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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-07

The Niobrara Pioneer has reached Q con
cluslon which is none the worse for coming
so late in the day, It runs az. follows and
is worth considering:
There is 9 work that Yankton, Bon HON.
me, Springfield and Niobrara can cooperate
in, we believe, and aid materially to advance
each Of our lntsrests-unitfng in inducing
the Chicago. Milwaukee d st. Paul rail.
road to come this way. Niohrara and the
other points named could aid the road con.
siderabIY il proper organization was effect.
ed, and 1t 10 suggested that an alliance be
the order of the day. To benefit all these
points. o to encourage the growth Of the
new west that ia teeming with settlements,
1t is better that we sacrifice q little than to
play the whole hog and come out Of the pen
with 10 hog at all.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-07
THE. DAKOTA INDIANS.
Their Division Into Bands, Their Ian,
guaSos Religion and Dances.
CORRESPONDENCE Chicapo Time.

Their Division Into BAnds, Their Ian.
guaEes RelfEien and Dances.
Correspondence Chicago Times.
So much for the territory actual and sup.
posltltious at the disposal of the Dakotas.
Now what of the nation per se?
The thousands Of Indians enumerated
above, and known to the generality Of peo-
pie as Sioux" do not recognize that name.
and haye no idea of its application or mean
ing. They call themselves "Dakotas" on
the north and east of the Missouri river,
and "Lakotas"" on the south and west. The
word Sioux" originated either in an abre-
Walton of the old Algonquin term made
sioux, meaning "the enemy" or in . corrup-
ton of the French words al de sus, mean-
ing beyond" or, literally, "those further
SOUTH" Ethnologists are divided In opin-
ion which is the original OF the term now
10 use. Dakota" signifies friends" or al.
lied tribes" and the race grouped under this
title is at present divided into the following
principal bands: The Ogalsllss. .'those
who had ashes thrown in their eyes ~ polit.
ical chief, Red Cloud; soldier chief Young
Man Afraid of His Horses. This letter
barvc, now AZ years Old, is son and successor
of Old Man Afraid of His Horses, who was
formerly soldier chief of both the Red
Cloud and Spotted Tail Sioux, and who vet,
though past 20, possesses more influences
than any man of his nation.
The Brules "those who live In the burned
woods; )" political and soldier chief, Spotted
Tail. or Sintee Galisks.
The Minneconjous, "those whs plan,
corn BY the waters" political and soldier
chief, No Heart, Chaunte1W au.ni.che.
The Yanktons.
The Ysnktonais. A large portion of these
latter are with Sitting Bull, or scattered
among the different agencies, and are With
out any chief of positive prominence.
The nation In former days was all know
as Ocetl Sakowin, or The Seven Council
Fires" because prior to the advent Of til,
whites this division prevailed:
l. The observation-disclosures or Village q
The Spirit Lake.
.. The Wsbpekutes or l~eaf.shooters.
8. The Wa~hpetonwans, OF village NTH
leaves, socalled because the tribe lived n
the woods.
4. The slstonwans or the village of th
marsh.
These were oil Nississippieriver or Mia
nesota Iadians.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-07

Gen. Hammond has suddenly walked uE
in Chicago to find himself great. He wa.
walked by a newspaper reporter who want
ed to interview him. As usual. Hammond
was reticent, but he managed to cay 81
much with nothing in it while In. that tact
turn condition as to lead to the hope tina
he may never become voluble in his re-
marks while In the presence of the scribe,
of the metropolis. He was asked 10 give
his opinion regarding the Schurz Sheridan
controversy, and decided that both those
individuals had done themselves injustice
On the transfer subject he was mum. L
was in regard to a recent trip he has made
from Red Cloud to Sidney that the foot
gates of language broke loose and the gen
eral gave the public to understand that i
was . most terrible tramp. Hsmnond hsa
made himself great enough to be sought out
as the subjecto of an interview by instituting
scandal against his fellow creatures-by
charging them with crimes he has failed to
prove and which he never can prove. Of
seven men. holding responsible appoint,
ments a!oneBthe Missouri river, whom he
has gone among like . sneak thief by night
and robbed of their regulations, five have
been investigated by competent legal au.
thority and found to be guiltless. The ca.
ses Of the other two are pending and will
be decided in the spring. Yet Hammond
remains as great q man as though his de.
velopments had not proved IN ignominious
failure. He is interviewed, and the public
dwells upon his u~tterances a. it would If
they were not the sayings of . sycophant
whose steppinglstone to glory is the ruin
he has wrought. He is now bound for
Washington to tell what be knows about
corruption and 1t is safe "a coy that he
knows more about it than he will ever tell.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-07

