Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THU WEEK.

THE WAR IN THE EAST A Vienna dispatch announces another flood in the Danube, which wiU still further delay the llussiau operations. Admiral Mustaplia l’asha states that five Russian torpedo boats were destroyed in the attack of the Turkish iron-clads at the Hulina mouth of the Danube. One of Ihe prisoners taken by the Turks at the repulse of the torpedo-boat attack cn Turkish iron-clads is an American. Advices from (he seat of j»var in Asia announce that a Turkish detachment has entered the Russian district of Acliaiich, and threatens (he Russian commußicalion with Anjahan. Should the Turkish commander succeed, the victualing of the Russian armies will he very difficult. The Turks at Kars have made several sorties, hut were repelled with some loss. At Ratoum the Russians are pushing their siege works. An involuntary experiment as to the extent of damages an (English “Whitehead” or “Fish” .Jtoypedo can accomplish, was made by a Russian detachment on the 4th of June. A train transporting the torpedo from Galatz to Ibrail had aliliost reached a point where the road strikes the Danube, when tlio‘internal machine exploded, blowing the train off the face of tlio earth, killing the engineer, fireman and brakeman, and tearing up a quarter of a mile of track.

•i. According to all accounts the recent fighting before Kars was of a most desperate character, and resulted rather disastrously to the Muscovites. The fighting was opened by a determined attack of the Russians on the outer works of the onCmy, in which they were repulsed. The Turks thereupon took courage and boldly assumed the offensive. They succeeded in surprising the Russians by a flank movement, and the slaughter that followed was very great. Tlio Russians asked no quarter, and the Turks offered llono, ’’ Tlio sorties of the -Turks were barren in result, and only served to tiro out the men, while the Russians repulsed every attack with apparent ease. 4 Sickness, especially typhus, causes greater gaps in-the 'Turkish ranks in Asia than volunteers arc able to till up. During tlio last six months at least 10,000 men have died in hospitals. A London correspondent telegraphs from hiitrchuclw: “The immense mass of material which the Russians arc moving toward the Danube can scarcely he lodged in the depots on the river before tlio Ist of July. lo|h, tliereoro, scarcely probable that any attempt will he made to cross before that month.” A Berlin dispatch says Russia’s reply to England’s last note is satisfactory to the latter power. The reply concedes that British interests in the Persian gulf will not he interfered with, and rejects the idoa of interference with the Hue/, canal, and demands a radical change in the administration of the Christian provinces of Turkey. The Circassians in the Russian service, numbering six cavalry regirnonts, having refused to operate against their Mohammedan brethren, have been sent from the main column toward Bayazid. Further details of what is called “ Gortschakoff’s reply to Earl Derby” are as follows : “If the Turks make peace directly Russia crosses the Balkans, Russia will be ready to accord peace; but otherwise she would have no alternative but to conquer and dictate a peace to the Forte. If England wishes to prevent the Russians from entering Constantinople, she lias only to exert her influence; upon the Turks in order to induce them to yield immediately after the Balkans are passed.” A war correspondent telegraphs: “The idoa among the Russians is that half measures will not suffice. Bulgaria must become as autonomous as Scrvia and Boumania. A rathe strained feeling is again taking hold of tli public mind relative to Eastern affairs.” Turkish accounts claim that tlio position now occupied] by the army of Mouklitar Pasha, in Minor, is practically unassailable. Turks are organizing a fresh corps of - valry. her liercc battle is reported betwocn s and Montenegrins—the former numberJ9OO and the latter 11,000. The Montenewere strongly posted in the mountains, tolled all' attempts of their hereditary foes lodge them. Finally, after thinning out urkisli ranks by their well-directed shots, aountaiheers assumed the offensive. -. .ig out from their ambuscades, they poured ng lire into the cihujiiy’s ranks, creating a ’ (’and rout. The Montenegrins pursued - Turks for several miles, killing over .id wounding as many more. Very . ..oners were taken, as no ’ quarter was • iked. • of Constantinople accounts are reof a five-hours’ engagement near Deli- .., a few miles northwest of Toprak-Kale, ween the Turks and Russians, in which tho ♦he attacking party, were repulsed with n loss, the Turks continuing to hold their f The Turkish commander was among

"LITERAL FOREIGN NEWS. , .i London dispatch announces that tho Princess of Wales will proceed as soon aspossi“V ‘ , ao ! up her permanent residence at her ■ tiler’s court in Copenhagen. Tlio alleged "Tse of this serious 'stop is an unpleasant difficulty which has arisen, and in which a lady of title is concerned, j The President of Paraguay, in Houth Aniori- - recently surprised at his homo by a f assassins and foully murdered. Ilis ■ (her was also slain. A bloody affray recently occurred at Yoko- . ’i&ina, Japan, between some men belonging to a German man-of-war and a party of French s; dors, in which nine of the latter were killed and two mortally wounded. The Frenchmen are said to have funushed the provocation. • Tho German Ambassador at Paris has been instructed to convey to Marshal MacMahon the most positive assurances of Emperor Bismarck’s pacific intentions. . ,j_ It is Haid that Trince Gortschakoff’s last note to the powers is not wholly satisfactory to Great Britain, and will probably give rise to a further exchange of ideas between the latter Government and Russia. A telegram from Bt. Petersburg announces ♦ hat a new internal loan of 200,000,000 roubles 9,000,000) will soon be brought . .uiusly in the capital and in the provinces, and will certainly be taken up at once. Owing to the sudden heat, American beef has been selling in London at 3 pence per pound. Meetings of the Deputies of the “Left” having been prohibited by MacMahon’s Government in France, Gambetta has concluded that ho can get along without any general caucus of the party. By private and separate communia full understanding has been arrived at, he says, ancj the course to be pursued by the majority when the chambers meet has been determined upon. Accountfe from Tripoli and Barbary state that an arrea of 100 miles has been destroyed by locusts. The crops are entirely devastated, and nine is believed to be imminent. , 'he Russian loan of $15,000,000, originally

