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VOL. XLVJ
RICHMOND. WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, .APRIL 7, 1875.
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V st Kail Time Table.
GOING XOKTH-IncTadlngall pliP'j
plied lrom the Chicago K. K., and the 1 1.
I Wayne R. K.,;closes at 10:00 a. m.
XnlVQ SOUTH 1- Including Cincinnati
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Cincinnati Kailroad, 6a p. in. r .
miVG BAST Including all places sup
plied lrom the . Columbus ft. R., an.
all Eastern and Central States, closes ni l
MhOO a. m. Via Dayton and Xenia Rail
road, closes 60 a. m. y
ooiN'Q WEST 1. Including Indianapolis
and alliolnts beyond, clones 10:00 a. m.;
2. same as above, closes 7:30 ' P- m 8. . in
cludini? all points supplied by theliid -anapolis
Reread; a, Chicagoand all
poiiita west and northwest, closes 3:00
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pStTbi Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
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T fvxs Mills. White Water,Bethel and Ar
fcoi Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
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To Ablngton, CHltton and Liberty, on Mon
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To Boston, Beeehymire, Goodwin's Corner
and College Corner, on Tuesday and
Friday, a 12.30 m.
MAILS ARE OPEN
At 8:00 a.m. from Indianapolis and Cincin
nati and beyond. "
At 11:00 a. m. from Cincinnati, way and
At 4tTS-r?rom East via Colnmbua Rail
road, and Dayton and Xenia Railroad.
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road and Fort Wayne Railroad. n '
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Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis
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GOING WEST.
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No. 10
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Columbus
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No. 7.
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Nos. 1.2, 6 and 7 run Daily.
All other. trains
Daily, except Sunday.
Richmond m
d Chicago Division.
Nov. 30, 1874.
GOING NORTH.
No. 2. I No. 8.
No. 10.
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40 pm
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! j No. 1. No. 3.
Chicago 7:50 pm 820 am
Crown Pt 9:40 pm 104 am
Logansp't. 12:45 am 10 pm
Kokomo... 20 am 220 pm
Anderson. 3:42 am 4:11pm ,
Newcastle 4:38 am 58 pm
Hagerst'n. 58 am 5:38 pm
Richmond 6:50 am 620 pm
Oincinnat. 90 am 925 pm
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Chicago daily. All other trains run daily,
except Sunday.
Little Miami Division.
Nov. 30, 1874.
GOING WEST.
No. 2.
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j BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
Colonel PanI Itratn.
It-i arreatly to be deplored, that bo
much of the early history of Preble
cMBtjRiftid of its earliest settlers, has
been suffered to fade lrom the mem
ory of it he present generation. One
after another (of the pioneer heroes
have gone down to the grave, and left
no written record of the times and
scenea tnat tney passed tnrouah.
Thus our early history is becoming
more and fadre dim, and its facts and
incidents less arid less easily recalled.
How much better the historv of Preble
county coul'f have been written twen
ty years ago than it can now; of ten
years or even one year ago. l ear by
year the task, becomes more difficult,
and ye no one has lelt called upon to
undertake the task, ij , .f 1
These reflections are thfown out.
to pave the way for saying, that in the
preparation of these sketches, it is im
possible to take up the subjects in the
order ot time, properly speaking. 1 he
data in many cases are so meager and
difficult of procurement, that the
writers must necessarily conform to
circumstances, and use the materials
as they are presented.
The subject ostitis sketch was born
in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, on
the 8th day ot October, A. D. 1872
he and the late Gen. Cass, of Michigan,
having been born on the same day.
He was of French extraction, his
grandfather (also named Paul) having
emigrated from France about 1754 or
'55. He came from either the city or
vicinity of Sfrasburg, on the Rhine,
and with an only brother and sister
settled first in Canada. It might be
interesting to relate a few incidents in
his career, as connected with pioneer
life in Ohio.
Our French emigrant very soon left
his brother-and sister in Canada, and
providing himself with a stock of
merchandize suitable for trading with
the wild inhabitants of the forests,
conveyed them by some means to a
Shawnee village, situated, as near as
can be now ascertained, near the pres
ent town of Xenia. This was about
the year 1756. He had been there
some two or three years, and came to
be highly esteemed by his savage cus
tomers, when a white woman with
three children, (who had been cap
tured in a raid into Virginia,) was
brought to the village. This lady,
with her children, he rescued from
her captors, at the sacrifice of his
godds and furs, took them in a canoe
down the Little Miami to the Ohio,
down the Ohio to the Mississippi, and
up that stream to the flourishing can
tonment of Kaskaskia, where they
were married. Here was born Charles
Larsh, the father of the subject of
this sketch, and here they remained
until that flourishing and happy com
munity was broken up by an incursion
of British troops, some time before
the Kevorurranary-war: He, witTrTHs
family, was taken by the British
troops to Fort Pitt, now Pittsburg;
and after various vicissitudes he lo
cated upon George's creek in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania, where he re
mained the balance of his days.
