Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAS IN THE BAST. A now bridge over the Danube at Nikopolis has been completed. Dispatches of the 14th give meager particulars of the assault made by the Russians on Plevna and the capture of the Grivica redoubt. Osman Pasha’s strongest position. The storming parties captured five guns and two standards, but with terrible loss on the part of the assailauts, as the commander of the regiment was killed, and a General and 5,000 men were wounded. The number of dead had not yet been reckoned at the time of the dispatch of the telegram. The Ixindon Times correspondent tclographs : “I estimate the forces engaged at about 57,000 on the Ituaso-Roumanian side, against from 60,000 to 70,000 Turks. The valor of the Russian “—v ■ hn praised, as the attack was unskillfully directed, and the want*, of life unnecessary. The Turks were very skillfully handled. The Khedive of Egypt will send a further contingent of troops to Turkey. A Russian official bulletin, dated Foredin, the 13th, says : “On yesterday (Wednesday) we made no further attacks, but bombarded the Turkish fortifications and the town of Plevna at short range. Toward 4 p. m. the town began to burn, and two explosions were observed within the fortifications. The Turks made little reply to our fire and directed all their efforts against our loft wing which threatened their rear. At this point Gen. Skobeleff repulsed five furious attacks, but was comjHilled in the evening, after the sixth attack, to ovacuatc the fortifications which he captured on Tuesday. During Wednesday night our troops intrenched themselves in their positions. From the beginning of the battle up to 1 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon 6,000 wounded had been brought to the field hospital.” Mukhtar Pasha telegraphs that the Russians have evacuated Ardahan and retired to Fort Emiroglou. The mobilization of all the Roumanian reserves has been ordered. The Grand Duke Nicholas telegraphs to St. Potorsburg, undor date of Poredin, Saturday, Sept. 15 : “On Friday evening the Turks assaulted Grivitza, but, with the assistance of the Russian and Roumanian reserves, wore repulsed. To-day we continue shelling the enemy’s fortifications, and the town is burning. According to reports received up to Friday, 239 woiuidod officers and 9,482 men passed through the hospitals since Sept. 7. The number of killed is about 3,000. The total loss is about 300 officers and 12,500 men. Up to the morning of Sept. 14 the Roumanians had lost about sixty officers and 3,000 men killed and wounded.” A Bucharest correspondent telegraphs as follows, undor date of Sunday, the 15th: “A dispatch has reached here this morning from imperial headquarters, stating that the Turks had made desperate efforts to recapture the Gravitza redoubt, making seven ineffectual assaults and losing 10,000 men.” A correspondent with the Turkish army in Romnelia sends the following: “ Fover has broken out in Suloiman Pasha’s camp. Every house in Kaznlik is a hospital. The place reoks with the fever stench. All the country from Schipka to Yeni-Saghra can only be ridden over with camphor in one’s mouth. Doad bodies are lying on the roadsidos and in fields and gardons. From 400 to GOO bodies are in Yeni-Saghra, and havo been there ever since tho battle some weeks ago. There is a reign of torror from Adrianople to the Balkans. All respectable male Bulgarians are hunted down by tho order or connivance of the authorities.'’

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Franco and Germany have presented remonstrances to tho Porte against the release of the Salonica murderers. Gambetta, the French Republican leader, has been fined 2,000 francs and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for his alleged insulting remarks at Lille. He has taken an appeal to a higher court. Another terrible disaster has occurred in the English channel. Two ships, both British, one from London (tho Avalanche), for New Zealand, and the other (tho Forest), from London, for New York, collided off the English coast, and both foundered. From the Avalanche, which had a crow of thirty-two. with fifty passengers, only the third officer and two seamen were saved, and, from the Forest, which had a crow of thirty-one, and no passengers, tho Captain, chief mate and soven seamen escaped. The total number of those who perished is ninety-six. Nows comes that Henry M. Stanley, tho African explorer, has arrived on the west coast of Africa, after a troublesome journey across tho continent along the line of tho Lualaba and Congo layers. Stanley’s last letter* are dated from Enftbowa, Congo river, Aug. 10, and say he arrived at that point from Zanzibar Aug. 8 with only 116 souls, and in an awful condition after the long, terriblo journey through the heart of tho African continent.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Euest. Now York papers announce the failure of Augustin Daly, the well-known theatrical manager. George E. Sponcer, United States Senator from Alabama, was married in Now York, a few days ago, to May Nunez, a young actress. A farmer named Hitchens, with four sons and two daughters, took refuge under a tree during a storm, near Georgetown, Del. The tree was struck by lightning, and three of the children—two sons and one daughter—were instantly killed. A counterfeiter named Hutchison was shot dead at Tyrone, Pa., the other day, by a United States detective, while endeavoring to escape. William M. Tweed has given to the public, through an investigating committee of tha Now York Common Council, another chapter of his history of municipal rings. According to his story, he disbursed about $600,000 to secure the passage through the Legislature of the celebrated charter by which he was enabled to plunder the city. This money was furnished by various tradesmen and politicians, tho Erie railwav, through Jay Gould, contributing a considerable sum. He gives tho names of a number of members of the Legislature who were bribed to vote for the charter, the price for votes ranging from $26,000 to $60,000. Tweed charges explicitly that A. Oakey Hall, the Mayor, was the most exacting of all the thieves in the ring. West. Advices from lowa and Illinois state that the bulk of the com crop is now beyond the danger of serious harm by frost. The Mormon Apostles have ohosen John Taylor as President of the Twelve and successor to Brigham Young, to be assisted by a son of the dead Prophet, Daniel H. Wells and Congressman Cannon. A bloody chapter of crime comes to us from the town of St. Elmo, Fayette county, 111. Mr. John Sooles, an estimable citizen of the place, returned home with his family, after an absence of several days, and found a tramp

The Democratic Sentinel.

