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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-24
OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBORs.

OUh NOhIH b(bH Nv HhIUHDOhC
CURRENT telegraphc int diligence affords new
illustrations of the troubles to which the un-
happy people of the New Dominion are sub
iected by their political connection with
Great Britain. The fearful Fenians have
once more started on the wsr-path, and the
whole border is in q state of trepidation on
account of the prevailing uncertainty in re-
gard to the objective point of their expedi-
tion. We are informed by one veracious
chronioler that, contrary to usual custom, the
leaders are very reticent, and stubbornly
refuse to declare whether they intend to
march to the rescue of the rebel Riehl, in
the Red River district, or to boldly
cross the st. Lawrence, and
plunge into the heart of the
enemy's country. If they really mean
business, their chances of accomplishing
tangible results will be improved by coali-
tion and cooperation with Riehl, for they
will find it much easier to temporarily sustain
a rebellion already started than to either
create new one or to make serious demon
stration against British power at any point
where regular and volunteer troops can be
rallied to confront them. Any hostile move
ment they may make will necessarily be fla
grant and inexcusable violation of our neutrality
laws, but John Bull and his Canadian calves
displayed such lamentable disregard of the
obligations of international treaties and good
neighborship during the late Rebellion, that
the troubles now heaped upon them by the
Fenians seem but righteous retribution.
For the present it is scarcely possible that
anything more serious than this temporary
punishment can flow from any movement
that it is possible for the Fenians to make,
for the idea of a serious contest between
handful of the wearers of the green with the
British authorities in their front and the
American Government in their rear is totally
inadmissible. In time, however, the Cana
dians, who are stubborn and slow to learn,
will find the miseries resulting from the con-
tinuance of British domination so manifold
that they will be forced by their instincts of
self-preservation to earnestly seek relief in
Independence and annexation. Shut out
now in q large measure from the best market
by the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty,
awakened to the danger that the Sault Ste.
Marie Canal may be closed against them in
their hour of direst need, and terribly ham
pered by poverty and taxation, the continual
alarms to which they are subjected by the
persistence Of the Fenians are rendering
their colonial dependence intolerably fruitful
of miseries.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-24
REVISING HISTORY.

AMONG the many legacies Of the late war, we
have numerous important historical questions
touching both men and events, which must
now be revised, as they are about to pass into
the accepted records of our great struggle for
free institutions. For five years the North
and the South made up their own records of
public men and momentous events from their
own respective standpoints. 1t was but natu-
raj that, under the influence of the fierce pas
sions ever engendered by civil war, both sec
tions should magnify their own leaders and
actions, and correspondingly depreciate the
leaders and actions of the other side; and
in the intense devotion of both North and
South to their respective causes, it was i'm
possible ever to correct serious errors while
the desperate struggle over reconstruction was
unsettled. Lately, however, the passions of
sectional strife have been gradually subsiding,
and the people of both sections are beginning
to make dispassionate inquiry into historical
issues.
Quite recently we have had series of his
torical conflicts. Senator Wilson, in an
elaborate eulogy upon Mr.. Stanton, in
cidentally introduced the order of
Mr.. Cameron's retirement from the
Lincoln Cabinet. He accredited the
ex-war Minister with great administrative
ability, with having dictated his successor,
and then gracefully resigning. This brought
Mr.. Mcclure before the public with circum-
stantial statement of Mr.. Cameron's dismissal
from the Cabinet, without consultation as to
his successor, and even without previous
notice He went so far as to explain, from
his own personal knowledge, that the letter
removing Mr.. Cameron was subsequently de-
stroysd, and pretended letter of resignation
allowed to be filed some days after the dis
missL. Mr.. Mcclure boldly assumed all re-
sponsibility for the correctness of his state
ments, and challenged contradiction. Feeble
attempts were made in some quarters to
break tho force of the grave accusations
made by Mr.. Mcclure, but they stand sub
stantially sustained, and the future historian
of the war Iaust make the blistering record
that the first War Minister of the Rebellion
was displaced for maladministration in the
darkest days of the Rep ublic.
Again, Mr.. Cameron essayed to frame q
brilliant chapter of the history of the war
When Senator Revels was before the Senate
asking admission as Senator from Missis
sippi, Mr.. Cameron revealed long-hidder
prophecy he had made touching the advent OF
the black man into the first legislative tribu
nal of the nation. He suddenly remembered
that when Jefferson Davis seeded from tina
body, he had solemnly notified the Rebe
chieftain that the bondman would return afte
many days to ill his place. 1t was somewha
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-24

