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sued. In July. 1867, Il compromise
was arrived Cat, and in September
following carried into effect Cakes
Amos vas to manage the Credit MO
h;,;a, business in the East, and ME-.
Durant was to go out West ana
wotc, the interests Of the speculation
on the line of the road. Up to this
,;oo the Credit MobiIier mad de-
CARED dividends aggrcgatinS go per
.ort and has! earned al additional
dividend of about 100 per cent''
eoual in money to about -, 3oo,ooo.
NJ, Oakes Ames having thus settled
himself in the saddle, lost no time III
o1,sting Mr.. Durant, and finally re-
ducad that gentleman to mere I'M
influential stockh older. Then, TINS
being. as will be borne IN mlhd,
,bout the end of the year 1901, OF
near the time of the annual assem-
bling of Congress, Mr.. Ames went
to work to place Credit stock where
it would. III his language, "do good
i.e., procure certain Legislation which
was still deemed desirable Oh behalf
Of the Union Pacific, the object beng
TO give that company more money III
order that the Credit Mohilier might
suck more out of it. By the Act OF
July ., 1861, it was provided that only
half of the compensation for services
rendered the United States by the
Union Pacific should be applied 20
the payment of the bonds loaned the
road by the Government. The Act
saving nothing about the interest on
these bonds, the Secretary OF the
Treasury insisted that the other hall
Of the compensation should so to
pay that, whereas for the Union
Pacific. i. e.. really for t;e Credit
Mobilier, it was contended that one
half should 90 to pay the bonds and
the other half should be paid over to
the Union Pacific in money. 70 Sc
cure an Act putting this beyond
question, so that the Secretary OF
the Treasury should be compelled to
pay, was therefore Il prime object
with Mr.. Cakes Ames, and the pro-
cess of securing the requisite Con-
sressional strength to pass such an
Act was entered on. This process
was to sell Credit Mobil;er stock,
then enormously valuable, to
prominent Representatives ana
Senators at par, allowing them
the dividends due on the stock
as a set-o.3 on the purchase money.
This is the substance Of the matter,
in brief. as we have conscient1ously
stolen it, from a source which Is no.
bodv's business; and all who are not
stupefcd by nature OF misapplled
art. will instantly understand just
what the Credit Mobilier is and how
it happened that OakGs Ames Under
took to make it so fashionable tor
congressman to become stockholders
in the same.
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Treasurer. Referred to Judiciary Conn
mittee.
Bill concerning trespassing stock. Re
erred to Committee on Agriculture.
Act for relief of Helm and Armistead.
Referee to Committee of the Whole.
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Ihe Ylelu 1ailn appeal.
NO PAPER TO MORROW.

Ont Of respect to the memories Of
the day, we shall not do the work in
the APPEAL Office necessary to get
ont paper tomorrow.
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NEW TODAY.
hEoTUHE!
ON THE
MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE !
G. w. WANDELl,

Z. w. WANDEI-kA,
Ex-United States Commissioner of the Territory
.> fof Utah, at the CARSON THEATEk,
On Saturday Evening, February 22d,
Commencing at o'clock p. NJ.
SGNOPSIS-PAHT FIRST.
Tho lecturer started from San Francisco for
Salt Lake, early in November. 1857 Startling
rulnors of the massacre. Excitement at Fort
TETON. The armed sentinel at CajOn. The
desert road. Death of the escaped emigrant
:. The cmiGrants fort :. The fatal waters. ..
The OF the nassacre. The skull and
hair The vow :. The MorlIonS apology for
the massacre.
PART SECOND.
The Arkansas emigrants arrival at salt Lake
City. -. They are ordered away. lessons for
the order The Governors courier. Order
for on-intercoursc. The friendly Indians.
The noble woman. The brave EaGls!tnan
. Hostilities passive and active. The three
Mormon spies . The militia called out. e. The
first blood :. The siege. The devils flag Of
truce. :. The surrender. The massacre.
The apostrophe. .'Oh! We slaughtered on,s!'
PART THIRD.
The closing atrocities of the massacre -. The
spoil The child victims. Three travellers
murdered. Lees tr to Salt Lake. The
me citing of the Governor and the chief demons
of the massacre. :. The love feast. .Apostro
phe, Oh! look upon that other feast ut the
Admission, 81 90: Children, 80 cents.
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By Mr. Adams, to regulate the manu-
facture and tax upon beer and malt
liquors Referred to Committee on
Ways and Means.
Senate bill to apportion salary OF Judge
of Fifth District between Nye anu
Churchill counties. Referred to deleSa-
lion of those counties
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NEVADA LEGISLATURE.
SIXTH SH;SSIO ION.
CARSON City, February q, 1873.
MORNING SESSION.

