Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1882, Page 4

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All dealers who keep THe DAILY Bin on sdle shounld hereafter address their orders to the Manager American News Company, Omaha, Neb. —_— THIRTY-THRER DOLLARS a day Alex- ander. Tatkixe ot backbone, Senator Mitchell’s seems to be made of steel. —— BrLXNAP is once more assuming local prominence in Towa, Robeson's prominence in congress is national. —— Ir old Uncle Aleck Stepens wheels his invalid chair into the Georgin canvass there is likely to be a very lively rattling of dry bones among bourbon politicians. BartrerT has dropped his mask of friendship for workingmen and shown ‘himselfa fit co-workerof Church Howe and Frank Walters. ———— OnicAGo's city government has kioked the telephone out of the pub- lic offices, A whole world of private revenge against the gurgling nuisance is comprised in the dispatch announc- ing this fact. ORGAKNIZED capital is being met by organized labor, It is estimated that the membership of tho Knights of Labor in this country is not less than half & million. There are 70,000 in Pennsylvania alone. e —— ] Wk shall hear less of those survey- ing contracts from Dr. Miller since he was 80 beautifully squelchedfin that legislative investigation. After all, tree culture andrailroad championship are the Doctor’s forte. Te® rumor is revived that Secrotary Frelinghuysen is to be sent to the Oourt of St. James. Tha chairman- ship of a cattle commission would be more in the line of Mr. Frelinghuy- sen’s favorite studies and genius. Ir certainly pays to plant black walnut trees, if the Cincinnati Com- mercial is to be believed. In 1864 an Indiana man, as the story runs, bought a tree for $1, and he subsequenely sold it for $65. The buyer sold it to a Oincinnati lumber dealer for $700. The Olncinnati dealer sold it to a New VAN WYCK'S TRADUCERS. The Omaha Herald and Lincoln Journal, whose proprietors still smart under the lash wielded by General Van Wyck when a member of the state senate in exposing outrageous frauds on the tax payers of the state in the letting of the state printing, insist that the charges ot bribery and theft in connection with the survey. or general s office at Plattsmouth re. main uncontradicted. Both of these papers say that on account of the fact that Mr. Fairfield, of Cass county, the surveyor who took a £15,000 contract, failed to ap- pear before the investigating com- miltee because he is laid up with the small-pox, the testimony with which Dr. Miller expected to sustain his charges could not be reached, and therefore the charges still remain un- disputed. As a matter of fact, Dr. Miller charged criminal collusion between Senator Van Wyck, Mr. Teft, Mr. Graham and Surveyor General Smith i the letting of contracts for gov- ernment surveys. He charged that $20,000 appropriated for this purpose was stolen and pocketed under and arrangement which Senator Van Wyck had made with General Smith, He charged further that Mr. GGraham procured his surveying contract of $5,000 under an arrangement made through Mr. McKillip of Seward county with General Van Wyck as a consideration for the vote which Gra- ham cast for United States senator last winter. All these charges have been disproved in every particular. It was shown by the testimony of Graham, McKillip and Van Wyck that no mention was ever made about any contracts or patronage to be given to Graham, or any one else, during the senatorial campaign. Mr. McKillip swears that he had nothing what- ever to do with procuring the contract for Graham, and has never received a penny from Graham. Mr. Graham swoars that he had no talk with Van Wyok about surveys until long after Van Wyck had been elected United States senator. That he merely asked Van Wyck to use his influence with the surveyor-general to procure him the contract; that Van Wyck, himself, insisted that theso contracts must be given to regular surveyors only, and that no dividing of the money was to be made. Van Wyck, himsolf, em- phatically denies having made any bargain or arrangement about patron- age with anybody before his election to the United States senate. Now suppose Mr. Fairfield had been able to attend the investigation what oould he say to contradict either of theso witnesses, Ho was personally unknown to Van Wyck, and if he was presont at the scnatorial canvass no- body knows it. Therefore Dr. Mil- lers principal but missing witness could not in any way disprove the fact that