Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

. THE WAR IN THE EAST. A Turkish force has crossed into Roumanian territory, under cover of th guns of Bilistria The purpose of this movement is probably to cut the Iloumanian railroads, if possible, and thus increase the difficulty of provisioning the Russian force in Bulgaria. The garrison jjf Plevna, after undergoing great privMftt*W todbttl Ofa lack of provisions and anmimiitiou, has been relieved by a convoy dispatched from Orkani by Chefket Pasha. A Russian army in Asia Minor haa received large r- ndo> «wx at< The Turics have begun nfieratfons against Gen. Zimmerman, in the Dobrudscha. Goransko has surrendered to the Montenegrins. f I been improved by tho receipt of the re ment from St. Petersburg, and ttm eampaign, for this season at least, is considered come to an end. The Russians are represented as retreating toward the Danube, leaving the heroes in the Hchipka pass to their fate. Another re]>ort represents the army of MehemetAU as fulling back to its old position on the River Lorn. Another unsuccessful attempt had been made by the Roumainans to capture the second Grivitza redoubt. Russian dispatches confirm the report of the reinforcement of Plevna by the Turks. There is much discontent and demoralization in the Russian army, on account of a general belief in the incompetency of tho Emperor’s sons. A battle between the armies in Asia Minor is represented as imminent. The Montenegrins still carry everything before them; they have “occupied Piva, captured Fort CakvicA, burned Bilek and the surrounding villages, and now hold the whole territory as far as Fatscha.” . The Russians are making preparations for an active winter campaign. Russia demands that the Servian army shall enter the field when a success at Plevna is obtained. Advices from the seat of war to Oct. 1, report that the Russian Imperial Guard, 50,000 strong, was taking up its position in front of Plevna; that an assault upon the Turkish lines was expected about the middle of the month; that such precautions were being taken as would insure success; that the Balkans are to bo turned, and an approach to Adrianople gained by a more circuitous but less difficult route than that which leads through Schipka pass; that Gen. Todelben, the famous engineer, believes that Plevna cqu bo taken only after a long siege, and that the Grand Duke Nicholas is troubled with a bad ease of liver complaint.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Cleopatra's Needle is on the waters, bound for London. A dispatch from the city of Mexico says: “ The voluntary subscription toward the payment of the American debt proved a failure, only $ 10,006 having been realized throughout the republic. ’’ . ? One hundred and forty deaths from yellow fever occurred at Vera Cruz during August The condition of the wheat crop in England is reported as bad. Lute Panama advices report that the coast of South America has again been violently shaken up by earthquakes. No particulars are given. From the village of St. Gregoire, in the Province of Quebec, conies intelligence of a shocking accident. The dwelling of a man named Gouzio was destroyed by lire, and his seven children and a servant woman perished in the flames. Gen. Grant has boon visiting the birthplace of Shakspeare, at Stratford-on-Avon. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. TSivut. The discovery of the over-issue of about $1,000,000 worth of stock of the West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company is the Quaker City’s latest criminal sensation. John S. Morton, President of the company (and who, by the way, is also President of the Philadelphia Permanent Exhibition), makes a clean breast of it, and says the fraud has been going on for seven years. Burned : A number of valuable buildings in the business center of Providence. R. L, loss $(100,000; Prang’s chromo establishment, Boston, loss SIOO,OOO ; Ingalls’ Sons’ hat factory, Lawrence, Mass., loss $25,000. The village of Putnam, Gt., has been visited by a $200,000 conflagration. Wesst.

The Fidelity Savingfl Bank, of Chicago, John C. Haines has suspended, and its affairs have been placed in the hands of a receiver. There are 7,800 depositors, the deposits amounting to tipward of a million and a half dollars. The assets, it is believed, will realize fron 70 to 90 cents on the dollar. The President, Cashier, and Assistant Cashier of the suspended State Savings Bank, of Chicago, have been indicted for embezzlement. From Colorado there comes the story of a most extraordinary crime and its swift punishment. “ Twelve robbers got together 7,500 head of cattle and were driving them out of the country. Fifteen well-armed rangers pursued the thieves and overtook them in the northwest corner of Kansas, lire pursuers surrounded their camp, taking them by surprise and opening a deadly fire, killing four at the first volley. Panic-stricken, the thieves attempted to escape by running, but, before they were out of range, three more bit the dust One, a Mexican, threw up his hands and begged for mercy, bnt a rope Was thrown around his neck and he was dragged a quarter of a mile to a tree and htmg. This was on the 21st day of last August. On the 14th of. September a party ran across the pile of dead men, and attempted to bury them, hpt the horrible stench was too much,'and they were obliged to leave them alone.” A telegram dated “Camp of the Seventh Cavalry, in the field, Montana, Sept. 22,” says: “We followed the Nez Petces yesterday, ,’ana, in a running fight, killed five and captured 103 ponies. No casualties with us. ‘We will follow them as far as our stock -oyill permit, The command is now reduced to xtyat. *Bie Indians are strildngTorthe JfiditffWmtaiflT'’ Goodwin & Behr, soap candle-makers, *i lwt uabflitkß « w 71* officer# and managers of the'promotion of Uhioagp. which some tifhe ago, have boefi inflicted for embezzlement. Sydney Myers, the manager of the defunct Merchants’, Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Savings Bank, has also been indicted for embezzlement, and lodged in jail. Such of the Chicago savings banks as eaeai>ed wrecking in the late financial storm h»ve decided to cut down the rate of interest to 4 per cent, after the Ist of January next One of the soUflpgt savings hi the qty—the Prairie State—will cease business at that date, and go into voluntary liquidation. Iwo of ■ the .Urnori Pacific train robbers wane in Western Kansas, wlien the fugitives turned at bay and were killed by their pursuers. About $20,000 in gold was found on their dead bodies.

The Democratic sentinel.

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VOLUME 1.

