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Year: 1877

to foresee this inevitable march of events,
and that his profession of having crossed
the frontier to stay may be sincere. Let us
at least hope so until events occur to destroy
so pleasing hypothesis


1t appears from the statements of our cor
respondent that the country has been under
an erroneous impression respecting the po-
sition of Sitting Bull in his tribe. His in
huence is not that of warrior, but Of a
prophet necromancer or medicine man. !"
He sways the Sioux at his will by his hold
tribe, but not its chief When it's warriors
so forth on hostile expedition they go by
his direction, but not under his command.
They suppose him to hold intercourse with
unseen powers and pay him the same kind
of Difference that warriors in ancient times
paid to the augurs who inspected the en-
trails of animals or watched the flight of
birds for omens Of the success Of battles.
This is new view Of Sitting Bulls charac-
ter, but it is undoubtedly the correct one.
1t must be remembered that he was never
seen by the eyes of a white man until since
his retreat into Canada.


The dispatches of our correspondent fur
nish the first information the country has
had respecting the instructions of General
Terry and his fellow Commissioners. The
propositions they We're authorized to make
to Sitting Bull were kept secret until they
presented them at the beginning of the
conference. They have value beyond
~. ri <~f II tctS nf
this remarkable transaction. They disclose
in outline the policy which our government
is hereafter to pursue toward the Indian
tribes which roam through our Western
territory. The propositions made to Sitting
Bull, and which he rejected with such
marks of savage scorn, were that the Sioux
should surrender their arms, ammunition
and horses and 60 to some military post in
a submissive, obedient spirit. They were
promised full compensation for the prop
erty they were asked to deliver up, not in
money however, with which they might
purchase other arms and horses, but in
cows. This proposal to disarm them and
supply them with a great stock of COWS
shows in what direction the future efforts Of
the government are to be made for the
management Of the Indians. There is to
be an attempt to convert them into pas
toral people, living upon the milk and flesh
of their herds. This mode of life
would be even less laborious than
that of hunters. 1t would afford them
the same kind of food on which they
hova o1wayS snbsisted bnt of a better anal
ity and in more certain abundance. The
same grass that sustains the buffalo would
feed domestic cattle, and if the Indians
should take kindly to this mode of life the
transition would be then easy to the tillage
of arabic land. We believe the ultimate
choice lies between this policy and exter-
mination, and sincerely hope that it may be
found possible to convert these warlike
marauders into peaceful herdsmen.
Year: 1877

THE WEArHER.-The storm centre which
passed off the New Jersey coast on Sunday
night moved northeastward to Nova Scotia dur
ing yesterday, passing the parallel Of
New York about four o'clock A. VI. As ii usual
with such storms the energy OF this one increased
on reaching the ocean and during its movement
along the coast. 1t is now central between New
toundland and Nova Scotia, and il making rapid
progress toward the European coasts. The deep
pocket Of low pressure which extended south
ward TO the Gulf Of Mexico during the move
ment Of the storm from the Mississippi Valley
to the Atlantic is gradually filing mp from the
south and west and will soon be observable by
the barometer. IL il being succeeded by high
pressure and clear weather. The rains attend
ing the storm centre have fallen chiefly in the
Middle and New England States, and must have
produced frcsliets in the latter district.
Heavy northwestcry winds follow the de-
preston, but these decreased in force over New
York as the storm passed away from the coast
line. The pressure III the far Southwest is again
falling, with northcrly to northcasterly winds
This new depression, being on the southern mar
gin OF the zone Of high pressure, will cause the
barometer on the Atlantic coast to rise rapidly.
In the Northwest the area Of comparatively low
pressure is making slow progress eastward, at
tended by cloudiness. Tie temperature has
fallen on the Atlantic coast but has risen in tho
Southwest and West. The weather in New York
and lis vicinity to-day will be cool and clear or
partly cIondvs
Year: 1877

The ADVISORY LADIES COMMITTEE of the
Red Cross Society has OH its roll of membership
a large number of the benevolent, fashionable
and wealthy ladies Of the city. The PROPOSE
ton TO send nurses and ply ysciais to the seat of
war has been scnsiblv rejected
Year: 1877

