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STATE NEWS.
Ppiiciliiiffs anti Scissor! tins front
our Exchanges.
—Tho grasshoppers have already
succeeded in getting up a first class
excitement in Middle Georgia.
—Tho Darien Gazette learns that
old man Tunit#G. Campbell is having
a splendid time at Col. Smith's farm
on the Central railroad. He wears
citizens’ dress, keeps books, and
preaches two or three times a week,
and it would seem that tho old man
is not having a “hard road to travel.”
His time will be out next January.
—S. P. Warren, an Atlanta Radi
cal, obtained a few hundred dollars
and a year’s supply of line clothes,
under false pretenses, from some of
the “wealthy and respectable citizens"
of our State capital, and abscond
ed one day last week. Well,
it might have been worse. Sup
pose, for instance, he had caniod oft
the water works.
—The rains, says the Macon Tele
graph, have settled the question as to
a corn crop in Middle Georgia. “It
is going to be the best for many years,
and on the back of the heavy oat crop
of the spring will give our farmers an
abundant grain supply for the ensu
ing yeas'. Some indeed boast that
they have nearly two years’ supply;
but when they begin to gather the
old fashioned herds of stock around
them, end get ready to live once
more, they will find their mistake.”
• —The city officials of Atlanta had
themselves photographed the other
day. The picture will probably be
circulated as a campaign document
against the removal of the capital.
■ —An “Independent Club” has been
formed in Dawson. The organiza
tion is composed solely of ladies, and
is strictly “independent and secret,”
but we learn from tho Journal that
the first resolution adopted reads,
“Therefore be it resolved that ladies
have as much right to go iu swim
ming aw gentlemen ’ AN e rather like
that, and hereby present our petition
for membership, asking that action bo
taken on the same at the next meet
ing.
—The Radicals have commenced
their dirty work in Thomas, and wilt
make a desperate effort to cary the
county in the coining elections. The
Tbomasville press don’t sit down
heavy enough on the Radical leaders
in that town, nohow.
Columbus Enquirer- AVe have been
requested by many members to cor
rect a misapprehension regarding the
action of the Baptist Church, which
many editors have mado through
careless reading. They say, and Ken
drick and his friends are endeavoring
to create the impression, that the vote
for expelling him from the church
was 35 for to 34 against. This is er
roneous. A committee was appoint
ed let report to tiie church on his case,
which was done. The majority report
was that he bu expelled for adultery;
the minority that lie be expelled with
out any cause being assigned. Both
reports were for expulsion. For the
majority report thirty-five voted, for
tho minority thirty-four—the entire
sixty-nine for his expulsion. Those
who had defended him warmly and
obtained ill: the evidence for him pos
sible, voted for his expulsion. It was
unanimous. There’s not one in the
entire membership of over three hun
dred that would not vote for the ox
j pulsion as tho sixty-nine—all present
ion that occasion. The expulsion was
the unanimous voice of tho meeting.
—Tho (lartersvilla Express makes
the following notice of thu grasshop-
I per in that county: The hoppers are
{ making sad havoc on tho farm of
j Mrs. Lewis Tumlin in the edge of j
town. Thirty-five acres of clover
• about ready for a second mowing has
been entirely stripped. Twenty acres
of cotton lias been destroyed in the
same way. On an adjoining field the
corn thus been stripped to the st alk,
even to the tender ends of the ears.
They are rapidly making their way to
other fields of corn. These pests ap
peared upon Mrs. Tuinlin’s place in
comparatively small numbers some
four weeks ago. They were first seen
in a stublde field when the wheat was
being taken from the field for tbresh
-1 ing. For ten days the hands on tho
j place have been lighting tho hoppers,
| and to some extent their progress has i
been impeded. The grasshoppers]
; have made their appearance in vari
' oils parts of tho county. Various ]
i modes have been resorted to to de
! stroy them. They are easily driven
j after ten o’clock in the morning, and
lin this way they are driven together j
and burnt with straw. In the early!
morning while the dew is upon the
weeds, clover or grass where they
roost, they either cannot or do not
feel inclined to move. Observing this
j peculiarity, Col. J. J. Howard, or
Tuesday morning at 3 o’clock, started
seven mules, hitched to as many
scrubby black-jack bushes all abreast,
and commenced driving across- his
clover field. It being wet and dark,
and having about 35 feet front cover
ed with the bushes, it was difficult for
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY. AUGUST J, IS7<>.
| the insects to avoid destruction, and
they were killed by tho thousands.
