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The New York herald., 1879-10-09
MERRITT coMMENDs HIS OFFICERS AND THE
FORCES UNDER PAYNE AND DODGE.

MERRITT coMMENDs HIS OFFICERS AND THE
FORCES UNDER PAYNE AND DODGE
(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
RAwLrNs, Wy. r., Oct 8, 1870.
The mail brought last night by the mail car
rier from Snake River was not opened here
until late this morning 1t was found to con
tain official dispatches from General Merritt to
General Crook, in which Merritt describes his
march and the rescue of Paync's command.
Merritt's march was made in something more
than forty-eight hours over u country more
wrctchcdy dusty and uncomfortable than any
he had ever travelled. With but little to cat
and scarcely rest the troops uttered not "a
word of complaint, not even murmur The
command kept in sturdy spirits and nobly did
its duty to push forward for the relief of its
brothers in arms.
OFFICERS COMMENDED.
General Merritt especially commcnds Lieu
tenants Swift, Bishop and Meir for cheerful and
valuable assistance, and speaks highly of the
services of Colonel Compton and Major Sum
ner. Ic also speaks of Lieutenants Borke and
Schuyler, of General Crooks staff. US particu-
The New York herald., 1879-10-09

AN OFFICERS ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHT ANu
THE sIEGE-LIsr OF THE KILLED AND
WOUNDED.
The New York herald., 1879-10-09

of this guard and ON both tanks scouts were
Kept ranging to prevent surprise. Terrible as
the strain of the march was every one who
could endure it was willing to do 80, thinking Of
the worse plight of the little band which they
were their way TO save. =
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

work of torturlng, hanging, shooting and butch
ering TO death colored citizens of the United
States, whose only crime was Republicanlsni
then Dixon was earning tho title of the in.
trepid captain" then he was rendering the
gallant services" TO which tho robol Con-
gresham Singleton acknowledgment he owed
his election then he was the " the high
minded, honorable Southern gentleman :" then
hewas earning the service ofsilver inscribed ITO
the bravest of the brave :" then Dixon, Taylor,
Barksdale and the entire Democracy of Missls-
sippi were acting In perfect harmony in q
political campaign of fraud, violence and muir
der, which eliminated In 1875 in the over
throw of the 10000 Republican majority of
1872, thus placing the State and local govern
ments In the hands Of the unrepcntant rebels
OF 1851, and making Mississippi by-word aud
reproach in every land whore peace and JUS
tice are respected aud fraud and bloodshed are
held in abhorrence.
During all this timo no Democrat of Missis-
sippi ever raised his voice in condemnation of
the shotgun policy as pursued by Dixon and
his colleagues, for the manifest reason that
that policy was the cdict of tho Democratic
State Central Committee was advocated by
the Democratic press of the State and indorsed
by Singleton, Hooker, Chalmers and tho party
generally, as the only method by which tho
state government and Congressional delega-
ton could be transferred from the control of
loyal Republicans into that of rebel Demo
Gratis, who are as much opposed to tho Union
to-day as they were in 1861. The murder of
Dixon, in the house Of his former friends, and
the violent opposition to Independent move.
ments throughout the State generally cstab-
fishes two facts First-That there exists in
Mississippi determination on the part of the
Democracy to wipe out, by the shedding of
blood, If necessary any man orparty of mon
who dare have the tcmerity to oppose the
regular nominees of that party. Second
That thero exists widespread conspiracy to
deprive the colored race of their civil and po-
litcal liberties, aud that Notwithstanding all
our struggles in behalf of civil and political
liberty, the problem "What shall be the
status Of the colored race under this Govern
month" still remains unsoved.
NJ III .m
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27
POLITICAL AssAssiNArIoNs.

