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The Treatment Of the Indians.

An Omaha Mo- correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Commercial says talk
about exterminating the Indians is
foolish buster, for they will not be
readily draw into that poetical de-
partment of history where they will
be known as a lost race. Nothing
will do this but an excess of kind
ness, or such O tremendous army Of
cavalry as would, on the score of
numbers and expense, be beyond all
common comprehension, He further
says:
Look at one of their warriors :;
at his flying pony with its few slender
thongs for saddle and bride. Look
at the expert rider as he dips from
side to side, With the wiriest horse
manship in the world. See how he
plunges over lodges where Israel Put
man would have blanched; through
crazy canon where a channels might
be happy. The plains are his forage
train and commissary department.
Horse and man seem the incest COM
pliment of each other, living and float
ing on the gallop, untettered by log
istics, and the slave to no conditions.
You cannot pursue and exterminate
the best cavalry in the world with in
eantry; nor can you overcome the
best cavalry by dragons that are
only tolerable. Advancing civiliza
ton, with its relentless grip of iron
garrotes the Indians, and the United
States Army must take advancing civ
ilization for an ally, and fight wait
ing battle. A general Indian war OIL
lanything like an adequate scale vii
be ruinous waste OF q treasure, dis
NAL record of fruitless suffering,
horrible story of barbarous murde
and mutilation, an era of blunderin,
and corruption such as the countr
has never known and never ought t
know. Whatever kindness the In
: dams will accept from US it is our il
6 terest to proffer. Hemmed in o
4 both sides by vehemently activ
a and multiplying race, his last street.-the
e of hunting ground pierced by swift
: encroaching railroads, it is not strang
$ that he grows FESTIVE. He mus
a yield and die; and human nature
: such straight is apt to put its bac
d to a wall and die hard. If we ca
t, win him from the war path and i
s duce him to die out in civilized wa
n a vast deal of useless murder will
avoided. But undertake to shoot hi
all to pieces and the West will co
l. tinue to smoke with the blood of Il
!. pioneer. Diplomacy can accompli
. great deal; but war will be eve f
&c !, eye, tooth for TOOTH"
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The Summer Session.


The Summer session of Congress
came to an end last Saturday, after
doing well its requisite work. The
declaratory reconstruction bill adopt
ed over the Presidents veto appears
to meet completely the difficulties
raised in the Cabinet and in the pro-
gress of military administration at
the South. The whole system now
for the reorganization of the rebel
'lious States would seem to be ad-
Ieouate, self-consistent and self-work-
ing under the practical supervision OF
Congress. President johnson has
succeeded in pushing himself entirely
off from its track, so far as interpos-
ing obstacles are concerned, however
much he may be inclined that way
But we do not draw the inference
from his veto message, which seems
to have been drawn by some members
of Congress, that he would set him
self in resistance to the execution OF
this last law. We think he knows
better than that. Undoubtedly he is
not friendly to its success, any more
or less than he is to the success of the
whole plan of which it forms a part ;
but that, of course, is something which
Congress has steadily taken into ac-
counts, indeed, the very thing
which originated and shaped the leg
islation of the summer session.
Outside of the reconstruction ques
ton, the action of the extra session
ill be found generally satisfactory
to the people. The resolution to at
tend to nothing else was understood
to apply particularly to the impeach-
ment topic, and, Notwithstanding thu
most strenuous eXertiOns of an able
minority, it was adhered to through
out. Some desperate tactical maneu
vers during the closing hours came
near breaking mp the programme, bu
they failed. The whole matter-testl
mony, reports and discusSions-goe
over to the regular session, whicI
meets a fortnight earlier than usual t.
facilitate its disposal. This is wis
step, for the President can do but lii
tie more in the meantime than t
throw light upon the pending que;
ton, and the country will then hav
arrived at a period when the Who'll
/. subject can be advantageously Sc
tied.
We regret that time was not allow
! ed in the Senate to settle some In
portant appointments. The ministr
to Mexico, for instance, ought to hav
been filled, though by better al
pointment than that Of General Nj
Clernand. We also rather regrt
Il the failure of Horace Greeley's col
: frmation as Minister to Austria. "
have sufficiently manifested our oil
approval of Mr.. Greeley's course G
some matters of late, but he is an ho
: est man, with ten times the capacit
Il Of the majority of our diplomat
representatives, and he is no supper
} er of President johnson. His tailur
: however, appears to have been Who'll
) due to the self conceit of a new mel
Der, who doubtless thought he W;
Il wiser than all the Senators who ha
+ grown gray in the public service al
+ in devotion to Republican principle
! T Boston .Journt
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SHERMANs DUPLICATED PLANs.-
The following anecdote of the war
we do not remember to have seen be-
fore: 3D..