At 7 a. m. it commenced raining,
which still further favored tho opera
tion. During seven hours of this la
bor Colonel Howard thinks ho killed
about one half of theso insects. Col.
Howard suggests another plan. It is
to make rollers, and so arrange the
shafts that mules can propel the rol
| lers ahead of them and thus crush
| them to death. Col. Howard urges
| all farmers, who are troubled with
I these pests, to kill them by all possi
ble means that can he invented in or
| der to save next year's crops, and thus
prevent a famine in the land. Ho has
been lighting two weeks, and thinks
he has killed hnlfou his place.
Over in Florida,
—lt is said that bandy-legged Joe
I Stripling and John Eagan, of Madi
son, wear their little pistols around
j them all tho time. They know they
| deserve to be kicked bv every decent
j man they moot, and they wear, their
1 shooting irons conspicuously for the
! protection of tlie seats of their brecch
; es.
- Everybody withiu a day’s lido of
Madison ought to go to the grand
Democratic mass-meeting there next
Saturday.
The Democratic Mass-Meeting at
Madison next Saturday is going to be
the largest and most enthusiastic
gathering of the honest people of that
I section ever known since the war. Let
those who have not been enthused
with the good work go, by all means.
!It is going to boa regular, old-fash
! ioned experience meeting. It will not
; be considered impolite or unbecom
ing in any old Democrat to shout if
he feels like it.
- The Sanford Journal wants to
know if persons who have been in the
State less than a year can vote for
Presidential election—having resided
in the county six months and been
registered. The Floridian answers
! no. The right of every person to vote
for any officer is ronadatod by the laws
; C ill" fjinie in which he lives. Each
\ State prescribes its own suffrage qnal
j ifications. The Florida State Consti-
I tution requires I wetre months residence
i to entitle to vote.
—The Quitman Cornet Band will
make music for the Democratic ineet
’ ing at Madison next Saturday, and
speeches will he delivered by Ex-Gov.
D. S. AValker, ('apt. Bloxham, Col.
Davidson, Col. AVilk Call and others.
—Madison Aries: The young ran
ter of tho Recorder, in his speeches to
j the great uncombed, is reported as
| saying that if Drew is elected Gov
j ernor every poor man will be thrown
| out of employment. How can that
be when every man, without regard
to previous condition, is to have a
] saw mill of his own, made to order,
] and more money than a mule can
] pull ? Such an idea is ridiculously
' absurd. There will bo no skirmish
ing for bread then.
-—The Floridian says that last week
at station 4, a colored man went to
; tho house of one of tho white citizens
: and asked for something to eat. The
citizen queried him as to whom he in
tended to vote for. “Air. Drew,” he
i replied. “Well,” says the citizen, “I
1 can’t accommodate you, for you are
going right dead against ino ” “All
right, \ says the colored mail, “I
] promised to vote for Mr. Drew, and
don’t expect to go back on him, be-
I cause I havo been knowing him for a
long time, and always found him to
be a man of his word, ’’ and left; but
before he had gone very far, he was
called back by the citizen and given a
good bait of ham and eggs and bis
cuit, as also a cup of coffee, thrown iu
for good measure, after slipping on
the outside of which he resumed his
journey, rejoicing and knowing in
wardly that he had acted like an hon
orable man.
