Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 June 1890 — Page 6

DOOM OF THE SWORD.

ft Had its Mission, Has Flayed its Fart, and Now Most Ota.

Chaplain De Witt Talmage Preaches the Annual Sermon Before the Thirteenth Hew Tork Militia—The Great Lossona of

War—Peace TJnivarsel Dawns.

in the Brooklyn Academy of Music last Sunday, Rev. T. De Witt Talmnge, chaplain of thj Thirteenth N. Y. State militia, preached the annual sermon to that regiment

Tho subject of the sermon was: "The Sword—Its Mission and its Doom." Tho text, Isaiah 84:5: "ly sword shall be bathed in heaven."

Three hundred and fifty-one times does tho bible spaak of that sharp, keen, curved, inexorable weapon, -which flashes upon us from the text—the sword. Sometimes tho mention is applaudator.v, and sometimes damnatory, sometimes as drawn, sometimes as sheathed. In the bible, and in much secular literature, tho sword ropregents all J.ive itn, all muskots, all carbines, all guns, all police c'.ui s, all battle axes, all weaponry for physical defonco or attack. It would bean interesting thing to give the history of the plow, and follow its furrow all down through iho ages, from the tirst crop in Chaldea to the last crop in Minnesota. 11 would bo interesting to follow the pen as it has trucked its way on down through the literature of nations, from its fir9t word in the first book to the last word some author wrote last night as heclosod hlsmanuscr.pt. It would bo an Interesting thing to count the echoes of the hammer from the first nail driven, down v.., through all tho mechanism of centuries to the last stroke in the carpenter's shop yesterday. But in this, my annual sermon as chaplain of the Thirteenth Regiment, I proposo taking a weapon that has done a work that neither plow nor pen nor hammer ever accomplished. My theme is the sword—its mission and its doom.

The eword of the text was bathed in heaven that is, it was a sword of righteousnosa, as another sword may be bathed in bell, and the sword of cruelty and wrong. There is a great difference between the ftword of Winklereid and the sword of Leonidas and the sword of Benedict Arnold. In our effort to hasten the eud of war, we have hung tho sword with abuses fand execrations, when it has had a divine mission, and when in many crises of the world's history it has swung for liberty and justice, civilization and righteousness and God. At the very oponing of tho

Bible and on the East side of the Garden of .Eden, God placed a flaming sword to $o___Jteid the tree of lire. Of tho officer of the j*', St. Paul declares: "Ho beareth not »tfe sword in vain." Through Moses God commanded: "Put every man his sword by his side." David in his prayer, says: "Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty." One of tho old battle shouts of •t the Old Testament was, "The sword of tho

Lord and of Gideon." Christ, in a great ^.exigency said, that such a weapon was Eg-more important than a coat, for He declared! "He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one." Again Ho declared: "I come not to send peace but a •word." Of Christ's second coming it is saids "Out of his mouth went a sharp, two-edged sword." Thus, sometimes figuratively, but oftener literally, the divine mission of the sword is announced. end to infamous Louis

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England would have been made to kneel on the steps ot tho Tuileries and the AngloSaxon race would have been halted and all Europe paralyzed? The sword of Marlborough, at Blenheim. Time came when the Roman war eagles, whose beaks had been punched into the heart of nations must be brought down from their eyries. All other attempts had disgracefully failed, but the Germans, the mightiest nation for brawn and brain, undertook the work, and, under God succeeded. What drove back the Roman cavalry till tho horses, wounied, flung their riders and the last rider pari shed, and the Hercynian forest became the scene of Rome's humiliation The sword, the brave sword, tho triumphant sword of Arminius. hilo passing through Prance last January my nerves tingled with excitement and I ro-o in the car, the belter to see the battlefield of Chalons, the mounds and breastwork^ still visible, tliough nearly live hundred j/ears ago they were shoveled up. Here, At^ila, the heathen monster, called J® "By himself tho "Scourge of Go

