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Our Washington Letter.
After. the Sfrike-.-lla an uf;f ctuEE'-
ing Political CslpitaI---Wan ane
of tIRe New Party Movement
The Indian War.

WASHINGTON, ID. e., August =, 1871.
EDITOR CHIEF:
To many of the thousands who dis
missed all further serious thought
relative to the riots when the trains
were reported moving again with
their accustomed regularity, the state
ment recently made, and apparently
we'll founded, to the effect that there
are now loafing about the country a
half million men without any visible
means of support, will como with an
ominous significance. The most OF
them are dissolute characters, who,
having adopted their nomadic life
from lack of employment, perhaps,
continue it from choice. Only one
considerations fear of physical
punishment-restra them from the
most brutal excesses, hence their
pedestrian exploits in flocking to the
centres of disturbance, their acts Of
arson, rapine and murder during the
reign of terror, and their haste to
again reach the open country as soon
as it became evident that the military
and police had secured the upper
hand of the mobs, and that punish
ment of the iucendiaries was tolera-
bly, certain to follow their capture.
Tn addition, it must be remembered
that all OF our large towns contain
class who live by preying upon thell
more Industrious neighbors. They
are voluntary pariahs and outcasts
cherishiug only feelings of hatred ano
revenge towards the balance OF the
world. The fruits ofa union between
the two were seen at Baltimore, Pitts
burg, Reading. Buffalo, and a score o
| other places during the fearful Weet
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CUBAN AFFAIRs.-The following
news has been received from Havana
The last Spanish mail brought an
order for the release of the persons
imprisoned for frauds in the inten-
dencia militar. This was blow IN
the face of Captain General Jouveilar
and sanctifes the frauds committed
under the Valmaseda aud Conclla adj
ministrations. Rnmors are current
that Jouvellar will resign and be sue
ceedcd by Gen. Blauco. Gen. Mar
tinez CAmpos has sent dispatch to
the King explaining the situation OF
the campaign, and stating that the
insurgents are so we'll supplied with
information by spies, and their faclll-
ties for disbanding when pursued are
such that it will require fifty thousand
more troops to crush the insurrectlon.
Campos further says~tlle insurgents
will only surrender on receiving their
independence, and recommends the
Spanish government to adopt one
proposition or the other. A great
many sick soldiers arrived at Havana
! from the interior.
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Domestic.

Dr. james MeClclland, U. S. navy, is
dead.
Three st. Louis strikers were fiBed
$500 each.
The national debt was decreased
S818,000 in July.
Marshal Douglass of North Caro-
lima will be retained.
A. F. Murphy, a sporting character,
suicided at New York.
Wesleyan Female College, at MUIR
freesboro, n. c., burned.
Sec. Sherman has called in another
ten millions consols of 1865.
The body of DR.. c. F. Winston was
cremated at Salt Lake City.
Tramps attempted to ditch an ex-
press train near Granville, o.
Revenue officers destroyed distil-
lery in Wilson county, Tenn.
Hon. Henry w. Hilliard of Georgia
is appointed Minister to Brazil.
Two boys were drowned in the
river at New Orleans, Saturday.
The treasury has S20,000.000 coin
over and above all coin liabilities.
Fifty employees will be dismissed
from the Baltimore custom house.
Memphis brick monlders and gas
company employees are on Il strike.
An attempt was made to throw II
train from the track near Dover, N. IL.
Two drunken men were run over
by street cars in New Orleans last
week.
The Martin House stables at Green
wich, VT, burned with thirty
horses.
A cigar box factory burned ut Gin
cinnati and five girls persisted in the
/ flames.
An unknown white man died from
too much whisky and hot weather at
Carrollton, La.
A party of striking boatmen burned
il canal boat loaded with coal, near
Georgetown, Md.
: A number of the Indiana railroad
strikers were sentenced to ilDpris0h
ment four months,
Trains collided near Tamaqua, Pa,
and were badly wrecked. One pas
senger was bruised.
+ A cigar maker at Worcester, r.
. arrested for defrauding the revenue,
committed suicide in his cell.
St. Boniface Hospital, in South st,
. Louis, was destroyed by fire. The
| patients were safely removed.
/. Jack Wilson, who murdered John
Wilson in Vicksburg last February
was captured in Ne8 Orleans.
e The Spanish government has paid
t $50, 900 into tie United States treas
a ury-bcing interest on invested claims
of American citizens against Spain.
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FRIEND BROOK.
BY LUCY LARCOM.

