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the retreat began, an English surgeon
reach Jellalabad, the only survivor of the
garrison of Cabul, The others had died
III the pass or were prisoners.
England will be wiser when she again
makes a hostile demonstration against
that country. She has such resources in
war, that the defeat of the Ameer would
be only a question of time, were it not for
the support of the latter, more or less
concealed, by Russia. The feeling of the
Russian people may fairly be considered
as interpreted by the ST. Petersburg Go
los, which, speaking of the refusal of the
Amer to receive British minister
says
Should the English Government desire us to ac-
count tor the afiront they have sustained at the
hands of the Ameer reference to the attitude OF
English Government before and during the war OF
1877 will be all the answer granted
This amounts to bitter defiance.
Again the same paper says.
What we can lose in these troubles in Central
Asia is Insignificant, while to England any Indian
Russia being thus advantageouslY placed, she will
doubt profit by her Asiatic opportunities TO
paralyze Englands policy in Europe This does
not, OF course, mean that the principal burden OF
the strife will have to be borne by Central Asia
TO transfer the teud to Asia would be Improbable
and incOnvenient to US 1t would impose upon us
immense sacrifices and yet settle nothing
This, in brief, is a view of the stage
where the curtain is to rise upon the dra-
ma Of war. What its complications may
be, or its possible extent, no one can fore
tell. All Europe is feyerish and restless.
The jealousy between Russia and Eng
land is excessive. Affairs between Rus
STA and Turkey, and between Austria and
Turkey are in a critical state. The be
lief has become almost universal that the
Treaty Of Berlin is a bit Of patchwork
that cannot endure. Russia is busy in
constructing, in America and at home, a
fleet Of swift steamers that can make it
very warm tor England's shipping in the
event Of war; What the outcome of this
all will be, must he left for time to deter
mine.
The latest adyiccs arc to the effect that
England has sent to the Ameer her ulti-
matum. 1t is demanded that he must
dismiss the Russian embassy, and promise
that the country will enter into no Rus
sian alliance. tits possible that the pause
in warlike proceedings may have a paci-
flying effect upon the Afghan ruler, and
that peace win grow ont Of it. But that
may depend upon the moves which Rus
sill shall make.
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The November Elections

