms. A Hack
will run to thesteamhoat landing.andto all rrw
of the city when desired.
PLOWS! PLOWS!
C. IB.
Manufacturer of all kinds of
Farming Implements.
Snfi v.a .otabmtAil Rod Breaking Plow,
Mould Board Breakers. Stirring Plows. Singl
nd Double Shovels. Cultivators and Harrows.
Kepairing done on short notice. All work war
granted. Having had much experience in the business,
I feel assured lht T general satisfac
tion. Plea e give me a cail before purchasing
'f where. C. K. F0K1
Pliitt-mouth, Nth., Mcy ,
OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM.
Fourth of July Oration by Col. Donn Piatt
at Xenia, Ohio.
Corruption in our PoliticsIts
Causes and Cure.
Facts to be Thought Over.
We muke the following extracts from
the Fourth of July oration delivered )y
Col. Donn Piatt, at Xenia, Ohio. It is
a mournful, but inaiuly true, stiiteof the
condition of things in our polities:
We have a fx-hion very prevalent
anion? Fourth of J uly orators and .schem
ing politicians, of regarding people in the
aggregate, and addressing them as the
patriotic, virtuous, intelligent jieople.
'"The dear people," :the honest masses."
are the epithets most in use. That is,
John Smith, taken singly, may be an ig
norant, vicious man, ; but five hundred
Smiths, taken in the aggregate, make up
an intellectual; honest, patriotic mass.
My friends, this is a beastly fiction. The
masses are composed of individuals act- i
ing. not in the aggregate, but in their
individual capacity; and this individual
makes our government; As he is stupid,
the official representative id stupid. As
he is wicked, his official representative
is criminal. Like seeks like, and the
fountain never rises above its head.
As all Governments are established tor
the benefit of the governed, that is the
best which lest conserves the interests
of the people governed. There are cer
tain rights enumerated by Jefferson as
those especially in the keeping of the
government. These are the uses of one's
propertVj personal liberty and security to
life and limb. Now, the traveler abroad
is astonished to find that in the heaviest
despotism of Kuroje there is a larger
liberty, a better security to life, limb and
property, than under our lioasted repub
lic. Ami set to thinking by this unex
pected and extraordinary fact, lie discov
ers that the element with 11s, the dear
people, have lost sight of the objects of
good government in the processes of a
democratic government. That is, the
right to select our agents and vote for
them is dearer to us than the right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The European despot says to the subject
4'I will secure you in all vour rights ; you
shall possess in peace the largest liberty
if you leave me the government." Hut,
then, there are no primary meetings, no
popular elections, no legislatures, no Con
gress, and no Constitution, and this is
insulting to your free and independent
citizen.
You must not understand me, my fellow-citizens,
as advocating that form of
government, or any other form of govern
ment than our own, as it came from the
hands of our Fathers. I am only striv
ing to show you how far we have depart
ed from the landmarks and foundations
prepared try the autnors ot tne liepuri
lic. If you or I cannot go to the
polls without danger of being shot or
knocked down if my property is ren
dered insecure by unjust legislation and
unequal taxation if I dare not express
an opinion unless that opinion is in ac
cordance with the governing element. our
lMiasted freedom exists only in name, and
our so-called Republic is a curse and a
mockery. We can have a Dictator and
call him President, or the majority ; we
can have a despotism and call it a dc-
mocracy. .Names are nothing ; it is tne
substance I look to and strive to possess.
I do not go so f;ir as to a.-k that our
official agents shall be the wisest and be.-t
in the land. That is a dream. I beg
only that they may be honest. JJut how
Ls it ? A low men, ueurally (he mean
est and most ignorant, makeup the prim
ary meetings; and the primary nicotines
make the caucus, and the caucus nomin
ates your tickets, and then the majority
conies in to confirm. The votes runs on
a platform of principles, and so far as the
agents are concerned, it is generally a
choice of evils.
Let me give you briefly an instance.
During the late fearful civil war our suc
cess was held in the brains of two men.
Salmon 1. Chase managed the finances,
while F.dwin M. Stanton conducted the
war. The one planned great campaigns,
created huge sirniies, and set our military
heroes on the field very much as a chess
player makes his moves. He stood un
moved amid terrible defeats an 1 shame
ful disasters, and with discontent ou one
side and imbecility on the other, he
crowded millions of raw recruits to the
field, tintil he cut our way down the Mis
sissippi to the Gulf, inarched from Chat
tanooga to the sea, fought our armies
over a highway of human bones to Kich
mond; until he saw our eagles swung
through the sulphury smoke of battle
above the shattered ruins of the Codfed
eracy. The other created a credit out of
nothing, and made our faith in a worth
less currency extensive with a faith in
our destiny. And now Edwin M. Stan
ton lies dying neglected and alone in his
home in Washington. As for Salmon
P. Chase, after he left the Treasury some
enthusiastic friends in the district where
lie had lived the better part of his life,
took him up as a candidate for Congress,
and he was beaten in a caucus by a gentle
man who spells conscience with a fc, and
is unknown outside the ward politicians
who created him. And this, while the
English people, under a Government we
are in dutv bound to despise and curse
with our latest breath, was making u
in a
ilin
Commons of John Stuart Mill, J
Uright. Gladstone, and the most brilliant
men ot our age
Oh ! no, it is ten much for us to ask
for brilliant men Let us be content
with honest ones, if such can be had.