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•~r punishment of Christians," his life a massacre of nations, ca.ne to ignominious defeat, and ho put into one great pile the wooden saddles ot nis cavalry, and the spoils of the cities and kingdoms he had sacked, and placed on top of this holocaust the wom /"Who had nccompinied him in his devastatins: march, ordering that the torch be put totbbpilo. What power broke that 8 word, I stayed that red Bcourge of cruelty that IIpiWas rolling over Europe! Tho sword of 1

Theodorlo'and Actius. I To come down to iter ages, all Innlll1 gent Englismen unite with all Intelligent

Americans in saying that it was the best thing that the American colonies swung off from the government of Groat Britlan. It would have been the worst absurdity of four thousand years if this continent •hould have continued in loyalty to a throne on the other side of the sea. No one would propose a Governor-General for the United States as there is a GovernorGeneral for Can ida. Wo have had splendid queens in our American Capitol but we oould hardly be brought to support a queen on the other side of the Atlantic, lovely and good as Vkiorla is. The only use we havo for oarls and lords and dukes in this country is, to treat them well when they pass through to their hunting grounds in the Far west, or when their fortunes 'have failed, reinforce them by wealthy matrimonial alliance. Imagine this nation yot a part of English possessions 1

The trouble the mother-country has to-day with Ireland would bo paradisaic condition compared with the troub she would have with us. England and tho United States make excellent neighbors, buttno two families are too large to live in the same house. What 6 god-send tnat we should have parted, and parted long ago! But I can think of no other way In which we could have possibly achieved Ameriom independence. George the Third, the halfcrazy king, would no', have let us go. Lord North, his prime minister, would not have let us go. General Lord Cornwallls would not have let ua (to, althougn after York^,tcwn he was glad enough to have us lot bim so. Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and

Monmouth, and Trenton, and Valley Forge, were proofs positive tnat they were not willing to let us go. Any committee of

Americans going across the ocean to see what could have been done would have 'found no baiter fccommod&tions than Xondon Tower. The only way it could have boon done was by tho sword, your t-grand father's sword. Jefferson's could write the Declaration of Indonco, but only Washington's sword coiiltT have achiovfl it, and the other iwbijds battled in he-., /en.

Soraow the sword has its uses, although 'It ia' a sheathed awor|. There is not an armory in Brooklyn, or New York, or

Philadelphia, or Chicago, or Charleston, or

New Orleans, or anj American city, (hat ould be spared. We have In all our American cities a ruffian population who, though they are small in number, compared with tho good population, would again and again mako rough and stormy times if, back of our mayors nnd common councils and police, th_»re were not in the armories and arsonal? somo keen steel which, if brought into play, would mako quick work with mobocracy. There are in every great community unprincipled men who like a row on a large scale, and they heat themslves with sour mash and old rye, and other decoctions, enriched with blue vitriol, potash, turpentine, sugar oflead,sulphuric acid, logwood, strychnine, nisrht-shad und other precious ingredients, and take.down a whole glass with a resounding "Ah!" of satisfaction. When they get that stuff in them, and the blue vitriol collidc3 with tho potash, and tho turpentine with tho sulphuric acid, the victims are ready for anything but order and deconcy and good government Again and again, iu our American cities has tho necessity of homo guards been demonstrated.

