Cmtw Jicmoctiit.
N.J
* BELLEFONTE, PA.
The LargMt, Cheapest and Boat Paper
IHMII.ISIIKII IN I KNTKK COUNTY.
Cubit I uud lis Captors.
From Mm Nrw York'W.iiM.
Cabul, the Afghan capital, which by
thia time doubtless has again passed
into the hands of lite British, was
founded —when ami by whom no one
know*. L<x!al tradition makes it six
thousand years old ! Twenty-five miles
north is a place known as Bcghrom (tho
final svllatde of which word means
"city"), where among the far-stretching
mounds are found such evidences ot
human habitation as leave little doubt
that there stood the principal citv of
that region in the centuries proceeding
the Christian era. It has been conjec
tured that this was the Niciea or Alex
under or the site of Alexander ad Cau
t-i/jnm. Three miles east of Cabul is an
other Beghram, where the remains of
an old city of importance, the immedi
ate predecessor, it is supposed, of the
present capital, the site of which may
have been selected for military reasons.
When the Chinese pilgrim Yuen Tsang
pasted there, A. D. 630, he spoke of the
city and kingdom as being named Kap
isa, and there a Hindoo monarch of the
Shatriya caste reigned over six king
doms. "The people," he added, "are
of a cruel and savage nature." By the
tenth century, according to Ouseley,
Cabul had obtained such a character for
sanctity and antiquity that no king was
considered properly qualified to govern
till he had been inaugurated there. It
and Ghuznee seem to have been tribu
tary to Bamian. but early in the elev
enth century, Mahmoud's splendor and
success raised Ghuznee to tho higher
rank, and tho eclipsed Cahul became
an appanage of the Ghaznivides. In
1332 Ibn Batufa saw Cabul, "once a
largo city, hut now for tho most part in
ruins, inhabited by a people from Persia
called Afghans." "Their mountains,"
ho added, "are difficult of access, hav
ing narrow passes; they aro a powerful
and a violent people, and the greater
part of them are highway robbers."
When the Ghaznivide dynasty fell Ca
hul had passed into the possession of
the house of Ghorc ; Barber took it in
1304, and for more than two'centuries
it remained in the hands of the rulers
of Ielhi. It was one of the conqueror's
favorite resorts. He built a chain of
least-houses connecting it with Agra,
and at his death was buried nt a spot
011 the southwestern side of the city
which he had selected. There by a
small river and under trees the tomb
still stands, a favorite resort of the (.'a
bulese. In 1738 Cabul was taken by
the great Persian conqueror, Nedir
Nhoh. In 1747 the Afgan chief Ahmed,
founder of the Sudoyse dynasty, includ
ed it in his dominions, of which, how
ever, he made Candahar the capital,
llis son. Timour -Shah, less astute, trans
ferred in 1776 the scat of |>ower from
that advantageously situates!, famous
and revered city to Cabul, and ever
since Cabul has remained the capital of
Afghanistan, I>ost Mohammed when
he overthrew the dynasty neglecting his
chance of winning over public opinion
by returning to the ancient seat and
abandoning the turbulent northern
stronghold.
The charms and climate of Cahul of
course influenced Baber and Timour in
their choice. An Afghan proverb says
of that region that it is a paradise in
habited by devils, and Barber, who like
Co-sar was an author as well as a soldier,
wrote in his famous "Memoirs
The climate is extremely delightful, and
there is no such place in the known world,
for its verdure and flowers render Cabul
in spring a heaven. Drink wine in tho
citadel of Cahul and send round the cup
without stopping, for there aro at once
mountains and streams, town and desert.
The city stands on the southern side
of the Cabul Hiver, at a heigth of 6.247
feet above the sea. Hooky lulls of con
siderable altitude inclose it on the south
and west, which now are covered with
snow, though snow only lies on the
plain from December till the middle of
February, /ill April there is a wet
season ; the remainder of the year is
dry. The air is at all times salubrious ;
the city is clean ; its gardens are faa
famed for their beauty, and from its
towers the eye sweeps a champaign of
singular variety and charm. The city
has some 60,000 inhabitants and does
a large trade in fruit and India mer
chandise. Sir Alexander Burnes wrote
that ho bad to shout to his attendant
to make himself heard, so loud was the
bustle of a busy afternoon. Besides the
separato bazaars for each trado there
was a great bazaar for the whole city—
an arcade6oo feet long and 30 feet wide,
which the Knglish blew up in 18(2 in
vengeance for the exposure there of the
mutilated corpses of their envoys. It
was rebuilt by the Afghans, but the
present building has no pretensions to
architectural beauty. Tbe features of
Cabul are its public cooking shops.
