Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1872, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SA’ RDAY, DECEMBER 7, 187 THE INDIAN. ‘Wrongs of the Red Man---Vio- lation of Treaties. Ohange of the Policy of Washing- ton-—How Esau's Reservation Was Protected. The Tedians a Distinct People, and Kave a Right to Remain So, FAICBURG, IIL, Nov, 28, 1872, o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bm: Recent accounta of fresh wrongs to be perpetrated upon the peaceful tribes, whose sole buman dependence now is the faith of golemn treaties with the Government of the United States, and guaranteed rights, shonld properly bring up the whole Eubject of tha ccalings of the white and red races of men on this conti- went. Baid o PRESIDENT TAYLOR: Should the judgment of the Almighty fall on this country, I belfeve it would be on zccount of our unjust trestment of the Indians, And General Taylor was no visionary senti- mentalist, but a most practical and just man,— thoroughly acqusinted, however, with Indians, and Indian affairs ; fomiliar with the position of affairs, tho difference in races, the caunses of col- lizion, and all the veried pretexts for wrong and robbery,—pretests that, in the cases of the Osages and the Indiaus of the Territory, are so fiimsy, threadbare, and tattered, as to no longer ‘hide the instincis of speculative robbery that lie behind and influence many of the whites. Tt appears that, after the violation of treaty etipolations, agein and again, on our part, with the Osages, and they are deprived of stipulated ‘benefite, 2nd after they have again and sgain given np their lands, with the solemn promise of reservations on which their rights shonld be for- ever protected from intrusion, which agreements have been regularly violated by us; after sl this, it appears to be thought that humenity re- quires that their GAME SHOULD BE DESTROYED. 88 quickly a5 possible, and the Indian be at once converted into a farmer, and raige corn, which, if he cannot sell it, can be used for freight on railroads, or for fuel, as is now recommended in Iowa, while the carcasses, it is estimated o twentythousandnoble buffalo, butchered by white ‘men, this season, for sport, or for their hides 2nd tongues lie rottingupon the plains. Wrong &nd unhealthy specalations may bo advanced by such courses ; but they are wrong, and antagon- istio to the practical prosperity and_walfare of both races, and of the country; and to_expect the Indian, in u single generation, to becomo able to compete with whitomen in farming, ia 23 absurd as to place an inhabitant of London or Paris among the wilds of the Rocky Aoun- tains, and expect him to gain & living for him- Self 2ad femily by trapping and hunting. But the great and specific difficulty is, that the original policy of the Government HAS BEEN RADICALLY CHANGED; and that change has been made so silently that the people do not yet know that,in the abund- znce of the psendo philaathropy which covers the land lke & clond,—often obscuring {:flfice and common sense,—we come 2 nation regardless of the faith of trea- ties—except those with the strong. However faulty in practice, the original theory of the Gov- ernment was_just, bumane, and practical, snd was in sccord with WASHINGTON'S OWN VIEWS, 28 set forth in Bparks’life of that true states- man: ‘Weshington's policy in regard to the Indians was al- e e A WA b drén, who shonid be treated with tenderness and forbaarancs, He aimed to conciliste them by good usage, to obtsin their lands by fair purchsse and punctual peyments, to make treaties with them on terms of equity and. reciprocal advantsge, and strictly to redeem every pledge. In these respecis, he looked Tpon the Indian tribes as holding the ssme and the sames rights, as civilized nations, But thelr faith- lsasmess, ravages, and murders were not to be tolerated, {rom whatever causes they arose, ‘When, in foture days, s historian of that race sppears (perhaps after General Taylor's appre- hension ia reslized, for nations have no futura epiritual existonce 2s such, hence the logical sequence of the need of their punishment here), —when such faithful historien. appears, and be~ gins to trace his course, to settle, among other thinge, the oxact noint where the present theo: diverged from, and eperseded the old, he wi €ind it in the passage of TEE KANGAS AND KEBRASEA BILY, in 1854; he will find that Benator Houston steted, on the floor of the Senats of the United Btates, that it overrode and overthrew & number of solemn fresties with the Indian tfbes inhabiting thess Tervitories, he will find that meither political ' party cared; that the try did mot care; and he will find that the terms #In- dian title,” ¢ extinguishment of the Indian title,” eto., once g0 common in our National Co&g(eua, have since then been dropped alto- gether. Should he then go further, and attempt to de- termin Sty 3 ‘WHICH POLITIOAL PABTY were justly chargeable with the flagrant and needless wrong, he will find_that, while one was the more blamesble for the violation of the iyeaties, and the overthrow of tho just, true, and Ahm&honoreml!oy‘ the other }nd done the afterwards, in snatching public lands, by hundreds of miltions of acres, from both 'the Indian and the poor white settler, and from pos- terity, and giving it away, in most cases, for count urposes of — specnlation, and 1vin, £ to, wexlhy ‘white. men, . and for enterprises, in most cases, that ‘were not nati and were not necessary, or asked for, save by a few. (The one Pacific Rail- road was national, was necessary, and was asked 2o by the nation &nd by the world.) If, then, he goes_yet further in the analysis, and draws the line between the two great politis cal sects, ho will be indeed puzzled to tell which ‘were the worst. We have heard much said about ‘“the nation's wards,” but who before ever heard of & guardian a) then dictating the kind of life, and. prosciibing an occupation and essociations tending to de- stroy his werd? For every man of practical ex- perience of Indian life knows well that contract with the average white man is always to his in- Jury, and usually to his ultimate rnin. The ish, therefore, of their Chiefs, to be away from railroads and all their asaociations, is & high proof of their STROXG PRACTICAL, SENSE. It is eminently wise that the Indian ehould desire t0 mainiain his separate and distinct existence, preserve his tribal government (such 85 has existed among the Arabs far longer than wny government of Xurope or America ever has existed, ar probably ever will exist), and be se~ cure from int on by meddlesome and mis- chievons whites. The Russian Government does ot try to force her Cossacks to become farmers, but wants them to remain Cossacks, and récognizes the simple fact thsh men are different, and of right ought to be, and that some can live one way snd some another, and dress in blankets or fashionably, as_they please, and be let alone 1m 8o doing. d that her Alaska subjects, have been injured by coming under the speca- iative Zgis of Uncle Bamueljs now admitted. There the advent of the proud bird of freedom ‘wes s zed by the opening of immese num- bers of whiskey-saloons in Sitks,—specnlative &e:mu' there faking that form. But, in the d of the Osages and the five nations, the car of progress is declared to be the locomotive. The eagle is to scream from the smoke-atack, and the Indian fo be thrown from the the cow- catcher. After *gobbling™ a continent the cry is still to bo ‘“‘MORE LAND." Thelittle legend of Land for the landless” is Dot heard at praser]lt;_ pus:eaw “fi :rl;om it should especcially apply is not thought of ; and the lnd.impaha.s no rights that anybody is bound to respect. Everybody but speculators must stand aside, o Bat, mark this wonder on earth, it ia all to bs done in the name of humanity and progress. The Indian is to be & very conspicnous (Justice belng incemient); apeliing-books are to ice inconvient); 2 ks 56 thrown at bis head ; and, a8 » reward for giv- ingup all his lands, and buffalo, and game, ho is to be rewarded by & chance to becoms the vic- tim_of varions phifv:.nthmpi experiments in tho noble art of civilization,—that peculiar civiliza- tion described kg: grest writer as ““used merely to sharpen the claws of mankind” ; and it is the peculiar misfortune’'of the Indian that his op- Pmmnhed (uaturally sharp) have their claws still more an the great speculative Bmmm of land gn.ntg,r claims, ete. Enreavet, while he has an acre of land » moricsged SRRWILY, & coou-shin, or & have : ropristing such an estate, and | dollar, his white brother will sell him tho glo- rious gewgaws of civilization, at a profit of from 100 $o 500 per cent. . The Indian has mot the Bpeniard, the French~ man, the English Cavalier, &mker and Puritan, —the last the most destructive, and encased in 8 self-complacent _self-righteousness, compared with which that of the old Jews of the time of Pilate was 28 & gossamer webb to the bottom of 8 potash-kettlo,—as thin ganze to boiler-iron, doubled, riveted, and case-hardened. As many men—vriters, teachers, law-mskers, &c., &¢.