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THE HERALD. PLATTSMOUTII. NEBRASKA?" THURSDAY, JULY, 18. 1872 . A. MACJIURPIir. Editob. Official Directory. CONGRESSIONAL. T- Tipton. Brown ville. P. W. Hitchcock. Omaha. John Taffe, Omaha, tT. 8. Senator. U. S Senator. Representative. EXECUTIVE. U ilium I? fe8' f nco!n Aet k waor. illiam u. James, Lincoln, Keo if sit HA&ieVL,inCOin' Aud?": -.V Koenig, Columbus, Trra.nn p iS-&rtt'-0,?h,O o Attorney'ienera': a. M. McXcntio. Hoc In. Sopu Pb. Instruc'n JUDICIARY. GVS- ChicfTJu'tic L. Croanie, Ft. Calhoun A!cate Justices. CASS COUNTY. H. R. Ell i on. Daal McKinnon, W.L. Uobbs, ir X4.l!n8on, Probate Jalgt. County Clerk, Treasurer. , Sheriff. SupL Pb. Instruction, Countj Commissioners. Coroner. u. w. wise. Jacob Valle-y. V ; .11- James. J.W.Thomas. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For President. IT. S. G-SAOSTT. For Vice-President. HENRY WILSON. CLCnjtUES fOttiTUEHJiPAItiX. We will mail the Weekly Heuald to aew subscribers and clubs, during the Presidential Campaign, beginning June 20th and closing November 15th the week after the Presidential election twenty-two: numbers in all at the fol lowing rates : Ona copy $ 70 Club of ten copies 6 00 Club of twenty-five copies 12 50 Daily At fair Club rates. We want subscribers for our we -kly and dai'y all through the eonnfy. To a person pending us a club of five name and over a liberal discount will be made. The Chicago Times strongly refuses io support Greeley, and is consistent in do ing eo. "Brick" Pomeroy says that true De mocracy will never support Greeley. A good Democrat in Cass county bet twenty dollars on Grant's election, the other day, and ten dollar? on Cass county going for Grant. Schurz spoke in Raleigh, North Caro lina, Tuscday North Carolina is the first State to hold its State election, and they are making it hot down there, both sides. S The New York Times says very truly : "The election of Greeley in place of Grant 'would merely substitute Fenton. 'Boss Tweed and the Blair Family for 'Conkling, Morton and the Dent fam 'ily. " Seems likely to get clear, just as we ex pected. The jury, owing to the charge of the judge, no doubt, stand eight fur murder and four for manslaughter Chicago Inter ocean give3 an account of the organization of a Democratic Grant and Wilson club, with 150 signers at first meeting. The President, G. D. Wise, has deposited in bank $5,000 that says Grant will be re-elected. HOW IT IK. The fun has commenced. Greeley receives any amount of letters applying for places already. lie persists in an swering them himself, and his commit tee, threaten to resign unless he turns his correspondence ever according to rule and custom. Our distinguished neighbor Spotted Tail, indignantly denies that he has au thorized the association of his name with that of Horace Greeley on the Liberal Presidential ticket. The following din patch from him has been received by the talented editor of the Ceycnne Tribune: "Greeley Squaw ! Ugh ! Me no run with him." Denver News. We know brother Swartr, ourselves, and this is like him : "The Rov. Mr. Swart, of the Meth odist Church, continue- to give sati-f ie tion to his large nieinbe.shlp, a- hi fu!i houses attest. He has the tiue Metho dist characteristics enthusiasm, ambi tion, energy. Ex4 jt :?9UTIC4L. Mr. Greeley was formally notified of his nomination on,Fridiy. He made a neat little speech and got off a good joke, said, "He was not much'ia the habit ol receiving nominations for the Presi dency. Gratz Brown waa taken sick on the 12th and the committee posponed their call on him. He is rapidly recoveriug. TO OCX (OCXTBY;BEiDr.RH. Tie I'anncrs' Colann. During the campaign it will be impos Bible to arrange our matter in such a manner as to give c!l our agricultural newj ia one column. We shall none the less attend to the wants and needs of the farmer, but owing t J the press of matter crowding us, and the fact that in running a daily paper we have on Thurs day a very busy day going to press with two papers on the eame day, is ne joke and with the help that a country newspaper can afford, our matter gets thoved. up the quickest way. After flection times we fhall try and get these items altogether once more. 'I HI NKIXALD f .!. Habit and use enable a ru in to bear the most rigorous climate with comfort. The same causes operate with like effect on the mental dispositions of mankind. An editor is so accustomed to hear peo ple denounce him accuse him of bad motives and false prejudices, that he gets callous and careless about remark and innuendoes that pierce other people's jackets. Once in awhile we are' force i to laugh at the utter UD.comciou.-rjeaJ with which persons will set down before an editor and utterly demolish, to their own satisfaction, some theory that he has perhaps but that day advocated, to tally ignoring the idea that he may hnve any personal feeling about what he has said or believes. A foreigner will very coolly step iuto the office and berate America or Amen cans by the hour. The editor li-tens with patience, pities his weakue-, and lets him pass. Worse than a dry goods clerk is he told twenty times a week that he never tells the truth, and that his business is to lie, and he is expected to. take it all in good part. But let him turn round and say a few word that cut on the readers' prejudices, nationality or business whew! what a niu-is Licked up., and "stop my paper," shouts one, "let's lick him," tugged another ; but really, human nature is better th-rn we think, for neither threat is put into exe cution. A day or two of grumness, a muttered growl or two as they paes, and it is forgotten. While taking charge of a county news paper once, we gave some of our particu lar ideas about clergymen and their ser mons, holding that every man should try and fit himself for the walk in life that he proposed to fol ow, and that a clergy man had no right to come into the pul pit with awkward manners, bad delivery, or inferior language, to address his peo ple Sunday after Sunday, ; that lawyer.