TH CAMBRIA FREEhUH.
EBF.NSBURC, PA.,
Friday Morning, - - Nov. 16, 1877.
The lower branch of Congress want to
limit the army to 20, 000, while Ilie Senate
w islics to see that and go 5,000 better.
The vote in this State for the Greenback
Labor ticket at the late election was uboiit
B3,0H0, of which mow than one-half waa
cast in the counties of A Ilcghany, Luzerne,
Schuylkill and Philadelphia.
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The official majorities in all the counties
of the State except fre, whose leportet!
majorities will not be material!; changed,
give the fallowing lesults :
Trunke) mi)orlf.v nicr SterreM
j li.-t ' Hi i J. r t ' ovit I'H'oinore
yes iiiiijoriiy in it Hart
Xmv that Col. Noyrb hns been elected
Ht.it e Treasuier, Republican editors who,
it l to the very last l;iy of the campaign,
persisted in the c.iliimny that he had voted
in the Legislature of 18T0 for the Nino Mil
lion Bill, when they knew that he was not
then a member of the House, will probably
conclude that systematic falsehood about
a j o'itical opponent will not i ay in the long
j n n. and that a lie ell stuck to is rot as
good as the tiuth.
Tub majority ( 1 , "387 ) forjudge Turnkey
in this county is the largest given to him
by any county in the central or western
portion of the State. Tho majority for
Sehell (l,?.'JS) and for Xoyes, 1,432) is S9
and 44 ius than they respectively received
in Westmoreland. Greene county gave
Hchell IS more of a majority than be bad
in Cambiia, and the majority fir Nojcs in
Cleat Held exceeds that of Cambiia by 10
Totes.
"Tllii Iteptililit-nti parly cmnes out of this
"mi g in a healthy condition." 1'ittttiui yh
lioittlr.
Yen! in about as healthy a condition as
a defeated prize -fighter when he in carried
out of the ring, wi:h one eye (the head of
the Republican State ticket; completely
bunged up, two of his ribs (the other two
stales candidates) bioken, and his face so
ixuised and battered that his moht intimate
fiiend would fail to recognize, him. If
t'uit is a healthy s'.ate of human existence,
the present sha tereil condition of the Re
publican party is not without its parallel.
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Stewart, a colored bather of New Cas
tle, Lawrence county, who was nominated
by the Republicans as a candidate for As
sociate Judge, was defeated by 170 votes,
although the county gave a Republican ma
jority of over 800. We predicted Stewart's
defeat at the time be was nominated. The
Republican party has time and again owed
its success in this State to the ncgio vote,
which has been cast solidly in its favor,
biit whenever that pai ly nominates a colored
tijau for otfice in a distiict wheie it has the
p jwer to elect him, be has been defeated,
and btauds as a living monument of Repub
lican hypocrisy in its professed love fi
bim as ''a m in and brother.1'
The Philadelphia Time thinks it would
be the prper thing for Gov. Ilartranft to
:ip).oi it Judge Stenett as President Judge
of th Veningo distiict, to fill the vacancy
caused by tho election to the Supreme
Couitof Judge Turnkey, his late competi
tor. It would be eminently appropriate, on
the part of the Governor to do ro, piovided
IiKtga Stenett would accept the appoint
ment, and alt hough it is not as high a posi
tion as a seat on the bunch of the Supreme
Cou t, nor is the satiny so large, there is no
otlice which a man can hold so responsible
and honorable as that of presiding officer of
a Comt sitting iu impaith.l and Intelligent
judgment on disputed questions of right
between man and man.
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The resul sof the war in Aimenia during
the last three weeks have generally been
idveise to the Tmks, The Turkish army,
after its late disastrous defeat near Kars,
succeeded iu making good its retreat to
Lizeroum, where it is now besieged by the
Russians. Iu Bulgaria, the western seat
of the war, there have been several severe
encounters between small detachments of
I he two armies, but no general engage
ment. Plevna, the key to the situation,
still holds out, although the Russian re
pot ts say'thtt it is completely invested, or
surrounded that all communication with
it by the Turks is cut off, and that its sur
leuder must soon take place. If this event
dees not happen veiy soon, the seventy of
the weather and the condition of the roads
will compel the Russians to retire iuto win
ter ipititers.
TiE British authorities have informed
Sitting Hull that be and bis braves will be
pimit ed to leinaiu iu Cauada, and have
dittcted h'uu to proceed to a icservatiou
set apait for bim on Red Deer river, uorl fe
west of Fort Walsh. When be was in
formed of this fact some days ago by Col.
McLeod, the British commandant at the
Fort, and told that in bis new quarters be
nni.it keep the peace and give no. cause for
trouble, Sitting Bull made a speech which
we publish below. Coming from an un
tutored Indian, the speech displays a gieat
deal of natural eloquence, and bristles all
over with Sitting Bull's intense and bitter
hatred towards the government and people
of the United States. Here is the speech :
Mr ft lend fln.l sit the Queen's men whom I
risped: I have heard you talk. I knew you
would tPHk to me in thnt wn.v. Notiod? told
m. I tu t knetv it. IMrirti. I came to you
in the hist plm-o lM-etuse I tv. heitiir hard
dnven hv the Americans. They htoWo their
t rent n n h my P' iiple, amlwheti I rose tin mid
foMulw, not fluninst them, hut for our rijrht as
th- first ifplnnn this part or earth, tlu-y
rui'0ii l me like a dog-, and would have ium tue
ton tree. Thev lire not just. They drive us
ii.to war and then seek to punish us for flirht
in. That Is no! honest. The Qaeen would not
d that. I onir rtiro when I w;is a boy I heard of
thr Queen, now my lri at Mother. I heard that
shit was Just arid iroort. Now I know it. Von
g ive me shelter when I was hard pressed. My
own life U dear to n.e, hut 1 .1id not value it
when f f.meht the A niericnti". hut I did vnliie
tlie lire or ir. v uaM u. Therefore. I hroujrht iny
people to viiii. I thank you for what, you have
done for them. will r to the ltea ieer na
heat peace. Tell the Queen that
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Tell her I
ill ben (rood mnn. that iny people will he good.
