The Anaconda Recorder and New Northwest from Anaconda, Montana • Page 2

SAxU8 H. fILL, PUBLISHER. -Col. B. Hammer is elected President and Dr.

E. Welt vice-President of the Swiss Confederation for 1879. -William Lewis, brother of S. Senator Lewis, was drowned in the Shenandoah river, Virginia, on Monday. -The New England States and Pensylvania, had a forty hours' rain this week.

Edison had better turn his attention to an anti-deluge-phone. Queen" telegraphed Louisa from Windsor Castle on the 2d inst. that she was delighted at her daughter's reception and to say so. Whereupon the Canadian heart was prouder than ever. -Butler is'still learning.

He says his call on Kearney will not be duplicated to other prominent Californians until he has made due inquiries concerning them. But it was not Denis that beat Ben. -Whalers lately arrived at San Francisco from the Arctic Sea report that a ship, believed to be the larger of the two vessels of the Sweedish Polar Expedition, is blocked in the ice above the East Cape. -It is difficult to tell whether or not Governor Hampton, of South Carolina, is playing "Born to Good Luck." He was unanimously elected to the U. S.

Senate on Wednesday; also had his leg amputated below the knee the same day. -Nearly a dozen coinage billb were introduced in the House last Tuesday. It is thought the bill reported last session by the Committee of Coinage, Weights and Measures, providing for the coinage of trade dollars up to 9,000,000 will be enacted. -General Sherman, in a letter to Chairman Saunders, of the Congressional Committee, says in relation to the transfer and the controversy between the Interior and the War Departments: "I wish you, if proper, to construe the present conflict or antagonism to be not personal, nor a question of dishonesty, but a natural and necessary conflict of antagonistic systems." -A New York Times' leader of Wednesday deprecates the introduction of the bill by Representative Page to enforce the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution as calculated to increase the existing irritation without accomplishing any good. It advises deferring party action till the investigation called for by Blaine's resolution has been made and the case against the South fully made out -Our brilliant and esteemed Democratic contemporary, the Miner, last week in its search for knowledge facetiously asked for information concerning the cause of Mr.

Rumley's removal. With a degree of pleasure we imparted to it such information thereon as we were possessed of. This week it proceeds to analyze and discuss the matter. In reply to it we- respectfully refer it to the telegraphic paragraph in this issue relating to confirmations. -The Black Hills Stage Company, as we have before announced, had constructed at Cincinnati, by Mosler a safe for carrying treasure on the Black Hills and Cheyenne coaches.

The company making the safe guaranteed that it could not be opened in less time than fifty hours. and forfeited the safe if it could be opened in less time than that. A trial was made with sledges and wedges at Sidney the Seher day, when the thing was completely gutted in one hour and forty L. Tribusu. H.

Stephens says on the whole he thinks well of the President's Message but believes he has had exaggerated aciounts of Southern outrages. Senator Ben Hill referring to the same subject says the Message is an outrage of really ciriminal proportions; excuses South Carolina, says Georgia will always be solid for Democracy and "our people would rather be "placed in their graves than again be to; or afflicted with, radicalism." The outlook is fair for a fierce party struggle on the question. eller Robert Palmer the magician died in Philadelphia Nov 28th after only a couple of days' i illness. He was born near Canterbury. England, in 1880.

His real name was Palmer. He had a superior musical education but develroped a love for the Black Art and after many discouraging failures, nsuch as playing an a tent for penny entrance at English fairs, he finally came to America in 1859 and entered on his successful career. He has since traveled professionally around the world and was probably the most magician traveling. Of late years he had been assisted by his sister in the second sight business which has puzzled Heller was married toalady in Washington City and she, with her three children, now residJs in Paris. They lived unhappily and were separated some years ago.

"-Mr. R. E. Fisk, the political mountebank who traitoriously surrendered the Republican party of Montana the first opportunity he had, seems not to be not eutirely satisfied with the degree of party diseipline recognized by us. His dislike probably accounts for the estimation in which the NEW NonTir-WEST is held by the better people of Montana.

When unscrupulous scoundrels get hold of a party orgaulsation the less reliance placed in them the better. It is true, we joined with many Republicans in detestation of his humiliating betrayal of the Republican party at the recent Convention, and saw the temple in which a steadfast minority had repeated their vows overturned by treason and treachery; but it was compensated for to some degree by the knowledge that deep, damned and forever buried beneath its revered columns lay the inconspieonus but putrescent and offensive remains of the late Chairman of the late Central Committee theTates party Of Montana. -The ladian Transfer Debated. WAs.imGorN, Dec. the most active workers in Congress for the transfer of the Indians to arnay management is Representative 8csles who was a member of the former commission to examine the advisability of the transfer and also a leainog advocate of the change in thie present commisea.

Now it Is mid the array of evideoee against the transfer has overome his oavietions as also those of sar aadseam ad they agre it would be aslVshto akes change. Practically the whoe a mi is believed to be op-esa to it. Ae aei savy a-r o.n 3l st are $17, 4 A. PBESIDBNTIAL BEOOK3I3NDATHUW B3 We present in this issue asubch extrat from the message of Presidbat Hayes as are of more particular interest to Montiusa readers. The document is not very volaminous.

