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Year: 1876

Against their will, in great part, the head
men Of the Sioux nation have finally signed
the treaty by which they oblige themselves
to give up the Black Hills-that is, to expa-
triate themselves, to leave their homes, to
go away forever from the country in which
the younger generation was born and in
which the old, with common human at
tachment to familiar scenes, had hoped to
rear their children. Without exception
they mistrusted our good faith; but some, in
whom amiable natures seemed to exist, were
persuaded against their convictions; some,
with primitive cunning and suspicion,
signed lest others should gain an advantage
at their expense; and many, with
the notion that resistance was USE
less, accepted the situation with bravado.
The negotiation has been unusually fruitful
in the crude and vigorous oratory of the
savage, or rather, perhaps, as the case has
attracted especial attention, that oratory has
been more literally reported than ever be-
lore. The comparatively elaborate speech
of Spotted Tail on this occasion, if accepted
as an evidence of the capacity of the un-
tutored intellect, will place the American
savage foremost in the races of men. If the
men who are capable of such efforts in their
barbarous condition were also capable of
civilization they would have no superiors
anywhere. Finally. these men have signed
that treaty with the plain declaration that
the conditions laid down would induce
them to sign willingly if they could believe
that the conditions would be performed,
but that their past experience induces
them to doubt our promises. And the
worst of this is that they are right, and that
the conditions on which they have signed
will not be kept rs promised. Our faith
with the Indian will be broken in this case
as it has been always hitherto, and the reason
is that we cannot keep it. 1t is the reproach
of the American people that they cannot
make or maintain a government that can
honestly keep their simple promise. If we
agree to give the Indians a COW they will
receive, perhaps, a goat. If we agree to
give them wagon they may got Wheel
barrow If we promise them rifle they
will be fortunate to get ramrod For
every President has many friends, and there
arc Secretaries Of War and of the Interior,
and Indian agents and contractors without
number, and they must all have dip out of
the supplies on the way to tho Indian, and
the Indian may have what is left.
Year: 1876

The WEATHER. Yesterday we felt the in
fiuence of the rising barometer that follows
the rain area Of Tuesday, in the strong wes-
terly winds and decreasing Goodness.
The slight sprinkle of rain that fell in the
forenoon only amounted to one-hundredth
of an inch, and was followed by clear
ing weather and lower temperature than
that of Tuesday. The barometrio fall
within eight hours at Galveston yes
terday was two-hundredths and at In
dianola four-hundredths of an inch indi-
eating an approaching change of weather in
the Southwest. Another decrease Of press
ure within the same time has taken place in
the northwest, the barometer falling at Bis
marck, d. T., from 1920 inches in the
morning to 1888 inches in the afternoon.
This decrease has been also observed to
the eastward as far as the lakes,
and marks the advance of another
area of low pressure from that quarter. The
track Of this area will be southeastward from
Dakota and probably over the lake region.
A disturbance is also indicated in the East
ern Gulf, where the pressure has fallen and
the wind has varied somewhat In direction
and increased in velocity. To-day the
weather in New York will be clear or partly
cloudy and cool, growing warmer toward
night, with o veering of the wind to the
southwest.
Year: 1876

The Silver Commission has completed its
number by the selection of the three tex
perts" provided for by Congress. The Com
missioners have, of course, opinions of their
own, and so have the ''experts," and they
may be arranged thus:-Senators Jones and
Bogy, Representative Bland and Experts
Dix and Groesbeck are silver men Senator
Boutwell, and Expert Nourse are greenback
men Representative Willard is an inquirer,
not having made up his mind, and Repre-
sentative Gibson is gold man. 1t will be
seen that silver is very strong in the COM
mission aAd gold very weak. The public
will be surprised, by the way. to learn that
General Dix and Mr.. Groesbeck are experts
on the question of the use of silver as cur
rency. The inquiries of the committee will
be prosecuted here, and they have authority
to ask the opinion of other experts, if they
can find any. The question which will
trouble them most will be on what
terms to readmit silver to general
irculation. Some of the members of the
commission are said to believe that it ought
to form the basis of all paper issues, but the
rate or value at which it shall circulate or
be used to guarantee circulation is what
they will be puzzled to determine, unless,
indeed, they accept Mr.. Bland's view, that
the actual price of silver in the market has
no more to do with the quantity of silver
which shall go to dollar than the price
of printing paper has to do with the figures
on q creenback.
Year: 1876

