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Year: 1876

That stupidity illogical thing which we
call an Indian policy received q quaint
touch in despatch we printed yesterday
anent the way the red men regard the treat
ment the returning hostiles received at Fort
Peck. Mr.. Long Dog, it seems, who was
fresh from the hostile camp, claimed and re-
ceived first rate treatment at Fort Peck in
deed, it was with some difficulty Long Dog
was restrained from getting into bed with
the Indian agent himself. The effect of this
hospitality to a red-handed murderer upon
the peaceable agency Indians was notice.
able They complained that "when the
hostiles come in the agent shakes hands
with them and .fetes them, and it makes
them feel sorry they were not hostile, be-
cause then they would be treated much bet
ter" This is very natural. The agency
Indians have been kept in a state bordering
on starvation, while the savages who come
back with white scalps, Seventh cavalry
horses and all that the Indian admires un
der the name Of glory, are fed and coddled
and sent back with promises and presents
Now, the Indians know very well that Long
Dog and Lone Elk and Fast Dog, and oil
the other Elks and Dogs, are simply
spies, and we may rest assured that if
the winter passes without terrible
blow being given to the hostiles the
spring will open upon a campaign greater
in the numbers engaged and more bloody
and costly in result than the disastrous CAM
paign just closed. 1t is high time that the
government issued unmistakable orders to
the Indian agents respecting the way they
should receive all hostile Indians presenting
themselves. The picture of Long Dog furi-
ously demanding to sleep in the agents bed
at Fort Peck, while the peaceable Indians
without were regretting that they had not
been on the warpath, is highly suggestive of
the audacity of the victorious savages on one
hand and the imbecility Of our Ind iaL policy
on the other.
Year: 1876




After numerous assaults during the latter
part of September Jack Frost has succeeded
in carrying our lines in the Northwest, and is
opening the winter campaign against the
hungry, the naked and the homeless by
vigorous march toward New York Yester-
day morning the area of temperature Of
thirty-two degrees and less extended over
Nebraska, Dakota and a portion of Mime
sofa, with fall to twenty degrees above zero
in the vicinity of Bismarck. The curve of
the isotherm Of thirty-two degrees was
consecutive with area of highest pres
sure (3O so inches) now central in the
Missouri Valley. Toward noon the tenn
perature rose to forty-three degrees in
the Northwest, but the effect over the
country eastward was not marAed by pro-
portional increase of warmth during the
day. Rain prevailed from the South Allan
tic coast to the lakes and northeastward into
the New England States, and was caused by
the rapid condensation of the atmospheric
moisture by the advancing cold wave from
the westward. The area of low pressure
now moving off the coast has divided into
two parts, one of which is passing south
eastward from North Carolina and the other
northeastward from the mouth of the st.
Lawrence. To-day the weather in New
York will be cloudy, probably with rain.
and the temperature will fall decidedly,
with fresh westerly to southwesterly winds.
Year: 1876

Hrs HOLINESS, Pope Plus, and his chief
adviser. Cardinal Antonelli, have both been
in ill health; but they are old men and have
been sick so often before that fatal results
arc not especially probable.
Year: 1876

On TEE LOOKOUT There has been what
the police call general alarm" sent
out to all the astronomical detectives
to keep sharp lookout for q fugi-
tive star which may come this way.


His name is Vulcan; but he is as likely as
not to give q false name, or perhaps no
name at all. Vulcan was o blacksmith by
Year: 1876

TAXATION OF DoGs-In case of death
by hydrophobia Coroners jury Of
doctors have recommended the taxation
of dogs as means of limiting their
number, in the desperate hope that
this measure would also reduce the number
of cases Of hydrophobia 1t is good prop
osition to tax the dogs, for the annual
slaughter at the dog pound is not sufficient
restraint upon their increase. But the mum.
Der of cases of hydrophobia is not in proper.
ton to the number of dogs, and, therefore,
the proposed measure would be clumsy
preventive. Some years ago cases of hydro
phobia were SO rare that they were read Of
with startled horror when they occurred
but now scarcely week, certainly never .
month, passes without one This increased
frequency of the disease is believed to COIN
eide in time with the introduction here of
the so-called Spitz do:, and the disease in
him to be result of his change of climate
from the Arctic regions. If the doctors will
prove this to be true and recommend the
extirpation of this animal they may well be
listened to with respect.
Year: 1876

