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Year: 1869

On the first Monday in This month the
biennial election for members Of the
Cherokee Legislature was held TIE
main issue in the canvass WINS the en-
dorsement of Col DowNlNG, Chief of the
Nation, and the course of the delegation
at Washington City. From what we
learn the Ross party met with an over
whelming defeat Downing, carried
six out Of the nine districts, thus
giving him twothirds majority in both
Houses; in the last Legislature Downing
had but two majority on joint ballot
Col Downing has been so emphatically
endorsed by the people that he can well
afford to strike out beldly on those ques-
tons of Cherokee and Indian policy
which cannot much longer be eyaded
Railroads will penetrate the Indian coun.
try in less than two years; white settle
ments ,rM follow, and the same old ques-
ton of Indian treaties against the inte-
rests of rapacious horde of white set.
tiers will have to be settled again; who
doubts which way the question will be
decided? No person Of common sense.
Wherever and whenever the rights Of the
Indians conflict with the interests Of any
considerable number Of white settlers,
the former always has and always will
yield to the latter. We do not say IL is
right but we do say it is so.
Year: 1869

EgAs an evidence Of the increasing
prosperity Of the farming interest Of
Crawford county, We mention the fact
that five new Cotton Gins have been. or
are in the course of erection in the coun-
" this season; making when all arc
completed, fifteen Cotton Gins in the
county. six Of which axe run by steam
power.
Year: 1869

STAGES. Kansas and Nebraska
Stage Company have removed the line OF
stages that ran from Forest City to White
Cloud and Rulo, and now run them from
Bigelow to Rulo and Falls City. An
other Company have put in q line Of
hacks from Forest City to White Cloud.
We understand the change was made be-
cause the former Company was not sl-
lowed free fsrriage here. while at Rulo the
people made up the amount. as bonus.
White Cloud was not so hard run for
business that she was willing to pay
msn several dollars q day for running q
couple Of old stages through town. Rulo
may see . speculation in it; but that or
any other town will find that those cheap
business men who can be bought to To-
cata at point for ten cepts. can be
bought again to 60 somewhere else for
fifteen cents.
Year: 1869

LvELY TrMEs.-No person. not having
seen for himself, can form any idea Of the
sMount of business now being done in
White Cloud. We have been asked, q
number of times. by casual visitors. what
was going on in town tbs particular day.
to bring so many teams. Yet they we're
bot average days. A person living near
town. on one OF the main roads leading
to the back country. says that be bad the
curiosity to count the wagons passing his
house. coming to White Cloud, during q
portion of one day; and from breakfast
time to l o'clock. P. NJ, the number
amounted to one hundred and twenty .one!
We think the daily average. from the
various roads. cannot be less than two
hundred to two hundred and City.
Year: 1869

II rs evident that any Ambassador we now
serd 20 Great Britain must make up his mind
20 run the gauntlet OF sharp criticism, both at
hsme and abroad. 1lr Motley started under
favorable auspices, but mis- first act upon land
iDg in England-his speech-has drawn upon
him uIeonplimentary remarks from a portion
OF the press of this country. The New York
sun thinks be made a mistake in speaking at
ail-that De should have taken warning by the
rate OF Reyerdy Johnson, and given the cold
shoulder 20 the cOnceited supeTseryiceable
persons who essay to elicit speeches fro N hi n.
There Is some force in the SINS suggestion
inat the venue Of the Alabama case should be
changed from London 70 Washington; not for
the reasons set forward by the Sun. how
ever, but because the chances OF definite set
tement OF the case would be greatly increased.
I he fact that treaty, negotiated with United
States Minister who was unanimously con-
frmed by the United States Senate for tha,
position, was almost unanimously rejected by
that body, will make Great Britain very shy
OF dealing with any body but principals. The
English Government naturally objects to ne
gOtIs;ing treaties by which they are bound, but
which are liable 10 contemptuous rejection on
TINS side OF the water. Should that Govern.
ment send special envoy to W ashington ne
would be able to negotiate more directly with
our Government. though there will always be
the circumlocution of ratification by the Senate


Yet treaty negotiated on the ground here
would stand many more chances OF being rati-
Ted by the Senate than one made in a foreign
atmosphere, and where the negotiators could
lot well judge Of the temper Of that body.
Year: 1869

EDITOR STAR: / wonder If the many philSn-
thropists and Christians who pass Pennsyl-
wanna avenue and 7th street ever notice a man
playing an organ, who has lest both his legs.
DO they ever think such men saved this coun-
Try; and do they think the small sum of SIS
Government pays him pension will support
wife and three children. Will not some kind
heart take the matter in hand aud get him
situation under Government 1 know a place
he can fill that Is now filed by a man who was
praying for the success of the South whilst he
was fighting For the sake of hum anity and
for credit Of Am erica let ii be done.