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VOLUME I.

in possession of the house. The latter made for a cornfield, where he was pursued. Being brought to bay, he coolly shot Mr. Scoles dead. News of the murder spread, causing the wildest excitement, and in a lew minutes upward of 100 armed men wore in pursuit of the murderer. Mr. Frank Barnes, an estimable young man, was the first to overtake him. The fiend turned upon his pursuer, and, holding a revolver in each hand, commenced firing. Barnes was shot through the head and instantly killed. Mr. Frank Wiseman, another excellent citizen, came up about this time and also received a bullet through the head, from the effects of which ho died in a short time. Still coolly facing the advancing citizens, he aimed with his right-hand revolver, and fired, killing a horse from under a name is not learned. Then, giving a. tpmbly demoniac yell, he rushed toward the entire party of about a dozen horsemen. This bold and utterly unlooked-for action by the demon disconcerted tbo party, and caused them to turn and flee in all directions. Still intent with devilish murderous deeds, he again aimed and hit a horee, wounding it so it fell, unable to move further, and tho rider was obliged to escape on foot. Tho desperado then turned and fled to the woods, making his escape. A dispatch from Camp Robinson, Neb., states that Lame Deer’s band of warriors, numbering upward of 400, have surrendered, and agreed to upon a reservation. This leaves the Black Hills and Big Horn country free from hostile Indian^. The Chicago papers chronicle the burning of the Hyde Park Hotel, a fashionable hostelrie located in the suburbs of that city. Loss about $130,000. Over 20.000 people witnessed the unveiling of tho soldiers’ monument at Dayton, Ohio, last week. Speeches were made by President Hayes, Secretary McCrary, Chief Justice Waite, Bcnj. F. Butler, and others. President Hayes last week paid a flying visit to Senator Morton, at Richmond, Ind. The interview between tho President and the sick Senator was very brief, at the conclusion of which the formor took the train and returned to Fremont, Ohio, where he participated in the reunion of his old regiment, Wade Hampton delivered his promised address, at the fair at Rockford, 111., on tho 13th inst., and was respectfully listened to by 10,000 people. A new cattle plague, in the shape of Texas ticks, or lice, has appeared in various parts of the West, and threatens to prove a serious disorder. A singular crime has been perpetrated iu Chicago. It is no less than the theft of a large steam propeller lying in the river. The thieves put to sea with their prize in the night, and at last accounts nothing had been heard from her. A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says the Warm Spring Indians left the San Carlos reservation, killed fourteen men, daptured a freight train, killed the teamsters, and bm-ned the goods. A body of troops, under command of Maj. Tapper, pursued, overtook and attacked the Indians, killing forty. Sitting Bull, by a half-breed messenger, has proposed a conference with Gen. Miles, on the basis of his being allowed to settle in the Big Horn country instead of going on the Missouri River Reservation, Sitting Bull’s messenger says he declared ho’d not go on the reservation or surrender his guns or ponies, because, though tho Great Fathor might intend to take care of him, the agents would cheat the Great Father, and give him only shoddy blankets and stinking flour. A horrible murder, for purposes of robbery, was recently committed in Placer county, Cal., the victims being Mr. and Mrs. Oder and Mr. Sargent. The perpetrators of the crime wore Chinamen’s shoes, and were traced to the Mongolian quarter of the town of Rocklin. Four of them were arrested on suspicion and narrowly escaped lynching. The citizens of the town gathered en masse and compelled every Chinaman to leave the town. Their houses were demolished as fast as they, left them. SOXltll. Several cases of yellow fever have occurred at Femandina, Florida, and Northern visitors at Jacksonville and other places are leaving-jp-great haste. The Chisholm murder is to be thoroughly investigated by the Grand Jury of Kemper county, Miss. The coast towns of Florida are greatly excited about the yellow fever, which has broken out at Femandina. As yet it has been confined to that city, but the inhabitants of other ports have instituted strict quarantine regulations, as a precautionary measure against the spread of the disease. POLITICAL POINTS. A Correspondent of tho Cincinnati Evening Times, who interviewed President Hayes while en route from Marietta to Fremont, Ohio, asked the President how he came to construct his policy, which was seemingly so at variance with his recent views while on the stump in his last gubernatorial campaign. Did it grow upon him gradually as circumstances seemed to require. The President replied as follows : • ‘ Well, those views began to take form in the words of my letter of acceptance. I considered the situation of things in the South ; saw how impossible it seemed to restore order, and peace, and harmony; saw the violence and bloodshed at their elections ; how white Republicans as well as black were shot down during their political contests, and I asked myself, Why is it, and how long must this continue ? Those men down South, the white, educated citizens, are as good men as you or I. They are Christians, not thieves, nor cut-throats, nor bandits; yet they see these things, and approve them, if they do not take part in them. Why is it, and how long will they continue ? While thinking these questions over, my mind reverted to the scene of the war, and the incident at the battle of Cedar Mountain came to mind. It was a hard-fought engagement, and for a time we could not tell how it would end. We who were in command had determined that if a certain movement resulted in one way we would give certain orders, but, if it resulted otherwise, different orders would be given. With our field-glasses we were watching the course of things. All at once I saw a commotion in the thickest of the fray. The artillery had got to work, and were throwing shells fast and with unerring aim into the solid ranks of the enemy. Heads were being blown from their bodies, arms and legs tom from their sockets, and souls sent to one world or the other unprepared, and yet I rejoiced and congratulated my fellow-officers that we were victorious. How could this be ? Why was it ? It was because we were at war. That one word solved in my mind the problem of the South. The people there were at war. There was a conflict going on. The social and political relations of the people were not natural, not harmonious. There were disturbing elements among them, and while they existed or were undniy active there would be conflict. Let the causes of the conflict be removed and there will be peace and ultimately harmony and prosperity.” “But,” said the reporter, « we do not seemnoh disposition in the South to manifest a loving temper toward ns in the North.” The President mildly retorted; “How do yon know?

