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Year: 1872

The arrest in Washington of the alleged
murderer of Mr.. Nathan is the most startling
news of the day. More than two years have
passed since the victim of one Of the foulest
crimes on record was found weltering in his
blood at his residence in one of the most
frequented streets of this city. A dark
mystery has ever since overhung that
terrible tragedy. Our bafled guardians
of the peace had apparently given up oil hope
of finding the author or authors of the murder.
Nor does it seem, after all, that the arrest Of
Billy Forester, the man with numerous
aliases, has brought them nearer to the end;
for there is a strong ground for the belief that
the police have, on the merest shadow of sus-
picion, rashly fastened the murder upon Billy
Forester. An unwillingness to acknowledge
themselves beaten might have had something
to do with this. Billy Forrester's record is
certainly bad enough to convict him Of almost
any crime merely on appearances-"c comme
capable du faH" as they would do it in q
French criminal court The fact that he has
been hiding ever since the night of the mur-
der is SO far the strongest evidence
against him. 1t should be remembered, how
ever, that he is fugitive from justice for vari-
Gus crimes, burglary among the number
crimes numerous and heinous enough
to consign him to the tender mercies
of State prison for life. Without
being necessarily guilty of the murder of Mr..
Nathan he had, therefore, the best of reasons
to keep out of the way. Hunted down like o
wild beast he has lived life of constant dread,
wandering about the country to evade capture,
which has been accomplished at last Whether
it will be possible to convict him remains, how
ever, yet to be seen.
Year: 1872

lied negro mixes with the savage red blood
their progeny loses any good quality the
parents may possess and drops into semi.
savagery as irreclaimable as ever Neverthe-
less, this does not endear them to the full
bloods, who look upon them as upstarts and
carpetbaggers and treat them accordingly.


There are two cures used at present for the
Indian disorder-the old one of the bullet
and the new one of bread and blankets. In
all humanity we would prefer the latter if it
accomplished anything; but its failure is self
acknowledged by its continual call for an
application of the leaden remedy upon its
refractory patients. Now the facts we have
noted cannot be gainsaid, and these unmis-
takably point to a rigorous determination of
all Indians who will not submit to civilization.
We are not dealing with the simple Indians
whom Heinrich Hudson was friendly with at
Hoboken, but-we may even blush for our
selves in saying it-cruel, vindictive, cunning
and treacherous savages. With these there
can be no argument save that which General
Sheridan knows how to DEAL While
freside philanthropists are talking home
steads are being burned, peaceful set
tiers scalped and their wives and daugh-
ters ravished beside the mutilated corpses.
Where the Indians agree to settle there must
be no alternative left them of working for
living or going on the warpath, as they list.
The power which puts them there must be
kept strong enough to force them to stop or
take the unfailing consequence of rebellion
namely, destruction. A poorly mounted,
scanty force at the few outposts cannot accom-
plish this. 1t must be strong force an army,
if you will. The Indian nomade murderer
must be made to feel that he has an enemy
which will bring him to its terms or kill him.
The Indian, once located, must be forced to
regard the idea of war in the future as hope
lessly as any ''Dead Rabbit might contem-
plate his chances Of success in an open plum
der Of the wealth Of New York. The problem
is to be settled by the strong hand or not at
all. 1t will be cheaper and more humane in
the end. A genuine civilization may then be
allowed to dot the Indian countries with set
Elements, instead of the spurious article
they have hitherto seen, mixture of
border rufians and isolated missionaries If
these influences cannot tame him he will take
his doom upon himself; but we believe that
the firm grasp, never relaxed, first taken, and
the influx of earnest, industrious settlers after
wards admitted, make up the only salvation for
the Indians who are at all amenable to civiliza-
tion With all the others it is q question for
stLittle Phil"
Year: 1872

The INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS at The Hague
was adjourned yesterday. The meeting of the
day was secret The delegates decided to
York. six Frenchmen objecting Indignantly.
The Council transmitted message in favor Of
peace to the Emperors in Berlin. The whole
proceeding was, no doubt, very interesting to
the outside police authorities
Year: 1872




Steamboat Disasters.


