Year: 1872

and cares, we are again at our post, much refreshed in all respects. From first to last, the trip was one of re- creation, and with the exception of @ few dusty and rainy days, contin- uous round of enjoyment. Among the good results of the trip, is the of eight pounds addi- tional flesh on our frame.

 As the readers of THE CITIZEN well know, the principal object of our east ern visit was to attend the May meet ing of the Centennial Commission, of which our correspondence has treated, but which deserves and shall have more time and attention. The Com missions annual meetings are to open on the first Wednesday of May, at all of which we purpose to be present. A special one is to be held next December 4, but one meeting each year is all we can afford to attend, owing to the extent of time involved in going and returning.

 Incidentally, we spent three days in Washington, part of three in New York and Brooklyn, one in Boston, 0 couple of weeks in different parts of Ohio, and one week in Illinois, and also few days in California. AL though these visits involved some direct expense and an almost total neglect of business which depends for success upon vigilant attention to it, we regard them and all such as the best parts of life. It may suit many who are amply able to do otherwise, to tie themselves down to aocumulat- ing money and property they will leave for others to expend, but our word for 1t, all such who arc not natural misers would be better pleas ed with the world in general and them selves in particular, if they were to turn themselves loose now and then and see other localities, other people, other occupations, other productions, than those in their immediate vicinity

 Local public affairs have been ex- citing and in certain particulars, very unsatisfactory, especially in thefts and but there is hope for some good results. the few official and other slanderersa about the Grant res ervation, and their purchased spies, tools, affidavit and certificate men have been and are still playing the most false and treacherous parts, and have more clearly then ever proven themselves public enemies. Our un- derstanding of their recent conduct is not yet full enough to go for them now, and events which cannot long be deferred may and ought to consign the leaders to an infamous and pow erless obscurity, in which condition to notice them in any manner would be a qualification we will not afford them. So far as their islanders against us are concerned, they have ill no respect done us injury. Having taken all our positions fearlessly in be- half of the toiling masses and of those whose lives and property are constantly exposed ts the fell and thieving work of savages and mer- cenary allies of savages, we expected their denunciation and islander, and regard these as the best proofs of the correctness of our course. We have never expressed sentiment on the

 Indian question we can be induced to retract. THE CITIZEN during our absence has expressed many views in different words from those we should

 have employed, but the tendency of

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