Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1877 — Page 1

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STEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAB IN THE EAST. The Russians have re-occnpied the positions hcid by them previous to the Plevna disaster. They are receiving heavy reinforcements, and preparing to administer a crushing blow to the Turkish forces north of the Balkans. From (labrova a correspondent reports that tho whole country about Eski-Saghra is being devastated, and the villages and country residences burned by flying bands of Bulgarians and Circassians. An ofticial dispatch published in St. Petersburg admits the loss of upwards of 5,000 men at Plevna, including one Colonel killed and a Major General and two Colonels wounded. The dispatch also admits that Gen. Gourka has been obliged to retreat. A cable dispatch says Gen. Gourka has destroyed the railway between Jamboli and Philippopoty. The whole country between Kazanlik and Adrianople will soon be destroyed, owing to the strife between the Turke and Bulgarians, unless tho Russians press rapidly forward. An Adrianople dispatch says: “ There is appalling misery among the Bulgarian and Turkish fugitives from Eski-Saghra and neighborhood. There arc from 10,000 to 15,000, of whom 500 are wounded. Many are dying on the road from exhaustion and starvation. All are destitute of every necessary of life.” In the naval engagement in Sulina nver the Turkish ironclads attacked seven Russian gunboat/ and destroyed two of them. There is much sickness in the Russian army in the Dobrudsclia. The Russian Gen. Gourka has retreated from his position in the Shipka pass, and there are now no Russians south of the Balkans. This movement, it is said, was rendered necessary by the concentration which the Grand Duke Nicholas is carrying oiit in the valley of the Jantrai

A cable dispatch announces that Achmet I’aslia, who surrendered the fortress of Nikopolis to tho Russians, has ended his life by suicide. The Russian army in Bulgaria is beginning to suffer in health. In the Dobrudsclia, where steaming swamps poison tho air and water alike, malarial fever and dysentery are playing avoc with Gen. Zimmerman’s army. The cable reports a panic throughout Russia. Additional troops are being hurried pell-mell to the Danube. Tho religious communities are hastily packing and sending their valuables to Austria, fearing that they will be confiscated in the general war-levy for money, and there is nn increasing fooling of uneasiness in Russian -Poland. Nevertheless, there is much enthusiasm at Moscow and at St. Petersburg for war. The suburbs of the Russian capital are studded with tents and the city itself is full of martial sounds incident to the warlike preparations. A force of 185,000 landwehr is nearly ready to start for the front, and there is every indication that Russia is determined to justify the general belief in her ultimate success. The chief of Gen, Krudener’s staff has been cited before a council of war to explain the failure at Plevna. Charges and counter-charges of atrocities continue to be made by Russians and Turks, and both seem to contain the elements at least of truth. There is no doubt that this is the most cruel war in the history of the world. Reprisals are made ruthlessly by both belligerents.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS The famine in India is growing worse, and an earnest appeal has boon addressed to the British public for aid. The mortality is increasing, and tho distress is reaching the better classes. The General commanding the Spanish forces in Cuba has advised the Spanish Government that the insurgents of the island will surrender only on condition of receiving their independence ; that it will require 50,000 more soldiers to “ crush ” the rebels, and that unless he can have them ho recommends tho Government to accept the former alternative and stop the cruel war. ’ The American residents of Rome have sent a congratulatory letter to Gen. Grant, who is now traveling in Italy. A dispatch from Ban Antonio, Texas, says : “ Lieut. Bullies crossed the Bio Grande on the It b. recaptured five stolon horses, anil re turned to tho Texas side on the sth. Maj Schofield arrested forty-five Valdez filibusters at Eaglo. pass.” A Vienna correspondent confirms the report that Austria lias concluded the financial arhtii£4n£nts necbisAry for partial mobilization. The total amount borrowed was 26,400,000 florins. Gen. Grant is in Italy, Gov. Tilden is in Loudon, Gov. Hendricks is in Paris, and Theodore Tilton is traveling incog, in England. All hope of Jovellar’s success in restoring tranquillity in Cuba having been abandoned, he has been removed and Gen. Blanco appointed Captain General in his stead. It is rumored in London that the Austrian and German Emperors, at thoir recent conference, agreed upon a plan for the partition of Turkey, by which Russia is to have Armenia, iw w Lwl» o DouxxLcx qml Tloi'rr Greece to have Epirus, Thessaly and Crete, and Bulgaria to be governed by a German Prince.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE I I-IIXSt. The New York market is literally overstocked with sugar, prices are declining, and disaster is predicted for some of the firms. One of them, we read in the Trilrtene, is carrying 35,000 hogsheads, which, if sold at present market rates, would be at a loss of SBOO,OOO. West. The affairs of the Protection Life Insurance Company, of Chicago, have been placed in the hands of a receiver.’ The Charter Oak Insurance Company has been prohibited from doing business in Illinois. The suit instituted on the part of the Govcrnment against William McKee, of the St. Ijouis Globe-Democrat, to recover the entire amount out of which the national treasury was defrauded by the St. Louis whisky ring contains 1,653 counts, judgment of $1,400 on each count being asked—in all, $2,314,200 The jury in the case of*Pike,;<rf Chicago, who some time ago murdered Jones, the editor of a spiritualist paper in that city, has rendered a verdict of acquittal on the ground that he was and is insane. Leslie C. Hanks, Consul General for Guatemala, recently shot and killed a well-known stock-broker named Daily, in the streets of Han Francisco. Hanks was arrested and conthud in prison. The next morning he was found dead in his cell, having shot himself with a rifle that had been carelessly left within .his reach. A fire in San Francisco, last week, burned two blocks of frame buildings occupied by small retail establishments, boarding-houses, saloons, etc. The loss is estimated at about $150,000. John P. Schenck, Secretary and Treasurer of * h© Laborers Loan and Ravings As-