RECORDER HAcKErr's sentence upon the
italian wretch whose revolving calling he
itly characterized should encourage the
police to continue and complete the work of
roofing out such dens of infamy as that kept
by the prisoner
Year: 1876

JUDGE SNNorT's LAw.-It has just been
decided in Rhode Island that man
who permitted the revenue authorities
to assess his income and who paid the
tax with the added penalty is still liable
for deficiency if his income was actually
greater than the assessed sum upon which
he paid the tax This decision will perhaps
induce Judge Sinnott Of the Marine Court
to revise his opinions on certain part of
the law, as they were expressed in his recent
letter in regard to Mr.. Tilden's income. In
that document Judge Sinnott, in his expla-
nation of Mr.. Tildens failure to make any
income return in certain years, said that the
law gave the citizen the "option" of making
his own returns or permitting the authorities
to make them. That the imposition of q
penalty for failure to do certain acts which
the law commands constituted such omission
An optional line of conduc. was an odd theory
at best, but it seems that the United States
Circuit Court has no faith whatever in that
view of the law. Judge Sinnott himself
must confess that it is very bad option
that works both ways
Year: 1876

TwEED's RErUnN.-A horrible fear disturbs
the rest of some of our authorities Tweed
has been captured, and is on his way home
on board United States vessel of war.
There is now no fear of his escape. BE can-
not bribe his keepers and he cannot run
away. He is too fat for small boat, and be-
sides is not in condition for o long and strong
pull. But he may commit suicide The
great Boss may actually jump into the
water-to which he was never very partial in
its natural stato-and his avoirdupois may
sink to the bottom of the Atlantic! This
would indeed be calamity. Think of the
precious secrets that would be swallowed up
in the waves with our "Twidv Reflect on
the legal pickings which would he washed
away with the body of the Boss I'm
agine what rich feast for attor-
neys, jailers and politicians would
90 to feed the fishes Such a loss
must not be risked so Tweed is to be kept
under close confinement on the Franklin.
We scarcely believe that these precautions
are necessary. Tweed is too fat, too jolly
and too full Of precious secrets to seek a
watery grave. He will come back alive, and
then probably we shall hear what we shall
hear
Year: 1876

YELLOW JAcK.-There are signs Of an
gia; at least the death rate is decreasing and
it is hoped that the disease will soon disap-
pear The fall in the temperature along
the South Atlantic coast is exercis-
ing very beneficial influence, as it
gives promise of a speedy recovery to con-
valescents and reduces the probability of
new cases occurring. If, by energetic efforts
on the part of the authorities. the existing
cases can be quarantined in suitable hos
pital during the coming week, much may be
done to arrest the disease, as the weather
will be favorable for that purpose.
Year: 1876

The overland China mail gives an ac-
count of strange suicide which was
lately committed at Fuh-chow Foo. Ii
seems that young lady, an inhabitant
of that city, who had the misfortune to
be left a widow while yet in her teens,
was urged by some injudicious relatives
to enter again into the bonds of wedlock.
The thought thus suggested of supply
ing the place of her late husband was so
repugnant TO her feelings that, in order
to escape from the persecution of her
advisers, she determined to "ascend to
heaven on the back of stork," or, in
other words, publicly to commit suicide.


Having arrived at this determination,
day was fixed for the ceremony. Early
on the fatal morning the lady, dressed
as the Queen of Heaven and surrounded
by large following of admiring rela-
tives and friends, started from her Late
husbands house in a sedan chair for the
scene OF her self-inficted death. By
the way she visited her parents to bid
them farewell, and stopped occasionally
on the way to taste the viands which
were placed at intervals 10y the side of
the road, as at funeral. On arriving
at an open space at the back cf the
Hai-chao Temple she mounted on a
scaffolding which had been erected for
the purpose, and, having bowed to the
vast crowd which had assembled TO wit
ness the proceedings, she cried with
loud voice, Heaven and eartht and
my friends am quite satisfied to die
in this manner"


Having said this, she stepped ON to .
chair on the platform and thrust her
head through the moose of red cord,
which hung suspended from acrossbean
above her. At the same moment a red
cloth was placed over her head and face.
and then, without the least hesitation,
she jumped off the chair. Death was
almost instantaneous, aud she expired
without the least apparent struggle


