Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NATIONAL FINANCES. Silver. —The total amount of silver coin isgned up to Jnlv 1 wan $33,121,587. of which $ 1 1,0811520 was issued on account of currency obligations, and $21,140,061 in redemption of fractional currency. 7Vic Work of The Minis. —The coinage reports from all the mints in the United states, except that at Carson City, Nev.. state that the aggregate coinage for the fiscal year is $'71,000,000, showing an increase over that of the last fiscal year of $14,000,000. The Curreno;/. —The following is llie official statement of the United (States currency outstanding at date : Old demand notes, $6,300,250 ; legal-lender notes, $359,764,332 ; notes of 1803, $30,285; compound-interest notes, $500,260; fractional currency, $20,403,137.34; total, $380,027,070.34. The Nfttionnl Debt.- The oilicial treasury statement shows that the decrease in tlie public debt during the month of .June was $3,220,103. .Since July 1. 1870, (lie reduction of interest as a result of the funding operation has been $1,043,020. Appended are the oilicial figures : Hix per cent. l„m<ls $ 854,621,850 Kivu per cent. bunds 703.266,650 four anil half per cent, bonds 140,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,607,888,500 Istwful money debt $ 14.000,000 Matured debt 16,648.860 I a'(ial tenders 350,828,204 Certilieates of deposit 54,060,000 fractional currency 2,043,132 Coin certilieates 41,572,600 Totijl without interest..., $ 476,764,031 Total debt .$2,205,801,302 Total interest 40,882.701 Cash in treasury—com $ 115,122,473 t'asli In treasury—currency.. 7 980,274 (jbirrcney held tor redemption of fractional currency 7,963,213 Special di'posits b id for redemption of certilieates of deposit 604,860,000 Total in treasury $ 186,025,15 M) Debt less cash in treasury $2,060,158,223 Urcreasfl of debt during June 3 220,100 Decrease of debt since .June 30, 1876... 0,781.121 ponds issued to J'aeificHail road Cum. • panics! interest payable in lawful looney; principal outstanding 64,263,520 Interest tien/iied and not yet paid 1,038,705 Interest jiaiif by I In* United States 34,018,023 I uteres' repaid by transportation of mails, Kc ! 8,511,489 balance of interest paid by the United States 25,504,443

THE WAR IN THE EAST

Tbc German, Austrian, and french Consulates at Jiuslclmk shared the fate of that of England. All wore demolished by tho accurate aim of llrn Russian cannoneers. A military hospital in the city was struck by seventy two skulls during the bombardment. Reports come from Ezorpum that the Turks oollerleij at Van, in Asia, for thodefe so of tho country have struck terror into tho whole district. The streets of the town itself ro-eclio their violence and disorders. The American missionaries have taken refuge aboard a small pleasure-boat on Lake Van. They float about the lake during tho day and sleep in some secluded place at night. A telegram from Trebizond pays: “The Turks on Friday assaulted and carried the Russian position at Batoum, achieving a great victory,- Tho Russians retreated after a severe battle, and with great loss of men.” Bulgaria is being devastated bv the retreating Turks for the purpose of preventing the Russians from pursuing their armies, and the inhabitants are loft in utter destitution. It is reported that the Russians have suspended operations against Kars, in order to reinforce the army lighting against the Turks at Boglianla and Bayazid. ‘ Elio Roumanians have taken their first real active part in the war. Two thousand Roumanian' troops have crossed the Danube at Cot ate (Tchetatea) and intrenched themselves. The investment of Widin oh the land side will begin at once. Tito Turks made a desperate sortie from Kars on Monday morning, tho Ist inst., attempting to surprise the Russians and Storm tho hill on which aro two guns used in the bombardment of Kars. The ‘Turks woro compelled to withdraw after sevoral hours’ lighting. The losses are heavy on both sides. Thu Russians have invested Silistria, one of the strongest of .the Turkish fortified towns on the Danube. This is tho fourth time the Muscovite has essayed the capture of Silistria. In 1773 and 1803 the Russians besieged in vain but in 182!) they captured it, to be repulsed again in 1854. Since then tho fortifications have boon materially enlarged. Russian oilicial accounts of the battle of Tcliamdjore, in Asia, place the total Russian loss at 250. The Turkish accounts claimed to have killed 2,000 and wounded 6,000 of the enemv.

A Pal-in telegram of the sth says : “ According to intelligence from a high Source, the Russian army at Batofiin, after several engagements, lias been broken up. The fragments are retreating in different directions, the army besieging Kars being left uncovered in consequence of the disaster at Batoum. Although it has not yet raised the siege, it is taking measures to do so if its situation becomes more imperiled. Both sides jsCom to have shown great bravery. A cable dispatch spates that the Czar lias issued a proclamation formally declaring the independence of Bulgaria. This is the sequel to the call for able-bodied Bulgarians to present themselves at the Russian camps for the purpose of being organized for purposes of self-defense. At the opening of hostilities, the Turks had eighteen gunboats on the Danube a flotilla, sufficient, if ably and energetically handled, to have given the Russians very serious trouble. In fact, however, it has beon worthless, and the, vessels are now scattered along the river, unable to get together for any enterprise of moment, and powerless for offenso or defense. After the departure of the Turks every Turkish house in Histova was sacked and utterly wrecked by the Bulgarian residents. There seems to be littlo doubt that the Russians are getting worsted in Asia Minor. They have been driven hack from Kars, and the "hole army is retreating. The insurrection in die Caucasus is rapidly spreading, and its ""'■atening proportions aro given as one of the causes of thi' -retrograde movement. A correspondent with the Russians at Simla z.i, on the Danube, tclographs that arrangem< n s are progressing for a general advance 111 0 u b ß,ia - A 'l is bustle and preparation m the Russian camp, and many days cannot elapse before an important movement takes place. Russians aro securing the country up to the foot of the Balkans. Turkish are at Jantra. The center of thoir army i B near Rasgrad, the right covering Rustchuk, and the left stretching toward Shumla. The first great battle in Bulgaria will probably bo fought on the above line. Tho sudden suspension of hostilities on the part of the Turks in Montenegro, and the recall of their commander, Suleiman Pasha, with a considerable portion at least of his army, is accounted for by rumors to the effect that Austria and perhaps other powers have interposed to save- thfe heroic mountain principality from complete destruction. Forty-live battalions pf the Turkish arni ( v

