Year: 1876

nave Deen Quly executed anu Stlll tue great
nations are letting their men-of-war slip to-
wards the Hellespont.


The festive little fly once more appears upon
the field of action as lively, ticklish and ag-
grayating as ever before. The eating houses
buzz with them, the kitchens hum with their
music, and plates of butter are showing traces
Of them more and more every day. The warm
rays of yesterdays sun seemed to have rained
them down in great profusion, and they exer-
cised themselves all day at their old tricks of
tickling and annoying overheated and petu-
liant humanity


The Louisiana Investigating Committee is
daily and constantly pestered and plagued by
the needless presence of the index clerk of the
House, whose name is Jewell. This man is
from New Orleans, and is rabid and North
hating rebel, and perching himself on a chair
near the witnesses under examination, he
makes an advisory council of himself and in
forms them when and where not to testify.
By his daily intrusions he becomes general
committee-room nuisance, and Is certainly out
of his place. II we have any comprehensive
idea of the duties of index clerk, they are any
thing but to lie curled at the ears of witnesses
for the avowed purpose of directing them in
the delivery of their testimony. The COM
mittee should put this man where he belongs.


DR.. Mary Walker is to be seen now and then
gently waltzing down the Avenue, and her
little coat tails go bob, bob, as she travels.
Now and again she appears in places of
amusement and public meetings. A few
days since the English gentlemen who are
here for the purpose of warning America
against the adoption of any laws looking to
the licensing of prostitution announced
meeting especially for gentlemen. Is d..
Mary man, and If not why did she attempt
to gain admittance to this stag conclave Ye
gods the doorkeepers to these secret meetings
must inspect closely or one of these days the
Doctor will steal in on them, and once and for
ever unrayel the profound mystery which for
the world.


Six month ago, when the army of specu-
lators and sdventurers first commenced to
wend their way toward the regions of the
Black Hills, we gave them word of serious
warning. We told them that under no privi-
lege and by no lawful right could they tres
pass upon the country Of the Sioux, which by
solemn stipulations had been reserved for
their use. We told them that by invading
the charmed bourne they laid themselves open
to the fercest Of retributions that ever befell
the lot of mankind: that of the scalping knife
or the stake. But, without needing these
words of admonitioD, they entered upon their
Hazardous enterprise, thinking little of any,
thing except the knack of money getting. The
result is that to-day the roads between Custer
and Cheyenne are literally strewn with the
miserable victims of want and the scalping-
knife. Dozens have been slain in the mountain
Businesses of the Hills, and many more upon
the long reach of plains which stretch far away
from Cheyenne to the regions of gold. The
Indians are simply defending their lawful right
to their property, repelling invasion and pun
ishing robbers, all of which they were per-
fectly justified in doing by the stipulations of
the treaty and the inaliensble rights of man
kind