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Year: 1875

snow was TO our waists The clerk served US well.
We dug the from our doors and made a
road 70 the agency pe and got our own wood |
thought would have more to eat when signed
the new treaty at Washington but instead OF getting
more, get less, and treated worse than before
We do not know what sperry does with the money
which he gets for wood and grain He had big
cellar full Of potatoes and sold them to the steamboat
That overstocked the market that could not SELL
He hangs our calves. II he shot them we would hear
the guns


AGENTS MESS.


HE uses the veal for his and he pockets the
money paid by the employees for the privilege Of board
ing at his mess AT other agencies the men not
charged for board.


DISTRIBUTION ANNUITY GOODS


when the annuity goods came Sperry divided the
goods for He cut the calico so small that we had
for sleeves. 1t would do for handkerchiefs He
gives only one hoe and to each family. We do
not get half what used to receive. One of my
Indians, Washta John (good john, who worked for
the agency two boxes OF calico in sperrys
It goes the squaws who work around the Office Our
guns empty, and we have ammunition Sperry
does not do one good thing for u.s. The only way
get coffee and sugar is 10 let the whites keep our
women


now THE FORT BURNED.


''One Of our squaws Corn Silk worked in the cooks
room She was waiting for him to come in at night
before the doors were locked The cook came In and
said the house on FIRE. She 1t in Sperrys room.
The agent lies when be says it caught in the wash
room A lamp was burning in the agents room.
1t was exploded. 1t caught in the partition
between Sperry's and the adjoining
No white man tried to put out the fire. Several
Indians were burned in trying to stop the
blazing. AS God hears me- the fire started in
sperry's room. The agent said that he would give
great deal to know who set the buildings fire. We
told him that he did it. to put up away
from US, where he could steal goods We can't
watch him If he is away He wanted to make
fort before the old was burned Only few of the
agency goods were saved Provisions had come but
few days before After the fort burned Sperry went
away TO the eastn
Year: 1875

Bad Gun, Rushing War Eagle lives IN large
house. containing eight beds, but it Is scantily fur
nIshed and his family seemed very poor But Mr. Bad
Gun makes up for lack OF trunks, pictures, and coffee
mills He is an original Red Jacket Of the Wendell
Phillips order FOR he 's natural orator He has power
and sarcasm Like Rochefort be is most bitter when
he smiles. He began his speech with solemn face
until he recalled the outrages Of last winter then he
smiled And when he saw the SHOWS descending and
wagon loads Of putrid entrails dumped at his door
the smile broke into blaze and his fingers twitched
as though they the hair trigger Of his Win.
chester rife


RUSHING WAR E4GLgs SPEECH.


81 al Washington year ago with Son OF tho Star
Since then we have not had good meal what we
get is the size or bird / am growing thin and
Year: 1875




PROFOUNDLY INTERESTED IN THE STRUGGLE,
which the rayahs thus far appear to have or
second BEST although the insurgents now by their
sallies from mountain passes and in deep vales filing
the Save ports with Turkish wounded l have seen
to-day something like hundred stout fellows at tho
railway within fifteen miles Of Agram. don't
know where these people going but they seemed
suddenly TO have made up sheir minds to go some
where, and had their ragged red knapsacks stuffed
with provisions Judging from the amount
OF beer they drank and the rollicking way in which
they called for it. it appeared also evident that these
brawny fellows had had other hands than their
in their pockes and that the aforesaid hands, being
hastily retired had left in the pockets numerous mystic
rous OF kreutzers 1t would make ragged. lament
ably shod Falstaan army this collection OF poorly
and ill-advised peasants bound toward the Turkish
frontier, but believe II would fight However, the
Austrian government ~l not permit the departure Of
any such expedition.


strange wild race, the peasantry in the country in
the vicnage OF Agram, yet withal industrious and
kindly a race which has far more intelligence with re-
gard to is rights and the unhcaton Of all its branches
than is generally believed; race which lives quietly
under one government always anxously looking for
ward to the time when IL form independent part
Of another The Hungarans do not like the manner in
which the Croats manifest their Sclavic tendencies
They feel as Of the prominent Of Hungarans
said to me not long since, as II there infinitely
more 10 be feared from the in progress
at Agram and Belgrade than in Herzegovina and }os-
MIA But they protest that this time there is really
nothing fear; that the movement although il may
not be entirely quelled to nothing definite
or course they


HAND oP RUSSIA THE WHOLE AFFAIR
and watch with great interest everything tending to
confirm their impressions.


