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Year: 1868

West.


We published on Thursday special Omaha
despatch to the st. Louis Democrat asserting
Indian goods are suppressing authentic reports
of Indian troubles in the West. The same
despatch details number of atrocities COM
mitted by the Indians. Without repeating these
shocking details, it will suffice to say that they
presage terrible revival of the intermittent
Indian war which has already exhausted 80
much treasure and so many lives. On Wednes-
day the Secretary of the Interior sent to the
House of Representatives a communication
from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
expressing his apprehensions that unless imme-
diate action is taken by Congress upon the esti-
mates referred to in the Office reports Of the
Goth and 2lst of February last, as requisite in
order that the faith of the government and the
promises of the Indian Peace Commissioners
be kept good, renewal of the troubles of last
summer must be expected. The Commissioner
adds that the result of failure to redeem
these promises will be an almost s'endless war.
which will cost millions Of dollars to suppress,
and to avoid which thousands only are asked"
He says moreover Eff we are to have
another Indian war this SKINNER do not wish
the country at large to think it was caused
or brought about by the management of affairs
in this office; and after the urgent requests
that have been made for funds and the state
ments that have been made in regard to the
matter this bureau certainly cannot be held
responsible for any acts of hostility or depre-
dation that may be committed by the Indians"
The probability of such acts is evidently antici-
pated by the bureau. I


1t surely behooves Congress to give immedi-
Indian Affairs. Why should not the Commit
tee on Indian Affairs at once consult with
General Sherman, who was one of the Peace
Commissioners last year, as to the appropiia-
tions requisite and the measures to be adopted
to prevent 80 horrible calamity as q
revival of the Indian troubles in the West? It
is manifest that Kaufmanns fine picture repre-
senting the attempts of Indians to tear up the
rails of the great Pacific Railroad is actually
as well as artistically true westward the
course of empire takes its way" but the
Indian, ignorant as he is of the irresistible
forces of manifest destiny against which he
contends, is not so ignorant as to be unaware
that the railroad, with it's train of civilizing
Influences, will drive away the game on which
he subsists and cover the Plains with q thriving
white population which will overwhelm and
annhilate him. Hence his fierce opposition to
tho onword march of civiizatiOn Rut Arm
and prompt measures must at once be decided
upon by Congress to put an end to the unavail-
ing but annoying resistance Of the savage
Indians to the progress Of civilization. Either
war of determination must be vigorously
waged against them or treaties must be made
and enforced which will secure their removal
to hunting grounds beyond the reach of white
intruders, with the steam engine and other
adjuncts Of civilization.
Year: 1868

The attempted assassination Of the most
popular member Of The royal family of England,
during his visit TO Australia, has naturally
thrown the British nation into state OF great
excitement, especially as the would-be assassin
il said to be connected with the Fenian organi-
ration. II appears that his Royal Highness
was shot in the back on the 18th Of March at
Sydney by an Irishmau named Farrell, and
that although the ball was not extracted from
the wound until two days afterwards, yet there
were well grounded hopes Of bis ultimate re-
covery. The wounded prince was conveyed on
hoard of his frigatc, and, in compliance with
the advice of his physician, sailed for England.
Prince Alfred il about twenty -four years OF age
and has always been considered the highest
ornament OF Queen victoria's family, being ac-
credited with far more intelligence, generous
impulses and good sense than his elder brother,
the heir apparent TO the throne Of England.
His ''eailor boy spirit and of-hand manners--
hebeing devoted to the navy from his boyhood-
also made him general favorite. He was
raised 10 the rank Of captain in the royal navy
and placed in command Of the steam frigate
Galatea, In which he started on his present
cruise. The details of this cruise ore very in
teresting. His visit to Rio Janeiro and grand
reception by the Emperor Of Brazil are fresh in
the recolections Of our readers. AT the Cape
Of Good Hope he made short stay and went
on an elephant hunt, during which he had the
qualification Of ''bagging" some game Of this
description His reception in Australia and
New Zealand has been cordial and enthusiastic
Year: 1868

