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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16
More Mennonites in Kansas.

The Leavenworth (Kan.) Times. speak
ing of the arrival of o party of MonnoH-
ties, says: "a special train of six cars
over the Missouri Pacific Railroad from st.
Louis has brought to Kansas over
three hundred Mennouitcs, who come di-
rect from the cold quarters Of the globe.
The part was under charge of an agent.
and was from the town of Saratov, near the
Volga River. in Eastern Russia They
arrived in Baltimore lately. On their
arrival in Kansas City they were met by
the Foreign Agent of the Atchison, Topo-
ka. and Santa F6 Railroad, Mr.. Schmidt.
and after a general consultation with the
leaders of the party it was decided to To-
ate on the line of the above road, md
they left shortly after by special train for
Topeka The section of country where
they propose locating is largely populated
by their countrymen, there being in tho
counties of Harvey, Reno, Rice. Barton,
and Pawnee over two hundred families,
and a more Industrious set of people il
would be difficult to find. Another large
party will soon arrive and follow this ono
to the fertile valley of the Arkansas"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16
A Personal Anccdote.

In tao Spring of 1870. says the New York
correspondent of the Rochester Express, in
company with one of the editors of q lead
;ng Chicago journal. l entered a restaurant
on La Sale street in that city for a noon
day lunch. Sitting down at one of the
tables we found ourselves in company with
Mr.. Moody. then q salesman for w. v.
Farwel & Co, Mr.. HcKillop, agentf for the
New York Insurance Company. and another
gentleman connected with the Advance.
As each of these men were Sunday school
workers, the conversation turned upon
Sunday school and mission labor. andmuch
joking was INDUCED in at the expense of
Mr.. Moody on the latter topic. Mr.. Nc
Killop said that Mr.. Moody could get up
the best cry and impress it upon tho chill
dren to the best effect Of any one he had
ever heard. To this, Mr.. Moody retorted
by telling the following story illustra-
tive of the power. of Mr.. McKillop II, guild
ing the young people toward a safe faith
through life. 1t was q Sabbath School
Convention in one of the West side church.
es, and among the speakers present was
Brother McKillop, who, as we all know. be-
|lieves in a safe insurance in this life as
well as in thelife tocome, and, when called
OIL to speak, got off something to this eff.
feet Said hes Now, children, I want to
impress upon your minds the necessity Of
being well prepared for the change that
awaits us oil, and to be vol prepared Is
like being well insured. I don't want you
to think for a moment that I came here to
talk to you on the subiectof Life insurance
for you are ali too young, ma this ia not
the place to do so, but l will just say that
when you got older and are better prepared
for that most necessary duty. you will find
the old New York Life is the best company
on the list" After this McKillop's big
hand was passed over the table to Mr..
Moody, he ut the same time saying,
" Rood for you, Sam ; I W you one!'
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16
An Unpatriotic Paragraph.

The Philadelphia Bulletin publish F this /:
"An Indiana paper, alluding to the death
of the man who designed the great seal of
that State, remarks that any man who
would try to make people believe n full
grown buffalo bull would deliberately rush
up to u granger who was choppins iowna
tree at sunrise ought to die Bat the State
seal of Indiana is not by any means the
most remarkable of the devices employed
for that purpose. Georgia oilers something
more astonishing in picture OF I'm absorb
Summer-house supported by three pillars,
nndguardcd by a Continental soldier with
weak legs; and Kentucky actually presents
o figure of General Washington in the act
of holding up an intoxicated friend in order
to keep him from falling against n bookcase
in the Underground. After this CALIFORNIA;
device of Minerva sitting on a stone, while
q cinnamon bear nibbles her left leg. seems
artistic and nice"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16
Influence.

