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THE NEBRASKA HERALD
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IIkacqvabters of this
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2(3. '72- j
.KSfl' BI.TCAN OOMMl
Nebrak. City. Feb
A RcmbUcan State Convention will be held
at the city of Lincoln on "Wednesday, the 15th
day of U?y, A. D. 1&72; et 3 o'clook p. m., for
the purpose of electing six delegate to the next
liational Republican Conrention for the no
mination of candidaf.es for President and Vice
President of the United States, to be held at
Philadelphia, June 5th. A. D.1872.
. The basis of representation to tho Htate Con
vention will be the last Congressional vot for
John Taffe. Each county will be entitled to
one delegate for each one hundred votes east at
' said election for ohn Taffe, with an additional
delegate for fifty and upwards in excess thereof,
and each organized county will be entitled to
one additional delegate. -.
The following table exhibits tho cumber of
delegates to which each county is entitled :'
Adams..-.
Boon .......
Butler
jass
Cheyeuue
Clay
Dakota....
1 Antelope- 1
2! Buffalo- 1
10' Cedar . 2
1 1 Colfax 3
I Cuming..... ......... 4
4 Dawson...... . 1
8; Podge
20) Franklin , . 1
lj Frontier 1
6 Greeley 1
I I lull 2
1 j lioward 1
5 Johnson.... 4
li Lancaster 9
1 Lincoln ........ 1
2 : .Merrick . 2
1 Otoe .... 9
Dixon . -
ouglas
Fillmore . -
Gage
liarlen ...
Hamilton........ .......
Jefferson ..... ,
Kearney
Lean Qui CourL ...
Madison
Nuckclls
Nemaha.......
Pawnee
Platte-
.. 10 Pierce .. 1
............ 6;Polk 1
2, Saline . .. ...... 4
............ USaundersT...... ............ 6
3'Sherinan ................. 1
4 (Thayer .. 1
. .. 1 j Washington ............ 7
lj Webster 1
Kicbardson
Barpy .
eward..
Ptnnton
Valley
Wayne
Total. 179. -
All County Republican Committees are here
by notified and requested to call County Con
ventions to elect the delegates prescribed, and
the chairman and secretary of such convention
will furnish such delegates with credentials of
lection, duly certified under their hands,
And His earnestly desired by the Committee
that a full and harmonious representation will
gather from all sections of the State, and.' that
all Republicans who uphold the great princi
ples which have so signally crowned the natioa
under Republican administration, will renew
their co-operation for progress and party purity
and will attend the primary meetings and see
that gofid men are elected as delegates to the
Convention,
C. W. SEYMOUR. Chairman.
Vf. T. Class K, Secretary,
E. E. Cu55i!fOBAM, 1st District
T. J. MAjens, 21 "
II. A. Nkwm a5; 3d
II. D. Hatha wax. 4th "
60. 0. Williams. 5th "
B. F. lIii.Tos. 6th "
J.N. Hats. 7th , -
' A. Dkto. 8th "
M, B. Jloxia 9th "
C, WOODLET. 10th "
J. R. Brown-. 11th '
POLITICAL.
" At a meeting of the Cass County Re
publican Committee held at the office of
Barnes & Pollock, in Fitzgerald's block,
cn Saturday, March 30, 1872, it was de
cided that a County Republican Conven
tion should be held at Plattsmouth, on
Saturday, May 11th, at 12 o'clock M.t
for the purpoae of elect iBg 10 delegates
to attend the State Convention to be
held in the city of Lincoln, on the 15th
day of May, and that the several voting
precincts be represented in said County
Convention on the basis of the Republi
can vote for member of Coagress, aa fol
lows:
Plattsmouth City, 1st ward... 4
2d -3
3d u 5
Plattsmouth Precinct ...A
Oreapolis
Louisville
South Bend
Salt Creek
Greenwood
Klmwood
Tipton
8tove Creek
....2
...4
it
2
3
3
.... 3
4
4
Wiping Water" 6
Eight Mile Grove "
Mt Pleasant "
Avoca " .........
Liberty .........
Rock Bluff "
3
..-3
3
It was farther recommended that Sat
urday, May the 4tb, 1875, be the time
for holdiag the precinct caucuses for
election of delegates to said County Con
vention. x J. W. BARNES,
G. S. Smith, " ' Ch'n, pro tern.
Sec'y. :
HE PUB LIC AX
ritECIJSCT
COSVES-
The Repi&lican Electors of Platts
mouth Precinct are requested to meet in
Convention on Saturday May, 4th 1872
at 2 o'clock P. M. at Jean's School House
ia said Precinct for the purpose of elect
ing four delegates to attend the Connty
Convention to bo held in Plattsmouth
City on Saturday May, 1 1th 1872.
Isaac Wiles,
W. td. Precinct Committeeman.
REPIIDUCA.V WARD MEF.TIXG.
The Republican Ward Meeting of
Plattsmouth for the election of delegates
to attend the County Convention will be
hell in this city on Saturday May, the
4th, at o'clock P. M.
The First Ward Meeting will be held
at the Court House, and will elect four
delegates.
The Second Ward Meeting will be held
at the School House in said Ward and
will elect three delegates.
The Third Ward Meeting will be held
at Clark & Plummers Hall and will elect
five delegates. J. W. Barnes,
G. S. Smith .
W. td Ward Committeemen.
oik choice ron presidext.
Newspaper dictation is, no doubt, in
gomo measure answerable for the pres
ent method of "fixiug," now so common
among political intriguers. The perfect'y
jostiSable right of expressing a prefer
ence for the chief officer of our govern-
ment, as well as all the rest, down to the
township constable, is indisputable;
but in a united effort for the good of the
whole'country, we deem it best to let th
people's delegates at Philadelphia, after
duq deliberation, say for us, as they should
for 'all true Republicans, who sha.
be "President," and whoever they agree
on, ue is oar choice.