The kabobs of Cabul are far-famed, but
hardly less famous are its fruits, its
sweets and its cooling drinks. Its poo
pie are scarcely less lanaticsl than those
of Bekhara, and the Bala llissar, or cit
adel, baa much more frequently served
to defend the Ameer from their violence
than from the attacks of invaders.
The Bala llissar stands upon an emi
nence about 130 feet high, completely
commanding the city, it is a mile and
a quarter in circumference, with walls
thirty-five feet high, built of stone, sun
baked brick and mud. In some places
the walls are double and even triple.
A garrison of some 5,000 men occupies
It, and within there is a strong place
holding a limited number of men. 1 here
the Ameer has his palace ; the old roon
archs buried their treasure in its cellars,
and it was a convenient prison for rivals
or dangerous vassals. Mshmoud Hhah
kept his brother Hhah Zman there
eight years, bavins blinded him ; lie
himself languished in its dungeons,
when Hhah Hoojah overthrew him,
though, at the intercession of Hhah Ze
man, his eyea were spared. In 1841
the British occupied a cantonment a
mile and a half north of tbe Bala llis
sar, but its site is now covered with
fields of rioe and grain. By its side
stands Hberpur, an enormous line of
barracks begun by the late Ameer.
Tho design, which was carried on by
tho present Ameer, is to form a hugo
fortified inclosure, ono side of which
will he formed by tho Behmaru Hills.
Tho side parallel to the hills is almost
complete. It is about a mile long, and
consists of a series of small rooms, but
built against a high thick mud wall hav
ing an Arched veranda running Along
tho front. Tho western side has al*o
been nearly tinished.
The plan of the campaign against Ca
bul has already been described in the
World. An advance was made in throe
columns, General Bright on the Khybcr
line and Brigadier Hughes from Canda
har pushing on to lunsk the flunks of
the central force and overawe the hill
men, while Hir Frederick Roberts de
scended from the Shuttargardan Pass
(Kurum Valley route) upon thecapital.
His lorce was composed as follows :
Sixty-seventh South llatnshiro Regi
ment—Lieutenant-Colonel K liowlcs.
Seventy-second Duke of Albany's Own
Highlanders—Lieutenant Colonel Clarke.
Ninety-second Gordon Highlanders—
Lieutenant-Colonel l'arker.
Fifth Goorkas.
Third Sikhs.
Fifth l'onjub Infantry—Major Mc-
IQuccn.
Twenty-third pioneers—Lieutenant-Col
onel Currie.
Twenty-eighth Punjab Infantry—Lieu
tenant-Colonel Hudson.
Twelfth Bengal Cavalry, Fourteenth
Bengal Lancers, Fifth Punjab Cavalry
(one wing)— Colonel Hough (tough, V. C
Besides this General Roberts had un
der his command a company of sappers
and minors, a battery ol horse artillery,
a buttery of field artillery and a moun
tain battery.
Major! ieneral Sir Frederick Sleigh
Rolierts, K C. 8., V. C., is one of the
luckiest officers in the service, for while
he has been (Quartermaster! ieneral and
is a Major-General in ludia, lie is only
a major in his regiment of artillery. He
comes of a Water ford family. Three of
tho four sons of the Rev. John Roberts
who served their country in arms.
Thomas dying a Post Captain : Samuel,
who fought all through the American
war, attaining to the honor of knight
hood and filling an important oflice in
Ontario, and Abraham rising to lie Gen
eral and K. C. B. ere he died at the age
of ninety. The enptor of Cabul is the
son of the last named by a second wife.
He entered the Bengal artillery in l s ">2
as a second lieutenant, ami after acting
as A. I>. C. to liis lather, then command
ing the I'eshawur division,, was trans
fered to the (Quartermaster-General's
Department. He went through the
mutiny, being at I.ucknow mid Delhi,
where he got the Victoria Cross for
sabring a standard bearer in the walls
and taking his flag. He has ever since
lieen on the stall', was Commissioner of
tho Punjab, was (Quartermaster < ieneral
in India, went to Abyssinia with the
Bengal Brigade as quartermaster, and
commanded during the recent oppera
tions the Kurum Valley force, lie has
!>een mentioned twenty-three times in
dispatches. Last spring he got into
trouble with the Knglish press by "muz
zling" Mr. Mcpherson, of the I/ondon
Standard, whom he sent to the rear,
appointing one of his aids to act for the
journal. The correspondent's offence
was commenting upon neglect to guard
convoys and a wasting of time n<l men
in an ignominious foray|upon the Khost
hill-men
The Presidential Fraud.
ftit-nior IlsiHtriek*.