no corruption or bribory can be charged against Mr. Van Wyck in the senatorial election, General Smith testified that the contracts for public surveys are lot under act of congress at fixed rates; that the amounts so fixed are allowed only after the work is com- pleted and inspected, That the money to pay for thie work goes directly from the treasury to the con- tractors, and that the surveyor gen- eral has nothing whatevar to do with it. He swoars that all the contracts were lot to what he knows to be com- Yorker tor $2,200, and he cut iv up into veneering, which hesold for §10,- 000. Tue Omaha organ of th Pacific elaims that Tue Bre i republican.” Tas Bas has been anti- Republican for ten years, and will oontinue to oppose that journal so long as it places fidelity to corporate ‘monopolies above the interests cf the community, which it so persistently misrepresents, and the party whose name it dishonors. AX immense treasury surplus such as that snnually possessed by the United States in consequence of the extravagant taxation of our poople is a constant incentive to lavish and un- necessary appropriations. It is safe to say of our annual income were not some $100,000,000 in excess of our an- nual expenditure such a seheme as that championed by Mr. Sherwin of the House committes on Education and Labor would never have been ‘broughtinto prominence. Mr, Sherwin on behalf of his committee, asks Con- &ross to aid the states in the educa- tion of illiterates by a yearly appro- priation of $10,000,000 for the next five years, The bill provides that the money is to be apportioned among the several states and territories, in accordance with the number of their illiterate population over 10 years of age.” There are in the country, ac- cordingto the last census, 4,628,000 of this class, which would give $2,208 to each illiterate. Nebras- ks, under the bill, would re- ceive less than any other state while Georgia and Virginia would head the list with a yearly appropria- tion of over a million each. The south contains two-thirds of all the illiter- aiés inthe country, and under the Sherwin bill would receive §7,647,000 annually. Most of the slave states would get more money from the fed- eral treasury than they raise by assess- wents. petent surveyors; that Van Wyck never made an absolute request as to the disposal of the contracts, but merely recommended Mr. Graham as _ | one of the applicants, It was shown that the contracts wore let at the rates fixed by law; that the work had been faithfully per- formed; hence no burglary nor rob- bery ‘of the government, The only thing that Mr. Fajrfield might have testified to was as fo what he did with the money he received for the work, and whether or not he paid any part of it to Mr. Teflt or anybody else, But oven if he had testified that he had divided with other parties after the work was done, no charge of rob- bery, theft or bribery could lay at the doors of anybody. The Herald and the Journal may take great comfort in ascribing the failure to sustain the charges to the absence of that principal witness, but they have failed utterly to make out a unbiassed person case and every whether he be democrat or republi- can must adwit it OTHER LANDS '!H—Al OURS. Bigns of the impending downfall of the liberal ministry in Great Britain The determination of the tories to drive Gladstone from power is very evident, notwithstanding their pledges of earnest support to the gov- The introduction of the arrears of rent bill took the wind out of the sails of the conciliatory conser- vatives, while the new coercion bill goes beyond the former demand of The tory at. tack now takes the form of virtuous compact is eupposed to have made with Parnell while in prison, and which the opposition de- nounce as the ““I'reaty of Kilmain- ham.” Mr. Parnell's lotter simply said that if the arrears of rent ques- tion were settled, the Irish party in the house would regard it as a prac- tical settlement of the land question, thicken, ernment, Northeote's followers. indignation which Mr, against a Gladstone THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1882 and would exert their influence, with probable success, for the stoppage of outrages, and would be able to co-op- erate with the liberals in the support of liberal measures regarding ‘England. There was nothing inconsistent with the normal course of liberal legislation in this measure or which would indi- cate any great change of policy on the part of the Irish members or the