GOVERNOR HARTRANFT and the other Penn
sylvana officials who have been ordered by the
Criminal Court of Allegheny to appear before
the Grand jury in the riot cases are by no
means disposed to obey the mandate and have
appealed to the Supreme Court Of the State
Year: 1877

Aldermanic candidates, and it is impossible
to say whose chances are the best in the
municipal election until the programme on
both sides has been finally agreed upon and
until all the candidates are in the field.
Year: 1877

WILLIAM M. TwEED's promise to tell all he
knows WILL it is announced, be put to a fresh
test to-day when placed on the stand as a wit
ness for the city in one of the New Court House
suits.
Year: 1877

"A Inliauelpnla paper says.


A scheme has been devised in Ore
gon for the suppression of drunken
ness, which requires every person
buying liquor for his own or another
persons consumption to take out an
annual license, costing not less than
five dollars. Every six months the
names of those having licenses are to
be published, and no saloon keeper is
to be permitted to sell drink to a
man unless he can produce the all-im-
portant document. properly certified
and bearing the seal of the county
court. The proposed law certainly
has merits. In Philadelphia. for in
stance, it would bring million and a
half or two millions of dollars revenue
into the public treasurer every year.
And then the publication of the names
of the licensed drinkers every three
months would help to keep some OF
our starving contemporaries alive,
who, by trading type and printing
three or four hundred supplements
which never reach their subscribers,
Year: 1877

bonds on which the people have to
pay interest.


We do not regard national banks as
a swindle. Their currency is far SUI
perior to that Of the old state banks,
but all the advantages of uniformity
and general supervision could be had
by requiring them to bank on green
backs instead of their own notes.
Their currency would be just as safe,
and worth just as much, as it is now;
while the people would save forty mil
lions annually in the payment Of taxes
on the United States bonds owned by
the banks. The banks would draw
twelve per cent. interest.on their cap.
ital, and that ought to content them
in these hard times.
Year: 1877

now reap such rich harvest from the
delinuuent tax and mercantile apprals-
ers' lists. The solitary drinker, for
titled by the possession of his license in
his pocket, need have no fear of expo
sure. except when found drunk with
no license, when the proposed Oregon
law would insist upon his imprison-
ment in the House of Correction for
at least six months. The idle vagabond
having no money to procure license
would have no whisky, and thus drunk
enness would be banished from the
land and the good time for which
Brother Murphy is praying would
dawn upon a people emancipated from
the vice Of the age.
Year: 1877

The :'old guard Of the Republican
party are taking bitter issue with
President Hayes. They charge him
with selling out the black men of the
South, and with the black men of the
South all hopes of success hereafter
for the national Republican party in
pursuance of the terms of corrupt
bargain with the Southern Democrats
by which he obtained his seat. There
sis music in the air." and the whole
orchestra will open in full blast when
Congress meets in June.


"Old Ben Wade of Ohio pours out
his soul as follows:


JEFFERSON, O., April 9.-Mr. NJ.
II. Painter, Washington, d. C.:-MY
DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 5th
was duly received. You ask whether
! l remember what said in favor Of
President Hayes in my endeavor to
procure his nomination at the Cincin.
natl convention. do remember it,
after what has since transpired, with
indignation and a bitterness of soul
that / never felt before. You know
with what untiring zeal I labored fol-
the emancipation of the slaves of the
South, and to procure justice for them
before and during the time was in
Congress, and / supposed Governor
Hayes was in full accord with me on
this subject. But l have been deceived,
betrayed and even humiligted by the
course he has taken to degree that
have not the language to express. In
the first month of his administration
we find him closeted with two of the
worst and most malignant enemies OF
the colored race that can be found il
that slave-cursed region, and there
consulting with those malefactors
how best he can put those colored
people under the iron heel of theil
bitter enemies and reduce them to .
condition infinitely worse than before
they were made free. / feel that tt
have emancipated these people, would
be a crime as infamous as to have re
duced them to slavery when they
were free, and for Hayes to do this t.
men who had, at the hazard of theil
lives, given him their votes without


which he never could have had power
to do this terrible injustice, leaves NJ
doubt he meditates the destruction O
the party that elected him. A con
Year: 1877

