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LEAVENWORTH WEEKLY TIMES
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LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBERS, 1878.
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. D. R. Anthony, laruarj. It'll
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THURSDAY. DECEMRER 5, 1878.
: - i Owing to the hard times, and the general
HA" A TO itirrlltr. prostration of industries in many parts of
The rumor is revived in Printing House , the country, throwing thousand of work
Square thai Mr. Charles -V. Dana U to re-1 jnK jxople out of employment, and making
tire from the bun. The date mentioned for j dependent ujton the charity of their neigh
bis valedictory address is the c!o-e of the j hora many thousands who have never here-
prfent year.
roie si:itKAr-iT-iKW-
Mr. "William Higgin-, of Fort Scott, has
been favorably mentioned as a candidate
for Sergeant-at arms of the next House of
ircprsentativci!. He has served in that
ii-ariln before, thoroughly understand ita
dutie-, and made a very efficient officer.
He i n energetic, wide awake younj man.
an deserves any favor the party can le-
tu on him.
uuw nXv"ivirNTTo i-akis.
Many parsons v. ill le furprised to learn
thtt according to the statistics compiled by
the Pans ioliee, only 1.5,000 Americans
b'.ve entered the gay capital rince last
May II, 3b reported in society journal-,
ever.body has been to Paris last summer,"
' everybody" is a remarkably small fraction
j" tip American people.
IILK Cri.TIIKK.
TJie silk manufscture of the Tnited
Suits is steadily encroaching on the for
eign Importation. The annual value of
filk ribbons exported by Switzerland to this
c ui.try has fallen off in the past five years
fre.a 'M'J'OU'OO francs to 5,000,000 franrs
lb. Miierior quality of American filk fab
rics is one of the chief causes of the dimin
i'ud importation from Frame, Italy and
-. .tz rlan'I.
I S. senator K Ik Plumb was in the city
yistcrday, and left in the afternoon, by the
T!jck Island train, fur Washington. He
has b.-en visiting Fort Ieaveuwortb, and
making aii inf-ieclion of the Government
vr rk at tint point, in order to see for hitn
e 'f the Condition of affairs, and know what
appnipriatibCkJuru needed. 2Sr. Plumb is
one .f the most active and energetic mem
bers of the Senate, and is watchful of the
u ' :t - of the whole State.
opi.-uo.-m iir tixi: i'Uis.
The Holton Recutita; one of the abkst of
i v- weekly pajcrs e-i Kani-, has tLe fol
1 .wing
Tin r 1-. -jrrcly alcadins Ittrpublicjn jour
i.l.ut ft nlt.-d M-ttfR but his spoken fa
.ori!y of Mr. Ingallsasoncof the ablest of
ijesitrn-euaUrs, and miliy of them txprct
-urprlethat there should not lie a unani
mous disposition on the part of his constlt
u '. w-ele-ct him. We are of tiio opinion
that the jna. of the ieople of Kausas leel
i t " .iuc wjy, and only those who
they have ersonal grievances to rc
.tug l(cause tin or their lriemis have not
been appointed to office aro opolii: lilm.
The Hctiator'a sapixirttrs should not lose
!ght of the fact that one enemy will ;enerai
1 maLe snore uo'ss and do more to defeat a
man, than three friends will do to secure ids
pc' ion.
ARitrsrco.
Wniiam A. Potter, furnurly chief super
Vising architect of the Treasury, and a bro
ther of Congrtmar) Potter, was arre-ted at
New York, ycsteciiv, on a warrant issued
by United Stntd&i'trict Judge Tdodget, of
tlie Northern Dujxicl of Illinois, charging
liim wiCcnspi-ig todefesnd the Govern
ment, in connection ulth public buildings
at Chicago. Ttc present architect, Hill, is
also under indictment. There has undoubt
edly liecn a big "teal in the building
ol the ( hicago Custom Hoti-e, but re must
await the rultof tbc-e trials to a.-certain
.'helber the archilet t shared in the "swag."
It Toultl be a very serious reflection upon
their business sagacity to assume that all
the stealing m priced to have been done
there was carried on without exciting their
supicion.
AoTiinc m:iv riiiioitv.
Mr. Norman Lockyer, a distinguihed
1 uropcan scientist, claims to have dicov
cretl and to lie able to prove that all the el
ementary bodies recognized by chemists are
neither more nor less than hydrogen in va
rious degrees of condensation. According
to Mr. Ijckyer, the stars which are the
hottest contain either pure hydrogen or the
i tost elementary bodies. The sun. which
is only of medium heat, consists of a mix
ture of various element, while the colder
ctlt'lial bjdies show the net complex
cimtkiunds. As yet he has furnished no
specific details, but he promises very soon
to prest nt material, physical, and chemical
proofs of this extraordinary fact, which, he
s.ti.te, is already placed beyond the domain
of probibiliti, and will inaugurate a new
chemistry, giving us a far more expanded
idea of the simplicity of the proceedings by
whiih the world in which wc live wa grad
i.allv formed.
mi-Tir.iti.4.
Dipthcria has become one ol the most ma
iinant and fatal dieacc of this country.
When it once enters a family of children
all are subject to it. In many instances it
has carried cfl" every child in the family.
It is, however, one of these maladies that
may Is- prevented with proper care. Dr.
E. Snow, the registrar of the city of
Providence, in his last efficial report, asks
the attention of the people and esjecially
of parents to the following facts :
1. Ko case of dltpheria occurs without an
adequate caue. rills is self-evident.
2. The cause of nearly all cases of the dls
eao exists in the houe or premises, or with
in a few f t of the houses where the cases oc
cur. 3. The can- of nearly all Uie Ciss that oc
cur In the c.ty Is breathing impure air
from privy vaults or sink drains or cess
pools, or drinklu; impure water.
The observations, his long experience
satLfics him, says T1. Snow, are applicable
to all cases, whether in the tenements of
the poor, or in the mansions of the rich.
xion.Mv.s choice.
The more sagacious Democratic journals
all agree that the Democratic House will
make a gTeat mistake if it continues its in
vcstigation'foolMiccss this winter, but the
Chicago Times thinks there is nothing eh-e
they can do. It admits the folly of going
any further with the Potter business, but
thinks if they drop this they will not be
able to agiec on anything cle. We copy
from the Time, of the -!7th. as follows :
Later arrlt nls of ISourbou congressmen, at
Washington show that the whole tribedo not
favor the cheerlut programme of Our Wil
liam to consume the grrater part of the short
session investigating Ciphering Sam. There
appears to be a good many who think that
the Tottering inquisitors have carried the
presidential lnetlsating tomfoolery far
enough. Thehoieof making party capital
for ue tu the congressional elections, which
Inspired tlie idiotic project. Ins been sadly
disappointed; an J there are syxiptoms of a
Mwplcion that the Tott ring business helped
more man it hurt the administration side.
Those -jtijo incline to this opinion uoM that
thobest thing the llourbons can do is to get
the totter mnmiiiM rlenhant off thlr
a?,i.VxPJltiouslr ns possible. At the
'l0' ,hlrdvlceto this effect there Is
pcrhapsa wboion,,, teaT tht If Potter, But
iTf.tiSSlStS'i'1 i tlielr inquiries Into
Ci,,?i,?EbcslD.tbe wild south party
SSfih2?J1 m ?w mu:h as the stufi of a
nur if t hi ?wf ln ,hc iuabhle of 1SS).
uut li the l(ourIin maiariiv should not
SdISSaS""' menthsofts
Sr what o?ru. SUatln" "bo-
FisS'S-Sk'Isskk, sis
UiroatsT al
tach other's
THE pitcin.
"Tlie xor ye have always with you,'
J bi:J the great teacher, and it is generally
I supposed that the present winter will fur
nished as strong proof of the truth of his
i word as the world has ever received
tofore known want, most of the Eastern
cities are making extraordinary prepara
tions for the care of their poor this winter,
and from all appearances there will be
abundant demand for all the aid that can
be furnished. Referring to arrangements
being made in Philadelphia the New York
21 ibune says ;
rhlliedelphia In going systematically to
work to bring together tlie want and desitltn
t'ou of her poor during the approaching win
ter, and the charity extended for their relief.
She adopted last week a inodlllcatlonof the
same plan a that ud In Ula.-i;ow and Ber
lin, and in Uoston, Ilarriihurg, and several
imall towns in this country- Tlie major
and representatives fiom ward associations,
presidents of boards of health, city trmU and
municipal punitory Institutions, are to con
stitute a central board, nach ward forms a
charitable association, comosed of members
of every church and charltab'c society, with
loluntK-rorf sof voinen vitltors, directors
and paid supcrlnte-ndents. I)y means of this
w ide machinery it is hoped that a strict over
sight of the needy and dangerous classes can
be Kept up. Hut professional mendicancy can
be totally suppressed, and employment and
consequent relief furnished to all the tie
serving poor.
till; U'AK l.-V Aftill t.-Mfcr.l.N.