The sbip-masters and ship-owners in Bath,
Me-, have held meeting and adopted resolu-
tions approving Mr.. O'Neil's bill to regulate the
shipping and paying off of seamen.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-24
OUR DIRECT TRADE WITH GREAT
BRTTATN

WE give below table table showing the
direct trade between the United States and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
from the year 1883 to the year 1868 inclusive,
in ships with cargoes only. The tonnage of the
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-24

vess. .ls belonging to Great Britain, the United
States, and other countries, are given sepa-
ratelY. IA fOllnRa.=
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-24

The Dayton ladies deny that the woman suf-
fragists have big feet
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20

Ed. GAZETTE Your readers may
perhaps be interested in few items
from our town. Arlington is located
on the ID. IL 5. G.. r r., about %
miles west of Cedar Falls. 1t is not
u town of any large pretensions nor
large dimensions, the population not
exceeding 800; but nevertheless,
there is no lack of enterprise and &C
rivity among its inhabitants. we
have five stores, al! doing IA thriving
business, and there we Q until recent
ly, two hotels, one grain elevator Of
about five thousand bushels capacity.
and grain house. There is now in
course of erection, one store, by the
Rev. /. Hall, in which lie intends to
put stock of goods as soon as com.
Of larger pretensions. There has
been built this spring four very neat
dwellings, and more are i'm prospect
of building the present season also,
the contract is let for the cOnstruc-
ton and completion Of new NJ. f.
Church, 32X50 feet, IS feet high
which is to he completed before the
close of the present year. The school
house is being renovated and ell
larged, newly plastered aud painted
inside and out. with new seats, aud
is now capable of seating sixty
scholars comfortable, and is now the
best school house III the south half
of Butler county. if not the hest in
the county. Reing Obliged TO bring
these jottinSs to close, may write
you more about Arlington i'm my
next. JoTTER.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20

forty. "Sure enough" replied the
promising clerk, II left out the gh. "
AT Rockton, on the 10th inst.
fourteen miles from Rockford, Ill.,, a
party of young people were playing
croquet, dispute arose between two
young men on some point in the
game, whereupon one of them, in a
fit of passion, struck the other over
the head with the croquet mallet,
crushing in his skull. The injured
man lived but a sb ort time.
Young Colfax was christened re-
Gently. Schuyler is his name. q
cup was handed in for the young
gentleman from President Grant, and
a testimonial to his personal worth
from certain Senators; but it is due
to the public to state that the hero Of
the occasion did not bear out, upon
this important occasion, the well es-
tablished reputation of his parent for
amiability.
A man and his wife recently
quarrelled and separated in New
Albany, The husband, anxious for
n settlement, sent his wife a basket
of peaches. The latter threw them
into the mud, and sent word to
the husband, by.a negro, that If he
made his appearance where she was,
she would serve him precisely as she
hsd his peace Offering. The diff
Guilty Is still unsettled.
The danger of mourning the
wrath of the feminines i'm these days
of progress is imminent, and was
fully set forth in the case of young
man In Baltimore, recently, who, as
a couple of ledies were passing cor
her made the aggravating remark of
"Shoo Fly" Constituting the obser-
walton as an intended insult, the
young ladies provided themselves
with Cayenne pepper, and, binding
him with the fiery condiment, APP
piled their digits SO perseveringly
that the young man was taken home
in i sad aud disabled plight to medi-
tate ON ungallant conduct.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20
Ina Bust
ness,

