Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 20, 1886, Page 4

A D — THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING Dy Py Moweni THE DAILY BEL Bworn Statement of Clrculation State of Nebrask County of Dougli oo, 13, Tzseln Publishing compan Aol that the actunl elreniation of the 1 for the week ending Oct, 161, 1 Tollows Oct, 0 .10 1 Wednesday, 1 Ihnreday, 19 Friday, 15 Average svery Gro, B Tzscnc o eribed in’ my presenco L 1), 1580, N. P e Notary Publle 1'75chuel first dily swor nd says tint o 1s seeretary of the Publishing company, that the aetual ay ernee duily elrentation of the Daily Bee for the month of Jnnuary, 1896, was 10,558 copies, for February, 186, 10,505 coples; for Mareh, 185, TLATT copien: for April, 189, 19,101 coptes: for Muy, 1896, 12450 copies: for Jine, 1655, 14,208 coples for July i copies ! for Anzust, 159, 12,404 copies: for September, 189, 13,050 coples, Gro. B Tzsonvek. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 2d diy of October, A, )., 1% P FEiL, [SEALL otary Publie. —_— REPUBLICAN STATE TIOK Sworn to and sl this 1611 day of October [SEAL) helng JOUN M, THAYER For Lieut, Govornor—11, 11, SHEDD, ForSecretary of State (i, W. LAWS, For I'rensuror—C. H, WILLA RD. For Auditor—IL A, BABCOCK, For Attornoy General ~-WILLIAM 1LERS For Com. Public Lands—JOSEPIE SCOT For Supt. Public Instruction 0.5, LAN For Governor REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKE BRUNO TZSCHUCK. Tor Representativ W. G, WHITMOR I\ B HIBBAKD, GEO. HEIMROD, R. 8. HALL, JOUN MATTHIESON, JAMES R, YOUN T. W. BLACKBUR M. 0. RICKETTS, ty Attornoy: SIMERAL. For Cou ISAAC Nty Commlssioner: but the real estate boom Prices are steadily s and confidence remains Tuk boodle ery of freedom as heard in Gugoe county will bo in full blast when Colby and Church Howe join to capture the gravel t de. renmining unnipp tending upwar unabated, AND now lot Messes, Arthur, Logan & Rice publish Chureh Howe's lotters ap- pealing for their ondorsement on the ground of nceded assistance to the re- publican ticket Pl e L Witi Abo Howitt as mayor, Grovor Cloveland’s political interests’ in New York will not be allowed to suffer. Mr Hill will take due notice and govern himself accordingly. HAvING disposed of his surplus pork Mr. Armour is ready to bogin packing operations again, The striko in Chicago is over, with the great pork packer the only party benefitted, — M. HuGuier and ahe Northwestern managers are becoming alarmed at the prospeets thut thoir rich railrond torri tory will soon bo tapped by a competing line, and a-c anxious to comvromise on any basis which will leave them in undfs- turbed possession of their fiold. Promises wre cheap curronoy with which to pay dobts, Thoe shippors of Omaha are look- ing for permanout redress, not for pres- ent favors. —— Lk oattle company of which Church Howe's opponent is manager, purchased 274,000 acres of land from the Union Pacifio company in the sand hills of Wyowing. This terriblo picco of busi- ness of course wipes out Church Howe's rocord of thiovery and corruption, and should cortainly elect him, 1f MeShane bad solen two hundred thousnd meres of land ho would be plaged more moarly on o par with the record of the Nemaha fraud Jax 0 has come and gone. Of ©eourse he foll in love with Omaha, He always does, Just as he is fu the habit of doing with every city where ho wishos to make tempor: friends tor his latest road. Ho wont into raptures over St. Louis, threw himself into hysteries of joy #s ho vontemplated the future of Kansas City, and smiled in eostacy as he dis- wanted upon the marvellous prospects of the saline industey at Lincoln. By the time he arvived in Omaba he had swopt over the whole gamut of emotions and had to bogin again. Mr. Gould's com pliments mean uothing, and they are taken for just re worth, Tug enthusiasm for Colby reached a fover heat i Gago county several years ago. His dear friends and neighbors whom he bud swindled were so overflow ang with enthusiasm that they proposed £0 raiso him in triumph and present him with a new suit of clothe A stout rail, # barvel of tar and a sack of foahers awvere provided for this purpose, and WColby had the greatest difioulty i pre wyenting those popular honors from being thrust upon him, When last before the wpeople they evidenced their esteem OWibg bim undor as a candidate for dge and oleoting his democratio oppo ment. Mr. Colby is a hue sort of & can lidate for the state sexate. He should bo seleoted to stay at howe by an oyerwheln og majouity. 