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1877.

You form your opinions, no doubt, from reading the papers, “but editors of newspapers do not always express the popular general feeling of the people, either North or South. I think meet of the people in the South, as I know they are in the North, are more disposed to encourage fraternal, harmonious, social and business relations than the extremists, who, unfortunately, too often get control of newspapers, hut even these, or most of them, will come around all right in time.” Montgomery Blair is a candidate for the United States Senate from Maryland. The Republicans have carried Maine by about 6,000 majority. The Legislature, as usual, is strongly Republican in both branches. The Pennsylvania Workingmen held a State Convention at Harrishure last week, adonted • platform of principles, and placed a full ticket in the field. The Republicans of Wisconsin held their State Convention at Madison on the 11th of September. Hon. William E. Smith, of Milwaukee, was unanimously nominated for Governor ; J. M. Bingham for Lieutenant Governor ; Hans Warner for Secretary of State; Richard Gnenther for State Treasurer ; W. E. Carter for Attorney General, and W. C. Whitford for Superintendent of Schools, E. W. Keyes resigned the Chairmanship of tho State Committee, and Horace Rublee was chosen to fill the vacancy. The following platform was unanimously adopted: That we reaffirm the principles which have guided the national Republican party hitherto. That we declare it to be the steadfast purpose of the Republicans of Wisconsin to co-operate with all good citizens in maintaining in letter and spirit the constitutional amendments framed to secure equal rights and protection to all, in maintaining the plighted faith of the nation and in promoting reforms, to secure economy and efficiency in every branch of the Government. That we most earnestly desire the pacification of the Southern section of our Union and its speedy return to national prosperity. We are mindful that this can be gained only by obedience to law, by protection to all in every right, and by a careful regard for that class of citizens least able to protect themselves. In the efforts of the present national administration to restore peace and concord to the South, wo recognize a magnanimous purpose to remove every excuse for lawlessness and violence. We hope that this magnanimity will be duly appreciated and that the reciprocal pledges made by prominent citizens and officials of the Bouth will bo faithfully kept. We shall rejoice if the Southern policy of the President produces the hoped-for results of order and peace; but if these results shall not follow thiß experiment we demand that other measures be adopted which shall secure to all citizens, without distinction of race or color, the fullest enjoyment of their constitutional rights. That the determination of the National Executive to render tho civil service more efficient and less obnoxious to criticism meets our approval. The perfection of our system of government in every detail of administration is one of the most important duties of the hour. AU efforts in that direction should be fairly considered, and neither hastily approved nor condemned. That in the purposes and patriotism of President Hayes we declare our unshaken confidence. That the attention of Congress is called to the necessity of such modification of the Patent laws as shall, while affording adequate recompense to the inventor, at the same time secure the people from undue exaction for the use of patented articles. That we rejoice that the fidelity of the Republican party;in upholding the national credit has brought our currency so near the point of resumption of specie payment. We hold that the silver dollar should be restored to its former place as money,and made legal tender for the payment of debts except where otherwise distinctly provided by law, with the coinage so regulated as to maintain equality of value and preserve the harmonious circulation of gold, silver and legal notes as money. That, while we earnestly condemn all violence, outlawry, and mob rule, yet the Republican party expresses its heartiest sympathy with the condition of the workingmen who are willing to work but are unable to find employment, and public attention should be called to the grave importance of the labor question, and the most eareful consideration should be given to the same by Federal and State legislation. That wo oppose any further bestowal of public lands upon railroad corporations, and urge the establishment of such Govern,, jnt regulations over inter-State railroads as their importance as national highways and the interest of the people demand. That we congratulate the people of Wisconsin that during the many years in which the Repub- . lican party has been in the ascendency no stain has been found upon the record in this State, and, therefore, confidently point to its whole history, and especially to the wise and economical administration of Gov. Harrison Ludington, as the best evi dence and guaranty of its intentions and purposes for the future. The Democratic State Convention of New York has been called to meet at Albany on the 3d of October. The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have nominated full tickets for State officers. A State Convention of the Workingmen’s party of Ohio was held at Columbus last week. The Greenback Executive Committee were present, and consented to withdraw their State ticket and unite with the new movement if their ideas of currency reform were heartily acquiesced in, which was agreed to in open convention. The following ticket was then nominated: For Governor, Stephen Johnson; Lieutenant Governor, Christopher Lewis; Supreme Judge, Milton L. Clark; Treasurer, James Jenkins; Clerk of the Supreme Court, E. P. Pitkin; Attorney General, George A. Duncan; School Commissioner, John O. Logan; Board of Public Works, C. C. Strong. At the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, held at Worcester, last week, the following nominations were made: Governor, William Gaston; Lieutenant Governor, William R. Plunket; Secretary of State, Weston Howland; Treasurer and Receiver General, David N. Skillings; Auditor, John E. Fitzgerald ; Attorney General, Charles P. Thompson. The following platform was unanimously adopted:

We reaffirm and announce the National Democratic platform of 1870 as an authoritative exposition of the principles of our past, and we congratulate our political brethren of the whole country that these principles were indorsed in the national canvass by the suffrages of a decided majority of the American people. We believe the people fairly elected a majority of the Electoral College in favor of the Democratic candidates, and, while in the high interest of public tranquillity we submit to the authority of the constituted Federal administration, we denounce upon the guilty Republican party stern retribution for a great public crime by which the people were defrauded of their rights to be governed by the rulers of their own choice, and by which the elective principle . was wounded in its most vital part. We challenge for it the opprobrium of history and the indignant judgment of all honest men. We congratulate the country and the supporters of free government everywhere upon the happy results of restored public order and reviving industrial prosperity, and the inauguration of a new reign of domestic peace and liberty regulated by law in the southern section of the Union, that have ensued upon the adoption of Democratic principles and measures of administration by the Executive Department of the Federal Government in reference to Southern States. We recognize in these auspicious results the signal vindication and practical triumph of the constitutional doctrines so faithfully contended for by the Democrats in the late political contest, and the statesmanship of the wise fathers which seeks the welfare of the republic by the support of the equal rights and dignities of all the States in the Federal Union. We trust that hereafter there will be no Southern policy, no Northern policy, but one common policy for the whole Union and an equality of the rights and duties of all men before the law.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles ”