There never has been a period the
history of the Republican party, vrhen
wore dignity and honesty of purpose
should be felt and manifested in the
rank and le than at present Anew
enemy has sprung up from, our very
iJt. The old Democracy with all its
repeaters has lailed to beat us, and then
they cried "wait till the eouthero States
come in," hoping to gain sufficient
fctrength from them to make a re3pecta
llo opposition?"
To-day, however, the bad blood flow
ing from the plunder-seekers of our own
party is shaking hands with Dcmocacy,
and they two, with joined heart-1, are
beckoning the pouth with premises of
amnesty, to stand shoulder to shoulder
with them.
Let no true Republican deceive him
self ns to the sign of the times. . This
unholy alliance is not one which can be
ridiculed or laughed into impotency.
Within the present month, it will swell
and grow to such dimensions as will
require our most earnest efforts to over
come. Prudence and fortitude will
prove virtues which Republicans will
have need of before the autumnal elect
ions. It is only too true that the politi cal
"gobblers" of our own party are
perched upon the fences which divide
Republicans from all other parties, ready
at any moment to hop down on that
side which promises the most gain.
Let us not then precipitate depertion
by discussions as to who shall be tho fu
ture President Let U3 put our full
faith and trust in the good and true men
who shall go to Philadelphia, and, with
one accord, let every Republican shout
amen, to their nominee, bo he who he
may. Let theirchoice be our choice, and
all will end well. Dissensions in our own
party have given birth to a new one.
Shall we cultivate a method so destruct
ive any longer ? Let U3 cot blindly shut
our eyes to passwr events and trust to
the victories of the past as a warranty
of the future. Under the present as
pect of the political horizon, it is easy to
foretell that a mistake now may be irre
trievable. Let all Republicans, therefore,
take heed that everything tending to
mistake's be avoided. With faith in the
patriotism and intelligence of the masses,
let us hope to see only patriotism and in
telligence at Philadelphia. No one man
owns the party the free electors of the
Union have no compact with any indi
ridual, or his friends, to force a nomina
tion and the history of the past proves,
too clearly to admit of doubt, that forced
nominations are abortive of good, and
lead to disintegration and decay.
If Gen. Grant receives the nomination
of the Philadelphia Convention, he will
simply stand where Schuyler Colfax,
Buckingham, or any true Republican
would stand before the people, did ci
ther of them receive that nomination.
If, however, conventions are . packed,
marked, and expressed to Philadelphia,
cut and dried for exhibition there, we
warn Republicans of the inevitable re
suit.
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and the sacredncss of their expressed
wishes made an ignoble farce. Those
men tamper with the forces of a volcano
who act upon 6uch a false reasoning. It
behooves every well-wisher of the party
to look to it that the ever vigilant enemy,
reinforced by dissatisfied Republican
and an anxious South, should possess no
undue advantages over us from any mis
takes on our part. Acting in unison,
and with the earnest desire to labor to
gether for the greatest good, there need
be no fear of the result ; and we predict
that if everything is done in this spirit,
such an amen will go up from the throats of
a loyal people as will forever bury the
heterogeneous mass of disappointed poli
ticians who now seek to rend and con
quer the glorious old -Republican party.
We have our preferences, but we hold
them in abeyance to the voice of our
party, and with full faith and abiding
confidence in it, whoever that party nom
inates at Philadelphia, he will be our
choice for President
A SOLID KICK AT CIKCIXNATI.
Manton Marble, of the New York
World, ha3 a heart harder than a marble
mantle. He has, as the leading Demo
cratic editor of the country, been, for a
month of nighta singing siren songs un
der the windows of Don Carlos Schurz,
"Sancho Tipton Panza," Trumbull, and
Sumner, and impinging upon their gen
tle slumbers, delicious and delusive vis
ions ot power, greatness, presidential
patronage, fat offices, ' fame, and the
leadership of a bran new political party
that was to "beat Grant," and run the
government and the treasury of the
United States during the rest of their
natural lives.
He was the heathen Chinee that was
playing the Jittle game that he didn't
understand, and offering up to the smart
sensatorial clique, the beauty and booty
of all the Democrats in the land, and de
manding the deal of nary a pair in the
friendly contest of a draw poker. With
face that was childlike and bland, he
besought the Pecksniffian quintette to
help to beat Grant and take all tho
Stakes.
Tho quintette said, yea, verily, and
went into New Hampshire to "beat
Grant" They didn't "beat Grant" in
New Hampshire. .
Then the World snarled a little, but
said, now "beat Grant in Connecticut,"
and they said, yea, verily, and they
played their best trump in the nutmeg
country, but Grant saw them and
went several hundred "better;"
The World sings no longer the song of
6iren under the windows of the senato
rial dreamers. It plays second fiddle to
Cincinnati gamester's no more, forever,
with a face that is childlike and bland.
But it shows its own hand and speaks
thusly of its late "liberal" allies:
"TCfcy are afflicted with the fatal
weakness, an infirm wilL They have
lost a great opportunity in Connecticut,
and demonstrated their lack of ready
insight and unflinching courage. If
Jewell is defeated it will be an unaided
Democratic victory. If Jewell t elected
the liberal Republican leaders will show
themselves more pusillanimous, if that
bo possible, and skulk back iuta the
Grant camp. If Sumner, Schurz and
Greeley had gone to Connecticut and
delivered each one bold, ringing speech,
Jewell might have been beaten by a ma
jority of thousands, and the whole
Grant party would have trembled in
1 their shoes- These anti-Grant leaders
could FLen have gone to Cincinnati
clothed with ao ascendant influence and
dictated the politics for the ensuing four
years. Having let this great opportu
nity slip, they will launch their vessel at
ebb tide, and plunge from the stocks
ixito the mud. The Democratic party
will waste no more breath on the liberal
Republican leaders. Our appeals wi!
hereafter be made to the honest mass of
voters, and with a liberal platform and
such a man a3 Chas- Francis Adams or
Judge David Davis, we can probably get
as many Republican votera as through
the Cincinnati "alliance," " ' ,
The New York Evening Post, an ad
vocate ot Cincinnati, also sets limber m
the spine and dolefully declares that
"the Democratic leaders aro so sick
the projected alliance that if their party
should accept the overtures of the "lib
eral party" and pass under its banners.
they will "turn, over all the votes they
can control to the nominee of the Phila
delphia Convention."