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operating in Montenegro have teen ordered to niarch to the Danube. Official advices received at St. Petersburg admit the failure of the Russian attack on Zewin and the defeat of the southern column at Delibaba. The latter is falling back to the frontier to rescue Bayazid, w hile Melikoff and the force repulsed at Zewin are endeavoring to hold a position in the Araxes valley and the road to Kars. ~ A Constantinople dispatch says that 1,500 persons, fleeing from Adler to the Turkish lines, front fear of the Russians, have perished from hunger. The Turks arc sending heavy reinforcements to Asia. Two thousand men have arrived at Constantinople to work on the fortifications. It is announced from St. Petersburg that the cause of the dangerous position in which tho Russian army in Armenia was lately thrown was chiefly the fact that Persia allowed a Turkish corps from Lake Van to pass through Persian territory. The corps was thus enabled to surprise the rear of the Russians at Bayazid, and to jeopardize the position of a great portion of tlicir army.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

The Czar wanted to buy 30,000 horses for the Russian cavalry service, and had made arrangements to purchase thorn in Germany, hut the Emperor William can’t see his way clear to sparing that many animals, and has issued a decree prohibiting the exportation of liotses from tho empire. An offer was made by Gen. Garibaldi to tho Roumanian Government to send experienced officers to form an Italian legion. The Roumanian Government, after consulting the Czar, refused tho offer, but expressed its gratitude for the offer lo the veteran hero. The Paris 7Vu/s, referring to President, MacMahon’s order of tho day to the troops who participated in the review, recently, says : “At last, wo feel that we aro ruled by a hand that wields a sword. The chief of the army has appealed to bayonets, and all must now return to heir duty.” The great ran-Prcsbytonan Council convened at Edinburgh on the 3d inst. Delegates were in ttendanc’o from all parts of ilie world. Inundations in the orovinco of Murcia, in Spain, have seriously damaged the railways. Twenty-two persons were drowned. Turkey has authorized the issue of paper currency to the amount ol one thousand millinns of piasters. A Turkish piaster is worth a little less than 0 cents. Russia is also making urge issues of paper money. It is said that the Mussulmans are preparing to flee from the scenes of last year’s atrocities in Bulgaria, fearing the vengeance of tho Russians and Bulgarians. Ex-President Grant is sojourning in Switzerland, having left England on the sth inst. Telegrams from Rome report that the Tope is again in a critical condition. lie is suffering from dropsy in addition to the weakness incident to his great age, and an operation attempted for the purpose of relieving him has failed to produce that effect. Urgent petitions have been sent to Vienna by tho Christian population of Bosnia, asking the occupation of that, province by an Austrian force, as a means of preventing apprehended Moslem outrages. . The Mexican oilicial newspapers bitterly attack tho -American Government on account of the instructions given Gen. Ord for the suppression of cattle-thieving on the Texas border, charging that it is seeking pretexts for territorial aggrandizement. Sir Stafford Northcote’s reply in the House of Commons to the inquiry as to England’s purpose in sending a fleet to Besika bay is, in effect, a notification to all Europe, and to Russia in particular, that tho time is at hand when England will be ready totake part in tho war at a moment’s notice. Ex-rresidoiit Grant dined with the King of Belgium, in Brussels, on Sunday, the Bth inst., and on the following day left for Cologne. Spain has decided to send 15,000 more troops to Cuba in August.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

lOast. Harvard has achieved another victory, having defeated Yale in the eight-oared boat race at Springfield, Mass. There were thirty-two failures of business firms and individuals in New York city during the month of June. The total liabilities were $2,0112,430, and the assets $699,41)2. Three men, named Floy, Bellinger and Pierce, while sailing on the Niagara river above the falls, the other day, lost control of their little boat, which drifted into the rapids. Pierce and Bellinger leaped into the stream and attempted to save themselves by swimming, but they were swept over the falls. Floy, who remained in the boat, was rescued. Crump’s label manufactory, at Montclair, N. J., employing 200 men, was burned last week. Loss $200,000. The Keesville (N. Y.) National Bank was recently robbed by burglars ol' money and bonds to the amount of $75,000. West. A terrible tornado passed over Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, Rush, Henry and Wayne counties, Ind., on the night of the Ist inst., which was attended with immense loss of life and property. Wc glean the following particulars of the calamity from tho Indianapolis ■Journal: “ Near Brooklyn, Biorgan county, the woods had every tree either torn up by the roots or blown down. Its track was half a mile wide and fifteen miles in length. The wife of J. S. Dressier was fatally injured, and three others, names unknown, killed. Loss, $50,000. The son of James Armstrong was killed by a falling tree. In Johnson county the house of Mr. Boummer, threo miles west of Franklin, was blown down, and the whole family, five in number, instantly killed. Ten miles further w-est the house of George Trcsler was blown down and himself and wife and three children killed, and a remaining child fatally injured. A. M. Armstrong’s residence was destroyed, three children killed, and several members of the family severely injured. A new church at Jolly w-as orn to pieces, twelve killed ahd fifteen wounded. In this county farmers lose heavily. An immense numbor of cattle were killed, fences and barns destroyed aiyl timber uprooted. Immense damage was done to crops and buildings. In Shelby county Michael Mehorlich was instantly killed, and Mrs. Reeker fatally injured. The storm passed over Rush and Henry counties to Wayne, where it left the State. Charles Brown, of Richmond, was instantly killed by a falling tree, and a companion, W. J. Hyatt, fatally injurod. The tornado continued its course through Central Ohio, doing great damage to houses, fences and growing crops, and in some instances causing serious loss. The town of O’Fallon, 111., 17 miles west of St. Louis, was also visited by a fierce hurricane, blowing down many houses and seriously damaging the fields of grain. A similar visitation was experienced the same day, and about the same hour, at Ercildown, Pa. Twenty families were made houseless in a few minutes, their dwellings being razed to the ground. The fine new seminary of Richard Darlington was also destroyed. A woman named Hopkins was instantly killed and five persons injured, two fa-