min- istry, The letter, however, gives good excuse for the withholding of Tory support, and an appeal to shirkers in the liberal ranks to desert their party. General sentiment in England in- clines to the belief that the ministry will be of short duration and that an appeal to the country must shortly follow, No American can approve of such a measure as the Irish coercionact, To hold a whole nation responsible for the act of four individuals, and to punish men, women and children by investing on them martial law is ro- venge and not justice. The clauses of the repression bill repealing trial by jury in disaffected districts are re pugnant to every lover of liberty. Does any sane man suppose that Irish anger will be appeased by this meas- ure, or that the reign of peace and quiet which Mr. Gladstone so eagerly desires will come and more speedily because the country is encircled by bayonets and cowed for the moment into sabmission by loaded musketa? The trouble in Egypt has ended with the submission of the insurgents to the power of the khedive. The struggle was really between the khe- dive, supported by foreign influence, on the one hand, and the friends and supporters of an Egyptian nationality on the other. Ever since the Persian eonquest the people of that country havo been a subject race, and have lost all the distinctive features of na- tionality. The country has been made the scene of Arab invasions, Turkish conquests, and European intrigues, and yet, as the connecting link be- tween the Orient and the European west, its importance to trade and to civilization can scarcely be overrated. It in for this reason that the revolu- tion now going on in that country will possess more than a passing interest for all who sympathize with a people striving to attain to nationality and a higher destiny. The natienalists, as they may be termed, include the edu- cated Mussulmans, the Arab mer- chants, the Coptic Christiaus, the Sheiks of the villages, and all fella- heen who take an interest in politica. These people are anxious to obtain political treedom and eccno- mic independence, and are united in their purpose. The opposi- tion, headed by the khedive, is made up of his retainers, many of them Tuarks, and the descendants of the Mamelukes who ruled Egypt a century . been published verbatum et literatum in meveral Spanish newspapers, The Intter deal with it in a contemgtucus and derisive way. The excommuni- tion in a little too foreible in parts for reproduction in a newspaper, but those who are curious to know what pun- ishments, in this world and the next, are considered suitable to persons who differ in polities from the toolish bishop will find an authentic version of the ‘“Greater excommunication’ in the pagep of “‘Tristam Shandy.” The military expenses of Italy are simply stupendous. On December 16th of last year the minister ot war introduced a bill for granting new ex- traordinary military expemses. The report of the committee who had oharge of the bill has just been pub- lished. The minister had asked for $28,836.000, but the committee cut it down to 825,400,010. Of this amount $4,600,000 is for guns and cavalry muskets; $1,200,000 for field ord- nance; for the arming of fortifica. tions, $4,200,000; fortifications around Rome, $1,800,000; other forts, $3,- 800,000; for a dam through the Gulf of Sperta and the fortifications of that naval station, $2,000,000; building of military schools and barrecks, $1,386,- 280. The ordinary annual expendi ago, the Greek money lenders and their countrymen, the Syrian chris- “tians, and the Europeans. This op- position, which hopes to thrive on Egyptian labor is aot united, but relies upon foreign intervention to put down an uprising. The French and English, who have a stake in the country and aro interested in the pres- ent staie of affairs, either as residents or bond holders, rely upon their gov- ernment to uphold the khedive and his supporters. Sovereign power was the real point in issue between the contending parties. The nationalists, headed by Arabi Bey, have a home policy and are evidently sincere in the desire to lift the country up from the degradation and poverty into which it has tallen, and give it a standing among the nations. As long, how- ever, as the interests of European di- plomacy demand that Bgypt shall re- main in her present condition the na- tionalists have little hope of success in their dream ot independence. Skobelof’s recent outbreak has sug- gested another link in the iron-bound