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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-07-22
John Morrissey al Saratoga,

Morrissey has no other weakness thar
getting drunk about twice year, and
then he is amiable as Pontiac or Goliath
All the rest of tho year he is cool
measuring, gain-secking business man
with the soul of merchant. lie owus
nearley two acres of ground here, on
which are large hotel, pool house for
betting on horses, four cottages, a min
eral spring, n rock spring, and u trout
pond. de has nearly one thousand
trout, and he took US ont 10 zee them
fed. Many of them weighed two pounds.
His hotel is y substantial brick edifice,
built on pies and planks twcnty-iour
feet under the surface. He took a
swamp, piled ii, filled IL and made par
adise of 1t. / asked him how much be
had spent here. He said al have laid
out $4,000. The first piece OF ground
| bought, nifty feet front, paid $500 a
foot for. never bonsh, anything in
Saratoga at second price. II you reflect
on any proposition over night they'll
raise on you next morning. I keen a
hotel IN connection with my club houses
TO be allowed 10 gamble. | aim with
that hotel to pay my servants and TO
support the table. There are sdventy
people in my employment here. The
cook is paid 800 tor the season, and |
generally present him with $500 when
no goes away. The good servants re-
engage for the next year"
The hotel part of Morrissey's estab.
lishment bears no relation whatever 10
his gaming, and the games are neither
visible nor the players audible from the
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-07-22

declaration was voted, it was ordered
TO be engrossed on parchment, and then
signed, and that a few days afterward "A
resolution was entered on the secret
ionrual that no person should have Il
seat in Congress during that year until
he should have signed the Declaration
of independence. After the 18th of July
was not in Congress for several
months, having marched as Colonel to
support General Washington, until the
flying camp of ten thousand was COM
plcted. When Tho associators were dis
charged returned TO Philadelphia, took
my seat in Congsess, and signed my
name to the Declaration on parchment. !"
This transaction is a singular one. If
persons who belonged TO that Congress
and were in favor ofindependencc were
absent on that day (4,h) it was right
enough TO have them sign afterwaru,
and their names be engrafted on parch-
mcnt But that half dozen mem bers
should be sent down TO posterity as
having signed the Declaration on the
18th OF July who We're not present, and
were not even members of that Congress
at all, is a remarkable transaction.
This is one among 4 thousand exam
pies OF how almost impossible it is to
get contemporary history correct. We
have an example in the attempt to get
the history of our late war correct. The
very actors in 1t disagree entirely. The
reason is obvious. 1t is an impossibility
that any one man in any of of the bat
ties and events of the late war should
know all or the tenth part of it. He
can tell what he did and what he said
More than that he cannot say with safe
ty. Hence ii is that we find so many
errors in these accounts, and it is not
until all the minute details and the secret
history Of administration are known
that the future Napier can give an ac-
count Of our military history.
The errors in signing the Declaration
are OF no Importance to this country or
TO the world. But to the memory OF
tho individual actors and to those who
value that memory,it is Of some interest.
} Ohm Dickinson was one of the ablest
and purest of all the men in that Con-
gress, but having opposed the Declare
he did not sign IT, while half o dozen
men who were not known menu ers of
Congress at that time did sign it. The
Declaration itsclfwas not wholly origin
al nor wholly according to history. Bat
it matters not. All that is passed, and
America is free in fact as well as name
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Buchanan Reads PremOnIiiOn.

The case Of the late T. B. Read, equal
y well known as poet and as artist, fur
nishes an instance Of premonition worth
a memorandum. Mr.. Read-onc of the
most delicate physical organizations |
have ever met-had presentiment that
he should not live to finish his fiftieth
year, if even TO complete his forty ninth;
and this presentiment was very constant
with him during the last four years OF
MS life. lie was not gloomy IN view OF
IL temperament so sunny and spiritual
as his could not give way to the sullen
and purple glooms that are so frequent
with men who have tasted life and fame
and proved them to be dreams one
dream within another. But the convic-
ton grew and rooted in his inner life,
it assumed the force of revelation. lie
died before his fiiftieth birthday came.
Is it possible that, by some subtitle intel
ligencc, the processes of which are hid
den from the everyday consciousness Of
men, the physical organization may cal
cuiate its own endurance with mathcmat-
icai cXactness and forteii the day Of lis
dissolution
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-07-22

