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The Worthington advance., 1876-05-25
HAMLAKES ITEMS.


Grain never looked better, but the
'hoppers are Matching, and since Thurs
day last have been eating the crops.
They have eaten off 40 acres for J. II.
Cunningham, and have also eaten the
wheat Of B. F., Brain, NJ. Mcguire, F.
Siner and Others There was a heavy
hail storm here OH Saturday afternoon.
The large frame barn of John Drader,
of uersey, was blown to pieces. Mrs.
Brader was knocked senseless by some
of the boards. Seven acres of peas
were beaten down for VIM. Cope. The
school house in district 81 was turned
one-third around on its foundation.
The three schools of this town opened
the second week in May. Teachers
Miss Sullivan, Mrs. E. F. Jackson and
Miss Hattie Miller. Two Sabbath
Schools are now open. John Miller has
put a new building Oh his place. J. IT.
Cunningham has 81 head of cattle, and
80 head of hogs, and is intending to go
largely into stock raising. He has 4
three-year old Short-IIorn bull weigh
ing about 100 pounds, which, it is
claimed, is as good rs any i'll the county.
The Worthington advance., 1876-05-25

On Saturday, during the hail storm,
there was 4 water-spout at Graham
Lakes. It was about 20 rods in diame-
ter, and lifted up a circular sheet of
water about forty feet in height. Those
who saw it describe it as having been
quite beautiful.
The Worthington advance., 1876-05-25
BUSINESS CARDS.
BANKS
BANK OF W0RTHlNGT0N.

EiIMU SMITH, Banker. A. NJ. SMITH, Cashier
INTEREST PAID FOR TIME DEPOSITS.
Drafts Bought and Sold. Special attention xiv.
EN- tO collections.
Oiice Hours from Q to II T. H. and from I t0
WclOck, y. ~. f2-27ly.
The Worthington advance., 1876-05-25

The work on the branch is making
business lively. The hotels. lumber
yards, blacksmith shops and hardware
stores especially are doing a good busi-
ness. Nearly every train brings work.
men who are looking for work, and the
hotels have been so full that some of
the men have slept in stables and out
houses.
The Worthington advance., 1876-05-25
Allen NJ. CLANCY,
SURVEYOR.

viii attend promptly to all orders. Work ao-
curately executed. T.. O. address, Box ~, WOr-
fhinvtOn. NIinn, [4-12-ly.
The Worthington advance., 1876-05-25

INDIAN LAKE ITEMS
Crops are looking splendidly. Grass
hoppers are numerous in spots, but
they do not extend over the town gen.
orally. About all the cultivated land
in the town has been seeded. Mr..
Langsetl is building large house OH
his farm. Mr.. l.. has 320 acre farm,
4 good portion of which is under culti-
vation. The Scandinavian Baptist So
ciety is steadily increasing i'll numbers
under the ministrations of Rey. Frank
Peterson. -Four were baptized Sunday
week and one admitted by letter. A
Sunday School was organized on Sun
day last with 62 members, called the
Indian Lake Union Sabbath School.
Officers us follows: Superintendent
John Iaggard. Assistant-Rev. F.
Peterson. Treasurer, Secretary and
I.ibrarian-Chas. Peterson. Teachers
Rev. +. Peterson, A. Sund3erg, .. A.
Fauskee, II. Haggard, Albert IIaggard,
Mrs. Upstrom, J. q. Larson and T..
Dahlstrom. There was birth recently
at Mr.. Ellingson's. People are looking
anxiously for the building Of the Spirit
Lake road. Geo. Johnson and John
Johnson, recently arrived from CHI
cago, have built a new house and moved
into it. John Haggard has quite herd
and has begun hertling.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08
Dom Pedro.

