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n amfm i, - THE NEBRASKA HERALD II. D IHATHAWAY' EDITOR iS PROPRIETOR. Office corner Main and Second stre elfe, ee ri story. TERMS : Weekly, S2.00 per nnn if paid in a'lvanae. ... S2.?i0 if not pnid in advance. nilT IM ITT "Vc Lave heard the question propoun dcl several times recently "jrhv it was that democrats ami bolting Republicans! so-called republicans elected by demo cratic votes contemplated a coalition for tba purpose of defeating the election of Gen. Thayer to U. S. Senate by the election of Mr. Saunders, Mr. Rodger, or pome other Republican. We think we arc able to answer that question. The democrats of the country desire, most emphatically, to defeat Gen. Thayer be cause he teas a soldier, and because he ha, by his merit as an upright man and his ability a a statesman, a.?3umed a front rank as a Republican loader in the halls of the National Council. No one knows better than the leaders of the 1). iiiocracy the blow that it would give the Republican cause to defeat Gen. Thayer, hence their desire to accomplish that result. a onk nui:i tiiix; We Lave sat quietly bv since the election and looked on at a little one ridel game that has been attempted to be played in this State, until ne have about tired reeinK it.- We refer to the little :iuio of trying to injure Senator Thayer by saying all that was possible to say against him, and then allow nothing to be K;:d in his favor. The cry has be. whenever a word was said in favor of Senator Thayer : "Oh, you mu.-.t not attempt to force any man on us, or you wiil break up the party." No, it would not do to "force" Gen. Thayer onto the people, or to even say a word in vindi 3ii ation of him when he was assailed with ill the abuse that it was possible to heap upon any man, but these men who have been constantly bawling in this manner were perfectly willing to force KV.ne one else onto the people, notwith standing the people had declared in favor of Gen. Thayer in almo.-t every locality where bis election was at all in issue. We bad thought the question of the flection of U. S. Senator should not come into our fall elections ; but, as we sail before, we have about tired of se i:ig this discussion all on one side and especially are we tired of hearing men, claiming to be Republicans, " cry out against the election of Senator Thayer when they stand openly pledged to assist in the election of a Democrat, if needs be, to defeat a man who has served his country on the tented field and in the hall of Congress, as faithfully and as effectually as has Gen. John M. Thayer. A SYSTt'I. It !-eenis that in the adopting of some new plaa of selecting candidates for ofii ee is almost a necessity. The old system of mass convention is a very poor way, as it is well known that a few indlidnals always ''run" the entire con cern. We are not certain that this is a natural consequence of mass conventions, but we are certain that it is almost in xariably the result. Delegate conven tions are little, if any, better. What, then, are we to do? We have a crude ilea of a remedy, and we will "out with it," and give some one a chance to im prove on it before time for another con vention in Cass county. Our idea is something like this : Leave your County LVntral Committee just as it is one rueu'.er from each precinct. Instead of holding primary caucusses in the various pro '-.nets, to select delegates to attend a county convention, wo would have the Republicans of each precinct a .-Tible at the u-uul places of holding cite;, .u-. in tliti precinct, on a day specified, and tin ru open the polls for all Republicans, with a board of Judges and Clerks. Let the voting be by ballot, aud for the candidates direct. For instance, there is to be elected a County Clerk, Treas urer, Sheriff, Judge, etc., let each bal lot contain the name of the persons for the various ofneers that are the choice of the voters for those offices. Let these votes be counted the same as at an elec tion. Let them be certified to, sealed up and delivered to the chairman of the central committee. Upon a day named long enough afterwards to insure the returns from the entire county let the members of the central committee meet as a board of canvassers and canvass the entire vote of the county, and let the man who has the greatest number of votes for any one ofHee be declared and published as the candidate of the party for that office. This method has some faults, as what one has not ; but it would certainly most effectually block the game of "backing" conventions ; and right there is where the great complaint is when any one is disappointed or dissatisfied with the re sult of a convention. We throw out the above ideas for what they are worth, and ak candid Republicans to outsider them, and sugges", through the columns of the Herald, any improvements they may think of. There is one thing very certain, there is a demand for some sys tem of bringing out candidates that will give better satisfaction than the present one. If the above is not the proper one, what is? The "equare-toed" question we put to the Omaha Tribune Las had the effect to nearly silence that hypocritical concern on the matter of U. S. Senator, and it has also had the effect to open the eyes of many honest Republicans as to the real object of the disorganizes who recently came to this State from towards sunrise, and who appeared to act as though the people of the west were sim pletons to be led ly the nose, or driven bef jrc the lash. The New i. ork repeater and ballot box stuffers will find that President Grant knows how to maintain the gov crnuient as well against New York des peradoes as against armed rebellion, VOL. G. tROPSET'N MA J OR I TIIU. The official returns from all the coun ties in the district being in, we are able to give Col. Cropscy's majority for Sena tor: Gage, 214; Salint;, 111; Jefferson, 22; Lancaster, 3 1J ; total, COO. Stew art's majority in Pawnee county, 284 ; Cropsey's majority in the district, 322. li i: it it i. aw. The