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Year: 1876

In another part Of the HERALD an umcouth
drawing of two Indians on horseback, one
armed with gun, the other with lance,
and the efigy Of white man before the
horse, will awaken the curiosity of our read
ers until they have read the accompanying
explanation. 1t is the story of the killing
of soldier by Sitting Bull. The book from
which this is taken contains ffty-fve SINH
lar drawings each recounting some
deed of bloodshed, cruelty, theft
or inhumanity. These make up the
life of the model savage whom
our philanthropists love to feed, the child
of nature whom the Indian Ring is never
weary of praising and swindling. 1t adds a
pang to the bitterness of the death of the
gallant Custer and his heroic command that
they fell at the hands Of such a savage, in
whom everything that is cruel and vicious
is matter of ostentation and pride. The
picture tells the story of the Irreconcilables
of the frontier in its few rude touches
Contact with civilization can only
come to them at the mouth of the musket.
However they may come to the agencies to
be fed, to get blankets, their hearts are only
thrilled with JOY at tales of blood. From
the lancing of a Crow squaw to the scalping
of soldier, whatever is cruel becomes brave
in their eyes. No record is made of the
kindly or the good it is only the base or
the brutal that they think worthy of telling
Such are the wild, uniformed. beings, great
only in rascality, whom We are called
upon to reduce in their mountain fast
nesses, or it may be to exterminate.
There is nothing Arcadian in their
savagery. What they have learned of civil
ization is better how to kill. There is no
room here for discussing whether the rough
shod march Of our civilization has not made
a race of simple savages race of savage
demons but we do know that in number
less instances they have opposed stolid
scorn to efforts at their advancement, and,
rejecting the ways of civilization, have
turned again and again to the wild. rather
than, as General Sherman said the other day
at West Point, 'earn their bread by the
sweat of their brow
Year: 1876

The NEGROES AND THE WHITES are having
another eme,ae in the South, this time at
Hamburg. opposite Atlanta. Ga 1t seems a
silly thing to drag lot of negroes before a
court for obstructing the roads when they
were merely playing soldier on the Fourth
of July, and it is thoroughly reprehensible
that armed whites should support unasked
the power Of the magistrate while the cause
was on trial. The negroes cannot be justi-
fed in their petty warfare any more than
the whites: but the affair seems to indicate
that in parts of the South there is one line
the Caucasians
Year: 1876

A QUEER WILL CASE is now being con-
tested in Rockland county, in which the
evidence is so Numerically opposed that
the Surrogate is puzzled. An old man dies,
leaving considerable property. He is n
paralytic and incompetent to manage his
own affairs by reason of mental derange-
ment He is lying sick to death at his sons
house in Rockland county on certain day,
and attended there, and while in that con-
dition. by an eminent physician. Yet a
claimant for the property, in no way related
to the deceased, presents will for probate,
which he alleges was executed by the tes-
tator on the cer.ain day above referred to-.
and in n beer saloon in Fulton street. New
York This will devises all the property
away to woman who is relative OF the
claimant, but net of the testator or his
family. The claim is, to soy the least, very
~ttApuated.
Year: 1876

GENERAL HAwLEY AND THE SUNDAY QuKs-
rIoN.-It is now settled that the Centennial
Exhibition is not to be opened on Sundays,
and that many thousands of people are to be
thus deprived of profting by the splendid
display The Commissioners and General
Joseph Hawley especially are responsible
for this mistake. General Hawley rested his
opposition to opening the Exhibition upon
grounds of religion. He believed Sin the
old-fashioned way of stopping on Saturday
night and waiting till Monday morning, and
this had been established by all our laws
and the usages of the people. He would
hold to the traditional observance of the
Sabbath, regarding the matter as one of over
whelming importance to the character of the
people" We should like to ask General
Hawley if he has not sanctioned the visits of
Dom Pedro and Prince Oscar and their COM
panions to the Exhibition on Sundays, and
by what principle of right or religion he
grants privileges to foreign monarchs that
he refuses to American citizens?
Year: 1876