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sociation, of Toledo, has fled to Canada with £B,OOO of the bank’s funds. Minnesota will, it is estimated, yield 30,000,000 bushels of wheat this autumn. The failures in Chicago during July represent an indebtedness of $4,859,221. A desperate fight recently occurred at West Los Animas, CoL, between the adherents of two rival dance-houses. Knives and pistols were freely used, about thirty shots being fired. One man was killed and seven or eight others dangerously wounded, some of whom will die of their injuries. Four men were drowned in the harbor of Chicago, last week, by the sinking of the yacht Pamlico. South. The main building of the Wesleyan Female College at Murfreesboro, N. C., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, £75.000; insurance, Deputy United States Marshals Harris and Peebles were stint by Gen. Patterson, Collector of the Memphis district, to seize the tobacco of John A. Burton, in Henry county, Tenn. They had two men and a driver of a wagon with them, and seized the factory, and began loading the machinery on the wagon, when suddenly they were surrounded by twenty-flve armed men and ordered to unload the wagon, some of the desperadoes insisting on killing the officers, who were forced to abandon the work and leave. They were glad to get away with their lives.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Maine Republican Convention met at Augusta oh the 9th fast., and was called to order by Senator James G. Blaine. Joseph Drummond, of Portland, was made President of the convention. Gov. Connor was nominated by acclamation for re-election to the Governorship. The Committee on Resolutions made their report. The resolutions declare it to be the imperative duty of the National Government, by the exercise of every constitutional power, to extend its protection to every citizen, native and naturalized, white and colored, whether men tied by tyranny abroad, or by political persecution, now shielded under the heresy of States rights at home. That the Republicans of Maine view with solicitude and alarm the complete consolidation of all political power in sixteen Southern States in the hands of those who precipitated the rebellion, while the Union men are persecuted into silence or banishment, and the entire colored race so practically enfranchised by force and fear that in Congressional districts where they have more than two-thirds of the voters they are unable to elect one of their race or a white man in sympathy with their interests. Thirty-five representatives, in Congress, and thirty-five electoral votes apportioned to the Southern States by reason of their colored population, are thus invested to the sole aggrandizement of Confederate power in the National Government, and late rebel soldiers in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana are thus enabled to exert in the administration of the Government more tb in double the political power of Union soldiers in any Northern State. That the action of the Democrats of the House of Representatives, in refusing appropriations for the army, except upon conditions that deprived the Commander-in-Chief of the discretion vested in him by the constitution, was wholly unjustifiable, dangerous and revolutionary, and it is a striking commentary on this evil and perilous course that two of the States whose entire representation in Congress aided in defeating the Army bill have been since compelled, under pressure and violence of mob law, to. call on the National Government for such aid as only the army can render. That a sound currency, based on coin and redeemable in coin, is essential to the prosperity of the people, and we therefore demand that, in the resumption of specie payment, the promise of the National Government be kept in an honest, straightforward manner, and that no backward or sideway step be taken. The resolutions oppose any further land grants or subsidies for railroads by the General Government ; favor such incidental protection and development of the country as the wisest system of revenue may rightfully and properly afford ; also, favor wise and salutary measures tending to the purification, integrity, and independence [of the civil service, and declare that non-sectarian education must be continued. Charles J. Talbot moved the adoption of the and moved the previous question. A scene or confusion ensued, and the previous question was not seconded. Gen. J. 8. Chamberlain moved an amendment, as follows :

liexolved, That we reaffirm unshaken confidence in thC integrity, patriotism, and statesmanship of Rutherford B. Hayes, and we cordially approve his efforts to carry out in good, faith the principles enunciated by the Cincinnati Convention. Gov. Chamberlain spoke in favor of his amendment, and his remarks were received with great applause. C. A. Boutell, of Bangor, moved the following amendment, and advocated its adoption: Resolved, That this Convention declares its belief that Gov. Packard, of Louisiana, and Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina, were entitled to their respective offices by the same Votes which elected Rutherford B. Hayes President of the United States, and that both Governors were clearly entitled to recognition by the National and by failure to recognize them placed the National Government in the humiliating attitude of surrendering to rebels threatening wiiu «mia m their hands to resist its legitimate authority. Mr. Blaine took the floor, and said he was opposed to both resolutions, and in favor of peace. He moved that the resolutions be tabled, and made a speech in support of his motion, in which he said : “ I do not rise to speak for an indorsement of the administration or against it, for the Southern policy or in opposition to it. A difference is existing in the Bepublican party. What shall be done about it ? Shall one man be compelled to swallow the opinions of another, or shall not each have liberty to cherish his own ? lam opposed to both these resolutions. I am known by perhaps every member of this convention to entertain very deeded views on the Southern question, but I am just as ready to vote against the resolution condemning the President's policy as I am to vote against one approving. We cannot ake action either way without offending good men, and creating needless heartburnings and dissensions. We can all unite on a strong platform, embracing the issues which we hold in common. We can all rally as one man to the support of Gov. Connor. We can be tolerant to each other’s opinions. We can all remember and adapt the old theological maxim which teaches, ‘ln essentials there should be unity; in non-essen-tials, liberty; in all things, charity.’ ” A. G. Lebroke made a violent speech against the administration, which was greeted with cheers and hisses. After other speeches Aaron H. Morrill said he wanted peace, but there was no peace in opposition to the national administration, and he desired to say this to his friends who had preceded him. He proceeded to address the convention amid a scene of great confusion, being greeted with cheers and hisses. Mr. Blaine’s motion to lay both resolutions on the table prevailed. A meeting of disaffected Ohio Republicans met at Columbus last week, and was presided over by Gen. John Beatty, former member of Congress, Besolutions were adopted bitterly