Resolved, That we are opposed to the re-enact-ment of the Prohibitory law. Resolved, That the practice of borrowing money for other objects than those of strict pnblic necessity has generated schemes of extravagant expenditure, until taxation has become a well-nigh intolerable burden. Honesty, economy and “ pay as you go” should be rules in all appropriations of the people’s money. The power of the State, county, cities and towns to borrow money ought to be rigidly limited so an end may be put to the system which « anticipates the labor of the coming ages, and appropriates the fruits of it in advance; which coins the industry of future generations into cash, and snatches the inheritance from children yet unborn.” Resolved, That we are in favor of the honest payment of the public debt, and of a currency on a gold bas^. Resolved, That the present depression of the industrial. commercial, and. financial interests of the country Is largely due to onr maomiy, under the present laws, to dispose of the snrpins piwino»« which other countries want, and which, but for the restrictions and injurious legislation, the United States would, to a great extent, produce and sell better and cheaper than any other n-tl-MISCELL ANE OTJS GLEANINGS. A railway train on the Canada Southern road has just accomplished tho extraordinary achievement of making a run of 111 miles in 109 minutes. Score another victory over the “ blarsted Britisher.” In the international contest between the American and British rifle teams at the Creedmoor range, New York, the immense superiority of the Yankees in the use of the long-range rifle was attested by a most creditable victory. The teams consisted of eight men on a side, selected, after long and careful practice, as the crack marksmen of their respective countries. The shooting lasted two days, each man firing fortyfive shots in each day’s contest—fifteen shots at 800 yards’ distance, fifteen at 900 yards, and fifteen at 1,000 yards. The following is the score: Americans, 800 yards - 1,1-13 Americans, 900 yards 1,101 Americans, 1,000 yards 1,090 Total j 3,334 British, 800 yardß 1,117 British, 900 yards 1,073 British, 1,000 yards 1,052 Total :..... 3,242 The Americans winning by Dinety-two points. President Hayes dropped into Cincinnati on Saturday evening, the 15lh inst., and /was accorded a hearty reception. After tho formal reception and the delivery of the customary speeches he was driven to the residence of Dr. John Davis, where he remained until Monday, on which day he left for Louisville. In the latter city his reception partook of the nature of a grand ovation, nearly the w r hole population turning out to greet him. He was met at the depot by jan immense throng, and escorted to the Galt Honse. In the afternoon the President was escorted by the military and Reception Committee to the Exposition building, where he was received by the children of the public schools. In the evening the President and Mrs. Hayes gave a reception at the Galt House ; Tuesday they devoted to sight-seeing, and in the evening they gave another reception at the Exposition building. Tuesday night, the 18th, the President and his family, accompanied by Secretaries Evarts, Schurz and Key, and several other dignitaries, left on a special train for Nashville.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Norfolk expects to ship many oysters to Europe tliis winter at fair rates of remuneration. A fruit- canning establishment on a large scale will soon go into operation in Cullam, Ala, Friar’s Point, Miss., is to have a $40,000 oil well, with ex-Govemor Alcorn as President. The production of coal oil has been increased from 500,000 barrels in 1860 to 8,968,906 barrels in 1876. The Entomological Commissioners who were sent out West by the Government say there need be no fear of grasshoppers this year. The New Orleans Times says that landlords in that city threaten to increase rents 30 per cent., on the ground that they are now too low. Bricks perforated with three holes, that the mortar may get a good hold, are being used in the construction of some buildings in Minneapolis, Minn. The Colorado grist mills are now busy grinding new wheat, and the price is steadily declining, because it is offered in greater quantities than is needed. The Louisville Courier-Journal finds the wholesale dealers of that city/immersed in business. They think the good times are coming again sure enough. Mr. Shefokd pre-empted 160 acres of land in Nueces county, Tex., in 1861, and started a sheep ranch. He has now 60,000 acres, and is worth over $200,000. According to the reports of the English Agricultural Gazette, the wheat crop in the three kingdoms is considerably below the average; but it has been a good year for graziers and dairy farmers. The New York Times says: “Importers and jobbers say an unusually heavy trade has set in. A leading importer states that the purchases of silk velvets and the finer grades of woolen dressgoods have been, and still are, unexpectedly large. ”

The English railroads are still plowing in new capital, and ten of the old lines will call up £5,500,000 during the last six months of this year. In no year since 1865 has so much English capital been put into home railways as during 1876, when £28,000,000 was raised in preferred stock. The Massachusetts boot and shoe manufacturers, says the Springfield Republican, are having as busy a season as they have had for years, and many of the factories are running fifteen hours a day, the demand exceeding the supply. Most of the manufacturers are asking an advance of 5 to 10 cents a pair on all duplicate orders. The London Economist quotes an article from the Berlin Borser Zeitung, intimating that of $200,000,000 silver coin withdrawn by the German Government, about half has been redeemed and $75,000,000 sold, leaving $25,000,000 on hand. The silver remaining in circulation is in one-thaler pieces. No date for its demonetization being fixed by law, it will be withdrawn at the discretion of the Government. The New Bedford and Billerica, Mass., two-feet-gauge railroad, the first of the kind in this country, has been completed, and the first trips show that the road is inferior to none in speed, smoothness and safety. The road, which is eight miles long, has cost but $50,000, including buildings, bridges and equip ments. The latter consist of two locomotives and eleven cars, the former weighing but eleven tons each, while the passenger cars, carrying half the