Last fall a distinguished journalist sent
trie to Washington, with instructions to
look impartially at the transactions there
and write the truth, regardless of conse
quences. 1 did my best to comply with
his request. I st rove to lift myself above
partisan considerations and feelings, and
give to print a fair statement of all that
could be seen. I say it now as I wrote
then with a sickened heart, that we have
the most corrupt Government in the
world. It is run by rings. There is no
moneyed interest in the land that is with
out its ring in Washington. They fill
the hotels, throng the avenues, and
crowd the lobbies. The old Greek with
his fabled lantern would die exhausted
in his search for one honest man. I
would exhaust my hour and your patience
were I to attempt even to enumerate
these interests. Wc have the railroad
rings, land-jobbing rings, the Indian Bu
reau rings, whiskey rings, the protection
rings, that branch on into every coneeiv
able direction. And they wore intrigu
ing, caucusing, boring, and through wine
and women, baiting without cessation.
I do not wish to be understood as
charging that :i majority of our Representative-
in Congress are dishonest men.
On t W enntrarv I was surprised to find
that, living in this atmosphere and under
theso influences, there were so many
pure and upright men. But I will say
without fear of successful contradiction.
that adding the incapables of the rogues,
and they made the majority. What bet
ter can yon ex pect under our system of
selection ? The question is no longer
"li he capable, is he honest, is he a
friend to nis country ?" , It is on the
contrary be duly . nominated by my
party, and is ho sound on my peculiar
principals?"
Not the least disheartening part of all
this is to be found in the utter indiffer
ence with which the public at large re
gard all thi. It is no longer a shame to
steal. It has ceased to be a dishonor to
defraud. I saw Senators who came to
Washington with scarcely money enough
to pay boarding house bills, rolling over
the street in splendid equipages, and
entertaining society in palatial residences.
They are now millionaires, and not only
tolerated, but followed, flattered, sought
and sued by men and woman who would
be honest were it the fashion to affect
that virtue ; and if vou turn from men
who have made tlieir fortunes out of
their places, it is to stare at men who
bought their .way in. These Senatorial
chairs are put up at auction, and knocked
down to the highest bidders. The long
est purse brains the opponent, and the
Hon. Ingot or the Hon. Greenback
stalks in with just, brains enough to make
up, through a sale of votes, the money
he had expended in securing his scat.
The saddest page of the history, as a
nation, if it is ever correctly written, and
one over which our children's children
will blush to read, is to found in our
treatment of the Indians. I am not sen
timental in this, nor disposed to indulge
in any fancied sorrows. I know well
eiioMgh that the Indian is a savage, de
moralized by our civilization, but it is
difficult to conceive of any thing more
weak, thanieless anl fraudulent than our
Indian policy. Beginning at a time
when the I ndians were a ower, covering
two thirds of our country, we treated
with them as our equals and respected
our own treaties through fear. We now,
when they are a more handful, and
looking only to their numbers and sav
age condition, violate continuously our
engagements, and then wonder nt the
consequences. Regarding their claims
to immense territories as preposterous,
we yet call them together, and through
solemn treaty stipulations, acknowledge
their rights. We have a peace depart
ment, th.it talks and makes treaties; we
have a thieving department that system
atically violates the treaties ; and a war
department, that seeks to punish the
savages lor what we have done, and gets
miuishcd itself. And for a result we
have no end of the horrible murders by
Indians, more horrible massacres b'
soldiers, a disturlx'd border, a shocked
country, and unnumbered rogues made
rich through stolen millions of hard
earned t ixes,
It would puzzle a civilized white Jto
say how, were be placed as the Indian is,
he should meet and deal with our de
mand. How much more does it bother
Mr. Ijo. who is a savase. and as unac
quainted with the facts as a member of
Congress. It may be that, considered
philosophically, his claim to vast possess
ions is absurd; but, in point of fiu-t, he
makes his claim srood by a possession
maintained with a pertinacity that de
fies all process, civil or military. Upon
that claim encroaches continuously the
outer edge of westward-moving civiliza
tion, that is as stubborn, unreasoning
and savage as .Mr. IjO himself. It needs
his hunting grounds and will have them.
lo this debatable territory come no end j
of convicts escaping punishment, and
criminals escaping conviction, who find
congenial employment in murdering and
robbing whiles in the name of Indians,
and Imiians in the name of whites..
Over all reigns our Indian Bureau Ring,
that ch'-at-i the Government in contracts.
and robs the Indians in subsidies, and
extending from Cabinet officers and Sen
ators to bonier ruffians, robs the iK'ni-
tcntiarics to make acents. and grows
rich on money stained with blood.
This is our Imli.-ui policy, and a sweet
scented affair it is.
I have referred more particularly to
this Indian business, for it is one lying
so entirely outside of political influences
that it can be approached and considered
without suspicion. I cannot treat so
freely of other branches of outrage and
wrong that go to make up our Govern
ment. At the risk of offending some
over sensitive people, I will call your at
tention to a fact that is lieconiing every
day more evident to the philosophical
observer. For many years our country
was to the laborer the happiest home
known to humanity. The absence of
dobt, the consequent light taxation, the
wide domain of unoccupied land with its
deep, rich soil, made life easy and open
ed resources to every industry. Sine.;
the war all this has changed. We are
buried under a mountain load of debt.
