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Year: 1879

Miss La Flesche, daughter OF White Eagle,
head chief Of the Omaha Indians, In talk re-
Gently with newspaper man said Of the Indian
question: "You hear but one side. We have no
newspapers to tell our story. tell you the SOL
diers do things with the prisoners or the dead as
horrible as any Indian could think of. Then
you people are always the aggressors. I'll tell
you case 1 know of. Two young white men met
an Indian with basket of potatoes One Of
them said he would like to say when he went
home to the East that he had shot an Indian.
The other dared him to shoot this one. He
drew revolver and shot him. The indian was
an Omaha Oh, tell you, If he had been a
Sioux or a Cheyenne you would have heard
from it. But we knew we would gain nothing,
and nothing was done. | propose that you white
people treat us on a platform Of plain honesty,
and let us be citizens We now are farmers, and
are doing we'll. We want to stay there, and want
assurance that we can live like other farmers,
We have deposed the chiefs, and want to be Just
Ike other citizens of the State.
Year: 1879

Nothing is easier to q man Of genius, nothing
more certain proof and part Of It, than to compose
what raises mems wonder and admiration; moth
ing more difficult than to show them distinctly
the simplest and most obvious truths-tPenn.
Year: 1879

force its way in to where we were. 1t proved
forty-ive men, of the Ninth (colored) cavalry.
If there was a negro hater in camp at that
moment he did not show himself. There
never was drawer thing done than
this rush to our assistance by the company of
gallant colored men. Their approach had been
most dangerous and difficult but hearing of our
situation they had persisted without haltng and
without fear. You can imagine how we well
coined them. During tho ensuing days and
and discomforts with patience that cannot be
too highly praised.


HORRIBLE SITUATION.


Our lot gradually became sickenng from
the stencil arising from the putrid animals,
300 of whose bodies were at length
stretched within few yards of our fortifca-
tions. Our wounded who could hobbIe about
were malodorous to their own nostrils, for there
was hardly water enough to wash their wounds.
Every night sally would be made from camp
for water, and these salies were always
ut great risk. The Utes, who knew
the path which must be taken to the water, al
ways had their rifles ready to bear on it. Rough
as the gauntlet was only one soldier was shot
dead while running it.


DIGGING HOSPITAL.


Lieutenant Paddock, wounded on the 10Th,
was unable at first to get about A deep hole
was dug in the middle Of the camp for a hos
pitaL Therein, living grave, poor Paddock,
with three wounded soldiers us companions,
lay protected from the Indian ire until this
morning.


RELIEF AT LAST.


Today came the event which, though on n
small scale reminded many of us of the touching
scene ut the relief of Lucknow. and this brings
me to the record Of march which, learned from
in our Western annals 1t appears that the
scout who left this command Mt midnight
of the 10Th made an unexamped ride
10 Rawlins, 165 miles distant, in twenty
four hours. He took from Captain Payne
word that we could probably hold out five or
six days Really few of us hoped that help
could reach us in that time, The military must
have done wonders, for General Merritt-not
any where near Rawlins when Rankin reached
there--came there in time to make a march.
which consumed somewhat more than forty
eight hours of marching time, and brought him
here this morning.


TERRIBLE MARCH.


Those of us who know the country between
here and Rawlins appreciate the prodgious en-
ergy and loyalty to fellow soldiers in danger
which made so rapid march possible 1t was
q relentless one to men and animals. The roads
were dusty beyond precedent for miles at u
stretch, and impcded by hummocks, making
them difficult for wagons, two of which were
overturned. Tcamstcrs and mule packers sus
fercd dreadfully. The packers had to
disinount nearly every half hour to
tighten tho ropes which bound their
loads and several packers dropped on the way
from sheet exhaustion. An advanced guard was
maintained during tho forced journey. In front
Year: 1879

of this guard and ON both tanks scouts were
Kept ranging to prevent surprise. Terrible as
the strain of the march was every one who
could endure it was willing to do 80, thinking Of
the worse plight of the little band which they
were their way TO save. =
Year: 1879