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offered and refused hi London, lias been taken by a syndicate in Paris and Berlin so far below the issued price, 70 per cent., as to leave an ample margin. Gen. Grant has been presented with the freedom of the City of London in a golden box. The ceremony was performed at Guildhall, in the presence of a large number t>f the British nobility and several distinguished Americans. The cable announces the death of two wellknown English authoresses— Lady Sterling Maxwell, better known as the lion. Mrs. Norton, and Mrs. Mary Carpenter. Through the arrest of a library employe in Vienna, the existence of an Internationalist conspiracy has been ,discovered. The ambitious Communists propose nothing loss than tho revolutionizing of the Governments of Austria and Russia, On the reassembling of tho French Parliament, on the Kith of June, a message from President MacMahon was read in both branches demanding their dissolution. An exciting discussion followed in tlio Chamber of Deputies. M. Gambetta replied to the Ministry on behalf of the Republicans. During his speech he used the expression, “ Tho Marshal’s successor, an old and illustrious man,” meaning Thiers. This led to a lively scene. Gambetta urged prompt dissolution. Otherwise, lie said, the Government would bo open to the charge of debasing the electors. Gambetta, at the eonelusion of his speech, fainted.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Alonzo Bell, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, has brought suit in tho Superior Court of Now York against the Sun, for alleged libel, laying his damages at •‘{'loo,ooo. Two trains came into collision near Point of 1 hicks, Md.. on thd Baltimore and Ohio railroad, last week, and were badly smashed up. Five persons were - killed, two or three fatally wounded, and a large number more or loss in jured. The accident was caused by a misunderstanding on the part of tho railroad employes. It now looks as if William M. Tweed were likely to spend the remainder of his natural life behind prison bars. Attorney General Fairchild, of New York, has rejected tho evidence which tho great thief proposed to givo against liis confederates, in consideration of his freedom, and he will likely remain in jail until the judgment against him of $0,000,000 in favor of the State is satisfied. George Rignold, the actor, and his wife were robbed tho other day of SB,OOO worth of jewelry by a New York hotel chambermaid. A lire at Pittsburgh, last week, destroyed the Jacobus and Nimick hardware manufactory. Estimated loss, $125,000; insurance, SBO,OOO. John S. C. Abbott, the well-known historian, died at his home in Fairhaven, Ct., last week, lie was 71 years old. West. Unusual heat lias been prevailing throughout California, the thermometer, at various points, ranging from 100 to 115. Tho trial of Kate Noonan, at Minneapolis, Minn-, for the murder of the young banker, Will H. Sidle—a tragedy that produced immense excitcihont in Minnesota at tlio time of its occurrence —has resulted in a disagreement of the jury. . The pestiferous grasshoppers have made their appearance in some sections of California. They are too late to harm the wheat, but are destroying everything green. A school census of St. Louis, recently taken under tho auspices of the School Board, shows the following result: Wliolo number of white persons in the city, 285,071 whole number of colored persons, 14,222, making the total population 299,293. A Catholic priest has just returned to Bismarck, Dak., after spending several dkfn at the camp of Sitting Bull, in tho British Possessions. The savage chief is irreconcilable in his hatred of tho Americans, and refused to entertain the idoa of surrendering. A council was hold, at which it seemed to be determined that the liostilos will remain on the British side of the lino at present, being in no condition for successful offensive war. English officers were present, who promised that the savages should not bo molested as long as they kept quiet. A sad accident happened at a picnic on Eagle lake, Racine county, Wis., a few days ago. While a party were rowing in a small boat on tho lake, the frail craft upset, drowning Mrs. Oliver Gilbert, Miss Gilbert, and Mrs. Cohbet and her child.

Indiana lias lost two very prominent citizens and United States Senators, namely, D. D. Pratt, of Logausport, and John Pettit, of Lafayette. Mr. Pratt died suddenly of heart disease, at the ago of 64. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1869, and was appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue by Gen. Grant. Judge Pettit was 70 years old at the time of hjs death. He has been United States Senator, Representative in Congress and in (lie Legislature, Mayor of Lafayette, Jif&ge of the Circuit Court, and Supreme Judge of Indiana, besides holding numerous subordinate positions. A, Considerable excitement has been created in San Francisco and Portland by the receipt of news of a serious uprising of Indians in Washington Territory. A dispatch from Lieut. Wilkinson, at Wallula, reports the murder of whites at Mt. Idaho, and another dispatch tells of the massacre of settlers on Cottonwood creek. All available troops at Walla Walla have been hurried forward to the scene of the difficulties, and Gen. Howard has telegraphed to Portland for rcinforcemonts. Houth. Mrs. T. T. Hawkins, of Louisville, member of a prominent and wealthy Kentucky familv, has beon detected in heavy forgeries of the names of cx-Senator -Stevenson, Hon. George 11. Pendleton, and other well-known men. Her forgeries amount to many thousands of dollars. Her family and friends claim that she is mentally impaired. The Supreme Court of Arkansas has decided that the issue, some few years ago, of $6,000,000 of railroad aid bonds in that State was unconstitutional, and therefore the bonds are void. The official cotton report from the Southern States shows a total of 12,000,000 acres planted, an excess over 1876 of nearly 4 per centum. The States having the largest area of cotton are Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. The present condition of the crop is lower than in the past two years at this season, but higher than in 1874.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A call has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury for $15,000,000 worth of 6:20 bonds, interest on which will cease on the 11th of September. Tho redeemed bonds will be replaced by the new issue of per cents. President Hayes, in a recent talk with the Associated Press agent at Washington, expressed hiqjgelf emphatically in favor of the remonetization of silver, believing that such a course would materially aid the resumption of specio payments. The books of the Treasury Department show 1 ? that the total amount of $1 and $2 notes in circulation is $51,404,511. The amount of sueh notes in the Treasurer’s office and reserved for use, $10,183,887. The amount in

