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General Sheridan's Report.
From the N. Y. Times.


The report of General Sheridan on the con-
duct of affairs in the Indian Department, de-
picts more clearly the horrors of war than any
document which we remember to have read
since the Rebellion began. Its whole tone and
manner continually remind one of Sherman's
forcible expressions:-"Wsr is cruelty-you
cannot refine it, And the most painful part
of it is not the plain, unvarnished, and brief
narrative of massacres, but the explanation of
how conflicting authorities and speculating
officials deluded trusting settlers to their ruin,
and betrayed the deep-laid plans of the mill
tary. The cruelty of the Indians is oversha-
dowed by the more inhumap, though perhaps,
less culpable, deceit OF the Indian agents and
Peace Commissioners. GAIL confidence is de-
stroyed. The people had had some degree of
security from the assurances OF the Peace
Commissioners, and many of them have met a
horrible fate in consequence.' The faithless-
ness Of the ignorant Indians is forgotten, when
we read Sheridan 3 description OF the result of
the Encouragement of our more unscrupulous
agents. The ninety-twO dead indians, slain
since the war reopened are forgotten when we
reflect that eighty.siX whites have been sacri-
feed by the same lnismanagement.
"Tnere are too many fingers in the pie, too
many ends to be subserved and too much
money to be made aud II is the Interest OF the
naiion and humanity 10 put an end to this in .
human farce. The Peace Commission and the
! Indian Department, and the military and the
Indians, make 'balky team. The public
| Treasury is depleted, and innocent people muir
dered in the quadranRular management in
| which The puhlic Treasury aud the unarmed
| settlers are The greatest sufferers"
| II is the most horrible feature OF all wars
| that not the actual combatants, but the inno-
cent, trusting, and deluded participants,
| must suffer most.
General Sheridan's report is powerful pro-
test against the longer continuance OF a sys-
| tenn of Indian warfare and Indian government
which is opposed to all the interests OF the
| West, and in violation Of all reason as we'll as
humanity. For years we have disbursed,
through dishonest agents, immense tributes
to insignificant tribes, in order to secure a
peace we had no reliance upon; and as an
additional security of this dstrusted peace,
have maintained at enormous expense a large
army, totally incapable, by reason Ofits peculiar
organization and equipment, of carrying on
an effective offensive campaign, or of defend
ing any other settlers than those located i'm
mediatsly under the guns of the established
| fOrts and posts. No part of our generally con-
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with the bland confidence Of Mioawber, allows
1t to be understood that he is charmed with the
behavior Of Minister Washburn. Unofficial
Americans reading Minister Washburn's own
accounts Of his own behavior can only hope
that his pitable want of force in the presence
of Lopez may have resulted from nothing worse
than general debility of nature. Yet even
this forlorn hope it is hard to cherish when
we find Rear Admiral Davis denying, by Inn
plioation, what Minister Washburn explicitly
asserts, and assuring US that there Is not and
never has been any great harm in Lopez.
Washburn excuses his desertiOn of American
interests and Of American citizens, his failure
to stand by the honor of his position and his
flag, by representing Lopez as kind OF ogre
whom neither conscience binds nor Vattel and
Putfendorf can awe. Davis AYERS that "the
effort made to condemn Lopez by denuucia-
tory exelamstions is now gradually dying
away"l
Meanwhile, is 1t or is 1t not true that two
American citizens, entitled to the protection of
our Minister and of our flag, have been tor
tured and, 1t may be, put to death in the
prisons Of Paraguay
subordinate of Rear Admiral Davis, Com
mander Kirkland, who conveyed Minister
Washburn out Of the den of this alleged ogre
Lopez, writes home that while he was so
conveying Mr.. Washburn he went on shore to
see Lopez, at the latter's invitation, dined
great deal OF oivility We are not sure that
this is not, on the whole, the most extraor-
dinary contribution yet made to the history Of
this most scandslous muddle. Here is an
American naval officer who is carrying an
American Minister out Of the clutches OF
despot by whom that Minister'S life has been
menaced the nation which he represents in
suited, and two Of its citizens brutally aud
illegally seized and flung into prison. yet who,
leaving the fugitive Minister on board his ship,
goes ashore to hob.nob with the despot We
submit that, in any conceivable aspect Of
the case, it is impossible to consider
this conduct OF Commander kirkland
oreditable either to his instincts as au Ameri-
can or to his intelligence as an officer. He
either believed Mr.. Washburn's story about
his treatment at Asuncion or he did not be-
lieve it. If he believed it, no words can be
too sharp to stigmatize, no penalty within the
rules OF the service too severe to punish, his
conduct in holding friendly intercourse with
Lopez. II he did not believe it, it was ex-
tremely unbecoming for him, as an officer
wearing the American uniform, to put himself
into relations with Lopez which said to the
latter, as plainly as the plainest words could
have said it,. 81 think my country has dis
graced herself by sending you such minister
as Washburn, and it affords me pleasure to let
you know that l think SO before take him
away"
We devoutly trust that General MoMahon
may bring to this deplorable business the
common sense, the high spirit, and the tact
which SO far seem to have been conspicuously
absent from all ''meddling and making in
ii by the official representatives of our Gov
ernment and of the national honor.
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The Mississippi BOdy.Snatching.