The action of England in going to war
with Afghani:lan,has but precipitated a col
lision which could not in the naturcof things
have been long averted. Russia has for
the last forty years lieen steadily moving
onward toward the boundary of ISritish In
dia, annexing territory as she proceeded
and establishing fortifitd ihU along the
entire route. She has never receded a foot,
or relaxid her iiersevering aggressions. he
has lieen working up to Afghanistan, and
it has lieen certsin, any time this ten years
past, that she would sooner or later under
take to control thai country. We do not
therefore sec that England has lost much
by the precipitation of this war. It is very
doubtful whe'her she could have controlled
the Ameer tieactfully. It could only have
been done by psying him a heavy and con
tinual subsidy, and even then there would
have been no guarantee against Russian
intrigue. Now, if the Ameer is subdued,
there will be ample warrant for taking pre
cautionary measures for the future. There
will be nothing lo prevent the practical
annexation of the territory, and the fortifi
cations of the northwestern frontier. No
matter what this cot, it will be cheaper
than to have to fight Riivia in British In
dia, with a legion of disaffected princes and
trilics lx-hind, and Afghanistan converted
iuto a Russian hasp of supplies. Nor is it
to the K)int that this war may weaken the
English tower in Euroie, and afford Rus
sia an opportunity to complete the annexa
tion of Turkey. If England has to fight in
Europe as .veil as in Asia she will fight, as
she has always done, with all her might;
and the wealthiest Power on the globe will
have no difficulty in equipping armies and
fleets, when the ceccfsity for such a war i
made apparent. Ry a St. Petersburg dis
patch ia our telegraphic columns this
morning, it would look as though the con
flict between England and Rti'ria in Af
ghanistan, was not to lie very long de
laved. inv ir uas miM
A conespondent of theNcw York Tttbunr
in South Carotins, has a letter in that jour
nal cf the 25th inst , in which he describts
the prcccs by which the Republican party
was practically extinguished in that State,
and how, as the Tttln-e says, a full stop
was put to the inconvenient practice which
formerly prevailed among the colored citi
zen" liter of voting according to tl eir own
convictions and inclinations. His letter is
a straightforward moderate statement of the
case, which bears upon its face the evidence
of truthfulness. He says his pursuit of in
formation has been attended with little or
no difficulty, since the incidents of the cam
paign are notorious and undisputed, and if
they arc not talked much alioul, except by
the victim, he says it is not because there
is any lack of knowledge on the subject.
He Bays the tic of the tisue paper bal
lots, is not attemrttd to lie concealed, but
i justified on the ground of uecowily. As
one gentleman observed to another, in the
confidence of a loud public converaticn in
a smokipgear, they were u-ed "all over
the State. Although it was a little crook
cJ, it wasn't very wroug after all. He l,ad
to ' it, or t 7.ckM hate fern bt en f 'eaten."
In an editorial referring to the letter here
spoken ef, and others from the same cor-resi-cndcnt,
the 7t i Imiic says :
Two aspects of the cas nre presented viv
idly in our corrt pondenlV letters. One is
thcsjstcmatlc Intimidation cf the negroes
befn othe election, the other Is the system
atic and enormous falsification of the ote
afterward. It is an unworthy mockery to
speik or the election ln South "nrollna as
"quiet," and to piotest lint no 1),1 was
shod In depriving the coio-eil voters oftliclr
rights, whtn the wholi military force of
"red shirts" was emj loyeil for wteks before
election dty to break np the Republican
meetings and to terrify the poor frced-peo-pie
with the notion of an impending massa
cre. Certainly the terrorism which is in
spired bycompanies of lnfantry.cavalry, and
artillery, parading in front of tlie negros' po
litical meetings, the "Iwst men" all "well
heeled," and the cannon ostentatiously load
ed with tenpeuny nails, is no less real than
the violence which diaws blood or leaves
broken bones. Northern mud-sills are inca
pable of appreciating the fine flower of chiv
alry which can thus demerit itself toward
the Ignorant and helpless. But what the gen
tleman slid of stulling ballot-boxes, he would
probably say of jointing artllltry at obstinate
votcis: "We had to do It, or we should have
been beaten "
These tissue paper ballots were known as
"kiss jokes," and "Hampton's little jokers,''
and as it took four or five of them to equal
in thickness the ordinary print paper ballot
ued by the Republicans, the Democratic
voter had no difficulty in putting in a bal
lot for himelf, and other ballots of the
same kind for a half dozen of his colored
fellow citizens at the same time. The
manner of using them, and of making the
tickets in the box tally with the poll list is
thus described :
They seem to have been furnished In un
limited quantities from some authority, and
to have been quite gent rally emploj cd, eith
er folded in with the regular ballots, or in
same cases boldly crammed Into the box by
the handlnl. By a highly ingenious arrange
ment these fraudulent papers; for which It
was lmposlble that there should beany hon
est use were made to count double. The
law provides that if the ballots, on being
counted, are found to exceed In number the
name on the poll-llts, they shall be return
ed to the box and the surplus shall be drawn
oat at random, alter which the count shall
goon. Of course wherever the "Htllejokere"
were used a great excess appeared. But ln
counting Eepublican and Democratic ballots
in separate piles, and when they were put
back Into the box the Democratic tickets al
ways went in first, with the Itepubllcan
tickets on top. Thus the surplus to be drawn
out came almost entirely from the Republi
can vote, and ev ery "little Joker" not merely
added one fiandulrnt vote to the Democratic
total, but involved the destruction of the
genuine "ote cast lor the ether side.
The Tribune writer concludes, as must
everybody else after a review of the situa
tion, that the disappearance of the Bepub
ican majority in South. Carolina has been
pretty effectually explained.
co-qraoyiisiM: the uomis.
We publish a communication in another
column, from Hon. James I". Legate, in
regard to compromising our county and
city indebtedness. He makes many sug
gestions which are good, and some which,
in our opinion, are not good.
1. His exception of the school bonds is
a mistake. It we undertake to compiomite
our debt, let all classes of hotels be in
eluded. The school bonds were i-sued dur
ing "inflation," and should be "contracted"'
just as much as any other bonds. There is
no good reason why these should be ex
cepted. They are no better than any of the
others, and their holders are no more
worthy. The bonds should all be treated
alike, except such as arc clearly fraudulent
and they should be repudiated outright.
2. He fixes the price at which we should
compromise, too high. Fifty cents is just
twice as much as we can allow to pay.
Twenty-five cents on the dollar is enough.
3. His proposition to put a mortgage on
all the property of the county, to secure
the new bonds, and give the bond holder
power to foreclose, is all wrong. We are
opposed to giving to the holders of the com
promise bonds any special privileges cr
powers of this kind.
L His proposition to compromise with
delinquent tax payers is wrong, and would
work gross injustice to the man who has
paid his taxes. Nearly all the delinquent
taxes are due from men who are able to
pay, and the present law, if left to take its
course, is abundantly competent to compel
tnrrnont It . nr.lnlW -lr-iftr.,1 I,.
some of the best lawyers in the State espec
- . 7 -
ially to meet this case, it has alreadv been
decided by the court to be constitutional, a
large number of suits are already pending
under it, and all that is necessary in order
to collect the back taxes, ia to let the pres
ent law alone.
Rut compromising the bond, aloue, will
not meet the necessities of the case. After
rducing our debt to one-fourtb of
what it nominally is at present, we must
reduce our exjvenses ol government in like
proportion. We must abolish fully one
half of our couuty and city offices, ami re
duce the salaries of those remainly fully
fifty ier cent. We shall then have more
"government" than we need, and shall have
reduced our'expenses tosomething near our
abilityto pay. The public debt is not, alone,
responsible for our enormous load of taxa
tion. At least half of it is to be charged to
extravagance in our current ex'ienditures.
WHIT IS ItEPCnt ICAMSU!
W. F. Chalfant, in taking eharge of the
I jnjroria Idner, said :
We are In favor of the national banking
svsttm, for Ihf reason, in ourjuduuut, tint
It Is the best system of b inking ever estals
llslicd In this country
The Emporia Ijnhjtr has always been a
paper of rather doubtful Republicanism,
and we are not surprised that it should
give uttersnee to such a sentiment as the
above, but now comes the Manhattan A'a
tionaht, which has always professed to be
severely orthodox, and endorses the Iaticr't
sentiment, as follows :
It will not lie loug before all Republleaus
will stand on that platform All that is
needed Is proper presentation of the f.tcts.