expression from all parts of the State, so far as we have heard, is in fa ever of a general herd law. The mem bers elect from this county 6hould take pains to post themselves in regard to the wishes of the people here. From our knowledge of the sentiment in this county, we are led to believe that a ma jority of the farmers of the county are favorable to the passage of a general law. The columns of the Herald arc open for a discus-ion of the subject if any desire to discuss it. A full discus sion is the only true way to get at the desires of the people. There has been a terrible amount of bawling among a certain class of men over the alleged corruptions at the Omaha primaries, and the men who are making this groat noise say that Gen. Thayer should not go to the Senate be cause of them. Is not "sauce for the goose also sauce for the gander?" Wc have been told by the most intimate fiiends of Gov. Saunders that there was corrupt measures used by them to carry the primaries, and, to use the expres sion of one of these bawlers. they "used lots of money, but Thayer's friends beat us." And even the Omaha Tribune ad mitted that Saunders friends were equally guilty. Why, then, is Gen. Thayer made responsible for all the corruption. Why not "give the devil his due" and let Gov. Saunders share the honors) "We are opposed to the election of any man to the Senate of the United States who courts favor with Democratic members of the Legislature to secure an election." Plattsmouth lltruld. That paper "fights ii.it. us." Whoop 'cm up, Hathaway. Fremont Tribune. We are glad to learn, as we do from the above, that the Fremont Tribune is opposed to allowing Democrats to choose a Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate. Hays will go to a certain point, but he has too great an appreciation of right to go the extent that the Omaha Tribune would lead. Hays may think that Saunders, Rogers, Crounse, or some other man is preferable to Thayer, but he is too good a Republican to follow the Omaha Tribune square into the bosom of the Democratic party simply to defeat Gen. Thayer. We stated a fact that is patent to every man in the State of Nebraska, that the Omaha Tribune had "bolted" the regular Republican nominees in Douglass county , and was doing all in its power to disorganize the Republican party, and that very high-toned, moral, religious, money concern, answers by saying we "Ye." That is the kind of" argument it uses. That is real pretty talk for a concern that Las no responsi ble editorial head, but is scribbled for by every sore-head and bolter in the State. We have heard it said that Rev. Mr. Frost, of Union Pacific Rail Rrad no toriety, was the editorial front of the concern ; but we cannot think he penned the item referred to. If he did, we should Le pleased to know it. We should be pleased to know who is the man ie.-pousible for this gentlemanly language, so we can tell who to pay our respects to. We reitterate our former assertion, and submit it to the Republi cans of the State. The paper which was started in Oma ha for the purpose of trying to defeat the re-election of Gen. Thayer to the U. S. Senate, and which will suspend about the 15th of next January, after Senator Thayer's re-election, is wonderfully afraid there is money being used some whre and that it is not getting a share of it. There is one thing certain and it is fortunate for the country that it is so papers started and run in a special inter est, which show the cloven foot at as early a day as has the Omaha Tribune, are almost powerless for evil in this en lightened country where men think for themselves. . Eastern "swells" who came west to enlighten the "heathens" are generally invited to wait till they are "dry behind the cars" before they run the politics of the country. Ceu. KtricklauU. We hear that the General has been strongly pressed for the Governorship of Utah, and that if the President becomes satisfied of the unfitness of the appoint ment he has made, the chances of the District Attorney are favorable for a po sition as full of grave responsibility as any Territorial office in the gift of the President. Whoever fills that position will need to make a record morally and politically above reproach. Omaha Re publican, The Federal election law is being en forced in New York by the Judiciary. Thursday the United States Circuit Court sent Terence Quinn to the Peni tentiary for two years for fraudulent re gistration. Even the New York Her ald, with all its Democratic predilections cannot counsel resistance to this whole some law. After surveying the situa tion, and refering to the fever into which tb.3 Democracy have been thrown by the announcement that the President is fully determined to enforce the law, it cruellysays, "in any event we advise all parties to keep cool especially Demo crats, who, in their hostilitity to the new election law of Congress, should remember that there was another law coming from the same source, which they demanded should be rigidly en forced namely, the defunct fugitive slave law." Ihe last allusion of the Herald is the unkind ist cut of all! Xonparkl. PLATTSMOUTIi, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1S70. TIIK C-ESSIS. We clip the following full report of the Census from the Republican of Sun day : Douglas (outsdo of Omaha) 3 899 Douglas (including Omaha) 20 (MM) Omaha, 1st Ward. 3 355 Omaha, 2d Ward 1 015 Omaha, 3d Ward 2 S20 Omaha, 4th Ward 1 440 Omaha, 5th Ward 2 507 Omaha, Oth Ward 3 010 Cass County S 740 Burt 846 Washington 4 499 Colfax 1 430 Stanton G3S Madison 1 ISO Platte 1 920 Hall 1 18fi Jefferson 73S Otoe (including Neb. City) 12 Ot',2 Nebraska Citv, 1st Ward 2 000 Nebraska City, 2d Ward 2 O02 Nebraska City, 3d Ward 2 00 Nemaha county 7 802 Saunders 4 54 Pawnee 2 548 Johnson 3 4sl Sarpy 2 910 Merrick 559 Dixon 1 343 Dodge 4 553 Lincoln 1 245 Dakota 1 815 Cedar..... 