—Teally Imow nothing of Indians, excofit enough to make them the butt of very stale jokes and very stupid slanders, and, in their self-complacent wisdom, forget what their an- castors were, and the evil that white men are do- ing every hour of every day of every year, and assume £0 be able to *settle the problem of the Indian question” on the speculetivo basis of ‘manifest destiny, by the application of manifest injustice,—sssuming, ab the ouiset, the utter depravity of the Indian,—for these men, let s quote from TET COMMISSIONEN'S REFORT FoR 1870. While it cannot be denlod that the United States Government, in the general terms and tember of its legislation, has evinced 3 desire to deal justly with the Indisns, it must be admitted thst the sctusl treatment they have received has been unjust and iniquitous be- Fond tho power of words to exprese, BAYS BISHOP WHIPPLE, OF MINNESOTA: 1 kave travelled on foot, or in the saddle, over every foot of my diocese. I know every Indian settlement init. Someof them will and some of them will steal, and they are of our race, for they have the szme vices ; but, in every difficalty'that haa occurred, inthese twelve yeara of my residence, between the Indisns and the Government,the Governmenthas n‘!wh‘azl been wrong, and the Indinn has always been Tigl SAYS GENERAL WILLIAX 6. HARVEY, who went to the frontier when he was only 19 ¥ears of age, and is now old : Inover mew an Indisn Ohief to bresk his word; and, in no instance in which a war broke out with the tribes, that the tribes were not in the right, BAYS THOMAS WISTAB, OF PHILADELPHIA; During an intercourse of forty years with the tribes on our frontiers, I heve invariably received from them. generons eud confiding treatment, and have had no Socasion to regret misplaced contidence, except in one ce. The writer has had a slight acquaintance with the Indians, from the Mississippi to the Pacific (not always favorable), and has been personally cognizant of unprovoked ontrages against de- fenceless Indians by white men, that wonld shamo any savage, and yet such a thing as re- Gress was not possible, or thought of. NOW, WHAT IS THE REMEDY ? To rovile the Brosident? Not at all, for ho has manifosted a disposition to deal justly, if em- powered and supported. Does, then, the blame all rest with Congress? Not all, for the questions involved now come be- fore them in 8 false light, and the reasons for legislation asked of them are based on falso promises, the true ones bemng obacured by love of plunder, demagoguism, and hypocrisy. THE REMEDY I8, to respect the faith of treaties, and desl with the Indians with tho same regard for justice and honor that we would if they had at their com- mand & trained, twell-arms well-oflicered and sppointed army of two millions of men ; lest it come to pass that the All-Powerful One, who so jealously guarded the RESCRVATION OF ESAT, and warned the wandering Israclites, centuries after his death, egainst the slightest’ intrusion upon it, under tho severest penalties,— their mother, conturies before having been told, ere Jacob and Essu were born, that they were to be two distinct nations, with different desti- nies,—may adjudge our vaunted humanity, progress, end civilization a pretence and a 8ham; and that, when the case of the poor In- disn, and his pitifal, diminished reservations, and violated troaties, finally comes before this mighty txibunal, this Court of last resort, it may come £0 pass thiat & decree will go forth that will prove anew to the world the truth of the words of & great historian, that, “On_every pago of | history it is writtén, God reigns;” and that forces slumbering now in the mighty bosom of Nature will be_arrayed against us for its exe- cation, compared with which a trained army of 2,000,000 of men would be bat as dust, and locomotives, land-grants, otc., but as atoms, weighing nothing, in. the great scale of God's eternal justice, against which all the plans of all the pettifogging politicians, and speculators of lugh and low degree, that could be packed within the circle of the sun, would avail noth- ing. %‘he old pleas of CONQUEST AND NECESNITY ‘we will not consider ; they are no_longer before us; we have passed them by; borne.on the mighty current of Time's great river, wo have left them far behind us. For most of the Indi-~ ans are practically conquered, and 2t our mercy, and we, after leaving them all the lands they ‘want, would haves enough for three times our population, and now, at least csn_afford to be Just to the remnant that is left of them, and leave them free, with fair indemnity, and they will ad- vance as the Cherokees and Five Nations have, if Jeft to themselves, absolutely secure in their lands and homes, kindly and firmly treated, and the hend of military power, stcadied by {)\mfice, kept between them and the whitos of the border, who both do and suffer wrong, and ncedto be guarded from the evil-disposed of both races, the crimes of both being usually charged to the Indian. But the Indiaps cannot trade with the white sharper, and no tricky trader should be allowed to set foot on their soil, or wrong themin the slightest in any way, or under any pretext what- ever. Above all, let it be borne in mind that the In- dian is an Indian, and not & white man. HE WISHES T0 REMATN DISTINCT, and the wish is & most landable and proper one, in barmony with nature. Leb bim keep his own Government, and let white men nix;g emong Indians (except as agents of the Unite States Government) be subject to their tribal governments. % Nature hag done much for the Indian intellec- tually, and he bas now gainod somo desire for the white man's knowledge, and this, fostered ond enconreged (but not forced), and the pative independence preserved intact, and & feeling of renl regpect and regard for the white man estab- lished, on the basis of justice-and sincers kind- i yet seen. This wild people, too, i ARE NATUBALLY RELIGIOUS, ; and one of the few on the wholo earth that never i Izpsed into idolnhg. The Indian believes in a ! Supreme Boing, & Grest Spirit, governing the universe, and an_immortal future for the just and brave. And, when justice bhas brought peace, and peace good will, perhaps they will prove a people well fitted as any for the high spiritual religion of our Savior ; and the Iabors of such men a5 Whipple, Wistar, snd others will not be lost,—labors of love as _they have been. Durr THOMPSON. —l Thoe Burning o Seabury Hall-Letter from Bishop Whipple. FaRIBATLT, 1873—TnANKSGIVISG EVE. DEAR BRETHREN: S0rrow has come to us. Our beautiful Seabury Hall is burned. While we were celebrating the Holy Communion on our Thanksgiving feast, the hall which was endoared t0 us by B0 many blessed memorics canght fire, and was totally destroyed. Some of our students lost all their books and clothing, snd the Bishop Beabury Mission is sorely c:ip;h«;d by the loss of