The little game in Mississippi is really rich.
The excavations go ahead OF those at Pompeii.
Not satisfied with merely discovering that the
negro constitution was not defeated by 1929
majority, but-some $4,000 votes being
thrown out-carried, the exhumators have
dug up full set OF bogus Congressman for
the Fortieth Congress. The reader will per-
ceive that this is the Fortieth and not the
Forty first Congress that we say. COntem-
poraneous)y with the wonderful resurrection
of the negro constitution, it was stated in
these columns that a cluster of carpet-bsg
congressman for the session beginning with
the term of General Grant had been lugged
out OF the bowels of nowhere, but it has only
been by latest advices from the seat of dig
gipg that we receive information Of a black
dTaught for the Congressional session of next
month. This draught Is thus medicatsd, the
first and fourth simples having been roots
dead beats-that formerly boiled in the pot OF
the negro convention
First District-Charles H. Townsend.
Second DistIiet-T N. Martin.
Third Dstrict-Charles A. Sullivan.
Fourth District-George G. Mckee.
Fifth District-L. W. Perce.
Digging is still in progress and, pending
further resurectons, attention is invited to
that clause of the Constitution" under
which these CO. heirs with Lazarus seek Con-
gress, that makes suffrage in Mississippi a
matter OF opinion, this:-"I, - -, do
solemnly swear Cor affirm, in the presencs OF
Almighty God that | admit the
civil and political equality of all men, so help
me God" CART. vii, sec. 8. resurrected con-
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Our Position in Paraguay.
From the ". Y. World.

1t is very agreeable to learn, by "an unoffi-
cial letter" from Rear Admiral Davis, dated
not from the waters of Paraguay, but from
those OF Brazil, that England and France have
not been insulted by the Dictator Lopez. 1t
will be still more agreeable TO learn from
General Mcmahon, our new Minister to Para
quay, when he reaches that country, that the
United States, which have been insulted by
the Dictator Lopez, have exacted full repara-
tion from him for that insult. 1t is difficult to
decide whether our diplomatic agents or our
naval officers iu that part OF the world have
done most in the last few months to yex the
nations selfTespect. Secretary Seward, who
combines the serene jollity OF Mark Tapley
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temptible OWL service has been so badly
managed as our Indian affairs; aud since the
army must occupy the disputed country, and
since only force will keep the Indians in con-
troll, II ia high time the civil department sur
rendered the duty it cannot perform to the
department to which it naturally belongs.
General Grant knows the true value of the
opinions of such practical men as Sherman
and Sheridan, and he will not be long in in
augurating this much needed reform.
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JEFF. Davis in q New Role.

H'SIe we Ave T. A1eTutu
1t is known that JEFF. Davis has professsd to
be pious for some time past, and il is said his
piety increased in proportion TO the waning
to see the fruits Of his Scripture studies. He
has been lecturing in England on Jerusalem,
and is very anxious to have that ancient city
explored. He fsttered his audience by say
ing that Englishmen were peculiarly fitted
for the task Of exploring Jerusalem, but we
do not know why they are so. The Rebel
chief is preparing to become an Englishman,
perhaps, and may be trying to lecture himself
into the heart Of John Bull. The British had
q great regard for him at one time, but, he
being q fallen hero, their affection has pro-
badly declined. Having sympathized with
him in his '1ost cause" they might make up
purse to send him to Jerusalem, there to end
his days and atone for his sins at the foot Of
the Holy Sepulchre.
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m H b G 4 E A I
RURAL CEMETERY,
n DIINnN AnR LII
MOUNT MoRLAH,