1 32 L'eau-qui-court 235 York 004 Adams 35 Polk 872 Cheyenne 309 Rutler 1 290 Clav 54 HulYalo 246 Cuming , 1 300 Dawson 175 Fillmore 23S Gae 1 754 Hamilton 130 Kearney 95 Lancaster 9 074 Nuckolls 8 Richardson 9 789 Saline 3 120 Seward 2 955 Total 110 SS3 TCiono Curd a. It appears that Gov. Rutler thought fit a few days since to write a note to Col. R. W. Furnas, to the effect that his resignation of the office of Regent of the University. Col. F. had the letter published in card form, and widely dis tributed, under the head '"Gov. Rutler' s fighting weight." This is of of course, perfectly proper, as the letter was not intended to be private. It is mdrely a matter of taste. Rut certain newspa pers have ru. bed into the affair half cocked apparently, and "deplored" the writing of the letter by Gov. R , and as serted that it was an ebullition of "per sonal hostility and spite" Sec Now it is perfectly patent that the ed itor of the Omaha Tribune and others that have treated the matter in this w;iy don't know what they are talking about. They ru h into a discussion perfectly blind, without waiting to learn anything of the merit of the ease ; and show themselves guilty of the very fault they, in ignorance of the premises, attribute to the Governor. We will guarantee that Gov. Rutler, when the proper time comes, can give good and suitieient rea sons for his action in this matter, and it would be more dignified and lea s "silly" on the part of our editorial friends to re serve their fire until the enemy is in sight. A great deal of ammunition has already been foolishly exploded in the ponderous magazines of the Tribune awl one or two other Republican journals during the political campaign just ended. It will especially be emiently appro priate on the part of the 'Tribune to go a little slow in some matters appertaining to State affairs, until its editorial corps have been long enough inside our lines to be entitled to citizenship. Gov. Rutler has at least shown during the past four years that he can conduct exec tive affairs with as much judgment and ability as the 'Tribune men can run a political paper, lie has managed to worry along most of the time without the light of the Tribune to guide him, and whether in making or unmaking an appointment, he may in an emergency still venture to act without orders from Omaha. Lincoln Journal. r.l.'ct of an i::rtlotiaUc. A Michigander, in a letter going the newspaper rounds, speaks of the effects of an earthquake upon a small lake about forty miles from Detroit probably Orchard lake. The water boiled vio lently, and fish and turtles came to the surface in great numbers. A similar effect was noticed on Lake Huron during the earthquake on Tues day last. Joseph Tibbie, a sailor, re ports to the Detroit iW that he was in a small boat out on Lake Huron, about eight miles from shore, off NVhite Rock. Shortly before eleven o'clock the lake seemed suddenly to boil in small lumps coming up from the bottom. Thousands of fish came to the surface and swam in every directien as though frightened, and many of them kept leaping out of the water. He- never before saw so many fish intone school, or saw them act so strangery. At the same time his boat was tos'sed about in a quick, jarrinff mo tion, and he had difficulty in keeping it from dipping water, lie was frightened at the remarkable appearances. He knew nothing of the earthquake until he reached Detroit. It will be observed that the appearance of the water, and the action of the fish were very similar in the two cases. Every child whether of rioh man or of poor man should be taught to work. It should know how to do, although it may not be called by circumstances to spend his life to doing. Every boy should not only have some occupation upon which at any time he can fall back for self sup port, but should know how to perform a certain round of domestic duties. He should be capable of making a bed, cook ing a steak sewing on a button, in short capable of camping out with the ability to meet whatever exigenc3' may arise. every girl should know all the ins and outs of the kitchen; how meat is to be cooked, and buckwheats prepared, and good bread made, and how evtry thing is done that ordinarily is done. Unless she does know this, Bridget has the up per hand eviry day, and housekeeping sours her temper, and nothing goes as it should. To make life easy and plea sant we must be masters and mistresses of all its common situations. Only a practical knowledge of how to do it our selves, renders us so. Susan B. Anthony says: "Marriage is a fearful thing." The men must all have been of that way of thinking while in Susan's neighborhood, or she would not have Lcca permitted to remain bo long a-miss. IAKAUIIAPIIN OF ALL KOKTS. Noisy infantry babies in amis. The late James T . Brady once re marked that his experience convinced him that a man t wife was his best lawyer. An urchin being rebuked for wearing out his stockings at the toes, replied that it couldn t be helped, toes wriggled and heels than t. Rev. D. Bent, of Baltimore, reports that when in Boston he went to church where he "heard music that made him wonder how he got in without a ticket." Josh Billings says that "one ov the hardest things for any man to do, is tew fall down on the ice when it is wet, and then git up and praze the Lord. An old, dilapidated bank note isgoin around with a piece of yellow paper pasted on the back of it, on which is written in a bo!d, Iree hand, Go ilB:It; I'll back you!" A line in one of .Moore's songs reads thus: Uur couch shall he roses be spangled with dew." To which a sensi ble girl replied : " I would give me the rhcumatiz, and so it would you. In chasing an annoying dog, the other night, a Portland man ran foul of a clothes line wine!: widened his mouth and extracted two teeth without pay, and he didn't catch the dog. Beecher writes: "Tobacco is the best remedy for all stings of insects. Wet it so that the juice will start, and place it on the place stung, and in one moment you are all right again. No matter how much desire you have to fight, never Lenin on a mule or a cross-eyed man. Their looks don't ad vertise clearly enough where