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Year: 1876

the Te-eIftctfHcub Oh WHICH, - j near, -
to be pressed at the present session, It
but It repeals the Southern Homestead
law. and contains no provision recurring
agricultural lands to be sold to settlers
only In limited quantities. Without this
provision our Homestead law must
continue to be what 1t has been
in the pasta halting, halfway
measure. What justice demands and
the people have been earnestly pleading
for Tor years Is that the policy Of land
speculation shall be cut up, root and
branch. This can only be done by posi-
tive legislation. 1t will not do to say
that no more lands can be sold to specu-
lators unless the President shall issue
his proclamation OF public sale, and
that no such public sales have been pro-
claimed for years past, or are likely to
be. This is begging the question.
We live, under government OF
cretion It's theory is that our rulers
need TO be hedged about by restrictions
and prohibitions. To say that the Pres
idenf, having the power to throw the
public lands into the grasp Of specula-
tors and monopolists, as so many OF his
predecessors have done, will not exer.
else that power, is to say that he is proof
against temptation, and beyond the
reach Of lobbies and rings OF all sorts.


I think no man will say any,


thing so extravagant who has PAID


any attention to the civil service OF


the Government, or the general course


Of the present administration since 1T


came into power Congress, and Con,
gyess alone, has the power to define and
Year: 1876

The difficulty of getting pure teas of really fine
quality in the United States, has induced The
ed packages direct from the gardens in which
they are grown, and as further guarantee of
their being delivered in their genuine state, they
the name Of the nearest Agent to You is printed
ut the foot of this advertsenlent-S0 that the
Teas pass through none but responsible hands,
and will be delivered at your own door as fresh
pan the price also is printed OH each package,
SO that no error can occur.


Everybody buys Tea.


Everybody wishes to buy it at first hands-tlle
best qualities ut the lowest prices


Everybody desires when they find Tea suita-
be to their tastes-to be certain Of getting the
same article always.


You can have all these advantages by buying
Year: 1876

The Ring are endeavoring to preju-
dice men against the. ADVANCE by


claiming that the controversy is wholly


a personal one. Every fact we have
published for the last two years against
rowdyism, against ringism, against any
thing, has been called i personal mat
ter. II we should attack the Coperni-
can system, they would fly up and say
we had a personal matter with Copper
nicus. The people know very we'll that
our controversy is not a personal one
ut all, but purely a fight with ringism.
Year: 1876

A leading citizen, who sends us a
club of subscribers from Hersey and
Graham Lakes, says: II have not yet
had time to 60 round the town-am not
done planting; but they come to me
and beg for the paper. l send you
above list. Success to the ADVANCE"
No use trying to keep the truth from
the people. They will break over all
barriers and get ut it. Send along the
Names
Year: 1876

The Journal processes to be a news
paper, yet up to this time it has had
no account of the great Land Sale to
Mr.. Taylor, the heaviest sale to private
parties ever made in the State and an
event Of especial local interest. We
want no better proof than this of the
one-sided, partizan character of the
Ring organ.
Year: 1876

His Brazilian Majesty is model Of energy.
Not even the terrible summer heat can deter
him from pursuing actively his intelligent
inquisition into our social and industrial
condition. We do not believe that any
visitor to our country has ever made
himself so fully acquainted as His
Majesty with our resources and ouI
industries in so short o space of time. q
the Emperor of Brazil works only half
hard at home when he is in Office as he doe.
now when he is supposed by pleasant fic.
tion to he taking vacation, he will have
few idle hours to answer for. He certainly
is a model, even to the busy and energetic
citizens of these United States, and many
of our public men could take leaf
out of his book with advantage to themselves
and their country. We hope sincerely that
His Brazilian Majesty has been pleased with
his visit. Our citizens will always have q
warm welcome for him should he do us the
honor of a second visit. When he leaves our
shores he will carry with him the good will
and respect of republican people, who see
in him monarch truly desirous of advanc-
ing the interests of his people, friend to
science and to liberal government. We wish
His Majesty and his amiable consort
pleasant voyage and safe return to the land
they rule and adorn.
Year: 1876

Our special correspondence from the scene
of the fierce conflict on the Little Horn gives
a vivid picture of the bloody and, from the
see a heroic commander followed to the
death by two hundred and forty soldiers OF
his regiment not less heroic than himself,
and oil these lives. qualified to make splen-
did the annals of our race, wasted in mad
battle with from four to five thousand saw
ages not without the virtue of courage and
made daring in this case, apparently, by
the consciousness of their overwhelming
strength.


