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Year: 1876

THE INDIANS AND THE INDIAN RING.-The
country will be profoundly dissatisfied if
Congress adjourns without determining
some definite policy in reference to the In
dians. The Indian Department is sink of
corruption. 1t generates and supports
dangerous and shameless ring. There is no
reason why the whole Indian question
should not go into the hands of the army.
There is sense of honor in the army that
we have yet to find in the rings about WASH
ington. Such n change would mean the
transfer of the Indians to the care of Sher-
man, Sheridan, Hancock, and men Of that
calibre-msn above the mutations and
temptations of politics, who know the In
diem question thoroughly, who handle it
practically when no stealing is possible and
who would see that justice was done to
white men and red. Let this Congress crush
tho Indian Ring, and we shall feel that even
Custer has not died altogether in vain.
Year: 1876

"CUsTEI AND Hrs Many corre-
spondents are under the impression that the
proposed monument to Custer means that
it will do honor to him alone This il a
wrong impression. Our idea is that the
monument shall celebrate the heroism of
every one in that noble band, from the
colonel who commanded down to the hum
blest private in the ranks. They all alike
shared the fate of Custer, and they will share
his glory and his fame.
Year: 1876

A SUBSCRIPTION PROM LAWRENCE BARRErT-
We have received an eloquent and manly
letter, which we elsewhere print, from Law
renee Barrett, the distinguished trage2ian.
enclosing subscription of two hundred
and fifty dollars tor q monument to
Custer and his men, and proposing to
play at one of our theatres tor the benefit
Of the fund. This is good suggestion, and
,ne that does credit to the heart and head of
ar. Barrett. There is no office the trage-
dian more gladly performs than that which
makes him the representative of valor, duty
and self-denial. The suggestion of this fine
actor, that the profession should unite in
doing honor to one whose life and death
we're embodiments of valor. duty and self
asuial, is worthy of all praise
Year: 1876

The democratic newspapers are vexed
whenever any member of the famous Fifth
Avenue Conference declines to vote for Til
den. Thus, when Carl Schurz said he pre-
ferred the financial record of Hayes to that of
Hendricks, there was roar. He was told that
he had been at the Conference and to vote
for Hayes was to be renegade. Now comes
Horace White taking the same ground, and
we presume we shall have the same censure
The Fifth Avenue Conference was, as we
understand it, a protest of certain republ-
cans against the nomination of Mr.. Conk-
ling, Mr.. Blaine or Mr.. Morton. It was
really republican movement. If the Con-
vention satisfied its demands it had no mo-
tive to 60 elsewhere Mr. Schurz felt that
the Convention did all ne could expect II
did not nominate any Objectionable men to
office; it made the platform clear on finance
its candidate took high ground on civil
service and one term. There was no ground
upon which the Conference could stand in
opposition to Hayes, unless it assumed the
preposterous theory that man who had
served through the war as general, who
had been in Congress and three times as
Governor, was kind of dishcloth, to be
soaked and squeezed by the machine men
Of the party.
Year: 1876

GRANT AND BR1sTow. Grants
letter to ex-Secretary Bristow, releasing
him from obligations of confidence in re-
lation to Cabinet consultations, is model
of correct taste, good temper and right
feeling He approves the position taken
by Mr. Bristow before the House COM
mittee, that what occurred in Cabinet or be-
tween o member of the Cabinet and the Ex-
ecutive is privileged, and that a committee of
Congress has no right to demand an answer.
Only the President himself can rightfully
break the seal of confidence in such cases,
and President Grant acts in the spirit of an
officer who feels strong in conscious inno-
cence in informing Mr.. Bristow that he is at
full liberty to tell all he knows, and extend
ing the same permission to all other members
or ex-members of the Cabinet who possess
any knowledge of what the President has said
or done in relation to the whiskey trials. We
are glad of an opportunity to commend
President Grant for having done a right
thing in prompt, manly way.
Year: 1876

