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Year: 1874

An interview Of correspondent near Fort
Sill with Kicking Bird one of the Kiowas,
gives some interesting opinions of that cele-
brated chief upon the possibility of civilizing
the Indians. With kind and just treatment
Kicking Bird thinks his race may be taught
to cultivate corn and 'live in houses and
settle down like white men," But he is not
satisfied with the invasion of the reservations
by unauthorized whites nor with the bad
quality Of the rations furnished. Upon the
question of war he speaks sensibly, and
hopes that Washington, in whose present ex-
istence he seems to believe, will give the In
dians on the warpath enough of it. Of the
HERALD, which he calls 'the great captain
paper" Kicking Bird has high opinion, and
is desirous that we shall fairly represent his
opinions In doing SO we must say that he
proposes quite good Indian policy, and that
the Great Father and the Great Lodge at
Washington might profit by some of his sug-
gestions. We would be very glad if all our
theoretical, experimental Indian statesmen
were half as practical and wise as "Kicking
Bird, Chief of the Kiowas (friendly)," as he
signs himself in his letter.
Year: 1874

The CoLoRED REPUBLICANS Of this State have
had o convention at Utica, in which they have
laid down the law to their white brethren.
They charge that the administration has been
too lenient with Southern ex-rebels; that the
President has been pardoning imprisoned Ku
Klux leaders who deserved hanging ''for their
hellish Preparations upon their unoffending
fellow citizens;" that the Civil Rights bill
must Be passed, for if not passed the colored
voters of the country will know the reason
why; but that meantime the colored citizens
of New York stand ready, if wanted, to give q
helping hand to the President Gin the struggle
of right against wrong in the South. The
colored vote of this State claimed to be
twenty thousand, is pledged for General Dix;
but let the approaching white republican con-
vention at Utica finch on civil rights if the
party wishes to dispense with its colored
element.
Year: 1874

insurgents, /" Adjutant General Townsend says
in his despatch of yesterday to General
Emory, ''you will inform Governor Kellogg
of the fact and give him the necessary sup
port to re-establish the authority of the State
government" But is this all? Is there
no more to be done for Louisiana
What kind Of a government is that
which needs an army to protect it
from the wrath of the people it misrules
1t is here, We think, that the higher duty of
the President begins. He has carried out the
strict letter of the law by replacing Kellogg
In office; now let him act in the spirit of
the constitution, which guarantees "a repub-
lican form of government" to every State,
and use the immense moral influence of his
office to obtain an honest election of new
Governor by the people. Not by the terror Of
bayonets, but only by measures of justice, can
Louisiana be restored to her true place


The President cannot ignore these facts.
The republican party cannot live unless it
adopts nobler policy toward the South; nor
can the North be true to the Union while
such crimes as that of the Kellogg govern
ment are clothed with the sacredness of the
national constitution With us alone rests the
responsibility We conquered the South; we
accepted the burdens of conquerors; we de-
stroyed its armies; we exhausted its wealth
and its resources; we annihilated its credit;
we paralyzed its social system; we emanci-
pated the slaves, and in doing so threw its
rich, dominant governing class into poverty
In doing this we virtually imposed upon the
Southern people war fine infinitely greater
than that imposed upon France by Germany.
We imposed ruin upon the Southern States in
a spirit of brotherly love, and, not satisfied
with this-which might have been regarded as
the unavoidable results of war wantonly
begun by the South--we stimulated and rec
ognized a system of government which not
only has brought scandal upon the American
name, but threatens st. Domingo war of
races and the adoption by many States of the
policy of reputation.