1E Wil Tie Canvassed ’ f Senator Van Wyek who | of 1l T'he enem ¢ in their A expression threater tunder i il of th My Wt billingsgat movement Troad I'he 1he politieal Gero and his ra their breath statute book u iy monopoly n th N howls of the trick dipping hecone g issue and Kin cappers their under therr hands will not re The peopls of Ne 1 with the means wishes under tho their will thoe di isane stato the and only placo for ity wljudication is on the state tickot, No Micer will dare to refuse to canvass the vote for senator. No or knows this better than the tin-can cditor of the Burlington road foolish threats and spasms of v wh cqually ridiculous in the the honest voters of Nebraska who see dom away fron tard the movement braska will be providg to their ns voice voto law i o con b rects titution canvassed As the on roper nvassing whose are of oy Wyck o s of the ewil hould not forget that General Van Wyek himself was for almost four years asoldier of the war of the rebellion and has done faith il duty during his term in the senate in the matter of pensions. Me raised and cquipped at his own expense the ‘Tenth legion of New York volunteers and served with them - eamp and field During his term as congressman he was known as the steadfast friend of tho soldiers, devoting his time to their inter- to their advant rfully aceepted committee on of all own Van Veter: ests and his experienc ngo he el e appointment on - the pensions and has had charge respondence from his Kansas and lowa. During that time he has assisted tho passage of hundreds of spec bills when the pen had refused justice to the petitionors, Fow senators are willing to serve on the pensions committee when the labor is so great and the glory so small, enator Van Wyek's record in this branch of legislation 1s one to which e ean point with wride. He has been the steadfast and consistent advocate of # liberal policy towards the nation’s de- wders m spite of red tape restrictions nd unjust technicalities. He introduced and aided greatly in the passage of a bill to increaso the pensions of soldier's widows from $8 to $19 per month. 1o introduced and is pledged to press 0 a pas the bill giving a ponsion to every soldier who sorved six months and 1s now disabled, no matter when the disability oceurred or what the cause, whether incurred in the service, the aim and intent being that no disabled soldicr who has served s country shall be pe mitted to want. Senator Van Wyek favors tho law providing that all pensions shall be paid from the date of disability. Noebraska voterans for themselves and their comrades aro interested in secing that they bave’a strong friend represent- ing the state at the national capital. Genoral Van Wyck has already proved himself. The results of his industry and ability are on record. With his ex- perience in Washington he can do more for the veterans than any new man who might be selected to take his place. ho Northwestorn Agal Manager Marvin Hughitt has paid Omaha the compliment of a visit urged thoreto by the threatemng appearance of the skies in the direction of the Elkhorn 3 v. There are rumors which scem to have a better foundation than usual that Mr. Hugnitt is determined to grant Omaha a direct connection with the Northwestern territory and to this end a cut-off between this city and Fr mont is one of the probabilities of the near future. This is the plan which the Bek six months ago urged strongly upon the Northwestern management, It pointed out that ome of the most bitter complaints against that system was the delays in the tranship- ment of freight at Blair, Instances were cited where goods from Chieago reached points on the Elkhorn Valley line several days before goods shipped at the same time from Omaha and billed to the same destination. With a short line from Omaha to Fremont botween thirty and forty miles of needless transportation would be saved and our merchants would be given direct necess to the trade terri- tory from which they are now in great part excluded. Time is an important element in froight shipments as country merchants along the Elkhorn Valley line have found in their attempts to satisfactorily transact business with our jobbers and wholesalers, But the dolsy of froight is not the only complaint made by onr people against the Northwestern management, That bone of contention has been and is the result of the same cause for all the other complaints against the Chicago corpora- tion. The Northwestern has no compet- itor in its territory, It makes its own rates and enforces its own policy upon shippers. It is secure against the fear of driving patronage to another corpora- tion. Merchants are bound to use its rails and shippers into the territory have no option of routes for biling thar | froight. The arrogant disregard of the wishes of its patrons, the porsistent poliey of diverting aly trafic as far as possible to and from Chicago and the rosulting enmity of our | poople to its management have all had | their matnspring in the monopoly which it holds of the fertile country between | the Elkhorn and the Niobrara river: Owaha merchants will be pleased to sco Mr. Mughett's company give them a more direct ontlet into the Elkhorn val ley. The new line will doubtless stim- | late business end prove profitable to its owners. Butit will not solve the prob lom with which our shippers are