Our taxation is fearfully heavy. Our
channels of trade clogged and stagnant
with a depressed currency and unjust
legislation, and capital and labor arc rap
idly assuming toward each other the
deadly antagonism that marks their ex
istence in Europe. The rich grow rich
er, and the Ior get oorer. Between
the greed of the larger capitalists and
the 'corruption of our Government, the
man of small means and the laborer and
mechanic are being ground between
the upiicr and nether millstones. A dis
tinguished statesman told me in Wash
ington, last winter, that. after a careful
study of facts, he was satisfied that, for
every four dollars taxed directly and in
directly, one was stolen outright, wo
were paid as bounties to moneyed inter
ests, and one found its way into the
treasury of the Government.
I Lave dwelt somewhat on some of
these, and it requires no great depth of
intellect or vast research to discover them,
when one once divests his mind of parti
san influences. I believe we have too
much suffrage. I do not refer to its ex
tension so niueli as to its use. I am wil
ling to have the negroes vote.and believe
we would lie ta tter if women were inclu
ded. But we have too much of it going
on. There is scarcely a month of the
j-ear we are not called "Pn to elect
somebody to some thing. The result is
that we neglect our duty by transfering
tbi rdorions Driveleces to peoole who are
willi'r it to make it their business. It
seems to me that.it would be better to
limit some of this. It Js a terrible busi
nfwq to talk about trivimr un this irreat
right. But would it not be as well to have
some respectable body appoint a consta
ble, for example, as to throw open
the noils to the vote of a few corner
erooerv politicians to make the selec
tion
It must strike every one that it would
lie to the interest of the community to
nave the judiciary as far removed from
undue influences -as possible especially
to s-et it out of the political arena. In
our large cities the bcoundreLs elect the
judges, and the judges in turn protect
thescour.dreK Would it not be as well
and iust as lit publican, for the Govern
or, aided bv the Senate, to appoint the
Supreme Judtres. and the Supreme
Judges to appoint the Common Pleas
aid I lit::-" iui iv ii. t vw -IJ" l- v 1
J l. , . . . 1..., n . -1 . w. i mo mutntAC
If good salaries were added to long terms
we might hope for something efficient
and honest. We might compromise on
the constable. He could still be elected
and so retain a republican feature of the
system.
Again, in our cities that have come to
lie utter sinks of pollution, offensive to
the nostrils of all humanity, we have the
evil effects of universal suffrage; -and it
is strange that after a war of the most
expensive and bloody character, we ac
cord to a coriioration what we denied to
the State. When the judiciary and its
lolice, together with the Ixtards of sani
tary officials, are restored, as they should
be, to the State, where they belong,
there is nothing left to the corporation
but questionsof property,in whicn stock
holders alone are interested. Then the
stockholders only should vote, and a man
might as well claim control in a railroad
company lecause he traveled on the cars,
or a.ik to sit at the board of a bank be
cause he stent on the steps, as for a non-property-holder
in a town to demand a
control of its affairs.
As it is, one class pays in the taxes
that another class expends, and the re
sult is extravagance and rascality. The
rogues are all in office that honest men
may be plundered. The City Council
reeks and stinks with the refuse of the
slums. To be one of that sort a once
honored City Father is to be branded
as a thiefi a fellow for all to shun. The
police,devoted generally to the creation of
Mayors and the selection of Councilmcn,
is more dangerous to the peace of the
community than tli3 rogues it was em
bodied to suppress. Indeed it has come
to be believed that the rogues and the
watch are one and the same.
I will not longer tax your patience and
good nature by this innovation upon the
time-honored Fourth of Julv. 1 hare
been brief, but am aware that I have
gone far enough to tetupt a circula
tion of the rotten eggs that the American
eagle sometimes lays. It speaks well
for your sense of propriety and patient
forbearance that you have listened so
well. But if you will take my utterances
home, and putting them in a pigeon
hole, wait until your wrath has cooled,
you will, I believe, think with me, that
these evils, dreary and disheartening as
they are, call for some other remedy than
now lies at hand in the jiolitical arena.
There is no relief to be found in these
iiarties. They remind me of rats in a
Kirrel fighting for a place alove water.
They murder each other to no purpose.
On this day, sacred as a Sabbath to the
nation, with a common alter to our coun
try, let us make a burnt offering of our
jKilitical prejudices, and if we cannot
count on the intelligence of the masses,
nor on their virtue, let us appeal to their
selfish instinct that seems to teach them
that this is the purest fabric of the Gov
ernment, and one well worth their puri
fication and supixirt.
IMmI and IMurk.
Henry Ward Boecher sjoke the other
day, at the commencement exercises of
a business college in New York. We
quote a passage on pluck and plod :
"I do not lielieve a business man who
says that he has asked for employment
and cannot get it. I know many out of
employment, but they are drones; they
are not business men of the world. A
business man may lack a god man:
things, but he will get on if he has pluck,
(applause). Tliere is no business man
who has not got pluck, and it is the
business of Mr. Packard to teach you all
pluck in life as the first incentive to
liusiness; and I hope that he teaches
vou another word, which is the greatest
business word in the world I name it
in its homeliness, and it is an old Saxon
word it is called . (( Jreat applause).
'Oh," says somebody, "he is only a plod
der.' Only a plodder! Ah! there
never was a man the most brilliant
genius in the world, who did not owe
this process of being a plodder. (Ap
plause). It is very well for genius to
concecrate and light the path of life, but
it must be pluck and plod that carries a
man over the paths of life. I would
have these words inscrilied over the walls:
the pluck of life, the plod of life. (Great
applause).
