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Year: 1875

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Department. Such is the stand we take,
and in maintaining It we hope not to be
misunderstood as waging warfare against
individuals, when, in point Of fact, our
chosen foeman is a corrupt and rotten
system.


There is 40 question Of more impor-
tanee to the residents Of Montana than
the one Of quick and easy transportation.
On this matter we propose to express
our views plainly, regardless Of whom
they may affect. Experience has shown,
beyond doubt, that the new route from
Carroll City to Helena has proved any
thing but q success And although
abundant means and almost superhuman
energy were expended last summer in.
that direction, the expectations Of the
business menof this Territory were sadly
disappointed. The public had been lead
to believe that al merchandise would be
delivered at it's proper destination greatly
in a6lvance:of any previous means of trans
portation, but so far from this being the
case, a longer delay than ever before


known was the result. This statement
can easily be verified by many sufferers
in Helena.


On the other hand, the former mode
Of transportation, via. Benton, gave per-
feet satisfaction to all concerned; and
whilst we are always ready to he'll with
delight any move in anew direction which
is really benefit to the people, we are
not prepared, simply for the sake Of
change, to advocate 4 measure that -
more nominal than practical To be
weighed in the balance and found want
ing, is the criterion which no enlightened.
American citizen can refuse to receive;
and we earnestly contend that we can
produce solid evidence Of success on the
part Of the Benton line, whilst, on the
other hand, partial if not total failure is
the prominent characteristic of the Car
roll route,


Another object Of concern with Us, and
a leading one, will be to set forth the ad
vantages of this Territory in general, and
in particular the section We represent, SO.
as to induce Immigration, ndpromote the
development Of our vast natural resour-
ces. IL we have not the gold and silver
Of our sister sections, we have what is
not a whit less important-a command
ing commercial point, and an agrcultu-
raj and pastoral country that is without
d superior beneath the armament Of
heaven. t IS our expectation that the
present sparse and scattered settlements
will, ere many years, become compact
and populous communities; and what aid
the RECORD can extend to hasten this
desirable oonsummation shall be freely
and frequently employed.


In politics, either National OF Terri
torial, we 90 not propose to take any de-
eided part. Nothing is more injurious
to the people than to be constantly ezer-
cising their minds as to which political
r,arty has q mission to save the country.
# will be time enough for that when our
Territory has arrived to the maturity oil
) State, and We have neither time nor
inclination to discuss side issues whilst
interests Of q more material nature are
constantly demanding our attention.


IL conclusion re would add, that all
Year: 1875

never pausing until she reached the shelter Of
clump of trees, in the deep shade of which
she stopped for few moments to rest. Look
ing back, she could see the ravages the lire
was making on one side of the house. A great
portion of the shed had fallen in, exposing
the blackened rafters, and the little room of
the kitchen seemed to be entirely destroyed.
In the light of the flames she could discern
black figures fitting distractedly about; Ra-
phael and his sister, and one or two others,
probably some acquaintances, who had come
to their aid in trying to suppress the contia'
grafton. .


After waiting long enough to recover
breath and composure, she proceeded on her
way, not quite as rapidly as at first, lest she
should too soon exhaust her strength. She
crossed the field she had entered, and climb.
ing the fence, found herself in little path
leading to wood, which looked dark and
gloomy enough to terrify her, but she could
see no other way of proceeding. She went on,
with trembling limbs and beating heart,
and an unspoken prayer for protection and
help. The peril Of this darksome wood, peo-
pied as it seemed to her Imagination, with
weird moving shapes and fantastic shadows,
appeared scarcely less than that from which
she had been delivered. Her nerves, always
excitable and weak, were scarcely equal to the
strain upon them, and she felt ready to faint.
The moonlight, penetrating through the en-.
twining foliage, cast ghostly, uncertain ra'
dance upon her path. Dismal stories she
had heard or read in her childhood, of haunt
ed woods, and supernatural beings who visited
the earth at midnight, crowded upon her
memory. As long as she could, she combated
her fears, but they proved at last too strong
for endurance, and over.powered by mingled
fatigue and intense excitement, she sank faint
ing upon the ground.
Year: 1875

QJO WEST 25TH STA RESPECTABLE YOUNG
ClO girl to do general housework upstairs work in
private family also you girl children in


private family good city references Call address for
two days.
Year: 1875

DOVER ITEMs-[ From The Local Press. THE
public schools are open.