Life is becoming too cheap in this great
country of freedom, equality, justice and
law. Two prominent instances have oc-
CURED within as many weeks where citizens
have been ruthlessly shot down under po-
litical differences; and though the forms of
law may be respected we predict that
righteous judgment will not overtake either
of the murderers. In the Yazoo case the
murder WAS cowardly and successful.
In the San Francisco affair there is chance
for the victim to escape with his life, though
the act which came so near his taking of is
among the most brutal and cOwardly that
have blotted the annals of crime for years.
The Yazoo murder was after the Mississippi
plan-a shotgun loaded with deadly buck
shot-deliberate aim and certa in death to
the victim, thus taken at disadvantage. In
this case there will be no punishment for
this crime, for the reason that under low
order of civilization public sentiment de-
fends and justities such crimes,
The California affair is if possible, more
dastardly than that of Mississippi. The
real facts as they reach us do not afford any
relieving characteristics for the case. 1t
was deliberate and cowardly attempt at
murder, and the murderer has shown him
self to be the aggressive assassin through
out the entire affair. In the first place
DE YOUNG has q powerful newspaper, while
KALLocH has no such means of fertilization
or defense. Then DE Young assailed the
memory of the dead father of KALLoCH I;
and, as any son would do who is not q
degenerate offspring, KALLoCH retaliated
upon his fathers assailant rs he best could
without journalistic aid. lie took the ros-
trum and retailed to the public ear un-
pleasant events relating TO the annals of
the DE YOUNG family. This, which was
provoked, and which is defensible if any
such act can be defended under any
circumstances, greatly incensed the DE
YoUNGs, and one of the brothers took
and there, ensconced behind the closed
windows of the vehicle, attended by a
messenger boy picked up on the street,
went "a-gunning" for his victim thus armed
and concealed 1t appears that thus ac-
coutred and hidden from view, DE YOUNG
drove from place TO place until KALLoCH
was found in front of his residence, about to
enter buggy. Then, instead of alighting
from his coupe and confronting his victim
in manly way, DE YoUNG dispatched his
messenger to him with tho sneaking lie
that lady in the coupe wanted to see him.
KALLocH approached the coupe where DE
YOUNG was concealed, and was shot from
the ambuscade of the murderer who had
thus soughthis lifein manner known only
to the most arrant cowardico. This is
the tale in brief KALLocH may re-
cover. but his intended murderer should
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

10 The Editor of the National Republican.
SIR: As regards your editorial in refutation
of the aspersons of George w. Curtis upon the
State associations, l know from personal
knowledge that you are correct, and the many
hundreds Of men who have been connected
with the State Republican associations will con-
firm your views.
In view of the fact that so many mrepentaat
rebels, copperhoads, and Democrats are now
given the preference for the places in the De-
partmoits, l would like to know if our Re.
publican associations were disbandcd because
we are not in accord with the policy which
appoints such men. A few days ago / read an
old letter Of Judge Lyons. of Richmond, which
was written to President Buchanan. lie said
Your policy of appointing enemies to pisces
in the Departments will soon leave you with
out any friends outside and will assliredly de-
stroy the party to which you are indebted for
your advancement"
Mr.. Editor, are we, as Republicans, drifting
in the direction Of disintegration? If we
would avoid such fate we must throw over
board the Jonahs they are out of place on
board of Republican ship of state. 1t is
essential to concede something which will stop
the clamor of men whose help insured the tri-
umph of our party. No man of common sense
can find encouragement to vote a Republican
ticket when he has the knowledge that persons
who hare the portraits Of G,asrdls R. Z. Lee and
,StonelraH Jackson hanging in their pdrlOr receive
preferment to good Republicans and ex.Union
soldiers. In the next campaign let us have
Grant. He will force an unconditional sur
render" of the enemy. NJ.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27
GENERAL GRANTS POSITION.

The Philadelphia Times seems to have an
occasional lucid moment that it devotes to
politics. Recently, when one of these
periods was on, it gave uttorance to the fol-
lowing, which seems to partake more largely
of sound sense than is usual with its po-
litical fulminations:
Some of the party organs very much fear
that GRANT may be the next Republican can
didate for President but, as rule, they dare
not oppose his nomination. 1t is from that
class Of public journals that we hear about
once q month that GRANT won't be candi-
date for President, land that ho can't be per.
suaded to accept the office. True they have
never yet been able to extort from GRANT
anything like a positive decination of third
term, but they hear from him periodically in
all manner of roundabout ways, through some
friend in Washington or other political centre,
or they read between the lines some most
carefully.guarded utterance from GRANT, and
at once proceed to denounce all who don't
agree that GRANT has positively Withdrawn
himself from the Presidential race The peo.
pie, however, have long since learned to esti-
mate the teachings of party organs correctly,
and the GRANT campaign goes on all the same,
regardless OF the repeated declinations, visible
only to the organs which are in the interest OF
some other candidate who happens TO have
more patronage for immediate use than
GRANT has.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27
ID EdiIor of "a NalIonal RepNLIIran

