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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-25
THE RESULT AND IT'S LESSONS.

The full returns from the various coun-
ties of the territory, showing the vote for
delegate to congress. have finally been re-
ceived, and according to the figures present.
ed Judge Benefits majority stands at 2,056.
The aggregate vote is 1906, again.t a vote
of 1882 two years ago. These figures will
be slightly changed by the full official re-
turns. In a few of the counties We have
been unable to obtain returns from the coun-
ty officers, but have supplied the figures
from the memoranda of persons from unre-
reported localities, and consider them near
ly correct. Most of the returns published,
however, are official, and our table, pub
lished else Shere, may be regarded is nearly
correct. The vote polled reaches very
nearly our prediction of about a month
ago that Dakota would this year cast %. 1000
ballots for delegate to congress. Our best
information is that the vote is about 5000
short of the actual voting population, that
number remaining away, from the polls on
election day. The counties Of Pembins,
Trail, Cass, Richland, Barnes and
Grand Forks have very nearly fulfilled
the promise given Judge Bennett dur.
ing his visit to that region.
He was told by the leading republicans up
that way that their majority for him would
aggregate l,O5O and they have given him
1857. The large increase in the vote Of the
eastern tier of counties indicates a solid ad-
vance Of new settlement westward, from the
Missouri river on the south to the British
possessions on the north. Incoming immi-
grafton has stepped across the boundary
line and planted itself with unbroken front
upon the soil of Dakota, there to remain.
Those to follow will nov forward into the
next tier of Dakota counties and another
strip of wilderness will be peopled with
living industry. Thus the course of empire
takes its its way, closing up the gaps as it
advances and utilizing every facility before
reaching out for new possessions, and thus
agricultural Dakota is to be settled by a
steady influx every slowly moving westward.
The mining regions Of the west, settled by a
stampede of gold seekers, furnish an ex.
ception to this general rule. This much We
learn from the election figures returned to
us, and We learn further that Judge Bennett
has heen elected by a majority which fixes
status of republicanism in our territory.
The party majority has heretofore been an
ur certain quantity, but it is now so fixed
that we may know just what to rely upon
the future.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-25
sHERIpAN's STATEMENTS.
Some Remarks from the Lieutenant Gen.
eral Rega riding Indian Management.

Some Remarks from the Lieutenant Gen,
eral Regarding Indian Management.
The remarks which Gen. Sheridan
thought proper to make were embodied in
the following Endorsement, returning Mr..
schurz, letter to the general Of the army:
Headquarters Military Division of the
Missouri, Chicago, Nov. Is, 1s78.-Respect-
fnl y returned to the general Of the army.
The Endorsement referred to in the written
communication was general and intended to
cover operations for the period Of twenty
years, and it was hoped that it might put an
end to such a waste of army appropriations
as attended the following:
The agency of the OgaIlala Sioux ten or
twelve years ago was at Fort Laramie, IN
expensive post built to control these Indians.
The agency was removed from it by the
Indian bureau to Camp Robinson to avoid
the presence of the mil tary. Shortly after +
ward the necessity OF a nj itary force COM
PEELED that bureau to ask for troops 70 be
sent to Camp Robinson, and a new post was
built there ut an expense which the general
of the army can we'll comprehend.
The Spotted Tail or Brule Sioux we're at
not far from where Fort Randall had been
ia give ~ anu OLIlcI 1utSIeSt0 pTOl6C.
ton, but these Indians were removed to
Camp Sheridan, two, hundred and fifty
miles farther west; and being unable after q
time to get along without troops, a new
post had to be established there at great
expense. These Indians have been again
moved and two more posts established since;
they are now at Wounded Knee creek andl
Big White Clay, and by-and-by the neces-
sity Of having troops will compel the cree
ton of two new posts at each Of these local !
tiles. 14s a |
II csc removals have cost ia hundreds oil
thousands of dollars, aud no one can tell
how soon a new change may be made.
The Indians now at Standing Rock we're
first located at Grand river, and a military
force was requested and established to help
govern them. Soon afterward. they were
moved up to Standing Rock, and being un-
, 1878-01-19