In this battle the Little Horn River is
capital feature. On the left bank Of that
stream, at about fifteen miles from its con-
of Sitting Bull. On that side the edge OF
the river is timbered, and between the river
and the hills, for distance of several miles,
is level and beautiful valley-a bottom
land. On this valley was the village, peo-
pied by upward of four thousand warriors
On the right, or opposite side, the river and
the plain are dominated by a range of high
hills or bluffs. In his approach Custer
looked down upon the village from these
bluffs, and there divided for an assault n
the position force that if combined, would
have been unequal to the struggle


He placed three companies on these
heights in reserve, sent Colonel Reno to the
left to ford the stream above the village
and attack from that side, while he moved
along the heights on the right bank to cross
the river further down and attack at the
other extremity. Colonel Reno passed the
bottom land and advanced on the enemy.
But his advance was fiercely resisted by
the Indians in the hills on his
left, and before he had reached
the village he saw the imminent probability
that he would be out off from the reserve.
He charged to keep open his communication
with that force. Apparently this movement
was not intended as o retreat, but a retreat
it became; and in few minutes Colonel
Reno instead of assailing the Indian village,
was fighting battle for life with forces that
obstructed his retreat. His men fought their





stream, were butchered by the Indian marks
men. Once more across the stream they were
knocked over by the Indian rifles as they
clambered the heights Yet the larger num-
Der escaped. But what was their position
then? They had failed in their movement,
had not co-operated with Custer, and had
left him to bear alone the brunt Of the whole
battle.


Reno's retreat permitted Sitting Bull to
concentrate every man against Custer, and
his fate was natural consequence. He was
annihilated, and then again the Sioux turned
their attention to Reno, who meantime had
fortified himself on the heights They
would have annihilated his force also but
their operations were cut short by the adj
vance of Gibbon. which our correspondent
records in detail.
Year: 1876

ingtons time, from without, but from
within. The Cincinnati Convention gave
these subjects no consideration, but Mr.
Hayes has ample time to express his
views in the canvass But whatever
may be discussed in the canvass the
vital question is to be decided by the nex'
administration. The fate of the American
Union, for hundred years. perhaps, de-
pends upon what is done in the next four,
and in all the work before us nothing Is
more important than the removal of corrup-
ton by the slow steady process of reform,
and the destruction Of Capitalization by an
immediate change of policy.
Year: 1876

TIE HEnALD on LoSo ISLAND on Sun
oArs-visitors and residents sojourning at
ali points along the line of the Long Island
Southern Railroad between Long Island City
md Patchogue, including Rockaway. Hemp
utesd and Glen Cove, will receive the
uxnArD every Sunday morning by breakfast
lime at a cost of five cents per copy. The
Union News Company have the charge of the
delivery of the papers by special train and
wagons. Any instance of an overcharge If
reported to this Office will receive prompt
attention.
Year: 1876

command should have been cut to pieces
and annihilated, because it WAS quite be-
yond the range of their calculations that he
would be outnumbered in the proportion of
four to one, which was actually the case
Custer no doubt shared their error but it
was their business and not his to be well in
formed respecting the strength OF the
enemy. They had supreme direction; he
was a mere subordinate. If they had any
sort Of justification in believing that he
could not be crushed by overwhelmingly
superior numbers he was also justified in
holding the same opinion. That this was
their tenacious opinion is proved by the
prompt and strong way In which
they discredited the news when it
reached them They could not believe
that Custer could be badly beaten in an
onset on any Indian force which he might
fall in with He cannot be justly blamed
for sharing in and acting upon the view OF
his superior officers when one OF those
officers was the illustrious Sheridan. If he
paid the penalty of mistake it was as much
their mistake as his.


