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Year: 1876

There will not be any forward movement
against the defiant Sioux for at least two
weeks. The Fifth cavalry cannot reach
Crooks camp on Goose Creek before that
time. With the cavalry and friendly (O
Indians Crooks forces will not amount to
more than two thousand five hundred men.
We think that he should have at least five
thousand. Too much stress cannot be laid
upon the statement of Colonel Hughes
telegraphed us on Saturday from Bismarck,
that he doubts if the troops under Terry
as reinforced will be able to engage the
Indians Terry's force does not exceed
one thousand four hundred men. Here, then,
are two bodies of troops, each expected to
attack force of from five thousand to seven
thousand Indians posted in chosen places of
the greatest natural strength. 1t seems lit
tie short of madness. The difficulty of COM
munication between the two columns is con-
siderable, and such being the case con-
certed attack requiring great precision OF
movement is all but impracticable. There
fore nt least one of the columns-that is, the





should be equal if not superior
to the enemy, while the other column should
be strong enough to advance to certain
positions and hold them until the
main column had reached and struck the
body of the enemy. There is no good reason
why each of the columns should not number
five thousand men. Then not only victory
would be assured but escape rendered i'm
possible. Next to the all important neces-
sity of soundly whipping the Sioux is that
of preventing the defeated bands from scat
tering and returning to the agencies The
General and the Lieutenant General are
surely aware of this and cannot have any
confidence that the present forces in the
field can accomplish this double purpose.


This war should not be merely battue for
the purpose of killing some of the Indians
who may stand to fight our troops, but to
teach the Sioux and their allies for all time
that the warpath is the road to de-
struction The United States should
put at least five thousand additional
men in the field. We do not for moment
accept the excuse that soldiers enough are
not to be spared from the East and the
South. They remain idle in both sections.
But, supposing that the highest authority
in the land refuses to give the troops to
Sherman, are our troops to be led to slaugh-
ter and our frontier settlements to be
ravaged by the victorious Indians? Are our
arms to be again humbled and millions on
millions squandered in long and painful
war? If the President will not give the
troops let him call for volunteers from the
West. Five thousand men with just the
right experience could be raised west of the
Mississippi in ten days. There are officers
enough to spare.
Year: 1876

Governor Tildens menace in his little
speech at Albany, just after his nomination,
that the campaign would be aggressive"
seems an addition to the long catalogue of
instances in which the vigor of the war did
not come up to the pomp of the manifesto.
The canvass has been at dead halt since
the nomination of the candidates. Instead
of the vigorous aggressiveness which Mr.
Tilden was so prompt to threaten he and his
party are acting with the timidity which is
the natural consequence of divided counsels
We do not doubt Mr.. Tilden's disposition to
"move on the works of the republicans,
but he is threatened with a fire in the
rear from the soft money column of his
own party. His aggressive campaign"
reminds us of General McClellan's dila-
tory strategy in the first year of the
civil war, when the staple announce
ment on the bulletin boards of the
newspapers was, "All is quiet on the
Potomac" Governor Tilden dares not pub
lish his letter of acceptance, lest it should be
stultifed by the action Of the democratic
members Of Congress. He has evinced less
than his usual boldness in quailing before
such an obstacle. If he had come out in a
powerful letter. without waiting to consult
with Hendricks and without giving time for
the Hendricks intrigue with Western men,
bers of Congress to ripen, he might now be
master of the situation. When he had
formally promulgated his views no section
OF the democratic party would have put
itself in opposition to the democratic candi-
date; but his appearance of vacillation en-
boldens the bad elements of the party and
makes it more and more difficult for him to
prosecute an aggressive campaign" Imme-
diately after his great triumph at st. Louis he
should have taken the imitation bull
by the horns by publishing such
manifesto as would have compelled
the infationists to ..'hde their diminished
heads" His delay and the intirm;ty of
purpose it discloses give free scope to the
Hendricks intrigue, and it is possible the
soft money Congressman may put the party
in such position that Governor Tilden will
be compelled to speak with bated breath"
He could have foreclosed and shut off this
debilitating muddle in Congress had he
''taken time by the forelock" He could
have made it impossible for the soft money
democrats to carry on their intrigue without
placing themselves in direct opposition to
the democratic candidate The timid, dila-
tory course he is pursuing is making his men
ace of an aggressive campaign ridiculous.
If the democratic Samson dallies with the
perfdious Deilah until she cuts off his locks
there will be long farewell to all his hopes
of IAN aggressive campaign"
Year: 1876