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denouncing the Southern policy of President Hayes. f A. B. Cornell, Naval Officer of New York, and Chairman of the Republican State Committee, say*, he will not resign either office, but proposes to hold on to both until relieved. Washington telegram: The President that the proceedings of the Maine Convention are a disappointment to him. He expected something more emphatic in the way of cen- ' sure. The resolutions, he said, are not dangerous, and the country can stand them. The Virginia Democratic Convention, after a stormy session of three days, nominated Frederick W. M. Halliday for Governor. A platform was adopted recognizing the .obligat ion of the public debt, and recommending the General Assembly to endeavor to readjust the same In a manner just to creditors and honorable to the State. ; The workingmen’s political movenwntys Mid to be assuming formidable shape in Ohio. A convention is to be held for the nomination of a State ticket, and Legislative tickets will be nominated in nearly every county. Many farmers are joining in the movement. A State convention of the Workingmen’s party in Ohio was held at Cincinnati last week. A platform was adppted, and the following ticket nominated : For Governor, L. H. Bond, of Cincinnati; Lieutenant Governor, Francis Skarde, of Cleveland ; State Treasurer, L. H. Hine, of Loveland; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Henry Armsperger, of Cincinnati; Board of Public Works, P. G. McGeeney, of Xenia; School Commissioner, Peter H. Clark, of Cincinnati.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Shennai!has gone to his home at Mansfield, Ohio, and will not return until about the Ist of September. C. W. Ringgold, tl* United States Appraiser at New Orleans, La., and C. J. Barber, Appraiser at Portland, Me., have been suspended, with a view to a reduction of the force. At a Cabinet meeting, the other day, it was determined to prohibit the sale of arms to Indians. Superintendent Vail, of the railway postal service, that during the recent strikes there was not a single letter or newspaper lost. President Hayes, accompanied by several members of his Cabinet, left Washington, on the 13th inst., for a trip through Vermont and New Hampshire. Later on, sometime in September, he will pay a visit to his home in Ohio, thence making a detour to Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and back to Washington. The administration has decided to send a commission to Canada to negotiate for tho return of Sitting Bull and his band to American soil.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. R. G. Dun & Co., wholesale dry-goods merchants in Montreal, Canada, have failed. Liabilities, $330,000. The Columbia Life Insurance Company, of St. Louis, Mo,, and the Citizens’ Fire Insurance Company, of Newark, N. J., have collapsed. The officer in charge of the United States arsenal at Pittsburgh having asked for an inquiry into his conduct in refusing shelter in the arsenal inclosure to the Philadelphia militia, the Secretary has refused the request. It is believed that the country narrowly escaped a serious panic as the outgrowth of the recent strike, and if the general suspension of business had continued a few days longer the calamity of a widespread financial crisis must surely have been added to tho heavy damage inflicted during the brief period of mob rule, The New York banks had already decided to refuse any more loans on collaterals, but the measure was rendered unnecessary by the discontinuance of the causes which led to its adoption. The public is warned that numerous and well-executed counterfeits on the City Bank of Montreal, the Dominion Bank of Toronto, the Royal Canadian Bank, and the British Bank of North America are in circulation. Eads’ Mississippi jetties arc pronounced by Capt. Brown, of the United States Engineer corps, a complete success. A deputation of leading Chinamen recently called on Senator Morton, in San Francisco, and invoked him to secure the passage through Congress of a bill providing for a modification or abrogation of the Burlingame treaty, and imposing a tax of SIOO upon every Mongol landing on American shores. They also request the steamship company to double the passage rates for Chinese coming to San Francisco, while fixing a lower price for those who wish to go home. Mr. Morton promised to introduce in the Senate the desired legislation. News comes from Panama of the total loss of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Eten, on the morning of the 15th of July, seventy miles north of Valparaiso, fourteen bodies have been recovered. Forty-three of the crew and passengers had reached the shore in safety, and twenty were still on the rocks. A British war vessel and a Chilian gunboat went to the scene of the wreck as soon as reported, but were unable to render assistance, owing to the rough weather and fog. The survivors on the rocks, from exposure and want of food, threw themselves jnto the sea to end their misery. Only three were saved. It is believed that about 100 fives were lost by the disaster. Threee girls were recently drowned at Lyndoch, Ontario, while bathing in a creek.

Snakes.

“ Is the snake editor in ?” “ Amid the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune he never forsakes his post. Behold in me the snake editor.” “ Well, I killed a rattle——” “ How long was it ?” “ Nine feet four ” “W-what! less than ten feet? This paper is no receptacle for miserable fish-ing-worm stories,” and the exasperated editor seized the visitor by the throat and shut off from his insides the breath of heaven. “Yaas,” gurgled the poor wretch, “ but it had eighty-seven ra ” “No back talk!” yelled the editor; “ we want no rattlesnakes less than from ten to twelve feet in length,” and the snake-killer was dashed to pieces on the flinty pavement below.— Oil City Derrick.

Women Telegraphers.