one of its best buildings. is building was yerydear tome. It was our firstventurs of faith. Brothers Breck and Manny and myself watched it grow into life and besuty, and every stone and timber was & gift in answer to prayer. For ten years it Las been the homse of onr students,” and the nursery of all our schools. ‘We have sent out from it many brave servants of Christ. Tt is hard, when 8o badly fitted by ill health to bear additional burdens, to lose so valuable & property which was hallowed by such sacrad associations of the living and the dead. The Lord sometimes leads us by a wey we know not, and Ho often allures His children into the wilderness that he may speak comfort- ing words unto them. The growth of our worl made it necessary to Bitlg & Divinity Hall, and leave Seabury Hall for Bhat- tuck School. ~We have now no option, for we must build, and it should beample for our wants for all time. We ehall do all we can for ourselves, but we sorely need the loving aid of the kind friends who have helped us build these schools for God. Our insurance will in part re- build Sexbury Hall for Shattuck School Wo have cared for our twenty-three Divinity stu- dents in the homes of the Professors, the Bi op, and other friends, and thera will be no terruption of the work. Itishard to see how our trial can be overraled for good, but we tryto say, It ia well.” We shall nesd more than ‘we ever did before the alms of the church for our daily bread. If any of our friends can aid 'us to rebuild we will give them our love, oumx g_nhtude and prayers. We ask the grn erg of e Church that our faith fail not, and that we sy hold fast to the dear motte: Faith but pwrsning.” Your brother in Chri L. B. Wrmeere, Bishop of Minnesots. — e o —XKearney Janction, Neb., is experiencing the stago of repid growth tncident to all onr Wegtorn towns. It is building up at the rate of thres houses per_day. Tho Platte, in the vicinity, will soon be spanned by three bridges. Two railroads are already there and three othera are projected. Lots are from 200 to §600, according to location. One on who recently bought a section adjoining the town for 816,000 ih‘u een since offered $35,000 for one-fourth of | ness, will ultimately lead to the best results ever i INDIANA. A Review of the Political Situation in that State-—The Contest and Result, The Causes that Led to the Election of Governor Hendricks. Extravagance of the Recent Legislatures«« Saggested Improvement of the Rey= enues---The State Printing, Ixpraxarors, Dec. 4, 1872, To the Editor of the Chicago Tribune: Bm: The excitement occasioned by the recent political campaign has entirely subsided, and it may not be without profit to review the past, and consider impartially the causes that led to the resnlts in October or November. THE NOMINATING CONVENTIONS. Political parties are more neerly balanced in this State than in any other in the Union. For this reason, both parties have, for & number of years, held their Nominating Conventions sev- eral months in advance of tho elections, viz.: the Democrats on the 8th of January, and the Republicans on the 22d of February, preceding the October elections. This is done to give am- ple time fo perfect organizations in each of the counties, and make a complete canvass of tho Btate. In January last, the Democratic party was laboring under the general demoralization con- sequent upon the change of policy as suggested by Mr. Vellandigham; consequently they de- cided to postpono their State Convention until late in the spring, in order to avail themselves of future developments. The Republicans, however, held their Convention on the 22d of February, 88 usual, and placed a ticket in the field, STATE COMMITTEES, A new State Central Committes was chosen, ane its Chairman, Colonel John W.' Foster, of Evansville, at once set about organizing the Btato, district, county, and township organiza- tions, or at onco put into operation a plan that not only worked well, but gave the Republican party what they never had before,—s thorough and complete organization in every -countyin the State. Colonel Foster's management of the canvags was most admirable, and his praiscs are sounded,, whenever the metter is discussed, by Republicans and Democrats. he Democracy were less fortunate in their managers ; thelr Chairman being E. 8, Alvord, agentieman 60 Fours of age, whonever gavemuch attention to politics, until twovearsago, when he was mado Chairman of the Stato Committee, to settle a feud that threatened to divide the party. Their State Convention was not held until with- in a week of the Baltimore Convention, and the Committee scemed to be spending all their timo running and telling what their o?xpnmmts were proposing to do, or nefilecting their organiza- tion, except in the closely-contested Legislative districts, whero all their’ labors seemed to bo concentrated. The result shows, however, that their work was not as thoronghly or well done s that of their more active adversaries. The Lib- eralshad o Stato Committeo ; but, ts compara- tively little is kmown of thelr movements, it is generelly believed they did little, or Lad no means ot their disposal to do with, and swere con- ifi.‘gnently overshadowed by their Democratic es. ME. HENDRICKS AND THE PRESIDENCY. The lesders of the Democratic party in Indi- sna are wedded to Bourbonism, and such sup- port s they gave to Mesers, Greeloy and Brown waa lukewarm, and mflg given because they de- eited the aid of the Liberals to elect their State ticket, headed by'ox-Senator Hendricks for Goy- emor. Indecd, Mr. Hendricks was literally opposed to the nomination of Mr. Greeley by the Democracy, and wrote a letter to Mr. Voor- Dees, » few days after that gentleman made his attack upon Mr. Greeley in Cobgress, fully ap- proving the eentiments expressed by Mr. V. in that speech, and expressing his opposition to the indorsement of the nominations of the Cincin- nati Convention at Baltimore. 2fr. Hendricks haa sapirations in_the direction of the White House, and the leaders of the Democratic party in this State were earnestly for him. 8y would, however, have given a cordial support to Judge David Davis, that gentleman being persontlly known to most of them, and held in grateful remembrance by all, in con” sequence of his decision releasing 'Messrs. Bowles, Milligan, and Horsey from imprison- ment for life, to which they had been sentenced bys Military Commiesion, in consequence of thelr connection with the ireagonable organiza- tion known as the * Sors of Liberty." Mr. Hendricks did not desire to be a candidate for Governor. He had twico made the race for that position, and had been twice defeated. He desired a seat in tho United States Senate; but his political friends insisted that he must make theTace for Governor., in order to secure the coveted prizo; and, with this understanding, he consented to become for the third time the standard-besrer of his party for Gubernatorial honors. It was well understood, however, that the contest, 80 far 2g Indions was concerned, ‘was between Messra. Morton and Hendricks. = FOR THE SENATR. Both wera tho acknowledged leaders of their party; both are men of decided ability; and ench had served ono torm in the Senate of the United States; and, but for the fact that Mr., Hendricks waa a candidate for Governor, and was expected to make a joint canvass with his competitor, General Browne, a joint canvass would have been arranged between Messrs. Hen~ dricks and Morton, as batween Lincoln and Douglas in Ilinois, 1858. BENATOR MOBTOX entered the canvass early, and continued to ezk almost every day, and frequently . twice a &y, until the close of, the canvasa—having vis- ited seventy-one counties, and spoken that num- ber of times, generally in the open air, his audi- ences being too large to get into o building at command.