The WEArHER.-As predicted by the
HERALD the week opens with cool. refreshing
winds and a temperature SO delightful that
we can realize only now how fearfully warm
the weather has been during the past three
weeks. With the thermometer at seventy
five degrees we hear men complain of being
chilled This shows the suddenness of the
change and the contrast between the torrid
heat of last Thursday and the genial warmth
of yesterday. The storm which passed over
this city yesterday. the advent of which was
duly announced in Thursdays HERALD, gave
us sharp blow from the westward, with a
short but refreshing shower. We may now
look for some days of clear, cool weather,
during which we can recover in some meas
ure from the depressing effects of the heated
term.
Year: 1876




The correspondence on the Eastern ques-
ton which has just been published by the
English Foreign Office reveals jealousy
among the great Powers and at the same
time want of sincerity which do not augur
well for the future. The three Emperors
evidently have made up their minds to rule
Europe, and with them peace or war only
means the strengthening of their own power.
Out of this ambition comes the very remark
able attitude which England and Russia
have held toward each other and the equally
remarkable attitude of both on the Eastern
question. 1t is Russia which dictates the
Berlin note and England which rejects it.
Russia is disposed toward peace and is will
ing to persuade the insurgents to lay down
their arms. England, on the other hand, re-
fuses to interfere, and resents, with good
deal of impatience, the subordinate posi-
ton in which the Emperors would
place the Queens government Italy
apparently was the Power which
was to bring England to terms, and the
strangest part of this maneuvre is that, il
Italy had succeeded, England, by the act
alone, would have sunk to a third or fourth
place among the Powers of the world. II
the accomplishment of this end was not the
real purpose of the Berlin note it is difficult
to determine what its purpose was. 1t was
certainly not mere concession in the ill.,
terest of peace, and even if it had been &C.
cepted it is not likely its promises would
have been fulfilled. The intrigue was
simply meant for the humiliation of Eng.
land, and the correspondence shows how
narrow was the escape from that humilia-
tion 1t is in this view only that the pub
lished papers have any real importance, but
they are important rs showing the changed
relation of the great Powers. 1t is the
policy of the Northern Powers to degrade
the commercial and political supremacy Of
Great Britain, and now, although the danger
is revealed, it is clearly shown also that the
crisis has not been reached. Nothing can
be more surprising than that Turkey is to be
let alone in the future, while England is to
become the ''sick man" of Europe but the
discovery will give new interest and fresh
zest to Europe politics.
Year: 1876

Our London correspondent sends us the
last extradition despatch of Lord Derby, in
reply to Secretary Fishs despatch of May
o. which, by the way, is said by our Wash
ington correspondent to be the last commu-
nication of Secretary Fish to the British
government on the subject. Lord Derby
received this despatch, it seems, on the 9th of
June, and his reply is dated the 30th, so that
he took twenty -four days to consider the
matter. After oil he only does what the
lawyers call "confess and avoid" He gives
up the untenable position which he assumed
in the earlier parts of his correspondence, that
an act of Parliament is superior to a treaty
and may change its construction. He has a
good deal to say about the right Of political
asylum. which has nothing to do with the
present dispute, and about which there is
no disagreement between the two countries
he regrets the case of Heilbronn, and con-
veniently forgets the other similar cases
and, finally he remarks that, as the United
States did not like his new construction of
the old treaty, he had instructed Sir Edward
Thornton to propose to Secretary Fish the
immediate conclusion of new one, author
izing the very course to which our govern
ment objects. If Secretary Fish had had the
coolness to make such a proposition Lord
Derby would probably have stigmatized it as
o Yankee trick"


We trust Secretary Fish will not make any
reply to this despatch. The discussion is
concluded so far as are concerned. The
British government has attempted to put q
new construction upon treaty which has
been in force since 1S42. 1t sheltere. itself
at first behind an act of Parlia lament. Driven
from that, it then pretended that its con-
struction was the universal practice in extra
dition treaties. Shown that this was not so
by different treaties-notably that between
Denmark and Belgium-it now talks of the
sacredness Of political asylum, which has
never been in question, and suggests new
treaty which shall admit its claim to be just.
And all this fuss is made about the smuggler
Lawrence who appears to be person Of
uncommon importance in London.