But to return to our subject. When
young Paul was some four years old,
his father determined to try his for
tune in the new territory of Kentucky,
then the theme ol unbounded praise
for its wonderful fertility, abundance
of game, and salutation of climate. It
is needless to describe the privations
and dangers, at that time incident to
a journey down the Ohio river, in an
open boat, through a wilderness region
infested with hostile savages. Suffice
it to say, that the voyage from Union
town, Pa., to Maysville, KyM was suc
cessfully accomplished, and in due
time the family established near Lex
ington, Ky., where the subject of this
sketch and a numerous family of
brothers and sisters were reared, sub
ject to all the vicissitudes and priva
tions incident to a life in the wilder
ness, "Before attaining his majority, our
subject, with his father's family, lo
cated upon the Ohio river, near the
present site of Manchester, Ohio,
where all hands were employed for
several years in building flat boats,
for the navigation of the. Ohio and
Mississippi rivers. The custom then
was, to load a flat-boat, carrying from
60 to 100 tons, with the various pro
ducts of the country, float it down the
Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans,
there dispose of boat and cargo, (the
proceeds of which was usually re
ceived in silver.) then the crew return
home on foot, through the wilderness
of Mississippi, Tennessee and Ken
tucky, then occupied by the Cherokee,
Chicasaw, and Choctaw nations of In
dians. The subject of our present
sketch made several voyages of this
kind whilst a young man, usually pur
chasing a Mustang, or Mexican horse,
in New Orleans, on which to pack the
silver, (Spanish milled dollars,) the
proceeds of his boat and cargo, him
self and crew making the journey of
about twelve hundred miles on foot,
almost the entire way through an un
inhabited wilderness.
In the summer of 1806, having trn
attained the age of 21 years, and not
having seen the place of his nativity
since his infancy, Mr. Larsh deter
mined to revisit his native heme. If
we call to mind the fact, that at that
day most of the way between the set
tlements on the Oho river in the
vicinity of Maysville and Uniontown,
in Pennsylvania, was an unbroken
wilderness, for the most part traversed
by roads impracticable for vehicles,
and not infrequently an entire day's
ride between houses, it will be under
stood that a trip of that kind was no
mean affair, and not to be rashly ven
tured upon. The journey was made,
however, on horseback; and it was
during this visit, at the house of a
relative, that our subject made the
acquaintance of Miss Mercy Minor, of
Green county, Pa., to whom he was
united in marriage on the 6th day of
November, 1806. Within a lew days
after marriage, he and his wife started
on their journey to the west. They
made the trip on horseback, arriving
at his father s residence, on the banks
of the Ohio, early in the month of,
December of that year. i
It may not be out of place here, to
relate an incident of this horseback
trip. Somewhere between Wheeling
and Chillicothe, and whre there was
an unusually wide spac-J between set
tlements, night overtook them (hav
ing ridden all day without seeing a
house,) before reaching the settlement
at which they expected to remain over
night. The road being little better
than a mere bridle4 fa'th, and being
more or less obscured by the falling
leaves,1 eoon after dart:'.ihey found 4
that they had lost tlteir-i-eadi- After -some
time occupied in vainly
trying to regain their -path, and fear
ing that they would, in the darkness
of the night, wander still farther from
it, they concluded to remain all night
there in the wilderness; -To this end,
they unsaddled their horses, and teth
ered themtd. spiiogsj spread' one
saddle-blanket on. the ground for a
bed, arranged their saddles at the root
of a tree for pillows, used the other
saddle-blanket for a covering, andso
remained -theTe until morning their1
sleep frequently disturbed during the
night by the howling of wolves. Early
the next morning, by a little search
they recovered the road, and by ten
o'clock reached a house where they
procured breakfast. -J
Some time during the ensuing .win
ter Mr. Larsh entered, at the Land
Office in Cincinnati, the southwest
quarter of Section No. 10, in Dixon
township, in this county. He moved
onto his land the following spring, ar
riving there with his wife, a pair of
horses, one cow, and a sow and pigs,
on the 6th day of April, 1807. They
arrived in the evening of that day, and
constructed a camp beside a large
blaekwalnut tree that had been blown
down by a storm. In lront of the
camp they built a fire to do their
cooking, arid to keep them warm, and
on the opposite side of the large tree
threw down some straw for a bed for
the sow and pigs. They were there
located in an unbroken wilderness,
not a "stick amiss," and but few set
tlers any where near them. As some
indication of the gloomy prospect then
surrounding them, one incident may
be related. During the first night of
their stay in this camp, the wolves
seized and carried off one of the pigs
from its bed, on the opposite side of
the log from their camp.
.From the residence of Charles
Sweringen, (Larsh's uncle,) on Cotton
run, in Butler county, to the Potten
ger settlement on Seven-mile, where
Camden now is, they had a somewhat
traveled road, but from thence to their
place of destination, they had to cut a
road through the wilderness, where
the foot of a white man had never be
fore been. This was a labor of no in
considerable magnitude and difficulty.
At that time, within the bounds" of
what is now Dixon township, there
were but very few persons living. Eli
Dixon, and his brother Joseph, had
been a year or two on the farm now
owned by Alex. Huffman, and James
Kircheval was living in that township
also. There were also, perhaps, a few
settlers in the south part of the town
ship, but the data are too uncertain to
justify the mention of names.
