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Year: 1875

FRAUDS IN THE INDIAN BUREAU.


THE DEsTrUTION OF THE INDIANS on THE REsER-


vArIoNs GREATER THAN AT FIRST REPORTED-


THE EXCUSES OF THE AGENTS WITHOUT FoUN-


DATIoN-REsPoNsIBIIITY OF THE DEPARTMENT


FOR INDIAN OUrRAGEs.


tBY TELEGRAPH THE rRIBUSRl


WASHINGTON, May 13.-The Cheyenne, Ara
pahoe. COmanche, Wichita and Kiowa Indians collected
the Reservation in the southern part Of the Indian
Territory have been starving during the past Winter
except several thousand who went on the war path
nearly year ago. and who have since been roaming
about held prisoners by the military These Indians
should be fed at the Fort Sill and Wichita Agencies and
Congress appropriated for their subsistence during the
current year. $500 OOO5O per cent than spent
by the Quaker agents in subsistng greater number OF
Indians at the points year. when they last had
charge OF them To the complaints that were
constantly coming that there actually
food at these Agencies, that it
deficient in quantity and inferior in quality the officials
here have replied that the Indians constitutionay
grrmber and that they would complain, matter how
well they fed. At length Col. Hatch commanding
the military forces at Fort sil made an investigation
and found the destitution TO be greater than had
been reported although he made his examination after
Congress had voted extra appropriation for the same
Indians OF $500 and after the beef contractors
time had expired within which he had agreed TO deliver
cattle Finally Gen. Pope in transmitting the report





he would not be responsible for outbreak
As this report printed the Indian Bureau
fastened TO break the force Of by asserting that re-
port had been received from Gen Shanks, saying that the
why the supplies had not been delivered was that
the roads between Cado and Fort sill had been bad
that transportation them impossible This
turns ont TO be square falschood, for Gen shanks
denies to-day that lie has sent any such dispatch and
characterzes the failure 10 furnish supplies crime
The only conclusion that be drawn from these facts
is that the story invented in the Indian Bureau 10
badly treated among the most difficult to manage in
the West and there doubt that the troubles OF the
past year. since portion OF them have been the war
path, largely due 10 the criminal failure OF the In
terror Department and especially Of the Indian Bureau
that the have been fairly dealt with The
additional fact that the Indian Bureau always defends
the dishonest contractors instead OF taking measures 10
prevent fraud, Is very suspicious one.


The selection Of Cen sbey Of ST. Pau to be chairman
of the commission to examine the supplies furnished To
the Indians the Red Cloud and MILESTONE Agencies
and investigate generally the management OF Agents
Savie and Howard will give very general satisfaction
the friends Of honest dealings with the Indians. The
hope freely expressed that he Will accept the trust and
be able visit the Agencies, and make the invesuga
ton thorough not parte have been most OF those
which have heretofore been made at the same points
Year: 1875

for Rome They express themselves pleased with very
thing they have seen TINS far in what 10 them II new
country Yesterday was them the most Interesting
excursion that they had yet taken
Year: 1875

Col Waring says that small sewers and
drains are better than large ones where the
usual fow Of water is small, for the reason
that the usual current will be sufficient to
carry before it all ordinary obstructions, and
will keep itself clean, IYqgW.INg2
Year: 1875

Mr. ives Of Batavia, N. Y, found at the
rate of nearly nine tons to the acre of top
and root Of quack or witch grass. The
great mass Of the roots lie within two TO four
inches of the surface. His practice is to
turn them under six or seven inches and
smother them with four inches OF clean soil
and they make valusbls fsrtilizer when
decayed.
Year: 1875

Fruit and vegetables have not sold 80 low
in New York and other markets for % years,
being about half the average price for pre-
viouI years; but the market gardeners hope
for a revival Of prices next year. We think
they will be disappointed in the expectation
that prices will regain their former position
If they wish to make living they must cuI
down the cost Of production.
Year: 1875

Q. p. Judd of Canaan then read q paper
on cattle raising in which he said among
other things Of interest There Is no branch
Of agriculture that does or should SO interest
farmers as the raising Of neat stock. Allow
ing this to be true, it is Of vital Importance
that breed or breeds should bo selected
that will give the greatest return in flesh
for given amount OF food. Upon this
point will give my opinion based upoH OBJ
servAnon and limited experience. ..sld


