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Year: 1877

81 appeal to any white man to say if he
ever entered Logan's cabin hungry and he
gave him not advice; if he ever came we'll
backed and he gave him not office? During
the course of the last long and bloody de-
bate on the compromise bill Logan remained
idle in his cabin candidate for reelection.
Such was my love for some kinds of white
men that my countrymen pointed as they
passed and said, Logan is the friend of Nor
ton l had even thought to have STAYED for
you in the great council but for the injuries
of my enemies. Their tomahawks drank
the blood of my friends in the balloting
This called upon me for revenge. / have
sought it. / have killed some of my party.
/ have glutted my vengeance. But what
remains to Logan? Where the eagle feath-
ers in his scalp-lock? Where the scalps at
his girdle? Silent is his whoop in the great
council chamber at Washington. Who is
there to mourn for Logan? Not onel"
Year: 1877

Mrs. Robinson is the Chicago lady who
was lately cured of a case of paralysis by
prayer. Her story is that she had been help
less and bedridden for seven years. Her
limbs were useless and her jaws so closely
locked that she was speechless and could
only subsist on liquid food. Recently she
felt an impulse to pray earnestly for cure.
She says: Il went to the foreside of the bed,
took my crutch and pulled the pillows on
the floor, and kneeled down on them. | said
Just as Samuel said, Lord, here am /.
What wilt Thou have me dor Then /
prayed that the Lord might remove my
affliction and restore me to health All
this time / prayed in my mind, but all at
once the blessing came. My jaws gave such
a snap. and my tongue gave leap. My
Year: 1877

Those democrats who take metropolitan
paper would do well to give the Indianapo-
lis Sentinel the preference over the Cincin-
natl Enquirer. The Sentinel is now exceed
ingly able, editorially, and keeps clear of the
hog wash and uncertain diatribes that have
become the characteristics of the Enquirer.
Year: 1877

to SO far deceive himself as to believe
that he really cared fori and valued
things that were true, honest, pure,
just, lovely and Of good report, while,
beneath the smooth surface, his heart
was rotten and dishonest to the core.


/ I suppose no one win be much sur
prised that suicide had been much in
my thoughts for many years. and
while hoped that some change of for
tune might avert the impending dis
closure, / have feared for some weeks
that it might be near at hand. l had
deliberated before this whether l
should add sin to sin, but had resolved
to meet the crisis, as soon as it should
come, meekly and frankly. l have
now but one DESIRE and that is to
throw all possible light on every dark
corner of these transactions; regard
less of the consequences personal to
myself, and to aid in distributing
everything that remains to those that
are entitled to it. Then commenting
my wife and worse than fatherless chill
dren to God, how gladly, if it be His
will, will do penance for my crimes in
prison, and pray for. death whenever
He wishes to send it, or, hardest lot of
all, if life be possible to one who has
forfeited the respect Of every human
being, will try to live and to add not
another stain to the name of 81 itf9


F WILLIAM c. GILMAN.


In another part of this paper we give
an account of the voluntary surrender
of Mr.. Gilman to the authorities and of
his brief trial and sentence. 1t will be
a great relief to the public mind, cer-
tainly to all who still maintain a regard
for justice and the law, to know that the
arrangement, which it appears was Sc
riously entertained by some of Mr.. Gil
mans friends, for purchasing the forged
papers, the evidences of his guilt, and
destroying them, was not ,consum-
mated. It would have been blow to
the cause of justice and an encourage
ment to crime, far greater than the
original crime itself.-N. r. Observer.
Year: 1877

Nothing is more easy than to grow
rich. 1t is only to trust nobody. to
hefriend none; to get all you can
and save all yon get; to stint your
self and everybody belonging to you
to be the friend of no man, and have
no man for your friend; to heap in
terest upon interest, cent upon cent;
to be mean, miserable and despised
for some twenty or thirty years, and
riches will come as sure as disease
and disappointment. And when near
ly enough wealth is collected, by
a disregard of all the charities of the
human heart, and at the expense of
every enjoyment, death comes to fin
ish the work, the body is buried in
a hole. the heirs dance over it, and
the spirit goes-where?
Year: 1877