We are surprised at the ationil!t. We
had always supposed, from its loud profts
sions, that it cordially indorsed the Repub
lican party, but by endorsing such a senti
ment as that quoted above from
the Luhjcr it placet itself in dirtct
opposition to one of the mot iinorIant
principles of the Re-publican party. The
last Republican State Convention adopted
a platform whie.h makes the following de
claration ilium the question under con-ider-ation
:
IVe favorthe velthdrauiil of iritioual bink
notes, sub.tltutlug therefor the gre-euback
curreney Issued dlrecll by the riov.rnmcnt
as the Fob piper curriuc of the country.
Here i a direct conflict of fcutimcnt.
The AVi'itrinu declares itself in f -ivor of
maintaining the national bank', and the
platform declares that the Republican par
ty of Kansas is in favor of abolishing them
Has the Xwiu-uluU left the Ivepublican
party? If not, why elocs it oppose the
principle" of the parly? Will Mr. Griffin
please rise and explain? Shall the dg
wag the tail or the tail wairthedoc?
ui si s i.viEft norvs.
When the Czar of Ru-ia presentee!
the
Ameer with a sword, a few months rgo,
Gen. Kauffman made a presenation speech
which was given rNe to no little com
ment and speculation. His worels wen a
follows:
My Illustrious sov, re-Un, In w hose Kmplrc
the sun never sots, unit whose raised linger
causes millions of soldiers to tak- up arms,
sends this pleelgeof filendslil-. and unchang
ing affection to his friend and ally, the noble
and eh valiousru erof the Afghans and Be
Ieochecp, History tvehes that Rii'sln ever
espouses a just cause, that she lias always
been known lei protect her allies fretra tlie at
tacks or any enemy however powerful. Who
ever shies with Russia need not fear that a
hair eifhls head will lie Injured. The power
ofthc Russian su-onl Is gri-at This Is n feet
known to the enemies of Russii, as well ns to
their al les. May tJexl prott-ct and preserve
the two powerful sovereigns- the Car and
metr MaytJexl preeive tlie weif.ireof the
two allle-d countries to the benefit of Af
ghans, Russians aril huiinnlty at large.
May the echo of these weirds awaken conso
lationand hope ubcic oppression and tyran
ny are paramount.
In the light of the latest dispatches from
St. Petersburg we are enabled to guess ret
ty nearly what this language meant. We
are told that Russia has announced her in
tention of actively supporting the Ameer
in the event of England occupying any
points in Afghanistan from which the Rus
sian dominion in Asia might be threatened,
and this announcement, we are informeeb
is biseel upon the a-erlion that England
has violated her agreement made with Af
ghanistan through Lord Clarenden, by the
occupation of Quettah.
The occupation of the last named post
is, in itself, a menace to Russian interests
in Asia, but the English forces have not
tppieil at that they are pushing forward,
and their evident intention is to occupy
one strong hold after another, until they
have virtual control of the country. There
is every reason to believe that Russia will
not quietly submit to such a policy with
out any declaration of her intentions, such
as we have referred to above, circumstances
make it pla'nly apparent that she cannot
afford to remain neutral while the domin
ions of the Ameer are being overrun, and
the interests of Russia jeopardized by the
advance of the English army. England
will have to fight Russia, in Afghanistan.
I.lfp lDuranrrand Pension.
JI Atchison ratr!ot,.l
The late Major Ren Ik Gale had an in
surance on his life in the Masons' and Odd
Fellows' association of $3,300. We under
stand It is Senator Ingalls' opinion that he
can get Mrs. Oale a pension ol -T-J a month
daring ber life, as the doctors unite in the
orinion that the wound received in the ar
my brought on the disease of which her
husband aied.
! m
KaceeM mt m wtiper Mma.
Walnut valley limes, j
We think Governor Anthony nut his foot
in it when he attacked John A. ilartin, ed
itor of the Atchison Quunpioi through the
columns of the CwtmoatraifA. The Gover
nor, as a newspaper man, ia not a success.
One ! Ike riaeat mad Large
Worklngman'a Friend, SO.
The Timet has been enlarged to 3G col
umns. It is now one of the finest and Iarg
it papers in the West.
A COKIIECTIO.V
The Secretary of the Sta'e Historical So-
1
ciety publishes what he calls a full and
complete chronological history of the of
ficial terms of Kansas Governors. He eaj a
he his carefully verified this report ''by rc
fetring to the executive minute, Ac," The
Secretary says that this a is vein of history
worthy of the attention of every student
and pupil in the public schools of Kansas.
Now, there is hardly a boy twelve years of
age in our schools that does not know that
Governor Anthony did not succeed Gover
nor Harvey, and that Governor Harvey's
term cf omce did not extend from January,
1S09, to January, 1S77, and yet the Secre
tary of the State Historical Society is try
ing to make the boys and girls believe that
such is the case. Seeing this unpardonable
blunder published over the signature cf the
Secretary, and copied by half the papers of
the State without correction, and believing
that Governor Osborne's administration of
four years is entitled to recognition, we sug
gest that this scrap of Kansas history, be
amended.
rim. i. i'.s is so ri t the
com.
The Linn county Clarion, in'speaking of
the assaults made by the Manhattan A'ori'o i-
alut and Atchison CXniipiOT,requestingbim
to "rise and explain" why he should not be
read out of the party, truthfully says:
Tlie itcoid that William A. Phillips lias
made its an honest Itepubllcan cannot he
wiped out by the slang of n pait'san newspa-
per. If Mr. Phillips has been guilty of any
"Vert act against the Republican parly, let
the charge be made specific and backed by
the evidence. If lie falls then, to put Inn
satlsfactoiy answer, It will be time enough to
talk about withdrawing political honors. It.
appears to be the policy of tho-. who an
claiming to bethe leaders of the It-publican
paity to charge everj ono who has ludrpeit
dence enough to think feir himself aud rt-fusn
to echit any sentiment Is.ufil from headquarter-,
of being traitors to the puty. Such pol
icy Is ruinous to Republlt-inlsm. The Repub
lican party is made up of the thinking peo
ple, and any attempt to trammel a free ex
pression of thought within tne pirty. will
certainly iirhe them tint.
; IVi: IS THE OFFICIAL FICI HIS.
We clip the folloing paragraph from
the Atchison hvnpmn of yesterelay morn
ning: The I jcavcu worth T1M. continues te pub
lish tlie olhci.lt figures fiirulsheel the Kansas
City 7(mea year ago, concerning the jxtstage
then paid by several Kansas newspapers,
but changes the figures concerning the post
age paid by IheTlXE to the amount It says
it is now laying. This is not fair. ItelevMi'l
even remotely resemble fairness.
Now, we have no elisjtosilion te eleal mi-
fairlv with anv of our contemporaries.
The statement of the (YnmyiiWa circula
tion, as publi-hed by us, was prepared by
the Kansas City Time, ami was copieel
into the Cimnpio.i approvingly, hence wc
concluded it was correct Rut if we
have not stateel the ((.wiyu'onV postage ac
count correctly we shall take pleasure in
making whatever changes in the figures
the fact! may require. If the editor of the
Chvmjiim will send us a certified statement,
from the past ollice authorites at Atchison,
of the amount of lo'tagc it has paid il tir
ing the List six mouths, wc th ill publish
the same most cheerfully. Isn't that fjir?
:onl i l.'ilin.s M ('intKiii :
The New York Time thinks that wumen
cannot lie persuaded to go to church unless
they have good clothes to ear, notwith
standing their natural pi it tendencies.
And the stories about. strangers being shab
bily treateel in the metropolitan churches,
it pronounces without f uiidntion, and
stys :
Ills fntinontly svld, and pretty gc nerally
iM-licveluy Kions who h ivem ver ventur
ed upem the experiment, tha' It Ik dltllcult
for a stranger or tn outstdei tog t .t seat in
what Is calleel herea I:i1i1odIi1s church. It
is said, also though It may not tie true
that a number or jiersems are deterred from
goln to cerhiln churches because they fear
that, being unwelcome, they ml;lit be un
civilly treated. The ;clty churches. In gen
entl, vehetherfashion.iIiior not, se-t-in to be
Very acceimenlating to strung, is und outsid
ers, who are almot Invariably shown to
seats as soon as they tnter by ushers ele-utcel
for the purpose. The stories about people
lielnj either allouesl either to st-melorto
fluel til Irway lutoaii '! corner, regarded
thewhlleiisiutruderi, appear to have very
little If any foundation. There Is
usually pknty or loom in most of
the New Veirk churihc-s, ami It Is
natural that cr-ons lnlere-sttt! in them
should prefer th et straiiers come rather
than stay a w ay I'oubt.cs tin; churches -pecttlioe
who attend rculnrly or frequent
ly to rent pews It would he strange If they
eltd not. Rut occasion tl atte l'el.ints art Ir at
csl.toftrHS we know, with markeel kind
ness and couitesy How would It be I In man
or womtn were to entsr a fashlonablechurcii
lll-drrs$etl, and showing unmistakable signs
ofpoverty? Wt cannot answer Theremay
not Is? any provision In prosperous congrega
tions fur very poor p ople. Theeare not ex
pected, inrhaps, to at'end. At any rate, they
very sclelotii eio. Mt-nuho iire.otupclled by
thelrcircumstaueis to dress 111 have, as a
rule, little inclination to go lo chnreh; and
women, e!espite;ilielrpIou-tendencies, could
not under such i-oiid'.tlim , li e mi ided to
go
v si.siiii.i: si ;(;i srn..