-, actors, and every other class of men overcome their natural disadvantages if they hoped to succeed, &c. As usual, the town had twice as many churches as the needed and three times is many ministers as she cculd comfort a hly support, and the next day no less than six Parsons waited on us to know if we meant lam. It took us aback; we were not personally acquainted with any of the gentlemen, and our remarks had been founded on general observations, in 1 not on particular eases. Just so in politics; when we say iVuioerats did this, or Germans db.i that, it is not intended to charge that Jones over the way whs per.ieiiy the man who did the act, or that Schmidt up towu was tho individual responsible for the misdeeds of a parly. Great events can only be treated on a broad basis. The average acts of a party or a sect must be taken as a standard of measurement and not the acts of indi viduals; and the editor who does his duty, so treats greatque.tions. Ouly small miudfnarrow everything -down to themselves, their town and their county. HUH HI T IBl'E. TPWARDS. The Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania Tele graph describes the progress of the De mocracy toward Gretley, in the pat five months as follows : January The old idiot Gree'ey. February The eccentric Greeley. March Old Horace Greeley, April Horace G i ecley. May Mr. Horace Greeley. June Honest Uncle Horace. Wc might as well add tho Bee1 ver sion of Democratic transmutation for July, which wonld real Our square toed, .unflinching and unchangable chain -pion and standard bearer, the great, good and sweet tempered Horace Gree ley. DOWNWAHDS. Did you ever hear the darkey barber story. Here it is : A colored barber joined tho church in good times, and gave freely to its support. After a time business fell off, and he could not "come down" any more. He thus described the situation to a friend : "Do fust year I gib $50, and it was dear brudder Jones; de ncx year busi ness wasn't so good, and I gib $25, and it was brudder Jones; don I gib $10. and was only Mr. Joues ; dis year I gib notting and I'm ouly dat old nigyer Jones yes san ! 1 If Greeley should be elected (?) and give all the lat offices to .Democrats, the Bee s opinion, above, would hold good ; but did he dare to let Republicans have anything, it wouli be : Fir-t month ' Honest Old Horace. Second ' Mr. Greeley. Third " Queer old coot. Fourth " Fifth " Sixth " Crazy old loon. Darned old fool. Infirm, cussed old b'aek Bo;;ti;VHst, same as ever. Seventh U;o lleii-houu-i : we m'ght a known it ; what foul w Dero crts was. " the PoliHral Condition of I'tusj-J va- nla. i A very pleaant gentleman .d good fellow, no doubt, is Mr. Morton of the N. ir. Tribune, but the other day to iourmns iu Piattstuouth. Either he or the Pensylvania Editois don t know much about politics in that State. Mr. Morton says it will go for Greeley, the Editor of the Bucks county Intelligence has just bad a tour of the greater part of Pensylvania, and writes his opinions on the political aspect a follows : Anionr the Republicans there was no apparent division of seutiaient. Pre si dent Grant will receive the solid support of his party for le election. In the northern and western counties, which the Tribune, has Matt d to l.-e fu!l of GietJ ley Republican-, they are really as scarce as in the eastern portion of the State We are assured hy intelligent and eaodid residents that in Krie an l Crawford count ies, where a great dissatisfaction ha fen claimed, the sctual number of Greeley men is very smU. Those who have engaged in th? movement are generally men wuo have teen disappointed in local Dolitical anirationi. All the counties in that region will give at least the u-ual Republican mn'orities next f !!. What ever defection there is will be more J tan compensated by Democratic oppoi;ion to the Greeley ticket, with a decided ! balance in oar favor. G.n Cui'.nitilinn mist be doing ome good work for the State or the puny, so m.' where, by the acrimony of his opponents charges. You can always judge the worth of a man by the temper his adversaries show. Kill 'em by Kinlne. Somebody propones er die ring p'l'yg i;ny by introducing into Utah vast quanti ties of fashionable millinery goods and inducing the G.'Btile women to 'come out in o geous style. This wi'd produce s ir h a competition on the part of the Mormon istejliool and f-ueh heavy bills for finery, that the saints won't bs able to stand the pressure. It, is marvellous and a-tonishing how readily an imperfect survey can be de tected by a man sitting in au office in Omaha, or Nebraska City, or Brown v.lie, and never be noticed by the &ctua! settlers of the coun'ry where they are made. Give us a complaint from the settlers, gentlemen. If four shovels fail of dirt inike a good surveyor's corner, how many would it take to mi e one of the fellows titling on tht3 Missouri River and telling about W:iat goes