Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

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DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1882.

NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. Dr. George A. Ward, once a Profeß«or I* Yale College, who went to Peru with Henry Meigge and became Medical Superintendent □f his works, died in that country recently. ...The bouquet which Mrs. Scoville sent Juiteau just before his execution, has been analyzed and found to contain a large juantity of arsenic... .250 miners and cartmen at Willston, 0., have struck.... Nine •assengers were seriously hurt by an acciienton the Mont Alto R. R, near Chambersburg, Pa. E. Mcßurnet A- Sons, flour and grain brokers of Philadelphia, have failed.... George Bancroft, the historian, celebrated his 83rd birthday at Newport... .Collector Beers, of New Haven, claims to have detected frauds of 4120,000 or more by the sugar-importing house of L. W. A P. Arm strong, through the allowance by the weighers of eight pounds shrinkage on each hogshead... .The jail at Fonda, New York, was set afire by a hardened young burglar named Cafferty, who secured some matches m tobacco, tore a hole in the plaster, stuffed in straw, and ignited it Twenty-five prison era were safely removed to the court-house, but the jail w r as totally destroyed The incendiary has been placed Lu irons to await a trial for arson. Adelaide Phillips, the famous contralto, died at Carlsbad. She was born at Stratford-on-Avon, in 1883, and ten years later made her debut as an actress in Boston... .A fire at Bridgeport, Connecticut, destroyed Watson's iron works and the factory of the Craighead A Elwell company, the loss aggregating $55,000... .The coroner’s jury at New York has found the railroad officials responsible for the recent collision in the Harlem River tunnel by w’hich three persons lost their lives Two freight trains collided at Linden Station, Pennsylvania, on the Baltimore A Ohio railroad. Two persons were killed... .Louis Woolstein and Jacob Sulzbacher, manufacturers of cloaks and shirts, New York, have failed. Liabilities. 148.000 David Barbour, for many years manager of the llouring-mills of Marshall, Kennedy A Co., of Pittsburgh, has been arrested on a charge of having robbed the firm of 425,000. ... .The bank examiners find a deficit of 431. 000 in the accounts of Wellington, late cash ier of the Manufacturers bank of Troy, of which amount 410,000 will be received from the sureties.... A fire in New York City destroyed property val ued at $ 150,000.... Geo. J. Raymond has sued a commercial agency in Boston for 475,000 damages for false reports concerning his business standing.... Albert Kelly, of Newburg, Maine, was killed at a fair by a run-away trotter... .The last money has been sent from New’ York to Paris for the Irish Land League... .James J. Heatherington, of Albany, N. Y., has been arrested for stealing 470,000 worth of paper from Howell and Bros., Philadelphia. Very few employes of the departments at Washington arc going home to Ohio to vote. This practice was stopped in the treasury department by an order from Secretary Folger. Vacations are not given to employes in the public printing office, but Mr. Rounds says any Republican or Democrat can get leave of absence to vote, and make up the loss of pay by working extra hours on his return... .William Martin, a bootblack. applied at police headquarters in New York for a permit to carry a pistol, in order to shoot President Arthur. He stated that he had served a term in the penitentiary for larceny. An inquiry as to his mental condition is to be made. WEST AM) SOUTH. Two convict guards on a cotton plantation south of Houston, Texas, named Tower and Thomson, fought a duel with revolvers. Twelve shots were fired and both fell dead. ....Near Norwood Park, Illinois, a quarrel occurred at a well between a servant-girl and a lad c f eight years, when the latter secured an E afield rifle, and literally blew her head to pieces.... .Charles Dorsey, who has served three terms in the California penitentiary for robbery, and who killed an express messenger at Eldorado, was cap tured at Union City, Indiana, by detectives from San Francisco $12,500 reward is offered for the Taylor brothers who murdered Sheriff Coats and deputy near Chat tanooga. A negro named Henry Holloway was lynched at Elkton, Tennessee, for an out rage upon a w’hite woman... .David C. Ballentine, a State Senator in Nebraska, was killed by falling under a team at Benkelman, on the