The story which we print this morning of
the reading of the Declaration of Independ-
ence to the American army in this city one
hundred years ago is not alone interesting
as an epitome of history appropriate to this
anniversary, but it is replete with one of the
highest lessons which history teaches. At
that day every American by birth was not
an American in feeling, and sectional
jealousies were as bitter and sectional
chickering's as loud as they have
been at any time since. The gay
Pennsylvania contemned the psalm
singing New Englander and Smallwoods
maccaroni battalion scoffed ut the homespun
garb of the Yankee ploughboys. In this
city, too, wealth and fashion and beauty in
clined toward royalty, and loyalty to the
crown was even more common than loyalty
to freedom. The publication of the Dec
laration Of Independence, instead of inspir-
ing the people with the spirit of nationality,
decided many of the wavering in favor of
the royal cause, and sent many recruits to
the King. What mattered the enthusiasm of
the few hot-headed lads who des royed the
Kings statue in the Bowling Green, when
the fat of independence called hundreds
of ''cow boys" into existence and gave them
the proud Delaney as their chief? The
immediate effect of the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence was hurtful, and in the hurt it
wrought to the cause of which it was the
exponent is lesson we can learn with
profit. The mistake of this age is to under
value itself, its integrity, its worth and its
patriotism, while it overvalues the past. We
have no disposition to underestimate
either the achievements or the patriot
ism Of the Revolutionary epoch, but if
the divided sentiments of the people, the
treason in many American households, the
feverish and anxious watching for the enemy
to bid him welcome, the frequent betrayals
of trust and duty and country, the intem-
perate chickering's in camp and council, the
thousand and one weaknesses which marked
this day one hundred years ago, have any
meaning, any lesson for us, it is that we
have not lost ground since the time of our
Revolutionary fathers, have not grown worse,
or less patriotic, than they, and that liberty
is as safe in our hands as it was in theirs.
Year: 1876




The loss of life in the two battles with
the Sioux, great as it has been, is not by any
means the greatest we may have to count.
The effect upon the Indians themselves is
far more dangerous; not only on the Sioux
nation elated with their victories, but on all
the tribes in the vicinity of the field Of
operations Already we are told that the
Indians at the Berthold Agency are becom-
ing restive. We have seen the Crows leave
General Crook because the fight with their
hereditary enemies was not victory.
When they learn, as they soon will, of the
destruction of Custer, the defeat Of Reno and
the retreat of Terry and Gibbon to
the Yellowstone, even they may doubt
whether success may not lie in q
war on the pale faces rather than upon their
red enemies. The Grows are just as savage
as the Sioux; the Mandans and Gros Ventres
have very bad records, and if they are led to
believe that the power of the white man is
on the wane the frontier settlements are
likely to suffer in a degree we can only
fancy now by multiplying by hun
QIcOS Luo otOAlco VI AdPAAc, JOI-
ture and murder which have come
to us from time to time from the sparsely
settled lands of the Far West. An alarming
point in connection with the recent battles
is the reported appearance of several white
desperadoes directing the attacks of the
Sioux. Outlaws and criminals of the
worst stamp, which even the border
towns, with their large numbers of
desperate characters, have been too
hot to hold, they are just in the position to
do most damage, not merely from their
superior knowledge of the tactics of the
soldiers, but from the effect their crying
down of the strength of the whites would
have on Indians wavering between reserva-
ton beef and blankets and the prospect
of a scalping party on large scale. They
can tell the young 'bucks" that Red
Cloud and Spotted Tail and the chiefs who
have been East and touched the strength of
civilization are liars bribed with few pres
ents 1t will be some time before another
advance can be made but when our troops
do move the conditions of sweeping VIC
tory should be assured. Therefore, we say
that merely "enough" troops should not be
the motto Of the future.
Year: 1876

THE LABOR QUESTION IN ENGLAND has
again become one of serious importance.
Trade must be depressed indeed when not
only reduced wages and reduced time, but a
limit of four working days in the week. are
determined upon. Whether such reductions
are justifable or not their effects cannot fail
70 DO most deplorable. At the present rates
The condition Of English operatives is not a
happy lot With reduced wages, and only
four days in the week to earn even this, no
fate could be much worse than is likely to
befall them. Depressed as everything is
with us we have not yet fallen SO low as the
condition of things in England.
Year: 1876