To cross with the Durhams would rec
ommend the Deyons, for these reasons


They are Of a round, plump makeup, red
aud have good constitutions, and when the
good qualitiss Of both are combined in one
you have the most perfect animal for bee
that the farmer can raise. t...I .t.
! -Four years ago last spring, | raised a pau
Of steer calves that were high grade Dur
hams. They sucked half the milk theil
mothers gave until the September following
They were fed through tho winter good hal
aud small feed Of potatoes or turn'ps
They have had the same feed in winter eve
since, and in summer only what they coul'
Year: 1875

Did you ever think how much power
is vested in wOrdf 1t may have
caused but little exertiOn on your part
to utter it. Only a single breath may
have been required to watt it from
your lips to the ears of your listener,
but when once spoken, it was past
recall. 1t revealed the secret motives
and ACKNOWLEDGMENT the hidden thoughts
of your heart. All, the word may have
been n thOughtless one spoken in an
unguarded moment: but it left its i'm
press, and may be remembered long
after your voice is hushed, and you are
sleeping the sleep that knows no
waking.


Perhaps the word was an unkind one,
| harsbly spoken, and accompanied by a
cold. chilling look, which cast gloomy
shadow DER some loving, sensitive
heart Perhaps it was one of malice,
envy, or deceit, and enkindled a bitter
feeling of resentment which will live
on and on while memory lasts; or it
may have beer a cheerful, pleasant,
loving word. proceeding from heart
brimful of the purest kindness, which
| fell like sweetest music on the listening
ear, touching a hidden chord in the
soul, which will ever respond in strains
of love and harmony. Perchance it
may have been a word of sympathy or
encouragement, spoken in tenderest
accents, so that very word may have
scattered the clouds, dispelled the
gloom, and ditfused sunshine into the
heart well nigh crushed beneath its
burden of woe.


Words may seem but little things to
us, but they possess a power beyond
calculation. They swiftly fly from us
to others, and though We scarcely give
them a passing thought, their spirit
lives. Though they are as tieeting as
the breath that bore them, their infiu-
ence is as enduring as the heart they
reach. All, well may We guard our
lips, so that none grieve in silence over
words that we have carelessly dropped.
Well may we strive to scatter loving,
cheering encouraging words to soOthe
the weary, and awaken the nobler, finer
feelings of those with whom we daily
come in contact. Well may we endeavor
to use right words, for they are indeed
precious. How they endear each to
the other. Though they cost the
speaker nothing, they are more valu-
able than diamonds. and shed a
brighter lustre on all around.
Year: 1875

4 correspondent of the National
BAPTIST tells this story of the late DIR.
Brthune:


ON one occasion, when the Doctor
WAS resident in Philadelphia, he went
fol a few days of rest to a trout stream
he had heard of in the interior of the
State. Arriving, an entire stranger, at
A house kept by man who had been
accustomed to entertain those who
came there to fish, he was coldly re-
ccived The man told him frankly
that he had attended a protracted
meeting during the Winter, that he
hoped the Lord had forgiven his sins,
and that he had iOinad the Methodist
Church, and meant to give up going
with the kind of men who came up
there to fish. The Doctors humor
overcame his scruples so far as To gain
admittance for the night, and the next
morning succeeded still further, pre-
vailing upon the man to 90 ont with
him and show him the best places of
the stream. They spent most of the
day together, and, on returning to the
house in the afternoon, the man slapped
him on the shoulder, saying:


DOC, like you."


"Why do you like me, my friend ~


well, Doe, I'll tell you. We've
been out almost all day, we haven't
caught much. you fell in and got wet,
and haven't heard You swear once


After supper, rs the Doctor was
smoking his pipe in front of the house,
his host came ont, and, with some hest
fancy, said: doc, since | Jined the
church Eve had prayers every night !;
We are going To have them now, and
maybe you wouldn't object to come in.
Certainly not, my friend;" and he
went in TO listen to the reading of a
passage in a broken way, and to JOIN
heartily in good old Methodist hymn.
During the singing the man watched
him closely, and at the end said an
Niously, Maybe Won wouldn't mind
leading us in prayer" The Doctor
knelt and offered one of those full and
hearty. yet simple supplications which
are So well remembered by all who
knew him. He was hardly seated in
front of the house again before the
man reappeared, saying, Doc, | kinder
suspicion you