On tuesday the voters of thirty states
were called upon to deposit their ballots.
Connecticut, Delaware, Kansas, Massa-
chusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada,
New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, So. Car
DINA, Tennessee and Texas voted for
Governors. Other states elect Congress-
men and minor state officers. Such re-
turns as have come to hand will be found
IN another column; but it is impossible,
so soon after the contest, to give any
thing like full report of the result
The one fact which in Importance dom
mates all others, and will CRAFTY the
friends of sound currency, is that the
greenback folly which had temporary
success in Maine, finds no favor in the
great controlling commercial states of the
Union. The victory has everywhere been
for sound money and an observance of
public and private faith. New York,
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts have
here stood firm and faithful
The result next in order, as conspcu-
Gus and gratifying, is the defeat of Ben
Butler, who has been buried under 30
600 majority. The sQueching Of that
restless, unprincipled and noisy dema-
gogue, is OF incalculable value to public
and private morality. Every good citi-
zen was alarmed at the aggressive fight
he was making, and appalled, at the pos
slblllty OF success. To-day the rights of
every man in Massachusetts are better
asserted, property more secure, and the
state more desirable as a residence. from
the fact that Ben. Butler lies bowling. "
The whole effort Of the soft money
class has been TO make a demonstration
in the country that would intmidate and
dishearten the friends Of specie resump-
ton. The result has been tie signal de-
feat Of the scheme. The elections Of
Tuesday give the assurance that resulnp-
ton will go into effect in January, backed
by wholesome public sentiment, recent
y expressed, and thoroughly reliable.
With the Frightening prospects in bust
ness, the future of the country, on a sound
basis, is assured. Cracking has done its
worst, and there is no more to be feared
from it.
Nj John A Buzzell has commenced a suit
against the ctv OF Bangor so 600 for
sustained by his wife BY falling upon an icy side
walk two years ago, and from which she has never
recovered.
SO says one of the Maine newspapers.
Ii this sort Of thing goes on, cities and
towns will be required, in order to be Sc
cure from rUinous suits, to have their
highways made equal to the best turn
pixies, and patroled daily ~ section
men, as railroads are. The main cause
of these excessive demands for cOmpen-
sation and heavy verdicts, is that jury
men allow their sympathes to run away
with their Judgment 4 sick and suffer
ing woman appeals for relief, and I'M
doubtedly needs it; the defending cor
poration is able u pay AMI those who
render large verdict for the plaintiff,
quiet their consciences by the reflection
that they have simply levied a contribu-
ton for the needy upon those who have
the means to respond That may be a
sort Of strained bcnevolence but il is
neither law nor iuSticp
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During discussion Of the silver ques-
ton which we had with the Bangor Com
mercial, last spring, that paper contend
ed that gold had no circulation in India,
and that silver coinage alone was known
in business transactions. Il seems that
the scarcity OF gold coin has been found
80 troublesome that measures are 10 be
taken for its introduction. The Associa-
ted Press dispatches Of Saturday has the
following
LONDON. Nov , Calcutta correspondent tel
egraphs that he hears upon good authority that
India contemplates adopting gold currency and
making English gold coins legal tender throughout
the country Private kilograms confirm the state
ment that the government Of India contempatrs
The adoption Of a gold currency.
We observe that this paragraph, which
appears in all other evening papers Of
that date, is suppressed by the CONNER
cial. Would there be too much conces-
sion 70 truth il publishing il
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Mabel Whitman and DR.. Spears, charged with
poisoning Mrs Whitman, the mother of Mabel in
Charlestown, Mass, We're both acquitted Friday.
The Judge declared the evidence entirely INSULT
Gent to warrant the holding OF either for trial
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REPUBLICAN JOURNAL.
BELFAST, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER !, 1878
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY
w l. l. | A NJ H imp S O \
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\ writer in the Atlantic magazine. tor
october ana November has been inves-
tigating Certain Dangerous Tendencies"
in this country, and deyotes some space
to relating tho result Of bis observations.
lie finds among the leaders Of the "Na-
tonar party, Or that which IL endcavor-
in under different names and various af-
tlatuns. to supplant the present political
parties. Some Very Mia schemes ana IN
practicable notions. Tie gives the result
OF interviews with thirty four advocates
of the National" idea relating substan-
TALLY nhat thry told him concerning their
views ana purposes They were. he saws.
representatives, by their residence. OF
three State. New York. PENNSYLVANIA
and New Jersey men VARYING in ace.
bit all mechanics wlo worked with
their hands" They had what is termed
a good common school education. and
some Of them better than that. for a ma
ioritv had been teachers Eighteen of the
thirtv-four were inclined 10 = belief in
spirtualisIn. The .vjews~ which they
gave the writer jn Thu Atlantic are if
must be admitted. curious lot. some
sugrnetious of eonso shine her, and there,
but the mass Is 4 dcplorabIe mixture Of
folly and absurdity. II it goes abroad as
n fair rpOrpSpntatinn of -h44 nrn1uctG nj
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-07
A Raid by the Cheyennes

SIoCN CITY Iowa, November , Capt.
Pratt Of the regular army, detailed for the
work, went east from here with tortv-eight
! Indian children, gathered from agencies
! up river, for Hampton, Va, where the
children will be placed at school at gov
eminent expense. The age OF the chill
dren averages about fifteen wears.
4 letter from Denver gives detailed ac-
counts OF the awful raid Of the Cheyenne
Indians in Sappo valley, september both
and Both. During that time they massa-
cred fourteen men and left twenty families
IN utter restitution, by burning ranches
and crops and stealing horses and cattle
The outrages committed on young girls
and women are too horrible to recount.
After devastating Sappo valley, they
went 70 Beaver river and Republican val
ley, where they killed sixteen men and
committed more awful Outrages on women
and girls.
The settlers state that Capt Manck
With his troops, comprising the pursuing
party, encamped on the night of October
LIST, only three miles from the camp of the
Indians. and he allowed the ticndS to es-
cape. The military authorities, it is said,
have denied the outrages by the Indians.
but the correspondent has seen several
eye witnesses, and some of the victims.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Jour
nal, from Oxford County, tells how narrow
an escape a resident had from losing his
house by fire
The house of Hon. Z. NJ Carter came
near being destroyed by fire last Thurs
day night. The family had been boiling
cider in an arch kettle during the even
ing and ironing the weeks washing.
About midnight Mr.. Williamson. an old
gentleman Gather of Mrs Carter. heard
the dog make an cutlery, but soon fell
asleep. About one-haJf hour later Mr..
Carter was awaked by the smell of smoke,
and arising discovered light Hasten
ing below he found the room on fire. and
reaching for his lantern it was so hot as
to blister his hand when he took hold of
it. He gave the alarm, and fortunately
there was a large box of water in the
room supplied by an aqueduct from
which his son took water. and soon eX-
tinguished the fire which had burned
through the floor in several places and
had run up the ceiling to the plastering
above. The weeks washing was burned
up and the dog was dead and the room in
ruins, and in few minutes more the fire
would have been beyond control. 1t
caught from Overheated brick resting
upon wood.
Charles F. Colburn, clerk in the Charlestowp
Mass, postoffice, has been detected in stealing
money from letters. He has been EMPLOYED in
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-07

