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The little fellow whose mother, for the
want of better bedding, wm wont to tuck
him up under the cellar door, of cold night,
and who expressed his sympathy for xwr
children, whose mothers had no cellar doors
with which to coTer them, was a philoso
pher, and one whose philosophy is exactly
suited lo'the present times.
Trade is dull, and business is almost flat
we still hare a little to do, it is true, but'
a 3 little that we would hardly connider it
worth reckoning in ordinary times; yet the
meagre measure of prosperity which fate is
doling out to us, cansea us to fare ro much
better than our neighbors in other parts of
the world, that we have great reason to
congratulate ourselves upon our fortunate
condition, and extend our heartiesl-sympa-thie
to these unfortunates in other quar
ters, who have no cellar doors with
which to cover themselves. In an article
entitled "Why We Should be Happy," the
St. Louis Republican of the 2J, draws the
following parallel between the condition of
affairs in this country and that existing in
Europe:
The wont situation ever known hcie ap
nroache u paradise when contrasted with
tne wretchedness, poverty, fcuflexlng and
despair now prevailing over nearly every
quarter of the civilised world. In Europe,
the situation, according to official Mate
inents, U appalling. The thousands ot tele
grams, end other communications published
ou thin side of the Atlantic convey only an
!nadcjunte conception of the horrors en
dured, in Krg'and commerce and industry
uro d;pieseed to an extent that has thrown
uncounted thousands upon the charity of the
puu.lc as ihelr only chance of avoiding star
vation, mid as the financial stringency Is
universal tiio number who are prepared to
relond to calls for aid U extremely limited.
GemiHiiy Is no betteroU than England. Tne
great mases of the reopla are living In ab
Jict mlKery, and there seems to bs little hope
of ths alleiiatlon of their grievous bufferings
under the present system of government. In
seinl-barbirous Hn'.u the pnpnlace llvo lit
tle. If any, belt, r than wild beast. Anstria,
Italy, Turkey, 8pain-all the nations save
iolb'y Franco preacut scenes of wide
spread dt-trrs and untold want.
euch a picture as the Republican gives iu
the foregoing paragraph, of the deplorable
condition of affairs existing throughout
the old world, ia certainly calculated to
make us feel that our own lot, though not
a i good as it might be, still might be infi
nitely wore. "Good times," like wealth,
is a comparative term. Fifty years ago, a
man iu New York was con-idcred wealthy
-.Then north a hundnd thousand dollars,
and one worth a million was considered a
very Croesus; but in this day of fab'ilous
fortune a man in financial circles is hardly
considered entitlid to a place amons rich
men unlets able to count his wealth by mil
lions. Fifteen years ago, in this
xjuntry, "gocd times" meant four
dollars a day for the laboring
man and eight dollars a hundred for flour;
fifty years a go it meant one dollar a day
for labor, and two dollars a hundred for
flour; and we make our comparisons of the
present time with both of these jieriode:
We compare our two dollar flour of to
day with our two dollar flour of fifty
years ago, but we compare our one dollar
wages of to Jay with our four dollar wages
of fifteen years ago, and thus reach the
conclusion that we arc "do'tDg very poorly."
But when we compare the present condition
of things with that existing during the
flash times ot Ghcea years sgo, we must
continue the parallel in ourout-goings as well
as in our incomings, and by so doing we shall
fiedthatasoneistofour, in the price of la
bor, so is two to eight in the price of flour.
There is nothing discouraging in the con
dition of things in our own country, if we
look at it in the proper light. It is true the
times are not as "flush" as during the war,
bat by prudinse and economy the people
may supplv lh-:mielve, from their earn.
irg, wit"h,all the necetsaries of life, and
through at present the majority may not be
able to lay up much, they can at least
"keep even," while making themselves
comfortable. And when comparing our lot,
in this rrgird, with that of our neighbors
in Eurie. we have great reason to con
gratulate ourselves that our fortune is not
harder, and can extend our sympathies to
thoe who have no cellar doors with which
to cover themelve.
tisi: i'ki;cuii nem m.
The annual statement of precious metals
produced in the State and Territories west
of the Missouri river, including British
Column! and receipt in San Francisco
trout tl e west coast of Mexico, shows a de
crease of ?17,!07 112, as compared with the
aggregate product of 1877, the falling off
being for the most part in Xevada, where
the bonanza mines have fallen far below
their average of last year. Nevada still
leads the list in point of productiveness
the figure for that State being o5,18I,.
889, against ?1S820,4C2 for California
$9,753,G40 fur Montane, $032,747 for Col
orado, S2.2S7.9S3 foi Arizona, J2,215,664
for Dakota, S1,E53,122 for Idaho, $1,213,
724 for Oregon, etc
A3.iKX4TIO.
In anolhtr column, a communication
from a correspondent at Kansas City, Kan
sas, calls at'eotion to the proposition that
is beiuc disrujwed by the Kansas City news
pap rs, of ' aving that city transferred from
the State of Missouri to the State cf Kan
sas. If the State of Missouri is willirg to
cede to the State of Kansas the strip of
xerrilnry continuous to this State, upon
which Kansas City is located, we are per
fectly willing to accept it, ard extend to
the people there all the bentfits and advan
tages to be derived from citizenship in a
prosperous and progressive State. But
since the change would bent fit them Tartly
more than n, we are uncompromisingly
opposed to pying a bonus f jr giving them
the privilege o! coming over. If the State
of Missouri think it is worth $50,000 or
$100,000 to relinquish her jurisdiction over
the territory referred to, let Kansas City
pay it the is the party to be benefitted hy
the operation, and she is the proper party
to pay the bills. If ghe wants to give Mis
souri 550,000, or any other sum, for the
privilege of moving into a live State, she
his cur consent to do it, but we can't see
the propriety of ber calling upon us to pay
the expenses rf hecmoving.
Tlir.noilX TEKTRr.
In our telegraphic columns this morning
is given a comprehensive synopsis of the
report to be snbmitted to the Senate, at an
early day, by the committee intrusted with
the examination cf the question of chang
ing the form of government of the Indian
Territory. The report contains there prop
sitions: The establishment of United
States courts in the Territory; constituting
the Indians citizens of the United States;
and the division cf their lands into posses
mobs to be held in eeveraltr. This mean.
that the land of the Territory, instead of
remaining u a home for the Indian tribes
shall be allowed to drift into the hands of
lHfl corporations, and Jand upecnU-tora.
FIKE.
The elegant residence of Hon. A. J. Iop
pleton, of "Nebraska, was destroyed by fire
on Thursday evening.
Al.l. OVF't TIIK WOULD.
The Universal Festal Union was com
pleted on the first inL by the admission of
Newfoundland, the British Colonies on the
the west coast of Africa, the Gold Coast,
Senegambia, Lagos and Sierra Leone, the
Talk-land Islands, and British Honduras.
ICIIOM.S AT IIO.TIF.
The Xew Orleans fancier, noticing the
twaddle about the good intentions of Gov
ernor Nicholls, says :
Here, In lxm's'am, whatever may be
thought of the pood Intentions of the tttate
executive, his excellency Is regarded, In the
sense of enforcing the law against snch
crlmm, at the most impotent Governor ever
holding the ofiiM
To-Tiounow rvi:M.t;
Hon. George A. Crawford, one of the
ablest men in Kansa-, and one who has
done more to forward the interest of the
State than, probably any other individual,
will lecture to-morrow night at Occidental
Hall, on "Kan.i at the Centennial." The
subject is one with which he is thoroughly
conversant, and every thinking man tnd
woman in Leavenworth, interested in the
welfare of our State, should hear him.
IIKf;ItE.K l. HU.O.SIA
There appears to be eome foundation for
the statement that the Emperor of Russia
is desirous of giving a Constitution to his
ninety-three million subjects. It is s'id
that Count Schouvaloff, retiring from the
Russian legation in London, is to be
come Minister of the Interior in St, Peters
burg, and will Ii;gia by giving effect to a
Constitution which he was instructed to
draw up during his recent Twit to the Czar
in Livadia
Tin unsi' riA'y.
The St Louis K'publiean does not per
mit its Democrat'c prejudices to blind it to
the truth. In referring to the next cam
paign in Ohio, it savs :
The positive dllr.at!onofi:r Thurman to
eccept tho gubernatorial nomination In Ohio
brines IJ.'U nannies to the front as a possl
blectiidltnte. M-. !tfe, member of congn-t
from the I'iP n fits' ri-t. Is ats-j spoken of. One
thing Is txrtnlu, ll w ill require the strongest
and le-t (nan the Oe'uocratlc parly can pro
dace to b-at tb- fornildnbioodls that will bo
arrayed agatutt It In the next campaign.
m hjiit i.ifk i.Miiinncr.
