Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE PRESIDENT AND THE SOUTH. President Hayes, at the urgent solicitation of citizens of Atlanta, Ga., visited that city on the 22d of September, and was cordially received. In the presence of 10,000 citizens, Mayor Angler, on behalf of the municipality, welcomed the President, and Gov. Colquitt for the people of the State spoke words of hearty welcome. The President was introduced and received with great cheering. He spoke as follows : My Friends of Okoihiia : I suppose that here, as everywhere else, I am In the presence of men of Imlh great political parties. lam speaking also in the presence of citizens of both races. lam quite sure there are lie fore me very many of the brave men who fought in tlio Confederate army [applause], sonic doubtless of the men who fought in the Union army [applause], and here we are, Itepublicans, Democrats, colored people, white people, Confederate soldier* and Union soldiers, all of one mind and one heart to-day. [lmmense cheering.] And why should wc not be? What is there to separate us longer ? Without any fault of yours, or any fault of mine, or of any one of this great audience, slavery existed in this country. It waa in the constitution of the country. The colored man was hero not by his own voluntary action. It was the misfortune of hie fathers that he was here. I think it is safe to say it was by the crime of our fathers ho was here. He was here, however, and tlie two sections differed about what should lie done with him. As Mr. Lincoln told us in the war, there were prayers on both sides for him. Both sides found in the Bible confirmation of their opinions and both sides Anally undertook to settle the question by that last Anal means of arbitration, force of arms. You here mainly Joined the Confederate. i<lo and fought bravely, risked your lives heroically in behalf of your convictions, and can any true man anywhere fail to respect the man who risks his life for his convictions? [Prolonged cheers.] And, as I accord that respect to you, and believe you to be equally liberal, and generous, and just, I feel, as I stand before you, as one who fought in tlie Unlou army for Ins convictions, I am entitled to your respect. [Cheers.] Now that conAict is over, my friends. Gov. Hampton repeated to you last night the way in which I have been putting it since I came to the South. There were u larger proportion of trained soldiers in your army at Arst than in ours. In much larger proportion you were good marksmen and good horsemen, and that Is two-thirds of a good soldier [laughter] ; but gradually wo learned to ride, too [laughter], and, as some of you know, gradually learned to shoot. (Renewed laughter.] I happen to know how well you could shoot. [Cheers.] Well, having learned how to ride and shoot, it was the case of Agliting between Greek nml Greek. When Greek meets Greek, you know what- the conflict is. [Cheers.] And, more than that, you know exactly how it will terminate. That party in that Aght will always conquer that Ims the most Greeks. [Laughter and cheers.] It is with no discredit to you, and no special credit to us, the war turned out as it did. [Cheers.] Now, shall we quit Agliting ? [Cries of “ Yes,” “ yes.”] I have been in tlie habit of telling an anecdote about Gen. Scott and the statesman at Washington, in which the statesman said that as soon as tlie war was over and the combatants laid down their arms, wc would have complete peace. “ No,” said Gen. Hcolt, “it will take several years, in which all the powers of the General Government will be employed in keeping peaco lietween the belligero*** " .a-. * . •- uavc gotten through (hat [cheers], and, having peace between tlie soldiers and non-combatants, that is an end of the, war. Ih there any reason, (lien, why we should not lie at peace forever more? Wo arc embarked upon tlie same voyage, upon the. same ship, under the sauie old Aag. Good fortune or ill fortune affects you and your children as well ns my people and my children. |Cheers.] Kvcry interest you'posscHs is to be promoted by peace. Here is the great city of Atlanta, gathering to itself from all parts of the country its wealth and business by its railroads, and I say to you iliat every description of indusl ry and legitimate business needs peace. That is what capital wants. Discord, discontent, and dissatisfaction are the enemies of these enterprises. Then all our Interests are for peace. Are wo not agreed about that? What do we, want for tlie future? I believe it is tlio duty of the Genera Government to regard equally the interests and rights of all sections of the country. [Cheers.] I am glad you agree with me about that. I believe further that it is tlio duty of governments to regard ■like and equally the rights and interests of all classes of citizens. [Cheers.] That covers the whole matter. That wipes out in the future in our politics the section lino forever. [Cheers.] Lot us w-ipe tint in our politics tlio color lino forever. [Cheers.]

And let me nay a word upon wliat has been done. I do not undertake to discuss or defend particular measures. I leave the people with their knowledge of the facts to examine and discuss and decide for themselves as to them. I only speak of general considerations and motives. What troubles our people at the North, what has troubled them, was that they feared that those colored people who had been made roe men by the war would not be safe in their right and interests in the South unless it was by the inter fereneo of the General Government. Many good people had that idea. I had given that matter some consideration; and now, my colored friends, who have thought or who have been told I was turning ,wy buck upon the men whom I fought for, now listen. After thinking it over, X believed your rights and interests would bo safe if this great mass of intelligent white men were let alone by the General Govornmjnt. [lmmense enthusiasm and cheering lasting for several minutes.] And now, my colored friends, let me say another thing. Wo have been trying it for theso six months, and, in my opinion, for no six months since the war has there been so few outrages and invasions of your rights, nor have you been so secure in your rights, persons and homes, as in laßt six months. [Great cheering.] Then, my friends, we are all together upon one proposition. Wo believe, and in this all these who are here agree, in the Union of our fathers, in the old flag of our fathers, tho constitution as it is, with all its amendments, and are prepared to see it fully and fairly obeyed and enforced. [Cheers.] Now, my friends, I sec it stated occasionally that President Hayes has taken the epurse he has because he was compelled to it. [A voice—“ We don’t believe it.”] Now, I was compelled to it. [Applause.] I was compelled to It by my sense of duty under my oath of office. [lntense enthusiasm and cheers.] What was done by us was done not merely by force of special circumstances, but because we believed it was just and right to do it. [Cheers.] Now let us come together; let each man make up his mind to become a patriot “in his own home and place. You may quarrel about get up a sharp contest about the currency, about the removal of the State capitals an dwhere they would go lo [laughter] ; but upon the great question of the Union of States and rights of all the citizens we shall agree orevmnore. [Great cheers.]