The dryery consumed about 200 baskets of
fruit daily.


The Dover club propose tournament OF base
oail to begin about Sept. Goth. The proposed
arrangement is to allow any club to enter on the
payment of small entrance fee as guarantee OF
good faith prize Of at least one hundred dol
lars and half the entrance fees, to the club win
hing the most games in the series, the gate
money at each game to be divided equally be-
tween the contestants. Each club which enters
~ill be Obliged to play one game with each club
entered, and if any clubs tie to be played of, a
single game to decide the tie.
Year: 1875

The message of Mr.. Grant about Ar
kansas is one of the most amazing and
ridiculous things he has done yet. In
the case of Louisiana, he had pretext,
himsy pretext, to be sure, in the mac
tion of Congress. In the case OF Arkan-
sas he had no pretext at all. Arkansas,
no thanks to him, is in state of peace.
Since the difficulties between Brooks
and Baxter were composed, we have
heard no bad news from there. Mr.
Morton's friends in the press have not
even thought it worth their while to
invent any. The only opposition to the
present State Government appears to
proceed from particularly small and
pestilent faction, which lives and ope-
rates in Washington, and not in Arkan-
sas ut all. This faction has captured
Mr.. Grant. We really do not wish to be
more disrespectful to him than his be-
havior compels. but the natural conclu-
sion from his message is that they have
made the acquaintance of Mr.. Grant in
the capacity rather of boon companions
than OF remonstrants. Let anybody read
the message itself and our correspond
ent' 8 carefHl and temperate statement
OF the circumstances under which it was
written, and his natural conclusion must
be that the man who wrote it was drunk
or the man was crazy. The immediate
effect of it will be, if the discussion in
Congress allows it to have any effect at
all, to renew the turmoil in Arkansas,
which has once been thoroughly and we
all hoped finally allayed The final eff
feet OF it, SO far as its author is concern
ed, must be to drive another nail into
his coffin. Everything the President
does makes palmer the judicial blind
ness with which he has baen curSad IN
ALLEVIATE all tho supporters who are left
to him, except his mercenaries, and to
disgust more deeply all his enemies. AS
party men, Democrats may rejoice in
this, and indeed they are entitled to
but as patriots they must be ashamed OF
their country, over the government OF
which a man who seems to take per.
verse delight in showing how unfit he is
by nature, education and habit, for any
public post at all in free country. is set
to preside.
Year: 1875

The people of Wilmington ought to
congratulate the members of the Board
of Public Education for the evidence of
returning reason exhibited at the last
meeting. We are glad to see so strong
an indication manifested that the preju-
dice against the white people and their
children is on the wane. And it af-
fords US hope that ere long white man
and his offspring will be able to get on
platform of equality and will not be put
aside in all the political organizations of
our Republican friends, or whenever a
discussion arises where they have the
majority. In fact the time appears to
be coming when white Republicans and
white Democrats will be permitted to
claim some rights that the negroes and
their allies will be "bound to respect"