Walton I'wight, the Binghamton man
whose Hidden death after his life had been
heavily insund led the companies errone
ously to supcct fraud, not only Itft a hand
some fortune t' his relatives, but remember
ed the lecal charities. After doirg what
he thought best for the churches and other
benevolent orcanizations, he bequeathed
$10,000, the income of 'which is lo be annu
ally appropriated for Christmas dinners for
the poor of BiLghamton, $5,000 for a din
ner for the Fire Department, and 51,000
with which to nrovide the newspaper men
of the pi ce with a yearly feast. If the
la-t siisi realizes a net income of only $40,
it will probably aflord each editor and prin
ter a "i-qusre meal," for there can hardly
be more than forty of all branches of the
profession in the town.
UM1A1IV SlKAMJlcn-
A good deal hus been said about the in
efficiency of quarantine regulations to keep
out jiestileuce, and strong opinions against
it are entertained by men of science. It is
an interesting fact that the Government of
India contemplate the abolition of quaran
tine a ailording no adequate advantage
while snch regulitions destroy trade and
cause pecuniary los to ship-owners, passen
gere and trader", Vsides cxpoing healthy
pernms on siiiji'xianl. Under the new sys
tem propoel, native passengers and crews
dLseibarkin fr"n a vessel, if suffering
from epidemic di-case, Trould be taken for
treatment to the nearest hospital; persons'
not actually sufjering would be subject to
no inttrfeier.ee The trg?els would be thor
oughly fumigitted The general imprrs
piou seims to l; tint the main dependence,
e'ecially agiiast cholera, should be upon
racresanitary measures on land.
A I I.VAltUMlAKllKE.
The St 1-cuis T.mff-Jewncl learns that
Representative f-terlicn will, on the reas
sembling cf Cocgress, intrtduce a bill to
give an increased circulatirn ol currency
bised upon ccin debits. The bill pro
vides that the holder of bullion, either
gold or silver, ra.-y have it f tamped at the
Mint, Letting iu return a certificate. The
certificates nould be msde legal tender and
receivable for a'l public cr private debts
The advant ;e claimed is, the country
would come tiedily to an additional cir
citional ot some $200,000,000 In
silver certificates, without having to wait
for the slow p-noss of coining the standard
dollar. 1 he Times Joiancl gives a qualified
support to the proposition, and says :
IfHftera Tew we.ksof legal resumption. It
nppears thattber Is a need of additional cir
culation, wo ran Mr no objection to the pro
posed bill. It maybe, bowever, that with
the unlocking of t he sprde reserves, which It
Is no w useless to hoard, and the trade btlances
In gold comlncln trum onr cotton, tobacco
and produce experts, wo may not neI the
proposed curreticv rddltlon. We shall see.
TIIEV IXJI'B KTHIlJISEliVFS.
Tt e Abilene Gazritt objects to our propo
sition to have a fatvweil address by the
Governor, and di CiUnces it as a "species of
litlleneisf." That, we suppose, U all be-cui-e
we want to give the Governor a
chance to'Vo fr"some of thoe fellows
that he has grudges sgaint, and do a little
electioneering for the Seuatorship, without
incurring the exp-nse of hiring a hall.
Brother Wilson is a very estimable man,
and is striving hird to do his duty, bnt he
injures himself by such captiousnesa as
this. He ought to be more liberal in his
views. When the only truly great man we
ever had for Governor wants a chance to
spread himself, at the expense of the peo
ple, and the whole cost of it wonld
not be more than two thousand dollars,
we think it is very unreasonable
in Brother "Wilson to object. In these
flush times, when money is plenty, when
everybody is getting rich, and our taxes
are si low that we hardly feel them, the
man who objects to spending a few paltry
thousands of the people's in such a cause
as this, is the man who i guilty of a "spe
cies of littleness." Brother Wilson injures
himself by sach a course.
The Manhattan SatumsUd is a good
paper, and Brother Griffin is recognized by
everybody as a good man, but he; too, has
his weak points. Oa the currency ques
tion, for instance, he jj so vascillating that
it is true of him, as was said of Secretary
Sherman, he chinges about so much that he
can't keep track cf himself. Brother
Griffin injures kimeH greatly in the esti
mation of the people by such an erratic
courss. He ought to be more reliable.
Brother Wijsoa and Brother Griffin both
try to be good men, but the trouble is they
are so unreliable, that you never can tell
one week where they will be the next.
"We think if they would make a proper effort
to reform themselves, in thia respect, that
they would not be regarded with so much
suspicion by the people all over the State.
We hope that in the future, they will at
iesw make an elort to be more reliable.
IBE UP.
There seems to be good authority for the
statement that the President and Senator
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.UC1X JllllC UUIUC.VAUU1C73 ll.C A4iCU ur
the bloody chasm, as it were, and are again
on good terms. It affords ns great plea
sure to chronicle this fact. The minion of
The Times is that of a perce maker; it
deprecates strife and contention of every
kind, and heralds with satisfaction every
step in the direction of the millenium. As
to the peace between the President and Sen
ator Howe, the Chicago Tribune says:
Senator Howe and his wife have called at
the White House, and Mrs. Grundy says that
they were cordially received by the President
and Mrs Hayes. Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Howe
would find no difficulty In passing a half
hour pleasantly together, but It must have
been a little stiff on the part of both the Sen
ator and the President- On the2"-tUof Marcli
last Mr Howe delivered a speech In the Sen
ate In which he gave what seemed to him
good and Mifflclent reasons for not applaud
ing the .Southern policy of Mr. Hayes, and
his remarks were so pointed as to place the
Senator in the category of tho-e who stood In
antagonism to the FreVdent. Recent events
In the South, however, have tended to cure
this alienation of political friends and there
has probably been a concession on both sides,
Uih Senator thinking better of the Hayes
policy an an experiment, and the President
seeing a better reason for the attitude assum
ed by Mr. Howe, It Is a good thin; that the
disagreement Is at an end, end that the two
distinguished gentlemen are on trrrnsof in
timacy again.
BAK stOTKH AM LEGAL TE.1
DEKK. A correspondent oi the St. Louis Repub
lican propounds to that journal the follow
ing questions :
Kikst Are the present legal-t-nder
notes now In clr uUtlon a legal tender after
the lt of January, 1S79?
Second Again, are the national banks
bound to redeem, if demanded, their notes In
coin at their counter utter that tlmo?
In reply to these inquiries the RtjntHiam
makes the following answer;
1'insT All the legar.tender notes now out
standing are and will unquestionably con
tluue to be a legal tender now as heretofore,
until they arn presented to and redeemed by
the treasury. Under the act passU at thela-st
sestion of Congress and known as the "Kort
bill," the Secrettry ot the Treasury is re
quired to ro-Usue all notes redeeme-d, and
though the impression is that ho will no
execute tne iaw, there Is naturally much In
urest felt In the status of such notes If tl.ey
are reissued, ome lawyers hold that to fol
low such a our&o would be to Issue legal
lender notes J time of praceand claim that
thegovernmeuthss no such constitutional
right. The point will likely be brought be
fore the supreme oourt unless Congress pro
vides that the redeemed notes when reissued
shall go out simply as treasury noles and rest
upon public confidence olons, being divested
of their legal tender character.