THE WAR IN’ THE EAST. Advices from the seat of war to the 18th announce that Suleiman Pasha had captured Fort St. Nicholas, in Schipka pass, and formed a junction with Mehemet Ali. «it geems probable,” telegraphs a correspondent, “ that their combinod forces may attempt something against the Czarowitz, who, already obliged o retire before the junction was effected, may now be forced to retreat still further, although the Imperial Guard, now arnving rapidly, may put another face on affairs, it is reported that Gen. Todleben, the def nder of Sebastopol, has received orders to prepare plans for fortifying the winter camps at Matchin, Hirzova, Sistova, and Nikopolis. If it comes to the worst, Nikopolis, where the strong tete du pont is to be established, will be held at all hazards. All fresh troops meanwhile are directed to the Jantra line.” Pispatcl?es from before Plevna of the 21st

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state that “tlie Russians maintain a partial blockade of the place, and continue a desultory liombardment. They are waiting for the Imperial Guard, one division of which is already at or near the crossing-place on the Danube, while another is following with as much expedition as possible. But Osman is getting reinforcements, too. Chefket Pasha, the Bulgarian butcher, has pushed his way northward from Bolla, with a convoy of provisions for Plevna, and a force of twenty or thirty thousand men, and has already opened communications with Osman. Thero is nothing new from Suleiman or Mehcmet Ali.” It is estimated at the Russian headquarters that the Turks lost 2,000 men in the late attempt to capture Fort St. Nicholas. A London dispatch of the 22d says “ fighting is reported to have begun between the forces of Mehcmet Ali and the Czarowitch near Biela. The Turkish commander, who has been advancing for several days with extreme caution, came up with the Russian outposts Thursday, and somo skirmishing took place, followed by a more serious conflict Friday, resulting in the loss to the Russians of 5,000 men, and to the Turks of 0,000. Both sides claim the victory.” According to reports current in Constantinople, the Sultan is resolved not to accept mediation “ while a single Russian soldier remains on Turkish soil,” nor to entertain propositions for an armistice unless the bases of a treaty of peace are at the same time defined. A correspondent who was an eye-witness of the battle fought on Sept. 21 between the Czarowitch and Mehemet Ali, telegraphs from Tzercouna as follows : “Five or six different attacks were made to-day by the Turks, with from one to three battalions each, and all unsupported. The attacks failed. The loss to the Turks was very heavy. A number of killed and wounded can be seen lying on the open ground over which the combatants passed. The Russians maintain their positions, which consist of a series of formidable trenches.” The Russian official bulletin, dated* GornyStuden, Sept. 23, says : “The Turks renewed the bombardment of the Schipka pass positions Friday. In the afternoon they began an assault on the right flank, but were repulsed. They then attacked the left and center, and were likewise repulsed. Fighting lasted until night.”

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. After a six months’ rest, the Clyde shipbuilders have agreed to arbitrate their differences with the employers, and this important industry will be revived at once. Reports from most of the famine districts of India are pneouraging, the crop prospects having greatly improved under recent rains. Marshal MacMahon has issued an extraordinary proclamation to the electors of Fiance. Ho “ awaits with full confidence the manifestation of the people’s sentiments,” he says ; but he takes care to notify the people in advance that their sentiments must he manifested in accordance with his own. He is entirely willing that the form of an election shall proceed, but he wants it distinctly understood that it will he nothing more than a barren form. ’**•“ 'uanifosto has created an immense sensation in r ranee. It is muuiy applauded by the Bonapartist and clerical organs, wliilo the Republican papers manifest serious alarm at tho Marshal’s threats. In France the Republicans have issued an address to the people, replying, point by point, to MacMahon’s manifesto. The concluding passage is as follows : “ Your duty will increase with the audacity of those who presume to impose themselves on France. You cannot become the instrument of clericalism. The republic must have republican functionaries, and the country expects order, peace and stability through the republic.” M. LeVcrrier, the celebrated French astronomer, is dead. The second trial of Gambctta took place on tho 22d of September on appeal. His counsel argued that the tribunal which condemned him was incompetent. Tho court rejected the plea, and confirmed tho sentence pronounced at the first trial.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. • East. A monument to fallen soldiers and sailors was dedicated at Boston on the 17th inst., in the presence of an immense concourse. Attorney General Devens was tho chief orator. A stand upon which about 2,000 people were seated g&vo way, injuring somo thirty, some of them quite severely. Tho dedication of the new monument at Paoli, Fa., in honor of fifty-threo American soldiers under Gen. Anthony AVayno, killed by British troops under Gen. Gray, 100 years ago, took place on tho 20th of September. Among those present wero Gov. Hartranft and staff, and a grandson of Anthony Wayne. West. Tho Texas cattle fever has broken out in Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas, and is killing off the stock in large numbers. Gen. Sturges has had a spirited contest with the Nez Perces in the Yellowstono region, with the result of inflicting a severe drubbing upon the retreating savagos. A vigorous pursuit of two days was rewarded by an opportunity to give Joseph a taste of red-hot warfare, and tho capture of several hundred horses and the killing of a large number of Indians, after a whole day’s fighting in which the Crows did good service, are set down to Sturges’ credit. An east-bound passenger train on the Union Pacific railway was stopped by highwaymen at Big Springs, Neb., ICO miles east of Cheyenne, on the night of Sept. 18. The robbers first took possession of the station at the Springs, destroying the telegraph instruments, and compelled the agent to hang out a red light. When the train stopped the desperadoes took possession, patting the train men and passengers under guard. The express car was broken into, and the safe robbed of about $75,000. The passengers were also robbed, of what amount is not yet ascertained. To delay the train reaching the next station, and alarm being given, the fire in the locomotive was wet down. A freight train overtaking the express, its engine was. sent to Ogallala, from where the report of the robbery was made. The robbers are believed to have gone n6rth. The railroad company offer a reward of $5,000 for the arrest of the thieves. Another Chicago savings bank has collapsed, the Merchants’, Farmers’ and Mechanics’, of which Sidney Myers is President. Its affairs have been placed in the hands of a receiver. About $600,000 are owing to some 2,500 depositors. The assets are nominally equal to the deposits. St. Louis papers announce the death of Hon. Louis V. Bogy,-United States Senator from Missouri. He was 65 years old and a native of Missouri. Late news from Sitting Bnll, from British territory, indicate that he will remain on British soil through alleged fear on his part of treachery. Sitting Bull’s force now numbers 1,000, encamped at the Horse Buttes, four miles from Wood mountain. Edwin Booth continues his engagement at MoVioker’s Theater, Chicago. Next week Dion Boudc&ult, with his great specialty of ‘The Sh*ughraun, will be the attraction,

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1877.