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the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, prepared or nearly ready for delivery to the Treasury,, $9,704,972. Nearly all the pajiers which have heretofore advertised for the War Department have declined to publish the advertisements at the rates fixed by the decision of Attorney General Lift, viz. : 40 cents per folio of 100 words for tne first insertion, and 20 cents per folio for each subsequent insertion. United States District Attorney Howard, of Utah, has left Washington for Salt Lake City with instructions to prosecute Prophet Young?; for complicity in the Mountain-Meadow massa-j ere, and for frauds committed while Indian! agent. < All the details for offering the 4-per-cent, loan have been completed, and the Treasury Department has issued an advertisement inviting subscriptions to the same. The Kith of July is fixed as the date when the thirty days for public subscriptions shall expire. After that time tho syndicate will control the further sale of the bonds. These bonds will be ready for delivery on the 2d of July. John A. Harlan (colored) has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District of North Carolina. Kenneth Raynor, of North Carolina, is to he made Solicitor of the Treasury. It is reported that Consul Badeau is to be recalled from London, and that he will be succeeded by a Southern man. Attorney General Devens having decided that the treasury can replace lost or destroyed fractional currency with silver, provided the silver and the currency-in actual circulation do not exceed $50,000,000, Secretary Sherman has issued an order in accordance with tho decision. , A POLITICAL POINTS. \ Tho Hon. John A. Kasson, of lowa, Whose appointment as Minister to Spain was among the earliest made, lias now been chosen Minister to Austria, while James Russell Lowell, the Massachusetts poet-author, has been tendered and has accepted tho Spanish mission. James Lewis (colored) has been commissioned as Naval Officer at New Orleans. Ex-Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, has gone to Europe. He was given a reception in New York, on the evo of his departure, at which speeches were delivered by Gov. Tildon and other prominent Democrats. Georgia has voted, by a majority of several thousand., in favor of- calling a convention to remodel the State constitution. K. A. Thompson, of the Memphis A mUinchc, a Democrat,' has been appointed Postmaster at Memphis.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Fast trains are now running between Chicago and New York over the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and tho Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroads. The } ,timo between the two cities is twenty-five hours, and the managers of the roads promise shortly to still further reduce this time' by at least two hours. Sickening details of the earthquake and tidal wave that wrecked half a dozen cities and villages on the Peruvian coast have been received. The number of persons killed is reported as approximating 1,000, and tho damage to property is estimated at $20,000,000. Added to tho horrors of the wave and earthquake were conflagrations and the depredations of thieves, combining to make up an indescribable scene of terror, death and destruction. By the capsizing of a schooner in tlio harbor of Halifax, N. S., the other day, four men and a hoy were drowned. Several heavy commercial failures arc announced, among them tho following : Hamburg, Hill & Co. and M. J. Stoinbergcr A Sous, both engaged in the millinery jobbing trade in New York, liabilities SIOO,OOO and $150,000 respectively ; H. A. Blood, a Boston railroad manager, liabilities over $1,500,000 ; McGregor Bros., bankers, Windsor, Canada, liabilities $150,000; Fitzsimmons, Clark A Co., dry goods, New York, liabilities, $113,000 ; S. W. Jacohs, a short-horn cattle breeder, West Liberty, lowa, liabilities $75,000. The American Medical Association, which has just closed its session of 1877 in Chicago, represented by its 790 delegates more than 40,000 practitioners, and will be in its turn represented before tho delegates of an equal nnmbei of European physicians assembled this year in their national and international councils by Thomas M. Drysdale, general practice ; Louis Sayre, surgery; Maziou Siijis, diseases of women ; Edouard Seguin, philosophical medicine. Gon. C. A. Honningsen, well known in years past in connection with the Walker expedition to Nicaraugua, died in Washington last week, aged 62. " Five murderers were hanged on Friday, June 15—Harry Adams, at Dayton, Ohio; Adrian vE-vique (colored), George Morris (colored), and Joaquin Florenzo, at New Orleans; and Stephen Brinkley, at Ncwnan, Ga. ThreoYnore murderers, all colored, are under sentence of death at New Orleans. Senator Conkling, of New York, has started on a three months’ European tour for the benefit of his health. The new revolution in Mexico is in full blast, The capital of the province of Chihuahua has been captured by partisans of the deposed President Lerdo.

A Narrow Escape.

A short time ago, as the British iron screw-steamer Knight Templar, bound for Bombay, was steaming along in the Mediterranean, off the gulf of Tunis, about eleven miles from the island of Galita, she suddenly sustained a totally unexpected shock. A deep rumbling noise was heard beneatli the sqg, resembling the sound caused by blowing off water below the surface from a boiler. The noise lasted about a minute, and was accompanied by a seething mass of white foam. The steamer was found to be filling rapidly, and the . Captain at once steered for the island of Galita, where the vessel was run ashore. By diving it was found that ten feet of her keel had been torn out near the stem, and sixteen feet of the after part of the keel twisted. The cause of the disaster is supposed to have been a submarine volcanic explosion, the ship, while in deep water, bebeing struck by the upheaved rock.

Hawks as Poultry Destroyers.

Colorado has, by legislative enactment, given a bounty of 25 cents for each and every hawk scalp. At Denver city, Since the hawk season commenced, the money paid for scalps for that county alone averages from S3O to S4O per day. These hawks arc mostly killed in the vicinity of chicken ranches, and the bounty does not offset their ravages on the poultry. They not only carry off the young and half-grown chicks, but actually attack the full-grown fowls, which are often killed by the furious onslaught of the rapacious hawks. Meadow larks have almost been exterminated by the com - mon enemy.- —Nevada Territorial Enterprise. < Ex-Congbessman H. O. Pbatt, of lowa, has left politics and the law, and become a Methodist minister.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

SPEECH OF COV. TILDES.