Advertisers should bear in mind that in order
to insure the proper classification OF their business
announcements, all advertisements for insertion in
the HERALD should be left at the counting room by
haifpast eight O'Clock p. NJ
Year: 1868

The verdict Of the coroner's jury in the case
OF one of the victims Of the Erie Railway dis


astcr near Port Jervis conveys no censure of
the company or lie officials, though surely some
culpabiiiy must attach somewhere for this
fearful slaughter. The jury simply expresses
an opinion that the train was running at the
rate Of thirty miles an hour round those dan
gerous curves in the valley OF the Delaware.
Year: 1868

The editor of the Griffin Star, after paying
visit to Upson county, gives the following
account Of great natural curiosity Of Geor-
gia:


The first grand point Of interest was the
famous LAUNDERING Springs, located in the
northern part Of the county, about twelve
miles from Thomaston. We expected to
find quite curiosity, but were completely
amazed to find so remarkable freak of
mother nature as this spring. 1t is located
in tho widest part of the mountain, extend
ing through the county, and there is in the
solitude of the wilderness present amost re-
markable phenomenon. The dimensions of
the spring proper are about five feet in d.
ameter, and Of On unknown depth, for ex-
perimenters have repeatedly sounded its
depth in vain,, and no bottom can be reach.
ed. The water boils up with great force
bubbles of gas constantly rise up through
the water, and explode atthe surface. This
gas is highly combustible, and is frequently
set on fire as it makes its escape. Such is
the force with which the water rises that a
human body cannot sink, but is buoyed up
in standing position. 1t isa famous bath
ing place, and we took the first opportunity
to plunge into this bottOmless we'll. There
we could stand uprightfor hours, with moth
ing to support US but water. The earth
around the spring is beautiful white sand,
of very fine grain, giving away readily at
the touch Of the foot, but Immediately re-
forming as before. The walls of the vel!
are perfectly symmetrical, as if dug by the
hands of man. As low down as we could
reach with our foot, we could kick hole
in the wall, and as soon as the foot was re-
moved the wall would Immediately reform
as before. The temperature is delightful,
and the waters are invaluable, especially for
diseases Of the skin and blood. The spring
constantly makes low rumbling noise, from
which it derives its name.
Year: 1868

DALLARD HOTEL.


This elegant establishment is open to accom-
mediation of the public. The building is one OF


THE FINEST IN THE CITY
and for STYLE convenience and beauty Of ar
rangement, is acknowledged to be superior.


ITS FURNITURE
is new and complete, and for cleanliness, it is
prover1ial.
The subscriber, after more than twenty years
experience in the business, thinks he risks
nothing in saying that this Hotel shall, in every
rnsOect be
Year: 1868

reflect that soundmi and body are the l',ost
necessary requisites to promote connubial hap
piness. Indeed, without these the journey
through lie becomes q weary pilgrimage; the
prospc ct hourly darkens to the Wow, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness q
another becomes blighted with your own.
Year: 1868

A STAINLESS HoUsE.-There is
now building in a business quarter of
Paris an experimental house, which
if successful-and there seems to be
no reason why it should not be 40
will serve as a model for similar
structures in other great cities, where
the value of land is very high and
tho economy Of space of vital impor-
tancc. Tho chief novelty in this
house is tho absence of any staircase,
tho place of that hitherto necessary
means of access being supplied by
hydraulic elevator, ascending and
dcccnding noiselcssly every minute.
BY means Of this the dodgers will
reach their respective floors speedily
and without effort at any given min
ute of the day or night. Another
advantage of this arrangement is
that it enables houses to be built to a
much greater height, the upper floor
being US easily accessible as the low
er, and for that matter preferable, OH
account of better air, light and free
dom from intrusion or the noise of
the street. Tho toncme houses in
Paris will be II stories high from
the street level.
Year: 1868