number of the standard cars, cost but one-quarter as much. The Financial Chronicle, of New York, makes a calculation of the amounts of investment securities held by the banks, insurance companies and trust companies of New York. In tabular form the figures are as follows : 1877. 1876. 1875. U. S. bonds... .$150,911,113 $136,629,322 $118,319,354 State securities 17,595,122 19,364,820 19,985,917 Ciiy securities.. 62,856,586 60,205,972 61,291,133 County & town bonds 6,684,103 8,566,171 7,373,255 Co. securities.. 14,397,832 15,562,173 12,640,980 R. R. bonds and “ mortgages. .. 192,672,525 205.962,345 200,118,977 Real estate 35,233,103 32,800,291 31,645,013 Total $480,410,384 $479,091,094 $451,374,629 State banks unclassified 420,600 369,284 899,068 Grand t0ta1..5480,830,984 $479,460,378 $452,273,697

FRESH PARAGRAPHS.

During the year ending Sept. 1 there were 1,152 deaths from scarlet fever in Chicago. The greatest number, 83, died in September, 1876, and the smallest, 13, in June, 1877. During the same period there were '457 deaths from diph • theria. At a recent meeting in Chicago of the Association for the Cure of Drunkards, there was a long discussion upon the effects and cure of inebriety and opiumeating. The conclusion arrived at was that the use of opium is a habit, while drunkenness is a disease, and that peculiar methods are necessary in the cure of those addicted to the one and suffering from the other. George H. Williams, late Attorney General of the United States, has sued William McKee, of the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat, for SSOO. It appears that Williams was employed by McKee to obtain for him a pardon from President Grant, for which he (Williams) was to receive $2,500. He was successful in securing the pardon, but McKee has refused to pay more than $2,000. Hence the suit for SSOO. That peace on earth and good-will among men may be promptly established, the self-appointed “Twelve Apostles” of the Mormon church have issued a ukase to the effect that their right to reign comes from Heaven, and that any man who doubts it will be put to death. Of the propriety of appointing these men to rule and guard the destinies of Mormonism there can be no doubt. Most of them are under indictment for murder and other crimes. One of the leading Chinese merciiants of San Francisco has sailed for Hong Kong, for the purpose of visiting the provinces of China whence tho principal portion of the emigration comes to the Pacific coast. He is under instructions from the Six Companies to advise the people to stay at home, and to use all possible means for the purpose of maktliis advice effectual. The Texans complain that the Mexican officers on the Rio Grande are not living up to their promise to co-operate with the American forces in the pursuit of raiders whom the latter drive back to the border, but seem to connive at their escape every time. The army officers are represented to share this feeling, and to regard the policy of following marauders across the Rio Grande, whether Mexican troops are on the other side or not, as the only c-ne that will accomplish anything.

It seems to be understood at Washington that no appropriations will be asked for at the approaching special session of Congress, except for the pay of the army and navy and to meet the expenses of the Federal courts. These seem to be imperative demands, and will probably be promptly met. It is, however, anticipated that the question of reducing the army from 25,000 to 20,000 will be raised in connection with the appropriation for that branch of the service. The sentence of Gambetta to three months’ imprisonment and a fine of 2,000 francs, for his Lille speech, in which he said of MacMahon “soumettre ou se demettre”—“give up or get out”—is a rather sharp reminder that republicanism in France is of a quality strangely unlike ours, but very like the European article of that name. The sentence is a great convenience for the Government, for it will take off MacMahon’s hands the exasperating duty of preventing Gambetta from making speeches until after the elections. The military authorities have determined to make a vigorous effort to ferret out and arrest the trouble-makers among the Western Indians, who are at the bottom of the periodical outbreaks, and send them out of harm’s way, as prisoners, to the Dry Tortugas, on the Florida coast. It is alleged that the red-skins have a greater dread of Dry Tortugas than they have of death, and it is confidently believed taat when they once find out that this will henceforth be the punishment to which every “ bad Indian” will be subjected, if captured, it will have the effect to make them much more circumspect as to their conduct. Definite information as to the fate of men reported lost on what are known as the Staked Plains has been received. The New York Tribune publishes a letter from Lieut. Charles L. Cooper relating the adventures of the thirty-one men reported killed by Indians. They were four days without water, and four men and twenty-seven horses died from thirst. The officers finally reached Double lake, where they found six men of their command. These started with filled canteens to bring up the famishing men, and all alive at that time were brought in. The story of the sufferings and rescue of the men forms a thrilling chapter in the history of border warfare.

The story told of Sitting Bull’s departure from Canada is very touching. The gentle savage had attended a council with the British officers in the neighborhood, and afterward took part in a scalpdance. The scene recalled sweet recollections of the happy days when he was harvesting the hair of hundreds of Americans, and he sighed as he thought how long his scalping-knife had rusted ingloriously in its sheath. There was a young half-breed in the company, a Dominion Government scout, upon whose plentiful shock of hair the great chief’s eyes rested longingly. Some words excited the longing into an irresistible impulse, and Sitting Bull’s revolver was instantaneously drawn and aimed. A heartless Canadian officer sprung between the two at this moment, and rudely said to the noble exile, “ I want you to understand that you cannot commit deviltries here as you do in the United States. I give you and your tribe five days to leave this country. If you are not gone then, I will fight you. Jf you are ever caught here again, or if you shoot this man, I will have you hanged.” Sitting Bull put up his weapon, packed up his scalps and other jewelry, and sadly shook the dust of inhospitable Canada from his feet next day.

PALMETTO PLUNDERERS.

Revelation* of Carpet-Bag- Rnle in South Carolina. [From the Springfield Republican.] The true inwardness of the mongrel misgovemment under which South Carolina so long suffered is sharply illumined by the revelations of the just-con-cluded Grand Jury investigation. There was nothing in the history of the Albany Legislature in the day of Tweed which the carpet-bag Legislature of Columbia did not more than rival, as the sample chapter from its records, soon to take form in the trial of United States Senator Patterson for conspiracy and bribery, which is given by the special correspondent of the New York Herald, well shows.