For the last ten years the would-be
leading Radicals in the Board of Educa-
tion have been pushing the young ne
groes forward at every opportunity. The
last effort was the opening of negro
school on the South-side, near Third
street bridge. This was done on the
petition of several negroes, who asserted
that there were about seventy children
there without school. Last Monday
night, at the meeting of the Board, it
appeared that this school had run down
to five or six in daily attendance, and
the school was very properly ordered to
be closed. At the same time PROPOSE
tion was made to open a negro school
near Second and Washington streets,
which was also properly rejected. It
appears that there is room for nearly
one hundred additional scholars in the
Howard School, which is among the best
school buildings in the city. Mr.. George
Roberts objected to the negro children
being required to walk SO far to school ;
whereupon s. Macallister, Esq, stated
that when he was boy he had to walk
from two to three miles to school. The
Howard School is about half-mile from
Second and Washington streets This
brought out DR.. Grimshaw, who remind
ed the Board that the last speaker
"aoas nhite." The Doctor is some
what of wag. But really there is no
Joke in the matter. The Board has dis
covered that it has been expending much
OF the hard-earned money of the white
taxables very foolishly in sustaining ne.
gro schools that were unnecessary. Both
Mr.. Fraim and Mr.. Macallister said there
was room in the Howard School for all
the negro children.
Year: 1875

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The events OF the past year, par
ticularly the Administration manage
ment Of the Congressional campaign
of 1874, in which the staple of discus
xion was the oppressed condition of the
negro and the outrages and intimida.
tions practiced at the South, are full Of
Significance for the political future.
The Presidential campaign Of 1876 has
been opened already, Mr.. Conkling
says, and we do not doubt it. II is the
deliberate intention of the Admins
tration managers to make it campa-
ign of sectional and race hate. In the
campaign preceding the Fall elections,
men who ought not to lend themselves
to so unpatriotic, so devilish pro-
gramme filed their speeches with moth
ing but bogus outrages and assassina-
tions, the inventions of Charles Hays
and others, in which there was no truth
decency, or humanity. 1t was upon
the strength of these brutal slanders
and contemplate fictions that gentle
men who call themselves respectable
and honorable went upon the stump
and appealed to the worst passions in
the minds of men in order to intlame
The smoldering animosities of the war
and save their party from defeat. The


whole action of the Administration
party through the session has been on
the same line and in the same direc-
ton. The effort to pass the Civil Rights
bill is part of the same programme. 1t
puts the whites and blacks at variance
in the South; it promotes i'll feeling in
stead of harmony and kindness; 1t gives
the Administration party new hold
upon the negro as his peculiar friend,
and it goes far to renew the bitterness
and hatred of the war.


The whole line of the debates in the
House, the temper of Republican
leaders, the speeches in the Senate and


House on the Louisiana question and
the Civil Rights bill, indicate this as
the policy of the Republican managers


to prop their failing party fortunes in


1876. The war spirit is to be again ap-
pealed to, the old jealousies renewed,
and old passions rekindled. A more
mischievous and wicked plot against
the public peace could hardly be devils
ed Leading Republicans are working
themselves up by violent language to
a proper pitch; the army in Louisiana,


used to sustain the Kellogg usurpation,
contributes somewhat by exasperating
the white citizens of the South; and
from this time forward no means will
be left untried to incite the old section


al hostility, and with it war of races.
What for? Not to give the negro his
rights; he has them now. Not to pre-
vent intimidation, or any such nom


sense as that; it is not i'll reason that


any thinking man should want tho
United States Government to interfere
with all its power to protect from be-


ing bribed or bullied, a voter to whose
ignorant mind the ballot has no mean


ing, nor party names any real signiti-


canoe. No, all this narrowing up of


the public mind with fictitious outrages


this setting the whole country by the


ears, has but one object, and that is to


keep the Administration party in
power. And perhaps little later, when


it shall have more fully developed, we


shall see it is to keep the Administra-


tion itself in power Upon the whole
/ is il worth il !?
Year: 1875

RESPECTING the charges of Prof. Marsh.
the Boston Advertiser says that there has
been persistent effort made by both sides to
have the question prejudged. The violent
opposition organs have labored to impress the
public that the Red Cloud Indians have been
defrauded, but that no INVESTIGATION will be
important which does not convict the officials
of fraud. On the other hand certain persons
have the absurd idea that they can best serve
the administration by defending every act of
every offiei Of course they scout the idea
of an investigation. Meanwhile the COM
mission to investigate the charges has met
and we nave right to expect full investi-
CATION and an impartial scrutiny.
Year: 1875