Delivered at the Hendricks Reception in New York. Mu. PIIESIDENT AM) GENTLEMEN OF THE MANHATTAN Club : I accepted your invitation under the idea that this was to be a merely social meeting, the special occasion of which was the presence in this city of Mr. Hendricks and of Gov. Robinson and Lieut. Gov. Dorsheimar. One of your guests, Mr. Hendricks, embarks tomorrow on a foreign excursion for rest and recreation. He will carry with him our Rest wishes for a prosperous voyage, pleasant visit, and a safe return, and for the health and happinoss of himself and family. I have been availing myself, for similar purposes, of a brief interval, and find myself now, with sonic reluctance, drawn away from those private pursuits. But the occasion, and the apparent general seem to require that I should say a word in respect to public affairs, and especially that I should allude to the transaction which, in my judgment, is the most portentous event in our political liistory. Everybody knows that, after the recent election, the men who were elected by the people President and Vice President of the United States were “counted out,” and men who were not elected were “ counted in ” and seated. I disclaim any thought of the personal wrong involved in this transaction. Not one of the 4,250,000 of American citizens who gave us their votes but what experiences a wrong as great and as deep as I; not one of that minority who did not give us their votes but what in the resulting consequences of this act will share equally in the mischief if it is not redressed and punished. Evils in government grow by success and impunity. They do not restrain themselves voluntarily. They can never be limited except by external forces. It had been our pride and our congratulation that in this country wo had established a system of peaceful change in the governing power. In other countries in the Old World, changes in an administration —in a succession of government —have generally been worked out by frauds or by force. We ' felicitated ourselves that here, the skill and patriotism and philanthropy of our forefathers, we had established aV-"systein of peaceful change through the agency of the ballot-box. And this is the first time in American history that the right of the people has been impeached. It is the first time in American history that anybody has pretended that the Government of this great country was handed over to any set of men through fraud. It is an event novel, portentous. The example, if successful, will find imitators. The temptation is always present, and if a set of men being in possession of the Government can maintain that possession against the elective power of the people, and after they are condemned at the election, why should not such an event be imitated by their successors ? Devices will always be found to give the color of law, and false pretenses on which to found a fraudulent judgment will not be wanting. The question for the American people now is w hether or not the elective system of our forefathers, as it was established in this country and hasbeenrespccted and venerated for seventy-five years, shall he maintained, or whether we shall adopt the bad practices of the worst governments in the worst ages. This is the question of questions. Until it shall be settled no inferior administrative questions will have any significance in tho politics of this country. There will be no politics in this country but the question, “ Shall the people regain their rights and rule in this republic '?” If one instance of the successful assumption of the Government in this mode can be established, it will find plenty of imitators if it is condoned by the peopleaye, if it is once condoned. If my voice could reach throughput our country and be hear I in its remotest hamlet, I would say: “Be of good cheer. The republic will live. The institutions of our fathors are not to expire in shame. The sovereignty of the people shall be rescued from this peril and re-established.” The question involves the elective system; it involves the whole structure of free government, and the rights of the people through it again will he vindicated, reasserted and forever established. The people must condemn tho great and transcendent wrong that has been committed. They must condemn it with a voice and in a manner that shall prevent its imitation hereafter. They must strip from this example everything in it that attracts imitation. They must deny, they must refuse success and prosperous impunity to fraud. The people cannot trust those who are the authors or beneficiaries of this wrong to devise measures of redress. But when those who condemn this wrong shall attain the power, they, acting for the people, in their behalf, must devise measures of legislation, measures of constitutional change, if necessary, that shall make a recurrence of such an act as has stained our national history impossible. Successful wrong is never so apparently triumphant as when it is on the eve of its fall. Seven years ago a corrupt dynasty had established its ascendency over the millions of people who live in New York. It had obtained all the powers of government and of administration. It conquered or it bribed, or it persuaded, and won the almost universal acquiescence of our people. It even aspired to social recognition. It seemed to ho invincible. And yet a year or two after the members of it were either in the penitentiary or in exile. History is full of such examples. We must trust the people ; we must believe in the right; we must believe in the future of our country. A great and noble nation will never separate its political from ts moral life. Gov. Hendricks’ Remarks. Mr. President and Gentlemen : I thank you for the honor you do me. I appreciate it in part as an expression of personal respect and confidence, but more as an expression and assurance of your approval of those political principles of which, in honorable association with your distinguished fellow-citizen, I was made a representative during the late political contest. And I beg to assuro you that I appreciate the honor you do me, and the more because of the fact of your devotion to the principles which experience has shown are essential to the preservation of good and pure government and the prosperity of the people. Very recently the Democrats of this great city and State of Indiana, as of the other States, contended for and demanded the restoration of local self-government in all the States where it had been denied. They contended for economy in all the expenditures of government. They contended for the reduction of the vast army of oftice-holders and for the substitution of honest for dishonest administration. With such a cause to fight for—a grand one—the victory was a glorious one. I will not disturb the pleasure of this occasion by undertaking to recount the means adopted whereby the will and the judgment of the people were defeated. The result, as declared in Louisiana, in Florida and at Washington, is not acquiesced in, it cannot be acquiesced in, for the palpable reason that it was not true. A great and a sincere people can found their ultimate decision only upon the truth, and never upon fraud successful through technicality. Even should the President and his Cabinet adopt a part or all of the political policies and purposes for wfiich the Democratic party has been contending for so many years, even that will not bring about an acquiescence, will not quiet the public discontent; the Democrats will not consent that their most cherished principles shall be under the protecting case of a power which was acquired by fraudulent and corrupt means. Tho Democrats will make no factious opposition to the de facto administration at Washington. They will acquiesce in the fact that it is an administration, and will support it in that which is right because it is right and because it is for the public good, but not at all becase of any fealty to the party that stands defeated and condemned by the people. The people cannot allow that the selection of their chief magistrate shall become a thing of chance or of sharp practice. The fraud first triumphant in American history must bo assigned its proper place among the crimes against free and popular government, and be made so odious that no party in the future will dare to attempt its repetition. He who is elected President must be inaugurated ever hereafter. Until that is settled and made sure forever no Democrat can be persuaded or seduced from his devotion and allegiance to the party by the allurements of office, nor even by the stronger appeal of the abandonment by the administration of political principles that we dislike and the adoption of better doctrines and just measures. The Democrats will rather continue their faith in the right of the majority to rule according to constitutional provisions. iflAll Democrats rejoice with unbounded joy that free republican governments have been aljpwed in me States of South Carolina and Louisiana, They rejoice in the good fruits