This is one of the most popular dramas ever written, and is said to have netted Mr. Boucicanlt SBOO,OOO since its first production, a little over a year ago. So utli. The Steamers Great Republic and Carondelet were burned at St. Louis a few nights ago. The Great Republic was the finest steamboat ever built for the Mississippi river, and was valued at $350,000. The Carondelet was valued at $75,000. The settlement of a Kentucky'dispute is thns chronicled in a dispatch from Richmond, in that State : “A year since, Jasper Maupin shot John Breman, at Kingston, Madison county, wounding him. Maupin was indicted and tho trial set for to-day, but the case was not reached. This evening the parties met in the street in Richmond, each accompanied by friends, when firing began. John Breman, Chris Ballard, and Wm. A. Cornelason were killed. The survivors were arrested.” Tho fertile valley of the Black Warrior river, j in Alabama, has been visited by a destructive j inundation, by which the entiro crops of cotton and grain have been destroyed. The loss will reach $3,000,000 or $4,000,000. The yellow fever epidemic is on the increase at Fernandina, Fla., and there is a general feeling of alarm along the gulf coast. WASHINGTON NOTES. ‘ The Ohio clerks in the treasury have been given to understand that they can have a furlough of sufficient length to allow them to go home to vote, provided they desire to do so. E. R. Hoyt, of New York, has been appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs. POLITICAL POINTS. The Republican State Convention of Massachusetts met at Worcester last week and nominated the following ticket : Governor, Alexander H. Rice ; Lieutenant Governor, Horatio G. Knight; Secretary of State, Henry B. Pierce ; Attorney General, Charles R. Train ; Treasurer and Beceiver General, Charles Emlicott; Auditor, Julius L. Clarke. The following resolutions were adopted:

Resolved, That we reaffirm, first of all, our unwaver.ng allegiance to the fundamental truth and principle which have inspired the triumph of the Republican party. We accept tho responsibility of the national administration again committed to Republican hands as a trust to be exercised for the welfare of all the people, without distinction of race, color, locality, or creed. The armed struggle for union and equal rights is at an end. The grand results are accepted facts in national history. Watchful, guarding, and finally maintaining all that has been achieved, wo do not propose to abandon tho helm or drift with the tide, but to address ourselves with vigor and courage to the jiending issues,' and to insist upon their settlement in the interest of good government, national progress and enduring union. 2. That wo congratulate the country upon the rightful accession of tho Republican President, whose conspicuous integrity, honesty of purpose, wisdom, moderation, and firmness command the confidence of the people, give assurance of pure, economical, and beneficent administration of public affairs, and thus afford opportunity and encourage the prospect of the speedy restoration of confidence and revival of business activity. sign of promise of the. final and permanent pacification of tho Southern section of our country under local self-government, based upon the full recognition of tho equal rights of all by all, and we cordially approve the spirit and measures ofjthe administration as wisely adapted to hasten this result, as directed by a just sense of constitutional right and duty, as tending to promote the spirit of peace and reconciliation between the citizens of all sections, and as already largely justified by the liettcred feeling and condition of the country. 4. 'That the, faith of tho country is solemnly pledged to the early resumption of specie payments. Public honor and private interest alike demand the fulfillment of this pledge. We approve the steps already taken, and rejoice at the progress made. We insist upon the adoption of all measures necessary to secure resumption on a day not later than that now fixed by law, and it is the duty of the Government to maintain its coin and currency at all times at par with gold, the standard of the commercial world. 5. That the work of reforming and improving the civil service which the Republican party has undertaken, and to which it alone stands committed, ought to be persistently and resolutely carried forward. 6. That the order recently promulgated by the President for the purpose of restraining executive officers of the Government from exercising an undue and improper influence upon the action of the people in the selection of candidates for office and in the management of political affai rs is in accordance with the principles and practices established by the founders of the Government. 7. That the Congress of the United States has already passed a reasonable limit in grants of land and money awards to private enterprises; that the interests of the nation demand that no more grants shall be made, either from tho public domain or public treasury, as subsidies to private corporations, and that appropriations for Government works shall henceforth be limited by the strict rule of necessity.

The Democrats of New Jersey met in State convention at Trenton last week, nominated Gen. George B. McClellan for Governor on the first ballot, and adopted the following platform : • Resolved, That the Democracy of the State of New Jersey, in convention assembled, reaffirm the principles contained in the National Democratic platform adopted at St. Louis in 1876. We denounce the frauds and crimes by which our candidates for President and Vice President are prevented from occupying the positions to which they were chosen by a decided majority of the popular electoral vote. 2. We congratulate the supporters of free government throughout the United States that even the man who was placed in the Presidential chair by means of these frauds and crimes has found it necessary, in order to receive the respect and support of any portion of the American people, to adopt the Democratic policy of local self-government, and abandon all further devices to perpetuate sectional jealousies. 8. The Democratic party, embracing within its ranks all classes of our citizens, most of whom are workingmen, believes that aU legislation should have for Its object the greatest good to the greatest number. We, therefore, oppose all special legislation for corporate or individual interests at the expense of the people. We recognize their needs and sympathize with the workingmen of the State in the prevalent distress. We advise the enactment of such legislation as will enable us to collect information relating to the interests of labor and capital, with a view to harmonize these interests and place our industries upon a more permanent and scientific basis. 4. Honest toil and legitimate business are the true basis of a nation’s prosperity. Official salaries ought never to be so high as to be sought after for mere pecuniary gain. Salaries, fees and costs of litigation have, during the past years of Republican legislation, been so largely increased as to become absolutely burdensome. The times demand and the necessities of the people require a radical reduction of all such salaries, fees and costs. The usury laws should lie revised and reformed, and 6 per cent, should be restored as the uniform legal rate of interest in this State, without the impairing obligations of contracts.