His Brazilian Majesty is model Of energy.
Not even the terrible summer heat can deter
him from pursuing actively his intelligent
inquisition into our social and industrial
condition. We do not believe that any
visitor to our country has ever made
himself so fully acquainted as His
Majesty with our resources and ouI
industries in so short o space of time. q
the Emperor of Brazil works only half
hard at home when he is in Office as he doe.
now when he is supposed by pleasant fic.
tion to he taking vacation, he will have
few idle hours to answer for. He certainly
is a model, even to the busy and energetic
citizens of these United States, and many
of our public men could take leaf
out of his book with advantage to themselves
and their country. We hope sincerely that
His Brazilian Majesty has been pleased with
his visit. Our citizens will always have q
warm welcome for him should he do us the
honor of a second visit. When he leaves our
shores he will carry with him the good will
and respect of republican people, who see
in him monarch truly desirous of advanc-
ing the interests of his people, friend to
science and to liberal government. We wish
His Majesty and his amiable consort
pleasant voyage and safe return to the land
they rule and adorn.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08
Cutters Battle.

Our special correspondence from the scene
of the fierce conflict on the Little Horn gives
a vivid picture of the bloody and, from the
see a heroic commander followed to the
death by two hundred and forty soldiers OF
his regiment not less heroic than himself,
and oil these lives. qualified to make splen-
did the annals of our race, wasted in mad
battle with from four to five thousand saw
ages not without the virtue of courage and
made daring in this case, apparently, by
the consciousness of their overwhelming
strength.
In this battle the Little Horn River is
capital feature. On the left bank Of that
stream, at about fifteen miles from its con-
of Sitting Bull. On that side the edge OF
the river is timbered, and between the river
and the hills, for distance of several miles,
is level and beautiful valley-a bottom
land. On this valley was the village, peo-
pied by upward of four thousand warriors
On the right, or opposite side, the river and
the plain are dominated by a range of high
hills or bluffs. In his approach Custer
looked down upon the village from these
bluffs, and there divided for an assault n
the position force that if combined, would
have been unequal to the struggle
He placed three companies on these
heights in reserve, sent Colonel Reno to the
left to ford the stream above the village
and attack from that side, while he moved
along the heights on the right bank to cross
the river further down and attack at the
other extremity. Colonel Reno passed the
bottom land and advanced on the enemy.
But his advance was fiercely resisted by
the Indians in the hills on his
left, and before he had reached
the village he saw the imminent probability
that he would be out off from the reserve.
He charged to keep open his communication
with that force. Apparently this movement
was not intended as o retreat, but a retreat
it became; and in few minutes Colonel
Reno instead of assailing the Indian village,
was fighting battle for life with forces that
obstructed his retreat. His men fought their
stream, were butchered by the Indian marks
men. Once more across the stream they were
knocked over by the Indian rifles as they
clambered the heights Yet the larger num-
Der escaped. But what was their position
then? They had failed in their movement,
had not co-operated with Custer, and had
left him to bear alone the brunt Of the whole
battle.
Reno's retreat permitted Sitting Bull to
concentrate every man against Custer, and
his fate was natural consequence. He was
annihilated, and then again the Sioux turned
their attention to Reno, who meantime had
fortified himself on the heights They
would have annihilated his force also but
their operations were cut short by the adj
vance of Gibbon. which our correspondent
records in detail.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

ingtons time, from without, but from
within. The Cincinnati Convention gave
these subjects no consideration, but Mr.
Hayes has ample time to express his
views in the canvass But whatever
may be discussed in the canvass the
vital question is to be decided by the nex'
administration. The fate of the American
Union, for hundred years. perhaps, de-
pends upon what is done in the next four,
and in all the work before us nothing Is
more important than the removal of corrup-
ton by the slow steady process of reform,
and the destruction Of Capitalization by an
immediate change of policy.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