After erecting a small log cabin in
which to live, our subject commenced
energetically felling the forest and
Dreparin.a fifild in. . which.x ralaa-a.
crop 01 corn, iuiwnusuiuuiug luat
it was almost the middle of April be
fore he got fairly to work in his
"clearing," and that he had the un
broken green forest to contend with,
he prepared the ground and planted
six acres of corn that same spring.
As indicative of the privations and
tribulations that beset the pioneers of
that day, it may be interesting to re
late how he had to subsist through
that first summer, whilst his first crop
was growing. At that time there was
literally NO breadstuff to be procured
nearer to his residence than some dis
tance below the town of Hamilton;
and no mills to grind grain any nearer.
During the first summer, when he was
out of meal for bread, he would ride
down to some farmer who had corn to
spare, a few miles below Hamilton,
which would consume one day. Then
work two days for a bushel of corn.
In the evening of the second day take
it to the mill, stay there all night and
get it ground into meal, and the
fourth day carry it on his horse home
with him. When the supply was ex
hausted, do the same thing oyer
again.
One advantage the early pioneers
had, however, which should not be
omitted they had game plenty. The
forests were fcxl of deer and turkeys,
and no one need be destitute of meat
at any time. No part of the Miami
valley was ever more plentifully sup
plied with game than was Preble
county. The writer of this sketch a
native of the county remembers very
well of the time, when to be without
venison was the exception. Up to the
year 1818 there was apparently no
diminution of tlfe number of deer in
the forests, but the remarkable crust
on the snow, of the winter of 1817-18,
was so destructive of the deer, that
they were never very numerous after
ward. On the 27th day of April, 1808, the
first Board of Commissioners of Preb
le county met. At that meeting,
James Caldwell returned a list of
horses and cattle in Israel township,
(which then comprised Israel, Dixon,
Jackson, and Jefferson townships)
amounting to 176 horses and 123 cat
tle; and for taking and returning
which b'st, the board allowed him the
munificent sum of six dollars! His
territory was 24 miles long and 6 miles
wide. This return of stock is men
tioned merely as indicative of the
probable population of the given territory-Tit
that time. There was proba
bly not to exceed 75 families then re
sident within the territory named, or
an average of less than 20 families to
a township. The time named is about
one year subsequent to the settlement
of Mr. Larsh. Within a year or two
thereafter, we find him taking part in
the managing of public affairs, having
been appointed as lister, (er assessor,)
for several successive years.
At the October election in the year
1812, Paul Larsh was elected Sheriff
of Preble county, being the successor
in office of Jacob Fudge, who was the
first Sheriff of the county. He served
two years, and was succeeded by Sam
uel Ward, who continued in the office
four years. In 1818, 3Ir. Larsh was
again elected to the office of Sheriff,
and was re-elected in 1820, thus serv
ing in all six years, f , ?
On the first day of January, 1819,
Sheriff Larsh moved to Eaton, where
he remained three year3 to a day re
turning to his farm in Dixon township
on the first day of January, 1822. In
the spring ot 1829 he removed to a
farm in Wayne county. Indl, four miles
east of Richmond, (the farm now
owned and occupied by Jacob Crist,)
at which place he remained until the
year 1833, when he removed to a mill
Sroperty on -Whitewater, five miles
elow Richmond. Previous to his rc-
moval to Eaton, he had been elected
.Justice ot the Feace in his own town
ship, and Captain of Militia; and
shortly after his removal to Eaton was
elected Colonel ot : his Kegiment,
which office he continued to hold un
til after his return to the farm. .
During the war of 1812. he served
a tour oiWutv as. Quarter Master,
having charge of the supplies tor Fort
iSisbet. Fort .Black, and ort Ureen
ville. And it may not be out of place
here to relate, that during the war.
and whilst he was in the service, there
was a camu of friendly Shawnee In
dians that wintered on the Fourmile
bottom, some 90 or a 100 -rods south
of his cabin. Their, stay there was
deemed quite a protection, lor it was
thoueht that thev would certainly de
tect and give notice of the approach
of any band ot hostile Indians.
In the year 1867, Col. Larsh, then
verging upon 85 years of age, took a
trip to the State of Illinois, for the
purpose of disposing ot a tract of land
which he owned in Randolph county,
in that State; and also to make ar
rangements to regain possession 01 a
large tract of land in the American
bottom, adjoining the village of Kas
kaskia, once owned by his grand-father.
Whilst there, and before he
accomplished the object of his journey,
he was attacked with a disease of chol
eraic tvne. and died on the 13th day
of August of that year. (1867) and was
burried near the former residence of
his grand-father, and birth-place of
his father.
; Col. Larsh was the eldest of a fami
ly of eleven children seven brothers
and four sisters all of whom (except
nnp. raised larire families. His own
! family consisted of eleven children
six sons and nve daughters, Desmes
one son who died in infancy. (The
exception above . named is Lewis
Larsh, now living in this county at
the age of 91, and whose famity con
sisted of but one daughter). Brought
up in the wilderness, comparatively,
where schools and the means of edu
cation were extremely limited, he at
tained manhood almost destitute of
learning, never having attended school
but three months in his life. His
quick perceptive powers, and remark
ably retentive memory, however, en
abled him to master, as if by intuition,
all the details and incidents of any
business with which hvr had anything
to do.