OENAIOh IHUT IudH 8 GXpIdnuCIOn OF us
course with regard to the Columbus resolu-
tion in favor of soft money is not very salts
factory. A man mey yield properly enough
for the sake of harmony on question of pol
icy simply, but the maintenance of public
honor and credit is not one of tha. kind. It
is question of pure principle and no man
can justify himself in asserting to declar a.
tion of principles which if put in force would
violate that honor and destroy that credit.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters 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 CT reserve commu
nieations that are not used
Year: 1875

The Statesman says the politics or
religion Of newspaper has nothing
to do with its value as an advertising
medium. They have both good deal
to do with the circulation, and that has
q coed deal to do with the value of Il
paper as means Of making known bu-
siness, &c. Our observation is, thai
when paper gets the circulation, /,
must then labor to get the advertising
patronage which isso necessary to sue
cess.


The Austin News calls out for fair
play for the Convention. Let the
Convention have it. Their work will
soon go to the people, who finally ac-
cord justice, almost unernngly.


The "Sweet Rogue" on the San An
tonic Herald takes off the Galveston
cyclone literature capitally in its issue
Of the 9th. No wonder the Herald is
rapidly extending its circulation aud
influence. ....


The Corpus Christi Gazette is one Of
the best papers in the State, and is a
credit to the section in which it is pub
lished.


The Semi Weekly Independent,
from Greenville, Hunt county, is on
our table. We are pleased with the
stranger, and hope to greet him often
in future.
Year: 1875

The Galveston News thinks, and
very properly too, that the Texas
Pacific Railway should make ar
rangcmeuts for terminus at Gal
weston, OF cease to howl for exten-
sion Of time, as to secure her i'm
mense grants of land from the
State. II Texas has been thus
generous in donating lands and in
extending time 70 as to save for
feiture by the road, the advantage
of terminal point in the State,
should be granted, or the State
should simply withdraw the dona-
tion by refusing the necessary ex-
tension. We cannot see how it is,
that any other view can be taken of
the matter, and we shall support the
News in this position, with all our
might.
Year: 1875

A PIG THrEF.-On Thursday evening, pig,
weighing about 100 pounds was stolen from the
sty of Henry G. Banning. The thief took it in
to the woods below Mr.. Banning house and cut
it in two, carrying away the hind quarters and
leaving the remainder. 1t ia not likely that the
thief knew that the pig had been sick.
Year: 1875

THE PARTING HOUR,
There's something in the parting hour
Will chill the warmest heart
Yet kindred, comrades, lovers, friends,
Are fateG all to part;
But this I've seen-and many a pang
Has pressed it on my mind
The one who goes is happier


Than those be leaves behind.
No matter what the journey be


Adventurous, dangerous, far,
To the wild deep or bleak frontier.
To solitude or war
Still something cheers the heart that dares
In all of human kind,
And they who 20 are happier


Than those they leave behind.
The bride goes to the bFidegroom's home
With doubtings and with tears.
Bat does not Hope her rainbow spread
Across her cloudy fears
Alas the mother who remains


What comfort can she find,
But this-the gone is happier


Than one she leaves behind
Have you friend-a comrade dear ?
An old and valued friend?
Be sure your term of sweet concOurse
At length will have an end
And when you part-as part you will
o take it not uukind,
If he who goes is happier
Than you he leaves behind
God wills it so-and 50 it is;


The pilgrims on their way.
Though weak and worn, more cheerful


are


Than all the rest who stay.
And when, at last, poor man subdued,
Lies down to death resigned,
May he not still be happier far
Than those he leaves behind
Year: 1875