The MosT DARING RAILROAD ROBBERY on
RECORD was perpetrated on Friday night, a
little after ten o'clock, on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad, short distance east Of
Otterville, Mo. From the full account of
the outrage, published in to-days HERALD,
it appears that the whole affair was dcliber-
ately planned and successfully executed by
about n dozen masked ruffians, who obstructed
the track in cutting stopped the train by
a signal light, and after robbing the express
company's safes Of about sixteen thousand
dollars in money and valuables decamped
with their prize No resistance was offered
by either the train officials or the passengers.
who were completely overawed by the pis.
tolls of the band of masked robbers. Ar
active pursuit after the gang has been in


stituted from several points. and there are
some hopes of their capture, but. we fear.
not without loss of life to the pursuing par.
ties The affair is somewhat similar to the
recent robbery of a mail coach, filled with
well armed passengers, in Texas, when
the only one who escaped loss was
plucky little woman who detied the rob.
bers. This outrage is possible of repetition
on any of our roads, even those of the settled
States, unless severe lesson is administered
now to all concerned in this latest robbery.
We hope that the facility with which the
thieves got possession of the safe KEYS and
the money will suggest to the express conn
Year: 1876

The SICK CHILDREN's SANITARIUM deserves
10 be literally sustained by our charitable
citizens. 1t will afford relief and enjoyment
to suffering little ones whose homes in the
hot city tenements afford them neither the
one nor the other. We publish in to-day s
HERALD list of subscriptions already sent
In and will be glad to see the list grow in
length week after week during the summer.
Year: 1876

settle it. Let us have peace in the Terrific
ries and possession there. If the Indian
will not submit to civilization let US cage
him as we would tiger or wolf The
country will sustain any policy that ends the
Indian business, and if it could be announced
that Sheridan, with fifty or hundred thou
sand men, was about to enter the Indian
country the announcement would rejoice
the people.
Year: 1876

SEA CLIFF CANT MEETING opened last
evening with large delegation of our New
York clergy in charge. Devotion will be pos
sible when the devotee is famed by the
cooling sea breezes and inspired with
thoughts of heaven by the beauties of his
surroundings on earth.
Year: 1876

The INDIANS GAME.-When we want sport
we go with a shotgun for partridges or
duck. If we want better game we 60
farther West to slay buffalo with revolver
or rife. But when the Indian wants sport
he goes for the white man, whom he looks
upon as his legitimate game.
Year: 1876




The interest on this immense and con-
stantly increasing Indebtedness represents
first mortgage of about fourteen per cent on
every piece of real estate in the city, and
what is much more keenly felt by the hum
bier classes, an annual tribute on the wages,
labor and industry of the whole population.
Can the borrowing capacity Of the city be
much longer maintained under such n mani
fest drift toward bankruptcy? Who shall
say that the moment may not come when the
people will, by general movement, COM
bine together to throw off this intolerable
burden, and leave the creditors of the city
to such remedies as they can find? To the
voters of New York must we look for a
remedy for a state of things which is impov-
crushing the whole community to enrich
Year: 1876

Had the decision of the Supreme
Court, declaring the Enforcement law


unconstitutional, been rendered at an


earlier period, before the republican


party lost control of the House of Re-
presntatives, Congress would forth


with have passed new bill avoiding


the objections made against that which


is now adjudged void. The Court


fully admits that Congress may pass
law for insuring The civil and political
quality Of the negroes. If the republi-
can party had sooner known that by
attempting too much they had accom+
plished nothing it would have been in
their power to substitute appropriate
legislation for the unconstitutional


law which they enacted. But this de-
| eision of the Supreme Court, coming


when it does, not only annuls the En-
forcement act, but puts that provision
of the constitution in allegiance which
authorizes Congress to pass laws for
the protection of negro equality. After
the unscrupulous abuses of legislation


practised by the republican party un-
der color OF that authority; and which
the Supreme Court has condemned, the
democrats are not likely to consent to
any further legislation on the subject.
The negroes for the ensuing two years
at least, will have to depend for pro.
lection on the State governments.-
There will be no further interposition
of federal authority supported by fed
eral bayonets to support their rights
or redress their wrongs. This impoI-
tant decision marks the beginning
of a new era in the political relations
of the negro race in our Southern
States.