Life is becoming too cheap in this great
country of freedom, equality, justice and
law. Two prominent instances have oc-
CURED within as many weeks where citizens
have been ruthlessly shot down under po-
litical differences; and though the forms of
law may be respected we predict that
righteous judgment will not overtake either
of the murderers. In the Yazoo case the
murder WAS cowardly and successful.
In the San Francisco affair there is chance
for the victim to escape with his life, though
the act which came so near his taking of is
among the most brutal and cOwardly that
have blotted the annals of crime for years.
The Yazoo murder was after the Mississippi
plan-a shotgun loaded with deadly buck
shot-deliberate aim and certa in death to
the victim, thus taken at disadvantage. In
this case there will be no punishment for
this crime, for the reason that under low
order of civilization public sentiment de-
fends and justities such crimes,


The California affair is if possible, more
dastardly than that of Mississippi. The
real facts as they reach us do not afford any
relieving characteristics for the case. 1t
was deliberate and cowardly attempt at
murder, and the murderer has shown him
self to be the aggressive assassin through
out the entire affair. In the first place
DE YOUNG has q powerful newspaper, while
KALLocH has no such means of fertilization
or defense. Then DE Young assailed the
memory of the dead father of KALLoCH I;
and, as any son would do who is not q
degenerate offspring, KALLoCH retaliated
upon his fathers assailant rs he best could
without journalistic aid. lie took the ros-
trum and retailed to the public ear un-
pleasant events relating TO the annals of
the DE YOUNG family. This, which was
provoked, and which is defensible if any
such act can be defended under any
circumstances, greatly incensed the DE
YoUNGs, and one of the brothers took
and there, ensconced behind the closed
windows of the vehicle, attended by a
messenger boy picked up on the street,
went "a-gunning" for his victim thus armed
and concealed 1t appears that thus ac-
coutred and hidden from view, DE YOUNG
drove from place TO place until KALLoCH
was found in front of his residence, about to
enter buggy. Then, instead of alighting
from his coupe and confronting his victim
in manly way, DE YoUNG dispatched his
messenger to him with tho sneaking lie
that lady in the coupe wanted to see him.
KALLocH approached the coupe where DE
YOUNG was concealed, and was shot from
the ambuscade of the murderer who had
thus soughthis lifein manner known only
to the most arrant cowardico. This is
the tale in brief KALLocH may re-
cover. but his intended murderer should
Year: 1879

The Philadelphia Times seems to have an
occasional lucid moment that it devotes to
politics. Recently, when one of these
periods was on, it gave uttorance to the fol-
lowing, which seems to partake more largely
of sound sense than is usual with its po-
litical fulminations:


Some of the party organs very much fear
that GRANT may be the next Republican can
didate for President but, as rule, they dare
not oppose his nomination. 1t is from that
class Of public journals that we hear about
once q month that GRANT won't be candi-
date for President, land that ho can't be per.
suaded to accept the office. True they have
never yet been able to extort from GRANT
anything like a positive decination of third
term, but they hear from him periodically in
all manner of roundabout ways, through some
friend in Washington or other political centre,
or they read between the lines some most
carefully.guarded utterance from GRANT, and
at once proceed to denounce all who don't
agree that GRANT has positively Withdrawn
himself from the Presidential race The peo.
pie, however, have long since learned to esti-
mate the teachings of party organs correctly,
and the GRANT campaign goes on all the same,
regardless OF the repeated declinations, visible
only to the organs which are in the interest OF
some other candidate who happens TO have
more patronage for immediate use than
GRANT has.
Year: 1879

not be allowed TO escape the Just
punishment of his crime If ever there
was case which would justify sum-
mary punishment at the hands of the
populace, this would seem to be of that
chorarter, There are no mitigating circum-
stances attendant upon the crime. The
assault upon KALLocH, through the
memory Of dead father, in the first in
stance, was most cruel aud indefensible,
and would seem to fully justify the retala-
tion in kind that followed ON the part of
the aggrieved. But the part subsequently
played by DE YOU'VE was so slSulking,
brutal and cowardly, that it awakens no
feeling of sympathy for the perpetrator, but
rather cxcitcs in its stead emotions of abhor-
renee. The sense of justice may be keener
and the rigors of the law sterncr in Cali
tornia than in Miss ss.ssippi, and Judgment
may overtalSe the bloody-handed man who
has outlawed public respect aud sympathy
and who is now only fit tenant for the
felon's cell during his natural life, should
his victim recover; but his escape is more
than probable.
Year: 1879