The Southern Indiana editors liave fust held their annual reupioa«t Madittpn. . Mining riots it Hteubinvfile, Ohio; several miners arrested. g jw The Deadwood stage hasagainbeenlobbed by highwaymen near the Cheyenne river. A collision at Circleville, Kan., between a body of railway strikers and a Sheriff's posse resulted in the Wa Hartman, the leader of the strikers. . . ’■ eforttifri. '“ • Dudley Hansford, a cattle thief, was hanged by a mob near Waco, Texas. The schooner Ocean Wave, from New Orleans to Galveston, foundered off the latter port All on board, eight in number, were explMmef on the Louisville and Nashville railroad killed three men, wounded several others, and killed and wounded a number of valuable horses. The jnthors of tho Chisholm awassinatimi in ' Kemper county, Mias., Lave be«aiaiicU<i~- six for murder, and twenty-five for being accessory to murder. The, attempt of the Government to reclaim $500,005 from William McKee, of St. Louis, has fallen to the ground, the court holding that the pardon of the President wipes out all scores against the members of the whisky ring. POLITICAL POINTS. The New Jersey Republicans have nominated William A. Newell for Governor, and adopted the following platform: fteaolved, That the President of the United Stales, holding his high office by a majority of the electoral votes cast at the late election, and by virtue of the decision of the most august tribunal ever created by Congress, is entitled to the support and respect in his office of every lawMibiding citizen, and the puerile efforts of some’portions of the Democratic party to throw discredit uj>ob the tribunal, largely of their own creation, is an exhibition of folly and bad faith which deserves the reprobation and contempt of all right-minded citizens. Resolved, That we cordially recognize the earnestness und sincerity with which President Hayes is laboring to promote reconciliation in all sections of the country, and to secure an efficient and economical administration of the business of the Government. We are united in desiring the accomplishment of these great objects, and pledge our hearty support to every wise measure calculated to secure the lasting unity and prosperity of the whole country on the basis of impartial justice and equal rights for all citizens of all sections. JtCHolved, That wo congratulate the country upon the progress made toward the resumption of specie payment, and demand the adoption of all measures necessary to insure the restoration of the standard uniform throughout the world at a date not later than thatmow fixed by law.

Resolved, That the Democratic party of the State, by nominating as their candidate for Governor one who is la no sense identified with the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing or other interests of the State, nor familiar with its people and their wauls, amt who has twice within the past two years been a candidate for office in an adjoining State, have disregarded the uniform practice of both political parties, have shown themselves willing to sacrifice the most important interests of New Jersey to the demands of a designing and ambitious political ring, and have insulted the just State pride of every citizen. Resolved, That the reduction of the rate of interoat to 6 per At. is the obvious demand of sound public policy, and should be accomplished by explicit legislation at the earliest possible moment. Resolved, That we point with pridotqtheevidence which the history of the Republican party affords of its devotion to the interests of labor. It has secured to 4,000,000 of oppressed people a reward for their toil, and through the agency of a reasonable tariff lifts sought to protect American workmen against the hurtful competition of the ill-paid labor of foreign lands ; that the past record of the party i sa guarantee that its future policy will bo one of justice to the workingmen as well as to other classes of the people, and, by the adoption of wise financial meaenres, and the encouragement of the industrial interest, it will, so far as can be accomplished by legislation, tend to open new avenues for the use of capital and employment of labor. The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention met, at Fond du Lac, Sept. 26, and was piesided over by Jarnos G. Jenkins, of Milwaukee. The following ticket was nominated : For Governor, James A. Mallory, of Milwaukee ; Lieutenant Governor, R. E. Davis, of Dane ; Secretary of State, James B. Hays, of Dodge; State Treasurer, John Ringle, of Marathon ; Attorney General; Joseph M. Morrison, of Monroe ; Suponhfcndent of Public Instruction, Edward Searing, present incumbent. The following resolutions were adopted : 1. The Democratic and Reform party of Wisconsin, in State Convention assembled, renews"; its pledges of devotion to the Union and the constitution, with all the amendments. A Declare# its firm belief that tlie will of the people was defeated in the late Presidential election by fraud and chicsuo under the protection of the Federal military, and, through the ballot-box, will express its condemnation of the act and the actors.

3. It declares for the freedom of the ballot, unawed by the bayonet, and insists that military interference in regulating and controlling an election is subversive of the first principles of a free Government. 4. It declares its opposition to subsidies, and in favor of the preservation of the public lands for the use of actual settlers. 5. It declares its hostility to the financial policy of the Republican party, withdrawing capital from taxation, increasing the burden of the public debt by declaring currency bonds payable in gold, demonetizing silver in the interest of the creditor and at the expense of the debtor and attempting to force resumption when it wiU bring ruin upon the general business interests of the country, and demands instead (hat the property protected by the Government pay its just proportion of the expenses of the Government, that silver be remonetized, and the present Resumption act bo repealed, and resumption be postponed until the financial condition of the country will permit it. 6. It declares its opposition to a longer continuance of the national-bank currency, ami demands that the Government furnish its own notes in the place thereof. 7. It declares its unyielding opposition to a high protective tariff as vicious in principle, advancing the interests of a few at the expense of the many. 8. It declares its opposition to the fostering of monopolies, and favors such legislative regulation of Inter-State commerce ae will prevent the pooling oombinations of railway, express, t M<l freight companies from exacting exorbitant uStesAo make watered stock yield productive interest o.|re declare# in favor of Inch legislation as wifi equalize the pajf «f the soldiers in the late’war, and its hostility to the system of technicalities used by Government officials to prevent the payment to them cf their honest dues, 10. It declares for a reduction of national and State expenses, and t&ttafft.end demands the reformation and honest administration of the Rev|enue laws, the abolition of sinecure offices, ductton of large and unearned .stories to officers. Mlls opposition to high and exorbitant* rates of interest, and demands the reduction of legal rates to 7 per cent, and no more. 12. It declares for the repeal of all laws exempting railroad lands and corporate stock other tlian that held for religious and school purposes' from taxation. 13. It declares for the maintenance of our treeschool system, free to all without taint of sectarianism. . ‘ - 14. It its opposition to extraordinary and unusual sumptuary laws, buttuglsts that the minorUle>Ce 1P thew ' nl of ? ' iff.“Yt demands that due regard be byd»Goveminent to the labor question, and to all ju#* eMßrn# of the workingmen. It demands the vnactment of stringent laws for the protection of labor and the collection of wages due workingmen, It demands

SSEftM®* JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1877.