The deplorable truth is that President
Grant is chiefly responsible for the appalling
miscarriages which have attended this disas-
trous campaign against the Sioux. The
proper commander of this expedition was
General Custer, unless General Sheridan
chose to go in person to the scene of hostili-
ties. Custer, next to Sheridan, was the
ablest Indian fighter in the army, and his
superior fitness was recognized in the orig
inal intention to put him in command.
After it had been decided, on grounds OF
merit, to put him III charge he was sub
poenaed to Washington, against his will. to
testify against Belknap Like man OF
honor he swore to the truth, and
Immediately thereafter President Grant,
in fit of petulance, degraded him from
his command, and we behold the result in
the most disastrous and inglorious cam
paign ever organized against the Indians.
Grants parasites will do their utmost to ex-
culpate him, but the country will not over
look the fact that the soldier who had been
selected on grounds of pre-eminent fitness
was flung out to crafty q personal pique Of
the ITeSlQeut.


Is this kind of personal government to be
perpetuated? Will the country indorse the
sacrifice of important public interests to the
malignant spite of the President against able
officers? The people are anxious to learn
the attitude Of Governor Hayes toward Grant
and Grantism. They await his letter Of ac-
ceptance with deep interest. Will he repu-
diate Grantism? Will he have the courage,
the moral eleva ion, the independence to out
loose from and condemn the system of per-
sonal government which has SO long pre-
vailed to the detriment Of great interests, or
will he cravenly swim with the stream
We shall soon know, and the Presidential
election may turn on Mr.. Hayes political
intrepidity or his lack of it.
Year: 1876

Governor Tilden will not do Justice to his
reputation as a shrewd politician if he does
not recognize the fact that Governor Hayes
is stealing march on him ip the opening
of the Presidential campaign. The republi'
can candidate is making modest but tell
ing tour through the country, has visited
the Centennial Exhibition and has made
some sensible, and, above all, brief speeches.
We do not know whether Mrs. Hayes accom-
panies her husband, but if she does the peo-
pie will see a very handsome and amiable
lady, who would grace the White House II
she should be called to preside over it, and
who, as the leader of Washington society,
would overthrow the reign of shoddy and
restore the grace and refinement of the ear
lier days of the Republic. Governor Tilden
remains in Albany, and his friends, with
very bad taste, send reports from that city
stating how fully his time is occupied,
and sneering covertly at Fourth of July
pilgrimages to the Centennial. If he does
not desire to see Governor Hayes creep
ahead Governor Tilden should start at once
for Philadelphia, calling on Mr.. Oswald OF
tendorfer on his way, as set off against his
antagonists visit to Carl Schurz, and making
speeches at appropriate points. If our
Governor will by practice drill himself
into making short, pointed addresses,
which will not tire his audience, he
may, in this respect at least, manage to
keep up with Hayes. But he must not
neglect this important preliminary. for if
he INDUCES in his usual speeches he
will not have time to make more than half
dozen of them before the day of election
arrives
Year: 1876

THIs Is FIT SEASON for New York to ex-
tend her hospitalities to the citizen soldiery
of the South. One hundred years ago the
Southern provinces were we'll represented
in the little army which was defending the
city against the approach of Lord Howe and
Sir Henry Clinton. They were here when
the Declaration Of Independence was read
to the troops on the 9th of July, l776, and
assisted in the subsequent battles of Brook
lyn Heights, Harlem and White Plains.
Now they come as guests, to glory in the
independence which their fathers and ours
achieved on the fields of the Revolution, and
the freemen of New York ought to make
their brethren of the South doubly welcome
ut this time.
Year: 1876