The Emporia lsxhjrr has the following
tnsiblc remarks uivi the high prices
charged for admi-smn to public entertain
ments. This i, 3 muter that Tub Times
has frequently taken enca-ion to speak of,
and we believe that every paper that has a
regard for the interests of the eopleshould
" talk it np," and keep talking it up.till the
people refuse to patrnuize those entertain
ments thtt refuse to put elowu their prices
to reasonable figures and there is certainly
no reason or justice iu charging siventy
five cents for an evenin-'s entertainment, in
these times, when seventy-five cents repre
sents ihrtc quarttrs of a dy's labor. The
newspapers all over the country should pro
test again-t the high prices charged by
show people, aud it woiihl not lie long till
the public would make up its mind tu
let th: high-priced eiiterlaiiira"uls severely
alone, and managers would learn that
extortionate prices wrtild not piy. The
Lahjcr says :
ItcetsU from fifty to t-eventy-flvec.ntt to
buy a theatre ticket, or a tlikrt to an (mili
ary conceit or oih-r elite rtaiument In this
city. How many of onr readers have thought
that this sum i the price of a fushel rf whet
or three bushels of corn, or Ihrte iouuds of
butter, oraba'diel.tud a 'ialf of potatoes, or
more than five pounds e.r the bestf nls of tef
steak? Can any man atlord lo raise wheat
at fifty cents a bushel and bny theatre tickets
at fifty cents a piece ' Or can he afford to
raise corn at eUuteen cents per bushel and
buy concert tickets at fifty centseach ' These
show fellows charge as much for their enter
tainments now as they did when wheat was
a dollar per bushel, and other products ln
proportion. They seem to be entirely oblivi
ous of the fact that there has been a great
shrinkage ln values all over the country.
We kindly suggest to these show people, of
all grades, that It U about time they were
"letting down" a Utile in the prices of their
tickets. Entertainments that are not lm
moral In their nature are right and proper
bnt people who have to work for their living
now-a-dajs, cannot afford to pay 'war prices
for amusemenU. When it takes three quar
ters of a day's wages to bay a thea're ticket,
or a bushel of wheat, or three bushels of corn,
or twenty pounds of a good 1st steer, or ten
yards of calico, a man had better stay at
home and entertain himself ln the society of
his family.
Doeorn't l't the Koral Pronoaa.
lXewYorkHerald.1
Col. Forney, in his new paper, use the
pronoun "I" instead of "we." It iscleaa-
ant to havt him lay "I-una"' fi.r "we-una.'
JOIKPII Tilt: EZ PEHCF.
W. II DabcocK, ln Harper's for Decemb.r.J
Trom the northern desolation
Comes a cry of exultation :
'It Is ended. lie has yielded. And the stub
born nsht hi won !"
I.et the nation ln its glory
lS.w with shame before the story
Of the hero it has mint tl and the evil it has
done.
How he prared while hope remained.
Though the white man's lunds wt-reMaln-ed
With the b'ood that cried for vengeance of
his mnrviereel kin and clan,
lor the home the cooi Uod gave him.
And the treaty sworn to save him.
For the shelter of hlsch lilreu, for tlie right
to lie a man.
Then tLe troops began to hound him.
And he wrapped his blanket round him,
And he called the braves to follow, and he
smote them hip and thigh.
But the hosts grew vast aud vaster.
And the whirlwind of disaster
Drove him out into the mountains ami be
neath an alien say.
Through the continental ridges,
Over tottering torrent bridges;
By the verge or black abysses, ln the shades
ot mountain hour:
Rents and wives and children bearing;
Mtinths he Journeyed, tolling, daring,
Wlihanarmytralltd behludhlm.andauoth
er crouched before
Thrice thesudden blow descended.
Hoar and Hash and crashing blended.
Twice his rear guard Iced and checked them
till the hunted tribe were free.
Once he it-elcd, but swiftly ralllcl,
Koith upon the t-pulltrs sallleJ,
Drove them htmlloug Into shelter, captured
all thrlreannonry.
But the mountains could not shield lilm,
anet the snowy heUhts rev eate-d him,
v nd the false friends would not aid him, and
his goal was Ir.l away ;
Ilu ileued by hts weak ami wounded,
Mtli peJand hanleelaudsurrounihsl.
Still the chieftain of the orthlanit,llkea
lion, stood at tiay.
from the freedom that he sought for,
Kiom tlie dear land lint he fought for.
He Is driven by n nation that has spurned Its
plhchteel word;
By the Christians w ho )iav u given
to the hcithcn gracious heaven !
With the ne hand iheft and falcheod, with
Hit' other ball and sword.
Witlt-Sproatl Corruption In Uula
New 'VorkTimes.i'i.l
As a people wc have been put to blusb
rcpeatcelly of late, at home and abroad, by
the exosure of frauds, peculations and de
falcations of men in public t (lice and in
private station. While these have been ex
ceptional, of course, they have been fo fre
quent, and have occurrttl in somany differ
ent places, and under such a variety of cir
cumstances, that it must have seemed some
times to loreigners as it the whole nation
were elepravcel. Rut if we had Iccn guilty
of ten ten times as much dishonesty as wc
have, we should net begin to eipial Rtt'siaj
which, from all accounts, has lieen and is
steeped in corruption, it is not the war
merely that has caused the lamentable con
dition of things. It has long existed; in
truth, no on? knows when it elid not exist.
Americans who have spent any time in
Russia have been startled by t'if wiele pre
valence of bribery in every form, and the
necessity of yielding to it in all tr-itnactions
with the government. Corruption seems to
inhere in her political and military sy-tcm,
and many ol the ".zjr.s thoiigiiltul sulMV-cts
are greatly alarmetl at the signs ot the
times and the prognostics of the future.
I-.vcn tlie Izir himself, the highest state
officers, ami the leading nobility shire the
apprehension at a state of affairs which
seems to Ik incurable Never has Russia
been iu so pitable a plight as now, and the
disorginizing forces at work within ami
without, threaten social. fin.inritl, ami ik
litical revolutions, whose conequences,
while thy cannot be foreseen, are foreshad
ow eel as terrible and destructive.
Koglisb I'rt-iiiuitt- v nit ins t t'atliollc-
Islll.
Prejudice ngiin4 Roman Catholicism is
still so strong in the minds of many intelli-
fent Englishmen as to amount to positive
igotry. Here are two corroborative ex
amples When the fame of Harriet Mar
tineau bad been established, and she had
ceased to write novels, she was persuaded
br Charlotte Kronte to try her hand rn an
other story, to be published anonymously
by Smith ti Elder, London. Th firt vol
ume having been finished and sent in manu
script to George Smith, of the firm, he read
it with great interef t, and predicted its en
tire success Rut as to the tale advanceel
he declineel the work altogether, liecaust it
was favorable to Romanism. This state
ment must le correct, since Harriet Mar
tineau'n biography that contains it was is
r ued by the house mentinued. The same
author had written a tale for HounhM
l!'o when Charles Dickens was its editor ;
but he re j-cted it on the ground that one ot
the wrsonages was a priest, and yet a good
man, aiiel tbt the aiimis-ion of such pos
sibility would help the Catholics. Philip
Gilbert Hamerton, in the preface to his
American edition of Mulern 1'renehmen, says
that neither George Smith nor Charles
Dickens would, in all probability, have
I ublishcd the book,sincc it treat) of several
men who were noble by nature and Catho
lic in creed a combination which to many
fanatical English Protestants seems a con
tradiction. One eif the objections urgtel
against Bomani;tu is its intolerance. Are
many anti-Roumanlsts any less intolerant?
A I'tiotnl
1 ard'S Trip
Around tlie
World.
