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Year: 1879

New Orleans Democrat, 1Sth1
The customs officers have long been
satisfied that quantities of cigars were
being brought into this city with out
paying duty, and for some time they
have been convinced that the cigars
were not taken from the vessels at the
wharf in this city, but were obtained
by the agents of the smugglers at some
point on the river below. The method
of proceeding was not known, but was
suspected, and several attempts have
been made to capture the violators Of
the law, or at least secure some of their
booty. All efforts, however, in this
direction failed, as did all endeavors
to ascertain positively the method
pursued by the smugglers. On Mon
day, however, by mere accident, the
plan of procedure was discovered. On
that day a person living on the lower
coast observed several curious-looking
objects floating in the water, and on
investigation of their character he
found that they were waterproof bags
made of oil cloth, and that they con-
tanned large quantity of tobacco and
cigars. The customs authorities were
Immediately notified of the find, and
an officer was dispatched to the place
of capture to take charge of them. He
returned TO the city yesterday with the
booty, which consisted of several thou
sand cigars and number of pounds of
tobacco.


The cigars and tobacco are without
doubt from Havana, and it is supposed
that they were thrown into the river
from some vessel on the way up to the
city, in accordance with previous ar
rangement with parties who were to be
on shore at given point and pick
them up. They had evidently been in
the river for sevaral days, for the
water had soaked through one or more
of the bags and damaged the contents.
Year: 1879

means and better processes for devel-
oping the crude resources Of the land,
and for converting crude matter into
life sustaining and life enriching
wealth. Mere clerks and record keep
ers are at discount. There are too
many of them. And the professions,
so-called, are almost equally crowded
with men who have nothing to do.
There never was time when ability
to do something real and practical was
worth SO much as now. Yet our young
men swarm after clerkships. Why is
If
Year: 1879

lMr. voorhees, Speech at Hamilton, O1


But there is another grievance al
legged against the South as an excuse
for usurpation and the overthrow of
free elections not only there but every
where. 1t is said she is solid. We
hear 1t c1amored in our ears from all
quarters that she votes soliGlly against
the Republican party. Let US admit
she does. Now England votes about
as solidly against the Democratic party,
and yet have never heard that there
fore we ought to nullify the Constitu-
ton and all the rights of the States in
the matter of elections to get rid of
that evil. 1t is true that the policy of
this country, which has so bitterly
cursed the producer in respect to reve-
nue. and the finances generally, has
been the work of New England greed,
sectionalism and legalized robbery, but
nobody has, on that account, strong as
the provocation has been, demanded
that her people should be deprived of
a free ballot. People have a right to
vote as they please, as long as our
form of government remains, and who
ever would deprive them of that right
is scoundrel who deserves death,
But are you astonished that the South
is solid politically against the Republi-
can party? Would it not be a marvel
if she were otherwise? Did you ever
hear of any branch of the eAnglo-Saxon,
Celtic, Teutonic or Sclavonic races that
fawned upon master and whinningly
licked the hand that smote them in
their helplessness I have mingled
extensively with representative men of
the South since the war. They bear
no resentments against those who con-
quered them in war. If they did they
would be hoping for the defeat of
Ewing and the triumph of Foster in
this contest in Ohio. The blows of
battle, however, are only remembered
and recalled by soldiers, as have often
heard them, in mutual recognition of
valor and constancy. But do not ask
Year: 1879

ST. LOUIS, April 26.-The allegations
made yesterday that Mrs. Sterling, had
maintained relations of improper intimacy
with the man Smith, who attempted to
kill her, now seem to be based only upon
the statement of Smith, who evidently is a
very bad man, if not desperate. The
reputable evidence all goes to show that
Mrs. Sterling is very exemplary woman,
but was under Smiths control through
fear of personal violence until
by the aid of friends she was able to
break his influence and get rid of him.
He still pursued her however and yester-
day actually forced her to accompany him
to bis boarding house She charges him
with appropriatinQ her money to his own
use, and in confederation of this he also
indicated yesterday at Belleville Ills., for
burglarizing her at Summerfeld.
Year: 1879

No man can do good job of work
preach good sermon, try lawsuit well,
doctor patient. or write a good article
when he feels miserable and dull, with
sluggish brain and unsteady nerves, and
none should make the attempt in such a
condition when it can be so easily and
cheaply removed by a little Hop Bitters
See Truths and proverbs" other
column.
Year: 1879

y, ison berries aauut royal purple, and the
seeds Of weeds are offered to us in cups OF
jewels, burning in tue sun.


