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Year: 1874

OMAHA, March 4.-Major Gen.
Ord furnishes The following extracts of
a letter from Agent Sayille to COL
Smith, Fort Laramie


No disturbances since last dispatch
Many Indians have left, some with
the unconcealed intention Of joining
the war party. Affairs are so COM
plicated among them that troops are
needed to protect the agency. Crazy


torse is on the war path. The Chey-
ennes seem determined to keep the
peace. Now is the time for troops to
reach the agency, but would respect
fully suggest not to depend Gu too
small force. Two thou sand Indians
could be concentrated here in short
time. A regiment once inside this
s'ockade could defend it against any
force they could raise, but the Difficult
ty is to get here The Indians have
sentinels all over the country, and keep
a line along the hills Of the Platte, so
that a force starting from the fort
would be preceded by the Indians.
i think that if troops start at sundowu
and ride through without delay we
could hold the agency till they arrive.
The Indians can be taken by surprise
now, but two weeks later they would
surprise US. We will stand on the
defensive till you arrive. [ would
suggest that you do not start until my
messenger arrives. as unless we are
fully prepared we would probably al
be killed before you could get here.
Troops here means war, though a
large part of the Indians now here
will accept the situation when they once
get here"


Mr.. Dear, Trader, at the Red Cloud
Agency. ran the gauntlet on Monday
night drive of ninety miles, arriving
at Fort Laramie yesterday morning.
He was assisted to escape by two
friendly Indians. He confirms Agent
Saville's report, and states that the
Minneconjou and Brule war parties
are on Hot River, twenty-five miles
north of the agency. The troops that
left Fort Laramie Monday will reach
the agency this evening or tomorrow
morning, and will relieve the employees
There seems to be no question but that
there vii | be war, but the scene of the
trouble is so far removed from the
settlements that no fear whatever is
entertained that they will be troubled.
The weather is reported good.
Year: 1874

During the damp and cold season the
legs should be encased in re,y thick knit
woolen drawers, the feet in thick wooden
stockings (Which must be changed every
day., and the shoe soles must be as
broad as the feet when fully spread, so
that the blood shall have free passage.
If the feet are squeezed in the least, the
circulation is checked, and coldness is
inevitable. This free circulation can
not be secured by loose upper with Il
narrow sole. If when the foot stands
naked on a sheet of paper it measures
measure three and half.


l will suppose you have done all this
faithfully, and yet your feet and legs are
cold. Now add more woolen, or, if you
are to travel much in the cars, or in
sleigh, procure a pair of chamois-skin
or wash-leather drawers, which | have
found to be most satisfactory.


| have known number of ladies af-
ficted with hot and aching head, and
other evidence of congestion about the
upper parts, who were completely re-
lieved by a pair of chamois skin drawers
and broad soled shoes Three ladies in
every four suffer from some congestion
in the upper part of the body. 1t is
felt in a fullness of the head, i'll sore
throat, in palpitation of the heart, torpid
liver, and i'll many other ways. 1t is
well known that hot foot-bath will re-
lieve, for the time being, any and all
these difficulties. This bath draws the
blood into the legs and feet, relieving
the congestion above What the hot
foot-bath does for an hour, the broad
shoes, with thick WOODEN stockings, and
a pair of flannel drawers, with pair of
wash-leather drawers added, will do per
manently; of course | am speaking of
cold weather. No one hesitates to null
tiply the clothing about the trunk. Why
hesitate to increase the clothing about
the legs? AS a prevention of many
common affections about the chest,
throat and head, including nasal catarrh,
know nothing SO effective as the dress
of the lower extremities which | am adj
vocating.