SccoMi-Itesumptlou makes no change In
tho status of national bank cotes, which tre
Blmply promises of the bSnk to pay on de
mand so many dollars, -flss long as there
are any legal tender pap,llars in circula
tion the banks will have the same right to
redeem their notes with them ns they
have always heretofore hail They have
now, as they always had h-fore Wednesday,
Uih rlht to pay In gold or sliver dollara U
they choose, but they are not any moro re
quired to pay in coin now than tfore
Caleb Cnalilnsr.
lNew bury port Dipjtcb.i
Caleb Cushing died to night. He was
born in Salisbury, Mass., Jecnary 17, 1S00,
graduated at the age of seventeen, and for
two years thereafter wjis tutor of mathe
matics and natural philosojy, in that in
stitution. He commenced the practice of
law at Xewburyport. in 1S23, and although
attaiuing high success, gave no small part
of his attention to literary pursuits, being a
prominent contribbutor to the North Amer
ican icriVir, ou important legal and his
torical topics. He represented Xewbury
iort in the Massachusetts Legi-lature in
ISi'i, and the following year was eltced to
the State Senate. He was a member of the
then Republican party. In 1S29, he crossed
the ocean, remaining in Europe about
two years before he returned. The results
of this visit were bis " Remipiscences of
Spain" and a collection of miscellaneous
rtllections upon Sanish literature. To thi"
work su ceded the "Historical and Politi
cal Review of the late Revolution iu
France." In 1S33 he was again elected to
the legislature of Massachusetts and in 1S34
was sent to Congress, where he served four
consecutive terms. Mr. Cuhing was a
Whig until the administration of Mr. Ty
ler, whom he supported, becoming then a
Democrat. President Tyler nomintted him
g Secretary of the Treasury, but be was re
jected by the Senate. In the slimmer of
1813 he went as Commissioner io China,
and negotiated the first treaty between the
countries. He became conspicuous in 1S47
by his advocacy of the Mexican war, and
furnished ont of his own pocket means to
equip a regiment 'f volunteers, serving as
its Colonel. He was nominated Iit
the Democrats for the Governor
ship of Massachusetts, but was de
feated. He was elected to the Su
preme bench of the State in 1S52, and was
appointed attorney-general by President
Pierce the following year. In I860 he was
president of the Democratic convention at
Charleston, and a tew months later of the
scce-ders in Bsltimorc, He was theu ap
pointed by Buchanan a commissioner to
the South Carolina secessionists but ac
complished nothing. During the war he
held no official position, but gave his influ
ence to the Union cause. In 1SGG he was
on of three lawyers to codify the laws of
the United States, and in 1872 he was one
of the counsel for the Geneva arbitration
In December, 1S73, he was appointed Min
ister to Spain, and in January.1874, was
nominated for the chief justiceship, but the
nomination was subsequently withdrawn.
Tli Second Cold Term.
IMUsourl Republican, X
The prtsent winter threatens to equal in
severity that of 1874, when the Mississippi
was frezen over nearly down to Memphis,
Mid the floating ice actually gorged for a
few hours at Vicksburz. Our harbor at St.
Louis is frozen firm and hard, the blockade
extending nearly to Cairo. Even the hio,
though not yet reported frozen over, is
filled with such heavy fields of floating ice
as to make navigation impossible, and tbe
St. Louis and Southeastern railroad has
been compelled to notify St. Louis ship
pers that it cannot take any more freight
to Evansville for the South, as it cannot be
forwarded down the river from that point.
The sharp change of temperature we had
here New Year's night made itself percept'
ible in the Northwest 21 hours before. At
Davenport the mercury marked 5
degrees below zero; at Denver
3 degrees; at Des Moines, 14 de
grees; at La Cross, 12 degrees; at Omaha,
13 degrees, and at St. Paul 15 degrees be
low zero St. Paul being the coldest point
indicated by the weather bulletin of that
day. East of us the temperature was mild-
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green above zero, at the same that it was 11 1
"'""""' v. .. .,,..... W.-tanri
th.lil .a 11
aegrre ariove ai ou iouis a uiuerroce
of IS to 22 degrees in favor of Eastern
points on pretty nearly tbe same latitude
with our city. The highest temperature
indicated by "the weather bulletin for that
dav, the 1st, was 57 degrees at New Or
leans. Ice forms rapidly when the weather
is at its present temperature, and if the
cold spell shall last two or three days longer
it is not improbable that the heavy ice
fields goicg out the Ohio will gorge and
blockade tbe Mississippi as far down as
New Madrid.
An Old lJdy In amatneJall for Debt.
I Belfast, (Me.,) Age.
One of the case where the law bore down
particularly hard on an individual occur
red last week, when a poor lady named
Eliza Gilchrist, over whose snowy head
more than seventy winters had passed, was
dragged from her friends and home in Pal
ermo and incarcerated in the county jtil in
this city, at the instance of her creditors.
The turnkey said he had never before had
so disagreeable a duty to perform u when he
locked the door on that gray-haired old
lady. She remained two days in jail, and,
then bonds were procured and she was re-1
leased. Had Mrs Gilchrist been at once ta-1
ken before two Justices of the Peace and
fjuorum, and had she disclosed, as the term
is, theaker imprisonment wonld hava been I
impossible.
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KjUVSlsj CITY IN KANSAS.
Kas3 s City-, Kan., Janu ary 2, 1S79.
Editor Times: It would seem, from
I --v
-, of u. papers. ,-. ot
question now agitating the public mind of
Kansas and Missouri is the question of
' annexation."
The Kansas press, as far as heard from,
favors the proposition, while on the other
hand, the prcs; of Missouri, outside of
Kansas City, Missouri, opposes it. The
business mm of KansasoCity, being fully
aware cf the fact, that they get most cf
their trade from our State, and that their
young and growing city owes all of her
wealth and prosperity to wide-awake pro
gressive Kansa, are unanimous in favor
of the proposition. The proposition, how
ever, that Kansas should be called to pay
anything in order to forward or consum
ate the scheme of annexation, will never
be favorably entertained by our peo
ple, but on the other hand, if our
neighbor will get the consent of the Mis
souri Legislature to unite with me, we will
receive her with open arms. But to be
frank, I do not believe that the State of
Missouri will ever consent to the proposi
tion, and consequently I am not disposed
to regard it ai a practical question.
Th question of annexation then not be
ing a practical one, let us consider the
propriety and feisibilitr of building op a
city on this side of the State line. The fact
is that projiertT owners in Kassag City,
Mo., owning property on the bluffs east of the
bottom are becoming alarmed, they per
ceive thft the larger patt of the business
done at this point i done in the bottom,
with a good degree of certainty that all
the wholesale business of Kansas City prop
er will follow witbin the next two years
They also, see that comptratively a small
portion of this Iwittom land lies in Missouri,
and from necessity the great bulk of
the businsss doue at this point,
must in a thort time be done
on the Kansas side, where there is
level bottom land enough for a city con
taining a hall million of people. The tidal
wave has already tressed the State line into
Kansas, and to-dsy all the Block, packing,
and much of the railroid business is done
on thisMtieol the line, the lact i, tne
people of Ksnsas do not seem to compre
hend the geographical situation of this
portion of the country, known a the
Mouth of the Kaw."
Aside from the business interests referred
to, there is lo-day iu Wyandotte, Kansas
City, Kansas, and Armstrong, a population
of about ten thousand people, and while
the three cities are under three difierent
municipal corporations, yet they belong to
one Iiuitly, and ere long, united under one
city government, will start out to win the
prize "Metropolitan." Kair.
Tlii Army Hill.
IChlcagn Tribune, I.
Much attention has been attracted at the
East to the so-called Army Reorganization
bill. We wish to notice parliculirly the
attack upon the Ordnance Department,
as shown in the following cluse of the
bill:
Sra o35. . . hut hereafter ordnance
and ordnance stores shall nut be fabricated
by the Government.
However skilfully the object of this
clause his been concealed, it is clear from
the Washington dispatches, published in
the Ttibune of December 20," that the clause
emanates from the N w hcgland " Associ
ation of Arms Msnulacturers," ami that
iu effect, if it werp to become a law, would
be to give to that Association, and to other
organizations of Eastern manufacturers, a
powerful control over the Government and
Government money, especially in times of
war. This clause is bolstered up by circu
iting freely through the press of the coun
try false statements in regard to the cost of
(iovernment manufactures, which state
ments are only too likely to be received
and believed by jersons whose attention
has not been called to the subject.
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Now why prohibit the Government alto
gether from manufacturing any of its need
ed supplies fur its own esublirhtnents?
hy not leave tt optional with the uovem
ment to manufacture them or not, as shall
be found bet ; to manufacture them, or
buy them from contractors, as shall be
found cheapest? Simply and only became
if the Government is allowed to manufac
ture anything at all, it is in a position to
prove that it can manufacture cheaper and
better than it can buy; and worse than all
and herein appears to lie wha the manu
facturers' a-sociations are scheming tocom
bat if the Government should decide to
buy, it has the means of showing and can
prove to the contractor what is the cost,
and what is a reasonable price to charge
for the articles fabricated, and ho well
they can be made articles not known in
commerce; special material of war with
which the public is unacquainled.
But the bill goes further than this. Un
dr the plea that, if the government estab
lishments are not used, trained officers to
take charge of them will uct be required,
and propo-cs to substitute for them tem
porary details from the line. It provides
lor legisla ing out of existence forty-cine
officers who, if faithful to their duties and
trust, would (ioiut out and might illustrate
the wi'hes of the contractors (see Sees. 29,
40, C5, and SO ) Then by providing that
the details for the staff, the purchase of
fabrication, and distribution of material of
war rha'l be taken from the Secretary of
War, tiie representative of the people,
the scheme aj tears to be complete.