What do you suspect me Off Moth
ing bad, hopem


'No. nothing bad, and maybe I'm
wrong; but | Kind o think you are IA
minister


What makes you think I'm min
ister9'


well, I'll tell you: | haven't hearn
YOU swear since you came; then the
way you lined us in the hymn; then
the way you prayed, made me think
you was a minister"


The doctor laughed heartily as he
acknowledged that he was indeed a
minister.
Year: 1875

Mrs. Livermore, Olive Logan and
the Hon. Carl Schurz have given SO
much time in discussing this important
subject that we have made up our mind
that if the girls are trained at home in
the following manner they would give
these wise heads something else to talk
about


Teach them self-reliance


Teach them to make bread.


Teach them to make shirts.


Teach them to foot up store bills.


Teach them not to wear false hair.


Teach them to wear thick warm
shoes.


Bring them up in the way they should


Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.


Teach them how to make their own
dresses.


Teach them that dollar is only q
hundred cents.


Teach them how to darn stockings
and sew on buttons.


Teach them every day, dry hard prac-
tical common sense.


Teach them to say no, and mean it ;
or yes, and stick to it.


Teach them to wear calico dresses and
do it like queens.


Give them a good, substantial COM
mon school education.


Teach them that good rosy romp is
worth fifty consumptives.


Teach them to regard the morals and
not the money of their beaux.


Teach them all the mysteries of the
kitchen, the dining room and parlor.


Teach them the more one lives within
his income the more he will save.


Teach them to have nothing to do
with intemperate and dissolute young
men.


Teach them the further one lives be-
yond his income the nearer he gets to
the poor house.


Rely upon it that upon your teaching
depends in great measure the veal or
woe of their after life.


Teach them that good steady me-
chanic without cent is worth dozen
loafers in broadcloth.


Teach them the accomplishments,
music, painting, drawing, If you have
time and money to do it with.


Teach them that God made them in
his own image, and no amount of tight
lacing will improve the model.
Year: 1875

The man who groans over his poverty
without taking step toward lettering
his condition, is justly regarded as a
good-for- nothing Ounce. Had he sense,
the more desperate his fortunes, the
more energetic would be his attempts
to improve them. What is true of in
dividuals is true of classes. Business
may be dull just now, but the laws OF
demand and supply exist as they al
ways have done. They may be operating
somewhat peculiarly at present, but
the long headed merchant or manufac-
turer will study how they may be
turned to mis- benefit, instead of croak-
ing about actual difficulties and imagin-
ing others worse to come.
Year: 1875

and then out again, the breakers still
rolling over us. Our boat was un-
manageable. but she could not sink and
we drifted down another hundred yards
through breakers - how, we scarcely
knew. We found the other boats had
turned into an eddy at the foot of the
fall, and were waiting to catch us as we
came, for they had seen that our boat
was swamped. They pushed out as We
came near, and pulled us in against the
wall. We bailed out the boat and
started on again.
Year: 1875

Major Powell, whose descriptions Of
the canyons of Colorado are SO interest
ing and so eloquently told, tells us OF
passage through one of those terrible
flows in his boats, as follows:


About eleven o'clock We heard great
roar ahead, and approached it very eau
tiously, the sound growing louder and
louder as we ran. At last We found
ourselves above long. broken fall, with
lodges and pinnacles of rock Obstructing
the river. There was q descent of
seventy-five or eighty feet, perhaps, In
a third of mile and the rushing waters
were broken into great waves on the
rocks. and lashed themselves into foam.
We could land Just above, but there was
no foothold on either side by which a
portage could be made. 1t was nearly
a thousand feet to the top of the granite
so it was impossible to carry our boats
around, though we could climb to that
point ourselves by side gulch. and
passing along mile or two, could de-
scend to the river. We discovered this
on examination, but such q portage
would have been imp practicable for us,
and we were obliged to run the rapid or





abandon the river.