Tallahassee Floridan : At a color
ed Drew and Hull meeting near Man
ning’s store (in this county), on the
night of the lfithinst., Jesse Dennis,
a respectable old colored man, and a
leading reformer in his neighborhood,
was attacked and driven off by a mob
of rioters. Dennis came to town and
‘had warrants issued by Justice Came
ron for six of the rioters, all that he
could identify, and also for several
for assault and batter.y Fire were ar
rested and brought before Justice
Cameron on Friday, under the charge
of riot and assault and battery. The
rioters were represented by Alt'. John
Wallace, who defended them in an
able manner, but the evidence against
them was perfectly conclusive, and
the Justice required a bond of S2OO
from each. One of tho eases of as
sault was then brought, up. There
was but one witness for ilni prosecu
tion, and he was the prosecutor. No
evidence was introduced for the de
fense, the prisoner himself declining
to make a statement. As the testi
mony of the prosecutor stood uucon-
tradicted, and was sufficient to prove
the assault, tho Justice required a
bond of SSO, whereupon the other
four charged with assault and battery
waived an examination and a like
bond was required of each. Several
persons came forward to stand tho
bonds, but refused to make oath that
they were worth tho amount of prop
erty requisite under the law to make
them good bondsmen, and they were
consequently rejected, and in default
of bond tho prisoners were commit
ted. On Saturday, however, their
friends from the country came in and
succeeded in getting up tho bonds,
and the prisoners were released, to
appear at tho next term of the Supe
rior Court. Some people seem to
think that there is no law for tho col
ored man in this county when he
chooses to act independently of the
Republican party, and the only way
to teach teem better sense is for tho
law to lay its heavy hand upon them
every time they are guilty of its viola
tion.
How tli(> Republicans Talk.
[From the Courier-Journal.]
AVo held a long conversation with a
leading Republican in this city yester
day, and ns a matter of course poli
tics was tho leading question of dis
cussion. The conversation commenc
ed in this way: “ ,” said the Re
publican, “it seems as if the speech of
Lee sort of riled you.” Rep.—-“No,
not much; it sort of 'disgusted me.”
R.—“ Why?” Rep.-—“ Simply be
cause it looks contemptible in any
man to dodge the living and impor
tant issues before the people by bring
ing u)i the horrors of the late war.”
R. —“Well, what do you want us Re
publicans to do ?” Rep.- “Why, de
fend your party, if you can, and make
a bold, manly fight upon tho issues
before the people.” R.—“ That won’t
pay.” Rep.—“Then you admit that
you can’t defend your party from the
rascalities it is charged with ?” R.—
“No, not exactly; but we think there
are more voters to lie made the other
way.” Rep.—■“'What other way—
flaunting the bloody shirt?” R.—
“That, I believe you Democrats call
it. We call it keeping before the
people the idea that the Democrats
can not be trusted with power.” Rep.
—“Do you housefly believe that?"
R.—“ Well, yes, to a certain extent I
do. I am afraid to trust them.”
Rep.—“ What have they done since
the closo of the war to make you form
such an opinion ? Have they not
faithfully obeyed all the laws imposed
upon them by. Congress, and have
they not been patient and forbear
ing?'’ R. —“Yes, to a certain extent;
but'we frequently hear of them mur
dering the colored men down there,
which shows their rebellions spirit.”
Rep.—“But do not we hear of mur
der and scenes of blood frequently in
the Northern States?” R.—“ Yes, but
that is different.” Rep.—“Some of
you Republicans in Jeffersonville and
other places tell these colored men
that if Tilden is elected they will he
forced back into slavery again. . Do
you believe such an absurdity as
that?” R.—“No, I don't.” Rep.—
“Why, then, do members of your par
ty toil them so ?” R.—“To keep them
jam up to the mark and solid for the
ticket.” R.—“ Will all your stump
speakers this campaign talk the same
stuff Lee did ?” R.- (with a laugh)
“I believe that is the understanding.”
Rep.—“Do you think the people can
lie duped into voting the Republican
ticket, by such speeches?” R. —“There
is no duping about it ; wo want them
to remember the traitors that tried
to destroy the Government.” Rep.—
“So vou will fight the war all over
; again this campaign ?” R.—(lndig
luantly)—“Yes, sir, and for twenty
; campaigns to come if necessary to
■keep our party in power.” Rep.—
| “AVell, we expect you will; lint we do
| not t hink that t lie people will be so
] easily duped as you think for. There
are other questions that effect the
people just now more than the wave
|of the bloody shirt—questions deep
• ly affecting their prosperity as a peo
j pie. They want an honest adminis
tration of the Government, and that
! thing your party has miserably failed !