the proper regulation of prison-labor laws, and for the oper ~ atives in manufacturing estabushments. Gen. Grant has been interviewed by a New Y *‘ l fc l ~f r Xr , di .-/A T 08,11 BkMMP thing,” said the ox-Pretadent, "Wat if I was at hodjc I should estrt iay as fa sb I coaH jjxsrt |t, so plan of rßßffiiciliation. ’JRio object at- 18 a u,J LIe one, a.cfaU*. las held at Baltimore last week. Thomas J. Keating was nominated for Comptroller. The resolutions approve the course of President Hayes, “ whose title to office fe not derived from an election according to constitutional methods, but exists by the adjudication of a tribunal unknown to the" constitufeon, lit be raised than is necessary to defray the expenses of the Government frugally administered, and the gradual but certain extinction of the public debtopposes subsidies of all kinds, and declares that “the wealth of the country is mainly derived from the product of its labor, and every just measure to improve the condition and promote the advancement of the laboring classes should receive sympathy, and will command our cordial support.” The Republicans of Minnesota met in convention at Bt. Paul, Sept. 27, and nominated Gov. Pillsbury and nearly all the State officers for re-election. The platform favors the early resumption of specie payments and the remonetization of silver, and contains the following unequivocal indorsement of the national administration : We believe that with the suppression of armed re sistance to national authority the object of our late war was substantially achieved, and that, pursuant to the true theory of representative government which tolerates no subject race among Its people, the several States should now be left free to manage their local affairs in their own way, subject only upon national issues to the constitutional and paramount authority of the United States; and we hail with gratification the efforts of the wise and patriotic President to promote sentiments of peace and fraternal concord among the people of all the States of the Union in recognition of the broad principles of national unity, local self-government, and equal rights of all citizens of one common country. The sincere and persistent efforts of President Hayes to redeem the promises made in his letter of acceptance and inaugural message, as well as the repeated pledges of the Republican party in behalf of civil-service reform, deserve the cordial support of the Republican party and commend themselves to the best sentiment of the country at large.

The New York Republican State Convention met at Rochester Sept. 26. Thomas 0. Platt, the presiding officer, in his speech delivered on assuming the chair sharply arraigned the administration of President Hayes. George William Curtis introduced a resolution indorsing the civil-service policy of the President, and supported it in a speech of sonic length. He was replied to by Senator Conkling, who bitterly attacked the administration. The Curtis resolution was defeated by 109 to 295. The following nominations were made: For Secretary of State, John C. Churchill; Comptroller, Francis SyL vester ; State Treasurer, William L. Bostwick ; Attorney General, Grenville Tremaine; State Engineer, Howard Soule. The following platform was adopted by the convention :

Fimt— The Republicans of New York, true to the achievements of an unequaled history, and faithful to the demands of an uncompleted mission, make the following declarations : The office of the Government is to conserve order, peace and safety, and to protect every citizen in the enjoyment of every right implied by the constitution and laws. Unity and fraternal relations in all States and sections, and between all States and sections, is of the first and highest importance, and the Republican party of New York will heartily support every measure authorized by law, adapted to establishing ami maintaining commercial and industrial prosperity and tranquillity, justice and obedience to lawful authority.

Second — The constitution ordains that the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of Government. The only republicna Government known to the constitution of any American State is a Government chosen by the people. The question whether a case has arisen requiring the President to employ the military forces to protect State authority against domestic violence is by the constitution committed to his decision ami to his responsibility. Taking no issue with any decision of this kind which has been made by the National Executive in respect to the employment of troops, and expressing no opinion in regard tb the methods and attendant proceedings employed in any instance, wo cherish the hope that the action taken in relation to the Southern States will result in peace, tranquillity, and justice, and no act of the Republicans of New York conducive to its good effect shall be withheld. jTAird—We insist pn purity, frugality and efficiency in every branch of the public service, national and (State. To that end we hold these requirements practical and just: : ; ■■ 1. No needles# office, officer or public agent should exist. 2. Compensation for official service should bo fair and just, but in no case excessive. 3. Fit mep, and no others, should hold public trusts. 4. Every official, high or low, should be required at all times faithfully to pcrjbrjp his duty, and the whole of it. * * * - w * 5. No official or officeholder should be subject to political or partisan assessments, or to interference in any way with his political rights or action, and plain laws should forbid and punish all attempts to make or enforce such assessments, or to oentrbl or abridge in any respect absolute freedom in political action, which in this country belongs to all voters alike.

In connection with this subject we recur with satisfaction to that portion of the letter of acceptance of Mr. Hayes wherein ho declares that founders of our Government meant that the'officcr should be secure fti his tenure as long as hie personal character remained, untarnished and the performance of his duties satisfactory. In furtherance of this xiexv wo commend as worthy of consideration legislation making officers secure in a limited, fixed tenure, and subject to removal only as officers under State laws are removable in this State, on charges, to be regularly and openly preferred and adjudged. Fourth—We hold honest service or labor the be s and highest exertion for American citizens, and those who labor for others, whether for the Government or for private employers, are as fully entitled as any citizen can be to absolute freedom in all political, clyil and religious affairs. They owe the full service they agree to render, and to their employers they owe nothing more. The constitution of the United States and of the State of New York and the laws establish equal rights for all citizens and all voters, and we deprecate as unwarrantable and hurtful all attempts by employers, whether representing capital or political power, to encroach upon or coerce others in the enjoyment of any of the rights or the exercise of ahy duties of dtizenahip. In the State of .New York tlic whole number of national office-holders Including •clerks and subordinates of every degree., is 7,486. Tlrts is one national official or subordinate to 152 votars.’ Of State, county and town officials there are in this State 133,613. This is one State, county or town official to every eight and a half voters. When the potential functions of local officers are taken into account, their nearness to the citizen, and their power .over his property, taxesand interest, their relative influence becomes even greater than numbers fflfltdkte. The exclusion of public servants from political aetjon would disfranchise. a great body of our feliow-citizens. The laws mean no such exclusion, and we deny as an imputation upon the people of New York that they are or have been dominated by the nation’s mibowWnafe officials, and we can conceive of no condition of affairs short of the extinction of manhood and patriotism ip which a Postmaster or clerk could snb.