But putting asidd all schemes of arms
companies, contractors, and private associ
ations for making money out of the neces
sities of the nation, there are other plain
facts staring us in the face which ought to
interest all members of Congress from the
Northwest, the South, aud Southwe-t, and
from the whole Mississippi Valley. We
found to our cost during the late war that
tbenatinnal establishments were inadequate
for supplying the material of war the
country required. We bought and were
forced to buy whatever and wherever we
could, principally from foreign nations,
and to pay exhorbitant prices for inferior
aud oftentimes worthless articles. Officers
remember now with a shudder the worth
less) trash that was put into the hands of
brave men who riked their lives wilhont
the means of fighting. It is certain that
the inability of the Oovercment to supply
suitable material cf war prolonged the
war.
Immediately after the close of the war,
and while its troubles and disasters were
fresh, the nation determined to build a
great western armory and arsenal in the
Mississippi Valley at Rock Island, to bud
ply a want which had been found to be
imperative, icis establishment is cow
nearly completed. It is one of the fines'
and most extensive in the world, it will
be sufficient to supply all the wants of the
whole .Mississippi alley, including nearly
all of the Southern States, and is the only
establishment for the supply of this region
of country.
In a military point of view, nothing is
"ore FM ? -.. " ?e of a great
Sulh would be cut off
1 , ---- - --
from the Eistern States,and from all man
ufacturing establishments that could sup
ply material of war.
Now, when this establishment' is nearly
completed, Congress is asked to pass a law
to prohibit the Government from using it,
and prac.ically to shut it up and abocdon
it, apparently that certain private corpora
tions may be enriched.
We earnestly urge that cur people look
into this matter, and that all members of
Congress from the Mississippi valley and
the South be urged to take measures to de
feat this bill aud its schemes for crippling
acd breaking down the army.
We have no large standing army, and no
large supply of arms and equipments for
supplying one. The changes and improve
ments in such Fcpplies with nations that
keep pace with the world are so rapid that
new patterns are adopted every few years,
and the cost of keeping enough of the beat
on hand to supply a large army wonld be
too great to be borne. TLe intention of
the armories'and arsenals is to furnish the
means of supplying a large volunteer army
quickly and surely in time of great need
with the very best material ol war, and to
avoid in time of peace the cost of keeping
a great supply of this material on hand,
In this is true economy, and it would be
better to aid the Ordnance Department in
preparing to do this than to cripple and
defeat it, as the bill proposes to do.
An army wimoui artns ana equipments,
ammunition, and other material of war, ii
no army at all An army without the
very best material that science, patient and
peraerving study, toil and experience can
produce, cannot cope with an enemy that is
is so provided. The fabrication and pro
curement of such material cannot loin
trusted to people who are ignorant of ir.
We believe that the South, the Northwest,
and the whole Mississippi Valley are
specially interested in this matter, and that
onr members ought to do what ran be done
to defeat thia bill.
Tiie Hero ol Urenada. .11...
New Orleans Picayune.
We have received a very interesting let
ter from Mr. Scott A. Murray, nephew ol
Col. Butler P. Anderson, inclosing a photo
graph of the heroic deed. One glance at
the noble face is sufficient to tell us that he
was born for mirtyrdom in some such
cause as that in which he fell. Barely have
we looked upon a countenance where sweet
ness mingled more attractive!? with manly
vigor and sparkling good humor. Oh ! how
little we who have passed through the fiery
ordeal, with only iu narrower experiences,
frightful as they were, can understand tbe
angel-like magnificence and loveliness cf
such a man's endurance and t pity We
build monnments to commemorate the valor
of our warrior-heroes; but what bravery was
ever equal to theirs who faced the breath of
the pestilence, and drank sure draughts of
the poison to succor the suffering
and helpless? Col. and Mrs. An
derson left four children. The State of
Tennessee will never allow the crphans of
its noblest hero to feel the want which pecu
niary assistance or public resiecTean sup
ply. A meetim; was held in Nashville at
an early day, and tbe people promptly
raised the funds for their support. Many of
toe mo eminent schools in the Stale
tendered their services to educate tin- or
phans gratuitously, and all arrangements
for their welfaro and comfort have bsen
mide. In concluding his letter, the writer
Asn vs) a 4.niLrn HVJ,.fc sT ff a '
.tviMii-i a luueuiug luciueiH 01 .urs An
derson's death. He says: "Hand thi
letter to 'Pearl Rivers,' for there is one in
cident at the death of Mrs. Anderson
tamiliw f Tiaim t . i . I
poetess. 'When I am dead,' she said to V
place my right hand, wi.h my wedding
rirg upon it over my
uiai .. u; w.i-
isA.- r 7? ru -i.:i
uren oi me "nero ot urenaua ' will co
through the world wilh a nobler inheri
tance than rank or wealth.
Tbe Case of Archbishop rnrcelt
Archbishop Pnrrell, of Cincinali, who
recently asked the Pope to relieve him of
his ecclesiastical i nd financial responsibil
ities, on account of his sdvanced years, his
seen a great many changes iu the? citv of
his adoption. The Archbishop, who "will
be 71) the coming February, went from Mt.
St. Mary's College (Emmett'burg. Md.)
of which he had Wen president, to Cincin
nati, and was made Bishop in 1S3:!. There
wzs then but one Roman Catholic Church
in the town it was formerly the Cathedral
but is now known as St, Xavier's and
there are atjiresent a!out forty churches of
thit denomination. Forty-five years ago,
only thirteen priests were in "all Ohio,
now there are some 40"), with three
liishops. The number of communicants
-of the Roman Church in Cincinnati is
estimated at 100,000 not far from one-half
of the whole population not counting the
nominal Catholics; but the estimate evi
dently a sectarian one mint be gros-ly
exaggerated. The Archbishop, who Iiecame
euch in 1855, had a debate on theology
many years since with Dr. Alexinder
Campbell, founder of the Distiples of Christ,
the former defending and the latter assail
ing the claims of the Roman Church. The
debate created much interest at the time
and, naturally, tbe advantage was claimed
by the adherents of both creeds. The
priests of the diocese have been looking to
and trying to arrange for some assistance
to the distinguished prelate, who feels,how
ever, that he is entitled to absolute ret.
lie begged to be allowed to resign tbe cares
of his office during the life of Pio Nono;
but his pc'ilion was gracefullv declined.
If his present request should be
granted, his ecclitiastie rank and
dignity will not be changed. The
Archbishop, is a native of Ireland, ne 1
lievB, though he came verv early to this
country, is much respected by aU'rects and
tbe clashes in Cincinnati, where he has al
ways been rcgirded as Iilsrr.il and high
inimlej. He was a staunch, uncompromis
ing supporter of the Union during the
civil war, hoisting the stars and stripes, it
is said, upon the spire of ihe cathedra!.
At the last Ecumenical Council -he was, it
is understood, one of the few dignilaries
who stontly opposed the doctrine of Papal
Infallibility, and yielded to it at lrat with
reluctance and regret. He afterward
favored it, of course, as he felt bound to do
as a loyal representative of thj eo-conMd-ered
Holy AjKwtolic Church.
An
Important Hut Unknown ?onk
Iu ibe Mailonal Capital.
Utlca Herald
It is during a week, like the last when
the little handful of men who really cou
trol business in the House are making up
their minds what shall be done that one
begins to understsnd what an important
place the Sjicaker's room is Possibly not
half of thuse familiar with the Capitol
know where itis, 1 do not mean the
Speaker's room down in the guide books, a
big tile-floored, well windowed reception
room just bacK of the chamber in which
the House sits. That room ia currently
known as the Speaker's room, but the
Soeaker never sees any one thra whom he
wants to see. It is too open aud accessible j
oy nan. as jjismarek says in his convex-1
sations, what is really going on is nsver j
put into the ui-patclies; ituseutiu private
notes and memoranda. The coufereores
which the Spcaaer has at which anything
is done are cot held in this mrrble-wallcd
saloon. Some ten years ago, driven to
death by the horde of people who wanted
to see him, Schuyler Colfax took a little
cloi-et in a dark entry below the hill. It
is hard by a private slaircote. The
glazed door is screened by green baise.
There is not tl.e sign of name or
note on the door, at.J it is one of the few
doors not marked in the capitel. Hie. cor
ridor has no light, and on a cloudy day is i
J-.u n ::.!, .... . ."- ..i :
dark. Once inside, ou see a room partly
covered by a caret, partly rsgged. The
window there is oidv one U screened in
some cheap way. There is room fur a
straggling table, one lounge and three
chairs. There is room for nothing else.
You have nearly to run over Mr. Speaker
in reaching the chair to which he bows
you. If you know him ycu have got in
without a card. II you do
uot know him ,
you have not got in at all.