Tlie 1'upulalioii of Aelirankn.
Comparing the imputation of Nebras
ka in lSOD, with the acres of taxable
lands of that year, and adding to the
assessed lands now one third for ix-cu-
pied untaxable lands, as homesteads
squatted railroad-lands, &c, the same
ratio would place the present number of
inhabitants at 132,XK.
Deducting the railroad assessment
from the grand roll for ISlVJ, ami apply
ing the ratio of population to valuation
in ISI'iO. to the present list, we cet 135,
0t as the number of inhabitants.
Applying the ratio of the vote in 1S0O
to the then population (LS,000), to the
vote estimated for this year from the
votes of 1 Sf and ISO", there should be
135JMV) inhabitants.
From these data we predict that the
national census next year will show the
population of Nebraska to be between
14S,(K0 nnd 1 Sfl.rmo. Statesman.
Dr. Munsev, ot Chelsea College, was
apt to quarrel with his wife. Returning
from Fulham he was overtaken by a ter
rible storm. A return hearse came up.
going to Chelsea. Any port in a storm.
The Doctor crept in with pall and plumes
for companions. The hearse stopped at
his door; the lady looked out. '"Who
have you got there, coachman?" '"The
Doctor, madame." "Well, thank heav
en for granting me resignation! So the
poor man has gone to his long home at
last." "Thank you mv love," said the
Doctor, getting out of hearse, "for your
kind regard for my safety."
A Vermont chap wrote the following
letter to an Indiana lawyer :
Sir, can i get a devors, & how soon on
grounds that i cannot supjiort my wife
have one child, a boy am willing to tike
care of the ly, ans immediately & state
what it will cost, if it cost $20 I cant pay
that much.
The death of Robert Bonner's Auburn
horse induces a New Yorker to send the
lnbune a remedy which he has never
seen fail to cure colic in horses. It is
simply to drench them with a prepara
tion of chlorine and permanganic acid.
which can be secured, repeatedly, and
has so much confidence in it that he
would be willing to insure the recovery
of anv horse if it was administered in
time.
A foreign Consul in New York recently
received a letter ironi a lady residing in
the country from which he is accredited,
asking tor intormation regarding a vaga
bond husband who was wandering in the
United States, and when last heard from
was in Salt Ijake Citt: ' Madame trusted
that M. le Consul would find it conven
ient to make an early visit to Utah and
hunt up the missing man. Her ideas of
geographical distances in the United
States are probably not more vague
than those of many other persons in the
old world.
Clever Women.
There is an unaccountable antipathy to
clever women. Almost all men profess
to Ie afraid of blue st4)cking.s tnat is,
of women who have cultivated their
minds ; and hold up as a maxim, that
there is no safety in matrimony, or even
in the ordinary intereouse of siciety, ex
cept with females of plain understand
ings. The general idea seems to be that
a dull ordinary woman, or even a fool, is
more easily managed than a woman of
spirit and sense, and that, the acquire
ments of the husband ought never to be
obviously inferior to those c: the
wife. If these propositions were true,
there would be some show for avoiding
clever women. But I am afraid they
rest on no good grounds. Hardly any
kind of fool can le so easily managed as
a person of even first rate intellect ; while
the most of the species are much more
untractable. A dull fool is sure to be
obstinate ; obstinate in error as well as
in propriety; so that the husband is
every day provoked to find that she wil
fully witliholds him from acting rightly
in the most trifling, and perhaps also the
most important things. Then the vola
tile fool is full of whim and caprice, and
utterly defies every attempt that may be
made by her husband to guide her aright.
In one case his life embittered for days,
perhaps, by the Milkiness of his partner ;
in the other, he is chagrined by the fatal
consequences of her levity. Are these
results so much to lie desired, that a man
shoxild marry beneath the rank of his
own understanding, in order to secure
them ? I rat her apprehend that coward
ie in this case, as in most others, is only
the readiest way to danger. As for the
rest of the argument, I would be far
from saying that to"marry a woman much
superior to one's self in intellect, is a di
rect way to happiness. I must 'insist,
however, that tnerc is more safety for a
man of well regulated feelings, in the
partner.-hip of a superior than of an in
ferior woman. Iu the former case, 1
verily believe, his own understanding is
likely to be more highly estimated than
in the other. Iu the first place, he is al
lowed the credit of having had the sense
at least to choose a good wife. In the
second, he has council and example al
ways at hand, for the improvement of
his own' appearance before society. The
very superiority, however, of his wife,
insures that she will be above showing
off to the disadvantage of her husband ;
he will rather seek to conceal his faults,
and supply his deficiencies, for her own
credit. .Now. what sense a f k1 has, she
must always show it, even though sure
to excite ridicule from its being so little.
Kx.
linn Mia ity It rids e.
Following is the speech of Mr. L, R.
