Show EDITO SUMMARY i THE tre english correspondence corr esponde nce nee of the eastern papers is rulf full of disgusting details odthe of the Aford mordaunt aunt divorce case bome isome particulars of which have reached our readers through the telegraphic des patches the full particulars of this case aire alre are sire shockingly indecent and a number of prominent members of the aristocracy acy aey as well as the prince of wales are involved in the disclosures lord biord cole sir frederick johnstone captain farquhar and other fashionable aristocrats being named lord cole is the eldest son of the earl of lent lev and is said to be twenty one owe years of age but is one of the wildest young men in london sia sir frederick johnstone is twenty four years old and notorious as one of the greatest rouea ever known a perfectly worn out man even at that early age farquahar is one of the same class lady mordaunt is the daughter of a scotch baronet of an old family and is said to be an exceed exceedingly y beautiful woman but very fast one of her hen bisters sisters is the duchess of ofA Athol thoI thol another the countess of dudley the plea that is set up by her father is insanity of course the family is terribly disgraced and ani feels overwhelmed by the disclosures which have been made but not so the accused and probably guilty partners of lady Mor Alor daunts amours at the theatre and also in private flo fio houses uses sir frederick john ston eLord cole and captain farquhar are received even by ladies as if noth ing had happened and the prince of wales who if not proved guilty of breaking the seventh commandment has certainly got the imputation hanging over his head has hag entertained some of the first men in england peers and commoners their respective wives being with them at his table at the latest accounts he was attending grand dinner parties as though he were wera perfectly perfect I 1 y immaculate imma c ula uia t e this conduct of the prince of wales is contrasted with the examples of his father and mother and is quoted as an evidence of the great change which has taken place in the tone of english society since the days of the prince consort there seems to ha ba trouble looming up for england should albert edward ever ascend the throne he is said to have all the vices bf f george the fourth without the gentlemanly demeanor demean br for which that no notorious personage was remarkable OUR readers have occasionally seen of late in the telegraphic dispatches des patches allusions to the destruction of theia the U 8 steam frigate oneida but the allusion allusions have been so indefinite that little concern ing thereal the real nature of the catastrophe could be gleaned the following facts may mak therefore be interesting the oneida was a war steamer carrying ten or eleven guns ranked third class in the navy and was comparatively a new steamer she was waa built after the rebellion commenced and took part in some of the naval engagements with the rebels at the time she was destroyed on the tho night of the of january she had left yokohama homeward bound having just finished a three years term of service in eastern waters her full fall complement of hands bands officers and men numbered about only fifty nifty four of whom were saved the cause of her destruction was a collision with the british mail mall steamer bombay beko beho belonging nging to the peninsular and oriental company and so serious were the dama damages es inflicted that in ten or twelve minutes after she was run into by the bombay the oneida with about of her hands had sunk the conduct of the commander of the bombay captain A N eyre is severely censured after the occurrence although several of the guns of tile the oneida were fired as signals of distress he continued on his course without stopping to render any assistance and it is said that after his arrival at yokohama when in conversation with an english lieutenant who had gone on board his ship for mall mali she boasted that he had run into a d d yankee frigate coming up and had cut the whole side of lher and lor jor on star staf starboard boar d tack instead of port it is hardly possible to believe that any man would be guilty of such atrocity and if it can be proved that captain eyre was he ought to be dealt with severely and his name handed down to everlasting infamy the conduct of a man who under any circumstances would leave a number of his hia fellow creatures exposed to deadly peril perli without trying even at the risk of personal damage to rescue them is enough to brand him with infamy and cowardice but no punishment would be sufficient lelent to expiate such a horrible outrage as the one indicated by the above boast and it is to be hoped that a full investigation will exonerate captain eyre from such a charge viewed in an any auy y imaginable light this event must be regarded as one of the most distressing occurrences in the whole annals of shipwrecks and disasters at sea the loss of above a hundred brave men after so long an absence from home and friends thus cutoff when full fall of life hope and joy affords a fearful illustration of the dangers and perils to which the gallant sons of neptune are ever exposed the captain odthe of the bombay it is said demanded an investigation by tc a naval court after the circumstances of the case became known at yokohama but public feeling ran high against him among all classes for his inhumanity and cowardice THE T best policy to be used towards the indians seems to 0 be one of the most difficult points under the consideration of the present as of all preceding administrations the inauguration of the peace policy by president grant and the appointment of quaker er commissioners it was hoped would bring about results of a more satisfactory character than over before known kifowi but these hopes seem to bo be meeting with disappointment for an db abstract of a recent communication of the secretary of the Inter interior loir published in the telegrams a few davs days ago seems to regard a general indian war as a thing by no means improbable the incorporation of or the indian with the war department has been strongly advocated and until recently there appeared to be ovo ove every ry probability of a law to this effect being ing pass passed ed but the recent piegan massacre 0 in in montana by colonel baker has induced a change in policy and that idea abandoned at least for the present this pie plean piegan an massacre is eliciting much comment from the press which on this as on all other matters is divided I 1 in 11 0 opinion pin on some sustain baker and sheridan by whose orders it is said that he actea acted while others denounce him as the greatest murderer in american amerlean history and the piegan massacre as the most horrible on record worse even than that perpetrated some wo or three years ago by the rev chivington the facts in regard to the piegan rigan affair do not show very favorably on the score of humanity whether the affair was or was not ordered or coulten alced by col bakers superiors it appears that complaints were made by the people of montana of indian outrage sand that sheridan submitted a plan through adjutant general townsend jo to general sherman by which be he thought a blow might be struck at the indians in the most inclement portion of the winter the plan it is said was approved and in pursuance thereof col baker with a party of men surprised bea bed horns band numbering two hundred and fifteen men women and child renand