As a matter ol i
course, there is no ante room, but a brisk,
sharp-eyed page loiters at the end of the
passage and watches the door. And in
such a room you find the third officer of
the government hard at work It is eignfi
cant of the publity of public life when it H
unfenced by class-rank, that it is only in
some such coal hole that he can get time
to work. It is in this little hole in
the wall that three Speakers Colfax.
Blaine and Randall have dune the real
work of legislation. Speaking guardedly,
I fancy more of the buMness of governing
is done in this room than in any other one
room in Washington.
Onr Cattle Trade with England.
Times-Journal, 3.
The recent rapid growth of our live cat
tle trade with England has given rire to a
new point, which has recently been made
the subject of an important decision by the
assistant secretary of the treasury. "For
merly cattle were ovly passed betweene
two countries for breeding purposes, and
the business was comparatively small. The
shipment of live cattle to England has,
however, recently grown immensely, and
the Eoglish government now, by law, re
quires the owner a consignee to procure a
certificate of the pound condition of the an
imals, otherwi e trey must be slaughtered
immediately 3 landing. As our custom
arrangements eith England did not pro
vide for such in officer as inspector of cat
tle, the law ha been found to operate se
verely on live stock shippers. The decision
of Assistant Secretary French has removed
the difficulty. He decides that certificates
of inspection shall be provided, and that a
collector of customs at any point may de
tail an ordinary-inspector lor the dnty.
The Claaaaroas Editor.
Cincinnati htarl
As Christmas approached, the editor of
tne London, ienn.,- Journal grew lranuc in
his appeals for substantial aid and comfort.
"Send us in that turkey gobbler," he ex
claimed. "Send cs in that wood, or any
thin elsej you hare to -spare darirg the
holidays."
IS OUK EDIK9.V EHFTr !
Wllet of ibe Wizard ot Tlenln Park
What Abont tbe Electric Llcht-Ii
Ediaon a Great Tlan, and will He
AbollsJiCas? Tilx.
To day, while all tbe world is watching
and waiting for developments from the ex
periments of Mr. Edison at Menlo Park,
New Jer-ey, and millions of dollars of cap
ital is held back from investment to hear
the outcome of his experiment with electric
light, anything which is of the nature of
an ex cathedra report from the Menlo Park
Labratory will be of great interest. Gas
stock has become proverbially the highest
paying ana most vaiuau:e siock in me
country, and the thousands of people who
have their money invested in euch stock,
and who are dependent upon it fur tbe
comforts and luxuries of life, cf course
watch with greatanxiety for news from Ed
ison, as it is understood be is bending his
whole energies to tbe task of solving the
electric light question and making the use
of electricity as an illuminator, generally
taking the place of gas at a greatly reduc
ed rate of expenditure. The world has
waited very patiently for the solution of a
great question by Mr. Elion, and a greit
revolution in the system and economy of
illumination. It has waited for lonz
weeks, which havo grown into month, and
has had its expectations fed and encourag
ed by diurnal publications in the New
York papers of long-wiudcd reports of do
ings at M'nlo Park, and interviews with
Mr. Edison, ami recounts of applications
for patents, and descriptions of the tre
mendous illuminations on the New Jersey
fiats, Ac It has thus far been a care of
great exepectations, acd those expectations
are still unfulfilled.
In this rapid age it is painful to see all
the world waiting so patiently and quietly
for the pronunciamento of one man, but
this can I accoucttd for hy the great rep- f
malum Mr. JCuisun, has acquired, and that
ds?rvedly through the many marvelous
lureniioii lie has made, and patented,
among them the "quad ' telegraph, the
electric tn, the phonograph, S.C People
have comet to put implicit and tinquestlon
,u "un ,,n 1' Da m nm,f , m 3C,
' ??& i?" !U,tal
- ---- e - . .. .v.. s.tU..u.
Abroad his reputation is even greater
than at home. Colonel Nick Anderson
says that in Englsrti Edison is looked up
on r. a being little short of supernatural.
There is cot a man in all the world woo is
if to day so great a hero and so wonderful
a per-ouagc as the shock headed, flannel
thirled, tobacco-chewing Ohio boy, who
madethephoncgrsj.il, and invented amttii
od of sending four separate dispatches ovtr
a single wire at the sni moment. When
the luventiou of the Jablilcotr electric light
m Buiuiuucru, aiiu reeii alter griaiu&ii t
and public 'quares were brilliantly lighted
by it in Loniton, gas stock iu that
city was nut in tbe least disturbed.
bnt a mere rumor tltsbed
along tli
wir under 3 000 miles of ocean i
thit Elison. the awkward young man. lo- I
cated in a uio-quito flit in New Jersey j
solved the greit problem created an imcae-
diate panic iu gss slock, as was ever ex- t
is;riei;eeu ueiuxe, ;iuu mucit went uitwri
to
figures never previously reached
One gentleman iu a week i-t in gas stock,
on this report about Edison, ASO.UOi). But
as week alter week went by and nothirg
but coinproinices and interviews acd hiuU
of great things to come were received from
Menlo Park the psnic subsided, gas slock
went up again, ami IvJis ;u stock sunk cor
refpondinjy low. At present, while there
is a confident feeling among the people that
finally the problem wiil he estisfac'orily
solved, and electricity as an illuminator
will succeed gas, and at "really reduced ex
penditure, there has been gradually aud
naturally growing a fieling of di-tri:st iu
Mr. Edison acd a suspicion that perflate
he - only mortal after all, )alth(.ugh up lo
within a weekor two iuch a belief expre-s-ed
would havo been looked tion as scri
ligiom. Such is the state of feeling at p.e
sent toward Mr. EdL-on, one of great ad
miration, of enthusiastic regard and
great expecta-ion, but of gradually deep
ening distrust when expectations have been
almost limitucss. Yesterday a A'k-i report
er met a gentleman well-known in tlcctri
cal science himself, and po-ieessed of inti
mace and life-long knowledge tf Mr Edi
son, his abilities, and his achievement j, and
capable ofjjuugiog him fairly and dirpa-
stonutelv.
Have you seen EdiKti
Utetv ?"
II
the Sun uiaru.
"Oh, yes," was the reply.
'Withia a ftr
"How is he coming on wilh
the electric
light 7 '
He isn't comiug on at all," was tbe re
ply. "He has not made a sirgle j,omt be
yond what has been done by other men.
He has merely gathered together all that
has been achieved by s-ienlisls and work
ers ail over the
world, and in company
has been striving to inn .
wun ins assistants nas oeen striving to i
into practical operation the theories of
other laborers, and the results of iheir in
vestigations. In this he has not succeeded
up toilatr, and thete is not the least pros
pect that he will."
"Doyoa really think thst?" said theStm
reporter, knowing that the gentleman he
addressed was a thoroughly versed man in j
electrical science, and tierfectlv capable of '
judging and feeling the importance of nith
a decision, from such a source.
''I know it," was the reply. "He i- to-
day, not one whit nearer a 'solution of the
i JlU"ei:i inuu HIT niv. ii, uiuuill! K" '
..,.!... tl.a... 1. n ,. .. ..!. . Jt I
"But vou know that the eves of all
the
world are on him now, and if he fail,
will, as it were, 'go up,' in the public i
he
esti-
mation.
"Then it will be a g up, sure," was th
reply,
"Do yon not have faith in Ediion?-' was j
asked. j
"Edison," responded the gentleman, "ia a I
vastly overrated min, and the newspaper
men of eW lork in search of sensations j
.ire iu me uir.ni re.-jiuu;iuje .ur iu ,u in- '
veulor ever took out so many patents of
which so few were any better than worth
Jess. He has taken out about 300, and
only about 12 of them are practical and
uteftil and profitable. He is a hard worker
acd his success of late is owing in a p reat
measure to the conditions under which he
1-1 ir. .. . .Lt i-f --..'.?-
labors. He i t the head of an institution
organized for the creation of inventions so
to sp'-ak. The labratory at Menlo Park is
an invention factory, and by receiving
promptly from all parts of tha world the
latest and freshest results of the labors of
scientists and inventors, combining and ap
plying the same and experimenting, Edison
assisted ss he is by such a genius as Batch-
elor and others is enabled to utilize the
brains ct all tbe inventors c! the
age, and produce results head of
what any single erson cjull do
The telephone reproducing the human
voice throng vibration of a diaphragm, by
means of electricity, suggested the rvpro
duction of the voice through the vibfiion
of a diaphragm by mechanical means.
Ibis was a suggestion that would occur to
any studious person: Mr. Klli-on got at it
in the simplest manner, and anticipated
others by a few days only. Any ingenious
awl thoughtful man, with the telephone
elucidated, could make a phoaograpb.