We are glad to notice that the government
has promptly ordered investigations to be held
into the causes of the late terrible steamboat
disasters. The loss of life and property has
been SO great within the last few weeks as to
convince the community of the necessity
either of adopting new and more stringent
regulations or enforcing those at present in
existence. The proceedings Of the inspectors
charged with eliciting all the facts which led
to the deplorable loss of life viii be watched
with anxiety by the public and press, and any
failure to carry out the instructions in the
fullest sense will not fail to receive general
censure No feeling of commiseration for the
men who may have neglected. to take every
precaution demanded by the safety of the
vessels and their precious human freight must
be allowed to cover up the responsibility of the
guilty parties Recklessness in steamboating
has reached that point where the safety of the
travelling public demands that it shall be
sharply and effectively checked. If men are
Indifferent to their own safety it is no justif-





property that are confded to them with
tacit understanding that they are men whose
character justifes the important trust reposed
in them. On the ground of public interest,
therefore, we demand that the investigations
at present ordered shall be made as stringent
and searching as the law will permit, and that
the guilty parties will, in all cases, suffer the
severest penalties of the law. We have to deal
with dangerous evil that must be outrooted,
and the only way to do this successfully is to
make the responsible steamboat officers feel
that in case of neglect of duty they will be
punished with severity. This is the only way
to assure public safety, and that must be the
chief aim of all investigation. If we are
simply to be informed how the &C.
cident occurred, without fixing the
responsibility on the proper parties,
there can be no need of governmental
interference as the newspapers can be trusted
to give the fullest and most satisfactory his
tory of all accidents Something more, how
ever is needed, and we look to the govern
ment action for the establishment of strong
check to discourage the reckless indifference
which SO markedly characterizes the conduct
of steamboat officers at present Had exam
pies been made on previous occasions we
would not have to deplore the awful loss of
life of the past few weeks. But as the acci-
dent to the Bristol, which was the warning
prelude to the Metis disaster, was treated with
levity because by the merest chance no lives
were lost, so if the present disasters are al
lowed to pass without the punishment of the
guilty parties we may look forward to the con-
inuance of the present reckless system, which
renders travelling serious danger to life.
Year: 1872

The NEWS FROM MEx1oo.-A telegram,
dated in Mexico City on the 1st instant, sup
plies the latest news from the territory of the
neighboring Republic. The report is, taken
as whole, favorable to the restoration Of
public order under the Presidency of Lerdo
The press remained excited over news of q
project of American occupation of the States of
Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon. General Diaz
demands certain terms from the government
personal political and national-as part of
the condition under which he will lay down
his arms and return to his duty of allegiance
Two women, jealous Of each other in love-
fought a duel, which terminated fatally to one
of the combatants. They were armed with
daggers, the victorious lady using a weapon
made from horn. The general aspect in the
provinces was more favorable to the cause of
industry.
Year: 1872

on such an enormous scale was first put into
effect, it was hoped that by the time civiliza-
ton walled them in they would be fitted to
assume relations with the outspreading whites
on grounds of nearly equal intelligence. How
this vision has faded away the facts tell, and
how inefficient the present peace policy Of the
administration is to mend matters glance at
the position of affairs generally will explain.
The difficulty which our Commissioner ex-
plains as existing in the Indian Territory will
be borne out by the condition of affairs in
other directions The Utes are on the verge of
war, and will be bought off with years
rations; they will then be ready for another
war, having nothing to do but prepare
for that event while subsisting on
the government stores. The great divisions
of the Sioux may not even be
bought off in this way, SO as to allow the
completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad.