I think a man that comes into office
like Hayes did ought to wear the robes
of office less tl lUtitingly. [Tremendous
cheering.) He wasn't elected, and
they know it. He can't rest. Like a
disturbed spirit, ho wanders about on
the face of the earth, and can find no
rest. He goes from one faif'to another,
but he lias no peace. My countrymen,
although 1 had no des re to lie a candi
date for the Vice Presidency, you can
not imagine how proud 1 felt when over
i 40,000,000 citizens of the I'nited States
cast their votes for me, and elected me.
!Tremendous cheering.] But oh. if I
had not been elected, and if by fraud
I could have slipped into the place,
how like a condemned criminal would
1 I have hid my face from my fellow
'countrymen forever. [Deafening and
i long continuous cheers ; part of the
audience rising to their feet and yelling
themselves hoarse.) It was enough
that Hayes should be carried into the
position by fraud, hut when he defeats
the popular will, his wrong I have no
words to describe. He holds office and
i draws his salary, but when he steps out
of that office no one will be thought
i less of than he, [Cheer*.| It may tie
that Hayes did not know of the fraud
; that was going on to secure his inaugu
i ration, hut when we find that he has
j conferred a government oflice upon
every man who had a hand in the fraud
ulent business, we are inclined to sus
' pcct him.
♦ - . .
Mail's Constancy.
Out upon It, I have loved
Three whole days together,
And am like to love throe more,
If it proves lino weather.
Time shall molt away his wings,
Kre he shall discover
In the whole wide world again
Huch a constant lover.
But the spite on't is, no praise
Is due at all to me ;
Love with me had made no slays
Had it any been but she.
Had it any been but she
And that very face,
There bail been ere this
A dozen in her place.— Hurkling.
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The Latest l-abor-sui Itnr Machine.
A hog scraping machine which has
just been tested in Chicago worked very
satisfactorily. A hog was killed, placed
in the machine and almost in an instant
came out with only a few odd hair* on
his head and legs. Seven hogs were
passed through the machine in fifty
seven seconds, and each came out as
hairless as could lie desired. With a
few improvements, the machine is ex
pected to finish off*6oo hogs in an hour.
Kvxar person's natural weight of af
fliction is frequently made more unhap
py by the envy, malioe, treachery or in
justice of his neighbor.
OI K MISSION SCHOOL.
Oulv M little )iJtipllol, *•• Kftthrt"! tlo in "li tli>' trvrt,
i'lilltlroti vsiili lii'iwli uiit OTIMNMI, uiul t lillUn'li Willi
iutk< <1 M,
riiililrt-ij w h<mi- vym looked hungry, anl dilMtfii wlfi
•hook with cold,
< hil lriMi wh'NM* Hill** fur*-A were wantotl, MlMl white, inl
old.
Only a litth< budding, !*'•!• by twrlw,at tin- lIIOAI,
\S tth flva llli|Mil|lti*d Im'lk hoe ami it rax) • hall l< lam-t,
Two windows,ono to th westward looks at tli> m*UIIIK
Aim,
Pouring Ids hint hAuix through M, Just wlhui our
A4" lIO* •I It flullC,
Then* on the Hitl>lt)i v ning many a month we'v* ,
mot—
There In that golden gleaning, you'll find us gathering
y®t.
Hwretly On* vult'M ring ami brightly the fn< ehlii",
Ami the golden sunlight ton* lira, with a light divine.
And ua we hear thein singing songs of a Ba* b ur'a !•*,
We think of iha coining P>ihhath In hHteily oourts
fiboff,
Till looking along the \ tela of those eternal )ears,
Inm are our ayes, with gladness, ami the joy thai
torn lias team.
"Han't the children's fai a waste In tha shining gleam,
"Turn"! the roughen.Hl hem lies. Tlaii't the dtngy r*oiu;
.Ills! for n moment, hrlglllly Cometh a vision sweat,
Of a host of shining angeis, treading a g< Jdn street,
Heating s-ls on their f>rehaa<l, clad in gaimaiits of
Wearing no tra'e of s>*rrow, met and van<|ut*he*i
below—
Yet the glorified faces, se. , in that vision bright,
Mratigely rews'ililde those lifted to ours benight.
Then in tender rerfe|ire holding ill chsM-r clasp
I.ill le fingers that tighten round inifv In rhlldUll grasp,
1/x'kiiiK down in the fa <-*, wat hing our own the
wait*.
Changing with ours to aadness, brightening with ours
to ami la.
| We think of ihMie little children as heirs of a home
I I'.le***-i with a Father'■ 1 basing,loved with a Karimir'a
|oe.