The Prohibitionists of New Jersey have nominated Rndolphus Bingham for Governor. The Pennsylvania Greenbackers met in convention at Williamsport, the other day, and placed the following State ticket in the field : Supreme Judge, Benjamin 8. Bentley; Auditor, Gen. J. E. Emerson ; State Treasurer, James L. Wright. The Maryland Republican Convention met at Baltimore on the 20th inst., apd nominated Dr.

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G. E. Porter for State Comptroller. The resolutions indorse the President’s Southern policy and oppose the repeal of the Resumption law. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Detective Bureau of the Treasury Department, at Washington, warns the public to be on its guard against counterfeit $5 bills. The President’s journey from Louisville southward must have been an exceedingly pleasant one, jndging from the hearty manner in which he was greeted by the multitudes of people who flocked to the railway stations to get a view of his features and a shake of his hand. One feature of the trip was the anxiety of the colored people to see the Chief Magistrate, for which purpose they flocked to the various stations in vast numbers. The reception of the President at Nashville, Chattanooga and other points in Tennessee was very enthusiastic. A collision between passenger and freight trains on the New York Central road, at Rome, N. Y., resulted in the killing of three persons, all train men, and injuring a number of passengers. The troops lately quartered in the mining region of Pennsylvania have been sent West, to operate against the Indians. So much grain has accumulated in Kingston, Ont., that Canadian vessels cannot be obtained in sufficient numbers to forward it to Montreal, and permission has been asked from the Government to allow American craft to get forwarders out of their embarrassment of riches. The reader is advised to accept no $5 bill on the First National Bank of Tamaqua, Pa. A perfectly-executed counterfeit five on that bank is in circulation, and all issues of that denomination are to be called in.

SHERMAN’S SIXTY MILLIONS.

Judge Kelley Show* How it I* Safely and Profitably Employed by tlie Hacks. To the Editor of the Philadelphia Times : Will you permit me to respond to questions which come to me in such numbers that I am unable to reply specifically to each of the earnest men who propound them, aud to withhold reply from which is to sanction a misstatement of facts which is, in my judgment, working great evil to the suffering people of the country ? Many people believe that the world-wide depression of trade with which we are now afflicted is the result of mismanagement of the finances of this country and Germany ; that the enormous contraction by these two Goremments of the volume of money, to which the business of the world had adjusted itself, has been tlie fruitful source of all our present woes, and in the discussion of so grave a question the aim of every man should be to make known the truth, and the truth only, whether it bear for or against the theory he may advocate. Having devoted the later years of my life tef resistance to this contraction, I am by earnest men, in every section of the country, as to Lg ts ill io tliitt, if vtmliAUAiliuu bo tlio cause of our evils, money is so abundant that $60,000,000 of greenbacks are lying, unused and unproductive to their owners, in the treasury of the United States. My answer, in each personal reply I have been able to make, has been that such is not the fact. But my poor allegation is met by clippings from innumerable journals showing mo that during tho recent absence of Secretary Sherman, Assistant Secretary McCormick, in direct response to my theory, and, mentioning me by name, spoke of the “ ridiculous absurdity” of charging tho business paralysis upon the contraction of the currency, and pointed to the fact that, on the Ist of July last, $54,000,000 of greenbacks had been in the treasury, deposited by their owners without interest, and incapable of use until the certificates of deposit held in •xchange therefor should be surrendered and the notes withdrawn; and further that, though on the Ist of July the amount had been but $54,000,000, it had become, on the day the Secretary made this allegation, the 26th of July, more than $60,000,000. On his return from his trip along the coast Secretary Sherman mads haste to indorse, with much emphasis, this statement of Assistant Secretary McCormick, and to give the utmost possible publicity to his indorsement. Messrs. Sherman and McCormick have been counted among my cherished friends for more than sixteen years. I owe neither of them aught but friendship. Few men can Have held either of them in higher esteem than I, and I have, therefore, hoped that others would spare me the necessity of this communication by pointing out the glaring falsity of this statement. But the number of question* propounded to me on this subject, and the frequent reference made to these averments in the course of financial discussion, constrain me to assume the painful duty, which will raise in many minds the question: “ Can it be that the Secretary of the Treasury and his assistant are ignorant of the laws governing the treasury in its relation with the national banks and with the practical business of both ? or have these statements been deliberately made for the purpose of confounding earnest men in pursuit of a proper solution of the financial question?” The truth is that, with the exception of one and two dollar, and, perhaps, five-dollar greenbacks, which pass in the marketplace, in retail trade and in the minor uses of life, no part of the paper money of the Government is in such active and efficient circulation or Buch profitable use as that deposited in the treasury, and for which certificates of deposit are held by the national banks. The truth of my averment is known to every national banker in cities in which clearing houses have been established, and to many others, and cannot but be known to the Secretary of the Treasury, for this active, efficient and profitable use was imparted to notes so deposited expressly by an act of Congress, which received the signature of the President on the Bth of June, 1872, and the passage of which through the Senate was championed by Secretary Sherman, then Senator from Ohio. The text will be found as section 5,193, on page 1,011 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and reads as follows: Section 5,193. The Secretary of the Treasury may receive United States notes on deposit, without interest, from any national banking association in sums of not less than SIO,OOO, and issne certificates therefor in such form as he may prescribe, in denominations of not less than $5,000, and payable on demand in United States notes at the place where the deposits were made. The notes so deposited shall not be counted as part of the lawful money reserve of the association, but the certificates issued therefor may be counted as part of its lawful money reserve, and may be accepted in the settlement of clearing-house balances at the places where the deposits therefor were made. I have said these notes are in active, efficient and profitable use. The knowledge that a bank holds certificates for such notes is a guarantee to depositors th.at it has at least part of the reserve

required by law, aud, in these days of corporate mismanagement such a palpable guarantee is of great value. But these notes circulate in the form of certificates of deposit every day on which a balance is settled at a clearing house. Prior to the passage of this act, when balances were payable in notes, it required many clerks in the clearing house to count the notes, at great expense of clerk hire and of wear and tear of notes, but now, by virtue of this act, the clerk hire and the destructive use of notes is avoided, while every note is put to the best use possible for its interest by the bank which deposited it. As one seeking truth and wishing to enable the masses of the people to comprehend the details of what is at best a complex and intricate question, I beg you to do me the favor to give this communication a place in your columns.