Senate called 10 order nj II o'clock.
President in the chair
On motion OF Phelan, the Senate re-
solved 10 adjourn over till Monday, in
honor of Washington : Birthday.
Mr.. Mills. from the State Prison Com
mittee, reported favorahIy. with amend
ments, on bill to provide for government
of the State Prison. The bill and Re
port We're referred to the Committee Of
the Whole
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MASON, CHENEY & co,
OFFICE AND S.LEsnooM-P.nrod Block cor
ner of Carson and and Telegraph streets.
WAREHOUSE Corner Of Plaza and Musser streets
CARSON CITY, NEVADA,
WHoLEsALE AND RETAIL DEAL
Groceries, Provisions,
FLOUR AND FEED,
Blasting and Sporting Powder,
Hardware, Tinware,
Crockery, Glassware,
Cutlery, Paints md Oils,
Shot, Fuse, Boots, Shoes,
Furnishing Goods, &c.
We have the largest and best F1re-prnof in
the State, and are prepared to receive
Grain 4 General Merchandise
on STORAGE at all times, ana t. mike CASH
ADVANCES Oh the same.
Goods delivered free of charge in all parts OF
the city and in any part of the surrounding
country.
ial-tf MASON, CHENEY 4 co.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
THE WAY THEY GO.

The Cincinnati Gazette very tru-
ly says:
Frank Blair, Senator from Mis-
souri,, is added to the growing list
of gentlemen who, once trusted by
the Republicans, turned their back
upon that party, and are now retir-
ed. Mr.Blair attempted to break up
the Republican party, and assisted
by Mr.. Schurz put the Democrats
in power in Missouri. He is now
ordered by his new associates to
take a back seat. Schurz's turn
will come next. Trumbull, of Hi.
nois is also overheard. Fenton of
New York, and Tipton,of Nebraska,
are moving toward the fatal point
with heads down and leels up.
Dixon of Connecticut, and Doolittle
OF Wisconsin,preceded them. Farms
worth, of Illinois, and Banks, of
Massachusetts,, are also politically
dead. For the so-called ssindepen-
dent" Senators, Representatives, and
newspapers there seems to be no
place except in the seats very far
back in the Democratic party. In
the latter they are wanted, not as
leaders, but as assistants.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
BLACK SNOW.

The Keokuk (Iowa) Constitution
of the 18th, says: ''On last Tuesday
afternoon commenced the great snow
storm of the winter, and the great
est snow storm of the West for ma
ny years. 1t continued until We'd
nesday afternoon; then set in a fu-
rious wind, which took the snow
from the hills and piling it up in the
valleys. On Thursday morning the
inhabitants of the northern portion
of the State, when they awoke, were
not little surprised at seeing the
earth covered with black instead of
a white garment, as it was on the
night before. This strange and un-
natural phenomenon is accounted for
on the suppositisn that after the
wind had swept the snow off the
hills then the dry earth was taken
up and scattered over the face of the
snow giving it the peculiar coloring.
This would be the satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION if this unusual appear
ance had been confined to localities,
but accounts say it was general.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

Following in the footsteps OF
New Hampshire, Michigan and Tex
as, where a compulsory school law
is in operation, and in those of Penn,
sylvania, where a similar measure
will unquestionably soon be passed
comes the great State of New York
proposing an amendment to its Con
stitution, providing for the compul-
sorry education of children. The
conditions that in this country de-
termine the standard Of the general
welfare are industry, perseverance
and honesty-the legitimate, if not
always the necessary outcome of
education. What we specially need
here, is to have society strengthen
ed at its base. General intelligence
is better than special learning. 1t
will be good day for the Republic
when every State in the Union shall
have its compulsory educational
system, faithfully enforced.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
GENERAL HOWARD INDICATED.