How little do people in general think OF
he influence Of things at the time of their
ccurrence-especialy Of the influence of
little things. But this is not SO very singu-
or, when we reflect that, not ~unfrequently,
nan no more knows what becomes Of his
influence and example, that are borne far
beyond his ken on their uncertain mission,
han does the flower know what becomes of
is odor. which is waited away upon the
eassing breeze. Great deeds produce
great results but little everyday occurrences
ieem too trivial to DO of weight or durabi-
atty, and the common but dangerous senti-
nent, that such or such an event will make
40 difference q hundred years hence, creeps
inbiddon into ourhearts. The thunderand
he lightning attract moro attention than
The silent dew, but do they accomplish moro
yooda
Truly, life is made up of little things.
1t was q mothers kiss which made n well
renowned painter Of Benjamin West. A
iegrhici drnnkard was induced. with his
trembling hand. to sign the temperance
pledges; but not being strong enough to
keep it. he fell. A second time he signed
1t, and this time. with Hcavcns help, no
kept it. And from so weak a beginning
arose tho philanthropist John b. Cough.
How mnch ~unlappincss has been caused,
Low hitihy lives nave been cioudeu Dy one
unkind word! A pebble dropped into the
brook makes at first but a small ripple,
scarcely greater in circumference than
itself; but the next momeut a greater rip
pc IS observable, and still a grcdtey-each
succeeding one extending farther han the
former. until the entire surface is affected
thereby. Thus may a man be u blot, spread
in his dark influence outward to the very
cireumfc. ence of society; or he may bel
blessing, radiaring bcneficence over the
length and breadth of the land but n Jlans
he cannot be. For every word, every act,
hor ever triaing, affects either ourselves or
ohhc-s-cxerting an influence we NOW not
how enduring.
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28

The Democracy and their experts" are
quietly exploring the recesses Of the Gov
eminent in its various Departments, but
they find no relics or cnormities Of fraud
and corruption with which to reward their
efforts. Mr.. GLOVER and his sub commit
tees, with long noses and s.-iilful experts,
are diving into the mysteries Of the govern
mental machine, and thus far they have
failed to make any discoveries such as that
gentleman foretold in his singular letter
to the President at the outset of his cam
paign of nosability. We feel justified in
saying that they have found nothing, for the
smallest egg in that line would have pro-
duced loud and universal cackle from the
organs who sympathize with this SMELL
fungus performance. These committees are
rapidly consuming public time and money
but ii is all thrown away, for no party cap.
ilal can be secured to the Democratic party
with which to fight future political battles
under these proceedings. The best capital
the Democratic party can have Is that which
comes Of a record of patriotism and honesty
toward the whole nation and wise regard
for just economy and better estate Of com
mon honesty than it has developed among
its own officials.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28
The Trade OF Brazil.

There is no duty beyond that of provid-
ing for the necessary and pressing wants of
the Government for keeping its machinery
in motion, more incumbent upon the states
men of this Republic than that of providing
for the recovery and holding within our own
interests fair share of the commerce and
trade Of the civilized world. To accomplish
this We must have ships with which to nav
igate the high seas and those of American
bottoms and of the heaviest tonnage. These
we have not. Our ocean merchant marine
is limited, both as to numbers and tonnage,
and in order to compete for the trade Of the
outside world we must put afloat feet of
ships of sufficient carrying capacity to ena-
BILE us to accommodate this trade when we
shall be able to reach and secure it. In
der proper encouragement from the Govern
ment private enterprise stands ready to en-
ter this field, build the ships, put them
afoat, and open competition for foreign
trade that, when successful, will add largely
to our national revenues, enlarge the field
of human employment and labor for
our people, and open new markets
for our own products. These ends,
when reached, will contribute in large
degree to our national and individual pros
perity. This imposes an imperative duty
upon Congress to take an early step on the
road to success, and when this FIST impulse
is impaired to the work of recovering that
which we have lost for the want of proper
foster-care the road to ultimate success will
be open, plain, and easy Of travel.
The visit of the Emperor of Brazil TO this
country, and his intelligent and careful
study of our country, its institutions, its re-
sources, and its prospects, by personal OBJ
servation and research, gave him favora-
BILE opinion Of the present and future of this
great and growing nation. His visit, though
he is among the noblest and wisest of all
earthly rulers in this age and generation
was without ostentation. With him it was
business, and his Investigations of our ma.
tional, industrial, and commercial interests
were quiet but very thorough. He left Ut
with favorable impression on his own
mind as to our present condition and future
progress, and with feelings of more
than usual friendliness. He now desire,
that our mutual commercial relations and
interests shall be more intimate and ex
tended, and has made tender of co-opera
ton which gives an earnest Of his sincerity
of purpose and friendship of feeling,
The question for this Government to con
slider at this juncture is whether the pros
poets of direct trade with the Empire o.
Brazil are such as to justify fostering aid il
its inception. Our present trade with thai
country is somewhat limited, for the reason
that we have no direct steamship cOmmuni
cation, and ~ far as II extends under oul
limited facilities, the balance is largely
against us. The most available and reliable
figures relating to our trade with Brazil
show that from 1870 to 1876 the United
States imported nom that country its pro
ducts 10 the amount Of $274, las, 500, while
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