PAINFUL AND lNDEFEysIBLg The
Louisville Courier Journal asserts
that Il may be stated that the quo
soarra1ito question has received since
last winter careful consideration of the
ablest professional minds, and that
methods of proceeding to evict Hayes
from Office have been suggested. so
simple, constitutional and just, that
all The prominent gentlemen to whom
they have been submitted pronounce
them free from any possible objection.
Among those consulted are eminent
republican as well as democratic ju
rists. With the democraiic Iartv in
Congress generally favoring this poll
ey. the position of the President will
be painful and indefensihic.
Year: 1877

THE war excitement is reyiviDg a
little, in England, and we are again
assured that she contempIales taking
a hand in certain rot unlikely eont!n
gencies. But still the better opinion
is that the war will remain localized.
Year: 1877

THERE is some consolation in learn
inc that the new Postmaster OF Balu
more was an Ohio man during the
war. Ex Governor Hayes is gradual
ly approaching Ohio, and may be III.
duced TO do something for her yet.
Year: 1877

That was not a bad comment on
the unsuccessful military careers OF
Banks and Sburz which Grant quiet-
Iy expressed the other day on the YES,
sell They had The misfortune to be-
gin as Major Generals"
Year: 1877

dynasty each being -sbeftliEed is -natu=
rally inclined to tinker with the problems
that present themselves. There is no
question to be dealt with 10 one in which
the whole people take an earnest interest,
the Government 10 cautious, prudent aud
generally wise. Its party is on probation
and the politicians instinct of self-preser-
vation affords an incentive to discretion
fully as powerful as any that moves a
royal cabinet.


But wherever the people are Indifferent,
then the tinkering comes in and all kinds
of foolish expedents are tried by way OF
experiment. Witness the Quaker inven-
tions of U. s. Grant. Would the Republi-
can party have risked such stupidity if the
people bad cared about the Indian ques-
ton Certainly not.


But humanity demands that the people
wake up to the gravity of that question.
The system adopted by the Government
hitherto has been q national disgrace and
will leave an indelible stain upon our
history.


The world will know-the fact cannot
be disguised from it-that all this cruelty,
all this bloodshed, all this warning with
weak and pitiful tribes was totally unnec-
essary. Everybody will know that few
Catholic missionaries like Father De Snet
and his colleagues could have easily check
ed any Iawlessness among the Indians ii
allowed to see justice done them.
Year: 1877

War is always classed with pestilence
and famine as scourge from God. When
the nations have filed their measure of ain,
punishment comes. We see now in the
East great struggle pending. 1t truly
q death struggle, for each side throws its
whole impetuosity into the contest and
but little mercy is exhibited by either.
Turks have not much claim on Christian
sympathy they are fanatical, treacherous
and cruel; but Russia is very little better,
if at all. Her persecution of Christians is
as fierce and unrelenting as that of the
Moslems. 1t fact it is more inexorabie.
The Turk is amenabe to the influence OF
bribes and Establishments /; the Russian
stops only at submission.


The fate of this war has been waveriDg
in the balance. The Turk is braver and
better soldier than The Russ, but in the
long run weight is s?t 10 prevail. Numbers
are with the Car. His generals have
shown themselves Incompetent to plan a
campaign, but even blunders eventually
lead to wisdom. Tie great question OF any
modern war is generally the purse. Even
with the best OF the f ght the Turkish army
may suddenly fail of ammunition or food,
Then Copetaptipople is at the Cars feet
unlees some other power interferea.


Who can foresee the outcome that God
shall give this contest9 1t may be that
the scourge will ta'l only npon the two
parties now engaged, or it may be that the
day is upon US when all those who have
Joined hands in robbing the Church and
dishonoriDg Gods Vicar shall be taught
practically the great lesson which they
refuse to learn from history: Cursed is the
spoliator aud the impous.
Year: 1877

Our national policy towards the Indian
tribes of the Northwest is one Of treacheTy
and brutality. First the Governments
agents swindle them and goad them into
kind of frenzy then the Governments SOL
diers are called on to kill them if an out
break has resulted. Many of these tribes,
too, had shown the best dispositions. They
have been peaceful, friendly, inclined to
industry and desirOus of progressing in
civilized practices. There can be no doubt
whatever that with an English or French
government over them they would have
maintained their peaceful attitude and
been finally elevated to a certain degree of
civilization, while in our hands they have
been goaded on to the most desperate
extremities.