1t is not useful to discuss the matter fur
ther. Our government, we believe, stands
ready to make new treaty upon perfectly
just and reasonable basis namely, that the
person surrendered shall be triable for any
of the crimes mentioned in the treaty, and
none others. That not only favors the
course of justice, which is what both gov
ernments want, but it is consistent with the
practice of both governments under the
treaty of 1S42, until the fear of confessions
by Lawrence duplicating important political
persons in England suddenly led the British
government, in great agitation, to impose
entirely new conditions upon us and to de-
fend its strange course by variety of pre-
texts, all of which are SO weak and unten-
able that the most influential English jour
nails have, one after the other, declared the
United States in the right and their govern
ment wrong.
Year: 1876

THE MURpERous MOLLY MAGuREs, on
trial at Pottsville, Pa, for the killing of
Policeman Yost, have been found guilty of
murder in the first degree. This result will
rejoice all lovers Of law and order in the
coal regions, and will, it is hoped, put an
effoctual stop to the crimes which have
long stained that part of Pennsylvania. The
efforts of some of the accused Mollies to
save themselves at the expense of their COM
panions by turning States evidence ought
70 show the misguided members of this or
yanization how little they can rely on the
leading spirits of the Order when it becomes
question of bctraying or hanging The
decided action of the State authorities may
nave the effect of breaking up this murder
ous organization. We sincerely hope that
it will.
Year: 1876

The most touching of all The passages in
the great authors are those which refer to
the deaths of children. There is the fate of
Arthur, with which Shakespeare moves our
feelings in ''King John y the mournful de-
cline of Paul Dombsy and the death of Little
Nell, which Dickens describes so beauti-
fully, and thousand other pathetic pic
lures IN romance and the drama. Thack-
cray alone, cynical as he was said to be, had
not the heart to paint the death of child
Yet what is all this poetry and fiction to the
truth in the American metropolis? Two
thousand children have died in New York
within twenty-five days They died of foul
air, of unfit food, of the stencil of the gut
ter and the criminal neglect of our great
city to provide help for the poor. Surely
New York cannot afford to rest under the
stigma of such suicidal statistics as these
Two thousand children dead in less than a
month Our rich people relieve the misery
that is brought to their notice; but Incl
dental charity does not compensate for the
want of a general system. Fifty extra ply
sicians, who are appointed by the Board of
Health, visit, it is likely, one thousand chill
dren q day; yet still they die, and,


Under a sad and shrouded heaven


Our sorrow stumbles where the willow waves


Because the earth is filled with little graves,


Which make the paths OF life uneven.


Such rate of mortality is disgraceful,
and if the city government does not do it's
dnty let the citizens come to the front and
end this massacre of the innocents. What
was the massacre Of Custer and his regiment
to this desolation of the households of the
poor? Custer had his life buckled to the
hilt of his sword, and his men carried their
hearts upon their sleeves. They were men
who could take care of their lives. But the
children? What defence have they against
the iniamies end the pestilence of q
city Of tenement houses, where palaces
and ho7els stand side by side and
the fever of the poor revenges itself
on the superior classes of society? Surely
it is the duty of New York to care for her
children. There is no nobler, purer, more
enduring joy than that which follows the
sacrifice of pleasure to duty. We all shun
unpleasant duty. We turn from that cold
still mistress who offers no reward, but the
reward comes and remains when the tempo
rary sacrifice of enjoyment is made. Where
is st. Johns Guild now? Who give their
money and personal effort to that and to
similar charities? Where are the floating
hospitals and children's excursions? Over
two thousand children buried in New York
alone IN little more than three weeks
The American metropolis is shamed by the
confession of her own sanitary authorities.
Let not our wealthy citizens permit the pro-
found and beautiful words of the Saviour,
''Suffer little children to come unto me-
and forbid them not, to be turned into the
worst Of irony.
Year: 1876

PLENTY OF MONEY IN FRANCE.-The sub
scriptions to the new Paris loan reach fifty
four times the amount required. Conse-
luently, tifty-three times the sum asked
must go begging for a good investment.
And yet we are paying six per cent, gold, on
The greater portion Of our national debt.
Year: 1876

funeral. Indeed there is the strong
est reason to believe that the thing
was "put up for Allen, after beat
ing Goss severely. lost the fight
on ga foul" by striking Goss while
he was down. Thus ends some-
what absurdly the last brutal prize
fight.
Year: 1876

,sn at the rate $50 day with mileage at the rate q
twenty csnts each mile necessarily travelled
ia gong to and returning from the place ~
meeting. and that all expenses OF said convention he
betrayed from the treasury OF the United states.