Mr Edison, planning, organizing and es
tablishing sucbian institution as the inven
tion factory at Menlo Park, has shown
more genius than he has exhibited in any
of his many inventions in the line of the
curious and practical."
"But about the electric light," nrged our
reporter, " that is the important point."
-Well, Edison has been fnrnihed by the
New York Edison Electric Light Company
with 5100,010, with which to prosecute hfs
experiments. He has used, I think, about
70,000 of this money up to date, and has
developed nothing bnt promises, and none
of them will be fulfilled. You can put it
down that no great electric light revolution
is to rocie froin Menlo Park for fifty years,
at the present rate of progress in tbe mat
ter there. What is dose then will depend,
in a great measure, upon what is the result
of all the investigation and experimenting
going on all over the word, all of which is
promptly reported to Edison."
Too Time Ilaa Come In -Sborv Tbem
lp.
Intei-Ocean,i
It would be a joke if President Hayes
should take ihe Democracy at their word
and transmit a bundle of Southern outrage
documents for their consideration at the
close of the holidays.
By all means let the Democratic anxiety
be relieved, and tbe source of tbe Presi
dent's information be given. There is noth
ing to, be gavned by concealment. The time
baefsiUcome to show up tbe iniquities
nsagsiearL Tranquility and peace will
Btver mian while t he nation runs with
sagstl to the devil's work.
!-' k. ,
A Jokts at Last la the Loitdoa chari
vari. London Punch.
A hint to ladies who will wear outjide
pockets : Have your purses made up to
look like prayer-book.
A .lew Amntmcu.
IN'ew York Express.
Tcfsing pennies to see who will wear the
nightcap is a favorite way of passing the
long evenings by young married couples in
Brooklvn.
A HnarxfMtlon.
New York Mall.
Wouldn't it be well to focalize "the Ack
len scandal" and to confine its ncxious
odors by a strict quarantine?
loir to .flake a Granger .VI ml.
Syracuse Herald.
If you want to see the light of indigna
tion blaze up ia tha honest granger's eyes,
just accost him: '"What's the price of
Iorkr
Or Course it Wonld be Faablonablr.
If the Princess Louise had a pimple on
her royal nose, the most aristocratic noses
in Canada to-day would "put forth the
tender leaves of hope, and to-morrow blos
som." (Inch a Htafe ofTbina- an Tlay Occur
In L-aiaworib.
Salt Likn Tribune.
It is the opinion of the brt lawyers in this
city, that the killing of the tax-gathers,
while in the act of forcible entering a citi
zen's house and carrying away his goods,
would be justifiable homicide. The is like
ly to be a justifiable homicide almost any
time now.
rnodlUed. If .sol Dl'slpaied.
U'lillndelpbia Timcs.1
The shade of hcrror that arises in con
templation of the announcement that the
cipher dispatches are really to be investi
gated is modified, if not dissipate hy the
assurance that the committee will make the
investigation short and decisive. The shor
ter and the more decisive the better.
llpon Ibn Old Fnsbloncd Jitjle.
Utlci ltepubllcan.
"lemonade" is a new and popular game
at church fairs. A young lady takes the
part of a lemon. Ten cents a squeeze
three squeezes for a quarter. Auburnian.
Brin on your lemons, but retain the fair.
Publicity kills the flavor of the fruit.
We'll go our last nickle on the operation in
I he old way.
Dedicating; . Ncato Cnpltol.
Cincinnati Gazette, ;.
The ucw capitol building of th Stite of
Michigan was dedicated at Lansing yester
day with appropriate ceremonies. It is a
beautiful structure, and has been completed
at the moderate coet of SI. .100.000. The
Governor of the Slate, who will have his
office in this buitdiug draws the magnifi-
salary of 1,000 a year. New York will
dedicate her costly capitol cne week from
to-day.
riuiirlnc .Tiill an I.iUely In no
ChlcasoTribnne. I.
On Tuesday night the Rockdale Mills,
two miles from Dubuque (the only struc
ture left standing in the awful rising of
Catfish Creek in July, lS7b", whereby forty
persons were drowned), burned to the
ground tlie.conflagratio:i being the result of
an explosion of the mytterious dnt which
has lately by its works created the impre.s
sion that flour mills are more likely to go
off than any other kind of riches.
I'uilta on Canadian riali.
It Eton Journal of LVninieice.
A well-authenticated report comes lo U3
from Wahinglon indicaing that onr liov
ernment is seriously considering the prac
ticability and policy of making a new
move in the matter of the fisheries, aud as
sfdily as posille replicing the heavy
duties formerly levied on Canadian fi-h
Having paid the award ami carried onr
engagements with England, it is now
thought belter to build up our own ti-heries
by j.idicitus legislation thit lo see them
eri-h through Canadian competition.
Tbe .Slate Xrado.
N V. Tribune.
It ia cne of the strongest icstannsof the
changes wrought by time that the only
slave traffic now carried on ia this country,
the youngest of all the great nations,
should deal with the descendants of a peo
ple that once ruled the world. The discov
ery at Castle Garden the other day, that a
young Italian girl, just brought here, had
lieen purchssed outright from her p-irents,
puis a graver face uion this commerce in
, n ,
u'ep:ul
l!-h and blood than even the cruelties cf
rones had given it.
Hon. ttifwirge A. I rnulortl.
I Independence Kansan.J
Several of the Kansas pasters are warmly
endorsing the nomination of the Hon Geo.
A. Crawford, of Fort Scott, as prcsieent i f
the Agricultural College. Mr Crawford is,
in our opinion, a good man forths x.i:ion
He is, we believe, a graduate of Jefferson
j College, Pennsylvania, and a man of fair
'scholarship. The State owes much to Mr.
Crawford tor his valuable services, at the
Centennial Exhibition, and we thii.k it
iriililH ui .tnln.nl . ni lunnM.ini. f...
nuinu -o tuiutun; j'.- u. ":iuiiiiu jui
the regents to elect him to the chs.ir soon to
become vacant by the rtsignatiju of Hon,
J. A. Anderson.
A Minik Hmry,
UalveMon ts
One day last week the line" aboard the
Indus were more than ordinxrily disturbed,
and, after some cnmiderable work, a mon-
,,er f nc ihark was brought to tbe deck
; TerT arge an, jvre-rful, some exr-
,,an wsa ufcj ,a jj,u
her. and. as she
seemed slow to die, the first mato ran up
acd brought the heel of his shoe dovtn up
ou th. head of the fish with zreat force, ac
complishing her death. The usual di-scc-tion
of thr parts followed, acd within the
fi-h were found sven younir ones. This
number was very large, but what so excited
tLe interest of all wss that each of the sev
en young ones bore upon the head the same
wounds which could be seen upon the head
of the cioUer. The imprts of the first
mate's heel wai very distinct on eyery
head.
If Tiealed i: all Alike.
Chicago Tribute, 3.1
The extreme cold weather of yesterday
the severest of the winter thus far has
found Chicago reasonably well provided
for such a contingency. With fuel at the
lowest point ever known in the midst of a
cold winter, the probabilities of suffering
are greatly reduced, while the presence of
a large deposit of enow has prevented a
I vast amount of icconvenienre and damage
through the bursting ol wter pipes con
necting with tbe street mains. By the re
ports from all parts of the country it is
evident that the Arctic episode is very gen
eral in its recurrence, and that Chicago
has not been pingled out as an object of
special spite. Districts to the n'.rtwanl
and a hundred miles or more south of u i
can point with pride to even lower notches
reached by the mercury than has been the
case hereabouts, and on all hands it is
agreed that as "a spell cf weather" the
second day and night of the new year have
been eminently ditinguished.
necoverlDx Irons tbf EfTrclii ot tl
Prviilenrr.
iTlmes-Jocmal, 2.1
in the eouibern ciues which were scoir-
ed by the fever it appears that no msterial
drawback to general business has been ex
perienced on that account. A recent
.Memphis Appeal has a cheerful article on
the subiect, Commenting upon the
fact that a gentleman advertised unsuccess
fully lor the purchase ot a business there,
and that many propose to embark in busi
ness, the Appeal says : "Yellow fever will
kiii the multitude, nut it cannot kin a
citv." This is true. Memphis hat great
advantage of location, and in spile of the
epidemics must always do a Iare and im
portant business. It seems that a greater
drawback than the epidemic is the un
pleasant size acd unsettled condition of the
municipal debt Many persons who would
invest there are deterred from this cause
rather than- the fear of the pestilence.