The Sheldon Mail states that 1t has in.
formation from q party who has been en-
ployed on the work that the extension west
from Pattersonville Of the Chicago. MIL.
waukee & ST. Paul railroad will begin with
out delay. The problem - to the ultimate
direction of this road will then be solved.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-07

TheEosnnisaisinidA As Investigation Of
the charges broqgb sgaiast Gepsra1 Rene
in connection with his conduct at the, battle
in which General Custer va killed VILE
meet in Chicago on the 18th.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-07

Alonzo Garcelon, = democrat, 'was elected
governor of Maine by the legislature on the
Sd inst. He had the smallest number Of
political hackers of either of the three can.
didates before the joint convention, but to
prevent the election of . greenbacker the
republicans joined with the democrats and
gave their man a majority.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-07

grimage, they sacrifice moro frequently to
the bad than the Great Spirit hoping thus
to avert harm, and they recognise rulers
who have dominion over the north, the
south, the east, the west, the woods, the prai
RE, the air and waters. Heyoka, the anti
natural god, goes naked in winter and wraps
himself with buffalo skins in summer, and
the little hills of the prairie are known q
Heyokati, or the houses Of Heyoka. Wosi.
va sways the north wind, and blows cold
out of his mouth. C%anotidan, an unknown
animal resembling man, bears the secptre of
the forest, and the giant Unktehi has the
waters and the floods for his empire.
The religious and social rights of these
people take almost exclusively the form of
feasts and dances. 1wakicpi, or the scalp
dance, follows the bringing home of the
scalps of enemies. A circle il formed, on
side of which range the younsxa men,
with bodies paintad, feathers ID their hair,
and the rattles in their hands. Opposite
them the young women display the CHASTITY
trophies of the combat stretched on hoops,
and the fcene takes an aspect unique for
it, savasery. What with choruses and yells
the night passes, only to come again and see
the Observance renewed and re-reneWed
through weeks and sometimes months.
Wakanwacipi is the great sacred dance Of
secret society, which has q medicine sack
filled with claws and beads az is BADGE Of
Membership. The night previous to q lodge
session the high priests spend in heating
stones, sweating, singing and commuuing
with the spirit world. Those who are mem
bers appear in their best attire, gaily paint
ed, and drum, sing, and dance together.
When q person 10 initiated he is shot BY
beads or claws from q medicine bag, md Is
supposed thereafter to be dead until the mis-
siie il extracted and the master of the 60
ciety bids him live again.
The Omaha dance IL participated in BY
the bucks, has no features of interest, unless
t%om.toming and bowling are such, and ia
made the occasion of throwing away or ex.
changing wivea. horses OF other property.
The annual sun dance, for the growing Of
grass, is the great event Of the year. The
whole tribe turns out, the young braves cut
beneath the tendons Of their wrists and a.
low themselves to be hung up thereby to
show Their constancy and pluck, and the
head men perform the religious ceremony
of piercing the earl Of the children fol
rings.
But the most curious Of all these pow.
vows is the virgin dance, 4 f~estivity in
which maidens alone are permitted to Join
Before the assembled tribe the fair vestall
gather about . sort Of May-pele, and, q.
they, go singing by, tap it with their left
hand. At this momen it becomes the
boanden duty Of each brave to expose any
one whom he knows from personal experf
ence TO have wrongfnlly touched the sacret
wood, and It 10 told of one squaw, nov
mothers Of Turtle Dove and Sineins.Bird
the bellies Of the Ogalallas, that . score Q
years since, whom she attenptsd 70 1,
through this ordeal, NO less than twenty.
two bucks stepped TO the front and deposs,
: that the was mo better than she our ht I
he"
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-07
Several Of the states will elect United
States senators tomorrow.