To VETERAN Within the mast
few years thousands of veteran soldiers
have placed their discharge papers in the
claims to the Government for bounty
which they were entitled to. Those who
have received answers, to say nothing Of
bounty, to their claims, are few and far
between. This naturally excitcs surprise,
and IN some cases causes suspicious to
arise on the part Of the veteran soldiers.
TO all of such we would say, if you find
the payment of your one hundred dollars
bounty unreasonably delayed, you can as
certain BY writing to Paymaster General
Price, if the money has been sent to the
claim agent Several cases have recently
occurred in which the claim agents have
been glak to pay principal and interest, it
being shown beyond doubt that they had
received the bounty several months before
and enjoyed its use up to The time of the
discovery, and there is no telling how long
it might have continued so had not the
soldiers written on to the Paymaster Gem
eral
Year: 1868

1t is n rule Of law, rs we'll AS Of decency,
that the judges in all trials shall be men
who are not interested in the result, and
who have not already expressed opinions
against the accused. But in the trial of
johnson, Chief Justice Chase is to preside,
who is a candidate for the Presidency F;
Ben. Wade is to have vote, who is to be
Presiden' il johnson is turned out /! Sum
ner and Nye, and half-a-dozen Others who
are assigned places in the new Cabinet,
have also vote and so do the gang who
urged the House impeachment. The whole
proceeding is wretched farce as if this
jury who tried prisoner in an ordinary
Court, were allowed to divide his property
among themselves as Il reward for convict.
ing him.
Year: 1868

AN ACT to authorize tho Governor to release lands


which have been certified to the State by authority
Of the Secretary of the INTERIOR ander any OF tho
Land Grants whore settlers rights have intervened
prior to the time when the title vested in the State.
and for the purpose correcting in transfers
to the State.


Section l. Be It enacted by the GeneraI Assembly Of
the State Io,oa, That the Governor, when satisfied by
the Commissioner of the General Land Office. that
any lands to whi the State may have acquired color
Of title by their having been certified TO the State
upder any Of the several grants that such color Of
Year: 1868

AN ACT making an appropriation for the payment
OF the mileage of she Twelfth General Assembly.
and the per diem Of the temporary officers and en-


pioy ees thereof, and for postage.
Year: 1868

Most pigs never have any chance to
be respectable. They are fed on the
coarsest food and shut up in q dirty
pen, where they have no freedom and
no society, and not even pure air and
"a clean bed. If little boy should be
shut up in q pig pen, and fed upon
slops, and should have nobody TO teach
him, or talk to him, or play with him
he would grow up coarse and brutal
if he would grow up at all. once
knew a pig who had a good time the
first half year of his life, and as IL Is a
story will tell you about it.


When he was about a month old he
was very plump and pretty, with
white bristles over pink skin, and
the farmer who owned him took a
fancy to him and resolved to give him
a chance to improve. So he took him
from his dirty little brothers and sis
tiers, and gave him q nice little shed
all to himself; in the shed was a soft
bed of clean straw, and the door was
left open. 1t was only the pigs bed
room where he slept at night and in
wet weather In pleasant days, he
ran abont the yard and over the green
in front of the house, and he would
have gone into the house If friend
of his had not taught him better
This friend was Matte, the farmers
little daughter. She had entire charge
of the pig, and fed him three times q
day with sweet brown bread and milk,
and often ran and played with him as
if he had been q dog. He was very
fond of Matte, and when she sat down
in the doorway he would come and
lay his head in her lap. It Basa clean
head, for his bed was clean and his
food was ehean, and he was very often
washed; Ehaye seen bOysSnd girls in
Cincinnati who were dirtier than this
little pig.


He knew great deal, too, and he
had but one fault, but that was a sad
one, and made his friend Matte, a
great deal of trouble. He insisted on
following her wherever she went, eX-
eept when she went into the house
If she picked strawberries or violets
he was always with her, and she could
never visit her little playmates with
out his tagging" as children call it.
One day she sat out when he was fast
asleep and ran down the road out Of
sight round a turn. Very soon she
heard the piggy trotting after; so she
climbed wall and hid herself behind
it, waiting till he should go by. But
she could not deceive him in that way.
When ne came near where she was,
he stopped and said fugh! (! ugh :" and
began to smell in the bushes, and soon
after, there was a great elatter among
the stones, and the head of the pig
came over the wall, where the little
girl was hiding. He was delighted to
find her, and she could not make him
understand that he was Troublesome.
Sc at last this bad habit was the cause
of his death. He grew larger and
heavier than herself, and often knock
ed her down in his clumsy gambOls,
without in the least meaning it; she
was obliged to complain to her father,
and the pet pig went where all other
pigs go. He died and was buried in
the pork barrel.
Year: 1868