The Apaches and Arapahoes in Arizona take
the provisions, but murder all the same.
The wild tribes along the Rio Grande, with


their retreat assured into Mexico, defy all at
tempts to buy them of and answer the induce
ments held out to keep them quiet much as
any civilized highwayman would scorn 10 be-
come an agricultural laborer while booty was
plenty and immunity from capture almost GER
tain. BY way Of companion picture to this, q
bloody fight is reported from the Creek "Na-
tion," in the Indian Territory, between two
factions, growing out of the alleged rights Of
the minority to elect their chief. This tribe is


very much mixed in blood, the negro element


being particularly strong Itseems generally tt


be the fact that where q white man or civil
Year: 1872

WHICH HUMAN AND WHICH BRUTE Z
The Dubuque Telegraph vouches
for The following singular horse story ::


On Monday evening last man
whose name we could not learn, was
seen vending his way up Jnlien
avenue, leading mare by the bride.
He was badly intoxicated, so much
so that he staggered, and it was some
times as much as he could do to main
tain his equilibrium. The mare kept
close watch ON his movements, and
whenever he came near falling, the
mare would grab his coat collar be-
tween her teeth and hold him up. She
did so no less than q dozen times,
in the presence of several spectators.
The drunken man fell down in the
street once, but no sooner had he done
so than the animal grabbed the back
of his coat, and set him on his feet
again. When little beyond McNulty's
house, the owner OF the mare met All
acquaintance of his, who was also
drunk. They engaged in conversa-
tion, and while talking, bumped
against each other, and the man first
alluded to fell. He was Immediately
picked up by the mare, and just as
soon as she had finished her job, she
turned around and let her heels fly in
O savage manner at the man. who
knocked her rmaster down FortunateR


her heels missed the mark.
Year: 1872

"Get out of my way, what are you
good for?n said a cross old man to a
ght-eyed little urchin, who hap
pentd to stand in the way. The lit
tie fellow, as he stepped one side, re-
piled very gently, "They make men
out of such things as we are"
Year: 1872

The latest invention is scarecrow.
Not only does it frighten away crows,
but crows are SO alarmed that they
usually bring back any corn they may
have stolen prior to the establishment
of the said scarecraW.
Year: 1872

ers can bring against us. 1t is not num-
bers that carry the day it is intelligence and
skill"


THAT is true, but we shall have a hard
tight, and | am ready for it. | don't care
for myself but do not want to drag any
one else into trouble"


!" feel just as You do about. have no
one depending upon me for support. 1
have my trade and am going to work at
it, and | am going to make something
more at it than merely. food and clothes and
q shelter from the rain"


"Then am with you, replied Charles,
and we will do our best to redeem our
trade from the botch carpenter and wood
butcher"


ITO BIZ CONTINUED.)
Year: 1872

provisions ever since. II afforded too
many checks for the present day Of degsn-
erAcy.


THERE WERE NO JOBS
in such management. No money could be
made by middle men. He spoke Of the
strikes in the East. For some years they
had been organizing, until the embers Of
thought had kindled to flame Of effective
action. More than 200, 600 men in the
East are now working at eight hours per
day. The opposing newspapers insist that
our position is, we will work no more than
eight hours per day. That is not true.
We ask the privilege Of


DIVIDING THE TIME,
and giving from five to eight O'Clock in the
morning to reading for young men and
give married men chance to go to market,
get wood and water, to write, lay plans,
hear the children's lessons, help the wife,
or anything that will add to family com
fort.


The eight hours is to be steadily employ
ed in working for the master After FIVE
we do not propose TO 90 TO club dinner
and get drunk on wine, or play ''seven-uP"
AZ Gne COrL0r RrOceF1es IOE WhIsky Dub W
20 home and bathe, dress; prepare for sup
per, and be ready with the wife, children,
or young ladies to spend pleasant evening
In company, where etiquette and fashions
may be studied and understood, 50 as to be
on a par with the best Of society. But
therei Ia still