ECONOMY ON STEAMBOATS,. There is prob
ably no provision in the laws against q
pilot going to sleep when he is in charge
Of a steamboat, and consequently no
penalty is imposed; but it is inconvenient
for the passengers and not profitable for
the owners when pilot thus INDUCES him.
self in the honey heavy dew of slumber. In
the case of the steamer just wrecked in the
North River because of the failure Of the
pilot to keep his eyes open the real sufferers,
therefore, are the owners of the boat The
pilot will perhaps not be any one elses pilos
in great while, but will doubtless get other
occupation. For the owners, however, it is
doubtful if they can collect an insurance,
and the loss will teach them the useful les
son, not widely enough known, that in the
management of great interests true economy
lies oftener in the liberal expenditure Of
money than in its rarsimonious use. For 9
pilot to be on duty one night when he only
had a third of his sleep the night before in
dicates that the force was overworked, be-
cause it was too small. The punishment
falls in the right place. therefore; for the
owners are to blame.
Year: 1876

Any law or official rule which operates a.
IN obstacle to marriage is an evil in SO far
as it is effective. and greater evil if in
effective, because it puts a premium upon
fraud and immortality. 1t is well known,
for instance, that wherever soldiers widows
receive pensions which are discontinued il
they remarry this in some degree pre-
vents marriage and in SO far leads to the
formation of illicit relations; but it does not
absolutely prevent marriage The women
marry, but conceal the fact, and relation
which every State should encourage and
honor is stamped with one of the character
of crime that character. namely, that it will
insure the infiction of a penalty if it be-
comes known. The regulation proposed to
be enforced in the schools of the city, that
married women shall not hold places az
teachers, is on its face, therefore, if not
immoral in itself, likely detriment ia
morality; it is also against good policy on
the broadcast grounds, and tends to the cul-
tivation of dishonesty. For these reasons
we believe it would be bad rule to make.
Reasons are given on the other side in favor
of the measure. So far as these reasons are
stated they are those of prurient prudes in
pantaloons. At best they are certain minor
considerations of convenience in adminis-
tration which cannot for o moment weigh
against the broad reasons against the pro-
posed rule.
Year: 1876

In view of the passage of our Silver


bill, the Secretary of the Treasury has Or
dered from the San Francisco Mint $780,
900 in silver coin in addition to that al
ready on hand. The immense product
of silver from our Pacific slope mines, and
the characterization of that metal by Ger
many-that is; the making of gold its sole
stard of value-has been having the effect
Of lessening the value of silver for some
time past. The announcement of a new
Indian government loan of $4,000, 900 to
be bought in London, and the passage by
Congress Of our new Silver Currency bill
conspire to check the depreciation of bul.
lion and to advance the price of silver. A
telegram from London on Wednesday last,
stated that silver there had advanced ia
535d. When it advances above sod. then
its worth as commodity endangers it,
circulation as change. Were it thus tc
advance with us, the fear expressed tina,
the effect would be under the operation o.
q new law in redeeming our fractional pa.
Year: 1876

1t is conceded to be just and proper fol
a newspaper to manage its business in its
own way, and it is no ones concern as long
as the paper honestly serves the public.
The power and rights of the press we're
strikingly manifested in the tilt between
the House Committee of Expenditures and
the New York Herald. The committee
wished to get from Herald correspon-
dent a statement of how the Herald OBJ
tanned copies Of certain cypher dispatches
relating to the St. Louis whisky frauds,
and especially concerning the credibility
of the detective Bell. The correspondent,
by instruction of the Herald proprietor,
declined giving the information, because
to do so would impair confidence in the
press and thus cripple Government inves-
legation, and also to do 10 would be to
needlsssly expose the inner-managenent Of
rhe journal Immediately concerned. The
teasens given were 20 powerful that the
committee, desirous as they were for the in
formation, did not press the question. One
thing is clear and that is, that in the rage
for inquiry which possesses the present
Democratic Congress, this matter weuld
not have been passed over,e1cept by neces-
sity.