wres- In the senate cor state, in sion oflice THE thng. It will notprevent a disorimir which places Chicago nearer thah O West nt and Rapid City. Tt wi rdy nlin to 1 and | Our Theket ymet 1an the r poeketbool It pra nd s payers genera by roa m of the and hon pre wled by sossful prising eiti clean, honest for names wl ents endorsement the ente nopular W man of b zen, and Brano man i vot the ¢ I Linirgor, sue ness, and e I7schuck, whose Gor at mmiand of his party and his nation have always been ality, the senatorial delegation could not be improved. Both eandidates are of agze and experience, versed wants of Omaha, able to make knowi: Lincoln The house delegation nominated notfall n whit below the calibre of men | demanded, Heimrod and — Hibbard, Whitmore and Young, Matthicson Hal, | | Rickotts and Blackburn, reprosent all el emonts in the party. - Workingmen know John Matthicson and James Young too well to eall for any introduetion to these candidates against whose charactor and The likowise men | the them in and FepuLaAtion no one ean raise a yorce other names on the ticket their own endorsement Against such a ticket the mongrel af fair that tho democrats have put in nom ination is & poor apology for a competi tor. Itis the w nominated for years by the Douglas county democracy, and is so concede A Democratic Bomb. Benedict, the new public printer, gives itout that he has a bomb to discharg into the republican ranks, When asked to state what his alleged discoveries were, he deelines on the ground that if given ot now the effect would die out before ele “Wait until a few dy election,” ho said, “and then it will be a bomb-shell and earry weight before it can be denied his is an old demoer trick. During the presidential cam of 1810, Van Buven assured an intin friend, who condoled with him on his gloowy prospeets, that he “had a eard 1o play yet, which neither y dreamed of.”" Allfederal oflicials were as mysteri- ous as Delphic oracles, but they shook thei heads and winked in intimation of | disclosures just before the presidentinl clection, which were to blow the whig “sky-high, " Atlength the magazine was exploded with due regard to dramatie effect, and it was found to consist of sworn statoments, published simultancously in different parts of the country, to the cffect that a man named Glentworth had been em ployed by leading New York whigs two years before to import voters from Phila- delphia who were ostensibly to be engaged in laying pipe for the Croton waterworks. Promptly the leading men of the whig ly implicated published aflidavits de. gz the charge. The basisof the charge vas found to be on investigation that some thirty men bhad gone to New York from Philade!phia the day before elec- tion, but there was no evidence to show that more than one of them had voted. ‘The bomb had exploded, but failed of its objeet, its only cffect being to add the phrase “pipe-laying” to our political vo- cabulary. The latest “bomb" of the democratic party was the Morey letter in 1830, by which it was sought to convict Garfield of oncouraging the importation of Chinese. The letter was skillfully forged by procurement of the national demo- cratic committee, and sent broadeast over the land in fac simile a day or two before the election, to do its work *‘be fore it could be denied.” It lost Garfield the vote of three states. The perpetra tors were afterwards hunted out and punished, and the crime unmistakably fastened upon the democratic campaign managers. Bonedict may as well go slow with his bomb. The trick is an old one. Itis democratic, but it will fail. are akest ne An Entering Wedge. In permitting 1ts citizens to voice their preference for United States senator through the ballot box, the constitution and statutes of Nebraska give the voters of this state a privilege granted by no other state in the union. The cxperi- ment of a popular vote for senator is being watched with interest in a score of other states, and upon the result in Ne- braska at the coming election will greatly depend the inauguration of this method in other political commonwealths, Sen- ator Van Wyck's appeal to the people has shaken up the dead political bones, It has alarmed the political shy- sters who have made traflic in the votes of the people’s representatives. It has frightened the great corporations whose emissaries have controlled the clection of our senators, and sent their vhant tools to Washingion to block remedial legislation demanded by the producers of the west. The choice of United States senator through the direet vote of the people means the destruction of the legislative lobby, the confusion of corporate corruption, and the overthrow of combinations to override the will of the yeonle. The vote in tlis state, on the 2nd of November, will be'the entering wedge. Let the people drive it home. If success. ful here 1t will be adopted elsewbere It will split wide open the mosshack system, which nables