We are not likely to hear anything about
this great dumb out-Of-doOr life IN any Oh the
sermons tomorrow. Congregations are tired
OF country sights ana sounds, and Their pas
tors are much more likely to draw their suo-
ie t., as usual, from the history or the He
brews. The history of the Jews, they KNOW
has been kept for our instruction ana proh1
for thousands of years but 80. for that mat
ter. has this re ddening seed vessel and puIpnpg
berry. Their sermon has been preached NIL
inns of times without the alteration OF a
SYLLABLE. and there surely must be some mean
ing in it worth finding out. People 40 ma
it ont uncOnsciously. The stupidest man.
going out of bis shop 10 the country Il con-
scious OF n sudden cessation OF hurry ; these
things that grow have no nerves and No am
bition great monarch in the forest crIIm-
bles and dies his companions miss him, but
they do not impugn God in The matter, and
declare creation to be q mistake, az the small
est shoukeeper is apt TO do when bis affairs
are not to his liking. The pOke-weed is not
unhappy because it is not an oak it does not
A
it bears poison fruit instead of wholesome
corn it does the work set down for 1t, like
the sun overhead and the worm at its foot
they all do their work, as they have done
since the first day. without haste and without
rest. One does not esteem the sun and tie
worm differently; there Is no social rank there,
IA between the shOpkeeper and the black
smith. Each is perfect Of its kind. Each has
its work. and the God overhead who gave it
the work-nothing more. If the man watch
ing them could see only this work in his
hands and his God, and know his fellOw-mcn
only as workers. what an end there would be
of heartburnings, of sham, OF vuigarity OF all
sorts


Another way in which these outdoor teach
ers differ from us is that they can afford to be
cheerful as they work the roses IN our gar
den ripen the seed, but not Solomon was ar
rayed like one of them the bird matches her
eggs, but she sings all day long simply because
beyond their work they have no responsibility
or care. The Saviour could fad 10 higher
symbol of repose in God and IFS reward than
these wordlcss plants and birds. Many good
sermon will doubtless be preached in our
churches tomorrow, but none which viii show
us how to work, to trust and to be happy as wei
az this yoiceless Teacher whose temple Is ont
Of doors.
Year: 1879

With the first Sunday in October the most
fashionable of city churches reOpens its doors.
The clergyman, back from Europe or the Yo-
semite, viii find his pews full tomorrow of
hearers, more or less attentive. Excepting
the few fortunate folk who own country seats.
everybody is back i'll town again, although
the most beautiful month OF the year out-of-
doors is but just begun. Americans have not
Yet learned to love Nature Tor Natures sake.
We turn our backs on the country with m
odd precipitation as soon as the technical
season is over. We rave about Nature like
poets in August but as soon as its last day
is tickcd off we begin to hie back to shop
and streets-tradesmen again. One would
SUPPOSE that the trees withered and the sun
set skies were rolled up like IA scroll when
the big hotels on the beach and mountaius
shut Up their bars and turned off their gas


Unless we have had the good luck to be
born on a farm, very few Of Us know any
thing of the glory which the year puts on
when it has npened to its prime of the
golden haze in which it wraps itself as in
garment of the strange sense of Astounding
life and great good cheer abroad in the yell
lowing forests, in the cold, bright winds and
hot moons of this month. The Gtful heats of
July days seem young and meagre and acrid


in comparison. The world has done its work,
now il = mature, not. touched 10y old age !:
it is ut rest, throbbing with lusty life, from
the full yellow moon floating overhead 10 the
very stones on the roadside, out of which
MOSES drink vigor, and show themselves
green and blood-red Nature has no more
use for her color; tho picture il painted like
a wastcful artist sho throws il broadcast
from her palette everywhere; the sea hurts
the eye with Its brilliant blue even rank
Year: 1879