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due to his partisan will 150 elfcciors, or exert any other influence beypnd skeh -as hi* character might give him, « - . j m,- j i■/> (f Fifth— Public faith, honest industry and general prosperity demand ' sound currency of coin and paper convertible into coin, and the already near approach to specie payments enforow the and duty of JKaMM* dfeps to full reenmniion within Use topic further tond-gSf Subsidies to corporations or monopolies, and hold that the public domain should be reserved for the free homes of indnstrione settlers. Seventh— That we regard with alarm and disapprave the demands coming from the promoters of various schemes that profuse appropriations and grants shall be made and the national credit used to carry oa works of various Kinds, local and sectional in character, and not of urgent national importance. We ca< njKin the burdened taxpayers of this State to watch and defeat all attempts, however specious, to increase the public debt, or to obtain their money for remote" ftnd questionable purposes, which, if feasible, appeal to State action and private enterprise. Such attempts are more indefensible when sustained by the votes of sectional minorities, adding to the burdens of the more heavily-taxed portions of our country. Eighth— We recognise equally the rights of property, and manliness and dignity of labor, deprecating any resort to violence in the name of cither. We insist at all times upon the supremacy of the law and maintenance of public order. The advancement of American industry and enterprise depends upon the harmonious co-operation of capital and labor, and the adjustment of their material relations, whether left to the reason of parties or effected by legislation, should be governed by a considerate regard for the rights of the one and for the just claims of the other. The remaining resolutions arraign the Democratic party fur false pretenses; for perpetuating existing abuses ; and for slavish subservience to most corrupt and dangerous influences, and pledge the Republican party of the State to renewed and unyielding efforts for the correction of municipal abuses, and for economy and reform in every branch of the administration. Gov. Phelps, of Missouri, has appointed David R. Armstrong, of St. Louis, United States Senator, to fill the unexpired term of the late L. V. Bogy.

WASHINGTON NOTES. At the solicitation of the President and Secretary Sherman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury McCormick has consented to remain in office until after the extra session. The work of reorganization of the Patent Office is progressing favorably. About 10 per cent, of the number of models destroyed are known as pending-application models. They are models either still under examination or that have passed the office without having secured patents. The Commissioner of Patents has determined to ask all to present a duplicate model at their own cxpeiise. National bank nbtes issued during September, $1,826,540. ; Eightv jwr cant, tliereof in greenbacks will "be destroyed, leaving flic outstanding legal tenders at $356,914,937. Ex-Publio Printer Clapp has purchased the JVatioßMl ReptMlcfin, and will hereafter run it in opposition to President Hayes’ administration. In the case of ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Frederick A. Sawyer, Frank W. Brooks, ex-Commissioner Haines and others, charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government of $57,613, the jury returned a verdict of guilty.

MISCIXLANIiOUS GREASINGS. San Francisco telegram ; “Schooner Newlon Booth, just arrived, from the Aietjo oofen,;, reports that, of seventy men left on the amndoned whaling fleet last year, only two, both Kanakas, have reached Point Barrow. All tlie rest are supposed to have perished in the icepack.” Late advices from Sitka, Alaska, bring information of a deplorable state of affairs thereabouts since the withdrawal of the troops. There is no semblance of law and no protection for either life or property. The white residents will probably abandon the country as soon as they can get away. On the rcccntly-robbbd Union Pacific railroad train there were silver bars of nearly ten tons’ weight, but the bars werg so heavy that the thieves were unable to carry them, and the whole shipment was consequently left untouched. An Indian woman while bathing at Victoria, British Columbia, a few days ago, Was seized by an octopus, or devil-fish, and drowned. The body was discovered by Indians the next day, lying at the bottom of the bay in the grasp of the octopus. They cut the tentacle* and recovered the body. According'to information received in Washington from Brownsville, Texas, there is a Mexican force coming to the Rio Grande to compel the authorities to execute the extradition treaty. Local opinion in Mexico is against surrendering the jail raiders. The local authorities of Tamaulipas will refuse to surrender another Mexican to the Americans. The United States is in future to be the bat-tle-ground of the International Society. At the World’s Congress of the association, held in the city of Ghent, it was decided to fix the headquarters in the city of New York, and enter actively upon the propagation of the new ideas in this country. The contest was long and bitter between New York and Moscow as the seat of the central propaganda, but the former city was finally chosen.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

The great railway whaff at St. John, : N. 8., is being rapidly constructed at a contract cost of $1,774,000. A new line of steamships will be placed upon the route between New York and Venezuela, South America, early next month. • . Gen. A. C. Jones, who has just returned to Washington after an extended official tour through the Southern States, represents that everything throughout the South bears the appearance of growing prosperity and reviving trade. Although Russia is only in the sixth month of the war, her paper currency has been swelled to $640,000,#00, a sum Only within $10,000,000 of the legal tenders in circulation in the United States in 1866, after a conflict which had lasted four years. Our annual production of butter in the United States is rated at $150,000,000. That of, cheese is The eotton produced in the country is $6,000,000 less than, that of butter alone. In France the butter production of 1876 was $18,660,000. England and France are disagreeably surprised at a new tariff which has suddenly been issued at Madrid, whereby imports from those countries are subject to duties from 15 to 50 per cent, higher than those levied upon similar goods from Germany, Belgium, and elsewhere. New a shorter cut to the ocean by ship canal cut through to Barataria bay— an estuary of the sea that penetrates far into the land on the south coast of Louisiana., The distance from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico by this route would be

