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Year: 1873

A special to the Times from Fort Sill,
Indian Territory, says that great excitement
prevails among the Wichita Indians on &C
count Of the murder of their principal
chief, Isadawab, by the Ossges recently.
The chief was out hunting alone and the
next morning his headless body was found
with bullet hole in the back One hun
dred yards away, the head was found
stripped of the scalp. Issdawah was a
great friend of the whites. Seventeen
years ago one oil his warriors killed SEN
try at Fort Arbucle and the chieI promptly
brought the head of the assassin to the
Fort. 1t is believed that the Whichtas and
their allies will Immediately take the war
path against the Osages in spite Of all ef-
forts 10 restrain them.
Year: 1873

into the ground. One can scarcely con-
ceive of the devastation or realize the force


of the tornado. Already we have heard Of
thirteen farm houses and as many barns
that were literally torn TO pieces, and others
badly damaged A school was in session
six miles north of here, aud the tor
nado tore the building to pieces and carried
a fourteen year old daughter of Henry
Rathmel about quarter of mile fro Il
the school house, and when found she was
Year: 1873

We cannot regret the defeat Of Mr.. Carpen-
ter's bill providing for new election in Lou
isiana, and yet we must record our absolute
Condemnation of the attitude in which the
Senate placed itself yesterday. 1t has virtually
acknowledged the justice of Mr.. Carpenters
stirring denunciation of the Kellogg usurpa-
ton. IL has acknowledged that the existing
government of Louisiana is based upon moth
ing but violence and fraud. 1t has declared
the Judge who made himself the instrument
of that wrong absolutely inexcusable. Not one
word has been ventured in palliation OF the
crimes of Durell and Kellogg. Not the
stanchest supporters of the Administration
have pretended that the claimants whom the
President sees fit to sustain have the slightest
color of right to the offices into which
they have been intruded Yet the Senate,
before rejecting Mr.. Carpenters bill, put itself
upon record as indirectly approving this
usurpatiOn, and gave the President fresh ex-
cuse to continue his present mistaken policy.
1t is true that the votes and debates of yester-
day morning really accomplished nothing at
all. When the bill was rejected, the amend
ment recognizing the Kellogg usupation ad
interim of course fell to the ground with 1t.
Mr. Trumbul can now introduce bill to
recognize McEnery; but the vote on the
amendment indicates what the fate of such a
bill must be. The Republican majority in the
Senate practically declares that it will support
a government admitted TO be fraudulent ana
intrusive. And the only reason for such
course is that Kellogg is in full sympathy with
the Republican party, and did partisan service
during the last campaign.


This is perhaps no more than we ought to
have expected. The politicians whom an evil
fate seems to have intrusted for the moment
with the leadership of the Republican party
have no conception of the temper of the pub
lie mind. In the face of a great popular revolt
against corrupt Legislators and fraudulent ad-
ministrations, they daily with bribery, excuse
the buying and selling of Congressman, con-
done perjury, ratify false balloting, vote that
any man is good enough to sit in the House
of Representatives. They laugh at the profess
sions of reform with which they carried the
election in New-York. They openly avow that
the cry for an honest bipartisan city govern
ment was all a pretense so far as they
were concerned, and the only object of new
charter is to create new ring for the manip-
ulation of the public money. Their abest
orators call out to them that they cannot face
the people in the next campaign if they will
not desist; but they blunder blindly on.
Their party organs warn them that the al
legance of the masses is wavering but they
strain it more and more every day. Well,
their last chance is escaping them fast. Con-
gress is almost at an end. The Legislature
will soon have completed the charter. Then
the people will pass calm judgment upon
what has been done; and there will be
sharp reckoning for somebody.
Year: 1873

that all personal property should be taxed.
Our legislators, and in fact all legislators In
all ages. have thought otherwise. Militia ana
and ministers of the Gospel are exempt from
certain amounts of tax; churches are not
taxed: the mortgages held by life insurance
companies and savings banks are not taxed;
United States securities are not even taxa
BILE. II is not necessary for us here to go
into the reasons of these exemptions, much
less to defend them. 1t is sufficient to men
ton that these exemptions are made because
they are believed to be or the whole beneficial
to the community. Now if it is right, because
on the whole the community is benefited by
it, to relieve, for instance, the mortgages held
by savings banks from tax, it may be equally
right, in view of similar results, to relieve
from tax mortgages held by anybody. If, how
ever the taxation by the State of this or that
personal property is not question of right, 1t
is one of expedency.