tormula of Russian despotism. Here- after the soldiery is to be more than over the mere automatic engine of the imperial will. All utterance touching upon foreign affairs is forbidden, and sinoce any mention of home affairs has long since been interdicted, it is puz- zling to imagine upon what theme a popular officer like Skobeleff can en- large if called upon to address his fel- low citisens, while the czar can silence two million men by an ukase. However, it will be observed that he in powerless to prevent the continued oppression of his Hebrew subjects, a whole town of whom has just been looted and millions of their property destroyed. Withdrawal of the French advance columns in the Tunis regency has been ordered from Paris. This wou'd imply at first glanco the conclu- sion of the invasion and the definite reconciliation of the Moslem popula- tion to French domination. But taken in connection with the threat- ening aspect of affairs in Egypt it probably means that the war office has immediate uso for these acclimated veterans in an advance upon Alexan- dria, Politics and religion have become The very much mixed in Spain, bishop of Santander, a stanch con- servator of irritable temper, has re- cently pronounced eentence of the greater excommunication upon all the liberal journalists of Santander. The text of this comprehensive curse has Dy tures on the army, consisting of 200,- 000 men, and the navy, with a per. sonal of 16,000, is nearly $30,000,000 The ordinary and extraordinary ex- penditures of Italy, if imitated in this country, would probably exceed the foregoing amounts three times, as the labor in Italy is about in that ratio to that of the United States. There must be a limit to any such demands and expenditures by military and naval men. An Italian statesman recently pointed out that the United States is setting an example which the European powers will be compelled o follow when the people shall realize the waste and absurdity in making such efforts at vainglorious show, which are less than questionable in point of utjlity in an emergency, and in the meantime taxing the people to such an extent as to make life an ab- solute burden. One of the wonders worked by the Suez canal is the opening up of an im- mense wheat region t6 compete with Russia and the United States. Last year $35,000,000 worth of wheat was ex- ported from Northern India, and dur- ing last March 85,000,000 worth was sent to Enrope by way of the Suez canal, the export from India being stimulated by the high price of wheat im America. A good crop in Europe and Northern India next harvest, with a fair crop in the United States and Canada, would send wheat down to very low figures by next fall. From Pommerania the emigration to America this year promises to reach proportions beyond the largest form-. erly known, During three weeks in April more than 5,000 persons loft Stettin by land ind water for Bremen and Hamburg, aand a single steamer, direct to New York from Stettin, hau on board 600 emigrants. Kor many days an average of 200 persons passed through the place en route for various American ports. Many of them were furnished with passage tickets which nave been received from friends and relatives in America. Alexander I11. has begun a system of economy by eflecting considerable reductions in the personnel of his military household. The imperial staff —general-aides-de-camp in ordi- nary—consisted of twenty-seven per- 8ons at the commencement of the present century, and had attained the preposterous number of 404 towards the close of last year, all the military efficials in queatien heing at that time on full pay, with staff and court allow- ances. Within the last three months thirty-four of these sinecurists have been ‘‘graciously permitted” to retire; but the Czar's military suite still in- dludes eleven general-aides-de-camp, whose appoiptments date from the reign of Nicholas I, and 342 officials belonging to the threecategories men- tioned above, all of whom were nom- inated by the late emperor. At tho last so-called ‘'Easter promotion” a large number were further transferred to the active servioe corps, with a step of rank in their respective regiments, snd it is understood that the Cuar does not intend to fill up the vacan- ciea. cemy—— HeNry Burom, the horse philan- thropist is very much agitated over the great slaughter of wild animals and game in the western states and territories, He has presented a mem- orial and accompanying bill to con- gress through