For this the American people are to
blame. 1t is we'll known that our Govern
ment has no special foreign policy. In
monarchies there is a fixed, traditional
foreign policy as hereditary as the crown.
In republics where one AdministratiOn
succeeds another without any tie of
Year: 1877

A Japanese paper-the Hoohi- 1chinbum-gives
distressing account of the misery at present
prevailing in Corea The people are dying by
thousands from want of food When vessel
enters tn e port laden with rice, or provi-
sions of any kind, it is at once surrounded by
bands of hungry natives, who endeavor to
seize its contents, and blood is frequently shed
in keeping them OFF. Food is, it is true, dis
tributed by the Government to the poor every
ten days, on the 10th, goth and 30th of each
month but the amount at the disposal of the
authorities is utterly insufficient to feed the
multitude Of supplicants. The horrors of dis
ease and pestience have also been added to
those of famine, and the bodies of the dead lie
in the streets for days. In the northern pro-
vinces of China, also, famine is reported to
have set in; but there the Government has
greater resources to assist the sufferers.
Year: 1877

DEPARTURE OF FATHER COLONEL. C,SS R.
The numerous friends of the Rev. Joseph Colo
mel, C.SS.R., will no doubt be surprised and
grieved, like ourself, to learn that this sanity
servant of God has been removed from New
Orleans. Humbly and silently he left our city
last Thursday, in obedience to the orders of his
Provincial superior, and is now, as We under
stand, the Superior of the Redemptorist Mis-
sion house at Chatawa, Pike County, Miss.


Though we are rejoiced at his well-deserved
elevation, we, in common with thousands.
deeply regret the painful separation. 1t is no
exaggeration or hattery to say that no one
knew Father Colonel but to love him for q
more humble, obliging and self sacrificing g
priest religious could not be found in the
city. We still hope that he will soon return
to his sorrowing friends. who can never forget
him or cease to thank him for his countless
benefits.
Year: 1877

In all diseases affecting these organs, whether
they secrete too much too little water or
whether they be afflicted with stone or gravel, or
with aches and pains settled in the loins over the
regions of the kidneys, these Pills should be taken
according 10 the printed directions, and the Oint-
ment should be well rubbed into the small of the
back at bed time. This treatment will give almost
inmediate relief when all other means have failed.
Year: 1877

Contempt of small gift comes of not
knowing how to use it. In the following
case the unthanked giver was generous
enough to show how his present of cent
could be worth many dollars: Rich Uncle
Tom, says the Boston Cmltivdtor, offered his
baby niece copper, which baby's mother
threw on the floor in pet, taking it almost
as au insult. Uncle Tom only laughed. and
picking up the cent started for home. On his
way he exchanged the copper for nice newly
laid egg. He took tue egg home and put it
under a setting hen, and in due time out
popped chicken. The chicken grew to
hen, and the hen proved as great layer as
its mother. Some of the eggs uncle Tom
kept to pay him for his trouble and his corn,
and sold the rest. or turned them into chickens
for aunt Sarah's baby, who kept growing along,
first to girlhood, and then to womanhood,
and was still as pretty as ever. At last unc'e
Tom sold some of tho hens for lamb. The
lamb became a sheep, and the mother of many
sheep, until the sheep were sold for COW.
So year by year. while aunt Sarah's baby
grew older and prestier, her property grew
larger and more valuable. until, on her we'd
iugday uncle Tom took home to her in line,
like the procession going into the ark, first
flock of hens, then drove of sheep, and fol-
lowing after, herd of cows-a handsome
dover, aud all the rightful income from her
first copper.
Year: 1877

A PECULIARLY FRENCH STORY I'm hotel


of the QUARTER Latin, Paris, a lovesick stu


dent ten years ago blew lhis brains out. The


following year a medical student who failed to


pass an examination did the same. The land
lord, in alarm, declared that no one should


sleep in the room lagain, and made 1t a storing
place for furniture. One morning a waiter in
the house, being accused of a trihing theft,
mounted to the room and hanged himself.