Shryock, President of the St. Louis
Board of Trade, delivered at the celebra
tion of the completion of the Rail Road
Bridge across the Missouri river at
Kansas City, Saturday, July 3d:
M. 1'itKsiDENT You will allow me
through you to express sincere gratitude
to the gentlemen present for the very
courteous invitation to address them on
this occasion. I will not say thatitis
unexpected, for I knew the inevitable
consequence of coming here to-night was
that 1 should lie forced to speak. I ap-
iiointed a delegate from the St. Louis
ioard of Trade, Hon. A. W. Mitcht.ll,
to be "the siieakist" for that organiza
tion to-night, but he does not answer to
the call, and I am therefore not respon
sible for being on this floor. Vou have
heard so much of bridges to-day, anoth
er word ou that subject this extremely
hot night might seem out of place, yet I
desire to present a few thoughts ou one
or two i mints not touched by the gen
tlemen who have preceded me. The
construction of bridges to answer the de
mands of railroad trafic, and yet not im
pede or hinder the commerce of our
great inland seas, is a work that but few
minds have been able to grayp. it has
taxed the energies and brain of the finest
and most skilful architects of this or any
former i eriod of the world. It cannot
be denied, however, bridge building
has not kept pace with the great im
provements in railroad and steam vessel
architecture. This, like almost every
great work, has been the theme for
mairy long drawn out theories; and new
projects, lacking only time to demon
strate their entire feasibilty, have been
met with any number ot objections and
charges of impracticability and often im
possibility ot accomplishment. JJut, sir,
the day Is fast passing by when any
great work can be stopped bv such cries
. , i, iV.i. :
of the incredulous. Such is the invent
ive genius and indomitable will of the
present American age. Nothing seems
impossible of accomplishment, and I am
alout ready to adopt the idea advanced
by an Englishman once on a tour of
general investigation of our internal im
provements who said, "These Yankees
can do anything they please." Your
magnificent structure is a verification of
the Englishman's declaration. It is not
so long or elaborately constructed as the
celebrated bridge built by order of Queen
Nitocris over the Euphrates at Babylon,
which, according to Herodotus, was one
of the great wonders of that much won
derful city. Millions of people crossed
it annually, but not in the magnificent
coaches drawn by the iron-horse as we
saw to-day. The bridge of Darius on
the Bosphoms, Xerxes upon the Hel-
lespont; ryrrnus upon tne .Adriatic,
Cjesar upon the Rhine and Trojan upon
the Danulie all celebrated in history-
were mainly constructed for temporary
purposes of war. But here is a grand
work dedicated tocommeree--awork, we
trust, that shall prove no impediment
to the free and tafe navigation of the
great river it so majestically spans. So
should all bridges be built, and I trust
the day is not far distant when the rival
ry will cease between the railroads and
great rivers of our country. There is
business for both, and if they really could
be made to see the truth of the whole
matter in the light of reason and justice,
there is no ground for jealousy, for un
doubtedly their interests are mutual.
It has been thought by some of my
friends that I was the enemy of nearly
all railroad bridges, and assumed the po
sition of champion for the river. Sir, I
am not worthy such distinction, but I do
claim to be on the side of justice and
right. I have opposed the darning up of
nature's highways, our national heritage,
bv the abutment of bridges made in ut
ter disregard of the free and safe navi
gation of our great rivers. I care not if
bridges are thrown across the navigable
streams every mile of the way from
source to mouth, providing they are
built in strict conformity to law and are
not so constructed as to impede and en
danger navigation. This the people of
this country claim, as a common right
and as such will always demand. If it
were impossible to construct bridges of
spans ot sufficient length to renaer less
hazardous the navigation of our great
rivers, then some allowance might be
made for the numerous accidents occur
ring aim op t daily to water cratts naviga
ting the Western waters. But. sir, it is
possible to construct bridges in such
way as not to endanger the lives and
property of our Western boatmen.
Sncn bridges are now built and used
daily in this country and in Europe.
As early as 1757 J no. Ulrich Gruben-
mann, an uneducated carpenter of
Switzerland, built at Schafhausen a
very remarkable wooden bridge that
stood 40 years. It had two spans of 193
and 172 feet, giving sufficient water way
for all purposes of navigation at that
day, and much more than is now granted
by such structures on our own great Mis
sissippi river from Quincy to St. Paul.
This bridge, or parts of it, would now be
a monument to the genius of that natur
al architect had it not been burned by
the French army in 1799. In modern
times the wooden bridges of Germany
and France have justly claimed high
mark as works of art and scientific com
bination, but during the last ten or
twenty years the United States justly
claims precedence for simplicity and me
chanical perfection. The cheapening of
irou enables bridge builders to make
greater spans with no more hazard than
narrow span of former years entirely of
wood. Instances are, however, numer
ous in this and foreign countries, where
these ?reat structures built of wood
chiefly do not from narrowness of pnan
interfere with free navigation. The
bridge across the Tweed, at Berwic. has
a span of 449 feet The bridge at Mon
trose, built in 1S23, was 1,13(1 feet long,
with spans of 225 feet. The bridge over
the Menai Straits spans 459 feet at a
distance of 1(13 feet above the high wa
termark. Over this magnificent struct
ure passes "the Chester and Holyhead
Railway, bearing as long and - heavy
trains as any of our country. So might
we mention the bridge at Montreal, at
Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, Niag
ara and many others, all demonstrating
the great fact, if railroad companies wish
to span our great rivers so as not to in
terfere with their free navigation, it can
be done without the slightest trouble if
they will only put up the necessary mon
ey to do the work. On this point is be
ing manufactured a healthy public senti
ment, which I welcome gladly. The
North Missouri Railroad and the Bridge
Company at St. Louis have set a good
example to like corporations on this
point. Their bridges are to be swung
so high that a draw is not necessary for
steamers to go up, but the largest vessels
with the highest chimneys can pass under
with perfect safety at all stages of the
river. Mr. President, I congratulate
you and all upon the completion of your
bridge. It is the first to span the tur
bulent Missouri. May I not hope it will
stand the test of years, and be the means
of bringing to your young and growing
city till the trade and travel its friends
fondly anticipate. (Great cheering).