Unfortunately the effects of this young
lady's self devotion did not end with her
life, for 80 deep an impression did her
conduct make on some boys who had
witnessed the spectacle that they am used
themselves on the following day bv
making believe to follow her example.
BY misadventure, while one of then
was adjusting the rope round his mech.
his playmases ran of, and ON their return
they found that he likewise had cas-
cended to heaven on the back of a s>srk. 70
Pail Matt Gazette.
Year: 1876

AS the bee is to the rose


While the honey treasure flows,
Singing gentle songs Of love
To each blossom in the grove,
Pausing only in its flight
Where the sweets of life are brigh
All unwilling to depart
Till he reached the very heart,
And when all the luscious store
Is exhausted, sings no more.
AS the bee is to the rose
While the honey treasure flows
Are summer friends.
As the shadows to the boat
On changeful lake afloat,
When the lake is in repose,,
Like another boat II shows,
And all fortune elevates
Ger the surface initiates.
But ripple on its breast
Shadow trembles with unrest,
And when tempests gather round
Can no longer there be found
AS the shadow TO the boat
On the changeful lake afioat
Are summer friends.
Year: 1876

AN eminent physician says that swee
oil is not only an Gntidote to the bite of
a rattlesnake, but twill cure poison OF
any kind, both on man and beast" The
patient must take a spoonful of it inter
nally and bathe the wound, for cure.
To cure horse il takes eight times as
much as for man. A pint of whisky is
also good for "snakebite.
Year: 1876

A SINGULAR DEATH "A SON OF henry
White, sixteen years old, living near Graf
ton, Vermont, last Friday accidentally shot
body lay near that OF q fox. 1t is supposed
that he wounded the fox and then struck at
him with the butt of his gun, discharging
passed through bis body, killing him In
stantly.
Year: 1876

GOLD SEAL AHEAD.-The fact that the
Urbana Wine Company, OF Hammcndsport,
y. Y, was the only wine company awarded
two medals OF honor and two diplomas OF
merit at the Centennial Exposition will be
hailed by their friends with satisfaction.
This really wonderful award, considering
the competition, conclusively proves the
superiority OF their champagnes over all
Others, and will have the effect of making
their wines still more In demand. the re
port OF the International Jury on wines pays
Them the highest compliment, which any
one can verify by reading II. We add our
CONCENTRATIONS TO this popular company on
their success. I
Year: 1876

ECONOMY Is WRALfH, and IN view of tb,.
grand fact We take pleasure in calling the
attention OF our readers TO the large and
varied assortment OF foreign and domestic
dry goods now offered by O. II. ToWson q
Co, 636 Penpa- avenue, confidently assuring
them that fully Is per cent. can be saved By
visiting this firm. AS seeing is believing
we would advise all TO call.
Year: 1876

To Ihf kdIIOT OF Inc YFIbunt.


SIR: That skilled and veteran politician
Thuriow Weed writes long letter To you attempting To
prove that the Brooklyn bridge will greatly impede the
growth of NewYork City There Is also another
Of hc decline OF the OF growth which he overlooks
and.his is the surface railroads These carry millions of
passengers at the rate OF three miles hour-the
rate OF travel that Of canal boats II canal should be
dug the whole length OF rhirdave and the inhabitants Of


Harlem PEELED To make Of 1t get the
Year: 1876

NEARLY five millions of citizens were
added to the population of the Southern
States by the eenfrsnchisemento of III blacks.
Based upon the increase of population is
estimated the representation in Congress.
Now, the policy of the Toombs- Hill school
of practicing intimidation and the grossest
of frauds upon the colored race in Georgia
mas thus far, with some exceptions, entirely
disfranchised that people. 1t becomes
serious question with thoughtful persons
whether or not the Government will not be
forced in self-defense to appropriate money
to defray their expenses, and thus encour-
age the colored citizens of Georgia and
other communities where this terror holds
sway to emigrate to regions where they
will be guaranteed in the enjoyment of
equal rights. This course will either have
to be adopted or else Congress will have 10
declare that a republican form of govern
ment no longer exists in those communities,
and remand them TO territorial condition
until they are educated up to a standard
which will result in their ceasing to violate
one of our most essential constitutional
mandates
Year: 1876