THERE was no telephone between the Senate
chamber and the White House when Senator
Howe delivered his speech last Monday.
IL. O W." writes to the Louisville Courier.
Journal that Senator Howe is an elongated
bore" l.. Q. W. is something less than ten
feet high himself.
SENATOR HOWE is n bold, bad man, to defy
all the reform mud-throwers by undertaking
20 disturb the historic and stcrcotyped calm
ness OF the Presidents mind.-Bosioa Traveller
THE Dayton Ohio Democrat thinks Howe's
speech was enjoyed all around. 1t says
"Conkling and Blaine manifested their appro
baton when Howe hit the Administration q
telling blow, and the Democratic Senators en-
joyed the thing exceedingly"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28

The PRAYERS of the Baltimore Democracy
are somewhat ostentatiously pledged by
the Herald of that CITY for the reelection of
Congressman BLAcKpuRS, of Kentucky.
Now, let all other candidates leave the
course. for when he is PRAYED for by the
Thugs. Dead Rabbits, and Repeaters of the
Monumental City, Mr.. BLACKBURN will
have walk over" as Ten Brock was ex-
pected to have when Mr.. b. and his prayerful
admirers backed that great Kentucky racer
at Pimlico last fall. But seriously speak
ing, the introduction of PRAYER as an eIe-
ment of Kentucky Baltimore politics is an
encouraging evidence of Democratic Reform,
II opens up n vista, so to sneak, slightly
clouded, it is true, by the authoritative as
sertion that the PRAYERS of the wicked are
of no avail hut nevertheless. n vista. in
which the IMAGINATION NAV nictpre Gov.
er,or Sw,xu IN his kpees side NV side
with ppo,,rop Kvnrr with Mavor KANE
and Ior R,,crprnr i, m. bacL
s;r.;n,, nrais.s IN sometbing that in Kan.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28
Personal.

Buck HOUSTON is at the Riggs.
Miss HATTIE RAYBuRN is clerk Of the
Iowa Senate, and reads documents better than
most men.
GOVERNOR PACKARD, of Louisiana, had a
long interview with the Secretary Of State
yesterday.
SECRETARY scHuRz Is convalescing, but Is
not vet able to resume his duties at the In
terror Department.
The Secretary of the Treasury yesterday
appointed George w. Lowell internal revenue
guager for the District of New Mexico.
ACTING NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. JOSEPH T.
PAINTER, attached to the Asiatic squadron,
died at Nagasaki, japan, on the 18th instant
GOVERNOR NICHOLS, General Beauregard,
and Mayor Pillsbury, of New Orleans, have
been appointed judges at baby-show in that
city.
JOHN N. STAPLES, ESQ, one of the leading
lawyers Of North Carolina, left Washington
last night to return to his home in Greensboro
in that State.
Hon. JonS r. KuMLER, of Toledo, o., il
registered at Wizards. He isn't after the post
Office of Toledo, because he has got an Office
msyor-alrcady.
WILLIAM p. CLYDE, president Of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company. Is ut tho Ebbitt
| He is here looking after the interests of thai
company before Congress.
LAST year Mr.. Mills, New York broker
made European trip in his own yacht. Thi'
year he is wondering where he can get hi:
| breakfast. He specialized too much.
+. o. GRAVES. chief of the National Banl
| Redemption Agency, returned with his ex
ports.from New York yesterday, whittier h
had been to examine into the affairs Of tn
Sub Treasury in that city. The funds wcr
all correct.
| GENERAL GEORGE A. SHERIDAN, 'of Lou
isana.' has finished his series Of forty lecture
| in Indiana for the benefit Of the Morton monu
mcnt fund. The gross receipts amounted (
about s., 900. averaging so per night. Ate
a brief stay in Washington, General Sheridal
| will return to Now Orleans
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28