Philadelphia '1 11110, 'IS
Phineas Fogg, who-e famous Fcaniier
arounel the world in eighty days has lieen
the wonder and the admiration ot M.Verne's
many millions of earnest and untiring
readers, has been brought down by several
egs from his high estate and broughtdown
by a common ostal card. As stateel in our
Washington advices, an enterprising Ger
man genius has succeedeil in getting a m
tal card around the world in one hundred
and scveniten days; rnd the Potimster
General of the German Empire is the au
thority for the affirmation that if the gen
ius in qiietitin had mailed his postal card
just one hour carlitr, its cosme.graphical
tour would have !een t-jtiipletcd in ninetv--ix
1I.1VH or only sixteen more than Phin
eas usee! up in makin his celebrated pstg
age. Whtn wc remember the reckless way
in which Mr. Fogg hireel elephants anil
pilot boats and snow yachts and steamships
and railway trains and hansom tal in
order to make his rchetlule time; and
when we reflect that this mere handlul of
simple first class mail matter, travelling
privately and unn-taliotisly at its own ex
pnse, came or might have come po close
lo making just as gooel running as did the
suppositious erratic Englishman, we are
tempted to Itlieve that M. Verne might
have permitted his hero to win his wager
on considerably more difficult terms. An
other pertinent reflection is that for several
months to come two-thirds of the dwellers
in the world will be mailing ostal cards to
them-elves by way of the around-the-world
world route to the tribulation of ostma.s
tersand mail agtnts throughout the habi
table globe
tlon- Itnssla's linautct staii'l.
Berlin iAtter lo I)iidonTliiis.i
The eculiar financial jiolicy of the Rur
isu government and the way it reacts up
on foJeign countries will be apparent from
the following extracts. The St. Petersburg
Ezehanijt (!a:rJ!e says :
"There is no denving the fact that hence
forth we shall have to devote ISO.000,000
rubles a year that is, one-lhird of the en
lire revenue- to the payment of interest on
the national debt This sum is not likely
to decrease ; on the contrary, it may in
crease. We have increased our debt the
last two years by one vnel three-fourths,
and, accordingly, require 70,000,000 a year
more to cover the interest, and this though
we had a elf licit in 1870, before the war be
gan. No little cunning will be required to
combat the difficulties arising from this
state of Ihings."
The Eickang: Gazette might have added
that the army and navy having required
over 200,(nD0,O00 rubles a year before the
war, it follows that even the whole revenue
would be consumed by the Military and
Public Debt Departments. Rut even this
does not show the full extent of the evil.
Five hundred million rubles worth of un
covered notes having been added during
the war to the 700,000,000 ruble' worth in
circulation before the first shot was fired,
those 1,200,000.000 rubles an titute an ad
ditional debt of the governnsiit to the peo
ple, and the existence of this debt depreci
ates the currency by nearly one half, caus
ing a corresponding increase in the rale of
exchange and in the 00,000,000 rubles an
nual interest to be paid to foreign creditors.
Add to this that the war expenditure is
continued, and there is but too much troth
in what the Ezthange Gazelle observes re-
specting the difficulties ahead.
OUK COE.VTV AND CITV DEBT.
Some Nncirdtont- in Hezard to a
Compromise.
EDiron Times: Among the things in
which the people ol Leavenworth city and
county are deeply interested, is their in
debtedness and in what manner it can be
compromiseel so that they may be able to
pay their debts. I desire to submit, through
the columns of your paper, some sugges
tions for the purpose of obtaining the judg
ment of the people to enable the Represen
tatives to teilect the wishes of their con
stituents in their actions aa legislators.
First, then, I hold that the change of
values hes been so great since the indebt
edness was created, that it ii utterly impos
sible for our people to pay the debt as it
now stands.
Secondly, one of twocourses must be pur
sued by our people : to repudiate the whole
debt, or seek such a compromise with our
creditors which, H made, as will enable us
to discharge all our obligations.
We have a very heavy indebtedness, cre
ated by the issue of railroad bonds. Set
ting aside all the issues which have been
the parents of so many angry controver
sies among our people and looking only at
facts, we find the courts have affirmed their
validity, but we find too that, had our
county and city gone on prospering as men
anticipated, the debt would never baye be
come an intolerable burden. Our city and
county have not prospered aa men antici
pated, properly has not returned its value,
but the debt has been growing larger all
the time, for the interest has been augment
ing it. It is utterly impossible for us to
piy the debt-as it stands. Any number of
schemes have been promulgated to com
pass the evil, but the working of each
scheme hss only addetl to our trouble, anil
made us still less able to meet the demands
made upon us.
We have had the .Matt tarjienter com
promise, and the Syndicate compromise ; I ccedin-js were hael apparautly in ceimpli
both have been failures so far as reaching a I ance with Sec. 1, Chap. 113, Laws of lb72.
satisfactory result
It the people do not intend to pay, there
is no use trying to compromise. If they do
intend to pav. if a compromire can be ef
fected, they must give greater security for
the payment of the compromise debt than
there was for the payment of the whole
film, else there is no inducement to compro
mise. I'nder the impression that our peo
ple desire a compromise, and to induce the
oouunoKiers to consent 10 a compromise, l
propose that a law shall be passed author
izing the board of county commissioners to
compromise all the bonded indebtedness of
the county, except the school bonds, at not
to exceed fifty cents on the dollar, antl pay
the compromised debts by issuing new
lauds running thirty years, and to draw
not to exceed six per cent, interest, and to
give the same authority to the city council.
To induce the bondholder to accept this
compromise, I propose to authorize any
holder of these new bonels. issued in pay
ment or the compromised debt, if the proper
authorities refuse or fail to levy the tax for
the payment of the interest and for a sink
ing fund, to apply to the L'nited Stales dis
trict or circuit court for relief; and author
ize either of those courts, or the judge of
either court in vacation, upon a sbowini;
that the projier State officers have failed or
reluseel to make the lew, to order the Unit
cd States Marshal to make the lew and
collect the tax,
With such inducements the bond holders
would be glad to compromise at much less
than lilty cents on the dollar, lor these new
bonds would command a premium in the
money markets of the nation.
Rut the people must remember that such
a law would be securing the new indebted
ness by a mortgage uion their property
with power to fortclo-e upon failure to
comply with the conditions of the contract
Such a law would reduce our indebtedne-s
about SSUOjOOO and reduce our annual in
terest lrom SI 111,000 to gol.OOO. As this
law would be applicable to the whole State,
provided the conditions should be accepted
by the bondholders throughout the State
it would reduce the indebtcdnesn of the
counties aliotit f-l.OOO.GOO. It is a subject
which ought to be carefully considered by
the people and recommendations made to
their representatives.
I understand too that there are in the
city and county aliout $250,000 of back
taxes unpaid. As it is an hour of compro
mise, for the ptirpoe of inducing parties
owning property upon which there are un
paid taxes, to pay the taxes and redeem
the .property, authorize the board of
county commissioners or city council
to instruct the treasurer to icceive fifty per
cent, upon these taxes without penalty or
interests and receipt in lull tor all such
back taxes. I suggest this last for the rea
son there is so much propsrty in the city
ami county upon which the tax, penalty
and fifty per cent, interest have grown to a
sum greater than the value of the property
against which the tax is charged. I am not
desirous of acting as a legislator without
the known consent of the people upon any
of these matters and I earnestly desire
f ome expression of the people to be ob
taineel on these ami all other subjects. Rut
these I regard as among the most import
ant and 1 should be glad that the represen
tative men of the city and county might
meet at the December meeting of the
Hoard of County Commissioners and con
sult among themselves as to what is neces
sary to le done. It will aid the Commis
sioners in the diseharge of their duty, it
will place in the possession of the delega
tion from this county the wants ami wishes
of the peof le which will impart to them a
clear idea ol their duty and what will be
ex'tccttel of them.
I am not anxious to be conspicuous, but
am anxious to obtain some expression of
the people upon those questions which
seem to me so important. 1 hope this ar
tide may be copied by all the paiersof
the city and the fullest information may
be given the people. James K. Lec.atk.
November 30, 1p78.
'thclluninn Form Dlvlue.
The undraped human figure in art is ex
citing a great deal of discussion just now,
even although the photograph of . Markat's
great picture no longer hangs iu the win
ilow t f the Fulton street confectioner, and
Rouguereau's study of a feminine figure
has been retired from the lan Exhibition.
