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5 E f.- r Red Cloud Chief. ii 'ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY," AND $l.SO A YEAR IS THE PRICE OF THE CHIEF. VOL. XL RED CLOUD, WEBSTER COUNTY, NEB., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1884. NO. 29 The 1 RED CLOUD CHIEF EVERY FRIDAY BV A. C. HOSMER. RATES OF eCBSCElITION: Ob eoiy. one year, - - fl 60 0 eoy. six months, - 75. Ob onr. four month. - 50. Entered at tho Postofflse in Red Cloud as mat ttr of the second class. COUXTY OFFICFRS. John P. Bayha, County Cleric. Ch&s. Buschow, County Treasurer. Geo. O. Yeiser, Countv Judge. J. W. Warren, Sheriff tChas. W. Springer, Superintendent of Public Instruction. C. P. Rinkcr, County Surveyor. 4.M. Moena, County Coroner. J. E. Smith, ) Jacob L. Miller, v County Com. Jno. McCallum. ) Business Directory. THE lufing IBIUiiQry ShffB I J. A. FOWLER, Propreitor. J"xT First door north of the-National Bank. Red Cloud. T D. DENNEY M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and sleeping room over Cook's drug store. t DAMERELL, ST. Dn PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, REd Ci.our, Nerraska. ' Orriei: Oyr the new poetoffice. TQR. C.SCHENCK, PIIYSCIAN AND SURGEON, Cowle?. Nebraska. Professional calk promptly attended. prricg : At residence near Cowles. S-51 "f S. EM1GH. J" DE?-iT3$T. Isperm-ineutly located in Red Cloud. Neb., overStatpBank. 17-3m 1 i fW& Dr- h- a- Baird RESIDEFTDEHTIST. RED CLOUD, - NEBRASKA. Frank R. Gump, ) ATTOnN'EY AT -LAW. USD CLOUD. NEB. Collections receive Prompt attention. Orrtcr Over the new portoQco bnilding. Q R. CHANEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. State Bank block. Red Cloud. Neb C. W. Kaley. J- L. Kaley. Kaley Bros. TTOItKEYS AT LAW. RED CLOUD. NEB. Agents for the B. fc 31. R. R. Lands DWI2f C. 2IAWLEY, Attorney At Law, RED CLOUD. - - NEB J- f. S. GILHAM, ATTOKKEV AND COUMsELUli AT ua.n. Office opposite City Dntfj Store 'RED CLOUD. NEBRASKA 0. O. Caa. J itcNeny Case & McNeny, " t TTOP.KEYSi COUNSELORS AT L.AW. J Will j.ract"oin all the Courts of this Stats and northern Kin? m. Collection!' yell Iit istd bnine carefully n4 eeicntlyattend d to. Otrict:- First door snutn of National Dank, wstwr. RSD CLOUD. NEB. LVI "MoORF. Pro'dent. "Rob.Y. SniRKT Cat bier Stats Bank of Red M, RED CLOUD. XEB. (-) Special Attention Civen to Collec tion. DIRECTORS: Eila Garber. Levi Moore, &. D. Jones. F. "G. Goble, Robt. V. Shibkt. But and Fell Exchange. Make col jlltctionn. Discount Notes nnd do a General Banking Business. Interest Allowed ok "all Time DlPO'ITS. ltAL ESTATE LOANS! On Farm Property ! . In Southern Nebraska and Northern Kansas, at 8 and 9 per cent, interest Without Commission;! APPLT TO 11111 I RED CLOUD, MSB. KgUKKSKtSttililWIhlWi Q Furniture and Undertaking House ! Of R. L. Tinker, Red Cloud, Opposite Postofflce. My stock of Furniture and Mortuary Goods, the LARGEST and MOST COMPLETE ever brought to the the Republican Vallev and my prices can not fail to please. R.L-. TINKER. Wi STOO Come and Obtain Prices before you buy a Specialty of PUfifhSnir Pinto Come, come, Two Doors North Nebraska Lumber Co., -DEALERS IjY- LUMBEE, LATH, SHINGLFS, RED CLOUD, -)o(- DRY LUMBER A SPECIALTY, THE BEST IN THE MARKET AND box.i atithe:l.owest prices. riEW Furniture Store Four Doors North State Bank, RED CLOUD, Fmita, Picture Fraiws, UNDERTAKERS' GOODS R. E. HARESNAPE na & soi, Dealers' In Fresh Meats, Lard, POULTRY, Red Cloud, Nrs. Cash raid for hide k pclu. New Goods! A.T THE OLD RELIABLE - ' fifiyw e-wwa i AT Bitotliera one KflflTe UFI wl will you come, why don't you come ? GAKBER BEOS., of the State Bank. SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AC. NEBRASKA "N'iEIB'RASKA. tabis d M iros. EiHydHE BCEJjfrBfeP3Gf?iKHKnM fei2BtSn7hHPBpB"gBi New Prices! is iilf! elsewhere. We Ice ma R. A. SIMPSON. Notary Public, F. A. SWEEZY. .Attorney at Lair Hill Don!. us rem uaiiai SIMPSON & SWEEZY, BLUE HILL, WEBSTER CO., NEB. A General Banking Business Transacted. Special Care given to Collections, Farm Loans at Low Rates. .School Bonds Bought and Sold C0RRE5P0S DENTS: Kountze Brothers Bankers, New York City Bank. Omaha Nebraska. ) drtjG HEIJRYCOOK. Xoacor la. Drugs, Paints, Oils Notions, Wall Paper, Ac. Red Cloud, - Nebraska. HOUSE, -AND SIGN, Ornamental Painter, Paper Bfanger, Calciininer, Grafner, Decorater, Ete