We printed yesterday letter from the dis
tinguished General Averill defending Major
Reno from some of the criticisms passed
upon him by the press. and especially by
General Rosser. General Averill thinks
that Major Reno did his duty, which we
sincerely trust will prove to be the case.
But there is point in the Generals letter
which has significance. Advocate" says
General Averill, ''the passage of an act by
Congress which will secure to the widow of
every officer of the army and navy who falls
in battle at least one-half Of her husbands
pay during her widowhood." 'Let us, he
says in conclusion, commemorate the
splendor of Clusters career and death, but
let us not forget his widow and the widows
of those noble officers who formed with him
and his men an unbroken skirmish line of
dead heroes"


The passage of such an act as General
Averill recommends would be really re-
vision of our whole pension laws. No Con-
gress would give the widows of officers so
large pension without applying the same
rule to the widows of private soldiers. We





the subject at this time; but nothing would
be more appropriate than for Congress to
give special pensions to the widows and
children of the brave men who fell under
Custer. The death Of Custer was excep-
tional in all of its surroundings. 1t was the
fall of brave, good, self-sacrifcing soldier
doing his duty. 1t was deed which will
add honor to our race and generation, and
for this reason it would be appropriate for
Congress to Take hold of the subject and
vote special pension to the widows of the
noble officers and men who fell before
Sitting Bull.


But while this is duty that cannot be too
earnestly urged upon Congress, let us, as
people, do our share to, in the words Of
General Averill, commemorate the splen-
dor Of General Clusters career and death"
That can be done by raising such monu-
ment to the memory of these heroes MS has
been proposed by the HERALD and toward
which we have already received subscrip-
tions amounting to S2,654 rs. Let Cen
eral Averill and the brave men who served
with him go into this work. Let o sum be
raised large enough to commemorate forever
the splendor and heroism of Clusters ca
reer. Let Custer monument associations be
formed all over the country-like those
formed in Washington and Monroe, Mich
one in each city and State. This is a work
in which the humblest can join, for no one
is SO poor that he cannot do homage to valor
and self-sacrifce.
Year: 1876

We BELIEVE in the right to drink beer on
Sundays. and can indorse the arguments
against the recent pernicious enforcement
OF the Excise law; but the idea of the beer
drinkers forming themselves into an ''Agita-
tive Committee is funny enough to have
emanated from body Of cold-water men.
Year: 1876

"A HINT. How would it do for Senator
lConkling to come home and go into the can
vass for Governor as the republican candi-
date? If beaten he could still hold his seat
in the Senate. He could show his critics in
Cincinnati his real strength in New York.
Year: 1876

THE PLACE FOR CASTLE GARDEN.
trust our authorities will remove Castle Gar.
den from the Battery. There are a hundred
reasons why the emigrant should not land
here. The city is overcrowded. There are poor
accommodations The emigrant is sure to
fall in with sharks. We need the Battery e
a pleasure ground. The surroundings of the
Battery are unfavorable to the freshly ar
rived emigrants. AS the city grows the Bat
terry will become more and more incommo-
dious, while the temptations awaiting the
newly landed stranger will increase. We
should build the new Castle Garden at Bay
Ridge or on Staten Island, where there ID
room and ready access. Or we might induce
Uncle Sam to give us Governors Island,
and make that grand emigrant depot. But
we do not wish any more emigrants to land
on the Battery. 1t is the worst place on all
the island for such purpose, and grows
worse and worse every year.
Year: 1876

The FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC LIFB.-The
examination of Robson by the House COM
mittee as to how much money he was worth
when he entered Grants Cabinet is one of
the humiliations that attend public life in
this country. In time no gentleman will go
into office.
Year: 1876

FAIR PLAY ALL ARoUND-The Times
charges that Scott Lord, democratic men,
Der of the House, suppresses a report exon
Grating Mr.. Hays of Alabama in order that
the uncertainty and delay may defeat the
nomination of Mr.. Hays. We should regard
this as nm incredible story if the Times had
not printed it. The chivalrous manner in
which the republicans of the House stood
by Speaker Kerr should inspire the demo-
low the impression to grow into shape that
he is party to any kind of foul play.