MOUNT MORLAH,
embracing an area of one hundred and hfty-fve
acres and comprising every variety OF scenery is by
far the largest and beautiful OF all the cemee
riea near Philadelphia.
AS the tide OF Improvement teuds northward,
MOUNT MORIAH,
by geographical position, Is
FOREVER SAFE FROM INTRUsIoN OR DIS
TURBANCE BY OPENING OF STREETS,
and VIII never he hedged In and surrounded by
houses factories or other Improvements, the lnevi-
liable fate Of other cemeteries norLhward or centrally
situated.
At = convenient distance from the city readily ac-
cessbe by an excellent road and 10y street cars
OF the Darby Passenger Railway, Mount Moriah,
by Its undisturbed quleE, fuhls the solemn purpose
OF tS dedication as last resting place of dead
No otuneral service here is ever Interrupted by the
shril whistle OF The locomotive, the sensibllties
OF friends visitors shocked by the rush and rattle
of long trains OF passing freight cars as must
OF necessity be the in other burial. places now
established or projected, on the immediate line OF
steam railroads, or through the grounds OF which
such railroads run. Just the hues OF Autumn
unge with gorgeous eoloTs and Infinite variety the
Iiage OF the various groups OF fine Old forest
adorning the margin OF the stream which meanders
through the grounds, and adds 80 great q charm 10
the attractions OF the place
Churches OF ali the principal Protestant denOmina
Ons have here purchased sections OF ground for the
use OF their congreg al ions ana more Ehan seven
thousand families have given this great Rural Gene.
tery the preference over all Others.
q oce lois OF any size desired may Sill be h Ad
upon application the Lodge Mt the entrance of the
Cemetery, or at the Branch Office, Penn Mutual In
surenCe Building, No, 92l CHESNU Street, up stairs.
where any Information VIII be gwen by
40 - Ina GAORGE NONNELlI, Secretary.
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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THB LEADING JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT ToPIcs-CoMPILED EVERY
DAY PoR THE EVENING TELBGRAPR.
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DB. KINKELIN, AFTER A RESIDENCE
IL and practice OF thirty years at the Northwest
corner OF Third and Union streets, has lately re-
moved TO south ELEVENTH Street. between MAR
EET and Oh ESNUT
His superiority IN the prompt ard perfect cure OF
All recent chronic, local, and constitutional affec-
uoEs OF special nature is proNnFOia
Diseases Of the skin eappeariW In hundred DIFF
weakness, and all nervous debllities scientifically
and successfully treated, ofhce hours from A. N
oRP.M.
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FATAL DISEASE A MONO PouIrpv
Within the past month or two a disease
called ''cholera" has swept of hundreds
OF chickens, turkeys, &c, in Worcester
and Somerset Counties, Nd. Il has AZ.
tackled almost every poultry yard, ssd
IN many instances scarcely enough an.
capped the fatal disease TO pine funeral
dirge. This sad havoc Of course cre,.
ted some alarm among poultry raisers.
add led 70 many experiments in search
OF panacca, and the most suecersful
one Of which we have heard Il thst
given BY Rowland Revaos, ESQ. Ia
having lost great many before he an.
Piled the remedy. He recommends tbe
burning OF tar, or in common parlsree
the building Of "a TAR smother under
the fowls as they sit upon their roos,s
aud says that he has not lost \ singh,
member of his poultry yard since he
tried the experiment. This Ia a verv
simple remedy, aud within the reach Of
all, for IL they have not the pure resiu.
Gus substance they can burn pine knots.
or "iightwood," gently smothsred To-
keep down the fame, and the effect i
the samc.--NertorR Gazefse.
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Odds mnsi Ends.