This led the landlord to reliuquish the build


ing. His successor was unfortunate and soon
sold out, and 1t fell into the hands of drug


sist. The new tenant heard the story of the


tatal chamber with indifference, but upon his
wife II made great impression. She stunned
1t to the extent of passing much of her time
in the chamber most distant from 1t. The
druggist finally found that this chosen sanctu-
ary of refuge was the room of his head clerk.
In a fit of jealousy he swallowed poison and
mounted to the fatal chamber to die. This
last suicide excited the neighborhood, and the
owner of the hotel was requested to wall up
neigh hborhood was very angry, but its ire was
appeased on the announcement that the build
ing was to be demolished, in order to make


way for the continuation Of the Faubourg st.


Germain. The proprietor demanded quarter
OF million francs from the city, but the as


SCISSOR awarded him only ninety thousand. The


proprietor tell sick with disappointment and
9urng convalescence he desired to take q


last looki at his property, which was TO fall on
the following day. When the workmen ar


rived to begin the work of demolition the fatal


chamber had new tenant The proprietor's


body was found hanging there.
Year: 1877

The superiority of American rifles, in use
by the Turks, is prominent cause of the Sc
verify of the Russian losses, The Russians
being almost in every instance the attack
ing party, they have been obliged. to expose
their solid columns to the fire of the Turks
from behind intrenchments. They have not
been able to bring the enemy to an important
engagement in the open field.
Year: 1877

The harvest in Russia has this year proved
almost fabulously rich, and the quality of the
grain is excellent; but in many instances
there is no one to gather in the full ears, and
large percentage of the yield must therefore
be left to rot upon the ground, Owing to the
war there is great scarcity of labor. The
railways and the post and telegraph services
have lost thousands Of their officials, and the
joint stock companies and the manufacturing
establishments are also deprived almost en-
tirely of their employees. The state of trade
and industry throughout the Empire is ex-
ceedingly gloomy.
Year: 1877

The Grand Jury of Kemper County, Mis-
sissippi, have been solemnly charged by the
Judge to diligently inquire into and true pre-
sentiment make of the murders which, still
unpunished, have lent an infamous luster to
the county and the state. The Judge neg
lected to add that there were probably two or
three of the murderers on the Grand Jury = a
very important circumstance in estimating
the chances of justice.
Year: 1877

A NEW attempt to watch the watchmen
has just been inaugurated at Washington.
Sundry holders of policies of life insurance
met there, a few nights since, aud organized
society for mutual protection. Speeches
were made in which a great many hard
things were said about the insolvent COM
panies, and the proposition made and agreed
to that all insolvent companies as soon as
their failing condition was discovered, should
be thrown into bankruptcy rather than into
the hands of receiver,
Year: 1877

IT is said that English merchants in China
have almost ruined the reputation of their
goods by substituting limitations and adulter-
ations. IF this is a fact this market can soon
be reopened for American manufacturers, for
even now our cottons are the only imports of
that class that can be disposed of there at a
profit.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1877

There are indications that the administra.
ton of President Hayes incines to the
financial heresy which Ohio politicians have
made distinctively their own, that the
Treasury is seriously considering the project
of authorizing, by consent of Congress, the
unlimited issue of silver legal-tender dollars.
The adoption of this measure would put an
immediate stop to the sale OF our low
interest-bearing bonds, would endanger the
public credit, would disturb values, would
make resum' tion of little benefit, and would
entirely destroy all the good results of that
wise policy to which, week since, it was
thought Secretary Sherman had committed
himself.