only fifty-eight miles, and the eost of digging &e canul about $5j000,000,. The receipts of. butter ih flic chief Irish markets have Steadily ihcreftsed of Late years, at least one-third being cfesiterranean, while large shipmoiite also made to Melbourne. The great Irish ioreign trade in butter is now with Brazil. Encoubagimg reports of the condition of trade come to us from nearly every comineroial center in the eountry. The of .New Yoifc are blocked by the accuxuuUtiou of goods ,to (be moved through that most incommodious city. Business at St. Paul is described as ‘ ‘ very heavy. ” At Louisville it is “ rushing.” St. Louis is a “ beehive,” Pittsburgh finds its trade in a better conditit» than for years. The Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Southern and Southwestern papers all give the same report, varied only in words. In consequence of the recent visit of members of the syndicate to Washington, some new information about the progress of the 4 per cent loan has gained publicity. The subscriptions abroad have, in consequence of the war, been less than was expected. The sales abroad have been offset by the return of called bonds, so that of the $10,000,000 subscribed for abroad not one dollar has been paid for in gold. Of the $76,000,000 of the 4 per cents, sold, $15,000,000 are for resumption, at the rate of $5,000,000 each for July, August and September. , The business of exporting cattle and beef to Europe, which grew to large proportions this season, has been on the whole a losing enterprise, according to the testimony of the large New York firm of Samuels Bros., who made the first shipments of live cattle, and failed the other day. The first shipments were on a small scale, and, proving fairly profitable, the firm engaged several steamers for this trade. Very frequently they had to sell on the other side at a loss, and at other times, although a fair price was realized on each animal, the consignment as a whole was unprofitable, owing to deaths on the voyage. The following banks and bankers have failed in Chicago during the last foiu years : Second National, Fourth National, Mechanics’ National, Cook County National, City National, Scandinavian National, Manufacturers’ National, Franklin, Bank of Chicago, Commercial Loan and Trust Company, Marine Company, S. B. Shipherd &. Co., the Twenty-second t&raet SavingsState Street Savings, Citizens’, Farmers’, City Savings, Cook Ccninfy Sayings, Security f -Savings, A. C. & O. F. Badger, Barclay, Vorhees & Co., Merrill, Ladd & Co.’, Skow Petersen, Isberg & Co., State Savings, Mertmants’, Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Savings, Emil Josaphttt, andthe Fidelity Savings. .

Early Patents.

The partial destruction by fire of the Patent Office has incited a correspondent to make some research into the history of patents in this country: “ The first patent issued by the Government was to Samuel H opkins, on July 31,1790, for making pot or pearl ashes. Patents were issued on modes of making caudles, flour and meal later in the same yeai-, and in 1791 Francis Bartly was granted. tetters for 41 punches for-type*. ” Also in that year patents were issued for driving piles, for bridges, machines for thrashing grain, for improvements in distilling, propelling boats by cattle,and improvements in steam engines. In 1792 was patented a canvas conductor to be used when houses are on fire, which may have been the original of the late patent fire-escape. Ah improved mode of turning a spit was patented in 1793; also a stove of cast iron. A machine for cutting nails was patented by Josiah G. Peerson oit March 23, 1794. A new mode of codling fish was patented in 1795, since which time innumerable laws have been enacted to compel people to catch them by the old process. Removing pains by metallic points was patented in 1796, and the first improvement in piano fortes is recorded in the same year; also stays for removing distortions in the . spine. A soapstone stove iras patented in 1797. .Bilious pills were fifst patented in 1796, effeminajte ropery for spinning rope yam in 1799, and a washing and wringing machine,’the Ckivwbar, in 1800. Ebenezer Whiting received a patent for a cotton gin on Jan. 22, 1801. An improvement for manufacturing paper from corn-husks was patented Dec. 30, 1802, and an apple-parer in 1802. A patent for finding salt water and metals was granted in 1803. In 1804 a patent was issued for an improvement in the bedstead, so constructed that it may be taken down and removed by one person in case of fire or on other occasions with much ease and expedition. In 1804 the Government felt the value of an improvement in gallows or suspenders for breeches, pantaloons or trousers.”

A Dramatic Scene.

The correspondent of the Manchester Guardian gives a vivid description of the scene in Nicsies when the Montenegrin flag fluttered out from the staff of the citadel. Men, women, and children thronged into; the streets; the wounded hobbled out on their crutches from the hospitals; everybody who liad a gun or pistol ibid it off', mid those who hadn’t relieved their feelings by singing national hymns and embracing one another at the chorus; war dances were danced in the squares, the venerable Metropolitan and his priests looking on, and over all this uproar rose the booming of cannon and the steady clang of tlie cathedral arid monastery bells. “It is the wild, reckless delight of so many children,” writes the correspondent, “and is inconceivable in a civilized country.” But tlie Montenegrins have reason for rejoicing. They have been trying to drive the Turks out of Nicsics for centuries, and now, after half a dozen costly and unsuccessful sieges, they have done it.

Mr. Evarts on Insurance.

1,. JVhjen the Presidential party was in th® White moKtainAthey struck a Methodist camfMneetiffg, and immediately began to discuss the question who should speak and what he should say. 2. Naturally enough they called in our ascetic friend Col. George W. Hooper, of Brattleboro, Who was with the parfy, and whose piety is something appalling, 3. To a question of Secretary Evarts as to what denomination he was connected with, Col. Hooper replied: “Constitutionally I am a Congregationalist, but I pay my money to the Universalists.” - 4. “Ah,” said Mr. Evarts, “that will never do; you shouldn’t pay a premium where there are no losses.” The end.— Burlington Free. Press.

THE GREAT FRAUD,

Speech of lion. Allen <3. Thnriiihb, at lHurion, Okio. I take it for granted that the most of yon believe—l feel certain that a large majority of the people of tie Unit ed States believe—l know that I believe that Samuel Tilden wai elected President of the United States at tho last election. But we all know that he was not inaugurated. ‘ We all know that his competitor, Gen. was inaugurated, and we all know, more or less, some more and some Less, the means by which Mr. Tilden came to lose his inauguration and by which Gen. Hayes gained it. But now, if a Democratic speaker alludes to the subject, he is forthwith assailed by Republican orators and the Republican press with a great show of affected indignation. They say that he is attempting to spoil the judiciary and bring the judiciary into disrepute. As if the Electoral Oommission -was a part of the judiciary of the United States 1 and as if these men. who had no language too severe when they were condemning a majority of the Supreme Court of the United States for the Dred Scott decision, and attributed to the Judges the basest motives that could influence the human heart, and kept up that denunciation for many long years, and kept it up at the risk of the peace of tho country and the very union of the States ! I say it comes with poor grace from them to talk about injuring the fame and standing of the judiciary. But there is no trouble in that charge. The Electoral Commission was bound to act judicially, I admit; but it was no part of the judiciary of the United States. Again, they say: But you bring the Presidential office into disrepute. Well, my friends, if the Presidential office is brought into disrepute by the Presidential chair being obtained through usurpation and fraud, I cannot help it, and you cannot help it; if that chair does not appeal- as high and noble an object of ambition as it was when Washington and Jackson occupied it, it is not onr fault, my Democratic friends.