JCsTIcB.


Iwe think that aJustice'' can do & good deal
bettey for this case than by writing about II to
the newspapers. Let him verify the facts he
gives, both in relation to the deserving soldier
and the unworthy Office holder, and act on his
own suggestion by laying them before the head
of the Department wherein the latter is D.
sconced. That course Will result in som thing
beneficial we have no doubt.-ED. STAR1
Year: 1869

LOUISIANA SUGAR.-The latest advices
We have from Louisiana state that the su-
gar crop there is promising remarkably
well. The wet weather has done less
damage than was feared, and it is found
that the area planted equals that of some
years previous to the war, having been
limited only by ability to procure labor.
The high price of the staple warranted
every planter to invest as much as he
could, and fortunately last years crop left
good surplus on hand in many parishes.
We have seen no statement that enables
an estimate to be formed of the net profit
of that crop, or Of the probable amount of
this. If the returns Of net profit of sin
gle plantation give any clue to the whole,
one in ST. Landry would establish an en-
couraging summary. With 80 acres in
cane and so in corn, the net profit is said
to have been S25,650. And it is to be no.
ted, in furtherance of the idea of a greater
cane crop the current year, that nearly all
of the planters who emigrated to British
Honduras and Guatemala at the close of
the war have returned satisfied that they
can do better at home than any where else
even ii buey udNc 10 pay IOr tnelr iaDOr
and obey the laws. The certain decrease
in the Cuba crop this year must make su-
gar-planting more remunerative than usual
in Louisiana, and the prospect is that it
will increase the wealth of that State per-
ceptibly and happily. 1t needs but little
to restore Louisiana to a prosperous con-
dtion. We notice that the same causes
have been and are operating in Texas, and
that sugar culture is advancing there.
The Brazos and old Caney rivers drain
some of the richest cane lands on the con-
tinent. and then the Brazos and Galveston
canal admit inland navigation between
Mauagorda and Galveston bays, as it must
soon. the crops Of sugar to be raised there
will be better than the best in Louisiana.
Enterprise has already set in under the
same motives that started it in Louisiana.
The Cuban trouble which originated, bids
fair to sustain it until it is well rooted,
when, uniting the cane, beet and maple
sugars, we shall do more towards sweeten-
ing our own tea than ever before.-NorE1
American.
Year: 1869

PROTECTION OF REPUTATION.--One of
the most odious vices of contemporaneous
society is the light esteem in which it
sometimes appears to hold the Jewel re-
putation. 1t is trne that there are never
wanting evidences of its solid value and
acceptance with men who are themselves
possessors of the article; but in general
society it is often very carelessly handled,
and is made to suffer by such handling,
without exciting the censure and punish
ment which the wanton destruction of
valuable property usually entails upon the
wrong-doers. Nothing is more common
tnan Tor newspapers to bring the gravest
charges OF corruption against public men,
ont we seldom or never hear of a news
paper which has been convicted and made
to suffer for defamation of character. Is
1t allowable to suppose that all the publi-
cations of this sort with which the pubIic
Is familiar are true, or that honest men,
occupying high positions themselves value
good reputation so little that they per-
init themselves to be libelled with i'm
punlty, and the rising generation at the
same time to be taught that virtue is a
matter of so little consequence that its
name is not worth defending? Or do
those who suffer merely suffer in silence
because there is no sufficient remedy for
the wrong thus inflicted i? Either of these
conclusions, if true, is sufficiently lament
able.