Mr. Hewitt, making the offense of killing these animals a wmisdemeanor, and punishing it by a forfeicure of implements of destruc- tion, and fine and imprisonment for the offenders. The memorial sets forth that in two years over five mil- lion buffaloes were slaughtered for their hides, and that the murderous propensities of the hunters are now turned to smaller animals, which are killed in and out of season. Mr. Berg's humanity is commendable, but he will accomplish more practical ben- nefit by devoting his attention to the horrors of the cattle transportation traffic, which are responsible for plac- ing upon eastern markets diseased and disfigured carcasses of animals,fevered, bruised and maimed in the transit from Chicago to the seashore. THE IRON TIE. The Visit of the St. Louis Mer- chants to the Gate City. The Banquet at Maeonic Hall Thursday Night. Congratulatory Speeches and Letters of Regret. The following account of the re- ception and banquet to the St. Louis visitors was unavoidably crowded out yesterday morning by the extended account of the Ascension Day pro- ceedings. It is a matter of regret that after several beautiful May days, the date ot the arrival of the St. Louis excur- sionists should have proven 8o un- favorable. 1t was raining when the special train bearing the city’s guests rolled into the U. P. depot, where the visitors were met by a delesation of Omaha business men and officials, in- cluding the Mayor, C. H. Dewey, J. G. Brady, Gen. Manderson, Frank Murphy, Max Meyer, Henry Pundt and others, The train consisted of three palace cars, a baggage car and a locomotiye of the Missouri Pacific, and its pas- sengers wera: C B Carter. of C B Car- ter & Co., provisions; A De Young, of the Drummond Tobacco company; T N Speer, of Hiawatha, Kunsas; Hen- Reinhardt, of Kraft, Holmes & 0., groceries; Thos Shelton, of Gausse, Hornick & Co.; H E Mack, of 8t. Louis Paper company; F Bufting- ton, of the Buck Stove company; J H Douglass, of Knapp, Stout Lumber company; R. Trevor, of Crow, Harga- dine & Co., dry goods; J M Frazier, of Turner, Frazier & Co., St. Joseph; N. G. Larimore, of the Central eleva- tor; A, E. Babcock, grain dealer; D. M. Blount, 8t. Louis Globe-Demo- crat; R. E. Morton, of Redmond, Clary & Co., grain; C A Potwin, of Wilson & Potwin; Thomas Booth, of told him in the presence of Mr. Tou- zalin (who, I have cause to know, is s most true and steadfast friend of Omaha) that this was the side of the river where the passenger business of all roads centering here should be done; that I never before knew of a railroad owning a bridge and a line f road being afraid to use it, and that the time would come, it might not be thjs year, nor it might not be next year, but it would surely come, whpl the C. B. & Q. would run its trains over the Plattsmouth bridge into Omaha, and that sooner or later the union passenger depot for all the pool lines would be at Omaha,in Nebraska, on the west instead ot the east bank of the Missouri, where certainly a wise construction of congressional legislation, and where the far-seeing and mighty mind of President Abra- ham Lincoln designed it should be The speaker then alluded to the fact that the produce of the state was being shipped now largely to St. Louis, whereas it formerly went to Chicago. It is thus diverted from its route by the action of the Towa pool, and by a proper effort St. Louis can secure a large share of our trade for all future time, as St. Louts is nearer than Chi- cago and ejually as good a market. Having concluded his address, the mayor introduced Mr, A. J. Stoffer, of The St. Louis Repulican, who re- sponded to the toast: “‘8t, Louis, the Queen City of the Mississippi V'llley. % Mr, Stoffor said: Mz, CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN— St. Louis, a8 your chairman has just announced as the Queen City o1 the Mississippi valley, was founded in 1764, and from the time that LeClede established his little trading point on the banks of the Father of Waters it gave promise of great development, even though it was very slew for the firat thirty years or so. In its earlier days St. Louis had many drawbacks. One difficulty with which they had to contend was similar to that which troubled the earlier settlers of the greatest city of Nebraska. They had the Indians to fight. Besides that they did not have any money at their command. The continental scrip dld not make its way west. What money they had consisted of hides and furs. A man came out from the east and J