The employment of women in the telegraph departmeßthas been a complete success in England. ployed in Lbndon, and th&wJjawbeen but one dismissal in four years. Their hours of work are from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m., each being on duty eight consecutive hours out of these twelve. In the establishment there is a kitchen and dining rooms, and the girls have a thoroughly good dinner for 20 cents. The pay begins at 82 a week, which is raised to $3 when a girl is competent. Girls may enter from 14 to 18. The average pay received is $4.50 a week, and the highest is $7.50 a week. A clerk who has worked for thirty years at $7.50 a week would have $8.75 a week pension,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

DIRE DISASTER.

Gen. Gibbon Attacks the Nez Perces Indians. After a Bloody Battle Sis Forces are Repulsed with Terrible Loss. Desperate Fighting on Both Sides— Full Particulars of the Affair.

A desperate fight tool place at Big Hole pass, in Western Montana, on the 9th of August, between Gen. Gibbon’s force of regulars and militia and Chief Joseph’s band of Purees Indians, in which the foftner, after a desperate and bloody series erf charges, was driven back, leaving half life force on flie fifeld. Gen. Gibbon’s command numbered 133 regulars, thirty-two volunteers, and seventeen officers. They have been for some time pressing the Nez Perces, and following them in the hope of an engagement, but came upon them unexpectedly, and at a time when the troops were not prepared for a general battle. At daylight the fight openedj and in a short time all the soldiers and all the Indians were hotly engaged a desperate battle. The troops massed and moved in fine order upon the encampment, where they were met by the savages, who poured a merciless fire into their ranks. Where.ver the soldiers directed their attack the Indians were ready for them, and they were driven back with terrible slaughter, leaving the ground strewn with dead soldiers. The Indians lost many of their ponies, and it is claimed that several of their chiefs were killed. In one of the most desperate charges of the day Capt. Logan was killed. Liieut. Bradley fell early in the fight. Gen. Gibbon, Capt. Williams, and Lieuts. Coolidge, English, and Woodruff were wounded. Throughout the engagement the Indians were vindictive and determined upon the annihilation of the troops. They outnumbered the troops four to one, and, though decisive advantages were gained by Gibbon in the early stages of the fight, it was plain at last that retreat was necessary to save the troops from complete demolition. A scout who has arrived at Helena, Montana, with dispatches from Gen. Gibbon, says the volunteers opened the ball by finng upon an Indian who was going for water. The regulars moved up, and, forming in open line, dashed upon the Indian camp, supported by the volunteers acting as reserves. They reached the village, when they staggered back under a pitiless fire from the redskins, and retreated a short distance. They were not followed, and this, with an apparent confusion among the Indians, encouraged them to renew the charge, which they did, rushing into the encampment and driving the savages before them. It was here that numbers began to tell, and a deadly fire from three sides forced the troops through the village and back nearly half a mile, where they found shelter behind the rocks, and reformed for another effort. As they pressed forward again, they found that they had not only a foe to confront, but foemen on each side, hidden among the rocks and taking cool aim at the men as they passed. Pushing forward they reached the outskirts of the village, but encountered such a terrible shower of bullets that they wavered and then broke and made their way back as best they could, harassed all the way by a flank fire among the rocks. It was in this last charge that Gen. Gibbon was wounded. Finding that another attack would wreck even the remnant of his force, he intrenched himself, paying attention to the wants of his wounded. The courier estimates the number of killed at twenty-five, and the wounded at from thirty-five to forty. The loss among the Indians was much heavier, and that they suffered severely is proven by their refusal to follow the retreating troops. Had the howitzer come up, there is but little doubt that the result would have been different. It was heard to fire twice, and since then it has not been heard from, and it is supposed to have been captured by the Indians. Gen. Gibbon’s losses are: Killed— Capt. Logan, Lieuts. Bradley and Bostwick, seventeen men, and citizens; wounded—Gen. Gibbon, Capt. Williams, Lieuts. Coolidge, Woodruff and English, the latter seriously, besides thirty-six men and four citizens. The Indians suffered severely, as forty dead Indians were counted on about one-half £lie bat-tle-field.

Losses by the Strike.

A gentleman connected with a leading bank in New York city and a member of the clearing house, has made an estimate of the losses occasioned by the strike, which is perhaps as nearly accurate as any that can be obtained. These losses are estimated on thelatest returns of the different roads, and include perishable articles destroyed and contracts annulled, destruction of oil and other valuable freight, cattle and other live stock killed, for which the taxpayers will not be responsible. The losses, as given in the New York correspondence of the Boston Traveller, are as follows: Baltimore and Ohio, $3,250,000; Pennsylvania Central, $4,500,000; Chicago and Ft. Wayne, $1,200,000; New York Central, $2,600,000; Erie, $2,000,000; Lake Shore, $2,750,000; Michigan Central, $1,500,000; Canada Southern, $750,000; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, $2,000,000; Delaware and Hudson. sl,200,000; Jersey Central, $900,000; Bock Island, $3,000,000. But, going beyond these items and looking at the loss caused by the suspension of traffic, we find the figures swelled enormously. The destruction of rolling-stock and other property which must be paid for by the taxpayers is estimated, all told, at $20,000,000. The entire estimated loss from all sources is placed at no less than $60,000,000. And, enormous as this sum seems, it has been reached by several highly competent authorities. The debate on the Burials bill in the English Parliament makes the statistics of parish churchyards very opportune. There are in England and Wales, now open, 13,177 burial-places in which only the state-church service can be used. There are 5,005 places in which a deceased person not a member of the state church can be buried by his own minister. There are in England 17,682 Dis-

senting places of worship, and in Wales 2,628, making a total of 20,490. Most of the unconsecrated cemeteries pertain to large towns.

