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and hindfold him with q black eye, and drop
him here and there as it might come con-
venient, he would probably conclude that there
is an easier capital punishment than even
Changing on girls neck"
Since Pittsburg paper presented "Tom
Hendricks and Jerry Black" as the Demo
cratic Presidential ticket, the press of that
party seem quite enthusiastic over them. Wedo
not remember any opportunity that they ever
lost to be enthusiastic over "Tom and jerry"
notwithstanding their we'll. known predlsposi-
tion to take it straight.
General Comfy, of the Ohio State Journal, is
in the city, writing pleasant editorial letters
TO that journal. They are readable and gos-
sipy-mainly because they treat Of facts re-
garding which the General has a meagre
amount Of information. This explanation is,
of course, intended as a compliment to his
vivid imagination, which thIiyes under the
waving shadows of a pair of ears about the
size, color and cleanliness of two eight-year-
old army blankets.
Brooklyn may shake from centre to circum-
ference with the scandal, gossip and crime
which hover about the great trial like Plu-
tonian shade; Tilton may assert and contra
dict himself; Moulton and Bowen, and this one
and the other may swear to facts and false
hoods, then falsify the facts and reaairm the
untruths: they may revile ono another and
fill the public ear with tales of blackened sin
and splendid iniquity, but nothing will be
md M fafa racttIt ha olt
Death and the grave alone can settle the
blighting and sacrilegious controversy exist
ing between this party. Through the dark
valley and across the river all these must go
before the world will receive the rest, a con-
summation devoutly to be wished.
The war cloud rises slowly from the valleys
of the Black Hills, and many omens Of COM
ing strife hover visibly about the base of
Harney's Peak. Red Cloud himself begins to
feel the force of the strong current of hestil-
ity which for some months past has been
coursing and surring in the breast of his war
riors. Ho has caught the bsllicose inspira-
tion which springs from oft-repeated indigui-
ties, and, in q moment of impulsiye rage,
cries: 1--WE have trusted the whites and they
have deceived us. They promised us blankets
and -four, and have given us robbers who seek
the bright and shiny earth Of our hills. We
ask for aid, that our squaws and papooses may
not starye, and they tell US to chase the but
falo over the plain and arouse the hen hawk
from her nest. But our guns are broken, our
powder is burnt, and things are muddlety
and lummixcd all around. I'll be hanged if
it aint high time to begin scalp-lifting."
Tie Northern and Western press arc teem-
ing with letters and statements from Union
veterans who were confined at Andersonville
in answer to the outrageous defense of that
place made by Hill and Davis. One of the
most pungent and powerful of these was
written by veteran of Dakota, who spent
five months in this pit Of disease, starvation
and death. lie relates his experience, which
in detail pictures graphically the terrible and
unnecessary suffering that was thrust pur-
posely upon the prisoners there, and which,
with the slightest care and trouble, could
have been avoided. In closing the letter he
says: 'The story has been often and truth
fully told, and never exaggerated. 1t
could not be exaggerated. There were,
when l went there, twelve thousand
men confined on twelve acres of ground, and
two or three of that, originally kind Of
swamp, was covered with human excrement.
No shelter of any kind was provided, no
blankets or other clothing. The prison was
afterward enlarged to eighteen acres, and the
number Of prisoners increased to nearly forty
thousand. The ration that they pretended to
give us was, when raw, q pint of meal and
quarter of pound Of meat per day, or in lieu
of the meat either beans, rice or molasses.
We often had nothing but the meal, and some
times not that. The water, had it not been
polluted by the camp above the prison and
cook house after that was built, was good but
it was polluted. There was no excuse for the
entire lack of shelter, and almost entire lack
of wood. Had the prisoners been allowed to
go to the woods, only few at a time, to get
poles and pine boughs, soon every man could
have been comfortable, sheltered by roof of
poles, thatched with the pine boughs, and
would have had 4 comfortable and healthful
bed, also Of pine boughs. There is no excuse
for any of the sufferings of which the Ander-
sOnville prisoners complain, and the worst Of it
all is the fact that men had literally to starvc
TO death while before their greedy eyes there
was constantly displayed food of every de-
scriptiOn, from plain corn bread and boiled
beans to roast beef and potatoes, wheat bread
and coffee, and their ears were constantly
greeted with sounds of 'Right up this way,
gentlemen, for your hot chicken soup Ham
and eggs ham and eggs Biscuit and butter,
gentlemen; hot biscuit and butter with honey
on it if you want it'-a perpetual clamor of
hucksters all day long. But the majority of
the poor fellows had no money and could not
buy, and SO they swarmed round the huck-
sters' stands, their hungry eyes devouring the
food, which, for want of money, their hands
could not touch"
From the morning of the world, when the
provoking apple-tree yeXed the mind of the
first gentlcwoman, Eve, down to the practical
present, great questions have periodically
arisen to agitate the public mind. Passing
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