WM. D. KELLEY.

Pay the Bonds with Greenbacks.

The interest and tax on the bonds are too great a drain upon the productive labor of the country to be endured without seriously affecting its prosperity. The interest and tax upon the bonds are at least $130,000,000 annually. In getting rid of the bonds the original bondholders or their representatives would get more than they paid for them, and the public credit would be sustained,and our financial trouble would cease.— Forney's Chronicle. Two THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS at 4j per cent., with the interest added to the principal quarter-yearly for this time, will amount to $8,279,000,000. Deduct the $2,000,000,000 of principal, and you have as tlie accumulation by interest to be paid by the present generation $5,279,000,000, or over three times the amount of the principal. Now, under tlie operation of the greenback system, the interest and principal of tho debt can be honestly and honorably discharged in less .than a generation (thirty-one and a quarter years), a cost of but 58f per cent, of the amount required to pay the interest for thirty-one years under the bankers’ and financiers’ system.—Campbell. The banker invests his money in bonds, which lie idle, doing nothing, earning nothing, but drawing 6 per cent, interest which the people have to pay. The banker not only draws his 6 per cent, interest on the bonds, but the Government loans him an amount of national currency equal to 90 per cent, of the bonds, at 1 per cent, interest, and taxes neither the money nor the bonds. On the same principle, whenever a man buys SI,OOO worth of Government, land, the Government should loan him S9OO for an indefinite period, pay him 6 per cent, interest on the SI,OOO it received for the land, charge the man but 1 per cent, on the S9OO, and exempt both the land and the S9OO from taxation of every nature forever afterwards. Blood is the circu l *“* l “er medium in tae human body, and money is the circulating medium in the industrial body of the nation. Four millions of Frenchmen own the national debt of France, consequently, when the yearly interest of it is paid, the money circulates ‘/'in their country.” European bondholc’ /rs own the greater part of our national debt, and when the yearly interest is paid on the same the money circulates “ out of our country,” hence business li£re is paralyzed, because there is not money (alias blood) enough left in the Union to lift the arm of labor. The French keep the milk in their coeoanut, and we pour it out of ours.— Labor. Six times in England, within tho last 100 years, the banks have suspended specie payments, and once for twentyfive consecutive years. In twenty-one years 321 banks failed, and paid less than 50 per cent, of face of their speciebasis notes. In the United States the following years marked the number of suspensions of specie payments, via.: 1809, 1814,1819, 1825, 1834, 1837, 1839, 1841, 1857, 1861. These suspensions have invariably occasioned great public distress, and in several instances have involved the entire country in bankruptcy. On each of these occasions the free presentation at the banks of issue of the “ bank notes founded on a specie basis ” occasioned these panics. There was but little gold to pay the notes with, consequently they could not be paid. This has always been the upshot of all attempts of basing nlbney on specie. The history of the world is my proof, and I defy any one to show any other result of this system of money.— A. F. I)., in Bunker Hill.

French Criminal Statistics.

Tlie statistics relating to the administration of criminal law in France during the year 1875 have just been made public. Tbe number of persons tried at the assizes during the year 1875 amounted to 4,791, as against 5,228 in 1874. Of the accused 1,547 were described as wholly illiterate, 3,042 could read and write, 202 had received a superior education. Themen were 4,008, the women 783. The acquittals were 947, or over 20 per cent. Of the persons convicted 33 were sentenced to death, 141 to penal servitude for life, 975 to limited terms of penal servitude, and the remainder to simple imprisonment, excepting three, who were only fined. Out of 3,815 individuals convicted 1,818 had previous sentences recorded against them. With respect to the nature of the offenses, there were 369 prosecutions for crimes punishable by death. All the accused under this category were found guilty, but 336 “with extenuating circumstances.” Of the 33 condemned to death only 12 were executed.

Flowers.

A gentle heart is like ripe fruit which bends so low that it is at the mercy of every one who chooses to pluck it, while the harder fruit keeps out of reach. The grafts that circumstances make in our characters we are apt to regard as its native fruits. The shroud is to man like the covering used by gardeners to protect their plants from sun and rain—it shuts him out from the storms of adversity and the fierce glow of passion. Th* sweet accords of melancholy music seem formed of departed hopes, and melt into each other, and into nothing, like the days of the life of man. One of the many penalties we pay for longevity is the loss of those who have been dear to us in our pilgrimage. The more haste a man makes to unravel a skein of thread the more he entangles it. —From the German of Jean Paul.

Senator Edmunds, ot Vermont, discusses “ Presidential Elections ” in the American Law Review for October, with reference to such legislation as Bhall avoid such contingencies as those of last winter.

WADE HAMPTON.