THE campaign up in Maine has been at
tended by some very curious and not alto
gether reputable proceedings on the part of
the Greenbacllers. At one meeting Re-
publican speaker denied the existence Of
hard times and general calamity as de-
picted by the Opposition, and told his audi
enco that if any decent man among them
was ont of work he would furnish him en-
ployment. Two men presented themselves
and were engaged to work at Sl.5O day.
They did not appear to take the work, how
ever and inquiry showed that they were
already hired by the Greenbackers to fill
Year: 1879

THE Democratic newspapers are appar-
emily frightened ut a bugaboo of their own
production. They claim to believe that the
Republicans intend, somehow or another
exactly how they do not stop to explain-to
impose an educational and property quail
licaton for suffrage upon the people. They
know that such restrictive measure would
destroy their party root and branch in the
North and seriously damage it in the South
where the blacks are rapidly becoming the
equals, if they are not already the superiors
of the "poor white trash in those qualif-
cations. But they can rest easy. The Re-
publican party, as n party, has never seri-
ously entertained any idea Of the kind. 1t
is essentially the party of progress and of
equal rights.
Year: 1879

THE Jacksonville (Fla.) Sun and Press
still carries the names of GRANT and SET
TIE at its masthead as its ticket for 1850,
despite General GRANTS declination. And
the people carry General GRANTS name in
their hearts just the same, also despite his
refusal of Third Term
Year: 1879

If the Honest-debt payers in Virginia
succeed at the elections this year. they will
do it only through the aid of Republican
votes. The sham Conservative party is
about equally divided on this question, and
the State can only be rescued from practical
reputation by the means indicated.
Year: 1879

OLD man TrLDEN is q paralytic, an i'm
beetle and all that sort of thing, according
TO Boss KELLY and his horde of Tammany
savages. But meanwhile the Cipher Ogre
is looking around for fresh FIELDS and
pastures new," wherein to replenish his
bar'l. And his success is such as to indi-
safe that he is very lively old idiot.
Year: 1879

TT was a part of the agreement with
BARKsDALE that in return for his nomina-
tion for chancery clerk he should drive Cap
tain DIXON out of Yazoo County. 1t is
true he kept his contract so far as to rid
the county of DIxoN's personal presence
but so long as the grass grows over his
grave, the moral presence of his untimely
taking Off will remain to plague his assas-
sins with constantly renewed assurance
that murder is accounted as a legitimate
incident of political bargaining in the
highly cultivated Southern State of Missis-
sippi.
Year: 1879

TIE result of the DE YOUNG. KALIoCH
emcme will probably be to elect KALLocH
mayor of the city of san Francisco-1rush
out the Honorable Blk party, and give the
State and probably three out of the four
members of Congress, and perhaps all, to
the Republicans. If the bearing Of KEAE-
NEY during this DE YOUNG and KALLocH
matter is to be taken as an earnest of the
future the honor and order of the city in
the hands Of KALIoCH and his party will
be better assured than if the Honorable
Bilks should gain control. The whole affair
is bad enough as best, but there will be
compensations in the outcome. The Repub-
licans will secure the State, and the enemies
of the Union will be requested once more
to take back seats on the Pacific Coast
Year: 1879

THE early fruits of the Democratic policy
of disarming the posse cOmitatus of the coun-
try by Congressional enactment came near
being reaped in California during the late
San Francisco troubles But for the re-
straining advice of KEARNEY the mob
would no doubt have precipitated itself
upon San Francisco with terrible force and
though there are plenty of troops there to
suppress riot they could not be used for
that purpose until the Governor had called
for them. Hence the cutting of telegraphic
communication between the Pacific Coast
and the National Capital would have left
San Francisco at the mercy of the mob.
Communication could have been easily sus-
pended.
Year: 1879