volitical bosses, corporate power and organizad wenlth to elect a sennte not dependent upon the votes of the people and no sympathy for the struggles and OMAHA DAILY BE ng nent over last the on Chica speenlative improved has mand for previously sold cargoes abroad for Octo. her elearance | been ¢ to strengthen yield of the present year. mated by the federal dey culture, r bushels, or 100,000,000 bushels the crops has continued change in prices P orn and hy products from that ecent The weather has been gene for the ripening of corn in the west and for tho picking and marketing of cotton in the south omits all refe ences ing, wi republican months o ressing. rier of the t easy and convenieht sece of the city whose frowth has been ma- ially obstructions in I law offi receive her divorc her future home in this country. toa\! will be a guest at the white house the coming season, and will abandon the effort to paint Chicago a gorgeous Tyrian purple, 2,000 acres of land by some admi Argentine I pressed that this ermatic creature may yet set- tle down 1o the fanner. night a stranger will come to-morrow, saylng does not say why the stranger will come, but it is p torty-nine inches long the other should be sent to Ilmz‘?‘lh:uhinn institute as @ valuable piece offk: period of the tirst race of American politi- clans. ) Mt 1 produ o wilh pr Ter. Grain mark now an im week's quo when owest pri reached Mond of the year wer with wheat I'he char on the for the bet contic in the at 60§ 0 board rois due to cireles, of nee ene by fo rag, tone an and New York operators tvance prices. There little new de parties who had 18 been formoed to g boen compuratively export, but Atlantic ports have contraets this week, together with the news, has helped market. The wheat ally esti rtment of agri- of 458,000,000 morethan The corn try without import ‘The complication at hieago hus eansed u falling-oft in west king operations to the extent of \t, s compared with last week, s interfercd with the shipments of Prices are ants per barrel higher for pork and its per 100 pounds higher for lard. ly favorable from vering their this inquiry, reign potitical the nd whes o total f last ye dull por IN the Instory of his life Church Howe rence to his thrilling experi s United States m of Wyom ere he held federal oftice under a dministration only a few before he left the republican ton ount of its corruption.” — Wonk on the viaduets is steadily pro Within a fow w the bar- weks will e removed through s 1o a seetion wty ks hampered by those dangerous ArTER w short interview with Jay Gould at Lincoln, Church Howe returned to his friends “fecling, refreshed,’” as he put it, the wilted Howe boom. It will take something more than ering pot to revive EVERY railway eapper jn the First dis- trict is working tooth and nwl for their old pal, the Nemaha trickster, Howe. to reward him for his treachory to the veople. Chureh Church depends upon railroads Now is the time when the bogus work- ingmen’s tickets begin to sprout. The men who control only their own votes are principally them up. concerned in getting Tk more railronds the merrier, but Omaha must have a road of its own to compete with lines whose business in- lie in Chicago and the long haul. PROMI PERSONS, James G, Blalne began life as a book agent nnsylvania. Walker Biaine is getting ready to open a * 1 Chicago. Ex-Postmaster General Thomas L. James is growine gray and stout, D. L. Moody, the evangelist, will begin work next month in the south, ‘The story is revived that Mrs. Langtry will this winter and will make Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, according ashington letter in the Boston Budget nted wiih in the public, and a faint hope is ex- Sarah Bernhardt has been pre ors respectable life of a stock Adirondack Murray has swung around the cirele and is back in Boston again, not as a clergyman, but as a reader. trying to reform the world, he says, and is now trying to entertain it, dealt Kindly with this erratic man. He is done The years have ——— Why the Stranger Comes. New Haven News, Tho Indians say, “Ifa dog howls in the The bably to murder the dog. e Not Encouraging, Chicago Tribune, Obio demoerats now have a pretty correct estimate of the number of voles they will be oblized to import irom Kentucky to the state at the eomiug election, ing is not encouragifi. =™ arry ‘The show- Sa 5, S A NobragkaJtelic. Chicago Times. A farmer In Nebraska dug up a jawbone day, It Huony in fixing the Marriage in the Salvation Army, Chicago Times, The new order in the salvadon army pro- hibiting marriage under the rank of captain appears like a very great hardship, though 1t need not necessarily be one, as fii that atmy it 18 just as easy to make 8 man a major-gen- 'y eral as it Is to wake him a sergeant, toils of labor. It will teaeh our house of lords that there is something more back of thewr title to office than a majority of the votes of a legislatur It will