I Treading llie earth iu aorruwr, but UsUhd fof the belt* r
home
Wh ra hunger and want and fickntai and Ml shall
in tror <otrie.
What If this little hull tin* to the Til U the wh kd gale,
l eading awav from danger,lnto tlw j..tliw*> straight *
something holy and Joyona, atjr. Ij our work luuat la,
Ibw hlng tze)..ud the present, into eleruity.
Tlien in the grand bom rmw. I—'king I.a- kif we tjiay*
liit*> the hf. and l*tr. living uii . atth to-*lay.
Truly ! Ililnk rrmembram \holy ami put* and sweet.
Will hallow the dun old room, where we and tha < till
dren iiwsl
( Ivllizutlofi ami the Nnwtgc.
Krum ih- n,iU,1.1|1,1 Ttmii.
Since tho country ha* boon ablo fo
t breathe frooly, because of the n*uro<l
j safely of the little bam! of gallant sol
<lior* surrounded by the ho*tile I'to*,
! attention will again be directod to the
grave problem of dealing ju.tly with
the fragmentary tribe* of the Ked Man
! in our Western States and Territories,
j The fir*t response <>f the humane heart
i* one of unqualified sympathy with the
Indian who i dispossessed of hi* land*,
cheated by Agent* nnd encroaohod upon
by settlor*. It i true that there ha*
not boon an Indian war during the
present generation that wa* not mainly
or wholly provoked by the white*, but
. it i* equally true that a very small pro
! jxirtion of white* hare been in any de
gree responsible for the brearhe* l-e.
tween the savage* and their pale faced
j rival*. Plundering Indian Agent* have
been one of the mo*t fruitful source* of
I Indian war*, and the brave pioneer*,
who go in peace to plant new field* and
widen the circle of civilization in our
future State*, are the sufferer*. It i*
upon them and their familie* that the
inercilev* vengeance of the maddened
barbarian* fall* ; and when the i*ue i*
thus made, there can lie but one result
I —the savage must go.
It ha* leen ascertained by careful cab
< dilation based on official record*, that
every Indian killed by the army in reg
ular warfare during the last halt centu
ry, ha* oo*t the government about one
hundred ami fifteen thousand dollar*,
i Such i* the financial footing up of our
Indian war*, not to count the loss of
property fo settler*, and the lo* of life
among soldier* and pioneers ; but the
nn*wer i*. that the Indian is the right
ful owner of soil and that we have
first despoiled him and then extermin
ated him in- battle. All must confess
the claim* of the Indian* upon the gov
ernment for protection and for the most
humane treatment; but the misfortune
ha* been that our abstract humanity
has stai.ed u* wrong with the Indian,
nnd the inevitable result ha* been the
most flagrant injustice to him. The In
dian is a barbarian, and the barbarian
. is the natural, implacable foe of civiliza
tion. Kvery great advance of enlight
ened civilization into the land of the
barbarian has l<een the march of vio
lence. So it has been frotn the day the
white man turned from the eastern ca
towards the setting sun. Through the
wilderness of Pennsylvania and Ohio ;
over the prairies of the West ; through
the canons and around the cliff* of tire
far mountain*, and along the golden
*lo|-e of the Pacific, the same story is
told of the barbarian receding before
the white man as he matched the battle
axe and the scalping knife of the savage
with the rifle, and crimsoned with blood
i the foundations of harvests, school*,
churches, newspajier#, railroad* and
telegraphs.
Now we have covered the whole In
; dian country with the pioneer* of civili
, xation. There i* no part of the whole
continent, outside of the organized In
dian Territory, where the Indian can
1 escape the encroachment* of his pale
| faced pursuer. < ur railways will soon
span the country from ocean to ocean
by three lines, each cutting through the
heart of what wa* the Red Man's hunt
ing grounds; and as railway* are built
and a* mines of the precious metals are
idiscovered, the white man settle* the
land* of the savage, and where he once
makes hi* home, he is ever thereafter
lord of all. No white settlement in the
west has ever been obliterated by the
savage. They may desolate the while
man's field*, burn his ranches, torture
and murder hint and hi* family, but
the retribution that follow* usually
leave* no barbarian to dispute suprema
cy. Tho Uta* have long been at peace,
and tbey have no traditions of peace
with the nomadic .Sioux tribe*, which
have no peace with the white man ; but
the Ute* ee the pale face* swarming
over all Colorado. They now |<o**ess
the mine*, the fertile valley*, and are
threading their way intn the mountain
ravine* and park*, until the barbarian'*
patrimony is growing lesa and lees a*
each moon fill* her noma. Just what
started the war ia not worth the inquiry.