W Booth & Son; A Millier, of A A Millier & Co.; N G Pierce, of Samuel Cupples & Co., iron and wagon wood; A J Stofer, of the Missouri Republi- can; M. Meirer, of Simmons Hardware company; And the follow- ing officials of the Missouri Pacific: A A Talmage, general manager; A W Dickinson, assistant general superin- tendent; F Chandler, general passen- ger agent; G W Cole, assistant gen- eral freight agent; J E House, chief engineer; M E Sargent, assistant gen- eral freight agent; W W Fagin, super- intendent 0. B. division; A SEverest, attorney; E Harding, assistant super- intendent; S D Tuthill, general man- ager of the St. Joe & Western rail- way. Stepping into the carriages which were in waiting, the party was driven to Hanscom park and back by way of Capitol hill and through the best built Rortmn of the city to the Withnell ouse, where they took an early sup- per. At 9 o’clock the guests assembled at Boyd’s opera house, being joined there by tho citizens invited to meet them, The house was aglow with light, and its beauty and elegant proportions clicited much praise from those pres- ent. Half an hour later carriages were again taken and the company pro- ceeded to Masonic hall, where the baunquet was to take place. The tables presented a very attractive appearance, tho supper being gotten up by the ladies of Trinity church, under the superintendence of Mr. George Thrall. Flowers 1n profusion brightened the scene, and the full Musical Union orchestra, twenty musicians, rendered several choice selections, among them an opening march composed for the occasion by Prof. Steinhauser, and a violin eolo by Prof. G. F. Sauer, both of which were warmly applauded. Supper being over and the cham- pagne beginning to flow freely, the mayor delivered an address of wel- come to theguests, He referred to the benefits anticipated by our citizens and business men from the openin; up of the new line to St. Louis, Ang said it was fitting that the event should be celebrated bythe merchants and business men of the two cities He welcomed the visitors, on behalf of the city, both as representiu, large and important commercial and rail- road interests, and as gentlemen of intelligence and enterprise, from both of which facts the people of Omaha hoped to derive benefit and pleasure. The mayor then reviewed the re- sources and advantages of the State of Nebraska, Wheat, corn, cattle and hogs are Nebraska's great sources of wealth. They are worth more to-day than the far-famed gold and silver mines of California, Nevada or Color- ado, and before many years will ex- ceed the mineral production of the thres combined. The new railroad runs through the richest portion of the state, and as it possesses superior advantages over many other lines it will give new and valuable facilities for travel and transportation to the inhabitants ot the territory through which it passes, “Several months ago I predicted that the compleiion of the Missouri Pacific railway weuld solve the trans- fer smhlem, snd that other roads would be compelled to make Omaha their terminus, The K. C. road, or rather the managers of the C., B, & Q., foreseeing the consequences liable to result from the completion of the Missouri Pacifio, ordered the K. C to run its teaing into Omaha via Platts. mouth, This is only the begnning, The Wabash and every one of the Towa roads will be compelled to run their passenger traine into Omaha, notwithstanding the illegal legislation of the state of Iowa. We will be con- tent to allow the through freight to be transferred on the other side of the river, but the passenger transfer by right is ours, and we intend to have it. 1 remember not many months snce, being one of a committee that waited upon Mr. E C. Perkins to in- terview him in regard to bringing the trains of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy over the Plattsmouth bridge into Omaha, after quite a long discuseion, he promised to lay the matter before the managers of the toul lines, but stated that there was ut little if any ground for us to hope that any change would be made, I presented a gold coin to a furman, and he was taken forafeol. The father of that man only died the other dn§ . A ot until 1849 or thereabout did the people strike the key-note of suc- cess and commence to build railroads. Then it was that 8t. Louis took her place among the first cities of the west. It was the late lamented Thos. Allen, n:fmenting the Second con- gressional district of Missouri, who had the honor of bringing