Have we Il Kearney among usi We find
the following in Journal of the interior, re-
ported one of the recent utterances OF
Harris Lewis, the Greonback candidate for
Governor of the great State of New York:


The judge was the tycoon and autOcrat OF the Ccur
be paid biz salary sit the bench. while
poor juror often the superior OF the judge In every
spcct. got bare pitiaDce for his Then tho
Judge pubs them In charge OF a poodle dog aud shuts
them up a without drink, till they lind


verdict wae the iadse will go sleep downy pa
lows H. gets drunk enough. The judges are thi
best sI cnens 0f Drosely.ed humanity the country


Mr.. Lewis is not Kearney by profession
He Is farmer on considerable scale, and
appeared as a witness the other day before the
railroad investigating committee. lie is man
OF some property, some public experience. and
Year: 1879

1t was supposed-of some Intelligence. Does
he imagine that he can srt the votes OF farm
ers of New-York State-a class noted among
tbe farDers Of the Union for their high average
OF Intelligence and their familiarity. by means
OF the best newspapers Gnd perlodieais'
with che topics Of the day-by such deliberate
demagogism and vuIgarity "a this Z why. tne
average farmer OF this State, the man whose
first residing was in THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE,
and who had personal love Tor Horace
Greeley, would be ashamed to think tWlee Oh
voting for man capable OF such talk as TINS.
Mr.. Lewis is out of his longitude. lie belongs
on the Sand Lots which lie just outside OF the
City of San Francisco.


II was supposed that Mr.. Lewis was Il
worthy man who had, in all sincerity, adopted
some foolish financial notions. Tbs Is plainly
n mistake. There have been other mistakes
about him, 1t seems. HIS attitude no" y
that of the special champion of the farmers
against the railroads. His neighbors nave
been investigating his only public record
that of n member OF Assembly in 1897 ana
1s5S-and they find that he was In those days
ALWAYS on the side of the railroads. They
have found him voting for bill which
gives railroad corporations the power,
practically, to assess their own property,
unless the assessors could find some one with
courage enough to risk the corporate dis
pleasure by swearing up the valuation; they
have found him dodging test vote upon
pro rata freight bill-the measure which now
represents all that Mr.. Lewis stands for ;
voting to give the New-Yorl1 Central Rail
road obnoxious privileges respecting fares,
some of which were soon repealed failing
TO encourage the formation of town in
suranee companies, which he now favors !;
and in no respect standing by the views
he processes. THE TRIBUNE has no faith in
pro rata freight bills, but Mr. Lewis IS snp-
posed to have, and this record throws some light
on his sincerity. 1t Is SAID that he explains
everything now by saying that he is
ASHAMED " of his course. Those few farmers
who may think of voting for him should re-
fleet that they are likely to have reason TO be
ashamed also.
Year: 1879

Now we are going TO have war with the
Utes, which means that during the next three
months few hundred white soldiers Will be
killed and wounded, pcaceable white settlers
will be driven from their homes or butcLered
in them. and Indians Chow many OF them no
body VIII care to count viii be shot down
like dogs-probably in a grand oaitHe OF squaws'
chiefs and children together. for "our boys"
are ant to feel out of humor at the close Of u
long, tedious campaign, and TO pay small ar
fention to differences in sex and age. After
the trouble is over the Utes viii be driven out
Of n reservation to punish them, and the coun-
try viii have to pay the bill for another costly
Indian war. Both sdes,will lose in money,
lie and civilization. Nobody viii gain a silver.
Yet Indian wars like this have been succeed
mg each other for a hundred wears, one SO
like another that any Of as can lay down the
exact programme as soon as the first shot Is
fred.