To an outsider it would seem that
Cincinnati about "played out State
JournaU ,
- TIXB GRAND TKUXK.
A large and enthusiastio meeting was
held at Rcdick's Opera House, in Oma
ha, last Friday evening: which was at
tended by the leading business men
that city.' Judge Briggs called 'the
meeting To order, and Jonas Geise was
elected president
REMARKS BY JVDGE BRIOGS.
Mf. t resident- 1 propose tliat we in
this meeting adopt and endorse the reso
lution you all know what it i3, and it is
therefoie not necessary to read it
which was passed at the convention
lately held at St. Louis in regard
building a grand trunk railroad which
shall connect Omaha with that city.
move further that we appoint delegates
to go to JSr. Louis to act in conjunction
with the delegates appointed by the Liin
coin convention. Similar action has al
ready teen taken in Otoe, Platte, Wash
ington, and even in counties away from
the proposed route ot the road. (Jer
tainly in a line in which we are so much
and so directly interested, we 01 uoug
las ought to be as active at least as these
counties are.
I presume sir, that as much interest
as we take, all of us, in this matter, our
people do not realize now important it is
that we should have a southern outlet
for our commerce when viewed in the
events of the last sixty days. And yet.
sir, I do not doubt the temper of this
people or the sense of this meeting.
We propose to stand farm and not give
way m the .'east to combination of hos
tile interests. Cheers. Our people
will be true to the resolution passed at
Lincoln. I believe it is the sober, soli
determination ot our people to secure
an outlet to soutnern markets lor our
produce, and sir, there is no way feasi
ble but the construction of the Grand
Trunk line. Applause. -WHO
will build the trunk road.
On this subject 3Ir. Caldwell said:
"The resolution passed at Lin
coin means that this Trunk Road is to
be built. It presents this matter in
sach a shape that I know that the road
will be built We shall connect with St.
Louis by a road that runs all through
Nebraska. I am not yet satisfied wheth
er it will be built by Nebraska or by for
eign capital, and I don't know if that is
of any conseguence. The Union Pacifio
wants to build it as a feeder to their
great line. A part of the route has of
fered subsidies of $5,000 per mile, bat
under such impracticable circumstances
as would probably destroy its value.
Over a portion of the route we shal
probably encounter obstacles. I speak
out, because we may as well know what
we have to meet, and be prepared for it,
Where we cannot get county aid we
must have that of precincts. The Bur
lington and Missouri would like to build
it, and there are two or three other 1m
portant corporations which would like
to construct this road. The city of St.
Louis is. interested to some extent, but
how far is not yet known, I think they
are not ready for action. I think they
will treat us well when we go there, and
tell ua to go ahead and that is about
all. But 1 am sure that if Omaha says
the road shall be built, it will be built,
f Cheers!.
1 don t want to aid it by giving it
bonds, but it will be built Whether it
shall be done by tho U. P. I don't know,
lhere will be some oonosition to it m
Otoe. They will say that with a trunk
road we are placed on a through line.
and we don't want that We shall have
to meet something of that kind there,
But, sir, no State, no city, can long
stand in the way with ideas or that kind
There must and there will be a north
and a south line of railroad through this
State of Nebraska, and we must turn it
over to the U. or to some other cor
poration to build it.
THE EAILBOAD 1'ItOSrECT.
Gov. Sauuders said: "If we who
were utUT3ted in the couth Western
are to be Wauied bueau-e we did not
Luud a rad to the Gulf, thtin wo are to
bo censured now. The bonus paid by
the city would not have constructed
seven miles of railroad and we built you
fifty miles. Cheers. But m-jre than
this. We fet in iLOtion a railroad line
which is to connect with other lines and
they joined together will reach the Gulf!
I have to-day seen and talked with an
engineer who tells me that, within eight
een months there will be a continuous
line of road which will connect Omaha
with the Gulf. Applause.
The Burlington and Missouri, in whose
hands the Northwestern is now placed,
b a powerful corporation, and will do ten
times more for us than we could have done
for ourselves. This will in their hands
be one of the best roads in the western
country.
We shall have three new roads within
two years which are in contemplation.
One will connect with the El horn Val
ley, another will run in the direction of
Denver, and the third will be this 6ame
great Trunk Line which we have met
here to discuss. Cheers,
Kelley I am glad I have I have spo
ken as 1 have, for I have reached infor
mation which I never had before. I am
glad that here stands a citizen that is
ready to bring out the big guns of Oma
ha and hear their thunder. Laughter
and applause.
Col. Patrick followed with some strict
ures on the practice of voting bonds in
aid of railroads, and said he was opposed
to it
DELGATES TO ST. LOUIS.
On motion of Judge Briggs, tho fol
lowing ten delegates were felected by the
meeting to go to St Louis nxt Tuesday
(16th inst) to tike action in reference
to the Grand Trunk road:
Gen. C. F. Mandcrson, Col. Jno. Y.
Clopper, Jno. T. Edgar. Jno. A. Hor
bach, Gov. Alvin Sflnndcr, Hon. Geo.