The bath is good thing, exercise is
a good thing, friction is Il good thing
but, after all, our main dependence in
this climate must ever be, during the
cold season, warm clothing Already
we overdo this about our trunks, but
not one person in ten wears clothing
enough about the legs and eet.-Dio
Le'cis IN 7o-Dty.
Year: 1874

Some of our exchanges are descanting
on the ruin sure to follow getting in debt
to carry on farming operations. One
farmer, who stopped giving and asking
credit few years ago, records it as his
experience that he can now buy more
than he ever bought before and sell
more. The case is mentioned of the
French, who never go in debt, and who,
having been saving money since the
days of the First Napoleon, have become
the richest nation in the world, which
is proved by the fact that the German
indemnity of thousand millions of dol
lars which they were obliged to pay has
been all discharged in two years, while
we have been struggling for eight years
with twice as much. Perhaps the wealth
of the French farmers arises as mnch
from the small farm system and the
high cultivation they give to soil. There
is vast difference in farming i'll a loose
way and having all work done in the
best manner. .-Fxchange
Year: 1874

CLEANING CANE SEATs.-Turn up the
chair bottom, and with hot water and a
sponge wash the cane-work so that it may
be thoroughly soaked. Should it be
dirty, use little soap. Let it dry in
the air and it will be as dry and firm as
when new, provided the cane is not
broken.


To PREPARE WOODEN PAILs.-If a
pail receives three coats of common
copal varnish on the inside before being
used, it will never become water soaked,
nor will it give any disagreeable flavor
to water that may be allowed to stand
in it for any length of time. Thus its
usefulness and durability arc greatly in
creased. -Xca1th and Home.


BUcKwHEAT CAKEs.-If you want
buckwheat cakes ut moments warn
ing, mix in IA large stone or earthen pot.
When you take out quantum subfcH for
breakfast or supper, mix as much in an
other vessel as you take ont, and pour
it into the large pot, stirring it well.
BY observing this rule you will always
have nice, light cakes. The large pot
must be kept in the cellar.


RENovATING FEATHER BEDs.-Old
feather bods may be renovated by the
careful housewife in the following man.
ner: Put them on n clean grass-p plat
during heavy shower ; let them be-
come thoroughly wetted turn them on
both sides. When quite dry, beat them
with rods; this will tighten the feath-
ers and make them more healthful to
sleep on. This process removes dust
and rel juvenates the feathers.


70 Cook POULTRY. kinds of
poultry and meat can be cooked quicker
by adding to the water in which they
are boiled little vinegar or piece of
lemon. BY the use of an acid there
will be considerable saving of fuel, as
well as shortening of time. It's action
is beneficial ON old, tough meats, rem
dering them tender and easy of diges-
ton. Tainted meats and fowls willlose
their bad taste and odor if cooked in
this way, and if not used too freely no
taste of it will be acquired.


To CLEANSE CARPETS. One tea
spoonful liquid ammonia in one gallon
warm water, will often restore the color
of carpets, even if produced by acid or
alkali. If ceiling has been white
washed and the carpet disfgured by
drops of the mixture, this will remove
it. Or, after the carpet is well beaten
and brushed, scour with ox-gal], which
will not only extract grease, but fresh
en- the colors one pint of gall in
three gallons of warm water will do a
large carpet Table floor cloths may be
thus washed The suds lett from a
wash where ammonia is used, even if
almost cold, cleanses these floor cloths
| we'll
Year: 1874

The Syracuse Courier is responsible
for the following anecdote, relating to
well-known citizen: We came across
an item i'll the history of one of our ris-
ing young men, which we hasten to en-
balm and put on record. The story we
heard yesterday relates to former
crier of the courts in this county, who is
celebrated for his forensic abilities. It
so happened that during term of
County Court there were to be three
days races, which the presiding Judge
was very anxious to attend. He accord
ingly, ON the forenoon of the day previ-
ous, when the hour of adjournment ar-
rived, directed our friend to adjourn the
court The crier turned to the Judge
and asked to what time he would ad-
journ. The Judge whispered to adjourn
till after the races, supposing the crier
would take the hint and fix the date be-
yond that on which the races would ter
inmate but instead, he announced it in
this way: Hear ye! hear ye! This
court will stand adjourned SO that the
Judge can attend the races p The ef-
feet on the Judge can be imagined when
we state that he threw book at the
crier, hitting him stinging blow on the
back of the neck. Thereafter he was
very definite in fixing the time to which
the crier should adjourn. ''H
Year: 1874