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tally. Tho vicinity of Minneapolis, Minn., was also visited by a tornado of extraordinary violence. Houses were blown down, trees uprooted, fences swept away, and cattle carried through the air like feathers. Several persons were killed. A section of Northern Indiana was devastated by a tornado on the evening of the 2d inst., sweeping away houses, bams, fences, timber, and everything in its track, besides doing immense damage to crops. Near the town of Walkerton, St. Joseph county, six persons were killed and several others badly injured. Near Goshen one man was killed by the blowing down of his bam, and another was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Advices from the scene of the Indian disturbances in Idaho report an engagement between a body of troops and Looking-Glass’ band of savages, numbering about 400. Four Indians wfl-e killed and left on the field, and many others were drowned. Tho squaws and children took to the river, and several were drowned. News comes comes from the seat of the In dian troubles in Idaho to the effect that Capt. Perry, with thirty men, on his way'to the Cottonwood, had been attacked by hostiles, and Lieut. Rains, teu soldiers and two citizens killed. The timely arrival of reinforcements saved the party from being massacred. A terrible tragedy was recently enacted a few miles below LaCrosse, on the Minnesota side of the river. A youth of 19, in the employ of Joseph Ennis, a farmer, murdered Ennis and his wife, and then set fire to the premises, pap Hally consuming the bodies. The deed w€s committed for the purpose of robbery. The murderer was arrested. The Cincinnati Board of Trade, by an almost unanimous vote, has adopted a resolution urging upon Congress such modilicalion of the Resumption act as shall postpone the time of its enforcement. Houtli. A New Orleans grand jury has indicted J. Madison Wells and Thomas C. Anderson, members of the late Louisiana Returning Board, for larceny in having made away with the returns of the election of 1876. Four men confined in the jail at Mount Vernon, Ky., were taken out by a mob and hung to a tree. A horrible lynching affair is reported from Osceola, Ark. Riley Covington, a negro barber, was arrested on a charge of murder. A mob composed of white and colored men took tin; prisoner from tlio Sheriff, and, tying ropes around his neck and feet, hitched nmles to them. The animals were then goaded to madness and driven in opposite directions, tearing tho unfortunate man iintb from limb, llis piteous cries for a more merciful death are said to have been heartrending. In the Superior Criminal Court at New Orleans, tho other Jay, the Attorney General filed an information against J. Madison Wells, T. C. Anderson, Louis M. Kenner, and G. Casanave, members of the late Lousiaua Returning Board. The information is very lengthy, and charges them with having, on the 4th of December, 1876, falsely and feloniously uttered and published as true the altered, forged and counterfeited election returns for Presidential Electors from the parish of Vernon at the election of November last by adding 158 votes to each of the Hayes Electors and deducting 395 from each of the Tilden Electors. The parties were arrested and required to give bail in the sum of $5,000 each. J. Henri Burch, a State Senator and prominent colored politician in Louisiana, has been arrested tit Baton Rouge on a charge of embezzling school funds.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Tho President and party returned to the capital from tlicir New England trip on the afternoon of the 30th ult. Mr. Hayes and his family took up their residence at the Soldiers’ Home, where they will remain during the summer months. It is understood in Washington that the President will shortly ntako an extended tour through the South. The President has determined to transfer all the troops now stationed in the South to tho Indian country and the Texas border.

POLITICAL POINTS.

Senator Blaine and ex-Gov. Chamberlain delivered orations at Woodstock, Ct., on the Fourth of July. The former took occasion to denounce what he considers a project now in course of agitation for the acquirement of tlie northern section of Mexico, declaring himself opposed to .the -addition of any territory which is likely to augment the power of the South. Chamberlain bitterly assailed the Southern policy of the President. When he concluded, ono of the audience arose and said that lie believed that the sentiments expressed in the address did not represent the feeling of New England. He then called for all those who indorsed the policy of President Hayes to signify it, and three hearty cheers were given for the President. Somebody then called for three cheers for Gov. Chamberlain, and they were loudly given. Hon. John S. Thomas has been appointed Collector of Customs at Baltimore, vice Wilkins, resigned. The Wisconsin State Greenback Convention met at Portage on the 4th of July. Gen. Sam. Cary and several other prominent greenbackers from abroad were present. E. P. Allis, of Milwaukee, was nominated for Governor. The remaining offices were filled as follows : Lieutenant Governor, E. H. Benton, of Fond du Lac ; Secretary of State, Joseph H. Osborn, of Winnebago county ; State Treasurer, William Schwartz, of Sheboygan; Superintendent of Public Instruction, President Steele, of Appleton University ; Attorney General, Emory Hayden, of Wood county. The Cabinet at Washington has been devoting its attention to the question whether the Federal officeholders of Wisconsin can call the State Convention without violating the President’s civil-service order. It having been shown to their satisfaction that four-fifths of tho State Committee are Federal officeholders, and that there is no provision for then- resignation except to tho convention when assembled, it was decided that under the circumstances the call could be made, but the expectation was expressed that the officeholders would resign their political positions on tho meeting of the convention. A Washington dispatch says: “The indictment of the members of the Louisiana Returning Board is looked upon as an affair of a good deal of political importance. The friends of the administration are very indignant, and are evidently somewhat disturbed at the possible effect of this proceeding upon public sentiment in the North.”

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

The emigration of the Mennonites from Russia has been stimulated by the rigorous enforcement of the conscription since the war with Turkey began. Eight hundred members of the peace-loving sect arrived in New York the other day, and immediately left for the various points in the West which have been selected bv their agents for the location of colonies,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct PrinciplesA

THE ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL.

A New and Stirring Review of the Work of the Commission, by Jere S. Black— The Horrible Condition of the South Under the Carpet-Baggers Graphically Depicted. Judge Jere S. Black, in The North American. liecierr for July-August, prints a lengthy history of the Electoral Tribunal which declared Mr. Hayes entitled to the Presidency. After noting in general terms the popular indignation which followed the declaration of the Electoral Commission’s vote, Judge Black gives a graphic sketch of the coiftlition of the South prior to the Presidential election of 1876, and draws in bold lines the portrait of the carpet-bagger. The extent of the spoliations of these adventurers from the North can hardly he calculated’ but the testimony of the carpet-baggers themselves against one another, the reports of the committees scut by Congress to investigate the subject, and other information from sources entirely authentic, make it safe to say that a general conflagration, sweeping over all the State of Louisiana from one end to the other, and destroying every building and every article of personal projierty, would have been a visitation ol' mercy in comparison to the curse of such a government. This may seem at first blush like great exaggeration, because it is worse than anything this misrule ever did before. The greediest of Roman proconsuls left something to the provinces he wasted; the Norman did not strip the Saxon quite to tho skin ; the ‘Puritans under Cromwell did not utterly desolate Ireland. Their rapacity was confined to the visible things which they could presently handle and use. They could not take what did not exist. But the American carpet-bagger lias an invention unknown to those old-fashioned robbers, which increases his stealing power as much as the steam-engine adds to the mechanical force of mere natural muscles. He makes negotiable bonds of the State, signs and seals them “according to the forms of law,” sells them, converts the proceeds to his own use, and then defies justice to “go behind the returns.” By this device his felonious fingers are made long enough to reach iuto the pockets of posterity ; he lays his lieu on property yet uncreated ; he anticipates the labor of coming ages and appropriates the fruits of it in advance : he coins the industry of future generations into cash, and snatches the inheritance from children whose fathers arc unborn. Projecting his cheat forward by this contrivance and operating laterally at the same time, he gathers an amouut of plunder which no country in the world would have yielded to the Goth or the Vandal. THE ItEION Ol’ ANAItOIIY. Security of life can never be counted on where property is not protected, and bloody reprisals followed. The carpet-baggers themselves testify to numerous other murders, ivantc n, unprovoked and atrocious, committed with impunity under the very eyes of the Government. Gen. Sheridan says he collected a list of 4,000 assassinations perpetrated within throe years. Senator Sherman* and his associates of the visiting committee swell this number greatly and add that “half the State was overrun with violence.” No effort was made to repress these disorders or punish the criminals. Nobody was hung, nobody tried, nobody arrested. The murderers ran at large : the victims fell at the awful average of about four every day, and the public officers quietly assented to let “ the rifle,' the knife, the pistol and the rope do their horrid work” without interruption. Are such men fit to govern a free State? “Fit to govern ! No, not lit to live.”