Col. Larsh was a remarkably symet
rically built, well proportioned man,
5 feet 10 inches high, compactly knit,
and weighing when in the prime of
life about 175 lbs. He was very ath
letic, active, and hardy capable of
undergoing almost any amount of fa
tigue, and was always first choice at a
log-rolling. His complexion was lair,
hair light, and uncommonly fine bright
blue eyes. His brain was extremely
laree his head being of the same cir
cumference as that of Daniel Webster.
1 He was originally, exidowedwith anXj
uncommonly fine physical organism,
and had he taken that care of himself.
in early life, that many frail persons
are compelled to do, he might easily
have lived beyond a century of years.
"As to his mental development, he
was notable for strong, sound, com
mon sense, ready perception, remark
ably retentive memory; logical, com
prehensive, and rapid in his deduc
tions. He was extremely social in
disposition, fond of society and con
versation, and sagacious in his judg
ment of men.
But we have already exceeded our
limits with this sketch. Of such ma
terial as we have tried to portray, was
the pioneers of this now beautiful
and prosperous land composd. Those
heroes were no common men; and it
was needful that they should not be,
because the common type of humanity
could not have achieved what they
did. The necessity of the case de
manded it, and nature prepared a race
of giants to reclaim these broad lands
from the condition of a desolate wil
derness, and cause them to teem with
the fruits of civilization and industry.
Take the large majority of the young
men of this day, and place them in
the condition of those pioneers, and
require of them to accomplish similar
results, and they would perish by the
thousand, like dry stubble before the
driving flame, in the face of the dan
gers and privations iu their road.
A Story of a Barnrgat Pirate.
At Forked River, a small village
near Barnegat Beach, in Ocean coun
ty, N. J., an old man named Rube
Williams lived a hermit like existence
many years. They say he went from
that vicinity when a young man to
follow the sea, and that he was a pi
rate. The fierce looking old man was
associated in the minds of the young
persons thereabout with the stories
told of the pirates of Barnegat, and
those having occasion to pass his
dwelling after dusk gave it a wide
berth. Some years ago a widowed
and childless sister, Mrs. Haines,
whose husband had left her tome
money, moved to Forked River,
bought a little place, and persuaded
Rube to live with her. Djtng recent
ly, she appointed as her executors her
young nephew, Daniel Williams, and
a neighbor, Benjamin Holmes, and
left her estate to be divided equally
among her surviving relatives. The
executors, in dividing the personal
property, found quilted in the padding
beneath an old carpet on the floor of
the house, upward of "11,000 in old
gold and silver coins. Her nephew
turned this into currency, and the ex
ecutors divided it like the rest of the
property. When old Rube heard of
this he was wild. He said the old
gold and silver belonged to him and
not to his sister, and was heard to
make threats against his nephew.
Soon afterward young Williams went
on the place with a surveyor to set off
the lots for each of the heirs, and
when, near a clump of the scrubby
pines which abound in that region,
the surveyor heard the report of a
gun, and turning about saw Williams
fall, receiving the charge of slugs
mostly in the shoulder. He was not
mortally wounded. Old Rube is to
be tried next month. N. Y. Sun, 22d.
The prepared pages for country
newspapers, known as "patent in
sides, ' sometimes make ridiculous
blunders. Not long ago the cable
announced the bad news that "the
Pope has had another chiLL" and
shortly afterward came from forty
seven Wisconsin newspapers with
patent insides the announcement
that "the Pope has had another
child.'' .
r Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
THE TRICE; OF" PUTTY.
Tho Best Travesty tnat has Appeared
: 'for Many a Dajr,'
Judge Fullerton asked Miss Turner:
"Dor you know- the r price of putty?3'
The witness aid promptly, During
what , state of the putty market?''
"Now, thenT". said the counsel, "this
is really unbearable. Here I ask the
witness a question demanding a plain
answer, yes or . no, and she prevari
cates in this astounding manner."
"Your Honor." said Mr. Evarts, "will
please bear in mind that the market
for putty varies. There is a hail
storm, and putty rises. There is a
quiet neighborhood where there are
no small boys or other troubles, and
you can get putty there for nothing,
excepting in the inclement seasons
peculiar, to" this climate. The ingre
dients of which putty is composed are
themselves subject to fluctuation. My
distinguished friend puts the question,
'Do you know the price of putty?' and
I submit that the witness cannot an
swer the question with a mere 'yes' or
'no.' .To use the negative would
evince gross ignorance of the cost of a
very common article used in the erec
tion of buildings. To use the affirma
tive would subject her to the charge
of insufferable egotism, for who of us
can be expected to know the price of
putty whenever called upon? Now I
suppose my learned friend means a
general question as to the price of put
ty; but he has put the question in the
present tense. To find the exact price
of putty at this moment, it would be
necessary for the most of us, I fancy,
to consult the glaziers and the market
reports." There was applause in the
gallery, and Judge Neilson told the
janitor to see that that didn t occur
again. It your honor pleasft, said
Mr. Beach, rising, "we are trying to
discover the state of an interior win
dow in the plaintiff's house at the
time the witness assumes to have seen
the defendant hanging pictures. We
wish to show the quality of the dark
ness, the strength of the light, the
condition of the atmosphere, the
cleanliness or otherwise of the panes
of glass, the state of the sash at the
period referred to, and various other
things. Now if this is to be shown
clearly, your honor will see that the
plaintiffs knowledge or otherwise of
the putty business is a most vital mat
ter." Here Mr. Sheaiman arose and
said with some emphasis that the
question as put was unfair he might
almost call it an insult to the witness.