Burlington A Missouri railroad.... Capitalists from lowa have taken 4300,000 in Birmingham, Alabama, to establish another iron blast furnace A. B. Cornell arrested at Russell, Kansas, for complicity in star route frauds....A fire at Anita, lowa, de stroyed property worth 420,000. John O’Connor, post master of Maysville. Mo., and an extensive implement dealer, has absconded, leaving unsettled debts amounting $20,C00. His post office accounts show a deficit of $10,000... .Frank James the noted outlaw and bandit has surrendered himself to Gov. Crittenden of M0....J0hn Brooks, colored, was hung at Anniston, Ala., by a mob for brutally assaulting a little girl ....A young man named Leigh, shot and killed James Rigby at Taylorsville, 111... .At Oskaloosa, low a, 400 miners of Keokuk ana Mahaska counties, working in the Excelsior mines, struck for four cents net bushel. ’The wife of President Gonzales, of Mexico has arrived in Chicago to prosecute h?r studies in medicine and surgery The interior department, on the advice of a spe cial commission, has decided to wall up the creek at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and con struct an arched inclosure over it through out the city, at a cost of $143,000 Hon. Robert H. Baker, of Racine, has passad away after a long and pa nful illness. He was one of the ablest business men in Wisconsin, and one of the government direc tors of the Union Pacific road. He served two terms in the Wisconsin senate, and was once the republican candilate for lieutenant governor.... Frank James, the outlaw, w’as taken to Independence, Mo., and lodged in jail... .The Midlothian mine, in Coalfield, Va., where 32 men lost their lives last February, has been opened, and the work of taking out bodies has commenced... .The house of Mr. Rose crans, at Lowell, Kan., burned, and his two daughters perished in the flames... .Henry Coons, a member of the Louisville, Ky., fire lepartment, was shot and killed by apo liceman named Lopell. Cause, an old feud Charles P. Johnson, fonnprly LieutenantGovernor of Missouii, will defend Frank James in any prosecution by the State.... In the interest of Catholic colonization. Bishops Spalding and Fitzgerald are now in New York. The former states that three thousand families have been placed in Minnesota, making ten agricultural villages, with churches and schools. There is a colony of four hundred families in Greeley county. Nebraska, and the society is now enlarging the colony in Arkansas, between I fort Smith and Little B?ck....The Cinoin-

nati Exposition closed its doors October 7. The receipts for the season were $84,000 and : the expenditures only $05,000... .The Chicago Board of Trade voted to increase the price of membership to $10,006. A bid of $4,2U0 for a membership was subsequently made. Judge Gardner has dissolved the injunction obtained by certain members agaftnst Armour and Kershaw. POLITICAL. Congressional nominations: Jas. O. Broadhead, Dem. Wth district Mo.; Win. A Russell Ren., Bth district Mass.; Gustave Sessinghaus Anti Filley Rep., Bth district Mo.; W. W. 8. Davis Dem., 7th district Penn.; W. M. Smith Rep., 10th district Tenn.; John R Grose Dem., Ist district Ky.; 8. H. Fox Rep., Utica N. Y. district; E. 8. Converse Rep., fith district Mass... .Judge Folger has accepted the Republican nomination for Governor of N- Y 40 towns in Connecticut voted no license. The Georgia state election passed off quie - ly, a small vote being polled. The Demo cratic state ticket, headed by Alexander H. Stephens, is elected by about 40,(XX) majority. .. .In the town elections in Delaware rhe Democrats were generally successful by decreased majorities... .The Connecticut Democrats nominated the following ticket for state officers: Governor, Thomas M. Waller; Lieutenant-Governor, George M. Su nner ; Secretary of State. 8. Ward Northrop; treasurer, Alfred R. Goodrich; Comptroller, Thomas P. Sanford... .Congressional nominations: R. W. Dunham, Rep., Ist district, Ill.; W. P. Black, Dem., 3rd district, Ill.; W. W, Rice, Rep., 10th district, Mass.: F. A. Johnson, Rep., 17th district, N. Y.; R. C. Marshall, Dem., 2nd district, Va.; J. R W n on, Ind. Greenbacker, sth district, N. C.; I. P. C, Talbott, Dem., 2nd district, Md.; J. P. Long, Rep., 3rd district, Md.; Henry Stockbridge, Rep., 4th district: P. Post, Greenbacker, Bth district, N. Y.; E. J. Ellis, Dem., 2nd district, La.; A G. Chap man. Dem.. sth district, Md. Congressional nominations, A. P. Davis Rep., Ist district, Mass.; John F. Moulton, Rep., 32nddistrict. N. Y. : T. C. Blair, Rep.,, 2nd district, Md.