There is only one way to treat this question,
and that is the right way. Let the admins
tration be just toward Louisiana. The revo-
luton has ended in majestic protest against
acknowledged wrong. Let us accept the pro-
test by removing the wrong. For the pres
ent we can do justice to this State, and in the
future we can enter upon the consideration of
those grave problems resulting from the war,
which bear fruit in Louisiana, as tomorrow
they may bear fruit in Wisconsin and Califor-
nia-problems of reconstruction, labor, race
and fnance-hv q national cOnyentiOn of
peace and reconstruction. Louisiana is q
swift and terrible argument in favor of such o
convention.
Year: 1874

The INDIANS of the confederated hostile
of the Indian Territory are giving General
Miles, in his pursuit Of them, more trouble
than he anticipated. They appear to have
lodged him and turned back for deliberate
attack upon his supply train, and their STRAIT
egy in this movement was apparently very
skilful. Failing in their attack upon the train,
they will now, reduced as they are to short
nations, be rapidly pushed, no doubt to an
unconditional surrender
Year: 1874

SOUTHERN RECoNsTRUCTIoN-SENA CLAY
TON ASKING FOR MoRE-Senator Clayton, of
Arkansas, in recent speech at Little Rock,
has declared that in hardly any of the South
ern States is there q republican form of gov
ernment, and that it is the duty of Congress
to reconstruct them over again. The Senator
is mistaken. The trouble with nearly all those
States is not that they have had too little Of
reconstruction, but too much. Their constitu-
tions have been ruined by the Congressional
ouackery of reconstruction.
Year: 1874

TIE MYSTERY in the Greenpoint kidnap-
ping case has been solved by the confession
of the woman Lizzie Munger that she had
stolen the child to revenge herself on its
father, and that before she placed it in the
board pile where it was found she had struck
it on the head with stone. This confession
was made to detective under the pledge OF
secrecy; but, of course, when the detective
was placed in the witness box the Coroner
obliged him TO repeat it,. One point in the
case is that stronger motive for revenge ex
isted on the part of the poor creature than
her mere dismissal from the service Of the
family to which the kidnapped infant be-
longed.
Year: 1874

Marshal Bazaine Is the latest specimen caught BY
the enterprising agent Of the HERALD in Europe
Tor the Bennett COLLECTION OF Curiosties. We never
took any stock In Bazaine. In the hour Of his
country's death struggle he was an intriguing po-
ltican instead OF patriotic soldier He was con-
victed upon good evidence of being traitor, and
sentenced to DEATH His lie was spared by Marshal
MacMahon, and the favor was reciprocated by
breaking his parole and escaping from his place of
confinement. He now turns up as HERALD cor
respondent which will not improve his reputation,
to say the least
Year: 1874

The New YORK LIBERALS Some of them,
as liberals or democrats, participated in the
work OF the Democratic State Convention, and
they have candidate on the democratic State
ticket in Mr.. Dorsheimer for Lieutenant
Governor. But the main body of the liberal
party of the State had a convention of their
own on the 10th, which, in reference to a
State ticket, will meet again. 1t is generally
understood that General Cochrane will not
call this convention together again till be
hears from the republicans at Utica. The
liberals claim thirty thousand votes, q force
which it would be folly to throw away fol
nothing in our November election. Liberty
cannot be supported and reform cannot hv'
IN husks
Year: 1874

IT Is PROBABLE that the new Atlantic cable
expedition has met with a misfortune. Moth
ing has been heard from the steamer Faraday
since the 9th inst, and it is inferred that the
cable parted in water over two miles deep,
and that the attempt is being made to recover
-
Year: 1874

The FRENCH REPUBLICANS in the Permanent
Committee of the Assembly have accused the
government of suppressing none but repub-
ican journals. The treatment of the press in
France has certainly been almost as severe
under the Republic as during the rule of the
Empire.
Year: 1874

CONGRESS, at its last session, made great
mistake in the reduction of the army, and the
country is now perceiving the fact. 1t is re-
ported that by desertion and death the num-
Der of the rank and file has fallen to $4,000,
and that the effective force is not more than
$4,000 men. This condition of our military
service is discreditable and dangerous to the
countrv
Year: 1874

upon the Legislature which is to be elected.