SENATOR DAVIS, of West Virginia, he of
the Mania for Treasury Figures, has called
upon Secretary SIBERIAN again for report
ofthealleged defalcations in the internal-rev-
enue service. This old Democratic game is
about exhausted for the people understand
after repeated explanations made every
year in answer to similar demands
that tho difference between the
amounts charged agaidst collectors of inter
nal revenue as 10 be collected and the
amounts collected, do not really show de
falcatiou. But Mr.. DAVIS has got the
fgurephobia very bad, and something must
be done to satiate his appetite, even If II
does cost the Government n thousand dol.
lars or so for extra clerk hire.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28

THE National Party has begun to segre-
Gate. Its first convention at Cleveland,
for the nomination of officers, broke up in q
row, and the thin veil with which the Com
munistic tendencies of its promoters were
concealed has been 80 torn as to expose their
demasogism. The truth is there is no
N,om for third party in this country just
ing organizations both stand ready to yield
70 any reasonable demand that the progress
Of the country may develop.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28
4STECONGRBSS.
Continued from First Ruge.l

strong partisan that he advocated the claim Of
Mr.. Dean.
He wanted to sustain law passed by Re-
publican Congress, and which he fought for.
He did not wish to fritter away that law.
Mr. BUTLER then proceeded to defend the
supervisors law, which WAS passed to preserve
the purity of elections, and IL he agreed with
the report Of the minority Of the committee he
would give his assent to their conclusion that
that law was unconstitutional. He commended
that the count of the supervisors was concu-
sive unless It was combatted by evidence of a
higher grade. He then went into the facts,
figures, and details of the case TO show that
Dean WIS elected.
Mr.. BUTLER's time having expired, Mr..
SPRINGER asked that it be extended.
Mr.. MCCOOK objected.
Mr.. SPRINGER claimed the right to yield
further as he was not bound to call the previ-
Gus question until he chose to do 50.
Mr.. BUTLER thanked Mr.. TcCooK for the
compliment he had paid him, for he regarded
his objection AS an evidence Of the strength Of
his argument.
Mr.. McCOOK insisted upon his objection,
and said he did SO because Mr.. BUTLER had
objected 10 his voting the other day, aud that
was the most ungracous objection that could
be made in the House.
The SPEAKER ruled that Mr.. BUTLER had
a right 10 proceed, and that gentleman went
9. ~ sno" .'o ,i..y " nu9I ~
o'ooD'nA' 1ne u, s"o .oIiu.'eo WIN uiAue ny
Ieo .' snas 'hey $50 upon tneoiy WHICH
jcctcd. In conclusion, he said he did not wisl,
49,, a,,.a ~. haa - 49,, ~ Ky Jas'
luuss oeoau'1 n1 n"I S,'toppou out y. NJ parry
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u,Nis,oh oi .ne So"mi'ce. Mr. CASpLEh-
VINO haa Sisheu tne InlnoIny report WIS re-
G2shiHeu as l,s-mindeu man all over the
iiouse, pu' nc eoInu NOV SAY As mucn ior the
soh'e ;n Hoh ILLINOIS mr. orhi IN, VINO
ne snu, ~ .he ulseuss'on " the case mao
snomeu i'"s nc VA el.her piInueu ny parry
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boIL5h, W sho" NO" tne count hau peeh con
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| tno nhiuayH on one k9uha thst tne hemoor'
oil tue nouse were Judges anu thAt new eVi
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28