When Col. Mcclure, Of the Philadel-
phia Times, was examined by the investi-
eating Boom Committee, at Harrisburg,
Penna., and was asked for the name of the
writer of certain article that appeared in
the Times, he very promptly and properly
told them that i did not concern the COM
mittee who wrote it. Both instances are
suggestive Of the power and influence Of
the Press.
Year: 1876

The people of New York in theiI
quarrel with the gas monopolies, who
not only charge too high, but for
too much, are fortunate in being able
to fight their own battle without hay.
ing to trust to purchasable legislators at
Albany. The competition in the coal oil
trade is so keen that the price of that
illuminating fluid cannot be so suddenly
raised as the price of coal gas, which is in
the hands of grasping monopoly. Hence
those who find their gas bills a burden
pecuniarily disproportionate to the value
returned (and who does notO can send back
their meters and save money and indigna-
ton by using oil. We know that gas has
many advantages, but if the companies
charge two dollars and seventy-five
cents for what is not worth two
dollars, and Systematically send bills for
excessive quantities, man had better
take little extra mechanical trouble than
empty his pockets monthly and annoy him.
self all the time by kicking against the spikes
of despotic and irresponsible gas company
Hence the spread of the oil movement in
New York. Our reporters show as will be
seen elsewhere, how the oppression has been
felt and how cheap, nay profitable, the
remedy. Argument like that of the
storekeepers who are using oil is worth
columns of argument based on the hard
times and the downward tendency of prices.
Year: 1876

cross the angry seas TO look at q pile OF
quartz rocks or miles of machinery. We
have no attraction that will compensate for
the Paris boulevards, the German springs,
the Scottish highlands or the English lakes.
We have none of the old associations which,
as our favorite poet says, even gold cannot
buy. There are no minister towers, no
remnants of civilization that goes
hack to julius Cesar no monuments
of medieval genius. We have parchment,
some walking sticks, q collection Of faded
Continental uniforms and q variety Of
autographs. But we have no idea that the
sightseeing world will risk a couple of days
among the fogs of Newfoundland to study
them. Whatever value our Exhibition may
have will be an American show for Ameri-
can eyes. If people want to see the best
monument of centurys work they will find
it in New York There is no such mani
festation of wealth, enterprise, genius and
achievement on this continent as may be
seen in an afternoons ride from the Battery
to Harlem Bridge. That is the true Centen-
nial Exhibition. The display in Paramount
Park will be tame, indeed, compared with it
Year: 1876

A dull and dreary Sabbath has not q
quickening influence upon the religious
emotions. Man is more prone to look at the
sad face of mortal things and bewail his
inability to better them than to fly for relief
to the Great Giver. Yet with the shadow of
great shame over the nation, with an
arrow quivering in the heart of the
nations honor, there was something
kindred in the gloominess of nature.
The physical redresses the balance
of the moral for the moment, and as a man
in sorrow is said to find temporary relief by
walking against the rain, those who yester-
day heard the warning words of the nations
moral danger could ponder on it more
deeply that the face of the heavens did not
mock him with laughing floods of sunshine.


The warning came in various tones from the
pulpits, but if Mr.. rockingham is less
Christianly orthodox, his words, which we
print elsewhere, have more force and peril
nency than many which were uttered
yesterday in the time-honored chan
cells of hoary creeds. If he coupled
the periured savings bank president
with the corrupt Cabinet officer he was only
enforcing the evil of the Time" in the play
ing fast and loose with trust, which is the
most painful illustration Of the demoralizing
influence of haste for wealth in hothouse
civilization. Mr. Moody, too, in more
strongly Christian manner, enforced the same
lesson. If the race of Daniels is extinct, who
did not fear to suffer for truths sake
the men who in our day would dare to be
poor in face of the chance to be unjustly
rich-it is time for the nation to take
stern counsel of itself DIR. Hepworth,
who also preached from the trials Of
Daniel, failed TO impress this great lesson Of
Year: 1876