The light regard paid by large portion
OF the public press to the sanctities of
private life is, however, merely an index
to the far, greater laxity of observance
which prevails in conversation, letters, &C.,
where malice is perhaps less often visible
than the mere lack of esteem for, or con-
sciousness of the value of good name
Among young men, and especially with
regard to women, who form the subject of
their conversation, this vice is infinitely
too common, and too leniently treated.
The individual injury done when the fair
fame of either man or woman is unjustly
soiled, though almost irreparable in itself,
is, nevertheless, the least of the evil con-
sequences which follow. Men will not
laboriously seek after real good, if it be
uncertain in its tenure, though bubbles
may be thus pursued; and of course the
human inducement for men and women to
lead virtuous lives is simply the reputation
of virtue which they gain and enjoy among
their fellows. Take this away. and nothing
remains but considerations which, though
stronger than any other to Christian, are
utterly unsubstantial and uninhuential
with the greater part of the worlds in
habitants. Various proverbs among the
vicious classes show the wide prevalence
of an idea that one might as well be
rogue in fact as to be thought one, and
that the name of being a thief gives
man sort of moral right to steal. These
notions alone prove that the protection of
reputation is not mere matter of indi.
vidual concern, but that it is necessary to
prevent widespread demoralzation in So
clety, and the multiplication of every
disease which is falsely placed to the ac-
count of any of its members.
Year: 1869

Mr.. BRADY's LAST WRITING.-The fol-
lowing remarkable passage is the finest
ever written by James T. Brady, the emf
nent New York lawyer:


Our brothers in the pilgrimage will fall
at our side, but however thickly the ar
rows Of death may shower, we can while
our powers continue, do naught but move
on until we reach the awful instant when
we are to exchange the feeble pulses Of
transitory existence for the ceaseless
throbbings Of eternal life. There. even
there, at that mysterious frontier, if we
have been faithful and fearless in the
march, we may lie down obedient to desti-
ny, with the exalted hope that, after all
the objects Of this world shall have be-
come lost forever to our mortal sight.
there mag be unfolded to our new and
spiritual vision. another realm of unimag-
Unable glory, where We, and all whom we
loved on earth, may realize the promise
which the Great Ruler Of the universe has
made uPto the just
Year: 1869

II man will only stop and reflect, and
count over his acquaintances. he will fnd
that here are great many more loafers
than he had supposed. Loafers may be di-
vided into several classes. The first is
your genteel loafer he dresses well, and
assumes good deal of oficiousuess on the
street corners. in .conG eming men and meas
ures, and in trying to mould public opn.
ion. If you will investigate the affairs Of
the genteel loafer you will find his bar bill,
his shoemaker, his tailor and his landlord
are unpaid. Loafer No. g is not quite SO
genteel in appearance a No. you gene
rally find him lounging around the door Of
drinking saloon, wistfully waiting for
some one who is fortunate enough to nave
the whereWith to come along and treat ;
whisky smash to him is meat and drink
it is joy, hope and happiness and after
heavy slug in few minutes is ready for
repeat if another spooney comes along with
the rhino and offers to treat him. He can
drink this way all day, and you never see
him drunk-whiskv seems 10 make no more
impression on him than it would make on
a rat hole if poured into it. Loafer No. 3
is a regular rOus tabout; he looks dilapidat-
ed and emaciated be started out as the
genteel loafer No. 1, passed through that
grade and by gradual process of deteri-
oration became loafer No. 2, and from that
by the same process reached loafer No. 3,
and ia the last grade he is but one move
above the common boggar or the common
thief. Avoid lOafng for if you start at No.
you are certain to reach No. 3. and No
3 insures drunkard's death or the peni-
tentiary, which is about as bad.
Year: 1869

A writer in Hearth and Home says that
monograms. initial letters, or other designs
can be printed on such fruit as apples, pears
or peaches by the action of the sun, with
very pretty effect, of either light or dark
color. To do this, draw the monogram,
letter. or design on piece of writing pa
per, and paste it with mueillage or glue on
the side exposed to the sun. Just before
the fruit begins to color. and when the fruit
is ripe, and the paper is removed. the de-
sign will appear in lighter or different col
or hom the rest of the fruit as for instance
the experiment is tried on yelIow-feshed
peach with red cheek, the design will ap-
pear in gold surrounded with red. If the
opposite effect is desired, take a small oval
or circular piece of paper, and Gu: out or
pierce the letter or design in it, and paste
it on the fruit, which, when ripe, will have
the design in high color on a yellow or
light green ground. of the shape ofthe piece
of paper, and this again will be surrounded
by the brighter color of the fruit.
Year: 1869