‘. P. V. Deuster Dem.. 4th district. Wis.; Geo. M. Ray, 21st district, N. Y.; D. M. Lawrence, Dem.. 6th district, Mass.; M. E, Post, Dem., Wyoming Territory. Congressional nominations: B. P. Hovey, Republican, sth district, N. J.; A. E. Ranney, Republican, 3rd district, Mass ; John Van Vorhis, Republican, 30th district, N. Y.; H. B. Holton, Republican, sth district, Md.; R. L, Ewell, Republican, Bth district, Ky.; A H. Coffroth, Republican, 17th district, Pa. A H. Stephens, governorelect of Georgia, has resigned his seat in Congress. The election in Arkansas on the license question resulted in a large majority for license. General Butler, in accepting the Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts, lays down the principle that integrity, capability and efficiency should be the test of tenure of office; that while the sum now raised by taxation very greatly exceeds what should be the expenditure of the Government, yet ax equal amount will for long years be demanded, and must be raised by a tariff. The General writes to the Softmoney Committee that greenbackery is dead, but labor represents a cause dear to his heart... .Fifteen hundred Republicans of Buffalo, including Sherman S. Rogers and E C. Sprague, have signed a protest against the methods used to nominate Secretary Folger for Governor, and calling for the repudiation of the ticket. FOREIGN. A separate building is being fitted up for the reception of the prisoners to be tried by court martial, including Arabi Pasha and Toulba Pasha, The court will sit on the same premises as that on which the prisoners are confined, in order to obviate the necessity of conveying them to and fro. The lower classes fail to realize the defeat of Arabi Pasha and the national cause. Amongst the commercial section and middie classes a better feeling prevails. In influential native circles it is not expected respect for the khedive can be restored... .The police believe the murderers of Lord Fredrick Cavendish and Under Secretary Burk numbered ten and are still in Ireland, but that unless the aid of an informer can be secured the crime cannot be brought home to the guilty persona. The weapons used in the murder were found some weeks ago. Four dissecting-knives, ni e inches long, discolored by human blood, weie found in a stable in Dublin used by a man named Kenny, who was recently deported for intimidation. It is believed that the weapons were those used in the murder of Cavendish and Burke, and that Kenny was the driver of the car on which the assassins escaped. Westgate, who made confession of his participation in the tragedy, is at Kingston. Jamaica, and will not be sent to England for lack of evidence against him.... The recent census shows the population of the Austrian empire to be 22.144.244. Riaz Pasha, the Egyptian Minister of the Interior, states that the country is completely tranquilized. A native was hanged at Alexandria for participation in the massacre last June. The people are gratified over a report that British and French control of financial affairs is likely to be abolisned....The authorities of Montreal have discovered that De Courcy Harnett, Assistant City Attorney, is a defaulter for a large amount of money collected on arrears of taxes.... The people of Dublin are excited over the closing of the Land League fund in New York. Two land agents were yestcr day fired at from behind a hedge at Bally Castle. FINANCIAL, The decrease in the public debt during September was $14,805,94(1 The bonds ooninued at 3% per cent are $180,000,000, and he 3 per cent i. recently issued aggregate 1237,233,2001 The total debt, less cash in die Treasury, is $1,(444,120,222... .The coinige at the various mints during September was $8,009, 252, of which2,3oo,loU were standard dollars. Craig Skidmore, of Stanford, Ky. was charged with forging the license under which he was recently married, but the trial resulted in his acquittal. It came out that the paper he offered as a marriage license was not inspected by either the bride's father or the officiating clergyman, and as it had disappeared there was no proof that a forgery had been committed. It is also stated that the woman is already the mother of an illegitimate child, and that the preacher who tied the knot got a half gallon of w hisky for the job. He is said to have skipped out to avoid testifvintr in the casft. Since the first oil well began to flow $1,500,000,000 has been added to the wealth of this country by the product of petroleum.