We did not hesitate, but stepped into
the boats, pushed of, and dashed away,
first on smooth but swift water, then
striking q CLASSY wave and riding to its
top, down again into the trough, up
again ON higher wave, and down and
up on the waves, higher and still higher,
until We struck one Just as 1t curied
back, when q breaker rolled over our
little undaunted boat. On We sped, till
the boat was caught in q whirlpool and
spun around and around. When we
managed to pull out again, the other
boats had passed us. The open COM
partment of the emma Dean" was
fiIled with water, and every breaker
rolled over us. Hurled back from the
rock now on this side, now on that, We
were carried at last into an eddy, in
which we struggled for few minutes.
Year: 1875

The argus charges that every member of
the Executive Council for the past year has


grabbed bis pay for ninety-one days at
tendance, when not one of them has served
over fifty days. The impression sought to be
given is that the present councillors ave
charged compensation on different basis
than has been customary, when the fact is
that the rule under which they have received
pay is precisely the same as that under which
all councillors have been paid since the for
nation of our state government, and under
which members of the Legislature were paid
when they had per diem compensation. If
this rule makes man 'salary grabber,"
then such men as Hon. Bion Bradbury, Hon.
Joseph Titcomb, Hon. Artemas Libby, Judge
Clifford, Judge Fox and the late Senator Fes-
senden, and every other citizen who has been
a member of the Council or the Legislature
when members were paiG a per diem) have
also been "salary grabbers."


The rule has always been to allow these
officials 50 per day from the beginning to the
end of the session, besides travel. Tais, of
course, includes Sabbaths and other days
when recess has been taken. The argus
has examined the records of the Council, and
has ascertained the attendance of each mem
ber from them. Such records do not by any
means show that any member was not attend
ing to his official duties on any particular
day. They merely show that he was not
present when the Secretary made the record
of members present. OF course they do not
show attendance On Sabbaths or any day
when recess is had. For example, these
records probably show about forty days at
tendance of each councillor during the win
ter, when he received pay perhaps for sixty
or seventy-the whole number of days of an
average session; for the rule has always been
to make the pay of a councillor during the
winter sessions the same as that of member
of the Legislature, and $3.50 was fixed as the
pay of legislator on the basis Of the average
length of the sessions.


But the Argus charges that this is contrary
to the letter of law, and is therefore "salary
grabbing.'' Councillors attended only forty
days, for example, but charged for say sixty
five or seventy-fve days. But look little
further. By the letter of the law councillors
may charge twenty cents per mile for travel
from their homes ever session-an average of
say S20-for each session. Now when the
Council takes recess from Saturday to the
following Tuesday, every week of the winter
by the 'Heter'' of the law the session might
be each time closed, and Councillors might
charge for travel seven times, or sl4o' Ad-
ding per diem compensation for forty days
actual attendance ($SOl, and they would ie-
ceive by the 'letter'' Of the law 1920 for the
eight weeks services. But by custom and
general consent they only charge for one trav-
ell and compensation, same as members of the
Legislature, amounting in no case to over
S175 for any councillor-thus saving large
sum to the state, instead of grabbing an
extra sum as the Aryus represents. And
this is all there is in the grabbing charge
as made against councillors.
Year: 1875

In view of the repeated and persistent at
tempts to put councillors in a false light, we
trustthe Legislature will make the law relating 6
to the compensation Of the former so plain,
that no one may be able to create an impress
sion that they are fraudulently receiving more
pay than they are entitled to.


We give the argus notice that the PRESS
is as eager 20 correct real abuses as itself, and
when it finds real wrong it will find the
PRESS hearty ally in bringing about re-
form. This affair, however, is too trivial in
its nature to be the basis Of so serious a
charge as "salary grabbing" and fixing it
upon one Council because its members are
Republicans,
Year: 1875

That Won Arnim trial is inficting ever so
much misery on the poor Germans. The
judge who imposed the sentence has been
summoned before the Kammergericht, which
must be something very bad indeed. But
worse is to follow, for the case will be carried
to the Obergerjeht,-a frightful tribunal, if
we can judge by the name.


