Osceola Herald
Osceola, MO
11 August 1870

A Great Trunk Road.
The recent decision of Secretary Cox on the points at issue between Joy of the Missouri River & Fort Scott Railroad, and Parsons of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad (the Tebo & Neosho) was favorable to the Parsons Company and they are consequently masters of the situation in the Indian country. But one road can be built through the Indian country under the treaty, and the road running from Sedalia through Clinton is that road.
That it will be one of the Great Trunk Lines of the country is now certain, as it will be pushed through to a Galveston connection as speedily as possible.

Prussian Victory.
Dispatches from the seat of war in Europe inform us that on the 5th inst., the Prussian army advanced over the French frontier, met the French at Weissenburg, achieving a decisive victory, driving in the advanced posts of the French army, and tearing up the track of the Strasbourg railroad for miles.
The dispatches tell us that the Prussians are “On to Paris”, and all Germany is jubilant. The French are deeply chagrined at their defeat. News of a heavy battle is looked for daily.

Tammany Necessity. – We find the following in the St. Louis Times: Real, who was hung in New York yesterday, wrote an appeal to the public charging that he goes to the gallows for political reasons. He says: “Before the trial one of my friends met Peter B. Sweeny in the park. Sweeney said, ‘Real must be hanged – he has got to be hanged; the interests of Tammany Hall demand it.’” The document produces a sensation.
Tammany must be pushed close when it becomes necessary for them to advocate the punishment of crime in New York City.

Rear Admiral Henry Walker, who was appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Admiral Dahlgren, it is stated, obtained promotion for his gallant and important services at the battles of Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Island No. 10, and the passage of the batteries at Vicksburg. He was born in Virginia, on December 24th, 1809, and was appointed midshipman from Ohio, on February 1, 1827.

The New Tax Law. – The new tax law is expected to furnish the following results: Income, $14,000,000; Spirits, $52,000,000; Tobacco, $30,000,000; Beer, $6,000,000; Stamps, $15,000,000; Gas, $2,000,000. The new law in respect to the duties on imports is to take effect January 1st, 1871; taxes on income and dividends are retained through 1870 and 1871.

County S.S. Convention.
A meeting of the St. Clair County Sunday School Convention will be held in Osceola, commencing on Wednesday, August 31st, 1870, at 11 o’clock A.M., and continuing two days. All the Sunday School officers and teachers in the county are earnestly requested to be present, and all friends of the cause are cordially invited to attend. Emerson Barber, Pres., J.P. Lawton, Cor. Sec’y.

Osage Christian Conference.
The Osage Christian Conference will meet in annual session at the Lowellen School House four mile west of Chalk Level, St. Clair County, Mo., on Wednesday, Aug. 21st, 1870, at 2 P.M. E. Barber, Soc.

Hon. S.S. Burdeett.
Yesterday this faithful public servant reached his District after several months of absence, during which time he retained the confidence that he already possessed from his constituents, and gained honor to his District and his State by securing the esteem of all those with whom he has been serving his country.
As an advocate of protection against the pauper wages and pauper living of the oppressed of European monarchies he was Missouri’s champion, and stood high among the veteran heroes of Protection. We are glad to find him in such good health and vigorous spirits, and join others in hailing him, “well done thou good and faithful servant”. – State Times, Aug. 5th.

Jefferson City & Lebanon Railroad.
The St. Louis Journal of Commerce in mentioning the vote to be taken in Laclede county on this project, says:
We trust that they will decline subscribing towards it, at present. Let them get their line to Fort Smith completed first, beyond all contingency, then talk of other roads. The extension eastward to the Iron Mountain, is of far greater importance than that northward.
We are not surprised at this exhibition of selfishness in our St. Louis neighbor, and expect to hear it discourage “the extension eastward to the Iron Mountain”, when the time comes for offering assistance to that enterprise. – State Times.

The bones of about 1,200 Chinese lately reached San Francisco on their return to the Celestial Empire. They had been gathered up along the line of the Central Pacific Railroad, and were all there was left of a regiment of laborers on that great work. They were taken home in pursuance of the contract by which they were originally brought into the country.

Elections will be held this fall in all the States except Oregon, California, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Twenty-one States are to choose United States Senators, including five which have already acted.

The revenue collected in Virginia from tobacco alone, since Grant’s administration, amounts to $5,114,521 or $3,674,401 in excess of the amount collected in that State during Johnson’s entire administration.