Ito give them. You wil’ bo compelled
jto defend Grant, Babcock, Avery,
Belknap and others before the earn
! paign is over, or else go square back
!ou them.” R.—“ Yes, well, Grant and
others have nothing to do with Hayes |
and AVheeler.” Rep. —“You Repub
licans are working hard in Jefferson
ville, and, I Suppose, over the State,
getting up a good organization, ain't!
you?” R.—“ Yes, wo will have a j
splendid organization in thirty days,
the best we ever had In the State.”
Rep.—“Do you expect to elect Orth ?”
R. —“Yes, by a good majority. You
men expect to elect AYilliams, but you
will be fooled. AA’itli all the boasted
wealth of Tilden, we will have more 1
money to use than you will.” Rep.
“Yes, I havo no doubt of that; fur if
it was not for Government patronage,
wo would elect AYilliams by thirty !
thousand majority. As it is we will
elect him by ten thousand.” With
this we parted; and we only print the
conversation for what it is worth. It,
shows up some matters that will ho of
interest to the people.
Tho Constitutionalist says it is re
ported that Gov. Tilden is engaged
to bo married to an accomplished and
beautiful voting lady, a native of Ken
tucky, at present residing in Ala
bama, and they will probably fulfill
their engagement before the ides of
November have come and gone.
TILDEN CAMI’URN SUM). '
in- c.taii uiif.st.
Air, Dixie.
In the land of corn nmt Hie land of cotton
luidieal ore rijie and rotten
Look away ! look away !
All too long have the rascals ruled ns.
Hobbled our cash and tricked and tooled nil-
Look away ! look away !
CHOBUB.
S'! T mean to vote tor Tilden,
For Furls Sammy Tilden !
On Tilden's aide I'll stand with pride.
And work and vote for Tilden.
Honesty now is what’s the matter;
All the thieves we'll force to scatter
Look away ! look away !
Driving the rats from tin- Treasury huildin’,
dear (lie track lor our Sun Tilden
Look away ! look away t
Cuoßca So I mean to vote for Tilden, etc.
Whisky rings and revenue robbers,
Salary gr it‘tiers and railroad jobbers
Look away ! took away !
Leeches that, stick to the, public pockets.
All must, go up and away like rockets
Look away ! look away !
('nones So I menu to vote for Tilden, vie.
Ninth and South arc again united.
Equal and free, and no one slighted
Look away ! look away !
Tuck in your shirt that's dirty and bloody:
Such a foul fraud can fool nobody
Look away ! look away !
: ('Hours So I mean to vote for Tilclen, etc.
•lusticc and truth have long \ioeii sennb'd,
Honesty now is the thing that's wanted
Look away ! look away !
Look alive, then, and be sure to remember;
Vote for reform, boys, next November
Look away ! look away !
Ciionus -So I mean to vote for Tilden, etc.
[ SI. Jenus Times.
Grasshoppers Flanks,].
; According to the Boulder (Col.)
News, Mr. James Gould, living near
that point, has added a nugget of
knowledge to our grasshopper lore.
He wits that plowing the land before
the eggs hatch in the spring destroys
thorn utterly. This being the case,
the farmer has only to guard his grain
fields against the incursions of those
that hatch outside. This he can ef
fectually do. Mr. Gould has put in
120 acres of grain, and has kept the
’hoppers off, depending mainly on
dripping coal oil in the ditches. He
has used sixteen gallons and destroy
ed millions. Almost as soon as they
are hatched the myriads outside in
stinctively move for the fields of
young wheat, plunging in to cross
the ditch and dio at the touch of the
kerosene. The ditch is fixed to make
! eddies, and a scum of the oil floats on
j the surface. Mr. Gould says that
with what tho farmers now know
about fighting the ’hoppers, there is
i no more danger from those that hatch
iu the spring. About those that come
on the wing, late in the season, he
' says the remedy is to sow early, and
then the crops will he out of the way
beforo they come. A year ago it
seemed ns if the locust scourge might
destroy Colorado farming, niakin" a
crop so uncertain that none would
take tho risks. Now it is certainly
known how to avert all this danger.