read a lesson to the aspiring politicians that the support of the people is more to be courted than the pledges of great cor poratons, and that a good record is more t desired in a sonatorial contest than | the favors of wany railroad managers. ik board of education have made @ deailed answer to Mr. Blackburn's cate chism. The revart covers the ground P An intelligent cow entered the chapel of St. Paul’s chureh, in Kingston, Canada, attracted by a choi she benches and torn the garments of several tenors and basses reearsal, and before went out had ripped up several -~ measured nine feet A big eagle that ur | from tip to tip, captured last ;!lnng near Binghampton, Y other day the date of its liberation aud offering cus prizes for the return of the bird N. Y., was released the On its leg i5 a brass tag giving -~ O i WEDNESDAY OCTOBER T e A S ——————————————————————t e A ————————— —————————————~ TWO NAVAL CELEBRITIES. | 50 i | Church markets and | the prevalent rumor that o new combina tion of Chieng chton & Whitney sell hard and’ soft | ©ooal,18th and Lzard aud 218 S, 15th street, | 20, Keep It Before Republioans. The republ of the First distrio should ask themselves whether a man tavin that of ( Howe n ans m the Leav im n re befor ry exist wska in The proof or susp on to be pro surmise is not brushed by of Rose nders the legislatar member pooh-poohed o nway nouncing it one vater's mal campaign sl I'ha vocords of Howe was n contain the indelible proofs of the treas conspiraey, and no denial can inst evidence furnished by his Briefly told, the history of this to Tilden of which in '76.37 onable stand aga own pen plan to hand over the country ey is as follows In 1876 Nebraska elected Silas A Strickland, Amasa Cobb and A, H Connor presidential electors by a vote of sainst a vote of 16,054 east for the Tilden and Hendricks electors. After the clection it was discovared that the canvass of this vote could not take place under the then existing law before the legislature convened. The electoral vote had to be canvassed in Decomber at the latest, and the reguiar sion of the legislature did not b until January, In order to make [ wss of the electoral returns, Governor Garber called n spe of the legislature to convene on the December, '76, at Lincoln, for the pur pose of canvassing the electoral vote of the state. The democratic eflort to ture republican electoral votes is histor Tilden’s friends, notably Dr. Miller, had been plotting for the capture of one of the eleetors from Nebraska, and it 1s also historic that a large bribe was offered to one of the electors, General Strickland The call of the legislature broke into the plan of the plotters, and they found a will ing and reckless tool 1 Church Howe When the legislature convened at the capi- tal,Church Howe filed a protest which may be found on pages 6, 7and 8 of the Ne- braska House Journal of 1877. Tho lowing extract makes interesting reading “1, Chureh Howe, a meniber of the leglsla- ture of Nebraska, now convened by procla- mation of his excellency, Governor Silas Garber, for the purpose of canvassing and declaring the result of the vote cast in Ne- braska for electors for president and vice president of the United States, hereby enter my solemn protest against such act, denying that the governor has power to call this body in special session for any such purpose, or that this body has any authority to canvass or declara the result of such voteupon the followinz grounds: First. This lezislature now convened hay- ing been elected under what is known as the old constitution, has no power to act in the premises, the new constitution of the state having been i force since Noyember, 157 The second and third clauses deal with technical objections and are somewhat lengthy. The concluding sentences of this precious document are as follows: “For the foregoing reasons 1 protest against any canvass of the electoral yote of the state by his body, ana demand that this, my protest, be entered upon the journal.” (Signed) Church Howe, member of the legislature of Nebraska. The democrats did not respond to the call of the governor and there was barely aquorum in the senate, while there were several to spare in the house of which Howe was a member. The protest en- tered by Howe was doubtless prepared by the Tilden lawyers in Omaba and Howe had the glory of being the sole champion of Sam Tilden. The legisla- ture ignored Church Howe, spread his protest on its record and canvassed tho eleetoral vote in spite of it. When the legislature convened in Jan- uary, 1877, the presidential contest was at 1ts height i Washington. Church Howe had ehanged places from the house to the seriate. Early in the session, a resolution was introduced expressing the conviction on the part of the senate that Hayes and Wheeler haying received a majority of the electoral votes were en titled to their seats. This resolution gave rise to a very lively debate which lasted