A wtnhepey telssfsm Of 10 81 instant
gives . startling weather report. At Bat
tleford, the capital of the northwest terri.
tory. the thermometer recorded sixty tslow
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

W. have enjoyed the blessing Of free
trade now for some thirty years, remarks a
writer in the Pail Mall Gazette. "Wc are
undcrsold in oar own markets in corn and
iron. Thcvcry envelope this gocsinis French
Americas runniDgas hard in cotton, and
may shortly do so in woolcn and worstcd
and beef and mutton; and Notwithstanding
all our purchasing in the cheapest markets,
laborers are locked out, looms are standing
furnaces are out Of blast, and rents are fall
ing, and there is no market 10 sell our goods
in. There must be a cause for all this if n
man might find it out. 1t is possible that
we have been mistaken all the while, and
that what we are pleased to call free tradmay
not he the universal cure it has been long
believed to be-
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

IL connection with our increased and in
crcasing Foreign trade are many facts dis.
agreeable To hear and hard to understand.
One of them is that most of that trade is
carried on in Foreign ships. Another is
that while we have but Il slight direct trade
with South American countries, large guam
titles Of our goods find their way there in
English vessels, first going 10 England in
English ships and then to their final dcsti-
nation in other English ships. They thus
pay treble profit to Foreigners; and thus,
of course, reduce The legitimate profits of
the American manufacturer; reduce the
wages Of our mechanics or factory employees
This is wrong and unnecessary. Congress
out to remedy it. There is no lack of en-
crgy, enterprise or capital in America. a
single line of American steamers is run to a
BRAZILIAN port, aided by money paid by the
Brazilian government But it cannot com
pete with the heavily subsidized British
lines, at least not until trade is fully es-
tablishcd and the consumers are made To
understand that they can procure the articles
they desire as chcaply in that way as in any
other II this were new contest, ON equal
terms, between our producers, traders and
shippers, and the like classes in England or
elsewhere, we should have no fear as to the
result. But it is not. 1t is new and, so
far, unaidcd attempt to compete with an cs
abolished and subsidized trade. As already
stated it is for congress to do something, if
it properly can, to give the American manu-.
tactayer trader and vcss, owner chance
for this trade
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

We agree with our contemporary Of the
Alton Democrat, that Wendell Phillips is
the old granny in our national political
drama. His vast Earning and wonderful
cloqucncc have never yet been utilized in
the support of rny good cause. As an anti
slavery agitator he has received more credit
than he really deswcd, 1t was such men
as Chase, and Greeley, and Julian, and Lin
coin, and Sumner, who first created, then
shapcdand moulded public sentiments in the
North on that question. Philips was more
OF distugber than m organizer or an ch'cc-
tive worker, and cNospcratcd instead Of
convincing the public mind, lie is now
foremost in advocating al the wild schemes
of the party builders and platform makers
but without such Elective allies he occu-
pies the same relative position toward the
public as did the ily to the cart wheel.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

CYRUS w. FtalD is about to spend few
thousand dollars Of his surplus cash in the
erection OF monument on American soil
to the memory Of the British spy, Major
Andre, who was hanged by order OF Gcner.
nj Washington. What there is in the life
OF death Of Major Andrew that earns this
t.ibute from an American citizen, il is diff.
cult to divine. Andre failed in an under
hand effort to secure possession of point
OF great strategic value to the struggling
American forces and lost his life ON the
gallows, pleading that he might he shot.
We are unwilling to distrust either the jus,
tice or judgment Of Washington, and can
not, therefore, work up any sympathy for
Andre. If Mr.. Field feels that he must
erect a monument to somebody, he can dad
the graves Of scores OF American heroes,
that are unmarked by either shaft or slab.
The grave Of General Harrison for instance,
remains unmarked by a single evidence of
u nations gratitude. Ii is the memory OF
a SPY he wishes to pcrpctuate, he needn't
leave New York fora deserving object The
very spot where the American spy, Nathan
Hale was hanged under the order of the
British General Howe, can be pointed ont
to him;and this brave patriot died, not like
Andre, thinking Of himself but like the
pario, he was, regrctting that he had only
one life to lose in cause so glorious as
that OF his country. Here Is an opening for
Mr. Fields money, since he is in the monu-
ment way, that viii warrant the cxpcndi-
Iuyc, and do justice to the long neglected
and almost forgotten Nathan Hale. A
monument TO Andre, would reflect upon the
justice Of Washington, and no true Amcri-
can can contemplate such a thing without
giving way TO II feeling Of renon,trancc
anu certain degree Of resentment
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