Sherman, on his march toward
Atlanta, constantly astonished the
rebels with the facility with which he
restored the railroad bridges they
destroyed at his approach. They
would annihilate bridge just before
he arrived, and the next morning there
it was again, just as it was before
they touched it, At last a light dawn.
ed upon them. The original plans
for the bridges had all been furnish
ed from Cleveland, Ohio, and before
Sherman started he took those plans,
had each bridge duplicated in its
1timbers and iron work, took the
pieces in shook state on his trains,
and so, when he found bridge gone
he had nothing to do but to get its
mate out Of the freight cars, bolt il
together and put it up. This thing
I worried the rebels a good deal wher
then found it out. One day they pro
posed to destroy the Dalton tunnel tc
hinder Sherman's march, but an ex
asperated rebel said: What in the
nations the use }? That id Sher
man has probably brought another
one along with him from Cleveland 7
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A New Book of Thrilling Interst.

SEVEN YEARS OF. A SAILORS LIFE. A
Narrative of Voyages in Merchantmen and
Ships of War, Coasting, Trading and tlshlng
Vessels ShIpwrecks and Disasters IN the
Indian Ocean aud Gulf Stream Captivity
and Suferngs among t h e Soumaules OF
Eastern A RIGA; Wanderings and Adventures
in the Nubian Desert, Hndostan, ana me
East Indies Together with an inside view
ofservice on Union Gunboats and Blockaders
and of the perils of the Fisheries on the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland. BY George
Edward Clark, yankee Ned" o + Lynn
Mass. With nine full page Illustrations, en-
graved from the Authors sketches.
This new book. is one of intense in.
terest; and we venture to say that
no work has of late years been pub
lished which presents so vivid and
truthful a picture of "life on the ocean
wave " 1t has been said, mo one but
a sailor can write a sailors book,
and here we have an evidence Of what
sailor can do. So graphically
is every page written, that, as We
read. we can almost hear the wine
whistling among the shrouds, snuff W
the salt air, and see the white spray
on the vessels path. The descrip
tions of storms at sea are perfect,
thrilling, while the delineations OF
the queer games and antics Of sailor:
and others are irresistably prOvoca
tive of laughter. There is no dul
sermonizirg; incident follows inciden
as regularly as the waves Of tn
ocean, and whether on sea or LAND
among civilized or unciyilized mer
the writer interests his reader.
The book forms fine large voium
Of nearly 400 pages, handsomel
printed and bound. The illustration
are fine specimens of art, and repre-
sent places and scenes not familiar t
the generality OF readers.
Price Two Dollars. On receip
Of which, copies will be mailed to an
address, postpaid. Adams & Go
Publishers, % Broomield Stree
Boston.
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The Cruelty Of Wirz,

The efforts of Mr.. Louis Schade,
Wirz's counsel, to whitewash the mem.
DRY Of the Andersonville jailor, has
brought out some testimony from an
eye witness Of his crueIties. L. j.
Perry, of the Waupacca wis., Cri,
terion, who served as a nOn-com-
missioned officer in the Second Wis
consin, in the army Of the Potomac,
was taken prisoner and confined at
Andersonville, writes in his paper
as follows:
In the war we had the misfortune
to be captured by the rebels, and
served as prisoner twenty months.
during the greater part Of which time
we were in the hands of the demon
whom they (the Democratic papers)
led by Schade, are making a martyr
of. During that horrible blank in our
life, we saw him knock down and
stamp upon sick Union prisoners, who
were too weak to get out of his way
we saw and heard him order a rebe
guard to fire at a group of Union
prisoners, which order was obeyed
by which means a Union soldier was
MANNED for life by the loss of a leg
we saw him once manacle two men to
gether and then whip one of them will
a riding whip, until the man coul(
not stand; we saw four men sho
dead coolly and deliberately, by rebe
guards under his orders. who wer
murdered without cause; we saw dur
ing the twenty months, not less thai
} fifty bodies of brother Union soldier
so murdered; we have heard Wir2
at Richmond, order and even urge hi
guard to kill every prisoner the
could, plausibly; we heard him sa
more than a hundred times that ever
id Yankee prisoner in the Sout
ought to be hung; we know that hi
d watchwords were kill, STAY, destroy
d and last, but not least; while thos
q thirty thousand wretched beings wei
: literally starving in Andersonvil
= during the months of July and Angus
/ 1854, his expressions of demoniac d
r light were often heard. We hear
,e him say at that time if the North coul
h be whipped by starving prisoners,
4 could put a quietus to thirty thou
- and in short meter.
u All this, and numberless other ACT
,r which convinced us all that he was
+. cruel, relentless, blood-thirsty ma
s. and that human suffering and priv
"a ton was what he lived upon.