PowzR OF GENgLENEss.-No bad man is
ever brought to repentance by angry words
by bitter, scornful reproaches. He for
tifes himself against reproof, and hurls
back foul charges in the face of his accuser.
Yet guilty and hardened as he seems, he
has a heart in his bosom and may be melt
ed to tears by gentle voice. Who. there
fore, can restrain his disposition to blame
and find fault. and can bring himself down
to fallen brother, will soon find way to
better feelings within. Pity and Patience
are the two keys which unlock the human
heart. They who have been most success
full laborers among the poor and vicious,
have been the most forbearing.
Year: 1869

When bOques is received, I at once
sprinkle it lightly with fresh water. and
then put it in vessel containing soap-sude.
This will keep the flowers as freshly as il
just gathered. Then every morning take
the boquet out of the suds, and lay it
sideways-the stock entering frst-iuto clean
water, replace it in the soap suds, and =.
will bloom as fresh as when first gathered
The soap suds needs changing every three
or four days. By observing these rules, a
bOquet may be kept bright and beautiful
for at least month, and will last still long
ger in a passable state -Eqchange.
Year: 1869

Since eclipses were first observed by
mortal eyes they have been sensations. In
early times they came on the world by sur
prise. Mortals naturally were put to their
wits end. The course of nature was dis
turbed. Darkness burst in upon the light
1t was the seeming triumph of evil-either
the world was at an end or the God of ma.
ture suffered. Later, even when solar
eclpses have taken place and the true cause
has been known, it has not been possible to
eliminate from the minds of men the idea
of direct supernatural agency and the all
but universal feeling has been that if nature
was not in condition TO inspire US with
alarm she had at least a claim on our sym
pathy Among the Greeks and Romans it
was common on such occasions to rush to
the temples of special divinities and by
prayers and costly offerings seek to ap-
pease their wrath. To this day it is com
mon in China when eclipses take place to
beat drums and brass kettles, believing. as
the Chinese do, that such noises will fright
en- way the monsters which are devouring
the sun and moon. We know something
more than our rude forelathers, and believe
ourselves to be little better educated than
our barbarian contemporaries but we can
not say that eclipses no longer create alarm
or interest. They are known to occur much
more frequently than was at one time be-
lieved but they are so seldom experienced
on one and the same point of the esrth's
surface that when they do occur they are
felt to be sensations o no ordinary kind
~ 2. Herald.


A Chinese giant. eight and half feet
high. arri yed in New York 3 few days ago.
He is properly named Chang Hi.
Year: 1869

saw two MAIDS at the kirk,


And both were fair and sweet
One was'in ber bridal robe,


One in her winding sheet.
The chorister sang the hymn,


The sacred rites were read
And one for life to life,


And one to death was wed !
They went to their bridal beds
In IOveliness and bloom;
One in a merry castle,


One in a silent tomb.
One to the world of sleep,


Locked in the arms of love;
And one in the arms Of death
Passed to the Heaven above.
One to the morrow woke


In a world of sin and pain;
But the other was happier far;
And never woke again
Year: 1869

Subscribers receiving the C1rIzEN with
this paragraph marked areinformed that their
subscriptions expire with this number.-
The new proprietors have only contracted
to FIJI out the unexpired subscription, and
the CITIZEN will only be sent to such as
prom ply renew. 1t is earnestly hoped that
no names will be erased. and that many ne W
ones will be added to the list.
Year: 1869

The late election riot in Mobile has dem
onstrated that the political or constitutional
experiment for the commingling of people
of two distinct races on terms of perfect ci-
tizen equality which is being attempted in
this country is like ly to lead to serious
trouble during its progress towards 6nal
solution.
Year: 1869

With reference to the bill now pending before the
Illinois Legislature TO reduce the rates OF railway
fare in that state the Springfield correspondent Of
the Chico Post writes January 49,