If the Southern governments should
be just, humane and considerate, they
can easily detach their colored citizens
from the republican party and virtually
annihilate that party throughout the
South. The negroes will be likely to
class this bogus Enforcement law with
the broken Freedmen's Savings Bank.
They will feel with keen resentment
that their rights have been ne safer
than their money in the custody OF
the republican party. Finding their
hspes disappointed, their confidence
abused, and that they must, after all,
depend for protection and prosperity
on the communities with which their
lot is cast, they will be disposed to CO.
operate more cordially with their i'm
mediate fellow citizens than they have
ever been since their emancipation.-
They have nothing to depend upon
now but their own industry and SO.
briefly and the justice and good will of
their noighbors. If the whites act
with sense and moderation the unde-
ceived negroes will hereafter give them
no trouble.-N. Y. HeraM
Year: 1876

A YOUNG poet of the realistic
school writes "Timc marches on
with the slow, measured tread OF
q man working by the day" Al
most AZ good as the novelist who
described his hero as marching on
to death "with the intrepid step OF
q iackass toward peek Of OATS
Year: 1876

THE merchants and business men OF
Wheeling are looking forward to revi-
val of business soon, and We are glad to
note that throughout the whole country
the expectation seems 20 be general that
early next month trade will take fresh
start. Our commercial exchanges do not
give US gloomy accounts Of the prospect.
In some quarters there is an encoursg-
ing activity in some branches OF
business. The Boston papers speak
OF the outlook as encouraging and
the Pennsylvania journals are hopeful OF
better days soon. From St. Louis and
Chicago we hear that trade is shade
better than it was 8 month ago, but the
San Francl.co journals complain of gen
eral dullness." The Galveston Ne,os says
there has been more doing in general
branches Of trade than for some time
past. But there can be no revival Of
business while the shadow Of resumption
rests upon the land.
Year: 1876

TIE Democratic Congress declared in
favor Of the execution OF the civil author
IFS the strict maintenance of the courts
s. lsw, the swift and sure punishment
Of offenders. The Republican party sp-
pea. to the sword, and places the bayonet
st1ve the ballot
Year: 1876

seemed to me they would have been
immodest, had they been mufiled
up to the chin in rich stuffs. Only
one was so clothed upon with love-
illness, and a certain cool, still at
mosphere of consciousness, if not
of absolute purity, that you did not
find her nude. The above was a
Venus, who had about her some
thing Of the wholesome air Of the
sea-a saline crispness and cleanli-
ness and sparkle, with pearly tones
in the skin, and unfathomable blue
in her eyes. She alone belonged to


that poetic, classic, morally mega
tive realm wherein there is neither


virtue nor sin, shame nor shame


lessness.
Year: 1876

Our Ooffees are all roasted
and ground on our premises.
Our ground Cofiees are cut up
in a Steel Mill, which granu-
lates them without powder
ing, and are, in consequence,
free from dust. Only fine
favored Coffees are used By
us for grinding.


Our Roasted Coffee trade is
constantly increasing, owing
to the fact that all our COffees
are carefully selected for their
body and fine favor, and as
we roast in the best style of
the art, using our own Water
Power, and roasting three
times a week, they are always
fresh and fragrant when sold.
WIN. DEAN q CO.,


$50 Poplar ST.
Year: 1876

to the chargel" and with a rush
they fling themselves upon the
dead. At the first shot the fore
most rank Of Frenchmen falls, a
row of stiffened corpses on the
plain. They had been frozen to
death, there where they stood; and
there, perhaps, they would have
stood until the next summers
heat had given relation to their
rigid muscles but for the wild at
tack of the fierce desert warriors.
Year: 1876

cero says that civil liberty consists in


the slave of law; liberty of the intellect
ang the slave of truth, and liberty of con-
ee In being the slave of virtue; if you


away the law you admit force; if you take
" truth you admit error; if you take away
sne you admit vice. Where moral Influences
pot exist, their absence must be supplied by
Year: 1876