on in the western counties. Oar Rock Bluffs Letter. Rock Bluffs, July 15. Editor Herald. No wJthstandinc the "perspiration pressure" the R'tk Bluffites endeavored oa Saturday last to forget, for a tiiu at Lvist, the heated term, and assembled in Hutchesoti's g ove for the purpose of having a pic nic, giveu in the iuieie;t of tiie Pubi c aid Sunday Schools, and also iu the in terest of Mis-Raukui's Muic Class Arriving ou the ground at an early hour we found every t hint; apparently in read iness. A platform had be n erected for the use of the speakers, and upon it was placed the "indispensable" organ. Something, however, was apparently stiil expected, and we were not long in su-pense, for in casting our eye in the direction of the public school houso we beheld the Stars and S'ripes unfurled, and beneath it were marching in regular order, the youth of Rock Bluffs, togeth er with Teachers and others directly in tereted in tho schools of the towu. Marching up to the platform, the pro cesio:i w:is seated, and the exercises of ti.e day introduced by the singing and playing, by Miss Mattie Rankin, of that beautiful song entitled, "Pic Nic." Af ter the strains of this enlivening song had died aw;ty, tlte R-jv. R. Burge Pastor of tho M. J. Church at this place was in troduced by the President of the day, Judge Giiiuour, and addressed a fervent and touching prayer to the Throne of Grace. It would be impossible for us, in a limited space to give a full review of ail the exercises, and must necessarily omit much that was of desp iiiU;r-st to our selves--The music selections were emi nently appropriate, and tb.3 skill with which Miss Emm-i Bridenstine, Miss Ruth Clemmon, Miss Lilly Gai netr; Miss Mary Becker, and Miss Laura Chalfant performed their respective parts, reflect ed much credit, not only upon them seles, but upon tho manner in which Miss Rankin had instructed them. The literary selections were well performed by Miss Anna Fitch, Miss Caddie Craig Miss 1-aura Chalfant, Miss Florence Smith, and Master Charley Graves. Th 1 deeuuiation, "Somebody's Darling" by Miss Anna Fitch, was peculiarly im pressive, and wheu the closing coup'et Carve on the Wooden slab at his head, "catoebody'd darling slumbers here." was Kpoken, not a few of the two hund red and fifty auditors were moved to tears by the sentiment and the pathetic manner of the speaker. The closing literary exercises on vhe, part of the javmiles was a declamation, "The Mod em Belle" by Master Charley Graves: the diminutive size of the speaker, to gether with the sarcastic character of the piece, and so well accented and infleejed, rendered Charley the object of much loud admiration for a time. Rev. Berge and Judge Gilmour delivered fine ad dresses to children and 'parents, and af ter partaking of a basket din er, an singing and recreating until late in the evenin-r, we all di-persed to our homes, well pleased with the festivitie of the day, and in conclusion we would remaik that it never has been our good fortune to attend a pie nic where all seemed so well satisfied with the exercises of the day, and where the pre loioinat'mg char acteristic liceuied to be good order. A. J. GRAVES. Cunningham, my dear fellow, do for f r the love of peace, and to save printer- ink, o give these fellows a contract on surveying. Do, please ; it will 6ave the little Democratic editors so much trouble in rehashing the Omaha Her cbTs slang. CSir.RJUE ASiU UKKKX COKJT. It is d"ublles fortunate for Mr. B. Gratz Brown that the present is tin; season of cherries and green corn, a diet when combined, prolific of stomach-ache and colera-morbus. For perhaps it is easier for that distin guished gentleman to attribute pubic ly, his recent severe attack of iilne-s to that than to any less popular and prevalent cause. We humbly advise all those Greeley and Brown men who would make it a strone point against President Grant that he likes a good cigar, admires a fine horse, and relishes a glass of wine of ome fine old vintage, to ascertain, be fore urging it too far, ju-t what caused the late sudden il!ne-s of their candidate tor the Vice-Presidency. Wa it really- green corn and cherries acting on a too sensitive stomach, or was it the sharp and sudden and very palnable effect of a certain habit lonjr indulged. Ttie question if we are rightly informed is an open one. Council Blujj't Repub lican. AX IHINUiaaSi OW UK A NT. U louche l'p tb Koldlvr Qtienlloa. From t'e New York Standard. In compliance with the .--oiieiiarir.ns i.f the Ceilie n-s ocianon of Mid iie:iov!j and I'oiilatid. Mr. M.'J. Fanaquer Keth, their gifted ycun fei'ow-courit ryin n. delivered a very able lectu'e iu the town had, MiJdiet n. on the evening of Juiv 4 The t'ast hall was crow di d to sufroc.it io with a most tiithwsia-tie su diei.ee. The subject chosen by the bc tuier wan "Foo'prints i, ihe Celts '' In the ionise of a tdowiriK peroration h umde the fol owing a!lu-ions to ih- ap preaching presidential election and apos trophe, to soldier rulers, whieh will rank higher than Meagher's sword speech as a great oratorical outbur-t. "He said : liefore the clo-e of the present year you wii! be called upon to exercise the highest privilege which the laws of your adopted country can confer, that of voting for the election of i?s future President. Without introducim? arty matter intlevant to my lecture, or ven tilating any opinions to which you might be slow to subscribe, I feel that whilst tracing the lives of those of our