they are going to hit. Sabbath-school tonehei" "Now, child ren, let us sing 'Shall we gather at tlio r;ver.'" Observant six-jear ol 1 "I don't want to any more ; the milkmen til sing it now." Those cheerful Adventists are again ciphciing up their "time and times," Sea., to prove that the European war is the pouring out of the seventh vial," or something. The microscope reveals the fact that a speck of potato rot the s;ze of a pin head contains about two hundred fero cious little animals biting and clawing each other savagely. "Are you not alarmed at the approach of the Kimr of Terror?" said the minis ter to the sick man. ' Oh, no! I have been living 30 years with the queen of terrors the king cannot be much worse!" The Osng Mission .Journal, of Kan sas, says : "The wealthiest people in the world are the Osagcs. J he tribe num 3 000, and have, after all exrion?os are paid. 200 acres of choice land per head, and $9,000,000 in money." An ingenious young wiie tens her -oppressed sisters how to ecnie it over the tyrant man. "When I want a nicesnusr day all to myself," she says, "I tell George dear mother is coining, and then I see nothing of him until one in the mornimr." Nilsson wore $30,000 worth of dia monds at her Philadelphia concert ; and Mi-s Shawdie and all her friends, who couldn't tell the difference between a re citative ami a war-whoop, consequently pronounced her singing "perfectly splen did." Out in Lincoln, Nebraska, they have discovered a salt brine spring, of SO de grees in strength, and flowing at the rate of two barrels per minute. It i- pro posed to start a watering place, offering superior advantages, even to the East ern resorts for getting corned. Chicnons are almost entirely discarded by fashionable society "down east." In some of the cities of Iowa, the papers chronicle the appearance of ladies on the streets minus these abominations. We are anxiously waiting and watching for an item of this kind. An economically-minded Massachu setts man, whose wife had a sore leg, saved the expense of surgical advice In tying her down on a bench and amputa ting the offending member with a butcher-knife and hand-saw. The ope ration was entirely successful, as regarded the leg, but the body bled to death. The gentleman who is a hundred and seven years old and has voted at every election since Israel elected the golden calf for a pro (cm Deity, and lias never been sick in his life, and can walk through two cords of wood a day without winking, Sec, is named Samuel Vogue, and he is very much in vop-iio. in TIrmrv couuty, Indiana and long may he wave. Women who wear false teeth have not got any business to faint. One of them tried it recently, however, in Jersey City, and swallowed the whole set. A dentist- who was called in said he couldn't extract them, as such an emergency as this wasn't provided for in any book he had ever studied. A pair of grappling irons and that good o'd stand by, the. stomach pump, finally raised them". The earth had a fever and ague fit the other day, (the 21st.) and shook most perceptibly and unpleasantly. The shock was widely felt, and lasted several seconds, fully as long as was pleasant to those who had no control of the matter. There is nothing like an earthquake to make a man feel his utter weakness. One faint shiver of old earth is all that is needed to take the complacency out of even a moden reformer. Ole Bull used to relate the following: He had been at Donnybrook, when he was attracted by the sound of a very loud violin in a tent. He entered and said to the player, "My good friend, do you play by note?" "Divil a note, sir." "Do you play by car, then ?" "Never an ear, yoir honor." "How do you play, then?" "By main strength, be jabers." A great panic has seized upon the tur keys in consequence of Gen Grant's Thanksgiving proclamation. At a dis tressed mass meeting the other evening the chief gobbler addressed the few hu mans present most feelingly. The gist of it all was this : Thanksgiving may be fun lor you, but it is death to us. Among the resolutions passed was one appealing to the S. F. T. P. O. C. T. A. asking it to interfere in behalf of uni versal peace, aud stating that all birds have a right not to die violent deaths. One of the editors of the Schenectady Star Las a boil on his nose, and thus grieves about it: 4 The doctor tells us that, owing to the recular construction of our face, it would sadly damage our looks to have our nose cut off. it isn't so with most folks a great many peo ple's appearance would be improved by having their whole heads cut off not so with us darling. One friend told us to hold our nose in lye, and another to stick a lemon on it, and another, with our well being at heart advises us to put our nose in a vice and squeeze the boil out. That's ad-vice for you. We guess we'll do that pretty much." M k BY TELEGRAPH. London November 7. A correspondent at Blois, the third, says he is informed the 10th corps is at Marcheuors. headquarters of the army of Loire. Yesterday the men were near Niler, to day the retrograde movement is general. Headquarters have been moved from Niler to a village two leagues nearer Blois on the Orleans road. Sixty thousand Prussians are reported to have arrived from Metz to reinforce Tour. On our side, nothing is likely to be done unless we are attacked. Govern ment dreads the effect of a reverse and has resolved to risk nothing. No at tempt to relieve Paris will be made for six weeks at least. This array equals the enemy directly in front numerically, but shows complete want of confidence among the men, and a complete indiffer ence is manifested among the officers, who are mostly without sympathy with the present government. I have trav eled much in neighboring ui-tricts. The government everywhere is distrusted and disliked. Touns, November 7. A dispatch from Yendome says the proposition for an armistice has been unanimously refused by the Paris Gov ernment. The reason is found in the refusal on the part of the Prussians of the project to revictual the