There II some considerable talk here about the ac-
fion Of the House on SENATOR Fullers railroad bill,
and II has become question whether the railroads
will not scf-defence, be compelled to fight It, It
s assumed that they viii not so much on account OF
their fear that the Supreme Court will sustain the
bill, but on account OF its eject upon their stocks.
A great many railroad men now carrying large
auounts OF these stocks preparatory 10 the election
Of their officers In the spring: while In the OF other
the stocks the subject OF such specua-
tion that any adverse legislation would AFFECT them
very unfayorabiy on Change. The opponents OF the
roads appear TO be very confident that the supreme
Court will not decide adversely to Judge Fullcf's
blli except perhaps In the case OF the Illinois Cen
tga, whose charter u very stringent IN favor OF the
Year: 1869

professor, who sat by his side and who
had inflicted the punishment, would con-
sent to yield in Difference TO my request,
she would feel obliged. He did yield,
and the young Prince got his good
things like the rest of US, and doubtless
had much respect for my mediation, for
when / retired afterwsrd, he shook me
cordially by the hand as ifto say You
are an excellent chap"
Year: 1869

The Northern press teens with
eulogies upon Southern prosperi-
ty. Our agricultural products
pour back into our laps the wealth
which was destroyed by the war.
Rising from the chaos OF a revo-
luton which uprooted our insti-
tutions from the very bottom,
without capital, and with eman-
cipated slaves, the South has
steadily advanced towards pros
perity. There is no example in
history of a more complete ruin,
nor can there be found an in
stance of such rapid recovery in
the face of such difficulties. Our
political enemies ascribe it to the
beneficent operation of the gov
ernments which they have estab-
lished over us, but to those who
are conversant with the shameful
misrule and extortion which make
up our postbellum history the ar
gument Of ssThe Imperialist," that
the prosperity of America so far
from being the result OF wise
republican institutions is in spite
Of them and the sole result of
natural advantages, seems not
unplausible.


But the South is pursuing the
true course. Let us render our
selves independent of other sec
tions as far as possible and our
favor will be sought. There are
those who would fain enter upon
a crusade for eternal, hopeless
poverty p over the South, but the
mostflagrant oppression, the most
heinous DEGREES cannot wholly
co,1nteract the operation of laws
more powerful than mans. IL
only the sword and torch be kepe
away we will soon get wealthy,
and in accommodating riches we
are placing ourselves upon van
tage ground where we can success
fully contend for our rights under
the constitution o. Price
Current.
Year: 1869

An invention has been pro-
duced in Paris for settling dis
putes between cab-hirers and cab
drivers. It not only reckons the
distance traversed but indicates
the exact sum of money due to
the driver. Two dials are fixed
on the back of the driving seat;
one contains a clock, while on the
other the distance travelled is in
dicated by hand acted on by the
wheels; it is entirely beyond the
control either Of cabby or his
"fare." The apparatus is put in
and out Of gear by the lowering
and raising of a lever bearing the
word "Libre," which is only visi-
bic when the cab is empty and
the sscompteur' consequently un-
employed. There is no danger of
the driver omitting to lower this
lever as soon as he is hired, as it
is his interest to have the great
est possible distance paid for.
Year: 1869

The Boston Journal says that
drunkenness is just as common in
tire streets Of that city as ever,
and that Intoxicating liquors flow
just as freely as when there was
no law to restrain their sale.
Year: 1869

In the beginning of 1910, Henry Letting


we'll was a well-to-do mechanic living
near the suburbs of London, England. In
the month of March of that year larceny
was committed near his residence, and
circumstances pointed TO him as the per-
petrator. He was arrested and examined
before one of the stipendiary magistrates,
and fully committed for trial. A month
after be was convicted and sentenced TO
hard labor in the penal colony OF Austria
liza for period of ten years; and, in less
than a week thereafter, he was on his
way to the far-off land. His devoted wife,
who all the time belieyedin her husbands
innocence, at once made preparations to
follow and remain near him during his
confinement, so that she might be the
first, when his ticket-of-leave came, TO
cheer him with good counsel and COM
fort him with wifely love. The ship con-
tanning the convict arrived safe and her
cargo of living human beings was at once
transferred to The government work
houses. Not so, however, the ship upon
which Mrs. Leflingwell embarked. When
about half way upon her journey the
vessel encountered fearful storm, and
after bufeting the waves for two days
foundered and went down, the crew and
Mrs. Lefiingwell barely escaping on q
raft hastily constructed when twas found
that the ship could not be saved. After
an exposure of several days they were
picked up by the American ship North
Wind, bound from New York to China,
where Mrs. Leffingwell was at length
landed only to find herself further than
ever from her destination, and with no
immediate prospect ofreaching it. After
several months of patient watching and