TARIFF TOPICS. i [From the Indianapolis Sentinel.] The Republican party favors a tariff for protection. The Democratic party advocates a tariff for revenue. Then is no free-trade party in the United States. The Democratic party is not a free-trade party, nor is it a protective ' tariff party. The Democratic party advocates a constitutional tariff, which is a tariff for revenue. Tariff mi ns tax. Taxes are levied for the support of governments, to defray the legitimate expenses of governments, and when levied for any other purpose they < are despotic, and ought not to be tol , crated in a free government. The Republican party favors a tariff which robs the poor man for the benefit of the 1 rich man; a tariff like the Hubbell assessments—it plunders one class, the workers, the wage people, to raise ( money for which there is no legitimate ; use under heaven, and, when money so raised is in the treasury, it b comes 1 a source of corruption, of profligacy, ] and is squandered for the benefit i of rings ami rascals. The fact is so well 1 established that the consumer pays the 1 tax on the goods which he purchase? that none but fools and knaves contra- < vert it. Still, the Republican party, 1 that it may continue to rob the poor for , the benefit of the rich, declares that high tax makes articles upon which it is ] levied cheaper to the consumer. But . John Quincy Adams, fifty years ago, in his celebrated report upon manufact- i iires, said that “the doctrine that duties i of import cheapen the price of the arti . cles upon which they are levied seems ] to conflict with the first dictates of 1 common sense. The duty constitutes 1 a part of the price of the whole mass of J the article in the market. It is sub ] stantially paid upon the article of do- i mestic manufacture as well as upon j that of foreign production. Upon one it is a bounty, upon the other a burden, ] and the repeal of the tax must operate t as an equivalent reduction of the price j of the article, whether foreign or do- J mestic. We say so long as the import- : ation continues the duty must be paid by the purchaser of the article.” As w’e liave remarked, none but fools and knaves deny the absolute correctness of such conclusions. Since it is necessary for the Government to have revenue, and since a tariff tax is the easiest method, all things considered, to obtain it, the Democratic party favors the lowest tax practicable, that eve y unnecessary burden may be reI moved from the people. The Repub]iI can party antagonizes the Democratic j policy and advocates a high protective i tax. not to obtain revenue, but to ini crease the wealth of monopolists by i levying burdensome taxes upon consumers. Bearing in mind the incontrovertible fact that consumers pay the tariff tax, the reader will be prepared to understand the following from the great speech of Senator Coke, in the United States Senate last Febru iry. He said: “During the fiscal year just closed, the value of dutiable merchandise imported into this country from abroad, as the Treasurer's report shows, was $448,061,587.95. Upon this merchan dise was collected at the Custom House $193,800,897.67, being an average of 43J per cent. This is the entire revenue of the Government derived from the tariff for the last fiscal year. Now, what amount do the manufacturers receive from the tariff? By the census of 1870 it was estimated that $4,000,000,000 worth of manufactured articles were consumed annually in the United States. The figures for 1880 are not yet published so as to be accessible, but following the ratio of increase in population and everything else, they must now’ amount to at least $5,0(M),000,000 in each year. All these manufactures being increased in cost to the consumer by the amount of tariff’ duty, which, as I have before stated, is an average of 45 per cent., which goes to manufacturers. It is easy to see on that basi? what the share of the manufacturers would be. But I will discount that per cent, so as to more than cover all contingencies and all draw- ' backs, and say they only receive, under the tariff, 25 per cent, on the sum total of manufactured articles consumed in the United States, and it amounts to the enormous sum of $1,250,000,000 annually. And the amount increases each year with the population and trade of the country. So, for the year 1881, the results of tariff taxation and tlie distribution of its proceeds may be tabulated thus: Revenue received by the Government, $193,800,897.67; bounty received by manufacturers, $1,250,000,000. So that, for every single dollar paid into the national treasury undei the existing t<riff, $6.50, at the lowest calculation, go into the pockets of the manufacturers.'’ It would be difficult to state tlie case clearer. The facts and figures sustain the argument. This infamous tariff that robs one class to enrich another class is supported and advocated by the Republican party of Indiana, its organs and its candidates, and is opposed by the Democratic party. Senator Coke says: Os the $193,830,879.67 of re ven le collected for the Government under this tariff for 1880, six commodities and classes of commodities yielded 69.01 per cent of the whole. I quote from the report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on our foreign commerce of 1880: “Os the total amount of duties collected on imports, the duties on sugar and mo'asses amounted to $47,984,032.84. or 24.78 percent; the dut ; es on wool and manufactures thereof amounted to $27,285,624.78. or 14.10 per cent; the duties on iron and steel and manufactures thereof amounted to $21.462,534.: 4, or 11.09 per cent; the duties on manufactures of silk amounted to $ 19,1'38,665.81, or 9.81 per cent; tlie duties on manufactures of cotton amounted to $10,825,115.21, or 5.59 percent, and the duties on flax and manufactures thereof amounted to $6,984 374.9', or 3.60 ]>er cent “Th# duties collected on these s‘x commodities and c’asses of commodities amounted to $133,580,347 88, and constituted 69.01 per cent of the total amount of duties col ected on imports. ” No better evidence than this official statement is needed to show the utterly reckless perversion of the taxing power exercised in the constructing of the existing tariff Why is it that it takes all the balance of the dutiable articles on the long tariff 1 st to make up the remaining $60,000,000 of the revenue re- I ceived by the Government, when these six commodities produce so much* The answer is plain. The range of duties is so high, so extremely protect ive. that very few foreign goods are imported; so the Government receives ven- little revenue: but these same excessive duties are added to the price of the domestic article, and the whole of it goes into the pocket of the manufacturer, because the people are compelled to bnv. Take the article of blanket* as an example. They are universally twd throughout the ' country. The duty ou them i» from 85 to ; ! ](M per cent It is estimated that s2t\ooo,<MW • ’ worth of bUukoto are bought annually in

this country; yet for the year 1881 official reports show that only $'1,239.06 worth of blankets were imported' from abroad, and the revenue of the Government on that importation amounted to only f 1,089.05. The j 100 per cent, duty was added to the cost of I blankets made in the United States, and was pocketed by the manufacturers, the people | having it to pay. Flannel, another article entering into universal consumption, worn in some form or other bv all our people, of every age, sex I ami condition—an article for which a very much greater amount must be paid annually than is expended for blankets. The duty on flannels Hinges from 88 to 95 per cent, and is prohibitory. For the year 188 the flannels of every character and description import, d from abroad amounted to $3,082,98 worth, and the revenue coming to the Government to $2,435.(5. the manufacturers again receiving the duty from the people, and the Government nothing virtually. Wool hats, such as our people generally wear, are taxed in the tariff 20 cents p-r pound and 35 tier cent, ad valorem, compound duty, and not one was iuqiorted. Tim Government derived not 1 cent of revenue, but the people paid the duty in the price of the article to the manufacturer. Ho with shirts, drawers and other knit goods so generally worn; duty prohibitory, and none imported. So with snot; duty 2% cents per pound; revenue from shot, only SGI.GO. So with hack-saws, crosscut-saws and hand-saws; the entire duty derived from them for the Government, $62173; duty prohibitory. Horse hoe nails; duty 5 cents per pound; prohibitory; revenue. $16.8 >. Wire (such as our people use for fencing): duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Screws for wood: duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Cut nails and spikes: duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Galvanized or coated iron: duty prohibitory ; importation and revenue nominal. l ast ano wrougnt-iron ninges, noaru nans, rivets and bo ts: duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Bessemer steel rails, universally used now in construction of our railroads. The United States manufactures these rails more largely than any other country in the world Price of these rails in England, from S3O to $35 per ton; our tariff duty, 928 per ton; price in the United States, $67.50 per ton. Domestic produce consumed in the United States during 1880, 1,112,690 tons. By comparing price in England and the United States, it will be seen that every dollar of the duty was added to the domestic product Bounty to the manufacturer in this one article alone, $31,155,320, which Is refunded by the people, with interest doubly compounded annually, to the railroad companies in increased charges for freight and passengers. The duty prohibitory until the unprecedented amount of railroad building now going on commenced, and will be again as soon as it subsidea So with heavy cotton goods, universally used by our poorer people, in which our manufacturers excel the world. Duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Common soap, of universal consumption: compound duty of 1 cent per pound and 30 per cent ad valorem. Toilet soap: duty 10 cents per pound and 25 per cent ad valorem. Millions of dollars worth of these two arti- j des are sold to the people annually with these compound duties added to the