TIE HEnALD on LoSo ISLAND on Sun
oArs-visitors and residents sojourning at
ali points along the line of the Long Island
Southern Railroad between Long Island City
md Patchogue, including Rockaway. Hemp
utesd and Glen Cove, will receive the
uxnArD every Sunday morning by breakfast
lime at a cost of five cents per copy. The
Union News Company have the charge of the
delivery of the papers by special train and
wagons. Any instance of an overcharge If
reported to this Office will receive prompt
attention.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

command should have been cut to pieces
and annihilated, because it WAS quite be-
yond the range of their calculations that he
would be outnumbered in the proportion of
four to one, which was actually the case
Custer no doubt shared their error but it
was their business and not his to be well in
formed respecting the strength OF the
enemy. They had supreme direction; he
was a mere subordinate. If they had any
sort Of justification in believing that he
could not be crushed by overwhelmingly
superior numbers he was also justified in
holding the same opinion. That this was
their tenacious opinion is proved by the
prompt and strong way In which
they discredited the news when it
reached them They could not believe
that Custer could be badly beaten in an
onset on any Indian force which he might
fall in with He cannot be justly blamed
for sharing in and acting upon the view OF
his superior officers when one OF those
officers was the illustrious Sheridan. If he
paid the penalty of mistake it was as much
their mistake as his.
The deplorable truth is that President
Grant is chiefly responsible for the appalling
miscarriages which have attended this disas-
trous campaign against the Sioux. The
proper commander of this expedition was
General Custer, unless General Sheridan
chose to go in person to the scene of hostili-
ties. Custer, next to Sheridan, was the
ablest Indian fighter in the army, and his
superior fitness was recognized in the orig
inal intention to put him in command.
After it had been decided, on grounds OF
merit, to put him III charge he was sub
poenaed to Washington, against his will. to
testify against Belknap Like man OF
honor he swore to the truth, and
Immediately thereafter President Grant,
in fit of petulance, degraded him from
his command, and we behold the result in
the most disastrous and inglorious cam
paign ever organized against the Indians.
Grants parasites will do their utmost to ex-
culpate him, but the country will not over
look the fact that the soldier who had been
selected on grounds of pre-eminent fitness
was flung out to crafty q personal pique Of
the ITeSlQeut.
Is this kind of personal government to be
perpetuated? Will the country indorse the
sacrifice of important public interests to the
malignant spite of the President against able
officers? The people are anxious to learn
the attitude Of Governor Hayes toward Grant
and Grantism. They await his letter Of ac-
ceptance with deep interest. Will he repu-
diate Grantism? Will he have the courage,
the moral eleva ion, the independence to out
loose from and condemn the system of per-
sonal government which has SO long pre-
vailed to the detriment Of great interests, or
will he cravenly swim with the stream
We shall soon know, and the Presidential
election may turn on Mr.. Hayes political
intrepidity or his lack of it.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08
Creeping Ahead.

Governor Tilden will not do Justice to his
reputation as a shrewd politician if he does
not recognize the fact that Governor Hayes
is stealing march on him ip the opening
of the Presidential campaign. The republi'
can candidate is making modest but tell
ing tour through the country, has visited
the Centennial Exhibition and has made
some sensible, and, above all, brief speeches.
We do not know whether Mrs. Hayes accom-
panies her husband, but if she does the peo-
pie will see a very handsome and amiable
lady, who would grace the White House II
she should be called to preside over it, and
who, as the leader of Washington society,
would overthrow the reign of shoddy and
restore the grace and refinement of the ear
lier days of the Republic. Governor Tilden
remains in Albany, and his friends, with
very bad taste, send reports from that city
stating how fully his time is occupied,
and sneering covertly at Fourth of July
pilgrimages to the Centennial. If he does
not desire to see Governor Hayes creep
ahead Governor Tilden should start at once
for Philadelphia, calling on Mr.. Oswald OF
tendorfer on his way, as set off against his
antagonists visit to Carl Schurz, and making
speeches at appropriate points. If our
Governor will by practice drill himself
into making short, pointed addresses,
which will not tire his audience, he
may, in this respect at least, manage to
keep up with Hayes. But he must not
neglect this important preliminary. for if
he INDUCES in his usual speeches he
will not have time to make more than half
dozen of them before the day of election
arrives
The New York herald., 1876-07-08
Tp,s IsA FIT SEASON for New York ~