rn her ulcn tii.it we never were had. lor she
knows that it is not wronir to liifiu loritre. My
P-ric are wei.rv miJ tick. I will take them to
the It.J Deer: and now I declare before you
that I will not tnnk trouble, or armor you. or
if ! e pn'ii to the Queen. I will tie quiet. I will
never tlifht n your soil unless you ak trie to
help vim. Then I will flirht. I wish you jrood
hy. riiice me win re you like. I will be at pence
iii Canada. Hut you who are brave soldiers mid
not trctitv-brenkcrs. thieves and murderers,
j on would think me a coward if I did not die
Itifhtinaf the American. Therefore, while I ro
to H-l leer now to live at peace (here the
speaker almost shrieked) I will come back when
hit lir:i W8 are stronw: or if they will not whip
I will oonie alone and flaht the Americans until
di-ntti. You I love and respect; thm I hale,
nnd ynu. Queen's soldn r. would despise me if I
did not hate t hem. That is all. Iain rcudj tu
(ro with ; ou to the He- i)c.r.
Ir becamo necessary at the late election
to choose a succssor to Ed w in L. Dana, As
sociate Law Judge ot Luzerne county.
Judge Dana has been on the bench for ten
j ears, and in the discharge of bis duties
has given such great and genets! satisfac
tion that be received the uuaimous endoise
ment of both the Demociatic and Republi
can conventions of the county for te-elec-tion.
The Greenback-Labor party, bow
rver, wi'.h a folly not easily comprehended,
nominated in opposition to Judge Dana a
Demociatic lawyer and a first-class dema
gogue, William II. Stanton, and as that
pa i ty swept eveiy thing before it in Lucerne,
Stanton was elected by a majority of 2,400.
This unlooked for lesult Las produced wide
spread alaim and uneasiness throughout
the county, owing to Stauton's notorious
uiifitucss for the position of a judge. Not
loiur since be was a member of the State
Senate, where bo proved himself to be a
Iboiougd agrarian a fit disciple of J us-us
Schwab, the New Yoik larger beer eaVion
keeper and leader of tlie Communistic
crowd in that city. If Win. II. Stanton is
sample of the kind of men that the Green-hack-Labor
party propose to elevate to
liigh judicial positions in this State, in dis
tiict where they have the power, we can
no'T exclaim, in tb languagejof the comt
CiieV, ''God vt the Common Ttaiih V'
The most singular feature of the election
in the city c-f Xew Yoik was the defeat of
Augustus Schcll, tho regular Democratic,
Tammatiy Hall, candidate for State Sena
tor, by John Moriisscy, who ran as an anti
Tammany Democrat, and was supported
by all the factions in the district opposed to
the despotic rule of Tammany Hall. Mor
rissey's majoiity is almost 4,000. The dis
trict embraces one of the most aristocr.it ic
and fashionable portions of the city, and
is said to represent more wealth than any
jther district in the United States. Mor
rissey ceased to be a State Senator last
spring, but he represented another disti ict,
and only a short time ago moved into the
oue from which be has just been elected,
expressly, as he said, to defeat the Tam
many candidate, lie was supported by
such men as Peter Cooper, William Cullen
Bryant, the As ors, Phclpses, Dodges, and
others almost equally as well known. Al
though Morrissey long since abandoned the
business of a prizes lighter, it is well known
that he is the proprietor of the most elegant
and fashionable gambling saloon at Sara
toga Springs. He is legarded as stiictly
honest and as a legislator above and beyond
ailcouupt influences. Mr. Schell is one of
tho foremost meu in the city, and is a con
spicuous leader of l be Tammany Hall as
sociation. His defeat, theiefore, by a man
of so questionable a character as John Mor
rissey shows that the powei of Tammany
Hail in the political atTairs of New Yoik is
rapidly on the decline.
Matikifd His Own Sister.. A ticblead
of romance has been struck at Oakland,
Mil. A poor farmer lives there, self-exiled,
self-buried, among stiangers, simply be
cause he manicd his sister without know
ing it. When he was a lad of seven, and
she a lass of three, she was kidnapped, and
her paronts never heard of her again, al
though they expended thousands iu search
ing for her. Tho heart broken mother
died soon after the loss of her darling, and
the father wandered over Europe, and fin
ally settled in New York, where he died.
The brother grew to manhood, and the
memory of his lost sister was almost effaced
from his mind. In bis t wentv-se vent h
year, while visiting a married friend, he
fell in lovo with the governess of his friend's
childien, a beautiful girl of about twenty
three, and after some mouths they were
married, and lived happily for five or six
years, a boy and girl being born to them
dm lug that. lime. By the death of an un
cln in Sail Francisco the husband was left
a considerable fortune, and the lawyer who
conveyed the intelligence to bim, also sta
ted to him that bis sister's caieer had been
traced. A tramp on his death bed in a St.
Louis police station confessed that he and
two companions had stolen a little girl, for
her clothes and a locket which she wore,
and that she continued with them for sev
eral years, when her blight, pretty face at
tracted the attention of a kind hearted lady
in Ohio, who adopted her and sent tier to
school, where she remained until her pa
troness died. She then became a teacher
in a large school in Cincinnat i, but as her
health began to fail she applied for a posi
tion as governess. "My Gwl !" cried tho
clionr, 'Vhe has been my wife fir five
years." He bad married bus own sister.
They divided the property and placed
their children under the roof of a friend,
and Ibcu separated fjrevcr.
The Porn Is reported to be very near
bis end and may die at any moment may
be dead before this meets the public eye ;
yet may linger for days or weeks. He was
eighty-livo years old on the RJth of last
May and has been I 'ope over thirty ono
years. His life has been full of cares, but
he has ever maintained a calm spirit and
governed his actions as became his position.