Now, in respect to the title of Gen. Hayes to the Presidency, I admit, every one admits, that we are bound to recognize him as the President of the United States. He has been declared President in a mode—that is to say, by the Congress of the United States—which I believe to be constitutional. He is, therefore, to be considered President of the United States. But does that seal our months as to the means by which he became President. A decision of a court may bind everybody, but if that decision, was erroneous aro we not at liberty to point out its errors ? If a decision was obtained by fraud, are you not at liberty to condemn the fraud? Nay, is it not a duty to condemn it? And if President Hayes, however pure he may be, however well-meaning he may be, however perfect his title to the Presidency must now be considered—if he has obtained that high office by usurpation and by fraud of canvassing boards, then, as good citizsens; then, as fidends of our free institutions ; then, as lovers of truth arid justice, we are bound to condemn the metens by which that result was achieved. And now, what were those ineans? Why, they were, in the first place, the most glaring usurpations and frauds in Louisiana and Florida that ever disgraced any country that had an election system. And, in the second place, they wore the refusal of the Electoral Commission to go behind fraudulent certificates of the returning officers and look into their usurpations and into their frauds. To explain this—and I must do it briefly, for I want to be brief in what I have to say today: First, look at Louisiana. How were the votes of the election counted? They were counted first by the Judges of the Election, just as they are counted in Ohio by your Judges of Election. Then the returns were sent to county officers called the Supervisors of Begistration, by whom they were sent to New Orleans to a Returning Board, and that Returning Board then canvassed those returns and declared the result. Now the law of Louisiana provided—and I shall not stop hero to inquire whether it was a constitutional law or not, though I am perfectly convinced it was not—the law provided that the Judges of Election or tho Supervisors of Registration should send up with the ret urns a certitica c that a fair 'election could not be held in a particular precinct, or in a particular parish (as they are called there, which is the same as our county), if such were the fact, and that this certificate be fortified by the oaths of two respectable citizens of the precinct or parish ; that then the Returning Board might proceed to investigate whether there was a fair election in that precinct or parish. They were to hear testimony on the subject, and, it' convinced that a fair election was prevented by fraud or violence or the like, the vote of that precinct might be cast out. Now mark it; that Returning Board had no more power to cast out the vote of a precinct, or a parish, unless these certificates came up from the county or precinct officials, than you had to cast it out. The sole jurisdiction to cast it out depended upon these coming with the returns, the certificate of the precinct officers, supported by the affidavits of two respectable citizens, certifying that a fair and peaceable election had been prevented. Without tho certificate the Returning Board had no more authority or right to throw out the vote of a single precinct than you in the State of Ohio, had to interfere and throw out the vote of a precinct or county in Louisiana. And yet, what did that Returning Board last fall do ? Without a single one of these certificates, which the ’ law required in order to give them any jurisdiction whatever ; without a single one of them sent up with the election returns, they threw out the votes of county after county, precinct after precinct, until they threw out from 6,000 to 10,000 votes that had been cast for the Tilden electors, aiid by that means created an apparent majority for the Hayes electors, and gave the Hayes electors an election certificate. Not only did they do that, but they cast out precincts all over the State in order to give tho Republicans a majority in the Legislature. Now, it was by that usurpation and fraud that that Returning Board disfranchised the people of the State of Louisiana, deprived the majority of the people of that State of their choice for President, and gave the certificates to men who were defeated by from six thousand to ten thousand votes. And then when the proof, the most abundant proof, was offered at Washington before the Electoral Commission, which sat there to try the case, that commission, by a vote of eight to seven, declared that they would not look into tho testimony at all. Wouldn't you think it strange if the court that occupies this bench should call a case for trial and begin the trial by announcing that it would not hear any evidence? Wouldn’t you think that it was a strange mode of judicial procedure in a court? Wouldn’t that Judge hear some notes of condemnation in this goodly county of Marion? I fancy he would—notes that he would not forget for & lifetime. And yet that, in substance, is precisely what took place at ■ Washington last February, when the amplest proof of the usurpation and vrauds of these lieturning Boards was offered to be brought before the Elect iral Commission, and the door was shut in the face of the proof, and those who offered it were told by the Commissioners, “We won’t look behind the" certificates of the Returning Boards”—of those men who had been guilty of these frauds and this usurpation.

But let us turn now to Florida. There was another board, » Canvassing Board. The majority of the' votes cast in Florida were for Tilden electors. I never yet have seen a man who denied that fact. Thefti how could the vote of that State be thrown for Hayes ? Why, because tho Canvassing Board of that State did precisely what the Returning Board of Louisiana did, cast out enough Democratic votes to give the Hayes majority. Jlad they any right to do that ? Why, the Supreme Court of that State, composed entirely, 1 believe, of Republican Judges, certainly a majority of them, solemnly decided in the eate of the Governor of that State, who was elected at the same election, that the Canvassing Board had no authority whatever for casting out votes, that they were bound to count the votes that were given, and declare the result according to the votes that and hence, although that Canvassing Board gave a fraudulent certificate that the Republican candidate Cor Governor was elected, yet the Supreme Court compelled them to reverse that decision, and the Democratic candidate who was elected received the office, and hist in the same way as the Democratic candidate fdr Governor was elected So was the Democratic candidate for the office of President elected, and so tne decision of the Sttpreme Court of that State, the highest court» the State, that this Canvassing Board must count the vote for the Democratic candidate for Governor as would have compelled them to count in the Demo-