At all events, the discovery of silver in Es-
sex County, unless perhaps in the form of
buried spoons, is an occasion for surprise
had it been brass it would not have been so
remarkable.-N- Y. Tribune.
Year: 1875

FROM the Spanish American point Of view
the Republic of Guatemala is surely going to
the dogs. The Liberal party, who now holds
the reins of government, not content with
proclaiming freedom of the press, of worship
and of education, is building good roads
throughout the country and compelling each
citizen 10 give three days labor to the work.
A good road in Central America is daring
innovation, blow at the old order of things,
which must inevitably lead to something very
bad; and the attempt to force Spanish Amer
leans to work, even for three days, will be
stoutly resisted by each individual of that
proud and lazy race.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
bat as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1875

George W. Beall, deputy comptroller, transmits
n paper to the Commissioners, in which he states
that in view Of the large expenditures made in
the past by the municipal governments of Wash
ington in front. of the property owned by the
United States, largely Increasing its value,l and
for which they have never been reimbursed, he
would respectfully suggest that they have Just
and valid claim for an appropriation to cover the
amount charged against the United States for
improvements The following table of appropria-
tions made by Congress for the District is also
euhnftfod.
Year: 1875

and finally snow, incapacitating several
Of the party, and when morning dawn
ed seven corpses were counted. A heavy
mass Of ice twenty feet square, flOated
near, upon which nine of the party got,
hoping that il would drift toward the
shore, aud that they could thus save
themselves, but when it had fioated
about three hundred yards it grounded,
and the unfortunates remained upon it
three days, during which time six Of
them died. All ia the way OF food they
had in that time was a small white fish
which was frozen in the ice. The eighteen
men remaining after the nine fi9ated off
made their way back to the abandoned
brig. All expected TO die in her; some
Of them had lost their senses before
reaching her. The brig moved in the
ice for a week in sight of land, and the
fishermen were on her ten days, The
narrator says he has a family OF six
children, and some Of those who died
leave families equally as large. The
ten men will be taken in charge by the
British consul to-day and sent home.
Year: 1875

BALTIMORE, March 2S.-Captain Jae-
ger, of the steamship Nurenburg, which
arrived at this port to-day, reports that
on March 22d he saw schooner with
her ensign at half-mast, when he bore
down on her, and was asked to take ten
men on board which the schooner had
saved from death. Captain Jaeger sent
a boat to the schooner, which proved to
be the George s. Fogg, from st. Ed
wards Island. Tue men reported as
follows: ave belong to st. Marys, New
foundland, and our trade is fishermen on
shore boats. On March ID we saw
q ship ice.bound about two and a half
miles from the coast. We went out TO
her with party Of thirty-iour men, all
from st. Mary's. The wind was from
the westward, q moderate breeze. Be-
fore we reached her we met the captain
of said ship in charge of another party
from st. Mary's, who took the captain
ashore, as he was sick. AS near as we
could understand, the crew had left the
ship the day before. We reached the
ship at three O'Clock in the afternoon.
AS night came on we made for the land,
after searching the ship, but did not
reach the coast, as the ice had
opened toward the land. We
spent the night on the ice, and
had seven men froZ N to death
during the night. The next day we
went on board again. We had to leave
nine more out Of our number behind us
as these men were too weak to walk
aud the ice would not permit us, on ac-
count of its weak state, to carry them.
Three OF these men were picked up by
the schooner George ;. Fogg on the
sixth OF March, as the only survivors
out of the nine. We found nothing to eat
or drink on board except molasses. The
ship drifted out with the ice, but we were
In sight OF the coast about six or seven
days, but not able to reach it We
stopped till the eleventh OF March in the
shin, when we saw q schooner about four
miles to the eastward OF Us. AS the ice
was in some paIJs too weak TO bear a
man, we took small boat from the ship
and made for the schooner, which we
reached in the afternoon, where We were
received with great kindness"


ANOTHER NARRATIVE.


BALTIMORE, March 29.-The Sun Of
this morning publishes an interesting
story from one OF the men rescued from
the ice OFF the coast Of Newfoundland
and brought to this port yesterday by
the steamer Nuremberg. The party are
ali lrishmen, or Of Irish descent, and
comprised nearly tine entire sble.bodied
men Of the population Of the little town
OF st. Mary's, New FOundland. When
returning to shore on the evening OF the
day on which they boarded theice-bOund
brig, they found that the Ice had parted
about q mile from shore, leaving a space
OF half a mile OF clear water. With
night came on q storm OF rain and sleet,