You rimeftiber how, when tho soldiers were all away to tho war :n JS05-04, what conflagrations wora kindled in the strosts of New York, and what negroes were hung. Souio of you remomter the great riots in Philadelphia at fires, somtimes kindled just for the opportunity of uproar and despoliutioD. In h-W a hiss at a thoato would huve resulted in Now York City demolished had it not been for the citizen soldiery, because of an insult which tho I American actor, Ed.vin Forrest had I received in England from the friends of Mr. Macready, the English actor, when tho latter nppeared in New York, in Macbeth, the distinguished Englishman was hissed nnd mobbed, tho wails of tho city having been placarded with tho ami uncemont: "Shall Americans or English rule in this city?" Streets woro fil.ed with a crowd, I insane with passiou. The riot act was road, but it only evoked louder yells and heavier volleys or stones, and the wholo city was threatened with violence nd assassination. But the Soventh Regiment, under General Duryea, marched through Broadway, preceoded by mounted troops, and at tho command: "Fire, guards! Fire!" tho mob scattered, and New Yorlc was saved. What wou.d have become of Chicago two or three years ago, when the police ,lay dead iu the streets, had not the sharp command of military officers been given. Do not charge such scenes upon American institutions. They are as old as tho Ephesiau mob that howled for two hours In Paul's time about the tho theatre, amid the ruins of which I stood last January. They were witnessed in 1075 In London, when tho weavers paraded the streets and entered the buildings to destroy the machinery or those who, bocause of thejr now inventions, could undersell tho rest. They were witnessed in 1781 at the trial of Lord George Gordon, when thoro was a religious riot. Again, in 1719 when the rabble cried, "Down with the PrcLbyterians! Down with the meetinghouses!" There always have been, and always will be, in great communities, a class of people that cannot govorn themselves and which ordinary means cannot govern and there are exigencies which nothing but the sword can meet. Aye, the militia are the vor.v last regiments that it will be safe to disband.

Arbitrament will take the place of war between nation and nation, and national armies will disband as a consequence, and the time will come—God hasten It!—when there will be no need of an American army or navy, or a Russian army or navy. But some time after that, cities will have to keep their armories, and arsenals, and well-drilled militia, bccause until the millennial day there will bo populations with whom arbitrament will be as impossible as treaty with a cavern of hyenas or a jungle of snakes. These men who rob stores and give garroter's hug, and prowl about the wharves at midnight, and rattle the dice in gambllng-heils, and go armed with pistol or dirk, will refrain from disturbance of the public peace just in proportion as they realize that tho militia of a city, instead of being an awkward squad, and In danger of shooting each other by mistake, or losing their own llfo by looking down into tho gun-barrel to sea If It is loaded, or getting the ramrod fast in their bootleg, are prompt as tho sunrise, keen as the north wind, potent as a thunderbolt, and accurate, and regular, nnd diicipliuoJ, in their movements as the planetary system. Weil done, then, I say to legislatures, and governors, and mayors, and all officials who decide upon larger armories and hotter places for drill and more generous equipment for tho militia. The sooner the sword can safely go back to the scabbard to stay there, the better but until the hilt clangs against the case in that final lodgment, let the sword be kept free from rust Bharp all along the edge, and Its point like a needle, and the handle polished, not only by the chamois ot the regimental servant, but by the hand of brave and patriotic officers, always ready to do their full duty. Sucti swords are not bathed in impetuosity, or bathed in cruelty, or bathed in oppression, or bathed in outrage, but bathod in heavon.

Before I speak of the doom of the sword, let me also say that It has developed the grandest natures that tho world ever saw. It has developed courage—that sublime energy of tho soul which defies tho universe when it feels itself to be iu tho right It has developed a self-sacrifice which repudiates tho idea that our life Is worth more than anything else, when for a principle it throws that, life away, as much as to say, It Is not necessary that I live, but it is necessary that righteousness triumph. There aro tens of thousands among the Northern and Southern veterans of our civil war, who are nlnoty-five per cent larger and mightier in soul, than they would have been, had they not, during the four years ot national agony, turned their back on home, and fortune, and at tho front sacrificed all for a principle. It was tho sword which on the Northern tldo developed a Grant, a McClollan, a Hooker, a

Hancock, a Sherman, a Sheridan, and Admirals Farragut and Porter and on the Southern side a Lee, a Jackson, a Hill, a Gordon and the Johnstons, Albart Sydney and Joseph E., and Admiral Semmes, and many federals and Confederates whoso graves in national cemetaries are marked "Unknown," yet who were just as selfsacrificing and brave as any of their major-generals, :iud whose resting places all up and down the banks of the Androscoggin, the Hudson, the Potomac, the Mississippi and the Alabama, have recently been snowod under with white fiowors typical of resurrection, and strewn with red flowers commemorative ot the carnaga through whloh they passed, and the blue flowers illustrative of tho skies through which they ascended.