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CALIFORNIA POLTTICs.-A despatch
announces that the old quarrel in the
Union party in California between
the 'long hairs and "short hairs" has
eliminated in putting a second Union
ticket in the field by the former. John
BidwelI, late Member of Congress
from that State, is at the head Of it.
He is the owner of one of the largest
farms in the world, and is sound,
practical and honest, though not brill
liant, man. The other candidates on
the State ticket are the same as those
on the Gorham ticket, with the excep-
ton of Secretary of State Comptrol
Ter and State Printer. If the party
is equally divided. as it appears tc
be, by the two wings, the Copper
heads will carry the State. By {
change in the Constitution in 1852
the Governor and other State officers
hold Office four years. Three-fourths
if not more, OF the influential Unior
papers OF California are now for Bid
we'll. The Union vote of Californi;
at the Presidential election was 40
far from 10000 and the Democrat
| 10000, The '1ong hairs" plead fou
play in the former convention as
justification for their action.
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SUICIDE.-Abram Ward, an Eng
lishman by birth, but naturalized
citizen, and for many years resident
of this town, committed suicide last
Sunday night by hanging.
Ward had been sick for some
months, and had given such evidences
of desire to make way with himself
that it was thought prudent to have
watchers. A Mr. Curtis Bean was
watching with him on Sunday night,
who says that Ward having gone very
quietly to sleep, he Bean, trusted him
self to 90 to sleep also. Upon awak-
ing he missed his patient, and upon
search, found him in the shed-dead
hung by his neck. Ward has always
been a hard working man; but al
times given TO habits Of intemperance
He was about sixty years of age,
LamoiiLe Ne,csdeaIer
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4 SPLENDID Cow.-Mr Dwight
Johnson, Of Vernon, has native COW,
8 years old, which in 16 days from
the I'd inst, has given 500 lbs. 6 OF.
of milk. The greatest yield in one
day was II ID lbs. From the Sth to
the 18th, inclusive she gave 31S lbs.
-Four quarts taken out of one milking
(not the strippings) weighed 10 81
lbs. and made II ounces Of butter J;
which would give for the best I days
20 IL lbs. of butter, and for the
whole time over ? "a lbs. of butter
per day. The pasture was hardly as
good as the average, and the only mess
the COW had was three pints Of meal
per day.-Bea. Banner.
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The following items we take from

the Newport Express:
Coop SHEEP. Henry Miller OF
Westfeld, has eve 10 years old,
that has brought him Is lambs. From.
two of these lambs, now four years
old, he recently sheared 10 lbs. OF
wool, and afterward sold them for SO
their weight being 272 lbs. Three
years ago he sold one of the lambs:
seven months old, for six dollars,
which this spring sheared IA II lbs.
of wool.
VALUABLE Cow.-Dr. j. A. Bow
ker, of Charleston, has a COW five
years old which weighs 116O lbs
One days milk in Jnne weighed 81 IL
lbs, and butter made during four
days-when it was necessary to break
into the milk to supply neighbors-
weighed in the proportion of IA lbs.
to the week. This beats Wheelock's
COW reported in the Standard last
week, and is ahead of anything in
Orleans County yet heard from.
FOUND DEAD.-We learn that yes
terday Monday about shutdown, Mr..
Simeon Gage, Of Fitch Bay, G. e., an
old gentleman about 10 years Of age,
was found dead beside the road lead
ing from Stanstead Plain to Fitch Bay.
A little later, a boy rode into the vii
lage Of Beebee Plain, on horse whose
legs and body were covered with fresh
cuts and scars, and said the horse had
run away with man and killed him
From these circumstances it is sup
posed Mr. Gage was returning home
from Stanstead, and that his horse
ran away with him, and either by
throwing him from the carriage, Oh
kicking him, caused his death.