It is a most wonderful triumph of the
thought of man. He has done what
it seemed iuipossiblo could ever be
done, and henceforth tho wheat har
vest will be gathered in all the Colo
rado valleys, year after year, in spite
of the locust, thank heaven, and thank
human invention too.
The above papei says also that, at
a recent horse show men from the va
rious sections of the country all told
the same story of unwearying dili
gence and triumph over the 'hopper,
and represent that the crops never
looked more promising at this season.
Rights of Funner Slave Wives anil
Children.
Surrogate Calvin, of the surrogate’s
office, New York city, has decided
that the estate of a deceased colored
njan in New York goes to the surviv
ing wife by cohabitation when tho
parties were slaves; and their children
recognizing the right of a marriage of
that kind when in the state of servi
tude. Anthony Jones, formerly a
slave in Virginia, escaped thirty years
•ago to New York, .lie died leaving
some $15,000 in personal and real es
tate. The estate was claimed by tho
State oi' New York, under the suppo
sition that the deceased left no rela
tives entitled to it under tho law.
Claim, however, was set up by Patsey
Minor, as his widow, and Anthony
Smith, their son. The widow, sever
al years after the escape from servi
tude of her putative husband, suppos
ing him dead, took another husband,
aftto.' the same fashion as her first.
The surrogate awarded the widow her
one-third of the personalty to which
a widow is entitled in New Yovk*and
her tho realty. Tho leading
principle of the decision is that the
claimants “were to all intonts and
purposes the wife and son of tho de
ceased Anthony Jones, and conse
quently entitled to such property as
the putative husband and father left,
and especially under the net of Vir
ginia of 18(15, which provides that
wherever negroes have lived together
as man and wife, and shall have ceas
ed to live together for any cause be
fore the passage of that act, all the
children of the woman, recognized by
the man to be his wife, shall be
deemed legitimate.”
Agricultural journal: Question
“Will the editor please inform me
how the Hollanders salt cucumbers?'’
Answer. "The most common way,
as we observe'! when abroad, is to
salt them with salt.”
Tin: sim \.
j t'wiiOrcal Families The Onlral oftlic
Stiti Ihliice Tito kind of Men on file
War Patti.
: < ‘hioafio Tribune. 1
i Foht Liwom - , 11 \ KOTA, .1 nly lit.
i. * * Hero is a bit of Indian his
tory which will ho new to young roa-
I ders. The Sioux, while having many
; tlibahaelations and dialects, are re
ally divided into two great, families
the Dakotas and Tetons. For many
I generations the Tetons have ruled su
premo west of the Missouri river. The
1 name Teton implies People of the
Lodges, or those who live west of the
Missouri. The Tetons, and tribes re
lated to them, use the L instead of
the 1) saving Laeota, ete.
The main tribes or branches de
scended from tho Teton are the Fnk
: papa (some dried moat,), Sihasapa
| (.black feet), Sichango or Drub s
I t burn thighs), Minneshala (red wa
ter), Ogalalla (one who pours out',
Hobenonpa (two kettles), Minneesn
iou (water-edggod), Itazippacha (bow
j and arrow tribe). Last of the Miss-
I issippi river there are the Isanteo
! (the lodge knife), Yanktonians (ar
row point), Pahhaksa (cut heads.
All these latter tribes use tho 1).
'Then there are tho Asiniboins or
I Holm (kettles,) who are also sub-di
i vided. They roam around the Pem
bina lino, in the Hoop-Up country,
j but aro mainly provided for at Bel
knap. The AVahlopana (band that
use the paddle), were originally
Yanktonians, but, separated from the
I present tribe about one hundred
| years ago. John Howard, interpre
• ter at this post, has given the above
i and other valuable information.
