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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-28

LosT.-A five dollar gold piece with
pin attached. The finder will be suit
ably rewarded by returning same to
this Office
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-28

p. II. Fisher, Agent for the New
Howe Sewing Machine, the Best
Machine in the world. Corner of
10Th and O'Neil. je9 d3iu
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-28

WATTED.-Forty men to chop
wood at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
Agencies. Inquire of @. II. Jcwett,
at the Railroad House, next Monday,
June 18th, in the afternoon.
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-28

Three desirable city residences
for sale by CorletI & Stevens. ap27-tf
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-28

Wanted to rent a hOu-e contain
ing four or five rooms. Inquire at
this office. jos 2id
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-28

One large, well lighted room for
rent at Pcasc ( TaylOr's.
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-28

Notwithstanding an expe-
riencPd Cook, at the Planters House
in this city. j28-d3t
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-28

For sale or Tor other stock.
Several fine hIoOded bulls. In-
quire of j. Abney, ut Maynard's
stable. jel9-dIf
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30

lucre" is conducted to the Treasury, will
rot be disputed. But this is their only
Office in regard to it.
Suppose for a moment that it were posi-
bic for all laborers to say at once, eve
Twill no longer cooperate with capital.
eve will till the soil and live upon what
1--WE can produce. We will abstain from
"luxuries and live as our ancestors did
"upon the results of our own labor and
such exchanges as we can make in our
Gown neighborhood. What would be-
come of the capitalists? The taxes on his
city property would eat him up in five
years. 1t would be entirely unavailable.
Wall-street operators and all other non
producers who now make their living by
gambling in the produce of labor would be
obliged to 60 to work or starve.
This suppositious case, which was our
own only two hundred and fifty years back,
is cited simply for the purpose Of showing
how utterly at the mercy of labor is capital.
And yet there is nothing which nowadays
is more airy. The temporary cuStOdians ola
little capital assume to be entitled to all voice
in public affairs, because it assumes to pay
the taxes which support and sustain
the Government, schools and everything
that is important and good. 1t rules man
out of the grand jury box in some places
lecause he does not own property in fee,
and out of the petit jury box because he is
well informed-so inconsistent and whimsi-
cal is this capital in its eXactions.
Labor is the only independent institution
in this land. 1t creates. In this it is God
like. 1t adds to the real wealth Of the cOun-
try according as it is applied. If CO.
operated with by capital and labor multi
plying machinery, directed by intelligence,
it is more effective in the creation of wealth
than when left to the primitive modes of
applications hence its willingness to CO.
operate with them and allow them q lions
share of the profits. But they may over
reach themselves by their grasping avarice
and arrogation to themselves of all power.
Georgia and its labor system and schools
are no exception to these principles.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30
THE WASHINGTON NAVY YARD

The article yesterday upon the above
subject did not notice the report of the COM
mittee that visited the different yards on
the Atlantic coast with a view of reducing
the number if practicable, as thereport had
not then been made, and it would have
been much better for the gentlemen compos-
ing that committee if it never had been.
They show partial ignorance of the sub
ject under consideration. They do not
seem to know where the timber grows
used in the construction of our ships, or
where the coal and iron fields of the coun-
try lie. Iron, coal and timber lie as it were
at our door. Nine tenths of all the timber
used in the construction of all Our ships is
cut in Maryland and Virginia, and the re-
naming tenth in Ohio.
Live oak comes from Louisiana and
Florida, yellow pine from Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida,
and it costs less to deliver it here than at
any other station on account of return
freights of coal.
One half of all the Cumberland coal used
in the United States is shipped from Wash
ington, or rather Georgetown. Iron lies
all around us. As we have heretofore re-
ferred to all these points, we will not enlarge
further upon them. There is one other
point of which the committee seems to be
neglectful, and we will do them the Justice
TO say that if they had been informed upon
it they never would have recommended the
adjustment of this yard.
1t is this: As soon as the ground on
which the yard is situated ceases to be used
for the purposes Of a navy yard, it reverts
to the original owners The Government
would, therefore, be unable to realize any
thing for the ground, which, together with
the improvements, is worth at least twenty
millions.
1t is proposed to scatter this vast amount
to the winds, as also millions more that the
committee recommend to be spent at League
Island, point not half as eligible as this
and for no other reason in the world except
to put the same improvements there that
we now have here in perfect running order
The climate here is far superior to that of
any other station, and there is no month in
the year that work has 10 L. suspended,
while at the Eastern yards there are several
months in which outdoor work cannot be
performed. The waters of the Potomac
are celebrated for their wood-preservative
qualities, and wood left long enough in it
will petrify. For this reason this yard
should be made the point at which all pur-
chases Of timber and lumber should be
made, and stored until required for use at
other stations. In fact, this yard possesses
greater natural advantages than any other.
Instead of destroying this yard, the area
should at once be extended by the purchase
Of ground on both sides, which can be had
at a very low price, and additional manu-
featuring shops should be erected, and we
would then have yard superior to any in
the world.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30
A Card.