SAW Mill BURNT.-Last Friday
night the saw-mill at Newport Center
belonging to Messrs. Bartlett & Jun
kins was burned with small quantity
Of logs and sawed lumber. The fire
was discovered about l o'clock, bu
had made such progress that it coulC
not then be eXtinguised, or anything
saved. There had been no fire abou
the mill, and it is thought it mus
have been set purposely, or caught &C
eidentally from some straggler smok
ing about it. Loss about $4,000; in
sured in the Vermont Mutual 70
$500.
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The movement among the whites
of Virginia to organize a Republican
Party continue to be pushed with
vigor. A meeting was held in Buck
ingham on the Sth, participated in by
several prominent "Confederates,
which approved the call of the CON-
ing Republican State Convention
The Richmond Whig says: 1.-THE Al
bemarle fever is contagious, and
threatens to become an epidemic" 1t
adds:
1t must now be manifest to every
rejecting man that the Republican
Party will carry Virginia; that il
will have the Convention; that it viii
frame the Constitution, and elect the
State officers and the Representative;
in Congress, and that no opposition
of ours can avail against it..
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THE LARGEST HOG YET.--Mr

THE LARGEST Hoe YET.-Mr.
James A. Pollard, the excellent super
intendent of the Vermont State Pris-
son, at Windsor, has probably the
largest hog in New England. At all
events we should be happy to hear
of a larger. 1t measures in the girt
6 feet, 4 inches. In height, 3 feet,
81-2 inches. In length, 10 feet from
the end of his nose to the end of the
4caudat appeasdage." The "marratire"
is % inches in length, leaving the
length of the body of the hog 8 feet,
2 inches; age about l6 months. The
estimated weight is about 1000 lbs.
Who has larger p Bellows Falls
Times. 4om 9la DIR 5aa
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Boston Live Stock Market.
CAMBRIDGE AND MEDFORD
For the Week ending Wednesday, July "a, 1861
Amount Of Stock at Narl,at

Cattle. Sheep. Shotes. FatH Hogs. Veals
This week, 1920 60l7 600 1900 500
Last week, 2003 8066 600 1920 400
year ago, 1874 $3.50 275 I7OO 200
BEEF-Per 100 lbs. on total weight of Hide
IalioW and Meat, Extra, Sl4,00 SI4,2 First
quality, $1,000 a s 1875; Second quality, 1920
a Si2,I5; Third quality. $1,000 81, 70: a few
choice single pairs 500 90 a 500. 90 some of the
poorest, Cows, Bulls, &c, $3.50 $500.
working OXen--S2O0 a $500; handy Steers
$3.50 $500, or much according to their value fer
beef
Cows and Young Calves-Fair quality, $50
So0' extra, $50 Sl15; farrow and dry, $40 &
sbeep-Per!b., live weight, 5 &c; extra, 6l-2
a. o0O CTS. Sheep and Lambs, per head. in lots,
1925 $500.
Fat Hogs-Per H., 7I-2 Sets. live weight
SShotes-Wholesale, 90 cts, retail, Ga 90 cts
Pigs, 90 90 90 cts. per III.
Veal Calyes-S6,00 $1,000.
HIdes-Brighton, 10 ii c. per b.; country
lots ID 10 cts.
Calf Skins-20 pc.
NATURALIZATION, s 90 a s IL cts per Ib;coun-
try lots, 6 liza IL cts.
Lambs 50c shorn 33c; Wool, 50, 90 50, 90.
REMARKs.-There were 435 Northern cattle
at the Cambridge market, and some $50 Western
sent over from Brighton, which number was tax
en- by the butchers as confirmation of the report
of large nImber of Western at Brighton. The
holders of Western stock at Cambridge manifest
ed unusual anxiety both to show and to SELL
! Consequently the butchers demanded conces-
sions to price, particularly on the Ordinary 70
slim stock, to which grades most of the Northern
belonged, and more of the Western than usual
Some of the droyers comprChendingt the situation
at glance hurried off their sales as fast as pos
slble; while Others hoping there wouldn't be
much of a shower after all, held on to their
stock until they found it was the wrong week
for spunky Orindependent droTers \ G Batch
elder sold cows for SOL, for S93, and iol
go each; or from 10 to lie. per b.. and bulls
for Sc; ]. NJ. Hutchinson l bull $4,000, or Sc
per h., and three-year-old steers and a heG
for stores at $50 each; l cow $50, for $40,
for Sl75, or 10 to lie. per 10. NJ T. Shacket
cattle to years old at IL lie. 40 SIX. Their
were no cattle from Maine, but 40 Western were
bought to feed the farmers and others of that
State. Western sold from IL I-2 to II lie
probably "a of all at 10 TO 1920. Western,
LISA.