THIs Is FIT SEASON for New York to ex-
tend her hospitalities to the citizen soldiery
of the South. One hundred years ago the
Southern provinces were we'll represented
in the little army which was defending the
city against the approach of Lord Howe and
Sir Henry Clinton. They were here when
the Declaration Of Independence was read
to the troops on the 9th of July, l776, and
assisted in the subsequent battles of Brook
lyn Heights, Harlem and White Plains.
Now they come as guests, to glory in the
independence which their fathers and ours
achieved on the fields of the Revolution, and
the freemen of New York ought to make
their brethren of the South doubly welcome
ut this time.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

TIE WAY Nor TO Do IT was again illus
kratsd yesterday by twelve gentlemen repre-
psuting the Council of Political Reform. the
Chamber of Commerce and other like asso-
Citations, who were appointed to examine into
tho doings of the Dock Department but who
rravely resolved they were to do nothing an
kaQonistic to the department The commit
bee TO do nothing is in a fair way of accom-
piishing it as until yesterday it has not had
> meeting since April /, and has again ad-
iourned without day.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

MR LOT NJ. MORRILL, was sworn in rs Sec
retary of the Treasury yesterday evening,
and during the day he made his last speech
in the Senate, defending the Committee of
Appropriations, of which he was chairman,
in its course in regard to the differences with
the House touching the Legislative, Judicial
and Executive Appropriation bill. Evi-
IDENTIFY Mr.. Senator Morrill, did not wish the
clerical force in the Treasury Department
weakened during the time OF Mr.. Secretary
Morrill,.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

THERE Is HONESTY still in the public SER
vice. Mr.. News accounts as Treasurer of
the United States were found to be precisely
as the books represented, and only discrep-
ancy Of less than five dollars was found in
the amount of money on hand, this being
caused by slight errors in making change.
Mr.. New will not require the aid of Congress
10 relieve him from the responsibilities of
his position. and the country, in consequence,
has more reason to regret his retirement.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

The LAWYERS AND THE COURTS have q
happy knack of interfering with business Of
every kind by means Of injunctions and
other annoyances. Some days ago judge
Donohue granted an injunction forbidding
the payment of dividends by the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and yesterday
Judge westbrook vacated it. 1t is not neces-
sary to know anything about the merits Of
this particular case to know that the pro-
ceedings are wrong at one end or the other,
and the Bench and the Bar would both stand
higher in public esteem if there was not
such constant juggling with the law and the
practice of the courts.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

THE KHEprvE is not so independent as
people thought and is sending his regi-
ments to assist in upholding the Ottoman
Empire. The Bey of Tunis, too, has in
formed the Porte that he will send regi-
ment to Constantinople. This is the most
important news we have this morning from
The East, and this is only important that the
Sultan can still depend, in some degree at
least, upon the most powerful of his satraps.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

THE Pacific RAILROAD was an all day
theme in the House of Representatives
yesterday and at the close of the debate Mr..
Lawrences BILL requiring the companies to
create sinking fund to reimburse the
United States, was passed. The public
money was lavished on these projects in the
beginning, and it is about time means were
devised for getting some of it back again.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

THE DOMINICAN INSULT to the American
people in boarding the steamship Tybee and
forcibly removing one of her passengers
ought to be speedily and sternly punished.
The half-clothed barbarians of St. Domingo
must be taught that they cannot carry their
petty political warfare to the deck of an
American ship.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

Coon PoINr was made by Mr.. Herman
In the Senate yesterday. 1t having been
charged that the action of the House in re-
ducing salaries in appropriation bills was
notification and revolution Mr. Herman
said the country was prepared to stand a
good deal of this kind of nulliication and
revolution.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

Mr.. HORACE MAYNARD since he became
Minister to Turkey has not been much in
the speech-making way, and the Fourth of
July must have been godsend to him in
enabling him once more to exhibit his
divine gift of speech.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

NOTICE TO COUNTRY NEwsDEALERs.-F For
prompt and regular delivery Of the HERALD by
fast mail trains orders must be sent direct TO
this office. Postage free.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. Stocks were
again inactive and prices irregular. Gold
opened at Ill rs and closed at 112. Money
on call was supplied at and 1-2 per cent.
Government and railway bonds were steady.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08
Moore Versus Yaryan.