A correspondent of the London Times
has been in the Russian camp long
enough to discover that a vast problem
in human nature is working out in a
mighty nation. He maintains that the
Russian people are to day the most purely
democratic in Europe in their tendencies
and customs. There ia the form of an
absolute despotism in the government,
but this vast under current of democracy
makes itself in the very heart of this
despotism, and really controls its action.
It is this subtle influence which forced
the emperor into this war, and it is the
fear of this power that prevents him
from leaving The field he has once entered
until he can do 20 VIGOROUSLY. The
evidences of this spirit of democracy are
plainly written in the everyday life of
the army, and those who choose may
read it as they go. The Old-style form
of aristocracy still exists in the court
circles of the army, but there Is a vast
majority where the officer recognizes the
private as an equal, man for man, and
the distinction between them is regarded
as an official only. Scobeleff, for instance,
shakes hands'with the lewest suhaltern in.
the same manner as with colOnels of regi-
ments These young lieutenants show
no constraint in his presence; all is easy
and purely democratic, and yet every
word of command or expression of a
desire from the general is obeyed with an
ialacrity and rapidity that cannot be SUR
passed in the most despotic martinez ser
vice on the globe. The private soldiers
are also easy, and, to certain extent,
familiar with their officers, and yet the
discipline is perfect. hs' +.
Year: 1877

We have frequently spoken of the need
for better work, for higher culture, for
enlarged yields and for the most econom-
ical and Skilllul management. How to
reach these, is the point; that they are
necessary is nowhere disputed. We see
plainly that it is by choosing the most
desirable branch of farming, suited for
particular soils, locations and other con-
trolling circumstances and, sticking to
this, bringing to the chosen business all
the study, skill, patience and capital that
may be needed. We emphasize capital,
because without this all the rest ara
unavailing. A farmer without capital is
slave; with ii, he has the means Of
utilizing all his other forces, or capabili-
ties, to the utmost. No man now can be
farmer without sufficient capital any
more than he can be banker, mer-
chant, manufacturer. x man may go
eh to the prairie or into the woods upon
a fresh homestead with very little capital
and worry out poor living; but he sells
himself to the government for five years
for this privilege, and for thsttime, until
he has the patent for his land in his
hand, he is not a free man, but is in
bonds; but to go into the business OF
farming proftably, capital is needed.
When the particular branch is chosen,
not from fancy, because this will not do,
for there are dairy farms and grain farms,
one of which will not suit the other bus..-
ness and there are milk farms and mar
ket taIms in the vicinity of cities that
can be carried on nowhere else, and upon
which other sorts of farming will fail
but the kind of farming to be chosen
must be that which can be most profit
ably carried on under the circumstances
and in the locality. Grain growing and
mixed farming, including the rearing or
purchasing and feeding of live stock,
must necessarily form the largest branch
of agricultural industry, As we have
said, the one can not be Conducted alone,
but must be assisted by the other. 1t
comes then to be most important con-
sideration, what kinds of animals are the
most profitable to keep, and how they
are to be fed with most prodt.-American
AqricphuriH. ~ gu.
Year: 1877




The st. Louis Republican publishes
the following private letter, written by
magistrate on the island called Paum-
beu, in India, to his brother in Missouri /:


| am so fearfully sick of this dread
full famine people dying of starvation
all around and out Of ones power to as.
Sist. Returning from my morning ride
one day this week | found a woman in
the last stage of starvation, and although
| procIred sagO and brandy for her the
poor creature died. / am to hold
meeting this evening to start private
congee house to relieve the necessities of
some. Every day we give rice and
money out Of our own resources, but it
is heavy drain. Rice sells at twenty.
five shillings bag Of l64 pounds, which
last year could be bought for eighteen
sbillings, and of course everything is dear
in proportion in the vegetable line but
cows and poultry are to be bought in
the same place for nominal sums only.
The people have nothing to feed them
on, and in some places there is actually
a famine Of water as well as food. Grass
is an article of importation, and pays tor
its conveyance. We feed about 300 peo.
pie daily, one meal day only, giving
but enough TO keep them alive. We
cannot afford to give more, as we shall
have, probably, to feed them for four
months, perhaps longer. Last month
was great festival time among the Hin
docs, but, owing to the famine, not many
came to market, although there is a
temple here much frequented by de-
votees. Sometimes, after landing on the
shore, they roll the whole way (eight
miles) to pay their devotiOns. In one
taleeg $4,000 died of starvation in a
month. In our district 10000 died in
May. Is it not terrible? You cannot
imagine what scenes we Indians see and
hear daily, Can, you. fancy a woman
boiling and eating her own baby That
occurred not many miles from here only
last week. When possible superintend
the giving of food, and have often seen
the mothers take the children's share
and eat 1t themselves. | must add that
| make it up to the poor little things,
when possible, by giving them an extra
allowance, as feel that only the pangs
of utter starvation would induce a
mother to rob her child, for, although
black in cclor, they are not devoid of
feeling"
Year: 1877