GENESIS OF THE RETURNING BOARD. But this system could not five, and as early as 1870 it became evident that the carpet-bag-gers must prepare for flight or punishment, unless they could contrive a way of defeating the popular will whenever and however it should be expressed. Then the Returning Board was invented. " This was a machine entirely new, with powers never before given to any tribunal in any State. Its object was not to return, but to suppress, the votes of tho qualified electors,or change them to suit the occasion. By the terms of the law it can exclude, suppress, annihilate all the votes of a parish for violence, intimidation, or fraud, which it finds to have been committed, and adjudges to have materially influenced tho result of the poll. This is judicial authority so broad that no court would consent to exercise it—inflicting the fearful penalty of disfranchisement upon thousands at once, without a hearing anti without legal evidence, not for any offense of their own, but for the supposed sm of others over whom they confessedly had no control. Of course it is in direct conflict with the State constitution, which declares that all judicial power shall be vested in certain ordained and established courts, and forbids it to be used even by them, except upon trial before a jury, and conviction on the testimony of credible witnesses confronted by the accused and crossexamined by counsel." It is, besides, a most insolent affront to the fundamental principles of all elective government, for it makes the poll of tho people a mere mockery, which decides nothing except what the Returning Board is pleased to approve, and elects nobody whom tho Returning Board does not graciously favor. Its power to veto a popular vote extends to all elections, for every class of officers, judicial, legislative, ministerial, and executive, including electors of President and Yicu President. HOW IT DID ITS WORK. This suppressing board did its work thoroughly frqui the start. It was never known to falter. Since its first organization in 1870 the majority of the whole people has been decidedly against tho carpet-baggers at every election. But the board always . intercepted the returns, and so altered them as to make a majority the other way. Kellogg was a candidate for Governor ; he was largely defeated, but the board certified him elected. The certificate was so glaringly false that carpet-baggers themselves would not help to install him, and Democrats determined to assert their rights. It was then that Gen. Grant, to the unspeakable shame Of the nation, lifted him iuto office on tho bayonets of the army. Afterward the outraged people rose in revolutionary wrath, drove him to shelter in tho Custom House, aud inaugurated the man they had lawfully elected. Again the President made war on the State and restored the usurper to the place which did not beloug to him. The Democrats regularly elected a majority of the Legislature ; as regularly the Returning Board certified a majority of their seats to carpet-baggers or scalawags or negroes not chosen, and when the true members met to organize for business the army was pnnotually on hand to tumble them out of their hall.

AITLIED TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. The election came off on the proper day, supervised and controlled at every polling-place by officers of the carpet-bag interest.. According to their own count, the result was a majority of 7,639 for tho Tilden electors. But the opponents of Tilden and Hendricks determined that the record of the appointment made by tho people should be mutilated and changed so as to make it appear as if electors for Hayes and Wheeler had been chosen. They pretended to believe that violence and intimidation had frightened the Hayes men from the polls, and that their cowardice ought to be whited, in the form of disfranchisement, on the heads of others who had intrepidity enough to perform their political duty. The allegation was utterly mlse. It was made, not only without evidence to sustain it, but in the face of overwhelming proof to the contrary. EVIDENCE ALIUNDE. The unvarying preference,of the eight commissioners for the faise-'ovpr the true is very striking. When they got Iceland the Governor's papers, they found lyingWiunde two other sets of documents, one of which was a record of tho actual appointment made by tho people; the other was a mere fabrication of the Returning Board without any semblance of truth; they embraced the latter with all the ardor of sincere affection, and rejected the former witli all possible marks of their dislike. To give the decrees of the Returning Boards the conclusive effect claimed for them, it was necessary to hold that they were legally invested with judicial powers, and that their jurisdiction, whether rightly or erroneously exercised, was absolute over the whole subject matter. In Florida the statute which creates the board gave it nothing except ministerial powers, and the Supreme Court of the State [solemnly pronounced its claim of judicial authority to be altogether unfounded. But the ElectoralJCommission would not be influenced by either the written or the unwritten law. The commission e inceded to the Louisiana board all the judicial power it needed to sanctify its disfranchisement of the people in the face of the constitution, which expressly forbade it. This general jurisdiction was not all they bestowed on those boards; they declared in substance that it miirht be well exercised in particular cases where it was .not invoked according to the law which