The throne of grace and the mercy
seat are terms in very frequent use
among prayerful Christians Their
IsignifieatiOn is nearly anonymous
They both refer to the cover of the ark
of the covenant, before which the
Jewish high-priest, with solemn eere-
mOnial, appeared on the great day of
atOnement. Bearing in his hand the
golden bowl in which had been caught
the streaming blood of the slain lamb,
the high-priest entered the holy of
hOlies, and sprinkled the blood upon
and before the ark, and made suppli-
cation for the mercy end fOrgiying
grace of God. .a HE.


Under the Mosaic dispensatiOn the
high-priest alone could enter the sacred
place and approach the merey-seat,
but now, since Jesus, the great High
Priest of our profession, has entered
the heavens and removed the vail,
the trembling soul may venture into
the presence of God. Whatever COM
plaints thehumble, ,thOughHnwOrthy,
suppliant has to make may with con-
fidence be poured forth into the ear of
the Divine Savior; whatever desires
burden the heart may all be made
known to him whose pity for all his
children is as boundless as his love-
AT the blessed merey-seat relief may
be found when the worn spirh is per-
picked by the constant recurrence of
life's petty annOyances, or Overwhel-
med with floods of sorrow.


When there is no human ear willing
to listen TO our experience of trials
and temptations, when sympathy fails,
when no friendly hand grasps ours in
cheering fellowship, when disappOint-
ments, weakness, and pain are our
portion, then what precious refuge
IS the Throne Of heavenly grace.


at is the place where Jesus sheds


The oil Of gladness on our heads:


y place than all besides more sweet


II Is the blOOd-bougilt mercy seat"


--ZioR's Herald.
Year: 1868

Go To FARSuNG.-A good living is
what comparatively few men succeed
in making in village or city life, and
yet nothing is more easy of accom-
plishment on farm. Besides, there
is a pleasure i'm cultivating and
embellishing the earth, improving
and increasing its products, and thus
adding to the aggregate Of human
happiness. Why, then should young
men hesitate to be farmers? ? IL is
both profitable and honorable. 1t is
the nearest approximation to indie
pendence that man rs a member of
society can make. A gentleman
farmer-and all farmers are or should
be, gentlemen-belOngs to an order of
nobility that is not indebted to place
holders for installation, and may, if
he chooses, be ranked among the
greatest benefactOrs of the human


race. Let all the idle young men go
to work on farms, and quit seeking
third and fourth rate clerkships. In


short. go to farming and quit begging.
Year: 1868

/ A THoUGHT.-Along this path OF
life which we are travelling, there rea
so many crooks and abrupt turns so
many branches and dimly defined
courses; so many rough ascents and
precipitous deelevities so much of
human misery or happiness depend
ing upon whether we turn up this
broad street or down that other lane,
that it is folly to say, after having
jOurneyed so far, we would have been
more happy had we chosen some
other way. We may never know the
happiness or misery that lies along the
rejected paths of life. Let us rather
feel greatful for the little happiness
we have enjoyed, and the possible
innumerable ills we have escaped in
the path we have chosen to travel, or
in which the Fates have directed our
steps.
Year: 1868

New ORLEANS. The Times of
Friday says


Yesterday, early in the morning,
the atmosphere was uncomfortably
cool, but after Old Sol commenced
getting above the horizon, and she'd
ding his genial rays, making the tenn
perature all that could be wished for
yesterday was really a bright and
beautiful day, and for which we make
due acknowledgements to the clerk Of
the weather.