Everything considered, his age is remarka
ble. In ' his boj hood and early manhood
he was afflicted with epileptic fi s, and was
in feeble health, and during bis pontifioal
career he has encountered a sea of troubles.
But bis placidity of temper and his con
sciousness of good intentions have preserv
ed bim until he haspai-sed four score years.
In person ai.d manners be was ever most
engaging and agreeable, and the benignity
of bis countenance and his smile always
won the hearts cf all w bo have come into
bis ptesence, whatever their religious senti
tnents or prejudices. And bis voice was
scarcely less winning. It waa soft and
sonorous, and, when addressing the niul i
tudH, could be beard distinctly ; even
against the wind, a long way off. Ail who
have visited Rome entertain a very high
regard for Pio Nono, and thousands of
Protestants in America will profoundly la
med his death. Philadelphia Iiccord,ZUu
. . SiJC Million Cotitritct.
I A bilef local item was published in our
issue of last evening, says the Johnstown
' Tribune of Friday, which, stated that
I Messrs. Philip and Thomas Collins, former
j residents of Ebensbnrg, this county, bad
' secured the contract for building one btin
i died and eighty miles of railroad in Brazil.
! Mr. Philip Coliins paid a brief visit to his
: former home yesterday, and, upon being
; questioned in relation to the matter,
promptly answered that the report, had
foundation in fact, and that a corps tr en
j gineers would depart from Philadelphia on
. the 80th of the present month, for Brazil,
where, immediately upon their arrival,they
would commence making a survey of the
i route. About the middle of uext mouth
Mr. Thomas Collins will go out to inaugur
' ate the work of giadimr, leveling, etc., and
! all the skilled labor that will be required
j be will take with him, but natives of that
I country will be employed in doing the or
j dinary laboring woik of picking, shoveling,
etc
j Mr. Collins states that the guage will be
I 3 feet 3$ inches, and he does not anticipate
much obstruction in preparing the way for
the roadbed, as nearly the entire distance
1 continues along the river level. The ordi-
nary stage of water in the Madeira River
which streams the couise of the road will
follow i about ten feet, but iu the lainy
! season, which extends over a period of
about thiee months, ihe water liscs some
times to a bight of fifty feet. The contract
Calls for the completion of this enterprise
within three yeais from date, and Mr. Col
lins is satibfitd that the teiuis cau be com
plied with.
To the Philadelphia Times of Wednesday
last we are indebted foi the following iu
formatiou upon the subject of this enter
prise., which has been iut iusted to a firm
of vetetan contractors who have made
their names famous all over the country,
and who still claim Cambria as their borne,
although residing iu Philadelphia :
Among commercial men yesterday the sub
ject of increased trade between this port nnd
ilrazil by the establishment of a line of slcHm
irs received a new impetus on account of the
news Just cabled from reunion in reference to
the Mauerin K,t ma Kailrond contract, l ins
contract is between "The Madeira and Maruore
Uftilroad Company" and "Tho National Bolivian
Navigation Company" and Messrs I'. & T. Col
lins of t his citv, ai'd foot" up an outlay for the
road r 5.0i D.oil ). The Philadelphia contractors
airrce to complete the gradation, masonry and
superstructure and furnish the equipment of a
road oue hundred and eighty nines along tho
eastern shore of the Madi-rla river, in iJ.-nzil,
from the point of navigation below t he rapids
of thai river to the point of na Igation on the
Mnmore river, a branch of the Maderia atiore.
The Maderia river has its source in the immense
water shed of Itoli via, east of the Amies, leaves
Uolivia at tho northeastern point and runs
across the table-land ot Brazil to the Amnion,
which it J..ins near ftarra, about seven hundred
miles from tho Atlantic. The Madeira' is navi
gable for steamers as far up as liairainao, but
Just above that town Is t he Cataract de Inferno
and a series or tans which renuer tne river owe-
less for one hundred and eighty miles. The I
Ma more river is the chief branch of the Made- j
ira and Joins the latter above the falls, on the
borders of llolivia. On tho Mnmore are the ,
Kannneira Falls. The tallroad Is to be run from j
the itnnaneira Knlls to the head of navigation
on t he Madeira, a distance about twice us great
as tiiat troui this city to Now I ork.
WHAT IRA r R THE HOAD WILL OPEN.
When it is constructed the trade of llolivia,
which r;ow has no convenient outlet, will flow
easily down the Madeira and Amazon to the
Atlantic. .The aggregate lemrth of the affluent
of the Madeira, wilh their tributaries, is lltty
ftve hundred miles, ami three thousand miles
navigated by steamers wou'd open the unequal
ed mineral wealth and agricultural products of
he country tu the commerce of any nation en
ergetic enough to bid lor such a great trade.
Bolivia is the most peaceful and at the same
tune richest of the South American republics.
It is shut out from the world by the Andes on
the wesi, having, with an area of isn.nnO square
miles and a population or nearly 3.imu,nuu. a
snort Pacific const line ot fifty miles, which can
only tie reached hv mountain journeys. The
people are industrious and only wain exterior
t rado to make them a nation i it s'nniliiiir among
tlie powers of the earth. The silver mines of
l no Ci'iru de Potosi. from which one billion
Jollars were taken In the interval between JSI.
and ITsB. are proverbial for their richness, and
iu other parts ot the mountain system, which is
accessible by the Madeira nranches, there are
inexhaustible stores, of silver and gold. The
railroad will also bring easi ward t he abundance
of farm products now taken across llij Andes
at great cost and inconvenience.
THE CLIMATE OF THE COUNTRY.