The Economist thinks that If Con-
gress were not in session there would
be n reasonable assurance of the con-
tinuance of the present spasm of
business prosperity, There is much
truth in this statement. Congress
has been doing SO little that we
scarcely know it is assembled, only
"a we discover the injury that the
dilly-dalying policy, on financial
matters, has been to the country.
We lay no claim to financial fore
sight, but we believe the long depres-
sion IN business is largely due to a
want of proper legislative action.
We do not realize any change in the
times in this part of the country, and
the assurance of a decidedly better
feeling I'm! mercantile circles i'm the
east thau:at any period for the past
two years has cheering sound to-
our ears. The Economist further
says there has been wonderful
revival in nearly all branches of
trade within the past two weeks
land IL now looks as if the spring
trade, though tardy, were likely to
roach the full average of former
prosperous years.
"The country never was so bare
of goods. The stocks i'm the hands
of country merchants are known to
he unusually small. The people
have been economiZing for a long
time. The result is an activity that
seems to extend to all parts of the
country. The prospect for better
times in Iowa can only he based on
the upward tendency of wheat and
other grain. Should the price of
wheat continue to go up or even re-
main where it is nov it would bring
n large amount Of unsold grain to
market during the next month. The
would sell at the present fig
ures if they were confident it would
go no higher, hut the prospect for
still better prices is Keeping the
wheat still in the bin. Merchants
and business men generally repres
sent it as very difficult to caklect. This
would be avoided to a great extent If
the farmers would commence mark
citing their produce. The only money
now i'm circulation Is that which has
been borrowed at two and three per
cent. per month. Money may be
plenty in the east, but it will not
reach us until we SEND something to
bring it this way.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20

INDEPENDENTS, Iowa, |
NJ 4 o n

! INDEPENDENCE, Iowa,
May IL, 1870. !
MY DEAR SNYDER:-Governmeni
is simply an organization for the pro.
lection of society. Tt involves rules
or laws by which all are to be gov.
erned, and Office holtlers, or persons
whose duty is to see that laws are en-.
forced. Now where does the rightful
authority for the enactment of laws
and the appointment of persons to
| execute them rest? Absolute mon.
arclIists claim this authority for a
single individual as a God-given
right, this fright inherited and
transmitted i'm family line. Limited
inonarchists claim that the right TO
make laws rests with specially IA
vored classes. the highest office be-
ing perpetuated in family line. The
constitution of so called Republican
America recognizes this authority in
the adult male citizens Of the nation
The friends Of equal rights claim
that it belongs to all the adult citi-
zens, regardless of sex. The ballot
Is simply a medium through which
the choice of tie citizen as to laws or
rulers finds expression. We hold,
therefore, that all adult citizens are
entitled to the bal OF. Now there is
an abstract and absolute inalienable
right involved i'm this matter Of ms k
ing laws and choosing rulers. Mon
archIsts claim this absolute right for
individuals or favored classes. Thorn
as Jefferson, in the Declaration of
Independence, claimed it. for the pcO
pie, while in practice only one half
the people have thus far been permit
ted to exercise 1t. MOuarchists and
the Cedar Falls GAZETTE deny that
this absolute right rests with the peO>
pie, the former only recognizing its
existence in the aristOCracy Of titles
and wealth and the latter in the
aristocracy Of sex.
OF necessity, in government the
class without n voice must he subject
to the class with 6 voice, for it Is the
voice that gives absolute power of
life and death. One sex therefore j.
in the absolute power of the other
and is subject to it., and worse than
all, according to your assertion, has
no right to occupy any position. We
claim that no class of citizens Of
sound mind, arrived at the age of
maturity, should be subject to anoth-
er class in the government; but that
every individual, deriving the in
aIienable right to selfgovernment
from the Almighty, possesses an
equal right with every other to say
how and by whom he or she shall be
governed.
Having thus stated the nature of
the question and the positions we re-
latively occupy with reference to
il, | leave the further discussion of
the principles involved to my next
letter.
Very Cordially Yours,
j. l.. LOOMS.
(O~ reply wiH appear nert toeek.
-ED.l
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20
Methodist ministerial
A Association.