But the swo is doomed. There is one word that needs to be written in every throne-room, in every war-offlco, in every navy-yard, in every national council. That word is Disarmament But no government can afford to throw its sword away until ail tho great governments have agreed to do the same. Through tho influence of the rocent convention of Nortn and South American governments at Washington, and through the Peace Convention to be held next July in London, and other movements in which prime ministers, and and kings, and queens, and sultans, and czars shall take part all civilized nations will come to disarmament and if a taw

So we aro glad ot tho Isalnhic prophecy, that the time is coming when nations shall not lift up sword against nation. Indeed, both swords shall go back into the scabbard- tho sword bathed in tio.iven and tho sword bathed iu helL In a war in Spain a soldier went, on a skirmishing expedition and, sccluded in a bush, he had the opportun ty of shooting a soldier of the otiier army, w.o nad strolled away from his tent Ho took aim and dropped him. Running up to tin fallen-man he took his Knapsack for spoil, and a letter dr&ppod ou of it, and it turned out to be a lettor signed by his own father iu other words, ho had shot his brother. If tho brothAhood of man be a truo doctrine, then he who shoot* another man always shoots his own brother, v* hat a horror is war and its cruelties, were well illustrated when the Tartars after sweeping through Russia and Poland, displayed w.th pride no great sacks filloJ with tho right ears of the fallen, und when a correspondent of tho London Times, writing of tho wounded after tho battle of Sedan, said: "Every moan that the human voice can utter rose from that ho ip of agony, and the cries of 'water! For the love of God, water! A doctor! A doctor!' never ceased." After war has wrought such cruelties, how glad we will bo to hnve the Old Monster hitnsolf die. Lot bis dying coucn be sp ead In some mantled fort res-, through which stormy- winds howL Give him a pillow a battered shield and his bed be hard with the rusted bayonets of the slain. Cover him with tho coarsest blanket that picket ever wore, and let his only cup be the bleached bono of one of his war-chargers, and the last taper by his bedside explro as the midnight blast sighs ii:tohisear: "The candle of the wicked sli ill be put out" To-nigth against tho sky of the glorious future I see a great blaze. It is a foundry in full blast The workmen havo stirred tho fires until the furnaces aro seven times heated. The last wagon load of tne world's swords has been hauled into the foundry, and tbey are tumbled into the furnace, uni they begin to glow and reddon and melt, and in hissing and sparaling liquid they roll on down through the creviod of rock until tbey fall into a mold shaped like the Iron foot of a plow. Then tho liquid cools off into a hard metal, and, brought out on an anvil, it is beaten aud pounded and fashioned, stroke after stroke, until that which was a weapon to reap harvests of men, becomes an implement turning tho soil for harvests of corn, the Sword, having be. ome the Plowshare.

Officers aud comrades of the Thirteenth Regin^ntof state militia: After another year of pleasant acquaintance I hall you with a salutation all made up of good wishes and prayers. Honored with residence in the best city of the best land under the sun, let us dedicate ourselves anew to God and country and home! in the English conflict, called "the War ot the Roses," a white rose was tho badge of the House of York, and tho red rose the badge of the House of Lancaster, und with those two colors they opposed each other in battle. To enlist you in the Holy War foralltaatis good against all that is wrong, I pin over your heart two badges, the one suggestive of the blood shed for our redemption and tho other symbollo of a soul mide white and clean, the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Be these henceforth our regimental symbols—Rosa and Lily. Lily nud Rose!

German Cooking.

uerman cooking averages well, says Eugrene Field. It is essentially heroic. The German viands appear to be compounded not for the purpose of ravishing the eye nor for the purpose of enchanting the olfactories they are made Bimply for the stomach. Who but a German would have invented the savory thing known as the onion tart? Prithee, do not recoil—this is really a most delectable viand. You make it in this wise: The pastry must be exceedingly "short" And light spreading this crust over the baking tin or dish, you cover it with very thin slices of raw onions, plentifully sprinkling these latter with pepper and salt Then baking the whole in a hot oven you shall find that the onions are a^s soon done as the pastry, aud this fragrant delicacy should be eaten as it comes from the oven, further seasoned (as the taste shall require) with butter. Many do dislike the onion served in any other way are reconciled to that homely, modest and faithful fruit when it comes to them in tart.