To he Editor Of the National Republican
ITO the brayest Of the braye"- Ctt;ens Of Yaroo
"1he intrepid Captain Henry NJ, Dlxon."- Yasoo
city Herald.
"Henry NJ. Dixon Is considered 10 be good high
minded honorable genlleman.'-H 5. EyperSOH
hading laUyer and Democrat NJ ld=OJ CHy IN his
testimony bCiOre the Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections, 1915.
II owe my election to the gallant services of
Captain Henry NJ Dixon."-O r, Singleton, M O.,
Mississippi
Tho above are a few Of the many compli.
mcnts and honors paid to the late Captain
Henry NJ. Dixon by tho Democracy of Yazoo
in 1875 and 1876.
Then Dixon was tho noblest Democrat of
of them all then Dixon and his murderer,
Barksdale, were Co-labOrers in leading the
hosts of Yazoo Democracy in the campaign of
violence and murder against the Republicans
Of that county; then Captains II. NJ. Dixon
and II. l.. Taylor (the present sheriff were
leading their clubs ofarmed Democratic night
riders IN their incursions throughout tho
county, spreading terror and dismay among
the colored people, and driving colored men,
women and children from their lowy cabins
in the dead hours Of night, aud forcing them
to seek a refuge of comparative safety in the
swamps aud bayOus Of the YazoO river then
Dixon and his rae.clubs, were in the name Of
tho Democratic party, engaged in that hellish
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

not be allowed TO escape the Just
punishment of his crime If ever there
was case which would justify sum-
mary punishment at the hands of the
populace, this would seem to be of that
chorarter, There are no mitigating circum-
stances attendant upon the crime. The
assault upon KALLocH, through the
memory Of dead father, in the first in
stance, was most cruel aud indefensible,
and would seem to fully justify the retala-
tion in kind that followed ON the part of
the aggrieved. But the part subsequently
played by DE YOU'VE was so slSulking,
brutal and cowardly, that it awakens no
feeling of sympathy for the perpetrator, but
rather cxcitcs in its stead emotions of abhor-
renee. The sense of justice may be keener
and the rigors of the law sterncr in Cali
tornia than in Miss ss.ssippi, and Judgment
may overtalSe the bloody-handed man who
has outlawed public respect aud sympathy
and who is now only fit tenant for the
felon's cell during his natural life, should
his victim recover; but his escape is more
than probable.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

To the Editor of The National Republican:
SIR; If the distinguished school trustee of the
West End District really desires to avoid con.
tribution for grave-stones, by tho adoption of a
seml-pronounceable French name for one of
our school buildings, should it not appro-
priately be given to the one on the Paris plan
recently selected for his own neighborhood
Tho citizens of Capitol Hill would greatly
prefer an American name familiar to the peo-
Pile, endowed with incentives and inspirations,
illustrating the possibilities of the youth of our
own country and representing scholarly at
tainments, intellectual culture and grand and
benefceut achievements.
AS grateful recognition Of tho intellectual
treasures with which our language has been
adorned by the great photographer aud of til G
beautiful thoughts, bright visions and gloriou s
benofac tions daily brought to our schools and
our homes all over the land, through his cease
less labors and researches, l propose for the
Eastern school-hOuso the euphonious name of
" Webster" S. C. C.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27
PERSONAL.

Hos. w. N. SPRINGER, of Illinois, Is in the city.
DR. W, s. HARLAN has returned from Berkely
Springs
COMMISSIONER L. A. HAYT registered at WillGrds
yesterday.
GENERAL n. NJ. CURTIS, of New York, is quar-.
tered at Wizards.
Hos. B. Wilson, of West Virginia, registered at
the National yesterday,
JOsErH KIRKLAND, of Chicago, registered at the
Riggs House yesterday,
CHARLIE NYE IS making q great hit as a TEN.
perance talker out West.
Hon. GEORGE r. DAyIs of Chicago booked at the
Ebbitt House yesterday.
GOVERNOR john A. BURBANK, Of Indiana, has
rooms at the Ebbt House.
II. d. DAVIS and wife and j. NJ. Coleman and
Wife, Of Boston, are stopping at the Arlington.
Hon. II. Il. PAINE, Commissioner of Patents,
leaves this morning with his family TO spend u
month on the coast Ot Massachusetts,.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