''THE FLOWER OF THE ARMY Is GONE AT
LAST. There is pathos in the letter of
Lieutenant Garland, of the Seventh cavalry,
which we printed yesterday. 81 was stand
ing by General Custer" he writes, "when
General Terry came up, and as he looked
down upon the noble General the tears
coursed down his face as he said:-"The
flower of the army is gone at last" This
picture would make an appropriate bas-
relief upon the proposed Custer monument


The GovERNoRsHrP P-The Times and the
Tribune warn Senator Conkling and his
friends out of the canvass for Governor
The Tribune mentions names and wants
Evarts. The Times is not personal, but its
meaning is clear. 1t would like Evarts
Whether Evarts will care to be HAYES
strengthening plaster is n question. An
other question is, ''Has Senator Conkling
any standing with the republican party?'
Is it not just possible that the canvass will
have some use for Mr.. Conkling? And if
the Senator and his friends are not to be al
lowed in the party how much majority will
New York give Tilden?
Year: 1876

THE TRAGEDY AT NEWARK on Thursday,
of which we print additional details this
morning, was one of the most sickening and
revolving crimes it has ever been our duty to
chronicle. The murder of the policemen
was utterly without adequate cause, and il
is unexplainable upon any ground of motive
in which reason has q part. The subse-
quent attempt at something like indiscrim-
mate slaughter was even more unreasonable,
and the end of the tragedy has in il
such swift and terrible retribution that
it can only be called fitting close to
what went before it. In the ferocity of thc
criminals and the celerity with which tho
crime was punished, to say nothing of the
horror which surrounded tho death of tho
three brotherA there was Western flavor
usually denied to crime in the East. Tho
whole affray, in its beginning, its conse.
quences and its end, was so completely ont
of the commonplace or murder that yester-
day the story of the crime was the general
topic Of conversation wherever it was told.
Year: 1876

While the news from the seat of war in
Servia and Bosnia is series of rumors
claiming victory for the Turks on the one
the attitude of the great Powers, upon which
the limits of the struggle will in great
measure depend, is becoming more clearly
defined as the contest progresses. Twenty
years ago the Ottoman Empire was consid-
cred so necessary to the peace of Europe
that Europe went to war for its maintenance.
In the meantime, however, the political con-
ditions of the Continent have changed so
completely that now neutrality and non-inter-
vention are the governing principles Of the
policy of the great States. Russia has found
a new direction for the conquests of the
Czar. Austria is satisfied as long as Russian
aggression is not pointed toward the Black
Sea or the Adriatic. Germany has no more
interest in the internal troubles Of the Turk
ish Empire than if Islamism and Christian
ity were fighting their battles in America.
France is France, and the republicans could
not be induced to show sympathy
for the effete Empire which the late
Emperor Napoleon succeeded in main
tanning against the better judgment
of French statesmen. Such being the case
with all these Powers it was apparent that
there would be no general war in Europe in
consequence of the Turkish revolt unless
England took the responsibility of its
initiative. That this course should be
adopted there is as much reason now as
there was for the Crimean war twenty years
ago, and it was everywhere feared, most of
all in England. that the traditions of the
pas. might be followed and the country be-
come embroiled in q useless and foolish
war in the East. Statesmen as acute as
John Bright shared this feeling, and yester-
day the distinguished liberal headed dele
cation for the purpose of asking Lord Derby
what England was going to do about it. The
answer cannot fail to be as soothing to the
English people as it will be satisfactory to
the rest of the world. Our special cable
despatch this morning gives q very clear
idea of Lord Derby's reply, but the whole
policy of the English Ministry may be sum-
med up in a single sentence of the an
swer:-''Twenty years ago we undertook to
guarantee the Sick Man against murder,
but we never undertook to guarantee him
against suicide or internal disease" And so
there is to be no general war in Europe, and
the Porte is to be allowed to subdue his re-
bellious subjects if he can.
Year: 1876