The total product of the tax on mortgages
in this State is exceedingly small, so small
that if it is repealed the other taxes will
scarcely be perceptibly increased. Among the
largest negotiatOrs of mortgages in this city,
the instances where mortgages are actually
paying such tax are spoken of as rare and
curious proceedings, in general the result OF
some mismanagement not often repeated. In
at least one of the largest counties in the
State no account by the assessors is made Of
mortgages as personal property. But the fear
of the tax is meme the less potent. The chief
effect of the tax is not the taxation of mort
cages; it is their prevention. Men will not
invest their money to their own pos
sible disadvantage. In all other busl-
ness the means by which the young, the
thrifty, and the enterprising are assisted
with the credit and the cash of other men
are accounted among the institutions which
the State should carefully cherish. TO block
the path Of enterprise in our State is simply
to turn it into the States adjoining. One OF
our correspondents shows pretty conclusively
that the farmers are themselves among the
principal sufferers by the existing tax, which
renders the procurement of new mortgages or
the extension Of old ones upon farms almost
an impossbility, except by the payment In
some form or other of asuIious rates. Its re-
preston of enterprise in property in this city
and its suburbs in this State is not open 10
question; the fact and the contrast near us In
New-Jersey are palpable, and may be seen
of all who walk with their eyes open. a cor
respondent fears that the repeal OF the tax
will hurt the Republican party, to which, IL
we were of the same notion, we should say
that a party is not worth saving that Is
afraid Of reform.
Year: 1873

Space is given elsewhere to some corre-
spondentS on the question of repeating the
tax on mortgages. Believing, as we have
said, that it is only requisite that men should
be well informed on the subject to agree with
us, we are anxious to give fair hearing to
those who differ. Let us say, however, that
the discussion of the merits Of the Usury law


which many persons seem to think is directly
connected with this question, forms no part
of the present programme. One correspondent
even insists upon dragging the Tariff question
into the argument; but we are not tempted
thereby 10 go outside of the matter III hand.


The ground that we take respecting the
tax on mortgages is that it is inexpedient


We'say that it brings far more loss than rev.
enue TO the State. Some of our friends, how
ever, object to repeating the tax as a matter
of right. They think that the owner of a
mortgage upon property ought to be taxed as
the owner of that property 30 far as the mort
gage goes that to release him is to reimpose
that tax to that extent upon the land; be-
cause, they say, the land has to pay all taxes
that personal property does not. But to hold
this position securely. they must also believe
Year: 1873

Grafton 10 the fat, bluff farmers. In
later years this toleration turned into sus-
picon and dislike. The village lay in a bos-
der county of Slave State. and Seth was
known to be an Aboltionist, which ranked
him there and at that time with an atheist or
felon. He was accused, and with truth. we
believe, of teaching the few slaves in tho
Deighborhood to read and write, and of 80
creting fugitives on their way to Canada
Certain beliefs oil his, which his scholars
quoted constantly. concerning liberty and
equality and the brotherhood OF man, were
strongly suspected by the club Oh the tavern
bench to be the doctrines of Paine and Vol
taire. He talked wildly, it Is said.
at times of great work TO be done,
in which he should have his share
But the summons came for him ono Summer
day to leave the village and the not school
house and his silent evening pipe and stroll.
and cross to that other unknown life which
waits for every man. al have not done my
"work here" he said once or twice on that
last day. "The chance did not come to me.
somehow" But the village doctor said that
he was only feverish, and that it was pity
his mind should be clouded at the last. Still
looking back to that undone work, he died
and was buried beside his wife and child.