Cable (lie Third.
Another wire is leing uncoiled from
the bowels of the Great Eastern, and
deposited on the bottom of the Atlantic.
Two in working order now connect us
with England or rather connect with
England that part of this continent which
Sngland temiorarily occupies. The
lird will run from ; Brest direct, to the
New Jersey toast, and will give us an in
dependent line for much needed compe
tition in time of jeace, and for use in
time of war between, us and England,
should one ever arise. It will le con
trolled by a company composed of cap
italists on both sides of the ocean, and
will therefore be the only strictly neutral
line crossing the Atlantic, for the others
having tlieir trrniin!. on English soil
could at any time be shut off from use
by English authority. About the first
of July, if all goes well, the Great East
ern should land the shore end on this
side, but any disaster, should one occur,
would at once be known on both sides of
the ocean, by the cessation of dispatches
from the ship. The civilized world will
not follow the vessel again, with strained
and intense anxiety, as it did when the
first or second cable' was laid, for the
problem has Wen solved, and wc all
know that it is only a matter of time,
that a failure will only cause delay, and
that sooner or later a dozen cables will
unite the two worlds. But there will be
much interest in the voyage. The Eng
lish cable monopoly has been galling.
The new cable will doubtless enter upon
a comietition so' vigorous as to secure
constant employment, and at the same
time force down the prices of the other
company. A wonderful change is yet to
be effected in business or private rela
tions bv the free use of the telegraph.
and even competition tending to bring
prices to the point at which the telegraph
mav be frcelv and universally used will
hasten that change. Then, in case of
war between us and any European pow
er. the cable would make a great differ
ence. Every item of news which keen
correspondents could pick up on the
other side of the water could be prompt
ly transmitted, while it would be in our
power, by seizing tne VJiencan termini
of the English wires to prevent any im
portant intelligence being given to our
antagonists. Suppose, lor example.
that we should be at peace with France
but at war with Britian ; Vithin a week
we could shut off England from any
news from this side save such as govern
ment censors should please to pass, while
no similar restriction would be enforced
against us by France. The tendency
would manifestly be to make England
unwilling to go to war with us except
with Trance as an ally.
The Great Eastern is the fruitful
mother of trans-atlantic cables. Not un
til that monster ship was enlisted did we
fairly conquer the ocean, for the cable
laid by the Niagra quickly gave out, and
slumbered at the bottom of the ocean un
til the (Jreat Eastern fished it up and
gave it Jiie, t e snau waicn wiin inter
est tins tuiru voyage oi me firann uiu
steamer, and trust that her third child
m. ,i i - i . i .t. i . u
may be successfully delivered and des
tined to long and useful life. Missouri
Democrat.
Cash Value of Nebraska Mods.
It apiears from the assessment rolls
that land throughout the State will aver
age (at twice the assessors valuation)
nine dollars and sixty-eight cents per
acre upwards of one hundred per cent.
increase in seven years. Does not that
fact corroborate the assertion we have so
often made, that there is inore wealth
to be made here in real estate alone.
than in anvother western State? States
man.'
A French woman who had lost one of
her eleven sons, chaffered with the un
dertaker about the price' of the burial,
saying : ''Now look here, sir, you mustn't
be hard with me ; I shall be a good cus
tomer; I've got ten children more."
A lady who was about giving a party
to a convention of clergymen sent for a
catarerto assist in the preparations.
He asked if she intended to give a dan
cinar party. She replied that was to be
mainly composed of clergymen. "I
would advise you to provide bountifully.
Them pious people eat dreadfully."
r9 of (he M'eefc.
Memphis idrips five hundred barrels of
fruit North every day.
The Nashville jxilice arrested 342 law
breakeres in June.
The Galvt ston Herald, after an exist
ence of two weeks, is dead,
Southern editors generally are announc
ing the first cotton blooms.
The army worm is Itecomiug very
troublesome in some parts of Missouri.
Yieksburg denies the soft imieacli
ment that she h;us the cholera.
The cotton worm is at work in some
counties in North Carolina.
The valley of Virginia will yield five
million bushels of wheat this season.
Ex-Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi,
tilks of removing to Washington.
Reverdy Johnson has resumed the
practice of his profession iu Baltimore.
Washington county, Mo., has a John
C. Breckenrldge as Sheriff thereof. .
A jxitato of the exact shape and pro
portions of a small Teal duck astonishes
a Columbus (Ga. ) editor.
James Roshore, a young man of twen
ty, was drowned while bathing the other
evening near Meridian, Miss.
The Florida Legislature sat only three
weeks in its iate extra session. The mem
bers have a yearly salary, and not prr
diem pay.
Sabbath evening tin- first train passed
successfully over the Missouri river on
the bridge at Kansas City, the train
consisted of a locomotive and fourteen
freight cars. ,
A few of the personal friends of John
Mitchell, in. St. Liuis, swelled the pro
ceeds of his late lecture by personal sub
scription to' over $500, which amount
was handed to him Tuesday.
The grasshoppers are rapidly vanish
ing from Platte county, Missouri, being
destroyed by the little red bug found un
der their wings. They have damaged
the wheat crop but little in Platte.