The shipbuildjng firm of Titcomb x
Thompson, at kennebunk, has failed.
Mr.. Titcomb, who is President Of the
National Bank in that town, and was
Democratic candidate for Governor in
1873 and in lo7i, has long been a sue
cessful ship builder and regarded as a
wealthy man, The immediate cause Of
their failure is inability to dispose of Il
ship recently built, and which is now
about ready for sea. Their liabilities are
not stated, but they are undoubtedly
heavy. In circular issued to their cred
itors they express confidence that they
will be able to pay dollar for dollar if an
extension is granted them.
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would have 70 be reconsidercd at the
same time. Thus II Wou!G ur az least
arguable on the part Of the Canadians
that the very serious claims for the mon
strous injuries inflicted by American clti-
zens on British subjects during the Fenian
raids should again be put forward. since.
according to every recognized principle
of international law, the United States
were to the fullest extent Responsible for
those outrages. We mention that. how
ever, only 10 show how troublesome 1t is
to 20 too far back in such matters ana to
mix MP questions which ought to be Kept
separate. 1t may be possible that Sails
bury has taken up a false position with
respect to the local or other rights of New
toundland; though Since he had Ill the
facts before him, and the know ledge that
he was dealing with very thorny gues-
ton, we may fairly hope that he has not
done 50: but in any case, we shall have
the satisfaction Of knowing that whatever
discredit there may be in this talk Of
keeping the money back or in Suddenly
springing diplomatic mines at an awk-
ward time, it is not ours.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-07
South Carolina.

CHARLESTON, Nov. ). Returns from
all portions of the State show heavy
Democratic gains. Gov. Hampton and
the present State officers are reelected
without opposition. Aiken and Evins,
Democrats, are reelected to Congress
from the 3D. and 18th Districts with scarce
ly any opposition In the 9Th, Tilman,
Dem, is claimed to have beaten Smalls,
Rep, by nearly 500 In the lst the indi-
cations are that Richardson, Dem, is
elected over Raines, Rep, by small
majority. The election was quiet and
orderly throughout the State.
Nebraska.
LINCOLN, Nov. 9TH. Returns come in
slowly. A light vote cast in the State.
Indications are that the Republican state
and Congressional tickets are elected bv
: 900 to 10000 majority
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-07
Delaware.

WILMINGToN, Nov. ). John W. Hall.
Dem. elected Governor Edward l.. Mar
lin. Dem, elected Congressman. The
Republicans ran no candidate for either
Office, the only opposition being the
Greenbackers
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-07
The Fisheries Question.