Every one here, and wherever else have been able
to converse wth influential persons in Sclavic towns
seems to pity Prince Milan of Serva because he is in
such an unfortunate predicament His people are not
merely ripe for war they have been 50 for avery
long time; and the Prince young energetic and con
scentions has, OF course felt like king advised He
is shortly to DO married to very wealthy Russian lady
and between his love and the rage OF his subjects for
war must find his mind fully occupied The story Of
the manner in which he came just to think about his
marriage, is perhaps somewhat apocrypha, but IS to
this cnect:-


The Prince went up TO noighboring and important
capital, and asked audience Of one Of tho leading
European politicians who holds responsible po.
Year: 1875

Washington correspondence minneapolis Tribune


republican


Mr. Wright Chairman OF the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee OF Pennsylvania and member OF the
Forty fourth Congress- writes this city that he
for Sam Randall for Speaker, each and every time.
Also that the democratic Of the Penn
sylvania delegation pledged solid for Randall His
own State delegation backing Randall so strongly will
give him good footing in the House bat hc Will have
yield Kerr who is growing stronger and stronger
every day. The democrats already here feel that in
this selection they must have above reproach,
and whose record clear Kerr is the only available
candidate who Oils this demand.
Year: 1875

The Executive Committee OF the American Rifle As
left here for Philadelphia yesterday select
grounds for the range wh ch the international rife
match for the Echo Shield will take place during the
Centennial Exhibition
Year: 1875

[Frorh the Cincinnati Enquirer
Kerr docs not represent the democracy of Indiana
He does not represent the democracy of Ohio He is
In sympathy with the Of the West or of
the South. There is no reason why any Western
Southern member of tho House should give him d vote
for he Sueakerehip
Year: 1875

Further particulars of the great event of
the time in California are given to-day; for


as in all such cases, the full detail of story


of this nature only becomes known gradu-
ally, and it will be many days yet before the
facts will all be before the public Already
Ralstons suicide has given the dignity of a
great personal drama to what without it
might have appeared mere swindle-a
swindle gigantic in its proportions it is true,


but yet as essentially vulgar in its nature as
every mere swindle must be. But when a
man stakes his life on o throw his
game is not that of the thimble rig
ger; and he who was so crushed


by calamity that he could go nowhere but
out into the Pacific was not mere spoiled


favorite of fortune yielding before an ordi-
nary mishap. Ralston's own words point to
the persistent combination to break the
bank ; and all that is known points in the
same direction-to the fact that the great
corporation went down in the conflict Of a
Titanic rivalry. All the world moves by
rings in these days; and, as Ralston and his
confederates ruled the Pacific slope by rings,
they could but expect rings to rise up
against them. 1t seems, however, not to
have been q generous rivalry, but battle
with fierce passions great ambitions and
monstrous cupidity behind it and all that
can be drawn out of the story in its present
aspect is that the great corporation went to
ruin because Of the brilliant victims too
great confidence in others and in himself.
They who planned the run on the bank and
contrived that assistance should be inacces-
sible were the stronger because they had
cared more for themselves the victim was
weaker because his resources were dis
tributed in the enterprises of half continent.
Year: 1875