The first indictment against Patterson is of conspiracy with ex-Treasurer N. G. Parker and ex-Financial Agent Kimpton to carry three bills through the Legislature. One, and the biggest of these, was the Blue Ridge Scrip bill. The Blue Ridge railroad was once a bona fide enterprise. It was entered into in 1853, with the object of obtaining a short freight line for the products of the West. The State subscribed $1,310,000, the city of Charleston $1,000,000 and private parties $200,000 at the outset ; $1,700,000 was paid in, and with this sum fifty miles of road was completed before the war put a stop to all such enterprises in the South. The project came to the front again in the dawn of reconstruction, and was industriously worked up in the Legislature of 1868 by the northern speculators mto whose hands it had fallen, among whom the Herald mentions Patterson, McClure, Parker, Neagleand Chamberlain—names familiar enough in the recent history of the State. An act was passed authorizing the issue of $4,000,000 of bonds and their indorsement by the Controller General of the State, the only consideration to be rendered being, of course, the completion of the road ; and it was also provided in the bill that these bonds should not be sold at less than par in currency. The company went into the markets with their guaranteed bonds, but failed to gain the confidence of capitalists, and the road was again at a dead stop. The course now taken by Patterson and his companions is thus described by the Herald: “ They had borrowed $200,000 of the State’s money from the financial agent* on tha pledge of $600,000 of their bonds, and they had a bill introduced into the Legislature (of 1872) requiring the State Treasurer, on the surrender of the remaining $3,400,000 of their bonds, to issue revenue-bond scrip for $1,800,000, which was to be redeemed by the State at the rate of $600,000 a year for three years by the levy of a special tax for that particular purpose. The SinkingFund Commissioners had already sold the $1,310,000 of stock in the company owned by the State to Patterson and others individually for $13,100 —that is, at the rate of 1 cent on the dollar—and the bill in question validated and confirmed that swindling sale. That is to say, the State, after having subscribed $1,310,000 for the building of the road, and indorsing the company’s bonds for $4,000,000 for. the sake of completing it, was made by this bill to give up all hope of having the road built and to ratify the sale of its stock for 1 cent on the dollar, and to pay $1,800,000 for the privilege of getting back a part of the bonds which it had indorsed without any other consideration than securing the completion of the road. ” A more outrageous piece of rascality in its way was seldom, if ever, perpetrated, and the means were worthy of the object. The Legislature was made up of as purchasable stuff, white and black, as any that ever met, and it was bought, some of the bribes being enormous ; the “reward” of the redoubtable Moses being stated as SIO,OOO or more, and Senators averaging $5,000. These bribes were paid—for Patterson had -no ready money—in the shape of orders on the Treasurer for scrip, in case the bill was passed. By the same means were put through the “ Validation bill,” legalizing the illegal issues of fraudulent bonds by the “financial board,” consisting of Gov. Scott, Atty. Gen. D. H. Chamberlain, since Governor, and Treasurer Parker; and the “Financial Agent’s Settlement bill,” authorizing the above board to settle with the finacial agent (Kimpton) without report to the Legislature—as good a device as Tweed’s Board of Audit.

This ingenious arrangement, devised to keep the knowledge of these frauds in the ring, whatever the public suspicion might be, was defeated by a piece of arrant treachery. The Herald correspondent states that Judge T. J. Mackey was one day in Patterson's house, in Columbia, when Patterson, Kimpton, Parker, Senator B. F. Whittemore (subsequently of cadetship-trading fame) and Hardy Solomon were in another. Parker and Kimpton left together, and a while after their departure Patterson intrusted a sealed package to Mackey to deliver to Kimpton. Mackey accepted the trust, but it occurred to him that there might be something interesting in the envelope, and so he called on Gov. Scott—who like himself had been left out of the ring—and the two decided that it would be eminently proper to inspect its contents. Their expectations were justified; the document within was so interesting that they had two photographic copies taken, and the negative destroyed on the spot. Gov. Scott took one copy, Judge Mackey another, and the original document, securely resealed, was handed to the unsuspecting Kimpton, who turned it over to Treasurer Parker in the Judge’s presence. Judge Mackey’s copy it is which has made the mischief before the Grand Jury.

This document was an order on the Treasurer for the delivery to Kimpton of $114,250 of revenue-bond scrip, specifying that it was to be used for the purpose of “ paying the expenses ” of passing through the Legislature the bills above described. The order was signed by Patterson, as President of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company, and was witnessed by R. B. Elliott, the colored Congressman from the Columbia district. The items of the second indictment against Mr. Patterson indicate what these “expenses” were. They charge bribery of Speaker S. H. Lee in the sum of $3,000; of our ex-Connecticut friend, Representative John B. Dennis, $2,000; of Representative Prince R. Rivers (the Major General of the State militia under the Republican administrations, and chief of the secret Republican “True Brotherhood,”) $500; of Senator B. P. Whittemore (ex-chaplain and ex-Congressman, and last week howling at a soldiers’ reunion up at Fitchburg against President

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Hayes for not keeping him and his crowd in power in South Carolina), $5,000; of Senator (afterward Secretary of State) Hayne, $5,000; of Senator W. B. Nash (Hayes elector), $5,000; of Senator Owens, who has just died, $5,000; etc., etc. The correspondent states that this till of particulars is based upon the testimony of Dennis, Rivers and Lee, all Republicans, and hardly likely, one would think, to be willing witnesses to their own and their party’s shame. It is evident that the cry of “ political persecution” is hardly an effectual answer to such an indictment ns this; and it is also evident that his conversion to the virtues of President Hayes’ policy will not be sufficient to give Mr. Patterson a decent standing, even if it can save him his place in the United States Senate, at tho next, session.