Across the ocean a social science congress
his been discussing a paper on the rela
tions of the nude figure to n-uhetics and
morals, and the fight, though inconclusive,
was delightfully vigorous. As usual, in
such struggles, however, the real feature of
the case are entirely lost to sight. Recause
wilful exposure of the person is immodest
and indecent it seems to be assumed on the
one side that there ia something shameful
anel wrong about the human form itself;
while, on the other, it appears lo lie claim
ed that because poetic.il outlines are lieati
tifttl and honorable in themsclvrs artists of
vicious tendencies are to lie iustified in
adapting human linea anel tints- to any pur-Mit-c
which a depraved nature may desire
to express upon canvas. Alter the quarrel
is ovtr, however, the public will lie pretty
sure to go on deciding the question accord
ing lo the pictures themselves, as it has
done heretofore. The morality or immor
ality of a picture is to be found in its seuti
ment, in'tesd of its material. If an arti-t
has any imagination, either good or bad,
his picture will expte-s its exact quality,
whether the figures are draped or not; and
by this alone is the moral influence of his
picture to le estimated. If he is a mere
copyist, as nine out of every ten painters
are, his nude figures will have no mere in-
tluerjce than the hundreds ot their kind
which hanc in European naileries and
which are passed without a second glance
by any observer, no matter what his per
sonal character may be.
.tot Oreakarg, bat Cabal.
There will be a tendency in Europe to
look with sometbinz more than suspicion
upon this Chinese outbreak in Central Asia
that demands the immediate dispatch
thither of more Russian troops and the
augmentation cf the already large depot of
supplies maintained at Orenburg. The al
lusion in the dispatch to the assassination
of a son of the late Yacob Reg gives a fit
ting local color and appearance of truth to
the story for the Chinese, naturally, are
the sworn enemies of the descendants of
that great man but even this neat touch
is not sufficient to make the Chinese war
a very solid reality. Orenburg necessarily
is the base of supplies of all operations in
Asia, being the furthest outpost of Rassia
with which communication can be main
tained both by water and rail but it if a
much longer journey from Orenburg to
Yarkand than it is from Orenburg to Ca-bul.
PRATT COIttiTY.
Decision of ibe Supreme Court I'uein
Ibc Kegnlarlty of It Ortrnulzntlon.
The State of Kansas a icf Attorney Gen
eral vs. John Sillon, d aL
Hon. Willard Dayis, Attorney General,
for the State; G. C. West and W. R. Edgar,
for defendants.
The opinion was delivered by Horton,
C. J.
This is an original action in the nature
of quo trec-rajuV, institutes! by the Attorney
General against the defendants, who were
appointed to the offices of County Comnis-
sioners, theriffand Probate Jutlgecf Pratt
County by the Governor on the 10th day of
October, 1S7S, to require then to show by
what authority they severally hohl and ex
ercise the duties and functions of their sev
eral offices. The question to be determined
is, whether the County of Pratt has a valid
organization as a County, together with the
Legislative mention thereof, is as follows :
It was named and its limits elelioeel origin
ally by Section 24, Chapter 33, Laws of
Ictii. Its boumlaries were subsequently
changed, and now exist by virtue of Section
2, Chapter 01, Laws of 1S7.". It wa9 orig
inally attached to Marrion County, for ju
dicial purposes G. S-, e'ec l, Chap. "JS.)
and afterwards annexed to Ellsworth
County for like puriioses (Sec. S, Chap. So,
Laws of 1SG0) I?v Section 2, Chapter 7t,
Laws of 1S73, it was provided that courts
were to be established in the connties of I with either tlie laboring or debtor" clasee-s"-ir-.i
tr: n . .1 i... t - . .
tiuuxeruiau, mu"uiau, iiaiisi.
2Wf and Stafford, as toon as the same
were organized, and by Section 1, of this
act, Pratt Countv.until organlzeel, was to be
attached to the (. ounty ot Reno for judi
cial purposes. On March 11, 1S71, Gov.
Osborn, assuming that the census author
ized to be taken in the county was cor
rectly and truly returned, and that there
were in each county at least l00 bona fide
inhabitants, appointed County Commission-
era and a County Clerk for the new county,
and also selected antlelcsignate.il 1 rattviiie
as the temporary county scat. These pro-
When the Icislature convened in W3,
one J. M. Moore presentetl himtclf to the
House of Representatives, demanding a
seat and claiming to have lieen elected to
represent Pratt County. This matter was
referred to the Committee on elections in
the House, and ti.e Committee afterwards
rejiorted that the county was not entitled
to representation, anel the eat was dcclaieel
vacant. House .Journal, 1670: 113.2.0.
Rv Sec. 1. Chap. til. Laws of l!7t3, this
countv was attached to Pawnee County for
judicial purposes, but ibe validity of this
section is very questionable as the subject
thereof is no where rcfcrrcel to in the title
of the act, which purports to Ic an act de
fining the boundaries of Rarton and Pratt
Counties. Ry Sec. 1, Chap. lo'., Laws 1S77,
section lines were made public highways in
Pratt County.
From an examination of the Legislative
n corel of this county, it will le clearly per
ceived that at no time has the legislature
ever recognizee! tho organization of that
county aa valid or bindiiig. nor has it rati
fied or made valid the attempted effort at
suth organization. If the couuty has a
valid organization as a county it must ex
ist uneler the proceedings instituted under
saul Ju. lOti, Laws loi" ihis leads us to
the eiuestion. were these proceedings in con
formity to law? The defendants confes
that the memorial was not signeel by forty
bona nde householders of Pratt county, ami
that there were not twenty inhabitants in
the county before or at the time the cenus
was taken or returned.
From the case it plainly apiiears that the
whole scheme to organize the county in
1&7 1 was fraudulent; that the Governor was
deceived by a falrc memorial and false cen
sus return. Fraud aud falsehood poison
the proceedings throughout, and notwilh
staneling the regularity of the records, with
in the authority of State vs. Ford county,
U Kan., Ill, all of these proceedings being
in violation of law, are voiel, anel the pre
tendctl organization conseeiucntly void.
The elemurrer to the answer is sustained
and a judgment cf ouster, with cost", will
lie reneicrcel against the defendants
All the justices concurring.
The Snake Itivcr fiolt! Illseovrriei.
ISalt Like Tribuuc, 23.1
The reports of the parties who have re
cently lieen investigating the snake rivir
country have created considerable excite
ment in mining circles, and many have ex
presseel a determination to leave tor the
New Eldorado in the early spring.
I he electro plated cornier plate prcoass is
now conceded by all to be successful beyond
a shadow of doubt, and capitalists without
hesitation are athrmingsucli strong laith in
the future of the countrv that nothing can
now prevent the exlenpive employment of
the plates and the conseejuent prosperity ol
those owning and working them.
The gold is not so exceedingly fine as at
first supposed, anel in some samples of gold
bearing sand brought down by the prospec
tors and now on exhibition iu the city, the
metal appears no finer than corn meal,
which is plenty large enough to save by al
most any process.
The sample is not picked, nor is it pos
sible to choose one place rather than an
other from which to make a selection, the
distribution of metal being so remarkably
uniform through the country. The surface
ground seems to be neither richer nor poor
er than that beneath, and in a deep well
just dug on the ranch of Joe Warren, the
gravel is found toprosject well from top to
bottom. Rut a correct idea of the country
may be obtained by washing out one pan
of gravel, the ground is by no means uni
formly valuable, as only thoe locations
near the river have any prospect of imme
diate availability on account of water
right. Ncverthcl&H, there is so much river
front that the excitement will be intense.
ALeady the miners of Nevada anil Cali
fornia arc inquiring about the merits of
the placers and the indications are that
next year there will be a much activity
in the Snake River country as the IJIack
Hills region lasted in the battel's palmiest
elays.
U by .llHkr Us lllusli
iNew lork Herald, .-)
falmagc, with a few flaps cf his
Mr
ings took his laiicrnzele ol l.rookivn
Baints yesterday morning ami set it down in
a eien ot .ncjt lork thieves. then he pro
ceeded to exhibit, burglars, bank robbers, fe
male and male pickpockets, footpads, nieak
thieves anil so forth, who steal an aggregate
of six million dollars a year. With what
palpitating intcre-t the gooel people were
moved at seeing en what familiar term?
their pastor was with these criminals may
lie imagined by picturing an inntscent rus
tic gloating and blushing over his first dip
into those flashy sketches of metropolitan
pin which arc circulated with make-believe
secrecy among guiliblc countrymen anI
which are usually called "mysterie." It
is not probable that the saints will be any
better for this reverend CAtucdian's fine im
itation of a runaway window smasher
shouting "stop thief ! ' than the country
man for his glimise cftl.e alleged orgus
ol ballet girls anel young "blocdi ' Thty
are both on the same plate, am! the one
will as little help the rustic to a high sense
of the purity of life as the other will fit the
tabernacle for a berth en board that bi
zarre craft with 'utc doors, ' which is Mr.
Talmagc idea of the vetel of salvation.
A funny tiling ab, ut these sermons is that
they have stimulated some ministers to re
count, pr eoi tia, how gooel wc are in New
York. The record cf our charities is slap
ped against the tabulation of cur Crimea
and goes it half a million dollars Iietter.