coun trvmeti who have climbed the steep ascents of fame, and on tie "sands of time" have left their footprints, I may not inappropriately allude to the course which iu my opinion ought tube pursued by those who are willing to eurula'e their deeds, and follow their noble ex ample. You know me, know that the grandson of oid John Keoitgh of 'US would as soon cut ofF the jjnod ri.ht arm which gives him su -'enanee, a ex ores sentiment to hich my heirt did not throb re-ponsiveiy. or counsel an action which mien? tarnish the character of our race, which seven centuries have left un suit ed. Chee:S. To no men ought the issues at stake in the coming on te-d be clearer, or the results one of more paramount importance than to ourstlves "They je-t ar 5Crs that never e t a wound," but we who have b en. and iur father-, tbe victims of every indi.sr naiioii pertaining to slavery, can or omht fitly estiuuie and honor the labors of tho.-e who clhiced that foul, dak blot, on our in-ritut.ions. which inverted the decrees of God an 1 degraded the nature of his handniark, who imperiled life to preserve the in'egiity of this glo rious republic, for whose indepcnd nae with a spartan heroism the New Eng enders in 1775 foueht and bled. Cheers. You, I repeat, of all in the world, ought to honor and prove your gratitude to those whose stout hearts and strong arms struck the tetters of millions of fellow beings ere they burst them selvesand to the ruin of the common wealth armed themselves with the frag ments. Great cheering for independ ence. My countrymen, wo have many faults, we lack many virtues. Bur one vice no man has ever dared to charge us with, one grand national virtue we pre eminently possess, and that is-gratitude to those, who held out to us a helping hand iu the hour of peril. And now, if you are true to the dime of liberty, for which Owen O'Neill and Sarsfiell fell, for which our fathers" blood made Wex ford s harvest grow, and impurpled Lim erick's bi-toric Shannon. If you are true to the great land of your adoption, you will turn with a loathing from the men and t'ie cause which ate kept, albeit by the putung ot a few literary footpads and disappointed politicians of the Suiu ntr .-tamp, who raiae a cry alike slavish and 'contemptible ugamst the soldiet President, whose cle;.r brain and keen sword Ji.-aved ti? Union. Hear "the head and front of bis r.ficndiiig." ''He is only a soldier," th-y say, "his niilit i-y habiisand martial training unfit him for his office." Hear it you descendants ot Hampden aul of Plymouth's pilgrims Hear it, you sons of the men who held Limerick's rampart- aud Derry's breech es, and what is your manly and indig nant an-wer? Do you think that the man who bears the soldier's tlaiintie-s Prea-t cannot pos -ess the metal tor a Statesman . I 'o- -ptse th. SOiUlt r rub- Who was it that made Greece the para gon of obedience to iawa and exo-lience in arm-, but tho.-e who drove the Per sian hordes otT her tiered soil and raised at Marathon a moral monument for pos ter ty's veneration, the soldier consuls Li o:iidas and Miiri irdes? Despise the soldier I Vrho was it that mould ed the motley mass, vagrants and out eats from every land, that constituted tho population of ancient Rome, i:.to a n :tion which became mistress of the world ? the teddier con-ul Julius Ctc-ar Despise the soldier mlerl 'Who was it that plac-d the shield of his genius as a statesman over th menuc'd freedom of poor Poland, and at whoe fali that 'i'ref-dxio shi ieksd ?'' the soldier states man Jobn Sobifski. Despise thi soldier ruler ! Who was it that gave the world the celebrated code of laws that bar hi name, bat he whn broke forever the .-way of ti':e van 1 .1 I arbutians, be who e life wa-on the tented Held? the soldier king Ju-tiniati. Despi.,e th" -oidier inlur! Woo was it that conrVived the Napole onic code, which is to be th basis of the French Coo-tii ution, but "lhat little Cor--ican captain'' who here her eagles triumphant infoeveryeapit.il inKurope? i ho soldier con-ul Napoleon. Dospi-e the soldier ruler! Who was Tara's killer when Ireland's I arp resounded in free hulls "to chief- and ladies bright," when he was the island of saints and scholars, bu C'ljuarFfc victor? the sold er king Brian. Despite the soldier ruler! Who was that guardian and guiding spirit over the cradle of Ameri ca's independence -n that memoiahle 4th "of July, 1776? Whose was the hand that signed the charter of our free dom in 1787, but the same which c r lied that, constitution with his sword at Stony Point, Virginia, Savannah and Yorktown, the glorious soldier President George Washington? Despise the sold ier ruler whose was the head, hand and heart that saved the Union in its night of peril when reeling to its center! who since the fratricidal struggle has ceased has watc-heo. over the prostrate and bleeding form of his country till to-day, her scars are scarce visible, but her sold ier President, U. S. Grant. Tremen dous i heerint;, the audience rising their feet. Joiu the canting parrot-cry of the knave- who shout he is only sold ier. My countrymen, do, and you b-lia your pa.