EDITOR INDEPENDENT:


thought an item or two from this
section of country would not come
amiss, in your VALUABLE paper, we are
located on claim. two miles south of
the new grist mill on Cedar Creek. We
like this part of the '"~ try first rate.
There is some vacant land here yet,
and those wishing homesteads will do
well by coming here. Those wishing
railroad claims cannot better them
selves, rs there is some splendid rail
road land here. Some of it has settlers
on it already. We have good schools
here. 1t is hoped that our grist mill
will soon be in operation, as it is said
Mr.. Woodham, the owner, is doing all
he can to that effect. Crops are very
good in this section. The people as a
general thing are industrious and wide
awake. Improvements are steadily
going on. Mr.. Reid, ST., is just finish
ing up a nice dwelling house; J. H.
Hensley is just commencing one 15x28,
with an ell; he finished we'll the past
week. Found roots at the depth of &c
feet from the surface; it had the ap-
pearance Of barberry root and was in a
good state of preservation. Our cook
hes gone off on a visit now, and left us
to run our own ranch while. MIR.
Editor, come around and we'll try to
get you up a square meal; we have
plenty of potatoes, but have to rely on
our neighbor's patch for them; well we
have plenty of dalk nights just now.
More anon. HOMEsTEADER.
Year: 1876

AT no time in its history has Rose
burg grown SO rapidly as within the
present year. Houses have been
erected on every hand and the car
penters are still busy putting up new
ones, and besides new business enter
prises have been started up and made
permanent. From all we can learn
we think it is safe to say there i, no
town in Oregon more prosperous
than Roseburg.-Roseburg Adepen-
dent.
Year: 1876

The vote for Tilden is growing. As a
farmer said to us it is like the coming
corn crop, and will be quite as fruitful
While coming from Philadelphia recent.
~, a gentleman who was a stranger to us
said he was a Republican-neyer voted
any other ticket; but the rascality at
washington was too great to bear; they
naa Tried to reform the party within the
party, and it grew worse; he was now
going to vote for Tilden, and there were
Forty Republicans in tine same establish.
ment in which he was employed who
were going to vote for Tilden. The e..
travagance was too heavy for them.
No young man could ever get along in
business with such an internal tax rest,
ing against his energies" In answer t,
the question. how many men are EN-
ployed where you are, he replied, about
two hundred. That looks like Philadel
phia would 60 for Tilden.
Year: 1876

The Cool SPRING RESERVOIR Had
the Republicans in the Council put the
work on this Improvement out by con-
tract when it Was started it would no
doubt have been done now. Instead of
this they wasted an immense sum upon
the grounds, and left them in worse
condition after years operations than
when they were at first, This was all
labor and money lost.


If the Democrats then could have had
their way after the size of the reservoir
had been reduced, and put it out by con-
tract it would have been done. But the
Republicans and their party press op-
posed the contract system, and the work
has now been stopped for want of funds
when about $4,000 would finish it.
We regret this of corrse. But there
will be little loss to the city by defer
ring the completion OF the work. We
have plenty of water and it may be bet.
ter to let the banks settle well before the
clay is puddled upon them or the brick
laid in the bottom.
Year: 1876

The New York San says: TIE Senate
is responsible for ten millions of appro.
priatiens which the House desired to ro.
duce, and which strict examination in.
to oevery part Of the public service showed
ought to be reduced. upon any sound
principle of justice to the burdened tax
payers. What the House has been able
to accomplish in this direction has
able to accomplish in this direction has
been done in spite of an organized Cd.
position by the Republicans in both
Houses. by the united vote of the Re.
publican Senate, and by the open threats
and secret maneuvring of the President


The people see these things, and they
are not likely to forget them next No.
Year: 1876

Our passions are the only orators who are
certain TO persuade us.


We have all of us sufficient strength of
mind 10 endure the misfUrtunes of other
people.


Philosophy triumphs easily over past
evils and evils TO come, but present evils
triumph over philosophy.


1t requires greater viltue to sustain good
fortune than bad.


The evil which we do does not draw up
on us so many prosecutions and SO much
hatred as onr good qualities.


If we had no faults ourselves, we should
not have so much pleasure in discovering
the faults of others.


Nobody is ever SO happy or so unhappy
as he inagines.


The love of justice in most men is moth
ing but the fear Of suffering from injustice.


Many complain Of their memory, but
none complain Of their judgment.


Old men delight in utterng good pre-
cepts-to console themselves for being no
longer in n condition to set bad examples.


The more one loves ones mistress, the
nearer one is 10 hating her.


The surest way Of being deceived is to
think yourself cleverer and more cunning
than anybody else.


People are never made so ridiculous by
the qualities they possess as by those which
they affect to have.


Society could not long subsist if men
were not the dupes of one another.