Whether it w** a robbing Agent or a
few reckles* white adventurer* who
firal cheated and then puni*hed the
savage, doe* not matter. It ia the old,
old story with Immaterial variation*,
and a war la upon ua in which tho aav
age must sacrifice many of bia brave*
•ml then take the survivor* again be-
yond tho linos of civili/.atiop Again
for a season tho barbarian will liavw
peace, ati'l again tho while 'nan will
como until liin pale-face shall have no
savage to confront him. Hut mum thin
disgraceful system of fraud*, of butch
eric*, of coatly and ingloriou* war* ajid
<>l Inilian extermination continue until
the Indian in blotted from tin* earth?
lie will be tdl'aced from our civilization,
hut must it lie in dishonor on the part
of the mightiest government of the
world? It should not ho no ; it need
not he so, hut it will he so until wo un
derstand that the Indian in only a bar
barian : that lie must give way to civili
zation ; that lie is not a treaty-making
power, and that ho should he the ward
of the government, the subject of it*
moat generous humanity. When civili
zation croHKO* hi* path ho should he re
moved, not by treaty, hut by order of
the government, lie should he provid
ed with food and raiment; with school*
and churches j with all the blessing* of
civilization ho may choose to accept,
and ho could then he the author ol hi*
own destiny. Ho would adopt the vice*
and few of the virtue* of civilization,
but every opportunity and inducement
should be ollered him to better hi* con
dition. lie wdl not long survive even
the be*t provision for hi* corntort, hut
ho would lie effaced from the popula
tion of the New World without the
stain of Idood on a great and free gov
ernment. Other theories have been
earnestly urged and persistently tried
in dealing with the Indian, hut the end
has ever been the judgment of the law
ol might ; and the <|uestion for the
future i* simply whether the rule ol
might shall ho generously just or an
enduring stain upon our national es
cutcheon.
Honii in the tiriciula*.
lA rSKstuoN S or AN INTKI.I.H.ENT XSW
roRKta.
Major 11. W. Hel/onp, of Hansville,
Livingston county, New York, ha*
been dmng the Virginia*. We have
space hut lor two extract*, which seem
to prove we have wonder* and sources
of wealth east of the Kooky Mountains,
nearer home, of which we have not a
fair conception. Major In-Long made
a very full tour and survey of both
States, looking in upon the watering
places, spying cut the agricultural
region*, scanning the mining sections,
and studying character a well, of a
ride along the Chesapeake A oh jo Kail
road down the valley of New Kiver, he
thus speak* : "In | aching through this
New Kiver country, where one see*
nothing but rock* and water, one is
very apt to form a very low idea of its
agricultural advantages. Once at the
top of this canyon a rich, diversified
country stretches away on either hand,
•lotted with farm houses and villages.
Thousand* of sheep and cattle graze on
the hillsides, and the industrious farm
er here reaps rich returns. tYhen na
ture in some great convulsion rent this
New Kiver canyon she left ex|>ood
great stores of iron and coal. You see
it cropping out everywhere as free as
water. At intervals we pas* great iron
works, and lateral road* are constantly
branching out h-ading to some extra
rich dejNMiii* further in the mountain.
Bituminous, splint and cannel coal
alxnind, and the oil indication* are so
good that companies are teing formed
and d-rricks rising all aliout, with an
absolute certainly that the preciou*
lipiid will l<e found, t'apital is all that
i* necessary to bring this naturally en
dowed region into a commercial promi
nence second to no other locality in
the country."'
We extract thi* much that i appro
priate of the magnificent field for en
terprise, and to H developed in West
Virginia. The writer concludes with
the following tribute to Virginians and
their State:
"A word in closing relative to our
impression* of Virginia and ber people.
We arc not overdrawing it or *{>eaking
with an enthusiasm born of recent
contact, when we soy that we never met
a more thoroughly cordial set of men
in all our travels than those we met in
the H >!d Uoininion.' Nearly all of those
with whom we came in contact were
ox-Con fed crate officers, who. instead of
leing hitter toward the North—as the
stay-at home politicians assert, and a
majority of the Northern people be
lieve—are constantly s|>eaking of the
sujieriority of our institutions, and
wishing that our go ahead farmers and
mechanics would come into theHtate
and give it that impulse so much need
ed. A Virginian never asks ot in any
way attempts to find out your politics.
To be a gentleman is enough. The
fact of your l>eing a Republican or
I'emocrat it of no importance. >f tho
future of Virginia it will take a proph
etic unction sujierior to ours to tell.