Down In the silver Niue, Underneath


the Ground.


Those who have never personally in.
speCted the lower levels of our mines
may obtain some idea of the degree of
heat to be found therein by visiting the
Savage works at the change of shifts.
The men-packed together as close as
they can stand on the cage-are popped
up out of the shaft all steaming hot, for
all the world like bunch Of asparagus
just lifted from the pot. They make
their appearance in cloud of steam
that pOurs up continually from the
"depths profound" and are dimly seen
until they. step forth upon the floor of
che works. AS the men land and sept-
rate, ,each carries with him for hall a
minute his little private cloud Of vapOr
As this passes off the man is seen TO be
naked from his waist up, his skin as wet
as though he had just been lifted out of
a pool OF water. Thesmen bring up with
them-besides the steam-an amount of
heat chat may be felt by the spectator as
they pass. All this is at the top of the
shaft, where it is considered quite COOL
what, then, must it be hundreds Of feet
below, where the men started from
down where the water stands at 157
degrees Fahrenheit? Down there no
steam is SCENT is too hot for it. 1t is
only when the hot, moist air coming up
from the lower regions strike the cool air
towards the top of the shaft that it takes
the form of steam. Down there where
the men came from you must keep your
hands off the pump column and the pipes,
and if you pick up an iron tool you will
at once put it down without being told
to do so. Down there they handle things
with gloves on, or wrap rags about the
drills they are guiding and iron apparatus
they are moving, and down there, too,
you will learn to keep your mouth shut
after you have drawn few mouthfuls of
hot air into your lungs. Perspire ? 1t
isssno name for it. You are like a sponge
that is being squeezed. You are ready
to believe that you have ten million pores
TO every square inch Of surface, or as
many more as any authority msy men
tion, and that thes, pores are as big as
the cells of a honey.oomb. You go for
ice.water, and it almost seems to hiss as
it passes down your throat--you keep
going for it, and thus, in a, short time,
find out what becomes of the tons and
tons OF ice that are daily consumed in
the mines. Remain below among ths
miners for an hour or two, and when
you are finally popped out at the top of
the shaft, all red-hot and steaming, among
the other asparagus sprouts, you will
appreciate the beauty, the light and the
GOODNESS of the upper world Virginia
(Nev.) Eaterprise.
Year: 1877

does the declevity of the slope explain it.
His hypothesis is that some geological
force is at work, of which the complex
resultant acts obliquely to the axis Of the
mountain and almost parellel to its
sides Nyiyrs
Year: 1877

Here is an amusing comedy of errors
with Partisan edge: Nine. de V. was
very Jealous, and determined to watch
her husband. One day he told her he
was going to Versailles, and when he
went out she put on her bonnet and fol-
lowed him. She kept him in sight until
he turned into passage which shortened
the way to the railway station, where she
missed him. She stood for few min
utes in the passage looking about, aud
suddenly saw man coming out OF
glove.shop with rather overdressed
lady. From the distance she made sure
the man WAS her husband, and without
word of warning she gave him three or
four sounding boxes on the ear. When
the gentleman turned around to confront
his assailant, she perceived that she had
made mistake, and at the same moment
she caught sight of her husband, who
had replenished his cigar-case at tobac-
conist's, and was crossing the street.
What could she do2 1t goes without say
ing that she tainted in the arms OF the
stranger whose ears she had boxed, while
the other lady ran off as fast as she could
to avoid scandal. The stranger, who
was comedian, was astonished to lind
an unknown lady in his arms; aud while
his ears were still tingling from her
blows, he was again startled. A gentle
man collared him, and shaking him
roughly asked him what he meant by
embracing a lady in the street. "Why,
she boxed m y ears and faintedP' screamed
the actor. "She is my wife," shouted
the rate husband, "and would never have
struck you without causep The infuri-
ated gentlemen shook their fists until the
lady, who had been carried into a shop,
recovered sufficiently to explain how IL
had happened. r
Year: 1877