Whereupon Judge Fullerton arose
and said that was au imputation upon
his character as a lawyer, which he
would not tamely submit to. More
applause, and, by Judge JNeilson s di
rection, a red-headed man was. taken
out of the gallery by the ear. "If your
honor please, said Mr. Evarts, my
learned friend is a little too sensitive
rJWryxTOllefwtnetkBt f o of-
fense by his remark, and I have no
ticed a disposition on the part of the
Srosecution to browbeat" "Sir," said
udge Fullerton, iu a towering rage.
At thi3 period all the counsel rose,
with threatening gestures, and the
spectators craned their necks forward
with evident expectancy. "The coun
sel have used two expressions which
are offensive, and will doubtless with
draw them," said Judge Neilson, with
dignity. They were immediately with
drawn, and Judge Fullerton again
put the question, "Do you know the
price of putty?" "We object," said
Mr. Evarts, promptly. "Does the
prosecution mean to show the exact
period of the night duriDg which Mr.
Tilton arranged his pictures?" asked
Judge Neilson, "and does this ques
tion lead up to ltr Freeisely, said
Judge Fullerton. "But 1 insist, your
honor," interrupted Mr. Evarts,"that
the witness is not an expert in putty,
and therefore she cannot be expected
to answer in this precise manner as to
the price of it. Now, if your honor
will permit me to refer to Greenleaf
vs. Molligrubs, 4 R.S.,16 B..96X.--"
"The counsel will take his seat," said
Judge Neilson. "Your honor," said
Mr. Evarts, evidently annoyed but
still courteous, "will please note my
exception." And when the witness
was again asked the question she an
swered it promptly with the monosyl
lable "Yes," which undoubtedly closes
the case against Mr. Beechcr, though
the exception furnishes excellent
ground for an appeal.
THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
Sufrrnsrc Not Necessarily a Part of
t'itizenwliip The Nnpreme Court
Deriding- Aeainat the Kight of Wo
men to the llallot.
Washington, March 29. The Su
preme Court to-day decided the case
of No. 182, Miner vs. Hoppcrsatt:. er
ror to the Supreme Court of Missouri.
This is the case presenting the ques
tion whether, under the Fourteenth
Amendment, a woman who is-citi-zen
of the United States and of a State,
is a voter in the State, notwithstand-
mg tne provisions ot tne uonstitution
and the laws of that State confine the
right of suffrage to men alone. It is
said that women are citizens. They
are persons, and therefore under the
Fourteenth Amendment, declared to
be citizens of the State wherein they
reside, but it did not require that
amendment to make them such. They
were before persons and people, and
were not in terms excluded from citi
zenship by the Constitution. The
Federal Constitution was ordained by
the people of the United States, com
posed of the people of the several
States, and whoever at the time of its
adoption was one of the people, be
came a citizen. All children born of
citizen parents within the jurisdiction,
are themselves citizens. The natural
ization laws are reviewed to'showthat
women- have always been considered
citizens the same as men; also the
laws giving jurisdiction to Federal
cases. , - . . .
It is then said that the Fourteenth
Amendment did not affect the citizen
ship of women any more than it did
of men, and thus minors' rights do
not depend upon it. She has always
been a citizen from her birth, entitled
to all the privileges, immunities, &,c,
of citizenship. The amendment pro
hibited the State in which Bhe lives
from abridging any of those rights.
The right of suffrage is not made in
terms one of the privileges of the citi
zen. The United States has no voters,
and no one can vote for Federal with
out being competent to vote for State
officers. The elective officers of the
United States are chosen directly or
indirectly by the voters of the States.
The amendment did not add to the
privileges or immunities of the citizen,
it simply furnished an additional guar
antee for the protection of such as he
already had. Nor is the right of suf
frage coextensive with the citizenship
I of the States. , When the Federal
1 Constitution was adopted all the
1 States but Rhode Island had Consti
tutions of their own, in not one of
which were all citizens recognized as
entitled to this right; and under all
these circumstances it cannot be for a
moment doubted that if it had been
intended to make citizens of the Uni
ted States voters, the framers of the
Constitution would have so expressed
that .intention, and not have left so
important a change in the condition of
citizensmp, as 11 men existed, 10 1m
plication. 1;
But if lorther evidence is needed it
is to be found in the provisiens of the
Constitution. If suffrage' is necessa
rily a part of citizenship, then the
provision of tho Constitution which
gives citizens of each State all the
privileges and immunities of citizens
in the several States would entitle the
citizens of each State to the right to
vote in the several States pecisely as
the citizens of those States are. Other
provisions, among them that relating
to the apportionment of representives.
were cited to tho same point. But
still a&ain, after the adoption of the
Fourteenth Amendment, it was found
necessary to use, in the Fifteenth
Amendment, the following language:
"The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by
any btate on account ot race, color, or
previous condition of servitude."