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

Tiik Secretary of the Treasury has received information that dry and salted hides of neat cattle can how be safely imported from England and Ireland. The valuation of property in Boston has fallen off $62,000,000 in a year. The city is rated now at $686,802,100, and taxation has increased from $12.70 to $13.10 per SI,OOO. The business of the clearing-houses of the country has been considerably smaller since Jan. 1 than during the corresponding period in 1876, which seems to indicate a collapse of speculation. According to the Chairman of the Grand Trunk railway that road has lost $4,750,05) in two and a quarter years from competition, and railways in America hatye lost $47,000,0)00 ji the same time from the same cause. ‘ * Shoemaking is said to be duller now at Lynn than was ever known before. The period following the Fourth of July until the first of October has always been considered the busiest time for shoe operatives, but the present year is an exception, and, unless business picks up, there will be much suffering in Lynn during the ensuing winter. The majority of shoe manufacturers have already filled their fail and winter orders, and have begun to discharge their employes. Secretary Evarts is contemplating an extension and improvement of our relations with South America, with a view of promoting trade and commerce with its principal states. It is alleged that the present Consular and Commercial Agents of the United States ini those countries have been looking after their personal interests too much, and operating in such a manner as to favor European commerce rather than our own.

The returns from all the customs districts give a very favorable showing of the trade of the United States with foreign countries. The total exports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, at specie values, were $602,474,581, and the imports $451,307,549, the excess of exports being $151,167,032. This is a big gain over 1876, when the excess of exSo'rts over imports was $79,643,481. A ecided improvement has also taken place in the coin balances. For 1877 the exports of coin and bullion were $56,163,237, and the imports $40,774,414 against total exports of $56,506,302, and imports of only $15,936,681. During the year just closed the United States sold 105,000,000 yards of cotton goods abroad, ten times more than was exported the year before. The sale is being rapidly extended to every quarter of the globe where humanity wears anything better than unadorned loveliness ; and at present the prediction of Mr. Wheelwright that the trade will be quadrupled in two years, stands a firstclass chance of realization. Fears have been expressed that trouble might be caused in financial circles in Pennsylvania by the passing of the dividend of the Pennsylvania road. The rules of the banks do not allow them to make loans on non-divi-dend-paying stocks, and, in consequence, it was anticipated that some of them might throw out the shares held by them as collateral. If this has been done to any extent nothing has been seen of it, and the probability is that the banks of Pennsylvania will strain every point possible to protect their customers from the panic and loss that would follow any such action. A speedy return of the good times of five years ago is predicted by the Toledo Blade, which bases its belief on the immense crop of the year, and the wellknown effects of prosperity among farmers on general business. It appears that the crops being harvested are the largest the country ever had. The acreage of wheat is largely in excess of any since the settlement of the country, and the yield per acre is infinitely greater. Hay is magnificent, and has been secured in the very best condition. Corn is now a certainty. Never was the eye gladdened with the sight of such fields. The stalks tower gloriously, and the color is superb. Oats, which have been a failure since 1874, will yield very much more than they did then.

Railway Profits.

Below we have tabulated from the last edition of “ Poor’s Manual,” a statement exhibiting the number of railroad companies in each State,, and liow many of them -earned dividends the last year. It is as follows : MF kh Maine 13 5 Utah 8 2 New Hampshire 18 8 Dakota 2 0 Vermont 12 0 Colorado 7 0 Massachusetts.. 47 20 Virginia 20 4 Rhode Island... 10 3 North Carolina 12 2 Connecticut.... 21 7 South Carolina 12 0 New Y0rk...... 71 20 Georgia 21 6 New Jersey..... 52 20 Florida 5 0 Pennsylvania... 78 33 Alabama 17 0 Delaware....... 7 2 Mississippi 8 0 Maryland 20 3 Louisiana 6 0 West Virginia.. 1 1 Texas 7 0 Ohio 53 17 Kentucky 16 2 Michigan 34 3 Tennessee 10 3 Indiana 35 3 Arkansas 6 0 Illinois 52 7 California 8 0 Wisconsin 18 1 Oregon 2 0 Minnesota 15 1 Nevada 4 1 lowa 31 6 Washington.... 3 1 Kansas 16 0 Union Pacific.. 1 0 Nebraska 8 0 Central Pacific. 1 0 Missouri 23 0 Total 811 196 Leaving out of view the fact that many of these companies built their roads on bonds rather than in stock paid in, it appears that less than one-fourth of the railroad corporations throughout the United States earned any dividends at all.— Boston Post.

Fire Statistics.

Already, according to the Insurance Chronicle’s valuable statistics, the fire record of the United States and Canada for this year (leaving out St. John) shows 1,200 more fires than in the first six months of 1876, with nearly $2,000,000 increase in the aggregate loss, or, including the St. John fire, nearer $20,000,000 increase. The actual figures are as follows for the first six months of 1876 and 1877, respectively: 1876. 1877. Aggregate 1055e5536,721,100 $38,273,600 Insurance loss.. 20,357,100 21,993,100 Number of fires, 4,103 5,328 And this does not include the St. John fire, whose statistics cannot yet be accurately given, but have been estimated as high as $20,000,000, with an insurance loss of $6,000,000 to $7,500,000. Figuring up this basis, there has burned up in the United States and Canada, since January, $56,000,000 worth of property, as against $38,000,000 during the corresponding period of last year. And the insurance capital, permanently invested in all this ash heap, amounts to little less than $30,000,000 ! Obviously, the outlook is not a cheerful one for fire insurance companies,

RELICS OF RADICAL RULE.