The Cincinnati gazette is OF the opin
ion that the prospects of a sweeping Re-
publican victory this fall are growing
brighter every day. They are brighter
now than they were at the first of tins
month, and were brighter then than on
the first of June. This remark is not
made in the way Of campaign Boosting,
but as the deliberate conclusion formed
from large number of letters, conversa-
tons with men in different parts of the
State, and careful examination of the
weekly country papers. The Republicans
are everywhere hopeful. Tho Demo
Gratis are Respondent.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-07-22

The city of New York, including
Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken, New
ark, has a population Of two million.
The population of London by the census
of 1870 was 3,2l4,707 persons; that
of Paris by the census of 1867, 1885,
462 persons; Constan;inopIc, 1919
900 BY the census Of 1861 New York
proper will therefore rank next after
Paris and leaving ont the cities of China
is now the third city in the world in
population. Taking in the Brooklyn off.
shoots and those Of northern Jersey
place New York as tho second would
city of the world.
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dining room. His sale de joker is sort
of transept to his hotel, one immense
room, lighted from the sky, carpeted
richly, with a narrow rim OF gaming Ia
bles around the sides. No citizen OF
Saratoga is allowed to play, no intoxi-
Gated person, no verdant young men.
Gambling has its own class. There are
some men who game as naturally and as
coolIy as they do business. Morrissey
himself never plays, except with great
experts, and men Of equal purse and
nerve, like Ben Wood or Price McGrath
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MISsING kREONAUTS,

At Chicago, last Thursday evening, ;
balloon was sent up by p. It. Barnum
(the great showman), under the direct
ion Of Prof. Donaldson. The balloon
contained Donaldson and Grimwood, the
latter being reporter of the Chicago
Erening Journal, and passed over Lake
Michigan during the night at an eleva.
ton of 1000 feet. Nothing has
been heard of them since early Thurs
day evening, when a schooner sighted
them. AT that time tho balloon basket
was dipping in water about thirty miles
from the shore. As the schooner turn
cd TO render them assistance, the bal
loon again ascended and appeared 10
bear away northward. A special 10 u
Kalamazoo (Mich.) paper, dated July
10Th, stated that the employees on the
Kalamazoo a. South Haven Railroad had
brought in information that Prot. Don
aldson alightcd near South Haven
(Mich.), Sunday afternoon, in an ex-
hausted condition and that medical as
distance had been sent him. But moth
ing whatever has boon learned up to
this time TO corroborate tho story. The
telegraph operator at South Haven
know nothing of IT on Tuesday evening.
Rewards amounting TO $3.50 have been
offered for the recovery of the bodies Of
the missing men, and tugs are now hunt
ing tho lake for them. There arc differ
ent theories advanced as TO what has
becomeof them. If they had fallen in
TO tho lake, the debris of the balloon
would have been disco vcred before this.
If they had been thrown out by accident
the balloon thus relieved Of its weight
would have probably come down in some
accessible region and been discovered
before this.
A reasonable theory is that they may
have descended in the night time in one
of those great and dense forests OF Mich
igan or Wisconsin, and not knowing
their position may have become lost. If
such is the case, they may finally be found
Otherwise, it seems as if we are to hear
of them no more. When we think of
the terrors of atrip into mid-air and the
awful results in case Of accident, we
cannot but await in anxious suspense
definite news concerning the fate OF
these men but are wo TO be apologists
for the actions of those who disregard
the natural impulse ofevery human being
TO love his life, and who engage in fool.
hardy and reckless exhibitions of brute
courage, just to gain little applause |!
Donaldson and Grimwood knew of the
fate of Thurston and others who have
gone mp into the air, never to return
alive, and if they have lost their lives
what have they or the world gained BY
their deaths
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-07-22
THR NARROW GUAGE AGAIN.