price; vet the revenue derived from them Ls only $145,722.02. I could go on and fill pages with quotations from the tariff list of articles of daily use among the people with duties so excessive as virtually to exclude importation and thereby destroy revenue, but on which the consumer pays the duty to the manufacturer in the price of the domestic art'cle. A tariff framed like ftps, which taxes the people from head to foot as this does in behalf of full-grown, fully-developed manufacturing industries as ours are, able to compete with the world in open market, is subversive of every principle of justice between men as it is destructive of the revenues of the Government. This is protect on, socalled. I call it robbery under the forms of law. Such arc some of the iniquitous bur- I dens imposed by the present Republican tariff, which the Democratic party is seeking to have revised, and which the Republican party, monopolists and Arthur’s Tariff Commission are striving to maintain and perpetuate. It is a tariff of abominations—a tariff con- | structed for robbery as infamous as j Hubbell’s blackmail proceedings—a tariff which legalizes crime for the purpose of corruption. A Keying Lot. The pernicious and costly example of Grant in abandoning the seat of government, and in turning over the great public business to irresponsible clerks I for months, has been adopted by Gen. Arthur as worthy of imitation. He and his Cabinet, with temporary exceptions, have been absent from Washington since the adjournment of Congress, and most of them are still wandering in distant parts of the country. According to the President's own admissions, tlie Capitol and the White House are both healthy, and the summer has been exceptionally cool and pleasant. Hence there was no good reason for leaving a city where “malaria” is a convenient name for excesses. The President is paid $50,000 a year, and is furnished with all the equipments of a luxurious household at the public expense, with a contingent fund of SB,OOO per annum, which is practically an addition to the salary. When Abraham Lincoln was President his pay was $25,000 a year and SI,OOO for contingencies. Mark the contrast! The Cabinet receive SB,OOO a year, and enjoy many privileges and perquisites little known to the public. These officials are servants of the people, and nothing more, whatever airs they may put on. Some of them, who went in poor, like Secor Robeson, have come out very rich. John Sherman, Windom, Cameron and others never killed the goose that laid the golden egg. They nourished it. and increased their stores. The President and Secretaries take oaths to perform their duties faithfully. They are snppo-ed to be present to perform them. They draw the pay with punctilious regu arity, whether sporting with fashion at Newport, or cruising in public vessels, or luxuriating at Long Branch, or recruiting in Colorado, or wherever else they may be scattered, for free passes and the palace cars of monopoly carry them to the extremes! points without expense. The great corporations cordially welcome them as chosen guests with a profuse hospitality. Ships of war are ordered for personal convenience by the President and the Secretary of the Navy at the cost of : appropriations for the service. Meantime the rings, the jobbers and i the corruptionists hold high carnival in ■ i the departments at Washington. Sub- > ordinates have full swing, and they I make the most of the annual opportnni- ' tv. The Governmental machine run? in the ruts of Grantism, widened by the hypocritical knavery of his fraudulent j i successsor, who demanded his salary a month in advance of its lieing due, and | who stocked the departments with the thieves, the perjurers, the forgers and : the scoundrels who in any way con- ■ tribnted to the theft of the Presidency I in 1876, while Evarts, and Schurz, and Sherman, and the rest of them were I shouting for civil-service reform and j glorifying their own purity I A sense of public decency was 1 thought to lie a sufficient moral re-

straint against this culpable absenteeism and criminal neglect of duty. That sentiment has had no foothold since Grant became President. He defied it, and inaugurated the license which has been practiced for thirteen successive years, to the great scandal of honest government, and at a loss of many millions to the treasury, to say nothing of the demoralization of the whole public service in every branch and in every bureau. without the least authority ot law, the 9,00(1 or 10,000 clerks in the departments are allowed a month’s vacation in each year, with fall pay. They may select their own time for the absence, or loiter about the streets and resorts of Washington at pleasure. This privilege is granted by the Executive, who has no more right to give it than he has to take tl»e million of dollars ont of tlm treasury which the taxpayers have to furnish for this absence from duty. The President and the heads of departments and the chiefs of bureaus do not, however, apply this rule to themselves. They are free to go and to come without restraint, and without loss of salary. They claim to be a privileged class, and they insist on special favors as following this assumed distinction. We propose that Congress shall pass a law at the next session to correct this shameful abuse. The terms of it may be very simple, and need only a few plain but direct words, forbidding any public officer from receiving pay while absent from duty nt his own request or by any > ecognized practice of vacation. Stop the salary, and reform will follow as naturally as day succeeds night.