She ha great natural advantages, a
kindly soil, short winters, fine timber,
•lepnsiU of coal and iron enough to
supply the world. But she is joor ;
great debts hang over her threatening
ly. Northern capital and Northern
hands inured to toil are the two great
thing* she needs, and a cordial wel
come will beextended to all who chooso
to make this favored sjiot their home,
bet us ho|>e the time is not far distant
when the people, of the North, con
quering all prejudice, will flock to Vir
ginia, and with ready capital, labor
saving machine*, and willing hand*,
make her what she has all the element*
of, the first State in the Union."
We reprint thi* not to exalt our
neighboring commonwealth over our
own at all, hut to exemplify what we
believe, that while for the time the
"Star of Kmpire" is steadily making ita
way West, the lime may not be remote
when the tide of emigration may take
a new route, and find a* fat and enjoy
able pastures as any that have devel
oped in any of those now the Mecca of
so many of our resiles* |>eople.
— . i
DAKOXR* or IhcffcnTisn.— The Republi
can party i* seeking to maintain the
justice of the iniquitous Federal law,
which tolerates the use of troo|>* at the
polls and the right to interfere in popu
lar elections. The lesson of histoid is
condemnatory of such a policy, and the
party which had recourse to such a
course to secure it* own political success,
would undoubtedly be willing to carry
out the bad principles which they pro
fess to their rullest development, which,
as any one can see, end in a despotism
of the meanest and vilest kind.
Till: NAMK CANTER*.
lir MIAMI* <J. MA urns.
There ar* |ondf if all aorta in (lilt %• t|4 rf oi f
kHlita ~( rriwfiiUlilj* ami nr of fl .. tN|
Ami I row to*.f A ktoU. I ... t.;
Tlm k''l aihl lII* Imiy ar Urtiml by a ki*a,
Dill tl*r. A m*-r a loml. IJ filamJ, Ilka thl—
Wa liata drunk from Mm aatna > *nt. *t.'
It * AuiiM'tlfne* *at-r ami aoMi.-tiim-A milk.
Ami aoiiMdiuiaa a||l* )a. k. HIM- a ailk,
lint *tiat#v*r tlm tl|.|*|e- lIOA !*•• it
Wnilwrrtl It tog.-ti*-r in l*ai.< or l.liia.
And I warm y.,a, frl*-n.|, wlmti | think of tlila—
Wr Iwvf lilink from tlm aaiuc '
Tin rl< li ami tli® TFREAT A|| .|.W n t*. diliw.
Ami limy .juaff to *-. I. otlmr In •i+rhllug win#-,
Fr.i#i KiaoM-e of rrytal ami ;
Dili I |(U s-aw in tli"lr k |w.uii*.n th*y uiiaa
Tim warm tli of bt I- found in tliia--
W v liavo diunk from ll- MIU . ant.-v-n '
W< Kara ahar>w| otir l.lankta and t. Nt tog'.-th.-r.
Ami llA** marrli.el ami in all kind* ..f a.utli. r.
Ami hungry nnd full we IIAW lOMII ;
Had <laA of Isattl* and.laywof rwt.
Dut till* 111. 111..ry I cling to and lom tba l*rwt—
\lr liare drunk from tlia aaru.' CJUiUwii
F'-r tthan Wftimlrd I lay on tlm outer Ho)**,
W IMI my teheed fh.wlng fat and but little Itufie
l>m aa lif. It m> faint •Jdnt .ould Imui,
<li tli-n Ir. iijcml'M >ou '( leal to my aide.
Ami blooding A*. f.t it aoatnod both muit have did,
w• itMiik Cm a Umamm • wf't. •I.
Rose Meeker's Letter.
The following is a letter from Mi-s
Meeker, daughter of agent Meeker,
recently murdered by tbe I'te Indians
at the White Kivei agency ;
(jar.Kl.Kv, Oct. ...—I. as the eldest
daughter of the martyred agent Meek
er, of the White River agency, wish to
express my feeling* in n limited way
about ibis horrible massacre. Had
there le<-n half ns much expedition
and force put in operation from the
time of my father's calling for troop*
until the battle iu there has been since
the battle this horrible massacre would
never have occurred. The government
with it* slow movement* lias Jet my
father be murdered when it could have
been prevented. My father wrote
Governor Pitkin on September tenth
that his and all the lives at the agency
were in peril, and requested troop*.
After three weeks' delay so small a de
tachment wa* sent that it was over
come, giving the Indian* more power
than they had before. Had the cow
boy* of Colorado been called out on
September tenth tbey would have
reached there in time to save the live*
at the agency, and they would have
made so clear a work of the red devil*
that it would have been hard to find
one alive to-day.