Etc. RED CLCUD. Orders eolicited. Prices reasonable, and work guaranteed. JEp Shoes. Etc. s bi Mi UtlElEi The Red Cloud Chief. A.C. HOSMER, Proprietor FRIDAY. FEB. 22, 1884. OUR JLWS SPEECH. Mr. Chairman : I move to- amend by striking out the last word. Believ ing as I do that that there is no place where the honor of an American sol dier ought to be so safe as in the hands of the representatives of the whole American people, I desire to say be fore this vote is cast that I shall vote first, last, and all the time for 4he vin dication of the honor of General Fitz John Porter. Applause. And let me remark to the gentlemen who seek to bring the menace of future punishment to bear upon the discharge of present duty that if I knew this act of mine would end my bodily existence as you say it may end my official one, then still would I do it : and I would I thank God thrttmv lovaltv to mv coun try as I understand her honor, that my loyalty to my general as I under stood my duty, that my loyalty to tho truth as I know it to be, was strong enough to lift my conduct above the possibility of ignominious change to come from cowardly considerations af fecting my life or future condition. I do this not because I am guided by the judgment of the Schofield board or the statement of Ulysses S. Grant, for I have not read the one and I have never considered the other. Nor are the convictions that I here hastily ex press the growth of a day ; they arc as the injustice he has suffered. I do it because I was with Fitz John Porter from the siege of Yorkton until the at tack of the enemy across the Chicka hominy, from that attack to the battle of Hanover Court-House, from that to Mcchanicsville. from thtit to Game's Mill, and throughout his career except when I was disabled by wounds ap plause ; and I want to say, Mr. Chair man, it is my deliberate judgment, speaking of what I know of Fitz-John Porter, that in all the great battles ol the English-speaking race from Ban nockburn to Gettysburg there ha3 not been mide by any soldier a record which demonstrates greater loyalty to the cause of his country than that made by Fitz-John Porter. Having seen him.on all his battlefields, I be lieve it can be sum oi him in action as was said of the soldier of old, "He was swifter than an eagle ; he was stronger than a lion ; and from the blood of the 6lain and the fat of the mighty his sword returned not empty." Mr. Steele. Does not the gentleman think Porter had his wings clipped at the battle on the 29th of August, 1862 ? Mr. Laird. At least his wings did not take him to tho rear on that day, as it did McDowell, who brought the courage of a quartermaster to bear up on tusks of a hero : and yet you say McDowell ought to be promoted be cause he went to the rear, and because Porter did not he ought to be shot. McDowell was ordered to move on night of the 27th the same as Porter. So were Reno and Kearney. Reno and Kearnev did not report until noon : Porter reported at 8 o'clock in the morning ; and McDowell did not move at all. The court of inquiry in his case condemned what he did, but excuse it on account of his conduct on the 30th. You who are so ready to condemn Porter for his delay of two hours on the 27th, why is it you never mention that his corps received orders at Har rison's Landing at 5 p. m. of the 14th of August to join Pope, and at 7 o'clock was under way for Fortress Monroe ? At sunrise on the 18th, though delayed forty-eight hours to guard bridges and trains, it encamped after a march of sixty miles at Hampton, having cover ed sixty miles in thirty-five hours, and by its rapidity reached Fortress Mon roe on foot ahead of the divisions of Reynolds, that came by transport. I will give the geutleman another il lustration of what I mean, and it is -with pain that I am obliged to refer to the fact that in all this debate there has not been on your side a single mention of the gallant conduct of Fitz John Porter and his corps on the 30tb of August 1863. When the fith corpse, headed by General Porter, moved to the assault of Jackson's troops in the sunken road, and when the effort to deploy, the column had resolved itseff into a great rush to get to the front where men could fire not at the ene my behind earthworks or a railroad embankment, but in a cut where noth ing but their heads was