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barbarian races decllaa to quit war, then all the decent nations will send out a force of Continental policer to wipe out from the face of the earth the miscreants. But until disarmament and consequent arbitration shall bo agreed to by all the groat governments, any single government that' dismantles its fortrosses, and spikes its guns, and breaks its sword, would simply invite its own destruction. Suppose, before such general agreement, England should throw away her sword think you Franco has forgotten Waterloo! Suppose before such general agreement Germany should throw away her sword how long would Alsace and Lorraine stay as they are I Suppose the czar of Russia before any such general agreement should throw away his sword all the eagles and vultures and lions of European power would g.ther for a piece of the Rusa an bear. Supposo the United Stales without any general agreement of disarmament should throw away her sword it would not, be long before tho Narrows of our harbor would be ablaze with tho bunting of foroign navies coming here to show the folly of the "Monroe Doctrine."

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A Deep Hlne.

The deepest coal mine is at St. Andre du Porler, France, and yearly produces 300.000 tons of coal. The mine is worked with two shafts, one 2,952 feet deep and the other 3,083. Th latter shaft is now being deepened and will soon touch the 4,0CK)-foot level. A remarkable feature in this deep mine is tho comparative low temperature experienced, which seldom rises above 75 degrees Fahrenheit The gold and silver mines of the Pacific coast of out own country, at a depth of less -than half that of the French coal mine, often have much difficulty in keeping the temperature low enough to ndmlb ot working. In some levels of the greal Comstock lode the temperature rises as high as 120 degrees.

A Freak Carnation on the Ocean! ••I can tell you how to cross the Atlantic with a fresh carnation in your buttonhole," said an experienced traveler the other day. His recipe was tc etart the voyage with two carnations and a raw potato. The carnations are to be worn on alternate days ani each when not ornamenting the buttonhole I is to bo firmly thrust into a hole in the I potato. At the end of a week at least one of them will still be fresh enough to excite the surprise of fellow passen-

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MONUMENT TP GENERAL LEE.

Car tiled •tltiohmomt, Virginia.

Fifty thousand people witnessed 'ie anTeiling of the monument to Genei .1 Lee at Richmond ou the 39th inst. The ci hnJ on hor gala day attire, the housos along tho principal thoroughfares being enveloped in flags and bunting, tho Union flag predominating in the decorations. It was a groat day for tho old confederate veterans and their enthusiasm was v:beunded. Chief Marshal Genoral Fit..: Lee, Generals Early, Johnson and Lon^rstreet were the chief figures, and they received ovations wherever they appeared. The procession was long, and was mude up of the members of ovor fifty military, veteran and civio organizations. Colonel Archer Anderson was the orator of tho occasion.

Tho scene at Richmond on the 29th in oonncction with the ceremonies incident to the unveiling of the Leo equestrian statue, says a dispatch, was unprecedented in the annals of this historic city. From darly morning till night the tap of tho drum and tramp of soldiers forcibly reminded the older citizens of the stirring days of 1SG1. Never wore there so many people gathered within tho gates of the city. Never were decorations so elaborate. Never were there so many old veterans and military organizations on the streets in time of peace, and never was there 3uch genuine and general enthusiasm over any event. It would be a severe task to describe in detail the many happy blendings of colors or describe the taste displayed by all in the harmonious grouping of flags, or repeat the fruitful and beautiful themes expressed in mottoes that greeted the eye In tho streets through which the magnificent pageant passed. While thousands of flags were wafted to the breeze, tho national flag was displayed in the proportion of fifty to on* of the stars and bars. It was truly a confederate day, however, as the presence of tha many confederate veteran camps and the airs played by the bands pertaining to the "lost cause" fully attested, and this was emphasized by the many manifestations of delight that they brought forth from the crowds all along the lines. Now and then a band of musio started the crowds to cheering by playing such airs as "Bonnie Blue Flag," "Dixie" and

South. The monument stands on one of tho highest elevations in the city. It ia equestrain and of singular force of work man ship, standing sixty-one feet and two inches above tho ground.