A young man generally gives q lock
Of his hair to his sweetheart before he
marrics her. Aftcr marriage, she can
help herself-aud use no scissors.
81 don't think, indeed, that you arr
very smart" "No, indeed, wife. but
everybody knows that am awfnlly
shrewd."
-Capital weather, Mr.. Jones. capital
weather. My wife's got such bad
cold that she can't speak. Ike such
weather."
Truth Is good dog; but beware Of
barking too close TO the heels of an er.
ror, lest you get your brains kicked out.
People often spend half their lives
in contracting maladies, and the other
half In trying TO get rid of them.
Longfellow says that Sunday il the
golden clasp that binds together the
volume Of the week"
Probably the reason why the vay of
the trausgressor is lard is that it is so
much travelled.
Where is money first mentioned in
the Bible! When tho dove brought
the green back to Noah.
Why is the early grass like a pen.
knife Because the spring brings out
the blades.
Why is the letter aT'' like an island,
Because it is in the middle Of the water.
Tell man in single word that he
took late breakfast. At-ten-u-ate.
Why is goose like cows tail 2---
Because they both grow down.
Max Muller says language 10 ouly
dictionary of faded metaphors.
When is window like star When
it is a sky-light.
What nation produces marriage p
Why, Fascination.
FooD YoR SrocK. the North.
western States food for stock rules very
high year BY year. Hay is highest in
Michigan, averaging Gle; 10 Kentucky
Sl4 80; in Ohio s12 80; in indiana
Gil SO; in Illinois 10 II
i Thers is . Gaelic provsrb: "If the
best mana faults were written ou bis
forehead, isvould make him pull his
hat over his eyes"
Il A man laisly appeared with HE legs
so attenuated thatths suthoritiss had
him arrested because he had no visible
i. means Of support.
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er object 10 his actiUH chan that ~ -.
ting u before the court. He reitsrs%sss -
this In the special message which 4.
seat 70 Congress yesterday, and whieh
We publish to-day.-N r. Times TRe,'l
Supporting the Presiaens.
General Cary, member from the s.e.
ond district Of Ohio, received letter
from one Of the most influential lesaet.
OF the woFkingmen's organization ~
pennsylvania, and republican, ia
wnieh this sentence occurs: aTen thou.
sano thanks for your vote against this
leariui wrong, impeachment.1 A tele.
gram to she President from Caro- s.,
wednesday last, annonnees that .sst tho
cnsf'er election today the democratic
gsiD is over four hundred. Stick 70 ths
war department. Signed, Democratic
Central COMMITTEES. !" 'A''S -
Another from Holyoke Mns,acb,s
setts, says: Hang to the eonsts,r,;o.
and Joa win sesustaiDed by thirty thou.
sand mes Of Massach huse..s.1 Signed hv,
numbe. OF citizens. Another from Te,,s
Haste, Indiana, says: ssSsAnd Arr =,
your position and 10 defense Of the 80,
ssitution and the Executive departmsp.
aud Indiana will sustain you with ops
hundred Thousand brave, stalwatt 80
tried men,"
Immediately after the DISCHARGE AZ
1sneral Thomas, Wednesday morning. ,
= SUIT vas commenced in the District
CcuFt By him against Mr. Stanton fsr
false imprison,sns and uischievous n,ss
ecution. Damages laid at one hnna,.a.
and fifty thousand dollars.
A NEW CAHSTT.- One Of tbe .,o,.
r'es ahoat is that, If President Jobnsoui
y impeached and Wade becomes prssi-
dent, the cabinet viii be as follows.
Charles Sumner, Of Massash.s.t,.
Secretary Of State; Freeman Civic a.
New York, Secretary Of the Trsasnry.
William d. Kelley, Of Psunsylyspis
Secretary Of the Navy; Frederick Don.
glass, (coIofed,) Of New York. socretsrv
OF the Interior; John NJ. Lapeston ~
Ohio, Postmaster General NH Car.
pcnter, Of Wisconsin, Attorney Geper.
a; Edwin N. Stanton, Secretary Of
War, (ofcourse)
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WESTERN MD. RAILROAD.


II
ON and after Monday, November 18th,
" 1897, the trains going Fast win Rave
Union Bridge n, a.45 A. NJ, and 300 A.
N. Westminster nj s. .45 A. NJ. and $50
A. NJ. Arrive in baltimore pi $40 A. NJ.
and 1890 +. NJ.
Leave Baltimore at $50 A. NJ. and $40
Y. NJ. Arrive Mt Westminster at 100 A.
NJ. and 900 y. N. and Union Bridge at II.
s6 A. NJ. and GEO 2. N.
Stage connections at Glen Morris Station
for Hampstead and Manchester on arrival
Of $50 A. NJ, train, and for Uniontown,
Taneytown and Emmiitsbnrg on the arrival
Of the same train at l.inwood Station.
Tickets sold through from Baltimore 10
Emmittshurg. Baggage carefully checked,
and no change Of cars. Passengers for
Emmittsburg aak for iiekc via W. NJ. II. II.
p. IL. IRWIN,
dee5'0 Sup't ". NJ. Il. II.
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GREAT PREMIUMS.
Howe Sewing Machine.