visible, nnd when the column was being cut down in platoons by the confederate artil lery, firing over the heads of their own men, there came ringing through the din of the battle the order of their general : ''Fix bavomcts and iump in to the ditch and bayonet them," and in a moment more, had not Longstreet swept across our rear, the bayonets of of the Fifth Corps would have been warmed in the -marrow of the troops of Jackson. Was that the language and the con duct of a coward? Since the Dutch king proclaimed that he would tear down the dykes and let in the ocean there has not been a braver speech. On the question of discretion I wish to say a word. I will cite an instance that will perhaps come home to the gentleman from Michigan Mr. Horr. He said their is no discretion, and there ought to be none, on the part of subordinate over the orders of superi or. When the columns of the confed erates at Gettysburg were advancing acioss the flank of the second brigade of the first division of the Fifth Army Corps, Colonel Jeffers, of the Fourth Michigan, holding the right of the line, asked leave of General Switzer to change front, hnd Switzer asked Gen eral Barnes, commanding the division, and that general sent back word "Tell General Switzer to advance with the second brigade." And when the re quest was repeated nnd Barnes had again ordered the advance it did ad--vance, to certain and senseless des truction, for the right of the brigade was surrounded in a 'minute, and the Fourth Michigan, as brave a regiment as ever leveled a musket, was annihi lated without an opportunity to return an effective blow, and Jefiers fell stab bed to death with bayonets while fight ing with a naked sabre over his colors. Let the advocates of "no discretion" tell me if their science of war teaches that subordinates in the face of a bet ter knowledge shall obey murderous orders, and slaughter thousands, and stand guiltless in history. We asked no immunity from death, we did ask that our lives should not be thrown away, and that we be not put where we were to be shot in the back. And when the "gentleman from Michigan heard, this did he go and stand before the battle-graves of this regiment, and looking into the gaping bnyoneC stabs in the body of Jefiers. sing, therein be ing assisted by the gentleman from Indiana Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to question why, Theirs but to do. and die ? Laughter and applause. One word to the gentleman from Irf diana. You say that Lincoln approved the sentence of the court-martial with a full knowledge of all the evidence. I deny it. Abraham Lincoln, "so slow to smite, so swift to spare, so great and merciful and just," never approved that sentence with a knowledge of the evidence. I loved the memory" of the dead Lincoln and all who died with him for the greatest cause that ever moved mankind, and I love the honor of the flag and the nation for which they died, and because I do I vote for the passage of thi3 bill. Applause. NOTES. California is at present producing" not far from $18,000,000 of gold and silver bullion annually. About 2,OSO,000,(MX) feet of lumber were cut by the Northwestern mills handling Minnesota" and West Wiscon sin pine last year. Cleveland's population inclndes 20,000 Bohemians, and no other city in the Un ion contains so many except Chicago, In the former city they maintain two newspapers, several churches' and one theatre. Iftheplancts are classified in the order of their rising during the present month, Neptune will take first plfjce. The other evening stars during Febru ary are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and "Ven us, while Uranus aud Mercury are morning stars California's canned fruit product has largely increased with the last decade. The product of 1875 aggregated in value about $500,000. In 1878 it had reached $1,250,000; in 1880, $1,300,000; and in 1882 the product if set down as worth $2,600,000. Four cents a piece was the price promised a sewing girl in Brooklyn for making eight dozen shirts, and then she had to bring suit to get-tire money, her employer alleging that the sewing' was defective. Judgment for the full, amount and $5" coss was rendered k her favor. 1 if ft .1 S I: it y .. - "? -- -ifc-. &3?. ,!' IIH HHMmi 11"" "jl? fS3!r'rTKirTTT' Jt"1" ' 1 .r?3g atxs - -? awMM lllgW r--.S JJifSe-g-Bf- JJgtf