palliation of the evil, and that the
temper of the Mexican people is such
that it would inevitably lead to war. If we
are to have war, General Pillow thinks we
had better declare it boldly, and then secure
the advantages of victory. He says the
raiders are mounted on fleet horses, and that
on their side of the river, where they per-
1ectly understand the country, they would
easily elude pursuit. They are clothed in
suits OF dressed leather, which enable them
10 ride unframed through the chapparal
which would tear off the clothing and
iacerate the flesh of their pursuers. He
believes that nothing short of war
VIII bring the Mexicans to terms,
and that the war should be waged
to secure change Of boundary. The Rio
Grande, which is nearly dry for nine months
OF the yes, gives no security as frontier
but by conquering and retaining two of the
Mexican States We might secure q boundary
line consisting in part of deep river, i'm
passable without boats, and in part of
range of mountains with only two or three
passes, which could be guarded by a few COM
panies of artillery and cavalry. The subject
is interesting, and we are willing that all
who possess real knowledge of that region
shall have hearing in our columns.
Year: 1876

The Discussion as to whether the Centen-
nial Exhibition should be opened on Sundays
is timely. Should the decision be in the
negative it will prevent tens of thousands
from visiting it, while doing no good
to any one but the grogshop keep
ers. Thousands of working men in this
city, for instance, who might run
down with their families to the Quaker
City on Sunday and enjoy an instructive
day at the Exhibition, returning to their
homes on the same evening, will in these
hard times have to give up a holiday which
means the loss of days work. If Puritan
ism should prevail the Exhibition managers
will find themselves in the position of the
dog in the manger. with deficit into the
bargain.
Year: 1876

the Hebrew prophets life, although he de-
livered good sermon. Dr. Bellows, too.
who preached on the balance of soul and
character, just fell short of the pregnant
should have led to. We want plain, direct
talk upon this vital matter from our preach
ers, for if our shame is only to be spread to
the world and come back intensified upon
our unrepentant heads we had better let the
moral sores tester without cry until the
national soul parts with weary wings from
the corrupted body.
Year: 1876

UNLESS BISMARCK disappears from power
Count Arnim is likely TO go over the preci-
pice on whose ragged edge he has been
sitting for some time. Those who observe
things nearest to the imperial German
Court cannot altogether explain the inn
placability of the Chancellor to this
already fallen official There was nothing
IN the causes which led to the punishment
'f Arnim which would awaken sympathy for
aim outside of Germany, for his Germanism
)nly differed from that of Bismarck in trifes
If detail, but he finds pity which is re-
Duke to the "Man of Iron,' since the punish
ment is so much greater than the offence, and
suggests a self-distrustful weakness lily as
sorting with tho apparent strength of the
great Empire.
Year: 1876

The President or URuGUAY has resigned
his Office, and a dictatorship is the only
alternative known to that Republic to save
things from chaos. In this country few die
and none resign.
Year: 1876

THE COUNTY BOARD ON SALARIES.


The action Of the County Board yesterday in
increasing the salary Of County-Attorney Roun-
tree from $4,000 to 81, 900, and abolishing the
office of Assistant States Attorney, was the
subject OF general remark. It met the approval
of no one, unless 1t was Rountree himself, the
only party benefited by the action. so far as
he is concerned, however, the action is easy OF
EXPLANATION, for his services as assistant clerk
to the Committees for two years, IS the writer
OF all resolutions to be laid before the Board,
and as the private attorney Of the Commission,
ers and the adviser for The ea
to do was to complain, which he
has done. His former complaint OF q
year ago brought him al increase Of salary OF
recent date have kept him clerk at salary OF
s. Der day and given him other assistance when
he wanted it. His complaint yesterday gave
him an increase Of another 81, ,Uoo, making ms
salary equal to that Of States Attorney, Sheriff,
and all the Judges Of the Courts. The facts
are, Mr.. Rouutrec fixed his own salary, as he
tjxcs everything else be wants to in the Board,
aud nothing but his innate modesty has kept
the figures as low as they are. at least, all the
salaries were fixed in his Office in private, aud IN
his presence, aud if he did not make some
suggestions or deliver some Ssopinions," he is
not in private what he has the reputation OF
being In public.