Speech of the Palmetto Governor at the Kockford (Ill.) Fair. Mb. Pbesident and Fellow-Citizens: If any evidence were needed to prove my high appreciation of tho invitation you have extended to me to address y<ju on this occasion it would sorely be found in the fuct that I have traveled more than a thousand miles in order that my acknowledgment of the honor conferred might be made to you in person, aud, while doing this heartily and cordially, it gives me infinite pleasure to assure you, my follow-citizens of Illinois, that, had mv journey been even far longer and more fatiguing, the sight that meets me here to-day, and the warmth of your greeting, would amply compensate me. Undor ordinary circumstances, I should scarcely have felt at liberty to leave my official duties to participate in an occasion of this sort, however gratifying might be the call made upon me to do so, but the invitation of the Winnebago Agricultural Society carried with it such a special weight that it impressed an obligation which I felt constrained to recognize. It was this society which, years ago, before the party and sectional bitterness that is here so happily passing away had abated, had the honor of being, if not the first, certainly among the first of organizations at the North to inaugurate that spirit of fraternity and reconciliation which is now bearing such wholesome fruit in all sections and among all classes of this broad land of ours. As a Southern man, therefore, I regarded it not only a pleasure but a duty to come from my far-distant home to (hank you for your manly and patriotic efforts in behalf of reconciliation, and to pledge you my most hearty co-operation in this good work, and if my efforts can, however slightly, contribute toward the restoration of peace—a peace cordial in its establishment, permanent m its results, and honorable in all its conditions —then, indeed, my mission here will not h&vo been in vain. Upon this platform North and South can meet and stand, for its corner-stone is patriotism. A spirit of patriotism should surely be found constant and ardent in the hearts of the people of Illinois, for their State is itself the offspring of as noble a patriotism as ever inspired the human heart. The mother of your State, Virginia, when she gave this grand Western domain—an empire in its dominions—to the common cause, did so because she preferred the good of the whole country to her individual aggrandizement, and you would be unworthy of tbe heroic lineage you possess were you to forget your glorious ancestry and the lesson it should perpetually teach you. In complying with your invitation to address you, gentlemen of the society, it has seemed to me that I could best carry out the purposes ycu have in view—if I comprehend them aright—by taking a larger field for my remarks than the discussion of purely agricultural subjects would afford. It would be more congenial to me to speak on these latter topics, and it would, perhaps, be safer for me so to do ; but, in the presence of the great questions which agitate the whole country, an exchange of opinions between citizens of different sections on these vital issues seems more necessary, more important, and more salutary. It is of the greatest consequence that the people of tho North and of the South should understand each other thoroughly, for much of the •vil that has fallen on the country sprung from misconception on the part of the citizens of these sections as to the motives and purposes of each other. To aid in bringing about this understanding is One of the chief objects of my visit to your great State, aud to this end it is that I choose to discuss general topics rather than those belonging specially to agriculture. But, in doing this, you need have no fears that I shall violate the proprieties of the occasion by making a political address. No, fellow-citizens, there arc times when issues spring up which overshadow all party questions, and we are in tho midst of one of these eventful eras—so, at least, it appears to me—and, in addressing you to-day, I speak for no party, no section, but for the whole country. In doing this, I shall strive to sink every trace of partisanship in an honest effort to place myself on that high ground where alone the present patriotism can be found. There is a profound truth and knowledge of human nature hidden under the fable with which you are all familiar—that told of the shield, white on one side, black on the other, being at tlie intersection of two roads. In those days, when kniglits-crrant went in quest of adventure or in search of some chosen damsel, as the story nuis, two knights approaching tho shields in opposite directions, after disputing about its color, put lances in rest aud periled life, each to maintain his opinion. Something of the same sort happened between tho South and North. The constitution represents the shield. Viewed as it was, from different sides, the dispute waxed warn. The sword was called in to decide the vexed question, and, under its stern arbitrament, many a soldier, as brave, as gallant, as knightly as a Bayard, gave his life for his convictions. What might have been the result had prudence and not passion ruled the hour it is idle now to consider. The statesman looks to the past perils of his country to laaru how to avoid them in the future, and the work and the prayer of the patriot should be given to this end. Our country has been forced to pass that dread ordeal which seems allotted by Providence to all people—civil war—and, in emerging from this trial, it was natural not only that confusion should for a time supersede order, but that the pride of triumph on the one side and the bitterness of defeat on the other should combine to keep the opposing sections of tho country apart. This was, as I have said, but natural, and time alone, which brings healing ointment on his wings, can bind up the wounds made by war. He brings reflection and calm thought to aid in the work of restoration, while God Himself, speaking to us through tho immutable laws of nature, tolls us tnat it is our duty to strive earnestly and constantly to efface the dark blots which evil or disaster may have made. When the wild torrent hurls itself from the mountain-side, sweeping off, in its mad career, all that opposes it, and leaving in its track devastation and ruin, Nature, tho beneficent mother, with gentle, with slow but sure hand, clothes hillside and valley with her perpetual verdure and her smiling flowers. As in the natural world, so is it in the whole universe, and philosophy and religion go hand in hand, tho one teaching us that matter here is indestructible and the other that life immortal is the fixed law of God. It is true that our people should take these lessons to their hearts and act upon them. W'e have had too much of war—we, at least, of the South have—and we need now, above all things, peace, and it is to plead for peace that lam here to-day. I make no concealment of the part taken by myself in the late war, nor would your respect for me be increased were I to offer any unmanly apology. Up to the beginning of the contest, I used all my influence to preserve the Union, to avoid the war; but, when that came, I obeyed the command of my State, as you did yours, and I fought you as long and as hard as I could. Bat when I surrendered I did so in good faith, and from that day to this I challenge any one to show that the terms of my parole have been violated, or that any act of mine has been inconsistent with my honor as a soldier and my duty as a citizen. You of the North followed the dictates of your own consciences. We of the South did the same. Let us each do justice to the other, for without mutual self-respect there can be no permanent peace and no restored fraternity. Can you doubt that tbe South seeks peace'? Look at her wasted fields, her ruined industries, her fearful misrule, and you can doubt no longer. Do you doubt her sincerity ? Whatever may be, or may have beeD, her faults, her worst enemies have never charged her with hypocrisy nor speaking with a double tongue. Rash, impulsive, impetuous she may be, but false never. Look back to those trying times when the Presidential question was unsettled. What was the course of the South then? There were men in the North who were willing to inaugurate another rebellion, as though, like us of the South, they had fought you bravely in battle, they were from the first willing, anxious, earnest to produce another revolution, to add to the evils of the country, and was not the opportunity given to the South then? What prevented a gun from being tired in South Carolina ? One riot in Bouth Carolina, and we would have had a civil war throughout this broad land. It would not have been a war of sections—not a war in which one part of our great country warred against another. Divided by sections, it would not have beeji what this country had seen not long before. It would have been a cruel war—brother against brother, household against household.