The climate is of such a character in the !
duira water shed ihnt cotton, ci.tTee and sugur
iriuw as plentifully as in any other part or the
South American continent. The -o'toii trees
b-ar cotton until they arc nine years old, while
in the L'nitetl States the seed is sown every
year. Coir.e plants grow wild, and tons of the
berry rot for want of transportation. The
menus of conveyance, heretofore so unequal to
the production of this rich country, have been
lhe mule and llama trains over the Andes, the
trips beiog long, ililTicult, and insecure on ac
count of poor police, who could do nothing
with the desperadoes who intest the route.
T.i.nnO pounds sterling in silver, all taken from
above he water level, have been borne to the
Pacific within the past one hundred and twenty
rears. All this went to Spain. In l;-fl.Si!ii? in
ternal trade of Bolivia reached about 15.IHHI 0110
pounds, and in ls72r xportsanioun'ing to 3.7oO,
014) pounds were taken across the Andes on
mule and llsin.i hack. Hence the importance
of spanning the Maueira rapids wus recognized
years ago.
THE NKOOTI ATIONS TH AT LED TO THE KESUI.T.
Some steps were made iu that direction, and
the Bolivian Government, to facilitate their
execution, decreed that the rivers of the Ite-
I public should be open for all vessels. In 1m8
j the government sunt to the United Stales for
I an engineer to devise means of getting around
the rapid-1, either by canal or railway. The
j services of Coi.(;eorge Kirle Church, of New
i York, were secured, and ho soon decided that
I the railroad scheme was more feasible. Me
then conttacted tor the establishment of tlie
j National Bolivian X'avurtttmn Company. The
f government Issued bondj to defray the ex pen.-e
I of constructing the proposed road, and sent
, C'ul. Cli urch to tendon to negotiate their s:ilc.
i The engineer found that the Bolivian Govern
: ment had no credit in Loudon. Then he en
! deavorcd to negotiate with theKnirlish capital
j Isis on the credit of Brazil, but w.is told that
I there did not exist a treaty between Uum Pe
! dro's empire and Bolivia. Col. Church went
I to South America and closeted himself with
' Uum Pedro.
rOM pkdro oives Mfinr.r.
I One result of the conference was the Issue of
: a decree by the Brazillian Government that the
j Amazon river be open to all flags. Another
result was an agreement on lhe part of Doin
; Pedro to give Col. Church a charter lor the
! road and a concesNion of 1,3K),(HI0 acres tif land.
! Horn Pedro was induced to this action because
I the part of his domain known ns the Malto
I Orasso, an itnmensn district, rich in mines and
plantation lands, will be placed iu comnr.inlca
i tion with the sea by the road. The Mntto
Grosio diamond tracts nnd gold mines in the
Cordillera del Norte and Geral Mountains equal
those in Bolivi.-i in wealth. In addition to the
charter it runt and land concession Iotn Pedro
issued .'.4W,0U0 worth of debenture bonds to
ralse'funds tor the road. These bonds have
found eager purchasers, so ttiat the project on
of lhe great scheme are enabled at this moment
to push it through.
THE MOISET HE A ti Y FOnTnS PR I L A DELPH I A NS.
The payments to the Messrs. Collins will bj
about thi-ee-iuiirters in cash, nnd the money
to pay them is now on hand. The debentures
guaranteed by the Brazilian Uovernincut stand
for the remainder.
The road is to be of narrow-gauge construc
tion, the iron rails being forty-five pounds per
yard. The materials will be furnished by the
Philadelphia & Heading Coal and Iron Companj-,
according to an agreement with the contrac
tors, and the cash for the materials, about t.'i,
OU0.OU0, will bo paid upon shipment rrom tliH
port. The caoture of this huge contract from
the English by Philadelphiaus is deemed a sig
nificant matter in South Auierlcan trade, and
is thought to point toward the establishment
of direct ocean com mimics! inn between Phila
delphia and lhe Amazon river.
The contractors, P. ft T. Collins, stand among
the great corporations of tho State, presided
over by Colonel Scott, Mr. Oowen. Asa Packer
and with many of the smaller Western roads,
"A No. 1." Their experbmee of twenty years
in handling the largest contracts in the S;ato
which demanded skill and solid, honest work
In an eminent deirreo. commended them for
this Important enterprise in South America,
and they were selected ou account of these
qualifications.
lAyhl on the Indian Question.
The Indian questiou teems to be the in
soluble problem of American politics and
practical morality. It is, and for years Las
been, discussed by politicians, by preachers,
and by financiers, and yet, at this moment,
it appears to be as far from a satisfactory
settlement as it was a generation ago. In
the present attitude of the popular mind
towards the unhappy race, whom we Bome
times ironically speak of as "the nation's
wards," the most encouraging 6ign is the
manifest desire which prevails to obtain
light, to know the actual facts upon which
the right settlement of the question de
pends. Well disposed Americans, those of
the frontier perhaps excepted, aie, we be
lieve, really inclined to listeu respectfully
to any competent witness who proposes to
give them information bearing upon the
great subject. We cannot do better, there
fore, than lay before our readers some de
tails and judgmeuts contained in a Jong
statement which appeared, a few days ago,
in the New York Herald, as taketi down
from the lips of the Rev. Father Mesplier.
Father Mesplier is one of those brave,
self-denying missionaries who have devoted
themselves the cause of Christianity and
civilization among our Northwestern In
dians. He is a Frenchman, and entered
the field of bis labors in 1847. Iu that very
year he was a spectator of the war between
the whites and the Indians of Washington
Ten it.ny, under the direction of the famous
chief Kamiakban. Again, in 1855 he wit
nessed the second Oregon war, carried on
by the same chief. Of the f-uiake war of
1362 and of the Modoc war of 1S71, so me
morable for its final episode of the Lava
Beds, Father Mesplier was personally cog
uizaut, as be was also of the war waged by
and against the Rlackfeet Indians. In re
ference to every one of these bloody con
flicts the significant fact is the conviction
of Father Mesplier, a conviction founded
upon intimate knowledge of Indian charac
ter and all the facts of the case, that the
war was 'he direct and proper consequence
of the violation of tieatics and of unscrupu
lous robbery on the part of white men,
chiefly representatives of the Govennueut
of the United States.
