Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-09-24
The London Times welcomes
Mr.. BuPEfnganne.

MI BuRA1ng2mc
While the Chinese Embassy was
getting fairly to sea in the Jave. The
London Times was Illuminating against
G hina and America in its bOldest
manner and loudestvoice. In q three
column article, if we may Judge from
the Cable dispatch this morning
piteous and arrogant by turns, it de-
clares the policy of England toward
China to have always been one Of
peaee-a policy which the Chinese re-
ceived in such a way as to exhaust
its whole vocabulary of wicked nouns
and naughty adjecti7es. It is now
nearly two hundred years that the
selfish old East India Company began
to trade with China, and not vet
thirty-five years since its exclusive
privileges ceased. The end of its in
fiuence marked the beginning Of the
opium dispute, and the English people
were so persistent and so cruel in their
wrongs toward the Chinese that the
Emperor interdieted all trade and
intercourse with England forever.
Since then whatever privileges were
accorded to the English have been
wrung from the Chinese by deeds of
violence and blood. English treaties
with China have been dictated at the
mouth of the cannon and signed atthe
point of the sword Granted that the
Chinese were not in haste to accord
privileges to their enemies which eX-
perience taught them were sure to be
abused, they were not more illiberal
in many things than the English
themselves. Mr.. Buchanan could no
more go to Court in the dress of an
American citizen in 1856 than Lord
Amherst could approach the Imperial
presence, without making the pr0stra-
ton of the kOlC-tO9O in 1916. Granted
too that treaties were not always OBJ
served by the Chinese, it would have
been when they were signed by two
parties but made by only one power.
Now things are entirely changed.
China offers to England the same
terms that have been accorded to us,
and begs her to accept them; but The
Times insists that they shall be reject
ed. Innocent, unwary England has
been shamefully treated-jockeyed,
The Times says-by shrewd and keen
China; English Dukes and EaTls have
been overcome in diplomacy by cop
per-colored Mandarins. After being
for many years the leading power in
China, ,ssafteT having beaten the Chin
eSe in more battles than all the world
besides, it is incOnprehensible to The
Times why the ambassadors of the
Emperor should first treat with the
Americans, who have never beaten
them at all. But The Times is emphatic
even if it does not understand. 1t
says that China may have war with
England if it wants war, and, forget
ting its peaceful attitude of last week,
is more than half inclined for a con-
test with the. United States as well.
Still there may be no filing. When
the Chinese dignitaries arrive in Lon
don they will be gazed at and talked
about, wined and dined, received here
and escorted there, and this bellicOse
vein may be changed altogether.
The editor ofthe Owykee Avalanche,
by way of describing his agreeable
vocation, as conductor Of a frontier
paper, makes the following interest
ing reflections: 81. III Iafsferi
"Oh, the felicity of editing paper!
Charming, agreeable, in a horn Fac
mating, attractive occupation, but so
difficult to appreciate. How nicely
and smoothly one gets along without
an 'Onpleasantnessp y For instance,
in a recent issue we referred directly
to a ruffian known as Captain Prescott,
and inicdentily to a guerrilla named
Al. Cage We did this in Justice to
ourselves and community at large.
The other day, while quietly seated
in our sahctum, taxing our brain for
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lasting cry of the devil, , the two above
named villains, one of them armed
with hatchet, and the other with a
bOwie-knife of large dimensions, made
avioient attack upon our person. The
only alternative was to fight or die.
We accordingly seized a large knife,
about two feet long, used for cutting
paper, and bled our assailants pretty
freely. They sued for mercy, we
spared their worthless lives and told
them to dust, and they got up and
busted. We would take this occasion
to state that if ever they or any one
else attack us with the intention of
doing us bodily harm, we will shoot
them dead in their tracks or cut their
thrOats from ear to ear" .f1a
-. ST. LOUIS, Sept. Il.
The Steamboat excursion and BAN
quest given yesterday by the Grand
COmmandery of knights Templar of
Missouri to the Grand Encampment
of the United States was-a very brill
liant affair. The steamers Mississippi,
Lady Gay and Belle Of Alton were
engaged for the purpose, and steamed
away from the levee at half past one
o'clock, ascending the river about
five miles, when they turned and
sailed past the city with flags flying,
bands playing, and cannon roaring,
and proceeded to Jefferson Barracks,
twelve miles below here, where they
landed and the whole party went
ashore and viewed the Officer'squarters
and sOuldiers barracks and other points
of interest. Shortly after leaving the
city an elegant banquet was spread
on each boat, which was partaken of
by every body on board. There could
not have been'less than three thousand
persons including ladies, and the en-
tire party, for gaiety, genuine good
feeling and enjoyment, was probably
never surpassed. The knights Of st.
Louis acquitted themselves most cred
iLdelE ana IDCelNOl JtIG AAl5 ALo'O i -.
and enconiums from all sides. rms
was the grandest event of the kind
that has ever taken place mere, and
perhaps anywhere else.
The professions and the practice of
the Southern Democracy in reference
to the negroes are not sufficiently har-
monious TO be poetical. For example,
Alex. II. Stephens and others pro-
nounce the charge that the Southern
whites are hostile to the cOlOred peO-
nIe as s'entirely unfOunded''-and
Rpt we hear of resolutions being pass
Cd i'm almost every State and Territory
ofthe South threatening to REUSE en-
DlOyment to Republican negroes, and
the Georgia Senate is declaring all
/ officers held by negroes to be vacant,
and directing the Governor to refuse
commissions to any and all who have
been or may be elected to Office.
We have before US the requisition
of the Democratic State Committee of
Mississippi on Gen. Gilled in comma
I,o oboTT 0,-.1o.