gave them teing, as. for instance, where a Louisiana naiLh sent up its return without a protest, statement or affidavit. THE INFAMOUS EIGHT. The eight commissioners did not stop there. They went much further. They practically justified and sustained all the infinite rascality of the Returning Boards. They not only refused to take voluntary notice of the atrocious frauds perpetrated by them, but they excluded the proofs of their corruption which the Democratic counsel held in their hands aud offered to exhibit. These commissioners choked off the evidence, and smothered it as remorselessly as Wells and his associates suppressed Democratic returns. And this they put on the express ground that to them it was all one whether the action of these boards was fraudulent or not. They would suffer no proof of corruption to invalidate the right claimed by a Hayes man to put in the vote of a State for his candidate. This monstrous and uuendurable outrage was resisted to the utmost. All of the seven implored and protested against it. Judge Clifford, the President of the commission, laid it down as a maxim of the common law that fraud vitiates whatever it touches, aud proved it undeniably. He might have proved more. It is not merely a maxim of the common law; it belongs to all countries and all ages; no code can claim i exclusively : it pervades all systems of jurisprudence ; it lias its home in every [honest heart; it is the universal sentiment of all just men ; it applies to all human dealings. Judge Field looked in the face of the majority aud toldt them plainly that their disregard of this great principle was “as shocking in morals as it was unsound in law,” and added : “It is elementary knowledge that fraud vitiates all proceedings, even the most solemn ; that no fonn of words, no amount of ceremony, no solemnity of proceeding can shield it from exposure or protect its structure from assault and destruction.” But the eight w'ere as deaf as adders to the voice of reason and justice. They would not permit the fraud to be assaulted, much less to be destroyed. They stood over it to shield'it, and save it, interposing the broad iegis of their authority to cover it against every attack. The eight persistently denied their power, or that of Congress, to do what they were commanded by the law to do—that is, decide who were duly appointed. They would only decide that certain persons were namod as electors by a Returning Board. They would not understand that tho appointment by the people might be one thing, aud the action of the Re turning Board another, or that the latter, even as evidence of the former, was worthless if it was fraudulent. THtMTH E RIGGING FLORIDA OUT. They insisted that the Returning-Board certificate must be received with all the honors ; to question its verity would be usurpation upon State rights, which they (the eight) were most careful to preserve intact and unimpaired. “But,” said they, “if a Returning Board be-, haves unfaithfully, the State herself, by her own authorities, must sre to it and correct the wrong.” Thereupon came Florida, and showed that she had, in fact, made the correction. All the departments of her Government—lit r Legislature, her co irts,!*n ] h r Executive —had at different times examined and revised the aition of her Returning Board ; pronounced it false, fraudulent and void ; declared that the Tilden electors wore duly appointed, and left the Haves candidates without a shred of authority to vote for the State. There stood the State herself upright before tho august commission, with all the evidence in her baud, protesting against the fraud and demanding that no vote should be received except tho vote of her own electors duly appointed by her people. But the commission auswered that under the circumstances of this she had no right to defend herself against the fraud of a Returning Board any more than she had to be defended by the Federal authorities. Whatever site might do, or decide, or re Helve upon, the great fraud was her master, and she must sub mil. So it appeared, after all the fine speeches about State right-*, that Florida had but* one right—the right to lie cheated out of her vote by tho same knaves who had already robbed her of her property. The right was sacred and intangible, aud the commission promptly put her in full possession of it.

A JUDICIAL DECISION DISUEOARDED. ] ii the case of Florida there was one piece of evidence offered which not only commended itself strongly to the consideration of just men. but, being supported bv certain artificial rules of 1 1 ad ng and practice, it was expected to find acceptance in the narrowest mind on the bench. This was the record of a judicial proceeding commenced in a Florida court by writ of quo warranto at the suit of the State upon the relation of the Tilden electors against the Hayes electors. The parties came into court and pleaded, and the issue made between them was whether oi:e set or the other (the relators or the defendants) were duly appointed electors of President and Vice I’resi lent of and for the State of Florida. Evidence was taken, the cause was debated by counsel on both sides, and the relators were duly appointed and the defendants not. This fact, thus determined by the court, was precisely the same fact afterward controverted by the same parties before the commission. When submitted to the latter tribunal, it was res judicata; not only true, bu t fixed and settled beyond the reach of contradiction. The judgment was not impeached for fraud, or reversed for error. It was in full force and virtue. It was not denied that the court which made the adjudication had complete jurisdiction both of the subject matter and of the parties. By all reason and all authority the commission was bound to respect this judgment as conclusive evidence. But to have done this would have made Tilden President and defeated the purpose of all the frauds in Louisiana and Florida both. They did not do it; they allowed the judgment to have no effect at all. They but looked to see what it was, and immediately swept it out of sight. They put it far from them, aud then proceeded to pronounce a different judgment which suited the Hayes men better. How could they break all the bars of legal authority which fenced them about? What starting hole did they find to escape from the corner into which they were driven and penned up by the' law of the land ? We shall see. STATE ACTION NULLIFIED. They said the judgment of the coiyt was too late ; it was pronounced after the Hayes electors had met and made out their votes, and sent them to the President of the Senate. Here were two sets of electors, each claiming the exclusive right to vote for the State, and both of them actually sent up their ballots. One of them was duly appointed, and had the authority claimed ; the other set was necessarily composed of mere pretenders, who wove not duly appointed, and, having no authority, their vote was a mere nullity. Which party was right, and which was wrong ? The conflict must be settled somehow. Where was* the jurisdiction to determine it ? Undoubtedly, and by universal admission, the power was in the courts of the State from which both claimants professed to derive their authority. The proper State court did determine it; but the commissioners said that, however competent the jurisdiction of the court, it was too late in making its decision, and then they proceeded, in the exercise of a jurisdiction exactly similar, to decide the same question of fact and law the other way. Now conies the query: If the court’s decision was worthless because it was late, what was the value of the commissiou’s judgment, which was later ? The eight did actuallv, not iu words, but in substance aud effect, give vent to the bald absurdity that it was too late in January to decide the dispute in favor of Tilden, but not too late in February to decide it in favor of Hayes.

IN FAVOIt OF FRAUD EVERY TIME. Another thing they said: This judgment though it proved the fact that the Hayes claimants were not duly appointed, and had no title to the office of electors, did not invalidate the acts previously done by them while they were de facto in the exercise of the powers they usurped. There is a just and necessary rule of law which declares that the validity of acts regularly done by an officer shall not depend on the title by which he holds the office. You may remove a Sheriff by a quo warranto without destroying the titles of all who purchased land at liis sales, or a Judge without vacating his decrees, or a Treasurer without saying that his payment of a public debt is not satisfaction; but where a person assumes a special authority to do a particular thing the validity of the act does depend on the authority to do it. This latter rule applies here. These electors claimed a right to vote for the Htate under a special appointment given them to do that one act. When a competent court adjudicated as matter of fact that the Hayes electors had no appointment, it was a logical and legal necessity which declared the unauthorized votes to be null and void. If this were not the principle, then any impostor, or any number of impostors, might send up their ballots, and one would be as good as another. But again, let it not be forgotten that the Tilden electors had also voted at the same time and in the same way. Why did not this fact make as much weight for them as for the others ? It will excite the wonder of the world to learn that, in the opinion of the eight, a person who