-t. you decrad your President. and you oamn your future in the land of your adoption. Do so, but then close forever your tlorious history. Go to the pu: lie squares and de troy those statues of men whose up mory you dese crate. Do so, and the spirit of every hero who hallowed the rianwe American eoldier and con-ecrated with their blood her sat red caue on Vfry battle field from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. from Bull's Ruu to Rich mi ud, frowning on your shameless apostacy, will exclaim. "We are the witnesses." The effect of this great appeal was electrical, the whole audience, number ing over 2.000. rose to their feet, aud cbeered their gifted country man, and making his bow he retired. Thrre is but one step from the sub lime to the ridiculous, said the editor of the Omaha llrnld, when he handed in his checks for Greeley, at the Baltimore National Democratic Stock Board. Rx. And but half a one, from the ridicu lous to the infamois. TATE ir.lf9. Railroad. Work commenced in earnest -on the Northern Nebraska and C ntral Dakota Railroad ou Monday, the 8th of July, and will be pu.-hed vigorously to comple tion. Mr. PeWr-oh, of Jsioux City , has thf cot. tract for the fir-t eight miles. Another new town was reii!tiy sur veyed and mapped out on or near the ol t tewn site of Galena. Dixf-n coun'y. Cn the Fourth a larg crowd of the eitizi i.s asscmpied. and a Liberty Pole a- erect ed ou the town site. Omaiia Rediels Opera House w.:s crau rued fud to bear John A Lfyr-n. last right. John II Keliom. Ksq., wa Pr--ident of the meeting. He made a telling and effective speech. The big Indians came down to Deca tur and gave a dance on tho ''JTumth." Janus Sullivan was crushed to death between two cars at Omaha. Friday. Tip Top is mukin a lively paper t,f the Piattstuouth Herald. Xtatftrnuii. Baltimore is doubly afflicted. It is suffering from a physical and moral pes tilence, having at the same time the Democratic Convention aud the sin .11 pox. It is difficult to determine which is the worst. Council BlrfJ's Re. Sudden. Df.atu Ou Tuesday a young man named Fitzgerald, a boarder at the St. Charles Hotel, was kicked by a mule a he was coming from the tim ber, with a loud of wood. He received the full force of the kick in his chest, and in spite of medical aid, died at two o'clock on Wednesday morning. Trib une mil Republican. The Browr.vilie Advertiser says : On Monday morning, about 4 o'clock, a heavy thunder storm opened upon this section, concluding with a revere ddug? of hail, which fell upon window lights, fruit trees and standing crops with mer less effect. We have reports from the country indicating considerable damace from the storm, though not of a cfiarae ter to alarm. Crops weie levelled by the cool blast, but are again holding up their heads aud receiving nourishment from the warm sun. If there be any Germans who sup pose we had eny personal dislike to Car Schurz, or gave only our opinions on his course, wc refer them to the following, from one of their o-.vu papers, and it is but one from a hundred extracts we could quote. .. The St. Louis Auzriger des "Western, a straight Democratic Ger mau paper that refuses to support Gree ley on any condition, says : The Geiman idea of a reformer, as expres-ed by the word "reforuiater," is quite different from that intended to be conveyed by Mr. Schurz, and otln-is, whi n they u-e the word as applied to American politics. In Mr. Schuiz's mother tonuue, reformer means a man who, devoted to some great principle, champions and tight for it through thick and thin, legardi- -s of consequen ces per-onal to hiiu-eif. When Luther said he witdd go to Worms, though u 1 th" tile. on the houses wo--e deviis, he talked like a reformtr When he took hi hie in bis hand, and v ;in to Worm-, be noted like a reformer WlunMr. Schurz, in a fine g inburst of el.quenee, in bis speech at the Cincinnati Conven tion, denounced the cry of "Anybody to b at Grant" as paltry and dishonorable, he talked like a reformer. When he stood with blanched cheek and pal-ied tongue, and allowed Governor Brown to override the rules of thu convention over which he pre-ided, ate! when a few d.y after he penned th. article for th; 'Ve.-f-'e.'ie 7W, in which fie te his brave words and adopted as the .rule of his own conduct the "paltry cry" he had so recently and so vigorously denounced, he acted bke a moral coward. A rcai re former, is a reforms tor, is a man of deeds a - well as words. A bogus reformer is a man whose active campaigns rarely ful fil! the hopes excited by the high-sjUTid-inc phia-cs of his rronunciamtntos. In other words, to use a homely phrase, he is "all talk and no cmrr. utB ni; ri u i tinr.R, ISiff Ffeiirtti, 15 iu: Fn?linn. Ttij- blnner lilt; I'lKrt', Ac. Calhoun, Washington Co., Nebni-ka, July 8, J 872 j Mr. "Tip Top : I an; ghul to learn. from "others," that you are prospering in, and helping to, make Plaft.-mouth pio-perous. I believe that you do even now consider it be a city, very beautiful for situation, and a joy to Cas county. at lea-t, and having a very cosmopolitan population for there dwell together Jews and Gentiles, Irish ancients, Eng- li'htucn from Knglauds old and new. Russians. Poles, French and German, and I suppose. Chinese, Cretes aud Arab: .satis, all -people good and kind, as I proved them to be, at least the genera tions of 1S6S and JS71. Piattrmouth i.