~ His speeches were fully up to the standard of those previously delivered by him ; and no sooner had the canvass closed than the Republican nomgpaners, and leadors, with one accord, said that ] and brilliant canvass ever known in the history of the State. As soon as the oxtra session of the Legislature nssembled, o caucus was held, at which every Republican member was pregent, and stood up when his name was called, and an- swered thet Oliver P. Morton was his first and on(l& choice for the United Btates Senate. No such compliment was ever befors paid to any public man of any political party in Indiana; and, on the secon esday of the session, he was triumphantly elected, receiving the vote of every Republican member of both Houses. No Senator ever returned fo Washington with & more unanimous indorsement of his private and political record. 2IB. HENDRICKS' CAMPAIG. Mr. Hendricks entered the canvass late in the campaign, and dovoted his efforts mainly to the close Legislative districts. He labored undor considerablo embarrassment in oll his speeches, to Ireep on gaod terms with the Democrata who did not like Greeley, and at the eame time sat- isfy the Liberals. He hes been frequently charged by his encmies and political opponents with being an ‘“ artful dodger,” but he managed to_please both parties by saying of Greeley, “He was not my choice, bat he is my candidate ; 80 let us all voto for tho ‘old codger.’” He has abused me, and I have abused him; 80 we are abont even in that matter. Ihave now turned my back ggon tho pact, and. look only to_the future, which is ours.” At first, Mr. Hendricks wes reported a8 being ‘‘terribly blue” over :il:ia r:anllt of the.Octotk;Ierelfuti_o?.mHa ga: clonz ent of carrying the Legislature, but lost that prize, ~and gained the _ empty honor of the Gubernatorial Chair with all of tha Btate officers and the Legislature against him,— compelling the abandonment of a Iaw practice 'worth not less than 810,000 per year, for asal- ary of 88,000 ; and, tosaman who lgves mone; a5 well 28 does Mr. Hendricks, thisyis no sm: matter. He cannot resign, for thy reagpn i¢hat Lientenant Governor Sexton, &' Repblican, would succeed him ; and there He must remsin for four years, His friends now ter all, if is better as it is, a8 he will make no Tecord as Governor, while, in the Senats, he would be compelled to do '50; and that stch a course would defeat his nomination by the next National Democratic Convention. THE CAUSE OF MR. HEXDRIOKS' ELECTION. The election of Mr. Hendricks over General Browne, while all his askociates npon the Domo- cratic Btate ticket, with one oxception, were de- feated, .was owing) in a ‘eat measure, to the course, 5 fow ogtr the leading ical men, who, having wn;pngnce failed to secure fhe adoption of their peculiar views in the platform of the Republican party, combined o defest General Browne, and so- 6 Senator had earned his re-glection to the Senate by the most laborious | claim that, af-. cordingly proponnded s geries of questions to him by letter, which he, by the advice of several ‘prominent temperance men, who oppose extreme meagures, did not answer, The writers of the &luuuns elluded to then circulated the report it General Browne hed failed to treat their in- uities with proper rospect, while Mr. Hen- icks had returned answers that wero entirely satisfactory. No one ever saw Mr. Hendricks' answers, but the whole scheme was gotten.up to defeat General Browne, who, it was alleged, had formerly been 'sddicted to the ~use of too much liquor. The second canse was the failure of General Browne to chal- lenge Mr. Hendricks to make & joint canvass, as " has been ugual in this Btate between rival candidates for Gubernatorial bonors. In such a canvass, General Browne would have acquitted himself with credit, and his political opponents wonld have been com- pelled to listen to his arguments, while his eppearance wounld have given the lie to the calumnies circulated agamst him. In addition to this, he could have forced Mr. Hendricks to defond Mr. Gresloy and his racord, which alone would have lost Hendricks enough votes to have resulted in his defeat. Another resson that is believed to have contributed to Hendricks' suc- cess, was the faot that the Chairman of the Dem- ocratic Biate Central Committee had bet large sums of money upon Mr. Hendricks’ election as Governor, and had _induced others to do so in other parts of the State; and, in consequence, other candidates were traded off lo mecure vofes for Mr. Hendricks. The fact that General Drowne received 2,000 more votes than did President Grant shows conclusively that his defeat was not owing to his unpufiulurgtym his own party. The fact that Mr. Hendricks received nearly 16,000 more votes than Mr. Greeley shows how much sironger & place he occupied in the affaction of his party then did his candidate for the Presidency, and is a high compliment to his sbility and character. The fact, hawever, that the Demacracy complete- ly abandoned the canvass after the October elec- tion, and made no effort to get out tho vote of their party for Greeley, may account for a part of the discrepency, The canvass, and all things connected with it, however, have ceased tobe matters of public dis- cussion; snd the Legislabure, which is now in seesion, bids fair to accomplish much for the good of the State. There is little or no party feeling. INDIANA. The ¥ndiann Legislature. IvpraNarorts, Ind., Dec, 4, 1872, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Smm: The present special session of the Gen- eral Assembly is THE 3OBT EXTBAVAGANT in its expenses of any legislative body ever sesembled in this State. The recent triumph,by which the Radicels have secured control of the State, has been construed as s genoral license to a most ruinous prodigality. The Sen- ate, composed of fifty members, have sup- plied themselves with 61 official assistants in their work, to each of whom are paid legisla- tive wages. Tho Houso has manifested like ex- travagance. They voted thomselves €50 worth of stationery to supply their wants for & 40 doys' sossion. Tho Assembly had scarcely been in eession two weeks before they adjourned four days for Thanksgiving, in- volving tho Statein en oxpense of $1,500 por day, or §6,000, for which the Btate recoivos ab- solutely nothing. At the same time they ara do- ing this, the Commitiee on Finance are devising 5 measure to pay a debt incurred for the Blind Asylum of $6,000, cmong other debts, by invad- ing the sacrod School Fand, making tome more non-negotiables bonds for the people to pay in- torest upon, When the body met, they found 750,000 in the State Treasury, and already in- cipient megsures have been put on foot that may wipe out the entirs sum. "If the spirit now rampant rules during the present end also the regular session, = the result will be somothing like that of the carpet-bag legisletion of the Southern States, There is somo talk of tho Legislature increes- ing the pay of tho members, but it is doubtful whether they will do thie. But, amid this wild extravagance, there are some éigne of good impending in proposed log- islation. The present Auditor of Btate, the Hon. John C. Shoemaker, has been diligently follow- ing out the direction of the statistics Tequiring him to make suggostions relativa to THE DMPROVEMENT OF TIE LEVENUES of the State; and his diligent researches are embodied in several messures, drafts of which Bavo been sont fo the House and Senato In ac- cordance with_their request. These bills have reference to the Sinking Fund, the raising of revenue, and the regulation of insurance by the creation of the mew office of Insurance Commiseioner. These messures are eminentl: wiss, and, if adopted by the Assembly, will work greatly to the interest of the masses of tax- payers ofe tho State, though the large moneyed corporations, railrosd, expross, telograph, and insurence companies, which have hitherto en- joyed much immunity from_taxation, will feel the change most sensibly. It will be in order, per consequence, for lobbying rings from these corporate bodies to be on d here when the bills come up for sction; but it is believed