we Democrats would like to see Senator Conlyllng
pitted against him. New Yorker against New
Yorker"
In 1876 General Rice and s. s. Cox both iudorsed
the supervisors law. Now General Rice takes oc.
Cnslon TO donounCo It,
NEW Republican daily paper has boon started
at Rockford called the DAILY Gdsctic. Mr.. Abraham
L. Smith is the publisher
THE Democratic managers who resort TO mob VIC
lenCe to drive opposing candidates from the field In
1azoo County, Miss, are the Bashi. Yazooks of
America.
EX-GOVERNOR Brown reports one.horse Hen
drickS boom In Tennessee. The Democrats of that
State have made up their minds, and will support
Hendricks.
SOME of the copper.clad Democrats Of Ohio are
chagrined TO find that General Ewing during the
war issued an order forbldding the circulation of
the Cincinnati Enquirer and Of other Democratic
newspapers in the region over which his military
authority extended.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

just such gaps made in the Greenback ar
gument by Republican orators. At another
meeting Colonel HARPER, avery rash Green
hacker, was so confident that Resumption
Is failure rs to offer n reward of 800 for
u single manufacturer in the State who had
paid his "hands" in gold Thereupon a
manufacturer got up and said that he had
paid his hands in gold for three months.
Buthe couldn't get HARPER to pay over the
promised money. 1t is evident from these
facts that the general-calamity theory is not
making very rapid progress in the Pine
Tree State.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

Now the statement has gone forth that
President HAYES subscribed 81 600 and
Secretary SHERMAN $500 to the so-called
CAssANAvE relief fund This is all right,
and we hope it is true. for the fund was
raised for the purpose of relieving Repub-
licans from the extortionate and NOR
cenary prosecutions of gang of Louis
lana bulldozers, and was used in paying a
proper party debt-one that had been in
CURED by the official representatives of
the party rs the result of their legitimate
attention to official duties. But how will
this statement be made to agree with pre-
vious declarations from similar sources that
the President and Secretary SHERMAN were
so stingy that they refused to subscribe a
single cent ?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

ANorHER Democratic ylctory-the murder of
Dixon.
THE Minnesota Democratic Convention will bo
held September 2j
THAT'S healthy case Of political lockjaw which
Senator Lamar has.
JgFT DAVIS is now pronounced IN the South "Mls.
slsslppls great aud fearless hYorlte,'
JoHE G. THOMPSON being interviewed by Tribune
reporter, says; II Mr. Tiden should be nominated
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

THE campaign up in Maine has been at
tended by some very curious and not alto
gether reputable proceedings on the part of
the Greenbacllers. At one meeting Re-
publican speaker denied the existence Of
hard times and general calamity as de-
picted by the Opposition, and told his audi
enco that if any decent man among them
was ont of work he would furnish him en-
ployment. Two men presented themselves
and were engaged to work at Sl.5O day.
They did not appear to take the work, how
ever and inquiry showed that they were
already hired by the Greenbackers to fill
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

THE Democratic newspapers are appar-
emily frightened ut a bugaboo of their own
production. They claim to believe that the
Republicans intend, somehow or another
exactly how they do not stop to explain-to
impose an educational and property quail
licaton for suffrage upon the people. They
know that such restrictive measure would
destroy their party root and branch in the
North and seriously damage it in the South
where the blacks are rapidly becoming the
equals, if they are not already the superiors
of the "poor white trash in those qualif-
cations. But they can rest easy. The Re-
publican party, as n party, has never seri-
ously entertained any idea Of the kind. 1t
is essentially the party of progress and of
equal rights.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

THE Jacksonville (Fla.) Sun and Press
still carries the names of GRANT and SET
TIE at its masthead as its ticket for 1850,
despite General GRANTS declination. And
the people carry General GRANTS name in
their hearts just the same, also despite his
refusal of Third Term
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

If the Honest-debt payers in Virginia
succeed at the elections this year. they will
do it only through the aid of Republican
votes. The sham Conservative party is
about equally divided on this question, and
the State can only be rescued from practical
reputation by the means indicated.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