city, and al so, because she accepted witn reserve the scheme lor allowing Alsaeo Uud Lor raine to vete formembets of the consti tutional assembly. The l'aris Govern ment is generally suppoted in her action by the people of all classes. The Journal Official announces the formation of three armies in Paris. At the latiest, there was perfect order there. The government in this city is acting energetically A general uprising is ex pected, as it now seems to be the general opinion that Prussia has only sought to gain time by seeming to admit the possi biity of an armistice in order that the troops lately investing Metz could come forward to Paris without danger. Special to the New York World. Versailles, November 6. Thiers, after his interview with Bis mnrck, returned to the Hotel do Reser voir, where he met the Duke of Saxe Coburg, who greeted Thiers cordially. Ut on taking leave of the Prussian offi cers at the outposts, on his return to Pans, lhiers pointed to the public wind ings of the capital, and with a voice bro ken bv sobs, exclaimed : "Never before have I felt how much I love that un fortunate city ; what desolation to me to see it thus." The only point now re maining unsettled concerning the armis tice is the French demand for ammuni tion to be allowed to enter the city, which is refused by Bismarck. Dis patches are received which say that ar mistice negotiations are proceeding fa vorably. Thiers himself requested a postponement to obtain further conces sions from the Paris government. At headquarters an armistice is considered equ d to peace. The Tribune correspondent with Gari baldi writes on the 1st: "It is impossi ble to discover any enthusiasm among the people. They do not believe in vic tory : thev fear Prussian vengeance and secrete all their property. Geribaldi al lows nothing to be taken without a re quisition. These is no disorder : every body com relied to pay. The French de stroy railways and telegraphs." San Francisco, Oct. G. A dispatch from Toano, Nevada, to day, savsthe passenger tram east yester day anived here three hours behind time, hauing been boarded at Indepen dence, twenty-two miles west of Toano, by four highwaymen, while taking water The train was uncoupled behind the ex press car, aud the robbers ordered the engineer to proceed, leaving the train of cars behind. After running about fif teen miles, the engine was stopped and the express carsacked. Several thousand dollars were taken. The Deputy Sheriff of Toana, with a posse, armed with Henry rifles, immediatly started in pur suit of the robbers. The train robbed is 4he same one stopped before between Reno and erdi the day before and plundered. Another I5alllc. Tours, November 8- Dispatches from the army of the Loire report a series of successful engage ments yesterday. At Paisely and Saint Laurent Des l'aris two battalions of Prussians, supported by 1,400 cavalry and ten pieces of artillery attacked the French advanced posts. Afler a combat of two hours' duration, the French cav alry pursu.d and surrounded them, an 1 the Prussians retreated leaving two offi cers and fifty men killed and seventy prisoners in our hands. Dispatches from Rouen report suc cesses for the French arms at several points in that quartcjr. A general battle was fought to-day near Orleans. All the ambulances have been sent to the front. No news has yet arrived of the result of the fighting. London, November S. A dispatch from Tours, dated at nine this morning says that last night a Prus sian column, with two batteries and 1, 500 cavalry, attacked the outposts of the army of the Loire, the French were reinforced anddrove them toValliers leav ing their dead and wounded on the field. Verdun has capitulated to the Prus sians. THE ELECTION. NEW YORK. New York, November 8. The election passed off without distur bance. The military have not been seen There seems to be no doubt that the en tire Tammany county ticket i.-. elected. In the third congressional district Slo cum. democrat, seems elected over Web ster and Whiting republican. Kinsella, democrat, elected in the second district. Ketchum, republican, probably chosen in the twelfth district. Few districts from various parts of the State outside of the city thus far hearjJ from, give Dem ocratic gain of 2,308 as" compared with the Presidential vote of 180, when Sey mour had 10,000 majority. A few re turns indicate a total vote of perhaps 110,000. and a majority for Hoffman of 40,000. Hall for Mayor runs far behind i loffman. New Yonrc, Nov 8 10:30 p. m. One hundred and ninety-two districts of the State, outade of the city, eLow a A M A net Democratic gain of 4,9t4. The four wards of this city, thus far reported, show a Democratic loss of 2,104. Democratic central committee of Brooklyn report that King" county will give 12,0M) majority for Hoffman, and that Gen. S locum is elected to Congress in the Third District by 8,000 majority' over Webster. Schenectady county gives 85 Demo cratic majority for Hoffman a Demo cratic gain of 225. In the Twenty-first Congressional Dis trict. Roberts, Republican, is elected by 1.500 majority. In Orleans county. Woodford's majority is 1,227 a Demo cratic gain of .nearly 7tKJ. In Jefferson county, Republican majority, 1,500 a Democratic gain of 100. In the Eighth Congressional District, I reeman Llarke, Republican, is elected by 2.500 maioriiy. In the 3()th District, Williams, Demo crat, is elected to Congress by 5'M ma jority a Democratic gain. Democrats are sail to concede the election of St. John, Republican, in the 11th District, which is a Republican pain". Rochester gives Hoffman 201 majority. Troy, N. Y., Nov. 8. J. M. Warren Democrat, is elected to Congress bv a very large majority, probably 2,500. New York, Nov. 9. The Tribuno estimates Hoffman's ma jority in the State at 30,900. It prac tically gives up the assembly. Chicago, November 8. The election has been remarkably quiet and free fiom excitement. The day was pleasant until 3 p. in., when it commenced to rain and continued steadi ly until after the polls closed. Farwell's election is claimed by two thousand ma jority. It will require the official vote to decide the rest of the ticket, as very few straight tickets were voted and minor offices are badly mixed. 