LONDON, Nov t. The Pail Mall Ga
zettes leading editorial article this after
noon saws: That the lnited States should
choose this precise moment TO publish
what seems, from Geographic summary,
10 be rather threatening dispatch ad
dressed by Secretary Evarts TO the Amer
lean Minister, Mr.. WEIGH. can scarcely
be regarded as accidental. All the world
can see that we have on our hands Just
now quite AS much as we can we'll deal
with, and a really friendly power with a
grievance like that, whilst holding to its
position. would refrain from casting the
matter in an irritating way before the re-
public until our affair had assumed a
more peaceful aspect: Ut any rate this is
what, according to the admirers OF the
Alabama arbitration we might certainly
have expected from America. The truth
is, that, while the very party with which
the bargain was made still holds office in
the United States, the first opportunity is
seized to make a point against us, Just
when L is reck0ned that other difficulties
may force Us to give way.
NOTHING ELSE WAS 70 BE EXPECTED.
and. toT our part, we are inclined to thank
Mr. Evarts for teaching our cOuntrymen
that nations generally are no more inclin-
ed to torcgo their advantages over one
another in the nineteenth century than
III the eighteenth, seventeenth. sixteenth
or first | ct the sentimentaists blame Mr.
Eyarts for he has disappointed them, notuS.
American newspapers of all shades Of DO
litical opinion, without giving a moments
consi liberation let lis hope to the fact
IA.
do with the award of -, J00, OOU made in
favor OF Canada at Halifax, have come
forward lit once with the contention that
this money, due and long overdue to It's.
must not be paid until and unless this
new difference Is settled in a way they
they think right. Nine million dollars OF
the Alabama indemnity remains without
any reasonable claimant, ani here are
~5,Jo0, 600 more to he retained. We
should have supposed that the Americans
could scarcely afford to recall attention
To the various matters relating u The
Washington treaty. and tie manner in
which It's PROV SlonS have been carried
out. Bat then We. too. have a little SEN
ument about us. for. in truth. the whole
story is one Of continuous attempt III
evasion, and evasion of a somewhat shab-
by kind and. CuriouSlY enough. adNau-
tage was taken OF local regulations the
local regulations OF the State uf New
York; to avoid compliance With one Vt
the most important Stjpulatians ol the
treaty IN favor OF Canadian shipping
therefore Lord Salisbury has open to him
some very pertinent retorts. Bur Two
wrongs DO not make q right, ana, II ID ap-
that fIn y VI IA. NJ,
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The Aggregate of Money We Have.

There has been an unusual amount Of
very foolish talk about the aggregate Of
money in circulation in the United States,
as compared with other countries. The
Greenback orators have ndustriously cir
culated the assertion that all we need to
ensure prosperity to everybody is larg
er amount of paper money that by some
unexplained method this is to be put
into the pockets Of the people in album
dance, and everybody thereby made rich.
OF course all such talk is delusivc and
foolish There is now more currency in the
country than can be used to advantage,
as it should be used. That we have now
more money in circulation per inhabitant
than any other country, is shown by Sec
rotary sherman, in a recent letter to Nh
Leroy b. Dodd, Of Michigan The Sec
rotary says
| As TO the paper circulation OF the European
countries this department has no information ex
| cept what can be obtained from publications open
| to all The London Economist Of September II
| 1875 1.-THE latest at hand), states the amount of pa
| per circulation Of the banks in the ulted King
! dom, less the amount retained BY the banking de
| partment OF the Bank Of England TO be CAB 600
| vi sterling circulation of the Bank Of France
| (which alone i'd France has authority to issue
notes to be, September j, 81 10 600 pounds ster
| hing and that OF the Imperial Bank Of GERMANY
| September !. 30 40 000 pounds sterljng. 1t is un
derstood that some Of the country banks of Germany
have authority, under certain restrictions to issue
! notes but as the amount issued Is not stated in
financial publications. i is believed TO b. neon
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-11-07
National Thanksgiving.
A PROCLAMATION,

II rHl~pE> os me UNIFIED STATES.
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HARTFORD, Nov. ), lll1, +. NJ Re
turns from y towns give Andrews, Rep.
300; Hubbard, Dem, 43, lOl Atwater
o'reenback, $3.50: Baldwin, Prohibitory
lu1. The Republicans have elected Haw-
icy. Waite and Miles to Congress, and
Will have the Legislature Icy B majority
As there is no election by the people, the
Republican ticket viii be elected by the
Legislature.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-07-18
Photographing a Race HoEse.