W. Frost, Col. J. H. Patrick, Hon.
Clinton .Briggs, Dr.' Enos Lower Dr.
Geo. L. Miller.
Hon. J. II. Millard, Herman Kountzo
and J. E. Kelley- were nominated and
declined. The following gentlemen
were named as alternates :
George W. Homan, Capt C. H.
Downs, Capt -W. P. Wilcox, J. S.
Spaun, Gen. W. W. Lowe, Jonas Geise,
John Creighton, G. W. Ambrose, Byron
Reed, J. M. Watson, Col. C S. Chase.
HYDROPHOBIA.
An Exeltlnx Afralr.
Mr. McBride, the county jailor, gave
us an account of an exciting scene which
occurred in the jail a day or two since
A prisoner from Saline county had a
favorite dog which followed him to this
place, and after much persuasion the
Sheriff allowed him in the cell in which
hi3 master and two other prisoners were
confined. He has remained there for
some weeks past and ' been a source of
amusement to the prisoners, but on
Tuesday the dog was suddenly taken
with a fit and began to make war on
everything he could reach. The pris
oners took rt fuge cn top' of their bed in
a corner and kept the dog at bay with
slats torn from the bedstaad, until the
jailor gave them heavier weapons
through a window, after which the pris
oners succeeded in killing him. Dr.
Whitten was called in and pronounced
it a case of hydrophobia. The most
startling p&int in the matter is the fact
that he had bitten two of the prisoners
while playing with him- one about two
weeks ago, the other only the day before
the disease became fully developed. It
is feared the malady ha3 been communi
cated to the men. A few days will de-
termine during wmen time the men
most interested will be in featful sus
pense. Nel. City Chronicle.
Webster Co., Neb.,
March 27. 1872. i
Editors Herald : After a protract
ed absence we find ourself again snugly
ensconced by the side of our rude fire
place, in the great valley of the Republi
can. With pleasure cur mind wanders
back to our kind friends in old Cass. -
In our imagination we can see each fa
miliar face the genial faces of "ye ed
itors," and perhaps tho lonely form and
matures ui tuc gin x icic ucuiuwi jujc.
There Is something fascinating in the
wild life of the frontiersmari;; Tie enjoins
the pleasure of the chase, and at night
he can retire to his "virtuous couch" and
be lulled to sleep by the musical voices
of apparently ten thousand wolves, that
make night hideous with their dismal
bowlings. I -,
We sometimes se curious sights out
here. Recently we happened into a
neighboring "dugout" just as its occu
pant wa3 preparing his morning's repast,
and was quite amused to see him serenely
stirring his gravy, which he was cooking
over the fire, with a stick of wood, large
enough to make an ax handle.
The past winter was one of unusual
severity, out here. Quite a number of
emigrants with their teams froze to
death ; also several parties that were out
buffalo hunting. Immense herds of
Texas cattle, that were being driven to
the mountains were stampeded by the
heavy storms and scattered over the
country in every direction, where they
froze to death by hundreds. It is esti
mated that at least three thousand per
ished in Webster county alone.
. It is getting late, so we will cloe for
the present In our. next, we will tell
you something about the emigration,
improvements, future prospects &c
Very Respectfully yours,
M. L. Thomas.
The Evening: Post And Jartire Dnvls,
The New York Evening Post thus
speaks of Judge Davis, who at one time
was supposed to stand a good chance of
obtaining the nomination at Cincinnati
There is no dificulty in finding objec
tions to Justice Davis. His name is not
iudentified before the country with any
political principles whatever, except in
one instance, the centralizeing decisien
of the Supeme Court in the legal-tender
case in which he deliberately acquiesced,
so that he cannot be regarded as a whit
preferable to General Grant in his ex
cessive notions of tho power of the cen
tral government The platform of the
Labor Reformers, on which he has been
set up as a candidate, and which he has
not rejected, is utterly bad, and no liber
al itepubiican can tolerate it, even as a
compromise, jiloreover, the Judge is
an obscure man, even in his own State,
wholly untried in Executive office, and
unknown even to the politicians of the
country. He has never made anynota-
le contribution to the success of the
Repuplican party or of its principles,
nor has h3 promoted in any way the for
mation and growth of the Liberal Repub
ican movement It is not known wheth
er or not he is a protectioist; but he is an
old Whig, and tho platform of his La
bor Reform party is distinctly for "pro
tection. Assuredly he has no claim
whatever to represent the Liberal Re.
publicans before the nation above any
one or a thousand men from whom a
candidate might be selected by lot
'ARBOR DAT,"
Tbe Cbamplon Planter of Jfebraski
Thirty-Five Thousand Trees.
J. D. Smith, who lives four miles west
or .Lincoln, has the championship for tree
planting on Arbor Uay. lie planted
at the rate of one tree per second, for
nearly ten hours. . The result was 35,550
forest trees. lo Mr. Smith must be
awarded the medal. ; It can't be possible
that another man in Nebraska out num
bered the immense forest of Mr. Smith.
f there is let him advise us of the fact,
and we will gladly publish it to the world
giving proper credit and applause. Thus
ar Mr. J. D. cmithis the champion tree
planter ot .Nebraska s "Arbor Uay. "
OTHER TREE ITEMS. .
Elder Taggart, of Palmyra, planted
this week 20,000 trees.
John W augh, or baliae county, will
plant on his farm this spring, two acres
of fruit trees and five hundred forest
trees.
Major Pcarman, of Nebraska City, Is
doing a big business in the tree line.
btatesTTum. .