SHERMAN IN NEW ORLEANS.

How Returning Board Anderson Secured His Commission —Secretary Sherman Telling a Part of the Truth, and the Sun Finding the Rest, [From the New York Sun.] The Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post telegraphs that journal as follows : Secretary Sherman to-day, in reply to an inquiry as to whether the appointment of Mr. Anderson, of the Louisiana Returning Board, to be Deputy Collector at New Orleans had been made directly by the President, said that the President had nothing to do with it; that the Collector of the Port at New Orleans, Judge King, made a written request for the appointment of Anderson, and that the recommendation was duly approved by himself. “And,” added Mr. Sherman, “you can say as coming from me that every appointment asked for by Collector King has been made, and neither the department nor the President has attempted to interfere with or suggest what appointments should be made there.” This is an important admission respecting the removals recently made in the New Orleans Custom House. Collector King was appointed solely upon the request of Tom Anderson, one of the members of the infamous Returning Board. King was one of the Judges of Kellogg’s Supreme Court, to which position he had been elevated at the dictation of Anderson. He owes his political advancement solely to Anderson, whose pliant tool he has always been. There were a number of respectable citizens recommended by the business men of New Orleans for Collector of that port, among them Mr. Phelps, President of the Cotton Exchange—one of the leading citizens —and Hayes virtually promised to appoint him. But An lerson came to Washington, saw John Sherman, and demanded the appointment of King. His demand was sufficient, and, to the surprise of respectable Republicans in New Orleans, and the disgust of other cilizens, the appointment was made. It was understood at that time that Anderson was to be the chief deputy of King, but be was not appointed. The reason was this : King was impecunious, but his friends, Anderson and Wells, could not accommodate him with ready money. Herwig, who was Casey’s deputy and political guardian for eight years, had plenty of money. He monopolized the stealings of the Custom House under Casey, and wanted to continue to reap the harvest under King through his tool, Champlin. He lent King money, and then demanded that Champlin and his othea: friends should be retained in the Custom House. Anderson wanted King to turn out Champlin and put him in. The fellows who had manufactured evidence for the Returning Board wanted positions in the Custom House, and they threatened that if they were not taken care of they would tell all they knew. Thus the pressure on King was very great, but he did not dare to make the dismissals without some pretext, like an order from Washington. Accordingly he made out a list of subordinates, with Champlin at the head, and sent the same to Sherman, asking him to approve their discharge. Sherman sent the list to Hayes without explanation, as none had come from King. Hayes thought this was a fine opportunity to exercise the civil-service rules, and he returned the list to Sherman indorsed in substance as follows : “ Under the civilservice rules these dismissals should not be made, as no cause therefor is assigned.” Thus indorsed, the list was returned to King. When Anderson saw it he was angry. He hunted up Wells, and the two started for the North. They came to Cincinnati, and learned that John Sherman was in Cleveland or Toledo. They went thither, but Sherman was pleasure-seeking on the lake on board a revenue cutter. Missing him at both points named above, they followed him to Mansfield, where they found him. They had an interview with him, and then came to Washington. Sherman followed. They saw Hayes, and the next day Anderson left for New Orleans with his commission as Deputy Collector in his pocket. The removals which Hayes said should not be made under the civil-service rules have commenced, and will continue till every one of the fellows who manufactured evidence for the Returning Board and the visiting statesmen are provided for. The statement of John Sherman to the correspondent of the Evening Post is therefore true, but it is not the whole truth. King did make a written request for the dismissal of certain people and the appointment of Anderson as chief deputy, but when that request was referred to Hayes he said it could not be done under the civil-service rules. Then Anderson and Wells were angry, and swore it should be done under the agreement made with them by the visiting statesmen. They came to Washington and demanded the fulfillment of the written pledge made to them —demanded what was nominated in the bond, and got all they asked. It is true also that neither the “department nor the President has attempted to interfere with or suggest what appointments should be made there,” but John Sherman and Returning Board Hayes did, in defiance of the civil-service rules, and in the face of the latter’s indorsement, agree that every appointment asked for by King, the alter ego of Anderson, should be made. In other words, they did not dare to refuse anything demanded of them by Wells and Anderson, and I venture the prediction here that J ohn Sherman will order the claim of J. Madison Wells to be paid before Congress meets, or shortly after it adjourns, notwithstanding it has been over and over again proved to be a fraud. I venture to predict also that after John Sherman and Returning Board Hayes have doubly damned themselves by their efforts to compensate Wells and Anderson for stealing the vote of Louisiana, and thereby making Hayes de facto President, they will not be able to prevent the whole truth about that “ great fraud of 1876 ” from coming to the light,

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SPECIE-RESUMPTION.

Judge Doolittle’s Views—His Objections to tbe Present Legislation on the Subject. A reporter for the Chicago Tribune recently called upon ex-Senator Doolittle with a view to ascertain. his opinion as to the effect oif specie-re-sumption on Jan. 1, 1879—that is, in about sixteen months. In the courso of a lengthened conversation on the subject, Mr. Doolittle said : To answer your question, I must first put another question, and answer that, and that question is this : How much must the volume of paper money, including greenbacks and Treasury notes, be decreased ; and how much must tbe volume of coin now in this country be increased, in order to resume specio payments, and to maintain resumption? I retreat, to resume and to maintain resumption ; for I think all will agree that to resume for a week and then to suspend would be disastrous.