With her debt fairly compromised and the
application of the sanitary laws, which will
set tbe plague at defiance, the Appeal sees a
bright business future for Memphis. We
cordially hope this may be realized, as be
tween St. Louis and Memphis there is much
ol comaaoa sympathy and interest.
Dtstrncilon or Onr
American
forests.
A writer who has been making a study of
forest trees, their rapid destruction in this
country, and their effect on climate and
health, says that since 1S35, the forest area
of the Western Hemisphere has decreased
at the yearly avera rate of 7.C00.000
acres, or abont 11,000 square miles, and
that this rale, in the United States alone
has advanced from I COO square miles in
1S35, to 7,000 in 1S55, and S.400 in 187(5,
while the last two years have been scarcely
less exhaustive. Statistics for eighty years
previous to 1S35 thow that we have been
wasting the supply of moisture to Ameri
can soil at the average rate of 7 per cent,
for each quarter of a century during the
last one hundred and twenty-five yers, and
that we are now approaching the limit be
yond which any further detrease will ma
terially ii'lluance the climate of the entire
continent. Many eastern regions, euch
as Aghauistan, Persia, India, and
Asia Minor, once possessed of a very
fine climate and abundant harvests,
are now often scourged by pestilence and
famite.and it is altogether probable that
their misfortnnes began with the disappear
ance of their, native forests. It is quite
likely that we shall suffer in climate, fertil
ity, and health before a great while if we
continue to destroy our trees as recklessly
as we have done, ana it bchootes us to be
too tea us to be
warned in time. What has hap-pened else-
!. .,:ii. u.LT T..1....I
niicit luai icnaiuij' ii.iiieu ucic. atiurcu,
there is great danger of ii, for we know by
experience that finite 1 inds have grown
sterile by loss of trees, and that sterile lands
have in turn become f.rtile by systematic
planting. A rertain proportion of well
wooded, as well as of arable and pasture
land is essential to our material prosperity,
and this proportion can never be kept up,
unless rcgttlir tree-planting be adopted as
a set-off to the excessive destruction inces
santly going on. For ifiO years we have
been felling the forest ; for the next 100 we
should try to restore what we have taken
a'var.
Sew Year's Kocoyilou at the TO bile
HttUsf-a
The scene at the White House, from 11
o'clcck until one, was very brilliant. Car
pets had been laid from the carriage path
to the tnaiu entrance, where ushers in full
drei received the callers. The long corri
der leading to the reception room was
brilliantly decorated and lined with tropi
cal plants, while the great East room, in
which callers congregated after paying
their respects to the Presidential party,
was redolent with the per time of rare exot
ics and brilliant with the beautiful dresses
of ladies End giy trapping 0f foreign and
military caval.ers The reception itself
took place, .as nstial, in the Blue Koom,
and there the floral decoratious were of
the moat elaborate. Smilax drooped grace
fully from the rreat central chandelier,
and hung in delicate festucns about the
tall pier clasces on either side. T o large
golden candelabras. on either side of the
marble mantel, gntaced with their weight
of cut dorters, and large circular divans, in
the center of the room were covered with a
coronet of graceful ferns. Promptly at 11
o'clock the President's party, appeared, the
President escorting Mrs. Jewett, of
Chicago, and the Yice-l'resident, wilh
Mrs. llaes. These four stoid directly
in front of I he divan, the Yice
l'resident on tie President's right,
ami Mr3 Jew at on the left of Mrs Hayes.
No others stood in line but Mr. Austin, of
Clevelxi.d, Mrs Hastings and Mrs. Ander
son, of Cincinnati, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. An
drews aad others stood in various parts cf
the B'.ue Parlor euteitaini-g visitors.
Members of the CaListt, with their ladies,
were the first to arrive, and all the Cabinet
came except Secretary Sherman, who re
ceived new, ;q tlac morning, of the death
of his brother and Mrs. Senator Don
Cameron's father Judge Sherman, of Ohio,
in conequer.ce of wlt'ch he went to the
White House hefrre l-v.m and excused
hiniaelf to il.e I'resideut.
V "en l-iio; of Cs'i'trl
:ui.
fSt. LOUIS Keplll.llCMII, 1.)
new mausgeraent Messrs. (ianlner t
Hailix.- iried to open the OlympicTiiea
Ire, Ne" j 'irk, th other night, and thought
ihev hid opened ir, but were ruisttkeD,
The play announced was "fhe Brides of
(iarryowen.-' which is s.t,Iy another name
for "The Colleen Bawn" by Dion ISotici
cault. The play was elaborately prepared,
well cast and had a good os?ning audience.
Some dinloju" was introduced in the firet
rcenc which Boi.cicaiilt did nt write, Lilt
whtrh h citi'td to be spoken ia an action
againt the- theatre producing the play
without his permission or paying him a
royally, ard against his voice of warning
that if the management attempted to permit
it, the day it would be stopped. But few
words bad ben s.icken afitr the rise of the
curtain b-forea young man stepped on the
stage frjaa a box, with an ominous paper
in his hand which he liegan to read to one
of the actors on the scene. The pajier was
an injunction at the instance of Dion ISou
cicauit restraining one Mr. Klcminz, stage
msnagr and actor, from producing the
play. The actor addresMetl explained that
lie was not Mr Fleming, and had m inter
est in Ihe rper in h rd. A voice came
fpim ihe audience explaining that Danny
Mann was Eleni'ng rleming, in thechar
niter of lann Minn, toud u; and took
the reading auhii and then ordered the
curtain rungdown. "Tiie Itridts of ti-irry-osrnt"'
and the intrlop?r in the cast were
hut out from public gaz?. th play wa
ahindoned for tl.e uiht and ihe audience
diuii-ed. 'Ihe uiangement claime I the
right to play the play because it was com
mon property in England, and had
been so in this country for years.
When the play of "The Colleen Bawn" was
written nd first produced in New York in
lSC0,Boucicauit was an alien, and there
being no international eon right law he was
Silb-equently debarred from the sole bene
fits ol ownership in 111- play. Ills next
play, "Arrah-na.Pogue," being still an
alien, he copyrighted under the cni of
joint author-hip ith an American who
wrolc a lew lines ot it to make Ihe author
ship hold. Boucicault has since become a
citizen of the United States acd re-asserts
his rights in the plav in Miiestion. The de-
chirm of the case will involve the question
of th right o' an alien who has lived
anroad as a citizen ot a loreign country af
ter haviug obtaiuttl a copyright as a resi
dent of the United States.
Forf lis .4lfon Into
A-Kaln.
yt acrimony
Notsrithntacdir official contradictions,
there are many rer.vins for thinking that
Kinz Alfonso's friends and advisers are
slowly but surely pushing him toward a
second marriage The name mot promi
nently associated wilh his in this connec
tion is that of the late Queen's sister,
Chrisiiace; but this would involve a
union which the Kornan Catholic Church
does not freely allow, and though, consider
ing the serial and political standing of
both persons. Papal dispensations could
easily be had, it does not seem likely that
the unwilling thoughts of the King "would
be forced into a path where they would en
counter a grave religions obstacle at the
out-et. It is highly probable that King
Alfonso will be compelled to make one ot
those customary marriages of convenience,
even at the cost of the shattering certain
theories on this subject which he has enter
tained, which were thoroughly sound if they
were tentimen'al. He bad repeatedly said
that a prolonged stay at Yienna caued him
to have a thoroush dislike and distrust of
what be tinned official marriages between
members of roysl families. It was not that
the head of the Austrian Empire was un
happily wedded, for his was essentially a
love-match; bat his capital wasforyc'ais
pat the favorite retreat cf dethroned
Kin:, Princes, and Dukes, and one in the
position of a claimant to the Spanish
throne had, while staying there, an admir
able opjiortnnity of seeing how ill-suited
these indifferent family relationships
were to stand the strain of every-day life
under adverse circumstances. It is some
thing to King Alfonso's credit that he was
willing to openly admit, when once on the
throns, the uncertainty of hi3 continuance
there, and that he had the manliness, in the
face of opposition, to shape his course with
a view to possible political misfortunes;
bnt now be will be asked to recognize the
demands of his rosilion, and sacrifice per
sonal comfort and prudence to the necessi
ties of State.
A lt-.v Financial Platrr.n.
Globe Democrat, 3.
' If any man in the approaching session
of Coczreu atteint3 to make a sneecb nn
the finances, shoot him on the spot." This
w tne feeling of merchant and business
men at any rate.
Tho
KANSAS NEWS.
Hays City is to bo Incorporated soon.
Theodore Tllton is billed for Holtou, on
the 17th.
An Interesting revival Is golnson at Osasa
Mission.