10:30 p.m. Returns from the elec tion in this county are extremely mea gre, but the indications are very plain that the entire Republican ticket is elected, including Farwell for Congress. Returns from other portions of the State are so scattering a3 to be scarcely ndicative of the general result. The question of cremation, or burning dead bodies instead of burying them, for a long time discussed has again been mooted in respect to the victims of the war. A medical commission has been named in France to examine the subject. In ordinary graves, the natural decom position of bodies produces deleterious gases, the injurious action of which is now admitted by all hygienists. The quicklime added in the large, common trenches to hasten tho destruction of bodies does not prevent the disengage ment of infectious emanations from all these putrid corpses, and penetrating through the layer of earth which covers them. The business in hand is not to substitute in ordinary cases the funeral pile for interment, but to ascertain the amount of danger caused after a great battle to survivors by inhumation of a great number of corpses within a narrow space, and to inquire whether their com bustion would not have great advantages A bit of clerical absent-mindedness as tounded a bridal party at Zauesvilie. Ohio, the other evening. The bride found under her plate, at the supper ta ble, a check for $5,000 from her father. Flushing with joy, she passed it to her husband, who in turn handed it to a gentleman next him. He, pretending ignorance, passed it to the officiating clergyman, who pocketed it, without a syllable. A painful silence fell upon the party, which was at length broken by the man next the preacher with the re mard, "Take that check out of your pocket !" or words to that effect. "The absent-minded clerical lamb understood the hint, produced the paper, and the happy bride permitted herself to smile again. The Democratic newspapers are pitch ing into the President's Thanksgiving proclamation, as a usurpation, a viola tion of "State rights," and a terribly objectionable affair in all respects. The trouble is that, from the Democratic "stand-pouts," the malcontents don't see anything to be thankful for. The results of the late elections, and the pros pects of those to conn, are not indica tive of an early return of the Democracy to power. They are not getting a chance at the official flesh pots, and can't work themselves up to the point of rejoicing over the better fortune of their oppo nents. A thrifty grape-grower on Catawba Island, near Sandusky, Ohio, found that some of the pickers he employed would surreptitiously help themselves to th tempting fruit, in spite of his utmost watchfulness. Avaricous ingenuity was not to be baffled, however. The owner provided a lot of gum, ordered the gir s to "chaw that while at work," and de ducted the price of it from their wages. His neighbors propose to distribute about half a pound of bristles down his back, and enter him at the next county fair for the first premium on prize hogs. Graham bread prevented a terrible case of hydrophobia in Massachusetts a few days ago. The dog in the case hud been unwillingly subjected to a boiled bran diet during his puppyhood ; and, recognizing, even in the frenzy of mad ness, the old familiar odor about a man he was about to bite, fled howling away. The fortunate individual was a vegeta rian. A neat though unconsciously satiric practical joke was played by the students of Dickinson College in filling a leaky water pipe in the college grounds with petroleum. An oil excitement in the neighborhood immediately ensued, with about as much reason as very many simi lar excitements heretofore. m They have an "Anti-gong-and-bell-ringing and steam-whistle-exterminating society" in Springfield, Mass. The niembers are pledged never to eat hash in a hotel addicted to gongs, wiil not at tend a church furnished with a bell, and make all their journej-s on velocipedes rather than patronize whistling locomo tives. The Monona Gazette wants to know if you have any idea of the amount of wa ter a locomotive consumes in running seventy-five miles? The Gazette tells about it as follows: "The engineer of the Sioux City express recently" told us that to run from Missouri "Valley to Sioux City, a distance of seventy-five miles, his engine consumed 3.500 gallons of water; which would be at the rate of 40$ gallons per mile. A huge driiiker is tie iron horse." A NO. 32- John Atlanta. - John Aams, father of John Quincy Adams, use J to say: When I was a boy I had to study the Latirr grammer, but it was dull, and I hated ii. My father was anxious to sei d me to college, and therefore 1 studied ihc the grammer till I could bear it no longer, and, going to father, told him I could not study, and asded him for other employment. It was opposing his wishes, a.?d lie was quick in hi reply. "Well, .John," sai l 1k "if Latin grammar does not suit you, you may try Pitching peihap that will. My meadow yonder needs a ditch, and you may put bv grammar and dig." This seemed a delightful ohange, and to the meadow I went ; but soon found it harder than Latin, and the first foreuoca was the longest 1 ever experienced. That day I ate the bread of labor, and glad was I when night came on. That night I made cotnaii. on between Latin grammar and ditching, but s..id not a word a lout it, 1 dug the next forenoon, and wanted to return to Latin at dinner tinie, but it was humiliating and 1 could not do it. At night toil conquered pride, and I told my father one of the severest lessons of my life tnat if he chose, 1 would go back to Latin grammar. He was glad of it, and if T have since gained any distinction it lias been owing to my two days' labor in that abominable ditch. Daniel Webster did not like mowing any better than