Known as the Fraudulent Bullock BondsGeorgia Repudiates Them Outright. A correspondent writes from Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 9, as follows: After a subtle and stubborn fight the Constitutional Convention of Georgia to-day completed the process of repudiation of the bonds issued fraudulently by the Bullock Government during the days of reconstruction. The full record of the rascality practiced upon the State during these baleful days will never be uncovered. Backed by an ignorant negro Legislature, Bullock and his pals issued over $8,000,000 oi fraudulent bonds, which the first Democratic Legislature that assembled after Bullock’s disgraceful flight promptly repudiated. Millions of dollars of these bonds were issued in behalf of mythical railroads, and in behalf of corporations that never existed. A favorite method of swindling was to secure an issue of bonds to a certain corporation; then to change the name of the corporation, and have another issue of bonds made to conform to the new hame. It was, of course, provided that the new issue should be used to retire the old issue. The swindlers, however, would put both sets on the market, and thus have the State under duplicate obligations for precisely the same object. After the Legislature had repudiated these villainous claims, it was found that a crowd of lobbyists, acting in the interest of the bondholders, besieged the Capitol at every session of the Assembly. It was then determined to make a constitutional amendment, prohibiting the payment of these bonds or the opening of the courts to any bond claimants. This amendment was perfected only last May. It will be seen then that last hope of the bondholders was to have a clause inserted in the new constitution providing in some way for a hearing of these cases or for the payment of the bonds. Extraordinary efforts were consequently made. Mr. Jere Black, of Pennsylvania, was engaged to argue the cases of the bondholders, and ex-Senator Norwood to represent a certain class before the Committee on Finance.

Despite the arguments, written and personal, made before the committee, to which the committee listened with hardened and impatient hearts, the following clause, in substance, was reported unanimously : “ The General Assembly shall have no authority to appropriate money, either directly or indirectly, to pay the whole or any part of the principal or interest of the bonds or other obligations which have been pronounced illegal, null and void by the Legislature and the constitutional amendment ratified by a vote of the people on the Ist day of May, 1877; nor shall the. General Assembly pass any law, or the Governor or other State official enter into any contract or agreement whereby the State shall be made a party in any court of this State, or the United States, instituted to test the validity of any such bonds or obligations.” There is little doubt that there are two or three classes of bonds, aggregating about $200,000, that have some equitable right to consideration. Hon. A. H. Stephens avouched the integrity of one class of these bonds. Hon. Robert Toombs, speaking of another class, said: “If the State don’t pay them I will.” But the deep sense of indignation felt by the people at the enormous swindles put upon them by the reconstruction regime, many of which were perpetrated by the connivance of Wall street shysters themselves, prevented the reopening of the sealed question under any circumstances. A resolution opening the State Supreme Court to holders of repudiated bonds, provided they would accept its decision as final, was tabled by a vote of 166 to 15, and the matter thus clinched. There was great feeling, but no confusion. The members were resolute and determined. The bondholders have put in the hands of the United States Marshal a paper instructing him to levy on the Macon and Brunswick road as property of the State. It is said the Marshal will attempt to stop the trains and thus force the State or stockholders into the United States Court, and thus open the way for the adjudication of the whole bond question. A lively fight will ensue if this is tried.

THE OHIO GOVERNORSHIP.

Letter of Acceptance of the Democrat! Candidate. The following is the letter of acceptance of B. M. Bishop, Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio: Cincinnati, August 2, 1877. Hon. J. H. Benson, John G. Thompson, H. E. O’Hagan, Committee: Gentlemen—Your official communication of July 27, informing me of my nomination for the office of Governor by the Democratic State Convention, is at hand. I appreciate the high honor conferred by the Democracy of Ohio, and, while keenly alive to the great responsibilities I assume, I trust, if elected, to be able, under Providence, to discharge faithfully and impartially the duties of the position. It is sufficient for me to say that the principles adopted by the convention have my cordial indorsement. They are wise and patriotic, and. if property executed in the administration of the Government, will greatly tend to restore confidence and prosperity to the country. We are now passing through a crisis in our commercial if not national existence. Capital and labor are seeking to adjust their respective rights. This adjustment will require the most thoughtful consideration and deliberate action. In so far as it may depend in any degree upon the action of our State Government, I would certainly do my utmost to effect it on terms beneficial alike to the laborer and capitalist. The times call for the most discreet management and economical administration of public affairs; the mere assertion of principles will not meet the emergency; they must be vitalized, energized, so as to restore confidence to our financial, commercial and industrial pursuits. If called by the people to the head of the administration of the affairs of the State, I shall endeavor by a conscientious discharge of duty and careful guarding of the interests of the public to merit the respect and commendation of the people, irrespective of party. Respectfully yours, R. M. Bishop.

An Interesting Historical Fact.

After the argument upon the Florida case before the late Electoral Commission in Washington, Judge Bradley wrote out his opinion and his decision in full. He completed it at about 6 o’clock in the evening on the day before the judgment of the commission was to be announced, and read it to Judge Clifford and Judge Field, who were likewise members of the commission. It contained, first, an argument, and, secondly, a conclusion. The argument was precisely the same as that which appears in the published document; but Judge Bradley’s conclusion was that the votes of the Tilden electors in Florida were the only votes which, ought to be counted as coming from that State. This was the character of the paper when Judge Bradley finished it, and when he communicated it to his colleagues. During the whole of that night Judge Bradley’s house in Washington was surrounded by the carriages

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of visitors who had come to see him apparently about the decision of the Electoral Commission, which, as we have said, was to be announced the next day. The visitors included leading Republicans as well as persons deeply interested in the Texas Pacific railroad scheme. When the commission assembled the next morning, and when the judgment was declared, Judge Bradley gave his voice in favor of counting the votes of the Hayes electors in Florida! The argument he did not deliver at the time; but when it came to be printed subsequently it was found to be precisely the same as the argument he had originally drawn up, and on which he had based his first conclusion in favor of the Tilden electors.— New York Sun.