Father Mesplier, upon personal knowl
edge, states that Joseph, the Nez Peices
chief, had with him during the late war a
considerable number of the men who bad
fought under Sitting Hull. If Joseph had
been able to bold out until next spring, the
missionary feels perfectly sure that all the
Indians of Lower Oregon and Washington
Territory would have joined his foices, and
that the Government would have bad on
band the greatest Indian war of its entire
history. Hut this Nez Pcrces war might
have been easily avoided, Father Mesplier
says; it would have been avoided if due at
tention had been paid to the information
and warnings which tho Uovei iiioeut re
ceived. Three times, be says, he warned
the proper authorities of impending events ;
first, two years belore the wai ; secondly,
six weeks before it, and .finally, ten days
before lite outbreak of hostilities. It seems
that Chief Joseph bad conceived a most
comprehensive and ingenious scheme of
wreaking vengeance uikjii the Government
for the wrongs of which he complained.
His scheme embraced an alliance of many
tiibes, and, if consummated, it would un
doubtedly have provided woik for at least
20,000 soldiers during an indefinite pciiod.
Hut, again, the significant fea uie of
Father Mcsplier's narrative is the state
ment that Chief Joseph never meditated a
war of retribution, except in view or iu an
ticipation of the failure of a plan he had
devised for righting, or rather for pi event
ing, by peaceful means, the injury which
he and his people felt unable, to cuduie.
Tl e grounds of the Indians' indignation
are easily intelligible. In lS."i.", when Jo
seph's father, a lespected chief of the Nez
Perces, was about to die, he exacted from
bis sou a solemn promise never (o abandon
the valley of Wallawa, which the tiibe bad
occupied from time immemorial. For some
time, however, the white people bad begun
to settle in the valley, and Joseph had pro
tested in vain against their doing so. At
length General Howard received orders to
make an angements for removing the Ncz
Peices from their beloved valley. More
land was needed for white settlements, and
it must be bad. Then Chief Joseph, ap
paretUly recognizing the necessity, and be
lieving in the justice of the Government,
entered into negotiations with tho Umatilla
Indians to induce them to surrender their
magnificent reservation for white settle
ment, and to join the Ncz Perec in the
Wallawa. The Umatillas agreed to the
arrangement, and if this plan had been car
ried out, the Government would have ob
tained a territory as extensive and as favor
able for white occupation as the land which
the Xez Peices chief had such a noble tea
son for wishing to retain. All cause of ivar
would have b?en thus avoided. The Ore
gon Senator, Mitchell, actually made an
attempt to pass a bill in accordance wilh
Chief Joseph's desire. Hut the whites of
Oregon, with a brutal, if one may not just
ly say a savage, contempt for Indian feel
ing and Indian rights, opposed the ariange
ment, and the upshot was the war winch
has cost the Uuited States so much blood
and treasure.
In justice to Father Mesplier, we must
say that be is no humanitarian enthusiast,
or fanatical dreamer. Ho is a thorough
believer in civilization and its rights, and
does not quest ion that civilized meu may
in reason and justice claim for occupation
and use those tracts of the globe which are
abandoned to the wilderness by wandering
savages. He sees in such subjugation of
the earth a law of Providence us well as a
principle of economy, Hut Father Mesplier
behoves also that all men, even savages,
have lights which cannot bo disregarded
with impunity, nnd that the execution of
a great providential and economical law
can be safely aud usefully carried out by
the hands of men only when the rules of
justice and compassion are duly lespected.
And in this view we doubt, not that a vast
majority of the American people heartily
concur. I't'ttab u ryh Commercial- Gazette.
A Strange Coincidence. Ou Saturday
the 3d of the present month, a twelve-year-old
girl named Mary Sloser left her
home ou Harrowgate lane, near Frankford,
with a basket of apples to sell, the profits
of which were to appease the hunger of
her parents, who are both ill and in desti
tute circumstances. Since her departure
at that time she has not been seen imr
beard from, and the folks at home are of
course in great distress about her prolong
ed absence. The child is of medium build,
has dark complexion and daik hair, and
woie a green striped dress, a red figured
j table cover as a shaw l and a brown woollen
j cap. A singular circumstance in councc
j tion with this disappearance is that a
brother or the girl umo years ago, and
when of the same age, started into the city
to peddle matches, and was never heard
from afterward. Philadelphia Ileeord.
Our trade wilh Tirazil is said to have
picked up remarkably since March, when
the new line of steameis from New York
bjau their trips. The expoit thither of
waiehes is . :cu!si ly iw.ibV. Ams,icn
ii.ai.e b.;; prefcuea to tLc Ilniioh.
The New York Letir.lature is still Re
publican in both brin.--.lies. The Senate
stands Republicans, 13 ; Democrats, 14
a Democratic gain of one as compared with
the last Senate. Tlie House stands Re
publicans, 66 ; Democrats, 62 a Demo
cratic gain of fire. The failure to carry
the Legislature is a setionsdrawback upon
the Democratic party in New York, as
they will lose tbeicby the opportunity to
jedisfrtef the S':i in such a manner as to
lepieseiu the will -.f tLe majority.
The Virginia (Xev.) Enterprise of Oc
tober 31 says : 4We yesterday saw nt the
Nevada maiket. South C stree', strawber
ries as fine and large as have ever been
brought over the mountains. They came
from Newcastle, Cal., where it would seem
that summer breezes still fan the cheeks of
the village lads and lasses, while here blue
nose and watery eye attest the sharpness
of the boreal blast. The railroad bring
us bo near to California that the stands in
our markets at almost every season present
mi apjiearattoe strangely at variance willi
the prevailhiir weather and the general as
pect of .bt? Iaid uud o n turro'indins.