The Ute trouble began precisely IS all
troubles with the Indians begin. The Utes
had u reservation, and were conducting them
selves poaceably enough on it, A gang o.
white miners made an irrupion into 1t on
June last. No attention was paid TO the conf
plainrs of the Indians. They declared that
they had not enough TO eat, and body of
them went off with chief, Ogailala, to
Snake RIVER n district to which he has
n claim. In the meantime the Agent.
claimed certain pasture lands belonging TO
the Indians for farming purposes, and per-
sisted in enforcing his claim to Plough the
land. until they fired on his ploughman, when
he called on the military for protection.
The match was put to the fire the
whole country was in n flame Major Thorn
burgl's detachment was sent forward A
scout, Lowery, was dispatched to the Agent
to see how matters stood. The Indians had
then possession of the Agency and were re-
solved to kill the Agent but were per-
suaded to desst A body of armed Indians
then went forward to meet Th0rnbuIgh
and q battle followed in which that gallant
officer and sixteen of his men were killed,
and n shudder of horror went through the
country at the "massacre."


Now the points to which we wish to call
attention in this story are these, Major
Thonburgh was not massacred. lie went out
to meet the fortunes of war and was killed IN
stead OF killing. The Utes fought 1t is true, like
savages and they will continue so to fight as long
rs we keep them savages. The reason that
they fought at all is because they were
wronged by whites and because whites have
given them no other mode of redress for their
wrongs but the bullet When we make citizens
Of these former owners of the country and ex-
tend to them the education and protection of
the law which the oA-scOriins Of European
prisons claims among US, we may expect them
to conduct themselves like human beings.
Certainly justice would be cheaper expert
ment than these incessant, costly and inhu-
man WITS.
Year: 1879

The Boston teller was already IN bad way
when he put the money of his bank into
mining stocks In the hope that rise in the
market would float him safely back into the
harbor OF solvency and respeciability. The
market sank, and he was stranded. Bad lack
brought this defalcation to light; if it could
be known how many defalcations had been
covered up by a wave of good luck no doubt
some strange histories might be written.


All general considerations apart, it is i'm
possible that the Republican members of the
Police Board should not be personally graft
fed by the decision Of the Extraordinary Cen
eral Term made Yesterday. Messrs. Wheeler
and French have contended throughout that
Justice tn the voters OF the city demanded
that an organization representing 6OOOO OF
their number should not he excluded from
representation among the election inspectors.
Whatever may have been the willingness Of
these Commissioners to augment the Demo-
cratic quarrel the fundamental motive of
their course was this desire for fair deal
ing. And now the Extraordinary General Term,
by a unanimous decision, justifes that course,
and says in plain words that the remaining
election INSPECTORS must he chosen from Tam
many Hall. The only difference of opinion
among the members of the Court was respect
ing the language of the order, which will be
issued to-day if the Commissioners do not
meanwhile do their duty. The public has
been so often disappointed in this that no
prediction seems safe even now; more es-
pecially as Mayor Cooper is still pushing his
campaign against Commissioner French. Its
latest development is q formal charge against
him by the schoomaster at the City Hall that
he left a meeting of the Board without per-
Year: 1879

WESTERN MuhliAGG hECuKtl1Eo.


It has for some time been difficult mat
ter to account for the persistent attacks on,
and misrepresentation Of, Western mort
gage securities found in the New York pa-
pers. notably the New York Times but,
since the irnpecunious insurance sheets of that
city have been brought into the sans service,
the real aninus has been discovered, and it
is found that the New York and New Jersey
1ife-insurance companies are the prime
movers in the crusade.


And right here We wish to say that it is
in exceeding bad grnce for the life compa-
MES whose agents are scattered all over the
West, soliciting business from our people,
and who have taken millions Of their hard
earned money, to turn around and attempt
to discredit us abroad


The following table, compiled from the
last report Of the Auditor Of Public Accounts,
will show the amount OF money paid by the
people Of Illinois for premiums to the New
York and New Jersey life-insurance COM
pauies during The wear 1878:
Year: 1879

| the southwestern shore Of the lake anu the
! washings from the bluffs on the northwest


ern shore. It is only, then, in the case OF


IN exceptionally strong wind from the south
| west that any Of the small amount of sewage
| emptied directly into the lake can be carried
into the neighborhood Of the Crib, and then
it will be lost and purified in the depths Of
the lake.