that will follow. We all know that peace and order will prevail. We know that prosperity will return to those States, and that they will contume to give prosperity to our country. We all know that the burdens of bad government, the burdens of public corruption, will be taken from the shoulders of labor, that capital will be made more secure, and labor safer and contented and happy. We all know, too, that production will increase, and that as a consequence there will be prosperity in thoee States, which will be the prosperity of every part of the country. But Democrats know very well that this had become inevitable, as Gov. Morton said in his recent letter. Good government to the States was not a freewill offering upon the altar of our country. It had, I repeat, in the language of Gov. Morton, become inevitable. For many years the Democrats had contended in Congress and before the people in favor of the restoration of republican governments in all the States of the South. They had contended for that with such zeal and earnestness that it . could no longer be resisted, because truth and right wore too strong to be controlled in favor ot wrong any more. In this Democrats find a reason to stand the more firmly by their party. I hear every now and then the suggestion that tome Democrat, either North or South, will join some Hayes party. It will not occur. (Jilt of power, without patronage, and without money to distribute, the Democratic party during these last ten years have restored one State after another, until now the tread of soldiery is heard is no legislative hall, until now, in every State of oar Union, the people are governed by laws of their own enacting and officers of their own choosing. I have but one word more to say. The outrage upon the rights of tho people—not upon me and not upon Gov. Tilden, except that we are citizens of the country—the outrage upon the people in the act that denies to the people their own selection of the public officers according to the law and the constitution, that wrong will work its own reform. I have no fear of the future. Even if the administration that is now in power shall take Democratic principles and ideas and undertake to build prosperity upon them, it can never gain the confidence and the heart of the American people. And it will never do to say that when one man lias taken the land that belongs to another by a title that is not good, and holds it, that it is sufficient to say that that man who holds the land wrongfully will cultivate it better than tho time owner would have done. Before we reach that question we will settle bequestion, Who owns the, land ? It is not the canse Gov. Tilden has been wronged, but it is because the voice of the American people has been ignored when that voice was spoken according to the constitution of the United States. And I fear not the result, as I have already said. A great and a sincere people will base their judgment and final action upon the truth. Democratic principles will be carried out in the affairs of government by Democrats and by such fair-minded Republicans as will not make themselves a party to the wrong that was done last winter. This will be corrected in 1880 by a majority in the different States that will be surprising to all parties. I think I may say for 1880, as I said In 1876, that Indiana will again do her duty.

Carrier-Pigeons.

A curious item in the military estimates of the greater military powers of Europe is the sum now set down annually for the providing and maintenance of a certain number of pigeonbreeding establishments and houses. The large German fortresses of Cologne, Metz, Mayence, Strasburg,and others are all supplied with a complement of pigeons, and in France great efforts have been and still are being made to insure that there shall be a good stock of these birds in every garrison town. The idea which hail been frequently mooted of utilizing carrier-pigeons as the bearers of military dispatches was first worked out in practice during the investments of Paris and Metz in the late Franco-Ger-man war. So vigilant was the watch kept by the Germans over all the approaches leading into the fortresses that, in fact, no other messengers could enter the beleagured towns. Pigeons could be trusted, under certain easily fulfilled conditions, to return with all speed to their homes; and, consequently, numbers of them were taken out of Paris in balloons, tto be subsequently laden With dispatches, with which they then returned to the capital. At first the messages were tied round the necks of the pigeons ; but it was found that when this was done many of the birds returned without their dispatches, having probably got rid of them themselves during their flight. The plan was therefore adopted of reducing the dispatches, by the aid of photography, to the smallest possible dimensions, and inclosing them in a quill, which was then fastened under one of the larger feathers of the pigeon’s wing. By this means not only was the loss of the dispatches avoided, but they were also protected from partial destruction or obliteration by the weather.

The First Napoleon’s Idea of the Value of Newspapers.

In the ninth volume of the Napoleon correspondence, recently published, there is a curious letter addressed by the Emperor to Gen. Savary, Duke of ltovigo, then Minister of Police. It is dated “ Chateau de Surville, 19 Fev., 1814,” and written in a spirit which may be supposed still to animate Oriental and military potentates. “The newspapers,” his Majesty is pleased to say, “are edited without intelligence. Is it rational, in the present stab; of affairs, to say that I had very few men, that I conquered because I surprised the enemy, and that we were one against three ? You must indeed have lost your heads iu Paris to say such things when I am saying everywhere that I have 300,000 men, when the enemy believes it, and when it must be repeated again and again. I had formed a bureau for the direction of journals; does it never sec these articles ? This is the way in which with a few strokes of the pen you destroy all the good which results from victory ! You could very well read those things yourself; you can understand that this is no question of vainglory, and that one of the first principles ol the art of war is to exaggerate and not to diminish them. But how am I to make this clear to the poets who seek to flatter me, as well as to flatter the national self-love, instead of seeking to do good ? It seems to me these matters are not beneath your notice; and that, if you were to pay some attention to them, such articles, which are not merely nonsense but pernicious nonsense, would never be printed. ”-rPall Mall Gazette.