that the Assembly, however extravagant they may be with the people's money, will not rafasa to adopt Jjust and proper remodies for increasing the revenues of tho State. - One of the special points made in the pro- posed legislation of the Auditor of State is to Becure judicious assessments npon the CAPITAL STOCK OF COBFOBATIONS. Heretofore, it 18 beliovgd that the corrapt use of money by these cm}worafions has always sup- pressed every attempt at the passago of a law that would secure their proper taxation. It cannot longher bo delayed, as thenecessity of rev- enuc, and the justica 0f the measure, are made perfectly plain by the earnest and pointed reasoning of the Audifor of State. In some States, thero is a greater revenue from theso sources, from which Indiana receives no reve- nue, than the wholo income of this State from all sources. The annual report of the Aunditor of State will show that that officer has been industrious in calking up the leaks in the Treasury rluring years. His showing up concerning the matter of STATE_ PRINTING must result in the abolition of the office of Btate Printer, or in tho passage of some very stringent law on the subject. Extracts from the report, ombracing this subject, have been before both Houses for some days, but neither of ourlead- ing papers here seems to know it, or they have not deigned to notice it in their columns. It is, doubtless, a tender point with them. P e Spealker Bilaine’s Remarks 'in the Credit Mobilier Investigation, AMr. Blaine, of Maine, having called Mr. Cox to the chair, took the fioor and said: Mr. Speak- er, I rise to a question of the highest privilege— one that concerns the integrity of the members of this House and the honor of the House itself. During the Iate Prosidentisl campaign there was & wide-spread accusation, to the effect that mem- ‘bers of Bgfm&refl ‘have been bribed, by presents of stock in the * Credit Mobilier,” to perform certain lagislative acts for the benefit of the Pa- cific Railway Company. The persons thus charg- ed with crimo are, or had_been, in high public station. One of them is Vico Prosident of the United Btates; another, Vice President-elect, still another, Becretary of the Tressury. e Ben- stors of tho United Biates are included—AMessrs, Bayard, Fowler, and Prtterson. In this House tho accusation touchesa former honered member from Meassachusetts, now in his grave, Thomas A, Elliot, It includes the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee ; Mr. Dawes, the Chair- man of the Committes on Appropriations; Mr. Garfield, the Chairmam of the Commitee on Civil Service Reform ; Mr. Eelley, the Chairman of the House Navzl Committee ; Mr Scofield, the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee; Mr. Bing- ham, an eminent memberof the Committee of 'Ways and Means; Mr. Brooks, and anex-member from Pennsylvanis, Mr. Bover; and it includes the Speaker of the House, who now occupies the floor. All these gentleman are alleged to have received presents of stock in tho Credit Mobilier from the hands of Oakes Ames, s Representa- tive from Magsachusetts — presents. of stock which were in the nature of bribes. The _ grave usation includes — men of - both poliitieal parties, snd, es I have already said, eminent public atations, The charge of the bribery of members is one of the gravest any legislative body is called upon to anewer, aud demands & prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation. I havo taken thé floor, therefore, for the purpose of moving that a select committes be appointed ‘to_investigate these charges, and to ascertain whother they be true or false. ' Unvilling, of courso, to appolnt & committce to invcstigatn & charge in which my own nemo is implicated, I have called you to tho chair to porform thatdnty. Ihave sclocted you because you ara my political opponent, held in high bonor both in the Houso and in the country; and when, on Saturday last, I advised you I should ask this service, I placed on‘you but one restriction in the selection of such com- mittee, and that was that it ehould not containa majority of my political friends. Woven Fabrics from Rabbits? Halr. The Austrian Exhibition Gazetle calls attention toanox and imnortant industry. viz: the in- =nd but few believed he returned any ;- past” -hours are full, the door of the right pieca of corporation of rabbits’ hair with wool and cotion in wesving textile fabrics. The shortar hairs, which are ‘incapable of being woven, are readily purchased by felt hat manufacturers at S8 & pound. When properly r:guad the hair affords & good strong yarn, which is gaid to be inno way inferior to wool. If all that the Austrian journal says on the subject be trus, the raising of rabbits will soon becoma an important busi- ness. No animal is better adapted to raising on & large scale than the rabbit; they multiply al- most as rapidly as white mice, and are not con- fined to any particular climate. It is rather re- markable that this use of the hair has not been thought of bofore, particularly when we con- sider how many hundred million rebbits are an- nually destroyed. The meat of the rabbit is agreeable and nourishing, and the skins have long been prized. The Austrian Gazelte antici- pates that an important industry will grow out of the successful introduction of rabbit hair ‘weaving in all countries. THE GALE AT ST. JOHN, N. B. Xncidents of the Storm. The Bt. John Telegraph of Monday brir 38 full dotails of theterrific storm which raged there Friday night and Saturdsy of last week, the dis- astrous effects of which were noted by telegraph. Fivo schooners and a brig_ were driven ashore and wrecked, and several buildings were blown down. Of these, the wreckof the echooner Re- ward was attended with great_suffering and loss of life. She was anchored off Partridge Island when the gale cemmenced. Both anchors were out, but the fury of the sea was such that nothing conld~ resist it. The _chains arted and she commenced _ drifting toward the rocks. About5 o'clock Friday evening she struck, and being linble to go to &iecas a any moment, the crew, six in number, ok to the rigging. Horror-stricken spectatora looked on from the shore, but could find no way tohelp them. At longih's leaky, unscamorthy life-boat was manned by brave men, and started out to the relief of the sufferers. The progress of the boat was elow, and attended with the ntmost danger to the men on board. Meanwhile, the men who were clinging o the n‘ngfing grew weaker and weaker. 6 first to fall was 2 1ad of 18, who, numbed cnd exhausted, losthishold and wasdrowned. TheCaptain was the nexttogo, andthen oneof theseamon. Justasths life-boat approached the mast fell over, carrying with it the three men still clinging to it. One of thess wes swept under the sail and drowned. The other two were saved, one of them uncon- scious, and the other delirions. They wero dreadfully benumbed, but were finally restored. The deed were washed on shore the next morn- ing. %xcm‘n scenes attended the passage of the steamer New Brunswick, which arrived at East- ort Friday afternoon in the middle of the snow- storm, and left for St. Jobn at 3 o’clock Batur- day morning, having on board more than a hun- dred souls. ~ When ehe resched the Wolves the storm burst on her in all its fory. When Point Lopresux was reached it was blowing a perfect hurricano, and affer that place was passed tho Ben was §0 heavy that the sieamer would not atir at all, although there werefour men at the helm, About 7 o'clock in the morning the steamor gavo a plunge downward, bow first, a8 if she in- tonded to go to the bottor, snd at the same mo- ment a huge wave boarded her. The effect was startling, and, indeed, torrifying, Tho sea struck the starboard bulwark, and stove it in for & distance of more than twenty feet. It carried away about twenty fest of the star- board rail of the promenado deck, and stril- ing the pilot-honse smashed in the glass front and the eash on the starboard. side, filling the