To the Editor Of the National Republican,:
SIR: Having read the official report pub
lished in your paper of the financial results of
the "Martha Washington tea party" held in
the rotunda of the Capitol, and having since
examined the statement, in answer prepared
for publication by Mrs. Briggs, (widely known
to the reading public as "Olivia," ~ we have
requested her to withhold it, as we fear that
any further newspaper discussion of the sub
ject might indirectly damage the Centennial
cause. At the same time we desire to express
our entire faith in the integrity of the motives
which prompted Mrs. Briggs to investigate the
subject, and our qualification at her patriotic
withdrawal from a further discussion of it in
print, which between parties alike interested
in the success of this national enterprise,
might have injured cause which we all have
at heart. By publishing this, as an act Of
justice to Mrs. Briggs, you will oblige, yours,
very respectfully, VIM. D. KELLEY,
A. c. HARMER,
SAM. J. RANDALL,
LEONARD MYERS.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30

THE ATTENTION of Mr.. Bergh, Mr.
Gatchel, and of the society generally for
the prevention of cruelty TO animals, is
directed to a daily advertisement in an
evening contemporary, as follows: Wanted
"-the front tooth of a girl fourteen years
of age. Will pay literally and replace
" artifcially." The front teeth were first
called for; the number is now modestly re-
duced to one. In the imaginative pages of
Eugene Sue the agonies Of his lovely and
unfortunate heroine, "Fleur de Marie, 3" are
graphically portrayed while undergoing a
like torture; and Victor Hugo too, in the
career Of the still more wretched Fan
tine" presents US with similar episode.
These are fctions only-the wild exaggera-
tions of French romance-but for our
happy and enlightened country it is re-
served to be the proposed theatre of the
actual, horrible fact, provided only the
victim stands ready. Gentlemen of the
humane society, do you consent? Read
the communication in another column re-
garding this matter.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30
III Ed.

ALLEN.-In philadelphia, on January B, of
consumption, Mrs. MARIA A, wife OF George Al
Her friends are respectfully invited to attend
her funeral from the residence of PrOf NJ. Yarnal,
at $3.50 O'Clock.
TAc9Bs.n 1gsn; J.6Ia6y 2 at 4;I5 ELR-
RiDSa L., III lhIant o son 81 George II and saie IL
The relatives and friends of the family are re-
morrow afternoon at O'Clock.
MALONE.-On Thursday, January 2s, AVA MA
Funeral at O'Clock this afternoon, at No. II
Eighth street east.
sHAw.-suddsnly at 1880 p. m, January %,
last 20 years resident OF this city. ~
Funeral services al the residence of Mr. Geo. WILL
m. The remains will be Inferred at Montgomery
county, Md.
wILLIAMs.-AtI 1850 O'Clock a. m. on the 18th
LIAMs. in the eighty first year of her age.
Her funeral viii take place from the residence of
town, d. O.. saturday, 3Oth inst. at / O'Clock
p. IN. lnteTment at Oak Hill Cemetery, George
town, at clock. Friends and acquaintalces are
DAVIs.-In this city, on the night of the 9th of
January, WILLIAM A. DAVIS, aged thirty years,
youngest son of Georgianna and the late George
Ills fGne raj, with Requiem High Mass, will take
inst, at 10 O'Clock.
balloon Tuesday, January %, after Iinger-
ing illness, which be bore with Christian fortitude
and resign9tion, JAMES \, BALL, in the sixty
Funeral from Calvary Baptist church, on Sunday
afternoon, at O'Clock. Relatives and friends are
respectfully invited to attend.
NEAL.-On the 18th day of January, 1875, after
an illness Of fifteen months. WILLIAM II. NEAL,
aged eighteen the only son of Henry and Elizabeth
he relatives and friends are requested 10 attend
which will be from the residencc of his beloved
parents, No. lUl5 Sixteenth street.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30

THE Yankees " as the New England
members of the House are called by their
fellow Republican members, did not, as a
body, do their duty in the long session.
Some of them did nObly, while others
skulked away from the arduous duties of
their position and sought repose and com
fort in their little beds. Yet these latter
are among the men who, ten years ago,
were first and foremost in demanding that
the blacks of the South should be emanci-
pated, enfranchised, and turned loose with
out protection in communities the popula-
ton of which embraces half a million Of
eX-Confederate soldiers, who fought against
great odds for four years TO keep these
same blacks in slavery. This kind of New
England consistency should be remem-
bered. The Republicans of the South have
a number Of able stump-speakers, who
might make it convenient to visit, at the
proper time, some Of the Northern Con-
gressional districts. They would do this,
of course, to reward their friends and their
recreant fellow -partisans at one and the
same time.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30
OUR RIVERS.