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cratfc electors, but ’they'paid no heed to that decision, but threw' out Democratic votes to give the State to Hayes. Why? Because Hayes could not be declared elected without he got all the votes <>f Florida and all the votes of Louisiana. Without those States Mr. Tilden had 185 votes, and needed but one more. It was necessary then to give Hayes all the votes of Louisiana and all the votes of Florida, and they did it. And now, my friends, whether the Electoral Commission decided correctly or incorrectly in saying they would not go behind the returns, yet the fact remains that it was by the usurpation a d fraud of the Returning Boards of those two States that Rutherford B. Hayes is seated in the Presidential chair today. And now Ido say to any one who tells me that I ought not to stir up the matter, I say to him I will—so long as my feeble strength will enable me to do it—l will stir it up, for if the people of this country can condone such a thing as that; if they can forgive it, I ask any man of you when will you ever see a man inaugurated as President in a clone election if fraud and usurpation of the subordinate officers of the States, the Canvassing Boards of the States, can prevent his being elected ? Why, if that can be done in Louisiana and Florida, it can be done in Ohio. Who has the counting of the votes here in Ohio ? The Secretary of State, in the presence of such Sheriffs as see fit to attend, yet the counting is done by the Secretary of State. Why, suppose that at the last election Mr. Bell, the Democratic Secretary of State at that time, and having the canvassing of those votes for President and Vice President in Ohio, had seen fit to follow the same plan of the Returning Boards of Florida and Louisiana, and had thrown out enough Republican counties in Ohio to give the votes of the State to Tilden, would we ever have heard the last of it ? Would he ever have heard the last of it ? Wouldn’t the loudest voice of condemnation have gone out denouncing the man who had been guilty of that usurpation and fraud ? And yet Mi-. Bell had just as much right when he canvassed the vote of Ohio last fall for President and Vice President to throw out Ashtabula and Geauga, and half a dozen more counties on the Western Reserve, and declare the Ohio vote for Tilden, as had those Returning Boards to throw out 6,000 or 10,000 votes in Louisiana and hundreds of votes in Florida, and give the votes of those States to Hayes. Now, my friends, if tho people overlook these things, if they don’t condemn them in the only manner in which they can condemn them, by their votes, if they don’t set tho seal of their condemnation upon them it will be in vain in the future to hope for an honest declaration of the Presidential election wherever the vote is at all close between the candidates. Therefore it is, my friends, that 1 consider it a matter of the first importance to call your attention to this to-day that you may bear it in mind, for unless you condemn this great injustice it will grow into a precedent, and will be followed hereafter, and, instead of the President being made by the votes of the people, he will be made by the frauds and. usurpations of the servants of the people, whose duty it is to count the votes. But how does the administration treat those who were guilty of those frauds and usurpations? lam very sorry to say that it treats them just exactly in the opposite manner in which they should be treated. Who was the head and front of the Returning Board in Louisiana ? A man named James Madison Wells—l am sorry his parents christened him with so good a name as James Madison. He was the head and front of it. What was he ? Surveyor of the port of New Orleans, one of the most lucrative of tho Federal offices in the gift of the President within the State of Louisiana. Did he lose that office ? Did his frauds and usurpations cause him to lose that office under this civil-service reform administration? Has it carried civil-service reform sufficiently far to take hold of this corrupt man and shake him out of that office that he holds by the commission of the President ? Not the least bit of it. But Mr. James Madison Wells still holds that office, and, if report is true, not a few of his followers and hangers-on arc also provided for. Who is the next man ? One Anderson—Gen. Anderson, I think, he is called. He was a Confederate General, but that don’t make any difference in these latter days, when the lion and the lamb lie down together in office. How is it with him? Has he any influence with the administration? Why, according to statements I have seen, and which I have never seen contradicted and believe to be true nearly all that man’s family are in office in Louisiana*

How was it with those men in Florida—those bogus Hayes electors, who took their title by the rascality I have mentioned and cast their vote for Hayes ? Have they been frowned upon by this civil-service reform administration? Not at all. But a few days since I saw an announcement in a New York paper that one of them had been appointed to an office of high trust and honor. Well, now, if the Government does not condemn and frown upon men who employ such means, such frauds and usurpations as I have named, how much more necessary is it that the people should do it, and by their sovereign voice declare that such things shall take place no more ? Leaving this subject, 1 want to congratulate you, my Democratic friends, upon the success of Democracy and Democratic principles. Wo lost the Presidency by the means to which I referred, but, although we lost the officers, the cause for which we contended has triumphed in the most remarkable manner. What did we tell those Republicans for ten long years since the close of the war? What have I, in my humble way, from this very spot, speaking where I now speak, said to you year after year since 1865? Why, that if you wanted peace and prosperity and good-will between all the people, white and black, down South ; if you wanted quiet and order down there ; if you wanted that country to recover from its depressed and almost destitute condition, all you had to do was to let the Southern States govern themselves as the Northern States govern themselves, and it would be all right. What did we hear in answer to this? Ah, those Southern men cannot be trusted. So, the first thing was to give the ballot to the negroes, in order that the negroes, under the dictation of carpetbaggers and supported by the army of the United States, might govern the whites. And, from that time forward, no matter how carpetbaggers plundered and consumed their substance, no matter how much the republic and its institutions were brought into disrepute, there was but one cry on the part of Republican leaders in or out of Congress, ‘ ‘ this is necessary, for the white men down there can not be trusted.” We said to them, “Wherever they have been trusted, instantly there is law and order. When finally you trusted them in Virginia, Virginia became as orderly as the State of Ohio. When finally you trusted them in North Carolina, North Carolina .became an orderly State, and if you will do by South Carolina and Florida and Alabama and Mlssisrinpi and Louisiana what you have done by North Carolina and Virginia Mid Tennessee, you will have just as orderly governments down there, just as peaceable s;ciety down there, just as perfect protection of the rights of all men, white and black, down there as they have in North Carolina, Virginia, or Ohio itself. They wouldn’t listen to us because the leaders of that party knew full well that it was not by peace and prosperity in the South that the Republican party was to flourish; they knew full well that the moment they were left to govern themselves, as you in Ohio govern yourselves without the interference of the Federal Government, without the Interference of Federal bayonets, that moment the intelligent portion of the people of the country would exercise their natural influence, and then there would be an end to carpet-bag governments in the Southern States, then there would be an end to the Republican party pretty much in the Southern States. That these men knew, and, therefore, they insisted upon the carpet-bag and bayonet governments throughout the South. And do .you remember last year what was the stanle of their speeches ? Mr. President Hayes now refers to a resolution in the platform of the Cincinnati Convention, and to his letter of acceptance, as showing that he intended to be kind toward the people of the South. Did any body hear that kind of talk from Republicans here last fall when they were on the stump in Ohio? I think we might offer a reward for any man who heard that kipd of sweet talk last year from a radical speaker. Not a word of it. Nothing but a denunciation of the South. We heard it said, if you leave the Southern people to manage themselves, and especially if the Democratic party succeed, they will inflict upon this country ten times as much evil as the war itself did; that they would pile upon the country the Confederate war debt and make the Government pay a pension to every Confederate soldier, and flood the treasury with false claims. Not only that, but that they would kill the negroes, put them down by the bayonet, and there would be no such thing *m peace and security in the South any more. Ana not only were these things sounded abroad, but we saw the bloody shirt held up to the gaze of