Of this height the base and pedestal will take thirty-nine feet and the equestrian statue of horse and rider in bronze will maKe the remaining twenty-two' feet and two inches. Tho pedestal is a classical composition. The horse and rider appear as if supported by four columns of polished granite. At the top of each colv.mii is s* lion's head, intended to portray tho undaunted courage of the man the oak ornamentation represents his great ondurancs and the laurel proclaims his right to bo crowned as one of the world's heroes. The base Is almost entirely plain. It lias only alight ornaments at the corners, and the rfze gradually decreases up to the point ou which the pedestal rests.

Tho stAtue of tho French artist surmounts this pedestal. The horse which Leo bestridos has all four foot to th3 ground, butlsln the act of walking slowly. A forefoot is planted in advance, and the hlndfoot on the same side is about to follow suit, but has not yet entirely quitted the ground. The head is bent a little to one side, and the tail just swings clear of tho flanks. Tho General's dress is simple to severity, a characteristic found among the commanders on both sides, who commonly avoided the trappings and pomp of war. He is girt with a sash, and wean the sword of a commander of cavalry. Na epaulets appear, but the coat sleeve beara on the forearm an ornament in broad braid. He holds his hat in tho right hand -tinging by his side, and the reina in th« iOft. The feet are tipped into the stirrupa and aro not perfectly on a line, the right foot being slightly in advance. Calmneaa and determination are shown in the bearded face. He sooms to be reviewing jroops, and we may suppose that the moment chosen is that in whioh he eximlned the army of Northern Virginia before pressing onward to his fate :i Gettysburg,

The total cost of 'ha monument Is *35.000,

ACTIVITY OP FARMERS.

Important Movement* Toward a Great Comblnatlnu.

A Shoals (Ind.) spociul to tho Indianap oils News, of the 4th, says: Hon. Thomas Forco, Presidont of tho Stato organization of tho Farmers' Alliance, is an enterprising farmer, residing in this countyrand ho is Trustee of Couter Township-, having hold that office for two years, and being re-elected without oppositiou for four years in April last. Ho Is an intelligent gentleman, highly respected, and is prominent as a Knight of Pythias. Heretofore ho has been a radical Republican, but under tho influence of tho Alliance ho is becoming somewhat conservative. His official relations with tho Alliance prompted a News representative to ques-t-ion him concerning the strength of the order, and other matters of which he might choose to speak in connection therewith. Mr. Forco was chosen at the State meeting, which was held at Indianapolis on the 120tli of April lust. Concerning its strength, he can not give tho exact figures of the Alliance, but he places it in round numbers at nine thousand, and ho says: "At the tlmo of our State organization there were i."i( sub-lodges, with a membership nearly 8,000.. Now wo have mon organizing the Alliance in a majority of thecountieB of the State. The first sub'lodgewas organized in this (Martin) county. At tho present time there aro about thirty subodges in this county alone, with a membership ofjl.DOO." "My idea is," he said, "that the money question affects the price of farm products more than tho tariff, and for this reason the Alliance advocates the free coinage of sih ver, and as this subject has come up, let mo also say that wo favor the sub-treasury plan. We think tho system*of using certain banks as United States depositories should be abolished, and iu place of such banks we favor the establishment of subtreasuries in ovory county in each of the Statos that offers for sale during tho year $500,000 worth Jof farm products, such as wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, rice, tobacco cotton, wool and sugar altogether forming a sub treasury office which shall have connection with it such warehouses or elevators as are necessory for care* fully storing such agricultural products as nro offered. It must be the

"Maryland, My Maryland." Tho whole Iduty of such sub-treasury department to line of march was densely crowded, aad -eive such agricultural deposits as are as the old chieftains of the confederacy ered for storage, and make such carofu1 were recognized, hats would come off and the "old yell," would come from a thousand throats. The House of tho Confederacy and n« Governor's mansion, though not in the line of march, were attraotively decorated, and general Lee's residence, on the most fashionable tborougfa're in the, city, was beautifully adorned and especially honored by the passing commands, tho colors of the various organization* being dipped, while in many instance* heads were uncoverod.