At that time South Carolina used all her efforts—ay 9, my friends, I can tell you that the people of South Carolina are as brave, as true, as the spirit r>f the people of Illinois, and

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stood then ten times more than von would have done. The Presidential question went into Congress. Who was it in Congress that prevented the filibustering ? It was what some of the violent newspapers of the North havo chosen to call the “Confederate Brigadier Generals." These men said that, as Congress had voted for the Commission, its acts should be sustained, and there was not a man in the South who did not acquiesce in its decision, and who does not propose to obey all steadily to the end. The second proof of Southern sincerity—that recent one which has just passed (I mean the unfortunate strikes and riots which spread through the wholo North) —where was the South then ? Did she come forward, anxious to take part as a disturbing element? Not a single man of ilie South joined in ttoose riots, but manifested conservatism throughout the whole difficulty. Here, then, are two evidences of the feeliug at the South in giving bonds to preserve the peace, and she wants peace. We surrendered in good faith, and I want to impress upon you this fact, that I challenge any man living to say that, from that day to this, I have violated in any degree my oath. I pledged mvself then to support the constitution of the United States and all its amendments, and when 1 took the official oath as Governor of South Carolina I swore to uphold it, and so help my God, I intend to keep it. It was sai<f by Wellington that it is the duty of every citizen to obey the laws of his country, whether right or wrongNow, we propose to obey the constitution of the United States, and we ask, and have th* right to ask, that the constitution shall extend equal protection to South Carolina and Massachusetts, to Louisiana and to Illinois, and we have the right to ask that every citizen in every State should be equally protected by the constitution of the United States. I come, then, fellow-citizens, appealing for peace. We come because it is the highest wisdom to restore p>eace. The very ethics of statesmanship require the restoration of the Union. We recognize that the constitution is paramount. We recognize that the Union is restored. .We propose to be good citizens, and I come from the Palmetto State to the Prairie State to take the hands of the men of Illinois in peace, in fraternity, and in reconciliation. I believe it will be met in the same spirit that it is offered. A newspaper reporter has said (and, by the way, I think all the newspaper reporters ought to be killed) that I have received letters threatening assassination. I have received one or two. I will read you one. I know you have no Ku-Klux. Here it is :

“ You darned old rebel; if you or any other of your stripe come to Rockford to make a Eublic speech you may expect to go back in a ox. There are 100 other veterans besides myself who have constituted themselves a committee to that effect. A word to the wise.” If there is anything, just MJch a thing as this would make me come, because I knew and folt that it was a great slander on the people of Illinois. I knew that there were not 100 men in all the brave men whom I met and fought in battle, in the 3,000,000 that they put into the field, that would forget he was a soldier, and sink to an assassin. But, my friends, I havo as yet spoken little on agriculture. You all know how to raise corn, and it would be of no use for me to tell you how to raise cotton, dig sweet potatoes or prindles. If I had time I would speak to you of the fertile valleys of your own magnificent State, a State with acreage enough to provide for a population equal to Great Britain. [The speaker here gave a glowing picture of Illinois, and said that a grand and noble destiny iyas in their hands. In conclusion, the speaker brought up the question of universal suffrage;., and showed the many difficulties of governinga large country by this system.] The question can only be solved by the education of the heart and soul, as well as of the mind. When wo have succeeded in that, make a man believe that all learning is foolish in the sight of the Lord, and we must look to God for help. When we can get our people to do this, we may look forward to a time of peace, prosperity, and happiness. [He closed, as ho had begun, by thanking the people of the North for the cordial welcome they had given him.] It is more than a personal compliment. I do not fake it as such, but as the evidence of the good-will of the people of Illinois for the people of my own State in the far South. We are all now bound together. We are standing under one flag, obeying one constitution, and it is for us to say what will be tho future of this great country. Give us your help, people of the North, and wo will give you hearty co-operation. We feel and know that, if tho people sustain the present policy of peace, it will result in tho restoration of fraternity and reconciliation. We feel, then, that there is a glorious future before the whole country. Let us take each other eby the hands and leave the consequences to God. Having performed oUr duty, looking back to the past only to gain wisdom for the future, using the present wisely, and looking to that future in happy trust in God, I am sure that we may all wish, North and South, that our States may be all united by our common destiny, distinct as the billows, but united as the sea.

A RESTLESS CONSCIENCE.

The Fraudulent President Cannot Sit Still in His Stolen Chair. [From the Cleveland Plaindealer.] What can be the meaning of this restlessness ? How is it that an incumbent of the White House, with the evidence furnished by the administrations of his predecessor that the American public reprehend nothing more in an Executive than a spirit of gadding as a warning, can have the effrontery to make an everlasting itinerant of himself for the edification of small boys, loafers, idlers and street crowds generally ? Why does he not put on a becoming modesty ? Why does ho not seek to withdraw himself from the public eye? If he lias good works to perform, why does he not execute them quietly, and try to distract public attention from himself and the perennial contemplation of the machinery of Returning Boards ? It is easy enough to understand the cause of Hayes’ unrest. The demon of discontent is gnawing at his vitals and pricking him into motion, forbidding him to be still, ever suggesting the hope that contact with crowds, and the absorption of a meaningless flattery may banish for a brief instant the thought that he is a fraud. Hayes appreciates the estimation in which he is held by a great majority of the people. He knows that lie came within a liair’s-breadth of 1 being the cause of a civil war, compared with which the rebellion of ’6l-’65 was child’s play; that a preponderance of the thinking and voting people of this country came to the calm, deliberate conclusion that “ the great fraud of 1876,” as Mr. Black aptly terms it, deserved to be resisted with arms as much as any assault on the constitutional rights of a free people ever did. He knows that he wifi go down to history as the figurehead of the most repulsive political crime ever perpetrated, in that the guiltiest actors therein wore the ermine of the Supreme Court. He knows all these things, and yet the demon of discontent drives him forth into the highways to exhibit his fraudulent person before the gaze of the idle mob, the better to make his mental disquietude the more poignant when thrown in upon himself again. To sit down quietly in the White House, which is the part of propriety and decency, is impossible; for to sit down is to bring a self-consciousness that is intolerable. The province of the tramp is the only thing that can divert him. He and his retinue get aboard of the train. Tney travel like a menagerie from town to town. Hayes goes out on the platform. The crowd of rustics yell and swing their hats and handkerchiefs. The children cry. The cows and the pigs scamper behind the bam in affright. The scene is repeated everywhere. When a big town is reached, the hacks and the lickspittles get out a band and a four-horse carriage, and there is a “procession,” with more yells and hat-swingings.