two days. Church Howe askea to be excused from voting when it first eame up and was so excused. On the final passage of the resolution the record [page 876, Serate Journal 1877,] shows the following resuit: Yeas—Ambrose, Baird, Blanchard, Bryant, Calkins, Carns, Chapman, Colby, Dawes, Gar- field, Gilbam, Hayes, Kennard, Knapp, Pevoon, Powers, Thummel, Van Wyck, Walton and Wilcox—20, Those voting in the negative were: Aten, Brown, Covell, Ferguson, Hinman, Hoit, Church Howe and North -8, During the same session of the legisla- ture, Church Howe's vote on. United States senator for the first three ballots is recorded as haying been cast for E. W. Thomas, a South Carolina democrat, [pages 108 and 208 Sonate Journal.] All this time Church Howe professed to be a republican independent, republican on national issues and a tomperance granger on local issues. We simply ask what right a man with such a record has to the support of any republican. and democ 016 as o S48 The Bee as a Newspaper. York Times, The Omabs BEE publishes each day a Bworn statement of its daily circulation. Iu proportion to the size of the city in which it is published, we bolieve there is no five-cent daily that has anything like as large u circulation as the Beg. Take for instance the Chicago duilies. Chica is at least ten times as large as Omaba, nd the demand for dailies is ten times as great, while Omuha has five times as many daily newspapers in proportion to the |:..|.ulh|lmn as Chicago. Yel, with a] these advantages, the great Chicsgo dailles uave only about four oy five times the circulation Of the Bek, when with the same enterprise and ability it ought to have at least twenty toone. There is robably no other eity in the country no ':ngvl than Omaha that ean boast of such & paper for enterprise, outlay of money and circulation. As & newspaper, the BEE is a greater success than the Chicago Times was in its palmiest days, taking all the circuistances into oconsideration, - Tk vessels that sailed from Buenos Ayres for Suvaunsh o the same day saw nothing of each other during the entire voyage until they entered the mouth of the Savannab river within a few bours of each other. 1886, Ma Oommodore Porter's Tllness Snggosting War | ! Reminiscences. P The Commodore as a Famous Lettors Writer t Admiral Worden's I Prospects, |1 I fatal | D. Pot- | g that yot | s intorest | 1 tally ¥ the ind Adn and the de of his recovery, w in the Porter family, and incid ; many of the older of F way. A retired veteranof | on on the subj not especially olemnity of the iden | ¢ that perhaps the navy might soon ut an admiral. “Yes, marked, I saw that David was very il unl was quite startled. But in a day or [t two I saw that ho was able to sit up and dictate lotters, and then 1 knew that | David was still himself. Dave Porter," grizzled veteran _with o catest letter writer on | T I Shermanis in the clerks it Ne the navy wport 1 revive in navy now p, the navy, in conversa of A impressed nral r, was with the he with re. |y « continued the laugh, *is the carth, What Geners field of talking, Porter is with his and their typewriters, Porter has a | private seeretary =Jim Alden, a nephew of Rear-Admiral Alden—but, yeu! Alden could no more handle Por- | | ter's correspondence than Dan Lamont | t could the president's, — Alden has th clerks under him. One is a stonographer and type-writer and another is a_proof reader. [don't know what the third one does, but I guess he keeps the scrap- books of things that are said about the audmiral from time to time in the pubhe prints.”” Porter's correspondence with the navy department during the war was greater than that of all the other com- manding oflicers combined. He had on his flagship owthe Mississippi waters half a dozen clerks whose sole duty it was to ¢ letters and reports for ym to sign, | U *‘But, after all,” continued the veteran, | *it was Grant that made Porter. The lat- | t ter's anctivity and hearty co-operation be- fore Vieskburg won Grant’s confidence, and from that time they were yery close friends. It was Grant that got Porter as- | I signed to the Fort Fisher exvedition, | 1 deon Welles did not like Porter and | shoose Farragut for the command. Far- | ragut’s health had broken and he de- | b clined Then Mr. Welles was going to select Commodore Winslow, who had | ¢ just sunk the Alabama, but Grant used | i his influence with Mr. Lincoln and got | I the latter to overrule Mr. Welles. [t was [ W ‘ort Fishes that made Porter a vice ad- miral when Fareagut was promoted, and when the Tatter died it was the ever-faith- ful Grant who made his protege an ad miral. There was a good deal of quiet opposition to this last promotion, for many in and ont of congress, and the whole navy as well, thought that the rank ought to die with the great oficer for whom it was created. But Grant had his way, as he always had.” dmiral’s duties, I suppose, merely nominal in times of peace, re I 0 W by ir o al ( o 1 are was | d arked £ *Bless you, they're not even that. He [ K is paid $13,000 u year and has no duty | 4 whateyer. 