TnEREwa, piece Of yillaihy concealed
in the rubbish Of liurnsde's newy army
bill that the Chicago Tribune dug out and
denounced in very bciltting terms 1t was
nothing less than proviso that the govern.
mcnt should surrender all right to manu-.
fac .ure It's 5wn arm. and munitions of war.
This would have thrown the work into the
hands OF the Ancsca Of the country who
during the rebellion, charged the govern
mcnt Sll5 piece for riilcd muskc,s tia,
cost less than SEQ, and SCI for revolver,
that cost less Than 3d. The incorporation
Of such proviso in the bill was for am,cal
~ purpose. and had i passed withou, ia,
criticism it Is receiving, the government
would, In 30 far Us the procurement VI Il
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

CERTAIN New York ministers are wagino
foolish wareiare against Sunday papers
but havnt word of rcmonstrance against
the Monday papers which they read with
the kccncst relish. When we remark that
the work OF the wicked Sunday paper is
performed on Saturday, and that the work
upon the entirely unoGjectionablc Monday
paper is performed on Sunday, anybody can
see the justice Of the warfare, and the in
sight into the interior operations Of print
ing offices that has been gained hy these
carping preachers.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

MoNcAsI, the assassin, who attempted
the life Of King Alfonso of Spain is to be
executed unless the kim himself shall in
terposa royal clemcncy in his behalf, 1t
is to be hoped that the King will not exer-
else his royal prcrogativc in this matter
Such fanatics as Moncasi do more 70 keep
alive the seyvilc spirit OF monarchy in Eu-
rope then any other agency possibly can,
and the greater the penalty inflicted the
better for Republican Ideas and principles.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03
IT has stood as an accepted fact for man

IT has stood as an accepted fact for many
years, that Charley Farwell is one of the
best poker players in the state Of Illinois,
II the pending senatorial contest were u
game of "draw," Logan and ogIcsby would
not put up q single chip" But the strug-
gle has become game at the playing of
which both Logan aud Oglcsby are adopts
"a game in which political strength and
strategy both count as, aces. Both these
cards are in the hands of Logan, and we
are not sure that Il prcpondcrancc of brains
and personal popularity will not secure him
possession OF the other two, or the best
hand in the senatorial deck
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

The Government authorities are trying
the adsptabi.ities Of the electric light
says the London Iron, "ior the illumination
of large workshops by some experiment at
the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. A new car.
penter's shop has recently been erected at
the Royal Laboratory yard, and. pending
the provision ofgas filings, single electric
lamp has been hung from the roof and by
Ito light men have been making Shot boxes
for week past. 1t is found that the lamp
furnishes good light to work by for fifty
feet ia every direction and that for work
shops where the roof is high and the space
unobstrac,ed the electric light is suitable
and pleasant
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

GENERAL MuM, Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue, has decided that lloscttcr's
famous Stomach Biiters may be sold, as
other medicinal preparations are sold, with
keepers sell the bit,ers by the glass, cuts no
figure in the case The commissioner
closes by saying that "ihc ruling Of this of.
fee, contained in the letter to Collector
Carroll, Of October Q, 1878, so far as it re.
hates to Hos,cttcrs Stomach Bi;tcrs. is here.
by revoked" Dealers in the bittcrs are,
Therefore, requested TO take notice that thcy
arc not required TO cover their sales by T.
liquor or amy other spccia! license.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03
WOMAN's INHUMANITYTO WOMAN