pilot-house with ‘water, burying up for the moment Captain Pike and the wheelman, end breaking the glass even in the beck of the' pilot-house.” Everything in the pilot-house was, of course, turnéd upsido down and most of the articlea broken. But the damogo did not end here ; the same sea burst in the forward door on the starboard side of the main saloon, sending a heavy column of water uring through the saloon, almost its entire ength, goicg as far back as tho after stove end | pouring in & mighty cataract down the saloon stairs, £0 the no small astonishment and_ferror of those who were in its vicinity. One of the hands had one of his legs severely sprained, but_not broken, by the ez, and an- other received a bad cut on the head.” By great good fortuno, and by tho skill and coursgaons con “uct of the Captain, ehe %as able to put.into Pisarinco at 6 o'clock a, m., where she lay until 1p. m., and then proceeded to St.John, arriv- ing between 2 and 3, not much the worse for the storm, thongh showing that she had got & good drubbi; og. fho passengers were in & state of groat alerm, and_experienced infinite relict ‘when safely landed. o vessel behaved well, and her safety is largely to be attributed to the good manegomont of her Captain, and the pres- ence on board of a dozen Bt. John's pilots and other good seamen, WONDERFUL HOROLGGUE. Tke Great Strasburg Clock Beaten by an Ingennous German. A German ot Cincinnati has invented a clock ‘which, Lhongh much smaller than the celebrated one at Btrasburg, is, from its description, much more complicated. ' We see, in a glass case, & three-story, ateeple-shaped clock, four feet wide at the first story and nine feet high. Tnemove- ment is placed in the first story, on four deli- cate columns, within which swings the pendu- lum. The second story consists of two fower- Tike pieces, on the doors of which there are two Eic;&res that ropresent boyhood and early man- 0 A tower crowns, s third tory, the ingenious structure. A cock, 85 a symbol of watchfulness, stands on the top, directly over the portal. When the clock marks the firat quarter the door of the Teft piece of the gecond story opens, and & child isemos from the background, comes forward to a little boll, gives it ono blow, and then disap- pears. At the second guarter a youth appeers, sirikes the bell twice, snd dissppears; at the third comes & man in his prime; at the fourth we have s foitering old man, lesning on & stalf, who strikes thoe bell four times. Each time tho door closes of itself. When the the second story opens, and Death, ss a ekeleton, scythe in hand, appears, and marks the hour by striking a bell. ' Bat it is at the twelfth | hour that we have the grand spectaclein the ropresentation of the day of judgment. Then, when Death has struck three blows on the little Dell, the cock on the top of the tower suddenl; flaps his wings, and crows in o shrill tone ; an after Death hath marked the twelfth hour with his bammer, ho crows sgain twice. Immo- diately three angels, who stand #s gusrdians in s central position, raigse their trumpets with their right handa (it the left they hold swords) and blow a blast toward each of the four juarters of the earth. At the last blast, e door of the tower opens, and the resurrected children of earth sppear, while the destroying angel sinks out of sight. Then, suddenly, Christ descends, arrounded by angels. On his left there isan angel who holdsthe scales of justice; onhis right another carries the Book of ife, which opens to show the alpha and omega —the beginning and the end. Christ waves his hand, and instantly the good among the resur- rected are separated from the wicked, the former oing to the right, the latterto the left. The hangel Michael salutes the_good, while on the other side stands the devil, radiant with fiendigsh delight—he can hardly wait for the final sentence of those who fall to him, but, in obedicnce to the com- mand of the central figure, he withdraws. The figure of Christ raises its hand again, with o threatening mein, and the accased gink down to the relms of his satanic majesty. ‘Then Christ blesses the chosen few, who draw near to him. _Finally we hear a_cheorful chime of bells, during which Cbrist rises, surrounded Dy his angels, until he disappears and the portal oses. A complete drama is here represented withont the aid of & humzn hand. The movements are calm, steady, and noiseless, with the exception of the threatening guestures of the figurs of Christ and the movements of Lucifer, who darts scross the ecene with lightning rapidity, Of course the peculiar action of theso two figures is intentional on the part of the artist, and adds greatly to the effect, e S S The Baby Hippopotamus. Mr. Fronk Buckland, in writing to Land and TYater rospecting tho baby hippopotamus, whosa Dbirth on the 5th of November was announced in these columns, eays: Ihave just been up to the Gardens (the Zoo- logical) to get the Intest news, and am happy to Do able to issue » most favorable bulletin. Little Guy Fawkes and its mother are both doing ex- ceedingly well. This moming (Nov. 8) at 7, they were both aslecp and alept till 11, at which hour they went into the water. When they came out the mothor stood up while the young one suckled freely for some time, It jerks its head against the udder- like = kid or a lamb. ‘When 1t had sucked enough it got up, with milk all over its face, and hefim jumping and skip- ping With awkward ols around its mother, nd every now and thon it pitched up the hey and played with it, showing it was lively and well. When it.goes into the water with its et sinks its head 50 low in the Water that only its nostrils are visible. This is evidently & won- drous arrangement for the safety of the young Irom its natural enemies. It has not yet been seen standing on its mother’s back in the water, - 88 represented in the plate in Dr. Livingstone's book. On Thursday the kesper carefully tossed in fresh hay and straw and two_days’ food ; but this disturoed the mother considersbly. Sheis terribly savage, shows her terTifi o strength, and | roars and bellows tremendously if she is the least put out. She has not only great powers of observation—knowing one keeper from another —but also of memory ; for Mr. Bartlett thinks that she recollects her last two bebies wers ta-_ ken from her, and therefors always Seemsin a state of alarm lest her third young one shounld also be surreptitionsly wrested from her ma- ternal care. Hence the necessity for the most porfect quiet. The sparrows alone are admitted, and I must say they chirp unwarrantebly lond, The mother, however, seems, though ever watch- ful, tobe in excellent spirits, and the baby sucks continuonsly, and the authorities have the greatest hopes that it will live and thrive, Do that it has taken to its natural food. The poriod of gestation is seven months and from twenty-five to twenty-seven daye. TRAGEDY N MISSOURI A Tan Shot and Instantly Killed by His Mistress. From the Sedalia (3o.) Bazoo, Dec. 2, Our ‘special despatches, last Saturdsy, in- formed our readers that a terrible murder had been committed in the n;ighhuflng tovn of Clinton, and that s desperado known as Harry Smith had been shat and killed while aglesp, by his wife, Mollie Smith, * The victim, Harry Smith, was born in Liver- gg: Eng., of Irish parents, and at the time of leath was sbont 36 lvle»x.m ofage. Hewas s sailor by profession, followed his vocation from youth to mavhood, and became fully imbued with that characteristic recklessness that is too ofteu the sccompaniment and characteristic of a sailor's life. At length he became tired of the sea and settled down in Chicago, where he opened a saloon. Whilehe was keeping this ace he got acquainted with the woman who illed him, who was then s yonng girl of 15. True to his brutal passions, he succeeded in ac- complishing her ruin, and making her his slave. In 1869 ho married her, and kept her at his den, ‘where she received his kicka or caresses a8 whim or caprice