Mr.. w. B. Moore sends us letter defend
which we willingly print, notwithstanding
its occasional bad temper and bad taste, be-
cause it goes back of the immediate parties
and lifts the curtain on strange condition
of things in General Grants administration.
Mr.. Moore's letter will not end the contro-
not undertake to settle the questions Of
veracity which have been raised between
them When all has been said on both sides
we may be able to form q judgment. What
is of most interest in the present stage of
the controversy is the unseemly revela-
yam, have been mere pawns in a po-
litical game which the President and the
late Secretary Of the Treasury played against
each other. 1t is difficult to believe the
charges made by Mr.. Moore against his su-
perior officers in the Treasury Department
much discredit on President Grant as they
do on Secretary Bristow. With so sharp and
faithful spy in the enemys camp as this
Mr.. Moore the President must have had i'm
mediate knowledge of the electioneering
maneuvres in the Treasury Department, and
if the charges contained in Moores present
letter are true General Grant is inexcusable
for his failure to remove Bristow several
months ago. So that Moore's statements-if
we are to accept them as credible-area two
edged sword, cutting both ways and wound
ing Grant quite as severely as it does Bris-
tow. If Bristow and Bluford Wilson did
what is charged Grant was wholly inexcus-
able for retaining such men in Office for the
President cannot escape responsibility for
what he permits to be done in the depart
ments.
Mr. Moore, who halls from Texas, alleges
to obtain a list of the Texas delegates to the
Cincinnati Convention, which he did,
through the assistance of Senator Hamilton,
from that State A few days later he met
one Reinhart, a Texas man, who said he had
been appoin ted on the secret service force,
the list of delegates which he had prepared
at the request of Bluford Wilson, and in
forming Moore that he had private instruc-
tions from Wilson to proceed to Texas and
canvass the delegates in the interest of
Brlstow. Moore tried to get Re nhart retained
for few days to assist in searching a
steamer suspected of smuggling but his re-
quest was not granted, and Reinhart pro-
ceeded to Texas, wearing the cloak of rev.
enue agent to cover his secret political mis-
sion in the interest of Bristow. Now, con-
sidering that Moore has been pet and pro-
tfqs of General Grant for several years, moth
ing is more unlikely than that he kept such
fact to himself when he had discovered it.
1t was, of course. made known to the Presi-
dent and the failure of the latter to rout
out nest of political conspirators from the
Treasury Department was grave derelic-
tion Of duty. Both for General Grants sake
and Mr.. Bristow's sake we are reluctant to
credit the statements of Mr. Moore.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

CAMP MEETINGS have become q popular
institution, and to-day we print an account
of some of those which have been or are to
be held. Even if they fail to bear much
spiritual fruit they are to be encouraged
because of their encouragement of out door
life
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

GENERAL SHERIDAN has ordered twelve ad-
ditiopal companies to Crooks command.
The stronger the force the better, as the war
against the Sioux must be short sharp and
decisive
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

Daring the summer months the HERALD ciu
be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate Of
twenty-five cents per aoeek, free Of postage.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

COMPTROLLER GREENS TgENcHASr ARnArGN-
MESr of the Park Commissioners for their
action in regard to Tompkins square will re-
ceive attention. 1t is shameful that work
of this kind once begun should be neglected
so that the people will lose the benefit of the
park for q whole year.
The New York herald., 1876-07-08

From our reports this morning ths probabilities
are Hat the ,redther today ,oiH be tair.