TRICKEy AND DEcETrFUL--Mr Hayes can
blame only himself and his immediate coun-
selors for the position in which he finds him.
sell, observes the New York Herald. 1t is
not his Southern policy that has brought him
into this predicament: for in spite of some
faults of execution that policy is right in it
self and has been honestly and consistently
maintained. 1t is mainly his vacillating,
crooked and insincere course in relation to
the civil service that has enabled his oppon-
ents to win this signal triumph. His civil
service methods have been i'll judged, tricky
and deceitful. He was weak and vain enough
to set ont with parade of high-tiown pre-
tensions. There was a challenging air of
"bounce" and self-assumption which raised
doubts of his good sense and solidity of char
acter and displayed an Inconsistencies of OBJ
&sacles which was really ludicrous.
, 1878-01-19

WAR FEELING IN ENGLAND. The Lon
don correspondent of the Chicago Times rep
reserts England as on the verge oe war. He
represents the cabinet as hopelessly divided,
and gives credence to the rumor that per-
emptory demand will be made on Russia to
define her intentions in regard to Turkey.
If this demand is made and does not elicit
an unsatisfactory reply, the Russian cabinet
will have changed its tone under the threat
it implies. ANY such change of tone. now.
ever, is not expected. No no is entertained
that Russia will respond favorably to de.
mand for her terms of peace. England will
thus endeaver to enforce her right to medi-
ate, which, of course. can only be done by
making war The correspondent referred to
thinks that Lord Baconsiield is backed by
the Queen and majority of the cabinet, and
that he is fixed in the determination to make
Russia stop where she is or preeipitate con-
Hict. Another dispatch says that there is
talk OF dissolution of Parliament, in con-
sequence Of division in the cabinet. Al
though the London correspondent Is some
what given to investing rumors with undue
importance, there is no doubt that the situ-
alton III England causes grave apprehensions.
, 1878-01-19

SoUiRMING.- Olympia Courier, Gov.
Ferrys personal organ, has the following:
The Walla Walla STATESMAN affects to think
that if Washington were to become a state with
Gov. Ferry at the head Of its government the
annual expenses would mount mp near million.
This squb comes with poor grace from a prom
inent member Of the democratic party, under
whose management the territory was run into
debt so heavily that warrants on its treasury
were worth only 80 to 81 cents on the dollar.
The cbeekiness of the above will be under
stood when it is borne in mind that for
period of IL years the territory has been
constantly under republican rule, and that
democrats had neither control nor manage
ment. 1t is true that by adding fifty per
cent. to the heterritorial tax script was brought
up to its face, but this can scarcely be re-
gar,led as proof Of economy, or financial
ability. Under Ferry's rule theexpenditures
of the territory have been constantly grow
ing, and to make his swindles stick he has
not hesitated to form combinations with
venal democrats Boss Tweed in New York
originated the plan of combining both
parts for the purpose OF swindling the pub
lie, and Ferry was not slow to follow IN the
footsteps of the great thief.
, 1878-01-19

SENTENCED-A court in New York has
sentenced an ex-life insurance president to
five years in the state prison for swearing to
false statement of the affairs of his company.
The culprit made plea for mercy, saying
that he had been bounded by the press, but
the judge was not moved to sympathy On
the contrary, he said, IN effect, that he was
glad the process Of law had passed the culprit
over to him. and proceeded to pronounce
sentence with a cheerfulness of countenanee
which doubtless seemed an evidence Of heart
lessness to the prisoner. But this New York
court has done good piece of BUSINESS, the
ultimate Importance of which will depend
very much upon the fidelity with which
its example is followed in other portions of
the country. There has been altogether too
much Of this false swearing in reference to
the assets of life insurance COMPANIES and
savings banks, and We know of no more ef.
fechve means of putting stop to it than
that pursued by the New York court
, 1878-01-19