HIGHER MOTIVE.
Labor il the foundation Of civilization we
must make it respectable 80 that the bright
est intellect, the most profound genius or
accomplished scholar will look upon labor
as the most honorable, or at least equal to
any calling. The General spoke for an
hour We have no space for more Of his
remarks He was frequently interrupted
with applause.
Year: 1872

is going ON among men who labor by the
day Reformation implies existing error,
something to be corrected. As physician
studies well the disease Of his patient be-
fore he gives medicine 50 must we under
stand any social error before we attempt to
apply a remedy. We lay it down as fact
that our workmen labor too much for the
good Of society or the prosperity and safety
of the nation
Year: 1872

Sally Bonny is bonny lassie who in
habits Cortland, New Yolll. Whether she
cherishes comprehensive prejudice against
kissing, under all circumstances or merely
prefers to exercise her own taste IN the
matter, we are not informed. But that
young man who insisted on kissing MISS
Sally against her will the other day is so
poorer than he was. The court held that
predatory OSCILLATION was worth just that
sum,
Year: 1872

THE WEATHER AND THE PoLr1crANs.-As
the weather becomes cooler our political cam
paign becomes hotter. The politicians will be
at fever heat on the day of the Pennsylvania
October election, and on the next day we fear
that many of them, like gas bags too highly
inflated. will explode
Year: 1872

favorite means of transportation for so large q
part of that trade. To which we answer that
proper steam facilities will give us all requisite
speed upon the ocean sections of the great
highway which we look upon as SO vital to the
commerce of the world.


What then, in view of the facts and the
argument submitted, is the proper policy of
General Grant for the settlement of these
Mexican border troubles2 It is clearly the
whole basin of the Rio Grande and the estab-
lishmeut of boundary line west from the
Sierra Madre, which will give us at least one
good port on the Gulf of California. "Mani-
fest destiny" points to our ultimate annexation
of the whole of Mexico but this manifest
destiny must, under all the existing impedi-
ments. be work of time. The immediate
necessities of law order and the security of
life and property on our Mexican frontier call
meantime for decisive measures. The acqui-
sitions suggested of and from the Northern
Mexican States will meet the ends desired, and
nothing else, except o large and expensive
military force, will serve to suppress those
Mexican border freebooters. At the same
time these border Territories, which include
that troublesome 'sFree Zone," are worse than
valueless to Mexico.


No doubt the Mexican federal authorities
would be glad to dispose of those Territories
for few millions in ready cash, inasmush as
this cession would forever relieve that govern
ment of those Northern revolutions and revo-
lutionary conspiracies which for years have
kept the Republic in state of civil war; and
because, unquestionably, in the establishment
of law and order and in the development Of
| the trade and unlimited mineral resources of
all those regions the proposed transfer Of our
southern boundary would be as advantageous
to Mexico as to the United States. In the in
PRODUCTION of railway communications, from
its extremities to its capital the Mexican Re-
public will be so far consolidated and strength
ened that revolutionary factions, however
remote from the centre, may be readily sup
pressed; and this new boundary will at once
inaugurate in Mexico this new era of railways
and capital, enterprise and active industry,
with the means and facilities for enforcing law,
order and peace What is there we should
like to know, to prevent movement by our
government in this direction?
Year: 1872




Railways filing almost the whole space be-
tween New York and Laredo have either been
built already or are under construction, and
the early completion of the whole line to Ma
zatlnn is one of the great transportation neces-
sites Of the period, as glance at o map Of
the Continent will clearly demonstrate. The
great problem of the modern engineer is to
reduce OF shorten the mileage of railways and
add to that of water transportation, SO as to
cheaper substantially our transportation facili-
ties, while securing all necessary celebrity Of
movement. This is on imperative need Of the
epoch, as the most cursory examination of the
question will demonstrate. The difference be-
tween the cost of transportation by rail and
water is enormous. AS has been shown by o
recent writer in the atlantic Monthly, to move
the 25,O0O, 600 tons of annual American do
mestic commerce would cost by railway no
less per mile than $750,000; by canal,
$3.50, 900; by river, SIS, 900; by lake, $50, SOC;
by ocean, s32, 500.