We are at peace with the world, without serious domestic troubles, and in a satisfactory financial condition. The President treats the question of polilitical rights at some length and with exceeding I care. He has always held that every legal voter in the United States was entitled to go to the polls and, unintimidated, cast his ballot. In this Message he goes further than heretofore and declares that right has not been permitted to the colored people in some of the Southern States, and avows it 7 a public duty of the Executive and Judicial departments to punish violations of the law while the Legislative must pass upon the validity of Congressional claims to seats. I It is quite evident, notwithstanding his I avowed purpose to make a renewed appeal to the State authorities to assist in punishing crimes already perpetrated and preventing others in the future, that the President feels his conciliation policy has not met with genuine reciprocity in the south, and is disposed to bear down with memorable severity on any people who deprive a portion of the qualified electors of their rights.

It were well if there should be no deviation from.this rule. In relation to the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department, the message leans unequivocally to the retention of the Bureau under civil control, and we see it is intimated the Congressional Conmmittee will so report. This we believe a grave mistake. The plea is the susceptibility of the Indians to civilization, Christianity and industry. We have httle faith in either of these anticipations being realized, but if they should be, the circumstances would be more favorable under army supervision, while the Indians would be better treated, the whites better protected, and the churches relieved of an evil that is far more prolific of evil than good.

Again we notice the recommendations of the Secretary of the Interior concerning timber depredations are approved and given the weight of Executive endorsement. The Secretary of Interior in his report says "After careful consideration of the above named act, and its probable effects, I venture the prediction that the permission given the inhabitants of the States and Territories named therein, to take timber from the public lands in any quantity and wherever they can find it, for all purposes except export and sale to railroads, will be taken advantage of not only by miners and settlers to provide economically not only for their actual current wants, but by persons who see in this donation a chance to make money quickly that it will stimulate wasteful consumption beyond actual need, and lead to wanton destruction that the machinery left to this department to prevent and repress such waste and destruction through the enforcement of the rules above mentioned will prove entirely inadequate; that, as a final result, in a few years, the mountain sides of these States and Territories will be stripped bare of the timber now growing upon them, with no possibility of its reproduction, and the trees being once wasted off from the slopes that irreparable destruction of the forests will bring upon the States all the calamities experienced from the same cause in many districts of Europe and Asia similarly situated. It appears to mes therefore, that the repeal of the above named act and the substitution thereof of a law embodying a more provident policy similar to that of the bill hereinbefore advocated, is in the highest degree advisable. If the destruction of forests in these States be permitted, the agricultural and pasturage interests in the mountainous regions will inevitably be sacrificed, and the valleys in the course of time become unfit for the habitations of men." We have no doubt these recommendations are made in good faith and with the be object of preserving the public lands from of spoliation and the useless destruction of forests. We know not to what extent these wanton trespasses may occur in other localities but certainly in Montana there is no Ve speculative use or wanton destruction of tb timber.

It is cut only as the necessities of industry or domestic purposes require. There will not be in centuries a denudation of the mountains that will effect the coun- pi try disastrously. The great forests are too In remote and inaccessable to be destroyed by et money hunters or consumption." a Railroads will soon thread the valleys, coal le become cheaper than wood, and timber ii for building or mining purposes come from surveyed and purchased timber lands. The best plan of preservation is to survey and sell accessable timber lands which will con- vert them into great preserves, but any repressive legislation, or again putting the people of the Territories in the position of si trepassers, or, as we have been called, timber thieves," would be unjust, inadequate and wrong. The people.are here.

They must use timber. Thetimber is here. They are willing to pay for it. The law- 0 makers of the nation should consider these facts and deal fairly with those who are extending the bounds of empire and filling the coffers of State with the noble metals that make national promises to pay possi- ble realizations. COUNTY FINANCES.

ILearning the probability of some of our counties increasing their debt this year, and aware of the heavy expenses to which 1 this county had been subjected by the large amount of judicial business transacted, we made inquiry of Treasurer Kennon and found the Deer Lodge county 'finances are in a gratifying condition. The total colc lections of taxes for the year for county i purposes alone (exclusive of the Territori- I al, School, Road, Poor and Fire funds) ag- 1 gregates $43,942.7 This includes $12,000 in licenses. From this amount only Treas- 4 murer'sfees and-contingent to be deducted. The balance goes to pay I warrants, interest on the same, and what 4 margin there is will be applied on the I county debt. There have already been i taken up and paid this year warrants to the amount of $18,461, and the Treasurer has a advertised to pay over more in warrants, bringing the paid list up to January a 1,1876.

This includes 672 orders, and the necessary column figuring on the same Sdrew itself out to the majestic length of eighty feet Deer Lodge county warrants i are now selling at ee nts, the highest they have ever reached, and a contrast to 18684, when they were plenty as less thin twenty cents. It is the opinifo of the Treasarer tat be will oenmlyr all current of hejysearncluding Interest, but 1iQsttbe i wa a nm ovr sape on the Ospi bt Cce all it, orth slowaty. I i aeftal good meason, except a possible pestilence of riminal cases, why Deer Lodge county 5scurities should not sell next year at 100 cents on the dollar. THE VOTE OF MONTANA. The canvassers of the general election election returns of Montana, consisting of Aundtor Cuthbert and U.

S. Marshal Bot- kin, in the presence of the Governor, met on Saturday evening, December 7th, and canvassed the return for Delegate. The a result is announced as follows i i Counties. Maginnis. Orr.

Total. s' 451 174 625 t' 437 7 444 If 342 10 352 0 Deer .1,742 686 2,428 tl Gallatm 544 320 864 A 298 244 542 L. 687 1,850 Madison 581 404 985 0 413 149 562 514 76 590 2,757 9,242 Maginnis' majority, 3,728. NOTES OF DAY. This country manufactured 100,000,000 4 shoes last year.