dictated. At times she was subjected to the most inhuman treatment, and within one week after their marriage he drove her ont npon the streets and forced her to prostitution in or- der to make the money to pay his rent. After leading 2 life of infamy in Chicago for about a year, he removed to Kansas Gity, where he pur- Chased end ran the Globe saloom, st the foot of Main street, on the Levee. Hero he kept a §enexal beadquarters for priz&fi‘il;b ors and desperadoes, and in the seme building his wife was mistress of a house of ill-fame. This honse had & terriblo reputation, snd as dreaded k}y the police and the more respectable portion of the community. Wild and cen orgies and midnlght affaits bacame of such fro- quent occurrence that public indignation was aroused, and Smithat length disposed of the place. Ho established himselfin Clinton a little overa year ago. Herehe bought a piece of property and built & house, which in time be- came o nuisance to the community, and resulted in en indictment being found against him. He took a change of venue to Vernon County and went to Fort Scott, whare he opened a saloon. and dance-house. The same gcenes of disso- Iuteness and debauchery characterized thigas all his former places, and after o short career of in- famy he again returned to Clinton, the Vernon Court having decided the suit against him witha fine of 10. Here the same old scenes were re- enacted, and thoy quarrelled constantly. Sho avers that ho beat her brutally, and upon eny or 1o provocation. Abont six weeks ago he sold her the house, and she Las a deed to tho _propertyin ber own name. After the sale ha departed for Red River, and the community rejoiced a¢ what they sup- o0sed to be & final riddance of his presence. But 1t is presumed he lost all his money in gambling | and dissipstion ot Red River, for abont o veelk | 880 he returned penniless end more bratal than ever. ‘ Tnon tho fatal night they occupied the same bed; but bofore going tobed he beat her nnmer- cifolly. And even at midnight the inmates of other parts of the house_say they heard her screams of gain or for help. ~ It is then suppos- ed after he had gone to'sleep that she lay beside | ‘him brooding over her wrongs, and the inhn- manity of thefi end who had made her what she was. At all ovents, about 3 o'clock in the morn- | t ing a pistol shot was_heard in_her room, and when the frightencd inmates of the house en- tered it there lay Smith, shot through the hea ond weltering in his blood. He must have die instaptaneously. After Harry wss_shot (and Mollie don't deny the charge), she fled from her housein her night-clothes to one of the hotels, where sho way nasigned aroom by the negro porter. At daylight a search was instituted for her, but hor hiding-place was not_discovered_by the hotel- keeper or the suthorities until about noon on Saturdsy. Bhe wes arrested by Constable Blatt, and taken to her house s a witness before the Coroner's_inquest, which was held in the room where Smith was killed, g : Public sentiment of Clinton is with this fallen woman. The pensple of Clinton kmow the repu- tation of Harry Smith when he was alive, and they rejoice ibat he is now beyond the power of doing them any harm, for his character and reputation were guch that he was a terror wherever known. It is confidently belioved at Clinton that she will ultimately be cleared. Yesterday our reporter went to the Jail in Clinton, and had an interview with Mollie Smith. TUpon entering her cell, the officer in charge eaid to her: “aollie, here's & mewspaper Toparter from Sed!a;l.'u, who wants to tall with yon: Come, get o Bhe has & very prepossessing appearance, of rather elight but graceful form, and has & bean- tiful head of brown bair. Her besring is re- fined and lady-like, and totally devoid of brazen effrontery which generally characterizes the courtesan, and from her menner it is evident sho biad good and pious training in her girlhood. She {5 quite young, her twentioth birthdsy being on the 2d of January next. 5 Upon the approach of our reporter ehe said, “T don’t weni o 1 trouble. I fear my poor mother will hear of it,” and then she burst into tears and sobbed some minates. After an interval our reporter had a long conversation with her, during tho course of which she recounted the above facts, occasion- ally remarking, *I do not feel a8 if 1 have done anything wrong, or that I am a murderess.” —_ SILVER. rent from the gate. The Sheriff whip the left and folded his arms; the lash and brought down with considerable foree 2cross the shonlders of tho tallied the strokes el ary of pun caped from his lips. The lash hed loft 8 in soveral white walts, o blood. The spectators tion to see the naked back, while the blows It with a regular time upon’ the wretche’s flesh. The pain seemed to be an flinched and bent his bodyin and ous as if exch thong as it fell upon him cut like o knife. The twentieth stroke, which was tho last, w. Teached ; the keeper cried out “all up,” and the wretch wes unloosened. Hb picked up his coal end threw it upon his beck ' aud walked off in the jail to spend a year in 4 cell, while the cro sent behind him s brutal lsugh and complimet= ed the Sheriff ‘bad done it. second and last candidhte name was Joe Snith, o anlatto, abont 30 yeus of age. lashes for having stolea o set of harness fron & Nevwcastle County farmer. the post by the ron caffs, the -cos\s from off "his shoulders and he sfo in the freezing cold. eround the post, the keeper gave Sheriff raieed the lash ard brought it down s tremendous force upon the vickim's back, WEo flinched and d:.sharis;himssll in & manner paie- ful to behold. & deep-red blood spob_justantly s victim suffered terribly, and, &t stroke; groaned in an sndible fone. voice, an T arms were released, while the back of the vichz grew as red as a piece of raw meat. He coolly picked up his coat, and followed his:keopento genie's private library, recent hitherto usually Tnow nominated for Assor. }zet of reid‘i.n 0 form, and anything published about my | 15 tempted to come hither. ew days since to Bee DY thoy Wwere gotting on. The Major is 99, his witl hiten s Gomatock Lode, exceeding that sum snd pro- ducing a greater value than any other mine in the world. If the great Emma had not had s terrible cave-in, which took the most of the working geason to removo, it would have dis- E%ted with both of these for the first anmnn. e Raymond & Elywas stocked and sold in San Franciseo for $3,000,000. Bince the day of sale it hn)?md'lper cent per month on its stook. Mr. Raymond, one of its discoverers, holds one million ef its stock, n&on which he Teceives 370,000 monthly, For the past twelve months he has recaived £340,000 gold in divi- dends. in trade and every material inter- eat, has made an advance corresponding _to her mineral development. The Walker Brothers do the grost mining trade. Their stock inventor- ied $660,000 & month si ce, and their trade will Zreach the millions year, But the most striking losson tsught by this ining development is its effect upon those who depend upon the mines for & market for their agricoltural products. The Mormon immi- gration has " not been 80" heat for N0 years 88 formerly, so thal any great increase in their consumption of goods must be accounted for bé an incrense capita of consumption. The Co-operative Mercantile managers toll me that their sales are one hun« dred per cent greater than in 1871. ‘The sales of the Parish Co-operative Mercan- tile Institution 2t Balt Lake were, for the &ix months ending Seph 5, 1872, over 2,000,000, Buch figures tell us in unmistakebla langusge thet the farmers and mechanics of Utah receive xl;::fly ggu%!: forfihair pmdnyds what they did fore the days of mining., Yours traly, H. ]:vu'a.ur. THE WHIPPING-POST. A Scene in Newcastle Prison, Deln Yeaxe-Lashing Two Wreiglgdecon Viots. Neweastle (Dec, 3) Correspondenze PAt. ‘Almost the fret words T heatd - the prison-yzrd were: I hope the cut that Joa Smith Like the Digger don't live in