The time is short, and the Republican
Congress has taken no steps toward inaug-
urating system Of measures for the relief
of the producing classes of the country.
The report of the Senate Committee on
Transportation Routes TO the Seaboard,
made in May last, has remained untouched.
1t is the policy of great party to keep at
least even with public sentiment; it is a
political blunder to allow that popular feel
ing to get ahead of such party If the
Republicans appear unable to comprehend
the wishes Of the country on the question
of improved facilities for transportation the
leaders of that party may rest assured that
some great party will be developed which
shall hold out the promise OF meeting those
expectations.
1t is very forcibly urged that the present
is an inopportu1e moment to burden the
finances of the Government with heavy
appropriations, and it is by no means un-
likely that any sweeping measure for the
construction of works of public improve
ment would have to encounter cry for
retrenchment and reform. 1t does not
follow, however, that the Republicans
should allow the session to pass without at
least recognizing the principle of improv-
ing our great national waterways, and so
giving to the people at least pledge of
their convictions and purposes on this sub
ject.
II would be wise measure if the Com
mittee on Commerce in the annual appro-
priatiOns which are recommended for the
Improvement of our rivers and harbors,
would remember, though in ever so small
8 way, the paramount claims of those great
interior water-channels which contribute
to the general commerce of the country, or
to the commerce of large areas and q num-
Der of States. There is, we presume,
hardly man of any party in the country
who does not approve, in the abstract, of
the removal Of the bars in the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers; or who would not, when
that region is more fully occupied, sanction
the improvement by Congress of the Mis-
souri, river; or who would not recognize the
propriety of deepening the channel across
the St. Clair flats, or removing the OBJ
structions in the Detroit river. These i'm.
provements have bearing on the general
commerce of the couutry-affect, indeed,
the whole internal navigation of the States.
1t is not the business of one State or oftwo
States to construct such improvements; the
States mainly benefited may not be tho;e
lying Immediately adjacent for the Erie
canal is, perhaps, at this moment a greater
convenience to some of the remote Western
States than it is to the State of New York. |
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30
LABOR, EDUCATION AND TAXATION

If Senator Gordon is correctly reported
as having stated that there are 20, 900 white
children and 90, 600 cOlored children in the
the immense Democratic majority in the
State as shown or claimed in the last two
elections with such condition of affairs;
coupled with the further assertions that
there was neither fraud nor intimidation
exercised by his party in securing that ma
jority? He will scarcely contend that the
negroes voted the Democratic ticket to the
extent indicated. Neither will he pretend
that they stayed away from the polls with
out some inducement Was the induce
ment one Of love or fear? OF starvation,
assassination or reward? But 1t is further
stated that the negro parents of these chii-
dren pay but one fftieth of the tax for
school purposes. That they do not nav it
directly to the tax gatherer may be true.
The State of Georgia and other States gene
rally hold the real property for the ex-
penses of the instruction of the children,
and very properly so perhaps upon the
principle that the soil is greatly benefited
and its value enhanced by being titled by
intelligent labor. So it is, after all, the labor
Of a country in every instance which pays
the tax. Untitled and unimproved soil
will not pay any tax. If capital pays it in
the first instance, it is Immediately charged
back again to the first labor employed by
it. The tax is at first advanced by capital
as an investment. When the Georgia
planter engages his hands for the season
and agrees to give them rations and share
OF the crop made does he not charge them
tax or profit upon those rations? Does he
not allow for taxes and interest on the out
lay in counting up the share of the capt.
talist or proprietor? And does not every
cent by which this share is augmented
lessen the share allotted to laborP OF
course it does. No one will deny so plain
proposition. 1t is then clear that after
all it is the laborer, the producer and cor
sumner alike-it is the labor of the country
which pays the tax. That this is ulti-
mately the fact cannot be successfully con-
tradicted. That the capitalists, traders and
manufacturers of the land act in the ca
pacity of sewers, through which the ''ilthy
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30
The Case of Watmnre.