A man can now be comfortably cremated 1 in Germany for $7.50. Ruskin's many admirers will be glad to know that he has resumed his pen. The meeting dispersed after singing the doxsolagy," says a Kentucky paper. There are 19,475 articles of incorporation filed with the Secretary of State of Califor- nia. I The Bishop of Gibraltar has been offer- ed 1,000 Greek testaments for circulation in Cyprus.

Sheep shearing by machinery is the latest labor-saving invention announced in Cali fornia. A branch of the Mennonites has decided to expel from the church any member who gets his life insured. A Paris worker in finds himself with a head of green hair from some unknown chemical cause. Miss Marion Booth, the niece of Edwin Booth, and who is supporting the tragedian this season, is not yet 17 years old. The important conundrum which the astronomers are asking each other at present is Is therea hole through Mercury Talmage.

now kraws better than Beecher, and lacks, only a scandal to make him Beecher's rival. Let us be patient, however. VernonH. of Utah, clerk of the Committee on Corporations of the Constitutional Convention, died in Sacramento, Nov. 30th.

Smith and Jones were examining a gun that was not loaded. Of course it went off. Smith was filled with remorse and Jones with bird shot number two. The great revival in India among the Teloogoos still continues. Thus far over 10,000 have been baptized by the Baptist missionaries since the middle of June.

The repartee of a mule is said to be unequalled, and the way to draw him out is by pulling only one little hair out of the end of his stumpy Journal. Between the years 1827 and 1848, Balzac produced ninety-seven novels. He wrote steadily sixteen or seventeen hours out of the twenty-four, until his work was completed. All the Western wild geese shot this year and presented to editors of weekly Si papers measure exactly six feet from tip to tip. They were hatched on purpose for the occasion.

There was consternation at that commu' nion service in a Bridgeport, when it was discovered that the purveyor Sof communion wine had, by mistake, furSnished brandy. Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick, the Chicago millionaire, who makes the reapers that bear hislname, is lying in imminent danger of death at Paris from a carbuncle which was recently removed. Latest from new kmd of venomous worm has been discovered In this State since 11 o'clock this morning.

Homes for the homeless. Come to Texas the K. ye. A Puget Sound farmer has raised a potato this year that by actual measureo ment is twenty-two inches in circumfery ence the small way and thirty, or two and Sa half feet, in circumference the larger or al lengthwise, and weighs just five pounds. Ir It is perfectly sound.

The Breathill Feud. mcAicoo, Dec. Tribune's Louisville special says: A staff correspondent just returned from a 150 mile ride to Jackson, Breathill county, reports a terrible state of affairs prevailing there, every person being armed, with a probability of a colhlision any moment. Matters are worse even than during the war, when the bushwhackers and home guards filled the hearts of the strongest with terror and dismay. Going Round the World.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Richmond, which is being fitted out to be the flag ship of Rear Admiral Patterson, commanding the Asiatic station, will soon sall from this country, and the expectation is that Gen'l Grant will join her at Ville Franca and proceed therein to Hong Kong via the Suez Canal. An invitation has been extended to Gen'l Grant to make this his reply was a thankful acknowledgement thereof with the expression of a probability of acceptance. After the Bonanza tings. SAN FRANcisco.

Dec. to-day publishes a 7-column communication from Squire P. Dewey in reply to the statement emanating from the Bonanza firm, published on the 26th of last May. The delay in replying is attributed to the fact that onthe 27th of May Dewey left the city for the East and Europe, whence he bas reoently returned. The article reviews at length the management of the Bonanza mines and the manipulation of the market by the Bonanza firm, from the writer's tandpeint, a denial having been entered to his opposition to the Bonanza-mine with a view of becoming a director of the Bank of California, and while admitting that the writer made offers of compromise, as stated in the publication of the Bonanza firm, ielaims that theterms and spirit were diss torted apd falsied in their statement.

The bulk of the oemmuenoation isabitatrarSrai ngamet of the whole business pPlicy and porse of Flood an outrage upon I the eholders of msines and the com-' Ssinulty at large. Siwuas, Nov. It 4Via EXTRACTS PR)OM THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAG. i CIVIL RIGHTS. A permanent pacification of the country by the complete protection of all citizens in every civil and political right, continues to be of paramount interest with the great body of our people.

Every step in this direction is welcomed with public approval, and every interruption of steady and uniform progress to the desired consummation awakens genuine uneasiness and widespread condemnation. Recent Congressional elections have furnished a direct and trustworthy test of the advance thus made in the practical establishment of the righs, of suffrage secured by the Constitution to the liberated race in the Southern States All disturbing influences, real or imaginary, had been removed from all these States. The three Constitutional amendments which conferred freedom and equality of civil and political rights upon the colored people of the South were adopted by the concurrent action of the great body of good citizens who maintained the authorities of the National Government and the integrity and perpetuity of the Union at such a cost of treasure and life, as a wise and necessary embodiment in the organic law and of the just results of the war. The people of the former Slave-holding States accepted these results and gave in every practicable form assurances that the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, and the laws passed in pursuanane thereof, should in good faith be enforced rigidly and impartially, in letter and spirit, to tbe end that the humblest distinction of race or color, should, under them, receive full and equal piotection in person or property, and in political rights and privileges. By these constitutional amendments the increase of political power in Congress and the Electoral the country justly expected that the elections would proceed, as to the enfranchised race, upon the same circumstances of legal and constitutional freedom and protection which is obtained in all other States of the Union.