voted under an appointment given him by the people, according to law, could not he even a de facto elector, but another person who had nothing to claim by except the false, fraudulent and void declaration of a Returning Board was good de facto, if he was good for nothing else. 1 his doctrine of the de facto sanctification, saving acts which have ho other “relish of salvation ki them,” aud making the votes of unauthorized’men as good as if they came from persons duly appointed, cuts a great figure throughout the whole case. It is not applicable, but the eight apply it everywhere, and, strange to say, they never use it when it does not make in favor of some fraud or other. One who votes according to the public will ol the State, legally expressed through the ballot-boxes, is] tie faco nothing. But if he was defeated or ititdigible, he is de facto all he wants to be. Oue of the Hayes electors in Louisiana was a Federal officer; his election was forbidden by the constitution of the United States, and he was not elected but beaten at the polls; de facto strained its utmost power on him, and pulled him through in spite of constitution and people both. Brit, his Democratic competitor- y»jio had acted as an elector in tho same same extent, was legally cliosefifby am-cverwhelming majority, and eonstitutronaljjr eligible; therefore, de facto could do nothing for him. fraud under the forms or law. In all the discussions of the subject the men disposed to favor the consjfiracv professed a most profound veneration for the “forms of law.” This was the keynote struck at New Orleans by the visiting committee, and it is heard in every subsequent argument of counsel and commissioner on that side. It seemed to be understood among them that a formal cheat was perfectly safe from exposure. If the sepulchre was whited on the outside, it made no difference that it was tilled with “corruption, dead men’s bones, and all uncleanness.” No refuge of lies could bo swept away. no hiding place of falsehood could ever be uncovered, if it was built in tho prescribed form. Only give it the legal shape, and the overflowing scourge would be turned aside. But legal form, however valuable as a covering for fraud, was, in their judgment, no protection for truth or justice or public right. The will of Louisiana was pronounced at the election with all the solemnities required by tlie law of the State aud of the United States. Tlie appointment of the Tilden electors on the 7th of November was a perfectly legal piece of work ; there was not a flaw in the record of it as it came from the hands of the appointing power. But it was looked on with perfect contempt. Neither the visiting committee, nor the Hayes counsel, nor the eight commissioners bestowed on it any of the'r love. Their affections were otherwise engaged ; tlioy gave tlie homage and devotion of their hearts to the beautiful regularity, the exquisite precision, with which the Returning Board compounded its false certificate. Another paradox of the eight is curious enough to be noted. They declared repeatedly that they had no power to try a contested election case, and for that reason they would not look at the evidence which showed what persons were duly appointed electors by the people. Now mark ! The case was this : Each of those votes came accompanied by what was asserted to bo proof that it was cast by electors duly appointed. The conflict was to be determined by the verifyin g power which Congress unquestionably has, and which tho commissioners expressly assumed wheu they swore that they would decide who were duly appointed. To decide it one way or tho other required precisely the same jurisdiction, , and called into exercise exactly the same faculties. Yet they held that if they decided according to the truth in favor of the electors actually appointed they would be trying a contested election ; but if they decided in favor of the pretenders, who had nothing but a fraudulent certificate, they would not be trying a contested election ; in other words, their jurisdiction was full and ample to decide it falsely, but wholly unequal to the duty of deciding it truly.

INELIGIBLE ELECTORS RECOGNIZED. Perhaps nothing shows more plainly the animus of the eight commissioners than the determination they made upon the case of Brewster, the ineligible elector in Louisiana. Keep in mind that their defined duty was to decide who were duly appointed, and what votes were provided for by the constitution, and think how they performed it in this part of the case. Brewster was not only defeated at the polls like the rest; he was, beside, a Federal officeholder, and the constitution expressly declares that no such person shall be appointed an elector. But for HEIR VIOLATIONS OF THE STATUTE ! The action of the returning officers iu the whole business was unsupported by legal authority. The Legislature of the Slate did not, because it could not, give them power to disfranchise qualified electors. They lacked, therefore, the general jurisdiction which they assumed. But that is not all. They proceeded in the very teeth even of the void statute which they professed to follow. That statute pretends to give them no such authority as they exercised over any return to which a protest or statement or charge of intimidation is not attached when it is sent in by the Supervisor of Begistration or Commissioner of Election, and the charge so attached to the return mutt he supported by the affidavits of three citizens of the proper parish. Wanting this, the board was absolutely without the pretense of power to touch the return from any parish or polling-place, except for the purpose of compiling it and adding it as true to tne others. By the election law of Louisiana the board has no more authority to examine or decide a question of intimidation which is not raised hv the election officers than a private individual would have to steal it from the records and burn it. So stands the law. The fact is established by conclusive evidence that from evei y one of the Democratic parishes the returns came up without any charge, statement or protest. Iu all those cases they were therefore without color of jurisdiction. When nothing else would serve the purpose, they did not scruple a resort to plain forgery. Of the return from Vernon parish every figure on the whole broad sheet was altered with elaborate pains under the special direction of Wells. Perjury aud subornation of perjury entered largely into the business. There is hardly any species of the crimen falsi lor which the law has a punishment that did not become an elementary part of the great fraud which was committed wiieu the defeated electors and State officers of Louisiana were falsely certified as chosen by the people. THE CREATION OF THE COMMISSION. But how was the object of the conspiracy to be accomplished ? The House of Representatives was Democratic, and without its consent, expressed or implied iu some form or another, tins Senate could not give effect to a false count. The first intention was to claim that the President of the Senate had power to determine absolutely and arbitrarily what electoral votes should be counted and what not. This was the great rallying point until Mr. Conkling took it up, and, in a speech of surpassing ability, utterly demolished and reduced it to invisible atoms. It became settled, therefore, that the two houses must count the votes, and this clearly implied the power to inquire and determine what were votes. It could not be denied that th'e; voice of the House of Itopresentatives was at least as potential as that of the Senators ; and it was Dot supposed that the House would suffer a fraud so glaring as this to be thrust down the throat of the country “ against the stomach of its sense.” But if the two bodies would declare inconsistent results of the count, and proclaim I lie election of different Presidents, a state of thingsmig|t come which would subject jour institutions to a strain severe enough to endanger them greatly. It was in these difficult circumstances that a mixed commission of fifteen was proposed, consistiug of five Senators, live Representatives, and five Judges of the Supreme Court. The mode of appointing them made it certain that fourteen would be equally divided between the parties ; and, as the fifth Judge wonld be named by the consent of bis brethren on both sides, he might be expected to stand between them, like a daysman, with a hand as heavy on one head as the other. The Democrats consented to this in the belief that no seven Republicans could be taken from the court or from Congress who would swear to decide the truth and then uphold a known fraud : if mistaken in that opinion of their adversaries’ honesty, they felt sure, at all eveuts, that the umpire would be a fair-minded man. They were bitterly disappointed ; the commission went eight to seven for the great fraud and all its branches ; for fraud in the detail and in the aggregate ; for every item of fraud that was necessary to make the sum total big enough —eight to seven all the time. IT REFUSES TO DO ITS DUTY. We must look at the state of the case as it went before the commission. Tilden and Hendricks had 134 electoral votes clear and free of all dispute, one le.->8 than a majority of the whole number. They also had in ijonisiana eight, and in Florida four, appointed by the people, but falsely certified to Hayes and Wheeler by the Governors. In Oregon they had one eei tifii d by the Governor, but against whom a popular majority had been cast for an