TOTAL DEPRAvITY. The Port Townsend
Press furnishes the following pen-portrait of
Beriah Brown, the senile old quill-driver:
"The ancient doctrine termed matempsy-
Ghosts, taught that when any human being was
born that some person had just died, and the
soul was transferred to the new being and
also, that the souls of the lower animals were
transferred into the bodies of new born infants
when no human being had died to supply the
demand. Whether this doctrine is true or false
We cite a case in illustration which would seem
to prove that there is some truth in it and
that when Beriah Brown was born no human
being had died for several months previous to
his birth, and he either grew up resembling in
some respects the shape of man, either with
out any soul at all, or that some worn out hy-
ena had been sacrificed to supply soul for his
body. Schooled in crime, stepped in rot-gut
whiskey, he grew up and began his pestilential
career as q scandal -monger. Neither age, sex,
the cradle or the grave will shield a private
character from his malicious attack No char
acter, however pure, mans or womans, that
he is not ready to assail either directly or by
inuendO when money "r whiskey is offered him
as an inducement. knowledge of his charac-
ter is all that is necessary to refute anything
he may be hired to say about any person.
, 1878-01-19

The NEW SrArE.-The Puget Sound IN.
teI9encer thinks that at the next election il
vii be necessary to elect democratic dele.
gate In order to enSure the admission Of the
proposed State of Washington. A demo.
cratic delegate as a matter of course would
have some influence with democratic Goa.
gress but We take it that the new state will
have to elect democratic senators, and dem
ocratc congressman, or otherwise there will
net be the slightest chance for admission.
The democrats are not likely to permit the
ADMISSION OF two republican senators, and
thus ensure the republicans the control of
the senate down to the close of Fraudulent
hayes administration. The democrats were
badly cheated IN the case of Colorado, and
1t Is not likely they will again walk into a
trap. Ferry and his gang Of thieves may as
well understand that neither he nor any of
his kind viii be allowed to represent the
proposed state. If the state movement is to
succeed, the thieves who rule the roost at
Viympia viii have to take back seats.
, 1878-01-19

PUBLIC PRINTING democratic legis-
lature of South Carolina, finding that its
radical predecessors had appropriated two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for Print
Ing, cut down the appropriation to ten thou
sand, and thought they had touched bottom.
The printing committee, however, has ascer-
tanned that, Of this amount, four thousand
remains uncalled for in the treasury, after
all bills are paid-and the figures tell their
own story. The radicals who manage affairs
at Olympia, run the public printing after the
style of the South Carolina thieves. 1t was
in this way that Basley was able to pay
Strive $1,000 ont Of the printing fund, as his
share of the plunder. These are the radicals
VINO expect to control the new state and rob
the people ont Of their hard earnings.
, 1878-01-19

A NAVAL COMMISSION. If one-half be
true that is said about the worthlessness OF
the American navy, it is about time that an
investigation were set on foot to discover how
its efficiency can be improved. So must think
Secretary Thompson. for he has organized a
commission of bureau officers, consisting OF
Rear-Admiral Howell, president; Rear-Ad-
miral Ammen, Commodore Shufeldt, Engl-
neer in-C Chief Shook, Captain Jetfers and
Constructor Easily, to investigate and report
upon the class OF vessels best adapted for
service in the navy; the dimensions, tonnage
and battery of each particular class; the
number Of each class required, and the ma
terial of which they are TO be built.
, 1878-01-19

CIVIL SERVICE REfoRN. - Mr.. Hayes
promises, or threatens, the country with an
other exposition of his ideas and intentions
in regard to civil service REFORM He has
already proved himself demagogue and
backsIider on the subject. Like the oars
man, who looks one way and goes the other,
he has turned his face from his own conrSe.
So far his practice has been almostmvariany
contrary to his professions, as to appoint
ments for Office Il would be difhcuit for
any in the executive chair to rake together
so many feeble, incompetent, bad, wretched'
or rascally public servants as Grant appoint
ell during his two terms; but instead OF I'M
proving on the lot, As general thing, Hayes
has done worse A paramount consideration
in many cases, appears to have been resi-
dence in Ohio. The character or capabilIty
Of the appointee seemed to be OF little or NO
account-if he were radical, and from ONO,
he got his billet. Then came the appoint
ment Of the infamous scoundreis Of the Loui-
siana returning board, and others OF less
notorirtv, but nearly as unworthy. And OF
the hundreds to whom he has dispensed I'M
portant federal officers, there are not SO many
as one-tbird who can be regarded as honest
and capable. But to cap the climax OF the
absurdity involved in his promise OF reform
ing the service, it is known as fact that
fellow named Beauchamp, who haiis from
Indiana, and is consul at Cologne, is so litter
ate as to be unable to correctly spell even
simple words Of one syllable. This is known
at the state department, and Mr.. Hayescan-
not he unaware of the fellows Ignorance /;
yet he has re-appointed him. Also, in rela,
ton to the nomination he made OF Prince, OF
New York. as naval officer-which the SEN
ate rejected on COnklings motlon--the Sun
saws the nominee is one Of the most corrupt
radical politicians that ever figured in party
schemes. With all this insincere conduct on
the part of Mr. Hayes, to prove the fallacy
and hollowness CT civil service reform, moth
ing he can now say will lead the people to
believe he is in earnest or truthful 1t will
be tir,e enough to believe he is when he
shall practice as he breaches.
, 1878-01-19