That the question of the demonstration CT
the silver dollar will be the prominent and
probably controlling one in the Western
elections this fall cannot be doubted. In
Ohio and Illinois both parties have com
mitted themselves to this doctrine and
victory apparently awaits that one which
goes furtherest in its demands for double
standard. Here is the danger. There are
no strong objections to the coinage of the
silver dollar under proper restrictions. Let
its weight be increased so that its intrinsic
value shall be as great as that of the gold
dollar, let its issue be kept within reasonable
limits, let it be made legal-tender for
moderate sum, and it may play good part
in wise scheme OF currency reform. But
these reasonable restrictions are just what
the silver men object to. Their only object
in coming the silver dollar is to enable
debtors to cheat their creditors, and the
government to discharge its obligations in
deprecated currency. That the Administra-
tion will broadly commit itself to the achieve
ment Of such objects is not for moment to
be believed; but there is great danger that in
It's desire to secure endorsement by the
voters at the fall elections it will endeavor
to secure the support of the silver infationists
by Offering some compromise. 1t may as
we'll be understood first as las: that any
compromise which will prove satisfactory to
the silver men will be in effect a surrender by
the advocates of currency based on gold.
That TWO metals cannot be kept in use as
SuhiouSy "ithou' SifiAS OuO d euusiuiaIy
value has been demonstrated again and again,
and no law passed by Congress, and no
action taken by the Treasury. can interfere
with this law of finance. Que might as well
attempt a compromise in mathematics.


There is however great reason 10 hope that
Secretary Sherman, seeing that his chance OF
bringing about resumption by the negotia-
ton of bonds will be destroyed if any doubt
obtains as to the payment of those bonds in
gold, and naturally desiring that resumption
shall be achieved while he holds the Treasury
portfolio, will opp ,se the schemes of the
silver men, aud refuse to adopt any policy
which will injure the national credit aud so
endanger the success of the measures which
he is now carrying into effect.
Year: 1877

THE indications are strong that the Rus.
slams will Cross the Danube this week and
begin their march on Constautinople. The
obstacles in their way are many and great,
and it is not to be expected that they will
pass the great Bulgarian quadrilateral with
out bloody struggle. But we have no rea-
son to think that the Turks can long resist
the Muscovte arms, and though the progress
of the Russian troops will be slow, mid,um-
mer will probably find them to the south OF
the Balkans
Year: 1877

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter takes
hopeful view of the situation. 1t says:
Without being at all disposed to overlook Oh
underrate the uncertainties which obscure
the commercial horizon, the inactivity Of
capital, the slowness OF our progression to-
ward specie basis, and the lack of steady
and remunerative employment for all the
labor of the country, we still find ground for
believing that these drawbacks to prosperity
have spent their force in the prostrating
effect they have already produced upon the
vitality OF the shoe aud leather industry, and
that We shall enjoy reasonable thrift in spite
OF them. We trust, however, that the time
is not far distant when these auxiIiares will
be rendered tributary to our success. If th>
nation can be restored to sound financial
condition, capital will be sure to seek invest
ment, and labor to find ample occupation il
healthful and profitable channels of produc-
tim
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all caes indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

It is evidently good thing for the people
of Washington that they have secured some
sort of change and clearing out in their
Metropolitan Police Board. While there is
reason to believe that the immediate charge
of corrupt arrangement between the
chief, Major Richards and the Washington
gambling houses was made by one set of
rascals to obtain an advantage over another
set, there is sufficient evidence Of demoral-
ization and dishonesty in the whole system
to make almost any change desirable. The
old saying in regard to the effect of the fall
ing out of rogues seems likely to hold good
in this police quarrel. The investigation
House into the alleged attempt of Mr..
Murtagh, one Of the Police Commissioners,
to induce Major Richards and some OF the
detectives to blacken the character OF Con-
gresham Whitthorne for the purpose of
damaging the investigation into the Navy
Department, promises to draw out some of
the secrets of the department The evil
dence of one Of the detectives who was
examined on Saturday last affords fair
specimen of the sort Of people engaged on
the force. Whether the change will i'm
prove matters remains 10 be seen but the
fact that some of the material of the old
Board of Commissioners remains does not
look very promising. If the charges
against Mr.. Murtagh should be estab-
lished that gentleman will stand in a very
bad position. The alleged conspiracy is
of similar character to the notorious safe
burglary conspiracy, but is even more fla
grant, if the charge be true, since it aimed to
entrap Representative in Congress and to
destroy very important investigation into
one of the principal departments of the
national government. 1t is due to Secretary
Robson, as well as to Congress, that the
scandal should be thoroughly sifted.