John Adams liked ditch ing. His father told him to hang his scythe to suit himself, and ho went and hung it on a tree. However, both Ad ams and Webster worked harder with their brains than most boys do with their muscles. It is estimated that the number of Chi nese in New Yoik city is only about two hundred. A singular fact is, that all the celestials there have come from Havana, not a single one, as far as known arriving direct from San Francisco. There are but three Chinese women hi New Yoik. All are mothers. A luge portion of the men have married white women, gene rally of the Irish birth. The most prominent among the Chinese is named Keen K. Tong. He is married to an Irish woman and has three children. lie keeps a Chinese boaiding house, and a sort of intelligence office, finding pla ces for Chinese cooks, waiters, etc., rn ships, lie is one of the first Chinamen who came to New York. At the Five Points hoe.se of industry, forty Chinese aro receiving instruction. Wc teach our children various creed?, but this we nver fail to teach them to succeed. The chief end of life, John, is to succeed honestly where you can but at all events, succeed. Regin by splitting rails, or as a cabin boy, or at a loom ; but keep up a glorious discontent, a spirit of eternal ji-h, and never rest until you succeed. Tell no lies where the truth wiil damage your cauc you have only to keep your determination to succeed. Steal not where it will injure your prospects ; but theft is u-eful v. hen it helps one to succeed. This is the practical religious training of people to day. Get on and succeed great gods, with devoted members worshipping, are these. Reside them our high sounding preceps go to the winds. Italy once more possesses her capital. Her armies now drill in the streets of Rome, and the last vestige of the Pope's temporal power has passed away. The oi l man faced the inevitable as long as possible, and even fired a few parting shots at the advancing columns of Victor Kmanuel. He declares that he will not leave the holy city in person, but will continue to thunder his Lulls from the Vatican. This privilege will of course not be interfered with, as it is not the purpose of Italy's King to meddle with the religion of his State. Widows arc the very mischief. There's nothing like 'em. If they ucike up their minds to marry, it's done. Wc knew one who was terribly afraid of thunder and lightning, and every time a storm came on she woukl run into Mr. Smith's houe (he was a widower), and clasp her little Lm!s, and fly around till the man was half distracted for fear she would be killed, and the consequence was, she was Mrs. John Smith befoie three thunder storms rattled over her head. It is sai l that one of our Pennsylva nia pastors has such nn idea of his pe culiar felicity in performing the mar riage service that he has advertised the Carson age where he lives as the "little rown cottage where the knot i always promptly and strongly tied." He goes down to posterity as the " minister iclio advertises." The Newburyport Herald thus de scribes the aurora which has attracted so much attention throughout the country. "Last evening, as soon as Tithonus had retired for tiie night and was enjoying his first snooze, his spouse, the rosy fin gered Aurora, daughter of the morning, snatched the saffron-covered coverlet from his bed, and, wrapping it about her, danced a jig in the northern ky." A patriotic Indianian, somewhat pre occupied with his matutinal 'shakes,' voted a dose of quinine instead of the streight Republican ticket, at the late election. Some of the Democrats must have done the same with several doses of salts, judging by the way they went through the ballot boxes. Satanfs. VrAXTED Everybody to ret their r.laek r namhins done at PRICK ic MILLS' Shop, on Jjixth stre;t, couth of Main, tpecial attention eiven to SXiOKIXI. epuUiwtf PRICE A- MILLS. if or Salr. F OR SALE. Two lots in UlcnwooJ. Cl:ear. I3eitj 5. LLK.. 70R SALE. Sr acres of land aOjoining n sall. s4 acres 01 Plattsmouth. Xnouireof SeptS S. DUKE. lOR PALE The. "uWriljer offers f..r sale a I raluaMo water rowr, two miles below Plntt.'tnouth. near the Missouri river, with zuliieieiit water an 1 fail with economical man astMnent to produce power equ.J to a '' horse power -"team enirine. The present owner is en -f in other bu-iness an i cannot devote hi afient'i.u to the t.u.-ined i,f milling, and will fell said water power for a reasonable price. RICHARD VIVIAN. Apply to Maxwsll Jfc CiIapmas. deeMlwt ICR PALE A ptory an I a half brick hone. with out-house.", on an ni?re lot curroun-led with shrubbery an i sha-ie trees, also containing bearine fruit tree, rape vines, ete. Inquire at this ofiiee, or of Josph SchJater, Jeweler, Main Street, Plattsmonth- iapl2dJcwtim TV. 1. TLXKCtt, CARPENTER AND JOINER, will do all w- rk in hia line on :!jrt notice and in the he& '1. Contracts tor buildiiiK made on rem?ona 3tera Stor tci bl c!i south of I'latte Val ellouio. julyildt Tin; DMY PLATTSHOUTi;;i.Zr, ALD I ri hi ;snri BT II.2d! HATHAWAY, y-OCii'G corner Main an! Second street." it t nil ilry- TEHMS: Daily $10.00 per annum, or 1.J itr nioDlli. fxbgc Uirtftorf. I. O. O. F P-rul(ir meptintrs of Tlattc Loitiro. Xn. 7. T. O. O. V. ev ry Tlmnulnv pveninit, h! 0M K1Ii Hall. Tmnoient IJrothrr lire ronliiilly iiivitvU fovNit. .JOHN W. CAKKOTULRsi. N. !. Uko. Pruvqku, Si e. K !V 1 a 1 1 TK OF I'VTIIIA.N. ri . t Vam.ht LoTins No.- 5. !tegi!ir tr"eir?s every Thursday evening. Viit;nir brother- :.lwsj-s welcome. W . I,. AVFLI.P. VT. C. R. m:u hi., k. a s. V. V. LEONARD. V. P. MAM)I('. ri.ATTSMot-Tit Loncc :?. ; A. P.AA.M. Rrjriilar rieetings at their hall on the fir-t and ' third Monday evening, of each month. T ninn ies! brtlhuru invited to visit. , JACOU.A ALLEItY. W. N. I . li. in r r .inn. iti . M oov liOixiK No. 22 A. V. & A. M. Kofrulnr J meeiii.3 at Masonic Hall, lirt mid thir l I'ri days. J. N. WISE, V. M. Jko. L. Skvpolt. Se. Nkhv ka Chapter Nn. 3 R. A. M. ftcpiilnr O' nv ici.tionu second and fourth Tuesday evc int,s of eao mouth at o "clock p. m. . V. if. W11EFLER, II. P. ' W. D. ?4-'.Pce I '.