But, whatever Mr.. Kellogg may choose to
do, the duty of the government is to see that
justice is rendered to the people of Louisiana.
The proof is overwhelming that they repudiate
the Kellogg administration. The appeal
which we print to-day from the President of
the Board of Trade of Baton Rouge, the Presi-
dent of the Farmers Association and other
citizens, is only additional evidence of the
intense dread they have that this hated rule
may be restored. General Grant should deal
with the question Of equity as well as with
that of the law. He has suppressed the armed
revolution by word, but the moral revolution
still lives as protest against usurpation and
crime in Louisiana and the criminal sympathy
given to usurpation and crime by the admin
istration. The country will demand from the
President, as due to the oppressed people of
that State, something of the vigor he has shown
in overcoming the McEnery government


He should insist upon justice to the State


II is no answer to such demand to say that
having heretofore recognized Kellogg he must
sustain him. If, as no one will seriously
question now, bis recognition was mistake,
why not retrieve it2 II the people of Louisi-
ana answer with alacrity the Presidents sum-
mons to surrender sovereignty which was
theirs by right as well as in fact, why should
not the President recognize this peaceful dis
position by securing to the State its rightful
government2 He cannot do this by the mere
! force of arms. "Upon tho surrender of the
Year: 1874

Z l.


Of that city, which it seems is kept By the
sister Of Mr.. Field and two men, which one
Il whom Sue claims Is 6sr k1si being
matter Of doubt. 81. q


Z It was evidently no place fora young
boy. From. talking with the boy we find
that he was led away BY promises Of pres
ents, span ofponie, s&c. Hewas evident
ly petted and humored during his detention,
yet he seemed cheerful and glad to get back
home, and says that he does not want to
go to Wisconsin again. ~


Ralph>is nine years old, and is very
bright and intelligent boy, and we can
readily credit the statement that they were
making him useful at the Mansion House,
where he was kept, when we consider
his quick, intelligent and fine appearance,
and the fact that for child he is remark
able in his performance on the piano. He
was at this house some three weeks. and his
rescue from such place and such associa-
tions is doubtless rescue from life Of
shame. t.......- a.
Year: 1874

CONCERT SEASON OF 18745.-We
learn that the first concert Of the season
will be given At Music Hall about the 9th
Of December, and from the number Of sing
ers interested, we predict good entertain
ment as we'll as large audience.
Year: 1874

NEARLY every Republican editor in the
country have found ont all Of sudden that
they never did like cock eyed But er 1t is
strange they never found ont before that he
was n rascal. Some Of these times we exnect
to see these same chicks cackling over the
downfall Of Grant, and saying he got what
he deserved. All the spunk some people
possess, is to kick n man when he IL down.
It is lack Of spunk to kick The standing that
has defeated the party. The living rogucs
are the ones to cage
Year: 1874

AN APPARATUS for rendering the variations
of the pulse visible is one of the novelties OF
French ingenuity. There is a camera, 10 which,
by means of ock-work. seusitized glass plate
Is pushed iu front of very narrow aperture
exposed to the light, and in this aperture there
is placed glass tube, in which a column OF
mercury may rise or fall as in a thermometer.
Now, by attaching to the wrist rubber tube,
filed with mercury, In connection with the
tube Of the apparatus, the beating of the pulse
is received on this artificial artery, and the pull
satiouS are transmitted TO the recording appa-
ratus. The column in the tube acting as
screen, light eau penetrate the aperture only
where the column is deficient; consequently,
the prepared pate becomes black, uuder the
influence of light, everywhere except at such
places where the column inercepts it.. As the
column rises and falls with each pnlsation OF
the heart, these black ues on the prepared
plate, pushed regularly forward, will be longer
or shorter alternately, and will be successively
photographed as being lines perpendicular to a
column base. The heart thus being made to reg
lister Photographic Representations can be SO
magnifed as to be rendered visible across
large hall, aud the apparatus may be modified
so as to register the variations of respiration
aud similar physiological and pathological phe-
nOmcDa
Year: 1874

Dyspepsia is the most perplexng of all human
ailments Its symptoms are almost Infinite In their
variety, and the forlorn and despondent victims OF
the disease often fancy themselves the prey, turn
OF every known inaady. Ihs is due, IN part. to the
close sympathy which exists between the stomach
and the BRAIN and In part also to the fact that any
disturbance of the digestive function necessarily
disorders the liver, the bowels and the nervous sys
tenn and affects, to some extent, the quality Of the
blood.