LADY AND FoUE-IN-HAND.-The in
habitants of Kingston on the Thames
were startled recently by the strange
sight of the Guildford coach driven by a
lady, who seems to manage her team in
q thoroughly womanlike style. The coach
was well filled, and that is perhaps the
most surprising feature of the incident.
That lady should have the pluck and
skill to drive four-in-hand is not extraor-
dinary in these days, but that some dozen
other persons of both sexes shoCld have
the confidence to entrust their lives and
limbs to the nerve of female charioteer
is certainly sign of the times.
Year: 1877

RECENTLY a pigeon perched on the
minute hand of the clock in the tower OF
Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, at a quarter
Of eleven in the morning, and held its post
until its body was securely fastened be-
tween the two hands. When 1t attempt
ed to fly it could not stretch its wings
and in a few seconds was squeezed ia
death. The ponderous machinery was
stopped by the sexton, but the dead bird
could not be taken out until the hand:
we're unscrewed.
Year: 1877

Patent Office. The final recording and
preservation Of the patents granted, and all
evidence connected with them, should be in
the registry. the officers of which should
have no duties to perform but those of Gus
cody and Authorization.


Unless some such plan as this shall be
adopted, it will not be long before we shall
have another fire as destructive and mis-
chievous as the two which we have had in
the lifetime of many persons now living,
some of whom have been great sufferers.


Such registry should not be open to
visitors from mere curiosity to see what can
be seen; but any person who desires to in.
spect anything which he may specially
name should be permitted to do it under
suitable supervision. Searches in any par
ticuIar department should be made by
sworn and official searchers. So long as the
Government keeps a general curiosity shop
in the Patent Office, so long there will be
opportunity for all manner of frauds.
Year: 1877

SHEEP HUsBADRY.-There is an old
Spanish proverb, "The hoof of the sheep is
golden" Whether this is true or not, the
universal experience of all who have attemp-
ted sheep husbandry is that it is the only
or most practical renovator of our worn out
soils and the best test of the profits aris.
ing from it is the tenacity with which flock
owners hold on to their ewes, refusing to
part with them at almost any price, while
they may be borrowing at high rate of
interest. This in itself should be conclu-
sive TO the. doubtful and inexperienced
! But we are all well aware that the hun
dreds of half starved and worthless ours
that infest tho country are a serious draw
back to successful sheep husbandry.


High taxation is the only remedy; and /
do think it high time that some regard
should be paid to the interests of the much
abused farmers, the acknowledged backbone
of the country. Candidates for the Legis-
lature make great pretensions for the inter.
est of the farmer, but when our votes send
them through rejoicing, so much time is
taken up with mileage and per diem that no
time is left to us. Now, as class, We have
some rights, and we should pertinaciously
demand them. Let every farmer resolve to
cast his vote for no candidate that will not
pledge himself to bring this vexed question
to an issue, whether a farmers flock oi
sheep, hurdled upon his own premises, is
more subject to taxation than vagrant flock
of half dozen worthless, half starved by.
drophobic brutes, turned loose upon a com
munity." Cor. Southern Cultipator.
Year: 1877

HEALING Power OF CHARCOAL
Charcoal has been discovered to be a sure
cure for burns, On laying small piece of
cold charcoal on the burn the pain subsidies
Immediately; and if the charcoal is held
on for some time the wound is healed.
Year: 1877

There is a story Of two Isishmen who
bought Il little barrel of whisky in partner
ship to trade with on Derby day. They
agreed that neither should drink without
paying. On the way one drank glass and
paid his partner three pence. The other
then had glass and returned the three
pence. They kept up this alienation until,
when they reached the Downs, the whisky
was all gone, and they had honestly paid
for every drink, and We're bewildered to find
that they had only three pence between
them.