Relween these rival staterr.ent-i wc feel in
doubt whether it is the blush of criminal
shame or of modest worth that mantles our
countenance.
Illalr U'aniBTlldrn for I'0.
iir. Walt's Letlerto Baltimore Telegraph J
Tlie great facts are, that the nomination
and election of Mr. Tilde n was the work of
theiicople; that his deposition was the
work of the jobbers and of the politicians
who had obtained control of the Democrat
ic party organization during the prevalence
of the slave question, and who are seeking
to maintain that control. The rout of the:
party in the Northern States in the late
election naturally followed. The question
is plainly presented, therefore, whether the
Democratic masses will continue to allow
their principles to be sacrificed by the am
bition of that coterie of politicians under
whose leadership they have been so long
acd disastrously defeated. Having seen
that the nomination of Tilden quelled all
discord in our ranks and brought success,
and that his defeat and abandonment bv
the Com-ressional coterie has brought back
discord end defeat, they can be at no loss
how to restore unity and strength to the
party.
DETfOCRATS 1M THE XEXT
EFftlKEVrt'ltE.
Editor Times :In the Kansas legisla
ture, which elects a United States .-nator,
the Democrats have nearly one-third of the
number of votes necessary lo elect. Four
Democrats are elected to the houe from
this county. The friends qf Geo. T. An
thony are claiming these votes in his inter
est. He is certainly a fit subject to receive
to receive Democratic support.
Geo. T. Anthony in his speech at Topeka,
shortly after his nomination for governor
two years ago, stated that one of the dutie
of all good Republicans was "to hate Demo
crats," and when remonstrated with for
using such vindictive and intemperate lan
guage, he stated that he was right, that
Democrats were traitors to their country,
eiiai me party mat nominated him had
vote-enough to elect him without the aid
of IAinocrats, that he hail nothing to re
tract, etc Now sir, outside of the city of
Leavenworth in this countv. there is "not
one Democrat in a hundred in any com
munity who would, under any circum
stances, vote for GvO.T. Anthony for any
position. The Democratic members elect
iron this county understand this, and will
not lietray their constituents by voting for
a m:n who Itoldly avows that he hates
them. A man who is such a pronounced
aristocrat mat he disclaims anv svmpathv
a maa w ue in uts siicccn in LiCavenworth.
openly sneered at the Greenback features
of his party platform, and unblushinglr
announced himclf the apologist of the
bond leeches and resumptionists of Wall
street. No, Mr. lolitor, Geo. T. Anthony
will not be the Democratic candidate for
senator.
As the Republican candidate for Govern
er, with a majority of forty thousand votes
to assure his election, the "War Governor"
could afford to preach the dextrine of ha-
treel, and exhort his brcthern to join liim
in denouncing Democrats as traitors, but
uowj the scene is changed. The Demo
cratic votes of the next legislature, if they
canned, make him Senator, can certainly de
feat him; he knows this and wc now find the
countenance of this arch-hyocrite and
demagogue, that was wont to lie clothed
in frowns anel sneers when speaking to, or
of Democrats, actually relaxing into a sick
ly apology for a f mile when he meets and
takes by the hand the Democratic member
elect, and asks him if there is anything he
can eio for him. In conclusion "allow me
lo predict that the Democrats of the Legis
lature soon to convene, will vote for a
Democrat, or if they should decide to vote
for . Republican, that man will not I
lev. T. Anthony.
Rcsj-cctfully Yours,
Dkmim hat.
nn: i.oi fiiint
vi list Kind 01 Homo tlie Afgliatia
l-lte-lu, mid lltt liar In WhiiliTlicy
I ite.
Whitehall Kelcw.
ln accordance with the national charac
ter lor suspicion anel intrigue and corrup
tion, an Afghan dwelling hou-e is like an
Aighan boorkapoh a whitened sepulchre.
The flat roofs of the houses have generally
a parapet wall formed of railwork, thickly
overlaid with mud, and five or six feet
high, to allow the women of the family to
take an airing unveiled, a their lords are
very jealous about their being overlooked.
During our former occupation of the city
an oilitcr who hail ascended to the upper
part of the Ralallissar to get a good view
of the surrounding country was credited
with looking at some women half a mile
Iielow him, and received a delicate hint in
the shape of a bill from a jejail whizzing
past his head. Kill, however much an Af
ghan would think himself disgraced by his
wife's face Lcing exoseel to the vulgar
gaze, he has not the slightest objection to
being "squared" tt '-keep her purdah for,
in other weirds couniving at her connubial
vagaries for a consideration. The wives
may go wherever they please in their boor
Lapchc3, to shop or to visit relations, but
they must "keep their purdah," other
wise they cannot avoid a scandal.
In some of the walls facing the
street little loopholes with tiny
shutters exist, through which an Afghan
beauty may Is; seen glancing quickly and
furtively at the pacing stranger, while her
grim old lord and master sits stolidly gaz
ing at vacancy through a wider aparture
below. Afghan ladies excrcic considera
able influence over their spouses both in
domestic and political affairs. Savaire and
intractable as the men usually are among
u.eniselves, it is quite beautiful to see how
submissive they can lecome to the disci
pline 01 the Harem Serai. An officer has
lately been telling us in the 7imes how
Shere Ali has the "Upper applied to his
august heael by the mother of his deceaseil
heir, Abdulla Jan.
lira?) Tan-, iu I'hiladt-lpliia.
IUcord.M
Forberance on the part of taxpayers has
ceastel to be a virtue in Philadelphia. The
rate cf taxation must be lowered, and the
deliciency in revenue made up by retrench'
ment. Salaries must le cut down : sine
cure offices must lie abolished ; schemes of
public improvement mu-t be delayed. As
long as there is a large floating debt un-
provided for, the appropriation of current
funds to any purposes not urgently requir
ed by the general welfare cf the city may
not Ee a breach of trust in law. but it is in
fact, and it ought not any longer to be ier-
miticti.
Should lit rusted Around.
i-erd J. Wendell, miu of I.. Wendell, of
notinern Shawnee, for upward often jears
business mannt-rof the Atehlon Cutiupmn
and founder and business manager til the
lyavenworth J"vUe lYtu, v.e learn Iroma
latenumh.roftlie("nnyi-.nlsnow publisher
of thcMlildletowii Ohio) Journal, an eight
lge piier in its twentieth year Wearn
pleased t hear of l'erd'succesK. llelsa
wide-awake, enterprising newspaper man,
and wc doubt not lie will tx snecesMul in his
new. locatiein. .Vtirt", TVjs-i'i Vine?
A man who will neak off ami leave his
family in ignorance of his whrcabonts for
month", having them mourn his ileath, de
serves, instead of such notice as the atove,
to lie condemned just as any other f calla
wag of a tramp, A newspaper man who
will bring elipgrace upon trie profession as
Wendell has should lie pasped around
ll'itm HeriAiler.
1 linuhkgit nig lla, , Nntloiint f'esli-
at.
New "leirk Herald, -sj
The briefest Thanksgiving proclamation
ever irstiee! was 0ne 0 Governor Marcy's
which, as nearly as we can recollect it, was
couched in the following terms
STATU OK NEW lOItlv. I
K-VICITIV t M.Vr.MO.V, Al 1
In s'raiidance with custom, I berth? ap
point Thursday, the- ii of November, as a
dMy of public thanksgiving In this Mate.
William I il.vi.t r
This was. as business-like as the state
ment made by the Dukeof Wellington that
on a particular csreasion he was engaged in
"transacting public worship" in the tjocen'"
chatel. Ciovtrnor Marcv probably intended
by his dry rnd naked announcement to in
timate the slight ezteem in which he held
the great annual festival cf the New En
land Puritans More than forty years have
psfT'il sirce the date of that singularly curt
exhibition of official pittv. and within that
periesl the regular annual observance of
Ihank'givicg Day has lKcome an honored
custom 111 every part ot the I nited States.
The appointment of occasional days of
thanksgiving was not an uncommon thic
in the early history of the country, but, like
the singing ol a public "le Ileum ' in for
eign chnrchc, J did not recur at stated pe
riods, except in New England, being a rec
ognition of the divine mercy in some extra
orelinary benefit cr Fucces-s. As a regular
autumnal observance it had prevailed for
more man two ceninnes in -ew tngianu
before it wa generally adopted in the other
Mates, but in its eiiliusion it has well
nigh lost its original character and signifi
cance
Good Chance ft'or Morar American
Com pan r
(Philadelphia Press.