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the people all over the continent; but not one word of this cooing of the turtle-dove that we now hear. That is the way it was. Very weU. They succeeded in getting the Presidency, but we ahcceeded in getting our ideas of constitutional law and of good sense and of humanity so strongly into the minds of the people of thia country- that even the Radical President was compelled, as soon as he was seated—some people say before, but as soon as he was seated—he was comjielled to turn right around and do all that Sam Tilden could have done if Sara bad been inaugurated in his stead. Well t now, I give hini credit for doing it, and yet it is a little funny. Is it not strange to see the President sending down a set of fellows there to seduce Packard’s niggers away from his Legislature, and by that means ousting Packard from being Governor of Louisiana, when Packard got 1,000 votes more than Hayes did? Ain’t that a little strange ? And yet you have seen it, I have no doubt but Tilden would have done the same thing in effect, but uot in exactly the sapie way. Then what a howl there would have been! Then you would have heard that the Democrats had turned out the lawfully-elected Legislature and a lawfully-elected Governor.

COCKLING AND CURTIS.

A Dramatic Scene Jn the New fork Republican Convention, Graphically Depleted by George Alfred Townsend. George William Curtis took the platform about 5 o’clock. He was applauded, and began very hoarse. He asked that thp second resolution be read again, and took a drink of water while it was read. He then read a resolution through an eye-glass, well written by himself, and perspicuous. He made a speech on this resolution, clean cut and eloquent at first, and, after a time, wordy and ineffective. Curtis’ manner was classical and lyceumlike, and his face expressed nicety and devotion, but not manly energy. At times he appeared te lose his points in listening to his echoes, and people remarked that the unknown Forster was more effective than his colleague. The latter, however, tempted no personalities until toward the close, when he said that efforts had been made to defeat him as a friend of the administration, for patronage had attempted this. Curtis finely referred to Conkling as “ intoxicated with the flattery of favorites, or blinded by his own ambition.” He said “ God : speed to the President.” Curtis then gave a sour testimonial to Conkling, and then remarked r “I am a Hayes Republican.” He showed himself to be no weak rival of Conkling—a natural man of speech and discussion. Hamilton Ward then delivered a speech, and attacked Curtis directly, and referred to Hayes being escorted through the South by the commander of the Black Horse Cavalry, while the Republican Governor of South Carolina was a fugitive in banishment. He used a scriptural quotation, intimating that Hayes was an apostate. Ward again brought forward Gen. Grant’s name, and it was received with furious applause. Giles W. Hotclikiss then made a quaint speech. He attacked Schurz and Evarts direct. For years they had been attacking Republicans, and now they were giving the party its shibboleth. One year ago, at Saratoga, the doctrinaire element hail its way, and the Republican party was buried under a Democratic avalanche. Andy Johnson’s supporter, Evarts, was now the President’s adviser. The Republicans of New York State were sore all over from being too much experimented with. Mr. Curtis was a small man, not able to get the suppor of any large body of men, and envious of big men who did. Hotchkiss kept everybody laughing. Seymour Dexter made a speech in favor of Hayes’ policy, a fine military speech, saying that he carried a musket during the war, and was glad to sec the leader of the Black Horse Cavalry escorting the President through the South. He was loudly applauded. Mr. Curtis arose and stood in the aisle. Conkling slowly arose and took the platform. Curtis continued standing. Forster, Curtis’ colleague, interposed a motion. Conkling tried to speak, but Curtis insisted. Conkling descended from the platform disgruntled. Curtis here sought to wreck the force of Conkling’s expected speech by announcing in advance that it would be highly powerful. Curtis said he had not introduced a firebrand, but a torch—a torch he still held. He spoke well, but too lengthily. Conkling was uproariously hailed as lie arose. His speech was more than an hour long—was the greatest speech he ever made before a political convention, and the most extraordinary instance of offhand, critical oratory probably ever made in this country. Its Conklingism was its individuality; out its general sweep, perfect diction, manly bearing, and invincible fearlessness lield everybody spellbound. Mr. Curtis got up only once to apologize, as he saw .the thunderbolt forged for him. The venom of this speech was concentrated. Its chastity and elevation of style yet relieved it from all demagoguery or mere point-making. The elocution of Conkling, considering its length, was an extraordinary instance of physical strength. He spared nobody, yet he did not personally score Hayes. He omitted no single point made by any of his opponents, yet he had no notes. He resorted to no anecdote, but everything was spirited and plain. An irresistible current flowed through all the tenor of his remarks. He closed after 11 o’clock, leaving all the reporters so astonished and exhausted that very few who heard the whole speech will attempt an account of it. He carried the convention, and probably would have done so had it not been previously committed to him.

Elegant Counterfeits.

Mr. Brooks has telegraphed to Chicago that the reported SSO counterfeit there must be good, as it is printed on fiber paper, but this is not a sufficient guaranty. The excellent counterfeit of the SSOO treasury note made by Tom Ballard was printed on fiber paper. He took a dollar note and washed out the colors, so as to give him die paper for hie counterfeit This may be the way with the Chicago counterfeit. The latest counterfeit is the new $5 upon the First National Bank of Tamaqua. This has just been received at the Treasury Department for description. Its excellence is alarming. The only way that it differs from the genuine is that the counterfeit is more skillfully executed. It has only one fault, that being that it it is too good. The only marked difference that is at present specified is in the chartered numbers printed on the bills. The safest course will be to reject all bills on this bank. It is understood that the issue of this bank is to be called in at once as the only safe way to defeat this counterfeit. Washington Cor. Chicago Times. A class of twenty-three young Boston women has successfully prosecuted diamond cutting, which has heretofore been carried on almost exclusively by the Jews of Amsterdam. The girls cut and polish the diamonds in an excellent manner.