- an ancient city, and large, for the State of Nebrarka, "a cot dly bairn, for a Uiithor so young " Has Plattsmouih ever heard of her little but fairer si-ter, Decatur? Have you become unfaithful to, or forgetful of your first love? Ol all that I have heard you herald since you left her caresses and crossed the Platte, I've not heard you even breathe her name. Have you told our cousins aud aunt "Cass" that aunty Burt h s tens of thousands of mos beautiful fer tile land. to idve them for less than some of th,eui pay as taxes per iicre, in her own possessions. Have you told your cousins of our gold n tpting-, our grand valleys, and stately aud immeuse forests? Let me help to keep you iu mind of De calur and Burt, by telliug y ou of her latest good deed, and grand. She invited all the good people of Burt and Wiuoua couuties, and the original Omahas, to visit her, diue and make merry with her in c lebiaring the Fourth. On that gloriou- day, 1 beheld, and lo! a booth pavilion, extending from the grand Fuller House under the trees, to Goodelfs corner, within it two tables extending its whole length, and capable of accommodating at one sitting nearly 700 guests. Midway, in front of Main 6treet, an orchestra and speaker's stand, and on the right are Ice Cream and Lemonade stands. This was at S o'clock a. nl. Ten came, andlo! teams from the north and from the south, from the east and from the west, came in numbers great, bringing the old and the young, the grave aud the gay. At 11 30 the street and square presented a grand aud pleasant sight a va-t and cheerful throng. Ou the stand, fair creatures all eUd iu white, and arrayed with blue sashes, bearing on their 1 feasts the limine of the States the oid -t beariu thu nme. of the :de-t, I and on i be bo oiu of the youngest v. a- 1. ....... ...... . .1... . ........uw sruip 1hrn i Lrri.il tliai ci i.ti--wiii!i.-i a i or at in, by Col. Warner, of Dakota ; then music aud song and an oration fiom layt l JdiU-or., of Ttkauiih. Then mu B.e, v..cal ani mai tial ('ouipiiments, vu cts of thanks, then a war-dance by the ancient Omahas, very awful utid bar barous But then came a scene of peace, for behold ! the tables were laden with all good- things. They had been deKiited thereon silently as the Manua, bestowed on the camp of Israel in ancient days. Full 1,000 dined and feasted at those tables, between the hours of 1:30 and 3:00 that day. There then was mu sic an d crackers. The Iudians got their ox, &c, slaughtered it, and I suppose supped theiton. The eveniug gleamed with fire works, the lighted hall with the brightness of the dance. The morning of the fifth arose silent, calm and clear. The 4th, No. SO, had passed away ! XENoraoN. Plattsmouth, July 13, 1S72.. Ed. Hkkald: Geu. 'Livingston, it is ?aid, in bis speech at the Democratic Greeley arid Brown ratification, at Fitz gerald's Hall, last Thursday evening, deuounced the "Ku-Klux act," and so called ' force bills,", as "a transfer of shackles from the limbs of black to the bodifcs of white men. He held in gen eral terms that the Republican party has accomplished its real and legitimate mis sion ; that it present measures and poll cy are extreme proscriptive and un-Re-publican; that the "bloody cbasm' sh- u!d be closed, &c. So far the Gen eral's speech was a very fair average Democratic argument. But when he made his application, " therefore, vote for Greeley," he played the mischief with logic, consistency, and fact, and must have sounded queer to the ears of his audience. "Therefore vote for Gree ley," the advscnta of all the radical re construction acts of Congress, who only last year said iu his Tribune "I therefore, on every proper occasion, advocated, and ju-tified the Ku K!ux act I hold it es pecially desirable for the South; and if it does not prove strong enough to effect its purpose, I hope it wiil be made stronger and stronger.'' And again, in .May, '70, 'The law applies only to Presi dential aud Congressional elections, though wo heartily wish it could be made to apply to all others." Thee wre Greeley's words one year ago. They have never b en revoked ' Therefore, Democrats, vote for Gree ley." Republican. 'I be Mihihiij. The Signal, published at Ventura, California, thus enumerates the valuable poitits of this hor-e : "The mustang, or native Calif orni; horse, like the Indian, wi;l s-oon be num beied amonir the things of the past. With all hi.-defects, he has qualities and points of ra.c value, and should b-i pre served. He can tbiive and subsist w here the American aud English bloods would starve; is fleet, and assure footed as the mule, while his powers of endu rance in the harness or uudtr the saddlo ate umqualled. He is small of stature, but as symmetrical as the Arabian wild bv nature, and ofieu vicious, but always .-piiiled, and, with proper train im: and kind treatment, frequently ex hibiis all the afftctiouate sensibilities of the best breeds. It is no uncommon feat for him to carry a good rider 100 unles in a day, and it is churned that many of them c-m go much farther iu tiiat time. We have seen specimens that at. the a:e of 16 years were as gay and tierv as the be.-t blooded fave year old a;id that would kdl the most enduring of tht ui on u short or long journey. A saddle horses, thev are prefened, by all who know them best, as they are also for I fcht woik. It has always seemed o us passing strange that no attemp.t lias ever yet been made in California to prcscive the admirable qualities or tuts ancient stock of horses in their purity, lo per mit them to ignobly pci ih, as now seems nke!y, would tie as singular as unfor tunate. v hoover undertakes and sue cee ls in brerding him up to a higher peilectiun, or preserves his present mer its, will cam a name and a fortune. 'I' lie Fur Truile. Few of our people comprehend the magnitude of the lur trade which tin an outlet through our city, the larger share of w hich is controlled by Me.-.