west of the Mississippi river the first locomotive, The Missourt Pacific, strictly speak- ing, was the first of St. Louis roads. You, gentlemen, know what it is to- day. It has now 5,000 miles of road in the stater of Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, and has entered the promising and beautiful state of Ne. braska, It is a mighty. factor in the commerce of the sate, St. Louis has a little rival it is true —it sits on the shores of lake Michi- gan, and, gentlemen, I can tell you that Chicago makes us work! It has been said this evening that not many of the real old, gray haired men of St. Louis are here upon this occasion. That may be true to a cer- tain extent; but these gentlemen that you see before you to-night represent the real, live, working spirit ot the city of St. Louis. They represent houses which know no bounds. Their commercial travelers penetrate every nook and corner of the United States. They have houses in St, Louis which regulate the market prices of certain lines of goods. I will not go into de- tails, I wish to say, however, that we have a grain trade which amounts to something like $30,000,000 a year. We have a cotton business which has been built up to not less than $25,- 000,000. We have a flour interest which is worth not less than $22,500,- 000. St. Louis for the past year or 80 has taken the lead as a grain mar- ket, with one or two possible ex- ceptions. The time is not far distant when she will be the leading grain market in the country. The barge system, together with the immense railroad system, is making St. Louis the great market for the produce of the west. * * I trust, in con- clusion, that the bond of union be- tween the two cities which has been formed by the mighty steel rails will never be broken, and that both cities will continue to push forward and ex- tend the lines of trade even to the utmost bounds of the republic.” [Ap- plause. ] The following toasts were then given: Omaha's First Railroad—The Union Paciflc Railway. Response, Hon. A. J. Poppleton, Supply and Demand: The new bus- iness relations of Omaha and St. Louis. Response by Hon. a. 8. Everest. To the Rockies and beyond; the B. & M. railway in Nebraska, Res- ponse by Hon, J M. Woolworth, Omsha's Latest Railroad.—The Missouri Pacifie Rlilw:{. Response by General Manager T From Omaha to the Nortbeast: The C,8t. P M & O. Railway. Re- sponse, George V. Morford, Eaq, From Omaha to the Northwest: The Sioux City & Pacific Railroad in Ne- }.Er.nh. Response, J. R. Buchanan, q. The Resources of Nebraska—Re- sponse by Hon. J. Sterling Morton. The following telegrams were read by the Mayor: New York, May 17, Hon J. E Boyd, Mayor 1 win 1 receipt of your kind invita- tion to be present at the banquet to be given by the citizens of Omaha, Thureday night, to the officers of the Missouri Pacitic and the merchants of St. Louis. It would afford me much pleasure to be present on that occa- sion, but the notice is so short that you will have to accept the will for the deed. I believe the completion of the Missouri Pacific to Omaha, opening as it does direct communications under a single management with St. Lous, Cairo, Memphis, New Orleans, Gal- A ) largely to the commercial importance of your city. |Sigued) Jay Gourp, New Yok, May 18, 1852, James E. Boyd, Mayor: Your invitation to be present at a reception to be given the merchants of St. Louis and the officials of the Missouri Pacific railway on the 18th Shenandoah, Ia. editor of The Nonpareil. other poor deluded suppliant for po. inst. is at hand. I regret very much that I cannot be with you. Omaha has my best wishes, and its growth and prosperity will be very gratifying to me. (Signed) SioNey DiLrow. New York, May 17, Jas. E. Boyd, Mayor: I acknowledge receipt of your dis- patch inviting me to be present at your meeting on Thursday night, and regret that my engagements are such that T cannot be with you, I con- grajulate you upon your new connec- tion with St. Louis and the southwest, for which I predict as great a devel- opment as you have seen, for the northwest since the completion of the Union Pacific. (Signed), G. M. Dovor, Lixcory, Neb,, May 18, Hon, J. E. Boyd, Omaha: Owing to the pendency of the ap- propriation bill to pay the militia, which is one of the most important issues before the legislature, we are unable to avail ourselves of the cour- tesies of your city on the occasion of a banquet to-night; but we most heartily congratulate the people of Omaha and Nebraska upon the