IT is DIFFICULT to conceive of anything
more audacious than the arrogant and
supercilious air assumed by the unrecon-
structed Southerners. From the style in
which they enforce their peculiar ideas
one is almost impressed with the thought
that there never was Vicksburg or
Donaldson, and that General Grant was
forced to deliver Lee his sword at Apo
mattox. Men who but a decade since
were in doubt as to whether or not their
rebelhous lives would be spared, or
whether they would have to atone on the
gibbet for their treason and unprecedented
barbarities, are now the governing spirits
of the South, proud monarchs of all they
survey. Themselves the spared monu-
ments of mistaken clemency, these men
have Systematically set about expressing
large class of fellow-citizens whose suffer


ings since the war were caused by their
loyalty to the Government Such men as
Tucker, Hill, Singleton and others who
forfeited their lives by participation in the
rebellion, now constitute a body whose
province it is to defend Ku-K Klux murderers,
and demonstrate to the poor Southern
whites how they may murder Republicans
without incurring the penalty of violated
law. The Southern rebel will hereafter
take rank as the checklist individual upon
record. Having just had the moose taken
from his treacherous neck, he systemati-
cally encourages murder and rapine upon
a large class of loyal citizens, and becomes
noisy in his denunciation of the Govern
ment because its powerful arm is out
stretched at last to shield its weak children
from the Jaws of ravenous political
wolves. For effrontery and cheek that
surpasses all comprehension, commend US
to Southern Democratic statesmen.
Year: 1876

PARTICULAR attention is invited to the
letter of Colonel E. n. Hill, on another
page of this paper. 1t will repay reldiag
for it admirably sets forth the reasons why
the Southern Wings should vote the Re-
publican ticket now and unite with that
party in the future The well-known patri-
otism and national feeling of the men who
composed that party should induce them to
use all their influence to secure the success
of Republican principles, for only in that
success can the Union be perpetu3ted and
the Government be restored to its pristine
purity. Colonel Hill has not fully shown
the evils that would be the inevitable result
Of the return of Democratic supremacy.
This he will endeavor TO do in future
Taper.
Year: 1876

In peace or in war the strength of ma
ton is its power to command money. If
it has not this indispensable dsSidsratum,
it is weak, and may fall to pieces, or be-
come the victim, the supple tool, or the
mere slave and parasite of stronger
power. Such is Poland and such is Ire
land to-day. The United States has a
large debt, debt contracted during pro-
tracted civil war insugurated by one half
of the States against the other half to de-
stroy the Union and overthrow the Gov
ernment The Government has met and
provided for this debt, principal and inter
est and provided for it in coin when it was
due, and at the very moment when it was
due, according to promise and according to
the most sacred obligations Of the Govern
ment. f.-.. ..


All this has been done and is now being
done under Republican rule. Whatever
there is of credit that attaches to this fair
dealing with respect to this national in
debtedness belongs to the Republican party.
1t is frequently asserted that the now domi-
nant party has ruined the country. The
men who say such things speak out of the
Year: 1876

WITHOUT the muscle of the colored
laborer the cotton States would SOON relapse
into bowling wildernesses not q comnu-
nifty in either OF those States where the
whites would not be beggared if the colored
race were to make an exodus Commuui-
ties in which lands now sell at from five to
twenty five dollars per acre would, in such
an event, prevent their realizing as many
cents for their possessions. And yet these
turbulent Southerners have so long subsist-
ed upon the unrequited labor of the black
man that they would fain remand him to
condition of peoDage, the better to enable
them 10 control his labor and enjoy its
fruits. Should the time ever come when
five millions of colOred citizens resolve to
emigrate en- n1dsSe from the South and seek
q haven Of repose upon the broad and fer
tile prairies of the West 1t will be har-
rowing day for the Southern chivalry, who
will then be driven TO the alternative of
hard work or starvation. The Spaniards
}felI us how camels back was once broken
by having just one more straw placed upon


il than be was able to bear. and from that
Year: 1876

The SUGGESTION is made that the Re,
publIcans in those Southern States or Con.
gressionsl districts IN that section where
overwhelming intimidation prevails shall
withdraw their tickets from the field and
allow the election TO go by default A
general movement of this kind in the hope
lessly Ku-Klux regions, if properly an
nounced, might give the people ofthe North


some idea of the territorial extent of rebel
control in the so-called conquered rebel
Year: 1876