I assume as a fact beyond dispute that no nation, by any system of paper money, ever has maintained or can maintain specie payments, unless there is at least as much coin in the country as there is paper in circula tion. Ido not say it must all bo ii> the vaults of the banks or the treasury. But if not in their vaults, it must be in the hands of the people. The treasury and the banks may get on and maintain spocie payments with one-half the amount of coin in reserve ; and sometimes with one-third, when there is, at the same time, a large supply of coin in the hands of the people which, when pushed, the banks or the treasury may command. The history of our own counof England, France, Prussia, and every other country shows this. In 1861, before the civil war, when we wero in a normal financial condition—when wo had specie payments—-we had of bank paper, in I rouud numbers $200,000,000; of coin money on deposit, $100,000,000; of coin circulating among the people, according to estimates, $165,000,000. There was then about $65,000,000 more of coin than of paper to be redeemed. Even during the suspension in 1867 there was more coin in the country than there was of bank issues ; but it was in the pockets of the people and not in the vaults of the banks. . “ Bear in mind,” continued the ex- Senator,' “I do not say that specie payments can be always maintained when the stock of coin in the country is equal to the volume of paper. But, what I do say is, that specie payments cannot be maintained when the stock of coin in the country is less than the volume of paper.” In England, where specie payments are maintained, the volume of paper money does not exceed $225,000,000; the coin reserve in the Bank of England is a little over $100,000,000; the coin in circulation is estimated at $525,000,000. In Prussia, where specio payments are maintained, the paper money is about $202,000,000; the coin reserve of the bank is $154,000,000; the coin in circulation is about $500,000,000. In France, where the bank still remains in suspension, the amount of paper money is about $512,000,000, its coin reserve is about $253,000,000; the coin in circulation among the people is $500,000,000. The notes of the bank are par with coin; and yet that bank, conducted by the greatest financiers of this generation, does not resume specie payments, though its stock of coin reserve is more than one-half the amount of its notes, and there is more than $200,000,000 more of coin in the country than paper to be redeemed if demanded. To make a long story short, before we can resume specie payment, and stay resumed, wo must increase our stock of coin ; and decrease our volume of paper until the coin shall at least be equal to the paper.

The currency is to the country what the blood in circulation is to the human body. Since 1875 one-seventh part of the blood has boon drawn out, business is stagnant, men of enterprise are paralyzed ; many who will stand are weakening ; they feel themselves beginning to stagger. If drawing out one-seventh part of the blood in the system in two years has produced that result, what effect will follow if you draw out in one year more than one-third of all that is left in the system ? There is but one answer. The patient will die in the operation. Two-thirds of all the business men still standing will go to the wall. Every property under mortgage for one-half its present value will change hands. The forced and sudden change in the meaning and increase in the valno of the dollar will bring upon the country more destruction of fortunes and values than a civil war. Reporter—But how can that be, as gold and greenbacks aro now so near par? Is it not simply a question of 4 per cent ? Mr. Doolittle—l am glad you askod that question, and lam glad to answer it. Lot me assure you it is not a simple question of 4 per cent. Ten times 4 per cent, is involved in it. Facts are worth more than theories. The history of resumption in England is full of instruction upon the very question. Duiing tho wars with Napoleon and after they were over for nearly twenty years the Bank of England suspended specie payments. But in 1819, after four > ears of peace, the value of paper currency rose to be only 6 per cent, below coin. Peel and Ricardo urged upon Parliament resumption in four years. Thoy said, as some say now : We are almost at the point of resumption ; we have already discounted our sufferings. It is only a question of 3 per cent. Ricardo said, “ The whole difficulty would be in raising the value of the currency 3 per cent.”

Though wise business men protested—though the Governor and Directors of the Bank of England warned Parliament of the danger of contracting the currency, as they must be compelled to do to resume in four years—yet such was the influence of Peel and Ricardo that they carried “ Peel’s Resumption act” through the House of Commons by a unanimous vote. But one man stood out against it, and they oven persuaded him to leave tho Chamber when the vote was takeD, so that it would appear unanimous. What was the result? Sir Archibald Alison, in his history, tells the sad story; “ The effects of this extraordinary piece of legislation wero soon apparent. The industry of the nation was speedily congealed, as a flowing stream is by the severity of an Arctic winter. * * * The entire circulation of England fell from $232,545,000 in 1818, to $142,757,000 in 1821. The effects of this sudden and prodigious contraction of the currency were soon apparent; and they rendered the next three years a period of ceaseless distress and suffering in the British islands.” Tho discounts at the “Bank of England, which in 1810 had been $115,000,000, and in 1815 not less than $103,000,000, sunk in 1820 to $23,360,000, and in 1821 to $13,610,000. The effect upon prices was not less immediate and appalling.” The rate of wages fell one-half. “From the tremendous reduction in the price of land.” says Mr. Doubleday, “which now took place, the estates barely sold for as much as would pay off the mortgages, and the owners were stripped of all and made beggars.” History repeats itself. Like causes produce like effects. We are blessed this year with a bounteous harvest. There is a prospect of ft foreign demand for our surplus. And yet, if when Congress meets the policy of the Secretary of the Treasury and of the National Board of Trade at Milwaukee shall be followed, there are disasters before our country which no pen can portray. Reporter—But, Senator Doolittle, are you not in favor of a return to specie payments at some time? Mr. Doolittle—Certainly I am, but not by any such sudden and violent contraction as resumption by January, 1879, will force upon tho country. To use the strong language of Gen. Ewing, of Ohio, I would come to resumption by “ the pleasant paths of industry, economy and prosperity, and not be dragged through hell to reach it.”

Grant’s Last Letter to Packard.

The following letter —being the last official communication addressed by President Grant to Gov. Packard—has recently been published for the first time: Executive Mansion,! Washington, D. C., March 1, 1877. / To Gov. S. B. Packard, New Orleans, la.: In answer to your dispatch of this date, the President directs me to say that he feels it his duty to state frankly that he does not believe public opinion will longer support the maintenance of the State Government in Louisiana by the use of the military, and that he must concur in the manifest feeling. The troops will hereafter, as in the past, protect life and property from mob violence when the State authorities fail, but under the remaining days of his official life they will not be used to establish or to pull down either claimants for control of the State. It is not his purpose to recognize either claimant, t3.\U. Sniffen, \ v Secretary.