GET READy.-Now that the new year has
begun, the political world may be considered
to have entered upon another campaign. 1t
is good while yet until the election, it is
true, but it would not be wise to wait until
the eve of the battle before our forces are
put in martial array. Therefore, We say to
the democracy now, begin the work of or
ganization. Get your townships and school
districts we'll in hand, and ascertain lust
what You will be able to accomplish when
the time for the conflict shall have arrived.
1t Is not too early, however, either, to sug-
gest that you select your best men for dele
gates, and impress upon them the duty of
nominating candidates of unimpeachable in
tesrity and frst-class capacity.
, 1878-01-19

The FRAUDULENT ADMINIsrRA ATOM "A
Washington correspondent of the New York
Commercial -Adratiocr, radical, says: The
leaders OF the republican party, who placed
Mr.: Hayes In the executive chair, have borne
and forbornc with the whims, fancies and
vaSaries OF the president and his shallow
advisers until forbearance has ceased to be a
virtue, and now We find the men who have
been leading the forlorn hope in his defense
have to give way to the swelling current
sweeping down everything against his fraud
ulent administration.
, 1878-01-19

SUFFERING IN ENGLAND consequence
of the extraordinary depression in trade and
manufacture in England, in iron establish
ments and the mines, especially, many thou
sands of working g-people-men, women and
children-are ont of employment, and suffer
ing fearfully for want of clothing, food and
shelter A large number are begging in the
streets and highways, and some, driven TO
desperation, rob and plumber where they
can Memorials have been addressed to the
government to appropriate sum of money
to cover the expense Of work that shall lie
done on puulic roais by which to furnish
employment to these destitute people. They
must have help or they viii perish.
, 1878-01-19

THERE Is NO HELL--So says Dean Stan
ley. So says Canon Farrer. SO SAYS Henry
Ward Beecher. So says Bob Ingersoll. and
30 say very many Others, but saying so does
not make it so. Though the Dean, the Canon
:and the lecherous Henry are tolerahly well
versed in the affairs of this world We do not
believe they are any better qualified to teach
us the WHY'S and wherefores of the great
hereafter than any one else. One thing is
certain, if there is a hell-a place of eternal
punishment all ought to know it, and if
those who are posted in regard to the matter
(if there are any such do not give US the
bottom facts they will fall far short of their
duty.
, 1878-01-19
A FLEET OF STEAMBOATS,.
The 0, q. n, Ce. will B1ild Eour KlSei
steamers this season.