completion of the Missouri Pacific railroad. We regret our inability to participate in the fes. tivities, (Signed) Crucn Howe, W. J. BroarcH, W. A, Paxron, J. G. McSHANE. Specehes wore also made by General Manager Kimball, of the Union Pacific Mr. Thos. Booth, of St. Louis; Dr. Miller, and France Chandler, G. P. A., of the Missouri Pacific. A vote of thanks was tendered the ladies of Trinity for their success in presenting a fine supper and by the guests to the Mayor and ocitizens for their reception and banquet. The banquet closed at a very late hour and the vieitors were driven to the depot where they remained in their cars over night. They left for home at noon yester- day. ————a— No Humbugging the American People. You can’t humbug the American peo- ple, when they find a remedy that suits them; they use it and recommend it to their friecds, Serine Brossom which household word all oyer the United States. Price 50 cents, trial bottles 10 cen Just exactly the case with has become a 1w MOUNT ARBOR NURSERY. Hedge plants 76c. per thousand wholesale or retail. T. E., B. Mason, d-2t — THE NEW NINTH. The Seductive Smiles of Nu- mersus Candidate for Con- gressional Honors, Political Gyratious of a Penny- a-Liner. Correspondence of The Bee. Missourr VALLBY, Ia., May 17.—- The political bubble, that has hovered in mid air and penetrated with its se- ductive rays the utmost limits of the new Ninth district, has bursted, and the roseato hues of the rainbow of promise, 80 beautifully displayed on its disc, has vanished to but more fully discover to the eyes of the voter the blackness of the designs of ihe in- atigators of the scheme. many candidates in the territory em- braced in the Ninth district for con- gressional honors, two perhaps more prominently spoken of, one of which has been in the selfish clutch of en- There are vious political conspiracy, but to-day stands disenthralled and before the people upon his own merits or de- merits, a steed of uneertain step, hav- ing issued from the twilight shadows in the last congressional contest, and the inscription on his epitaph was sap- posed to have been written by the Now ar- litical honors bows at the same shrine, standing at his post of duty as desig- nated by his political father, like the immortal boy on the burning deck of his ambition waiting for the paternal call—soon will come that call — There will come a burst of thunder wod— ’I'h.: boy—oh ! where will he be ! Ask of The Nonpareil far around With his fragments will strew the sea, The declination of the candidacy of the aspirant from Mills county naturally calls forth a graceful tribute to that gentleman in the Saturday issue of The Nonpareil, as it undoubt- edly ‘‘simplifies the canvass” in its own interest,which enables the people of the congressional district to see ‘‘a great light,” without the eyes of a Bt. Paul, or the necessity of a journey to Damascus, and in this beautiful solilo- quy it also makes mention of the fact that he and the unfortunate boy, of peanut fame, were ‘‘comrades on the feld of battle,” how unfortunate for the colonel of paporeal battles that in peace they are separated. These schemes originate from the same place, and simultaneously with these Age, editorials and the continual streaming in and out of this headquarters of un- holy ambitions, reminds the casual observer of the sights to be seen st the main entrance to a ‘‘nigger dive” on ‘‘Clabber Alley.” On Wednesday morning's issue in advocating an early convention, states that any man has a right to be a can- didate for a nomination, but it is only the choice of the people can rise upon the crowd of popular enthusiasm I?Ler the body o] he people have spoken. In the sweee day dreams, often 1ndulged in by the colonel, does he ever im- agine himself as seated on the silver lining of the specified cloud, and be- ing politically investigated by the aforementioned Elijah like ascension. There are already nine different candidates in the field, as far as heard from, and the situation plainly indi- cates to the public mind that the un- cortain condition of the political situation is caused by personal ambi- tion and a secret burning of incense by the colonel to regale the ncatrils of the gods of his own selflish desires, and 18 unworthy of the steel and ar- mor of au honorable politician. In our next communication we will give you a more extended account of the gituation, the details of which are in our possession, and are the result of our investigation, “Youna (1) RerusLican,”