Il. T.. Kunkel's Bitter Wine OF Iron is a sure cure
rms is not new preparation, to be tried and found
wanting; IT has been prescribed daily for many
years IN the practice OF eminent physicians with
unparalleled success II Is not expected or intended
to cure all the diseases to which the human family
Is subject hut a warranted to Dyspepsia in its
most obstinate form. Kunkel's Bitter Wine OF Iron
never ialls to cure. symptoms of Dyspepsia are
loss of appetite, wind and rising Of the food dry
ness Of the mouth. heartburn dlstension OF tie
stomach and bowels, constipation headache dizzi-
ness sleeplessness and low spirits. Try the great
remedy and be convinced of Its merits. Get the
genuine. Take only Kunkes which is put only in
81 bottles. Depot, 259 North Ninth Street, Piila-
dephia. advice free.) Go and see.


For sale by all druggists and dealers everywhere,
Year: 1874

New York Times London Letter.


The third and concluding volume of Mr..


Forster's Life of Dickens has just been
published. Itpresents melancholy picture


of decaying powers, morbid unrest, and


corroding discomfort. It may be doubted


whether Dickens, who is supposed by many


of his readers to have been one of the most


genial and jovial of men, was ever happy


man but it would certainly appear that in


his later years he was supremely wretched.


AS younger man, his animal spirits and


vanity helped to take him out Of himself.


He was satisfied only when he had an
admiring company around him. He was,
in fact, essentially an actor, and miserable
without an audience, and his gayety was
forced and histrionc. There was no repose
about his character. He could never endure
to be simple and plain and natural; he
wanted to be always fireworks. At home
he was seen at his worst, suffering from the
reaction of excitement in company. and
weary with his elaborate efforts to amuse
and startle. Mr.. Forster passes as gently
as he can over the domestic misadventures
of his hero. 1t is not a pleasant page, and
one is glad to turn it. Dickens was always
fond of the hustle and change Of travelling,
and after 1860 his restlessness seems to have
become almost mania. He had notions
of burying himself for a whole six months
in some of the recesses of the Pyrenees, or
of spending q winter in some elevated and
secluded convent in the Alps. His work
had evidently begun to tell on him. His
invention was less fertile, his composition
less spontaneous. It had become an effort
for him to write, and he was haunted by
the fear, which was partly true, that his
prime was over and that he would never
again be what he had been. He had, in
e. -, 1-+ -alae4:>:4
necessarially gives rather q bad tone to this
concluding volume; but Dickens, though he
confessed himself to his friend, was the more
resolute in showing bold face to the world,
and his letters are full of dash and humor.
He went about good deal and used himself
mercilessly. The fit of paralysis which
finally killed him had apparently been
for some years before his death.
The railway accident from which he
narrowly escaped with his life must also
have shaken him more than was suspected
at the time.
Year: 1874

When Stevens was a boy, two sisters, old
maids, attracted by his brightness, adopted,
educated, and destined him for the church.
But few months of the theological train
ing convinced the young student that the
profession had no attraction for him, and
he announced to his benefactors his inten-
ton of exchanging the pulpit for the bar.
Shortly after he was admitted to his new
profession, Il lawsuit arose involving the
estate OF the younger sister, the other hav-
ing in the meanwhile died. He asked her
to let him nanaoe the case I,t,i. lint slaa


fearful OF his experience. preferred looking
for some older lawyer. At last one wrote
to her whom she approved, and having
asked the advice of her friends she confided
the matter to him. The contest was warm,
vexatious, and long; but she came out so
triumphantly of what had been regarded as
hopeless snarl, that she doubled her coun-
sells modest fee. The intercourse between
the two had been by letter exclusively, she
living in the country, he in distant city,
so that the trick which you have already
guessed Stephens had played on her
was, under the circumstances, quite credi-
table. Out of his fee he repaid what she
had spent Oh his education, and his success
in SO delicate a piece OF business was a fine
beginning for a young lawyer.
Year: 1874