The EFFECT OF SUNLIGHToN FLOUR
Recent experiments have shown that the
inferior quality of certain kinds of
wheat and rye flour is frequently due to
the action of sunlight, by which, even
Wsn suffers a. metsmorphoss sn M Di similnr lar to that
occasioned by heating in the mill. The
tendency thus impaired to it to become
lumpy, and to form dough without
toughness, is similar to that of flour
from moist grain, or of flour when it is
too fresh, or made from grain ground
too early, or when adulterated with
barley meal. Such -four can be i'm
proved by keeping for some weeks
Journal of Chemistry.
Year: 1874

.Ir's VERY HARD It's very hard to
have nothing to eat but porridge, when
others have every ssrt Of dainty, NUT
tered Charlie, as he sat with his wooden
bowl before him. It's very hard to have
TO get up so early on these bitter cold
mornings, and work hard all day, when
others can enjoy themselves without an
hour of labor! It's very hard to have
trudge along through the snow, while
others roll about in their coaches"


It's great blessing, said his grand
mother, as she sat at her knitting, to
have food when 50 many are hungry it's
a great blessing TO have a roof over one
head when so many are homeless; it's q
great blessing TO have sight, and hearing
and strength for early labor, when So
many are blind, deaf. or suffering!


why, grandmother, you seem to
think that nothing is hard, said the boy
eth in n grumblng tone.


mo, Charlie; there is one thing that
thisk very hard.


What's that?' cried Charlie, vino
thought at last his grandmother had
found some cause for complaint


why, l think hat heart 10 rsry haro
that Is not thankful for SO many bless
,ngs?
Year: 1874

warranted not to cut in the eye---not head
ache in hhds. of tit Is no sooner in your
belly than lis on your back in pound of beet
and it carries a bead like a necklace; for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN.
Year: 1874

ing pouItices on Blackwelrs Island. Britton's
overthrow was merely question OF time. and
the desperate expcdients to which he lately re-
sorted did not postpone it for single hour.


Some peculiarities about the Brooklyn Ring,
whose last fragment is thus put out of sight,
deserye very thoughtful consideration. Here
in New-York the Tweed party sustained itself
almost entirely by the purchased suffrages OF
the lowest class of the population. Its officers
were The ruilianly gentlemen with dyed mus
taches, and light OvercOats, and patent leather
boots, who smoked cigars and drank cham
pagne and brandy in snowy bar-roonis and
the parlors of the Americus Club, laughed at
the vulgar stories OF Barnard in his cOnviyial
haunts, and drove fast horses on Harlem Lane.
Its rank and file were the dirty and ignorant
patrons of the cheap whisky shops. There
never was q day, even at the summit OF DIS
power, when Tweed could have been received
in any reputable drawing room, or the richest
members of the Ring could hope for social
recognition The distinction of class on
this side of the ferry was always sharply
defined. The municipal thieves stood apart
from the rest of the community. But in
Brooklyn the case has been different. Citizens





men of elegant department and enviable con-
nections have been, if not the active allies, at
least the social companions of persons who
ought long ago to have been in the Peniten-
tiary, and who now stand fair chance OF
going there; and the influence OF these
hackers, extending far and wide into all parts
of the community, has been the most formid-
able difficulty for the reformers to overcome
We shall not undertake to account just now
for the striking difference between New-York
and Brooklyn, although the explanation
doubtless could easily be found. But now
that the way is open for o better and a purer
governments, the citizens of Brooklyn Will do
well to inquire how the Ring got its power,
and how it contrived to retain it 80 long after
tho character of its operations was at least
partially understood
Year: 1874

In his very able and exhaustive speech in
the Senate upon the Louisiana case, Senator
Carpenter succeeded in setting forth IN their
proper colors the conspicuous features OF the
great fraud which, between corrupt Federal
officials and weak Administration, has been
perpetrated and continued in that State. No
one can read Mr.. Carpenters summing up of
the testimony before the Committee, his clear
analysis of the evidence and his unanswerable
presentation Of facts whose force can
not be gainsayed or refuted, without
becoming thoroughly satisfied that the


present Government of that State is from the
beginning fraud and usurpation 1t is hardly
denlol w any Que. Senator CaCDenkeI'a h
Year: 1874