The Expense of Stock Gambling.

The press of San Francisco has just published a statement in detail that will do effective service in suppressing the spirit of stock gambling. Taking twen-ty-six principal silver companies on the Comstock lode as a fair example, the books of the Stock Exchange show that on Jan. 1, 1875, their stocks were selling at the rate of $271,000,000 for the whole. On May 13,1877, these same stocks were selling at the aggregate rate of $34,000,000 for the whole, which shows a loss of 87} per cent., or $237,000,000 in two years and four and a half months, in a population of 600,000 persons for the whole State of California. This is equal to a tax of S4OO a head for every man, woman and child in the State ! Yet still stocks continue falling. Send us, from every town and county in America, poems—sad, sweet, dreamy poems on “Summer.” Write only on one side of the paper, please. We want the other side of the sheet to write editorials on.

CALIFORNIA BIG TREES.

Something More About the Monsters ol the Forest. [From the San Francisco (Cal.) Call.] Six days’ delightful though somewhat fatiguing travel found us in a board road leading from Visalia and the adjacent valleys to the saw mills. These mills are situated a few miles apart, at an elevation of between 5,000 and 6,000 feet above sea-level, and uppn the borders of one of the largest and finest groves of seqnoise in California. In this section of the country, for miles in extent, these trees form a large part of the general forests. Perhaps at some remote period in the past they were even more numerous than now, possibly extending over other portions of this continent. At least, there are evidences that favor the supposition that they aire degenerating, aiql perhaps future ages will simply know them as relics of the past. About six miles from Waggys mill, not far from the bank of King’s river, is a grove which contains at least 10,000 of these arborial giants, and it lias been estimated that an area of six square miles contains about 350,000,000 feet of timber, lumber measurement. Three iniles from Waggy’s mill stands a noble specimen of the sequoia;, one of the largest of these vegetable leviathans. It is 240 feet in height, and measures 97 feet ip circumference six feet above tlio ground. Five feet higher up its circumference is 73 feet. Above this point the tree is untouched by fire, but the lower part boars traces of this destroyer. The symmetry and beauty of thousands of these trees have been marred by its ruthless hand. About 300 yards from this point lies a monstrous trunk, hollow throughout its length, which we found, by measurement, to be 125 feet, the limbs and upper portion of the tree having long since been destroyed by fire. So enormous is this hollow trunk that a horseman, entering at one end, can traverse its whole length and emerge at the other. The dimensions of the largest cavity, or main chamber,of tiie interior (about the middle of the log) are 12 feet iu height and about tlie same iu width for a length of 62 feet. How long this giant monarch of the woods has lain prostrate, with no epitaph to mark his history, it is not easy to determine. Perhaps for centuries his brethren of tho forest have been chanting in mournful cadences a requiem for the departed. Another tree, standing southwest of this is 78 feet in circumference 6 feet above the ground, and only 8 feet less in girth 9 feet higher up. One mile from Waggy’s mill stands a charred stump 80 feet high, which is 94 feet in circumference 6 feet above the ground. As the fire has destroyed the bark and sop, and eaten into the woody fiber of the tree, it is difficult to say how large the tree was originally, but it must have been enormous. We cut through the burnt crust to ascertain the fineness of the annual rings. We found them to be exceedingly numerouslind fine, showing that the tree, at the time it was burned, w r as at least a few thousand years old. We also counted the rings on several stumps from which" logs had been sawed, one of them giving 1,130 rings, thus showing the tree to have been as many years old. We measured about 30 trees, not one of which was less than 25 feet in diameter. The trunks of 4 of such trees, converted into mils, would fence in 4 square miles, or 2,500 acres of laud.

The British Army.

The military strength of England is viewed with interest at this moment. Considering the vast extent of the British empire, and the number of warlike and semi-eivilized nations under- its guardianship, the standing army of Great Britain is very small. The army is composed of 31 regiments cavalry, 32 brigades of artillery, and 113 regiments infantry, besides staff corps. The infantry regiments are composed of battalions; the cavalry of squadrons. A regiment may consist of 1 battalion of 770 men, or be increased to 4 battalions of 1,030 Men each; a total of 4,120.. In this way the strength of the army may be more than quadrupled, without a new regiment being created. Eacli battalion is divided into 10 companies. The cavalry regiments are augmented by increasing the number of troops and squadrons;' The ordinary peace footing of a British regiment of cavalry is 8 troops, of from 65 to 70 men each. In time of war the regiments may contain 16 troops of 100 men each, though more than 12 troops are rarely put into one regiment. The artillery brigades are 31 in number, of which 6 are horse brigades—that is, the cannoneers are mounted—while the other 25 are field, or foot artillery. The peace maximum of an artillery brigade is 5 batteries, of 6 guns and 150 men, and the war maximum 12 8-gun batteries of 200 men each. In this way the British army may be raise d from 120,000 to 580,000 men, without a new regiment being established. The force now under arms is 208,920, of which 17,920 are cavalry, and 28,800 artillery. Of this force, 66,000 are in India, and 35.000 in other places abroad, anil 107,000 in Great Britain and Ireland. Behind the regular army are the militia, aggregating about 109,000 men, who may be called out by vote of Parliament for home or foreign service, and the volunteers, more numerous than the militia, hut not subject to service outside of the United Kingdom. Conscription is unknown in England, am!the militia has beon calied out but once since its organization—to the campaign which ended at Waterloo. Great Britain was never in better condition for war than at present. Jts credit is good, and men are plenty, and there is no rea- . son to believe that the British have lost any of that unyieldiug stubbornness which has brought them out ultimately victorious from every European conflict in which they have participated for centuries past. —Neiv York Sun.