The Ministerial Association, for
Fayette District, held its third SEES
sion fDr the year. in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in independence
commencing Monday evening, May
9th, aud continued through two
lays. There were nineteen minis
ters present during the session.
Opening sermon by Rev. w. II.
Brocksome, of Fayette.
Sermon Tuesday evening by Rev.
Keegle, of thee Pittsburg. Annual
Conference.
Essays were read on various sub
jects, and discussed by members OF
the Association. some of them elicit
ing warm and protracted discussion.
The following resolutions relating
to Rev. w. Smith, of Jesup, were
unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, Our beloved brother,
Rev w Smith. A. NJ is now on
his way across the ocean, to visit his
his friends in England. aud whereas
Brother Smith has sent us letter OF
remem brance aud fraternal greeting,
therefore,
ReSOiUed. That we receive the let
ter Of Brother Smith with lively sat,
isfaction, and wsrmly respond to il.
brotherly sentiments.
ReS0Lrcd, That we will commend
him to the grace of Him who holds
the winds ia his fist, end the waves
in the hollow of his hand in our
prayers, beseeching Him 10 give His
servant II prosperous journey, and
that Brother Smith be. and is her. .
by requested to deliver at the next
session Of our Association, u lecture
on the condition and prospects OF
Methodism in England.
Resotced, That we most cordially
commend our Brother To the sympa,
thies and fellowship of the church
i'm England, as Brother beloved and
IA servant of Jesus Christ, both theil
Lord aud ours.
The next session is to be held i,
Jesup, August 9th. Opening ser
mon by Rev.D Shelter, of Water
loo.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20
The Free Love Abofni-
nation.

We announced last week the ter.
minalion of the Mcfarland trial aud
his acquitthl by the jury. The re-
suit was not surprise to any who
had watched carefully the proceed
ings, but the trial did not develop
any new phase in the case from that
produced by the full announcements
of the tragedy and the causes which
led to it. The New York Tribune,
independent and other free love or.
gans may attempt to elevate the
character of Mrs Mcfarland, but ef
forts of that character will avail
nothing. While the public can but
condemn the rash act on the part of
Mcfarland and while they believe
he should have been punished, pub
lie statements traduring his charac-
ter will bring no sympathy to Mrs.
Mcfarland. Richardson. She cam
not reverse the verdict of the PEG.
pie of a criminal intimacy between
her and Richardson. Mcfarland is
free and the case is now i'm the hands
of the free love worshipers that i'm
srired the disgraceful and sad de-
movement. If it shall bring to a
full exposure, the infamous doctrines
that produced it, who shall say that
some good has not been accom-
Dlished.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20

THE terms of nineteen Republi.
can L. S. Senators expire on the 4tIr
of March next. That will make
some scribhling among the office
leeches. The names of those whose
terms will expire are. Warner. of
Ala. Mcdonald. Of Ark. Yates, of
III. Ross, OF Ka. /; Harris. OF La. {;
Morre'l. of Me. !; Wilson, of Mass ;
Howard, of Mich. /; Thayer, OF Neh. :;
Cragin, of n. H.; Cattrll. of n. J. !;
Abbott, of n. c.; Williams, of Ore
gon; Anthony, of r.. I Robertson,
Of S. c.; Fowler, of Tenn. ; Wiley,
of w, W; ]. B. Howell, Of Iowa I;
Revels, Of Mississippi, aud Johnston
of Virginia.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20
ToyvaiSabbath school AS
ISOLATION.

The fifth Annual Meeting of the
Iowa Sabbath School Association
will be held in the Baptist Church,
in Cedar Rapids, on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, June 9Th,
Sth and 9th, 1870.
Opening address and exercises on
Tuesday evening.
An excellent programme of BUSH
ness has been arranged and an UNI
usually large attendance of earnest
and experienced Sabbath School
workers is expected. 1t is designed
to make this convention of great
practical utility to those who attend,
and it is most earnestly desired uAat
every part of the State shall send a
large delegation of male aud female
teachers Those counties which have
not held conventions since last State
Association, arc requested to do so at
the earliest practical day, and it is
the duty of the several County Sec
retaries to see that this is done, and
also to forward to the State Secreta-
ry, w. Frank Paxton, of Davenport,
the usual Statistical Reports.
Prominent Sabbath School workers
from abroad are expected to partlci-
pate i'm the Convention.
The Railroads aud Steamboat lines
of the State will make the usual re-
ductions for such conventions.
Delegates on their arrival at Cedar
Rapids will report themselves at the
rooms of the Young mems Christian
Association.
The citizens of Cedar Rapids will
receive and entertain the delegates
with the kindest cordiality.
Come! friends of the Sunday
with warm hearts, your hest
thoughts aud earnest words, and let
us take counsel together how we may
best promote our glorious cause, and
serve our blessed Master.
Fl SCOTT HOWELL,
w, FRANK PAXTON. PreS't,
,Scp'u
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20