Then is talk of mortKaalnz the Abilene
fair grounds for 1 1,000.
Tho Manhattan Salionjiliit entered on lis
0th volnmeon the 3d Inst.
The Elk County Cottrant began Its ninth
volnme by puttlne on a new dress
The Troy Chief reports elghty-nlno mar
riages in Doniphan county daring the year
1373.
G. W. EurcharU assume! editorial man
agement of the Independence Kans&n on the
1st Inst.
Troy U to have a factory for miking sy
rup lrom corn. It will be the first of the kind
In the Hate.
The Cloud county business m:n who live
In Scandla, hava congiegated on one street
aDd have named It Clond street.
The scarlet fever is raKb'g among child
ren In Concordia, to the extent ttiat It has
become necessary for the Empire to suggest
that tho public schools remalu closed for two
weeks longer.
nana Demyed.
- (Cbanrveltrucs,:.)
The mall train on th - ,;. roal was
I ... V ,i '.,.,- ,...
roprin in-re-io.. m - """ ""'
iafterday.byretisonofsnowdr.itln.: on the
afterday, by i
track, and had not reached this place at noon
to-day.
Company ItV
Independence Tribune, 1.
Company II, SUte lulllthi. J. it Zlegler,
captain, have accepted the Invitation to par
tlclpate In the GubernatorUl Inauguration
ceremonies. January lb. at Topeka- It will
be a pleasant trip for our boys.
Tbf Hoard of Kerfs-nte.
Tne memtxrs of the pre-ent board of rr
f ents for the .Manhattan College are, accord
ing to tho Mnnhuttan .Ynfiont.ut:
J. It Hallowell, Stephen M Wood, Hon,
IS Is. Kingsbury. T. C. Henry, Dr. L. Challlss
and E. B. Purcell.
311 't Itcynoldk' l.rcfnic.
INcosho County Journal, 1.1
On last Thursday Milt Keynolds dellve rid
himself of a "mule" at Neosho. Milt Is do
ing as as well as could be expected under the
ctrcumManos, bnt the mule died for the
want of sufficient lacteal Cnld to enstaln
life.
(Rood Shipment ol f.aiue.
Indepence Tribune, 10.1
Last week there wero tho he-ivlest ship
ments of game from Independenre. of any
previous one. At least l'OO dozen prnlrto
chickens were shipped. Mast of tblsis said
to come from Cowley, Chautauqua aud Elk
counties.
Ntock llurne.l Scar Lincoln Center.
Sillno Valley Keglkter, t.I
Iiy come unknown caue, a lire broke out
'n the stable of Cider Green, Colorado town
ship, lat Monday, week ago. Ouo co-v b
lotigln; to Mr. Ureu was burned to de-ith,
and two sets of harness belonging to Mr. Mc
Corkle. K tier Ureen'st horsowas also badly
burnej.
A Mute Robbed.
U'alnitrCor. Washington l.epubilrnu,3 1
We forgot to mention that Koal .tCook'if
store was broken Into last week, and ICO or
7i) taken from tbe safe, which was either
easily opened from previous knowledite or
was left unlocked the night lefore. A pack
age ol several hundred ilollsrs was not found.
No cln to tho robbeis has been discovered.
Carina: lor ih roar.
Atchison Champion, 1.1
The kiiul-heatid and generous lady board
ers or the Otis llon-e. together wilh the rro
prlttors of that popular hostelry, made oau of
Atchison's poor families harry. Th caso
was accidentally brought under their notice,
aud New i ear's nUtit a poor widow woni'in.
with a family of children, was tho recipient
of a generous supply of wood, rroIMon,
and :. handioino puno or money.
Ilrilla ot an Old Citizen
Troy Chief. 2.J
Friday, Ieccmber 17, lS.s.iit 3:3 r 31., If.
I. White, one of the oldest settlers or Mirlon
township, died at ills residence In tho Paler
mo Hotloui. lie had been troubled, a long
time, with tlropxy, and In addition hid blecd
1ns or theetomach. Ho was born Octobers
1911; moved to Kansas In ls,l, and was Jus
tlco ot the peace sixteen years. Ho was an
honest, nprlgbt citizen
Kumored Indlnn nrprrttailun.
Ellis County tstar, J n.2.
A rumor was current on the street Wcdnes
dy evening to tlieettect that a body or Cliey
uines hod come north lrom their reservation
as tar us Illuir Creek, twenty -six milef south
ot Ixlze, where they attacked it ranch, klll
lni; two men, and riinott about 3U) bead of
cutt'u. We have not, up to the hour of itolnK
to press, received any continuation oi the re
poit. Tliu Yield ot Corn In I.IU Comity.
(Ilowanl Cou-antS )
Tbe larmer.t of Eik county pro 'need last
season about thirty thousand acres of corn
which would HverocBHt leant forty buhe!H
p-rncr ThLs Klvet one mllllou and two
hundred thousand bushel ofeorn, which
amounts, at twenty cents per bushel, l tho
mo-lost llttln sum or two hundred aud forty
thou-and dollars.
Niai litis Appointed.
(Topeka Commonwealth. 4 )
J. I, Jones, of Lfsfienworth, and II. E.
Ititcher, of tho Council Grove (laurd, have
been ap olnted aids un tbe Goernor'H stalT,
eicii with tile rank or Lleuleiiiiit-Coiouel.
Aajutant-Generul Noble aud all aids mi far
appointed have provided them-elVeM with
complete regulation UDlform-, and will ap
pear In all their glory on lnauura'Ioacay,
A I Inn ltelrfeii.- Hurtled.
ChanutP Tlmes.
The residence ot Dr. J. II. Llht, In Erie,
caught tlreou Tuesday afternoon Dec. 25th,
from a defective tin-. Tte fire hud mtde such
headway near the roof before bflUK discover
ed, that tho building coil d not be sated, and
all attention was turned to saving the furni
ture, which was all uken from the biue In
good condition, l'.irt or the building w-isalo
torn down and saved lrom barnln. but t f
little value. The residence was a new me.
union:? the beit In the to-vu, costing U,1W
No Insurance.
Jlr Nrarclied and Finally round.
Neosho County Journal, I.
A day or two since we wanted to rfer to a
biblical quotation, and as, we had given our
last copy ol tho "Great Book" to a blind ;S1rl
who was begzlng lor bread on Christmas day,
we visited every Uwycr's ofllce in the city In
"aearch or the scriptures," and fitted to tied
a copy or the "first law book," except at the
office of llro. Millwell. There we round a
copy, and It was on neat and clean as It was
the day it left the pnbllsher'a hands Not
even a thumb mark could be round upon its
aacrcd jvagca.
Kansas Lands.
(Ottawa Republican, 2.
Wliaa a stranger arrives here, about tho
first question he asks of our rail esttte men
Is: "Ilnsnot tiie Immense Immigration of
last year to Kansas, bail the effect of giving
your lands fictitious vamtii?" We should an
awerno. Ills not Immigration which makes
the price of land. Our natural prolacta
pork, cattle, corn and wheat do thai business
they are the Icvelers. Corn at twenty cents
and Iiogt at two, does not mean l farm
lands. Herein Kansas our lands Ion: since
struck bottom. They are at bed rock, and
something beside a rush of Immigrants in
necessary to put them up to fancy prices.
An I'nfortunaie AcciCfiu.
Holton Recorder, 2.
On Saturday, December list, a three-year-old
child of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Preston's died
ol membranous crcup. Mr. I", was away
from homo at tho time, aud, still being ab
sent, U yet unapprised of the chlld'a death
The remains were kept fonr days, tho family
awaiting Mr. l'retton'a return, after which
time they were burled In tbe Holton ceme
tery. O.i the night of tbe Zlst a lamp, with
out a chimney, which was placed on a table,
near the child's head, exploded, burning
sheets, quilts, and a hole In Ihe floor; and
had It not been for the cool bravery of Mr.
JameaStonebraker, one of the watchers, the
house would most likely have been burned
to the ground.
Do cot poison your little ones irlih any
fcoo thing remedy contalnlngOpluni, Morphia
or Paregoric. Dr Hull's Baby Syrup la war
ranted not to contain any Opiates or any
thing Injurious to tbe infant system.
silaerableneai.
The most wonderful and marvelous suc
cess, in cases where persons are sick or pin
ing away from a condition of miseraDlc
ncsa, that no one knows what ails them.
(profitable patients for doctors.) U obtained
by the use of Hop Bitters. They begin to
cure from the first and keep it up until
perfect health acd strength is restored.
Whover is afflicted in this way need not
gaffer when ther can get
Hop Bitters.
See uTruths" and Troverbs"
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