The life of one common white man
i* worth inore than all the Indians from
tho la-ginning of their creation until
the present time, and yt-l *uch a man
a* my father, with brain*, intellect and
jrfiwer to move the thought* of men
iii* life is now ignominiously put out by
the hand* of a savage fee whose life or
oul i not worthy of a dog. arid no
power in the land to stay the deed.
What it magnanimous government we
have to pamper a set of creatures
whose exi-tence should have been a
thing of the past long ago.
"h. my father! could I but have
died in your stead! My protector, my
hope and joy ! "b, the broken heart*
of widow*, daughter* ami sisters who
to-day at this hour mourn the lo*.* of
their dear, martyred ones who were
their support, love, life and their all!
They are now gone from tbeir side*
forever, with only sorrow and desola
tion for their comforter through life.
Who can pay the price of thi# mighty
woe? Truly, the blood of the mar
tyred ones cries out for vengeance, and
shall the voice of anguish be hushed ?
Ross Mtivti.
A Hunger in the Jury System.
fv*t i llmlil, Orbilifr II
The dry, cutting satire practiced so
much by the cro* examining lawyer of
today is sometime* as dangerous in
court as it would be on the street. A
short time ago a jury wa* sitting on a
case in Southern Colorado. A woman
took the stand and was somewhat un
ceremoniously treated by the lawyers.
At last a particularly dry and caustic
fellow began to practice on ber with
the cross-examination. Now, among
the jurymen was one gentleman who
wa* drawn with apprehension and fear
of consequence*. He wa* a free, wild
miner, with no more idea of the re
striction* of law and justice than a buf
falo. He had twitched uneasily while
the woman wa* being examined, and
could only lie kept still by being pro
voked into a whispered conversation
with the foreman. A# the cross exami
nation reached a particular |Miint, he
astonished the court by jumping up,
thrusting his hand into his hip |>ocket,
and exclaiming to the lawyer. "11l lhar,
Mr. Stick in-the Mud "' This from a
juryman brought every eye in wonder
and amusement upon him. He heeded
nothing, and proceeded: ".lack Mc
Cabe won't 'low no man to talk to a
woman in that sha|>e ; not while he's
round." Tbe judge rebuked honest
Jack, and he slunk into his seat, em
barrassed but mad. The lawyer, turn
ing upon him with withering scorn.4>e
gan, bombastically, "< If what weight
with me i* the opinion of an ignorant
juryman? I" "That's what I
thought," said Jack, a*, with one lound,
he cleared the rail and wound himself
around the lawyer. Before a constable
could reach and separate the struggling
pair, Jack had macerated the lawyer so
that he was obliged to give up the case
and go home on a shutter. The jury
man nearly cleaned out the court be
fore he could be placed under arrest,
disabling two constable* and putting
the crier and the judge to flight. An
other argument against the jury system.
Not so Had after All.
Colonel Robert O. Ingersoll, even
though be is proud of being known as
an infidel, and publicly avow* hi* unbe
lief in bis lecture* to crowded house*
in all nection* of the North, under
stand* human nature, and clothe* some
of hi* idea*, in themselves just and
true, in the most attractive and elegant
language. What, for example, could
be more eloquent than this:
"Women are more faithful than men
—ten times aa faithful a* men. I never
•aw a man miniue hi* wife into tbe very
ditch and au*t of degradation and take
her In hi* arm*. I never *aw a man
•land at the shore where she had been
morally wrecked, waiting for the wave*
to bring back even her oorpe* to hit
arm* ; but 1 have soon women, with her
white arms, lilt niHit from the mire of
d<-grcdation and hold biiri to Ij-r bosom
n* though hn were an ngi-l."
♦
General I'rler*a i'junphlH.
' ion. t it/. John J'or tor has published
a pamphlet of Hf jngni, reviewing in
detail the nervic-a of the fiftfi army
corps, of which he wax the commander,
and giving much space to bia own cane.
Gen. Porter in hi* pamphlet i* very free
in hi* comment* on Gen. I'ope. Ho
charge* that the order* of Geneial I'opo
were often improper, if not impos*iblo
to execute. <ien. Porter claim* tiiat ho
was better acquainted than (ien. I'opo
with the position* and movement* <f
the contending force*, and with the
danger* besetting the Union army. Hi*
di-paehe*, he claim*, prove thi, and
tlieir value, fie say*, wit* acknowledged
to him in person on the battle field of
Antietam by President Lincoln. JIo
oay* that from August 2", IKO2, at
which time he left Fortress Monroe, up
to September 2, be still believed that
fieri. Mcf lellan was in command of tho
army of the Potomac, and that bis ser
vice under 'ien. Pope was temporary.