This year is likely to be as remarkable in
the spiritual history of the country as in the
material 1t is a well-known fact that every
great national crisis or disaster is followed by
some remarkable awakening of interest in
spiritual things. We need not resort
to any supernatural hypothesis to ex-
plain this result. As long as affairs
pursue their regular and wholesome course,
nothing is more natural than that men should
devote themselves to their temporal interests
to the neglect of things invisible. The condi-
ton Of the soul of that rich mau who had
much goods laid up for many years was not
as discouraging rs that of the one who
is still engaged in laying up the goods.
The man incumbered by wealth, we are told
by the highest authority has hard task to
enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. But he whose
whole being is absorbed in the accumulation of
riches does not even think of attempting an
eptraQC9 II il tor this roasoo that ner'ods
Year: 1874

As we give space elsewhere to the letter OF
a friend of Gen. Hillyer protesting in the
strongest terms the fitness of the General
for the extraordinary appointment which
has just been conferred upon him.
il is only fair to state that, like
our correspondent we too speak from
long knowledge of the subject. We have no
wish to say an unkind word of Gen. Hiliyer
some Of whose qualifications certainly
commend him to the goodwill, as his
services in the war do, at least, to the
friendly charity of the public. We only say
as a matter of public notoriety that his ap-
pointment as the successor of Judge Hogc-
boom for the duties of Appraiser at
this port is so prepOsterously unfit as
20 be grotesque. As we have before stated,
Gen. Grant has not an honest and intelligent
personal friend in this city at all acquainted
with the duties of Appraiser, or with Gen.
Hilyer, who will not promptly tell him the
same thing.
Year: 1874

The news from Japan grows more threaten
ing. The question of war with CoTea, as
previously indicated in TIE TRIBUNE, is sure
TO break up the present Ministry, and result
ln civil strife. Iwakura, the Conservative and
exceedingly able Prime Minister, has been
obliged to resign. The interests of peace and
progress would sustain him in his Ministry
and thus disappoint the war party.
Year: 1874

Few people know how much suffering has
been avoided by the poor on account OF the
mildness Of the present Winter. The unfor-
tunatcs who sleep in the streets and byways
of the city have had comparatively comfort
able time But the lodging-houses for the
poor-Charity's inns-have been taxed to their
full capacity. nevertheless. What these hum
BILE houses are. and and how they are con-
Quoted, is told on another page Of THE TRIB-
uNI to-day. The sketch on our third page is
certainly seasOnable reading.
Year: 1874

BY a vote Of 20 to IS the Senate yesterday
adopted Mr.. Merrimon's proposition to increase
the circulation to s4OO,oOOO0o. This need not
be taken as q decided indication OF the tenn
per of the Senate upon the general subject OF
imitation. In point of fact. that body has been
on all sides of the question $50 far as votes
prove anything) since this debate began.
Still, it will be claimed as victory by the
inflatiouists, who are in high glee over their
apparent success. The action of the Senate ls
enough to prove that there ia still great
danger that Congress may eventually drift
through an interminable drizzle of debate into
indefinite expansion.
Year: 1874

Our Washington dispatches give sketches OF
several plans by which it is proposed to cir
culate public documents at public expense
These are all notifications of the franking
privilege. In other words there would be no
care for the distribution of the documents, II
Congressman had an unlimited right to send
matter through the mails without cost; but,
deprived of this right. Congressman say that
they must at least have facilities for sending
printed matter without cost Would 1t not be
inst as well, then. il tho opponents OF q
revival of the franking abuse should change
their guns and attack the printing nuisance
Year: 1874

revenue the speaker also mentioned,
and said that even il the liquor business
does pay an annual revenue Of O.0oO.-
900, ten times that amount could never
make an evil right. And there is moth !
ing in the cry that there will be sur
plus Of grain. The wants Of the world
for bread, and food for cattle, will take
every particle Of grain. he said that
be had more respect for a dTunkrrd
than for . moderate drinker, because .
moderate drinker is simply one whose
nervous organization is better than one
who becomes drunk. In regard to the
statement that praying on the streets
would bring disrespect on religion, he
said that the prayers Of the women in
Steubenville had done more to advance
the cause of the Church than all the
sernous that had been preached In
that ace ior the last ten years


After Mr. Stewart had concluded,
Mr.. Bsrni,z read telegram from the
ladies of St. Clairsville, which ia given
in the report OF proceedings on the
street.