BY LUCY LARCoM.
Thou hastenest down between the hills to
meet me at the road
The secret scarcely Esping OF thy beautiful
abode
Among the pines and mosses of yonder
shadowy height,
Where thou dOst sparkle into song, and MI
the woods with light.
The travellers crossing the rude bridge, dear
Brook, would never guess,
From thy staid movement through the fields,
thy mountain loveliness;
Thou wanderest among weeds and grain IN
commonplace disguise,
Most happy to evade the glance of uLdisccrn-
ing eyes.
But have heard thee whispering, "Call me
by name, Friend Brook,
For that am to thee; come up to my re-
motest nook,
And will give thee freedom OF the hospltabie
hills,
And pour nv freshness through thy life,
from clouds and springs and rills."
o happy soul thy song is sweet upon the
mountain side;
The trees bend over thee, i'll league to stay
thy downward tide
The wild arbutus, flushed with haste, trails
close to make appeal
For brief delay, and after her the wet-eyed
violets steal.
But not the white wake-robin, nor the wood
stars on thy brink,
Nor any summer flower whose roots from
thee rcfreshment drink,
Can need thee with my need, Friend Brook ;
and never any bird
Can trill such gratitude to thee as my heart
chants unheard.
No: not the weod-thrush singing in the pine
trees twilight shade,
AS if one-half his melody the boughs' low
murmur made
A love-song eloquent with breaks OF speech
less tenderness.
A music heard through thy soft rush, too
sweet to tell or guess.
For thou respondest humanity, almost, to
human thought,
Soothing the silent pain wherewlth Il stranger
meddleth not,
Healing sick fancies from thy clear lies
overfowing cup,
And winning tagging foot and heart forever
up and up.
Friend Brook, l hold thee dearest yet tor
what do not know
| OF thy pure secret springs afar, the mystery
of thy flow
| Out of the mountain cayernS, hld Dy IanSlcu
briar and fern;
| A friend is most frienu of whom the DeSl
remains to learn.
| Newborn each moment, flashing light
through worn, accustomed ways,
With gentle hindrance, gay surprise, sweet
hurryings and delays
| Shirt that issues forth from wells OF lie
| unguessed, unseen,
| A revelation thou of all that holiest friend
ships mean.
l will not name the hills that meet to hold
thee hand i'll hand
| The SUBMITS leaning toward thy voice, the
mountain, lone and grand,
Thao looks across to welcome thee into tho
open light;
Be hidden o my Brook from all save loves
anointed sight
Yet am glad that every year, and all tho
summer long,
Some wayfarers will seek thy side, and lister
to thy song,
And feel their hearts bound on with thinC
| over the rocks of care;
With such as these, through shade and shine
thy friendship will | share
And out of their abounding joy new lowell
ness ard grace
| Shall grow into the memory of thy greer
abiding-plaee.
Thou veilest thyself in sun-touch ed mis-
through which may not look,
| Yet blends my being with thy How, III stl
and rest, Friend Brook
-Hnper's Magasi'te for 4ngmst.
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Weekly News Summary
Foreign.