Ii is stated that the Central Kansas
Railroad marrow guage) is to be con-
stracted as soon as possible from its
present terminus (Holton) to Denver.
We believe it to be the duty of Saline
county to strive with all its power to
gam a connection with the Kansas Cen
trail, by branch road from this place to
Clay Center. Beyond doubt, we need
another eastern outlet and by this branch
road, and by no other as far rs can be
seen at present, are we to obtain it. Let
our people be wakeful and watchful IN
this matter, and not allow other towns
striving for the same ends to get the start
of US.
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Fortunes OF Singers.

Nine. Parepa- Rosa is said TO have died
worth some $3.50, GOO. She was a very
thrifty woman, and looked well after the
pennies. Nine. NIIsson-Rozeaud has
certainly not squandered her means, and
Is reported TO have $500, 600 invested in
stocks ard real estate. Miss Kellogg Is
worth probably $4,000 well invested,
and would be worth more if she were
not SO generous. She, or her mother,
who acts tor her,is close at bargain, but
liberal with money after she once gets
1t. Adcline Patti is cxtravagani aud
avaricious, too. She makes great deal
OF money, and spends a great deal as
well. But she has saved fortune.
Mile. Aibani j. just beginning 10 make
money so she has not saved any SO far
Mr. eve, however, will see that she does
not lose anything. Luoca is more like
the oldiashioned prima donna. She does
not save a penny. though she makes .
great many. DeM1rska, also, Is improv-
ident. Adelaide Phillips is poor, through
her generosity TO Der relatives. / am told.
Miss Annie Louise Cary would save If
she coald only get little ahead. But
she IL so kind-heartcd. Nine. Anna
Bishop belongs TO the improvijent, or
rather, unfortunate generation. She has
made fortunes, bat only TO lose them,
and j. poor woman today. Carl For
mes, Mario. TamberlIk, neither have
anyibin: left, not even their voices. OF
the present generation, Waehlel Is we'll
OF; 50 are Santiey. Sims, Reeves, FaGre,
and Neimann. Campanini saved 50
did Carpi. Capoul didn't, neither did
1Iaarel nor Brisnoii, and the tenors aud
baritcnes ofihe socond class are poorer
fha-l church fn-fe
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John ID. Lee finally confesses that the
Mountain Meadow massacre was perpe.
trated by 80 MoFmonS, with the assss
lance OF large number OF Indians, and
that the deed was done under orders OF
leader of the Mormon church. In bis
confession he also states that when he
took the news 70 Brigham Young, the
latter deplored the transaction and said
it would bring disaster on the Mormon
people.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-07-22

Tho sale OF the Northern Pacific Rail
road and all its branches, franchises, ap
purtcnances, &C., is advertised 10 take
places in New York city on the 18th OF
August. The appurtcnances, &c, EN-
brace, among other things, sixty million.
of acres of land, probably the largest
body of land ever offered in fee at one
time in this or any other country.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-07-22

Senator Thurman has been interview.
ed regarding the financial plank of the
Ohio platform. He says be was oppos
TO it, but that Republicans ought to find
fault, for somsof their most prominent
leaders favor the Same doctrine. He
thinks the currency question is merely
sectional, and that the Democrats of
Ohio can afford to win on their doctrine.
because it will aid them in 1876
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-07-22

On the strength OF this year, crop re.
reports, the New Orleans Republican pre-.
diets that the phraza "lazy Niger" will
be a good deal less frequent in Southern
mouths in the future than IN the past.
Planters say the coIored labor was ncve r
better; indeed Memphis report goes
further, and pronounces it "better than
ever"
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Y. p. Wilson relires from tho Topeka
Tines and is succeeded by w. Ii. John
son, Jas. l.. King and J. w. Wilson.
Mr.. Johnson, it will be remem bered, was
once connected with this paper.
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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-09
NEW ORLEANS.
Extraordinary Manifesto from q Lead
Ing Republican - Reconstruction
FOreahRdoued.