We have made special contract with the Howe
Sewing Machine Company 10 furnished their
worId-renowned machine as
PRgAiuE FoH NKw S6BscRiaKRs TO
THE INDEPEN DENT
during the presentycar. Any person who will
send US the names OF twenty-four new yearly
subscribers, at our regular subscription price,
lsee terms as aboye) will be presented with one
Of these celebrated machines, the lowest price
OF which Is $50. II will be packed aud shipped
by express, or otherwise, Us directed.
We simply want the names with the money
OF tnsHtg;f four persons who do not take our pa
per, and who really subscribe for IL; they may
be sent one at timc, or all together; they may
be al one post-oiIicc, or more than one--we arc
only particular that they shall be boHa;.fds ns,o
sHbscPibers.
Any one person subscribing for "a years, or
any tioo persons for ~ years, or any hree per-
sons for 8 ycarr, will be entitled 10 the machine
under above offer.
Persons intending to take advnhtage Of this
offer, and sending the subscribers' names as
they obtain them, will please state IN each In
stance that they are sent on this account.
All subscriptions sent under this offer must
begin with the number Of our paper sExr AFrEa
THE RECEIPT OF TIE MONEY.
Remttancss must, be made by post-oiIcc
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sfiest 9ostts.
TRUTH WILL NEVER DTr.

Though Kingdoms, SS.a.ss, s..a Empires fall
And Dynasties decay
Though cities crumble into dust,
And nations die away
Though gorgeous towers and palaces,
In heaps ofruin lie,
Which once were grandest Of the grand,
The Truth iriH Aerey del
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JoHE c. rRISSLt. y. HAEEtSe
FRlZELL & MANNING,
WESTMINSTER, MD.
STOCK AND BILL BROKERS,

WILL buy and sell on Commission, all
wv Issues Of U. S. Securities, Gold, Sill
yer, Bonds, &c. Bank Stock bought and
sold on Commission. Collections made with
prompt returns. Land Warrants Wanted.
Will pay Thvee per cent. (s) for Deposites,
to be drawn out on demand.
march7.f
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RICH AND POOR.

Not rich is he, though wider far
Ills acres stretch than eyes can roll,
Who has no sunshine In bis mind.
No wealth Of beauty in his soul.
Nor poor is be, though never known
His name IN ball or city mart,
Who smiles content beneath has load.
With God and nature In his heart.
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MU SIC!
ref. >. Mortimer Harley,

ProT. .. Mortimer Hurley,
WHO rs NOW INSTRUCTlNG
w the CARROLL BRASS BAND,
the Orchestra Mt New Windsor, and the
two 0rchestras recently formed in West
minister, offers his services 10 the Ladies
and Gentlemen OF Westminster, who wish
TO take lessons on the GUITAR & PIANO.
Ladies will be waited on nj their homes. =
Also, Instructions given on the Clarionet,
Violin, Flute and Thorough Bass.
For particulars apply at the Drug Store
OF A. n. Huber, or at the National Hotel.
dec26- 3m
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One Dollar Each.

WEES Cotton Cloth, pTes, Patterns. Pant an
Dry and Fancy Goods, &c., &c. Send Ten
cents for Patent Pen Fountain, with slip dsscri-
bing an article In our dollar sale.
Any person, (msle or female, cen send In
club offrom 30 10 1000, at same rate 10 cts.
for eaoh), and ges premium for so DOING.
Send in Registered Letters. Samples mailed
free to any address.
EASTMAN a KENDALL,
65 Hanover st., Boston, Mass
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Carroll Nursery.
Westminster,

hOLb COJ Nf1, M ID.
Tnr undersigned, proprietor Of this Es.
tablishmsnt, haa on hand, for Spring plant.
ing, $4,000 Apple and Peach Trees 2,OO0
Dwarf and standard Pears 600 Cherry
Trees. Also LOT Of PLANS, Apricots, and
painces. A good supply of two and three
old Grnpe Vines of M the aiding varieties
~urrnnts, Gooscbcrrics and Blsekbcrries.
sTRAwBERRIgs.
An extensive stock Of Strawberry plants,
selling ai low raies--i have he Agricultural.
Rassell, Wilson's Albany Seeding. and
Fillmore. These will be sold at 81 per hun
drcd. 81 per thousand, or s85 per ten
thonsand, can supply any demand, up TO
ose million plants, having eight acres Of
Strawberries nov under cultivation, en-
bracing twenty hve varieties. among them
the Iaconda. Golden Seeded. Downing's q
Prolihc, Tnomphc de Gasd, SlexATs's Seed.
ling, &c. have also RaspbegFiea. Ever.
gFeen.-- An extensive stock OF large size,
ssIisable for Cemeteries.
DEcIDIoUs TREES.
Silver Leaf Maple. Horse Chestnut, Weeping
Willov, Re. Also, lot 81 perpetual bloom.
ing Roses Address
JOSEPH STOUT, Proprietor.
Westminster, Carroll Co., Nd.