The announcements oi meetings
were then made, (they will be found
among the new advertisements,) the
benedic,iou pronounced and the su-
d;euce dispersed.
Year: 1874

TIE prospective improvement OF the
principal thoroughfares OF the city
seems to be assuming q tangible shape
According to the report presented 10
Council last night the cost OF the pro.
posed paving will not be 30 great as hal
been heretofore assumed, and there is
no constitutional difficulty in the way oi
providing the necessary funds. Five per
cent o. the asss ssed valuation OF city
property lie 1925 900. which is the limit
fixed by the constitution Tor the in -
debtedness OF any municipal corporation
in the State. The present debt Of the
city is etated at s49l 900. leaving
q margin OF Sl34 900 tor which new
bonds may be issued Tor any purpose
which ,he,people may approve.


1t is proper to remark in this connec-
ton lhat considerable portion OF the
s49l ,O01 o! the present Indebtedness oi
the city is in process Of liquidation and
will be shortly paid off, its redemption
being fully provided for out OF the
present revenue.


That the issue OF the necessary
bonds for street paving purposes will
bc authorized by popular vote. we bave
not the slightest doubt. Public opin-
ION upon the subject is already so
we'll defined snd so near
" unanimous that the Vste
will be mere formality. there being
80 far az we are at prese.t informed, nc
opposition to the important improve
ment which is prop"spd.
Year: 1874

II,


The general stock market continues dull and un-
settled, and will very likely remain till the
to be pursued by Congress upon the question of
rency and finance shall be more definitely under
stood. The energetic protest of the leading mer-
chants and business mep Of New-York against the
Year: 1874

The cases OF Oricer Graham, who was tried
before the Board OF Police for illegally arrestng
and causing the imprisonment OF two young
ladies', and Sergeant Schultz, who was charged
with using offensive language to them in the
station house when they were arragned before
MN Dy O1lcer Graham, have been laid over by the
Board oil Police TO await the action OF the higher
Court before which they are TO be tried. At the
close OF the examination before the Board OF
Police the friends OF the young ladies presented
themselves before the Grand Jury, made a com.
paint OF the case, and indictments were issued
Of this action the Police Commissioners laid over
their judgments IN the matter, as is usual in such
cases, until alter the inquiries In the upper tribu-
nal. This course IS adopted In Justice to the
accused, Win the view or not pEeJudicing the
aspect OF the defence IN alter triala.
Year: 1874

ceiling thar amount Of the old bonded indebted.
ness OF the town The entire ince otedness Will be
funded IN the course OF a few weeks


The schooner West Wind. Captain Tracy from
Phlladelphia for Fall River. with load Of coal,
went ashore OF Freeport about ten O'Clock on
Friday night in dense fog. The greater part OF
the cargo had to be thrown overheard before she
could be got on, ana number OF the haymen took
inc opportunity TO get In their winter supply OF
coal.


The overseers OF the Poor OF the town OF New
town are endeavoring 70 effect an arrangement
with the County Superintendents whereby the
poor OF the own who every winter take up their
abode In the town poorhouse can be sent TO the
County P0orhouse, and thus be made 10 make
some return by labor for the expense OF their
malnt tenapce.


Building operations at A. T. Stewards Garden
City are being pushed forward with great rapidity.
Ten new houses are now nearly completed, and a
contract has been awarded for the erection OF
twenty more, the foundations or which nave
already been commenced. Tne brick stables ad-
jacent TO the hotel and the brick freight house Of
the Central Rallroad are also nearly completed.