— Neu; York Sun. New Representative Republicans. E. B. Cash, of South Carolina, the professional duelist who provoked and killed Mr Shannon two years ago, is an independent candidate for Congress under the special patronage of the administration. In Virginia the party of moral ideas has adopted Mahone, the repudiator, to illustrate its devotion to honest money. In Mississippi it has adopted Chalmers, the hero of the Fort Billow massacre, to prove the sincerity of its past denunciations of that crime. And now it adopts Cash, the blood-stained duellist, tc how its horror of that relic of barbarism. Mahone, Chalmers and Cash are taken up and favored by the administration,while upright and honorable Republicans in the South, who never wavered in their political fidelity, are discarded as unworthy of trust. This is the policy which we are told is to “regenerate the South.” When Mr. Dezendorf, the present Republican member from the Norfolk district in Congress, and the actual candid -te of the regular Republicans for re-election, called upon the President to remonstrate against the use of Federal pa’ronage to defeat him, he was inI formed that the bargain with Mahone must be carried out. Dezendrof refused to wear the collar of the repudiator, or to join the corrupt coalition. For this, and for no other reason, he is pro- . scribed by the administration, which professes’to stand for the Republican party and to represent Republican principles. Christopher North. In the prime of his life, at the age of thirty-four, Wilson had obtained the important chair of moral philosophy in j the greatest university of his native country, and that post is associated with his best fame. In Gloucester Place his career was a pleasant and prosperous one. marked chiefly by the rich arteries which followed from his pen monthly (though there he lost his amiable wife, a loss which he felt keenly, and which ! cast a gloom over all his actions at the time), the college lectures, and the award at each session end to his rival essayists, the retreat in summer to sylvan Elleray and its circle of poets, or a visit to the Burns’ festival in Ayrshire. The death of Mrs. Wilson affected him deeply, nigh to depriving him of reason, ami when he resume! his duties next session it was with a solemn and crushed spirit, but when he saw the sympathy i of his students who worshiped him, he fairly broke down, and leaning his lion like head upon bis desk, exclaimed in u low voice, never forgotten by those who heard it, “Oh, gentlemen, forgive me! But since we last met I have been in the valley of the shadow of death !’’ He was elected first president of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution at ils formation, and in 1852 he resigned the college chair, after an honorary pension from government had been con ferred upon him by Lord John Russell. Many are the personal anecdotes still remembered of the professor in his Edinburgh circle, or elsewhere, from jocose colloquy with Lord Robertson to the incident of the unfortunate printer, who lost some editorial “copy” in his hat on the way to Blackwood's, and re turning to Gloucester Place to narrate j the mishap, was so crusher! by Wilson's silent look as to take forthwith to his bed, so that his terrified wife, able to draw no explanation from him, went t the printing-office to ask what had been done to her husband. “I’ll shake my tawny mane at you,” was another ex pression which he often used; and, indeed, his magnificent head of hair looked like enough a lion's. The Dulles of an Archdeacon. Lord Althrop, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, having to propose to the House of Commons a vote of £4OO a year for the salary of the Archdeacon of Bengal, was puzzled by a question from Mr. Hume: “What are the duties of an Archdeacon ?” So he sent one of the sulmrdinate occupants of the Treasury Bench to the other House to obtain an answer to the question from one of the Bishops. The messenger first met with Archbishop Vernon Har- ' court, who described an Archdeacon as aid-de-camp to the Bishop” and then I with Bishop Coplestone of Llandaff 1 ’ who sail! : “The Archdeacon is ocnlue I ispiscopi." I.ord Althrop, however. ' declared that neither of these explana- ■ j tions would satisfy the House. “Go," I ! said he, “and ask the Bishop of London (Blomfieldl; he is a straightforward man. ami will give yon a plain answer.” i To the Bishop of London accordingly : the messenger went, and repeated the 1 ; question : “What is an Archdeacon?" I “An Archdeacon?” replied the Bishop l in his quiet way. “An Archdeacon is I ' an ecclesiastical officer who performs | Archidiaconal functions;” and with this reply Lord Althrop and the House were 1 perfectly satisfied.—-London Society.

NUMBER 27.