That is to say, there is the incredible
difference in favor of ocean over railway trans
portation in the proportion of ,250 to
s75O, 1000, or of 81 to at least $23 Is. Hence
we may readily see the immense gain to the
country and to the commerce of the world !;
indeed, that would ensue from the acquisition
by the United States Of Mexican territory as
far south on the Pacific coast as Mazatlan,
and the consequent immediate construction OF
continental railway to that port, which
would enable us to reach the trade of India,
China and Japan by saving Of at least eight
hundred miles of railway at the western end,
with as material shortening on this side by
means Of q terminus on the Gulf of Mexico
for the bulk of the Asiatic freight.


1t may be said, however, that the celerit.
of railway transit is an essential feature o
modern commerce, and has thus become th
favorite vehicle Notwithstanding dearness-
for freight movement as 1t has also made tn
fast ocean steamers in the European trade th
Year: 1872

The American Union Club celebrated
their second annual ball last evening at
Odd Fellows Hall. The affair, socially and
pecuniarily, was success beyond the most
sanguine expectations.


The toilets of the ladies were simply ma g
nifcent, and the dress of the gentlemen ele-
CANT. A number Of the officers wore their
regimental attire and appeared very impos-
ing upon the floor. Quite number Of our
most prominent citizens were present and
participated in the enjoyments of the eve
nlng. The orchestra was composed of the
finest musicians that the city could produce,
and beautiful were the selections that were
performed. The order of dancing was we'll
selected, and great deal of credit is due to
the committee Of arrangements for the ele-
CANT and tasteful manner in which their ar
rangements of the evening was carried out.
adorned with American flags. and the room
was perfumed with the choicest exotics that
New Orleans could produce.


At twelve o'clock, the intermission having
arrived, the assembly was ushered into the
spacious supper room, where there was
spread one of the most bountiful and ar;isti-
cally adorned tables that could by any
means be produced. Everything was there
that could be wished for; all the delicacies
of the season; all the tropical and home
fruits-everything that the most fastidious
could desire.


The festivities were kept up until almost
daylight, when they parted, but with the
pleasant reminiscence floating in their minds
that "none but the brave deserve the fair"
and that this ball of the American Union
Club Will never be forgotten by the partici-
pants.
Year: 1872

Interesting Civil Rights Demonstration.
1t was announced that meeting OF all
those in favor Of civil rights, in their fullest
extent, would be held last night at ST.
James Chapel, on Roman, between Custom
house and Bienvjlle streets. Accordingly,
at the appointed hour, goodly number OF
those anxious to participate in the blessings
of a free government were present.


j. Henri Burch announced the object of
the meeting, in his usual style.


He was followed by T. Morris Chester.
who in his grafton, recapitulated the bene
fits to be derived from carrying out these
principles. But toward the close of his
harangue he appeared to lay the blame of
not enforcing civil rights in this State on
Governor Warmoth, whO he intimated, was
using his power with the object of prevent
ing their consummation. Why" said he
"does not Governor Warmoth enforce civil
rights with the police p Then he suggested
as the proper course to pursue. the arrest
by the police of all saloon keepers. steam
boat captains and others who violated the
intent of the law.


Then Mr.. Burch announced that owing to
the lateness of the hour there would be no
more speakers.


Whereupon Lieutenant Governor Pinch
back, who was among the audience, rose to
apersonal explanation, and said that having
heard that the object Of the meeting was not
political, he found it strange that the meet
ing had been called to censure Governor
Warmoth under the guise of civil rights
demonstration. If Governor Warmoth is to
blame for not enforcing civil rights by the
police, why is it that General Grant, at the
head of the army, is not censured for failing
to enforce these rights at the point of the
bayonet!


This intimation brought down the house.


Following this Messrs. Burch and Tucker
also rose to an explanation, and limited that
T. Morris Chester might have done better
than Juggling politics into meeting of this
kind, and ended by offering resolutions with
the political portion " accidentally omitted
The meeting was decidedly in favor of
civil rights and Lieutenant Governor Pinch
back