1 believe under an old rogu- [ Jation he makes a report once a year to | O the president on ‘the condition of the | I but t is merely perfunctory, No,for more than ten years Porter has | . written a great for the newspapers and | t magazines and now I believe has turned | I out one or two novels. He bas also wri L ten one or two pamphlets on naval topies, | 17 e ssmore of a writer in a literary thana | © professional way. He is somewhat given | 1 to poetry, t0o, or used to be. I was with bLim ~in'1860 in the Powhatan and then he used to scribble whole reams of poetry, some of it not bad either. Afterwards, too, when commanding the squadron on the' Mississippt, ho did up the sivge of Vicksburg in mock heroic verse in a way that immensely tickled Grant and She Al man, He was always writing doggerel | 1 to his brother oflicers, some of it some- times carrying with it wounds, for Por- | P ter was not always mindful of other poo. | it ple’s foelings. Soon after the Mexican war Porter and Licutenant Henry A. Wise, of the navy, together wrote & Mexican novel, “Los Gringoes,” it was called. Porter, who, | P by the way, is an accomplished linquist, teanslated it into Spanish. As it was n dreadful satire upon all Spanish-speaking people 1t gave groat offense. After- wards, Gwhen Porter commanded the New York and Havana steamer, Black Warrior, he gotinto a row with the Spanish auathorities, and it all grew out of that book. Tdon't rememberwhat the immediate grievance was, but the real cause of Spanish hatred was the afironts contained i that novel. Porter was 1ys getting into rows in his young | When, in 1857, Jefl';Davis, then ctary of war, sent Porter to Syria to over a ship load of camels for Ari- zona, he got into a squabble with some Syrian authorities, which came near end- mg in bloodshed. ' Porter was inclined to imagine that somebody was intending an insult to his flag, and being ever ready for a_fight he was almost always 1nto one “Did you ever know the admiral's brother, *Bill'*"" asked the Tribune writer. *'0, yes. Bill and I'smiled together in the old Jamestown away back in 1852, ‘Bill” was older than ‘Dave,’ and was bigher in rank, But he was quecr zenius. 1 faney Bill Porter was m ike his futher, the old commodore, I than was his brother. Of course, all the Porters were fighters, but Bill was rough and eccentric. He had a horror of naval forms, and customs, and dress, and oti- quet. ' When, during the war, he got command of the ironclad Essex, and could do as he pleased, he threw off all naval restraint He made his gunboat more of a Mississippi flat boat than a wan-of-war. Ho kept her guns ready | and ‘lighting tacks' always aboard, but otherwise she was a sorry spectacle to the nayal eye. Ouce in 1863 when the Essox lay off Baton Rouge I went aboard to ‘Captain Bill? as he was always called. "There wasn't a ‘side boy’ nor bosun’s pipe, nor even an ofticer’ of the deck to recelve me. The crew was lying about in merchant sailor's or 'longshore- man’s rig, the deck hadn't been holy- stoned 10" a month. The boat was alive with pigs, and geese, and chickens, the result of *Capt, "Bill's' foraging ashore, and sbe looked more like a Trofght boat Just struck the levee from the ‘upper coast’ than anytbing else 1 could im agine. Ou the upper deck with hands in his pockets and lolling against a smoke stack-guy, stood ‘Captain Bill' Porte He had on a stovepipe hat, cocked on the back of his head. He wore no coat nor vest, but hud on red woolen shirt and a_pair of dirty white trousers tucked into heavy top boots, That was ‘Capt. Bill's outit as to eclothes, But he was a bard fubice “end his ganture o destruction of “the rebel Ar kansas was an event of the wa He never had 8 command after the Essex He got to be a commodore, howeyer, and Ithink died a year or two's r He was a fino sailor and 8 great fighter, | but his cccentric habits and rongh and | ’,.urun wauys kept him back in his pro ession Tne admiral spends his time between Washington aod Newvort, H having got nearly #165,000 prize money during the war, “And then he has saved | quite & fortune from the large pay bhe has been getting for the last fiftoed yoars He bas's handsome house in W ashingion and s costly outtage st Nowport. He has had several clildren. The second son Theadore, is & licuteuant commander (n the navy and is an instructor at the al n in re sh 50 th st or tl th st o on al th W te) hu an m ar it bl ar gr o m ran in 18 rich, Adm Admiral Porter rocovers from and so also who has b will expire with then will physical strength Kindness of ily ( meetings on one oc them from the they had received at whert the pr with the wa to shavings!” the p during the last ye population of ‘the nied them Uy the democratic of this country there another such” a gi can ci in the by rec B oa da of here wife