From the Chicago Post, 25th.l
Yesterday the House Of Representatives sent
young and comparatively Insignificant journalist
to jail not because he refused to testify, but be-
cause, in q document read to the House, he made
use Of insulting language. Wetmore was called
before the Pacific subsidy investigating commit
tee to tell the grounds upon which he based GER
tain reflections upon members Of Congress and
others in connection with that steal. He refused
to answer certain questions, and was brought be-
fore the House to be dealt with. He asked and
obtained until yesterday time to prepare a reply.
In the reply he states that he could not remem-
Der the name Of any party to whom the runor
could be traced. This was the point of evidence
in regard to which he was sin contempt" But
Wetmore also had the cheek to protest against
the summary treatment he had received, and to
express a hope that Mr.. Beck and all honest men
might be able to prove their innocence He hoped
the goats might be selected from the sheep, and
also that the sheep might be selected from among
themselves, by the Darwinian process Of investi-
purer until they became angels Of virtue" &c.
These expressions, to the minl Of Mr.. Hale,
constituted '1series Of gross and wanton out
RACES" and so Wetmore is Imprisoned.
It will strike the impartial mind that Congress-
men would do we'll to take one of their siEe,' If
another example must be made How did White
law Reid manage to retire from matinee with
the investigating committee, in which he talked
to them with the cheek Of an army mule, to tho
How is it that Dom Piatt is enabled to bully the
committee in set terms, and walk of unchaI-
leDged to brag over his exploits? Why may not
any citizen, If compelled by the House to make a
statement to the House, participate in the ad-
vantages guaranteed to members Of the House?
If his remarks were inappropriate why did not
the Speaker call Wetmore to order and not
calmly wait until he had finished, and then en-
terrain motion to lock him up? It seems the
House made no scTuple to insult Wetmore by
'contemptuous smiles" and by horse laugh when
GARFIELD charItably suggested that Wetmore's
remarks might be the product Of a mind diseased,
as the consequence Of late illness.
If the account Of the affair transmitted this
morning be correct, honors were very easy in re-
gard to politeness and courtesy between Wetmore
and certain members Of the House; and, II the
former must be shut up in jail, the latter would
show great good sense, and very proper cour-
tesy, by volunteering to keep him company. In
our judgment Congress, or at least q portion Of
Congress, will ind they would do well to stop
about where they are in the press gag and arbE-
trary imprisonment business. The fate OF the
House Committee which reported faYorably on
the Poland gag bill might be pondered with
profit. Out Of the entire batch, numbering eleven.
only one will take his seat In the next Congress,
and that is one too many.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30

Most of its tonnage is derived from districts
outside of the State Of New York.
The application before the Committee of
Commerce, of the commissioners repre-
senting the improvement of the Ohio river,
is precisely case of this sort They ask,
we believe, for some 5000, 900. This, of
course, will not remove the Instructions
from the Ohio river; it is only designed to
deepen the channel at a single point near
Pittsburg. The value of the appropriation
would lie in its being a recognition of the
claims Of this great inland river upon the
attention of Congress. The commerce of
the Ohio is now greater than the value of
the whole of our foreign imports; but that
commerce suffers from the great disadvan-
tage that for one fourth of the year-dur-
ing the so-called low-water season-the
river is almost useless. Freights on the
Ohio and Mississippi go up in July and
August, and the shipper has then to pay
S. on the same consignment that it cost
him only 81 to transport in January and
May. There is another period of about
two months when the upper Ohio is OBJ
structed by ice, which amounts to about
one month below the mouth of the Great
Kanawha. The three months of low
water added on to this period of ice OBJ
struction makes this interruption, there
fore, of the navigation of the river, a
very serious matter-a period extend
ing over nearly half the year.
The effect of this interruption is felt,
moreover, during the period offree naviga-
ton the boats and barges, which were idle
in the fall months or during the colder
weeks of the winter, must now compen-
safe themselves for this loss of time by an
increase in their rates, and, consequently,
the cost of transportation on the Ohio in
the spring, while it is cheap compared
with rail, is abnormally high.
Despite all this, in the year 1872 the
commerce of the Ohio river amounted in
value to some 500, 900, 900; it will soon be
81, 500, 900, 900 and if there was a fulltide
of water and free navigation nearly all
the year-eleven months below Point
Pleasant-we may only conjecture what it
will amount to in the future, when the
States which lie upon its banks and those
which lie in the Mississippi valley are pop
ulated as New England is.
The Withholding or the giving of the
small appropriation asked for, and of the
5000, 900 asked to improve the Kanawha up
TO the salt mines and coal fields of West
Virginia, would not appreciably affect the
taxes or the finances of the country, while
it would be an earnest to the people that
the recommendations of the Window COM
mittee would be ultimately carried out
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30

IT MUST be admitted that the discipline
Of the minority party in the House, as evil
denced by its course during the prolonged
forty-six hours session which ended yester-
day, was excellent. When compared with
the namby- PANTY, milk-and-water comfort
or pleasure seeking course of certain Repub-
lican members, the loyalty of the Democ-
racy to the interests of party ELECTS praise
even from its opponents.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-30

SIMPLY because the election of Francis
Herman to be United States Senator ''gives
the Democracy of the Empire State q
"voice in the national Senate for the first
&c time in thirty years" the Democrats of
Erie county. New York, fred one hundred
guns last Thursday. Members of the same
party at Coushatta, La, not long ago, paid
a similar tribute to their political principles,
and one hundred colored men fell lifeless to
the narth