Death of Gen. Henningsen.

The visit of Kossuth to America twen-ty-five years ago will be recalled to the recollection of old inhabitants by the announcement of the death of Gen. C. A. Henning&en, who accompanied the “ liberator” to this country, having followed his fortunes through the disastrous war for the establishment of the Hungarian republic. Henningsen afterward achieved notoriety in the Walker broils in Central America. His death occurred in Washington, at the age of 62 years. Klapka, another and more conspicuous of Kossuth’s companians, at present holds a high command m the Turkish army.

Squaring Up Accounts.

The Centennial Board of Finance have paid the Government all but about $50,000 of the $1,500,000 that the Supreme Court adjudged to be payable. Against this $50,000 that yet remain a to

$1.50 per Annum.

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be paid, the Board have entered a cross charge of $20,000 paid by them to the Custom House officers employed on the grounds and in the different buildings at a time when the Secretary of the Treasury had no funds to pay them out of existing appropriations.

THE SILVER QUESTION.

Position of the Administration Do tilled. [Washington Cor. Chicago Times.] Now that it is known beyond a question that the administration is in favor of the remonetizing of silver, it is of interest to know just the meaning of their proposed plans. Sherman’s bill, introduced in the Senate on the 16tli of January, 1877, -as a substitute for Bland’s Silver bill, very properly outlines what the administration proposes to advocate. Bland’s bill remonetized, not the silver dollar of our fathers, bit the lighter dollar of 1837, for all payments ; and it also permitted everybody to take bullion and have it coined into dollars* Sherman’s bill says said silver dollar shall be issued in redemption of United States notes on demand of the holder, under general regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury ; and United States bonds redeemed under this act shall be canceled and held to be a part of the sinking fund provided for by existing law ; interest to be computed thereon as in the case of bonds redeemed. Under this act canceled greenbacks would, with canceled bonds, become a part of the sinking fund, now made up exclusively by the canceling of bonded obligations of the Government, although none of the coin customs revenues now devoted to buying bonds for the sinking fund would be diverted from the purposes contemplated in the act of 1870, for the redemption of bonded indebtedness. One method by which greenbacks would disappear and silver dollars be substituted through this bill, under a general regulation of the Secretary of the Treasury,, might unquestionably be by using the currency balance for this purpose. Goverumeut would get its “ promises to pay ” off the market, and the people would get an even cheaper dollar than the greenback, and which it would not be called on to redeem. This would suit Sherman, who wants less greenbacks, and suit his friends, who want more silver. The last section of Sherman’s bill provides for a commission to attend any international convention which may be called to adopt a ratio in the gold and silver coinages in the different countries of the world. One object which such a convention may be called on to carry out is outlined in a report made by Sherman a year ago last winter, proposing that when gold stood at 103 j, and a paper dollar was worth 97 1 cents, the American gold dollar should be reduced to the last-named figure, which would make it exactly a fifth of a pound sterling, on condition that England changed her money of account to a dollar, this country changing its standard and England its nomenclature.

Freedom of the City of London.

This extraordinary liquor, which has just been presented Gen. Grant in a gold box, is a token of esteem which has never before been conferred upon an American. The city of London is a municipality within a metropolis, and is ruled by its own government, founded upon the votes of its freemen, while the rest of the mighfe* capital of Great Britain, including the enormous majority of its inhabitants and the greater part of its area, is governed by Parliamentary authority. Within the city limits the Lord Mayor takes precedence of all the royal family, nor can the sovexeign enter those limits save with his formal permission. The citizens of Loudon have many rights and privileges of tlieir own, and it lins long been the custom of the city to offer the warrant of their franchise, as being the most precious thing the corporation possesses, to eminent personages whom they desired to honor. The process is for the citizens, meeting in what is called common hall, to vote to bestow this warrant. The personage to be honored by it is then notified, and upon some convenient public occasion he is expected to appear before the City Chamberlain, who in London is the conservator of the “chamber” or treasury of the city and the guardian and supervisor of all apprentices. Gen. Grant will be duly brought into. the presence of this functionary; the clerk and officers of the chamber will put their names down with his in the proper book as his “compurgators,” making themselves responsible for his good citizenship ; the Chamberlain will administer to him the oath of fidelity, shake hands with him, and give him in a gold box a slip of parchment warranting to him, and to his children dwelling within seven miles of the city, the franchise of a freeman of London. Under this franchise, Gen. Grant will be at liberty to carry on any retail trade within the limits of the city of London without being taxed at the gates on the goods he brings in ; he will be exempted, also, from compulsory service in the British army or navy. If he elects to live within the city limits—rather a long way from the West end, which is making so much of him just now—he will be free from tolls and customs throughout all England and parts of the sea ; and his children, being left orphans, will have the right to become wards of. the city, and to put their property for safe keeping into the city chamber. As a citizen of London he will find himself in illustrious company. Bluclier and the Emperor Alexander, Thiers and the third Napoleon received this franchise, as he is about to receive it, as a compliment to themselves and to their respective countries, and a great many British peers hold it by inheritance. —Springfield Republican.

What Instrument He Played.

A Providence doctor, the other day, engaged to teach a young college graduate the practical art of healing the sick. He was called to a German who was down with delirium tremens, and asked him his age and his business, and learned that he was a musician and 40 years old. The learned doctor then told his student that all brass instruments were so severe a tax upon the player’s larynx that the throat frequently needed a little wetting in the form of beer or- brandy, a sad result of which fact was the patient before him. The latter was asked what instrument he played. He answered, “ I blays second viddle most always.” The doctor collapsed.

Payable in Silver or Wold.