THE bachelors of the west are or
ganizing for self. protection. They
have seventv-five bachelors at lnhe>
pendence, Kansas. over twenty five
years old, who have all been Tilted"
Mt least three times. They have
formed themselves into a club for
mutual protectiom.-E Eastern paper.
We have not been Informed of AZ,
organization of that kind i'm Cedar
Falls recently, but The above proha,
bly, accounts for the death Of mar.
rage items IN our city.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20

INSANE ASYLUM AT INDEPENDENCE,
The Buchanan county Bulletin
says that the working force for the
season on the Insane Asylum, at In
dependence is now fully organized.
and tie work is being pushed with a
momentum never before attained.
AT meeting of the commissioners
including Govcfn0r Merrill, held
there recently. an arrangement was
entered into with the contractor, Mr..
Armstrong. 10y which. in c0nsidera
ton of the payment of $1,000 he re.
linquished his contract, and releases
the State from all obligations Ia him
The work will hereafter he prose
cuted under the immediate super-
vision OF MIR. Jnsselyn, the Superin
tendent. About one hundred men
are now employed about the build
ing The foundations of the rear
centre building are in progress, a
iaige force of stone cutters are at
work; bricklayers are working on
the interior walls of the extreme
north wings, and carpenter shop
and office Shave been erected, The
brick yard is in full blast, with n
prospect OF soon turning out 10000
to 3o.oD excellent brick per day.
The architect of the building. r,l
5. V. .Shipman. of Madison, wis.
was present at the meeting of The
Commissioners, and also inspected
the work upon the building. lie ex-
presses bis hearty approval of the
conscientious manner i'm which the
plans have been carried out.-Du
buqtte Times.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20
Removal offhG National
Capitol.

The question of the removal of the
National Capital to some point i'm the
west is again being agitated. HOr-
ace Greeley comes out in the Tribune
soundIy against the wasting of any
more money in public buildings
around Washington. The removal
of the seat of government is as inev-
liable "a the daily revolutions OF the
sun. The Tribune in publishing a
call for q convention to be held soon
AT Cincinnati to take into considera-
ton the removal of the capitol says ::
eff the American people, for rea
sons satisfactory to themselves, pre-
fer % different location for the CAPT
tai, then il is high time the fact were
ascrrtained and respected. The Qups
tinn las beer raised. 1t ought to be
fully considered, aud decisively AL
Indicated 1t is not we'll that million
after million be spent i'm public
grounds, aud multiplying public Ell
fees destined To lie abandoned. Nor
is il right that such expenditures
should be renewed in order 10 sten.th
Ell the argument against relocation.
based on VasL amounts of public
money expended "n the presenl capi
tai. let us first decide That the CAPT
tai il or is not tn remain where it is
then act in conformity to our know
edge. And now that our westward
march has been arrested ~ the Pa
ci6c, while our southern boundary
.eems permanently traced by the
Rio Grand and Gila, it seems fit that
the Federal metropolis shall be placed
where it is to remain or located
where it now is. We respectfully
suggest that congress authorize the
President TO select an able commits
sion to survey the whole field and re-
port what action would most conduce
10 the national weil.being."
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20
THE JanpsyiIla lNis \

THE GAINESVILLE (Wis.) Gazette
says: "The drought in this vicinity
Is getting to be really serious. Grass
20 far from growing, seems to We
really parched up, while grain is
halting between two opinions, not
Knowing whether To stand still and
await events. or give up the fight,
aud garden sass IL having it rough. -
Since the disappearance OF snow,
there have been but one or two
showers of sufficient magnitude to
lay the dust. Rain il needed, and
badly. 1t is fortunate that the stage
of water in Rock River is good, for
the city is getting to rely on il
largely for its supply of aqueous
fluid"
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20

Mrs. CADY STANTON, Susan b.
Anthony and Theodore Tilton have
consolidated their interests into one
joint stock company, TO be called the
Union Woman's Suffrage Assecia.
ton. If that firm don't break up in
a row we are much mistaken, at least
we wouldn't feel safe in taking much
stock in that firm,