EXDOBSIK6
At the late National Convention of
Colored 3Ien, held at New Orleans, the
following resolution was enthusiastically
adopted by acclamation:
" Resolved, That Hon. Charles Sumner
by his disinterested advocacy of our
rights, and Lis consummate statesman
ship in securing a recognition of these
rights in the Constitution of the United
States, has endeared himself to the col
ored people of the nation, and until he
shall himself announce his secession from
the Republican party we shall hold him
to be, as he has ever been, one of the
purest and ablest members of our great
party"
oooo-nr gbeeiet.
From the Washington Chronicle.
Well, he has left the old party. We
are sorry. It comes from the bottom of
our soul. We are sorry that the old
relations must be severed. We are
sorry ia many ways but most of all do
we sorrow for Greeley himself. The
party will miss him but the party can
get along without him. The party is
sronger and wiser than any one man
who ever stood within its ranks, though
he be a Greeley I The party will march
as steadily forward to its well-planned
victory as though a "star" had not fall
en ! But Greeley himself! To think
that he has gone over to the Assistant
Democrats, and with a declaration, too
which gives the direct lie to all his teach
ings on protection and free trade, as wil
be seen by consulting the dispatch !
Poor Greeley 1 He has been too greatly
tempted, and human nature in the best
of us is weak !
In.Nemaba county, in 1869, aid to
the amount of $5,000 per mile was
voted for the Trunk Railroad, payable in
installments as the work progressed ;
but provided that no bonds should issue
unless the road was completed before
Oet 31, 1872. In view of the prospects
for the early completion of this line, the
Commissioners . have - issued another
proposition extending the time for the
completion of the road from the 31st
of Oct of this year to Oct. 31st, 1873,
and provided that no bonds shall be
given until the road ia completed. The
voters of Nemaha county will vote on
the modified proposition on the 18th of
May, and the indications are that it will
be carried by a large majority.
It will be remembered that Senator
Tipton, when swinging around the circle
lately, said that Chief Justice Mason
and ex-Gov. Butler,; were in sympathy
with the Washington bolters, Tipton,
Chemise & Co. We recently rode in
company with Uhicr Justice JMason
from Nebraska City to Lincoln, and in
quired of that gentleman if Tipton had
authority for using his name in 6uch
connection, to which he replied: No I
if Tipton wants to throw himself into
the arms of the Democracy, let him do
so, but I will not The Senator had no
shadow of authority for coupling my
name with the Cincinnati movement.
While in Lincoln, we met ex-Gov.
Butler, and interrogated him as we did
Chief Justice Mason. His response was
that he wouldn't take any Cincinnati in
his'u, but was prepared to swallow the
nominee of tho Philadelphia Conven
tion straight BrovonviUe Advertiser.
LlVERroOL, March 27, 1872.
Editors Nebraska Herald :
Dear Sir: The first colony of this
season lett .Liverpool on the lioyal mail
steamer "Nestorian," yesterday, for Ne
braska, as you will see by the slip re
printed from the Daily Post of this
town, enclosed.
Colonies will leave in rapid succession,
and there will be scarcely a train from
Europe, with passengers, but will have
its number for Nebraska.
These colonies will be almost exclu
sively composed of farmers and farmers'
sons, with sufficient capital to enable
them to commence such operations as
will ensure success in their home.
By giving this publicity, and if possi-
the enclosed report, you will confer an
obligation Yours very truly.
C. R. SCHALLER.
Hon. Geo. P. Tucker says the
Chronicle, "is one of the largest farmers
in the btato. lie has 2,100 acres ot
land in cultivation, a portion of which
lies in Johnson county. There were
raised on his place last year nearly 30,
000 bushels of corn, 1,7000 bushels of
wheat, 800 bushels of barley, besides
a quantity of other grains. He keeps a
large amount of stock and ships fat cat
tle and hogs to Eastern markets."
Mr. Tucker is the Alexander of Ne
braska.
COOC1L PUOCEED19TGS.
Council Chamber, April 10, 72.
Council met pursuant to adjournment
Present Mayor, Aldermen Buttery
shannon, Cushing, iitzgerald, Jrhart,
Clerk and Marshal.
The Journal of last meeting read and
approved.
On motion, the Clerk was instructed
to administer the oath of office to the
following persons, namely : To. M. L.
White, as Mayor; to M. W. Morgan,
as Marshal ; to Josiah Moores, as Police
Judge; to John Fitzgerald, Councilman
in First ward; to John Wayman, Coun
cilman in Second Ward ; to Richard
Vivian, Councilman in Third ward ; and
in accordance with the motion the above
were duly sworn in, their bonds exam
ined and approved, and they were duly
declared to be entitled to seats in the
Council, as such Mayor, Councilman,
&c ......
The Mayor then administered the
oath to R. H. Vanatta, as clerk, and his
bond was approved.
R. Vivian was then added to the Com
mitee on Highways and linages, and
John Wayman on Finance Committee.
On motion, the Finance Committee
was instructed to draft an ordiance regu
lating the fees of Wm. L. Hobbs, as
City Treasurer, during the term of office
for 1870 and 1871.
The Finance Committee reported that
they had examined the account of Brown-
TX1K COLORED ME9T
lee'& Seybolt for $67, and recommended
that $57 be allowed aa per bill cor
rected. On motion, report accpted
The following account was then pre
sented, and, on motion, allowed : R. H
Vanatta, Registrar in 2d ward, $9 00,
on improvement Fund : to H. Boeck
75 cents on improvement.
The following account was then pre
sented, and, on motion, referred to 'Fi
nanco Committee to report at next meet
lag.
To H. A. Waterman & Son, $297 66,
for lumber and to P. P. Gass, $40 40.
. On motion, Dr. John Black was ap
pointed as one of the committee to go
to St Louis to Look after the interest
of the Trunk Railroad, insteadf Dr. R.
R. Livingston, declined., and his ex
penses to be paid by the city.