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THE HOME CONCERT. Well, Tom, my boy, I must say good-by. I’ve had $ wonderful visit here ; Enjoyed it, too, a* well as 1 could Away from all that my heart holds dear. Maybe I’ve been a trifle rough— A little awkward, your wife would say— And very likely I’ve missed the hint Of your city polish day by day. But somehow, Tom, though the same old roof Sheltered us both when we were boys. And the same dear mother-lovo watched us !>oth, Sharing our childish griefs and joys, Y’et you are almost a stranger now ; Your ways and mine are as far apart As though we never had thrown an arm About oach other with loving heart. Your city home, is a palace, Tom; Your wife and children are fair to see; You couldn’t breathe in the little cot, The. little home that belongs to me. And I am lost in your grand, large house. And dazed with the wealth on every side, And I hardly know my brother, Tom, In the midst of so much stately pride. Yes, the concert was grand, last night. The singing splendid; but, do you know, My heart kept longing, tlio evening through, For another concert, so sweet and low That maybe it wouldn’t please Uie ear Of any one so cultured and grand as you ; But to its music —laugh if you will— My heart and thoughts must ever be true, I shut my eyes in the hall last night (For the clanh of tho music weariednue), And close to my heart this vision eaiue— The same sweet picture I always see : In the vine-clad porch of a cottage home, Half iu shadow and half in sun, A mother chanting her lullaby. Rocking to rest her little one. And soft and sweet, as the music fell From the mother’s lips, I heard the coo Of my baby girl, as with drowsy tonguo She echoed the song with “ Goo-a-goo.” Together they sang, the mother and babe, My wife and child, by the cottage door. Ah ! that is the concert, brother Tom, My oars are aching to hoar once more. So now good-by. And I wish you well, And many a year of wealth aud gain. You were born to be rich and gay ; / am content to be poor aud plain. And I go back to my country home With a love that absence has strengthened t<X)— Back to the concert all my own — Mother’s singing aud baby’s coo. -Harper's Monthly for October.

WIT AND HUMOR.

Thk middle ages—Averages. The question of the hour—What time is it? A “swell” dinner—Dried apples and water. Bbigham Young was killed by too much corn. He would havo been a good subject for Bunyan. Salt Lake City just at present reminds one of a Wall street speculation; there’s no great prophet in it. When a man is making love to a widow he always feels as if he had to begin where the other fellow left oil*. “A special dispatch to the Paris papers report that the Czar is ill.” Indigestion probably; a little too much Turkey. “ What is the interior of Africa principally used for?” asked a teacher of a pupil. “ For purposes of exploration,” was the reply. Johnnie lost his knife. After searching in ofie pocket and another until ho had been through all without success, he exclaimed: “ Oh, dear ! I wish Iliad another pocket, it might be in that!” A bepokter for a Wisconsin paper writes: “Those who personally kmw our esteemed fellow-citizen, Col. , will regret to hear that he was brutally assaulted last evening, but not killed.” In most places “a stone’s throw,” “live minutes’ Walk,” etc., arc used for measures of short distances. In Dubuque, however, they speak of a phioe as being “ within the bawl of a mule.” It makifs a boy heart-sick as the winter’s wood begins to loom up in steadilygrowing piles in the back-yard, and he sees his mother making preparations for organizing him into a “workingman’s party.” Governess —‘ *Do you know, Ernest, that I heard of a little boy not older than you who can read and write well, and who has begun Latin ?” Ernest—- “ Oh, I say, what a jolly good teacher he must have !” “ Musing on the infinite, eh ?” said a facetious chap to a melancholy-looking individual who was walking along the road-side with bowed head and serious countenance. “ Well, yes ; same thing —thinking of my debts. ” A good little boy who was kicked by a mule did not say naughty words or go home crying to his mother. He just tied the mule within five feet of a beehive, backed him round to it, and let him kick. —Richmond Dinpatch. “ All the world’s a stage,” he ruminated, “and all the men and women merely players, and most of the plays aro from Sliakspeare, too ! Before .we were married, Julia and I played * Borneo and Juliet,’ and now it’s mostly ‘ Tempest.’”

A Roman who recently returned from Philadelphia informs us that the Keely moter consists of a pound of boardinghouse butter shut up in an iron box. This statement will do much to renew confidence in the power of the motor. — Rome IN. Y.) Sentinel. “ Adolphus, dear, what shall I do? Bridget has struck, and there she stands at the kitchen door with a poker in one hand and a saucepan in the other, threatening to break the head of the new help if she dares to lay her hand to a dish-rag. It’s just awful, so it is, too.” Herb is a conundrum which we do not remember to have seen in print: Why is a pig looking out of a second-story window like the moon ? Because lie looks round. If anybody triumphantly retorts that the moon doesn’t always look round, you can reply that the pig doesn’t either.— Lowell Courier. Despite competitive examination, every thing in the civil service does not go quite smoothly as yet. A young gentleman had to be mildly reproved for the irregularity of liis attendance. His Celtic blood was inflamed, and, turning upon his rebukers, he angrily told them, “Sure if it wasn’t for the thrifle of salary ye give, the divil a bit o’ me would come here at all!” “ Is this the place,” she asked, as she wandered down on the barren sands, ‘ 4 where a young lady—a beautiful young lady—fell into the water and was rescued by a gallant young man, whom she afterward married ?” He looked at her carefully, estimated her at a square with false teeth, and said : “ Yes, ma’am, but I don’t know how to swim.” VIVE LA BAGATELLE? About a year or so ago, When I was young and quite conceited, I chanced to meet the prettiest girl, I thought, my eyes had ever greeted. ’Tie useless for me to repeat The tale with which we’re all acquainted; I lost my heart to her at once, And found her all my fancy painted. I loved her, or I thought I did, Yet found my true love had miscarried, For when I asked her heart and hand, She said she was already married. This was a year or so ago, When I was young and sentimental; My heart was nearly broken then ; Now I don’t care « continental. —New York Sun.