The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

VOL. XIX. NO. 2.

straight. Intercourse is deliberate and
republican. Even ruffians who fight in
these times are below reproach. 1t is
behavior, amenity, simplicity, and pros
perity which we are all pursuing; and,
If we need back pay, we vote it, foI
that is the moral law. Thou shalt
not hit," is a rising commandment.
And so, from terrace to terrace, like the
ascent of the steepes of the rocky
mountains, the American character APP
proaches the deal table-lmds of per
| fection. s#rfr. d..
I There had been disagreeable people
/ in town. No reference is meant here TO
Mr.. Jack O'Neil, who keeps the dance
house at Bismarck, and whom 1 should
take to be more familiar with the litera-
| ture of Mr.. Bret Harte; for therein, to
a grooming fiddle, several sleepy, weary,
| o so weary remains of women obeyed
the nodding fddle-bow and danced q
dance of deep sleep dance of COM
| pulsion to live dance of plantation
| hands called up at the end of labor to
amuse the overseer. What a christian
blessing it would have been to take the
proprietor of the place apart and say :
+" Jack O'Neil (for he must be good
fellow, like Shang and all the rest, }
Jack, thou sterling creation, here are
$50 from the Evangelical society to buy
sixty hours of perfect rest for these
poor banished immortals at the farthcst
distance from Gods observation.
Was about to say that there had
been disagreeable people at Bismarck ?
Yes, there was the attack on Dave Null
len. Dave Ia good fellow, no doubt }
mustang under his own premises, with
some other professionals, when a per
son came in and asked if he answered to
his name. " 1t is, said Dave. The in
truder then drew off, as he must have
done, to strike Dave impressively,
which he did Immediately everybody
fred off pistol through his breeches
pocket, not TO hit any thing, but to
show that there was law and public
spirit in Bismarck. One man was shot
through the hand, / hope not an editor,
nor man with lone hand, and all the
storekeepers kept in their shops.
"Bigud, says the Bismasck trades
man, az don't want to know any thing
about any shooting, When / hear them
pop away, don't even look through
the windy" r.. .-a..
There was no sequel to thisadventure
except that Mr.. Shang weLt to see
about it, and raised his voice to a still
more high and gladstone pitch.
Such is Bismarck, fusion of rag-fair
and the fair at Mimi -Novgorod, earnest
commerce and voluntary exile, manifest
destiny and the Tiger, the coming man
and the passing fool. 1t carries the
name of prince premier in the Baltic
empire, and his Kaiser's subjects, still
in their Berlin garments, sell beer in
this new encampment, right opposite
the Sioux nation. The American army
could shell it out from the adjacent
fort in Just two minutes, but the shells
of frontier posts never burst eastward.
Without law, it is wholly lawful after
it's fashion. Now, reason upon it as we
may, it is the way this land and every
other have been broken and peOpled.
Nature resists the conclusion that the
Pilgrim Fathers came to America with
out a game of "high-low-jack " or
Boston in some part of the ship
for you cannot make your game without
ace, face or trump.
But as to the land across the river,
there indeed the business of conquest
is being attended to. Fort Lincoln,
and the plains before it, are sprinkled
with officers, ladies and men who are
looking on with amusement, and no ap-
prehension whatever at the slzirmishlng
between the Sioux and Rees.