White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-07-22

subject of the speedy completion of their wes-
tern nrailuay-the-road above all others, which
should now be completed
THE HEAVY RAINS
Have done immense damage in the city, and
Railroad Companies have sustained heavy
losses, though believe the II. 4 st. Joe. r. r.
escaped with comparatively little injury.
NEWSPAPER CHANGE.
! Messrs Wilkinson & Posesate have dispos-
ed Of their interest in the Herald to HaiiowelI
4 Bi;tenger, Who intend to run their paper SO
as to soothe and harmohize the discordant ell
ements in the Republican party nov existing
in North Wes, Missouri. This is eminently
fit and proper, and as it should be. OF Mr.
Hailowell know nothing; but John L. Bitten
ger is known to be Republican of undoubted
loyalty, staunch, tried and true. As news
paper man, he has no superior in this section
OF the State. Moderate in tone, yet always
earnest in the cause of liberty and justice, he
will no doubt add strength to the cause OF Re-
publicanism, as he goes back to his old place
in the sanctum of the Herald Office. Vice Ia
Repu5iique, @
The retiring editor, Mr.. Wilkinson, was for
merly lawyer. and a New York Tammany
Democrat. When the late war broke out, he
espoused the cause of the Union, and has been
Union man all through; but the scent Of
Tammany Hall still clings to his garments.
To this fact is due the cratic singular course
eff the Herald during his career as manager.
Mr.. Wilkinson is n man of sound sense, good
judgment, and q keen, sharp writer; and say
it in justice, that he has made the Herald the
most readable, il not reliable, paper in the
State, outside of st. Lo lis But like Bennett
of the New York Herald, he acts rather from
policy than principle. At least. it looks that
way. He goes npon the principle of "Put
money in thy purse" Well, money is good
thing to have, and a big purse covers multi
tude of sins. The old axiom. that Poverty
is no disgrace" is lying tradition, and ought
nevesao he quoted as having semblance Of
truth. Poverty is a stinging, bitter disgrace,
in these days, and everybody knows it, and
the poor Jeelit.
Why. know man and woman who for
years kept noted house of ill-fame. It was
q low. vile den. But they made money, and
saved it, too. They retired from business ~
with thousands in the bank, and to.jay move
in the first circles of society. So money hides
crime. and makes it respectable. Is it any
wonder that men, and women, too, will COM
nit crime in order to grasp the golden god,
and rise to respectability, and occupy a seat
above their fellow knaves in rass7 Let the
clink, cl;nk, clink, of the yellow gold be heard,
and its possessor, no matter what his former
life may have been, becomes honored and
courted among men, while virtue, clothed in
rags, ,tarves in the street.
| " Rattle his homes III. stones;
He's ony pauPer, whom nobody owns"
THE Esd OF TIME.
To morrow, according to calculation among
the nominal Adveutists, is the day set for the
final consummation of all things, when this
globe of ours shall melt with fervent heat. and
the wicked be consumed IA stubble. How
many professors of religion, think you, who
sing, al love Jesus" long to be with Je-
sus," &c, would clap their hands for very joy,
if they knsr, of a certainty. that lie who yiel-
ded up His life on the Roman cross for the
sins Of the whole world, would positively make
His appearance on the 10Th of July, to gath
cr scattered Israel home1" And ought they
is predicted, the a, hes and pains which hu-
manity is heir to, the rheumatism and fevers,
and all trouble, will be forever banished, and
one urending round of pleasure be taeir lot
through countless ages. Verify, they have
reason for great Joy.
But the poor sinner, whose future is to be
eternal da nnation. can see no joy in the ap
preaching general conaagration. If the isms
CT the present day are true, his Heaven is the
earth; for when he sunders the ties that biEd
him here, be enters upon a stage Of misery
and wretchedness 40 dreadful, that the tortures
of the Spanish InQui.ition would be pleasure
compared with it. And the clergy tell us that
this is the loue of God for man! The love of
Father for His chliren! I have no COM
ments to make. Although brought up in that
strict old Orthodox Church, the Iropside Bap
tist, long since threw aside the doctrines Of
predestination and eternal damnation, as in
consistent it'll the goodness Of Divine Gre
ator, whose component parts are love, and
who can ncrer change. would never NEEDLE
with any ones belief. Different people have
different theology, and their theology is gen
orally suited to their tastes, 'inclinations and
wants. know man who was brought up a
Methodist, had left the Church. Topped over
and through and around about nearly all the
sslifferent religious denominations. and finally
went back to the Methodists again. When
asked the cause of his return, he said: "WeD,
the truth is, I'll he d--d if can ever be any
thing but Methodist" A little profane,
perhaps, but the man was in earnest. so,
when Professor Hisbfyer comes around. try
ing to teach the people that the moon is made
of green cheese, don't roll it under my tongue
as sweet morsel, but fall back ON my theol-
ogy, astronomy, and common horse sense.
didn't intend to sermoaize q bit, when I
commenced this letter; bat have written as
the spirit dictated. Oh, river. French
OCCASIONAL.
RosECaAss AND VALLAyprGAAx.-Onl