The mutton butchers complain that they maze
little or nothing on Northern sheep or lambs ihf
: year. There were $500 Northern, and 240O Wet
ern Trade quiet, and full as favorable to dro7'
ers. Levi Lock sold 100 at 1915. ]. B. Gordon
= III at $500. S Hastings l27 at S40O. \. T.
Rice sold I24 lambs at s425, and so sheep at6c'
per 10. D. Hopkins lot at 1878 &c.
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The EFFECT OF MAXMILIAN's
DEATH IN EURoPE.-The New York
Times correspondent Monadnock"
says the news Of Maximilian's death
has made a deep and painful impress
sion all oyer Europe, The Pail Mall
gazette says, speaking Of the political
bearings Of the intelligence:
The excitement in Paris is repre-
sented by English correspondents as
very strong. And it takes a singular
course. 1t is not the Emperor who is
blamed for leaving Mexico, and aban-
doning Macmillan to his fate, but the
American Government, that obliged
him to do so. Then, it is said, Amer
lea might have saved him if she had
really wished it. When one earnest
word would have saved his life she
had allowed him to perish. Why
A reason must be found, and they
have discovered that Russian influence
is the bottom of it all-Russia, for
her own purpose in the East, wishing
to embroi France with America.
need scarcely say that there is surging
iup of other bitter memories. Little
is said at this time Of the defunc
Confederacy; but the death Of Max
imilian reminds its over-enthusiastiC
advocates that there was time wheI
England might have joined Will
France to secure at once independents,
to the South and an empire in Mex
leo. There is more than one Banquo'
t ghost at the Paris feasts. There is
ghost of crushed Poland, of dismem
| bered Denmark, of Hanover trample
1 under foot, of plundered Frankfor
of defeated Austria, beside the ghost
that are peering through the glool
: across the Atlantic.
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A Paris correspondent says: :" /
CHANGED the other day, in the EXPOSE
ton. among the antiquities, upon
some artillery Of the middle of the
eighteenth century, in the Danish De.
partment, and was not little sur
'prlsed to find not only rihed cannon
of that period but breech-l leaders.
wonder if they had them in Nineveha,
or if Noah's ark was steam pro-
|peller." ga tfiA s &
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A man seventy years Of age has
been sentenced in Kentucky to be
hung in Angus for murdeffng his
wife.
A strong solution Of Epson salts
in water is said to be the best remedy
for burns in any stage.
The Jackson (Mississippi) Clarion
suggests Gen. James Longstreet for
Congress, as Senator from Louisi-
Reverend w. II. Greene, who was
in Litchfeld Jail on the charge of
numbering his wife by poison, escaped
from the Jail July II.
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DIsHoNEsT.-An honest hard work
ing Frenchman, Achen Landre, living
in Waltham, took into his house last
week a fellow countryman, who APP
peared to be very i'll, Landre acted
the good Samaritan to his guest, pro-
cured a physician and with his wife
nnrsed him assiduously. When the
sick man had recovered he repaid the
kindness shown him by stealing all
the money Landre had, a new suit of
clothes throughout, hat, boots, shirt
coat, vest and pants, and disappeared
He was traced to Ferrisburgh but no
found.-RMLand Herald.
1t is stated that the testimony OF
Impeachment has already cost thirty
thousand dollars. 9s.a aa9gaa s
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COUNTY CONVENTION.

THE Union Republican Party of Orleans Coaa-
L ty, will meet in Delegate Convention at lras
6urgh, on Wednesday, Aug. l4th, at 10 o'cQeS
forenoon, for the purpose of nominating a ticket
for County Officers, to be supported at the ensn'
ing election.
Each town is entitled to three delegates, am
me delegations for the several towns should og
TAIN credidentials of election from the PreslaeIb
OF secretary of the primary meetings at Wh'D
they are chosen
AMoRY DAWSON, Jr,) County
E. P. COTTON,
L. ABEL CHASE. Commitle"
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TRIPLETs.-On Friday, the 21st of
June, Mrs. Q. @. Huntly of Whiting,
gave birth to three fine boys of very
uniform size and weighing in the ag-
gregate about Is pounds. As last
advised the parties were as well as
could be expected. siaa #oata ~
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Napoleon's health is so bad that his
doctors forbid horse exercise and the
pleasures of the table, and he is en-
Joined to get his royal guests out Of
Paris as. quickly as possible. The
little Prince Imperial is greatly i'm
proved and seems to be well, to the
great delight of the court, g tas