The friends of law and order looked forward to the conduct of these elections as offering to the general judgment of the country an important opportunity to measure the degree in which the right of suffrage could be exercised by the colored people and would be respected by their fellow citizens. But the more general enjoyment of freedom of suffrage by the colored people and the more just and generous protection of that freedom by the communities of which they form a part were more generally anticipated than the record of elections discloses. In some of those States in which the colored people have been unable to make their opinions felt in the election, the result is mainly due to influences not easily measured or remedied by legal protection but in the States of Louisiana and South Carolina at large, and in some particular Congressional districts outside of these records of elections seem to compel the conclusion that the rights of the colored voters have been overridden and their participation in elections not permitted to be either general or free. It will be for Congress, for which these elections were held, to make such examinations into their conduct as may be appropriate to determine the validity of the claims of the members to their seats. In the meanwhile it becomes the duty of the Executive and Judicial Departments of the Government each in its province, to inquire into and punish the violations of the laws of the United States, which have oce eurred.

I can but repeat what I have said in this connection in my last message, that whatever authority rests with me to this end I shall not hesitate to use, and I am unwilling to forego a renewed appeal to the legislature, the courts, the executive authorities and the people of States where these wrong have been perpetrated, to give their assistance toward bringing to justice the offenders and preventing a repetition of the crimes. No means will be spared to obtain a full and fair investigation of the crimes and to secure the conviction and if just conviction of the guilty. It is to be observed that the principal appropriation made for the Department of Justice at the last session contained the following clause "And for defraying expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the act approved February 28th, 1871, entitled "An act to amend an act approved May 30, 1870, entitled an act to enforce the righta. citizens of hi United jiate to ioto in the several of the Union and for other purposes, or any act amendatory thereof or tary thereto." It is the opinion of the Attorney-General that the expenses of these proceedings will largely exceed the amount which was Sthus provided, and I rely confidently Supon Congress to make adequate appropri ations to enable the Executive Department to enforce the laws. unnn vnnv attention I respectfully urge upon your attention that the Congressional elections in every district, in a very important sense, are just- ly a matter of political interest and concern throughout the whole.

In each State every pi political party is entitled to the same share of power which is conferred by legal and a constitutional suffrage. It is the right of el every citizen possessing the qualifications di prescribed by law to cast one unintimidated ballot and to have his ballot honestly a counted. So long as the exercise of this power and the enjoyment of this right are tr common and equal, practically as well as formally, submission to the results of the suffrage will be accorded loyally and cheeifully, and all the Departments will feel the true vigor of the popular will thus express- ed. No temporary or administrative inter- est of the Government, however urgent or weighty, will ever displace the zeal of our people in defense or the primary rights of citizenship. They understand that the tl protection of liberty requires the maintenance in full vigor of the manly methods of free speech, flee press and free suffrage, and will sustain the full authority of the government to enforce the laws which are framed to preserve those inestimable ti rights.

The material progress and welfare 1 of the States depend on the protection afforded to the citizens. There can be a no peace without such protection, no pros- perity without peace, and the whole country is interested the growth and prosper- a ity of all its parts. While the country has not yet reached complete unity of feeling or reciprocal confidence between the communities so lately and so seriously estranged, I feel an absolute assurance that the tendencies are in that direction, and with increasing force. The power of public opinion wiil override all political prejudice and all sectional or i State attachments in demanding that all over our wide territory the name and character of a citizen of the United States shall mean one and the same thing, and carry with them unchallenged security and respect. SILVEB COMMISSION.

In accordan with the provisions of an act of Feb. 28, 1878, three commissioners were appointed to the International Conference on the subject of the adoption of a common rate between gold and silver, for the purpose of establishing internationally the use of a bi-metallic value between those I metals. Letters were addressed to the various governments which had expressed a wiilingnessn partiOipate in its deliberations. The conference held its meetings in Paris in August last. The report of the commissioners which is herewith submitted, will show its result.

No common ratio between gold and silver could be agreed upon by the Conference. The general conclusion was reached that it is necessary to maintain in the world the monetary funnetions of silver as well as gold, leaving the selection of one or the other of these two metals, or of both, to be made by each I State-. THr HALIFAX AWARD. Congreesssaving appropriated at its last session the sum of $5,500,000 to pay the a award of the Joint Commissmon at Halifax, if after oorrespond.nen with the BritI ib government ea te subject of the conformity of the award to the requiremente the treaty, and tq Mes of Lion thereby; msabmitted toaitbs the Prea shafl deeft i his49 dt to thheeUse ata 7M4 a Chinese government has again sent envoys to the United States. They have been received and a permanent legation is now established here by that Government.

It is not doubted that this step will be of ad- A vantage to both nations i promoting e4 friendly feelings and removing causes of difference. COINAGE. The coilagr gold during tile last fiscal year was coinage of silver dciiars, nuder the act passed Feb. 28, 1l78, aniounted on the 23d of 1878. to $19,814,529, of which amount $4,984,947 are in circulation, and the balance, $14,829,603, is still in the possession of the government.