J'ew. ami tuner Motltig.
General M'Clellan's majority for gov
ernor of New Jersey is 13,042.
A shower of rain and grasshoppers fell
in Orange, S. C, a few nights ago.
George Moyer, of Orwigsburg, Pa.,
Las taised celery fifty-six inches tall.
A fire iu Sau I" rancisco. Monday, de
stroyed property valued at (330,000.
An old fashioned family clock sold iu
Lancaster one day last week for $2 IK).
FourMcGrew brothers, oil operators in
the Clarion district, represent a capital of
two million dollars.
The relatives of the late Mrs. Men ill,
of New York, will contest her will, in
which she left (350,000 to Caidinal McClos
key. While eating an apple a child of Com
missioner Lines, of Luzerne county, got a
piece iu its wiudpipe and was choked to
death.
Elwood Hannum, of Delaware county,
has been held iu f 1,000 bail for settiug'a
three year old child of his hiied soman ou
hot stove.
A little baby named Hlockson, born at
Little Creek Lauding, Del., lecently. has
now living five grandmothers aud four
grand fat hers.
Lyon county, Ky., has produced a
sweet potato that weighs more than eleven
pounds, and a pumpkin five feet five inches
iu circumference.
Chief Engineer Georpe J. Rarrv, of
the United States Navy, died in Philadel
phia, Saturday morning, iu the forty fifth
year of bis age.
Cardinal McCloskcv has received a
legacy of three hundred "and fifty thousand
dollars from the late Mrs. Catheiiuc Mer
nll, of New Yoik City.
Mrs. Margaret. Hanley, a news womn
who for thirty years sold papetsat (lie Ful
ton Ferry, New York, died the other day
leaving a fortuue of (o0,(H)0.
The old maxim, "He chaste and you'll
be happy," is contradicted point blank by
a I'.lack Hills man, who was chased ten
miles recently by a party of iedkius.
The vole iu the State this year was
about 200,000 short of last year, when it
was 760, TSG. The Greenback Labor vote
was abou t .10,000 of the 350,000 votes polled.
In Allegheny city, on Saturday, thiee
children of Mr. End we. e severely" burned
by the explosion if a c..al oil can. One or
them has died and another is in a ciitical
condition.
,Mrs- Mc Taggarf, a young man ied lady
of Sharon, Pa., was found dead iu bed Fri
day morning, with a bottle .f chloroform
by her side. The cause for the rash act is
not known.
ludge Kirkpatrick's decision compell
ing Gov. Ilartranft and other state officials
to appear before the PiUsburBh grand jury
was on Monday la: revet sed by the Su
preme Court.
The Democrats of Readinr fired a sa
luteofoneLntidrtdcu.is tin the fair grounds
r nday evening in honor of the Demociatic
victories in New Yoik, New Jcisey and
Pennsylvania.
It was discovered about noon on Sat
urday that the county treasury at Hatavia
Cr J0 C'V"-V' hi"' een m'-ibed
of (24,000. It is not known when the rob
bery occurred.
Iu 1813 there was built in Waltham,
Mass., a mill believed to have been the fir-t
in the world which combined all the re
quirements of making finished cloth from
the raw co Ion.
An Ottawa dispatch says there is no
foundation for the report that the Canadian
(.oyernment has granted a reserve of Und
to fitting Hull and his band, at Red Deer
river, or any here else.
A slight fire occurred on Monday even-
oiK m uie resilience T George W (',,,
Kaston, Pa. A., aged lady named Hci
olkamuth. the mothei-i.i-law or
Copp. was burned to death in her bi d
vy tll.ani L. Vntighn. principal of ; ,,!
..-r, v; . '-. lectured on
ue imty or (,ood Example." O,, the
following day be was arrested forbigamv, a
deserted wife having an ived from Canada.
A special to the Chicago InUr Oeeau't
says thesch.Hmer hirh at Two Rive.s sank
was the Magellan a Canadian vessel, whicn
carried a crew of six men besides the cap
tain All these are undoubtedly drowned.
I wo negroes eonvicicd r murder at a
previous te.m of the Chatham, a., Court,
but to whom new trials were granted by
the Supreme Court, have been frcd, the
yellow fever having killed off ad the State'
witnesses.
-Judge Tims. A. Spruce, of Maryland,
Mad Service and formerly Assistant Atto,.
neyGeneial r,., the Postoffice Depa, t.r.enf.
died ... N aMimgton City Saturday morning
uf pneumonia.
viT.',v:;l,peSt bWk of Kranitecverquar
ned in ermont, pe.fect in every respect
and weighing 628 to8, ,' BaU, to l'n
taken from the Harre Granite Quarries
without the use of powder. It 3
long l i feet high and 10 feet thick
Alfred Monroe, of Jersey City went
ife oil Thursday. Near the door of hi
bouse he quarrelled with her. Mrs Mon
roe became excited, and. placing her hand
on her husband's shouldeV, fell dead.
lr-V Sl",a,r' Wife ,,f Kobeit Stuart,
ho is possessed of an independent fortune
avenue, New Wk, committed suicide on
Mon.jay mornip:, The llnf.)rtui,ate '
bad become espondent through her hus
band being addicted to heavy d.inking
The lynching of Owen W.ight, an Ala
bama negro murderer, was preceded by a
debate as o whether be should be bm Ld
banged, but the wife of the man be bad
killed urgeo that be be burned. A vote
.7 LX"d ,Le n,aj0iity was iu fvor
A maniac in Natick, Mass, caught a
glimpse throng,, a window pf .J
inoei,g T,C,',,,eS a,,d U,0,,,,t "
i WM complimentary to her
Sro?S,.bUt d.'nEcl,s to her Lie, for he
fired at her with a P,stoi to find out whether
ldVe?hLd:1SUtllUniaU- Tteraz
The Pope lias issued a decree con
demn.ng the substitution of the Russian
language in place of the Polish i the Ro
man Catholic churches of Poland. The
Russian Government bad previously en
deavored, without success, to obtain from
tlm atican both a sanction for its use and
a declaration of its legality.