One of the trinls of woman y
life is keeping dinner waiting for
her husband. An elderly lady has q
remedy for this. She sits down to
cat us soon rs the meal is ready, and


then he is sure to come. "A watch
ed pot" she gracefully observes,
Year: 1876

The National Republican ticket is be-
fore you, and the declaration of priDci-
Piles upon which its candidates stand
emits no uncertain sound. The great
need and responsibility of the hour is
deeply felt on every hand, and all feel
that a more important contest was never
before the American people. In 1860,
we entered the contest as minority, offer
ing an untried and officially unknown par
ty for the peoples suffrage. Slavery,
treason and corruption were opposed to
it, and spreading our banner to the breeze,
with Freedom, Loyalty and Union inscrib-
ed on every fold, we found place in the
hearts of the American people that the
sixteen years of ascendancy, has only
cemented the closer. The contest this
year has been narrowed down to almost
the same issues that were contended for,
and between the same men who fought
the fight of 1850, and again that of '6l-
'65. One years work of a Confederate
House of Representatives, ha been sufi-
cient to warn the people that the very re-
suits won by four years of desperate war
fare for nations life, are in danger, and
that the Democratic party and the allies
that sought to disrupt the country in
ls6l-'65, are just as eager for that end,
just as reasonable, just as disloyal as
they were when they followed the stars
and bars upon Southern battle-felds.
There is no use in Disgusting plain truths;
no use in attempting to deny the facts
that crop out whenever a Confederate
member Of Congress opens his mouth.
The contest then in the political arena,
will be, upon the one side TO save and the
other to destroy the great results won by
the war and the oceans of blood it shed.
The fight will not be on what men shall
be elected, only as these men represent
principle. The Republican party is con-
tending as in 1860, for freedom for all,
north and south For equal rights to ali
men, white or black, while the Democra-
cy only seeks plan by which the black
man of the South may be disfranchised,
or compelled to vote the Democratic tick
ct. The Republican party attempts to
bolster up and preserve the National
credit, by paying its debts as soon as
possible, while large majority of the
Democracy are in favor of repudiating
the whole National debt, or what is equal
ly bad, assuming the untold millions of
rebel debt, and paying off the cords of reb-
el bonds. The intelligent voter ought not
long to hesitate between these two parties,
and we feel be will not. Our candidates,
HAYES and WHEELER, are both as honest,
upright, pure and free from guile, as any
men in the land, and should command
full party vote.
Year: 1876

After going to press we received the
following special relative to the Congress
ional Convention in the Fifth District:


Special to HERALD.


Cedar Rapids, June 81.
Rush Clark was nominated for Congress
on the first ballot, by vote Of SO to %.


REPUBLICAN PRINTING Co.
Year: 1876

PREscorT.-Is very near the geographical center of the Territory, and in many respects the most attractive town or village therein, having population of over 900 almost en- tirely white people. The town has nearly CT quite doubled in population the present year, and the country around seems to be equally prosperous. New and exceedingly rich mines are being discovered almost daily. The "Bradshaw" mountains some 40 miles south are perhaps as rich a mineral country as can be found on the continent. The new and exceedingly rich ''Peck Mining District" is the north end of the Bradshaw range, and by careful and exhaustive examination in the district I feel compelled to say that it is not inferior to any now known. The ores are mostly silver, though at some points differ ent lodes have been worked for gold. but in almost all when work is carried 10 any depth silver takes the place of gold. The silver ores show we'll in ruby and in horn silver, with rich carbonates, and in some sufficient galena to make them good furna e ores. The noted "Peck mine" which on the surface showed but few inches in width, now at fifty feet deep shows two feet and orer in width, and the whole body assays far up ir to the thousands of dollars per ton. Some weeks since ten tons of this ore was sold here for SIS, ,000, which was no doubt far be low its real value. Thirteen thousand pound of the ore is now on the way to San- Francisco, and have no doubt it will stir up San Francisco capitalists very much.- [Col. Hodge in San Diego Union.