A few years afterwaId came the war Of the
Rebellion. young man, State Senator from
the district where Seth had lived declared
himself not only on the side of the Govern
ment but of the slave. He was bold, alert,
had q powerful intellect the sluggish, slow
moving farmers followed him in dismay;
formed regiments they blocked the advance
of the Confederates by holding the slave ter
ritory on the side of the Union, divided the
State, at last and finally. No better work for
freedom and order and civilization was
done in that time than this; none that told
more effectively on the future. Not long
ago, our public men were put TO trial not
only through their honor but honesty. How
many fell it does not need now TO tell. One
alone stood firm; his integrity helped to re-
deem the character of the nation. He and the
man who helped 80 largely to save his State
in war times, had each been scholars OF the
carpenter. They did not know each other, and
their remembrance OF the village school was
of the dimmest. But their work for freedom
and honor goes on widening and widening
from generation to generation, while the old
schoolmaster sleeps forgotten under the locust
trees. Yet let Us hope that he knows by this
time that in the just universe OF God nothing
ia lost,
Year: 1873

dear 1t turns out that Oakes Ames is not tho
sty stolid customer which he has been considered.
If we are to credit special dispatch to Boston
newspaper Oskes is one Of your Men of Feel
ing after all. He has owned up. He has told hs
friends in confidence that while carrying in public
the stest of upper lips he has felt the position in
which he has been placed from the very first" We
are glad to hear of it. We hope that he has felt il
good deal in places where it hurt We hope that ho
is like the lachrymose young lady who Says And
when they win a smile from me- They think that
forget whereas it is well known that they were
entirely mistaken. We anxious to believe in Mr..
Amess private agonies The suggestion of them
gives Us great satisfaction. If be could feel also
those of Colfax Patterson and two or three Others.
the vcarious suffering would have truly beautiful
element of justice about it.
Year: 1873

Here is rather a nice tale OF careful banking.
which comes to us from Boston way. Some years
ago friend of its cashier brought TO a suburban
bank Government bond valued at $1,000. He WAS
in the habit of receiving the coupons regularly. but
last January no coupon came. Upon inquiry it was
found that his bond was missing. and he was told
that it had probably been dropped into waste
basket and sold for old papers He was further told
that he had no redress a4the bank was not respou-
sible for individual securities left in it's carea great
mistake, if we know anything of common law.
Still further research dc ops the fact that other
securities lodged in the same bank missing to tho
value of $4,000. These probably were also dropped
into the waste-paper basket
Year: 1873

The letter which we publish to-day on the
third page Of this issue from our Paris cor


respondent shows the mental uncertainty of
the Orleanist members of the Committee of
Thirty when President Theirs advised them
to prepare for their own loss of power. They
now appear to be perfectly in harmony with
the President on constitutional project


The result may be seen by the kilograms
which we also publish to-day. NJ. Theirs has
lost the support of those who have been labor
ing for representative republic, and secured
the temporary adhesion OF a party of avowed
nnnarcliists. who only support him because
Year: 1873

Mr. Sargent did his country good service in
the House, yesterday. by assailing the Butler
Salary bill and the covetous members who
hope to make an extra $1,000 before going
out of Congress. The blows were well laid
on, and the bill went to ruin last night by a
large majority. This is a clear case Of money
saved and morals corrected.
Year: 1873

OF course, the House Committee of Ways
and Means is not in earnest in pressing the
Pacific Mail Investigation. The plea that
Irwin. the sharp fellow who got the subsidy
through Congress, is in California has nothing
to do with the reluctance of the Committee to
proceed with such witnesses as may be nearer
at hand. One investigation has sent the SEN
ate into mourning and stultfed the House.
Where would another, ON this more fruitful
subiect end2
Year: 1873

1t is reported that members Of the House
are just beginning to find out that they have
made an error in not saying something about
the improperly of Congressman owning stock
in corporations affected by Congress legisla-
ton. AS though that would have made any
difference with Congressman hereafter! If
members of Congress need to be told that it
is highly improper to legslate for the benefit
of corporations in which they hold interests,
they may as well begin studying the Ten
Commandments
Year: 1873