The o. a. n, Ce, will Bsild Four River
steamers this season.
Mr.. John Gates, chief engineer of the U. 3
n Co., showed US plans, specihcations' eC;'
yesterday of several large steamboats, WHICH
are to be built the present season.
Prior to the departure of Capt j. Z. Ans
worth, president of the company, from TINS
state it was determined to completely overhaul
and rebuild the old steamer Oaeo''fa, wnich 10,
many years has been running between foriahn
and the Cascades. 1t was intended 70 Duiid
new hull, place the Oneonfds cabin on tne rev
craft, and put in larger and more powerful ma
chinery. On considering the matter, It was
subsequently, concluded to build o new boat
throughout Of larger dimensions and with more
powerful machinery The 0neontG is now lying
at the boneyard being broken up. Work on
the new boat viii be commenced soon ana
pushed forward to an early completion Inc
new Oneonta, tthe new boat will take the same
name, will be 200 feet lcng, IS feet beam and
8 feet hold. She will be a sidewheel boat, each
wheel being 25 feet in diameter, driven by two
engines Of "a inch bore and feet stroke. 1he
freight accommodations will be greatly superior
to the old boat, and the cabin appointments,
arrangements, etc, will be very extensive. lt
Is expected that the new boat VIII DC ready 'or
service early next summer
new boat is IN be constructed the present
season at Tenino The following are the dimen,
sions: Length 200 feet, beam IS feet, hold .
feet. She will have carrying capacity OF
three hundred tons at extreme low water, De-
ing of light draft. The new boat will be a
sternwheel. The wheel will be IL feet IN d.
ameter The engines are to be Is inch lore
and 7 feet stroke The boiler will be of Gate 5
patent, powerfully constructed, and capable OF
CARRYING with perfect safety 140 pounds OF
steam The machinery for this boat has been
put up at Wilmington, Deleware, and VIII De
shipped for this port on the y. 5. n. Co new
steamer State of Oregon, to sail from New iorK
TO- morrow The boat is to be completed In
time for the summer and fall trade. a fuil
cabin will not be built, but one capable OF ae-
commodating a number of passengers eighteen
! staterooms- be constructed.
| Plans have also been drafted for new boat
| to be built Cello this season, work on when
will soon be commenced. In tonnage and Oh
mensions this craft will be equal to the SPo-
Kane. The plans call for the construction OF
| boat Isl feet long, 81 feet beam and four feet
hold. The boat will be propelled by engines
| of IA inch bore and eight feet stroke.
A fourth boat will be constructed this season
at The Dalles of the following dimensions
Length 2l5 feet, hold nine feet, beam 81 feet,
engines 2S inch bore, eight feet stroke. In
model and general build the new boat Will be
duplicate Of the Vide West. The machinery
was built at Wilmington, and is to be brought
here on the State of Oregon.
With the addition of these new boats, the
Oregon Steam Navigation Company will own
| the most magnificent feet Of river steamers oi
any corporation on the coast.-Oregoaidn.
, 1878-01-19

A DIsCLosuRE.-It was brought out in
the Vanderbilt will case that young Wander
bilt at various times borrowed from Horace
Greeley till the amount reached $40, coo. of
which he never returned copper. When
Mr.. Vanderbilt heard that money was being
loaned to his spendthrift son, he went to
Mr.. Greeley and requested him not to lend
his son any more money. Mr.. Greeley re-
sented the request as an unwarrantsble in
reference. Subsequently the elder Wander
bilt paid over $lO, coo to the Greeley heirs.
, 1878-01-19

The FRAUD II IS interesting to hear
Chandler cody say: "m Louisiana, how
ever there had been thrown into the ballet
boxes over 1000 more votes for the Iilden
than for the Hayes electors, and to make
Hayes president it became necessary for the
returning board, acting under peculiar tocd'
lars. to throw out more than 1000 Tilden
votes to perform this extraordinary, ern !,
unsuitable. work, &c" Let honest repubii'
cans paste that in their hats. 1t is n confes'
sion by one of the conspirators Of the fraud,
In a nutshell
, 1878-01-19

CoNKLING.-The Washington Capitol say.
it was the first to offer handsome reward
to the poet who would find rhyme Of Conk
ling. Jones-not the silver-rimmed, but oul
Jones-thinks he has hit it, and SO sends the
following:
There was an old duffer called Conkling.
Who TO Arthur and Prince did strong cling,
He knocked President Hayes
Into a dumb founded daze,
And cayorted like any young Doubling"
, 1878-01-19

SELF-AssURED.-The belief obtains pretty
generally now, that previous to the crossing
Of the Danube, Russia had assurances of the
non-interference in the war from Germany
and Austria which leads newspaper con-
temporary to remark: '"With the Russians
at the Balkans and at the capitol of Asiatic
Turkey, circumstances point more clearly to
the agreement IS q fixed fact. With Russis,
Germany. Austria, Roumania, Servia, Greece,
Italy. and other states united on the Eastern
question, or as allies, and with France IN
different, England viii consult her interests
by simply keeping sharp lookout for num-
Der one"