There was some improvement In the
business that was transacted on the
landing yesterday TO what it mas been
for the two previous days Of this week,
but there was not as much done as
we would like to have seen, and the
steamers that left yesterday had only
tolerable fair trips.
Year: 1868

Oneemore rings out the bugle call!
Once more the banner fiiesi
once more the boys are gathering
Beneath the autumn skies;
For treason makes its final fight
Against the Rights Of Mani
bat the flag we raise, as in other days,
And Grant is in the van!
we've heard that rebel yell before,
We've heard the traitor whine
When riot roared in the BOwery
res And Lee had crossed the line.
But victory came in blaze of flame,
That schorched the rebel clan,
For the boys in blue were stout and true
And Grant was in the vanI
Still ragged the war; and the grass grew
Ger many a soldier form, [greel
TIL peace came, fair as a morning star
After a night of storm
And shall we now the fruits of peace
To treason tamely yield?
Not while a soldier wieIds vote,
And Grant is in the field!
So close up ranks and forward march!
Till the crOwning fight is won!
While thesweet old music fills our hcart
With the soul of battles gone
Our cause is blest; we cannot fail
Who strive for the Rights of Man!
The stars in their course fight for us
And Grant is in the van!


Chicago Tribune
Year: 1868

short, all that Spain needs now to in
sure for her a highly prosperous and
brilliant future, is a liberal and staple
government-a government that shall
encourage and aid the people to shake
of the yoke Of ecclesiastical tyranny
which has so long pressed upon them,
impairing their energies and weaken
ing their aspirations after better
things; a government that shall seek
its strength and find its safety in the
intelligence and public virtues Of the
people, and that will devote itself
heartily to promoting the cause Of
popular education on sound and en-
ightened principles.
Year: 1868

ReSoEUed, That we recognize the
great principles laid down in the
immortal Declaration of Independence
as the true foundation of democratic
government, and we hail with glad
ness every effort toward making these
principles a living reality on every
inch OF American soil.
Year: 1868

Gen. Forrest entreats the cOlOred voters OF the
South "tO stand by the men who raised then.
"whO nursed them when they were sick, and
"toolz care of them when they were little
children who are their best friends, and
will do as much for them as anybody can do.
But Gov. Swami assures tho freedmen that
they have no friends at all in the South, and
as soon as military protection is removed
"their sun will go down in darkness and
oppression"
Year: 1868

The Radical party is reproached for having
kept in existence the Freedmen's Bureau long
after it ceased to be necessary for the prOtec-
ton of the negro but Gov. Swami declared in
a recent speech to a Democratic meeting in
York, Penn. "Just as sure as you live, when
"you move the negro from the protection OF
"the Freedmen's Bureau aud the military arm
which now protects him, his sun will go down
"in darkness and oppression"
Year: 1868

We think Judge Barnard did well to refuse
to admit Jimmy O'Brien's rufians to bail. The
affair at the Broadway Theater the other even
ing is among the most infamous We have ever
known. If we have Sheriff like Jimmy
O'Brien what can we expect from his deputies
Year: 1868

1t is said that Gen, ROsecrans has obtained
what he wanted from the Rebels sojouruing at
White Sulphur Springs. They have agreed
upon an address TO the Northern people, which
is to be distributed through the agency Of a
Democratic Campaign Committee in Washing
ron
Year: 1868

Here is the best article on the-situation
We have seen for long time, the Orange
Native Virginian:


"Bide your time said J. @. Ad-
ans at Columbia, s. G. So say we, with
all possible earnestness.


But--sit down here, my man, in this
barrel Of boiling pitch, while pour a
hod full Of Goals into your lap and fasten
a heavy, white iron collar around your
neck. The situation may be unpleasant,
but don't be impatient, for will send a
negro around every half hour or SO to
spit in your face, and will come myself
regularly to abuse you like dog and
tell all manner of lies upon you. Take
it easy, bide your time, and at the end of
four or five years, if I'm entirely satisf-
ed that you have no unkind feeling toward
the negroes and love me-really love me
-as I think ought to bo loved, I'll let
you up and permity you to work for my
benefit, just as you did before the war,
and just as if nothing had ever happened.