DAN VOORHEES, speech in April, 1861, at
Terre Haute, wherein he declared his open
hostility to the war and avowed his earnest
sympathy for the South, makes mighty
interesting reading" now that he is about
to take the stump in Ohio. But still more
significant is the fact that the Democratic
organs, here and elsewhere, have under
taken the task apologzing for this treas
enable utterance. They doit very naturally,
too for they have become habituated to
that sort of thing. In fact, they do little
else nowadays than apologize for the rebel
lion and its sympathizers
Year: 1879

the President, and that if he did not an.
prove them the Democratic party would
not vote supplies for the government. You.
said he. Undressing the opposite side)
threatened him in advance before YOU let
him have an opportunity to say yes or no.
You walked into this Capitol with your
threats against him in your high sounding
proclamation. You threatened in the in
dex. 1t remains to be seen whether in the
body of your work and iD its concluding
sentences your thunder will be as loud as
it was in the opening chapter. Applause
on the Republican side. Let no gentle
men say that |, or any man on this
floor, have threatened veto. Ii would be
Indecent to do it. 1t would be indecent
for any one of US even to speak Of what
the Executive intends, for none of us has
a right to know that. But you in advance
proclaim to him that if he dared exercise
his constitutional power you would refuse
to vote supplies for the government. In
other words, that you would starve it to
death. loud applause on the Republican
side and in the galleries.)


MIR. Barker, of Indiana. offered an
amendment to the amendment making
it unlawful for anyone to have in his pos
session fire arms, bowie knives, clubs or
bludgeons in the vicinity of the place
where an election is being held.


The Chairman. in ruling out Mr.. Bak-
er's amendment as not germane to an
army bill, encountered good share of op-
position from Mr.. Conger, against whom
he threatened to call the Sergeant at
Arms, to which MIR Conger replied with
defiance. Finally, however, the angry
passions subsided, the committee rose and


the House, after ordering all debate on


the bill and amendments to close atI2:3O
Tomorrow. took a recess till Ii tn.mnrrnu
Year: 1879

CoUIDN'T TAKE JOKE. Frank
Pierce was President JEFF Davis, then Secre-
tory Of War, issued general invitation to
officers Of the army who were skillful
draughtsmen to send in suggestions for the
new uniform which it had been decided to
adopt. One such invitation was sent to each
officer. Lieut.. Derby was very ready with
his pen-a really ingenious artist In reply
he sent to the war department design for II
new uniform-or rather n peculiar addition
to the old uniform, the amendment consist
ing merely of ring attached to the seat of the
trousers Of each private soldier Each officer
was to carry instead of . sword a long pole,
with u hook in the end, like a shepherds
crook. The pole and the ring enabled Off
GERS to keep priyates from running away in
battle. Fugitives could easily be caught by it
andbroughtback. Stragglers could bekeptin
line. Moreover the ring would be very use
ful in the cavalry service to fasten soldiers to
the saddle to prevent them from falling of ;
and in the artillery service the rings were
to be used for draught purposes in the alb
sence of mules. This and other similar sug-
gestons were highly enjoyed by the depart
ment clerks, but they made JEFF Davis mad
and he was only prevented from court mar
tialing Derby by a sensible intervention Of
Secretary Marcy.
Year: 1879

A sewing girl in this city has had a roman
tic experience which is worth the telling.
| Several months ago a man at Dubuque, Iowa.
| advertised in an Eastern Massachusetts, paper
| for a wife. Among swarm of answers which
| he received Were two from two girls IN this
city, who replied just for the fun of the thing.
| One of them represented herself rs young


widow, and her lively account Of herself and
| hur circumstances was very largely fictitious,
especially that which told very incidentally,


rs if it was of no consequence of tho snug
| sum Of money left her by her dear departed.
| She never expected to hear of the matter
again, but that was the one letter out of all
| the advertiser received which struck his fan
| cy. He wrote to the supposed widow" 4"


who in fact had never been married, aud who


was earning her living with her needle; pho
| tographs were exchanged; the letters grew


more and more atfcctiouate, until the young


woman, realizing that the affair was no long
| er a Joke, wrote to hor new found adnirer


and told him frankly of her humble crcum-
| stances.