(MfbsS- r !K(jRFiLop(iit. Rcgularnieet itms of Uih Family are held on Wednesday eve ning, oil or bi torn the foil moon id' each luonth. Alt Master Masons, their wives si.-lrrs 11 ml laughters are invited to attend. I nmarricd la iicH mntt be over tinhtern yeiirs ncc I. II. M il KKLLK, Patron. i HMRS. f- A. IllK. Pal rout.. J. N. U'i:. Kfiurdir. I. O. li. T. TO 1 lVFTSRA.vcn,N.i.2 -E A. Kirk put rick W. 0. T. E. V.. Lewis, AV. S. H. 15. Windham. Lodtrn F'eouty. Mce'n at Court House Mali every """iicsd.iy evening". Traveling Templar renpuct rully invited. Kxcei.oiuk Dkc.hfk L0nc.1t. Nn. 1. V.. V.. . Lewis, I. T.r F. li. White. 1. f$. Meets nt Court House Hall on the first and third Saturday eveu inr of each month. Htak ok llni'ic l.o no b N. 8. O. .T. Davis, AV. v. T.: Andrew Coleman. W. S. Meets at Mt. r'leasunt every Saturday eveniiiK. VjiiiviKV Looi.R. .Nn. II. J. J. Cluindler, V. C, T.: Wm. J. Hesser. W. S : P. W. Calkin. Uode Deputy. Meets every 'Wednesday even-V- TraTclins: Templars respectfully invited. Vr.nrr. ti'iovn I.ddijk. Nn. "-'I. Atao lii itiith, W. C. T.;Ja.. Vll'-on. W. S.: C. II. Win.-I .w. Lodge Deputy. Meets every Saturday eveninir. Traveling TempLi , -"-l ecllully invited ti 1 meet with 11s. r:Aii.:;; i: tijibutakm;. B. &. M. R. R. Vi KLTRACKA.: To Take Effect Pert. 5. 1ST0. f X WZSTWARH. 1KAIN NOl. Le. V.40 A. M. Le. 10.i;o A. M. Le. 1H..V1 A. M. Le. II. 7 A. M. Ar. 11 .V, a r.:. Ar. ll.f -. Ar. JJ.l.'! p 111 A i. 12.17 Ar. 12.45 TRAIN NO. 3. STATIONS. Plattslllolltll, Otnuiia .f unc. Louisville. South Iletld. Atdiland tireenwood Wavcrly Newton Lincoln Plattsinouth. 'amha .) unc. Louisville. South Rend. Ashland, (ireen wnoil W'avcr'7 Newlou Lincoln K AST W A T D TRAIN NO 2. Ar. 4.1 r P. M Ar o.4ii P. M Ar. :i.ln P. M Ar. 2..".i P. M Ar. 2.2.. P. SI Ar.Mo '" A r. 1.47 " Ar. I.".! Le. I.Li I TRAIN NO. 4. Ar. 8.45 A. M. Le. 5.15 P. M. Le. fi.lio P. M. Ar. Ar. .." A. M. Le. ..r5 Le. 7 Z Ar.8.1r Ar. H.4' Ar 9.10 Ar. !'.o(i Ar. 1U.UO P. M. P. M. 1. U. .v. M. Ar. r."tf M. M. Le. vir .1.1 Ar. Ar. 4. .v Ar. 4..CI Lc. l.'AI B. &. M R. R. ITo take effect, Sunday, May 15. AIIIUVK. PFPABT. P'-.e Eirrt'J JH a. in. 4::-i p. m. Mnil 7 m i .., -.no.. . Mi.xc-t 12:."0 p. m. 9M u. in'. , - - 'Minmmiirnve una a.iit tj uau from the lIjm.l in this city. J C. B. & ST. JOE R. R. AT PACIFIC jrXCTION IOWA, J GOINO !IUTII. GOlKfJ FOUTH. M.-l i nd express 4-.:U) p. m. 12:M p. in. Nitfbt Exprees S a. m- t:M p. in. This irives passengers from PInttotnouth closn connection Bornd South by lcavim; here on thn 4:Sn p. m. train, and close connection with train going North by icaviutr here 011 tho 7 a. ui. train f Tii 1 n 1 j t li a t iinn fk... ; ... 1 Omaha and Southwestern Rail road Time Tablo Omaha Timo To take effect Wednesday, Oct. Oth; 1S70. LEAVE. GOING H. V. Omaha 7.f a. in. Chililn 7. .'-ui a. iu" La Platte H.l"a. m. Payntem H..ion. iu. Cedar Island K. t.Sn.m. (arrives.) lraves-. going n. e, Cedar Island 4.li0p. ui Pay r tern 4.15 p. in La Platte 4.." 1 j. m Childs m Oiuahu (ixi p. 1 Passencf r and freight will be transfered at Oeder Island and connection made at Omiihit Junction with the morning train poinp West from i'lattsmouth to Liiicolnon the R. A M. R. R. R. in Nebraska, and t)'e ever.inli train ninog east from Lincoln to I'lattsmouth. Trains will leave and arrive at the depot of the Company at the foof of Jones street. L'ntil further notice tickets will be sold on the Irian, and rates of freight can bebfirm-l nt the oflicu ofthe company. J. ii. MOL'LTON. Chief Enrineer and ticn'l Sujil. .4iirr.ir.4i, ami ii:iMHTt;iic OF T1IU I'lT l'sIlOLTII MAILS. KOCTK. C. P.. & Pt. Joe R. R. Routh C. 15. .V m. Joe It. R. North, B. A- M. t R. Fast, li. A- M. R. R. West. 'inahu by Stnire, Nebraska Cit v. by Stage, V. r..inn 11- Cl.Of KS. ABHITKS 9 pm. 7 .TO p ni 'J p. ni. 7. Hi p m p in, 7 "-0 p in 'J:i m. 4 p in. 1 1 a in 1 p m 12 in. 1 p m. 1 " I'iiiK 1 f u ill. n i ui. t Departs, Tuesdays, Thursday!!, aud Satur days. t.iHice hours, from 8 a m to 8 p ra. Sundays, SO to 1 .10 p tnr J. W. MARSHALL. P.M. 1 a in. 8 i in. roteional nrbs. ATTORNEY AT LAW and Solicitor iu Chafc eery, Plattsmoulh. Nebraska. S. MAXWELL. RAM. W. CHAPHAr MlXIVCLL & CIIAP9I..X, ATTORNEYS AT LAW and Solicitors la hancery, PlaUsmouth, Nebraska. Otlice over hite k UaUery" Dras Storo. aprl. i. 11. wiif:Hi, it, ATTORNEY AT LAW and So icitor in Chan cery. Office. in Masonic Llock Pluttsinnii'h. Nebraska. n.ay;Utf O. H. TEKRLKR. L. B. BENNETT. n. II. WHEEL, Ell CO., ReHl Estate and Tax Payinir Ajrer.ti". Notaries Public, Fire and Life Ian urance Agenu, Pla'ts moutL. Nebraska. jeilif . HIXTO.V KK'JS., CARPENTERS A JOINERS, Are prepa'e' to do work in (rood style, on hirt rinti. ngj as. cheap the cheapest. -j-hop. corner ol 'aidinoJ kuith etrects. faug.JIdif. Ci. t. SMITH! Attorney at Law, andGeneri.1 Collcctir.ff Aem. and Notary Public. AllleK.il bu.-iuess intruter to his care will r ceive prompt and careful attention- OCice the Tieoturcr's OCiee in the court house. inarl2dA-if. II. U. I.IVIXGTO.V, Sl.-O., PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON-tenders hit professional services to the citizens of ( a.-,.:ouu-ty. Residence gout henpt corner of Oak mid Hub. streets: office on Main utreet. orpomo Cour House. I'lattsmouth, Nebraska. Dr. J. W. THOMAS, TTvinj permanently located at Weepini? Wa ter Falls, tenders Lis professional Hervice to the citizens of Caw county, Nebraslrs. (jauT'itf. J. W. ItAWElXS. !tl. !., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Hte a Sur- ?eon-ia-Chiefof the Army ofthe Potomac. Mattstnouth. Nebraska. Office at O. I . John son ' Drugstore Main street, opposite Clark A Piuminers. Private residence eornerof Rock an4. HUi streets, two door evutu of P. P. tJais'. CITY IIOTEE. J. K. Holland, Proprietor, corner of Main imJ Third streets Plattsuioutii, Ncbr.o k 1. U.ivinfr been refitted and newly fumi.-hed oiiej-s first cLiss accomniodatious. anl Ly tho week day- auK;;ia'.:.-