A. fire broke out in a dressing room of
Tumble s varieties in Pittsburgh on Satur
day morning, and the house was damaged
1 he Palmer Clack Crook comply i,ad
been performing there, and about (5 000
worth or properties and scenery belonging
to Mr. Palmer were dest.oyed.
a-ilr A;Vacy wrile tb Yeoman.
in J une, 18.6, I put nine catfish inar.ond
no other catfish being in it at the time and
none placed there since. On Monday
October 29 1377, I took from the po.fd
seven hundred catfish, weighing from one
to one and a quarter pounds each, and a
great many other were dent roved br boea
veryToT" ,h'V JS
A correspondent of the Lakefleld Xev
a paper published in Canada, ha discoverl
ed a remedy for the obtrusive K.ato bug.
He say that rie a visit to Peterson,
Ontario, he fouud thousands of dead hun
n the garden of f, ielld? a,,d Mrn
upon .nqni, y ,,at fl,,w Ufn k
the 1 etunia hd poisoned ibem. He there,
fore surest,, Mint PetiH lUllted
among the iwtaunsa next scawu.
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We never put u:Tthing in the pa;t rs tl.ut v. , - .
fully feubautiiiniie. ' " 1
GEI IT A I X FA CIS
Come to our knowlelire that nri( neeim r.
arllnir with tlirir money wiUiout .ny u-nm u. '
It w all ripht iiert eofie choose to ihn-.w irn
ariy; but if lliey cure to save. Uiev m; t:: ! :r. i-V."
iiiHtnnces. for exactly ll.esani material. e M-a .
s iit V cheaper, ai.d cur goods arc more mUsa- 't'-
tca-'.e iu the barpnin.
The t r are all r jn to verrboT en.J ti n r,,
cn k' l-y I'H'kil'K ' '' ' 1
Thoe who ar ti"t J'loca an a?lii n'c....
In r-'ir R'mrMw. an1 It"? fvt that ll.tr can j.-; .
raor-r la' k iirr rhf to. " " " :
Tf: clohinp wp r-fTer i n t tt fr wh .
but var h artir-J i finlMie'l for the e; of i. . ..t ,.
wnrllfliTWfnira ywr tn nr. ''
Ota Ci.orHi.vo is FHl'vPI.Y IT,
'A KKFI'LI.Y M ATE
Till K il '.HJ.Y H' .Vr.rri
MMK OF KKI.lAf'I K MaTEPt.t
MrKRATEI.Y I KK EI'.
0Ki FOR 1 H F. I.OM, kt S
CAN HE TI'KVEn HaX f'i
MONEY IF Til? BfVLk l.ir.
FOR THE FALL OF 1877
W1,t the larjreUU'vl; err known in fhl'.n i.j.i, ,,.
we put n price at onre, ai n to iui.:e tii::
IMMENSE LOTS
lloyn Suits. Men's .S;?.
Hoys' Overcoat. Men's Overctnt.
A FEW PRICES ARE SUbMlTUD
Complete Man's Suit,
Better On. - - - .
All-Wool Suit. - - -
Diagonal Suits, roiiM t?retd
Frock Sty'.. Whole Suit.
PoM elewr.-r t $. -Fir
Suit of ttia Boat Materia:.
2ie, Tzo to n
Boye' Suita as low as - - - $ j
Mn's Overcoats, . - 56 to ;-o
5
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$it ro
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V
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f-5 St,.,
5 -W,
5 .So,,,
5 j Aj,, .
5.: Satr
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$r, s,..:
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5 Vj,
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a - r
f $ fcw ;
1.5
$5 Sav
Wanamaker & Brown,
0k.K JEZjLTT;
Sixth & Market Sts., Philadelphia.
, at
tha
Mr.
Mr. Humes Mr-Candles?:, who was go
terribly mutilated bV a vicious bull, at Knt
ler, some days ai:, is in a fair way til n -covt
ry. This iK ciiiiKiilei ed one of the most
remaikahle cases on record, w herein a man
could drat his bowels for several lods n ixm
the cronnd. niul lay fr one hour before
they were replaced, and then live.
A ecoui injj to lloston society jjofcidp,
Gov. Itice, just re-elected, was engaged to
be man ied to a veiy eimable younij lady,
but, y ielditir to hit own weak ambition and
the desire of his family that he should mar
ry a mole distinguished woman, tie Lroke
the encasement, and his affianced' prit f
and disappointment brought on her death.
An iinpoi t.int tliouyh lit'le known bus
iness in Wrstfitld, Mass., is the manufac
ture of j'i.uio Iob. t-juwe t?'Q tai ved lees
per month are tinned out. They aietnade
of white wood, and catved mostly by hat d.
They aro Kent out unstained and unfinished
to the piano u;ai)iif.ictiiit-is. who color and
polish ibem to unit the intti unici.t foi
which they a-e designed.
A tei i ible Hcui.lt nt happened .it Por
tace du Tort, in the province of Motitieal.
Can., oil Fiiday. John Uoddard. owner
of the Siifux Mill, was engaged in oiling
the machinery during the dinner lionr.
when the men were absent. 11m clothes
ea nc lit between two nog wheels, he was
drawn in and liis body nm,.hhcJ Ui pieces
before the woikmen returned.
A man in I'et roli.i ci eatetl some excite
ment on the evening of t!.e i-i-ctin by
claiming that it w as unlaw f-.il to open the
saloons after the polls had closed, anil
backed I: is assertion by "pulling up" con
sideiabSe money. "llxpttts"' examined
the la,w, found ho was correct, and he pock
eted some hundreds of doiUm. So says a
correspondent of the I'aiker Jhtiltj.