For two years and over, General
Howard has been maligned, ,reproach-
ed, villified and condemned by the
partizan press on charges of NAL ad.
ministration of the Freedmen's Blu
reau, extending to personal corrup-
tion in the use of the resorces at his
command as the head of that de-
partment. The accounts of the
Bureau have all this time been un-
dergoing CAREFUL and expert exami-
nation, and the result reached shows
that the accounts of General How
ard were correct, but that, by a cler-
ical error, he stood indebted to the
government in the sum of 1924!
General Howard gave a check for
that amount, and his account is
square. This is a most creditable
showing, and no officer of the gov
ernment, having such large discre-
tionary authority and handling such
large sums of money and valuable
real property, as General Howard
has done in connection with the
Freedmen's Bureau, can point to a
clearer or a more honorable record.
The name of General Howard will al
ways be remembered with honor
and gratitude for his great and time
ly services to the blacks of the South
during their transition from slaves
tofreemen. - -.-..
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE.

1t is quite possible that many re-
gard the abolition of the frankino
privilege as trife, scarce worth SO
much ado as has been made over it.
This presumption is erroneous. The
reform is important, and has large
cash value, for the burden which
the franking privilege imposed upon
the treasury had assumed monstrous
proportions, amounting to nearly
$3,OOO.O00 annually. In 1870, the
cost to the department was $2,643,-
327 y; in 1871 it was still greater,
and in the political campaign of last
year cost no less than So, 100000, a
sum larger than the entire deficien-
cy of the department. In addition
to this enormous cost, the mail de-
livery of the country was DELAYED
and disarranged by the bulk of mat
ter suddenly showered upon the
routes,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
INCREASE OF THE DEBT Ex-
PLAIN ED.

The reason of the increase of the
public debt is stated at the Treas
ury Department to be on account
OF the payment during the past
month of interest on Pacific Rail
road companies bond over the
amount retained from pay for serv-
ices rendered of $1,s26,274. But
for this the debt would have been
decreased $1,42O,O3O IS. There was
also disbursed from the treasury
during January, in addition to Or
dinary expenses, 81, 100000 to the
Board of Public Works in this city,
and one million on account of de
ficiencies in postal revenue, making
the total amount of extraordinary
expenditures during January $4,-
066, ,294.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
THE SANTANA BAY PURCHASE.

The New York Times gives the
details of the late purchase of Sam.
ana Bay, the peninsula, and terrific
ry adjacent by a company of Capt.
talists of New York and Philadel-
phia. Fifteen men have united and
formed company, with capital OF
twenty million dollars, and have
just concluded with President Baez
a contract for the purchase of the
Bay, which is pronounced by far the
best in the West Indies, with the
entire peninsula, and adjoining ter
ritory. This is to be entirely under
their control, as much so as if ceded
in the United States. 81
1t is expected that all the bene-
fits of annexation will result to the
United States by this movement,
without any of the complications
that the proposed treaty carried
with it. The Island is fully equal
to Cuba for the production of sugar
and coffee, and it is expected that as
Samana is TO be free port without
any duties of import or export that
a large commercial city will soon
spring up that will eclipse every 9TH
er point in the West Indies. Plans
for building wharves, ,hotels,etc., are
adopted. In the end the Is
land of San Domingo will come un-
der the control of United States.
In every respect this is an important
step in the progress Of the country.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
THE TWEED TRIAE.