. It was then moved that the Marshal
be instructed to procure a dozen chairs
for the city. Question called for and
motion lost ; . '
On motion a committee of three was
appointed, namely : ft. Vivian, J. II.
Buttery and John Fitzgerald, to procure
a room for the use of the city officers for
the ensuing year, and to report at next
meeting, and . . . .
On motion, Council adjourned.
Attest: M. L. WHITE,
R. H. Vanatta, Mayor.
' City Clerk.
Council Chamber,
'": Plattsmouth, April 10, 1872. J
To the Councilmen, of the Cityof Platts
mouth:
Gentlemen : There will be a special
meeting of the Council on the 10th day
of April 1872, instanter, for the purpose
of appointing a Street Commissioner,
City Engineer, and Assessor.
M. L. White, Mayor.
On motion, the reading of the Jour
nal was dispensed with.
It was then moved that J. W. Barnes
be apppointed City Assessor for the en
suing year, W. J. White, Street Com
missioner and G. W. Fairfield, City En
gineer ; on which motion a vote was
taken, resulting as follows : ayes, Fitz
gerald. Cushing. Vivian, Buttery and
Wayman. Noes, none motion oarried,
and
On motion. Council adjourned.
M. L. WHITE, Mayer.
Attest : R. H. Vanatta,
City C Ierk.
Chas. B. Heart, editor of the Ger-
mantown Advertiser, has lately a vigor
ous editorial on "The Free List," and
concluded as follows:
"There is not in all creation any class
of men more systematically preyed
upon, imposed upon and robbed ot legit
imate business by "beats," 'dead-heads,'
and the "free list," than the editors and
publishers. As a rule, editors are ready
and willing to give aid and encourage
ment to every object or movement that
can in any way benefit humanity, but it
is not fair to ask or expect them to take
more interest in your schemes than you
take yourself. If you are not willing to
spend ten dollars for a good cause, don't
ask an editor to devote ten dollar,
worth of space to it cratis. If you think
his paper has to be run anyhow, and
your puff don't make any difference, just
start a paper and run it on that plan,
and if the debit side of your aceonnt at
the end of the year does not exceed the
credit side, it will be because your sys
tem was known to be bad and you
couldn' t get credit ' '
An editor relates how a colored barber
made a dead-head of him. He offered
him the usual dime for shaving,
when the fellow drew himself up with
considerable pomposity, and said :
"I understand dat you is an editor."
"Well, what of it?-' said we.
"We neber charge editorj nuffin 1"
"But, my woolly friend, we contin
ued, "there are a good many editors
traveling nowadays, and 6uuh liberality
on your part will prove a ruinous busi
ness." "Oh 1 neber mind," remarked the
barber; "we make it up off de gem
men
An Emigrant Colony.
rrom theLiverpool Daily.Post,"March 2718'
A rather remarkable party ofemicratits
lett the Mersey last evening, in the fine
Allan steamer JNestonan, tor the United
States. As it is the first of a series which
will depart from England, it is not by any
means unworthy ot a special notice at
our hands. Everyone knows the usual
order of. emigrant the poor, hopef u
Irishman, and the patient, ploddinsr.
large-familied Scandinavian. Their fig
ures are lamiliar enough in our streets,
as they pass along, not heavily laden,
poor fellows, with
.worldly possessions,
r - m 'j
but bearing hearts hopeful that in going
to the West they are seeking better tatea
than the old country had in store for
them. The emigrants we refer to, how
ever, as having left yesterday are, for one
thing, exclusively English, and almost
exclusively from the English farming
clas9 that is to say, farmers and their
sons and connections not agricultural
labourers, but men having at the same
time practical experience and the means
of applying it in a new land. The value
of such men to the United States need
not be dilated upon, especially when, as
in this case; they bear with them consid
erable sum3 oi capital. They are, in
fact, a colony of emigrant farmers, who,
finding themselves cramped in the old
country, have gone to see whether there
is room for them to swing their arms in
the new world. The explanation of this
movement for a movement in fact it is
-was afforded to us by a fine old speci
men ot the .English rentleman farmer.
having his 500 or 600 acres of Lincoln
shire land in hand, and having farmed it
shot over it, and hunted over it for the
last thirty or forty years. He was send
ing out three of his sons with the colo
nists, and gave as bis reason for doing so
that it was impossible in .hngland to ob
tain Farms for them the competition be
ing so keen and the rents so high that he
had determined to let them have land of
their own in one of the Western States,
where it can be got cheap, instead of
keeping them idling about at home, with
their knowledge ot agriculture running
to rust
The knowledge that there must be a
good many men in the same position as
our Lincolnshire farmer 6eems to havo
struck the acute emigration agents of the
Western States, and, in particular, the
agents of the State of Nebraska, and of
the railway company which traverses the
State. This company is the Burlington
and Missouri River Railroad Company ;
and its agents have been hard at work in
the acricultural districts of Eogland du
ring the last winter lecturing and by oth
er means showing the advantages to Brit
ish farmers' sons of going to a central
Western State, where there is nothing
but prairie land, and where that land can
be obtained contiguous to a railway at a
reasonable price and upon reasonable
terms. The firsffruit of that work was
the emigrant colony the first section of
which started last evening. The colony
has been carefully organized so as to in
clude in it no persons whom the French
would describe as useless mouths. The
idea has been to get young unmarried
men, the sons of farmers, to form the sta
ple of the colony. There is, of course,
an infusion of heads of families. There
is, for instance, a farmer from the Chan
nel Islands, who has preferred to trans
fer his capital and his family to the cen
tral Western State of Nebraska. The
colony includes a small number of me
chanics, particularly wheelwrights, black,
smiths, men who can shoe horses, and a
few handicraftsmen. It is accompanied
by a clergyman, who, with his family,
intends to settle with the colony. Near
ly all the emigrants have made arrange
ments for the purchase of land, and their
lots are as nearly as possible contiguous,
and all are situated at Lincoln, the capi
tol of Nebraska, and are intersected by
the railway of the State, the Burlington
and Missouri River Railroad.