In 18711 Howard met Sitting Bull
at Fort Peck, and conversed at
I length with him. lie says that Ta
| tunka Fvotunko, or Sitting Bull, is at
least forty-six years of age, lias dark
, brown hair, gray eyes, and is five feet
: ni)i6 inches iu height. This agrees
' with my recollection of Sitting Bull,
except as to age, though an Indian is
j very like a negro in that respect- it
j being hard to guess at his ago. The
i Indians call Sitting Bull Hunkishino,
; or the slow one—a generic term ap
i plied by wav of sarcasm. Sitting
! Bull, Howard says, speaks only Sioux
i and Ariekaree. On the Kith of June
I Sitting Bull and his allied bauds fell
| upon Gen. Crook and achieved a par
| tial victory. Runners were immedi
ately dispatched to lukewarm tribes
j around the agencies to carry the
news and to drum for recruits.
Accordingly a number of young
j braves loft standing Rock, Cheyenne
Agency and Fort Peck reservation
j and joined Silling Bull. Before,
! however, they could lie accepted, they
j had to pass through the ordeal of the
I sun-dance. Theso ceremonies wore
held in a wild canyon of tho Big Horn
, Mountains; and a graphic description
of them has been given me by IV. C.
j Gooding, a young Massachusetts tra
der, who is studying the übpwginal
character, previous to applying fora
position on the Indian Pence Com
mission as a humanitarian. The suu
dauco commenced on the afternoon of
the 18th of June; and, from the com
mencement to the end, 200 warriors
were not to eat or drink anything.
Under shades mado of cut bou gbs,
Sitting Bull an other warriors wore
gathered to witness the ceremonies.
Tho 200 young warriors were
ranged around a medicine-pole, their
bodies blackened with charcoal, ami
wearing nothing but a short skirt of
buckskin around their loins, and ea
gle-feather coronets. They would
dance at intervals of half an hour, and
wore then allowed a short respite un
til again called out by tho tom-tom.
A warrior was suspended from the
medicine-pole by the ends of a lariat
fastened to two thorns stuck in the
llesh of his back; in each hand he
held a long pole, which partially sup
ported him; but every few minutes he
would swing the wh.flo weight of his
body upon the lariat in an effort to
toar*tlie thorns from his flesh. After
hanging lor three hours in the glaring
sun lie was cut down and carried
away. Another young warrior, who
wanted to show what a brave heart ho
hail, lay down on his face and had
six thorns put in his back and shoul
ders; then turned over, and had two
move put in his breast.
Then, rising to his feet, buftalo
skulls were fastened to the thorns in
his back, and a lariat to those in his
breast, and he was made fast to the
medicine-pole. The tom-tom struck
tip, and the Indian began to dance;
and as the skulls tore out of the llesh
one by one, Sitting Bull and the
chiefs would shout their approbation.
Then bracing back till the. lariat pull
ed his breast out like a woman’s, ho
danced with renewed vigor, and as the
thorns tore from his tlewli and he had
demonstrated terrible powers ofcti
durance, the chiefs gave him loud
cheers. These aro tho kind of men
who are now on the war-path against
their hereditary foe, tho pale-face.. Is
it any wonder that tho bravo Castor
fell before them V
Tub Moxr.or.rAN I’oi'it.atio*. Ac
cording to a letter to the London
Times, written by an educated China
man, who is now studying for the bar
iu England, the whole number of
Chines in the United States is 1 IS,
TOO, of whom 00,000 live in the State
of Carolina, and 30,000 ia San Fran-
The Two Fluffs.
[All.any Argus.]
Tho Democratic party is marching
under tho starry banner of a recou
eiU I Republic, fraternal and free.
Tho Republican parl y marches un
i der the banner of tho bloody shirt.
There is no question as to which
flag is preferred bv flu* people of this
restored Republic. They have lmd
enough of gore, of misrepresentation,
!of angry and tumultuous conflict.
They demand peace and order, jiros
i parity and law.
Tho bloody shirt is tho ensign of
tho brigand. The desperadoes who
carry it have, robbed tho South of
many millions of dollars, and the Re
puhlie of millions mo ■. And by their
plots and conspiracies, they have sot
the rabble of the South quarreling
! with each other; and then used tho
consequences of their own villainies
to tire the Northern heart into per
petuating their power to plunder the
people.