Government; they are not themselves the
contract, but the authority to the'erec,tive
departments to enter into and execute one
with the companies. The mere franchises,
the delegated sovereign attributes, are sub
ject to such alteration, amendment, or repeal
as will not take away vested rights; and in
this view all the decisions Of the courts on
that point are reconciled. But, .hc holds,
the contract, made In pursuance Of the law,
cannot be repealed or modified without the
consent of both parties, so long as they are
not in default The inducements held ont
to do the work have been duly earned by
building the road and keeping Il ready for
Government use, and therefore the consid-
Grafton cannot be withheld or diminished.
The Senator very neatly turned the tables
upon his opponents, who contend for an I'M
limited power Of repeal, by showing to what
absurd conclusions they would lead; and he
closed by an eloquent and forcible appeal
for good faith toward these railroad compa-
MES.
Thus far the discussion bas Turned almos,
wholly upon the lecal aspects of the case.
The equities and policv will come I'M when
the substitute reportcd by the Railroad Com
mittee Is taken up II appears that the &C.
ton of Congress is urged at this time be.
cause II is apprehended that at some future
time, twenty wears hence, the companies
NAV be insolyent, or the property not be
sufficient to satisfy the mortgage, and some
admissions of the railroad officials, mad,
with view of bringing about a peaceful
arbitration, are cited in support of this plea
To those who know anything of the fact.
this is very slender ground Of action
Within the twenty-five years yet remaining
II will he competept for such company, b,
setting inside 81 600 600 annually (the sun
proposed in the railroad bill to accumulate
at seven or eight per cent. interest, a funt
of their own sufficient to meet these sub
sidy bonds ms thew mature and both board
of directors have authorized it to be done /
no adjustment can be reached with the Gov
eminent Senator HILL has shown tina
Congress cannot lawfully intervene. even
II were sure In lose the whole amount. unit
there has been default, a breach of tn
contract. and IL these eompanies can d.
} Voluntarily what thew pronose to do il tn
Rai,ro,d Co,,mittee hill 10 adonted mr. VIII,
tho Jud;c;arv Committee assumes thew IN,
easily do and s,i,I nav div;de,ds what nre
; text or excrss ia tbsre for comnulsorv legis
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28

THE Louisville fOurier-Journdl attributes
what it calls the "boorish character" of SEN
ator howEs speech to the fact that he was
horn in Maine. This is sad. How easy il
would have been for Mr.. HOWE to have been
born Kentucky horse-breeder, a Southern
slaye-driver, or Bourbon whisky distiller
Then he would have been a gentleman, and
possibly would have known enough to eat
ssrrapin in June. But he is n perverse chap
Mr.. HOWE is, and seems TO have preferred
the ''culchad East" as a birthplace, and the
wild, wild West" for a permanent resi-
dence.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28
PROPOSALS..


WAsHISgToS, ID. g, March Is 1873
SEALED PROPOSALS, IN DUPLICATE, TO RE
y endorsed "PropoSals for Lime. oil, &c. Hard.
ware, stationery. aud Pine Wood" will be received
for articles to be delivered the Navy Yard, WASH
ington D. q. free OF any expense 10 the Govern
ment, viz:
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING,
Articles embraced Ia Requsitions No. COS, So, 657
und CAS-, consisting Of Lime OIL, &C. Hardware, sta
be seen at this Office.
Each reputation will be awarded separately.
The right Is reserved to reject any all Of the Of
feIs not deemed advantageous to the Government.
Re-ponsible security required on the bids for the
prompt and faithful delivery OF the articles.
Blank forms for bids to be had ut this Office.
W. W. WILLIAMS,
Pay Inspector, United States Navy.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28

IT is sad to think that WHITAKER's rev.
enue defnlcation in New Orleans will be in.
vestigated for the benefit of the Democ.
nsey-particularly when it is known that
the heaviest alleged revenue delaultcr in
that locality was carpet-bagger from Ohio
and Democrat. This fact will, of course
be developed by the investigation in ques.
tiop,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28

THE quiet and subdued Washington cor
respondent OF the New Orleans Times, whose
reliability is only equaled by his dcmure
efforts never to alarm his readers with any
thing sensational, is authority for the state
ment that President HAYES is rewriting his
long promised message on Civil Service Re-
form, with view OF sending it to Congress.
This is certainly guarded statement. Per-
hsps the President might change his view,
end do it simply to amusc himself
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-28

Missouri is the leadiug Greenback State
Of the Union. Over a thousand Greenback
clubs are in fiourishing condition within her
limits, and the cry is still they come.
hessrs. BUCKNER, BLAND, and GLOVER, OF
the House, are consequently in full accord
with their constituents but thus far neither
one Of them has succeeded in formulating
any defnitiye measure in response to the
demands made upon them. They haven't
struck responsive chord, so to speak.