FUhThat In the opinion OF Congress the revised and
amended constitution should be reported to the President OF
the United states the adjournment OF said convention
and that II sh ud Immediately be- submitted by
the President convention ~ delegates chosen In each
by the people thereof the OF
it, lie giSiatnrc for its assent and ratification.


h-Ihat IL Ia nded 20 the Legislatures Of the
several States OF the lrion apply 10 Congress without
delay TO call convention Aforesaid provided In ar
ticle oi the constitution.


The CHAIR laid before the Senate a communication
from the Secretary thereof enclosing statement OF
the receipts and expenditures or his Office. Ordered
printed and 10 lie on the table.


Also communication IRON the Sergeant at Arms
giving list OF the property belonging TO the United
States in his possession Ordered printed and to lie on
the table.


Also a communication from the Court OF Claims
showing the amount and nature OF the judgment
rendered by that tribunal Ordered printed and TO lie
the table.


The Senaie then, on motion OF Mr.. WRIGHT, at III.
teen minutes past one O'Clock, adjourned until to-
Year: 1876

Your Regulator is one of the best family med
icines ever used. l have not srent one dollar
for my family for medicine in five years. only
for your Regulator. and must say it does al it
says it will. You can also recommend it in
Collie for Stock, it having cured u fine mule OF
mine worth five hundred dollars ID "A Nelson,
Macon. Ga
Year: 1876

The Liver, the largest organ
in the bo! ", is generally the
seat Of the disease, and if not
regulated in time great suffering,
wretcheGness and DEATH will
ensue


If you feel DULL, DRowsY,
DEBILITATED. lave frequent
Headache, MOUTH TASTES bad
ly, poor Appetite and Tongue
Coated, you are suffering from
Torrid Liver or "Biliousness,'
and nothing will cure you SO
speedily and permanently.
Year: 1876

For all Diseases OF the Liver, Stomach and


Spleen.


After Forty Years trial it is
still receiving the most unquali-
fed testimonials Of its virtues
from persons of the highest cha
racter aud responsibility.


1t is eminently Family Med
icine. and by being kept ready
for immediate resort will save
many an hour Of suffering and
many dollar in time and
Year: 1876

We would feel obliged il our subscrib-
ers who are not properly served with
their paper would either personally or
by postal card make known their com
to the starting Of our new enterprise
details may not be carried out as we
could wish, we can only promise our
friends our best efforts, and trust that
soon all things will work as smoothly as
could be desired
Year: 1876

Our friends from the country in
attendance upon the Convention are
invited to call ut the office Of the DEMO
GRAFT for back numbers Of the paper,
eithcr to make up their own files or to
take with them on their return home to
hand to their friends in the parishes.
Year: 1876

A new idea in life insurance has
sprung up in the southwest. The au-
thor would have attached to all poll
cies an agreement to the effect that
"the insurance company promises. in
case the insured becomes the v ct of
chronic disease affecting his prospects
of longevity, which skilled medical
advice, combined with climatic treat.
ment, can greatly mollify, to furnish
that advice gratuitiously, and, also, if
needed, to loan the insured a given
amount of his policy with which he
may be enabled to go to the climate
prescribed"
Year: 1876

This evening at 83 o'clock a grand performance will be given at the Courthouse, for the benefit of Miss Esperanza GalIego and MT. Luis l.. Romero. We are assured that this will be very interest. ing entertainment. Let all our amusement loving people go and see it. We have so few amuse- ments in these ends of the earth, that it seems we should patrOnize those who are worthy, who come among us.