PoUGHKEEPsIE now struggles to the front
claiming notoriety because novel labor
strike has occurred within its limits. 1t
seems that two or three hundred women,
engaged in bottomiug cane-seat chairs in
that city, have quit work and demand
higher wages. Come to think of it, this
kind of striking is not so novel after all, as
many children who have been struck in the
spanking process Of inlantile discipline will
be able to testify. 1t is true, however, that
this latter class of bottomers do not work
for mercenary wages.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

OLD man TrLDEN is q paralytic, an i'm
beetle and all that sort of thing, according
TO Boss KELLY and his horde of Tammany
savages. But meanwhile the Cipher Ogre
is looking around for fresh FIELDS and
pastures new," wherein to replenish his
bar'l. And his success is such as to indi-
safe that he is very lively old idiot.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

DE YoUYG proved himself to be regu-
lar Blk" There was nothing Honorable"
about the manner in which he decoyed
Priest KALLocH into range of his pistol.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

CYRUS w. FIELDS late raid on TILDEN
will do the latter no harm. 1t only results
in advertising the fact that the bar'l has
been replenished.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

-tBoston 'Traycller.1

The Wallace Committee came good ways, con-
sumed much valuable time and only proved that
Edward ]. Howard, a Republican, is better quail
fed for registrar of voters than Michael Carney,
Democrat This Is the result Of the coffee pot in.
Visitation in Boston. in a nutshell.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

IT is remarked that bull-dozing -four
ishes in the South upon very little encour-
agement, such, for instance, as the knowl-
edge that it will be defended and its bloody
murders excused by the stumptail Demo-
cratic organs in the North. But this is
mistake. The bull-dozers go ahead on their
own account, regardless of the opinions of
these organs, all of which rush to their de-
Tense under the inspiration of trucking,
mudsill devotion to the Southern Chvalry.
In the eyes of these sycophants a Southern
Democrat can do no wrong.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27
IMUSEM EN7,S.


fine performance is offered to the patrons of
of the Comique this week. The variety en-
tertainmcnt is bright and new, and the regular
company appear in n series of very funny sketches
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27
Good All Over the Country.

[Cinclnnau Commercial1
Republican principles, like the dollars of the
daddics, are good ali over the country but Demo-
cratic principles, like the old wild cat" money of
the States, depend upon locality for circulation.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27
Pestiience and Shotgun United.

luke p Blackburn, of Kentucky, and James A.
BaSksdale of Yazoo City, would make n good
PreNdential ticket for the Democracy in 1850.
PcstiNnce and shotguns should be united.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

TT was a part of the agreement with
BARKsDALE that in return for his nomina-
tion for chancery clerk he should drive Cap
tain DIXON out of Yazoo County. 1t is
true he kept his contract so far as to rid
the county of DIxoN's personal presence
but so long as the grass grows over his
grave, the moral presence of his untimely
taking Off will remain to plague his assas-
sins with constantly renewed assurance
that murder is accounted as a legitimate
incident of political bargaining in the
highly cultivated Southern State of Missis-
sippi.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

Port Gibson (Mss) Revele tDem.O
The Democratic party is unfit to rule fifty mil
lions of people If 1t has not the sci-imposed re.
straining power to curb and control its own wild
passions.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

A FEW days ago an alleged newspaper of
this city made so-called splurge over the
BARKsDALE-DIXoN affair and with ac-
customed characteristic enterprise "ex-
"hausted the subject at one fell swoop.
Among other things it published the state
ment that Major DIXON, the father of
BARKsDALE's victim, died with impreca-
tions against personal enemy-his muir
derer, in fact-upon his lips. Now comes q
friend of Major DIXON to say that this
statement is q falsehood, and to explain
that his last words were charac terized by a
spirit of Christian resignation and forgive
ness We submit that this display of facts
exposes a condition of affairs nearer home
than San Francisco wherein the same spirit
that led to the DE YoUNG-KALLoCH afrray
is most deplorably illustrated.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-27

[Nicksburg IIerald.l
Look out, neighbor. Those best citizens" of
Yazoo bull-dozo newspapers as well as candidates.
We have had dose 1t may be your time next.