The Pope is again in poor health.
Orangeville, Ont, had a S35, 900 fire.
Austria will mobilize three army
corps.
Samuel Warren, the English author,
is dead.
The Turks have occupied LovatZ
and Selvi, near Turnoya.
Communication with Rutschuk has
been reopened by the Turks.
Turkey is disturbed by continued
military preparations in Greece.
Salaries of all Turkish officials will
be reduced one half during the war.
Five thousand tons of shell have
been ordered for the British fleet vt
Malta.
Russians were defeated ut Eski
Saghra, aud the place occupied by
Turks.
An election riot occurred at Grins-
by, England. Three persons were
wounded.
NJ. Blanc, proprietor of the Monaco
gambling tables, died in Switzerland
of asthma.
Aurif Paslia resigned the Turkish
Foreign Ministry, ana is succeeded
by Servir Pasha.
| A convention between England and
Egypt for the suppression of the slave
trade has been signcd.
The whole Russian Imperial Guard
has been ordered to- prepare to pro-
ceed to Bulgaria.
The Roumanian army is crossing
the Danube and taking up position
near Plevna, on the Taskish left.
The poor house of Noefolk e0unty,
Ontario, was destroyed by fire aHd
seventeen persons burncdi to death.
Russia Informs England that at the
close of the war obstructipns at the
mouth of the Danube will beremoved.
A Jamaica telegram reports revo-
! luton at Port au- Prince. Nhere has
been two days confagratloh in.tllat
/ city.
The American bark Coarser ar
rived ut Valparaiso in distress, ,haVings
lost five of her crew overheard IN II
gale.
The village of Ganisee, Prussia,
was destroyed by fire the town of
Sundsvall, Sweden, was almost total
! ly burned.
The Russian army in Asiatic Tur--
| key has been reinforced aud has re-
sumed the offensive. Fighting has
occurred near kars.
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Transient advertisements 81 per square
rst insertion each subsequent insertion,
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Editorial notices, first insertion, 90 cents
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No attention paid to anonymous letters.
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Address: CHIEF. Donaldsonville. La.
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- Terrebonne Republican: Small
pox has again reached Hoama, one
ease being reported on Barrow street.
~ Catalonia Neps i: A difficulty
occurred in this parish, between
Mr.. Marion Taylor and j A. Swayzee,
in which the former was shot and
perhaps mortally wounded.
- Tangipahoa Independent: Old
Joe Anderson, teamster, committed
suicide by taking strychnine. He was
a hard dfinker and was doubtless in
sane from the effects of liquor.
v Plaquemine Observer On the
18th ult., the stable on the Woodland
plantation of Bradish Johnson, Esq,
was struck by lightning and seven
mules therein were killed and seven
teen injured.
" West Feliciana Sentinel The
Postal Department refused to accept
the bond of james H. Stephens as
Postmaster at Bayou Sara, although
it bore the names of leading and sol
vent citiZ Zens.
~ Pointe Coupee Telicdn: Nathan
Armstrong, charged with rape, and
Thomas Henry and Julien Lafargue,
supposed to be the parties who at
tempted to burn the st. Mary settle
ment, have been committed to await
the Grand Jury's action.
~ Morgan City Register !: George
Watkins had an ancient pistol which
he snapped around promiscuouslyS,,
thinking the old thing wouldn't go of.
Stepping up to Adam Crochet he took
deliberate aim and bang she went,
the ball tearing off a portion of
Adams nose and lodging in his cheek.
,g Baton Rouge Adrocote Louis
Long, negro, was committed 60 the
parish jail charged with committing
a rape upon colored girl in West
Baton Rouge, and attempting to XII
her after he had perpetrated his he'll
ish deed. .Messrs. Jos. c. Favrot
and John Garvin shipped 1893 bar
rels of Irish potatoes this season.
~ Assumption Pioneer: !: Liyau-
dais Hebert, aged 18 years, was fear
fully mangled in the sawmill on the
Malhiot estate, on the 2nd inst. he
fell against the circular saw, winch
took off both legs, one arm, and IN
Hicted chastly wounds i'll the head
and back of the unfortunate young
man. Strange to say, he survived the
Injuries two hours.
,g st. John Meschdcebe The Ut
file stern wheel Willie went into the
Bonnet Care crevasse, but was pulled
out by the Mary Ida and Assumption,
after throwing overheard lot OF
bricks. Mr.. Leo. Elter, aged about
As wears, died ut his residence In tins
parish on the I'd inst. The deceased
was gifted with a vivid intellect
highly polished by a collegiate edu
cation.
~ Thibodaux Sentinel: When
the Morgan train left Latourche
crossing last Monday, going westward
several passengers were by some
meaps left behind. One OF them en-
leayored to catch the departing tram
but after running a short distance
dropped suddenly and died on fhe
spot. Papers found on bis body shoVee
that his name was Joseph SPecht,
Catholic priest of Milwaukee, WIS
consin, on his way to Texas.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-08-11