Sir" said Mr. Magruder, addressing
Mr.. Macguffn at the boarding house
dinner table, do you incline to favor
the theory of contraction or expansion p
If said Mr.. Macgufhin :. pausing in
desperate struggle to cut the small piece
of tough meat that had been set before
him in response to his order for roast
beef. if you refer t. money, sir, l an
hesi'atingly give in my adherence to con-
traction but Il you refer to the bill Of
fare in this boarding house, then sir, I
am heart and soul for expansion"
Year: 1875

a young lady Of engaging personal
appearance, says the Burlington Haw-
key, who came here last week, from
Creston, recently announced that she
was going to open barber shop on the
North Hill. The very next day, which
was yesterday, each married woman on
North Hi surprised her husband,
whose virtues she had long known and
admired, with neat little present, con-
sisting of razor, latherbrush and strop.
And now as oft as a North Bill man
comes home, the wife Of his bosom puts
her arms around his neck and rubs her
downy cheek against his face, in all ap-
parent innocence and affection, bat if
his cheek is smoother. than when he
went away from home in the morning,
she fans him with the rolling pin until
he has to wear his hat on which ever
lump it Will fit best.
Year: 1875

The New YORK Journal of Commerce,
one of the most conservative of the
northern democratic papers, in reply to
a correspondent, explains that in the in
aation demonstration of the democratic
leaders in Ohio intended to do nothing
more than to create diversion in their
favor since the sch col question was like
ly to give bitterness to the canvass, aud
to give some expression to the popular
discomfort concerning the muddling of
financial affairs at Washington, without
really knowing in what the error con-
sisted or how it could besRbe remedied !;
that the republicans cried hard money
vigorously enough during the campaign,
but they are the authors of both the rag
money and the the theory of repudia-
ton as interpreted in the proposition to
pay off the bondholders in paper, and
mean nothing by their cry; that there
will be no serions attempt by any party
to force resumption of specie payments
January 1, 187 9; and that if the attempt
to force a resumtion lead to war deslruc-
ton of industries, as it will, the sufferers
will rebel and the work be suspended.
Year: 1875

The PUllman lines maze hay while the
sun shone, but the days Of the monopoly
are drawing to close. Lucas is lighting
them ia the south, and Wagner in the
north. The latter is a dangerous com
petitor, and already reaches from New
York tc Chicago over the most popular
route for travel Competitor viii even u
ally bring the price Of berihs down to a
reasonable figure.
Year: 1875

Some hunters, looking for rabbits in a piece of woods near the northern part of Jamaica, Long Island, were suddenly startley by hearing 8 strange noise i'm mediately under their feet, and immedi

 ately afterward bare-headed man rose

 literally out of the earth only few feet away On reaching the place they found 8 square hole in the ground, about the size of an ordinary roof scuttle, descend ing through which they found an apart

 ment dug in the earth, about ten by five feet in area and five feet high. The man whom the hunters had seen was there, and proved to be a stout-built German, who, however, could hardly speak English sufficiently to render him self intelligible. Nothing was found in dicating that the man was leading an unlawful life, and his own explanation was that he lived there rather that go to the poorhouse, and for three years had spent his winters in this underground abode, although in the summer time he worked for the neighboring farmers. The only light in the place was from the entrance; and but dimly revealed the peculiarities of this singular abode. The walls were of earth and the roof was formed by laying timbers across and covering them with earth and leaves. On one side was low bunk covered with dirty bedclothes, and at the far end rose an improvised stove of brick, in which 8 fire was burning, and on the hearth was pan of some kind of food. When the trap was shut not ray of light could penetrate the hole, and the only means of ventilation was through the stove pipe. Subsequent Investigations made with the aid of an interpreter prove that the mans name is Chrisdorf Koerner, and that six years ago he was a German soldier. Four years ago, he dug the hole for his present residence and has occupied it every winter since, preferring it to the county poorhouse. He has worked in the summers for a Mr. Backus and other farmers, and iii this respect his story is confirmed. His habit has been to go out evenings to make his little purchases of provisions.