FINANCES. a With views unchanged with regard to the act under which the coinage of silver pro- ceeds, it has been the purpose of the Secretary faithfully to execute the law and to afford a fair trial to the measure. Ir the present financial condition of the country. I am persuaded the welfare of legitimate business and industry of every desc.iption will be best promoted by abstaining from attempts to make radical changes in exist- ing financial legislation. Let it be understood that during the coming year the business of the country will be undisturbed by governmental interference with the laws affecting it, and we may confidently expect that the resumption of specie will take place at the appoint- a ed time, will be successfully and easily 1 maintained, and that it will be followed by a healthy and enduring revival of business prosperity.

Let the healing influence of time, the inherent energies of our people i and tue boundless resources of our country have a fair opportunity, and relief from present difficulties will surely follow. TIIE ARMY. The report of the Secretary of War shows that the army has been well and economic- ally supplied, that our small force has been actively employed and has faithfully performed all the service required of it. The I morale of the army has improved and the number of desertions has materially decreased during the year. The Secretary recommends First-That a pension be granted to the winow of the late Lieut.

Henry H. Benner, 18th Infantry, who lost his life by yellow fever while in command of the steamer J. tM. with supplies for the relief of sufferers in the South from that disease. Second-For the establishment of the annuity schemq for the benefit of the heirs of deceased ofliers as suggested by the Paymaster General.

'rhird-The adoption by Congress of a plan for the publication of the records of the War of the Rebellion now being prepared for that purpose. Fourth-The increase of the extra per diem of soldier teachers employed in post schools and a liberal appropriation for the erection of buildings for schools and libraries at the different posts. Fifth-The repeal or amendment of the act of June 18, 1878, forbidding use of the army as a posse comitatus or otherwise for the purpose of executing the laws, excepting such causes and under such circumstances as may be expressly authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress. Sixth-The passage of a joint resolution of CorE ress legalizing the issue of rations, tents and medicines which were made for the relief of sufferers from the yellow fever. Seventh-That provisions be made for the erection of a fireproof building for the preservation of certain valuable records now constantly exposed to destruction by fire.

THE COURTS. The business of the Supreme Court and of the courts in manvof the circuits has increased to such an extent during the past year that additional legislation is imperative to relieve and prevent a delay of justice and possible oppressions to suitors, which is thus occasioned. The encumbered conditionof these dockets is presented anew in the report of the Attorney General, and the remedy suggested is earnestly urged for Congressional action. The creation of additional circuit judges, as proposed, would afford a complete remedy, and wonld involve an expense, at the present rate of salaries, of not more than $60,000 a year. TIlE INTERIOR.

The annual reports of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, presents I elaborate accounts of the present condition of the Indian tribes and of that branch of the public service which ministers to their interests. While the conduct of the Indians generally has been orderly and their relations with their neighbors friendly and peaceful, two local disturbances have occurred which were deplorable in their character, but remained happily confined to a small number of Indians. The discontent among the Bannocks which led first to some acts of violence on the part of some members of the tribe and finally to the outbreak, which appears to have been caused by an insuflficiency of food on the reservation and this insufficiency to have been owing a to the inadequacy of the appropriations made by e.he rQ te sthe ndians were prevented from supplying the der fidency by hunting. After an arduous pursuit by the troops of the United States and several engagements, the hostile Indians were reduced to subjection and the larger part of thlem surrendered themselves prisoners. 1 In this connection, 1 desire to call attention to the a recommendation of the decretary of the Interior, that a sufflicient fund be placed at the disposal of the Executive to be used with proper accountability at his discretion in sudden emergencies of the Indian service.

INDIAN OaiJ.uia. Both the Secretary of Interior and the Secretary of War unite in the recommendation that a provision he made by Congress for the organization of a corps of mounted Indian auxiliaries to be under control of the army and to be used for the purpore of keeping the Indians on their reservations and preventing or repressing disturbances on their part. I earnestly con- 8 cur in this recommendation. It is believed that the organization of a body of Indian cavalry, receiving a moderate pay from the government, would consid erably weaken the restless element among the Indiana by drawing from it a number of young men I and giving them congenial employment under the government. It being a matter of experience that the Indians in our service almost without exception are faithful in the performaLce of the duties assigned to them, such an organization would materially aid the army in the accomplishment of a task for which its numerical strength is sometimes found insufficient.

But while the employment of a force for the prevention or repression of Indian troubles is of occasional necessity and where preparation should be made to that end, greater reliance mast be placed on humane and civilizing agencies for the solution of 5 what is ealled the Indian problem. It may be very difficult and require much patient effort to curb the unruly spirit of the savage Indian to the restraints of civilized life; but experience shows that it is not impossible. Many tribes which are now quiet and orderly and self-supporting were once as savage as any that at present roam over the plains or on the mountains of the Far West, and were then considered inaccessible to civilizing influences. It may be impossible to raise them fully up to a level with the white population of the United States, but we should not forget that they are the aborigines of the country. and called the soil their own on which our people have grown rich, powerful and happy.

We owe it to them as a moral duty to help them in attaining at least that degree of civilization which they may be able to reach. It is not only cunr duty, but it is also to our interest to do so. Indians who have become agriculturists or herdamen and feel an interest in property, will henceforth cease to be a warlike and disturbing element. It is also a well authenticated fact that Indians are apt to be quiet and peaceable when their children are at school. and I am gratified to know, from expressions of the Indians themselves and from many concurring reports, that there is a steadily increasing desire, even among Indians belonging to comparatively wild tribes, to have their children educated.