The decision of the Supreme Court,
on the Lafourche election case, deliv
cred at Monroe, July 81, by Justice
Egan, is likely to be followed by in
teresting results. The Returning
Board declared the Republican can
didates to have received majorities
varying from "a to II. The Demo-
cratic candidates for Sheriff and Cor
oner instituted suits before Judge
Beattie of the Fifteenth District Court,
under the act of 1855, cOntesting the
election. An adverse decision of Judge
Beattie was appealed from to the Su-
prefne Court, which reverses it. 1t is
held that the commissioners of poll
No. II, by moving from point to point,
other than the one specified i'll notices
to voters, violated the law, and the
Sc Republican votes of the poll, with
80 fraudulent ones at other polls are
rejected.
The decision not cnly elects the
Democratic contestants named, but
two Representatives, Messrs. BiIliu
and Harang, while it puts in question
the election of I. S. Cage to the State
Senate and gives majority in the
parish to J. H. Acl1len, for Congress
Third District.-Morgan City Register
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vi lSH ooJ . VI bHO iCIStl Vi LIiG GlWtttG. |
The feeling of security cherished by
many is NOT shared by the authorities
having more extended opportunities
for observation. How many hearts
have turned sick with apprehension
at the reply of the physician relative
to his patient that there is no i'm
mediate danger,n with an emphasis of
awful import upon the =" immediate -?
Something akin to this is implied in
the cautiously expressed views of
those best qualified to judge the real
status of the fire that recently famed
up with such lurid light and with
such destructive force.
In this connection it may be inter
esting to your readers to know that
political demagogues are already pre-
pairing to espouse the cause of mob
Ocracy on the floors of Congress,
hoping by cheap affectation of SYM
pathy with labor as against capital to
advance their party's interests. We
have the authority of a Baltimore SWR
correspondent for the statement that
member of Congress has assured the
Simon Tappertits of his District that
he intends to earn their gratitude
and votes for re-election-by urging
the distribution of $4,000, 900 from
the U. S. Treasury among the work
ing people," Now that the occasion
has passed which prompted three
Democratic Governors to hasten to
the central despOtism for protec-
tion from mob violence, it begins to
look us though the proposition to in
crease the U. S. army and navy, which
was so popular when it was evident
that those skeletons were all that
stood between us and anarchy, will
meet with the most determined oppo-
sition in certain Democratic quarters.
Blue Jeans Williams of Indiana,
whose fame largely rests upon his
sturdy abstinence from lemonade, the
gaudy style of his dress, and his in
sensate phillippics against the mill
tary aud naval forces of the govern
ment while member of Congress,
almost got ahead of the Governors of
West Virginia and Maryland in his
frantic appeal for assistance. Either
from lack of knowledge or from his
agitation incident to the urgency of
the occasion, however, he forgot to
mention in his appeal what he wanted
the troops for, or that he was unable
to convene the Legislature in season
to provide for the emergency. He
also directed his requisition to the
Secretary Of War instead of the Pres
ident. OF course he was advised of
; HIS Oi1ISSlOl W oUScIh lHC
? ments of law and custom, and that it
would be absolutely necessary for him
to proceed in u constitutional manner
in order to secure compliance with
his wishes.
The new party movement appears
to have received fatal shock from
the strike, and great many other
, matters deemed of national impor-
-tance prior to the great revolt, disap-
pearcd from the surface at its out
break.
With Howard at his heels and Gov.
Potts tearing down on one Of his flank$
with his Montana volunteers, Joseph
seems destined to have busy time OF
it before reaching the buffalo country
Howard is reported to have nearly
1000 men with him, quite sufficient, il
is thought, to induce Joseph, White
Bird and Looking Glass to abandon
their enterprise of annihilating the
pale faces. SENTINEL.
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Burt's great saw mill aud salt blocks,
near East Saginaw, Mich, burned.
Six millions feet of lumber and 5000
barrels of salt were destroyed. The
loss is estimated at 5000, 900. Two
hundred and fifty men are thrown ont
of employment. The fire was ineen-
diary.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-03-16
The WhiI ping-Post In China.

At Hong Kong, Oh the 22l, Mr..
Harlan told me there was to be a
public flugging of two Chinese. |
have often seen the backs of negroes
in the United States wit. the marks
of the lash; but this is the first time
ever mad Il chance to see the cato
nine tails applied. The whipping
post here is III the street At the base
oi Il small triangular space, made 10y
three streets, and Immediately III
froni of the ilarbnr Masters office.
\ slab of granite rises about ten feet
above \ stone platform, and leaning
against 1t is i wooden scatfold.-
Here the men are fastened by a belt
around their bodies and their arms
extending at full length above them
and held secure by Slip-noo>e
around the wrists. Each man re-
ceived twenty-five laslles, and up TO
the eighteenth they writhed; but
after that dropped, and | thought
that the first one had tainted, but as
the second acted i'll the same manner
| came to the conclusion that the
strain upon the nerves had reached
its climax, and that neither felt the
lash. Their backs, however, were Il
fearful sight. These fellows are to
receive seventy-fve lashes, twenty
five each ut three different times for
violence and robbery and pulling
earrings out of China girls ears
COr. Detroit Free Press.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-03-16
A New Horse Disease.