The San Francisco Bulletin says:
About a year ago E J. Muy bridge sue
ceeded in producing perfect photo
gra of LELAND Stanford's trot-
ter, Occ;dent, while moving at
full speed. The photograph was the
first 0 a series To show the various mo-
tions trotter's feet and legs pass through
in making one stri lie when in full motion.
The interest of that particular photo
graph WAS greatly enhanced because it
showed the position the horse was in at
the moment when his fOretOOt struck the
ground. II completely upset all previous
theories concerning the shape of the leg
aud the part of the foot which first
touched the ground, The photograph
represents the horses foreleg, projecting
at considerable OF an angle before him,
straight as an iron bar, the heel touching
the sod and the toe we'll above the ground
Since then Mr.. Muy bridge has brought
electricity to play an important part in
the work of taking the negative OF a fast
moving object, and with its aid he has
obtained every change in a tr1tting
horses position while making a complete
stride. & dozen photographs show the
various positions of Occident's body
legs, and jeat, while travelling at a 2:24
gait, in A ride of IS feet inches. The
ph tographs show that fast trotter's feet
are all of the ground at the same time
twice during the making of the stride,
although the hest excepted authorities
on this subject have rspea tedly asserted
that trotting hos always has one foot
on the ground while il acti)n. These
photographs have been taken by Mr.
Muy 1ge at MEMO Park, where appa'
rItus for this special purpose has been
erected at cca5 to Mr.. Stanford of al
| Last 81 600. The camera is expo 5 ed and
uncovered in a twinkle, by electricity
which is under the complete control o.
the operator. A board-fence on the Op
| posite side of the track has been lineC
and marked in feet, and q row of camera,
are placed to correspond with these, 81
that the position of the horse on thu
track, az well SO the form of bis body nc
limbs, IS d -finitely determined. The
pictures are wonderful triumph il
/ photography"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-07-18
Lawyers Fees in San Francisco.

The San Francisco Call says: ''The
heaviest legal incomes in the city vary
from $50 coo to 500 600 per annum. On
the other hand, there are plenty of law
yeR struggling to practice who 90 not
average $50 per month the year round.
Some f our leading attorneys require
fee of 81 600 before having anything to
do with case. Important fees in Grim
inal cases range from $3.50 to 81 500; and
instances are common where much larger
sums have been paid. In 1874 VIM. H.
Patterson and the late John h. FELTON,
received $40, 900 for defeating the local
option law before the supreme court.
Tney only worked on the case about two
weeks, and worked in very leisurely
style at that. The money was placed on
deposit beforehand, and when a favOra-
BILE decision was announced, all they had
to do was to go to the bank and get it.
Each of them received so, 0G0, equal to
about 1900 an hour or s. minute, that
/ he was actually occupied with the case
/ The emotions OF s. maR who realizes that
| his ordinary occasional services can be
made so valuable as to net him a small
/ fJTtune in d couple of weeks must be
very peculiar indeed 10 the celebrated
! city cases Mr.. Felton's fees amounted to
! $250G00 On another occasion he re
I ceived $50 900 for his services IN Span
! ISL land grant contest, aud on still an
| other occasion was paid $4,000 on con-
/ di;iOn that he would not appear as at
torney in n certain pending case. In
! 1870 ). w. SInderson rt Vned the high
position of Chief Justice # the Supreme
I Court of Ca i.Ornia in order to become
attorney of the Central Pacific railroad
company. The inducement offered was
. he
sisted OF a salary o. 81 600 per month
which was subsequently increased tC
81 900 per mouth. Some wealthy com
mercial firms find it to their interest to
employ attorneys on regular salari6 that
range from a few hundred dollars pei
annum up into the thousands. These
attorneys see to the proper drawing of all
papers OF con sequence, and are consulted
on all occasions of doubt or importance
Nearly all the banks and corporations
have teir saIaried ATTIC rneys. Campbell
Fox q Campbell are said 10 receive s
large salary from the Spring Valley
Water Company. Ramon has it that
Rergin & McAliis er receive $1,000 pei
month from the Bank of Nevada; that
:. Nj. Wilson receives :aiATy of 50, OOC
per aDnum from the Bank OF California
that Solomon Heydenfelt formerly o.
the supreme c0urG) receives Sl,OOJ pei
month for guarding the mining interests
OF Flood IL O Brien, while also r6ceiv
ing salary in each case for officiating a:
presi lent of q number of mining com
panIes. Reuben II. Lloyd, attorney fol
millionaire B ,ldwiD, gets high pay, it il
said. 5 NJ. Wilson'S supposed to be il
receipt of the largest income of any
member Of the bar :. =. FIoge in th'
course Of his career has frt quently come
in contact with $4,000 ices.