1 invite 1 attention to the reports of the Secretary of Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs touching an experiment recently inaugurated in taking fifty Indian children, boys and girls, from different tribes, to the Hlampton Normal Agricultural Institute of Virginia, where they are to receive an elementary English education and training in agricultural and other useful work, to be returned to their tribes after tie completed course, as interpreters, instructors and exemplars. It is reported that the officer charged with the selection of those childrea might have had thousands of young Indians sent with him had it been possible to make provision for them. I agree with the Secretary of Interior in saying that the result of this interesting experiment, if favorable, may be destined to become an important factor in the advancement of civilization among the Indians. INDIAN TRANSIesR. The question whether a change in the control of the Indian service should be made, was at the last session of Congress referred to a committee for inquiry and report.

Without desiring to anticipate the report, I venture to express the hope that in the decision of so important a question, the views expressed above may not be lost sight of, and that the decision, whatever it may be, will arrest furtheregitation of this subject, such agitation being apt to produce a disturbing effect upon the service as well as on-the Indians themselves. I invite the attention of Congress to the recommendation made by the Secretary of Interior with regard to the preservation of timber on the public lands of the United States. The protection of public property is one of the first duties of the goverumeht. The Department of the Interior should therefore be enabled by sufficient appropriations to enforce the laws in that respect. But this matter appears still more hnimportant as a question of public economy.

The rapid destruction of our forests is an evil fraught with the gravest ceslequences, especially in the monnulinous districts where the rocky slopes, once I denuded of their trees, will remain so forever; the injuryonce done cannot be repaired. 1 fully concur withthhe Secretary of the Interior in the opinion that for this reason legi.lation touchng pblic timber in the motthaisoas tates and Teritnies of the West should be especiallywell considered, and that the exaait Dec. bespeedi'y ShermandiA. eneallawup to give silver mlmporlan th to me to be a Imatftvoeo t. 'm-iner trkPdeleisr a a than dasserd Ia sor2 dia -lip TELEG.MS IN BUIEF.

Dec. 4. Supervising Architect Hill was, this 1 ed by peremptory order of the President, I trial on found in Chi- 1 Secretary Sheil A was averse to this action, but the Piesldcnt nas firm. Private advices state Wade IHampton is i now out of danger and will rapidly recover. WASHINGTON, Dec.

Senate confirmed R. B. Harrison, of Indiana, assayer at Helena, Montana. WASHINGTON, Dec. Alexander H.

Stephens to-day, while ascending the stone steps leading to the crutches, slipped and fell, causing a painful wrench of the knee, which will probable confine him to his room several days. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Auder, recently clerk in the agency of the Nevada Bank, Virginia City, was arrested here charged with embezzlement of funds estimated from $50.000 to $100,030. WASHINGTON, LDec. Evening Star announces that ex-Senator Wm.

M. Owin has entered the list of candidates for the secretaryship of the Senate to succeed Secretary The Star does not state its authority. LONDON, Dee. Times, in a leading editorial severely censured Gladstone's speech for the tendency of its influence of the fortunes of the country no less than on those of the Liberal party. HALIFAX, Dec.

M. S. Orontes, on her passage hence for Bermuda, lost a man overboard. A boat's crew of 13 men, who went to the all drowned by the capsizing of the boat. NEw F.

D. Eagan, late of St. James' Church, San Francisco, lectured last evening at Steinway Hall before a considerable audience on The Spirit of the Age," which he characterized as Godless and hostile to the Catholic church. NEW YORK, Dec. from China Btate that during the recent famine 000 people died, 5,000,000 in a single province of Shansi.

The amount of the contributions from the Eastern States up to Novt ember last was $22,670, which the report says, was distributed judiciously. TONAWANDA, Dec. Vanderpool, a half-breed Indian, who lives in this county, claims to have Charles Ross in his possession. Christian K. Ross arrived from Philadelphia last night and left this morning in company with Vanderpool for his place, niuo milks distant, to investin gate.

LONDON, Dec. 10. -In the House of Commons this afternoon the Under Secretary for India said that the Council of India intended to increase the native army 15,000 men. They were not sending out any fresh soldiers from England. The Chinese Will St a WASHINGTON, Dec.

Horace Davis and Page called at the State I Department to-day, to make joint inquiry a concerning the progress of the diplomatic I negotiations for the modification of the Burlingame treaty. They had a long and very cordial conversation with Secretary Evarts, but although they found him earncstly, even warmly in favor of the adoption by our government of a restrictive policy in regard to Mongohlian immigration, I they nevertheless came away convinced that what they previously apprehended is still to be expected, namely, that the (Chinese will be able by the use of ordinary diplomatic delays and artifices, to postpone I most indefinitely any concerted action by the two governments in the nature of a treaty revision, and that the purpose of the Chinese embassy in Washington is merely to pursue the Fabian policy of wearing out I their opponents by inaction. Press Comments on the Message. NEW YORK, Dec. Sun says In I this message Hayes fails utteriy to recognize the great and pressing questions of the times and fails to make any new sagges- 1 tions worthy of a man of affairs, and again shows himself to be an incompetent as he is a fraudulent President.

The Times says: The message is ineffective as well as brief. It is silent where positive utterances are required evasive where plainness is essential to truth noncommittal on points in reference to which the head of the Administration should be emphatic, and in its treatment of controverted topics is pervaded by a mild optimism which in some quarters may pass for amiability, but will be more generally regarded as evidences of weakness. The Tribuni says: The message is a plain document-a mere synopsis, and congratulates the country on the firm stand the President has taken in the matter of Southern outrages. The Republican party will sustain him with all its strength. The Herald says The message is moderate even to tameness, and more remarkaable for omissions which imply reconcilation with his political party than for accommendations looking to legislative action.