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ineligible candidate. To elect Hayes it wa« necessary that each and every ono of these thirteen votes Rhould l>e taken from Tilden and gives to Hayes. As this required many distinct rulings based upon contradictory grounds, the path of the commission was not only steep but crooked. HEDGING FOR OREGON. The commission, following the lead of counsel for Mr. Hayes, insisted that the certificate of the projXfr State officer ought to l>e regarded as conclusive evidence of the appointment made by the jieople. It is undoubtedly true that the State has a right to speak on this subject through her own organs, and when she docs speak her voice should be regarded as true. But what officer is her proper organ? The Governor being her political chief, and his certificate required by act of Congress, it would not- have been unreasonable to hold that it was conclusive unless tainted with fraud. The Hayes electors had the Executive certificate in Louisiana and Florida, and this, in regard to those States, gave the eight a great legal advantage. But tliev threw it away, abandoned the attestation of the Governor as worthless, claimed no faith or credit for it, and pronounced ii open to contradiction, no matter how honestly it may have been given. What was the meaning of this phe - nomenal ruling which apparently opened the door of investigation even wider than the Democrats asked ? It was understood by everybody. The commission was hedging for Oregon. The eight were reaching across to the Pacific for the vote there, which was jnst as important as the twelve on the Gulf of Mexico. Fur the purpose of electing Mr. Haves this vote was worth as much as all the others. To get that vote for their candidate they were required to go further than they went for any of the rost, and so they held: i. That the certificate of the Returning Board was propria rigorr an appointment. 2. That it was a due appointment, though corrupt and dishonest. 3. That this was a' vote provided for by the constitution, though the constitution in plain words provided against it. THE FULL EXTENT OF THE OUTRAGE. After all, there was but one question before the commission. Had the American people a light to elect their own Chief Magistrate? They had the right. Their ancestors struggled for it long, fought for it often, and won it fairly. Being imbedded in their constitution, it cannot be destroyed except by a force strong enough to overthrow the organic structure of the Government itself. Legislative enactments or judicial decisions arc powerless oitlier to strengthen or impair ■ it. The legerdemain of lawcraft, the catches of special pleadings, the snapperadoes of practice, do not help us to decide a matter like this. A great nation must not bo impaled noon a pin's point. Precedents which might bind a court of quarter sessions determining the settlement of a pauper cannot tie up the hands of the supreme Legislature defending a fundamental right of the whole people. When Grenville, in 1706, cited the authority of divers cases to show that America mights be taxed without representation, Pitt answered: “ I come not here armed at all points, with the statute book doubled down in dog’s ears, to defend the cause of liberty. I can acknowledge no veneration for any procedure, ' law, or ordinance that is repugnant to reason and the first principles of our constitution.- I rejoice that America has resisted.” So spoke the defiant friend of our race in the presence of a hostile Parliament ten years before the Declaration of Independence. And now, after this long interval of time, wo behold our greatest right—the right on which all other rights depend—successfully assailed in our own Congress with the same small weapons that Grenville ‘ used. If brute force lia<l crushed it out, wo might have borne the calamity with fortitude; but to see it circumvented by knavery and pettifogged to death, is too much to be endured with any show of patience. If t-lie majority of that commission could but have realized tlieir responsibility to God and man, if they could only have understood that in a free conutry liberty and law are inseparable. they would have been enrolled among our greatest benefactors, for they would have added strength and grandeur to our institutions. But thsy could not come up to the height of the great subject. Party passion so benumbed their faculties that a fundamental right seemed nothing to them when it came in conflict with some argument supported by artificial reasoning, and drawn from the supposed analogies of technical procedure. The constitution was, in their judgment, outweighed by a void statute and the action of a corrupt Returning Board. Let these tilings bo remembered by our children’s children; and, if the friends of free government shall ever again have such a contest, let them take care how they leave the decision of it to a tribunal like that which betrayed the nation by enthroning the great fraud of 1876.

Cotton Manufacture.

The cotton manufacturing capacity of the country could be safely doubled if the means of rapid distribution of manufactures to all parts of the earth existed. The country now makes up into cloth only 1,400,000 bales of its raw cottou. It exports from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 bales annually, and this large surplus might as well be manufactured here ns anywhere, and, in fact, should be. There can be no large addition to the manufacturing resources of the country, however, until first-class steam lines are started to South America, Africa and the East Indies so as to open up new markets for American goods. To manufacture on a much larger scale now, without a wider market, would be ruin. With good steam lines, operated iu the interest of the United States, an increase of production iu all parts of the country could safely and profitably be undertoken, and as many more cotton mills could be built ns exist now, to the great advantage of the country. — Near York Tribune.

Extraordinary Chess-Playing.

The Case International was the scene last evening of an unusual spectacle, James Mason playing seventeen games of chess simultaneously against seventeen different players. The latter sat in rows at their tallies, pondering over their pieces, while Mason passed from one to the other, pausing only long enough to see the last move made in his absence, and to make an answering move. The seventeen games were finished within about three hours. Three were drawn, and fourteen were victorious for Mason. —Neui York Nun.

An Extraordinary Railroad Accident.

A fatal and singular accident recently occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad. An express train, which was going at a rapid speed, struck one of a party of four tramps who had stepped on the track to avoid a freight train which was coming the other way, near Forestdale, N. J. The train struck him with such force as to hurl him against a telegraph pole and sever his head from his body. The head flying, and striking another tramp, broke bis leg. It is said that every bone in the body of the tramp who was killed was broken. )

Diamond-Cutting.