The Chief of Police, Win. M. Davis,
was dangerously wounded by a pistol shot
while in the discharge of his duty, in ar
resting a soldier from the garrison in
Little' Rock. Ark., a few days ago.
Kansas city was recently visited Jy a
destructive fire, during the progress of
which the fhdfrtiit office was totally de
stroyed. Total lo.-s caused by fire was
about $25.hki.
Great damage has been done in North
west Missouri by recent heavy rains.
Bridge, fencing ami crops have been de
stroyed, and many streams are higher
than they were ever knowu before.
Rev. James Lvnch, colored, editor of
the Colored Citizen' Moutdi, was ar
rested by a colored policeman at .Jackson
Miss., on rndav night, and lodged m the
calalwiose. Drunk and disorderly.
A bug about an inch in length, black
with red stripes, and something like a
grasshopper in its general make-up, al
though wingless, is Hitting a in claim for
the cotton in the vicinity of Baton Rouge.
Louisiana.
A young Mr. Hanners attempted to
ave a little loy from drowning a few days
ince, near Columbus, Ga., but' the little
cllow convulsively seized him by the
throat and before he could lixise himself
Kith were drowned. The bodies were
hortlv afterwards recovered, the boy
with his arms locked arxuit the man.
Itreolleetion of Faro.
It is known that Mr. Clav was re
markable for his recollection of faces.
A curious incidednt of this wonderful
power is told of his visit to Jackson.
.Mississippi, in the year J . m his
way the cars stopped at Clinton for a
few moments, when an eccentric but
strong-minded old man made his way up
to him, exclaiming, as he did so,
Don t introduce me, lor 1 want to
see if Mr. Clay will know me."
here did 1 know your said -Mr.
Clay.
' In Kentucky, answered the keen-
sighted but mic-evcd old man.
31 r. Ulav struck his long, bony linger
upon his forehead, as if in deep thought.
"Have vou lost that eye since L saw
11 I . . 1 I . I
you, or n tdvou lost it ociore: unpiircu
Mr. Clay.
'"Since," said the man.
"Ihen turn the sound side ot your
face to me. that I may c -t your profile.
'"Mr. Clay paused for a moment, his
thoughts running back many years.
"1 have it!" said he. '"Did you not
give me a verdict as juror, at Frankfort
. , .., . .1
Kentucky, in the great case oi me cm
ted Mates m. Inms, twenty-one 3ears
ago :
"1 did! I did!" said the overjoyed
old man.
'"And is not your name Hardwicke ?
said Clay.
'It is, it is," replied Dr. Hardwicke ?"
bursting info tears. Did 1 not tell you,
he said to his friends, "that he knew me,
though I have not seen him from that
time to this? Great men never forget
faces." ,
The Chicago 1'oxt adds this to the tes
timony in favor of the Union Pacific
road: .
"No human being without actual ob
servation can come to a firm opinion
upon the subject of the Union Pacific
railroad, as to wnetner it is weu or in
constructed. And that tor the reason
that contradictory reports from men of
veracity have been published on the sul-
icct It is a fact, however, which tell
us more emphatically perhaps, than the
reports of a dozen commissioners, that
no human being has been killed no on
maimed on this road up to date. Thr
travel on this road has been large, it
freight trains have been and are yet nu
merous. We reieat that this fact is of
great importance m enabling one to
make up an opinion on the vexed r-ues-tion
as to whether the Union Pacific is
the worst or be.-t constructed new rail
road ever made."
An industrious German of Milwaukee
had. bv dint of hard labor and economy
saved $500. For safe keeping he put it
in an o d stocking and stowed it away
behind a rafter in his house. Some days
after, the poor Gorman was in despair
to find the mice had made a nest of it.-
He gathered the fragments and they
made a peck measure heaping full o
scraps of paper, stocking, wood, nut
sheils. etc.. and what to do with it he
did not know. A friend advised him to
send the whole mass to the treasury De
nartmcut at ashington, and he did so.
This was several weeks ago, and not a
word did the old man hear ot the money
until last Saturday, when he received a
draft for $2."o from the Treasury De
partment, and a letter stating that so
much only had been saved out of the
$50. Two girls -in the Department
were at work seventeen days sorting, pick
ing and patting, and had finally succeed
ed in getting $250 so that it could be
recognized.
"Sahiting
who tread on
walk.
the flag' Our citizens
orange jicd on the ride-
tVlto lias Made the Money.
The Xrus (we think) a sks wh.oof tin
State officers ha made the most money
out of Lincoln?"
We do not keep the private books of
our State officers, but believe we are safe
in saying that Governor Butler has. He
is probably $25,000 better tiff than when
Lincoln wits located. Mr. Kennard has
made several thousand dollars. Mr. Uil
lespie has had some; oo lias Mr. Sweet.
We (not a State officer, however), have
made eighty-one cents dear.
"Veil 1 vot of it?" as Jeremy Twitch
cr would say, and
Whose business is it ?
Vet, although it is nolndy, business,
we propose to state a fact or two.