The 4 per cent. United States bonds which Secretary Sherman has just made arrangements to put on the market are payable in silver or gold. Like the 4J per cents., their issue is under the authority of the Funding act of 1870, and they are payable in United States corns, as then established bv the law. The Demonetization act of Feb. 12,1873, had not then been passed, and the silver dollar was legal tender equally with the gold dollar.

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MY CKKKI). iiy jo jin’ o. Whittier. I bold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is soon ; that when Wc climb to heaven ’tin ou-tho rounds Of love to men. I hold all else named piety A selfish scheme, a vain pretense ; Whore center is not can there be Circumference ? This I moreover hold, and dare" Affirm whOW’erm}*rliy«ao may go: Whatever tilings lie sweet or lair. Love makes them so. Whether it be the lullabies That cheer to res! the nestling bud, Or that sweet confidence of sighs And blushes without word ; Whether the dazzling and the flush Of softly sumptuous garden bowers. Or by some cabin door, or bush ’ Of ragged flowers. , ’Tis not the wide phylactery Nor! stubborn last or stated prayers. That make us saints ; we judge the tree By what it bears. And when :i man can live apart From work on theologie trust, l know ihe blood about his heart Is dry us dust.

WIT AND HUMOR.

Party conveyances—Party hacks. Maid of money—A young heiress. Bokkkn for oil are called well-wishers. Unpleasant flowers of spring trade— The croakers. 'Hymn soy a hungry man—Hold the fork, fry lmpi coming. Natural selection —Taking the largest apple on the plate. What is the only pane which overy one makes light ? A window pane. The grave-digger, we learn front the Buffalo JUxprcaa, is the king of spades. Henry Clay Dean doesn’t sympathize with Russia. He says lio is no CzarDean. It was said <t>f a great smoker that he seemed to count that minute lost that lie had not a cigar in his mouth. A Norristown man, when askedkwhy he called ltia dog “Rome,” said it was because Rome howled — all night. “J< R. Grosse, Grocer, Groceries,” is the positive, comparative and superlative style of a Boston storekeeper’s sign. Ip those Bnshi-Bazouks wore sent to “ eat up ” the disaffected Cretans, wouldn’t they be horrible _ Cretechewers ?” “Don’t leave your old tobacco-quids where the innocent little children will mistake them for chestnuts,” reads a sign on a hotel in Maiue. A New Bedford teacher asked his class to explain the difference between “ dear” and “ deer.” “ One is a biped, and the other is a quadruped.” A soldier, who had had his cheek si tot away in an engagement, remarked to a comrade that he would like a glass of water, but lie hadn’t the face to ask for it. A merchant asked his Sabbatli-Bchool class the other Sunday, “ Wluit is solitude ?” and was answered by a boy that reads the papers, “ The store that don’t advertise.” • r litisH boatman (to timid Teuton): “Och, niver mind what they’ve been telling ye about the boat. She do capsize aisy, it’s true, but that’s nothing ; she rights herself again in a jiffy.’.’ “Why,” asked Pat one day, “why was Balaam a first-class astronomer '{” The other man gave it up, of course. “Slums,” said Pat, “’twas because lie had no trouble in liridin’ an ass to roid.” A boy, £ years of age, having stolen a can of milk, his mother took him to task with moral suasion, and wound up her discourse by exclaiming, “ What in the world were you going to do with the milk ?” “ 1 was going to steal a dog to drink it.” *

“Go away ; you’re too heavy to hold on my knee,” said a cross young man to his sweetheart’s little brother. “Me too heavy !” exclaimed the child; “ why, I ain’t near so heavy as Eliza, and you hold her on your knee easy enough !” Eliza also then told him to go away. Sumbling into his room, lie sat down le edge of the bed and soliloquized • “ Fee’ wet, tight boots, a sore on one liau’, an’ a felon on t’other, and no boot-jack in the house. Sings got to be difftiKmt. Either I mus’ get married, else get a boot-jack—wisliall I do ?” A Han Francisco clergyman was observed chasing a street-car. Somebody cried, “ Stop thief !” and a dozen men, headed by a policeman, followed and captured him. A prominent parishioner explained matters, and the disgusted parson didn’t wait for the next car. BURLINGTON HAWK-EYE DOTS. A Paris man swallowed his spectacles the other day. A startling instance of taking a glass too much. The Baslii-Bazouks ride with such short stirrups they can wipe their noses on their knees without bending over. Alexander Stephens is still improving in health. He weighs thirty-four pounds, and has to paste his clothes to his body with wafers to keep from falling through them. A hioh-school boy sat down at the boarding-house table and collared a fiery, untamed joint of .a spring-chicken. Straight he began—“ Bones, bone-gnaw, bone-n’yum, yum, yum.” Mr. Fitzhugh, of Texas, an eminent Democratic statesman, hearing of the fuss they are making over his late rival, has packed his valise and announced that he is going to England himself. “ Where is the City Marshal ?” shouts an excited Kansas paper, giving an account of a burglary. In the next issue it answers its own conundrum, “ Ban away from town with the Recorder's wife.”

He Will Go.

A poor, forlorn boy sat on the Postoffice steps yesterday, reading one of the circus-circulars freely distributed around town. He read of the wild hyena, the ferocious tigers, the hissing snakes, and the terrible boars, and then, looking down on his old clothes, lie said to himself : “ Your clothes arc old, you liain’tgood looking, and you haven’t got buto cents to your name. You’ll go to the circus—in a horn. ” After a moment his face cleared up and he went on : “ Tell you what to do. Borrow a coat from Tim Brady, a vest from Jack Sheppard, a cap from Little English, and walk right up to the tent when the show arroves. Sell yer knife for 10 cents, borrow 3 more of Billy Hope, find 5 cents under the ticket-wagon; and you are all right to go in as a child under 5 years of age. That’s finance, business and fun all in a heap ; and the first tiling to do is to wash yer feet and begin to look youthful and innocent.”—Detroit Free, PreaH.