This morning the last lightning train of
the season is whirling "down the ringing
grooves" of the New York Central toward
Niagara Falls, with freight perhaps not
quite so important as that the Connecticut
River brought to man, but certainly far more
precious than that it carried to North
Hadley for it bears representative delega-
ton of journalists from the cities of this
neighborhood and its usual supply of
HERALDs. This train left the Grand Central
depot at 23O A. NJ. to-day and will reach
the Falls this afternoon at 1:30 Returning
it will leave the Falls at l 80 p. NJ. on Mon
day, and will arrive in the city on Tuesday
morning. Many distinguished journalists of
this city, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and New
Jersey have accepted our invitation to honor
the occasion with their presence and the
Post Office is not represented only because of
the pressure of moving day" in that
establishment In an enterprise that has not
been unfruitful in exhibiting the possibilities
of rapid transit on an extended SCALE and in
the means actually in our possession for
more effective communication between dis
tant parts of the country, we have experienced
the moral support of our contemporaries,
local and remote and we are happy to
believe that they have recognized that every
triumph over time and space in the diffusion
of printed papers is not the advantage or
the victory of any one journal, but of the
entire press. Eventually it will be seen that
these triumphs are, indeed not so much the
advantage of the press, which finds its
strength in extended popular support, as Of
the people who will fnd in the concentrated
page that is an epitome of the worlds history
of the day before, the real source of the power
with which they are to shape their own
destiny and defend their Liberties. There is
no interest in the growth and prosperity of
which all are interested as they are in that of
the press.
Year: 1875

The German Catholics evidently do not
take very kindly to the voluntary support of
the Church. Weare informed that the result
stipends hitherto paid by the government to
the priests has scarcely amounted to fifty
per cent of the grants withdrawn. Either the
Catholic Germans have not become accus-
toned to the idea of paying for religious SER
vices directly out of their pockets or the re-
ligious enthusiasm of the people must be very
lukewarm 1t is just possible, too, that an
appreciable number of good Catholics do not
approve of the attempt made by the priest
hood to set themselves up against the laws
of the Fatherland The Church in
this age has shown itself peculiarly
militant and inclined to be aggressive
Catholics think too much so-and this may
be one of the causes why the collections for
the support of the priesthood gave such a
poor return. In any case, it will have ten
dency to check the disposition shown by
clerics to defy the civil law where it happens
to interfere with their privileges or ideas Of
right. No doubt religion is a very good thing
and church discipline is necessary but,
after all, people were put in this world for
something else besides praying, and it is
necessary that the priesthood everywhere
should keep this fact well in mind. If the
religious element were allowed to control the
destinies of mankind this world would soon
present very strange spectacle But intel
ligent people intend to keep religion and
government strictly apart, and in the end
this arrangement will be found the best for
all concerned
Year: 1875

Our amusement columns show signs of the
opening of the fall season. We have at some
of the theatres the light, pleasant pieces
which round off the summer. The greater
events will come as the days grow shorter


Our summer musical gardens have been q
success and have gone far toward establish
ing the argument which we have urged so
frequently in the HERALD, that New York
can be made during the summer as attractive
as any of the great capitals of Europe, to
which our people flock in such numbers for
health and recreation. Gilmore's Garden
has done much to popularize music in New
York and to show that the American people
are a music loving community. Mr.. Thomas,
in his garden, has kept the standard of classic
music high. He has been in many respects
a benefactor of the people. He has made
popular the best works of Beethoven. Mozart,
Wagner and the other great masters of har-
mony. We should have as many of these
gardens in New York as they have in Paris.
The Battery, the Park in Harlem, the upper
and lower ends of Central Park, Madison
square, Washington and Gramercy parks,
and even our modest, almost abolished little
park opposite the Post Office, should be
given over to just such amusement as we
have at Gilmores and Thomas.


The abandonment of New York during the
summer season is great blunder. We un-
derstand why our citizens should desire in
the warm days tp seek change of scene and
rest and recreation, but in country like this
there is no reason why New York should not
be made an attractive place to visit and why
our fellow citizens of the other States when
they seek summer holiday should not
come to New York. This could be done
by utilizing our great advantages, by giving
rapid transit, by putting our excursion boats
under severe discipline, by opening our
theatres for light comedy and for minor
operas, by keeping open our churches and
libraries and public places. There is no rea-
son why students or pleasure seekers or tired
merchants should not find an August month
in New York as full of attractions as they
find it in Paris OF London. We do not mean
to say that we have the advantages in the
way of libraries public buildings and his
toricsl associations, because these other
cities have centuries the advantage of US, but
we have o great deal in ourselves, and we
should so use our resources as to attract visi-
tors and make New York city not an aban-
boned, desolate, surrendered metropolis dur
ing the pleasantest part of the year, but q
summer capital as well as winter capital.
Year: 1875