The counsel for Tweed admit that
the disagreement of the jury was "a
great and unexpected victory for
their client, and express surprise
that any of the jurymen should IA
vor acquittal after Judge Davis
damaging charge. The counsel for
the prosecution are indignant and
chagrined, and think that the jury
have been tampered with and IL
fiuenced by mercenary motives. So
it seems the la wyers on both sides
are disappointed, and virtually agree
in the opinion which is universal
with the public, that Tweed's escape
from justice was the greatest fraud
of his whole career.
Positive information that this is
the case has been obtained, and will
probably be made the basis of ac-
tion against the jurymen who were
bought up. One juryman boasted,
before he went on the jury, that if
he could get on he would make
money out of the job. Undoubted-
ly he did, and the ten others who
voted with him to clear Tweed. The
escape of Tweed in this manner is
an outrage on justice, law, and pub
lie decency. He is the greatest
thief of the age, and the most un
blushing. His career is scandal
and disgrace to the American name;
and his last act of rascality is brib
ing the jury which ought to have
convicted him. The re-trial of the
case will begin again with as little
delay as possible, and the outraged
public demand that it be conducted
to a just conclusion.
Latest advice from New York re-
port one of the twelve to have been
a common loafer, whose opinions of
equality and justice were amplifi-
ed by the present of a new suit of
clothes from Tweed's friends; a sec
ond had privately announced his in
tent to turn an honest penny out of
his situation in the box; and third
was selfconfessed offender of the
revenue laws, who had served term
in Virginia prison for his eccen-
tricities. These things did not come
to light until after the jury had been
sworn. Mr.. Tremaine, counsel for
the prosecution, maintains that the
panel was prepared directly in
Tweed's interest,a propositian which
the developments Of the case would
of themselves seem to indicate. Now
if this be SO, it opens a fine opper-
tunity to punish some of the corrupt
officers of the New York Courts, for
surely if crime of such sort has been
committed, there is enough detective
skill in New York to find proof of
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
IMPORTANT SUBJECT.

Attention is now being directed
in almost all parts of the country to
certain serious defects in the pub
lie school system as il is practiced.
Chief among the causes for com
plant is the fact that nine-tenths of
the teachers rarely enjoy the benefit
of special training for their work be
fore entering upon it, and conse-
quently are apt to bungle it un til
they approach to perfection through
experience in the schools-an end
sometimes never attained, and un-
usually not before many years. 1t
might pay to give some serious,
Thoughtful attention to this subject
in so far as it appertains to Ohio.
There is abundant room for reform.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
NEW RAILROAD.

The New line kno wn as the Ches
apeake and Ohio Railroad, extend
ing from tide-water at Richmond,
Va, to Huntingdon, on the Ohio
River, has been completed, and will
soon be opened for traffic and trav
el. The road passes through the
Blue Ridge and Alleghanies, and is
said to be built in superior and
economical manner. The grades
are slight and the curvatures easier
than any of the great through lines.
1t passes through country teem-
ing with mineral wealth, the finest
and heaviest beds of coal, iron, etc.
Its connections through to Cincin-
natl will soon be completed, and
the new route to sea promises to
prove one of the most important in
the country.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
NEXT GOVERNOR.

The Democrats are beginning to
talk up Tom Ewing as their next
candidate for Governor, while John
T. Wilson, of Adams county, is
pressed by some Southern Ohio Re
publicans for the Gubernatorlal
nomination on the ground that that
section ought 10 have its equal
chance. But isn't Cincinnati in
Southern Ohio, and do not Cover
nors Cox and Hayes live there and
didn't Governor Noyes come from
there? By the way, why not renom
mate Noyes?
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
Ex-EMPRESS CARL0TTA.