The section of the colony which em
barked yesterday numbered 145 persons,
of whom 14 were cabin passensrers. 20
pecupied intermediate berths, and 111
were steerage passengers. The number
of cabin and intermediate passengers
shows, in some sort, that the people are
not poverty-stricken, as emigrants often
are ; and this is further attested by the
fact that they took out with tbem in
drafts, realized from their cash brought
to Liverpool, a sum of no less than about
10, 000. Their appearance spoke even
more than thi3, and one could hardly
help thinking it was a pity that England
should be losing such sons, except that
they will not by any means be lost in the
united ctates. a gentleman accustomed
to deal with emigrants ail his lite was
more than struck, he was qnite astonish
ed, at the look of these colonists until it
was explained to him. The three sons
of the old Lincolnshire farmer looked in
deed the beau ideal of the Saxon raco
which goes out to conquer and subdue,
and we had to do no more than look at
them to be convinced that it was no "sen
timental journey that they were upon.
It may be mentioned that the bulk of the
first section ot the colony is from Lincoln
shire and the home counties. Their des
tination, as already stated, is Lincoln
City, in Nebraska, whither they will pro
ceed by way of Baltimore, the port to
wnich the Nestorian is sent, and thence,
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, to
Chicago, and so on to their destination,
Xhey are under the conduct of an expe
rienced guide a Mr. Abmgton who
knows Nebraska well, and who has large
experience in traveling. On arrival at
Baltimore, they will be placed in a spe
cial train, which will go the whole way to
.Lincoln. At .Lincoln they will be Jodared,
free ot cost, except tor food, m an liiini
grants' Home, well fitted up and arrang
ed, and here they will remain until their
lands are allotted to them, and they can
enter upon the farming career they havo
gone to seek. Messrs. Allan have enter
ed warmly into the project, to facilitate
which they transferred the Halifax cargo
ot the Nestorian to another steamer,
sailing to-day, and their stewards have
instructions to give them an early break
fast should they land in the mornincr,
.Nearly all of them have promised to send
accounts to .Liverpool ot their journey,
their treatment, and reception at their
new homes.
it woula be little use and no profit to
attempt to stimulate the efforts of emi
gration agents for the British colonies by
examples ot the work which is being
done by the men who have been com
missioned to people the Western States
of America. The Australias are too dis
tant ; and it is inevitable, therefore, that
emigrants in their senses will seek a place
withinlfourtecn days of themselves, where
they can find pasture land which requires
no clearing and is ready for immediate
cultivation. One singular feature about
this colony is its entirely English compo
sition, and this is perhaps accounted for
by the knowledge on the part of the col
onists that JNebraska i., practically speak
mg, an Jiingnsn estate, as there are very
lew persons other thanlinglihmen in it.
The British farming class has often been
derided as incapable of forming or receiv
ing new ideas. A good deal has chanced.
however, since the days of steam thrash
ing machines, and now there are few men
more ready to adopt a "notion." if he can
afford it, than the British farmer. At
all events, ho seems to be seizing the no
tion that it is better for him or his sons
to become landlords in the Western
States of America than to have to sue
for renewal of leases, or to be always in
hot water about game. At any rate, he
is going to try, and gave the first proof
of it yesterday in the Nestorian. It may
be mentioned that the party which left
was extremely cheerful, and joined with
energy in the chorus of some excellent
verses specially written for the occasion
by Mr. D. E. Ilallas, and set to music
and sung with exquisite taste and feeling
by Jin. Henry Vit ilson, of Liverpool.
Grand Island and Northwestern
Hallroad.
Another railroad to the northwest.
The certificate of organaization was filnd
in the office of Secretary of State yester
day and read as follows: "The under
signed hereby certify that we have formed
ourselves as a company, for the purpose
of constructing a railroad. Ihe name
assume 1 by such company, and by which
it will be known, is the Grand Island and
Northwestern Railroad Company.
THE TERMINI
of said road shall be Grand Island, in
Hall county, Nebraska, and a point on
the .Northern Pacifio railroad, in the
Territory of Montana, such as may be
hereafter determined upon as the most
advantageous point of junction with
said Northern Pacifio railroad. Said
railroad shall pass throngh Hall, How
ard, Greeley, Valley and such other
counties in Nebraska as may bo deter
mined npon. The amount of caiptal stock
of such company shall be $300,000. Sign
ed A. J. Poppleton, T. E. Sickles,
Thomas L. Kimball. S. H. U. Clark,
T. W. Gannett, H. J. Paul, S. Munson
and N. Shelton: A Union Pacific coui-
Blement Poppleton is attorney for the
fnion Pacific: Sickles, General Superin
tendent; Kimball, General Passenger
Agent; Clark, Assistant General Superin
tendent; Gannett, Auditor, and Shelton,
Cashier. Lincoln Statesman.
Philadelphia accounts are to hand ofa
steady, sober citizen being suddenly sur
prised by his wife and daughters in all
the gorgeous glory of new "Dolly Var-
denx," whereupon reason tottered on its
throne, and amid bursts of demoniao
laughter he wildly exclaimed : "Ila, ha !
How do they make up for pantaloons?
Ha! ha! ha! Let me have a UoIJy Var-
den. Let ma clutch it. Bring me a
attern of monkeys scaling lamp-posts,
low would a Chinese puzzle look, or a
map of Fairmount Park ?" All the rest
is a blank. The unhappy husband has
just been liberated from an asylum and
pronounced cured. ut ao oniy way
they could manage it was to dress him
nn in a Dolly Varden. marked out with
a ground plan of the streets of Boston.