The Fourteenth Amendment had
provided against any abridgement of
the privileges or immunities ot citi
zens, and if the right of suffrage is one
of them, why amend the Constitution
further to prevent its being denied on
account of race, color, &c. The duty
of the United States to guarantee to
the States a republican form of gov
ernment is discharged in protecting
those Governments which were recog
nized as being republican in form by
the Constitution when adopted. Ihe
Governments of the States being then
accepted, it must be assumed that
they are such as are to be guaranteed.
The admission of new States is then
cpnsidered, and it i found that there
is nothing to favor the idea that suf
frage is a right ol citizenship, but
everything to repel it; also the restor
ation ot the fetates to the Union alter
the war, none of them having provi
ded for female suffrage. Besides, a
person who has simply declared his
intention to beeome a citizen of the
United States may vote under certain
circumstances in Missouri and other
States, and this could not be if suf
frage depended upon the right of citi
zenship. The Court are unanimous in the
opinion that the Constitution of the
United State does not eonfer the
right of suffrage upon any one, and
that the Constitutions of the several
States which commit that trust to men
alone are not necessarily void. Af
firmed. The Chief Justice delivered
the opinion.
The political history of the country
teaches us that all third party move
ments have brought to the surface
men of small calibre, who invariably
have turned out to be great political
blockheads. The tidal wave of Know
Nothingism, twenty years ago, swept
up from the gutters more political
scavengers than ever were seen before
iu public lifo. The General Assembly
of 1875 was the most corrupt and
shameless in the history of legislation.
hven the bills on tile in the House
were not safe from the thieves. One
ot the important bills of the session
was stolen several times. So serious
was this evil that the Legislature had
to pass a bill to suppress it. 1ms bill
the Governor vetoed, and it was then
passed notwithstanding the objections
of the Governor. Men were illegally
employed and paid by the. House al
though the press had repeatedly called
the attention of the Speaker and mem-
and when the special session convened
the same officers were re elected. It
is noticeable in this connection that
as the employes and the Speaker lost
the-confidence 01 the public, the con
fidenee of the euiplo-es in the integ
rity of their chiefs increased, and ev
ery one of them retired after receiving
a valuable present from those who
served under them..
So low in the public estimation has
the "reform" General Assembly fallen
brought into existence mainly by a
"third party movement" that it has
no defenders, none reverence it.
"Even the Democratic press in whose
interests it was managed have no good
word for it. One Democratic paper
Eays: "There are few men that might J
be retained (in the next Legislature),
but we fear that the majority would
add nothing to the credit of the Hoo
sier State."
The same Democratic paper, on an
other occasion, and while the Legis
lature was in session, said, "If all the
members will resign, and give the
people an entire new deal, we should
nave no ODjeciion 10 an extra Hes-
sion.
Another Democratic paper says:
"The great Democratic 'reform Leg
islature did less work in its sixty days
than has been dene in a session by
any previous Legislature."
nil t L m 1
Another sneaks as loiiows: xne
Indiana Legislature having, owing to
the stupidity and recklessness of the
majorit3', reached its legal limitation
on Saturday, tho 20th inst., adjourned
without making the necessary appro
priations for the support of the State
Government." Madison Courier.
One evening last week a material
ized spirit, that had been delighting
an eastern circle of the elect, got a
frightful whack on the head from a
cane in the hand of a muscular skep
tic, and the next day there was pasted
on the shutters of the officiating me
dium's store a bit of paper containing
the following legend: "Closed on ac-
countof a death in the family." Lou
isville Commercial.
The puddlers "helpers" employed
in the rolling mill of the Messrs.
Brooke, at Birdsboro , .Fa., who are
out on a strike for the last three weeks,
have ascepted the terms offered by
the proprietors, and went to work.
The mill and nail factory are now in
full operation and all the hands are
again'at work.
Carpets are bought bv the vard and
worn by the foot.
The Black Hills. .-
Chicago, March 26. .
Lieutenant General Sheridan has
written the following highly interest-,
ing letter concerning the Black Hills
Country. It sets forth what has been
done, and what the Government pro
poses to do,T in this matter, and - im
mediately concerns all iho eontem-
r1nf.A irnintr iniA iho nnnirv f K I .
Headquarters of tots Military
aryI '
ti, f
375;,
Division of the Missouri
: Chicago, March 25, 1875
To Gen. W T Sherman; Headquar
i ; ters of the Army, at St, Louis : i
i General In reply to your ques
tion, "What do you know of the Black
HMls T VI : respectfully submit the
following-remarks ; My first knowl
edge of the - Black Hills was derived,
from an interview with the late Father
De Smet, the noted Catholic mission
ary, whom I met many years ago on
the Columbia River, in Oregon, from
whom I heard an Indian romance of
a mountain of gold in the Black Hills,
and his explanation of that extraordi
nary and delusive story to Indians,
frontiersmen and explorers.