There was a mad dog in St. Homme!'
church, Portland, Me., last Sunday night.
Dining the service he appeared in lhe
aisle frothing at the mouth and snapping
at tlie worshipei s in the pews. One man
was bitten in the hand whiltf atten.pt ing to
drive him out ; a child was badly bitten,
and the excitement was in ense. A police
man finally chased him into uu eutiy, near
the altar, and shot him.
Mathias nautnaister. n employe at
the lloster Drewery, Columbus. ()." was
killed on Saturday by tho explosion of a
beer hogshead. The hogshead had been
pitched to fill up the inside t lacks, and the
bung had become fi led with the cold mix
ture, llaun rr hi nst a heated rod into
the bung, aud sudde.ily withdrew it. As
soon as the air entered the hogshead it rx
jdodod, the head sti iking and terribly man
gling the man.
A gentleman in Liming'on, Me., very
eaily last spring sent away a lot of anples
in ban els. Iu one of these barrels he
placed a note, requesting the peiaou who
opened them to wiite linn, Hating when,
wheie, and in what condition the apples
wete opened, and what was pit id per banel.
About thiee mouths afterwards he received
a reply to his not from Loudon, England,
stating that the apples were tcceived in
good condition, and brought about fire dol
laia per barrel. The gentleman who pack
ed the apples leceived about per bar
rel. Two young lovers in Vermont, who
would wed without their friends' knowl
edge, started for West port the other day,
but found afterward that they could not
complete the journey until the next day.
They couldn't go home unmarried, so they
drove to Pauton and asked the llev. Mr.
H rooks to unito them. He could not per
form the ceremony without a license from
the proper town official. That was unat
tainable, as they weie far from home.
The bridegroom hi; upon the idea of evad
ing the law by going out of tho State. So
the three, with two w itnccise.-, got into a
boat and were rowed out into Lake Cham
plain, where the kuot was satisfactory
tied.
A Iiiirp.IT. Mi !;:.:"ri 7 . r.
frs . f'ri-r,' i , ,' . '. '
Louis dispatch f :!, ; 'if,-.'
ler, aU't Car! t,
yesterday for invii; , '
w ife of Henry a f . , ..
or four miles fi.,n. r..', , ' '
day iiight la. Ti t, .; , v.
was found in the cl.'.ir ..f
lieifl.b'.iK on W,-,;:.. .,v ' '.
cuished in by a .. .w
came heie w :;!, a ; ,.f n'u:-A';-.
which had been ' u , ,y ... '
arrested while ttv.-.j ;
veiy s:i.a;i s,;,. li: '
ci'.n t'l-'tt they i. i i :
the div 'fr..'-'t a j.vi. f
who ideitiii-d !':,. a- i ,
sevei.il artie'es .f c ' .;, .. .
the possfssio-i .1 I. t t-, :tl
''" !.. I'i.e j.iis
Colii:ibi:r 1 .M riirl.- . -.
ioetz. the .:wh.i...l ,"! f. ..
tn in. h i- i ...:j e :. !....
be tioi: i'et. 1 .
mm l-i ed litrn ;i'-. ,u ii , r:.
with a v'vw t i ti..,k:,-t '
ti'M-t i k i i'c! . i w
Lai i:k. A . : .
('-.liittil't s !i, it .1:'. i '
Co:.fVion to the "
fu-ni heie 1 i-t iri '. ' :
is 'hat he t.tvt si.. a l 1. . ; ! .
s "lie ! t : :' " '
ki::. i M-s. t; :z. :: ;
mule at;ii w t i : . t
pi em i-cs of c '. i-t : ii ..B-i f ,i ; ' .
Stat ed foi t. 1.
When ti.ts f t r -!; i " ' 1
t h ;s in. -i n n g at .-e .'. , : t ;
detet min d ivmii ''r y
conif'.lii:g iii.i; t-t sIi-tt '
st crt-ted the !...ly ..f V.i. ' '
him into :! e n....,U
a tiee. II-.the; y uvii. :. ! '
n;.ui V m t ; ve.
Daiius P:u:r:i..t:i
! .yei town, wete in i. : .t .1 V S.ti' -tirday
afleitiooi:, at t!.e t'-t-'-'f
btide's j aiti.s. I'i.'z".
engineer a- the Wa: "irk I: ' '
miiis. stii'aii.ed 1-i. !; '
few davs stlice, an! a:ii '1
the wedding leci-pt ten. Le '
denly ill. He giadiin'.')' C-
died at 'li'ee o'll 'i k iit .'a;
iug Mrs. Pi iiizuiHt: a :!.
homs of the uiaiii.ise ce.-tti; v.
a fir Aii did
eni An KeJtiiJ lv!:? U
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f ahi.iet Oraan;
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WILSON SEWIMi MAllD-
Fio
Fixai.i.y Disposed Of. The case of
Father Stack against Bishop O'llara, in
litigation for more th:m six years, wis
finally decided at Williamspoit, ou Tues
day last, iu favor of the priest. Judge
Gamble, as Chancellor in the Com t of Com
ni on Pleas, filed an elaborate opinion, iu
which lie maintained that the power exer
cised in the case by Ilishop O'llara is un
warranted by the canon laws, and that
even if the discipline of the church allowed
it, such power roust nevertheless be con
demned as contrary to the law of the land
and prejudicial to the rights of citizenship.
The sniieiiority of civil over ecclesiastical
law is expressly assei ted. Tire decree of
the Court accordingly declares tlie removal
of Father Stack, as a punishment for a sup
osed offense, unlawful; that the piohibi
tion directed to Father Stack, foi bidding
liim to exercise any priestly functions iu
AVilliamspoit, was unlawful, but the decree
of restriction asked for is not granted on
the ground that it might bo injudicious lo
disturb the present state of things :u the
congregation. This oiiif, however, is an
on question if lhe Bishop should appeal
to the bupieuie Couil.
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