FRESH PARAGRAPHS.

Wisconsin’s Republican State Convention is called to meet at Madison, Sept. 11, and the Democratic State Convention at Fond du Lac, Sept. 26. The Canadian Labor Congress at its session in Toronto, the other day, passed resolutions advocating a protective tariff, in view of the excessive importation of foreign manufactured goods. The Georgia Constitutional Convention, by a vote of 166 to 15, has repudiated the bonds issued by the Bullock Government during the days of reconstruction. The amount of the bonds is about $8,000,000. The iron furnaces out of blast in the United States on July 1 had a capacity one-third greater than those in blast,and the latter were not worked tff* their full capacity. The weekly capacity bf the furnaces in blast July 1 was 45,832 tons, and that of those out of blast was 63,407 tons. The British Board of Trade has made a valuable comparison of the rates of duty imposed by the fourteen leading countries upon leading British products. The countries that have the highest tariff taxes are in the United States, Russia, Spain, and Portugal. The tariff of the United States is the highest of aH. The convention of iron and steel workers, at Columbvs, 0., on the 7thinst., indorsed the demand made by the railroad employes for the restoration of the late 10 per cent, reduction in wages and a modification of labor rules and orders as just, and denounced every act tenda violation of law and good order. The election held in West Virginia on the 7th inst., to determine the location of the State capital, resulted in no choice, as no point received a majority of the votes cast. A second ballot will, therefore, have to be taken in October, 1878, the date of the next general State election. Clarksburg and Charleston are the competing cities. A leading New Hampshire Republican politician now in Washington reports that none of the Federal officeholders there, who are also members of political committees, have resigned either of their positions. The fact that they have shown no disposition to obey the President’s order is already causing considerable talk among Republicans and others in that State. The official statistics show that in the forty-seven years from 1820 to 1876, inclusive, the population of this country was increased 10,481,940 by immigration. The highest point of this tide was was reached in 1871, when the arrivals numbered 498,823. In the seven years 1870-’76, the immigration amounted to 2,633,761. During the latter period, the increase of the population by births was 5,700,000. A SSO counterfeit on the Third National Bank of Buffalo, N. Y., has appeared, and is described as follows by the new Government Detector : “ Letter Aon upper right hand corner. Dated March 10, 1865. This is printed from the altered plate of Central National Bank of New York. Title and date of issue are all that have been changed on the plate. Note like its predecessor, about an eighth of an inch shorter than genuine. ”

Old Ben Wade has been heard from again. According to the statement of a person who has just interviewed him, Wade says that he does not like the President’s Southern policy any better now than he did last spring, but that he does not propose to allow his hostility to the Southern policy to shake his fidelity to the Republican party, and that he wants all Republicans to aid the party, whatever they may think of the course of the administration. The stock of the Pennsylvania railroad has been watered three times. In May, 1864, a stock dividend of 30 per cent, was made ; in May, 1867, oue of 5 per cent.; and iu May, 1868, one more of 5 per cent. The cash dividends of the company, in addition to the above, have averaged 8 per cent, since 1855. The Philadelphia Ledger quotes the law to remind the directors of the penalty they have incurred if any of the dividends declared have not been earned. The colored people of Cincinnati held a meeting, the other day, to discuss the question of colonization in the West. It was resolved to form a land and homestead society, in order to procure cheap homes and lands in the West or Southwest, and to send out an agent to secure a site and find out terms of purchase. A resolution was adopted discouraging emigration to Liberia as ruinous to life and capital, and advising colored people “to seek the fertile and healthy Western or Southwestern States, where homescan be had easily and cheaply. ” The Berlin (Prussia) correspondent of the London Times asserts that Turkey has recently notified the powers of her willingness to treat for peace on the basis of Count Andrassy’s reform note, but, in view of the recent reverses to the Russian arms in Bulgaria, both Germany and Austria now hesitate to broach the subject to the Russian Premier, Prince Gortschakoff. The moment is deemed inopportune for approaching the Russian bear while he is growling over the serious wounds inflicted by the Turks, both in Bulgaria and Armenia.

Debt of New York City.

Since Jan. 1 there has been an increase in the debt of New York city of $13,657,003. The debt, exclusive of sinkingfund bonds, was $148,107,557 on Jan. 1; on July lit was $161,764,560. During these seven months $17,661,343.90 of city stocks and bonds have been issued. A part of these issues, but how much Comptroller Kelly does not state in his, last report, was devoted to meeting some maturing obligations. The debt of New York city is now $175 for every man, woman, and child of its inhabitants. Accobding to the new constitution, lobbying will hereafter be a crime in Georgia,