Next in the savugcry of It's barbarity TO
the burning Of the brace of horse thiaycsin
Nebraska, IL the conduct Of mob Of Alpma
(Mich.) villagers, in driving Anna Leroy, a
cwd woman, out into the prairie, in he
deep snow, to freeze and die. Years be-
fore, she had become the victim of iii
lain's wilcs but was not so far down the
road to damuution that Christian hands
might not have reached out and saved her.
But, instead OF pity and torbcarance, the
Alpcnians gave her curses and blows. H.
stead Of trying the efficacy Of good WORDS
and kind treatment, the pious souls Of A.
pena turned aside, appalled, ut her wicked
ness, and permitted the bowling mob TO la}
violent hands upon her, and hurry her of II
certain death While all this was being
doac, who knows that the villain who
brought Anna Leroy to dampltioa's door
was not then the courtcd and peitcd ohiecj
Of Alpcnas highest social circIesi
The woman, the victim, !, stoned and petit
ed out Of the village into the trackless prai
ric to die; while the man, the yiltim;zcr, i
welcomed to The c0rpe'ed p0ors and holi
day tables of the very people who were ,il-
less enough to east stones at the womm'
The injustice, the mthinking, blind, cr,el
Dissemination in all this is 50 palpablc, that
we may well marvel that the women Of the
country, who are the sufferers, DO not rise
up as il moved by one common impuif,
and put stop TO it, But, unjust and baf-
barous rs such Determinations are, fot the
public sentiment that tolcrates and cncohr-
ages them, the women Of the country Ore,
in the main, responsible. The man that fills
by the way side through misfortune or ha-
bits Of dissipation, finds in the words md
deeds Of his fellow men, encouragement to
again assert himself, and be q man; but dc
woman who falls, through the wills and Nj
Miny Of man, finds her most cruel aid
relentless foes and prosecutors amoig
those Of her own scX--tie
hand Of the so.called good and yiituous are
extended, not to lift her up from degrl.
dation and misery; but to push her down.
The door Of eycryrcspectablr home is co$d
against her; and let her repent and do pea
ance as she may, the hearts Of her sex an
sealed against her, and she is thus forced
however much it be against every impuif
Of her nature, to seek food and shelter ana
sympathy among those even lower in tle
scale Of humanity tlan herself.
These are, we know, quite old and thread
bare pautudcs; but they cannot, We think,
be impressed too often upon the minds and
hearts OF our Christian wives, and mothers
and daughters There is apublic Scntiman
to be corrected, Il great wrong to be righted,
and neither will be done until the women
Of the land say it shall be done II is cs-
pecialIv the mission of the women to work
out the reform and surely the woe, the
misery, tn, damnation of sou, and body to
which it is impossible to close our eyes, in,
vitc speedy commencement. The harvest
is ready; let the rcapcrs put in their sickles.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

HAVE You Dyspepsia, are you Constipa
ted, have you Yellow skin, Loss of Appe.
titc, Head Ache, il SO don't fail to use Shi.
loh's System Vitaizer. 1t guaranteed to
relieve YOU, and will You continue to suffer
when you can be cured on such terms rs
these. Price 10 cents, and IS cents, Sold by
Barclay Brothers.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

arms and ammunition was involved, have
been tied. hand and foot and handed over
TO the mercy of constituencies New England
ams-makcrs.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

YOU MUsr CuRt THAT CouGu--W With
Shilohs Consumption Cure you can cure
yourself. 1t has established the tact that
Consumption can be cured. while for Coughs
Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Asthma,and
all diseases OF Throat and Lungs, it is abso
lutely without an equal, Two doses will re.
lieve your child Of Group, it pleasant to
take and perfectly harmless 10 the youngest
child, and no mother can cllord to be with
ont it, You can use two thirds Of bottle
and if what we say is not true We will re.
fund the price paid, Price 10 cts, 50 cts
and $l0O per bottle. If your Lungs are
sore or chest or back lame use Shioh's Por.
Gus Plaster. Sold by Barclay Brothers,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

llOSTs OF PEOPLE ARE MARTYRS to
sick headache, that infaliibc symptom of
"A disordrred stomach, liver and bowels.
Many suffer from it as many as three or
four times q week. They do so needessly,
for llostcttcr's Stomach Btters, by tonng
the digestive organs and regulating the
bowel, and liver, removes the cause, and
dispeIs the painful symptom. The intimate
sympathy between the BRAIN and the aldo
minal region causes the slightest disorder
affecting the latter to be reflected, as il were,
in the organ OF thought. The reform insti-
tutcd by the Bitters when the digestive,
sccrec,iyc and eyacuativc functions are in a
state Of chaos, has other and more beneficial
results, viz, the complete nutrition Of the
whole phy zeal economy, the restoration OF
appetite and iepose, and an increase in the
power Of the system to resist diseases Of a
malarial type.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03

Coal. CoAI.--F. NJ. Ward has on hand
the best quality Of coal for sale at the mar
kct price. Very low. lie will soon have
II large stock of wood OF all kinds. lie is
well known to every body and we ,rus,
he will receive his full share of ~.
,rOnagc.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-03
NJ. Ii. tIarrcll. Editor.

OFFICIAL PAPER or ALEXANDER COUNTY.