my I believe, the of the navy What is tl yrter old er 0, yos han 8 miral is erman, He is bout seventy-one nk 1t sixty two cor who may h ived the thanks of co rvico is exempt f tiring may ha T'hus | untjl ally he ty, Thore sther officers who enjoyed ion. Vico Admiral Rowan ral Worden of Monitor Ay any off pecial s on of the after h nally ret ongh is r¢ ho has 1 nt illness he will be retired will Vice-Adm 1 over sixty years in t I'he rank of both of these and w ire or die the senior oflicor of be John L. Worden, th ommander of the Monitor A MUSCULAR CHRISTIAN, D 'he Manner in Which The Late itc Cambridge Graham K Ovder In the primtive days of Methodis ays the Altoona (Pa.) Tribune, it 1 od not only preachers of sterli picty and Christian_courage, but sl The late Rev. Cam yridge Graham was noted not only fo Iie excellency of his Cliristian ehurae i heart and forbearance of pirit, but for his great physical strongtl his latter charucteristio was never brought out in his mimsiry except when o othor remedy was left hin rly ministry he was sent to I In his neock i cuit, in the Baltimore conference. at one of his appointments a fu; her and sons) who were noted us ullies, as disturbers of Methodist weet ngs. While Mr, Gralam was holdiny asion there were two sons began their s series of interruption ) ebuk had ~any effcct upon hem, and finally the preacher cjected house. The went “hom nd told their father of the treatment the hands of the ew Methodist preacher. The old m 1an was very idignant at Mr. Graham nd vowed to chastise him the next norning. Bright and early, gun 1 and, heappeared at — the farm hous. acher was stopping. Mr ham was out on the poreh perform 1g his morning ablution (the man of the ouse being over inan_adjoining field vhen he was accosted by the irate father “Youare the new Mothodist preacher “Yes, sir,” replied Mr. Graham He then narrated what he had done 1o is sons the previous evening, winding uj declaration that “he had con ver to whip him. '’ “‘Whip me,"" said the vreacher, in a f the man's tone of surprise. “‘Yes, vou.” “Well,” said the preacher, get thiough washing.” In the meantime th own his gun and prepared for the strig le. Mr. Graham approached him in the indliest manner, repeating, “Ob, you on't want to whip me,” and with a nian er that_practically disarmed his ant nist. Drawing close up to him he placed is hand on each of the old gent's urms ait until old man had set It was like the grip of a vise, **So you want to whip me,’ his grip ighten, and he began to i e ol nan back and forth. He was Tike an in- fantin the preacher’s grasp, and writhed 1 mortal agony as the erip tightened n his fesh, ‘and the shaking Docnme 10TC Vigorous to the chorus: *So you to whip me! Why, I'll shake you The fight was all taken out ot the man, nd he beaged to he released, promising for himsclT and sons that there should b hodist mes o further molestation of M - he preacher ngs in that neighborhood. ccepted his promise and’ released him, nd gave him some kind good advice, The oid man thoroughly crestfallcn, assed the man of the house who was out 1 the field trembling for the safety of cher, and saluted hin witti the e "I believe that preacher would fight There was peace at that preaching lace thereafter. L -— Dakota Entitled to Admission. St. Louts Globe-Democrat, The annual message of Governor Pierce hows that 85,000 have settled in Dakota , and that the present territory 18 fully 90,000, These peovle are entitled by all i rules of justice and precedents in ich cuses to the benefitof a state gov- rnment; but that right is arbitrarily de- rty for sole reason that a large majority of hem ure republic: ns, all the history not to be founid aring and flagrant in- ance of discrimination against Ameri- ns on account of their political binions. Dakota will get into the union 10 of these days, however: and it is very fe to predict that she will remember W with uncompromising hostilit he “party which has spurued and ronged her. e To My Friends, GRAND ISLAND, OCL. 14, 1886: So many legrams and letters of congratulations 4ve come to me since my nomination, id I have become 80 quickly engaged ampaign, and being billed for a ceting e oy week day till the election, nd twice a day for uext Monday, I find utterly impossible Lo make suitable re- s to them. It has given me very groat nd sincere pleasure to receive the con- ratulations, and I beg the writers to ac- bt my heartfelt thanks for the same, and trust they will excuse my inability, under 1o reply &) them press my gratitude (o those papers which 50 to the convention, and haye endorsed it since. the circumstances, Talso take the occasion 16 ex rnestly favored my nomination prior s0 cordially Very Respoctfully, JOoHN M. Tuayer. -~ South Omaha Judge Reuther was Monday gratified iving from the governor his com: ission notary public MOST PERFECT MADE Treparad with atrict 1o Pu 4 W e e B0 Ammon E‘ urm o Phe Extiacta, ¥ ‘l.-..-f.-,’ i A