(lovernor r | ilden will preserve law
abiding liberty, will maintain orderly
progress, with Jacks dan firmness.
At the same time ho will clean out the
i pestiferous brood of public plunders
: who have stolen the people poor.
Hold high aloft the Flag of tho Free;
push forward the stadard of tho
avenger of thieves !
S Timm by ;i Flown.
The following sermon was preach
ed bv a clown, in a circus that, was
1 exhibited in one of Iheeountiy towns
in the State of Kentucky. There is a
good deal of hitter truth in it; an l
, though published before, it will bear
; repetition:
“Arv friends, we have taken in
1 about six hundred dollars here to
day, more money, I venture to say,
than any minister of the Gospel in
this town will receive for a whole
year’s service. A large portion of the
money was given by the church mem-
a large number of this au
dience is composed of members of the
church-—ami yet. when your preach
er asks for money to aid in support
ing tho gospel, you say you are too
poor to give anything. Vet von come
to hear my nonsense. I am a fool
because lam paid fir it; I make a
living by it. A m prole s to bo wise,
and vet you support me in my folly.
But, perhaps, you say you didn't come
• to see the circus lint the unitnnlAh !
] now this is an excuse ! If vou came
.to see the animals, why did you not
; look at them and go away? Why
did you stay to hear mv nonsense?
Now, is this not n pretty place for a
Obristion to be in ? Do you not feel
ashamed of yourselves ? You ought
to blush with shame, to bn caught in
such a place as this!”
AYiiero Are Ilia Nohiiors.’
The total number of troops in tho
United States service is put down now
at 2(1,071). Of those, 7,052 are said to
he in the Southern States, looking af
ter tho political interests of tho car
pet bagger; at recruiting stations
there are said to be ',210; and at
Northern posts, stations and forts
there are 4,808 more. Laying the
number of massacred men with Gen.
Ouster at 301), this will account tor
10.133 men, which, deducted from
20,070, loaves 10,5 Id still unplaced.
Where aro those ten tines:,ml five
hundred soldiers ? They are not with
Terry or Crook or Gib .>n. Where
are they? Unless tho total number
lias been falsely given, ilm, must be
s-mewhnre about the country. Tho
whole number in the Black j tills coun
try, already there or on tie. ir wav to
strengthen the commands, eannont
be more, than four thousand men.
\\ here are the other six t.hoiis aut live
hundred? Aro they iu the Southern
States looking afu r lb. • political in
terestskOi the carpi ! i-■, a; . acid on
tho *[ui r.' '' for “brutal outrages,"
manufactured to order, or where are
they? Figures don't lie. '<!. i.iuis
Republican.
What tub Roj;. 0., F;..\:t. -The
New York Ere man'* Journal thus
speaks: “Tho whole force of Grants
administration, and it is very toi mida
bio, will work for Havre ami Wheeler
as hard as if it were a third term' for
Grant hiinsGt'.. This mud hr-- because
Grant’s administration cannot suffer
the election of an opposing candidate.
We here record what wo are con
vinced of on good grounds—testified
to by Congressmen that havo been
Republicans, as well as by those that
have been Democrrtr;—that, if Tilden
is elected L'rcsiddnt, the arohiovoti of
the Executive Department in Wash
ington will either i>o robbed of a vast
number of arebieves committed to it,
in tho course of ‘business’ of the last
unhappy sixteen years, or there will
boa large number oi tires in those de
partments, occurring between the first
Tuesday ol next November and tho
fourth of next March.
‘'There are no , documents in those
departments that wii’ never be suffer
ed to come into tho hands cf an im
partial, much less an hostile, admin
istration.”
The present is the fourth invasion
of tho Big Horn country by United
States troops Gen. Conner went in
tfilio, and destroyed a village oi hos
tile Cheyennes and Arapahoes. In
18(13 Gen. Carrington entered the
field, and left it with the Indians ia
charge; and in .March last Gen. (‘rook
led ail expedition thither, which dal
not yield practical fruit.
From the lowest depth ;v i,a
path to the loftiest height, .
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