The Massachusetts, Legislature has repealed tho
law which permits towns to allow the sale of ala
and beer and these beverages will now be just
much prohibited as gin or whisky. The unpleasant
fact however is that there is little certainty and
permanence IN the Massachusetts, policy upon this
important matter The very next Legislature may
restore general license system. or it may reonact
the beer clause. or authorize some entirely new ex-
periments. In this way public opinion is kept un-
settled. and temperance becomes merely conye-
nient cry for political parties to say nothing of the
tendency which this shilly shally style of lswmak-
ing has to bring all laws into contempt.
Year: 1873

RED MEN's ExcUR1IoN AND CoNoRRT.--Fhe
excursion on Wednesday afternoon and the con-
cert on TbursdAy evening will both be grand en-
tertainments. Though given by the members Of
the Order in Delaware, in honor Of the Great
Council of U. s. Improved Order of Red Men and
for their especial benefit yet these entertainemnts
are not exclusively for members Of the Order.
The public are invited to participate, and an ele
CANT opportunity to enjoy delightful ride upon the
river, and = splendid dance on the excursion, and
also an excellent and humorous performance at
the concert will be afforded to all who desire to
avail themselves thereof, whether members of the
Order or not. Tickets may be had Of any OF the
committee or at the boat on the day of the exeur-
sion. ...
Year: 1873

The Cincinnati Commercial says that as Gen.
eral Butler has opened his gubernatorial cam
paign in Massachusetts, by speech on defence
Of the salary grab, ''let him stick to it and
against all odds. Let him ask the people to
vote for him as its great defender, if not its
author. We want to see the matter tested,
and he is the proper man to put it to the test"
Butler is now in o position similar to that he
occupied in the beginning of the old coalition
times in Massachusetts. He was then demo-
crat and the great defender, if not the father,
Of that coalition between democrats and free
soilers which eventually led to the organiza-
tion Of the great republican party that has
accomplished such startling results within the
last thirteen or fourteen years. The coalition
was very unpopular among democrats at the
outset, and when in democratic State con-
vention held in Springfield the old hunkers,
being in majority, denounced afiliation with
the free soilers and impugned the motives OF
those democrats who favored the movement,
General Butler took the stand, and in his own
vigorous and whirlwind style declared that
he would ''stick to what he had done, and if he
was compelled to he would do it over again.
So with the salary grab. He seems determined
to stick to what he has done, but it is ques-
ton whether he would ''do it over again if
he had the opportunity. The gubernatorial
campaign in Massachusetts,, we may add, has
opened with considerable spirit for the re-
publican nomination, Butler, as he did last
year, taking the stump in advocacy of his own
nomination.
Year: 1873

1t is only few days since Sehor Pi Mar
gall came into power at the head of Minis
try which seemed equal to the situation.
Already that Ministry has resigned and Spain
is passing through another Cabinet crisis.
Evidently things are far from being right in
that unhappy country. Sefor Pi Margall
has asked time to form new Cabinet and
has been postponed until Friday. This Cabi-
net crisis does not promise well for the fed
eral Republic. Another piece of news is to
the effecs that Marfori and De Rodas are in
Lisbon, as if ready to appear on Spanish soil
when the first opportunity presents itself.
seeking an audience Of the Pope. Add to oil
this the fact that Serrano and other royalists,
now ON French SOIL are conspiring against
the present government What does it all
mean? Does it not seem to justify the state
ment made by Fgueras to our correspondent
that the issue Of the present state of things
would be either the restoration Of the mon
archy, with Alfonso as King or the establish
ment Of the federal Republic. The federal
Republic has been established. But it is
by no means certain that the monarchy,
with Don Alfonso as King, will not
also soon be restored. The avowed object
of Serrano and his friends is not the restora-
don Of the monarchy, but the establishment of
aunitarian republic. It is undeniable, however,
that the unitarian Republic means the mon
archy. Sucha conspiracy, directed by such
men, indicates real danger to the Republic.
The reaction which has taken place in France
has, It would seem, prompted the Spanish
royalists to make bold and vigorous effort.
We may have startling news from Spain at any
moment. Everything depends on the army.
Overtures have been made to the Carlist chiefs;
but it does not seem as if the Carlists were
quite prepared to give up their man. It was
the opinion Of Fgueras that the Carlist off,
GERS were really fighting for Alfonso and
although the negotiations have not yet been
crowned with success it will not surprise us
to learn that the Carlist leaders and the
serrano party have united in the interest Of
thu Prince Of Asturias. 1t is king which is


waned by the more prominent adherents of
the Csrlist party; and provided king can be
had it viii be found to be q secondary ques-
ton whether the King be Carlos or Alfonso.
1t does seem as if the revolution had spent
itself, and as if reaction had set in with o
powerful tide.
Year: 1873