The Rrazilian Minister, having received
from his government authority to invite
proposals for the illumination of the city
of Rio Janeiro, will receive bids from the
citizens of the United States up to Decem
ber U, and they will be opened at Rio Jan
eiro, en January 1. 1479. The contract
with the Rritish Gas Company, which now
illuminates that city, will expire on March
next That company would dispose of all
its buildings and machinery, for
f 2,031, 70.
THE
EvnoFsr
MUST.
The following is the endorsement whit!
General Sherman placed upon Secreiarv
Schurz' letter to the Secretary of War
when he forwarded it to General Sheridi
HKAtXlCAKTEKS CF THK ARMY, 1
Wa-jiiixg'IO.', D. C., Nov. 1'. 1"
The enclosed paper is again referre
back to the Hon. Secretary of War, invit
ing his attention to the endorsment of Ge
eral Sheridan. Every officer of the Am
bows in submission to the orelers of t
President of the United States, but in tl
instance his orders are manifestly simp
an acquiescence to the advice of tlie office
of the Indian Rurcau to General bLerida
and myself, who are familiar with th
country. The removal the Kioiras
and Comanches from Fort Sill to th.
Wichita Agency, because at the former tin
water is bad, the ground unfit for cultiv
tion, etc., is proof positive that deceit h
been practiced somewhere. TLe w ater
Cache Creek U better than at the Wichi
Agency. Within 100 miles tl tort
the ground is very rich indeed, ts rich
the Valley of the Rig Miami in (!
Neither the President, the Secretary of '
Interior, cor the Commissionerof Indian
fairs', has everbcen in the region; but (
Sheridan has, and so have I. Wc belie
honestly that deceit has been practiced .
onic'ody to influence these high offlcs.i'
to remove the large tribe of the Wicluta
so as to save the expense of one agen
Whilst the Interior Department may there
by save a few hundred dollars, the War
Department will hi subjected to an cxpenK
of tens of thousands of dollar, bcaus.
Fort Sill is a costly pot, built epic ally to
watch these hitherto more numerous and
dangerous enemies, and its removal will
naturally result from this change. The
request for a coupany of cavalry to go to
the acencv looks like the beginning of a
new post, when we have already two gecd
and sufficient posts located by gooel judges
for the purpose of guareling these very In
dians, viz., Forts Sill and Rtno. Roth
General l"oie and General Sheridan attri
bute this change to evil motives. Neither
of these officers attribute such motives to
the Presielent, the Secretary of the Interior
or the Commissioners J.if Inelian
Affairs, but they do reflect on the
agents who have aelvisttl this
measure. Their object was not to prevent
the consolidation of these agencies, but if
possible to influence the higher authorities
lo change their location, to pause in the
unwise act and to induce them to change
the location of the consolidated agency to
Fort Sill, which is admirably adapted to
the purpose of farming and grazing. It is
distant forly miles Lorn Texas and it is on
a par with Wichita as to horse-stealiug and
cattle stealing, at which game the Inelians
are the equals of the Texans and are the
most accomplished thieves of that epiarter.
Disclaiming di3rcsect to anybody, I assert
that the consolidation of these agencies
would be a wise measure, but the removal
of the Kiowa anel tomanches to Wichita
is a most unwise measure, and I advise the
Hon. Secretary of the Interior to send a
disinteresteel insjiector, who will tine! that
Fort Sill, of alt place", is the let in the
whole Indian Territory for water, soil, cli
mate ami everything. To change from
Fort Sill to the Wichita Agency will cost
the War Department at least :?100,000.
W.T.SlllRMAN.
I.eaiieel frnui a tiling- Train.
Klmlr.i N (iazette, zz
Anion.; the passenger en No. ll! las
night wa.s Gtirdon Van Tuyl, an old and
well known Erie comluctor, now, we be
lieve, running the Monitor and residing at
Owego. When the train arrived at Elmira
Van Tuyl was missing, and this morning i'
was learned that he hail fallen from the
train anil was at Rig Flats in a baelly in
jured condition. Comluctor Ry Stewart
went there this morning and found him suf
fering from internal injuries, anil his bod
bearing the marks of seriotu bruises. It
seems that Van Tuyl had been asleep in his
seat, fiom which he must havearisen before
lieforc fairly awakening, ami, in a sonant
bulistic state, walkeel out on the platform
of the car, and stepped off. The train at
the time was going at the rate of possibly
thirty five miles au hour, beirg behind time.
That the conductor was not instantly killed
is a wonder He was at first rendered in
sensible by the terrible fall ami lay by the
track for a long time. Finally regaining
consciousness he managed to partially
crawl and walk back to Rig Flats, where he
made known the accident and was taken
care of, medical attendance being at op
summoned. At last reports his conditu u
was more comfortable, and, if his interna'
injuries are not serious, bis rtcoverry .
probable. He has many friends and ai
quaintanccs to regret the accident.
l.o lilt Temper lis Well as Ills
Gotitl ZHniiiivr.
The Chanute Ti"mrs, t paper which was
friendly to Gov. Anthony during the late
State canvass, says .
The Gimmonvtclth last week publi-hed
letter signed by Geo. T. Anthony, relating
to a reiort published in the Atchison V'uit.i
piun ol his removal to Chicago. 'J he Iette.
is arrogant and entirely unworthy of an
one occupying a gubernatorial chair, an
indicates that the writer has lest his tec
per as well as his gooel manners. It I et
tirely unnecessary to employ to many e
thcts in denying a couple ot trifling slat.
ment, whileso many charges of grav
in:sjrt have been passCel by unnoticed.
All lh- Opposition Comes tmm tti.
Sorr-lli'iid
Mr. Clark 'Sldneyi 1 ag-imt Ingalls. ar.i.
delights to have topic kuoiv P. .iUUwm
Vhfiiptii
Mr. Clark has generally been against
whoever the Republicans were for. The
people know that ( lark was a candielat"
for I S. Marshal, and as Mr. Ingails wa
favorable to some one else, hence the "trtu
inwardness" of Sidney's opposition. It
ECems that most, if not all, the opposition
to Mr. Ingalls comes from these who have
claimed office at his hanels and been disap
pointesl. - Il'llon lleeiinler.
l'roperitr I" I'nrls.
tl.cpulill'iuo Krancalse.l
MI the specialties in clothes arc in full
activity. 'Ibe tailors keep their men at
work until 11 at night, 'ibe ready-made
establishments receive numerous crehrs.
The deael season fcr the reamstreses is at
an end and fiorcs of a thriving winter are
entertained. The feather and artificial
flower trade, which a fortnight ago wa.s do
ing very little, now keeps its hands goinj;
full time. Cabinet-makers arc fully occu
pied. Piano manufacturers are taking on
more men. The manufacturers of jewelry
are alK active and the approach of New
Year's Day is cxpectetl to give it'stili
greater animation. Ruildinss are going on
rapielly. The contractors are hastening te
complete their works with the treater
axiety as the bad weather w ill soon fcr t
them to come to a stop. ther trades ton
tiiiue satisfactory. The Paris Gas Com
pany, whose good season his ret'irned,
daily takes on fresh hands, of whom itha
now'.i ;"' it its employment. Ry the rail
way companies no less than v,i0O lal-oring
men are occupied.
A l.llllf C.osid Advice- Iu J'n-Moiilli.
lehlcago Tribune, -J J
Mr. Wattcrson, in apolcgizing for the
Sititbern outrages eluring the late election,
svs that the teop!e of the North "confis
cated all the property of the South which
they did not mortgage,"' and that the Re
publican party "misgoverned it the South
for ten years and took out a pvf. ibit on it--credit"
Mr. Watterson is net discreet in
recalling thrse thing". There are jut three
ointi in this charge, viz. : ( I ) '1 he only
"confi-cation" of "propertj"' at the South
was the emancipation of thenegrtx-s. That
sort of "property" is still there to till th
fields anil pick the cotton, with the differ
ence that itt manhood is recognized by
law if not by the white inhabitants; vr
can scarcely believe that Mr. Watterson,
with his chivalrous and liberal ideas, de
sires to restore the 'propertT" which wu
only secured by the enslavement of a race
of human beings. () If the ea.-pet
bsgeers put mortgages en the property of
the South, these mortgages hive not troub
led the Southern people very much; for,
after enjoying the railroads and public im
provements secured by these mortgage, the
Southern States proceeded to repudiate, in
whole or in part, the evidences of the debt,
and the indications are that they will not
even pay for the benefits they actually re
ceived. 3) If tlie carpet-bag Government".
or some of them, were extravagant or cor
rupt, they do not (tern to have been any
more so, according to the testimony of the
Southern people, than some of the "native"
Governments which succeeded them.
fipruia. for instance. Mr. Watterson
should advise the Southern people to culti
vate more virtue themselves, rather than
give their whole attention to the corruption
of others.
CCfEIC.lI, SIIEtt.TIWS