The great bulk Of Chicago sewage ia emp
tied into tho river, and, while it is undoubt


edly true that the Dimensions Of the canal
and its current are not adequate to carry off


the water Of the Chicago River as promptly


as is desirable, it is equally true that only


few days in the year does the water in the


river run into tho lake. For week or ten


days in the spring, when the snow melts and


the water of the Desplaines and the contigu-


Gus watershed turns the current through


the Chicago River Into the lake, and on rare


occasions when 1ong-continued and heavy


rams produce the same result, the sewage is


carried into the lake at the mouth Of the


river, which is some three miles from the


Crib. But this is the case during not moro


than thirty or FORT. days in the year at most,


and during all the remainder Of the year the


sewage is carried away from the lake aud not


into it. The apprehension TINT the Fullerton


avenue conduit will materially increase the
sewage contribution to the lake-water is not


well founded, because it is the intention to
pump the water from the lake into the North
Branch to swell the current into the canal
during the entire period when the current is
in that direction. and it is only during the few


days Of the year when tho river empties into
the lake that the pumps will BE- reversed and
the water Of the North Branch thrown
through the conduit into the lake.


All the dangers from impure water in Chi
cngo are in the remote future. Those OF the
present are simply imaginary. The careful
fltering Of all water will separate animalcules
that microscope msgni6es into frjghtful-
looking creatures; but there is no reason to
believe that the sewage contributes any
poisonous matter to Chicago drinking water,
either Of animal or vegetable nature. It
may be that the articles intin,ating as much
have deeper purpose than mere temporary
sensation. It is whispered among men likely
to know TINT Il grand scheme Of public
improvements, involving the expenditure Of
many millions Of dollars, is in contempla-
ton for the second year Of Mayor HAnn1-
SONS administration, with the dasign Of Civ
ing the Democratic politicians a big haul
Perhaps the process of manufacturing public !
opinion to sustain that scheme has already |
been begun. The ngitation about water and !
sewerage may be part of the preparatory
work. In New York the public was i'm
pressed with the necessity Of having new
Courthouse, now docks, new market-hoqses,
and vast improvements in the parks as a
means for oponing up opportunities to the
Ring that robbed the people of that city of |
$3.50, 100000. The people Of Chicago will
do well to Keep this warning clearly in view
whenever there is tho remosest hint of spend
ing money on q large scale for public i'm
Year: 1879

4 city journal mora given to sensation


than to facts, and more solicitous for noto-


riety than the public welfare, has recently


endeavored to alarm the people who inhabit


Chicago as to the quality Of the water they


drink, and at the same time furnish the


newspapers Of rival cities with a new pre.


text for discouraging immigration to this


city. IF the water used for drinking in Chi


cago were either offensive or un wholesome


it would be proper for newspaper to as


certain in the public interest how it could be


improved in quality, or how other water
might be procured; but it is notorious that
our drinking water, procured two miles from


the shore Of the lake at q great depth, is


neither offensive nor unwholesome, and the
journal wa refer to has made no suggestion
of batter system for providing the city
with drinking water. There is no occasion
for alarm, in the first place, and, in the next
place, if there were, the journal engaged in
a sensational effort to create alarm has pro-
posed no remedy, and hence done no service.


The basis for the charge tina" Chicago
drinking-water is impura is that the contents
of the city sewers are mixed with it. eve
get from the faucet, says this journal,
'' animalcules that, short time before, went
through our underground drains with the
fostering sewage Wa have a system where
by the contents of the househoEders' sinks
and water.closets arc pumped back by
way OF the lake, at vast expense in
tunnels, standpipes, and nionstrous en-
gines. With all Difference to the Mayor,
the machinery for pumping sewage into
the water-malns is already quite up
to the needs Of the people" It can be easily
demonstrated that all this is gross exag-
eeratlon where it is not positive misstate-
ment The only sewers that empty directly
into the lake are located in a small section Of
the city lying east Of State street and
south Of Twelfth. It is safe to say that
these drains do not carry off one-twentieth
part Of the daily sewage Of this city, and so
much as they do carry is emptied into the
AXE at distance of several miles from the
source OF the water-supply, which is located
sWo miles east and from three to six miles north
rom the mouth Of these sewers. It is a}so
3el known that the current Of the lake
Tater On this shore is to the south, that is,
n the opposite direction from the Crib which
furnishes the >water~supply. The proof Of:
his is found in the sand-banks piled up On