The expected death of the unfor-
tunate Carlotta, the widow of Max
imilian, at Dresden, the capital of
Saxony, will form the last sad chap
ter of the terrible drama of the Mex
ican Empire. Few characters in
history occupy SO conspicuously ro-
mantle a position. rhe death of
her husband..gave her mind shock
from which it never afterwards re-
covered. Of late years the delu-
sions entertained by the lonely wo-
man haye been singular in the ex-
treme. She, for weeks together,
supposes herself in Mexico still.
Her life has been in memory; the
dark past SO occupies her as to OBJ
literate the present and bar out a
future. Pitied of all the world, it
will remain for the historian and poet
to properly tell the tale of her
strange life.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
FoRTY-THIsD CONGRESS.

The roll of the Forty third Con-
gress viii be notable for the absence
of many names which have figured
thereon, some Of them for many
years. Among them are Senators
Trumbull, Harlan, Blair, Nye, and
Sawyer; and Representatives Farms
worth, Bingham, Cox, Kerr, Voor-
hees, Banks, Blair (of Michigan) J,
Bird, Hill, Slocum, Ketcham, Camp.
bell, Shellabarger. Morgan, Van.
Trump, Mercur,and Stevenson. The
places of some of these are filed with
better men, and of some most likely
not so good. A majority of
changes are, however, for the better,
Democrats and Liberals being sue
ceeded by sound and true Republi-
cans.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
SEVERE WINTER.

The present winter has been so
severe in every section that it has
called forth frequent comment, and
yet no comparisons that have been
made with previous temperature
seems to portray fully the severity
Of the season. Advices from the
West show that on the line of the
Union Pacific Railroad the cold has
been simply terrible. Men have
been frozen to death from mere ex-
posure, and numbers more deprived
of the use of members under SINH
larly slight circumstances. Near
Salt Lake, snow rests ten feet deep
on the level land.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
DEAD LETTERS.

The number of letters, domestic
and foreign, received at the Dead
letter Office during the last wear was
as follows:
Domestic Letters classed .s Or
dinary, 2,925,015; Drop. $40 S01.
Unmailable, 279, ,324; Hotel. "a 4O5,
Fictitious, ,095; Registered, 5,152;
Returned from foreign countries
S3.422. Total, domestic letters. 49,.
695,114. Foreign letters. 244,66S.
Whole number, 4,2A ,374.
OF the unmailable letters. 80 SAG
were detained for postage, not beino O
prepaid as required by law. Thev
werereither wholly unpaid one full
rate, or were stamped with illegal or
revenue stamps; 62,337 were misdi-
rected, the post-ofiice, State,or some
necessary part of the address being
omitted, and 4,64l had no address
Wy Shsir, III. Il r
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
A BEGINNING.

Wonders will never cease. A
meeting of shareholders has been
held in Havana, Cuba, at which the
question of abolition was freely dis
cussed, and the prevailing senti-
ment appeared to favor the idea.
The grandees wanted the slaves, on
gaining their freedom, to enter into
contracts for eight to twelve years
service, at from one to five dollars
per month. That will do begin
ming; anything to break the ice.
But the handwriting on the wall is
plainly seen, and ere long the ac-
cursed institution will disappear
from the face of the earth.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
GATHERING N0TABLEs.

As a gathering of notables, the
Vienna Worlds Fair promises to
outdo all its predecessors. The EN-
peror Of Germany is to be there, SO
are the Gar, President There's, the
Shah of Persia, and the Prince of
Wales,not to mention the Hospodar
of Montenegro, Prince Bismark, land
a host of Cabinet Ministers of all
nations. There will be material
enough at Vienna for a great Euro
pean Congress, such as the late EN-
peror Napoleon used to dream of,
and it is to be hoped that the assem-
bled magnates may turn their social
hob-nobbing to some good purpose.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-06
FRANKING PRIVILEGE ABOLISHED

The President yesterday signed
the act of Congress, abolishing the
franking privilege, on and after July
next. So that old abuse is among
the rubbish which the Republican
majority in Congress has swept out,
since it came into power. The Post
Office Department, being relieved
of this huge incubus, will be en-
abled to pay Its own expenses, and
the people will obtain lower letter
postage in the future.