The failure of the Imitation Convention at
Detroit will perhaps induce Mr.. w. d. Kelley
to think that the American people do not
want "more money" But he would be in
error. They do want ''more money" but it
begins to be seen that they do not want more
rags more shinplasters, more irredeemable
promises to pay money; more stuff which
pretends TO be dollar, but may 60 down
from eighty to seventy cents in the MECHANICS
pocket while he sleeps; which varies in value
q: the bidding Of any speculator who chooses
to make corner in gold or create panic of
any kind What the people want is real
money, and we suspect that the Sound Cur
rencv Convention, to be held at Cincinnati in
October, will be as great success as Mr..


Kelley's Convention has been failure. The
New York delegates to this Convention have
issued an address, urging the people in all
parts of the country to take part in the meet
ing by sending delegates, in order that q
method may be agreed upon by which we
may be brought back to sound and redeem
able currency, the equivalent of gold, and of
constant value They rightly remark that
the country has suffered long enough from a
currency of constantly variable value, which
has brought upon us repeated panics, gen.
eral DISCRIMINATION and prostration Of in
Year: 1875

The ,Je,oish Times has tilt with its con-
of central ecclesiastical authority which
should henceforth settle all conflicting ques-
tions between differing congregations or
members Of the same. The Times deprecates
any such authority, and cites instances from
contemporary Jewish history in Europe to
show its evil effects. The present freedom
of the Jews in this country to settle their
own disputes in their own way-and they
have no more of them than Christians have-is
due to the absence of central power in
their communion. But the Times has no
fear that any such ecclesiastical head centre
The Messenger, in the meantime, grows
eloquently irate over the changes now
going forward in the Thirty-fourth street syn
agogue. 1t draws terrible picture of the
degeneracy of Judaism because the sexes are
permitted to sit together in the synagogues,
because the men are throwing off their hats,
and female singers are admitted to the choir
lofts. These dissertations Of old time Judaism
ought to wake the patriarchs out of their
graves and bring them down to New York
But, seriously, if there is nothing more sub
stantial in Judaism than these traditionary
customs, it would be as good time now as
ever to bury it out of sight. But we don't
so read the Mosaic law nor the prophets nor
the Psalms There is Judaism, as there
is a Christianity, that is found in the
heart and not in the hat, that worships God
in the spirit without much regard to form
or ritual. That is worth preserving; the
other is not. Men do not honor God any
more by taking off than by putting on hats.
They may honor Him by both acts. The
Independent has a Characteristic four column
article from the pen of the Methodist
Bishop Gilbert Haven, in which he ad-
vocates most vigorously the doctrine Of ANAL
gamation of the races on this continent
The Bishop thinks Garrison and Phillips did
very unwise thing when they dissolved the
old Anti-Slavery Society. He calls for its
restoration, that it may "ding-dong' in this
behalf until equal rights are, in fact and not
in name, secured to all the people Of this
land. The Christian at Work. exults over the
novelty and the pleasure of pastor sitting
in pew instead of preaching in pulpit of
being prayed for instead of praying for Others
and Of singing hymn that he does not know
where it is until it is given out DR.. Talmage
thinks that ministers who preach forty-four
Sabbaths in the year have right during six
or eight Sabbaths to listen. The Cltholic
ReUie,O says President Moreno's great fault
md the one for which he was assassinated
was that he was Catholic and tried to build
up Christian Republic and not ''progres-
sive" one. The olive oil which the Fre1nan's 8
Journal Is supplying to the American lamp at
Pafay-lc-Monial being in danger of freezing
or giving out, the editor is now anxious to
know at what point such oil, Of the best quail
ity, will cease TO burn. small theme for
large paper
Year: 1875