Generals Early, Longstreetand Fltzhugh Leo received a perfect ovation, while many other confederate leaders were greeted with enthusiasm. General Gordon,

examination and classification, and give a certificate of the same, showing tho amount nnd quality, and that the United States lercal tender paper money equal to SO per cent, of the local current value of the products deposited has been advanced .on the tame on interest at tho rate of 1 per cent, per annum, on the condition that the owner or agent redeem the agricultural products within twelvo months, otherwise the trustees shall sell the same at public auction fm- the purpose of satisfying the debt." Mr. Force went into details on this point, mowing that in his own mind he imagined feasible proposition.

Mr. Forco reports that the Alliance has

Wade Hampton and Governor Fowl were store in operation at Loogootee, known j. as the Farmers' Alliance Contract Storu, and that tho highest profit permitted was 10 per cent, on goods sold. It had been demonstrated that farmers could purchase

not recognized so readily as thoso named, but when they passed an old confederate organization, to whom their faces were familiar, they were lustily cheered. The Fifth Maryland Regiment and veterans agricultural implements cheaper by and the New York delegation of Southern veterans attracted more attention during the entire march than other organizations in the parado. If there was any differenee in their reception it was in favor of New York, for the remark was repeatedly heard on Franklin street, where the crowd

making contracts direct with manufacturing establishments. Mr. Force is hopeful that a combination can be effected which will include the Alliance, tho Knights of Labor, the Industrial Union and tho Fanners' Mutual benefit Association, and to that end he lias

was greatest: "There goes New York," called a meeting of representatives men

and tho welkin was made to ring with loud huzzas. The scene along tho whelo route, from beginning to the end, was a memorable one. Although the most extensive preparations had been made to receive a largo numb jr of visitors, no one exp:oted to see the host that visited the city, yet {they were all well cared for, and no I complaints were heard. It Is asserted on all sides that the parade, decorations and everything connected with the jubilee excelled anything ever witnessed in the

of each, to moot at Indianapolis the fall, looking to a strong organization throughout the United States. "This done," he adds, "We inteud to make provision for the apppointnient ot a legislative committee, whose duty-it shall be toremain at the Stato capital, wlien the Legislature is in session, and look after the interests of the farmers. Wo shall not make the organization politi. cal only in this way, but we will say to the old parties, Republican and Democrat alike, you must place-sober, honest, well, qualified men in the field, who endorse our views, if they expect our support. We think that King Caucus should be quashed on all mere economic questions, and that members of tho Legislature should havo the moral courage to vote in the Interests of the people, rather than for party purposes.

From other sources it Is learned that the Alliance is having its effect on business and there are complaints by merchants' A member of the Alliance has leased the Freeman flour mill of that city, and beginning with the 20th, will run it tyi an Alliance mill. The Alliance is well organized in this county, and it is being ireely discussed by outsiders some are predicting It an ending similar to the old Gri!ii,,omovement, while others boiieve in ii permanency. If it is successful in steering dear of politics, it will to somo citeut revolutionize ^legislation in -this State. ____

MAINE DEMOCRATS

Tho Maine Democrats nominated a State ticket on the 4tli. Among the resolutions adopted was the following: "We recognize tho evils of intemperance nnd sympathize with all honest and concerted efforts to eradicate thom, and in support of this we appeal to tho thoughtful men and women of Maine that all truo enforcement of tho prohibitory laws, has been, with few exceptions, at the hands of Democratic officials."