SENATOR, then Secretary, Boutwell, is
about the only Northern Republican of any
prominence who ever went further South
than Virginia during a political campaign
10 aid tie party in that section. The Re
publicaDs of that section have fought their
own battles thus far, and. on occasion, hsYe
gone North to aid their Northern brethren.
This Is q significant fact and one which
deserves the attention of the Republican
camDairn committees,
Year: 1876

AMONG the many Republ n campaign
clubs located in this city few probably de-
serve more credit than the colored club
named the Hayes and Wheeler Invincible
Campaign Club No. l. They deserve
credit for their manifest endeavors in the
cause of the Republican party. This club
las entered the campaign with the inteu-
lion of working assiduously during the
canvass, and their persistent efforts should
stimulate the colored voters throughout the
South. Many of the members have signslly
distinguished themselves by their devoted
ness to the Republican cause.
Year: 1876

Washington National Monument Society,
which we print elsewhere, that it does


not propose to disband or surrender its
organization, but, on the contrary, renews
with redoubled energy and zeal its efforts,
and appeals to the people of the country
to aid in the completion of the monument,
the money voted by Congress to be applied
to the ornamentat,on OF the peoples monu-
ment. We commend the circular to careful
perusal.
Year: 1876

HEALTHY CONDITION OF BUSINESS
THE ACTIVE OPENING OF SPRING sIEs LITTLE


BAcKwAhD-MoDERATE ANTICIPATIoNs OF MER-


cHsSTs-TRANsACTIoNs NOT UNUSUAL IN Xxx


TENT But SOUND IN CHARACTER EXPECrEp-


GOODS OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURES GAMING


GROUND on TBE FoREIGN-A SURVEY OF VARI-


ous BRANcHFs or TRADE.


The Sprinq trade is somewhat backward in open
ing. and merchants generally do not anticipate
larger sales than made year ago. 1t is yet
too early to form very exact opinion, but business
men state that certain indications are favorable Tor
q healthy Spring business The produce and cereals
of the country are in good foreign demand and
Il is believed by those best able to judge
that the surplus grain crop will be readily
disposed of at steady and perhaps improving
prices. The market is largely stocked with
American manufactured goods, and the decline
In prices instead of stopping manufacturing alto
gether. has given American goods more of prefer
ence in the market and stimulated improvement IN
STYLES and quality and certain lines of goods promise
10 supplant almost entirely the production of foreign
manufactures. The dry goods merchants of the
city, it is stated largely doing cash business,
OF are giving credit short time only to thoroughly
trustworthy retailers.
Year: 1876

WATERMELON RIND PRESERVE Pare
off the outside green rind, and lay it in
cold stcrf fof fonr hours then change
the water, and put it on to boil. There
should be enough of this fresh water to
cover the fruit we'll. As soon as it has
boiled five minutes take it off and put
the rind in ginger tea, where it must
remain all night. The next morning
put it on in fresh ginger tea, and let it
boil until you can run straw through
the pieces. Take the rind out Of the
tea and cut it into small pieces an inch
or two in length. Add the juice and
rind Of four lemons, and some sliced
white race-ginger for one large melon
Put one pound of sugar to one pound
of fruit, and boil them together for one
hour The lemon peel should be- cut
thin, and boiled with the rind in ginger
tea. Carefully remove the seeds from
the slices Of lemon, lest better taste
be impaired to the preserve.
Year: 1876

Cuepmbers will grow on trellis as
readily as grapevines. A few vines can
be grown occupying but very little
space. Tomatoes also may be trained
up greatly to the advantage Of the crop,
which is injured by lying fiat on the
ground.
Year: 1876

STANDARD OF QUALITY STRICTLY


~ MAINTAINED.


While we announce a reduction in the price
of our RAW BONE SUPER-PHOSPATE we
would respectfully represent to dealers and
farmers that its standard of quality has been
strictly maintained. The proportions of SOL
uble and precipitated Phosphoric Acid, and
Ammonia, have never been higher than they
are in the article We are now selling our Gus
toners. This statement we make as bind
ing guarantee.