-rs. Duriee & Peck, of the Northwestern Tian.-por ation Cotej.any. Including those iu tiansit from above, the firm h'ju- this year secured forty tons of antelope and deer skins. On an average these skins weigh two and a half pounds each, which makes a total of 32 OQO skins, worth at least culcu'ation $d7.K)0 The Hceumulation of buffalo robes readied 10.000 and, estimating these to be worth 6 50 each, which ia low estimate, their value" is $00, 000. There arei the skins of L000 wolves, 1,000 foxes, 500 elk, and bOO beaver e-timated to be worth $15. 000. In addition to tho above there are skins of bears, wildcats, jack rabits, bad gers, mu-krats, minks, etc, the total val ue of w hich is placed at $5,000. bVoi.x City Journal. Of the adoption of Greeley by the Democrats, the Nation says : "It must be admitted the nomination of Greeley by the Democrats will be, on the whole, the mo-t ludicrous which ever overtook a great organization. We know of noth ing in sacred or profane litcmture to which it can be likened, except the rush of the swine, in th- New Testament, "down a steep place into the sea." when the devils entered into tbeni. The party in electing Greeb y ipse fa cm ppr ishes. and perishes in the tuoit ignoble way." '! he people of the State of Nebraska may safely conclude that the present surveys being made in this State are cor rect, and that the surveyors are doing their duty, by the character of the men pitching into them. The marriage cermony in Japan con sists of the man and woman drinking wine from the same cup. Divorce is not uiuch more elaborate thin tutrriage. The hu-band give the wife a piece of rater with a few lines of characters on it. and the knot is untied. A translation of t e lines is given by recent corres pondent as follows. "I no likee you, I thinkee you likee other man more better. I give you piece a paper, loa can 20. Goadee by." PURISSLMA ET OPTIMA. r - - " i.iBlf a ilm " " '--s -jj Th:3 nnrivallrd Medicine i.s warranted not to roiitu n a i-gle p:irt-cle ol ' Mr-cury, or any in jurica mineral suVwim.ee tut is P U K E LY V i: 1 K I A 1? L K. For forty ear it has proved its crcat vtdue in nil difefSO( the Liver. JJ.iwI:-. and Kidneys 'i ho'.sai'ils ol the tc'od nmt ri eat in ull p rts of the country vouch fi r - wcii.terlul and peeu lirri'owe lr purifying the blood, stnuul.i inff th t iptd ! vcr mid bowels, and imparting new lis nd Vi,or to th whole PVincni. 8uu nions' Liver Regulator i.-aL-knoledicd to have i.o equal as a LIVER MEDICINE. It contains four medical element , rover uni ted in the sume-haipy proportion in auy other pr paration vii . a Kentle Cathartic, a wonder ful Tooie, an un-exceptionatile Alterative and a certain Corrective ofall iunurilia of the body Such nirfiial FDfcefifl had attuudei its use, that it is now ririrdrl nstho GREAT UNFAILING SPI CITC, for Liver Complaint 8'id the painful oil'spring thereof, tt-wit. Dyepep-iii, oi;s:iiiiti n. Jaundice Bilious at a ks sick hcid.u-ho, (.'olio li :'preNinn of Spiriti, Sjour sjtuuiacu. Heart Burn. Ac Ae. Rt-gula e -lie liver and prevent. ClilhLS AND FEVER. Prepared only by J. 11 ZF.ILIN .t CO. Dru'irists, Mniiin, Ga. Send for a Circular t and ::'9 Arch street. Price 61; by imiil l.?5 ) Philad. lphia Pa. For Sale by j R BUTTERY, janrwly. Plattunouth, Neb. A grand chance to obtain choice building" lots, at pri ces and terms to suit the times. I am now offering to sell lots in my addition from $3 to S Each, from ono third to one-half down and the balance payable in six, nine and twelve months, according to the value of the lots, with ten per cent interest. tk&A discount often per cent will be made for cash. This is certainly ono of the finest chances ever offered in Plattsmouth to parties of limited means, to secure a piece of ground upon which to erect a home. My lots are beautifully situated and nearly all are covered with aline growth of young forest trees. Come and look at them. No charge maae for showing. S. DUKE. July 5th 1872. 10d2wl4wtf Shsrifrs Sale. By virtue of an -order of sale, issued out of the District Court for Cuss county, Nebraska, and to me directed, I will, on the 5th day of August, A. D. 1872. at one o'clock p. in. of said day, at the uth front door of the Court House, in the city of Piattstuouth, in said county, sell at auction, the following real estate, to-wit : The northwest quarter (i) of the southwest (i) anil the southwest quarter (i) of the northwest (i) and the southeast quarter (1) of the southwest quarter (i) of section No. eleven, (J 1) a""d the northeast quarter () of the northwest, quarter (i) of section No. fourteen (11), all situated in township No. twelve (12), north of range No. thirteen (13) east of the sixth principal meridian, in Cass county Nebraska, ac cording to the government survey. Sold to satisfy a decree of foreclosure ren dercd at the April term, A. D. 1871, of the said District Court, in favor of Thomas E. Tootle, and again.-1 A. G Barnes and Lucinda Barnes. Given under my baud this 3d day of July , A. D. 1872. J W. JOHNSON, Sheriff C-ss Co. Nebraska Maxwell fc Cuapman, 14-5tw Pi ff's Att'y's. Notice. M. SLAUGHTER, is hereby no 1 J 1 TV J 1 1 - 1 1 1 tih'-d that omiifii ijiuid li:i.