TIE WAY Nor TO Do IT was again illus
kratsd yesterday by twelve gentlemen repre-
psuting the Council of Political Reform. the
Chamber of Commerce and other like asso-
Citations, who were appointed to examine into
tho doings of the Dock Department but who
rravely resolved they were to do nothing an
kaQonistic to the department The commit
bee TO do nothing is in a fair way of accom-
piishing it as until yesterday it has not had
> meeting since April /, and has again ad-
iourned without day.
Year: 1876

The LAWYERS AND THE COURTS have q
happy knack of interfering with business Of
every kind by means Of injunctions and
other annoyances. Some days ago judge
Donohue granted an injunction forbidding
the payment of dividends by the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and yesterday
Judge westbrook vacated it. 1t is not neces-
sary to know anything about the merits Of
this particular case to know that the pro-
ceedings are wrong at one end or the other,
and the Bench and the Bar would both stand
higher in public esteem if there was not
such constant juggling with the law and the
practice of the courts.
Year: 1876

THE KHEprvE is not so independent as
people thought and is sending his regi-
ments to assist in upholding the Ottoman
Empire. The Bey of Tunis, too, has in
formed the Porte that he will send regi-
ment to Constantinople. This is the most
important news we have this morning from
The East, and this is only important that the
Sultan can still depend, in some degree at
least, upon the most powerful of his satraps.
Year: 1876

THE Pacific RAILROAD was an all day
theme in the House of Representatives
yesterday and at the close of the debate Mr..
Lawrences BILL requiring the companies to
create sinking fund to reimburse the
United States, was passed. The public
money was lavished on these projects in the
beginning, and it is about time means were
devised for getting some of it back again.
Year: 1876

THE DOMINICAN INSULT to the American
people in boarding the steamship Tybee and
forcibly removing one of her passengers
ought to be speedily and sternly punished.
The half-clothed barbarians of St. Domingo
must be taught that they cannot carry their
petty political warfare to the deck of an
American ship.
Year: 1876

CAMP MEETINGS have become q popular
institution, and to-day we print an account
of some of those which have been or are to
be held. Even if they fail to bear much
spiritual fruit they are to be encouraged
because of their encouragement of out door
life
Year: 1876

COMPTROLLER GREENS TgENcHASr ARnArGN-
MESr of the Park Commissioners for their
action in regard to Tompkins square will re-
ceive attention. 1t is shameful that work
of this kind once begun should be neglected
so that the people will lose the benefit of the
park for q whole year.
Year: 1876

| The Denison C,esset says: About
! three weeks ago, some twelve or fifteen


thousand dollars in gold and silver was


dug up on the Widow Walkers place,


three miles south OF Denisoh. At the


time mentioned above, two unknown


men. accompanied by an Indian boy,


visited the farm. They had long rod


with which they probed the ground


Some trees growing near the place where
the treasure was buried were


marked; also, a rock on which were two
rings, one within the other, and an


arrow pointing in the direction of the
buried treasure. it appears that the


Walker family knew that the money


was buried on the place, but 10 was u re-


quest Of the Widow Walker that it


should not be disturbed until after she


died. A number OF parties have recent
~ visited the place and the hole where


the money was buried; the trees point


ing TO the spot and the rock with the


rings and arrow on can be seen. The


name OF the parties who came and took


the treasure are known, we understand,


to be the Walker family. The Indian


was from the Nation The story seems


incredulous, and perhaps must be taken


with some allowance. 1t seems very
improbable that the Walker family,
knowing for 50 long time that the
ulOuey WIS DuTleu bneTe. WOnl1 not
have dug it up and enriched themselves,
notwithstanding the Widow Walker re-
guested that it should not be disturbed
until after her death The story was
told to us by three OF the most respecta-
bic citizens Of Denison, who believe that
the money was found as described
above. There seems to be considerable
excitement on the streets in regard to
the buried treasure. Mrs. Walker says
that only small portion of it has been
found, and that she knows where there
are thousands OF dollars in gold and
silver buried one mile distant from Den
ison. IL Mrs. Walkers tale is true,
people who contemplate going to the
Black Hills can do better by remaining
at home. Several parties heve gone to
the Walker place, and report finding
some silver coin In the dirt left near the |
place whore the treasure was buried
Year: 1876

We have already referred to the rich


lead mines recently discovered In the


southeastern corner OF this State, near


Baxter Springs, and all accounts from
| tnat quarter 90 to confirm what has


already been said The Baxter Springs


republican OF the 10th has the fol-
lowing.