Our repentance is not so much regret
for the evil we have done as a fear of what
may be the consequences.


When our vices quit us, we Hatter our
selves that we quit our vices.


That which oflen prevents us from aban-
doning ourselves to single vice, is the fact
that we have several.


He who lives without folly is not so wise
as he thinks.


1t is much easier to limit ones gratitude
than ones hopes and desires.


In the adversely of our best friends we
always find something that does not dis
please us.


1t is not so dangerous to do evil TO most
men as 10 do them too much good.


There is no man clever enough 10 know
all the evil which he does.


Among the mass of mankind gratitude is
nothing but a strong and secret desire for
still greater benefits.


Whatever good the world may say OF us,
il never says anything OF which we were
not previously aware.


We confess our little faults, to persuade
ourselves that we have no great ones.


1t is kind of happiness 10 know up to
what point we can be unhappy.


Our selflove revolts much more against
the condemnation of our tastes and habits
than of our opinions.


The clemency Of princes is sometimes
exercised for vanity-sometimes for idle
ness-sometimes for fear; and nearly al
ways for the three combined.


II there were no pride in our own hearts,
we should not complain of the pride Of
others.


Pride has greater share than goodness
In the remonstrances which we make with
those who have committed faults. 1t is
as TO pursuade them that we ourselves are
exempt from the faults which we deplore.
That which renders the vanity Of other
people insupportable. Is the fact that II Of
fonds our own.


You may be more cunning than some
body else, but not more cunning than ev-
erybody else.


We should sometimes be ashamed Of our
best actions, If the world did but know all
the motives which prompted them.
Very few people know how TO grow old.
Year: 1876

- The purchase of the New York
World by Mr.. Hurbnrt is an event
in American Journalism that creates
much comment. Mr. Hurlburt is a
pen-driver who for many years has
given his brain to the building up OF
other mems prosperity. Known
only to few admiring friends, his
able articles have gone into COM
mon stock where his identity was
lost in the name OF the proprietor.
Whether Mr. Hurlburt will succeed
in the control Of Il journal he has
done so much to make popular and
influential remains to be proven.
He has our best wishes, whether he
cares for them or not. He would
make by a change from a democrat
ic organ to an independent Journal.
This excitement over Il Presidential
election may for time benefit the
partisan press; but the people are
weary of such, and in the long run
independence is the winning card
CuDH0{
Year: 1876

The 7th, on the school question,
raises an issue where we think none
actually exists, and suggests rem
edv where none is demanded. The
public school systems Of the several
States are essentially domestic insti-
tutions, depending for their vitality
and efficiency solely upon municipal
laws and the character of the people
wherever they exist. 'The public
school systems of the several States
is the bulwark of the American Re-
public" in the same sense that re-
ligion, general intelligence, good
morals, the inviolability of the mar
riage relation and all the social and
domestic institutions are the bull
warks Of popular government !;
though there IS probably more dem
agoguery and hnmbug about popu-
lar education than upon any other
subject. The General Government
has no more right to NEEDLE with
our public schools than it has to
NEEDLE with the municipal govern
ment of the city of Seattle. We
most decidedly deny the right
of any community or municipality
to tax the public for the benefit of
any sectarian institution of any
kind; and we deny the right of any
government in this country to ex-
empt from taxation the property of
any religious denomination for that
Is practically taxation of the public
for the benefit Of sectarian institu-
tions. But these are purely mu-
nicipal and domestic matters, sub
iect exclusively to municipal con-
troll, and not within the purview of
the General Government. organized
for no other purpose than to regu-
late our foreign relations and the
intercourse between the States.


Sth, 9th and 10th have no particu-
lar significance. The 11th merely
calls for an investigation OF the
Chinese question. That is all. The
10Th is simply complimentary to the
wonan's S rights movement.


18th we protest against as not
true. The Constitution confers
UPON Congress no sovereign rights
over the people of the Territories.
The right of self government is de-
clared to be inherent and inalien-
able, and the Constitution confers
upon Congress only eminent domain
in the lands and other property.


The balance of the resolutions are
merely declaratory. With all our
objections to this platform, we only
wish the St. Louis Convention will
adopt rs good an one.