The New York papers report a
new horse disease, one dreaded 10y
horse owners, on account OF its gen
orally fatal effects, known AS cerebro
spinal meningitis, has broken out
among the horses OF the Brooklyn
City Railway Company, and from
the short time it has had TO develop,
has spread with alarming rapldity,
and has already assumed threaten
ing proportions. The animals, after
being placed in the stable after work
iny,are seized with chills and spasms
which shake Ind rack their frames 30
that in a few hours their legs are I'M
able to sustain the weight of their
bodies, and they fall helpless
OH the floor of their stalls. This is
the manner in which the disease at
fects them, and it leaves them in
this condition until they are either
cured or die from exhaustion and
weakness. Surgeons in attendance
state that the beasts seem to be 50
seriously affected that there is not
much hope tor their recovery. 1t is
feared that the disease will spread
and become general epidemic
throughout the entire car lines OF the
city, though every etfvrt is being
made to prevent 1t.
The Champaign QIl) Gazstte says
s.that new disease has broken out
among the horses in this locality
The symptoms are an exuda.ion OF
sernm along the spine of the animal
aud swelling Of the lips and head
We arc not well enough posted to
assert that the disease, it 1t exists,
is new Or easily cured. 1t is said
.ha, several colts, which seem the
mos, subject to it, have died"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-03-16

lis wholesome water supplied
for drinking?
S.-Are there wardrokes in which
to hang the pupils hats and wrap
pings?
l. Is the school under proper
control?
2. Are the scholars attentive and
industrious?
3. Do classes move promptly and
quietly?
4. Is there a programme of reci-
tation and study? Is it followed?
5. Are the pupils properly classi
fed?
8. Is there daily register of at
tendance, scholarship and deport
ment? Is it neatly and properly
kept?
!. Is the school supplied with
records, dictionary, maps, charts and
apparatus?
8. What kinds of punishment are
employed?
III.
l. Does the teacher exhibit tho.
rough acquaintance with the subjects
taught?
2. Does he manifest an active in
terest in his work?
8. Is the recitation made search
ing test Of the pupils preparation?
4. Is it made to cultivate the ru-
Pills power of telling accurately what
he has learned?
5. Is proper aid given the pupil
in the explanation and application Of
the lesson?
6. Is oral instruction given IN
physiology, vocal music and i'll NOR
: ais and manners:
I. Is the whole school thorough
~ instructed i'll reading, spelling aud
writing?
! 8. Is the school doing thorough
work in every respect?
NOTES TO DIVISION III.
l. System, selfpo>>esSlon, ener-
gy and tirn.neSs on the part OF the
+ teacher are among the best disciple
nary agents.
! 2. Profitable and constant occu-
patton is the true preventive OF dis
orderly conduct.
8. If every pupil has an assigned
place ut the recitation seat and III
moving to and from the same, disor-
der will seldom occur. Promptness
in the teacher secures promptness in
the school.
4. BY adopting particular time
for preparing and reciting each les
son, the pupils progress is made
much easier, and habits Of punctual
ity and regularity are thereby form
ed, to cultivate which is an impor
tant function of the school.
5. As few classes as is consistent
with the wants OF pupils should be
formed.
NOTES TO III.
The objects of the recitations are;
/. TO determine thoroughly the
pupils preparation.
2. To cultivate the power of ex
preston.
8. TO explain difficulties and il
lustrate the subject.
In giving primary instruction, OF
lessons, this order should be revers
ed, the teachers aiming, LIST, To in
struct; I'd, To drill; 81, To test.
In every school there should be
some regular instruction given in
physiology, vocal music, and morals
and manners. The object OF mora
lessons, whether taught by authority
by prscept or by example, is to Sc
cure the "unitorm habit Of right &C
tion." 10 which the example and ;.p
probation Of the teacher furnishes
the most powerful incentive.-SchooI
Inspection, 1877.
w. L. PARKER, Co. Supt.
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4 TTORNEYS AT LAW. Independence, Iowa
~ ONCE over Morse Bsrnetts Store. Con
sultatons in English and German. llsy
D. ". RRUCKARr. j. J. SEf.
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Business Cards.
Attornfus.
John s. SNIFFIN
REGuN 4 HASNER.

TToRNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Iow. 6mos2s
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-03-16

Mr.. Bruce
Dear Sir. | now take
the liberty to inform you, that l
would like the position as teacher in
your school, if so let me know soon,
A. 3.
Forestville, Ia.
Feb "a 1877
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w "A. AJ.n. OONNAN,
BAILY JACKSON.

T AW CONVEYANC1NG. WAR CLAIM. AND
/ Land Agency ONCE. once in First National
Bank building Independence. Iowa.