He say* the army had no confidence in
the management of fien. l'ope; that
reverse* liud come upon him. and fiotir
a campaign conducted a* Pope's wan %
Other* at least a* serious seemed inevit
a le. On his trial all that the prosecu
tion claimed was that he had no favora
ble opinio i of fien. l'oj>e or of hi* abili
ty to conduct a campaign. Tho samo
charge, he says, could have been made
against many other officers of high rank
wl o*e patriotism (ha* never been *u
peeled, fien. Porter assert* that bia
dispaches furnished the government
with tlie only reliable information of
the situation at tin- time, and In- reiter
ate* "that on the battle field of Antie
tam President Lincoln in person gave
me bia congratulation* for the past, hia
warmest wishes for the future, and hi*
thank* for having furnished these men
sage* and letters—tho only correct
information received from the army,
and which led to the happiest results."
This pamphlet of <icu. Porter will bo
perused with absorbing interest.
The May to the White House.
If fn tli' f'litlad*'!}.).■• TlUra, !**<!;, Ot U*Wt W.
Some newspaper* in discussing tho
prospects of Thurman, l'.avard and
Itlaino a Presidential candidate* have
stated that tf.e 'road to the White
House i* not through the Senate Cham
ber, and that no United State* Senator
over became President. The truth i>,
we have had at least nine President*
who were member* of the United
State* Senate, and with three excep
tion*—Washington. Taj lor and Grant—
every one of the President* had either
pas-ed through the House or Senate.
Adams was Vice President ; Jefferso.i,
before he became President, was Son
tary of State and Vice President ; Mad
ison had had a term of service in the
House and had been Secretary of State;
Monroe had been Senator. Secretary
of State and Foreign Minister ; Adams
had had the same experience; -Jack
son wa a member of the House, tho
Senate and Foreign Minister; Van P.u
ren has! been a Senator, Secretary of
State. Vice President and Foreign Mm
i ister ; Harrison was a member of the
House and Vice President: Polk was a
member of the House; Fillmore was a
member of the Houne; Pieree a Sena
tor ; Ruchanan a member of the House,
•M-nator and Secretary of State and
l'oreign Minister; Lincoln a member
of tho House : .Jackson a Representa
tive, Senator after he had been Presi
dent, and Vice President ; Grant even
had been Secretary of War and Hares
was a member of the I .owe r House.
With these (acta of history it would
■ seem that any member of Congress
might be pardoned for having an am
bition for the Presidency.
W hat They are At.
It is very apparent to the student of
current iolit!cal events, that the stal
wart leaders of the Radical party aro
the enemies of the Union today, as
.letL ! I.'IVIS Jk Co. were in lVd, with thia
difference: I'avi* and hi* confederates
buckled on Rwords and shouldered gum,
and said "come on"; the Conkling*
and Rlaines never did, nor never will,
manifest a bold front of that kind, but
they will seek to accomplish the same
end that Jeff. I>avi A Co. were after—
a dissolution of the Union—by stealth
and substitutes. The New York Wert/,
in alluding to an event of that kind,
appropriately remarks:
"There are two way* of destroying
the Union, "oe i* by tearing it to
peiees ; the other i* by pounding it into
a pulp. The Secessionist tried the first
way and failed. The Stalwarts are try
ing the second way, and they will fail
too. What our father* founded tlieir
children will maintain—an induwolublo
i Union of indestructible State*.
- ♦ ■ ■■
(•rant and Sherman.
J St. l.ml. Post rvw.vr*t (!><*.).
What two more vulnerable men in
; the Republican party are there than
{ Grant and Sherman T The Republican
. party itsrlf was sick of Grant's last
term, and his renomination in 1.H76 was
out of the question. Have four years
obliterated the memory of a thousand
crime* again*! civil liberty and public
morality T Sherman haa the confidence
of nobody. He cannot excite enthusi
asm in hia own party, hardly receive
the general respect of hia own parti
sans. He i* selfish. No country was
ever cursed with a worse political hypo-
I crite. So that in the case of the nomi
nation of either Grant or Sherman, tho
HeraocraU will receive the material for
a moat vigorous campaign, with the in
dication* of aucceaa clearly defined.
WHAT a difference have we often seen
between our afflictions at our first meet
ing with and our parting from them 1
We have entertained them with igha
and tear*, but have parted from them 4
with joy, blessing God for them as the
happy instrument* of our own good.
—— ♦
Bona men adyrtiae their Uvea, and
the public are generally disappointed
because the advertisement promises too
| much; others let their livea advertise
i them, and the public always gels more
i than is promised.