THE MUM FAMILY. A Pennsylvania Huitbnnd and Wife Who Have Lived Together Forty Yearn Without Speaking to Each Other. A mile and a half from the pretty little town of Media, Delaware County, Pa., lives Mrs. Isaac Yarnall, whose husband for forty years prior to his demise, which occurred a few years ago, never addressed a word to his wife. The latter did likewise, though both lived under the same roof during all these years. Old Isaac Y’arnall first settled where his wife and family are now located fully a half century ago. Mrs. Yarnall, who is now 94 years of age, is spoken of as being a quiet, kind and clever neighbor, though, extraordinarily headstrong. The characteristic, it is said, was the principal feature in the composition of her husband, who otherwise bore the reputation of being a fair, square man. This same stnbborness was not alone confined to the parents, for the three daughters and two sons were also imbued with it to a remarkable degree. The only children living are the daughters, not one of whom has exchanged a word with one another for years,though thev too dwell together with the mother in the commodious, antiquated farmhouse near the Rose Tree inn. These peculiarities of the family are known to all the farmers for miles around. What at first appeared surprising and inexplicable has become so commonplace that the strange doings of the Yarnall s have long ceased to lie the subject of comment among the country folk of that section. Isaac Yarnall was an industrious and thrifty tiller of the soil. He plodded along diligently and saved his hard-earned dollars until he amassed sufficient to purchase a hun-dred-acre farm. This he worked until his death, and by judicious investments managed to leave behind him the snug sum of $25,01K), on which the family aro now living. The trouble between himself and wife was brought about in this way: Mrs. Yarnall was bequeathed a small sum of money bv a relative, which her husband desired to use in purchasing farming implements and otherwise improving the property. His better half said no. Isaac vowed unless he was given the money he would never speak another word to her. True to his vow he steadfastly refrained from speaking for forty long years. The daughters, who were nothing more than mere children when this falling out occurred, tried to get the father and mother to make up, but failed. Reared under such surroundings it is not surprising that when the girls grew to womanhood they should take sides with their disagreeing parents. Gne upheld the father, another the mother, while the third, after vainly trying to bring about a harmonious feeling between all hands, became, disheartened and gave up the task. The daughters have, since they quarreled, always ignored each other’s presence. At the father’s funeral a carriage was provided for the girls to convey them to the cemetery. When the funeral cortege was leaving the house the girls found that they were expected to ride together. They at first refused, but persistent coaxing and the fear of creating a scene sufficed to induce them to stifle their repugnant feeling for the time being, and the daughters rode off together. A stranger visiting the Yarnell's would fail to discover at the first visit any familiar differences. The old lady ami the three daughters address their conversation entirely to the visitor, and patiently wait until each question is answered before propounding another. When alone they eat together, but never speak, and move about the house utterly oblivious to each other s presence. Monnt Shasta. But far oft' on the southern horizon, luminous and sublime, the summit of Shasta loomed up against the blue heavens. A fleecy bank of clouds hid its base, and it looked the spectre of a mountain floating in mid-air. It was my guide and my goal all the day. “Steer for the butte.” said the farmer with whom I passed a night near the Klamath ferry, giving me directions aliout the road, “and you will not go astray.” The country people call this monarch of the California mountains “the butte.” There are buttes by the score, but this is the butte. When I first saw its two white summits from the Klamath plains it did not seem possible that they had any connection with the solid earth. They looked like some clond effect, until ten miles nearer the rock ridges between the snow fields, which earlier in the day were of a dark blue color, began to assume a brown lava hue, and the snow became real snow instead of vague white clouds. Shasta appears much higher than Mount Blanc; it is in reality about 1,000 feet lower, its elevation being 14,000 feet, but in approaching it from the north your first point of view, in the Klamath valley, is not much above the level of the sea; then it stands out individual and alone, while Mount Blanc is only the highest peak of a long white chain. I think Shasta and the two highest peaks of the Cascade range, Hood and Rainier, each more impressive than any summit of the Alps.— Correspondence of New York Tribune. Practice Versus Preaching. Surgeons are not healthier than solicitors, and we are not aware that their children are more robust than the offspring of less scientific societarians. The worst-drained house in Belgravia was owned by an eminent sanitarian; and to witness four men at a medical club supping on deviled crab and lobster salad is not a reassuring spectacle to the trusting pat ent who has lieen starving six months on a certified dietary or gorging himself on sanceless cod in the hope of nourishing his brain with phosphorized food, of which all the fish in Billingsgate contain about as much as is dipped on the end of a | lucifer match.— London World. The work of repairing Bunker Hill monument, which had been going on for six weeks, was completed satisfactorily . a few days ago without accident of any I kind. When the examination which leil to the repairs was made, it was found that the seams about the top of the monument had lieen almost completely washed out, and the moss was growing in many of the crevices. If the monument had been neglected only a short ■ time longer it would have suffered irreparable injury from the action of frost, which hod already begun to show its effects around some of the horizontal loiuts,