OF course he admired her all the more, and
| at last he came from Dubuque to this city 20


claim her for his bride. Instead Of the sleek,
ihtelhgent-looking and manly individual


whom she had expected from his letters and
his photograph, what was her vexation to See


person of decidedly seedy appearance, wear
| ing an OLD slOuCh nat ana appearing hltoBeth-
| er unattractive Well, she refused him, and
he, chidng her bitterly for so doing after all
the pains he had taken to win her, returned


alone to Iowa, l suppose he hadn't left the
house before she was sorry-such is the ticX-
| ible character of female afTection-and it was
certainly true that she was very sorry indeed,
before he had put a thousand miles between
them. He wrote no more, but the distressed
young woman wrote, or got friends 10 write,
TO the pastor of the church he attended aud


to various persons in Dubuque, to find out
what sort of man this was-sonethng she


ought to have thought of in the first place.
The replies were uniformly complimentary,


and every one only increased her regret that


she, n poor sewing-grl, had refused good


match" Never a word came from him, and


at last she swallowed her pride re-opened the


correspondence herself, and told him how she


had misjudged him and how sorry she was


that She had. Promptly came n manly re-
ply, from which she discovered that when he
visited her here he had Intentionally made


himself as unattractive as possible, from ro-


mantle notion that she ought to take him for


what he was and not for what he wore. OF


course they were married, and the poor sew


ing girl has for her husband one of the lead


ing citizens of Dubuque, and for her home


one of the finest mansions in Dubuque
SDriHQfeM COr. Boston Herdh.
Year: 1879

as he knolt at her bedside almost broken
hearted, begged him not to grieve too deeply
for her, but trust she was in a better world
and try to meet her there when his turn came
to leave this life, that they might then be
where parting is never known. Then bid
ding him and her father farewell, she seemed
to wander again, and now and then those lis
tening would catch n word, showing that she
thought herself called to visit "Aunty" again
just at daybreak on that fair Christmas morn
she murmured arthur -miss-me-
must-go," and then her breath died away
and she had indeed gone to another and
fairer home leaving heartbrokon loved ones
behind to miss her and mourn her loss


Long did Arthur Elton weep over that
loved form, but at the grave, when all was
over, his tears were dried and he never wcpt
afterward, but ever wore upon his face that
look which tells Of sorrow too deep for weep
ing, ms though he hud wept dry the fountain
of his tears lie seemed to take no interest
in business and cared little for anything but
solitude.


At last he departed from his native city,
and his whereabouts were unknown for many
years. Then he was discovered here in this
little clearing, living in hut formed partly of
an excavation in yonder bank, and in part Of
logs and slabs rudely framed and fastened to-
gether. Here in company with Il few hens
and two or three dogs he spent several years
of his life, depending for the most par, upon
fish and game for food, and never visiting
the village except when driven by necessity


This manner Of life seemed to hasten old
age, never tardy in his advance, until the
man became too feeble to longer take care Of
himself but still he clung to what had be
come to him home. Some Of his relatives
after learning of his whereabouts, visited
him aud tried to induce him to accept a home
with them but TO their urgent entrratics lie
turned deaf ear and refused to exchange
this place for a civilized home Solitude was
more agreeable TO him than all the luxures
or comforts that wealth could procure Hav-
ing to visit the village for supplies of food in
midwinter, he wandered from his Accustomed
path, and in the darkness OF the coming storm
lost his way on his return and at last, worn
out with cold and fatigue, sank in the falling
snow just beside the Travelled road.


He was found the next morning. which
was Christmas, by some men engaged in
breaking out the drifts in the road but the
cold had done its work, and he had at last
joined his Nellie in the spirit world When
alive he had been heard to say that lac be-
lieved one woman was made for him to love-
but she was dead aud he should be true to
his love for her until he could join her,-and
30 indeed he was


This was the story of the clearing, and at
its close we prepared TO return home
have never visited those scenes since that
day but shall ever remember the clearing
upon the side of the Green Mountains and
while l remember its story can never scofT at
the thought of broken hearts and lives blight
ed by the loss of loved ones.
Year: 1879

ABSTRACT CHRISTIANITY USELESS. Its well
to remember that an abstract Christianity is
neither useful nor beautiful The value of it
is only seen when it becomes habit of liv-
ing. The most shapely and beautiful garment
loses its symmetry aud beauty when it is cast
of and laid upon a couch or hung upon "A peg.
Let it be put on by its owner, and you at
once perceive its comleiness. Something like
this is true of the religion of Christ. 1t is not
meant to be Judged or criticised apart from
the lives of men. But when the robe of
Chrsts righteousness is put on and worn its
beauty is revealed to all beholders. -SHHddy
1faW00a t0r March.