Extraordinary Manifesto from q Lead
ing Republican - Reconstruction
FOFeshadOWed.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. S.-Henry @. Dib-
bic, who represented the State government
as counsel before the Congressional Com
mittee, has addressed a letter to Hon. Chas.
Foster, chairman Of ths committee, in
which be says:
l. seems to me that Congress and the
country at large viii be unable to solve the
problem presented by the Louisiana case,
unless they consider that everything that
has occurred in this State since the election
OF 1872, has been revolutionary, utterly be
yond due process Of law, and viOlative Of
those fundamental rules and principles
which underlie republican form Of Gov
eminent within the purpose Of the COnsti-
tutioE Of the United States.
sWhat then is the duty of Congress-?
Our position is not dissimilar to that we
occupied in 1867. The State was then re-
constructed Let the process be repeated.
PerhlpS, with the experience we have had,
we can do better. We can scarcely do
worse. ] care not what plan be adopted so
that we may have peace and order, perfect
fairness and equal justice for all"
The Radical Programme I'm Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. S.-The recon
structiOn Of this State is fOreshadOwed in
the Republican programme. Prominent
partisans have been engaged for some days
in preparing bill for Congress, providing
provisional government for Louisiana,
under military rule.
Congressman Morey left for Washington
this evening, and will, il is stated, iutro-
duce the bill at once.
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SHERIDAN.
The Brutal SatraP WriIhIng Under the
CastigatIOn OF Honest Men.

The Brutal SRtraP WrfthinE Under the
CastigatIOn OF Honest Men.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-The following
dispatches have been received at the War
Department:
Ne1g Orleans Jan. Z, 1ST5.-W. ".
Belknap, Secretary of War, Washington, D.
C.-Several prominent people have for the
last few days been passing resolutions and
manufacturing sentimental protests for
Northern political consumption. They
seem to be trying to make martyrs Of
themselves. It cannot be done at this
Gay. There have been too many bleeding
negro and Ostracised white citizens for their
statements 10 be believed by fair minded
people. Bishop Wilmer protests against
nv telegram of the 4th inst, forgetting
that on Saturday last he testified
under oath before the Congressional Com
mittee that the condition of affairs was
substantially as bad as reported BY me.
/ shall soon send you a statement of the
number of murders committed in this
State during the last three OF four years,
the perpetrators Of which are still un-
punished. 1 think that the number will
startle you. 1t will be up in the thousands.
The city is perfectly quiet no trouble is
apprehended. p. II. SHERIDAN,
Lieutenant General.
Nel1 Orleans, Jan. 6.-W. W. Belknap,
Secretary Of War, Washington: 1 shall
send you this evening a report Of affairs Is
they actually occurred here on the 4th inst
Ny telegram to you of that date, and those
Of the 5th and 9th inst, are so truthful of
the condition of affairs in this section,
strike so near the water line, that ministers
Of the gospel and others are appealed to
to keep the ship from sinking. Human life
has been held too cheaply in this Stale for
many years. P. II. SHERIDAN,
Lieut.. General.
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HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Son motion of
Mr.. Cox, the Secretary of the Treasury was
directed to furnish the House with a state
inert Of the receipts from revenue for the
second quarter of the fiscal year 1874; also
whether the estimates of the receipts in his
last annual report for the other three-quaT-
ters Of the current fiscal year have under
gone any modification which may require
additional taxation.
The Speaker presented the Ger
tiiicates Of DIS. johnson and Gar
nett that the health Of Richard
B. Irwin, the recusant witness in the
Pacific Mail investigation, is such that his
confinement in the common Jail would be
attended with results pernicious to his
health, the extent of which they cannot
predict. After some discussion, the com
munication was referred to the committee
Of Ways and Means.
Alr. Butler, of Massachusetts,, then moved
that pending the investigation and report
Of the committee Of Ways and Means, the
Sergeat-at-A be instructed TO retain Ir-
win in his personal custody. Rejected
yeas 367, nays 160
A bill reported by Mr.. Young, Of
Georgia, authorizing the President to pro-
mote Asher Redy and Rufus Saxton to be
Lieutenant Colonel and Deputy Quarter
master General to date from July -, 1866,
and to take their places on the army regis
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THEIR LAST RESORT.
Memorial Of the LOuisiana Conservn-
tive RenreseufafIves In Conursa-