The World does not criticize the message as a whole, but discusses it in detail. It says We quite agree with Garfield in thinking some attention ought to be paid to what he yesterday called the modest references made by the President to the disturbances in the Federal election. There never was a Federal election more effectually disturbed than the Presidential election of 1876. Proposed Militia Law. NEW YORK, Dec.

general convention of leading military officers of different States will be held here in January to take whatever action is necessary to make the militia force of each State an efficient military organization, and present to Congress plans proposed in support of a bill appropriating. one million dollars annually for arms ammunition and other stores, to be apportioned among the different States. The movement has been taken up in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Illinois, Iowa, Vermont, Alabama and other States. The Governor of Idaho, in approving the plan, says The recent Nez Perces wars found me powerless for want of militia, the legislature having refused to enact militia laws." Other western governors are much interested in the plan of a national militia organization. The entucky War.

NEW Times' Cincinnati special says the war in Breathill county, Kentucky, continues. There are no railroads or t4lograph within 60 miles of a the distusbanee; hence the news is meaI gr.P It La understood Jadge Burnett's a friends 'will Rake it their busiuces to a inW-isense bsfiL hs thv tkeql stsoe the madesae and aws. will be brought aaDo Ms tem I murder In a a tSekY 1haheW5u4 rntish Victory. LAHO.E, Dec. Roborts has gained a complete victory over the Ameer's forces, capturing Poiwar and Kotal and all I the Afghan cannon.

ThA enemy's loss is heavy. The British loss is 80 killed and a wounded. Capt. Kelso of the Capt. Anderson of the Pioneers, are among I the killed.

Gen. Roberts telegraphed from Peiwar Khelal, under date of the 3d, as follows During the night of thelst, the Afghan position was turned by a flank march over Spengwai Pass. We surprised the enemy at'daybreak of the 2d, when the 72d Highlanders and the 5th gallantly drove the Afghans from several positions. They afterwards endeavored to reach Peiwar Khelal, but the assault could not be delivered on that side. We then threatened the enemy in the rear, and attacked and carried Peiwar Khelal about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

The enemy had, on the previous evening, received reinlforcements of four regiments and they fought desperately, and their artillery was wdl served. The defeat, however, was complete. We captured 18 guns and a large quantity of ammunition. Our loss was moderate con sidering the number of our opponents and the difficult nature of the country. Major Anderson of the U.

S. Pioneers was killed; Gen. Cobb and Lieut. Munro of the 72d Highlanders were wounded. Our men behaved admirably.

We shall move towards Shuter Garden Pass on Thursday. We are situated southeast from Cabul, and are all on the line of one of the routes leading from the Ameer's capital into British India. This Guardan Diwar is a village of the source of the river Helmund. It has an elevation of 1076 feet. The battle fought by Gen.

Roberts was evidently conducted on scientific principles considering his own small loss of less than 100 men, and comparing it with that of his opponents, from whom he also captured 18 cannon. Gen. Browne is doubtless waiting for the support of Gen. Roberts' force before making a push direct for the capital by the better known route of Khyber pass. Nominations.

WAsmNGaToN, Dec. President sent the following nominations to to-day: New York-A. Merritt, collector of customs Charles R. Graham, surveyor of customs Silas W. Burr, naval officer Thomas Hillhouse, U.

S. assistant treasurer. United States consuls-Andrew Cohen, of Pennsylvania, at Pernambuco; Henry Ditmar, of New York, at Breslan; 1 G. H. Fish, of Michigan, at Tunis; John L.

Frisbee, of Michigan, at Rio Grands; Asa. C. Prindle, of New York, at Para; Henry Ruggles, of Connecticut, at Malta; Eugene Schuyler, of New York, at Birmingham Wmin. Thompson, of the District of Columbia, at Southampton; John C. White, of Illinois, Secretary of Legation at Brazil S.

Newton Pettis, of Pennsylvania, minister resident and consul general at Bolivia; G. Harris Heap, of Pennsylvania, consul general at Constantinopla 3 Russell B. Harrison, of Pennsylvania, to be assayer in charge of the assay office at Helena. The Record of Crime. CHICAGO, Dec.

Tribune's Omaha special says Jas. McCrary, while en route on the U. P. emigrant train from California to visit his brother here, committed suicide last night between Evanston I and Green river. The jury at Nebraska city found Henry Jackson, Henry Martin and Wm.

S. Givens guilty of murder in the 2d degree for killing Chas. Slocum and outraging his wife. The evidence seemed to warrant a verdict of murder in the 1st degree, and Judge Gastrin so stated in his sentence of 1 penitentiary for life, which he passed upon the murderers yesterday. About 2 o'clock this morning a crowd assembled at the jail, broke in the door, overpowered the I jailor, seized Martin and Jackson, and ta- I king them a half mile south of the court house hung them to a tree, where the bodies were found this morning.

Givens was taken to the penitentiary this morning by a strong guard. WACO, Texas, Dec. Sunday morning near Summerville masked men surrounded the house of John Stall and threw a torpedo in the house. On the inmates rushing out they were shot. Rufus Smith and John Stull were killed.

Smith's wife and baby were wounded. The assassins are unknown. The Afghan War. PARIS, Dec. London correspondent denies that'ussia has announced her intention to occupy Merv.