Edward A. Kggert, of Buffalo, has
written the Lord's Prayer, three times
repeated, within the circumference of a
three cent piece.
Dr. Blue of the Nebraska city Netct
is overwhelmed by a new invention, cal
culated to decieve the "very elect." We
sympathizo with the Dootor and trust
the young ladies will tpare him. Wo
copy an item from tho Xetcr, which shows
the cause of hisfear;
Young men are advised to Lo on tho
look out for female contrivances to de
fraud during the present leap year. We
saw an affair in Charley Burks the other
day that has made our young heart pal
pitate with anxiety and suspicion ever
since. It was nothing less than a pair
of India rubber bosoms furnished with
a pipe by which they might be inflated
with air and assumed mot dangerous
proportions. Thev aro made of whito
rubber and such close imitation of tho
original as to render them well calcu
lated to deceive not only the unsophis
ticated, but the experienced. We here
by sound the note of warning in trum
pet tones. Let all young men beware of
this ingenious invention against "life,
liberty and the pursuits of happiness."
The Market.
Liust Saturday, in SU Louii, irime winter
wheat told t$2 12Vi the highest it has beeu
for three years. Spring wheat also adrancod n
trifle ; on Monday all trades and kinds dron ed
back to a little above eld quotations. Tlie
prospect for a general riso In prices of grain of
all kinds except eorn Booms favorable, cn ac
count of the soaroitr. We giro the lat St.
Louis quotations :
Wbiat Prime rnrinr. 1 00: nirlil. ,,.!,
red and white winter. I 04V.2 08: Noisorinir
1 81.
CORK il&lG: choice Viillow and trM (sa isn
603 55.
Oatb 35(d.42K.
Bablbt Kto73.
Rt 78.
CaTTLB Extra fine shloninff atri 1 .rXiO Ho
and upwards. 6 E5; extra iLipping steers. 1.10O
to 1.4&0 lbs 5 75a6 00; good to prime shipping
steers 1.150 to 1.250 lb. 5 25(.v5 60: medinm to
lair steers. 1,000 to 1.100 lbs, 4 505 00: com
??,,t.0oi'or t0 KOoi feeding. BOO to 1,100 lbs,
Hooa Extra, 275 lbs and upwards, 4 25i4 80.
Shikf Kxtra to extra choice, loo to 125 lbs.
at 6 506! 7 28; good to prime 85 to W5 lbs, at 5 75
36 25; decent to fair. 70 to 8i lbs, at 4 705 io
commo do, 4'1 60.
Chicago Produce Market.
Chicaoo, April 10.
tvhkat Active ana b;gherj No 2 sold at
i zo;t'ii v rnunu lots; l
May closed atl 27: June 1 :
riitji i i v sum n
l 25J!.l 2.7,'.,' ear lot;
1 ; JN o 3 scarce.
higher and wanted ; sales 1 19'4.
Cons Fairly active and higher : No 2. 40' i
?40S, closing at outfido hid: fresh receipt'-.,
40?i; seller May closed ut41?iibid: June,42'i;
eaJs sold at 42 ; shelled mples 41C".41'.
, U Wiener; sales Ho 2 regular at 22? ;
fresh, 3j.
Kvs-Quiet and steady; No 2,70.
Bablbt Quiet and eteady; No 2 55, '
Cattlb Receipts 2,730; market quiet good
many going East in lir.-a handu; priees un
changed ; fair to good steers selling at 5 36c5
50 ; choice. 0' 0WMi 60.
Hooa Keceips. 7,393; market moderately
activa and prices fir inland steady; entire range,
4 2rXli 55 : most sales at 4 354 40.
Bhiep Receipts, 107; rather firm; notquo
tahly higher.
Legal Notice.
II, I.. R, Stiles will take notice that Tootle
II anna AClark has this'daveommenced an action
in the District Court for Cans County. Ktate of
Nebraska, against the sai 1 II. L. It. Stiles and
others, to recover of the paid Stiles the amount
of aNote of hand made by him, the said II. L. K.
Stiles and J. O. Hays; dated August 6th 1871
payable six months after date and calling for
$115.33 with twelve per cent interent after matu
rity and to subject the payment ot'snid note out
of a judgment in the Duti irt Court tor said coun
in fayor of the said H. L. R. ttiles and avainst
John bnyder and William Snyder and that
the same wiJi be for hearing at the next term of
said Court. April 12th lfcV2.
1. AIoKijiRos Clerk of said
County.
M. Qastok Attorney. April 18 wl.
E. T- DUKE & CO.
AT FOOT OF JUJllJf STREE1'
Wholesale k Retail Deilers la
Hardware and Cutlery, Stoves
TINWARE. ROPE.
IRON, STEEL NAILS AND
Blacksmith Tools, io.
Keep on hand a Large Slock of
CHARTER OAK,
SUCKS PATENT,
CHICAGO, EMPORIA
LOYAL COOK
And Other First-Class Cooking
STOVES,
All kintJi
Coal or Wood kept on hand.
JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS D0N11
-MOLIKE-
Stiring and Breaking Plow
At ITet Cose for Casli.
MISSOURI
PACI FI
c
43-The Old Reliable and
Express Route
Popular Throngh
ToSainlLouis
-AND ALL POINTS
EASTI NORTH! SOUTH
No Change of Cars
From Saint Louis to flew York
akd oiHia raiKCiraL kab-tcbii citii.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD
IS EQUIPPED WITH
Elegant Day Coaches!
Pullman's Palace Sleepers!
Miller's Safety Platform!
Patent Steam Brake!
An Eiuipment unrmialed by any other
Line in the Went. 4 ,
TRY IT I TRY IT I
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