the State.” * He did it decently last Saturc & defanct specimen of humanity. “No, he didn't!” replied 3 pacsy ““Be only raised the dust on their ““What's the use in having 8 said & cold, atern man, who loors world like & coutry 'Squire; ‘s of a whipping-post if you d Toel it Rt i e S At ‘this point the S of tho juil followed by the k. coat crowd made a gap, and the prisone®was taken to the postand his hands fastened in a pair of iron cuifs sbove his hesd. Tho spealz’t:tors laughed and brutally commented upon the un- forlunate wretch. e stood shivering The coat ias token off, and cold, and directly in the path of the wind-cor- from th grasped the In hig right hand, the Leeper stood off to was raised 2 ;ictim, while the kesper & heavy sonorous voice- The man trembled and a.gm-p of piin o5 marlk; which guickly filled wil pushed to obiain & posI: growing intense, for the upon the derent way in which he In a few minutes the keeper bronghtpib the S;‘m- the o]mf' His He had beex sentenced to twegty He was, fastenedto The crowd pr The strokes raised large, white welts npon the ender flesh, and as soon 28 the blow W?. p’;fi e o fiftearth " tallied tho keeper, in his he2vy “Twen?, the horrid work %23 epded. The s cell, to spend the remainder of his jsentence: _ rowd, dis oy et 55 SElT overted, aotf e oypnd e in the whippinen.’ { PERSONAL, °% Madame Rattazzi wes the purd S04 ds —3r. Samuel Marsh; aged 87, di its glory. —Ex-President Johnson inf bis residence in Nashyille, Tenn. day at the Astor Housa New York S : ‘had occupied one room. Tor more thin 25 e yezrn —Josquin Miller hgs goneto Fugland and 8pain to spend the winter. —The Davenport brohers have qutehowing ghosts, and gone to farning. Tiis Knights of St. 2ateick, of St, Losis, tai il of & $25,000 monumenito the Tenjory of iel O’Connell, and & already promised. Iaige part f the money is —Thers ia & negro woman liviig néar Colum- ‘bus, Ga., 106 years old, whonevernursed Wash« inglon. —The Faust Club, of Breoklyn, isto erect in Prospect Park a statue of John How:xd Payne, author of ‘Home, Bweet Home." —A. colored gentleman in Tiscaloosa, Aln., i addressed as 4* Old Hoss,” is ilkie Collins is soon to reirforce the num-- novelists on the American plat= orge Eliot” i3 alsosaid to be sore= —DMizs Sorsh Poters bus s plice to hang one ear-ring only since she rammed ler head ont of o car window on o Pennsylvania railroad the other day, to hear what vas geing on ountside. A bridge came along and smputated her ear very successfully withont using chloroform. ~—Major Joseph Spragie, of” Woostér, Ohio, ttlo boss and girls fogether & 94, andthe yuited ages The Wealth of Utah and Nevada. giu;"l“';‘;’ X poldren, including dn adopied - Vo, Ty Nov. 25, 1878 —Jobn' B. Gough iagetting up s testimonial To the Editor of the Omaha Herald: for Georgo Crutiahany, the temperesomonisl In 1871, from Uteh, I vrote to Herald readers | caturist of England, @d loads the Ly with my views of Utah a8 a silver pmducmicnuntry, which were looked upon by most people s en- tirely too sanguine. No shipments of ore had been made excopt by a few mines, principally by the Emma mine to England, ‘Chis great mine in 1870 had netted its owners $860,000. In 1871 it netted 32,000,000, its gross yield reaching $3,- 000,000. Itis very dificult fo obtain dats to base an estimate of the yield of the whole Ter- ritory for 1871. Tho shipments Were mostl: ‘bullion by haifhfi. Wells, Fargo & Co. carried from the Salt Lako office 31,452,291 worth of re- fined silver bullion. It will be safe to say that the total yield reached £5,000,000. The product of 1872 will be fully $10,000,00J. The first quar- ter of this year was one of deep Bnows, complete- Iy stopping work in Big and Little Cottonwoods and American Fork Districts, and to a greater or Iess extent in all the other districts. Still the shipments tx}m the sl.‘“b Lake ofl‘xc; for flc:fi months of Jam ‘ebruary, an reached sz,oss,z?‘:'}.ry TFor the second and third juarters of 1872 they are much ater. go that the shipments from that office alone will ear $5,000,000. Of the bullion i¢ is imposaible in ore and base reach for the whols shipments of ores an tonwood District has yeilded more than $6,000,~ 000, seven mines there, besides the Emma, yielding more than $500,000 esck, and some Teaching $1,400,000, and with ihese figures, enormous a8 they are, this has been & year of speculation and preparation rather than worl. In 1873, with its incomparably greater railway facilities, its greater number of smelting and refining works, with its increased capital and experience, will double the products of 1872, ile in Utah, a few days since, I had the great ploasuze of meeting Prof. J. E. Clsyton, of Novads, who I8 the best living authority npon Nevadnmines. Ho estimates that the product of that State will be from 80 to 33 per cent eater than last year. The total product of the omstock lode was, in 1871, 811,053,338, This year ho estimates it to be $16,000,000. The Eu- rola District produced, $2,173,105 in 1871. It ill ba $4,000,000 in 1872, Pioche or Ely Dis~ trich yielded $3,382,27 last yenr. This year it will exceed $6,000,000, and would have exceeded that by » million dollars but for_the of the Meadow Valley Mine mills. Thgfii)ald of mine in 1871 was 81,667,398, The Raymond &Elny‘i the other mine of that mother it swims a5 well as a fish. When in deep water, the little hippo rests its nose l ~n the mother's areat, brosd. lower iav, and region and the second mine in order of produc-~ tion in the wo: i e more than will produce 94,000,000 in 167 #aq GroTR Foint mine: o8 tha l than Mrs. Woodhull at farnish materizl for a volume Which has recsived the Imperial imprimatur. given upwards of £2,000,000 charitable institutions in that city, and conzeav]mnce received the honor of knighthood from | [—Mr. John Bright, in declining an izvitatiors to attend the civio banquet at_Birmin Saturday, wrote s follows: 1 am sti to shun public | speeches, and must, therefore, 2ak your Come ! mitteo to excuse my absence. ? indebted to them for their kind remembrance ¢ me.” $730. —The Rev. Mr. Bubuésan, of Louisville, who ‘has been doing s0 man; hty thi Sonainto the menranos stony (L108% bus now 1r businesa. : —Dr. J. Godwin Scdt, a brother-in-law of Professor Huxley, a fornor compani; Byrun,dl fifi:terlyk mérh'gf;an in &mm i army, week af ntgor Hho Hon e e Confederate . John P. Hale, once » political force in the 1and, 18 confnod to his room, and has not left it since he returned fr where be voted for Grant, o Lo the polla, —Vinnie Recm expects to have better I busting Beecher. 2k —Edvward 8. Pollard, of the ‘¢ Lost Canse,” is mnow so serioualy ill that no hopes of his recove priddlodasiani g v 4 ain diary of tho Grand Duke Alexis is to of ‘hin travels, —The —It is authoritatively Pshbad that - Prince Arthur, of England, has now sbandoned il o, bition to become a newspaper man, and that the promised magazine articles wi pear. will ‘never ap- —A macriage which makes & sensation at thiz/ moment (says the Paris Journal) is that T e commect ontimate. Tho Libie Dok | Bor wn ol B JJour of Hh Moekowa by hep baod.” In & fow days she will father, and Duchess de Persigny 1}”: In ‘onl; the wi of a simple advocata. 7o the wil] —Josiah Mason, of Birmingham, Eng., hay to Lt o 8 in © Quoen. o 1 obliged dinners and meetings and I am not the lesy —Captain William Kendall, of Connectj / died last waek, aged 89 years. Ho was thesd! fnventor and Uset of cirdalar saws, Ho als> ¥ vented the Colt's revolver, Kendall 5-~i; b} steel chime bells, T : almost to numerons too mention, “ % pi public notice or reward ho ever rece>" 3 jor Improvementa was & gold medal fror oironlar nor of his State for his improvements i+ saws. mostly stolen from him. Hemet wi &% . success in introducing his inventi deatrayed yesy many after completis, - , and many other it ra inventions improve: 1] i hfldin‘g:b stoutly-built colored mun " own 100361y ovr his m_ ] ) i and trembling in the infense /; ; i £ ! ; | ! ‘