Pennoyer, Democrat, has been elected Governor of Oregon by about 2,000 majority. Herman, Republican, is elected to Congrsss by at least 7,000 majority. The State ticket is Republican. The Legislature will stand: Senate, twenty-two Res publicans,eight Democrats House, twenty eight Republicans, twenty-two Democrats-

If New York failes toralso the money for tho Grant monument by Sept. 1, a number of ex-confederates propose to raise the amount by subscriptions, exclusively

WASHINGTON.

Tho Republican Representatives again in caucus, Monday night, to consider matters of. legislation pending before the Houso. The first business in order rolatod to the subject of pensions, which came up on an application for instructions by Messrs. Morrill and Sawyer, the Republican members of the conference committeo on tho disability and servico pension bill, which has so far been unable to reach an agreement with the Senatorial conference committeo. The points at issue were stated, and, after a prolonged and animated discussion, the caucus instructed tho representatives of tho Houso to insist upon tho servico pension feature of tho bill, dud to endeavor to socuro tho inclusion of a provisiou that no pension shall be less than fO per month. Tho McComas anti-gerrymaudering bill was next taken up and discussed at length. Several of tho Ohio members noted their objections to tho bill. The subject of a national election law was next considered. Messrs. Lodge aud Rowoll, from the special caucus committee, presented their reports, Mr, Lodge favoring a national olcction law on the general plan of his bill, aud Mr. Rowoll recommending the presout supervisory system of safeguards. After au explanation of the provisions of tho two measures the caucus adjourned, leaving thom, as well as tho McComas bill, In order for consideration and action at another caucus.

Maj. Mclvinley said Monduy afternoon: "I believe a silver bill will become a law by act of this session, although it is not a sure thing by any means. There is a demand for it from evory direction, and 1 don't think we ought to adjourn before a silver bill is passed. The Houso will devoto itself to tho measure within a few days. Yes, this will be a long session. Wo will not adjourn, in my judgment, till late in August. The Senate will talk tariff for a whole month, I presume, and it may bo August before the tariff bill is finally passed. No I do not believe we will pass either a federal or an antigerrymandering bill. There are strong objections to all tho measures introduced so far on those subjects we may bo able to get together on those questions, but just now we don't seem to know what kind of a bill we want."

The House committee on labor has authorized a favorable roport, with amendmouts, on the resolution offered by Mr. Mason, of Illinois, for an investigation in' regard to tho hours of lubor. As amended, the resolution authorizes a sub-committee of the committee on labor to take evidence at such places as it may determine, during the present session, or during tho recess, in regard to the establishment of eight hours as a day's labor, and in regard to the operation and enforcement of the eighthour federal laws, and also as to theadvisability of establishing a minimum rate of wages to be paid laborers in go vernmen employ.

NATIONAL CONGRESS

Tho Senate on the 2d discussed tho silver bill at length, Mr. Morrill strongly opposing the measure. Several confer ence reports were submitted and agreed to.

The House passed the following bills: Transferring the expense of the trial of Indians lor crimes committed on other Indians in the Territories from tho Territory to the United States granting an American register to the steamer Australia, of California to ratify an agreement entered into by commissioners of New York and Pennsylvania in regard to the boundary line between those States providing for an additional associatj justice of the Supremo Court of Now Mexico for the relief of the board of commissioners of tho sinking fund of Louisville, i^y. dividing the judicial district of Kansas into two divisions relieving tho Unlou iron works, of San Francisco, from cer ain penalties, amounting to $83,000, incurred in the construction of the Charleston.

The Senate on the 3d disci "if 3d wl jhout. action Edmunds' resolution to investigat the Fish Commissioner's office. A bill to prevent frauds in breweries and bee." bottling establishments was pass'd. Also, a hill to provide for tho exportation of formentod liquo- in bond without paymont of internal revenue tax. The silver bill was discussed.

Tho House considered the Alabama eontested election caso of McDufllo vs. Turpin without final action.

The Senate on the 4th agreed to investigate tho Fish Commissioner's ofiice. The fortifications appropriation oill vva» passed

The Houscdecided tho cr.ntested election case of McDufflo vs. Turpin iu favor of tU« cor testant, by a pa vote.

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