 Go tonight, everybody and take your wife and little ones, (except the crying baby,) and if you have no wife take your sweetheart and if you have no sweetheart take somebody else's, it is all the same, go anyhow.
Year: 1876

THE baseball match last Sun day, on the flat below Fort Yuma, was very interesting and attracted a large number of spectators from town. The match was between the nine from town and the nine composed of soldiers of FortYuma. The game was well contested. and resulted in 8 victory for the town boys, thus retrieving their reputation after their defeat by the soldier boys on the previous Sunday. Another match will come off soon.
Year: 1876

IT may not be of much interest to the general reader, but we beg to inform our lady friends that we have shaved off our formidable mustache. We don't know that the absence of this hirsute ap- bondage adds much to our person. al attractions, but then it will no longer interfere with the oscula- tory exercise. It is not only cur tailed, but gone smooth off. This reminds us of a circumstance that happened in the wicked State of Illinois. There was a powerful revival going on, and a minister prayed, "Oh Lord, curtail the power of the devil" A nigger sitting back in the amen corner responded, Yes, massa Lord, cut him tail smack smOOf off W That's enough about that.
Year: 1876

A CAPITAL FABLE.-The hopelessness
of any ones accomplishing anything
without pluck is illustrate in an old East
Indian fable. A mouse that dwclt near
the abode of a great magician was kept in
such constant distress by its fear of a cat,
that the magician took pity on it and
turned it into cat immediately Il be-
gan TO suffer from fear of a dog, so the
magician turned it into a dog. Then IL
began to suffer from fear of a tiger, and
the magician turned 1t into tiger
Then it began to suffer from fear Of u
huntsman, and the magician Ia disgust
said: ''Be mouse again. As you have
only the heart Of mouse, il Is Impossible
to help you by giving you the body of
nobler animal - and the poor creature
became q mouse again. Il is the same
with a mouse-hearted man. He may be
clothed with the powers, and placed in
the position OF brave men, but he will
always act like a mouse, and public Opin-
ion is usually the great magician that
finally says 70 such a person; eco back
10 your Obscurity again. You have only
the heart of a mouse; IL is useless 70 try
10 make a lion of you"
Year: 1876

/ tell you, Dom Pedro is a splendid fel-
lOw-mOre of a republican at heart than
many Americans, and much less of a
snob, and will be found out if any grand
display is attempted in his special honor.
He has n contempt for empty show and
professions, and would rather spend an
hour in studying out a new machine, or
in company with literary or scientific
friend, than IN acting as principal figure
in any ceremony. II he could give his
people the right to choose their own ru-
Ter he would do so at once, and II he lives
long enough it is not unlikely that some
provision viii be made, at mis- instance,
for the founding of a great republic Of
Brazil. His country Is every year grow
ing richer and greater, and its Inter
course with the United States is increas-
ing. The visit here may be Of incalcula-
bic advantage in commercial point Of
view, in opening up wider channels OF
trade which have begun to flow between
the United States and Brazil.-By One OF
his Officers.
Year: 1876

Stanford journal: On last "Wednesday
morning a very exciting scene occurred
at the courthouse. The man Jno- Smith,
who killed Judge Carson, was brought
out 20 the courthouse to see whether or
not the case could be tried at this term
Four sons Of Mr.. Carson-John, James,
Joe and David-came into the ROOM
The court, on hearing that they were
armed, had the sheriff % search them,
but no pistols were found. Smith was
remanded TO jail, with guard Of six OF
eight men, and on reaching the court
yard, young Joe Carson sprang forward
with drawn navy revolver, and, plac-
ing it almost against the breast Of Smith,
attempted to fire, but the pistol snapped.
The other three sons were present with
weapons, but by the courage Of the guard
they were all four caught and disarmed,
and Smiths life saved, so far. The two
young men mostly engaged in the affair
were taken before the Judge, who NJ first
ordered them 10 give bond in $500 each to
keep the peace, but on reflection cOnclu-
ded 10 take their word of honor to do no
further violence TO the prisoner, and they
were thus set at liberty. The sympathy
of the entire community is with these
young men, and we heard numbers re-
gret that young Carson did not succeed
in ayenging the death of his aged father.
Year: 1876

The medium came out of her trance
perfectly ignorant Of what had ans
pired<


The boy was brought away from where
he was, and there has been no trouble of
any kind at the haunted mansion since.