Tie action In abolishing the office OF Assistant
States Attorney is believed to be founded on
several reasons. A year ago, it will be remcm-


bered, the same County Board felt the necessity


of such an officer SO sensibly as to increase the


salary $500. The minority in the Board fought
the proposition to Increase, but to no avail, for
they were met with the argument that the Oh
flee was laborious one, and no one fitted for


its duties would accept it without an increase


Of salary. But the opinion Of the majority has
since undergone radical change, It appears.
Whys Can it be that the Assistant States AS
torncy has been found to be in the way OF the
Board in the Grand-Jury room, dlscov-
cry made since the indictment OF sev-
cral of its members! Or Is u
that the Board desires to be scent
The latter is the most likely theory, and is
nretty well substantiatcd. It was told to re.


porter Yesterday that the Board knew full well
that it could not deny the States Attorney IN


assistant, and that it did not expect Or desire to,


but that they wanted to give Mr.. Mills an early
hint to come, see, and labor with them, ana make
| i demand upon them for favor Betorc grant
| Inc him m assistant they would demand OF him
a favor, and thus make the obligation and con,
t ccssion mutual Just what 1avor the Board
! wants other than the quashing OF the. 1nd1ct-
| ments against some Of its s'Rng " members
| must fnr the present be conjecture. Inc re-
| consideration J of the action is Of course only
! matter OF time, for the new Board will doubtless
| cause the wrong to be corrccteu.
Year: 1876

warranted not to cut in the eye-not nead-
ache in hhds. of tit is no sooner in your
belly than ifs on your back in pound of beet
and it carries bead like a necklace; for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN.
Year: 1876

for the f,w good people in our town,
than to wish that lie should make this
his everlasting home. p. 1t they are rid
of him we are glad of it, but would it
not be better while in conflict with him
to drive him farther away. Weare on
ly short distance from 5. Too near.
he may return in short time, and then
our kind friends may have to DO their
first works over again. The fact is, we
have been fattering ourselves that we
are not worse than our nsighbors.
Hope all the good people have not left
the place. Perhaps there are fifty, or
ten, or FIVE, enough to save 1t. 1t not,
we will have to call 10 some of the for
ces We have sent out. Within my own
recollection, and | am not an old man,
our town has given to the different
churches, twenty two or three Ministers.


Though this fact is not noticed by our
friend Barry in his history Of Harpers
Ferry. ClNl
Year: 1876

to the crowd. never would occupy an
Office. But so long as such men are
crowded to the front, 30 long will the
true merit and brains of the State be
lost to the public service.


Since our journals do not push man
toward simply because he has talent
and merit, frequent mention in the pub
lie prints no longer indicates that a
man is fit for office. Hence the people
have pretty we'll ceased to look up to
our papers for guidance and advice in
these matters. The time has come
when they inquire-"what has your
man done what has he accomplished ?
what can he show as sample of his
own production? 1t won't answer to
say that he was good representative
in the Legislature, eighty men can fill
ihnf bill, and the question comes back,
"what did he produce 2 Ask the rep
resentative of your county, who was
the best posted man in the Legislature!


These arc disagreeable facts and we
are sorry to write them. because certain
journals for very shame dare not reprint
these articles. But you can not sup
press it,, gentlemen, We have list of
five or six reading, thinking, influential
men IN every county in the State, and
these articles shnH circulate. Weknow
whereof we speak, and every man who
has reflected upon this subject will en-
dOrse all that we have said.


We proclaim it now, that if the Con-
vention dominates man who has no
qualification except the merit of being
putfed by subsidized press, he will he
beaten at the polls. The party-whip
won't crack unless the candidate will
bear investigation and yet we hear
men talked about whose private history
won't bear scrutiny. BY Heavens, |
will vote for no man VINO don't pay
over money collected for bis client. A
man who was dishonest once will be
dishonest again if the temptation offers
There a:e men enough to work the ship
if it once be understood that we will
put no man in office whose past life
does not stand sponsor for his future
conduct.


1t is true some of our ablest men have
had but little opportunity to display
their fitness for the public service aud
are but little known beyond their own
neighborhoods, but many of them have
had occasion,o exhibit capacity and i'll
dustry, and their friends pointing to
their productions are able to answer the
question-"what has he done to show
his fitness for the public service -
'Thou hast been faithful over few
things l will make you ruler over
many things"


We want it distinctly understood
that we write in the interest OF no mau,
nor do we make war upon any individ-
ual. We proclaim the truth, and if any
man can't stand the test, he must keep
his head from under


JEFFERSON.