Diamond-cutting, which has hereto® fore been carried on almost exclusively by the Jews of Amsterdam, has been taken up aud successfully prosecuted by a class of twenty-three young women of Itoxbury, Mass. The girls cut and polish the diamonds in a superior manner, and are found to be admirably adapted for tliat branch of industry-, which seems to open a new field for female operatives. Thiers is bale and hearty, and his walk, carriage, dress and conversation are not those of an old man. He wears neither whiskers nor mustache, and, like the Iron Duke of England, shaves himself with an untrembling band; indeed, the morning hour devoted to the razor is his favorite time for receiving visitors,

Jg7f{ omwtrafy Sentinel JOB PRINTING OFFICE Has hotter facilities than any office in Northwester* Indiana for the execution of all branches of JOB PRIWTINO. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from a Pamphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

THE BUfIUMJALI. Hark ! 'tip the bogle—the bugle of War ! Banners are flying, and sal>erß unaheath ; Rifles and bayonets gleam from afar ; Cannon drive lumbering over the heath ; Bustle and stir from the east to the west; Marching of troops from the north to the south; Spectacled grandaines, and babes at the breast, Press for the last time the warrior’s mouth ; Wives from mute husbands arc tom with a wrench, Men steel their hearts ’mid the clamor'd arms ; Spades turn from tillage to dig and intrench, And beauty to glory surrenders its charms, At the blast of the bugle—the bugle of War! Hark ! ’tis the bugle—the bugle of Peace ! Sounds o’er the battle-held—over the slain. Hushes the strife, bids artillery cease, Thrills through the dying stretched out on the plain; Hark ! how the call rings o’er valley and hill; “ Light bivouac fires—weary warriors, rest! Up, tender-eyed Pity, to save—not to kill, Go forth on thy errand, the blessing and blest! ' Softly white snow weaves a shroud for the dead, A mantle to hide the red deed War has done; Stern foemcn shake hands where their fellows have bled, And Morey can breathe, now the battle is done. In the notes’of the bugle—the bugle of Peace !

WIT AND HUMOR.

Why are troubles like babies? Because they get bigger by mirsiug. Advice to too many people—How to make home happy—leave it. Fools ami their money soon part. It’s worth while being a fool to have money to part from. A person always meets with a warm reception at a hotel. The minute he arrives he is placed on a register. Some one says that the test of true love in Wisconsin is permitting a young man with measles to kiss his sweetheart, Wh at is the difference between a Christian and a cannibal ? Ono enjoys himself, and the other enjoys other people. Even if a boy is always whistling, “ I want to be an angel,” it is just as well to keep the preserved pears ou the top shelf of the pantry. The present style of young ladies’ dresses does not require any satin in the material. In fact, they are not made to be sat in. A little girl was suffering from the mumps, and declared that she “ felt as though a headache had slipped down into her neck.” This is the season at which the amazed washerwoman clutches a painful nest of tishhooks in the soiled pantaloons of juvenile Americans. The intelligent compositor who was responsible for flic statement that “Adelina Fntti is growing stout,” is still pursuing the evil tenor of his weigh. A chesty old bachelor says that Adam’s wife was called Eve because when she appeared the day of man’s happiness was* drawing to a close. The average Mexican now rises betimes, pokes his head out of the window and cautiously inquires of the first pass-er-by, “Who’s President this morning?” > A witness on the stand, in reply to a question as to what the character of Mr. was for truth and veracity, said: “Well, I should say that he handles truth very carelessly.” A small child,- being asked by a Bun-day-school teacher “What did the Israelites do alter they had crossed the lied sea?” answered, “ I don’t know, ma’am, but I guess they dried themselves.” “He is a mau alter my owu heart, pa,” said Julia, reverting to her Charles Augustus. “Nonsense,” replied old Practical ; “he is a man after the money your uncle left you.” And then all was quiet. “Algernon,” she whispered, “will you always love hie?” “Evangeline, I swear it,” he responded in a passionate murmur. Then there was a sound as of a clam falling into the mud, and all was still. “ I try to preach the milk of the Word,” replied a clergyman to a parishioner who remonstrated that his sermons were too long. “ Yes,” remarked the other, “ but around here what we. want is condensed milk.” A pupil gave his teacher this illustrative definition of “responsibility”— “ Hoys has two buttons for their s-’pend-deis so’s to keep their knickerbockers up. When one button comes off, why, there’s a good deal of responsibility on t’other button.”

HOW THEY DO IT. “ Know you e’er,” naiil crafty Philip, “ That when maiden's kiancd would he, Then with accent* soft they nwcetly Lisp their words in lanKu«Ke free ! ” Back the answer came, a golden Mine of wealth in every word ; ( “ Yetli,” the damsel gently murmured, “ Yetli, dear Philip, tho I’ve heard.” “My dear,” said an affectionate wife to her husband, as she looked out of the window, ‘ ‘ do you notice how green and beautiful the grass looks on the neighboring hills?” “'Well,” was the unpoetic response, “ what other color would you have it at this time of the year ?” “Our Dumb Animals" is the name of the organ of the “American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.” Appropriate name, “ Our Dumb Animals." That’s what the mancalls them who gets up at 1 a. m. and drives three or four of them out of liis garden, but he docs not spell the middle word with a “ b.” Niosxc puts us iu mind of the Kansas man who went to Ne\f York and entered a gilt-edged restaurant for his dinner. He said they sat him down to “a table with a silver caster, a clean plate, a knife aud a split spoon. ” He waited until lie was nearly starved, and then “A nigger come up and bad the impudence to ask me what I’d have. ‘Vittles!’ says T, ‘ Yittles! Bring on your vittles, and I’ll help myself. ’ ” H i

The Toad.

The toad is not a beautiful animal, to the eye; but he is very serviceable to the farmer in his way, and lie should bo kindly regarded. The Ohio Farmer well remarks that the number of insects that a toad will cat is almost incredible. A few of them in a garden will keep it well rid of bugs, plant-lice, etc. They generally spend the day in some dark, secluded spot—often a hole under a sod, or clod, or the side of a rock; and in the evening they come out and hop about in search of a supper of live insects. They may be induced to take up their residence in the garden by confining them for two or three days to the place, when they will become quite well contented. A iniard laid about two inches from the* ground is just the kind of hiding-place that suits them. They arc long-lived, being often known 12 to 16 years old, and it is said one lived to 36 years old. On account of their propensity for destroying insects, toads should be encouraged to become permanent residents of our fields and gardens.—lndependent. Lieut. Catesby-Jones, formerly of the United States navy, and afterward of the Confederate ram Merrimac, was lately killed in a street encounter at Sebum, Ala,