slaughtered one hundred and seventy three of them this was waa trumpeted forth as a great victory and col baker seemed to be in a fairway fair way of achieving great renown as an indian fighter but subsequent developments go to show that of those killed all but thirty tit three throe were women and children and of the e men only fifteen were what the indians consider warriors the remainder being beyond the fighting age eight of them being between sixty and seventy it also appears that the whole ca camp mp was suffering severely from small pox and those best beit informed have doubts about this band having been concerned in the outrages complained of whether or not this raid on red ked horn horns 8 bandie band bana be as outrageous as represented it seems tolerably certain that the management and control of indian affairs will not be confided to the war department and aad we are of the opinion that this is a wise policy and exceedingly fortunate for the indians indians there is beyond doubt some of the most honorable men li the army both officers and privates but it would be a great stretch of the imagination to suppose that all are so the profession of arms especially in a frontier or indian country on try is not at all calculated to foster the finer or more humane feelings of human nature and when men are entrusted with almost irresponsible power as commanding officers of regiments in an indian country far away from 1 rom the government and authority necessarily oftentimes are it would be almost surprising if that power were not used in many instances for self selo interest which would often lead to a great outcry abou lindlan outrages out ont and to indian warfare in order to make it appear that the necessity for the services of the military were far greater than they actually were there seems to have been something of this kind even in montana for while the stealing of stock in a great many instances is admitted it is shown that in a certain period extending over several months of the latter half of last year while six whites were killed by indians eight of the latter were killed by whites the fact is the indian question will ever bo be difficult to handle and whatever line of policy maybe may be ac adopted lopped there will always be plen pien plenty vy to decry it iland and advocate some other the indians indiana are and while one remains they most likely will be an eyesore to the whites the latter are unable to judge them the habits instincts and sympathies of the two races are so entirely dissimilar it is to bo be feared however that in their dealings with the indians the whites too often set an example unworthy orthy of imitation and instead of being guided by that greater light which belongs to civilization liza tion th they ey descend to the plane odthe of the savage ravage T the he slaughter by the command ot of col baker is a gase ease case in point in x the communication of the secretary of the interior referred to above he throws out a suggestion which the experience of f the people of ox utah has long since confirmed thatis that it would be cheaper ch capor caper to feed feea the indians than to fight them since the settlement of utah territory the people here have pursued this thi s policy it ift is the tho policy they now pursue and ana thong though gh a very heavy tax its results are the most satisfactory for unless thwarted by the inefficient administration of the indian in an officers of the territory or by the depredations of the lawless passing through aie oie territory peace has always been preserved under it if this hint of the secretary of the inte bior were acted upon and the whole of the wandering tribes were kept on reservations and fed and their wants supplied and trust trustworthy worth T men appointed as agents to faithfully keep 7 beep all treaties owe wo think no more would be heard in other territories of indian troubles than is heard in utah territory aitor y many no doubt would object to such a scheme on account of the expense but it is 13 very doubtful if the aggregate of expense in carrying it out would be as s great as now national troops are employed to sup sap suppress press indian outrages and tiie the yearly expense for such business is large yet few think of or grumble at the levying of taxes by the National Government to defray those expenses why may not the tile feeding policy be adopted and taxes be levied by the general govern government ment to pay the expense thus incurred instead of for the maintenance of troops it would be far easier than for the territories to be burdened with the whole expense the aggregate national taxation would be no greater while such a project rendering life and property safer throughout the whole of the territories would do much to develop the resources of the west and to increase general prosperity MACK mace the washington correspondent of ehe the the cincinnati daily enquirer exposes the style in which things are done in washington in a manner that we were scarcely prepared to hear one evenin evening 9 at a fashionable reception he wa waa 5 I 1 a admiring dairing what he considered a very beautiful and very expensive dress which adorned the person ora ota of a very pretty young youn glady lady on expressing his hia admiration to a married lady friend who was thoroughly acquainted with fashionable life she assured him that she had seen that identical dress and those very ornaments odna oina ments on another lady at a ball in new york recently this led to a brief discussion and explanation in the course of which his hia informant expressed her doubt whether more than half the ladies present owned their own dresses she said its getting to bo be cite nite quite a trade in new york to rent out ball bali all ali dresses and has been introduced here this wll wil winter uter it is done very quietly of course but very largely we knew that this was a world of sham but were hardly prepared to hear of fashionable ladies renting dresses and ornaments in which to appear in public ALL the telegraph business of great britain is now in the hands of the british government 7 the uniform tariff of one shilling for twenty words exclusive of the address Is the charge and it is said that a large increase of boxes and offices secures greater promptness than heretofore in the tile transmission of telegraphic messages the object of or the post authorities has been to bring the telegraph into every locality aad as near as possible to every persons door cheapness Cheap nest dispatch and convenience are said to attend tho the change the payment of messages Is made by stamps as in the case of letters sent by mail and a man sending a message affixes the proper stamps and sends it off to the telegraph office without further trouble the immediate effect of the adoption of the government system in london has been an increase of thirty or forty percent per cent in the business and profit of the telegraph service it is confidently predicted that the business will be more than doubled in half a year there is some talk af adopting the rate of sixpence six pence per message of twenty words in london and extending the same to all ali large cities 61 ties friends of the movement anticipate that the lowest possible will prove as successful as the penny postage information WANTED by ann reed who resides in the tenth ward in this city respecting her daughter jane rollins whose maiden name was reed and who when last heard of was residing at park liverpool MM star please copy |