Memorial Of the LOuisians Conserve
tive Representatives 60 Congress.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. S.--SPeaker Wilt
and siXty-twO Conservative Representa-
tiyes have addressed q memorial to Con
gress, in which, amer giving aShistory OF
their recent expulsion from the State-hOuse,
they say: IF we have dwelt thus
somewhat at length upon the details Of the
military overthrow Of a sovereign State and
her reduction to a province, it is that other
States may see and know the process
whereby the overthrow Of their own liber-
ties may be accomplished. We sol
EMMY warn the American people, jealous Of
their liberties, that a military power
displacing a House Of Representatives in
the State Of Louisiana may yet serve as a
precedent to shackle them and their pos
teTity, if in this hour Of trial, standing as
We do amid the ruins Of constitutional lib
erty, they leave US to our fate.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-09
CONDENSED TELRGRAMS.

The Democrats succeeded in eleCling A.
A. Glenn, on the tWenty-ninth ballet, Presi-
dent pro tenn Of the Illinois Senate.
Horace B. Gibbs committed suicide at
Cincinnati yesterday. HIS wife died few
days ago, and he has been melancholy
since. he visited her grave and shot him
self
The jury in the Tilton-Beecher suit has
been sworn in and the case adjourned to
Monday.
Glazier & Morris grain elevator in In
dianapOlis was partially destroyed by fire
Thursday night, together with five thou
sand bushels Of corn.
Mcbride & Williams, produce dealers in
New Y orz, have suspended, with Liabilities
estimated at $4,000.
Kalakaua is due in Chicago, Tuesday.
Our dispatches from Chicago, st. Louis
and other points, indicate very severe
weather in the West yesterday and last
night.
Col Rob. n. Renick, John G. Ivory and
John Il. Bernard, prominent citizens of
st. Louis, are dead.
The value Of the tobacco burned in Bal
timOre, Thursday night, was S2j0,0OO; in
surance, Sl5O,OOO.
A fire at Honesdale, Pa, yesterday, de
strOyed 13 buildings, burning out p busi-
ness firms. Loss over 100000.
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cod Weafher in nc West.

OMAHA, Jan. S.-AbOut midnight last
night hSayy northwest wind sprang up,
accompanied by snow and increasing cold.
At A. N. the thermometer stood 10 de-
CESS below zero, and at IL A. NJ. II degrees
below. In the high parts Of the city the
thermometer is S5 degrees below zero. At
Cheyenne the thermometer is 20 degrees
below; st Fort Laramie 81 degrees below.
\ heavy wind, with light snow, has pre-
vailed all day, from Cheyenne eastward as
far as the Mississippi. 1t is feared there
will be much suffering, and probably loss
OF life, in the grasshOpper districts.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-09

From these premises the Democrat
concludes that the one thing necessary
IS to appoint military Governor for
Louisiana, with a council of ministers
to be elected in any way he chooses.
Let this military Governor punish all
the ofhce-holding thieves and Ku-Klux
with military impartiality. As to the
other States, let it be provided that any
person claiming a Republican form
does not exist, may bring the question
direct before the Supreme Court, which
shall make prompt decision. If decided
In the negative, let the President forth
with appoint military Governor IN
til Congress takes action. 1t viii be
seen that the latter part of this pro-
gramme would be equally applicable to
any Northern State, like Maryland or
Delaware or New Jersey, that persist
ed IN Democracy, TO say nothing of
larger States. Taken altogether, it is
a desperately neat plan for controlling
the Southern States IN 1875, and
Radical Congress has nearly two
months to perfect it. AS Louisiana
may be made the pivotal point for this
return to reconstruction chaos, the
necessity that her people should for
bear, and that we should encourage
them as best we may. becomes painful
ly obvious.