The Black Hills country is much
more extensive than that particular
locality brought to the notice of the
public by the recent exploration of
General Custer, and gets its name
from the black, scrubby character of
the timber which grows on the sides
and tops of the mountains and hills.
It comprises the whole of the coun
try, bounded on the east by longitude
102, on the south by the Sweet Water
and Laramie rivers, on the west by
the Big Horn and WTind rivors,"and
and on the north by the Yellowstone
River. This is really the country of
the Black Hills, but embraced in it
are several localities called Black
Hills; for instance the "Black Hills
of Laramie," the "Black Hills of
Powder River," and the "Black Hills
of the Cheyenne River,'' the latter
being the locality in which General
Curtis made his reconnoisance last
summer, and about which there is bo
much speculation at the present time,
and within the bounds of which, it is
supposed, by a large number of people,
is to be found Father De Smet's
mountain of gold.
Father De Smet's story was : While
living with the Sioux Indians he was
shown by them nuggets ot gold, which
they informed him had been obtained
at different point 3 in the Black Hills,
supposed to be from the beds of the
Big Horn, Rose Bud, and Powder
rivers, and from branches of the
Tongue River, and, on his represent
ing that such yellow metal was of
great value, they told him they knew
where there was a mountain of it.
Subsequent investigation, however,
proved that the Indian mountain of
gold was nothing more than a forma
tion of yellow mica, such as may .be
lound in nmber of piaceB in the
above-described country.
I- had scarcely given the story
thought after this, until about three
years ago, when. I was in New York,
and it was there brought to my recol
lection bj'J a prominent gentlemen,
who asked me where Father De Smet
was to be found, and insisted that
some one should he sent at once to
get from him the secret of the gold
mountain, which would pay the iNa
tional debt, etc. After I had informed
them that it was an old and exploded
story his ardor cooled, and the excite
ment about the "mountain of gold"
again subsided.
It so happened, however, that the
Biack Hills country was embraced in
my military command, and two years
ago it became apparent to me that a
military post in the Black lulls ot the
Cheyenne would soon become neces
sary for the proper protection of set
tlements in Nebraska from raids of
Sioux warriors who always before
they commenced depredations on the
frontier, secured a safe place for their
families and villages in the locality
mentioned. Believing that these In
dians would never make war on the
out settlements as long as we could
threaten their families and villages in
this remote locality, abounding in
f;ame and all that goes to make Indian
ife comforlable, and, with this purely
military object in view, an order was
given for the Custer reconnoissance.
1 he discovery of particles of gold, by
alluvial washing, near Harney's Peak,
on the eastern slope of the "Black
Hills of Cheyenne" followed and
brought to the surface Father De
Smet s story for the third time.
The "Black Hills of the Cheyenne."
described by Gen. Custer, are situated
between the north and south forks of
that river, one of which is known" as
Belle r ourche, and the other as the
South Fork, and. although I have the
utmost confidence in the statements ot
Gen. Custer and Gen. Forsyth, of my
staff,' that gold was found near Har
ney's Peak, I may safely say there has .
not been any lair test yet made to de
termine its existence in large quanti
ties. There is no territory - in the
West where gold does not exist, but
in many of them the quantity is limit
ed to the color, which is as much as
has yet been obtained near Harney's
Peak. Geological specimens brought
back by the Custer s expedition are
not favorable indications of the exist
ence of gold in great quantity; still, it
may be there. But as the treaty of
1869, duly ratified, virtually deeds this
portion of the Black Hills to the
Sioux Indians, there is no alternative
but to keep out trespassers.
But, to go back to the Father De
Smet information, there is not much
doubt of the correctness of his state- ;
ment ihat gold exists in large quan
tities in the Black Hills, but much
further west than the "Black Hill? of
Cheyenne." I have seen nuggets from
the Big Horn and Tongue rivers, and
many specimens from near Ft. Stam
baugh, in the Upper Wind River
country, where mining has failed for
want of water for alluvial washing and
from hostilities of the Indians, and I
have good reason to believe, in fact it
is quite certain, that gold exists in the
Owl Creek Mountains, in the Lower
Wind River, and in the headwaters of
the Powder River and the Rosebud,
all the localities being, under the gen
eral meaning, in the Black Hills, and
outside the Sherman, Auger, and Ter
ry treaty of 1869, except so far as the
privilege to hunt game.
It has been my intention to com
municate much information this com,
ing summer to the Government on
the above described country, and, as to
the Indians have no absolute right to
the right to the soil, there may be but
little difficulty in extinguishing their
hunting privileges. I propose, it you
do not object, torpn up the- Yellow-1
stone River by sending Gen. Geo. Au
Forsyth and Colonel Grant,, of my
staff, up the Yellowstone, to the mouth
of Big IIoTnasPeoon as the ice breaks, "4
which will give lowest tide-water,jT
having already secured a steamboat
to make this expiorfttior?.' If Gen.
Forsyth is successful I will send Gen?