LONDON, Dec. special from Hull says that the British killed at Peiwar are now estimated at 20. The vast supplies which the Afghans had accumulated for winter in the villages around Peiwar greatly relieve the commissariat. A correspondent at Lahore states that high officials say that the last letter from the Ameer of Afghanistan is as unfriendly as his former one, The friendly expressions are merely conventional. The real tone is indicated by the remonstrances regard to the British tampering with the Afreedis.

The messenger who brought the letter explained that it was delayed because he reacbed All Musjid November-21st, during the fighting, and returned to Cabul. He says the Ameer was incensed at his return and ordered him to proceed. It is said that the Ameer has fled because of a revolution. LAHORE, Dec. Biddlulphus telegraphs to-day that he found an open road to Candahar.

LoNDON, Dec. Times in a leading article says The Ameer's answer is I equivalent to a point blank refusal. Shooting Affray. SILVER REEF, Utah, Dec. serious shooting affray occured this morning, about 5:30., in Cassidy's saloon, between two 1 gamblers named Henry Clark and Charles Griffin, alias Saxey.

Clarkwas instantly killed, and Griffin will probably die, having received three wounds, one in the head, one in the hip, which lodged in the abdos men, and one in the ankle. Clark 'was shot twice in the stomach. Griffin is supt posed to have been shot by James Clark, a brother to the deceased. The trouble originated overan old grudge. The inquest will be held to-morrow.

LATER. SILVER REEF, Dec. Griffin died last night, at 9 o'clock. An inquest was held to-night over the body of Henry Clark, and the jury returned a verdict that he came tobis death by a pistol shot wound from the hands of Griffin. b- The inqnuet over the body of GrifBn will be a held to-morrow at 10 a.

m. Wood's Speech. it CHO eoO, Dee. sneeials Sagse athat rprdsentative Wood indulged L-la in a uid tattsek upon the President ismedtsmi aftei- the readiung of the PreauiWste TERRITORIAL. Dr.

Skinner was shot in the head by an. Indian at Poplar creek agency recently. On Thursday evening, November 28th, at St. Joseph, Mr. Alex.

Kemp, a former resident of St. Joseph, but late of Helena, Montana, was united in marriage to Mrs. Mollie Gore by J. H. Duncan, of the Christian church.

U. S. District Attorney Anderson left Cn this morning's coach for the East, to ba absent some llth. The Spirit of the Times sustains the Helena Fair Association in its derision concorning the last day's races, which occasioned so much feeling last fall. We are advised from goad authority that, the evidence brought before Acting Coroner Hopkins at the inquest upon the body of Wim.

Jones, found dead at the Hiolahan ranch, showed that his true name was Charles Dean, and that he formerly resided at or near Tarrytown, New York. Cause of suicide, probably home troubles. At the contest for Sheriffalty of BIeaverhead between Bray and Metlin, this lame Jones was under confinement and iudictment for illegal voting, but was aequitrt The school census of lleltra shows an enrollment of 1056. Joe Lindley, just in from he YelIow-stone, informs us that the cattl diseaseblackleg-prevailing in other pirtions of the Territory, has made its appeiaruce among some of the herds of the Yelloestone valley, but that, so far, its ravages have been confined to Massachusetts Elections. iBosTON, Dec.

is the vote of the city to-d for Mayor. Price, Cadm Workingman, 431. The election for the Mayor of Lynn resulted in the choice of Geo. P. Sanderson, Workingman's candidate by 2,000 plurality.

The whole ticket was elected. INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN. STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH FORCES-TIIHE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. Three armies have been organized in order to invade Afghanistan at as many different points. The Pewasbur valley army consists of 10,000 men with 66 guns the Koorum Valley column of 6,000 men with 24 guns, and the Quetta column of 12,000 men with 60 guns.

This makes a total of 34,000 men, with 120 guns. The importance of the task assigned to each column is apparent from its relative strength. The Pewashur column, having the town of that name for its immediate base, will evidently have the most arduous and important work to perform. It is therefore the strongest of all the three although immediately commanded by Sir S. Browne, it will probably be accompanied by Sir F.

Haines in person. This army is intended to advance on Cabul, the Ameer's capital. In performing this march it will have to force the strongly fortified Khyber Pass, and other difficult defiles intervening between the Indian frontier and the Afghan capital, a distance of about 150 miles. General Pollock having accomplished this feat with 8,000 men in 1842, it is considered that double that number will now be more than adequate for the enterprise. The Terrible Screw Worm, Dal'as (Texas) Intelligencer.

Mr. Samuel Myers is now lying bed-fast at his home in this place, afflicted with that terrible malady, the screw-worm. Mr Myers has been sick of late with fever, and on Monday last while resting in bed one of these flies alighted near his nostrils. It requires but a few moments for one of these flies to deposit hundreds of eggs, which are hatched and grown inside of an hour, many of them as much as one-half inch in length. Mr.

Myers, upon awakening, felt a slight tickling in the nose, and it was not until his eyes and face had become fearfully swollen that the physician discovered the presence of the worms. The only known remedy was applied-calomel and carbolic acid-by injection into the nostrils. At first a few would drop and force themselves out. A pplication after application was made wvitl, like results up. to last night, at which time 152 was the.

number passed. The path nt is In a critical condition, with bu; slight hopes of his recovery. The fly is much dreaded by our stockmn and is represented as a dark-colored and fuzzy insect which generally attacks cattle or any other animal that is un- fortunate enough to have blood upon which they can alight. T. KBEAON.

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