LA Crosse Liberal Democrat
There is such thing as having anything
too bad; this chrome business is having a
great run among cheap newspapers and it
is becoming annoying to the people. We


have stood the constant arrival of daubs,
and paid express charges without amurnlur,
until this last indignity was heaped upon
us, and now the lion within US is aroused.
A few days ago the gentlemanly express
man came in with flat package. IN
stinctively we knew it contained colored
pictures of highly -colored females or i'm
possible dogs; but we paid the charges, and
at our leisure opened the package. Not
content with sending us ono, tilere were
three pictures in the package, and to make
the offense the more henious, the confound-
ed sculch came from a Christian paper, the
Christian at Work, or some such improba-
bility. We have boarded those hideous
carricatures for three days. They have
frightened some of our best customers out
of the Office. We took one of them to the
barn, and the COW saw it and has persist
emily refused to give milk since That
picture is a terror. In the foreground is an
old mare and two mule colts, lying down,
all unconscious that right above two wolves
are just ready to pounce upon them. The
artist seems to have throwsl q good deal of
soul into the ears Of the smallest mule colt,
and the tail of one of the wolves is woven
into his hind legs SO perfectly that you
can't tell where leg ends and tail begins.
The whole effect of the picture reminds the
true artist of jar of preserved huckleber-
ries spilled on the cellar-stairs, and stepped
i'll by a number eight foot, in state Of
anxiety. Gone of our frequent visitors says
the picture represents a sheep and two
lambs, instead of a mare and two mule
colts, and instead of wolves there are two
dogs. Well, there is no artistic eye but
has its faults. 1t may be sheep and dogs,
but we would have taken our solemn affi-
davit that they were mules and woIves.)
Bat this is neither here nor there What
we want to illustrate is the cheek of that
Christian at Work. Yesterday was the
holy Sabbath, and we received on that day
a letter from the supreme idiot who runs
the Christian at Work informing IFS that
the aforesaid pictures had been sent us, and
that we were expected to do advertising for
them to the amount Of $50. Now, we are
nothing but poor, weak creatures, and
don't want a row with q stClristian at
Work. but if worse comes to worse we
viii perish honorably with our face to the
foe, before we will do one cents worth of
advertising moro than this article
for those blasted things and the Christian
can work on MS all winter without success.
Twenty dollars! What do you take us for?
Year: 1874

A special dispatch to the Pittsburg Post.
dated Johnstown, Pa, February II, says:
One of the most distressing casualties that
has ever occurred in this city took place
this morning, at the Bessemer Steel Works
A cupola, containing five tons of molten
metal, was tapped about o'clock, and
fifteen of the men were detailed to catch
the liquid product in an immense ladle.
This operation was successfully performed,
but as the men were swinging the ladle, it
upset, the contents flowing in such rapid
stream towards the place where they had
been standing, that they were scarcely able
to escape being engulfed alive. AS it was,
the sparks few around them like shower
of lava. Three of their number were
burned to crisp, the flesh literally falling
in charred pieces from their bones.


The others were more Or less injured by
the sparks, but it is thought not dangerously.
Year: 1874

It is very important that the streets, and

 yards about houses. be kept clean-espe-

 cially at this season when levers are more than ordinarily prevalent. MT. Mckenna,

 in charge of the chain-gang, has done all that it is possible for him to do, but to

 make his labOrs complete. the citizens should lend a helping hand. People seem to be unusually careless in the melon sea son. It might be we'll for the village coun- cil to take some action in the matter at it's next meeting. It. would be within the power of that body to prohibit, by OrdIn- ance, the throwing of any kind of filth in the streets. Melon rindS and broken mel Ons are commonly thrown into the streets, and they accumulate flies and in the rainy

 weather are diSagreeable to the sight and smell and to walk over. Then burros are fed with green corn fodder in open public places; so that with the best of efforts on the part of the OVerScer of the chain-gang, the streets are not in a proper condition. All the rubbish mentioned could be kept

 in boxes or carefully piled in back coIraIs until the cart passes on it's round, when it could be quickly dumped in and hauled away.

 The village council certainly can do something in the direction suggested, and might, if found net eSSary after personal notice given to those who should fail to comply with so juSt a regulation, provide for a small fine. As a health measure, the village authorities could very consistently devise some effective measures to aid the good work of Mir. McKenna and the chain