Ever since the recent developments
at the Stanley diggings, the Republican
mas contended that the country sur
rounding was equally as rich In mineral,
ana mat when properly prospected
would prove the truth OF the assertion.
The Stanley diggings are certainly big
thlng, worthy tho attention OF miners,
and are paving oil handsome profit
VINO are engaged In them. But the
new discoveries are the biggest yet
found. These diggings are situated on
the northeast corner OF what is known
as Round Prairie, In Lowell township,
this county. being about one mile from
the Stanley diggings Several shafts
nave been started, and all have de-
Veioped paying minerals at a depth OF
eight and ten feet. The gentleman who
sunk the first prospect Struck it. at
eight feet, and on the third day after
commencing threw out three thousand
pounds OF as fine block mineral as ever
was taken from the ground. or course
we cannot tell how the other shafts will
pan out. as they were just striking it
yesterday. But all who were there say /,
t he prospects are Just as Hattering as the
iirst shaft. And why not? They are all
OF the same kind Of ground, and have
found the mineral at the same depth


The least we can say OF these new
diggings Is this: That so far rs present
developments and Indications show,
they are the best yet discovered, and, II
they hold out, will be the most prollia-
bic, to both proprietors and miners, OF
my diggngs in the Southwest"
Year: 1876

There is too much investigation going
on in Washington The President does
not approve Of it. He is reported to
have said that "the Investigations insti-
gated by those who had sought to dis
solve the Union were undertaken for
the purpose Of destroying instead OF
reforming the Government" 1t Is un-
fortunate that the head Of the Govern
ment should think this, because it will
become his sworn duty to see that the
Government is not destroyed; while it
is for the salvation OF the Government
that the people, as they suppose, are
conducting the investigation which he
denounces as treasonous. There is a
house seemingly divided against itself
here The people trying with all their
power to expose the villafny Of the most
Infamous set Of thieves that ever cursed
a nation by filling its leading offices,
while the Chief Executive stands be-
tween public opinion and the thieves,
and declares that the Investigations are
conducted, not for the purpose Of con-
victing the thieves, but Of destroying
the nation. 1t is strange logic.
Year: 1876

Look out for the eclipse of the sun
next Saturday afternoon, from O'Clock
and s minutes to SO. This will be the
most interesting OF all = an annular
eclipse, when part Of the sun 9 disk ap-
pears as ring around the moon, but it
will appear only as partial eclipse in
this part Of the country.
Year: 1876

Under this caption Porte Welch,
the Democratic editor of the Oska-
loose Reform Leader, thus boldly
speaks his honest views, in warning
to his party:


A new party in spirit and in truth
Is more in demand to-day than ever
before. The Republican party again
has the inside track and the tradi-
tionai Democratic party is not only
demoralized but demoralizing. Be-
ing under the leadership ofa hopeless
horde of fossils, we cannot expect
that any progressive measures will
be adopted unless Reform Democrats
work. Men who are reformers for
the sake Of Reform, will dare to
maintain their advocacy of a new
party in spirit and in truth. IL the
Democratic party acts wisely and
pursues course that Is progressive
and just, then the new party will
sweep over the continent again. and
traditional Democracy will be forev-
or buried. Thousands Of Republicans
who are ready to cooperate with
Democracy, II 1t Is to be made new
party In spirit and in truth, will not
touch IL this year If the leaders per-
sist In their policy to stake al on
combing hazel brush for votes, rath-
er than appealing to the progressive
element of the nation.