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FIRE INSURANCE TROUBLES. Companies Damaged and Retired During the Past Six Months. The Boston A dvertiser presents the following compilation from official sources, showing the number and designation of damaged and retired fire insurance companies reported during the first six months of 1877 : Metropolitan, New York, receiver. Fanners' Joint Stock, receiver. Citizens', West Virginia, receiver. Builders’, West Virginia, receiver. Sun Underwriters’, North Carolina, receiver. Frankland, Tennessee, receiver. Commercial, Missouri, receiver. Paterson, New Jersey, receiver. Lumberman and Manufacturing, Missouri, receiver. Builders’, Massachusetts, receiver. Suffolk Mutual, Massachusetts, receiver. Mutual Protection, Pennsylvania, receiver. Farmers’ Mutual, Connecticut, receiver. Oswego County Mutual, New York, receiver. Columbia Mutual, New York, receiver. Conway Mutual. Massachusetts, receiver. Coos Mutual, New Hampshire, receiver. Sunbury Mutual. Pennsylvania, receiver. Lehigh' Valley Mutual, Pennsylvania, receiver. Oswego and Onondaga, New York, reinsured. Brewers’, Wisconsin, reinsured. Farmers’, Merchants’, and Manufacturers', Onio, reinsured. Albemarle, Virginia, reinsured. Bangor, Maine, reinsured. Globe, Massachusetts, reinsured. Residence, Ohio, reinsured. United States, Missouri, reinsured, Citizens’, New Jersey, New York license re oked. Royal Canadian, Canada, New York, Missouri, and Kansas licenses revoked. Defiance, Ohio, winds up. Stadacona, Canada, winds up. Provincial, Canada, winds up. • Lycoming Mutual, Pennsylvania, assessment 7X per cent. People’s Mutual, Ohio, assessment 5 per cent. Delaware Mutual, Ohio, assessment 5 per cent. Forest City Mutual, Ohio, 7 per cent. Niagara Mutual, Canada, refused. Brunswick, West Virginia, failed. State, Indiana, failed. Capital City, Alabama, failed. Central City, Alabama, failed. Hernando, Tennessee, failed. Hibernia, Louisiana, failed. Iron City, West Virginia, failed. Peabody, West Virginia, failed. People’s, West Virginia, failed. Bluff City, Tennessee, failed. Hope, Louisiana, failed. Delaware State, Delaware, failed. Federal, District bf Columbia, failed. Tennessee Fire and Marine, reinsured. Paterson, New Jersey, reinsured.

Fighting for a $10,000 Trotter.

A nice question, involving the custody of Young Volunteer, a trotting horse, that has suddenly increased in value from $1,200 to SIO,OOO, will shortly engage the attention of the courts of Orange county, N. Y. In the early part of the present season, Patrick Day, of Newburg, made a contract with J. O. Smith, by which the latter should take charge of the horse, he to have his winnings in return for the handling and training. He has won first money five times in nine races, second money three .times, and third money once. His driver brought his record down to 2:26 “without straining him,” and was so convinced that he could easily do six seconds better that he entered him for the $5,000 free-for-all race to come off at Fleetwood in October. At Poughkeepsie the owner and two men, who held a mortgage on the animal, lost considerable ir oney because he did not win the first money, and accusing Smith with having thrown the race, went, upon his refusal to deliver the hofse up, to the stable where the latter was kept, and took him away to their own stable. Smith is now about bringing an action to recover the horse, which he had entered to trot in a number of forthcoming races.

A Negro Burned at the Stake.

On Friday night about midnight a posse of between sixty and seventy-live men quietly entered our town, went to the blacksmith shop, broke it open, procured tools and proceeded to the jail and broke open the door. They went to the cell in which George Jackson, the negro ravisher and murderer of the little girl Corinna Hayes,was confined, and, breaking open the door of the cell, they took George out and departed. Thev carried him south of town about four miles, near the Berlin road, where they chained him to a green sapling and -there burned him. The whole affair was conducted so quietly, except the noise made in breaking open the shop, that very few persons were aware of their presence until they were leaving town. As they were going off they set up a loud yelling, which was done to prevent the voice of the negro from being heard. Some of our citizens saw them riding through the streets, and, learning they had the negro, followed them till they came to the place of execution. When they arrived there, however, the negro was burned to death and the men all gone.— Hamburg {Ark.) Monitor.

Automaton Talkers.

A talking machine is said to have been invented which is able to say, ‘‘ I was born in America. I can speak all languages, and I am very pleased to see you. I thank you for your visit.” It has been humorously suggested that an apparatus of this kind could be used to announce the stations to railway passengers. This service is now performed by brakemen, and often in a way that makes the names almost unintelligible. The machine is said to contain a mechanical reproduction of the human lungs, larynx, glottis and tongue. It is operated by a bellows, and is supplied with a keyboard and pedals. If the sound can be produced, there would be no difficulty iu arranging the apparatus to run automatically, like a music box. Imagine a mysterious voice in each car of a train saying at intervals, “ The next stop is at New York I” In connection with this subject it may be mentioned that Psyche, the famous automaton chess-player of London, continues to be a great success, after about two J ears of constant exhibition. No one as yet been able to discover the mode by which it is operated.

Weak Eyes.

A very simple remedy for weak or sore eyes is recommended, as follows : Get a five-cent cake of elder flowers at the druggist’s, and steep in one gill of soft water—it must be steeped in bright tin or earthenware ; strain nicely, and then add three drops of laudanum ; bottle it tight and keep in a cool place; then use it as a wash, letting some of it get in the eyes. Follow this and relief is certain. If the eyes are painful or much sore, make small soft compresses, wet in the mixture, and bind over the eyes at night. I can warrant the above as harmless and sure, having tried it in a number of cases where other skill and remedies had utterly failed. If the eyes are badly inflamed use it very freely; and a tea made of elder flowers, and drunk, would help cleanse the blood. Pure rock salt and water will strengthen your weak eyes if you bathe them daily in it. I would earnestly advise you to avoid mixtures or washes containing mineral and other poisons,