As the Great Eastern, bearing tie mystic
the New and Old World, approaches the
American shore expectation is on tiptoe to
learn the fate of her great voyage. On Mon
day her electrician reported her westward prog
ress up to noon Of that day to be latitude 50
deg. 35 min. and longitude 80 deg. AZ
min. Her speed for several days has been
about four and half degrees Of longitude or
nearly two hundred miles. On Tuesday at
noon she was in longitude 43 deg. IA min.
West. At this rate she will probably pass the
meridian of st. Johns, Newfoundland, to-day,
and with favoring current steam rapidly to her
destination at Sydney, Cape Breton. She
is already in position with the northerly
Newfoundland or Labrador current to in
crease her speed, while oil the weather indica-
tions encourage the belief that no storm or
tempest but rather q propitious northeastly
breeze, will greet her appearance off the Ameri-
can coast.


The weather reports yesterday mention no
storm on the American lakes moving eastward
likely to threaten the monster ship when she
arrives off Cape Breton, or to disturb the
quiet landing of the cable in the placid, hard
harbor of Sydney. So far oil goes well and
the prospect is bright. Should no accident or
delay in paying out the wire occur we may
expect to hear in less than thirty-six hours that
it is fully laid from shore to shore and throb-
bing with electric life.
Year: 1873

The ITALIAN GOVERNMENT has experienced
mother ministerial crisis, a Cabinet condi-
on which has become almost chronic in
some. Some few Of the solid facts which
induced to its repetition and continuance are
It forth in the HERALD.
Year: 1873

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS cannot draw their
back pay after the expiration of two years
subsequent to the time the appropriation was
made, when the money goes back into the
Treasury without any action on their part.


Therefore those gentlemen who ore Of the
opinion that they can rake in their salary grab
Year: 1873

The Weather in This CITY Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day Of last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Pharmacy, Herald Building:-
Year: 1873

SLY RoBBERs.-For over year past, one of our
down town merchants was excessively annoyed by
frequent invasiOns, by night, of the sanctity of
his money TILL aud diminution of the contents
of the same Various small articles were also
purloined, but the thief most provokingly COW
cred up all traces Of depredations. The merchant
was becoming dishearted. He had suspected his
son, and removed him for a time, but the pretty
pilfering was continued. His suspiciOns next
rested upon his clerk, whom be discharged, but
still there was no cessation of the thefts. About
n week ago, he resolved 10 spend every night in
the store, until he discovered the robbers The
The first night passed away without any unusual
occurrence, but about five o'clock in the morning
as tbs merchant, almost In despair, waa about to
leave for home lac heard noise at the hack win
dow which was soon afler opened by two boys
who stepped into the store. They were promptly
captured by the merchant, who TO his surprise,
discovered them TO be sons OF a near neighbor,
who for year had adopted this mode of getting a
supply of pocket money. They were promptly
taken before their parent, and their delinquences
exposed. The affair is being compromised.
Year: 1873

From the Smyrna Times.


ARE WE BEGINNING TO SEE THE PoIKT p
We publish a call in this issue for public
meeting TO be held tomorrow evening to take
such action AS may lead 10 the building up Of
the business interests of this town. In other
words a number OfeiGzens want to start some
mechRnicalin Industry among us that will not only
keep at home and support the mechanics already
here, but induce others 10 come among US. Our
men Of means find that our working men are
leaving town and going elsewhere TO labor, thus
depreciating the rental value of property and
letting some tenements even go without an oc-
cupant. Merchants find their "trade" "slackeniug,
and other tradesmen begin 10 feel the effects OF
the stampede. This state of affairs exists not
especially In Smyrna but all through The PENN
suia. Mechanics are going where they can
make living," and 80 many have gone that
property owners net only begin TO see but to feel
the effects OF their absence.