Custer, with the command from Fort 2
Lincoln, across the t mouth of ; the
Powder River; tbeDce up, the;.southt
bank the -Yellowstone erossing 5 the
Powder River, Tongae Hi ver Hose-" o
bud. and to the mouth -of the Big
Horn;'" ""3 " - : '- .
This country is, as yet, entirely utt-i J
explored, and the expedition may de
velop a very auriferous section, and j
make the Father De Smet's tot somep
extent true,1 but I am of - the belief J
that the Mountain of Mica has not":3
changed to goW. I will also send an
expedition .down the "Wind River,
through the. Owl Creek Mountains,
from Fort Stambaugh, via Ft. Brown, "
to the mouth of the Big Horn, and 1
will bring it back through the parks
about the headwaters of Powder
River, visited by Captain Mills and .
his command last summer. The parks
are, for beauty, fully equal to those .
described so graphically by General
Custer, as existing in the Black Hills
of the Cheyenne. 1
I may also say, from my own knowl- ;
edge, that the valleys of the Big and -'
Little Popoagie, Little Wind River,
and Main Wrind River, can scarcely T
be excelled in beauty and fertility,
while the student of nature will find
there the most extraordinary uphesv
als of earth crust probably to be fouid
on this continent. I am of the opinion
that this country is gold-bearing, but .
of its abundance there can only be .
a conjecture at present.
I fetl confident of our ability to '
prevent intended trespasses on the '
rights of Indians, and cavalry and in
fantry in the Department of Dakota
are being moved at the present time s
to the most available points to carry
out my directions of September 3, of
last year. Were it not for these, pre
cautions on the part of the Govern-
j.ment, there might be a lepetition of ;
the Uahforma gold beach and gold
lake humbugs, with still greater suf
fering, as many of the persons now
crazy to go to the Black Hills never
think how they are to exist after they
get there, or how they would return
in case of failure. If they will wait .
for further information from the Gov
ernment, which now seems to be de
sirous of making concessions to meet
these two interests, there will no one
more willing than myself to aid in as
certaining their value. So far as
troops are concerned I will promise
activity in the present emergency, and
conscientious performance of duty.
Should the points from which
miners start be so remote as to make
it impossible for our Bcanty force 'to
watch them, we -cib occupy the two
or three gaps in the Black Hills and
effectually exclude trespassers.
Very respectfully,
Signed. P.U.Sheridan.
Lieutenant General commanding.
What Should be Known.
Every action and emotion depletes
the physical system. Milk, the first
food absorbed by men and animals, ,
is the only natural mixture, contain- ,
ing all the elements of blood, eave the ;
coloring. Water constitutes three- "
fourths of body. To work well, either
physically or mentally, we must be fed
judiciously and thoroughly. The t
worker must eat mixed food, rood
properly administered stimulates the
system as wine does, only more natur
ally. The long night hours empty the
stomach, deplete the system and chill '
the body. On arising, the physical
constitution is low, and should be re
cruited. If we lose time at early
morning in bringing the body up to
its natural heat and strength, we can
not regain it during tlie day. A
healthy man requires about one pound
of nutriment per day to keep him in
good condition. While a working
man, would need daily five pounds ot
solid mixed food, two and a half would
be enough for persons who sleep
much.
Life, said a lecturer, can be sus
tained two or three weeks on two
ounces a day. A change of diet should
follow a change of seasons in winter,
fats and sweets; in summer, fruits,
fash, and lighter meats. Milk and
eggs, a blood food; steak, a flesh food;
Eotatoes and w.heat, which, being,
eated material, are 'fuel; and coffee, a
stimulant. r
Rejected Suitors.
A woman never quite forgets the
man who has onced loved her. She
may not have loved him; she may, in- .
deed, have given him the no instead
of the ye he hoped for; but the re
membrance that he desired a yes al
ways softens her thoughts of him, and
would make him, were he reminded
of it, a friend forever. There may be
girls who make a jest of discarded.;
suitors; but they are generally very
young, and the wooing has been some
thing that did not betoken much
depth of tenderness. There are mer- I
cenary offers, too, that only awaken
scorn and hate in the woman wooed
for money and not for herself: but .
really to have touched a man's heart
is something not to be forgotten while
she lives. Always she remembers
flow his fvoa lirtlrifi inin lioro' Vi nxwr '
perhaps, he touched her hand with
his, and how her heart ached when he .
turned away without that which she.
could not give him. She loves some ,
one else. Some other man has all the 1
truth of her soul always has, and al-
ways will have but she can not forget '
the one who turned from her and went ;
his way and came no more. She is
glad when she hears of his success, .
grieved when she knows that he has ,
suffered, and when some day she hears ,
that he is married she who has her- "
self been married long years, perhaps; Z
she who, at all events, would never f
have married him is glad then ? I
do cot know. A woman s heart is a
very strange thing. I do not believe
she knows herself. Glad Oh, yes;,
and is his wife pretty and nice? : And;
then she says to herself that'he has'
quite forgotten," and "that, of course.
A man who was sentenced to be
hung, was visited by his wife, ; who
said: "My dear, would you like the
children to see you executed?',' "No," i
replied he. "That's just like you,"
said she, "for you never wanted the I
children to have any enjoyment.