One of the great wants of the century has
been clear case against member of our
State Legislature 1t has been known for at
least one generation, and suspected for two
or three, that our honorable representatives
went to Albany every year, not 80 much be-
cause we wanted laws as because they
wanted money. It has been known to every
one but the authorities just how they made
their want and its extent known to the
people who desired notifications of laws in
existence or wholesale additions to the
printed volumes. How they operated
through the lobbymen, at what hotel the
agents of this or that financial magnate put
up, how much money he had with him,
whether it was a dear year or cheap year in
Assembly or Senate-all this has been readily
accessible knowledge at the capital and in
the metropolis (; but placid Justice stood on
all the cupolas and never saw the wink Of
the'knowing ones-partly because she stood
so high and partly because her eyes were
tied up. Now, however, the case is before
u.s. and, strangely enough, there seems to be
as yet no lobbyman compromised in it. Can
such things be? Is it possible to flch the
public treasury without the aid of the lobby?
All the world has heard of the case in which
every poet was to be his own Aristotle ; and
have we now come to that wretched condition
when every member of the Assembly must
be his own lobbyman and black his moral
boots with his own official hand? Sixty
thousand dollars was fraudulently obtained
from the State treasury to ''relieve" one of
our suffering contractors. Forty thousand
went to Lord-and what did he do with it {?
Bennett, Hands partner, got twelve thousand
dollars, and Hand perhaps, got the other
eight thousand dollars of the twenty thou
sand dollars that Lord did not get. But q
canal appraiser is already arrested on the
charge of getting sixteen thousand dollars


and this must have come out of what Lord
received. Who else did he divide with
This inquiry is the more pertinent because
the case is so clear that it seems to promise
convictions, and clean sweep of every man
whose fingers were defled with that money
would wonderfully purify the Albany air.
Year: 1875

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There has been much discussion recently
in the English papers in reference to the
resignation of Mr.. Scudamore from the Postal
Telegraph Department A few years since,
as our readers will remember, the telegraph
system of England was taken by the govern
ment. 1t seems that under the management
of the government it has not been financial
success. During the current financial year
the expenditure will exceed the revenue by
million three hundred thousand dollars
Some dissatisfaction is expressed with this
result, especially as Mr.. Scudamore, a SAN
guine man, has been promising that the
financial results of the amalgamation of
the Post Office and the telegraph should be
gratifying to the people Some time in 1868
the rule was adopted charging one shilling a
message from any part of the United King
dom to another. When this rule was deter
mined upon Mr.. Scudamore went so far as to
express belief, that in time the business Of
the Office would justify the reduction of the
rate to sixpence. We learn that in con-
sequence of this cheapness there has been
an enormous increase in telegraphic busi-
ness At the same time there has been an
increase in the working expenses. The gov
ernment has not been able to. manage the
telegraph as cheaply as was done by private
companies. The newspaper press service"
is complained of as being at ruinous rates.
The salaries of officials were largely raised
after the government took charge of the
service. Altogether the official report may
/ be regarded as indicating that in the mere
matter of financial returns the amalgamation
of the telegraph and Post Office has been a
mistake.


But in every other view it seems to us,
taking these unfavorable reports, to have
been a success. The enormous increase Of
business shows that the telegraph has been
brought home more and more to the people.
1t might really be questioned whether the
advantage arising from being able to send
telegraph despatch. from one extremity of the
United Kingdom to the other for shilling is
not worth the million or million and half
dollars annually which Parliament is called
upon to pay as a deficiency. If we look over
the estimates in government like Great





to the members of the royal family, arms
and equipments and ships-we find millions
of dollars expended without a murmur to
crafty the pride of rank or warlike ambition.
Yet here is great beneft to the people,
which is felt in every home, which tends to
knit the bonds Of society and to make every
Englishman feel that he touches the palm Of
every other Englishman on his island no
matter how far apart, and the whole amount
is not as much as the cost of the Prince of
Wales visit to India. So far, therefore,
from regarding the financial estimate Of the
postal telegraph in England as an argument
against the system we should prefer rather
to regard it as strong argument in its favor
If the government of the United States could
put it in the power of every citizen of this
country to send despatch to any part of the
Union for twenty-five cents we should be
perfectly willing to have it done, even if
Congress had to vote every year one or two
millions as deficiency.