- this day commenced a suit at law in the District court for Cass county and Mate of Nebra-ka, rainst him tha said W M. Slaughter and others akin the court to compel him the s-rid W M. blauuh ter fo perfect a deed nude by hiiu the said Slaughter to the said Child dat&i May 30th ls57, purporting to convey to the said Child the north halt 01 the south west quarter of section twenty-two in township twelve, 01 range thirteen cast of sixth principal meridian, of land in saiil Ca s county, which cause will be set for hearing at t c September term of said court for the year 1S72. July 5th. 1872. D. W. McKINNON, Clerk of; aid court. M. Gaston, Att'y. 15wft FIRST NATIONAL BANK, OF PLATTSMOUTII NEBRASKA. SUCCESSOR IO Tootte, Manna & Clark. John FiTzr.irRALn. frenident. John R. Ci.akk, C'uih ier. C. If. PlPMK.t.K. Pi t'rrHidfr.t T. W. Evans. A't Canhier. This Banlc is now open for hu?ine' at theit new room, corner Main a d sixth ntrect3, and are prepared to transact a tce.icral Banking Business. Stock.', Bond". Gold, Government and Lociil Securities Lought and Sold. DopoeitS Received an J Interest allowed On time Certificnts Draft drawn, available in any part of the United State and in all the principal towns ana Cities ol Europe. FOR THE C E L E B R A T E D AND ja.x-xE.rj iiriE3 OF S T E A M E R S. Person -"ishinirto brinir out r ends from Europo can purchase tickets from us, through O elatumuuih. a . . 1 Prcbate Notice. VOl ICE is hereby given to alt persons having accounts or claims against the estate oi' Robert M. Latta deceased are notified to file the same in the Office of Probate Judge, Plattsmrerh. C -s County Nebraska on or before the 22 f dav of January' A. D ls73. July 10th. A D. 1S72, II. E. ELLISON, Probate Judge. Ir3 ft e-zz J, 9 Ay si S"ATE AGENT r4 , . IIALu AUAV'o PATtNT WIND MILLS. DOUBLE AND SIXGLE ACTING FORCE AND FA KM PUMPS, FEED KILLS, ETC., TERMS LIBERAL. The IIuIl.tdiiT M ill hi Mood the tort for sit -teen yours, hotli in thu United States and Eu rope and is the only one Generally adopted by all Principal Rail roads and Farmers. Send for catuloKue and rriee lini.-jrt A. L. Bl'r.ANd. aplSwtf Lincoln Nebraska. T HE 13 E S T IS ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST -:0: For Your Groceries Go To Corner Third and Main Streets, PlatUimouth. :o: "5?IIo keeps on hand a . hoice and well selected Stock of Fancy Groceries, Coffees, Teas, Sugar, Sxrup. N to., Slo. Ac. 4Also a good assortment of Boots k Shoes.' . ::0. In Connection with the Grocery is a Bakery & Confectionery I iAll kinds of Country Produce bought end S.ild Take notice of tho sign "EMPIRE BAKF.KY AND UHOCoKY. iiihj lti tl. Miinucturcr of Ipr A N D D E A L E R IN Darntss, Sables, griblts, OOLLAHH, WHIPS, Blankets, Brulies, &c- aMaiiBim.i:ji Promptly Executed. All work Warranted -FIN HARNESS A SPECIALIT Y.- Nov. SO.wtf Piattsmoith, Neb Legal Notice. August Murphy non resident defendant, will take notice that on the li2ud d ty f June 1872, Wiliiam Stadehiunii liici his petuiou, in the District Court ol the 2 J Judicial District iu and for Cass County Nebraska the object and prayer of which is to recover a judgement, against y ou, for the sum of $108.90 and interest from April IS, 1871, at lo per cent on a promisory note of said date aud that said plaintiff has caused an order of attach ment to be issued iu said cause, and has Cituseu lot JO, iu fjiOcit cS, in .tadulm.'iuu s Addition to the City of DJattsuioutb, Nebraska. Plaintiff prays judgment against you for the sum of $lu8.'JO and interest from the 18th day of April J 871, and that tho said lot may be sold under said atta-h-mt ut and applied to the payment of said judgment. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 10th day of August, 1872. WILLI A M STADKLM ANN. Maxwell & Chapmam, 14 5w. His Attorneys. tariff's Sale. II. L. R. Stiles, plaintiff, vs. John Snyder and William Snyder, defend ants: Notice is hereby given that I will offer for .-ale at public auction on Monday the 2'Jth day of July A. D. 1H72, by virtue and authority of an order of sale t6 mc directed find issued by the clerk of the District Court of the Second Judicial District in and for Ca-s county. Nebras ka, at the front door of the Court House in the city of Piattstuouth in s;iid eoun ty. at one o'clock p. in. of said day the following described leal estate, to-wit: Lot No. five (."), in block No sixty three (OS), in Plattsmouth city together with the frame dwelling house situated thereon, upon which building and lot of ground II. L. R. Stiles has a Mechanic's Lien. Given under my baud this 2jth day of June, A. D. 172. J. W. JOHNSON, Shetilf ('ass county, Neb. Maxwell & Chapman, Defendant's Attorneys. n!3w5. Sheriff's Sale TY virtue of an Order of Sale i-stied - out of the Di drict Court for Cass county, Nebraska, and to mc directed, I will on the 12th day of Aueut A. D. 172, atone o'clock p. m. of said day at tho south front door of the Court House in the City of Plattsmoutlrfin said countv sell at auction the following described real estate, to-wit : Begining at a point 113 feet cast and 1780 feet south of the north-west corner of section no. twenty seven (27) in town ship no. ten (10) north, of rane no. (13) thirteen, cast of the 6th p. in.; thence e.ist forty (40) teet, thence nTtli one hundred and twenty 1 12J f -t; th- west forty (40) teet and ttc -i'i one hundred and twenty (l:M)fo t n tl... Iafe of begininnir, au l aisotle' li del uilding Situated thereon: all of said de scribed real estate beintr situated in I'ao toryville, Cass county, Nebr-ka. Sold to satisfy a inehanu; s hen in fa vor of John Ballaotine. William Ballau t'm and George E Brasrjr. - 1 Given under my hand this 10th day of July A. D. 1872. J. W. JOIl.NSUN, Sheriff Cass Co. Maxwell & Cuapman, Attysfor Pf 15w5.