On the lav of the first Kile, SeptemVr
17th, iNfiT, Lincoln was but a hair's
ireadth from a fizzle. The weather wu
cold and drizzly, not a tenth part of the
buyers who had promised to bejherehad.
in consequence oi me weauier,ooenailo to
arrive. Jiidders, speculators, Mat' offi
cer, and small lovs, lelt dispirited and
lisheartened, and when the first lot was
put up the auctioneer's hammer ti ll ith
dull thud like a clod on a coffin. I L.
thing looked busted. The Commission
ers looked busted for they were in fir
4. OiH), which they had lorrowed on their
personal cr edit to nay the' preliminary
oxen.sos. Kvei j botly looked bunted, and
the forlorn apiiearanoo of affairs was not.
dispelled until Butler, Keuiiard, Gilles
pie and weet. bidding freely for loti at
considerable advances over appraisements.
ind showing strangers that thev w re
willing to lake the risk, induced others to
bid nod bviy, and thus established tho
first success.. The Commissioners .ml
Mr. Sweet bought in, at the first snl:s,
ibout f 2M.000 worth of Jots. The(j.)V-
rnor and Mr. Sweet lcing tolerably well
off plunked down the cash. The other
two not being blessed with large fortunes,
sold part of their possessions, borrowed
some money lrom their tnetnls. nnd
scratched gather for the balance, and paid
for their lots. They have alo purchased
freely at subsequent sales. They bid
against determined opposition and had
to pay as good prices as anybody. Lit
which were appraised like others on tho
same street, at $50, aud the Governor
xiught at !?80, have been sold as high as
$1,200. Others bought bv other State
officers have brought one. two. and as
high as siv hundred per rent. Ual estate
business has been profitable in Lincoln.
Y ho.se business is it, if the State offi
cers have each made ten cents or ten
thousand dollars ? They deserve all they
have mado. They took big risks risked
all they had, and fortune bv their faith
fulness in earning out the "Lincoln
scheme" has favored them, It was their
own money they bought w ith, and it was
their own property they have sold for
more money than it cost. These men
lave hud a burden to carry, and they
lave carried it well. Thev have never.
at any moment, shrunk froinantfof their
responsibilities; and at all times stood
ready to perform any extraordinary ser
vice that tin! exigencies of the case re
quired. When the work on the Stat.'
House exceeded the amount of uioncv
received at the first sale, and the Com
missioners were waiting for the second
ale to provide the necessary funds rind
in the face of the most dismal cro-iking.-;
tnd predictions that nfW all Lim-obi
would stil Hail these men did not hesitate
to advance the money, from $.,0!M to
HUiOO, to shut the clamoring of unpaid
workmen. Out of their own Pocket i
and crcd'ts, they risked the necessary
finds. They knew that if Lincoln sue-
eded they would recover their loan-.:
if it failed, that Lincoln Salt wouldn't
-ave them, financially, olitj'ealIy or oth
erwise.
I?ut the experiment which the found
ing of this town was is a swoosh, and
for the success thereof the credit is due
to David IJutler. Thomas P. Kcmcini.
lohn Gillespie and James Sweet They
saved it when hzzling, and their cash ac
count has been increased thereby iu an
i i . , , .
honcfr- legitimate wav. by buving airl
selling lots.
Now, whose bnine.ss is it ? Liioln
Statesman.
A Nashville (Tcmi.)
corrs)ondcfjt
writes:
"The negroes behave admirably.
They
how no little political sagacity. Th"
man who thinks they can easily lie fooled
is greatly mistaken. They "give their
reasons for supporting Stokes in rough
but sensible language, and it is remark
able that t best? reasons have very much
to do with adding to the strength" tf (Jo!.
Stokes. It seems to be taken Ibr grant
ed by candid Republicans that if the ne
groes think the election of Scnter would
be disastrous to them, nnd tend to give
the St tte fiver to the control of men still
the ei CJiies of the Union, their intui
t ons should be respected. To .-um up
ihe situation. I should say that Stoke.-.'
prospects are, at this time very excel
lent" The editor of the Portage RryL-itcr
says while out riding, he discovered a
maternal member of the MrjihitU Amt
irava family, with a dozen or so of ju
venilis on their travels, who were kept
in file by each one taking the tail of the
forward one in its mouth, and the whole
wero led by the old one; altogether mak
ing a string of skunks about a rod lon.,
and, when moving, presenting a moit
novel sight.
It is but sixty years since the English
took possession of Van Dioman's Land,
and the last of the aboriginal inhabitants
is dead. An account of his ob-equics
says:
His head was cut of and sent to Lon
don, his feet and hands cut off for exhi
bition elsewhere, while the burial ser
vice was read over the poor wretch's
trunk, footless nnd hand less, and furnish
ed with another man's bead.
A johy jack tar. having strayed into a
show at a fair, to have a look at the wild
beasts, was much struck with the sight
of a lion and a tiger in the same den.
""Why, J ack," said ho to a messmate,
who was chewing a quid in silence, '1
shouldn't wonder if next year they wero
to carry about a sailor - and a marine,
living peaceably together!" "Aye."
said his married companion,
and his wife."
or a man
The Clinton (Mo.) Adwife has the
following significant item:
"The horse thief that stold Henry
Heckler's pony last week, and thou
stole Henry Rradley's mule, was caught.
He will not steal any more in this
world. ' '
A lady aked a noted doctor if he did
not think th small bonnets that the la
dies wore had a tendency to produce con
gestion of the brain. "Oh. no," he re
plied, "ladies that havo brains don't wear
them."
It is our heart3 and lives that mko
nature beautiful to us, or the revcrs"; our
hearts and lives that make ns right! li-d
A infb.""""